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Elkin The Best Little Town In North Carolina" VOL. No. XXVI. No. 45 ELKIN FAIR TO OPEN TODAY CHINESE CAPITAL AWAITING RAID BY JAPANESE PLANES U. S. Embassy Moves Staff Aboard Patrol Boat ITALIANS EVACUATED French and British Refuse to Heed Warning on Part of Japan FEW AMERICANS LEFT Nanking, Sept. 22.—(Wednes day) The United States embas sy staff, moved to floating quar ters aboard the patrol boat Luzon, remained close to Nanking today as ominous hours passed without a sign of the Japanese air raid ers who have warned they intend to devastate China's capital. United States Ambassador Nel | son Johnson transferred his staff to the Luzon Monday night, heed ing a Japanese warning that af ter noon yeesterday Japan would not be responsible for foreigners who remain inside the city. Chinese military officials, rush ing reinforced air defenses for this city of more than 1,000,000 popu lation, predicted that the Japa nese failure to launch a large scale offensive after their hour of grace had passed was only a lull before the storm. They said the full fury of Japan's air strenth could be expected as soon as weather conditions here and at Shanghai are more favorable. Only the United States and Italian embassies heeded the Jap anese warning. Ambassador John son, declaring he could not risk the lives of his staff, hurriedly transferred the embassy aboard ship. Italian compliance, it was believed, was a gesture of amity between Rome and Tokio. Both French and British naval authorities refused to heed the warning. They cautioned the Jap anese that, despite Japan's refu sal to accept responsibility, both would hold her to strict account for any damage to their nationals or their property. LIBRARY HERE IS f TOOPENMONDAY Will Be Housed in Old Elkin & Alleghany Railway Depot Building WOMAN'S CLUB SPONSOR Elkin's new public library will [ open Monday morning with ap proximately 500 volumes. In ad dition to .the above, which will be free, there will be a rental shelf of the latest fiction and non fiction books. The project is sponsored by the Elkin Woman's Club, with a full time librarian paid through the WPA. The hours will be from 9 a. m. until noon and from three until five o'clock in the afternoon until further notice. The old E. & A. depot building on West Main street has been renovated Inside and will house the library. In addition to the list of con . tributors published several weeks i ago the following citizens and business firms have contributed either books or money towards the project: Mrs. E. C. James, Mrs. Parks Hampton, Mrs. L>. I. Wade, Miss Mattie Mae Powell, Mrs. E. A. Harris. Mrs. Raymond Chatham, Miss Blancche Dixon, Misses Jennie and Auba Gray. Miss Flora Royall, Mrs. Mason Lillard, Mrs. Alex Chatham, Mrs. Harold Click, Mrs. E. G. Smith, Mrs. Ruohs Pyron, Lena Sale, Owen Gwyn, Mrs. Paul Gwyn, Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, Garland Johnson, Mrs. Carl Young, Uni ted Variety Store. McDaniel's, t. Basketeria, Bank of Elkin, Henry r, Dillon, J. C. Penney Co., Mrs. C. H. Brewer, R. J. Barker. Edworth Harris, R. C. Freeman, L. G. Ba ker, Claude Farreli and Mrs. Beatrice Myers Phillips. The public is cordially invited to avail themselves the opportun ities offered by this worthwhile project and to visit the library exhibit at the local fair. The tide averages less than one foot at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal. At the Pacciflc (' end it averages more than twelve V feet. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Death, Destruction, In Shanghai Shanghai, China . . . Rescue workers remove the injured to hospit als after the bombing of two of Shanghai's largest department stores! on Nanking Road. Nearly two hundred were killed and five hundred injured. SURRY MAN FACES CRIMINAL CHARGE A. G. Willis is Arrested For Attempted Assault Upon His Daughter TRUE BILL RETURNED A. O. Willis, of the Kapps Mill section of Surry county, for whom Surry county officers had been searching for three days, was arrested last Friday on a charge of attempted criminal as sault upon his 18-year-old daugh ter. Another warrant charging abuse of his family, was also served on the man. Willis was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Frank Thompson, and was carried to Jail at Dobson Fri day afternoon. The Surry grand jury returned a true bill of in dictment against him Tuesday and the case is expected to be tried today. According to the warrant against Willis, who is 42, he has repeatedly attempted to make criminal assault upon his daugh ter. Officers first began their search for the man following a disturbance in his home Sunday of last week, in which he was said to have been drunk and to have threatened members of his family, it was also said that he threatened the life of his daugh ter if she told of his attempts to foree intimate relaions upon her. FIREMEN ANSWER TWO CALLS HERE Small Blaze at Chatham Man ufacturing Co., Tues day Night LITTLE DAMAGE DONE A slight blaze, discovered about 11:30 Tuesday night in the scour ing and carbonizing department of the, Chatham Manufacturing company, located in the old mill plant on the south side of the railroad, did only slight damage. The blaze was extinguished by the sprinkler system installed in the mill, before the arrival of the local fire department. The fire, which was on the second story of the building, was thought to have been caused by a spark from ma chinery in the plant, according to W. W. Whitaker. fire chief. A false alarm early Saturday evening took the local fire de partment to Jonesville to extin guish a brush fire at the home of Marvin Vanhoy. A passerby, see ing the blaze, turned in the alartq, thinking the residence of Mr. Vanhoy was on fire. TOBACCO BARN IS DESTROYED BY FIRE D. W. Sprinkle, of Fairview, lost a tobacco barn filled with to bocco In the process of curing, by fire about o 'clock Tuesday night. Mr. Sprinkle left the barn for a few minutes to attend to other business when the blaze started. The building was of galvanized metal with concrete flues and It is believed that the fire originat ed when 1 stick of tobacco fell onto the flue on the inside of the building. The loss, estimated at *3OO, waa not covered by insur ance. , ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937 BOND IS ALLOWED IN JOHNSON CASE Must Give $4,000 Justified Bail, Judge Bivins States In Order CHARGE REMAINS SAME Efforts of W. M. Allen, local attorney, to seceure the freedom on bond of Ray- Johnson, his client, who is charged with the death of Avery Hemric, have at last proven successful, Judge E. C. Bivins, of Mount Airy, having granted a writ of habeas corpus allowing Johnson freedom under $4,000 justified bond. At the habeas corpus hearing before Judge Bivins in Winston- Salem about two weeks ago, the writ was denied and Johnson was ordered held in jail without bond on a charge of first degree mur der. Judge Bivins, at the time of the hearing, it was said, was try ing a heavy criminal docket in Winston-Salem, and owing to the press of business in court did not have the opportunity to go into the merits of the habeas corpus proceedings fully, but later, after obtaining a copy of the evidence produced at the coroner's inquest held at Yadkinville, reopened the case on his own motion and al lowed Johnson the privilege of bond. The order as signed by Judge Bivins was mailed to the clerk of court of Yadkin county, and stated that bond in the case must be apporved by the clerk of court. Release of Johnson under bond does not prevent him from being tried on the first degree count, it is understood. Just what defense the young man will offer is not known, his attorney declining to make any comment on the case one way or the other. Johnson was jailed at Yadkin ville about a month ago when Hemric, whom he is alleged to have struck over the head with a heavy wrench, died in the local hospital. OCT. 18 SET AS DATE IN WILKES VOTE CASE O. O. Efird, judge of Forsyth county court and recently ap pointed by Judge J. H. Clement to referee the Swaringen versus Poplin election suit in Wilkes, has informed attorneys for both sides of the controversy that hearings will begin on October 18. In a letter to counsel this week he explained that in his first let ter a few weeks ago he said that he could begin hearings on or about October 1 but had since learned that the Wilkes term of civil court begins on October 4 and that it would not be practi cal to begin the hearing until af ter adjournment of the two-weeks term of court. MUST SECURE PERMIT TO LIGHT BRUSH FIRES It will be a violation of the law to burn brush after April 1 to June 15, inclusive, and from Oc tober 15 to December 1, without first securing a permit, it has been announced by J. R. Norman, Surry county forest warden. It is urged that all who have such burning to do get it done at once before the danger season and before the time in which per mits must be obtained. IATENEWC from the State and Nation ITALY EXPECTED TO TAKE PART Rome, Sept. 21. ltaly's participation in the Mediter ranean anti-piracy patrol was virtually assured tonight by an official communique announc ing: a special meeting: of Brit ish, French and Italian naval experts in Paris. Although the communique of Foreign Minister Count Ga leazzo Ciano used the words "a great Mediterranean" power in describing: Italy in comparison with Great Britain and France, it was believed that Italy's de mands for parity had been met. 101 KILLED IN N. C. IN AJJGUST Raleigh, Sept. 21. Auto mobiles killed 101 persons in North Carolina last month to set a new record for August and exceed the fatalities total for any other month this year. The deaths resulted from 646 accidents which injured 776 persons, the monthly re port of the motor vehicle bu reau showed today. The total sent to 659 the number killed on highways this year. Only 601 had been fatally injured in car wrecks through August last year. / PWA COMES TO AN END Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 21 President Roosevelt announced today the end of one of his first alphabetical depression pump priming agencies—the PWA. Administratively, the public works administration will con tinue for some time supervis ing expenditures under the 1937 extension act, but there will be no more money outlays for construction projects be ' cause—for one thing—no more funds remain to allot. HULL PROTESTS NANKING ATTACK Washington, Sept. 21. —The United States, seeking to fore stall the aerial destruction of Nanking, has admonished Ja pan that such a bombing would violate the law of nations and of humanity. Secretary of State Hull said today that emphatic represen tations were sent to the Japa-j nese foreign office after the Japanese army command an nounced an impending aerial attack on the city. TEACHERS CHALLENGE PAY SCALE Raleigh, Sept. 21. Miss Louise Berry, president of the North Carolina Association of Classroom Teachers, said to-- night that a 10 per cent pay increase griven teachers this year lacks 8 per cent of reach ing the 1929 teacher-pay level. Miss Berry said she spoke for 17,000 olassroom teachers in requesting a correction of a story saying that salaries of teachers had been boosted to the pre-depression level by the increase. HOSPITAL AUXILIARY MEETING SEPT. 27TH The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital will be held Monday afternoon, Sep tember 27, at 3:30 at the Meth odist church. This is to be a very important meeting as offi cers for the ensuing year will be elected. All members are re quested to be present. TO CONDUCT SERIES OF CLASSES LOCALLY Dr. E. E. Derendinger, of Ca tawba College, will conduct a series of classes on "History of Art from the Pyramids of Egypt to Rockefeller Center" at the local high school building efech Tues day at 7:00 p. m.. beginning next Tuesday, it has been announced here. Classes are open to all teachers in this vicinity. SURRY SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES MONDAY MORNING Number of Local Cases Are Tried SOOTS CASE IS HEARD Local Man Given 18 Months to Roads for Assault ing Officer DRUNKEN CASES TRIED Several cases of interest here have been tried in Surry county superior court which convened Monday morning at Dobson before Presiding Judge F. Donald Phil lips, of Rockingham. A sentence of 18 months to the roads was given Marshall Soots, Elkin man, charged with resist ing arrest and assault on an offi cer. Soots was arrested here some time ago by Chief of Police Dixie Graham after he had assaulted Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow when the officer attempted to arrest him for being drunk and disord erly. Dave Morrison and Raymond Allen, the latter a colored man, both of Elkin, were fined $50.00 and the costs, given a suspended sentence and had their drivers' license revoked for a period of one year on charges of operating a car while intoxicated. H. M. Wiles and Link Wagoner, both of Wilkes county, charged with driving while intoxicated, were found guilty. Both men were fined SSO and the costs, plus sus pended sentence and loss of driv ers' licenses. However, the judge changed Wagoner's sentence to three months on the roads when it was found Wagoner did not have a license. Wagoner was al leged to have been driving the car when the men were arrested. It was pointed out that in all first offenses under the drunken driving law, the offenders are' subject to fine, cost, etc. However, whenever anyone is arrested for a second offense of the same na ture, a six-months sentence to the road will be forthcoming. Hillary Spann, under a two year suspended sentence, was ar rested here Tuesday afternoon on a capius and carried to jail at Dobson by Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow, where it was ordered that he begin serving the sentence. Spann was said to have violated the terms of the suspended sen tence by drunkenness and disord erly conduct. Numerous minor cases have al so been heard since court con vened Monday. TO OBSERVE N.C. AIR MAIL WEEK Planes to Pick Up Mail at All N. C. Towns With Land ing Field HAVE NO FIELD HERE Postmasters of North Carolina are entering enthusiastically into plans for celebration of North Carolina Air Mail Week, accord ing to Postmaster Paul R. Younts of Charlotte, who has been named chairman of the Air Mail Week committee. The observance of Air Mall Week, which has for its purpose making North Carolina air mail conscious and to impress upon business men the great value of the use of air mail, is being spon sored by the North Carolina as sociation of Postmasters, with full cooperation of Eastern Air Lines and the Post Office department. President Wythe Peyton of Asheville, appointed Major Younts (Continued on last page, Ist Sec.) TO OBSERVE SPECIAL DAY AT CHURCH HERE Promotion and Rally Day will be observed Sunday morning in the Sunday school of the First Baptist church. A special program will be presented at the close of the class period. A new ro3l will be made up from those present Sunday morning. A cordial invitation Is extend ed those not enrolled In Sunday school to attend at this church. Everything Is Ready For Big 3-Day Event; Is To End Saturday Miss America, 1937 lift B&r rap Atlantic City, N. J. . . . Miss Bette Cooper, 17 years old, of Ber trand Island, N, J., smiles her beat after winning the title of Mlta America 1937, in the annual con test at Atlantic City. EXTEND OFFER ON PEN SETS October 16th Will be Last Day in Which You Can Receive Gift HAVE MADE BIG HIT Having met with such universal approval during the short time the offer was in effect, The Trib une, yielding to the request of quite a number of readers, is ex tending time of free premium for several days. A number of read ers have stated they would wel come an extension of time as it would be more convenient for them to obtain a set. The offer will continue up to and including Saturday, October 16th. This additional time, we be lieve, will be ample to give every one the opportunity to obtain a set. Hence, it is not our intention to make any further extension. So make your arrangements now. The sets are awaiting you at The Tribune office. The Tribune has placed several hundred of these sets throughout this section and every set is giv ing daily first class writing ser vice. This is one advantage of this premuim offer, the gift is one universally adapted for every bodys' use every day of the year. No wonder so many are enthusi astic and that the offer has been the means of winding us new friends and additional prestige as the newspaper that best serves this territory. Make it a point to call at The Tribune office not later than Sat urday, October 16th, and obtain your free set. You'll thank us for extending this offer and again reminding you. Strong Demand From Students One of the prime reasons for The Tribune extending the offer was the ever-increasing demand from school children desiring the sets. While many sets have gone into school use there is, due to the great many students in thjs sec tion, still quite a number who have not secured this splendid writing equipment so necessary in their work. The extended time will account for a great many more public school pupils granted the convenience of better writing material. LOCAL MAN BUYS NEW BUSINESS Tom Shagart, Elkin business man, has purchased Rattle's"' a eating and dancing establishment one and one-half miles north of Mount Airy, on route 52. Delicious meals are served there amid clean, ple r *ant surround ings, and everyone in this section is invited to visit Rattle's when in Mount Airy. The business will be conducted personally by Mr. Shu gart. 14 PAGES TWO SBCTIONS PUBLISHED WEEKLY PARADE AND HORSE SHOW ARE TO OPEN FAIR AT 2 O'CLOCK Have Many Excellent Fea tures This Year RIDING DEVICES HERE Four-County Track Meet To Be Held Friday After noon at 1:30 BIG CROWDS EXPECTED The Elkin Pair will open this afternoon immediately after a parade which will form at the Chatham Athletic field and fol low a downtown route to the fair grounds. The horse show, first ever to be held here, will be staged immediately after the parade. This year's exhibition of the Elkin Fair marks the first three - day fair to be held and inaugur ates numerous new features that are expected to be a yearly part of the fair hereafter. Among the new features are the horse show, with SBO.OO in cash prizes; R. C. Lee's riding devices, including ferrls wheel, merry-go round, chair-o-swings and ridee o; a four-county field day and track meet for the schools of Sur ry, Yadkin, Wilkes and Alle ghany; School Day, in which school children of the four coun tries mentioned above will be ad mitted to the exhibition hall free of charge, and numerous amuse ments and contests. According to Mrs. Alan Brown (Continued on last page, Ist Sec.) ELKS TO MEET STATESVILLE Local Hi Team Will Take Field for First Encounter Friday P. M. PLAY AT STATESVILLE The return to school of Price, Martin and Eldridge, valuable members of the Elkin Hi football team of last year, has bolstered an already ship-shape team that will take the field Friday after noon against Statesville Hi at Statesville. The return of the three letter men makes a total of 14 letter men now in football ranks here. Hard work on the part of the squad under the direction of Coach Newsome has whipped the gridsters into good condition for Friday's affair, following which they will meet Mooresville here October 1. The line-up for Friday, as an nounced Tuesday, is sis follows: Drier LE, H. Ratledge LT, Biv ins C, Oambill RQ, Harris RT, Eldridge RE, Price QB, Dorsett HB, Powers HB, Ratledge FB.
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