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BUSINESS PICKS UP
Pittsburgh, Juns 28—"A sharp
ris« In scrap prices, better mls-
fstlansoua buying, and Inquiries
> trOaa big consumers like the au-
tomottre and structural Industries
all point to a coming uptrend in
the steel industry,” W. F. De-
twiler, president of Allegheny
Steel company said today.
IS ,
m^MObserved
Smday, July 3rd
“Let U« Alive on Sth” Is
Slogan Qf Annual
Occasion
LESS AUTO DEATHS
Chicago, June 28.—The great
est reaacMon. liv Ua«is iauaUOea
of the year—a 27 per cent*drop
in May—wr>‘. reported today by
the national .safety council. May
■was the seventh consecutive
month through which the down
ward trend in motor vehicle
deaths continued. Statisticians
figured 8,789 lives were saved
during that period. May death."
totalled 2,280 compared with 3,-
120 in the same month In 1^37.
*DAMAGE ByITaIL
Wilson, June 2 8.—Damage to
tobacco and cotton by hall last
Friday in 30 North Carolina coun
ties. and In sections of South
Carolina and Virginia will prob-
abjiy total over 11.000,000. while
•insurance claims Itlsd so far are
a mtle’lObs than half that a-
monnt, xrftlclals of the Southeast
ern HiJi Insurance Adjusters as
sociation. who are making Wilson
their headquarters while adjust-
In^ciaU^te North Carolina said
yesterday.
PENNELL HEADS LEGION
■Winston-Salem. June 28.—The
20th annual convention of the
North Carolina department of
the American legion passed Into
history tonight as the legion
naires and members of the auxil
iary depart-ed for their homes
after election of officers and se
lecting Raleigh as the 1939 con
vention city. Burgin Pennell.
Asheville attovrey. was the uranl-
mous choice of the legion for its
cemmsndcr. He was unopposed.
The auxiliary elected Mrs. Her
bert B. Taylor, of Dunn, presi
dent after spirited ballotin.g. She
defeated Mrs. lone Mebane Mann,
of Newton, by 12 votes.
Third annual Safety Sabbath
will be observed locally and
throughout^the Carollnas Sunday,
July 3, according to J. C. Mc-
Diarmid, manager of the North
Wilkesboro office of the Carolina
Motor Club. The Club sponsoredk
the initial Safety Sabbath In
1936 which received the spon
taneous and wholehearted sup
port of ministers, press, radio and
the public.
“I,et’s be alive on the 5th” is
the slogan adopted for the third
Safety Sabbath pr.qgrara. The saf
ety Sabbath imgttm. The safety
department of The Carolina Motor
Club has developed considerable
Interesting ^knd statistical mater
ial suitable'for use In Safety Sab
bath programs and this may be
secured by minlstets of any de
nominations upon request to Car
olina Motor Clnb^Headquarters.
Tha tlret Safety Sabbath was
“observed June 28—^the Sunday
preceding July 4—and only one
traffic tataUty 'Wts recorded in
the Carolina over'the long holi
day, compared with several for
each state for previous July
Fourths ■'for the past several
years. The second Safety Sabbath
program was carried out April 18,
1937 and again there was only
one person killed in the two states
that day.
Carolinians contemplating trips
this week-end sre urged by the
safety directors of the Carolina
Motor Club to be certain their
automobiles are ih good mechani
cal condition and to use greatest
care in operating their vehicles
in the congested traffic that will
floDd Carolina highways from
now until Tuesday. “Let’s be alive
on the 5th.” tb° safety directors
SPEECH DRAWS FIRE
Washington, June 28. Re-
.narks a’tributert to Aubrey Wil
liams. assistant WPA administra
tor who yesterday addressed an
audience of Workers Alliance rep
resentative.". left many persons
here both amazed and incredul
ous. Today it has been the talk q£
Washington, but members of
Congress hesitated to comment
for publication because they had
not seen the full text of the ad
dress. which W8S wildly applaud
ed by as radical a group as is to
be found outside of Moscow. It
has staged countless sit-down
strikes in New York at relief
headquarters, a form of
‘ that will doubtless be cont.nued
if Williams said half of the
things he is reputed to have s^ld.
In addre.S3ing the alliance W il
liams is reputed to have said
“Keen yo'ir friends in power. You
know who your friends are ^the
who stand for work relief
—ojpcts. the men who stand for
«tee things will win elections.
In Fam
Benefits PaW In
Wilkes County
Represents Greater Part Of
PaymenU For Soil Im
provement In 1937
yrUkes county farmers have
" be» paid approximately $30,000
serwtlon progr'ira m 1937 and
hbOkit 37'5 farmers are yet to r^
.* oetfO payment. Miss Rosa
. - Hues treasurer of the soil con-
''•M-vatkin assoe'ation, said today,
i'total of 1.388 checks have
^i^deJivered .and the average
'iss bOan About 121. Some
»-.bifen ft^ less than
S^yrhlle- the largest was
tkCTeare about 5,000
■»ader work slieets In the
to slightly
^ yeir. U tB expect-
at-Vbbut 8,600 will be'ell-
. tor payment In accordance
sSirdTlaUms of the act. The
'elDeckiss compliance is
[led >• undsif way tkis
a^ 'm«y :
Business Houses
To Close Monday
Holiday Will Be Observed
By Merchants; Also By
Commissioners
Eu.siness houses in North Wil-
ke.sboro -unll be closed on Mon
day, July 4, a national holiday.
.Announcenient that business
establishments here will be closed
Monday -was made by the Merch-
antg’ association.
Both banks here will be closed
Monday.
Anuouncenv.’nl was made that
beauty shops will b-i closed Mon
day and that they will remain
onen all day Wednesday instead
of observing a half holidav on
that date. This applies only to
next week, however.
R. G. Finley chairman of the
Wilkes county board of commis
sioners, said that the board will
meet on Tuesday. July 5. instead
of July 4th, which is the first
Monday. Sever?: county offices
will be closed on July 4th, he
said.
Pie and Cake Sale
The Ila Holman Bible class of
the Wilkesboro Baptist church
will sell pies and makes Saturday,
July 2, beginning at 11 o’clock,
at Newton’s drug store in Wilkes
boro. It is hoped that the sale by
the class will be widely patron
ized.
As BttsihesF
Song Writer
to
to
Mrs. Carrie Pardue Kirby,,of
Moraviun Falls, has signed con
tract as staff writer for an in
ternationally knotvn music pub
lisher who plans to exploit her
songs and place them on the
market throughout the United
States, ih England and in Aus
tralia.
Songs By Wilkes
Writer Are To ^
Published Soon
Mrs. Carrie Pardue Kirby
Signs Contract With Mus>
ic Publishers
Mrs. Carrie'" Pardue Kirby, a
resident of the village of Moravi
an Falls, ttnri'Wfien selected aS a
staff writer for a large and reput
able music publishing company.
Mrs. Kirby has successfully I
met various song assignments by
Amazn^
Coufidi^
In , .
Prices Rise As
en Dollars Per Shtlids iTo
New Season
The stock market, an njnUUMr
barometer of the rise an|( JI9V Of.
business conditions'despM^U a^
gument to the contrary,
upward yesterday In a c!
a three-day rise.
With the market jump
play of confidence whljh
lacking In big business cl
almost a year and Is 4>eHe'
have heralded the end of f
ceeslon and the beginning
move toward bettor econpipip
conditions. '
Economists were almost niis^
Iraotts In their belief ,, that-.i.th
display of confidence oh the-
of the general oubl'c wonld. pialfa
itself felt in business circles.
I Credit Opeos Upt
! They anticipated dissipation of
i the hand-to-mouth buying b y
wholesalers: an opening up of
' credit: new expansion and better
ments programs; and a general
disposition on the part of indus
try to once again plan ahead for
the good consumer demand ex
pected this fall. _ ,,
Choked facilities of wall
street’s wire bonsen attested to
the spread of confidence over thO
breadth of the nation. The pro
fessional element itself was amas*
ed at the scope of the buying and
Us optimism was reflected ^ in
sale of a stock exchange mstahef-
ship at 166.000, up from
the plnet^tJf«^rIflir*'Mi^^^
t’WD weelM^Cat^A,
to air ottlwaM a^peatiile^ was
in the depths of a new depres
sion.
Industrial Averages Soar
Although the rail and utility
'ABABWA. cal. . .. It took ari earthquake to help sdsnliat Dr.
to invent'(Oi entirely new tyim of vio^ mi^t^m
to be saperier to any. in-odoM by an old StradiVOTOs.
K eonums no wood—front or bock, maUng it poMiWa to SM .right
thmbMfvIt so mneb roamUcs a rotoja^raph that the l^fe^r
has naiMd.lt the “seiami^sphic tddU., ~
1 * * • ^ ^^
Sai^Serykts
■ .»
gist
Mtfiday.. night.
Deglnni|ig tm ..,——.....
Jnl|^ 4, aha ehntinh&tg ithrohgh
the comp'iny and a number Pf'averages failed to top their 1938
her songs will be Introduced soon hjghs. the industrial average
on radio and on the screen. soared 5.49 points to a new peak
Critics have appraised composi-! since November 1 and the 65
tions by Mrs. Kirby as excellent stocks composite hit
a new top
in their field. Songs by her so far
have been mainly mountain bal
lads and western type.
She is a native of Wilkes, a
daughter of the late James and
since November 13 last year.
The advance was the eighth in
the last ten sessions—a period in
which some $7,500,000,000 has
been added to market valuation
daughter of ‘he late James ana ^ork Slock
Rebecca Boldin Pardue. She was of stocks for a re-
Spy Case Witness
reared five miles westi-o£ Wilkes
boro at a farm home in the beau
tiful valley of the Yadkin, which
doubtless had something to do
with the beauty of her verses al
though she did not attempt to
compose songs until a tew years
ago.
She is the wife of L. F. Kirby,
a carpenter. They lived in Win
ston-Salem from 1920 to 1925
and spent the next year in Palm
Beach. Florida Since that time
their home has been at Moravian
Falls.
Mrs. Kirby said that the pub
lishing company with which she
had signed contract is in touch
with more than 700 radio artists,
music directors and program di
rectors to whom copies of her
songs will be sent for programing
on networks and individual sta
tions, covering the entire radio
field. She. will be kept informed
of broadcasts in which her songs
are used and the most popular
will be sent by the publisher to
their agents in. London, in Can
ada "nd in Sydney. Australia, for
republlcatlon and recording io
their respective territories. Ex
cerpts from a letter from the
head of the company to Mrs. Kir
by said: "I am very happy to say
that we are prepared to start
publication on your song mater
ial. I am sincerely happy that our
organization is to have the privi
lege of bringing out and exploit
ing on a national scale songs that
will carry your name from coast
to coast.’’
New York, N. Y. . . . Miss
Senta De Wanger of Mlnet^
one of t»e two women being
held by the government in hid
den “iKOtective enstodj” as a
vital spy wlttiess, as special
Federal Gnuid Jnry prepares
to lenrn of a Gennan consplr-'-
aey to eribtola AtoHR^saa deftose
.geecetat
^change on prospects for a re
vival in business this fall.
To Begin Work
On Prison Camp
Next Thursday
Construction of a standard
highway prison camp to house
125 men will get under wav on
July 7„ C. M. Crutchfield, area
■WP.A supervisor, said today.
The camp will be located on
the highway property near the
lower Yadkin bridge here and
near the highway machine shop,
which was constructed a year
ago.
Highway maintenance crews
have already cleared the site of
timber and evp>-ythlng is in readi
ness for construction. The camp
will be one of three to be con
structed in the eighth highway
division. The others will be in
Forsyth and Stpkes counties.
Howe'^er, it is the only prison
camp to be constructed as a WPA
project and toe others will he
built by contract through the
Public Works administration.
Total cost of the camp here Is
set up at approximately $45,000
and calls for 66,009 man hours,
of which about one-third Is to be
skilled labor.
Some of the workers hereto
fore employed on; the street im
provement project here will he
transferred to the prison camp
project. It Is understood.
The camp will be constructed
of brick and concrete in accord
ance with standard plans adopted
by the state highway commission.
Doughton Better
Washington, June 27.—Repre
sentative Dougbfon (N. C.) was
reported “getting along fine” at
the navy hospital here today, and
his office said thg. reteron legis
lator hoped to h* able to go to
his North Carolina home soo|i.
, Donghton und^rat ah
'tlon about six wtol$a ago. ro-
ssmed bis dntttfr Pbor^.^ore
adjoiljtte^. laf^MI ,%
the roster of tho men passing
oesefuUy too rigid tests given fol-and wa^ iilrde^^ w t«
Taking Instruction
Compliance Work
A three-day school for training
supervisors of farm conservation
compliance work In Wilkes coun
ty terminated Wednesday at the
county courthouse. The school
was conducted by Mr. Davis, of
North Carolina State College Ex
tension Service.
'Thirty Wilkes county men’took
the course of study. Employees of
the program will be chosen from
lai
. conriia of Ingtca^tlpav,
1 .»._=j....s. -.1, - .
-3^.
- ,y, amly itp,„-th»q -wdll. be
bie^ a atoigeli|iMs;aerT-
itrto.hi tUb'i^iirtyto'ridd ebiifch.
Tbw •.Tisttfii||v^eaitoM’’ tar' tbose
H,^p»rter”::ip. ,.pf Anderson, S.
a |i)r. welF tno^ ,;to
t^''j«qi^')f'tbls obniimnnlty^
ttp Inilto.'Atty and
honored bjr the Presbyterian’Co^
lege at Clinton. S. C., ■with tho
honorary degree of Doctor of Di
vinity. His many friends here
will welcome his return for these
services. Services begin at 7:45.
During the week that Dr. Car
ter preaches in the evening, there
will be held also the annual vaca
tion church schoool. This school
will begin on Monday at 9 o’clock
and will be featured by study
groups, addresses by Dr. Carter,
and by other religious activities
that will consume the morning
hours each day through Saturda.'.
For the two services this Sun
day, July 3. a.s a prelude to the
week of religious emphasis the
guest preacher will be the Rev.
B. N. Caldwell. D. D., pastor of
the First Presbvterlan church of
Tallahassee, Fla. Dr. Caldwell is
one of the outstanding men in
the Southern Presbyterian church
and will bring to the people of
this community two messages of
timely interest and spiritual ben
efit.
Auto License At
Half Year Price
state automobile license plates
will go on sale here and at 45
other officee of the Carolina Mo
tor club at one-half annual fee
Friday, July 1, it Is announced
by J. C. McDlarmid. manager of
the North Wilkesboro office of
the club.
Plate sales throughout the
state have been far ahead of the
same date last year since last De
cember. Through June 27 the sale
was 533,736 plates compared with
519,212 for tne same date in
1937—a gain of $14,524. Of this
total 86 per cent or 440,769 have
been sold at Carolina Motor club
branch offices.
Sales at the North Wilkesboro
office have totaled 6,023 this
year, Mr. McDlarmid said.
Legion Will Meet
Friday, July 8th
Attention Is called to the fact
that the Wilkes post of the Amer
ican Legion will meet on Friday
night, July 8, 7:30, instead of
Friday til^t of this week. A re
port of delegates to the state
convention held this week In Win
ston-Salem will feature the meet
ing and all members are asked to
attend.
l^piseepiU
Vesper awrlc* at' Si Paa^a
Episcopal charch Sunday att^-
noos. mb SrdU at toar o:fdqeb. to
«bir^.^tb3 raetpr, Rererend. ?.
M. Ladtayr Ffiands and TWtiMSl
aro toTlted to aftond.toto
li
Wdfare Bot^
Takes Ac^;^
60 AppBca^f
46 Api^y^ for Old Age
Aaautanoe; Eight ADC
Caae« Accepted
A total of 60 appUcatloas tor
old age assistance and eight tor
aid to dependent chUdrob ware
passed upon by the WllbM eottnr
ty board of welfare in a meeting
held this week.
Charles McNeill, county wel
fare'officer, said that of the 60
applications for old age assistance
46 were approved and t4 were
rejected. All of the eight appU-
eatlons for aid to dependent ctail-
fore toe board was toe largest be
fore that body since the state so
cial security program became ef
fective a year ago. In addition to
the applications some cases were
reviewed and monthly grant to
one aged person was increased.
One aid to dependent children
case was terminated.
Many aged oeople who have
called at the welfare office to
make application for assistance
are yet to be reached and the
same applies to aid to dependent
children. It is expected that the
anprepriations by the state and
county will be exhausted before
all ellglbles are reached, welfare
authorities said-
ice
pMuoemtn Will Nm
tnee For CoiigMto '
Eighth ’ ^
■ ■’
The only two candjl^litsu Mhoo^^J
names will apptor oh..ba(l«to4o';^
be^ used in the sMond c prannr: ^
Saturday, July 2, in tobK'toCMgn
are bosily engaged in making tort \.r
minute apptols for support . to '
theiii efforts' to obtain toe Deoiia*
[erotic nomination for eighth dia-^
' trlct representative in congre^
The candidates are C. B.
of Rockingham, icnd
Burgin, of Lexington.
Burgin by between 600 and
votes In the first prims.17 yW|rai4
three other candidates
inated. ' V ' 7
Both are widely known inen to '
public life. /
The polls will open at seven
o’clock Saturday morning ' and
close at the same hoar Saturday
evening. It will be strictly a
ocratlc primary in Wilkes ■
cause all contests tor Repnbliton
nominations have been
’The Wilkes county board' ot
Elections has named Demoentie
Judges to replace the Republican
judge in each precinct, the newly
named Democratic judge to senre
only for the second primary.
Those named for the 29 precincts
in the county are as follows:
Antioch, Walter Poster.
Beaver Creek, T. W. Ferguson.
Boomer, J. C. Walsh.
Brushy Mountain, Christie Ted
der.
Elk No. 1, Henry Welsh.
Elk No. 2. Tom Welsh.
Edwards No. 1, J. H, Blllingp. ^
Edwards No. 2, W, E- Parts.
Edwards No. 3, Coyi^uffhan.
Jobs Cabin No. 1, H. I* Church.
Jobs Cabin No. 2, B. P. ProttK.
Lewis Fork, I Clifford McN
* lace, - ■ •
Tennis Matches
Now Under Way
The Wilkes county tennis tour
ney is now under way here and
some very interesting matches
have been played.
Those who h.ave advanced to
quarter finals ai'e Rev. Watt
Cooper, Thomas Nesblt, Roscoe
I Reeves, Blair Gwyn, A. Garwood,
James Garwood and John Black
burn.
first Round Result.*
Henry Moore over Archie Tom
linson, by default: A. A. Phifer
over Fred Hubbard, Jr., 6-2,
4-6, 6-2; Frank McNeill over
Gwyn Kliby, 6-2, 6-4; Tom Haig-
wood over James Allen, 7-5, 4-6,
7-6; C. C. Faw over David Hix,
by detou’.t; James Garwood over
PhUlp Brame, 6-4, 6-4; Gordon
Ogllvie over Prank Allen, 6-2,
3-6, 6-4: B; G. Gentry over Ed
ward Finley, 6-0, 6-1.
Recond Round Results
Watt Cooper over Henry Moore,
6-1. 6-2; Thos Nlsbet over B. G.
Gentry, 6-0, 6-1; Roscoe Reeves
over Gordon Ogllvie, by default;
Blair Gwyn over Tom Halgwood,
6-1, 6-4; John Blackburn over C.
C. Faw, Jr., 6-0. 6-2’ A. Garwood
over A.-A. Phifer. 6-2. 6-1: James
Garwood over Dick Gwyn, 8-6,
6-3..
One more match In 2nd round
to be played, Ralph Crawford vs
Frank McNeill.
The public Is cordially Invited
to see the matches without
charge. The semi-finals ■will be
played Tuesday, according
present plans.
to
JIMMY’S GOT IT
Philadelphia.—^The income of
James Roosevelt, secreUry and
eldest son of the.Prealdent, from
his insurance business, is estimpt-
ed hU eoUuRgnefl at between
lUO.OOO and $2,000,000 a p«ar,
^ to an arttclo enlRtod,
’■ Got Jt/’ in today's lasw
the Saturday Brentag Post:
Mulberry No. 2, N. C. 'Vannoy.
New Castle, Cleve Grey.
North Wilkesboro. R. !>.
Church.
Reddies River, J. W. Nichols.
Rock Creek, J. C. Elliott.
Soners. Boyden Lunsford.
Stanton Lee Beshears.
Traphill No. 1. Watson Dur
ham.
Traphlll No. 2. Sam Yale.
Union, Law.son Parsons.
Walnut Grove No. 1, GilHe
Johnson.
Walnut Grove No. 2, Coon Bil
lings.
Wilkesboro No. 1. Fred Gll-
reath.
Wilkesboro No. 2. C. W. Cullor.
Baseball Games
The North Wilkesboro Base
ball Club will play Davidson here
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’
clock; Morganton liere Sunday at
2:30 p. m. (Time changed from
3 p. m.)
Manager C. C. Sebastian stated
today that he hoped to arrange a
double-header to be played here
Monday afternoon—the 4th.
Counefl Of 4-H
Clubs Is Formed
In Tuesday Meet
Millers Cre^ Youth Pre«-
dent, Other Officers Are
Elected
Hugh. Kilby, ot the Millers
Cree'k club, was elected president
of the Wilkes county council of
4-H clubs organized In a county-
wide meeting held at the court
house in Wilkesboro Tuesday aft
ernoon.
’The county council was formed
by officers of each of the clubs In
the county and practically all
clubs were represented In the
council organization meeting.
Miss Frances McGregoi^ aae^^,
ant state club leader,, tklked' to
the group and explained how a
council could be used to coordi
nate activity among the sevdral
clubs in the county.
Club work in Wilkes is being
carried out very successfnlly un
der supervision of County Agent"
Dan Holler, Assistant AgMt
Jesse Giles and Miss Harriet lie- .
Googas, nome demonrtrotlon
gent. 'f-
Officers Of the county council
were elected M' foilowgt Hugh
KiHiy, of MlUera-
dent; Lnoile Joiito. pf>i
v4c» pniildent ;' 'M