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AT LENOIR C. Harper, Chairman, ^Advisea Superuitendent WrijEht of Date m EIGHT COUNTIES te^Uauatty Enters Con testants; Likely To This Year Th« ptotrirt Mn«1e Contests for the . district comresed of the 'i^eoanties of Alexander, Ashe, 'ATery. Burke, Caldwell, McDow- ^'•11, Watauga and Wilkes' will be -held In Le»:oir on April 21, ac cording'to ^ letter received by „ Superintendent C. C. Wiight ■inm James C. Harper, of Lenoir, , chairman of the district. Wilkes county usually enters contestants aqd Is expected to do so again this yoer. The dis trict contest has grown every year and increasing interest is being shown In 'nusical attain m T W,. Wilkesboro Wins In Garnet, ,T WILL BE ^ ^ Played-At,Morxisiton Friday NigM; Score Was 24 To 16 Mtn. View Forfeit! To Mount Pleasant Girls oFMotwiam View Win 21 To 1; Boys Decline am ^ Chevrolet Con|^^ Has Sales Increasel To Play Tomorrow At Age 8S VeaFs, Month Of Jannary Highly Satis- . factory; Gain Is Made In ' n- Business Monnt Pleasant finished tho county confirence race with on- V Bainett C. Clark,*^D) Missouri, son of a former Speaker, Champ Clark, was sworn in as the new Sen ator from his state, February 3, suc ceeding Sen. Hawes, and thus gaining seniority rights. G.O.P. MAKING , PLANS REBUILiy PARTY FOR 1936 National Republican League Headed By Present Vice President The following l.s taken fnju -Mr.-^Harper's letter; “Schools -■.hich have a shorten ed term this year are allowed to compete eT,-n af'er their com- mencement.s when their term closes beforo the date of the con test provided that only students are used who would have been eligible if the term had exteiid- - ed longer. In some cases this will make the problem easier than ’ bef^e ‘ne teecher and stu- —-'Sents may devote uninterrupted , time to practice just before the ■ contests ar.U the conflict wi-h commencement plans i.s easier. “All information about the ' voters gave it la.st November. . contest is to be found in the con- The new organization, announced ■ test bulletin which may be had j .Sunday night by John A. Camp- Iree on reouest to nr. tVade R. (f white Plains, N. Y., who Brown, Dean of .Music, Womans College of the rniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro, N. C. In Qnest of a Western Confer ence championship, the North Wilkesboro high school basket ball quint, coachon by H. V. Overdash, w o n their ‘eighth straight conference victory Fri day evening at ^Morganton by de feating the “North Carolina Sciiool for the Deaf by the score • of 21 to 16. Revis and Church were high scorers for the local team,, each getting 7 points. Pardue was close behind with 6 points to his credit. Coach Overcaah’s boys display ed the same high class basket ball that has carried them through their Western Confer ence schedule undefeated to date, j They have lost but two games this season. i Lambert led the .ittack to'the j “dummies,” scoring nine of his team's 16 points; This was tbe second time the local boys have won over them. BOOM . .ri . ; and in gold *' The end of almost every prev- when Mountain V*ew hlgh^ school iou.s depression-in the history of iy two defeats FV'day aftemoov. iis forfeited the closing game of tho season by decllnlni,- to play. Wit.h a schedule of ten games, thev won eight, defeating some of the strongest teams in tbe county. The Mountain View boys rath er than play on an outdoor court Friday afte>noon prAerred L*- forfeit the game which if they had won would have fiven them at least a tie ‘ foi tbe county championship. Muunt Pleasant thus took the lead The Mount Pleasant girls, sad ly outclassed during the entire season, lost 21 tq 1 to the Moun tain 'View girls Who finished the the world has been marked by some kind of a speculative boom. Perhaps tho wave of sjieculatlon in gold . mining stocks which started a C( uple of weeks ago on the London Stock Exchange may prove the impetus that will bring money bSck jnto circulation rap-' idly 'More gold was mined in 1?32 than in anv previous year since world records began to be kept Most of it came frcm South Af rican mines; a big percentage of it from Canada. Gold Is worth more, measured in commodities conference race without a dbfeat. The sextet of Mount Pleasant won only one gan.e during the season. LEONARD OPPOSED TO SALES TAX and labor, than it has ever bc-eu. That makes sharps in prjdncnig gold mnes particularly valuable. In times like those no predir- tions are safe, but 1 want to register a guess that the next fev' months will see a revival of speculation not onlv in gold min ing stocks, but in other securi ties. Speculation does not make consumptior., in order that the prosperity, but it is nearly always I wheels of commerce may begin | an evidence that people who i spinning again. Sales taxes are a | control important money have (Continued from pqfge one) WASHINGTON.—A national Re publican league, headed by Vice President Curti.s, ha.s been formed I to attempt restoring tlie G. 0. P. I from the tremendous drubbing the will be it.s director, is de.sigtied to carry on a vigorous campaign for “It is advised that all schools | a come-back, not only in the 1936 start to work on their contest! year's congressional race.s also, music as early possible. .\d-1 jt is professedly neither for nor dresses of bouses which can sup-1 again.st the interests of any one piy the contest nuisic may he | pj^^didate. What has ben disclosed found in the bullelin itself. | of its make-up .so far is strictly ■ ■The fees for the contest are regular Republican, the same as in past years—fifty Under Curtis as Chairman, three cents for each e’'ent entered, vice chairmen have been named: Fees and vegistrat'on must be Senators Felix Herbert of Rhode eent to the undersigned two tracks before the date of the con test. Late rogistration will be al- Iqwed only where the fees are doable the usual amount.” FRASIER IS CONVICTED -ON FORGERY CHARGE i'll • — with Elkin, Feb. 16.—Charged fotsety and embezzlement in ftvpr counts. J. W. Frazier, for mer secreterv-treasurCr and gen eral manager of the Biltrite Fur- nHtire company, of Elkin, up to the time of its failure to func tion almost five years ago. yes terday was convicted on two counts in Surry Superior court at Dobson, over which Judge M . V. Barnhill, of Rock>; Mount, is presiding and sentonced to the state prison for two to three years. Immediately after the alleged forgeries and embezzlement of a considerable amount of the fur niture company's f’ln.ds. approxi- Island and Daniel 0. Hastings of Delaware, and formeT Representa tive John Q. Tilson of Connecticut Headquarters will be opened in Wa.shin^on, and from it a steady campaign of "information’’ will be issued, directed especially at the younger voters but not overlooking any of the public. Campbell’s an nouncement pointed out that some 8,000,000 new voters will come along betwen now and 1936 and said; “To a very large degree the future of the Republican party will be in their hands.'’ Curtis, in nis letter accepting the office, said: “It has long occurei to me that some such organization should be formed for the education of the youth of the country in the prin ciples of the Republican party." Camphelh the organizer, has worked for the Republican national committee in its eastern head quarters duriirg the last three presidential campaigns and in be tween lias helped the national con gressional committee. He .said the league already has eastern Physicians Mystified At Death of Boxer In , ^ m i New York Last Week'*®’^ consumpt.'-n, and should l come to the conclusion that the 'not be tolerated 1 cannot agree worst is over, ana are taking New York, Feb. 14.—(AP)—j li-ith those who e'aim sales taxes ' Death came with the dark hours i would equally distribute the tax before dawn today to take Ernie] burden, and would not effect Schaaf, 24-year-old Boston heavy weight, and leave shrouded in mys tery one of the most tragic episodes in modem ring warfare. Scarcely had the boxing world learned tlje youngster was dead, ap parently the result of the beating Gigantic Primo Camera gave him consumption. Income Tax Fairest “Then, too, sale® taxes reverse the principle of the income tax— the fairest of all taxes. A little figuring wil' show that. For In- 'stance: The man -.yith an income 13 rounds in Madison Square of $190,000 would probably not m 10 rouuus m more than $10,000 a year almost every previous conception taxes, which .means ^e would pay of the happenings of the past three a sales tax of only one-tenth o one per cen* on 1-is income. But day-'’- ... - , Dr. Charles W. Norris, chief ; the man with an income of only medical examiner, announced that| $1,500 must normally spend $1,- an autopsy revealed “absolutely no I 000 of that 'ncome—or 2 thirds evidence that Schaaf died as a re- j —for neiessary merchandise, suit of injuries received in that | which he would pay two-thirds of bout,” although Dr. Bryan Stookey, i one per cent on his income, brain specialist, who operated on “a prominent niemher of the the stricken warrior yesterday in an effort to relieve brain pressure, had declared flatly to the contrary. Cerebrial Hemorrhage Cause Yet Dr. Benjamin Vance, as- sistantto Dr. Norris, and the sur geon who performed the autopsy, signed the certificate giving as the causes of death “cerebral hem orrhage and cerebral compression,” sustaining Dr. Sookey’s diagnosis. But to further heighten the mys tery Legislature who knows my views on taxation told me in Winston- Salem a few days ago that I was right in only -one portion of my oft-repeated statement that the government, both State and nat ional, should do what Its citizens had been forced lO do, namely: reduce expenses and defer pay ment of part of tbe debt. He said the expensi^s could be reduced. Highly Esteemed Lady of Rock Creek Township; „ Funeral Sunday m g Chevrolet dealers reported de- jjary Holder, a highly ea;=> liveriag 16,82* new cars and trades teemed lady of Rwk Creek towa- to copsumera in the last ten days ship, was claimed by death Fi> of January, bringing the total of day, February-17, at 9 p. m; She retail sales forilie month to 39,701 was 88 years "oldi being . bortt uary of last Jear, H, J. j|g]^ Bethel church vice-president and general sales home yesterday. Rev. their money out • f hiding. And that means that prosperity i.s closer at hs.nd. T.tXKS and how applied I cannot escape the conviction that the fairest ••vstems of tax ation are those that are based manner of the .Chevrolet Motor Company, announced here today. This is a gain of 12.8 per cent January sales were the largest since June, of last year, and the last ten-day salds were larger than any reporting period since June 20 —just prior to establishment of a federal excise tax—and comjmre with’ 13,438 sales in the last ten days of January, 1932, a gain' of 25,2 per cent, Mr. Klingler an nounced. To date over 50,000 of the new 4983 models have been placed in owners hands since announcement of the new line despite the fact that, a field shortage existed. With field stocks at normal now, he said he expects February sales to score a considerable gain over February of last year. In the first ten days of January dealers delivered 10,162 units, in. the second ten days 12,713 units,' and 16,826 in the la.st period, the j increa.se reflecting the availibility'- of cars for delivery, Mr. Klingler. stated. I He said the National Automobile' th« Landreth Blevine conducted service. SuMriving^ are the follow^g children: Mrs. SaraKyle,- of %rtli WllkesboijH J^ S. Holder/i of Liberty. M. C. Holder, of WiM^ mouth, W. VkVi W. M. Holder, of North Wllkeshoro. .' -.n ' To Efficient “Do you think yon know enough to be useful in this of fice?” “Know.jenough? Why, I left my last piece because the boss said 1 knew too much. V I Classified Ads L .^--1 COUNTY BLOODHOUNDs-'^I now have the coun' v bloodhound and will answer all calls promptly if possible. Phone 2711—S M. Estep, Wilkes boro. 2-20-lt-pd Show sales indicated the upturn FOR SALE—Several nice yonn^ experienced all over the country during January. At the Chicago] show, just closed, Chicago Chevo- let dealers sold 1,052 new units during the week of the show as! directly upon what the taxpayer week last year, a gain of 48 per! gets for his money. Every cigar-j compared with 710 in auto show' fresh Jerseys "* Tomlinson’s stables, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 2.5, or will trade •for dry '•xttle. Leonard Tem pleton, Je mings, N. C. 2-23?2t-pd ette smoker pays a six cents tax ; cent; and secured 1,756 prospects ix)ST—Taken from my car on every.time he buys a package of ' as compared with 1,323 in the like' ■ 1932 _ week. Comparable results! were obtained in New York, and, at other automobile shows already - twenty cigarettes, ))ut ^ nobody protests b'icause nobody feels that he Is being taxed. Few peo ple -object to paying the gasoline tax, the proceeds of which maka highway improvement and main tenance possible. I think One w-akness' of our income tax system is that if- comes from all sources are taxed at tbe sams rate and lumped f' • gether. Inco.nes from rents ought possibly be taxed at one rate, ii;- comes from dividends on stock throughout the country, attendance, interest and his company’s sales’ generally are running higher than at any time since 1929, according' to the Chevrolet executive. ' Kensington Avenue Tuesday evening, one physician’s bag. Liberal reward tor its return to Journal-Patriot office. No questions .isked.—W. K. New ton, M, 1). Norto Wilkesboro. 2-16-lt-pd. CHARLES H. COWLES HOME FOR WEEK-END Representative Charles H. Cowles, who Is attending the ses sions of the Legislature at Ra- iiivestments at another rate, a -.d i leigh. spent the week-end In Wil- 3L4X WITH CAR WANTED for local tea and coffee route. No experienc'i needed. Must be satisfied to make $32.50 a week at start. .Write -41bert Mills,' Rrute M^r., 2298 Mon mouth, Cincinnati, O. 2-16-pd was his payment of public debt because Dr. Vance said it j , j opinion that some growth, a cyst|CO“'d not l-e deferred, or tumor hitherto unsuspected, was tlie State’s financial stability was the real explanation of the com- pres.sion that paralyzed the fight er’s left side and left him in a state of .semi-comma from the mo- threatened: that budget must be balanced to sav^ State’s credit. He sees it from the banker’s standpoint, which I can thorr incomes from,the profits of trade at still another. More peorde arc studyin,? this question of taxat'on, and study ing it more intelligently I ban ever before. We are going to see radical changes ii. our taxation system. mately $70 nOO. Frazier fled the state and" many weeks afterward i headi)uarter.s functioning in eNw was apprehended and arrested in York City. Thi.s move is the fir.-t rebuilding step in the party since election, but a general reorganization has been looked for by many in the party to some time after March 4. Detroit and brought back to El kin for a preliminary court hear ing. He w-as convicted and com mitted to Surry county jail to j flwalt a Superior court hearing. I come and later made bond for his ub-| At the capitel the Republicans have I been ver>' busy conferring. Some . .V. at 1 have been trying to get together Attorneys for t e ’ to oust Everett Sanders a-« chair man of the national committee. He was put there by President Hoover. each term of criminal court in i the county, for five years, have asked continuance. At the pre.sent term when the Frasier forgery ca^e was called, the same pica wa.s made by J- Hayden Burke, of Taylorsville, counsel for the defen.se, presiding j’jrist and •were of the joint opinion that five years was a sufficient period of grace for a case of such na ture. •The defense attempted to that Frazier was terapor- ineoropetent to transact but the solicitor What part Mr. Hoover is to play in the direction of the Republican party of the future is one of the fundamental (|uestions to be set tled. The machine as it .stands is largely his, but whether it could remain so if he wished to retain control and point for renomination in 1936 has yet to be showm. Harvey Bullis Is Given Surprise Birthday Party « show arily Harvey Bullis wes given a sur prise birtf. lav party at his home business at the time, of the f'n'S'jat Adley Wednesd'ay night. Those ery and e.mbezzlereent but i from outside the Adley commun- witnesses, including the most | %-ho were guests at the nar'.y prominent. merchants ami j included Charlie Ferguson, Miss- ness men of Elkin, testified lo | pg pansy ard Earlv Ferguson, of their belief in his mental com- : Goshen, and Miss Blanche Swan- petency. 1^011. of Boo tier. After the dinner, the guests Patawha countv poultry grovt-j _ , - „ uaiawim I _ . e .-wore enter'ained with string ment he was carried out of theioughly appreciate. But I still ring until he died in Polyclinic ho.s-1 contend that it is time for the pital at 4:26 this morning. 'people to rise up i»l their might Complete examination and micro- and demand that midgets be bal- scopic analysis of the brain, which aneed by relucing public expen- would ue'iermine absolutely the cau.se of death, cannot be com pleted for 10 days because of the! afjpag nece.s.sity for treating the brain with solutions. These development.s, lending creden^e to the first beliefs that Schaaf entered the ring in poor physical condition or had been suf fering from an unsuspected or ganic ailment, overshadowed police, investigations that began immedi-i sfructnre.^ s.,mething mus ately after the fighter died. No Criminal Negligence ses, rather than by increasing taxe.s to take cave of appropri- I have not been ma terially reduced. Nerves On Etlge “The nerves of the people arc on edge. Our spiritual structure is threatened with a break-down in keeping with the breakdown which has .-ome tc our economic B.ATHS ... in the White House I remember when I was a boy in Washington that there was a great debate in Congress over kesboro wi'n hia family. Mr.' Cowles has Introduced but few bills this 3-ssion and has been working ha. d on the numerous committees of which he is a member. sr the money of the Orient Njs one of the iinp'irtant causes ^f low commodity prices and a serious obstacle to international com merce. I think it can be proved that the re-estatlishment of the pre- the question of putting a second pree of «ilver would be the bathroom into the White House. Mr. Cleveland was President and his political opponents in Con- First orders were issued for Camera's arrest to anstver homi cide charges, but this was quickly changed to interrogation at the district attorney's office. No evi dence of any “criminal negligence” was found, according to Assistant District Attorney James P. Daly, after an examination of all con cerned, but he added a final decis ion was reserved until receipt of done to relieve u.« of such a great tax b'lrden and something must be do.,e to save the city dwellers from mortgage fore closures. along with the farmers. The biddiiig-do'B'n process is working just as great havoc as did the bid,ling-up process. Pri ces of everything are being de pressed, and will he until some thing is do! e to break the vicious circles working toward disaster. I believe real leadership will the medical examiner’s full report, j assert itself to remedy much In addition to Camera, his and | , , „ lof this, and that presently we Schaaf s managers and handlers, | effects of the referee and boxing commission official all were questioned, but con tributed no new developments. appears to he more or less sta tionery. We need courage to gress declared that he was a de votee of luxurious extravagance in wanting more than one bath- ro'oni for the entire \Vhite House, j I don’t know how many hath- j rooms there are in the White House now. but my guess is at least a dozen. But when it was proposed in Congress the other day to give President Roosevelt enough money to put a swim ming pool in thb White House basement, and Representative Schaefer of Washington object ed on the ground* of extrava gance, I was reminded of the furore over M r. Cleveland s bathroom. "There are lots of people rin the United States that don’t have swimming pools,” said Mr-. Schaefer. That was a pretty cheap appeal to unintelligent voters. He might have added that there are a lot of people, also, who are not President of the United States. longest posshle stop, toward a re vival of business. That does not mean "sixteen tc one," but it does mean that the discussions of the silver question in Congress ought to be taken seriously. BABY CHICKS — Big husky chicks that live. Blue Ridge quality. Special low prices Bar- -/red Rocks and Reds 98.00 per hundred! White Leghorns $7.00 and heavy mixed $7.50. Please place o”der at once. Blue Ridge Hatchery,. North Wilkesboro, N. . 2-2.3'-2t FOB SALE—Baby Chicks. Same high quality as last season. Hatches each .Tuesday. $8.00 per 100. 'W’e are'now selling a full line of Purina chicken ,feeds, including starter, grow ing and laying mashes, scratch feeds, etc. Custom hatchipg, price 2 cents per egg.—Wilkes Hatchery North Wilkesboro. N. C. 2-2-tf. t AMENDMENTS . . important one Perhttps the next amendment to the Federal Constitution will ' be the repeal of Prohibition, but From Alabama came an order by „„til victory j there is another amendment that Governor Lehman to the New York for ten vears. inve.stigation into “all the circum-, ' I nitely won stances” in conection with the box- turns.” Although no longer connected with the merchants asociation. county poultry grow-1 era have solcf one ship.nent 1 ringing by Harvey and capons to =>astern markets this j ; t" h fc- —, I Rov Riillis. and Frank Gilreath, season for 21 1-r ten s a ' ^ who played the vi.i’in, banjo and ^ gr^p of Pamlico county j guitar. Everyone seemed to have hog growers sold 6.000 pounds;« most enjoyable time, cooperatively last week at a net price of $3.05 a hundred. er’.s death. .A? a result Billy Cava naugh, We.st Point boxing coach who referred the match; the judges William Dunn and Tommy Shortell; Dr. William Walker, commission I bar from in’ierstatr commerce the products of the labor of children State' Athletic'commission f^^ defi-1 has been and TTOs'perlty re- which may get in ahead 01 re peal. ^ This is the amendment permit ting the Fe-Ieral Government to Mr. Le'''.''ard ahs retained his in terest in R'atters of taxation. While executive secretary of the physician, who examined and' association, he led a successful passed Schaaf as in perfect condi-' opposition to 'a sales tax. tion before the fight, were among ^ ^ those interviewed. ; CoiiUting Them Then to complete the cycle of j An old Iruly visiting New York events, legislators in Albany, led asked a policeman what bus she iby Senator Henry G. Schackno, I should take to get to a certain ratified it. under eighteen. Congress passed a law years ago to that effect, and the S'lpreme Court held it was unconstitutional. An amend ment to the Constitution to over come this was submitted in 1922. Only nine State Legislatures Thirteen have QUESTION AND ANSWER 4 chairman of the judiciary commit-, place. He Id her to take the. b? ought it to a vote. tee, announced a movement would be started within a few days to Question: How should Irish . , j_.ii, , ^ . .11,* 1 the game has been conducted here potatoes be "reated before plant- . ^ . ^ . J, , 1 for more than 10 years, ing to prevent disease? ’ Answer; Before cutting for 412 bus that passed her corner. | twentv-six have rejected • V VOHATONE Antiseptic seed all Irisii potatoes should be soaked for 1 to 1 1-2 hours in a solution of one pint of Formal dehyde and 30 gallons of water. They should .then he washed and drie4 before cutting the seed Early Settler (?) A visitor in a village noticed that one inhabitant -was treated with great respect by tbe ethers. He asked a storekeeper the rea son. “He’s one of the early set- fare of the United States the repeal cf Prohibition. than If bad weather or other tiers,” the merchant-replied. A few hours later the police-i great many people believe repeal the boxing law under which man returned to find the old lady! {jjis child labor amendment *1. —J—•„,! gtanjjjijp on the corner, i jg j^ore vital to the future wel- “What, havv*’t you got your bus yet?” he asked, “It’s all tight.” she said. This is the 223rd, so H will only be 189 busses from now.” causes prevent immediate plant ing, the seed pieces should be .dusted with fjnely ground sul phur to dry out and protect the freehly 6nt siirface. „ 1 Early settlers? “Why, he’s not more than thirty years old!” “That may be true, but he pays his bills promptly on ’the first of eve'T month.” '"' CARD OF THANKS We thank our many neighbors and friends for their kindness, and sympathy, shown during the sickness and death of our dear father and husbapl. - MRS. ADig^’D QAKLTT AND eklLDREJi^, SILVER Nearly two years ago I began commenting in this column on the “price of silver and its effect upon commodity prices and world trade.' Since then a good fliany intelligent people on both aides of the AtlaitMo h*re -waked upTo the fact tfidt the demoneU- Mtlon of silver in Europte and;^ the reaultlng of, devaluation _ Ht.' 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