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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 10
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
T
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
GossW aives Hearing,
Placed Under $5,000
Bond In Wall Death
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NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s big
berthas boomed a triumphant
salvo today in the battle of
Bataan. A non-stop, 24-hour
heavy artillery duel with the
enemy shattered Japanese
tank and infantry concentra
tions with heavy losses, knock
ed out 11 hostile batteries and
forced the invaders to fall
back beyond positions formerly
occupied. Such was the toll
exacted by the thundering
guns of the greatly outnum
bered American-Filipino de
fenders whose own losses were
“relatively slight.”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —
President Roosevelt, in a far
reaching revision of the na
tion’s war effort, revealed to
night that he will centralize in
Donald M. Nelson, key figure
in OPM, supreme authority
over procurement and produc
tion of all armaments. Nelson
\ will head a new board—soon
J to be created by executive or
der—which will replace the
present supply, priorities and
allocation board and have
jurisdiction over the office of
production management. Mr.
Roosevelt made it plain that
Nelson will become over-all
production and procurement
czar, with title and powers
equivalent to those of Britain’s
minister of supply, Lord Bea
verbrook.
INTERNATIONAL
BATAVIA. N. E. I. Jan. 13—
Japanese invaders today cap
tured the oil-rich island of
T a r a k a n, dominating the
northeastern tip of Dutch
Borneo, and began heavy air
attacks on the islands of Ce
lebes and Temate, command
ing both sides of the vital Mo
lucca passage on the ship
route between The Netherlands
East Indies and the United
States. The small Dutch gar
rison at Tarakan was over
whelmed by a Japanese force
estimated at 20,000 men, but
not before it had “completely
destroyed" the island’s oil
fields and plants.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 13
—Mexico’s Foreign Minister
Ezequiel Padilla disclosed to
day that his nation, Colombia
and Venezuela had formed a
bloc which would seek a united
Pan-American severance of re
lations with “the nations at
war with the United States”
at the Pan-American confer
ence opening Thursday. “There
are three groups in this con
ference: Those Central Ameri
can and Caribbean nations
wishing an outright declara
tion of war; an opposite group
desiring a declaration of a
state of non-belligerency, and
the group, including Mexico,
which will support a break in
relations—the step which we
believe is favored by the United
States,” Padilla said.
AN EASTERN Canadian
Port, Jan. 13—A 10,000-ton
freighter was torpedoed and
sunk within the past 36 hours
off the coast of Nova Scotia
and 91 of the 180 persons
aboard lost their lives, it was
revealed today. The attack
was the closest to the Cana
dian shore since the war be
gan. The 89 survivors arriv
ing here told a harrowing story
of their struggle in flooded
lifeboats whipped about on an
icy sea by freezing winds and
of how a naval gunner, blown
into the ocean by the first
torpedo, was killed when a
second torpedo plowed through
him a few minutes later and
continued on its course into
the ship.
TO FACE TRIAL
AT NEXT TERM
WILKES COURT
Funeral for Victim of Shoot
ing Held Tuesday
WAS SHOT NEAR HEART
Argument Said to Have
Arisen in Goss’ Store
Over Change
WIFE, CHILD SURVIVE
John Goss, blind merchant of
Doughton, was placed under
$5,000 bond at Wilkesboro Wed
nesday shortly after noon on a
charge of the death of Paul
Wall, 25, who was shot and fatal
ly wounded in Goss’ store last
Sunday afternoon, sheriff Claude
T. Doughton told The Tribune by
long distance telephone that Goss
waived hearing.
The shooting, which resulted
in Wall’s death while en route by
ambulance to the hospital here,
was said by Sheriff Doughton to
have grown out of an alleged dis
pute over some change. During
the argument, Wall was said to
have thrown a bottle at Goss,
who flashed a gun. Goss was
said to have then fired twice at
Wall, one bullet striking him in
the leg and the other in the body
in the region of the heart.
A preliminary inquest was held
at Doughton and in Elkin, where
the body had been taken, by
Coroner I. M Myers, of Wilkes
county. The inquest was ad
journed until Wednesday after a
few witnesses had been heard and
the body viewed by the jury.
Wednesday’s hearing was waived
by the defendant.
Goss had been operating the
store at Doughton for about five
years, it was said.
Wall was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Wall, of State Road, and
had been employed by Hayes &
Speas, Inc., here for the past 18
months. He was highly esteemed
by all who knew him, and his
tragic death came as a shock to
all.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at the
State Road Primitive Baptist
church. Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Allie Norman Wall; one
small son, Paul Wall, Jr.; the par
ents; three brothers, Foy Wall, of
State Road; Boyd Wall, of Moun
tain Park; Sandy Wall, of Fort
Sill, Okla.; and four sisters, Mrs.
Carl Murray, of State Road; Mrs.
Charles Couch, of Elkin; Mrs.
Ethel Barnett, of Elkin, and Miss
Pansy Wall, of State Road.
CHATHAM SHOW
IS CANCELLED
Showing of All-Wool Line
Impossible Due to Drastic
Curtailment
Because of curtailment in the
amount of wool available for
civilian use, the Chatham Man
ufacturing Company has can
celled its scheduled opening of an
all-wool fall line planned for
January 15.
The local company will not
have to curtail its operations,
however, but will concentrate all
of its output for civilian use in
part wool blankets, it has been
announced.
The Chatham company is now
producing millions o f dollars
worth of blankets and woolen
materials for the armed forces,
which will consume most of their
allotment under the O. P. M. or
der, leaving little for civilian use.
However, utilization of wool sub
stitutes for civilian use is expect
ed to be the principal factor in
solving the problem for the dura
tion of the emergency.
The Chatham company is the
biggest single manufacturer for
the War Department in North
west North Carolina, having been
working on government contracts
totalling $11,953,000.
Heads Merchants
; SS9S8 & sms ->■> ms»m
E. W. McDaniel, above, who
served as president of the
Elkin Merchants Association
during the past year, was again
elected to succeed himself in
office at a meeting of the
board of directors of the asso
ciation Tuesday morning. G.
L. Hill, manager of the J. C.
Penney Company store here,
was elected vice-president.
TO HOLD PARTY
ON JAN. 30TH
Celebration for Birthday of
President to Be at Elkin
Gymnasium
MRS. BOOHER CHAIRMAN
The 1942 Celebration for the
President’s Birthday will be
staged here Friday, January 30,
under the direction of Mrs. J. A.
Booher, chairman.
The celebration, which will
feature both round and square
dancing, will be held at the Elkin
gymnasium, and arrangements
are now under way, persons who
will have charge of the various
divisions having been announced
by Mrs. Booher.
Two orchestras will be on
hand to provide music both for
the round and square dancing.
Proceeds of the celebration, as
usual, will go to combat infantile
paralysis.
Those named to assist Mrs.
Booher in staging the event are
as follows:
Decorations, Sam Atkinson;
Benefit Bridge, Mrs. Franklin
Folger; Square Dance, Joe Bivins;
Advertising, Alan Browning, Jr.
More complete details concern
ing the celebration will be an
nounced in next week’s issue of
The Tribune.
Elkin Takes Scalps
Of Copeland Teams
Elkin high school boys’ and
girls’ basketball teams tied the
scalps of the Capeland players in
their belt Tuesday night in a
double header game at the school
gym. The girls’ teams tied with
a 32-32 score, with Mable Cathey
Leeper and Evelyn Smitherman
leading the Elkin team in points
scored.
The Elkin boys won 29-11, with
Joe Windsor and Fred Baker
starring for the local quintet.
Friday night at 7:3V) the two
Elkin teams will play a double
header with Courtney at the gym
here. They will meet Mountain
Park for a double header here on
Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock.
FARM OFFICE
GIVES FIGURES
ON INCREASES
Tobacco Allotments Are
Given Boost
WILL ADD 10 PER CENT
Uniform Increase for Each
Farm Is Shown By
Table
EXPLANATIONS GIVEN
0.1 to
1.6 to
2.6 to
3.6 to
The Surry county AAA of
fice received official notification
last Saturday from State head
quarters of the increase in tobacco
allotments which will add ten
per cent in acreage over the 1941
yield, according to figures re
leased from the office this week.
The following table gives the
uniform increase for each farm,
the last figures giving the in
creases :
1.5 acres ....
2.5 acres ....
3.5 acres ....
4.5 acres ....
5.5 acres ....
6.5 acres ....
7.5 acres ....
8.5 acres ....
9.5 acres ....
9.6 to 10.5 acres ....
The increase for larger allot
ments may be figured by multi
plying by 110 per cent. All frac
tions are rounded out to the
nearest tenth of an acre. For
example, .05 of an acre or less is
dropped and .06 acre or more is
made a tenth of an acre.
With this ten per cent increase,
it means that the Surry allot
ment i s raised approximately
1,200 acres, making a grand total
4.6 to
5.6 to
6.6 to
7.6 to
8.6 to
.0.1 acre
.0.2 acre
.0.3 acre
0.4 acre
.0.5 acre
0.6 acre
0.7 acre
.0.8 acre
0.9 acre
1.0 acre
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SURRY COURT
COMES TO END
Numerous Cases Are Dis
posed of Before Judge
Bobbitt
NEXT SESSION FEB. 9th
Surry county criminal court, in
session last week at Dobson before
Judge W. H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte,
adjourned Saturday after dispos
ing of numerous minor cases.
The next term of Surry court
will convene February 9 with
Judge Bobbitt again on the bench.
The following cases were dis
posed of last week:
Lex Davis, house breaking, lar
ceny and receiving, 12 months.
Charlie Freeman, reckless driv
ing, taxed with costs and given 90
days suspended sentence. License
revoked for 12 months.
Walter Eldridge, reckless driv
ing and assualt with a deadly
weapon, $50.00 and costs and li
cense revoked for 12 months.
Charlie Smith, violating pro
hibition laws, not guilty.
Joe Scott and Hassell Wagoner,
larceny and receiving, not guilty
as to Wagoner and non-suit sus
tained as to Scott.
Cephus Grovely, drunk driving,
not guilty.
Moir Ayers, assualt, prayer for
judgment continued.
Belt White, violating prohibition
laws, 4 months suspended sen
tence.
Granville McMillion, assault,
eight months.
“Hardest Years Since
Valley Forge Coming”
Washington, Jan. 14.—A tire
less, tough-hearted driver, Donald
M. Nelson, is taking charge of
American war industry under a
pledge to sweat the country into
all-out arms production.
He wants the story henceforth
to be “too much, too soon” in
stead of the requiem—“too little,
too late.” “Just ahead of us are
the hardest years we have been
through since Valley Forge,” says
the man Roosevelt has chosen to
boss the whole production pro
gram.
“Every so often there comes a
time which puts all Americans
to the test and requires them to
show that they can live and work
the .hard way instead of the easy
way. They have always met that
test thus far. We ourselves will
meet it now.
“This defense program isn’t any
WPA program—a joy ride—for
industry. We are not playing for
marbles. It’s a life and death
struggle. We are going to need
the labor of every available man
and every machine that can be
used in the land.
“We are going to give up all
manner of things which we
would like to have and strip down
for a struggle which will take ev
erything we can give it. Hitler
is going to win this war unless
we deny ourselves everything that
we can possibly deny ourselves.
“We can overtake Hitler. The
man who says we can’t is either
blindly ignorant or believes that
democracy and freedom are
played out and helpless.”
Dutch Land And Air Forces Go
Into Action On Three Fronts;
U. S. Bombers Sink Jap Boats
MASS PRODUCTION E,cSd £
Boeing Aircraft company at Seattle, Wash., showing a
portion of the “Flying Fortresses” on the production line.
The plant is now operating full blast, and last month it
had beaten its own accelerated delivery schedules by 70
per cent.
mms
m:
Asks Citizens to
Attend Defense
Meeting Today
All members of the Ameri
can Legion, all ex-service men,
all members of the American
Legion Auxiliary, and any citi
zen who does not have a def
inite defense station, are re
quested to attend a meeting
this evening (Thursday) at
7:30 at the city hall.
The meeting, which is called
by J. B. Bell, commander of
the George Gray Post of the
American Legion, is for the
purpose of organizing an air
raid warning system, which
has been requested by Char
lotte headquarters to be kept
in operation 24 hours a day.
REPORT ON RED
CROSS JS^ MADE
Activity in Sewing and Knit
ting of Local Branch Is
Made Public
MOVE SEWING ROOM
A complete report of the sew
ing and knitting for the Elkin
branch of the American Red
Cross for the last half of 1941 has
been made by Mrs. J. R. Poindex
ter, who served as production
chairnfan during that period. A
total of 933 garments was made.
Of that number there were 166
knitted garments, 338 sewed gar
ments and 429 infants’ garments.
All of the garments were made
by 201 volunteer workers.
During the last half of last
year 21 women’s sweaters were
knitted; 10 men’s sweaters; 69
children’s sweaters; 10 children’s
two-piece suits; 15 mufflers; 20
beanies; 7 shawls; 5 pairs of
socks and 9 pairs of stockings.
The sewed garments included
24 women’s dresses; 90 children’s
dresses; 115 girls’ skirts; 109 hos
pital shirts and 25 complete lay
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Seeking Magazines
For Army Centers
Mrs. Paul Gwyn, who is in
charge of magazines which are
being collected by the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the George Gray
Post of the American Legion to
be sent to U. S. Army training
centers, states that additional
magazines are wanted before a
shipment is made. It is planned
to make a shipment within a very
few days. Those who have mag
azines suitable for men are re
quested to leave them at the pub
lic library here, from which point
they will be assigned to recrea
tional centers in various camps.
C. A. HOLYFIELD
IS BADLY HURT
Found Lying on Ground Near
Local Warehouse Wed
nesday Morning
COLORED MAN IS HELD
C. A. Holyfield, who lives a
few miles east of Elkin, is in
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospi
tal suffering a fractured skull,
and Tilden Foster, negro, is be
ing held in the local jail for in
vestigation as the result of the
injury suffered by Holyfield at a
local fertilizer warehouse Wed
nesday morning.
The injured man was found
lying on the ground near a door
way of the fertilizer warehouse
located on the railroad siding to
the rear of the J. P. Ipock Coal
Co. He was unconscious and
bleeding profusely from the head
and ears, and after being rushed
by ambulance to the local hospi
tal the serious nature of his in
jury was determined.
According to reports, the col
ored man, Tilden, and Holyfield
were said to have been drinking
prior to the discovery of the lat
ter’s injury. It is not known
whether he accidentally fell from
the doorway and struck his head
on the ground, or whether Foster
may have struck him. ,
Placed in jail, Foster was said
to have first told officers that he
saw Holyfield lying on the ground
but failed to aid him or report
the fact that he was hurt. He
later changed his story, stating
he didn’t know anything about
the matter, an officer said.
It was said that Holyfield’s
wife told officers that her hus
band should have approximately
$40.00 in cash on his person. Of
ficers stated that they found
only $4.00 in his pockets.
Mercury Here Goes
Down to 8 Below 0
Winter, not content with twin
snows here Wednesday and Friday
nights, staged a special added at
traction Saturday night by send
ing the mercury down to eight de
grees below zero, a check of the
most accurate thermometers here
abouts has disclosed.
The two snows, each of which
started and stopped about the
same time of day, put a light cov
ering on the earth and made travel
difficult for traffic. The sub-z^ro
temperature followed, to freeze
water pipes in many homes and
otherwise inconvenience the citi
zenry.
The cold spell was broken Mon
day when the mercury rose to a
height of 40 degrees, melting a
majority of the snow.
In isolated naval stations our
Navy normally supplies medical
services for the entire population.
JAP INVADERS
ARE HIT WITH
COUNTERBLOWS
Wavell Arrives in the Dutch
Indies
JAPANESE SHIP IS HIT
American Bombers Sink Two
Enemy Landing Boats
Near Borneo
INVADERS ARE HALTED
Batavia, N. E. I., Jan. 14 —
Dutch land and air forces went
into action in Netherlands, Brit
ish and American territory in the
South Seas today in a triple
counteroffensive against the Jap
anese on Tarakan Island, British
Borneo and the Philippines.
A Netherlands Indies army
communique said Dutch land
forces, going into action on th*
Sarawak frontier in British
Borneo, killed 18 Japanese troops,
with the loss of only one Nether
lands, missing and presumed kill
ed.
A Japanese ship was hit in a
Dutch air force bombardment of
the Dutch Island of Tarakan, it
was asserted.
In the third phase of the Dutch
| counterattacks, a flying boat of
the Dutch Indies air force pene
trated Japanese defense lines in
the southern Philippines and
bombed a Japanese air base,
dropping numerous bombs on the
runway and scoring three direct
hits on the base barracks. It re
turned safely.
As the Netherlands forces, in
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TO MAKE DRIVE
FOR IRON SCRAP
Collection Campaign in Surry
Will Be Staged on Jan
uary 19-24
METAL BADLY NEEDED
A drive for scrap metal of all
kinds will be staged in Surry
county January 19 and 24, it has
been announced from the office
of the Surry county farm agent.
Schools of the county will be
used as base points for collection.
Farmers of the county who op
erate trucks are asked to haul the
metal to market, where a price of
35 to 50 cents per hundred will be
paid, depending on the quality.
The metal will be used for the
production of armaments, and is
badly needed by the nation’s steel
industries.
It was also announced that all
farmers owning tractors and other
mechanical farm equipment which
are in need of spare parts buy
these parts immediately, due to
the fact they will not be available
later.
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