YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934
No. 2
RFC DID
FINE BUSINESS
Washington, Jan. 9.—The Re
construction Finance Corporation
approved loans and commitments
totaling more than $6,000,000,000
from February 2, 1933, to Decem
ber 31, 1933, Chairman Jesse
Jones reported tonight as congres
sional Democratic leaders opened
their fight to extend the life and
borrowing powers of the fiscal
agency.
TO BEGIN
FLIGHT TODAY
San Francisco, Jan. 9.—Lieut.
Commander Knefler McGinnie,
leader of a band of 30 Navy fliers
who will attempt a nonstop mass
flight to Honolulu, tonight set
noon Wednesday as the starting
time of the squadron flight.
“We plan to get away by noon
tomorrow,” he said. “Certainly not
later than 2 p. m. (p.s.t.)
GOV’T. DRAWN INTO
MILK STRIKE
Chicago, Jan 9.—The federal
government and the state of Illi
nois wTere drawn into the Chicago
dairy controversy today after
striking farmers dumped thous
ands of gallons of milk, stopped
an inter-state train and praetical
ly shut off the supply of milk for
almost 4.000,000 people in the
city’s area.
FAILS IN
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Kinston, Jan. 9.—Elmer Park
er, 19, who said he “was tired of
living,” shot himself with a pistol
at his home here late last night.
He inflicted only a slight scalp
wound and is expected to recover.
Investigating officers said it was
a suicide attempt.
WAKE HAS
FOURTH KILLING
Raleigh, Jan. 9.—Wake coun
ty’s fourth killing in the new year
took place early this morning at
a farm house in Little River
Township when Marlin Jeffress is
alleged to have shot Bud Rogers
to death. Rogers wounded Jeff
ress before being slain. Both are
Negroes.
Coroner L. M. Waring said that
his investigation revealed the af
fair climaxed a drunken brawl.
DIES FROM
FOOTBALL INJURY
Thomasville, Jan. 9.—Harvey
Rutledge, 13, died at the City Me
morial hospital at 3 o’clock this
morning from injuries which he
recently received while playing
football at Trinity. He was the
son of Mrs. Flora Rutledge Wil
son, who lives near High Point.
Mrs. J. H. Hendricks
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Hester Viola Hendricks, 51
wife of J. H. Hendricks, of Winston
Salem, passed away suddenly Sun
day morning at 5 o’clock at the
home. She was ill for only a few
hours.
She was bom at East Bend, May
11, 1882, a daughter of Thomas W.
and Elizabeth Martin Allen. She
had resided in Winston-Salem since
her marriage on April 24, 1905.
Surviving are the husband; one
son, John a Hendricks of Winston
Salem; two daughters, Mrs. Eliza
beth Sheets and Mrs. Frances Eli
zabeth Whitt, both of Winston-Sal
em; two grandchildren; three broth
ers, Dr. Robert E. Allen, of Jackson
ville, Fla.; Dr. Ray Allen, of Johnson
City, Tenn.; and J. W. Allen of
Winston-Salem; three sisters, Mrs.
Alice Hauser, of East Bend; Mrs.
John N. Davis, of East Bend and
Miss Eula Allen of Bluefield, W. Va.
The funeral was held at the home
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock
and at Macedonia M. E. church
near East Bend at 2:30 o’clock. Dr.
S. H. Templeman and Rev. V. M.
Swaim conducted the services. Bur
ial followed in the church cemetery.
The Pan-American highway which
will eventually stretch more , than
9,800 miles, was this yeer completed
in the Chilean sector, where 1,577
miles had to be built.
Sunland Play Clothes
The clothes worn by winter vaca
tionists usually are forerunners of
those which will be seen on
beaches and in vacation camps dur
ing the coming .summer. The play
suit above, worn by Miss Frances
.Jones at Miami, consisted of Tyro
lean in grey flannel shorts, a concar
nean red shirt and peasant type hat.
REV. WESLEY DOUR
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Funeral Held Tuesday
Morning At Balti
more Church
Rev. John Wesley Doub, aged 80
years, 9 months and 15 days, died
Sunday riight at the home of his
sister-in-law Mrs. S. L. Doub, near
Baltimore church, following a linger
ing illness. He had been in a ser
ious condition for several days.
Mr. Doub was born in that section
March 23, 1853, and had spent his
entire life in the same neighborhood.
He was never married and since the
death of his brother, Mr. S. L. Doub,
he had resided with his widow. He
is survived by one sister, Mrs. Julia
Speas and one brother, Mr. Evan
Doub, both of near Baltimore.
The funeral was conducted Tues
day morning at 11 o’clock at Balti
more church and interment followed
in the church graveyard. Services
were in charge of Rev. C. B. Way, of
Tobaccoville; Rev. Raleigh Hunter
of Winston-Salem and the pastor,
Rev. D. R. Williams, also of Winston
Salem.
Pall bearers were J. H. Speas, A.
A. Howard, Henry Doub, James Al
len and C. B. Poindexter.
Mr. Doub was a highly respected
citizen and liked by all who knew
him. He had been superintendent
of the Baltimore church Sunday
school for more than 60 years. He
was present at the dedication of the
first church erected at Baltimore, a
small log building, more than 60
years ago, and took an active part
in the ceremonies. Later a larger
and better church was erected which
served for many years, and a few
years ago a still larger one was built.
It was fitting that Mr. Doub be bur
ied in the exact spot where the first
little church which he cherished so
much, was built.
Deposits of the Yadkin
Valley Bank Insured
The Yadkin Valley Bank, East
Bend, N. C„ is a member of the
Temporary Federal Deposit Insur
ance Fund, and the funds of each
depositor is insured up to $2,500.00
by Federal Deposit Isurance Corpor
ation.
Cycle News
Little Bobby Doobins has been
confined to his home for several
days suffering from the effects of
being hit with a rock by some of
the larger boys at school.
There was a trial of much interest
at the home of Esq. H. C. Nicks
Saturday evening. John Day was
the defendant and the Hedgepeth
boys of this community plaintiffs.
It was alleged that Day threw rocks
at the Hedgepeth boys.
Ruben Creason, of Winston-Salem
visited at the home of his mother
in-law, Mrs. Nancy Inscore, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stokes, of
Winston-Salem, were week-end
guests at the home of Mrs. Stokes’
mother, Mrs. M. A. Swaim.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Dobbins and
Miss Eva Dobbins visited Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Shore Sunday.
FORMER RESIDENT
OF YADKIN PASSES
Dr. LeRoy Salmons Dies
After Illness Of
A Week
Dr. LeRoy Salmons, 45, widely
known Winston-Salem physician and
former resident of Yadkin, died at his
home in Winston-Salem ^Tuesday
night at 10:05 o’clock. He had been
ill for about a week but his condi
tion was not considered serious until
a short time before his death when
he was seized with a heart attack.
Dr. Salmons was born near Hamp
tonville, Yadkin county, November
22, 1888, a son of A. M. and Fannie
Sparks Salmons. He spent his early
life in that section and attended
school and later graduated from
Elkin high school. He attended
North Carolina Medical College in
Charlotte from which he graduated
in 1912. For two and one-half
years after his graduation he prac
ticed his profession in Elkin, going
from there to Winston-Salem, where
he resided until his death. During the
World War he was with the 81st Di
vision, serving in the capacity of
First Lieutenant in the 321st ambu
lance company.
SPANN IN JAIL FOR
ASSAULT ON BARKER
Pulled His Glasses Off
And Struck Former
Judge Twice
Hillary Spann, of Elkin and Jones
ville, who appears to have a mania
for getting into trouble, is in jail it
Dobson awaiting trial for an assault
upon Harry H. Barker, former judge
of Elkin recorder’s court.
Spann was placed in jail follow
ing a preliminary hearing Saturday
in which release bond was set at
$500. He could not make bond.
According to evidence, Spann went
to Mr. Barker’s office sometime ago
stating that he wished to see him
Going no further than the door, he
was said to have told Mr. Barker
to come to the door a moment after
the former, who was busy at the
time, had told him he had no time
to see him.
Upon Mr. Barker coming to the
door, Spann was said to have
reached up and removed Mr. Bark
er’s glasses and then to have struck
him twice in the face, remarking at
the same time that “you remember
what you did to me up there in the
courtroom.”
Spann had frequently been sen
tenced by Mr. Barker when he was
judge of recorder’s court, for various
and sundry offenses.
John Wesley Doub
In the death of John Wesley
Doub Yadkin county has lost one
of its highly respected citizens and
a man who will be missed in his
circle of friends.
Mr. Doub lived that he might
help others; his greatest devotion
for many years was to his church
and Sunday schoohj^r more than
60 years he had been superinten
dent of the Sunday school at Bal
timore church, beginning with the
first little log church and living
through that, and the second
church and many years in the
third; he was superintendent in
its true sense, not merely in name.
He was there to ring the church
bell and was there to lock the
door when the last attendant had
passed out its doors, wijh a part
ing word from Mr. Doub.
Well can this writer remember
when only large enough to toddle
to Baltimore church, the familiar
figure of Mr. Doub, coming up the
little path that led to his home,
his Bible in his hand and an
earnest look on his face, coming
to do his work and it was done
well.
“Blessed are those who die in
the Lord” reads the good book,
and Wesley Doub is blessed; he
has gone to reap that reward
which awaits all who live the life
he did; his works will live after
him for years to come just as his
works have been seen in the past;
his efforts have not been in vain;
peace to his soul while he rests
in a better world.
Coroner’s Jury Maintains Belief
Wilkes Girl’s Death Was Murder;
Autopsy Shows Little of Value
Murder or Suicide?
The death of Leoda Mae Childress, pictured upper left, continues a
mystery following the autopsy performed upon her body Wednesday morn
ing. The lower sketch shows the room in the Tilley home in which her
slain body was found. A is the approximate position in which the body
was found; B is the telephone; C is the chest of drawers from which the
money was at first thought to have been taken; D is the bed; F is the
overturned chair found near the window (J) in which two panes of glass
had been broken; G shows where the rifle was found against the door
leading into the room from the hall; H is the fireplace; K is the door
leading into the dining room, which had also been ransacked, and I is
the front window of the room looking out upon the front porch.
ODELL HOLCOMB IS
CLEARED OF CHARGE
Grand Jury Fails To Re
turn Bill Of Indict
ment
The Forsyth county grand jury
Tuesday failed to return an indict
ment against Odell Holcomb, of
Jonesville, who was charged with
manslaughter in the death of 11
year-old Ray Leander Shields, Old
Town school boy who was killed
several weeks ago when he ran into
the highway into the path of Mr.
Holcomb’s car.
Arrested on the scene of the acci
dent, Mr. Holcomb was placed under
$1,000 bond to await preliminary
hearing on a charge of manslaugh
ter. At the hearing a few days la
ter, probable cause was found and
he was bound over to Forsyth Super
ior court.
The investigation by the grand
jury disclosed that the accident was
unavoidable and that Holcomb was
driving his car at a rate of speed not
in excess of the speed limit when
the tragedy occurred. The Shields
lad was said to have rushed directly
into the path of Holcomb’s car while
running from a playmate.
Yadkin Quota Filled
It is reported from the office of
CWA Administrator W. S. Church
that the entire quota of 436 persons
to be employed in Yadkin county are
now at work on various projects of
the county. Most of these are road
projects but a few of them civil
works projects.
The pay roll for last week in this
county was $4,488.00, of which only
$60.00 was spent for civil works en
terprises.
Chamois skin named for the al
pine chamois is made almost entirely
from the skins of goats, sheep and
jdeer.
JONESVILLE WOMAN
PASSES WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Beulah Newman
Osborne Dead After
v Long Illness
Mrs. Beulah Newman Osborne. 36.
died at her home in Jonesville Wed
nesday morning, following a lengthy
illness.
Funeral services will be held this
morning at 11 o’clock from the home
ii charge of Rev. Bradley Mathis and
Rev. Grant Cothren. Interment will
be in the Jonesville cemetery.
The deceased is survived by her i
husband, Jack Osborne and the fol
lowing sons and daughters: Willie
Bell, Jessie Marion, Rosa Lee, Wal
ter Jackson, Richard Turner, Thur
mond Othel, Mollie Jean and Betty
Joe. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs
William Newman; three brothers.
Clinton, Bobbie and Woodson New
man, all of Elkin, and two sisters.
Mrs. Flossie Freeman, Elkin and
| Mrs. Harvey Petree, Durham.
—
Mrs. Dixon Passes
_
Mrs. Nancy Jane Shore Dixon, 59,
passed away at her home on route
12. Wednesday night, after an illhess
of several weeks. Her condition had
been critical for some time.
Mrs. Dixon was born in this coun
ty and had resided here all her life.
She was the wife of Mr. Abe C. Dix
on, and besides her husband is sur
vived by the following children: J.
L. and Goughery Dixon, of Yadkin
ville, route 2; Miss Cloie Dixon of
route 2; Mrs. Gertie Driver, of Tole
do, Ohio; and Mrs. Ella Bums of
Greensboro.
The funeral was held Thursday,
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Deep Creek
Baptist church where the deceased
was a member and was in charge of
Rev. J. G. Allgood.
Two hundred bees weigh about a
pound.
SECOND HEARING IS
HELD AT HOME OF
TILLEYS WEDNESDAY
Note Was Not In Girl’s
Apron Pocket When
First Examined
EXPERT TESTIFIES
By W. E. RUTLEDGE
An autopsy performed Wednesday
morning upon the body of Leoda
Mae Childress, 20, whose lifeless
form was found on the floor of a
front room of the home of W. W.
Tilley, near Benham, shortly after
noon on December 30, disclosed that
the girl was not an expectant
mother as had been thought possible,
and that the bullet which pierced
her heart was of .22 calibre.
A subsequent meeting of the coro
ner's jury, held at the Tilley home
Wednesday afternoon disclosed offi
cial testimony that the note found
n a pocket of the slain giii's apron
was, in the opinion of a Mr. Fletcher,
who is said to be an expert on hand
writing, written by Andrew Smoot,
the dead girl’s lover who is being held
in jail at Wilkesboro charged with
her death.
An opinion expressed by w. A.
Shulenberger, Jr., of Charlotte, who
described himself as an examiner of
questioned documents, and who had
examined specimens of both Smoot’s
and the dead girl’s handwriting, was
to the effect that the mysterious
note was not written by Smoot.
Mr. Shulenberger, however, did not
officially testify as to his opinion,
but made his statement outside the
hearing.
It was brought out at the hearing
at which Wilkes County Coroner C.
A. Rash, of Miller’s Creek, and his
jury were present, and which was
conducted by Solicitor J. R. Jones,
that the apron the girl was wearing
at the time of her death had been
thoroughly examined on the day of
the tragedy and that the note was
not in the pocket at the time.
The autopsy, which was performed
in Benham church by Dr. A. J. Eller,
county physician; Dr. G. T. Mitchell
and Mrs. Bertha Bell, county nurse,
disclosed that the bullet had entered
the girl’s body two and one-half
inches above the center of the left
breast and that the ball had ranged
downward, striking two ribs in its
passage, n was loagea just Deneatn
the flesh of her back. The bullet
had passed through her heart.
Several hundred people were pres
ent at the exhumation, but only the
coroner’s jury, county officials and
newspaper men were allowed inside
the church, the front doors of which
were locked during the examination.
Solicitor Jones, in presiding at the
second hearing, introduced evidence
of an expert that the handwriting
of the note was that of Smoot, but
although contradictory opinions were
reported on the part of the experts,
only that supporting the theory that
Smoot was actually the one who
wrote the letter was introduced.
Following the hearing. Solicitor
Jones said: “The jury .arrived at
the decision that the girl did not
write the note and that it was not
in her pocket when they held the
other inquest. One juror, Enoch
Sparks, looked and felt in the pock
et, at the first hearing.
“That the jurors were all of the
opinion that the note was in the
handwriting of Smoot.
“That it was in evidence that
Smoot came to the Tilley home
drunk Christmas and he and she
(Miss Childress) stayed at the spring
two hours; that she came to the
house one time for soda; that they
later returned to the house and en
tered the dining room and talked
awhile. '•» •
"That while Smoot was here Miss
Childress le&rned of his reconcilia
tion with hSS wife; that he told Eric
Pardue they Were going back to liv
ing together; that Miss Childress
stated they were through, but she
wanted to see Smoot one more time."
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