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The Elkin Tribune
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ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 23
Board Allots $1,500 For Curb Market
SITE DONATED
BY CHATHAM ON
E. MAI STREET
Commissioners Frown on
Grass Fires
ARE COSTLY TO TOWN
To Pass Ordinance Placing
Responsibility and $40.00
Fine
STREET NAME CHANGED
At a meeting of the Elkin board
of commissioners Tuesday evening
the board authorized the appro
priation of $1,500 to be used in
establishing a curb market for El
kin.
The money was sought by the
Elkin Junior Chamber of Com
merce, which has been active in
sponsoring such a project here,
and which guaranteed that no
further financial aid would be
asked of the town.
Property on East Main street
just east oi the Hugh Chatham
bridge has been made available
by the Chatham Manfacturing
Company as a site for the mar
ket. The money appropriated by
the town will go toward erecting
a building and providing walks
^ and driveways.
Another matter to be brought
before the commissioners was that
<of grass fires, which have been
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ARE FORMING
FIREPATROLS
4-H Club Groups to Aid in
Combatting Forest Fires
In Section
DUTIES ARE OUTLINED
Forest Fire Patrols are being
organized in all schools having
4-H clubs in Surry county. They
will be known as 4-H Forest Fire
Patrols. From eight to twelve
boys in each club are patrolmen.
These boys are elected from a
standpoint of activity in club
-work and with an eye toward lo
cating a member in every neigh
borhood served by that school of
■which he is a member. It is their
■duty to put out fires themselves
if possible, and to report all to
•the fire warden. They also shall
help report any breakage of fire
laws.
Each patrol has a captain and
an assistant captain. For the
Pilot Mountain club Harold Ven
able is captain and for the Shoals
club Harry Matthews is captain.
The Shoals patrol was the first to
complete its organization.
For the Franklin club Johnnie
<Gwyn is captain; Gene Key is
captain of White Plains; Harold
Hodges of Beulah; Billy Jack
Isaacs of Lowgap, and Hugh
Snow of Copeland and Nookie
Bass of Siloam are the captains
of their respective clubs. The
■Elkin and North Elkin club patrol
lias not been completed as yet.
This work is in close coopera -
tion with county and local fire
wardens. A map of each school
■community, fire fighting inform
ation and the name and loca
tions of county and local wardens
•is being supplied each captain
for distribution among the mem
bers.
Court To Convene
At Dobson Monday
Surry county superior court for
the trial of criminal cases will get
underway at Dobson Monday, Ap
ril 20, to be followed April 27 with
a week of civil court, with Judge
William H. Bobbitt presiding.
The criminal session will fea
ture one murder case, in which
Gidd Reynolds Shcff is defend
ant, and the usual assortment of
Jiquor, assault and traffic cases.
Elkin To Have City Delivery Of
Parcel Post Within Short Time
Given Approval
By Postoffice
Authorities
City delivery of parcel post for
Elkin has been approved and this
service should get under way here
within the next 10 days or two
weeks, it was announced Tuesday
by Postmaster P. W. Graham.
City delivery of mail has been
under way for the past six weeks.
Postmaster Graham said that
the new delivery would be in the
business and residential section,
and will begin as soon as the post
office department at Washington
approves bids made by local truck
owners.
Drop boxes, to be located at
various convenient points in town,
will be installed soon as posts for
the boxes are received, the war
having held up delivery of this
equipment.
BYNUMGR AY IS
SUICIDEVICTIM
Aged Wilkes County Man
Dies Wednesday Morning
From Bullet Wound
REASON IS NOT KNOWN
Bynum Gray, about 80, of the
Clingman section of Wilkes coun
ty, died in the Wilkes hospital at
North Wilkesboro, about 4 o’clock
Wednesday morning from a self
inflicted bullet wound.
Mr. Gray, who was a success
ful farmer and highly respected
citizen in his community, re
turned from North Wilkesboro
late in the afternoon Tuesday,
where he bought farming tools to
operate his large farm, and upon
arriving home went into his bed
room and put a bullet into his
temple with a shotgun. He was
rushed to the Wilkes hospital im
mediately, where he died only a
few hours later. No reason for
the suicide is known.
His wife died a number of
years ago and since her death
two of his children, Miss Mollie
Gray, and Wint Gray, had re
sided with their father. Four
other children survive him, Mrs.
Pearl Shore, of Cycle; Mrs. Paul
Holcomb, of Winston-Salem, and
John and Jim Gray, of Ronda.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon (Thursday) at 1
o’clock at Pleasant Grove Baptist
church.
GUY SPARGER
IS CANDIDATE
Stewart’s Creek Man Files
Wednesday for Job As
Surry Sheriff
SATURDAY IS DEADLINE
A third candidate for sheriff of
Surry county, Guy Sparger, of
Stewart’s Sreek, formally filed for
office Wednesday afternoon, it
was learned from Robt. A. Free
man, of Dobson, chairman of the
Surry board of elections.
Mr. Sparger’s announcement
puts him in the field against two
other democratic candidates for
the office, Sheriff Harvey Boyd
and Sam Patterson, who have al
so filed. J. E. Monday, expected
to be a candidate, had not filed
up to Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
Freeman said.
Other Surry candidates are
Henry Dobson, of Eilkin, for
house of representatives; J. Ray
mond Smith, of Mount Airy, for
state senate; Kermit W. Law
rence, for register of deeds; and
Fred Lewellyn, for clerk of super
ior court. Other candidates have
until April 18 to file.
TI Q fJ/TC D\rv Shown here is a U. S. fight
U. O. ill 1 u D/lLlY er plane operating from an
aircraft carrier in the Pacific as it hovers over the Japan
ese-held Wake island. In the lower center can be seen col
umns of smoke drifting upwards, the remains of the
Japanese stores on the isle, after direct hits by U. S. air
men in retaliation for the sneak assault on December 7.
All Citizens Urged To
Attend Defense Meeting
Motion Picture to be Shown Sunday
On Combatting Incendiary Bombs
A public meeting, to which all
citizens of Elkin, Jonesville, and
this entire section are invited and
urged to attend, will be held at
the Lyric theatre here Sunday af
ternoon at 3:30 o’clock in con
nection with Elkin’s civil defense
organization.
Purpose of the meeting is to
show a motion picture, prepared
by the chemical warfare depart
ment of the United States army,
which deals with incendiary
bombs and the correct method of
combatting them. The picture,
which has already been witnessed
by many of the civic defense vol
unteers of this and neighboring
MANY ATTEND
ZONEMEETING
Approximately 85 Present
For Gathering At Metho
dist Church
MISS TUTTLE SPEAKER
Approximately 85 women, rep
resenting 14 churches, were pre
sent for the zone meeting of the
Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Western North Car
olina Conference of the Methodist
church held at the Methodist
church here Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Ed Gardner of North Wil
kesboro, zone president, presided
over the session. Mrs. Harry
Pierson of North Wilkesboro, con
ducted the devotionals. The work
of the group was explained by
Mrs. W. L. Thompson of Greens
boro, conference leader, and Mrs.
Mason Lillard of this city, confer
ence secretary. Mrs. Thompson
led an impressive pledge service
following her talk. This was fol
lowed by a vocal solo “The Lord
Is My Shepherd” by Mrs. E. G.
Click of this city, accompanied by
Mrs. Van Dillon, Jr., also of Elkin.
The principal speaker for the
program was Miss Lelia Tuttle,
returned missionary from China,
who spoke of her work in the mis
sion fields.
Following the program the wo
men of the local church enter
tained the visitors at an informal
tea in the church parlor.
communities, and by all Elkin
school children, gives actual de
monstrations of bombs and how
to handle them.
It has been stressed by defense
leaders here that in event of an
actual raid, much of the work of
fighting incendiary bombs will fall
on the part of ordinary citizens,
including women and children,
and it is highly important that j
every citizen learn as much as!
possible about fighting such a
menace.
The picture was shown to the
students of the Elkin elementary
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Citizens Warned
To Keep Sand
Completely Dry
City trucks Monday deliver
ed dry sand to homes in Elkin
which had containers in which
to put it, and in some cases
provided containers as long: as
they were available, it was an
nounced Monday evening.
This sand is to be used to
combat incendiary bombs,
when and if an air raid occurs.
It was pointed out by local
civilian defense officials that
the sand should be kept in a
convenient place, and that it is
highly important that it be
kept dry. Wet sand on an in
cendiary bomb is worse than
using no sand at all, i^ was
said.
T. C. U. CLUB
HOLDS MEETING
Group Celebrates Third An
niversary of Organiza
tion Tuesday
Members of the Thurmond
Chatham Unity Club celebrated
the third anniversary of their or
ganization with a dinner meeting
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OVER 50 TO GO
TO ARMY FROM
SECOND AREA
Will Leave for Induction
Center Soon
MAKE UP APRIL QUOTA
Of This Number, 21 Are
From Elkin and Vicinity,
List Shows
GO TO FORT BRAGG
Over 50 young men from Surry
county draft area No. 2, will leave
Dobson April 18th, for Port
Bragg, where they will be induct
ed into the army.
Of this number, 21 are from El
kin or nearby, the list shows, and
the next call is expected to see
many more local men go to the
army.
The list of those going in the
April call, as provided by the
draft board, is as follows:
Cecil P. Folger, Dobson; Ben
Polger, Dobson: William Sam
Royal, Elkin; Rayford Wilson
Lawrence, Elkin; Woodrow Per
shing Burrus, Rockford; Charlie
Wiseman Stokes, Crutchfield;
Robert Glenn Morris, Pilot
Mountain; Richard Carl Martin,
route 1, Elkin; Luther Glenn Ba
ser, Elkin; Madison Eugene Mot
singer, Elkin; Floyd Raymond
Bullin, route 1, Ararat; James
Welch Hayes, route 3, Mt. Airy;
Carl Garvey Golden, Rusk; Har
vey Wesley Brown, route 1, Si
loam; Walter Wendell Bruner,
Ararat; Jiles Henry Cave, State
Road; Oscar Lee Bowman, route
1, Ararat.
Paul Kermet RoyalL, Elkin;
Woodrow Oliver Crouse, Lowgap;
Newell Clifton Stewart, Elkin;
Paul Newton Whitaker, route 2,
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MEN IN ARMY
CAN CAST VOTE
Qualified Voters in Armed
Services May Use Absen
tee Ballots
PROCEDURE EXPLAINED
Any qualified voter who is now
in the armed forces of the United
States may vote in the primary
to be held May 30 by absentee
ballot, it was announced Tuesday
by Robert A. Freeman, chairman
of the Surry county board of elec
tions.
Explaining the proper procedure
to vote, Mr. Freeman said that
the voter himself may apply in
writing for the ballot, or any
member of his immediate family,
including wife, brother, sister, pa
rent or child, may make such ap
plication. The application should
show the precinct of the soldier
or sailor, his party affiliation and
should be mailed to Robt. A. Free
man at Dobson. On receipt of
this application with the correct
address of the soldier or sailor,
Chairman Freeman will immedi
ately send the official ballot and
envelope to the person for his
voting.
Saturday, April 18, at 6:30, is
the last day for all candid
ates for county and township of
ficers, justice of the peace, and
constable, to file notice of their
candidacy with the county board,
Mr. Freeman said.
Copeland Alumni
Group To Gather
—
The Copeland alumni associa
tion will have their annual picnic
in the school gymnasium on May
2, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
All former teachers and alumni
and their families are invited to
attend and bring a basket supper.
An interesting program is planned
for the entertainment of those at
tending.
Make Daylight Sweep
Of Invasion Coast In
Great Air Offensive
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, April 14. —
President Roosevelt implied to
day that a national war labor
policy will be set down in the
administration’s forthcoming:
program to combat inflation
through rigid control of prices,
wages, profits and rents. He
said at his press conference
that the question of a war la
bor policy was tied up with in
flation—a word which he de
scribed as vile and which he
urged reporters to drop as
meaningless until a better de
scriptive term for the economic
situation can be found.
WASHINGTON, April 14. —
President Roosevelt predicted
tonight that the United Na
tions will emerge victorious
from the present war within
two, or perhaps three years.
Mr. Roosevelt also suggested
the term “the survival war” as
a name for the conflict, point
ing out that it is a war for “the
survival of our civilization.”
Addressing members of the
government board of the Pan
American union informally,
the chief executive expressed
his own confidence in ultimate
victory but warned that all
people of all the Americas must
pave the way by sacrifice.
WASHINGTON, April 14. —
The army reported today that
an American-Filipino raiding
party had ambushed a Japan
ese truck column on the island
of Mindanao and inflicted hea
vy casualties with no losses to
itself. At the same time, it said
small bodies of troops in north
ern Luzon had conducted suc
cessful raids against “lightly
held enemy positions in the
mountains.’’ Luzon is the prin
cipal Philippine island, on
which is located Manila and
Bataan peninsula. Mindanao
is far to the south.
WASHINGTON, April 14. —
Postmaster General Walker to
night ordered a hearing to de
termine whether Social Justice,
a weekly newspaper founded at
Royal Oak, Mich., by Father
Charles E. Coughlin, should be
barred from the mails for al
leged seditious statements.
Pending the hearing April 29,
Walker directed the postmast
er at Royal Oak to withhold
the publication from the mails
until officials at Washington
determine its availability, a
proceeding which it was said
would have the effect of bar
ring the tabloid from the mails
immediately.
WASHINGTON, April 14. —
The navy department, in two
announcements yesterday, re
vealed that four vessels—a me
dium-sized tanker, a small
merchantman and two med
ium-sized merchantmen —
have been sunk off the Atlan
tic coast. All four were Am
erican vessels. The earlier an
nouncement listed the tanker
and small merchantman as
sunk, and stated that 68 survi
vors were landed at Jackson
ville, Fla. The announcement
last night listed the two medi
um-sized merchant ships as
lost. Fifty-nine survivors from
these two ships were landed at
Morehead City. Loss of all four
vessels was attributed to axis
submarines.
LAVAL CAUSES
BITTER ISSUE
WITH THE U. S.
Pro-Hitler Frenchman Re
turned to Power
SPURN AMERICAN NOTE
French People Await to
Learn Extent of Laval’s
Authority
STATEMENT IS ISSUED
London, April 15.—Large forma
tions of British fighter planes
raced across the Dover Strait to
day in another daylight sweep of
the French invasion coast after
a night in which giant bombers
set mammoth fires through Ger
many’s vital industrial Ruhr.
Flying so high they could not be
seen despite the cloudless sky, the
planes crossed the French coast in
the Calais area and soon thunder
ous explosions could be heard from
the Dover coast.
The Royal Air Force, developing
its greatest offensive of the war,
was now engaged in a 24-hour at
tack which had thrown the Ger
man air force on the defensive
from Norway to France in fear
that an allied invasion of the con
tinent was in prospect.
In Vichy, France, a bitter issue
with the United States overhung
this government today as a new
regime for vanquished France took
shape on a “new foundation,”
bringing the once-ousted colla
borationist Pierre Laval back to
power.
As the French people awaited to
learn—probably tomorrow — just
how Laval will share authority
with Marshal Petain and Admiral
Jean Darlan, the government last
night angrily rejected Washing
ton’s statement of its reasons for
sending a consul general to Braz
zaville accredited to the Free
French authorities in control of
French Equatorial Africa.
France’s answer declared that
“the French government does not
accept the note of the American
government, couched in injurious
terms which tend to discredit in
the eyes of the world the conduct
of French citizens who do not have
to take lessons in patriotism from
abroad.”
JAYCEES HOLD
DIR MEET
Film on Incendiary Bombs
And Their Handling Is
Shown
SEEK SITE APPROVAL
Members of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce met for a din
ner session in the Lucy Hanes
Chatham club house Monday ev
ening. A delicious dinner was
served by the Gilvin Roth Y. M.
C. A. staff.
The members were shown a
motion picture on incendiary
bombs, and following the show
ing of the picture the bombs, or
the procedure of combatting
them, was explained by Roy H.
Kane and E. E. Shore, Jr., of the
civilian defense committee.
C. C. Weaver, Jr., president of
the Jaycees, presided over the
business session. It was an
announced that as soon as ap
proval of the site and construc
tion plans was made by the city
council, that construction would
begin on a curb market here, pro
vided the material for construc
tion was not withheld by the
WPB. Other routine matters
were dispatched.
1942 automobile tags will be
used again in 1943, so save yours.