THE ROANOKE WORLD-NEWS, ROANOKE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27, 1942 FIVE Plane Spotters Maj. Elliott Directs Work Of 600 Posts Important Part of Protective Set-up By CARTER LOWANCE visable. Enlisted in 1918 RICHMOND (AP)-Twenty-four hours a day from hundreds of observation posts in Piedmont and Tidewater Virginia come telephone reports on movements of planes over those sections of the State. These observation stations, the "first line of defense" against a surprise enemy attack, are manned by thousands of volunteers organized into the Virginia aircraft warning service by Major W. Glenn Elliott, a World war ambulance driver.
Major Elliott, known to practically all American Legionnaires in the State as department adjutant since August 12, 1928, was made director of the aircraft warning service May 25, 1941, and has seen the service grow from a paper organization to an integral part of the army's air protective set-up. Some 600 posts in eastern Virginia theate in operation and others in western part of the State will be activated later on. On the information provided by these spotters might safety of thousands of Virginians. The observation posts' reports are passed on to the army's interceptor command, which takes whatever precautionary steps that appear ad- Major Elliott, a native of Glade Spring, Washington county, left the flour milling business with his father, George Martin Elliott, to enlist in the army on his 21st birthday, May 29. 1918.
He served at Fort and Camp Crane, Allentown, before going overseas as an ambulance driver in the 330th Ambulance company of the 83rd division. He was discharged at Camp March 5, 1919. After the war he returned to Abingdon to engage in the wholesale grocery business and then came to Richmond the legion's department adjutant. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve corps in 1929 and for a number of years was secretary and treasurer of the Richmond chapter of Reserve Officers association and procurement officer for Richmond and Henrico for the Citizens Military Training camps. In March, 1941, he was commissioned captain in the Virginia Protective Force as assistant personnel officer and assigned to the staff of Brigadier General E.
E. Goodwyn. He was promoted to major Jan. 2, 1942, and at present is acting personnel officer. Major Elliot is a member of the Methodist church, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Legion.
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lahassee, State Bankers Open Meeting Here June 4th Built on the theme "Banking for Victory" and described as a "vital program with a the 49th annual convention of the Virginia Bankers association will open here Thursday evening, June 4 with registration at Hotel Roanoke, official headquarters. tion, Principal to be held meetings June of 5 the and 6, conven- will feature discussions on five subjects which constitute the necessity steps to be taken in attaining the top rung of the victory ladder from the viewpoint of banking institutions. The convention will be "traditionally symbolic of the spirit and desire of Virginia banks to fit adequately for the themselves, they must execute expertly during the war emergency." The Thursday program will start at 7 p. m. with the past president's dinner in Virginia Room of Hotel Roanoke, Franklin Lenz, V.
B. will preside. At 9 p. m. executive council will meet in the private dining room.
The convention will be called to order at 9:30 a. m. Friday. The invocation will be given by Dr. Richard S.
Owens, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church. President Lenz will address the meeting and announce committees on resolutions and nomination of officers. First step in climbing the victory ladder, headed "Financing the will be a talk by Dr. E. A.
Kincaid, economist Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Dr. Kincaid will trace "The Trend of War telling of the implications of the war debt and its liquidation in post-war years. At 11:15 there will be a panel discussion of "Taxation, Government Bonds and War Leader will be J. Harvie Wilkinson, vice-president of the State Bank and Trust company, Richmond.
At p. three luncheon sessions will open simultaneously. Meeting in the railroad room, east will be a group under George T. Ellis, chairman of the committee on trusts. A luncheon discussion of consumer credit problems in Virginia with William M.
Early, chairman of the amortization discount committee, presiding will be held in the railroad room, west. The main ballroom will be the scene of a general luncheon discussion on the topic "Function of a Bankers Association in Wartime." Lenz will be discussion leader. Second rung in the victory ladder, "Food for Freedom" will be approached at 3 p. featuring consideration of bankings interest and participation in the financing of the food-for-freedom program and banking procedure in building and maintaining sound banker-farmer relations. C.
T. O'Neill, chairman of the committee on agriculture, will preside. Adjournment of the V. B. A.
session for Friday will take place at 4:15 p. m. to be followed by convening of Virginia members of the American Bankers association. C. Francis co*cke, vice-president of the A.
B. A. for Virginia, will preside over the election of A. B. A.
officers and discussion of A. B. A. activities as related to the work of the V. B.
A. Contrary to previous custom, there will be no banquet and ball, but at 7 p. m. Friday, delegates and their guests will gather in the ballroom of the Hotel Roanoke for a dinner and dance which will be informal. The dinner program will be featured by an address by Dave E.
Satterfield, representative in Congress from Virginia's third district. Reconvening at 9 a. m. Saturday will be followed by "Production and Consumer Finance." the third step of the victory ladder. A panel discussion, under the leadership of William M.
Early, cashier of the Bank of Salem, will consider consumption in both defense and nondefense areas. T. P. Parsley, vicepresident of the Morris Plan Bank branch in Roanoke will be on the panel. At 10 a.
m. "Wartime Banking," the fourth ladder will be featured by a panel discussion of wartime banking operations and problems. Panel leader will be Giles H. Miller, cashier of the Culpeper National Bank. A "board of experts." answering and discussing questions submitted to it, will be on hand at 11:15 a.
m. on an "Information Please" basis. Members of the audience will ask the questions. C. Francis co*cke, president of the First National Ex- Private Craft To Chase Subs Navy Rounding Up Every Boat Available NEW YORK (AP) -Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commanding the eastern sea frontier, says enemy submarines in Atlantic coastal waters are in for even more trouble than the navy is now giving them.
Some have been sunk, others have been chased off and the rest soon will be harassed not only by the navy but by an offshore fleet of private craft taken over by the navy, he said yesterday. Disclosing that the navy was making every effort to round up a fleet of such boats to seek out and report the position of undersea raiders and also to insure prompt rescue of crews from ships attacked, the admiral said: "We have combed the coast for every yacht or other ship with the stability and speed to mount guns or use depth bombs. Every such ship is now in service or being equipped for service. "On the eastern sea frontier sinkings have been drastically reduced in the last six weeks. Very few ships have been sunk that have followed my directions on using the coastal sea lanes.
Making It Hot for Subs "And while I can't tell you about the submarines we've sunk, I can say we've made some very good shots. We have a slogan here: 'If you hear of a submarine or know you get where is, keep after him until he, "We've been making it so hot for them that some of them have gone to the Gulf (of He pointed out that navy-announced sinking of vessels in the Atlantic, while generally referred to as "off the coast," in reality included ships attacked a thousand miles or more at sea, and said this led to misapprehension as to losses in coastwise traffic. Disarmament a Dream, Says Gov. Darden HAMPDEN-SYDNEY (AP)-Governor Colgate W. Darden, speaking at the 166th commencement exercises at college yesterday, declared that "only behind armed forces can we ever hope to be secure and to have peace beyond the length of a The governor, who received an honorary degree of doctor of laws at exercises after his speech, said "the theory of world-wide disarmament, in our generation at least, is unworkable and unsound." He expressed the belief the war would not be short.
"We have before us exacting years, but if we are to survive, this country must pay the price and however long the struggle may be, I hope you leave this quiet and secluded institution with the determination to see it through." Bernard Ashby McIlhany, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Cape Girardeau, received the degree of doctor of divinity, James Waddell Gordon, attorney, received the degree of doctor of laws, and Carl W. Broman, professor of music at Mary Baldwin and HampdenSydney colleges, received the degree of doctor of music. Eighty members of the senior class received degrees. Maybe They Don't Have Time for Bridge WASHINGTON -Either people don't have time to play cards as much nowadays or else they make a deck last longer. Treasury collections on playing cards, which are taxed 13 cents a deck, have been declining recently.
Card taxes in April, the last month for which figures are available, were $543,000, while in April last year, when the tax was 11 cents la pack, they were $561,000. www KNOX Ain-Cool transparent lightness "HANOKI" One of the most amazing of all straw hats so open in weave, so light yet so durable and shape-holding. Now in the new Knox flarebrimmed, rakish-crowned expression, and in both natural tones and tints. Smartest with brightcolored, patterned band. Other Knox Straws $3.50 up Glenn -Minnich's Clothes for Young Men and Men Who Stay Young.
108 W. Campbell Ave. Andrew Lewis High School's Championship Debate Team (Photo by Mac Green.) Andrew Lewis high school debating activities for the year were climaxed with the capture of the Virginia State class forensic championship by this affirmative team in a finals contest with Jefferson high school's negative in the Virginia Literary and Athletic league at Charlottesville. Composing the team were Broaddus Chewning, Mary F. Parris, and Tom Weir, left to right, while George O.
Thompson, at extreme right, was their coach. T. C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. or 1802 Staunton N. who enthe army last Ocis stationed at TalFla. Corporal Joe Boitnott, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Boitnott, of Rocky Mount, has returned to his station, at Fort Benning, after visiting in Rocky Mount and Roanoke. Roland S.
Gilley, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gilley, of 212 Broad street, Salem, is spending a furlough with his parents. He will return to his ship on Saturday.
Registrants of County Area 2 Published below are a few more registrants (age 20 to 44) of Roanoke has jurisdiciton over the Town of of the serial number assignments of County Board No. 2. The board Vinton, Big Lick and Catawba districts. 629-George Clifford Manuel, 112. Court Roanoke.
T- 630-Joseph Newton McVey, 18 Oakland Wm. Roanoke. T- 631-Frank Wesley Jenrette, 401 Blair Vinton. T- 632-Lewis Columbus Estes, RFD 5, Box 759, Roanoke. T- 633-Roy Manley Blankenship, RFD 5, Box 753, Roanoke.
T- 634-Albert Chastine Harris, Halliahurst Vinton. T- 635-Willie Edward Prillerman, Catawba Sanatorium. T- 636-Charles Preston Brumfield, P. O. Box 925, Roanoke.
T- 637-Earl Leon Jones, 209 W. Cleveland Vinton. T- 638-John W. Kelley, RFD 2, Vinton. T- 639-Dinwiddie Oakey Parker, RFD 2, Box 427, Roanoke.
T- 640-Harman Lee Smith, Star Route, Salem. T- 641-William Rosser Crafton, RFD 2, Vinton. T- 642-Levi Warren Taylor, RFD 1, Roanoke. T- 643-Fred Bennett Caudle, RFD 1, Box 321, Roanoke. T- 644-Harman Paul Walter, 2221 Wm.
Roanoke. T- 645-Lawrence Frederick Hannabass, Box 250, Rt. 6, Roanoke. T- 646-Jacob Alfred Peters, RFD, 1, Hollins Rd. T- 647-Edward Thomas Gray, RFD 6, Box 271, Roanoke.
T- 648-Matthew Landon Basham, 2601 Sunrise Wm. Roanoke. 649-William Thomas Evans, RFD 1, Roanoke. T- 650-Ramon Joshua Howell, Rt. 1, Vinton.
T- 651-James Samuel Butterworth, 437 Dale Vinton. T-652-George William Rife, RFD 6, Box 224, Roanoke. T- 653-Robert Guy McFalls, Rt. 3, Roanoke. T- 654-Jackson Claude Summers, RFD 3, Box 401, Roanoke.
655-John William Crouch, 314 Pine Vinton. T- 656-Lenwood Norris Smith, 315 E. Jefferson Vinton. 657-Stephen Chester Hampton, Rt. 2, Box 403B, Roanoke.
T- 658-Otha Thomas Yates, RFD 6 Box 306AA, Roanoke, T-650 -Charles Dallas Moody, RFD 2, Box Vinton. 171, Roanoke. 660-Harry Patterson Newman, T- 661-John Ralph Dooley, Vinton. T- 662-Ernest Benjamin Parker, 327 Jefferson Vinton. T- 663-Robert E.
Lee Morris, Fugate Road, Roanoke. T- 664-Macon Lavern Stinette, Rt. 3, Box 130, Roanoke. T- 665-William Raymond Jones, 1934 Carter Wm. Rd.
change Bank, Roanoke, will act as interrogator. Election and installation of association officers and the presentation and adoption of resolutions will feature the inaugural luncheon. top rung of the victory for banking ladder, "Preparing for Tomorrow" will be reached at 2:45 p. m. with an address "'The Value and Functions of a State Banking Board" by Edward W.
Wayne, secretary North Carolina Bankers' association. A talk will be made by James S. Easley entitled "The Future Services and Functions of Banks." Mr. Easley is an attorney of South Boston and a past president of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. The convention will adjourn at 4:30 p.
m. At 5 p. m. the executive council will meet in the private dining room to gather in loose ends and consider the 1943 meeting. D.
P. Hylton, trust officer of the Colonial-American National bank, is the only Roanoke member of the council. Roanokers serving on V. B. A.
committees include: C. Francis co*cke, president of the First National Exchange bank, on the committee on Federal Legislation and Fifth Virginia Bankers' Conference committee. John H. Matthews, executive vice president First National Exchange bank, committee on Banking Education and Public Relations. George T.
Ellis, trust officer, First National Exchange bank, chairman, committee on trusts. R. B. Adams, trust officer, Mountain Trust bank, committee on trusts. Homer S.
Peck, cashier ColonialAmerican National bank, committee on safe deposit activity. Alexander Donnan, assistant vice president First National Exchange bank, committee on amortization. Members of local committees: aiding with the convention are: C. W. Beerbower, chairman of the registration committee, aided by Misses Mary Dickson, Elsie Hartwell and Kathleen Roberts.
W. L. Brown, Salem, chairman cf the entertainment committee assisted by E. H. Ould and R.
B. Adams. Mrs. Grover C. Holcomb, chairman of the ladies' bridge committee.
Members of the committee include: Mrs. J. Sinclair Brown, Salem, Mrs. C. Francis co*cke, Roanoke; Mrs.
W. M. Early, R. G. Gunn, Mrs.
T. P. Parsley and Mrs. H. G.
Robertson, Roanoke. Sugar Substitute? Try Sorghum RICHMOND (AP)-The so-called "long sweetening" which Virginians of the Civil War days used in their coffee in place of sugar be used again next winter, L. M. Walkmay, er, commissioner of agriculture, says. Walker explained that the "sweetening" was sorghum molasses, made corn-like plant which is still grown in many counties.
Walker said that Virginia's sorghum crop this year may be less than it has been in past years because many of the former operators of truck farms have been drawn away to military service or defense work. However, enough is planted to "materially aid" the sugar supply, Walker asserted. Chivalry Is Revived Police of Buenos Aires, Argentina, nave been instructed to use "specially vigorous measures" with anyone who insults a lady. House Gives Approval to Wire-Tapping Bill By W. F.
ABROGAST WASHINGTON (AP) -The FBI and the army and navy intelligence services would be empowered to tap telephone lines and other communications sources. any they suspected offense against the national security under legislation approved yesterday by the House and sent to the Senate. And if they obtained some damaging evidence by this method, they could use it in court. Republicans and Democrats alike argued the necessity of the measure to combat subversive activities. One of its chief supporters, Rep.
Hobbs told the House the Judiciary committee knew positively that "there would have been no Pearl Harbor attack" had the legislation been in effect prior to December 7, 1941. The judiciary committee called to the attention of the House an excerpt from the report of the Roberts commission the Pearl Harbor attack citing the difficulties government agents encountered in following Japanese activities in Hawaii prior to last December 7. The contents of messages sent to Lost Four Days in Desert After spending four days lost in the desert, O. E. Lynds of Te Whaiti, New Zealand, was found near death by 80 Home Guardsmen and pig hunters, who had serched over three days.
The More Money We Raise--the Less War's Blaze! Tokio by the Japanese consulate at I Honolulu "might have furnished valuable information" if they could have been learned, the commission reported, but because of restriction on the activities of investigation agencies "they were unable xx to and examine messages transmitted, the through Japanese commercial consul or chan- by persons acting for him." In overwhelmingly approving the bill, the House reversed its stand of last summer when it rejected a similar proposal on the ground it might lead to and invasions of privacies guaranteed by the bill of rights. Previously it had ex- I pressly decreed, in the 1934 communications act, that no unauthorized person may intercept any communication and divulge its contents. In reversing itself, the House limited the effective period of the new legislation to six months after the end of the war, unless terminated by Congress or presidential decree. STILL GOING STRONG NEW YORK-Mel Ott has played 2,200 games with the New Giants in years. He has hit safely 2,199 times, manufactured 422.
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Investigators are ranging the five Southeastern States which come under the rationing program, he said yesterday. Strauss asserted there were some inequities in the program, and asked the public to remember that it was an essential emergency plan. Residents of Georgia and other States served pipelines, he said, should remember that their States are not the only ones in restricted zone depending on lines the for fuel. The regional administrator maintained that to equalize the distribution of gasoline it was necessary to limit stations to 50 per cent of their normal supply, an action which has brought a complaint from State Auditor B. E.
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