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VOL. No. XXIII, No. 47
Darnell Is Reinstated
As Night Police; Town
Releases Chief Church
VETERAN DAY MAN
TO SERVE UNTIL
LAST OF OCTOBER
Commissioners Agree
To Serve Town With
out Pay
IS ECONOMY MOVE
As the result of requests on the
part of local merchants, citizens,
and the Elkin Kiwanis Club, the
board of town commissioners Mon
day night rescinded its order of . the
September meeting in which Night
Policeman Luke Darnell was dropped
from the police force, and voted to
keep Officer Darnell on in his pres
ent capacity.
However, the pruning knife was
again unsheathed and Chief of Po
lice W. G. Cl>wrch was dropped from
the police payroll, effective October
31, Dixie Graham, town tax collec
tor, to act as day policeman when
Chief Church's time expires.
The move on the part of the com
missioners to do away with one po
lice officer was made in the interest
of economy, the commissioners seek
ing ways and means to hold the
town tax rate to its last year's level
of $1.50.
At its September meeting, the
commissioners voted to transfer
Chief Church to the night shift.
However, due to Officer Darnell's ex
cellent record since acting as night
policeman nere, local business men
and the Kiwanis club in petition and
resolution requested the commis
sioners to reinstate him.
Chief Church, who has served as
day policeman for many years, also
bears an excellent record and many
expressions of regret have been
heard that he is to leave the police
service for economy's sake.
In a further effort to cut down
the town budget, the commissioners
agreed to serve hereafter without
pay. Heretofore the commissioners
have received the sum of $2.00 each
for each meeting.
H. H. Barker appeared the
commissioners and suggested that
local deputy sheriffs serve as police
on a fee basis and that the problem
of garbage disposal be let to the
lowest bidders. Acting "upon this
suggestion, the commissioners "voted
to retain the present garbage force
until November 10, and to obtain
bids on the work before the next
meeting.
The board also requested the May
or to write Congressman Frank Han
cock and petition him to use his in
fluence with the postoffice depart
ment to move the present postoffice
into the old Elkin National Bank
building.
Advertising of town taxes, sche
duled to begin next week, was post
poned until the second week in
November.
BOONVILLE FAIR TO
BE HELD 12 AND 13
Plans Are Almost Com
plete For Big Event;
Many Features
The Boonville Pair committee an
nounces. that plans are almost com
pleted for ihe Agricultural Fair to
be held at Boonville Friday and Sat
urday, October 12th and 13th.
The fair exhibitors may make
their entries Thursday afternoon
and the fair management encour
ages this to be done so as to avoid
the rush Friday morning. The judg
ing of the exhibits will start at 10
a. m." Friday morning.
The Fair Premium Lists a*e being
distributed throughout Yadkin
county, and if you have not received
one, you may by writing a card to
J. R. Walker, secretary of the fair.
A new feature of the fair this year
is a Field .Day contest for the ele
.mentary schools of Yadkin county.
This contest will be held Saturday
afternoon. This will be in addition
to the contests for the five high
schools of Yadkin county. A basket
ball will be given to the elementary
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
INSULL IS
ON TRIAL
Chicago, Oct. 2.—Samuel Insull
mustered the ebbing strength of
an old man and trudged into fed
eral court today to stand trial for
the greatest industrial crash of
modern times.
The 74-year-old fallen monarch,
crumbling ruins of his $2,000,000,-
000 utility empire scattered about
him, walked in the shadow of his
tarnished glory to the court room
of Judge James H. Wilkerson
where Alphonse (Scarface AI) Ca
pone once stood to be banished
from society for eleven years.
Insull, in whose ears rang the
plaudits of the people only three
years ago when men believed his
touch to be that of a Midas, also
faces banishment if he is found
guilty.
BANDITS ARE
ACTIVE
Bandits, active on the Eastern
Seaboard Tuesday, carried out a
series of raids with banks and a
powder company as their victims.
The most sensational raid was
at Bridgeport, Conn., where rob
bers seized 10 tons of a high ex
plosive known as "polnol" from
the powder reservation of the
Remington Arms Co.
The explosive, a powder formu
la for which is known to only
three chemists, was powerful
enough to do vast damage to a
major city—such as Bridgeport—
at a single blast. A vigorous jar
might set it off.
TWO SHIPS
IN DISTRESS
New York, Oct. 2.—Two British
freighters were in distress off
Newfoundland tonight, according
to SOS messages intercepted by
Mackay radio.
The Aiderby, a 3,000-ton steel
vessel which left Swansea, Wales,
September 21, for Montreal, sent
a call for help from a point about
500 miles off St. Johns. She is
owned by the Ropner Shipping
Co. of West Hartlepool, England.
The other stricken ship was the
Millpool, 2,700 tons, bound from
Danzig to Montreal. Her position
was estimated at about 700 miles
off Newfoundland.
MANY OPERATIONS
SAID UNNECESSARY
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 2.
Choose your physician with the
same care as yon do your auto
mobile—not for the necktie he
wears—and there will be 75 per
cent fewer needless operations,
Dr. Hugh Cabbot told delegates
and visitors at the Southwest
Clinical Society today.
Dr. Cabot minced no words as
he decried the prevalent practice
of selecting doctors "because they
look as if they just stepped out of
a bandbox, have a good bedside
manner or just because they hap
pen to be the nearest physician."
SCHOOLS RECEIVE
SELF-HELP ALLOTMENTS
Raleigh, Oct 2.—Mrs. Thomas
O'Berry, state relief administrator
today released a list of 54 schools
in the state receiving allotments
for student self-help under the
national relief program.
According to the figures, 2,455
students in the 54 institutions will
be eligible for help, which will
aggregate $36,825 per month.
3 ARMY AVIATORS
DIE IN CRASH
March Field, Riverside, Calif.,
Oct. 2.—Three army aviators
crashed to their death in the
Sierra Nevada mountains north of
here today when their giant
bombing plane lost a wing at an
altitude of 4,000 feet.
A fourth member of the crew
took to his parachute and landed
uninjured.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934
Principals and Scene in Uncovering of Lindbergh Ransom Money
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NEW YORK . . . Above is presented a picture review of the uncovering: of $13,750 of the Lindbergh $50,000
ransom money and the arrest of the German carpenter, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, in connection with the
crime . . . Above, the Hauptmann home on the outskirts of New York City. Arrow points to garage where money
was hid .. . Below, left to right: Walter Lyle, gasoline station manager who took Hauptmann's auto license
number when tendered a $lO gold certificate in payment for gasoline, later resulting in arrest of Hauptmann.
(Second) Dr. John F. Condon, the famous "Jafsie" who aided Col. Lindbergh in turning over the $50,000
ransom money. (Circle) Bruno R. Hauptmann. (Right) James M. Fawcett, New York attorney retained to
represent Hauptmann by the carpenter's wife.
MRS. CLYDE ELLER
NAMED CASEWORKER
168 Unemployed Have
Registered; Many
Given Aid
Mrs. Clyde Eller has been ap
pointed permanent case worker here
to administer to the wants of the
needy and unemployed, it was
learned Wednesday from Miss Edith
Neaves, secretary of the Elkin Mer
chants association, who for the past
two weeks has been assisting Mrs.
Dillon Simpson, of Mount Airy, in
this work.
Mrs. Eller will begin the work im
mediately and Mrs. Simpson will re
main here with her until she be
comes acquainted with her new task,
it was learned.
Since the establishment of a relief
office here, a total of 168 persons
who are unemployed have registered,
22 of whom live out of the county.
Eight needy men have been given
jobs, five at the school building and
three on the local cemetery project.
Sixty homes have been visited
and over $l6O has been spent for
relief.
Provided the school athletic field
project goes through, it is hoped to
give employment to a large number
there. Information secured Wed
nesday was to the effect that pros
pects for approval of the project are
encouraging.
STATE ROAD MAN
KILLED IN WRECK
Receives Fatal Injuries
When Car Crashes
Into Tree
Martin V. Smith, 84, elderly farm
er of the State Rflfcd community,
died at his home Friday night from
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident which occurred Thursday
while on his way home from the
Mount Airy tobacco market.
The accident occurred near Dob
son when a defect in the steering
assembly of the machine caused it
to leave the road and crash into a
tree. Internal injuries proved fatal.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and several children. Funeral
rites were held Sunday at State
Road.
1935 Grange Convention
To Be At N. Wilkesboro
The 1935 convention of the Grange
of North Carolina will be held at
North Wilkesboro, it was decided in
the final session of the 1934 con
vention held in Lumberton last week
on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day.
The Orange is the outstanding ru
ral fraternity and wields a great in
fluence with a large membership.
Around 500 delegates attended the
convention at Lumberton last week.
Sales of Japanese silks in the
United States have become reduced
to such a point that the Japanese
silk industry is endangefed.
Damon Cox Pleads Guilty
To Second Degree Murder;
Gets 20 Years In Prison
KILLED WILKES BOY
Summon Special Venire
To Try Second Mur
der Case
ROY ALL JURY HEAD
A murder case and several minor
cases had been disposed of in Surry
county superior court at Dobson
Wednesday, and a second murder
case was being prepared for trial
before a jury selected from a special
venire of 50 men.
Damon Cox, Surry youth, charged
with murder of William Hall, son of
W. B. Hall, Wilkes county deputy
sheriff, entered a plea of guilty to
second-degree murder Mdhday and
was sentenced to from 20 to 25
years in state prison.
Young Hall was killed on the night
of August 25 when he attempted to
assist his father in making an arrest
after a chase which led over the
Wilkes line into Surry, about eight
miles north of Elkin. Cox, who was
wanted for drunkenness and rais
ing a disturbance, shot Hall at close
range, the shot taking effect in his
abdomen and causing a wound which
proved fatal a few hours later.
During the course of the trial evi
dence was presented showing Cox
to have been extremely drunk at the
time of the shooting.
The grand jury returned a true
bill against Arthur Wright, charged
with the murder of Frank Potts,
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BELOVED MINISTER
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Columbus F. Fields Dies
Following Protracted
Decline In Health
Columbus Franklin Fields, 82,
widely known and beloved Baptist
minister, passed away at his home in
the Cool Springs community Friday
afternoon, following a protracted de
cline in health, which had confined
him to his home for the past several
months. Mr. Fields' condition had
been critical for a week prior to his
death, following an attack of angina
pectoris.
The pissing of Mr. Fields removes
from this section one of the pioneer
ministers and school teachers whose
lives have been spent in moulding
the lives of the young people in the
suburban districts. Mr. Fields had
spent his entire life in the com
munity in which he died, but the re
sults of teachings during his sixty
years of ministry and public school
teaching have gone into many dif
ferent sections of the country. He
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All Grades Of
Tobacco Continue
To Hold Their Own
All grades of tobacco held their
own on the Winston-Salem leaf
tobacco market Tuesday as 1,097,-
200 pounds of golden leaf was
sold for an average of $30.35 a
hundred.
The break was slightly lower
than Monday and some of the
more common grades were on the
market.
Official figures released by M.
R. Gass, supervisor of sales, re
vealed that more than four and
one-half million pounds of leaf
has already been sold on the
market here in the six-day oid
season.
Mr. Gass pointed especially last
night to the huge gain in dollai-s
that the farmers have received
this year over a like period in
1933.
During the first three days of
the 1933-34 market, 5,243,076
pounds were sold for $829,467.65.
Although the number of pounds
sold this year has been around a
three-quarter million less, the
high prices have put $581,127.35
more in the hands of the growers.
S. J. ESKRIDGE, 42,
DIES MONDAY NIGHT
Severe Intestinal Dis
order Proves Fatal
To Wall burg Man
Samuel Jones Eskridge, 42, of
Wallburg, died Monday evening in
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
in this city, following a critical ill
ness of only a few days, from a se
vere intestinal disorder.
The deceased was a native of
Jonesville, and a son of Mrs. T. F.
Eskridge and the late Mr. Eskridge,
who preceeded him in death only a
few weeks ago. He had resided in
Winston-Salem for a number of
years and more recently on his farm
at Wallburg.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Marge Finney Eskridge, four sons,
Phillip, Frank, Jack and Albert, his
mother, Mrs. T. F. Eskridge, of
Jonesville; three brothers and one
sister, Charles B. Eskridge, Charles
ton, S. C.; S. P. Eskridge, Ronda;
A. C. Eskridge, Greensboro, and Miss
Delia Lou Eskridge, Jonesville.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the Jonesville Baptist church
in charge of Rev. D, G. Reece, of
Jonesville, and Rev. 6. H. Stockton,
of Winston-Salem. Interment was
in the family plot in the Jonesville
| NttA B'KIV
Gateway to
Roarijxg
Gap and the
Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
POLICE SEEKING AN
UNKNOWN FRIEND OF
BRUNO HAUPTMANN
Hauptmann Identified
As Man Who Attempt
ed To Buy Lumber
OFFERED GOLD NOTIS
Trenton, N. J., Oct. 2.—An un
known friend of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, who rushed to the aid
of the Lindbergh kidnap suspect
when he aroused a lumber yard
man's suspicion with a $lO gold note
that may have been part of the
ransom money, today became the
quarry of a police manhunt.
Hauptmann has been "positively
identified" from a photograph by
William J. Reilley, the Bronx lum
ber yard superintendent, as the man
who tendered the gold bank note last
February in payment for a 40 cent
wood panel,. Col. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, state police head, re
vealed.
When Reilley began to scan the
gold note carefully, Schwarzkopf re
ported, the German carpenter's com
panion hurriedly said, "never mind",
and quickly preferred the exact
change. Hauptmann, who said
nothing, took back his banknote and
the men left in haste, not to return
as promised for delivery of the wood
later in the day, Schwarzkopf re
lated.
Isidore Fisch, as well as other
known associates of Hauptmann,
seemed to be eliminated as the Ger
man's companion of the lumber yard
visit, for Schwarzkopf said Reilley
has been unable to identify the
second man among the photographs
of Hauptmann's known friends and
acquaintances.
ELIAS SMITH, 71,
DIES IN JONESVILLE
Was Native of Benham
Section of Wilkes
County
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Charity Methodist church, near Ben
ham, for Elias Smith, 71, who passed
away at his home in Jonesville Mon
day night. Mr. Smith had been ill
for the oast year and his condition
became critical several days before
his death.
The deceased was a native of the
Benham community, Wilkes county,
but had resided in Jonesville for the
past twelve years and was a highly
esteemed citizen. For a number of
years prior to his decline in health
he operated a transfer business.
Mr. Smith was twice married, first
to Miss Alice West, of Wilkes coun
y, who died several years ago, and
later to Mrs. Fannie Elliot Smith,
of Jonesville, who survives him. with
the following sons and daughters by
i;he first marriage: Mrs.Mary Lassi
ter, Elkin; J. H., J. F. and Jonah
Smith, Mrs. Robert Burcham and
Miss Ina Smith, of Winston-Salem,
and Russell Smith, of Jonesville. Five
grandchildren also survive.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
E. W. Fox, pastor of the Methodist
church in this city, and Rev. A. C.
Correll, of Gastonia, a former Jones
ville pastor. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
TO BEGIN COURSE
IN ART OCT. STH
Professor Derendinger
To Lecture Here On
Ancient, Modern Art
Professor Ernst Derendinger, of
Catawba College, will open his fall
and winter art course, designed par
ticularly for teachers, Friday, Octo
ber 5, at 4 p. m., in the Elkin school
building.
The art of Egypt will be the first
considered in the opening lectures.
The course will cover art both an
cient and modern including art
through the Italian Renaissance.
Prof. Derendinger calls the course an
"anthology of art."
In connection with his lectures he
will use 3,000 art slides, the posses
sion of Catawba College. These pic
tures cover a wide range of artistic
studies.
Mr. Derendinger conducted a
course tor teachers but year, which
was described as highly successful.