North Carolina Newspapers

1#-^ #3 PobUshed Moadayfe W^tkargiiTi NORTH IboroTn? b iBi^jFor (onma^n ; Secretery of Treasury Present Recov- ' ery Program )VER NOT CANOroATE Said To Hold Very To Conservative ^ Republican Doctrines Fashioston, Jan. 30. — The al comment on Ogden L. broadside against some ‘ of tie tendencies of the Rooserelt era raised the question tonight iunt wbo and how many are : poteutlnl candidates for RepuMl- onaldential nomination. ^two Democratic leaders in Saibator Rdblnson of and' Representative innessee. said they ^ as speech of last iigbt a' rather definUe indication 'in vronld run for the Republl- .'.eiaa^j&ovlnation two years hence. " • ContrtbnUng to the question — ,-.vrae the comment of one of the sist selling peanuts and popcorn 'blKer front-atage figures in the' ' ' f.^jarty, Repreeentative Snell, a I Gets Ptesidgnps Help' llEthelnHui Named As Director of New Mol Group i Southern Hosiery Manufac- ! turers’ Association Or-, ‘I ganized at Asheville HUFFMAN IS PRESIDENT Washington - . . Store Vasi- lakos Is no longer sad. President Roosevelt “w^nt to the front” for him when he was ordered to de- Mipv, 'tSn atafa and leader of the mi- ' la^y in the bouse. - ■ ^rV BeeaUs 8peedi “Yon oiay recall,” Snell told .:ie9orter8 after saying Mills’ npeecb was a splendid piece of ' '"cov^rnctlve criticism, “that Wben congress convened I made ' b 'radio speech making similar ' .recommendations. 'Mr. Mills de voted them and covered them Wifcitol dutall.” Snell ttoo. waved aside the idea that the cpeeoh stamped ;]MWiu as a candidate for the nom- i^ktion, saying it was “too early jU) talk about presidential possi- liWUUes.” 'Rie national party chairman, ^verett Sanders, steered a course f‘clear of presidential possibilities Jn his comment. "I thought.” said Sanders, ^jr. Mills’ address showed thoughtful analys- 4bak^it was-^a p, W. Eshelman, president of ]the Wilkes Hosiery Mills, was i elected as a director of the j Southern Hosiery Manufacturers’ j Association which was organired [at Asheville Saturday, j Officers were elected, a char- iter and by-laws were adopted at jthe meeting of approximately 125 hosiery mill operators. * T. R. Durham, formerly of i Knoxville. Tenn., was elected executive secretary of the associ ation. His headquarters will be established in Charlotte. Other officers of the new or ganization are: R. O. Huffman, of Morganton, president; J. M. , Berry, of Rome, Ga., vice presl- ident and chairman of the seam- Hovyweig^ Ajgwl Nonibi!^iii^FHr Postof &^or Local Attorney Makes Fbrmai Annonneeutent ot His Candidacy TO OPPOSE J. R. JONES P. J. McDuffie, well known practicing attorney of this city. announcement my friends in urged me to at the corner of the White House grounds where he’d sold them for i j, . , m t 29 years. The police say Steve I*"*® J. Wallner can stay. vice president and chairman of Home of R. Don Laws Is Burned the full fashioned hose division, Large Moravian Falls Resi dence and Contents Is Burned To Ground The large residence Of R. Don Laws, located at Moravian Palls, was completely destroyed by fire early yesterday morning and A. D. Strauss, Jr., of Colum bus, Ga., treasurer. The new association was or ganized to meet the particular needs of southern hosiery manu facturers, whose labor and ma terial problems are different from these in other sections of the nation, Mr. Durham explain ed. It will not be the purpose of the association, he continued, to withdraw from the National Hosiery Manufacturers associ- . very ^ oT •forceful Ity views. Says Speech Moderate "It was,” he said, "characteriz ed by moderation, which the country likes to see of men prom- ilnent in public life.” New York . . European heavy weights return tor new wars in American rings. Prime Carncra, Italy, (above) World Champion, and Max Schmeiing, Germany, (helow) former ■ title holder, landing here last week. Camera is now in Miami where he meets Tommy Loughran 'February 22. Schmellng’s opponent has not yet been picked. issued a formal announcement of .his candidacy for solicitor this week. Mr. McDuffie’s reads as follows: "For sometime this district have make the race for Solicitor in the Seventeenth Judicial District, and after due consideration, I have decided to mn for such office. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Solici tor on the Republican ticket In the Seventeenth Judicial District of North Carolina, and I shall appreciate the help and support Congressman Harold McGugin, of Coffeyvllle, Kansas, will deliv er *the principal address at the fifth annual Lincoln Day dinner for North Carolina Republicans at Greensboro February 12. tery CtM’snar’s Jury To , Foorth Inqniiy I« Wm/r- Oiildreiss’ Deatti^ SOLICITOR IS Ai Probe To Be HeM At I Coarthouse In WIMm At 10 0*clGdk James A. McCoy Passes In City Funeral To Be Held This Morning At 11:30; Burial Near Charlotte Business Census Workers To Begin Work Immediately wnen, . fire caught on the roof and ation but rather to work through quickly ate its way through the and with the national organiza- wooden building. tlon as a subsidiary. DiKerences All the household furnishings in the provisions of the NRA hos- and contents of the house with I lery mill code for mils in the the exception of a ndio, piano,;south created problems peculiar living room suite and a few per- to this section, sonal effects were burned. Directors for the new assoc - ( Th* loss, estimated at »5,000. ation were also elected as fol- vra« only pavtially coVeT^iYliy In- lows: G. - W. lent of the minor-|surance. J- C. McEwan u ^ d The fire was discovered about Wilcox, Union. S. C.; H. T. Bry- 7:00 yesterday morning, but had an, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., Har- gained such headway that there old Lamb, Knoxville, Tenn., J. wa.-! no chance to save the resi- K. Voehrlnger, Greensboro: Clar- dence. 'ence G. Burton. Lynchburg, Va.; The residences of ShafteriW. W. Lancaster, Spartanburg, Supervisor Thurman and His Assistant Here Yesterday On Project MEN ARE INSTRUCTED All Information Furnished By Business Men Is Kept Confidential The four appointees .named re- .. , J luiii aii(n„ui.cci> .i,uu,v,u ^ - jchurch cemetery north pt Char- so elected as gently to take a buslnraa cfiUBtis', . 'Uotte . Uila ^afternoon , Gaddy.': A41«n»rie; thefr 6^ Rev. John Long Jackson, , Burlington; F. S. 'in Church; She Was 88 irector of St. Martin’s in Ohariotle ' Years of Age TOe *characterlzation by Rob-, Laws and W. C. Hendren, located ^S. C.; G. C. Harrelson, Priimeton, IWC ^ ^ ^ navie V*nrt PftVne. .Innon and Byrns of Mills as a teaodidsie brought to the surface 'aft-4 stratum of politica^ thought. Even during the 1932 on either side of tihe burning res-; K.v.; R. E. Davis, Port Payne, idence, caught fire several times,Ala.; R. T. Amos, High Point, and the fire fighters were kept,Garnett Andrews, Rossville, Ga.; busy preventing the destruction 1 "W. H. McLelland, New Orleans, laign, when the then secre-i of the homes. | La., and P. W. Eshelman, North ’mrv 'oF'khe treasury carried aj The cause of the fire had not i Wilkesboro. i- part of the stumping load j been determined yesterday. | States embraced in the assocl- ^'for Mr. Hoover, there was much Mr. Laws stated yesterday that j ation include all states from “talk of a Mills 1936 candidacy, the plans to rebuild on the same i Maryland south and from Texas, t.7%l«Torthele88 those who talk'site in the near future. Mr. Laws I Arkansas and Oklahoma, east. T986 even today do so with, is publisher of the Yellow Jacket, | Mr. Eshelman was accom- ^Lny reservations. In addition to' nationally known publication, i panled to Asheville by Mrs. Esh- ■ -• - * —T- '“-'and is one of the county’s bestjelman. known citizens. a common belief that such discus preipatnre. there are ’ 'to be considered— tfco as possibilities of gaoHi an4 stlll another New /?Toirter, Representative Wads- 4teiWcrth. of Senator McNary of Ore- jKton and of Pat Hurley, former ^BKkr secreUry. PF And there is still another tac- ^ tor. Things are changing rapidly. Democratic administration I - has so ranch of its record still to ' make, and the question of recov ery or continued depression is so olanely interwoven with politics.^ iluit few will make any predic-1 i Disooiiut Hoover's •Trip | For the same reason, political' leaders discount the inevitable rnnrors that Herbert Hoover’s] Ft goon-to-be-taken trip east has a 1 coknectlon with. 1936. * V Te begin with, all of Mr. Hoov- ^4 er’s Intimates in Washington say i$ not even ernsidering the l^^raMtion of running again. They a4d that, if »ie bed decided to F? run, ho would not become active ■- now, tout would wait and re-ap- peer on the stage If and when there 'was an unmlstpkhble reces sion in the popularity and power of the present administration. Iftlls was 'THoover’8 chief ad viser on financial policies, even ^ before the departure of Andrew | Mellon from the treasury and j Weehlngton. Up to now Mills has j been counted generally as a i itsiMlfast lieutenant In the Hoov-, w croup. His thrusts last night ■t t*regiBieatatioii'1—the organi- lation of Indnetry for uniform Lions Club Directors To Meet This Evening Directors of the Lions Club will be entertained at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. McNeill this j jyjj^rk Down evening at 7 o’clock. This will .be the regular February meeting and Dr. McNeill will be host. New Furniture Store To Open work today and for the next four or five weeks will visit every business institution in the Coun ty for the purpose of securing the information desired by the government. H. J. Thurman, of Greensboro, supervisor of the second district which Includes Wilkes, and his assistant. F. L. Young, were here yesterday to confer with the cen sus takers and instruct them pre paratory to beginning their work. The men who start work today are Sam Grier, of Moravian Falls, Jay Brookshire, of Wilkesboro, Woodrow Absher, of North Wil kesboro, and Clarence J. Hen dren, of Pores Knob. In an Interview with the Journ al-Patriot representative yester- day afternoon, Mr. Thurman I Furniture Store Is Beii^ Opened Up On Tenth Street Apply To The Civil Service Commission The .Tournal-Patriot lias re ceived a number of requests for Information about the necessary qualifications for government positions and for this reason, the attention of those Interested Is called to the fact that the necessary blanks and information can he obtain ed by writing the Civil Service Conui'ission, Wa.shington, D. C. Most of those writing The Jonmal-Patrlot have faUed to name the position in which they were interested. If yom write the Civil Servicei Com mission for particulars, be sure to state what position you want Information about, whether it is a postmastership or some other Job. - j The Mark Down Furniture j Store is the name of a new husl- ! ness enterprise which is being I opened in the F. D. Forester I building located at the corner of "B” and Tenth streets. ! Thj building has been re- ' modeled and the interior re- I painted, giving it an attractive appearance) and providing com modious quarters for the new : business. i Mr. Avery Whittington is man- i ager of the new store. He stated ! yesterday that the store will he opened to the public Saturday. A select line of furniture is ar riving and is being' arranged for display. When all the new stock arrives, the Mark Down Furnl- i ture Store will have one of the ! most complete lines in this sec tion, Mr. Whittington said. ! The public is cordially -invited I to pay the new store a visit and inspect the new stock. of all of my friends and of the voters in the June Primary, 1984, and pledge myself, if I am nominated and elected, that I shall at all times endeavor to do my duty in said office.” , The 17th Judicial district is compraed o f Wilkes, Avery, Mitchell, Alexander, Yadkin and Davie counties and the present solicitor Is John R. Jones who has served in this capacity since Johnson J. Hayes resigned to ac cept appointment as Judge of the middle federal district of United States court. ’ Attorney McDuffie is the first candidate to announce for the, __ Republican solicltorlal nomina- morning and his death was a dls- tlon. Solicitor Jones has not made any statement relative to his in- James Albert McCoy, little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCoy, of this city, died at Hotel Wilkes yesterday shortly after noon of a throat ailment following an 111- nees of five hours'. He was strick en 111 at 7 o’clock yesterday tentlons, but It is generally und erstood that he will ask for re-1 ducted election. | o’clock church tinct shock to friends of the llt- service will be con- arrested’ and duesUoned wiA^- Coro^r 8. A.' Rash tor John R. Jpnes will cot fourth fcoroDer]s, hearing ,1^ C^iildress ^ morning act 10 'o'clock courihonse In Wilkesboro.'' „ Questioned yesterday aftemooB regarding developments in case. Solicitor Jones said so* new evidence had been dlscoror-.v ed, hut that he was not yet ready . ^ to disclose Its naturo. The sbW-1^ citor said the hearing Saturday^/ will bring to light some startlbiK ; facts that have been unearthed fn| the investigation)^ made by the investigators. ^ ^ The Uitest kriowff'^lfirfelopffieat of Importance was the artMt Sunday night of Mrs. Lather Til ley on a warrant eharglag her with the murder. Althot^ oM- clal findings have ndtr^SpF^** leased. It Is reliably reported that Mrs. Tilley’S handwriting to very ' similar to the handfcl.tlngjp(J^ note purported toj hatlJ by Leoda Childrw, 1» found shot to death ir th^ hiwne of her foster-parents, Mr; Mrs. W. W. Tilley, near. I on December 80. The report Is current the experts are convhlc Miss Childress did not note. ' '*™ ., . While ten persons, have bea», Mrs. Jarvisj Dies i' J r uuvicii v»xa» w j this morning at 11:30 from the Presbyterian by Rev. C. W. Robinson, pastor, and Rev. B. M. Lackey, of Lenoir, rector of St. Paul’s _ _ lir*ll I I Episcopal church. Burial Will Maav W|||rpA|kA|^A I take place in St. Mark’s Episcopal Mrs. Martha N. Jarvis, one of | the oldest residents of the coun-1 ty, died at the home of her son. | T. B. Jarvis, five miles west of | Wilkesboro, Tuesday at 12:45 a. rector of St. Martin’s in Ohariotle and St. Mark’s, will be in charge of the service at the grave. Pallbearers will be R. G. Fin ley, A. F. Kilby, Dr. Fred C. Hubbard, Gordon Fliilpy, W. W. I Watt, Jr., J. B. Watt, Dr. T j McCoy and F. H. McCoy. u». loic' flowertoearers will be Miss She was born April 2, Emily MoCoy's Sunday school and was. therefore, 88 years, follows: Margaret Mc Neill. Marcella Pendley, Kate I Ogllvle, Elizabeth Cashlon, Daisy ed from Shady Grove i church yesterday afternoon o’clock by Rev. Isaac Watts, ana wouia, inereiore, nave terment was in the Church ceme- j jjg^n 2 years and 6 months of age a aAi*vl/sA Txraa PiAld ■ «. •> a a./t «w months and 28 days of age. ] Funeral services were conduct-1 Ugllvie, £»iiRaDetn L.ii9aiuu Baptist I Mildred Finley, in at A , TAvMAn aaraa At1»1 James was born August 4, 1931 and would, therefore, have bciuicus. v*«» — -- I oeen z years aiiu o niumus tery. A brief service was held at | Monday, the residence prior to the church ; j,ad many service. ■ friends In the city and was es erence to the deaMt of Mlss OhS- dress, only Mfi.'Tllley la dlp««- ly charged with, the murdmrr An drew Smoot, rwMtoad-swdfliitori of the dead girl, was freed last week, although he Is stllj under bond as a material wltheea. -8raoot returned to his work at echflolfield, Va., tout said would appear as a witness aBr^-' time be was sent for. Solicitor Jones has beeta very active this week In the case. Ebrery angle is being studied witk a view to filling in the; weak spots in the case' against Mn. M I’niley. i Luther TlHey and Winfield Stanley are In Jail in conneettoa with the six-year-old murderer of Andrew Eld^nga, but neither is hnider Arrest I'n tha Childress case. A hearing in the Eldridge case is scheduled to be held dMfora Magistrate A. B. SpainhowoT to- , morrow, although the exact hoar Muld not be learned yesterdv. Solicitor Jones expressed opinion late yesterday that- -the The floral offering was beauti-1 ‘popurar with the travel- » solution. ful and attested to the esteem in , regnlarly at which Mrs. Jarvis was held by^jj^jgj wilkes, of which his fath- a a y aiiernooii, mr. luurimm . ■ . ^ —, pointed out that the information secured by the census workers is absolutely conf|Identlal and that every person handling this In formation Is sworn not to divulge any of the facts obtained under heavy penalty. It is very Important that busi ness men co-operate to the fullest extent, Mr. Thurman stated. In connection with the 'business census, Mr. Thurman made the following statement: “All Informatloa obtained will be held in strict confidence by the government, but through the -■* — — 1 Cl IB UlCSUSS^OX . Grandsons of the deceased were, Resides his parents, he is sur vived by one sister, Emily GUy- active pallbearers. Surviving are her husband, R. j McCoy, and two brothers, J. B. F. Jarvis, and the following chll-|jj. Robert Watt McCoy. dren; W. F. Jarvis, of Kings j Creek; J. R. Jarvis, of Bingham iWilkeg eWA Staff Canyon, Utah; T. B. Jarvis, ^ Wilkesboro; H. r>. Jarvis, of Uos' OCnClS Viltt lO Angeles. Calif.; Mrs. J. E. C. Gil-i SpringS reath. of Taylorsville, and Mrs.! G. T. Mitchell, >01 Millers Creek. Forest Fire At McGrady i Brought Under Control The forest fire which burned basic data to be supplied by the over several hundred acres—,ofl « l A.t — T.8 ^^ w ILFa/!! census. business men should be timber land near McGrady Satur able to make comparative stu- (Contlnued on page five) day, Sunday and Monday was brought under control by 50 C. C. Camp boys who cut a fire trail was Prohibition Auto| Found With Uquor j Uliterate and Nursery Schools Are Being Established In County Schools for Illiterate adults j or inOMiry lor auxxv.u. , The county hw an allotment of .imi f%nlfttion in plnce of and ohildren of kindergarten age ten teachers and Just as soon as ^ pw..«,«:,•*..1. the »“«• “h! ,h • tniiduieDUl noonr-mmi- ,„ordlii8 to lotorahtlon oh. Tooeh- talned from Prof. C. B. Eller,^ m’g must be unemployed and superintendent of the Wilkes; must toe approved by Mrs. G. G. county school system. j Foster, director of federal emer-.w OnejMhool for adult illiterates gency reliefs {since he was releaaad^aa driver ia,alrekdy holding classes at POr-j Prof. Eller Sfiid ha bad hopes for the prohibition, officers last tear, wiille a'nursed school Is of secaring an additional , allot- year when most of the offieers -ousting at Monntaln View. ‘ pent of teaehers for theselirere furloughed. He ., is well eoiored people also hayp, a schools, if the gamber of teaehersi known here and In. other parta of ^’’abte to qualify could be fonnd.o »thrdls^"^ vative tenet often emphasised by Ng. Boover In 198t. " - Bettows Old PoUdee kewiae.'ih his expressions of 'over the national credit , sUhlUty, Mills was f^iraeli sild in sap- over twft iroani ago. To ^ • e around the fire where It kAf'mAI* linVPr ftf to spread. Another co^ rUrmCl I/llsVl tlngent of 20 boys worked .thefei J' yesterday and the snow this 1 morning completely extinguished {the fire. The damage, a large' portion of . which was to the T. l iB. Finley bankrupt estate, wasj .. ^considerable. John F. Vanhoy Is Arrested "A Queen Anne chair, up holstered in antique gold, was the birthday remeUnheance of the WOkee CWA staff, headed by Mrs. O. G. Poster, county director,, for the Warm S^ngs White House. The chair was' nuinafactared by the Home Chair company, of this cit/, and was riilppied this week. The telegram sent to Presi- denk Roosevelt tha CWA staff follows: “We want te add our sincere wtohes fiar much happiness on yoor birthday. As a tokmi of oar api^ediathA tar what your program has meant to Wilkes county, we are amd- ing you a dialr by espreas,” Mrs. Tilley was arrested on m warrant sworn out by^HUljCOx, brother-in-law of the slain^ glri. It Is recalled that a shoe bo« full of letters written by Mlse (Thuldress to her sister were de stroyed when the Cox residence near this city was burned. . Veteran YaiOifai Minister PaMs Eldtt’BI. Former Presiding H. Vestal Dies At Age of 76; Funeral Today.^ Rev. M. H. Vestal, 7«,;wer- i annuated Methodist mialBtof* ' ' El 'died at his home4c YadkihvlHe day -after- ot several With 22 Gallons of Liquor In Yadkin Coimty FILLS BOND FOR 3500 John F. Vanhoy, a former driv er for prohibition dfflcers In this district, was arrested by Yadkin county officers at Brooks Cross Roads with a cargo of whiskey Saturday. The automotolle and it gailohs of whiskey "were confiscated and' Vanhoy was taken to,YadkinvHle where he filled bond of $500. Vanhoy Is a native of the Hon da section of the coniity, hut Birthday Ball In City Nets $112 For the Warm Springs Foundation at 3:30 o’clock Tt jnoon after an illness days. j Fnnecal services will con ducted at the Yadklnvttle.j|j^o- dist eburoh at 2 o’clock dpfljfct- ' ,ernoon by the. Rev. I. L. 8h^^_ {pastor of the church, ahd'.^iaU Rev. A. C. Gibbs, presiding elder ^ of the MLvAlry district.^4»ter- ment will be In the Macklel tery there. The Rev. Mk VeeUi, a luember of the Western Carolina Conference, Episcopal churcli^it£w^ a number of ' chargWT; Approximately 200 loyal en- has. been residing at fi SaUsbury waai > WM at*tVAT Du^j^ pato Dte) bool at Wllkee'toro. f'-A'-' ai|^. thusiasts braved near zero weath er Tuesday night to attend the Roosevelt Birthday Ball held at the armory of the National Guard here. James M. Anderson, treasurer of the local committee, reported late yeaterday afternoon that the North Wllkeaboro gUt to the Warm Pbuddation total ed $112,'lhla being the amount raised over aqd above expenses. The hall proved to be a de lightful affair In every respect, despite ke cold weathpr. A sqtUkn dance, with P. M. Wll- eai)lBg the. ftgnm, fntatoh- . guests. The grand march, led by Mayor and Mrs. J.\A. Rousseau,, was most Impresalve. . Other entertalnmenP- included negro spirituals by the Sunshine Quartet and. tap dancing. Birthday I all guests Hetened to President ttoosevelt’s peireonal ^greetings hroadqast over tip. ra dio shortly Jbefore midnights The radio was flataned by thej|jtadto Sales eomi The armo decorated td no stone eftort to was attraetlvely, , 'ti» . occprtni tha- hitt a'baphr 7.-.-■' town In 1909, Conco^ a Mountain. He r ministry about a was presiding el Wilkesboro district and was well In addition survived by four Moravian fWls: kinville; firaeat. and BaltlmoxB.. a Salisbury,' aaia Mrs- Bstell Johamf