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ELKIN
The Best
Little Town in
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 24
Must Register For Sugar Rationing Here May 4-5-6- 7
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Second Heavy Attack
In Three Days Made
On Rabaul By Fliers
DESTROY FOUR
JAP PLANES AT
PORT MORESBY
U. S., Australian Airmen
Join Forces
WHARVES ARE BOMBED
Plane Crews See Huge Fires
Raging Among Nippon
Installations
NEW POSTS ARE SET UP
Gen. Mac Arthur’s Headquar
ters, Australia, April 22.—United
States and Australian planes have
started big fires in their second
r heavy raid in three days on the
great Japanese invasion base at
Rabaul and have shot down four
Japanese planes which raided
Port Moresby, New Guinea, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur announced
In their attack on Rabaul on
New Britain Island, the most
dangerous Japanese base in the
whole Australian zone, huge Un
ited States bombing planes cen
tered their attack on wharves and
buildings and their crews saw
fires raging as they turned home
ward. This raid was made yes
terday. Rabaul had received
smashing blows in an attack Sun
day.
In the Port Moresby fight yes
terday, eight Japanese bombing
planes attempted a raid with a
fighter escort. Four of the escort
planes, all crack Japanese Navy
O- fighters, were shot down by
allied fighters.
It was indicated strongly that
MacArthur was quickening the
pace of his aerial offensive
against the Japanese after a lull
last week.
It was noted that in his com
munique today, No. 2 issued from
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REPUUCANS
NAME TICKET
Cola C. Fulp Is Chosen As
Chairman of Surry Exe
cutive Committee
200 ATTEND CONVENTION
Cola C. Pulp of this city was
elected chairman of the Surry
Republican executive committee
at a convention held at Dobson
Saturday afternoon. Candidates
for county offices were also nom
inated. The convention was at
tended by more than 200 dele
gates. Speakers on the program
were David L. Hiatt and Judge A.
E. Tilley of Mount Airy, and R.
L. Lovelace of this city.
Candidates nominated were:
W. M. Jackson, state senator for
Surry and Stokes counties; R. L.
Lovelace, Elkin, house of repre
sentatives; W. J. Davis, sheriff;
C. E. Hutchens, coroner; Warren
Alberty, of DObson, clerk of
court; A. K. Scott of Dobson and
p. L. Schuyler of Franklin town
ship, county commissioners.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, April 21.—
With a grin, President Roose
velt said today that American
planes reported to have bomb
ed Japan last Saturday came
from a new secret base in
Shangri La, a fictional utopia
in Tibet. (James Hilton tells
of it in his novel, “Lost Horiz- j
on.”) Seriously speaJking, the
President would not throw any
light on the reported bombing;
would not even confirm that it
occurred.
WASHINGTON, April 21. —
For perhaps the “most daring
• single action in the history of
combat aviation,” a young na
val lieutenant, Edward H.
O’Hare, received his country’s
highest honor today from Pres
ident Roosevelt. It was last
February 20 that O’Hare, as
signed to a carrier operating
near the Gilbert islands, lifted
his plane from the flight deck
and streaked for nine heavy
Japanese bombers bent on
pounding his ship to the bot
tom of the Pacific. In five
minutes he shot down five of
the bombers and damaged a
sixth.
WASHINGTON, April 21. —
The navy tonight recorded
another heroic exploit directed
by Lieut. John Bulkeley, the
“torpedo boat terror,” while
the war department reported
the sombre tidings that only
107 of an estimated 3,000 Am
erican national guardsmen got
away from bloody Bataan.
Navy torpedo boats from the
command of Bulkeley, scourge
of Japanese mariners and the
man who piloted the torpedo
boat which brought Gen.
Douglas MacArthur safely out
of Luzon were revealed to have
bagged a Jap cruiser in recent
action near the southern Phil
ippine island of Cebu.
From
the
State
and
Nation
WASHINGTON, April 21. —
President Roosevelt is consid
ering a general price ceiling,
consumers rationing, salary
limitations and an almost con
fiscatory excess profits tax as
part of his forthcoming anti
inflation program, informed
senate sources revealed tonight.
The overall plan as outlined by
the President to his close ad
visers reportedly contemplates
a limitation of $25,000 or $50,
000 on increased earnings
along with a 99 per cent excess
profits levy.
INTERNATIONAL
LONDON, April 21. — Heavy
bombers of the U. S. air force,
the first of the all-American
striking units which will soon
fly wing-to-wing with the RAF
against the nazi continent, are
being ferried to British opera
tional bases, it was reported re
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DFTF1UF MFn A T Q Adm- Chester W. Nimitz,
IXLjLLjIV Lj lri£/l/riLjJ commander-in-chief, Pa
cific fleet, awards the navy cross to one of 24 men so hon
ored for bravery during the Japanese attack on Pearl Har
bor, December 7. The presentation took place aboard a
battleship at this vital naval base. Lined up at the left
are other men who received awards.
NAVY RELIEF
FUNDS SOUGHT
Drive Is Under Way Locally;
Fund of $5,000,000 Need
ed in Nation
HANES IS CHAIRMAN
A drive is underway locally to
raise funds for the Navy Relief
Society. The society is the offi
cial organization of the United
States Navy, established to give
financial aid in the way of grants
and loans for the emergency
needs and care of families of men
and officers in the Navy, includ
ing the Coast Guard and Marine
Corps. A fund of $5,000,000 is
needed to care for war time needs
of families of Navy men.
Dr. Frederic Hanes of the staff
of Duke Hospital, Durham, is
state chairman'of the North Car
olina citizens committee of the
society, and Charles Hanes of
this city, is local chairman. Vol
unteer donations may be mailed
or given personally to Mr. Hanes
here for the fund locally. It is
also planned to have a bingo par
ty, the time and place to be
announced later, proceeds of this
party to go to the Navy Relief
fund.
SCHEDULE FOR
INSTRUCTION
Majority of Civilian Defense
Workers to Soon Com
plete Course
HELD AT THE CITY HALL
Civilian Defense Corps instruc
tion for a large number of volun
teers will come to an end next
week when a five-hour general
course of instruction will be com
pleted.
It was brought out at a meet
ing Tuesday of division heads
that while the cooperation of a
majority of the civilian defense
volunteers has been satisfactory,
there are some who have fallen
down in their duties by failure to
go through with the various
courses, and other citizens will
have to be trained to replace
them.
The schedule of classes for to
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Older Men Must
Register For
Draft Monday
Surry county draft boards
have announced that plans are
complete for registration Mon
day, April 27, of men from 44
to 65 years of age in the fourth
draft listing since selective ser
i vice was authorized by Con
gress in 1940, and the second
since the start of the war.
All Surry men who were
born on and after April 28,
1877, and on or before Feb
ruary 16, 1897, must register.
Hours will be from 7 a. m. to
9 p. m.
Registration places through
out the county will be the same
as during the last registration.
In Elkin men will register at
the City Hall.
DRUNK DRIVERS
FEATURECOURT
Criminal Session Under Way
At Dobson Before
Judge Bobbitt
NUMBER CASES TRIED
Numerous cases had been dis
posed of in Surry county superior
court before Presiding Judge W.
H. Bobbitt up until Wednesday
afternoon, a majority of which
were cases involving intoxicated
motorists.
Jim Lawson, charged with as
sault on a female, was on trial
late Wednesday afternoon, with
the case not expected to be com
pleted until some time today
(Thursday).
Other cases were as follows:
Ruth Blackburn, negro, carry
ing concealed weapon, $50 and
costs.
Howard Anderson and Bert
Phillips, operating an automobile
while intoxicated, $50 and costs
each.
Ellis Horton, violating prohibi
tion law, 6 months.
James H. Moore, Estes Strick
land and Sead Adams, negroes,
housebreaking, larceny and re
ceiving, 18 month seach.
Robert Glenn Joyce and Earl
Hutchins, operating car while
intoxicated, $100 and costs each.
Algie Hill, negro, assault with
deadly weapon, $50 and costs.
Tom Wright, operating car
while intoxicated, $50 and costs.
Roscoe Eaton, violating prohib
ition law. $100 and costs.
SCHOOLS TO BE
USED; SALE TO
STOP APRIL 27
No Sugar to Be Sold for a
One Week Period
INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN
Local Board Has Jurisdiction
Over Elkin, Bryan, Rock
ford, Marsh
MUST REPORT SYRUP
For the average citizen, May 4,
5, 6 and 7 will mark the dates in
which they will register under the
new sugar rationing program.
Trade and industrial users will
register on April 28 and 29.
The registration will be under
the supervision of the local ra
tioning board, made up of W. C.
Cox, W. W. Whitaker and Tom
Ring, and will have supervision
over the rationing program of El
kin, Bryan, Rockford and Marsh
townships.
Under the announced setup,
schools will be used as registra
tion places. Citizens of the North
Elkin area will register at North
Elkin school, while citizens of El
kin will register at the elementary
school, it was announced. Citizens
of other areas will register at
their nearest schools, unless other
places should be designated prior
to the registration dates.
Citizens will be entitled to two
pounds of sugar without having
the equivalent number of stamps
torn from their ration books, it
was said. Citizens with over six
pounds of sugar in their posses
sion at the date of the registra
tion will not be issued books until
the excess has been consumed.
However, they must register.
All sugar on hand at the time
of registration must be reported,
it was said. Cane and sugar sy
rup must also be reported, and
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SEEK TO RAISE
$500 FOR FUND
Appeal to People to Contribute
To United China Relief
Campaign
GRAHAM IS CHAIRMAN
Mayor J. R. Poindexter has ap
pointed Dixie Graham as chair
man of the United China Relief
campaign here and a drive will
be made by Mr. Graham and a
corps of workers to raise $500, the
quota assigned to Elkin by the
national organization, to aid in
this worthwhile work.
In commenting on the United
China Relief program. President
Roosevelt stated that “famine,
pestilence and exposure have tak
en and are taking a terrible toll
of a people who prefer death to
slavery. China has paid in blood,
tears and treasure as high a price
as a people can possibly pay for
the freedom in which it believes.”
China has been fighting our
common foe for the past five
years and since that time 3,000,
000 Chines have given their lives
that China might be free. Fifty
million Chinese are refugees in
their own land, having been driv
en out by the Japanese.
Donations may be left at the
city hall or mailed to Mr. Graham
by any one desiring to make a
contribution to the fund, who is
not contacted by a solicitor.
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Will Be Held Friday
Night On Orders Of
United States Army
Unsung Hero
One of the yet unsung heroes
of the magnificent resistance
on Bataan peninsula is Lieut.
Col. Jack Schwartz, of Fort
Worth, Texas, who is shown
outside the crude operating
room of Hospital No. 2. In one
night and a day Lieut. Col.
Schwartz and his staff handled
420 major and minor operations.
CANDIDATES
FACE PRIMARY
Contests for Several Offices
On Democratic Ticket
In County
REPUBLICANS LISTED
Saturday marked, the final day
for candidates to file for office
subject to the forthcoming pri
mary, and a check with R. A.
Freeman, of Dobson, chairman of
the Surry board of elections dis
closed the Democrats have a
full list of office seekers in the
field, with contests for several po
sitions, while the Republican tick
et is short several candidates.
Names of the candidates who
have filed, as supplied by Mr.
Freeman Wednesday, follows:
For sheriff, Democrats: H. S.
Boyd, present sheriff, Guy Spar
ger, S. C. Patterson and J. E.
Monday: Republican, W. J. Da
vis. For clerk of superior court,
Democrats: Fred Lewellyn and
J. P. Fulk; Republican, Warren F.
Alberty. For coroner, Democrats,
Dr. R. E. Smith; Republican, C.
E. Hutchins. For surveyor, Dem
ocrats, I. W. Barber; no Republi
can candidate. For county com
missioners, Democrats, M. Q.
Snow, S. M. Smith and R. P.
Jones; Republican, A. K. Scott
and D. L. Schuyler.
Henry Dobson, of Elkin, Demo
crat, will be opposed by R. L.
Lovelace, also of Elkin, Republi
can, for the house of representa
tatives. J. R. Smith, of Mount
Airy, Democrat, will be opposed
for the state senate by W. M.
Jackson, of Dobson, Republican.
Kermit W. Lawrence is the
Democratic candidate for register
of deeds.
PROGRESS
Because of advances in poultry
research, commercial hatchery
developments, better manage
ment, and improvement programs,
seven hens now lay as many eggs
as nine did in 1909.
TEST TO COVER
23 COUNTIES IN
N. CAROLINA
Will Be Made As Real As
Possible Here
PLANS ARE MAPPED OUT
All Citizens Urged to Coop
erate in Every Way
Possible
BETWEEN 9 AND 11 P. M.
The first interceptor command
of the United States army has or
dered a test blackout for Elkin,
Surry county, and 22 other coun
ties of this section of the state
Friday night between 9:00 and
11:00 o’clock.
At a meeting of divsion heads
of the Elkin Civic Defense Corps,
held Tuesday afternoon at the
City Hall, plans for Elkin’s and
surrounding communiites’ partici
pation in the blackout were dis
cussed.
The test blackout is to be made
as real as possible, just as if an
actual raid was in progress. All
lights must be extinguished, all
traffic must be halted, with ex
ception of regularly scheduled
buses and freight trucks; and all
citizens, other than mefnbers of
the defense corps, must take shel
ter and keep off the streets.
It was pointed out that this test
will not be of a home-grown na
ture, but is ordered by the U. S.
army, and must be made as suc
cessful as possible. Every citizen
is asked to cooperate, and those
who fail to do so will be reported
to Corbett Wall, chief of police.
Mayor J. R. Poindexter stated
that those persons reported will
face punitive action.
It is not known how long the
blackout will last, and the hour at
which it will begin is also not
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CO. GRAND JURY
MAKES REPORT
Completes Work in Quick
Time; Recommends Ac
tion on Bus Shop
INSPECTIONS ARE MADE
The Surry county grand jury
for this week’s special term of
criminal court at Dobson, with E.
W. McDaniel, of Elkin, as fore
man, completed their work Tues
day morning at 10 o’clock.
In its report to Judge W. H.
Bobbitt, the grand jury reported
that in 27 bills of indictment, 24
true bills were returned.
A committe visited the county
home, the jail and county prison
camp and Inspected the court
house. They found all buildings
in good repair and found sanitary
conditions excellent at the county
home.
The jury recommended either
a new building or repairs to the
county school bus repair shop,
finding the present building a fire
hazard.