Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXX. No. 2
LATE
NEWS
IN and
Nation
BRIEF .
STATE,
HENDERSON, Nov. 19—One
thousand persons, all that
could crowd Inside the hall,
greeted Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt in the auditorium of
Henderson high school tonight
as the First Lady spoke here
under auspices or the Hender
son Business and Professional
Women's club. Her subject was
"Relationship of the Citizen to
the Community.''
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19
The house refused to end this
session of Congress today,
voicing by a 191 to 148 vote a
feeling that so long as the for
eign crisis continues Congress
" should stay on the job. By its
action it upset the plans of
Democratic leaders, who
brought up the adjournment
resolution. The leaders thus
were presented with an out
right defeat on the first test of
their strength since the elec
tion of two weeks ago.. Their
reverse was caused by the de
fection of 44 Democrats.
These, Including particularly
Democrats from the west, com
bined their votes with those of
a solid Republican minority to
block the adjournment move.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19
Eccentrics who are unable to
ge along normally with others
are to be rejected for selective
military training, Director C.
A. Dykstra announced tonight.
A circular outlining psychia
tric inspection to be made by
local draft physicians said that
not only the insane and feeble
minded would be unsuitable
for service but also men "who
are doing well in civilian life
only because they have found
ways of protecting themselves
from undue stress, by seclu
siveness or by peculiar per
formances and odd habits of
life." "Military life requires
that the soldier shall be able
to live comfortably in close
contact with a variegated
group of other men," Dykstra
said.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19
President Roosevelt today call
ed upon labor's leaders "with
the interest of the nation at
heart" to find a peaceful solu
tion of the problems dividing
their followers into opposing
camps. A. F. L. President Wil
liam Green sent immediate
assurance to the executive that
the American Federation of
Labor was willing "anywhere,
any time, any place" to discuss
negotiation with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations
now in convention at Atlantic
City. "We as a people today
have the common determina
tion to put our country above
all else," the President said in
a letter to Green read at the
A. F. L. convention here.
INTERNATIONAL
ATHENS, Nov. 19 Greece
appealed today to her allies
and friends among the "free
countries" of the world for
"planes . . . planes . . . planes"
to defend herself against the
next surge of totalitarian war.
Press Minister Theo Nlcoloudis,
saying he spoke especially to
Britain and the United States,
urged that Greece's friends not
be misled by her successes thus
far in the Balkan war.
Elkin Stores
To Be Closed
Thanksgiving
Elkin stores will be closed all
day Thursday, November 28, in
observance of Thanksgiving, it
has been announced by Mrs.
Franklin Folger, secretary of
the local Merchants associa
tion.
Although a majority of the
nation is observing today
(Thursday), as Thanksgiving,
North Carolina will observe
the usual last Thursday in No
vember.
The Elkin postoffice will be
closed today as all federal
agencies must observe the
Thanksgiving day proclaimed
by President Roosevelt.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
DR. HUGH PARKS
PASSES AFTER
LONG JLLNESS
Was Member of Elkin Hospi
tal Staff
HAD HEART AILMENT
Funeral Rites Are Conducted
Friday from Elkin Meth
odist Church
NATIVE OF HARMONY
Dr. Hugh Parks, almost 45,
physician-in-chief and assistant
superintendent of Hugh Chatham
Memorial Hospital died in the
hospital about 4 o'clock Thursday
afternoon from a serious illness of
twp months from a heart ailment
and complications. Since the be
ginning of his illness Dr. Parks
had been a patient in the local
hospital and in a Charlotte hos
pital. His condition had been crit
ical since he was stricken.
Dr. Parks was a native of Har
mony and the younger son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Parks of this city,
who came to Elkin to reside about
20 years ago. Dr. Parks came here
to practice his profession in 1924,
and during that time had" en
deared himself to the people of
the town and surrounding com
munity. He was educated at the
University of North Carolina and
Jefferson Medical College, receiv
ing his M: D. degree in 1921. After
completing his internship he
practiced in Camden, N. J., be
fore coming here to reside. After
several years of successful private
practice he joined the Hugh Chat
ham Memorial staff about tliree
years ago. Prior to joining the
hospital staff he took a post
graduate course at Harvard Medi
cal School. He was widely recog
nized for his professional ability.
He was a member of the Elkin
Methodist church and of the Elk
in Kiwanis Club.
Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at 4 o'clock from
the Methodist church and the
host of friends, both from Elkin
and surrounding towns, which
taxed the capacity of the church
and the beautiful and profuse
floral offering were evidence of
the esteem in which he was held.
The body lay in state at the
church for an hour prior to the
service. The funeral rites were
in charge of Rev. Herman F. Dun
can, pastor of the church, Rev. L.
B. Abernethy, chairman of the
board of directors of Hugh Chat
ham Memorial Hospital and a
former pastor of the deceased,
Rev. Stephen Morrisett, pastor of
the First Baptist church, and Rev.
O. V. Caudill, pastor of the Pres
byterian church. Members of the
nursing staff of the hospital were
flower girls and the doctors of
the town were honorary pallbear
ers.
Interment was in the family
plot in Hollywool cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Gwyn Parks; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Parks; one
sister, Mrs. Opie R. Tharpe, of
Lexington, Va., and one brother,
Ralph W. Parks, of Raleigh.
ORDER NUMBERS
IN THISJSSUE
Advisory Board to Aid in
Filling Out Questionnaires
" Is Announced
J. W. COMER CHAIRMAN
In this issue, The Tribune is
publishing the remaining names
and order numbers of this Surry
draft area, who are under the
jurisdiction of Surry draft board
No. 2. The first 500 names were
published last week.
Names of the registrants are
published in numerical lists ac
cording to their serial numbers.
However, the order number pre
cedes the serial number at the
left of each name.
The national order numbers
published from Washington are
not the same as the local order
numbers because each local area
usually has less than half as
many men as the total number
drawn at Washington.
Draft boards have warned men
to ascertain their local order
numbers and not to rely upon
their places in the national lot
tery, which appear much higher
than they are in each area. Se
rial numbers assigned to the men
after they registered, no longer
(Continued on page six)
Passes Away
Dr. Hugh Parks, physician
in-chief and assistant superin
tendent at Hurh Chatham
Memorial hospital, who passed
away here last Thursday fol
lowing a long illness. Funeral
services were held Friday after
noon.
ROARING GAP
MAN SUICIDE
Body of Tom Walter Smith
Is Found in Car Saturday
Near Fire Tower
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
Tom Walter Smith, 35, of
Roaring Gap, was found dead in
his automobile at the fire lookout
tower, near Roaring Gap, Satur
day morning. Indications were
that Smith had taken his own life
by carbon monoxide poisoning.
When he was found the motor to
his car was running and the
fumes from the exhaust were be
ing conducted inside the car by
a piece of garden hose which was
attached to the exhaust and
drawn through a window.
Smith was a native of Roaring
Gap and had spent the most of
his life there. He went to Win
ston-Salem about two years ago
to work and remained there until
his health failed about a year
ago. A note, addressed to his
wife and found on his person, in
dicated that ill health was the
cause of his suicide.
Smith had been seen about an
hour before his body was found
at a filling station near the en
trance to the Roaring Gap resort
grounds, and they stated that he
appeared in a highly nervous
condition.
Immediate survivors include his
wife and two children.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning a t Antioch
Methodist church near the Smith
home. Interment was in the
"church cemetery.
BOY SCOUTS ARE TO
COLLECT OLD CLOTHES
Boy Scouts of Elkin will call at
various homes of the town on
Monday afternoon, November 25,
to collect donations of second
hand clothing for the Quarter
back club to be soW in a second
hand store recently opened by the
club over Hayes Hardware com
pany. The proceeds of the sale
of clothing will be used for the
stadium fund.
All donations will be greatly
appreciated.
TO GIVE PROGRAM AT
PLEASANT HILL 27th
A Thanksgiving program is to
be given at the Pleaasnt Hill
school auditorium Wednesday ev
ening, November 27, fit 7:30.
A pretty girl contest, a cake
walk and games will be some fea
tures of the program.
This is for the purpose of
raising funds for the school. No
admission. The public is invited.
Elkin Merchants
Christmas Opening Nov. 29
The annual Christmas shoppers
edition of The Tribune will be
presented next week as this news
paper cooperates with Elkin mer
chants in staging their Christmas
opening Friday, November 29.
This evening date was decided
upon by the merchants at a re
cent meeting, and all stores will
be fully decorated in gay Christ
mas attire by the 29th. Street de
corations will also be complete,
with North Bridge street, from the
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940
HUNGARY JOINS
BERLIN GROUP
IN NEWORDER
Other Powers Are Expected,
Nazis Say
AGREEMENTS SIGNED
To "Contribute Strength to
the New Order in Europe,"
Says Statement
GATEWAY TO BALKANS
Vienna, Nov. 20.—Hungary join
ed the German-Italian-Japanese
alliance today.
German Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop made a
speech immediately after Hungar
ian officials had signed the agree
ment, saying that other powers
were expected to follow suit.
Italian Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano; Saburo Kurusu,
Japanese ambassador to Ger
many; Marshal Wilhelm Keltel,
chief of the German supreme com
mand, and other Nazi leaders wit
nessed the signing.
Hitler joined the signatories
for a cold buffet luncheon at Bel
vedere Palace after the signing.
Hungary was represented by its
Premier Count Paul Teleki and
Foreign Minister Count Stephen
Csaky.
They announced that "Hungary
joins the Berlin tri-power pact
with the intention of contributing
her strength to the new order in
Europe now as well as during the
liquidation of the war."
The axis powers' new ally is the
gateway to the Balkans. A rem
nant of the old Austria-Hungary
empire, ruled by a 72-year-old
regent, Admiral Nicholas d e
Horthy, who drove the Com
munist Bela Kun from power
after the World War, Hungary
has been growing for two years
with German support, at the ex
pense of her old world war
enemies.
DRAFT MEDICAL
GROUPS NAMED
Governor Hoey Makes Public
List Recommended to
President Roosevelt
SURRY IN DISTRICT FOUR
Governor Hoey has announced
the doctors that he is recom
mending to President Roosevelt
for membership on six district
medical advisory boards for the
selective service program.
Headquarters for the districts
will be at Greenville, Raleigh,
Fayetteville, Win st o n-S ale m,
Charlotte and Asheville.
"Th e regulations," Governor
Hoey said, "require that these
boards be composed of eight
(Continued on page six)
November
Through
Clean-up Week
November 20 through 27- has
been designated as Clean-up Week
by the Elkin Woman's Club, and
the cooperation of all people of
the town is requested.
Elkin has the slogan of "The
Best Little Town in North Caro
lina" and the Woman's Club hopes
to also make it the cleanest town
in North Carolina.
Property owners and renters in
the business and residential dis
tricts are all urged to cooperate
in the work, and are especially
asked to concentrate on alleys
and unsightly rubbish heaps.
square to the corner at Hotel Elk
in, being added to the decorated
zone.
The Tribune, in carrying Christ
mas messages of local stores next
week, will appear in an attractive
4-color jacket, and will contain
news of the many fine gift offer
ings that may be obtained in Elk
in's more progressive stores this
Christmas season.
Complete details concerning
the Christmas opening will appear
in next week's issue.
TBTirifts COJ J ini? Here ' B wh at happened when two trucks, one a highway
I AULAjJ LL/L/LI ULi truck loaded with two yards of sand, collided Monday
afternoon at the intersection of the Ronda and Traphill roads, west of Elkin. The high
way truck, driven by Elmore Anthony, is shown bottom side up in the photo below.
Mr, Anthony, who was unhurt in the accident, is pictured at right. The other truck,
which was occupied by four men, several of whom received bruises and lacerations, is
pictured at left. Although not shown in the photo, the front end of this truck was
completely demolished.—(Tribune Photo.)
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GREEKS DRIVE
ITALIANS BACK
Bloody Fighting Reported as
Important Battle for
Koritza Continues
OTHER GAINS CLAIMED
Athens, Nov. 20—Mass bayonet
charges and fierce hand-to-hand
fighting have carried counterat
tacking Greek troops deeper into
Albania in the battle for impor
tant Koritza, the Greek high
command declared today.
Italian resistance apparently
was stiffened by reinforcements
and the machine-gunning and
dive-bombing of Greek front line
troops.
The Greek communique said
that "among the Morava
Heights" where Greek mountain
troops are driving at the Italian
invasion base at Koritza itself,
"our offensive action continued
with success."
Other gains were claimed for
Greek forces battling for domina
tion of the supply route beyond
Koritza.
"Our army ejected the enemy
at bayonet point from positions
which they had defended fierce
ly," the communique said.
(Dispatches from Bitloj, Yugo
slav frontier town near the Ko
ritza wing of the battlefront, said
last night that casualties had
been heavy on both sides in the
relentless battle for the strategic
city as Italians clung to their po
sitions under steady onslaught.
(Six hundred Greek prisoners
were reported taken, including
100 Albanians fighting alongside
the Greeks.)
WORK IS BEGUN
ON SCHOOL UNIT
Addition to Jonesville School
to Be Constructed as Fast
as Possible
TO COST OVER $40,000.00
Excavation which marks the
beginning of construction of the
new addition to the Jonesville
school, was begun Tuesday, and
work will be rushed to complete
the unit which will give Jonesville
the largest school plant in Yadkin
county.
Officials of the P. S. West Con
struction Co.. holders of the gen
eral construction contract, have
announced that it will be impos
sible to say when the building will
be completed due to the fact that
it may be held up by uncertain
winter weather. However, no time
will be lost in efforts rushing
construction so that the crowded
condition of the school may be
relieved.
The new addition, to cost over
$40,000, will consist of seven class
rooms, science and manuel train
ing laboratory, library-study hall,
principal's office, auditorium
gymnasium, and boiler room.
Saturday Is
Last Day of
Knife Offer
Saturday, November 23,
marks the last day The Tri
bune free knife offer remains
in effect.
Prior to, and including Sat
urday, an attractive knife will
be given each person who sub
scribes to, or renews his or her
subscription to The Tribune.
These knives are valued at sl,
but are given absolutely free
with each subscription.
Don't put off taking advan
tage of this offer, as Saturday
is positively the last day!
PLANT TO HAVE
NEW MACHINERY
Home Chair Company a t
Ronda to Install Most
Modern Equipment
MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY
When completed and in full
production, the Home Chair
Company now engaged in re
modeling and enlarging the old
Ronda Cotton Mill plant at Ron
da for use in manufacturing the
chair company's products, will
have the most modern outlay of
machinery of any furniture plant
in the South.
The modern equipment will in
clude, among other things, a con
veyor system, something new
among chair companies in this
area of the country. Then, too,
every piece of equipment is of the
latest design, all new and bought
with an eye to the future of the
company.
Machinery is to be placed in
the factory so as to provide the
maximum of efficiency among
workmen and the utmost in pro
duction, while at the same time
providing safe and pleasant sur
roundings for the "orkmen.
While the conveyor system,
known as the Palmer Bee, is per
haps the newest thing for plants
of this kind, other machinery is
also- of the modern, advanced
type.,
MAN IS ARRESTED
HERE AFTER CHASE
Harold Hemric, of Jonesville,
was arrested at the edge of the
Yadkin river here Wednesday
morning by Chief of Police Cor
bett Wall following a chase of
about a mile, on charges of giving
worthless checks.
Hemric jumped into the Yad
kty river in an effort to swim
across, but turned back and was
captured by a clerk of a local
store who had accepted one of the
bad checks, and who was in on the
chase.
The young man was said to
have cashed several checks here
amounting to approximately S6O.
He was placed in jail to await
hearing. i
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TWO SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRUCKS WRECK
IN COLLISION
Highway Truck Turns Turtle
and Other Machine Badly
Smashed Monday
NO ONE BADLY INJURED
Although one truck was over
turned and the other badly dam
aged in a collision which occurred
Monday afternoon at the inter
section of the Traphill and Ronda
roads west of Elkin, none of the
five occupants were seriously in
jured.
The accident occurred when a
highway truck, loaded with two
yards of sand, and an empty
truck owned by Guy S. Brinegar,
of Traphill, collided at the inter
section. The heavily loaded high
way machine was tinned bottom
side up, but its driver, Elmore An
thony, was uninjured.
The other machine contained
four occupants, Henry S. Lyons,
James Monroe Walker, Robert
Dameron and John W. Buttrey.
Of the four, Dameron was the
worse hurt, although his injuries
were not believed to be serious.
The others received slight injuries
in form bruises and abrasions.
It is not known who was driving
the truck, it first having been said
that Lyons was the driver, then
Walker was reported to have been
at the wheel.
Who was at fault in the acci
dent had not been determined at
last reports.
E. H. S. Juniors
To Present
Here iVot). 26th
The Junior class of Elkin high
school will present a 3-act come
dy, "Here Comes Charlie," at the
Elkin elementary school auditor
ium Tuesday, November 26, start
ing at 8:00 p. m.
The cast of the play, rehearsal
for which has been under way for
some time, is made up of the fol
lowing students: Mary Elizabeth
Allen, Joe Harris, Eleanor Hayes,
Bob Harris, Y. B. Johnson, Eliza
beth Alexander, Dorothy Harrell,
Windell Martin, Louise Felts and
Walter Gainer.
A' nominal admission fee will be
charged. The public is invited to
witness the play and is prfflnised
an evening of real entertainment.
A mole has been known to
tunnel more than 75 yards in a
single night.
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Merchants who are planning
advertisements In next week's
annual Christmas edition of
The Tribune, are urged to eo
operato with The Tribute bar
releasing advertising copy at
the earliest moment veaiUe.
Such cooperation wHI be «ta
eerdy appreciated.