ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 25
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C. THURSDAY. MAY 31, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
SOFTENING OKINAWA—Pin-point bombing by navy bombardiers
sends a tremendous column of smoke skyward from Naha City
dock area in Okinawa prior to the capture of that city. Seventh
War Loan Bonds provide money for bombs with which to blast out
the Japanese. — Official U. S. Navy Photo.
NATIONAL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29.
—The big five held out to mid
dle powers today the right to
take a hand in peace enforce
ment decisions of a new world
league when their armed forces
would be used to prevent war.
There were these additional
developments as the major
powers tried to spur the united
nations conference into a fin
ishing sprint: The American
delegation was reported willing
to back a Norwegian request
that Denmark be admitted as
the 15th nation at this Golden
Gate meeting. Though Russia
has raised some new questions,
assurances were circulated that
final agreement is near among
the great nations on the ques
tion of international trustee
ships. American delegates now
talk informally of completing
the new charter for a new
world league by June 11. The
unofficial goal has been June 6.
INTERNATIONAL
MOSCOW, May 29. — In the
biggest peacetime military
training schedule ever ordered
in the soviet union, thousands
of 15 and 16-year-old boys
from all parts of Russia will be
called up Friday for red army
training, it was announced to
day. The new nation-wide
muster will be a 100 per cent
callup, said Lt. Gen. N. N. Pro
nin, chief of the general train
ing administration of the com
missariat for defense. In an
nouncing the muster, General
Pronin said: “General military
training in the present period
should be conducted on an
even higher level than in the
days of war.” He said that not
a single youth should miss the
muster and called on the young
communist league to aid in the
callup.
CHUNGKING, May 29. —
Chinese troops widened to 120
miles a gaping breach in the
ruptured southern end of Ja
pan’s land bridge to southeast
Asia today and pursued fleeing
enemy forces across South
China toward the French Indo
china border, 93 miles from
«f' the capital city of Hanoi. As
'7 five Chinese battle groups tore
into the Japanese supply cor
ridor from Manchuria to Sing
apore at points along a 900-mile
front across China’s heart, vet
eran Chinese troops battled
within 30 miles of Indo-China
and 123 miles from Hanoi, a
Chinese communique disclosed.
Unconfirmed reports in Chungs
king said the Japanese appar
ently were preparing a new
withdrawal in the central sec
tor of their overland corridor—
this time from Yangtze river
port of Ichang, westernmost
Japanese, bastion in China and
290 miles northeast of Chung
king.
LONDON, May 29. — Dele
gates of 16 nations will start a
three-day secret war crimes
commission meeting Thursday
in the solemn atmosphere of the
high courts building to consid
, er means of catching and
(Continued on page 5, 1st sec.)
CONTINUE CASE
AFTER MOTION
Case Of Harvey Shore Post
poned After Motion Made
To Quash Evidence
HAD ILLEGAL COUPONS
In Federal court at Wilkesboro
last Wednesday afternoon the
trial of Harvey Shore, Yadkin
county man who is charged with
possession of a large number of
counterfeit gasoline and sugar
stamps was continued after de
fense counsel had lodged a motion
to quash the evidence obtained un
der a search warrant which re
sulted in the seizure of 2,460 gal
lons of spurious gasoline coupons
and 18,850 sugar ration coupons.
Defense counsel argued the mo
tion to quash on the grounds that
evidence from a search warrant
could be used only in connection
with an alleged felony and that
under the law possession of
counterfeit ration cuiTency was
not defined as a felony. Judge
Johnson J. Hayes deferred ruling
on the motion, and instructed the
defense and government to sub
mit briefs of contentions within
15 days. Meanwhile, trial of Shore
was continued until the November
term of court in Wilkesboro.
District Attorney Carlisle Hig
gins stated that in the Federal
court term in Greensboro in June
he will send bills of indictment
against Shore of selling gasoline
coupons and will also indict him
for conspiracy to violate ration
laws. These indictments would
be in addition to the two counts
of possession of counterfeit cou
pons. Shore will remain under
bond pending trial in November.
Shore’s wife was sentenced on
charges of possession of counter
feit coupons two weeks ago in
Federal court in Winston-Salem.
She was fined $5,000 and senten
ced to two years in prison but had
not begun the sentence pending
the scheduled trial of her hus
band in Wilkesboro last week.
When the case against her hus
band was continued Judge Hayes
ordered Mrs. Shore into custody.
Prof. Dixon Guest
Speaker At Meeting
Guest speaker at a dinner
session of the Workers’ Council
of the Sunday school of the First
Baptist church Monday evening
at the YMCA, Professor Zeno H.
Dixon contrasted in an interest
ing and enjoyable manner the
Sunday school of the present day
with memories of Sunday schools
in the days of his youth.
Professor Dixon has perhaps
the longest record of regular Sun
day school attendance of any El
kin. citizen, and his talk was
•greatly enjoyed by the attending
officers, teachers and department
al supervisors.
G. L. Hill, president of the Sun
day school, presided. L. F. Walk
er led the devotional. A feature
of the program was a duet by
Miss Mildred Freeman and Miss
Peggy Lineberry, accompanied by
Rev. Stephen Morrisett.
Announcement was made of the
Vacation Biible Slhool scheduled
for June 25-July 6, to be conduct
ed at the First Baptist church.
Tractors may be very danger
ous. Avoid holes and ditches,
drive slowly over rough ground,
and do not attempt to make ad
justments while the machine is in
motion.
Chile’s first railroads were built
In 1850.
Okinawa Fight In Final Phase
Marines Break
Into Japanese
Main Defenses
Guam, May 30. — The 60-day
old Okinawa campaign entered
what may be its final phase today
with a marine break-through into
Shuri, the enemy’s main defense
citadel, and the capture of the
captial city of Naha.
A front dispatch from United
Press War Correspondent E. G.
Valens said the last 25,000 to
35,000 Japanese in southern Oki
nawa appeared to be breaking up
and soon should be split into dis
organized or at least only semi
organized pockets.
“After this happens,’’ Valens
said, “it will obviously be a mat
ter of mopping up.”
Clearing of southern Okinawa
would enable the 10th Army to
turn all its energies to converting
the island into a bristling base
for the promised American inva
sion of Japan, only 330 miles to
the north.
Marines of the First Division
broke into Shuri, keystone and
central anchor of the shattered
Japanese defense line across the
southern tip of Okinawa, in a sur
prise attack from the west yester
day.
The marines advanced 1,100
yards in three hours to the walls
of the shell-battered, fifteen cen
tury Shuri Castle, until midmom
ing yesterday Japanese Army
headquarters and strongest posi
tion on Okinawa.
The thrust was so swift, depsite
hip-deep mud at places, that the
marines surprised Japanese swim
ming in the moat around the
castle
There was no immediate word
whether the marines had entered
the ruins of the castle, but Major
Gen. John R. Hodge, commander
of the 24th Army Corps, jubilant
ly told newsmen:
“I think we’ve got them; I
think the thing is busted now!”
LONELY GRAVE
FOR JIMMLER
Is Unmarked As British Bury
Blanket-Shrouded Body
Of Gestapo Chief
HAD KILLED HIMSELF
Lueneberg, Germany. — The
body of Heinrich Himmler,
wrapped in a gray British Army
blanket, was carted by truck into
a woods near here today and
dumped into a grave spaded out
by three British Tommies.
For two days the body had been
left on the floor of a Lueneberg
villa* where the Gestapo chief
ended his life with poison while
undergoing examination after his
arrest by British authorities.
A senior intelligence officer of
the British Second Army said he
had been told to dispose as he
saw fit of the body of the Nazi
Gestapo Chief, whose private
currency hoard of approximately
$1,000,000 was discovered yester
day hidden under a bam near
Berchtesgaden.
A major and three sergeants
carried out the unceremonious
burial. A soldier who witnessed
the removal said the sergeants
took Himmler’s body by head and
feet, carried it behind the house
where he died and dumped in into
a one-ton truck alongside three
spades.
The body had not been em
balmed and was clad only in a
British Army shirt and the army
blankt he chose to drape about
him when his own clothing was
taken away after his arrest.
The Himmler grave in the
wods, a patch of pines, was not
marked, for the Allies do not want
the Germans to remove the body
or mark the spot with some
monument later.
Some efforts were made to ob
tain a pine coffin of the type used
by the Germans to bury victiiris
of the notorious Belsen concentra
tion camp, but none could be
found.
“Let the worm go - to the
worms,” & Tommy said.
That was the only comment
spoken at the grave.
Dirt was shoveled on the body
and the ground smoothed so as to
leave no trace that it was the
final resting place of one of the
men who strode most heavily
across the Nazi stage.
CLOTHES DRIVE
NETS 8,659 LBS.
Seventy-Five Case Of Ser
viceable Garments Are
Shipped From Elkin
DRIVE IS BIG SUCCESS
(Picture on last page, this section)
The Elkin Kiwanis Club, with
the finfe cooperation of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Lions
Club, Junior Woman’s Club and
the schools and communities of
this area, has shipped 75 cases of
serviceable used clothing to a col
lection point at Asheville for
needy war victims overseas, D. G.
Smith, chairman of the drive
which resulted in the collection of
the clothing, announced Tuesday.
Mr. Smith stated that clothing
collected totalled 8,659 pounds,
and he said the generous re
sponse by those donating the
clothing was sincerely appreciat
ed by all who took part in the
drive. He also stated that the
quality of the used clothing do
nated was remarkably good.
Among those who aided in mak
ing the drive a success in this
section were the schools of Elkin,
Jonesville, North Elkin, Mountain
Park, Zephyr, and Little Rich
mond. The community of State
Road also did an outstanding job
in aiding in the drive, it was said,
and the colored citizens of Elkin
were also most helpful.
The Elkin P.-T. A. assisted in
sorting the clothing after it was
collected.
“It was really a fine display of
cooperation all the way through
on the part of everyone,” Mr.
Smith said.
POOL SCHEDULE
IS ANNOUNCED
To Have Classes For Members
Of All Ages Who Wish
To Learn To Swim
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MAY MAKE CHANGE^
The schedule for the new swim
ming pool at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA, which was opened last
Thursday afternoon, has been an
nounced as follows, beginning
Tuesday, June 5:
~ Learn to swim class, boys 9:30
a. m. to 10 a. m.; girls 10 a. m.
to 10:30 a. m. Classes will be
made up of first 25 in each group
to register.
Grade school boys and girls
10:30 to 11:30 a. m., high school
boys and girls 11:30 a. m. to 12:30
p. m.
Pool closed 12:30 to 2:00 p. m.
Adlut learn to swim class 2:00
to 2:30 p. m.
Adult and high school students
swimming 2:30 to 7:00 p. m.
Adults who wish to learn to
swim but who cannot get in the
2:00 p. m. class should register
request. A night swim class is to
be announced later.
The schedule, as outlined above,
is subject to change, it was said;
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M/Sgt. Earl Queen
To Be Club Speaker
Master Sergeant Earl Queen,
who made a brief but very inter
esting talk at the War Bond show
at the State theatre last Thurs
day evening, will be guest speaker
at the Elkin Kiwanis Club this
evening (Thursday), at the Y. M.
C. A.
Sergeant Queen, who only re
cently was liberated from a Ger
man prison camp, is expected to
bring an interesting message. •
.At.last week’s meeting of the
club, Lieut. Olin King, Jr., trea
sury department speaker, made
an interesting talk concerning his
experiences in the D-Day invas
ion and other campaigns.
T. A. Redmon will be program
chairman for this evening’s meet
ing.
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Alex G. Biggs
Named Head of
Junior Chamber
ALEX G. BIGGS
Alex G. Biggs, treasurer and
general manager of the Elkin
Furniture Company, was elected
president of the .Elkin Junior
Chamber of Commerce Monday
evening at a meeting of the or
ganization at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA. Mr. Biggs will succeed
Hubert Parker.
Other officers elected, to serve
for one year, were: Robert H.
Lankford, Jr., 1st vice-president:
E. E. Shore, Jr., 2nd vice-presi
dent; J. W. Freeman, treasurer;
Homer Edwards, secretary; S. A.
Boose, publication editor. All
officers were elected by acclama
tion.
Four directors elected to the
board of directors to serve for
two' years were Claude Farrell,
Vern Chase, Dr. V. W. Taylor and
Graham Myers. Other directors
of the club are John T. Kennedy,
Dr. Seth M. Beale, Charles Pop
lin and Ted Brown.
The club will hold its installa
tion4 of officers June 25. New
officials will begin their respec
tive duties beginning July 1.
Sgt. Gilmer Dockery
Wounded In Action
Staff Sergeant Gilmer M. Dock
ery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Dockery, of Rusk, was wounded
in action in Austria on April 30,
according to an official War De
partment telegram to his par
ents. *
Sergeant Dockery has received
the Purple Heart for his wounds,
and is also the holder of the
prized Combat Infantryman’s
Badge. He has been serving ov
erseas since September, 1944, and
is a member of General Patton’s
Third Army.
Paul Price To
Assist At Camp
Paul Price, Scoutmaster of lo
cal Boy Scout Troop No. 48, will
be assistant director at Camp
Lasater this summer, according to
an announcement made by the
Old Hickory Council, of Winston
Salem.
Mr. Price has had four years of
experience in Scouting. He now
holds a life rank and is working
on his Eagle rating.
Under his leadership Troop 48
has advanced rapidly, the council
executive said. He is the type of
man who believes in emphasis
upon the "Outing in Scouting”
and provided his boys with many
happy experiences outdoors, the
executive added.
Mr. Price is a department head
with Chatham Manufacturing Co.,
here.
Four Receive Minor
Hurts In Accident
Henry Dameron, of Elkin, and
two of his children, Betty and
James, and Dallas DeBorde, re
ceived minor injuries in an auto
mobile accident on North Bridge
street extension Wednesday morn
ing when the pick-up truck Mr.
Dameron was driving struck a tel
ephone pole near the entrance of
Hawthorne Road.
The accident was caused by a
drag link on the truck coming
loose. Fortunately the truck was
traveling at a slow rate of speed
when the accident occurred.
AH of the occupants were given
first aid at Hugh Chatham Me
morial hospital.
ELKIN FINALS
BEGIN SUNDAY
Rev. Stephen Morrisett, Of
Elkin, Is To Preach
Commencement Sermon
DR. WEAVER SPEAKER
Commencement exercises of the
Elkin High School will get under
way at the Elkin elementary
school auditorium Sunday even
ing, June 3, at 8:30 o’clock with
the commencement sermon to be
delivered by Rev. Stephen Morri
sett, pastor of the Elkin First
Baptist Church.
On Monday, June 4, Senior
Class Day exercises will be held
in the auditorium at 10:30 a m.,
to be followed Tuesday evening at
8:30 by the graduation exercises
at which 38 graduates will receive
their diplomas. The commence
ment address will be delivered by
Dr. C. C. Weaver, Sr., superinten
dent of Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital. Diplomas will be pre
sented by Superintendent J. Mark
McAdams.
Miss Hazel Holcomb is saluta
torian, and Miss Marcella Hayes
valedictorian of this year’s senior
class.
Commencement marshals will
be Maxine Ludwig, chief; Ketchel
Adams, David Lee Fletcher, Mar
tha Harris and Christine Hayes.
Mascots are Vicki Mayberry and
Johnny Stokes.
Members of the senior class
who will graduate are: Betsy
Click, Inez Caudle, Beulah Yates,
Lucille Swaim, Wilma Holbrook,
Louise Freeman, Gloria Milan,
Betty Jo Eidson, Frances Hemric,
Marcella Hayes, Alene Byrd, Sue
King, Hazel Holcomb, Douglas
Brendle, Bobby Long, Tom Park
er, George Littman, Charles Dock
ery, Leo Collins, Sarah Jones,
Wanda Lee Jackson, Ruby Ab
sher, Viola Roberts, Rachel Cau
dill, Helen Reynolds, Joyce Royall,
Mildred Walker, Louise Harpe,
Mary Frances Gentry, Mary Gale
Price, Lorine Baker, Jean Steele,
Sam Johnson, Joe Hinshaw, Tom
Garland, James Lillard, Bill Guy
er and Edsel Whittington.
ANNOUNCE BEEF
PAYMENT PLAN
Payment Rate To Be 50c Per
Hundredweight For Good,
Choice Cattle
MUST WEIGH 800 POUNDS
Announcement of the Beef Pro
duction Payment Program by the
War Food Administration, effec
tive May 19, 1945, has been re
ceived by J. A. Tilley, chairman,
•Surry County AAA Committee.
In explaining the program, the
AAA leader pointed out that the
payment rate will be 50 cents per
hundredweight for good and
choice cattle owned and fed by
the applicant at least 30 days
prior to selling. “Cattle are re
quired to weigh 800 pounds (live
weight) or more, and to be sold
to a licensed slaughterer,” he ad
ded.
“Payments will probably be
made similar to payments earned
under the Dairy Production Pay
ment Program and cattlemen are
urged to keep accurate records of
sales,” Mr. Tilley declared.
“Cattlemen will be furnished
complete information relative to
details of the program as soon as
it is received by the Surry County
AAA Committee,” he concluded.
Firemen Answer
Two Alarms Here
—Two fire alarms, neither ser
ious, were answered by the Elkin
Fire'Department in the past few
days.
The first alarm was an auto
mobile on West Market street last
Saturday afternoon. Damage
was confined to upholstery of the
rear seat and back.
The second alarm, turned in
late Monday night, was at the
Victory Cafe, on West Main
street. Heavy smoke from a
chimney gave the impression that
the roof was on fire and the
alarm was turned in before it
was learned all the fire was in
the cafe stove.
Sale Of E-Bonds In
Elkin Up To Present
Date Total $138,581
A
After Wreck,
Stop Lights To
Burn Sundays
Two automobiles were dam
aged but their occupants were
uninjured when cars operated
by Miss Lois McKnight, of Elk
in, and Edworth Snow, also of
this section, crashed Sunday at
the intersection of East Market
street and Gwyn Avenue at the
end of the Hugh Chatham
Bridge.
Following this accident,
which occurred when the traf
fic light at the intersection was
not burning, town officials de
cided to leave all traffic lights
operating on Sundays as well
as week-days, Corbett Wall,
chief of police, said Wednesday.
The accident marked the
second wreck at this intersec
tion in the past few months
while lights were off. Luckily,
no one has been injured to
date.
FINALS FRIDAY
AT NORTH ELKIN
W. M. Allen Is To Deliver
Graduation Address,
Lewis Announces
TO PRESENT DIPLOMAS
Graduation exercises will be
held at the North Elkin school
Friday evening at 8 o’clock, ac
cording to an announcement by
the principal, Paul G. Lewis. W.
M. Allen, Elkin attorney, will de
liver the graduation address.
Valedictorian of the class Is
Miss Loretha Dula, and saluta
torian is Parks A. Roberts.
The following students wiil re
ceive their diplomas at that time:
Polly Adams, Mary Lou Blevins,
J. D. Beulin, Annice Collins, Mel
rose Cooper, Loretha Dula, Alvin
Eldridge, Ann Eldridge, Bobby
Lee Hayes, Blenda Hinson, Ber
nard Jackson, Lubeth Layell, De
lon Layne, Wyman Lindley, Roger
Maines, Betty Lou Mickle, Don
ald Miller, Edith Miller, Mary
Lou Miller, Bobby Nance, Viola
Park, Parks A. Roberts, Peggy
Royall, Jack Sloop, Mae Weath
erman. Nettie Wiles and Ruth
Yates.
ARE TO LIMIT
TOBACCO SALES
New Marketing Plan Will
Hold Volume To 1,400
Piles Of Leaf Daily
SELLING PERIOD IS SET
A new marketing procedure for
the sale of leaf tobacco designed
to prevent congestion in redrying
plants by limiting daily sales vol
umes throughout the flue-cured
belt, has been adopted unani
mously by warehouse -groups and
tobacco buying interests.
Announcement of the adoption
of the plan was announced Mon
day.
Daily market sales will be lim
ited by the agreement to a total
of 1,400 piles on all belts except
Georgia-Florida, where the max
imum sales volume will be 1,800
piles. A tolerance of not more
than 15 piles will be allowed,
hgwever, if necessary to prevent
stopping in the middle of a crop.
Selling hours on all flue-cured
belts will be liimted to three and
one-half hours a day except in
the Georgia-Florida belt, where
four and one-half hours will be
allowed. The average rate of
speed in selling has been set at
400 piles an hour, and piles will
contain a maximum of 250 pounds
a pile.
Warehousemen have agreed,
that they will consent to modifi
cations of the plan to meet any
emergency if the plan should re
sult in overall sales beyond the
capacity of the redrying plants to
handle them.
THEY still die! — Will YOU buy?
E-Bond Quota
For Surry Over
Half Million
First announcement of sales in
Surry county during the Seventh
War Loan, with figures complete
and official up to Saturday, May
26, show overall sales standing at
$521,697.00, it was learned Wed
nesday from J. F. Yokley, of
Mount Airy, Surry chairman.
E-Bond sales, Mr. Yokley said,
were $224,000.00. Figures were
released by the Federal Reserve
Bank at Richmond.
E-Bond sales for Elkin and vi
cinity up to Tuesday evening to
talled $138,581.25, it was learned
from Miss Mattie Mae Powell, co
chairman of the .local drive. Many
of the Bonds represented in this
figure are not included in the
Federal Reseiwe figures.
With an E-Bond quota of $756,
000, and an overall quota of $1,
432,000, there still remains a long
way to go before Surry reaches its
goal, however Bond officials be
lieve that all quotas will be reach
ed or topped before the drive
ends.
Over $6,000 in Bonds were sold
at the War Bond show held at the
State Theatre here last Thursday
evening, although no special ef
fort was made to sell Bonds at the
time. Response to the doorknock
er drive the following Friday ev
ening was described as good.
The War Bond show, featuring
an amateur show and fashion
show was attended by approxi
mately 1,000 people. Winners in
the amateur show were Gene Hall,
of Elkin, and Kay Wells, Jones
ville school girl. Both were
awarded $25.00 War Bonds. Win
ner of first prize in the fashion
show, a $25.00 War Bond, went to
Mrs. Elizabeth McNeil Calloway,
of Elkin. Second prize of $5.00 in
War Stamps went to Mi’s. Nancy
Moseley Partin, also of this city.
Judges were heads of Elkin civic
organizations.
Interesting features of the show
were talks by Master Sergeant
Earl Queen, of Elkin, recently lib
erated from a German prison
camp, and Lieut. Olin King, Jr.,
treasury department speaker, who
took part in the D-Day invasion
and other major campaigns.
YADKINSHERIFF
HAS KEEN NOSE
Solves Puzzling Case Result
ing In Apprehending
Soldier At Camp
IS HELD BY THE ARMY
Yadkinville, May 29.—(Special)
—Sheriff A. L. Inscore says it
takes a lot of work plus a detective
sense to get your man sometimes,
and in a recent case it certainly
worked out for the sheriff.
On the night of May 7th the
service station at northwest com
er of the square operate'd by Hugh
Sprouse was entered when some
one simply smashed in a side
window and crawled in. They
took gas coupons good for 1,000
gallons of gas and a few small
articles.
The sheriff was stumped. It
looked like a deadened case. He
ran down several clues and fol
lowed up several rumors without
result. Then he heard something
that put him thinking. He heard
that Pvt. Wilbert Harrison, sta
tioned at Camp Croft, S. C., had
visited his parents over the week
end and carried his car back to
camp with him. Harrison had
been charged with such crimes
before entering the army. Thurs
day he wrote the commanding of
ficer at Camp Croft his suspicions
and asked the officers help in in
vestigating. Friday a major at
the camp called Sheriff Inscore
and told him they were holding
Harrison; that they had found
the coupons on him and that he
had confessed the breaking and
entering.
The officer told the sheriff to
send certain affidavits to him im
mediately and they would try him
by court martial. The affidavits
were forwarded at once. Thus
the sheriff’s crime nose had led
him in the right direction.
The result of the trial had not
been learned r- we go to press.