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VOL. No. XXIII, No. 26
Forest Fire Roars Over Mountain
To Do Untold Damage To Property;
Seven Homes Destroyed In County
DESPERATE FIGHT
WITH FLAMES MADE
AT ROARING GAP
Sky Here Overcast With
Smoke Clouds From
Conflagration
ABOUT BURNED OUT
Sweeping with an angry roar ov
er mountains and through valleys,
forest fires the likes of which have
never before been witnessed in this
section of the state last week raged
over mountain and lowland timber to
leave in smouldering ruins tracts of
wooded lands variously estimated
4rom 200,000 to 400,000 acres.
Its origin a mystery and its blis
tering advance irresistable, the con
flagration is known to have destroy
ed seven homes in Bryan township
alone, not counting the lonely cab
ins further back in the mountains
which may have fallen prey to its
flaming maw.
The seriousness of the fire was not
realized here until last Thursday
morning when the heavens were
blotted out by smoke clouds which
r covered the entire sky and trans
formed the sun into a yellow sick
ly thing whose feeble rays of light
cast a weird glow over the town
and countryside.
From about 11 a. m. Thursday
morning until late in the afternoon
ashes rained steadily upon the town.
Burning pieces of bark and scorched
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ELKIN IS SEEKING
P. 0. S. OF A. MEET
Extends Invitation For
State Camp Meeting
To Be Held In 1935
Plans are under way to bring the
state Camp meeting of the P. O. S.
of A. to Elkin next year, it was
learned Tuesday from J. B. Bell, who
will carry an invitation to this ef
fect to the state meeting to be held
in Hickory May 15 and 16.
Although many other towns in
North Carolina are seeking the 1935
meeting, Elkin is thought to stand a
good chance of securing it inasmuch
as several state officials expressed
themselves as favoring Elkin during
the recent district meeting held here.
In case the state meeting is held
here next year tt will bring between
200 and 300 members of the
P. O. S. of A. here for the two days.
The meeting is to be held in May,
1935.
Mr. Bell, in extending the invita
tion on the part of the local camp,
will also carry warm invitations
from Mayor M. A. Royall and the
Merchants association, it is under
stood.
COUNTY TAX SALE
PUT OFF 30 DAYS
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Routine Matters Con
front Surry Commis
sioners At Meeting-
J The Surry county sale of real es-
I tate for delinquent 1933 taxes, sche
duled to have been advertised this
week was postponed for 30 days by
*the board of county commissioners
during their meeting at Dobson
Monday.
It is presumed the sale was post
poned due to the fact that all Sur
ry farmers have not yet received
their acrea'ge reduction checks from
the government. Four hundred of
k these checks for farmers were re
ceived Monday and another 400 re
ceived Wednesday, it was learned.
However, due to the great amount
of work involved in mailing out the
checks, the majority of Surry farm
ers have as yet to receive theirs.
Others matters confronting the
commissioners were of a routine na
ture, The Tribune was informed.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Boopy-Doops in Court
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NEW YORK . . . Helen Kane
(above), claiming to be the original
Boopy-Doop girl, brought suit for
$250,000 against movie people who
featured Boopy-Doop cartoon movies.
JAMES S. HALL DIES
AFTER OPERATION
Intestinal Disorder De
velops And Causes
His Death
James Scott Hall, 29, popular in
surance man of this city, died
Tuesday afternoon at Hugh Chat
ham hospital following an illness of
five days. Mr. Hall suffered an at
tack of appendicitis Friday and was
immediately removed to the hospital
for an operation. Following the
operation he developed an intestinal
disorder which was the immediate
cause of his death.
Mr. Hall was a native of Indiana,
but had been a resident of North
Carolina for five years. He came
here last summer to take over the
insurance department of The Bank
of Elkin, which position he held un
til it was recently sold. He had
opened new offices here as an agent
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SETS DEADLINE FOR
TAGLESS MOTORISTS
After May 20 Warrants
Will Issue For Those
Without Town Tags
Confronted with the fact that a
large number of Elkin motorists
have as yet not purchased town li
cense plates, Dixie Graham, town
tax collector, has named May 20 £ys
a deadline in which to purchase the
tags. Immediately after that date
he said Tuesday, warrants will be
issued for those motorists who con
tinue to evade the law in t this res
pect.
In discussing the local license tag
situation, Mr. Graham pointed out
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Child Slightly Hurt
In Fall From Window
of Jonesville Home
Susie Dora Mathis, 11-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Mathis, of Jonesville, suffered
minor injuries at her home Mon
day when she tumbled from a
second story window of her home
to the ground.
This makes the second accident
of a similar nature to occur here
abouts within the past two-weeks,
the small daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Pat" Osborne having sus
tained a fractured arm in a fall
from a two story residence on
Bridge street here May 1.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
INSULL JAILED
IN CHICAGO
Chicago, May B.—Samuel Insull
was in jail tonight in the city
where his name and his millions
once were a title and a scepter.
That was the crashing climax
of the story of Insull, the end of
his long flight from American
justice, and the bottom of his
headlong fall. It came about less
than two years from the time he
left Chicago, still, for all the pub
lic knew, a wizard of business who
had applied a midas touch to the
utilities.
He was in jail because he did
not put up bond for his freedom
to await trial 1 on the federal gov
ernment's charges against him—
one a charge of using the mails
to defraud and another of frau
dulent practices in bankruptcy.
LET 18 MORE
ROAD PROJECTS
Raleigh, May B.—Low bids on
18 roads and street projects open
ed today by the North Carolina
highway and public works com
mission totalled $725,087.92. leav
ing approximately $2,775,000 re
maining in available federal
funds for application on emer
gency projects in this state.
About $400,000 of the residue
will be absorbed in the next let
ting, whioh will be held May 15.
All the money has been allocated
to definite projects which the
commission hopes to have under
way within two months.
MELLON CLEARED
OF CHARGES
Pittsburgh, May B.—Andrew W.
Mellon, pillar of finance and sec
retary of the treasury under three
presidents, today was cleared of
a charge of attempted evasion of
$716,144.27 in income taxes for
the year 1931.
A federal grand jury dominated
by hefty laborers, mechanics,
farmers, a carpenter and a
plumber—all dressed in their
"Sunday best" for the occasion—
found the government's claims
against the 79-year-old banker,
in effect, "not true."
DEMAND
INVESTIGATION
Washington, May B.—A demand
for a thorough investigation of
code authority collections and ex
penditures was made today at an
NRA hearing which developed
that the authority for the rela
tively small oil burner industry
collected $68,000 from members
and spent $65,000 in six months,
including $25,600 for salaries.
MRS. SMITH
GETS DIVORCE
Hot Springs, Ark., May B.—Mrs.
Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith,
who preceded Libby Holman Rey
nolds, former Broadway "torch
singer," in marriage with the late
Smith Reynolds, youthful tobacco
millionaire, obtained an Arkansas
90-day divorce from her - second
husband, F. Brandon Smith, Jr.,
here today.
State, County Make
Up School Bus Fund
Laoking approximately $4,000 for
school bus transportation in the
county during the present school
year, the Surry county board of edu
cation solved this problem in meet
ing at Dobson Monday when it was
learned that the state will furnish
two-thirds of the amount providing
the county will put up the remain
ing one-third. This the county
agreed to do, it was learned.
Infant Dies
Little Wilma Josephine Isaacs,
two nnd one-half year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Isaacs, of
the Rusk community, passed away
Wednesday of last week, following a
two weeks' illness.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day from Bethel church and inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Samuel Insult Is Jailed
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Samuel Insull, former Chicago "czar" of public utilities, was jailed
Tuesday in Chicago when he was unable to post $200,000 bond. Photo
was made as he boarded the S. S. Exilona. for the return to the United
States.
Surry School Bus Wrecks
On Dobson Road; Driver
Said To Have Been Drunk
Was Enroute From Dobson To Little Richmond School To Take
Children Home At End Of the Day. Horton Gentry,
Driver, and Three Companions Receive Bruises
and Lacerations As Bus Crashes
Its driver under the influence of
whisky, a Surry county school bus
Monday afternoon went out from*
under control, turned over several
times and landed a total wreck,
against the posts of a bridge span
ning a small stream on the Elkin-
Dobson highway.
The driver, Horton Gentry, and
three young men passengers re
ceived numerous cuts and bruises as
a result of the crash, but none were
seriously injured. The bus came
to a standstill bottom-side-up with
its top crushed in like kindling wood.
The bus was being driven from
Dobson, where it had undergone re
pairs, to the Little Richmond school
Young Wife Is Killed As
Automobile Is Sideswiped
Mrs. Ennis Brown Dimmette, 24,
wife of William Dimmette, of near
Lomax, is dead and Click Waddell,
of Lomax, faces a charge of man
slaughter as the result of an acci
dent Sunday morning in which
Waddell's car sideswiped a car on
the running board of which Mrs.
Dimmette was riding.
According to information received
here, the Dimmette family was on
the way to church in a coupe, with
Mrs. Dimmitte and her sister stand
ing on opposite running boards be
cause of lack of room inside and the
short distance to travel, when the
car operated by Waddell sideswiped
it. The running board of the ma
chine upon which the victim was
standing was torn off and she was
dragged approximately 20 yards and
Tells Graduates
Path of Pioneer
Speaking before a capacity au
dience in the Elkin high school au
ditorium last Thursday night, Hon.
Clyde ft. Hoey, of Shelby, admon
ished the senior classes of Elkin and
Jonesville high schools to follow the
trails of intelligence, industry and
integrity as blazed by our pioneer
ancestors and to emulate the ex
ample of those sturdy patriots who
stood firm and unshaken through
storms of hardship, privation and
adversity to an extent unknown by
the present generation. ,
"Stocks, bonds, real estate may
soar and fall but integrity ni»ver
goes below par, the speaker said.
He prescribed industry as the great
panacea for the common ills—the
great cure-all of the past, present
and future. He expressed an abid
ing faith in the youth of our great
commonwealth, despite the criti
cisms to which the young are sub-
to take pupils home at the end of
the day, when the wreck occurred.
Occupants of the bus said Gentry
had been drinking.
There were no eyewitnesses to the
wreck. French Graham, a member
of the Surry county board of edu
cation, and M. Q. Snow, county
commissioner, were the frist to reach
the scene. Mr. Graham, upon learn
ing that Gentry had been drinking,
terminated his career as a school bus
driver upon the spot, and drove back
to Dobson where he reported the af
fair to John W. Comer, superinten
dent of education.
It could not be Wednes
day whether or not legal action had
been taken against the driver.
run over by the Waddell machine.
Her injuries included a broken leg
and arm and a fractured skull.
Death came within a short time.
It was reported tyere that Wad
dell was intoxicated, although this
report has not been confirmed.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at 2 o'clock from Rachel
church, near the deceased's home,
by Rev. Lewis E. Sparks and Rev.
John Burcham. Interment was in
the church cemetery.
The deceased was a daughter of
Mrs. Nancy Brown, who survives, in
addition to the husband and three
small children, Callie, William, Jr.,
and Roy, the eldest 8 years of age,
and two sisters. Miss Emma Brown
and a married sister living in Wins
ton-Salem.
jected. "Misdirected energy oft
times creates an unfavorable im
pression upon older minds, but in
the majority of instances, the intel
ligent, industrious youth eventually
finds himself and strives to. make
good."
Mr. Hoey was brought to Elkin by
the local council Jr. O. U. A. M., a
a fraternity deeply interested in pub
lic education, expressly to address
the prospective graduates of the two
schools.
Ex-senator S. O. Maguire pre
sided as master of ceremonies; Su
perintendent Walter R. Schaff, of
Elkin schools made the address of
welcome; Prof. Zeno H. Dixon, vet
eran principal of Jonesville school
made the response and W. M. Allen,
city attbrney of Elkin, introduced
the speaker, stating that Mr. Hoey,
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ORDINANCE PASSED
BY COMMISSIONERS
REQUIRES PERMITS
All Milk Sellers Must
Undergo Inspection
By Health Officer
TO MOVE CITY DUMP
Following a lengthy session of the
board of town commissioners Mon
day night in the tax collector's of
fice, it was announced that delin
quent town taxes for the year 1933
will be advertised June 14.
The commissioners also passed an
ordinance requiring all dairies and
persons who sell milk within the
Elkin city limits to secure a permit
from the office of the citx clerk, the
permits to be issued only to those
sellers of milk who can pass the
necessary inspection to be made by
the Surry county sanitary inspector.
Permits will be issued without cost
and only upon application. Follow
ing application an inspection will be
made, and if all requirements are
met, the permit will be issued. In
case where a permit cannot be is
sued the person making application
will not be allowed to sell milk in
Elkin.
The commissioners also instructed
Dixie Graham, town tax collector, to
make arrangements for the removal
of the Elkin garbage dump from its
present site just south of the busi
ness section.
The matter of erecting street
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JONESVILLE FINALS
NOW UNDER WAY
Commencement Proper
To Begin May 18 With
Comedy Drama
The Jonesville school finals have
been in progress since April 10th f
with operettas and programs by the
various grades given each week.
The commencement proper will be
gin on Friday, May 18th, with a
play, "Uncle Si and the Sunbeam
Club," by the members of the ninth
and tenth grades. On Saturday,
May 19th, the seventh grade pupils
will receive their diplomas. This
program will be held at 3:30 in the
afternoon.
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the
annual commencement sermon will
he delivered by Prof. Z. H. Dixon,
superintendent of the school.
Monday afternoon. May 21, at
3:30 in the afternoon, the Class
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TO CELEBRATE ITS
45TH ANNIVERSARY
First Baptist Church
Organized May 18,
1889; Public Invited
The First Baptist church in this
I city will celebrate) its 45th anni
versary on Sunday, May 20. The
church was organized May 18, 1889.
At the 11 o'clock service the pastor
Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, will deliver a
sermon, using as his text the scrip
ture used at the initial service in
the church.
At the evening service at 8 o'clock
a historical pageant will be presented,
picturing the beginning of the
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Lentz Captures Car
And 60 Gallons of
Booze After Chase
An automobile bearing: a 'Wins
ton-Salem license and 60 gallons
of whisky was captured on the
Doughton highway Sunday by
Corporal W. B. Lentz, of the state
highway patrol. The driver of
the machine, whose identity is
unknown, made his escape by tak
ing to his heels when a tire on
the machine blew out.
Corporal Lentz had his atten
tion attracted to the car when it
suddenly picked up speed as the
driver noted the patrolman be
hind him. Followed a race until
the tire on the liquor car let go.
The whisky was poured out and
the car confiscated.