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ELXIN
"The Best
Little Town
In North
-- Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIV, No. 38
WORD TO START ON
PARKWAY EXPECTED
TO BE GIVEN SOON
North Carolina High
way Head and Ickes
Hold Conference
242 MILES IN STATE
Washington, July 30.—Long de
layed construction of the parkway
between the Great Smoky Mountain
National Park and the Shenandoah
National Park is expected to beCoaie
a reality tomorrow when Charles
Ross, general counsel of the North
Carolina State Highway and Public
Works Commission, will confer with
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes.
Mr. Ross, who has with him a
guaranty deed from the state of
North Carolina for the first 12 miles
of the parkway from the Virginia
line to Roaring Gap, will be' accom
panied at the conference by Sen
ators Bailey and Reynolds and Rep
resentatives Dough ton and Weaver.
In addition to the deed, in which
the state absolutely guarantees a
clear title to the right of way, Ross
has been authorized to enter into an
agreement to make available and
keep available a sufficient sum to
indemnify the government for any
loss it might sustain.
Because of the pendency of a case
in the United States Supreme Court
in which the right of the state of
Virginia to condemn land for trans
fer to the federal government is
questioned, the government has so
far refused to proceed without in
dividual titles to the various tracts
making up the right of way, which
varies from 200 to 1,500 feet in
width, averaging 800 feet.
Strong intimations have been
given that the course now worked
out will be satisfactory and that the
entire matter will be closed tomor
row.
This will set a precedent which
will result in quick action on the en
tire 242 miles of the parkway lying
in North Carolina, of which only 158
miles must be condemned, as the
other runs through land already
owned by the government. Condem
nation proceedings have alreadv been
instituted on the 12.4 miles of the
first link and under an act passed
by the 1935 General Assembly with
this situation in mind, title has al
ready vested in the state and the
transfer to the federal government
is specifically authorized.
SURRY BAPTISTS
TO MEET AUG. 2
To Convene With First
Baptist Church of
Mount Airy
The annual Surry Baptist associa
tion will convene with the First Bap
tist church in Mount Airy August
2, at 9:30 a. m., for a two-day ses
sion. W. L. Reece, Moderator of the
association, will preside over the
meeting which will feature an inter
esting and varied study of denomi
national work. The speakers will in
clude several prominent churchmen
in the denomination, both of the
county and state. The first session
will adjourn for dinner at 12:30 and
will reconvene at 1:30 for the after
noon session which will last until 5
o'clock. The evening session will be
gin at 8 o'clock.
Saturday's session will convene at
9:30 a. m., and adjourn at 12:15 for
the noon recess and reconvene at
1:30. The meeting will close at 4
p. m.
Among the local people who will
appear on the program are Rev. Eph
Whisenhunt, pastor of the First
Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
James and L. F. Walker.
J. Sam Gentry to
Head Bryan School
J. Sam Gentry, of Elkin and
Doughton, has been elected principal
of Bryan consolidated school at
Mountain Park. Mr. Gentry Is well
qualified for the position. He is an
honor graduate of the University of
North Carolina, and a member of
the Phi Betta Kappa, national hon
orary scholastic fraternity and dUT
ing his training at the University
he majored in public education. Last
year Mr. Gentry taught history and
directed athletics in the Dobson
school. The remainder of the facul
ty for Bryan school has not been
t announced.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Speaks for Ethiopia
NEW YORK . . . John, W. Shaw
of New York (above), has been
ramed Ethiopia's Consul-General
and that country's only diplomatic
representative in the U. S. Mr.
Shaw is in the importing business
here.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
PEACE IS STAKE
OF CONFERENCE
Geneva, July 30.— With peace in
Africa and possibly the future of
the League of Nations at stake,
statesmen of many nations gath
ered tonight for tomorrow's ex
traordinary session of the League
cf Nations council.
Preparations for efforts here to
settle peacefully the Italo-Ethio
pian quairrel contrasted sharply
with apparent preparations for
war.
Italy sent more troops to join
the tens of thousands already
massed on the Eritrean plateau,
while Ethiopia's field army, 10,-
000 strong, marched away from
Addis Ababa, reportedly en route
to the front.
League officials said conflict al
most was sure to develop around
the council table.
BROADCAST ALARM
FOR A. G. E. HEAD
Washington, .July 30.—Senate
lobby investigators today broad
cast a general alarm for Howard
-C. Hopson, millionaire mainspring
of the vast Associated Gas and
Electric system, and threatened to
flood the country with subpoenaes
commanding his appearance.
New testimony meanwhile re
vealed the missing witness holds
virtually dictatorial power over
the A. G. E., structure, extending
downward through a bewildering
maze of sub-holding companies to
others which supply electricity,
gas and water to 2,000 communi
ties.
AGENTS SEIZE
5,500 GALLONS WINE
Golds boro, July 30.—Federal
agents today seized 5,500 gallons
of homemade wine from L. B. Dail
farmer of the Mount Olive com
munity, but returned it to him
when he convinced them that he
had made unsuccessful efforts to
obtain the required government
permit.
A charge of manufacturing wine
without a federal permit was ten
tatively prepared, but was drop
ped. Officers said a government
gauger would be sent here to de
termine the tax owed by DaiL
DEPLORES TWO
"HORRIBLE CRIMES"
Raleigh, July 30.—Declaring
"two horrible crimes have been
committed in Franklin county to
day," Governor Ehringhaus of
fered the "fullest co-operation and
assistance" of the state to prose
cuting officials of the seventh ju
dicial district of North Carolina
"to do all possible to bring to trial
the responsible parties" for the
lynching near Louisburg of Go van
Ward, 25-year-old negTO, who
decapitated Charles G. Stokes, a
60-year-old white farmer.
RECOVER BODY
OF GIRL
Fayettevllle, July 30.—Searchers
this morning recovered the body
of Miss Ella May Panther, 18, w
Gastonia, who was drowned in
Rockfisb creek, near here, yester
day afternoon while swimming
with a party of friends. Coroner
W. C. Davis considered am inquest
unnecessary. The body is in an
undertaking home here pending
funeral arrangements which were
incomplete tonight.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935
GOVERNOR OFFERS
S2OO REWARD FOR
LYNCHERS ARREST
Mob Hangs Negro Who
Ran Amuck and Killed
Prominent Farmer
FKAJNKLIN COUNTY
Louisburg, July 30.—A judicial in
vestigation will be conducted here
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning into
the lynching near here today by an
infuriated mob of Govaii (Sweat)
amuck ta decapitate a prominent
farmer with an axe, assault two
other persons, and stage several fist
fights with officers.
Ward killed Charles G. Stokes, 60;
assaulted Spurgeon Askew, a youth;
and his his own sister, Rowena Ker
ney, twice on the head with an iron
rod during his outbreak.
He was taken by the mpb from
Sheriff J. T. Moore and two depu
ties as he was spirited away
due to high feeling. Ward was
hanged to a scrub oak tree at a
cross-roads about 10 miles north
east of Louisburg, near a tiny resort
called Lakeview.
Solicitor William Y. Bickett, of
Raleigh, came here immediately aft
er hearing of the lynching td make
an investigation, and tonight he
announced a judicial inquiry would
be opened Thursday morning. More
than a score of witnesses have al
ready been summoned to appear, he
said.
In Raleigh, Governor Ehringhaus
said he would assign a Superior
court judge to conduct the inquiry,
and would formally post the usual
reward, S2OO, for capture of the
lynchers, tomorrow morning.
CONSIDER DEBTS OF
FARMERS AT MEET
17 Official Distress
Cases Before Adjust
ment Committee
The Surry County Farm Debt Ad
justment Committee held its regular
semi-annual meeting Tuesday after
noon in the Court House at Dobson
at which time 17 financially dis
tressed farm debt cases were con
sidered by the committee. The ma
jority of these cases are expected
to be settled very soon.
All financially distressed farmers
of Surry county are urged to file
their applications with this com
mittee and avail themselves of this
free and comparatively easy method
of solving their financial problems.
The members of the Surry County
Farm Debt Adjustment Committee,
as appointed by Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus, are: R. C. Lewellyn, of
Dobson, chairman; and the follow
ing members: Albert Bunker, Mount
Airy; F. W. Graham, of Elkin; C. E.
Hiatt, of Pilot Mountain; and I. F.
Armfield, of Low Gap. Paul D. Mel
ton, of Dobson, serves as acting sec
retary for the Surry County Com
mittee.
For stealing a jar containing 500
pennies Fred Miller, of Parkersburg,
W. Va., has been sentenced to serve
ten years in prison.
Story of the U. S.
Constitution Is
Starting This Issue
Starting in this issue of THE
TRIBUNE, readers who are inter
ested In the affairs of govern
ment and in the details and un
derlying principles of the founda
tion of all government aikd laws
in the United States, will have an
opportunity to read in serial form
salient facts about the national
constitution in "The Story of the
Constitution," starting in this is
sue of The Tribune.
Right now, with the constitu
tion having been in the headlines
of the nation's newspapers for the
past several weeks, in connection
with the NRA surpreme court de
cision and other decisions of the
high court as to the constitution
ality of various laws enacted by
CongTess. is a good time for the
average citizen, to familiarise him
or herself with the provisions of
this famous old document, the
bedrock of our national govern
mental system.
Don't fall to read the first in
stallment of this educational se
ries of articles. / .
I New U. S. Dreadnaught of the Air
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SEATTLE . . . The largest air bomber ever built in the United States,
powered by four 700 h.p. motors with a speed of 200 miles per hour, has
been tuned up here for maiden test trials which include a flight over the
summit of Mt. Rainier for altitude ability.
COACH HOOD NOT
TO RETURN HERE
Popular High School
Coach Accepts Better
Job At Sanford
A. C. Hood, one of the most popu
lar athletic coaches in the history
of the local school, and who turned
out three good football teams here
from a standing start, will not re
turn to Elkin when school opens
this fall, although re-elected by the
local school board this spring.
In a letter received Tuesday from
•Coach Hood, it was learned that he
had been elected to a better position
at Sanford high school where he
will have charge of the athletic pro
gram. The Sanford school has both
an athletic field and a gymnasium.
Mr Hood's many friends here—
especially the boys of the local
school with whom he was very popu
lar—will learn with regret that he
will not return to his old job, but
will be glad to learn that he has ob
tained a better position. It is un
derstood that he was awarded his
new post over a junior college coach
and several outstanding high school
coaches.
MAGUIRE TO OPPOSE
HANCOCK FOR HOUSE
Discloses Ambition for
Seat In Congress To
Raleigh Bureau
S. O. Maguire, of Elkin, will oppose
Congressman Frank W. Hancock in
1936 provided his party will give him
the nomination, it was learned Sat
urday from a news dispatch bearing
a Raleigh date line.
Mr. Maguire, in telling a Raleigh
news bureau of his plans, stated he
is going to run on a dry ticket. "I
would not accept the office if I had
to get it by running on the wet
ticket," he is quoted as saying.
Mr. Maguire, a former representa
tive in the state legislature, helped
put through the road legislation in
1921 and would have introduced a
bill for $100,000,000 in the 1921 as
sembly, the Raleigh bureau reports.
According to this same source, the
Elkin man is expected to issue a
statement within the near future.
Six Escape Injury
When Car Overturns
Forced off the by the
glarihg lights of an approaching au
tomobile • Sunday night in Virginia,
the automobile operated by Andrew
Greenwood, of this city, and con
taining five other local people,
turned over, damaging the body of
the car to some extent but failing
to injure 'its occupants other than
slight minor lacerations and bruises.
Forcing their way from the over
turned car, which came to rest bot
tom-side-up, the party turned it
back upon its wheels and drove it
on to Elkin.
"Your Honor, the woman is dance
mad and cares nothing fur home."
testified Fred L. Marsh of Chicago
In hi,3 divorce suit.
Six Cases of Fever
In County; One Has
Resulted Fatally
There are three cases of para
typhoid fever in the Pine Ridge
section of Surry county; two c»es
of paratyphoid near Siloam; one
case near Elkin, and there has
been one death near Elkin from
typhoid fever within the past few
weeks, it was learned from Dr. J.
Allen Whitaker, Surry county
health officer.
The person who died of typhoid
was over 70 years of age.
Urging that everyone avail
themselves of the free typhoid
vaccination now being given in
clinics throughout the county, Dr.
Whitaker pointed out that of the
cases mentioned above, none had
ever been vaccinated.
SIX CONVICTS MAKE
BREAK FROM PRISON
Surry Prison Camp Is
Scene; All But One-
Are Captured
Six Negro convicts, the majority
of them lOng termers, escaped from
the Surry county prison camp, near
Dobson, Monday afternoon. Five
had been captured Wednesday.
Those in the break were N. G.
Scott, Garland Walker, Booker T.
Williams, Herman Leach, James
Alexander and Billy Clark. Clark
is the only one now at liberty.
The break occurred Monday af
ternoon after the six had pleaded
illness and remained in their prison
block. While guards were busy about
various duties at the camp, a chain
holding the door of the block was
filed in two and the dash for liberty
begun.
One of the escapers was captured
by guards near the camp a few hours
later, and the other four were tak
en some time later.
John D. Berry Passes
In Raleigh July 25th
Friends of the family here will re
gret to know of the sudden death
of John D. Berry at his home in
Raleigh Thursday of last week. Mr.
Berry had long been prominent in
religious and fraternal circles
throughout the state. He also served
as reading clerk in the house of rep
resentatives in 1929.
Mr. Berry is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Martha Lavora.
Bray, of this city, and two children.
Negroes To Present
Sacred Song Program
Sunday-evening at the close of the
regular service at the First Baptist
church in this city, a group of Ne
groes from Huntsville will present a
program of sacred songs in the
church auditorium. A silver Offer
ing will be taken at the conclusion
of the program, the proceeds . of
which will be used in erecting, a
Baptist church in Hunteville. The
public is cordially invited to attend
ELJUN -
Gateway to
Roaring
Gap and the
Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
LOCAL CLUB HOLDS
MEETING IN HONOR
DEPARTING MEMBERS
Dr. Johnson and Walter
R. Schaff Presented
With Gifts
PAY HIGH TRIBUTE
A meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis
club, designated as ladies' night,
was held Tuesday evening at the
new school playground in honor of
Df. H. L. Johnson and Walter R.
Schaff, two members of the club
who are soon departing to other
fields.
A wrist watch was presented Dr.
Johnson, and a traveling bag was
presented Mr. Schaff on the part of
the club and other citizens of the
town, as tokens of the esteem in
which they are held. The watch
was presented by Dr. M. A. Royall,
and the traveling bag by Rev. Er
nest W. Pox.
Mrs. C. H. Brewer, president of
the Elkin Woman's club, in a few
well chosen words, expressed regret
that Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Schaff
a-e leaving the city and told of the
..valuable work they have rendered
as members of the various ladies' or
ganizations of the city.
In presenting Dr. Johnson with
the watch, Dr. Royall spoke of him
as "the man," "the surgeon," and
as "my friend," paying glowing
tribute. He spoke of him as "al
ways kind, courteous and helpful—
an ethical gentleman who has raised
the standards of medical ethics
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MRS. W. R. WARREN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Funeral Services Held
Wednesday Morning
At Jonesville
Mrs. Ressie Spivey Warren, 36,
died in the local hospital Monday
night following an operation and an
acute illness of only two days. The
deceased was a native of the Siloam
community of Surry county and a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen, Spivey. For the past ten
years she has made her home in
Jonesville, where she had a host of
friends.
She is survived by her husband,
William R. Warren and four daugh
ters, Margaret, Catherine, Mary
and Dorothy Warren, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Morgan Creed, Mount Airy
and Mrs. John Branch, Dobson.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 10 o'clock from
the Jonesville Methodist church, of
which the deceased was a member
and the remains were conveyed to
Siloam where interment was in the
family plot in the cemetery there.
The last rites were in charge of Rev.
J. M. Green, pastor of the Jones
ville Methodist church, assisted by
Rev. D. O. Reece.
TO BEGIN REVIVAL
AT ZION AUG. 18
Non-Resident Members
Asked to Aid In Clean
up of Cemetery
All non-resident members of Zion
Baptist church are requested to mast
j with the other members of the
| church Friday, for the purpose of
cleaning off the cemetery and the
church grounds.
This is an annual event requiring
a day or more of hard work tor the
few who have heretofore come to
help, for the cemetery is one of the
largest rural cemeteries to be found
in this section of the state. Also
the ladies are planning to clean the
church house and the new Sunday
school rooms in preparation for the
annual revival meeting which is to
begin on the 3rd Sunday in August.
Anyone who cannot come to help
with the work of cleaning the church
and giounds but would like to help
with the work in a financial way,
will have the opportunity to do so.
They may send the funds to any of
the regular officers of the church
with the request that it be used for
that pmrpoee. I. o. Reed is the
treasurer of the church and Clay
Myers is chairman of the grave yard
committee.