RETURN FROM DIEPPE
Leaving behind the wreckage of many German military instal
lations and a badly scared German garrison, tough British Com
mandos and American Rangers returned to their invasion barges to
re-embark for their home port in England. The object of the raid
was to test the German defenses on the French coast and to gain
vital information. Pictured in this photo are members of the raid
ing party as they returned to their craft, carrying their wounded
with them.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the war production board to
day confirmed reports that a
decision had been made to ra
tion fuel oil and indicated that
an anouncement would be
made later this week. The fuel
oil rationing may be imposed
upon some midwestem states,
Nelson said, as well as the east.
Meanwhile a committee set up
by the petroleum industry war
council to study oil trends and
recomend action raised the
prospect that gasoline con
sumption in the east might
have to be curtailed even fur
ther by reducing the unit value
of the ration coupons, which
are now good for four gallons.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1. — The
sudden resignation of Japan’s
Foreign Minister Shigenori To
go, as announced by the Tokyo
radio today, leaves the military
clique headed by Premier
Hideki Tojo more than ever in
control of imperial policy, free
to thrust at Siberia at any mo
ment. As Togo stepped out,
Tokyo reported, Premier Tojo
took over his post in addition
to the premiership. Coupled
with Japanese actions else
where, on the continent and in
the Aleutians, the withdrawal
of a known exponent of a neu
tral attitude toward the soviets
certainly paves the way for
Japanese attack to the north.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —
Draft headquarters today is
sued orders intended, generally
speaking, to call all available
single men to the colors before
the systematic induction of
married men is begun. Hereto
fore, state selective service di
rectors have called upon local
boards for men without regard
to the proportion of married
and unmarried men in those
districts. Consequently the lev
ies on some districts have ex
ceeded the number of unmar
ried registrants and quotas
have been filled out with mar
ried men. In other districts,
meanwhile, unmarried men
were still awaiting call. To
day, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her
shey, the national draft direc
tor, instructed the state direc
tors to arrange their calls for
men in a way that will “place
the heaviest load right now on
boards having the most single
men, or men with collateral de
pendents only.”
WILSON, Sept. 1. — North
Carolina’s Farm Bureau feder
ation prepared today for a
meeting here tomorrow night
at 8:30 at the county court
house to discuss the question of
the new OPA price ceiling on
flue-cured tobacco while at the
same time today two North
Carolina representatives ex
pressed the hope that a meet
ing might be arranged between
Tar Heel farmers and Leon
Henderson, national OPA
chief, and Secretary of Agri
culture Claude Wickard, to at
tempt to work out some com
promise on the price ceiling
situation. At the same time to
, day prices reportedly remained
I . (Continued on last page)
LIST THOSE WHO
OBTAINED TIRES
Figures for Month of August
Announced By Ration
ing Board
INCLUDES ALL TYPES
Following is the list of new
tires and tubes, recapped tires,
and obsolete tires and tubes
granted by the local rationing
board for Auusgt:
New truck tires and tubes—
Mt. Airy Canning Co., P. E.
Burch, Cash & Carry Stores, Inc.,
A. O. Bryan, Thurman Coe, S. C.
Southard, Johnson Brothers, Cen
tral Electric & Telephone Co., E.
E. Slawter, A. B. Cheek, City
Transit Co., V. W. Coe, Chatham
Mfg. Co., Hayes & Speas, Grady
Lewis, J. F. Royall.
Truck recaps—A. B. Cheek,
Chatham Mfg. Co., G. P. Jenkins,
S. M. Southard, Richard J. Rey
nolds, S. C. Southard, Cash &
Carry Stores, Inc., S. R. Collins,
City Transit Co., T. V. Bauguss,
Johnson Bros., Ben H. Guyer, H.
G. Harris, Robt. Whitaker, Car
alina Ice & Fuel Co., John Nixon.
Passenger car tires and tubes—
Dr. J. R. Johnson, N. C. State
Highway Patrol, Thurman Steel,
Dr. C. E. Nicks, Mary Holland,
A. L. Butler, Myrtle Phillips, Dr.
J. R. Johnson, J. L. Weatherman,
Dr. J. H. Howard, Dr. John W.
Jolley.
Pasenger car recaps — G. S.
Simmons, R. S. Burrus, A. L. But
ler, J. W. Park, Mallory Stanley,
Myrtle Phillips, Carl DeBorde,
Clyde F. Hurt, Rev. George E.
Burrus, R. Chap Reynolds, Percy
Eldridge, W. W. Calloway, E. J.
Collins, G. Buck Wall, Wilson E.
Draughn, Thomas & Sam Gun
nell, Chatham Mfg. Co.
Grade 2 tires—J. L. Weather
man, A. F. Yarboro, Brady Wood
ruff, Thurman Steel, Ralph Gen
try, C. G. Atkins.
Obsolete tires and tubes—
Glenn Lyles, A. E. Stonestreet.
JOHN E, WOODLE
IS FOUND DEAD
Passes of Heart Attack Near
His Home Early Sunday
Morning
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
John Ellis Woodle, 70, died
suddenly at State Road Sunday
morning from a heart attack. He
was found dead near his home
and Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow of
this city was called to investigate
his death but found that an in
quest was not necessary. Mr.
Woodle had suffered from a heart
ailment for a number of years and
over exertion from handling a
calf was believed to have caused
his death. He still had hold of the
rope with which the calf was tied
when his body was found, but the
calf had broken loose.
He was a lifelong resident of
Surry county and a son of Duncan
and Margaret Cagle Woodle. His
wife, Mrs, Parsenia Woodle, died
■ in February.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. Dewey Norman of
Winston-Salem, and Mrs. John
i Kennedy of State Road, one son,
i Ransom Woodle of State Road,
l ahd twenty-seven grandchildren.
• Funeral services were held
• Monday afternoon at State Road
• church, with burial in the church
; cemetery.
I Water is not stored in the cam
el’s hump, but fat. Water is stor
ed in the stomach.
The Elkin Tribune
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 43
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN SCHOOLS
TO START 7TH;
ADD12THGRADE
Pupils Must Report Monday
At 9:10 A. M.
CLASSES BEGIN TUES.
New Grade to Be Inserted
Between Elementary and
High Schools
ONLY 2 BUSES ASSIGNED
A twelfth grade will be added
to the city schools this year for
the first time. The schools will
open Monday morning at 9:10
for registration of pupils, collec
tion of book fees and assignment
of lessons. Regular classes will
get under way Tuesday morning.
The schools will operate on the
following schedule, according to
J. Mark McAdams, superintendent
of schools: Prom 9:10 a. m. un
til 12 noon and from 1 p. m. un
til 3:45.
Pupils are requested to go to
their respective schools for regis
tration. Book fees in the high
school, including the eighth grade
will be $2.40, with a library fee
of 60c, making a total of $3.00.
In the elementary school the
text books are free, but a fee of
$1.00 for each child for supple
mentary readers and instruction
al supplies will be made, to
gether with a library fee of 25c
in the primary grades and 40c
in the grammar grades.
The twelfth grade will be in
serted between the elementary
school and the high school,
which will make the ninth grade
the freshman class in high school.
New courses of study in this class
will include English and reading,
health and physical education,
arithmetic, home and family liv
ing, North Carolina history and
spelling. The class will be held
this year at the high school
building.
The same post-graduate cour
ses will be offered this year in
the high school curriculum as
have been offered heretofore.
Only two buses have been as
signed to the school this year
and the routes have been cur
tailed. Parents and pupils are
asked to cooperate in every way
possible in this emergency to
I work out a satisfactory program.
Former Yadkinville
Lady Dies Saturday
Mrs. Jeanette Alice Crews, 69,
former resident of Hamptonville,
died at the home of a son in
Roanoke, Va., Saturday after a
three week’s illness. She was the
widow of the late Rev. A. H.
Crews, Friends minister, and since
his death Oct. 6, 1937, has lived
among her children.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Prospect
Methodist church near Smith
town, with Rev. Ellis Norman and
Rev. Mr. Groce in charge. Grand
sons were pallbearers. Burial was
in the church graveyard.
Five Cases Are
Tried By Hall
The following cases were dis
posed of before Magistrate J. L.
Hall here Monday.
Roy Johnson, Lewellyn Wil
kins and James Burgiss, colored,
public drunkenness, $2.50 and
costs each.
Bill Johnson, public drunken
ness, costs.
Eamie Harris, violating prohi
bition laws, bound over to super
ior court.
He Added It Up
To Right Answer!
Tyron.—All those questions on
the several sheets of selective ser
vice questionnaire didn’t mean a
whole lot to a local Negro youth.
He couldn’t read very well any
how.
In uneven, red pencil strokes he
wrote across the front df the ques
tionnaire :
“I’se ready when you’s ready.”
D/1TU 1 7T/J7C Pictured below are the
DU1 n U1 K L, Llv Ltd Duke of Kent, left, and
RAF Flight Commander Thomas W. Allen, of Louisburg,
at a plane base somewhere in England. The Duke visited
the base to congratulate Allen and his squadron on sinking
a German ship May 20. Since that time Allen, a son of
Leslie L. Allen, and an alumnus of N. C. State College, was
reported missing after action above the English Channel.
And last week news was released of the death of the Duke
in the crash of a Sunderland Flying Boat while en route
to Iceland. Photo by British Air Ministry.
Men With Dependents
May Not Be Drafted
- *
May Says If At
All Will Be 18
Months or More
Washington, Sept. 2.—Chair
man Andrew J. May (D-Ky.),. of
the House military affairs com
mittee said today that on the ba
sis of a selective survice survey
of man-power requirements mar
ried men with dependent wives
and children should not be draft
ed for another year and one-half
and “possibly not at all.”
“In any event,” he said, “mar
ried men with wives and children
who have no other means of sup
port and have no families to re
turn to should permanently be de
fererd by draft boards. That is
the intent of the draft law and
if it is not clear it should be made
clear.”
May and Chairman Robert R.
Reynolds (D-NC), of the Senate
military affairs committee joined
in cautioning the army against
disrupting war production and
established homes until absolute
ly necessary.
May told reporters that he had
called Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey and other se
lective service officials to his of
fice recently after it was reported
that the army planned to have
every ahle bodied man between
the ages of 18 and 45 in uniform
within two years. He said Her
shey had given him figures show
ing that:
1. An army of 6,296,000 men can
be raised before draft age is low
ered from 20 to 18.
2. After that the armed forces
can be increased to 9,000,000 be
fore men with dependent wives
and children are called.
Sen. Chan Gurney (R-SD), will
introduce a bill in the Senate to
morrow to lower the draft age to
18. He said drafting of 18 and
19 year olds “should have started
Dec. 8—24 hours after Pearl Har
bor.”
May said his committee would
start similar legislation in the
House “by the end of the year,”
but that he is determined to pre
vent drafting 18 and 19 year olds
until the army makes it clear that
it is necessary.
The smallest Bible in the world
is one-third the size of a postage
stamp, one-fourth of an inch
thick, and can be held on a tea
spoon. It took 4 years to com
plete.
Gopher tails were once used as
money in parts of Dakota in the
1860’s.
“Hector” Back
Again Following
Vacation Trip
“Hector,” who all by “his
self” has been writing an in
teresting column on the doings
here when he was a pup, is
back from vacation after an
absence of some weeks, and
again is bursting forth in this
issue with his musings of days
gone by.
Somewhere in his vacation
travels he had his picture
made, and it is agreed that the
likeness is striking. Turn now
to the editorial page and see if
you don’t agree.
DROP BOXES
ARE INSTALLED
Are Located At Convenient
Places Throughout
Town
TOTAL OF SEVEN PLACED
Seven postoffice drop boxes
have been installed at various
places in the Elkin business dis
trict and residential sections for
the added convenience of mail
patrons, F. W. Graham, postmast
er, said Wednesday.
The boxes, mounted on steel re
inforced concrete posts imbedded
in the ground, are located as fol
lows:
Corner West Main and North
Bridge streets; comer Court
street and East Main; comer Ce
dar and West Main streets; cor
ner West Mam. and Elk Spur
streets in West Elkin; comer
Gwyn Avenue and Spring street;
corner Hospital Road and N.
Bridge street extension; and cor
ner Spring and Church streets.
Collections will be made twice
each day from the boxes located
in the downtown section. Only
one collection daily will be made
from the boxes in West Elkin.
Time of collection is posted on
each bo».
Mr. Graham said he had been
notified by postal authorities at
Washington that such mail ser
vice is being curtailed in numer
ous towns and cities of the na
tion due to the scarcity of men
caused by the war. However, he
said he anticipated no curtail
ment here any time within the
near future.
Red Troops Retreat
Toward Stalingrad;
City’s Peril Grows
You Wanted to
Help? Well, Here
Is YouiLQggge!
Volunteer workers are ur
gently needed to assist in mak
ing bandages for the Red
Cross. 25,000 bandages have
been assigned the local chapter
for the month of September.
A registration will be held
Friday afternoon from 2 — 5
and in the evening from 7 — 8
at the Red Cross headquarters
(formerly the public library)
for volunteer workers. The day
workers will be in charge of
Mrs. W. C. Cox and the night
group under the direction of
Miss Mattie Mae Powell. Vol
unteers are urged to register
Friday and to designate the
hours they prefer to work.
JAPS HIT HARD
IN KOKODA RAID
Planes Make Two Heavy At
tacks on Nipponese
Combat Forces
PRESSURE INCREASING
General Mac Arthur's Head
quarters, Australia. Sept. 2. — Al
lied infantry co-operating planes
have made two heavy attacks on
Japanese combat forces who are
thrusting with steadily increasing
power against Australian troops
in the Kokoda area 55 miles
across New Guinea from Port
Moresby, Gen. Douglas MacArth
ur announced today.
Racing fighter planes, in close
support of veteran Australian
jungle fighters, swept down over
the Owen Stanley Mountains to
the Kokoda operations area on
the northern slopes and raked
enemy troops and communica
tions with machine gun and can
non fire at tree-top levels in two
separate raids.
Interest heightened in Japan
ese operations, which seemed in
creasingly to indicate the possi
bility of a real atempt to break
through the Australian defenses,
pour through the 8,000 foot
mountain pass, and sweep down
to the south toward Port Moresby,
the great allied advance base on
the south New Guinea coast.
Dispatches indicated that the
Australians had succeeded so far
in holding the enemy to the area
of Kodoka village, down the
northern side of the mountains,
but it was evident that the Japan
ese were increasing their pres
sure steadily.
Boys Of Boonville
Church Are to Meet
Members of the Royal Ambas
sadors of the Boonville Baptist
church and all other boys of the
church between the.ages of 9 and
17 will hold a conclave at the
Yadkin ville Baptist church on
Saturday, September 5, from
10:30 to 3:30. Boys attending are
asked to bring a picnic lunch. If
the weather permits the afternoon
session will be held at Dobbins’
mill and will be climaxed with
swimming.
Among the speakers will be
Mrs. D. H. Craver of Boonville,
Yadkin county superintendent of
the W. M. U., Miss Mary Currin of
Raleigh, state young peoples’
leader, Prank Tatum of Coolee
mee, top ranking ambassador, and
Edward Chow, medical missionary
student at Bowman Gray School
of Medicine, Winston-Salem.
The organization promotes mis
sion study, stewardship, social
service and recreation among
boys. Rev. Paul Forsythe of
Boonville is counselor and will
preside at the conclave.
TANKS CLASH AS
ENGLISH, NAZIS
MEET IN EGYPT
U. S. Army Tanks Are Seeing
Action
NAZIS BREAK LINES
Soviets Forced to Withdraw
To New Positions Be
fore Onslaught
DESPERATE RESISTANCE
Cairo, Sept. 2. — British and
German tanks are locked in fierce
battle on a widening front which
now extends 20 miles up from the
Himeimat peak at the southern
end of the Alamein line to the
Ruweisat ridge at the north-cen
tral stretch, a communique re
vealed today.
British imperial forces took the
initiative at the northern end of
the line, near the Mediterranean,
lashing out in offensive raids
which resulted in the'capture of
numerous German prisoners, the
communique ssfid.
In one sector of the front a
small force of United States army
tanks were in the battle zone,
eager to clash with the Germans.
United States army airplanes
were fully engaged and the com
munique said that Monday even
ing American bombers, along with
planes of the Royal and South
African Air Forces and of the
British Mediterranean fleet, suc
cessfully attacked targets in the
battle area and Axis landing fields
behind the line.
Long-range fighters attacked
enemy motor transport along the
coastal road running back to
Libya.
The communique of the Mid
dle Eastern command of the Roy
al Air Force indicated that Ger
man Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel was now actually embarked
on the supreme offensive which
he hoped would take him on to
Alexandria, 80 miles to the east.
It was believed that Rommel’s
powerful tank forces had now
clashed directly with the armored
corps of General Harold R. L. G.
Alexander after two days in which
the axis advanced elements had
probed out the Imperial defense
line.
Moscow, Sept. 2.—Russian dis
patches reported today that So
viet forces defending the south
west approaches to Stalingrad
have been forced to retreat to a
new line — the fourth withdrawal
in 48 hours — and that the peril
to the vital Volga city was now
mounting by the hour.
A large Nazi armored force was
reported to have broken through
the southwest defense lines de
spite desperate Soviet efforts to
halt its progress.
On the front northwest of Stal
ingrad, the Nazis were again on
the move, dispatches said, and
danger of a break-through in that
region was admitted.
(The German high command
claimed that Nazi troops have
reached the Volga River north of
Stalingrad.)
“Southwest of Stalingrad, So
viet troops engaged in tense fight
ing with enemy tanks which have
broken through,” the Soviet noon
communique said. “One of our
units in fierce fighting destroyed
12 enemy tanks and about one
company of infantry.
The lyre bird receives its name
from the shape of its tail which
when spread out resembles the
musical instrument — the lyre.
A pumpkin vine ran up a tree in
W. Va. and bore « 40 pound
pumpkin 13 feet above the
ground.