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OL. NO. XXXIII No. 9
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1945
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12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
NATIONAL
ft WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—
I Lacking any direct word from
President Roosevelt, admini
stration leaders in the senate
maneuvered tonight to shelve
Henry Wallace’s cabinet nomi
1 nation until lending agencies
are separated from the com
merce department. Democratic
leader Barkley, of Kentucky,
was reliahly reported ready to
make such a proposal to the
senate when the Wallace ap
pointment for secretary of
commerce and a lending agency
divorcement bill come before it,
probably Thursday. I f this
procedure is adopted — and
leaders thought they could
marshal enough votes to put
it across — the nomination
») would be returned to senate
commerce committee to lie dor
mant until Congress acts on
the pending legislation and
President Roosevelt cither signs
it or lets it become law.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. —
| President Roosevelt tonight
thanked the millions of Amer
icans who use his birthday to
back the fight against infantile
paralysis and predicted that
this battle, too, will be won.
His message of appreciation was
broadcast to the nation by Mrs.
Roosevelt just before midnight,
as the climax of a nation-wide
celebration of the chief execu
tive’s 63rd birthday. “We will
never tolerate,” he said “ a force
that destroys the life, the hap
piness, the free future of our
\ children, any more than we will
tolerate the continuance on
earth of the brutalities and
barbarities of the nazis or of
the Japanese war lords.
INTERNATIONAL
PARIS, -Jon. 30.—The Amer
ican First and Third armies
smashed into the outer defen
ses of the Siegfried line today
in an attack approaching ma
jor offensive scaie and gained
as much as four miles on the
frigid, snow-covered western
front. Starting as a series of
local thrusts, the assault picked
up speed and, after several ad
ditional divisions had been
thrown in, eventually involved
well over 100,000 men. It fur
ther increased the pressure
along a 40-mile front on Ger
man military leaders who al
ready are robbing their west
wall defense^ ‘to bolster posi
tions on tM' crumbling eastern
front. ThS doughboys overran
a number of Siegfried line out
postsand frontline correspon
,dents said the Germans had
previously evacuated the posi
tions.
LONDON, Jan. 30. — States
men of the United States and
Britain apparently were con
verging on an undisclosed spot
tonight for preliminary confer
ences or even the “big three”
F meeting itself as British and
American leaflets raining on
enemy lines urged the Germans
to surrender. Outside of the
closest offical circles nobody
knew when or where President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, and Premier Mar
shal Stalin were to meet, and
those who did know were not
giving the slightest hint. Ger
man and Swis* broadcasts said
the “big three” meeting already
was under way or about to be
gin. The best guess in London
was that the parley would be
held in the soviet union or close
to its borders. Some quarters,
however, thought the meeting
might be in Italy.
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LONDON, Jan. 30. — Adolf
Hitler proclaimed to the world
tonight that Germany will fighl
to the finish — “fight on no
matter where and no mattei
under what circumstances until
final victory crowns our ef
forts.” The fuehrer, address
ing the German nation by ra
dio from what was described as
his headquarters on the 12th
anniversary of his ascendancy
to the chancellorship, declared
f <ther the dire military
t. _-ion on the eastern fronl
nor difficulties at home would
make the nazis capitulate. Hit
er spoke for 20 minutes. It was
a gloomy speech, but delivered
with all Hitler’s old-time elo
quence, his voice ranging fron
calm tones at the beginning tc
peaks of intensity as he called
upon every able-bodied mar
and woman, and even the siel
and infirm, to give all in th<
final battle. Veteran listener!
said there seemed no doubt that
it was Hitler's voice.
Russian Army
58 Miles From
German Capital
V*
INAUGURAL—After the inau
gural ceremonies at the White
House, President Roosevelt wav
es to the crowd gathered on the
south lawn. With the President
is his son, Col. James Roosevelt,
who has stood with his father
at ail four inaugurations.
CHATHAM WINS
SAFETY AWARD
Is Presented At Special Din
ner Meeting Held At Y.
M. C. A. Tuesday
FIRST OF KIND IN STATE
An outstanding honor was con
ferred upon employees of the
Chatham Manufacturing Company
here Tuesday evening when a
Certificate of Award from the U.
S. Department of Labor was pre
sented to the company and its
employees by W. Bert Weaver,
state chairman of the committee
on conservation of manpower in
war industries.
This award was the result of a
safety record which shows a re
duction in lost time accidents over
40 per cent for the last six months
of 1944 over the corresponding
period of 1943. Insofar as is
known, this was the first such
award to be made in North Caro
lina.
Mr. Weaver, in making the pres
entation at the dinner meeting of
company officials, department
heads and chairmen and members
of the departmental 'safety com
mittees, complimented the envi
able record that has been made,
and urged that they live up to
their slogan for 1945, “Make A
Good Record Even Better.”
C. J. Hyslup, master of cere
monies and Safety Director for the
Chatham Company, presented
certificates for “no lost time ac
cidents” to the various depart
ments earning them.
During the meeting, which was
held at the YMCA, a telegram
from Miss Frances Perkins, secre
tary of labor, and letters from
Forrest H. Shuford. N. C. com
missioner of labor, and T. A. Wil
son, chairman of the North Car
olina industrial commission, were
read by Mr. Hyslup.
Vice-President J. W. L. Benson
and Assistant Superintendent
Fred L. Neaves expressed their
gratification on behalf of the
company at receiving the award.
Corp. Chas. Dockery
Is Reported Dead
Mrs. Nell Dockery, of Winston
Salem, formerly of Union Cross,
has received a message from the
War Department that her son
Corporal Charles Dockery, died
on Saipan on January 19. He is
the son of the late C. W. Dockery
and enlisted for service while a
student at American University
Washington, D. C., to which he
won a scholarship in his senioi
year at Mars Hill College.
Prior to going overseas he
trained at Camp Barkley anc
Maxwell Field, Texas He is sur
vived by his mother; four sisters
Mrs H E Hyatt, Little Richmond;
Misses Josephine, Mary Ellen anc
Irene Dockery, Winston-Salem:
two brothers, A Dockery and Her
bert Dockery, Little Richmond
Pvt. Jas. M. Snow
Killed In Action
l Pvt. James M. Snow, Jr., son o:
i Mr. and Mrs. James M. Snow o:
> Shoals Township, has been re
* ported killed in action in Belgium
i according to word received by hii
• parents from the War Depart
meat. ( -
PUSH STEADILY
ALONG HIGHWAY
TOWARD BERLIN
Steel Arc Is Being Closed
Against City
THREAT IS MOUNTING
Germans Acknowledge That
Situation Is Grave As
Defenses Crumble
BITTER FIGHT RAGING
London, Jan. 31.—The German
radio reported today that the
right wing of a massive Russian
battle arc closing against Berlin
had swung in within 58 miles of
the capital, reaching the rail junc
tion of Soldin, 23 miles from the
Oder River.
Disaster-laden Nazi broadcasts
said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s
First White Russian Army was
driving inexorably toward Berlin
from the northeast, east and
southeast on a broad front.
Moscow dispatches said that af
ter crashing through the Obra
River defenses just inside Ger
many, Zhukov’s forces were rush
ing westward along the main roads
converging on the capital. Signi
ficantly the Soviet reports which
usually are well behind the events,
said the Red Army vanguard was
roughly 75 miles from Berlin.
Bitter fighting in the areas of
Soldin, Landsberg and Zielenzig
was reported by Nazi broadcast
ers, whose stark admissions of
landslide advances by the Soviets
lacked even the customary propa
ganda assurances that the enemy
would be stopped in due time.
At Soldin the Russians were 58
miles northeast of Berlin, 38
southeast of Stettin, and 20
northwest of Landsberg. Lands
berg is on the north bank of the
Warthe River and a major junc
tion on the Danzig-Berlin Rail
road, 68 miles northeast of the
capital. Zielenzig, 20 miles south
of Landsberg, is 65 miles almost
due east of Berlin, 25 northeast of
Frankfurt and 30 miles inside of
Germany.
Russian and German reports
agreed that the threat to Berlin
was mounting steadiy. Zhukov’s
forces already were within easy
reach of the Oder, which winds
about 35 miles east of the capital,
and it was there that the Nazis
must check the invaders if the
siege or capitulation of Berlin was
to be averted.
The German Transocean Agen
cy acknowledged that a frontal
assault had crumpled the Meseritz
and Schwiebus - Zullichau defense
line only 45 miles east of Frank
furton-Oder, 80 miles east of
Berlin and nearly 20 miles inside
the capital’s home province of
Brandenburg.
“Advance detachments are driv
ing forward beyond the line to
ward the lower course of the War
the River and the region between
Frankfurt and Kustrin, Trans
ocean said.
Pfc. J. W. Day Is
Wounded In Action
Rev. and Mrs. Richard Day of
Pleasant Hill, have been notified
that their son, Pfc. Johnny W.
Day, has been wounded in action
in Belgium. He went overseas in
October 1944 and has been in
England, France and Belgium.
Just recently he was awarded
the Infantryman’s Combat Medal
for gallantry in actiop. He took
his basic training at Camp Hood,
Texas.
THEY still die! — Will YOU buy?
Lions To M
For Waste '
A town-wide canvass .of Elkin
for the collection of waste fats
will be made Sunday afternoon,
• beginning at 2:00 o’clock, by the
Elkin Lion’s club.
! Everyone who has been saving
! waste fats, which are desperately
• needed in the war effort for the
, manufacture of medicines and
> munitions, is urged to place theii
• fats in a convenient place for col
lection, preferably on the front
IS WOUNDED—Staff Sergeant
Bill Harris, son of .Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Harris, was .wounded ii»
Belgium on January .6, it was
learned by a War Department
telegram Sunday. He has been
overseas since last August, and
served in both England and
France before going to Belgium.
He is stationed with an Airborne
Division.
JOHNSON NAMED
ON COMMITTEE
Bank Credit Group Is Formed
To Make Loans To
Sipall Businesses
Garland Johnson, vice - presi
dent of The Bank of Elkin, has
been named a member of the loan
committee of the newly formed
bank credit group which has un
derwritten a fund of $10,000,000
for postwar loans to small bus
iness.
Representatives of fourteen
banks, including The Bank of
Elkin, met in Greensboro January
12, and arranged to form the $10,
000,000 fund, and in addition to
the loan committee, named other
officers as follows: N. S. Calhoun,
president of the Security Nation
al Bank, Greensboro, chairman;
and Duncan P. Tillet, president of
the Union National Bank of Char
lotte, vice-chaifman. other mem
bers of the loan committee in ad
dition to Mr. Johnson are: A. K.
Davis, vice-president of the Wa
chovia Bank & Trust Co., Win
ston-Salem, and L. J. Blakey,
president of the National Bank of
Burlington.
Word H. Wood, of Charlotte,
chairman of the board of the Am
erican Trust Company, of that
city, and general chairman of the
Postwar Small Business Credit
Commission for North Carolina
said that the formation of the
loan group is a sincere effort on
the part of the North Carolina
banks to give every possible as
sistance to competent individuals,
partnerships, large and small cor
porations, businessmen and farm
ers, during the time when private
enterprises must convert from
wartime to a peacetime basis. All
worthy borrowers will be able to
get bank credit if they desire it.
Pair consideration will be given
to all applications for loans and
these applications should be made
through the local banks, Mr.
Wood added.
Mrs. Woodruff Passes
At Home of Daughter
As the Tribune goes to
press, word Is received that
Mrs. Achsah Angeline Bink
ley Woodruff, 94, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J.
P. Ipock on North Bridge
street. Mrs. Woodruff was
one of the oldest residents
of Elkin and had a host of
friends.
She was bom September
17, 1851. Her husband was A.
P. Woodruff who preceded her
in death in 1922.
She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. J. P. Ipock, of
this city, Mrs. Grover Wil
liams and Mrs. T. V Shore,
of Boonville, and c.~ son, W.
W. Woodruff, of •xington;
Seventeen grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
today (Thursday) at 3:0$ p.
m. at the home on Bridge
street. The family requests no
flowers.
ake Canvass
Fats Sunday
walk near the curb, or on the
porch or steps. It is asked that
fats not be placed in glass con
tainers due to the danger of
breakage.
In the first drive of this nature
made by the Lions, over 300
pounds were collected. It is hoped
that Sunday's collection will far
exceed this figure, and that
housewives will continue to save
for future <irives.
Flood Control, National Park
Plan Is Agreed Upon Tuesday
At North Wilkesboro Meeting
ARE TO BEGIN
NEW CLASS FOR
NORSES’ AIDES
Women Badly Needed To En
roll For Course
TO START FEBRUARY 13
Those Interested Asked To
Call Miss Roxie Bowen
Any Day After 5 P. M.
OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
A new Red Cross Nurses’ Aide
class is scheduled to begin at the
Elkin Hospital Tuesday, February
13, at 1:00 p. m., it was learned
Wednesday from Miss oRxie Bow
en.
Miss' Bowen stated that all
women, interested in taking the
course should contact her by
telephone any afternoon after
5:00 o’clock. Her telephone num
ber is. 317-M.
Nurses’ Aides are badly needed,
and it is hoped that a sufficient
number of patriotic women who
have the time will enroll. Due to
a shortage of registered nurses
and the inroads being made in
their' ranks by the needs of the
armed forces, all hospitals, and
especially the Elkin hospital, have
hard been hard pushed for ade
quate. nursing staffs.
To date two Nurses’ Aide classes
have been graduated here, and
are - performing outstanding ser
vice at the local hospital. Classes
are held each Tuesday and Fri
day- ^
HIT AND RUN
DRIVER SOUGHT
Former Jonesville Child Is In
stantly Killed At Moun
tain View
OCCURRED S ATURDAY
Wilkes county officers are con
tinuing their search for the hit
and run driver who Saturday af
ternoon struck and killed a five
year-old child, Anna Lee Clore, in
the village of Mountain View.
The child, who was the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Clore,
who recently moved from Jones
ville to Mountain View, was in
stantly killed. Her head and body
were badly broken and crushed.
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter, of
Wilkes, and Patrol Sergeant A. H.
Clark, are said to have located a
car which they are confident is
the one which hit and killed the
child. A headlight had been brok
en, and bits of hair and scalp
were found on the broken edge ol
the glass. It was established that
the registered owner of the cai
was not driving it at the time ol
the accident, but officers are look
ing for a suspect whose name was
not disclosed and who is reported
to have fled from the county.
Surviving the child are th<
father and mother, one sister, one
brother, two half-sistrs and twc
half brothers. Funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon at
2:00 o’clock from Swan Creeli
Baptist church.
T/5 Albert Lewis
Seriously Wounded
T/5 Albert Lewis, husband on
the former Miss Marjorie Long 01
this city, was seriously woundec
in action in Belgium on January
14, according to a message fron
the War Department Tuesday.
He has been in the service foi
three years, and overseas for th<
past six months. Prior to going t<
Belgium he served in France
Lewis is the son of Mr. and Mrs
G. H. Lewis of Boonville.
S/Sgrt. Paul Brooks
Wounded In Action
S/Sgt. Paul Brooks, son of Mr
and Mrs. A. J. Brooks of Moun
tain Park, was wounded in actioi
in Belgium on December 31, ac
cording to a War Departmen
telegram received this week.
He entered the Army July, 1940
and trained at Fort Jackson, S. C
Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Meade, Md
before going overseas.
DFFDreUMFNTQ Fireman First Class Don
t\L,r tilLJ n IVlCjly lO aid Howard Littman, of
Elkin (in light jacket), is pictured as he and companions
were served refreshments by Miss Dorothy Roberts, of
Colfax, La., (right), stationed with the Red Cross at the
Charleston Navy Yard, following a trip to the hospital
aboard a special navy hospital train. The men were among
a contingent of 167 navy, marine and coast guard patients
transferred from Pacific Fleet hospitals. Littman is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Littman, of West Main street.
He was said to be suffering from battle fatigue.—(Official
U. S. Navy Photo).
March of Dimes
Contributions
Here $1,150.75
The Mareh of Dimes cam
paign here for the National
Foundation for Infantile Pa
ralysis has netted to date a
total of $1,150.75, Sam Neaves,
local chairman, said Wednes
day.
A number of the schools,
and the business section, are yet
unreported, Mr. Neaves said,
and jars which have been plac
ed in various stores and other
places of business will be left
there until the end of the week.
Funds reported thus far are
as follows: Reeves’ theatres,
$325 to date; volunteer school
girls, $98.00; Elkin Furniture
Oo., $30.00; Mrs. Osborne, of the
colored schools, $21.00; Chat
ham Manufacturing Company
employees, $511.0 0; Elkin
schools, $100; Boy Scout Troop
No. 98, $7.75, and miscellane
ous, $58.00.
SOME HUNS ARE
READYTO QUIT
Germany Will Fight On No
Matter What The Condi
tions, Broadcast Says
MILLIONS OF REFUGEES
’ London. — Some Germans are
1 ready to surrender, the Berlin
■ radio said today, but declared that
, ‘‘those cowardly creatures who try
to desert the Fatherland in its
• hour of need are relatively few
. among our people.”
i “Germany will fight on no mat
. ter where or under what condi
. tions,” the broadcast added, as
other German radio reports told
of millions of refugees fleeing to
ward Berlin from areas directly
threatened by the surging Russian
l advance.
One transmission by Trans
ocean, Nazi news agency, said
; 5,000,000 Germans were trudging
t westward from the threatened
areas, some of them in columns
l more than 35 miles long. Another
appealed to German women and
children to help clear the roads of
snow and ice lor the reinforce
(Continued on page S. 1st sec.)
LUCILLE ROSE
HURT IN WRECK
Arlington Girl Is In Local
Hospital Suffering With
Severe Injuries
OCCURRED ON SUNDAY
Lucille Rose, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Tom Rose, of Arlington
is in Hugh Chatham hospital suf
fering from severe injuries receiv
ed in an accident Sunday evening
near the home of Cleat Simmons
in Arlington. Her brother, Jame:
Rose, and two other passengers
whose names were not learned
were not injured.
Miss Rose suffered a fracture ol
the right and left shoulder, a back
injury, and concusions. Her con
dition was described as serious bj
hospital attaches Wednesdaj
morning.
The car in which she, hei
brother and two friends were rid
ing, turned over. It is not knowr
what caused the accident.
Son of Sheriff Is
Reported Missing
Pfc. Oscar W. Patterson, son o:
the Surry County Sheriff Sam C
Patterson, and. Mrs.. Patterson
was reported missing in action ii
Germany since December 16, in i
message from the War Depart
ment to his wife, the former Mis!
Alma Lorraine Midkiff, of Moun
Airy.
“Little Pat” as he was familiar
ly known, entered the army las
March, trained at Camp Atter
bury, Indiana, Camp Fanriin, Tex
as, and Fort Meads, Maryland
and went overseas last October
first to England and then t<
France and Germany.
Prior to entering the service h<
served witih the Mount Airy Polic<
Department.
Boonville Soldier
Wounded In Actior
Sgt. Anthony W. Parker, son o
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Parker* o
Boonville, was wounded.'in actioi
in Germany December 22, his par
ents have been notified.
He has been serving in th
Army for the past five years, am
spent four years in foreign ser
vice. ,
SUPPORT TO BE
ASKED FOR NEW
PLAN FOR RIVER
Delegations From Caldwell,
Wilkes and Elkin Meet
AGREEMENT UNANIMOUS
Resolve To Seek Post-war
Flood Control Only With
One or Several Dams
LEAVE TO ENGINEERS
v At a meeting of representatives
of Caldwell county, Wilkes coun
ty, and Elkin, held in North Wilk
esboro Tuesday afternoon, plans
were formulated for a complete
flood control project for the Yad
kin river which were satisfactory
to all parties concerned, and for
which will be sought the backing
of North Carolina representatives
in Congress.
Evolved purely as a flood con
trol project, the plan calls for one
or more dams and the creation of
a national park to be known as
the R. L. Doughton National Park,
to be located on the sub-margin
al lands of the Yadkin Valley wa
tersheds of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains.
The meeting came as the result
of the other meetings in which
the subject of flood control had
been discussed. Decision as to
where the proposed dam, or dams,
would be located was left up to
government engineers.
George P. Wiese, of Lagerwood,
who heads the Caldwell group,
and J. E. Justice, Jr., of North
Wilkesboro, chairman of the
Wilkes and Elkin delegations,
nave written to Senator Bailey
and Representative Doughton for
an appointment gt which time the
combined delegations will go to
Washington and ask their sup
port.
'It was pointed out that a na
tional park surrounding the area
in which the dam, or dams, would
be constructed, would prove an
asset for the section, and that it
would also preserve and conserve
valuable timber of the area.
It was also pointed out that the
flood control project, as unanim
ously agreed upon Tuesday, is
strictly a post-war project.
Those attending the meeting
from Elkin were W. M. Allen, W.
A. Neaves, C. A. McNeil, and R. G.
Smith. Others attending, in ad
dition to Mr. Wiese and Mr. Jus
tice, were Mark Goforth, Lenoir;
J. R. Prevette, North Wilkesboro,
■ and R. G. Finley, North Wilkes
boro.
Pvt. W. G. Pardue
Reported Wounded
Pvt. Wallace G. Pardue, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Pardue of this
city, was slightly wounded in
Belgium January 8, the parents
have been notified by the War
Department. He entered the Ar
my January, 1944, and trained at
Camp Wheeler, Ga. He went ov
erseas last November,
Use This Guide
To Keep Posted
On Rationing
SUGAR — Book 4, stamp 34
good for 5 pounds through
February 28; stamp 35 valid
from February 1 through
June 2. •
GASOLINE — Coupon 14 in A
book good for 4 gallons ex
pires March 21.
SHOES—Airplane stamps 1, 2,
and 3 in book 3 valid indefi
nitely. «
FOOD — Book 4, red stamps
for meats, fats, and oils Q5
through S5 valid through
March 31; T5 through X5
valid through April 28; Y5
• and 25 and A2 through D2
valid through June 2. Blue
stamps for processed foods
X5 through Z5 and A2; B2
valid through March 31; C2
through G2 valid through
April 28.
FUEL OIL —- Period 4 and J5
coupons from last year
period 1, 2, and 3 coupons for
this year valid throughout
the current heating season. ,
.—I