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The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 48
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Surry Scrap Drive
Totals 1,147,155
Pounds Old Metal
Elkin Citizens
-Donate Total Of
263,570 Pounds
(Picture Back Page, 1st Section)
A final check on all available
figures from Surry county in the
newspaper scrap drive, which of
ficially ended Wednesday, disclos
ed that Surry county citizens
have contributed a total of 1,147,
155 pounds of scrap metal to the
nation’s scrap pile, a total of 27.45
pounds per capita.
This figure does not include
poundage collected by Dobson,
Shoals, Copeland, and Eldora
schools, which have not yet re
ported. '•
In a town-wide drive here Sun
day afternoon, which was partici
pated in by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, the Boy Scouts,
members of the Civilian Defense
Corps, and other patriotic citizens,
a total of 81,070 pounds were col
lected. Trucks for this drive were
made available by local stores,
the Chatham Manufacturing
Company, the Elkin-Winston Mo
tor Express, and other interested
citizens. The scrap collected was
' turned over to the War Produc
tion Board, which will mail a
check for $243.21 to the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The Jay
cees will turn the check over to
the Elkin Boy Scouts.
Included in the total scrap fig
ure are 10 tons collected here by
the Boy Scouts alone and 5,000
pounds which have been turned in
thus far by the Elkin schools.
Total poundage contributed by
Elkin citizens, including that col
lected Sunday; poundage by the
Scouts and poundage which has
been turned in from other sources,
total 263,570 pounds, or approxi
mately 95 pounds per capita.
In the county Mountain Park
school and Lowgap school are al
most neck and neck in the
amount turned in. Mountain Park
reported Wednesday a total of
127,833 pounds collected, while
Low Gap school has collected
125,000 pounds. At Mountain
Park the third grade leads the
elementary school by turning in
13,060 pounds, and the 11th grade
led the high school with 26,808
pounds.
Approximately 35,000 pounds of
Elkin’s total was turned in by
Andrew Greenwood, local citizen,
in form of junk automobiles that
he has stored in a yard near
Smithey’s store on East Main
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EXPRESS FIRM
NAMED AGENCY
Railway Express Will Act as
Collection Agency for
Extra Tires
DEPOT TO RECEIVE HERE
Railway express companies
throughout the nation have been
designated as collection agencies
for the government in the “Idle
Tire Purchase Plan” which limits
each car owner to five tires and
tubes for each truck, car or other
type of motor vehicle.
Cooperating with this plan
tires will be received at the office
of the express agency at the depot
here, according to H. B. Holcomb,
agent.
Tire owners may either give or
sell their tires to the government.
Tires and tubes will be sent to a
central warehouse where their
value will be determined by a gov
ernment appraiser who will mail
checks to tire owners who do not
Awish to donate the rubber. The
ivalue will be governed by prevail
ing price ceilings on new and used
tires.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
DENVER, Oct. 20. — An un
identified Denver man was sit
ting disconsolately alone today,
just looking at his spare tires.
Yesterday he reported to OPA
agents that he had 33 tires and
he supposed he would have to
turn in 28 of them. They as
sured him that was correct and
asked if he wanted the tires
collected immediately. “No.
Not until tomorrow,” he s?,id,
sadly. “Just want to sit and
look at them just once more.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. —
The senate tonight passed by
voice vote and returned to the
house a $15,851,196,887 supple
mental war appropriation bill
carrying funds and contract
authorizations for 2,100,000
tons of new warships, 14,611
naval planes and 1,000 small
coastal defense craft. The vote
came after heated debate on a
controversial amendment —
adopted before final action —
requiring senatorial confirma
tion of war manpower commis
sion employees earning $4,500
or more a year.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. —
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson tonight ordered sharp
reductions in prices of wo
men’s nylon hose in a move
ment to safeguard purchasers
from “fantastic” pre-Christmas
prices. The order, effective
Thursday on a nationwide bas
is, is not only intended to cir
cumvent price-gouging by re
tailers but to put a crimp in
“black market” operators who
have laid in large stocks and
are charging retailers exorbi
tant prices. Henderson held no
brief for profiteers in either
category. “If the by-product
of fair prices is a monetary loss
to would-be profiteers, it may
be all to the good,” he declar
ed.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. —
The largest revenue bill in his
tory—designed to increase the
government’s income by $9,
724,200,000 a year through un
precedented taxes on individ
uals and corporations — was
passed by Congress today and
sent to the White House. The
huge measure, which calls for a
new 5 per cent “victory tax” on
individual earnings over $12 a
week as well as increases in
regular individual income and
corporation levies, was made
ready for the President’s signa
ture when the house, and then
the senate, speedily approved a
conference report on a compro
mise bill.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. —
President Roosevelt disclosed
today that a number of sold
iers 35 to 40 years old would
probably be furloughed to take
jobs in munitions factories and
that production of luxury goods
might be cut more drastically
to help solve vital manpower
problems. On his recent inspec
tion tour of war plants and
{military establishments all ov
er the country, Mr. Roosevelt
told a press conference, he had
seen uniformed men who would
have been much better off in
munitions factories than they
were marching 25 miles a day
with full equipment. He added
that he imagined some of them
who would be useful in war
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ATTf U Q AT V C J irr FCC Pictured below are scenes made during the
L/il 1 LjLj UIiLLj OU LC.CaJaJ auction sale of pure bred Guernsey cattle
staged at the Elkin school gym here last Friday. Top photo was made as Auctioneer
Ward Snarr, of Washington, D. C., called for bids on the first heifer to be sold. This ani
mal, Clear Springs Maxim A. Myrtle, consigned by A. L. Brown, of Concord, was sold to
R. D. Goodman, also of Concord, for $210.00. Bottom photo shows group of 11 farmers
who received bull calves prior to the auction. They are, left to right: D. B. Swaringen,
Traphill; J. W. Woodle, State Road, W. L. Hinshaw, Boonville; J. W. Denny, Pinnacle;
P. E. Wooten, East Bend; N. M. Casstevens, Jonesville; T. A. Nance, Jonesville; W. O.
Snow, Dobson; K. M. Carter, Elkin; Jack Hoots, Roaring River; E. R. Carter, Hampton
ville.—Tribune Photos.
Cattle Auction Sale
Here Proves Success
Bring Average
Of $172.94;
Top Sale $300
The purebred Guernsey cattle
sale conducted here Friday after
noon under the sponsorship of the
Elkin civic organizations, North
Carolina Extension Service, Amer
ican Guernsey Cattle Club, and
the North Carolina Guernsey
Breeders Association, was pro
nounced an overwhelming suc
cess with a sale average of $172.94.
Both the consigners of cattle,
and the buyer.s, expressed them
selves as well pleased, and the
large number of farmers and oth
er visitors who attended was proof
of the wide interest in the event.
Yeoman’s Rosalind, bred and
consigned by Nelson Dobbins, Jr.,
of Yadkinville, topped the sale,
bringing a price of $300. She was
purchased by J. O. Williams, of
Jonesville. Mayor J. R. Poindex
ter, of Elkin, was the contending
bidder.
Of the 34 cattle sold, 10 went
to Yadkin county, nine to Wilkes,
and three to Surry, Mayor Poin
dexter being the purchaser of the
latter.
Largely responsible for the suc
cess of the sale, and the banquet
at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
which preceeded it Thursday
evening, was Garland Johnson
and the agriculture committee of
the Elkin Kiwanis Club, and other
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Banquet For Draftees
Is To Be Held Friday
The banquet for selectees who
will report to camp for induction
into the army this month will be
held Friday evening at 7:30, at the
Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
Approximately 60 men will leave
Dobson Wednesday morning, Oc
tober 28, for an induction center,
all being under the jurisdiction
of Surry draft board No. 2.
Next month the local draft
board faces two calls, one for
white men, the other for colored
men. These men will leave on
separate days.
As usual, a good program has
been arranged for Friday’s ban
quet, and in adidtion to a speak
er, will feature the Jugtown Band,
local musical organization. All
inductees are invited to attend as
the guests of the local post of
the American Legion, local civic
organizations, business men and
other citizens, who are jointly
making the banquet possible. Al
so urged to attend are any men
in uniform who are in town, or in
this immediate vicinity, Friday
evening.
Following is the official list of
young men who will report for in
duction next Wednesday:
Ellis Elmer Danley, Rt. 4, Mt.
Airy; Fred Calvin Reece, Elkin;
Thomas Thad Brown, Elkin;
James Abraham Stanley, Rt. 1,
Elkin; Charlie Lee Inman, Rt. 2,
Pilot Mountain; Troy Clayton
Felts, Fancy Gap, Va.; Lloyd Ed
ward Slate, Rt. 1, Siloam; John
Henry Wood, Rt. 1, Siloam;
Claude Doss Sprinkle, Rt. 1, Pilot;
Paul Andrew Doss, Rt. 2, Dobson;
Clyde Henry Moore, Mountain
Park; John Edward Brooks, State
Road; J. P. Brannon, Rt. 1, Boon
vilie; Robert Paul Hinshaw, Elk
in; Wm. Harley Stoker, Elkin;
Alonzo K. Dillon, Elkin; Clinton
White, Rt. 1, Elkin; Hilary White
Holbrook, Elkin; Zemo Whitaker,
Siloam; Jackson W. Riggan, Jr.,
Star Rt., Dobson; James Raymond
Johnson, Rt. 1, Pilot; Curtis Mon
cus, Rt. 1, Lowgap.
Wm. Gentry Gambill, Elkin;
Fred James Brown, Siloam; Wm.
Joe Cockerham, Rt. 2, Pinnacle;
Robert Bell Simpson, Rt. 4, Mt.
Airy; John Robert Redman, Pilot
Mountain; Graham Smith Law
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Power Is To Be Off
Sunday 3 to 4 P. M.
Due to some very necessary
maintenance work on their lines,
the Duke Power Company has an
nounced that electric power will
be cut off next Sunday, October
25, between 3:00 and 4:00 p. m.
All patrons are requested to re
member the date and hour so that
they will be inconvenienced as
little as possible.
Dispatches Claim
Nazis Starving On
Stalingrad Front
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DOCKERYBOUND
OVER IN CASE
Expert Testifies Houghton
Signature and That on
Check Similar
TO BE TRIED NOV. 23RD
Herbert Dockery, young travel
ing man, of Elkin, was bound over
to Rowan county superior court
under $750 last Thursday follow
ing a hearing in Salisbury county
court on a charge of giving a
worthless check signed “Lieut. E.
D. Houghton” at the store of G.
C. Wilhelm in Cleveland, Septem
ber 4.
Wilhelm identified Dockery as
the man who, dressed in the uni
form of an army lieutenant, pre
sented the check.
However, Max Boyles, filling
station operator of this city, testi
fied that a man in a soldier’s uni
form signed an order for some
gasoline at his station while with
Dockery, and that he witnessed
the signature, bearing out Dock
ery’s claim that a soldier by the
name of E. D. Houghton had been
riding with him and had given
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YADKIN GIRL IS
BADLY INJURED
Miss Cornelia Speas, of Boon
ville, Hurt in Auto
Accident
TWO OTHERS ARE HURT
Miss Cornelia Speas of Boonville
and Fort Bragg, sustained serious
and painful injuries Saturday
evening when her car overturned
near High Point. Miss Sepas was
enroute from Fort Bragg to her
home in Boonville when a car
backed across the highway and
to avoid hitting the backing car
she swerved her car and it turned
over three times.
Miss Speas suffered a badly cut
left arm, which severed the mus
cles of the arm. Two passengers
in her car, her cousin, Pvt. John
A. Speas, Jr., of Fort Bragg, and
Miss Mary Kelly of Yadkinville,
sustained lesser injuries. Mr.
Speas sustained a fractured rib
and Miss Kelly a wrenched back.
Miss Speas was treated at the
Baptist hospital for her injuries
and Wednesday returned to the
home of her mother, Mrs. J. M.
Speas in Boonville. Miss Kelly
and Mr. Speas have both returned
to their posts. Both Miss Speas
and Miss Kelly are employed in
the office at Fort Bragg.
American Airmen
Bomb Jap Troops
On Guadalcanal
Moscow, Oct. 21.—Front line
dispatches said today that the
German legions at Stalingrad were
“starving,” while heavy rains that
have fullen unabatedly for three
days threatened to bog down their
drive against the city.
The conclusion was Implicit
though not stated in the Com
munist party organ Pravda’s doc
umented description of hunger
among the German hordes at Stal
ingrad, that the Nazis’ 1900-mile
long communications, which had
for weeks supported one of the
greatest battles of history, were at
last faltering.
There also was a possibility that
the heroic Russian resistance had
forced such an expenditure of mu
nitions that the Germans were
now being compelled to transport
more munitions and less food for
their troops.
Frantic to take Stalingrad, be
fore winter settles, they were hurl
ing 30,000 men and 60 tanks
against a narrow sector in the
northwestern part of the city. The
heroic defenders were smashing
every attack and exacting a fright
ful toll.
Pradva said the Germans were
reduced to eating stray dogs that
wandered into their lines. The de
fenders, on the other hand, had
two subsantial, hot meals a day,
including plenty of meat and fish.
Fish was especially plentiful. Fish
ermen’s wives were cleaning and
cooking them in sight of the
'^arved” Germans, Pravda said.
Washington, Oct. 21.—American
airmen, having bombed and straf
ed Japanese troop and supply con
centrations on Guadalcanal Island
almost continusly for four days,
are carrying the burden of com
bat activity in the battle of the
Solomons today.
Officials here were unable to
say whether those relentless air
attacks by army, navy and marine
fliers were responsible for the de
lay in the anticipated enemy of
fensive. But the fact remains
that the offensive has not ma
terialized although the navy as
late as Sunday announced that a
“strong assault” against the air
field on Guadalcanal was expect
ed.
(Allied planes of General Mac
Arthur’s Australian command
continued their support of the
Solomons forces by blasting again
at the big Japanese air base at
Buin on Bougainville Island and
shipping in the vicinity. They
were believed to have inflicted
heavy damage.
REWARDPOSTED
IN THEFT CASE
$100 to Be Given for Inform
ation in Robbery of
Local Company
SHOULD SEE CHIEF WALL
A reward of $100 has been of
fered here for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction
of parties who, on the night of
October 9, broke into the office of
the Carolina Ice & Fuel Company
and carried off a safe containing
around $1,400 in cash.
Any information should be giv
en to Chief of Police Corbett Wall.
The safe, which was hauled
away in one of the Carolina Ice
& Fuel Company’s own trucks,
was later found in a gulley near
Ronda and returned to its owner.
It had not been opened.
Finger prints taken at the scene
of the crime have proven of no
aid in catching the criminals re
sponsible for the robbery, police
state.