FROM AUSTRALIA 2SE
Australia in a plane by Staff Sergeant L. C. Couch, Jr., of
the Army Ferrying Command, is pictured with Dr. L. C.
Couch, father of Sergeant Couch, on the porch of his
home here. L. C. Jr., pictured in' lower photo, sent the
animal to his brother Coney from California to keep for
him until he comes home from the war.—(Top photo by
Tribune). ,
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LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. —
Price Chief Leon Henderson,
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard, and WLB Chair
man Wililam H. Davis, warn
ing that the inflationary threat
“jeopardizes our entire war
program” today urged Con
gress to stabilize farm prices at
parity and provide other
“equitable” guarantees in legis
lation giving President Roose
velt drastic anti-inflation pow
ers. They testified before the
senate banking and currency
committee on the Brown-Wag
ner bill empowering and direct
ing the President to stabilize
prices, wages and other cost
of-living factors at levels of
August 15.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. —
War Production Chief Donald
M. Nelson today appointed
William M. Jeffers, president
of the Union Pacific railroad,
as national rubber administra
tor in full charge of the gov
ernment’s * rubber program.
Nelson said that Jeffers would
be vested with all of the au
thority of the chairman of
WPB over the rubber program
in all its phases and, in turn,
would “issue directives to all
governmental agencies con
cerned with rubber.”
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. —
The government today ordered
fuel oil rationing to start Nov
ember 30 in 30 states and gave
householders until September
30 to fill their tanks. The ra
tioning will be imposed at the
outset on the 17 eastern states
< where gasoline is now rationed
and Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ill
inois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio,
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, North
and South Dakota, Kentucky
and Nebraska. Chairman Don
ald M. Nelson of the war pro
duction board said that the ra
tion area might be extended
later if necessary.
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KANGAROO SENT
HOME BY YOUTH
Sergeant L. C. Couch, Jr.,
Brings Animal From Aus
tralia By Plane
IS AT HOME OF FATHER
“Buddy,” a 9-month-old male
kangaroo has come all the way
from Australia to live with Coney
Couch, son of Dr. and Mrs.
L. C. Couch, while his owner,
Staff Sergeant L. C. Couch, Jr.,
21, of the Army Ferrying Com
mand, is away at the wars.
L. C., Jr., Dr. Couch’s oldest
son, brought two kangaroos by
plane from Australia only re
cently. One he gave to his Cap
tain and the other, “Buddy,” he
sent by express from California
to his home here.
So interested was young Couch
in the welfare of the animal, he
phoned his parents from Cali
fornia that the kangaroo was en
route and to. be on the lookout
for him. The day after he ar
rived, another telephone call
came from Sergeant Couch to in
quire if the animal had arrived
safely.
Dr. Couch says the kangaroo
is fairly tame, and that great
numbers of people have visited
his home to see him. He pointed
out that while most people think
all kangaroos have a pouch, this
one happened to be a male, and
the pouch was not standard
equipment.
Asked what the kangaroo eats,
he said lettuce, cabbage, celery,
grass, clover and other vegetable
foods.
Sergeant Couch has been in the
army for the past two years. He
was recently transferred from
Bolling Field, Washington, D. C.,
to Hamilton Field, California.
BAPTIST ASS’N
TO MEET OCT. 1
Group Comprises More Than
50 Missionary Baptist
Churches
BANNERTOWN IS HOST
The fortieth annual session of
the Surry Baptist Association,
comprising more than fifty Mis
sionary Baptist churches from all
parts of the county, will be held
with the Bannertown Baptist
church on Thursday, October 1.
The meeting will be a one-day
session, with services in the morn
ing, afternoon and evening, in
stead of the usual two-day meet
ing, due to the tire and gasoline
shortages.
The meeting was originally
scheduled to be held with the Low
Gap church but the place was
(changed due to the fact that the
>Low Gap church is being used for
(classrooms for the Low Gap
fchool, the school building having
;\een destroyed by fire.
■ Outstanding Baptist leaders of
tne county will appear on the pro
gram and an interesting and
worthwhile session has been plan
ned.
The Elkin Tribune
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 45
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
VIOLATION OF
MOTOR VEHICLE
TAX IS CHECKED
Numerous Delinquent Motor
ists Found Here
TOLD TO BUY TAX STAMP
Others Are Warned They
Face Trouble if Law Isn’t
Complied With
COST OF STAMP $5.00
Deputy collectors of the Uni
ted States department of revenue
have been here within the past
few days checking on delinquent
motorists who have failed to buy
and display the federal motor ve
hicle use tax stamp.
Numerous violators of the use
tax law were found and required
to buy the stamp, while a warn
ing was issued that all other per
sons who have not done so had
better do .so immediately if they
are using their cars. It was
pointed out that in evading this
law the violators are making
themselves liable for trouble with
the federal government.
Those who haven’t bought the
use tax stamp are urgently ad
vised to send a money order for
$5.00 to the U. S. Department of
Revenue at Greensboro.
It was said that persons whose
cars have been in storage from
July to September, but are now
in use, will be required to pay
only $4.17 for their tax stamp.
However, everyone who has used
his or her car during July and
August must pay $5.00.
semTnarIsto
BE HELD HERE
For Women’s Society of
Christian Service of
Methodist Church
An educational seminar for
the Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Elkin District
Methodist church will be held at
the Methodist church here Fri
day. The session will convene at
9:30 and continue until 1 o’clock.
Mrs. J. W. Payne and Mrs. J.
Dale Spentz, conference officers,
and Miss Cottingham, district
worker, will be present for the
meeting, in addition to district
officers.
A skit on mission study work,
under the direction of Mrs. H. C.
Salmons, will be presented as a
feature of the program.
Luncheon will be served by the
women of the local society to the
visiting group at one o’clock.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to members of the Elkin dis
trict to attend the meeting, and
women of the Elkin group are
urged to be present.
Revival To Begin At
East Elkin Church
The annual revival meeting will
begin at East Elkin Baptist church
Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock
hour of worship and will continue
for a week. Rev. J. L. Powers,
pastor of the church, will be as
sisted in the meeting by visiting
ministers.
Services will be held during the
week at 11 o’clock in the morning
and 8 o’clock in the evening.
The church extends a cordial
welcome to the public.
Policeman Corder
To Take Vacation
Gilmer Corder, of the Elkin po
lice force, has been given a leave
of absence of several weeks from
his duties due to ill health, it has
been announced by Chief of Police
Corbett Wall. Officer Corder,
while not seriously ill, feels that a
rest will prove beneficial.
Wounded
Private Cecil Lyons, U. S.
Marine Corps, of this city, has
been wounded in action, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mont
gomery Lyons, have been noti
fied by the Marine Corps Com
mandant at Washington. Ex
tent of his injuries are un
known.
CECIL LYONS
IS WOUNDED
Local Youth, in Marine
Corps, Has Been Injur
ed in Action
FAMILY HERE NOTIFIED
Marine Corps Private Cecil
Lyons, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Montgomery Lyons, of this city,
has been wounded in action, but
the extent of his injuries or other
details have not been learned.
A telegram from Lieut. Gener
al T. Holcomb, commandant, U.
S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.
C., was received by the family
Sunday, notifying them of Pri
vate Lyons’ injury. The message,
in part, was as follows:
“Deeply regret to inform you
that your son, Private Cecil R. H,
Lyons, U. S. Marine Corps, has
been wounded in action in the
performance of his duty in the
service of his country. The Com
mandant appreciates your great
anxiety and will furnish further
information promptly when re
received.” '
Private Lyons had been in the
Marine Corps for over a year, and
during that time had made a
trip to Iceland on convoy duty
He was home several months age
on furlough. Just where the ac
tion took place in which he was
wounded, is not known.
YADKIN WOMAN
KILLED BY CAR
Mrs. Ella Warden Reece Is
Struck By Hit-and-Run
Driver
NEAR HOME MONDAY
Mrs. Ella Warden Reece, 62
well-known Boonville woman, wai
killed by a hit-and-run drive]
near her home Monday evening
At the time of her death Mrs
Reece was going with her son
Clarence, to the home of a neigh
bor, Leonard Hicks. She hac
crossed from the left side of the
road to the right, when the au
tomobile, described by her son a;
being an old model, hit her. Ii
was traveling south at a high rah
of speed and in the gathering
dusk it was impossible to deter
mine its make or to get its li
cense number.
Mrs. Reece was a lifelong res
ident of Yadkin county, th<
daughter of the late Mr. ant
Mrs. Van Warden and widow oi
Eugene Reece. She was bom ii
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RUSSIANS ARE
PUSHED BACK
ON STALINGRAD
Greatest Battle of History Is
Raging
MAKE FEROCIOUS FIGHT
Soviet Counterattacks
Straighten Out Dents
Made By Nazis
CITY STILL RESISTING
Moscow, Sept. 16. — The Ger
mans, throwing more reinforce
ments into one of the greatest
battles of history, forced the Rus
sians* back today on a sector
southwest of Stalingrad, and front
line dispatches said they had
dented the city’s defenses at oth
er points.
(The German official news
agency claimed, in a dispatch
“from the front,” that the Ger
mans had reached the Volga Riv
er in the center of Stalingrad and
that violent street and house
fighting raged).
The Germans were attacking
with a ferocity perhaps never be
fore equaled on the western —
frontal — approach to Stalingrad
and the Volga River line. They
assaulted with an undiminished
fury on the southwest approach,
and slightly less ferociously on
the northwest.
Dispatches said the Germans
dented Soviet lines at various
points and tried to develop the
dents into considerable wedges,
but Soviet counterattacks from
the flanks finally dislodged them
in most places and the lines were
resealed.
THREE YADKIN
MEN ARRESTED
Are Charged By F. B. I.
Agents As Being Draft
Dodgers
ARE BOUND TO COURT
Three Yadkin county men have
been given hearings before U. S.
Commissioner W. M. Mackie, in
Yadkinville, and bound over to
the November term of federal
court for alleged “draft dodging”
in what federal officers say is
just the beginning of a drive to
arrest all those violating the draft
laws.
Those arrested were William
Weldon Riley, Ernest Wilson An
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Dies Suddenly
Clyde David Eller, above, died
suddenly at his home here Wed
< nesday evening of last week.
t The popular Elkin young man
was apparently* in the best of
health when he was stricken,
Fierce Fighting Is
Under Way; Troops
Maintain Positions
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Promoted
Col. Caleb Haynes, famed
Surry county aviator who heads
the United States Bomber
Command in China, has been
recommended by President
Roosevelt for promotion to
Brigadier General.
COL. HAYNES
IS PROMOTED
Famous Surry Flier to Be
come a Brigadier-Gener
al in Air Force
EXPLOITS ARE MANY
Colonel Caleb V. Haynes, of
Mount Airy, will soon be Briga
dier General Haynes, it has been
learned since Surry’s renowned
flying ace, now cheif of the Amer
ican Bomber Command in China,
has been nominated for promotion
to that rank by President Roose
velt. His promotion is expected
to be confirmed by the Senate
immediately.
Long recognized as one of the
army air force’s best men, Haynes
has had a colorful military career,
one of his latest exploits being the
leading of the aerial evacuation
of Burma. And while stationed in
India he repeatedly risked his life
to fly gasoline to the American
Volunteer group fliers in Burma
and bring out refugees and mili
tary personnel.
He was the last allied airman to
leave Lashio.- He flew into Shwebo
in upper Bumia right after a flight
of Japanese bombers and took out
General Joseph Stilwell’s staff just
before another flight was expect
ed.
His exploits have been in the
news before and since the war
perhaps more than any other al
lied nation’s pilot.
CLYDE D. ELLER
DIES SUDDENLY
Popular Elkin Young Man
Stricken Wednesday Even
ing of Last Week
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
A pall of sorrow was cast over
the entire town Wednesday even
ing of last week by the sudden
death of Clyde David Eller, 35,
at his home on Bridge street.
Mr. Eller had been in his usual
health when he was stricken and
his death was a shock to his fam
ily and friends.
He had been employed with
Chatham Manufacturing Company
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BIG ISLAND IS
CENTER OF PUSH
BY YELLOW MEN
Shore Batteries Keep Jap
Warships At Bay
OUTCOME IS IN DOUBT
American Airmen Counter
ing Blows With Intensive
Bombing Attacks
WARSHIP IS DAMAGED
Washington, Sept. 165—Combat
toughened Marines are battling
fiercely today to hold Gaudal
canal in the Solomon Islands
against a determined drive by the
Japanese on land, air and sea to
retrieve their lost positions*.
Outcome of the battle still is; in
doubt, but the Marines are main
taining their positions, have' re
pulsed an enemy attempt to cap
ture the important airfield on the
island, and are taking, a heavy
toll of enemy aircraft.
The renewed battle on Gatidal -
canal, representing the third ma
jor phase of the battle of the Sol
omons, has been in progress since
Saturday night. A navy commun
ique last night described the new
Japanese offensive as an “inten
sified” attempt to retake Lost po
sitions.
American airmen are coimter
ing the blows of Japan’s flying
force over and near Guadalcanal
and smashing at enemy bases on
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D. S. CARRIER
IS TORPEDOED
Sent to Bottom By Japs on
June 7 After Battle of
Midway
WAS DAMAGED JUNE 4TH
Washington, Sept. 16. — The
five-year-old aircraft carrier
Yorktown was silnk on June 7 as
a result of damage suffered dur
ing and after the battle of Mid
way, the Navy announced today.
Its fate in many respects was
similar to that which befell the
carrier Lexington in the battle of
the Coral Sea.
The Yorktown was put out of
action by enemy bombers and tor
pedo planes on the afternoon of
June 4. Two days later, as it was
being towed to safety and pros
pects that it might be saved had
grown brighter, a Japanese sub
marine fired two torpedoes into
the wounded ship.
Middle Belt
Weed Average
About $40.00
Middle and New Bright Belt
tobacco sales were continuing
steady Wednesday with little
change in quantity or quality
of offerings or general average
despite a slight drop in prices
Tuesday for some grades of
leaf in the Middle Belt.
The average on the nine
Middle Belt markets was still
at approximately $40 and the
belt entered the third day of
sales with bidding strong. \