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ELKIN, N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944
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24 PAGES—-THREE SECTIONS
Is Now Major
Major David Brown, above,
who is stationed with the Ameri
can Air Force in India, has re
cently been promoted to his
present rank. He has been in
overseas service for the past
twenty-two months. A son of
A. L. Brown and the late Mrs.
Brown, of Jonesville, he is mar
ried to the former Miss Mable
Murray, who with their daugh
ter, Carol, make their home
here.
STATE
RALEIGH, Jan. 18. — There
will be no extension beyond the
January 31 deadline for pur
chasing 1944 motor vehicle li
cense plates, state 'motor ve
hicles Commissioner T. Bodie
Ward said today. Ward said
that only 396,198 plates were
sold through January 15, com
pared with 438,613 sold during
the same period a year ago,
and that this was in spite of a
60-day “grace period” this year
while there was only 30 days
last year. He urged that motor
ists buy the new plates as soon
as possible so that a last min
ute rush may be avoided. The
state highway patrol will begin
enforcement February 1 of the
regulations requiring new
plates by that day, Ward said.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. —
President Roosevelt, appealing
for support of the fourth war
loan drive, said today “until we
have actually occupied Berlin
and Tokyo we cannot indulge
for a moment in the pleasant
day dream that the war is al
most over.” “Our most difficult
military operations are ahead
of us — not behind us,” he said
in a statement. The President’s
words came a few hours after
Secretary of the Treasury Hen
ry Morgenthau, Jr., made the
first official sale to Vice Presi
dent Wallace to launch the
$14,000,000,000 fourth war loan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. —
Impending shortages of leather
are so serious that plans are
already well advanced to utilize
pigskin leather in civilian
shoes, it was reported tonight
by war production board sour
ces. The new-type combat boot
recently approved by the army
and now in limited use over
seas requires more leather than
former army footwear, and is
in part responsible for the in
creasingly tight leather supply
situation, the same sources
said. A falling off in imports of
hides has also contributed to
the leather scarcity.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. —
Secretary of War Henry L
Stimson, acting on President
Roosevelt’s authorization, to
night restored the nation’s
railroads to private ownership,
effective at midnight. The lines
will have been in the army’s
hands for 22 days. They were
seized December 27 when the
President, fearing war traffic
interruptions because of pend
ing rail union strike calls, act
ed to assure continued flow of
vital materials.
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BRITISH CROSS
ITALIAN RIVER
IN HARD DRIVE
Bridgeheads Are Secured In
Face of Heavy Fire
80 MILES FROM ROME
Converge On Ancient Appian
Way, The Main Coastal
Highway to Capital
BRIDGE IS DESTROYED
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Jan. 19.—British troops of Lieut.
Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Firth Army,
advancing under intense mortar
and machine-gun fire, have cross
ed the lower Garigliano River at
three points converging on the
ancient Appian Way, for centuries
the main coastal highway to
Rome.
The attack was launched at 9
p. m. Monday, Allied headquarters
announced today, and all three
bridgeheads were secured despite
violent enemy resistance which
included a rain of fire on the river
itself, 80 miles southeast of Rome.
The first crossing was made
near Suio, a village seven miles
inland from the Tyrrhenian coast
and located on a hill 500 yards be
yond the river. Headquarters said
heavy fighting still is in progress
there.
The second bridgehead was es
tablished along the railroad run
ning from Capua to Rome, four
miles from the coast.
The third was at Argento, al
most on the coast itself, where the
Germans countered with a tank
attack in a desperate but futile
effort to drive the British back
across the river.
(The German High Command
said several Allied divisions had
launched a strong attack in Italy
“east of the Gulf of Gaeta” where
fighting was continuing in full
force. The Garigliano empties into
the Gulf of Gaeta.)
Preparations for the crossings
apparently were made by British
raiders who jumped the estuary
of the Garigliano less than three
weeks before and delivered heavy
blows behind the enemy’s lines in
the Minturno area.
This penetration on the night
of Dec. 30 destroyed an important
highway and railway bridge used
by the Germans, cut other com
munications and resulted in the
capture of prisoners who were
brought back to the Fifth Army
headquarters for questioning.
ELECTRIC ASS’N
ACTIVEJGAIN
Supplies New Homes With
Electricity After Two
Years of Restrictions
BUILD FEW EXTENSIONS
After two years of rigid restric
tions on the building of new lines
and supplying electricity to new
homes, the Surry-Yadkin-Stokes
Forsyth Rural Electrification As
sociation has become active again.
Joe Pendry of Boonville, one of
the directors and secretary of the
company, said this week several
homes had been supplied with
electric power since last Novem
ber. At the present time, the
organization has something over
800 homes and businesses that it
is serving in the four counties. At
the time the war broke out. ex
tensive plans were being pressed
forward for the erection of lines
in all four counties, and especially
in Stokes County.
I n addition t o connecting
homes, a few extensions are being
built, Pendry stated. Under pres
ent regulations, any home which
is under 500 feet from the line al
ready constructed, can be hooked
on. For homes over 500 feet, it
takes one animal unit per hundred
feet. Fanners who wish to qualify
for REA electricity by showing
enough animal units must have
the following: 1 cow for every 100
feet of line needed for connection,
75 laying hens, which constitute
one animal unit, for every 100
feet; 3 brood sows for every 100
feet; 10 heifers; 600 broilers, or
300 flock replacement chickens.
orT J C FJDQT Shown he™ is North
OLiLLo rlnjl uUlyU Carolina’s Governor
Broughton, the state’s No. 1 War Bond salesman, present
ing' the first Fourth War Loan shield to Mrs. Beulah Hicks,
gold star mother, of Raleigh. Mrs. Hicks, whose son, Lt.
Norman Hicks, was lost in India in combat flying, pur
chases her Bond from the governor to receive the official
Bond buyer identification shield that is expected to be dis
played by every War Bond buyer during the Fourth War
Loan Drive now under way.
Sears Denied Freedom
On Habeas Corpus Writ
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Held In Yadkin
Jail As Suspect
In Dean Murder
Early Vernon (“Honey”) Sears,
who was charged with murder last
Friday at East Bend in connec
tion with the death of William
Everett Dean last December 19,
was denied his freedom on a writ
of habeas corpus before Judge J.
A. Rousseau at Wilkesboro Tues
day morning.
Pleading unlawful imprison- |
ment, Sears was confronted by'
evidence which Judge Rousseau |
held constituted probable cause
and the prisoner was demanded
to jail without bond.
Woodrow Lane, who was living
at the Dean home at the time of
Dean’s death, was held for mur
der at the first session held by
the coroner’s jury on December '
23 after Dean’s lifeless body had
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Blackout Here Is
Termed Excellent
The blackout here last Thurs
day evening proved one of the
most successful yet staged, J. W\
L. Benson, local Civilian Defense
official said Monday.
In the downtown area the test
was especially good, it was report
ed, while reports from wardens of
residential section were also good.
Make Appeal
For Red Cross
Workers Here
The following urgent appeal
has been issued by officials of
the local Red Cross surgical
dressing room:
“To the Women of Elkin and
Jonesville:
“In every campaign and
drive you have put it over 100
per cent, but are you saisfied
with the work-you are doing in
the Red Cross surgical dress
ing room?
“We have a quota of 79,200
surgical dressings to be made
through February. Po you
think our boys in training and
on the battle front find it easy
to leave their homes and bus
iness and wade through mud
and water and fight to make
our country safe? You must
know someone in the service—
perhaps your son or your hus
band, brother, or even just the
boy next door. Wouldn’t you
like to feel that perhaps a
bandage you made helped save
his life? •
“A large number of you are
not even giving one hour to
make these necessary bandages
for our wounded boys. Won’t
you leave your social activities
for a few hours Tuesday or
Wednesday each week and lend
a hand to this most important
work?
“Can we count on you?”
Large Number Of Men
Are Sent To Camp Croft
A large number of selective ser
vice registrants were called for
duty with the nation’s armed for
ces in the January 17th call and
reported Monday to Camp Croft
for induction.
Those who are accepted for ser
vice will return home for a fur
lough before actual training be
gins.
Men reporting for duty were:
Richard Gwyn Chatham, Elkin
(volunteer); Rowe Wesley Davis,
Elkin (volunteer); John Wesley
Williams, Elkin (volunteer);
Joseph Samuel Spear, Elkin (vol
unteer) ; Claude Callaway, Jr.,
Ararat (volunteer); Raymond
Smith Bowman, Pilot Mountain
(volunteer); Raymond Harold
Skipper, Star Route (volunteer);
Bohnson Ray, Elkin (volunteer);
William Ralph Ray, Elkin (volun
teer) ; Glenn Edker Chilton, Ararat
(volunteer Wilmington board);
Thomas McKinley Golden, Rusk;
Hiram Jackson Hudson, Route 2,
Dobson; Paul Harvard Chappell,
Leaksville; Ira Olin Hawks, Galax,
Va.; Leon Preston King, Burling
ton; Monroe Odell Hardy, Greens
boro; William Howard Poore, Nor
folk, Va.; Orville Lawrence. Elkin;
Henry Lee (Jack) McCormick,
Dobson.
Coy Lee Barneycastle, Route 2,
Elkin; Jake Francis Osborne, Elk
in; Elmer Harold Wood, Elkin;
Woodrow Wilson McBride, Elkin;
Roy Lee Sparks, Elkin; Roland
McNair Lancaster, Jr., Elkin;
•Charlie Sherman Colbert, Elkin;
Samuel Felix Johnson, Elkin; Guy
Roosevelt Blackburn, Thurmond;
Buford L. Nichols, Route 1, Dob
son; Robert Glenn Hatcher, Wil
mington; Earl Lexton Cox, Route
1, Elkin; Sherman Franklin Mor
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ELKIN FLIER IS
KILLED TUESDAY
IN PLANE CRASH
Lieut. E. C. James, Jr., Meets
Death In South Dakota
OF PROMINENT FAMILY
Details of Tragedy, In Which
Six Others Were Killed,
Not Yet Revealed
FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY
First Lieutenant Earl Clifford
(Jimmy) James, Jr., 21, was killed
in the crash oi a Flying Fortress
near Martin, South Dakota, early
Tuesday morning.
Lieut. James was the son of E.
C. James, prominent Elkin at
torney, and the late Mrs. Frances
Johnson James, and was a mem
ber of a well known family of this
section. At the time of his death
he was an instructor at the Rapid
City (S.D.) Air Base.
Details of the accident are not
known. However, Colonel Frank
P. Hunter, Jr., commandant of
the Rapid City Air Base, was
quoted by the Associated Press as
saying that six other fliers were
killed in the crash.
He said the four-engined ship
took off from the Rapid City base
Monday evening and crashed ear
ly Tuesday morning about a mile
south of Martin, which is ap
proximately 100 miles southeast
of Rapid City and near the Ne
braska state line. Cause of the
crash was not disclosed.
Lieut. James entered the ser
vice in April, 1942, volunteering
while he was a student at Mars
Hill College. He had made an
exceptional record during his ser
vice at the air bases where he
had been stationed in California,
New Mexico, Washington and
South Dakota. He was commis
sioned a second lieutenant on
January 2, 1943, and promoted to
a first lieutenant in September,
1943. He was a qualified bomba
dier and co-pilot and was serving
as an instructor.
He was educated in the city
schools and was a popular and
well liked young man, and was
an active member of the First
Baptist thurch here.
He was married on October 5,
1943, to Miss Mary Lee Ellington,
of Graham, who survives, togeth
er with his father, his step-moth
er, one brother, John Alfred
James, of the U. S. Merchant
Marine, now on sea duty; two
half-brothers, Larry and Jerry
James, of this city; his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. C. F. James,
of Mount Airy, and one uncle, W.
W. Johnson, of Littleton.
The body will arrive here Sat
urday and will be taken to the
home of his father, on West Main
street. Funeral rites will be Sun
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
First Baptist church. The rites
will be in charge of Rev. Stephen
Morrisett, pastor of the church.
Interment will be in the family
plot in Hollywood cemetery here.
COMPLETE PLAN
FOR BOND DRIVE
Jonesville Citizens Hold Meet
ing At School Monday
Evening
A meeting of citizens of the
Jonesville school district was held
at the Jonesville school Monday
evening with a splendid attend
ance. The meeting was called by
Mayor Z. B. Martin of Jonesville,
chairman of the Fourth War
Loan Drive in the district, for the
purpose of organizing a campaign
for the sale of bonds in the dis
trict. Rev. G. C. Graham is vice
chairman of the drive. The quota
for the district is $35,000.
Solicitors appointed to cam
paign for the sale of bonds in
clude Mrs. Lila Woodruff, W. I.
Shugart, Fletcher McBride, S. G.
Holcomb, R. G. Boles, W. E. Bur
cham, J. F. Lowrance, Jim Chap
pell, C. G. Mathis and Mrs. M.
W. Price.
The workers will contact fam
ilies in the district during the
campaign.
Surry County Quota
Set At $1,261,000;
Meetings Are Held
Dies In Crash
First Lieutenant Earl Clifford
(Jimmy) James, Jr., above, was
killed in the crash of a Flying
Fortress near Martin, S. D.,
early Tuesday morning, in an
accident of which details have
not been revealed by the army.
Funeral rites and interment will
be held here Sunday.
SURRY COURT
IS ADJOURNED
Qustody of Nixon Child Is
Awarded Mother; Mt.
Airy Judge Cleared
OTHER CASES ARE TRIED
Surry county superior court for
trial of criminal cases came to an
end the latter part of last week
following disposal of a number of
cases, the majority of which were
concerned with petty crimes.
Of local interest was the case
in which Mrs. Ruby Nixon Thack
er, formerly of Elkin, but now
making her home in Georgia,
sbught custody of her 6-year-old
son by a former marriage, Melvin
Greene Nixon. The child, which
had been living with its grand
father, Pat Nixon, of State Road,
was awarded Mrs. Thacker by the
court. The boy’s father is dead.
Drunken driving charges
against H. H. Llewellyn, judge of
Mount Airy recorder’s court, were
dismissed by the court in a jury
trial Wednesday of last week.
Judge Llewellyn had been arrest
ed on a warrant sworn out by the
chief of police of Pilot Mountain
following a wreck in that town in
which Llewellyn was involved.
During the trial, both the Pilot
Mountain chief of police and Sur
ry Deputy Sheriff Sams testified
that the Mount Airy man was un
der the influence of liquor at the
time. However, a large number
of witnesses from Pilot Mountain,
including the son of Deputy Sams,
testified that he was not under
the influence of whiskey, and the
jury, after a brief deliberation,
returned a verdict of not guilty.
Roy Piles, of Mount Airy, was
found not guilty of a murder
charge. He was indicted for strik
ing Joe Martin with some kind of
instrument which allegedly caused
his death. It was brought out in
evidence that Martin had had
some trouble with a group of men
at a carnival and received the
blow at the time. The state was
not able to prove to the court’s
satisfaction that Piles delivered
the fatal blow.
Conrad Is To Preach
At Arlington Church
Rev. M. A. Conrad of Winston
Salem will preach at the Arling
ton Baptist church Sunday morn
ing at 11 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to hear him.
MUST SELL BIG
NUMBER OF X
BONDS IN DRIVE
Elkin District Includes Bryan
And Marsh Townships
SMITH LOCAL CHAIRMAN
All Citizens Urged To Buy As
Many Bonds As They
Possibly Can
TO BACK THE ATTACK
The Fourth War Loan drive,
with a county quota of $1,261,
000, got under way in Elkin and
throughout the county Tuesday
morning as workers in the appeal
contemplated placing at least one
bond in virtually every home in
the county.
With a total of $648,900 assign
ed as the quota for the sale of “E”
bonds, which are the type bought
by the small investor, it will be
up to the rank and file of citizen
to do his share in bond buying to
put the drive over the top in the
four weeks allotted for the cam
paign.
To add further stimulas to the
drive, a meeting of workers in the
campaign was scheduled for Wed
nesday evening at the Y. M. C.
A., with William Neal, bond drive
official of Winston-Salem, as
speaker. The meeting was arrang
ed by D. G. Smith, chairman of
the Elkin district drive, and mem
bers of his committee. Present, in
addition to Mr. Neal, was J. F.
Yokley, of Mount Airy, Surry
chairman.
The Wednesday meeting follows
a county meeting held at Dobson
last week at which Mr. Neal was
also principal speaker, with brief
talks also having been made by
Mr. Yokley, D. G. Smith, County
Agent Neill Smith, Superinten
dent of Education John Comer,
1 and Herman Coe, of the Surry
County Loah & Trust Co., of Dob
son. This meeting was for organ
ization purposes, and was attend
ed by a large number of school
principals of the county, as well
as the following Elkin citizens, J.
W. L. Benson, R. W. Harris, Hu
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JOHN W. HANES
TO SPEAK HERE
Former Under-Secretary of
Treasury To Be Kiwan
is Guest
TO ENTERTAIN TEAM
John W. Hanes, former under
secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
will be guest speaker at the meet
ing of the Elkin Kiwanis Club
here this evening (Thursday),
and is expected to discuss the fis
cal policy of the present admin
istration.
Kiwanian T. P. Cooley will be
program chairman for the even
ing.
At a meeting of directors and
committee chairmen of the club,
held at the Y. M. C. A. Monday
evening with President Garland
Johnson as host, -it was decided
to entertain the Elkin high school
football team at a meeting to be
held February 3. J. Mark Mc
Adams, member of the club and
superintendent of the Elkin
schools, will be in charge of the
program.
It was also pointed out that
Kiwanis International is celebrat
ing the 29th anniversary of its
founding during this week with
some 2,200 clubs and 122,000
members throughout the United
States and Canada participating.