FElkin
he Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXVU. No. 7
W.F.LAWRENCE,
SURRY REGISTER
OF DEEDS, DIES
Heart Attack Fatal to Promi
nent Surry Man
SERVING THIRD TERM
Funeral Services to Be Held
This Afternoon at 1:30 in
Mount' Airy
f
WAS NATIVE OF STOKES
Funeral services for Willis F.
"Lawrence, 55, who served Surry
county as register of deeds fori
three terms during the past 141
years, being in his third term at (
the timp of his death, will be held
this afternoon at Rockford Street
Methodist church,' Mount Airy.
The final rites will begin at 1:30,
and will be in charge of Rev. H. R. |
Cornelius, of Ruffin, and Rev. H.
G. Harding, pastor of the church.
Interment will be in Whitel Plains
Friends cemetery.
Mr. Lawrence passed away at
Martin Memorial hospital, about
11 o'clock Monday night, death (
having been caused by a heart at-,
tack suffered Friday night at his I
home about two miles south of
Mount Airy.
Mr. Lawrence was a native of
Stokes county and was the son of
the late William and Matilda
Christian Lawrence, but he spent (
the greater part of his life in
Surry county where he was for
many years a leading business
man and farmer. He was actively
identified with the p ilitical life of
the county for a number of years,
serving as registrar of deeds two
terms between 1924 and 1928 and
for a third term which he began
in 1936 and was serving at the
time of his death.
In 1899, he was married to Miss
Sarah Etta Smith, who survives j
him with the following:
Four sons, Kermit Lawrence, of
Mt. Airy; Claude Lawrence, a stu-j
dent at Elon college; Troy Law
rence, of New York city: William
Lawrence, of Fort Bragg; two
daughters, Misses Virginia and
RUth Lawrence, both of Mt. Airy,
three brothers, Luther, Robert and
James Lawrence, all of Mt. Airy,
route four, and one sister, Mrs.
Will Hiatt, of Colfax.
The remains will be carried to
Rockford Street Methodist church
at 9 o'clock this morning, and the
body will lie in state until the time
for the final service at 1:30 o'clock
this afternoon.
Active) pall bearers will be John
H. Folger, Joe F. Booker, Samuel
Patterson, Will M. McCoy and
Otis Wimbish, all of Mt. Airy, and
John W. Comer, of Dobson.
JONESVILLE MAN
PASSES FRIDAY
Reggie Myers, 36, Dies in
Hospital Following Com
plicated Illness
FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY
Reggie Myers, 36, of Jonesville,
died Friday afternoon in the local
hospital following a critical com
plicated illness of several days. He
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Myers of the Swan Creek com
munity and was a member of the
Swan Creek Baptist church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Haynes Myers and three
daughters, Lucille, Grace and
Sarah Mae Myers, his parents,
four sisters and seven brothers:
Mrs. William Ashley, Arlington;
Lytle Myers, Swan Creek; Mrs.
Edgar Swaim, Charlie, Eddie and
Miss Addle Myers and Mrs. Thom
as Hayes of Cycle; Clay and Roy
Myers of Jonesville and J. Myers
of Elkin.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Sunday morning from Swan
Creek Baptist church. The rites
were in charge of Rev. N. T. Jar
vis. Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Over 100 Aided
Here Christmas
By Organization >
More than 109 individuals
were aided this year thronrh
the local Associated Charities
in cooperation with a number
of civic and religions organisa
tions. So for as is known no
worthy individual was over
looked in the vicinity surround
ing
Miscellaneous baskets were
distributed on Christmas Ere.
Son Is Named to
Fill Father's
Job As Register
At a call meeting of the Sur
ry county board of commission
ers, held Wednesday morning
at Dobson, Kermit W. Law
rence, former deputy register
of deeds, was appointed to fill
the unexpired term of Register
of Deeds W. F. Lawrence, who
died Monday in a Mount Airy
hospital following a heart at
tack.
Kermit W. Lawrence is a
son of W. F. Lawrence, and is
considered well qualified to
take the place of his late father.
The present term will expire
on December 1, 1940.
HAN IS FOUND
LYING IN ROAD
Vlaurice Myers, Wilkes Man,
Claims He Was Hit Over
Head; Police Puzzled
ASSAILANTS DESCRIBED
Maurice Myers, 51, of the Austin
;ommunity of Wilkes county, has
ocal and Surry county police in
i state of puzzlement with a story
if how he had been attacked and
mocked unconscious Monday
norning by two unidentified men
>n highway 26, just north of Klon
iike Farm.
Myers was found unconscious
3eside his automobile early Mon
day morning by passersby who
telephoned for the local ambu
lance and had him brought to the
Elkin hospital.
According to Myers, who is said
to be getting along just fine at the
hospital, he had stopped his car
at the side of the highway to
pump up a tire when he was ac
costed by two men of good ap
pearance who pulled up alongside
and asked the way to the R. J.
Reynolds estate on Mitchell's
River. He said one of the men, a
short fellow with a foreign ap
pearance and accent, asked him
to accompany them to the Rey
nolds estate, offering him sums
of money ranging up to $15.00 if
he would do so. Myers said he de
clined and when he did so, the
other man, described as being
stout with a broken front tooth,
hit him on the back of the head,
knocking him unconscious. The
men, who were said to have been
driving a green car, then appar
ently drove away.
Officers who were called in to
investigate, are without a clue,
and doctors at the local hospital
have been unable to find any evi
dence of Myers having received a
blow upon the head. No one has
seen the green automobile or men
answering the descr'ptlon of the
alleged attackers, and no such
persons have called at the Rey
nolds estate, they say.
However, Myers is said to stick
to his story, retelling it several
times on as many different days
practically word for word. That
he had stopped to pump up a flat
and had laid the pump upon the
back seat as the two men drove
up was attested by the fact that
officers found the pump where he
said he had placed it. The key to
the automobile was found in the
ignition switch.
Police were continuing their in
vestigation Wednesday. Myers re
mains in the Hugh Chatham hos
pital.
MRS. COY LEDBETTER
PASSES MONDAY NIGHT
Mrs. Lonnie Cockerham Led
better, 40, wife of Coy Ledbetter
of the Benham community, died
at 10 o'clock Monday night, fol
lowing a serious illness of several
days.
The deceased was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cockerham,
who survive, together with her
husband and seven children. Eight
sisters and one brother, Mrs. Har
rison Hayes of near Dobson; Mrs.
Noah Barker and Mrs. Alonzo
Baker of Elkin; William Cocker
ham of Austin; Mrs. A. J. Barker
of Traphill; Mrs. Warren Harris
on of Thurmond; Mrs. Robert Mc-
Cann and Mrs. Morgan Lyons of
Traphill and Mrs. Walter Yales of
Bel Air, Md., also survive.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning from Char
ity church, near the home. Inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Forty thousand men in more
than 1,500 American industrial
laboratories are researching at the
rate of $300,000,000 a year.
A modern stream-lined speed
train is being used on the South
Manchuria railway between the
important and fast developing cit
ies of that country.
F. D. R. ANNOUNCES
POSSIBLE BOOST
IN NAVY PROGRAM
Expresses Growing Concern
Over Situation
'MUST RECOGNIZE FACTS'
» -
Tells Appropriations Chair
man Additional Estimates
May Be Expected
DETAILS ARE NOT GIVEN
Washington, Dec. 28. Presi
dent Roosevelt announced a pos
sible increase in the naval build
ing program today because, he
said, the facts of the troubled
world situation "are facts and the
United States must recognize
them."
Without referring to the recent
sinking of the American gunboat
Panay, or any other specific inci
dent, and disclaiming any un
friendly gesture toward any par
ticular nation, he said merely that
recent events had caused him
"growing concern."
His intentions were announced
at a press conference in which he
referred correspondents to a let
ter he had written Chairman Tay
lor, Democrat, '".olorado, of the
house appropriations subcommit
tee, on the navy, advising him
that he might expect additional
estimates for naval building.
At the conference the President
answered a barrage of questions
which the reporters fired at him.
How many vessels would be
added to the present program, he
could not say, nor could he tell
what types of ship would be con
structed. That waited further
study.
Nor did he know whether addi
tional authorizing legislation
would be needed. That depended
on the type of vessel to be built.
If it should be decided to build
warships falling into the categor
ies authorized by the Vinson act,
new legislation would not be need
ed.
For the present, at least, no in
creased naval personnel would be
necessary.
SANTA PROVES
GENEROUS HERE
Elkin Manufacturers and
Business Firms Present
Employees With Gifts
CASH, FRUIT IS GIVEN
Santa Claus proved good tc
hundreds of Elkin people employ
ed in various industries, stores
etc., as many employers gave the it
employees bonuses in form of cash
and other gifts.
Heading the list o? those firms
paying a cash bonus wa c the
Chatham Manufacturing C o.
which each year makes substan
tial contribution to their employ
ees at Christmas. This year, as
last year, each employee was given
a full week's extra pay.
Another Elkin firm to remembei
their employees with Christmas
* gifts was the Elkin Furniture Co.,
each employee receiving a cash
gift and a gift of fruit.
Gifts of cash, fruit, nuts, etc.,
were given by many other local
businesses in appreciation of the
loyalty of their employees during
the past year.
Expressing the appreciation of
' himself, as acting mayor, and that
of Elkin citizens, the following
telegram was dispatched to Thur
mond Chatham, president of the
Chatham Manufacturing Co., by
H. P. Graham:
J "Please accept belated Christ
mas greetings from myself and
sincere thanks from all of Elkin
for having contributed so much to
the happiness of the community
this Christmas through the gen
erosity of the Chatham Manufact
' | urlng Co."
JR. O. U. A. M. TO HOLD
SPECIAL MEET FRIDAY
Elkin Council No. 96, Jr. O. U.
A. M. will hold a special meeting
Friday evening, December 31. Spe
cial entertainment is being plan
ned for the program and side de
grees will be given several new
members.
Every member of the council is
invited to be present for the last
meeting of the year.
The degree team will visit Boon
ville Saturday evening, January 1,
and initiate several new members
into that council.
Not a passenger lost his life in
a train accident on the railroads
of the TJ. S. in the first six months
of 1937.
ELKIN, N. C~ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1937
IATENEWCI
from the
State and Nation
BIG EXPORTS
INCREASE SALES
Washington, Dec. 28. For
eign trade experts of the com
merce department said today
that "enormous" exports of war
materials were keeping Amer
ican sales abroad at a high lev
el and providing a cushion for
declining business at home.
At the same time, they esti
mated that final figures for
1937 would show that Ameri
can firms and individuals sold
abroad at least $200,000,000
more in commodities and man
ufactures than they purchased
in other lands.
RUNS AMUCK
KILLS THREE
Oakland, Calif., Dec. 28. —A
Filipino dishwasher, quoted b)
police as saying he "wenl
crazy" when his wife left him
killed at least 3 countrymen anc
wounded 10 others today in i
savage outburst of shootinf
and stabbing in the Filipim
district.
Two police officers capturec
the man, booked as Bonifacic
Aranda, 28, in headquarters ol
the Philippine Association ol
California half an hour aftei
occupants of a three-block
area had fled in terror befor
the assailant.
MOTHER DEAD, MAN
ENDS OWN LIFE
Fayetteville, Dec. 28. li
one of Cumberland county':
grimmest tragedies, Mrs. Nan
nie Belle Martin Fisher, 49, is
dead, apparently at the hanc
of her own son, and the son
Carl Chestine Weeks, 29, is a
suicide.
Weeks pulled both triggers ol
a double-barrelled shotgun anc
blew his head off about noor
today when officers sought t(
question him several hours, af
ter his mother's home on th(
Cedar rceek road was burned
and her body was found in th
ruins, with her skull fractured
Investigating officers learnet
during the morning that Week:
had left SIBO with a local ga
rage to be kept for him anc
that he had given a ring to a
girl in Gray's Creek township.
JAPS THREATEN
FURTHER DRIVE
Shanghai, Dec. 29. (Wed
nesday) General Iwane Mat
sui, the Japanese commander
threatened today to press Ja
pan's attack 1,000 miles into
China's interior.
Americans at Tsingtao, or
the north China coast, at th
same time, were fleeing from s
threatened attack by anothei
arm of the Japanese armj
striking swiftly across Shan
tung province.
Unless the Chinese govern
ment ends "its anti-Japanese
policies," "may find it neces
sary" to advance to Hankov
and Chungsktfig and "may re
pudiate the national govern
ment of China."
YADKIN LIME ROCK
WILL RECEIVE TESI
Experts Secure Samples foi
Analysis; Pleased With
Appearance
MAY BEGIN WORK SOON
Yadkin ville, N. C., Dec. 28
—The lime deposits of Yadkir
county are drawing the attentior
of agriculturists in many sections
according to information obtained
at the county agents office here
this morning, announcing at the
same time that lime experts froir
Kenosha, Wisconsin, had been
here investigating lime rockj
found in sections of the county.
Mr. S. D. Kerley of the Wiscon
sin city and a party were in the
county Monday and made an in
spection of several places where
the lime deposits appear, partic
ularly in Fall Creek township and
near Enon.. Lime rock at eacli
place was carried to Madison
Wis., where they will be analyzed
If these specimens prove of a
* high percentage it is expected
that a more thorough examina
; tion will begin and Mr. Kerley an
nounced while here that if it was
Justifiable machinery would be
set up at some point near the besl
i deposits and stone crushing begin
i
(Continued on last page)
When Is A Mistake Not A Mistake?
1 Ma— t M■ - :
JHA ) * '
This is one of the last pictures taken of the U. S. Gunboat Panay
(pro: Pa-night) before she disappeared beneath the waters of the
Yanrtse bombed and machine-gunned by Japanese planes and land
forces. In protesting directly to Nipponese Emperor Hirohito, the
State Department stressed the fact that thel Panay was flying United
States colors (see arrow above) thus disproving earlier Japanese ex
cuses that the attack was a case of "mistaken identity."
KIWANIANS RAISE
sl2l BY AUCTION
Proceeds To Be Turned Over
to Local Associated Char
ities for 1938 Use
TO INSTALL OFFICIALS
A total of $121.06 was realized
from the annual Kiwanls auction
held Thursday evening at the
weekly meeting at Hotel Elkin.
Kiwanian Marion Allen acted as
auctioneer.
The proceeds of the auction will
be turned over to the Associated
Charities to be used in aiding the
less fortunate during the year.
The meeting Thursday of this
week will be held at 7 o'clock and
ladies' night will be observed. The
installation of officers will feature
the, meeting.
Officers for the ensuing year
are: president, Wilbur Carter;
vice-president, E. W. McDaniel;
secretary-treasurer, Julius Hall.
Directors: L. S. Weaver, E. C.
James, R. B. Harrell, H. P. Laf
foon, P. M. Norman and Hugh
Royall.
ALLYN GIBSON
PASSES FRIDAY
Former Greensboro Business
Man Had Been 111 For the
Past Year
FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY
Allyn McFarling Gibson, 50,
passed away in the local hospital
early Friday morning, following a
serious illness of one year. He had
been a patient at the hospital here
for about six weeks. Mr. Gibson
was a prominent business man of
Greensboro and Huntington, West
Virginia, before his illness forced
him to retire. He was a native
of Kentucky.
The body was taken to the home
of a brother, Dr. A. P. Gibson in
Huntington, West Virginia, for
funeral services. The funeral was
held Sunday afternoon and inter
ment was in Woodmere cemetery
in Huntington.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Virginia Gibson; one daughter,
Miss Pauline Gibson, of the local
hospital staff, and two brothers,
Dr. A. P. Gibson, Huntington,
West Va., and Dr. B. R. Gibson of
McAndrews, Kentucky.
More than 16,000 Communist
agitators and young radicals have
been expelled from CCC camps.
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5
Christmas Seal
Sale Here Nets
Sum of $90.90
A total of $90.90 was realised
from the sale of Christmas
seals for the prevention of tu
berculosis here, according to
Mrs. E. F. McNeer, chairman
of the seal sale, which is spon
sored annually by the Elkln
Woman's Club. One-fourth of
the amount, $22.72, is sent to
national headquarters and the
remainder is kept here to fight
tuberculosis in this vicinity.
Mrs. McNeer and the Wo
man's Club as a whole extend
their sincere thanks to each in
dividual who purchased seals
and to the workers who gave
unsparingly of their time to
this worthy cause.
Free Gifts Await
First White Baby
To Arrive in '3B
The first baby to arrive by
Stork Express within a 15-mile
radius of Elkin after the stroke
of midnight Friday, will receive
numerous fine presents to be
given by Elkin merchants.
In this issue of The Tribune
a full page advertisement lists
the many attractive gifts which
will greet the first white baby
to be born after 1938 pushes
1937 into history. These gifts
are offered absolutely free and
are governed only by a few
rules which require that to be
eligible the name, address, doc
tor's report and birth certifi
cate of the baby born after the
first of the year be mailed or
brought to the Baby Editor, |
care of this newspaper.
Turn now to the full page ad
and read of the baby contest
and Elkin merchants' attractive
gifts.
ELKIN TO MEET
AIL-STAR TEAM
Cagesters Will Play Formef
School Stars in Game at
Gym Saturday
HI HAS STRONG TEAM
Elkin high school, with the
memory of a 0-0 tie with former
football stars of the school still
fresh in mind, has scheduled a
basketball game for Saturday
night which will pit the school
basketball team against a team
of former high school stars.
The school football team was
sure it was going to have little
trouble in drubbing its opponent
back during the football season,
but had to be satisfied with a
scoreless deadlock with the ball
just yards from their goal line
when the final whistle blew. Sat
urday, perhaps, they will be seek
ing vengeance for smashed hopes
when the present cage team, ad
mittedly strong, goes into action
against former stars.
But regardless of who wins, the
game should see plenty of fire
works. It will be held at the
school gym starting at 8:00 p. m.
Among the players who will see
action are: Elkin—George Orier,
J. Ratledge, J. Powers, B. Rat
ledge, Joe Gwyn Bivins. Hugh
Oilleland. Bill Sparks, Fred Nor
man and Ralph Dorset; E. H. S.
Alumni—Charles Neaves, Claud?
McNeil, Edwin Royall, Richard
Collins, Russell Burcham, Moir
Hall, Rufus Crater, Irvin Wade
and Alex Chatham.
YADKIN FARMERS
FORM DISTRICT
Farmers of Yadkin county have
taken steps to organize the Tri-
Creek Soil Conservation district,
according to a statement by J. E.
Trevathan, official of the Dob
son CCC camp, Wednesday, which
will embrace the watersheds of
north and south Deep Creek and
the Forbush ercek, comprising ap
proximately two thirds of the land
area of the county. A referen
endum was held in the early part
of December which gave a vote of
456 to 0 in favor of the organiza
tion, with approximately half of
the farmers of the area voting.
The project will have to receive
the official O. K. of the State
Soil Conservation Committee,
howevter, before the organization
will be made complete.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ARE TO DEDICATE
NEW ADDITION TO
HOSPITAL JAN. 6
Formal Sendee to Begin at
3:30 P. M.
TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE
Prominent Church Officials,
Including Bishop Kern, Are
To Take Part
ARE TO STAGE BANQUET
The recently completed addition
to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital, which was erected at a cost
of $46,000, will be formally dedi
cated Thursday, January 6. The
dedication service will begin at
3:30 in the afternoon, with Dr.
Chas. C. Weaver of Asheville,
president of the Board of Mis
sions of the Western North Car
olina Methodist Conference, In
charge of the program. The
building will be dedicated by
Bishop Paul B. Kern of Greens
boro. Other officials of the Meth
odist church and of the Duke En
dowment will also be present for
the service.
Following the dedication open
house will be held at the hospital
for one hour at which time the
entire plant will be thrown open
for inspection.
At 6:30 the same evening mem
bers of the Board of Directors of
the Hospital and the Elkin Ki
wanis Club will be hosts at dinner
in the banquet hall in Hotel Elkin.
Special invitations to the dinner
will be sent to contributors who
have made possible the new ad
dition.
The addition which is now in
use, greatly facilitates the useful
ness and efficiency of the hos
pital in that it reduces the crowd
ed condition that has been evi
dent in the hospital since short
ly after the first wing of the
building was opened in 1931.
A cordial invitation is extended
the puolic to attend the dedica
tion service.
RONDA WOMAN DIES
FRIDAY MORNING
Lifeless Body of Mrs. Caro
line Cockerham Found
Resting on Bed
FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY
■ /
Mrs. Caroline. Shew Cockerham.
87, wife of Willie Cockerham of
Ronda, was found dead in bed at
her home about five o'clock Mon
day morning. She had apparent
ly been dead several hours when
her lifeless body was discovered.
Death was attributed to general
infirmities attendant upon her
advanced age.
The deceased was the last sur
viving charter member of the
Ronda Baptist church.
Funeral services were held at
the home Tuesday afternoon. The
rites were in charge of Rev. Grady
Burgiss, pastor of the deceased,
assisted by Rev. George Curry.
Interment was in the Ronda cem
etery.
Her husband is the only imme
diate survivor.
GUERNSEY COWS SOLD
TO AVONDALE MILLS
Peterborough, N. H. Three
purebred Guernsey cows Klondike
Milicent 478577, Roscoe's Mab
488346 and Kite's Louise 495614
were sold recently by Thurmond
Chatham of Elkin, North Caro
lina to Avondale Mills of Sylacau
ga, Alabama according to the
American Guernsey Cattle Club,
Peterborough, New Hampshire.
ireraflii
Progress begins with
6ETTIN6 A CLEARER
VIEW OF THE OBSTACLES.