Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 11
LATE /
From
NEWS Ze
and
BRIEF T
LOCAL
ALTHOUGH all main high
ways In this section of the
state are reported clear, peo
ple have been asked to do as
little traveling as possible, and
to use extreme care.
THE announcement that lo
cal schools, as well as schools
throughout the county, will
not re-open until Monday due
to the slippery condition of
roads, was the occasion of
much glee among Elkin school
children Wednesday, many of
whom have taken to the hills
with sleds to enjoy the first
real snow that has fallen here
within the past several years.
STATE
MHS. JAMES CHURCH,
Wilkes county woman, is al
leged to have used a shotgun
and blackberry juice to fool
her husband into the belief
that she had committed sui
cide Tuesday night, but didn't
get away with the hoax. She
and her husband were in jail
at last reports. The woman
was said, after a row with her
husband, to have fired a shot
gun, smeared her breast with
red blackberry juice, and
sprawled upon the floor. When
her husband, upon hearing the
gun, rushed to the scene, he
immediately hurried to North
Wilkesboro to summon the
coroner. The fact that he was
intoxicated made him easy to
fool, It was said. The man
and his wife were jailed on an
affray charge.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28
The Senate immigration com
mittee has jockeyed Senator
Robert R. Reynolds Into hav
ing to oppose a bill bearing his
own name. The North Caro
lina senator has several bills
pending before the committee
dealing with immigration. The
eontmittee has combined a
number of these into one bill
and including other provisions
to which Reynolds is opposed.
"I appreciate the committee
placing my name on the bill
but there are some provisions
in it which make it more
harmful than good," the North
Carolina senator said. He will
deliver a speech in the Senate
this week in opposition to the
"Reynolds bUI."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23
The United States today in
formed Japan that after Fri
day ' night when the 1911
treaty of commerce expires,
trade between the two nations
will be conducted on a day-to
day basis, without any tem
porary agreement of modus
vivendi. This was interpreted
as a tacit warning that future
commercial relations will de
pend upon the extent to which
ceases interference with
the rights of American busi
ness interests and nationals in
China.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23
There was farther indication
today that Representative
Robert L Doughton will heed
the pressure that is coming
from North Carolina to run
for re-election. The veteran
House member has agreed to
see a delegation which will
come here from the state Fri- j
I day to urge *im to change his
mhni about retiring at the end
of his present term January 3,
1941.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—Earl
Browder, the Communist lead
er under four-year sentence
fcr passport fraud, filed notice
of appeal today while his com
rades took up the cry that his
conviction was brought about
by the Roosevelt administra
tion to silenoe a party that
V once had supported the new
was
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
"Miss America"
Of 1939 S
To Wed P
DETROIT . . .Miss Patricia
Donnelly, who won the "Miss
America" trophy at Atlantic
City last Summer, has announc
ed her engagement to Frank
Bradford, Jr., 21-year-old half
back at the University of Ala
bama. Miss Donnelly is 19 years
old.
LOCAL MEN ARE
ARRESTED HERE
Taken to Taylorsville in Con
nection with Alleged
Store Break
SURPRISED IN THE ACT
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Henry Newman and Graham
Newman, both of Elkin, were ar
rested here Tuesday by Officer
Corbett Wall and turned over to
Alexander county authorities Tues
day afternoon in connection with
the attempted robbery of a store
near Taylorsville last Saturday
night.
RaeCoi*-Rrlee, of jonesville, was
also arrested later by Jonesville
Policeihan Hugh Madison and re
leased under SI,OOO bond in con
nection with the same case, Mr.
Wall said.
According to Elkin policeman,
three young men were surprised in
the act of robbing the store by
the Alexander county sheriff.
They ran, leaving a pick-up truck
standing in front of the store.
Officer Wall said that Graham
Newman came to him the first of
this week and reported that his
pick-up truck had been stolen at
Traphill. Later the Alexander
sheriff called him, Mr. Wall said,
giving a description of the three
men and describing the truck they
left behind. It corresponded with
the two Newman youths.
Arresting them and placing
them in the local jail, the officer
notified the Alexander county
sheriff. The sheriff, he said, iden
tified the two as having run away
from the scene of the attempted
robbery, and carried them back
to Taylorsville. Price was later
arrested, but due to the snow and
dangerous condition of the high
ways, the sheriff requested that
Price be released under bond.
Henry Newman is under bond
in another case growing out of the
robbery of a store in Yadkin
county, Mr. Wall said.
RECORDS
Henderson county growers are
showing a steadily increasing in
terest in farm records, with the
total keeping account books
mounting each year since 1936.
Hunger, Cold
Said Cause of
Death of Man
\
Calvin Brooks, 74, passed
away Thursday night in
Wilkes county near Swan
Creek from illness said to have
been aggravated by insuffi
cient food and the severely
cold weather.
Living in an old barn, he
and his wife and several chil
dren were reported to have
had no food and no furniture,
and had to build a fire on the
dirt floor of the barn in order
to keep warm. Pallets on a
fcgfceet of tin served as a bed,
BWttb scant bed covering.
glNumal rites for the deeeaa-
K«na held Friday, according
nB*U available information.
U. S. PROTESTS
ANSWERED B Y
GREATJJRITAIN
Stands in Defense of War
Blockade Practices
RELATIONS STRAINED
%
Hull Is Mad About Way U. S.
Ships Have Been Held up
By English
FOUR REASONS GIVEN
London, Jan. 23. —The British
government stood adamant to
night in defense of its war block
ade practices In an Increasingly
serious conflict with United States
interests, even at the risk of new
strain on Anglo-American friend
ship.
Britannia, confident it "rules
the waves," indicated sympathy
with American annoyance at
lengthy delays of ships and partial
seizure of cargoes, especially at
Gibraltar, just as it did on the
questions of the Pan-American
neutrality belt and interference
with United States ocean-going
mails. Again, however, it had a
ready and uncompromising reply.
In this case an official British
spokesman replied to an aide
memoire given to Lord Lothian,
the British ambassador at Wash
ington, last Saturday, by Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull. This
diplomatic document, a formal re
minder of preceding oral repre
sentations, objected to "discrim
inatory" treatment of United
States shipping in the Mediter
ranean and expressed the United
States government's "serious con
cern."
The British spokesman, cm be
half of the ministry of economic
warfare, gave four reasons why
United States ships were delayed
at contraband control stations
three times as long as those of
Italy, which, incidentally is the
object of intensive British diplo
matic courtship:
(1) —Failure to supply advance
information concerning their car
goes.
(2)— The mixed nature of these
cargoes, often including as many
as 300 items, this requiring a
longer time for examination than
those of Italian ships, which are
largely bulk.
(3)— Varied destinations in the
Mediterranean of United States
ships, whereas Italian ships usu
ally go only to Italy.
(4)— Neglect by United States
shippers to take full advantage of
various British schemes of guar*
antees that goods carried will not
reach Germany.
S. E. MATTHEWS
PASSES SUNDAY
East Bend Man Dies at Home
of Dr. W. W. Miles, in
Wilkes County'
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Funeral rites were held Tues
day morning at 11 o'clock from
Prospect" Methodist church for
Sanford Eugene Matthews, aged
49, of East Bend, who died Sim
day night at the home of Dr. W.
W. Miles at Champion in Wilkes
county.
The death of Mr. Matthews,
who was one of Yadkin county's
most prominent citizens, came as
a shock to his great host of
friends and relatives. Mr. Matth
ews, accompanied by his daugh
ter, Ruth, who is a student at
Greensboro College, had gone to
Wilkes county Saturday to visit
friends in the vicinity of Mt.
Pleasant high school, where he
was principal for 12 years. Sun
day morning while en route from
the home of a friend to the home
of Dr. W. W. Miles, also a close
friend of the family, Mr. Matth
ews was stricken with a severe
stroke of paralysis. This was a
short way from the home of Dr.
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LOCAL HOSPITAL IS
ON APPROVED LIST
pugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital here has been put on the
approved list by the North Caro
lina State Board of Health to
make blood tr.j which are re
quired by the state for the issu
ance of marriage license, accord
ing to an announcement Wednes
day by Dr. Chas. L. Haywood, Jr.,
chief surgeon at the hospital.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1940
Anthony Gregory
Held In M
Death Of Mother
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ANTHONY GREGORY
Although he is said to have
made no confession, Anthony
Gregory, 40, of Somers township,
Wilkes county, held in connection
with the death of his mother
January 14, has requested that
no one else be prosecuted in con
nection with the death, Solicitor
Avalon E. Hall, of Yadkinville,
has announced.
Gregory claims he knows
nothing of what happened on the
week-end in which his mother
met death, either by burns or
otherwise. He claims to have
been intoxicated during the
week-end.
Gregory called Solicitor Hall to
his cell in the Wilkes county jail
and said he wanted to make a
statement. He told the solicitor
he wanted to discuss the case
and did not want anyone to get
in trouble over the affair. He
said that if any crime was com
mitted that he did it, but did not
recall what happened.
Solicitor Hall directed that the
body of Mrs. Canzada Gregory,
75-year-old deaf mute, be ex
humed and an autopsy perform
ed to determine the cause of
death. This was done and the
results of the autopsy were sent
to a laboratory for tests. The re
sults of the test will not be
known for several days.
Solicitor Hall said he ordered
the autopsy to determine wheth
er Mrs. Gregory died of burns or
had been killed and then burned.
Coroner I. M. Myers said Greg
ory bitterly opposed the autopsy
and quoted him as saying he was
willing to take the blame for
anything that was done, although
he denied killing his mother.
ALL IS READY
FOR BALL HERE
Winston-Salem Orchestra Se
cured for Round Dance,
Chairman States
ADMISSION ONE DOLLAR
The Birthday Ball for the Pres
ident, held annually here to raise
funds which are used in combat
ting infantile paralysis both at
home and throughout the nation,
will be held at Hotel Elkin next
Tuesday night, January 30.
Plans are practically complete
for the event, F. W. Graham,
chairman, said Wednesday. An
excellent orchestra known as the
Broadcasters Orchestra, of Wins
ton-Salem, has been secured to
play for the round dance while a
good string band will provide mu
sic for the square dance.
The square dance will get under
way in the Kiwanis room of the
hotel at &:30 o'clock. The round
dance, to be staged in the main
dining room, will begin at 9:00
o'clock.
Admission this year will be the
same as last, a SI.OO ticket admit
ting one couple. Ladies attending
without escort will be admitted
for 50 cents.
Everyone 1s urged to attend the
ball. Proceeds go to aid the local
fight against the dread disease,
and to national research fund
which is daily carrying on the
work of combatting the disease.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TO MEET JANUARY 26th
A meeting of the board of As
sociated Charties will be held at
the City Hall Friday afternoon,
January 26, at 4 o'clock.
Each civic, fraternal and relig
ious organization in the town is
entitled to have one member on
the board.
REDS UNLEASH
FIERCE ATTACK
FROM THE AIR
Are Stalled in Flanking Of!
fensive by Finns
MANY WOMEN KILLED
Russian Planes Bomb Hospi
tals and Air Raid Shelters;
Strafe Citizens
LOSS OF LIFE IS HEAVY
Helsinki, Jan. 23.— The Russian
army, stalled in a flanking offen
sive against the Mannerheim line
that cost several thousand dead
and wounded, today unleashed its
worst air attack since the early
days of the invasion with many
women and children killed, it was
officially announced.
Striking at small mid-Finland
towns, Russian planes bombed
hospitals and air-raid shelters and
then swept down and "strafed"
fleeing civilians with machine gun
fire.
In the little town of Nurmes,
east of lisalmi and on a railroad
parallel to the eastern frontier,
at least 19 civilians, mostly wom
en and children, were killed and
many were wounded when a big
aerial bomb scored a square hit on
an air-raid shelter.
The chance hit at Nurmes killed
more persons than were killed all
last week when Russian planes,
sweeping over Finland at the rate
of 300 to 450 a day, dropped 6,667
bombs. During the week 18 per
sons were killed and 109 wounded.
Today's air attacks in mid-Fin
land were worse than any since
the aerial bombardment of Hel
sinki in the first few days of the
war.
A bomb hit a hospital in the
town of Heyensalmi above Nurmes
near Soumussalmi, killing and
wounding a number of persons.
Other civilians were killed and
wounded by machine-gun strafing
of the Red planes, it was an
nounced.
Military officials announced
that a stone-wall Finnish defense
had repulsed a strong Russian of
fensive aimed at smashing Fin
land's Mannerheim line from the
rear and that several thousand
Russian dead and wounded litter
ed the snowy no-man's-land at a
half dozen points.
COMMITTEES
ARE NAMED
Kiwanians Hold Meeting at
Hotel Elkin; Directors
Meet Each Month
T» 1 weekly dinner meeting of
the Vttwanis Club at Hotel Elkin
Thursday evening featured the
appointment of committees for
the year by the president, L.
Stacey Weaver. It was also de
cided that the board of directors
of the club would meet the first
Wednesday evening in each
month. Committees appointed
were:
Program: D. G. Smith, chair
man; Garland Johnson, C. C.
Poindexter. '
Membership - Attendance and
Classification: Franklin Polger,
chairman: E. 8. Spainhour, E. P.
Harris.
Inter-Club Relations and Ki
wanis Education: Wilbur Carter,
chairman: T. H. Shugart, W. 8.
Beddingfield.
Boys' and Girls' Work: Errol
Hayes, chairman; George Royall,
F. M. Norman, W. M. Allen.
Finance: Garland Johnson,
chairman; E. W. McDaniel, J. G.
Abernethy.
Underprivileged Child: J. Mark
McAdams, chairman; Dr. Charles
L. Haywood, Jr., I. C. Yates.
Vocational Guidance: Earl C.
James, chairman; R. G. Smith,
C. N. Myers.
Publicity: H. F. Laffoon, chair
man, W. B. Lankford, Henry
Butner. »
House:. Gilbert Meed, chair
man; Alex Biggs, W. N B. Lankford.
Agriculture and Business Stand
ards. J. R. Poindexter, chairman;
G. L. Hill, Abe Harris.
Public Affairs and Reception:
Jones Holcomb, chairman; H. P.
Graham, Dr. R. B. Harrell.
Laws, Regulations and Music:
Hugh Royall, chairman, E. 8.
Spainhour. W. M. Allen.
Associated Charities: E. 8.
Spainhour.
Library Board: Dr. Charles L.
Haywood, Jr.
Schools Are Closed
Until Monday Result
Of 5-Inch Snow Here
George Royall
President Of
Merchants
GEORGE E. ROYALL
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Elkin Merchants
Association, held Wednesday
morning at the city hall, George
E. Royall was elected president
and C. N. Myers vice-president.
Mrs. Franklin Folger was re-elect
ed as secretary of the organiza
tion.
Mr. Royall will be serving his
second term as president, having
served in that capacity during
1937.
The directors of the organiza
tion are also newly elected, having
been named by mail ballot. They
are:
J. R. Poindexter, Joe Bivins, E.
W. McDaniel, G. L. Hill, E. S.
Spainhour, Abe Harris, and R. L.
Mills.
The directors decided to hold
the annual employer-employee
banquet for members of the asso
ciation and their employees at
Hotel Elkin on the evening of
February 20.
SIX ARE HURT
IN AUTOCRASH
Son of Former Elkin Man is
in N. Wilkesboro Hospital
With Serious Hurts
CAR WENT OVER FILL
Charles G. Day, Jr., of North
Wilkesboro, is in a critical condi
tion in a North Wilkesboro hos
pital, and five others are suffer
ing injuries as a result of an ac
cld en t on the Elkin-North
Wilkesboro highway near Roar
ing River Sunday night.
Mr. Day is a son of Charles O.
Day, Sr., prominent North
Wilkesboro business man and
formerly of Elkin. His injuries
consisted of a broken left leg and
injured kidney.
Others injured were Trent
Parks, Miss Mary Scarborough,
C. O. Loudermilk, and Misses
Madeline Scarborough and Dor
othy Davidson.
The accident occurred when
the car left the highway and
crashed into a tree at the bot
tom of a 30-foot fill.
EUiGENE ALDRID6E
HEADS ORCHESTRA
Eugene Aldridge was elected
president of the high school or
chestra at the regular practice
Thursday evening. Other officers
elected were: David Parks, secre
tary-treasurer; Miss Laura Eve
lyn Boger, librarian, and Bobby
Harris, assistant librarian.
The orchestra, under the direc
tion of Alvln Dickman, of Court
ney, is composed of the following
members: Harold Brendle, Bobby
Harris, Faye Hiatt, Laura Evelyn
Boger, Peggy Royal}, Margaret
Boger, Mrs. Alvin Dickman, Eu
gene Aldridge, Tom Whatley, Da
vid Parks, Charles Craver, Ralph
Tran*ou, Jimmy James, Bdtfty
McNeill, Jones, Todd. Fred Nor
man and Herbert Graham.
Elkm
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
WINTER.STORM
SLICKS ROADS,
HALTSTRAFFIC
Snow Starts Falling Here
Early Tuesday Morning
CONVOY TRUCK WRECKS
Two Are Injured as Huge
Machine Turns Over Near
Burch Tuesday
INTERRUPTS SCHEDULES
King Winter turned on the snow
in Elkin Tuesday morning to
spread a five-inch mantle that
made streets and highways dang
erous for traffic; halted local
schools and interrupted train and
bus service.
The state as a whole and a large
portion of the South felt winter's
chill breath as snow fell over a
wide area. Alanta, Ga., reported
six inches of snow; Alabama re
ported falls ranging up to 10
inches, and Greensboro reported
14 inches.
The snow began falling here
Tuesday morning shortly after
9:00 o'clock and continued
throughout the day. Snow was
still falling at midnight Tuesday
night.
As a result of the siippery con
ditions of streets and highways,
Elkin's traffic lights were truncd
off shortly after the fall began
due to the fact motorists frequent
ly slid into the intersections while
trying to stop for the light.
Although skids were numerous,
no serious accidents have been re
ported locally, although two men
were hurt at Burch, on the Elkin-
Dobson highway, when a convoy
truck, loaded with four new auto
mobiles, overturned down a fill.
H. G. Her, 37, the driver, sustained
cuts and bruises, as did a com
panion whose named was not
learned. The cars aboard the con
voy were badly smashed up, it was
said. The convoy was operated
by the Philadelphia-Detroit truck
ing line. '
Due to the condition of high
ways and county roads, local and
county schools were suspended
Tuesday afternoon and will not
re-open until next Monday. This
announcement was made by John
W. Comer, county superintendent
of schools, Wednesday afternoon.
Greyhound bus service was can
celled Tuesday night, but although
running late, service had been re
sumed Wednesday. A warm sun,
plus the highway department, was
doing much toward restoring the
highway to safety Wednesday
afternoon.
Train service here was behind
schedule Wednesday, but all trains
were running
The weather forecast was for
fair and continued cold today.
HOLD DRIVER IN
ACCIDENT CASE
Foy Shugart Held for Su
perior Court as Result of
Death of Yadkin Man
BOND OF $2,000 POSTED
Yadkin ville, Jan. 23. (Special.)
—Coroner R. B. Long and a jury
of six men completed their in
quest into the death of Barney
Childress, of Boon ville, who was
killed in an automobile mishap
about Christmas, on the Boon
vilie-Crutchfield highway, here
Saturday, when the Jury was re
convened.
After hearing witnesses the
jury found probable cause against
Foy Shugart, who was driving
the death car, and he was ordered
held in $2,000 bond for superior
court. Evidence was given the
jury that Shugart was drinking
when the accident occurred.
Shugart himself was badly in
jured and spent several days in
a hospital, but has recovered. He
made the bond and was relaesed.
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