"f'r", The Elkin Tribune VOL. NO. XXXII. No. 12 ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1944 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS County Is Over t Top In Fourth War Loan Drive E BOND SALES BELOW QUOTA, FIGURES SHOW ^ All E Bond Sales During This Month To Count On Quota BOND TOTAL $1,645,607 This Figure Is Expected To Grow When Complete Figures Are In ANNOUNCE NEXT WEEK Surry county, with a Fourth War Loan quota of $1,261,000, has gone over the top in its over-all a drive by selling a total of $1,645, r 607, it was learned Wednesday morning. These figures, it was said, while the latest available, do not represent sales up until the final day of the campaign, which was Tuesday. While the results of the drive as a whole has proven a great success, the sale of E bonds is still below the assigned quota of $648,900, current figures showing that only $457,575 in E bonds have been sold in Surry. How ever, it was pointed out that sale I of E bonds throughout the re mainder of February will apply on this quota, and it is hoped that the figure will more nearly ap proach the E quota by the end of the month. Officials stated that is was im possible to release complete fig rues up through Tuesday on the drive this tfeek. However, final figures were promised for next week when a full count has been taken. All persons planning to pur j chase E bonds in the near fu t ture are urged to do so during February if possible, so that the sales may apply on the Surry quota. BLANKETEERS TO GO NORTH To Meet Gruen Watch Com pany and Westinghouse Teams During Trip ARE TO GO ON TRAIN Chatham’s girls’ basketball team will head north this week end for games with the Gruen Watch Company and Westing house, returning to Elkin Monday, February 28, A. R. Plaster, Blank eteer coach, said Wednesday af ternoon. The girls, accompanied by Ab Crater and Miss Lois. McKnight, will go by train to Cincinnati, where they will arrive Sunday af ternoon, meeting the Gruen team Sunday night. From Cincinnati they will go to Pittsburgh, where they will play a three-game series f with Westinghouse. Mr. Plaster said the team might possibly play a fourth game while there, al though it has not as yet been scheduled. In a three-game series played at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium here on January 5-6-7, the Blanketeers defeated the West inghouse girls in each game, and hope to duplicate that perform ance in the return series at Pitts burgh. Ronda Man Slightly Hurt In Car Wreck Charlie Combs of Ronda, suf fered minor injuries in an auto mobile accident Sunday evening cn the Elkin-Ronda highway when his car went out of control, smashed into a stone wall and turned over. He was kept overnight at the local hospital for observation but was released the following day. Bonds or Bondage—It’s Up to You Heads Association T. F. Cooley, of Elkin, super intendent of Klondike Farm near here, was elected president of the North Carolina Guernsey Breeders Association at their meeting held in Winston-Salem last week. During the session, the problems of feed, and the presentation of the Klondike Trophy, were centers of inter est. The Klondike Trophy, pre sented annually for the cow with the best miik and butter fat production record, was pre sented by Prof. R. H. Ruffner of State College, Raleigh, to A. L. Brown, owner, and G. H. Cartner, manager of the Clear Springs Farm, Kannapolis, for the production record of “Clear Springs’ Elizabeth.” During the session Frank Johnson, of the American Guernsey Club, spoke on “Golden Guernsey Milk,” urging the association to take into its membership the distri butors of Guernsey milk. LATE NEWS IN BRIEF STATE RALEIGH, FEB. 15.—North Carolina’s traffic in black market gasoline operations was shown today in a report re leased by James S. Burch, sta tistical engineer for 'the state highway department. Burch said that traffic over North Carolina’s highway system in January, 1944, as compared with the same month in 1941, the most recent normal year used as a basis for compilation of figures, showed only a 31 per cent reduction as compar ed with January, 1941. He said the OPA had informed him that “black market operations in gasoline were the cause for the steady flow of automobiles over the highways.” From the State and Nation NATIONAL WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — Acting Secretary of the Treas ury Daniel W. Bell announced tonight that the United States has gone o’ er the top in its fourth loan drive, purchases totalling 14,191,000,000. Pur chases of the bonds leaped over the $14,000,000,000 goal today, last day officially in the two months of intensive sales effort. All bonds purchases during the remainder of Feb ruary are to be counted in the total, which Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau has indicated he will announce on March 2. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — President Roosevelt told a press-radio conference today that he would no't be a bit sur prised if the United States was (Continued on page 4, 1st Sec.) LARGE NUMBER OF MEN SENT TO CAMPCROFT Leave Tuesday To Take Pre Induction Examination FROM DRAFT BOARD 2 Those Who Pass Are Subject To Call At Any Time Within 9Q Days NAMES ARE ANNOUNCED A large number of selective ser vice registrants left Tuesday morning for Camp Croft for a pre-induction physical examina tion. Those who pass the exam ination and are accepted for ser vice are liable for call any time within ninety days and not less than twenty-one days, under the new selective service ruling. Those who pass the test who are not called within ninety days will be summoned for another pre-in duction examination, subject to further call. Those reporting on Tuesday were: « Roy Reece Bates, Elkin; Pholie Fred Renegar, Elkin; William Howard Windsor, Elkin; James Ruby McCormick, Rockford; Martin Elmer Jones, Pilot Moun tain; Roy Webster Myers, Elkin; Theodore Franklin Turpin, route 2, Pilot Mountain; Jiles Henry Cave, State Road; Claude Hard ing Jennings, Burlington; Ira Fred Jessup, route 1, Pinnacle; Connie William Jenkins, route 2, Dobson; Paul Kermit Lowe, Low gap; Fred Andrew Collins, route 1, Elkin; James Martin Cave, route 1, Dobson; DeWitt White, route 1, Elkin; Herman James Martin, Greensboro. Jack Simmons, Pilot Mountain; Lee Thomas Tilley, route 1, Elk in; Claude Henry Davis, Pilot Mountain; Hugh Glenn Creed, Elkin; John Henry Summit, Elk in; Wilbert Edward McHone, Pi lot Mountain; Paul Odell Wilson, Pilot Mountain; O. D. Gray, Dur ham; Thad A. Stanley, Rusk; Thomas Glenn Barker, Dobson; Cola Croom Fulp, Wilmington; George McKinley Gentry, Elkin; Benford Blain Baugus, Elkin; Clyde Taft Overby, Pilot Moun tain; Leon Franklin Stewart, route 1, Rural Hall; Lynwood Galyean, Lowgap; Oliver Nathan iel Swansoh, Pilot Mountain; Sam Brooks, Mountain Park. Claude Clyde Stewart, Elkin; Fredrick Eugene Chappell, route 1, State Road; Tom Benbow Scott, Bennetssville, S. C.; Her man Sebron Atkins, Elkin; El (Continued on page four, 1st. Sec.) LOCKER PLANT SEEMS ASSURED However, Over 40 More Lock ers Must Be Rented Be fore Installation ASKED TO RENT NOW Success of the freezer locker plant proposed for Elkin was nearing success Wednesday when it was announced that only be tween 40 and 50 lockers needed to be rented in order to obtain government priority to install the plant. Dave Brendle, of P. A. Brendle & Sqp, the firm interested in put ting in the modern freezer lock er facilities, said that his firm planned to start with 300 lockers, and of this number it is neces sary to rent in advance a total of 60 per cent, or 180 lockers, in order to obtain the necessary equipment. It is hoped that the remaining number of lockers nec essary to assure the success of the project will be rented within a short while so that the plant may be installed and ready for opera tion at an early date. Those wishing to rent lockers should make their check payable to Garland Johnson, vice-presi dent of The Bank of Elkin. These checks, which should be for $12.50 for regular size locker, or $15.00 for large locker, are for a year’s rent, and will be held un cashed until the plant is install ed and ready to operate and the keys turned over to the renters. Checks may be given or mailed to Mr. Johnson or to P. A. Brendle & Son. In event something should occur which prevented the in stallation of tiie plant, all checks would be returned. President of American Bankers Association To Be Speaker At Farmers Meet; Governor Coming TO ATTEND FARMERS MEETING StSXlaS the annual Farmers’ Night banquet to be held here at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. on Thursday, March 16, under sponsorship of the Elkin Agricultural Council. They are, left to right, A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville, S. C., president of the American Bankers Association, who will be principal speaker; Word H. Wood, of Charlotte, chairman of the board of the American Trust Company, and Governor J. M. Broughton. Mr. Wood, a native of Elkin, will be honored during the meeting. Governor Broughton will intro duce both Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Wood. Berlin Staggers Under Nearly 3000Tons Bombs -4 _ New Pastor Dr. J. L. Stokes, II, who has been appointed as pastor of the Elkin Methodist Church to suc ceed Rev. Herman F. Duncan, who has been transferred to Ashe boro to succeed the late Dr. M. T. Smathers. Pastor of the Franklin Methodist church for the past three and one-half years, Dr. Stokes will preach his first sermon here on February 27. He said Tuesday that he planned to move his wife and family here within the very near future. KIWANIS WINS OVER TCU CLUB Chalk Up Score of 6-2 In Bond Selling Game At YMCA Friday SALES TOTAL $ 1 0,0 0 0 The Elkin Kiwanis Club, in basketball suits that reminded of the gay nineties and must have put a strain upon the purveyors of long handled underwear, stum bled to a 6-2 victory over the T. C. U. Club here last Friday evening at the Y. M. C. A. gym nasium in a contest risked for promotion of War Bond sales. The Kiwanians, known as the “Kroakers,” chalked up an earlv lead in the first quarter when Clyde Long’s toss neatly split the basket, a feat which proved as surprising to Mr. Long as it did to his opponents and to the as sembled audience. , The only score for the T. C. U. -— (Continued on page 4, 1st Sec.) German Capital Feels Greatest Raid In History London, Feb. 16.—A mighty ar mada of British bombers—com prising the bulk of the night’s raiding fleet of some 1,200 planes —sent nearly 3,000 tons of ex plosives crashing down on devas tated Berlin last night in the heaviest aerial assault ever made on a single target. While the main force of 1,000 planes rained block-busters and incendiaries on Berlin at the rate of 140 tons a minute, another 200 Lancasters feinted 50 miles to the east and dropped 300 tons of bombs on railway yards at Frank furt-on-Oder. Only 45 planes — less than 4 per cent of the raiding fleet — were lost in all operations last night. All but 200 of the parti cipating bombers were four-en gined aircraft. The Air Ministry announced that crews of twin-engined Mos quito bombers that roared over Berlin after the R. A. F.’s heavy weights had dropped their car goes of nearly 6,000,000 pounds of steel and explosives found “a very large area of fire with smoke ris ing to a height of 2,000 feet.” Mosquitos also bombed objec tives in Western Germany and Holland to round out the night’s offensive. The night’s raiding fl^et was the greatest ever sent out by the R. A. F. and brought the pre-in vasion aerial offensive against Germany to its highest pitch at a time when Allied daylight raid ers, including American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, were smashing daily at the “Western Front” coast of Northern France. Jaycees To Conduct Scrap Drive Sunday Jaycees will conduct another scrap drive to cdllect waste pa per and tin cans on Sunday af ternoon, February 20, from 2 un til 5 p. m., if the weather permits. In event the weather is bad the collection will be the following Sunday at the same hours. In the past collections a very small amount has been gathered in the Jonesville and Arlington sections and citizens of these towns, as well as Elkin, are asked to cooperate in the salvage of these vital war materials. If the paper is tied into bundles it will make the collection easier. Cans are wanted that are clean and have been flattened. POSTPONE DEAN MURDER TRIAL State Asks Continuance To Analyze Blood Said Found At Home MARCH 27TH DATE SET Due to the fact the state need ed additional time in which to analyze blood found in the home following the alleged murder of William Everett Dean last De cember 18 near East Bend, a con tinuance was granted by Judge Rousseau in Yadkin county su perior court last week until March 27 when Governor Broughton is expected to call a special term in which to try the three defendants held in the case—Dean’s wife, Woodrow Lane and Early Vernon Sears. In explaining to the court that time will be needed to analyze the blood, Solicitor Avalon E. Hall also told the court that the state could show that when Dean’s body was found shortly after midnight it was clad in clothes different from those Dean was wearing at 5:30 p. m., the pre ceding afternoon. Although Mr. Hall didn’t say so in so many words, it was im plied that the murder might have been committed at the Dean home and that the clothing was changed there in order to give the perpetrators of the crime op portunity to dispose of the bloody garments. Little blood was found on the clothes Dean was wearing when his body was found in a pickup truck about a mile from the home. Following the granting of a continuance, Judge Rousseau al lowed all three defendants privi lege of bond in the sum of $5,000. Although Solicitor Hall did not state where the blood was found, he did say that it was in suffi cient quantity to be of great im portance. He said it was not dif ficult to determine that the sub stance found at the home was blood, but that it took some time to determine whether or not it was human blood. Three or four weeks will be necessary to finish the investigation, 'he intimated. CATTLE Farmers turning cattle into com fields this fall are warned to take special precautions against losses from “cornstalk disease,” says Dr. C. D. Grinnells, livestock specialist. WORD H. WOOD OF CHARLOTTE HONOR GUEST Is Native of Elkin and Na tionally Known Banker MEETING ON MARCH 16 Approximately 500 Farmers of Section Will Be Guests At Annual Event PLAN GOOD PROGRAM A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville, S. C., president of the American Bankers Association, has been an nounced as the principal speaker for the Elkin Annual Farmers Night program to be held at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. Thursday, March 16, in which Word H. Wood, of Charlotte, chairman of the board of the American Trust Company, will be honored, and at which Governor J. M. Brough ton will be a guest. Present at the banquet will be approximately 500 farmers of Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes coun ties, in addition to prominent North Carolina agricultural lead ers, and business professional men of Elkin. Garland Johnson, chairman of the Elkin Agricultural Council, which is sponsoring the event, said Wednesday morning that a comprehensive program is being arranged for visiting farmers, who will attend various group meetings to be held at the Y. M. C. A. in the afternoon of the day of the banquet. These meetings will be presided over by members of the State College Farm Exten sion Service. The Agriculture Council is made up of representatives of the Elkin Junior Chamber of Com merce, Elkin Kiwanis Club, and the Elkin Merchants Association. The guest of honor, Mr. Wood, is himself a native of Elkin, hav ing been bom here April 28, 1873, (Continued on page four, 1st. Sec.) Alleged Crap Game Leads To Shooting Oscar Phillips, 32, of the Little Richmond section of Surry, is reported as getting along satis factorily at Hugh Chatham hos pital following bullet wounds re ceived Saturday night which were said to have been inflicted by Rastus Stanley, of the same com munity, in an alleged fight over a crap game. It was reported that Stanley fired five shots from a .32 calibre revolver, one of the bullets pass ing almost through Phillips’ body. At last reports officers were still looking for Stanley. Use of Tokens Explained In OPA Bulletin To eliminate apparent exist ing confusion, the local ration office has been informed by the OPA that between Febru ary 27 and March 20, inclu sive, blue tokens, as well as green one-point stamps may be used in making change for valid green and blue stamps which are surrendered upon a purchase of processed foods. It was also pointed out that during the same dates, red tokens, as well as brown one point stamps may be used in making change for valid green and blue stamps. Red tokens, as well as brown one-point stamps, may be used in mak ing change for valid red and brown stamps. However, after March 20, red tokens and blue tokens only may be given as change against red or blue stamps. f