MB . ELKIN •
"The Best
Little Town
In North
Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIII, No. 5
Child Fatally Injured
As He Runs Into Path
of Local Man's Truck
ODEL HOLCOMB IS
HELD UNDER SI,OOO
BOND IN ACCIDENT
To Face Preliminary
x Hearing Saturday
Afternoon
SAID UNAVOIDABLE
As the result of what was said to
have been an unavoidable accident
on the Winston-Salem highway near
Old Town early Wednesday morn
ing in which Ray Shields, about 10
years old, was fatally injured, Odell
Holcomb, of Elkin, faces a prelimi
nary hearing on a charge of man
slaughter in Forsyth county Satur
day afternoon.
The youngster received injuries
from which he died while enroute
to a Winston-Salem hospital, when
he was Btruck by the truck driven
by Mr. Holcomb, who was on his
way to Winston-Salem with a load
of hogs. As a result of the accident
the Elkin man is under SI,OOO bond.
According to Sheriff J. Transou
Scott, who investigated the acci
dent, the Shields child, while being
pursued by a playmate, ran from
behind a store and into the high
way directly in the path of Mr. Hol
comb's truck. It was said the child
sustained a broken leg and a frac
tured skull. Reports here shortly
after the accident occurred which
were to the effect the child had just
alighted from a school bus when
hit, were found to be false.
Dfx W. llmteombi uf WMiston
a cousin of Odell Holcomb,
■fo his bond.
SCHAFF ADDRESSES
COUNTY TEACHERS
V-
Speaks At County-Wide
Meeting At Dobson
Saturday
Speaking to more than 200 teach
ers at the county-wide teachers
meeting at Dobson last Saturday
morning, Walter R. Schaff, super
intendent of the local schools, de
livered the principal address in the
absence of John H. Folger, membel*
of the State School Commission.
Superintendent Schaff built his ad
dress around the theme of "Because
We Are."
Mr. Schaff complimented the
teacherß of Surry county for their
loyalty to County Superintendent
Comer and to the teaching profes
sion. He told the teachers that
they have a special duty in these
times "that try the SOUIB of men."
"The period in which we work is
strategic, the task of building useful
citizens must go on despite public
curtailments, and we must furnish
an abundance of inspiration for
pupils if they are to do their best,"
he said to the teachers. He named
service, merit, and achievement as
the three great superiorities that
teachers can inspire pupils to strive
for. He insisted that teachers ac
quaint pupils with real life situa
tions. "Our job, then, as teachers,"
superintendent Schaff concluded,
"is to help boys and . girls build up
a rugged type of stamina that will
make them have confidence in them
selves, make them believe in the
present, and make them hopeful of
the future; for In doing these
things we give them the founda
tions of character which prepare
them for usefulness as citizens."
To Present Play
The annual junior class play "Miss
Adventure", a comedy in three acts,
will be presented Friday night, De
cember 15, at eight o'clook, in the
public school auditorium- From all
indications this will be one of the
best high school performances ever
given In the local school by the stw
dents.
Mrs. Eliza Wall
Mr,. Elln W»U, 18. ot Mt. Airy,
passed away at the local hospital
L Tuesday from a serious illness from
P a, complication ot diseases.
THE ELKIN TRIBUIIE
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
Crack Train Wrecks
Hot Springs, Dec. 12.—Engi
neer H. Arthur Houchins, of
Knoxville, Tenn., was killed and
three other persons were injured,
one seriously, when the Southern
Railway's crack Carolina Special
wax derailed near here tonight.
The locomotive turned com
pletely over, and four day coaches
careened on their sides as the
train, making its run between
Charleston, S. C., and Cincinnati,
plunged around Click curve, a
half-mile west of here, in sub
freezing weather.
The Worm Turns
Fort Myers, Fla., Dec. 12.-
Comes a new menace—the "hit
and-run" pedestrian.
E. A. Cartwright, of Canton, 0.,
found a shattered headlight and
bent license plate when he re
turned to his parked automobile.
Witnesses told Cartwright a
young man engrossed in reading
a letter had walked into the ma
chine crashing the light with his
shoulder and falling over the li
cense tag.
The pedestrian, looking sheep
ish and nursing a smarting
shoulder, hurried away.
There is no city ordinance
against such nuisances.
Default Again
Paris, Dec. 12.—For the third
time the French cabinet confirm
ed today a default on the war
dept ppyment to the United
States, this time on 922,200,02(1
due December 15.
Since the government considers
itself bound by the refusal of the
chamber of deputies to pay a year
ago because the situation has not
changed in the meantime, Foreign
Minister Joseph Paul-Honcour
was told to advise Washington of
the decision against payment.
Best In World
Chicago, Dec. 12.—The Ameri
can dollar is the best money in
the world, Jesse H. Jones, chair
man of the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation, said in an ad
dress tonight. The stability of
this coin is "simply not open to
question."
Jones spoke at the annual ban
quet of the Illinois Manufactur
ers' association.
Plenty of Gold
Washington, Dec. 12.—While
the inflation debate continued to
absorb statesmen and economists,
federal reserve figures disclosed
today that the system had suffi
cient gold resources to increase
the currency in circulation by
more than 50 per cent without
resorting to any Inflationary
measures.
APPROXIMATELY 600
EMPLOYED IN SURRY
These Are Now At Work
On County CWA
Projects
Approximately 600 men of the
3,500 who have registered in the
list of the unemp]o>sd in Surry
county are now at work on var
ious road and school improvement
projects in different sections of the
county.
Since announcement has been
made by J. G. Wood, director of un
employed, that women are entitled
to register, the number will probab
ly grow and plans for providing
these with employment are now in
the making. Unemployed teachers,
office workers and women expert
with the needle stand best chance
of gaining employment, It has been
intimated.
As rapidly as possible after addi
tional projects have been approved
the remainder of Surry's quota will
be placed on jobs.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933
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Left is William J. Filbert, New York, who will become chairman of the finance committee of the V. 8.
Steel Corporation on January 1. Center is Janet Snowden, 19, wealthy American heiress and recent bride of
five days who is willing to take "extra" parts in the movies for only S6O per week. Right is Warren K. Fin
ney, 00, Emporia, Kansas, broker who was sentenced to from 30 to 00 years' imprisonment for embezzlement.
He was alleged to have embezzled a total of SOB,OOO.
OFFICERS CAPTURE
AUTO AND WHISKY
55 Gallons of Booze Is
Poured Into Elkin
Gutter
Although Elkin. together with
the state as a whole showed by
some 185,000 votes that it is as dry
as nobody's business in the recent
whisky election, it is now some 55
gallons drier than it was on the day
of election.
And in addition to be drier than
ever before, there are a couple of
unknown men somewhere or another
who have one less automobile than
they had before due to the capture
of same and its extremely wet cargo
here Saturday night by Patrol Cor
poral W. B. Lentz and Night Offi
cer J. L. Darnell.
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The capture was made ,when the
aforementioned officers observed an
automobile enroute through town
which sadly enough had only one
license plate. Nothing is so sure
to arouse the ire and suspicion of
a highway patrolman as a missing
license plate and as a result Mr.
Lentz and Mr. Darnell hied them
selves hither in pursuit of the car
with an evil glint in their eyes.
Result: the two occupants of
the machine decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and re
moved themselves from the ma
chine and departed forthwith with
considerable show of haste, never
again to be seen (to date). But
they had no time to take with them
the 55 gallons of giggle spirits which
their car contained.
Contained in five-gallon cans, the
booze was poured into the gutter,
there to wend its way via sewer to
the nearby Yadkin much to the
probable edification of various and
sundry fish who didn't vote dry.
The car remains in custody and the
identity of the mysterious but hasty
gentlemen is being sought through
the medium of the lone license tag.
HOLD FUNERAL FOR
D. F. ADAMS SUNDAY
Swan Creek Man Is Vic
tim of Paralysis
Stroke
Funeral services were held Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock from the
Swan Creek Baptist church for
David F. Adams, 68, who suffered a
stroke of paralysis about a week
prior to his death.
The deceased bad been a life-long
resident of the Swan Creek com
munity and was a loyal member of
the Swan Creek Baptist church. The
rites were in charge of Bev. N. T.
Jarvis and interment was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Adams was twice married.
His second wife and the following
sons and daughters survive him:
George and King Adams, Ohio;
Parks Adams, Mrs. Badger Pardue,
Mrs. John Hager and Mrs. Thomas
Lewis. The following brothers and
sisters also survive: James G.
Adams, Mrs. Mollie Adams Ray and
Mrs. Stephen Pardue of Yadkin
county and Mrs, Ida Wells, of
Wilkes county.
Change Bus Schedule
The Atlantic Greyhound bus
which was routed from Bristol to
Winston-Salem via Elkin and Le
noir early in November has been
discontinued. The bus -will go by
Brooks Cross Roads in the future.
Other bus schedules remain the
same.
They Figure In News of the Day
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I Lone Medal Man
Br T
Sergeant Lloyd M. Seibert, of
Salinas, Calif., enlisted in the U. S.
Army in 1900. He is today the only
Congressional Medal of Honor man
in the enlisted ranks. He won the
medal for feats at Kpinsonville,
France? in 1918.
LOCAL BANK FORM
MAY BE A MODEL
Originated Here, May
Be Adopted Through
out Nation
The service charge form now In
use by The Bank of Elkin and
which was originated by Assistant
Cashier Garland Johnson, bids fair
to be adopted by bank associations
throughout the entire nation, a let
ter received Monday from Paul P.
Brown, secretary of the North Car
olina Bankers Association indicated.
A sample of the locally used service
charge form was sent to the N. C.
Bankers association, and was so
favorably received that it is to be
presented to the Banking Code com
mittee in session in New York this
week as a model for a uniform ser
vice charge form. According to Mr.
Brown, the form comes nearer com
plying with his ideas as to that par
ticular form than anything he has
seen.
In event the form should prove
acceptable to the Banking Code
committee at New York, it would
probably be used throughout the
I nation.
Cycle Men Are Injured
When Car Turns Over
S. C. and R. A. Royall, brothers,
and a Mr Snow, all of the Cycle
community of Yadkin county, sus
tained minor injuries and bruises
Friday night when their car turnod
over an embankment on the Yadkin
side of the Hugh Chatham Bridge.
Defective lights were attributed ;»*
the cause of the accident. The car
was badly damaged.
The young men were carried to
Hngh Chatham hospital for exami
nation but were dismissed when
their wounds were dressed.
Falls From Building
I. O. Wallace, prominent farmer
of the Mountain park community,
is a patient at Hugh Chatham Hos
pital suffering from bruises and lac
erations sustained in a fall from the
roof of a building Tuesday. While
Mr. Wallace's injuries are not ser
ious, they are very painful.
We are starting out on a road so
new that we have got to make up
our maps as we go along.
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TOBACCO BRINGS
EXCELLENT PRICE
November Price Is $2.57
Greater Than
Parity
Raleigh, Dec. 12.—North Caro
lina's flue cured tobacco brought an
average of $19.57 a hundred
pounds in November, more than
two dollars greater than the parity
price and the highest monthly av
erage in four years, the federal
state crop reporting service an
nounced late today.
Producers' sales last month to
taled 145,869,318 pounds as com
pared with only 61,440,005 pounds
sold in November, 1932, at an aver
age of $12.68 a hundred, or $6.89
below the November, 1933, figure.
The previous high monthly aver
age for flue-cured tobacco sold in
the state was $21.43 struck in No
vember, 1929. -
TBe report estimated that 415.-
000,000 pounds, or approximately
80 per cent of the estimated flue
cured production in the state had
been sold through last month. The
season'b average to December 1 was
$15.35 a hundred, or $3.05 more
than the average to this date last
year.
It was estimated on the basis of
this increase in the season's aver
age price that North Carolina flue
cured producers so far have re
ceived more than twice as much for
their 1933 crop than they did for
the part of the 1932 crop sold
through December 1.
The gross return through De
cember this year was estimated at
$63,760,000 for the 415,435,445
pounds sold, compared with a gross
return of approximately $29,297,-
000 for the 244,698,952 pounds
sold at an average of $12.30
through December, 1931,
The increased average was at
tributed to government aid offered
growers through a buyers' agree
ment and a reduction campaign af
ter Governor Ehringhaus declared
a three-weeks' marketing holiday in
September when the price was
around sll a hundred.
BRUT RESIGNS AS
HEAD HEALTH DEPT.
Work Being: Carried On
By Mount Airy Phy
sician
As the result of the resignation
last week of Dr. T. C. Britt, head
of the Surry county health depart
ment the county is now without a
full time health officer. However,
health work is being carried on un
der the direction of Dr. Roy C.
Mitchell, of Mount Airy, who is
serving in the capacity of acting
health officer.
Other than the resignation of Dr.
Britt, there is no intimation of fur
ther changes in the health office
personnel, which Includes Mrs. L. E.
peeves, county nurse; Miss Bessie
Mitchell, office ecretary; and Edwin
C. Hale, county sanitary officer.
No publle statement has been
made as to the cause of Dr. Britt's
resignation, but there has been con
siderable agitation and uncertainty
as to status of the annual budget
for the health work in Surry. The
budget was slashed from preceding
years allotments last summer, and
during the past two months there
"has been talk of the county refuting
to pay Its share of the expenses.
However, It Is expected that the
county health work will continue
to be carried on at Its present level.
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PUBLISHED WEEKI^
DRY CLEANERS ARE
PUTTING UP FIGHT
AGAINST THE NRA
At Washington Protest
ing Provisions Of
Their Code
FIRST REAL TEST
Washington, Dec. 12.—1t has
taken the embattled cleaners and
dyers of America to start a really
noteworthy rebellion against NRA,
and attempt to pluck a few of the
tall feathers of the blue eagle. Rep
resentatives of other branches of in
dustry have been here to protest
against hours, wages and prices,
but as a rule they have- been able
to keep their emotions well in hand.
The cleaners and dyers, on the
other hand, gave their emotions full
play, especially during the early
hours of this morning, declaring,
now and again with tears in their
eyes and voices, that they could not,
and would not observe the prices
established here for their industry,
and designed, according to govern
ment officials, to remove some of
the worst cases of cutthroat com
petition.
Coincident with the protests here
there were attacks against the con
stitutionality of the recovery act, as
It has affected the cleaners and
dyers, at Brooklyn, the assertion
having been made that it had in
creased prices in some cases 200
per cent.
GRID WARRIORS ARE
GUESTS OF KIWANIS
Club To Hold Christmas
Auction Sale Friday,
December 22nd
Members of the Elkin high school
football squad were the guests of
the Elkin Kiwanis club at a banquet
at Hotel Elkin Friday night. With
but two exceptions, every player was
present.
A program participated in by both
Kiwanians and their guests was
staged, each member of the team
who graduates this year making a
short talk.
The program was opened by a
short address of welcome to the
team on behalf of the club by Dan
Barbour, which was followed by
talks by the following: Alex Chat
ham, Jr., A. L. Griffeth, Irvin Wade,
Coach A. C. Hood, Rufus Crater,
Moir Hall, Bill Wellborn, Russell
Burcham and Herbert Graham. Jim
Byrd, as business manager of the
team, also made a few remarks.
Coach Hood, in discussing recent
gridiron season, which saw a total
of six games won as against two
lost, paid tribute to his squad by
stating that in all his experience as
a foot ball coach, he had never seen
or worked with a nicer, cleaner
bunch of boys.
Those members of the team who
made talks showed their affection
for Coach Hood in unmistakable
terms.
Two new members of the club
were introduced daring the meeting.
They were Charlie Myers, of the
Eagle Furniture company, and Gar
land Johnson, assistant cashier of
The Bank of Elkin.
It was algo decided during the
meeting that the annual Kiwanis
auction sale, proceeds of which go
to aid the Associated Charities in
bringing Christmas cheer to needy
families, will be held Friday, Decem
ber 22nd.
The Lucy Hanes Chatham Club
will be the guest of the Kiwaniana
Friday evening and will put on the
program.
Red Cross Drive to
End Here This Week
The annual Red Cross roll call
will officially close here the last of
this week. While the respone has
been good it is felt that there are
others who would like to enroll in
this army of mercy that were not
reached by the membership work
ers. Any one desiring to join Is re
quested to give tbe SI.OO member
ship fee to Mrs. George Roy&ll,
chairman of the work here, this
week, and Bhe will enter their
names and give them a membership
card and badge.
A list of the members will be pub
lished in next week's issue of The
Tribune.
Intelligence Is very much the
knack of knowing where to find out
what one does not know.