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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 8
ELKIN. N. C.. THURSDAY JANUARY 1, 1942
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NATIONAL
CHICAGO, Deo. 30—Traffic
deaths may reach a record
high of almost 40,000 in the
United States this year. The
national safety council report
ed tonight that 35,690 Ameri
cans were injured fatally in
motor vehicle accidents during
the first 11 months of 1941.
The total was almost 1,200
greater than the toll for the
entire year of 1940 and was
only 3,953 below the unsur
passed total of 39,642 recorded
in 1937. “If the December toll
this year is more than six per
cent higher than last year,”
the council reckoned, “1941
will bring a new all-time high
of almost 40,000 traffic
deaths.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 —
The navy announced officially
tonight that it suspected the
presence of Japanese craft in
Alaskan waters, uncomfortably
close to Kodiak island where a
naval air station is under con
struction. A navy communique
tersely mentioned a suspicion
that Japanese “vessels” were
in the vicinity and said that
merchant ships had been
warned. The “vessels” pre
sumably were submarines.
There was some speculation as
to whether undersea craft
might have transferred their
operations from the California
coast, scene of recent sinkings,
to the great Alaskan peninsula
that juts out far into the Pa
cific toward Japan.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 —
President Roosevelt disclosed
today that all previous war
production plans have been
scrapped in favor of a program
which by 1943 will cost 50 per
cent of the national income.
He ordered the so-called “vic
tory” and “all-out” programs
discarded, he told a press con
ference, after Japan’s sneak
attack on Hawaii, December 7.
Those plans called for expend
iture of 27 per cent of the na
tional income. Now, the Pres
ident declared, he hopes to put
the nation on such a vast pro
duction scale that one half of
the national income will be
pouring into armaments in the
*1 fiscal year 1943.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 —
Plans for an OPM-automobile
industry conference January 5
on conversion of plant facili
ties to war production and on
the status of passenger car
output “after January 31”
were announced tonight amid
indications that civilian auto
production may be halted en
tirely during February.
INTERNATIONAL
OTTAWA, Dec. 30 — Prime
Minister Winston Churchill of
Britain, stirring Canada’s par
liament to roars of approval,
today delivered a fighting
speech in which he asserted
that “now the tide has turned
against the Huns.” He con
trasted the position of the
allies, linked together in a
fighting mass supported by a
rising mountain of weapons,
with that of “the men of
Vichy” who surrendered and
made a separate peace with
Adolf Hitler and now live mis
erably “from day to day” on a
single guarantee — “Hitler’s
good faith, which biteth like
the adder and stingeth like the
asp.” “Hitler and his nazl
gang have sown to the wind,”
Churchill said. “Let them reap
the whirlwind.”
Local Def ense Group
Discusses Plans At
Meet Here Monday
On Program
J. Mary on (Spike) Saunders,
District Governor of Kiwanis
clubs in North and South Caro
lina, will take part in cere
monies installing 1942 officers
of the Elkin Kiwanis club at its
first meeting of the year here
Friday night. Saunders is Uni
versity of North Carolina alum
ni secretary and assumes his
district Kiwanis office January
1. W. M. Allen, local attorney,
is lieutenant governor of the
3rd Kiwanis Division, em
bracing clubs in North Wilkes
boro, Mt. Airy, Salisbury, Lex
ington, High Point, Greensboro,
Asheboro, Reidsville and Elkin.
In Friday night’s meeting Allen
will turn over the gavel as pres
ident of the local Kiwanis club
to David G. Smith, 1942 presi
dent. Governor Saunders will
charge the new officers. The
meeting will be observed as
ladies’ night.
ELKIN SQUIRE
IS ABANDONED
Prisoner Departs While Jail
Papers Are Being Filled
Out By Hall
OTHER CASES ARE TRIED
Walter Eldridge, of State Road,
tried before Magistrate J. L.
Hall here on a charge of aban
donment and non-support, was
bound over to superior court
when probable cause was found.
Eldridge couldn’t make bond,
so while Justice Hall was filling
out necessary papers to get him
into he county jail, he up and
abandoned Mr. Hall, a deputy
sheriff and a police officer by
leaving the building and depart
ing hastily without even the for
mality of a goodbye.
But despite the fact that part
ing is such sweet sorrow, Eldridge
wasn’t gone long, being nabbed
near the water works a few min
utes later. When he again de
parted, he was wearing handcuffs
and headed for the county jail.
Other cases tried by Magistrate
Hall during the past week fol
. low:
Henderson Macemore, public
drunkenness, $1.00 and the costs.
Alberta Boles, colored, public
drunkenness, costs.
David P. Allison, public drunk
enness, $1.00 and the costs.
, Ethel Vestal, trespass, 30 days,
. suspended for one year upon
5 condition of good behavior, and
i payment of the costs.
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Government Bonds and Stamps.
TOWN IS DIVIDED
INTO NUMEROUS
RAID DjSTRICTS
Wardens and Their Areas
Are Announced
EXTRA POLICE LISTED
Will Have Full Authority in
Event of Emergency in
Section
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
At a meeting held Monday af
ternoon in the office of J. W. L.
Benson, director of the civil de
fense organization here, plans for
local defense were discussed and
air raid wardens and their dis
tricts, and special police were an
nounced.
Volunteer firemen from Elkin
and nearby communities, to serve
in case of emergency, were also
announced.
Plans for a practice blackout
are being formulated, but no date
for a blackout has as yet been
decided upon, it was said.
A map of the town, showing all
sewers and water lines, has been
prepared, and the various air raid
districts designated upon it.
It was also announced at the
meeting that the New Year’s
dance sponsored by the Jaycees
netted $100 which has been ap
plied on payment of a truck for
the Elkin emergency squad,
which has been purchased.
Joe Bivins has been named
Chief Air Raid Warden, and all
district wardens will serve under
him. District wardens, in turn,
will have assistants under their
jurisdiction.
Special police who have been
selected, will be under the direc
tion of Chief of Police Corbett
Wall, and in event of an emer
gency, will have full police pow
ers.
Special police, and the areas
which they will serve, are as fol
lows:
North Elkin: Dixie Graham, J.
L. Darnell, Foley Norman, H. F.
Tulbert, M. W. Maxwell, Franklin
Folger, H. C. Dobson.
West Elkin: L. I. Wade, J. D.
Holcomb, E. W. Harris, Hugh
Royall, D. G. Myers, L. W. Lax
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On OPM Committee
Thurmond Chatham, of Elk
in, president of the Chatham
Manufacturing Company, has
been appointed by the Office of
Production Management to a
woolen and worsted manufac
turers industry advisory com
mittee, it was learned Tuesday.
RATION BOARD
NOT ANNOUNCED
Surrv Committees Expected
to Be Appointed Before
January 5th
TO RATION AUTO TIRES
Insofar as could be learned
here Wednesday afternoon, mem
bers of a committee to have
charge of rationing automobile
tires have not yet been an
nounced.
Goerge K. Snow, of Mount Airy,
head of Surry Civil Defense, is
expected to recommend citizens
of his choice for this post to Gov
ernor Broughton for appointment.
However, Mr. Snow was out of
town Wednesday afternoon and
could not be reached by long dis
tance telephone
Although the report is not ver
ified, it is believed that three
such committees will be formed,
one to serve Elkin, Bryan and
Marsh townships, another to
serve Mount Airy, and a third,
made up of one member from
Dobson and two from Pilot
Mountain, to serve that area.
These committees, it is under
stood, are supposed to begin
functioning January 5, and will
pass on the merit of all applica
tions for new tires. Committee
members will serve without pay.
Bank Closed Today
The Bank of Elkin will be
closed today (Thursday), in ob
servance of New Year’s day, it
was announced Wednesday by
bank officials.
Red Cross War Fund
Drive Here Friday
Scheduled to have been staged
here Tuesday by a committee of
members appointed by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, the Red
Cross drive to raise Elkin’s share
of a $50,000,000 fund called for
since the nation was plunged into
war, has been postponed until
Friday, the Jaycees failing to
make the drive as planned.
Mrs. Joe Bivins, chairman of
the local Red Cross, stated Wed
nesday that since the failure of
the Junior Chamber committee to
function she had found it diffi
cult to get anyone to aid her in
making the drive, but said she
hoped to be able to secure enough
cooperation to stage the drive
Friday.
In the meantime, voluntary
donations may be left at the City
Hall or at the Elkin Public Li
brary, Mrs. Bivins said.
The importance of the piesent
drive of the Red Cross was stress
ed last week in a statement by
Thurmond Chatham, county-wide
chairman in charge of the Surry
Red Cross War Fund, who point
ed out that in this instance the
money which is sought is not for
the British, the French, the
Chinese, but for our own nation,
and that it is of vital importance
that every citizen rally to the
call and give all they can. Sur
ry’s quota is $7,500.
This war fund will be needed
not only for the relief of civilian
populations bombed from their
homes, but also for the main
tenance of Red Cross services to
the American armed forces ev
erywhere, and for strengthening
and building up this great dem
ocratic organization for whatever
calls may be made upon it.
Emphasizing that there will be
work for many volunteers, Mrs.
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Japs Reported Pushing Closer
To Manila; Attempt Planned
To Evacuate Wounded Soldiers
N. J. MARTIN
DIES FRIDAY
Prominent Surry Man and
Former Legislator Passes
at His Home
RITES HELD SATURDAY
Newton J. Martin, 64, former
Surry county legislator and well
known farmer and merchant,
passed away at his home four
miles northwest of Dobson Fri
day morning at 6 o’clock, follow
ing a long period of ill health.
His condition was serious only a
short time before his death.
Mr. Martin was a native of
Surry county and a son of the
late John W. and Mrs. Adella
Hamlin Martin. He spent his en
tire life in his native section
where he had wide farming in
terests and a large general store.
He represented Surry county in
the lower house of the state leg
islature for one term.
He is survived by his wife who
was Miss Kizzie Bray before her
marriage, three brothers, R. V.
Martin, of this city; Tom Martin,
of Dobson, and John Martin, of
Rusk, and one sister, Mrs. Betty
Simpson, of Kannapolis.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from Salem Fork Baptist church.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
A. S. Hale, Rev. S. L. Hoffman
and Rev. O. H. Hauser. Inter
ment was in the church ceme
tery.
STATE ROAD
WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Margaret Caudle
Thompson, 80, Passes
Thursday
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
Mrs. Margaret Caudle Thomp
son, 80, widow of J. E. Thompson,
passed away on Thursday morn
ing of last week at her home at
State Road. She had been a
faithful member of White Rock
Methodist church for more than
fifty years.
She is survived by four daugh
ters and four sons, Mrs. Tom Gol
den, State Road; Mrs. W. H. Nor
man, Thurmond; Mrs. Ernest
Lloyd, Thurmond, and Mrs. Hattie
Tynes, Fort Benning, Ga.; Coy
Thompson, Fort Bragg; Harrison
Thompson, Reliance, Tenn.; Joe
Thompson, Coal City, We'vt Va.;
and Blaine Thompson, Thu.mond;
two step-sons, Emmerson Thomp
son, Oak Hill, West Va., and Pat
terson Thompson, Thurmond; two
brothers, Tom Caudle of Hamp
tonville, and Jesse Caudle of Hin
ton, West Va.
Funeral services were held Fri
day at 2 o’clock, in charge of Rev.
Mack Roberts, Rev. Claude
Thompson and Rev. Foy Thomp
son. Interment was in the Walker
graveyard.
Court to Convene
At Dobson Monday
The January term of Surry
county criminal court will con
vene at Dobson Monday, January
5, before Judge William H. Bob
bitt, of Charlotte, and will be for
one week only.
A one-week civil term original
ly scheduled to follow the crim
inal session, has been postponed.
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Government Bonds and Stamps.
In War Zone
Russell B. Minish, above, of
the 27th Infantry, located at
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, was
not injured during the Jap
anese sneak raid on Pearl Har
bor. His mother, Mrs. R. C.
Minish, of JonesviUe, stated
that she received a letter from
him Christmas day in which he
stated that he was okey.
TO RE-EXAMINE
DEFERRED MEN
In View of Wartime Condi
tions May Relax Physical
Standards
INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN
Surry county draft board No. 2
has received instructions from
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, na
tional director of selective ser
vice, to re-examine all deferred
registrants in view of wartime
conditions.
His statement says that salvage
of men for military service de
pends largely on what can be
done to correct remediable de
fects “and the possible relaxing
of current physical standards set
by the army.”
The local board is informed
that the class IV-A classification
—predicated on previous military
service — was ended with the
United States’ entry into war.
General Hershey instructs
boards to give careful review to
the cases of registrants who have
been deferred as “necessary” men
in industry, business, agriculture
and professions, stating that “No
man should be classed as a nec
essary man until it is proven ab
solutely that he cannot be re
placed in his job by someone who
is unfitted for military service.”
Seal Sale Here Sets
An All-Time Record
Mrs. E. F. McNeer, chairman
for the local Christmas seal sale
for the prevention of tuberculosis,
stated Wednesday morning that
a total of $186.11 was received
this year from the seal sale,
which is an all-time high for Elk
in. Of this amount $46.52 will
be sent to national headquarters
and the remaining three-fourths
will be kept in the local treasury
to aid in the prevention of tu
berculosis in this immediate sec
tion.
Mrs. McNeer expressed her ap
preciation for the fine spirit of
cooperation shown by volunteer
workers and the public in the seal
sale.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
U. S. FORCES
ARE GREATLY
OUTNUMBERED
Japanese Said to Control All
Highways
USING DIVE BOMBERS
Great Numbers of Enemy
Tanks and Armored Units
in Action
COMMUNIQUE IS ISSUED
Manila (3:30 pm., 1:30 a.m.,
e.s.t.) Dec. 31—A dramatic at
tempt to evacuate 300 seriously
wounded Americans from Luzon
Island on a ship flying the United
States and Red Cross flags was
announced today by General
Douglas MacArthur.
He gave no details of the plan.
Greatly-outnumbered American
and Filipino forces north and
south of Manila ‘are being push
ed back” by hordes of Japanese
infantry, tanks and dive bombers,
General MacArthur grimly ac
knowledged.
The southern battle line was
only 30 minutes from the capital.
(The ominous tone of General
MacArthur’s morning communi
que and the fact that the Jap
anese were within 30 minutes
driving range of Manila, indicat
ed that perhaps the fall of the
open and defenseless capital was
imminent.)
General MacArthur’s field
headquarters communique de
clared the Japanese dive bombers
practically controlled the roads
from the air.
(Thus the invaders were iA po
sition to make full use of tanks
and armored units sent to Luzon
Island with great fleets of trans
ports.)
General MacArthur’s terse com
munique, issued at 11 a.m. (9
p.m., e.s.t., Tuesday), said:
“The enemy is driving in great
force from both north and south.
“His dive bombers practically
control the roads from the air.
“The Japanese are using great
quantities of tanks and armored
units.
“Our lines are being pushed
back.”
(Japanese military spokesmen
first had declared their aim was
to subdue Manila by January 1,
but only Tuesday they changed
their schedule to “before January
10.”)
Johnson Child
Passes Friday
Mary Geneva Johnson, three
and one-half year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Johnson,
died Friday of last week. Funeral
services were held at Little Rich
mond Saturday.
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