Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVILNo. 40
INVITE GOVERNORS
TO DEDICATION OF
DOUGHTON BRIDGE
New Span on U. S. Highway
21 to Be Opened
SEPTEMBER 5 IS DATE
Is Completion of Lakes-to-
Florida Highway, Dream
of Elkin Citizens
TO STAGE CELEBRATION
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, of
North Carolina, Governor James
H. Price, of Virginia, and Gov
ernor Homer A. Holt, of West
Virginia, will be invited to attend
the dedication of the new Dough
ton bridge near the Carolina-
Virginia line on U. S. Highway 21
September 5, Labor Day, it has
been announced.
The bridge is on the "Lakes-to-
Florida route, which, when com
pleted, will carry tourist traffic
over U. S. 21 from Miami by
Charlotte, Statesville, Elkin,
Wytheville, Bluefield and
Charleston, W. Va., and on to the
Great Lakes.
The dedication will be at the
bridge at 10 a.m. and 5,000 peo
ple are expected to attend. The
group will then go 40 miles into
Wytheville where there will be a
barbecue dinner and a public
speaking at 1:30 o'clock.
Clarence O. Keuster, Charlotte
chamber of commerce official,
has agreed to organize a goodwill
party from Charlotte, Hunters
ville, Davidson, Mooresville,
Statesville, Brooks Cross Roads
and Elkin to attend the celebra
tion. Wytheville citizens will or
ganize the territory from Sparta
to Charleston, W. Va., for each
town to send representatives.
Elkin's civic leaders, together
with civic leaders of other towns
along the route, have been in
terested in proomting U. S. 21 as
a tourist artery between the
Great Lakes and Florida during
the past 12 years. Among the
many outstanding Elkin citizens
who were among the first to
create the idea, but who failed
to live long enough to see their
dreams come true, were A. G.
Click, J. F. Carter, R. L. Hub
bard, Capt. G. T, Roth, H. G.
Chatham, and others.
Everyone locally who is in
terested in this new highway
route is urged ttf attend the ded
ication of the bridge. The struc
ture was built with funds con
tributed by both North Carolina
and Virginia.
RIDING DEVICES
BOOKED BY FAIR
Lew Henry Rides Will Be
Here During Week of
September 19 to 24
CASH PRIZES FEATURES
The Lew Henry Rides, includ
ing ferris wheel, merry-go-round,
chair-o-plane and a kiddie auto
mobile ride, have been booked by
the Elkin Pair for the week of
--September 19 to 24.'
The riding devices will be lo
cated on the fair grounds at the
school gymnasium.
The fair premium list and cat
p suog is now in process of distri
bution. Copies may be obtained
by writing Mrs. Alan Browning,
Jr., secretary, P. O. Box 445, or
calling at her office in The Bank
of Elkin building on North Bridge
street."
Prizes for the fair this year are
even more attractive than were
the 1937 premiums. This year
five prizes are offered in the live
at-home exhibit department, first
prize being $50.00 cash, second
prize $40.00 cash, third prize a
stove donated by Surry Hardware
Co., fourth prize a cabinet donat
ed by Hayes and Speas, and fifth
prize a chair .donated by Eagle
Furniture Co.
Included in this year's event
are departments for both girls'
and boys' 4-H Club work, "open to
members of Surry county clubs
cnly. Cash prizes will be award
ed all, winners. Also new to the
fair this year is the department
for Boy Spouts and Girl Scouts,
which also features cash prizes.
JUNIORS ARE TO HOLD
INITIATION FRIDAY
A special class initiation service
will be held Friday evening at 8
o'clock fit the Junior Order hall.
All members of the local council
are requested to be present for
the meeting.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
LABOR CHIEFS
FACE CHARGES
Washington, Aug. 16 The
House committee investigating
un-American activities voted
tonight to inquire immediate
ly into charges that Labor De
partment officials had aided
Harry Bridges, West Coast C.
I. O. leader, while efforts were
being made to deport him as
an alleged Communist.
The action was taken behind
locked doors at the Insistence
of Representative J. Parnell
Thomas (R), N. J., who de
manded that the group air
charges in a report by Edward
Sullivan, committee investiga
tor, that labor department of
ficials gave "aid and advice"
to Bridges on his future con
duct. -
F. D. R. LAMBASTS
TYDINGS, O'CONNOR
Washington, Aug. 16—Presi
dent Roosevelt called in em
phatic language today for the
defeat of Senator Millard F.
Tydings of Maryland and Rep
resentative John O'Connor of
New York in the coming Dem
ocratic primaries.
Answering a press confer
ence question, the Chief Exec
utive read, and issued his own
statement, a recently publish
ed editorial (New York Even
ing Post), which said Tydings
was attempting to obtain re
nomination "with the Roose
velt prestige and the money of
his conservative Republican
friends."
TWO MORE VICTIMS
OF SLAYER FOUND
Cleveland, Aug. 16—Remains
of two women, the eleventh
and twelfth victims of Cleve
land's mad "torso slayer," were
found in pieces tonight in a
fill-in dump near the shore of
Lake Erie. ' ,
Coroner S. R. Gerber said
the decapitated, dissected
bodies bore the same teU-tale
surgical marks and methods as
those of 10 previous victims
ascribed to the fiendish man
iac.
CORRIGAN TO
PICTURE FLIGHT
New York, Aug. 16 RKO
Radio Pictures announced to
night it had contracted with
Douglas Corrigan for a movie
dramatization of his life and
the famous wrong-way flight
to Ireland.
President Leo Spitz of RKO
said that negotiations were
completed just before Corrigan
took off for Albany today on
a good-will tour of the coun
try and that the papers were
signed on a wing of the trans-
Atlantic "Corrigan Clipper."
RIDING DEVICES
HERE NEXT WEEK
Will Be Sponsored by Local
Masons for Benefit of the
Oxford Orphanage
SINGING CLASS COMING
The R. C. Lee riding devices
will be in Elkin all next week,
under the auspices of the local
Masonic order. Proceeds of the
rides will go to the Oxford Or
phanage.
The annual Masonic jJlcnic will
not be staged this year, but the
rides, which have always been
here the week of the picnic, will
carry on as usual, plus a concert
by the Oxford singing class,
which will be held the night of
August 25th at the Lyric theatre
in addtlion to the regular screen
program.
Mr. Lee is this year bringing
four up-to-date rides, and will be
located on the vacant lot on
South Bridge street, next to the
Gulf Service Station.
CRIPPLE CLINIC TO
BE HELD AUGUST 26
A cripple 'clinic will be held at
the county health office in Mount
Airy August 26, from 9:00 am.
until 12:00 noon. The clinic,
which offers free treatment, will
be in charge of Dr. Moore, of
Winston-"Salem, as usual.
HULL IS SEEKING
COOPERATION TO
RESTORE PEACE
Seven Points Are Included in
Program
SEEKS TO AVERT WAR
Economic Reconstruction Is
Listed as First Move for
World Peace
WOULD RESPECT PACTS
Washington, Aug. 16.—Cordell
Hull, secretary of state, urged up
on all nations tonight the adopt
ion of "a comprehensive program
embracing both economic recon
struction and revitalizing of prin
ciples which are indispensable
for restoration of order under
law."
He laid a seven-point program
before a Europe made jittery by,
Hitler's mobilization of 1,000,000
men for army maneuvers on the
Czech and French borders and
Mussolin's speech last Thursday
indicating a European war was
approaching.
He spoke over a national broad
cast, deliberately choosing a mo
ment regarded as crucial in Eu
rope to throw America's moral
weight into the arena before it
was too late. He addressed him
self to the world which he said
was becoming "smaller and small
er" with the result that "it will
soon no longer be possible for
some nations to choose and follow
the way of force and for other
nations &t the same time to choose
and follow the way of reason. All
will have one direction and by
one way."
His speech was sent by short
wave radio to Europe and Latin
America and was radioed text
ually by the State Department to
American diplomatic representa
tives abroad so that they, at their
discretion, might present it to
foreign governments.
His program included economic
reconstruction, adherence to in
ternational law, respect for treat
ies combined with orderly modifi
cation of provisions of treaties,
abstentiqn from use of force and
peaceful settlement of differences,
reduction of armaments, cultural
exchanges among nations and
generally, international co-oper
ation.
FEDERAL OFFICERS
NAB BOOTLEGGERS
Four Are Carried to Yadkin
ville and Placed Under
Bond; Liquor Taken
ALL WAIVE HEARING
Dealers in moonshine liquor in
these parts received a setback
during the past week when fed
eral undercover agents, who had
been in this section for some
time gathering evidence, came
out into the open to make an un
determined number of arrests.
Just how many liquor dealers
and bootleggers were taken in the
raid is not known, federal men
showing little inclination to talk,
even to local police, but four of
their catch have beien taken be
fore U. S. Commissioner M. W.
Mackie, of Yadkinville, and
placed under bond for appear
ance at the next term of federal
court at Winston-Salem in No
vember.
These four were Joe McGee,
Carl Jester, Bob Sprinkle and
Herbert Samuel, the first three
being from this immediate vicin
ity.| Samuel is said to be from
Wilkes county.
All waived a hearing, and post
ed bond.
The federal alcohol tax unit
officers testified they bought
liquor from each of the defend
ants. They also stated that at
McGee's place they found nine
one-gallon jugs, all full of moon
shine, buried in the ground. -At
Carl Jester's place they found
several - small quantities and
about one galfon in fruit jars,
covered with honey and honey
comb. Bond for bach was set at
S3OO, with the exception of Mc-
Gee, who was required to make
SSOO bond.
ANNUAL PICNIC
HELD SATURDAY
The annual picnfc of the
Mountain Park Home Demon
stration club was held Saturday
evening at Williams' picnl'c
ground. f
Thirty members enjoyed the
delightful outing.
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938
One Near Death, Six Others Hurt As Result of Accident
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' Miss Lola Walton, 36, of Cooleemee, 1s in an extremely critical condition at Hugh Chatham
hospital here as the result of the automobile accident pictured above which occurred Sunday after
noon on Highway 21, about two miles north of State Road. Six other people were injured in the
wreck, all receiving treatment at the hospital here. The accident took place when the car pictured
left, driven by J. T. Hunter, of Charlotte, skidded on the wet, oil treated pavement, turning complete
ly around Into the path of the other car, which crashed into it. Both cars came to a stop in the
edge of a cornfield.— (Tribune photo).
SCHOOL FACULTY
ANNOUNCED HERE
Several New Teachers 'Fill
Vacancies; Bumgarner Is
New High School Coach
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 12
The faculty of the city schools
for the 1938-39 term, which will
open on September 12, is an
nounced as follows: Superintend
ent, J. Mark Mc Adams; high
school faculty: English and
French, Miss Alice Dixon: Science,
Miss Elizabeth Anderson; Math
and journalism, Miss Mary Vir
ginia Barker; English and girls*
athletic coach. Miss Lena Lewis;
home economics. Miss Mary Hol
land; history and boys' athletic
coach, J .S. Bumgarner.
Elementary school faculty:
Principal, Miss Lucille Young;
Miss Emma Cooke, Miss Jose
phine Paul and Miss Young, sixth
and seventh grades; Miss Eliza
beth Harris, Miss Betty Allen,
fifth grade: Miss Minnie Ruth
McNeill, Mrs. Fletcher Harris,
fourth grades; Mrs. D. C. Martin,
Mrs. Fred Harris, third grades;
Miss Blanche Dixon, Miss Ola
Angell, second grades and Miss
Mary Hendren and Miss Norma
Cawthon, first grades.
Miss Holland, who will arrive
here next week to assume her du
ties, is attending the home econ
omics institute at the Woman's
College of the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro.
Miss Lena Lewis, a new member
of the faculty, is completing her
work for her master's degree at
the University of North Carolina
this summer. She is a former
member of the faculty of the
Burlington city schools. J. S.
Bumgarner, another new faculty
member, is attending coaching
school at the University of North
Carolina.
Miss Minnie Ruth McNeill, an
other new faculty member, is a
local girl and is a graduate of
Meredith College, Raleigh. Last
year she was a member of the
Ronda school faculty.
Other faculty members attend
ing summer schools were Miisses
Josephine Paul and Norma Caw
then. University of Virginia; Miss
Betty Allen,, Duke University;
Mrs. Fred Harris and Miss Ola
Angell, Appalachian State Teach
ers College, Boone.
TO CONDUCT SERIES
OF SERVICES HERE
Dr. Q. F. Bell of Montreat. will
conduct a series of services at the
Presbyterian church, beginning
Sunday evening, August 21, and
continuing through August 26.
The regular morning hour of
worship will be held at 11 o'clock
Sunday.
A cordial Invitation is extended
the public to attend the services.
SOFT BALL TEAMS WILL
CLASH HERE SATURDAY
The Chatham Blanketeers, soft
ball edition, will battle the Caro
lina Towel Supply company soft
ball team, of Winston-Salem,
here Saturday afternoon in a
double header. The games will
be played at Riverside Park, the
first starting at 3:45.
A small admission fee will be
charged.
Yadkin Deputy.
Arrests Himself
Some Federal Men
They all look alike to Dep
uty Sheriff Ruffan Haynes, of
Yadkin county. His Job is to
enforce the law—regardless.
And that's what federal
men, working under cover to
secure evidence on Yadkin's
dispensers of moonshine, found
out the other day.
These gentlemen have a cute
way of calling on a suspect
and attempting to buy liquor.
If they are successful, they
have a nice little case against
the unsuspecting dealer. But
for onoe their plan backfired.
The government officers
were said to have called on
Carl Jester, of Jonesville, and
purchased a bottle of liquor.
As they were leaving the place,
no doubt thinking of the dire
things that were going to hap
pen to Mr. Jester, Deputy
Haynes turned up and did dire
things to them.
He arrested the federal men
for buying liquor, explaining it
is quite unlawful in this sec
tion.
Badges and explanations
didn't mean a thing to the
Yadkin officer. And Uncle
Sam's men didn't get free
until Patrolman Lee Phillips
called in to identify them
as federal officers.
** I
BURGIN FIGHTING
FOR NOMINATION
Hearing of Mandamus Action
Under Way in Raleigh
Wednesday
CONTESTS STATE BOARD
W. O. Burgin, of Lexington,
winner toy a few contested votes
over C. B. Deane, of Rockingham,
in the recent second primary, but
loser when the state board of
elections got through with its in
vestigation of alleged dirty work
at the cross roads, Wednesday got
another chance to fight for the
nomination to Congress from th&
eighth district.
Judge W. C. Harris, in Wake
county superior court at Raleigh,
restrained the state board of elec
tions from certifying the election
of Deane, who holds a 23-vote
margin. Wednesday was the date
for hearing of a mandamus ac
tion by which Burgin was to seek
to force the state board to cer
tify him as the nominee on the
basis of the 100-vote lead over
Deane on first official returns
from the July 2 run-off election.
The Tribune, which is printed
each Wednesday in the late af
ternoon, had had no word from
the hearing at this writing.
WHITE FAMILY REUNION
TO BE HELD AUGUST 21
> The White family reunion will
be held at Little Richmond Bap
tist chuseh, Sunday, August 21.
All relatives and friends of the
family are invited to attend and
bring a basket lunch.
CONVENTION TO BE
HELD ON SEPT. 10
Democratic Delegates from
Each Township Will Be
Named, Committee Says
ELKIN'S QUOTA IS 39
The Surry county Democratic
executive committee met at Dob
son last Thursday and set the
date for the county Democratic
convention to nominate candi
dates to be voted upon in Novem
ber, as September 10, at 2:00
p.m. The convention will be held
in the court house at Dobson.
Date for township conventions
was set for September 3, at 2:00
p.m. The Elkin township con
vention will be held in the school
auditorium here.
This year's county convention
will be held differently from the
general convention of two years
ago which ended in quite a bit
of confusion and general dissat
isfaction. Each township will
hold its own, convention and in
struct its delegates as to how
they are to vote in the county
convention.
In cases where there are more
than two candidates seeking the
same office, votes of the township
delegation will be prorated among
the candidates on the first ballot,
it was said. In case no candidate
receives sufficient votes to secure
the nomination on the first bal
lot, then the delegates may vote
as they think best.
Elttn township will be repre
sented at the county convention
by 39 delegates. These delegates
will be nimed at the September
3 township convention .here.
AGED YADKIN MAN
IS KILLED BY CAR
Willie T. Hennings, 81-Year-
Old Farmer, Was Sitting
on Doorstep
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
Willie ,T. Hennings, 81-year-old
farmer and respected citizen of
Flint Hill, Yadkin county, was
instantly killed late Saturday
night at his hime when a car
crushed him, breaking his' neck,
one arm,, and causing other in
juries.
There was a family chicken
stew near the Hennings home and
the lights of a car had been
turned on the table. It was nec
essary to crank the car by hand
and it had been left in reverse
gear. When it was cranked it
shot back over Mr. Hennings who
was, sitting on the door step. Ju
lius Mickles. a son-in-law. was
sitting with him and was injured,
but not seriously.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at 11 o'clock at
Stony Knoll church, conducted by
the pastor, Rev. G. B. Ferree and
Rev. Chas. Hutchens.
He is survived by eight children,
A. B. Henning and Mrs. Bessie
Fletcher, of Winston-Salem; Bill
Henning. Mrs. R. B. Smitherman
Mi;s. B. E. Cornelius, Mrs. Julius
Michael, Mrs. Riddlngs and Mrs.
Adams, all- of East Bend.
If the shepherd goes astray,
what do you expect of his flock?
Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In NoHh Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SEVEN HURT, ONE
CRITICALLY, IN
SUNDAY WRECK
Car Skids on Slippery Pave
ment
SECOND CAR STRIKES IT
Miss Lola Walton, of Coolee
mee, not Expected to Live
Result of Hurts
BROUGHT, TO HOSPITAL
Seven persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, in an automobile
wreck on Highway 26, two miles
north of State Road, about - 4
o'clock Sunday afternoon..
Miss Lola Walton, 36, of Cool
eemee, was the most seriously
hurt, receiving several fractured
ribs and internal injuries. Hos
pital officials stated Wednesday
afternoon that her conditiion was
extremely critical and that she is
not expected to live.
Miss Peggy Skinner, also of
Cooleemee, received painful lac
erations and concussion of the
brain. Other occupants of the
Cooleemee car were Kenneth
Bruton, Jesse Cole and G. C. Earp,
all of whom sustained lacerations
and bruises that necessitated hos
pital treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hunter and
their four children, of Charlotte,
occupied the other car. Mr. Hunt
er sustained a sprain of the sac
ro-iliac joint, a pelvis injury, and
Mrs. Hunter received a fractured
rib. The four children were un
injured with the exception of mi
nor scratches. Mr. Hunter was
removed to a Charlotte hospital
by ambulance Tuesday evening.
The Charlotte party was re
turning from a trip to Roaring
Gap at the time of crash. A
heavy rain had left the oil-treat
ed road slippery, causing the
Charlotte car to skid completely
around, where it was struck by
the car from Cooleemee, which
was headed north. In some man
ner the Charlotte car struck a
telephone pole, snapping it off at
the ground.
Both cars were badly damaged.
ZEPHYR FARMER
GETS RESULTS
Seeds Rye in Strips on Ter
race Ridges; It Pays for
Terracing Field
YIELDED 26 BUSHELS
(By T. L. ROBINSON)
When Mr. W. V. Holder, of the
| Zephyr community, seeded rye In
strips on some terrace ridges last
winter, he didn't expect it to pay
for terracing the entire field, but
that is just what occurred.'
Following the suggestion of %
CCC camp official late last fall.
Mr. Holder harrowed five newly
•constructed terrace ridges and
drilled in about one bushel of
seeid rye. A neighbor passing re
marked at the time, "If I didn't
have no more to dp than that, I
would go home and go to bed."
Due to rush of other work, one
of the ridges was not gotten in
until after Christmas when the
drill gauge registered one and
one-half acres.
The neighbor mentioned above
was present when the rye was
recently threshed. It yielded 26
bushels. He wanted to buy it all
for seed.
The rye .could be sold for $1.25
per bushel or $32.50. The cost
of building seven terraces in this
field with the county unit was
only $30.80. Mr. Holder, there
fore, feels that his one day's work
harrowing and making three trips
with a six-hoe drill to each ter
race ridge was well worth while
and, in- addition, he had no ter
race breaks and good protection
from erosion during the late win
ter and early spring rains.
Mr. Holder is strip-cropping
this entire field at terrace inter
vals with a three-year rotation of
lespedeza, corn and small grain.
BURCHAM REUNION TO
BE HELD AUGUST 28th
The second annual Burcham'
reunion will be held Sunday.
August 28, at Pleasant Home
Baptist church, near Lomax. An
elaborate program has been plan
ned for the day, beginning at 10
am. Several speakers and special
music will be features at the
gathering.
The public is cordially invited
to attend and bring a basket
dinner.