THE TRIBUNE HOLDS THE TROPHY CUP (SSS-iSS) AS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE THE DAILY FIELD
"The Bat
Little Town
In North
Carolina"
VOL* No. XXIV, No. 36
Washington Cools Off
• '''ypi
titS y «
■ - x
WASHINGTON ... A summer
night's view of the terrace fountain
on the Capitol Plaza where Wash
ingtonians try to find relief from
the sweltering heat during the sum
mer months.
Free-Style Champ
OH
'4R ; '.
: -^HM|^^HV
W
VUI IIVMMHH^K
NEW YORK .. . Little Mavis Free
man (above), led all the way in the
National Junior A.A.U. free-style
100-meter swim in the finals just
featured -here. She's now national
junior champion.
Fall Suit Forecast
fm. \ \ M
WF . "vl
j \ %
-r" V j*
Wg Jm H ifl
■ HHflrt >. /
NEW YORK . . . June Clayworth,
screen star forecasts the Fall with
a smart suit of green and gray wool.
The plaid skirt is cut on the bias.
The jacket is plain gray with novel
metal fasteners. Green patent belt,
plaid ascot scarf, gray hat with
green band and gray bag and gloves
complete the ensemble.
To Coach Czechs
• §4
, *• ''C%>T %s
■
t JHlff
H Jk /wKHKi
PHILADELPHIA ... Ted Meredith,
formerly one of the world's great
est middle-distance ranners, is now
on the high seas enroute to Czecho
slovakia where he will coach that
nation's 1936 Olympic track team.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
ELKIN, LEAKSVILLE
AND ROXBORO ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR P. 0.
Survey Will Determine
Which Town Gets Fed
eral Building:
FUND IS REDUCED
With the federal appropriation un
der the President's work bill for the
erection of federal buildings slashed,
chances of a new postoffice for
t.hls congressional district lies
between Elkin, Roxboro and
Leaksville, Congressman Prank
Hancock stated here Tuesday while
en route from Washington to Roar
ing Gap where his family is spend
ing the summer months.
To determine which of the three
towns is really most in need of a
new postoffice, a new survey will be
made upon which a decision will be
reached.
Postmaster P. W. Graham said
Tuesday that in case Elkin should
not be given the federal building this
year, the town would again be eli
gible for a building next year. How
ever, he is hopeful that the decision
as to which town really needs the
building the worst will be in Elkin's
favor.
INSTALL NEW AND
SAFER MACHINES
Fire-Proof Projectors
Are New Equipment
of Lyric Theatre
At all times Interested in giving
Elkin movie fans the very best in
material equipment as well as pic
tures, the Lyric theatre has recently
completed installation of new fire
proof projectors which are designed
to reduce to a minimum fire hazards
and at the same time create a stead
ier picture on the screen.
The new machines, the most
modern type of equipment on the
market today, utilize a new type
shutter which operates between the
light beam and the film instead of
in front of the projection lens as in
the former machines. This shutter,
which cuts off all image from the
screen—although too quick for the
eye to see—while the partition be
tween the pictures on the film is be
ing drawn by the lens, is shaped to
farm a fan which circulates cool air
over the face of the film.
In case the film should break, the
shutter is timed so that one of the
blades will always stop in such a
position that it will cut off the beam
of light from the film. In old ma
chines when the film broke, the in
tense heat of the light beam would
ignite the film almost instantly if
the safety device with which it was
equipped, failed to function. The
new arrangement cannot fail, it was
said.
In addition to its safety features,
the new machines are superior to the
old in many other ways, Louis
Mitchell, owner of the theatre, sta
ted.
MRS. ALICE W. BELL
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Winston-Salem Woman,
Well - Known Here,
Suffers Heart Attack
Mrs. R. P. Crater and Mrs. W. S.
Sale were called to Winston-Salem
Tuesday on account of the death of
their step-mother, Mrs. Alice Wise
man Bell, 67, who passed away at
her home there, from a heart attack
which she suffered on the proceed
ing Friday.
„ Mrs. Bell is well known here, hav
ing frequently visited in the homes
of Mesdames Crater and Sale.
She is survived by four daughters:
Mrs. Leßoy Salmons, Winston-
Salem ; Mrs. Luther Craver, Har
mony; Mrs. G. C. Huff, Boonvtlle,
and Mrs. Dick Stark, Memphis,
Tenn., and two sons, Walter Bell,
of Winston-Salem, and W. A. Bell,
of Louisville, Ky.; two step-daugh
ters, Mesdames Crater and Sale of
this city, and one step-son, Charles
Bell, of Hamptonvlile, and one
brother, John Wiseman, of Yadkin
ville.
Funeral services will be held at
the home in Winston-Salem this
morning at 9:30 and the remains
will be brought to Flat Rock church
in Yadkin county for the final ser
vice and interment at 11 o'clock.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935
Political Conferences Now Order of the Day
M
KjjT* %£&
CHICAGO . . . That the 1936 national political campaign gives promise
of much action is being indicated these days in the staging of varied
political conferences throughout the middle-west. At Omaha, Roy M.
Harrop, chairman, called a Farmer-Labor convention to order. At Cleve
land, State Senator George H. Bender, opened the Republican Crusaders
Conference which caused considerable comment in G.O.P. circles. And
here at Chicago, Alfred Bingham, left, national secretary, and Paul H.
Douglas, right, Chicago U. professor and permanent chairman called a
"Third Party" meeting to order.
BLANKETEERS WIN
FOUR AND TIE ONE
12 and 14 Inning Night
Games Feature Last
Weejt's Play
The Chatham Blanketeers end
ed a big week in baseball circles
Saturday with a win over Thom
asville Chair Company to give
them a total of four wins and one
tie for the week.
Taking the games in order, the
scores were: Tuesday, Lenoir,"
15-0; Wednesday, Duke Power Co.,
High Point, 8-3; Thursday, Grey
hound Travelers. 3-2; Friday, Mo
juds, Greensboro, 9-9; and Satur
day, Thoinasville Chair company,
12-6.
The night game with the Trav
elers went 12 innings before the
Blanketeers eked out a win. Fri
day night, in a second night af
fair with Mock-Judson at Greens
boro, the game continued 14 in
nings and was then called at 9-9
due to the lateness of the hour.
In the Lenoir game Tuesday,
one of a series in the Charlotte
Observer semi-pio tournament,
the Blanketeers knocked the
boards off the fence with three
homers, three triples and three
doubles. Homers were by Weston,
Clodfelter and H. Hambright;
triples by Cornelius and Weston,
and doubles by H. and F. Ham
bright and Mackie.
Thursday night's game with the
Travelers was a pitchers' duel
with Stockton and Rumple gain
ing the decision over Fair Swaim,
the game being one of the finest
amateur exhibitions ever wit
nessed in Winston-Salem. It was
anybody's game until West lifted
a short fly to Clodfelter in the in
field in the 12th inning to end
the - cpntest.
Friday night at Greensboro the
Mojuds were leading S-6 in the
ninth inning when Chatham
scored three runs to tie the score.
After that neither team could
break the tie and the game was
finally' called.
A feature of the game was Wes
ton's great catch of a fly at cen
i«r which averted defeat for Chat
ham. t I" '--J
Cornelius garnered a homer for
the Blanketeers with two men on.
Saturday, in the game with
Thomasville, Davis and Clodfelter
led the hitting with three for
four each.
Chatham To Face
Two Strong Teams
On Week-End Bill
Meeting the Chatham team of
the Winston-Salem mill Wednes
day afternoon, the Chatham
Blanketeers are facing two other
strong teams on this week-end's
baseball menu.
.Tonight at Greensboro Chat
ham will meet White Oak in the
second game of a series at the
World War Memorial stadium, the
Blanketeers having won the first
game, which was played here.
This game is scheduled to begin
at 8:15.
Saturday the Lark wood Hosiery
Mill squad, of Charlotte, will play
here at Riverside Park. The
game is called for 3:30.
TO GET HEARING
IN WRECK CASE
Driver of Death Car to
be Tried Next Term
of Superior Court
A preliminary hearing for Ora
Taylor, of Mount Airy, arrested here
Saturday, July 6 for possession of
whisky following an automobile wreck
on the Dobson highway about five
miles east of Elkin in which one
person was killed and another in
jured, will be held here Saturday
before Magistrate Lum Young, it was
learned Monday.
Taylor, who was said to have been
sitting in the rear of the small truck
which wrecked, is alleged to have
pulled himself from the wreckage
and to have hidden a jar of whisky
in a nearby confield. The whisky
was later found by officers.
Jack Puckett, driver of the death
car, will be tried at the next term of
Surry superior court on a charge of
manslaughter. He waived la pre
liminary hearing when arrested and
is being held in the Dobson jail in
default of $3,000 bond.
Gaston Cobbler, the young man
who suffered a broken back in the
wreck, although resting -comfortably
at the local hospital, is still para
lyzed from the waist down. Only
time will determine whether or not
he will ever regain the use of his
legs, hospital attaches state.
More than half the kraft paper
made in the United States Is pro
duced from Southern pine wuodpulp
by Southern mills.
- " ■ '• •
Farmers Would Suffer
Most If Supreme Court
Holds AAA Is Invalid
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
INQUIRY REVEALS
ORIGIN OF TELEGRAMS
Washington, July 16.—A tale of
anti-utility bill telegrams, dic
tated by a power company repre
sentative, signed with names from
a city directory and then mys
teriously burned was unfolded to
day before the senate lobby com
mittee.
Nervous, but never hesitant,
Jack A Fisher, Western Union of
fice manager at Warren, Pa., now
suspended from duty, related the
story to the committee in an ef
fort, he said, to clear himself of
suspicion that he was involved in
the destruction of the messages.
HUEY STILL
AFTER WALMSLEY
New Orleans, July 16. —Senator
Huey P. Long today apparently
' had decided upon a recall election
to remove from office his political
antagonist, Mayor T. Semmes
Walmsley.
Having abandoned two plans
aimed at ousting the mayor, one
which failed and the other being
discarded before attempts were
made to execute it, Senator Long
announced his newest threat
agaist Walmsley in a printed cir
cular laid on the doorsteps of
thousands of New Orleans homes
today.
RUMBLE OF WAR
GROWS LOUDER
Rome, July 16. —The rumble of
preparation for Italo-Ethopian
hostilities increased in volume to
day as Italy's inspired press, echo
ing military circles, shouted its be
lief war was inevitable.
At Addis Ababa, official circles
said increasing indications Italy
intended to use force against her
had led Ethiopia to begin exten
sive military preparations "to
meet an emergency."
TO DIE FOR
$24 HOMICIDE
Winston-Salem, July 16.—Ger
many Williams and Lawrence
Dingle, negroes, today were sen
tenced by Judge J. A. Rousseau
to die by lethal gas on August 23,
after their conviction yesterday
for first degree murder. They
were found guilty of killing John
Gant, negro iceman, April 28, dur
ing a holdup netting them $24.
HOLDS AAA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Washington, July 16. —With the
senate already in a state of all
but hopeless confusion as it wor
ried along on the AAA amend
ments, Boston created a diversion
when the circuit court of appeals
there held agricultural adjust
ment act unconstitutional today
in a decision rather strikingly
analogous to the decision of the
Supreme court in the NRA case.
VETERANS CHOOSE
ASHEVILLE .
Hickory, July 16. The United
Spanish War veterans, depart
ment of North Carolina, in clos
ing their 12th annual encamp
ment here today selected Ashe
ville as the next meeting place.
Winston-Salem was the only oth
. er city extending an invitation
for the 1936 encampment.
% . .11 1.1.. I. .11,1 ■
Revival Services Are To
Start At Yadkin Church
A revival service will begin at St.
Paul's church, near Hamptonville,
Yadkin county, Sunday night, July
21, and will continue for a week.
Sunday, July 28, will be observed
as Home-Coming Day. Services will
be held at 11 a. m. and 2 p. m., in
charge of the pastor, Rev. J. L. A.
Bumgarner, assisted by Rev. J. M.
Fowler, evangelist, of Canton. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
-A pound of steel Is worth $60,000
when made into watch springs.
ELKIN r 1
Gateway ton
Roaring
Gap and the
Bine Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
HOWEVER, CAPITOL
NOT ALARMED OVER
FATE OF PROGRAM
10 Millions of Benefits
Have Gone to Tar
Heel Farmers
TO APPEAL RULING
Washington, July 16.—The court
of appeals decision in Boston holding
the processing tax unconstitutional
did not cause any great amount of
alarm here today among those who
are in sympathy with the AAA farm
program.
In the first place the AAA amend
ments, which have passed the House
and now pending in the Senate, are
designed to meet the chief objection
raised by the court and that is dele
gation of legislative powers.
Senator Bankhead, Alabama Dem
ocrat, said he was confident the new
bill removed any chance of the Su
preme Court declaring the process
ing tax unconstitutional.
Chairman Smith, of the Senate
agriculture committee, was not so
optimistic, but said if the Supreme
Court should declare the processing
tax unconstitutional then Congress
would have to appropriate funds
out of the treasury for benefit pay
ments in order to preserve the
Roosevelt farm program.
The processing tax is the very
heart of the AAA plan to assure the
farmer parity for his products and
should the Supreme Court uphold
the court of appeeals it would be a
bitter blow to agriculture.
Tobacco farmers would suffer as
much if not more than any other
class. The AAA program thus far
has benefitted tobacco growers more
than any other group of farmers.
By using the processing tax to
make benefit payments to co-operate
growers the AAA has succeeded in
lining production with consumption
and last year the price of flue-cured
tobacco was well above parity.
In addition to the higher prices
which this co-operation among
growers has brought, the producers
of flue-cured tobacco have received
approximately fifteen million dollars
in cash benefit payments.
What is more important to North
Carolina is the fact that of this
amount ten million dollars has come
into the pockets of Tar Heel grow
ers.
TRAPHILL MAN IS
TAKEN AT STILL
Egbert Wiles Arrested
As Federal Men Raid
Still; Bond S7OO
A resident of the Traphill com
munity of Wilkes county, Egbert
Wiles was arrested last Thursday
durjng a raid on a still in that
vicinity by federal officers.
The raid netted in addition to the -
capture of Wiles, the seizure of a
medium sized still, and a consider
able quantity of spirits and ma
terials for liquor manufacture. Of
ficers conducting the raid were J. R.
Brandon, A. R. Williams, Leonard
Roope, C. S. Pelts, P. D. Lumpkin
and Clinard Johnson.
Following a preliminary hearing
before Commissioner J. W. Dula in
Wilkesboro, Wiles was placed under
S7OO bond pending his appearance
in federal court at Wilkesboro in
November,
EHrin Youths Escape
Injury In Accident
Thomas Phillips and Fred Colhard,
of Elkin, escaped with minor bruises
about 11:15 Wednesday night a
week ago when a car driven by Hu
bert Matthews, of Wilkes county,
struck the car in which the two
youths were riding, causing it to turn
over.
The accident occurred on the
Boone Trail, near Roberts Pilling
Station, as the t-vo Elkin young men
were returning from a visit with
friends at North Wilkesboro. Both
cars were damaged.