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Elkin—"The Best
„ Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXV, No. 18
WITHDRAW CHARGES
AGAINST HUDSPETH
AND R, F. EVRIDGE
Grand Jury Returns
True Bill Against
Pardue, Triplett
MEN ARE RELEASED
Charged with aiding and abetting
Harvey "Pee Wee" Pardue and Rob
ert Triplett, wanted by police for the
alleged robbery of Spurgeon Johnson
some weeks ago at Doughton, to
evade arrest, John Hudspeth, of El
kin, and R. F. Evridge, step-father
of Triplett, of Jonelville, were re
leased by Wilkes officers Monday
when charges were withdrawn.
It was stated that Hudspeth, rath
er than aiding the two to make a
getaway, had informed officers of
their whereabouts. Evridge, who was
alleged to have used his car to take
Triplett away, was said to have
shown that his step-son had used
his car without his knowledge,
wrecking it on the highway in Ar
lington.
A true bill against Pardue and
Triplett was returned by the Wilkes
grand jury last week on the Dough
ton robbery count. The two young
men had previously been outlawed
in an action before Judge Hoyle
Sink, presiding over Wilkes superior
court.
Hudspeth was drawn into the case
when Pardue and an unidentified
companion returned to Elkin and
sent for him to come to the Elkin
school building. Hudspeth was said
to have gone there and then to have
informed local police of the where
abouts of the two. Police, finding
the young men hiding in a doorway
of the building, fired at them as tuey
ran to evade arrest. One of the men
fired back. Both bullets failed to !
find a mark.
GIANT NEGRO GIVEN
7 YEARS IN PRISON
Clem Fletcher Convicted
of Pushing Man Into
Hot Slop
Clementine Fletcher, giant negro
convicted of scalding Jim Cheek, of
Traphill, in a vat of boiling still slop
and inflicting permanent injury, was
sentenced last! week in Wilkes county
superior court to from seven to 10
years in the state prison.
Trial of Fletcher was completed in
a very short time. Without an at
torney, he elected to plead not
guilty, and during the course of the
trial acted in such an ugly manner
that Presiding Judge Hoyle Sink ad
vised him that if he acted that way
in prison he would probably be sent
home—in a box and filled with lead.
Cheek, who was treated in the lo
cal hospital for months following
his injury, testified about being at
a moonshine still, presumably work
ing there, when Fletcher walked up,
started a fight, pushed him into the
hot slop and held him there until he
was nearly dead. Cheek has never
recovered sufficiently to work.
The big, unruly negro was arrest
ed a short while ago in Ohio, about
a year after the crime. Upon being
brought back to Wilkes and lodged
in Jail, he caused considerable trou
ble, threatening guards and tearing
up jail fixtures. On one occasion
jail attendants had to resort to tear
gas to subdue him.
RONDA MAN IS HELD
ON FORGERY CHARGE
Robert Mastin Jailed In
Default of SSOO
Bond
Charged with forgery of the name
of B. A. Edwards, of Ronda, to a
check in. the amount of $15.75, Rob
ert Mastin, also of Ronda, was
placed in jail at Dobson Monday aft
ernoon in default of SSOO following
a preliminary hearing here before
Justice of the Peace J. L. Hall.
Mastin was arrested Monday
morning by a Wilkes county officer
and turned over to Surry authori
ties. He is alleged to have cashed
the check at the J. C. Penney Co..
store here Saturday, in company
with two other young men whose
names were not learned, and who
have not been apprehended.
Mastin denied knowing anything
about the check during the hearing
here Monday. He stated he had not
been in the local store.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Hitler's Secret Loves
SL a,"
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BERLIN, Germany, Miss Leni Reif
cnstahl (above), beautiful German
screen star, is the person reported
mentioned in the ♦'Hitler's Secret
Loves" story published in Paris last
Sunday.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
DESTROY STILLS
IN WILKES
North Wilkesboro, March 10.—
Federal revenue agents working
in Wilkes this week raided two
stills and made the arrest of two
alleged moonshiners.
Investigator E. A. Bennett and
Deputy Marshals W. A. Jones and
R. A. Stafford, destroyed the stills
in the Call community. Dock Call
and Robert Anderson were arrest
ed. Bonds of SSOO each for ap
pearance in the May term of fed
eral court were filed after a hear
ing before J. W. Dula, United
State* commissioner, in Wilkes
boro.
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MAY ASK FOR
MORE FUNDS
Washington, March 10.—Inti
mations that President Roosevelt
soon would ask Congress for be
tween $1,000,000,000 and $1,500,-
000,000 for continuing his work re
lief program dropped in senate
circles today as Democrats enter
ed a twin defense of the WPA
and PWA.
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
Lemocratic leader, in a 7,000 word
prepared address, defended "boon
doggling" under Harry L. Hop
kins, Works Progress administra
tion, and asserted the Republican
national committee and "miscall
ed Liberty league" were attempt
ing to make a "political football
out of the unfortunate unem
ployed."
GERMANY WILL
BEHAVE, SAYS HITLER
London, March 10.—Germany
will commit no overt act in the
Rhineland, Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler told Ward Price, correspon
dent of the London Daily Mail, in
a special interview at Munich to
day.
"The German government will
do nothing more on its side," he
said, "to alter the existing situa
tion. We have re-established sov
ereignty In the reich and brought
back one of the oldest parts of
Germany under the protection of
the entire nation.
ROOSEVELT, KNOX
ARE LEADING
Manchester, N. H., March 10.—
Roosevelt-pledged candidates for
places on the New Hampshire del
egation to the Democratic na
tional convention took the lead in
early returns from today's state
wide presidential primary.
Although unpledged, Republican
candidates favorable to Colonel
Frank Knox's candidacy for the
• Republican presidential nomina
tion led in the first returns tab
ulated.
Woman Hits Youth
With Auto Fender
Dennis Crabb, 17, son of James
Crabb, of the Benham community,
has been discharged from Hugh
Chatham hospital here following
treatment of a severe head laceration
alleged to have been inflicted with
a piece of automobile fender in the
hands of an enraged woman.
Crabb was said to have been in a
heated argument with a neighbor.
Colon Baugess, when Mrs. Baugess,
of the opinion her husband needed
some assistance, seized a piece of
discarded fender and struck the
young man in the head.
ELKIN. N. O, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936
FRANCE AND GREAT
BRITAIN BELIEVED
AGREED ON ACTION
Believe Solution of Ger
man Problem Will
Be Reached
FRENCH CONVINCED
Paris, March 10.—Prance and
England appear tonight to be pull
ing a solution out of the Locarno
crisis that some thought spelled war.
A sudden shift to London of to
! day's conference of Locarno signa
tories was taken to mean that the
two powers had agreed upon a firm
stand toward Germany and possibly
the lifting of economic sanctions
from Italy.
Pierre-Etienne Flandin, French
foreign minister, backed by his ring
of military allies virtually encircling
Germany, was understood to have
hammered home to Anthony Eden,
British foreign secretary, that Hit
ler's might could only be balked by
"right linked with force."
Out of Premier Sarraut's refusal
to negotiate while a German army
was still in the Rhineland was the
disposition of Britain to consider
German proposals for a new all em
bracive pacf, the four allied Locarno
signatories—Great Britain, France,
Italy and Belgium—were reported
evolving a formula acceptable to
both.
One portion of this formula, it
was reported, involved a clean bill
of health in Africa for Premier Mus
solini of Italy in exchange for the
moral force of his million man army
in Europe.
BLANKETEERS FACE
STIFF OPPOSITION
Schedule Includes Big
College Teams; First
Game 21st
Already engaged in spring prac
tice, the 1936 edition of the Chat
ham Blanketeers, 1935 semi-pro
champions of North and South Car
olina, is rounding into shape for a
stiff schedule which gets under way
here March 21 against High Point
college.
This year the Blanketeers have
widened their field of action, taking
on a large number of college teams
and invading the Bi-State and Car
olina leagues.
The schedule, up to and including
June 7, as released by Manager H. T.
Ham bright Wednesday, follows:
March 21, High Point college here;
March 27, Duke University here;
March 28, Duke University here;
March 30, Erskine college at States
ville; March 31, Erskine here; April
3 and 4, Elon here; April 10, High
Point college here; April 11, Ca
tawba college here; April 13, May
odan (Bi-State league) there; April
16, Mount Airy (Bi-State league)
here; April 17, Mayodan here; April
18, Pieldale (Bi-State league) in
Fieldale; April 19, Bassett (Bi-State
league) in Bassett; April 22. Mount
Airy there; May 2, Valdese (Carolina
league) here; May 6, Valdese there
(night game); May 8 and 9, Univer
sity of North Carolina here; May 15
and 16, V. P. I. here; June 6 and 7,
Craddock-Terry Shoe Co., in Lynch
burg.
THOMAS W. HITMAN
PNEUMONIA VICTIM
Arlington Man Passes
Away In Local
Hospital
Thomas Watson Pittman, 40, of
Arlington, died in the local hospital
Thursday night, following a brief
critical illness from pneumonia. He
was a native of Georgia and a son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Pittman.
Mr. Pittman had been an em
ployee of Chatham Manufacturing
company for nine years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Millie Ann Roberson Pittman, his
parents, two brothers, Joe Pittman,
of Minnesota, and William Pittman
of Atlanta, and two sisters, Mrs.
Arthur Croft of Atlanta, and an
other sister residing in Florida.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Fall Creek Baptist church and in
terment was in the church ceme
tery.
Pepys wrote his Immortal Diary in
shorthand.
Candidate for Governor and Manager
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Pictured above are, left, A. H. "Sandy" Graham, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor, and A. D. Folger, of Dobson, recent
ly selected as his state campaign manager. Mr, Graham will address the
people of North Carolina tonight (Thursday), from 8:30 to 9:00 o'clock
over a state-wide radio network, in which he will give his views on the
important problems of state government, such as public schools, roads, old
age pensions, control of alcoholic beverages, the sales tax and state finances.
MINISTER GUEST
ELKIN KIWANIANS
Statesville Pastor In
Talk To Local Club
Friday
The Elkin Kiwanis club met Fri
day evening at the Jonesville high
school, a delicious dinner being serv
ed by the Jonesville Playground
committee.
Rev. Frank C. Hawkins, pastor of
the First Baptist church, of States
ville, was guest speaker. Mr. Hawk
ins pointed out that although the
work of Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions and
other clubs and organizations of a
similar nature are highly beneficial
to their communities, nothing
means as much to a town as its citi
zens putting money and time Into
church work.
He also stated that people are go
ing to church today more to worship
than at any time before, and not
merely for entertainment or show.
For entertainment they have the
movies and radio, he said.
C. O. Hadley, J. Paul Gilliam and
Bill High, all of Statesville, were
out-of-town guests of the club. Alex
Chatham, of Elkin, was also a guest.
In the absence of President L. Q.
Meed, due to illness, Vice President
W. B. Lankford presided.
FOSTER EMPLOYMENT
PROJECT IN COUNTY
Would Give Work To
Surry Youths Who
Need It Most
It was learned from the county
superintendent's office Tuesday af
ternoon that Surry county will have
11 delegates eligible to attend the
North Carolina Educational Asso
ciation which will meet in Raleigh
March 19, 20, 21, and it was be
lieved that the county will be well
represented at the State educational
meeting.
It was also learned that the Na
tional Youth's administration, a
branch of the W. P. A., has just re
cently fostered a project for the em
ployment of unemployed youths in
the county. Boys and young men
from 16 to 25 years jf age will be
employed to act as janitors for the
schools of the county, and also to
direct the playground activities of
the schopls and care for the
grounds. They will work ten hours
e3ch week, and will be paid a grad
uated wage scale of from $9 to sls
a month.
The youths will be taken from
families that are now on the relief
rolls, and both white and colored
youths are eligible to receive the
benefits of the project.
TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE
A memorial service will be held at
Poplar Springs Baptist church Sim
day, March 15. The service will be
gin at 10 o'clock and a sermon will
be delivered at 11 o'clock. Prank
Lewellyn will be the principal speak
er at the Memorial service.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Not all salmon spend their lives
alternately in fresh and salt water.
In Maine, Canada and Norway are
land-locked salmon that spend their
entire lives in fresh water.
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Plans Go Forward
For Elkin Trade
Days March 27-28
Plans continue to go forward
for Elkin Trade Days to be held
here Friday and Saturday, March
27 and 28.
Nice cash prizes have been ar
ranged for the contests to be
staged and a program that will
prove more entertaining than ever
before has been arranged.
Citizens of Surry, Yadkin,
Wilkes, Alleghany and neighbor
ing counties are urged to make a
note of the date now so that noth
ing can interfere with their being
here on both big days.
PRETTY NURSE ENDS
LIFE BY DROWNING
Former Jonesville Girl
Said To Have Been
Despondent
Missing since Wednesday after
noon, March 4, the body of Miss
Martha Ruby Mathis, pretty 22-
year-old student nurse at City Me
morial hospital, Winston-Salem, was
taken from the waters of a lake ad
joining the Winston water works,
five miles east of that city, Thurs
day night.
Dr. W. N. Dalton, Forsyth county
coroner, said it was clearly a case
of suicide and that he deemed an
inquest unnecessary.
Tilden Mathis, of Winston-Salem,
a brother, told Winston-Salem po
lice his sister had been despondent
since last December because of ap
parent disappointment in a love af
fair. He attributed the suicide to
that cause.
The body of the pretty nurse was
taken from the water at 6:45 p. m.
It was fully clothed. Detectives had
traced the young girl to the lake. It
was the opinion of officers that the
young woman had drowned herself
late Wednesday afternoon.
The deceased was well known
here, and prior to her death, had
gone with a local young man. She
was born near Jonesville December
22, 1913, a daughter of Jones and
Katie Thornton Mathis. She was
educated in the schools of Yadkin
county and entered the City Hospi
tal nursing school in 1933.
Surviving are the parents; ten sis
ters, Mrs. Weaver Caudill, of Ron
da; Mrs. Armstrong Gray, of Jones
ville; Miss Elizabeth Mathis, of El
kin; Miss Julia Mathis, of Johnson
City, Ttenn.; Vesta, Pearl, Myrtle,
Vinnie Lee, Gene, and Virginia Ruth
Mathis, of Jonesville, and two broth
ers, Tilden Mathis, of Winston-Sa
lem, and Phillip Mathis, of Jones
ville.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at Swan Creek.
DIFFICULTIES AHEAD
Washington, March B.—With the
first vehement outburst of criticism
spent, a tortuous pathway of elec
tion-year compromise tonight appar
ently stretched before the Roosevelt
tax program.
Suggested methods for adjusting
conflciting points of view were under
broad discussion as a house ways and
means subcommittee prepared to
take up the task of committing the
chief executive's proposals to their
first, tentative written form.
Elkin—Gateway to
Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEK
FORSYTH OFFICIAL
SLAPS SIOO FINE
ON SURRY SHERIFF
Many Citizens Indig
nant at Clerk's High
Handed Manner
ACTION EXPLAINED
A delay in serving an execution
upon Joe Everhart, Surry county
man, surety for Jasper Evans, col
ored, resulted last Thursday morn
ing in a fine of SIOO and costs for
Sheriff John D. Thompson, for con
tempt of Forsyth county court, not
withstanding the fact that Sheriff
Thompson, in delaying serving of the
execution, was attempting to save
the neighbor county the cost of a
useless service proceedings.
As a result of the fine, imposed by
Fred F. Church, assistant clerk of
Forsyth superior court, considerable
indignation has been apparent
throughout the county. Officiate
stated that reports from Winston-
Salem gave only one side of the
matter.
The delay in serving the execution
occurred because Sheriff Thompson,
after making an investigation, found
Everhart was not worth th 6 amount
of his homestead exemption and
was trying to save the cost of a use
less service proceedings to Forsyth
county.
According to officials of Surry
county, the entire matter came about
in the following way. Evans, the
negro, was arrested in Mount Airy
on a warrant sent from Winston-
Salem, in which he was charged
with having failed to pay a $2.50
taxi fare. He was bonded in the
sum of SIOO, with Joe Everhart as
surety, for appearance in court In
that city.
Evans failed to appear in court.
Accordingly, the next day his bonds
man delivered him to Mount Airy
police, who locked him up. When
Twin-City police refused to send for
him, he was released.
Later, Fred F. Church, assistant
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SURRY FARMERS IN
ELECTRICAL MEET
Gather At Dobson To
Discuss Rural Power
Problem
A meeting of considerable inter
est to the farmers of Surry county
was held in the Grand Jury room of
the court house in Dobson Tuesday
afternoon in the interest of rural
electrification. The meeting was in
charge of J. W. Crawford, county
farm agent, who introduced as his
chief speaker, D. E. Jones, assistant
rural electrification agent of State
College, at Raleighh.
The meeting was attended by a
large group of interested farmers,
four temporary rural electrification
surveys being represented by dele
gates.
Mr, Crawford stated that the pur
pose of the meetinK was to better
crpranize the farmers in a movement
toward rural electrification, and to
solidify their forces in bringing
pressure to bear on the power com
panies which will cause them to
build oower lines into the commun
ities that are now urgently calling
for them.
A statement from Mr. Crawford,
in answer to a question about the
seed loans, was to the effect that
so fpr as he knew the loans would
Drobably be available Monday,
March 16, or soon thereafter. These
seed loans are for the purpose of
assisting farmers in getting out
their crops where they would oth
erwise be unable to do so.
Fire and Robberies
Here Last Thursday
Fire of undetermined origin about
3:30 o'clock last Thursday morning
completely destroyed the filling sta
tion located at the south entrance
to the old Yadkin river bridge in
Jon®sville.
Although the Elkin fire depart
ment was called to the scene, aid
arrived too late to save the struc
ture, which was in full blasfe.
It was during the blaze, police be
lieve, that the Sinclair Service Sta
tion on East Main street, and o
small store on the outskirts of town
were broken into and robbed of cig
arettes, candy and other small loot.
It is thought that the thieves may
have set fire to the filling station in «
order to work unmolested.