Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 35
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NATIONAL
NEW YORK, July 9 Two
riant new airliners raced time
through the stratosphere today
and spanned the nation—from
east to west and west to east
—in record schedule. Inaug
urating upper level coast-to
coast passenger flights for
Transcontinental and Western
•Air Express, each set new rec
ords for transport planes on
scheduled passenger trips, al
though faster flights have
been nude by transport ships
not on regular service.
WASHINGTON, July 9 A
warning that the defense pro
gram was in danger of "bog
ging down" because of a short
age of housing accommoda
tions for industrial workers
was issued by a government
agency today, while the war
department prepared to place
orders for 629 light tanks. The
United States housing author
ity made public a report by
the national executive commit
tee of housing authorities say
ing that with preparedness ef
forts just getting under way
"we are already in a situation
as desperate as we were dur
ing the world war when dis
astrous delays occurred be
cause war industries couldn't
get and hold workers for whom
no housing was available."
WASHINGTON, July 9
President Roosevelt's nomina
tion of Henry L. Stimson, Re
publican, to be secretary of
war was confirmed by the sen
ate today, 56 to 28, after Ma
jority Leader Barkley, of Ken
tucky, had urged such approv
al in the "interests of Ameri
can unity." Senators who had
bitterly criticized the appoint
ment as a "step toward war"
conceded that similar confirm
ation would be voted tomorrow
for Frank Knox, Republican
selected for the key national
defense post of secretary of
the navy.
INTERNATIONAL
LONDON, July 9—Herbert
Morrison, British supply min
ister, appealed to the United
States tonight for a dove-tail
ing of British and American
resources and production to
defeat "the strength of the
European continent organized
for aggression."
VICHY, France, July 9
Stricken France's parliament
signed the death warrant of
the democratic third republic
today by giving Premier Mar
shal Henri Philippe Petain un
restricted powers to write a
new totalitarian constitution.
The vote of the chamber of
deputies and senate, born of
defeat and desperation, gave
the Petain government au
thority to frame its own laws
and constitution, then create
its own national assembly to
ratify them. The measure,
voted with only four negative
voices raised against it, de
clared the new constitution
"must guarantee the rights of
labor, family and country."
LONDON, July 9—The Duke
of Windsor, royal wanderer on
the road of romance, tonight
was named governor and com
mander-in-chief of the Ba
hamas, British _ island play
grounds off the coast of Flor
ida. The ex-king and his
American commoner wife, the
former Wallis Warfield Simp
son, fled from their exile home
in France to Spain, then Por
tugal, in advance of the nazi
tide last month. They now are
in Lisbon, and it was presum
ed they would go directly to
Nassau, capital of the sunny
Bahamas. It was not immed
iately disclosed just when the
Duke would take up his new
post.
ROME, July 9—The axis al
lies have chosen their respec
tive tasks for the battle of
liinyiMMl, it wa* stated author
itatively tonight. Their broad
purpose—determined, presum
ably, daring Italian Foreign
Minister Ciano's current trip
to Berlin —was stated by the
informed writer, Virginia Gay
da, to be threefold: 1. Block
ade the British Isles. 2. Break
Britain's empire contacts. 3.
Defeat her "at home, on the
am und in imperial territories"
to the extent nut wry , for
eadtnc the war.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
LOCAL MAN IS
GIVEN TERM OF
STOIO YEARS
Charged With Death of
Vanious Ashley
MANY CASES HEARD
Judge Burgwyn Hands Out
Stiff Sentences to Offend
ers in Surry Court
DIVORCES ARE GRANTED
Numerous cases have been dis
posed of in Surry county superior
court for the trial of criminal
cases, since court convened Wed
nesday of last week before Judge
W. H. S. Burgwyn.
Many prison sentences and
fines were handed out by Judge
Burgwyn.
Of special interest here was
the trial of Spencer Marlowe,
formerly an employee of a local
garage, who* was charged with
the murder on May 23, of Vanious
Ashley, a fellow employee. Mar
lowe was sentenced to state pris
on for from five to 10 years.
Marlowe testified in prelim
inary hearing here that he struck
Ashley with his fist, knocking
him down. It was claimed by the
defense that the blow the young
man received in falling to the ce
ment floor resulted in his death.
Among the more important
cases tried since court convened
were the following:
Claude Anderson, robbery, 10
years in state prison.
Floyd Cropps, driving while
drunk, assault with a deadly
weapon and resisting an officer,
6 months in jail and driver's li
cense revoked for one year.
Cebron Masten, drunk and dis
orderly and resisting officer, 60
days in jail, assigned to highway
commission.
James Bates and Tom Atkins,
breaking and entering, failed to
appear. Bonds raised from S3OO
to SI,OOO each.
James Bates, violating prohibi
tion la\bs, remanded to custody of
sheriff.
Paul Bates, driving while drunk,
6 months suspended upon pay
ment of SSO fine.
William Eaton, charged with
murder of Clifton Brim, guilty in
second degree. Had not been sen
tenced.
Glenn Monday, violating pro-
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To Present
Program
Spirituals
A program of negro spirituals
will be presented at the Jonesville
colored Methodist church on
Thursday, July 11, at 7:45 by a
group of negro singers from Win
ston-Salem and other cities. The
group last year presented a pro
gram at the White House for
King George VI of England and
Queen Elizabeth during their visit
to America.
The musicians are Virginia
Rtch Turner, of Winston-Salem,
pianist, and teacher in the Win
ston-Salem schools; Odessa Ma
lone, vocalist, student at Win
ston-Salem Teachers College; A.
F. Williams, vocalist, student at
Benedict College, S. C.; Albert
King, vocalist, and graduate of
the Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege, and others.
This is the second appearance
of'the group here, they having
been here earlier in the year at
a program given by the colored
people to hbnor Rev. Eph Whis
enhunt, former pastor of the
First Baptist churfch here, on the
eve of his departure to Norton,
Va., and they are being brought
back by special request. The pro
gram this evening is for white
people and they are extended a
cordial invitation to attend.
CAUDILL TO PRESIDE
OVER PRESBYTERY
Rev. O. V. Caudill. pastor of
the Elkin Presbyterian church
and retiring Moderator, will pre
side at the thirty-ninth state
meeting of the Presbytery of
Winston-Salem, when it convenes
Tuesday, July 16, in the • West
West Jefferson Presbyterian
church, of West Jefferson.
An interesting program has
been arranged for the meeting.
In addition to the ministers of
the Presbytery, an elder and a
deacon from each church-is ex
pected to attend.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET publican nation
al convention ended just a few weeks ago at Philadelphia
following the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie as G.O.P.
standard bearer, the Democrats are preparing to meet
next week, beginning Monday, in Chicago's huge stadium
(below) for their National convention.
. - J
Governor Names
Henry Dobson
To Commission
Henry Dobson, of Elkin, has
been appointed by Governor
Clyde R. Hoey to a commis
sion created as the result of a
resolution passed by the last
general assembly to make a
study and submit its findings
to the next general assembly
on the question of a fair labor
standards act for North Caro
lina.
Mr. Dobson was notified of
his appointment by Governor
Hoey and has notified the gov
ernor of his acceptance.
Other members of the com
mission appointed by Governor
Hoey are: Forrest H. Shuford,
Raleigh, chairman; Capus M.
Waynick, High Point; H. P.
Taylor, Wadesboro; and Hugh
Horton, Williamston.
TOBACCO QUOTA
IS PROCLAIMED
556 Million Pounds for 1941-
42 Marketing Year An
nounced by Wallace
DATE IS FORMALLY SET
Washington—A flue-cured to
bacco quota of 556 million pounds
for the 1941-42 marketing year
was proclaimed Monday by Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace
with a proviso that the quota
would be raised to 618 million
pounds if growers approve mar
keting quotas tor three years in
the July 20 referendum.
Wallace also formally set July
20 as the date for the referendum
when growers will choose be
tween: (1) Quotas for three
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DR. WEAVER TO BE
KIWANIS SPEAKER
Dr. C. C. Weaver, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Char
lotte, and chairman of the board
of missions of the Western North
Carolina Conference, which con
trols the work of the local hos
pital, will be speaker at the meet
ing of the Elkin Kiwanis club at
Hotel Elkin this evening, which
will be observed as ladies' night.
At a meeting of the Klwanis
board of directors, held Wednes
day, July 3, it was voted that the
club establish a loan fund in the
amount of SIOO per year to be
available for loan to some worthy
student within the surrounding
territory of Elkin for educational
purposes.
SCHOOLS ARE TO OPEN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
In an announcement from the
office of John W. Comer, super
intendent of Surry county
schools, Wednesday morning it
was learned that the date for
school opening throughout the
county had been set for Monday,
September 9. Elkin schools may
begin the term later due to the
building program that is sched
uled to get under way here at an
early date, it was said.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940
SAYS REPORTS,
CIRCULATING
Farmers Urged to Attend
Meetings to Obtain In
formation of Weed Vote
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
With the tobacco referendum
on control scheduled for Satur
day, July 20, R. R. Smithwick,
Surry county farm agent, has
stated that as usual, reports are
circulating, many without foun
dation, concerning the tobacco
situation.
To offset these allegedly false
reports, and to fully acquaint
growers with true facts concern
ing the matter, information will
be given the farmers at the fol
lowing places on the dates listed:
Mountain Park school, July 16,
10 a.m.; Dobson court house,
July 18, 2 p.m.; Eldora school,
July 17, 10 a.m,; North Elkin
school, July 16, 10 a.m.; Little
Richmond school, July 16, 2 p.m.;
Franklin school, July 18, 10 a.m.;
Pilot Mountain school, July 17, 2
pjn.; Copeland school, July 18, 10
a.m.; Shoals school, July 17, 10
a.m.; Siloam school, July 16, 2
p.m.; Beulah school, July 17, 2
p.m.; Cooke's school, July 18, 2
p.m.
Mr. Smithwick stated that he
believed the information to be
obtained at these meetings will
prove helpful to farmers in form
ing an opinion on the matter,
and urges that all farmers at
tend, regardless of whether they
plan to vote for or against con
trol. He also urged that farmers
have their tenants to be present.
TEEPHONE CO.
WITHIN RIGHTS
State Utilities Secretary Ex
plains Situation After
Protests Heard
PERMISSION IS GRANTED
Although a number of protests
have been heard here in connec
tion with the Central Electric &
Telephone Company's announce
ment that monthly telephone
rentals will be collected in ad
vance, the telephone company is
strictly within its rights, and is
merely putting into effect a
practice observed by practically
all other telephone companies
serving other North Carolina
towns, it has been learned from
R. O. Self, of Raleigh, secretary
of the North Carolina Utilities
Commission.
It was also learned from town
officials that the local telephone
company has a franchise here,
although it was stated in a Tri
bune story of last week that the
company applied to the Elkin
board of commissioners for a
franchise at the July 1 meeting
of the board. This statement
grew out of an error contained in
the minutes of the meeting of the
commissioners, from which The
Tribune received its information.
It was also learned that the
State Utilities Commission has
granted the Central Electric &
Telephone Company permission
to adjust its rates as announced
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LARGE GAIN IS
SHOWN BY P.O.
FOR IST HALF
Is Increase of 30 Per Cent.,
Graham States
EACH QUARTER GAINS
Increase of $1,073.68 Over
Last Year Is Shown for
Secqnd Quarter
TREND IS CONTINUING
F. W. Graham, Elkin postmas
ter, announced Wednesday that
local postal receipts for the first
half of 1940 have shown a gain of
30 per cent over receipts of the
same period in 1939.
The first 10 days of July have
also shown a large gain over the
same period last year, he said.
Figures released for the first
quarter of this year showed re
ceipts of $4,839.15 as compared
with $4,319.67 for last year, a gain
of $519.48.
In. the second quarter of this
year receipts totalled $4,633.09 as
compared with $3,559.41 of the
a gain of $1,073.68.
Receipts for the current month
to date total $1,133.57 as compared
with $493.45 for a like period last
year.
WORK IS ENDED
ON APPROACHES
Work on New Bridge at
Crutchfield Is Making
Rapid Progress
GRADING IS COMPLETED
Work was completed last Fri
day on the two short stretches of
road on both sides of the Yadkin
river where the new Crutchfield
bridge is being built. The grad
ing workmen were concerned
mostly with filling in the road
bed across the bottoms to the end
abutments of the bridge, and also
grading out about one-half mile
on the south side of the river
where the road cuts through a
high bluff.' Here the cut was
made to a depth of between 50
and 75 feet.
On the north side of the river
only a little grading had to be
done. This was concerned mostly
with making the fill to the bridge
approach and straightening out
several bad curves.
Bridge workmen are progress
ing rapidly on the 772-foot bridge
that spans the river at Crutch
field. Work is expected to be
completed at an earlier date than
late fall which was first thought
to be the earliest completion date.
Chas. Cocke
Father Of
Man, Passes Away
Charles Cockerham, 77, father
of J. I. Cockerham, of this city,
died Sunday morning at his
home in the Pleasant Home sec
tion, from an illness of two weeks
from a heart ailment. Mr. Cock
erham was a well known farmer
and a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. James Cockerham. For
many years he had been a mem
ber of the Pleasant Home Bap
tist church.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 2:30 frotai
Pleasant Home Baptist church.
Interment was to the church
cemetery.
Survivors are five sons, J. O.
Cockerham, Washington, D. C.;
B. A. Cockerham, Rev. Carl Cock
erham, Lester Cockerham, all of
Roaring River, and J. I. Cocker
ham, of this city, and one daugh
ter, Mrs. Roy Brown, of Roaring
River; three brothers, H. W.
Cockerham, Roaring River; L. D.
Cockerham, Indiana, and J. T.
Cockerham, of Elkin, and one
sister, Mrs. T. F. Handy, of De-
Hart, Wilkes county, and a num
ber of grandchildren. His wife
died several years ago.
Yadkin Tax Rate
Reduced 7 Cents
The Yadkin county tax rate
has been reduced 7 cents on the
SIOO valuation, from 95 cents to
88 cents.
The county budget, it is stated,
calls for expenditures of $38,-
579.00.
Anti-U. S. Drive Is
Pushed By Japanese;
Marines Threatened
Third Term •
Question
Be Answered
4%v
Will President Roosevelt,
above, be the Democratic nomi
nee for president following the
party's convention in Chicago
next week? That is the ques
tion that has been puzzling the
nation, and that is the question
that will be answered next week.
Many believe the president does
not want a third term but will
accept the nomination if it is
offered him.
TO HOLD YOUTH
CARAVAN HERE
At First Methodist Church
July 13 Through July 20;
Plan Many Features
TO ARRIVE SATURDAY
Mrs. Connie Cope, of Morgan
ton, and four college students,
two boys and two girls, will ar
rive here Saturday for the Youth
Caravan to be held at the Meth
odist church July 13 through July
20. They will present a helpful
series of programs on* worship,
social service projects, recreation
and evangelism. In addition to
the above workers Rev. Earl
Brendall, Methodist minister
from Belmont, will teach a class
of adults on adult work in the
church.
The programs will include in
teresting features for all groups
from twelve years of age up and
other denominations of the town
are urged to attend the meetings.
Worthwhile community projects
will be conducted in the after
noons from 2 until 4 o'clock by
limited groups, and at 6:45 a
public program on worship, adult
leadership, adult work in general,
recreation, personal religion and
community service will be held.
At 7:30 in the evenings a public
worship service will bp held and
at 8; 15 a forum for young people
and adults will be held. Prom 9
until 10 o'clock a special period
of recreation will be enjoyed.
Special suppers for all partici
pants will be announced from
time to time.
On Sunday, July 14, both the
morning and evening hours of
worship at the church will be in
charge of the Caravan leaders.
They will also present a special
program at the weekly meeting
of the Kiwanis club at Hotel
Elkln on the evening of July 20.
The church extends a cordial
invitation to the public to attend
the meetings.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
ISSUED TO COUPLES
Within the past two weeks,
Kermit Lawrence. Surry county
register of deeds, has issued mar
riage license to the following
couples:
Car lie Bryant and Carrie
Hayes, both oi" Devotion; David
Pizzi, of Bronx, New York, and
Pauline Watson, of Mount Airy;
Paul Douglas Wigil, of Waynes
boro, Va., and Anne Ruth Gard
ner, of Hillsville, Va.; Linville L.
Hendren, of Elkin, and Ola Wil
liams, of Mountain Park, and
Herbert Edwin RudsUl and Irene
Nicholson, both of Asheville.
Ellon
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Bhie Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SEEK APOLOGY
FOR ARREST OF
JAF POLICEMEN
Claim Plain Clothes Men
Were IH Treated
MASS MEETING CALLED
Younger Group to Discuss
Burning Question of Ma
rine Incident
WONT SUPPRESS MOVE
Shanghai, July 10. Official
Japanese quarters joined today
in an anti-American campaign
and right wing elements went so
far as to threaten that the Jap
anese would disarm American
Marines in Shanghai unless they
apologized for arresting 16 Jap
anese gendarmes.
A Japanese embassy spokesman
said officials had no intention of
interfering in the rllounting anti-
American campaign and Japa
nese authorities said any Amer
ican reply short of an apology
would be unsatisfactory.
The authorities made their
statement after Rear Admiral
Seiji Takeda, commander-in
chief of the Japanese special na
val landing party here, had said
that the action of the United
States Marines on Sunday was
"barbarous beyond description."
The Japenese gendarmes, in
civilian clothes but armed, had
entered the marines' defense sec
tor of the international settle
ment without warning. They
were arrested by the marines and
were released only after the Jap
anese military had said it was
"very sorry." .
The Japanese Young Men's As
sociation called a mass meeting
for tonight to "discuss the burn
ing question of the marine in
cident."
Ken Tsurumii spokesman for
the Japanese embassy, said Jap
anese authorities would not in
terfere in the anti - American
campaign of the Japanese press.
He said officials were not in a
position to suppress the anti-
American movement unless it
became "illegal, unreasonable or
improper . . . because it is a
spontaneous expression of na
tional feelings . . . which we will
not suppress unless it aggravates
Japanese-American relations or
leads to a disturbance of peace
and order."
WILLIAM HAYES
TAKENBYDEAIH
Well-Known Citizen of Poplar
Springs Section Suffered
Long Illness
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
William Henry Hayes, 60, well
known citizen of the Poplar
Springs section, died at his home
Wednesday morning from a lin
gering illness from a complication
of diseases. The deceased wtfs a
native of Surry county and a son
of the late J. H. and Mrs. Martha
Jackson Hayes.
x* He was married in 1898 to Miss
Vallie McCoin, who survives him,
together with the following chil
dren: Mrs. O. E. Bowman, Mount
Airy; C. C. Hayes, Greenville. S.
C.; W. W. Hayes, Big Stone Gap,
Va.; O. T. Hayes, Mrs. Hugh Cass,
Elkin, and Essie and Wayne
Hayes of the home; eleven grand
children; two sisters, Mrs. I. R.
Cummings and Mrs. R. M. dough,
and five brothers, Purvis, An
drew, Rahl, Avery and Noah
Hayes, all of Syrry county, also
survive.
Funeral services will be held
this morning (Thursday) at 11
o'clock from Poplar Springs
church. The rites will be in
charge of Rev. Richard Day and
Rev. J. L. Powers. Interment will
be in the church cemetery.
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