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kWCMAN suicidk '
^ ft^Usbtiry, July 1.—^au nnlden-
M white woman, abont SB,
~ tonnd dead late this after
noon under a tree arross the rail
road tracks adjoining the Nation
al Cemetery. Dr. W. L. Tatum',
coroner, said the woman com
mitted suicide by drinking poison,
which was purchased at a local
etore this afternoon.
HANES IN OFFICE
Washington, Julv 1.—Secre
tary Morgenthau Inducted John
,i'. 'Hanes into office of assistant
secretary of the Treasury today
and assigned him to supervise the
administration’s tax program. The
secretary said Roswell Magill, un
dersecretary for the last year and
a half, had detialtely derided to
return to teaching law at Colum
bia University in September and
would transfer his tax work to
Hanes.
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Tells How Weed
Allotments Are
To Be Decided
County Authorities to Hold
Meetings to Gather
. Market Facta
FEWER LICENSE
Buffalo. N. Y., July 1.—Thb
marriage license business went
into a sudden nose-dive today as
New York state’s new blood test
law took effect. Until today extra
clerks had been needed to handle
.the applications of hundreds of
couples who wished to avoid the
expense of the medical examina
tion required by the new law. But
at a late hour this afternoon the
total number of licenses issued
wa.s—-one.
buying boom on
New York, July 1.—A mid
year buying boom—less than two
weeks old—showered orders to
day on UTOducers of raw mater
ials and goods, gave stocks anoth-
'-rVeT boost in Wall street and moved
1 #4ome producers to prepare for a
setuD in factory schedules. As
the buying spref d in raw mater
ials many business observers
were convinced the movement
would be reflected In the second
half of the year In higher indus
trial operations and factory and
mine employment.
TWO DEAD; 13 HURT
Stuart, Va., Tuly 1.—With two
dead, another Hkely to die and
12 others tilling this towns
small hospital. Sheriff Frank D.
Mays said this even'ng that an
inquiry would be made tomorrow
to see if a criminal prosecution
should be brought as the after
math of the COC camp truck fa-
tallty near hero last night. A
truck containing 20 youths, most
of them from Pennsylvania and
Delaware and quartered at Ridge
way in Henry county, had been
to Woolwine to aid In the setting
no of a ne'w camp. They were re
aming to their own quarters on
the truck when, on a hairpin
curve about seven miles from
here, the truck missed the road
and rolled down a 15-toot em-,
bankmen'^
Aged People Die
During the Week
Several Deaths In Wilkes
Communities Among
Aged People
Dan P, Holler, county agent,
has just received the rules and
regulations whereby the pound
age allotments for the tobacco
farmers In Wilkes county will be
set up. Each tobacco producer In
Wilkes county will receive a let
ter from the farm agent’s office
asking that a record of his mar
ketings for the last three years
be reported to the tobacco coni-
mitee w'ho will hold meetings in
each township for the purpo.se of
securing this information.
From the farm act it has been
determined that the factors that
control the allotment of tobacco
poundage to a very great extent
are as follows:
(A) The number of tenants of
the farm.
(B) The number and size of
the tobacco bares.
(C) The amount of cropland.
(D) The number of pounds of
tobacco marketed in 1935, 1935.
and 1937.
In the oase of new groT'ors they
will not need to give a history of
their marketing in their report to
the tobacco conimlttee in their
township, but they will r port the
number of tenants, the number
and size of barns, the amount of
cropland, and all other conditions
that are necessary for the produc
tion of tobacco oil their farins.
These meetings will be held as
follows:
One group of committeemen
will hold a meeting at Benham on
the nth. 12th and 13th of July,
and on the 14th thev will be at
Traphlll.'-The ae«*»d group will
be at Clingman school house on
the nth and 12th, at Somers
school house on the 13th, and at
Wilkesboro at the Courthouse on
the 14th.
Mr Holler states that it Is very
important that each producer give
this iDformation himself to the
committee, since it will be a di
rect bearing cn the number of
pounds that will be alloted to him
in marketing his tobacco.
Scouts Help
In Locating
Missing Girl
Eva Mae Barnett, ten-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roby Bametl, of this city,
stmyed from where ■'she and
her mother were picking black
berries Friday morning and
was lost until she was located
at n o’clock Friday night a-
bout five miles from this city.
Mrs. Barnett .said that she
was picking berries with' the
children along what Is known
as the toll rood in this city
when she left them about nine
oclock and went to tJie house
for water. Wlien she returned
Eva had disappeared and none
of the other children knew
where .she had gone.
Then began a frantic search
and the police department was
notified. Boy Scout troop S!i
joined the search and the boys
worked dlligentl.v, uncovering
the clue which finally led to lo
cation of the ^rl. The Scouts
learned from a negro cook at
the home of Frank Eller In the
northern part of the city that
a girl answering the. description
of the misslntr girl had passed
the bouse going north.
The jwnreh then centered In
that direction and at eleven o’
clock the girl was found at the
home of Jack Ijankford near
Reddles River. Children there
had coaxed the girl into the
house.
The girl was described as
having a nervous disposition,
which orobably accounted for
her wandering away from her
mother.
Tennis Finals To ,
Be On Wednesday
Reeves, Nesbit, Crawford
and Garwood In the
Semi-Finals
Goidm Gate H^^tA Wins FB^est
Six Wilkes county people who
passed their allotted three score
and ten died daring the past
^^ary Hamby, 88-y©ar-old resi
dent df Lewis Fork townsblp,
d»in TimlnT Funeral service will
Ha held Tuesday, 11 o’doek, at
xi^irk Methodist church.
Bllrabetb Brown, age 75,
•led last night at her home In
Mijerry toWWfhlp. Fimoral serv-
lee will be held at the borne Tues
day morning with Revs. C. D.
Hall and S. G. Caudill conducting
the last rites.
Shade Staley, (3-yesr-old clti-
Mn of the WUbar community,
died Friday. Rev. Glenn Huff
man conducted the Innecal serv
ice Saturday and burial was In
the Staley family cemetery.
pmeral service was held Tues
day J# Jhe home for Mrs.
oa Thaadaway, age 93, who died
Ifonday at her home near Pores
. Knob. Rev. C. C. Holland cou-
doetiid the last rite? and burial
was In the family cemetery.
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday at Mt. Pisgah church for
LlSiy Jar^’i*. 70-year-old citi-
ten of Union Grove. Rev. W. i.
Colhar conducted the service.
I Pruitt, age 82. died
_ay at her home in the
River community.
[ Woman Pies
Alia PwittT aga^M, wife
■-|l. Pruitt, « Rourta# Rlv-
Wadnesday and funeral
was held Thursday at
Church with Rev. John
ha ahar^ gurvtvlnf ai»
r.TJ»a'
Begin Inspection
Boarding Houses
Must Meet Sanitary Regula
tions Which Applies to
Eating Places
G. S. O’Dell, Wilkes county
sanitarian, said today that his de
partment will soon begin regular
inspection of boarding houses
which serve the public and that
such establishments must meet
regulations similar to those which
apply to cafes and restaurants.
One requirement, Mr. O’Dell
said, IS that only grade A milk bo
served. In this connection he also
commented on the milk ordinance
adopted by the county and warn
ed that it is a violation of the
law to sell milk without a per
mit from the county health de
partment Five Wilkes dairies are
reglsterod with the health depart
ment, he said, and maintain
Grade A ratings.
Council of Home
Clubs Organized
Officers of Individual Clubs
In County-wide Meet
Held On Friday
Officers of the several home
demonstration clubs in Wilkes
county gathered at the courthouse
In Wilkesboro Friday and orga
nized a county-council of home
demonstration clubs.
PrBsent for the meeting and
aiding the hoir.e agent. Miss Har
riet McGoogan, In organization of
the council was Miss Aramerle
Arant, northwestern district home
agent. She commended the ladles
of Wilkes for the Interest taken
In the work during its first year
in the county.
TTia council was formed In or
der to coordinate activities of the
rarlQiis clubs, the home agent
The officers of the county coun
cil were elected as follows. Mrs.
0 F Bretholl. president; Mrs. F.
T Moon- of Rends, vice. p>|nl-
ilanf: an*- T,
Ff^jgn,
Canvass
WiO Detez^ i,
The
Unofficial Retpms,GiT»
gin Lead of .AJbcM
Selected by a jury of leading engineers and architects as the most bridge
during the past year, the GoMen Gate Bridge (shosrn above), across the Golden Gate at San Frawl^,
Calif., won the highest award. Class A, for momiro ental bridges. The award is made each
American Institute of Steel Construction. Prize aw .id;; for smaller bridgM were^lass B: UtOe Hwl
Gate, Low Lere' Bridge. New York City—Cla.ss C: Cliesterfield-Brattlebyro Ifoidge, over Connecticut
River—Movable B-^idge Class: Marine Parkway B-’dge. over Roekaway Inlet, New York Uty.
Death Toll Over
Nation Was 157
For Week - End
Motorists a n: d Swimmers
Chief Victims; 1937
Mark Is Neared
The Fourth of July week-end
headed last night toward a high
er violent-death loll than the 72-
hour Memorial Day span.
There were 157 violent deaths
reported by mid-evening with an
other Jal-IuHU3utiM» in. tie week-,
end. About 260 persons died vio
lently over the entire Memorial
Day week-end.
The 1937 Independence Day
death toll of 213 seemed virtual
ly certain to be exceeded.
Motorists and swimmers led
the natl-wid© death toll yesterday.
Six Commit Suicide
All but 14 of the fatalities were
accounted for in traffic and bath
Matches during the past week
have left four of the 23 ontmnts
in the Wilkes county tennis tour- ^hfere were 105 auto
ney to play the semi-finals Tues- drownings. Six
day.
Rots Reeve.s. Thomas Nesbit,
Albert Garwood and Ralph Craw
ford are the remaining contend
ers.
On Tuesday afternoon at 4:15
Rcev-es and Nesbit will play on
the Finley court. Immediately
following that match Garwood
and Crawford will play. The win
ners will play for the champion
ship some time Wednesday after
noon. T’ae semi-finals and finals
will be for thres out of five sets.
Outstanding among the upsets
the eliminalion contests last
week was the victory of Garwood,
seeded seventh over Rev. Watt
Cooper, first seeded. Crawford’s
victory over Blair Gwyn was re
garded as a mild upset.
It Is expected that doubles
playing will get under way Thurs
day and entrants are asked to see
Ralph Crawford, secretary of the
tourney, for pairings.
Attsactive gold and silver
trophies are now on display at
the Sandwich Shop. The public
is cordially invited to see the
matches and no admission is
charge.
Revival Services
In Progress-At
Wilkesboro Church
A series of revival services be
gan Thursday night at Wilkes-
boro Baptist churen and will
continue through this, week with
services each evening at'7:45.
Rev. H. J. Ford, pastor, is de
livering Inspiring gospel mes
sages at each .service and the
public has a most cordial invita
tion to attend.
Secdon Highway
268 Included In
Budget For Year
Commissioner Says Contract
Will Be Let When the
Project Is Approved
North Wilkesboro
Drops Two Games
North Wilkesboro baseball
team lost the week-end games by
the same score, nine to* six.
Loose fielding Saturday spelled
defeat of the locals by Davidson,
a strong college town team.
On Sunday Morganton’s Com
pany B team defeated North WU-
kesboro by outhittlng the local
team in an extre Inning game.
This afternoon North Wilkesboro
Is playing Stony Point.
Doctors Report
Justice Cardozo
A Little Better
Port Chester, N. Y., July 8.—
Supreme Court Justice Benjamin
N. Cardoto, who has been 111
since last January with a heart
aliment, was reported "a little
better” tonight after he had tak
en a sqdden turn for the worse
late yesterday, -
Jnstloe Cardoso is at the home
of Justice Irving Lehman, of the
New York state court of appeals
where he has been staying dnoh
deaths and 33 drownings. Six
persons committed suicide.
Although fiiimerous injuries
were caused by fireworks, no
deaths were reported. An explo
sion which wrecked a fireworks
store in Floral Park, N. Y., in
jured three.
Pennsylvania led all states In
auto fatalities with 19, includ
ing six motorists who died in a
collision with a trolley. Four of
the latter victims were of one
family.
Michigan’s nine traffic deaths
ranked second. California had
seven. .
1.000,000 At Coney Island
Six were drowned in Massa
chusetts, four in New York city
and tour in New Jersey. Two of
Man’nattan’a water deaths were
recorded at Coney Island, where
police estimated the crowd at 1,-
000,000.
A 6-foot semi-cabin motorboat
exploded at Green Lake#. Wlai,
killing a man. Capsized boats
claimed several other llvee.
Nine of 10 peraonp riding on a
truck near Newark, N. J., escaped
death when the vehicle overturn
ed. One was was killed.
' A heroine was 18 year-old
Amanda Meisen belter, who led
her brothers, 5 and 7, from a
flaming garage in York. Pa.
Stocks Reach
Hi^r Peaks
During Week
New York, July 3.—The natioh
moved ahead on the road to re
covery last week under the Impe
tus of a confidence-inspiring rise
in stocks which lifted prices to
the highest levels since last au
tumn.
An estimated »2,600,000.000
was added to market value of
New York Stock Exchange stocks
alone bringing to more than ♦»,-
000,000,000 the paper value gain
for the past two weeks.
Canadians nlalin ' they pay
1800,000-a year to 'Sbnthem
farmers to teach .them. .IioVk:, to
pedpe and caire^h^ flue-twred
vice pipR- wnore ne naa uw»u avayiua .iu»#itohiM>eo crop, says W. P, Hedlftk,
‘fason. «*jt he left'Washington early to'Ml# Itopartment^Of
-^lsn«n* - ' -tohaeeo marketing speelaltoL,,. ,
Coi^r^onhl
Vote h W%«s
Following is the unofficial voce
in Wilkes county by precincts:
Precincts Deane. Burgln
Antioch 5 101
Beaver Creek — 17 ^5
Boomer 77
Brushy Mountain 13 33
Edwards No. 1 - H 25
Edwards No. 2 — 8 74
Edwards No. 3 — 7 59
Elk No. 1 - 3 85
Elk No. 2 32 50
Jobs Cabin No. 1 - 13 25
Jobs Cabin No. 2 16 5
Lewis Fork 30 19
Lovelace — 2 3
Moravian Falls 35 25
Mulberry No. 1 — 3 47
Mulberry No. 2 10 60
Newcastle 3
North Wilkesboro 280 273
Reddles River •‘>7 90
Rock Creek 10;
Somers — 2 26
Stanton - 77
Traphin No. 1 ® 37
Trapbill No. 2 2 46
Union — — 75 5®
Walnut Grove No. 1 2 28
Walnut Grove No. 2 2 25
Wilkesboro No. 1 - 98 89
Wilkesboro .No. 2 35 72
Tdtal — 836 1537
Construction of highway 268
between Roaring River and North
Wll’xesboro is included in the
highway program for the fiscal
year which began on July 1, It
was learned today from highway
officials. -SiriS
Due to the fact that the feder
al bureau of roads has not com
pleted review of the project It . is
not expected that the contract
will be Included in the July let
ting but will bo in the next group,
It is understood.
'The survey has been completed
but final action has not been
taken on whefner or not the nigh-
way will have s branch from a
point near the county home to en
ter North Wilkesboro by wav of
B street. The regular route of
the highway, regardless of whe
ther or not the branch entrance
is constructed, will enter highway
18 near the home of P. W. Eshel-
man.
The highway when completed
will greatly facilitate travel be
tween North Wilkesboro, Elkin
and points easi and will provide
a much shorter route. It will
serve several communities along
the route. Including the towns of
Roaring River and Honda.
President Speaks
To Aged Veterans
GeUysburg, Ps., July 3.—Pw®-
Ident Roosevelt, addressing a vast
throng at the dedication a
monument on the fields where
the battle of ‘Gettysburg was
fought 75 years ago, today called
upon the people of the United
States to meet a new “challenge
to democracy,”
With several thousand civil
War veterans, brought hero by
the government for the 76th an
niversary reunion, standing with
.bared heads on Oak Hill, at the
■ northern spur of the battlefield,
the President urged the nation to
give “practical devotion’* to a new
national crisis “as fundamental as
Lincoln’s.” . .
The conflict, he said, Is being
tonght “not with glint of steel,
but with appeals to reason and
justice on a. thousand - fronts-—
seeking to MVe for o^„cammOh
country opportunity and secttflty
for ettlsene in a free ioniitjb” ^
The Preetonnt *tood *
40-foot ylimitotoae bImcR,.
whoee top bnrned c gas ftome
signed to remain Hflitod. ’ ft* >
yean to come- Tke
tbe'tlaiDe cdnld be eaed dttttoottjf,
la tih4'tvlUcbt; and as eot- *
■ a lA— —it--SL ♦ ■ wImASsIa 4
ttod iM TtolbW ■«>#
mor»,kM*;3d miles. ""
Wilkesboro Street
Project Approved
WPA Project Calls For Gen
eral Improvement Of
Tovm’e Street*
State office of the Works Pro
gress administration announced
Friday that funds have been al
located for a number of projects
An the state, including a street
Improvement project in Wilkes
boro to cost approximately |6,-
000.
The project is sponsored by the
town of Wilkesboro, which Is to
pay kl,645 with the remainder
being furnished by the federal
govpmment.
The project calls for grading
some of the dirt street, stone
surfacing and con-structlon of
sidewalks at a number of points.
It has not boon decided when
the project will get under way,
C. M. OtiJtchfleld, WPA area sup
ervisor, said here today.
Included In the other alloca
tions Friday was the sum of
135,904.06 for a street Improve
ment project In. Boone, • ' ■
. . Thirty _
WILKES FOR
Last Precincts Maldfig^ RiK'r'' ^
ports Switched Lead
to Lexington Man *
In one of the closest primary
races in the history of the state,
William 0. Burgin, of Lexington,
gained a lead of between 30 and
40 votes for the Democratld nom
ination for congress over C. B.
Deane, of Rockingham, in the sec
ond primary held Saturday on
the oasis of complete but unof
ficial returns from the 202 pre
cincts in the district.
Due to the fact thst the vote is
so extremely close and that an
error in the unofficial retnma
could change the result, nothing
has been conceded and It Is ex
pected that the official canvass
hy election boards tomorrow will
determine the winner.
The lead see-sawed over a 24-
hoiir period and six outlying pre
cincts in Wilkes reported Sunday
placed Biirgin again in the lead.
He had been trailing by a few
votes until the final report from
Wilkes was gathered.
Just how close the vote really
Is was indicated by the fact that
different tabulations for the dis
trict showed varying results. To
day the Winston-Salem Journal’s
tabulation gave Burgin a lead of
36 votes. The Associated Press'
Raleigh office said 30 votes was
the margin and a Rockingham
..gMe the total . as
iP,|S3 *ior Burgin anil lP,i07 for *’
Deane, a margin of 26 votes for
the texingtoB man.
Burgin carried his home coun
ty, Dayldson, by a tremenduous
majority and Dean© had a simi
larly large vote in bis home coun
ty, Richmond. The vote in the
other ten coun'ies was compara
tively light.
Wilkes county, on the basis of
complete unofficial returns gave
Burgin a vote of*l,537 and Deane
835, which represented a major
ity of 702 votes for.Burgin.
In Wilkes Deane carried North
Wilkesboro. Wilkesboro numbers
1 and 2, Boomer, Jobs Cabin num
ber 2, Lewis Fork and Moravian
Falls. All other WTlkes precincts
were for Burgin by varying ma
jorities.
In the first nrimarv Burgin led
In Wilkes county with 1,695
votes while Dosne received only
261. The eliminated candidates
were George Ross. K. F. Beasley
and Giles Y. Newton.
Deane was quoted Sunday night
as “not conceiU.ig anything.” pr#-
sumaDly waiting for the official
canvass before making any states
ment. Supporters of both candi
dates admitted that the official
canvass might change th# vole
Following is the unofficial vote
tabulation by counties:
County Deane. Burirfn
Anson ~
Davidson
Parle —.
Hoke
Lee
Johnson Child Dm
Dwight JoknaoB, flTe-year-old
aon of Glenn and Lora Money
ijohnson, of Ronda, rout# 8, died
Wednesday evening!^
!^^Psn*ikl service was held, Fri
day' ift^leaaant Grove choreh.
"Rev- N. T-* Jarvla conducted the
liaT'ritoa,.
hto'^Catker atn4
. .>«iil>nd thfwi ‘ •jPft
i’^tetoto.
Moore —
Richmond
Scotland ■
Union —
Wilkes ...
Yadkin . .
Total
..... 9«*7
394
50
ltd.
l,4i4
t,16d.
1,006
73» '
2,093
1,110
5,440
1,681
1,194
8T0
2.573
835
1.6W.
604
sot
_19,a07 i».w»
Legion, Auxilii^ f
Win Meet JoinBy |
Enjoyablp OccaMoo .
Night Thi*W**klA,^|^r
AnficipaUa-
■r
’The Wilkes post of the Am^^
igan Legion and the AnxiUdry ’
will meet^totly at the clobhoa**.
on Friday evening, ^
In addttloi to.the rofui^ htti^
iness of" the meetlnga thefe liiU
b# entertidnment teaturea, tochid-
Ing hofpeshp* r**,
fraahnuotA |t*f*d-,.
A' Mr. iitf 1ft*. J.oh? B«ctor, for
mer re*W«ito-~ >t "
iMVft b*«i in Cadfier^'j^J
>*0*14 yedt, wffi.
Ractor la .nj charter
the Wilke* pint. - ; .'^-