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Elkin—"The Best
LUtle Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXII, No. 7
I ate newc
from the
State and Nation
HERRIOT REGIME
IS DEFEATED
Paris, Dec. 14 (Wednesday) —
Heaters News Agency r«»ported
ihu morning that the Herriot
government, defeated on the war
debt Issue, had decided to resign.
WAGE EARNERS
FEAR SLASH
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—In an atmos
phere electrified by reports state
salaries, including those of teach
ers, may be reduced as high as 20
per cent, the state advisory bud
get commission tomorrow will be
gin the task of drafting the ad
ministration's 1988-85 appropria
tion bill.
WOULD IMPEACH
PRES. HOOVER
Washington, Dec. 12.—A rous
ing call for the impeachment of
President Hoover was promptly
and emphatically smothered today
by a startled House of Represen
tatives.
Hardly had Representative Mc-
Fadden (R), Pennsylvania, severe
and persistent critic of the admin
istration, charged the Chief Execu
tive with high crimes and misde
meanors that the chamber, voting
361 to 8, tabled his motion for
impeachment proceedings.
150 MENACED
BY FLOOD
Atlanta, (ia., Dec. 18.— Nearly
150 persons, 20 of them children
from an orphan home, Surrounded
by flood waters, were hastily
evacuated by boat from low lying
sections of the western side of
Rome, Ga., today as rivers swol
len by the week-end of torrential
rain flooded a considerable area
theffe and carried a threat to
areas downstream.
PROTEST SPEECH OF
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Topeka, Dec. 13—Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt's reputed asser
tion that "the average girl of to
day faces the problem of learning
vc7y young how much she can
drink of such things as whisky
and gin and sticking to the proper
quantity," brought a "shocked
protest" today from a group of
women leaders here.
ELKIN CITIZEN IS
DANGEROUSLY HURT
D. F. Gough Accidently
Shot In Leg; To
Amputate Foot
D. F. Gough, prominent Elkin
citizen, was seriously injured Wed
nesday afternoon about 4 o'clock
while bird hunting near Brook's
Cross Pjads when his shot gun ac
cidentally went off, the load strik
ing the left ankle.
It was learned from Hugh Chat
ham hospital, where the injured
man was taken, that the foot would
have to be amputated, both bones
having been blown to bits.
According to the story told by Mr.
Gough, who was hunting alone, the
gun discharged while he was pre
paring to eject a shell which had
failed to fire. It was an hour from
the time he was wounded until he
was found in the woods by T. F.
Johnson, of Hamptonville.
Mr. Johnson took the wounded
man to the home of W. N. Ireland,
nearby, where a car was obtained in
which they started to Brook's Cross
Roads. The local ambulance met
them there and rushed Mr. Gough
to the hospital here.
YADKIN MAN IN
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
» Willie Shore, of Yadkiaville, in
| Serious Condition Following
I Act^Tuesday
I Willie Shore, 35, R. F. D. 1, Yad
kinville, Sunday cut his throat with
a razor in an attempt to commit
suicide. According to physicians, he
is in a very serious condition but
hope is held for his recovery.
Although no motive could be
learned for the attempt, friends ad
vanced the theory that it may have
been because of ill health, he hav
ing suffered for a number of years
with pellagra.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
LOCAL KIWANIANS
TO STAGE CHARITY
BALL HERE DEC. 23
Net Proceeds To Go To
Empty Stocking
Fund
AT HOTEL ELKIN
The Elkln Kiwanis club, in addi
tion to staging an auction sale Fri
day night during the meeting of
the club at Hotel Elkin, the pro
ceeds of which will go to the Asso
ciated Charities Empty Stocking
fund, have also made plans for a
charity ball to be staged in the
Hotel Elkin banquet room Friday
night, December 23, also in the in
terest of the Empty Stocking fund.
The dance will begin at 9 o'clock
the committee on arrangements an
nounced Wednesday, and will fea
ture good music. Everyone of all
ages is invited to attend and do
their bit for the community's needy
families.
A charge of 50 cents will be made
to join the merrymakers, and every
cent realized will be turned over to
the Associated Charities.
AUTOMOBILE PLATES
GO ON SALE TODAY
Elkin City Tags To Be
Handled By Graham,
Tax Collector
Elkin motorists may obtain their
1933 automobile license plates
either by ordering them direct from
Raleigh, or by calling for them in
person at the nearest license bureau
in this section of the state. Plates
went on sale early this morning.
In Winston-Salem the plates,
which this year are blue and white,
may be secured from the Winston-
Salem Automobile club whose office
is located on the Cherry street side
of the Robert E. Lee hotel building.
In North Wilkesboro plates may be
obtained from the office of the Car
olina Motor club.
Elkin city tags have not been re
ceived here as yet, it was learned
from Paul Gwyn, city treasurer,
Wednesday. The tags will be sold
by Dixie Graham when they arrive,
it was said.
JUNIOR CLASS TO
PRESENT COMEDY
To Be Given at School
Auditorium Friday
At 8 P. M.
The junior class of the Elkin high
school will present Richardson's
celebrated three-act comedy, "Two
Days to Marry," Friday, December
16, at 8 p. m., in the high school
auditorium.
The story is built around the an
tics of a young man who learns that
according to his father's will he can
inherit a million dollars by marry
ing before a certain date. How he
goes after a bride in an effort to
win the million may be learned only
by seeing the play.
TJiose cast in the play are Alex
Chatham, Herbert Graham, Irvin
Wade, Frances Evans, Mary Etta
Laffoon, Margaret Greenwood and
Rufus Crater.
Myrtle Victoria Reeves
Buried at Maple Springs
Miss Myrtle Victoria Reeves, 52,
passed away Friday morning at her
home near Maple Springs, Wilkes
county, following a long period of
ill health.
She was a daughter of the late
Q. B. and Ellen Harris Reeves and
was a devout member of the Maple
Springs Methodist church.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Wil
liam Sales, Maple Spings; and four
brothers: Charles Reeves, Maple
Springs; William Reeves, Statesville
and C. L. and A. L. Reeves, of Cal
ifornia.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday morning from the Maple
Springs church by the pastor, Rev.
R. Q. Stafford, of Jonesville, and in
terment was in the church cemetery.
A coroner's Jury found that T.
Y. Holcomb, found shot to death in
High Point Saturday at his home,
was a victim of suicide.
ELKIN, N. C- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932
Health Champions
Dorothy Riler, Aitkin County,
Minn., with a score of 08.0 and Ross
Allen, Harrison County, W. Va.,
with 90.4 are the National 4-H girl
and boy Health Champions for 1032.
Roth had to beat blue-ribbon win
ners.
THEFT OF PENNEY
STORE UNSOLVED
Thieves Made Away
With Approximately
$l5O Worth of Goods
Although two men have been ar
rested in connection with the rob
bery of the J. C. Penney store here
Friday night, thoy were released
shortly afterward for lack of evi
dence, it was learned Tuesday from
police who did not disclose their
identity, and who stated that the
case was no nearer solved than when
the robbery was first discovered.
The robbers entered the building
from the roof, going in through a
skylight and evidently lowering
themselves to the floor by means of
a rope.
Although no money was taken,
approximately $l5O worth of men's
and women'B ready-to-wear was
missed, J. 5. Akins stated.
Finger prints about the wood
work of the skylight and dirty
tracks on merchandise located on a
table directly beneath disclosed the
way in which the theives entered.
HOLD MT. AIRY MEN
ON MURDER CHARGE
Alleged To Have Slain
Virginia Officer In
Fight Sunday
Harvey Vernon, of near Mount
Airy, and Jim Midkiff, of Mount
Airy, were arrested Sunday follow
ing the death of R D. Shepherd,
Patrick county, Va., constable, and
the serious wounding of Joe W.
Frans, also a Virginia officer, early
Sunday morning on the Mount Airy
road about three miles from Stuart,
Va.
The officer was killed and his
companion wounded in what was
described as a running gun fight be
tween five rum-runners and police,
following the theft of an automobile
alleged to have belonged to one of
the rum-runners which was confis
cated by police.
Both Vernon, who is well known
here, and Midkiff, are in jail at
Stuart on charges of murder.
Bring Joy To Some Little
Child By Giving To Fund
To date a total of only $4.00 has
been contributed to the Empty
Stocking fund, and with Christmas
but only a short time away it ap
pears that, unless more contributions
are given, Old Santa will be forced
to pass up hundreds of little stock
ings in needy homes in Elkin and
Jonesville.
In soliciting funds for the Empty
Stocking fund, neither the Associa
ted Charities or The Tribune expects
any reward whatsoever other than
the thought that they are doing their
bit to bring- happiness and cheer to
the needy children and their parents
on Christmas morn. The Tribune is
giving of its space and the different
members who go to make up the
Aissociated Charities are giving
liberally of their time and efforts
that Christmas may be brighter for
those in need. Yet they must have
your aid.
Christmas, observed the world
around as a day of happiness and
merriment for all, may easily be
SUPERIOR COURT IS
IN SESSION BEFORE
JUDGE FRIZZELLE
Jurist Stern With Those
Who Plead Guilty
And Appeal
TRY PETTY CASES
Judge. J. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow
Hill, presiding over Surry criminal
court at Dobson, which convened
Monday, has no patience with de
fendants who plead guilty in re
corders' courts and then appeal to
superior court, he stated the first of
the week.
In expressing his lack of patience
with such defendants, Judge Friz
zelle pointed out that he usually in
creases the sentence given in re
corder's court in an effort to break
up the practice which goes to in
crease county court expenses.
While presiding over Durham
county superior court, Judge Friz
zelle, although at that time new on
the bench, made for himself such a
reputation for stern dealing with
those appealing from the lower
courts that appeals numbering over
150 during his first term dropped
to less than fifty during the last
term over which he presided there.
No cases of importance have
been tried during the present ses
sion, the court giving its attention
to clearing up odds and ends on the
docket consisting mostly of petty
larceny cases.
Although much interest is being
taken in the probable action of the
grand jury on the primary investi
gation records to be presented to it
by Solicitor Carlyle Higgins, no ac
tion had been taken Wednesday.
CHOIR TO PRESENT
CHRISTMAS CANTATA
Other Christmas Pro
grams to Be Staged
Next Week
A Christinas Cantata, "The Prince
of Peace", by J. Truman Wolcott,
will be presented by the choir of the
Methodist church Sunday afternoon,
December 18, at 5 o'clock.
On Wednesday evening, December
21, at 7:30 the children of the pri
mary and Junior departments of the
Methodist Sunday school, will pre
sent a pageant, "Jesus' Birthday".
In keeping with the annual custom
of the Sunday school White Christ
mas will be observed at this time.
The children will bring gifts which
will be donated to the local Associa
ted Charities and later to the un
fortunate children of the community.
On Christmas night at 7:30, the
Young People's Department will
present a pageant, "Follow the
Star".
The public is most cordially in
vited to attend all of these services.
Prayer Meeting
There will be prayer meeting ser
vices at the Jonesvllle Methodist
Church tonight (Thursday), at 7:30
o'clock.
Dr. J. L. Doughton, of Sparta, was
a business visitor in Elkin Tuesday.
turned into blackest tragedy for
those who are without means to see
that Santa Claus fulfils the joyous
hopes of their little ones.
Imagine the bewildered hurt to
little hearts who will be forced to
believe that Santa visits only those
homes where the father has a job
—the heartbreak of joyous anticipa
tion turned to sorrow when they
gleefully tumble from humble beds
Christmas morning to find that
their tattered little stockings, so
carefully hung the night before, re
main limp, empty and desolate in
the chill morning light.
Imagine the despair of parents,
almost destitute through circum
stanced over which they have no
control, who must witness their
children's heartbreak when they find
that Santa Claus passed them by.
These scenes will be enacted in
over a hundred Elkin and Jones
ville homes this Christmas unless
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State Road Gold Mine
Being Worked; Tunnel
Bored Into Hillside
Asked to Report Any
Needy Family to the
Associated Charities
Anyone knowing of needy fam
ilies who will not have the neces
sities of food and clothing during
the coming holiday season, is re
quested to notify the committee
of investigation of the local asso
ciated charities, composed of Rev.
Eph Whisenhunt, chairman; Mrs.
Ruohs Pyron, W. S. Reich and
Chief of Police, W. G. Church.
The request should be made as
early and as clearly as possible as
it sometimes requires several days
to locate the families reported.
The co-operation of the public is
requested in order that no worthy
family may suffer.
THIEF STEALS AUTO
HERE MONDAY NIGHT
Takes Paul Fletcher's
Car As He Is Eating
Supper; No Trace
A 1930 model Chevrolet sedan,
the property of Paul Fletcher, was
stolen about dusk Monday night
from his home on Bridge Btreet. No
trace of the car had been found
Wednesday.
Mr. Fletcher stated that the ma
chine was parked in the driveway
near the house and was stolen while
he was at supper. He said he heard
the noise of its motor when it was
driven away, but did not investigate
due to the fact that he thought
someone was driving in. It was af
ter supper, when he went to the
door, that he found the machine
had been stolen.
Tracks in the mud of the drive
way disclosed that the thief had
driven up Bridge street in the dire«-
tion of State Road. The car was
not locked when taken, he said.
THADDEUS C. BYRD
DIES AT AGE OF 77
(Prominent Man Suc
cumbs to Stroke of
Paralysis
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock from
Pleasant Hill Baptist church for
Thaddeus Clirgman Byrd, 77, who
passed away at his home in West
Elkin Sunday morning at 5 o'clock.
Mr. Byrd was stricken with paralysis
late Saturday afternoon and never
rallied.
He was a devout member of the
Little Elkin Baptist church and was
a highly respected man.
The deceased was twice married,
first to Miss Sallie Sale, who died
in 1920. Later he was married to
Mrs. M. J. Richardson of Iredell
county, who survives him, together
with five children by his first mar
riage. They are: Mrs, C. G. Hol
comb, Yadkinville. W. W. Byrd, Elk
in, Hilary Byrd, Benham, Luther
Byrd, Ronda and Sanford Byrd of
Riceville, lowa.
The services were in charge of
Rev. J. W. Bryant and Rev. C. F.
Fields and interment was in the
church cemetery.
Swan Creek Woman
Passes Away In Durham
Mrs. Mary Swaim, 84, a native of
the Swan Creek community of Yad
kin county, died at the home of her
son. Thomas Swaim in Durham Sun
day morning. Funeral services were
held from the Swan Creek Baptist
church in Yadkin county on Tuesday
and interment was In the church
cemetery beside her husband, Solo
mon Swaim, who died several years
ago. The services were in charge of
Rev. N. T. Jarvla and Rev. Richard
Pardue.
She is survived by si* children,
several of whom live in distant
states.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
tWßlue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TO OPERATE MINE
ON LARGE SCALE
IS REPORTED HERE
However Little Learned
From Those Connected
With Venture
METAL IS THERE
"Thar's gold in them thar hills"
—but try and find out the details.
Reports that the Hudson farm
gold mine near State Road—which
aroused quite a bit of excitement a
number of years ago—is being
worked and that the property has
recently changed hands for a con
siderable sum of money plus a ranch
of some kind to boot, which have
been going the rounds here recently,
may or may not be truw,, but the
fact remains that a tunnel some 10
feet or more long and some six fe*et
in diameter has been bored beneath
a rocky ledge near the spot where
traces of gold was first discovered,
and that the work will continue
when the weather clears.
Reports here are to the effect that
the owner of the farm has recently
sold it to a man from out west who
is said to know his gold mines. And
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AB EVANS LEADS
POLICE IN CHASE
Is Alleged To Have Fig
ured In Recent Wilkes
boro Robbery
Ab Evans, of Elkin, alleged to
have been Involved in the recoct
robbery of a Wilkesboro filling sta
tion which resulted in the arrest
here of Harvey Pardue, Russell
Smith and Earl Wilmoth, who were
turned over to Wilkes authorities,
may or may not be mixed up in the
affair as charged, but to date Wilkes
deputies have been unable to ques
tion him due to the fact that they
'can't run fast enough.
Reports from North Wilkesboro
have it that Evans visited the C. &
C. Chevrolet company in that city
one day last week and while he was
there Deputy Sheriff Old Wiles ar
rived upon the scene just in time
to see Evans take his departure.
Not to be outdone, the deputy also
took his departure in pursuit of
Evans which not only led down one
street and up another but away from
town across the river bottoms,
through Reddles river, again to the
river bottom and across the Yadkin
river.
At the point where Evans left the
Yadkin, county bloodhounds were
placed upon the trail but had no
more luck than the deputy. The
dogs followed the trail up the river
for a number of miles where night
fall caused the tired pursuers to
give up the chase.
However, although police failed
to get their man, the "skeeter"'
which Evans abandoned when the
chase started, fell into the hands of
the law.
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