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VOL. XXIX, NO. 6
Published Mondays and Thursdays
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1934
?1.00 IN THE StATE-$l^ OUT OF THE STAt*'
LATE NEWS OF
STATE AND
NATION
Carolina Route
Is Selected For
Scenic Parkway
New Hauptmann Attorney
Killed By Train
James Wesley Hughes, resi
dent of Henderson, was killed
a train in that city yesterday
hfln walking across the rail
road.
North Carolina and Virginia
Will Got All of Great Park-
wav Boulevard
FOLLOWS BLUE RIDGE
Strike Thi-eat
^ another general walkoitt of
waterfront employees Is threat
ened in San Francisco, where a
strike during the past summer
caused so much chaos and dis
turbance.
Route South of Blowing Rock
Will Traverse Mountains
Near Asheville
IVusUed To IJcath
Kenneth Herring, 27, employe
loj the Tidewater Company, was
^fcstantly killed at Faison yester-
^y as he was helping to unload
a carload of power poles at a
siding.
'MoratoHiim Bill Vpheld
A federal judge In Kentucky
yesterday upheld the Frazier-
Lemke farm debt moratorium
act as constitutional but declar-
>d that it cuts farmers off from
private credit.
•\ftor Mellon .Again
The Tnion Trust Company, of
Pittsburgh, known to be an “.An
drew Mellon Institution.’’ yester
day was charged by the govern
ment of evading payment of
about $218,000 income taxes
for the .vear 1930.
TT-sent« To Quintuplets
Christmas presents have al
ready begun to pour into Cal-
lendar. Ontario for the celebrat
ed Dionne quintuplets. Presents
so far include mittens, perambu
lators and other useful gifts for
the five sisters.
Killed By Plane
AVilliam Van Dyke took off in
his home-made airplane in .Mil
waukee yesterday against liie
advise ofavialion offieials and
was blunged to liis deatii after
reaching an altiutde of only 7 5
feet.
,I( ffress Is Better
^ E. H. Jeffress. state highway
chairman who lia.s been despcr-
^ely ill at his home in Oreens-
^‘ooro for months, is slowly gain
ing, according to last reports.
Attending physicians dtsrribed
hi.s improvement as very .slow.
laibor l-’iglits Williams
Reports from Washington
Tuesday indicated that the .A-
merican Federation of Labor
bad eased up in its fight against
S. Clay AVilliams. former head of
the Reynolds Tobacco Company
and now XRA board chairman.
\obol.v Blamed
,V most lengthy investigation
into the death of Ernest Reilly,
textile striker who wa.s killed in
a riot in Gastonia two months
ago, has finally ended in a ver
dict of “no one blamable" in any
way. Coroner George Riddle stat
ed ye.sterday.
One-Pound Baby
.A one pound baby born in
Spokane. Washington, two days
age. was reported near death last
night. Attending physician .said
that the baby wa.s normal in all
respects but was immature ami
could not live. The name of its
parents was not disclosed.
►
Two Negroes To Die*
Governor Ehring.haus yester
day refused clemency to tiiree
Sampson County negroes sen
tenced to die tomorrow for the
death of Howard Jernigan. Samp
son County filliivg station oper
ator. If no reprieves are granted
the first triple execution in the
history of Xorth Carolina’s elec
tric clialv will be carried out.
■Askew Fre xl
R. H. Askew, evangelist who
xvas indicted in federal court at
Raleigh on charges of violating
the Lindbergh kidnaping law.
was freed by a directed verdict
from Judge Meekins yesterday.
He was alleged to have tried to
extort money from hi.s wife on
the pretext of being kidnaped.
It was brought out that the
man was ill and his mind was
■nnba aiiced.
Slays I’arent.s; Ki'ctal
A Chicago court yesterday-
granted freedom to .Anna Maiet-
ta. 15-year-old girl who killed
both her father and mother.
Freed of the charge of murder,
she will turn her attention to
being a mother to the six chil
dren she orphaned. She killed
her father when he was abusing
her and 'her mother. One of the
bullets’went through her father’s
Ifody and killed her mother.
Washington. Nov. 12—Setting
aside the conclusions of the spe
cial Radcliffe committee, Harold
L. Ickes. secretary of th' inter
ior, today formally announced
his decision in favor of the North
Carolina route to connect, by
scenic highway, the Shenandoah
and the Great Smoky Mountains
national park, a project the cost
of which is now estimated at $16.-
000,000 but which will probably
call, eventually, for a greater
outlay.
The announcement of Secre
tary Ickes took the form of a
press memorandum, to which was
attached copies of l“tters sche
duled to reach the governors of
North Carolina and Tennessee to
day. the press notice and letters
presenting the Skyway project
comprehensively, anrt providing
for North Carolina an excellent
and wholly adequate brief, for
the secretary stressed points
which he f^’lt spokesmen for the
state had given only cursory at
tention.
Mr. Ickes was apparently mov-
el by the fear that Tennessee,
with an entrance to the park al
ready assured a t Gatlinburg,
would one day run the risk of be
ing considered a road hog if pres
ent aspirations were realized;
there was the conclusion that the
North Carolina route possessed
infinitely the greater merit, scen-
ically, and would one day serve
as .a logical link in that still
greater concept, a national sky-
wav that would travei-se the’^vast
territory- extending from the
White Mountains of New- Eng
land, to the region of the Stone
Mount-din in Georgia.
The definite location of the
nark way is yet to bo in a pied,
hut .Seerotarv Ick's’ order today,
together with his announcement
in .iuly, establishes the j)ark\vay
as follow.s:
Leaving the Skylani drive,
which runs from the northern to
southern boundary of the Shen
andoah National park, the park-
w-.-iv w'ill follow the main ridge
formation to the .lames river.
From there it will go to Adney
gap just below Roanoke. Va., and
then by Pinnacles of Dan and
close to FanV ,gap. entering
North Carolina about 10 miles
northwest of Mt. Airy. The route
then passes Laurel Springs,
Glendale Springs and to Blowing
Kock. after leaving Blowing Rock
the route runs we.st leaving Lin-
viil ■ City to the south, but tak
ing in the .scenery around Linville
(■Continued on page ten)
Saturday To Be
Banner Day For
4-H Com Clubs
Over Score of Club Boys Will
Exhibit Com At Show
In Wilkesboro
PRIZES ARE OFFERED
Shudders u **Deadi'‘
PROSPECTS FOR DAIRYING
INDUSTRY GROWS BRIGHUR
AS PRICES STEADILY RISE
Five Valuable Prizes V^ill Be
Given For Besrt Record
of 1934 Crop
Juniors ^yill Hold
Important Meeting
On Tuesday Night
BUTTERFAT^HW
30 CENTS POtJND
Officer# Will Be Nomflurted For
Xext Term; Degree Work
Is Planned
Farmers Urged te- 'UbitiwTB
Feed and Remodel €ow
Bams For Winter .,
Trenton, N. J Edw-ard J.
Reilly (above), noted criminal
law-yer of Brooklyn, N. A'., has
been culled in to take charge of
the Hauptmann defense in the
Lindbergh kidnapping trial, sche
duled for Jan. 2nd. 1935. Mrs. ‘
Hauptmann retained Reilly in a
change of law-yers.
Unemployment
Insurance In
New Deal Plan
Job Insurance Will Be One of
Big Measures of Next Ses
sion of Congress
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Work Is Started
On Bridge Fill
E. W. (Jrannis Construction
Company Putting Crew
to Work Today
F;. W. Granni.s. o-.vner of the
coiislviiction com-pany lioiding
roiitract for .37 mile of roadway
On ear'll end of the new Reddies
River t.riiige. was in (lie city
Tuesday making arrangemenL;
to l:egiii w-ork on l ;e project
riiis morning.
Yesterday a sliovel arrived
and today the company was
making the final arrangements
tow-ard moving dirt to make the
bridge approaches. Dirt to make
the west end of the fill will be
taken from the hijlside just
north of the roadw-ay.
W. E. Graham, superinten
dent of the job, yesterday placed
an order with R. L. Woolen, re
employment director, for a crew
of men to report today. The
men w-ere selected from the files
of the unemployed.
In the meantime the Holibs-
Pcabody Construction Company,
holders of the contract for the
Reddie.s River bridge structure,
are using about 25 men and arc
making rapid progress in exca
vation for the bridge.
E. W. Grannis Construction
Company also holds contract for
surfacing the approaches to the
Yadkin River bridge between the
Wilkesboros. This project con
sists of laying concrete pave
ment on the portions now- oil
treated. Representatives of the
company indicated that work
would begin within a few days.
Washington. Nov. 14.—The
broad outline.s of a social secur
ity plan, definitely incorporating
unemployment insurance as a
part of the next congressional
program, w-ere sketched today
by President Roosevelt and turn
ed over to a group of experts tor
refining.
The immediate objectives of
the program the President has
decided upon wewre;
Unemployment insurance of a
cooperative federal-slate form;
the funds to be held and invest
ed by the federal government;
the benefits to be administered
l.j- the states.
Enactment of stale laws to
carry out such a program.
Jobs For 1(11'.*
An effort to bring the persons
now on relief rolls back into pro
ductive employment and thereby
put them under the insurance
system.
From a long range standpoint,
lie proposed:
A uniform system to provide
security for the aged.
.A method, perhaps through in
surance. for providing against
tlip economic loss due to sick
ness.
Mr. Roosevelt declared that
h i s unemployment insurance
plan” must be financed by con
tributions, not taxes.’’ He did
not expand this idea, but many
of his hearers interpreted his
w-ords to mean that those bene
fiting w-ould be expected to con
tribute the necessary funds.
Under this meaning both em
ployer and employee would join
in advancing the money. I..abor
has contended that indiistry
shonld be a.ssessed for t.he en
tire fund.
In a brief talk, the President
outlined these objectives to his
committee on economic security
and it.s new-ly created advisory
conneii. Ho nirned over to them
the Jill) of shaping into a wea
pon for a “bold stroke’’ tow-ard
economic security tiie hundreds
of p’-oposals that had been pre
sented during an all day session.
Saturday of this week will be
a banner day for the com club
members of Wilkes County when
they gather at the courthouse in
Wilkesboro with their exhibits
and record books to compete for
a number of valuable prices.
The occasion, termed Achieve
ment D.ay, will begin at ten o’
clock in the courtroom. Each com
club boy in the county is being
psketl to prepare the best ten-
ear exhibit of corn possible to
-nter in the show and qualify for
the five prizes County Agent A.
G. Hendren has secured for the
Cleveland . . . Joe Bade (a-
bove), 17-year-old youth accused
of murding a woman shop Jceep-
er in k hotd-up a few weeks
ago, now shudders every time
attorneys in the trial mention
“death” or "electric chair.”
winners.
The prizes will be awarded for
the best crop r-icord. Each club
member has a record book, in
which he is supposed to set down
the date and time required of all
work on his acre of corn, at the
same tlm^ keeping an accurate
account of all cost and relating
such interesting experiencr's a-
bout the work as the book calls
for.
The prizes will not be based
on yield alone but on all qualiti-'S
that go toward making a good
record.
Among the agricultural author
ities who will be present for
Achievement Day will be District
Agent 0. F. McCi-eary and a rep
resentative o!f the 1 Chilean Ni
trate Ompany, w-ho will make
brief talks.
Tne program for the day, in
cluding the judging, will last un
til about noon. All club members
are required to attend and the
public has a most cordial invita
tion to be present.
November Term
Federal Court
To Open Monday
Fir.st Four Days of Court
Will Be Devoted To Trial
of Criminal Cases
IS TWO WEEKS TERM
Ralph Davis Is
Now Beii^ Tried
November t-'mi of federal court
for trial of criminal anl civil cas
es originating in Wilkes, Alle-
ghan.v, Ashe and Watauga coun
ties will convene in Wilkesboro
Monday writh Judge .Johnson J.
Hayes presiding.
"i^e term will be for two weeks
and the first four days of court
will be taken up with the trial of
criminal cases.
On 'Thursday the civil actions
calendar will start and a number
of cases are on the docket, not
ably among the number being
several eases against the govern
ment involving the payment of
war risk insurance.
One of the major criminal cas
es will be the trial of Hal Teagu-’,
of Blowing Rock, and others, on
North Wilkesboro council of
the Junior Order will 'hold a
most important meeting at the
lodge hall on Tuesday night, be
ginning at 7:30, and attendance
of every 'member is particularly
desired.
One of the major items of in
terest to the members will be
the nomination of officers for
the next_ term and the making
of arrangements tor the degree
team to go to Statesville on No
vember 27 to attend a district
meeting to be held with States
ville council number 47, at which
time the North Wilkesboro team
will confer degrees.
Another interesting feature of
the meeting to be held Tuesday
night will be conferring of the
Oriental Degree upon a number
of candidates.
The council now has a splen
did membership and much in
terest in lodge activities is man
ifested.
J A •
LARGE CROWD SEE
“HEAVEN BOUND”
On Monday night the second
return showing o f “Heaven
Bound” in Wilkesboro was greet
ed by a large audience. The play
was given under the au.spices of
the Missionary Society of the
Methodist c3mrch and gate re
ceipts totaled $61.
C. O. McNeill Will Have
Kiwanis Program Friday
C. 0. McNeill will have charge
of the Kiwanis Club program for
the regular weekly meeting to
morrow at noon. An interesting
program is in prospect and at-
• charge of throwing M. S. Phil- ] tendance of eveiy member is ex-
lip.s into a vat of boiling mash j pected.
while he was helping federal of-1
Witness Say.s Desperado and i Baptists Of North C»rolina
Not Deputy Kill^ Iredell j
County Sheriff ‘
ricers to destroy a still in Lewis) “Yadkin Valley Jack”' Is _
Fork township. | Killed By Automobile
Valley
For the first time since the
establishment of the Scott Cheeee
and Butter Company plant here
two years ago the price beinir
paid to farmers for butterfat i»
30 cents per pound, Assistant
County Agent W. N. Wood stated
today.
Tliis rise in price to pre-de
pression figures has created a
spirit of optimism among the
farmers that indicat“s still fuT’
ther development of dairy farm
ing in the county.
Soon after the cheese plant was
Jqcated nere the' actual depreh-*'
sion add glutted markets affected
the dairying industry and buttetr
fat prices hit the toboggan. ’There
is every indication now that the
present price can be maintafned**
if busines.s conditions generally
continue to have a better outlook.
Although the volume of milk
being manufactured by the plant
here is increasing vast additional
quantities can be handled and
farm authorities are urging fann
ers to keep more and better cows
and to care for them better.
Mr. Wood calls attention of the
farmers to the fact that there is
a substantial profit in producing
milk when butterfat is 30 cents
per pound, especially where the
farmer manages his farm on a
busines.s ba.sis and grows his own
feed. The widespread use of the
trench silo is lowering the
keep cost of the milk cow,
stated, .end manur’ from
farmers’ h»rds are resulting
vastly improved farms.
Will De-hom Cows
Mr. Wood stated further that
his services are available at any
time for any farmer who wish
es to de-horn cows or to remodel
cow bams. He will furnish plans
and assist any farmers to remod
el his barn into the adopted dairy
type, which is arranged for con
venience and for the good of the
milk producing animals, ■«
ap-
hc
the
in
Postoffice Work
Here Progressii^
Contractors Have Finished
Foundation For Handsome
Structure in City
Statesville, Nov. 13.— In to
day’s evidence against Ralph
Davis, 25, Davidson county out
law. who is being tried in Iredell
Superior court for the fatal
shooting of Sheriff Godfrey C.
Kimball on August 17, the state
presented a niimljer of witnesses
to show that Ralph Davis shot
the sheriff at close range, and
that he wa.s not accidentally shot
by a deputy, as was alleged by
ballistic experts.
Judge A. M. Stack, of .Monroe,
is presiding and the jury is com-1
posed of 11 Mecklenburg county
ertizens and one Iredell man.
Deputy Sheriff R. L. Gilbert,
who wa.s shot in the left leg dur
ing the pistol battle w'ith Davis
at a tenant house on the G. W.
Dry farm, 10 miles east of
State.sville. told of going with
Sheriff Kimball and Deputy Sims
to the tenant house, occupied
by Cal Turner and family, and
of .‘he officers seeing the auto
mobile belonging to .Mayor E. R.
Rankin parked behind the house.
Davis, who is alleged to have
stolen (lie Statesville mayor’s car
a week before, ran out the back
door, forced (lie sheriff to lift
both hands above his head, and
then Davis allegedly shot Deputy
Gilbert in the leg as Gilbert
came out of the back door. Gil
bert said Kimball was between
him and Davis and he did not
shoot at Davis until after the
sheriff was shot.
With His Recovery Leailcurs
As He Prepaies To Depart
oTrioTil Rooseveu Talk.
Open KMtl^Anunal Sewion HI. 1^.4^
New Bern, Nov. LJ.—An in-j ed Sunday when he fell from the
crea.se of 1,") per cent In receipts | running board of his master’s
for convention objects during | automobile beneath the wheels Washington. .\ov. 13. .A de-
tlie first 10 months of this year of another automobile on Gor-, check-up on how things
over the same period last year | don Hill Sunday. “Jack” was Eoios now, so that plans may
was repor'ed this afternoon by j known far and wide as one of
Maloy Huggins, Raleigh, re-elect-j the best bird dogs in this part
ed general secretary of the lot the state. He was 10 years
the I of
North Carolina Baptist conven-jof age.
tion during the opening .se.ssion
of the 104th annual meeting
here, called to order by Dr. Zeno
Wall, Shelby, president.
REPAYMENT OF $5
EASES CONSCIENCE
Spainhour’s In
New Location
Work of erecting North AVil-
kesboro’s government - owned
postoffice building on C Street
has progressed rapidly during
the pa.st few day.s.
Liindberg-Richter firm, con
tractors for construction of the
building, have several men at|
work making forms on the foun
dation and some concrete has
been poured.
With favorable weather coiidi-
tion.s, rapid progress will be
made on the handsome edifice
within the next few days, which
will Ijo neces.sary to complete the
fuuudaiion and basement.
Children’s Home
Will Play Lions
On Local Field
North Wilkesboro Team To Face
Toughest Aggregation On
Schedule
Sido-dr€5.sing corn with nitrate*
of soda in Caldwell county in
creased the yi’ld by 27 bushels
an acre, reports the county agent.
North AViikesboro high school’s
.Mountain Lions will play the
toughest gaD'.e of the season’s
football schedule Friday after
noon, 3:45, on the local field
when the team from Methodist
Children’s Home in Winston-
Salem invades this city.
Something of the siren.gth of
the visiting team can be realiz
ed by considering the lucJ that
not once this year hare the' op
ponents of Ghildren’s Home
bean able to score but this doer,
not 'Vfaitnt the courage of the
Lions.
Danville, Va., Nov. 13.- —Hill
top sanitorium was the winner
today of $5 con.science money
which Isaac Berman received
from a man in .Marion, N. C..
who told how several years he
had bought from another man a
sweater which had been stolen
from Berman’s store.
The man who sent the money
order said that he had “got re
ligion" and was “trying to make]
the crooked paths straight.’
The sweater had never
missed at the store.
be made for the future, occupied
President Roosevelt today on the
eve of his trip into the south.
In his minute analyses. the
chief executive not only talked
with his cabinet as a whole, but
had private conversations with
Donald Richberg, recovery chief;
Harry L. Hopkins, relief admin
istrator, and Secretary Perkins.
Relief and unemployment
Store With New Line of Mer- i problems figured i n today’s
chandise Will Open In
Call Building Friday
Will Form City
Basketball Team
AVith a line of the season’s
newest quality merchandise the
firm of Spainhour-Sydnor Com
pany will open in their new lo
cation in the Call Building on
the corner of Main and Ninth
Streets tomorrow (Friday) morn
ing.
Special values will be offered
, o II coats, dresses, millinery,
j .Archer Hosiery, Balhriggan und-
I erwear, gloves, hags and many
other items in the ready-to-wear
and dry goods lines.
The merchandise to be offered
at the new location is all fresh
and new and no dama.ged mer
chandise will be offered. The
m II ij r'-sj s‘ore invites a visit by the peo-
pi® of thia section
Night ot E. M. Blackburn
At Sons Store
A movement is now on toot
to organize an all-star basket-
liall team tor North Wilkesboro
and vicinity and a meeting of
all who are interested in being
a member of the squad will be
held* on Friday evenin.g. seven
o'clock, at E. M. Blackburn &
Sons Store on Tenth Street.
Such a team would be com
posed of the best of basketball
players from the two Wilkes-
horos and surrounding conimnn-
itles.
As soon as the team is organ
ized a schedule will be made out
with some of the best teams in
western North Carolina. Some of
those who arc back of the
movement for an all-star team
give as their opinion that a win--
ning squad can be assembled ip
this community and attendance
of all who are Interested is urged
tor the meeting tomorrow eve-
aisg. T
Fire Sale Soon
The management of the com
pany announces that a fire sale
will be held soon to dispose of
the stock of goods in the build
ing which was ravaged by fire
on November 4. The public is
asked to watch the papers for
aiimniiice'menl of the fire sale
within the next few days.
HIGH POINT MAN, HIT
BY AUTOMOBILE, DIES
High Point, Nov. 13.—^W. N.
Kinney, 76, died this afternoon
at 4:10 o’clock in a local hos
pital from injuries sustained
Saturday night when he was
struck by, a car driven by C. C.
Prince on West Lexington ave-
nAi.
meetings, but the word wa.s that
no decision on specific legisla
tion to be offered to Congress
would be reached tor a while.
The President leaves Thurs
day on his southern trip. With
him he will take the reports
from cabineteers and other high
officials for study at his Warm
Springs (Ga.) retreat.
THREE ARE KILLED
IN.FALL OF PLANE
Butte, Mont., Nov. II.—Three
men were killed by the crash oi
their airplane at the Butte air
port late today. Airport attend
ants .said the victims were Henry
Kin.g, son of County Commission
er Don King. John Madden and
a Mr. Boquet, of Livingston.
B. T. Henderson
In Winston-Salem
Now Practicing I’rofession In
TwIii-CIty; Here For Sev
eral Years
Rogcrs-AjTes
Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres
noted film stars, were married
in Hollywood, California, yes
terday. Both have been previous
ly married.
-Attorney Buford T. Hender
son, who practiced law in local
courts for a number of years
foIlOAving his graduation • from
Wake Forest College, has moved
to Winston-Salem, where he has
established an office in the First
National Bank building.
During the several years that
he was a member of the Wilkes-
Bar he maintained an office in
-he second floor of the Taylor
Building on Ninth Street, where
hla secretary. Miss H a 1 1 i«
Waugh, is looking after any un
finished business of his in this
c.iScn aiid Is engaged in gener
al secretarial work.
Miss Mabel Chaffin, o^,.Mocks-
ville, spent the "week-end wift .
VIrs. Dick Thomtwen.
■'iinrii 'iWiiiii iri nil*