The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) 1939-09-07 [p...
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ATTEND ELKIN DOLLAR DAYS, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY Elkin Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge VOL. No. XXVin. No. 43 LATE / From NEWS ___ State IN DDTET Nation DtllM ? LOCAL LINVTLLE K. HENDREN, of Elkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hendren, has received the appointment as substitute clerk in the Elkin postoffice, it was announced Wednesday morn- ing by French Graham, post- master. Mr. Hendren was among the many who took the civil service examination here January 21. He was to begin his duties Wednesday morn- ing. Jack Smoot, of Elkin, has held the job since the latter part of last year while postal officials were awaiting an ap- pointment to be made. MRS. J. H. POPLIN, injur- ed last week in a collision in Washington, N. C., wben the motorcycle on which she and her husband were making a trip was in collision with an automobile, has returned home here after being detained in a Washington hospital for treat- ment. Although badly shaken up, Mrs. Poplin was not ser- iously injured. A BOY SCOUT court of honor will be held at the Elkin Methodist church Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock, it has been announced. STATE TARBORO Miss Anne Winslow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Winslow, of Tar- boro, is believed to have been a passenger on the Fll-fated liner Athenia. Miss Winslow was scheduled to leave London last week but her last-minute passage was cancelled and she was expect- ed to leave on the next boat, the Athenia. No word of her whereabouts has been received yet t>v her parents. WINSTON-SALEM will make a bid for an authorized $10,000,000 aeronautical re- search laboratory to be estab- lished by the United States government, William Hitter, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, announced Tues- day. The matter will be con- sidered this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at a meeting to be at- tended by Congressman Lon Folger, President James Weeks of the Chamber of Commerce; Harvey Lumpkin, possibly State Senator Gordon Gray, and Ritter. NATIONAL NEW YORK Large-scale buying swept into commodities and shares of corporations calculated to benefit from war demand, as Wall street mar- kets resumed trading today for the first time since declar- ation of European war. Shares of leading oils, coppers, steels and motors jumped $2 to more than $lO a share in the stock exchange, as they were taken in blocks of 1,000 to 9,000 shares. ' INTERNATIONAL PARlS?Fifty German air raiders bombed and partially destroyed a Red Cross train near Szydlowicz, Poland, at 9 a.m. today (4 a.m. E.D.T.) the Polish Telegraph Agency re- ported. GALWAY, North Ireland Three hundred and eighty sur- vivors of the British liner Athenia, Including about 200 Americans, landed at noon to- day, haggard, weary and wrapped in dressing gowns and blankets. BUENOS AIRES Two cruisers from Great Britain's West Indies fleet, the sister ships Ajax and Exeter, had German shipping holed up to- day in South Atlantic ports, or seeking to outrace them for the safety of neutral harbors. The Ajax opened wartime op- erations at dawn Sunday by winking the German cargo ship OUnda after first taking off the 42 members of the crew in two life boats that had THE ELKIN TRIBUNE ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1939 Final Plans Being Pushed For Start Of The Elkin Fair AAA PAYMENTS MAY BE HIGHER FOR YEAR 1938 National Payment Will Total About $500,000,000 MORE THAN IN 1937 Money Will Be Paid to Sur- ry County Farmers for Conservation Practices $116,583 PAID IN 1937 BIGGER MIDWAY, FIREWORKS ARE NEW FEATURES Horse Show and Parade to Be Held Thursday PREMIUM LIST IS S7OO Error m Advertisement Stat- ed Premiums Totalled Only SIOO DOG SHOW ON FRIDAY Final >plans for the opening of the Elkin fair here next Wednes- day, September 13, are being completed, and fair officials are expecting the event to be the most successful in the history of the fair. This year the fair will present a new midway, with fifteen con- cessions and four modern rides, to be brought here by the Bullock Amusement Enterprises, Inc. Rides and concessions are expect- ed to arrive at the fairgrounds about noon Sunday, coming here from Taylorsville. As usual, one of the main fea- tures of the fair will be the horse show and parade to be staged Thursday morning, the parade to start at 10:00 a.m. from the Chatham ball park, traverse Main street to Elk Spur and from Elk Spur to the fairgrounds, where the judging will take place. Many fine horses and mules will appear in the parade, and several clowns will add to the merriment of the occasion. Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded in the various classifications. All ani- mals to appear in the parade and show should be at the ball park not later than 10:00 a.m. Another new feature will be a display of (Continued on Last Page) f/JV.C. Off Is to Address Surry Teac Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head of the department of education of the University of North Caro- lina, who will address the teachers of Sorry county when they hold their first meeting of the year in Dobson Saturday, September 9. Washington, Sept. 4 Total AAA payments to Surry county farmers for 1938 conservation practices, still being made, are expected to be higher than for 1937, when payments totalled $116,583.39, AAA officials said to- day. The national payment for 1938 will total about $500,000,000 as compared to $325,856 887 paid for 1937 practices. Delays and ad- justments in payments delay final county computation for about eighteen months. The 1937 figures were announced only to- day. The Surry eounty 1936 pay- ment was $114,400.56, lower than that for 1937. North Carolina payments were $10,015,932.42 in 1937 as compared with $12,304,- 301.25 4n 1936. National pay- ments also were higher for 1936 than for the latter year, totalling almost $400,000,000 in 1936. Payments for 1936 and 1937 were made under the Soil Con- servation and Domestic Allot- ment Act, passed February 29, 1936, eight weeks after the Su- preme Court invalidated the pro- duction-control features of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The new act emphasized soil con- servation as well as production, and payments are for practices which conserve and build up soil fertility. Surry Teach To Hold First Meeting of Year Surry county teachers will meet in the first meeting of the year in Dobson high school audi- torium Saturday, September 9, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head of the department of education, of the University of North Carolina, will address the teachers at this meeting. Dr. Douglas is recog- nized as one of the outstanding men in the field of secondary ed- ucation. He is the author of a number of books on organization, administration, and supervision. He came to North Carolina from the University of Minnesota where he had done outstanding work for a number of years. The American Council of Education selected Dr. Douglas to write a book on Secondary Education for Youth in America. This work has been completed and studied with interest over the nation. Superintendent John W. Comer will speak briefly on plans of the schools for the coming year. J. Sam Gentry, president of the county teachers association, will preside over the meeting and at the conclusion of the meeting of- ficers will be elected for the asso- ciation for the coming year and departmental organizations will be set up to function during the present school term. OFFICERS MAKE RAID IN YADKIN Swoop Down on Home of Alonzo Plowman; Seize Quantity of Whisky FIVE ARE ARRESTED Yadkinville, Sept. 7 (Special) ?Sheriff A. L. Inscore and Dep- uty R. M. Haynes think they broke up one of the sore spots of the county Sunday afternoon when they raided the home of Alonzo Plowman in the Flint Hill section and seized a small quantity of whiskey. Plowman was arrested along with four others who "dropped in" for their supply of spirits while the offi- cers were present. The officers state that tkey have received many complaints about Plowman, but on previous occasions had been unable to Ids whiskey. Plowman has serv- ed a number of road sentences (Continued on Last Page) CHAS. R. BELL DIES SATURDAY Illness Suffered Early in May Proves Fatal; Deceased Highly Esteemed FUNERAL HELD MONDAY Charles Robert Bell, 69, of Hamptonville, route 1, died late Saturday afternoon in a States- ville hospital. Mr. Bell was stricken early in May and his condition had been regarded as serious since the beginning of his illness, and the greater part of the time he was confined to the hospital. The deceased was a life-long resident of Yadkin county and a son of the late Shadrach Bell and Mrs. Jane Burgiss Bell. He was a member of the Flat Rock Bap- tist church and a highly esteem- ed man in .his community. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 from Flat Rock Baptist church. The rites were in charge of Rev. R. L. West, pastor of the deceased, assisted by Rev. E. W. Turner of Mocksville, a former pastor. In- terment was in the family plot in the church cemetery. Mr. Bell is survived by his wife and five children: Shadrach Bell of Elkin; Hal Bell of Washing- ton, D. C.; Mrs. W. E. Overstreet of Roanoke, Va., and Noel and Sam Bell of the home. Two sis- ters, Mrs. R. P. Crater and Mrs. W. S .Sale of this city; three half-sisters, Mrs. Leßoy Salmons, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Richard Stark, of Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. Calvin Huff of Boonville; two half-brothers, S. Walter Bell and Will Bell, of Winston-Salem, and four grandchildren also sur- vive. KIWANIANS TO ATTEND JOINT MEETING FRIDAY The Elkin Kiwanis club met last Thursday evening at the Jonesville Methodist church and enjoyed a picnic supper served by the ladies of the church. Kiwanian Stacey Weaver pre- sided over the session, which was well attended. Friday evening the club will go to North Wilkesboro for an inter- club meeting with North Wilkes- boro and Lenoir. The meeting will begin at 6:30 o'clock. COMMISSIONERS HOLDJEETING Surry Board Gathers at Dob- son Monday to Consider Routine Business JURY LIST IS DRAWN The Surry County Board of Commissioners met Monday morning at the court house in Dobson. Routine business' was disposed of and the jury list was drawn for the regular term of civil court, which will begin Mon- day, September 25, with Judge Zeb V. Nettles presiding. Jurors to serve for the term are: First week ?Benton Carter, Brisco Wilson, C. P. Hines, George H. Badgett, R. L. Rine- hart, S. K. Harrell, Grov'er Scott, J. A. Roberts, Jesse Bennett, Sam Atkinson, Jr., Edd Ward, Robert A. Flinchman, Paul Venable, Roy Hunt, J. P. Chilton, Zeli V. Hatcher, J. P. Blue, A. D. Bean, Albert D. Forkner, W. N. Cox, C. A. Tickle and G. C. Ellis. Second week P. D. Inman, Fred Eidson, G. L. Hampton, Ba- ford Good, M. C. Gentry, J. C. Nance, Roy E. Hlatt, Reid Flip- per, Clyde A. Wall, R. J. Wil- liams, R. G. Royall, E. S. Hen- dren, Vander Cane. T. A. Steele, Brady Coe, J. A. Layell, Elmer Caudle and T. Vera Cockerham. S. S. CONVENTION TO BE HELD 10th The monthly meeting of the Surry Baptist Associational Sun- day school convention will be held with Mt. Carmel Baptist church, near Mount Airy, Sun- day, September 10, at 2:15 p. m. All Sunday schools in the as- sociation are requested to have a representation present. Miss Janie Tucker will leave Wednesday for Marion, where she will resume her place on the faculty of the city schools. Roosevelt Proclaims Nation's Neutrality As War Rages In Europe; British Liner Sunk AIVW J lAIJ7T) The largest merchant ship ever IfEjJt Lilly Ljlx built in the United States, the United States Liner America, which exceeds in size any other ship in the merchant fleet flying the Stars and Stripes, and which was launched August 31, is pictured below in an artist's sketch. It was to have been operated on the passenger service between New York and European ports, but the outbreak of war in Europe may alter these plans. HITLER'S ARMY IS SAID TO BE NEAR WARSAW Sound of Shell Fire Heard In Polish Capital BRITISH BOMB BASE German Torpedo Sends Liner with 1,400 Aboard to Bottom of Sea FRENCH ARMIES MOVE President Roosevelt issued neu- trality proclamations Tuesday af- ternoon designed, to keep this na- tion out of war. Even as this action was being taken, the war in Poland in- creased in violence, with the Ger- mans being reported (according to radio dispatches) to be dan- gerously close to Warsaw, the sound of shell fire being plainly heard there. Roads leading out of the city were said to be crowd- ed with citizens fleeing to safer quarters. It was also reported that most of the 311 Americans who were aboard the torpedoed British pas- senger liner Athenia, had been saved. Five hundred passengers of the sunken ship are as yet un- reported, radio dispatches said. Late radio dispatches received about 5:30 Tuesday afternoon said that rumors had it that the Poles had bombed Berlin. How- ever this report was entirely un- confirmed. Elkin Merchants Are Expecting Big Crowd Here For Dollar Days Local Stores Have Been Preparing for Big Three-Day Event for Weeks, and Hundreds of Money-Saving Values Will Go on Sale at 8:30 Thursday Morning This week-end, Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday, will be Dollar Days in Elkin. Practically all Elkin stores are cooperating in the event an event designed to offer unusual values?values which will save everyone really worthwhile amounts, and stores report that everything will be in readiness when doors swing open Thursday morning at 8:30 o'clock. Local stores have been prepar- ing for Dollar Days for weeks. Special buys have been made at prices which will enable the mer- chants to pass on the savings to their customers. Extra sales- people have been employed so JONESVILLE TO OPEN SCHOOL that the throngs of value seekers expected here will be put to no in- convenience in getting waited upon. The Tribune, cooperating with the merchants, whose advertise- ments appear in this issue with complete details of the bargains to be found here, is mailing five thousand additional copies, and is appearing one day earlier than usual so that the paper may be widely distributed before the event begins. All regular sub- scribers and new readers who will get the paper this week are urged to read all advertisements so that they may be better informed as to the oportunity that is awaiting at Elkin stores. Session Will Get Under Way Next Monday Morning at 9:30 O'Clock USE FLAT FEE BASIS Preparations are complete for the opening of the 1939-40 ses- sion of the Jonesville schools next Monday, September 11. Opening exercises will be con- ducted at the high school audi- torium at 9:30 a.m., directed by Superintendent L. S. Weaver. No estimate has been made of the expected enrollment, al- though it is generally believed the building will be filled to capacity for the term. All Jonesville children who have reached the age of six?or v/ho will have reached that age by October 1, will be eligible to enroll. The flat fee system of renting books, effective throughout Yad- kin county this year for the first time, will be used in the Jones- ville schools. PRACTICALLY ALL OF SURRY SCHOOLS OPEN All Surry county schools, with the exception of Eld ore, Dobson, White Plains and Pilot Mountain, opened Monday morning. The enrollment is one of the largest in the history of the schools.^ Harold Tucker left Monday to resume his studies at Phieffer College at Misenheimer. CHATHAM BOAT EXPECTED 7TH Thurmond Chatham Believed to Have Sailed on Empress of Britain NO WORD IS RECEIVED Although no word has been re- ceived by the Chatham Manu-f facturing company from Mr. and Mrs. Thurmond Chatham and Mr. and Mrs. James Q. Hanes and children, of Winston-Salem, since they were scheduled to have sailed from Southampton, England, last Saturday at noon (London time), aboard the British liner, Empress of Britain, it is believed that their ship should enter the St. Lawrence River, Canada, sometime Tuesday night, it was learned Tuesday afternoon from Albert Butler, vice president of the company. The Empress of Britain is sched- uled to dock at Montreal, Canada, Wednesday, Mr. Butler said. Absence of any word from the big boat could be attributed to the fact that its radio has remained silent in order to prevent subma- rines from learning its wherea- bouts. It is hoped that the big liner will arrive as scheduled. Once it enters the St. Lawrence it is believed that it should be safe from attack. Mr. and Mrs. Chatham are ac- companied by their two sons, Luck and Hugh. Mr. and Mrs. Hanes are accompanied by their son, Gordon. The party hfid been vacationing in Scotland. Germany's armies?with Adolf Hitler at the Vistula River rain- ed sledge hammer blows against (Continued on last page) SHERIFF PLANS WHISKY RAIDS Boyd Announces He Will Padlock All Places in Sur- ry Selling Booze SEVERAL RAIDS MADE "Every place of business found selling liquor in Surry county will be padlocked in the future," Sheriff H. S. Boyd stated last week, following the second raid of a station on the Fancy Gap high- way. In the raid Deputy E. H. Jones came upon Harley Dawson in the act of selling liquor, he said. Dawson was brought to Mount Airy and later released on a SSOO bond for appearance in court here next Monday. It was the second time that the station had been raided since the opening of the "liquor purge" in Surry. The station closed on its own accord last time and avoided padlock procedures, the sheriff said. "We are going to stop it all. Padlocking is the best answer," Sheriff Boyd commented. Local School Enrollment Is More Than 600 An army of 685 marched in Elkin Monday morning, not ,to war bni to the classrooms ;of the city schools. The enroll- ment in the high school Was 232 on the opening day, ex- ceeding last year's enrollment by 27. in' the elementary school a total of 453 was en- rolled, which was approximate- ly last year's average. Textbooks were issued on the opening day and class work will be underway as within a short time. The oot- look for the school year \u25a0to good, according to J. Mark McAdams, superintendent of the schools. 24 PAGES THREE SECTIONS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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ATTEND ELKIN DOLLAR DAYS, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAYElkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVin.No. 43
LATE /From
NEWS___ State
INDDTET
Nation
DtllM ?
LOCALLINVTLLE K. HENDREN, of
Elkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Hendren, has received theappointment as substitute clerkin the Elkin postoffice, it wasannounced Wednesday morn-ing by French Graham, post-master. Mr. Hendren wasamong the many who took thecivil service examination hereJanuary 21. He was to beginhis duties Wednesday morn-ing. Jack Smoot, of Elkin, hasheld the job since the latterpart of last year while postal
officials were awaiting an ap-pointment to be made.
MRS. J. H. POPLIN, injur-ed last week in a collision inWashington, N. C., wben themotorcycle on which she andher husband were making atrip was in collision with anautomobile, has returned homehere after being detained in aWashington hospital for treat-ment. Although badly shakenup, Mrs. Poplin was not ser-iously injured.
A BOY SCOUT court ofhonor will be held at the ElkinMethodist church Thursdayevening at 7:45 o'clock, it hasbeen announced.
STATETARBORO Miss Anne
Winslow, daughter of Mr. andMrs. C. E. Winslow, of Tar-boro, is believed to have beena passenger on the Fll-fatedliner Athenia.
Miss Winslow was scheduledto leave London last week buther last-minute passage wascancelled and she was expect-ed to leave on the next boat,the Athenia.
No word of her whereaboutshas been received yet t>v herparents.
WINSTON-SALEM willmake a bid for an authorized$10,000,000 aeronautical re-search laboratory to be estab-lished by the United Statesgovernment, William Hitter,secretary of the Chamber ofCommerce, announced Tues-day. The matter will be con-sidered this afternoon at 2:30o'clock at a meeting to be at-tended by Congressman LonFolger, President James Weeksof the Chamber of Commerce;Harvey Lumpkin, possiblyState Senator Gordon Gray,
and Ritter.
NATIONALNEW YORK Large-scale
buying swept into commoditiesand shares of corporationscalculated to benefit from wardemand, as Wall street mar-kets resumed trading todayfor the first time since declar-ation of European war. Sharesof leading oils, coppers, steelsand motors jumped $2 to morethan $lO a share in the stockexchange, as they were takenin blocks of 1,000 to 9,000shares. '
INTERNATIONALPARlS?Fifty German air
raiders bombed and partiallydestroyed a Red Cross trainnear Szydlowicz, Poland, at 9a.m. today (4 a.m. E.D.T.) thePolish Telegraph Agency re-ported.
GALWAY, North IrelandThree hundred and eighty sur-vivors of the British linerAthenia, Including about 200Americans, landed at noon to-day, haggard, weary andwrapped in dressing gownsand blankets.
BUENOS AIRES Twocruisers from Great Britain'sWest Indies fleet, the sisterships Ajax and Exeter, hadGerman shipping holed up to-day in South Atlantic ports, orseeking to outrace them forthe safety of neutral harbors.The Ajax opened wartime op-erations at dawn Sunday bywinking the German cargoship OUnda after first takingoff the 42 members of thecrew in two life boats that had
THE ELKINTRIBUNEELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
Final Plans BeingPushed For StartOf The Elkin Fair
AAA PAYMENTSMAY BE HIGHERFOR YEAR 1938National Payment Will Total
About $500,000,000
MORE THAN IN 1937
Money Will Be Paid to Sur-ry County Farmers for
Conservation Practices
$116,583 PAID IN 1937
BIGGER MIDWAY,FIREWORKS ARENEW FEATURESHorse Show and Parade to
Be Held Thursday
PREMIUM LIST IS S7OO
Error m Advertisement Stat-ed Premiums Totalled
Only SIOO
DOG SHOW ON FRIDAY
Final >plans for the opening ofthe Elkin fair here next Wednes-day, September 13, are beingcompleted, and fair officials areexpecting the event to be themost successful in the history ofthe fair.
This year the fair will presenta new midway, with fifteen con-cessions and four modern rides,to be brought here by the BullockAmusement Enterprises, Inc.Rides and concessions are expect-ed to arrive at the fairgroundsabout noon Sunday, coming herefrom Taylorsville.
As usual, one of the main fea-tures of the fair will be the horseshow and parade to be stagedThursday morning, the parade tostart at 10:00 a.m. from theChatham ball park, traverseMain street to Elk Spur and fromElk Spur to the fairgrounds,where the judging will take place.Many fine horses and mules willappear in the parade, and severalclowns will add to the merrimentof the occasion. Cash prizes andribbons will be awarded in thevarious classifications. All ani-mals to appear in the parade andshow should be at the ball parknot later than 10:00 a.m. Anothernew feature will be a display of
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f/JV.C. OffIs to AddressSurry Teac
Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head ofthe department of education ofthe University of North Caro-lina, who will address theteachers of Sorry county whenthey hold their first meeting ofthe year in Dobson Saturday,September 9.
Washington, Sept. 4 TotalAAA payments to Surry countyfarmers for 1938 conservationpractices, still being made, areexpected to be higher than for1937, when payments totalled$116,583.39, AAA officials said to-day.
The national payment for 1938will total about $500,000,000 ascompared to $325,856 887 paid for1937 practices. Delays and ad-justments in payments delayfinal county computation forabout eighteen months. The 1937figures were announced only to-day.
The Surry eounty 1936 pay-ment was $114,400.56, lower thanthat for 1937. North Carolinapayments were $10,015,932.42 in1937 as compared with $12,304,-
301.25 4n 1936. National pay-ments also were higher for 1936than for the latter year, totallingalmost $400,000,000 in 1936.
Payments for 1936 and 1937were made under the Soil Con-servation and Domestic Allot-ment Act, passed February 29,1936, eight weeks after the Su-preme Court invalidated the pro-duction-control features of theAgricultural Adjustment Act. Thenew act emphasized soil con-servation as well as production,and payments are for practiceswhich conserve and build up soilfertility.
Surry TeachTo Hold First
Meeting of YearSurry county teachers will
meet in the first meeting of theyear in Dobson high school audi-torium Saturday, September 9,10:30 a.m.
Dr. Harl R. Douglas, head ofthe department of education, ofthe University of North Carolina,will address the teachers at thismeeting. Dr. Douglas is recog-nized as one of the outstandingmen in the field of secondary ed-ucation. He is the author of anumber of books on organization,administration, and supervision.He came to North Carolina fromthe University of Minnesotawhere he had done outstandingwork for a number of years. TheAmerican Council of Educationselected Dr. Douglas to write abook on Secondary Education forYouth in America. This workhas been completed and studiedwith interest over the nation.
Superintendent John W. Comerwill speak briefly on plans of theschools for the coming year.
J. Sam Gentry, president of thecounty teachers association, willpreside over the meeting and atthe conclusion of the meeting of-ficers will be elected for the asso-ciation for the coming year anddepartmental organizations willbe set up to function during thepresent school term.
OFFICERS MAKERAID IN YADKINSwoop Down on Home of
Alonzo Plowman; SeizeQuantity of Whisky
FIVE ARE ARRESTED
Yadkinville, Sept. 7 (Special)?Sheriff A. L. Inscore and Dep-uty R. M. Haynes think theybroke up one of the sore spots ofthe county Sunday afternoonwhen they raided the home ofAlonzo Plowman in the FlintHill section and seized a smallquantity of whiskey. Plowmanwas arrested along with fourothers who "dropped in" for theirsupply of spirits while the offi-cers were present.
The officers state that tkeyhave received many complaints
about Plowman, but on previousoccasions had been unable toIds whiskey. Plowman has serv-ed a number of road sentences
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CHAS. R. BELLDIES SATURDAY
Illness Suffered Early in MayProves Fatal; Deceased
Highly Esteemed
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
Charles Robert Bell, 69, ofHamptonville, route 1, died lateSaturday afternoon in a States-ville hospital. Mr. Bell wasstricken early in May and hiscondition had been regarded asserious since the beginning of hisillness, and the greater part ofthe time he was confined to thehospital.
The deceased was a life-longresident of Yadkin county and ason of the late Shadrach Bell andMrs. Jane Burgiss Bell. He wasa member of the Flat Rock Bap-tist church and a highly esteem-
ed man in .his community.
Funeral services were heldMonday afternoon at 2:30 fromFlat Rock Baptist church. Therites were in charge of Rev. R.L. West, pastor of the deceased,assisted by Rev. E. W. Turner ofMocksville, a former pastor. In-terment was in the family plot inthe church cemetery.
Mr. Bell is survived by his wifeand five children: Shadrach Bellof Elkin; Hal Bell of Washing-ton, D. C.; Mrs. W. E. Overstreetof Roanoke, Va., and Noel andSam Bell of the home. Two sis-ters, Mrs. R. P. Crater and Mrs.
W. S .Sale of this city; threehalf-sisters, Mrs. Leßoy Salmons,of Winston-Salem; Mrs. RichardStark, of Memphis, Tenn., andMrs. Calvin Huff of Boonville;two half-brothers, S. Walter Belland Will Bell, of Winston-Salem,and four grandchildren also sur-vive.
KIWANIANS TO ATTENDJOINT MEETING FRIDAY
The Elkin Kiwanis club metlast Thursday evening at theJonesville Methodist church andenjoyed a picnic supper served by
the ladies of the church.Kiwanian Stacey Weaver pre-
sided over the session, which waswell attended.
Friday evening the club will goto North Wilkesboro for an inter-club meeting with North Wilkes-boro and Lenoir. The meetingwill begin at 6:30 o'clock.
COMMISSIONERSHOLDJEETINGSurry Board Gathers at Dob-
son Monday to ConsiderRoutine Business
JURY LIST IS DRAWN
The Surry County Board ofCommissioners met Mondaymorning at the court house inDobson. Routine business' wasdisposed of and the jury list wasdrawn for the regular term ofcivil court, which will begin Mon-day, September 25, with JudgeZeb V. Nettles presiding.
Jurors to serve for the termare: First week ?Benton Carter,Brisco Wilson, C. P. Hines,George H. Badgett, R. L. Rine-hart, S. K. Harrell, Grov'er Scott,J. A. Roberts, Jesse Bennett, SamAtkinson, Jr., Edd Ward, RobertA. Flinchman, Paul Venable, RoyHunt, J. P. Chilton, Zeli V.Hatcher, J. P. Blue, A. D. Bean,Albert D. Forkner, W. N. Cox, C.A. Tickle and G. C. Ellis.
Second week P. D. Inman,Fred Eidson, G. L. Hampton, Ba-ford Good, M. C. Gentry, J. C.Nance, Roy E. Hlatt, Reid Flip-per, Clyde A. Wall, R. J. Wil-liams, R. G. Royall, E. S. Hen-dren, Vander Cane. T. A. Steele,Brady Coe, J. A. Layell, ElmerCaudle and T. Vera Cockerham.
S. S. CONVENTIONTO BE HELD 10th
The monthly meeting of theSurry Baptist Associational Sun-day school convention will beheld with Mt. Carmel Baptistchurch, near Mount Airy, Sun-day, September 10, at 2:15 p. m.
All Sunday schools in the as-sociation are requested to have arepresentation present.
Miss Janie Tucker will leaveWednesday for Marion, whereshe will resume her place on thefaculty of the city schools.
Roosevelt Proclaims Nation'sNeutrality As War Rages In
Europe; British Liner SunkAIVW J lAIJ7T) The largest merchant ship everIfEjJt LillyLjlx built in the United States, theUnited States Liner America, which exceeds in sizeany other ship in the merchant fleet flying the Stars andStripes, and which was launched August 31, is picturedbelow in an artist's sketch. It was to have been operatedon the passenger service between New York and Europeanports, but the outbreak of war in Europe may alter theseplans.
HITLER'S ARMYIS SAID TO BENEAR WARSAWSound of Shell Fire Heard In
Polish Capital
BRITISH BOMB BASE
German Torpedo Sends Linerwith 1,400 Aboard to
Bottom of Sea
FRENCH ARMIES MOVE
President Roosevelt issued neu-trality proclamations Tuesday af-ternoon designed, to keep this na-tion out of war.
Even as this action was beingtaken, the war in Poland in-creased in violence, with the Ger-mans being reported (accordingto radio dispatches) to be dan-gerously close to Warsaw, thesound of shell fire being plainlyheard there. Roads leading outof the city were said to be crowd-ed with citizens fleeing to saferquarters.
It was also reported that mostof the 311 Americans who wereaboard the torpedoed British pas-senger liner Athenia, had beensaved. Five hundred passengersof the sunken ship are as yet un-reported, radio dispatches said.
Late radio dispatches receivedabout 5:30 Tuesday afternoonsaid that rumors had it that thePoles had bombed Berlin. How-ever this report was entirely un-confirmed.
Elkin Merchants AreExpecting Big CrowdHere For Dollar Days
Local Stores Have Been Preparing for Big Three-Day Eventfor Weeks, and Hundreds of Money-Saving Values
WillGo on Sale at 8:30 Thursday Morning
This week-end, Thursday, Fri-day and Saturday, will be DollarDays in Elkin.
Practically all Elkin stores arecooperating in the event anevent designed to offer unusualvalues?values which will saveeveryone really worthwhileamounts, and stores report thateverything will be in readinesswhen doors swing open Thursdaymorning at 8:30 o'clock.
Local stores have been prepar-ing for Dollar Days for weeks.Special buys have been made atprices which will enable the mer-chants to pass on the savings totheir customers. Extra sales-people have been employed so
JONESVILLE TOOPEN SCHOOL
that the throngs of value seekersexpected here will be put to no in-convenience in getting waitedupon.
The Tribune, cooperating withthe merchants, whose advertise-ments appear in this issue withcomplete details of the bargainsto be found here, is mailing fivethousand additional copies, andis appearing one day earlier thanusual so that the paper may bewidely distributed before theevent begins. All regular sub-scribers and new readers who willget the paper this week are urgedto read all advertisements so thatthey may be better informed asto the oportunity that is awaitingat Elkin stores.
Session Will Get Under WayNext Monday Morning
at 9:30 O'Clock
USE FLAT FEE BASIS
Preparations are complete forthe opening of the 1939-40 ses-sion of the Jonesville schools nextMonday, September 11.
Opening exercises will be con-ducted at the high school audi-torium at 9:30 a.m., directed bySuperintendent L. S. Weaver.
No estimate has been made ofthe expected enrollment, al-though it is generally believed thebuilding will be filled to capacityfor the term.
All Jonesville children whohave reached the age of six?orv/ho will have reached that ageby October 1, will be eligible toenroll.
The flat fee system of rentingbooks, effective throughout Yad-kin county this year for the firsttime, will be used in the Jones-ville schools.
PRACTICALLY ALL OFSURRY SCHOOLS OPEN
All Surry county schools, withthe exception of Eldore, Dobson,White Plains and Pilot Mountain,opened Monday morning. Theenrollment is one of the largestin the history of the schools.^
Harold Tucker left Monday toresume his studies at PhiefferCollege at Misenheimer.
CHATHAM BOATEXPECTED 7THThurmond Chatham Believedto Have Sailed on Empress
of Britain
NO WORD IS RECEIVED
Although no word has been re-ceived by the Chatham Manu-ffacturing company from Mr. andMrs. Thurmond Chatham and Mr.and Mrs. James Q. Hanes andchildren, of Winston-Salem, sincethey were scheduled to have sailedfrom Southampton, England, lastSaturday at noon (London time),aboard the British liner, Empressof Britain, it is believed that theirship should enter the St. LawrenceRiver, Canada, sometime Tuesdaynight, it was learned Tuesdayafternoon from Albert Butler, vicepresident of the company.
The Empress of Britain is sched-uled to dock at Montreal, Canada,Wednesday, Mr. Butler said.Absence of any word from the bigboat could be attributed to thefact that its radio has remainedsilent in order to prevent subma-rines from learning its wherea-bouts. It is hoped that the bigliner will arrive as scheduled.Once it enters the St. Lawrenceit is believed that it should besafe from attack.
Mr. and Mrs. Chatham are ac-companied by their two sons,Luck and Hugh. Mr. and Mrs.Hanes are accompanied by theirson, Gordon. The party hfid beenvacationing in Scotland.
Germany's armies?with AdolfHitler at the Vistula River rain-ed sledge hammer blows against
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SHERIFF PLANSWHISKY RAIDS
Boyd Announces He WillPadlock All Places in Sur-
ry Selling Booze
SEVERAL RAIDS MADE
"Every place of business foundselling liquor in Surry county willbe padlocked in the future,"Sheriff H. S. Boyd stated lastweek, following the second raid ofa station on the Fancy Gap high-way.
In the raid Deputy E. H. Jonescame upon Harley Dawson in theact of selling liquor, he said.Dawson was brought to MountAiry and later released on a SSOObond for appearance in courthere next Monday.
It was the second time that thestation had been raided since theopening of the "liquor purge" inSurry. The station closed on itsown accord last time and avoidedpadlock procedures, the sheriffsaid.
"We are going to stop it all.Padlocking is the best answer,"Sheriff Boyd commented.
Local SchoolEnrollment IsMore Than 600
An army of 685 marched inElkin Monday morning, not ,to
war bni to the classrooms ;ofthe city schools. The enroll-ment in the high school Was232 on the opening day, ex-ceeding last year's enrollmentby 27. in' the elementaryschool a total of 453 was en-rolled, which was approximate-ly last year's average.
Textbooks were issued onthe opening day and class workwill be underway aswithin a short time. The oot-look for the school year \u25a0togood, according to J. MarkMcAdams, superintendent ofthe schools.
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