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The Best Little Town
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VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 18
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945
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Patton Within
130 Miles Of
Reich Capital
* CLOSE SWIFTLY
ON ERFURT IN
SUDDENDRIVE
Strike Across Main German
Escape Route
NEAR CZECH BORDER
Are Now Within Less Than
180 Miles Westbound Rus
sian Armies
f HUNS HOLD IN KASSEL
Paris, April 4. — Lieut. Gen.
George S. Patton’s American
Third Army exploded a new drive
k for Leipzig and a juncture with
the Red Army today, driving 17
miles to close swiftly on Erfurt,
130 miles southwest of Berlin, and
French forces entered the Rhine
city of Karlsruhe.
Striking across the main Ger
man escape routes into Hitler’s
Bavarian mountain redoubt, Pat
ton’s men drove within 65 miles
of the Czechoslovak border and
within 180 miles or less of the
westbound Russian armies.
Gotha, 75 miles southwest of
Leipzig and one of the Reich’s
biggest aircraft manufacturing
centers, was entered by vanguards
of the Fourth Armored Division
w and its fall was expected any time.
Other taijk spearheads hooked
around the southern corner of the
city and struck for Erfurt, 16
miles to the east.
The Third Army was on the
move along an 80-mile front curv
ing southeastward from Kassel to
the Werra River line 27 miles
south of Gotha, where the Ameri
m cans made their closest approach
to Czechoslovakia.
The advance penetrated the
formidable Thuringian forests,
probably the toughest obstacle in
the Third Army’s path all the way
to Berlin.
The break-through ended a
brief German delaying stand that
had stalled Patton’s troops mom
entarily before Eisenach and Kas
sel, 40 miles to the northwest.
Eisenach was by-passed in the
drive to Gotha, and Kassel finally
was won by doughboys of the
Third Army’s 80th Division after
three days of the bloodiest street
fighting since the Rhine crossing.
Front dispatches said isolated
German pockets still were holding
»out in Kassel. But the city was
firmly in American hands and the
Yanks were swarming through the
streets to clear the remaining
Nazis out with grenades and bayo
nets.
WILKES MAN IS
* WAR CASUALTY
Pfc. Robert Watson Cheek
Killed In Action In Pacif
ic Theatre Of War
PARENTS ARE NOTIFIED
Pfc. Robert Watson Cheek, Jr.,
was killed in action on the Vol
cano islands in the Pacific on
March 11, according to a message
from the War Department Tues
day to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Watson Cheek, Sr., of
Traphill. '
Pfc. Cheek has been in the
Marine Corps fo r twenty-one
months, and served eight months
overseas. He received his training
at Paris Island, Camp Peary, Va.,
and New River.
Cheek was a graduate of Ronda
High School, and was employed
at Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany at the time he entered ser
vice.
Survivors are his parents; three
brothers; Virlin, Phillip, and
Tommy Deal, all of the home;
and four sisters; Sybil, Phillys,
Justin, and Earlene, also of the
home.
Pvf. V. C. Combs
Killed In Action
Mr. and Mrs. Woodlfey Combs,
of Cycle, have been notified by
the War Department that their
son, Pvt. Virgil C. Combs, was
killed in action in Holland, on
March 12.'
YOUR COUNTRY IS STILL AT
WAR—ARE YOU?
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
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From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, April 3.—
The senate overrode President
Roosevelt today with a crush
ing 46 to 29 rejection of a bill
empowering the administration
to freese workers io war jobs
and apply other sweeping man
power controls. Convinced
that further efforts to win
votes for the measure were
futile, Majority Leader Bark
ley, Kentucky, called for k
vote unexpectedly this .after
noon as the margin rolled up
against it.
WASHINGTON. April 3.—
President Roosevelt, in a sur
prise turhabout, has decided
not to ask for three votes for
the United States in the world
assembly to be set up at San
Francisco. This reversal of the
line which the President agreed
upon with Premier Stalin and
Prime Minister Churchill at
Yalta was announced today by
the state department. No of
ficial explanation was forth
coming, but the development
strongly indicated a hope that
gtaiitt, Remise would be con
> tent with one vote. The Rus
sian loader has demanded
separate votes for the Ukrain
ian soviet and the White Rus
sian soviet in addition to one
for the rest of Russia.
INTERNATIONAL
MANILA, Wednesday, April
4.—The American 41st division
has landed on Tawi Tawi is
land at the extreme southwest
en tip of the Philippines with
in 30 miles of Borneo, Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur announced
today. Surging southward from
their positions on the Zam
boanga peninsula of Mindanao
island, the American troops
hopped across 200 miles of
water to land on the southern
tip of the island, one of the
Sulu archiepelago group. It
was a deadly new threat to
the Japanese position in the
South Seas.
U. S. 7TH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, April 3.—German
civilians are showing increasing
signs of hostility toward their
own soldiers in small towns
and villages on this front, well
founded reports said tonight.
Two German generals taken
prisoner by Americans in
the past few days told of civil
ian hostility toward their
troops. Civilians, far from
wanting to die in the defense
of their homes as Hitler order
ed, worry over the approach of
war to their villages. In some
cases they have gone so far as
to threaten to take up arms
against the soldiers if defensive
positions are established out
side they* towns.
LONDON, April 3.—N a z i
“Werewolf” terrorists were de
clared in a German broadcast
tonight to have kidnapped and
killed American soldiers in
Aachen and other occupied
towns. The reports were with
out allied substantiation. Dur
ing the day, however allied
transmitters repeatedly broad
cast General Eisenhower's
warning that any German
attacking allied personnel be
hind the lines would be “ar
rested, tried and shot” under
international law.
LONDON, Wednesday, April
4.—Russian storm forces cap
tured the great Messerschmitt
plane center of Wiener Neu
stadt south of Vienna yester
day and then, in a swift 17
mile break-through of nazl
fortifications, slashed to with
in six miles of the imperiled
Austrian capital. The powerful
Russian surge over the Leitha
mountain and river barrier
south and southeast of Vienna
carried Marshal Feodor I. Tol
bqkhin's Third Ukrainian army
troops inside the limits ol
Greater Vienna’s administra
tive district.
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MASS MEETING
HERE IS TO BE
HELDFRIDAY
Citizens To Nominate Mayor
And Commissioners
AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Johnson Expected To Receive
Nod For Mayor To Suc
ceed J. R. Poindexter
MEETING TO BE AT 7:30
Elkin voters will meet at the
Elkin elementary school auditor
ium here Friday evening at 7:30
p. m. to nominate candidates for
mayor and commissioners.
As the situation now stands,
Mayor J. R. Poindexter and Com
missioners H. P. Graham and C.
C. Poindexter will not be candi
dates for re-election. Commission
ers C. C. Fulp, R. C. Freeman and
C. C. Myers will be candidates to
succeed themselves in office, it is
understood.
At the present time it appears
likely that Garland Johnson will
receive the nomination as mayor,
he having stated that he will
accept the nomination if offered.
C. N. Myers, Joe O. Bivins and
J. W. L. Benson, whose names
have been mentioned for com
missioners, have also stated that
they will accept the nomination
if offered.
Candidates nominated Friday
will be voted upon in the town
election to be held at the City
Hall polling place Monday, May 7.
YADKIN MEN GO
FOR PRE-EXAM
Twenty-Seven Sent To Camp
For Pre-Induction Check
up Last Week
NAMES ARE ANNOUNCED
T. W. Martin, clerk of the Yad
kin county Selective Service board
has released a list of 27 men who
went to induction headquarters
last week for preinduction exam
inations.
TTiose taking the examinations
were as follows:
Joe Rufus Barnett. Jack Louis
Burcham, Hayes Thomas Dinkins,
Dwayne Myers Brown, Gilmer
Henderson Sloop, Frank Peyton
Webb, Preston Lee Baity, Thad
Watson Swaim, Roland Gordon
Hagwood, William James Wagon
er, Governor Bickett Holcomb,
Francis Marion Eller, Columbus
Roosevelt Marsh, Charles D. W.
Stone, Walter Fred Jester.
James George Shore, John
Ralph Smith, Nelson Gaither
Dinkins, Fred Gray Davis, Junior
Vernon Hutchens, Shady Frank
Sizemore, Robert James Freeman,
Richard Talmadge Barber, James
Alton Pinnix, Willie Howard Rid
ing, Sam Edgar Vanhoy, John
Frye, Junior, C. B. Swaim and
John Curtis Shore.
CAUDILL IS TO
DIRECT DRIVE
Surry County To Participate
In Observance Of Cancer
Control Month
MOUNT AIRY MEET HELD
W. J. Gr jam and Jack Caudill,
of the Elkin Lions Club, attended
a luncheon conference of Surry
county civic leaders, in Mount
Airy, on Monday. The luncheon,
held at the Willow Hotel, was ar
ranged to facilitate discussion of
plans for Surry county’s partici
pation in the observance of April
as Cancer Control month.
John Kerr, Jr., of Warrenton,
state chairman of the North Car
olina Division of the Field Army
of the American Cancer Society,
explained the need for funds to
finance a total war on cancer,
which ranks second among dis
eases as a cause of death, and
which is the greatest cause- of
deaths among women. Money is
needed, he pointed out, to educate
the whole public about the im
portance of early diagnosis and
treatment, the development of
research, and the establishment of
more detection and diagnostic
clinics.
During the general discussion at
the meeting considerable interest
was shown in the possibility of de
veloping a diagnostic clinic for
Surry county. Management of
such a clinic would, of course, be
in the hands of the medical pro
fession.
At the close of the conference
Mr. Caudill was appointed cam
paign chairman for the fund rais
ing drive, beginning in April, in
Surry county.
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THEY NEED CLOTHING—MUlioms of children like the two pictured
above, and countless men and women of war-ravaged countries of
Europe, need desperately the used clothing that will be asked locally
in the United National Clothing Collection campaign which will get
under way here Monday. The boys pictured were photographed in
a Greek village, Garments,-shoes and bedding are among the used
clothing sought.
Final Figures In Red
Cross Drive $13,028
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THE TRIBUNE
Sgt. George Walters
Wounded fn Germany
Staff Sergeant George Billy
Walters has notified his wife, Mrs.
Eva Walters, of this city, that he
was wounded in Germany on
March 18, and has received the
Purple Heart. He entered service
in March, 1944, and has been
overseas since last September. He
trained at Camp Croft, S. C., and
Camp Maxey, Texas.
Staff Sergeant Walters is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Walters,
of Elkin. •
RITES BED FOR
OMAR NANCE, 33
Native Of Little Richmond
Community Ends Life
With Bullet In Head
LIVED IN PORTSMOUTH
Funeral services were held
Sunday at the Bessie’s Chapel
Baptist church for Omar Nahce,
33, native of Little Richmond
community, who ended his life
Thursday at his home in Ports
mouth, Va., by firing a revolver
load into his temple. Rev. Rich
ard Pardue, pastor of the church,
and Rev. T. S.' Draughn conduct
ed the services. Burial was in the
Mulberry church cemetery.
The family had resided in
Portsmouth for the past three
years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Virginia praughn Nance; six
children, Veona, Betty Lou, Bren
da. Albert, Delbert and Gilbert
Nance; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Oswell Nance, of Rusk; one
brother, Isaac Nance of State
Road; four sisters, Mrs. Avery
White, Dobson; Mrs. C. C. Hayes,
Mount Airy; Mrs. Thurmond
Steele, State Road, and Mrs. Fred
Snow, Victoria Ontario. Canada.
Elkin District
Exceeds Quota
By Over $3,000
The Elkin district, with a Red
Cross quota of $10,000, has gone
well over the top in the campaign
conducted during March, it was
learned Wednesday from Mrs. A.
O. Bryan, who was in charge of
the drive.
Mrs. Bryan stated that contri
butions to date total $13,028.06.
Of this amount, $745.53 was
raised by the rural home demon
stration clubs of the district.
The Surry county Red Cross
War Fund quota of $18,000, was
also oversubscribed, Mrs. Bryan
stated, a total of $31,287.54 hav
ing been reported for the county
as a whole.
FARMERS MAY
INSURE CROP
Federal Crop Insurance On
Tobacco Available in Sur
ry On Trial Basis
IS ALL COVERAGE PLAN
Federal Crop Insurance on to
bacco is available now on a trial
basis to Surry tobacco growers
through the AAA according to J.
A. Tilley, chairman of the Surry
AAA County organization.
There has been a need felt and
discussed for crop insurance for
a long time. Congress and the
USDA began to study Crop In
surance about 1920 and the Sen
ate appointed a committee in 1922
to investigate the possibilities of
such insurance. Hearings were
held and a bill introduced, but
nothing further was done. Crop
insurance considerations were re
viewed in almost every session of
Congress for several years.
“In every part of the country
people living in towns and cities
are concerned with the welfare of
the farmer,” says Mr. Tilley. The
farmer’s income has a direct re
lation to the business done on
Main street. Businessmen know
this. So do their wives. But the
question is—What are they going
to do about it?
Tilley says that there are
thousands of acres of tobacco
grown in Surry county that have
never been covered by insurance
of any kind. Hundreds of farm
ers have never purchased any
kind of crop insurance. Right
now is the best time Surry growers
have had to protect their income
through this all risk and all cov
erage plan. Growers throughout
Surry county are urged to contact
their local committeemen and sign
their application for the insurance
before April 16th.
BACK THE ATTACK — WITH
/WAR BONDS!
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Clothing Collection
For Destitute People
Overseas Starts 9th
Crash Occurs
Under “Off”
Traffic Light
Considerable damage was
done to the automobile driven
by Mrs. Garvey Haynes, of
Gwyn Avenue, here Sunday
afternoon about 3:15 when her
car was struck by an automo
bile driven by George C. Swalm,
of Greensboro, at the intersec
tion of East Market street and
Gwyn Avenue, at the Elkin end
of the new bridge.
None of the occupants were
injured, but the front of the
Haynes car was badly smashed.
The accident occurred under a
traffic light which is not al
lowed to operate on Sundays.
YADKIN MAN IS
FATALLY HURT
William Allen Comer Found
In Unconscious Condition
In Winston-Salem
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
William Allen Comer, 35, whose
home was one and a half miles
west of Courtney on the old sand
clay road, died in a Winston
Salem hospital at 10 o’clock Sun
day night, 14 hours after he was
found in an unconscious condi
tion at the foot of a steep bank
near the Southern railway tracks
in North Winston-Salem. He
was found at six o’clock Sunday
morning by some colored people
and sent immediately to the
hospital.
A coroner’s jury was sommoned
Monday and ordered an autopsy,
which showed that his head had
been pierced in the left temple
with some sharp instrument,
causing his death. The jury ad
journed to meet again yesterday
afternoon, Capt. Burke of the
police department said robbery
was not the motive as his pocket
book and other personal belong
ings had not been disturbed.
Comer is a son of Mr. an,d Mrs,
Ed Comer of Yadkinville, Route
2, and was married to the former
Miss Ruby Chappel and they
have si* children.
Comer was in Yadkinville
Saturday night with Raymer
Sprinkle and the two were drink
ing. Ihe officers got Sprinkle and
Comer got away, catching the 10
o’9lock bus to Winston-Salem,
Sprinkle was tried before Magi
strate J. E. Shew Sunday and paid
the costs of $9.35. He told Mr,
Shew that they bought one quart
of whiskey and after he took two
drinks he was knocked completely
out and did not remember another
thing that happened. This may
account for Comer wandering
around.
Funeral services for Comer
were held at South Oak Ridge
Baptist church Tuesday after
noon, with Rev. M. F. Reavis and
Rev. E. K. Wooten conducting
the services. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Surviving are the widow; the
former Miss Ruby Chappell; sis
children, Billy, Allen Jr., Joan,
Fannie Lee, Ollie Mae, and Nancy
Comer, all of Yadkinville; his par
ents, Ed and Amanda May Comer
of Yadkinville, Route 2, and one
brother, Wayne Comer of Win
ston-Salem, Route 7.
Under Bond For
Driving Drunk
Arvil Groce, of Yadkin county,
has been released under $75C
bond on a charge of operating an
automobile while under the in
fluence of whiskey, having been
arrested Sunday afternoon by
Sheriff A. L. Inscore and lodged
in the Yadkin jail.
Groce was said to have en
dangered the lives of a number
of motorists on the Yadkinville
Brooks Cross Reads highway
while driving “all over the high
way.’’ His car, when finally stoped
was said to have no brakes.
Jonesville Man
Dies In France
T/5 James E. Robertson, died
on March 14 in France, according
to a War-Department notice to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rob
ertson, of Jonesville. This is the
second son that Mr. and Mrs,
Robertson have lost.
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED — Pvt.
Benny Shumate, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. E, Shumate, of this
city, wtas slightly wounded in
action in France on March 17,
according to an official War De
partment notice to his parents
last Thursday. Pvt. Shumate
has been serving overseas since
the first of the year, and en
tered service in August, 1944. He
received his training at Camp
Blanding, Florida. Mr. and Mrs.
Shun i ta also have another son
serving overseas, Cpl. Earl Shu
mate, who is in England.
CONTINUE HUNT
FOR FLETCHER
Boonville Youth Said To Have
Created Disturbance In
. ' Boonville Store
BELIEVED LEFT SECTION
Yadkin county officers and
highway patrolmen are continuing
their search for R. F. “Red”
Fletcher, said to be 18 years of
age, who allegedly’ attempted to
demolish a Boonville drug store
last Sunday afternoon.
However, it was learned, it is
believed Fletcher has left the
section entirely, he having sent
his car home by a friend who was
said to have secured clothing for
him.
Fletcher was said to have enter
ed a Boonville drug store Sunday
afternoon, ordered a drink, and
then proceeded to break glass,
throw an ice pipk and tear the
telephone off the wall. He was
then said to have rushed to his
car waiting outside and fled.
A warrant has been issued for
the young man charging driving
while under the influence of
alcohol, speeding, reckless driving
and creating a disturbance.
LEGISLATION
FAVORSFARMS
Numerous Measures Passed
By Legislature For Bene
fit Of Farmers
DOBSON ON COMMITTEES
Considerable legislation fo: the
benefit of agriculture and the
farmers of the state was enacted
by the 1945 legislature at Raleigh,
with special attention being paid
to secondary, far m-to-market
roads and to possible cooperative
rural telephone systems similar
in organization to the REA.
Under highway legislation, it
was provided that as soon as
materials and labor are available
a program of general improve
ment for secondary farm-to-mar
ket roads will begin, a total of
$10,000,000 from the highway
fund having been earmarked for
this purpose.
Rural telephones for those
communities which are without
such service and which cannot
secure service from established
companies, may organize and set
up telephone cooperatives simi
lar to rural electrification groups
to provide telephone service.
Under this legislation, such co
operatives will work with the
State Rural Electrification
Authority in Raleigh,
dther legislation passed by the
general assembly provided that
no grass or plant which will
spread or injure crops ,in nearby
fields may be planted on the
WILL ASK FOR
USED GARMENTS
OF ALL KINDS
Collection Center To Be
Located In Nicks Bldg.
D. G. SMITH CHAIRMAN
Jonesville Completing Organi
zation To Handle jCam
paign There
COOPERATION IS URGED
The United National Clothing
Collection campaign, for the bene
fit of many millions of destitute
people in many parts of the world
ravaged by war, will begin in the
Elkin community on Monday,
April 9.
In Elkin the collection depot
will be- in the Nicks’ building,
next to the Post Office. The use
of this building for receiving and
packing the articles collected has
been donated by Attorney W. M.
Allen.
Chairman D. G. Smith states
that one of the young women’s
organizations has been asked to
‘superintend the reception of
clothing and other articles from
2:00 to 6:00 P. M., daily except
Sunday, and that W. S. Bedding
field, manager of the Central
Telephone Company, has offered
to install a telephone for the use
of persons desiring further in
formation. Mayor Z. B. Martin, of
Jonesville, is completing an organ
ization for that community and
will announce the collection de
pots at an early date. Pleasant
Hill and State Road communi
ties will also have central points
at which the clothing can be left.
It is understood that the
churches, schools and civic or
ganizations all are boosting this
most necessary movement and a
very substantial quantity of use
ful material is expected for the
benefit of those less fortunate
than ourselves.
It is also understood that one
or more collection points will be
located at the plant of the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company for
those employees who do not have
opportunity to leave their dona
tions of clothing, etc., at the
central depot.
Chairman Smith calls attention
to the fact $hat all types of
women’s and girls’ garments,
men’s and boys’ garments, suiflfe,
dresses, overcoats, sweaters, knit
ted caps, underwear, overalls, etc.,
in good usable condition, as well
as usable remnants and piece
goods one yard or more in length
will be acceptable and welcome.
Shoes, either oxfords or high
j shoes, of durable type with low
j or medium heels are desired.
Shoes with high heels, open toes
I or open backs, evening slippers
and novelty types cannot be
used. Women’s hats, dress hats,
derbies, evening dresses and dress
suits cannot be used.
Infants’ wear, blankets and
bedding will be a welcome addi
tion to the barren wardrobes of
millions of people in the devastat
ed areas.
This clothing will be distributed
free to the needy without dis
crimination of any kind, and our
local communities are urged to
contribute as liberally as possible
| of good used clothing and blank -
I ets.
The campaign will extend
through April 23 and further in
; formation will be given in a later
issue of the Tribune.
Negro And Booze
■ • Taken In Yadkin
Mose Wheeler, Winston-Salem
negro, was arrested by State high
way and federal officers Thursday
morning of last week near Boon
ville, when his liquor-laden car,
containing 85 gallons, bogged
down in a wheat field* following a
chase.
A companion of Wheeler’s made
his getaway, but officers nabbed
car, driver and whiskey.
Wheeler was quoted as saying
that it made him “airful sad” to
get caught, but admitted it wasn’t
the .first time.
Given a hearing before U. S.
Commissioner Ader, in Winston
Salem, the negro was bound over
to federal court. He has served
two previous sentences for liquor