EVENTS
of the
Past
Week
LOCAL
CONSTRUCTION WORK
continues to to/ge ahead In
Elkin with lh»v laying of new
sidewalks on /Wain street, plus
the construction and remod
eling of snreral buildings. A
new siddralk is being: con-
on East Main street
Castevens Hardware
Oaspany corner to the J. C.
* 'Penney Company store, re
placing the former walk which
was rough and uneven. Pro
gress is being made in the re
modeling of Graham & Click
5 & 10c Store, which will re
open within the near future,
and the new building next to
Penney's continues to grow.
This building, it is said unof
ficially, will homse a Rose 5 &
10c Store. Work is also in
progress on the Central Elec
tric and Telephone Company
building on West Market
sireet, which will house the
business office, local and group
manager's offices of the tele
phone company by July 10.
The business office was form
erly located at Mount Airy.
R. A. MCLAUGHLIN, for five
years assistant to Yadkin
County Agent L. F. Brumfield,
has been named acting county
agent by the Yadkin board of
commissioners, which met last
Monday. Mr. Brumfield will
become associated with the
State College Extension Ser
vice, effective July 1, as an
agent at large and a special
authority on poultry.
A SECOND SOFTBALL
tournament between Chatham
Manufacturing company teams
started Tuesday at Chatham
Athletic field with the Bull
Dogs, representing the office,
defeating the Hound Dogs,
representing the spinning
room, by a score of 7 to 5.
STATE
THE 21st ANNUAL conven
tion of the North Carolina de
partment of the American Le
gion ended at Raleigh Tuesday
with the election of Junius H.
Rose, of Greenville, as com
mander and the selection of
High Point as next year's con
vention city. The new com
mander, who succeeds Bur gin
Pennell, of Asheville, was nam
ed by acclamation and greet
ed with a thunderous ovation
after two other candidates,
Victor Johnson, of Pittsboro,
and W. T. Dowd, of Sanford,
had withdrawn.
THE UNIVERSITY of North
Carolina was one of six uni
versities which were selected
to participate in a nation
wide study of the education of
teachers to be begun this fall
by the commission on teacher
education of .the American
Council of Education, Presi
dent Frank Graham and Dr.
Harl R Douglass, chairman of
the division of teacher educa
tion at the university, were In
formed Sunday.
NATIONAL
THREE DESPERATE felons
armed with butcher knives
seized a woman welfare work
er in Indian* state prison, at
Michigan City, Ind., Tuesday
and threatened to kill her un
less they were given guns and
( freedom, but sharpshooting
guards and state police shot
them down as they held a par
ley with the prison warden.
WHILE NEW GOVERNOR
Earl Long, a brother of the
late Huey Long, pledged a
"square deal," the state of
Louisiana was told Tuesday
night the fugitive former pres
ident of its cherished state
university, Louisiana State
University, had bilked three
big banks of $500,000. The
university president. Dr. James
Monroe Smith, dropped from
sight Sunday night just after
resigning his post, and has not
been seen since.
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL NEWS of
the past week has for the most
part featured trouble between
Great Britain and Japan, plus
news of German speeches de
signed to bring little comfort
i to those nations hoping for
* peace. As a result of this
troubled situation. Great Bri
tain and France have placed
thousands of troops on war
footing for a possible emer
gency before the end of the
summer and warned that the
threat of war is mere serious
than at any time since 1918.
Some hope was reported Wed
nesday morning, however, of a
peaceful settlement of the dis
pute between Britain and
[ Japan.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 33
FEARS MOVE
WILL INJURE
U.S. DEFENSE
Doesn't Want Wall Street to
Control Money
WARNS CONSEQUENCE
Loss of Power to Devalue
Dollar May Result in
Loss of Trade
WOULD STRIKE BLOW
Hyde Park. N. Y., June 27
President Roosevelt told Con
gress today it would undermine
national defense and return con
trol over money to Wall street
and international bankers if it
refused to continue his power to
devalue the dollar.
He pictured for reporters a
possible return to the times when
he said international currencies
were jumping up and down like
a Jack-in-the-box, the internal
economies of all nations were dis
rupted and only speculators and
international bankers were the
beneficiaries.
The devaluation power will ex
pire at midnight Friday unless
Congress drives a monetary bill
to speedy final enactment. A
senate vote yesterday to strip
from the measure a section ex
tending the devaluation authority
raised doubts over the possibility
of that action.
Mr. Roosevelt anticipated a re
quest for comment on that vote
at his press conference. He was
ready.
The loss of his power to reduce
the gold content of the dollar
again would strike a definite blow
at national defense, he said, since
a nation was weakened if its for
eign trade was weakened.
Administration officials have
contended that the fact that thlk
United States could meet deval-''
uation with devaluation had
tended to discourage other na
tions from entetraining any idea
of tampering with their curren
cies to obtain a competitive ad
vantage in foreign trade.
More than the defense angle,
the President stressed the pros
pects that control over money
might be taken from the treasury
and handed over to Wall street,
speculators and internation
al bankers.
For 5 1-2 years, he said, we
have had the right to devalue the
dollar from 59 to 50 per cent, of
its former gold content. We
haven't used it, he said, and we
have no intention of using it un
less other principal nations start
ed taking cracks at us as they
did in 1930 and 1931—when it
took us three years to recover.
EAST BEND TO
HAVE BIG DAY
Horse and Mule Show and
Many Other Contests
Make a Full Day
MUSIC IN ABUNDANCE
East Bend is planning for a big
day for July 4th and every indi
cation is that those who attend
will have plenty to see and hear.
aS the committee on arrange
ments for the annual home com
ing day have been busy making
plans.
Mr. E. S. Felts, chairman, an
nounces that Dr. Luther Mathews
wfll speak in the school audi
torium at 1:30 p.m. Other for
mer students of East Bend school
will make short talks.
Beginning at 10 in the morn
ing there will be foot races and
bicycle races by boys and girls
who will compete for prizes.
Singing classes of the East
Bend Sunday schools will sing at
2:30 p.m. and they will receive
prizes of $5.00 each.
There will be string bands
from many sections who will play
for the public and also compete
for prize money, which has been
donated by various people.
Many other amusement fea
tures will cover the day as well
as a horse and mule show.
Those attending are requested
to carry dinner for the public
table or families may eat in
groups if they desire.
Your autoniobile contains a
ton of steel, 3 pounds of copper
and brass, 2 lbs. of tin, 27 lbs. of
lead, 144 lbs. of cast*pig iron, 110
lbs. of rubber, a tenth of a bale
of cotton, 13 square yds. of up
holstery fabric, 2.5 gal. of spray
ing lacquer, 37 lbs. of paper and
fibre board and 18 sq. ft. of glass.
JC VIDQT William J. Eck, assistant to the vice
lU r llXkjl president of the Southern Railway, re
ceived ticket number one for the first Trans-Atlantic pas
senger flight of Pan American Airways from Lowell Lee,
right, district traffic manager. Mr. Eck was to leave New
York yesterday and will arrive in France June 30.
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Interesting
Story Told
By Old Papers
Old letters, tax receipts and
other papers owned by Jack
Osborn, of Jonesville, form an
interesting comparison with
present-day life and that of
the 1860's, as regards taxes,
postal service and transporta
tion.
A letter from N. L. Black
burn, a great uncle of Mr.
Osborn, written from Cortney,
Grimes county, Texas, to a
relative in Jonesville, goes to
great length in pointing out
the way to travel to Texas,
and also speaks of the great
length of time it took to "pass"
a letter between «the two
points, it at that time taking
months, while in the present,
thanks to the airplane, the
distance may be covered in a
matter of hours.
The tax receipts, signed by
W. G. Hlx, sheriff of Wilkes
county, made out to Elizabeth
Blackburn, show a year's tax,
including state and county, to
have been only 75 cents in the
year 1866. State tax was list
ed at 25 cents, and county tax
50 cents, a far cry from the
tax assessed today.
Baptist Rev
To Come
Friday Evening
The revival services which have
been in progress at the First Bap
tist church since June 18, will
come to a close" Friday with the
evening service at 7:30.
Dr. J. R. Jester, well known
evangelist and former pastor of
the First Baptist church in Win
ston-Salem, has brought Inspir
ing messages at each service. Up
to the close of the service Wed
nesday morning twelve additions
had been made to the church,
nine as candidates for baptism
and three by letter.
Sunday morning a number of
visitors from Winston-Salem at
tended the service here. They
were members Qf Dr. Jester's
church during his pastorate in
Winston-Salem.
The special singing, under the
direction of George P. Harper,
lias added to the impressiveness
of the services.
All people of the town are in
vited to attend the services dur
ing the remaining days of the re
vival.
STORES WILL CLOSE
HERE JULY FOURTH
Independence Day will be ob
served quietly here next Tuesday,
July 4. All stores and business
houses, with the exception of
drug stores, cafes and service sta
tions, will be closed for the day,
according to Mrs. Franklin Fol
ger, secretary of the Merchants
Association.
TO CLEAN UP CEMETERY
ON THURSDAY, JULY Bth
Thursday morning, July 6, has
been set as the date for a clean
up of the Little Richmond ceme
tery. Members of the church and
relatives of those buried in the
cemetery are requested to be on
hand to do their part.
ELKIN, N. C- THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
CHURCHES TAKE
PARTJNMEET
18 Yadkin Baptist Churches
Participating in Training
Union Revival
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Boonville, June 27—There are
18 Baptist churches in the Yad
kin Association and one church
in the Surry organization that
are taking part this week in the
first County-Wide Baptist Train
ing Union revival ever held in
Yadkin county by a group of
state workers.
There are 23 workers from the
Baptist Training Union Conven
tion at Raleigh that are re
sponsible for putting on this re
vival. These 23 workers are
headed by Miss Josephine Turn
er, of Raleigh, who for the past
four years has been devoting her
entire time to B. T. U. firfd work,
and John Lane, also of Raleigh,
who is acting this summer in the
capacity of secretary to the
Training Union Convention in
the absence of Dr. Nathan C.
Brooks who has been ill for the
past several weeks. Many people
In Yadkin and surrounding coun
ties are personally acquainted
with both Mr. Lane and Miss
Turner.
The other 21 workers are spe
cial summer workers. Most of
the group are either college stu
dents or college graduates and
teachers.
Following is a list of young
men and young women who are
assisting Miss Turner and Mr.
Lane in this revival: Misses Willa
Marks. Greensboro: Carmen Mor
gan. Hertford: Estelle Council
man, Bear Creek: Imogene An
thony. Yadkinville; Faye Cresson,
Lenoir; Texie Sowers, Lexington;
Edith Evans, Kelford; Gladys
Terry, Siler City; Syble Dougher
ty. Rich Square; Vessie Gillespie.
Candler; Mary Humphrey, St.
Pauls; Elotse Miller, Colerain;
and Elizabeth Jackson, Raleigh;
and Messrs. John McGee, Kern
ersville: Harold McManus, San
ford; Dwight Ives, Leaksville;
Maylon Watkins, Raleigh;
Charles Allen, Brevard; Bob All
red, Marion; McLeod Bryan,
Garner; and Claude Roebuck,
Ahoskie.
There are 28 churches in the
Yadkin Association and all but
ten of them are cooperating in
the revival. Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock the workers and dele
gations from the various coop
erating churches met at Yadkin
ville Baptist church and discuss
ed organization work already
completed and laid plans for the
greater success of the revival
which will last through Friday
night of this week: They will
meet again Wednesday at the
same time and place.
John Lane discussed the great
need for more active Baptist
Training Unions in the county
and state and stated that the ul
timate aim of these state work
ers was to build active unions in
every church where there is a
worker. Each church cooperat
ing has at least one worker and
some of the churches have two.
The bride in Java gives token
of her submission to her husband
by washing his feet as a part of
the wedding ceremony.
An alligator farm in Florida
bears the sign, "No Trespassing."
YOUNG WOMAN
ENDS HER LIFE
SUNDAY P. M.
Found by Husband at Their
Home
SHOT THROUGH BODY
Mrs. Marshall Hutchens, 19,
Said to Have Quarreled
at Breakfast
IS DEEMED SUICIDE
The final chapter in the short
life of a young expectant mother
was enacted Tuesday morning
when Mrs. Eva Baity Hutchens,
19, was laid to rest in the ceme
tery of Pilot View Friends church
at Shugartown, with a bullet hole
through the body which had
pierced the heart and which ap
parently was self-inflicted.
The young woman, who was a
bride of six months, was found at
her home, three miles north of
Yadkinville, Sunday afternoon by
her husband, Marshall Hutchens.
lying on the bed in their little
white two room cottage, • with
blood running from a wound over
the heart and a .22 calibre rifle
lying by her side. She probably
died instantly. The husband and
his wife had visited his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hutchens, a
short distance away, and she had
returned home ahead of him.
Mr. Hutchens told Sheriff In
score that when he looked into
the window and saw what had
happened he fainted and revived
only when someone arrived at the
home.
Investigation
Sheriff inscore and Coroner R.
V. Long conducted a lengthy in
vestigation into the death. The
bullet, which had passed through
the body, was found on the floor
of the room, in line with the po
sition of the gun and body. Cor
oner Long decided it was a plain
case of suicide and did not hold
an inquest. Hutchens told the
officers that he and his wife had
quarreled at the breakfast table,
but had dinner together and then
visited his parents.
Two officers of the North Car
olina Department of Justice, who
were in Yadkinville Tuesday and
Wednesday, questioned Hutchens
at length Wednesday morning,
allowing him to return home
Wednesday afternoon. They made
no comment.
Mrs. Hutchens was a daughter
of Mrs. R. E. (Buddy) Williams,
of near Yadkinville. She was
married to Mr. Hutchens on her
19th birthday, December 31, 1938,
and at her death was an expect
ant mother. Survivors include
the mother and stepfather, and
the following half brothers and
sisters: Annie Lee and Mary
Ruth Williams, Luther E., George
S., and Glenn Williams, all of
near Yadkinville. and Mrs. Cleetie
White, of near Crutchfleld. Also
the following aunts and uncles
survive: Raymond and Shober
Baity, of Boonville; Sebon Baity
and Mrs. Sarah Wooten, Yadkin
ville, route 1; and Mrs. Thelma
Brown, of Boonville.
SINK TO GIVE
RULING FRIDAY
Hears Arguments and Briefs
in Yadkin Dam Case
Wednesday Morning
COURT IS ADJOURNED
The special term of superior
court at Yadkinville, in a session
before Judge H. Hoyle Sink, re
convened Wednesday morning to
hear arguments and briefs from
both sides of the Yadkin county-
City of High Point legal contro
versy concerning the power dam
to be constructed on the Yadkin
river.
Following briefs, and arguments.
Judge Sink adjourned court until
Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. He
stated that he will give his deci
sion in the matter at Greensboro
Friday morning at 10 o'clock,
and will docket the decision
day afternoon when court is re
convened.
This ruling ill terminate
months of /' litigation brought
about by the efforts of 45 High
Point citizens, the Duke Power
company and the Yadkin county
commissioners to restrain High
Point from constructing the $6,-
500,000 hydro-electric plant.
There is a small eye at the tip
of each arm of a star fisn.
War Threat Is Said
More Serious Than
Anytime Since 1918
New U. S
Has Tro in
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One week after fulfilling her
ambition of becoming a citizen
of the United States, Marlene
Dietrich, screen star, was al
most stopped from sailing on
the Normandie by reventte
agents who said she owed
$142,193 taxes on her foreign
income in 1936 and 1937. Her
baggage was finally released
when she offered about SIOO,-
000 worth of jewelry as secur
ity.
IDATE CHANGED
FORHEARING
Jonesville School Bond Issue
to Be Heard at Newland
on July sth
FIRST DATE WAS JULY 1
July 5 has been set as the date
for hearing on the order restrain
ing the town of Jonesville from
issuing $40,000 in school bonds,
this date having been changed
from July 1 when it was sched
uled to have been heard before
Judge J. A. Rousseau at Wilkes
boro.
The judge to hold the hearing,
which was brought by a number
of Jonesville citizens who oppose
the bond issue, will be Judge
Frank M. Armstrong, and the
hearing will be held at Newland,
Avery county.
The temporary restraining or
der was signed by Judge Wilson
Warlick June 20.
The Jonesville taxpayers who
brought the suit, six in number
claim the election held June 13
was not conducted in conformity
with North Carolina laws, alleg
ing the Yadkin county board of
education failed to give the coun
ty commissioners sufficient in
formation on the taxable value
of Jonesville property.
QUARTETTE TO APPEAR
AT JONESVILLE JULY Ist
The Silvertone quartette of
Lexington, who were judged to be
the best singers of soul stirring
spiritual songs in a group of 420
contestants, before a group of
6,000 people on June 11, will ap
pear at the Jonesville Baptist
church Sunday evening, July 1,
at 7:30. They will also be at
Arlington on the morning of July
1, at 9:30; at Shady Grove at
10:30 and at Oak Ridge at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. On the
evening of July 2, they will be at
the Boonville Baptist church at
7:30 o'clock.
A free will offering to bear the
expense of the trip will be taken.
-Tftr-pufaUc is a cordial
invitationtoatlend.
MONTHLY S. S. ASS'N
TO MEET AT PINNACLE
The monthly Surry Baptist
Sunday School association will
meet Sunday afternoon, July 2,
at Pinnacle View church, near
Pilot Mountain. All churches in
the association are invited to
have a representation present.
Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BRITISH, FRENCH
TROOPS PLACED
ON WARFOOTING
Fear Emergency Before End
of Summer
SITUATION SAID GRAVE
Ominous Developments Stir
Europe's Fears on Treaty
Anniversary
POLES CLOSE BORDERS
London, June 27—Great Britain
and Prance tonight placed thou
sands of troops on war footing
for a possible emergency before
the end of summer and warned
that the threat of war is more
serious than at any time since
1918.
The British war office notified
406,000 officers and men of the
territorial army, corresponding to
the American national guard, to
clear up their personal affairs
before reporting for training in
August and spoke of "the event
of an emergency."
Premier Edouard Daladier of
Prance told the chamber of dep
uties that "the situation in Eu
rope and the world today is the
gravest in 20 years" and said that
unless there is a relaxation of
Europe's tension none of Prance's
1,250,000 men at arms will be re
leased in September and Octo
ber as had been intended.
A series of ominous develop
[ ments combined to stir Europe's
fears on the eve of the 20th an
niversary of the treaty of Ver
sailles—the source of many of
the continent's troubles today.
They included:
1. Germany's mobilization af
fecting 1,500,000 men, the swift
completion of German fortifica
tions along the Polish frontier
and assertions of Nazi leaders
that they "will not wait long" for
satisfaction of Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler's demands for the restora
tion of Danzig.
2. Sudden closing of the Polish
frontier at Steineliess near Zop
pot for 10 hours, supposedly for
the purpose of constructing Po
lish tank traps near the Danzig
border. The frontier was closed
from 2 a.m. to noon Monday.
DOBSON YOUTH
BADLY JJURED
Car Crashes Into Loaded
Gravel Truck Driven by
Local Man
CONDITION IS SERIOUS
Leonard Kidd, about 18, son of
Mrs. Myrtle Kidd, of Dobson, re
mains in a serious condition in a
Mount Airy hospital, suffering
from injuries received in an au
tomobile-truck collision Thursday
afternoon on the Elkin-Mount
Airy road. The light automobile
in which the young man was
riding, in company with a young
er brother, Lonnie Kidd, and
Tommie Baker, collided with a
truck loaded with crushed stone
driven by H. O. Harris, of this
city., Mr. Harris, who was haul
ing crushed stone from Mt. Airy
to Elkin for the construction of
the addition to Chatham Manu
facturing company here, stated
that he swerved his truck off the
pavement in order to try to
avert the crash when the cars
met on a curve.
The young, who was driving
the cor, received head and chest
injuries. His condition was said
to be only slightly improved, ac
cording to latest reports. Other
occupants of the passenger car
were only slightly injured. Mr.
Harris escaped injury but his
truck was badly damaged.
The blame was placed by offi
cers who investigated the acci
dent, on the fast driving of the
injured young man, who was un
able to take the curve at such a
fast rate of speed.