Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXV, No. 43
Democrats To Select
Candidates Saturday
Afternoon At Dobson
MANY CANDIDATES
ARE IN FIELD FOR
SURRY CO. OFFICES
Six Are Seeking the Nomina
tion for Sheriff
MAY BE HOT AFTERNOON
Miss Virginia Barker Oppos
ing Uncle For Job As
Register of Deeds
3 FOR REPRESENTATIVE
The Surry county Democratic
convention stage is set for Satur
day when candidates and voters
alike trek to Dobson to name a
ticket for the November election.
Judging from the number of
candidates who have announced
for this or that office, the con
vention will see a warm after
noon.
To date 13 candidates are seek
ing the three offices of sheriff,
register of deeds and representa
tive in the state legislature. Sev
eral more, while not actively seek
ing the nominations would make
the race if nominated, it is under
stood.
The job of sheriff appears to
be most popular, with six in the
field seeking the nomination and
with it understood that Sheriff
John D. Thompson, although not
officially seeking the nomination,
would not decline to rim should
his party again honor him by
placing his name on the ballot.
Candidates who have announ
ced for sheriff are as follows:
Jesse Monday, Dobson; Harvey
Boyd, Mount Airy; Bausley Beas
ley, Mount Airy; Guy Sparger,
Stewart's Creek township; Sam
D. Cook, Stewart's Creek town
ship; and Dixie Reeves, Dobson.
Friends of C. S. Foster, of Elk
in, for the past several years a
deputy sheriff, are urging him to
make the race for high sheriff,
confident that he can be nom
inated and elected.
Four candidates are seeking the
nomination for register of deeds,
among them being a woman can
didate, Miss Mary Virginia Bark
er, of Elkin. Miss Barker, a
teacher in the Elkin schools for
the past several years, is a niece
of W. M. Grey, present register
of deeds and also a candidate for
the office to succeed himself.
Howard Miller, of Siloam, and J.
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BEGIN SURFACING
OF DOBSON ROAD
Detour Carries Traffic Over
Old Rockford Road From
Dobson to Elkin
WILL SOON BE READY
The machinery was being plac
ed on the Dobson-Elkin road be
tween Pairview and Dobson Wed
nesday morning in preparation for
the surfacing of that section of
the road. Detour signs were up
directing the traffic around by
way of the old Rockford road to
Dobson from Elkin, and it is ex
pected that the long awaited hard
surface will soon be in use.
The Elkin-Dobson highway has
been a series of gravel and dust
patches interspersed by strips of
hard surfacing since the weather
tore the road up early in the
spring, and it is very gratifying
to learn that Elkinites may soon
travel toward the county seat
without the discomfort of accom
panying clouds of dust.
REBELS MAKE BLOODY
ATTACK ON IRUN
Inln, Spain, Sept. 1.
Trenches full of government
forces were blown Into the air
by direct hits of rebel shells in
a desperate assault on this be
leaguered city tonight.
Time and time again the fas
cist rebel artillerymen found
deadly range and blasted their
enemy-countrymen to bits.
After each instance of this
mass carnage, government re
inforcements rushed out from
Irun to meet death from tho
next shell.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
[ATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
INCREASED REVENUES
WILL CUT DEFICITS
Washington, Sept. I.—Unex
pectedly issuing his revised bud
get today, President Roosevelt
forecast that the biggest fed
eral income in peace time his
tory would cut the fiscal year's
gross deficit to $2,096,996,300.
He estimated that govern
ment revenue for the year end
ing next June 30 would be $5,-
665,839,000, including $410,-
000,000 from the first half
year's receipt under the new
revenue law. This would be an
increase of more than a bil
lion and a half over last year's.
Expenditures for the year
were placed by the President at
$7,762,835,300. Relief and re
covery costs were estimated at
$1,835,000,000 but the chief
executive said it could not be
determined "for several
months" whether an additional
appropriation would be re
quired.
RITES HELD FOR
SECRETARY DERN
Salt Lake City, Sept. I.—The
army buried its chieftain today
near the gray mountains he
loved.
As President Roosevelt stood
with bared head bowed, beside
the widow, an army bugler
sounded taps—the last farewell
to Secretary of War George
Henry Dern.
A few moments later the
body was lowered into its grave
in beautiful Mount Olivet cem
etery.
Earlier a crowd estimated at
more than 30,000 jammed in
and near the great "Mormon"
tabernacle and the
square gardens for the funeral
service.
HIGHER PRICES PAID
FOR BRIGHT TOBACCO
Raleigh, Sept, I.—Heavy of
ferings of tobacco, which glut
ted new-bright belt warehouses
on the first day of auction
sales, brought prices generally
reported to be several cents a
pound better than those pre
vailing last year.
The opening day crush was
so large that sales and price
totals were available only from
a few of the markets. Reports
from the 14 markets, however,
said farmers in most instances
appeared satisfied.
Greenville, one of the larger
markets, reported opening day
sales of 987,176 pounds at an
average of $22.66 per hundred
pounds.
Correction
Through an error in copying
the names of the local school
faculty, the names of Miss Jose
phine Paul and Miss Emma
Cooke were omitted from the list
of teachers carried in last week's
issue of the Tribune. Misses
Cooke and Paul are both mem
bers of the junior high school
faculty.
The Tribune regrets the error,
Blanketeers To Meet
Craddock-Terry Here
The Chatham Blanketeers, back
from Wichita, Kans., where they
placed seventh in the National
Semi-Pro tournament which feat
ured 36 teams, will open a two
game series here at Chatham
Athletic Field • Friday afternoon
with Craddock-Terry Shoe com
pany, of Lynchburg, Va.
In two previous games with
Lynchburg early this season, the
Blanketeers emerged victorious,
and as a result word has come
from the Shoemen that they have
added two professional pitchers to
their staff with the intention of.
taking Chatham' into camp In
both contests.
Lynchburg has one of the out
standing teams of Virginia in the
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936
JONESVILLE NEGRO
SENTENCED TO DIE
FRIDAY, OCT.3OTH
Raymond Early Convicted 11
Days Arrest
JURY OUT SHORT WHILE
Attorney For Condemned Man
Gives Notice of Appeal to
High Court
HAS 60 DAYS TO FILE
Eleven days after he is alleged
to have committed his crime of
rape, Raymond Early, alias
"Dummie" Moore, 21 year old
Jonesville negro* was in a death
cell in state prison with a sen
tence of death hanging over his
head only a month away.
Moore, who is deaf and dumb,
was convicted in Yadkin superior
court of the crime of rape, the vic
tim being Mrs. Mary Wilkins.
wife of Lewellyn Wilkins of
Jonesville, and occurred at three
o'clock in the morning after the
negro opened a window of the
kitchen and climbed inside and
entered her bedroom. Judge John
H. Clement) sentenced him to die
in the gas chamber on Friday,
October 30.
The jury received the case at
3:15 and returned its verdict one
hour and 10 minutes later. The
deaf and dumb prisoner, who
heard the sentence of death from
the fingers of the interpreter, sat
stolid, seemingly not understand
ing what it was all about until
sentence was completed. At this
point his eyes turned toward the
back corner of the court room,
where his deaf and dumb wife
had remained throughout the
trial. The interpreter stated to
your correspondent that at no
time during the trial or while
sentence was being passed did the
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SURRY ASKS FOR
REBATE OF FUNDS
Joins Seventy-Threel Other
Counties in Request;
Seeking $640,000
TOTAL CLAIM $59,000,000
Surry county has joined a group
of seventy-three North Carolina
counties in filing claims totalling
$59,632,978 against the state for
highway expenditures, the claims
being filed for rebates and reim
bursements authorized by the
general assembly of 1935. The
claims filed by Surry comity to
talled $640,000, the Surry claims
being based on expenditures on
three trunk line highways that
are now a portion of the state's
main system.
The Surry claim ranks around
the median of the amounts filed
by the seventy-four counties, the
others varying from $25,000 claim
ed by Warren county to the huge
sum of $5,106,932 from Mecklen
burg. Twenty-one counties claim
ed the state owed them more
than $1,000,000, running the grand
total to more than seven times
the claims advanced by forty
four counties when the legislature
passed the bill authorizing the
investigation and probable re
bates. The total claimed at that
time was $8,451,171.
The total claim of more than
$59,6C0.000 was reached by the
deadline at midnight on Tuesday,
August 25th, and will be thorough
ly canvassed at a meeting of the
special commission appointed by
Governor Ehringhaus some weeks
ago.
Shoemen and the Blanketeers are
rated as the number one team in
North Carolina. As a result, two
spanking good games of baseball
are in store for fans here Friday
and Saturday.
The probable lineup:
LYNCHBURG CHATHAM
Kouton ss. Clodfelter
Driskell If. Shprt
Carr rf. Mackie
Fortune cf. Weston
Kerr 3b. F. Hambright
White lb. Fitzgerald
Stephenson 2b. Leonard
Crawley c. Jones
Wilson p. Lankford
Officials: Rube Brannon, Pied
mont league; Loosey Adams, Win
ston-Salem.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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1 Rev. Charles E. Coughlin being interviewed at the Cleveland convention of his National Union
for Social Justice which indorsed Lemke for President of the United States. 2—Coast artillery of the
Illinois National Guard turning: on a giant searchlight during the war maneuvers in the Middle West.
3.—Portrait of Gen. Francisco Franco, commander in chief of the rebel forces in the Spanish civil war.
CLUB MEETS WITH
WILKES CO. GROUP
Are Working Toward Im
proving Road Between
Elkin and Traphill
ABOUT 400 ARE PRESENT
The Elkin Kiwanis club met
Friday evening with citizens of
Traphill and others who make
their homes along the Elkin-
Traphill road, in the interest of
getting a better road from Trap
hill to Elkin. Approximately 400
people were present. The meet
ing was held at Charity church.
The meeting was opened with
the invocation by Rev. W. A. Jen
kins. pastor of the Elkin Meth
odist church, following which a
bountiful supper was served pic
nic style by ladies of the com
munity. The supper was highly
enjoyed by all present.
During the meeting talks were
made by Mr. Jenkins, C. D. Hol
brook, of Traphill, L. M. Hin
shaw, of Elkin, L. G. Meed, C. H.
Brewer, both also of this city, and
others. Each speaker stressed
the fact that an improved road
was badly needed and that the
people of the section deserved a
much better outlet to markets.
Mr. Holbrook, in his talk, stat
ed that the citizens of that sec
tion felt very friendly toward the
business men of Elkin, and would
like a better road to Elkin. Mr.
Jenkins responded and assured
them Elkin would do all in her
power to aid in getting a better
road.
A committee to work together
on the project was named as fol
lows: H. P. Graham, C. H. Brewer
and A. L. Griffeth, representing
the Kiwanis club, and Cleat Set
tle, C. D. Holbrook, D. Swarin
gen and L. M. Hinshaw, repre
senting the people of Traphill and
the citizens along the present
road.
BAPTIST REVIVAL
IS WELL ATTENDED
High Point Pastor Aiding Mr.
Whisenhunt in Bringing
Inspiring Sermons
PLAN SPECIAL SERVICES
The revival services at the First
Baptist church this week are be
ing well attended. Rev. C. N.
Royall, pastor of the Qreen Street
Baptist church in High Point, is
assisting the pastor, Rev. Eph
Whisenhunt in the services,
bringing interesting and inspiring
messages at each meeting. Thurs
day evening, Rev. Mr. Royall will
preach a special sermon to the
women and young women, and on
Friday evening the message will
be for men. Thei service Saturday
morning at nine-thirty will be a
special evangelistic meeting for
young people.
Romie Pierce, of Marshville, is
directing the music during v, the
meeting, assisted by the church
choir.
A cordial invitation is extended
all denominations to attend the
services which are held twice
daily, at 9:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m. The meeting will continue at
least to the middle of next week.
Roosevelt, Landon Are
In Tie Locally; Landon
Is Far Ahead In Nation
Champion Ailing
M i-' ■ n
NEW YORK . . . World's heavy
weight champion, James J. Brad
dock (above), is now in the south
land, undergoing treatments to
eliminate pains in left arm and
hand which caused the postpone
ment of the fight in defense of his
title, with Max Schmeling, sched
uled here in September.
WORKONPARKWAY
IS PROGRESSING
Contractors Pushing Work on
Six Projects to Complete
Job in 12 Months
TO BE SCENIC MARVEL
With work progressing at the
present rapid gait, that section
of the Blue. Ridge parkway be
tween the Carolina-Virginia line
and Deep Gap—about 55
should be virtually completed in
a year from this date.
Contractors are pushing work
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Rotogravure Section Is
To Be Monthly Feature
Next week the Tribune will pre
sent to its readers a new monthly
editorial feature in the form of
an all-rotogravure magazine sup
plement.
Dedicated primarily to ad
vancement of the farming and
livestock interests of this com
munity, the rotogravure maga
zine, to be known as The State
Farmer Section of The Tribune,
will contain pages of pictures, a
homemaker's section and other
features of interest to all readers
as well as authoritative, timely
discussions of agricultural prob
lems.
In an initial issue of this roto
gravure magazine will be pre
sented an article especially writ
G. O. P. NOMINEE GAINS
Votes Tabulated Here During
Past Week Are Two to
One In His Favor
LEADS IN 26 STATES
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Governor Alf M. Landon,
Democratic and Republican can
didates for president of the
United States are in an even tie,
local returns from The Tribune
straw poll discloses today.
Votes are coming in slowly,
disclosing that small interest in
the poll is in evidence hereabouts,
with Republicans showing more
activity on behalf of their candi
dates than Democrats.
The latest count shows:
Roosevelt 60
Landon 60
Browder 1
As a result of this week's votes,
Governor Landon has pulled up
from 39 votes last week to tie
Roosevelt, who at that time had
50. Votes received during the
week were as follows:
Landon 21
Roosevelt 10
If you haven't voted as yet you
are urged to clip the ballot print
ed on the back page of, this issue
of The Tribune and mail or bring
to The Tribune office. You don't
have to sign your name— just
your postoffice address.
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ARE TO HOLD MEETING
TO DISCUSS PENSIONS
A public meeting of all Surry
county citizens interested in old
age pensions will be held at the
courthouse in Dobson Saturday
at 12:30 p. m.
The purpose of the meeting is
to discuss the federal social se
curity act and to acquaint those
present with the problems that
are to be solved before North Car
olina can receive benefits in the
form of old age pensions..
ten by Frank Parker, Federal-
State agricultural statistician of
North Carolina. This article "A
Look Ahead For North Carolina"
presents a welL balanced forecast
'of future farming development in
the old North State. In the same
issuff A. B, Bryan of Clemsnn
College, S- C., presents a series of
little stories of big importance to
everyone interested in the agri
culture of the Carolinas.
In addition to the monthly ro
togravure section, The Tribune will
also inaugurate a weekly comic
section beginning with the
of October 22. This section will be
printed in three colors and should
prove a popular addition to the
paper.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AMATEUR PROGRAM
PLANNED FOR THE
ELKINFAIR HERE
Winners Will Receive Audi
tion With Station WBIG
PREMIUM LIST READY
Those Wanting Catalog
Should See or Write Sec
retary of Fair
TENTS ARE WATERPROOF
An amateur program in which
winners will be given a radio au
dition with station WBIG,
Greensboro, and the opportunity
to present a 30-minute program
from its Greensboro studio, is be
ing arranged as one of the many
features of this year's Elkin Pair,
which will be staged here Thurs
day and Friday, October 1 and
2.
Other features of the program,
which this year will be more
varied and entertaining than
during previous fairs, will include
a dog show, a football game and
several other surprise events that
are being planned but are not
yet ready to be announced.
It is also understood that amus
ing games of skill will be on tap
for those who visit the fair, and
that every effort is being made
to make the event the best fair
yet to be held.
The tents in which' the fair
will be housed will be located on
the Click lot on West Main street,
opposite the Elkin Baptist church.
One of the tents will be 60 x 80
feet while the second will be al
most as big, giving as much ex
hibition room as was available in
McNeer's warehouse, site of prev
ious fairs.
To dispel any fears on the part
of exhibitors, it was announced
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BLANKETEERS TO
RECEIVE TROPHY
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As One of 10 Top Teams in
Tourney Will Also Get
Cash Percentage
PLAYERS OFFERED JOBS
The Chatham Blanketeers re
turned to Elkin the latter part
of last week from Wichita, Kans.,
where they placed seventh in the
1936 National Semi-Pro tourna
ment, in which there were 36
teams, all state champions, repre
sented.
The Elkin team was one of the
most popular teams in the tour
nament due to their hustle and
fight in their contests.
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FOLGER IS GIVEN
DEMOCRATIC POST
J. Wallace Winborne of Marion,
state Democratic chairman, said
Tuesday night A. D. Polger of
Mount Airy, national Democratic
committeeman, had been named
director of finance for the party
in North Carolina. He replaces
Herbert G. Oulley of Raleigh.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made following w con
ference between Polger and Win
borne, at the newly opened state
Democratic headquarters at Ral
eigh.
Winborne said he would mail
this week to all county Democra
tic chairmen "Roosevelt-Hoey
Club membership cards and char
ters." Members of the club are
pledged to "vote and work for"
the election of all Democratic
candidates.
K iij
flB EVER TAKES IT.