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Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXII, No. 28
RECORDER'S COURT
IS NO MORE; BILL
TO ABOLISH PASSED
Experiences No Hitch
On Trip Through Leg
islative Hopper
ENDS 3 POSITIONS
For a long time a bone of conten
tion among warring factions, in
cluding citizens of Wilkes county
who wanted to get from under its
jurisdiction and did, and people of
Yadkin who also wanted to get from
under its jurisdiction and didn't,
the Elkin recorder's court is at last
no more.
A bill entitled an act to abolish
the court was passed by the state
legislature during its dying days last
week at Raleigh.
The bill was drawn up upon or
ders of the newly elected board of
town commissioners at their first
meeting May 1 and was introduced
shortly after by Representative Cape
Haynes. No trouble was experienced
in its passage through the legisla
tive hopper.
The abolishment of the court,
which was established by an act of
the state legislature a number of i
years ago, does away with three j
court positions, namely that of re- j
corder, which was filled by Harry.
H. Barker; solicitor, J. N. (Buck) !
Freeman, and clerk, Robey Bates.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
Up to Congrress
Washington, May 16.—Chair- j
man Doughton, of the ways and ,
means committee, registered sat
isfaction today over the reaction
t& the White House announce- |
ment that President Roosevelt |
would not adopt the proposals of;
the committee working with him,
on the public works and industry j
control bill, but, while suggesting;
some possible sources of revenue,
would leave the ultimate decis
ion to Congress, where fe belongs
under the "genesis of our insti
tutions.'''
Visits Bonus Camp
Fort Hunt, Va., May 16.—Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt waded
through the mud of the bonus
army camp tonight and brought
a message of peace to the 1,500
veterans in camp here.
Cheers and the clanging of pie
plates came from the men who
were waiting in line for their ev
ening meal as Mrs. Roosevelt
drove into the camp. She was
accompanied by Louis McHenry
Howe, President Roosevelt's sec
retary. They arrived in a road
ster with Mrs. Roosevelt at the
wheel.
Means Quilty
Washington, May 16.—Gaston
B. Means, former Department Of
Justice investigator, and Newman
T. Whitaker, attorney and master
chess player, were found guilty
here tonight on charges of con
spiracy to defraud Mrs. Evelyn
Walsh McLean of #85,000 in a
Lindbergh baby ransom hoax.
The jury deliberated two hours
and a half. Both men are sub
ject to a penalty of SIO,OOO fine
and two years in jail.
Wages Increase
Fayetteville, May lfl.—A 5 per
cent increase In wages has been
made effective by the Puritan
Weaving company, rayon manu
facturing firm here. Hie increase
in pay will benefit 475 employees
a* the Puritan company recently
added a third eight-hour shift to
its working force, and is running
at full capacity.
Killed In Accident
Kings Mountain, May 16.—Two
persons, one of them Mrs. W. J.
(MoGlothlin, wife of the president
of Furman university, Greenville,
S. C., were fatally injured, and
several others, including Dr. Mc-
Glothlin, suffered hurts of a less
serious nature when two automo
biles collided a mile and a half
east of here.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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Sailing the high seas enroute to
Brazil are Mrs. Alice La Varre (top)
and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Andre Lu
Varre (below), the two women mem
bers of the La Varre Brazilian Gui
ana Expedition headed for unex
plored jungles. They will be the
first women ever to go into this
great jungle sector.
NIGHT SCHOOL ENDS
SUCCESSFUL TERM
Had Enrollment of 33
Pupils; Splendid Work
Accomplished
The adult night school, sponsored
by the Elkin Woman's club, under
the direction of Mrs. W. W. Whita
ker, closed a very successful term
last week. The Elkin school closed
on Thursday evening and the Jen
kinstown school on Friday morning.
Eleven certificates were presented to
students who completed the full
course of work and perfect at
tendance certificates were awarded
Herman Atkins, Cecil Lyons and
Ernest Bates of the Elkin school.
Although the school was conduct
ed on a limited scale this year
there was an enrollment of 33 pupils
and splendid work was done in all
the classes. Mrs. E. E. Browne as
sisted by Mrs. Whitaker, taught
both schools during the ten weeks
they were In progress.
SURRY IS ALLOTTED
ADDITIONAL $7,000
Many Are Applying for
Jobs Under Refores
tation Plan
An additional $7,000 of federal re
lief funds for use during the month
of May has been allotted Surry coun
ty authorities, it has been learned
from Welfare Officer John Comer.
The money will be used for relief
work in the towns of Elkin and Mt.
AiiV largely, since no projects are
contemplated in the rural sections
where people are now busy with their
crops.
It has also been learned that the
Surry county allotment of men for
the reforestation camps has been in
creased from 60 to 70 workers. To
date over 100 men have applied for
posts in this work and the 70 men
will be chosen from this number on
the basis of their need as relief can
didates. It is expected that the Sur
ry workers will be called out in the
near future.
Have Good Program At
Elkin Valley Church
An interesting Mother's Day pro
gram for the benefit of the Baptist
hospital at Winston-Salem was held
at Elkin Valley Baptist church Sun
day morning, featuring a record Sun
day school attendance of 269 ani a
collection of }l9 fer the Baptist
hospital.
Since the recent remodelfng of the
church, attendance haß doubled, it
was said.
ELKIW. N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933
Elkin To Have Summer School To
Serve Needs of Teachers of This
Section; Schaff To Be In Charge
BEGINS JUNE 10TH
Will Be Division of Ca
tawba College, of
Salisbury
AT .SCHOOL HOUSE
Elkin will be host to a branch of
the regular summer school of
Catawba College, located at Salis
bury, according to Walter R. Schaff,
local superintendent of schools, who
has been in conference with Dr. John
C. Hadley, director of Catawba Col
lege Summer School. Dr. Hadley
has designated Superintendent
Schaff to direct the local division of
the summer schodj, it was also
learned.
Dr. Hadley's statement to Super
intendent Schaff reads as follows:
"I am authorizing Superintendent
Schaff v to announce that Catawba
College, of Salisbury, will conduct
a branch of its regular summer
school at Elkin to serve the needs
of teachers and other interested per
sons, in Elkin and surrounding ter
ritory."
"The courses to be offered will be
selected to meet professional and
cultural needs, and will carry both
professional and college credit. Reg
istration for the first term will be
on Saturday, June 10, from 9 to 12
at the high school building."
In addition to placing Mr. Schaff
at the head of the local division, Dr.
Hadley will include him as one of
the instructors. Mr. Schaff was
visiting Instructor in f>hychology
during both termß of the 1930
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COMMENCEMENT AT
M. P. LAND BRYAN
Walter R. Schaff Is to
Make Graduating
Addresss
The Mountain Park and Bryan
school commencement exercises be
gan on Wednesday evening of this
week with a program by the primary
grades in the Bryan auditorium. On
this evening (Thursday) a play,
"The Path Across the Hill", will be
given by the seventh grade in the
Bryan auditorium. On Friday even
ing following the elementary gradu
ation exercises, Prof. Walter R.
Schaff, Superintendent of Elkin City
schools, will make the graduating
address.
Saturday evening, to|ay 20th, at
7:30 the Alumni banquet will be held
at Hotel Elkin. At 11 o'clock Sunday
morning the baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered by Rev. J. H. Arm
brust, pastor of the First Methodist
church in North Wilkeaboro, at the
Mountain Park Baptist church.
Monday morning, May 22, at 10
o'clock the class day exercises will
be held and the same evening at 8
o'clock an operetta, "Hearts and
Blossoms", will be given by the mu
sic department in-Chatham ijall. The
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TO PRESENT VANCE
AUDITORIUM MAY 30
Handsome Building Re
cently Completed At i
Lexington
Lexington, May 17.—Juniors of
North Carolina will on Tuesday,
May 30, formally present the hand
some new Sam F. Vance auditorium
high school building and gymnasium
recently completed at the Junior Or
der National Orphans Home here, to
the National Council of the Order
in what is expected to be one of the
biggest events in Juniorism in the
State in many years.
Plans for the presentation and ac
ceptance of the structure will make
it an All-North Carolina day. The
building wsß paid for by Juniors of
North Carolina through small assess
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In Harwichport Kidnapping Drama
m^m L / • f '•••
Here are the principals in the $60,000 kidnapping of 10-year-old I
Peggy Mac Math of Harwichport, Mass. (right) which stirred the nation,
hut was brought to sudden end when Kenneth Buck, 28 (upper right), and
Cyril Buck, 41 (lower right), garagemen at that place, were arrested hi ,
less than 10 hours after the ransom money had been paid and Peggy re
turned to her parents. Under questioning, Kenneth Buck condensed, but
tried to absolve his brother, who acted as go-between. Cyril Buck has
been charged with extortion through, ransom. An early trial is predicted.
Commencement Program
of Local School Is To
Get Under Way May 26
Will End Tuesday Evening, May 30, With Annua] Literary Ad
dress and Presentation. of Diplomas to Members of
Graduating Class. Baccalaureate Sermon to
be Delivered by Rev. Fred A. Creed
The commencement exercises of
Elkin public schools will begin Fri
day evening, May 26, with the
Junior-High graduating program and
will end Tuesday evening, May 30,
with th* 'nnual literary address and
presentation of diplomas to mem
bers of the graduating class. Super
intendent Schaff says that he is well
pleased, on the whole, with the pro
gress made by the pupils in all de
partments and with the general
morale manifested from the first
grade to the graduating class. The
general commencement activities
will take the following course:
Friday, May 26, 8 p. m.—Junior
High Graduation with county super
intendent E. S. Hendren presenting
the certificates of admission to the
high Bchoul.
Saturday, May 27, 8 p. m.—Senior
SENIORS PRESENT
CLASS PROGRAM
Jonesville Seniors To
Present Five Act Play
Tonight
A large crowd attended the class
day exercises of the graduating class
of the Jonesville high school which
was held Wednesday night in the
school auditorium.
The program was as follows:
Piano solo, Cloie Holcomb; pres
entation of seventh grade diplomas;
chorus, senior class; class history,
Doris Thompson; class prophecy,
Cloie Holcomb; class will, Cleo Hem
ric; piano solo, Olene Arnold.
Tonight the senior play, a drama
in five acts, entitled "Dot, the Mi
ner's Daughter," will be staged.
The senior class roll is as follows:
Lola Olene Arnold, William Clyne
Clay F. Church, Mildred Har-
Ruby Cleo Hemric, Ruby Ethel
Hemric, Cloie Dan Holcomb, Wood
rov Wilson Holcomb, Albert Hin
shaw, Ivry Newton Johnson, Sanford
Mcßrtde. H. Leon Martin, Thomas
Les Osborne, Dorothy Carol Rober
son\ Doris Lee Thompson, Otha Her
mit Vestal, Sallie Mcßride Vestal.
high school play, "One Minute to
Twelve".
Sunday, May 28, -11 a. m.—Bac
calaureate sermon to be preached by
Rev. Fred A. Freed, Christ Evange
lical Church, Hickory, North Caro
lina.
Monday, May 29, 8 p. m.—Senior
class day.
Tuesday, May 30, 8 p. m.—Liter
ary address by Dr. Edgar Wallace
Knight, Department of Education,
University of North Carolina, and
presentation of diplomas to the se
niors.
There are nineteen members of
this year's graduating class, and all
are expected to be graduated. The
junior-high group, traditionally
known as the seventh grade, has an
i enrollment of twenty-six. The com
mencement speakers are men of
I scholarship and wide experience.
GRAYSTONE INN IS
LEASED TO MILLER
Roaring: Gap Hotel To
Open For Summer
Season June 15
At a meeting of the directors of
Roaring Gap, Inc., at the Robert E.
Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem Thurs- j
day night, Graystone Inn at Roaring!
Gap was leased to Louis D. Miller of i
Winston-Salem for a period of,
i
three years.
Mr. Miller was in charge of the
resort hotel last year and will have
complete operation and management
again this year. The hotel will
open on June 15, and will probably
close about the middle of Septem
: ber.
Alex Innes of Pinehurst, pro for
the past several years, will be in
charge of the golf interests at Roar
ing Gap.
According to reports read at the
meeting, last year was a very suc
cessful one for the famous resort
and many iaqntries are being re
ceived in regard to the coming sea
son.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap *n£
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ROOSEYET PLEADS
WITH NATIONS TO
BO AWAY WITH WAR
I
In Plain §poken Mes-.
sage President Urges
Disarmament
DIRECT TO RULERS
Washington, May
Roosevelt appealed directly to the
rulers of the nations today to reduce
armaments, eliminate entirely the
weapons of aggression, refrain from
sending any armed force whatsoever
beyond their own borders, forget,
"petty" national aims, and join sin
cerely to assure peace and economic
recovery.
In a plain-speaking message, with
out precedent, the President asked
for specific steps at once, and de
clared if any nation interposed ob
structions, the civilized world would
"know where the responsibility for
failure lies."
He mentioned no nation by name,
but his words rang through the dip
lomatic world with dramatic signi
ficance at a moment when certain
leaders in Germany are asking for
greater armament; when Japanese
troops are marching deeper into the
territory of China; and when other
people are suspected of harboring
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RELIEF LIST SHOWS
DECREASE IN APRIL
However, Surry And
Wilkes Counties Show
Increase
Raleigh, May 17.—A decrease of
26,000 families who received aid
from public relief funds during the
moyth of April as compared with
March was revealed in figures re
leased today from the Governor's
Office of Relief. The total number
of families aided was 138,000 as
compared with 164,000 during
March, a t decrease of 16 per cent.
Relief officials had anticipated
that there would be some decrease
during April due to Improved busi
ness conditions generally and t.o the
return of many destitute families to
farms, but the decrease of lj per
cent was even better than had been
predicted.
The decrease was practically gen
eral throughout the State, 78 of the
100 counties showing fewer families
dependent upon relief funds than
during the previous month.
Surry and Wilkes counties showed
increases in April over March. Yad
kin and Alleghany showed a de
crease.
SISTER OF LOCAL
MAN PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Martha Tharpe
Gaither Is Buried In
Statesville
Mrs. Martha Tharpe Gaither, 66,
passed away at her home in States
ville Thursday. Funeral services
were held Friday from the Broad
Street church, of which she was a
member. Interment was in the
church cemetery beside her husband,
who preceeded her in death twelve
yars ago.
She leaves two daughters: Miss
Fannie Lou Gaither and Mrs. Ruth
Lackey, and a son, L. M. Gaither,
all of Statesville. Two brothers, J.
Elias Tharpe of Statesville and J.
Henry Tharpe of this city and two
sisters, Mrs. J. A. Heath of States
ville and Mrs. Ora L. Johnson, of
Pasadena, California; two half sis
ters: Mrs. Nannie Albea and Mrs.
J. A. Downingen, of Washington, D.
C., also survive.
Grady Paul Key Is
Claimed By Death
Grady Paul Key, 27, of near Dob
son, passed away at the hospital
here early Thursday morning, fol
lowing a brief illness from appendi
citis and peritonitis.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Mulberry Baptist church, in charge
of Rev. D. G. Reece and interment
WAS In the cbnrofc cemeiory.
He is survived by his wife and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Key.