w-
|LflO m THE STATE—llJiO OUT OF THE STATE
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MorekoiiM Gives
His Reasms For
land On Repeal
1^ Candidate-For Repeal Dele
gate Says Pn^bition Is
Colossal Failure
HAS BRED HYPOCRISY
Declares Repeal a Non-Parti
san Issue; Government
Control Is Sought
The principle of prohibition is
bssically wrong and “to me it
Is" unreasonable, unenforceable
and un-Cbrlstlan, declares H. H.
Horehoiise, candidate for election
as the^> repeal >■ delegate from
Wilkes county.
ta exirialnlng why he stands
tor repeal, Mr. Morehouse asserts
that “thirteen years of trial have
shown It (prohibition) to be
.prodnctiTe of nnbelleyable hypo
crisy, Pharlseelsm and humbug.'*
Mr. Morehouse’s statement fol
lows:
..v/^hy I stand for repeal;
' "Because I believe the prin
ciple of prohibition is basically
wrong.
• “To me it is:
1—Unreasonable. It does snot
appeal to the intelligence, and it
Is a serious invasion of personal
liberty.
“2—Unenforceable. Thirteen
years of trial have shown it to be
productive of unbelievable hypo
crisy, Phariseeism and humbug;
Vastly expensive to the taxpayer.
It has filled our penitentiaries
and beyond capacity, with many
thousands out on parole and oth
ers with suspended sentences,
and still our court calendars are |
Jammed with a hopeless mass of
cases on the docket.
3—Unchristian. Christ said ‘Be
ye Temperate in all things.’ Tem
perance and prohibition are not
the same. The cause of temper
ance has been put hack most ser
iously by this so-called ‘Noble Ex
periment.' I.,et us clear the way
to get back to the proper, care
ful teaching of temperance. Leg
islative enactment will never
make people good. Only by en
lightenment and the proper for
mation of Christian character.
Wilkes Man Is
Freed By Jury 1
In Murder Casel
^Another Bennty Quem^
W. H. (Bill) Rhoades Turned
Loose On Chaise of Plan,:
ning Lottery Killing
4 NEGROES CONVICTED
Trial Was Held At Charlotte
Last Week; One Other White
Man Is Acquitted
H.
Miss Dorothy Fell, daughter of , ,, vv
Mrs. Ogden Mills, of New York,|H. Williams, lottery operator, b>
W. H. (Bill) Rhodes, 30 of
Purlear, Wilkes county, was ac
quitted on a charge of murdjr in
I connection with the death of S.
Jury
is to become the bride of Wool-1 a Mecklenburg county
worth Donahue, grandson of the j Thursday at Charlotte,
late F. W. Woolworth, and thus'
will two great fortunes be linked, Rhodes, was also acqultt-
Jullan M. LaFarge, brother-in-
Pomona Grange to
Hame Officers At
Meeting Thursday
1 ed in the verdict which crnvlcted
I four negroes, Alex Thompson,
Roscoe Campbell, Boxella Thom
as and Willie Aesterson, of sec-
ond degree murder. Sentences
I from 15 to 20 years were given
the negroes.
Williams wgs shot to death in
Organization Will Meet In
County Courthouse In
kesboro At 7:30 P. M.
'w. not by prohibition, can the cause
‘▼of
temperance be again brought
forth and made a power for good
In the land.
“Rei>eal is a non-partisan, na
tional issue and once accomplish
ed, each state must find and
adopt some better method of
/government control. Prohibition
'^has proved impractical and has
been abandoned by every coun
try that has tried it save the
United States, Iceland and Prince
Edwards Island. Other and
Officers for the coming year
will be elected Thursday evening
at a meeting of the Wilkes Po
mona Grange.
The meeting will be held in the
Courthouse at Wilkesboro at
7:30 o’clock and a large attend
ance is desired.
Much other important business
is scheduled to come up. it was !
announced this morning. For this :
reason, every subordinate Grange 1
is requested to send reuresenta-1
lives. I
his parked automobile in Char
lotte September 3 and the two
white men were charged with
planning his murder. Williams
was admittedly in competition
with Rhodes and Lafarge, who
were operating lotteries at the
time.
Following the acquittal of
Rhodes and LaFarge on the
charge of murder, they were or
dered held on charges of lottery
operation.
Rhodes is the son of Heti'.'y
Rhodes, of Purlear.
GARDNER RESIGNS HIS
POSITION WITH PARTY I
Washington. Oct. 14.—O. Max j
Gardner, former governor of i
Legion Auxiliary
Office Is Opened
G. Fiidey
Nam^ President
()f Kiwanis Club
REMDEZVODSMOlMrAINTABI
ll)IVEniDMniRI>AYWi)./ill:.
-.4
J. B. McCoy fa Mecfad Vice
Presidleiit;
Abo Nai^^^ .
MR. OLIVE HAS'pRdGRAM
James Larkin Pearson, Poet
Laureate of Wilkes, Reads
Several Poems
Ifia DUm
• MdefstaUte
« Bidle im ^
•I the Madbv^tqMN teta 1
trio BtfodUsa,,
McEiwee Opens
Office in City
Young Attorney Locates In
Bank of Noi*th Wilkes
boro Building
Mi-s. W. R. Absher Is Now In
New Office; Miss Adams Is
Her Secretary
North Carolina, now a Washing
ton attorney, today resigned as I Headquarters for the North
Democratic national committee-1 Carolina Department of the
man from his native state.
Gardner's resignation, mailed
to J. Wallace Winborne, of Mar
lon. N. C., chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee,
removes him from active politics
for the first time in a quarter of
a century.
‘ Follies Of 1934” To Be
Given At Morganton High
A letter was received here yes
terday from Fred Rudisill invit
ing people of North Wilkesboro
to see his latest production. “Fol
lies of 1934,” at the Morganton
high school auditorium tomor-
bet. ‘ row evening at 8 o’clock. Mr.
ter methods have been found and I Rudisill directed a play in this
vast revenues diverted from the' three years ago and
will probably return here in the
criminal classes into Government
(|P channels. But I personally con
sider the Righteousness of the
cause before the Revenue derived
therefrom.
“Alcohol is one of the many
gifts of the Creator and most
certainly has some Important us
es tor mankind'. When used in
telligently and Temperately It
has proved a most beneficent aid
to untold millions down through
the ages. Let us as a Nation learn
to use it properly as do the vast
majority in many lands, notably
trance, Italy, England and Ger-
'^i:0a.ny.
r “H. H. MOREHOUSE.”
near future.
Bums To Death
Raleigh, Oct. 15. — C. B.
(”Doc”) Mall, 38, was burned to
death tonight when his car
plunged oft the road into a vir
tually dry bed in a creek near
here, after, police said, the car
driven by the man had struck
another car and sped away.
Announcement
The Franklin Circle will meet
Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the
home of Mrs. P. W. Eshelman.
^11 members are urged to be
present.
Blind Musician
Guest Of Lions
Mr. A. C. Yale, prominent citi
zen of Hays, was a business visi
tor here Saturday.
American Legion Auxiliary were
opened in the Call building over
the North Wilkesboro Drug com
pany this morning.
Furniture and office supplies
were moved here from Statesville
Saturday.
Miss Arella Adams will con
tinue to serve as secretary and
will assist Mrs. W. R. Absher,
state president, with the work of
the office.
Body Found In Bay
San Diego, Cal., Oct. 15.—The
body of a woman about 65 years
old, the skull crushed and the
legs sawed off, was found today
floating in a sailor’s canvas sea
■bag In the bay near the Broad
way pier, main terminal of San
Diego.
The sea bag was stencilled
with the name ”F. B. Hencke, U.
S. N.” A check of the navy per
sonnel in the 11th district here
disclosed a sailor by that name
was a patient in the naval hos
pital in San Diego until last
month, when he was given a
medical discharge. Authorities
did not know his whereabouts.
Police said they had no reports
of a missing vroman here and
said they sought Hencke for
questioning.
W. H. McElwee, promising
young attorney of Wilkesboro,
opened an office in the Bank of
North Wilkesboro building last
week and Is now located there
tor the practice of his profession,
dlis office is located in one of
the rooms formerly occupied by
the Wilkes Finance company, ad
joining the office of Attorney J.
M. Blackburn.
Mr. McEiwee is the son of Mrs.
W. H. McEiwee, of Statesville,
and came to Wilkes soon after
receiving his license to practice
law. He has made a distinctly
favorable impression at the bar
lavoraoie uupi
and will In the fuUure devofeTiIs
entire time to his law practice.
Hearing On Tax
Matter Put Off
Saturday
Judge Hoyle Sink was unable
to hold a hearing on the tempor-
|Ery restraining order In the mat
ter of the school tax supplement
at Lexington Saturday and the
hearing was postponed. Judge
Sink advised that he could hear
it in Winston-Salem tomorrow
night but attorneys in the case
were unable to go there at that
time, so the hearing will prob
ably be held at Jefferson the
first of next week.
Several citizens are seeking to
permanently restrain the city
from collecting the ten-cent sup
plemental levy for schools. The
special tax carried in the special
election August 14, but the plain
tiffs contend the election was not
properly called or conducted.
Richard G. Finley, prominent
local business man, was elected
president of the North Wllkes-
horo Kiwanis Club for the en
suing year at the annual elec
tion which was held Friday. He
succeeds Dr, Fred C. Hu-hbard,
who served during the past year.
J. B. McCoy, proprietor of Ho
tel Wilkes, was elected vice pres
ident and' Prof. T. E. Story was
re-elected treasurer.
The five new directors elected
were: Genio Cardwell, D. J. Car
ter, J. R. Finley, P. W. Ekihel-
man and W. B. Jones.
The election of officers took
place immediately after luncheon
had been served.
The program was opened with
a song, after which J. R. Finley
spoke the Invocation.
T. E. Story presented Miss Al
ma Duneer, of Aberdeen, who Is
coaching a Wayne P. Sewell pro-
iductlon, “Oh, Professor," which
will be given at the Wilkesboro
school under the sponsorship of
the Parent-Teacher Association
Thursday and Friday evenings of
this week. Miss DuMeer respond
ed with a delightful reading,
"What Bill Thay.”
Rev. Eugene Olive, who was In
charge of the luncheon program,
presented James Larkin Pearson,
of Boomer, poet laureate of
Wilkes, as the guest artist of the
day. Mr. Pearson is one of the
most noted poets in the South
and has had his poems publish
ed in many leading publications
throughout the country.. ,
After a brief talk, Mr. Pear
son read a number of his recent
poems which have received wide
publicity and popular acclaim.
The poems read Include the fol
lowing: “Fifty Acres,” “Today,”
“Sea Wind,” "This Little Road
Leads Home,” "Not By Bread
■Choice,"
Quatrain." “My Name,” “My
Bud and Me.”
The readings were very im
pressive and the attention of KI-
wanians was called by Rev. Mr.
Olive to the fact that these poems
are included In Mr. Pearson’s
latest book of poems entitled,
“Fifty Acres and' Other Poems.”
Dr. A. R. Newsom Pindi. Hits
For Governor Who W«»
Unable To Attwid
SPEAKS
7‘‘7^
JUDGE FINLEY
Only One Tablet Is Unvefld^
Bat Two Others Will Be
Placed Soon
Rendezvous Mountain waa tor-
mally accepted by the rtaM of
i North Carolina Saturday in an
' ImpresslTO ceremony which is*
Among rules included in
“husband code,” presented
Judge J. M. Hartman In Domes
impresBiTo coiomunj —
'eluded addresses by Judge T. B.
Finley, who donated the moun- -
tain, and Dr. A. R. Newsom, a
member of the State Historical
commission. ^ ■ ' «
The occasion was the unveil
ing of a memorial tablet at the
his point on the Boone Trail lOgh-
by way where the road leads oil to
the Rendezvous. The
tic Court at St. Louis, was hot got under way shortly af^. -Jx
dinners, with cold cute and sar
dines taboo, If wives are to sleep
late two mornings each week.
N. C. S. D. Class
WiU Visit City
Program To Be Given Here
Wednesday Evening At
Methodist Church
“Oh, Professor” To Be (liven At
Wilkesboro Thursday and Friday
Excellent Cast, Including Charles EDedge, Former Carolina
Player, To Present Play; Is Wayne P. Sewell Production;
Parent-Teacher Association Is Sponsoring It
Professor,” one of
j^ZoUle Parsons And Quartet En
terfalned Club Thursday
Evening
Zollie Parsons, of Parsonsvllle,
a blind musician, was the guest
(;'iartlst at the semi-monthly lunch-
■*6pn of the Lions Club Thursday
pPavening at Hotel Wilkes. , - —
K’"' Mr Parsons brought with him, ner Miller as Steve Crandall and
Oh! Professor,” one of the
best musical comedies of the cur
rent season will be staged at the
Wilkesboro school auditorium
Thursday and Friday, November
19-20. The performances are to
be staged under the auspices of
the Wilkesboro P.-T. A. A splen
did cast has been chosen.
Real theatrical talent will be
found in the main cast. Mr, War
^ A quartet from his community
^ Which rendered several spirituals.
IThe 'blind artist gave two piano
Lgoloa.
]^'After the program, the Lions
'’presented Mr. Parsons a white-
, enameled cane which Lions In-
|tornationaI has adopted as the
j^^^icial type for the bUnd.
club decided to collect all
iMrallable magazines for dlstrlbu-
^on 41 the county home and con
vict camp.
The program for the evening
In oharfe of Attorney B, T,
•nderson. ■i'i..-. , j
Mrs. Worth Morrison as Wilhel-
mina will handle the leads in a
most capable fashion and the two
comedy parts will find Mrs. A. H.
[Taylor, as Mrs. Bumboard and
Mr. Charles Elledge, as Professor
Ed Crysel, the
Much of the pep and finish to
the play is due to the clever
dancing and singing of the girls
choruses, college girls and hoys
which is composed of Pauline
Kinlaw, Carol Cowles, Vivian
Johnson, Malvina ■Williams, Lu-
cile Hartley, Nell Henderson,
Helen Dula, Dessie Valentine,
Hazel Shepherd. Violet Erickson,
Vena Jarvis, Edith Mayberry, V.
C. Anderson, Resale Stewart,
Mildred Smithey, Jesse Davis,
Mrs. Helen Cashion, Virginia
Johnson, Madeline Harris, Mar
jorie Dula, Helen Winkler, Frank
Henderson, Fred Henderson,
Walter Emerson, Tom Bumgar
ner, Harold Hartley, and Chgrlle
Bumgarner. Miss Ursula Blevins
Huge Amount Of Pork
Will Be Distributed
Raleigh, Oct. 14.—Distribution
of 607,500 pounds of pork to
feed the needy in North Carolina
will begin next week. Mrs. Thom
as O’Berry, state director of the
federal relief program, announc
ed today.
The state has been divided into
18 districts for the distribution
with a central shipping point be
ing designated for each one.
Distribution to counties In this
district by pounds will be as fol-
'lows:
District No. 4, shipping point.
North Wilkesboro—Watauga, 4,-
095; Ashe, 4.572; Surry, 5,481;
Wilkes, 3,459; Yadkin, 3,908;
Alexander, 1,992.
(By Rev. J. H. Armbrust)
A class of fifteen children and
1 three teachers from the School
.for the Deaf at Morganton will
’arrive in North Wilkesboro on
'Wednesday afternoon to give a
program in the Methodist church
that night at 7:30 o’clock.
One of the most remarkable
pieces of work to he found any
where will be portrayed. TTiese
children are
a. m.
Under auspices of the P>gfl>t-
ers of the American ReTolO^n,
the progt&m was permeated with
lofty sentiments and the entlrw
ceremony was impressive and In
spiring. Mrs. H. 0. Steele, chnlr- -
man of the Rendezvous Monntoln
Memorial, presided.
After the Invocation by Rev.
Eugene Olive, of this city, and
the D. A. R. ritual, led by Mlw
Record Judgment Given In Ellen Robinson, the Daughtew
- - - — the American Creed and
$20,000 Verdict
b Returned For
Mrs.Ethel Norris
Damage Suit Against Two
Automobile Owners
A verdict allowing $20,000
damages was returned by a
Wilkes Jury Thursday in Super
ior court in favor of Mrs. Ethel
Hill Norris against John G. Tull,
of this city, and N. E. Hargett,
colored, of Greensboro.
It was believed to be the larg
est damage case verdict ever re
turned in Wilkes.
The Jury found both automo
bile owners equally responsible
for the .jolUslon in which Mrs,
■Norris was seriously injured and
maimed for life. The accident
took place between Greensboro
and Burlington.
Defendants in the action gave
notice of appeal to the Supreme
court.
To Give “Heaven
Bound’* October 24
Woman’s Missionary .Society Of
Methodist Chnrrii Is Spon
soring The Play
"Heaven Bound”, which was
given a short time ago by a cast
of 30 colored people, will be pre
sented for the second time in the
auditorium of Wilkesboro High
School on Tuesday evening, Oc
tober 24, at 8 p. m.
The play was so enthusiastical
ly received that the Woman’s
Missionary Society of the Wllkes-
boro Methodist church decided to
sponsor Its return for a second
engagement.
Only one performance will be
given. The admission fees will be
15 cents for children and 25
cents for adults.
Big Potatoes
Are Displayed
at their best. Mr. .
chink, will have plenty of laughs i is to be the accompanist
to dispense. Little Peggy Somers, There will also be a
as Avonelle, you will find a regu
lar mischief maker. Mr. Richard
Deans, as Bob Davis, Miss Luclle
Hart, as Helen, Mr. Bob Cranor,
aa Dave Davis, and Mr. Bill Pre-
vette, aa the policeman, make np
a cast that , is most tajlented.
special
number by a group of children
from the first and second grades
"Oh, Professor” promises to
be an outstanding stage perform
ance and the public is cordially
invited. Admission charges will
Richard Pierce, who re
sides in rills city, probably
holds the championship for
raising large sweet potatoes
this year. Three potatoes,
grown by him on his farm
near Purlear, are being dis
played in the window of The
Jonmal-Patriot office, the
largest of these weighln{(
four pounds and five ounces,
the other two weigb three
pounds and one and three
ounces, respectively.
If other farmers have
larger potatoes. The Jonm-
altPatiiot will be |^ad to dis-
ifiay then. ' ^ . > .
Germany Shocks
World By Quitting
League Of Nations
Berlin, Oct. 14. — Germany
I porirajBu. juboo boldly announced her withdrawal
■stone” deaf. They .today from the league of nations October it
I ... «viA/tA/i nv
have never heard a sound. Yet and the world disarmament con
they are so taught that they can
sing, read signs, talk with their
fingers, play In an orchestra,
read lips and many other accom
plishments.
And they have their church
services and worship God by
learning to sing by placing their
hands on the piano and getting
both sound and rythm that way.
A demonstration of that will be
given.
These hoys and girls will be
supper guests of the church con
gregation at one of the eating
places in the city. Sufficient
funds are in hand to care for
that.
The boys and girls of this city
will want to see how their less
fortunate friends can carry on In
life. Let the parents come and
bring the children, young and
old.
Such a service as this will
make us appreciate our bles
sings.
The Boy Scouts in uniforms
under the direction of Scout
Master Bouknlgbt will be the
ushers. No admission will be
charged. The meeting -will b^n
promptly at 7:80 P-, ®. Let the
people be there by 7:80 so that
ference.
tragic error, regrettable quarrel,
and fight.”
In a dramatic speech, the
chancellor condemned the post
war Versailles treaty, long a
thorn in Qertnany’s side, and
maintained there “Is no possibil
ity of territorial conflicts be
tween France and Germany.’’
He poured forth his
gave
then followed with the pledge or
allegiance to the flag.
Judge Finley was presented to
the large assembly, which In
cluded members of the Jamea
Civilian Conservation Camp new
at work on Rendezvous, by Miss
Lucy L. Finley. Judge Finley ex
plained the purpose of the gift of
Rendezvous to the state and cited
the great historical value of the
mountain.
Dr. Newsom, who came m the
place of Governor Ehrlnghaus,
was introduced by Mrs. Steele.
*1116 governor was unable to at
tend becausJT of a meeting of the
trustees of the Greater Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Dr. Newf om lauded the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
for their part In keeping alive
the glorious history of the past.
“No people,” he declared', “who
are Indifferent to their past can
hope to make their future
He brought the regret of Gov
ernor Ehrlnghaus whom he as
sured the assembly wished to be
present.
It was fitting, the speaker
thought, to commemorate the-
spot where Colonel Benjamin
Cleveland had sounded the call
to arms Just prior to the Battle
of Kings MounUin.
The tablet was unveiled ,hy
Master Thomas Finley JTelson
and Master Charles Donald Cof
fey and Mrs. H. O. Steele present
ed It to the D. A. R. The speech
of acceptance was delivered by
Mrs. Sydney Perry Cooper, state
regent D. A. R.. whose eloquent
address captivated the assembly.
“America” was sung and Rev.
C. W. Robinson gave the bene
diction.
The Inscription on the tablet
is as follows: “Rendezvous Moun
tain State Park, Donated by
Judge and Mrs. Thomas B. Fin
ley, in memory of 225 soldiers as
sembled two miles north of here
by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland,
who led them to Kings MounUin
October 17, 1870. This UUet
placed by the Daughters of the
American Revolution of North
re- Carolina.”
The spot on which
the Ublet
This she did because she
fused to he a nation “of second to the D. A.
C... Cb.»ce„o,
declared, and wants "equality oy Kicna of
fend honor.’’
Hitler told the world the Ger
man government and people are
who Is a great-great nephew of
Colonel Cleveland.
Two other tablets will he
man governmeni ana peopie are tho n A R In the
“animated by no other wish than of'^ihL wi
)tO
limated by no other wish than i
help end the human epoch of near xjo. 16 and
placed on Highway No. 16 and
the other on top of the mounUin.
Allejrhany Man ^
Dies In Accident
-Mack
hopes and grievances, he spoke
the country’s need for defense
weapons, declared that “the men
who today lead Germany have
nothing In common with the paid
traitors of November, 1818,” and
maintained the' German people
regard themselves as guiltless for
the world war,
’Then, to give the pwple the
chance to express their attitude
about these sudden;*’’ epochal
events, President Paul von Hln-
'denburg dissolved the relqhsUg
Elkin, Oct. 14.
about 40, son of Llnvllle Joines,
,of Alleghany county, was iusUnt-
nation’s ly killed in an automobile aMl-
that the children can get arrang-:, afiMl set new elections forg wo
od tor the.servlee-
-■■L-
vemher 12.
dent last night, Robert ,^oJ^i.
brother of ae victim^ wm Injur
ed, but not seriously., ’ ,
The accident occurred between
SparU and 'Whitehead wheg^^^to
automobile In which they were
driving left the roed and p^rtWSed
over'an embankment, acooijWng
to Information. The vloUm ol the
wreck had been residing tn .Mc-
DoweU, W. Ya. and. waa en route
to hlB parent’s home tor the
visit In 18 years. •
He le^vee a. wife and two.chil
dren In addition to his family
connection In Alleghany.
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