THE TRIBUNE HOLDS THE TROPHY CUP AS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE THE DAILY FIELD
•« . ■■■ ■■ ■ ■ : .... ... ' ■ v •
Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXII, No. 30
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
3 Killed In Race
Speedway, Indianapolis, May
RA.—Dmth took the wheel of
speeding race cars today, as Louis
Meyer, 29, Huntington Park, Cal.,
rode to victory in the 500-mile au
tomobile race over the Indian
apolis motor speedway, joining
rank with Tommy Milton, the on
ly other man who ever won the
race twice.
While the cheers of 100,000
spectators proclaimed Meyei* in
triumph, three young men lay
dead and one other was seriously
injured, victims of two tragic
smasliups.
Warden Released
Lansing, Kan., May 30.—Kan
sas state penitentiary officials an
nounced Warden Kirk Prather,
taken as a hostage by 11 convicts
who escaped during a prison base
ball game today, had been re
released at Welch, Okla., late to
night. Warden Prather, officials
said, notified them by telephone
that he and two guards, also held
as hostages, were released un
harmed 15 miles southwest of
Welch. %
Labor Summoned
Washington, May 30.—Dele
gates representing 5,000,000 or
' ganized workers were summoned
to Washington tonight by Presi
dent William Green of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor to make
certain that laboring classes de
rive all possible benefit# under
the national recovery act.
He said the convention would
be held June 6.
Raise Wages
Wilmington, May 80.—A 10
per cent increase in wages of all
employes was announced, tonight
by David Tousignant, agent for
the Spofford cotton mill here. The
new rates will affect 350 em
ployes, effective June 5. The
amount of money involved or the
relation of the new scale to that
of previous years was not an
nounced.
May Increase Pay
Washington, May 30.—An an
nouncement that the administra
tion was preparing to declare in
creases in compensation to veter
ans with service-connected disabi
lities failed to stem a bi-partisan
attack in the senate today upon
the regulations effecting cuts in
veterans' benefits under the
economy act.
Georgia Beer Wrong
Marietta, Ga., May 30.—The fed
eral act legalizing 3.2 beer was
rukMl unconstitutional today by
Judge J. H. Hawkins, a Georgia
circuit judge, who said s he was
anxious for the U. S. supreme
court to pass on his decision.
Halloway On Trial
Durham, May 30.—Charges that
W. J. Halloway, president of the
old First National Bank, pur
chased large blocks of stock on
bank loans and deposited worth
less collateral were made at the
banker's trial in federal court
here today.
Increase Pay
LaGrange, Ga., May 80.—Wages
of 5,000 employees in 11 Calla
way textile mills have been In
creased 10 per cent effective with
this week's work, Fuller Calla
way, Jr., treasurer, announced to
dfty- * i
To Sign Pact
i Rome, May 80.—Premier Mus.
solini's four-power peace pact will
be initiated Thursday in the pre
mier's office at the Venezia pal
ace, it was expected today.
$661,301 Relief Funds
Awarded N. Carolina
Harry L. Hopkins, federal emer
gency relief administrator, announc
ed Monday grants of $21,669,282 to
31 states and Hawaii to meet imme
diate relief needs. Of this amount
North Carolina was granted $661,-
301.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Indian Mother Oldest of "Gold Stars" In France
* 1 JhC.'
pHfK mr' 4 *
B I *• . ; fc§p
9HHy|a|g|Af |i '
Among the Gold Star Mothers from the United States who this year
visited the graves of their sons killed in the World War and buried in
France, was Mrs. Kate Mike, 74-year-old full-blooded Winnebego Indian
from Wisconsin. She is shown above as she sailed from America with the
first contingent of 118 Mothers who sailed for France late in May.
CURTAIN FALLS ON
SCHOOL YEAR HERE
Dr. Edgar W. Knight
Delivers Excellent
Literary Address
Clothed in dignity and marked
with order, brevity, and precision
has been the commencement exercises
of the Elkin Public Schools from
start to finish. The final chapter of
commencement activities was writ
ten Tuesday night when nineteen se
niors, four boys and fifteen girls, re
ceived their diplomas. Each of the
five performances was well attended.
Junior high graduation, on May
26, opened commencement activities.
Seventeen pupils were granted cer
tificates of admission to the high
school. County superintendent E. S.
Hendren, addressed the class and
presented the diplomas. Those grad
uating from the elementary school
were:
Beatrice Burcham, L. A. Byrd, Jr.,
Hugh Chatham, Lesbia Graham,
George Grier, Grace Lawrence, Opal
Lawrence, Wilbur Martin, Charles
Neaves, Oleen Norman, Davis Os
borne, Evelyn Owen, Billy Pardue,
James Powers, Edwin Royall, Louise
Tulbert and Frances Tilley.
Saturday night the seniors gave
their class play, "One Minute to
Twelve". Those taking part were
Marvareen Combs, Samuel Neaves,
Thorburn Lillard, Fred Colhard, Jr.,
Margaret Sale, Elizabeth Harris,
Clyde Hurt, Frances Grier, Elizabeth
Shores and Martha Maguire.
The baccalaureate services on Sun
day morning at eleven o'clock, in
which all local ministers took a part,
attracted a large audience. The ser
mon, "Following a Vision", was
ably delivered by the. Rev. Fred A.
Freed, Pastor of Christ Evangelical
Church, Hickory, North Carolina.
Senior Class Exercise was given on
Monday night. Samuel Avery Neaves,
class president, and
Thorburn Lillard" was valedictorian.
On this occasion, the senior class
president, Samuel Neaves, presented
to the junior-high president, Charles
Neaves, the senior class motto and
colors. Charles and Samuel are
brothers.
Dr. Edgar W. Knight, of the Uni
(Continued On Last Page)
CHATHAM EMPLOYEE
HURT BY MACHINERY
N. W. Tucker Rushed to
Hospital Wednesday
Morning
N. W. Tucker, employee of the
Chatham Manufacturing' company,
was injured shortly before 11:00
o'clock Wednesday morning when he
was said to have been caught in a
piece of machinery in the spinning
room.
Although he was rushed to Hugh
Chatham hospital, it is not known
how seriously he was injured inas
much as no information as to his
hurts could be obtained before The
Tribune went to press.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933
Delegates To Seek
Five Objectives At
Arms Conference
Washington, May 80.—Here are
the chief aims the American dele
gates will carry , with them to the
world monetary and economic con
ference in London:
1. Stabilized currencies to end
uncertainties and form a sound
basis for international trade.
2. Lowered tariffs and other
trade barriers to revive com
merce.
8. Increased prices for basic
commodities, particularly wheat
and silver, production control
agreements on surplus agricul
tural products.
4. A world wide program of
government sponsored public
works to provide employment.
5. Credit expansion through
central bank action with a view
to reviving private industry and
creating jobs.
WILKES MAN GETS
30-DAY REPRIEVE
Bryant Stone Was To
Have Died in Electric
Chair Friday
Bryant Stone, of Wilkes county,
faced with death in the electric chair
for the murder of his son-in-law,
Wayne Norman, was granted a 30-
day reprieve Saturday by Governor
Ehringhaus.
Stone was to have been put to
death tomorrow morning.
The reprieve was requested by
Judge G. V. Cowper, who presided
over the court last August at which
stone was convicted.
There were no eye witnesses of the
actual slaying of Norman and Stone
was convicted upon circumstantial
evidence.
During the expiration of the- 30-
day period, Governor Ehringhaus
will seek to obtain all the circum
stances in the case on which to base
his decision on the appeal for a com
mutation of the death penalty.
Students Who Flunked
Must Repeat Work Next
Year, Schaff An winces
In answer to several inquiries
about summer school thiß summer
for high and elementary school pu
pils, the faculty decided at its final
meeting with the superintendent that
pupils who failed their work during
the past school year will be required
to repeat the work in the regular
school term next year instead of
summer school this summer, it has
been learned. The superintendent
and faculty do not look with favor
upon summer Bchools for high and
elementary school credit.
The salary of the Chief Justice of
the United States Supreme Court is
120,500 a year.
SHORTER WORKING
HOURS FOR WOMEN
EFFECTIVE TODAY
Female Employees Not
To Toil Over 55 Hours
Per Week
THREE PROVISIONS
Two new and important labor
laws enacted by the 1933 general
assembly, one giving much greater
power to the commissioner of labor
than ever before, and the other set
ting up a 55-hour week for women
employees in stores, restaurants,
cafes and hotels, go into effect to
day. First reports were to the ef
fect that these laws did not go into
effect until July 1, but subseqent
study of them has shown the effect
ive date to be today, June 1, instead.
There are three important provis
ions, in the law giving the commis
sioner of labor more powers and de
fining his duties. The first of these
is that it requires the posting of
placards containing a digest of the
state labor laws in every manufac
turing plant and every room in a
manufacturing plant in which five
or more workers are employed, so
that they may become familiar with
the state's labor laws.
The second important provision is
that it makes it mandatory for the
employers to secure these placards
from the cpmmissioner of labor and
to post them according to the law.
This transfers the responsibility for
obtaining and posting these laws
from the commissioner of labor to
the employers.
The third major provision of the
new is that wherever the com
missioner of labor finds any of the
labor laws being violated, he must
immediately report such a violation
to the solicitor in the district in
which the violation occurred. The
(Continued On Last Page)
TEACHERS TO GET
FINAL CHECKS SOON
Vouchers to be Placed
In Mail By State
This Week
Raleigh, May 29.—Some 23,000
North Carolina school teachers this
week and next, will receive $630,000
from the state as the final payment
on their salaries for the six-month
state supported school term.
Dr. A. T. Allen, state superinten
dent of public instruction, said the
checks for the last payment—repre
senting six days of instruction—will
be mailed this week.
The six-month teachers have been
paid for 114 days, the cost being
about $105,000 per day.
Dr. A. T. Allen said that about
three-fourths of the state's aid for
the Extended term of two months
has been mailed and the other fourth
about $250,000, would go forward
some time in June.
During the past school year the
state supported the schools six
months, guaranteeing salaries for
that period, and aided in the oper
ation or two other, months in cer
tain districts.
WILKES NEGRO IS
KILLED BY BLOW
Struck In Head With
Axe In Hands Of •
Sucker Sales
Gilbert Parks, 25-year-old Negro
of Roaring River, route 2, died in a
Wilkes county hospital Saturday
about 11:30 o'clock from injuries
sustained Thursday afternoon when
he was struck on the head with an
axe said to have been wielded by
Sucker Saleß, Negro, a man of the
same community.
Sales is alleged to have picked up
the axe and struck Parks during a
quarrel between the two men Thurs
day afternoon. Parks was knocked
unconscious by the blow and died
without regaining consciousness.
Sales surrendered Saturday even
ing to Sheriff W. B. Somers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Qeeson and
Mrs. Koy Barker spent Monday in
Winston-Salem.
Final Arrangement sTo
Open Local Bank Being
Made;StockSubscribed
Muscle Shoals Boss
Arthur E. Morgan, president of
Antioch College in Ohio, is the man
selected by President Roosevelt as
chairman of the Tennessee Valley
Development project. Mr. Morgan
first gained national attention in
flood control work in North Caro
lina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan
sas and Ohio. He gave up engineer
ing to head Antioch College in 1020.
LINVILLE HENDREN
IS TO GET DIPLOMA
Local Boy To Receive B.
A. Degree At Berea
College
LinviUe K. Hendren, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Hendren of this city,
will be among the graduates to re
ceive the B. A. degree at Berea
College, Berea, Kentucky, on Mon
day, June 5. Mr. Hendren is a grad
ate of the Elkin high school and at
tended summer school at the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1932.
He has been a student at Berea four
years, specializing in the field of
sociology.
In addition to his excellent wot-k
as a student, he is president of the
senior class, a position highly prized
by every student. Besides this he
was president of the Alpha Zeta liter
ary society; president of the Soqiolo
gy Club, a member of the Pi Gamma
Mu, national honorary social science
society, and assistant in the zoology
laboratory.
ALLEN MAKES TALK
BEFORE KIWANIANS
Lighting Expert to Fea
ture Meeting Tomor
row Night
An interesting talk on "Business
Standards" was made before the lo
cal Kiwanis club Friday night dur
ing the meeting at Hotel Elkin, by
W. M. Allen, local attorney. Mr.
Allen was presented by E. S. Spain
hour, program chairman.
Roy A. Palmer, of Charlotte, light
ing expert of the Southern Public
Utilities company, will address the
club tomorrow night, his visit here
having been arranged by Kiwanian
H. T. Brown, who will have charge
of the program.
Legion Ships Goat
To Winston-Salem
The George Gray post of the
American Legion, which has been
host for the past week to the large
billy goat which came a calling
when membership total got low,
Monday crated the goat up and
shipped him C. O. D. to the Win
ston-Salem post, local membership
having risen from the depths.
It so happens that the goat's visit
to the Twin-City will be in the na
ture of a repeat, that post having al
ready had the honor of entertaining
the animal.
Four different men once held the
office of Governor of Georgia with
in a single year.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
APPROXIMATELY 100
PER CENT DEPOSIT
AGREEMENTS SIGNED
Final Stock Subscribed
In Meeting Last
Thursday Night
SHOULD OPEN SOON
With nearly 100 per cent of the
depositors of the BanK of Elkin
signed up to accept 85 per cent of
their deposits, final arrangements
are being made looking toward the
opening of the institution within the
near future, it was learned Wednes
day.
Sale of the necessary stock was
completed last Thursday night at a
meeting of interested citizens at
Hotel Elkin.
It was pointed out that inasmuch
as it has been necessary to see ap
proximately 800 depositors in re
gards to obtaining their agreement
to accepting 85 per cent of their
deposits, the task has necessarily
been a slow one.
Although the specific date upon
which the bank is expected to open
is not known, in the opinion of those
who have kept in active touch with
the situation it will possibly open
some time next week.
Under the reorganization plan the
bank will be an entirely new insti
tution, operating under a new char
ter which must be issued by Banking
Commissioner Gurney P. Hood. The
name, insteatf-trf-fiank at Elkin, will
be The Bank of Elkin.
It was stated that once opened, the
new bank will be among the most
liquid in the state. It is expected
that Edwin Duncan, of Sparta, will
be in active management.
WILL OUTLINE AIMS
IN MORGAN PROBE
Senators Discuss Pos
sible Successor For
Woodin
Washington, May 30.—Amid de
bate over disclosures it already'had
made, the senate banking committee
arranged today to receive from
Ferdinand Pecora an outline of the
course he expects to pursue in the
resumption tomorrow of the inquiry
into J. P. Morgan and company.
The debate in the senate today
circled about a possible successor tor
Secretary Woodin who has been dis
closed as having been on a list of
those who were sold stock by the
Morgan company at reduced prices
several years before he took th« post
as head of the treasury.
Senator Long, Democrat, Louisi
ana, told the senate selection of
Lewis Douglas, director of the bud
get to succeed Woodin would be like
"going out of the frying pan into the
fire."
His remark stirred up a discussion
of possible successors to Weodin' in
which the name of James M. Cox,
former presidential candidate, was
mentioned, but in which there was
no denial of the belief that Woodin
would resign.
Woodin was named on the two
lists of special clients of the Mor
gan firm which have been put before
the investigating committee.
Pecora, the committee counsel,
was expected to start the inquiry off
tomorrow with another such list of
clients to whom stock was sold at
bargain prices.
Publisher Dead
At Taylorsville
Taylorsville, May 27.—John E.
Hart, 67, owner and editor of The
Taylorsville Times, died at his home *
here at 5 o'clock this afternoon after
a lingering illness with diabetes. He
is survived by his widow and two
sons, W. 3. Hart, of Springfield, Mo.,
and H. H. Hart, of Bluefleld, W. Va.
Funeral arrangements are incom
plete, buj services will probably b«a
held Monday or Tuesday.