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Gateway To Roaring Gap
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ELKIN
The Best Little Town
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VOL. NO. XXXIH No. 22
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
14 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
Plans Are Announced
For Seventh War Loan
Drive For This Area
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‘ENTERTAINMENT
READIED HERE
STATE THEATRE
Meeting Held At Dobson
Tuesday Evening
NAME LOCAL CHAIRMAN
Variety And Fashion Show
To Be Presented On Thurs
day, May 24th
DRIVE STARTS MAY 14
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Following a county-wide meet
ing of interested Surry county
citizens at Dobson Tuesday even
ing, plans for the Seventh War
an Drive in Surry county, which
s to get under way May 14, were
announced.
Garland Johnson, Elkin banker,
who served as chairman of the
Sixth War Loan Drive here, will
again serve in that capacity with
Miss Mattie Mae Powell, secretary
of the Elkin-Jonesville Building
and Loan Association as co-chair
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man.
Plans have already been map
ped here for a combination ama
teur or variety show and fashion
show to be staged at the State
Theatre on the evening of Thurs
day, May 24, under the direction
of Mrs. Edith Neaves Folger and
Alan Browning, Jr. Dr. W. B.
Reeves, owner of the State thea
tre, has generously agreed to per
mit the use of the theatre and to
provide a short motion picture to
precede the home talent program.
Plans for this show, which have
not been fully completed, call for
a prize of a $25.00 War Bond for
the winner of the fashion show,
and two $25.00 War Bond prizes
for winners of the amateur show,
one Bond to go for the best
comedy act, and the other for the
best musical act.
Anyone who wishes to enter the
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YEP, ELKIN WAS
PLENTY EXCITED
False News Of German Sur
render Spread Like Wild
fire All Over Town
TERRIFIC LET-DOWN
There’s no use of denying it,
Elkin got just as excited last Sat
urday night as any other town
when the news came that an an
nouncement of unconditional sur
render of the Germans was ex
pected at any moment.'
And Elkin was just as let down,
too, as any other town when
President Truman’s announce
ment came that the news was
without foundation.
Elkin’s excitement didn’t take
the form, however, that was dis
played in a number of other
towns, One North Carolina town,
it was said, closed up shop, blew
sirens and opened the churches.
In many towns througout the na
tion newspapers issued extras that
Germany had quit.
The Tribune, immediately on
the job when the first reports
parted coming over the radio, was
:>mbarded with telephone calls
'and offers of help in getting out
an extra if any. Then, like a
bubble bursting, the excitement
was over and everyone went home.
Lions Are To
Collect Waste
Fats Sunday
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The Elkin Lions Club will
conduct a town-wide collection
of waste fats Sunday afternoon
beginning at 2:00 o’clock.
All persons who have been
saving waste fats and greases
for the war effort, are urged to
place the containers on the
porch, front walk or at some
place where it will be conven
ient for those making the drive
to collect it.
Everyone is urged to save
fats so that it may be collected
each first Sunday of the
month.
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AWARDED PURPLE HEART—
Staff Sergeant Billy H. Phillips,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Phil
lips, of this city, has recently
been awarded the Purple Heart
for wounds received in Belgium
on January 12. He has just re
turned to the United States and
is now spending a furlough with
his parents, after serving for
five months in England, France,
and Holland, in addition to Bel
gium. At the end of his fur
lough he will report to an Army
hospital at Rome, Ga.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
STATE
RALEIGH, May 1. —The
newly-appointed state highway
and public works commission
at its first meeting today voted
to retain Vance Baise as chief
engineer and to raise his salary
from $6,000 to $7,500 a year.
This action was in line with
recommendations made by
Governor Cherry this morning,
when the new commission
chairman, A. H. (Sandy) Gra
ham, of Hillsboro, and five new
commission members were
sworn in. The Increase in sal
ary, Cherry told the commis
sion members, would be in line
with newly adopted pay sche
dules for all highway employ
ees.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, May 1.—
Withdrawal of German troops
from Yugoslavia, Denmark,
western Czechoslovakia and
other countries was forecast hy
a responsible Washington mili
tary expert today as a prelude
to unconditional surrender by
the nazi high command. He
said that delay in Germany’s
surrender probably is due to a
desire to evacuate first theii
troops from unfriendly terri
tory. Should • they be lefl
stranded amid hostile popula
tions when the top commanders
quit, it was the opinion of the
military observers that the
populations might turn on
them and mow them down.
WASHINGTON, May 1.—
New government mine seizures
impended today as walkouts ol
72,000 anthracite miners and
thousands of bituminous work
ers cut into the war fuel supply
for the second time this spring,
Interior Secretary Ickes said he
was ready, as solid fuels ad
ministrator, to take over boti
bituminous and anthracite
mines. Anthracite operations
were reported completely sus
pended in Pennsylvania today
with 190,000 tons of productior
already lost, while contraci
negotiations in New York be
tween operators and John L
Lewis’ United Mine Workers
were deadlocked. The hard coa
workers quit work last mid
night, disregarding a war laboi
board order to continue wort
under the old terms until a new
agreement is reached.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1—
The united nations conferenc<
ordered day and night session:
today, trying to catch up or
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YADKIN MAN IS
FACING CHARGE
Tom Steelman, Election Board
Chairman, Alleged To
Have Sold Coupons
HEARING ON MAY 7TH
Tom Steelman, of near Yad
kinville, chairman of the Yadkin
County Board of Elections, will
appear in federal court next Mon
day, May 7, to answer to a charge
of selling gasoline ration coupons
in Yadkinville at the highest rate
they have known to be sold on
the black market — $1.25 each.
Steelman was arrested after
OPA officials from Charlotte had
sworn out a warrant for him. He
was carried before U. S. Commis
sioner M. W. Mackie who bound
him over to federal court under
bond of $500.
It all started on Saturday, April
14 when Sheriff A. L. Inscore was
informed that Steelman was sell
ing the coupons and that he had
a 14 year-old boy hawking them
for him on the streets here.
Sheriff Inscore immediately
marked three $1.00 bills and gave
them to the informant and asked
him to buy some stamps, and then
he watched the transaction him
self. He later retrieved the mark
ed bills and arrested Steelman.
Sheriff Inscore then went to
Magistrate J. E. Shew, who has a
connection with the Ration Board
and informed him what had
happened. The Charlotte office
of the OPA was called and a man
sent here to complete the job.
The 14 year old boy selling the
coupons was Jack Williams, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Williams,
who live three miles east of town.
He said Steelman asked him to
sell the coupons for him,. but so
far had given him nothing but
paid for his supper. Steelman
himself said he intended to pay
the boy later.
Steelman said he received the
coupons from his son-in-law,
Allen Chamberlain, and investi
gation showed the coupons were
issued in Chamberlain’s name. No
charges have been filed against
the young Williams boy or Cham
berlain. Steelman admitted every
thing to Sheriff Inscore and mem
bers of the investigating force.
Mr. Steelman, a Democrat was
appointed chairman of the elec
tions board last summer when D.
L. Kelly resigned and served
through last election. He made
an agreeable chairman and gave
satisfaction to both parties.
YADKIN HEN GO
TO FORTBRAGG
Large Delegation Sent To
Medical Center For Pre
Induction Exam
RECLASSIFY SOME MEN
A large delegation of Yadkin
young men left Yadkinville Tues
day morning for Fort Bragg, to
undergo pre-induction examina
tions. Some of the number had
been reclassified. The list follows:
Samuel Smith Gregory, George
McNeil Wooten, Odell Maynes
Whitaker, John Paul Gough,
James Elmer Morrison, Thomas
Ray Warren, John Click South
ard, Arlie Clay Robbins, Marshall
Ray Smithermari, Arthur Lee
Pendry, Henry David Cranfill,
Paul Erwin Holden, Ray Fred
Brown, Hugh Tremaine Long.
William Plint Taylor, Fred
Dinkins, Bemis Elmer Winters,
John Delma Mock, Ralph Roby
Dorsett, Otto Kermit Vestal, Will
iam Thomas Fletcher, Jr., John
Daniel Long, J. Groce, Carl Fred
rick Royall, Thomas Wilson
Brooks, William Boone Steelman,
Jr., James Gaither Sizemore, C.
E. Nicks, Jr., John Preston Mc
Coy, Albert Lee Huff, Fred Jay
Wooten, Robert Sprinkle, Thomas
Henry Billings.
Reggie Lee Goss, Glenn Richard
I Trivette, Daniel Allison Hoots,
Ralph Wolfe, Buford Thomas
Adams, Donald Gene Wooten, Ray
Bob Carter, Hugh Parks Evans,
Perry Luther Wilhelm, Charles
Cecil Melton, James Taylor, James
Albert Hodges. Willie Hugh
■ Ashley, Gorrel Robert Stinson, Jr.,
i James Joshua Couch.
William Lawrence Parker, MacM
itobert Hemric, Mikey Seawood
Fulp, Ralph Roland Wiles, John!
Henry Matthews. 1
Surry Man Is
Named Highway
Commissioner
RAYMOND SMITH
Raymond Smith, of Mount Airy
furniture manufacturer and for
mer state senator, has been nam
ed by Governor Cherry as high
way commissioner for the eighth
district to succeed Virgil D. Quire
of Lenior.
Naming of the Surry mar
marks the first time that the
county has ever been given ar
important highway post.
Governor Cherry also named A
H. (Sandy) Graham, Hillsborc
attorney and a former lieutenant
governor as chairman of the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission.
Both Chairman Graham, Mr
Smith and nine other commis
sioners, five of whom are succeed
ing themselves in office,* were
sworn in Tuesday.
At its final meeting Monday
the retiring board gave its ap
proval to a newly-drawn map ot
a proposed secondary road system
for North Carolina. The system
which, it was said, has been ap
proved by local governing unite
throughout the state, would be
completed over a period of 1(
years and would cover over 6,00C
miles.
All appointments announced
Monday were four-year terms.
C0CKERHAM1S
FREED BY JURY
Yadkin Man Charged With
Assaulting Elkin Officer
Is Found Not Guilty
IS TRIED AT DOBSON
Guy Cocker ham, Yadkin county
man who was charged with resist
ing arrest, and assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill
on the person of Elkin Policeman
T. B. Sams, was found not guilty
of both counts following trial in
Surry superior court at Dobson
last week. The case, which went
to the jury Wednesday afternoon
about 3:30, was decided the next
day at 11:00 a. m. when the jury
reported its verdict.
Cockerham was arrested here
on the night of April 9 at a local
cafe by Officer Sams, who claim
ed the man was drunk, that he
resisted arrest, and that it was
necessary for him to use force tc
arrest him. He claimed that
Cockerham attempted to cut him
with a knife after taking his
blackjack away from him, and
that the knife, in addition tc
nicking his throat, cut a long gash
in the shoulder of his uniform.
According to testimony given at
the trial last week, Cockerham
was in the local cafe drinking
beer when the officer came to the
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Canning: Sugar
Ration Cut To
Only 15 Pounds
Application blanks for can
ning sugar are now available
at the local rationing beard of
fice at the City Hall, Mrs. Roy
Kane, secretary to the board,
said Wednesday.
Mrs. Kane pointed out that
the allotment of canning Bugar
has been reduced from 20
pounds per person, to only 15
pounds, and that only 120
pounds will be allowed per
family unit.
Those wanting canning sug
ar should call at the rationing
office at once and get the
blanks,-which may be filled out
and mailed or carried back to
the board. If their application
is granted, sugar coupons will
be mailed to them, it was said.
Registration for canning
sugar will be permissable
through May.
Berlin Falls To Red Army As
Germans Surrender In Italy;
Truman Believes Hitler Dead
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TOWN ELECTION
MONDAY, MAY 7
Elkin To Vote On Mayor And
Five Commissioners At
Polls At City Hall
FA Cl NO OPPOSITION
Next Monday, May 7, Elkin
voters will have the opportunity
to go to the polls at the city hall
and cast their ballot for a mayor
and board of five commissioners
who were recently nominated at
a town mass meeting, and who
face no opposition insofar as is
known.
Garland Johnson is the candi
date for mayor, while candidates
for commissioners are C. C. Myers,
R. C. Freeman, J. W. L. Benson,
C. N. Myers and Joe Bivins. The
latter three will be new in office,
the other two being candidates to
succeed themselves.
Mr. Johnson is also seeking
election for the first time, and will
succeed J. R. Poindexter, who has
served Elkin as mayor for the
past 10 years.
Registration books for the town
election are at the home of Reg
istar George Chatham, Sr. Sat
urday will be challenge day, with
the books to be at the City Hall.
SCOUT SPEAKER — Harry K.
Eby, national director of volun
teer training, Boy Scouts of
America, will be speaker at a
meeting of leadership training
committeemen from the Elkin
Yadkin, Stokes and Surry dis
tricts of the Old Hickory Coun
cil, to be held here at the YMCA
Friday evening.
ARE TO HEAR
NAT1LEADER
Harry K. Eby, National Scout
Director, To Speak To
Committees
YMCA FRIDAY, MAY 4
Leadership Training Commit
teemen from Elkin-Yadkin, For
syth, Stokes and Surry Districts
of the Old Hickory Council, Boy
Scouts of America, will hear Harry
K. Eby, National Director of Vol
unteer Training, at a meeting in
this city, Friday night, May 4.
Tom Roth, Council Leadership
Training Chairman, will be in
charge of the session, which will
be held at the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Eby is editor of the “Local
Council Exchange,” a national
scout periodical for local council
leaders. He guides the develop
ment of training materials for
use by Training Committees, and
gives training service in all parts
of the country.
Mr. Eby has served in Scouting
since 1923, in Ohio, Illinois and on
the National Staff. While in
Chicago, he supervised 75 courses
where 1,500 scout'- leaders were
trained. .*
Representive attendance is ex
pected from Forsyth District with
Michael Strub as Chairman,
Stokes District with Paul Fulton
in charge, and Surry, with G. K.
Hale, Jr., in charge of attendance
promotion.
Pvt. David Lawrence
Seriously Wounded
Private David Lawrence, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Lawrence,
was seriously wounded in Ger
many on April 17, according to a
message received\ from the War
Department Tuesday. Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence reside at North
Discuss Plans Here
For Day Of Victory
Stores Are To
Close; Services
Will Be Held
At a meeting of local merchants
at the city hall Tuesday morn
ing, it was decided to follow plans
made and announced last fall
as to Elkin’s observance of V-E
Day in Europe, with all stores to
close when the announcement was
flashed to the world.
The following schedule was
worked out to cover the situation
in event the news should come
on certain days or hours:
If the news comes before 1:00
p. m., stores will close immediately
for remainder of the day.
If the news should come after
1:00 p. m., stores will close im
mediately and remain closed also
the following day.
If the news should come on
Saturday evening after stores
have closed for the day, stores
will remain closed Monday.
If news should come on Sunday,
stores will be closed Monday.
If news is received in the morn
ing before store opening hour,
stores will not open for that day.
It was also announced that
thanksgiving services will be held
in' local churches , immediately
after the news is received, and
everyone is urged to go to their
own church at once. However,
should the news come at night
after 10:00 o’clock, church ser
vices will be held the following
morning at 10:Q0 o’clock. Should
the news happen at night prior
to 10:00 o’clock, services will be
held immediately at the churches.
Church bells will ring when the
news is received.
Grocery and drug stores here
will observe the same hours as
other stores unless the news
should happen during the day on
Friday and Saturday. In that
event, they will close for one hour
for the church services, and then
reopen.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing that it is sincerely hoped
that people wili not turn the news
of victory in Europe into an event
for wild celebration, rather that
the day will be observed as a day
of thanksgiving and prayer that
one phase of the war has ended.
Sgt. Rutledge Sends
Tribune A Nazi Flag
Staff Sergeant Bill Rutledge,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rut
ledge, of Yadkinville, the former
publisher of The Yadkin Ripple,
this week sent a Nazi flag to The
Tribune from Germany, where he
is with the American Sixth Army
division.
No message accompanied the
flag, which is about two by three
feet in size and was evidently
made to hang above a doorway
or for other decorative purposes.
Sergant Rutledge also sent a
Nazi flag to his draft board in
Yadkinville, with which was the
following note: “Having wonder
ful time—wish you were here.”
Lieut. John Martin
Is Killed In Action
Lieutenant John Vernon Mar
tin, husband of the former Miss
Prances Darnell, and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Martin, of Pleas
ant Hill, was killed in action in
Germany on March 19, according
to a message received here Fri
day.
Lieutenant Martin was reported
as missing in action on the same
date some time ago, and no other
information has been received un
til last week.
He entered the Army in Novem
ber, 1943 and trained at Port
Knox, Ky., Port Benning, Ga., and
Camp Van Dorn, Miss., before
going overseas in November.
Dr. Beale’s Brother
Wounded In Action
lir. Seth M. Beale was Informed
by the War Department this week
that his brother, Corp. Loyd G.
Beale, United States Marine
Corps, was wounded in action
April l, at Ryuku, Okinawa Isle.
Lieut. Ogburn
Is Killed In
Bomber Crash
LIEUT. R. M. OGBURN
Funeral services for Second
Lieutenant Robert M. Ogburn, 21,
husband of the former Miss Al
gine Neely, of Winsten-Salem, and
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Og
burn, of 101 Surry Avenue, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at
the home of the wife’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Neely, 429
Westover Avenue, Winston - Sa
lem.
Dr. W. A. Stansbury, of Win
ston-Salem, Dr. J. Lem Stokes, il,
and Rev. Stephen Morrisett, both
of this city, officiated. Burial
was in the Salem cemetery.
Pallbearers were C. J. Hyslup
and Russell Johnson, of this city;
Frank Watson, Gene Hill, Carl
and Ralph Ogburn, all of Win
ston-Salem.
Surviving are the widow; his
parents; two sisters, Misses Ella
Jordan and Lucille Ogburn, and
one brother, Richard Ogburn.
Lieutenant Ogburn was killed
in the crash of a two-engine
bomber near Centerville, Term.,
last Thursday morning.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Centerville said the two
bombers collided in midair and
crashed to flaming destruction.
Both planes were from the
Smyrna, Tenn., Army Air Base.
Lieutenant Ogburn was sta
tioned at Smyrna and had been
an instructor there for the past
year. He entered the Army as an
aviation cadet in July, 1943, and
received his wings as a pilot at
Blytheville, Ark., in March, 1944.
Bom and reared in Winston
Salem, Lieutenant Ogburn moved
to this city with his parents five
years ago. He graduated from
Reynolds High School and was a
student at State College when he
entered service.
He was married to the former
Miss Neely, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Neely, February 10,
1945. Mrs. Ogburn was living
with her husband at Murfrees
boro, Tenn., at the time of his
death. His two sisters were visit
ing in their home when the acci
dent occured.
DRAFT STATUS
CHANGES MADE
Large Number Of Men Are
Put In Class 1-A By Surry
No. 2 Draft Board
SOME ARE IN CLASS 4-F
The following classifications of
selective service registrants have
been anounced by Surry county
draft board No. 2 at Dobson:
Class 4-F: Clyde L. Jenkins,
William A. Swift, Odell B. Hod
ges, Amon L. Haynes, Claude B.
Marion, Dotty R. Thompson,
William C. Myers, Edward L.
Wood, Charles T. Jones, Willie E.
Moser.
Class 1-A: James H. Hemric,
Junior F- Martin, Glenn L. At
kins, John F. Noah, James E.
Brown, Delma G, Matthews;
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WORLDDOUBTS
GERMAN REPORT
RIBBENTR? OUT
New German Government Is
Being Formed
PROBABLY ACCEPTABLE
Developments Come Thiek
And Fast As European
War Nears' Climax
DOENTIZ NAMES KROSIGK
News developments from
the European theatre of war
were coming thick and fast
Wednesday afternoon when
the announcement was made
that Berlin had fallen, the
German forces fighting on the
Italian front had surrendered
unconditionally, and that
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz,
who succeeded as head of the
German government after
the announcement that Adolf
Hitler had been killed in the
defense of Berlin, was form
ing a government believed to
be acceptable to the allied
governments for peace nego
tiations.
It was also anounced by
President Truman at a press
conference Wednesday after
noon that insofar as informa
tion now in possession of the
United States government
was concerned, Hitler is act
ually dead.
The surrender of German
troops in Italy came after it
was announced by the allies
that German officers could
surrender their forces to alli
ed commanders in the field.
It is hoped that this anounc
ed policy on the part of the
allies may bring about the
surrender of German units
elsewhere on the continent.
The surrender of the Ger
man Italian forces included
all troops and all naval force
under the German command
on the Italian front.
Few details on the fall of
Berlin were learned other
than Premier Stalin’s an
nouncement that the bitterly
resisting Nazi capital had fal
lan and that the Russian flag
; was flying over the city.
It was also learned that
Admiral Doenitz had ousted
Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop and had appoint
ed Count Ludwig Schwerin,
58-year-old nephew of the
late Kaiser to succeed him.
Sgt. H. R. Southard
Killed In Action
Sergeant Henry R. Southard,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Southard, of Mountain Park, was
killed in action in Germany on
April 18, according to an official
War Department telegram receiv
ed by his parents, Tuesday.
Sergeant Southard was serving
with the 7th Army at the time he
was killed.
Sgt. Sanford White
Killed In Action
Sergeant Sanford White was
killed in action in ..Germany on
April 11, according to an official
War Department telegram to his
wife, the former Miss Rachel
Baucom. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. White, of Dobson,
Route 2. Sergeant White had been
in service for the past '
mid had been servini
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