North Carolina Newspapers

Kggy-SF"" ^ - •!■• I ~^ii~i'*^--Tir I 11 -'I I I ■" n II II III III wo. M pilblinSed Mo^ HB^^^Says NOBTH WILKBSBOEO, N. &, THURSDAY, JUME lg l934 ^te (if CarJ^ Air Tour To [f&nrtli Wilke^ro Set For June 29th; TAir Show Pn^yam h the Afternoon =tP^ Twenty-three Hanes Signed " Up For Tour To Date; Others May Join ARhtY PLANES COMING North Wilkesboro WiU Be First of Several Cities To Be Visited North Carolina Education Air Tour, composed of more than a score of planes and one tri-motor- ed Ford,will visit North Wilkesboro Friday, June 29. according to a communication from the manager of the tour yesterday. The entourage will assemble Charlotte on June 28 and North Wilkesboro will be the first of number of the larger cities in the state to be visited. The visit here will be the only one in Northwest em North Carolina and is expected to draw an unparalled crowd from Wilkes and adjoining counties. At each city visited the tour will give a two-hour show of the latest in air acrobatics. The planes will arrive in North Wilkesboro in COMING TO Johnny Crowell, south’s foremost •„ • • stunt flyer, who will accompany the will arrive in North Wilkesboro in Air Tour here on Fri army formation some time during Outstanding in his the day and the air show will be gin at three o’clock in the after noon. The tentative arrangement of the program is as follows: 3:00—Parade of all ships over the city. 3:30—Racing of all ships in tour having a cruising speed, of more than 100 mites per hour. 3:45—Stunting program by John ny Crowell, reputed to be the south’s foremost stunt flying and air acrobat. 4:00—Deadstick landing liontest by all planes in tour. 4:30-—Racing of all planes hav ing a cruising speed of less than 100 miles per hour. 5:00—Delayed parachute jump, in which the performer will drop from a great height, delaying the parachute opening until near the F ^ Army Planes Coming \n addition to the planes in the regular tour, it is learned that a number of army planes from Fort Bragg will visit North Wilkesboro on the day of the tour, adding con- .siderable interest to the news of the tour’s visit to North Wilkes boro. The army planes will not be members of the tour but it is un derstood that they will be in this territory on that date. Add Air Tour The air tour will spend, the night following the exhibition here and local'p^le have planned to enter tain the pilots with a ball at the armory. Tribute Is Paid To Late W. D. Turner .Members of the Iredell County Bar -Association met at the court house in Statesville Friday after noon and held a fitting memorial service for the late Governor 'ft. D. Turner. Judge ft'. F. Harding presided over the service. Several beautiful oral tributes were paid by members of the bar and visiting attorneys. Judge C. B. Winberry of .the recorder's court, on behalf of the children of the deceased, presented the bar association with a beautilu, portrait of the deceased. This portrait will be placed in the county courtroom. Miss Toby Turner, of this eitv. Is a daughter of the late Gover nor W. D. Turner. She attended the memorial service Friday. B. Y. P. U. RaDies , Planned For Week day, June 29. Outstanding in his program of stunt flying will be a take-off and cruise over the city with, his hands securely tied above his head. He will take off, fly his plane and land \;ithout the use of his hands. School Bus Routes To Be Established InMeetingMonday Will Hear Requests For Any Bus Jtoute Changes In Meeting Monday TO RECEIVE BIDS Bids On All Contract Routes Will Be Received By Board Next Week -. Wilkes county board of edu cation will meet with C. B. El ler, county superintendent of schools. Monday for the purpose of establishing school bus routes in the county. The board will be in session all day and will hear requests from any citizens desiring any changes from the manner in which the buses were routed in Hie various district last year. No radical changes are anticipated but the board desires to give anyone desiring a change a hear ing in order that all school buses may be routed over the roads that will serve the people in the most convenient and com fortable manner. Routes will be selected Mon day for all the county-owned buses and during the remainder of next week sealed bids will be received for the routes on which privately owned contract buses must operate. Due to the fact that the state appropriates only a certain amount of money for transpor tation of school children the county board must strive for economy and route the buses in such a manner that each trip will accomodate as largp num ber of children as possible. New Home Blue Ridge Hatchery Being Erected T. M. Foster Buys Local Firm; Is Establishing Plant In Town of Wilkesboro I Mr. and, Mrs- T. M. Foster, who Miss Mabel Starnes, B. Y. P. U-| purchased the Blue Ridge Hatchery . • i.v-- r*nnV4»n- Z.1 ^ i.: 1^4.-- worker from the Baptist Conven tion, will hold a series of inspira tional rallies in churches of the Brushy Mountain association next recently, are erecting a complete hatchery plant at the rear of their residence in Wilkesboro. Work of constructing a modem Mrs. J. M. Carter Is Taken By Death Warransville Resident Was Mother Of J. B. Carter, Of This City .Mrs. Celia Carter, resident of WarrensviUe, Ashe county, and urusiiy TTuin. ui ,_u,.owxuww..6 « .....v—A.. the mother of J. B. Carter, of week. She has just completed two hatchery is now in progress and this city, died at her home Tues- weeks of work in the Stone Moun- '^jjj he completed within the next ^ay following an illness of over tain Association and meetings hdd ^ays. The name of Blue Ridge ^ ghe was 74 years of age. in the various churches have atW- jjatchery will be retained and the gj^g ^as a member of a well ed much interest in B. Y. P. U. y,gu i^nown lines of poultry sup- lamlly in this part of the w. rk, according to reports re- pjjgg^ including Pratt’s feeds, will ceived here. *be handled by Mr. and Mrs. Fos- thi Tuesday night Miss Starnes ^gj._ will be in a meeting at Beaver j ,pjjg i-gtchery has a spacious Creek church, Wednesday night at, gro^id door and a well constracted N««r Hope church 'near Pnrlear und .hagement floor, vgbere the incubat- Xhimday night at Wilkesh®™- lors and brooders will be kept. The In mA of the meetings a hatchery is now open for Oie sale mm should stimulate inter-supplies and the first chicks cat ia the work among tte young ^ placed on the market in ftoalkt of the churches will bc^v-December, Mr. Pos en, including an address by Mim states. Starnes. The public is invited to j James Pennell, experienced, poul- each of the three services, which j^an who has been connected wIQ begin promptl/at eight o’clock the sine Ridge Hatchery since In the eve^g. ,it was established here, will assist Due to the fact that Miss Starnes and Mrs. Foster m managing can spare only one week in tlm as- the business. Arth« cl^b be lepwiwited at as Ggmbill. of Rays, a daughter, on Monday. '■* Father James L. Pearson Is Dead William Thomas Pearson, 80, Succumbs To Attack of Pa ralysis; Funeral Yesterday William Thomas Pearson, well known citizen of Boomer town ship, died at the home of his on ly surviving son, James Larkin Pearson, Wilkes county’s well known pjet, 'Tuesday morning at 9:15 o’clock. On Tuesday, June 6th, Mr. Pearson suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered, although he had been in feeble health for several years. Mr. Pearson was born on Au gust 7, 1853. and had he lived only about two months he would have been 81 years of age. On February 10, 1878, he married Miss Louisa McNeill, sister to the late Rev. Milton McNeill, who died December 25, 1927. To this union two sons were born— James Larkin Pearson and John Milton Pearson. The latter died about seven years ago. He was for many years an ac tive member of Mt. Carmel Bap^ tist church. He was a splendid citizen, and had many friends in the community in which he re sided. The funeral .service was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Mt. Carmel church with Rev. Alfred Foster conducting the service Interment took place afterward In the church ceme tery nearby. A large number of sorrowing relatives and friends attended the last rites. ''Qiao^/njmo Carner* Migjbtjr Max BriM OtJT OF Granary Rdbbed While Owner’s. .. Funeral Is Held Elkin, June 10.—The Utle of this country’s meanest man bas been claimed by more than g>ne individual. Pew, if any, howevjer, have worn it more deservedly, perhaps, than could the person or party who forced an entrance and robb^ both ttie residence and granary of Iredell O. Money, while ills body lay In state at the home of a son on Friday night 'ollowlng his sudden death from a heart attack. The temporarily unoccupied home and outbuilding are situ- atel two miles east of Elkin. The robbery was discovered by neighbors who had kept, vigil over the lifeless body at the home of a son in East El kin. A number of bnsheln of shelled com, rye, etc., were stolen by the bin-glars who to all intents drove a car or track to the place to transport it to a hiding place. A bushel or more of com, spilled from a bag at the side of the road lel to the investigation wliicli proved tfiat the burglary liad been coiiimlttid. TubercidMtt Cliw M(«daf In Wflkesboro; Saniti Specialist Engaged For Two Pictured left is Primo Camera, heavyweight champion, who will de fend his title tonight in a bout with “Mighty” Max Baer at the Madi son Square Garden in New York City. Both were described as being in tip top shape for the bout tonight at the close of their training. Three Colored Men Jailed On Charge Of Stealing Sugar From Freight Cars Here; Tried In City Court Monday C. J. Lambeth At Furniture Show Dallas and Vander Parks and John Hall Face Grand Larceny Charge BOND FIXED AT $750 Alleged To Have Stolen Large Quantity of Sugar From Railway Car Food Sale At Belk’s Store On Saturday The Young Ladies’ Class of the Wilkesboro Methodist Sun day school will conduct a food sale at Belk’s Department Store Saturday, the sale starting at 10 o’clock in the morning. All kinds of good things to eat will be on sale, and the patronage of the public is heartily solicited. many men of that section. To Play Greyhound Team On Saturday Home Chair Compony Lost Game To Tajiorsville Here Yesterday C. J. Lambeth, of the Roaring River Furniture Corporation, is attending the furniture exposi tion in New York City this week, j During the past year the Roar- I ing River corporation has been; Three colored men have been doing a large volume of business bound over to Wilkes superior and is giving employment to court on charges of stealing merch- ■andise from freight cars on the siding of the Southern Railway here. Dallas and Vander Parks, who live in the Ronda section, and John Wesley Hall, of tiiis city, are the three who will face chargees of grand larceny when court con venes in Augrust. On April 23 six bags of sugar were stolen from a freight car on the siding back of the Cash Ferti- lizer and Feed Store and on May 31 Vander Parks and Hall were seen stealing from a freight car near the depot. Greyhound Bus team from Winston-Salem will come to North Wilkesboro Saturday a baseball game with the Home Chair Company outfit at the fairgrounds at 3:30. Reports reaching this city indicate the visitors have a strong team and a close game is anticipated. Ijo.se To Taylorsville In a game full of hits and er rors, the Home Chair Company baseball team lost to Taylorsville 14 to eight at the fairgrounds yesterday. The visitors garnered 14 hits, which when coupled errors for the locals runs. Home Chair Company team hit 10 times but Taylorsville played a fairly good brand of baseball with only two errors. Batteries were: Home Chair Company, Crook, Cartnichael^ Good News For Boan Grower* : " W. H. Key. of SWta. sub mits tor piAHcation. tim follow ing remedy tor the eradication of the obnoxious Mexican bean beetle: “Sprinkle federal relief flour on groutnd around the vines. Beetles will leave vines and eat it, and after eating will sit down and wait for more matil they starve to death. It should be us ed with extreme caution as it af fects human beings in the same way.” Equalization Board To Meet on Monday Wilkes County Board of Equa lization, composed of . the coun ty commissloflirs and Tax Super visor A. C. Walls, will meet on Monday for the purpostfe of mak ing adjustmepts and corrections in property valuations. All parties Interested In get ting an adjustment must present their claims before the commis sioners as they sit as a board of equalization Monday. Board of Elections Win Probe Vote In Judicial District Primarx Results In This Dis trict Not Certified In Meet- “ ing TuesdAy CHARGES^S HEARD. State Board To Muet In Alex ander Wednesday and In Wilkesboro Thursday iicax I.UC uepw. Raleigh, June 12.—^The state Railway detectives J. H. Payne elections tonight withheld and J. H. Hall were sent here to jjg certification of the results of aid local police in investigating the judicial and solicitorial races in thefts and apprehending the guilty parties. At the time police saw the two getting the sugar from the freight car near the depot they made their getaway but on the following day , Hall was arrestedi at his home by seven here. A short time later Patrolman ^ protest against the legality made 14 Hayes and Winkhr chased an au-[^ county vote is pending. tomobile in this city and arrested, matter has been taken to court Millard Gentry but the driver, Dal-I^jjgjg the 17th judicial district in the pri- i^ry of June 2 and ordered inve^ symptoms of the tigations next week into alleged irregularities in Alexander and Wilkes counties. The board certified all other re turns though it was understood las Parks, made his escape for the time being. The car contained five gallons of whiskey. It later devel oped from the evidence that Dal uompany, i_:rooK, uarmicnaei, t Mullls. Pardue and Pardue; Tay- Parks had been using his au- 4-^w.yvlvllA /innvav Fho oiicrar •arnl^n lorsville, Bebber and Neal. Lions To Install Officers Tonight Misses Bert And Ha Holman Will Appear On Club Pro gram Tonight Officers for the coming year will be installed in the meeting of the Lions Club at Hotel Wilkes tonight. Officers as fol lows were elected in the last meeting: B. T. Henderson, pres ident; E. A. Shook, secretary; W. H. Clark, tall twister; S. B. Richardson, lion tamer; R. I. Moore and J. B. Carter, direc- I tors. The program this evening will feature musical selections by Misses Bert and Ila Holman, of Wilkesboro. A full attendance of all members is expected. state, being a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Wright, of Hunting Creek, and a cousin of the late C. C. Wright. She was married in 1877 to J. M. Carter, who died several months ago. She leaves the tiR- lowlng children: Mrs. M. A. Warren, Saltirllle; Va.; Mrs. H. H. Ashley, Glade Springs, Va.; Carl Carter, White Top, Va.; J. R. Carter, Greensboro; J. R- Carter, North Wilkesboro; and Miss Janet Carter, WarrenavWe. The funeral service was held at the residence yesterday after noon. Interment was made in the family cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Harrold, of Hays, announce the birth of a son, Jack Wilson, on Tuesday. tomobile to convey the sugar stolen by the other Parks and Hall. Dal las parks was arrested at his home Monday morning. All four men were hailed before Mayor Pro-Tera R.T. McNeill Mon day afternoon and bond for ap pearance at the August term of court was fixed at $760, which so far they have been unable to fill. Dallas Parks has a court record here, having been placed under a suspen4'“d sentence several months ago on a charge of transporting and possessing liquor. He was remand ed to the roads to serve his speci fied term of ninety days. Millard Gentry was released on a charge of transporting after paying a fine of $10 and the costs. By the arrest of the three men police believe they have broken up one of the worst thieving gangs operating in this section. VESPER SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S CHURCH Vesper service at St. Paul’s Episcopal church Sunday after noon, June 17th, at lour o’clock. Rev. B. M. Lackey, Rector, In charge. Route Of Strenic H^hway Is Selected; Awairing Approval of Secretary Ickes The board decided to sit in Alex ander county at Taylorsville June 2bsand in Wilkes county at.Wilkes- bor^June 21 after attorneys for two of-the Democratic candidates for superior court judge of the 17th had read affidavits asserting there were irregularities in the primary voting in the counties. Fred Hutchins, of Winston-Sa lem. appearing for J. A. Rousseau, who ran second in the primary ac cording to returns given the board, charged that there was a wholesale double voting in Alexander county and that in every precinct in the county, in his belief, the Republi cans were allowed to vote both Republican and Democrat ballots. In answer Roy Deal, of Winston- Salem, counsel for J Hayden Burke, of Alexander county, who led the primary race, charged that in Wil kes county there were cases where voters cast as many as four Dem ocratic ballots each on primary Deal also challenged the right-vf the election board to invalidate the returns of Alexander county on the grounds of party regularity of electors and held that the only re course the Rousseau forces Had was to go to Superior court. L. P. McLendon, chairman of the election#! board, told Mr. Deal that next w«k’s investigations would be to determine whether or not the primary was conducted according to law and that then the board would decide what steps to take Free ExaminaticMi Will B* Given All Adult Tubercu lar Suspects URGE APPOlNTiPgnPS AU Who Want ExaininutieM Must Make Appointment With Health Officer A clinic for tubercular bb- spects In Wilkes County Irfil be gin at the county health offlco In the courthouse In ll^^lEeehoro Monday, according an nouncement by Dr3^A/-jM.jBRer, county health officer. Dr. H. F. Easom, specialist from the state sanitorlum at Sanitorlum, N. C., arlU make tha examinations of tlM 'patients. Dr, Easom has conducted numerous tubercular clinics in all parts of the state and is recognized as one of the outstanding dtagno- ticians of the south. The clinic 'vill be of two weeks duration and because of the short time available and the period necessary for making each thorough examination. Dr. Eller asks that any person desiring this examination make. an ap pointment with his office. By making an appointment early the patient can be reasonably as sured that he or she will be able to get the examination at the most convenient day and hour. Dr. Eller stresses the necessity of making an appointment early to avoid disappointment. The clinic will be conducted by the cooperated effort of the county and state health depart ments and the examinations will be given without charge. All adults 'mho hare reason to be lieve that they may have con tracted the disease or if they have any symptoms of approach ing tuberculosis, are Ir.vited to take advantage of the free ex amination in the cll'ic. Dr. Eller and the state health department urges an early dlag- i nosis of all cases that bare the dreaded di sease in order that steps may be taken to halt its ravages before it is finally and everlastingly too late. He points out that medical science has advanced so far that it is definitely known that cases of tuberculosis can be arrested if the cases are found and treat ed in the earliest stages. Appointments for examination in the clinic may be made by personal call or telephone to the county health office. George E. Gill Died On Tuesday 'Was Brother-in-Law Of Mrs. W. H. Starr; Funeral Held Yesterday George E. GUI, age 62, resi dent of Olin and a brother-in-law of Mrs. W. H. Starr, of Wilkes boro, died in a Statesville Hos pital Tuesday following an oper ation performed SaCi^rday. The funeral servic^ was held at Olin Methodist church yester day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Starr, Miss Eloise Starr, Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Starr attended the funeral service. He is 'survived by his wife, who before her marriage was 'Mias Gussie Weaver. June TernHft^ Court In Small Number of Cases Dis posed of lu Present Tmrm; Several iHv(»Tes Judgments have been entered in Buia ueciuc Kuav very few cases mibo present tarm The board’s action resulted _ in of Wilkes superior eoqrt for the - ^4 flto ’fdtnl /»ga«a kna many services as poedMe. Born to Mx, > and Un* Grady Dimaeatte* on Sunday, a daughto. > Washington, June 18.—A def- ii’ite route for the proposed $16,000,000 scenic highway to connect the Shenandoah national park in Virginia with the Great Smoky mountains national park In North Carolina and Tenneseee has been agreed upon by a speci al committee appointed by 8ec- reUry of the Interior Wkes to stady the pro|e«t. - A.. B. Cammerer, head of the Nattonal Part aerriee and a member of the committee. In an nouncing this today said he and THoiflBa H. McDonald, chief of 4Eaa loderal bureau of roads, had rigned the report which ’was for warded to Baltimore for the sig nature of Gteorgo L. Ratcliffe, regional pubUc works director apd third' jnem^r of the (»m* ihtttee. The decision of the commit tee must be approved by Secre tary. Ickes, who Is expected to announce the location. Although It was not disclosed wbethe' or not the road would ftdtow the proposed Nor^ Caro lina route, itefsasentaUTO^ B. L Doughton, tiitrtgS whose dla-; trW 'Tans part' dl"$4^ North Car- iOkA rwlla; aa» M »aa dent North •CaaoHaa- .woald' gat m or 4k gadd fg«$ af tha after It .toavea Virginia. "i; The North Carolina route, ”lr ease It to selected, would enter the state from Virginia In the Low Gap section and follow In the neighborhood of the crest ^ the Blue Ridge to the Smoky the holding up of the certification of the results which showed that Rousseau and Burke faced another primary with J. W- Ragland eUm- inateii It also postponed certifica tion of the nomination in the Re publican primary in tha 17th of So licitor R- Jones over F. J. hie- Hovm. «r, tibe resuR rf ^ pwb« trial of ci'vil cases. The term has ' been in progress since Monday, June 4, with Judge Witooh Wadkk presiding. In the majority of the cases which have bran tried settlenents have been reach^ by agreement d a]fl portiee eonesroed. vqreea have,knnpirF“"^ “ ki the cage^W wiH net ^ men; «nd W- ... " — rnltn A. -ItmOM sjjgM 8o!«for Jo»in ». imm eetved-eik mak^lmhkg majerfi^ i^sMKwasatwiilet^,-,^ over bto igyanmit ki dd eountiiw m ^m-sum at |8W. The divo: nil illlllitf Lf X .XU Following to'» statement tosded ky J. A- -Ronssean in regard to the alibied ixtegulaiRies in Atax* t eooiRy; (Contlhued on page six) Hountaini Park a beyond vine. AbIm-, ](r. and Mrs- Dewitt Eskew, of Bfelxer, S. C-, qmnt the ^k-«id in Wilkeeboro witti Mr. and Mrs. John Caahion. litod during w«ik- foUows: Grace Lyon vV "" divoiee granted; versns Lexie Calloway,’’ granted; Mrs. Edna Wyatt E- Gimui Wyatt, mistriali FoUa. ihay Mii Mr. and Utm Jooj parents of a bakg^ i bom Tuesday.