(Elkin '
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVIIL No. 46
LATE ,1
NEWS s '£ e
IN and
BRIEF T
LOCAL
THE Elkin-Jonesville Build
ing & Loan Association begins
its 72nd series on Monday,
October 1, it has been an
nounced by Paul Gwyn, secre
tary-treasurer. A safe, consist
ent plan of saving is offered
the people of this section by
subscribing to building and
loan shares. A two and one
half per cent, dividend, the
28th consecutive payment to
be made, was also announced
as payable October 1.
"Jt THOMAS HARRIS, 46, of
Glade Valley, suffered a severe
injury to his left hand early
Wednesday morning when the
member was caught in a
threshing machine. Brought
to the Jocal hospital for at
tention, the band was found to
be so badly mangled that am
putation was necessary.
STATE
CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 26
Fritz Kuhn, German-American
bund leader, tfill not be tnvit
, ed to speak at the University
E of North Carolina under the
■ auspices of the Carolina Polit-
I ical union, it was announced
W tonight following a regular
meeting of the union. The
union, which had President
Roosevelt and other notables
on its program last year, had
debated for several weeks the
advisablUty of extending an
Invitation to Kuhn.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27
Administration leaders today
claimed 56 assured Senate
votes—seven more than a ma
jority—for President, Roose
velt's arms embargo repeat
, program. Friends and foes of
r neutrality revision booked new
radio time to carry their fight
before the people, who already
have been responding with
thousands of telegrams, letters
and postcards to their legisla
tive representatives.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27 The
policy framers of the American
Legion entered the business
session of the twenty-first an
nual convention today with a
"pronouncement" demanding
that Congress continue in ses-
I %J sion during the European war
crisis, but avoided specific rec
ommendation for neutrality
£ legislation.
T LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26
Deaths resulting from the
tropical storm' along Southern
California's coast may ap
proach 100 if the fierce gales
of Sunday sank the numerous
small ocean-going craft stlU
unreported today. More than
two dozen boats, mostly plea
sure cruisers and yachts, had
not been heard from since the
storm broke.
INTERNATIONAL
BERLIN Army high com
mand announces German
planes bombed British battle
fleet in North Sea. destroying
aircraft carrier and damaging
battleship. Command says
Warsaw military commander
offers to surrender city; Hitler
works in chancellery while
Foreign Minister Ribbentrop
confers in Moscow.
MOSCOW—German Foreign
Minister BJbbentrop due with
Imposing array of experts for
Important negotiations with
Russia regarding further dis
position of Poland; change in
Balkan line-up expected when
Russians and Ribbentrop con
fa- with Turkish Foreign Min
ister Saracoglu; fate of Baltic
states also In balance.
LONDON Warsaw radio
says German bombardment of
city so terrific people are bur
rowing in debris for protec
tion; 200 planes bomb city and
constant shelling prevents food
distribution; hundreds of fires
rage. Moscow radio asserts oU
wells In South Poland were
sabotaged, making months of
rehabilitation work necessary.
PARIS German guns in
longest range fire of war shell
French villages behind Magi
not line, French batteries re
ply; Premier Daladler visits
western front as police, under
cabinet decree, raid and seal
Communist fiead^uiftrters.
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
PROPOSED ROAD
MAP IS POSTED
AT COURTHOUSE
State Makes Blue Print
Showing Location
RUNS OFF BRIDGE ST.
Route Would Connect Win
ston Highway with Elkin-
N.-Wilkesboro Road
NEAR SETTLING BASIN
Maps of the state highway pro
ject calling for the construction
of a highway through Elkin to
link the Elkin-Winston-Salem
highway with the new Elkin-North
Wilkesboro highway, have been
posted at the courthouses in Dob
son and Wilkesboro.
According to the mapsr the new
route through Elkin would run
off North 3ridge street near the
home of J. D. Brendle, cross to
Church street by the way of the
L. F. Walker home, turning north
west from its intersection with
Church to run through Hendrix
Heights, passing a few yards south
of the Elkin settling basin and
crossing Big Elkin creek nearby.
Intersection with the Elkin-Ronda
road would be a short distance
west of the intersection of the
Ronda and Traphill roads.
Whether or not the state has
decided definitely upon this route
could not be learned. •"
STAGE SERIES
LEAF MEETINGS
To . Instruct Surry Farmers
Concerning Control Elec
tion Next Thursday
DATES, PLACES NAMED
Robert SmiUivrigk, Surry
county farm agent, and 'his staff
are fhifc week staging a series of
meetings over the county in or
der that tobacco growers may be
given information before they
cast their vOte on October 5, fav
oring or opposing control of acre
age of the 1940 crop.
One of the principal changes
in the new plan is that the allot
ments to farmers will be based
only on acres planted, with no re
strictions as to pounds per acre.
The Surry farm agent realizes
that tobacco growers are con
fronted with a serious situation
regarding the disposal of the
present crop, the only relief be
ing some government control
program to keep off the market
a large surplus. In the last De
cember election Surry farmers
voted 76 per cent, in favor of the
plan.
Meetings held thus far this
week have been at Mountain
Park, North Elkin, Copeland, Lit
tle Richmond. Beulah, Franklin
and Shoals. Other meetings to
be held are as follows:
Eldora school, Thursday, Sep
tem 28, 10 o'clock am.
Siloam school, Thursday, Sep
tember 28, 2 o'clock p.m.
Cooke's school, Friday, Septem
ber 29, 10 o'clock a.m.
Pilot Mountain school, Friday,
September 29, 2 o'clock pm.
Dobson court house, Saturday,
September 30. 10 o'clock am.
Tobacco growers, whether own
ers, operators, share-croppers, or
share-tenants, are uged to at
tend the meeting in their respec
tive townships. Growers living on
farms not yet measured by a com
pliance supervisor are particular
ly urgefd to attend the meeting in
their townships, so that they may
register. Even if a person is eli
gible to vote and his name does
not appear on the register, the
vote must be challenged. The
legister of eligible voters closes,
September 30.
All persons interested in to
bacco are invited to attend the
meetings as scheduled above.
COMMERCIAL TEACHER
TO HOLD NIGHT CLASS
Miss Faye Overcash, teacher in
the high school commercial de
partment, will begin instruction
in a night class Tuesday evening,
October 3. Classes will be held on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings
of each week.
Anyone desiring information
regarding the classes Is request
ed to see J. Mark McAdams, su
perintendent of the school, or
Miss Overcash.
There is a law in Kansas
against making mince pies.
NEW DT ANT 12fiWQ The new addition to the Chatham Manufacturing
L)HiYf I Li/ill 1 (jlVvyrr *J Company here is rapidly taking form as workmen
hurry construction so as to have the building in readiness for removal of the Winston-
Salem finishing plant here around the first of the year. The photo below gives a gen
eral impression of the size of the new construction, wi*h the present plant seen in the
background. At the right may be seen one end of one of the large warehouses, the
framework in the center foreground being the skeleton of another warehouse now under
construction. In the photo may be seen the steel work of the main building, and be
tween the steel work and the warehouse can be seen a portion of the plant which has
been practically completed.—(Tribune Photo).
'
Surrender Of Warsaw
Is Claimed By Nazis;
Confer With Moscow
European War News Puzzling; Germans Claim to Have
Destroyed British Plane Carrier But England Denies
Report, Stating No British Casualties in
Naval Engagement
Sept. 27.—The Ger
man embassy said today it had a
report from the trans-ocean news
agency that Warsaw surrendered
today at 4:30 a.m. (e.s.t.)
The embassy said it regarded
the report as "very reliable." Its
information was that after the
capture of several fortifications
during the night, the Polish com
mand offered to negotiate and
shortly afterwards surrendeded the
city to General von Blaskowitz.
NAZIS MAKE CLAIM
Berlin Sept. 27.—German air
planes, in an attack on a British
battle fleet in the North Sea, have
destroyed a British aircraft carri
er, badly damaged a British battle
ship, and return to their base
without losses, the high command
asserted today.
The high command communique
indicated that the battle was the
greatest and the most dramatic
ever fought between airplanes
and warships— a battle such as
naval and airplane experts had
awaited for years to decide the en
tire future trend of sea warfare.
According to the German com
munique, the Nazi airplanes at
tacked a British fleet including
battleships, an aircraft carrier,
cruisers .and destroyers, in the
middle part of the North Sea.
FINAL SURFACE
TO BE DEAYED
Stone Surface Cannot Bond
Sufficiently to Be Sur
faced This Fall
IS 10-MILE STRETCH
The 10-mile section of new
highway between Roaring River
and North Wilkesboro may not
receive its final black top surface
until next spring, according to
information received from the
highway division office at North
Wilkesboro.
The section of highway, which
completes the highway between
Elkin and North Wilkesboro, has
been graded and the crushed
stone surface applied, but engi
neers advised that the final sur
face not be applied until there
has been sufficient time for the
crushed stone surface to properly
bond itself. Surface work of this
nature cannot be done during the
winter, it was pointed out.
Nello Teer, of Durham, has the
contract for grading and sur
facing the 10-mile section.
ELKIN. N. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1939
BRITISH DENIAL
London Sept, 27. Winston
Churchill, first lord of the admir
alty, told the House of Commons
today that a squadron of British
warships was attacked in the
North Sea yesterday by 20 Ger
man planes but that none was hit.
"No British casualties were re
ported, but one German flying
boat was shot down and another
damaged." Churchill said. "An
other German aircraft came down
and we sent a destroyer to collect
her and her crew of four, who
were brought in as prisoners."
MOSCOW MEETING
Moscow Sept. 27.—The German
and Esthonian foreign ministers
arrive .here today to join the Tur
kish foreign minister in a series
of conferences, joint or separate,
with Russia involving a vast area
extending from the Baltic to the
Dardanelles.
It was indicated that afreements
—or disagreements—might be im
pending which would rank in im
portance with Russia's invasion of
Poland.
Russia had charged Esthonia
with aiding Polish submarines, and
as the result the Russian navy as
sumed full responsibility for the
policing of the inner Baltic.
WILKES DEPUTY
SERIOUSLYHURT
1$ Shot in Breast by Silas
Higgins While Attempting
to Arrest Him
IS IN WILKES HOSPITAL
R. C. Jennings, Wilkes deputy
sheriff and jailor, is in the
Wilkes hospital suffering serious
gunshot wounds in the chest, as
a result of being shot with a
single barrel shotgun in the
hands of Silas Higgins, whom the
deputy was attempting to arrest.
The shooting of the Wilkes of
ficer occurred last Friday morn
ing. Higgins was reported to
have attempted to hold up Miss
Toby Turner, superintendent of
the Wilkes hospital, as she was
driving along the Brushy Moun
tain road. Higgins was later ar
rested by J. R. Rousseau, and
turned over to North Wilkeshoro
police.
Higgins was said to have ad
mitted that he shot some man,
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Meeting of
Young- Democrats
Is Called Off
The county-wide meeting of
the Young Democrats ,of Surry
county, scheduled to have been
held at the Surry prison camp
near Dobson this evening
(Thursday), has been indef
initely postponed, it was an
nounced Wednesday by George
E. Royal!, of Elkin, president.
' Several matters have arisen
since ■ the meeting was first
announced which has made an
indefinite postponement desir
able, Mr. Royall said.
NEW OFFICIALS
. ARE INDUCTED
Local Legion Post Passes
Resolution Favoring Re
peal of Arms Embargo
FAVOR CASH AND CARRY
At a meeting of the George
Gray Post of the American
Legion at the city hall Wednes
day evening of last week new of
ficers were inducted into office
by J. B. Rierson, of Winston-
Salem, commander of the 13th
district.
The organization passed a res
olution, a copy of which was sent
to all North Carolina congress
men and senators, favoring the
repeal of the arms embargo on a
strictly cash and cany basis.
They also voted to send a pro
test to the Carolina Political
Union at Chapel Hill against the
inviting of Fritz Kuhn, German-
American Bund leader, to speak
in the University city.
Other routine business was dis
patched.
Membership in the local Legion
unit has reached the allotment
specified by the state department
and many other new members
are expected to join. The meet
ing Wednesday was attended by
26 Legionnaires.
SURRY FARMER JAILED
ON CHARGE OF INCEST
Lacy Norman, 58-year-old Sur
ry farmer, is m Jail at Mount
Airy facing charges of incest lod
ged against him on testimony of
his two daughters, aged 11 and 13
respectively.
Norman was arrested at his
home several miles north of Mount
Airy. The girls testified that the
elderly father had been paying
them criminal attention for the
past three weeks. Dr. R. B. C.
Franklin, Surry health officer,
corroborated their story after
making ah examination.
Norman was said to have at
tempted suicide .after being lod
ged in jail Monday night, slashing
his wrists with pieces of broken
glass.
Alexandria, La., a town of 25,-
000 population, has no cemetery.
Weed Markets Are
Expected To Open
If Control Okeyed
ARE TO VOTE ON
CONTROL OCT. 5
On Outcome Depends En
trance of Government in
Opening Markets
WILL SUPPLY THE CASH
On Thursday, October sth,
growers of flue-cured tobacco in
six states will vote,on the vital
question of limiting the 1940
crop, on an acreage basis, to ap
proximately two-thirds the pres
ent mountainous 1,014,000,000-
pound harvest.
The date of the referendum
and the approximate size of the
quota were announced Monday
afternoon by J. B. Hutson, assist
ant administrator in charge of
the AAA tobacco section, to ware
housemen of four states after
they had enthusiastically endors
ed the control plan for next year.
Hutson announced that a ten
tative quota of 660,000,000 pounds,
based on acreage allotment and
not poundage for the entire flue
cured area, would be the aim of
the triple A. This would be at
least 340.000,000 pounds under
the 1939 crop and some 50,000,-
000 pounds under the present
North Carolina crop.
Hutscn also made it plain how
vital federal agricultural officials
consider it to be for growers of
North Carolina and the five other
flue-cured states to authorize
control Of the 1940 crop. On this
authorization of control, he ex
plained to the warehousemen, de
pends entrance of the federal
government into a plan to reopen
the now closed tobacco; markets
with an aim to sell the rest of
this year's crop at average ap
proximating those maintained be
fore the suspension of trading.
If control is voted, Hutson
said, the federal government will
put up the cash, through the
commodity credit corporation for
British Imperial Tobacco buyers
to purchase the quantity and
grades of tobacco which they had
planned to buy before the out
break of war upset the tobacco
cart. In putting up the cash, the
federal government will enable
these buyers to purchase this to
bacco, prize it, redry it and store
it for the account of the Com
modity Credit Corporation. The
British company also would be
given an option to buy the to
bacco later.
If control is not voted, then
solution of the present market
crisis will be up to private cap
ital, Hutson bluntly said. That
was the proposition, take it or
leave it, for the growers, ware
housemen, and all others inter
ested in tobacco.
YADKIN YOUTH
FINALLY FOUND
Wanted for Criminal Assault,
Is Located in Honolulu
Army Post
The long arm of the law has
reached across the Pacific ocean to
sunny Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,
and nabbed a Yadkin county boy
who tried to escape through join
ing the army for an alleged crime
in Yadkin county on May 21. He
is Erskine Greer Lackey.
Miss Treva Scott, of the Smith
town section, charges Lackey raped
her in a lonely wood, after com
pelling her to disrobe and assault
ed her twice. She also charged
that he gave her an assumed
name, not his own.
Advices received by the Ripple
from Raleigh state that the State
Bureau of Investigation had been
notified of the detention of Lac
key in the far western port and
also stated that he would be re
turned east to face his alleged
crime.
The advices stated he would ar
rive in Hoboken, N. J., port on
October 23, at which time Sheriff
A. L. Inscore and state officials
will be on hand to bring him back
to Yadkin county to face the
charges of Miss Scott.
The advices stated that Lackey
joined the army in Charlotte, N.
C., after the alleged crime was
committed.
Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
OCTOBER 9 !S
LIKELY TO BE
OPENING DATE
Is Discussed by Warehouse
men at Meeting
II OE Y TO BROADCAST
To Push Vigorous Campaign
to Acquaint Growers with
the Facts
PASSAGE IS IMPORTANT
Raleigh, Sept. 26.—1f control of
the 1940 tobacco crop is approved
by growers in the referendum a
week from Thursday, October 5, it
appeared certain today that mar
kets on all belts in North Carolina
will open or reopen the following
Monday, October 9.
There has been no official an
nouncement from any belt about
reopening of the markets, but the
October 9 date was discussed by
warehousemen after their meet
ing yesterday and was found to
day to be generally approved as
the preferred reopening date, pro
vided no unforeseen hitches de
velop.
E. Y. Floyd, state AAA execu
tive officer, tonight confirmed the
probability of the markets open
ing October 9.
"If control is voted, I feel sure
the markets will be open the fol
lowing Monday," he said.
In the meantime, in the week
left before referendum day dawns,
a vigorous campaign to acquaint
growers with the facts in the to
bacco situation will be pushed.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey will
lend his voice to this campaign,
he said tonight after conferring
with Floyd.
Governor Hoey will broadcast a
fifteen-minute address on the to
bacco situation from Winston-
Salem Thursday evening at 6:15
o'clock. He will speak over Sta
tion WSJS, Winston-Salem, di
rect and by remote control over
Station WPTF, Raleigh.
In announceing that he would
join the campaign to acquaint
growers with the facts. Governor
Hoey made it plain that he was
going to do just that.
W. Kerr Scott, state commis
sioner of agriculture, speaking at
the Nash county fair at Spring
Hope, made a vigorous plea for
crop control today.
Scott asserted control "is para
mount to the economic stability
of North Carolina agriculture at
the present time."
"Tobacco crop control is rec
ognized as an emergency measure
to meet an emergency," he added.
"Federal and state authorities
have worked conscientiously in an
effort to find a program to re
lieve the present tobacco crisis.
Tobacco control may not be the
answer to the present ills of the
grower, but it represents the best
thought and efforts of our agri
cultural leaders. Since it has been
offered as the only measure to
meet the crisis, it seems that farm
ers should accept it in good faith
at least until a better measure is
presented.
OPERATE SKATING RINK
IN LOCAL GYMNASIUM
A skating rink has been in
stalled in the Elkin school gym,
with skating scheduled in the af
ternoons and nights.
The rink is being operated by
Ted Brown, who said a large part
of the receipts from the venture
would go tp the Elkin schools.
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