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THE TRIBUNE HOLDS THE TROPHY CUP (ST») AS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE THE DAILY FIELD - ' 1/ ELKIN - In North vr to OtW Mt Carolina" I VOL. No. XXIII, No. 52 J. C. Talley Is Found Dead Here In Room Above Barber Shop CORONER STATES DEATH CAUSED BY ACUTE ALCOHOLISM Body Discovered Wed nesday Morning By Colored Boy DEAD SOME TIME Said to have been drinking heavily for the past three weeks, James C. Talley, local barber, was found dead about 11 o'clock Wednesday morn ing upstairs over the Dixie Barber fhop. Discovery of Talley's body was me.de by Temp Hampton, colored employe of the barber shop. Dr. R. J. Lovill, of Mount Airy, acting coroner, who arrived here several hours after the body was found, attributed death to acute al coholism. He stated it was probable death occurred sometime Tuesday night, and that he thought it un necessary to empanel a jury. According to W. H. Johnson, bar ber employed in the shop, Mr. Talley had been in the habit of sleeping upstairs over the shop. He stated that he (Talley), had been drinking Tuesday afternoon and as a result retired to the room about 4:30 or 5 o'clock, where he presumably went to bed on an improvised pallet. About 9 o'clock Tilesday night Mr. Johnson said as he was preparing to clos« the shop after listening to election returns with several friends, he went upstairs to see if Talley was all right. Not wishing to disturb him by turning on the light, he said he felt his way to him and shook him gently several times, but got no response. Thinking Talley asleep, he then left the shop. It was about 11 o'clock Wednes day that something was said about going up and seeing Talley, and as a result Temp Hampton went up stairs. He came back with the re port that he believed the man dead. Officers and a physician were then called, and the coroner summoned. >An examination by the coroner and Dr. I. 8. Oambill, local physician, re sulted in the verdict of death from acute alcoholism. A pint bottle, about half full of whisky, was found under the dead man's head. The body when found was laying face down, with the arms doubled under the chest. It was fully clothed. Following the inquest, the body was turned' over to the deceased's wife, who survives him with three daughters, Mrs. Robert Darnell, Mrs. Arlie Cockerham and Miss Fan nie Talley, all of Elkin, and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements had not been made when The Tribune went to press. RECEIVES SEVERE CUTS IN AFFRAY Jasper Holbrook In Lo cal Hospital With Severe Wounds Jasper Holbrook, 21, son of Deputy Sheriff Oliver Holbrook, of Benham, is in Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital suffering severe gashes on the head and face and at the base of the skull, inflicted in a fight near Benham Sunday night allegedly by Percy and Carl Boyd, following an altercation which took place following an argument. Carl Boyd is at liberty under S2OO bond. Percy Boyd has not been ap prehended. Clay Church Awarded Amateur Pilot License Clay Church, son of Mr. and Mrs. ft. L. Church, of this city, Monday was awarded an amateur pilot's li cense following an examination tak en at the Winston-Salem airport. The license permits Mr. Church to fly in any state in the union. He cannot, however, transport passen gers for pay. He made a grade of 92 on the written part of the test, which was given by J. O. Nail of the Department of Commerce. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Red Cross Roll Call To Begin November 11th The annual Red Cross roll call will be held from Armistice Day through Thanksgiving, according to Mrs. J. O. Bivins, chairman of the local chapter. Committees will be appointed at an early date for the various sections of town and a concentrated effort will be made for an enrollment this year to exceed previous years. I ATE NEWQ from the State and Nation MERRIAM LEADING SINCLAIR San Francisco, Nov. 6.—Acting Gov. Frank F. Merttam, Republi can, took a lead over Upton Sin clair, "Epic" Democratic nominee for governor, in incomplete re turns from 66 scattered precincts -cut of 10,721 in the state. These included 45 precincts in Los An geles county, where Merriam was leading. Sinclair carried Los An geles in the primary. The vote was 5,899 for Merriam, 4,226 for Sinclair and 1,067 for Raymond L. Haight, progressive and commonwealth party candi date. TEN GEORGIA CONVICTS ESCAPE Decatur, Ga., Nov. 6.—Ten white convicts working on a road near Dunwoody, about 10 miles north of here, overwhelmed three armed DeKalb county convict guards early this afternoon, six of them escaping in a truck and four others fleeing into nearby woods. The convicts took two pistols and two shotguns from the guards officers said. ONE KILLED IN ELECTION FIGHT Holland, Mo., Nov. 6.—Gunmen seeking to prevent negroes voting in today's election terrorised this southeast Missouri town today, killed one white man, wounded two others, beat several negroes and disappeared before state highway troopers arrived. ROOSEVELT'S DISTRICT GOES DEMOCRATIC Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 6.—The third district of the town of Hyde Park, President Roosevelt's own, today went Democratic, giving Governor Lehman 440 to 376 for Robert Moses. The President car ried the same district by only eight votes in 1932. DEMOCRATS LEAD IN STOKES Stokes—l 4 out of 21: The Democratic ticket has an average majority of approximately 550 over Republican candidates. Stolen Cigarettes Are Recovered In N. Y. Three cases of cigarettes, con signed to a local firm and valued at SIBO, which were stolen from the Winston-Elkin Motor Express truck while enroute to Elkin last Thurs day afternoon, have been recovered in New York City by New York po lice. A man, thought to be the per son who stole the cigarettes, is also being held In New York. CHANGE IN HAUPTMANN COUNSEL' Dissension flared in the legal camp of Bruno Richard Hauptmann Fri day with two lawyers claiming the right to defend him at his forth coming trial on charges of slaying the Lindbergh baby. Hauptmann's wife announced at Flemington, N. J., where the kidnap-murder suspect is being held for trial, that she had retained Edward J. Reilly, Brooklyn lawyer, to succeed James M. Fawcett as chief defense counsel. % ; ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 MAYOR DISCUSSES POLICE SITUATION BEFORE KIWANIANS Regrets Necessity Of Dropping W. G. Church From Force ASKS RESOLUTION That he is not in favor of the present police setup in Elkin was made plain Friday night by Mayor M. A. Royall in a talk on "The New Deal as it Affects Elkin" before the Elkin Kiwanis club. Although speaking highly of all members of his "official family", as he termed town officials and police, Mayor Royall stated that he "re gretted to see Chief of Police W. Q. Church removed from the police force." He further stated that in his opinion he could see no absolute necessity for the consolidation of the police job and that of town tax col lector as the town is in better finan cial shape than it has been in sev eral years. During the course of the Mayor's talk, he spoke highly of Dixie Gra ham, who has succeeded Mr. Church as day police, stating that while he had the highest regard for the ability of Mr. Graham, he did not believe he could handle the combined jobs of day policeman and town tax col lector efficiently. Mayor Royall also stated that the matter of street repair and garbage disposal, which had been supervised by Mr. Church while police, was al most a one man's job in itself. During his talk, the Mayor asked that the Kiwanis club pass a reso lution requesting the re-instatement of Mr. Church as day policeman at a salary of $75 per month, the amount that is paid the night policeman. Mr. Church was making SIOO per month before the change. In compliance with the Mayor's request, the Kiwanis club drafted the following resolution for submis sion to the town board of commis sioners : "We' respectfully request that, if you can do so without jeopardizing your budget or general setup, you reconsider your late change that necessitated the dropping of a man from the police force. "Respectfully submitted, "ELKIN KIWANIS CLUB." The club also passed a resolution to be presented to the county's rep resentative to the legislature asking him to favor enactment of a bill re quiring all automobile drivers to have license. The resolution was passed at the request of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte, which has taken much interest in the subject. The proposed license measure calls for a rigid examination for state license to operate an automobile and the licenses would be revoked when circumstances warranted such ac tion. Licenses would, not be sold as a means of revenue but only the cost of examination and clerical expense would be incurred by the application. NORTH WILKESBORO IS VICTIM OF FIRE Two Stores Are Wiped Out Early Sunday Morning Doing an estimated damage of $75,000, fire early Sunday morning destroyed the Spainhour-Sydnor Dry Goods company and an Atlantic and Pacific Tea company store in North Wllkesboro. The blaze, origin of which has not been determined, was discovered about midnight Saturday and was brought under control about twx hours later. A call for help to Le noir and Statesville resulted in prompt aid. Virtually the entire stock of the Spainhour-Sydnor company was destroyed as was that of the A. & P. store. In addition to these two firms, two beauty parlors, located in the buildings, were wiped out. The fire will in no way affect the Sydnor-Spainhour store here, E. S. Spainhour, manager of the local store, said Monday. The loss of the two companies was said to be partially covered by in suiance. NEW DEMANDS FOR RFC CASH Customers of the Reconstruction Finance corporation were shown Fri day to have borrowed more from that agency in October than the to tal of old loans repaid, reversing a trend which for three months had kept the RFC on the black ink side of the government's ledger. - Surry County Democrats Chalk Up Over 2,000 Majority In Tuesday's Election; Gray Leads Ticket Here HENRY DOBSON IS GIVEN 733 VOTES IN ELKIN PRECINCT W. W. Whitaker Leads Republican Ticket With 329 Votes YADKIN G.O.P. WINS Elkin marched to the polls Tues day to mark up an overwhelming Democratic majority for township, county and state candidates. Worth Gray led the county Dem ocratic ticket here with a total 739 votes, closely followed by Henry Dobson, who as candidate for rep resentative, polled 733. W. W. Whitaker, Republican can didate for county commissioner, led the Republican ticket with a total of 329 votes. Unofficial returns from Elkin township follows: Solicitor: Gwyn 719. State Senate: Folger 715, Love lace 239; House of Representatives: Dobson 733, York 228; Clerk of Su perior Court: Llewellyn 714, Bray 240, Tom Folger (independent) 3; Sheriff: Thompson 716, Matthews 243: Register of Deeds: Gray 739, Harris 221; Coroner: Smith 699, Moorefield 245; Surveyor: Harbour 693, Wolfe 252; Commissioners: Swanson 675, Snow 699, Lovill 687, Whitaker 329, Bryant 241, Sparger 249. In the township race Julius Hall led the Democratic ticket with a total of 665. Tabulation of votes follow: Constable: Hayes 651, Lawrence 270; For Justices of the Peace: Eld ridge 658, Young 649, Hall 665, Dob bins 268, Walker 266, Dickerson 259, Gentry 258. YADKIN COUNTY Yadkinville, Nov. 6.—A. E. Hall, Republican candidate for the House of Representatives, received 1,100 majority in a hurried count of the thirteen precincts in Yadkin county. Walter Lambeth, Democrat, was his opponent. The entire state ticket re ceived about the same vote. In the county vote: Solicitor— John R. Jones was unopposed with 3,670 votes. State Senate—LeGrand (D), 2,372; Williams (R), 3,476 House of Representatives—Holcomb (D), 2,589; Craver (R), 3,290. Sheriff —Reynolds (D), 2,566; Inscore (R), 3,493. Clerk of Court—Steelman (D), 2,383; Crater R), 3.414. Reg ister of (D), 2,394; Primm R), 3,572. Surveyor—Poin dexter D), 2,659; Shore R), 3,552. County Commissioners—Davis D), 2,798; Robbins D), 2,678; Wallace (D), 2,661; Brendle R>,- 3,339; Dinkins (R), 3,091; Vestal (R>, 3,- 337. WILKES COUNTY Republican candidates for county] offices scored a sweeping victory in Wilkes county with an average ma jority for their ticket of around 3,- 000. Sheriff W. B. Somers trailed the ticket with 6,721 votes to 4,913 for James M. Anderson, North Wllkes boro chief of police, his Democratic opponent. The tabulation in this race was complete from all of the -county's 30 precincts. Figures on other races were incomplete, but a majority of 3,000 for the remainder of the ticket was considered conser vative. Figures on the rtate and con gressional tickets were unavailable. ALLEGHANY COUNTY Incomplete returns in Alleghany county gave the entire Democratic ticket a majority of 600 votes, ac cording to reliable figures received last night. Dalton Warren, Demo cratic candidate for the State Senate, carried the district by between 1,600 and 2,000 votes. In seven precincts Doughton received 1,470 votes to 778 for Prevette. NRA's new rule over the big au-| tomobile industry Friday was pro longed another three months by President Roosevelt. In announc ing extension of the automobile code without any of the changes which have been demanded by lator, the President disclosed plans for u study into employment) stabilization within the industry. He expressed confi dence of the cooperation of both management and labor. Six Are Tried For Disturbing Peace Here Halloween As the result of an exuberance of spirits alleged to have been ag gravated more or less by an abundance of silly soup, six Elkin boys were arrested here last Wed nesday night on charges of as sault and engaging in an affray. As a result, Ernest Bates and Earl Finney are in jail for a 30- day stretch and Red Finney was relieved of $lO and the costs. Broxter Owens, Paul Bates and Fred Shores were given suspend ed sentences of 30 days upon payment of the costs and being of good behavior for a. period of six months. The six were said to have ganged up and attempted to work off excess steam upon John Foster and Clyde Cothren with more or less success, cracking a plate glass window in the show window of Turner Drug company during their efforts. The trouble occurred Halloween night. They were tried Thursday afternoon before Magistrate J. L. Hall. NO ACTION TAKEN IN POLICE MATTER Commissioners Order Dirt Streets To Be Worked Meeting Tuesday night with but three members and the Mayor pres ent, the Elkin board of commis sioners took no action upon a peti tion signed by 276 citizens and busi ness firms of the town requesting that W. G. Church, until the first of this month day policeman here, be re-instated. A resolution by the Elkin Kiwan is club requesting Mr. Church's re instatement was also submitted to the board and a personal appeal was made by L. G. Meed, president of the Elkin Merchants association, in behalf of the association. One hundred dollars was appro priated for materials needed on lo cal sidewalk projects, which will pro vide for everything but a top layer of granite dust. This phase of the project will be considered later. The comissioners also ordered that all dirt roads in North Elkin, East Elkin and Chatham Park be scraped and worked, and that a small elec ric light be located on the road leading from Chatham Park to Comb's place. Commissioners present were M. R. Bailey, H. P. Graham and C. C. Myers. J. R. Poindexter and Avery Neaves were abseht. Mayor M. A. Royall presided over the session. VOTE OF APPROVAL IS GIVEN NEW DEAL N. C. -and Nation As A Whole Approve Pres ident's Policies Charlotte, Nov. 6.—Democratic candidates, supporters of the new deal, piled up substantial margins over their Republican opponents in early returns from today's election. Public interest was apparently at a low ebb, resulting in a light vote being cast, and general indifference upon the part of election officials /ith regard to counting of the bal lots and making known the results. Throughout the nation election re turns showed that the voters have given approval to President Roose velt's "New Deal" in a manner high ly gratifying to Mr. Roosevelt. The only people we know of who are as foolish as those who ridicule all new ideas because they are new are those who ridicule all old ideas because they are old.—Thief River Falls Times. Let's see. Bootleggers couldn't be stopped because the public fav ored them. And does the public favor bandits? HJON | M . A | Gateway to C—T' Roaring V# Gap and the Blue Ridge PUBLISHED WEEKLY COMPLETE RETURNS FROM BRYAN SHOW G. 0. P. MAJORITY/ Thompson Is Given To tal of 4,071; Mat thews 2,372 FOLGER IS WINNER Although a complete tabulated vote by precincts was not available late Wednesday afternoon, unofficial totals disclosed that Surry county Democrats registered a majority of approximately 2,300 votes in Tues day's election, all Democratic nomi nees being returned to office. Complete unofficial returns by precincts were available for the of fice of Sheriff only, John D. Thomp son polling a total of 6,443 to his Republican opponents 4,071, a ma jority of 2,372. All other Democrats on the ticket polled approximately the same majority. Complete returns from Bryan township gave a majority to the Re publicans. Votes by precincts for sheriff fol lows: Mount Airy: (all precincts) Thompson 2,103, Matthews 960; Dob son: Thompson 980, Matthews 377; Bryan: Thompson 268, Matthews 353; Eldora: Thompson 159, Mat thews 301; Elkin: Thompson 716, Matthews 243; Franklin: Thompson 228, Matthews 237; Long HiU: Thompson 40, Matthews 190; Marsh: Thompson 248, Matthews 137; Pilot Mountain: Thompson 341, Matthews 253; Rockford: Thompson 242, Mat thews 206; Shoals, Thompson 263, Matthews 80; Siloam: Thompson 233, Matthews 123 Stewarts Creek: Thompson 408, Matthews 238; West field: Thompson 214, Matthews 373. Complete unofficial returns in Bryan township follow: Solicitor: Gwyn 207. For state senate: Folger 264, Love lace 351; Representative: Dobson 258, York 361; Clerk of Superior Court: Llewellyn 252, Bray 357, Tom Folger (independent candidate) .4; Sheriff: Thompson 258, Matthews 353; Register of Deeds: Gray 244, Harris 382; Coroner: Smith 262, Moorefield 355; Surveyor: Harbour 261, Wolfe' 362; County Commis sioners: Swanson 263, Snow 255, Lovill 262, Whitaker 361. Bryant 356, Sparger 357. Incomplete returns from Stokes county show a Democratic lead of approximately 500 votes. A complete tabulation of the offi cial vote jn Surry county, by pre cihcts, will be given in next week's Tribune. BUCKIN' ELKS GO DOWN FIGHTING Are Defeated By ing 13-0; Transoti Is Injured e Outweighed 10 pounds to the man and outscored but not outfought, the "Buckin' Elks" of Elkin high school bowed to Lansing Friday af ternoon at Chatham Park in one of the best games of the season, by a score of 13-0. Lansing scored on a short pass in the first quarter after Elkin held them on the eight yard line for three downs. The second marker came in the closing minutes of the last quarter. Captain Transou, quarterback and speerhead of Elkin's attack, was in jured in the third play of the game and had to be removed. The entire team played a good game, special mention going to the work of Price. Blackburn, Sale and Foster. Transou will probably be unable to play in the game Friday after noon here when Elkin meets Mocks ville. An early season game re sulted in a 13-13 tie. Several changes in the starting lineup will probably be made as Coach A. C. Hood is seek ing a man to take Transou's place. One feature in favor of the old style phonograph over the radio is that it doesn't take time out to tell us about tooth paste, auto tires and stomach medicine.