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In North
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VOL. No. XXIV, No. 15
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
SLOT MACHINES
OUTLAWED BY STATE
Raleigh, Feh. 19.—"That damn
able slot machine fattening off
school lunch money and furnish
ing Cumberland county promo
ters Packards from profits ob
tained from fools and morons liks
us," so castigated by Senator
Johnson as he forced the issue in
the lenate this morning, is fin
ished. The senate without a dis
senting vote passed the Erwin-
Thompson, Thomas house bill un
. amended, outlawing these ma
chines of chance and after the
ratification at 12 o'clock tomorrow
it will be illegal to own, possess,
lease, transport, have in one's
place of business, operate or cause
to be operated, one of these out
fits, of which there are several
thousand in North Carolina to
day.
TO HEAR REYNOLDS
WILL CASE
Winston-Salem, Feb. 19.—The
Smith Reynolds' will case, involv
ing disposition of the $30,000,000
trust estate left by the ill-fated
tobacco heir, was today set for
hearing at a special term of For
syth county Superior court be
ginning March 11.
The tangled litigation will be
eonsidered by Judge Clayton
Moore, of Williamston, without
the assistance of a jury. Attor
neys agreed that the decision
would be taken to the state Su
preme court, whatever may be the
action of the Superior court judge.
WOMAN WARDEN
WON'T QUIT
Granite, Okla., Feb. 19. Mrs.
George A. Waters, fired as the na
tion's only woman warden of a
men's prison on the heels of a
wholesale delivery, defied the state
tonight to put her out before she
is "vindicated."
A new warden for the institu
tion—the Oklahoma state reform
atory near here—was named to
day as the hunt broadened to
other states for the 18 fugitives
still at large of 32 who killed a
guard and escaped Sunday.
THE WORLD MUST
BE IMPROVING
New York, Feb. 19.—The largest
city in the world today marked up
24 hours without a major crime.
Assistant Chief Inspector John
J. Sullivan said he was at once
"surprised and puzzled" that for
the 24 hours preceding 8 a. m.
police reported there was no ma
jor crime in New York city.
"We haven't had any such peace
for ote#" two years," he com
mented.
MRS. ODA JESTER
PASSES WEDNESDAY
Funeral Service Held
Friday Afternoon At
Island Ford Church
Mrs. Lillie Brown Jester, 40, wife
of Oda Jester, of Jonesville, died
late Wednesday night in the local
hospital following a critical illness
which developed after an operation
on her throat. Her death was a dis
tinct shock to relatives and friends.
The deceased was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brown,
of Boonville. She was a loyal mem
ber of Island Ford church, near
Jonesville, and a woman greatly be
loved by a host of friends.
She is survived by her husband,
1 Oda Jester, one son and one daugh
ter, Truman Jester and Miss Pernie
Jester; two sisters and two brothers,
Mrs. R. W. Brown, Mrs. Fonzo
Brown and O. W. Brown, all of
Boonville, and Elmer Brown, of High
Point.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Island Ford church, of which she
had been a regular attendant, by
v the pastor. Rev. Richard Pardue. In
terment was in the church cemetery.
WILL APPEAL ORDER
Raleigh, Feb. 18.—The state utili
ties commission, through A. A. F.
Seawell, attorney-general, will ap
peal from the order of Judge W. C.
Harris granting the Southern Bell
Telephone company a writ of super
sedeas In Its rate reduction fight,
and efforts will be made to get the
case on the Supreme court docket
for hearing the week of April 9.
P
lifers,- s
THI ELKIN TRIBUNE
Follows Famous Dad
NEW YORK . . . Mary Rogers
(above), the young daughter of Will
Rogers, stage, screen and radio star,
made her stage debut here last week
with her famous daddy coming on
to cheer her on.
NOT TO ALTER PUN
FOR CROP INCREASE
Announce Decision Des
pite Ehringhaus' Re
quest; Lower Prices?-
Washington, Feb. 18.—Members of
the flue-cured tobacco growers ad
visory council, headed by Claud T.
Hall, of Woodsdale, meeting here to
day expressed complete satisfaction
with the AAA tobacco program for
1935 and tonight J. B. Hutson, chief
of the tobacco section, said there
would be no change in production
plans as urged last week by a dele
gation headed by Governor Ehring
hajus.
The Ehringhaus delegation, which
grew out of a meeting at Farmville,
told Hutson last week that his plan
to step up production would result
in a crop of more than 800 million
pounds and this will result in a
sweeping reduction of prices this
year.
Backed by the advisory council,
which represents growers in the four
flue-cured states, Hutson apparently
has decided to stand by his guns and
will follow through with his 1935
program which he estimates will
bring about a crop of approximately
717 million pounds. Last year's pro
duction was 557 million pounds.
Opinion was expressed at today's
meeting of the advisory council,
which was attended by several mem
bers of Congress from the flue-cured
belt, that the Farmville meeting
was "handpicked" and the resolu
tions adopted were put through by
certain leaders more interested in
discrediting Hutson and his asso
ciates in order to secure Jobs than
in the welfare of the tobacco farm
er.
Members of the council freely ex
pressed the opinion that when grow
ers understood the reason for in
creasing production they will ap
prove the increase authorized for
1935.
Within a few days the AAA will
announce regulations designed to
take care of the small grower and
inequalities in poundage allotments.
Small growers who have a base
acreage of three acres or less w'll
not be compelled to reduce produc
tion and will be exempt from taxing
provisions of the Smith-Kerr bill.
This does not mean that the small
grower with two acres as base acre
age will be allowed to increase his
base acreage to three acres. The
exemption applies only to tobacco
produced on his base acreage what
ever that might be. v
INTRODUCE SHEETS
AND PILLOW CASES
New Lines Are Added
By Chatham Manu
facturing Co.
Two new Chatham products
Chatham sheets and pillow cases
are now being introduced by the
Chatham Manufacturing company.
For several years the Chatham
selling organization has been sur
veying the bedding field and has
been making tests to find out just
what consumers want in sheets and
pillows. As a result, these two arti
cles are now being made to the
company's own specifications and
national distribution is hoped for
within a short time.
Chatham experts have worked
closely with Miss Ruth O'Brien,
chief of the home economics division,
U. 8. Department of Agriculture, in
developing the new line.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935
INSURANCE, POWER
FIRMS ARE AGAINST
SUB FOR SALES TAX
McDonald -Lumpkin
Substitute Plan Under
Fire In Hearing
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Raleigh, Feb. 19.—Insurance and
power companies, little disturbed at
the revenue bill as originally writ
ten by the budget commission, fired
the opening guns at the McDonald-
Lumpkin plan to replace the sales
tax with increased franchise, occu
pational and other taxes this after
noon as their representatives packed
the session room of the general as
sembly joint finance committee.
"I take it that this general as
sembly wants the Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance company, the
company which I represent, and all
the other life companies to continue
to expand their business and bring
money into North Carolina for its
development," declared John Um
stead, who with Julius C. Smith, at
torney for the Jefferson Standard,
spoke for the life companies. "We
cannot do so faced with any such tax
schemes as is proposed by you, Dr.
McDonald," he added.
The power companies who pre
sented a formidable array of presi
dents and officials, said that their
companies could absolutely stand no
further taxation if they are to con
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ALL IN READINESS
FOR FASHION SHOW
To Be Staged At Lyric
Theatre Tonight By
Legion Auxiliary
With approximately 30 entrants
all ready to don feminine apparel
and a number of surprise acts on
schedule, all is in readiness for the
Men's Fashion Show to be staged at
the Lyric theatre tonight (Thurs
day).
The fashion show is sponsored by
the American Legion auxiliary. »
Tonight's event is different from
the Men's Beauty Contest staged by
the Legion auxiliary here last year.
Entrants, instead of being judged
for beauty (?) will be divided into
three groups and a prize will go to
each group for style. Prizes will be
awarded for the most stylish sports
wear, street clothes and evening ap
parel. •
The nature of the surprise acts
has not been announced and will re
main unknown until presented on
the stage.
In addition to the fashion show,
i f moving picture, "Happiness
Ahead," with Dick Powell and Jose
phine Hutchinson, will be presented
on the screen, the fashion show to
begin immediately after the picture.
All entrants in the fashion show
are requested to be at the theatre
not later than 8 o'clock. The pic
ture will start at 7:30 p. m.
MRS. PERCY GROSS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Funeral Services Held
Monday From Fall
Creek Church
Mrs. Percy Haynes Gross, 38, wife
of Henry D. Gross, passed away
Sunday morning at her home near
Jonesville, after a serious illness of
one week from diabetes. She was a
daughter of Thomas Haynes and the
late Mrs. Haynes, of the same com
munity and had been a member of
Pall Creek Baptist church for the
past twenty-two years.
She is survived by her husband,
two sons and two daughters, Hen
ry, Worth, Lillie Belle Gross and
Mrs. Richard Wagoner; three broth
ers, Eugene, Newton and Ruf
fin Haynes, and three sisters,
Mesdames James Vestal, William
Wilkins and Edward Macemore, all
of Yadkin county.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday morning at 10 o'clock from
! Pall Creek Baptist church, and in
terment was in the church cemetery.
The rites were in charge of the
, pastor, Rev. James Murray, assisted
, by Rev. Prank Weatherman, Rev.
I. N. Vestal and Rev. John Weather
man.
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CHICAGO . . . Above are Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, parents of the
famous Canadian quintuplets, who were prevailed upon to come down
to the United States and enjoy the hospitality of America's "Windy City."
Despite the thrills of big city life, Mrs. Dionne soon announced that she
was homesick for her children, the quintuplets and the other five little
Dionnes back home.
Fire Badly Damages
Hock Home On Gwyn
Avenue Wednesday
Fire thought to have caught
from a defective flue about 2:30
o'clock Wednesday afternoon bad
ly damaged the roof of the home
of Conrad Hock on Gwyn avenue.
The roof was in full blaze when
the Elkin lire department ar
rived on the scene and the flames
were not extinguished until prac
tically the entire roof had been
damaged.
Volunteers quickly removed the
furnishings of the home, with ex
ception of kitchen furniture, to a
place of safety. Water damage
to ceilings and walls was severe.
HAUPTMANN DEATH
TO BE POSTPONED
Fisher Carries Defend
ant's Appeal to State's
Highest Court
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 19.—Bruno
Richard Hauptmann's New Jersey
counsel, openly defiant of Chief De
fense Counsel Edward J. Reilly, of
Brooklyn, carried the Bronx carpen
ter's appeal from the death sentence
In the Lindbergh kidnap-murder to
the state's highest court today.
Hauptmann was sentenced to die
in the electric chair during the week
of March 18, but a stay of execution
was indicated by the appellate ac
tion.
Moving swiftly, C. Floyd Fisher, of
Flemington, and Frederick A. Pope,
of Somerville, went before Chancel
lor Luther A. Campbell, applied for
and were denied a writ of grace to
carry the appeal to the State Su
preme court, and thus threw their
case automatically into the court of
errors and appeals.
Earlier the lawyers went before
Supreme Court Justice Thomas W.
Trenchard, who presided at Haupt
mann's trial at Flemington, and ob
tained an order requiring Hunterdon
county to pay the costs of printing
the 1,600,000-word record of the six
weeks' trial and the voluminous
briefs necessary in an appeal.
Only one more step was necessary
to insure a postponement of at least
seven months in the execution of
sentence, and that was to be made
within the next day or so when Pope
presents a writ of error to the clerk
of the court of errors and appeals.
That automatically results in a stay
1 of sentence.
Preacher To Speak On
Significance of Death
"The Significance of Death" will
be the subject of the sermon at the
Presbyterian church Sunday after
noon at 5 o'clock by the pastor, Rev.
Pat Boyle, This Is the fourth of a
series of sermons on "Death and the
Future Life", being delivered each
Sunday afternoon during February
and March.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services.
ABERNETHY TALKS
ON "PATRIOTISM"
Kiwanians Seek Pro
duction Credit Offi
ces for Elkin
A talk on patriotism and discus
sion of the prospects of securing the
consolidated offices of the Produc
tion Credit association, a govern
ment agency, here, featured the
meeting Friday night at Hotel Elkin
of the Elkin Kiwanis club.
The talk on patriotism was made
by Rev. L. B. Abernethy, who point
ed out the true meaning of the
word was not so much a willingness
to fight upon the battlefield, but
the- willingness to live an upright,
moral life devoted to good within
the borders of our own communities
and country; a willingness to uphold
and abide by the laws of man and,
far more important, the laws of
God.
L. P. Amburn, of Boonville and
Elkin, was present with information
that two districts of the Production
Credit association, each comprising
several counties with offices at
Wilkesboro and Winston-Salem, were
to be consolidated. Elkin, he pointed
out, would be an ideal location for
the consolidated offices inasmuch as
geographically it is in the center of
the proposed new district.
The Production Credit association
is an organization set up by the
government to make ioans to farm
ers for seeds and fertilizers.
During discussion of this matter,
it was brought out that plans had
already been made to locate the
combined offices at Winston-Salem,
although nothing definite has yet
been done. Ways and means of ex
erting pressure to bring the office
to Elkin was placed in the hands
of the public affairs committee,
made up of George E. Royall, chair
man; A. L. Griffeth and James R.
Poindexteri
MRS. PERCY BOYD
TAKEN BY DEATH
Dies Following Oper
ation Last Week; Fu
neral Wednesday
Mrs. Myrtle Morrison Boyd, 49,
of Benham, wife of Percy Boyd, died
late Monday afternoon In Hugh
Chatham Hospital, from complica
tions which developed following an
operation on Wednesday of last
week. She was a daughter of Mrs.
Nannie Morrison and the late C. L.
Morrison, of Jonesville. and a mem
ber of the Baptist church.
She is survived by her husband,
three sons and two daughters: Hen
ry Boyd, Bassett, Va.; Mrs, Claude
Durham, Carl, Charlie and Louise
Boyd, of Benham. Her mother,
Mrs. Nannie Morrison. Jonesville;
four brothers, Felmster Morrison,
Lew is town, Idaho; Charles, James
and William Morrison, of Jonesville,
and ore sister, Mrs. Weaver Hinson,
of HamptonviUe.
Funeral rites were conducted Wed
nesday morning from Benham Bap
tist church and Interment was In
the church cemetery.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
U. S. SUPREME COURT
UPHOLDS COUNTRY'S
GOLD POLICY 5 TO 4
Decision Is Hailed As
Major Triumph For
\ New Deal
LEADERS PLEASED
Washington, Feb. 18.—The U. S.
Supreme Court today upheld the ad
ministration's gold policy in a
shamshing new deal triumph involv
ing approximately $100,000,000,000 in
private and governmental obliga
tions.
In a 5-to-4 decision which found
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes in
the camp of the liberals, the high
est court in the land held that:
1. Congress acted legally In .out
lawing gold payment clauses in more
than $75,000,000,000 of private cor
poration bonds.
2. Congress exceeded its author
ity in outlawing gold clauses in gov
ernmental obligations totaling $16,-
500,000,000, but the party challeng
ing this action had failed to prove
actual damages had been suffered,
therefore the case was thrown out of
court.
3. Congress acted properly under
its power to control and regulate the
value of money when it obliged hold
ers of gold certificates to surrender
them for other legal tender.
Administration officials hailed the
court's action joyously.
The White House issued a state
ment saying Mr. Roosevelt was grat
ified.
Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor
genthau Jr. said:
"I am very much pleased."
Attorney-General Homer S. Cum
mings described the decision as "A
complete victory."
Senate Majority Leader Joe T.
Robinson smiled and said:
"Pine!"
All had hurried to the White House
to celebrate the victory with the
President. Hiey agreed that no
further legislation would be neces
sary and that the court's action had
thrown protection about the admin
istration's vital monetary policies.
209 CHILDREN IN
SURRYREGISTERED
First 2 Weeks Show Re
sults In "Register Your
Baby" Campaign
Raleigh, Feb. 19. —Surry county
parents are starting their reports to
Washington of the births of children
born in the county during the past
12 months. Cards-mailed during the
first two weeks of the "Register
Your Baby" campaign show that 209
children have been properly regis
tered.
This is compared with 982 child
ren which were recorded as having
been born in this county during the
ypar 1933, as shown in the files of
the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the
State Board of Health in Raleigh.
Parents are urged by Dr. John H.
Hamilton, director of the bureau, to
send in these cards as early as pos
sible.
North Carolina had 75,238 births
properly recorded in 1933, and in
complete figures show that 79,350
births had been recorded for 1934,
by which Dr. Hamilton estimates
that enough more will be added to
make the number of births in the
State last year 80,000, or more.
With almost a 5,000 increase in
births in 1934 over those in 1933,
as shown by the records, it is be
lieved that North Carolina has the
chance of again taking her place at
the head of the list in birth rate, a
position held for many years, but
from which she was dislodged last
year by New Mexico, and tied with
Utah for second place.
Complete recording of births is be
ing urged in the State by the U. S.
Bureau of the Census, the State
Board of Health and the State
Emergency Relief Administration.
CHATHAM WINS!
The Chatham Blanketeers, play
ing their first game in the South
ern Textile Basketball tournament
at Greenville, S. C., Wednesday
morning, chalked up a convincing
49 to 18 score over the team of
the Vfotor-Mjonaghan Co., of
Greenville, it was learned here
Wednesday afternoon.
We have no doubt that Doctor
Townsend is sincere, but hasn't he
something cheaper—say in a two or
three billion fantasy?— Detroit News.