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Elkin Gateway to Rearing Gap and the Bine Ridge VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 49 LATE/ NEWS £ and BRIEF N ?" LOCAL THE Elkin board.of commis sioners met at the city hall Monday evening: in regular session. Only business of a routine nature was transacted, it was said. THE Elks of Elkin high school were on the short end of a 14 to 12 score at Mocks ville last Thursday afternoon when they met Mocksville high. Friday the EUra will go to Madison for a game with Madison high school. f RALPH FLETCHER, of Roonville and Elkin. died late yesterday aftenoottv the io cal hospital. Mr. Fletcher is the son of William T. Fletcher, ex-sheriff of Yadkin county, and Mrs. Fletcher, of Boon ville. Mr. Fletcher was twice married. He is survived by his last wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Fletcher, one daughter, Nancy, by the last marriage, and four children, Lucille, Carolyn. James and Daphne, by his first marriage. Several broth ers and sisters also survive. Mr. Fletcher was admitted to the hospital several days ago for an operation for gallstones. The operation was scheduled for Wednesday morning, but ' following the administering of the anesthetic, respiratory failure developed, and for al most eight hours the entire staff of the hospital, aided by friends and relatives, worked over the unconscious form in a vain attempt to save him through artificial respiration. NATIONAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 President Kalinin of Russia '« assured President Roosevelt to [ day that Russia's sole aim In # negotiations with Finland was f "Consolidation of the recipro cal relations" and "strengthen ing of friendly co-operation" between the two countries. This was his reply to Mr. Roosevelt's message last week expressing "the earnest hope that the soviet union will make no demands on Finland which are inconsistent with the J maintenance and development t of amicable and peaceful re lations between the two coun tries. and the independence of each." SACRAMENTO. Calif., Oct. 17—Nearly a quarter of a cen tury of imprisonment ended today for Warren K. Billings, associate defendant of Thomas Mooney in the 1916 San Fran cisco Preparedness day bomb ing cases. He stepped from the governor's office, a free man, his sentence commuted to time served. INTERNATIONAL LONDON. Oct. 17 Britain made public tonight the "final report" of Sir Neville" Hender son on his ambassadorship to Berlin in which he recounted j in picturesque phrases the last 1 days of peace, the "tragedy" of Adolf Hitler and sidelights on "yes men" around the nazi chieftain. The 12,000 word white paper stressed repeated- | ly that Hitler alone made the j decision to go to war. Sir Nev- j ille writing that "though he spoke of his artistic tastes and Ills longing to satisfy them, I derived the impression that the corporal of the last war was even more anxious to prove what he could do as a conquering generalissimo i n the next." ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 17 Prime Minister Refik Say dam, in an official communique to night, said the negotiations with soviet Russia had failed be cause the soviet demands were contrary to Turkish security. Itj wa2 icpoifed reliably that a definite agreement with Bri tain will be signed in Ankara this week, probably Thursday or Friday. The official com munique said the prime min ister, in a statement to a par liamentary group of the re publican people's party, de clared the soviet government had suggested to Turkey pro poab (Mtirety different from those previously agreed upon. 1 THE ELKIN TRIBUNE loss OF ROYAL OAK IS TERMED INEXCUSABLE Big Battleship Is Sunk by German U-Boat WAS AT SCAPA FLOW British Experts Claim Sub marine More Deadly Than Nazi Air Force CRITICISM IS HEARD London, Oct. 18—British mili ; tary experts today rated the sub | marine torpedo a more deadly I weapon than Germany's air I force. The loss of at least eight I German planes in raids on two British naval bases in the past two days was declared to be out of all proportion to the small amount of damage which com muniques said was inflicted on British warships. But there was no attempt to j conceal -the concern caused by an j enemy U-boat's exploit in pene trating the defenses of the fam ous Scapa Flow naval base last Saturday and sinking the battle ship Royal Oak with a salvo of torpedoes. , The London Tin\es called the sinking of the Royal Oak at an chorage "a disturbing incident, providing grave matter for in vestigation of the naval court of inquiry which is now sitting." The Daily Express bluntly told its 2.500.000 subscribers, "The Scapa Flow affair is a disgrace. This disaster is inexcusable." The Express added that Win ston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, "cannot be blamed for i(," explaining that "the naval defense plans must have been laid down years ago." It said, "These plans should now be revised with energy and dispatch. And thank God Chur chill is the man to make a good job of it." Virtually the entire British press continued to criticize au thorities for failing to sound an air raid alafm during the Nazi raid over the Edinburgh area in the Firth of Forth on Monday. The Express declared, "The government's explanation is to tally inadequate." PLANT EARLY IS SUGGESTED With Harvesting of Crops Being Completed, Farmers Should Make Plans OTH E R IDEAS GIVEN With harvesting of crops be ing completed rapidly, farmers in this section can begin making plans for early planting of their winter cover crops and thereby gain valuable time and secure better results, according to J. E. Trevathan, agronomist, of the Soil Conservation Service in the Surry Work Unit of the Tri- Creek District. Dobson. Winter legumes when planted early and properly inoculated, it is pointed out, will make good growth before cold weather comes pnd provide better protection against erosion. Legumes plant ed late will not make sufficient growth to provide protection dur ing the winter months when that protection is needed most. Farmers who plan to plant kudzu later can now begin pre paring the land. Early prepara tion of seedbeds for kudzu is of piimary importance, it was point ed out, as the broad flat beds af ter plowing and adding manure must be allowed to settle before they can be planted. This time of the year, it was further pointed out, is also an excellent time to clean off pas ture areas by brushing and grub bing. All pasture areas, according to Trevathan, should be cut to a mowing surface so they can be maintained properly. REPRESENTATIVES TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Surry county representatives who will attend the Social Service conference to be held in Chapel Hill beginning October 24 are: Bausie Marion, county welfare officer; Mrs. Emma Mock, Mrs. James Ashby. and Miss Harriet Gates. The meeting is to discuss pro blems of social welfare and ser vice in North Carolina. Many prominent people connected with the welfare work will be present. D A TJJV J JAJTi'Q While the men are away with the army, these pictures from London, Germany LJ/IVSL\ \JL 111 LJ LULLO and Paris show how war affects those left behind, even down to the animals. Photo at left shows families framed in the entrances to air raid shelters adjoining their homes in Southwest London. Emergency shelters of brick and concrete can be converted into comfortable ''living rooms." Photo at right, made somewhere in Germany, pictures a group of German girls from the large cities who help with the harvest on week ends. Photo at bottom, center, made in Paris, makes one wonder what the dogs think about their new-fangled muz zles. Perhaps if the war were left to them there would be peace—and no gas masks! &Wk ß.-c' 1 " # . .. _ W 1 ; NIGHT SCHOOL IS UNDER WAY Adult Classes Are Conducted Under Direction of Mrs. W. W. Whitaker WOMAN'S CLUB SPONSOR The adult night school, spon sored by the Woman's Club and directed by Mrs. W. W. Whit aker. began this week. The classes are being conducted through WPA aid. Miss Estelle Cockerham has been appointed as teacher of the classes. A tentative schedule has been arranged which includes classes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the CCC camp; Tuesday and Thurs day mornings on Chatham Heights; Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in North Elkin and two afternoons each week in Chatham Park. These classes are conducted in private homes. On Friday evening Miss Cocker ham will have a class in her home on West Main street. In the day classes Miss Cocker ham is being assisted by Mrs. W. W. Whitaker. The work here among adult il literates was begun 12 years ago through the efforts of Mrs. Whit aker, and through this work many who were denied educa tional advantages in earlier life have advanced to the point where they are able to operate businesses of their own, doing their own correspondence, keep ing their accounts, etc., in addi tion to enjoying the ability to read and write. The work has been successful mainly through the untiring ef forts of Mrs. Whitaker, who, when funds were not available to ret paid instructors for the daises, has''enlisted the interest of others, willing to teach without compensation other than the op portunity of service. Federation Demonstration Clubs To Meet The County Federation meeting of the Home Demonstration Clubs will meet Saturday, October 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the Franklin School with the Franklin Club as hostess. Mr. McCloud, principal of the Franklin School will lead the de votional. Mrs. Paul Brown of Mountain Park and County Chair man will preside during the pro gram. Mrs. Patterson, president of the Franklin Club will welcome the guests. Miss Addie Houston, Home De monstration Agent of Guilford County will speak to the group on her trip to England last summer to the meeting of the County Wo men of the World. A short skit "The Demonstra tion Club" will be given by the White Plains Club. Mrs. Gaston Christian and Mrs. Madge Bad gett will be in charge of the music. Two Steam Pressure Cookers will be awarded the clubs having done the most out-standing work during the year. A gavel will be given the club having the largest percent on miles traveled. Lunch will be served in the school lunch room. A London firm sells 4,000,000 ices every day when the ther mometer stands at 77 degrees. ELKIN, N. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1939 Boonville Fair To Be H October 27-28 Preparations are being com- pleted for the Boonville Agricul tural Fair, to be held at Boon ville on October 27 and 28. Exhibits of flowers, farm crops poultry, fruits, needlework, culi nary and preserving may be en tered on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. The livestock show will be held on Saturday, October 28, which ( will include dairy cattle, horses, mules and saddle horses. Also, there will be a dog show held on October 28. The dog show will include point ers, setters, hounds, collies and terriers. Superintendents of the differ ent departments are as follows: Culinary, Miss Merlia Speer; Pre serving, Mrs. Nellie Speer Dob bins; Needlework, Mrs. George Williams; Fruit, Clay Hobson; Flowers, Mrs. F. M. Woodhouse; Poultry. Curtis Hobson; Farm Crops, A. S. Speer; Dairy Cattle, J. Lee Campbell; Draft Horses, Mules and Saddle Horses, W. W. Reece; Field Day, Delmar Mock; Exhibit Contest, Harold Stinson; Tobacco, Carrol Miller; Dogs, Aubrie Snow. BUS HEARING IS UNDER WAY Woodie Seeks Franchise for Line Between Mt. Airy and Salisbury FRANCHISE IS OPPOSED E. O. Woodie, of Wilkesboro, pre sented testimony to the utilities commission at Raleigh Tuesday supporting his application for a franchise to operate a bus line from Mount Airy to Salisbury. Further hearings in the case were held Wednesday. Woodie and other witnesses told Utilities Commissioner Stan ley Winborne that the line was needed and would not hurt the business of other bus 1 lines. The application is being opposed by the Queen City Coach Company, the Atlantic Greyhound line and the Carolina Coach Co. . The proposed line would operate by way of Dobson, Blkin, Boon ville, Yadkinville and Mocksville. At the present time there is .no bus facilities between and Surry's county seat, Dobson, and Mount Airy. The natives of West Africa eat salt in lumps as Americans eat sugar. j HITLER HONORS CREW OF U-BO AT Receives Commander, Men of Submarine Which Sank British Ship PRESENTED IRON CROSS Berlin, Oct. 18.—Adolf Hitler today received Commander Prien and his submarine crew, credited with sinking the British battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, naval base north of Scotland. He award ed Prien Germany's highest war decoration, the grand cross of the iron cross. The reception was the high point in a gala day in Berlin for the submarine men. Meeting the men in his private study. Hitler heartily shook hands with each man and thanked them in the name of the German nation. Present at the meeting was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who yes terday presented the men with iron crosses for their successful raid on Saturday. Before the reception by Hitler the men were cheered by a rain drenched crowd as they paraded in open cars from Templehof Air drome to the chancellery. Hitler said the crew's achieve ment "strengthened the entire German nation in the imperturb able trust in victory." He de scribed their deed as the "proud est" which a submarine could ac complish. REVIVAL MEETING TO BEGIN ON OCT. 20th A revival meeting will begin at the Pentecostal Holiness church in Jonesville October 20 and will continue through November 5. it has been announced by Rev. W. K. Creech, pastor. Two preaching services have been scheduled for each day, ser vices on week-days to be at 10:30 a.m. and at 7:15 evenings. Sun days services will be at 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Young people's meeting will be held ajt 6:30 p.m. A musical feature of the meet ing will be the Pentecostal Trio. Evangelists will be Rev. R. C. Frazier and Rev. T. H. Frazier. Mr. Roy Frazier will be in charge of the music and song service. The public is invited 'to attend. MALAGA, Spain, Oct. 17— At least 14 persons were killed today when an Italian Ala Ut toria airliner en route to Se ville crashed at Olia, a town seven miles from Malaga, and burst into flames. Authorities * here, dispatching doctors and ambulances to the soene, fear ed more persons may have been trapped inside the blaz ing plane. ROBERTSON IS KIWANIS GUEST Collector of internal Revenue Makes Talk Before the Club Here VISITORS ARE PRESENT A talk by C. H. Robertson, of Greensboro, collector of internal revenue, featured the program of the Elkin Kiwanis club at Hotel Elkin last Thursday evening. Mr. Robertson, rather than dis cussing taxation, discussed the tobacco situation that exists in the south, and the European war. He stated that he is strongly in favor of crop control in both to bacco and cotton. In discussing the war, he made it clear that he is in favor of re pealing the present arms embargo act. He favors aiding the Allies with arms and supplies rather than taking a chance of them be ing faced with defeat and this country having to go into the war as a result. The program was arranged by Kiwanian Franklin Folger. J. S. Atkinson, deputy collector of rev enue, a native of Elkin, intro duced the speaker. 'Among the visitors attending the session were H. Turner Poin dexter, of San Pedro, Calif., guest of his father, James R. Poindex ter; Henry C. Dobson, guest of Hugh Royall: Dr. John Jolley, guest of Dr. C. L. Haywood; Eu gene Hall, guest of Julius Hall; French Graham, guest of Frank lin Folger, Jr., and Alan Brown ing, Jr., guest of H. F. Laffoon. DOBSON YOUTH DIES OF HURTS Yancey Simpson, 18, Injured in Auto Accident on Elkin- Dobson Road Yancey Simpson. 18, of Dob son, was fatally injured in an au tomobile accident about 9 o'clock Wednesday night of last week on the Dobson-Elkin highway. Three other passengers in the car, Misses Ernestine Callahan, Cassie Simpson and Luther Simpson, all of Dobson, were less seriously in jured. Miss Simpson received a broken arm and shoulder and sev eral cuts and bruises, Miss Calla han a brain concussion and lac erations of the scalp and legs, and Luther Simpson, driver of the car, suffered only slight cuts and bruises and shock. Young Simpson lived until Saturday following the accident. He never regained consciousness. With the exception of Miss Cal lahan, all of the others injured in the wreck have been dismiss from the hospital. Little information concerning the accident was available, but according to reports the car got out of control and turned over on the highway because of a defect in the steering apparatus. MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED AT DOBSON Marriage license have been granted to the following by the Register of Deeds, Kermit W. Lawrence: William Lloyd Widenhour, 30, of Concord and Miss Rebecca Sherrill, 25, of Concord and to Johnson Mcßride. 17, and Miss Margaret Lackey, 17, both of Mocksville, Route 2. Elkin "The Best Little Town in North Carolina" PUBLISHED WEEKLY SAYS ENGLAND IS WINNING WAR OF PROPAGANDA Many Planes Downed, Cham- berlain Tells Hoi&e MAKES WEEKLY REPORT Denies That Battleships Re pulse and Hood Had Suf fered Damage AR K ROYAL IS SAFE London, Oct. 18.—Prime Min ister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Britain was winning over Germany in the propaganda battle over war issues. Making his seventh weekly re port on progress of the war. Chamberlain also said that, in ad dition to eight German aircraft known to have been shot down in air battles over the British Isles, "it is believed" that several more "may have failed, t.o. reach .home," . Total German aircraft taking part in the raids, he said, did not exceed 30 and casualties inflicted by British guns and fighters "ex ceed 25 per cent, and may have been more." The prime minister said that since his last rejection of Ger man peace proposals as too vague "there has been no indication from Berlin of the views of the i German government upon the issues" and continued: "German propaganda organs have used all possible ingenuity so to twist foreign comment as to make it somewhat less unfavor able to their own point of view. "I should doubt whether this | effort has had any success outside Germany itself, for it 5s difficult to conceal the fact that the vast bulk of comment of nearly all i shades of political color in neutral countries has shown a full ap preciation of the attitude of the Allied governments (Britain and France)." The prime minister spoke of I "fantastic claims by Germany of successful attacks on British war vessels and declared: "It is not true that the Hood or the Repulse or any other capital ship has suffered the least dam age. The same is true of the Ark Royal." The Hood and Repulse are bat tle cruisers and the Ark Royal is an aircraft carrier. Britain has denied reports that the Ark Royal was sunk and the Hood and Re pulse damaged. ENI) GOOD REVIVAL AT UNION CROSS An unusually successful revival meeting closed Sunday at Union Cross Baptist church. The ser vices were held for one week and were in charge of the newly elected pastor. Rev. C. M. Caudle, of Hays. The meeting resulted in a great spiritual awakening in the community and 33 additions to the church, 32 by baptism and one by letter. Rev. Caudle brought deep spiritual mesasges at each service in simple and profound language. The services each day were widely attended by all denomina tions in the Union Cross section and the meeting was considered one of the most fruitful held in that section for a number of years. Baptismal services were held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Dollar Error Is Corrected After Seventeen Years Years ago a clerk employed in the store of the late R. P. Crater gave a customer a dol lar too much change through error. Today—over 17 years later—the dollar has been re turned. Miss Effie Crater, of Elkin, daughter of R. P. Crater, recently received the following letter, which was postmarked Elkin: Dear Miss Crater: Here is one dollar. When your Father had a store one of the clerks give me two much change. I did not know it at the time. A Customer. Mr. Crater, who died 17 years ago, was a partner in the firm of Crater & Sale. At the death of Mr. Sale the name of the store was changed to Crater & Co.
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