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| The Bent Little Town VOL. No. XXVI. No. 16 IATENEWC from the State and Nation SENATE PASSES SECURITY BILL Raleigh, Mar. 2.—The House appropriations committee over rode Chairman D. L. Ward, of Craven, this afternoon and voted, 16-14, to send a Senate passed social security bill, ex pected to require $16,000,00 for the biennium, to the floor of the lower legislative branch. WILL URGE PARKWAY COMPLETION Raleigh, March 2.—Senator R. k. Reynolds and Represen tative R. L Dough ton, two of North Carolina's delegation in Congress told .members of the General Assembly at a dinner tonight that they will urge the appropriation of necessary funds to complete the Blue Ridge Parkway. Saying he believed President Roosevelt would see that funds were made available to com plete the park-to-park high way, Doughton said the road "to me at first was a dream, then a reality and then almost an obsession." He added, "I be lieve its scenic beauty will be unrivaled anywhere." ROOSEVELT FOR NEW HOURS, WAGES. Washington, March 2.—Pres ident Roosevelt came out flatly and emphatically today for new wage and hour legislation at the present session of Congress. He said at a press conference that such a statute ought to be enacted and that he hoped it would be before Congress goes home. The President's assertion, in the midst of his fight for pow er to name six new Justices to the Supreme Court bench, where old NRA was killed, stir red immediate speculation as to the possibile effect upon that controversy. GIRL BELIEVED MURDER VICTIM. Charlottesville, Va., Mar. 2 Sheriff J .Mason Smjth declar ed tonight he was "definitely satisfied'' 18-year-old C 1 e o Sprouse, whose chloroformed body was found near the Uni versity of Virginia Cemetery today, was » murder victim. Dr. W. N. Weaver, university pathokftist, reported that an autopsy on the body of the girl showed no signs of criminal at tack. APRIL COURT TERM TO OPEN ON 19TH Commissioners Draw Jury For Two Weeks' Session; Harding to Preside TRIAL CRIMINAL CASES The April term of Surry super ior court will open on Monday April 19th for the trial of crimi nal cases. Judge W. P. Harding is expected to preside over the term, and Allen H. Gwyn, solici tor for this district will prose cute the docket. The Jury list for the two weeks of the term which was drawn Monday of this week by the coun ty commissioners is as follows: First week: J. E. Ailred, G. C. Lovill, J. W. Badgett, Ruff Sut phin, J. L. Martin, John Ayers, P. B. Quesin berry, J. R. Vernon. Taft Moses. G«orge A.-Key, P. M. Wagoner, Wilbur Carter, E. J. Smith, G. C. Branch, Porter Dick ens, C. H. Davis, C. T. Hall, T. M. Simpson, Roy Shelton, C. J. John son, P. C. Smith, L. I. Hutchins, I W. B. Hadley, W. J. Morris, C M. Atkins, Joe Ramey, W. M. Prim, Walter Calloway, J. L. Lillard, P. H. Brannock, S. 8. Hall, D. C. Lewis, Sid R. Draughn, E. W. Draughn, and Wesley R. Branch. Second Week: Edgar Eaton, J. D. Davis, A. D. Owens, A. C. Key, J. C. Siceloff, J. P. Southern, L. W. Alderman, W. A. Snow, Walter A. Poore, M. C, Fowler, H. L. , Parker, J. W. Gentry, W. J. Chap pel, Baxter C. Snow, Reo Kidd, W. Lee Cockerham, B. A. Booker, R. G. Royal, Tom J, Hatcher, Swansea Beamer, Andrew E. E(UI, j. C. Morris, John H. Bel ton. * The average increase In our population is one new person every thirty-six seconds, based on the I§3o census,• St : ? M You're Wrong... Not Even Sisters >\ I > wj \ r „ #>' w ILf-AAI Detroit—Once in forty-million births does it occur say medical au thorities about PaulEne Taylor, (left), and Pauline E. Taylor, (right), above. They are not twins. They are not sisters. They are n"t related. Pauline (left), was born in St. Ign&ee, Mich., and Pauline E. '(right) was born In Canada. Both were born, Sept 22, 1920—only two hours apart. They are the same weight, same height and both have red hair. They first met in high school here . . . and have been In separable friends for 3 years. TWENTY THOUSAND FOR SCHOOL BLDG. Surry Board of Commission ers Transact Other Busi ness Monday CHANGE JAIL CHARGES Besides drawing the jury list for the April term of court the Surry commissioners transacted,a num ber of other items of business of more or less importance Monday. They voted to pay the sum of $20,000 for the old Mountain Park school property, which the county recently made a trade for. An or der was given for a cash payment of $5,000 to be made at once on the property, and three notes of $5,000 each are to be given, which are to be negotiable, are to bear interest at the rate of per cent per annum, and are payable one, two and three years after date. These notes will complete the pay ment for the property. v The commissioners also went on record to change the jail keepers fees from a flat rate of 60c per day per prisoner to a modified rate of 60c per day per prisoner for the first five prisoners, 50c per day per prisoner for the next five, and 40c per day per prisoner for all over ten prisoners. B. F. Folger presented his com mission from the Governor of the state appointing him as purchas ing agent, tax supervisor and bookkeeper for the county, which commission was accepted by the btfard of commissioners and his bond was filed. The board further went on rec ord with the adoption of a reso lution to accept the auditor's statement of the tax books as kept by the county's ex-sheriff, John D. Thompson, and approving his record, and also to relieve him of any further responsibility in the matter, his term of office having expired last November. NEW DEPT. STORE TO OPEN FRIDAY A & Z Store Housed in Build ing Formerly Occupied by W. J. Burcham NEW STOCK, FIXTURES Hie A. & Z. Store, a modern new department store featuring men's and women's ready-to wear, shoes, dry goods and no tions, will open here Friday morn ing at 8 o'clock in the building on Main street formerly occupied by W. J. Burcham. The store is being opened by W. A Alderman and M. W. Zack, both of Galax, Va., who also op erate similar stores in Galax and Mount Airy. The show windows and Interior of the store building have been remodelled and mod ernized and new fixtures Installed throughout, presenting an attrac tive appearance. l>. B. Hurd. who has made his home here for some weeks, will be in charge of the new store, as sisted by Herman Guyer, who was formerly associated with the J. C. Penney Co. store here and who has many friends throughout this section. JLuSVbTSTthlhSej! ing Friday. WIND UP COURT WITH FEW CASES s Gabriel Keaton Given Seven Years Hard Labor on Manslaughter Charge TWO DIVORCES GRANTED Due to the fact that most of the time of the Sufry Superior court, which was in session at Dobson last week, was taken up by the Mattin case, few other cases were disposed of after Tuesday^ Those that were disposed of were as follows: Hugh Beaslesy, charged with operating a car while'intoxicated, was given a sentence of 60 days to the roads, suspended upon the payment of SIOO and the costs, and is not to operate a car for one year. Gabriel Keaton, charged with murder, but who had not been apprehended, came into court and through his counsel offered a vol untary plea of guilty to man slaughter, which plea was ac cepted by the court, and he was given a sentence of from seven to ten years at hard labor in the state's prison. Joe Carter, charged with as sault with a deadly weapon, was given a sentence of 18 months* to the roads. / Only two divorces were granted. They jyere J. M. Goad vs. Ada Goad, and C. L .Hennis vs. Louise Hennis. . FURNITURE STORE TO OPEN FRIDAY Surry Furniture Co. Located In Greenwood Building, Main Street DARNELL IS MANAGER The Surry Furniture Co., a new furniture store, will open for busi ness here Friday morning in quarters located in the Green wood building on East Main street. The new firm is owned by Mark Steelman, of North Wilkesboro; W. w. Darnell, of Elkin, and Gar field Chipman, of North Wilkes boro, a former citizen of Elkin. Mr. Darnell will be in charge of the store here. Quarters lor the store have just been remodeled and modernized. The firm will handle a complete line of new furniture, including ranges, kitchen furniture, living room and bedroom suites, rugs, etc. MRS. R. E. HARRIS DIES TUESDAY A. M. Mrs. Robert Ellen Harris. 79, passed away at her home Tues day morning from an illness due to the general Infirmities of her advanced age. The deceased was the widow of R. W- Harris. She is survived by three chil dren, Mrs. Walter Wallace, Dan ville, Va., 'Mrs. Ira Monroe Wil moth, and Hubert Harris, both of Thurmond, one sister, Miss Julia Stoker, and one brother, W. D. Stoker, toth of Thurmond, also survive. The funeral services and inter ment were Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock at the Stoker fam ily cemetery. The rites wwe in charge of Rev. Mack Roberts. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937 HANCOCK DEFENDS ROOSEVELTCOURT PROPOSAL IN TALK "Dictatorship of Judiciary" He Says URGES VOTERS' SUPPORT Says Roosevelt Asks the Mild est and Most Conserva tive Way NATION-WIDE HOOK -UP Washington, March 2.—ln a nation-wide radio speech from Washington tonight, Representa tive Prank Hancock called an the American people who followed Franklin Roosevelt last November to rally behind the President's ju diciary reorganization program in * order that new deal laws to carry I out the ballot-box mandate may be enacted this spring and not 10 years later. The North Carolina congress man told his hearers that the is sue before the nation is "not the Constitution, it is not even the Supreme Court as an institution," but " a dictatorship of the judi ciary." "That great System of check and balances which the founding fathers set up in our Constitution have been scattered pell-mell by the members of the court," Han cock asserted. "For forty years a handful of judges—always consisting of a bare majority—have pushed the Supreme Court farther and far ther out of balance with the fed eral government—where the court does not belong, where the Con stitution, which set up this sys tem of checks and balances that every schoolboy knows by heart, never intended it to be, and where it is not and cannot be competent to function," he declared. "The quarrel does not lie with the Constitution," Hancock con tinued. "Nor does it concern the Supreme Court as an institution. It concerns only the present jud ges on the court. As I see it, the nation faces a single vital ques tion: What is to be done when some of these judges exceed their authority by elevating their own personal opinions concerning ec onomic and social policies above the Constitution of the United States." Hancock said that the Presi dent had proposed the "mildest and most conservative way" of enabling his adfninlstration to move forward with its liberal pro gram. SPIRITED GAMES END TOURNAMENT t Boonville Girls and Dobson Boys Are Crowned Cham pions Tuesday Night NAME ALL-STAR TEAMS In two fast and exciting games Tuesday night the Boonville high school girls and Dobson* school boys were crowned champions in the tri-county basketball tourna ment sponsored in the new Elkin gym by the Elkin high school The Boonville girls, playing a brilliant brand of ball, defeated the Mountain Park girls by a wide margin, the score ending at 20 to 8, while the Dobson boys found it necessary to go two extra per iods to finally whip an excellent, fast stepping Boonville team by a close score of 19 to 17. Amburn and Martin led the at tack for the Boonville girls while all the guards played bang-up ball. The boys' teams were dead locked 15-all at the end of the regular play and neither scored in the first extra period, a second period being necessary before Dobson edged ahead with all players playing an excellent game. Each of the champion teams were awarded attractive trophies. Following the tournament, a girls' and boys' all-tournament team was announced, as follows: Girls' team: Amburn, R. F., Boonville: Mayberry, L. F., Jones ville; Lawrence, F. C. Mountain Park; Hannaker, C. Q., Sparta; Norman, R. 3., Boonville; M. Rennegar L. G. Jonesvllle. Boys' team: Comer, R. P., Dob son; Parks, L. P., Beulah; Lan checter, C., Dobson; Prim,.K. O. Boonville; Hutchins, L. Q., White Plains. - The Hawaiian Islands are not so tiny. Their area is greater than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined—d,4o6 square miles, to be exact I Final Dividend Amounting To $26,726.10 Is Now Available For Depositors of Closed Bank SURRY DEMOCRATS TO MEET TONIGHT Will Stage "Victory Dinner" at Blue Ridge Hotel at Mount Airy PLAN GOOD PROGRAM Surry county Democrats will meet at the Blue Ridge hotel to night (Thursday), in Mount Airy, joining with millions of other Democrats in all parts of the country in staging a series of sev eral thousand "Victory Dinners." Plans for the Surry dinner have been prepared by W. M. Johnson, chairman in charge of arrange ments. Fred Hutchens, of Winston- Salem, is to be the principal speaker of the evening on a pro gram that promises to be unusu ally interesting, including as it does a number of the best ban quet speakers in Surry county's Democratic ranks. Included among the list of prominent Surry county speakers is Attorney E. C. James, of Elkin, who will tell how the New Deal hit Surry. Tickets to the banquet are on sale here by Mr. James and W. A. Neaves. Ladies are especially in vited to the event. AGAIN TO PRESENT OLD SWEETHEARTS Parent - Teachej- Association Play to be Staged at Lyric Theatre TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH "Old Sweethearts of Mine" will be presented again Tuesday even ing, March 9, at the Lyric theatre by members of the Parent-Teach er Association, according to Mrs. E. F. McNeer, chairman of the ways and means committee of the association. In addition to the play by local talent a feature pic ture, "White Hunter," starring Warner Baxter, and June Lang, will be shown. The play was presented Thurs day evening in the elementary school auditorium before a capac ity audience and is being repeated by special request. The proceeds of the show will go toward buying scenery and equipment for the stage at the school auditorium. All patrons of the school and the public are cordially invited to at tend. A cast of approximately sixty characters take part in the local talent show and several new fea tures will be added to the show for Tuesday's performance. CELEBRATES WTH BIRTHDAYSUNDAY Friends and Relatives Honor Mr. and Mrs, Meredith A. Southard WEDDING ANNIVERSARY A host of friends and relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Alfred Southard, near Elkin, Sunday in celebration of the 80th birthday of Mr. South ard and the 89th birthday of his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Southard quietly celebrated their 81st wed ding anniversary on December 2, last. Mrs. Southard was the form er Miss Sarah Layne. ✓ / The dinner was served picnic style and the table was centered with a huge birthday cake topped with 179 candles, one for each year of the age of the honoreea. Mr. and Mrs. Southard have nine sons and daughters, 49 grandchildren and 27 great grand children, roost of whom were present for the celebration. The children are: J. P. Southard, Mrs. Avery Cockerham, Mrs. T. A. Stanley, C. 8., A. D., S, M., and B. T. Southard, all of near Elkin; S. C. Southard, of SaUifiury, and Mrs, H. Q. 'Draughao. of Mount Airy. Gets Social Security jfi b "llwti 'IB New York—Harry J. Gregory, la borer (above), became 65 years old, January 24. He and his em ployer had paid in $1.64 (82 cents each) to the Federal Social Se curity Pension fund. He got an old-age pay check for $2.88, the first in this district. He's going to frame it, not cash it. SURRY NEGRO IS TO BE EXECUTED Tom Mattin, of Mount Airy, Found Guilty of First Degree Burglary MUST DIE ON MARCH 26 Tom Mattin, 24-year-old Surry county negro of Mount Airy, was found guilty of first degree bur 'glary by a Surry county jury late last Friday afternoon and was sentenced to die in the state gas chamber March 26. Mattin is the first person to receive a death sentence in Surry county in over 20 years, and will be the fourth man and the only Surry negro ever sentenced to die, according to existing records. The condemned man placed his hands over his face as Judge Frank S. Hill read the death sen tence, but, except for that one movement, received news of his fate with almost as much calm as the tense crowd in the courtroom. Colored relatives in the rear of the room became hysterical and were removed from the courthouse. Mattin had been charged with entering the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood in a white resi dential section of Mount Airy about midnight, November 1, and beating them into unconscious ness with an axe. Evidence of a criminal assault upon Mrs. Wood, who is 63 was given by the at tending physician, who testified that her underclothing was torn to shreds. The negro made no statement before sentence was passed. He had maintained his innocence and based his defense on an alibi for his movements on the night of the assault. PAUL WHITEMAN TO PLAY AT WINSTON Paul Whiteman, together with liis full orchestra and entertain ers, including the following art ists, the famous King's Men Quar tet; Bob Lawrence, baritone star; Roy Bargy, talented pianist and composer, and assistant conduc tor to Whiteman; lazy-singing Jack Teagarden; Charles Teagar den, equally as well known be cause of his trumpet; Al Galla doro, wizard of the clarinet and saxaphone; Mike Pingitore, ban joist, and "Ooldie," trumpeter and comedian of the organization, and Whiteman's newest star, lovely Linda Lee, whose blues voice is ideal for interpretation of the Whiteman vocals, will ap pear at Peppers Warehouse in Winston-Salem on Thursday, March 11th, under the sponsor ship of Prince Albert Council, Royal Arcanum. NAMED FOR N. C. Washington, Feb. 26.—One of the two new battleships which the navy is soon to construct Mil be named in honor of /forth Caro lina, it became known hero today. Secretary of Navy Claud Swan son authorized Representative William Umstead, chairman of the House navy apropriations committee, to announce that North Carolina had been selected tor the name of one of the ships. - ' i-i mi ini ii-1 ■ mmnrm 14 PAGES TWO SECTIONS PUBLISHED WEEKLY IS SUGHTLY MORE THAN 6 PER CENT; CHECKS ARE READY Will Make a Total of $187,- 432.43 Paid to Creditors MUST CALL FOR CHECKS Receivership to be Closed Out On March 31; Bank Clos ed in 1932 HAS PAID 41 PER CENT Dividend checks, representing final payment to be made by the Elkin National Bank, which has been closed since the early part of 1932, are now beiug delivered by John D. Biggs, receiver. This final dividend amounts to 6 44-100 per cent, and totals $26,726.10, making a grand total of $187,432.43 to be salvaged from the assets of the bank in five divi dends totalling 41.41 per cent. It was stated that receivership of the bank is to be closed out on March 31, and after that date everyone who has' not called for their dividend check will Itave to get it from the treasury depart ment at Washington, D. C. For this reason everyone is urged to call at the bank for their check at the earliest possible date. It was stated that a large num ber of checks representing pay ment on back dividends have not yet been called for. After March 31 these checks also have to be secured from Washington as all checks not delivered by that date will be returned to the treasury department. Majority of the money making up this final dividend was secured from the sale of the assets and real estate of the bank some months ago, the sale bringing a total of $22,500. Checks for the present dividend were received from Washington Tuesday and delivery was begun Wedresday. P.C. A. Office Now Owen In Dobson The farmers of Surry County are now being served by the Winston-Salem Production Credit Association to the Court House, Dobson, N. q., with Aubrey P. Snow in charge. Loams are made for operating purposes to estab lished farmers. Applications are written for as small amount as $50.00 and for any amount in excess of this amount that the farmer's needs and production will Justify. The loans will be repaid as the crops securing the loan are marketed. TOWN MASS MEETING TO BE HELD APRIL 2 At the monthly meeting of the Tr.iHn board of commissioners Monday evening, a mass meeting of citizens of Elkin was ordered for April 2 for the purpose of nominating a mayor and board of five cmmissioners, the meeting probably to be hejd in the school auditorium. Officers for the forthcoming town election were named by the board as follows: registrar, Tulius Hall; judges, J. L. Lillard and R. Q. Franklin; alternate judges, W. C. Cox and Dr. T. R. White. : viV 1^ B^ES ,^ T A j W.