| M Q A 'I ELKIN
"The Best
Little Town
In North
- ~Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIII, No. 23
ROARING RIVER BOY
IS KILLED BY SHOT
FROM 12-GAUGE GUN
Young Brother, Who
Thought Gun Empty,
Pulls Trigger
FUNERAL MONDAY
A gun, thought to be unloaded,
snuffed out the life of Edward
Tharpe, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Tharpe, of Roaring River Sun
day. The charge was fired into the
boy's head by his brother, Thomas,
age 13.
The tragedy occurred In a room
of the Tharpe home while other
members of the family were eating
the noon meal. The younger boy
was said to have been handling the
gun, a 12-gauge shotgun, when he
pulled the trigger, the entire load
striking his brother in the head.
According to reports received here,
it was not customary for the gun to
be loaded, a shell having been slip
ped into it a short while before the
tragedy by another member of the
family who was intending to kill a
hawk.
Funeral services for the victim of
the accident were conducted at 2
o'clock Monday afternoon at White
Plains Baptist church by Rev. Jim
mie Bryant and Rev. A. T. Pardue.
The deceased is survived by his
parents and the following brothers
anu sisters: Mrs. Virgie Sparks,
Mrs. Zelpha Waddell, Paul, Clyde,
Grover, Thomas and Larkin Tharpe.
KIWANIANS HOLD
INTER-CLUB MEET
Elkin, Statesville, North
Wilkesboro Clubs Meet
At Harmony
A large number of members of the
Elkin, Statesvllle and North Wilkes
boro Kiwanis clubs attended the in
ter-club meeting held at Harmony
Friday evening. The meeting proved
so enjoyable that plans are being
considered to make it a yearly affair.
The Elkin club was in charge of
the program, which proved highly
entertaining. One of the high spots
was a talk by Dr. E. G. Click, who
gave a resume of changes and con
ditions as they have occurred over
the past 25 years.
Thomas Roth, president of the
Elkin club, presided, and called upon
the presidents of the Statesville and
North Wilkesboro clubs for short
talks.
R. H. Lankford, superintendent of
the Harmony schools, made the ad
dress of welcome. Other highlights
oi the program were as follows*
A group of songs, Miss Sara Mc-
Cracken, Miss Caroline Lillard, Mrs.
Walter R. Schaff and Miss Margaret
•LUlard.
Rose dance, Misses Emalene
sr- Sara Keiiy Lniard ' Nan ° y
Quartet, Harmony school pupils.
Tap dance, Prances Chatham
A short talk, Carl C. Poindexter
Revival To Begin Here
Sunday at Warehouse
A revival campaign will begin
22 ' at 2:30 in afternoon at
McNeer's Warehouse on East Main
street in this city. The services
will be conducted by Evangelist W.
Sykes Smith, of Greensboro, assist
ed by L. A. Hill as choir director
and pianist.
he meeting is interdenomina
tional and for the benefit of the
churches. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend. The services will
be conducted each evening at 7:30
for the coming four weeks.
Jonesville To Have A
Second Mass Meeting
A mass meeting for the nomina
tion of town officers has been called
by Jonesville citizens for Monday
night at 7:30 o'clock in the town
hall, it was learned Wednesday, this
to be second meeting to have been
called within the past few weeks.
April Term of Court
To Begin Next Monday
A two week's term of Surry county
superior court for the trial of crimi
nal cases will get under way at Dob
son Monday before Judge Felix Al
ley. One hundred and eleven casefc
are on the calendar.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
GRAHAM WARNS
OF DANGER
Durham, April 17.—"The par
ent-teacher associations of the
nation are in the front line in the
struggle to maintain a decent
level in the public schools, but
those in our state should not be
come complacent in these times
simply because schools in North
Carolina are open while those in
many other states are closed," Dr.
Frank P. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina,
told the state congress of parent
and teacher associations here to
day.
RUSSIA STRIKES
BACK AT U. S.
Moscow, April 17.—Soviet busi
ness planners were „ admonished
today to forego American pur
chases in retaliation against a
new United States law barring
loans to debtor nations.
The demand was printed in the
heavy industry department's or
gan "For Industrialization" which
declared Russia will not be co
erced into a debt settlement and
described the Johnson law as "a
menace to Soviet - American
trade."
BANKERS FACE
TRIAL IN STOKES
Danbury, April 17.—A jury was
completed today to hear evidence
in the case against officers and
directors of the Bank of Stokes,
charged with making false re
ports of the bank's condition to
the State Corporation Commis
sion.
Judge Vernon C. Cowper is pre
siding over the court.
FACTOR TO BE . ,
RETURNED FOR TRIAL
Chicago, April 17.—English law
reached 4,000 miles across the At
lantic Ocean today and seized
John (Jake the Barber) Factor.
The boom-time market specula
tor was placed in the custody of
a deputy United States marshal
for return to London to face trial
on charges of defrauding English
investors of $7,000,000.
MAKES PLEA
FOR SCHOOLS
Washington, April 17.—A plea
for aid by the federal government
to the public school system of the
country was placed before Secre
tary of Interior Ickes today by A.
T. Allen, North Carolina superin
tendent of education. Both pupils
and teachers would benefit under
the six-point program for educa
tional relief which was presented
to Ickes.
TOBACCO RENTAL
CHECKS RECEIVED
Raleigh, April 17. Tobacco
rental checks totalling $26,283.25
have been received for distribu
tion by farm agents in 31 North
Carolina counties, E. Y. Floyd of
State college, said tonight. Grow
ers in the state are expected to
get $286,125 in rental payments in
the immediate future, Floyd said.
TWO ARE INJURED
IN WRECK SUNDAY
Winston-Salem People
In Local Hospital
Recovering
Mrs. Esther Pettyjohn, 28, and Paul
Fairfield, 28, both of Winston-Salem,
are in Hugh Chatham Memorial hos
pital here recovering from injuries
sustained in an automobile wreck
which occurred on the Elkin-Winston
highway between Elkin and Boon
ville Sunday morning.
The accident occurred when the
coupe driven by Mrs. Pettyjohn left
the road and turned over several
times. Mrs. Pettyjohn and Mr. Pair
field, sole occupant® of the car, were
thrown from the ( machine. They
were found approximately 50 feet
apart.
The two were en route to Elkin to
visit Mrs. Darnell, mother of Mrs.
Pettyjohn, when the wreck occurred.
The joke that always seems spark
ling to George Ade concerns the man
who, when asked if his wife was
entertaining this winter, replied,
"Not very."—Readers Digest.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934
WITNESSES DENY
CHARGES MADE BY
DR. WILLIAM WIRT
Claim Educator Made
Four-Hour Talk At
Virginia Dinner
MAY MAKE . PROBE
Washington, April 17.—Six wit
nesses today flatly contradicted Dr.
William A. Wirt's testimony that
they had talked of revolution and
thereby brought indications that the
district attorney might be asked to
look into the differences between
sworn testimony.
The six said that instead of talk
ing of a brajn, trust plot for revo
lution as the Gary educator had
charged, they listened to a four-hour
monologue from Wirt on education
and gold devaluation.
The open hearing ended with the
session today. Chairman Bulwinkle
of the committee commented that
his group could not "prosecute Dr.
Wirt for perjury, but there is no
reason why the district attorney and
the grand jury shouldn't be able to
take notice of the case."
He said he did not plan to call
the conflicting testimony to the at
tention of Leslie Garnett, district at
torney, but Representative Somers,
Democrat, New York, said if the
committee did not move in that di
rection that he would.
"The committee, of course." Som
ers said, "has first chance to take
whatever action it chooses, but if it
does nothing along this line, I shall
present a transcript of the testimony
to the district attorney and suggest
that he look it over to see if there
is any question of perjury involved."
But house leaders indicated that
they did not favor any further step
in the matter.
MAY TRY TILLEY
CASE JUNE 18TH
Wilkes Bar Association
Petitions For Special
Court Term
A special term of Wilkes county
superior court for the trial of the
Tilley and Stanley cases is being
sought by Solicitor John R. Jones
and other members of the Wilkes
bar association.
A petition requesting Governor
Ehringhaus to call the special term
Monday, June 18, has been for
warded to the governor by Attorney
Eugene Trivette, president of the
Wilkes bar association and a mem
ber of counsel for Mrs. Luther Tilley.
The two cases were calendared for
trial in the last week of the March
term but • after it was decided by
Judge Warlick and counsel for state
and defense that it would probably
take more than one week to dispose
of the two cases, they were con
tinued and a special term recom
mended.
P. O.S. OF A. PLANS
BIG MEETING HERE
Many Notables Are Ex
pected To Attend
Saturday Evening-
A district meeting of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America will be held
with the local camp Saturday of wis
week. The meeting will convene in
the Jr. O. U. A. M. hall at 7:30 in
the evening.
Many notable officials of the or
der are expected to attend, among
them Past National President H. H.
Koontz, of Lexington: Fred O. Sink,
state secretary, Lexington; J,, C.
Kessler, state treasurer, Salisbury; J.
T. Graham, state president, Cleve
land, and possibly Congressman J.
Walter Lambeth, of Washington. D.
C.
The district includes the camps at
Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Ashe
boro, Thomasville, Lexington and
Elkin. At least one hundred visitors
from these camps are expected.
Mrs. Carey Finney
Mrs. Verdie Finney Moore, 34,
wife of Carey Finney, of Jonesville,
died in the local hospital Friday fol
lowing a brief critical illness.
Funeral services were held from
Fall Creek church Saturday after
noon and interment was in the
church cemetery.
A Happy Angler in the Bent-Pin League
SPRING—The photo above happens to come from the Southland, but
Mabel Claire Strickland, of Douglas, Ga., does more than attest her mem
bership in the Bent-Pin League . . . she typifies the opening of another
happy childhood season throughout the land.
Youth Fatally Injured
In Gun Accident While
Hunting Near His Home
Bluegrass Beauty
.mHH
Lexington Miss Ruby Dunn
(above), junior at the University of
Kentucky, is the most beautiful co
ed at the Bluegrass school, so voted
the editors and judges of the annual
year book.
HOLD FUNERAL FOR
MILES R. HAYNES
Approximately 2000 At
tend Last Rites For
Teacher
Attended by approximately 2,000
people, funeral rites were held Sun
day afternoon from the Jonesville
school auditorium for Miles Roscoe
Haynes, 52, beloved member of the
Jonesville school faculty, who died
Saturday morning from a heart at
tack. He had been ill two weeks
prior to his death. The rites were
in charge of Prof. Z. H. Dixon, with
whom the deceased had been inti
mately associated in educational
work for the past several years. Prof.
Dixon paid high tribute to the life
of the deceased. The beautiful floral
offering was borne by members of
the school faculty. Interment was
in the Jonesville cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Vestal Haynes; four sons,
Jeter, Tolar, Joe and Harold Haynes
and one daughter, Mrs. Charles
Parker, of Hightstown, N. J.; his
father, Thos. B. Haynes; four sis
ters, Mrs. James Vestal, Mrs. Henry
Groce, Mrs. Edward Macemore and
Mrs. William Wilkins, and three
brothers, C. E., Newton and Ruffin
Haynes, all of Yadkin county. •
James David Gentry
James David Gentry, 7-month-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Gentry,
died at the home of his parents
near Elkin Monday. Funeral services
were held from Friendship church
Tuesday and interment was in the
church cemetery.
The famous tyrian purple, worn
by kings, came into use about fif
teen centuries before Christ.
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Walked 200 Yards After
Shot Had Penetrated
Lung, Stomach
ACCIDENT MYSTERY
Although mortally wounded, Rob
ert Sloop, 15-year-old boy of near
Burch, Wednesday morning walked
200 yards to his home the victim of
an accident in which he received a
charge of shot in his lungs and
stomach. Rushed to the local hos
pital the boy died at 1:30 p. m.
without being able to give an ac
count of how the accident occurred.
Pacts available indicate the youth
was hunting near his home with a
sawed-off shotgun when in some
manner it was discharged. He man
aged to make his way to his home,
where he collapsed.
An examination at the hospital
disclosed that he had a hole in one
lung and in the stomach.
The deceased was the son of Wal
ter Sloop, who, it is understood, is
employed at a North Wilkesboro fur
niture factory. Funeral arrangements
were not complete when The Tribune
went to press.
TEACHERS NAMED
FOR BRYAN SCHOOL
J. Mark McAdams Re-
Elected As Principal
For Next Year
At a meeting of the Bryan high
school board held last Saturday af
ternoon, J. Mark McAdams was re
elected principal of the school, along
with the following teachers:
Mrs. Hoyt Hambright, Miss Grace
Cockerham, Mrs. J. Mark McAdams,
Livingston Willi&ms, Spencer Nor
man. Miss Thelma Cockerham and
Miss Mary Maguire. Miss Gladys
Thompson was elected to fill the va
cancy in second grade of Miss Sallie
Woodruff who resigned to accept
work in another school.
This completes the list of teachers
for the school year 1934-35 with the
exception of one high school teacher
to be elected at a later date. This
vacancy will be filled with a man
who can direct athletics and teach
history and science.
The school board consists of the
following members: W. B. Williams,
P. E. Burch and L. A. Norman.
Judge To Speak
The public is cordially invited to
hear an address at the Surry coun
ty courthouse Wednesday, April 25,
at 7:30 p. m. by Judge Felix E. Al
ley, whose subject will be "Religion
a Comparison."
ELKIN IMP A I
Gateway to
Roarij'g
Gap and tjie
Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
DENY REQUEST FOR
ACQUITTAL IN CASE
OF BISHOP CANNON
Defense of Methodist
Churchman Gets Un
der Way Tuesday
SAYS CHECKS KITED
Washington, April 17.—The de
fense of Bishop James Cannon, Jr..
was started lafte today after the
churchman's counsel had failed to
obtain from Justice Peyton Gordon
a directed verdict of not guilty.
In seeking such an instruction to
the jury on the ground that the
government had failed to prove Its
charges of conspiracy to conceal,
certain 1928 campaign contributions,
Robert H. McNeil, chief of defense,
shouted:
"I wouldn't want to convict the
mangiest yellow dog on the worst
street in Washington on such evi
dence."
John J. Wilson, government prose
cutor, demanded that the trial pro
ceed and that the jury be left to
decide the guilt or innocense of the
bishop, and his secretary Miss Ada
L. Burroughs.
Contributions from Edwin C.
Jameson, New York business man,
Wilson said, were made to the
headquarters committee, anti-Smith
Democrats, operating in a campaign
throughout southern states to defeat
Alfred E. Smith for the presidency,
and that because they were made
for political work in more than one
state, they should have been re
ported to the clerk of the house of
representatives.
Then, terming it the "crowning
incident," Wilson described the is
suance of checks in the handling of
$17,000 worth of Cannon accounts in
these words:
"The transaction is a fictitious,
phoney, paper transaction between
these two defendants, resolving it
self into a plan, phoney, common
everyday garden variety of check
kite."
FUNERAL ON MONDAY
FOR JAMES A. LOGAN
Prominent Citizen and
Business Man; Mem
ber School Board
James Andrew Logan, aged 69
years, passed away at his home in
Yadkinville Saturday afternoon at &
o'clock, after an illness of six months
with angina pectoris (heart trou
ble) which caused his death. His
illness kept him confined to his
room since the first attack which
was suffered in his. store early in
November, although he had taken a
few short auto rides.
Mr. Logan was a native of Yadkin
county and had spent his entire life
in the county and most of it for the
past 40 years in Yadkinville, where
he always took a leading part in
business and civic works. In his
younger days he taught school andL
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Many Attend Golden
Cross Picnic Here
Attended by hundreds of pastors
and Golden Cross workers through
out this section of the state, the
second annual Golden Cross Picnic
was held here Tuesday. Due to the
inclement weather the attendance
was not as large as last year.
A sumptuous was served,
by the women of the Hugh Chat
ham Memorial Hospital Auxiliary at
the noon hour. The dinner was
served in the Methodist church, in
stead of or? the hospital grounds.
Large Staple Is
Removed From
Child's Stomach
Little Frances Quisenberry,
four-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. O. E. Quisenberry, of
Eikin,, Route 1, is a patient at
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal, where she had a large staple
removed from her stomach Mon
day.
The child .was playing with the
staple and swaUowed it and wag
brought to the hospital where X-
Ray revealetg the staple in her
stomach. Her condition is satis
factory.