3i:V0L. XXIX, NO. 11
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Published Mobdayt Thursdays
LATE NEWS OF
STATE AND
NATION
1,200 Bogs KUled
^ Kaleigh, Nov. 29.—Raleigh
killed 1,200 stray dogs dur
ing the year. Dog-man* M. B.
Burgess said today.
Winter Gets Nearer
Kansas City, Nov. 30.—Snow
plows were ordered out in the
midwest today to free the high
ways of drifts in a storm which
paralyzed motor traffic, ground
ed airplanes and delayed railway
Royalty Weds
V London, Nov. 29.—In the
^Wferandest. most gorgeous show
^i^London has seen in many years,
beautiful Princess Marina, of
Greece, today became the bride
p of the Duke of Kent, King Geor
ge’s handsome youngest son.
People Saving Money
New York, Nov. 30.—Showing
the first Increase since 1930 sav
ings deposits rose $742,132,000
or 3.5 per cent for the year end
ed June 30. according to “Bank
ing," monthly magazine of the
American Bankers' association.
Floods In Fjislem X. C.
Raleigh. Nov. 30.—Rampaging
rivers, swollen by record-break
ing rains over eastern North Car
olina, swept toward the ocean to
night, flooding lowlands, carry
ing away bridges and Inundating
roads, but otherwise causing lit
tle property damage.
Ship Captain Indicted
New York, Nov. 30.—The act
ing captain and chief engineer of
the liner Morro Castle, which
burned at sea with a loss of 131
lives, were arrested today and
arraigned immediately before a
United States commissioner on
charges of negligence, miscon
duct and inattention to duty.
Is TV.\ Conslilutioiial'.’
New York, Nov. 30.—The Ed
ison Electric institute, represent
ing most of the nation’s power
producers, made public tonight
the complete text of the opinion
^ James M. Beck and Newton
Baker, holding the Tennessee
Valley authority act as “not
within the constitutional powers
of the Congress.”
Seek.s Chicago Mayoralty
Chicago. Nov. 29.—The first
hat tossed into the Chicago may
oralty campaign ring is a wo
man’s bonnet. Mrs. John Wesley
Gray, who as president of the
Chicago Business and Profes
sional Women’s club acted as
mayor March 14. 1934, found
the duties pleasing and today-
announced her candidacy for the
office.
Friction Over Relief
Washington. Nov. 30.—A plan
to be placed before President
Roosevelt by Harry L. Hopkins,
the relief administrator, calling
for the creation of an eight bil-
*» lion dollar federal work relief
corporation, was described au
thoritatively here today as hav
ing precipitated a sharp division
among presidential advisor# and
cabinet members.
New Coogiiii
Washington . . . Congressman-
elect Elmer J. Ryan (above), of
South St. Paul, Minn., will like
ly be the “baby’’ of Congress
when that august body convenes
in January. He is 27 years old,
married, has one son.
Pastor Greeted
By Large Crowd
Rev. H. K. King Takes Up
Duties as Methodist Pas
tor; Succeeds Jenkins
Rey. H. K. King, new pastor
of the North Wilkesboro Metho
dist church, was greeted by large
audiences yesterday at both the
morning and evening worship
hours. The congregation was
very favorably impressed with
his sermons at both services of
his first Sunday in North Wil
kesboro.
He and Mrs. King and small
daughter arrived Friday from
Arkansas, where he was located
north vraiKESBORO, N. C., MONDAY, DEC. ^8. 1984 -
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1935 Automobile
Licenses Plates
Placed On Sale
No Estension of Time Will
Be Granted For Use of
1934 Tags
BLACK AND SILVER
193,5 Tags May Be Used On
Automobiles and Trucks
After December 15
According to officials of the
North Carolina State Highway
Patrol, no extension of time
will be granted for use of the
1934 automobile licenses tags
afier December 31 and all cars
in use on January 1 or after
must display the 1935 tags.
New licenses tags are on
sale all over the state today an.i
the branch office of the Carolina
Motor Club in the Yadkin Val
ley Motor Company is agency for
this section. J. C. McDlarmid is
in charge of the office.
Although the new tags went
on sale for the first time Satur
day it is unlawful to use them
before December 15, after which
date the 1934 tags can be dis
placed with the new ones, which
are of black and silver colors.
It is also stated that licenses
bureaus have been instructed not
to issue licenses on any car pur
chased outside of North Caro
lina. Plates for such cars must
be ordered direct from the lic
enses bureau at Raleigh or
through local patrolmen.
All who can find it convenient
before being transferred to are asked to buy their plates as
North Carolina to fill the va- early as possible in December in
cancy caused when Dr. W. A. | order that there may not be a
Jenkins, local pastor, was trans
ferred to the Eastern North Car
olina Conference and the pulpit
of the Chapel Hill chuvch at the
University of North Carolina.
Until recent years he was sec
retary of religious edUCatTblii^'in
foreign fields and is well fitted
by experience and education to
carry on the work of the church.
rush in the latter days of the
month, it is remembered that
on December 31 last year there
was such a rush at licenses bu
reaus that a long wait was neces
sary before the licenses could be
obtained. Identification"'and ap
plication cards have alreadys
been mailed to car owners by
the state licenses bureau.
County and Township Officers Are
Beginning Year Today; Oaths Taken
Car Stolen From *"
. r-,, J Office; Other County Of-
Mreet Ihursdayi fiicers Becin Work
.lohii K. .Tustice's Car Stolen'-
Thanksgiving Day; Has Not
Been Locatel
.A 1933 model Ford belong
ing to John E. Justice was stol
en on the morning of Thanksgiv
ing Day from where it was park
ed on .Main street near the inter
section of Ninth Street.
Mr. Justice discovered that his
car was stolon about eleven o'
clock and the local police de
partment immediately notified
all officers in surrounding coun
ties to watch for the car but so
far it has not been located.
Revenue Collections flood
Raleigh. Nov. 30.—With the
sales tax leading the way. reve
nue collections of the state of
North Carolina for the first five
months of the current fiscal year
surpassed by $1,076,866.74 or
12.M per cent the total that
poured into the coffers during
corresponding period in
A. J. Maxwell, commis
sioner of revenue, announced to
day.
Yadkin Jail Empty
The keepsr of the Yadkin
county Jail at Yadkinville is
leading a quiet, and rather mon
otonous life with no boarders
■ from the outside world partak
ing of daily meals at the once-
popular county boarding house.
When the jail was vacated by
the last prisoner November 16,
a record of 16 years was brok
en. for this is the first time in
that period that the jail quarters
have been unoccupied.
Offices Key City Land
And Insurance Company
Now In New Location
The offices of the Key City
Land and Insurance Company,
for several years located on the
second floor of the Taylor Build
ing on Ninth Street, are now
open in the new location in room
15 On the second floor of the
Bank of North Wilkesboro build
ing.
This company is managed by
S. P. Mitchell, well known engi
neer, and all its patrons are ask
ed to take note of the change in
location.
I Today the officers elected for
Wilkes County and the various
townships in the election held on
November 6 gathered at the
courthouse In Wilkesboro . and
took the oaths of office.
(The officers taking the oath
of office today and beginning
their duties are as follows: W.
B. Somers, sheriff: C. C. Hayes,
Clerk of court; O. F. Eller, reg
ister of deeds; Ralph Duncan.
M. F. Ahsher and D. B. Swarin-
g e n, commi.ssioners; W. E.
Fletcher, surveyor; Iredell M.
Myers, coroner.
Sheriff Somers. Commissioner
Absher and Surveyor Fletcher
were the only incumbents to
seek reelection. The retiring of
ficers are: Wm. A. Stroud, clerk
of court for sixteen years: T. H.
Settle, register of deeds for six
years: N. B. Smithey, chairman
of the board of commissioners
for six years; Stephen A. Rash,
coroner for a number of terras.
C. C. Hayes, the other member
of the board of commissioners,
is now clerk of court.
Named To Tieasoij
Legion Meets Friday
Wilkes post number 125 of the
-American Legion will meet at
the Legion and Auxiliary club
house on Friday night at 7:30.
.All members are asked to be
present.
Spanish-American
War Auxiliary To
Meet On Saturday
New Officers Will Be EUcted;
.All Members .Are .Asked To
Be Present
Warm Spr..’gs, Ga., Nov. 29.—
Prealdent Roosevelt observed
Thanksgiving today with a deep
feeling in his heart for this place
where 10 years ago he fought
ack from an attack of Infantile
_alysis. The day was devoted
Entirely to the Thanksgiving day
occasion climaxed tonight by a
: tartqy dinner at the Founders’
banijnet In Georgia Hall. The
PreeMent sliced a huge gobbler
. lor Mm. Booeevelt and children
aHents at his table.
Spanish-American War Veter
ans’ Auxiliary number 16 will
meet at the courthouse In Wil
kesboro on Saturday afternoon,
1:45. December 8, for a most
important session, according to
an announcement made today by
Mrs. Blanche Miller, president,
and Mrs. Angie Henderson, sec
retary.
New officers will be named
and other business of interest
will be Uken up. Every member
oI the auxiliary is" urgently re
quested to be pruent. * .
“Spiritual Four”
Will Render Prograin
Here Friday Night
“The Spiritual Four,” colored
aggregation of singers who have
gained a wide reputation over
the south, will render a program
at the North Wilkesboro High
School auditorium on Friday
night, beginning at 7:30.
In the group are eight sing
ers. dancers and musicians who
assure the audience of a super
ior program. The admission will
be 10 and 2 5 cents and profits
will go for the athletic associ
ation.
Denver . . . Miss Josephine
Roche (above), probably the
best known woman industrialist
in the U. S., is the new Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, on
the appointment of President
Roosevelt.
Schools Observe
Two-Day Holiday
Incidentally TJi a nksgiving
Holidays and l^d Weather
Come at Same Time
Thursday (Thanksgiving Day)
and Friday were observed as
holidays by practically all the
schools in the county. The school
schedule is so arranged that ob
servance of the holidays will not
disrupt the weekly and monthly
routine, due to the fact that the
schools started on Wednesday.
It Thursday and Friday had
not been observed as school hol
idays it ia highly probable that
some of the schools would have
had to close on account of in
clement weather anyway. Some
of the heaviest and most pro
longed rains in the last several
years fell during the latter part
of the week and dirt roads were
in a denlorable condition, which
would have made it extremely
dtftldult for buses to operate on
schedule.
All Of First Payment
On Com-Hog Reduction
Contracts Is Received
County Agent A. G. Hendren
has received the remainder of
the benefit payments on corn
hog crop reduction payments
and the checks are ready for dis
tribution to the nine who have
not received first payment.
For some reason nine of the
checks wore missing in the first
payment and these delayed ones
have arrived. Checks for the sec
ond payment (one-fifth of the
total amount) are expected with
in the next few days. Total bene
fits for the county for reduc
tion of these two crops will run
around $10,000.
Quarterly Conference
First quarterly conference of
the Wilkesboro Methodist charge
will be held Wednesday evening,
7:30, at the Wilkesboro Metho
dist church with Rev. A. C,
Gi’obs, of Mt. Airy, the prt:siding
elder, in charge.
Town Of Wilkesboro To
Advertise 1933 Taxes
Notice is being given in to
day’s Issue of The Journal-Pa
triot that property on which the
tax for the year 1933 has not
been Paid will be advertised on
Wednesday, December 12th,
1934, and sold at public auction
on Monday, January 7th, 1935.
All those who have not as yet
paid their town tax for 1933
may save cost of advertising by
making settlement with P. L.
Leodeman. ton tax collector,
within the next few days.
All-Stars to Play
Boonville Here
Game Will Be Played at New
High School Gymnasium
Thursday Night
North Wilkesboro all star bas
ketball team will offer the pub-
1 1 c plenty of entertainment
Thursday night when they play
a team from Booneville at the
new high school gymnasium in
this city. The game will start at
eight o’clock. A small admission
will be charged the men and la
dies are admitted free.
The (team is rapidly taking
form with plenty of good mater
ial out for the practice that Is
ironing out the kinks from stiff
muscles and making tor greater
accuracy in trys for goal. Floor
work of the all/stars is fast and
affords real excitement. '
The team does not have a
name yet and is offering a sea
son’s pass to all home games to
the person selecting the" most
suitable name. A box is provided
at the gymnasium for the deposit
of suggestions and the best will
be chosen from those deposited.
The team is organized, not as
a commercial affair, but to af
ford recreation and it is hoped
that an aggregation that will be
a credit to the city will be ^ the
result. The team appreciates the
support and IntereA of the sport-
loving public here.
ment Unice
-jfef ’f) S?
on
Will Make Race
For Governorship
Chairman of Ways and Means
Com'mittee Non-Gommittal
on the Subject
MUCH SPECULATION
Raleigh Correspondent Ap
parently Confident Dough-
ton Will Make Race >
Although the 1934 election is
just one month passed, specula-
tiaon on candidates in 1936 is
gaining every day and news writ
ers are prominently mention
ing “Farmer Bob’’ Doughton as
a probable candidate for gover
nor, along with Attorney Clyde
R. Hoey, of Shelby.
In the Greensboro Daily News
Friday there appeared the fol
lowing article by that newspap
er’s correspondent in Raleigh:
Raleigh, Nov. 29.—Farmer
Bob Doughton, chairman of the
national house ways and means
committee, didn’t say it this
week, but he is a candidate for
governor of North Carolina.
“I have not told any man that
I am a candidate for governor,’’
the farmer said somewhat firm
ly, as if to reproach people who
take liberty with his aspirations;
“and I have not said that I am
going to run for governor,” the
congressman continued. And
there isn’t anything so terribly
exciting about such a proclama
tion. But he never looked so gov-
ernish in his life. He is in the
race.
Can Fool Prophets
Of course he can confound
everybody who says he will make
the race. The usual way of
treating him is about this: Mr.
Doughton is seriously consider
ing the race, but not until the
first of the year will he actually
get into the contest. He will an
nounce them.
It’s e.xactly the other way at
this writing. Mr. Doughton is
running now; but he may decide
against continuation of the race
after the first of the year. He
would have about 17 months of
it after such a declaration and
the ninth district member does
(Continued ou page eight)
I 'i xfeuitt • I
St. Louis . . . Lew II. Wentz
(above), Oklahoma Oil man, Is
the prospective owner of the
world champion St. Louis Na
tional League Cardinals. He has
been negotiating for the pur
chase which js reported nearing
completion.
Five New Buses
Allotted Wilkes
Transportation E q u i[Hnent
For ^hools is Now in
Fair Condition
Since the beginning of the
present school year the State
School Commission has allotted
to Wilkes County five new school
buses.
When schools began the coun
ty had twenty buses and many
contract lines were necessary in
order to begin the schools. The
few county-owned buses were
hopelessly crowded and It was
necessary for them to cover two
or more routes, making it diffi
cult to operate on schedule.
The new buses the state has
sent into W)ilkes are larger than
any of the busis heretofore used
in the county and are capable of
carrying from 50 to 60 school
children.
Supt. C. B. Eller and the
county board of education have
placed the buses at the school
where the need for additional
transportation facilities was
greatest. All county and state
owned buses are now in good
condition and the transportation
system is working in a satisfac
tory manner.
Speaking Contest
Students Chosen
Lee Settle and Helen Bum-
gamer Will Represent
Wilkesboro School
Carnival Here
Very Popular
Lions and Woman's Club
Sponsored Gala Occasion
Friday, Saturday
On Friday and Saturday nights
the North Wilkesboro Woman’s
Club and the I.ions Club jointly
sponsored a Thanksgiving Car
nival, which was held over Tom
linson’s Department Store on
Main Street.
The occasion was planned for
Friday night only but was car
ried over until Saturday night
to give everybody a chance to en
joy the affair.
Both organizations realized a
nice profit to use in their activi
ties. The Lions will continue
their eye clinic and the WJoman’s
Club will add to its building
fund. Both organizations express j Indejiendence’’; Helen Bumgar-
their appreciation to all who ner, “The Fiddle Told;” Lillian
contributed toward making the | Linney. “Alicia"; Kate Ferguson
carnival a success. * “The Dumb Savior”; Lorene
Guthrie, “The White Halds of
Telham’’: Annie Lou Ferguson,
“Lady Macbeth’s Crime."
Students from many of the
leading high schools in Western
North Carolina will gather at
Mars Hill to take part in the
contest, which will be of an elim
ination order.
In a tryout contest held at
Wilkesboro Saturday Lee Settle
and Helen Bumgarner were se
lected to represent the school in
the Western North Carolina
Declamation and Recitation con
test to be held at Mars Hill on
Friday and Saturday, December
7 and 8.
Mrs. W. D. Halfacre. Mrs.
Russel Hodges and Mrs. W. P.
Horton, judges, had difficulty in
picking the winners from the
following contestants: Lee Set
tle, “The Paradox of Peace";
Larry Wiles, “The Declaration of
1,354 Assigned to
Work On.P f A
Projects in Year
Enqrioymient Statistics Gtnm
Out by Director of Dis
trict Office Here
358 VETERANS PLACED
Office Lists 421 Placed «■
During the Grst year’s exist
ence of the United States Re
employment Service 2,008 mea
and women were placed on iota
by the North Wilkesboro reem
ployment office, according to a
rerport released today by R. h.
Wooten, director of the Hve-
county office located here.
The office was established here
on November 22, 1933, at which
time a similar office was locat
ed In each county. Six months
ago the service Nflrtji Caro
lina was reorganized "’to rednea
operating costs and four other
counties, Watauga, Ashe, Alle
ghany and Alexander, were
grouped with Wilkes to form a
district with the office here
maintained as headquarters. The
total number of placements an
nounced by Mr, Wooten inclnden
those by the Wilkes ofUce befo^
consolidation and the number
the office has placed since that
time but does not include the
number by the individual cotm-
ty offices before the new set up.
Of the total of 2,008 individn-
als placed on jobs 94 were
women and 358 were veterans,
who were given preference when
ever possible.
Placements on Public Works
Projects led the list with 1,364
while 379 men and 4 2 women
were placed on Civil Wprks Pro
jects in Wilkes County alone.
Placements in home and private
Industry rank third in number
with a total of 143 men and 53
women. Twenty-one were placed
in Civilian Conservation Camps,
nine in government service and
eight as farm tenants.
The number in the active files
at the local office is greatly re
duced from the total of a year
ago, although many have regis
tered or renewed during the past
three months in the hope of se
curing Jobs on the four GWA
projects now under way in the
county.
Although the National Reem
ployment Service was set up as
a temporary organization, it ia
expected that the state and na
tional governments will work
out a cooperative system where
by it will be made permanent to
serve the pvblic and especially
to localize labor on Public Works
and other projects.
Local P.-T. A. To Meet
On Thursday Afternoon
North Wilkesboro Parent-
Teacher Association will meet
on Thursday afternoon. Decem
ber 6, at the school auditorium.
The meeting will be called to
order at 3:15.
One of the most interesting
and beneficial programs of the
year will be given. A represen
tative of the health department
will be present and deliver an
address on some phase of health
work. Not only are the members
of the Association urged to be
present but other interested pa
trons of the school have a cor
dial invitation to attend.
Miss Lena Culler, of Wilkes
boro, Miss Margaret Hoover," of
Bessemer City, and Miss Grace
Tony, of Gastonia, passed $!»►
state board nurses’ examination
at Columbia, S. C., recently.
They were given a good -rnting
State Master To
Attend Meeting
Of Wilkes Grange
itleeting Wm~Be Hrfd M Coart-
house In Wilkesboro On Mon-
* clay, December 10
Miss Irene Reeves, of Sparta, joh .examination. Hjaa Caller
was a .week-end gaest of Mlssj lh ® danghter of Mr, and Mrs.
Joyce Wellborn. U- Culler, of Wilkesboro.
Pomona Grange o f Wilkes
County will meet at the court
house in Wilkesboro on Monday,
December 10, at.seven o'clock in
the evening, according to %n
announcement made today by J.
M. German, muter... *
State Grange Master E. S.
Vannetta has. promis^ to meet
with the Wilkes Orange on that
date and U :#ari»atly
Dr. S. D. Gordon
Speaks In City
Dr. S. D. Gordon, of Winston-
Salem, noted author and lectur
er, spoke to a large crowd from
the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church here Sunday morning at
eleven o’clock.
Dr. Gordon, widely known as
the author of several splendid
religious books, was listened to
with rapt interest as he deliver
ed a most inspiring discottry^
on the subject of “The ThroW^
Man.”
While in the city Dr. and Mrs.-
Gordon were guests of Rev. C.
W. Robinson. Presbyterian pas
tor here.
Not Ahead Of WHkes
The following cqmment was
clipped from the editorial col-
nrans of The Charlotte Observer,
issue of Friday, November 30:
"The State, Carl Goerch’s ex
cellent magazine, prints a,.; pic
ture of a pine tree in Wilson
County, which i»,:renBieiJu the*
largest tree in North ^Cfe^iiui
and invites somebody 'tO''*como '
along with a larger one. Well,
take a trip up to the end-ot.th» «.
little railroad that was run from-.^
North Wilkesboro to the foot -of-v"
the big hills measure the.
giant poplar’^^at grows theite.
That tree' is otrt en&jr,".r
Mr. and llir*:*
that every fto
, attend.
and little daughter,
of West Jeffers«%v{,gpntt
‘^nksgiving seaion near
dtty with Mn.HMeHilUn'p * par-”
eats. Mr. and •'Mrs. W.,
vard. ; ■■--t.-.i.iiv-a