Elkin
'The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
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VOL. No. XXV, No. 42
YADKIN COUNTY
SUPERIOR COURT
NOW IN SESSION
Judge John H. Clement Is
Presiding Jurist
150 CASES ON DOCKET
Solicitor John R. Jones Pros
ecuting Docket; Improved
In Health
BOOZE CASES FEATURE
Yadkinville, Aug. 25—(Special)
—Yadkin county superior court
for the trial of criminal cases
convened here Monday morning
with Judge John H. Clement pre
siding. The first order of "bus
iness was drawing of a grand
jury, and Rev. C. H. Hutchens
was chosen as its foreman. Judge
Clement delivered his charge and
the court was soon in orderly
action weeding along on the
docket of 150 cases set for trial.
John Swaim was chosen as offi
cer for the grand jury.
Solicitor Jones, who has been
in failing health for some time,
is greatly improved and is on the
job prosecuting the docket in his
usual vigorous way.
Raymond Early, alias '"Dum
mie" Moore, 21, Jonesville ne
gro, charged with rape and
burglary, will go on trial at
Yadkinvilie this morning at
9:30 for his life.
Sheriff A. L. Inscore was in
structed yesterday morning to
summon a special venire of 100
men to be on hand at that
time from which a jury will be
selected to try the deaf and
dumb negro for entering the
home of Mrs. Lewellyn VVilkins
in the night time and attack
ing her, ten days ago.
An interpreter, R. C. For
tune, Jr., of Greensboro, has
been sworn in to act during
the trial of the negro.
The first case disposed of Mon
day morning was that of Blake
Burton and Robert Suber charged
with transporting whiskey. The
defendants pleaded guilty and
were sentenced to pay a fine of
s $25.00 each and costs of the
case, or serve 4 months on the
county road.
Moses Richardson, also charged
with transporting, was tried by
a jury and found not guilty.
E. M. Harris, possession of
liquor, entered a plea of guilt and
was fined $25.00 and the costs,
or 4 months on the road.
Jack Williams, colored, trans
porting, plead guilty, 6 months
on the road.
Harrison Pinnix, driving intox
icated, and drunkeness, was found
guilty by a jury, sentence had
not been passed.
Glenn Hoots, possession of
liquor, nol pros with leave.
Thomas Cole, assault, found
guilty, prayer for judgment con
tinued upon payment of costs by
November.
I Elmer Stokes and Floyd Camp
bell, larceny, nol pros with leave.
Sid Joyner,- injury to property,
plead guilty, pays costs.
Elmer Stone, resisting officers
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CONVENTION DATES
IN COUNTY NAMED
Democrats to Meet at Dobson
September 5; G. 0. P. .on
September 9
S. D. COOKE CANDIDATE
The Surry County Democratic
convention will be held at the
* court house on Saturday, Sept.
sth. A large array of candidates
are said to be grooming them
selves for the race for the various
offices of the county, with no less
then six known candidates for
the office of sheriff on the Dem
ocratic ticket with others expected
to enter.
The Surry County Republican
convention will also be held at
Dobson in the court house on
Wednesday, Sept. 9th.
The latest candidate to enter
the Democratic race for sheriff is
Sam D. Cooke, of Mount Airy,
who is a world war veteran and
has. since his honorable discharge
from the navy, been engaged in
fanning and road work. While in
the TJ. S. Navy he was with the
Grand Fleet, on the battleship
Arkansas, when the Gefman 'High
Sea Fleet surrendered.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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Rev. C. N. Roy all, pastor of the
Green Street Baptist Church, of
High Point, who will arrive here
Monday to aid in the revival
which will begin on that day at
the Elkin Baptist church.
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
HERE AUGUST 31ST
High Point Pastor to Aid Rev.
Eph Whisenhunt in Bap
tist Meeting
TO HAVE SPECIAL MUSIC
Rev. C. N. Royall, pastor of the
Green Street Baptist church in
High Point will arrive Monday to
assist Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, pas
tor of the First Baptist church
of this city, in a meeting. The
usual services will be held at the
church Sunday and beginning
Monday evening at 7:30 services
will be held both morning and
evening at 9:30 and 7:30 respect
ively.
Special music for the meeting
will be in charge of Romie Pierce,
of Marshville, well-known singer.
A cordial invitation is extended
by the church to ail denomina
tions to attend the services.
HEARING IN BABY
CASE SEPT. 10TH
Local Woman Held Under
$2,000 Bond On Charge
Concealing Childbirth
BABY SAID BORN DEAD
A preliminary hearing for Mrs.
John Hudspeth, of Elkin, under
$2,000 bond in Wilkes county on
a charge of concealing childbirth,
will be held at Wilkesboro Sep
tember 10 at 2 p. m., it was
learned Wednesday from Sheriff
W. B. Somers, Wilkes county
sheriff.
Mrs. Hudspeth was taken into
custody at Wilkesboro late last
Wednesday afternoon when offi
cers learned the identity of a pre
maturely born baby found the
preceding Sunday in a Wilkes
county well, located a few miles
west of Elkin.
The mother of the baby girl, it
was learned, was Mrs. Flake
Bxown, of Elkin, sister of Mrs.
Hudspeth. The child was born
dead in Taylorsville, and, accord
ing to its mother, was turned over
to Mrs. Hudspeth for burial in
the family plot here. Instead,
however, the body, incased in a
small pasteboard box, was drop
ped in a 60-foot deep dry well.
Mrs. Hudspeth, when taken in
to custody, declined to discuss the
affair, or shed any light on it in
any way. The body of the child
is known to have been dropped
into the well by two men.
Mrs. Brown's statement that
the baby was born dead was sub
stantiated by the attending phy
sician. The woman has been sep
arated from her husband for
more than a year, it is under
stood.
REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD
RALLY AT HARMONY 28
A Republican rally and picnic
will be held in the high school
auditorium in Harmony Friday,
August 28th.
An interesting program, which
will feature an address by Gilliam
Grissom, Republican candidate
for governor, has been arranged.
Everyone is urged to attend
and bring baskets. The program
will begin at 10 A. M.
There are 627,334 square feet of
floor space in the capitol at
Washington.
SELECTION OF P. 0.
SITE IS EXPECTED BY
IST OF SEPTEMBER
Bids Submitted Now Being
Studied and Analyzed
BIDS ARE NOT MODIFIED
Will Not Ask Such Bids Un
less It Is Decided Prices
Are Too High
R E P O R T IS SUBMITTED
By PAUL MAY
Tribune Washington Bureau
Washington, D. C., August 26.
Selection of the site for the new
Elkin post office building will be
made early next month, it was
predicted today at the treasury's
procurement division.
The site agent's report of the
bids submitted for the Elkin site
is now being studied and analyzed
by the treasury department engi
neers and postal inspectors, pro
curement division officials stated.
From their study of the field
report on the Elkin site proposals,
the engineers and inspectors are
making a review of the situation,
which will be given the joint
treasury-post office department
committee on Federal bulidings
and sites next week, officials
said.
The'selection of the Elkin site
will be made by the joint com
mittee on the basis of the review
and the site agent's recommen
dation, according to officials.
Officials said they had received
no modificaiions of the original
bids submitted for the Elkin site.
Modified bids will not be called
for unless the joint committee de
cides that present proposals are
too high to permit a selection,
they added.
CHATHAM IS OUT
OF TOURNAMENT
Blanketeers Lose To Fox
Tuesday Night by Score
Of 13 to 8
TEAM IS ELIMINATED
With two victories behind them
in their quest for national honors
in the naional semi-pro baseball
tournament at Wichita, Kansas,
the Chatham Blanketeers were
eliminated from the tournament
Tuesday night by a Pox Film
team. The score was 13 to 8.
The Blanketeers were defeated
in their first game of the series,
losing to the Elgin Watch com
pany. They came back to defeat
a Kingam company team 5 to 4,
and the Gadsden, Ala., team of
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company 12 to 2, advancing to
fourth place in the tournament.
Had they won Tuesday night they
would have been elevated to third
place.
In Tuesday's game, the Blanke
teers got 16 hits and made 6 er
rors. Their opponents were held
to 11 hits, making only 3 errors.
The team., it is understood, is
now on the way home.
TERRACE MACHINE
IS NOW IN BRYAN
Those Wanting Work Done
Should Make Arrangements
While Machine Is There
COST ABOUT $2.19 ACRE
The county terracing machine is
now located in Bryau township
where it will be at work t».r a
week or so. according*to a .state
ment by J. W. Crawford, and
those who are interested in get
ting work done on their farms are
urged to see him and make ar
rangements for their work before
the machinery leaves that section
of the county. v
Mr. Crawford also stated that
the cost of the machinery for
terracing is $3.00 per hour to be
paid before the equipment leaves
the field. This cost runs about
$2.19 an acre, he said, with some
land costing only 75c an acre for
terracing.
The sub soiling machinery is
also located in the same territory
and is being used along with the
terracing outfit.
Correct this sentence: "Hard
ships will make a man of him,"
said the fond mama. "So I favor
pushing him out on his own."
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936
Which Way || The Straw
. ROOSEVELT V. . / LANDON .
Roosevelt Holds Lead
In Local Poll; Landon
Is Ahead Nationally
Landon Gains One Ballot in Votes Received Here During Past
Week; Nation-Wide Returns Show Republican Candi
date Leading Rival by Approximately 6,000 Votes;
Lemke is in Third Place With 3,485
Governor Alf M. Landon, Re
publican candidate for president,
received one vote more than
Franklin D. Roosevelt during the
past week's voting in The Tri
bune's presidential straw vote, Mr.
Roosevelt continuing to hold a
small lead over his opponent lo
cally.
The local vote now stands as
follows:
Roosevelt 50
Landon 39
Brower (Communist) ....1
Have you voted? If not, clip the
ballot printed on the back page of
this issue of The Tribune, mark
a cross opposite the candidate you
favor, and mail or bring it to The
Tribune. You don't have to sign
your name to vote, merely sign
your postoffice address so that
your vote may correctly be tabu
lated in nation-wide returns.
New York, August 26.—Approx
imately 100,000 ballots from 32
states in the nation-wide presi
dential straw-vote, which is be
ing conducted by newspapers in
small towns and rural America,
poured into national straw-vote
headquarters here during the last
ELKIN SCHOOLS TO
OPEN ON SEPT. 21
Contracts Let On Equipment
For New High School
Building Monday
TOTAL COST $3,360.52
At a meeting of the Surry
County Board of Education at
Dobson Monday night the open
ing date of the county schools was
set for Monday, September 21.
The reason assigned for the
schools starting later than usual
this year was that the enrollment
is largely rural and that this ad
ditional time would be needed to
help with harvesting the late
orops in the county, many of the
crops not maturing as early as
usual on account of the drouth
the early part of the summer.
It was also pointed out that the
additional time would be an ad
vantage locally as it would be re
quired for the installation of the
equipment for the new high
school building.
Contracts were let at the meet
ing for the equipment, all items
tu meet certain specifications.
Contracts were awarded as fol
lows: Group A: consisting of 210
metal frame, plywood classroom
desks, Irwin Seating Co.. Grand
Rapids, Mich.; Class B: Teachers
desks, visitors chairs, library ta
bles and chairs, letter files, stools,
teacher's room tables and waste
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10 days thus affording the first
state by state tabulation.
As between Roosevelt and Lan
don only, total of 69,602 votes,
first tabulated returns from the 18
states, show:
Landon 37,937 54.5%
Roosevelt 31,665 45.5%
In the 18 states the total vote
of 74,703 are distributed to favor
ite candidates, as follows:
Landon , 37,937 50.0%
Roosevelt 31,665 42.3%
Lemke 3,485 4.7%
Thomas 720 1.0%
Colvin 336 .5%
Browder 560 .7%
Total 74.703 100%
In the eighteen states, where
the first national returns were
tabulated, Landon shows first ma
jorities in 10 of the 18. They are
as follows: Illinois, Indiana, lo
wa, Maryland, Minnesota, New
Jersey, New York, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Roosevelt shows first majorities
in the eight following states:
Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Ne
braska, North Carolina, North Da
kota, Ohio and Texas.
The vote thus far in North Car
olina discloses Roosevelt leading
with 756 votes to Governor Lan
don's 594.
CHARGES 3 HERE
WITH BURGLARY
Said To Have Entered Home
Tuesday Night in North
Elkin Section
2 OTHERS ARE NABBED
Five persons, including one wo
man, were arrested hereabouts
Tuesday night and early Wednes
day morning as a result of a ser
ies of charges and counter
charges. Of the five, two are out
on bond, charged with theft,
while the remaining three are in
jail on a charge of burglary.
The five are: Conley and Har
vey Martin, Willie Cooper, Mrs.
Willie Cooper and George Chil
dress. The latter two were allow
ed bond.
According to Deputy Sheriff C.
S. Poster, who, aided by Deputy
W. J. Snow, .made the arrests,
the two Martin boys and Willie
Cooper are alleged to have enter
ed the home of Jesse Couch, of
the North Elk in section, stealing
an unnamed type of musical in
strument. The burglary was said
to have taken place after sun
down Tuesday evening.
The three were then alleged to
have gone to Cooper's home where
tne two Martins allege they were
robbed of sg2B. As a result, they
swore out warrants charging Wil
lie Cooper, his wife, and George
Childress, with theft.
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Masonic Picnic Is To
Be Held Here Today;
Plan Good Program
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
WOULD REDUCE
LIBERTY OF PRESS
Boston, Aug. 25.—A proposed
statute to prevent "newspaper
interference with criminal jus
tice" was placed before the
American Bar association to
day by Philip Lutz, Jr., attor
ney general of Indiana, as
eminent lawyers and journa
lists assailed the "publicity
evil" attending celebrated trials.
"The most serious criticism
of American criminal proce
dure today is that the judges
of the courts permit newspa
pers to usurp the court's own
functions and duties," Lutz
told the section of criminal
law at the 59th annual meet
in? in his report as chairman
of the committee.
GLASS TO VOTE
FOR ROOSEVELT
Washington, Aug. 25.—Pres
ident Roosevelt is very indig
nant over the interpretations
being made by news commen
tators and editorial writers of
the manner of his introduction
by Senator Carter Glass .at the
Monticello exercises July 4.
This was revealed today by
the Virginia senator after a
lons conference with President
Roosevelt following which he
declared he would vote for the
re-election of the Democratic
presidential nominee but left
in doubt, in his discussions
with newspaper correspondents,
whether he would actively fur
ther that candidacy.
BULLITT NAMED
FRENCH AMBASSADOR
Washington, Aug. 25.—Dap
per, well-to-do William Chris
tian Bullitt, of Philadelphia,
first United States ambassador
to the soviet union, today was
named by President Roosevelt
to be ambassador to France
succeeding Jesse I. Straus, of
New York.
Retirement of Straus because
of ill health, was announced by
the President a few minutes
prior to the naming- of Bullitt.
BYRNES PILES
UP BIG LEAD
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 25.
Senator James F. Byrnes, run
ning on his record as a Roose
velt administration supporter,
piled up an overwhelming lead
over two opponents, both se
vere clitics of the new deal, in
early returns from today's
Democratic primary >' for the
United States senate.
GYM PROJECT IS
GIVEN APPROVAL
Will Be Wood Structure, To
Cost $8,600; Few Changes
In Plans
PLAYGROUND LOCA^ON
Word was received here Tues
day of the approval by the WPA
of Elkin's gymnasium with the
assurance that as soon as a few
minor details of the original plans
were changed that actual con
struction would begin.
The building will be a wood
structure and will cost $8,600. It
will be a one story building with
showers and locker rooms in the
basement for both boys and girls.
The plans also call for a regula
tion basketball court in the build
ing with seating room for spec
tators along the sides of the court.
The building will be erected on
the city playground, at the rear
of the new high school building.
Tlxls has been one of the ma
jor projects of the town for a
number of years and many of the
civic organizations of the town
have contributed liberally to the
fund to supplement the WPA
grant.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
EVENT TO FEATURE
ADDRESS, CONCERT
BY SINGING CLASS
Judge J. C. Padgett Is To Be
Chief Speaker
RIDING DEVICES HERE
Baseball Game in Afternoon
Is Scheduled; Chatham
Cubs to Play
DINNER TO BE AT 12
With riding devices already on
hand, being located near the
north end of the old bridge to the
rear of the Gulf Service Station,
and all other arrangemens made,
a large crowd is expected here to
day for the Surry-Yadkin-Wilkes-
Masonic picnic.
Judge J. C. Padgett, of Inde
pendence, Va„ will make the ma
jor address of the day, at 11
o'clock while a concert by the Ox
ford Orphanage singing class will
head" the program of entertain
ment. One of the major features,
perhaps, will be the picnic dinner
to be staged at noon.
This afternoon a 4 o'clock a
baseball game has been scheduled
between the Chatham team man
aged by Ab Crater, and Pilot
Mountain. This game will be
played at Chatham Park.
It was announced by A. L. Grif
feth, chairman of the event, that
the riding devices would be open
to colored people only Friday af
ternoon beginning at 2 o'clock.
Elkin stores, cooperating with
picnic officials, will close this
morning at 10 a. m., and remain
ed closed until 2 p. m., with ex
ception of drug stores, so that
employees may attend the event.
The Lee riding devices will re
main here through Saturday
night.
MOORS JOIN IN
SPANISH AFFAIR
Loyalists Call on Populace to
Rise Against "Moorish
Invasion"
MADRID IS THREATENED
Madrid, Aug. 25—The govern
ment tonight called on the popu
lace to rise against the "Moorish
invasion," following reports that
Moorish legionnaires brought to
the mainland by rebels had in
creased their activity.
Officials declared "no mercy
will be shown these uncivilized
barbrians."
It was asserted in Madrid to
night that 500 Moors had charged
government troops in the Naval
peral sector armed with hand
grenades, but had been driven off
with 80 killed and many wounded.
The bodies of the Moors, it was
learned, were cremated on the
field of action after being cover
ed with gasoline drenched brush.
The government tonight threw
a heavy guard around Getafe air
drome outside Madrid bombed by
rebel airplanes Sunday. These
bombs, Premier Jose Oiral Pereira
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