Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVIL No. 32
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
HUNGARIAN OFFER
MODEL FOR OTHERS
Washington, June 21—Presi
dent Roosevelt is considering
sending a special messgae to
Congress early next session
urging acceptance of the Hun
garian war debt payment pro
posal as a model for settlement
offers from other debtor na
tions, it was learned tonight.
A usually reliable official said
that the Hungarian plan,
which provides for payment of
the original principal without
interest over a period of years,
has met with the approval of
Mr. Roosevelt and high admin
istration officials, and that the
Chief executive tentatively
plans to carry the issue to Con
gress.
TO CONTINUE
SPY PROBE
New York, June 21—Federal
prosecutors today declared
there would be no turning back
from the maze of international
intrigue which they uncovered
with the indictment of 18 Ger
man spy suspects.
While frankly asserting they
did not know where their quest
would take them, they said
their investigation of an al
leged Nazi plot to steal Ameri
can defense secrets would be
continued after a "breathing
spell".
"We are going to continue
the investigation, but I don't
know what will develop as a re
sult," said United States At
torney Lamar Hardy.
LEHMAN WILLING
TO RUN
Albany, N. Y., June 21—Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman, New
York's Democratic executive,
tonight announced that he is
willing to run for United States
senator, succeeding the late
Senator Royal S. Copeland,
who was buried today.
The governor made known
his willingness to step from the
governorship, in which he has
served three terms, in the fol
lowing brief statement:
"If my party desires me to be
a candidate for the office of
United States senator to suc
ceed Senator Copeland, I will
accept the nomination."
HEIRESS' CHILD
IS THREATENED
London, June 22 (Wednes
day)—lnformation reached the
London Daily Mall this morn
ing of a threat to kidnap the
two-year-old son of Countess
Barbara Haurwitz-Reventlow,
the former Barbara Hutton,
heiress to America's Woohrorth
millions.
The mysterious threat to ab
duct the boy, whose name is
Lance, was immediately com
municated to Scotland Yard
authorities. They acted quick
ly. Instructions were, flashed
to special Scotland Yard
branch agenta on duty at all
ports and airdromes to keep a
watch oat for the arrival of a
suspected person.
MANY MARRIAGE
LICENSES ISSUED
Marriage licenses issued during
the past ■ weeks in Surry county
are as follows:
Bryce Teague. of Jonesville, to
Juanita Luff man, of Elkin; Ray
Robert Perry, of Mount Airy, to
Helen Payne, of Mount Airy;
Maurice H. Krick. of Milton, Pa..
to Xsabelle S. Moorhead, also of
Milton, Pa.; Edward F. Morris, of
Mount Airy, to Lela Hawks, of
Lowe Gap; ~ Bait us Holbrook, of
Elkin, to Velda Holcomb, also of
Elkin; James Andrew Cahill, Jr.,
to Mary Agnes Brown, of Mount
Airy; Porter Freeman, of Dobson,
to Addle Payne, also of Dobson;
Evan Charles Brown, of Brook
lyn, N. Y., to Clara Bell Welch, of
Mount Airy; Clarence St. John,
of Jonesville, to Tishle Mae Chil
dress, also of Jonesville, and Rob
ert S. Noe, of Norfolk, Va., to
Margaret Barker, of Elkin.
MRS. SARAH LUFFMAN
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Sarah Luffman, 70, wife
of John Luffman of State Road,
passed away at the local hospital
Monday, following a severe ilineas
from a complication of diseases.
Funeral services were held at
State Road Wednesday morning.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
WINSTON OFFICE
OF WPA APPROVES
LOCAL PROJECT
Must Now Go to Washington
for Approval
TWO FLOORS, BASEMENT
Structure Will House Town
Offices, Fire Department,
Jail, Etc.
TO COST ABOUT $17,000.00
I
The project for the erection of
a town municipal building here
has been filed with the Works
Progress Administration and has
been approved by the Winston
| Salem office, it was learned
Wednesday from Paul Gwyn,
town clerk.
Mr. Gwyn said the project
must now go to Washington for
approval there. He stated that
no difficulty in final approval of
the project is anticipated, and it
is expected actual work on the
building will get under way with
in the next 60 days.
Plans for the building, which
will be of basement and two
floors type, call for an expendi
ture of around $17,000.
The basement floor will pro
vide space for storing the town's
street washing and garbage
trucks, coal room and furnace
room and a jail of four
cells, three of which will be for
men and one for women. These
cells will be of modern construc
tion and will each contain toilet
and lavatory.
The main floor, opening onto
East Market street, will contain
two offices, vault, and a board
room to be used as a meeting
place for the town commission
ers. The fire department will
also be housed on this floor,
space being available for two fire
trucks and for hose drainage
racks. The fire department will
also probably be used as polls
during elections, it was said.
The upper floor could be used
as an assembly hall, court room,
or can be cut up into offices, Mr.
Gwyn said, definite plans as to
its use not yet having been com
pleted.
The building will be of brick
construction.
NEW STORE IS TO
BE LOCATED HERE
J. P. Curtis, of Greensboro, to
Open Western Auto Asso
ciate Store
TO OPEN ABOUT JULY 9
J. P. Curtis, of Greensboro, has
leased the building at the corner
of East Main and Court street
here, where he will open a West
ern Auto Association store about
July 9.
Mr. Curtis' store will be affili
ated with the Western Auto Sup
ply Co., of Kanas City, Mo., and
will be one of a rapidly growing
group of these home-owned,
home-operated stores in North
Carolina.
Mr. Curtis will spend two weeks
in Greensboro for a course of
training at district headquarters
of the company, after which he
will return to Elkin to make his
home and to push the installa
tion of fixtures and merchandise
for his store opening.
ERECTING CCC CAMP IN
ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Captain Tom C. McMurray, of
the Dobson CCC camp, with a
group of 20 boys, is erecting an
other camp consisting of 19 build
ings, which will be similar to the
Dobson camp, in the Bluff Park
area on the Scenic Highway, in
Alleghany county, it was learned
from an official of the Dobson
camp Wednesday. The Bluff
Park camp will be fully as large
as the one at Dobson, the official
said.
, It was further reported that the
projects of the camp in grasping
and meadow stripping has done
exceedingly well this season,
which was partly due to the fav
orable weather.
POWERS PITCHES
DOUBLE VICTORY
Red Powers hurled West Elkin
to a double win Sunday at Trap
hill when he shut out Dockery in
the opener by a 7-0 count, coming
back to defeat Traphill 8-0.
Albin Doub, of Winston-Salem,
caught both of the games for
Elkin.
Fit For A Queen
Los Angeles . . . Lois James,
actress, is delving into a heap
ing bowl of China's favorite
cereal Thousands of persons
will be served similar bowls of
rice la "Rice Bowl" parties be
ing held in over 2,000 cities in
the United States to help raise
funds to alleviate suffering
among China's war-torn pop
ulation.
GRAYSTONE INN IS
OPEN FOR SEASON
Formal Opening Will Be Ob
served Saturday; Now
Features Riding Stable
IMPROVEMENTS MADE
j
Graystone Inn at Roaring Gap
was opened informally on Satur
day of last week. Due to the large
number of requests for reserva
tions the hotel was opened a week
before the scheduled opening date.
The formal opening will be on
Saturday, June 25, with the an
nual Winston-Salem traffic club
meeting.
The hotel has been undergoing
a complete program of renovation
in preparation for a season which
early indications show will be very
popular. The Roaring Gap com
pany has just completed a riding
stable. This year it will be under
the direction of Ernest Mudge, of
Southern Pines. The stable is lo
cated on the old polo field. A
rail fence is being built, which
will give the regulation size riding
ring, jumps, etc.
Walter Bovard will again be in
charge of the hotel. In the win
ter season Mr. Bovard is manager
of the Riomar Club at Vero
Beach, Fla.
Many improvements have been
made in the hotel proper, with the
addition of a soda fountain in the
sun room, a gift shop and beauty
parlor. Many of the bedrooms
have also been redecorated.
This year the hotel will make
a specialty of Sunday night buffet
suppers, the first of which will be
served this week.
FINAL RITES HELD
FOR RONDA WOMAN
Mrs. Fannie Lou Soots Combs
of Ronda, passed away Wednes
day, of last week.
In addition to her husband, Eli
Combs, she is suurvived by five
children, Louis, Bryson, Mar
shall, Susie and Floyd 1 ; her
mother, Mrs. Nancy Soots; four
brothers, Harrison and Sherman,
North Wilkesboro; Arthur, of Le
noir, and Bill, of Ronda; and
four sisters, Mrs. Luther Brown,
Mrs. Jim Harris and Mrs. Wal
ter Harris, of Lenoir, and Mrs.
Freel Waddell, of Ronda.
Funeral services were held at
the Ronda Baptist church at 2:00
p. m., Friday, in charge of the
pastor. Rev. Grady Burgiss. In
terment was in Ronda cemetery.
HEALTH CLINIC TO
OPEN AT MT. AIRY
Dr. James Oliver Crutchfield.
chiropractor, of Jonesville, has
announced the opening of a
Chiropractic Health Center one
mile south of Mount Airy on the
Mount Airy-Dobson highway. This
clinic will be open on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
Dr. A. L. Rawn, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., is now associated
with Dr. Crutchfield.
Mountain Park H. D. C. to Give
Fried Chicken Supper
Members of the Mountain Park
Home Demonstration club will
give a fried chicken supper Sat
urday evening. June 25, at Wil
liams' picnic grounds at Mountain
Park from 5 until 8 o'clock. A
small fee will be charged for each
plate. Proceeds of the sale will
be used to furnish the club room.
A cordial invitation is extended
the public to attend.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1938
BUSINESS PICK-UP
FORECAST BY FDR;
BILL IS SIGNED
Optimistic Estimate of In
come Is Given
PLANS FIRESIDE CHAT
Roosevelt Says Dirt Will Fly
Within 60 Days in Re
covery Program
LIVING COSTS LOWER
Hyde Park, N. Y., June 21
President Roosevelt signed the
$3,750,000,000 lending and spend
ing bill today and asserted that
business is not and has not been
as bad as a lot of people believed
it to be.
The President, at a press con
ference packed with news devel
opments, gave as backing for his
statement on business a depart
ment of commerce estimate that
the national income for this year
would be slightly above 60,000,-
000,000. Earlier government esti
mates were $55,000,000,000.
The President, wearing a white
shirt, collar open and no tie, un
creased summer trousers and
lounging in a chair behind his
flat top, mahogany desk, was
waiting for the newsmen when
they came in.
He had a sheaf of papers in his
hand.
With those papers as notes, he
announced:
(I) That dirt would begin to
fly on $350,000,000 of public works
administration projects within 60
days now that the big $3,750,000,-
000 bill has been signed.
(2)— That the prospect for bus
iness during 1938, based on na
tional income figures for the first
three months of the year, was
definitely improved. The Presi
dent addfd that his assertion that
business is not as bad as some be
lieved applied to both industry
and agriculture.
(3)— That he had signed 45 bills
and vetoed seven since coming to
his Hyde Park home and would
act on ten more before he went
to bed tonight, but still would
have 337 to pass upon after that.
Mr. Roosevelt said he wished to
call attention to the report's dis
closure that 1937 national income
—the income of all 4he people who
earn money in the United States
—was slightly higher than had
been estimated last fall.
He said the report showed this
income actually was $69,800,000,-
000, compared with estimates be
fore the year ended of between
$68,000,000,000 and $69,000,000,-
000.
The document also reported, the
President said, that while the av
erage wage of the full time em
ployed person was down last year
nine per cent, below the 1929 av
erage, the cost of living index in
1937 was 15 per cent, below 1929.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO
STAGE GET-TOGETHER
A brunswick stew at Paul Davis'
lake, about five miles east of Yad
kinville on the Yadkinville-Win
ston-Salem highway, has been an
nounced for Saturday night by
James Amburn, of Boonville,
chairman of the Yadkin County
Young Democrats club.
Among the honor guests at the
event, sponsored by the Young
Democrats club, will be John Fol
ger, of Mount Airy; Bryan Booe,
Winston-Salem postmaster, and
Fred Hutchins, Winston-Salem
attorney.
Members of the Yadkin county
club will be free guests at the
event. Non-members may attend
upon payment of a nominal fee,
it was announced.
PASTORS' CONFERENCE
WILL MEET SATURDAY
The Elkin Baptist Pastor's Con
ference 4*will meet in regular
monthly session Saturday morn
ing, June 25. at East Elkin Bap
tist church. The meeting will be
from 10 o'clock a.m. until noon.
An interesting program has
been arranged and all Baptist
pastors are cordially invited to at
tend.
HOLD FUNERAL FOR
YOUTH WHO DROWNED
Herman Marion, 20 years old,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Marion,
of the Turners Mountain section,
was drowned In Ohio last week,
while visiting his brother, George
Marion.
His body was sent to his home.
Funeral services were held at
Piney Grove Baptist church Sun
day afternoon.
Stamping Out 54-Year Mine Fire -
New Lexington, Ohio . . . The federal authorities' theory that
the 54-year-old mine fire which has been raring with the force of a
score of blast furnaces could be stopped by fighting it with wide
tunnels of mud, has met its first test and proved successful.
MERCHANTS CALL
FOR TAX REPEAL
Call Sales Tax "Crushing and
Entirely Unjustified"
Burden
MEET AT BLOWING ROCK
Blowing Rock, June 21.—North
Carolina merchants today de
nounced the state's general sales
tax as a "crushing and entirely
unjustified burden upon the poor
classes" and urges its repeal by the
1999 General Assembly.
The anti-sales tax resolution
was adopted at the final session
of the State Retail Merchants As
sociation's two-day convention at
May view Manor.
Immediately following adjourn
ment the board of directors met
and elected W. P. Dowdy, New
furniture dealer, president.
Other officers named were: O. A.
Swearinger, Concord, first vice
president; W. R. Sellers, Burling
ton, second vice president; Wil
lard P. Dowell, Raleigh, executive
secretary; T. C. Hinkle, Lexing
ton, treasurer; and R. B. Tom
linson, Cary, field secretary.
Durham was selected as the
1939 convention city. Wilmington
also made a bid tor the meeting.
New Bern won the host city
cup, awarded annually to the lo
cal association showing the most
mileage to the convention.
The president's cup given in
recognition of the greatest gain
in membership during the year
went to the Thomasville associa
tion. The Burlington association
also shared in the day's honors,
receiving the Bell cup for sub
mitting the best report of activi
ties for the year.
AGED YADKIN MAN
PASSES SATURDAY
I. M. Hinshaw, of Yadkinville,
Succumbs to Serious
Illness
FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY
I. M. Hinshaw, 80. died Satur
day morning at the. home of his
son, Harvey D. Hinshaw, in Yad
kinville. He had been ill some
time and critical for two weeks.
He was known to his friends as
"Uncle Mart".
Mr. Hinshaw was a native of
the county and had spent his life
in this section. He was married
to Miss Prances Winters who died
several years ago. The following
children survive: Prof. M. T. and
W. A. Hinshaw, of Rutherford
College, Rev. R. E. Hinshaw, of
China Grove; S. S. Hinshaw, of
Yadkinville; H. D. Hinshaw, of
Marion, and Mrs. J. W. Arnold, of
Jonesville. One brother, fi. T.
Hinshaw, of Yadkinville, also sur
vives, together with three sisters,
Mrs. E. C. Mackie, of Guilford
College; Mrs. Truman C&sstevens
and Mrs. Miles Sprouse, Boonville.
Funeral services were held at
Harmony Grove Friends church
Sunday afternoon at 2:30. with
Rev. R. l: Speer, Rev. M. A. Cox,
Rev. G. W. Edgerton and Prof.
Z. H. Dixon in charge. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Grandchildren were pall bearers.
Somebody wants to know what
has become of the merchant who
used to give his customer a cigar
when he paid his account—how
ever, there seems to be little doubt
as to what became of the cus
tomer when he smoked that cigar!
New Serial Story
Begins in This
Issue of Tribune
An exciting: western story,
"The Feud at Single Shot," be
gins in this issue of The
Tribune.
The story, written by Luke
Short, combines both thrills
and chills in a western setting
that plunges the reader into
mystery right at the start.
Read this first installment
today and then follow this
gripping story each week in
The Tribune.
AMATEUR SHOW TO
BE STAGED JULY 8
Best Talent of Elkin, Jones
ville and This Section
Will Take Part
SPONSORED BY CHURCH
An amateur show, sponsored
by the Elkin Presbyterian church,
will be presented from the stage
of the Lyric theatre here Friday
night, July 8.
The show will be under the
direction of Alan Browning, Jr.,
and will feature the best ama
teur talent of Elkin, Jonesville
and this section, with several
novel musical acts that are being
designed, according to present
plans, to come as a unique sur
prise to the audience.
Comedy is to be provided in
the form of Byron Bryan, well
known comic of several Elkin
amateur shows; the Yokum
Family, genuine imitation hill
billies, and others.
Leon Martin, lyric tenor, of
Elkin and Jonesville, who has
sung in most of the amateur
shows presented here, and has
had a program over a Greens
boro radio station, will also take
part. Dorothy Colhard,' remem
bered for her hit as the Blues
singer of a previous amateur
show, will also take part in the
show, and will have charge of a
major part of the musical end of
the event.
Virginia Lineberry, talented
young singer of Jonesville, is an
other songster who will take part.
Other are in the making
and hopes high for the most
entertaining show of a home
talent nature yet to be present
ed here.
An excellent movie has been
booked for the night of the
show by Louie Mitchell, manager
of the Lyric, in form of Bing
Crosby, starring in "Dr. Rhythm."
MRS. MARY VENABLE
PASSES AWAY FRIDAY
Mrs. Mary Venable, 86, died at
her home at .Copeland last Fri
day. Funeral services were held
at Copeland Baptist church Sun
day afternoon. The rites were in
charge of Rev. George Burrus and
Rev. James Creed. Interment was
in the family cemetery near
Union.
Mrs. Venable was the daughter
of, the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Marion and was a member o? the
Copeland Baptist church.
Surviving children are: Rich,
Dozier. Cleve, Sam, John, Yancey,
Miss Florence Venable and Mrs.
Celico Fowler. One brother, John
Marion, two sisters, Mrs. Martha
Hutchins and Mrs. Eliza Mitchell.
33 grandchildren and 35 great
grandchildren also survive.
EUdn
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FEDERAL MEN NAB
38 IN WILKES ON
LIQUOR CHARGES
Undercover Men Set Trap at
Roaring River
WHISKEY, CARS TAKEN
Raid Is Made After Months
of Careful Planning By
Alcohol Tax Unit
MANY WAIVE HEARING
Charged with liquor tax law
violation. 38 Wilkes county people
were arrested Tuesday by federal
agents.
The mass arrests, described as
one of the most successful round
ups in the South, were carried out
smoothly and successfully after
what officials in the government
alcohol tax unit described as
"months of planning."
In addition to the 38 alleged
violators, the agents also made a
haul of 1,667 gallons of liquor,
mostly "sugarhead," and confis
cated two trucks and two auto
mobiles.
Those arrested were: W. O.
Blackburn, Treddy Billings, Glenn
Bauguess. J. R. Mathis, Clyde
Hemric, Jettie Sale, Robert Se
graves, Bryant Mathis, Coy Sales
(colored), Frank Mathis, Daniel
Mathis, Tommie Mathis, John
(Rat) Sales (colored), J. Robert
Byrd, Jesse M. Byrd, Thomas
Byrd, Chester Mathis, Willard
Mathis, Turner Inscore, Thomas
Inscore, Will Dimmette, Charlie
Williams, Ranse Staley, Clyde Mc-
Daniels, James Sale (colored), P.
E. (Man) Mathis, Charlie Love,
Robert Johnson, Branson Call,
Woodrow Mathis, Will Porter and
Enoch Staley.
The arrests began before day
light Tuesday morning when eight
were taken in a prearranged
"trap" at or near the home of
W. O. Blackburn at Roaring
River. An undercover agent, cred
ited with the success of the drive,
had engaged liquor in wholesale
quantities to be delivered at that
point, where he said he wanted
to buy an entire truck load at a
certain hour.
With that as a beginning arrests
began in earnest. Deputy Mar
shal W. A. Jones, armed with 47
warrants and aided by alcohol tax
investigators stationed in Wilkes,
began picking up suspects rapidly.
In some warrants actual pos
session of Illicit liquor is charged,
but in a majority of the many
cases conspiracy to violate the
liquor tax laws headed the
charges.
Those arrested were placed in
jail at Wilkesboro to await hear
l ing before U. S. Commisioner
Dula. Practically all of them
stated their willingness. to waive
hearing, and the commissioner
filled out bonds for their appear
ance at the November term of
federal court. :j k «.
ASSOCIATIONAL MEET
LOCAL CHURCH TODAY
The associational meeting of the
Surry Baptist Woman's Mission
ary Union will meet in all-day
session at the First Baptist church
In this city today (Thursday). The
meeting will convene at 10 a.m.
Mrs. Edna R. Harris, of Raleigh,
state superintendent of missions,
will be guest speaker for the meet--
ing. A number of out-of-town
visitors are expected for the meet
ing.
The women of the church will
serve a iuncheon at the church for
the delegates at the noon hour.
I
HOME COMING DAY
• AT UNION CROSS
There will be a home-coming
at Onion Cross Friends church
the first Sunday in July. All the
former pastors and members are
invited to attend or anyone who
has ever attended church at Union
Cross.
Services will be held at 11:00
o'clock by the pastor and in the
afternoon by former pastors and
visiting choirs. Dinner will be
held on the grounds. Everyone is
Invited to attend and bring a well
filled basket.
TO HOLD ICE CREAM
SUPPER AT RONDA
An ice cream supper will be held
at the Ronda Methodist church
Saturday evening, June 25, to
whichr the public is cordially in
vited.
Proceeds of the super will go
for the benefit of the church.