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The Elkin Tribune
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
YOL. No. XXXI. No. 33
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942
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LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
NATIONAL
WASHUNGTON, June 24.—
President Roosevelt today called
a special meeting of the Paci
fic war council for tomorrow
at the White House. Prime
Minister Winston Churchill will
be present.
WASHINGTON, June 23.—
The shipping problem, an es
sential point in any consider
ation of allied strategy, was
attacked today by President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and their ranking
advisers. The conference was
officially described as one of
the most important of the
British officials’ current visit.
In addition, the White House
disclosed that the President
and prime minister conferred
at length yesterday with Dr. T.
V. Soong, the Chinese foreign
minister. The subject, said
Stephen Early, Mr. Roosevelt’s
secretary, was “of course, Chi
na in a military sense.’’
W ASHINGTON, June 23. —
History’s largest legislative
check for war expenditures —
an appropriation of $42,820,
003,606 — was endorsed swiftly
today by a house determined to
give Uncle Sam’s soldiers a me
chanized striking strength sur
passing that of the axis. After
five hours of discussion, the
house passed the colossal mea
sure 352 to 0 and sent it to the
senate. Military chiefs inform
ed Congress it would pay, out
fit and equip an armed force
expanding to 4,500,000 men by
July 1, 1943. The action came
after both Democratic and Re
publican spokesmen declared
the United Nations were deter
mined to defeat the axis—re
gardless of financial cost.
From
the
State
and
Nation
WASHINGTON, June 23. —
Consumer services, a $5,000,
000,000 industry carried on in
1,000,000 establishments in the
country, were placed under a
war-time price ceiling tonight
with top prices pegged at the
highest levels of March. Tke
ceiling takes effect July 1. The
order covers laundries, under
takers, garages and all sorts
of repair shops. As a general
rule, it covers all retail services
performed on things, such as
shoe-shining and piano-tun
ing; and it exempts services
performed on or for people,
such as those of barbers, doc
tors and lawyers.
WASHINGTON, June 23. —
The House military affairs
committee, reporting “a sordid
picture of nearly every con
ceivable type of extravagant
waste” in war department con
tracts, said today the time has
come to end “the contractors'
honeymoon at the expense of
the taxpayers of the nation.”
Culminating a year's investiga
tion of the' war program, the
committee critized the manner
in which conservation of criti
cal material is "being recklessly
disregarded.” Representative
Thomason, Texas, ranking
Democratic member of the
committee, dissented, charging
that “not a human who voted
for the report has read it.”
INTERNATIONAL
CAIRO, June 23—Heavy axis
mechanized formations, bring
ing with them them threat of
impending attack, rumbled to-,
ward hastily consolidated Brit
ish outposts near the Egyptian
frontier today as American
bombers joined with war in the
desert with a devastating raid
on the axis supply base at Ben
gasi. A dispatch filed by an
Associated Press correspondent
with the British forces near
the Egyptian frontier at noon
today said big armored units
under the command of Ger
man Field Marshal General
Erwin Rommel have moved to
ward the British border posi
tions.
10 Tons Of Old Rubber
Turned In Here So Far
EXTEND DRIVE
ONE WEEK SAYS
STATEJtFFICIAL
County Agent Reports Col
lections Fine
RUBBER IS POURING IN
Government Seeking Every
Article Containing the
Material
NO AMOUNT TOO SMALL
Although old rubber has been
coming In here and over the
county in gratifying volume since
the beginning of the nation-wide
rubber salvage drive, the drive
has been extended one more
week, it was learned Wednesday
from A. P. Cobb, Surry farm
agent, who said he had received
instructions to this effect from
Raleigh. The drive was to have
ended June 30.
Although he did not have def
inite figures on the amount of
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SPEAS SAID TO
BE IMPROVING
Prominent Boonville Citizen
Thought to Have Attempt
ed Suicide
WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST
The condition of John A. Speas,
Sr., prominent Boonville citizen,
who is thought to have attempt
ed suicide Thursday morning of
last week, is slightly improved.
According to doctor’s reports, he
has a fair chance to recover.
Mr. Speas was found on the
second floor of the Motor Sales
Company garage in Winston-Sa
lem, of which he is vice-president,
with a pistol wound in his chest,
believed to have been self-in
flicted. He was alone at the
time, according to reports. Em
ployees of the company, hearing
the shot, rushed to the scene,
Frank P. Poindexter being the
first to reach him. It is under
stood that Mr. Speas handed Mr.
Poindexter a letter which is re
ported to explain the action, how
ever the contents of the letter
have not been made public.
Mr. Speas is a patient in a
Winston-Salem hospital.
MRS. GEORGE
PASSES AWAY
Widow of Former Publisher
Of Elkin Times Dies in
Critz, Va.
WAS NATIVE OF DAVIE
Mrs. Mary Critz George, 86,
widow of Thomas Millard George,
former publisher of The Elkin
Times, died the early part of the
week in Critz, Va.
Mrs. George was a native of
Davie county, N. C., and a daugh
ter of Haman and Elizabeth Frost
Critz. She resided in Surry coun
ty for a number of years, where
her husband published newspa
pers, both in Elkin and Mount
Airy.
Funeral services were held at
the village church at Critz, and
interment was in the church
graveyard beside her husband.
Two sons and two daughters,
William F. George of Raleigh;
Wesley Critz George of Chapel
Hill; Mrs. B. F. Cooper of Critz,
Va., and Mrs. William E. Hoy, of
Columbia, S. C.. survive.
TMCrTlCC rnWTDnT shown at Mitchel Field
UloLUbb LUDI1 KULas they discussed the At
lantic anti-submarine patrol with Brig. Gen. Jimmie Doo
little (center, seated) are, left to right, Maj. Gen. Follett
Bradley, commanding the First air force; Brig. Gen. Joe
Cannon, commanding the First fighter command; Col. E.
E, Glenn, chief of staff of the First air force; and Brig.
Gen. Westside Larson, commanding the First bomber
command.
July 4th To Be
Observed On 6th
By Local Stores
The Fourth of July, which
this year falls on Saturday will
be observed in Elkin by local
stores on Monday, July 6, it has
been announced by Miss Louise
Laffoon, secretary of the Elkin
Merchants Association, follow
ing a recent meeting.
Stores will remain open as
usual Saturday, but will be
closed all day Monday, with the
exception of drug stores and
theatres.
REGISTER FOR
GASJULY9-11
Tentative Plans for Perma
nent Rationing Are
Announced
EFFECTIVE ON JULY 22
Tentative plans covering gas
rationing effective July 22 have
been announced by Theodore S.
Johnson, state director of the
OPA.
During the last gasoline regis
tration 40,000 car owners request
ed duplicate registration cards,
and Mr. Johnson has advised that
all car owners, both passenger and
truck, if they do not have a regis
tration card that they ask for a
duplicate now, to insure their ob
taining rationing books by July
22.
Truck owners should also be
prepared to furnish the following
information: miles driven during
May 1942, milage to be driven
July, August and September, 1942,
and average miles per gallon.
Registration under a perma
nent gas rationing plan will be
staged July 9, 10 and 11 at school
houses and at the local rationing
office, Charles Poplin, secretary to
the local rationing board, said
here Tuesday.
Revival In Progress
At West Elkin Church
A revival meeting is now in
progress at West Elkin Baptist
church and will continue through
July l. Services are held* each
evening at 8:30 by the pastor,
Rev. J. L. Powers. Prayer meet
ings are being held each jiter
noon at 3 o’clock in various homes
in the community served by the
church.
A cordial welcome is extended
the public to attend the services.
18-20 GROUP
TO REGISTER
Young Men Will Put Their
Names on Uncle Sam’s
List June 30
PLACES ANNOUNCED
The fifth registration of men
under the selective service act
will be staged Tuesday, June 30,
from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m., at which
time all men bom after January
1, 1922 and before June 30, 1924,
or the group age of 18-20, will put
their names on Uncle Sam’s list
of possible future soldiers.
Surry draft board No. 2 has an
nounced the following list of reg
istration places in the No. 2 area:
Elkin, second floor. City Hall.
Dobson, local board office, court
house.
Pilot Mountain, City Hall.
Copeland, Copland school.
Mountain Park, Mountain Park
school.
Lowgap, Lowgap post office.
Eldora, Eldora school.
Due to the resignation of J. L.
Hall as selective service registrar,
following his acceptance of a pos
ition as business manager of the
local hosiptal, Hugh A. Royall,
prominent Elkin insurance man,
will be in charge of next Tues
day’s registration, C. A. McNeil,
member of Draft Board No. 2,
said Wednesday afternoon.
2ND PRIMARY
ON SATURDAY
Considerable Interest Shown
In Race Between Patter
son, Boyd
SEEK SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Considerhale interest is being
shown both here and throughout
Surry county in the second pri
mary between Sheriff H. S. Boyd
and Sam C. Patterson, both of
Mount Airy, for the Democratic
nomination for sheriff of Surry
county. The second vote will be
taken on Saturday, June 27, with
the sheriff’s office only at stake.
Boyd and Patterson emerged
from the recent primary as the
two high men in a four-cornered
race, and both men have strong
followings in all parts of the comi
ty. Many observers predict as
heavy vote in the second primary
balloting as in the first primary
when more offices were in the bal
ance.
MEMBERS OF 6
4-H CLUBS ARE
GUESTS OF CITY
See Motion Picture As
Guests of Kiwanis
FETED BY MERCHANTS
Youngsters of Surry and
Yadkin Inspect Curb
Market and Y.M.C.A.
OVER 100 ARE IN GROUP
Members of six 4-H clubs from
Surry county, totalling about fy>
boys and girls, and approximately
20 club members from Yadkin
county, visited Elkin last Friday
afternoon for an outing which in
cluded seeing a motion picture
dealing with club work at the
State theatre, and a tour of points
of interest around town.
The motion picture, '‘Young
America,” starring Jane Withers,
dealt throughout with 4-H Club
work and its aims, and was pre
sented through courtesy of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club.
Following the movie, the entire
group were treated to refresh
ments at Turner Drug Company
as the guests of the Elkin Mer
chants Association, and were then
conducted on a tour of the newly
completed Elkin Curb Market
building by Claude Farrell, of the
local Jaycees. Followed a tour of
the new Y. M. C. A., where the
group heard an interesting talk
by T. C. McKnight, Y secretary.
A visit to Kondike Farm had
been scheduled, but due to a rain
storm, it had to be cancelled.
Accompanying the group, which
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PRACTICE AIR
RAID FRIDAY
Local Drill Will Test Organi
zation and New Raid
Alarm System
HOUR NOT ANNOUNCED
A test air raid alarm will be
staged here some time Friday af
ternoon' in order to test the effi
ciency of the newly erected air
raid signal and to again test the
local Civilian Defense organiza
tion, it has been announced by J.
W. L. Benson, head of the local
defense corps.
Only one siren will be sounded,
and that will be the steam siren
which was recently placed atop
the power plant of the Chatham
Manufacturing company and
equipped with directional horns.
One purpose of the test will be to
see how well the alarm can be
heard throughout Elkin and out
lying communities.
At the sound of the siren mem
bers of the defense corps are to
swing into action just as if it was
the real thing, Mr. Benson said.
It is hoped that it will function
a bit more smoothly than during
the recent surprise test held
throughout a large part of the
state.
People in distant parts of the
town are asked to report whether
or not the alarm signal can be
heard plainly. However, these re
ports are not wanted until the
test is over as the telephone
should not be used except in cases
of emergency.
Special War Bond,
Stamp Sale July 1
The civilian population of the
United States and all of her pos
sessions will be given an oppor
tunity for a 15-minute concerted
drive against the axis powers on
Wednesday, July 1, from 12
o’clock noon until 12:15 when
merchants throughout the area
will devote the specified time to
the exclusive sale of War Bonds
and Stamps.
Local merchants are cooperat
ing in the event and urge all peo
ple of the town and surrounding
area to purchase bonds and
stamps during the quarter-hour
period.
Has New Job
J. L. Hall, prominent Elkin
man, has been named as busi
ness manager of Hugh Chatham
Memorial Hospital, beginning
July 1. He succeeds Harry El
liott, who recently resigned that
position.
HALL IS NAMED
TO NEW POSITION
Business Manager of Hospi
tal; Mrs. Lankford Supt.
Of Nurses
BEGINS DUTIES JULY 1
Julius L. Hall, prominent Elkin
man, was elected business mana
ger of Hugh Chatham Memorial
hospital here, at a meeting of the
board of directors of the hospital
Tuesday, according to an an
nouncement by Rev. L. B. Aber
nethy, chairman of the hospital
board. Mr. Hall will begin his
duties July 1.
Mr. Hall will continue to serve
as magistrate and will preside at
the weekly court but has resigned
his post with the county board of
elections and with the selective
service board.
He is a native of Elkin and an
honor graduate of Davidson Col
lege. Mr. Hall succeeds Harry
Elliot of New York, who recently
resigned as business manager of
the hospital. Mrs. Elliot, who was
superintendent of nurses at the
hospital, has been succeeded by
Mrs. Barrett Lankford, of Elkin,
in this capacity.
WILKES NATIVE
DIES TUESDAY
Mrs. Mary Jane Wooten, 93,
Passes At Home of
Daughter
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
Mrs. Mary Jane Wooten, 93, a
native of Wilkes county and wid
ow of J. Perry Wooten of Ronda,
died late Tuesday afternoon at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Roy C. Martin, in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Wooten had been in declin
ing health for sometime and her
condition had been critical since
Sunday night. Since the death of
her husband in 1923 she had
made her home with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Martin, and with a
granddaughter, Mrs. L. E. Dob
bins, in Ronda.
She was a member of Briar
Creek church in Wilkes comity,
and a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Nelson Jarvis.
She is survived by one daugh
ter, Mrs. Martin; two sons, Robert
L. Wooten of Parkstone, Md., and
Elza Wooten of Forest Hill, Md.,
14 grandchildren; two great
grandchildren and one great-great
grandchild.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon (Thursday) at one
o’clock at the home of Mrs. Mar
tin in Winston-Salem, and at
Brier Creek church at 3:30, with
Rev. J. M. Hayes, Rev. T. S. Keat
on, Rev. R. R. Crater and Rev.
Marshall Wright in charge. Burial
will be in the church cemetery.
Keep ’em flying! Buy U. S.
War Bonds and Stamps regularly.
RUSSIANS FALL
BACK AS BATTLE
FURY INCREASES
On Both Sevastopol and
Kharkov Fronts
RESPONSIBILITY IS SET
British Blame Their Leaders
For Defeat in Battle of
Libya
CHURCHILL IS WARNED
Moscow, June 24.—German as
saults, ever mounting in fury,
forced Russian withdrawals on
both the Sevastopol and Kharkov
fronts today.
The Soviet navy newspaper Red
Fleet said Russian units on one
sector of the Sevastopol front had
been forced by overwhelming and
rentlentless pressure to fall back
to new positions. They continu
ed their stubborn resistance, in
flicting terrible casualties on the
Germans.
In a dispatch from the Kharkov
front, 350 miles north of Sevasto
pol, the Soviet army newspaper
Red Star reported that 200 Ger
man tanks had managed to wedge
into Russian defenses on one sec
tor. On neighboring sectors,
groups of 20 to 30 tanks, after a
battle lasting a day, had “slightly
pushed back” individual Russian
units, to new positions, Red Star
said.
Colonel General Fritz Erich von
Mannstein hurled more divisions
of infantry, masses of tanks and
clouds of planes against the hard
pressed defenders of Sevastopol.
It was understood that he was
using more than 2,000 planes
against a considerably smaller So
viet air force.
As many as two divisions of
Germans (20,000 to 30,000 men),
supported by artillery and air
craft, attacked the Russians on
one small sector.
The Germans were repulsed
once, but attacked four more
times in small groups, using bomb
craters and ditches for shelter.
Soviet soldiers and marines
held them with rifle, bayonet and
hand grenade.
This apparently was not the
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JOHNSON TO BE
SPEAKER HERE
Merchants And Employees to
Stage Rally at Y. M. C. A.
Friday Night
OPEN FORUM PLANNED
Theodore Johnson, of Raleigh,
state director of the OPA, and R.
L. Cherry, of the Charlotte
branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, will be
speakers for the Merchants Rally
to be held Friday evening at 7:30
at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
The meeting will be a dinner ses
sion and will be open to employ
ers and employees.
E. W. McDaniel, president of
the Elkin Merchants Association,
will preside over the meeting,
which will include, in addition to
information on maximum price
regulations by Mr. Johnson, and
regulation W, governing consum
er credit, by Mr. Cherry, a brief
informal program and an open
forum for discussion of current
problems.
A few reservations are still
available for the dinner and any
merchants or business firms de
siring additional tickets are asked
to call the office of the secretary
of the Merchants Association not
later than this afternoon (Thurs
day.)
Car, Truck Collide
On Main Square Here
A car driven by Loyd Pardue,
of Elkin, was damaged about the
front Wednesday morning when it
collided with an Elkin Lumber Sc
Manufacturing Company truck on
Elkin’s Main square. ,
The two machines ran together
almost in the center of the square
as the truck was proceeding north
on Bridge street and the Pardue
car East on Main. The car suf
fered a bent radiator and damaged
headlight, while the truck was not
damaged.
The traffic light overhead was
not burning due to the town’s pol
icy of turning them off in an ef
fort to save gas and tires.