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North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXII, No. 20
Funeral For Walter Sale Is Held
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Tuesday; Negro Killer Is Arrested
and Held In Surry Jail At Dobson
LOCAL MAN IS SHOT
THROUGH THE HEART
AT FILLING STATION
Tal Dowell, Winston
Negro, Is Identified
By Witnesses
HEARING TUESDAY
Funeral services for Walter Sale,
local man who was shot and killed
at a Nortk Elkin filling station Sun
day night about 9:30 o'clock, were
conducted Tuesday at 11 o'clock
from Pleasant Ridge Methodist
church. Revs. Richard Day and
Ernest Ward, the latter of Madison,
officiated. Interment was made in
the church cemetery.
Sale was shot through the heart
by Tal Dowell, Winston-Salem Ne
gro, who is now being held in jail
at Dobson awaiting a preliminary
hearing on a charge of murder. He
was arrested in Winston-Salem early
Monday morning by Winston-Salem
police and held for Surry county of
ficers.
According to those who witnessed
the tragedy, the shooting occurred
after words had passed between
Sale and the Negro. It was said
that Sale and companions had stop
ped at the filling station and were
standing around when the car con
taining the Negro drove up. Due to
the manner in which two cars were
parked it was necessary for the Ne
«eo tain lai ShMfrwin the m to I
the gasoline pump, where he gave
Instructions to put five gallons of
gas in the tank.
It was said that in putting the
gasoline into the car's tank that it
overflowed and that the Negro
alighted to see what was the mat
ter. It was at that point that Sale,
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I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
3 More Banks Open
Raleigh, March 21.—Commis
sioner tiurney P. Hood late to
night announced the state banking
department, had licensed three
more state banks to reopen to
morrow for unrestricted business.
The institutions were the Citi
zens Bank and Trust company, of
Hanford; the Bank of Rowland, at
Rowland and the Deposit and Sav
ings bank of North Wilkesboro.
Banker Arrested
New York, March 21.—Charles
R. Mitchell, resigned board chair
man of the National City bank,
was arrested at his Fifth avenue
home tonight on a federal war
rant charging wilful attempt to
defeat and evade the income tax
law. He posted 910,000 bond
and was released.
Plans Shake-up
Washington, March 21. —A
thorough house-cleaning for the
labor department by the new sec
retary, Miss Frances Perkins, has
swept away almost at a single
stroke most of the immigration in
spectors, and, she indicated today,
this is only the beginning of a
general reorganization.
Relief Plaii
Washington, March 21 .——Con
gress turned to work tonight on a
broad employment and relief pro
gram submitted by President
Roosevelt for the marshalling of
immediate Jobs for about 250,000
men in the nation's forests.
Commits Suicide
Chapel Hill, March 21.—Dr.
Brie Alonao Abernethy, former
physician at the University of
North Carolina, shat and killed
himself at his home here tonight.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Scenes From Heart of Earthquake Zone
Here arc photon from the heart of the earthquake zone which took
110 lives and did damage to property estimated at 950,000,000 in the Los
Angeles area of Southern California. Photo No. 1 shows, a street scene in
Coinpton were 20 persons were killed by the collapse of building; No. 2,
shows the ruins of a high school building in Long Beach, the town con
sidered the quake's epicenter and where lives were lost; No. 8, shows
homeless and penniless* refugees being fed by the U. S. Marines at Long
Beach.
HILLARY SPANN IS
BARRED FROM SURRY
Must Keep Out of Coun
ty For Two Years or
Serve Sentence
Hillary Spann, local white man,
faces a sentence of 12 months on the
roads if he should be found in Surry
connty within the next two years,
or if he should break any law or
fail to provide for his family. Judge
Harry H. Barker ruled in recorder's
court Tuesday when Spann faced the
court on charges of possession of
whisky, drunk and disorderly, as
sault and public nuisance.
Spann was arrested on a warrant
sworn out by his parents-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Miller, of Elkin.
According to Mrs. Miller's testi
mony, Spann, who with his wife and
four children had been living with
them, struck her when she told him
he would have to get out and find
another place to live. She also
testified that the defendant was fre
quently drinking and "raised a good
deal of commotion."
Spann was given 48 hours to get
out of Surry county.
Spradlin 111
Due to an illness which necessita
ted an operation, W. H. Spradlin,
receiver of the Elkin National Bank,
has been unable to be at bin Elkin
office during the paßt few weeks
and psobably will be forced to re
main away during the next two
wdbkf, It has been learned from
Sam Roee, Mr. Spradlin'* assistant.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933
10TH ANNIVERSARY
PROGRAM IS HELD
Walter R. Schaff Is
Named As Secretary !
Of Kiwanis Club
A special anniversary program,
marking the 10th anniversary of the
local Kiwanis club, was staged at
the weekly meeting of the club at
Hotel Elkin Friday night. The pro
gram was under the direction of Ki
wanian A. O. Bryan.
Mr. Bryan dug into the old re
cords of the organization, disclosing
many interesting facts connected
with the founding. He disclosed that
the original membership was ovfcr
60 members, of which some have
died, some have moved away and
others have dropped from the club
roster.
A feature of the program came
when charter members were re
quested to make brief, talks upon
"What Kiwanis Has Meant to Me."
Following the regular meeting a
directors meeting was held to choose
a successor as secretary to C. G.
Armfield, now in the newspaper
business in North WUkesboro. Wal
ter R. Schaff, program chairman,
was given this responsible post.
It was also decided by the direc
tors to have the secretary keep the
minutes of each meeting,, a practice
that heretofore had not been ob
served.
8 DEAD, MANY HOMELESS
The second flood within a week
rolled relentlessly down the broad
Ohio river Monday night, pouring
yellow water into more than a score
of towns and cities and over many
thousand acres of lowlands in four
states.
NORTH ELKIN HOME
COMPLETELY RAZED
BY FIRE TUESDAY
Flames Originate From
Faulty Kitchen Chim
ney; Save Furniture
HOUSE INSURED
Fire, whipped into a raging in
ferno by a strong March wind, short
ly after noon Tuesday completely
destroyed the home of Sid Huds
peth, resident of North Elkin, and
for a short while threatened to
branch out and destroy another
home located just north of the burn
ing structure.
The flames originated, it is
thought, from the kitchen chimney,
igniting in the space between the
kitchen ceiltng and the roof and
burning for sometime before its
presence was known.
Although the local fire depart
ment reached the scene before the
flames had spread to any consider
able extent, due to the lack of wa
ter (the home was beyond the city
mains), it was powerless to do any
thing other than assist in removing
the contents of the home to a place
of safety.
Although the flames spread rapid
ly, all household effects were saved.
Several members of the house
hold were present when the fire
was discovered, spectators said, one
of them discovering the smoke curl
ing from the eaves shortly after the
dinner hour.
It is understood that the house
was protected by insurance.
Liquor Runners Are Sent
To Roads; Had 45 Gallons
Sentences of six and eight months
to the roads respectively were meted
out in recorder's court Tuesday to
Burnette Richardson and Buck
Reavis following their arrest east of
Elkin Sunday afternoon by Guy Dun
can, state patrol sergeant, who found
45 gallons of whisky in their auto
mobile.
Two girls, also occupants of the
liquor car, who gave their addresses
as Winston-Salem and their names
as Victoria and Lois Mason, were
placed under suspended sentences of
six months in jail and ordered to
get out of the county.
Testimony revealed that both men
defendants had prison records. Rich
ardson, whose home is at TraphiU,
admitted having served a year in a
federal prison for manufacturing
whisky, while Reavis, who is from
Winston-Salem, only recently was
relpased from the roads where he
had served 12 months for handling
whisky.
According to Sergeant Duncan he
stopped the car in which the liquor
was found, near Klondike farm in
order to have the occupants clean
the mud from the front license
plate. He said the car was brought
to a stop after it had passed him
and then was set in motion after he
had started walking towards it.
Starting in pursuit, he said he
' trailed the machine to Elkin, where
lit turned east, and only succeeded
LOCAL MAN INJURED
BY RUNAWAY TEAM
Knocked To Pavement
In An Attempt to Halt
Frightened Horses
Sanford Newman, elderly Elkin
man. received several bruises and
lacerations Wednesday morning
when he was run over by a runa
way team of horses on Elk Spur
street, in front of the home of C.
W. Young.
It was said that the team, bitched
to a heavy wagon, became fright
ened and bolted, and that Mr. New
man, in an attempt to halt them,
was knocked to the pavement in
their path.
Immediately after the accident a
call was sent in far the local ambu
lance which carried the injured man
to Hugh Chatham hospital, where
he received treatment. He w»s not
seriously injured.
The runaway team was said to be
the property of a Wilkes county
farmer. i
License To Open Bank
Here Held Up Pending
Completion of Audit
Asks Walker Divorce
Mrs. Janet Allen Walker, wife of
former Mayor James J. Walker of
New York City, has filed suit for
divorce in Florida, alleging deser
tion. The former mayor went to
Europe immediately after resigning
and has not yet returned to the
United States.
in forcing it to a stop several miles
out on the Mount Airy highway. |lt
was then the whisky, contained in
nine five-gallon containers, was
found.
Reavis and Richardson had little
to say in defense. However, Reavis
stated that the girls were in no way
to blame.
The automobile in which the
liquor was found was ordered con
fiscated and sold.
GUISEPPE ZANGARA
IS ELECTROCUTED
Myt Who Tried to Kill
Roosevelt Is Brazen
to the End
Cuiseppe Zangara, the man who
killed Mayor Anton Cermak, of
Chicago, and wounded four others
in an attempt to assassinate Presi
dent Roosevelt at Miami February
15, was electrocuted at Ralford, Fla.
Monday.
The Italian was taken into the
death chamber at 9:11 a. m., e.s.l.
The current was applied at 9:15 a.
m.
When Zangara saw the chair he
stopped suddenly and glanced
around at the approximately 30 per
son who stood In the death chamber.
Turning to his guards, he said:
"Don't hold me, I no afraid of
chair."
The assassin was brazen to the
last, expressing his hate for all
presidents and kings.
PASTORS TO MEET
HERE MARCH 30TH
AH Members of Mount Airy District
of N. C. Mrthodlst Conference To
Discuss Plans For Revival Season
Thursday, March 3«. all the pas
tors of the Mt. Airy District of the
North Carolina Methodist confer
ence, will meet at the Elkin Meth
odist church for an ail-day session.
The meeting will be held to discuss
plans for the revival season and for
tbe final drive In the Kingdom Ex
tension campaign which will end
Easter Sunday.
The pastors will be accompanied
by their wives, who will have a sep
arate meeting to discuss their part
ip the Kingdom work. At noon the
ladies 'of the local church will serve
lunch to the visiting pastors and
their wives.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TASK OF AUDITING
BOOKS BEGUN HERE
WEDN'SDAY MORNING
Portion of Bank's Funds
Are Tied Up In Other
Unopened Banks
HOPE TO OPEN SOON
Due to the unexpected closing of
all banks in the country as a result
of the nation-wide bank holiday,
many banks were caught with funds
on deposit in other institutions that
have not opened as yet, with the re
sult the money on deposit has not
yet been made available. This con
dition has worked a hardship on
many institutions and has delayed
their reopening until the office of
Gurney P. Hood, state bankng com
missioner, could have time to make
a check of; these affected institu
tions.
A number of such banks in this
section were caught in this predica
ment and for this reason license to
reopen without restriction has been
withheld from the Bank of Elkin
pending completion of an audit of
the bank which began Wednesday
morning and is now in progress.
Although scheduled to arrive here
Tuesday, the state bank appraiser
was unable to arrive until Wednes
day to begin work on the local
bank's books, having come here from
a similar task in Mount Airy. He
was unable to say just how long it
would take to complete the audit
but intimated that it was possible
that the appraisal would be com
pleted sometime this (Thursday)
morning.
Following completion of the ap
praisal, this information will be sent
to Mr. Hood, who, after acquainting
himself with the figures, will advise
the necessary procedure for reopen
ing the bank for unrestricted busi
ness.
At a meeting of local merchants
and bsinesss men at Hotel Elkin
Monday night plans were discussed
but due to the lack of definite in
formation as to how to proceed, lit
tle was accomplished, although a
committee was appointed to accom
pany T. J. Byerly, president of the
bank, to Raleigh to inquire of Mr.
Hood the necessary procedure. How
ever, all plans now hinge upon the
completion of the present audit.
Medical Examination
Of All Servants Is
Urged By Dr. Roya|l
The following warning, issued
by Mayor M. A. Roy all, .should be
heedel by everyone employing,
domestic servants:
"The relation to the children
and others wlioin domestic ser
vants serve is such that some pre
caution might be essential.
"The law requires workers In
public places to be free from con
tagious and infectious diseases in
their communicable stages.
"The domestic servant is in
much more intimate contact with
children of the home.
"In a recent survey of the two
groups in a North Carolina town
it was found that 27 per cent of
domestic servants were suffering
from communicable diseases as
compared with 17 per cent in the
public service group.
"Therefore, I advise the people
of this town who have servants
in their home to have them ex*
am toed.
"This can be done by your fam
ily physician, or by the county
health officer, who is here every
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock
in the studio of h. Rl Combs., ■
This in an Important matter
both to the servant and individual
family.
"As health officer of fClkin, I
an iutererted In Its health sad
welfare and this is an added «*fe
goardl to the healfi* of tbe boa*?.' 1
M. A. KOY/kLh,
Mayor of mun.