Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 28
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LOCAL
ADVOCATING fi v e-doiiar
automobile license tags and
other reductions in state taxes
to be made possible through
greater economy in govern
ment, Tom Cooper, mayor of
Wilmington, brought his sound
truck to Elkin Monday after
noon in his campaign for the
Democratic gubernatorial nom
ination. In his talk, Cooper
hit at the sales tax as "an
abominable tax on poverty."
Other planks in his platform
upon which he touched includ
ed better secondary roads; a
better educational system with
adequate pay, a retirement
fund and sick leave for teach
ers; cooperation between cap
ital and labor; a broad farm
program and home rules for
counties, cities and towns
without interference from Ra
leigh.
STATE
MAY 22 As a safeguard
against a possible "fifth col
umn" attack in the United
States, supported by an at
tempted invasion from without
in the event Germany should
defeat the Allies, Colonel John
D. Langston, of Goldsboro, to
day proposed the immediate
inauguration of a Home Guard
composed of volunteer World
War Veterans. Colonel Lang
ston was a key figure in the
nation's mobilization during
the last World War. While
admitting the possibility of an
eventual attack on one or both
of the Americas by one, or a
combination of several, of the
dictatorships, the Goldsboro
man—who will again be one of
the key figures in the nation's
mobilization scheme if war
comes expressed the belief
that a "fifth column" assault
from within, is perhaps the
greatest potential threat to
the security of the United
States.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, May 22
After two administration vic
tories, the House fight over
next year's relief funds boiled
down today to relatively minor
restrictions on how the WPA
shall spend $975,650,000 for
the eight months be grinning
July 1. Democrats shouted
down Tuesday a Republican
attempt to decentralize the
WPA by making direct grants
to communities, and also de
feated 144 to 54 a proposal
that the fund be boosted to
$2,232,000 for the full twelve
month period beginning July 1.
WASHINGTON, May 22
Alf M. Landon, arriving for a
White House conference, waves
aside aU questions today per
taining to talk of a coalition
cabinet under President Roose
velt. "I'm not going to dis
cuss anything until after the
White House conference," de
clared the 1936 Republican
nominee. The Kansan was
met at the Union Station by
Republican members of the
congressional delegation. His
arrival came in the midst of
uncertainty whether a coali
tion cabinet was an adminis
tration goal, and amid Repub
lican assertions that Mr.
Rosevelt was consulting Re
publicans aa a "smokescreen
for a third term candidacy."
INTERNATIONAL
BERLIN, May 22—The high
command said today that Ger
man troops were slowly
squeezing allied armies trap
ped in Northern France and
Belgium by driving northward
from the River Somme, but
that fierce resistance had been
encountered on the historic
World battlefields of
Flanders. Germans predicted
that the German break
through to the channel soon
would destroy allied armies of
perhaps 1,000,000 men in the
north, but the high command
communique issued at Adolf
Hitler's headquarters in the
field indicated that a des
perate and perhaps a long
struggle was ahead for control
of the channel ports from
which an attack could be
•launched on England.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Voters of County Go
To Polls Saturday
To Name Candidates
POLLS HERE TO
BE LOCATED IN
NEW CITY HALL
Will Open at 7:00 A.M. and
Close at' 7:00 P.M.
PRIMARY HOURS ONLY
Democrats to Select Nominee
for Governor Out of Field
of Seven
MANY OTHERS IN RACE
Politics Will vie in interest with
the European war here Saturday
as Democrats and Republicans
go to the polls to select candi
dates for November's general
election.
Polls here will be located in the
fire department at the City Hall,
and will open at 7:00 a.m. and
close at 7:00 p.m. This practice
is followed in the primary only,
the polls to open and close at
sunrise and sunset, respectively,
in the general election.
The Democrats are going to
have to do the most deciding
Saturday, they having seven can
didates making the race for the
nomination for governor and
four for lieutenant-governor. The
Republicans have three candi
dates for governor and two for
lieutenant-governor.
In the county race the Republi
cans have four candidates for
commissioner. The Democratic
candidates for commissioner face
no opposition among themselves.
Of major interest here is the
Democratic contest for the house
of representatives, in which Hen
ry Dobson, of Elkin, is opposed
by two other candidates, Ben F.
Jarrell and Martin Bennett, both
of Mount Airy. Mr. Dobson has
served two terms in the legisla
ture as against his opponents'
none and is considered well qual
ified to again represent the coun
ty.
Democratic candidates for the
nomination for governor are A.
J. Maxwell, J. M. Broughton, Ar
thur Simmons, L. Lee Gravely,
Paul Grady, Thomas E. Cooper,
and W. P. Horton. Republicans
are John R. Hoffman, George M.
Prichard and Robert H. McNeill.
Seeking the nomination for
lieutenant-governor are, Demo
cratic, R. L. Harris, L. A. Martin,
W. E. Smith and Dan Tompkins;
Republican, J. Forest Witten and
H. B. Leavitt.
In the Democratic race for
secretary of state are Walter
Murphy and Thad Eure; for aud
itor: George Ross Pou and
Charles W. Miller; for commis
sioner of agriculture: W. Ken-
Scott and C. Wayland Hill; for
insuranoe commissioner: William
B. Oliver and Dan C. Boney.
In Surry the following Re
publicans are seeking a place on
the board of county commission
ers: G. "Buck" Wall, Porter G.
Wall, E. Harvey Hennis and I. N.
Greenwood.
Funeral Held for
T. L. Casstevens
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock
for Thomas Lee Casstevens, 74,
who died at his home near
Mitchell's Chapel church Sunday
morning. The services were at
Mitchell's Chapel, with Rev. J. H.
Green and Rev. R. L. Speer in
charge, and burial followed in the
church graveyard.
Mr. Casstevens had been in de
clining health for several months
but was serious for only a short
time. He spent two months in
Florida last winter in the interest
of his health. He was a well
known farmer and was a member
of Mitchell's Chapel church.
His wife, Mrs. Alice Melton
Casstevens, died in 1936. Sur
viving are two sons, Walter and
Dnlton Casstevens, of the home
section, between Center and
Boonville; two daughters, Mrs.
Ellis Swalm, of the Knobs church
section; and Mrs. O. H. Mills, of
Tampa, Fla ; three brothers, Wil
lie Casstevens, of Conrad, Iowa;
Wiley Casstevens, Boonville, route
1; and Jim Casstevens, Canton;
one sister, Mrs. Dora Shore, Yad
kin vllle, route 1; 15 grandchil
dren also survive.
Veteran
Conductor
Saturday Night
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Above Is Captain A. R. Plea
sants, of Winston-Salem, an
employee of the Southern Rail
way for the past 50 years, and
conductor on the Winston-Sa
lem-North Wilkesboro run, who
passed away suddenly at his
home Saturday night. Captain
Pleasants completed his run
late Saturday afternoon and
left the train ill. He did not
rally upon his arrival home and
grew consistently worse until
the end came. The picture
above was made at the depot in
Elkin, where the deceased was
well known by many local peo
ple.
REPUBLICANS
HOLD MEETING
Many Prominent Members of
Party Gather Tuesday at
Banquet Here
NEWELL CHIEF SPEAKER
Republicans of Surry county
met in banquet session Tuesday
evening at Hotel Elkin. Also pre
sent were party leaders from Yad
kin and Wilkes counties. Prof. Z.
H. Dixon of this city offered the
invocation and Warren Albertyi,
county chairman of the Republi
can party, acted as master of
ceremonies.
The feature of the evening was
a talk by Jake Newell of Char
lotte, state chairman of the Re
publican executive committee. Mr.
Newell made a most interesting
talk in which he traced the begin
ning of freedom and its growth to
it s present interpretation by
Americans.
Ed Stanley of Greensboro, Pres
ident of the North Carolina Young
Republicans Club, Neal Sowers of
Statesville, president of the Mc-
Neill for governor club, and W. E.
Nattress of Statesville, publicity
director for Robert H. McNeill,
Republican candidate for gov
ernor, also spoke briefly during
the program.
Republican leaders of the county
and visiting counties were intro
duced during the evening. Approx
imately 100 were present for the
meeting.
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HOLD MEETING TO
ORGANIZE CHURCH j
A meeting of interested resi- '
dents of the western section of ,
the city was held Sunday evening j
in Sunset Park, under the leader- ]
ship of Rev. Grant Cothren, as- ■
sisted by other ministers, to or- •
ganize a church for that section, j
The church will be known as the •
West Elkin Baptist church.
The organization was not com
pleted, but Willis Byrd was named
church moderator and C. W.
Young, church clerk.
It is expected that a building
will be erected within the figur
future.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940
ARE TO OBSERVE
POPPY DAY ON
NEXT SATURDAY
Legion Auxiliary Will Make
Annual Drive
ARE MADE BY VETS
Money Goes to Aid Disabled
Soldiers of World War and
Tfreir Families
ALL ARE URGED TO BUY
"Honor the World War dead
and aid the war's living victims!"
This will be the appeal of the
American Legion Auxiliary to the
citizens of Elkin on Poppy Day,
Saturday, May 25.
The poppy is the individual
American's tribute to the men
who gave their lives in the na
tion's service. Everyone can
wear this little flower to show
that they remember and are
grateful to those who died that
America's ideals might live. By
wearing it they also show their
continued devotion to these ideals
—the ideals of Americanism.
The poppy comes to us from
the World War battle fields,
from "between the crosses, row
on row,' which mark the resting
place of our heroic dead. They
come by the way of the hospi
tals and workrooms where the
disabled veterans, comrades of
the dead, make the symbolic lit
tle flowers. They gain added
significance from the fact that
they serve the living as well as
honor the dead.
The men who make the poppies
gain from them interesting and
helpful employment to fill the
bleak hours of illness and conva
lescence. They gain money to be
sent home to needy families. The
other disabled veterans, their
families and the families of the
dead, receive from the poppies
year-around aid through the Le
gion and the Auxiliary welfare
activities which poppy funds fi
nance.
Everyone who wears a poppy
Saturday will be honoring the
war dead and aiding the war vic
tims still within the reach of
human help.
D. W. H
Celebrates
69th Birthday
D. W. Hobson, prominent farm
er of the Richmond Hill section
of Yadkin county, celebrated his
69th birthday Sunday among a
large number of his immediate
kinsmen and their families. The
occasion served a double purpose
in that it was a reunion for the
Hobson family. Mr. Hobson has
five sisters and one brother. All
were present except one sister,
Mrs. Perry Scott, of Shoals, in
Surry county. The brother and
sisters that were present were:
Mrs. Lodiska Matthews, of Lake
view; Mrs. A. C. Stinson, Mrs. J.
J. Coram, Mrs. Graham Reece
and Mr. Grover Hobson, all of
Boonville.
ADDRESS GIVEN
BY DR. MILNER
Speaks Before Graduating
Class of East Bend High
School
DIPLOMAS AWARDED
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president
of Guilford College, delivered the
annual commencement address
to the graduating class of East
Bend high school Saturday at 11
a.m. Dr. Milner chose as his
topic "Men of Power."
He told the seniors, as he spoke
directly to them, that each one
had a part to play in the destiny
of the world.
After the address Fred C. Hob
son delivered diplomas to the fol
lowing graduates: Bessie Ruth
Blakeley, Patty Rae Bowman,
Bessie Lee Coram, Ernestine
Doub, Dollie Mae Hutchens, Ellen
Martin, Edith Martin, Pauline
Martin, Ola Mae Poindexter, Anne
Renegar, Jewelle Ring, Mozelle
Shore, Irene Speer, Julia Wil
liams, Ellis Creed, Leake Choplin,
James Davis, William C. Davis,
Carl Douglas, Bruce Frye, Kedric
Martin, Kenneth Martin, Billy
Matthews, Dale Norman, and
Frank Webb.
French Troops Turn On Nazis,
Recapture Town of Arras In
Fierce 4 Fight In Somme Area
CAROU IS TO
PLAY CHATHAM
Teams Will Meet Here Satur
day; Elkin to Have First
Sunday Game
TO FACE ADAMS-MILLIS
The University of North Caro
lina Tar Heels, co-champions in
Big Five baseball with Wake
Forest, will come to Elkin Satur
day for a contest with the Chat
ham Blanketeers.
Sunday Adams-Millis, of High
Point, will face the Blanketeers
here in Elkin's first Sunday ball
game! Both games will be called
at 3:00 p. m., and will be played
in the new Chatham Park.
The Blanketeers, tied for lead
ership in the Tri-City Amateur
League race, will present a strong
squad against the Tar Heels.
Carolina captured the third and
deciding game of the annual series
against Duke Monday, and finish
ed the Big Five race in a tie with
the Deacons of Wake Forest.
The game will prove a high
spot in the opening of the new
park for the Chatham team. A
dinner and an informal dance will
be held for the visiting Carolina
players after the game.
The Adams-Millis squad is ex
pected to show Chatham a stiff
brand of competition in the game
Sunday. Starting line-ups for
the two games had not been an
nounced Wednesday afternoon.
J. I. MYERS, 82,
DIES SUDDENLY
Prominent Wilkes County
Man Had Suffered Long
Period of 111 Health
HAS SURVIVORS HERE
J. I. Myers, 82, of North
Wilkesboro, one of northwestern
North Carolina's best known citi
zens and father of Mrs. Beatrice
Myers Phillips and C. N. Myers,
of this city, died almost suddenly
Thursday about noon at the
Wilkes hospital following a long
period of ill health.
Mr. Myers was a pioneer mer
chant and real estate dealer of
the Wilkesboros and was very ac
tive in the work of the church.
In addition to Mrs. Phillips
and Mr. Myers he is survived by
his second wife and seven other
children, also a number of grand
children and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at North Wilkes
boro. Many friends of the family
from here attended the last rites.
BESSIE COMER NAMED
SURRY HEALTH QUEEN
In an official announcement
from the office of Mrs. Grace
Pope Brown, Surry county home
demonstration agent, Wednesday
morning, it was learned that Miss
Bessie Comer of Elkin, route 1,
had been selected as the Surry
County Health Queen.
Miss Comer was high scorer
among Surry 4-H club girls com
peting in the contest. She will
compete for the title of District
Health Queen in Winston-Salem
on May 28th.
The selection of the County
Health King has not been an
nounced.
To Make Special
Red Cross Drive
Here on Friday
With the quota for Surry
county set at $1,500 by the
American Red Cross for imme
diate aid to war devastated
Europe, a concerted drive will
be made here Friday for funds,
according to Miss Betty Allen.
It Is hoped that one-third of
the Surry county quota can be
raised hem Any contribution,
large or email, will be accepted
for the work.
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E. E. Hayes, above, of Elkin,
was elected president of the
North Carolina State Burial
Association at the joint con
vention of that association with
the North Carolina. Funeral
Directors and Embalmers Asso
ciation at Raleigh last week.
Mr. Hayes held the position of
vice-president of the associa
tion during the past year.
BAPTIST W .M.U.
TO MEET HERE
Meeting to Feature Talks by
Various Leaders in Mis
sionary Work
WILL HEAR REPORTS
The annual all-day session of
the Woman's Missionary Union
of the Surry Baptist Associa
tion will be held today (Thurs
day) with Elkin Valley church.
The meeting will convene at 10
o'clock in the morning. Mrs. C.
N. Myers, of the First Baptist
church in this city, associational
superintendent, and Mrs. Robert
Transou, of the Elkin Valley
church, young people's leader of
the association, will be in charge
of the meeting, which will feature
talks by Mrs. W. D. Briggs, of
Raleigh, corresponding secretary
of the State Baptist Convention
of the W. M. U., and Mrs. E. C.
James, of this city, superintend
ent of the Wilkesboro division of
the Baptist church.
Annual reports from various
associational chairmen and other
routine business will feature the
business session.
Lunch will be served at the
church at the noon hour by the
members of the Elkin Valley W.
M. U. and this will be followed by
the afternoon session.
All W. M. U. organizations in
the association are requested to
have representatives present.
ALLEN F. KINZIE
• PASSES SUDDENLY
Allen P. Kinzie, 30, died sud
denly Friday morning at Salem,
Va., following a major operation
which he underwent several days
ago at a Salem hospital. Mr.
Kinzie, a native of Salem/ Va.,
had been a teacher in the Moun
tain Park high - school for a
number of years and was well
and favorably known locally. He
sponsored the organization of the
Mountain Park high school band
and was active in other matters
pertaining to school and com
munity progress. He was an or
dained minister and had supplied
in numerous pulpits In this sec
tion during his residence at
Mountain Park.
He is survived by his wife and
a small daughter, his mother,
Mrs. L. M. Kinzie, of Salem, Va.,
and several brothers and sisters.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at Salem. In
terment was in the cemetery
there.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BRITISH LAUNCH
FLANKING DRIVE
NEAR CAMBRIA
Weygand Makes Flight Over
Battle Area
GERMANS PAY HEAVILY
Losses in Wounded and Kill
ed Estimated at 500,000
Since Invasion
HIT MOTORIZED FORCE
Paris, May 22.—Picked French
troops, thrown into the battle of
the Somme, have stormed and
retaken Arras and, fortifying the
south bank of the river, have cut
communications of the Germans
in the Abbeville area on the Eng
lish Channel, France asserted to
day.
Gen. Maxime Weygand, new
allied commander-in-chief, gave
the order for attack, it was
learned, after a dramatic airplane
flight over the German lines yes
terday and a quick dash to Paris.
It was in the manner that Wey
gand had gone to Warsaw when
the Bolshevik army was ap
proaching after the World War,
to look at a few battle maps and
give the order for an attack which
sent the Russians rolling back on
Moscow.
(The French censor killed nine
words between the news of the
airplane flight and the return to
Paris.)
As he gave his battle order,
British troops, timing their drive
with the attack on Arras, smash
ed into the German flank near
Cambrai, in the sector to the
southeast.
Premier Paul Reynaud, in a
brief unexpected radio speech to
the French nation said:
"I have just seen General Wey
gand. . . . The generalissimo told
m:e 'I am full of confidence if
everyone does his duty with fierce
energy.'
"The civil population must not
allow itself to be frightened by
German motorized raids. . . . They
are paying heavily for their au
dacity. ... If we hold one month
—and we shall hold for the time
necessary—we shall have travel
led three-fourths of the road to
victory."
Reynaud said that the civil
population must remain at work,
that any reduction in production
weakened France, and that he had
given orders to this effect to mili
tary as well as civil authorities.
Gen. Weygand issued his battle
orders in the customary Weygand
manner, after his airplane flight
over the German lines.
Well-informed French army
sources made estimates which im
plied that the Germans, as Rey
naud had said, were paying a high
price for their blitzkrieg. The
German losses in wounded and
killed were put at perhaps 500,-
000 since the invasion of Holland,
with a probable portion of one
killed to seven wounded. It was
insisted that the allied losses were
but one-fifth those of the Ger
mans.
(In London a well-informed
source estimated German casual
ties in the western front battle
at more than 250,000 added to
200,000 in Poland and 25,000 to
30,000 in Scandinavia.)
In the Arras battle, it was as
serted, the French troops, plung
ing into a wild melee that covered
miles of the- ravaged plains of
Picardy, hit the dangerously small
motorized forces which the Ger
mans had left to hold the city
and quickly knocked them out.
TO PRESENT PLAY AT
FALL CREEK SCHOOL
A community play, "Cheerio,
My Dearie," will be presented at
Fall Creek school auditorium
Saturday evening, May 25, at 8
o'clock. The play, the cast of
which is composed of students of
East Bend high school, was pre
sented early In the spring at East
Bend, and is considered one of
the outstanding plays ever pre
sented in this vicinity by local
talent.
A small admission fee will be
charged. The public is invited.