Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 20
LATE f I I
NEWS i
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LOCAL
ms CAR crowded off the
road by a speeding motorist,
Raymond Smith, night watch
man for the Chatham Manu
facturing company, received
an icy bath Saturday night
when his car tumbled down an
embankment into Big Elkin
creek as he was driving along
the Shoe Factory road. Smith,
who was uninjured, was said
to have driven into the creek
rather than meet the ap
proaching car head-on.
STATE
CHAPEL HILL, March 27
The tide has turned against
the new deal, but "it is not
strong enough yet," Senator
Styles Bridges (R), N. H., told
the University of North Caro
lina Political Union here last
night. "Members of Congress
still boast of being rubber
stamps," declared the senator,
himself a candidate for the
Republican presidential nom
ination. "Are the members of
Congress elected merely to give
legality to the wishes of ad-'
ministration officials, or are
they elected to represent the
people who sent them to
Washington?"
NATIONAL
BALTIMORE, March 27
Lester Barlow's liquid oxygen
carbon explosive, so powerful
an elght-eance charge sent a
40-foot telephone pole flying
skyward, withstood a public
trial of shock and fire yester
day and the inventor an
nounced last night he was
ready for government tests.
He said he would send his pro
posals for official trials to the
Senate military affairs com
mittee today and predicted the
first would be held within
three weeks. They were or
dered after a meeting last week
of congressional war and naval
" committees;
WASHINGTON, March 27
President Roosevelt's cold was
so maoh better yesterday that
he considered leaving late this
week for a fortnight's rest at
Warm Springs, Ga. Stephen
Early, presidential secretary,
said the Chief Executive was
"all right." The fever which
had persisted for two weeks
had subsided and Mr. Roose
velt's temperature was back to
normal. But his physician,
Rear Admiral Ross T. Mcln
tire, still thought it best for
the President to remain in his
room, away from crowds.
WASHINGTON, March 27
Possibility of new tax legisla
tion this year appeared more
remote last night despite the
rout of congressional economy
forces by farm bloc leaders
who succeeded in tentatively
boasting agricultural appro
priations for 1941 by about
$300,000,000. Latest to Join in
pooh-poohing prospects for a
new revenue art was Chair
man Pat Harrison (D), Miss.,
of the powerful Senate finance
committee, who predicted on
emerging from a conference
with President Roosevelt that
Congress will adjourn by June
1 without enacting a tax mea
sure-
INTERNATIONAL
LONDON, March 27 Bri
tain's North Sen destroyer and
submarine squadrons converg
ed in the rock-bound Skager
rak south of Norway yesterday
apparently with the dual pur
pose of closing the blockade
around Germany and luring
the German fleet into a naval
battle. Outward aim of the
naval concentration was to
halt Swedish iron ore ship
ments through the bottlneck
between Denmark and the
Scandinavian coast, but nea
tral naval observers believed it
might serve a second purpose.
LONDON, March 27—Jacob
Souritz, Soviet ambassador to
France, is beta* relieved of his
duties on demand of the
French government which ac
cused him of attempting to
send a "tactless" telegram to
, Josef Stalin boasting of Rus
sia's triumph in Finland, a
Moscow radio broadcast inter
cepted last night stated.
THE ELMIN TRIBUNE
Yadkin M
For First Time
In Two D
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Prior to Tuesday tyf last week,
J. A. L. Shermer, 74, of Yadkin
ville, above, hadn't been to Elkin
in 22 years. Mr. Shermer, who
was here on business, stated he
just hadn't any reason to
come, and although he has lived
only 17 mills away, he "didn't
see any reason for coming with
out apy reason for coming." He
said that Elkin has changed so
since he was last here that he
wouldn't have ru. agnized the
town had he not known where
he was. An able historian, the
Yadkin man can name all 32
presidents of the United States,
as well as give their birthplace,
date of inauguration, and last
words. —(Tribune Photo).
"MISS ELKIN" TO
BE NAMED HERE
Loveliest Girl Will Be Crown
ed Beauty Queen at Lyric
Theatre Tonight
WILL GET SCREEN TEST
Theatre goers in this section
have a treat in store for them
Thursday night when "Miss
Elkin" will be selected and
crowned on the stage of the
Lyric theatre from a group of
Elkin and Jonesville's loveliest
young ladies.
The stage show will be present
ed in three parts, namely, the
Junior King and Queen Revue,
Amateur Acts, and the Beauty
Pageant. The stage show will be
presented immediately after the
screen feature "The Honeymoon
Is Over," featuring Stuart Erwin
and Marjorie Weaver.
The Junior King and Queen
Revue will be composed of Elkin's
most attractive children between
the ages of 3 and 10. The Junior
Queen will enter her picture in
the state picture contest to com
pete for the "Little Miss North
Carolina" contest.
Due to 'the demand for little
bqys by Elkin merchants, the
stage show will include a Junior
King contest composed of little
boys, one of whom will be select
ed Junior King. This carries
only honor.
Amateur acts will be inter
spersed throughout the program
and the winners will be invited to
compete for state honors.
The highlight of the program
will be the "Miss Elkin" pageant,
composed of young ladies espe
cially selected and sponsored by
leading merchants, the object of
which is to select a young lady to
wear the crown of "Miss Elkin,"
and attend the state beauty pag
eant which will be held at Blow
ing Rock. While there the win
ner will be entertained by the
United Cinema Productions at
no expense to her, and she will
compete for the title "Miss
North Carolina." She will also
be given a screen test which will
be shown on the screen of the
Lyric theatre at a later date.
Miss Ruby Crockett, represent
ative of the United Cinema Pro
ductions, has been in town for
the past week to organize the
production. Mrs. Annie Pauls is
assisting in the work. Mrs. Frank
lin Folger will be the musical ac
companist. v
Judges will be from out of
town. First, second and third
places will be given.
At the end of 1938, nearly 200
dependents of veterans of the
Mexican War were receiving pen
sions, and one daughter of a vet
eran of the War of 1812 still re
ceives her S2O the month.
FARM CHECKS
ARE RECEIVED
BY SMITHWICK
Total About $12,000 for Sur
ry Farmers
SENT BY GOVERNMENT
Farm Owners Are Being No
tified to Call at County
Agent's Office
MUST CALL IN PERSON
Five hundred and fifteen checks
have been received by Surry
County Agent R. R. Smithwick
for payment to 360 Surry farm
owners, amounting to approxi
mately $12,000.
Mr. Smithwick requested that
the farmers who are expecting to
receive the checks await until
notified by his offce before call
rig for them. Those to wham
the checks are issued are being
notified as fast as possible, it was
said, and upon receipt of the
notice should call at the county
agent's office between 9:00 a.m.
and 12:00 noon on Saturdays,
and between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m. on other days.'
The checks can remain in the
Dobson office only 21 days and if
not called for within that time
must be returned to Washington,
Mr. Smithwick said.
DR. ANSCOMBE
TO SPEAK HERE
Will Be Second Prominent
Speaker to Address Newly
Formed Elkin Forum
THURSDAY, APRIL 4th
The second of a series of open
forum meetings here will be held
Thursday evening. April 4, at the
Methodist church at 8 o'clock. Dr.
Francis C. Anscombe of the de
partment of history of Salem Col
lege, Winston-Salem, will conduct
this forum, speaking on "The Re
lation of Rumanian Oil and North
Carolina Tobacco," in which he
will compare the dependency of
each of the localities on the pro
duct produced there. This sub
ject will be of wide interest locally,
as this is in the tobacco belt of
Piedmont North Carolina. The
international phase of the subject
will also be discussed. Following
Dr. Anscombe's talk, opinions per
taining to the subject will be in
vited from the audience.
The first of the forum meetings,
conducted by Dr. Ralph McDonald
several weeks ago, was well attend
ed, and the public is cordially in
vited to hear Dr. Anscombe.
The forum is sponsored by civic
clubs of Elkin, and two other
speakers are scheduled for the
spring months.
TRIANGULAR DEBATES
TO BE HELD FRIDAY
With the hope of going to
Chapel Hill on April 18 and 19,
Elkin debaters will go to Winston-
Salem and Mount Airy Friday to
compete with the teams for those
towns in the annual triangular
debate, competing teams acting
as hosts, and each debating on
neutral ground.
Hanes high school negative team
and Mt. Airy affirmative will de
bate here at 1:30 Friday afternoon
at the Methodist church. The
audience attending the debate here
is requested to refrain from ap
plause, since the debate is being
held in the church.
The subject for debate this
year is: Resolved, That the Federal
Government Should Own and
Operate the Railroads."
Both affirmative and negative
debates must be won by the school
Friday to entitle the school to
send its teams to the finals at
Chapel Hill.
REPUBLICANS TO HOLD
TOWNSHIP CONVENTION
The Elkin township Republican
convention will be held Monday
evening, April 1, at 7:30 o'clock in
the Junior Order hall here on
North Bridge street, for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the
county convention which will be
held in the courthouse at Dob son
on Saturday, April 6. At the
time any other business which
comes before the convention will
be transacted. .
All Republicans are urged to at
tend this meeting.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940
HONEYMOON ISLE of St. Petersburg, Fla.,'
recently broadcast an invitation to honeymooners all over
the U. S. to make use of his romantic, sub-tropical island
in the Gulf of Mexico for a two-weeks honeymoon. Some
2,000 couples sent in requests. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burkeft,
who arrived with the first group, are pictured below in
front of the thatched hut which they will occupy for two
weeks.
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Jonesville Mass
Meeting to Be
Held on April 15
Citizens of Jonesville will
hold a mass meeting in the
Jonesville Town Hall Monday,
April 15, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to be
voted upon in the town elec
tion on May 6th.
To be nomlns d ate com
missioners and mayor. Offi
cials elected will serve two
years.
ARE TO HOLD
FARM MEETS
All Farmers Interested in
Participating in Program
Urged to Attend
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Letters are being issued by
County Agent R. R. Smithwick,
of Surry, requesting that all per
sons expecting to participate in
the 1940 farm plan attend meet
ings which are scheduled to be
held in each community at early
dates.
It is urgent that all persons in
terested in the program attend,
Mr. Smithwick said, so as to fill
out the farm plan form. Filling
out this form is necessary by
April 15, or no payments will be
made in 1940.
Meetings scheduled for this im
mediate vicinity have been an
nounced as follows:
Rockford township, Thursday,
March 28, between 8:30 and 11:30
a.m., at Copeland school.
Marsh township, Tuesday,
April 2, between 8:30 and 11:30
a.m„ Little Richmond school.
Bryan township, Wednesday,
April 3, between 1:30 and 4:30
p.m., Mountain Park school.
Elkin township, Wednesday,
April 3, between 8:30 and 11:30
a.m„ at North Elkin school.
Spelling
Are Held
Dobson T
Bernelle Jarrell, of Beulah
school, will represent Surry coun
ty in the Journal-Sentinel spell
ing contest to be held in Win
ston-Salem at an early date, fol
lowing the county contest at
Dobson high school Tuesday.
Winners in the county contest,
by grades, were as follows: first
grade: Wanda Jean Melton.
Zephyr: second grade; Grace
Doby; third grade, Margaret Nell
Hall, Plat Rock; fourth grade,
Normar Watson, Eldora; fifth
grade, Patty June Simpson, El
dora; sixth grade, Ella Draughn,
Cope land; seventh grade, Luray
McHargue, Elkin; eighth grade,
Hallie Dockery, Dobson; ninth
grade, Mary Frances Combs, Elk
in; tenth grade, Edith Chilton,
Pilot Mountain, and eleventh
grade, Mauldine Martin, Cope
land.
The following represented Elk
in in the contest: Nancy Moseley,
Margaret Carter, Mary Frances
Combs, Luvene Jordon and Kath
leen Cochrane.
Celery was introduced into
England in 1704. ■
CHATHAM MEN
CLUB GUESTS
Kiwanians Stage "Get Ac
quainted" Banquet for
Winston Officials
WILL BUILD NEW PARK
Officials of the Chatham Man
ufacturing Company, including
those who have recently come to
Elkin with the finishing and
shipping department now located
here, were guests of the Elkin Ki
wanis club at a "Get Acquainted"
banquet held at Hotel Elkin last
Thursday evening.
Stacey Weaver, president of
the club, etxended a welcome on
behalf of the organization, while
Mayor J. R. poindexter welcomed
the new officials on behalf of the
town. Rev. J. S. Hiatt also made
a talk of welcome.
Thurmond Chatham. Albert
Butler and Raymond Harris, of
the Chatham company, respond
ed, assuring the Kiwanians that
they are anxious to do everything
for the upbuilding of Elkin. Mr.
Chatham extended thanks to The
Tribune and the business men of
the city for the warm welcome
expressed in the Chatham edition
of The Tribune, and stated that
they were proud to be a part of
the community.
Mr. Butler stated that they had
let the contract for 'a new ball
park, and that he was sure it
would be welcome news that
Elkin would have baseball again
this year.
The program, which was en
joyed by all present, was in
charge of Kiwanian C. C. Poin
dexter.
Each member of the Chatham
organization present was intro
duced by Program Chairman
Poindexter, and each Kiwanian
was introduced by President
Weaver.
J. E. SMITH DIES
ON WEDNESDAY
Deceased Had Been in 111
Health from Heart Ail
ment for Months
RITES THIS AFTERNOON
John Edgar Smith, 36, passed
away at the local hospital about
7:30 Wednesday morning follow
ing an illness from a heart ail
ment. Mr. Smith had been in
declining health for the past two
months and his condition had
been critical for two weeks.
He was a son of T. A. Smith and
the late Mrs. Fannie Smith. For
the past four years he had been
employed with the Rose Transfer
company.
He is survived by his wife, who
was before her marriage, Miss
Marie Gentry of Winston-Salem,
one daughter, Rose Marie, his
father, two brothers, Jones and
Charlie Smith, and two sisters,
Mrs. Arkie Long and Mrs. Mae
Burcham, all of Elkin.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed this afternoon (Thursday) at
3 o'clock, at Elkin Valley Baptist
church. Interment will be in the
church cemetery.
All the Books of the Bible con
tain no more than 6,654 different
words.
Allies Hint Russia Is
Now An Enemy As
Relations Strained
Thieves Fail to
Open Safe; Get
Away With 75c
Thieves sometime Saturday
night entered the White Swan
laundry through a window,
bored numerous holes in the
door of the of flee safe, rolled
the heavy iron box out to the
door of the loading platform,
and departed with 75 cents.
John Evans, an employee of
the company, discovered the
robbery attempt when he went
to the plant Sunday. The
thieves had taken 75 cents
from the office cash register,
but had given up opening the
safe as a bad job.
A fingerprint expert called
from Winston-Salem was un
able to find any prints, nor do
police have any clues, it was
said.
So thoroughly did the rob
bers bungle the job, White
Swan officials had to use a
torch to open the safe. It con
tained approximately $20.00 in
silver.
FIREMEN ARE
KEPT ON RUN
Home of John Summitt Is
Completely Destroyed Sat
urday Night
ANSWER MANY ALARMS
Fire of undetermined origin
last Saturday night between 7:30
and 8:00 o'clock completely de
stroyed the frame dwelling of
John Summit, an employee of
the Elkin Furniture company, in
North Elkin.
The family was not at home at
the time of the blaze.
The Elkin fire department, in
answer to the alarm, was unable
to reach the scene of the blaze
until too late to save the house
due to the fact the dirt road
leading by the home was blocked
by the cars of curious spectators.
One arrest was made when a
young man drove through the
traffic lights while they were on
"stop" in an effort to reach the
scene. This type of violation of
the law, when all lights are on
red during an alarm, will not be
tolerated, police say.
A grass fire which started in
Jonesville Friday afternoon,
spread over 500 acres and had
reached a heavily wooded sec
tion before being brought under
control. The local fire depart
ment, powerless to cope with a
fire of this magnitude, summon
ed Ctx: boys, who extinguished
the blaze.
Saturday morning the firemen
were called to the home of Gra
ham Myers on Elk Spur street to
extinguish a grass fire. The de
partment also answered an alarm
from the home of Mrs. W. S.
Sale Monday night when a chim
ney caught fire.
TWO ARE INJURED
IN CRASH HERE
Russell and Charlie Tucker, of
near Elkin, received painful
bruises and lacerations here last
Saturday afternon when the car
in which they were driving crash
ed into the end of a concrete wall
of the bridge across Big Elkin
creek.
Rushed to the local hospital, the
two were treated and kept over
night for observation, being dis
missed the next day.
The car was badly smashed a
bout the front. It was said that
something went wrong with the
steering gear, making it impossible
to control the machine.
WILKES WOMAN HAS
BADLY HURT FOOT
Mrs. Leona Blackburn Lowe, 20,
wife of Relln Lowe, of the Roaring
River community, suffered a bad
injury to her right foot in an
accident at her home Monday. It
was said a shotgun fell from
where it was standing against the
wall, and discharged, the load
striking her foot just below the
ankle. Physicians at a North
Wilkesboro hospital said she would
probably lose the foot.
rcilrin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ROUTE TO REICH
MAY BE BY WAY
OF RED RUSSIA
Suggest New European "Cru
sade" Against Reds
BRITAIN HOLDS SHfIPS
France Has All But Broken
Off Diplomatic Relations
With Moscow
SITUATION IS GRAVE
The allied powers hinted broad
ly again today that Soviet Russia
must be linked with Germany as
a common foe.
That the wax route to the Reich
may lead through soviet territory
has long been a contention of un
official British and French circles,
some of which have urged that
Britain lead a new European
"crusade" against the Bolsheviks.
That decisions involving the
Moscow government may not be
long postponed was indicated by
these delevopments:
1. France all but broke off re
lations with Moscow by demand
ing and getting the withdrawal of
Soviet Ambassador Jacob Souritz
on the grounds that he tried to
send a telegram to Moscow de
nouncing the "Anglo-French war
mongers" in connection with the
end of the war in Finland. It later
appeared that the telegram merely
was forwarding a resolution &-
dopted by the Russian colony in
Paris.
2. Great Britain continued—
despite Russian protests—to hold
two Soviet steamships at Hong
kong and was reported in dis
patches from Shanghai to have
seized a third, carrying copper
from America.
3. The new French government
of Premier Paul Reynaud, who
denounced the "Soviet treason" in
giving aid to Germany, was being
used to strengthen its uncertain
political position by stronger ac
tion against the Bolsheviks. Forty
four ex-deputies now are on trial
in France and their prosecution
may be pressed vigorously.
4. Both Paris and London have
indicated through offical or semi
official sources that the Allies
would not hesitate to fight Soviet
Russia (as in Finland) if the cir
cumstances warranted and this at
titude appears to have been bol
stered by recent Nazi efforts to
bring Russia and Italy into a bloc
with the Reich to drive allied in
fluence from the Balkans.
Those factors especially the
present strain on relations of the
Allies with Russia and the allied
efforts to cut into Pacific Ocean
shipments via Siberia to Ger
many—might seem to indicate
that the Paris and London govern
ments were about to take up arms
against the Russians to get to the
Nazis by way of Russia. It is ob
vious that the British and French
have taken the attitude that there
is now no point in trying to im
prove relations with Moscow.
TO OPEN BID ON SHORT
STRETCH OF ROAD HERE
Among a number of bridge and
road projects in this section, bids
on which will be opened by the
highway department in Raleigh on
April 4, is listed a project which
provides for grading and struc
tures on 1.69 miles of route 268
between the Wilkes-Surry line and
Elkin. This section, it is under
stood will form a new link in the
new route through Elkin which
will carry traffic to Ronda and
North Wilkesboro. Traffic is now
routed over West Main street.
REGULAR SERVICES TO
BE HELD BY BAPTISTS
Regular services will be held
Sunday morning at the First
Baptist church In this city at 11
o'clock. Rev. Epli .WhJsenhunt,
pastor of the church, who has
been conducting a meeting at
Cherryvflle, will fill the pulpit
and will use for his sermon sub
ject "My Church." rjl
At the evening service at?:3Q
a baptismal service mil be held,
The church extends « cordial
invitatioA to the public to attend*