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Elkin—"The Beat
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIV, No. 47
Tobacco Average Over
s2l On Both Winston
and Mt. Airy Markets
FIRST DAY'S SALES
WINSTON MARKET
BRING $317,322.19
Further Improvement
In Prices Seen As
Possibility
NEW RECORD IS SET
Tobacco averaged $21.70 per hun
dred in Winston-Salem Tuesday as
the leaf tobacco market opened for
the 1935-1936 season.
Chalking up a new record for first
day sales, 1,462,012 pounds were sold.
This was nearly double the amount
handled on opening day a year ago
when two sets of buyers instead of
four sets were on the market.
Official figures revealed last night
by Supervisor of Sales, ML R. Oass,
showed that $317,322.19 was paid out
to the growers during the day.
Sale of nearly a million and a half
pounds relieved congestion on the
floors of the eight warehouses and
cleared the way for today's offer
ings.
The market showed up stronger as
sales progressed during the day and
further improvement in prices was
seen as a possibility by veteran ob
servers on the tobacco market.
A factor entering into the general
price average was the quality of the
offerings. Medium grades were in
evidence as buyers and warehouse
men moved down the narrow lanes
between innumerable piles of the
season's first sales offerings.
Improvement in quality would be
reflected in the future averages.
Better grade tobacco commanded
good prices throughout the day. Ap
parently the lower grades suffered
most in the scaling down of prices
from last season.
MT. AIRY MART
Mt. Airy, Oct. I.—Approximately
220,000 pounds of tobacco were sold
on the Mount Airy market today for
an estimated average of $22.50 per
100, and nearly another quarter of a
million pounds remained on the
floors for sale tomorrow. Official
figures available for only one house
tonight gave 56,608 pounds sold at
an average of $21.46. Prices ranged
sharply upward from the opening
when the average for a while was
estimated at under S2O and most of
the better tobacco brought from S2O
up. Better grades of smokers sold
up from $25 to $37 per hundred,
while medium smokers brought from
$lB to $25.
OTIS SPRINKLE IS
GIVEN TWO YEARS
Pleads Guilty to Assault
On Female In Surry
Criminal Court
Otis sprinkle, young white man of
Elkin, was tried in Surry superior
court Monday on a charge of assault
on a female with intent to commit
rape, but the charge was voluntarily
reduced to that of assault on a fe
male, with the understanding that
Sprinkle was to enter a plea of guil
ty and receive the maximum penalty
of the law. Sprinkle accordingly
pleaded guilty to vhe redueed charge
and was given a sentence of two
years at hard labor on the county
roads.
It will be recalled that this case is
the result of an assault which
Sprinkle was alleged to have made
upon Mrs. Florence Cox a few
months ago while she was residing
in an apartment over the Cash and
Carry store No. 1 here.
Sprinkle already has a long court
record, having been up for trial a
number of times before.
Injured In Accident
Taft Vestal, of Boonvllle, was ad
mitted to the local hospital Satur
day night, suffering from a broken
jaw and facial lacerations and
bruises suffered a few hours earlier
in an automobile accident. He was
released frooi the hospital following
two days treatment.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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TORONTO—V. G. Iden of New
York, Sec'y. of the American Insti
tute of Steel Construction, in a
speech before the Canadian Insti
tute, proposed a world union of steel
industries for mutual welfare and
thus pave the way for an industrial
internationalism that would make
war impossible.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
REPORTED DISCUSSING
AIR PACT
Berlin, Oct. I.—Germany, limi
tary and Poland tonight were re
ported discussing an air pact to
combat the menace of a Bolshe
vist foothold in Central Europe,
Russia and Czechoslovakia have
concluded an aviation agreement.
Diplomats understood that such
an agreement was being nego
tiated with Hungarian Premier
Julius Goemboes, who has talked
with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler,
Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm
Goerlng and other officials dur
ing his "mystery trip" to Berlin.
Polish diplomats reportedly par
ticipated in the recent "political
deer hunt" of Goering and Goem
boes in East Prussia.
HOPE FADES FOR
ENDING AID
. Washington, Oct. I.—Only a
miracle, it appeared tonight, can
fulfill hopes of President Roose
velt and other new dealers that
the $4,000,000,000 works program
will provide jobs for 3,500,000 em
ployables before the snow flie6.
Caught in a furious internal row
involving Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins, PWA Adminis
trator Harold L. Ickes and Frank
Walker, close friend of Mr. Roose
velt and chairman of the national
emergency council, the vast pro
gram has moved forward slowly
since its approval by Congress.
ROOSEVELT RECEIVES
WARM WELCOME
Los Angeles, Oct. I.—More thai
a half million CalifornisCrts poured
out of homes and business offices
today to tender President Roose
velt the most tumultuous recep
tion he has been riven since he
entered the White House.
Jamming; streets, windows,
house-tops, and nearly filling the
gigantic Memorial Coliseum, they
roared acclaim to the President
from the moment he stepped off
his special train this morning un
til he returned at 4:45 p. m. (e.s.t.)
to entrain for San Diego.
SAYS 5,000,000
HAVE FOUND JOBS
Asheville, Oct. I.—Frances E.
Perkins, secretary of labor, esti
mated in an address before the
International Association of Gov
ernment Labor officials here to
day that nearly 5,000,000 workers
have found jobs with private em
ployers since 1933.
The NRA was a prominent fac
tor ii\ bringing improvement of
business conditions and starting
and upward swing of pay rolls,
said Miss Perkins.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.
LIQUOR FIGURES IN
MOST COURT CASES,
JUDGE TELLS JURY
Number of Local Cases
Are Tried In Surry
Superior Court
ROUSSEAU PRESIDES
The October term of Surry super
ior court convened at Dobson Mon
day morning at 10:00 o'clock for the
hearing of criminal cases, with Judge
J. A. Rousseau on the bench.
Court was palled to order by the
sheriff, and the roll of jurors was
called by F. T. Lewellyn, clerk of
court. Then after the grand jury
had been empaneled and G. P.
Dockery had been appointed fore
man of that body, Judge Rousseau
made his charge to the grand jury,
in which he stressed full obedience
to the laws pertaining to the high
ways of the state, and voiced his
hearty approval of the enforcement
of them.
Judge Rousseau also called the
grand Jury's attention to the fact
that it is their sworn duty to uphold
the prohibition laws of the stater re
gardless of what public opinion on
the liquor question may be. -
He further called attention to the
fact that approximately nine-tenths
of the cases brought before the
courts of the land have liquor as one
of their contributing causes, and
called upon the preachers of the
commonwealth to stress the fact that
young people are born into the
world for a good purpose, and not to
clutter up the court dockets and
flood the jails of the land. He also
stressed the fact that It is the duties
of parents to provide for their child
ren homes with an environment that
will instill into their hearts the de
sire to be law-abiding citizens.
Much favorable comment has been
made on Judge Rousseau's charge to
the grand jury, as well as on his
manifest intentions to uphold the
laws of our state without fear or
favor.
Most of the cases disposed of so
far in this week's court are for minor
offenses. However, several cases of
more or less local interest were
brought up.
In the case of the state against
Charlie and Willie Martin the de
fendants plead guilty to the charge
of larceny and receiving, and were
sentenced to the county jail for six
months and are to work on the coun
ty roads. They were accused of
stealing some money out of a filling
station which was being operated by
Carl Davis, of this city.
Another case of local interest was
that of Willard Lewis, who was
charged with forgery, and was given
a sentence of 18 months on the coun
ty roads at hard labor. Young Lewis
was only' 21 years of age, and was
accused of forging several checks a
number of months ago which were
cashed by merchants of this and the
surrounding community. Owing to
his age and it being his first offense
the presiding judge made the sen
tence lighter.
The case of Reece Cockerham,
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WORK IN PROGRESS
ON SCENIC HIGHWAY
More Than 300 Men On
Job As First Link of
Project Is Begun :
It is estimated that approximate
ly 300 men are now working on the
12-mile stretch of the scenic high
way which will, when constructed
link tno of the country's national
parks.
Work on the vast government pro
ject was begun a short while ago by
Nello Teer, contractor, and extends
from the top of the mountain above
Lowgap toward Sparta. Mr. Teer
stated the latter part of last week
that he is rushing the work as fast
as the plans of the government will
permit and is now moving about
3,000 yards of dirt each day.
Labor for the project is being se
l cured from the relief rolls of Alle
ghany county, since all the road,
except less than a mile, passes
through that county. Two shifts
work during the day, six hours each,
going on duty at 6 and 12 o'clock.
Word has gone out from Raleigh
that the state will soon have the
deeds ready for about 25 more mile* J
of the right of way along the top of
the mountain from Sparta west, and
it is expected that work can be
started on other sections before win
ter sets in.
In Front Again
DETROIT . . . Mickey Cochrane,
dashing: manager of the Detroit
Tigers whose club is again in the
World's Series as the result of bring
ing his Tigers home in front for the
1935 American League pennant. The
Tigers are battling Chicago. They
lost last year's series to St. Louis.
THOUSANDS ATTEND
ELKIN'S 4TH FAIR
C. B. Settle, of Benham,
Is Winner of Live-At-
Home Exhibit
Approximately 3,000 paid admis
sions attested to the success of the
Elkin Fair, held at McNeer's ware
house here last Thursday night, Fri
day and Friday night.
Throngs surged through the exhi
bition building at all. times to see
the exhibits and to be entertained by
the different programs which had
been arranged.
Live-at-home exhibits were excep
tionally good, the judges being hard
pressed to decide upon first, second
and third prize winners. C. B. Set
tle, of Benham, won first prize, a disc
harrow, and W. B. Williams, of Rusk,
came second to win a fine suite of
furniture, J. R. Martin, of Boon
ville, was awarded third prize, which
was in form of a modern kitchen
cabinet.
Among the more popular features
of the fair was the gorgeous flower
display, augmented by a rock garden
constructed under the supervision of
Mrs. E. F. McNeer. This exhibit
transformed a drab corner of the
warehouse into a small paradise of
moss covered rock, ferns and trick
ling stream and was the object of
many compliments from fair visitors.
Winners in the singing convention
were as follows: best quartette,
Mitchell Chapel quartette; best
choir, Swan Creek; best duet, Blue
Bird duet, of Winston-Salem.
The horse show, a new feature this
year, was partly spoiled on account
of the rain, which began shortly af
ter noon and continued off and on
for the remainder of the day. A
complete list of winners was not
available.
A football game played in conjunc
tion with the fair Thursday between
Elkin high school and Wilkesboro,
resulted in a win for Elkin, Foster
pushing over both the local team's
touchdowns. Wilkesboro scored once.
STATE ROAD MAN
KILLED BY TRUCK
Russell Smith Faces
Manslaughter Charge
As Result
Rufus M. Luffman, 63, sustained
fatal injuries Friday evening when
he was struck and run over by a
motor truck at State Road, near his
home. Mr. Luffman received a frac
tured skull, broken limbs and in
ternal injuries from which he never
regained consciousness. He was
rushed to the local hospital for at
tention but passed away Saturday
night.
The deceased was a retired school
teacher, having taught for thirty
ye?».rs in the schools of Surry, Wilkes
and Orange counties. He was a
mefnber of the Baptist church. The
only immediate survivors are two
sons, Quay and Homer Luffman, of
West Virginia and several grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted
from State Road Baptist church by
Rev. J. L. Powers and Rev. A. F.
Walker Sunday afternoon, and inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Russell Smith, driver of the death
car, is being held under bond on a
manslaughter charge.
Today Is the tomorrow you wor
ried about yesterday—and all is well.
Plans Completed For
New School Building
Here; Project Okeyed
Postal Receipts
Show Good Gain
Over Last Year
Postal receipts at the local post
office for September show a gain
of over 37 per cent for the same
month last year, it was learned
Wednesday from F. W. Graham,
postmaster.
September receipts for 1935
were given as $1,012.78 as com
pared with $737.35 for the same
month in 1934.
Mr. Graham also pointed out
that there has been a substantial
increase in receipts each quarter
this year over the corresponding
periods of 1934. Receipts for the
quarter ending September 30, 1935,
were $3,889.36 as compared with
$2,459.63 last year, reflecting an
increase of $429.83.
HARRIS-BURGISS
TO NEW LOCATION
A. & P. Tea Company
To Occupy Their Pres
ent Location
The Harris-Burgiss Electric com
pany is planning to move to the
building now occupied by the Elkin
Barber shop, located next door to
Smithey's Department store, on West
Main street, it was learned here fol
lpwing the announcement that the
building now occupied by the firm
had been leased by the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea company. The Hugh
Royall Insurance Agency, which is
located with Harris-Burgiss, will al
so occupy space in the new site, it
is understood.
Remodeling of the building for the
A. & P. store is now under way.
Among recent deals in residential
property here is the purchase of the
J. O. Chipman residence on North
Bridge street by Charles H. Ashby.
DRUNKEN DRIVER
ARRESTED SUNDAY
Man and Woman Tak
en by Jailer J. E. Mon
day In Dobson
Ellis Horton and Sally Sechrist
were arrested Sunday afternoon by
Jailer J. E. Monday for operating a
car while under the influence of
liquor, and for profanity and inde
cent language on the streets of Dob
son.
• In the magistrate's trial before F
P. Riggs, J. P., Horton was bound
over to superior court for further
hearing, while the Sechrist woman
was sentenced to 30 days in the
county jail, the sentence to be sus
pended upon the payment of the
court costs, and upon good behavior.
Both the defendants are' ai.eady
on the calendar for the pesent term
of criminal court, Horton having
taken an appeal on a former charge
of assault with a deadly weapon, and
the Sechrist woman an appeal on a
previous charge of violating the pro
hibition laws.
WHITAKER TO MAKE
FIRE INSPEOION
Head of Fire Depart
ment To Seek Out All
Fire Hazards
In observance of fire prevention
week, October 7-11, and in an effort
to safeguard Elkin property from
the destruction of fire, W. W. Whit
aker, chief of the Elkin fire depart
ment will make a survey of the town
next week to inspect homes and
business buildings in an effort to
have corrected all fire hazards.
Mr. Whitaker, as head of the fire
department, is urging that local citi
zens use every precaution in putting
up stoves this fall so that there may
be no danger of fire. Flues and
chimneys should be inspected as well
as heating devices and pipes.
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PUBUSHED WEEKLY
CONSTRUCTION IS
EXPECTED TO GET
UNDER WAY SOON
$12,000 Grant Made By
Federal Government
Through PWA
BUILDING NEEDED
Plans are now in the hands of the
architect and construction is ex
pected to get underway at an early
date on Elkin's new high school
building, following the announce
ment of the approval by the federal
government of the PWA grant of
$12,120 for the purpose to the Surry
county board of education. A tele
gram to that effect was received Sat
urday by P. W. Graham, a member
of the Surry board, the message
bearing the signature of Congress
man Frank Hancock.
Previously the Surry county board
had approved the allocation of the
sum of $15,000 towards the project
sought and so urgently needed to
take care of the congestion existing
in the local school.
The new building will be erected
in West Elkin on the property pur
chased by the school board for this
purpose several years ago. This
structure, the first unit of what will
eventually become a much larger
building, will be erected at a cost of
about $27,000 and has been planned
with the view ot adding additional
wings as a larger building becomes
a necessity. The new building T?ill
be the property of the Town of Elkin
and will be located on Elk Spur
street.
W. M. WALL BUYS
JEWELRY STORE
Former Carl W. Steele
Business Operating
Under New Name
The Carl W. Steele Jewelry store
of this city, was recently purchased
by W. M. Wall, who for the past five
years has been in charge of the
store, and who has changed the
store name to "W. M. Wall, Jeweler."
As a result of the purchase of the
store, which is being announced for
the first time in an advertisement
in this issue of The Tribune, the
store is featuring a number of special
values effective fora limited period
of time. Complete details may be
had by reading the ad.
In addition to carrying a full line
of jewelry, watches, etc., the store
also features musical instruments,
crystal ware, silverware and main
tains a highly efficient watch and
clock repair service department.
Dr. Lapsley Arrives
To Take Up Duties
Dr. A. P. Lapsley, of Richmond,
has arrived here to take up his duties
as interne at Hugh Chatham Memor
ial Hospital, Dr. Lapsley is a grad
uate of the Medical College of the
University of Virginia, and has
served a yeaf as interne in both
Louisville, Ky., and Duke Hospital,
Durham.
Dr. Lapsley succeeds Dr. Walter R.
Newbern, who has gone to Duke
University, where he will teach ana
tomy during the coming year.
Farmer Bob Doughton
To Address Kiwanis
Club Here Friday
Congressman Robert L. Dough
ton, of Washington and Laurel
Springs, will address the local
Kiwanis club at their weekly
meeting at Hotel Elkin Friday
evening at 6:30. In addition to
nation-wide recognition! for his
political genius, Mr. Doughtot. i»
chairman of the House Ways and
Means committee. His coming to
Elkin b looked forward to with
keen interest.