IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
WORST EFFECTS TO
BE FELT IN 193 V
Washington, Aiif. 11.—The
bitterest effect of the current
drought Mill be felt next year,
it was predicted today by the
department of agriculture in
its monthly report on the agri
cultural situation. In an analy
sis of current conditions the
department's bureau of agri
cultural economics pointed out
that both the meat shortage
and the lack of grains will be
felt most severely in 1937 and
forecast that it would take at
least two years to achieve
foodstuff recovery.
TOBACCO GRADING
HALTED BV COURT
Rock Hill, S. C., Aug. 11.—
Federal Judge J. Lyles Glenn
today signed an order restrain
ing the federal government
from establishing tobacco
grading service in South Caro
lina.
The auction season opens on
the South Carolina tobacco
markets Thursday. Government
tobacco grading service was to
be started at three markets,
Lake City, Darlington and
Pamlico. The grading service
was approved in referenda on
these markets.
TO CONTINUE
PRESENT WAGE SCALE
Washington, Aug. 11.—Ex
pressing determination to con
tinue the prevailing wage for
relief workers, President Roose
velt said today most complaints
about it arose from the un
willingness of private employes
to pay enough to maintain the
American standard of living.
Investigation was shown, the
President told his press con
ference, that low wages offer
ed on private jobs are respon
sible for difficulties in hiring
workmen from relief along the
Mexican and Canadian bor
ders and in the berry-picking
area of New Jersey.
FORMER NAVAL
OFFICER INDICTED
Wsahington, Aug. 11.—Nam
ing two Japanese naval offi
cers as conspirators, a federal
grand jury here today indicted
former Lieutenant Commander
John S. Farnsworth for plot
ting to betray American mili
tary secrets.
Assistant United States At
tor Samuel F. Beaeh said he
had not sought the indictment
of the Japanese officers, Yosi
yuki Itimiya and Okira Yama
ki, because they were protect
ed by diplomatic immunity
U. S. TO KEEP
OUT OF ROW
Washington, Aug. 11.—The
intention of the United States
government "scrupulously to
refrain from any interference
whatsoever in the unfortunate
Spanish situation" was an
nounced tonight by the state
department. >
This attitude was promul
gated in the publication of in
sructions sent to all American
representatives in Spain on
4. August 7 by William Philips,
_ acting secretary of state.
Mrs. C. S. Morrison, Mr. and
Mrs. Garland Morrison, Misses
Elizabeth and Gloria Morrison
and Elizabeth Underwood, Mrs.
Annie Pauls, Louis Mitchell and
Cecil Lyons spent the week-end in
Bristol, Tenn., visiting Mrs. Mor
rison's daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Haynes. They returned Monday.
Billiard Parlor To
Give Returns From
Blanketeer Games
The Chatham Blanketeers
left .fittdn Tuesday morning
for ,Wichita, Kansas, where
they in the an
nual Jfybona] Championship
Seml-Bfy Baseball Tournament,
which gets under way Friday
and continues through August
26.
M order that local baseball
fails may get complete returns
ob the games, the Blue Bird
Billiard Parlor here, operated
by Tom Shugart and Cola Fulp
has arranged to give half-in
ning returns on each game in
which the focal team partici
pates. Returns will be through
Western Union and will be
available at the billard parlor
on Main street.
The first game scheduled for
Chatham win be with the Elgin
Waiuli Co. team of Elgin, 111.
tt is scheduled for It p. m.
Friday njght, mountain time,
which will make the time here
12 midnlyht.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXV, No. 40
Surry Pot
Beginning To Boil As
Hopefuls Announce
Is Candidate
m
HENRY DOBSON
J. H. T. CALLOWAY
CLAIMED BYDEATH
Prominent Surry County Man
Passes Away Following
Lingering Illness
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY
John Henry Thomas Calloway,
73, prominent farmer and citizen
of the State Road community,
passed away at his home Monday
night following a lingering ill
ness. For a number of years Mr.
Calloway taught in the public
schools of Surry county and la
ter was a rural mail carrier,
which position he held until re
tired at the age limit.
He was a member of the Meth
odist church, Master Mason and
a member of the I. O. O. P.
Mr. Calloway is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Alice Tucker Callo
way; one daughter, Mrs. O. W,
Dowd, of Ooldsboro, and three
sons, Ernest Calloway, of Win
ston-Salem, and Coley and De-
Witt Calloway, of Elkin.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock from
the home in charge of Rev. L. B.
Abernethy of this city and inter
ment was in Hollywood cemetery
here.
Pallbearers were: W. H. Combs,
Clark Combs, Floyd Roberts, Rob
ert Carter, W. G. Masten, Jones
Holcomb, D. H. Morrison and Ru
fus Felts.
NEGRO CONFESSES
MURDERING GIRL
Hotel Hall Boy States He
Killed Co-ed While At
tempting Robbery
DENIES ATTACK CHARGE
Asheville, Aug. 9.—The mys
terious hotel room murder of
Helen Clevenger, young vacation
ing co-ed, was solved today Sher
iff Laurence Brown said, with the
arrest and confession of Martin
Moore, 22. a negro hall boy.
Moore, after hours of grilling,
made a signed statement that he
crept into the girl's room at the
fashionable Battery Park hotel
the night of July 15, bent upon
robbery, and brutally slew her
when she cried out and he be
came panicky.
The negro youth said he did
not expect to find the New York
university student in her room,
since the door was unlocked,
"but when I got in there she
screamed; and that's why I shot
her."
"She screamed some more," he
added, "and started to run out. I
struck her with the gun. When
she fell on the floor I struck her
several times more to stop her
screaming, as I was scared and
did not want to be caught."
Moore denied he made any at
tempt to ravish the girl. The
question of whether the girl was
assaulted never definitely de
termined. At first the undertak
er, the coroner and a physician
said she was, but later three phy
sicians who examined the body
were unable to decide.
HENRY DOBSON IS
TO SEEK ANOTHER
TERM AT RALEIGH
W. M. Allen Denies He Is
Candidate For Legislature
BOYD OUT FOR SHERIFF
Worth Gray Expected to Have
Opponent For Register
Of Deeds Job
LEWELLYN MENTIONED
As proof that the political sea
son in Surry county is warming
up and showing decided signs of
life was the announcement Mon
day by Henry Dobson, representa
tive from Surry in the last state
legislature, that he would be a
candidate to succeed himself in
that office in the unpleasantness
to come, and the denial, couched
in language not at all gentle by
W. M. Allen that he had even giv
en thought to running for the
selfsame office. -
Mr. Allen, when asked about a
story appearing in Tuesday morn
ing's Winston-Salem Journal,
bearing a Mount Airy date line,
which stated that the Elkin at
torney had his eye on a seat in
the house, as well as Mr. Dobson,
Geo. K. Snow of Mount Airy, and
E. C. Bivins, also of that city,
stated hat he was not a candidate
and was not in the least bit in
terested in going to the legisla
ture. He further pointed out that
he has had enough hard luck
without inviting more by seeking
the post, and that he was, has
been, and expects to continue to
devote all his time to his profes
sion, the practice of law.
As Mr. Allen/denied, he warm
ed to his subject. He stated that
personally he is not interested in
politics and that he is support
ing his friend and fellow towns
man, Henry Dobson, for the leg
islature. Mr. Dobson, he stated, is
known to be fully capable of rep
resenting the people of Surry
county because of his ability as
demonstrated in the last session
of the legislature where he ac
quitted himself with credit and
honor.
When asked about the rumor
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MOTHER OF PROMINENT
LOCAL MERCHANT DIES
Mrs. E. V. McDaniel, 67, moth
er of E. W. McDaniel of this city,
died at her home in Fairmont
Friday night, following an illness
of three years.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon from the home.
She is survived by her hus
band, four sons, Mark, Ralph,
and Wilton McDaniel, all of Fair
mont, and E. W. McDaniel of this
city, and four daughters, Mrs.
Carson Hester, Mrs'. S. J. Smith.
Jr., and Miss Annie Lee McDan
iel, of Fairmont, and Mrs. L. C.
Edens of Lumberton.
Straw Vote To Be Representative
of Small Town, Rural Sentiment
The nation-wide Presidential
straw-vote being conducted by
the weekly newspapers through
out the country gives all promise
of being the most representative
poll of small toWn and rural
America political sentiment ever
recorded in a national election
year.
' Reports from the weekly news
papers' straw-vote headquarters
in New York, as this issue of The
Tribune was going to press, told
of leading weekly newspapers far
and near launching the poll in
their respective territories with
promise of returning a convinc
ing vote to extend the scope of
the poll and thus afford a na
tional tabulation for interesting
political speculation.
That the poll will be non-parti
san in every respect can be ac
cepted as a fact inasmuch as it is
being conducted by Democratic,
Republican and Xntiepeudent
newspapers located in states
throughout the nation.
Growth of National Poll
The nation-wide straw-vote
Presidential poll of small town
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
I—Gen. Edward Rydz-Smigrly, who has been proclaimed Poland's first citizen, a post which virtual
ly drops him into the boots of the late Marshal Pilsudskl. 2—Tanks rumble through Spain's cities, as
the leftist government tries to crush the military rev olt. 3—Veterans of the Second Division dedicate a
memorial to their fall comrades in Washington, D. C.
POSTOFFICE WILL
PROVIDE 140 JOBS
That Many Will Be Indirect
ly Employed in Construc
tion of New Building
SKILLED LABOR NEEDED
By PAUL MAT
Tribune Washington Bureau
Washington, D. C., Aug. 12.
Construction of the new Elkin
postoffice building will provide an
average of twenty-eight man
years of work, according to em
ployment experts of the Treasury
Deparment's procurement divi
sion.
These officials state that twen
ty-eight man years is approxi
mately the amount of work pro
vided by postoffice projects in the
South qpnstructed within a $65,-
000 limit of cost, the same as
that allotted the Elkin project.
When construction is at its peak
on the Elkin project, more than
twenty-eight men will be em
ployed, it was said.
About 140 men will be indirect
ly employed in production of ma
terials used for construction of
the Elkin postoffice.
The men employed on the Elkin
project will be selected locally.
The contractor will be advised to
first contact union organizations
of Elkin in his effort to obtain
workers. If the unions do not re
spond within forty-eight hours,
the contractor may call upon the
United States Reemployment Of
fice of Surry county. If the nec
essary skilled workers cannot be
obtained from either of these
sources, the contractor will be
privileged to get workers in any
way he can.
It is estimated that two-thirds
of the contract price of construc
tion will go directly to labor em
ployed on the site.
and rural America political senti
ment in a national election year
was first launched in 1920 by
weekly newspapers being served
by Publishers Autocaster Service,
which company produces a news
paper feature service for weekly
newspapers.
In each succeeding national
election year since then, 1924,
1928 and 1932, the weekly news
paper poll has grown in popular
acceptance due to the fact that a
greater number of newspapers
were participating in the poll and
further that the accuracy of the
poll could not be doubted, the fi
nal national results of the poll
always proving to be within 5
per cent of actual official returns
in the following November elec
tion. In 1932 the poll was within
3.5 per cent of being correct, the
slight variance being in the dis
tribution of electoral votes.
iioMeveit vs. LuiUm
In a special pre-convention
straw vote poll last winter, na
tion-wide in scope, wherein voters
expressed a preference for Pres
idential candidates, the weekly
Low Bid On Site Here
For New Postoffice Is
Announced At $5,650
Roosevelt Has
Small Lead In
Tribune Poll
With but 51 votes returned
in The Tribune straw vote to
determine, through cooperation
with hundreds of other weekly
papers throughout the nation,
the rural voter's choice for
president, President Roosevelt
has a small lead of eight votes,
leading the Republican nomi
nee, Governor Alf M. Landon,
28 to 22.
Earl Browder, communist
candidate for president has
one vote. Other candidates as
yet have registered not a sin
gle ballot.
These returns are from the
territory covered by The Tri
bune and will be mailed in to
headquarters in New York
where returns from throughout
the nation will be tabulated.
First nation-wide returns will
be carried in an early issue of
The Tribune.
HAYNES. CHAPPELL AND
SHAW REUNION AUG. 16
There will be a reunion, of the
Haynes, Chappell and Shaw fam
ilies held at the home of the late
Prank Chappell, one mile north
of Swaims church in Yadkin
county, Sunday, August 16. All
relatives of these families are in
vited to come and bring baskets,
and dinner will be served picnic
style.
newspaper poll again proved Its
worth. It showed Republican
choice as between Borah and
Landon, the Landon landslide
starting during the last 3 weeks
of balloting. In the last week of
voting, Landon polled a greater
vote than Borah, passing the
Idaho senator. Landon was the
only candidate to draw a larger
popular vote than Borah during
any one week of the voting.
Roosevelt was the undisputed
choice of Democratic voters.
In that pre-convention poll, the
publishers of the weekly newspa
pers conducting the feature de
cided to open the doors wide and
Invite publishers of weekly news
papers everywhere to join in and
conduct a .poll in their respective
territories. Hundreds of progres
sive publishers accepted that In
vitation, as they are doing in this
poll now under way. This poll
now gives promise of being the
most successful ever conducted.
As a result of this wide spread
in number of newspapers partici
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FOUR LOTS ARE OFFERED
Government Man Here Tues
day and Wednesday Look
ing Over Locations
COMMITTEE TO CHOOSE
With bids on sites opened Mon
day for the Elkin postoffice
building, R. E. Dauch, of Rich
mond, government building in
spector, arrived here -Tuesday to
look over the four lots offered
and to gather data which he will
forward to Washington. Mr.
Dauch is in charge of all govern
ment leases in North and South
Carolina and all new building
projects.
The property known as the
Click lots, located on West Main
street opposite the Elkin Baptist
church, was offered for sale at
the lowest price, it was learned
When bids were opened. It was of
fered by Harry H. Barker, Elkin
attorney, for $5,650. The lot
fronts 155.6 feet on Main street,
and is 187 1-2 feet deep on the
east side and 97 1-2 feet on the
west side.
The comer lot fronting Market
and Church streets, adjacent to
The Tribune building was offer
ed as a whole by Mrs. Janle
Smith, J. R. Poindexter and E. L.
Efird, of Winston-Salem, for
$10,500. This lot fronts 145 feet
on Market and 100 feet on
Church.
The Paul Qwyn property on
Church street, fronting 150 feet
by 175 feet, deep, was offered for
SB,OOO.
The fourth bid, submitted by
Mrs. Sallie J. Poindexter, con
cerned a lot on the east side of
Bridge street, dimensions given at
125 feet front by 180 feet deep.
The lot is located north of the El
kin Methodist church. Price ask
ed was $7,500.
Mr. Dauch, following an in
spection of the lots, was heard to
remark that there were probably
oil wells on some of them judging
by prices asked, meaning that
prices are too high. Apparently he
was favorably impressed by the
Click lot, which, it is understood,
could be made more desirable by
moving Dr. E. Q. Click's office
building westward to a lot near
the Lawrence Dry Cleaning Co.,
building.
This small, one-story brick
building could be moved for ap
proximately $350, it was estimat
ed.
The Elkin board of commission
ers was called into special session
Tuesday night to release town
rights to an alley on the Click
lot in event the government
should select it as the sight for
the postoffice bv'uumg.
Ml-. Dauch itated that final se
lection of the lot will be made by
a committee
treasury and postoffice depart
ments, who will act upon the re
port he sends in. His recommen
dations as to the best site will
bear weight with the committee,
it is understood.
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Elkin
V '
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
LOCAL LINEMAN
HAS CLOSE CALL
WITH LIVE WIRE
J. A. Poindexter Narrowly
Escapes Electrocution
IS SAVED BY COMPANION
Gets Full Force of Current as
He Accidentally Touches
Hot Cable
WAS AT TOP WET POLE
J. A. Poindexter, member of
the Duke Power company line
crew here, narrowly missed death
Saturday when he leaned against
a live wire while working atop an
electric light pole.
Mr. Poindexter was working in
the rain when he accidentally
came in contact with a wire car
rying 110 volts. His clothes being
wet and the pole also being
drenched with rain, the electricity
found a path through his body,
traveling down the pole into the
ground.
Rendered unconscious within a
few seconds, the lineman slumped
against the line, his spikes pulling
loose from the pole, leaving his
entire body supported by the hot
wire.
Rescue was made possible by
the quick thinking of Clarence
Holcomb, a member of the crew,
who climbed the pole, shorted out
the wire, and, supporting his un
conscious companion with aid of a
saftey belt, brought him down the
pole.
Using artificial respiration and
other first aid methods, it was
approximately 20 minutes before
Mr. Poindexter showed signs of
life. It was said had his rescue
been delayed 30 seconds the acci
dent would have had fatal results.
Mr. Poindexter was back at
work Monday little the worse for
wear other than a feeling of sore
ness throughout his body.
EON GRADUATE IS
NEW SCHOOL COACH
W. S. Newsome, of Salisbury,
Has High Rating in Field
Of Sports
IS TO TEACH HISTORY
W. S. Newsome, graduate of
Elon college, and an outstanding
athlete both in high school and
college days, has been secured to
fill the job as athletic coach at the
Elkin high school, it was an
nounced Tuesday evening by J.
Mark McAdams, superintendent.
Mr. Newsome, whose home is in
Salisbury, was quarterback on the'
Elon football team when in col
lege there. In addition to playing
football, he was a pitcher on the
baseball team, gym director and
was a member of the college box
ing team.
In high school days the new
coach starred In football, baseball
and basketball.
In addition to his duties as
coach, Mr. Newsome will also
teach history, Mr. McAdams said.
He stated that he had a high
scholastic record while in college.
The fcew coach Is unmarried.
News was received here Wed
nesday afternoon of the death of
Mrs. Winston Phipps at the Jef
ferson Hospital in Roanoke, Va.,
a few hours earlier. Mrs. Phipps
was a resident of Independence,
Va., and had been ill since the
first of the year. Her condition
had been critical for ten days.
She was a niece of W. H. Combs
and was well known here, where
she frequently visited.