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[ MaA ELKIN
"The Best
W# Little Town
In North
Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIII, No. 39
ROAD HEARING IS
HELD THURSDAY AT
WILKES COURTHOUSE
Jeffress Holds Hearing
To Discuss Routes
Of New Road
ELKIN IS ON HAND
A local delegation was present at
Wilkesboro last Thursday at which
time more than 500 people gathered
at the courthouse in the interest of
the Elkin-North Wilkesboro highway
which it is hoped will be let for con
struction some time within the near
future.
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the
state highway commission, and two
other members, was present to hold
the hearing on the proposed routes
of the road.
The survey as it now stands arid
posted in the Wilkesboro courthouse,
follows the Yadkin river from this
city to Roaring River. The section
of the country immediately north
of the river is protesting the route
and asked that the road be built in
the ridge section instead of along
the Yadkin valley and Ronda and
Roaring River.
Those protesting were represented
at the hearing by Attorney J. H.
Whicker, of North Wilkesboro, who
pointed out that the ridge route was
Six-tenths of a mile shorter and
could be constructed cheaper, and
that it would serve more people.
C. H. Brewer, as spokesman of the
delegation from Elkin, pointed out
that Elkin is not fighting for any
particular route, but feels that the
road should be constructed at once.
Judging from all available infor
mation secured Wednesday, the
highway commission is in favor of
the Ronda-Roaring River route.
MISS ELLA SALE
DIES IN WINSTON
Passes Away Within 2
Hours After Death
Of Brother
Miss Ella Jennings Sale, 50, died
last Wednesday at noon in a Wins
ton-Salem hospital, following a crit
ical illness of six months. The de-
£ ea '!f d i. Was well known here, having
Uved here at different times for the
f 0 »L S tl era i years " Her de »th fol
lowed the death of her brother
James A. Sale, who died about two
same S d"T 10 Passl " 8 »•
The remains were brought to thp
s 'LV', he l siste -i n - la w Mrs. W
where a bripf f Friday mornin *-
hiil . f fune ral service was
held at 2 o'clock. The funeral pTo
per was held at the First Rnntiet
church at 2:30 o'clock, of which the
deceased was a member. ta chaSe
Intern™? RCV " Eph Whis enhunt.
Interment was in Hollywood ceme-
Mr S s he w S n U v iV^ d by two
Mrl' Yu D " York of Harmony and
Mrs. Alice Hemric, of Hamptonville
Pallhpn niCCeS and ne Phews.
PaUbearers were: Dr. L. c. Couch.
Dr Rov wh» rre |i; Dr " Hugh p arks,
O hLT u W ' P - Reece a "d T.
were norary Pallbearers
were the members of the Board nf
S°Drof» f FlrSt Baptlst ch «rch.
. ® profuse flora 1 tribute was car
US to,lma " friendl
Surry County Man Is
Fatally Shot Sunday
SUITy C ° Unty man '
is dead as the result of gunshot
ZT S J^l edly at 4116 hands of
tothpp7 3 °' at Wrl * ht ' s home
? ? Pi ® Ridge section, the shoot
ing occurring Sunday afternoon.
T shooting Wright was
severely wounded by Amos Potts, 21-
Tn"°, ld , SOn of the man.
HI feeling of long standing be
tmn Wright and the elder Potts
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11 KILLED IN STORM
Michigan surveyed Friday the
havoc strewn across the state from
Muskegon to Detroit by Thursday's
violent wind and rain storm, and
found the death list had reached 11'
and the damage totalling millions
of dollars.
THE F.LKIN TRIBUNE
Expect To Show That
Hanging Wasn't Cause
of Eldridge Boy's Death
LUNGS WERE FILLED
Coroner Of 1927 To Tes
tify In Murder Hear
ing Next Week
EXPECT NOL PROS
What is said to be conclusive evi
dence that Andrew Eldridge was not
hanged before his body was found
floating in Klondike lake on Tues
day, May 24, 1927, will be presented
by defense counsel when the case
wherein Winfield Stanley and Lu
ther Tilley, charged with Eldridge's
murder, comes to trial in Wilkesboro,
it was learned Tuesday from a con
fidential source.
The Eldridge murder case has been
set for next Monday, provided the
Childless case, now on trial, has been
disposed of by that time.
In pase a nol pros is not taken in
the Eldridge case, the defense will
show by Dr. S. T. Flippin, of Siloam,
Surry county coroner in 1927, that
the lungs of young Eldridge were
full of water when an autopsy was
performed. It will further show by
testimony of the undertaker who
prepared the body for burial, E. E.
Hayes, and by Dr. R. R. Garvey,
now of Winston-Salem, and Dr.
Hugh Parks, who assisted in the au
topsy, that not only were the young
man's lungs full of water, but that
his mouth was tightly shut and had
to be pried open.
The defense also expects to show
by these witnesses, that had young
Eldridge been dead when he was
allegedly thrown into the lake, that
his lungs would have contained no
water. It expects to show that had
the young man died of hanging that
his mouth would have been open,
as a natural result of being choked
to death.
Although armed with this defense,
defense counsel do not expect to
have to offer testimony as they are
firm in their belief that the case
will be nol prossed for lack of suf
ficient evidence on the part of the
state.
TWO GAMES ON TAP
HERE FOR WEEK-END
Blanketeers To Meet
Bi-County All-Stars
And Bulls
Winners in of three games
staged here the latter part of last
week, the Chatham Blanketeers are
girding themselves for two local af
frays scheduled for today and Sat
urday when they meet the Bi-Coun
ty All-Stars and the Durham Bulls.
The All-Stars, a team composed of
crack players from Advance, Coolee
mee, Landis and other teams of this
league, are here for today's game
which will get under way at 4:30.
Saturday's game will feature the
Durham Bulls, a team which claims
to be the best in the state, probably
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County Commissioners
Again Postpone Sale
The Surry county sale of real es
tate for 1933 taxes was again post
poned by the board of county com
missioners at the meeting Monday
at Dobson, it was learned Tuesday.
The commissioners spent the
greater portion of Monday's meet
ing working on the county budget,
which has not yet been completed.
A meeting called for next Monday is
expected to determine the budget
and county tax rate.
Surry Tobacco Growers
Are Paid $76,833.82
Rental and benefit payments un
der the 1934 tobacco program to
North Carolina producers totaled
$5,056,016.45 up to July first. Of
this amount Surry county farmers
were paid $76,833.8%
Farmers in Wilkes county were
paid $4,009.25. Yadkin county farm
ers received $50,260, and Alleghany
farmers $334.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934
Found In Lake
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lit y ',.-'-^^^jf
Andrew Eldridge, whose body was
found floating in Klondike Lake in
June, 1927, and for whose death
Winfield Stanley and Luther Tilley
are expected to stand trial Monday
at Wilkesboro.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
SAYS FLETCHER
WHISTLING IN DARK
Washington, Aug. 7.—Chairman
Farley of the Democratic national
committee today said that his ri
val, Cliaiiiiian Fletcher uf the Re
publican national committee, "is
whistling in the dark."
Back from a month's political
survey of the west, the genial rud
dy-faced postmaster general
seemed exuberantly enthusiastic
over his party's fall election pros
pects. He smilingly professed
sympathy for Fletcher and said
the Republican campaign against
"the new deal" had fallen flat.
WILL DO
ALL POSSIBLE
En Route with President Roose
velt to Washington, Aug. 7.—Pres
ident Roosevelt crossed the seared
plains of the northwest tonight
with a message of hope that the
government would do everything
possible to counteract the here
tofore unsoluble problem of
drought.
Making no promises, the Presi
dent frankly told a dust-laden
crowd at Devils Lake, N. D„ this
morning that he did not know
the solution but he gave this as
surance amid cheers: "I will not
give up until 1 can tive my good
service to solving the problem of
North Dakota."
FUNERAL FOR
VON HINDENBURG
Tannenberg, Germany, Aug 7.
In a tower room of the national
shrine erected in memory of his
great military victory, the body
of President Paul Von Hindenburg
rested tonight while thousands of
his fellow-countrymen waited pa
tiently in flickering torch light for
a glimpse of his coffin.
Funeral service in which his
successor, Chancellor Adolf Hitler,
with deep feeling said von Hin
denburg "opened the door" to the
present regime, delivered the old
soldier into his monumental
shrine.
INVESTIGATE CAUSE
OF BLAST
Derby, Va., Aug. 7.—While this
sorrowing community today be
gan the task of burying the 17
victims of one of the state's worst
mine disasters, state and federal
mine inspectors sought to deter
mine the cause of the blast.
BANKER IS FREED
W. S. Blakeney, Sr., former Mon
roe banker, was acquitted in super
ior court at Monroe Friday on
charges of violating the state bank
ing laws.
REV. J. ,W. BRYANT
BLOWS OFF TOP OF
HEAD WITH SHOTGUN
Beloved Wilkes County
Minister Was In Bad
Health
BURIED SATURDAY
In bad health for a number of
years, and with his condition thought
to have been growing worse, Rev. J.
W. Bryant, 63, widely known Bap
tist minister, ended his life last
Thursday morning at 7:15 o'clock
after having breakfast with his fam
ily 15 minutes earlier.
The veteran minister used a sin
gle-barrel shotgun with which he
literally blew off the top of his head.
His lifeless body, still sitting erect
in a chair near the window of the
room in which he ended his life, was
discovered by his wife. A foster son
was at the barn at the time feeding
stock. The sound of the gun was
not heard.
When the body was found a call
was put in for the Wilkes county
coroner, who failed to arrive until
noon. As a result the body was left
as it was found until the coroner
reached the scene. He pronounced
it a clear case of suicide.
When discovered, the gun was still
clenched in the hand of the dead
minister, the butt resting upon the
window sill. It is thought he pulled
the trigger by means of a stick which
was found lying nearby.
The tragedy was a great shock to
the host of friends of the deceased.
He had served as pastor in rural
communities since he was ordained
in 1904.
During his ministry he had served
churches over a radius of fifty miles,
filling as many as seven appoint-
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TOWN TAX SME IS
AGAIN CONTINUED
Commissioners Order
Barn Torn Down And
Pool Drained
Advertising of town taxes for 1933
was again continued by the board of
town commissioners at their meeting
in the office of the tax collector
Monday night, until the second week
in September. This date was said
to be definite with no more contin
uances to be allowed.
The Russell barn on North Bridge
street, ordered torn down at a pre
vious meeting of the commissioners,
was again condemned at Monday's
meeting. Chief of Police W. Q.
Church was instructed to tear it
down not later than the 15th of this
month. The barfi has been des
cribed by residents of that section
cf town as a public nuisance.
In addition to condemning the
barn, the commissioners also order
ed the stagnant pond located on
the Jack Ray place on West Main
street, drained. Chief Church was
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ELKIN MAN LOSES
FOOT IN ACCIDENT
Clarence Massey Falls
Under Moving: Train
In Winston
Clarence Massey, 24, of this city,
was badly injured Thursday night
about 7 o'clock in Winston-Salem,
when he fell under a box car of the
Southern Railway while attempting
to catch a freight train. He was
taken by ambulance to a Winston-
Salem hospital where it was found
necessary to amputate his right foot
at the ankle, the wheels of the car
having passed over it.
According to reports, Massey said
he was attempting to hobo and fell
under the car when he attempted to
catch a handle on one of the cars.
The heavy wheels, passing over his
foot, mangled it badly. Railway men
summoned the ambulance.
HIGHER PRICES HOLD
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 3.—Cash con
tinued to flow into the Georgia to
bacco belt today as prices at bright
leaf auctions were reported holding
within close proximity to the open
ing day averages.
Hearing of Evidence In
Tilley Case Expected
To Begin This Morning
Pitches 45
Scoreless
Innings
Southard Hits Stride With
Blanketeers; Fans 45 Men
In Six Games
m
By JOHN SAGAR
Judging by the number of people
who have turned out to see the
Chatham Blanketeers play baseball,
and by the interest that is displayed
in the team locally and in the sur
rounding territory, it is no news to
anybody that Chatham has a first
rate ball club.
Neither is it news to anyone to
say that the main reason they have
such a good team is due to their
excellent pitching staff, headed by
the inimitable "Lefty" Southard, and
it is believed that it will be of in
terest to everyone to learn something
of this young man's baseball history
and the excellent record he is hang
ing up this year.
Southard, like many of the best
ball players around here, hails from
Yadkin, where he was born 22 years
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WILKES MURDERER
CAPTURED SUNDAY
Everette Wiles Taken In
Virginia; Eck Wiles
Also Arrested
Everette Wiles, 34, outlaw wanted
for murder In Wilkes county and by
federal authorities for counterfeit
ing, was captured alive by Mount
Airy officers and one federal agent
Sunday morning about 5 o'clock in
a raid upon a tourist cabin at Mc-
Graw's tourist camp five miles north
of Mount Airy and just across the
Virginia line. Bass Absher, Wiles'
companion in crime, was also ar
rested the same morning.
Eck Wiles, a brother of Everette,
also wanted on a charge of counter
feiting, was arrested in Salisbury
Saturday. The arrest of this man
was expected to be made here, he
having attempted to trade automo
biles with a local car dealer Satur
day a week ago. However, although
several federal agents laid a trap
here for him Monday and Tuesday,
he failed to walk into It.
When arrested Everette Wiles had
in his possession over SI,OOO worth
of counterfeit money in addition to
machinery for the manufacture of
the money.
The two Wiles brothers are want
ed in several states for counterfeit
ing. The murder charge against
Everette is the result of the murder
of a Wilkes county officer.
•ELKIN -
Gateway to
Roarfyxg
Gap and the
Blue Ridge ~ ■>„.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ONLY TWO JURORS
TO BE SELECTED
LATE YESTERDAY
Eight Were Chosen
From Special Venire
Of 125 Tuesday
YADKIN CITIZENS
The jury in the Leoda Child
ress murder case was two men
shy shortly after five o'clock
Wednesday afternoon when The
Tribune went to press. Only
three jurors had been selected out
of 70 of the 100 Yadkin county
men summoned Wednesday morn
ing.
It was believed by court officials
that the jury would be completed
before court adjourned Wednesday
afternoon, inasmuch as only two
more jurors remain to be selected,
one of these to serve as an alter
nate.
Evidence in the case is expected
to get under way this morning:
when court convenes.
The three jurors selected Wed
nesday afternoon were J. N. White,
farmer; C. D. Stillman, farmer,
and Howard Dixon, farm hand.
With a venire of 125 men from
Yadkin county yielding only eight
jurors to sit upon the trial at Wilkes
boro. five members of the family of
W. W. Tilley, Wilkes county farmer,
who are charged with the death of
Leoda Childress, an additional
hundred men were ordered sum
moned Tuesday afternoon by Pre
siding Judge John M. Oglesby in
order feat the jury could be com
pleted in time to start evidence in
the case this morning.
The eight jurors selected Tuesday
were G. M. Holconib, convict guard;
R. B. Crismon, farmer; A. C. Steel-
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MRS. T. P. PARKS, 87,
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral Services Con
ducted Wednesday
At State Road
Mrs. Mary E. Phillips Parks, 87,
widow of Thomas Parks, died at
her home near State Road Tuesday
following a brief illness. Prior to
her last illness she had enjoyed good
health despite her advanced years.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock
from State Road Baptist church by
Rev. Richard Day and interment
was in the church cemetery.
She is survived by the following
sons and daughters: W. L. Parks,
Winston-Salem; Banner Parks, Elk
in; Charlie Parks and A. D. Parks r
State Road; John Parks, Liberty;
Washington and Tyre Parks, Leaks
ville. Twenty grandchildren, three
great-grandchildren and one broth
er, Richard Phillips, of Benham, al
so survive.
Lentz Commissioned
As Sergeant State
Highway Patrol
As a reward for meritorious
service as a member of the North
Carolina state highway patrol, W.
B. Lentz, of Elkin, has been com
missioned as sergeant, effective
the 15th of this month, it was
learned the latter part of last
week.
Mr. Lentz, who has held a com
mission as corporal during the
past several years, was notified
last week by M. C. S. Noble, Jr.,
assistant commissioner of revenue,
of his promotion, and has received
congratulations from both Mr.
Noble and Captain Charles D.
Farmer, head of the highway pa
trol, upon advancement of his
title. He win continue to make
Elkin his luiffirtwi.