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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 16
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Citizens Fail To
Realize Danger,
Benson Charges
DEFENSE HEAD
ANNOUNCES AIR
RAID PRACTICE
To Be Staged Here Monday
Between 5 and 6 P. M.
MEET AT LYRIC SUNDAY
All Civilian Defense Members
Requested to Be Present
at Three P. M.
MUST TAKE FIRST AID
J. W. L. Benson, in charge of
Elkin’s civic defense organization,
Monday expressed disappointment
over the meagre attendance at a
meeting of members of the group
held at the Lyric theatre here last
Sunday, and expressed the opinion
that some members didn’t realize
the seriousness of the present sit
uation caused by the war.
Pointing out that local citizens
are too complacent in the face of
a very definite danger, Mr. Ben
son said that in his opinion the
need for local civilian defense ef
fort is far more acute than when
it was first organized.
Remarks of the local defense
leader came at a meeting of de
fense commmittee chairmen held
at the city hall Monday afternoon,
at which time plans for a second
test air raid practice were an
nounced. This test, which will be
similar to the one held some weeks
ago, will be staged next Monday
afternoon sometime between the
hours of 5 and 6 o’clock, and all
air raid wardens, firemen and
auxiliary firemen, police and aux
iliary police, and red cross work
ers are expected to take part.
During the practice alarm, all
citizens will be expected to get
indoors and stay away from win
dows. They will also be expected
not to use the telephone unless
in case of emergency. Traffic
will be halted.
The alarm will be sounded by
whistles, it is understood, although
complete details as to whether one
whistle, or several, will be sounded,
have not been completed.
It was also announced during
the meeting that another meeting
of all wardens, firemen and police
will be held at the Lyric theatre
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock
to hear a lecture on blackouts and
air raid wardens. This will mark
the final talk of a series given by
E. E. (Buck) Shores, who has
taken a special course of instruc
tion.
v All air raid wardens and assis
tant wardens, firemen and police
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SNOW CAUSES
AUTO CRASH
Carl Young Receives Hurts
in Collision on North
Bridge. Street
8 INCHES FALLS HERE
Carl Young, of Elk Spur street,
this city, received a gash in the
forehead and an injured knee on
North Bridge street here Tuesday
about noon when his car and that
of Paul Murphy, of Alleghany
county, collided head-on.
Murphy was not injured, and
Young, after treatment at the
local hospital, was dismissed. The
accident was said to have been
caused due to the slippery, snow
covered street. Both machines
were damaged.
This accident was only one of
any consequence reported during
the day, which saw a snowfall of
nearly eight inches. As a result
of the snow, local and county
schools were closed Wednesday,
and the Yadkin Valley basketball
tournament, scheduled to have
opened Tuesday night, was post
poned until Wednesday.
A major part of the snow had
melted by Wednesday night.
'i
Guest Speaker
Frank Jeter, of Raleigh, ed
itor of the State College Exten
sion Service, will be guest
speaker at the meeting here
this evening (Thursday), of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club. The meet
ing will be held at Hotel Elkin.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —
The navy today recorded one
of its worst Atlantic disasters
—the loss of at least 189 offi
cers and men who perished
when an aged destroyer and a
modern naval cargo ship were
caught up by a howling gale
and pounded to pieces against
Newfoundland’s jagged coast.
Shattered like match boxes
were the 21-year-old, 1,200-ton
destroyer Truxtun and the 6,
085-ton ship Pollux, units of a
convoy. The Truxtun lost 90
enlisted men and seven offi
cers, including the skipper —
Lieut.-Cmdr. Ralph Hickox, 38
—and possibly three others.
One oficer and 91 enlisted men
aboard the Pollux were pre
sumed lost.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —
President Roosevelt tonight
held out scant hope of sending
aerial reinforcements to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s army at
this time, as the war depart
ment reported that the battle
weary defenders of Bataan
peninsula enjoyed another
day’s respite from combat. The
past 24 hours were quiet, too,
for the garrisons located on
the four American-held island
fortifications in Manila bay
which have been undergoing
protracted shelling by long
range enemy guns. The Jap
anese confined themselves dur
ing the past day to dropping
incendiary bombs on the de
fending positions on the pen
insula.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —
In mood first angry then bois
terous, the house rolled up a
whopping 389 to 7 vote today
for repeal of pensions for con
gressmen, making virtually
certain that the law which had
plagued it for weeks soon would
be wiped off the statute books.
Actually, the vote was on a
technical motion which will
lead to repeal, but they con
sidered that the efect was the
same and they eagerly called
out a loud “aye” when the
long-sought record vote—the
first to be taken in the house
on the question—began.
INTERNATIONAL
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 24—
A bomb thrown at Franz von
Papen, the German ambassa
* dor, exploded only 50 feet away
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LAST RITES ARE
CONDUCTED FOR
ROONVILLE MAN
T. L. Hayes, Prominent Citi
zen, Dies Suddenly
HAS HEART ATTACK
Death Proves Shock; Hun
dreds Attend Funeral
Sunday at 3:00
FATHER OF LOCAL MAN
Funeral services were held at
Boonville Methodist church Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock for
Thomas Lee Hayes, 67, well
known merchant and business
man, who died suddenly at his
home Friday evening at 7:30 from
the effects of a heart attack.
Taking part in the funeral rites
were Rev. W. J. Huneycutt, the
pastor, Rev. C. H. Hutchens, Rev.
Ellis Norman, Rev. T. S.
Draughan and District Superin
tendent A. C. Gibbs, with Rev.
Draughan, long time close friend
of the deceased, taking the main
part. His oration was more in
the form of an eulogy or a tribute
to a good man and a good friend
and was a beautiful sermon, in
which he reviewed the life of Mr.
Hayes, his good deeds, a true
friend of man, all done in his
quiet, earnest way, witnout snow
and without asking for a reward.
It was a part of Mr. Hayes to do
good, only for the sake of the
good itself. Following the fun
eral services the body was laid to
rest in the Boonville cemetery.
Prior to the service the body lay
in state at the church from 1
until 3 o'clock.
The hundreds who attended the
funeral and the clusters of beau
tiful flowers attested to the high
esteem in which Mr. Hayes was
held by people of all walks of life.
He was well known and universal
ly loved by all who knew him
Pallbearers were Jake Brown,
Yadkinville; Jennings Long, Ra
leigh; Foster Mathews, Julius
Speas, Delmer Mock, John Speas.
and Hal Transou, of Boonville,
and Clyde Mock, of Toledo, Ohio.
Mr. Hayes was at his Boonville
store as usual Friday. After sup
per, while sitting in a chair he
suffered a heart attack and ex
pired in a short time.
Thomas Lee Hayes was born at
Hollman's Cross Roads, Davie
county, July 16, 1874, a son of the
late James Daniel Lee and Mary
Kurfees Hayes. As a young man
he moved to Boonville where he
entered the mercantile business
35 years ago. His keen business
judgment in buying and selling
soon brought him into promi
nence as one of the leading mer
chants in this Northwest section.
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10 ELKIN MEN
ATTEND RALLY
Senator Brown, of Michigan,
Speaker at Washington
Day Dinner
WAS IN WINSTON-SALEM
Surry was well represented in
the large number of Democrats
attending the Washington Day
Dinner at Hotel Robert E. Lee in
Winston-Salem Saturday night.
The dinner, one of several held
throughout the state, was attend
ed by about. 400 Democrats and
was a very enthusiastic gather
ing.
Gordon Gray, state senator
from Forsyth county, was master
of ceremonies and principal
speaker was Senator Prentiss M.
Brown, of Michigan. He made a
very impressive speech, urging
unity under the leadership of
President Roosevelt, “in whose
term we earnestly hope for the
end of the present world con
flict,” he said.
Congressman John H. Folger,
of Mount Airy, was present for
the meeting.
Among those from Elkin at
tending the Washington Day
Dinner were the following: J.
Milton Cooper and George E.
Roy all, co-chairmen: Franklin
Folger, Hugh Royall, Henry Dob
son, R. C. Freeman, W. M. Allen,
C. A. McNeill, Dixie Graham and
H. F. Laffoon.
Democratic leaders from many
northwestern North Carolina
counties were present at the
rally.
Dies Suddenly
T. L. Hayes, above, of Boon
ville, well-known merchant and
business man, died suddenly at
his home Friday evening at
7:30 from the effects of a heart
attack.
CAGE TOURNEY
IS UNDER WAY
Opening Is Postponed from
Tuesday to Wednesday on
Account of Snow
32 TEAMS TAKE PART
The Yadkin Valley Conference
basketball tournament, scheduled
to have gotten under way here
Tuesday night, was postponed
until Wednesday night due to the
snow which fell Tuesday. Sixteen
girls’ teams and 16 boys’ teams
from Surry. Yadkin, Wilkes and
Alleghany counties, will take part.
Four games nightly have been
scheduled. Wednesday’s opening
games were:
7 o’clock—Franklin vs. Moun
tain Park (girls).
8 o’clock—Lowgap vs. Wilkes
boro (boys).
9 o’clock—Copeland vs. Boon
ville (girls).
10 o’clock—Pilot Mountain vs.
Boonville (boys).
Due to the fact that The Tri
bune went to press on Wednesday
prior to the playing of these
games, it cannot, of course, give
the results.
Today’s schedule (Thursday),
is as follows:
7 o’clock—Roaring River vs.
Courtney (girls).
8 o’clock—Mount Pleasant vs.
Mountain Park (boys).
9 o’clock—Flat Rock vs. Moun
tain View (girls).
10 o’clock—Franklin vs. Yad
kinville (boys).
The tournament will continue
for eight days, with a girls’ and
boys’ team being crowned cham
pions on the final night.
Frank Jeter to Be
Guest of Kiwanians
A musical program in charge
of W. S. Beddingfield, music com
mittee chairman, featured the
meeting last Thursday night of
the Elkin Kiwanis Club. A quar
tet from the Chatham Manufac
turing Company rendered several
selections that were highly en
joyed by all.
During the business session, the
club went on record as favoring
the activities of the Kiwanis agri
cultural committee in its endeav
ors to get the Yadkin county lime
mine, located at Lime Rock, open
and producing. The vote was
unanimous.
This evening (TL. .jday), Frank
Jeter, editor of the State College
Extension Service, will be the
guest speaker.
Passenger Train
Schedule Changed
Effective March 1, the sche
dule of the Southern passenger
train No. 14 from North Wilkes
boro to Winston-Salem will be
changed from 4:15 p.m. e. w. t. to
2:45 p.m. e. w. t.
The schedule of the train going
west in the morning will not be
changed.
The change of schedule is made
to give better passenger service to
the Wilkesboro line in that the
earlier schedule will permit the
North Wilkesboro train to make
direct connection with Southern
train No. 22 in Winston-Salem,
which serves as an outlet for
east-bound passengers.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
Unidentified Aircraft
Over West Coast Meet
With 2 Hour Barrage
MORE ABOUT LIME
(AN EDITORIAL)
Chairman Prince, of the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, in a statement issued last week,
indicates that he will recommend to that body that
“nothing further be done in the matter (of the proposed
opening of the nearby lime quarry for the benefit of the
farmers of this section) until there is a change in con
ditions.”
Chairman Prince’s rather lengthy statement pre
sents a number of reasons why this work cannot easily
be undertaken by the State, yet it sounds more like the
brief of a lawyer, seeking loopholes for the escape of a
client, than the earnest effort of a State official to find
a way, if possible to serve the people. That, through
recent years, seems to have been the treatment this
important matter has received from Raleigh, and the
people of this section are arching their brows, won
dering what sort of varmint is in the woodpile.
Mr. Prince points out that “This proposal has been
investigated several times within the past few years
and each time the decision has been reached that lime
cannot be made available at a price comparable with
private industry and have a self-supporting operation.”
Is this a dual confession of State incompetence and in
terested respect for “private” industry?
Chairman Prince states that it would cost $106,300
to place the quarry in operation, and that would include
$83,000 for equipment, without taking into account the
cost of constructing a road ($5,000) and a bridge
($17,500), in order to get the product to a shipping
point. According to a local contractor, who has made
a survey of the situation, the estimate on the road
seems rather high. In his opinion a road could be
graded and surfaced with gravel for approximately
$1,300. But why the necessity of a bridge? And why
the necessity of $83,000 worth of equipment, when we
have proof that a neighboring county is getting a week
ly output of 300 tons with less than $10,000 worth of
equipment and is operating at a profit.
We feel Mr. Prince’s answer doesn’t add up. It ap
pears to us his brief is aimed at the moon rather than
a serious and earnest effort to serve the agriculturists
of this section. This is the considered opinion of this
corner after reading his statement carefully.
If a neighbor county can produce three hundred
tons of lime per week from a ten thousand dollar equip
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Draftees To Be Honored
At Banquet He^*e Mar. 3
Will Mark First Of Similar Banquets
Planned In Future For The Selectees
A banquet, sponsored by the
American Legion posts of Elkin
and Mount Airy, will be held here
at Hotel Elkin Tuesday, March 3,
at 6:30 p.m. in honor of draftees
of Surry county who will leave
in the near future for induction
in the nation’s armed forces.
Draftees of Jonesville and Plea
sant Hill, and of North Knobs in
Yadkin county, and Edwards
township, in Wilkes county will
also be the Legion’s guests at the
banquet.
Similar banquets will be staged
in Surry for all draftees who are
to go to the army in the future,
the Legion wishing to show the
boys that the folks back home are
solidly behind them and honor
them for their service to their
country.
Legion Posts Are to
Hold Joint Meeting
A joint meeting of the George
Gray Post 114 of the American
Legion, of this city, and the Jesse
B. Jones Post 123 of Mount Airy,
will be held at Dobson on Friday
evening, February 27th, at 8
o’clock, according to an an
nouncement Wednesday by A. Lee
Hiatt, commander of the Mount
Airy Post.
Attorney W. M. Allen, of this
city, will be speaker for the meet
ing.
A brief business session will be
held during the evening.
All ex-service men and Legion
members are urged to attend the
meeting and the public is extend
ed a cordial invitation.
Following are the names of the
men who will be inducted into
the army by board No. 2 within
the immediate future:
Kenneth David Greene, Elkin;
George Washington Brown, route
1, Siloam; Gilliam Hugh Marsh,
Aarrat; Ray Clifford Wall, route
1, Elkin; Russell Caston Johnson,
Elkin; Eldridge Hawks, Lowgap;
Thomas Benjamin Vaughn, route
1, Pilot Mountain; Mack Pershing
Mikles, route 1, Siloam; William
Bickett Cooper, Elkin; Walter
Wayne Transou, route 1, Elkin;
Chester O. Key, Ararat; Jones
Franklin Collins, route 1, Elkin.
Lonnie Bruce Pruitt, Elkin;
Roy William Johnson, Mount
Airy, route 4; Kyle McKay Gal
yean, Lowgap; Aldeen Hauser,
route 2, Pinnacle; Theodore Ring
Swift, route 1, State Road; Wil
liam Henry (Bill) Harris, Elkin;
Peyton Albert White, Elkin;
James Garland Payne, Winston
Salem (formerly of Elkin); John
DeWitt Hudson, route 1, Elkin;
Curtis Hutchins, Rockford; Luth
er Glenn Baker, Elkin; Hassell
Paul Key, route 1, Ararat.
Hodel Succeeds Bell
As Legion Head
Earl M. Hodel of this city, who
has been serving the George Gray
Post of the American Legion here
as vice-commander, has been ele
vated to commander by the resig
nation of J. B. Bell, retired U. S.
Navy man, who is expected to be
called to active service within a
short time.
Mr. Hodel has been an active
member of the American Legion
for a number of years.
SEARCHLIGHTS
SWEEP HEAVENS
IN CALIFORNIA
Not Known Whether Any
Hits Were Scored
NEAR AVIATION PLANT
Allied Planes Sink Three Big
Jap Transports in Macas
sar Straits
NIPPONESE ISOLATED
Los Angeles, Feb, 25—Unidenti
fied aircraft in two waves swept
over the Los Angeles county coast
early this morning and were
greeted by blasts of gunfire that
continued for nearly two hours.
Police were investigating a re
port that an unidentified plane
was shot down near 180th street
and Vermont avenue, about 15
miles from the center of the city,
in the vicinity of Palos Verdes
hills.
A desk sergeant at the 77th
street station informed head
quarters he had seen two planes
fall from the cone of searchlight
beams after strenuous anti-air
craft activity.
A bomb or an anti-aircraft
shell was reported to have demol
ished a garage and automobile at
a residence in the western part of
the city, 15 minutes from down
town Los Angeles. Fragments of
debris were driven through the
home nearby, but no one was in
jured, police said.
During the height of the ac
tivity, and while the entire coast
line from Santa Monica to San
Diego was “blacked out,” an un
determined number of Japanese
were arrested on the Venice pier
for signaling with flashlights.
Searchlights swept the skies
and on at least one occasion
caught a group of planes directly
in the cone over Long Beach. Po
lice who witnessed the episode
said they could not determine
whether any plane was hit by the
bursting shells.
The first flight came in over
the coast at a point over Redon
do Beach and apparently pene
trated about five miles in the di
rection of the Municipal Airport
and North American Aviation’s
plant before cutting to the south
and disappearing in the direction
of Long Beach.
The second wave came in over
the Palos Verdes hills and also
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JAYCEES SEEK
CURB MARKET
To Determine If Farmers and
Consumers Wish Such
a Project
ASK FOR COOPERATION
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce, interested in the crea
tion of a curb market here, is in
this issue, through a page ad
vertisement sponsored jointly by
the Jaycees and interested mer
chants and business men, seeking
to ascertain the interest in such a
market on the part of both
farmers and consumers.
In the advertisement will be
found two coupons. Farmers and
produce growers are asked to fill
out the coupon on the left and
mail it to the Junior Chamber, if
they are interested in the forma
tion of such a market and would
sell their vegetables and other
produce through it. Housewives
are asked to fill out the other
coupon and mail, if they would
patronize such a market.
If enough interest is shown in
the project, plans will be pushed
by the Junior Chamber to' make
such a market a reality.