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VOL. No. XXIII, No. 22
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Washington.—Mrs. Anne Lind
bergh (above) as she appeared here
to be honored with the Hubbard
Gold Medal of the National Geo
graphical Society in recognition of
her radio work with her famous
husband on their European tour
last summer. She is the first woman
ever to receive the Hubbard Medal.
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Miami—Farwell "Fuzzy" Perry,
(above), son of John H. Perry, New
York publisher, is 13 years old and
weighs 80 pounds. He went fishing
here and hooked a 40 pound Bar
racuda. Fuzzy landed him alone
and won his stripes to stand in the
ranks of real Issac Waltons.
In Utility Quiz
Albany, N. Y.—As a result of dis-
closures of "correspondence" be
tween State Senator Warren T.
Thayer (above), and Associated Gas
and Eelectric Company, before the
Federal Trade Commission, the New
' York legislature has started an in
quiry into utility lobbies with im
peachment threatened.
Relief Director
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Minneapolis.—Mrs. Annie D. Ol
seen (above), National Emergency
Belief Director for Minnesota is the
only woman director among the
twenty eight state directors who
act as personal representatives of
President Roosevelt.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Club Asks Compulsory
Vaccination of Elkin
Dogs In Rabies Fight
WOULD SHOOT STRAY
DOGS IN EFFORT TO
ELIMINATE MENACE
Point Out Numerous
Outbreaks of Rabies
Hereabouts
TO ASK ORDINANCE
An investigation of both state and
town ordinances pertaining to the
inoculation of dogs for rabies to see
whether or not any law is on record
providing for compulsory vaccina
tion was suggested during the meet
ing of the Elkin Kiwanis club at
Hotel Elkin Friday evening.
It was brought to the club's at
tention that there are a number of
stray dogs about town which pro
vide an ever present menace to the
lives of children and animals due to
the frequency of rabid, or mad dogs,
hereabouts. It was pointed out that
if there is not an ordinance on ei
ther the town or state books requir
ing that every dog be vaccinated
(provided the animal has an owner)
such an ordinance should be passed
and all ownerless dogs shot.
It was suggested that every per
son owning a dog pay a sum suffi
cient for innoculation at the time
dog tax is paid, or else stand the
chance of having their dog shot.
Winston-Salem is having and has
had numerous outbreaks of rabies
during which numerous people have
been bitten. Such outbreaks of the
disease could easily spread here, it
was said.
An investigation of dog laws is to
be made, and provided there is no
ordinance covering compulsory in
noculation an effort is to be made
to have such an ordinance passed.
TEACHERS NAMED
FOR NEXT YEAR
Majority of Present
Staff of Local School
To Return
The board of education of Elkin
public schools, which under the new
set-up includes North Elkin, white,
and Oak Grove, colored, held a meet
ing Tuesday night for the purpose of
selecting the teaching personnel for
next year, according to Mrs. Mason
Lillard, secretary to the board. The
recommendations of superintendent
Schaff for Elkin school which called
for the re-appointment of all teach
ers, was accepted by the board with
out reservation. Principal Black
welder presented the North Elkin
sub-committee's report which was
approved by the Elkin board which
has final say. Mrs. Lois Reinhardt
was selected to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Mrs.
Fred Eidson. The colored sub-com
mittee's recommendation that Mrs.
Dora Brown be, retained was ap
proved. r
The list of the names of the teach
ers for the various schools of the
district is as follows:
Elkin—high school and junior
high: Elizabeth Anderson, Mary
Virginia Barker, Emma Cooke, Ar
thur C. Hood, Sara McCracken and
Josephine Paul.
Elementary school: Bettie Allen,
Mrs. Vena Harris, Mrs. Mary Smith
AUred, Mary Dwight Turner, Ruth
Eads, Elizabeth Harris. Margaret
Lillard, Mrs. D. C. Martin, Mary Eli
zabeth Hendren, Blanche Dixon and
Ola Angel.
Colored school: Mrs. Dora Brown.
North Elkin (no high school work
done): R. B. Blackwelder, principal.
Fred T. Hart, Mrs. Lois Reinhardt,
Elizabeth Joyce, Mary Thompson, T.
C. Douglas, Mrs. T. C. Douglas.
Elkin Men In N. Y.
On Business Trip
E. W. McDaniel, of McDaniel's
Department Store; Errol Hayes, of
Hayes & Speas, and French Graham,
of Graham & Click 5 and 10c Store
left Elkin Sunday for New York City
on a business trip. They are ex
pected to return the latter part of
this week.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934 "
Intellectual Giant
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Chester, Pa. Charles Fritz
(above), 6 years old, 5 ft., 4 in., tall,
and weighing 120 pounds, entered
school last Fall and advanced from
the first grade to the fifth in 6
months. Teachers say he is excep
tional in all studies and has the
mentality of the average high school
freshman. Neither of his parents
attended college.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
REFUSES TO LEVY
MORE TAXES
Washington, April 10.—By 46 to
44, the senate today refused to
levy an additional one-year emer
gency tax of 10 per cent on all
individual income tax returns in
1935.
It also rejected without a roll
call a proposal to boost surtaxes
beyond the finance committee
rates which already are higher
than existing levies.
The 10 per cent emergency tax,
proposed by Senator Couzens, Re
publican, Michigan, would have
raised an estimated $55,000,000.
The higher surtaxes, suggested by
Senator King, Democrat, Utah,
would have yielded another $40,-
000,000.
BISHOP CANNON
IS ON TRIAL
Washington, April 10. The
contention that the money given
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., for
combatting the presidential ambi
tions of Alfred E. Smith was used
for that purpose was put before
a jury in District of Columbia
Supreme court today by counsel
for the churchman.
Robert H. McNeill, chief of de
fense counsel, told the jury he
expected to show that the bishop
"took the money and spent it
distributed it in accordance with
the great desire of the contribu
tor."
TWO SENTENCED FOR
FORGING CHECKS
Raleigh, April 10.—Miss Rebec
ca Wesmoreland, Thomasville girl
of 23 years, got a two-year sus
pended sentence today for her
part in the passage of forged
checks drawn against state funds,
and Claude Home, one-armed
former prisoner, got 20 years, five
of which he must serve.
Home, who was taken after
various vouchers on the state had
been successfully passed, pleaded
guilty, as Miss Westmoreland did.
OPENS BIDS
ON NEW HIGHWAYS
Raleigh, April 10.—Low propos
als totalling $990,252.64 were re
ceived today by the North Caro
lina highway and public works
commission which opened bids on
some of the largest construction
programs launched within recent
years.
London Opinion: V A railway por
ter complains that he is sometimes
expected to take luggage to houses
miles away from the station.
That is carrying things too far.
KIWANIANS WANT
BUSINESS STREETS
CLEANED OFTENER
Claim Main Drag Con
gested With Litter
Sunday Mornings
BAD IMPRESSION
With an eye towards cleaner
streets and a more sightly town, the
Elkin Kiwanis club Friday evening
discussed the advisibility of request
ing the board of town commissioners
to have the business streets washed
more often and made a plea to Elk
in merchants to set that no waste
is swept from their stores into the
streets.
It was pointed out that Elkin
streets frequently resemble a circus
ground just after the circus has
pulled stakes, and although it was
admitted that there is no power to
control peanut eaters and paper sack
droppers, nightly washing of the
streets would at least give the
streets a veneer of cleanliness and
respectibility with which to greet the
dawn.
Sunday morning is notably the
most untidy morning as far as trash
and litter is concerned. It appears
that everyone who orders a drink in
a paper cup, or buys a package of
peanuts or popcorn insists upon
throwing the container upon the
pavement much to the embar
rassment of Sunday morning. And
it was further pointed out by the
Kiwanians that this litter does not
make a favorable impression upon
any stray tourist who might be pass
ing through, or visitors who perhaps
may be considering the town as a fu
ture abode.
An inquiry during the height of the
discussion revealed that at present
the city streets, like some of the hu
man inhabitants, get a bath but once
a week, and that this weekly wet
ting is not nearly sufficient to pre
sent a spotless front on the other six
days.
It was further pointed out that
trash swept from the sidewalks by
one merchant who takes a pride in
his store's appearance is blown by
vagrant winds into the doorways of
other stores which take just as much
pride in cleanliness. Only a nightly
flushing would prevent such a con
dition, it was agreed.
OLD CLASSMATES TO
GATHER AT HARMONY
Reunion To Be Feature
Of School Commence
ment Week
One of the most interesting fea
tures of commencement week at the
Harmony school will be a reunion of
the old students. Old classmates
will gather on the school grounds
Tuesday, April 24, in the afternoon.
There will be a picnic supper at 6:30
in the gym or on the campus. All
former students are urged to attend
and bring well-filled baskets.
This is the first reunion that has
been held here in several years and
everyone is looking forward to meet
ing again with old friends. The af
ternoon will be spent in a general
"get-together" meeting in the gym
which will be under the direction of
the class of 1934. After supper an
alumni meeting will be held in the
auditorium at which time officers
will be elected for the coming year.
It is hoped that it will be possible
j for a large number of former Har
mony students to be present on this
! occasion; and a big time is promised
to all who attend.
"Confession" In Murder
Case Just Another Rumor
Rumors widely circulated here
the first of this week to the effect
that Mrs. Luther Tilley, under in
dictment together with four other
members of the Tilley family for
the murder of Leoda Mae Child*-
ress on December 30, 1933, had
confessed full details of the kill
ing, were found to be false when
checked by a member of The Tri
bune news staff Monday.
Reports that Mrs. Tilley, who is
at liberty under $2,500 bond, had
confessed that her husband, Lu
ther Tilley, was the slayer of An
drew Eldridge, whose badly de
composed body was found in Klon
dike lake several years ago, and
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Los Angeles—A miniature radio set,
*vcighing less than two pounds and
worn on Sam Browne belts by po
licemen on duty, is the newest de
velopment in the crime chase by
John Law.' The set was invented
by R. O. Gordon.
DR. WIRT NAMES
TUGWELL AS HEAD
Testifies He Learned of
"Revolution" Plot In
Virginia
Washington, April 10.—The six
persons who attended a Virginia
dinner party last September at
which Dr. William A. Wirt said to
day he heard that the "brain trust"
planned revolution will tell a house
committee about it next Tuesday
but all indications tonight were the
inquiry would end right there.
Wirt made it plain he felt Rexford
G. Tugwell, assistant secretary of
agriculture, was the leader in a
movement to undermine the consti
tution. But the three Democratic
committee members did not express
great concern after the hearing.
Perspiring profusely and stand
ing on tiptoe in his earnestness,
Wirt referred to Tugwell time and
again. He also wanted the com
mittee to call Lewis Douglas, direct
or of the budget, and William I.
Westervelt, former AAA official, to
see if they would substantiate his
charges.
Committee Makes Decision
Once the committee room that
was crowded with celebrities and
plain citizens emptied, the mem-
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TO HOLD 2D GOLDEN
CROSS PICNIC 17TH
Opening Exercise Will
Feature Address Of
Dr. Jarrell
The second annual Golden Cross
picnic will be held here on Tuesday
of next week. The opening exercise
at 10 a. m. will be in charge of Rev.
L. B. Abernethy, of Newton, director
of the Golden Cross and will fea
ture an address by Dr. Charles C.
Jarrell, of Atlanta, Ga., general sec
retary of the General Hospital Board
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. The address will be followed
by a pageant, under the direction
of Mrs. Joe Bivins and Miss Sarah
Click, of Elkin. Following this Dr.
W. S. Rankin, director of the hospi
tal and orphan section of the Duke
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was also the murderer of the
Childress girl, were widely circu
lated here Monday. According to
the current version, Jeff Eldridge,
father of Andrew Eldridge, had re
ceived a letter from Solicitor J. R.
Jones, to this effect.
However, an interview with Mr.
Eldridge disclosed that such was
not the case—that he knew noth
ing of the alleged confession other
than rumors heard In Elkin Satur
day afternoon.
A telephone call to Sheriff W.
B. Somers, at Wilkesboro, also re
vealed that no news of a confes
sion had been received at his of
fice.
ELKIX
Gateway to
Ro»rf|«g
Gap and the
Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW
BUSINESS STARTED
BY BANK OF ELKIN
Hope To Have Half-
Million Dollar Institu
tion By Year's End
IS IN FINE SHAPE
A campaign for new business was
begun by The Bank of Elkin April 1,
it was announced Tuesday morning
by Garland Johnson, cashier, the
purpose of which is to build the bank
into a half-million dollar institution
by December 31, 1934.
The last statement of the bank,
which is contained in this issue of
The Tribune, shows it to be in ex
cellent condition, occupying a high
cash position with an extremely Large
surplus and reserve accounts.
Total resources of the bank, as
shown in the statement, total $342,-
705.40, which is a tremendous gain
over resources when the institution
opened for business on March 15,
1933.
Mr. Johnson stated that the bank
will continue its present conserva
tive loan policy and assures the pub
lic of a strong, liquid financial in
stitution at all times.
EXPECTED TO MAKE
RACE IN YEAR 1938
John H. Folger Has Not
Announced Formally
But It's Probable
Although modestly declining to al
low his name to be mentioned as a
candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for Congress from the fifth
district, John H. Folger, of Mount
Airy has let it become known among
friends that he will toss his hat in
to the ring four years hence as can
didate for the U. S. Senate when the
term of Senator Robert R. Reynolds
expires.
No formal announcement has been
made to this effect, but his friends
understand that this is his plan and
one of the reasons he has not, and
does not plan to, enter into any pre
vious contests.
WHISENHUNT NAMED
PASTOR OF REGION
Embraces About Twen
ty-Five Districts In
B. Y. P. U. Assn.
I At the Regional conference of the
B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist churches
of the Piedmont district of North
Carolina in Statesville Friday and
Saturday of last week, Rev Eph
Whisenhunt, pastor of the First
Baptist church of this city, was
elected pastor of the region, which
embraces about twen "-five districts
in the association. * ch Carolina is
divided into four regions, and the
pastors of the regions form an execu
tive council which acts as an advis
ory board to the young peoples' work;
of the entire state.
This is a distinct honor to the
local pastor and his wide experience
in mission work will be of invaluable
aid to him in his new duties.
FIVE ARE INJURED
AS MACHINE WRECKS
Party From Sparta En
Route To Winston-
Salem
Five Sparta people, enroute to
Winston-Salem Monday night re
ceived painful injuries when the au
tomobile hi which they were riding
turned over a short distance south
of Elkin.
Those injured were Clinton Hal
sey, dislocated shoulder and bruises;
Mrs. C. A. Reeves, lacerations; her
husband. Dr. C. A. Reeves, head lac
eration; Dr. T. R. Burgiss, lacerated
leg, and Dr. C. A. Thompson, bruises.
The injured were taken to Hugh
Chatham hospital where they re
ceived treatment.
The party was en route to Wins
ton-Salem when Dr. Reeves lost con
trol of the sedan while trying to
avoid a collision with another car.
The machine was badly damaged.