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VOL. No. xxn, No. 48
'BUY NOW' PROGRAM
IS UNDERWAY; LOCAL
MEN ARE APPOINTED
Program Is An Attack
On the Depression
From New Angle
URGE FOLKS TO BUY
Swinging into line with the rest
of America in the great "Now Is the
Time to Buy" movement, Elkin hns
already developed an organization
and is ready to go ahead with the
drive just as rapidly as preliminary
details can be worked out. In a
statement today, C. G. Armfield,
chairman of the local committee,
mad« it clear that everything possi
ble will be done by thiß group to
speed up business in accordance
with the plans outlined by the N.
R. A. in Washington.
A. L. Griffeth, manager of J. C.
Penney Co., and E. S. Spain hour,
manager of Sydnor-Spainhour Co.,
were designated as a committee to
have charge of the Buy Now move
ment here.
"This program is an attack on
the depression from an entirely
different angle than anything that
has been done before," said Chair
man Armfield today. "We are at
tacking the depression with the
weapons of salesmanship. We all
know that during the last three
years or more there has been great
lack of buying by individuals, fam
ily groups and business organiza
tions. The present nation-wide
campaign is simply a drive to get
people to buy things they would
have been buying during the last
three years or so if it had not been
for their fear complex.
. "Of course, we are well aware of
the fact that there are some people
who can not afford to do any spe
cial buying at this time. But they
are very much in the minority.
Most families in Elkin can make at
leaßt some extra purchases.
"The object of our efforts will be
to convince such persons that it will
be to their interest to buy the
things that under ordinary circum-
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HWANIANS TO NAME
NEW OFFICERS 20TH
Nominating Committee
Appointed At Fri
day's Meeting
At the meeting of the Elkin Ki
wanis club held at Hotel Elkin
Friday evening a nominating com
mittee was appointed to prepare
ballots for officers for the coming
year, to be returned at the next
meeting Friday evening. Those
making up the committee are Dr.
R. B. Harrell, H. P. Graham and
A. O. Bryan.
Election of officers will be held
October 20, the time having been
set up due to the fact that it is the
deßire of Kiwanis International
that the newly elected president at
tend the district convention to be
held at Elizabeth City October 26-
27-28.
- Dr. Harry L. Johnson was wel
xomed into the club aB a new mem
ber. A. W. Futrell, member of the
Rocky Mount Kiwanis club, was the
guest of Klwanian A. O. Bryan.
Boonville Fair Is To
Feature Track Events
The Boonvllle Agricultural Fair
committee has included in its prem
ium list this year field day contests
(or Yadkin county high school stu
dents. These contests will take
place Saturday, October 27.
The track events proved to be an
outstanding feature of the fair last
year, group prizes being given at
that time. This year the events
hrtllfeature group prizes and indi
prizes.
Engineers Completing
Survey Proposed Road
A state highway surveying party,
headed by H. C. Lassing, arrived in
s Elkin several days ago and are now
engaged in completing the survey
of thewoposed Elkin-North Wilkes
bore roaa^
Once the> survey is completed it
is hoped thfct the contract for the
new project *fill W let and attual
construction started without undue
delay.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Now On Trial
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Above are the "Machine Gun"
Kellys, captured in Memphis and
now on trial in Oklahoma for al
leged participation in the kid
naping of Charles Urshel, oil baron.
Both have entered pleas of not
guilty.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
Fear More Killings
Chicago, Oct. 10.—/ The body of
Gus Winkler, gangster overlord,
111 shotgun slugs removed there
from, was transferred tonight
from a stone slab in the morgue
to a 910,000 silver coffin, and
police announced themselves ex
pectant of further gangster kill
lags.
So fearful were authorities that
the Winkler .assassination might
evolve into a vicious circle of
shooting that federal agents pro
fusely armed were assigned to
guard witnesses in the |!iS0,000
Chicago mail robbery of a year
ago.
Educator Dead
Chapel Hill, Oct. 10.—Dr. Wal
ter Dallam Toy, head of the de
partment of German and oldest
member of the University of
North Carolina faculty, both in
age and point of service, died at
8 o'clock tonight following com
plications from arthritis. He
_ would have "celebrated his seven
ty-ninth birthday November IS.
Florida Goes Wet
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 10.——
Heavy majorities in early returns
tonight from Florida's referendum
on repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment led repeal leaders to
claim "an undisputed victory."
Tabulation of approximately
half the vote showed a majority
of more than 5 to 1 for abolition
of national prohibition.
Johnson In Address
Washington, Oct. 10.—Sleek in
full evening dress Recovery Ad
ministrator Hugh S. Johnson
warned the American Federation
of Labor in convention here to
night that it stood as "the one
greatest hope of despairing hu
manity" and that if it failed as
a prop against collapse "it could
not escape responsibility."
Fight To Court
Executive committee members
representing seven •( the rural
school districts of Forsyth county
voted Tuesday night to institute
immediate action in the courts to
compel school authorities to
transport school children as they
were transported in 1932.
Small Wheat Crop
Washington, Oct. 10. —• The
smallest wheat crop in 37 years
was predicted today by the de
partment of agriculture, although
the estimate of 514,816,000 bu
shels was about 8,000,000 more
than the forecast lost month.
ASKED TO SPEED WORK
In a new effort to stimulate the
spending of the $400,000,000 fund
allocated to states for road building,
Secretary Ickes, public works ad
i ministrator, Sunday appealed to all
| governors to expedite actual con
struction on their Highway project*.
ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933
Cow From Klondike to
Go To Little America
With Byrd Expedition
Klondike Gay Carteret, Purebred Guernsey, to be Loaded Aboard
Supply Ship At Norfolk Saturday Or Sunday for Trip to
Frozen Wastes of the Antarctic. Will Help Supply
Expedition With Fresh Cream and Milk
Milk and cream, served fresh
from the udder of a purebred Klon
dike Guernsey cow in the frozen
wastes of the Anarctic will greet
members of the South Pole expedi
tiqn of Admiral Richard E. Byrd
during their forthcoming two-year
sojourn at the bottom of the world.
The cow, Klondike Gay Carteret,
will be loaded at Norfolk Saturday
or Sunday aboard the Jacob Rup
pert, supply ship for the south pole
expedition, and will sail shortly for
"down under."
Ruohs Pyron, manager of the
(arm, was notified Monday by H. C.
Bates, southern representative of the
American Guernsey Cattle Club that
Klqndike Gay Carteret was one of
five cows selected to supply the
expedition with cream, butter and
TOBACCO FARMERS
BETTER SATISFIED
Middle Belt Opens With
Price Range From
15c to 17c
While negotiations for the flue
cured tobacco code were still ap
parently deadlocked, but with grow
ers hoping for an early settlement
North Carolina's ten middle belt
markets opened yesterday with
warehouses jammed and prices
ranging from 15 to 17 cents accord
ing to unofficial averages.
Growers apparently were better
pleased with prices than were east
ern planters when the bright belt
opened.
The crop was reported to be the'
best in several years and higher
grades predominated.
With the largest opening in sev
eral years, Durham warehouses
sold approximately 425,000 pounds
at an average of from 16 to 17
cents, according to L>. Q. Cheek, Bales
supervisor. TobaccQ farmers ap
peared to be satisfied with the
prices, particularly those for the
middle grades. The better and the
poorer quality leaf did not bring as
relatively as good prices as the mid
dle grades. ~ _
Henderson registered opening
prices 40 to 50 per cent higher than
last year. Prices ranged from $lO
to $35 for smoking tobacco and
from $5 to $lB for tips. Had it not
been for the large quantity of tips
and . primings prices would have
reached the parity price of 17 cents,
warehousemen said. Approximately
650,000 pounds were offered.
DISTRICT MEETING
JR. ORDER OCT. 18
Many Prominent Junior
Members To Attend
Gathering Here
A meeting of the seventh district
Junior O. .U. A. M., will be held
with Elkin council No. 96 Wednes
day afternoon, October 18, at 3
o'clock.
At 7:30 p. m. a degree team from
North Wilkesboro council No. 51
will put on the degrees in a class
Initiation. This meeting will be at
tended by State Councilor B. C.
Siske, of Warsaw; State Vice Coun
cilor Charles F. Tankersley, Jr., of
Henderson; C. W. Snyder,- field sec
retary, of Winston-Salem and other
prominent Juniors of the State.
The seventh district consists of
Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Wilkes and
Yadkin counties. There are 16 coun
cils In the district with about 1,400
members. The local council has a
membership of 172.
FOUR GET LIFE SENTENCES
Sentences of life imprisonment,
the maximum penalty under the
new federal kidnaping law, were
dealt out Saturday to Harvey Bailey
and Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Shannon
and Albert Bates, Denver gangster
for the Charles F. Urschel kidnap
ing.
buttermilk. It will be the first cow
that has been taken to the vicinity
of either pole, and will be in th3
nature of an experiment as well as
for the purpose of supplying the ex
pedition with fresh dairy products.
The other four cows to be aboard
the ship were selected from distant
parts of the country.
A daughter of Klondike's famous
sire, Foremost's Gay Lad, Klondike
Gay Carteret is an expectant moth
er, her calf due to arrive about
Christmas. Blankets for her pro
tection whjle in the Antarctic have
been provided.
Although it is not Jinown what
arrangements are to be made for
the cows in Little America, it is pos
sible the local cow and her four
companions will spend the next two
years aboard ship.
MAN WITH 4 WIVES
GETS THREE YEARS
Charge of Embezzle
ment Against E. C.
James Nol Prossed
Henry Wallace, white, of th«>
Mountain Park section, was Tues
day sentenced to serve three years
on the roads, by Judge J. H. Clem
ents, presiding over the current ses
sion of Surry criminal court, on a
charge of bigamy. A second sen
tence of six months, to run concur
rently with the three year term, was
imposed following Wallace's convic
tion of assdult on a female.
Evidence disclosed that Wallace
had four wives, two living and two
dead, and that his attentions to a
fifth woman brought about his
downfall.
A nol pro# was taken in one case
of embezzlement against B. C.
James, of Elkin, A second charge
of embezzlement was continued un
til the next term of court.
According to the evidence in the
nol prossed case, James, who was
alleged to have embezzled S6OO
from the funds of the Elkin-Jones
ville Building and Loan association
while he was acting aa secretary ap
proximately 10 years ago, was res
ponsible for the shortage through
ignorance of the building and loan
system of book keeping. It was al
so brought out that the shortage
was repaid to the association by
Mr. James shortly after it was re
vealed by audit.
Dr. J. D. Hogan, prominent Mount
Airy dentist, charged with man
slaughter, saw his case continued
until the next term of court.
Other cases of minor nature have
been disposed of.
WORK OF MARKING
STREETS IS BEGUN
Improvement Noted In
Traffic Situation
At Once
The task of lining off the Btreets
in the business district for 46 de
gree parking, as authorized by the
board ,of town commissioners last
Wednesday night, was begun here
Monday. - p
Due to the fact that the streets
are not wide enough for this form*
of parking on both sides, 46 degree
parking will be allowed only on one
side of the street, automobiles to be
parked parallel with the curb on the
opposite side.
Although all of the streets have
not yet been marked, a decided Im
provement in the double parking sit
uation has been noted on Main
street, on which the process of mark
ing waß completed Tuesday.
It is understood the commission
ers teok no action upon a sugges
tion that local streets be marked
with names, or that all business
| houses and residences be numbered.
It won't be long now before the
drys will ,sit back and tell the wets
|to take care of the whisky prob-.
lem.
K/S& § $ &
Has Husband Code
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Among ml«?s included In his "hus
band code," presented by Judge J.
M. Ha'rtman in Domestic Court at
St. Louis, was hot dinners, with
cold cuts and sardines taboo, if
wives are to sleep late two morn
ings each week.
"CAP" WOODHOUSE
IS BURIED SUNDAY
Killed Saturday When
Racer Plunged Over
Embankment
Huge crowds attended the funer
al at Boonville Sunday afternoon
for C. O. "Cap" Woodhouse, 35,
who received fatal injuries, Satur
day at the Winston-Salem fair
grounds when his racer catapault
ed over a 50-foot embankment.
Death came four hours later in a
Winston hospital from internal in
juries and a fracture of the skull.
The race at the fairgrounds was
Woodhouse's first AAA competition,
although he had been entered in
numerous auto races in paßt years.
He was driving a Model A Ford
special racing car and when it
crashed was traveling at about 60
miles an hour. The field, slowing
for the turn, bunched, forcing
Woodhouse to swing wide. Wait
ing too long, he cramped his turn,
throwing his machine sideways and
tail first into the railing.
Woodhouse, a native of Boon
ville, but for past years a resident
of Winßton-Salem, was well known
here. He was a member of one of
the best known and highly re
spected families in Yadkin county.
He was a son of Mrs. M. J. Wood
house of Boonville, and was a mem
ber of the Boonville Baptist church.
He was married to Miss Rena
Wood, of Mount Airy, about six
years ago.
Surviving are the widow; two
children, one daughter, Bobble, and
one son, Jimmie; his mother; four
brothers, Frank Woodhouse, of
Boonville; Waldon Woodhouse, of
White Oak; Weldon Woodhouse, of
Dinubar, Calif.; and Bright Wood
house, of Atlanta; one sister, Mrs.
Hedge Gibson, of High Point.
The funeral rites were held at
4 o'clock from Boonville Baptist
church in charge, of Rev. V. M.
Swaim, Burial was in the church
cemetery.
TO STAGE BOXING
SHOW HERE OCT. 24
Good Card Being Ar
ranged By American
Legion Post
A boxing show, to be sponsored
by the 6eorge Gray post of the
American Legion, will nbe staged
here in McNeer's warehouse Tues
day night, Ortober 24.
A good card is being arranged,
the main bout to feature Paul Mon
day of Mount Airy,,and Fred Pat
ton, of Pilot Mountain, both favor
ites with Elkin boxing fans.
Five other bouts will be on tap,
some of which will feature local
boys, in addition to a grand battle
royal Wfetween Elkin colored boys.
Stroke Of Paralysis Is *
Fatal to D. M. Burch
Dedmon Monroe Burch, 62, died
at his home near Pairview, Surry
county Sunday, following a stroke
of paralysis, funeral services "/ere
held Tuesday afternoon from Union
Cross church, In charge of Rev. T.
S. and Rev. Bverette Draughn. In
terment waa In the church cemetery.
The deceased was a substantial
farmer of the Fafrview community
and waa a twin brother of R. Lee
Burch of tfcia city.
He ia survived by his widow and
seven sons and daughters.
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TOWN FATHERS HOLD
MEETING WEDNESDAY
NIGHT; WAR ON RATS
Close Pool Room And
Rearrange Downtown
Parking System
PASS ORDINANCE
Meeting Wednesday night, the
town board of commissioners closed
a pool roam, rearranged traffic on
downtown streets and declared war
on local rats, not to mention the
passing of an ordinance forbidd'ing
anyone to dig a grave in Hollywood
cemetery without first presenting a
deed or other evidence showing
that they had purchased and paid
for the burial plot.
In closing the pool room, which
was located on South Bridge street
and operated presumably for ne
groes, it was brought out that the
place had acquired a reputation of
being very disorderly and that
mixed play between whites and ne
groes had been allowed. A fight
there, resulting in one of the par
ticipants landing in jail, was also
thrown in as evidence against the
place.
In declaring war on Elkin rats,
the commissioners acquired the
services of a Mr. Lockmore, who,
assisted by local citizens, will
spread the rat poison. This poison,
it is claimed, will also prove fatal
to various and ftndry bugs who
may partake of it.
The graveyard ordinance was to
the effect that no one shall be per
mitted to dig a grave in Hollywood
cemetery without first showing
ownership of the burial plot. In a
number of past instances burials
have taken place in plots not owned
or paid for by relatives of the de
ceased, it was said.
It was also decided by the com
missioners, while upon the subject
of the cemetery, to improve and de
velop an extension which will give
much more burial space.
Taking up the traffic situation,
which in the past has been one of
double, triple and middle-of-the
street parking, the commissioners
authorized Chief of Police W. G.
Church to mark off one side of the
business streets in such a manner
that parking will be done at an an
gle of 45 degrees. This work was
begun Monday, the streets to be
marked being Main, Bridge, Mark
et and Church.
During the course of the meeting
a matured public improvement bond
was presented in payment of street
assessments. However, it was the
opinion of the commissioners that
only matured street improvements
bonds should be accepted as pay
ment of street assessments.
The audit of the town books for
the year 1333 was presented and
referred to a committee for study
and a report at a future meeting.
BRIGHT SPOTS IN
BUSINESS
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce estimates that production
by its members during the first
months of the year will show a 54
percent gain over same period last
year.
Steel corporations are preparing
bids on 844,525 tons of steel rails
for 4 7 railroads. ,
F. W. Woolworth & Company an
nounce September sates showed
11.2 percent increase over Septem
ber 1932.
Electric output for nation for
week ended September 30th, was
10.2 percent over corresponding
week of 1932 and 9.J) percent over
preceding week.
Washington report shows 37,000
young men leaving Civilian Conser
vation Camps to take jobs back
home.
National Knitted Outerwear As
sociation showß a 33 percent gain
in employment and a 17 percent
gain in payrolls in 649 mills in that
industry as a result of operations
under a temporary code.
To Conduct Serviees
Rev. W. H. Dunnman, of Roan
oke, Virginia, win conduct prayer
services at the brash arbor at Hud
son's gold mine, near State Road,
en Saturday and Sunday evening, at
7:30. Special prayer services are
being held afc. the arbor each Satur
day and Sunday evening and the
public k cordially invited to attend.