Elkin
"The Beat Little Town
in North Carolina''
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 31
U. S. Is Hastening
Aid To The Allies;
Rush Defense Plan
MUNITIONS ARE
TRADED IN' FOR
SALE TO ALLIES
Numerous War Planes Are
Assigned Under Policy
$50,000,000 FOR RELIEF
Money Would Be Used for
Work Among European
( Civilian Population
CONGRESS MOVES FAST
Washington, June 12 The
United States hastened "short
of-war aid" to the Allies today as
Congress made new strides to
ward strengthening national de
fense.
Less than 24 hours after Presi
dent Roosevelt pledged all the
material resources of this coun
try to help the Allies, the follow
ing moves were being made to
fulfill that promise:
1. The United States Steel Cor
poration announced in New York
that a subsidiary company had
completed arrangements for the
purchase of $37,600,000 of sur
plus munitions and that it will
resell them to the Anglo-French
purchasing mission at no profit.
2. Ninety-three Northrup at
tack planes were ordered by the
War Department to proceed to
Houlton, Me., where they will be
sent across the Canadian border
for shipment to Great Britain.
Fifty navy bombers already have
been assigned to the Allies under
the administration's "trade-in"
policy.
3. Congress received a presi
dential request for $50,000,000 for
relief work among European ci
vilian populations.
The "trade-in" policy, whereby
war supplies designated as sur
plus or obsolete are returned to
the manufacturers for re-sale to
the Allies, passed its first con
gressional test late yesterday. The
Senate voted, 67 to 18, to grant
the administration authority to
make available to the Allies
through that procedure surplus
army and navy guns and am
munition. Authority for selling
airplanes to the Allies by that
method already exists.
Congress, eager to comply with
the chief executive's defense re
quests, neared completion of the
$5,000,000,000 army-navy expan
sion program.
WAR IS TAKEN
TO ITALIANS
British Planes Bomb Military
Objectives in Northern
Part of Italy
EMBARGO ALL EXPORTS
London, June 12.—Great Britain
took the war to Italy today with a
bombing raid on military objec
tives in northern Italy and a
blanket embargo against all Italian
exports.
In addition, striking back at
Italy promptly and forcibly, the
British and South African air
forces attacked Italian bases, in
cluding airdromes, in Ethiopia.
Royal air force planes had
bombed Italian Libya yesterday.
It took the air ministry two
short sentences to tell of the raid
on Italy:
"Aircraft of the royal air force
reconnoitered northern Italy last
night. Bombs were dropped on
certain military objectives."
It was reported from Cairo that
royal air froce planes had bombed
the main Italian air bases in Ethi
opia yesterday, concentrating on
grounded machines and gasoline
and bomb dumps, and had return
ed to base without loss.
Announcement was made by 1
British east African military head- i
quarters, the exchange telegraph
Nairobi correspondent reported,
that heavy bombing planes of the
South African air force heavily
and successfully bombed Banda
Hill and other military objectives
in.the Moyale area of southern
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Speaks Here
* If
G. F. Ball, public relations
man of a large oil company,
who was guest speaker at the
meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis
club at Hotel Elkin last Thurs
day evening. Mr. Ball spoke on
"Radio and the News" and il
lustrated his talk with motion
pictures in sound.
LOCAL CLUB IS
YADKIN VISITOR
Meet in Yadkinville Tuesday;
Hear Interesting Speaker
at Thursday Meet
SEE SOUND PICTURE
At a joint meeting of the Elk
in Kiwanis club and the Yadkin
ville Civitan club, at Yadkinville
Tuesday evening, mutual prob
lems were discussed by Kiwanian
W. M. Allen, of Elkin, and Civitan
Avalon E. Hall.
Attorney D. L. Kelly welcomed
the visiting Kiwanians, and L. S.
Weaver, president of the Elkin
club, responded for the visitors.
A musical program featured Miss
Jerry Weaver, soprano; Miss
Elizabeth Hall, reader, and Miss
Augusta Reece, pianist. Mrs. Wi
ley E. Dobbins accompanied Miss
Weaver at the piano.
At their meeting at Hotel Elk
in last Thursday evening, the lo
cal club heard G. F. Ball, of the
public relations department of
the Standard Oil company, north
Carolina division, speak on "Ra
dio and News." He illustrated
his talk with* a motion picture in
sound, which showed the speed
in which news is gathered from
all parts of the world, and which
also showed actual pictures of the
bombing of the U. S. gunboat
"Panay" near Shanghai.
The program was brought here
by Kiwanian E. C. Boyles. The
session was presided over by
President Weaver.
Dr. C. L. Haywood, Jr., had his
father as guest. Tom Phillips
was the guest of his uncle, C. N.
Myers, and Glenn Lewis was with
[Kiwanian G. L. Hill.
PLENTY OF BALL
IS ON TAP HERE
Chatham Will Face Three
Teams on Three Succes
sive Days
TO PLAY ENKA FRIDAY
Plenty of baseball will be on
hand for fans here this week-end
with games having been scheduled
for Friday, Saturday and Sunday
by the Chatham Blanketeers.
A game was under way here
Wednesday afternoon as Hie
Tribune went to press, the Blank
eteers meeting Hanes Hosiery.
The game began at 4:30.
Friday the Blanketeers will j
play Enka, of A3heville, in a
contest slated to start at 4:30 p.
m. Saturday they face a strong
Mock-Judson team from Greens
boro at 3:00 p. m. Sunday a Pu
laski, Va., nine will be here for
action at 3:00 p. m.
All games will be played in the
new and improvedtoffiiatharn Park.
LATE P L
TlVr and
BRIEF N T
NATIONAL
NEW YORK, June 11—Un
der a deal effected by the War
Department and the U. S.
Steel Export Co., the Allies will
get $37,600,000 worth of sur
plus munitions, equipment and
ordnance, it was announced
last night by the United States
Steel Corp. Local steel sources
said the transaction signalized
an important step in line with
President Roosevelt's pledge to
the Allies of the nation's full
material aid. In acting as the
medium for transfer of the war
material, the steel corporation
said its export subsidiary would
derive no profit.
ABOARD S. S. Washington
at S«i, June 11—Calm under
the supervision of officers of
this United States liner, men,
women and child', en climbed
into lifeboats in .he gray dawn
today while Cayt. Harry Man
ning' held at bay one unidenti
fied submarine which had
threatened to torpedo her in
"ten minutes" and outmaneuv
ered another. "We are an
American ship," Captain Man
ning repeated over and over in
answering the signalled threats
of the first undersea boat. This
finally satisfied the submarine
commander who gave the
Washington a "go on" signal.
There were few, if any in
stances of terror among the
1,020 passengers and 750 crew
members. All donned lifebelts
for the emergency.
WASHINGTON, June 11
With only six adverse votes,
the House passed a defense fi
nancing bill yesterday boosting
taxes $1,004,000,000 a year and
increasing the federal debt
limit from $45,000,000,000 to
$49,000,000,000. The measure
raced through in a single day
by a roll-call vote of 396 to 6.
The six members opposing the
bill were Representatives Craw
ford (R), Mich., Thill (R),
Wis., Wolcott (R), Mich., Al
exander (R), Minn., Thorkel
son (R), Mont., and Marcan
tonio (AL), N. Y. Secretary
Morgenthau will explain the
bill to the Senate finance
committee today and Senate
approval is expected next
week.
INTERNATIONAL
ANKARA, Turkey, June 11—
Turkey summoned probably
200,000 men and officers to
military barracks to join 350,-
000 already under arms last
night as she waited a hint
from Russia before casting the
die on war. Informed sources
said if Soviet Russia keeps out
of the conflict, Turkey will
enter the war on the side of
the Allies to whom she has
pledged assistance in a Med
iterranean war. But if Josef
Stalin is ready to help Italy
and Germany there is no al
ternative but for this country
to keep quiet, it was added
frankly.
ROME, June 12 (Wednes
day)— Rome experienced her
first air raid alarm of the war
early today but no planes were
heard and there was no anti
aircraft fl.'k Most Romans
were caug) 7 asleep by the
sirens which sounded for 20
minutes.
GENEVA, Switzerland, June
12 (Wednesday) Crown
Prince Umberto is planning to
throw his Italian shock troops
against the French line In the
southern half of the Maritime
Alps, advices reaching Geneva
from both sides indicated to
day.
RIO De JANEIRO, June 11
President Getullo Vargas,
Brazil's dictatorial ruler, pro
claimed his country's neutral
ity in the Allied-Italian war
yesterday in a decree preceded
by a vigorous speech Interpret
ed as a defense of totalitarian
ways. "We are marching to
ward a future different from
all we know in economic, po
litical and social organization
and we feel that old systems
and antiquated formulas have
entered a decline,** he said. "It
is not, however, as pessimists
and stubborn conservatives
pretend, the end of civiliza
tion, but the hftriunanr—tu
multuous and fecund—of a
new era."
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940
ADOPT BUDGET
HERE; TAX RATE
REMAINS $1.35
Expense for Road Right-of-
Way Said Heavy
REDUCTION IS BLOCKED
Tax Valuation During Past
Year Is Announced
as $300,000
PUBLISH TAX SCHEDULE
The budget for the coming fis
cal year, setting the tax rate at
$1.35, was adopted by the Elkin
board of commissioners at a
meeting last week. The $1.35 tax
rate is the same as during the
past year.
Officials stated that the tax
rate could have been reduced had
not the town found it necessary
to undergo heavy expense for the
purchase of right-of-ways for the
new road now under construction
from the western limits of town.
Tax valuation here is now $3,-
500,000, it was said, the increase
in valuation during the past year
amounting to $300,000.
In addition to approving the
town budget, the commissioners
also ordered published the town's
license and privilege tax sche
dule, which appears elsewhere in
this issue of The Tribune.
Burgin Avers That
Hysteria In U. S.
Is Not Justi
Lexington, June 11.—There is
no occasion for hysteria on the
part of the American people be
cause of the critical internation
al situation, Representative W. O.
Burgin told members of the local
American legion post and a num
ber of veterans from other coun
ties in an address here tonight
before catching a train for Wash
ington to attend pressing con
gressional duties.
Nor is there justification, de
clared Mr. Burgin, for assertions
that this nation has been laggard
in preparedness efforts during the
past few years. Some seven bil
lion dollars has been authorized
and about five billions appro
priated for defense measures, he
said, and great progress has been
made. This is particularly true
in regard to increasing naval
strength so as to be able to repel
any invader in either ocean. The
United' States has not prepared
for offensive war, said Mr. Bur
gin, nor have the people hitherto
desired that such be done.
However, the eighth district
representative predicted that the
accelerated defense measures now
being speeded would enable the
country to benefit by the latest
developments in weapons of war.
He also added that Congress
would probably authorize increase
of the standing army to a half
million men.
Mr. Burgin added that in his
opinion the Monroe Doctrine
would soon thus be embodied in
statutory law and thus be re
moved from the realm of interna
tional speculation.
Thomas Jefferson became pres
ident under the title Democrat-
Republican party. In 1825 the
co-title Republican was droppexl
and the present Republican party
was founded in July, 1854.
Bethlehem is only five miles
south of Jerusalem.
Contributions To Red
Cross Here Total $521
A total of $521 has been con
tributed locally to the American
Red Cross for use among the mil
lions of refugees of Europe, it has
been announced by Mrs. W. C.
Cox, assistant secretary of the lo
cal Red Cross' chapter, putting
Elkin over the half-way mark in
its drive tc raise its quota of
SI,OOO.
Of this amount, $230 has been
contributed by employees of the
Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany. It was said the donations
came from the rank and file of
employees, who were generous
with their contributions.
Another worthwhile contribu
tion of $25 has been donated by
the Woman's Auxiliary of the
American Legion. These dona
tions, added to the $260 already
Nazi Troops Are Reported Only
Short Distance From Paris As
Germans Capture French Cities
rr /IMF TIIDnWI7B Be,ow is pictured a Nazi
t LAIVIL-1 ntxUn £JI\ contribution to the art
of frightfulness in form of a monster flame throwing
tank, used by the Germans in their attacks against French
positions. Flame-throwers like these blasted the Nazi
army to the Channel ports and are now threatening all of
France.
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Carrier Service
Here Is Approved
By Subscribers
The Tribune has received
many expressions of compli
mentary nature from its sub
scribers following the inaugu
ration last week of delivery
service in Elkin by carrier
boys. This favorable comment
is very much appreciated, and
every effort is being made to
perfect the carrier system in
sofar as is possible.
In order to have the paper
delivered each Wednesday af
ternoon as soon as it comes
from the press, it is necessary
that The Tribune go to press
earlier than has been its cus
tom heretofore. In order to do
this, cooperation of local mer
chants in releasing their ad
vertising copy early is neces
sary. To date Elkin merchants
have cooperated in grand
style. This newspaper wishes
to thank them for their coop
eration.
THIS STATE HAS
THE WAR SPIRIT
Change in State Now Far
Swifter Than in First
World Conflict
MANY FAVORING WAR
Raleigh, June 11 Oldtimer
North Carolinians, who were
younger in 1915 at the time of
the Lusitania's sinking than they
are now, think the feeling against
Germany is intenser generally in
North Carolina than it was in
1915.
And the odd thing about this
feeling is that none of it appears
to grow out of propaganda. There
was no end of it in 1915. Prom
the first of August, 1914, Tar
.Heels were told the United States
should get into it. And there
was no apparent reason for think-
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raised, put the local chapter past
the half-way mark.
Throughout the nation a total
of $20,000,000 is being sought by
the Red Cross to carry all possi
ble aid to the refugees in France
and other allied countries. It is
reported by the Red Cross that
5,000,000 refugees are flooding
into Prance —people who but a
few weeks ago were leading nor
mal lives. For days and weeks
these pitiful unfortunates, vic
tims of the Nazi war lords, have
fled through woods, over rivers,
through tangles and swamps—al
ways in terror. They forage for
food, but find the armies have
taken all. No houses are left
standing, only shattered ruins.
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MISSIONARY
MEET HERE
Approximately 150 Members
of Conference Gather at
Methodist Church
MRS. WEAVER PRESENT
Attended by approximately 150
members, the Woman's Mission
ary Conference of the Elkin dis
trict of the Methodist church met
with the Elkin Methodist church
Thursday of last week for an all
day session. Mrs. J. S. Hiatt,
district superintendent, presided
over the meeting. Mrs. J. L. Hall,
of this city, conducted the open
ing devotionals and Mrs. George
Roy all, president of the local
auxiliary, welcomed the guests.
The response to the welcome was
given by Mrs. W. D. Halfacre, of
North Wilkesboro.
Mrs. C. C. Weaver, of Char
lotte, president of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the West
ern North Carolina Methodist
conference, gave a most inspiring
talk on united Methodism. Her
address was followed by a pledge
service conducted by Mrs. R. G.
Smith, of this city. Other fea
tures were an illustrated lecture
on mission work in Korea by
Miss Mable Cherry, a returned
missionary, and special music by
Miss Josephine Paul, soloist, with
Miss Mayme Blackwood playing
the accompaniments. The morn
ing session closed with a worship
period conducted by Rev. Her
man F. Duncan, pastor of the
local church.
At the noon hour a bountiful
lunch was served the guests by
members of the Elkin auxiliary.
The afternoon session opened
with special music by the vested
junior choir of the church. Miss
Lena Sale, soloist, sang "The
Holy City". A varied program
was presented, including a skit
"Presenting Literature," by Mrs.
J. L. Clements, of Mocksville, as
sisted by other members of her
society; a mission and Bible
study led by Mrs. J. W. Payne, of
Waxhaw; children's work of the
auxiliary presented by Mrs. J. W.
Harbison, of Shelby, and a study
of supplies by Mrs. George Hoyle,
also of Shelby.
Pages for the conference were:
Misses Paye Hiatt, Peggy Royall,
Mary Elizabeth Allen and Eleanor
Hayes, all of Elkin.
FEDERAL FURNITURE
CO. MOVING PLANT
According to information ob
tained by The Tribune from
Charles S. Adler, an official of
the Federal Furniture Company
here, the business of the local
plant is being transferred to the
home office at Rahway, New Jer
sey.
The plant here has been in op
eration for several years follow
ing remodeling and enlargement.
It has employed approximately
75 men.
Mr. Adler also stated that his
company hopes to close a deal
this week whereby the plant win
be purchased by other Interests,
which will continue its operation.
It requires 100.090 enumerators
to take the U. 3. census.
EUrin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
. and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FRENCH MAKING
HEROIC EFFORT
TO HOLD LINES
Germans Claim French Hurl*
ed Back Across Seine
LOSSES ARE SAID HIGH
Many Enemy Elements Des
troyed by Fierce French
Counter Attacks
SITUATION VERY GRAVE
Berlin, June 12—German troops
on the river Oise were only 12%
miles from Paris today, the Ger
man high command said in a
communique which claimed also
that Rouen had been captured.
(The German claim to be with
in 12 y 2 miles of Paris, put them
closer to the French capital than
they were in the World War,
when a few Uhlans managed to
reach Meaux, 20 miles due east
of Paris.)
In claiming the advance to
wards Paris, the communique, is
sued from Adolf Hitler's field
headquarters, said that the
French had been thrown back
across the River Seine with heavy
losses. Below Paris the Seine was
crossed by German-troops at sev
eral points, the high command
said. .i ■
The high command said that
the German offensive against the
French capital had led "to com
plete success."
On the coast, the high com
mand said, Germans had cut off
and surrounded French forces
near St. Valery en Caux, between
Dieppe and LeHavre.
LeHavre again was bombarded
by the German air force. In the
Senlis area, 32 miles northeast of
Paris, the Germans said, their
forces were on both sides of the
ancient town.
The communique
59 enemy planes and thre baflfe
rage balloons were destroy! '-jfl
terday. Three German apIJM
were listed as missing.
The Germans admitted! fl
British had bombed Tj H
and Bergen, both in/ H
from the air and
British planes-' had |/l
down in these raids. * fl
Enemy planes
also bombed a town iifl
Germany, the high
said.
Tours, France, June
French defenders of Paris ■
determined stand at Ojfl :
Thierry and Meaux
third time in a quartofl
tury, after withdrj^^B
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THRONGS
DEWEY AM
Numerous Citizens from Elk
in and Surry Go to
Winston Saturday
LAMBASTS NEW DEAL
A large number of Republicans
from Elkin and Surry county
were among the throng which
'packed Reynolds park gymnasium
in Winston-Salem Saturday night
to hear the address of Thomas
E. Dewey, of New York, a leading
Republican hopeful for the nom
ination for the presidency.
Broadcast throughout the coun
try, the address of Dewey Satur
day night was described as one of
the most important of his vigor
ous campaign for the Republican
nomination.
He discussed the subject of
"National Defense" and bitterly
assailed the New Deal for vast
expenditures diuing the past sev
eral years.
Striking at the defense policy
of the present administration, ne
assailed it for a sudden burst of
appeals for defense funds and
without any well defined policy,
and urged that the American,
people in the November election
return the task of running the
government to the Republican
party.