Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Bine Ridge
VOL. No. XXVII. No. 21
Winners in Fashion Show
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Winners In the fashion show sponsored at the Lyric theatre
last Friday night by the Parent-Teacher association, are shown
above. Left is Miss Dorothy May Walker, who was awarded a
prize as best representing the firm by which she was entered,
due to her unique dress, made up of seed packages. Right is Miss
Edwina Lawrence, who was judged the best model. Tribune
photos.
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
JURY GOES
ON STRIKE
Winnifield, La., April 5 A
jury, which "struck" briefly
w hen informed the Parish
(county) did not have any
money to pay, continued de
liberations in a manslaughter
trial today.
The incident occurred yester
day during trial of Tom Sand
rage in connection with the
death of James Hatcher, of
Sikes, La.
When the men struck, the
judge, sheriff, Parish treasurer,
district attorney and others
consulted hurriedly. In about
an hour the sheriff told them
something would be done and
the case was resumed.
SAFETY DIRECTOR
IS IN STATE
Raleigh, April 5. Safety
Director E. P. Roy, of Baton
Rouge, la., is spending a pair
of days in Raleigh studying
North Carolina schools and
transportation and maybe giv
ing a lesson in safe driving.
Colonel Roy had a session
this afternoon with Ronald Ho
cutt, assistant, safety director
of North Carolina. The colonel
thinks North Carolina has
made a real start in safety and
the state demonstration is to
the Louisianan's liking.
SPANISH GOV'T
is RE SHUFFLED
Madrid, April s.—The Span
ish government was almost
completely re-shuffled in Bar
celona tonight, the most sig
nificant change being dismissal
of Defense Minister Indalecio
Prieto upon whose shoulders
has fallen an enormous task
during the past 10 months of
civil war. Premier Juan Ne
grin remained at the head of
the government, taking over
the additional duties of nation
al defense. The bulk of the
new cabinet members are so
cialists.
BABSON PREDICTS
BETTER TIMES
Tampa, April 5. Roger
W. Babson, statistician and ec
onomist, said today if he were
President of the United States
he would pass the unemploy
ment problem to churches and
work for a spiritual revolution.
| Speaking to Tampa Civic
ohtte, he said he believed the
country was forging ahead and
predicted better times before
the year is out.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
PLAN MEETING OF
TEMPERANCE UNION
Expected to Meet Here Latter
Part of This Month With
I-ocal C, U,
CHAPTER IS YEAR OLD
The latter part of April it is
planned to have a district meet
ing of the North Carolina Tem
perance Unoin here with the lo
cal W. C. T. U. as hostess.
The local chapter was organ
ized in the First Baptist church
in this city, one year ago this
month. On the organizing day,
with two state officers present,
ten people joined the chapter.
Today there is a membership of
22, with many prospective mem
bers.
Although the W. C. T. t\ us
ually has eight departments, the
local chapter limits theirs to two
for the present due to a small
membership and feeling that
some of the departments overlap
the work done by other organi
zations of the town. The two
departments are: Scientific Tem
perance Instruction and Christian
Citizenship. The membership
comes from all denominations in
the city and its scope is interna
tional.
By July, 1938, the national or
ganization hopes to raise a mil
lion dollars for the National
Temperance Education Fund, this
sum to be raised in memory of
the founder, Frances E. Willard,
and its very name tells its pur
pose. This year mprks the Fran
ces E. Willard centenary.
Miss Alice Dixon is president of
the local chapter.
ARE TO ENFORCE
1-HOUR PARKING
Traffic "Dead Men" to Be
Given Nice New Coat of
Aluminum Paint
TO ADD MAN TO FORCE
Taking note of suggestions as to
traffic enforcement, etc., as re
commended by the directors of the
Elkin Merchants association at
their last meeting, the Elkin board
of commissioners Monday night
made plans for enforcing the one
hour parking regulations here an£
authorized the addition of another
man to the police force to aid in
the enforcement.
It was also decided to remark
Main Street, allowing for w.heels
to-curb parking on the south side
of the street and diagonal park
ing on the north side. Taking note
of the objections of the Merchants
Association's directors to diagonal
parking, the commissioners have
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WON HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT TO
BE STARTED 11TH
Will Improve Roadside North
of Elkin
PLAN BEAUTIFICATION
Banks Along Highway W3ll
Be Sloped and Brush,
Scrub Growth Cleared
WILL MAKE ROAD SAFER
Work of beautifying and im
proving the roadside on highway
21 north of Elkin. is scheduled to
begin Monday, April 11, it has
been learned from T. H. Brant,
landscape engineer of the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission.
D. B. McMichael, who is to be
superintendent of the project, is
expected here either Friday or
Saturday, C. H. Brewer, who has
taken an active interest in the
project, has been informed.
Under the plan of improvement,
banks along the highway will be
sloped and seeded, it is under
stood, while unsightly under
brush. scrub growth, etc., will be
* >moved.
> Work similar to that planned
for No. 21 has been done on the
highway- between Winston-Salem
and Kernersville. In addition to
improving the appearance of the
highway, it will also make it safer
inasmuch as the gradual sloping
of banks and the elimination of
unsigihtly growth will enable mo
torists to have a better view
when approaching curves.
KIRKMAN TO MAKE
RACE FOR SENATE
Mount Airy Man Formally
Files Notice With Elec
ection Board
WAS CANDIDATE BEFORE
Fred A. Kirkman, of Mount
Airy, formally filed his candidacy
or the nomination as state senator
for the Twenty-third Senatorial
district, with the Surry county
board of elections Saturday. The
Twenty-third district is made up
of Snrry and Stokes counties.
Mr. Kirkman announced him
self a candidate for the post prior
to the last election, but was not
allowed to run due to an unwrit
ten agreement with Stokes coun
ty that the two counties alternate
candidates. This year it is Surry's
time to put a candidate in the
field.
The Mount Airy man's formal
notice appears as follows:
"To the Board of Elections of
Surry County:
"I hereby file my notice as a
candidate for the nomination as
state senator for the Twenty
third Senatorial district of North
Carolina, composed of Surry coun
ty and Stokes county, in the pri
mary election to be held on June
4, 1938. I affiliate with the Dem
ocratic party, and I hereby pledge
myself to abide with the results
of the said primary and to support
in the next general election all
andidates nominated by the Dem
ocratic party.
"This the 2nd day of April,
1938.
"Fred A. Kirkman."
Mail Carrier's Car Burns Sunday Afternoon
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Roy Sanders, mall carrier from North Wilkesboro to Winston-Salem, narrowly escaped Injury
Sunday afternoon when his car caught Art and burned up on the Elkin-Winston-Salem highway
near East Bold. Although the ear was a total wreck, Mr. Sanders managed to save the mail.—
Tribune photo.
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1938
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Above is a photograph of Elkin's new postoffice, recently completed, and occupied since last
Friday. The new structure is much larger and more modern than the old quarters, and gives
Elkin a completely modern postal service. Especially attractive Is the lobby, which Is large and well
lighted. A paved driveway and large rear platform provide for the handling of incoming: and outgo
ing mail.—Tribune photo.
SURRY PHYSICIAN
STUDYING DISEASE
Dr. Ralph J. Sykes Doing
Post Graduate Work Con
cerning Venereal Disease
THREE MONTHS ABSENCE
Dr. Ralph J. Sykes, head of the
Surry county health department,
left the latter part of last week on
a three-months leave of absence
during which time he will do
graduate work in the treatment
of venereal disease at John Hop
kins University at Baltimore, Md.
The course which Dr. Sykes
will take was made available by
a scholarship award through the
state board of health to the vari
ous county health officers. It is
designed to aid in the statewide
venereal disease program.
The county health department
will go ahead with all work being
done while Dr. Sykes is away.
The work in the county will be
under the supervision of Dr. Gas
ton B. Rogers, of Raleigh, who has
been sent to Surry by the state
board of health to supply for the
Surry officer.
$2,000,000 MORE
FOR SCENIC HWY.
Work Is to Be Materially
Speeded Up During
Coming Fiscal Year
WILL LINK GREAT PARKS
By Paul May
(Tribune Washington Bureau)
Washington, D. C., April 5.
With an extra $2,000,000 voted by
the Senate for their construction,
work on the Blue Ridge and Nat
chez Trace Parkways will be ma
terially speeded up during the
coming fiscal year, it was learned
today at headquarters of the Na
tional Park -Service.
The Senate increase brings to
$6,000,000 the appropriation for
work on the 935-mile scenic high
way which will ultimately connect
the Great Smoky Mountain Na-
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Elkin's New Postoffice
Wilkes Election
Case Is Ended
By Compromise
The Swaringen - Poplin elec
tion case, a long drawn out
series of litigation over title to
office as a member of the
Wilkes county board of com
missioners, came to an abrupt
end Thursday without coin? to
trial when Swaringen, Republi
can and plaintiff, and Poplin,
defendant commissioner and
Democrat, signed a consent
agreement that the case go off
the docket and that each pay
one-hajf cost.
The cost accumulated in the
case to date totals approxi
"mately $700.00.
The case was instituted soon
after Poplin went into office
in December, 1936, by virtue of
a two-vote margin over Swar
ingen as the returns were cer
tified by two Democratic mem
bers of the county board of
elections,.
Poplin's torn will expire on
December 5, this year.
FORGER IS FOUND
TO HAVE RECORD
James Cornell, Arrested Here,
Shown Up by Federal
Bureau Report
IS IN JAIL AT DOBSON
James Cornell, about 35, who
was arrested here two weeks ago
on a charge of forgery and who
is now In jail at Dobson await
ing trial, has been mixed up with
the law before his trouble here, a
report received by Dixie Graham,
chief of police, from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Wash
ington, shows.
After Cornell's arrest and con
finement in default of SI,OOO
bond, his fingerprints were sent
to Washington and a prompt
record was received as to the
man's past activities, which in
cluded manslaughter, larceny of
an automobile .and charges of
larceny and receiving. The report
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300 EXPECTED TO
ATTEND MEETING
Training Union Regional Con
ference of Baptist Churches
to Be Held Here
PROGRAM IS OUTLINED
Approximately 300 delegates are
expected to attend the Training
Union Regional conference of the
Baptist churches in this section to
je held at the First Baptist church
in this city on Friday and Satur
day of tnis week. Delegates from
churches in the following coun
ties have signified their Intentions
to attend: Forsyth, Stokes, Yad
kin, Caldwell, Ashe, Alleghaney,
Alexander, Wautauga. Wilkes. Ire
dell, Davie, Burke and Surry.
Many leading lay leaders of the
church will be present for the
meeting and several visiting pas
tors are also expected to be pres
ent. An interesting program has
been planned for tbe meeting and
addfesses will be made by leaders
of the denomination In the South.
The program as outlined for the
meeting is as follows:
Friday Afternoon—3:oo, medi
tation; 3:15, greetings and an
nouncements: 3:25, regional pres
ident's message; 3:35, musical fea
ture; 3 MO. "His Witness in My
Church"; 4:00, workshop con
ferences; 5:15, adjourn.
Friday Evening 7:15, vocal
worship; 7:25, "Book Buddings";
7:35, expressional project confer
ence; 8:15, Ridgecrest; 8:20, vocal
worship; 8:25, surprise; 8:35, "His
Witnesses Around the World";
9:10, meditation; 9:15, adjourn.
Saturday Morning—6:3o, "His
Witness in My Personal Life,"
(sunrise service); 9:00, vocal wor
ship; 9:10, symposium: The Rela
tion of the Training Union; 9:40,
musical feature; 9:45, an Associa
tional Training Union Revival;
10:05, creative living conferences;
11:10, vocal worship; 11:20, State
president's message; 11:35, mu
sical feature; 11:40, "His Witness
Through My Church"; 12:15, med
itation; 12:20, adjourn.
Saturday Afternoon—l:3o,' vo
cal worship; 1:40, spirit and pur
pose of the contests; 1:45, region
al sword drill contest; 2:10, com
mittee reports; 2:20, musfcal fea
ture; 2:25, regional better speak
ers' contest; 3:10, meditation;
3:20, adjourn.
WIN AND LOSE IN
TRIANGLE DEBATE
Elkin High School Negative
Team Wins Over Mount
Airy; Affirmative Loses
MISS BARKER IS COACH
In the triangular debate be
tween Elkin, Wilkesboro and Mt.
Airy last Friday afternoon, Sam
Gambill, junior, and Miss Edna
Billings, senior, won a unanimous
decision over Mount Airy's af
firmative team composed of Anna
Rue Hauser and Conway Pruitt,
at Mount Airy.
Alice McColn, senior and Ray
Johnson, junior, lost to Wilkes
boro, negative, composed of Gene
Laws and Virginia Miller by a two
to one decision.
At Elkin the Wilkesboro af
firmative won over the Mount
Airy negative by a tvJb to one de
cision, therefore entitling Wilkes
boro to represent the triangle at
the debates in Chapel Hill on
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This Is Elkln's sixth year in
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Elkin
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
LOYALISTS APPEAL
TO BRITAIN AND
FRANCE FOR AID
Nationalists Seek Answer to
Demands
THREATEN BARCELONA
Franco Is Demanding Com
plete Loyalist Surrender,
Dispatches State
PROVINCES SURROUNDED
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, April 6 (Wednesday).—Loy
alist Spain, ripped In half by the
insurgents' war machine, made a
frantic last minute appeal to
Britain and France today for
arms and muitlons to answer the
enemy's ultimatum for an un
conditional surrender.
Catalonia, seat of the loyalist
government, struggled in a stran
gulation grip as insurgent armies
completely circled it by land and
left only the Mediterranean—
dotted with insurgent warships—
as a chance of escape.
The insurgent Generalissimo
Francisco Franco threatened to
blast Bercelona from the map un
less there was a complete loyalist
surrender, frontier dispatches
said.
To London and Paris went 'ar
gent loyalist notes, asking for
abolition of the international
non-intervention committee with
its "intolerable injustices" to per
mit arms and munitions ship
ments to the loyalist armies.
Talk of a surrender, the loyal
ists said, was "fantastic."
To the south of his 165-mile
front Franco's seige guns along
the Ebro watershed ripped up the
Barcelona-Valencia coastal high
way and railroad to slice the
"lifeline" of loyalist Spain.
Catalonia's four provinces were
completely cut off from six gov
ernment-held provinces south of
the bottle-neck at Tortosa which
the nationalists have encircled.
Madrid and its 1,000.000 men,
women and children were isolat
ed. Nearly 150,000 government
troops under General Jose Miaja
sworn to die in defense of the
former capital were marooned.
Their ammunition was said to be
meagre and insurgents jubilantly
asserted -hat soon there would be
no shells to feed the loyalist guns
defending Madrid.
TAKE NO ACTION
. AS TO PROGRAM
Commissioners to Have a
Special Meet to Consider
Venereal Disease Fight
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Due to the absence of a mem
ber of the board, the Surry county
commissioners failed to take ac
tion at their meeting at Dobson
Monday on whether or not Surry
will join in the venereal disease
program that is being launched
by the State Board of Health with
the aid of money from Smith
Reynolds Foundation Fund for
this purpose. A call meeting is
expected to be held in the near
future to consider this matter, it
has been learned.
A conference was held last Fri-
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•TORES ARE TO CLOSE
HERE EASTER MONDAY
All stores and business houses
will observe Easter as a
holiday, according to Mrs. Frank
lin Polger, secretary of the Elkin
Merchants association. Drug stores
and cafes will be open as usual.
A HARD HEART IS WON
OVER A SOFT PALATE.