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William H. Curry, Tipton, Indi
ana, 1936 Corn King, wins the
much-coveted title again this year
with his prime-winning specimen
ears of "Curry's Yellow Dent." He
is the first winner to repeat in
history of the present competition.
DAIRIES GIVEN
EXCELLENT GRADE
Rating of 97 Per Cent is An
nounced; Brings Official
Congratulations
ARE EVEN BETTER NOW
An official report on the Fed
eral Survey of dairies supplying
milk in Elkin, made by M. M.
Melvin, district Inspector, on Oc
tober 9, 1937, gives these dairies
the excellent rating of 97 per
rent.
1 This rating, as announced by
*i>i\ Ralph J. Sykes, Surry county
health officer, is considered very
fine and a real honor, and brought
congratulations as follows in a
letter to Dr. Sykes from Warren
H. Booker:
"Permit me to congratulate .you
on the splendid rating of 97 per
cent on your retail raw milk sup
ply. This is one of the best rat
tings of any town in the state,
and m> hat is off to you and Mr.
Butler. You will note that four
violations were recorded against
your four dairies. All four of these
violations can very readily be re
moved, which should give Elkln a
100 per cent milk rating. Since
you are so near having a 100 per
'cent raw milk rating, I do not
think it too much to suggest that
you make an effort to clean up
these few remaining violations."
The violations referred to above
have all been corrected with the
exception of one, and this is ex
pected to be corrected within the
next few days. Dr. Sykes pointed
TO PAVE 60 MILES
HWY. NEXT YEAR
Stretch of Scenic Drive Al
ready Gravelled and Parts
Are In Use
DRIVE TO BE 447 MILES
By PAUL MAY
Washington, D. C., December 14.
Sixty miles of the Blue Ridge
parkway, from the North Caro
lina-Virginia line to Deep Gap, N.
C., will be paved next year, the
Parks Service here announced to
day,
The stretch is already gravelled,
and parts of it are in use.
The extension will give an al
most uninterrupted drive from
Deep Gap to Swift Run Gap, in
Virginia's Skyline Drive, and will
leave only the lower portion of
the 447-mile drive to be complet
ed.
Also scheduled for next year, if
funds are made available, are
roads connecting Asheville and
Roanoke with the parkway.
For convenience of travellers
and local North Carolina residents
recreational areas are under con
struction at Cumberland and
Thompklns Gaps. A third area at
Bluffs Gaps with overnight shelt
ers is planned, but funds have not
been'made available.
In the two recreational spots
under construction are picnic
areas, lodges and over-night shelt
ers.
Consistency would Justly permit
'(only physical infirmities barring)
our grandparents to talk and to
act like we do, and to wear the
same kind of clothing we wear
when attending sport activities.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
STRONG NOTE SENT
TO JAPS PROTESTS
SINKING OF PANAY
Demands Open Door in China
For the U. S.
LETTER IS SIGNIFICANT
Freedom of All Americans
From "Unlawful Interfer
ence" is Asked
JAPS HAVE APOLOGIZED
Washington, Dec. 14. ■*— The
United States, in a strong, formal
note that covered far more than
the Panay incident, virtually de
manded Japanese pledges today
that China's door would stay open
and that all Americans and Amer
ican interests in China would be
free from "unlawful interference."
Secretary of State Hull present
ed Japan a note asking "a form
ally recorded expression of regret"
for the sinking of the gunboat
Panay; "complete and compre
hensive indemnifications," and
"an assurance that definite and
specific steps have been taken
which'will insure that hereafter
American nationals, Interests and
property in China will not be sub
jected to attack by Japanese arm
ed forces or unlawful interference
by any Japanese authorities or
forces whatsoever."
This last phrase—"or unlawful
interference by any Japanese au
thorities or forces whatsover"—
was regarded at the state depart
ment as highly significant. It was
taken to refer to the numerous
cases which have aroused protest
from the United States in the
past, including the taking over of
communications in Shanghai and
preparation for taking over the
Chinese customs at Shanghai. It
was termed a reaffirmation of the
principle of the open door.
The message was received by
Foreign Minister Hirota after Ja
pan had dispatched a note giving
apologies and assurances. The
latter document mentioned that
Hirota had already' asked United
States Ambassador Joseph C.
Grew to "transmit to the United
States government apologies from
the Japanese government," so
that Japan has already apologized
twice.
Since Hull's note was handed in
later, however, it may require a
third apology. Hull was non-com
mittal on this point.
2 ARE VICTIMS
OF MENINGITIS
Mrs. Nannie Key Johnson
and Daughter Jessie Lee
Claimed by Disease
FUNERALS ARE HELD
The death of two persons, a
mother and her daughter from
spinal meningitis gave the town of
Boonville a severe scare, which re
sulted in closing of the high school
until after the holidays.
The first to die was Jessie JUee
Johnson, 12 old year daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jobaeoa. She
died at the Elkin
after an illness of four Hkjp.'v,
The little victim of
disease was in school uMPlitt*'
day, which gave the scare to
school authorities. It wtfftggged
best by Dr. T. W. Shaft, 'tit. J.
R. Finney, of Boonvlll|fc a»|,.Dr.
J. Roy Hege, of
health officer for Yadklfe county,
to close the school, foßefMßyra
conference held by them fhmSfty
Mrs. A. E. Johnson, 59, mother
at the home of a lister, Mrs. Har
vey Baker, a public funeral net
being advisable. b I
Funeral services for the mother
were held at the same home
Tuesday afternoon. Rev. J. P. Da
vis conducted both Mrvfeet and
both were buried In the Boonville
Baptist church cemetef|r.
Survivors of the two victims in
clude the father and hiuband, A.
E. Johnson, and 11 chtt&ran, as
follows: Thurman, lHpsad,
Zeb, Wade, Herbert Jr., Ilpl*
and Aileen Johnson, Mrs, Ekel
Reece, Mrs. Hamey Barker, Mrs.
Robert Transou and Mrs, G«orge
Williams; three brothers,
Theodore and Jack Key, nlf one
sister, Mrs. Paul Carter. S
Japan will permit the Sportat
ion of only 530,000 boxeoof Jap
anese oranges this season,
Can Still Laugh
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Washington . . . ' Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
doesn't seem troubled about ru
mors that the new 27,000-word
Crop Control Bill is slated for a
Roman holiday in the Congres
sional arena. Meanwhile, as Con
gress lays plans for an orgy of
jpeechmaking, rapidly rocketing
retail food prices threaten to
bring on a virtual consumer's
strike and Mr. Wallace's Depart
ment publishes figures that less
than half of food-buyer's dollar
actually goes to producers.
ONLY TEN OLD
SOLDIERS LEFT
Nine of Surry's 10 Veterans
Receive Semi-Annual Pen
sion Checks Wednesday
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
There are only ten Confederate
veterans left in Surry county, last
remnant of Surry's contribution
to the Confederacy in the War
Between the States, and nine of
those surviving ten recieved semi
annual pension checks Wednes
day.
Each of the Confederate veter
ans is given a check for $187.50
on June 15th and December 15th
each year, according to statement
from F. T. Llewellyn, clerck of
Surry superior court, who dis
penses the pension payments.
There are also about thirty-five
widows of veterans who receive
either SIOO or S3OO each per
vear, depending upon their finan
cial and physical condition.
The nine Confederate veterans
who received pension checks yes
terday are W. H. Wall, of Elkin;
Samuel Hodges, of Round Peak;
Q. C. Marshall, of White Plains;
S. J. Odell, of Mount Airy; J. W.
Phillips, of Mount Airy; B. J.
Snow, of Mountain Park; N. A.
Southard, of Rusk; A. S. Cocker
ham. of Elkin; and E. D. Harris,
of Elkin. Z. T. Smith, of Mount
Airy is the tenth surviving veter
an, but he has never received a
pension check.
TO OPEN N. EK!N
COLORED SCHOOL
Excellent Program, Including
Negro Spirituals, to Be
Presented
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
The formal opening of the
North Elkin colored school will be
held Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
A program, consisting of Negro
■spirituals and addresses will be
Tiven. The welcome address will
be made by H. P. Graham, mayor
oro-tem of Elkin, and the main
address will be by Jasper Alston
Atkins, Winston-Salem, attorney
at law and assistant executive
secretary of the Winston-Salem
Teachers College.
Special musical numbers by the
school Glee Club and the Jones
ville quartette will be features of
the program.
The school is a three-room
wood structure with a stone
foundation and is painted inside
and out. Two rooms of the build
ing may be thrown together, by
raising a blackboard partition, to'
'orm an auditorium. This advan
tageous In that It also will serve
»« a community center. The
bnildta® was constructed by WPA
labor. Mrs. I. C. Kearw is princi
pal of the school and Eddie Wall
is assistant, teacher.
Th»» rnhltc Is cordially. invited
♦■■o attend the opening.
SCHOOT .« TO CT,OSE
ON NEXT TUESDAY
'"Elkin city schools, the North
Elkin ■ school and the Negro
"chool will close for Christmas
holidays on Tuesday, December
21. Classes will be resumed Mon
day morning, January 3, 1938.
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1937
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
HITCH HIKER
TAKES CAR
Raleigh, Dec. 14. Sam
Pridgen, Raleigh . entertainer,
said today a hitch-hiker he
picked up near Durham robbed
him of his automobile at the
> point of a gun. He described
the man to Wake county offi
cers as being young and having
"real blond hair and in need of
a hair cut."
CRASH TAKES LIVES
OF 5 NEGROES
Burlington, Dec. 14 A car
truck crash, converted into a
blazing inferno almost instant
ly after the two machines met
and an auxiliary gas tank on
the truck burst into flames,
cost the lives of five negroes
and sent three others to Ala
mance General hospital here,
seriously injured. The accident
occurred about five miles west
of here, on the ice-coated Bur
lington - Greensboro highway
about 7:30 o'clock this morn
ing.
URGES SUBSTITUTE
FOR TAX LEVY
New York, Dec. 14. Wil
lard L. Thorp, director of eco
nomic research for Dun and
Bradsreet, today urged business
to think up a substitute for the
undistributed profits surtax be
fore burning up any more en
ergy denouncing the levy.
He addressed a conference of
the American Management as
sociation which previously had
heard Morris S. Tremaine, New
York state comptroller say "we
can preserve the ideals of the
new deal * * * under a tax sys
tem with a much broader base."
PANAY DEATH TOLL
NOW AT FOUR
Shanghai, Dec. 15 (Wed
nesday) Recovery of the
body of another victim raised
to four today the known for
eign deaths in the sinking of
the United States gunboat Pa
nay and destruction of three
Standard Oil company vessels
by Japanese air bombs.
American, British and Japa
nese rescuers, meanwhile, strug
gled against obstacles which ap
parently had frustrated their
efforts to shepherd 75 survivors
including eight seriously Injur
ed, back to Shanghai.
Dispatches from the British
gunboat Bee reported two Jap
anese motor launches machine
gunned the Panay before the
vessel sank Sunday after a Jap
anese bomb attack.
JUNIORS TO GIVE
PLAY FRIDAY P.M.
"Let's Get Together" Promis
es Evening of Real Fun
and Entertainment
PLAN SURPRISE ACTS
"Let's Get Together/' a three
ace comedy presented by the Jun
ior class of Elkin high school,
will be staged in the elementary
school auditorium here Friday
evening beginning at 7:30 p. m.
The play is said to show the
Christmas Spirit at work on a
modern American family, and
will be presented by the following
cast: Hugh Gilliland, Jr., as
"Dad;" Edwina Lawrence as
"Mother." Sam Gambill as "Jack,"
Billy Graham as "Roger," Sonny
Brewer as "Bobby,"* Betty Lou
Evans as "Bonnie," Rosamond
Neaves as "Lucy," Geraldlne
Couch as "Granny," Dick Smith,
Jr., as "Clark;" Prances Alexan
der as "Patty," and Charles Har
ris as the announcer.
The play is a rollicking comedy
that is guaranteed to chase away
the blues and put the audience in
hemstitches.
Several surprises are planned
between acts. A nominal admis
sion will be charged.
FIRE DOES SLIGHT
DAMAGE TO HOUSE
Fire caused by a faulty stove
pipe Saturday morning caused
slight damage to the home of Paul
Shores, in Jonesville.
The blaze began where the pipe
-ntered the chimney, passing
a wooden wall. It was
luickly extinguished by the Elkln
firemen.
Hail Outstanding 4-H Winners
al
t iji - • jMB
Chicago . . . Outstanding accomplishments and well-rounded rec
ords won the Roosevelt award at the annual 4-H contest here for Vi
ola Niedfeldt, 17, of Bangor, Wisconsin, and Bob Norford, 18, of
Amorita, Oklahoma. Besides a silver service set for 8 persons, the
1937 champions will receive a S3OO college scholarship.
FIRE DESTROYS
2-STORY HOUSE
Large Dwelling Known as
James Greenwood Home
place Burns Monday
WAS VACANT AT TIME
A huge two-story residence,
known as the James Greenwood
Someplace, now owned by Jack
Ray, was entirely consumed by
fire late Monday night. The build
ing was located just west of
Jonesville on the Ray farm. '
The origin of the fire is un
known, as by the time the blaze
was discovered it had gained such
headway that investigation was
impossible. The building had been
vacant for about two weeks but
the previous day a part of the
furniture of Marmia Day and
family had been placed in the
building preparatory to moving
there to reside the following day.
A small amount of insurance
was carried on the building.
ADDRESSES SURRY
COUNTY TEACHERS
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, Head of
State School System,
Speaker at Dobson
SEE BUS DEMONSTRATED
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state su
perintendent of public instruc
tion, head of North Carolina's
mighty system of public schools,
addressed between 300 and 400
white school teachers in the Surry
county and Elkin schools at
a Joint meeting of the county and
city faculties at /Dobson high
school last week.
His address, delivered in the
Dobson high school auditorum
that was filled to capacity, stress
ed the duties of the school teach
ers of Surry county and North
Carolina in the proper training of
the school children of the state
in ways that will mean the per
petuation of the principles of
Christianity and Democracy and
the preparation of the youngsters
for a right and full living.
Dr. Erwin, in addition to deliv
ering the principal address of the
third countywide teachers meet
ing of the 1937-38 school term,
was also one of a grouo of educa
tional and traffic officials who
watched a demonstration of safe
school bus loading by the faculty
•Mid puoils of the Dobson school,
display of efficiency that was
highly commended by everyone.
TO AID IN CARING
. FOR NEEDY HERE
Cooperating with citizens and
civic organizations who desire to
contribute baskets to needy fam
ilies in this locality during the
Christmas season, Mrs. W. W.
Whitaker and Rev. Eph Whisen
hunt, of the associated charities,
will be at the office of Attorney
Wm. M. Allen Friday afternoon
from 4:30 until 5:30 to assist in
the allotment of families in order
that all may be remembered and
that there will be no duplication
of contributions. Bach organiza
tion Is asked to send a representa
tive to the meeting and individ
uals are asked to inquire regard
ing worthy families.
PRISONERS INCREASE.
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—There were
9,317 inmates of North Carolina
prisons December 1, as compared
with 9,213 November 1, the penal
division reported today. A total of
10,927 prisoners were handled last
month, of whom 4,396 were white,
6,531 negroes and 208 women.
Stores to Remain
Open Until 8 P. M.
Starting Friday
Beginning Friday evening,
all local stores will remain
open until 8:00 p. m. until
Christmas, it has been an
nounced by the Eikin Mer
chants association.
This policy has been decided
upon so that it will give late
shoppers and those whose du
ties during the day prevent
them from visiting the stores,
to complete their Christmas
buying.
ELKIN WOMAN IS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Nancy Alice Gaittbill
Passes Monday Following
Paralysis Stroke
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Mrs. Nancy Alice Billings Gam
bill, 85, Iwidow of Gordon Gambill,
died Mflnday morning at the home
of her son, T. M. Gambill, in east
Elkin, following a stroke of para
lysis.
Mrs. Billings had been a mem
ber of the Cool Springs Baptist
church for 60 years. She was a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Billings.
She is survived by one daughter
and one son, Mrs. John Atkins
and T. M. Gambill, Elkin; one
brother, Wesley Billings, of Alle
ghaney county, and one sister,
Mrs. Harris Luffman, of Wilkes
county.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning from Cool
Springs Baptist church. The rites
were in charge of Rev. Isom Ves
tal and Rev. Grant Cothren. In
terment was in the church ceme
tery.
SAY BOMBING WAS
DELIBER ATE ACT
Witnesses to Destruction of
U. S. Gunboat Panay Say
It Was No Error
INDIGNATION EXPRESSED
Hankow, China, Dec. 13. —
Observers who witnessed the, Jap
anese aerial attack on the United
States gunboat Panay late to
night declared the bombing was
unmistakably deliberate, preclud
ing possibility of error.
Though the t gunboat had
American flags painted on her
awnings and carried flags on
every mast, observers said squad
rons of Japanese planes bombed
the Panay four successive times.
The British gunboat Bee, which
rushed under forced draft to the
scene of the incident, was in radio
communication tonight with
Hankow, present seat of the
Chinese government and the
United States embassy.
f The Bee reported she had
found 12 more survivors from the
three Standard Oil companv
boats, bombed when the Panav
was attacked., who were on the
Yangtze river's south bank op
posite Hohsien.
American, British and other
diplomats expressed bitter indig
nation at the attack on the
Panay.
"
Uncle Sam hat iust taken the
rvnniml "oil? count,"' bv a-=k!n*
i 750.000 hos raiwrs to fill in c*rd*
I h*w m«tr»v ni»s and other
1 farm animals they have.
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TWO SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FEW CLUES LEFT
BY FUGITIVE IN
STATE MAN HUNT
(jnidentified Criminal Leaved
Obscure Trail
SEARCH TRANSFERRED
Some' Officials Think Object
of Hunt is the Notorious
Bill Payne
WOUNDED MAN SILENT
Wilmington, Dec. 14 Federal
investigators and state highway
patrolmen followed tonight a
poorly defined trail of an uniden
tified fugitive who last night es
caped a rain of police fire that
seriously injured his companion,
a man identified as J. Bowling
Byrd, a former convict.
Byrd was in a hospital tonight
suffering from a head wound in
flicted by officers during a 90-
mile-an-hour chase along a beach
highway.
The concentrated search for the
unknown companion, believed hurt
by the gunfire, was directed in the
vicinity of Sanford and Asheboro.
The office of Dr. Tiffany Barnes
in Asheboro was robbed of adhe
sive tape, two rolls of gauze ban
dage and a pint of antiseptic so
lution.
Highway Patrolman Hugh
Sloan, member of the pursuing
police squad, said that it had
been established that Byrd's com
panion used water and a towel at
a roadhouse near here shortly af
ter the fusillade of bullets pierced
the fleeing, careening car, caus
ing it to crash through a barbecue
stand. Blood was left on the towel.
The fugitive had departed a few
minutes before officers broke into
the cabin room.
Law enforcement officers con
tradicted one another as to the
identity of the sought-for man. R.
Grady Johnson, head of the North
Carolina prison system, said many
of the officers engaged in the
search believed their objective was
Wash Turner, alias Jack Borden,
a staunch "pal" of Bill Payne,
North Carolina's most wanted fel
on. Sloan, however, remained firm
in his contention that the man
was Payne.
It was Sloan who confronted
the man he identified as Payne
in a woods shortly after the flee
ing car crashed and was in the
act of placing the man under ar
rest when the officer tripped and
fell into a branch. The fugitive
disappeared. The next informa
tion was that he had hailed a
motorist and obtained a ride into
Wilmington and, alighted in front
of a hospital and caught a taxi
for the roadhouse where he dress
ed his wounds.
WHITE CHRISTMAS TO
BE OBSERVED SUNDAY
The Sunday school of the Meth
odist church will observe "White
Christmas" Sunday morning, De
cember 19, at the regular Sunday
school hour. Gifts donated will be
given to the Methodist Children's
Home in Winston-Salem.
Anyone desiring is invited to
participate in the service.
REV. JOE CARTER
KIWANIS SPEAKER
Rev. Joe Carter of Anderson, S.
C., who was in a revival meeting
here last week at the Presbyterian
church, was guest speaker at the
weekly Kiwanis meeting Thursday
evening at Hotel Elkin. Klwanlan
J. G. Abernethy was in charge of
the program.
Thursday evening, December 23,
the annual Christmas auction of
the club will be held, proceeds of
the auction to go for Christmas
cheer for needy families locally.
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??HE BEST WAV TO
UNDERSTAND OTHERS
IS TO KNOW YOURSELF.
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