THE TRIBUNE HOLDS THE TROPHY CUP (SSKS'iSK) AS THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE THE DAILY FIELD
Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXV,No. 5
KIWANIS CLUB HOST
TO FOOTBALL SQUAD
AT BANQUET FRIDAY
George Grier Elected As
Captain of 1936
Team
LETTERS AWARDED
The Elkin High School football
squad. Coach Ted Griffin, Superin
tendent of Schools, J. Mark Mc-
Adams, and Corky Cornelius were
guests of the Elkin Kiwanis club
at their weekly meeting at Hotel
Elkin Friday night.
The squad was welcomed by Pres
ident C. H. Brewer, who praised the
team, Coach Griffin and Mr. Cor
nelius for their outstanding success
on the gridiron dicing the past sea
son. Joe Transou, captain of the
team, responded, stating that the
boys had enjoyed playing under
Coach Griffin and his assistant, Mr.
Cornelius. He also thanked the Ki
wanians for the banquet and. for
their support of the team.
Rev. W. A. Jenkins, pastor of the
Elkin Methodist church, made a brief
talk, stressing the fact that playing
football takes courage and is great
exercise, both mentally and physical
ly. Mr. Jenkins told some of his ex
periences as a football player and
further pointed out that the game
develops friendship and teaches
teamwork which is so necessary in
the batttle of life.
In brief talks, both Mr. McAdams
and Coach Griffin thanked the Ki
wanis club and the citizens of Elkin
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PREACHER SUES
FOR $25,000.00
Elder In Primitive Bap
tist Church Names
Defendants
Elder J. C. Dunbar, of Mount Airy,
Primitive Baptist preacher, who
claims that during 1934 he was ex
pelled from the Union Primitive
Baptist church due to certain oppo
sition within the church, Tuesday in
stituted suit in Surry county su
perior court against J. W. Creed, Ar
thur Taylor, B. J. Badgett, G. J.
Key, Q. T. Jones, Hoyett Badgett and
Press Stone. Damages asked are in
the sum of $25,000.
Elder Dunbar alleges that the de
fendants named in the suit conspired
to have him excluded from the
church and have his preaching cre
dentials revoked, subsequently suc
ceeding in their conspiracy.
At the present time Elder Dunbar
is working with the Salem, Abbotts
Creek and New River associations.
FIRE WIPES OUT
MT. PARK STORE
Loss Is Estimated At
$7,500; Had No
Insurance
Fire of undetermined origin early
Monday morning completely des
troyed the large store operated at
Mountain Park by D. E. Craig, the
loss being estimated at around
$7,500.
The fire started sometime between
midnight and daybreak, and in ad
dition to totally destroying all mer
chandise also destroyed a sum of
money.
No insurance was carried on the
store building or contents, it was
said.
Asked to Report
Needy Families to
Charities Here
Officials of the Associated
Charities here, of which George
Royall is chairman, will meet in
the town tax office Friday after
noon at 5 o'clock to complete plans
for providing Christmas Cheer
for Elkin's needy families this
Christmas.
Everyone who knows of a fam
ily who is in need is urged to re
port their name to either Mr.
' Royal) or to H*v, Eph Whiwn
hunt. Members of the organiza
tion desire to see that not a sin
gle family is overlooked.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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HONOLULU ... A most impres
sive reception was tendered Capt.
Edwin Musick, master of the huge
China Clipper, when he put the giant
airmail craft down here on the his
tory making first flight from the U.
S. to the Far East.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
BANKHEAD CASE BEFORE
SUPREME COURT
Washington, Dec. 10.—Heated
assertions and denials that the
AAA is regimenting American ag
riculture today committed the
question of this basic farm-aid
law's validity to the judgment of
the Supreme Court.
In silence contrasting sharply
with their pointed questions of
yesterday, the nine justices heard
closing pleas in the Hoosac Mills
case, only to become quickly arti
culate as debate opened, imme
diately thereafter, on the consti
tutionality of the Bankhead cot
ton control act.
Solicitor-General Stanley Reed,
the subject of yesterday bomb
ardment from the bench, wound
up the government's case in be
half of AAA, only to collapse un
der the tension late in the day
when he arose to argue the Bank
head law as a "friend of the
court."
VETERAN NEWSPAPER
MAN IS DEAD
Statesville, Dec. 10. —R. R.
Clark, widely known newspaper
man and editorial writer, died
suddenly this afternoon at 5:30
o'clock at his home on North Cen
ter street. He was in his usual
health having completed his edi
torial work today for tomorrow's
paper when he suffered an at
tack of angina pectoris. He was
71 years of age and had been ac
tive in newspaper work for nearly
six decades.
The funeral will be held Thurs
day morning at 11 o'clock from
the First Presbyterian church,
conducted by Mr. Clark's pastor,
Dr. Charles E. Raynal. Interment
will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
TAGS GO ON
SALE SATURDAY
Raleigh, Dec. 10.—Sale of 1936
automobile license tags in North
Carolina will begin Saturday, De
cember 14.
By law the sale starts usually
on December 15 but as that is
Sunday this year, plates will go on
sale a day earlier.
Plates will be sold here and
from 45 branch offices.
At present more than 511,000
pairs of 1935 licenses, a record for
a single year, have been issued.
The new plates will be chrome
on black in color.
DELEGATES IN
SURPRISE AGREEMENT
London, Dec. 10.—Delegates of
four powers, in a surprise agree
ment with Japan today, squarely
met the major obstacle of the in
ternational naval conference by
placing the question of total ton
nages on the program as the first
order of business.
This issue is the danger point of
the deliberations, because it con
tains Japan's demand for naval
equality with the United States
and Great Britain and the scrap
ping of the ration system.
Pure water is a non-conductor of
electricity.
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935
WORK AND DIRECT
RELIEF IN THIS
DISTRICT ENDED
ERA Closes Business;
Was Handling 768
Cases In Surry
6,22 5 IN DISTRICT
Work and direct relief adminis
tered by the Emergency Relief ad
ministration in North Carolina came
to an end at the close of the day's
business last Thursday. The num
ber of active cases being handled by
the ERA-in district six at the ciose
of business Thursday was 6,225, dis
tributed among the 13 counties of
the district as follows:
Surry 768, Wilkes 690, Alexander
319, Alleghany 127, Ashe 585, David
son 510, Davie 114, Forsyth 907, Ire
dell 655, Rowan 718, Stokes 207,
Watauga 401, Yadkin 422.
Of the above number 1,063 were
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ATTEMPT TO BREAK
WILL OF BROTHER
Yadkinville Attorney In
Kansas to Contest
Document
D. L. Kelly, Yadkinville attorney,
left Monday afternoon for Klingman,
Kansas, where he will represent cer
tain heirs of D. A. (Sandy) Bryant,
in an effort to break the will of the
deceased.
Mr. Bryant left Yadkin county for
the west many years ago and
amassed a fortune of approximately
SIOO,OOO. At the age of 90 he was
injured in an automobile wreck and
died in a hospital.
It is alleged that while in the hos
pital he made a will leaving his
property to some people with whom
he was living.
The heirs seeking to break the will
are William P. Bryant, a brother, of
Jonesville; a sister, Mrs. Anna Nad
ing, of West Bend, Forsyth county,
and others.
BABY IS LEFT AT
JONESVILLE HOME
Child, Two Or Three
Weeks Old, Found By
Mrs. C. G. Bryant
Saturday night about seven o'clock
Mrs. C. Q. Bryant of Jonesville, ans
wered a knock at her door, and in
stead of the friendly visit of a neigh
bor which she expected, she found
a basket containing a baby boy. The
child, according to physicians, is
from two to three weeks old, and a
splendid physical specimen. No
trace of his parents or his previous
life were contained in the large
wicker basket in which he nestled.
He was warmly dressed in .dainty,
handmade clothes, that bespoke the
interest of some one. His bed was
made of his extra clothes and he
was covered with a heavy blanket.
Milk sufficient for the night was left
with him and this, together with the
clothing and basket were warm,
which led Mrs. Bryant to believe
that he made his arrival at her
home in a heated car.
Mrs. Bryant, who is the widow of
the late Dr. C. Q. Bryant, stated
that she will probably adopt the
child and that she will make no ef
fort to trace his parentage.
FHA Representative to
to Be Here December 17
J. Marion Bolich, field representa
tive of the Federal Housing adminis
tration will be in Elkin December
17 for the entire day to confer with
anyone interested in FHA loans, it
was learned from W. B. Lankford,
chairman of the local Better Hous
ing committee.
Mr. Bolich, while here, will be at
Hotel Elkin.
GUNMEN KILL PUBLISHER
Minneapolis, Dec. 9.—Two gun
men tonight assassinated Walter
Liggett, publisher of the Midwest.
American and storm center of num
erous political and other controvers
ies here for several years.
While his wife and young daugh
ter looked on, Liggett was killed as
he stepped from his automobile in
| the rear of his apartment.
To Celebrate 60th Anniversary
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Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Atkinson, of Siloam, Sunday, December 15th, will
celebrate their 60th anniversary of married life. The happy couple will
observe open house for their friends and relatives throughout Sunday
afternoon. They are the parents of J, S. Atkinson, of this city.
ARE TO CELEBRATE
60TH ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Atkin
son to Observe Date
December 15th
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Atkinson will
celebrate their sixtieth wedding an
niversary on December IS*, 1935, at
their home in siloam, Suwy Coun
ty.
The sons and daughters of the dis
tinguished couple, together with
their families and Elder and Mrs.
W. H. Atkinson, the farmer the only
living brother of the host, will be
present on this auspicious occasion.
Elder Atkinson, although two years
the junior of S. J. Atkinson, has al
ready celebrated his sixty-first wed
ding anniversary.
Open house for the friends of the
host and hostess will be observed
throughout the afternoon of the
fifteenth.
Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson have three
sons and two daughters, one daugh
ter, Mrs. N. D. Reece, having passed
away in 1914. The family consists
of Jasper S. Atkinson of Elkin and
Winston-Salem; Kept B. Atkinson,
also of Winston-Salem, and Hugh
Atkinson of Siloam, and Mesdames
W. O. Miller of Winston-Salem and
M. P. Butner of Pinebluff. There
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U. S. Supreme Court
Denies Hauptmann Plea
Washington.—The United States
Supreme Court today denied the plea
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann that
it intervene in his' fight to escape
death in the electric chair for the
kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lind
bergh Jr.
The court, without uttering a
single word from the high bar of
justice blasted the German carpen
ter's plea for a review of the Flem
ington, N. J., trial which brought his
conviction and death sentence. The
denial was in a typewritten list of
cases on which the court acted.
The action ended Hauptmann's
last substantial hope of averting
by legal maneuvers the execution
ordered by the Flemington court.
Unless Hauptmann's attorneys
can obtain a writ of habeas corpus
by convincing the courts that new
and important evidence in the case
has been uncovered, only the New
Jersey board of pardons can now
save him from the electric chair.
Elkin to Have New
Highway Patrolman
Patrolman J. J. Johnson, assigned
to Elkin by the state several months
ago, has been transferred to North
Wllkesboro, and Patrolman J. E.
Cro"well, of North Wllkesboro, has
been transferred to Elkin, it was
learned Tuesday.
Reasons for the exchange of the
patrolmen were not learned.
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Beginning Monday,
Stores to Remain
Open Until 9 P. M.
In order to more fully take
care of Christmas shoppers, and
for the convenience of those who,
due to working hours, are unable
to shop during the day, Elkin
stores beginning Monday, will re
main open nights until 9 o'clock
up until Christmas, it was an
nounced by Miss Edith Neaves,
secretary of the Elkin Merchants
association.
Christmas shopping has already
begun at a brisk pace here, the
local stores offering an unusual
ly attractive and varied line of
merchandise.
GIFT SHOW TO BE
STAGED DEC. 21ST
Only Food Will Be Ac
ceptable As Price of
Admission
With plans practically complete
for the "Gift Show" to be staged
here Saturday morning, December
21, at 10:30 o'clock at which the
price of admission will be a gift
of food to be distributed in Christ
mas baskets, those in charge have
asked that it be announced that toys
will not be accepted.
It was first planned to accept both
food and toys, but these plans were
changed when the local Boy Scouts
announced that they will look after
the toy end of the Christmas Cheer
program.
The show, which will be held at
the Lyric theatre, thanks to the
courtesy of Louis Mitchell, is pri
marily for children and the picture
to be shown will be of interest to
children. All children are invited
to attend provided they bring food
valued at not less than 10 cents.
In bringing food, everyone is urged
to bring only those foods that are
not perishable. Canned goods of all
kinds, apples, oranges, nuts, candy,
cabbage, pumpkins, dried beans and
fruits—any kind of food that will
keep will be acceptable.
Those in charge of the show, which
is sponsored by the Associated
Charities and the Elkin Kiwanis
Club, urge every child to attend* and
to bring a nice gift of food so that
Christmas may be made happier for
Elkin's less fortunate families.
BELGIAN PLANE
CRASH KILLS 11
Tatsfield, Kent, England, Dec.
10.—A Belgian airliner, its wings
coated with ice, crashed in #
valley today and 11 persons were
killed in one of the worst civil air
disasters ever to occur in Great
Britain.
The craft, forced low by the ioe
formations, struck the top of a
nui, dgsagged into the valley and
crashed with terrific force.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CONTRACT FOR 4TH
SECTOR OF SCENIC
HIGHWAY AWARDED
Nello Tee r, Durham
Contractor, Submits
Low Figure
BID IS $209,055.00
Nelle Teer, Durham contractor,
submitted the low bid Thursday for
construction of the fourth sector of
the Shenandoah-Smoky Mountain
scenic parkway.
The fourth section extends from
a point on the Blue Ridge near the
intersection with highway 18 south
ward pa c t the intersection of high
way 16. Teer's bid was for $209,055,
$20,000 under the next lowest bid
submitted by E. W. Grannis, of Fay
etteville.
The survey is being completed on
the fifth sector, which will extend
to the intersection with federal
highway 421 at Deep Gap, and bids
will be asked sometime later in this
month or early in January.
Deeds from the state to the park
service for the right of way on the
second and third North Carolina sec
tors have been approved and con
tracts awarded. Work will get un
der way on m those portions of the
parkway at once and it is expected
that there will be no delay in getting
work started in the next few days
on the fourth sector.
Work is being pushed to-get con
struction under way on the parkway
as far south as Deep Gap, from
which point the Boone Trail will be
used into Boone and number 17 to
Blowing Rock as connecting links
until the Mount Mitchel section is
constructed.
Contracts call for a twenty-one
foot road bed and the regular form
of surfacing that is used on moun
tain highways. The park service will
use the wide right of way, in most
places 1,000 feet, for development
purposes.
The expenditure of approximately
$1,000,000 on the parkway in this
immediate section of the state is ex
pected to provide quite a boost of
employment and furnish jobs to all
unemployed along the route.
ERNEST B. HUDSON
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Cerebral Hemorrhages
Result In Death of
State Road Man
Ernest B. Hudson, 41, passed away
at the local hospital Tuesday night
about 12:30 from repeated cerebral
hemmorrhages following a stroke of
paralysis suffered several days ago.
The deceased had been in declining
health since an injury in the Muse-
Argonne offensive in the World War
in which he lost one of his legs. He
was among the first to answer the
call of colors and served through
the conflict with the infantry of the
famous Thirtieth Division.
Mr. Hudson was a native of Surry
county and a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Hudson. He was
married to Miss Ola Chipman, who
died about two years ago. Surviv
ing are the following sonfc and
daughters, Mrs: Fred Bell, Misses
Helen, Juanita, Norma and Polly
anna Hudson and Ernest 8., Jr., and
James William Hudson, all of State
Road. Pour brothers, L. F. and J.
B. Hudson, Elkin; J. M. Hudson,
Winston-Salem, and William Hudson,
Hamptonville, and one sister, Mrs.
John Smith, of Elkin, also survive.
Funeral services will be held this
morning at 11 o'clock from Elkin
Valley Baptist church, in charge of
Rev. L. B. Murray and Rev. Mr.
Draughn, and interment will be in
the church cemetery.
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