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THE TRIBUNE HOLDS THE TROPHY CUP SKK?% , E) AS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE THE DAILY FIELD rsnm mjaii "The Bert Vr Little Town 409* In North Carolina" VOL. No. xxm, No. 38 DAMAGE BY STORMS IN 3 COUNTIES MAY BE HALF-MILLION Surry, Stokes and Pat rick Lashed By Nine Hailstorms CROPS ARE RUINED Damage by hail storms in Surry, Stokes and Patrick counties during the past three weeks may total a half-million dollars, it was indicated Friday as reports were received from various localities. ' Nine terrific hailstorms have hit a score of communities in the three counties. Beautiful growing fields were transformed into wastelands. J. M. Ball, operator of a tobacco warehouse in Mount Airy, esti mated after an inspection tour of all crops a loss at between $300,000 and $500,000. He pointed out that this rough estimate covered the damages suffered from the nine hailstorms of all affected commun ities of the three counties. Apparently the storms of last Wednesday and Thursday were the most disastrous to farmers, Mr. Ball said. However, he pointed out that the hail fell in spots and that somd fields were not affected. The three counties will still produce a good quantity of tobacco if no fur their damage is done. Corn and other growing crops were seriously damaged where the storms struck. RELEASE COOLEEMEE WOMAN AFTER TRIAL Vestal Does Not Find Probable Cause In Poison Case A verdict of not probable cause was returned last Thursday after noon by Magistrate Dan Vestal, of Jonesville, in the case wherein Joyce Mann, Negro woman of Cooleemee, was charged with giving NeMfte Chat, colored, of Jonesville, pois oned whisky. The Mann woman was arrested in Cooleemee jtnd brought to Jones ville for trial. Evidence disclosed that the de ceased had been drinking a great deal prior to her death early on the morning of July 22, but that she was not drinking when returned to her home by the Cooleemee woman and a man companion on the day of her death. Dr. Leak, Yadkin county coroner, testified that she probably died of heart failure. He stated that blis ters which became apparent upon he body after death could have been caused by the hot weather. It was denied that the Cooleemee woman and the man with her held the deceased and made her drink liquid they described as whisky. THREE GAMES ARE ON TAP THIS WEEK Blanketeers Victorious Over N. Wilkesboro And High Point Three games are on tap for Elkin baseball fans here this week, the Chatham Blanketeers to meet the Home Chair Co. team of North Wilkesboro today at 4:30 o'clock; South Side Cotton Mill team Friday at 3:30 p. m. and the Adams-Millis Co. team of High Point, Saturday 'at 3:30 p. m. In the last three games played, last Thursday's game with North Wilkesboro was rained out. Satur day Chatham was victorious over the High Point All-Stars by a score of 4-0, and Tuesday defeated North Wilkesboro 8-6. To Conduct Services Rev. Edwin W. Hurst of Mount Airy, rector of the Galloway Memor ial church in this city, will conduct services at the church Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. SAT DAUGHTER TO MARRT Reports that Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, the president's daughter, plans to remarry shortly after her Nevada divorce, were heard Friday. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE To Hold Hearing At Wilkesboro On Route Of Proposed Highway A hearing will be held this morning in the courthouse at Wilkesboro on the proposed loca tion of route 26-A between Elkin and North Wilkesboro, it has been announced by E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the state highway and public works commission. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock. The route involves about 20 miles of construction which has been hanging fire for the past several years. Maps have been posted locating the route by way of Ronda and Roaring River. Citizens living in an upper section have asked to be heard on the desirability of their section for the road. JAMES A. SALE, 59, PASSES WEDNESDAY Highly Esteemed Elkin Man Had Been 111 Six Months James Andrew Sale, 59, highly esteemed citizen of this city, passed away at his home in North Elkin Wednesday morning at 10:30, fol lowing a six months' critical illness. The deceased was engaged in the contracting business for a number of years and was widely known. He was a member of the First Baptist church in this city. Funeral services will be held from the home this morning at 10 o'clock in charge of Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, pastor of the First Baptist church in this city, and Rev. E. W. Fox, pastor of the Methodist church. The remains will be carried to Zion Bap tist church, near Harmony, the na tive home of the deceased, for in terment. Mr. Sale was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Sale, of the Zion community. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Navassea Dockery Sale, two daughters, Misses Mable and Le na Sale, and two sons, Dockery and Fidel Sale, all of Elkin. Three sis ters, Mrs. William York, of Har mony; Mrs. Burgiss Hemric, of Hamptonville, and Miss Ella Sale, of Winston-Salem. Mr. Sale is the second member of his family to die within a week, his brother, Elijah Sale, of Zion, having died Saturday of last week. One of his sisters, Miss Ella Sale, is critically ill. CANNERY IS TO BE ESTABUSHED HERE To Preserve Foods For Consumption By Needy Families In Winter Plans have been completed for the establishment of a canning center here to preserve foods for winter consumption for needy families in this community. Mrs. Fred McNeely has been appointed supervisor of the work in this section of the county and the cannery has been estab lished on the lot back of the R. G. Franklin home, on West Main street. There are two other stations in the county, one at Mt. Airy and one at Dobson. People are requested to bring their fruits and vegetables to the cannery on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fri days. The county will furnish the cans, and one-fourth of the supplies will be retained by the county for the winter supply for charity cases and the remainder will go to the in dividuals bringing the food. With the abundant crops in this county it is expected that much of it can be preserved for winter con sumption and thereby reduce the numerous calls for aid during the winter months. Baptist Assn. Will Meet With Westfield The Surry Baptist association will convene with the Westfield Baptist church Friday and Saturday for a two day session. W. L. Reece, mod erator of the association, will pre side over the meeting. Those from the First Baptist church in this city who will have part on the programs are Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, pastor of the church, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. James and Mj-s. T. W. Church. The First Baptist church reports an addition of 40 members and a total of more than $7,000 raised for the budget during the past year. ELKIN; N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934 WBSI _ JHvvi 1M ll»llll 1 \ r > Jl m 1 - a ir Ji ■ The widely heralded Tilley murder case, in which five members of the W. W. Tilley family are charged with the death of Leoda Mae Childress, upper left, is to get underway at Wilkesboro next Monday, at which time a special venire is expected to be summoned from northern Wilkes or neighboring counties. Upper right is drawing of the Tilley home in which the Childress girl was found dead, arrow pointing to the window of the room in which she was killed. Lower center is photo of Luther Tilley, one of the suspects in the slaying. Lower right is photo of John : R. Jones, Wilkes county solicitor whose untiring efforts in investigating the case resulted in the indictment of the five Tilleys. S. S. REVIVAL TO BEGIN AT CHURCH Baptists Will Start Meeting Sunday; Workers Here The First Baptist church, together with about forty other churches of the Surry and Elkin Associations, will begin a Sunday school revival next Sunday. Forty or more Sun day school workers sent out by the Sunday School Board of Nashville, Tenn., under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Surry Association, will be transferred from the Brushy Mountain Association to this section Sunday afternoon. There will be three workers in the First Baptist church for the week. At the eleven o'clock hour next Sun day Mr. L. L. Morgan will speak and Mrs. J. L. Lane will speak at the evening hour of worship. At two-thirty o'clock Sunday af ternoon about one hundred workers make a religious survey of Elkin. A complete census will be taken. All church people are requested to co operate with these workers in 'giv (Continued On Last Page) State Road Youth Dies In Georgia Reynard Cecil Norman, 20, son of A. J. Norman and the late Mrs. Bes sie Norman, of State Road, died in a hospital at Fort McPherson, Ga., Thursday morning, following an at tack of pneumonia, which he con tracted at a C. C. C. camp at Topton, in the western part of this state. The remains arrived here Friday and were carried to the home to await the funeral, which was held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. He is survived by his father, two sisters Irene and Muretta, and one brother, Wiley. To Observe Annual Home-Coming Day Annual Home-Coming day will be observed at Mount Pleasant Baptist church Sunday, August 5, with an all-day service. Attorney E. C. James, of this city, will deliver a message at 11 o'clock, and Rev. C. P. Rogers, of Winston-Salem, will speak at 2 o'clock. Dinner will be served on the grounds at the noon hour. The public is cordially in vited to attend and bring well-filled baskets. Rev. J. L. Powers is pastor of the church. According to estimates, there are at least 5,000,000 lepers in the world today. Principals and Scene In Tilley Case I ATE NEWQ from the State and Nation BANDIT HOLDS UP POST OFFICE Washington, July 31.—Appar ently undismayed by the Depart ment of Justice's much publicized anti-crime drive, a daring young bandit invaded the post office in the new House office building to day, held up Donald Stucky, 25, only clerk on duty, and escaped with S6OO. Much of the money came fro the pockets of congressmen wi last winter and this spring lent impetus to the Department of Justice crime campaign by pass ing ten anti-crime bills, laws in tended to curb banditry, such as today's swarthy robber exempli fied. HANG TWO WHO AIDED IN MURDER Vienna, July 31.—Fascist justice moving swiftly today, struck down two of the 144 Nazi gunmen who broke into the chancellery last week and murdered Engelbert Dollfuss. Otto Pbinett, who confessed shooting the little chancellor, and Franz Holzweber, an accomplice, were hanged shortly after being sentenced to death by a semi-mili tary tribunal set up to try the Nazis implicated in the uprising. GOVERNOR IS BACKING FARMERS Raleigh, July 31.—Governor J C. B. Ehringhaus tbld North Car olina farmers tonight that the state administration is behind them in their battle to restore agriculture to its rightful place as a business and industry. The administration realizes, he said, that prosperity cannot be restored Inwardly until agricul ture is placed back on its feet, with the farmer getting s square deal from all. COLLECTIONS SHOW INCREASE Raleigh, July 31.—Collections from various tax sources in North Carolina for July exceeded collections for the same month last year by $764,096.49, Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell re ported today In his monthly com parative statement of collections. Total collections foa the month just ending were $2,194,789.37, the report said, while those of last July were $1,430,692.88. JONESVILLE MAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Thomas Franklin Esk ridge Succumbs To Heart Attack Thomas Franklin Eskridge, JBI, died from a heart attack at his home in Jonesville Monday evening. The deceased had been in declining health for about two years but his condition became critical only the day before his passing. A native of Shelby, he had been a citizen of Jonesville for the past sixty years and was a devout member of long Standing of the Jonesville Baptist church. Funeral services were held at the church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, in charge of the pastor, Rev. R. E. Adams, assisted by Rev. D. G. Reece. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Reece Eskridge, and the follow ing sons and daughters: Chas. Esk ridge, Charleston, S. C.; S. T. Esk ridge, Wilkes county; S. J. Eskridge, Winston-Salem; A. C. Eskridge, Greensboro and Bliss Delia Lou Esk ridge, Jonesville. MRS. C. M, GAMBILL DIES IN W. VIRGINIA Sister-In-Law of Local Doctor Is Buried In Wilkes Mrs. Archie Rhodes Gambill, 31, wife of Carl M. Gambill, of Beckley, W. Va„ and sister-in-law of Dr. I. S. Gambill, of this city, died late Monday in a Richmond, Va., hospi tal, following an illness of five months from tumorof the brain. Her condition had been practically hope less since the beginning of her ill ness. The remains were brought here Monday and prepared for burial and were conveyed to her native home at Dehart, Wilkes county, for fu neral services and interment. Funeral services were held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock from the DeHart Bap tist church, of which she was a member. She is survived by her husband, three children, Betty, Carl, Jr., and Thelma; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis .Rhodes of DeHart and sev eral brothers and sisters. 1 ' ■ " 111 11 1 >» Misses Ruth and Louise Poore, of Mt. Airy, are the guests this week of their grandmother, Mrs. Ida Cockerham, at her home on West Main street. kuun I Gateway to Roarijvg Gap and the Bine Ridge ««««« PUBLISHED WEEKLY EXPECT SURPRISING EVIDENCE IN CASE AGAINST STANLEY Tilleys Are To Go On Trial For Murder Next Week INTEREST REVIVING Evidence of a surprising and un expected nature will be offered in the trial of Winfield Stanley, co charged with Luther Tilley with the alleged murder of Andrew Eldridge, whose body was found floating in Klondike lake several years ago, it was stated Friday by Attorney W. M. Allen, who will appear as counsel for Stanley. Although Mr. Allen declined to reveal the nature of his evidence for publication, he predicted that the case against Stanley would go by the non-suit route without the defense having to offer evidence. It is certain that the case against the five members of the Tilley fam ily for the murder of Leoda Mae Childress will be tried before the Eldridge case. It appears to be pub lic opinion that the state will be unable to convict in the Eldridge case for lack of sufficient evidence. Luther Tilley and Stanley were indicted for the murder of the Eld ridge boy in a warrant sworn out by Jeff Eldridge, of near State Road, father of the dead boy, before Tilley was ordered held by a coroner's jury for the murder of the Childress girl. Testimony in the Eldridge case was to the effect that "They hung him too long and then got scared and threw his body into Klondike lake," as was alleged to have been told by Winfield Stanley, and for which statement he was arrested and lodged in jail without bond, together with Luther Tilley. Other testimony was to the effect that when Eldridge's badly decom posed body was taken from the lake a ridge around his neck was ap parent, as if he had been hanged. Regarding the Tilley case, it is the opinion of many that the state will spring surprise evidence when the trial comes up August 7, evidence of a nature not yet made public. This however, is purely conjecture. Some are of the opinion the state does not have enough evidence with which to convict the Tilleys. Rumors of another arrest in the Tilley case before it comes up for trial have been circulated here dur ing the past week. These rumors, however, are believed to be without foundation. Interest in the two cases has re vived considerably since it was an nounced the trial would be held the second week in August. MOUNT AIRY MEN KIWANIS GUESTS Make Talks Concerning Scenic Highway And Beautification Will Johnson, editor of the Mount Airy News, and W. E. Woodruff, prominent Mount Airy florist, were guests of the Elkin Kiwanis club at the shoe factory Friday night. Mr. Johnson, in a short talk, sta ted that it is expected work will get under way on the scenic highway to be built along the crest of the Blue Ridge within a short time and urged the Elkin Kiwanians to cooperate with the Mount Airy club in an ef fort to get as much Surry county labor employed on the project as possible. Mr .Woodruff made a short talk on highway beautification, of which movement he is county chairman. He asked the Kiwanians to assist in this work and to do all in their pow er to see that it is a success in Sur ry. Revival Here Is Well Under Way The revival meeting being held in the Pilgrim Mission on West Main street, is getting well under way. A large crowd was in attendance Monday night. The singing by the Liberty Hill Radio Quartette was highly appreciated by the audience. Rev. W. A. Way, evangelist, used for his text. "What Shall I Do To Be Saved?" The sermon was very impressive and the response gratify ing. A great meeting is anticipated. The public is cordially invited to attend. „
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