A ELKIN
'"The Best
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VOL. No. XXIII, No. 34
BURKE ASKS THAT
WILKES PRIMARY
BE INVESTIGATED
Claims 1,500 Republi
cans Voted the Demo
cratic Ticket
CHARGE IS DENIED
Trailing his North Wilkesboro op
ponent, J. A. Rousseau, of Wilkes
county, by 460 votes In Saturday's
second primary to determine the
nomination in the 17th judicial dis
trict, J. Hayden Burke, of Alexander
comity,' has appealed to the state
board of elections for an investiga
tion of charges that 1,500 Republi
cans voted the Democratic ticket in
Wilkes county.
In a statement issued Tuesday
night, Mr. Burke states the Wilkes
county board of elections refused to
make a recanvass of the primary in
Wilkes county after it was requested
by Burke supporters. Appealing from
this refusal the state board has been
asked to investigate the vote.
Chairman R. M. Brame, of the
Wilkes county board of elections,
stated that evidence offered was not
sufficient to warrant an investiga
tion and that he has affidavits from
registrars that no Republicans voted
in the primary who did not take the
pledge to support the Democratic
nominee this fall. He stated further
that extra precautions were taken to
Insure a fair and square primary.
Rousseau supporters deny that any
great number of Republicans cast
ballots Saturday in Wilkes county
and allege that as many of those who
did vote, voted for Burke as did for
Rousseau.
TWO CARS SMASHED
IN ACCIDENT HERE
French Graham's Ma
chine Struck As It
Enters Driveway
Two automobiles were badly dam
aged on West Main street Saturday
afternoon shortly after 1 o'clock
when a car driven by Rufus Wag
oner, of Jonesville, crashed into the
new light coach of French Graham
as Mr. Graham was turning into
the driveway at his home. No one
was injured other than scratches
sustained by Wagoner and Hurley
Reece, also of Jonesville, who was
in the Wagoner car.
According to witnesses the Wag
oner car had started to pass the
Graham car when it turned left to
enter the driveway, the force of
the impact throwing the Graham
machine against a telephone pole
and smashing in its right side.
The car driven by Wagoner was
the property of Evan Martin, of
Jonesville. Bahnson Greenwood and
Horace Vestal, of Jonesville, and
Waymouth Vestal, of Bassett, Va.,
were also passengers in the Wagoner
auto.
MRS. LUCY PARDUE
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral Service Held At
Mountain View
Church Friday
Funeral services were held Friday
from Mountain View church for Mrs.
Lucy Olivia Mays Pardue, 56, who
died early last Thursday morning
at her home at Mountain Park from
an illness of several weeks. Inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
The deceases was a member of
the Primitive Baptist church and a
daughter of the late John J. Mays.,
She is survived by five sons and
two daughters, C. 0., Ray, Russel
and Reece Pardue, and Miss Mary
Pardue, of Devotion; Foley Pardue,
of Mountain Park, and Mrs. Leila
Wright, of Accoville, W. Va.; also
three half-sisters, Mrs. Hattie Wil
moth, State Road; Mrs. Nevada Wil
ey, and Mrs. Ida Bowers, of Rusk,
and one half brother, Floyd Mays,
of Baltimore, Md.
Dixon To Preach
Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock
hour of worship Prof, Z. H. Dixon
will fill the pulpit at the First Bap
tist church. At the evening service
'Dr. J. Q. Abernethy will deliver a
message. Rev. Eph Whisenhunt,
pastor of the church will leave Sat
urday to spend a week at the Bap
tist Assembly Grounds at Ridgecrest.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Lead Challenged
VD
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Attorney J. A. Rousseau, of North
Wilkesboro, candidate for judge in
the 17th judicial district, whose lead
in Saturday's -primary of 460 votes
has been challenged by his opponent,
J. Hayden Burke, of Alexander
county, who charges 1,500 Republi
can voters of Wilkes voted the Dem
ocratic ticket. Mr. Burke has asked
for an investigation.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
HITLER SEES
VON HINDENBURG
Berlin, July 3.—A new crisis in
the Nazi government tonight sent
Chancellor Hitler by airplane to
the side of President Paul von
Hindenburg, the one man who is
credited with being able to do
what he pleases in Germany by
making use of the regular army.
The chancellor dashed drama
tically from a cabinet meeting to
the airport after a carfeully
planned scheme to remove the
president's old friend and protege,
Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen,
from office fell through.
OPPOSED TO
STOCK GAMBLING
Washington, July 3.—The un
known quantity in the new se
curities and exchange commission
—Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman—
today explosively disclosed himself
as a violent opponent of stock
market gambling.
Forceful in gesture, pithy in
expression, freckled in complex
ion, Kennedy made it plain to re
porters in an interview that he
intended to go the full distance in
eradicating manipulation and de
ception from the markets.
FORSYTH TO TAKE
OVER W.-S. DEBT
Winston-Salem, July 3.—For
syth county authorities were noti
fied today that steps would be
taken to have the county take
over the indebtedness of the
Winston-Salem school district,
amounting to $3,367,000. The ac
tion was decided upon as a result
of a recent supreme court deci
sion requiring Catawba county to
assume the indebtedness of Hick
ory schools.
HINDENBURG COULD
FIRE HITLER
Berlin, June 3. (Wednesday)
Under provisions of the Weimar
constitution the president of the
German reich has authority to
appoint and dismiss the chancel
lor.
German ministers are responsi
ble to the national assembly and
their tenure in office depends on
their retaining the confidence of
the assembly. Under the nasi
regime, however, the reichstag, for
all practical purposes has been
shelved.
EHRINGHAUS PROTESTS
GAS DISCRIMINATION
Raleigh, July 3.—Unusual dis
criminations against North Caro
lina seemed to have been uncov
ered today when Gov. J. C. B.
Ehringhaus summoned gasoline
dealers to Raleigh and asked them
why North Carolina pays so much
more for its motor fuel tha» Vir
ginia does.
His excellency with a large
number of wholesalers in his of
fice asked them to end the dis
criminations against North Car
olina.
Charity covers, our grand Juries
uncover, a multitude of sins.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1934
Surry Deputy Finds
Note In His Machine
Signed J. Dillinger
Although it is thought highly
improbable that John Dillinger
has really been navigating around
in Surry county, Deputy Sheriff
Harvey Boyd, of Surry, is wonder
ing.
-It happened in Mount Airy the
other day. The deputy, with an
eye toward the upholding of the
majesty of the law, hied himself
hither in pursuit of a motor ear
which was violating one of Mount
Airy's pet laws. The car bore an
Ohio license tag. After a chase,
he succeeded in stopping the ma
chine with the result that two
men jumped out and departed in
a hasty manner while the driver
was arrested.
Leaving his machine parked,
Deputy Boyd performed all the
necessary functions required in
making an arrest. Then he re
turned to his car.
And on the front seat was a
note.
The note read:
"Why don't you practice what
you preach? J. Dillinger."
It has not been learned at this
writing just what Deputy Boyd
preaches or why Mr. Dillinger
should want him to practice it.
ANTHRAX SCARE IN
YADKIN SUBSIDING
However, Work of In
noculating Cows
Continues
The scare that was thrown into
the people of Yadkinville and com
munity a week ago has about sub
sided as no new cases of anthrax
have been reported in the past week.
The scare was caused by the posi
tive diagnosis of one case in a small
boy and the microscopic showing of
the anthrax germs in a smear taken
from one of the cows that had died
mysteriously. The boy, Clarence
Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Howell, of Yadkinville, was treated
in the Elkin hospital after medicine
had been sent from Baltimore by air
plane, and is now about well, hav
ing been released from the hospital
Friday.
Seven cows died within a few days
in one section of Yadkinville and all
were housed by the owners around
a slaughter yard conducted by Mart
Hauser, colored. Nearly all the cow
deaths were a mystery to the owners,
but all had been buried before state
doctors, local doctors and veterinar
ians were called into conference, ex
cept the hide of one cow. A speci
men of blood was taken from the
hide and at that time the veteri
narians and physicians at the Elkin
hospital pronounced the germ as
anthrax.
Denial Made
In a statement published in a
Winston-Salem paper Saturday,
County Agent Brumfield of Yadkin
county, denied that any of the cows
had died from the dreaded disease
and that no anthrax germ had been
found in the dead cattle.
Veterinary surgeons are vaccinat
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CHATHAM TO MEET
LYNCHBURG TEAM
Strong Craddock-Terry
Outfit To Play Here
July 13-14
Two of the most important games
of the season await the Chatham
Blanketeers when they meet Crad
dock-Terry, of Lynchburg, Va., in
two games here Friday and Satur
day, July 13 and 14.
Craddock-Terry has one of the
best amateur teams in the south, a
team that has already beaten Chat
ham twice at Lynchburg. In the
first game played at Lynchburg a
last minute rally by Chatham came
very near resulting in victory for the
local team.
A bang-up brand of baseball may
be expected when the two teams
meet on the local field. It is no se
cret that the Blanketeers are point
ing for the contests.
Destroys Still
A steam distillery in the mountains
about one-half mile north of Dough
ton was destroyed June 30 by Depu
tf Sheriff W. B. Hall. The still ap
peared to have been in operation
only a short while.
Elkin Tax Rate Given
Boost of 10 Cents As
Budget Is Determined
BUDGET IS $50,102
Allow Total of $2,140
For Elkin Police
Department
FIGURES ON FILE
The budget for the town of Elkin
for the ensuing fiscal year was set
at $50,102 during the meeting Mon
day night by the board of town com
missioners. The tax rate was given
a boost of 10 cents on the hundred
dollar valuation over the past year,
the new rate having been set at $1.60.
The past year's rate was $1.50.
Estimated expenditures, as con
tained in the budget, allow a total of
$2,140 for the police department;
$425 for the fire department and
$2,420 for the executive department.
Other estimated expenditures were
streets, $5,184; general, $3,315; debt
service, $4,875.50; and debt service,
town, $31,742.50.
Tax value assessed was listed at
$2,675,000.
The budget in detail is on file at
the City Tax Collector's office and
may be examined by any interested
taxpayer, it was announced.
GAS BOOTLEGGERS
CURBED IN MT. AIRY
Two Are Arrested and
Charged With Violat
ing Gas Statutes
Activity of gasoline bootleggers in
Mount Airy has been terminated fol
lowing a campaign by the state high
way patrol it was learned Wednes
day morning from Corporal W. B.
Lentz, who stated he had arrested
two men on charges of violating the
N. C. gasoline statutes and had col
lected the tax on slightly over 1,000
gallons of gas run in from Virginia.
Gasoline has been selling in Vir
ginia for five cents a gallon under
the North Carolina price, Corporal
Lentz stated, and as a result, some
Mount Airy people have been going
to the sister state and bringing back
containers of the fuel. In some in
stances trucksters have run in truck
loads of the fuel and sold it to N. C.
filling stations.
In one instance, a truckster was
caught in the act of emptying a 50-
gallon drum of Virginia gas into a
supply tank of an N. C. filling sta
tion. Three other drums of the
same capacity were on the man's
truck at the time. As a result, D.
L. Phillips, driver of the truck, and
Fletcher Fry, one of the operators
of the filling station, were arrested
and tried in Mount Airy recorder's
court. However, judgment was con
tinued until July 23.
Citing one instance of discrimina
tion by gasoline distributors against
N. C. motorists, Corporal Lentz sta
ted that one Mount Airy distri
butor delivered gasoline to Mount
Airy filling stations at 19.7 c per gal
lon, and the same trucks delivered
the same brand of gas to Virginia
gas dealers at 12.7 c per gallon, a
difference of seven cents.
EXPECT NO BOOST
IN SURRY TAX RATE
County Budget Tenta
tively Set At $179,000;
Cancel Court Term
The Surry county budget for the
ensuing fiscal year has been tenta
tively set at $179,000, it was learned
following a meeting of the county
commissioners at Dobson Monday
and it is believed the county tax
rate will remain at 85 cents, the
present rate.
In addition to working out a ten
tative budget the commissioners
again deferred the county tax sale
for 30 days.
The two weeks' term of civil court,
scheduled to get under way at Dob
son July 9, was cancelled by the
commissioners due to the fact that
it is now the busy season for Surry
farmers. However, a special two
weeks' term has been called for No
vember.
Will Fight Charges
- Washington .... Maj.-Gen. Ben
jamin D. Foulofc (above), chief of
the Army Air Corps, proposes to
fight to the last ditch his removal as
recommended by the House Com
mittee on charges of "dishonest, in
competency and gross misconduct."
292 TEACHERS ARE
ALLOTTED COUNTY
Elkin District Is Al
lowed Total of 27
Instructors
A total of 292 school teachers have
been allotted Elkin and Surry county
for the 1934-35 term, the state school
commission at Raleigh has an
nounced.
This allotment shows a cut of
seven elementary teachers from the
number employed last year, a re
duction that was brought about by
decrease in attendance during the
measles epidemic last winter. How
ever, it was stated that the teachers
cut off might be realloted if at
tendance during the first two weeks
this fall warrant such a step.
The county high schools lost one
high school teacher at Bryan and
gained one in the Elkin school.
The county allotment by districts
was as follows: District 1 (Dobson>
—fl high school, 26 elementary and 2
colored; District 2 (Elkin) —6 high
school, 20 elementary and 1 colored;
District 3 (Bryan)—3 high school,
7 elementary and 1 colored; District
4 (Lowgap)—4 high school and 9
elementary (no colored); District
5 (Beulah)—3 high school and 10
elementary (no colored); District 6
(Franklin)— 4 high school, 18 ele
mentary and 2 colored; District 7
elementary and 1 colored; District
8 (Flat Rock) —4 high school, 15
elementary and 1 colored; District
9 (Westfield)—4 high school, 10
elementary and 5 colored; District
10 (Pilot Mtn.)—6 high school, 14
elementary and 1 colored; and Dis
trict 12 (Copeland)—s high school,
24 elementary and 1 colored.
CAR BADLY SMASHED
IN WRECK SATURDAY
As Result, YacLkinville
Man Is Charged With
Reckless Driving
A wet pavement and slick tires
Saturday resulted in a smashup on
highway 26 in Arlington when a
sedan driven by Shore Hutchens, of
Yadkinville, failed to take a curve
and crashed into a large truck oper
ated by Tom Rose, of Arlington.
As a result of the accident, Hutch
ens received minor cuts and bruises
and the car he was driving was badly
wrecked. The truck was only slight
ly damaged.
A warrant charging reckless driv
ing was sworn out for Hutchens by
Highway Patrol Corporal W. B.
Lentz, and a hearing is scheduled for
Saturday before Magistrate J. S.
Hinson, of Arlington.
The car the Yadkinville man was
driving was the property of the Lo
gan Motor Co., of Yadkin ville.
Hanes Takes No. 1
In the first of a two-game series
here yesterday, the Chatham Blank
eteers went down to defeat 18 to 6 at
the hands of a hard hitting Hanes
Hosiery Mill nine in the morning
'fracas. The afternoon game was not
complete when The Tribune went to
press.
KLKDf
Gateway to
Roarl»\g \jLf
(lap and the
Bine Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
POOL ROOMS HERE
ARE OUTLAWED BY
ACTION OF BOARD
Commissioners Refuse
To Rescind Ordinance
Passed June 4th
TAX SALE PUT OFF
Perhaps with the idea of making
Elkin a model for other towns in the
state, the Elkin board of commis
sioners Monday night refused to res
cind an ordinance passed at their
meeting of June 4 outlawing all pool
and billiard tables within the city
limits, and as a result, the lone pool
room here operated by Andrew
Greenwood was closed Tuesday
morning.
The ordinance against such places
was provided at the June meeting
when steps to abolish local slot ma
chines were taken. However, the pool
room ordinance was withheld from
publication until Monday's meeting
so that Mr. Greenwood might be
given a hearing before the commis
sioners.
Following Mr. Greenwood's plea to
the commissioners Monday, a motion
was made that the ordinance be re
scinded and the poolroom allowed to
operate. However, no seconds were
made to the motion and it was killed
then and there.
In addition to passing upon the
ordinance abolishing the pool room
the commissioners postponed the ad
vertisement of town taxes until Aug
ust 2.
INSCORE WINS OVER
REAVIS IN YADKIN
Given Majority of 323 to
Secure Nomination
For Sheriff
Arthur L. Inscore, 44, received the
nomination for Sheriff of Yadkin
county over C. O. Reavis, present
sheriff, at the hands of the Repub
lican party in the run-off primary
held last Saturday, June 30. Inscore's
majority over Reavis was 323 out oi
a total of 3795 votes cast in the
county. This is about the full
strength of the party in the county.
During the closing days of the
campaign the contest became warm,
both candidates working hard every
day. Such a large vote could not
have been cast without a strong in
terest by the people. In the run-off
primary in 1930 between Sheriff
Reavis and C. E. Moxley a total of
3222 votes were cast.
One of the largest crowds ever to
come to town to get the primary re
turns were on hand Saturday night.
The crowd was a happy one and all
enjoyed a good time.
21 STREAMS ARE
STOCKED IN JUNE
295,000 Trout Are Dis
tributed; 65,000 More
Are On Hand
Approximately 295,000 fingerling
Rainbow, Brown and Brook trout
were placed in 21 different streams
in six counties during June, it was
learned Saturday from W. R. Skaggs,
in charge of the Roaring Gap fish
hatchery.. Six hundred and fifty
thousand additional trout are now
on hand for distribution, probably
in September, he said.
Deer, ring neck pheasants, silver
pheasants are also being raised at
the hatchery for the 14,000-acre
Roaring Gap game reserve.
Two bass ponds have been added
at the hatchery this year with CWA
funds.
Signs have been erected at Dough
ton and other points up the moun
tain welcoming visitors to the hatch
ery.
Neaves On Committee
To Beautify Highways
W. A. Neaves, of Elkin, has been
ahosen to serve on a committee ap
pointed to carry out the program of
beautification of Surry county high
ways, of which W. E. Woodruff, Mt.
Airy florist, is chairman. Other
members of the committee are A. P.
Fulk, of Pilot Mountain, T N. Wood
ruff, of Low Gap, and John W. Com
er, of Dobson*
A federal appropriation has been
made for the work which will be
directed by a state landscape gard
ener.