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NORTH WILKBSBORO, N. O, THURSDAY, AUG. 31, 1933
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Stone Confesses
Wilkes Man TeUs
GiU He Shot and
Killed Son-In-Law
Blames Killing On Liquor and
Heads For Commutation
of Sentence
" TAKEN
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NO ACTION IS
Sets Atlantic Crossing
Date For His Execution
Set For September 8;
Truth May Help
Raleigh, Aug! 30. —B'-yant
Slane, WUkes county killer who
htii poems written about him for
capacity to love, today told
Judge B. M. Gill, pardon com
missioner, that he killed \Vayne
Norman, son-in-law of Stone, last
fall In Wilkes.
The courts have found no er
ror in the trial that landed Stone
'within 10 days of the electric
’ chair. There had been an evident
feud ever since Norman ran off.
■ with Stone’s girl and married |
her. She stood by her husband
and testified against her father.
Trial Judge G. V. Cowper, who
sentenced the middle aged moun
taineer, has doubt enough of all
the murderous elements t o
recommend clemency for the fel
low. Stone denied that he slew
his son-in-law. But today he cav
ed in and told Judge Gill that
the killing was done with liquor
as the chief aid in carrying out
the plan.
Warden Honeycutt, whose long
experience with prisoners has
never made the prison official
dogmatic as to guilt or innocence,
nevertheless doubted Stone's
ntory. The prisoner said he did
not know who killed his son-in-
^aw. This morning when Parole
Commissioner Gill visited the
prison the warden told
that his story did not
right. Stone then made it ration
al "I did it,” he said, and he put
the big part of it on the liquor
they drank.
Mrs. Norman and her mother
came to Raleigh weeks ago in be
half of Stone. The daughter
swore to the truth of her court
house story, but she begged for
the father’s life. She relied upon
ihe dying statement of_^tier hjm^
hand
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Above is the new Queen of the
Seas, the Italian liner Rex,
which set a new Atlantic cross
ing, Gibraltar to New York, in 4
days, 13 hours and 6 8 minutes.
She averaged 28:S2 knots per
hour, equal to 33 1-3 land miles
per hour. The former record was
! 4 days. 15 hours, 56 minutes, by
the German line Bremen.
FJURPREin
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W. A. Rousseau Engaged in
Sending Out Catalojgues To
Large Number
Premium lists tor the Great
Wilkes Fair, which will be held
here September 19-20-21-22,
were mailed out to a large num
ber of people Tuesday and yes
terday by W. A. Rousseau, secre-
Stone I tary of the Great Wilkes Fair
sound Association.
The catalogue of premiums
contains 44 pages and in addi
tion to listing the premiums, gen
erously offered by the merchants
and business men of the city, a
number of advertisements of bus
iness firms of this section
Attorney J. A. Rousseau Is Being
Prominently Mentioned as Logical
Candidate For Judgeship In 1933
Ashe People 'AreF°™-w““
Anxious For Some
Action On No. 16
They Understand That Wilkes
Is Not Sympathetic Toward
This Project
THEY ARE SURPRISED
Say Ashe Dollars To Go Else
where If Road Is Not
Improved Soon
Ashe county citizens are anx
ious tor immediate action on
Highway No. 16 between Millers!
Creek and Glendale Springs, ac
cording to a statement forwarded
The Journal-Patriot by Ira T.
Johnston, prominent Jefferson
attorney.
‘T am greatly surprised,” he
declares, "to hear that the au
thorities In Wilkes cointy are
giving preference to a proposed
highway to Elkin and other pro
jects.”
It is believed that Ashe citi
zens misunderstand the views of
Wilkes people. It is the under
standing here that local authori
ties are asking that No. 16 be
given attention before any other
road is built or improved in
Wilkes.
However, Mr. Johnston’s state
ment is to the point and cites
reasons why Wilkes should be
vitally Interested in this project.
Mr. Johnston’s statement fol
lows:
"Hon. E. B. Jeffress, Chair
man of the State Highway Com
mission, has made definite prom
ise that Route 16 from Millers
Creek to Glendale Springs will
be improved out of the present
Eugene Church, Winston-
Salem policeman, was one of
tlic 121 who passed the state
bar examination on AiigilSl 21
and Ims been granted license
to practice law. A news story
r e 1 at i V e to »Ir. Church’s
achievement was carried in
Sunday’s Issue of The Wins
ton-Salem Journal and Sentin
el.
It seems that Mr. Church,
not having time to take a law
course, had spent his evenings,
or whenever he was off duty,
studying law books. In this
way he liad acquired the know
ledge which enabled him to
pass the bar.
Mr. Church is a former resi
dent of Wilkes. He is the son
of Mr. B>Tium Church, of WiU
kesboro. Route 1.
localmTa.
TOMEETTODAY
, ^ „ i retire at tue c;xpiiaLiuu
Sp6ci3.1 Called Meeting To jjjjg leaves the field
Held At School Audi- ! open for speculation as to a pos-
torium At 3:30
A special called meeting of the
North Wilkesboro Parent-Teach
er Association will be held in the
elementary school auditorium
this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
The meeting has been called
for the purpose of laying plans
for the year and all parents and
interested citizens are
invited to attend.
The local schools will begin on i will have strong
North Wilkesboro b Re^onding
Alnuist lOO Ver Ceid In” Appeal
For Su|
Incomplete Reports Indicate That Nearly Every Individual Is
Sigrning Consumers’ Pledge; House-To-Hoase Canvass
Will Be Completed Within Short Time .
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING, HELD MONDAY EVENING
ResponsibiUty of Emirfoyers and Ccmsumers Is Cited By J. ^
Rems, Chairman of the North Wilkesboro NBA Cotti-
mittee, In Statement Relative to the Drive ,
North Wilkesboro is responding to the appeal for sup
port of the Blue Eagle almost one hundred per cent, it wan
learned last night in a check of incomplete reports from Col
onel W. R. Absher’s volunteer army which is making the
NRA consumers’ house-to-house canvass.
The captains and their lieutenants are now busily en
gaged in completing the canvass, getting consumers to sign
the pledge to support NRA members. i
It was estimated by workers that better than 99^ pw
cent of those interviewed had signed the pledge and are lined,
up in the big drive.
Other steps in the NRA program will be taken by the
North Wilkesboro NRA committee as soon as the houae4o-
house canvass is completed, but this is the first objective.
Committee Is Approved
Prompt approval of the committee recommended by J. C. ReinSt
chairman of the North Wilkesboro NRA Club, E. M. Blackbunt and
R. E. Walters, was given Monday evening at a meeting at the city
hall.
Miss Nell Rousseau was substituted as lieutenant general in
place of Mrs. E. G. Finley at the request of Mrs. Finley. W. G- Ga
briel, J. R. Finley and N. B. Smithey and an officer of the U. D. C.
chapter and the D- A. R. chapter were added to the..^dvisory board.
Those who attended the meeting were enthusiastic in R»eij^upport
retire at the'^eCratL^f 5f Ms of the NRA movement and all of those
to carry on the house-to-house canvass requested by General Hugh
Johnson, national administrator of the National Industrial Recovery
Act.
The meeting Monday evening was presided over by J. C. Reins,
chairman.
Local Attorney Is
Urged By Friends
To Offer Himself
He Has Taken flatter Under
Consideration, He States
In Interview
QUALIFIED FOR PLACE
Has Judicial Temperament
and Thorough Knowledge
of Law, Friends Say
Although the time for naming
a candidate for Judge In this ju
dicial district is still several
months away, the name of Julius
A. Rousseau, well known attor
ney of this city. Is being iproml-
nently mentioned in this connec
tion.
Judge T. B. Finley, resident
jurist in this district, will com
plete his second' eight-year term
next year and is not expected to
be a candidate to succeed him
self. It Is
sible successor.
The rumor that Mr. Rousseau
is conslnerlng the request of his
friends to offer himself as a
candidate for the judgeship has
been enthusiastically received 'by
the legal profession and the pub
lic generally. ,
• According to statements made
by members of the district bar
who said her father had
Ihot him. The elder man hid in
the smokehouse and fired
through cracks. It lacked little of
’being assassination.
Stone is set to die September
8 He has had one reprieve of 30
days to allow an Investigation.
The Inquiry has not helped more
than his confession. There may
. ,be something that will entitle the
little fellow to life Imprisonment.
Teachers Meet
Next Tuesday
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Meeting Will Be Preliminary
To Opening of Schools
Wednesday
A meeting of all
teeehers of Wilkes
llmlnary to the
BOhools September 5, will be held
'la Wilkesboro high school audl-
torlam next Tuesday.
C. B. Eller, superintendent or
the Wilkes'echool system, stated
Tuesday that the meeting will be
called to order at 10 a. m. and
requested that all be present at
^^-ImporUnt matters relative to
the operation of the schools wU
, co«ne up and attendance of all
^.'teachers Is mandatory-
S, B. Smithey To |
Teach At U. N. C.‘
Millers Creek Principal
Year Moves To Chapel
HiU«
the school
county, pre-
!allotment of Federal Funds,
carried. ; However, it begins to look as it
this promise may not be carried
out and if it Is not carried out,
unless I am incorrectly inform
ed, it will be because of the in
difference or opposition of the
citizens of the Wilkesboros and
Last Wilkes County. Since all the un-
‘ improved part of this road Is in
Wilkes county. It is natural that
the State Highway Commission
should respect the wishes of
W’ilkes county.
“I am greatly surprised to
hear that the authorities in
Wilkes county are giving prefer
ence to a proposed highway
from North Wilkesboro to Elkin
and other projects. They prefer
to build highways paralleling
with other highways and let
Ashe county citizens continue to
travel when they have an occas
ion to visit Wilkes county over
the humps and through the dust
which abound in one continual
stretch from Millers Creek to
Glendale Springs.
"Our Ashe county people are
great friends of the people of
Wilkes and have spent many a
dollar in Wilkes County and con
tributed in no small degree to
the progress and development of
the City of North Wilkesboro.
Wbuld you blame, them very
much should they decide to spend
Raymond Pardue|
Scalded To Death!
Prof. S. B. Smithey, who was
principal of Millers Creek high
school last year, has accepted a
position as Instructor in the
i University of North Carolina and
! moved his family to Chapel Hill
yesterday.
Announcement that Mr. Smith
ey has secured work at the Uni
versity will be of interest to his
I many friends throughout the
county. They regret that he is
leaving the local educational
I field, but wish him much success
; in his new work.
Mr. Smithey will also take a
post graduate course toward his.
Phd degree while at the Univer
sity.
WMiian'8 aub >feets Today
Members, of the Wilkesboro
woman’s Club will enjoy a picnic
•t the Izaak Walton League
Oemp grounds this afternoon.
" hey meet there at ,6:30
■*oek.
Murray To Preach At
at Pleasant Saturday
Rev. L. B. Murray, well known
Baptist minister, will preach at
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church at
^jhMapion Saturday evening at
:i$ o'clock- Th« public Is cor-
iBvited to hear him.
Supper At Moravian
A special supper will be given
at Morivian Palls schoolhouse
tonight at 7:30 o'clock by mem
bers of the baseball clubs there.
Everybody who wishes to obtain
a delightful supper at small cost
is urged to attend.
(Continued on back page)
Brushy Mountain Association Goes
On Record In Favor of ProhibUon
The sixtieth annual session of
the Brushy Mountain Baptist As
sociation was held with the
Mount Zion Baptist church Fri
day and Saturday. Mr. J. L.
(Hemphill was reelected modera
tor, and Mrs. Floyd Jentfings was
made Glerk and Treasurer, suc
ceeding J. P. Jordan, resigned.
A note of optimism pervaded
the sessions of " the Association.
Reports were received from all
but two i of the twenty-eight
ebasdSiaOi'one of which is report
ed to be disbanded. These reports
indicate progress along many
lines, in spite of the trying year
just closed.
Among those in attendance up
on all the meetings of the Asso
ciation was the aged and greatly
beloved W. C. Meadows, who has
missed but four sessions In sixty-
four years. His presence and his
timely, kindly remarks on vari
ous topics were a benediction to
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cordially I association at the recent organl-
j zation meeting, Mr. Rousseau
backing from
the morning of September 11, ’ his associates at the bar if he de-
Superintendent W. D. Halfacre j cldes to become a candidate. Un
announced a few days ago. | solicited pledges of support came
from attorneys in the various
counties of the district, it was re-
I ported.
Mr. Rousseau, his friends as
sert, is eminently qualified both
j by experience and knowledge of
the law to occupy a place on the
Superior court bench. Although
a young man in years, a point
which his friends say is strongly
in his favor, the local attorney
has been practicing law for nine
teen years, having received his
license in 1914.
Receiving his law degree from
the University of North Carolina
in that year, Mr. Rousseau pass
ed the state bar examination and
immediately entered Into the
practice of his chosen profession.
Within a few years he had de
veloped one of the largest law
practices, both civil and crimin
al, in this section of the state.
Mr. Rousseau’s friends point
to the fact that he has appeared
consistently in practically every
important case to come up in the
courts of Wilkes for the past
twelve or fifteen years. Particul
arly in recent years, the record
shows that he has not only prac
ticed in Wilkes, but has been
called to adjoining counties to
appear in important litigation.
TThe local attorney as mayor
of North Wilkesboro for the past
two years has performed his du
ties as Judge of the mayor’s
Dies In Explosion At W. E.
Sale Cannery In Little
Elkin Conunuiiity
Raymond Delaney Pardue, al
most 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.
G. Pardue of the Little Elkin
community, was fatally scalded
by steam in an explosion while
firing a boiler at the W. E. Sale
cannery, three miles west of El
kin, early yesterday morning. He
died at Hugh Chatham Memorial
hospital, Elkin, about noon.
George Poplin, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Poplin of Hon
da, also an employe of the can
nery, was painfully burned and
bruised in the explosion.
Young Pardue, late In reach
ing his post, is said to have fired
the boiler too rapidly for the
pop off valve to take care of the
excess steam. When the boiler
gave away directly over the fire
box, the steam covered Pardue’s
body, scaMir.g it horribly before
he was hurled 20 feet away by
the force. Others at the plant sus
tained lighter bums.
Pardue and Poplin were
carried to the hospital at Elkin,
the former’s condition being be
yond' medical aid.
The victim was the eldest child
of the family, and a nephew of
W. E. Sale,, proprietor of the can
nery. Surviving are his parents,
two sisters and a brother.
Funeral rites will be conducted
today at 2 o’clock at Little Elkin
Baptist church.
Revival Begins
Rev. G. W. Sebastian Preaching
At Gordon Church
A revival meeting began at
Gordon Baptist church on cotton
mill hill last night. Rev. G, W.
Sebastian, well known Baptist
minister, is conducting the serieq
of services and the public Is in
vited' to attend.
(Continued on back page)
North Wilkesboro’s Part In Program
By J. C. REINS
Chairman NRA Committee
The NRA plan is designed to put five million men back on pay
rolb of the nation in a short time. ^
When this is done, 20,000,000 people (assuming fo^ to each wage
earner’s family) will suddenly be placed in position to,buy the normal
necessities of life. That means that the total trade volume of the na
tion will, upon the complete acceptence of this plan, be lifted by from
10 to 20 per cent.
North (Wilkesboro will have a definite share in thig increased pros
perity to the extent that it participates in the plan, so there is a re
sponsibility on every citizen here to co-operate to the utmost to make
this gigantic national plan a complete success. Every employer and
every consumer has a definite responsibility to assume.
The Employers’ Responsibility
NRA calls upon every employer to shorten hours of labor, so as to
make room for more employees-
Each industry will before long adopt its own code which will fix
the increased labor obligations to be assumed by all firms associated
with that particular industry. Until that time all employers are asked
to sign the President’s agreement and to meet the hours and wages
established jn that agreement. This agreement is sometimes referred
to as the blanket code.
The success of NRA therefore calls for the co-operation of every
employer.
It is to the employers’ self-interest to do this- Why? Because more
people working, with bigger pay rolls, will increase the market for
his goods. Every dollar spent by an employer now for increased pay
roll will return many fold as business flows from a consuming public,
once more able to buy to supply its unfilled needs.
So every employer should sign the President’s agreement at once.
The Consumers’ Responsibility
Every individual, man and woman, who buys anything, owes it to
himself and his community and to the nation, to buy only from those
employers who have taken the increased burden of increasing pay
rolls to bring back prosperity. This is to the self-interest of the con
sumer because no citizen can fail to share in this added prosperity.
It will reflect itself in increased values for everything he owns. It
will make his present position more secure by revising the process of
deflation. So every consumer should sign the consumer’s pledge, which
commits him to do his part in this great national economic expea^nt.
The duty of every citizen of North Wilkesboro is therefore Iilain.
The President has said:
“On the basis of this simple principle of everybody doing thiatjb to-
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Wheat Reduction Campai^ To Be
Discussed Widi Farmers
Four meetings for the purpose
of ascertaining the extent of the
co-operation which Wilkes farm
ers expect to give in the nation
al wheat reduction .campaign
will be held In the county Satur
day, County'Farm Agent A. G.
Hendren, announced Tuesday.
The four meetings will be held
at Boomer, Wilkesboro, Somers;
schoolhouse and at Pleasant
Home schoolhouse In Edwards
District Agent O. F. McCrary
will come here and discuss the
campaign with the farmers, Mr.
Hendren said. ' -
All farmers Interested in the
proposal to cut the wheat crop
acreage this .year are asked to at
tend one of these meetings.,,
The achedtHe follows:’ Boomer
schoolhouse' at 9 a. m.; court
house in Wilkesboro at 11 a. lU.;
Somers sohoolbouse at k p. m.,
and Pleasant Home scboolhonse.
in Edwards township at 4^p. m,
Fine Card At C.
C. Camp Tonight
Boxing Exhibition Is Otf«ed
Firee Neap Pnriear This
Evening
Followers of pngnism will
have an (vportnnlty to. spe. an
excellent boxing exhibition at the
James' ClvHlan Conserratjjon
camp near Purlear this evening
at 8 o’clock. ■
The^card' Includes twelve hottt"
between members of the 0. 4 C.
army. Wrestling ntateb^^
so offered. '
' ’The bouts
St^ge 1^
ramp?