APPOINTMENTS Le M ^
returned Rev. Herman F. Duncan, top, left, for a fourth
year as pastor of the Elkin Methodist Church, and also
returned Rev. A. C. Gibbs, top right, as superintendent of
the Elkin district of the church. Rev. Grover C. Graham,
lower left, was returned to the Jonesville charge. Rev. W.
M. Smith, lower right, will succeed Rev. L. B. Abernethy
here as chairman of the board of directors of Hugh Chat
ham Memorial Hospital, and Golden Cross secretary.
The Elkin Tribune
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 49
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BATTLE OF SOUTH PACIFIC
IS RAGING OVER WIDE AREA
Conference Returns
Duncan, Gibbs Here
Successor To
Mr. Abernethy
Is Appointed
Rev. Herman F. Duncan was re
turned here as pastor of the
Methodist church by the Western
North Carolina Methodist confer
ence in session in Charlotte from
Monday through Friday of last
week. Rev. A. C. Gibbs was also
returned as superintendent of the
Elkin district of the church.
Rev. L. B. Abernethy, who has
resided here for the past 18 years,
the first nine as pastor of the lo
cal church and the latter nine as
chairman of the board of directors
at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital and secretary of the Golden
Cross, was retired by the confer
ence. Rev. Abernethy and Mrs.
Abernethy, who have endeared
themselves to the entire citizen
ship of the town during their res
idence here, left Tuesday for
Charlotte, where they will make
their home at 410 Clement Ave
nue.
Rev. Abernethy will be succeed
ed here as chairman of the hospi
tal board and Golden Cross secre
tary by Rev. W. M. Smith, for the
past four years pastor of Burk
head Methodist church in Win
ston-Salem. Rev. Smith is also
past-president of the Forsyth
County Methodist Ministers Asso
ciation. He and his wife will
come here today to take up resi
dence in the home vacated by
Rev. and Mrs. Abernethy on Haw
thorne Road. They have one
daughter who is teacher of home
economics at the Jamestown high
school.
Rev. Grover C. Graham was re
turned to the Jonesville charge
for another year and will continue
to serve the churches at Jones
ville, Grassy Creek, Ronda and
Maple Springs.
Girl Scout Week Is
Being Observed Here
Girl Scout Week is being ob
served by the local troop this
week. The early part of the
week was devoted to homemak
ing, community service, including
the collection of magazines for
the wards at the focal hospital,
and camping activities.
The latter part of the week will
be devoted to preparations for
a play to be presented'next week
j by the broup, the proceeds to be
\ used to buy a Victory Bond. The
j title of the play to be given is
Scrap-It.”
Coffee Ordered
Rationed As Of
November 29th
The war has come home to
the coffee drinkers.
Price Administrator Leon
Henderson Monday ordered na
tion-wide rationing of coffee,
effective at midnight on Nov
ember 28, on the basis of one
pound each five weeks—about
a cup a day—for all persons
who were 15 years of age or
over when they registered for
sugar supplies on May 4-5.
All retail sales of coffee will
be frozen at midnight, Novem
ber 21, for the week before ra
tioning begins to permit mer
chants to stock their shelves.
In announcing the order, Hen
derson said there was no rea
son for anyone to run to the
corner grocer and “put the
squeeze on him to help a
hoarder.”
“There is absolutely no ex
cuse for hoarding coffee at this
time,” he emphasized.
AMENDMENT IS
IN SPOTLIGHT
Leaders of Factions in Con
troversy Agree Upon
Compromise
WILL SUPPORT MEASUR1
The chief controversial issue c
next Tuesday’s election has bee
a proposed constitutional amend
ment to abolish five existing stat
school agencies and consolidat
control of the state’s public schoc
system under a new 15-membe
board.
Strong opposition to the exisl
ing form of amendment aros
throughout the state and partic
ularly among educators an
school system workers.
Last week-end, Gov. J.
Broughton, after a series of cor
ferences, announced that leade:
of some of the chief factions i
the fight had agreed upon a con
promise whereby they would sui
port the amendment at the po!
and would combine to support :
the 1943 legislature and at tl
general election in 1944 a corre
tive amendment eliminating wh
opposition leaders had consider*
the chief defects of the presei
proposed amendment.
LATE
NEWS
IN
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Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. —
Economic stabilization Directory
James F. Byrnes, with the ap
proval of President Roosevelt,
tonight froze all salaries and
wages and made provision for
their control by the treasury
and the war labor board. Sal
aries of less than $5,000 were
frozen as of today. Salaries of
more than $5,000 were frozen
as of October 3, the date Mr.
Roosevelt set up the office of
economic stabilization.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. —
All “necessary” workers on the
nation’s livestock, poultry, and
dairy farms will be frozen in
their present occupations, war
manpower Chief Paul V. Mc
Nutt announced tonight. Form
al directives will be issued soon,
probably tomorrow. McNutt
said the program is imperative
to “alleviate a shortage of es
sential farm workers which is
threatening the dairy, live
stock and poultry production
necessary to full prosecution of
the war.”
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. —
Paul C. Smith, noted newspa
per editor and government war
information official, gave up
his navy lieutenant command
er rank today to become a ma
rine buck private because he
feels he should learn something
“a hell of a lot of people have
got to learn to win this war . . .
how to use a bayonet.” “There’s
nothing wrong with being a
lieutenant commander,” he
said, “except that I couldn’t
run a destroyer which is what
lieutenant commanders are
supposed to do.” Smith, 33 and
on leave as editor and general
manager of the San Francisco
Chronicle, also resigned as
chief of the news bureau of the
office of war information.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. —
President Roosevelt, comment
ing on Wendell L. Willkie’s
statement that the Chinese and
other Asiatics question wheth
er the Atlantic charter applies
to them, reiterated today thal
“the Atlantic charter applies tc
all humanity.” Willkie made
the statement in his speech re
porting on his recent world
tour — a speech in which the
1940 Republican presidential
nominee renewed his demands
for a second front and criticis
ed allied conduct of the wai
and certain phases of foreign
policy. Mr. Roosevelt, asked foi
press conference comment, re
plied that he wanted to para
phrase an old cigarette adver
tisement — there’s not a con
troversy in a carload oi
speeches.
INTERNATIONAL
TOKYO, Oct. 27.— (Japanese
Broadcasts Recorded in Nev
York) — Japanese imperia
headquarters asserted todaj
that a great naval battle wa:
fought in the southern Pacifii
north of the Santa Cruz island:
Monday, in which four enem;
aircraft carriers, a battleshij
and an unidentified vessel wen
sunk, five other enemy war
ships damaged and 200 plane
shot down, Domei news agen
cy reported. Domei said tha
the engagement, which imper
ial headquarters called th
“battle of the southern Pacific,
was continuing. The Sant;
Cruz islands, under Britisl
mandate, lie about 350 mile
east of Guadalcanal island L
the Solomons.
CITIZENS WILL
CAST BALLOTS
NEXT TUESDAY
To Elect County and Con
gressional Officials
TO DECIDE AMENDMENT
Polls Here Will Be Located as
Usual in Fire Department
At City Hall
GAPS IN G. O. P. TICKET
(Ballot on page 3, 1st sec.)
Voters will go to the polls here
and throughout the state next
Tuesday to select county and con
gressional officials.
The polls here, with Registrar
Hugh A. Royall in charge, will as
usual be located at the city hall in
the fire department.
On the county ticket, Ralph J.
Scott is running for solicitor of
the 21st judicial district without
Republican opposition, while J.
Raymond Smith, Democrat, is op
posed by W. M. Jackson, Repub
lican, for the state senate.
Henry C. Dobson, Democrat, is
opposed by R. L. Lovelace, Repub
lican, for house of representatives.
For clerk of superior court, Fred
Llewellyn, Democrat, is opposed
by Warren F. Alberty. For sheriff,
S. C. Patterson, Democrat, vs. W.
J. Davis, Republican, For coro
ner, Robert E. Smith, Democrat,
is facing C. E. Hutchens, Repub
lican. I. W. Barber, Democratic
candidate for surveyor, has no op
position.
In the contest for county com
missioners, R. P. Jones, S. M.
Smith and M. Q. Snow, Demo-'
crats, face only two Republican
candidates, A. K. Scott and E. L.
Schuyler.
In the state election, Senator
Josiah W. Bailey, Democrat, is op
posed by Republican Sam J. Mor
ris. In the race for Congress,
John H. Folger, Democrat, is op
posed by Republican S. Evan Hall.
Walter P. Stacy, Democrat, is a
candidate for Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, and faces no op
position. Michael Schenck, Dem
ocrat, candidate for associate jus
tice, also has no Republican oppo
sition.
An educational amendment and
a solicitoral amendment will also
be decided by the voters Tuesday.
MANUFACTURER
DIES THURSDAY
M. A. Briggs, Prominent Elk
in Citizen, Passes After
Long Illness
FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY
Murphy Ai-mfield Biggs, 66
prominent Elkin citizen and gen
eral manager of Elkin Furniture
Company, passed away Thursdaj
morning at his home on Wesl
Main street, following a serious
illness of two years. Mr. Biggs
condition had been critical for the
past several weeks.
: He was a native of Fayetteville
r and a son of the late Mr. and Mrs
[ Alex Biggs. He came to Elkin 4(
, years ago to accept a business pos
. ition and was married to Miss Wil
. lie Click of this city. For severa
! years he was engaged in the rea
, estate business in Winston-Salem
( returning here in 1931 as genera
, manager of the Elkin Fumituri
' Company. Under his guidance th<
’ furniture plant, one of Elkin’:
* oldest industries, experienced con
‘ siderable expansion.
1 He was a member of the Elkii
" Methodist church of the Masonii
' fraternity and of the Elkin Ki
wanis Club.
1 He is survived by his wife, on:
» daughter, Mrs. Milton Parrott o
s Key West, Florida, one son, Ale:
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Honored
Rev. L. B. Abernethy, above,
who Tuesday moved to Char
lotte to make his home follow
ing his retirement as chairman
of the board of directors of the
local hospital and secretary of
the Golden Cross, is pictured
with a beautiful silver service
presented to him and Mrs.
Abernethy at a dinner in their
honor held at Hotel Elkin Mon
day night by employees of the
hospital.—Tribune Photo.
CAGETOURNEY
IS POSTPONED
Transportation Shortage Re
sponsible for Decision of
Committee
OFFICERS ARE RENAMED
Dircetors of the Yadkin Valley
High School Conference, meeting
here Tuesday, discussed the acutf
transportation shortage and
agreed to postpone the annua!
Yadkin Valley Conference basket
ball tournament this winter un
less some change is made to wort
out transportation for players tc
and from the event.
It was also agreed that some
form of curtailment of basketbal
schedules would be undertaker
due to the transportation problem
The committee approved the
playing of 12th grade students ir
the conference, provided they hac
not played for four years. It wai
also ruled that new eighth grade
students would not be allowed t<
play on the varsity.
All officers were re-elected foi
another year with Sam Gentry
of Mountain Park, president; L
H. Koon, of Dobson, secretary anc
P. W. Greer, of Mount Pleasant
vice president. President Gentry
presided at the meeting.
Soloist To Sing At
Elkin Valley Church
Herbert Baker, well-known te
nor soloist of Winston-Salem
will sing at Elkin Valley Baptis
church Sunday morning at thi
11 o’clock service. Mr. Bake:
will sing two selections.
He has for several years stu
died with celebrated teachers an<
has for sometime been a membe
of the choir of the First Baptis
church in Winston-Salem. Mi
Baker and Mrs. Christiaphem
j Sprinkle, formerly of this city
and daughter of Rev. and Mrs. E
[ G. Jordan, sing each Sunday ev
, ening from 9:30 until 10 o’clocl
[ over radio station WSJS in Win
. ston-Salem. Mrs. Sprinkle has :
soprano voice.
The public is cordially invitei
L to attend the service Sunday.
PORK
Secretary of Agriculture Claud
> Wickard has called on the na
[ tion’s farmers to increase th
c spring pig crop 10 percent and t
market hogs 10 pounds heavie
i than this year.
Large Jap Surface
Force Reported 400
Miles Off Solomons
AAA Deadline
Is Extended
To November 15
G. T. Scott, chairman of the
state AAA committee, has an
nounced the extension through
November 15 of the time limit
for seeding ' winter legume
crops and spreading lime and
super-phosphate under the
1942 AAA program.
The time extension was
granted after Governor
Broughton, farm leaders and
farmers, had appealed for such
action. Recent heavy rains
have delayed the planting: of
winter legumes. The 1942 AAA
year ends on October 31.
WILKES MAN IS
FATALLY HURT
Coy Garris Dies Following
Injuries Received in
Automobile Wreck
OVER EMBANKMENT
Coy Gari’is, 28, of the Shep
herds Cross Roads section of
Wilkes county, was fatally injured
on the Elkin-North Wilkesboro
highway about midnight Satur
day when the pick-up truck
which he was driving overturned
down an embankment.
He was alone at the time of
the accident and was enroute to
his home from a Virginia defense
plant, where he was employed.
His body was crushed under the
machine. A passing bus driver
saw the car lights and called of
ficers to investigate the accident.
It is believed that he fell asleep
while driving. He stopped here
only a short time before the ac
cident and bought a cup of cof
fee at a cafe.
He is survived by his wife,
three children, and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Garris, of
Shepherds Cross Roads.
PROMINENT MAN
OF ELKIN DIES
William Franklin Reece
Passes Away Last Wed
nesday Following Illness
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
(Picture on last page, 1st sec.)
William Franklin Reece, 52,
> p jsed away late Wednesday night
of last week at his home on
Bridge street following a critical
illness of two years. Mr. Reece
was a member of the wholesale
grocery firm of Mosely and Reece
| prior to his retirement on account
■ of his health. He was prominent
ly identified with the business and
' civic life of the town and was
highly esteemed.
For several years he served as
a member of the board of deacons
’ of the Fix st Baptist church and
^ chairman of the church finance
i committee. He was also promi
nent in lay activities of the
l church. He was a member of the
Jr. O. U. A. M.
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A native of Hamptonville, Yad
kin county, he was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Reece.
Prior to coming here in 1921 to
reside he was engaged in the mer
cantile business in Hamptonville.
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U. S. FIGHTERS
ATTACK SHIPS
OFF HEBRIDES
Islands Contain American
Advance Bases
TWO DESTROYERS SUNK
Battle On Guadalcanal Rag
ing Furiously; Jap Break
Through Repulsed
REDS BREAK NAZI LINE
Washington, Oct. 28. — The
battle of the Solomons, raging
furiously on and around Guadal
canal Island where a Japanese
break-through was turned back, *
today has spread hundreds of
miles to the east toward Ameri
ca’s Pacific communication lines.
American fliers have attacked
strong Japanese naval forces
north of the New Hebrides and
the Fiji Islands on which there
are United States advance bases.
The penetration of the Ameri
can lines on Gudalcanal occurred
Sunday night (island time) after
a day-long attack on the south
side of the airfield. But U. S.
Army troops defending that sector
chased the enemy back and “re
gained their positions.” Marines
defending the western side of the
airfield also were engaged in
heavy fighting, but the navy re
ported that they had scored
“small gains.”
Although the focal point of the
battle into which Japan has
thrown vast numbers of troops,
airplanes and warships is the air
field on Guadalcanal, the fighting
extends over hundreds of miles at
sea which the enemy continues to
dominate.
The last report by the navy in
its communique last night showed
that the Americans have sunk two
Japanese destroyers and damaged
three other ships, including a bat
tleship. In addition hits were re
ported on two cruisers and an air
craft carrier which may have been
damaged in previously announced
action.
The latest development seems
to be the presence of apparently
large enemy surface forces about
400 miles northeast of Guadalcan
al—far from the major scene of
action. There was no official ex
planation, but it was pointed out
that from the point where those
forces were intercepted by Ameri
can airmen, the Japanese could
have struck at Espiritu Santo, an
American base in the New Heb
rides, or at the Fiji Islands. A
short saiilng distance to the east
are the Samoan Islands, another
major American base and key
point in the supply line between
Hawaii and Australia.
On the Russian front Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko’s relief army,
advancing with 200 tanks along a
broad front northwest of Stalin
grad, crashed through another
strongly fortified point today and
killed 500 more Germans.
Local Board Will .
Not Serve Wilkes
The local rationing board an
nounced last week that two
Wilkes county townships would
be served by the board here in
the fuel rationing program, how
ever that plan has been changed
and the local board will not serve
any part of Wilkes county, ac
cording to a statement issued by
the lotfu* ;oard Wednesday.