Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXVI. No. 2
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
BELOVED CONCERT
SINGER IS DEAD
Hollywood, Nov. 17. Mtae.
Ernestine Schumann - Heink,
world-famous contralto, died
at her home tonight of a Mood
disease which became acute
last night.
After a blood transfusion
failed to improve her condition
the 75-year-old diva lapsed into
a coma shortly before 6 p. m.
and died without regaining
consciousness.
She died surrounding by her
children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
The white-haired diva was
75. She had achieved inter
national fame in four separate
theatrical careers, and was em
barking on a fifth motion
pictures when death ended
her succession of triumphs.
PRESIDENT ON
WAY TO S. A.
En Route With President
Roosevelt, Nov. 17. For the
second time in history, the
President of the United States
was speeding toward foreign
soil tonight to participate in a
conference designed to streng-
Jl then the fabric of world peace.
Arranging to keep in touch
by radio with developments in
the maritime strike and other
problems at home, President
Roosevelt headed for Buenos
Aires, Argentina, to open peace
and trade discussions Decem
ber 1 between 21 American re
publics.
He left the capital shortly af
ter 8 p. m. for Charleston, S.
C., where he will begin his
ocean voyage tomorrow.
PREPARE FOR
FARM PROGRAM
Washington, Nov. 17. Be
fore leaving the capital today
for South America, President
Roosevelt set up machinery to
prepare for the next session of
Congress a broad program for
converting farm tenants into
land owners.
Characterizing the farm ten
ant problem as "a challenge to
national action," the chief ex
ecutive named a committee of
38 men and women headed by
Secretary Wallace to meet it in
a "thoroughly constructive
manner."
WILL NOT TURN
BACK RELIEF
Washington, Nov. 17. As
surance' that the government
has no intention of turning the
relief problem back to com
munities was given the United
States conference of mayors to
day by Harry L. Hopkins,
works progress administrator.
His statement closely follow
>ed a prediction by Postmaster
General James A. Farley that
the works progress administra
tion would be liquidated as
business improvement reduced
unemployment.
SIAMESE TWIN ILL
WITH PNEUMONIA
New York, Nov. 17. Sim
plicio Godino, enjoying fine
was the guest at a hos
pital here today, while in the
same bed, his Siamese twin,
Lucio, was critically ill with
pneumonia.
Lucio registered a tempera
ture of 105 degrees. His broth
er's temperature was normal.
FREE MOVIE TO
BE SHOWN HERE
Picture Deals With the Funda
mentals of Basketball and
of Offense and Defense
A demonstration of basketball
by the Olsen Terrible Swedes,
world's champions, will be shown
on the screen as a free movie in
the Elktn school auditorium to
night at 8 o'clock.
Special invitations to see this
Aiovie are being extended all high
school boys, basketball players,
and coaches in this section.
The picture was produced by a
leading manufacturer of sporting
goods, and deals with the funda
mentals of basketball, each posi
tion, find also demonstrations of
offense and defense.
Hoyt Hambright and Edworth
Harris are responsible for the
showing of the picture here. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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HARVEY PARDUE IS
ARRESTED; NOW IN
GREENSBORO JAIL
Jonesville Youth Is Held on
Federal Charge
WAS DECLARED OUTLAW
Wanted in Wilkes on Charge
of Robbery; Was Nab- %
bed in Maryland
HEARING IN DECEMBER
Harvey "Pee Wee" Pardue, of
Jonesville, who was declared an
outlaw approximated nine
months ago by a supmor court
judge at North Wilkesboro, is
now in Jail at Greensboro follow
ing his arrest in Maryland a lit
tle over a week ago.
Complete details of Pardue's ar
rest could not be obtained | here,
his capture said to have been
brought about by federal agents
who were seeking him on a charge
of theft of an automobile and
transporting it across state lines.
It was said, however, that the
young man and several compan
ions were arrested while present
at a corn shucking.
Brought to North Carolina,
where he is wanted on several
charges, among which are high
way robbery and firing upon of
ficers he was placed in jail at
Greensboro to await trial in fed
eral y court there during the week
of December 7.
Pardue, it is understood, had
made the boast that he would
never be taken alive. He is al
leged to have been in on the rob
bery of a Yadkin county man
near Doughton, and later to have
made his way to Alabama where
he was said to have held up a
motorist and after forcing the
man from his car, to have driven
it to' Elkin.
Local police were tipped off
that Pardue was in town and sur
prised him near the Elkin school
building. Shots were fired by
both police and fugitive, but all
went wild. He was successful in
making an escape and his where
abouts had been unknown until
his recent arrest in Maryland.
MUCH INTEREST IS
SHOWN IN REVIVAL
The revival which is in progress
at the Elkin Pilgrim Holiness
church, is getting well under way.
A fine spirit is prevailing in each
service, with unusual interest be
ing shown. The Emmanuel Quar
tet, evangelistic singers and
preachers of Cincinnati, Ohio,
have been delivering excellent
messages both in song and preach
ing.
A special service will be held
Friday evening, Nov. 20, when the
quartet will sing several requests
and each member will give a
sketch of his life's story, in past
experience this service has proven
to be very interesting.
Three services are held each
Sunday: at 11:00 a. m., 3:00 p. m.
and 7:30 p. m. All are given a
special invitation to attend these
services.
Americanism: Paying SIOO in
taxes; feeling like a favorite of
Santa Claus when the government
gives you SSO of it to 1 waste.
Price On Surry
Outlaw's Head
Raised to S2OO
The price on the head of
Caleb Wagoner, 44-year-old
Surry county outlaw and fugi
tive from state prison, has been
raised to S2OB by a recent offer
from Master Detective maga
zine to pay SIOO for the capture
of the outlaw by someone who
noticed his picture in the pub
lication's criminal line-up.
A reward of SIOO was offer
ed for Wagoner's apprehension
by the state of North Carolina
two weeks ago after strenuous
efforts on the part of Surry
county officers and agents of
the state prison service failed
to effect his capture.
Authorities are still unable to
trap the outlaw or loeate his
hideout, they stated last night,
but he was believed for a while
to be staying at his father's
home and to be hiding from
searching parties in the densely
wooded country which covers
a large area along the Ararat
river and stretches from Wag
oner's home in the forks of the
Ararat and Yadkin rivers to
the western slopes of Pilot
Mountain,
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. . . . Pictured above are members of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization, headed by John L Lewis, Presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of America. Left to right they
are: Charles P. Howard, Indianapolis, head of the International Ty
pographical Union; Sidney Hill man, New York, President, Amalga
mated Clothing Workers of America; Lewis, and Glenn -McCabe, Co
lumbus, Head of the Flat Glass Federation. Their peace bid to Pres
ident Green of the American Federation of Labor, hit a snag when
Green stated that he lacked authority to change the policy outlined
by the Federation's executive committee.
$17,990 LOANED
IN SURRY IN '36
Made By Production Credit
Association to Farmers
of County
REPAYMENTS ARE GOOD
L. E. Francis, secretary and
treasurer of the Winston-Salem
Production Credit Association, was
in Dobson Wednesday attending
to business matters and while
there stated to a Tribune reporter
that the total amount of loans
granted this year in the district
served by the association, which
embraces Surry, Wilkes, Forsyth,
Davidson, Yadkin, Wilkes, Alle
ghany, Ashe, Wautauga and
Caldwell counties, was in. excess
of $90,000. Six hundred and 25
loans have been made, more than
one third of which have already
been paid in full, and less than
$40,000 of the total amount is still
outstanding.
The Production Credit Associa
tion is not a government institu
tion, but is a borrowing and lend
ing association which was made
possible by a government appro
priation, and is chartered by and
under the supervision of the gov
ernment. Anyone who joins the
association becomes a sharehold
er in its assets and has a right to
a voice in the management of its
affairs by virtue of the bylaws of
the company.
The capital stock of the asso
ciation is $130,000, with much
more than that available as loans.
One hundred and six loans in
Surry county this year amounted
to $17,990, and Mr. Francis stated
that repayments were good, which
is an indication that the loans are
beneficial to those securing them.
W. H. Hardy is the Surry coun
ty director of the association, and
Aubry P. Snow, of Surry, is the
bookkeeper at the home office.
The loans the association grants
are for operating purposes, which
consist of paying fertilizer bills,
re-financing loans, buying feed
for fattening and breeding, and
for other operating expenses of
the farm. The loans, which are
short-time loins, are secured by a
first mortgage on moveable prop
erty, with a minimum loan of SSO.
Loans in Surry county this year
ran from SSO to SSOO. Loans may
be obtained at the home office,
located in Winston-Salem, at any
time of the year.
MOTHER OF C. S. FOSTER
DIES AT GEORGIA HOME
C. S. Foster and daughter, Miss
Mary Foster, left early Wednes
day morning for Rome, Georgia,
where they were called on account
of the death of Mr. Foster's moth
er, Mrs. Mary E. Murphy. No de
tails of the funeral arrangements
were available when the Tribune
Went to press.
Singing Meeting
The Yadkin County Quartette
Convention will be held in the
Jonesville school auditorium Sun
day afternopn, November 22, at
2:30. All singers are invited to
be present and take part in the
service and a cordial invitation is
extended the public to attend.
ELKIN. N. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936
Stores Will Close
In Observance of
Thanksgiving- Day
All stores and business hous
es will be closed Thursday, No
vember 26, in observance of
Thanksgiving Day, according
to Mrs. Franklin Fotger, secre
tary of the Elkin Merchants
TOBACCO GROWERS
TO STAGE RALLY
Event Is Sponsored by Win
ton Tobacco Market Com
mittee of Chamber
TO BE HELD NOV. 25TH
Winston-Salem, November 18.—
The second rally of tobacco grow
ers in this section, sponsored by
the Tobacco Market Committee
of the Chamber of Commerce, Re
tail Merchants Association and
Winston Warehouse Association,
will be held in fiont of the For
syth County Courthouse, on Third
Street, on Wednesday, November
25. at 1 p. m. Announcement of
the rally was made today by
Chairman George L. Irvin, Jr.
The program will consist of a
brief message particularly to to
bacco growers by Ancus L. Payne,
County Commissioner, music by
the R. J. Reynolds High School
Band, and the awarding of sub
stantial prizes to tobacco growers
who have registered at the booths
maintained by the joint commit
tee in the Trade Street Branch of
the Wachovia Bank, and the
temporary Eighth Street Branch
of the First National Bank.
Mr. Irvin said that since the
of the tobacco market on
October 5, more than 36,000 to
bacco growers from all sections of
the state have indicated their in
terest in the program of the three
organizations as they pertain to
the sale of leaf tobacco by depos
iting their names in the boxes pro
vided. It is hoped that a large
number of these growers, their
families and others who are in
terested will attend the rally.
Immediately following the gath
ering on Wednesday, the third
period of registration will open,
culminating in the annual Christ
mas Party given by the Tobacco
Market Committee for the tobac
co growers and their families who
sell on the Winston-Salem mar
ket.
BASKETBALL TOURNEY
ENDS SATURDAY NIGHT
The Dobson basketball tourna
ment came to a close last Satur
day night with the Flatrock school
carrying away the winning hon
ors for the boys teams, and the
Copeland school taking the lead
with the girls teams.
In the finals Flatrock defeated
Dobson by, a score of 20 to 17 be
tween the boys' teams, and Cope
land defeated Westfield by P.
score of 33 to 19 as to the girls'
teams.
More than twenty games were
played in the entire toumment.
TWO ARE ARRESTED
HERE SATURDAY IN
WELL BABY AFFAIR
Gladstone Carter and Mrs.
Brown in Custody
RELEASED UNDER BOND
Will Face Hearing This Morn
ing at Wilkesboro Be
fore Magistrate
CHARGES ARE UNKNOWN
A preliminary hearing for Glad
stone Carter and Mrs. Flake
Brown, both of Elkin, is scheduled
to be held before Magistrate A. S.
Cassell at Wilkesboro this morn
ing at 10 o'clock growing out of
the discovery of a newly born
baby in a Wilkes county well near
here some months ago.
Carter and Mrs. Brown were
arrested Saturday and placed un
der bond of SSOO each. Carter is
alleged to have been one of the
men who was seen to throw a
package into the -well the night
prior to the discovery of the tiny
body the following morning. Mrs.
Brown, who has geen separated
from her husband for sometime, is
admittedly the mother -of the
child.
Officers learned a short time
after the baby's lifeless body was
found that Mrs. Brown was the
mother, the child having been
born dead in a Taylorsville hospi
tal. Mrs. Brown claimed at the
time that she turned the body
over to her sister, Mrs. John Hud
speth, of Elkin, for burial in the
family plot here, and that she
did not know the baby had been
disposed of by being tossed into
a dry well. Mrs. Hudspeth was
arrested at the time, but declined
to throw any further light upon
the case, later being dismissed
after a hearing in Wilkesboro.
The exact charges against Mrs.
Brown and Carter were not
learned.
OUTLOOK DEPENDS
ON SIZE OF CROP
Tobacco Consumption This
Year is About Equal
With Production
CARRY OVER IS SAME
The flue-cured tobacco outlook
for 1937 will depend mainly on
the size of next year's crop.
This is the forecast sent E. Y.
Floyd, extension tobacco special
ist at State College, by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. '
Consumption this year is ap
proximately equal to production,
and the stocks on hand next July
are expected to be about the same
as they were this past summer.
American tobacco growers are
facing stronger foreign competi
tion. Although domestic consump
tion is increasing, exports are de
clining, with the result that the
disappearance of flue-cured to
bacco this year is continuing at
about the same rate.
The carry-over from this year
will be about the same as the
carry-over from the large 1935
crop. But at the present record
level of domestic consumption,
these stocks are not considered
excessive.
That is, these stocks are con
sidered about right as long as pro
duction is kept in line with con
sumption. With the total cori
sumptior remaining about the
same, as now expected, any change
in production would affect the
1937 price level.
Since prices for the 1936 crop
in the flue-ctired area are above
those for 1935, there will be a
tendency for growers to expand
their acreage unless a definite
check is placed upon the crop.
If such an expansion would lead
to a material increase in produc
tion, the price outlook for 1937
would not be as favorable as it
was for 1936, the Department of
Agriculture pointed out.
TO PRESENT "LOOK OUT
LIZZIE" AT JONESVILLE
A play "Look Out Lizzie" a
comedy in three acts, will be pre
sented Friday evening at 8 o'clock
in the JonesvUle school auditor
ium. The show will be under the
auspices of the Jonesville Parent-
Teachers association and the cast
is composed of members of the
faculty and local people.
The performance will be inter
sperse! with tap dancing and
singing. A cordial invitation is
extended the public to attend.
Goodbye Ranch
RENO, Nev. . . . Julian T. Bishop
(above) isn't a cowboy . . . nor is
it a ranch he's going to sell. It's
a quail farm in North Carolina
and Bishop, New York stock
broker, says he will have to make
good his pre-election statement to
sell his American property if
President Roosevelt were reelect
ed. However, he's not going to
leave the Country. He's going to
Nevada to live, he says.
WILKES ELECTION
CASE UNSETTLED
Jurist Declines to Rule on
Matter, Saying He Has
No Authority
WILL CONTINUE FIGHT
The mandamus hearing in the
Wilkes county election case ended
briefly in Yadkinville Monday
when Judge J. H. Clement, of
Winston-Salem, ruled after a
short argument, that he had no
jurisdiction over the matter with
the statement that the returns
had been certified by the Wilkes
county board of elections before
proceedings were begun.
The contestants, Republicans
who were defeated in the recent
election, charged that D. B.
Swaringen, now chairman of the
board of commissioners of Wilkes
county, and who was defeated by
Leet Poplin by two votes, should
have had a majority of nearly
100 instead of being defeated.
Although no evidence was pre
sented, it was said the Republi
cans had with them affidaflts by
every Republican who voted in
Rock Creek township, where the
contention arose. The affidavits
show, it was said, that 389 persons
votea a straight Republican tick
et. They also were said to show
that enough Repcblicans voted
for Swaringen to give him a vote
of 441 whereas the election re
turns from that precinct only
gave him 341, causing his defeat.
Following Judge Clement's de
cision that he had no authority
in the matter, attorneys pressing
the case stated that they will
carry the matter *o the high
courts.
Expects Liquidation of WPA
London, Nov. 16. U. S. Post
master-General James A. Farley
said today it was his "personal
opinion" that the Roosevelt ad
ministration would liquidate the
works progress administration as
soon as business improvement re
duced unemployment.
"As industry improves, provid
ing additional employment," he
said, "my personal opinion is that
the, administrate, as quickly as
it can, will turn the unemployed
back to the states, towns and
counties.
"There probably will be federal
help, but I am satisfied that they
will clean up the WPA as soon as
they can."
Powell Succeeds Wade
Raleigh. Nov. 16.—Stacy Wilson
Wade, North Carolina's secretary
of state since 1933, resigned today
to become administrator of the
federal social security office here.
Charles Powell, private secre
tary to Governor Ehringhaus, was
appointed by the chief executive
to fill Wade's unexpired term,
which will end early in January
when Thad Eure assumes the du
ties of office. Eure defated Wade
in the recent Democratic primary
and subsequently was elected to
the post.
In New, Location
Mrs. D. H. Morrison has moved
her flower shop and sewing room
into the Greenwood building on
Market Street from the Elkin Na
tional Bank Building. She invites
her patrons to visit her there. .
Soaking the rich guys sounds
all right, but dynamiting the big
fish in a pond is equally hard on
the little ones.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FASCISTS HOLD ON
TO GAINS DESPITE
BITTER STRUGGLE
Airplanes Drop Bombs in
Business Section
MADRID IS WAR TORN
Unestimated Number Killed
in Two Raids by Fascist
War Planes
CAMPUS IS WRECKED
Madrid, Nov. 17. Government
batteries tonight shelled Univer
sity City in the northwestern sec
tion of Madrid where fascist In
surgents stubbornly defended their
positions.'
The once beautiful campus of
the modern university in a few
hours become a crater pocked no
mans' land, its spacious lawns and
parks - the newest battlefield of
the bloody Spanish civil war
which will be four months old
Wednesday.
The roar of shot, shell and
bomb rumbled over all Madrid to
day. #
An unestimated number of the
city's war-weary populace was
killed in two raids by fascist war
planes from which bombs streak
ed down into the center of the
city.
Government batteries directed
a barrage against insurgent com
munication lines across the Man
zanares river already forded by
General Francisco Franco's ad
vance units.
In mid-aftcrnoon the leaders of
Madrid's defense announced the
fascist advance into the city had
been "checked.
But the fascists held their hard
won posts within Madrid's city
limits. Into the stately buildings,
many of them newly completed,
in the university they straggled,
mounting their machine guns in
protected niches.
The Madrid government, while
issuing manifestos that the city
itself was not in immediate dan-
ger of being captured, warned
that house - to - house fighting
might occur soon.
SAMUEL P. SHORE
TAKEN BY DEATH
Yadkin County Man Passes
Following Illness and
Major Operation
LAST RITES TUESDAY
Samuel P. Shore, 73, of Yadkin
county, died at the local hospital
early Monday, following a critical
illness and a major operation.
He is survived by four sons, P.
W. Shore, Jonesville; Grover
Shore, Winston-Salem; Jones
Shore, High Point and Pierce
Shore of Lincoln Park, Mich.;
one brother, Houston Shore, Jon
esville; and three sister, Mrs. D.
Wilkins, Jonesville; Mrs. Lodge
Armstrong, Winston-Salem and
Mrs. J. R. Jolly, Jonesville.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning from Fall Creek
Baptist church, near Jonesville, in
charge of Rev. Isom Vestal and
Rev. James Murray. • Interment
was in the church cemetery.
KIWANIANS ATTEND
PLAY FRIDAY NIGHT
The Elkin Kiwanis club met at
Brook s Cross Roads Friday night,
and following a bountiful supper,
attended a play presented at the
West Yadkin high school, which
was highly entertaining and en-
Joyed by *ll.
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