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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 15
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 —
President Roosevelt today de
scribed the nation’s capital as
a vicious rumor factory and a
prolific source of war rot and
lies spread by what he termed
the Cliveden set of Washing
ton. He asked reporters at his
press conference to give wide
circulation to his charges be
cause, he said, he and they can
prove their accuracy. He did
not identify members of the
so-called Cliveden set—an ap
pelation heretofore applied to
a wealthy group of pre-war
nazi appeasers in Great Bri
tain—but he denounced them
in extremely blunt terms.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 —
Sparred by a warning that the
nation faces the gravest crisis
since Valley Forge, the house
today passed and sent to the
senate a record 070,901,900
appropriation bill for tanks,
merchant ships, guns and
other implements of war. The
roll call vote was 371 to 0. The
stupendous money grant—al
most equalling this country’s
direct outlay for the first
world war—brings to $71,000,
000,000 the total of war funds
voted since January 1, 1942,
and to $148,000,000,000 the
amount approved since June,
1940.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 —
From Gen. Douglas MacArthur
came word today that the heat
is on. Japanese artillery was
blasting away at his Philippine
defenders from the foxholes of
Bataan to the island fortifica
tions in Manila bay and the
enemy was wheeling more and
more big’ guns up to the firing
line. And the repercussions of
Sunday’s fall of Singapore, 1,
500 miles distant, were being
felt by MacArthur’s men. The
Japs were pouring more dive
bombers into the battle and
the fury of their attack was
increasing.
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 17—A
stirring saga of the seas—a
story of the unwhimpering
bravery of a five-year-old
•‘sailor,’’ of tragic confusion in
the midnight blackness and of
possible loss of a dozen lives—
was told tonight by survivors
of the torpedoed Brazilian
steamer Buarque. The bril
liantly-lighted 5,000-ton vessel
was blasted to the bottom off
the North Carolina coast early
Sunday morning by an enemy
submarine. The raider was
sighted a half hour before the
attack by several crew mem
bers who felt in no danger in
asmuch'as their ship was Bra
zilian and thus considered a
neutral. It was brightly light
INTERNATIONAL
BALBOA, C. Z., Feb. 17—A
nazi submarine pack’s daring
thrust at vital oil supply lines
off the Dutch island of Aruba
was feared today to have taken
a toll of 10 tankers sunk or
damaged with a loss of more
than 50 lives, besides posing a
serious threat to the Panama
canal. At least one of the en
emy submarines was believed
sunk by the intensified United
States air and sea patrol which
followed the early Monday
morning attacks, centering on
the 70-mile strip of water be
tween Maracaibo and Aruba in
the Dutch West Indies where a
Standard Oil company refinery
is located.
BERLIN, Feb. 17 — (Radio
cast recorded by UP, New
York) — The official news
agency, DNB, said today that a
1939 plan to murder Adolf
Hitler and German Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribben
trop had been found among
the personal documents of
Edouard Daladier, former
French premier.
Recommends No Action
On Yadkin Lime Mine
PRINCE SAYS rr
WOULD COST BIG
SUM TO DEVELOP
Statement By Official Fol
lows Tribune Editorial
CONDITIONS NOT RIGHT
Claims Project Would Neces
sitate Road, New Bridge
Over Yadkin
$8.3,000 FOR MACHINERY
Following publication in last
week’s Tribune of an editorial
which was in form of an open
letter to the Governor concerning
the opening and operation of a
lime mine in Yadkin county,
owned, by the State, Chairman
Ben L. Prince, of the State High
way and Public Works commis
sion, has recommended that
“nothing further be done in the
matter until there is a change in
conditions.”
The Tribune’s editorial, which
was supplemented by similar edi
torials appearing in the state
press, including the Winston-Sa
lem Journal and the Charlotte
Observer, pointed out that Gov
ernor Broughton months ago in
structed highway officials to 'n
vestigate immediately the fes si
bility of starting operations of the
lime property, and due to the fact
that since that time nothing fur
ther had been heard of the mat
ter, asked what was the state’s
decision?
In a report prepared by Chair
man Prince and released to a ;
Winston-Salem daily Monday, it j
was asserted that a total initial
outlay of $106,300 would be re
quired before the limestone could
be quarried. This amount, it was
said, would include an outlay of
$83,800 for the equipment, $5,000
for a road to the site of the de
posit, and $17,500 for a bridge
across the Yadkin river.
It was also stated that the pro
posal to open the mine had been
investigated several times within
the past few years and each time
the decision had been reached
that lime cannot be made avail
able at a price comparable with
private industry.
CONTROL PLAN
UNDER STUDY
U. S. Engineers Said to Be
Making Dam Site Survey
Near Here
FEW DETAILS LEARNED
A letter from Major General E.
Reybold, chief of engineers, to
Congressman R. L. Doughton,
said a combined report covering
all phases of the Yadkin-Pee Dee
basin studies was expected about
July 31, but that “an interim re
port dealing specifically with the
proposed Wilkesboro dam” should
reach the office about the middle
of this month.
The letter stated that Rep.
Doughton could be assured that
every effort consistent with the
necessity for sound engineering
analysis, study, and reviewing of
the problems involved is now be
ing made to complete the interim
and final reports at the earliest
practicable date in order that
they may be submitted to Con
gress without delay.
Meanwhile, a party of U. S. en
gineers, making Elkin their head
quarters, has been surveying for
a dam site on the Yadkin a short
distance west of here. Whether
this survey is being made in the
interest of flood control or a
hydro-electric project could not
be learned.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
ATT) D AIT) T)DIT T Common delivery trucks,
/lI i\ IY/Ii U Ul\I LL usually used to transport
groceries and flowers, played a major role in this realistic
air raid drill in New York. The trucks, equipped with the
newly designed Ruxton stretcher carriers, were used as
ambulances to transport eight “wounded” from the
“bombed” building while incendiary bombs furnished
smoke.
Basketball Tournament
To Start Here Tuesday
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32 Teams Will
Take Part In
Annual Event
Thirty-two teams will be en
tered in the Yadkin Valley Con
ference Basketball Tournament
when it gets under way here next
Tuesday at the Elkin school gym
nasium.
Of these teams. 16 will be boys’
and 16 girls’ teams. Four games
will be played nightly, with the
exception of the night of the
finals, during the eight days the
tournament will run.
The Yadkin Valley Conference
tournament was first held as such
last year, replacing the Elkin
4-County Tournament which up
until 1941 had been staged at the
local gym under the sponsorship
of Elkin high school. The con
ference is made up of high
schools of Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes
and Alleghany counties.
Pairings have not yet been re
leased by tournament officials,
nor has an official list of the
schools to take part. This in
formation will not be available
before the end of this week, it is
understood.
Beautiful trophies will be
awarded conference champions at
the end of the tournament,
trophies to go to both the cham
pions and runners-up.
Every effort is being made to
make this year’s tournament
highly successful, and as usual, ■
capacity crowds are expected to :
attend each night. ,
Games each night will start at ,
7, 8, 9 and 10 o’clock, with girls’
and boys’ games alternating.
Courtesies will be given mem- '
bers of the teams taking part in
the tourney by local business
houses.
Sam Gentry, principal o f
Mountain Park school, is presi
dent of the conference.
Ur. Haywood Is
Jaycee Speaker
An interesting talk by Dr. C, L.
Haywood featured the Hotel Elk
in dinner meeting Monday of the
Elkin Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Dr. Haywood discussed the treat
ment of shock resulting from acci
dents, and blood transfusions and
blood donors.
Milton Cooper, vice-president of
the organization presided over the
meeting in the absence of Presi
dent Charles Weaver. Dr. Hay
wood was introduced by Dr. Seth
M. Beale.
Mr. Chatham
Reports for
Active Duty
Thurmond Chatham, presi
dent of the Chatham Manu
facturing Company here, left
for Washington Wednesday
morning where he will report
for active duty as a Lieuten
ant-Commander in the United
States Navy.
Mr. Chatham, who saw duty
in the navy during World War
I, volunteered his services
about two months ago, and had
been awaiting the call to ser
vice since that time.
According t o information
secured from officials of the
Chatham Company, Mr. Chat
ham will be in the navy bu
reau of ordnance.
NEGROES GIVEN
JAIL SENTENCE
Were Found Guilty of As
sault With Deadly Wea
pon on Deputy
\RE TAXED WITH COSTS
Sentences of one year each
vere handed out in Surry su
Derior court last week to four
legroes who were charged with
issaulting and painfully injuring
2. S. Foster, Elkin deputy sheriff.
All four were found guilty of
issault with a deadly weapon,
ind Alfred Thompson, driver of
;he car in which they were al
egedly driving in a reckless man
ler, and Else Thompson, alleged
.o have been the one who wielded
i knife on Mr. Foster, were sen
tenced to serve their sentence in
jail. The other two, Mattie Smoot
ind Alvin Thompson, were placed
on probation for three years. All
ivere taxed with the costs.
Alfred Thompson, on a charge
of reckless driving, was given 60
days, but this sentence will run
ooncurrently with his year’s sen
tence.
The four, who were also found
guilty of resisting and obstruct
ing an officer in the performance
of his duty, were arrested by local
police on the night of January 25
after they had assaulted and cut
Mr. Foster when he attempted to
arrest the driver of the car in
which they were riding.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
LOWGAP SCHOOL
IS DESTROYER
BY NIGHT FIRE
Loss Estimated at Approxi
mately $25,000
i 22,000 I N INSURANCE
Cause of Blaze, Which Oc
curred Wednesday A.M.,
Is Unknown
SECOND SCHOOL BLAZE
Lowgap school, located in
northern Surry, was gutted by
fire which broke out about 2:30
o’clock Wednesday morning, do
ing damage estimated at approx
imately $25,000.
Only a part of the brick walls
of the building were left stand
ing, it was said. The gymnasium,
a separate building but located
nearby, did not suffer any appre
ciable damage.
The school served as both a
grammar and high school, and
was located near the village of
Lowgap. Cause of the blaze has
not been determined.
It is not known as yet what
arrangements will be made to
house the students.
The county had $22,000 insur
ance on the building, it was
learned. The fire marks the sec
ond school fire suffered by Surry,
the Dobson elementary school
having burned a short while ago.
FARMERSHOLD
MEETING HERE
State Officials Discuss Dairy
ing and Beef Cattle
Program
JOHNSON IS IN CHARGE
A small group of farmers, 4-H
club members, county farm
agents and interested business
men attended a meeting at the
Reeves theatre here Saturday
morning called by the agricul
tural committee of the Elkin Ki
wanis club.
The meeting was held in the
interest of inaugurating a more
comprehensive program of dairy
ing and beef cattle raising in this
section.
Principal speakers were John
A. Arey and L. R. Harrill, of the
North Carolina State College ex
tension service. Other talks were
made by county agents and by
J. H. Doughton, of Statesville,
who told of a similar program
that is being carried out in Ire
dell county.
Garland Johnson, chairman of
the Kiwanis agriculture commit
tee, was in charge of the meeting.
Prior to the meeting at the
theatre, the proposed program
was discussed at length at a
luncheon held at Hotel Elkin Fri
day evening.
OFFICIALS OF
GROUP NAMED
Rev. H. F. Duncan Elected as
President of Associated
Charities
REPORTS ARE HEARD
At a meeting of the board of
Associated Charities at the city
hall on Friday of last week, offi
cers for the year were elected. H.
F. Duncan was named as presi
dent; G. L. Hill, vice-president;
Stephen Morrisett, secretary, and
H. B. Holcomb, treasurer. An in
vestigating committee was also
appointed by the board to de
termine the worthiness of cases
requesting aid.
A report of the activities of the
group during the past Christmas
season was made. It was revealed
that the association distributed
75 baskets to families at Christ
mas, the value of the baskets ap
proximating $275. The board
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Landing Barges Are
Destroyed By U. S.
Forces In East Indies
--♦$
Up for Breather
An American submarine, pa
trolling on the surface, keeps a
large American flag flying
from her conning tower, taking
no chances for being mistaken
for an Axis “rattler.” Parts of
picture have been deleted by
navy censor.
E.W. WALTERS
DIES FRIDAY
Mountain Park Man Suc
cumbs at His Home Fol
lowing Long Illness
RITES HELD SATURDAY
Enos Winston Walters, 71,
passed away Friday afternoon at
his home near Mountain Park
following a long illness.
Mr. Walters was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William G.
Walters and a lifelong resident of
this county and a highly esteem
ed man. He was a member of
Salem Fork Christian church and
as long as his health permitted
was an active member of the
Masonic fraternity.
In October of last year he and
his wife, Mrs. Laura Anthony
Walters, celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
Surviving are his wife, three
sons, Allan H. Walters, of Rich
mond, Va.; Rufus Walters, of Mt.
Airy, and Garvin H. Walters, of
State Road, and one daughter,
Mrs. Caleb Johnson, of Burling
ton. Five grandchildren; two
sisters, Mrs. D. A. Melton, of
Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Betty
Shepperd, of Hartley, Dela., and
one brother, R. A. Walters, of
Anaconda, Montana, also survive.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon from Mountain
Park Baptist church. The rites
were in charge of Rev. Walter
Calloway, Rev. Hoffman, of Cope
land, and Rev. A. S. Hale, pas
tor of the First Baptist church in
Mount Airy. Interment was in
the Mountain Park cemetery.
Sheriff Boyd Is to
Again Be Candidate
. Sheriff Harvey S. Br "d is to
day, in an advertiser® it in this
issue of The Tribune, Jinouncing
his candidacy to succeed himself
as sheriff of Surry county.
In his announcement, Sheriff
Boyd stated “if chosen by the
people, I pledge the same diligent
service I have given in the past.”
Sheriff Boyd has held this of
fice for the past four years.
Asked to Get in
Touch With Board
Surry county draft board No.
2, with headquarters at Dobson,
has asked that the names of the
following young men be publish
ed so that they would know to get
in touch with the board at once:
Roy Lee Hutson, Thomas Thad
Brown and Doctor Albert Dock
ery, all of Elkin.
ENEMY POUNDS
ITARTHllR IN
PHILIPPINES
Second Nipponese Raid on
Refugee Camp Reported
23 CIVILIANS KILLED
U. S. Speeding Aid to Pacific
War Arena, Dutch Gov
ernor Says
ON VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
Washington, Feb. 18—U. S.
Army flying fortress bombers at
tacked Japanese ships off the
Dutch East Indies, probably sink
ing two transports and destroying
two enemy landing barges, the
War Department reported today.
The announcement was made
in a communique which said that
the attack occurred off Bangka
[siand, off the Sumatra coast.
“Direct hits scored on a large
enemy transport and on a small
;ransport,” the communique said.
“Both are believed to have been
sunk. Two enemy barges were
iestroyed. There was no damage
to any of our planes.” ~ ^
The communique did not say *
whether this was the same aerial
Attack reported earlier in a Java
communique from the United
Nations’ southwest Pacific high
command reporting that Dutch
and American bombers sank a
large Japanese transport, hit two
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MOIR M. HILL
PASSES SUNDAY
Brother of Local Man Dies in
Raleigh Hospital After
Long Illness
RITES AT WESTFIELD
G. L. Hill, of Elkin, was called
to Westfield Monday on account
of the death of his brother, Moir
M. Hill, 55, who passed away in
a Raleigh hospital Sunday after
noon following a long illness.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
at the Westfield Baptist church,
of which the deceased had been
a member for 35* years. Rev. J.
W. Hall conducted. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
M. O. Hill, the deceased is sur
vived by four brothers, G. L.
Hill, of Elkin; E. V. Hill, of Pilot
Mountain; C. D. Hill, of West
field, and W. W. Hill, of Raleigh,
and one sister, Mrs. J. E. Jessup,
of Mount Airy.
Total of 346
Men Register
Here Monday
A total of 346 men, ranging
in age from 20 through 44
years, registered here Monday
for possible service in the
armed forces of the. United
States.
All men between the ages of
20 and 44 who had registered
in previous registrations, were
not required to again register.
The large upstairs room at
the City Hall was used as the
registration place for this
township, opening at 7:00 a.m.
and closing at 9:00 p.m. Local
volunteers, including a num
ber of women and girts, assist
ed in filling out the registra
tion forms.