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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (Democratic) Brutally Murdered I jumT •-" I aB vLW % '■ ''■ ASHEVILLE, N. C. . . . Helen Clevenger (above), New York U. sophomore, who was found mur dered in a hotel room here, crim inally attacked, shot and stabbed. Wide search is being: made for the murderer. CRIESHEARDWHEN GIRL WAS KILLED Terrible Screams in Adjoin ing Room of Hotel De scribed by Northerner ONLY ONE SUSPECT HELD Southport, Me., July 28.—Sher iff Arthur R. Oreenleaf .said to » night he had obtained a signed statement from Mrs. Nettie M. Cowdin, of Somerville, Mass., that she heard "terrible screams" in an adjoining room at an Ashe ville, N. C., hotel the night pret ty Helen Clevenger was slain. Asheville authorities asked the sheriff, he said, to interview Mrs. Cowdin, who is at a summer ho tel here. Mrs. Cowdin occupied a room adjoining the New York co ed's at the Battery Park Hotel in the North Carolina resort July 16. Mrs. Cowdln's statement, Green leaf said, was: (Continued on last page) MRS. H. M. MONEY «CLAIMED BY DEATH Passed Away Tuesday Eve ning at 7:30 O'clock Fol lowing Lingering liiness FUNERAL RITES TODAY Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Mes sick Money, 89, widow of the late Harvey Monroe Money, pass ed away at the home of her son, John Money with whom she made her home, at 7:30 Tuesday eve ning, following a lingering illness. The deceased was a native of the Marler community, and a daugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hen ry Messlck. Since early girlhood she had been a member of the Oak Grove Baptist church. She was a woman f highly esteemed and greatly be loved in her community. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Ida Johnson of Cycle, three sons, John and Thomas Money, also of Cycle, and Pin ley Money of Hamptonville, nine teen grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at As bury Methodist church. BLANKETEERS WIN BOTH GAMES PAST WEEK-END Winners over Statesville and Cooleemee here laat Friday and Saturday, the Chatham Blanke teers will meet the Wiscassett Knitters, of Albemarle, here Sat urday. Wednesday afternoon the Blan a keteers were scheduled to meet * the Burlington Knitters here. I > Here Are Candidates Who Will Seek ALFRED M. LANDON (Republican) THE ELKIN TRIBUNE VOL. No. XXV, No. 38 ELKIN TO GET $65, ELKIN FAIR TO BE HELD ON OCT. 1-2; BIG PREMIUM LIST N s SSOO in Prizes Will Be Of fered for Annual Event WILL BE IN NEW SITE McNeer's Warehouse No Available for Exhibition; ( Will Be In Tents ON WEST MAIN STREET The 1936 edition of the Elkin Pair will be staged here October 1 and 2, it was decided Wednes day morning by the board of di rectors. The premium list has been set at $500.00 and will contain a large number of valuable prem iums as well as cash awards. Due to the fact that McNeer's warehouse has been rented for service by a business concern which will move in within the next few weeks, it will not be available for the fair this year. As a result, the fair will be hous ed in two large tents, to be locat ed on the Click lot on West Main street, opposite the Elkin Baptist church. * Work on the fair catalogue is expected to begin soon and the publication should be available for distribution within the near future. The fair is open to citizens of Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes and Al leghany counties, and everyone who wishes to enter is urged to start planning their exhibit as soon as possible. Previous fairs here have gone over in a big way, and it is the plan of those connected with the event here to make the 1936 ex hibition bigger and better in ev ery respect. SURRY ELECTION PROBE POSTPONED Inquiry Is Continued to Aug ust 4; Witnesses Missing In All Cases ALLEGE VOTING FRAUD Mount Airy, July 28.—The Sur ry county election investigation at Dobson today turned into an en tertaining two-hour verbal tilt and adjourned for lack of wit nesses almost as suddenly as it was begun. The inquiry was continued un til August 4 by Attorney Robert A. Freeman, chairman of the board of elections, when it was found that at least one main wit ness was missing in each case of alleged voting fraud. 6raham Harrison, former pres ident of the State Merchants As sociation and McDonald support ers who filed some of the charges, is in Myrtle Beach, S. C.: W. Prank Swanson, automobile deal er of Mount Airy and Pilot Moun tain, who made affidavits is in Canada on a vacation and a doc tors certificate was presented showing Magistrate M. D. "Uncle" Buck Moore, registrar in the ward where the other alleged ir regularity occurred, was suffer ing from injuries received in an automobile wreck two weeks ago and unable to appear. Interested McDonald supporters (Continued on last page) ■Hp!::;. .. •i A Jf NORMAN THOMAS (Socialist) Tribune Cooperating In Nation-W ide Straw Vote For President Early prediction that the 1936 " "sidential election would be Keenly contested has become a fact. Hardly had the newspaper ink dried on Governor Landon's ac ceptance speech than party can nonading on major political fronts boomed in earnest. The campaign is now in full swing, weeks ahead of previous national election-year drives for votes. Every means of learning voting sentiment will be employed be cause that is the wish and the demand of our government-mind ed citizens and voters of today. This is so because voters have come to know through experi ence that exceedingly accurate forecasts of national election re sults can be had through straw vote balloting, in different sec tions of the country, and of dif ferent groups of voters. This year, as always, one of the most important groups of voters are those residing in small towns and rural America. Up un til 1924 there was no single source of obtaining an extensive and ac curate straw-vote of this group. That year, however, weekly news papers throughout the country IATENEWC from the State and Nation STAB FATAL TO WILKES YOUTH North Wilkes be ro, July Jl— Cline Hall, 23, resident of the Denny community, died at the hospital here late yesterday from a knife wound said to have been inflicted in an al tercation on the night of July 18. Miss Betty Triplett and Will Dula, all of the same com munity, have been jailed on the charge of knifing Hall, al though Dula has been released on bond because information received by officers has not connected him with the stab bing. Hall said that there was quite a party at the home of Zeb Triplett and that after some words were passed that Walter Triplett' inflated two gashes on his forearm and that the girl stabbed him In the chest as he ran from the room. Little hope was held for his recovery. Funeral services were held at Darby yesterday. The deceased was a son of Cleve Hall. STATE GETS SMALL PART OF GRANT Washington, July 28. —North Carolina, with approximately two and a half per cent of the nation's total population, to day wm granted approximately one and one- half per cent of the $22,742,034, included as grants, in the first "match" of public works administration projects under the 1936 PWA (Continued on last page) •#:• ' ' ' ? ' '•« • .•: K) I # -1. " - ■K 3" % WILLIAM LEMKE (Union) ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 30,1936 joined hands and ' inaugurated the first nation-wide Presidential vote in small towns and rural communities. In 1928 and again in 1932 the leading weekly newspapers coop erated to make their nation-wide Presidential straw-vote more ex tensive in numbers of ballots cast and from fill states. Thus more accurate forecasts of the Novem ber election results were obtain ed. They proved to be forecasts that were accurate in final results and came within five per cent of correctly forecasting actual re turns in the November election. Questions in the average voter's mind today are: "Who will small town and rural America help elect to the Presidency in Novem ber . . . Roosevelt, Landon, Lem ke, Thomas, Colvin, or Browder? In what proportions will these candidates win votes. That is what we are going to try to find out and we are giving you a chance to help us. In cooperation with hundreds of weekly newspapers all over the United States we are giving, our readers an opportunity to record (Continued on last page) STATE TEACHERS' SALARIES ARESET Commission Votes 25 Per Cent Increase Over Sched ule of January 1, 1935 RANGE FROM S6B TO sll2 Raleigh, July 24. Salaries ranging from $112.50 down to $68.75 per month for teachers holding certificates in classes, A. B. and C. were ordered for the 1936-37 school year by the state school commission today. The commission voted to in crease the schedules of pay for teachers and principals by '25 per cent over the schedules in ef fect on January 1, 1935, to put into effect the increase authoriz ed by the 1935 legislature. Lloyd Griffin, secretary of the commission, said about $17,700,- 000 would be set aside for in structional service next school year, as compared with $16,600,- 000 for the past year. Due to possible advancement of many teachers' certificates by summer school work, he said he could only guess at the percent ages under each schedule but fig ures 70 per cent would be "A," 15 per cent "B," |0 per cent "C" and 5 per cent elementary "A" and "B" and non-standard. Salary schedules for principals, he said had not been figured yet on the new basis. Last year they ranged from $282 monthly down to sll4 and a 4.16 per cent in crease will be applied. The total cost of operation of the schools on the state standard last year was $20,088,000, Grif fin said, which was $57,000 more than the appropriation. The dif ference was taken from the con tingency and emergency fund. 000.00 POSTOFFICE MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN HERE AS TO POST OFFICE SITE Choice Rests Upon Price, Size and Location MUST BE 180 FEET DEEP Many Favor Vacant Lot on West Main Street Op posite Baptist Church BARKER IS DUE CREDIT Considerable interest as to the site of the new Elkin postoffice has been aroused here upon re ceipt of news that a $65,000 build ing is to be constructed. Several sites are being consid ered, the choice resting upon the price, location and size. The gov ernment is advertising in this is sue of The Tribune for sites. Many people here favor the va cant lot across the street from the Elkin Baptist church, provided the lot is long enough to hold the structure. The vacant lot adja cent The Tribune building has has also been suggested as has the lot located on Church street across from the intersection of Market with Church. To Harry H. Barker, Elkin at torney, should go considerable credit for the new postoffice, who, together with other interested El kin citizens, has worked untiring ly in its interest. It is also under stood that officials at Washing ton, including both congressmen and senators, aided in having the project approved. Several people here favor a building built' along the lines of the handsome new postoffice at Mount Airy, and urge its con struction of Mount Airy granite. However, its design and the ma terials from which it will be con structed will probably be decided by the government. H. G. YORK IS MANAGER OF GRIER GROCERY CO. H. O. York, of Lexington, who has had many years experience in the grocery business, has as sumed charge of Grier Grocery Co., here. Mr. York is making his home at the Home Hotel pending the arrival of Mrs. York and their two children within the near fu ture. Mrs. R. L. Price of Winston- Salem arrived Wednesday to spend a week the guest of her, mother, Mrs. R. L. Poindexter, on West Main Street. Prisoner Badly Wounded As He Attempts Escape James Clements, about 23 years of age, a white prisoner at the state prison camp near YadkinviUe, was desperately wounded Wednesday morning about 8:30 o'clock when he was shot by guards while attempt ing to escare. Rushed to the local hospital, an examination disclosed that the bullet had entered his skull and lodged mgminst the brain. An operation for the re moval of the bullet was plan ned Wednesday afternoon. Clement*' condition was de scribed as serious by hospital officials. * 1 : " . " : J| •, * ; '® %#r, elf ' v 3 iffljjf i i ,s.:" ? p D. LEIGH COLVIN , (Prohibition) Allotment Is From $60,000,000 Federal Construction Funds War Vets' Queen Shapeliness and charm were the two principal attributes which won the title of "M&M American Legion" for Betty Fulkerson of San Diego, (shown above) when war veterans recently gathered at the California-Pacific Interna tional exposition. She will be an honored guest of the Legionnaires during the state convention in Hollywood in August. She is shown holding the trophy she won. SHOOTING FOLLOWS FIGHT OVER WOMAN Investigation Brings Many To Cooler for Sunday ; Drinking ED MASON, NEGRO, HELD Yadkinville, N. C., July 28. Tom Hamlin, negro, 58, is in Elkin hospital with one arm shot practically off, and Ed Mason, negro, 50, is in Yadkin jail as a result of trouble which arose at a negro ice cream supper in the neighborhood near Hollar's store, a few miles west of Huntsville, Saturday night. It is reported that Mason aud Hamlin had trouble over a negro woman. Following the trouble at the ice cream supper, Hamlin went home and as he turned into his yard, a gun fired from some bushes after he had turned and started to run. The first shot Just about took his arm off and the second missed him. A 12-gauge shot gun was used. Sheriff Inscore was sent for but before he got started Mason gave up to Arthur Hollar and asked him to bring him to Sheriff Inscore. t He is held in jail without bond, pending the outcome of Hamlin's wounds. It is thought the arm will have to be taken off. Hamlin says Mason has been threatening to kill him for three years. Bad Negro Ed Mason is regarded as a bad and dangerous negro and has been in the courts h«re for sev (Continued on last page) Hr-1 EARL BEOWDER (Communist) Elkin Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge PUBLISHED WEEKLY BIDS FOR SITE OF NEW BUILDING ARE SOUGHT BY GOVT Will be Opened by Postmaster Here August 10th ONE-STORY STRUCTURE Plans Call For Site Approxi mately 125 by 180 Feet If It's Corner Lot BUILDING IS NEEDED By PAUL MAY Tribune Washington Bureau Washington, D. C., July 28. The limit of cost for the new El kin post office building has been set at $65,000, it was learned to day at the treasury's procure ment division. An allotment of the needed $65,000 will be made from the sixty million dollars provided for Federal building construction by the deficienccy appropriations bill, procurement division officials • stated. Previous to the approval of the Elkin project by the joint treas ury-post office department com mittee of Federal buildings and sites on July 23, procurement di vision officials declared the filkin project had been definitely aban doned for the 1937 building pro gram. It was not included with the 321 projects authorized or the 32 under contemplation, they said at that time. Political pressure brought to bear upon the joint committee and officials of both departments was finally responsible for Elkin again being taken into consider ation, procurement division offi cials said today. Once the Elkin project had re ceived the necessary recommen dation. the estimate of the cost of the proposed building was made, and as a first step towards the final completion of the struc (Continued on last page) IS TOO LAZTM TKILL TIME. HE JES HANoS j 'ROUND AW LETS IT DIE
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