UTE NEWS OF
STATE AND
NATION
Gennan Queen of Vifie
Food Prices Decline
--1^ li e labor department in
li|%ts&inston yesterday reported
that the pa!st month has witness
ed a slight decline in the prices
of foodstuffs.
Charlote Man Suicide
Richmond. Va., Nov. 21.—A
man who shot himself fatally
near the University of Richmond
here Saturday, was identified to
night as E. M. Lawrence, 54, of
Charlotte, N. C.
Loses $250
y Kiser in Moore county yes-
tei%ay was relieved of 1250 of
^ \ tobacco cash when five $50 bills
were stolen from him while he
^ was scuffling with a gypsy on
the roadside.
President’s Ball
President Roosevelt has again
consented to let the occasion of
his birthday in January be the
date of another President’s Ball"
to raise funds for Warm Springs
Foundation for the cure and
treatment of infantile paralysis.
Killed -\t ('ro.ssing
Greensboro, Nov. 21.—D. 1'.
■W’hite, 87, of near .Mount Vern-
Cases B^qwsed
Of Swiftly In
Federal Court
Greater Part of Criminal Cal
endar For Term Cleared
in Three Days
TWO WEEKS’ COURT
Civil Actions, Including War
Risk Cases, Will Be Taken
Up Soon
Berlin . . . Down at Neustadt
Germany each Fall a “.Festival
of the Vine” is held. Each season
a new queen is chosen. This year
Fraulein Trude Knauber la-
hove). was fittingly crowned to
rule over the festivities.
_|fn Springs, was killed and A. F'.
^Cockman. of the same commun
ity, badly hurt in a grade-cross
ing crash four miles southeast of
Siler City today at 1 p. m.
Buy Now Drive
Is Inaugurated
By Uncle Sam
Hen \’iolates Cole
Plan Is to Stimulate Recov
ery With «13,000,000,000
Campaign
A white leghorn hen in Albe-,
marie Tuesday contributed to!
overproduction of eggs last week I
when she laid three in one day.
For twenty consecutive days she
laid one egg and climaxed the
performance with three in one
day.
Medical .SociiiUzation
Chicago. Nov. 21.—The Jour
nal of the American Medlcai As
sociation stated its opposition to
^socialization of medicine tonight
l>ut maintained an open mind to-
Ipl'ard “property controlled ex-!
pmUluentation with new forms of |
m^ical practice.”
Dies In .ViUo Cni.sh
New Bern. Nov. 21.—Hugh ^
Thomas Brite, 23, fireman a-
board the ciittor Pamlico, was!
killed near 'aere toni.ght in an!
automobile coUison. Charles E.'
Thomas. Goldsiioro truck driver.!
was jailed without bond in con-j
nection with the wreck, pending
an inquest tomorrow. j
Price Hving IVobable j
Governor Floyd R. Olson, of
Minnesota, is quoted as saying j
that the next congress would be j
asked to fix minimum prices forj
farm products together with!
such powers of licensing and j
regimentation of agriculture a.s
would be necessary to accomp
lish that purpose. I
• , High Point Suicide
Despondent over continued ill
health, Mrs. Connie Lee Parker,
24, of 1109 1-2 Campbell street,
High Point, committed suicide
yesterday morning at 11 o'clock
at the home of her sister-in-law.
Mrs. Jess S. Musten, Winston-
Salem Route 3. by shooting her
self with a shotgun. She died in
stantly.
Washington, Nov. 21.—The
administration has called upon
business and industry in giving
recovery efforts a $3,000,000,-
000 shot in the arm.
The plan is to put idle dollars
now being hoarded or in corpor
ation surplus reserves to work.
Treasury officials
there are at least $1,000,000,000
still in safety deposit boxes, tea
cups and under mattresses—out
of circulation.
Federal Housing Administra
tor James Moffett said approxi
mately $2,000,000,000 could be
expended usefully by corpora
tions out of their surplus re
serves i n machinery replace
ments and otherwise bringing
their plants to the 192S efficien
cy level.
.Money spent by corporations
tor this purpose, officials said,
would stimulate the heavy or
durable goods industry which
must come before the nation can
continue its march to economic
peace.
A “h u y n o w’’ campaign,
launciied with ail the ballyhoo
tliat garnished the spectacular
Liiterty Loan drives, has been
tile subject of many discussions
by recovery officials. The plan
was frowned upon I'y the NRA
governing board on different oc
casions.
The board was pledged to fol
low a quiet, conservative policy.
Some of Us members believed
the time inopportune for such a
campaign. The drive against
lioarding has been going on
quietly, however, for many
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Methodist Church
Merger Is Wanted
November term of federal
court for the trial of Wilkes,
Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga
cases convened in Wilkesboro
Monday morning with Judge
Johnson J. Hayes presiding.
At the close of court yester
day afternoon about twenty cas
es remained on the criminal
docket to be tried. Including the
case of the government against
Hal Teague, Blowing Rock youth
charged with throwing M. S.
Phillips into a vat of boiling
mash and almost causing his
death.
As soon as the criminal cal
endar is cleared up a number of
civil actions, including several
war risk insurance cases, will be
taken up and the term will ex
tend into next week. The court
is moving along in a most effi
cient manner and cases are be
ing disposed of in short order.
The major cases in which
judgments have been rendered
are as follows:
Kathryn Woods, violation of
the narcotic act, two .vears in an
institution for dope addicts.
Vestal Higgins and Center
Shoemate. violating revenue act,
six months in jail.
Marvin Warren, violation of
the revenue act, three years in
Chillicothe reformatory.
Marshal Hule and John Q.
Adams, violating revenue act;
Huie, year in Chillicothe: Ad
ams, temporary probation.
Harrison Taylor, violating
revenue act, three years proba
tion.
M^ll Atwood, violating reve
nue act, two years probation.
Erastus Wiles and Marshal
Harris, violating revenue act;
Wiles, six months in jail; Harris,
IS months probation.
Granville and Charles Goforth
and Judson Mitchell, violating
revenue act. temporary proba
tion.
Turner Church, F7stil Love and
Lena Wood, auto theft: Lena
Wood, two years in Chillicothe;
Love, two years in Washington
school tor boys.
Frank Shaw, violating reve
nue act. IS months probation.
Oliver Ham. J. C. Teeters and
Spencer Green: Ham, four
months in jail; Teeters and
Green, three months in jail.
Marion Thomas, interfering
with officer, $.500 fine and two
years probation.
Tom Greer, violating revenue
aet, 1,8 months probation.
l.eonard Pennell and Frank
D.vson. violating revenue act;
I’eiinell. 18 mouths in Chilli-
colhe; Dyson, year in Cliillicothe.
Raymond P. Anderson, vio
lating revenue act, 15 months In
prison at Atlanta.
In#
Phoenix, Ariz. . . . The U. S.
Department of Justice is tigh
tening its grip on Oscar H. Rob
son (above), arrested In the kid
napping of June Robles, 6, sev
eral months ago. Robson is a
former school mate of the child’s
father.
Big County-Wide
Singing is Planned
For Thanksgiving
Chairman of County Singing
Association Announces
Big Gathering
Much Prepress
Is Reported On
PWAPi#^
Four Projects in County Fur
nish Pa3tro0 For Blany
’ Otherwise Unemployed
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Norrti Wilkesboro Postoffice,
Waterworks, Bridge and
No. 16 Are Projects
CLASSES ARE INVITED
One of the outstanding events
for the holiday season next week
will be the meeting of the Wilkes
County Singing Association at
the courthouse on Thanksgiving
Day.
Announcement of the annual
singing tor all the people of the
county was made this week by
L. Bumgarner, chairman of the
county singing association. The
Thanksgiving singing has be
come a very popular gathering
for the sacred singers of the
county since the practice was
started a few years ago.
Mr. Bumgarner is urging as
many singing classes, quartets
and other singers as possible to
be present and take part in the
program for the day, which will
begin at ten o’clock in the morn
ing. It is learned that a number
of classes have been practicing
for the event and the chairman
is asking that each class he as
well prepared as possible, al
though he asked that they not
stay away on the account of lack
of preparation.
Fish Over 9 Pounds
Is Quite a Catch
L. (’. .McCarter, of Union
Trys KUling Self
Elkin, Nov. 20.—Mrs. Delia |
Bau««ess, 25. wife of Walter'
Bau^ess, of Miles post-office,
AJpeghany county, made an un-
aiiccessful aHempt to end her
life yesterday at her home, by
firing a ball from a revolver in
to her temple. The ball coursed
downward into the jaw instead!
of penetrating the brain.
Joining; of Two Sections of De- ^
nomination, Sei>aratel Since |
Civil War, is I’redlctetl |
I’hiladelphia. Nov. 20.—Merg-|
ing of their denomination with
Killed In Wreek
Winston-Salem. Nov. 20. —
orge Hinshaw. 29-year-old fu-
ral director of Yadkinville,
.8 Instantly killed tonight in
> collision of his automobile
th another repotted to have
en driven by Mrs. Nannie Pep-
r. 55-year-old Bethanla wo
rn. Robert Carlton, of Yadkin-
le. a companion of Hinshaw,
IS slightly hurt.
Vanderbilt Child Plaeetl
Little Gloria Vanderbilt. 10-
year-old heiress to million.s, has
been adjudged a ward of the
New York court and the fight
lor her custody has been settled.
The supreme court decreed that
the child should stay five days a
■week with her paternal aunt,
Mra. (Jortrude Whitney, but
could spend week ends with her
mother, whom the court describ
ed as not being fit to rear the
child In the proper manner.
the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, separated since the civil
war, was predicted today as 16
Methodist Episcopal bi.shops con
ferred in a meeting of the Meth
odist Episcopal board of home
missions and church extension.
"It is high time these church
es were merged.” Bishop Ralph
S. Cushman, of Denver, said. “A
divided church is a spectacle
that is enough to make the an
gels weep."
“I am hopin.g that before the
time comes for our retirement
we may grasp hands as bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal
chiircii of America,’’ Bishop Ed
win D. Mouzon, senior effective
bishop of the southern church,
said.
Bishop Matthew B. Clair, mis
sionary bishop in the south, stat
ed he thought the merger would
come within a few years.
Dr. F. W. Muller, superinten
dent of the department of
church extension, told the board
that 30 Methodist churches have
been sold at sheriff’s sales and
400 are lu “critical’’ financial
condition. Five thousand of the
20,000 Methodist churches have
debt problems, he said.
Grove, wa.s quite successful on
lii.v n.sliini; trip to Wilming
ton last week, his largest
e.-vtel« bc-ing a di-iun welghini^
nine and one-lialf pounds.
Mr. .McCarter was aeooni-
paniel on the trip by W.. H.
and W. E. McCarter, of Union
Grove, R. P. Ellis and a Mr.
Beavls, of Mooresville. They
iiimle several otlier ealcht-s
ranging from nine pounds
ilown and report a most suc
cessful fishing trip.
Farley Wants
3-Cent Postage
Rate to Stand
Work Is progressing rapidly
on four projects of the Public
Works Administration in ’Wjlkes
County and employment is be
ing furnished to about 160 men
who otherwise would be jobless.
The projects now under way
are the North Wilkesboro post-
office building, bridge and ap
proaches over Reddles River
on the western boundary of
North Wilkesboro, city water
works, and irradlng and struc
ture of highway number 16
leading from Millers Creek to
ward Jefferson.
All of these projects are well
under way and will be complet
ed during the next few months.
Postoffice
Lundherg-Richter, contractors,
have made remarkable progress
on the postoffice building on C
Street during the past week
and practically all of the con
crete foundation has been
poured. It is expected that ma
sonry work can be started with
in the next ten days.
Bridge
Excavations for the Reddies
River bridge have been almost
completed this week by Hobbs-
Peabody firm, contractors, and
some concrete footings have
have been poured. Forms for
the actual erection of the struc
ture are being prepared. E. W.
Grannis Construction Company,
holders of the contract for con
struction of fills and approaches,
is moving a hillside of dirt from
the north roadway bank in mak
ing the fill for the west end ap
proach to the bridge.
Water Work.s
The greater part of the work
on the general contract for im
provement and enlargement of
the North Wilkesboro water
works system has been complet
ed and work on the three stor
age tanks and towers is moving
along rapidly.
liarge Pai.’vroll
The combined payroll on all
four projects in the county is
amounting to a considerable sum
weekly for the men who were
placed by the National Reem
ployment Office here.
Falrmoat, ’ Minn. . .. . Ted
Blako (above), of Redwood
Falls, Minn., is the new nation
al corn husking champion of the
United States. He won the 1934
title at the eleventh Annual
Championship Meet just con'
eluded here.
J. S. Jennings Is
Killed In Wreck
Near Henderson
Pores Knob Resident Dies in
Henderson Hospital as
Resultibf Injuries
Says Administration Wants
Business to Follow Lib
eral Policy
Junior Woman’s Club
la Sponsoring Dance
Charlotte, Nov. 21. — Post
master-General James A. Farley
departed at 8:30 p. m. for
Washington. D. C.. after deliver
ing a dedicatory address at the
new $500,000 Charlotte post of
fice today.
A‘t a banquet here tonight,
Farley told city officials he was
disappointed in results of the
November 6 election.
“M'e expected to carry ’Ver
mont,” he said. “We felt sure we
would a.id we are disappointed
because we didn’t, but will get
it next time."
In his speech of dedication
late today, Farley explained that
one of the chief aims of the ad
ministration is for large indus
tries to follow liberal and wide
policies.
The po.stmaster-general made
a formal announcement that he
would ask Congress to retain
the three-cent postage rate tor
the present. He pointed out that
the volume of business is not
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The North Wilkesboro Junior
Woman’s Club is sponsoring a
Thanksgiving dance to be held
at the Legion and \nd Auxiliary
clubhouse on Tuesday night.
Stubby Taylor and his noted or
chestra will furnish the music
and a delightful evening is as
sured those who attend. Mem
bers of the club have been sell
ing tickets during the past few
days and that organization will
appreciate the support of all
who care to attend.
Grows Big Turnips
N. M. Dancy, resident of Red
dies River, presented The Journ
al-Patriot with two extremely
large turnips yesterday. The
largest weighs almost four
pounds and measured 24 inches
in circumference. Mr. Dancy stat
ed that he grew fifty bushels of
turnips from one 10 cent pack
age of seed this year.
Rowan farmers are harvesting
a fine crop of black walnut ker-
els and are planning to plant
more seed nuts in suitable cor
ners about over their farms.
John S. Jennings, member of
one of Wilkes county’s best
known familft^, died in a hospit-
a 1 at Henderson Wednesday
morning at ten o’clock from in
juries received on Monday in an
automobile accident near Hen
derson.
Details of the wreck were not
learned here but it was reported
that his driving companion, a
Mr. Chappel, was killed almost
instantly and Mr. Jennings suf
fered a crushed chest and a
broken rib which pierced one
lung. Pneumonia developed.
F’or several years Mr. Jen
nings made his home in High
Point, where he was engaged in
the furniture business. He was a
member of the Masonic lodge
and the American Legion and
had a wide circle of friends who
were saddened at his passing.
He was 38 years of age, a son
of the late Leander and Mrs.
Sallie Brown Jennings, of Pores
Knob. He was married to Miss
Foster Shew, who. with one
child, Frances, survives. Also
surviving are three brothers and
three sisters, ail of whom are
prominently known: W. A., R. C.
and Floyd Jennings, his twin
brother, of Pores Knob: Mrs.
Maude Smith, Greensboro; Mrs.
J. G. Kenerly. .Mooresville; Mrs.
C. W. Carlton, Williamson, W.
Va.
Funeral and burial services
will be held Friday morning,
10:30, at Walnut Grove Baptist
church at Pores Knob. Rev. C.
C. Holland, the pastor, will he
assisted in conducting the last
rites by Rev. E. Linney.
Supreme Court Finds
ror in .Trial Tayloi
jBank RoMim.
FOUR DOOatED IN
Triple Execution of Black aa
Two Greens On Decenrtwr
7 Is Probable ,
Scouts Will Put
On Benefit Show
Matinee Saturday Morning
at Liberty Theatre For
Thanksgiving Fund
LIONS AND WOMAN’S CLUB PLANNING
BIGGER AND BEHER CARNIVAL HERE
“Bigger and Better than ever’’!
is the way the North Wilkesboro
Woman’s Club and the Lions |
Club are planning for the
Thanksgiving community carni
val to be held in the second story
of the Tomlinson Department
Store Building on Friday eve
ning and night, November 30.
The occasion is destined to be
the outstanding amusement
event of the Thanksgiving sea
son, sponsors of the carnival say,
and a great crowd Is expected to
share in the merriment of the
svening.
The two organizations hope to
'.ell amusement and >tun to the
crowd and make a profit toward
carrying out some of their ob
jectives. The Lions Club is con
ducting an eye clinic among the
underprivileged children and
the Wbman’s Club is endeavor
ing to erect a clubhouse. Both
objectives are considered most
worthy of public support.
The community carnival re
cently put on by the Lions Club
proved to be very popular and
there is quite a public demand
for the Thanksgiving carnival,
which will be on a larger scale
than the previous carnival.
Thirty door prizes will be giv
en and these prizes are soon to
be displayed conspicuously in
some store window. In addition
to the door prizes various other
awards will be given in the
games to be included in carnival
which will be in miniature of
the big carnivals with all the
features of fortune telling, bin-
go, chuck-a-luck and other
amusing features.
The event is being announced
far in advance , in order that
everybody who wishes to attend
may shape their plans to Include
the carnival in their Thanksgiv
ing program. Remember
date—Friday night after Thanks-
giving Day. , .
On Saturday morning at 9:30
the four Boy Scouts troops of the
Wilkeshoros are putting on a
special matinee at the Liberty
Theatre for the purpose o' rais
ing a Thanksgiving dinner fund
for the underprivileged families
of the city.
The price of admission will be
unperishahle food stuffs and
everybody is asked to patronize
the performance. Children and
adults will be asked to contri
bute as much foodstuffs as they
feel they should to this cause.
On Monday and Tuesday night
Baptist troop number 35 is spon-j
soring the showing of "The Pnr-j
suit of Happiness’’ at the Liberty
Theatre and the troop will use
Us share of the profits In buy
ing uniforms. The nrembers of
the troop have been making a
canvass of the city selling tick
ets to the performance.
Raleigh. Nov. 21.—Amoifg 27
opinions handed down by tb»
state supreme court here today
was a decision of "no error" ha
the Alexander county trial of
Bascom Green and his son, Lest
er, last February on charges of
murdering T. C. Barnes.
Greriis Charged With Murder
Bascom Green and bis sob
were charged jointly with Mika
Stefauoft and R. E. Black on two
counts: Conspiracy to rob the
Merchants and Farmers Bank of
Taylorsville on July 29, 1932;
and the murder of T. C. Barnes,
cashier, during the attempted
robbery.
Stefanoff and Black were ap
prehended, tried and convicted.
The Greens fled, first to High
Point, then through a number of
states, finally being arrested in
Tennessee in February, 1934.
Convicted on the first-degree
murder charges, both were sen
tenced to electrocution.
Stefanoff Dead
Stefanoff has already been
electrocuted. Black will die De
cember 7, as will, presumably,
Lester Green and his father.
Chief Supreme Court Justice
Walter P. Stacy in deciding no
error in the Green trial, wrote
that in view of testimony by the
eider Green “which amounts to
a confession of guilt. It would
seem that the questions brought
to be presented are academic.’’
When a conspiracy is formed
to rob a bank, and murder is
committed by any one of the
conspiratoi-s in the attempted
perpetration of the robbery. Jus
tice Stacy pointed out, each and
all of them are guilty of the
murder.
“A continuance would have
availed the defendants naught,"
wrote the chief justice.
Brannon Case
Defendants in the case of
Brannon vs. Sprinkle and Leake
appealed their trial in Forsyth
county last February.
Two sons of Mrs. Brannon,
Edward. 4, and Tommy, 7, were
drowned in May, 193t. in an
open well on property owned by
the defendants. Two cases, one
in regard to each of the boys,
were consolidated in the trial.
John Moore, 10-year-old former
playmate of the Brannon boys,
an eyewitness to the tragedy, de
scribed the drownings which oc
curred as the boys were catching
tadpoles.
The charge was of negligence
in allowing tlie well to remain as
a dangerous lure to small "boys.
Associate Justice Michael
Schenck returned the supreme
court opinion of no error.
Justice Connor dissented, stat
ing that if the trial were right
fully upheld “ownership of land
in this state carries a hazard
which makes it dangerous, for it
is well nigh impossible for a land
owner, at all times and under aU-
conditions, to keep his land
child-proof.’’
An appeal was denied defend
ants in a Forsyth county case,
brought by Mrs. Hannah Bran
non, administratrix of the estate
of her two sons, against J. H.
Sprinkle, John A. Sprinkle. Eth-^
el G. Sprinkle, Elsie S. Leake,
and H. H. Leake.
Book and Gift Shop
Announces Opening’
The Book and Gift Shop an
nounces its opening on the mez
zanine of Rhodes-Day F'urnitnre
Company. The shop is owned and
operated by Mrs. Dan Carter and
Mrs. Carl Coffey.
In the Book depkrtmeot care
fully selected titles from the
To Present Play
North Elkin school will pre
sent a highly entertaining com
edy drama, "Deacon Dubbs” at
Traphlll on Saturday night, No
vember 24. The pnWlo la cordial
ly invited to attend the perform
ance. '
season’s latest and best offer^gs
will be sold as we'il as the morc^?
staple books—biography, travel,
fiction, special subjects and a
small selection o f children^' ’
books. The shop will also be
agent for the Encyclopaedia
Brittanica. . .
In addition to the retail hooka,
a lending library will be operat
ed. Here can be found a variety”
of the most popular current fle-
tlon. ■
A very attractive line of glfta.
candlewick spreads, hooked ruga
and mats are on display..
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