ATTEND ELKIN DOLLAR DAYS, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVin. No. 43
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LOCAL
LINVTLLE K. HENDREN, of
Elkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Hendren, has received the
appointment as substitute clerk
in the Elkin postoffice, it was
announced Wednesday morn
ing by French Graham, post
master. Mr. Hendren was
among the many who took the
civil service examination here
January 21. He was to begin
his duties Wednesday morn
ing. Jack Smoot, of Elkin, has
held the job since the latter
part of last year while postal
officials were awaiting an ap
pointment to be made.
MRS. J. H. POPLIN, injur
ed last week in a collision in
Washington, N. C., wben the
motorcycle on which she and
her husband were making a
trip was in collision with an
automobile, has returned home
here after being detained in a
Washington hospital for treat
ment. Although badly shaken
up, Mrs. Poplin was not ser
iously injured.
A BOY SCOUT court of
honor will be held at the Elkin
Methodist church Thursday
evening at 7:45 o'clock, it has
been announced.
STATE
TARBORO Miss Anne
Winslow, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Winslow, of Tar
boro, is believed to have been
a passenger on the Fll-fated
liner Athenia.
Miss Winslow was scheduled
to leave London last week but
her last-minute passage was
cancelled and she was expect
ed to leave on the next boat,
the Athenia.
No word of her whereabouts
has been received yet t>v her
parents.
WINSTON-SALEM will
make a bid for an authorized
$10,000,000 aeronautical re
search laboratory to be estab
lished by the United States
government, William Hitter,
secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, announced Tues
day. The matter will be con
sidered this afternoon at 2:30
o'clock at a meeting to be at
tended by Congressman Lon
Folger, President James Weeks
of the Chamber of Commerce;
Harvey Lumpkin, possibly
State Senator Gordon Gray,
and Ritter.
NATIONAL
NEW YORK Large-scale
buying swept into commodities
and shares of corporations
calculated to benefit from war
demand, as Wall street mar
kets resumed trading today
for the first time since declar
ation of European war. Shares
of leading oils, coppers, steels
and motors jumped $2 to more
than $lO a share in the stock
exchange, as they were taken
in blocks of 1,000 to 9,000
shares. '
INTERNATIONAL
PARlS—Fifty German air
raiders bombed and partially
destroyed a Red Cross train
near Szydlowicz, Poland, at 9
a.m. today (4 a.m. E.D.T.) the
Polish Telegraph Agency re
ported.
GALWAY, North Ireland
Three hundred and eighty sur
vivors of the British liner
Athenia, Including about 200
Americans, landed at noon to
day, haggard, weary and
wrapped in dressing gowns
and blankets.
BUENOS AIRES Two
cruisers from Great Britain's
West Indies fleet, the sister
ships Ajax and Exeter, had
German shipping holed up to
day in South Atlantic ports, or
seeking to outrace them for
the safety of neutral harbors.
The Ajax opened wartime op
erations at dawn Sunday by
winking the German cargo
ship OUnda after first taking
off the 42 members of the
crew in two life boats that had
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Final Plans Being
Pushed For Start
Of The Elkin Fair
BIGGER MIDWAY,
FIREWORKS ARE
NEW FEATURES
Horse Show and Parade to
Be Held Thursday
PREMIUM LIST IS S7OO
Error m Advertisement Stat
ed Premiums Totalled
Only SIOO
DOG SHOW ON FRIDAY
Final >plans for the opening of
the Elkin fair here next Wednes
day, September 13, are being
completed, and fair officials are
expecting the event to be the
most successful in the history of
the fair.
This year the fair will present
a new midway, with fifteen con
cessions and four modern rides,
to be brought here by the Bullock
Amusement Enterprises, Inc.
Rides and concessions are expect
ed to arrive at the fairgrounds
about noon Sunday, coming here
from Taylorsville.
As usual, one of the main fea
tures of the fair will be the horse
show and parade to be staged
Thursday morning, the parade to
start at 10:00 a.m. from the
Chatham ball park, traverse
Main street to Elk Spur and from
Elk Spur to the fairgrounds,
where the judging will take place.
Many fine horses and mules will
appear in the parade, and several
clowns will add to the merriment
of the occasion. Cash prizes and
ribbons will be awarded in the
various classifications. All ani
mals to appear in the parade and
show should be at the ball park
not later than 10:00 a.m. Another
new feature will be a display of
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COMMISSIONERS
HOLDJEETING
Surry Board Gathers at Dob
son Monday to Consider
Routine Business
JURY LIST IS DRAWN
The Surry County Board of
Commissioners met Monday
morning at the court house in
Dobson. Routine business' was
disposed of and the jury list was
drawn for the regular term of
civil court, which will begin Mon
day, September 25, with Judge
Zeb V. Nettles presiding.
Jurors to serve for the term
are: First week —Benton Carter,
Brisco Wilson, C. P. Hines,
George H. Badgett, R. L. Rine
hart, S. K. Harrell, Grov'er Scott,
J. A. Roberts, Jesse Bennett, Sam
Atkinson, Jr., Edd Ward, Robert
A. Flinchman, Paul Venable, Roy
Hunt, J. P. Chilton, Zeli V.
Hatcher, J. P. Blue, A. D. Bean,
Albert D. Forkner, W. N. Cox, C.
A. Tickle and G. C. Ellis.
Second week P. D. Inman,
Fred Eidson, G. L. Hampton, Ba
ford Good, M. C. Gentry, J. C.
Nance, Roy E. Hlatt, Reid Flip
per, Clyde A. Wall, R. J. Wil
liams, R. G. Royall, E. S. Hen
dren, Vander Cane. T. A. Steele,
Brady Coe, J. A. Layell, Elmer
Caudle and T. Vera Cockerham.
S. S. CONVENTION
TO BE HELD 10th
The monthly meeting of the
Surry Baptist Associational Sun
day school convention will be
held with Mt. Carmel Baptist
church, near Mount Airy, Sun
day, September 10, at 2:15 p. m.
All Sunday schools in the as
sociation are requested to have a
representation present.
Miss Janie Tucker will leave
Wednesday for Marion, where
she will resume her place on the
faculty of the city schools.
f/JV.C. Off
Is to Address
Surry Teac
Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head of
the department of education of
the University of North Caro
lina, who will address the
teachers of Sorry county when
they hold their first meeting of
the year in Dobson Saturday,
September 9.
Surry Teach
To Hold First
Meeting of Year
Surry county teachers will
meet in the first meeting of the
year in Dobson high school audi
torium Saturday, September 9,
10:30 a.m.
Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head of
the department of education, of
the University of North Carolina,
will address the teachers at this
meeting. Dr. Douglas is recog
nized as one of the outstanding
men in the field of secondary ed
ucation. He is the author of a
number of books on organization,
administration, and supervision.
He came to North Carolina from
the University of Minnesota
where he had done outstanding
work for a number of years. The
American Council of Education
selected Dr. Douglas to write a
book on Secondary Education for
Youth in America. This work
has been completed and studied
with interest over the nation.
Superintendent John W. Comer
will speak briefly on plans of the
schools for the coming year.
J. Sam Gentry, president of the
county teachers association, will
preside over the meeting and at
the conclusion of the meeting of
ficers will be elected for the asso
ciation for the coming year and
departmental organizations will
be set up to function during the
present school term.
OFFICERS MAKE
RAID IN YADKIN
Swoop Down on Home of
Alonzo Plowman; Seize
Quantity of Whisky
FIVE ARE ARRESTED
Yadkinville, Sept. 7 (Special)
—Sheriff A. L. Inscore and Dep
uty R. M. Haynes think they
broke up one of the sore spots of
the county Sunday afternoon
when they raided the home of
Alonzo Plowman in the Flint
Hill section and seized a small
quantity of whiskey. Plowman
was arrested along with four
others who "dropped in" for their
supply of spirits while the offi
cers were present.
The officers state that tkey
have received many complaints
about Plowman, but on previous
occasions had been unable to
Ids whiskey. Plowman has serv
ed a number of road sentences
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ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
AAA PAYMENTS
MAY BE HIGHER
FOR YEAR 1938
National Payment Will Total
About $500,000,000
MORE THAN IN 1937
Money Will Be Paid to Sur
ry County Farmers for
Conservation Practices
$116,583 PAID IN 1937
Washington, Sept. 4 Total
AAA payments to Surry county
farmers for 1938 conservation
practices, still being made, are
expected to be higher than for
1937, when payments totalled
$116,583.39, AAA officials said to
day.
The national payment for 1938
will total about $500,000,000 as
compared to $325,856 887 paid for
1937 practices. Delays and ad
justments in payments delay
final county computation for
about eighteen months. The 1937
figures were announced only to
day.
The Surry eounty 1936 pay
ment was $114,400.56, lower than
that for 1937. North Carolina
payments were $10,015,932.42 in
1937 as compared with $12,304,-
301.25 4n 1936. National pay
ments also were higher for 1936
than for the latter year, totalling
almost $400,000,000 in 1936.
Payments for 1936 and 1937
were made under the Soil Con
servation and Domestic Allot
ment Act, passed February 29,
1936, eight weeks after the Su
preme Court invalidated the pro
duction-control features of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act. The
new act emphasized soil con
servation as well as production,
and payments are for practices
which conserve and build up soil
fertility.
CHAS. R. BELL
DIES SATURDAY
Illness Suffered Early in May
Proves Fatal; Deceased
Highly Esteemed
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
Charles Robert Bell, 69, of
Hamptonville, route 1, died late
Saturday afternoon in a States
ville hospital. Mr. Bell was
stricken early in May and his
condition had been regarded as
serious since the beginning of his
illness, and the greater part of
the time he was confined to the
hospital.
The deceased was a life-long
resident of Yadkin county and a
son of the late Shadrach Bell and
Mrs. Jane Burgiss Bell. He was
a member of the Flat Rock Bap
tist church and a highly esteem
ed man in .his community.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 2:30 from
Flat Rock Baptist church. The
rites were in charge of Rev. R.
L. West, pastor of the deceased,
assisted by Rev. E. W. Turner of
Mocksville, a former pastor. In
terment was in the family plot in
the church cemetery.
Mr. Bell is survived by his wife
and five children: Shadrach Bell
of Elkin; Hal Bell of Washing
ton, D. C.; Mrs. W. E. Overstreet
of Roanoke, Va., and Noel and
Sam Bell of the home. Two sis
ters, Mrs. R. P. Crater and Mrs.
W. S .Sale of this city; three
half-sisters, Mrs. Leßoy Salmons,
of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Richard
Stark, of Memphis, Tenn., and
Mrs. Calvin Huff of Boonville;
two half-brothers, S. Walter Bell
and Will Bell, of Winston-Salem,
and four grandchildren also sur
vive.
KIWANIANS TO ATTEND
JOINT MEETING FRIDAY
The Elkin Kiwanis club met
last Thursday evening at the
Jonesville Methodist church and
enjoyed a picnic supper served by
the ladies of the church.
Kiwanian Stacey Weaver pre
sided over the session, which was
well attended.
Friday evening the club will go
to North Wilkesboro for an inter
club meeting with North Wilkes
boro and Lenoir. The meeting
will begin at 6:30 o'clock.
Roosevelt Proclaims Nation's
Neutrality As War Rages In
Europe; British Liner Sunk
AIVW J lAIJ7T) The largest merchant ship ever
IfEjJt Lilly Ljlx built in the United States, the
United States Liner America, which exceeds in size
any other ship in the merchant fleet flying the Stars and
Stripes, and which was launched August 31, is pictured
below in an artist's sketch. It was to have been operated
on the passenger service between New York and European
ports, but the outbreak of war in Europe may alter these
plans.
Elkin Merchants Are
Expecting Big Crowd
Here For Dollar Days
Local Stores Have Been Preparing for Big Three-Day Event
for Weeks, and Hundreds of Money-Saving Values
Will Go on Sale at 8:30 Thursday Morning
This week-end, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, will be Dollar
Days in Elkin.
Practically all Elkin stores are
cooperating in the event an
event designed to offer unusual
values—values which will save
everyone really worthwhile
amounts, and stores report that
everything will be in readiness
when doors swing open Thursday
morning at 8:30 o'clock.
Local stores have been prepar
ing for Dollar Days for weeks.
Special buys have been made at
prices which will enable the mer
chants to pass on the savings to
their customers. Extra sales
people have been employed so
JONESVILLE TO
OPEN SCHOOL
Session Will Get Under Way
Next Monday Morning
at 9:30 O'Clock
USE FLAT FEE BASIS
Preparations are complete for
the opening of the 1939-40 ses
sion of the Jonesville schools next
Monday, September 11.
Opening exercises will be con
ducted at the high school audi
torium at 9:30 a.m., directed by
Superintendent L. S. Weaver.
No estimate has been made of
the expected enrollment, al
though it is generally believed the
building will be filled to capacity
for the term.
All Jonesville children who
have reached the age of six—or
v/ho will have reached that age
by October 1, will be eligible to
enroll.
The flat fee system of renting
books, effective throughout Yad
kin county this year for the first
time, will be used in the Jones
ville schools.
PRACTICALLY ALL OF
SURRY SCHOOLS OPEN
All Surry county schools, with
the exception of Eld ore, Dobson,
White Plains and Pilot Mountain,
opened Monday morning. The
enrollment is one of the largest
in the history of the schools.^
Harold Tucker left Monday to
resume his studies at Phieffer
College at Misenheimer.
that the throngs of value seekers
expected here will be put to no in
convenience in getting waited
upon.
The Tribune, cooperating with
the merchants, whose advertise
ments appear in this issue with
complete details of the bargains
to be found here, is mailing five
thousand additional copies, and
is appearing one day earlier than
usual so that the paper may be
widely distributed before the
event begins. All regular sub
scribers and new readers who will
get the paper this week are urged
to read all advertisements so that
they may be better informed as
to the oportunity that is awaiting
at Elkin stores.
CHATHAM BOAT
EXPECTED 7TH
Thurmond Chatham Believed
to Have Sailed on Empress
of Britain
NO WORD IS RECEIVED
Although no word has been re
ceived by the Chatham Manu-f
facturing company from Mr. and
Mrs. Thurmond Chatham and Mr.
and Mrs. James Q. Hanes and
children, of Winston-Salem, since
they were scheduled to have sailed
from Southampton, England, last
Saturday at noon (London time),
aboard the British liner, Empress
of Britain, it is believed that their
ship should enter the St. Lawrence
River, Canada, sometime Tuesday
night, it was learned Tuesday
afternoon from Albert Butler, vice
president of the company.
The Empress of Britain is sched
uled to dock at Montreal, Canada,
Wednesday, Mr. Butler said.
Absence of any word from the big
boat could be attributed to the
fact that its radio has remained
silent in order to prevent subma
rines from learning its wherea
bouts. It is hoped that the big
liner will arrive as scheduled.
Once it enters the St. Lawrence
it is believed that it should be
safe from attack.
Mr. and Mrs. Chatham are ac
companied by their two sons,
Luck and Hugh. Mr. and Mrs.
Hanes are accompanied by their
son, Gordon. The party hfid been
vacationing in Scotland.
24 PAGES
THREE SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
HITLER'S ARMY
IS SAID TO BE
NEAR WARSAW
Sound of Shell Fire Heard In
Polish Capital
BRITISH BOMB BASE
German Torpedo Sends Liner
with 1,400 Aboard to
Bottom of Sea
FRENCH ARMIES MOVE
President Roosevelt issued neu
trality proclamations Tuesday af
ternoon designed, to keep this na
tion out of war.
Even as this action was being
taken, the war in Poland in
creased in violence, with the Ger
mans being reported (according
to radio dispatches) to be dan
gerously close to Warsaw, the
sound of shell fire being plainly
heard there. Roads leading out
of the city were said to be crowd
ed with citizens fleeing to safer
quarters.
It was also reported that most
of the 311 Americans who were
aboard the torpedoed British pas
senger liner Athenia, had been
saved. Five hundred passengers
of the sunken ship are as yet un
reported, radio dispatches said.
Late radio dispatches received
about 5:30 Tuesday afternoon
said that rumors had it that the
Poles had bombed Berlin. How
ever this report was entirely un
confirmed.
Germany's armies—with Adolf
Hitler at the Vistula River rain
ed sledge hammer blows against
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SHERIFF PLANS
WHISKY RAIDS
Boyd Announces He Will
Padlock All Places in Sur
ry Selling Booze
SEVERAL RAIDS MADE
"Every place of business found
selling liquor in Surry county will
be padlocked in the future,"
Sheriff H. S. Boyd stated last
week, following the second raid of
a station on the Fancy Gap high
way.
In the raid Deputy E. H. Jones
came upon Harley Dawson in the
act of selling liquor, he said.
Dawson was brought to Mount
Airy and later released on a SSOO
bond for appearance in court
here next Monday.
It was the second time that the
station had been raided since the
opening of the "liquor purge" in
Surry. The station closed on its
own accord last time and avoided
padlock procedures, the sheriff
said.
"We are going to stop it all.
Padlocking is the best answer,"
Sheriff Boyd commented.
Local School
Enrollment Is
More Than 600
An army of 685 marched in
Elkin Monday morning, not ,to
war bni to the classrooms ;of
the city schools. The enroll
ment in the high school Was
232 on the opening day, ex
ceeding last year's enrollment
by 27. in' the elementary
school a total of 453 was en
rolled, which was approximate
ly last year's average.
Textbooks were issued on
the opening day and class work
will be underway as
within a short time. The oot
look for the school year ■to
good, according to J. Mark
McAdams, superintendent of
the schools.