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VOL. No. XXV, No. 33
EXPLAIN FEDERAL
WORK RELIEF IN
RADIOBROADCAST
\ Surry WPA Workers Hear
Hopkins and Aides
ANSWER FARM QUESTION
Administrator States WPA
Jobs Are For Those in
Actual Need
UP TO LOCAL OFFICES
The new federal work relief
program was explained Saturday
in a nation-wide radio hook-up
by Harry L. Hopkins and his
aides in the Works Progress ad
ministration, and was heard in
Surry county by about a hundred
WPA workers, in addition to
many citizens who listened in! on
privately owned radios.
In the broadcast, officials con
firmed published reports that the
actual need of applicants for work
relief and prevailing wages would
would be determined locally as
the work program continued un
der the $1,245,000,000 appropria
tion Just approved by Congress.
Mr. Hopkins answered questions
during the program as to the ef
fect of WPAf on private business,
denying that there was any con
flict, and held that, in general,
k localities were responsible for the
care of unemployables.
Chester Gray, Washington rep
resentative of the American Farm
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BLANKETEERS WIN
FIVE OUT OF SIX
Only Game Lost Is To Duke
Power Co.; Meet Win
ston Team Saturday
PITCHERS HAVE WON 44
The Chatham Blanketeers, with
five wins and one loss as their
score for the past six games
p played, have- two games schedul
ed for this week-end, Hoyt Ham
bright, coach, stated Wednesday
morning.
The first game will be played
Friday night at Southside park
In Winston-Salem, the Blanke
teers to meet Fieldale, of the Bi-
State league, there at 8:15.
Saturday the team will play at
home, meeting Chatham of Win
ston-Salem here, the game to be
called at 3:30 p. m.
In the past six games played,
the Blanketeers defeated Albe
marle 4-3, May Hosiery Mills 9-2,
Lexington 15-5, Greyhound Trav
elers 16-9 and Unique Furniture
company 12 to 1. They lost to
Duke Power Co., of High Point,
12 to 9.
Blanlpeteer pitchers have won
44 games to but six lost, Coach
Hambright stated, the standings
given as follows:
Pitcher W. L.
Sam Fowler 17 2
Sam Lankford - 4 0
"Ed Maxwell 4 0
Don Campbell ...10 3
Harvey Stockton 9 1
State Road Man -
Is Robbed By
Hitch-Hikers
Clark Combs, of State Road
and well-known locally, pro
bably will not pick up hitch
hikers again in a long time.
En route to High Point Mon
day, Mr. Combs stopped his car
and picked up two youths of
nice appearance who appeared
to be about 16 years of ace.
The next thing he knew he was
sitting on the running board
of his car with a nasty gash
on his head and with $5.00 of
his money gone.
One of the two boys climbed
into the front seat with him
while the other got into the
rear seat, Mr. Combs said.
Evidently the one In the rear
struck him over the head with
a bottle, knocking him com
pletely out. It was two hours
later that he recovered to find
his car parked on the side of
the road and his money gone,
•fhree stltebes were necessary
to close the wounds on his
head, in one of Which was
'found a small piece of glass.
The robbery took place about
noon but a short distance from
High Point.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Reported Uniting
NEW YORK .... Reported as
working to the end of uniting
With the Townsend Old-Age Pen
sion group, Kiev, t,eraUl L. K.
Smith (above), of Louisiana, new
leader of Huey Long's Share-the-
Wealth following, conferred with
Townsend leaders here this week
ELKIN MAN NAMED
RALLY KEYNOTER
H. H. Barker to Deliver Key
note Address at Dobson
Convention
WILL HEAR ROOSEVELT
H. H. Barker, Elkin attorney,'
will deliver the keynote address
at the Democratic rally to be held
at the courthouse in Dobson Sat
urday-night, it was learned Wed
nesday from Thomas Ashby, of
Mount Airy, who has been named
chairman of the event by 'James
A. Farley, Democratic national
chairman.
W. R. Badgett of Pilot Moun
tain has been named nominator,
and R. C. Lewellyn, of Dobson,
has been appointed temporary
chairman and master of cere
monies.
The rally will be staged exactly
on the order of the Democratic
national convention, now in pro
gress at Philadelphia.
Following Mr. Barker's keynote
address and other speeches t;o be
made, those attending will hear
President Roosevelt's acceptance
speech to be broadcast from
Philadelphia.
GYMNASIUM HERE
IS SAID ASSURED
Building Committee Is Named
To Push The Project
Through
J. O. BIVINS IS CHAIRMAN
A delegation of citizens, repre
senting various civic organizations
in the town, met at Hotel Elkin
Tuesday morning in the interest
of a gymnasium on the local play
ground to be built by funds from
a WPA grant, supplemented by
thirty per cent of the cost to be
paid by civic organizations of the
town. The meeting Tuesday was
a follow-up of a meeting in Win
ston-Salem Monday, which was
attended by local Citizens, at
which time Jim Rivers, adminis
trator for the sixth district of
North Carolina, assured the local
delegates that the gymnasium
project was to have first place
among the grants to the town and
that it was almost a certainty that
Elkin would secure the building."
Funds for the supplement to be
paid by the town are available, ac
cording to announcement 1 made
Tuesday.
At the meeting Joe Bivins was
appointed permanent chairman of
a building committee to follow up
the project and push it to comple
tion. He will be assisted by C. H.
Brewer, George Royall, J. W. Ben
son and J. Mark McAdams, who
will supervise the plans for the
building ahd present them to the
WPA headquarters for approval by
the first of July.
BAPTISTS TO HOLD*
SPECIAL SERVICE
Marking the close of a success
ful Sunday school year special ser
vices will be held Sunday at the
First Baptist church. At the ser
vice, which will be held in con
nection with the regular classes at
9:45 Sunday morning, teachers
will be inducted into office.
At the 11 o'clock hour of wor
ship the pastor, Rev. Eph Whisen
hunt, will use as his text "God's
Messengers." At the evening hour
a special baptismal service will be
held.
A cordial invitation is extended
the public to attend.
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
ZIONCHECK CONFINED
TO HOSPITAL
Tow son, Md., June 23.
Representative Marion A.
Zioncheck (D), Washington,
erstwhile "playboy" of Con
gress, was forcibly confined to
night in the Sheppard-Enoch
Pratt Hospital, a private in
stitution which specializes in
mental cases.
He was brought here in an
ambulance from Gallinger
Hospital in Washington, D. C.,
where he had been held for
three weeks for mental obser
vation.
Cursing and screaming that
he had been "kidnaped," Zion
check was carried on a stretch
er into the hospital by three
male attendants who accom
panied him from Washington.
He said he had been moved
without his consent.
BURRUS ESTATE
OVER SIOO,OOO
High Point, June 23.—Liquid
assets of nearly SIOO,OOO were
found in the lock box kept by
Dr. John T. Burrus, when it
was opened as a preliminary
to administering the estate of
the late surgeon, soldier and
state senator. Among the con
tents was found $96,895 in
bonds, currency and gold coin.
In the absence of a will,
which was not found in the
box, Mrs. Burrus may qualify
to administer the estate or
may renounce her right in
favor of someone else.
RAIN AND COOLER
CHEERS SOUTH
Raleigh, June 23. Cooler
weather, showers and forecasts
that stirred hopes for further
rain cheered the agricultural
South today.
Showers last night and ear
ly today broke the prolonged
heat wave in many sections
while in others the end of the
most devastating drought in
years was hailed by agricul
tural authorities.
• Lee A. Denson, meteorolo
gist at Raleigh, said general
rains in the Piedmont section
and Eastern North Carolina
had broken the drought in that
region. Cooler weather re
turned.
AL CAPONE
IS STABBED
San Francisco, June 23.
A 1 Capone, the first public
enemy No. 1, was stabbed with
a pair of scissors in Alcatraz
federal prison today by James
C. Lucas, a prisoner from Tex
as serving 30 years for bank
robbery. The wound was said
not to be serious.
"Capone was stabbed by an
other prisoner in the room
where they were working,"
Warden James A. Johnston of
the Pacific coast "DevU's Is
land," said.
PROMINENT SURRY
MAN PASSES AWAY
James Morgan Gentry, Well-
Known Farmer, Dies
Wednesday Morning
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
James Morgan Gentry, 76, well
known resident of the Friendship
community, died at his home
Wednesday morning at 6:30, fol
lowing a brief critical illness from
a complication of diseases. For
the past fifty-six years Mr. Gen
try had been a member of the
Baptist church, first joining the
Peach Orchard church and later
moving his membership to
Friendship Baptist church. He
was a prosperous farmer and civ
ic and religious leader.
He was twice married, first to
Miss Louise Eldridge and later to
Miss Janie Sebastian, who sur
vives him, together with the fol
lowing sons and daughters: Mrs.
L. C, Pardue. Burdette, and Hes
sie Gentry, Mrs. T. L. Harmon,
Ike, Charlie and Miss Annie Pearl
Gentry, all of Elkin, route, and
Mrs. P. W. Davis of Winston-Sa
lem. One sister, Mrs. Frederick
Norman, and one brother, Alex
Gentry of Elkin, route, also sur
vive.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY; JUNE 25, 1936
POSTAL SAVINGS
IN EKIN SHOW
S4OO DECREASE
Savings on June 30th Totaled
$16,495
$ 1 6,895- IN JUNE 1934
Bankers Claim System Is
Obsolete and Should be
Abolished
IS PAYING OWN WAY
By PAUL MAY
Tribune Washington News Bureau
Washington, D. C., June 30—
Postal savings in Elkin have
dropped S4OO in a year, accord
ing to information given out by
the postoffice department follow
ing passage of resolutions by the
American Bankers' association
calling for abolition of the postal
savings system.
The department announced
that on June 30, 1935, postal sav
ings in Elkin totaled $16,495. A
report submitted by the depart
ment to Congress oil June 30,
1934 showed that Elkin deposits
at that time totaled $16,895.
The number of Elkin depositors
on June 30, 1935 was 44, while on
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HOLD FUNERAL FOR
VICTIM OF CRASH
Hassell Chappell One of Two
Killed in Accident
Friday
NATIVE OF FAIRVIEW
Funeral services were , held
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Lit
tle Richmond Baptist church for
Hassell Chappell, 19. Mr. Chap
pell was fatally injured in an au
tomobile-motorcycle accident on
the High Point-Thomasville road
Friday night. A cousin, Ernest
Franklin Chappell, 25, of Thomas
ville was instantly killed in the
same accident. According lo re
ports, Hassell Chappell was driv.
fng a motorcycle when it crashed
into a car driven by Mrs. H. P.
Williams of High Point. He sus
tained severe injuries, both legs
being badly mangled. He was car
ried to Guilford General hospital,
High Point, where he died within
a short time.
The deceased was a native of
the Fairview community, Surry
county, and was employed in
High Point. He was a member of
Little Richmond church. He is the
son of Lotiella Chappell, who sur
vives, together with two brothers,
Colon and Browney Chappell, all
of Fairview.
The rites were in charge of
Rev. T. S. Draughn, Rev. E. B.
Draughan and Rev. Mr. Love, the
latter of High Point, and were at
tended by the largest throng of
people ever to attend a funeral in
that community.
Funeral services for Ernest
Franklin Chappell were held Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock from
Swaims Baptist church in Yadkin
county.
A. D. (LON) FOLGER
IS MUCH IMPROVED
A. D. (Lon) Folger, recent
campaign manager for Sandy
Oraham, and national commit
teeman for North Carolina, who
has been critically ill in the Mary
Elizabeth hospital, of Raleigh, is
much improved and is expected
to be brought to his home at Dob
son the latter part of ' this week.
However, his condition is such
that he will be strictly at home,
and will not be expected to have
very much company for a few
days.
He has been suffering from
bronchial pneumonia and a kid
ney infection, and his many
friends are glad to learn that he
is well on the way to recovery.
JONESVILLE REVIVAL
IS TO BEGIN SUNDAY
The annual revival will begin
at the Jonesville Methodist church
Sunday night, June 28. Rev. Jim
B. Fitzgerald, pastor of the Trin
ity M. E. church in Qastonia,
will assist the pastor, Rev. P. L.
Smith, in the meeting.
Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald, a graduate
of Duke University, is recognized
as a revivalist and has conducted
very successful meetings through
out the Western North Carolina
conference. His coming to Jones
ville is eagerly anticipated.
A cordial invitation is extended
the public to attend the services.
Will Oppose Landon and Knox
JSil
Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner, whose nomina*
tk>n for president and vine-president will be forthcoming this week by
the Democratic national convention, now in session at Philadelphia.
President) Roosevelt and Vice-President Garner will battle for re-elec
tion November sth against Governor Alf Landon, of Kansas, and CoL
Frank Knox, of Illinois, Republican nominees.
Record of New Deal Is
Praised By Barkley In
Fiery Keynote Speech
Independence Day
To Be Observed
Here on July 6th
Since Independence Day falls
on Saturday this year, local
merchants will observe the
holiday on Monday, July 6, all
stores and business houses "Will
remain closed for the day.
No special plans in obser
vance of the day have been
made locally, but several near
by places will have appropriate
ceremonies.
SPECIALIST IS
TO VISIT SURRY
State College Nutrition Ex
pert To Be In County
Thursday, Friday
4-H CLUB HOLDS MEET
According to a statement by
Miss Verna Staunton, county
home agent, Miss Salley Brooks,
assistant nutrition specialist, from
State College, will be in the coun
ty Thursday and Friday of this
week working with the foods
leaders of the various demonstra
tion clubs" of the county.
Miss Staunton also stated that
Walter Fowler, of Surry county,
took third place in the western
district 4-H club health contest
which was recently held at Win
ston-Salem.
The Thurmond 4-H club meet
ing was held with Miss Chalma
Simmons Tuesday at 2:00 p. m.
A clothing project was the chief
feature of the meeting, which was
followed by games and refresh
fents.
Rev. and Mrs. Wm. A Jenkins
and Wilbur Carter left Saturday
morning for Washington, D. C., to
attend the Kiwanis International
Convention.
; BULLETIN!
A telejrram received
from The Tribune's
Washington news bureau
late Wednesday after
noon just as The Tri
bune was going to press
was to the effect that the
Elkin poetofiice project
has been' shelved until
next year.
Due to lack of time
complete details were not
available but will be pub
lished in next week's is
sue.
SCORES G. 0. P.
Democrats "Boo" Names of
Hoover, Hearst and Li
berty League
ENTHUSIASM IS HIGH
Philadelphia, June 23.—1n a
flaming keynote address to the
Democratic national convention,
Senator Alben W. Barkley slash
ed tonight at Republican leader
ship, accused the Supreme Court
majority of "tortured interpreta
tion" of the Constitution and
pointed to "astonishing" economic
recovery under the new deal.
In complex modern life, he
said, all responsible governments
must enlarge their field of super
vision to protect the weak from
the "rapacious."
"If in tne future further (con
stitutional) amendment should
become necessary to enable the
people to work out their destiny
and protect their fundamental
rights, or to overcome some ar
chaic interpretation never intend
ed by its framers," Barkley shout
ed, "I doubt not that the people
will face' that duty with the same
calm intelligence which has guid
ed them in the past."
"What we need," he added, "is
a new definition and a new inter
pretation of interstate commerce."
Barkley delivered his speech
with great care, but his time hav
ing been shortened by the earlier
demonstrations, he dropped out
portions of his prepared manu
script. His piercing eyes were lift
ed repeatedly to drift over his au-
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INCOME RETURNS
HERE INCREASE
County Also Shows Increase
Over Preceding Year,
Figures Show
INCREASE HERE OF 26
By PAUL MAT
Washington. D. C., June 30.
Twenty-six more income tax re
turns were filed in Elkin last
year than in the year preceding,
according to a report made pub
lic today by the United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The number of Elkin returns
last year was 79 as compared to
53 during the year of 1931.
In Surry County, the number of
returns rose from 237, to 290. "
Comparison between the tax
returns filed In 1934 with those
filed last year in other Surry
county cities were:
Mount Airy—increase from 18?
to 130.
Pilot Mountain—increase from
II to 12.
For the entire state of North
Carolina, the returns last year
numbered 33,348, a jump from
30,880. St
Elkiit
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
LEMKE WILL HEAD
NEW PARTY; PLAN
TOSAVE COUNTRY
"Union Party of the United
States" Is Name
HAS 15-POINT PROGRAM
To "Save Democracy and Put
End to So-Called
Depression"
COUGHLIN IS SILENT
Washington, June 19. The
banners of a new political party
—the "Union party of the United
States" —were hoisted tonight by
Representative William Lemke,
of North Dakota, who announced
himself its presidential candidate.
Standing on a 15-point plat
form, label as intended to "save
democracy and put a permanent
end to the so-called depression,
the North Dakota farmer who was
elected to Congress as a Republi
can announced his drive against
"the reactionary elements of both
of the old parties."
"The issue is slavery—economic
slavery," Lemke said.
Thomas Charles O'Brien of
Boston was designated as his run
ning mate.
Immediate speculation was
stirred as to the support that
would be gathered behind the
new "Union party."
Father Charles E. Coughlin, of
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PLANS PERFECTED
FOR SCHOOL HERE
Annual Vacation Bible School
To Get Under Way
June 29th
LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH
Plans have been perfected
the annual daily Vacation Bible
school which will begin at the
First Baptist church Monday
morning, June 29, at 9 o'clock and
continue for two weeks. Classes
will be held each morning from
9-11:30, and a cordial invitation
is extended all children in the
community between the ages of
4-17 to attend.
Miss Eliane Grigg, of Shelby,
will be in charge of the school and
the following departmental sup
erintendents and assistants have
been selected: beginners depart
merft: superintendent, Miss Min
nie Ruth McNeill; assistants, Mrs.
Jack Smoot and Miss Blanche
Myers; primary department: sup
erintendent, Miss -Flora Royall,
assistants, Misses Amy Catherine
Myers, Virginia Lawrence and
Hoy land Harris; junior depart
ment: Miss Elaine Griggs, super
intendent, assistant superinten
dents, Miss Kathleen Reece, Mrs.
J. Mark McAdams and Miss Effie
Crater; intermediate department:
Miss Emma Cooke, superinten
dent, assistants, Mrs. Eph Whis
enhunt and Miss Una Norman.
DAILY VACATION BIBLE
SCHOOL IS UNDER WAY
Attended by a large number of
children, the annual daily vaca
tion Bible school began Monday
morning at Elkin Valley Baptist
church. The school is in charge
of Miss Lazenby, state worker,
assisted by Miss Lois Adams of
Mayodan.
Much interest is shown in the
school and a cordial invitation is
extended all interested children
in the community to attend.
Brarerai
■Reports ARE THAT §5?
Trt' AHT t-NOISE CAMMIGM
IS T BE POSTPONED®.
'TILI AFTER TH" ELECTION.
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