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YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 2,1941
No. 1
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
L
STATE
RALEIGH. Dec. SI_Jose
phus Daniels, a dyed-in-the
wool newspaper editor though
he Is ambassador to Mexico,
dipped papers today'at his old
editorial desk as he described
relations between the United
States and Mexico as “the best
they have ewer been.'* The 78
year-oM editor-diplomat said
he would return to his post
within a month.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31s—
American labor stood on the
threshold of another new year
facing the propped of employ
ment for millions in an indus
trial machine geared up for na
tional defense, and hearing un
ion leaders declare their sup
port of the defense program.
The absorption of from 5,000,
000, to 6,000,000 workers by in
dustries producing war mater
ials and the ordinary commod
ities for domestic consumption
has been predicted by govern
ment statisticians for 1941.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—
President Roosevelt, It was re
ported tonight, proposes to cen
ter in William S. Knudsen all
the actual powers of the new
office of production manage
ment for defense which has
been called the “supreme com
mand*’ of the defense program.
A tentative draft of an execu
tive order which Mr. Roosevelt
was said to be considering
would make Knudsen the ad
ministrator of the program, and
give to the other three mem
bers of a four-man council only
advisory powers.
WAstunwivn, uec. ai.—
The possibility of receiving
payment in raw materials for
■one of the war implements
that may be loaned or leased to
Great Britain was raised today
by President Roosevelt, as Con
gress squared away for a battle
royal on the whole lease-lend
program. At a press confer
ence, Mr. Roosevelt said that
robber, tin and other commo
dities might prove acceptable
repayment for American fight
ing machines sent to England
and destroyed beyond repair by
mud bombs. The principal
problem just now, he indicated,
waa drafting legislation which
wowld assure the return of the
implements or their equivalent
In other goods.
INTERNATIONAL
ATHENS, Jan. 1.—The Greek
army pounced on enemy rein
forcements and captured 500
prisoners in dislodging Italians
from heights near the key town
of Klhnra, in central Albania,
a spokesman declared tonight.
The reinforcements, the spokes
man said, had been rushed to
the Kllsura sector to halt the
Greek advance on that moun
tain Junction of the road lead
ing to Valona, Adriatic port
now the main objective of the
Greek offensive.
/
BERLIN, Dec. 31.— Adolf
Hitler promised his fighting
men and the people of the reich
today that 1941 will bring them
total victory and, on a nod
from his government, the Ger
man press released a torrent
o f caustic denunciation o f
President Roosevelt's fireside
talk on helping the British.
The explosive editorials were
timed to coincide with two new
year's messages from the fueh
rer—one to the soldiers and the
other to all the nazi party
members — and with others
from Hitler’s chief lieutenants.
“Frequent water drinking,” said
the professor, “prevents becoming
stiff in the joints.”
“Yes,” replied Johnny, “but
some of the joints don't serve
water.”
First Steno: “What did the
boss say when you asked him for
a raise?”
Second Steno: “He was just
like a lamb.”
First Steno: “What did he
say?”
Second Steno: “Baa.”
Go Home
1940 ROAD TOLL
MAY EXCEED ’39
More Than 900 Killed on N.
C. Highways Through
December 15
TOTAL OF 943 FOR 1939
“Only a reversal of past ex
perience during the last two
weeks of this month will prevent
North Carolina’s 1940 traffic
death toll from exceeding the
1939 slaughter,’’ Ronald Hocutt,
director of the North Carolina
highway safety division, declar
ed this week.
Accident records received by
the division show that more than
900 persons were killed on North
Carolina streets and highways
from January l through Decem
ber 15, 1940. The state's 1939
traffic toll numbered 943 persons,
which means that an average of
two fatalities a day for the re
mainder of December would run
the 1940 toll above that of last
year. And past experience in the
state has been that December,
most dangerous month of the
year, averages between three and
four traffic fatalities a day.
Hocutt said he hoped all North
Carolina motorists and pedes
trian^ would heed Governor
Hoey’s recent plea for greater
caution and obedience to traffic
laws during the remainder of this
year.
“It is true,” he said, “that
there has been an increase in
traffic fatalities in the nation as
a whole this year, and it iS also
true that motor vehicle registra
tions and gasoline consumption
have hit new peaks in North
Carolina this year, but these fac
tors do not mean that there is
any more excuse for a bad acci
dent record this year than there
was last year; they only mean
thr ,t there is more opportunity
fc / accidents—and all who use
our streets and highways have an
alternative of rejecting that op
portunity.”
Marriage License
Sales Pick Up
The Christmas holidays proved
to be a boom for marriages
throughout Yadkin county, ac
cording to the number of mar
riage licenses secured at the
court house. Below is a list is
sued by Lon H. West, Register of
Deeds.
Clifton Reid Long, 21, of Long
town and Winston-Salem, to Zel
ma Steelman, 20. of Winston-Sa
lem.
John Raye Hoots. 22, to Gladys
Eileen Gough, 21, both of Yad
kinville.
Laman C. Richardson, 33, to
Carmen Frye, 33, both of Boon
ville.
Graham W. Jester, 22, to Mary
Elizabeth Black, 17, both of
Lewisville.
Charlie Lineberry, 25, of East
Bend, to Martha Lineberry, 23, of
Boonville.
A. Benjamin Woodruff, 36, of
Boonville, to Eva Armstrong, 20,
of Jonesville.
Homer Colason, 19. of Siloam,
to Irene Hutchens, 20. of Boon
ville. i
Howard C. Spainhour, 70, to
Margaret B. Brown, 43, both of
Boonville.
Charles Thomas Tullock, 18, to
Elsie Mae Walls, 16, both of
Elkin.
Jesse Byrd, 24, to Ola Mae Hol
der, 21, both of North Wilkes
boro.
Funeral Is Held
For Mrs. Wagoner
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at Shady
Grove Baptist church for Mrs.
Plutina Wagoner, 76, who died
Sunday at the home of a son,
Frank Wagoner, in Wilkes coun
ty. after a four-day illness. Rev.
D. G. Reece conducted the ser
vices and burial followed in the
church cemetery, she was a wid
ow of the late Hiram Wagoner,
well known citizen of near Boon
ville, who died several years ago.
Surviving are two sons, Frank
Wagoner, of Benham, and Wal
ter Wagoner, of Boonville; five
daughters, Mrs. Will Wagoner, of
New Hampton. Iowa; Mrs. Esther
Ogden, of Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs.
Grace Allen, of Sebret, Colo.;
Mrs. Will Lineberry, of Jones
ville, and Mrs. Jerry Nance, of
Elkin; two sisters, Mrs. D. Groce,
of Jonesville, and Mrs. Marvin
Van Buren, of Benton, Kan., and
one half sister, Mrs. Fannie
Chappell, of Jonesville.
If being poor is a blessing why
try to change the status?
Charged in Death
Gorrel E. Sheek
Gorrel R. Sheeh,
Former Yadkin
Boy In Trouble
Gorrel R. Sheek, a native of
Center, near here, will go on trial
in Forsyth superior court at Win
ston-Salem next week on a charge
of killing Frank James Moses, who
he is accused of stabbing to death
after the two had an argument
over the affections of Sheek’s
girl friend, Myrtle Smith, of High
Point. The killing occured during
the holidays in North Winston.
Moses was a soldier on his way
home at Morganton for Christ
mas.
Sheek is a son of the late Bob
Sheek of Center and married Miss
Eva Caudle, a daughter of the late
Clingman Caudle of this county
and Mrs. Lillie Caudle of Wins
ton-Salem. both of good families.
They have seven children. Sheek
has been holding a good position
with Hanes Hosiery Mill for sev
eral years. »
The Smith girl testified that
they had been drinking right much
during the afternoon proceeding
the death of Moses. In the mean
time another girl had joined the
party, and after leaving a beer
tavern the second girl got in the
seat with Sheek and she joined
the soldier in the back seat. This
seems to have started the argu
ment.
15 YEARS AGO
(News from The Ripple’s Files of
January. 1926)
Uncle Jesse Wooten, father of
Grant Wooten, celebrated his
96th birthday last Saturday. He
is still hearty and very active.
Miss Blanche Mackie left Fri
day for Jacksonville, Fla., where
she will spend some time with
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Mackie. She
will then go to Hollywood, Miami
and other points in Florida for
several days with her uncle, Mr.
John H. Myers, before going to
Macon, Ga., with Mr. and Mrs.
Myers.
A quiet home wedding was sol
emnized at the home of Mrs.
Texas Williams, six miles east of
Yadkinville Sunday afternoon
when Mrs. Williams became the
bride of Dr. 8. L. Russell. Dr.
Russell has served two terms as
county health officer.
Mrs. John A. Mason, 52, quiet
ly passed away at her home here
Saturday at 9 o'clock after ,an
illness of one week with pneu
monia. Mrs. Mason is survived by
her husband, prominent Yadkin
ville mill man, and six children.
Postmaster W. E. Rutledge, who
has served here for the past four
years, was re-appointed by Pres
ident Coolidge last week and has
been confirmed by the Senate.
Mr. A. E. Hall is a recent addi
tion to the legal profession in
Yadkinville. We predict that
Mr. Hall, who is widely known
here, will have but little trouble
in lining up a successful practice
in Yadkin county.
Church to Sponsor
Religious Picture
Dr. E. E. Gillespie, superin
tendent of the Synod Home Mis
sions, will present a religious
moving picture, “Prom the
Mountain to the Sea," at the
Yadkinville Presbyterian church,
Monday evening, January 0, at
7:30.
Announcement of the picture is
made by the Rev. O. V. Caudill,
pastor, who states that along with
depicting the work of the church,
much of North Carolina's beau
tiful scenery is shown. The pub
lic is urged to see the picture.
Years Traffic
Toll in Nation
Is Near 34$00
Chicago—The National Safety
Council estimated yesterday that
American traffic deaths would
mount to at least 34,500 this
year.
This figure was almost 2,000
higher than the total for 1930,
when 32,600 persons were killed.
“With average increases of
from 5 to 8" per cent, for every
geographical region, the traffic
death picture for the first 11
months (of 1940) was black in
every part of the country,” the
council reported.
“The nation piled up a total of
30,980 traffic deaths in the first
11 months of this year—7 per
cent, more than the 29,060 total
for the same period last year.
“When the figures for Decem
ber, usually the peak death
month, are added in, it appears
certain that the 1940 toll will be
higher than any in the nation’s
history except the four years
from 1934 to 1937.”
The council fixed the death to
tal for November at 3.570—8 per
cent, more than the 3,310 killed
in November, 1939.
Rural accidents can be blamed
for the larger 1940 total, the
council said. It reported the av
erage increase in traffic deaths
was 3 per cent, in cities, against
9 per cent, in rural areas. In
November the cities cut their toll
4 per cent., while rural accidents
went up 14 per cent.
“Only eight of 43 states have
been able to show reductions in
traffic deaths this year. Nebras
ka led with a 12 per cent. drop.
Connecticut and South Dakota
showed savings of life after a
previously unfavorable record.
North Carolina and Georgia
dropped from the reduction list
when the November figures were
added,” the report stated.
PILOT VIEW
Miss Maxine Williams has re
turned to Charlotte after spend
ing the Christmas holidays with
her parents.
Paul Smith, who is stationed
with the Marines in Parris Island,
S. C., returned last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Williams
had as their Sunday dinner
guests Mr. and Mrs. Worth Rock
ett and son, Bobby, Misses Edith,
Lois, and Grace Jester, and Della
and Blanche Williams.
She Was Furious
Phyllis: “Yes, she was furious
about the way in which the news
paper reported her marriage.”
Mary: “Why, did it allude to
her age?”
Phyllis: “Indirectly. It stated
that ‘Miss Moard and Mr. Hale
were married, the latter being a
well-k n o w n collector of an
tiques’.”
Champion Army Recruiter
New York, N. Y.—Called the champion recruiter of North
America, this winsome young lady, Miss Elaine Basset, from Dallas,
Tex., is the original of the Canadian “Join-The-Army” posters,
where her face did such a good job that it now has been selected
to perform a like service for Uncle Sam.
British Are Now Near
Tobruk, Major Italian
Base And Stronghold
Beleaguered Italians at Bardia Given No Respite from Shell
ing; Has Developed into a Test of Endurance for
Imperial Attacking Forces and Trapped
Italian Defenders
With the British Army in
Libya—A British raid 70 miles in
side Libya to within a few miles
of Tobruk, major Italian base
and stronghold of Marshal Ro
dolfo Qraziani’s Terribili, was
disclosed by the British army of
the Nile today.
A British armored column spent
an entire day observing the de
fenses thrown up around Tobruk,
next British objective after Bar
dia, and found that an important
airdrome just south of Tobruk
had been abandoned. Italian
units encountered during the op
erations fled, surprised that the
British had approached so near
Tobruk.
The British meanwhile gave
the beleaguered Italians at Bar
dia no respite from shelling by
land and sea. Bardia's guns re
plied to British naval artillery
but were unable to get its range.
The siege of Bardia has devel
oped into a test of the endurance
of the imperial attacking forces
as well as that of the trapped
Italian defenders. The Italian
guns caused much less damage
than did biting, blinding desert
sandstorms.
A United Press correspondent
crossed the battlefield in a cur
Happy New Year!
Three hundred and sixty-six days have rolled by into the
eternal past since we entered 1940. While over half the world
is at war we, in America, have been fortunate and still live in
peace.
This is because more people in America believe in God and the
Bible. They believe in building churches instead of destroying
them; they believe in building larger schools and increasing the
belief in Democracy of government. If other nations believed
this way the world might be at peace today.
The Ripple feels it a privilege to serve the people of free
America, and in this we are grateful to all of you who have
made it possible for us to keep going, in fact going better than
ever before, and as we enter another year we wish to thank each
and everyone for whatever contributions you have made to this
paper, and we extend the hope that the New Year of 1941 will
bring you the greatest of joy, happiness and success.
We hope to serve you in 1941 as we have in the past and will
do our best to please all.
THE YADKIN RIPPLE
tain of sand so thick that it
would have been easy to wander
into the Italian lines, as already
some British troops have done.
Prom the top of the escarpment
overlooking Bardia the scene was
of a great dust bowl. Despite the
storm, the British continued to
pour in reinforcements — tanks,
guns, lorries, troops and (Supplies.
Their movements added to the
huge cloud of sand sweeping the
plain below the escarpment.
The task of the British army
before Bardia was emphasized
with disclosure that 40 forts had
defended the new shell-wrecked
town. These outposts were link
ed by a continuous anti-tank
ditch 16 feet wide and it in turn
was guarded by mile after mile of
thick, barbed wire barricade.
Women Certainly
Don’t Dress
For Men
You think women dress to
please men. Well, if you are right,
then why is it that some women:
Wear flat-heeled shoes, tailored
shirts and plain felt hats with
mannish suits? (Men invariably
hate such severe get-ups.)
Buy completely wild, complete
ly crazy hats? Anything that
makes the average male feel con
spicuous usually infuriates him.
(Being seen with a woman in an
attention-getting hat generally
makes him feel conspicious.)
Who Likes Red Claws?
Use scarlet nail polish? (Can
you name more than one you ever
heard say he liked it?)
Keep right on wearing girdles?
(just remember how many times
your husband has said that you
look better without one.)
Wear perfume only for dressup
occasions and then wear too much
of it? (Men like perfume—but a
little goes a long way.)
Are careless about tobacco
stains on fingertips? (If you hold
the cigarette up instead of down
your fingers won’t get stained.)
Tolerate chipped and cracked
nail polish?
Prefer ultra-chic clothes to pret
ty ones?
Choose heels so high and slender
that a graceful walk is quite out
of the question? ,
Wear sports hats that won’t stay
on in a high wind?
Some Camouflage Their Figures
Cling to boxy jackets and other
clothes that hide the natural lines
of the figure? (The only figure a
man thinks should be hidden be
hind loose folds of material is the
bad figure.)
Wear black continually?
Reshape their mouths—with lip
stick a quarter of an inch thick?
Do you still think women dress
to please men? z
HIGHEST
American egg production in
November was the highest ever
reported for that month with
egg prices slightly ahead of No
vember, 1939, prices, reports the
U. S. Agricultural Marketing Ser
vice.
RECOMMENDS
NARROW BED
More Plants Produced in Nar
row Tobacco Bed, Says
Dr. Luther Shaw
LOCATION IS IMPORTANT
Pour good reasons for con
structing a narrow tobacco plant
bed are listed in pre-season rec
ommendations to tobacco growers
by Dr. Luther Shaw, plant pa
thologist of N. C. State College.
He also suggests the importance
of the proper location for the
plant bed.
“If the tobacco bed is built
narrow,” Dr. Shaw said, “more
plants are produced per square
yard; the danger of trampling on
plants while weeding or pulling is
avoided; the plants can be wa
tered more easily and uniformly;
and fourth, and most important,
narrow beds can be equipped and
treated for blue mold with satis
factory results than wide ones.”
The plant pathologist recom
mends that the plant bed be 5
feet 8 inches wide to allow the
standard six-foot cover to fit
snugly when the fumigation
method is used to control blue
mold. A pathway 18 inches to 2
feet wide should be left between
adjacent beds.
“The benzol or paradichloro
benzene fumigation methods are
the best for controlling blue
mold,” Dr. Shaw declared. “Cop
per-oxide spray is also satisfac
tory when applied in advance of
the first appearance of the dis
ease on the farm. The spray acts
best as a preventative, while the
fumigants will kill the mold after
it has infected the plant bed.”
The State College specialist
also suggests that the plant bed
be located convenient to a source
of water, and preferably near the
house, because constant attention
is required during the develop
ment of the young plants. “It is
also desirable,” he says, “to lo
cate the beds so that they will be
protected as much as possible
from strong winds.”
CENTER
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Whitaker
of High Point and Rev. and Mrs.
Marshall Reavis and children vis
ited Mrs. Janie Whitaker Sunday
Miss Florence Haire of Wins
ton-Salem spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Marion Haire.
Miss Mae Sizemore of Jones
ville spent the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allison
Sizemore.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Whita
ker and daughter, Rilla, spent
Christmas Eve with Mr. and Mrs.
I. Y. Jester, of Jonesville.
Mrs. Maggie Allgood of Wins
ton-Salem spent Christmas day
with Mrs. I. L. Holcomb.
Mr. Odell Whitaker is out again
after undergoing an appendicitis
operation at the Baptist hospital
in Winston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Weather
man of Winston-Salem and Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Hutchens of
Yadkinville spent Chritmas with
Mr. and Mrs. I. V. Weatherman.
Miss Ann Holcomb of Jones
ville spent the Christmas holidays
with her parents.
Miss Hcie Whitaker spent
Christinas week in High Point.
J. C. Holcomb is confined to his
bed with the flu.
BOON V1LLE
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Munctis
and family, of Boonville, spent
Christmas with relatives in High
Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Roby Wagoner, of
St. Louis, Mo., spent the holidays
with the former’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. P. Wagoner, erf
Boonville. Early Friday morning
Mrs. Wagoner was called to Ashe
ville due to the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Charles Parker.
She was accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Weldon Brown.
Sirs. Thurman Wagoner and
little daughter, Annie Sue, of
Janesville, spent Thursday with
her mother, Mrs. Avery Steelman,
near Hamptonville.
triggering
A little darky was fishing in
the river and hooked a nine-foot
sturgeon which pulled him out of
the boat. He turned loose toe
line, climbed back into toe skiff,
got down on his knees and offer
ed toe following prayer:
“Good Lord, there’s one thing
this poor little nigger would love
to know and that is, is this here
nigger fishing, or is that there
fish niggering?”