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VOL. No. XXXL No. 51
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
A
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
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NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. —
The Japanese will have an in
creasingly difficult time from
now in reinforcing their troops
on Guadalcanal island, Lt.
Gen. Thomas Holcomb, marine
corps commandant, predicted
today upon his return from an
inspection trip to that distant
Pacific battleground. American
army and marine forces de
fending the Guadalcanal air
field already outnumbered the
enemy on the island, Holcomb
said, but the Japs have been
sending in reinforcements to
taling about 900 men every
other day.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. —
The war production board, it
was learned authoritatively
tonight, has decided on a fur
ther drastic curtailment of fuel
oil for the eastern states this
winter. Although oil already is
being rationed in the 17-state
area on the basis of holding
interior temperatures to 65 de
grees in most cases, the board
found that present transporta
tion facilities could not deliver
enough oil to fill the allow
ances. Whether this basic 65
degree plan will be altered,
however, has not been deter
mined, officials said. The board
came to the curtailment de
cision easily but debated two
hours without settling on the
method.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. —
President Roosevelt, asserting
that something must be done
about the manpower situation
in the next two or three weeks,
disclosed today that the fight
ing forces will number about
9,700,000 men by the end of
1943. Between now and that
time, he said at a press confer
ence, the nation must find four
or five million more men —
the best young manhood for —
the services. Simultaneously,
he added, it must find men to
take care of the food problem
and industrial production,
which is still short of its peak.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. —
Backing up the war depart
ment, the house overwhelming
ly gave its final approval to
day to ’teen-age draft legisla
tion stripped of a ^. proposal
that would have required at
least a year of training be
fore 18-and-19-year old draf
tees could be sent into com
bat. On a voice vote it ap
proved and sent to the senate
for expected acceptance on
Thursday a compromise work
ed out by a senate-house com
mittee after the two branches
had split on the training re
quirement originally written
into the legislation by the serr
ate. The compromise, intended
to break a deadlock of almost a
month’s duration, left in the
legislation provisions for the
deferment of essential farm
workers and high school stud
ents and for the exemption
from the draft of men who
have passed their 45th birth
day, provided they do not wish
to be drafted.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. —
Gasoline rationing in the 31
states not now under ration
control will be postponed from
November 22 to December 1,
an OPA spokesman said to
day, while Secretary of the In
terior Ickes warned that a cut
in the four-gallon value of ra
tion coupons in the east may
be necessary. The postpone
ment of rationing in the west
and midwest is necessary be
cause of hitches in the distrib
ution of coupon books and
forms over the country, OPA
said. Ickes issued an extraor
dinary appeal to eastern mo
torists, stating that unless civ
ilian consumption.is cut volun
tarily to the irreducible mini
mum, he could “see no way in
which we can supply enough
gasoline to mantain the pres
ent value of coupons.”
AJ17W VIW A All C MTiri AT C Pictured below are the newly elected offi
/VAIf i\I Yr Aluj Ur t lLlALj cials of the Elkin Kiwanis Club who will
take office at the beginning of 1943. They are, left to right, Raymond W. Harris, presi
dent, who succeeds D. G. Smith; Garland Johnson, vice-president, and Julius L. Hall, who
was reelected as secretary-treasurer.
COMMITTEE IS
MAPPING DRIVE
Scout Officials Perfect Plans
For Annual Campaign to
Raise Funds
NECESSITY. IS STRESSED
The Boy Scout Committee held
a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. here
Friday night to perfect the plans
for the annual campaign to raise
funds for the activities of the Old
Hickory Division of the Boy
Scouts of America. The meeting
was addressed by W. E.
Vaughn-Lloyd, director of Old
Hickory Division, and by R. W.
Harris, president of the Elkin
Yadkin district.
Both Mr. Vaughn-Lloyd and
Mr. Harris stressed the necessity
of keeping the Boy Scouts more
intensely active than ever before,
as their training and services are
needed in many ways. C. J. Hys
lup, Campaign Secretary, read the
rules and instructions to the cap
tains, and each captain was allot
ted his territory. For Elkin the
captains are, Abe Harris, Rev. O.
V. Caudill, E. C. James, Alex
Biggs, J. L. Lillard, H. C. Hatch
and Fred C. Page, Jr.; Pleasant
Hill, Odell Couch; Jonesville, W.
E. Burcham and Robert G. Boles;
Ronda, Dewey York; Boonville,
Rev. Forsyth.
Another meeting of the com
mittees will be held on the morn
ing of Nov. 17th for final instruc
tions to the workers, and the
campaign will run through the
17th and 18th.
COPELAND GIRL
IS 4H WINNER
Miss Catherine Venable Takes
First Place in State Vic
tory Garden Contest
WILL GO TO CHICAGO
Miss Catherine Venable of Cope
land, Surry county, 20-year old
farm girl, and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cleve Venable, was ad
judged winner of the first place
in the state 4-H Club Victory gar
den contest, Miss Frances Mc
Gregor, assistant club leader at
N. C. State College, Raleigh, has
announced.
Miss Venable is a member of
the Copeland 4-H Club, which has
won the State 4-H Club cham
pionship or two successive years.
She grew a two and one-half
acre garden during the spring and
summer from which she supplied
her family with fresh vegetables.
Her award will be a trip to the Na
tional 4-H Club congress to be held
in Chicago November 28 to Decem
ber 3.
Three Guilford county girls and
one Nash county girl were award
ed blue ribbons as runners-up in
the state contest.
All the canned boned chicken
and turkey on the market have
been bought'for U. S. hospital
use.
Jonesville Negro Is
Taken In Assault Case
Two Such Cases
Occur In Wilkes
On Same Day
Two negroes, each held for
criminal asault are in Wilkes
county jail following assaults up
on two Wilkes county women
Wednesday morning of last week.
One assault occurred at Ronda
and the other just across the
Wilkes county line west of Jones
ville. Both women suffered from
shock, and bruises about the
body.
Clemmons Fletcher, of Traphill,
was arrested in the Ronda case,
and lodged in jail at Wilkesboro
the day of the alleged assault up
on Mrs. C. C. Tharpe, the victim.
Willie Martin, of Jonesville, was
arrested the latter part of last
week in the second case. He is al
leged to have attempted to crim
inally assault Mrs. -Josie Key,
about 65, about 10 o’clock in the
morning.
A third negro, Tilton Foster, is
also said to be under arrest in this
case, but it is understood that
Mrs. Key identified Martin as her
attacker.
Both Foster and Martin, it is
understood, were arrested by Guy
Scott, of the state bureau of in
vestigation, and Corporal Lee
Phillips, of the highway patrol.
In the Key case, Mi’s. Key told
a Tribune reporter Saturday
morning that she was churning in
the living room of her, home
when she turned and saw the
negro at the door leading into the
hall. She said he threatened to
kill her, and attempted to smoth
er her with a pillow. Screaming
and fighting him off, she said the
negro failed to accomplish his
purpose and fled after inflicting
scratches and bruises upon her
face and body.
Neighbors stated that Willie
Martin had been seen near Mrs.
Key’s mail box earlier in the
morning. The negro, Mrs. Key
said, told her that he had a bud
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Safety Campaign
Is In Full Swing
The safety campaign, conducted
jointly by the department of edu
cation of the Elkin Woman’s Club
and the Junior Chamber of Com
merce, is now under way in local
and nearby schools in observation
of National Safety Week, which
comes to a close November 14.
Programs are being presented
in the various schools.
The object of the campaign is
to make school children cautious
in traffic and to recognize other
safety measures.
Prizes of $2.50 each will be
awarded a student in the white
schools and a student in the col
ored schools for the best safety
slogan submitted during the
week.
Yadkin Men Are
Sentenced For
Draft Dodging
Three Yadkin county men
were sentenced to prison by
Judge Johnson J. Hayes in
federal court in Winston-Sa
. lem Wednesday of last week
for violation of the selective
service act. In passing the sen
tence Judge Hayes vigorously
denounced them for being re
luctant to fight for their coun
try.
Ernest Wilson Angell, 27 of
Jonesville, and Christopher Co
lumbus Crews, 22, of Hampton
ville, were each given three
year terms. Byron Bilson Nicks,
22, of Cycle, was given a four
year term.
HARRIS NAMED
TO HEAD CLUB
Kiwanians Elect Officials
Thursday to Head Group
During 1943
JOHNSON IS VICE-PRES.
Raymond Harris, vice-president
of the Elkin Kiwanis Club during
the current year, was elevated to
the presidency for 1943 at the
annual election of officers held
by the club at Hotel Elkin last
Thursday evening.
Garland Johnson was elected
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PAULP.GWYN
PASSES AWAY
EARLY MONDAY
Death of Popular Elkin Man
Blow to Community
WAS IN ILL HEALTH
Funeral Rites Are Held Wed
nesday Afternoon From
Elkin Methodist Church
OF PROMINENT FAMILY
Paul Perkins Gwyn, one of Elk
in’s best known citizens, passed
away at the local hospital Monday
morning at 6 o’clock, following a
critical illness of two weeks. He
had been in ill health for several
years.
Mr. Gwyn was a member of one
of the most prominent families of
the state. He was a native of Sur
ry county and a son of Charles
Hunt Gwyn and Bessie Perkins
Gwyn, and was a grandson of
Richard R. Gwyn, pioneer Elkin
citizen.
He was educated in the local
schools and attended Bingham
Military Academy. He was a vet
eran of the first World War, serv
ing as a first lieutenant in the
ordnance department in Wash
ington, D. C. After the Armistice
he was appointed chief auditor for
settlements between the railroads,
serving the eastern seaboard and
the government.
A certified public accountant,
he had served for the past ten
years as city treasurer and during
this time the town’s bonded in
debtedness had been substantial
ly reduced through refunding. He
had also served as secretary and
treasurer of the Elkin-Jonesville
Building and Loan Association for
the past ten years and operated
an insurance agency for a number
of years. In the capacity of pub
lic accountant his servicesawere in
demand throughout this section.
Mr. Gwyn was a valued member
of the Elkin Methodist church and
was a member of the board of
stewards of the church. He was
a member of the George Gray
Post of the American Legion, a
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Chatham Guards Are
Now Military Police
Guards at the Chatham Manu
facturing Company plant here
have been sworn in as military po
lice.
Lieutenant Colonel D. C.
France, of headquarters internal
security, Fort Bragg, read the ar
ticles of war to the local guards
and had each sign a pledge which
automatically made him a mem
ber of the armed forces of the
United States.
At a later date members of the
regular army will come here and
instruct the guards in the various
phases of plant protection.
To Hold Banquet For
Draftees Here Monday
Large Number Of Boys From Draft
Board No. 2 To Leave For Service
The largest group of selective
service men yet to be ordered to
report to camp for induction into
the army from Surry draft area
No. 2, will be entertained at a
banquet at the Y. M. C. A. here
Monday at 7:00 p. m. A few days
later the men will leave for the
army.
All draftees of area No. 2 are
urged to attend this banquet,
where after a good dinner, they
will be entertained by a program
which will feature a good speak
er and plenty of fun. All men al
ready in the armed services who
are here on furlough the day of
the banquet are also cordially in
vited to attend.
This banquet, like others which
are staged each month, is made
possible by the local post of the
American Legion and other civic
organizations, and merchants and
interested citizens.
Men who attend the banquet
will be presented with an useful
gift.
Following is the list of men who
will report to camp next week:
Claud Blevins, Rt. 1, Dobson;
Roger Jethro Welbom, State
Road; Ovid Watson Wilcox, Rt. 1,
State Road; John Edgar Ratledge,
Elkin; Willie Junior Hauser, Rt.
2, Pinnacle; Foster Winfield Mc
Coin, State Road; Newell Clifton
Stewart, Elkin or Rt. 1, Rural
Hall; Howard Spencer Jenkins,
Rockford; Chester Wayne Nance,
Dobson; Arvey Esther Davis, Rt.
2, Dobson; Edward Lowman Scott,
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Report Hun Troops
Landed In Tunisia;
Armistice Is Broken
4*.
Passes Monday
Paul Perkins Gwyn, one of
Elkin’s most prominent citizens,
passed away early Monday
morning at the .hospital here
following an illness of two
weeks. Funeral rites for Mr.
Gwyn were held Wednesday af
ternoon at 2:00 o'clock. News
of his death came as a severe
blow to the entire community.
CERTIFICATES
ARE NECESSARY
Motorists Must Have Them
Before Applying for Mile
age Rations
INFORMATION IS GIVEN
Operators of trucks, buses and
taxis must have their Certificates
of War Necessity before applying
to the local War Price and Ra
tioning Board for their mileage
rations, Cone Cox, chairman of
the local board, has announced.
Each war necessity certificate
states the number of miles the ve
hicle it covers will be allowed to
travel during a three-months per
iod, and the number of gallons of
gas needed to cover this mileage.
The rationing board will deter
mine the amount of transport
rations to be issued for the the ve
hicle on the basis of the mileage
allowed on the certificate.
In order to retain their right to
use mileage ration books already
issued them, passenger car and
motorcycle owners in Elkin must
file with the board the new ap
plication form and tire inspection
record, Mr. Cox said. These forms
are now available at service sta
tions, garages, etc. Applications
should be filled out and mailed at
once.
Those who fail to turn in the
new form will be subject to a call
from the board after Nov. 22 to
explain why he hasn’t done so,
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Local Man Injured
When Hit With Axe
Walker W. Byrd, West Elkin
merchant, received a painful gash
on the left side of his head Mon
day evening when Everett Rob
erts, Wilkes county man, alleged
ly hurled an axe at him following
an argument about a business
transaction.
Mr. Byrd was carried to the lo
cal hospital but was dismissed
following treatment of his wound.
Roberts was arrested a short
while after the assault by Police
men Gilmer Corder and Tom Lew
is. He was released under $300
bond to await hearing before
Magistrate J. L. Hall Monday
morning.
RESISTANCE IN
NORTH AFRICA
ABOUT BROKEN.
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Cassablanca Leaders Ask for s
An Armistice
ALGIERS SURRENDERED
Germans Said to Have Land
ed Air Borne Troops in
Buffer State
U. S. FORCES ON WAY
London, Nov. 11. — German
troops moved across unoccupied
Prance today over the protest of
Marshal Petain and German
air-borne forces were reported
landed in Tunisia in a double-bar
reled effort to counter the threat
of a British-American invasion
from North African footholds.
Nazi combat planes and air
borne soldiers have been moved
for “some little time” into Tuni
sia, buffer territory between Al
giers and Libya through which
President Roosevelt has sought
passage for American troops, an
allied spokesman said.
He said he did not know the
strength of these forces and also
did not know whether any British
or American troops were yet in
Tunisia.
The terms of the Compiegne
Forest armistice were violated by
Adolf Hitler’s order for a sweep
by Nazi troops through unoccup
ied Prance and Marshal Petain
protested quickly to German Field
Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von
Rundstedt. A Vichy radio broad
cast appealed to the French peo
ple to rally behind the aged Pe
tain.
Quick collapse of all remaining
resistance in French North Afri
ca and re-entry of a reborn
France into the war against the
Axis were regarded in London as
possible results.
Hitler declared “we have known
for 24 hours” that landing oper
ations against Corsica and South
ern France were planned by the
Allies, who have won Algiers and
Oran and are hammering at Cas
ablanca in a multi-headed occup
ational coup.
Fighting French quarters ex
pressed belief that not only the
entire colonial army but the
French fleet and a great array of
political leaders as well might
come into the allied fold as the
culmination of swift - moving
events of the past 72 hours.
London, Nov. li._The allied
occupation of French Northwest
Africa was near completion to
day with the request of the
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Annual Christmas
Shoppers Edition
Coming Next Week
At an open meeting' of the
Elkin Merchants association,
held Tuesday morning at the
City Hall, Thursday, November
19, was set as the date for the
formal Christmas opening here.
As a result of this decision
and in cooperation with the
merchants, The Tribune will
publish its annual Christmas
Shoppers edition next Thurs
day. However, in order to get
the edition to press on time, it
will be necessary for The
Tribune to secure Christmas
advertising copy at the earliest
possible moment. All mer
chants planning advertising
are asked to release their copy
just as soon as possible.
Such cooperation will be sin
cerely appreciated.