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Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina'*
VOL. No. XXII, No. 22
75 Men Meet Death In
Crash of Akron;Rescue
Airship Also In Wreck
BLIMP GLIDES TOO
LOW IN SEARCH OF
VICTIMS; 2 DROWN
Rear Admiral Moffett
Among Those Lost In
Major Disaster
CAUGHT IN STORM
New York, April 4.—ln a blinding
electrical storm, the Akron, might
iest dirigible ever to c*uise the skies,
was plummeted into the turbulent
Atlantic today about 20 miles off the
New Jersey share, and by dusk to
night hope had waned for 71 missing
members of the crew.
Of the 76 men aboard the "mis
tress of the skies" as she crashed,
four were rescued, but one of them
died before he was brought ashore.
A day of searching by water and
by air brought the discovery of only
one body of the ill fated crew float
ing on the ocean.
Fourteen hours after this major
disaster, the J-3, non-rigid navy air
ship, crashed into the sea 1,000
yards off the Jersey coast, with a
loss of two lives, as she searched
for Akron victims.
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett,
chief of the navy bureau of aero
nautics, was among those lost in the
Akron. Aroused from sleep by the
storm, he had been in the control
room shortly before the accident.
The Three Survivors
The three Akron survivors are
Lieutenant Commander H. V. Wi
ley, of Lakewo'tfa, J"., executive of
ficer and second in command, who
was at the controls.
Moody E. Erwin, of Memphis,
Tenn., metalsmith.
kichard E. Deal, of Lakehuist, N.
J., boatswain's mate.
The rescued man who later died
was Robert W.Copeland, of Lake
burst, N. J., chief radio operator.
Twelve hours after the crash the
body of Lieutenant Commander Har
old E. MacLellan, of Westerly, R. 1.,
was picked up by a coast guard cut
ter near the scene of the disaster.
Lieutenant Commander David E.
Cummins, of Prescott, Ark., com
mander of the J-3, who was taken
from the water unconscious after
the blimp accident, died a short
time later. ✓
The body of Pasquale Bettio, the
J-3 chief machinist's mate on the
J-3, was recovered several hours la
ter.
The other five of the J-3 crew
were rescued.
POSTOFFICE BROKEN
INTO; MISS NOTHING
Entrance Gained By
Smashing Glass In
Front Doors
Breaking the glass from two
doors, a would-be robber entered the
local postoffice between midnight
and one a. m. Wednesday but was
evidently frightened away before
having time to loot the place inas
much as nothing was found to be
missing when Postmaster C. N. Bo
denheimer made a check after open
ing hours Wednesday morning.
A hole in the glass of the front
door, which is locked each night at
ten o'clock, and a broken glass in
the door which leads into tlie post
master's office disclosed the way in
which entry waß effected. However,
there was no sign of the safe having
been tampered with neither was a
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List Taxes At City
Tax Office This Month
J. L. Hall and Crawford Hurt, tax
list takers for Elkin township, will
be at the city tax office all this
month. Property owners are urged
to list taxes before the time limit
expireß.
Penalty for non-listing of taxes
is double the amount of tLe tax, it
was pointed out.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
I ATE NEWC
" from the
State and Nation
Refuse Stamp Plan
Raleigh, April 4.—The house
finance committee today frowned
upon a joint subcommittee plan of
passing on the general sales tax
through stamps ranging down
ward in value to as little as one
fourth of one cent.
The committee did not finally
reject the plan but refused to ac
cept it, despite Chairman R. A.
Dough ton's insistence that it
"hurry up and agree on some
thing."
Still Has Hope
Washington, April 4.—A cour
age and faith that drew admiring
comment from a President's wife
today sustained Mrs. William A.
Moffett, whose husband, Rear
Admiral Moffett, went down on
the wrecked dirigible Akron with
72 officers and enlisted men.
"She is quite wonderful," Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said of
Mrs. Moffett. "She hasn't given
up hofie, and she says she won't
give up hope." >
Ship Is Destroyed
Gloucester, Mass., April 4.
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Beauty St. Joseph, was destroyed
by fire 20 miles off the North
Carolina coast, according to ad
vfces reaching her owners, the
Producers' Fish company, today.
The crew of the schooner was
taken aboard the New Bedford
dragger Friendship.
On Bumpy Road
Washington, April 4.—Presi.
dent Roosevelt's emergency legis
lative program jolted over a rough
and bumpy road in Congress to
day as the senate debated the
Black five-day week bill and'the
house side-tracked the adminis
l.raton's 000,000 unemploy
ment relief measure.
30 New Ships
Washington, April 4.—Presi
dent Roosevelt's huge public
works bill was outlined today by
Chairman Vinson of the house na
val committee as including provi
sions for the construction of SO
new warships costing $230,000,-
000.
Wisconsin For Repeal
Milwaukee, Wis., April 4.—The
proposal to repeal the 18th
amendment was leading by a mar
gin of more than three to one on
returns from the first 104 of Wis
consin's precincts tonight.
CYCLE MAN SHOOTS
SELF WITH SHOTGUN
Blows Out Brains While
Wife Looks On; Fu
neral Held Sunday
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday at 11 o'clock from Union
church for W. D. Shore,.young farm
er of Cycle, who committed suicide
at his home Friday afternoon. Rev.
N. T. Jarvis was in charge of the
service which was attended by a
large concourse of people.
Mr. Shore shot himself in the
head with a 12-gauge, double-bar
reled shotgun about 4 o'clock Friday
afternoon in the kitchen of his
home as his wife looked on. He
placed the muzzle of the gun against
his left temple and using his right
hand to hold the gun, pulled the
trigger with his left hand.
He was 28 years old on March 24.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Minnie Shore,
he is survived by two daughters,
Kathleen and Fay, his parents, Mr.
ahd Mrs. J. H. Shore, three sisters,
Mrs. Pauline Roberts, Misses Ruth
and Evelyn Shore and two brothers,
Harry and Paul Shore, all of Cycle.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933
Order Horizontal
Cut In Value Real
Estate Of County
At the meeting of the Surry
County board of commissioners,
which met in monthly session at
Dobson Monday, it was ordered
by the board that in lieu of regu
lar assessment on real estate
made by regular assessors, that
there be made a horizontal reduc
tion in the values of all real es
tate in the county, the amount of
the reduction, to be fixed after the
state legislature has adjourned.
The board decided on the hori
zontal cut rather than a revalua
tion, which would prove of high
expense, but is not to decide up
on the amount of the cut until
it is apparent what action on taxes
that body takes.
JONESVILLE CHURCH
TO HEAR DR. GODBEY
Noted Bible Student,
Author, To Be Pas
sion Week Speaker
Dr. Allen H. Godbey, formerly
professor of Old Testament at Duke
University, is to be the Passion week
speaker at the Jnnesville Methodist
church this year. He will speak
each night during the week, begin
ning Monday, April 10.
The people of this section are very
fortunate to have the opportunity to
hear one of such ripe scholarship in
Old Testament, and related fields,
as Dr. Godbey. He is an archaeolo
gist and anthropologist of interna
tional recognition. He is a member
of numerous Oriental societies l and
is a member of the committee on
law and philosophy of the World
Conference on Narcotic Education.
He is also the author of several
books. Among them are "Stanley
Jn. Africa," "G*«at -and-
"The Lost Tribes A Myth." The last
named was published by Duke Uni
versity Press in 1930.
All are invited to hear Dr. Godbey
at the Jonesville church during Pas
sion week. The services will begin
promptly at 7:45 each evening.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Masten, of
Charlotte, were the week-end guests
of Miss Laura Masten.
STRENGTH IN UNITY
We are all familiar with the illustration of the bun
dle of sticks, which bound tightly together bear great
weight, but which as separate units are no stronger than
the weakest of them.
Elkin at this time can well apply the lesson from
those proverbial sticks. If there ever was a time when
unity of purpose was essential, that time is now when our
banking problem must be solved.
Our readers will recall that in our last issue we
noted the plans and efforts that were being made to re
open the Bank of Elkin, Closed since the banking holiday.
It is inconceivable that the reasonable requirements can
not be met promptly if our people will only forego their
individual differences and merge their wills to the com
mon good.
We know something of the loss and inconvenience of
bank liquidation; we should avoid another, if possible—
and it IS POSSIBLE.
We should not forget that the present financial con
dition of the Bank of Elkin, from the viewpoint of a few
years back, would be considered in splendid shape. But
a cautious government, seeking to throw every safeguard
around the depositors, has formulated requirements that
must be met, and these requirements include a stronger
capital structure for the Bank of Elkin.
That capital ought to be provided without delay.
It is admitted by all that a bank for this little city
is necessary; if the Bank of Elkin is liquidated it would
be far more expensive to organize a new bank than to
open the one we already have, and such organization
would be literally hobbled by the loss of confidence among
those who have, or who will have lost portions of their
deposits in the banks through the process of liquidation.
We feel that this is a matter of tremendous im
portance to this community, and one that should not be
approached in a factional spirit.
Like the bundle of sticks, united we stand, divided
we fall. The citizens of Elkin should meet the reasonable
requirements in the knowledge that then the Bank of
Elkin would be sufficiently strong to function in safety
and to the satisfaction advancement of every one of
us.
Entire Staff of Local
■/■ \ - ~
Teachers Elected By
, Board For Next Year
ARE NO VACANCIES
Married Women Will
Not Be Employed
After 1933-34 Term
LIST IS ANNOUNCED
Acting upon the recommendation
of Walter R. Schaff, superintendent
of the local school, the Elkin board
of education in meeting Tuesday
night, re-appointed this year's entire
staff of teachers to again serve next
year, it was learned Wednesday
morning. The action of the board
creates no vacancies, it was stated.
The board also announced its at
titude toward (1) qualifications of
teachers, (2) married teachers, and
(3) local candidates, having adopted
certain definite policies of procedure.
Regulations are:
Qualification of Teachers: "In fu
ture appointments of new or addi
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PROSPECTS SAID
BRIGHT FOR BANK
Provided No Hitch Oc
curs, Opening Should
Be Soon
Although giving out no definite
information, it was learned from a
reliable source Wednesday morning
that plans for the re-opening of the
Bank of Elkin appear very hopeful,
and that provided no hitch occurs
the institution should open for un
restricted business within a very
few days.
Those working in the interest of
re-opening the bank have been work
ing both day and night, it was
learned, and hope to .be in position
to give out definite information
within a very few days.
(Editorial)
■ i i i
To Wear Cotton
''feSl
* wEm
Co-operating In the movement to
further popularize cottons, Mrs. J.
C. B. Bhrlnghautt in serving as hon
orary chairman of the committee in
charge of the State-wide Cotton Ball
to be held in Raleigh Friday even
ing, May ifl, as a grand finale to
North Carolina's first State-wide
Cotton Festival.
In addition to the ball, the festi
val, which ties in with National Cot
ton Week observance, will include a
gala street parade and a cotton style
show. Ladies will wear all-cotton
ensembles to the ball, and prizes will
be awarded the ones most attractive
ly attired.
JURY IS DRAWN FOR
APRIL COURT TERM
Two Weeks Session Of
Criminal Court To
Begin April 24th
Jurors, to serve at the April term
of Surry criminal court, which gets
under way at Dobson Monday, April
24, were drawn by the county com
missioners Monday.
Those drawn for jury duty the
first week of the two-weeks' term,
are: Jim Apperson, W. G. Hagan,
Ed Davis, Ray Kedd, R. S. Crawford,
J. F. Mosley, J. W. Cockerham, J.
F. Yokley, I. D. Ward, A. V. West.
Taylor Creed, Rodger Inman, :Sher-
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BEER COMING BACK
IN STATE ON MAY 1
Number of Local Mer
chants Planning To
Handle Beverage
Light wine and beers, an outlaw
in North Carolina since 1908, will
be legalzed in the state on May 1,
the General Assembly having passed
the legalization bill Tuesday morn
ing.
A check of local merchants has
disclosed that a number are plan
ning to handle the sale of beer pro
vided taxes are not out of reason.
In passing the bill Tuesday, an
amendment prohibiting the sale of
beer to minors under the age of 18,
was tacked on, also a promise was
made by the wets to the dryg that
some restrictions for the sale of
beer and other legalized beverages,
would be made.
Urge Holders To
Cash In Scrip
Before April 10
Everyone who has in his or her
possession any of the scrip issued
by the Elkin Merchants Clearing
House association is urged to turn
it in to the Bank of Elkin on or
before April 10, where it may be
exchanged for cash, it was
learned Wednesday morning.
According to the wording ap
pearing upon the scrip, it retains
its valttn only until April 10, and
for this reason everyone now pos
sessing any of the bills are urged
to cash !t in at once.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COMMISSIONERS AND
MAYOR SELECTED IN
CONVENTION FRIDAY
Roy all Named By Ac
clamation To Succeed
Himself As Mayor
NEW MEN CHOSEN
At a mass meeting of the voters
of Llkin, held in £he high school
auditorium Friday night, Dr. M. A.
Royall was nominated by acclama
tion to succeed himself as Mayor of
Elkln, and the following men, H. P.
Graham, J. R. Poindexter, M. R.
Bailey, C. C. Myers and Avery
Neaves, were nominated as towa
commissioners.
The meeting was called to order
by Mayor lioyall, who called upon
J. N. "Buck" Freeman to act as
temporary chairman, and C. N.
Bodenhelmer and Alan Browning,
Jr., to act as secretaries, the organ*
ization having then been made per
manent by vote of the convention.
Following the nomination of* Dr.
Royall as Mayor, eight names were
placed before the convention as nom
inees for commissioner, R. L.
Church, W. W. Whitaker and J. 8.
Atkinson being named in addition
to the five named above who were
officially chosen.
Following the closing of nomina
tions, Church, Whitaker and Atkin
son were eliminated by secret vote.
H. P. Graham and M. R. Bailey
were the only two members of the
present board of commissioners to
be nominated, H. J). Woodruff, J. G.
Abernethy and Alex Chatham hav
ing made no bid for re-election.
So far as is known, no other tick
et will be nominated to oppose the
ticket selected Friday night. In that
case the election, scheduled for May
1, will be a mere formality.
DEATH CLAIMS WIFE
OF LUTHER R. COMBS
Funeral Rites Held Sun
day Afternoon From
Mt. Park Church
Mrs. Bertie Cockerham Combs,
48, wife of Luther R. Combs of this
city, passed away at her home on
Ridge Street late Friday afternoon,
following a long period of ill health.
Her condition had been critical for
three weeks and her death was mo
mentarily expected. She was a
daughter of Thomas Cockerham and
the late Mrfe. Cockerham, of the
Mountain Park community and was
greatly beloved in her native com
munity and in Elkin, where she has
resided for the past twenty-two
years.
The deceased was a loyal member
of the Mountain Park Baptist
church. She was also an active
member of the local Parent-Teacher
Association and, was deeply inter
ested in education.
She is survived by her husbind,
Luther R. Combs; three daughters.
Misses Bessie and Marvofireen Combs;
of this city, and Mrs. Arlie Steelman
of Bo&nville: four sons, Early Dew
ey, Berlie and Carl Combs, all of
Elkin. Her father, Thomas Cocker
ham; two sisters, Mrs. Ben Thomp
son and Miss Lillie Cockerham, and
two brothers, Ether and Dolly Cock
erham, all of Mountain Park, also
survive.
The funeral rites were conducted
Saturday afternoon from Mountain
Park Baptist church In charge of
Rev. J. W. Bryant, and the remains
were returned here for interment
in Hollywood cemetery.
HAS MESSAGE FOR
MASONS, JUNIORS
Members of Built Lodges Invites! To
Hear Rev. J. li. Martin at Jones
villi* Baptist Sunday Morning
Due to the burial of J. A. Norman
Sunday. March 26, from the lodge
hall at Thurmond, a special service
at the Jonesville Baptist church
which had been scheduled for that
date and to which had been invited
the Juniors and Masons of this vicin
ity, was'postponed so that the.lodge
members could attend the funeral.
However, Rev. J. Lr. Martin, pas
tor, has announced that thd service
will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock,
and extends an invitation for all
Masons and Juniors who can at
tend, to be present. Mr. Martin's
subject will be "The Effects of Sin
on our Moderß Civilization."