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KING REACHES
AMERICAN SOIL
Quebec, May 16 Bearing
the first reigning British mon
arch to visit the American
continent, the Empress of Aus
tralia late tonight dropped
anchor in the St. Lawrence
River 18 miles below Quebec
after an eventful crossing of
the Atlantic.
Tomorrow morning King
George VI and Queen Eliza
beth will set foot on Canadian
soil to begin a month of in
tensive traveling through the
Dominion and the United
States.
FAILED TO
LIST NOTES
Winston-Salem, May 16
Faced with a tax return sub
poenaed from Raleigh, W. T.
Wilson, former mayor, admit
ted from the Superior court
V witness stand today that he
■ failed to list among intangi
'p bles approximately • $7,000 in
notes he held in 1937 as For
syth county public guardian.
"It was unintentional," Wil
son* protested. "I am sorry.
But I must have become con
fused. I tried to report all."
WOULD PURGE
OLD OFFICERS
Washington. May 16 As
serting that army officers who
are over age for their rank
constituted the weakest link
in the national defense, Secre
. tary Woodring recommended
k today that Congress adopt leg
* islation to weed them out of
the service.
Testifying before the house
military committee, Woodring
declared that the possibility of
the United States being called
upon to defend the western
hemisphere made it imperative
that they be replaced by
younger men.
DEATH NOT DUE
TO HEAD BLOW
Sarasota, Fla.. May
quest testimony late today
raised doubts a blow from the
I fist of meat cutter Kenneth
J Nosworthy fatally injured So
cialite Potter d'Orsay Palmer
in a picnic brawl.
After witnesses had said
Palmer was persistently quar
relsome at the stag affair last
Thursday and Nosworthy ac
knowledged striking the oft
married Chicago heir, Assist
ant State Attorney W. M.
Smiley told the jurors an au
topsy had not borne out the
report the playboy's death was
due to a cerebral hemorrhage
* caused by a "terrific blow" on
the head.
Smiley said the autopsy had
disclosed neither hemorrhage
nor skull fracture and further
expert medical examination
would be necessary to determ
ine the cause of Palmer's
death in a Sarasota hospital
yesterday.
K. BOYD COUCH
. DIES TUESDAY
Passes Away at His Home
Following a Long Period
of Illness
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
King Boyd Couch, 40, died at
his home Tuesday night aibout
8:30 o'clock, following a long
period of illness. For many years
Mr. Couch was a barber here be
core he was forced to retire on ac
count of ill health. He was a min
ister of the Church of God and
was a member of this church in
Jonesville. He was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Couch.
He is survived by his wife and
seven children: Mrs. Reece Nix
on,'Jesse, Ellen, Hattie Mae, Billy,
Olive and Betty Lou Couch and
two half-brothers, Joe and Jesse
Couch.
Funeral services win be held this
kmorning at 11 o'clock from the
■hurch of God in Jonesville. Bur
m will follow in the Pleasant Hill
church cemetery.
TO HOLD CRIPPLE
CLINIC MAY 26th
Dr. R. A. Moore, of Winston-
Salem, will hold his regular crip
ple clinic a tthe Mount AJry of
fices of the Burry county health
department Friday, May 26, from
9 until 12 noon, it has been an
nounced by Dr. R. B. C. Franklin,
health officer.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 27
Is to Condu
Reoitial Here
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Rev. Ralph E. Johnson, of
Nashville. Tenn., who will have
charge of a special series of
evangelistic services at the
Elkin Methodist church begin
ning next Sunday and contin
uing through June 4.
REVIVAL IS TO
START SUNDAY
Rev. Ralph E. Johnson to Be
in Charge of Services at
Methodist Church
IS MUCH SOUGHT AFTER
Rev. Ralph E. Johnson, of
Nashville, Tenn., a noted evange
list and singer and an outstanding
leader in young peoples' services
and special worker with children,
will come to Elkin for a special
series of services at the Elkin
Methodist church beginning next
Sunday and continuing through
June 4. Rev. Mr. Johnson will be
accompanied by his wife, who as
sists him in his work.
A former World War aviator,
the evangelist travels in a modern
trailer, in which he carries special
motion picture equipment and
musical instruments used in his
services. He has just closed a
meeting in the Fjrßt Methodist
Church, of Birmingham, Ala., and
will come to Elkin from a meeting
in Capitol Hill Methodist Church
in Oklahoma City, Okla. His
services have been especially
sought for in college and univer
sity churches in the South and
North.
Bishop U. V. W. Darlington,
senior bishop of the M. E. Church,
South, thinks highly of Rev. Mr.
Johnson, stating: "I regard R. E.
Johnson at an \outstanding man
in the Southern M. E. Church,
both as a song leader and worker
with young people and children."
Rev. P. W. Tucker, pastor of
the Elkin Methodist Church, has
announced that four services will
be held daily on week days, and
"two services each Sunday, two of
the week-day services to be for
children and young people re
spectively. He extends a cordial
invitation to everyone, regardless
of denomination, to attend the
revival.
15-YEAR-OLD GIRL
IS FOUND SUICIDE
Statesville, May 16.—The body
of Maggie Stevenson, 15, was
found this morning hanging by a
plow-line to a tree in .the woods
near her home. She had been
missing since Sunday afternoon
when her father refused to allow
her to go with several boys because
he said, he thought some of them
were drinking.
He said there were no harsh
words or anything that reasonably
could have caused his daughter
to take the matter so seriously.
A few hours later she was mis
sing, and it was suspected that
she had gone off with the boys.
While the mother was in town
this morning to ask the officers
td follow that lead, the girl's
body was found by her father.
Evidently she had been hanging
there since Sunday afternoon.
A coroner's jury rendered a ver
dict of suicide.
INVESTIGATE PUTNAM
STORY OF KIDNAPING
Los Angeles, May 16—Detec
tives investigating George Palmer
Putnam's story of abduction ask
ed the district • attorney's office
today to summon the publisher
and two of his associates before
the county grand jury for ques
tioning.
DEMOCRACIES
TO OFFER NEW
RUSSIAN PLAN
Decision Reported after Two
hour Meeting
TO GUARANTEE SUPPORT
Seek Joint Declaration of De
termination to Resist Any
Aggression
TO AID SMALL NATIONS
London. May 17—(Wednesday)
—lnformed sources said today
Britain and France had decided
to offer soviet Russia a guarantee
of support if she were forced to
fight any aggressor from the -vest
'in fulfilling guarantees to small
countries on her border.
The decision was reported to
have been made after a two-hour
meeting of the foreign affairs
committee of the cabinet. It rep
resented a concession to Russian
demands for reciprocal protection
if she entered the British-led
front.
It was understood from these
reports that Britajn planned first
to ask an immediate joint declar
ation by France, Britain and
Russia of determination to resist
any aggression. Then the soviet
would be asked to guarantee all
bordering states against aggres
sion, including Poland. Rumania,
Estonia, Latvia and Finland.
If called on to fight as a result
of these pledges, the soviet would
be joined by Britain and France.
Military staff talks to arrange
each country's part in any war
lesulting from these pledges
would be provided, it was report
ed.
Britain originally had 'proposed
that Russia give pledges to Po
land and Rumania similar to
those given by Britain and
France, with the proviso that
Russia would not be obliged to
fight except to support British
and French forces after they al
ready had taken the field.
Russia replied that without
similar pacts for Latvia, Estonia
and Finland, and an alliance of
the three big powers, the ar
rangement would lack the vital
element of reciprocity. She fear
ed being drawn into war without
British and French support if
other small countries on her bor
der were not given guarantees.
Demonstration
Clubs to Hold
Meeting
The annual jneeting of the
Sixth District Federation of Home
Demonstration clubs which is
composed of Davie, Davidson,
Forsyth, Surry, Stokes and Yad
kin counties, will be held in the
high school building in Mocks
ville, Wednesday, May 24.
Mr s. George Apperson, of
Mocksville, president of the Sixth
District, will preside. The wel
come will be given by Mrs. M. G.
Ervin. Mrs. W. E. Neill. presi
dent of North Carolina Federa
tion of Home Demonstration
clubs, will bring greetings, also
Mr. Carl Tatum, chairman of the
County Board of Commissioners
of Davie county. Miss Bess N.
Rosa, of Greensboro Field, work
er in Home Making and Parent
Education, will deliver the ad
dress.
Mrs. Paul Brown, of Devotion,
president of Surry County Fed
eration, will give the report for
this county. Mrs. Gaston Chris
tian, of White Plains, is chairman
of the Resolution Committee.
A large delegation from the
county will attend the meeting.
TRIO INDICTED IN
YADKIN COUNTY
Yadkinville, May 16—A Yad
kin county grand jury today in
dicted three Yadkin county men
on charges of irregularities in the
last November general elections.
They are Thad Shore, J. S.
Thomasson and W. D. Holcomb.
Bills of presentment were
drawn at the last term of court
by a retiring grand jury.
Shore is charged with voting
in both Yadkin and Surry coun
ties, Thomassoh with registering
persons not present at the time
of registration, and Holcomb with
destroying ballots.
Under-curj-ents may be either
clear or muddy.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939
Is Named
President
Burial G
isiai
Hn»m j»|^nfi»HßoHHf|
Erroll Hayes, of Hayes &
Speas, local funeral directors,
was named vice president of
the North Carolina Burial As
sociation at the closing session
of a two-day convention held at
Raleigh last week. Another
Surry man, Wade C. Moody, of
Mount Airy, was re-elected sec
retary - treasurer.
YADKIN WOMAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Mrs. Caey Ingool Absher
Passes Away Tuesday
from Heart Attack
RITES ON WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Cacy Ingool Absher, 86,
died suddenly Tuesday morning
from a heart attack at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Ford,
near Jonesville. Mrs. Absher had
been in her usual health until
she was fatally stricken.
She is survived by one daugh
ter, Mrs. Ford, with whom she
had been making her home, and
four sons, R. S. Absher, Roaring
River; W. L. Absher and C. A.
Absher, of Dockery, and J. M.
Absher, of North Wilkesboro.
Forty-six grandchildren, 12 great
grandchildren, one sister and
three brothers also survive.
Funeral services were held at
Mt. Pisgali Baptist chui'ch in
Wilkes county Wednesday after
noon. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
NYA PROGRAM
IS OF VALUE
At Present Time 35 Youths
Are Employed on Projects
Within Surry County
IS EXCELLENT TRAINING
The National Youth Adminis
tration, begun in July, 1935, by
executive order of President
Roosevelt, has grown into a
worthwhile educational and voca
tional training program in Surry
county.
Getting off to a slow start at
first due to lack of interest, the
NYA, purpose of which is to pro
vide employment for needy young
people on useful projects which
supply worthwhile vocational
training, and to provide financial
assistance through part-time work
enabling needy young people to
complete their education, at last
began to get a start through the
efforts of John W. Comer, super
intendent of education, and
members of the county board of
education, and now has a long
lecord of worthwhile accomplish
ment to its credit.
Through the NYA program, 82
youths have received valuable vo
cational training and work ex
perience during the past year. At
the present time, not including
student aid, 35 youths are em
ployed on projects within Surry
county.
B.T.U. TO PRESENT
SPECIAL PROGRAM
Sunday at the evening hour of
worship at 8 o'clock at the First
Baptist church a special program'
will be presented by the B.T.U.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed the public to attend.
SPARTA POLICE
REFUSE TO TURN
OVER PRISONER
Elkin Officers Come Home
Empty-handed
MAY BE AFTER REWARD
Charles Leinbach, Wanted on
Three Charges. Is Held
in Alleghany Jail
CHARGED WITH THEFT
Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow and
Chief of Police Dixie Graham, of
Elkin, armed with three warrants
for "Attorney" Charles Leinbach,
self-styled Washington, D. C.,
lawyer, returned from Sparta
Saturday empty handed after
making a special trip there to
bring Leinbach here to stand trial
for forcible trespass and larceny.
The Washington man was ar
rested by Alleghany officers last
week on a warrant sworn out be
fore Magistrate J. L. Hall by
Steve Allred, who alleges the
man, posing as attorney, en
tered his home and took valuable
papers, including his honorable
discharge from the army. How
ever, before local police could go
to Sparta and get Leinbach, they
received two other warrants
seeking his arrest, one from
Lynchburg, Va., which charged
theft of $90.00, and another from
Washington where he is wanted
on a charge of car theft.
Apparently Alleghany officers
had taken a deep affection for
their prisoner, because, according
to local officers, they refused to
give him up, and the police came
home without him. It is believed
that Sheriff Bryant, of Alleghany,
is of the opinion that a reward
for the man must be floating
around somewhere, and that this
prompted his decision to hold on
to him.
Deputy W. J. Snow said Wed
nesday that he would not make
another trip to Sparta for the
prisoner.
Future Farmers
Explore
On Motor Trip
Harrisonburg. Va., May 15
Exploration of Massanutten Cav
erns, the sparkling "cave of jew
els," near Harrisonburg in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia,
was voted the most interesting
event as yet experienced by a
group of 14 Future Farmers of
America and two instructors
from the Mountain Park high
school of Mountain Paxk, N. C.
The young North Carolinians
are traveling in three motor cars,
with A. F. Kinzie, agriculture
teacher of Mountain Park high
school, in charge, assisted by A.
J. Wagner.
Before reaching Massanutten
Caverns the North Carolina F. F.
A. boys had visited the agricul
ture departments of Washington
and Lee University at Lexington,
Va., and Bridgewater College at
Bridgewater, Va.
After exploring the caverns
they planned to motor over the
Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah
National Park and then on to
Washington, D. C., for several
days of sight-seeing before re
turning home to Mountain Park.
F. F. A. boys making the trip
were Buford Nixon, Steve Dob
bins, Homer Wallace, Wade Cal
loway, Tom Lewis, Glenn Wood,
James Linville, C. Southard, Ver
non Smith, Dollie Candle, John
Bell, Clyde Royal, Dan Hamby
and James Saylor.
SOFT BALL TOURNEY
BEGINS SECOND HALF
.The second half of the Chat
ham Manufacturing company soft
ball tournament got under way
Wednesday afternoon when the
Hound Dogs, winners of the first
half, which ended Monday, played
the Cur Dogs at 3:30 o'clock. A
second game, between the Lap
Dogs and the Bull Dogs, was
scheduled for 5:00 o'clock.
COUNTY HOME
EXODUS NOTED
Raleigh. May 16. W. C. Ezell,
director of institutions and cor
rections for the board of welfare,
reported today that 171 inmates of
55 county homes had found liv
ing quarters in private homes this
year through the aid of old-age
assistance grants. Transfers rang
ed from a single person in some
counties to 28 that left the Meck
lenburg county home, he said.
Roosevelt Seeking
Cause Of Stagnant
Capital In Nation
Official
voce- %v,
R. C. Lewellyn, president of
the Bank of Eikin, was elected
vice president of the North
Carolina Bankers Association at
the annual meeting in Pine
hurst last week. Mr. Lewellyn
is also president of the Surry
Loan and Trust Co., of Mount
Airy.
DAM HEARING
IS UNDER WAY
Suit Brought Against City of
High Point by Citizens,
Business Firms
NAVIGABILITY IS ISSUE
With preliminary hearings,
agreements and motions presum
ably disposed of, the first witness
took the stand at Winston-Salem
Tuesday in Superior court in the
case of J. W. McGuinn, as a tax
payer, Duke Power company,
Adams-Millis company and other
taxpayers, against the city of
High Point, in attempting to
have declared illegal a projected
$6,500,000 power development of
the city. Judge H. Hoyle Sink is
presiding over the special hearing
without a jury.
Indications that the state of
North Carolina is extremely in
terested. even to the point of in
tervening in the suit, were seen
when Attorney General Harry
McMullan listened attentively
throughout the proceedings. The
attorney general reportedly plans
to attend the further hearings in
the case because of the state-fed
eral issues which are looming.
The first portion of Tuesday's
session, which opened at 2 o'clock,
was taken up with a summarizing
of issues and contentions in the
case for the benefit of the court.
Both sides are seeking judicial
determination as to whether the
city of High Point properly or
improperly accepted a license
from the federal power commis
sion to build the electric plant.
One of the important conten
tions involved is whether the
construction of a dam and power
plant will affect the navigability
of the Yadkin river on which the
project is proposed to be built, or
of the Pee Dee river, of which
the Yadkin is a main tributary.
Woman's Club to
Sponsor Cooking
School at Hotel
The Elkin Woman's club is
sponsoring a cooking school here
Thursday and Friday afternoon,
and extend a cordial invitation to
the homemakers of Elkin, Jones
ville and this entire section to
attend.
The school, which will be in
charge of Miss Addie Malone,
widely known home economist,
will .consist of actual demonstra
tions in a modern kitchen. It will
be staged both afternoons begin
ning at 3:00 o'clock in the Ki
wanis room at Hotel Elkin.
Prizes will be on hand, which
will be awarded to various ladies
who attend, and many worth
while home hints and recipes
will be given. No admission
charge of any kind will be made.
Elkin
'The Best Utile Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
INVESTMENT IS
BADLY NEEDED
FOR PROSPERITY
Must Bring Together Idle
Men, Machines, Money
SAYS PROBLEM URGENT
States Views in Letter to
Chairman of Committee
Studying Monopoly
ASKS FOR AN ANALYSIS
Washington, May 16 Presi
dent Roosevelt today urged the
joint committee studying mono
poly to delve into the reasons for
the existence of huge supplies of
stagnant money and savings,
stating that if the United States
is to have sound prosperity, it
must "bring together idle men,
machines and money."
In a letter to Senator Joseph C.
O'Mahoney (D), Wyo., chairman
of the committee, he said that he
knows of "no more urgent" prob
lems in the country than those
involving nonworking money and
savings, and lauded the group for
its investigation of "savings and
investment," which was initiated
today.
He hoped that the new study
would "assume the task of an
alyzing the financial machine in
its relations to the creation of
more needed wealth," and posed
these questions for the investiga
tors to answer:
"Is it (money stagnation) be
cause our country is leaving an
era of rapid expansion and en
tering an era of steadier growth,
calling for relatively less invest
ment of capital goods?"
"Is it because of lag, leak and #
friction in the operation of in- *
vestment markets which pervert
the normal flow of savings into
nonproductive enterprise?"
To the extent that intelligent
utilization in men, machines and
money is made possible, he said,
"we shall strengthen the struc
ture of democratic economy."
GROUP VISITS
CHATHAM MILL
Young Bankers from New
York Are Royally Enter
tained by T.C.U. Club
MAKE TOUR OF PLANT
A group of 10 young men mak
ing up the Thorne-Loomis Expe
dition of 1939 of the Bankers
Trust Co., of New York City, visit
ed the Chatham Manufacturing
company here Tuesday as a part
of their tour of major textile in
dustries of the South.
The recently organized T. C. U.
Club took over entertainment of
the visitors, which in addition to
a tour of the plant, featured a
soft ball game, a supper and
smoker at the T. C. U. clubhouse.
The soft ball game featured
the visitors against the Hound
Dogs, winners of the first half of
the Chatham soft ball tourna
ment, and which was won by the
Hound Dogs' 18 to 1. The supper
and smoker followed Tuesday
evening.
The 10 young men making up
the group were Ralph Anderson,
Victor Anderson, Russell Billman,
Erik Eriksen, John Fen ton, Wal
ter Hughes, John Keat, Walter
Leach, Jr., David Young and Ed
ward Drake, leader.
Traveling in a spacious motor
ized coach, the group will take
six weeks to complete their
the object of which is to acquaint
themselves with all types of man
ufacturing.
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
OF SALE OF BUILDING
The large store building on East
Main street occupied by the J. C.
Penny Company has been sold to
J. H. Doughton and George Dow
dy, of Statesville. it has been an
nounced through Reich & Hunt,
local realtors.