Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina".
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 32
LATE I
NEWS
and
1 BRIEF *T
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, J«tte 18
President Roosevelt disclosed
today that he was working on
a huge plan for eventual gov
ernment service for all of
America's young men, some of
whom would be in the fighting:
forces and the rest in such
vital activities industrial pro
duction and conservation of
resources. Young women, too,
may be included in the plan,
he said at a press conference,
at which 'he emphasized that
a period of disciplined train
ing, say a year for each youth,
would be good for the young
people of the nation, besides
promoting the national de
fense.
WASHINGTON, June 18
Congress served virtual notice
on the world today that the
United States would fight to
uphold the Monroe doctrine.
By a vote of 382 to 8, the house
passed a resolution, already
approved by the senate, de
claring that this country would
not "acquiesce'' in the transfer
of territory in the western
hemisphere from one non-
American nation to another.
The resolution, before going to
President Roosevelt for his
signature, must return to the
senate for action on minor
amendments.
INTERNATIONAL
BORDEAUX, France, June
18—The unconquered French
clung fiercely to their fields
and Mils today in desperate
engagements along a broken
front, fighting on under orders
of the man who asked the foe
for peace and now awaits re
ply. In an order of the day,
as dramatic in its way as his
warld war order to defend
Verdun with courage and va
lor, Premier Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain calmly told the
men in the field to carry on
against the nazi invader.
ROME, June 18—The war
has been reduced to a struggle
between the United States and
Great Britain on one side and
"a large part of the rest of the
world" on the other, an au
thoritative fascist spokesman
declared today. Fascists con
templated a "second Munich,"
which, they said, must wipe
British influence from conti
nental Europe for all time.
With France in collapse, and
Britain fighting with material
assistance from the United
States, Virgin! o Gay da, pre
mier Mussolini's some-time ed
itorial spokesman, said the
war had settled into a "purely
Anglo-Saxon struggle against
a large part of the rest of the
world."
MUNICH, June 18—It was
taken for granted in informed
circles here tonight that the
axis demands in granting
peace to France would begin
with the "lost provinces" of
Alsace and Lorraine for Ger
many and Corsica, Tunis and
Nice for Itiuly. Mussolini may
also ask other concessions ben
eficial to Itaily's African col
onies, it was said, The real
question mark appeared to be
"what will happen to France
herself?" after these apparent
ly obvious requirements havo
been exacted. Whatever hap
pens, it seemed certain tonight
that the French army would be
rendered impotent—if the axis
terms are accepted by France
—and that the republic would
be shoved into the status of a
second-rate power.
BERLIN, June 18—Striking
on against broken France, the
German military experts to
night declared that "fighting
can be stopped only when the
armistice is signed." The Ger
man press threatfully added
that Britain would be next.
-"The military collapse of
France is swiftly progressing
under the pressure of.our re
lentless pursuit," said the high
command. "England," said
the newspaper Deutsche Allge
meine Zeltung, "now stands
completely alone. This is the
reality of the hour in which
Hitler and Mussolini sit to
gether in Munich as repre
sentatives of the Europe of
tomorrow."
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Jonesville School
Bond Decision Is
Reversed By Court
ACTION COMES
AFTER MATTER
IS RE-HEARD
Go-Ahead Signal Is Given
School Program
RESULT OF LONG FIGHT
Jonesville Would Issue Bonds
to Build Needed School
Facilities
MINORITY IS OPPOSED
The Yadkin county board of
education and the Town of
Jonesville received "the go-ahead
signal Wednesday concerning the
building of additional school fa
cilities n Jonesville, when the
North Carolina supreme court
reversed a previous supreme
court decision, and a decision of
Judge S. J. Irvin, which held
that the establishment by act of
the state legislature of local or
private school districts was un
constitutional.
The decision of the court was
announced at noon Wednesday
following a re-heariu? of the
case in which the Town of Jones
ville seeks, through issuance oi
bonds, to provide adequate school
facilities for its children. W. M
Allen and Hoke p. Henderson
attorneys for the defendants ir
the case, were notified of the
court's decision shortly aftei
noon.
The litigation concerning tht
Yadkin school matter started
following sun election held ir
Jonesville on June 13, 1939
wherein bonds were voted in the
amount of $40,000 for the con
struction of new school facilities
The bond election was carried bj
a vote of 635 to 355.
Immediately following the elec
tion, J. S. Hinson, Carl Rose, Hu
bert Evans, and others opposed
to the bond issue, brought an ac
tion to declare the act by the
state legislature providing foi
school bond elections unconsti
tutional on grounds that the leg
islature could not pass local oi
private acts establishing new
school district lines.
Shortly thereafter the plain
tiffs, represented by Barker and
Hampton, of Elkin, and Folger
and Folger, of Mount Airy, secur
ed a temporary restraining order
from Judge Wilson Warlick, and
later, in a hearing before Judge
Irvin, at Newland, a decision de
claring the act of the legislature
unconstitutional, and making the
restraining order permanent.
Attorneys for the Yadkin coun
ty board of education, Allen and
Henderson, of Elkin, and David
Lee Kelley, of Yadkinville, im
mediately appealed the ruling to
the state supreme court, which
handed down a. split decision of
3-3, thereby deciding with >the
plaintiffs. Chief Justice Stacy
did not sit on the case due to the
fact that he is a relative of L. S.
Weaver, superintendent of the
Jonesville school, who was active
in the fight for better school fa
cilities. Due to the fact that the
court's opinion was evenly divid
ed, the decision of Judge Irvin
was upheld.
Followng this action, Attorneys
Allen and Henderson, of the at
torneys representing the defend
ants, applied to the supreme
court on February 6, this year,
for a new hearing. The re-hear
ing was granted the following
day.
Under the decision handed
down Wednesday, the court re
versed Judge Irvin's decision and
its own previous decision by de
claring the act of the legislature
constitutional, and dissolving the
restraining order so that Jones
ville may issue bonds and pro
ceed with their school building
program.
WATER BILLS TO BE
PAID AT CITY HALL
The Elkin Water Department
has announced that oil and after
July 1, all water bills will be
payable at the city tax office, lo
cated in the city hall. Heretofore
water bills have been payable at
The Bank of Elkin.
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Rev. Stephen Morrisett,
above, a native of Winston-Sa
lem, and now serving a pas
torate in Indiana, has been
called by the Elkin Baptist
church to fill the vacancy re
cently created by the resigna
tion of Rev. Eph Whisenhunt.
CHURCH HERE
CALLSPASTOR
Rev. Stephen Morrisett I s
Native of Winston-Salem;
Is Serving in Indiana
HOPE FOR ACCEPTANCE
At a business meeting of
church members and officials at
the close of the monfiftg hour of
worship at the First Baptist
church Sunday morning, Rev.
Stephen Morrisett was called as
pastor without one dissenting
vote. Rev. Mr. Morrisett is a na
tive of Winston-Salem, and is at
present serving a pastorate in
Indiana. He was graduated |n
April of this year from the Bap
tist Theological Seminary i n
Louisville, Ky. He is also a grad
uate of the school of music at
Columbia University and before
his entrance into the ministry
served as director of the West
minster choir, Princeton, N. J.
He also served for a time as di
rector of the choir and organist
at the First Baptist church in
Winston-Salem.
Mr. Morrisett, who is 34 years
old, is married, his wife being a
native of Dayton, Ohio. They
have two sons, one six and one
three years of age. During the
time Mr. Morrisett was studying
at the seminary Mrs. Morrisett
took a W. M. U. Training School
course.
The call has been extended to
Rev. Mr. Morrisett and if he ac
cepts it is the hope of the church
that he will arrive in time to be
gin his duties by the first of July,
since the church has been with
out a pastor since early in May.
CHATHAM CONTRIBUTES
SSOO FOR SURRY X-RAY
Thurmond Chatham, president
of the Chatham Manufacturing
Company, has contributed SSOO
toward tne purchase of a new
X-ray machine for the Surry
health department.
Accompanying the check, which
was sent to Dr. R. C. B. Frank
lin, Surry health officer, was the
following letter, signed by Mr.
Chatham himself:
"I have been away almost ever
since I saw you and that is why
you haven't heard from me long
ago. We will be glad to donate
SSOO toward your new X-ray
equipment."
CHATHAM TO PLAY
IMPORTANT GAME
The Chatham Blanketeers will
meet Adams-Mill s, of High Point,
here Friday afternoon at 4:45 in
a game which will determine which
of the two teams will participate
in the North Carolina State Semi-
Pro Baseball Tournament, which
will be held in High Point begin
ning Saturday of this week. The
winning team will be eligible to
enter the torunament.
Sunday the Blanketeers will
meet the Hanes Knitters here in
i game called for 3:00 p. m.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940
NAZIS SEEKING
SURRENDER "OR
ESE" RUMORED
Axis Powers Would Place
France in Bondage
DETAILS STILL SECRET
Negotiators Expected to Meet
at Madrid at Home of
Francisco Franco
FRENCH ENVOY NAMED
June 19—A picture of France
in bondage—stripped of her gold,
factories and raw materials, with
German-Italian armies camped
on her soil—was given today in
unconfirmed reports of the "axis
peace" terms dictated by Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Authorized Nazis in Berlin em
phasized that the German-Italian
price for an armistice are not
open to negotiation. They must
be accepted or rejected as they
stand.
The official Italian news
agency said Hitler demanded
capitulation "pure and simple"—
apparently meaning uncondition
al surrender.
While the details remained
secret, Bordeaux reported that
French and German negotiators
would meet at Madrid at the res
idence of Generalissimo Francis
co Franco of Spain.
The French radio said Ger
many notified France today that
she would disclose her peace
terms only to a special plenipo
tentiary. President Albert Le
brun immediately appointed an
envoy to meet the axis negotia
tors.
Fascists in Rome warned that
French rejection of the Munich
would unleash a swift "final as
sault" by the combined German-
Italian armies—now nearing a
junction near the south Swiss
border —tc crush France to the
ground.
WILL SUPPORT
WEEDPROGRAM
Group Favors Three-Year
Tobacco Curtailment Pro
gram at Raleigh Meet
WARNING IS ISSUED
Raleigh, June 18—Faced with
a warning that should farmers
reject tobacco crop control, prices
might be forced to 10 cents a
pound or less this year, 200 ware
housemen, bankers, merchants
and growers voted today to sup
port a three-year leaf curtail
ment program.
The group met here to discuss
the July 20 referendum, in which
tobacco growers will decide
whether they want control only
for next year, for the next three
years or no control at all.
The warning was made by J.
B. Hutson, assistant AAA admin
istrator, who described the to
bacco situation as the darkest in
the history of the crop.
Only an adequate program of
controlled production will keep
prices from dipping to rock bot
tom, he said.
He asserted that if quotas were
imposed only for 1941, prices this
fall may nose dive even below
last year's average of 14.8 cents.
With a three-year program, he
said, the government can guar
antee a price range of between
IS and 16 cents.
In a unanimously adopted res
olution, the tobacco men, mer
chants and bankers pointed out
that a three-year plan would
cause the trade to be more likely
to offer reasonable prices; the
government could give maximum
support for export grades, which
now have practically no markets;
normal credit could be more in
telligently extended, assuring
growers financial aid necessary
to production, and growers could
make their plans without te&r of
drastic changes from year to
year.
COUPLE SLIGHTLY
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Johnson, of
Charleston, W. Va., received
bruises and minor lacerations
near Thurmond Monday evening
about dark when their car skid
ded upon the slippery, oil treated
highway and slid into a house lo
cated near the road.
Hie car suffered considerable
damage about the front.
Monroe Doctrine To Be Upheld,
Germany And Italy Are Warned
In Message By U. S. Government
ENGLAND BOMBED in Yorkshire, England,
shows cottagers searching the debris of their houses
which were wrecked recently by bombs during one of the
many Nazi raids on English villages. Scenes such as this,
multiplied thousands of times, are expected by the British
when Hitler launches his threatened blitzkrieg against the
British Isles.
Says Attention
Pledged to Elkin
School Program
Superintendent of Schools
John W. Comer said Wednes
day that the State had pledged
immediate attention to the
proposed building program of
the Elkin schools. It is expect
ed that some definite step will
be taken in regard to the
building program at an early
date. Mr. Comer, accompanied
by Frank Folger, county tax
supervisor, spent some time in
Raleigh last week attending to
matters in regard to the Sur
ry school system.
The State also provided
burial expenses for the Moun
tain Park school child, who
was accidentally killed by a
school bus last winter.
POWER CO. IS
ORGANIZED
Surry Mutual Electric Corp.
Will Serve Over 800
Rural Families
TO SERVE 4 COUNTIES
Eight hundred or more home
owners are said to have signed
agreements to use electric power
to be furnished by the Surry Mut
ual Electric Corporation, which
will serve Surry, Yadkin, Forsyth
and Stokes counties in areas not
now being served by any public
utility, according to information
obtained from N. P. Bryant, sec
retary to the company. The cor
poration was granted a charter
two weeks ago.
Several members of the board
of directors of the newly formed
corporation, together with Attor
ney Frank Freeman, of Dobson,
and B. O. Vannort, Charlotte en
gineer, were in Washington last
week to apply for a loan to con
struct the 200 miles of electric
lines necessary to serve the 800
members. The loan, amounting
to $200,000, is expected to be
granted by the first of July.
J. A. Tilley, prominent farmer
of Surry county, is president of
the company, which was first
tentatively organized in the late
winter of this year. Other offic
ials are: J. T. Dorse, Forsyth
county, vice-president; N. P. Bry
ant, Yadkin county, secretary,
and S. A. Holder, Surry county,
treasurer.
Members of the board of direct
ors are J. A. Tilley, J. S. Key, S.
A. Holder, W. L. Smith, W. T.
White, all of Surry county; G. T.
Dorse, of Forsyth; and N. P. Bry
ant, H. W. Daub and Joe Pendry,
of Yadkin county.
The first compulsory education
law was passed In Massachusetts
in 1642.
Sheep ticks are not tioks. They
are flies.
TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY
North Wilkesboro Planning
Big Things as City Ob
serves 50th Birthday
TO PRESENT PAGEANT
North Wilkesboro, June 19
Plans are well under way here
for the staging of a big celebra
tion June 30 through July 4 com
memorating the 50th anniversary
of North Wilkesboro.
North Wilkesboro's Commerce
Bureaus, a city-wide organization
of business and professional in
terests, if sponsoring the event
and headlining the celebration
will be the presentation of a his
torical spectacle entitled "On
Wings of Time," at the fair
grounds here the nights of July
1, 2, 3, and 4, beginning at 8:00
o'clock.
Although the detailed program
for each day of the celebration
has not been announced fully, it
was learned here today that Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey will deliver
an address on July 4, closing day
of the celebration.
Other features which will pro
vide entertainment during the
event will include a mammoth
parade with all the fanfare and
gaity which goes with a happy
celebration.
John B. Rogers Producing com
pany, of Postoria, Ohio, will stage
the historical pageant each night,
using a cast of local people num
bering more than 500.
North Wilkesboro has been en
thusiastic in preparations for the
event and has even gone so far
as to print "wooden nickels" as
souvenir tokens of the celebra
tion. The "wooden nickels" are
circulating freely in North
Wilkesboro and, strange as it may
seem, are actually in demand in
stead of being shunned.
BOONVILLE PEOPLE
HURT IN ACCIDENT
A wreck of serious proportions
occurred at East Bend Monday
afternoon when a sedan driven by
Mrs. J. A. Speas, of Boonville,
overturned. The cause of the
wreck could not be entirely ascer
tained, but the slippery roads
were a big factor in the mishap
and probably caused Mrs. Speas
to lose control of the car. Mrs.
Speas and the other two occu
pants of the car, Miss Mollie Lou
Cox and Bobby Loe, both grand
children of Mrs. Speas, are in the
Baptist hospital at Winston-Sa
lem. Mrs. Speas suffered five
broken ribs, and lacerations and
bruises. Bobby Lee suffered a
broken collar bone and a cut
across the forehead that took 19
stitches to close. Mollie Lou, It
was thought Monday night, was
less seriously Injured than the
others. She suffered a b&d bruise
on the forehead, and an apparent
back injury.
The common garden snail can
pull a load SO times its own
weight.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN CONNECTION
WITH ISLANDS
OF HEMISPHERE
Exact Form of Warning Not
Made Public
FROWNS ON TRANSFER
Action Is Motivated by Col
lapse of French Defenses
and Peace Plea
INFORM OTHER NATIONS
Washington, June 19 The
United States has officially
warned the governments of Ger
many and Italy that it will sup
port the Monroe doctrine in con
nection with the belligerent
island possessions in this hemi
sphere, the State Department
said today.
The American diplomatic rep
resentatives in both Rome and
Berlin were instructed to inform
the government to which they
were accredited of the United
States attitude last Monday.
The exact form of the warning
was not made public immediate
ly.
The action was motivated by
the collapse of the French de
fenses and overtures for peace
institute! by the Bordeaux gov
ernment.
Since then reports of the pos
sible annexation by other Euro
pean powers of French posses
sions in the Western Hemisphere
has made the situation more
acute in the minds of United
States officials.
The State Department made
no formal announcement of the
move but an authorized spokes
man said that the position of the
United States as outlined to the
axis governments is "identical
with the joint resolution passed
by both houses of Congress and
now before the President for
signature."
The governments of France,
Great Britain and Holland have
been informed simultaneously of
the United States views relative
to any possible transfer of terri
tory, the department said.
BENHAM MAN
PASSESAWAY
Burns Prove Fatal to Coy
Ledbetter, 46; Had Been
in Hospital
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Burns, sustained when he acci
dentally fell into an open fire In
December of last year, proved fa
tal Wednesday to Coy Ledbetter,
46, of the Benham community.
The burns, which were extremely
severe, necessitated hospital
treatment for several months,
and his condition had been re
garded as hopeless, since his in
jury. He was rerhoved to his
home several months ago.
He was a lifelong resident of
the Benham section, where he
was engaged in farming. He was
a son of James Ledbetter and the
late Mrs. Ledbetter and a mem
ber of the Charity Methodist
church in Wilkes county.
He is survived by seven chil
dren, McKinley Ledbetter, Misses
Connie, Bonnie Louise, Mozelle,
Carol, and Denver and Odell Led
better, his father, two sisters, Mrs.
Boyd Luffman and Miss Pearl
Ledbetter, and one brother,
Bramlett Ledbetter.
TWO ARE ARRESTED
ON WHISKY CHARGE
Barney Rhodes and Buster
Lyons, Elkin young men, have
been arrested following a raid
here last Saturday by Officers
Corbett Wall, C. S. Foster and
Chesco Sprinkle, which netted a
small amount of liquor. The two
men are under S2OO bond each cm
a charge of possessing whisky for
purpose of sale. They axe sche
duled to face a hearing before
Magistrate J. L. Hall on July 1.