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Elkin "The Best Little Town in North Carolina" VOL. No. XXIX. No. 44 Chatham To Rebuild Plant Destroyed By Blaze Here Friday NEW PLANT IS TO BE LOCATED ON HIGHERJiROUND Fire Loss Is Estimated at $250,000 FIRST IN FIRM'S HISTORY Scouring, Carbonizing Plant Is Total Loss As Flames Rage Unchecked PRODUCTION CONTINUES With the embers of a disastrous $250,000 fire hardly cool, the Chatham Manufacturing Com pany is rushing plans for a mod ern new plant to replace their scouring and carbonizing plant, which was destroyed by fire here last Friday night, it was learned Wednesday from Thurmond Chatham, president of the com pany. Mr. Chatham stated that work was already in progress on the plans for the new building, which he said would be about the size of the one destroyed, and that it would be built on high ground near the main plant. In the meantime raw stocks are being shipped to Philadelphia to be washed and scoured so that production will not be halted. Two Philadelphia plants are do tog this preparatory work for the company, Mr. Chatham said. In estimating their loss, Mr. Chatham stated that the $250,000 figure covered the loss of build ings, machinery and raw stock. He said work was now to progress on an inventory to determine the exact amount of wool that was destroyed by the fire, and that until this work was completed, a completely accurate estimate of actual loss could not be made. The blaze which destroyed the plant was one of the largest to ever occur here, and was the first fire in the Chatham company's many years of business. Starting with the suddenness of an explo sion, the blaze was out of control from the beginning, and efforts of the local fire department made little headway. Firemen, aided by a fire wall, were able to save one wing of the building, how ever. The fire started shortly after dark Friday evening when a dry tog machine caught fire. The blaze was sucked into a pipe which was used to blow the dried wool and cotton to bins on the (Continued on Page Seven) JONESVILLE SCHOOL HAS BIG ENROLLMENT Jonesville school opened Mon day with an enrollment of 860, with 151 to the high school and 709 to the elementary school. This exceeds by 65 the enroll ment of the opening week last year, according to L. S. Weaver, principal of the school. The building is taxed to ca pacity and other students are ex pected to enroll during the first few weeks of the school, however all students would be cared for, Mr. Weaver stated. Announce Record Enrollment at Elkin Hi School With the largest enrollment in the history of the school, classes got under way Monday at the high school here. The enrollment totaled 261, with 65 in the senior class, 48 juniors, 49 sophomores and 99 fresh men. J. Mark McAdams, principal of the school, said that other students were expected to en roll within a few weeks. The elementary school will open on Monday morning, September 16, according to Mr. McAdams, who stated that the contractors had assured him that the building, which has undergone extensive re pairs, would be ready for occu pancy at that time. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE late NEWS and I BRIEF rr STATE CHARLOTTE, Sept. 10 Senator Claude Pepper, Demo crat, Florida, defended tonight the American and British way of life against the philosophy of totalitarian nations and de clared that Americans "are willing to lay down their ec onomic resources as an ob stacle to Hitler and his cruel, petty, back-stabbing satellite Mussolini." Should Hitler de feat "brave, courageous Bri tain," Pepper told a patriotic rally, the United States would find herself with "no big army, no adequate navy, hoping against the dictates of com mon sense that in some man ner we might be spared." He predicted that if Germany should conquer England, Hitler would not wait five years for this country to build a great navy but would challenge this country almost at once. NATIONAL WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—A long session of the senate house committee, appointed to write a compromise version of the conscription bill ended to night in a deadlock on the age limits of the men to be sub jected to the draft. The sen ate conferees offered to raise the top figures to 39 years and the house members steadfastly held out for 44. The bill as passed by the senate made all between 21 and 30, inclusive, liable to compulsory military service, while the hoUse fig ures were 21 through 44. After the senate's compromise offer was flatly rejected, Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, of the senate group said it might be withdrawn. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 Placing tentative orders for all of the 14,394 army planes au thorized yesterday, the war de partment tonight told 21 man ufacturers to start buying tools and equipment to execute the orders. If no hitch occurs, formal contracts eventually will replace the tentative com mitments, which totaled ap proximately $1,125,000,000 for planes, 28,282 engines, propel lers and blades. When the contracts are signed they will represent the largest single purchase of aircraft ever placed in this country, match ing in some degree the 201- shl p, $3,681,000,000 building program launched by the navy yesterday. Delivery dates for the plane program have not been announced. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Sept. 10 —Amid the bustle of final preparations for his 18-state western stumping tour, Wen dell L. Willkie urged today the defeat of the house-approved amendment to delay military conscription 60 days in favor of voluntary enlistment. The Republican presidential nom inee said in a statement to newspapermen: "I hope that as a result of the conference between the house and senate conferees on the selective ser vice bill the Fish amendment is eliminated." This amend ment, sponsored by Represent ative Fish, Republican, New York, and supported by many house Republicans, passed the house and now is before a con ference committee seeking to adjust differences • between senate and house conscription measures. INTERNATIONAL LONDON, Sept. 10—Britain disclosed tonight a new "secret weapon" in the form of inno cent-looking bits of chemically treated cardboard dropped by the millions on Germany as delayed fire-bombs which burst (Continued on Page Seven) FLAMES TAKE $250,000 TOLL HERE r . ■ ■ ■ . HHlfe " ■&W? i H 1 H33k,|f Iftul HHK $Wy.- : ■■■■■■.■ clifi ■■& M w % IPH W W VI I ■PI V" M W- ; JSPRL ■LLLL—IL. IMF ■ HH I F- J& w^ r# l ' U ■* • / Sji 4HHr^ B : ,| Ihi 1 I fl Igniting in a drier, flames quickly swept up a suction pipe to the second floor of the Chatham Scouring and Carbonizing plant here last Friday evening to completely destroy all but one wing of the large building, resulting in damage to machinery, stock and building estimated at $250,000. The photos above, made during the height of the fire, present dramatic evidence of the intensity of the blaze, against which the efforts of the Elkin fire department were unavailing. Top photo, made from the Hugh Chatham bridge, shows the entire west side of the building as the flames roared upward. Lower left photo was made as firemen directed a stream of water into the east side of the main wing. Lower right was taken a few moments after the blaze had burst from the north end of the main section of the plant, the south wing having been in full blaze for some time.—(Tribune Photos.) Elkin Fair Gets Under Way -Here Tuesday; Horse Show Friday P. M. The ninth annual exhitition of the Elkin Fair opened Tuesday evening at the local fair grounds with all in readiness for a gala week of excitement. Exhibitions were placed in the exhibition hall Monday and Tues day, while the Bullock Amusement Enterprises, midway attraction, came in Sunday afternoon and was ready for the opening Tues day morning. The annual horse show, to be held Friday afternoon, will be in augurated with a prade which will form at the Chatham athletic field and parade to the fair grounds. The parade will start at 1:30 p. m., instead of 2:30 p.m., as was first announced. The change in the parade time was made when farmers pointed out that the latter hour would not give them time to get their stock home before night. Judging of the farm animals, winners of which'will be awarded cash prizes, will be staged at the fair ground immediately after the parade. •A new feature of the parade this year will be a 20-piece band, made up of members of school ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940 Time Is Changed For Horse Show; Parade at 1:30 Everyone who has planned to enter stock in the Elkin Fair Horse Show, to be staged Friday afternoon, is advised that the time of the parade has been changed from 2:30 p.m., as first announced, to 1:30 p.m. The time was set forward one hoar so that farmers would not be late in getting home Friday evening. The parade will form at the Chatham Athletic Field and will follow Main street to Elk Spur to the fair grounds. Ev eryone is urged to remember date is Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Entries should be at the athletic field early so that the parade may form and start on time. bands from this section under the direction of Alvin H. Dickman. Fireworks will be a nightly fea ture of the fair this year. An- other feature will be the awarding Saturday night of a $120.00 com bination RCA-Victor radio and record player. This handsome prize, donated through the courtesy of Harris Electric Com pany, RCA dealers here, will go as an attendance prize to some lucky person who attends the fair. A free attraction this year will be Bubbles Brantley's Swing Band, a five-piece colored band from Jonesville. This group will play each night and is well worth hear ing. Dog owners are urged to enter their dogs in the dog show to be staged this morning( Thursday), at the fair grounds under the di rection of Dr. C. E. Nicks, the event to get under way at 10 o'clock. All dogs from kennels with trainers will be judged in' a class separate from the privately owned dogs, it has been announc ed. Winners of the freckles contest held Tuesday under the direction of Rev. Herman Duncan, were Beulah Yates, in the girls' divi sion, and Grant Webster, in the boys'. In the marble tournament, (Continued ou Page Seven) TYPHOID FEVER CASE REPORTED Believed to Have Resulted From Flood; Vaccinations Are Urged IS ONLY CASE THUS FAR One case of typhoid fever, thought to have resulted from the recent flood in this section, has been reported by the Surry coun ty health department. The ty phoid patient is Hervey Wall, a resident of the Level Cross sec tion, on the Elkin-Pilot Mountain highway. Wall, a truck driver, worked in the flood area up until his illness. Dr. R. B. C. Franklin, Surry county health director, revealed. The health staff has administered the vaccine in the vicinity of the Wall home and no other cases have been reported. Dr. Franklin urges all persons who have not taken the serum to do so at once. Vaccinations will be given at the county health of fices, both here and at Mount Airy. An elephant calf is about three feet high at birth and weighs 200 pounds. Elkin Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge PUBLISHED WEEKLY BRITISH GIVE HUNS TASTE OF OWN MEDICINE Royal Air Force Bombs Cen ter of Berlin REICHSTAG IS DAMAGED Terror Rains from Skies as Roaring Planes Loose Destruction SPECTACULAR ASSAULT Waves of British R. A. P. dive bombers gave Berlin's 4,000,000 an acrid taste of terror from the skies Wednesday, knifing through a fierce anti-aircraft barrage to rain explosives on Hitter's Reichstag, the Pottsdam railway station, the Brandenburg Gate and famous Unter den Linden —Berlin's Fifth avenue. One unexpected bomb was be lieved to have dropped barely a yard from the home of Propa ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb bels. Hitler's high command admitted that a number of streets in the capital "had to be evacuated tem porarily" this morning "because of the danger of houses collapsing." Bomb splinters slightly damaged the United States embassy, ad joining Gobbels' residence, shat tering a window and denting the opposite wall in the office of First Secretary Donald R. Heath. Huge craters pocked Unter den Linden. Indenciary bombs crashed to the roof of the Reichstag, set ting fires which workmen quickly extinguished. Other explosives hit the 150-year-old Brandenburg gate, 85 feet high and 205 feet wide, and fell on Berlin's second largest hospital, St. Hedwig's, which houses 700 to 800 patients. The R.A.F. raiders, striking be fore dawn in the most spectacular assualt yet on the German capital, took a reported toll of five killed, many wounded and apparently heavy damage. The raid lasted two hours. Other squadrons of the Royal Air Force bombed German-occu/- pied Belgium, attacking objectives at Ostend, Ghent, Brussels and points along the coast. FIVE NABBED FOR SPEEDING Police Here Push Drive on Motorists Who Drive Too Fast WALL SAYS ONLY START Beginning a drive here gainst speeders and reckless driving, lo cal police have arrested and con victed five motorists within the past week, it was learned Wed nesday from Chief of Police Cor bett Wall. An effort is being made to ap prehend every driver who speeds on Elk in streets, Chief Wall said, and the five persons nabbed thus far represent only a start. Chief Wall stated that many complaints have been made on the part of local people regarding the menace of fast drivers, and he also stated that names of habit* ual speeders, including a number of delivery truck drivers, have been given him. If these drivers, and others, continue to speed and make themselves a hazard to er motorists, pedestrians and children, it will be only a matter of time until they, too, will be face to face with a judge. The mayor and board of com missioners are backing the drive here, and have urged police to put a stop to fast driving. TO .HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE AT DOBSON A memorial service by the Sur ry County Bar Association for W. L. Reece, of Dobson, prominent Surry county lawyer who died the latter part of last year, will be held in Dobson on Monday, Sep tember 16, immediately after the noon recess of Surry county su perior court. Robert A. Freeman, of Dobson, president of the Bar Association, of which Mr. Reece was long an active and influential member, has appointed a com mittee composed of Earl C. James, of this city, John Folger, of Mount Airy, Prank Freeman, of Dobson and W. R- Badgett, of Pilot Mountain, to plan the ser vice. Thomas Jefferson was the first President of the United States to wear long trousers.
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