i > ’ ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina * The Elkin Tribune * ELKIN Gateway To Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 48 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 $2.00 PER YEAR SECTION TWO—8 PAGES .... ——-1 ..- ■ 1 ■JiaffHaw Police Report No Headway In Theft Of Cars Believe Theft Ring Operating In This Area <« No trace has been found of three automobiles which have been stolen here during recent weeks, leading local police to be lieve that the thefts were the work of an organized ring of car thieves, it was learned Wednesday from Chief of Police Corbett Wall. The first automobile to be stolen was taken on the night of October 18 from a parking place on West Main street near the Lawrence Cleaners buulding. The car, a black Ford tudor, the prop erty of Walter C. Metz, of Elkin, was spirited away while Mrs. Metz was attending a movie theatre. Wednesday night of last week two other automobiles were stolen. One, a 1941 Ford Coupe belonging to G. E. Twinning, of South Carolina, was taken from its parking place in front of Ho tel Elkin. The other, a black 1940 Ford, property of Mrs. Bertha Call, of Ronda, was taken from its parking place near the Chat ham Manufacturing Company, where Mrs. Call is employed. One thing which leads police to suspect the thieves of being con nected with an organized gang was the manner in which the Twinning car was taken. It was said that the owner, who had had his car stolen once before in Richmond, Va., had locked the steering wheel and all the doors to his car, and had then discon nected some wires to the motor. However, all these precautions were of no avail. V MASONS STAGE _ LADIES’ NIGHT Local Lodge Entertains At Banquet Meeting Tuesday Night At YMCA J. S. HIATT SPEAKER The wives of Ellon Masons were delightfuflly entertained by their husbands at a banquet at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening when more than fifty couples met to observe ladies’ night. The ladies, before joining the gentlemen who were entering the dining halL from an opposite di rection, were presented red and white carnations by Glenn York and Jack Caudell, members of the program committee. The dinner session was featured with an interesting and humorous address by Rev. J. S. Hiatt, form er presiding elder of the Metho dist church in this district, who used as his topic, “Taffy and Epitaphy.” W. J. Graham, chairman of the program committee, presided over the meeting and gave a hearty welcome to the Masons and their wives attending. C. O. Garland, present Master of the local lodge, was introduced by Mr. Graham, who, in turn, introduced the speaker. A highlight of the program was a duet by Mrs. Ben Adair and Mrs. Maurice Bumgarner, accom panied at the piano by Mrs. Dwayne Irwin. Bingo was enjoyed by the la dies, with Mrs. James Amburn and Mrs. E. E. Shore, Jr., winning prizes. Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Weaver, of Elkin, were honor quests. Past Masters of the Elkin Lodge who were present and rec ognized were: M. C. Whitener, Glenn York, Roy Barker, A. D. Harmon, A. O. Bryan, Hugh Roy all, Abe Harris, O. E. Boles, H. D. Woodruff, R. L. Reinhardt, and Louis Weatherman. Winners Named In Popularity Contest Rosette Boles of Route 1, Elkin, and Joe Golden, of State Road were declared winners in the re cent popularity contest held at Mountain Park school recently. The winners, both ninth grade students in the Mountain Park school, were awarded gifts by that school honoring their popularity Others competing in the contest were Nancy Wall, Bettie Jo Dar nell, Bettie Jean Walker, Ales Wall, Howard Burchett, and Ales Carter. STATE RALEIGH. Oct. 30. — North Carolina’s highway speed limit will become 50 miles per hour beginning tomorrow. The coun cil of state recently adopted the new speed limit to replace the old wartime limit of 35 miles per hour. NATIONAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — President Truman tonight an nounced a new government wage-price policy and stated that industry as a whole can afford to pay higher wages within the present price struc ture. At the same time he warned labor to be “reason able" in its demands. He told the nation in a radio broadcast that labor “has a stern respon sibility to see that demands for wage increases arc reasonable.” At the same time he issued an executive order authorizing Judge John C. Collet, stabiliza tion administrator, to put into effect a basically changed gov ernment wage policy liberaliz ing provisions governing wage increases which previously re quired government approval. Mr. Truman outlined several reasons for his belief “that in dustry as a whole can affofft substantial wage increases without price increases.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — Congressional concern over na tion-wide strikes took positive form today when the house military affairs committee ap proved a bill to repeal the strike vote and plant seizure provisions of the Smith-Con nally law and tighten the sta tutory ban against union poli tical activity. The measure also would impose stiff penalties against a union which struck while, it had a contract con taining a no-strike agreement. The union would be liable for damages in fn