Elkin
The Beat Little Tom.
In North Carolina"
VOL. XXVII. No. 3
Elkin Merchants Are
Ready For Christmas;
Santa Coming Friday
MANY DESIRABLE
GIFT OFFERINGS
AWAIT SHOPPERS
Santa Claus to Arrive on Af
ternoon Train
CANDY FOR CHILDREN
Many Exciting New Gifts Are
On Display for Christ
mas Season
TO DECORATE STREETS
With Christinas a scant few
weeks away. El kin stores, their
tables and counters loaded with
highly desirable and attractive
Christmas merchandise, and their
windows and interiors beautifully
decorated, are ready to welcome
every citizen of this section to
the formal Christmas Opening to
be held Friday.
In addition to the usual window
decorations, work of decorating
Main street with gay Christmas
lights and evergreens has begun
and the town is expected to pre
sent a gay and thrilling appear
ance to Christmas shoppers.
As a special thrill for children
and grownups, too, Santa Claus
himself will be here Friday after
noon to greet all and sundry, be
ing scheduled to arrive at the
Southern depot on the 2:55 train.
It has been announced that San
ta will have a huge basket of
candy which he will distribute
among the children who are at
the depot to meet him.
Following his arrival, Santa
will parade the business streets
and remain to visit the various
stores all through the afternoon.
Everyone, young and old, is urg
ed to be at the station to meet
him.
There are many thrilling sights
awaiting the shopper in Elkin this
year in form of gift goods to be
found at every store which has
advertised in this special Christ
mas issue of The Tribune. By
reading each advertisement care
fully, one can decide Just which
store he or she wishes to visit
first —and everyone will want to
visit them all!
An advance tour of the stores
has revealed many new and at
tractive gifts this season. It has
been noted that there are prac
tical gifts galore; odd gifts, un
usual gifts, gifts that more than
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WILKES COUNTY MAN
IS KILLED IN OREGON
Gordon McNeil, former resident
of the Purlear community and a
member of a widely known Wilkes
family was accidentally shot and
killed at or near Eugene. Oregon,
Thursday.
News that he was killed reach
ed relatives Friday and they were
advised that further particulars
would follow by mail.
yrr McNeil moved to Montana
about 17 years ago, later going to
Oregon where he held a sales
man's position with a packing
company.
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
HAS GENEROUS SUPPORT
The annual Red Cross roll call
sponsored here last week by the
Woman's Auxiliary of the George
Gray Post of the American Leg
ion, with Mrs. Joe Bivlns as
chairman, had a total enrollment
of 145 members and donations to
swell the total of $170.70.
Mrs. Bivlns expresses her ap
preciation for the generous sup
port to the roll call, which ex
ceeds previous years, and to the
official workers who aided in
making it a success.
x THANKS
The Tribune wishes to ex
press Its sincere thanks to the
-advertisers represented in this
fssue for their wholehearted co
operation in releasing their
advertising copy early. An edi
tion of this nature naturally
requires quite a bit of extra
work and only through the co
operation of the advertisers
could the edition have made the
mail on schedule.
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
McLENDON NOT TO
BE CANDIDATE
Greensboro, NOT. 30. Ma
jor J. P. McLendon, the man
who steered J. C. B. Ehring
haus into the governor's man
sion in 1932, tonight told The
Journal he will not be a candi
date for the United States Sen
ate.
The Greensboro lawyer set
at rest rumors that he would
enter the senatorial race against
incumbent Robert R. Reynolds
and Frank W. Hancock Jr., of
Oxford.
"I have no idea of running
for the Senate," McLendon told
The Journal "You can say def
initely that I will not be a
candidate."
LEWIS AND GREEN
TO "TALK TURKEY"
Washington, Nov. 30. John
L. Lewis and William Green
agreed tonight to sit down at
the council table for the first
time and talk over ways and
means of ending the two-year
old civil war between the Com
mittee for Industrial Organiza
tion and American Federation
of Labor.
The two men, leaders of rival
union armies during a state of
virtual combat ever since the
C. I. O. seceded from the fed
eration 24 months ago, will
meet each other at 10 a. m.
CULBERTSON LOSES
GRAND SLAM
New York, Nov. 30 Mr.
and Mrs. Ely Culbertson have
decided to dissolve their mar
riage partnership but will con
tinue to play bridge from op
posite sides of the table, they
announced tonight.
"I have lost a grand slam
doubled," Culbertson said as
he issued a Jointly prepared
statement which revealed that
his pretty wife, his partner in
Innumerable bridge tourna
ments and the establishment
of the world's most successful
card game business, was on her
way to Reno.
OPPOSE CUTTING *
HIGHWAY FUND
Washington, Nov. 30.
President Roosevelt's plans to
spur trade revival through a
multi-billion dollar housing
boom and to slash federal high
way grants $214,000,000 as a
step toward balaclng the bud
get, were attacked sharply to
night by Western legislators
and skeptical Republicans in a
new .burst of congressional
"independence."
Despite Republican shell
fire and criticism from some
, conservative Democrats, how
ever, the Senate steering com
mittee prepared at a meeting
today to rush action at the
special session on amendments
to the housing act which Mr.
Roosevelt proposed yesterday to
encourage the construction of
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 units over
the next five years.
MILLS HOME SINGERS
TO BE HERE SUNDAY
R. D. Covington of Mills Home,
Thomasvllle, and a quartette
from the home will be guests
Sunday at the First Baptist
church in this city for the Sun
day school hour and at the 11 o'-
clock hour of worship. Mr. Cov
ington will speak at 11 o'clock
and special music for" the service
will be rendered by the quartette.
The annual Thanksgiving of
fering for Mills Home will be tak
en at this service. The public is
cordially invited to attend and
bring a liberal contribution for
"his worthy cause.
53,395.50 IS ALLOCATED
FOR IMPROVEMENT HERE
State WPA officials have an
nounced the allocation of $137,-
*>69.50 for 12-projects. In which is
included a total of $3,395.50 for
improvements at the s3kin ele
mentary school.
They Ride A grain
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Miami, Florida . . . Afer initiat
ing 125 new members, a picked
party of Klansmen raided the La
Paloma night club on the out
skirts of this city, paddled several
entertainers and chased out the
customers. It was explained that
neighboring residents wanted the
club closed but were afraid to en
ter a court complaint against the
owner. These two were caught by
the camera of a fleeing patron.
22 STATES ARE TO
BEGIN PAYMENTS
Government's First Chance to
Test Program for Mass
Security Insurance
HAVE COMPENSATION
Washington, Nov. 28—Twenty
two States co-operating with the
Federal social security program
will begin paying out unemploy
ment compensation checks in
January.
Payments to the jobless cover
ed by unemployment insurance
will range from $5 to sls a week
for 14 to 16 weeks.
It will be the government's first
chance to test its program of
mass security insurance for the
industrial worker, and Social .Se
curity board officials said they
were confident the administrative
machinery in the States was
ready to write the checks.
Business Cushion?
The number of insured work
ers who are now idle is not avail
able, but the first large-scale pay
off is regarded by labor leaders
as an important "cushion"
against business recession. The
Americaan Federation of Labor
said it would be "an important
addition to workers' buying pow
er."
The 22 States have accumulat
ed an aggregate of $340,489,769
in jobless insurance trust funds to
meet the emergency of temporary
unemployment, and the unem
ployment statutes of the 22 States
cover 11,565,000 workers.
The efficiency of the machin
ery to register and pay off the
beneficiaries is now the major
concern of the Social Security ad
ministration. Wisconsin, alone of
all the States, has been paying
out unemployment checks this
year because the Wisconsin stat
ute provided for a 1937 pay-off.
The operation of the Wisconsin
law has provided a precedent and
pattern for the other States.
All Have Compensation
Every State now has an unem
ployment compensation law, but
only in 22 States do the statutes
provide for beginning the bene
fits in January.
Among the 22 States, New York
and Pennsylvania alone cover ap
proximately 55,000, 000 of the
11,565,000 insured workers. New
York provides a maximum of sls
a week and a minimum of $7.
Pennsylvaniaa, with the same
maximum, provides a minimum
of $7.50.
Southern States paying Jobless
Insurance in January, and the
number of workers covered and
the accumulated" trust funds:
Insured Trust
State Workers Fund
Alabama .... 277,000 $7,381,385.17
Dist of C. 1331,000 4,980,102.00
Louisiana .. 214,000 5.928,353.03
Maryland .. 295,000 8,548,988.87
N. Carolina 370.000 7,822.324.91
Tennessee 298,000 6.547.677.33
Virginia 316,00 6,203,347.25
BOYS WIN, GIRLS LOSE
IN CAGE BATTLES HERE
*
The Elkin high school boys*
basketball team defeated Ronda
here Tuesday night at the school
gymnasium 30 to 9, but the girls'
team failed to fare so weli at the
hands of the Ronda girl cagers,
point? down to defeat by a score
of 54 to 11.
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937
AMERICAN-OWNED
SHIP SEIZED AND
FLAG TORN DOWN
Japs Throw Old Glory Into
Whangpoo River
U. S. MAKES PROTEST
Two Ships Flying Italian
Flags Are Also Taken by
Invading Soldiers
TROOPS NEAR NANKING
Shanghai, Nov. 30. Japanese
today took possession of an
American-owned launch and flung
the craft's American flag into
the Whangpoo river..
United States Consul General
Clarence E. Gauss immediately
protested to the Japanese consul
general against the discourtesy to
the United States flag and the
seizure of American property.
Continuing a policy of appro
priating vessels needed to trans
port supplies and troops to the In
terior, the Japanese also seized
two vessels flying the Italian flag.
Italian authorities were under
stood to have protested.
The launch, owned by the Chi
na Foreign Steamship company,
an American organization and
agent for the Roosevelt line was
moored off the bund in the French
concession.
William Hunt, head of the
steamship company, made a
strong protest to Qauss. He de
clared a Japanese naval force at
tacked the Chinese crew aboard
the craft and then deliberately
hauled down the American flag
and tossed it into the river.
Japanese army communiques re
ported capture of Kwangteh and
the Kiangyin forts, at opposite
extremes of the defences of Nan
king, China's almost deserted
capital. Kwangteh is about 100
miles southeast of Nanking and
Kiangyin about 80 miles east on
the Yangtze river.
STAGE SHOW IS TO
HAVE FUNNY ACTS
'Hometown Jamboree" to Be
Presented at Lyric Friday,
December 10
FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOOL
Plans for Jam
boree," to be presented here Fri
day night, December 10, from the
stage of the Lyric theatre, are
progressing nicely with many en
tertaining acts under rehearsal.
The show is to feature a num
ber of well-known local enter
tainers including Leon Martin,
Byron Bryan and Miss Edna Bill
ings. Several surprise acts will be
included on the program and one
of the main features will be the
"Wild Man and his wife of Bor
neo." An entertaining skit has
been worked out for the initial
stage appearance of this unusual
and amazing couple from a vil
lage of head hunters in darkest
pomeo.
Another feature of the show will
be songs by Gene Hall, which are
expected to be quite surprising
and entertaining.
Alan Browning, Jr., is acting as
director of the show and will act
as master of ceremonies. Proceeds
will go to the high school athletic
fund.
In addition to the stage presen
tation, an entertaining movie,
featuring Charlie Ruggles and
Fred McMurray, will be screened.
There will be no advance in ad
mission.
OVER 14,000 DRIVERS'
LICENSES ARE REVOKE
The highway safety division
announces that 14,005 licenses of
automobile drivers have been re
voked in North Carolina for law
violations since November 1, 1935.
The total shot above 14,000
when court orders revoking per
mits of 21 persons convicted of
drunken driving were received
Wednesday.
Toys Are Sought
For Distribution
Here Christmas
Anyone having old toys that
need repairing, please ' leave
'h«m at the Tribune office.
They will be turned over to
the Girl Scout troop, who will
repair and give to the Associ
ated Charities to aid in their
Christmas work.
As Cleveland Fights Auto Toll
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Cleveland . . . Jaywalkers on the Public Square here are reminded
that by using the red (lag shown above they "might" dart across the
street against traffic lights. It's all a part of a traffic safety campaign
to reduce the mounting number of auto deahs.
LEGION TO HAVE
SPECIAL MEETING
Will Induct New Officers at
Hotel Elkin This Evening
at 8:00 o'Clock
SNOW GUEST SPEAKER
A meeting of the Oeorge Oray
Post of the American Legion will
be held this evening (Thursday),
in the Kiwanis club room at Ho
tel Elkin, the meeting to get un
der way at 8 o'clock.
Members of the Legion Auxil
iary have been invited to attend
and witness the annual installa
tion of officers.
Joe Snow, of Mount Airy, will
be present as guest speaker and
an excellent program has been
planned. Refreshments will be ser
ved.
Among the new officers who
will take office are Wm. M. Allen,
commander; Dixie Graham, ad
jutant, and Paul Qwyn, service
officer. All members of the local
post are urged to be present.
MISSIONARY TO SPEAK
AT PILGRIM CHURCH
The Pilgrim church, of Elkln,
will have as its guest speaker, Miss
Leanna Stuart, a returned Mis
sionary from the British West In
dies, at the eleven o'clock service
Sunday morning, December sth.
Miss Stuart has spent a number
of years on the Grand Cayman
Island. She will have many in
teresting things to relate regard
ing missionary activities among
the people.
The pastor and church extends
to the people of Elkin and sur
rounding communities a cordial
invitation to this service.
HUNTING ACCIDENT IS
FATAL TO SPARTA MAN
R. T. Burchette, 50, of Sparta,
died in the local hospital early
Thursday afternoon as the result
of an accidental shooting while
hunting. Details of the accident
were not available. Burchette was
admitted to the hospital Monday
shortly after the fatal accident.
DEATH TAKES AGED
BAPTIST MINISTER
Rev. Eli Franklin Hinson, 85,
Passes Sunday Afternoon
At Home Here
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
Rev. Eli Franklin Hinson, 85,
died at his home here Sunday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from a
heart attack. The deceased was a
well known man In this section
and had been si Baptist minister
for 50 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Amanda Poplin Hinson; four
daughters, Mrs. Fannie Sprinkle,
North Wilkesboro; Mrs. J. A.
Sprinkle, Elkin; Mrs. W. F. Car
ter, State Road; Mrs. J. A. Miller,
and three sons, Rev. J. F.
Hinson, Boonville; Grover Hin
son, and Dallas Hinson, State
Two sisters, Mrs. James
Howard, Cycle and Mrs. Frank
Swain, Boonville, also survive, in
addition to thirty grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from Poplar Springs. The rites
were in charge of Rev. E. Q. Jor
don, Rev. Isom Vestal, Rev. Gra
dy Burgis and Rev. Richard Day.
Stores To Remain
Open Evenings
Beginning Dec. 17
Beginning Friday, December
17, local stores will start re
maining open evenings until
8:00 p. nr., It has been announc
ed by the local Merchants asso
ciation. Stores here customarily
close at 5:30, but due to the
expected rush of Christmas
buying and as a convenience
to shoppers, the new closing
hours will be inaugurated on
the 17th.
BURNS ARE FATAL
TO YADKIN MAN
Hubbard F. Chambers Dies
in Hospital Here Sunday;
Was Cycle Citizen
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Hubbard P. Chambers, 38, died
in the hospital here Sunday from
burns received when his clothing
caught on fire at his home at
Cycle on the previous Tuesday.
Mr. Chambers condition was re
garded as critical from the be
ginning.
The deceased was unmarried
and was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. H. Chamebrs.
Chambers clothing caught fire
from an open fireplace. The re
sultant blaze Ignited the home.
Members of the family returning
from a visit to neighbors, extin
guished the fire and rushed him
to the hospital here for treat
ment.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock
from Pleasant Grove Baptist
church. Interment was In the
church cemetery.
He is survived by his parents
and the following sisters and
brothers:: Mrs. Clay Myers, Mrs.
Talmage Masten, Mrs. Lizzie
Swain, Percy, McKinley, George,
Gordon and Dallas Chambers.
REVIVAL TO BEGIN AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A series of revival meetings will
begin Sunday morning at the
Presbyterian church in this city.
The pastor. Rev. R. E. McAlphin
of Winston-Salem, will be assisted
in the services by Rev. Joe Carter
of Anderson. S. C.
Services will be held twice
daily, at 9:30 in the morning and
7:30 in the evening.
The church extends a cordial
invitation to the public to attend
the services.
Rev. Mr. Carter was formerly
pastor of this church and has a
host of friends here who will be
interested In his coming to Elk in
for a week.
SCOUT COURT OF HONOR
TO BE HELD THIS P. M.
Court of Honor for the local
scout troop will be held this eve
ning (Thursday) at 7:30 in the
jonesville school building. All
scouts and scOut commiteemen are
urged to attend and parents of
scouts are cordially invited.
Has Operation
H. P. Laffoon, publisher of The
Tribune, is recovering nicely from
an emergency operation for ap
pendicitis at Hugh Chatham Me
morial Hospital on Monday night.
24 PAGES
THREE SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
HANCOCKSEEiUNG
LIGHT ON QUOTAS
FOR WEED GROWER
Requests Equal Distribution
of Allotments
CONFERS WITH COOLEY
Congressman From This Dis
trict is to Propose Amend
ment to Bill
AID LARGE FAMILIES
Washington, Nov. 30—Repres
entative Frank Hancock moved
today to turn the white light of
publicity on farm marketing quo
tas fixed for tobacco growers un
der the farm bill now being con
sidered by the House, the avowed
purpose being to throw up anoth
er safeguard against inequitable
distribution of allotments.
The fifth North Carolina dis
trict representative, aftc* confer
ence with Representative Harold
Cooley, who is more or less in
charge of the tobacco section of
the farm bill, said he will propose
the following amendment:
"The farm marketing quota for
tobacco established farms in a
county or other local administra
tive area shall be made available
for public Inspection either by
publishing in a local newspaper
or posting in a public place in
each township affected the fol
lowing Information: The name of
the farmer; the number of ten
ants, if any, the total cultivated
acreage in farm, the allotment
made and the percentage of the
total cultivated land allotted to
tobacco. Additional certified cop
ies of this information shall be
kept available in the office of the
county agricultural agent."
Hancock feels that his amend
ment will keep down favoritism
in fixing quotas and protect
specially the small growers. He
will also offer another amend
ment to the section setting forth
conditions to be considered in
granting allotments as follows:
"And the needs of the family
for which allotment is made."
Hancock stated that this last
amendment should afford some
protection to large size families.
While realizing the need for pro
duction control, he wants every
safeguard possible in the bill
against an unequitable distribu
tion of quotas, and also to pre
vent a monopoly in tobacco
growers.
DRIVER NARROWLY
ESCAPES DEATH
Thomas M. Gentry is Over
come by Carbon Monoxide
Gas Early Monday
WAS ASLEEP IN TRUCK
Thomas M. Gentry, 22, of this
city, driver for Johnson Trucking
Company of Boonville, narrowly
escaped death as a result of car
bon monoxide poisoning sustain
ed early Monday.
According to imformation re
cieved here Gentry was returning
from Baltimore with a shipment
consigned to a Greensboro con
cern. Arriving in Greensboro late
Sunday he was unable to deliver
the assignment and waited over
until Monday. Fearing theft, he
slept in the truck overnight.
Sometime during the night he
turned on the heater in the truck
and fell asleep. When he was dis
covered Monday morning he was
in an unconscious condition. He
was rushed to Wesly Long hospi
tal for treatment. He was remov
ed to his home here Wednesday
and his condition Is reported as
satisfactory.
CiITS OF FREE )
ADVICE OFTEN HAVE
SHARP EDGES.