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BACKm ATTACK
The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. NO. XXXII. No. 11
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1944
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Transferred
Rev. Herman F. Duncan,
above, who is serving his fifth
year as pastor of the Elkin
Methodist church, has been
transferred to the First Metho
dist chifrch of Asheboro. He
will be succeeded by Dr. J. L.
Stokes, II, who is now serving:
his fourth year as pastor of the
Franklin Methodist church. The
change, it is understood, will be
effected immediately, probably
within a week or ten days.
> H. F. DUNCAN
IS TRANSFERRED
Will Go To First Methodist
Church of Asheboro,
Bishop Announces
StOKES TO REPLACE
Rev. Herman F. Duncan, who is
serving his fifth year as pastor
f of the Methodist church in this
city, has been transferred to the
First Methodist church in Ashe
boro, according to an announce
ment Wednesday by Bishop Clare
Purcell, of the Western North
Carolina Conference, and Dr. C.
C. Weaver, superintendent of the
Winston-Salem district of the
conference. Rev Mr. Duncan will
be succeeded in the local church
by Dr. J. L. Stokes, II, who is now
serving his fourth year as pastor
of the Franklin Methodist church.
4 The change will be effective
immediately, according to Bishop
Purcell, possibly within a week or
ten days. Mr. Duncan will suc
ceed the late Dr. M. T. Shathers,
of Asheboro, who was killed in an
automobile accident Tuesday of
last week.
The announcement of Rev.
Mr. Duncan's leaving comes with
much regret to his friends here.
He has been associated in all
phases of civic activities, includ
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SCOUTS ARE TO
* GOVERN ELKIN
Jimmy Garland to Be Mayor,
While Other Boys To
Fill Official Jobs
1:00 TO 2:00 P. M. TODAY
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As a part of their observance
of National Boy Scout Week, now
under way, Boy Scouts of the
local Scout District will take over
the mangement of the Elkin city
government today (Thursday),
from 1:00 p. m. to 2:00 p. m., re
placing all city officials from
mayor to superintendent of
streets.
This year scouts to fill the town
jobs have been selected on the
basis of their activity in troop
participation and rank in scout
ing. Those who will assume con
trol of the city government have
been announced as follows:
Mayor, Jimmy Garland; Com
missioners, Kitchel Adams, Leo
Collins and Gene Collins; Clerk,
Peyton Smith; Treasurer, Sidney
Fletcher; Attorney, Jack Shore;
Chief of Police, David Lee Fletch
er; Superintendent of Streets,
Ranny Smith; Chief of Fire De
partment, Benny Martin; Police
man, Leonard Lineberry; Fire
man, Bobby Lawrence.
This evening, at 8:00 o’clock,
the court of honor and review
will be held at the Gilvin Roth
Y. M. C. A.
Through courtesy of Dr. W. B.
Reeves, all Scouts will be treated
to a free picture show this after
noon at 2:00 o’clock.
A.
BOND DRIVE AS
WHOLE IS SAID
SATISFACTORY
E Bond Total To Date Given
At $275,000
$ 1 1 6,0 0 0.0 0 IN ELKIN
Figures On Total Sales of All
Types of Bonds Are
Not Available
QUOTA IS $ 6 4 8,9 0 0.0 0
Although the 4th War Loan
drive in Surry county is progress
ing favorably as a whole, sale of
E bonds is still more than 50 per
cent below the assigned quota for
the county, D. G. Smith, Elkin
district chairman, announced
Wednesday.
With a quota of $648,900 in E
bonds to be sold in Surry, sales in
the county at last reports
amounted to approximately $275,
000, or nearly $374,000 less than
the quota. Of this amount, ap
proximately $116,000 in E bonds
have been sold in the Elkin dis
trict, which includes Bryan and
Marsh townships in addition to
Elkin township.
Figures on the total sales of all
types of bonds to date were not
available Wednesday afternoon,
but a full report should be forth
coming for publication next week.
E bonds, it was pointed out, are
the type of bonds purchased
mostly by the average individual.
They range in denomination from
$25.00 to $1,000. The government
is anxious that E bond quotas be
met in the current drive.
Considerable bond selling ac
tivity has been noted within the
district during the past week,
with bond auctions having been
held at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C.
A., the Elkin high school and at
North Elkin school, this latter
auction having been staged Tues
day night. A number of bonds
were also sold here last Friday
afternoon when the military band
from Greensboro paraded and
played concerts here.
GREER TO BE
CLUB SPEAKER
Kiwanians Entertain Local
Football Squad At Last
Week’s Meeting
Dr. I. G. Greer, superintendent
of the Thomasville Children’s
Home, will be guest speaker at
the meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis
Club at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C.
A., this evening at 6:30.
Dr. Greer will speak on
“Youth,” his talk to be tied in
with the observance of National
Boy Scout week. Several scouts,
representing local troops, will be
guests at the meeting.
At last week’s meeting of the
club, members of the Elkin high
school football team were guests,
and enjoyed a program staged
under the direction of Kiwanian
J. Mark McAdams, who coached
the local team last season. A
feature of this program was the
showing of natural color movies
of the first Duke-Carolina game
of last fall.
Out-of-town guests of the club
were Larry Moore, of Greensboro,
Mr. Taylor, of Newton, and Luth
er Ferrell, of Winston-Salem, who
was instrumental in obtaining the
motion picture for showing here.
February Term of
Court Is Cancelled
Due to the fact there are not
enough cases on docket to justi
fy the February term of Surry
Superior Court for trial of crim
inal cases, this term has been
cancelled by Governor Broughton
at the request of county officials.
The next term of criminal court
will be held in April.
MILITARY BAND HERE FRIDAY LSf£2, thJ
Greensboro paraded and played tv^o concerts here last Friday afternoon in connection
with the local war loan drive. Top picture shows the band on Main street after having
marched from the high school building. Lower photo shows Merchants Association
float which led the parade. Miss Betty Lou Steelman represented “Miss Liberty,” while
several soldiers, home on furlough, rode on the float. The band played several numbers
in the downtown district and then moved to the Y. M. C. A., where they played another
concert. They were guests at a luncheon staged for them at the “Y,” through courtesy
of Chatham Manufacturing Co. Local Scouts took part in the parade.—Tribune Photos.
Grand Jury Indicts 3
On Charge Of Murder
Mrs. William E. Dean. Lane And
Sears Will Go On Trial For Lives
The Yadkin county grand jury
Tuesday afternoon returned true
bills of indictment for first de
gree murder against Mrs. William
Everett Dean, Woodrow Lane and
Early Vernon (Honey) Sears, in
the death of Mrs. Dean’s hus
band, whose lifeless body was
found in a pickup truck near the
Dean home last December.
The grand jury received the
bills at the opening of court
Tuesday morning and after hear
ing witnesses through the day, re
turned the true bills against the
three defendants.
Meanwhile, it was learned,
Judge J. A. Rousseau and Solici
tor Avalon E. Hall were pushing
the rest of the docket in order to
clear the way for the trials, which
are expected to take considerable
time.
Solicitor Hall said Tuesday
night that he wanted to confer
further with state witnesses and
needed time to discuss the case
with Turner Grant, Mocksville
attorney who will assist with the
prosecution, before he asks for a
date to start the trials. >>
As for the defendants, all three
have retained legal counsel. W.
M. Allen, of Elkin, will represent
Lane; Fred S. Hutchins, of Win
ston-Salem, will represent Mrs.
Dean, and Thad Reece, of Yad
kin ville, will represent Sears. All
three are among top ranking
members of their profession in
this area.
The report that Fred Folger, of
Mount Airy, had also been retain
ed by Sears, had not been con
firmed Wednesday.
Three separate bills of indict
ment were returned by the Yad
kin grand jury. No conspiracy
among the three defendants was
alleged.
Only three witnesses were
heard by the grand jury. They
were: Guy Scott of the S. B. I.,
Acting Coroner W. E. Rutledge,
of Yadkinville, and Deputy
Sheriff Johnson, of Yadkin coun
ty.
Dean, a machinist with the R.
R. Reynolds Tobacco Company in
Winston-Salem, was found dead
in his pickup truck a short dis
tance from his home on the
Shoals road early of the morning
of last December 19. It was be
lieved at first that he had been
killed in an automobile accident,
but investigation disclosed that
there was no evidence of a traffic
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BURIES MONEY
AND IS ROBBED
Over $1,000 Disappears From
Wilkes Man’s Cellar
Near Lomax
RETURNED, LACKING $40
Haywood Wagoner, of near Lo
max post office in Wilkes county,
had money he wanted to hide
where he thought it would
be safer than a bank, so he dug
a hole in one comer of his base
ment with a post hole digger,
then returned the digger to its
place at the bam.
He and his wife went to Win
ston-Salem on a week’s visit and
when he returned his money was
gone—only the hole left. He not
ified Sherriff Gray Poinderter,
who called State Investigator Guy
Scott last Thursday.
Knowing the dirt on the hole
digger could be traced to the
basement by the hired man left
in’charge, Mr. Scott called him in
for questioning, believing him to
know where the money was. Dur
ing the talk the hint was drop
ped that if the money was re
turned to its hiding place it would
help solve the matter.
Next day the money was back
in the hole, minus $40.00, and an
arrest is expected any time.
The amount originally hidden
was reported to have been in ex
cess of a thousand dollars.
Bonds or Bondage—It’s Up to You
Three-Prong Attack
Reported By Nazis
Against Fifth Army
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CLAIM ALLIED
LINES BROKEN
IN 3 PLACES
Armored Forces Smash Deep
Into Cassino Stronghold
ATTACK NOT MENTIONED
Savage Fighting Reported In
Progress As Germans
Mass Heavy Artillery
TWICE THROWN BACK
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Feb. 9.—American and British
troops battled grimly to hold
their 100-square-mile beachhead
below Rome today as powerful
American armored forces smash
ed deep into the German moun
tain stronghold of Cassino.
(The German DNB news agen
cy said nazi troops had launched
a three-pronged counteroffensive
against the Fifth Army beach
head and had broken the Allied
lines at a number of points.
(DNB said the nazi forces, at
tacking the Aprilla sector of the
Allied lines from the west, north
and northeast, had reached their
initial objectives in a series of
“concentric” assaults. It was in
dicated the Germans were follow
ing their familiar tactics of trying
to chop up the Allied lines by
over whelming armored thrusts
against relatively narrow sectors
of the front).
The Allier headquarters com
munique, covering yesterday’s
fighting, said enemy troops con
tinued to “probe” the Allied po
sitions and made no mention of
a major German attack.
Headquarters spokesmen said,
however, that massed German ar
tillery opened up with a terrific
barrage on the Anglo-American
lines, and a dispatch from United
Press War Correspondent Rey
nolds Packard said savage fight
ing was in progress.
Packard reported that the Ger
mans twice bent back the Allied
lines in a series of onslaughts
that began late Monday night,
only to lose their hard-fought
gains when the Allied troops
counterattacked.
Another pooled dispatch from
Daniel de Luce said the British
end of the Allied line bore the
main weight of the attack, and
reported that no “vital” ground
had been lost.
EVERYTHING IS
SET FOR GAME
T. C. U. Club to Meet Kiwan
is Club In Contest to
Promote Bond Sales
WILL STAGE AUCTION
Citizens of Elkin and this sec
tion will be given the rare oppor
tunity of witnessing a basketball
game at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C.
A-, Friday evening which it may
safely be said will be the first,
and last, of its kind every played.
This game, planned to promote
the sale of war bonds, is to be
played between members of the
T. C. U. Club, or the “T. C. U.
Cut-Ups,” and the Elkin Kiwanis
Club, ("• “Kiwanis Kroakers.”
Contestants in the game have
given notice that each is out to
win even if the various players
have to be propped up.
Admission to the game will be
a war bond purchased between
the morning of January 28 and
the night of February 11. Chil
dren will be admitted for the pur
chase of a 25 cent war savings
stamp, or larger, from the stamp
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Decorated
Corporal James Russell
Hampton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. L. Hampton, of Elkin, was
recently awarded the Purple
Heart following; wounds receiv
ed in action in the Mediterran
ean theatre. Corporal Hampton
was in the hospital for several
weeks, but is now back with, his
outfit. Since going; overseas in
May, 1943, he has been in North
Africa and participated in the
invasion at Salerno, Italy. He
entered the service in October,
1942.
STATE
ASHEVILLE, Feb. 8. — Six
persons were injured early to
day in a riot involving; Police
Chief C. W. Dermid said, 608
negro soldiers from Camp Sut
ton, near Monroe. The negro
section known as Eagle street
was wrecked, Dermid said,
while the soldiers milled around
from 11:15 p. m. last night un
till after 3 a. m. today. The
trouble began when two white
military policemen arrested a
negro soldier charged with be
ing drunk. A mob surrounded
the MPs, they said, and city
police helped to 'get the soldier
to jail. On the advice of the
white officers in charge of the
soldiers, city police threw a
cordor around the area and
stayed out until the fighting
died down.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. —
The senate finally passed a
watered down version of the
Green-Lucas federal ballot bill
today and tossed it over to the
house which already is on rec
ord in favor of leaving to the
states the machinery for vot
ing by members of the armed
services. House rejection is in
prospect, to be followed by ap
pointment of a joint senate
house conference committee to
try to work out some sort of
measure acceptable to both.
INTERNATIONAL
LONDON, Feb. 8.—The Red
army today captured the great
manganese center of Nikopol
and, in a new four-day com
panion offensive, killed more
than 15,000 nazis in driving
the enemy from the entire east
bank of the lower Dnieper
river. The twin victories, an
nounced in two orders of the
day by Premier Stalin within
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