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Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXII, No. 14
[ATE NEWQ
from the
State and Nation
NOT THERE
FOR VISIT
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 81.—
Carrying requisition papers for
Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea, Jr.,
Solicitor Zeb. V. Nettles, of Ashe
ville, N. C., arrived in. Naahvllle
tonight and planned to seek an
appointment tomorrow with Gov.
Hill McAllister.
Asked if he expected to take
the Leas back with him to North
Carol inji where they were con
victed of violating the state bank
ing laws, Nettles replied:
"I wouldn't want to come over
here on a visit this time of the
year." •
JEFFRESS NOT IN
FAVOR OF CUT
Raleigh, Jan. .11.—"Gentlemen,
if you want to find a chairman at
98,800 a year for the highway
commission, it will he all right
with me," E. B. Jeffress, now
chairman of that commission, told
the house salaries and fees com
mittee which this morning re
ported favorably a bill cutting
highway employes' salaries on a
sliding scale offered by Douglass,
of Wake.
Jeffreys' present salary is 80,-
000 per year.
ADVISES AGAINST
KILOWATT LEVY
Raleigh, Jan. 31.—The Alumi
num Company of America today
advised the legislature against
enactment of the Moore bill to
levy a one mill per kilowatt hour
tax on the production of all elec
tricty.
Such a tax, the iinance com
mittee was told, would make
profitable manufacture of alumi
num impossible in North Carp-
Una.
INTRODUCE 50-HOUR
WEEK BILL
Washington, Jan. 31.—An am
bitious legislative attempt to
spread employment by compelling
all industry and business to limit
working time to five six-hour
days a week, was put up to the
house today, but its chances of
reaching a vote this session were
dim.
MORE POSTMASTERS
APPOINTED
Washington, Jan. 81.—North
Carolina postmasters appointed
today were:
Clayton, Van D. Duncan; Clin
ton, Malcolm J. Thornton; Ellen
txiro, Sidney- A. 'Padgett; Mur
freesboro, Cephys Pntrell; Park
ton, Alfred A. McDonald; Rocky
Point, David J. Lewis.
WILL SHARE SEAT
AT CABINET TABLE
Warm Springs, Ga., Jan. 81.—
President-elect Roosevelt will ask
his running mate, the outspoken
John N. Garner, of Texas, to
share a seat at the cabinet table
as a part of his viee-pre*rfdential
office.
ITALY WILL
DISCUSS DEBTS
Rome, Jan. 81.—Italy agreed
today to participate in a new ex
amination of the war debts as
quickly as possible after the in
auguration of Franklin D. Roose
velt as President of the United
States March 4.
Jonesville To Piay
A. S. T. C. Here Feb. 8
The freshman class of Appalachian
State Teachera College will play
Jonesville high school here Wednes
day night, February 8, at 8 o'clock.
The girls' team of the Jonesville
school will also play the same night,
their opponents having not yet been
announced.
T. H. Eidson Opens
New Tin Shop Here
T. H. Eidson, formerly in charge
of the tin department of Surry
Hardware company, has opened a
tin shop in the building formerly oc
cupied by the Cash ft Carry store on
East Main street.
The tin department of Surry
Hardware Co. has been discontinued.
Miss Naomi Gilliam left Monday
for Knoxville, Tenn., where she will
enter the Knoxville General hospital
to pursue a nurse's training course.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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worn by Helen Krakeur of New
York in a pre»season view at Palm
Beach. It is a blue gingham sun
back beach dress with knitted white
hat.
MAKE PLANS FOR
COMMUNITY FAIR
Date Of Event Is To Be
Announced Later
In Year
Elkln Community Fair directors
In session Friday made plans for the
second annual exhibition to be held
here in the early fall. The exact
date is to be decided later in the
year.
So many good reports of the first
fair have come to the attention of
the board that it was held to be for
the best interest of the community
to make it an annual event. It is
planned to hold to the general idea
as carried out last year and make
it strictly of community interest.
It is hoped by the promoters of
the fair that the citizens of this sec
tion will make plans for exhibitions
and space as early as possible in
order to make the second fair of
greater worth to Elkin's territory.
The officers of the fair are J. R.
Poindexter, president; E. S. Spain
hour, vice-president; J. H. Beeson,
treasurer, and C. G. Armfield, secre
tary. The directors in addition to
the above officers are J. W. Craw
ford, H. F. Laffoon, H. P. Graham
and Ruohs Pyron.
TWO ARE CAPTURED
AT STILL SATURDAY
Federal Officers Arrest
Levi Absher and
John Wagoner
Levi Absher and John Wagoner,
Wilkes county men, are at liberty
under bond of S3OO each awaiting
trail at the May term of Federal
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Sparger Gives News and
Views ofGeneral Assembly
In an interview with Senator 8. I
Gilmer Sparger of this district, Sun- i
day at his home in Danbury, Mr.
Sparger outlined a number of his '
views relative to matters that have '
been considered by the General As- '
sembly and matters which will bp 1
considered within the near future. 1
Mr. Sparger's views are as follows: 1
The General Assembly has been in 1
legislative session twenty four days 1
and although it probably appears to
the average person that nothing has 1
been accomplished. I am of the 1
opinion that no General Assembly 1
in the history of the State has laid
as firm a foundation upon which to
base its legislation. The personnel
of both Houses realize the distressed
condition ofithe people of the State
of North Carolina and are seriously
and earnestly directing their efforts
to the balancing of the budget. Nev
er before has there been a group of
men under the dome of the Capital
more interested in the welfare and
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933
PERCENTAGE OF
DESTITUTION IN
SURRY IS 17.8
Report Shows Average
Of State Stands At
20 Per Cent
YADKIN RATED LOW
Percentage of destitution in Sur
ry county during the month of
December was 16.2, aB compared
with an estimated percentage of 17.8
for the month of January, figures
just released from the Governor's
office of relief at Raleigh, show.
The percentage of the state as a
whole, based on nearly 125,000
families who actually received aid
during December, was approximately
20 per cent, with a number of coun
ties showing figures higher than the
state average and 10 counties hav
ing a lower rate than 10 per cent.
Figures for Yadkin county dis
close that only 5.7 per cent, of its
population received aid in December
with an estimate of 10.5 per cent,
for January. Wilkes county, with
14.2 per cent, for December, and
Alleghany, with 14.5, both showed a
lower percentage than Surry.
It is interesting to note from the
percentage figures that the rate of
destitution is in no way based upon
the general economic make-up of
any county. The most interesting
revelation is the fact that Stanley
county, ranking second from the top
with only 5.5 per cent, of destitu
tion, adjoins Anson county with the
highest rate of 54 per cent for De
cember and an estimated 70.4 per
cent for January.
It is shown by the report that
a dozen counties in the northwestern
section of the state, largely moun
tainous, have the smallest per
centage of destitution.
BANK ROBBERY LOSS
IS NEARLY $900.00
Thieves In Their Haste
At Dobson Leave
Gold Watch
Said to have been robbed of
amounts ranging from SIO,OOO
down, the 1088 by the Surry County
Loan and Trust company's branch
bank at Dobson, which was broken
into early last Thursday morning,
has been set at approximately S9OO,
it was learned here Saturday from
Sheriff John D. Thompson.
The robbery was discovered about
7 o'clock Thursday morning when
Worth Folger, janitor, entered to
clean up. He immediately sum
moned Cashier R. C. Lewellyn, who
found the scene a litter of valuable
papers and bank records.
It first appeared that the robbers
had taken every cent of cash con
tained in the vaults, which was said
to have been around SIO,OOO, but a
later check disclosed a far smaller
figure.
The loss did not in any way affect
the operation of the bank, as it was
fully covered by Insurance.
Investigation of the robbery by
county officials disclosed that en
trance was gained by breaking the
lock on the front door, after whicb
a rear door was opened to admit
men with the necessary tools. The
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being 6f the dirt farmer and the
small wage earner.
A more economical operation of
every unit of Government in North
Carolina is foremost in the minds of
every member of both legislative
bodies. This fact was clearly evi
dent on the second day of the ses
sion when Senator Larry R. Moore
sent forward a joint resolution ask
ing for the appointment of a com
mittee to study the re-organization
of State Government. As a result
of this resolution, a committee was
appointed composed of the brainest
men in the Senate and tfie House of
Representatives, and after 10 days of
deliberation their recommendations
were reported to the two houees.
Accompanying their report was the
introduction of thirteen bills, the
substance of which was the elimina
tion of all non-essential Bureaus and
Commissions, the consolidation of
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The above photograph was marie of Mr. and Mrs. Odell C. Boyies
shortly after they were anreotod in Atlanta a few weeks ago on a eliarge
of attempting to extort money from Joseph F. Cannon, wealthy Concord
towel manufacturer. A check-up has disclosed that Boyies is the same
Odell Boyies who lived in Elkin as a boy and who is remembered here by
many of the older citizens.
Odell C. Boyies, Held In
Cannon Extortion Plot In
Atlanta, Once Lived Here
To Lead Inaugural
Illr''' Tin
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General John J. Pershing as
Grand-Marshal will lead the Inau
gural parade at Washington on
March 4 when President-elect Roos
evelt is inducted into office, an
nounces Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Chairman of the Inaugural Com
mittee.
VETERAN CITIZEN
OF YADKIN PASSES
Funeral Rites Are Held
From Boonville Bap
tist Church
Alexander Steelman, 99, Yadkin
county's oldest citizen passed away
Tuesday morning at his home north
west of Boonville. following a brief
illness from influenza. With the
passing of Mr. Steelman the ranks
of the veterans of the war between
the states has again been thinned.
The deceased had spent h|a entire
life in Yadkin county with the ex
ception of four years which he
served his country in the Civil War,
first with the cavalry and later With
Company C. 21st North Carolina in
fantry.
• The deceased was twice married,
first to Miss Almedia Dobbins, • who
passed away in 1881, and later to
Miss Sarah Elvira Angell who pre
ceeded him in death in 1919.. He
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— '-ourtesy Charlotte Observer
WAS BUT A YOUTH
Father Was Official of
Old Cook Furniture
Company
IN ATLANTA JAIL
Odell C. Boyles, arrested in At
lanta, Ga., the second week in Jan
uary in connection with the threat
ened kidnaping of the son and
granddaughter of Joseph Cannon,
Sr., millionaire textile magnate of
Concord, is the same Odell Boyles
who used to live in Elkin, and is
probably remembered by many El
kin citizens, a checkup has revealed.
According to information secured
by The Tribune, Boyles' father was
an official of the old Cook Furni
ture company, which at that time
occupied the present site of Hotel
Elkin.
AB a youngster, Boyles attended
grammar school here, and a number
of local citizens remember attend
ing school with him. He was said
to have left Elkin when about 14
years old.
Boyles is being held in Jail at At
lanta. His wife, the former "Sudie"
Zaehery, of Morganton, is at liberty
under $2,500 bond. It is said after
leaving Elkin Boyles lived in Win
ston-Salem for a while and that he
has served a prison sentence prior
to the latest trouble in which he 1b
now involved.
It is expected that the federal
law passed after the Lindbergh
tragedy against using the mails for
kidnaping threats may be used in
the preparation of charges against
Boyles and his wife.
The former Elkin youth and his
wife art alleged to have written
Mr. Cannon a ietter warning him to
pay them $20,000 under threat of
having his son, Joe, or his , grand
daughter, Ann Cannon Smith, aged
two, kidnaped. In the delivery of
the money according to instructions
contained in the letter, Boylee and
his wife were trapped by police.
Boyles was employed as a para
chute rigger at Candler field, At
lanta. when arrested. He confessed
his guilt, but denied that his wife
was in on the plot.
JSLkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
KIWANIANS PROTEST
FURTHER STATE CUT
IN EDUCATION FUND
School Budget Has Been
Slashed Enough As It
Is, Is Opinion
DRAW RESOLUTIONS
A comparison of salaries of state
school teachers, as compared with
that of other "state employees, was
discussed at the meeting of the Elkin
Kiwanis club at Hotel Elkin Friday
night by Kiwanian Walter R. Schaff,
superintendent of the Elkin school.
Mr. Schaff pointed out with facts
and figures that the average salary
of the state school teacher is lower
than other state paid salaries and
entered a protest against the further
cut of teacher salaries by the present
legislature.
Following bis talk, the club voted
to draw up resolutions protesting
further cuts, which was accordingly
done and sent to Surry county's
representatives in the General Assem
bly, C. H. Hanes and Gilmer Sparger.
The resolution was as follo.ws:
"THAT, whereas, realizing that
education is the best insurance
policy of the State and of its future
citizenship, and that North Caro
lina's great educational program
could be destroyed easily by drastic
curtailment of its present educa
tional program:
"Now, therefore, the Elkin Ki
wanis club hereby resolves, THAT:
"It would be false economy to
legislate any curtailment on the
part of public school funds, and the
club requests that Surry county's
representatives in the General As
sembly oppose any reduction of the
salaries of teachers."
It was also voted during the
meeting that the club send resolu
tions of sympathy to the town of
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WOULD GET OUT OF
ELKIN CITY LIMITS
North Elkin Citizens to
Present Bill to Gen
eral Assembly
Contending that they are op
pressed with a tax burden beyond
the Jim it of endurance, yet at the
same time are deprived of such city
conveniences as water, sewerage,
etc., and see no: prospects of getting
same within years to come, citizens
of the section of the city known as
North Elkin have secured legal tal
ent, including Attorney J. Hayden
Burke, of Taylorsville, and Attorney
John H. Folger, of Mount Airy to
draw up a bill' to be forwarded to
Surry county's representatives in the
General Assembly asking that they
be excluded from the city limits of
Elkin.
The North Elkin section was an
nexed to the city a number of years
ago, the corporate limits having
been extended to include this terrl
to;y through legislative action.
GIWYN RECOVERING
Burlington, Jan. 31.—The condi
tion of Lawrence Gwyn, airplane
crash victim, was reported by Rainey
hospital physicians today as "fine,"
the most encouraging report made
since his admittance a month ago
with both legs shattered below the
knee.
Gwyn, a brother of Allen Gwyn,
of Reidsville, state senator, attracted
wide notice when he refused. the
advice of physicians to amputate his
legs. He elected to "keep his legs
if It meant his life."
Weatherman Says Mr.
Groundhog Probably
Won't See His Shadow
In an official Interview with
the weatherman shortly before
presss time late Wednesday after
noon it was learned that chances
are exceedingly good here for Mr.
Groundhog to venture forth from
his home ear«y Thursday morn
tag without any' danger whatso
ever of seeing hia shadow.
If such Is the case, then an
early spring is assured, but in
case the rain clouds should blow
away and let the sun peep down.
Mr. Groundhog will see his shad
ow and retire Into his domicile to
await the passing of six mace
weeks of winter.
The weether torssast for
Thursday was rate. C £
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