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ELKIN
The Best
Little Town in
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 21
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Mother, Daughter See
Pearl Harbor Attack
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Visitimg- Here
After Voyage
From Honolulu
Mrs. F W. Ingling and little
daughter. Betsy Jane, age 14
months, have arrived in Elkin to
visit Mrs. Ingling’s sister, Mrs. R.
M. Ogbum, of Surry avenue.
Both mother and daughter were
in Honolulu on December 7, 1941,
when the Japanese made the sneak
attack on Pearl Harbor that
launched the United States into
^ the world’s most terrible war.
The wife of Lieutenant Ingling,
of the Unitel States Navy, Mrs.
Ingling and Betsy Jane arrived in
San Franciso on March 24 aboard
a ship which brought approxi
mately 2,000 women and children
from Honolulu to the United
States. Lieut. Ingling is some
where at .sea aboard a United
States destroyer.
When asked about the Jap raid
on Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Ingling
didn’t have very muoh to say,
other than at first she thought
the noise of bombs falling was
s coming from U. S. Naval guns at
practice. However, when it did
become known what was happen
ing, she .said her husband rushed
immediately to ship through a
hail of death and destruction
raining from the sky, and that
she did not hear from him, or
know whether he was alive or dead,
until the following Wednesday.
It wasn't that the attractive
wife of the Navy lieutenant didn’t
want to tell about the events at
l Pearl Harbor, or give details of
her trip home in a blacked out
ship, she was just bound to sec
recy. But she did say that the
perilous trip home was without
event and that she was mighty
glad to be back to the United
States again,
Betsy Jane didn't have anything
to say, but spent her time making
faces at The Tribune photograph
er who snapped the accompany
ing picture Although only 14
months old, the little lady is a vet
eran of two ocean voyages and the
bombing of Pearl Harbor, which
is quite a bit of excitement for
, just 14 months
Mrs. Ingling said she last heard
from her husband on March 5,
when she had a letter saying that
he was okay and doing fine. A
graduate of the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class
of ’37, the lieutenant is probably
somewhere in the Pacific with the
fleet. He is a native of Overbrook,
Pa. Mrs Ingling is a native of
Halifax county. Va.
MAM ATTEND
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Surry Farm Families Are
Honored At Gathering At
Courthouse.
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Farmers and their families
from all sections of Surry county
attended a meeting held at the
Dobson court house Friday after
noon to honor farm families of
the county who produced at least
75 per cent of the food and feed
requirements for .the year 1941.
Of 1.600 farm famiiles registered
in the county only 153 qualified
for certificate awards.
George K .Snow of Mount Airy,
well known attorney and chair
man of the Surry county defense
committee, spoke to the group,
substituting for fifth district
congressman John H. Folger who
was scheduled to speak for the
meeting and who was unable to
leave Washington at that time.
Following the awarding of cer
tificates, which are signed by
Gov. J. M Broughton, officers
for the rural community organi
zation program in the county
were elected. P. N. Taylor of
White Plains was named as chair
man; Garland Johnson of this
city as vice-chairman, and Mrs.
J. G. Wood of Dobson, Route 2,
as secretary
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SAW JAP ATTACK^\W„SS^S
Jane, aged 14 months, were in Honolulu when the Japan
ese made their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The wife
and daughter of Lieutenant Ingling, of the U. S. Navy, the
two arrived in San Francisco March 24 after a perilous but
uneventful voyage from Honolulu, and are visiting Mrs.
Ingling’s sister, Mrs. R. M. Ogburn at the Ogburn home
here. Lieut. Ingling is at sea with the fleet.—(Tribune
Photo.)
2 ARE NABBED
FOR TIRE THEFT
Buck Lyons and Paul Bates
Placed Under $300 Bond
Each
HAVE HEARING MONDAY
Buck Lyons and Paul Bates,
both of Elkin, are at liberty un
der $300 bond each awaiting trial
in Surry superior court on charges
of the larceny of two automobile
tires, tubes and wheels, following
a hearing Monday before Magis
trate J. L. Hall.
The two young men were ar
rested the latter part of last week
after police had learned that two
tires had been stolen. The tires,
which were the property of the
Elkin Motor Car Company, had
been taken from a used car on the
company's used car lot, and came
to light when some children
found them hidden on a vacant
lot.
Chief of Police Corbett Wall
said that a trap had been plan
ned to capture the men responsi
ble for their theft, but before it
could be sprung, the discovery of
the tires by the children gummed
up the works. However, suspicion
pointed so strongly to Lyons and
Bates each was arrested.
Lyons, Chief Wall said, admit
ted that he took the tires, but
said he did it following an auto
accident in which he received a
severe blow on the head, and he
could not remember clearly all
that had transpired. Bates den
ied having anything to do with
the actual theft, but is alleged to
have aided in attempting to sell
them.
32 years after Columbus dis
covered America, the first Euro
peans dropped anchor in New
York harbor.
Lookout Saves 5
William R. Lowans, 18, of
Mercersburg, Pa., whose sharp
eyesight was responsible for the
rescue of five seamen on a raft
in the gale-swept North Atlan
tic. Lowans was on lookout on
a warship when his perfect
vision enabled him to detect
the seamen through the fog at
a distance of three miles.
Jack Newkirk Was
Not Ed’s Brother
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Jack Newkirk, American volun
teer pilot in China and Burma
who was killed last week after
amassing an amazing record of
Japanese planes shot down, was
not a brother of Ed Newkirk, of
Winston-Salem and best remem
bered here for his feat of flying
a plane under the old bridge over
the Yadkin river, friends of the
Newkirk family have announced.
Ed Newkirk, who has taken
many an Elkin citizen for a sky
ride here, is now a captain in the
U. S. Army Air Corps and is fer
rying bombers between allied na
tions.
Jack Newkirk’s home was in
Scarsdale, N. Y. Ed’s home is in
Winston-Salem.
MUST TRADE IN
OLD TUBE NOW
TO BUYPASTE
Shaving Cream Also Affect
ed Under Order
PENALTIES ANNOUNCED
Used Tube Doesn’t Have to
Be Same Type As That
Bought
METAL TO BE RE-USED
Folks used to trade In their old
automobile on a new one, but
now, instead of trading cars, they
must trade in their empty tooth
paste and shaving cream tubes
before they can purchase
tubes of such commodities.
Under an order by the war
production board, effective imme
diately, retail merchants are pro
hibited from selling toothpaste
or shaving cream in tubes to any
customer who fails to turn in
some type of collapsible tube for
each new one purchased.
Used tubes thus collected by
the retailers will be held subject
to WPB orders. Under the terms
of the trade-in provision, retail
ers are liable to penalties pre
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SAND WILL BE
DISTRIBUTED
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Citizens Asked to Put Out
Buckets in Front of
Homes.
FOR INCENDIARY BOMBS
Following a meeting of the El
kin Civilian Defense Advisory
Board at the City Hall Monday
afternoon, it was announced that
beginning Monday, April 13, every
homemaker in this civilian de
fense area set a bucket or other
metal or wooden container cap
able of holding three gallons of
sand, in front of their homes.
The town will haul sand and
fill up these containers, which
should then be placed in a con
venient location in the home for
use in the event of an enemy air
raid in which incendiary bombs
are used,
It was pointed out that the
town truck cannot cover the en
tire town in one day, and con
tainers should be left out front
until they are filled with sand.
It was also announced that lo
cal merchants are to be asked to
tie all waste paper and paste
board boxes into bundles for col
lection by the town. This paper
will be sold and the money ch
ained will be used to defray ex
penses of the civilian defense pro
gram.
Mrs. Hardin Brown
Dies Sunday A. M.
Mrs. Maude Smoot Brown, 52,
wife of Rev. Hardin Brown, pass
ed away at her home at Austin
Sunday morning. Mrs. Brown was
a well known and highly esteemed
woman and was a member of the
Austin Baptist church.
She is survived by her husband
and three children, Mrs. Grace
Brown Sidden and Ernest Brown
of Traphill, and Wilmer Brown of
the home.
Funeral services were held
Monday from the Austin Baptist
church. The rites were in charge
of Rev. Grant Cothren, assisted
by Rev. Sidden and Rev. Sparks.
Interment was in the church cem
etery.
Schools To Observe
Holiday On Monday
Elkin city schools and the
North Elkin school will observe
Easter Monday as a holiday, ac
cording to an announcement
Wednesday by J. Mark McAdams,
superintendent of schools.
Monday will also be observed as
a holiday by The Bank of Elkin
and the stores of the town, with
the exception of drug stores.
Candidates
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Pictured above are, top, J.
Raymond Smith, of Mount
Airy, who is a candidate on the
Democratic ticket for the North
Carolina Senate, and Henry
\ Dobson, of this city, Democra
tic candidate for the State
I House of Representatives.
MT. AIRY MAN
IS CANDIDATE
.1. Raymond Smith Seeks
Nomination for the State
Senate.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
J. Raymond Smith, prominent
1 Mount Airy manufacturer and
business-man, will seek the Dem
ocratic nomination for the state
senate in the primary to be held
May 30.
Henry Dobson, of Elkin, has al
ready announced his candidacy
for the state house of representa
tives from Surry, also on the
Democratic ticket.
The state senator from the 23rd
district is the joint representative
of both Surry and Stokes coun
ties, and the two counties supply
the nominee at alternate elec
tions. William F. Marshall, of
Walnut Cove, was the Surry
Stokes senator during the 1941
General Assembly.
Mr. Smith is a native of Mount
Airy, and is president of the Na
tional Furniture Company, one of
that town’s oldest industrial
plants. He is also a member of
the board of directors of the Se
curity Life and Trust Company
and the board of trustees of Duke
University.
Junior Order Plans
Special Meet Here
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All members of the local coun
cil of the Jr. O. U. A. M., are urg
ed to be present for a special
meeting to be held at the lodge
hall Friday evening at 8 o’clock.
Business matters of vital import
ance will be discussed and a full
membership attendance is desir
ed.
Three Young Men
Put In Class 1-A
Three selective service regis
trants have been reclassified by
Surry county draft board number
2 during the past week. Each of
the registrants, Talmage Smith,
Hugh Cleo Benge and Robert
Hibbard Harris, were put in class
1-A from class 3-A.
Defenders Of Bataan
Hold Onslaught After
Hand-to-Hand Battle
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LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, March 31—
The relentless hammering
ing of Japanese bombers at the
Manila harbor forts and Am
erican-Filipino lines of Bataan
peninsula is continuing day
and night with little apparent
success, the war department
reported today. There were a
number of casualties yesterday
when the enemy bombed a
base hospital In Bataan, a war
communique said, but damage
to fortifications was slight.
There have been tto indica
tions that the grim defenders
under Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright were being “soft
ened up” as the Japanese ap
parently hoped.
WASHINGTON, March 31—
The United States has shut
down on exports of war mater
ial to Argentina and any sup
plies that can be spared will go
to those Latin American coun
tries which have broken diplo
matic relations with or declar
ed war upon the axis, it was
disclosed tonight. The Ameri
can policy, it was revealed, is
to give preference in war-nav
al supplies going to Latin Am
erica to those republics which
are in danger of aggression be
cause of their stand against
the axis. Disclosure of the po
licy, it was said, explains the
failure of the Argentina army
and naval mission to Washing
ton which returned to Buenos
Aires last week minus large
amounts of military and naval
supplies which it had come
here to acquire.
WASHINGTON, March 31—
The heaviest tax collection
month in treasury history clos
ed tonight with more than $3,
000,000 of income and excess
profits taxes in the till. The
exact figure will not be known
for several days but in the first
28 days of the month the
“take’* was $3,014,189,364. This
was more than two and a half
times the $1,197,680,363 col
lected in a similar period last
year. With the $413,819 of in
come and excess profits taxes
collected in January and Feb
ruary, revenues from these
sources for the first quarter of
this year are expected to ex
ceed $3,500,000,000. Last year
the first quarter total was $1,
374,381,096.
INTERNATIONAL
CHUNGKING, March 31—
A British force 10 miles south
of Prome has been encircled by
Japanese troops seriously
threatening the Burma oil
fields, front dispatches said to
night, but the news partially
was offset by reports that 5,000
Japanese had been killed in a
tremendous battle at Toungoo.
The situation in the west ap
peared the most serious of the
war in that sector and there
was speculation that Prome it
self might soon become unten
able for the imperial forces if
they were to maintain contact
with U. S. Lieut. Gjjen. Joseph
W. Stilwell's crack Fifth and
Sixth Chinese armies in the
Toungoo sector.
LONDON, April 1.—A huge
convoy bearing vital war mate
rial, mostly from the United
States, was reported today to
have reached Murmansk after
its escort of British and Soviet
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BLOCK ATTACK
ON MAIN LINE
WITH BAYONETS
Nipponese Apologise for
Bombing Hospital
SAID UNINTENTIONAL
Experts P^ggict Nazis Will
Throw 1,250,000 Men Into
Fight
GUERRILLAS ACTIVE
Washington, April 1.—The War
Department reported today that
the Japanese, in a heavy attack
on the right center of Lieutenant
General Jonathan W. Wain
wright’s line in Bataan, captured
some of the advanced positions
but were halted in fierce hand
to-hand combat before they
reached the main American-Fili
pino line.
A number of minor air raids on
Corregidor occurred yesterday, a
communique sjud, and anti-air
craft artillery shot down two
heavy Japanese bombers.
A formal apology was received
from the Japanese imperial hi&h
command in the Philippines for
the recent bombing of a base
hospital in Bataan. A Japanese
army spokesman said in a radio
broadcast that the bombing was
unintentional.
The text of the communique,
No. 170, based on reports received
up to 9:30 a.m. (e.w.t):
“1. Philippine theatre:
“Japanese infantry opened a
heavy attack on the right center
of our line at about 8:00 p.m..
March 31. Several waves of as
sault troops, supported by heavy
mortar fire, made repeated at
tacks on our posts. Some of our
advanced positions were taken
after fierce bayonet fighting. Our
troops were reinforced and after
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TIRE ACTIVITY
IN PASTMONTH
11 Passenger Car Tires And
33 Truck Tires Allowed
In March.
LOCAL RATION BOARD
Purchase of 33 truck and 11
passenger car tires has been au
thorized by the local tire ration
ing board during the month of
March, it was announced Wed
nesday by Charles Poplin, secre
tary of the board. Purchase of
29 truck tubes and nine passen
ger car tubes were also author
ized in the same period.
The board also issued certifi
cates for the recapping of 17
truck tires during the month, and
the purchase of 19 obsolete tires.
Truck tire certificates went to
P. A. Brendle & Son, R. L.
Church, Darnell Transfer, Chat
ham Manufacturing Co., Harris
Electric Co., City Transit Co.,
Carolina Ice & Fuel Co., Standard
Oil Co., of N. J., and the Town
of Elkin.
Passenger car tire certificates:
Hayes & Speas, Joe Glenn
Wright, Dr. Seth M. Beale, Dr. J.
R. Johnson, Highland Orchards,
Rev. J. L. Powers, J. W. Phillips.
A. P. Southard, P. E. Burch, City
Cabs, Rev. O. V. Caudill.,
Truck Recapping: S. C. South
ard, Swanson Southard, A. D.
Southard, Chatham Manufac
turing Co., R. J. Reynolds, Long
Creek: Standard Oil Co., of N. J.;
E. J. Collins.
Obsolete: Delbert Coe, Worth
A. Graham, C. M. Rose, E. C.
Boyles, A. D. Parks, Leo P. Hin
shaw, Claude Burton, Mrs. J. H.
Stonestreet, Dr. C. L. Haywood.
Jr., John Hudspeth.