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SUICTOE
Ceatraltei in., JuTV «.—A coro-
}«r]r dee(t«d tonight nttr&c-
> tiro Harjr BrlUoaT whose partly
olad body was found in the home
^ n prominent business man last
a^ht, had died of a self-inflicted
'btrilet wound.
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FAELEY sees PfCKUP
Fond, Du Lac, Win., July 8.—
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley predicted a “big pickup" in
bnsinesa in September and steered
Dsmooratlc state convention
Into' a loud demonstration today
the renomlnatkvn of United
Siates Senator F. Ryan Duffy and
Jodorasment of Roosevelt admin-
tlmi-lgnMesw.
WH DATE SET
fleago, July 9.—John Henry
Seadlund smiled feebly today
when Informed Tie must die in the
electric chair aarly next Thursday
for the kidnaping of Charles S.
Ross. The prisoner stood mute
wWle the date was set but out
side the chamjjer. he remarked:
‘I’m all bqnare and ready.”
JAre GIVE WAPNING
‘ Shanghai. July 9.—(Satur
day)—Japanese authorities warn
ed the United States and other
neutral powers today that neu-
^ tral vessels and citizens alcn^ an
80-mlle stretch of the Yangtze
river'were endangered by spread
ing warfare. The warning stress
ed the “desirability of voluntary
evacuation.”
ROW eVER RAPIDS
Lee’s Ferry. Aria., Jnly o
S1X death-defying adventurers,
their food supplv srhausted, sail
ed Into this outpost of civiliza
tion today—victors over 300 tur
bulent miles of that menacing
river called the Colorado. Two
women botanists and four men,
tired but determined, rested here
tonight—In beds for the first in
18 thrill-filled, dangerous davs of
sailing from Creen River, Utah
to this northern Arizona hamlet
in untried, homemade, motorless
boats.
PRAISES BARKLEY
Covington, Ky., July 8.
dent Roosevelt had 80ju«.^«r?ong
" IRlWinirtmUse fWr.Bmator' Bark
ley today but tempered them
with compliments for Gov. B.
Chaudler, opposing Barkley in
the Democratic primary. The
chief executive came here for a
major address at the nearbv La-
tonla race track after praising
another primary candidate Sen
ator Robert Bulkley—in a speech
at Marietta, Ohio. Both Barkley,
the senate maiority leader, and
Bulkley have been staunch ad
ministration supporters.
Pwiie Mystery
Deatdi of North
WiKesboroMfm
'The coroner's jury this aft-
etwooa iwtamed a verdict ex
onerating Sloan of the death
of Paul yVellbom and said
ttmt Wellborn died from
dm>w|tjBg.One.balf gallon of
water was taken from his
lungs.
Nesff Coi
Wilkeaboro Woman’s
Needs Empty J*rs 1
Storing Foi^
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D. Paul Wellborn, well known
and popular young man of this
city, was found dead Sunday
morning.
His lifeless body was found a-
bout nine o’clock Sunday morning
lying face down in the small
stream beside the toll road and
near the home of John Peden.
Death had apparegitly occursd a-
bout two or three o’clock Sunday
morning.
Inv^tlgation of the death has
been underway elnce the body
was foohd and police have placed
in custody, a cripple who has
been around town for several
days sMllng pencils and who reg-
IstWed at a hotel in the name of
AVin Sldan, giving his home ad
dress as West PalBeach, Flor-
ida.
Sloan’s name was connected
with the case, when witne.sses said
that he was seen with Wellborn
after one o’clock at a local cafe
and that Sloan was Insisting that
W'ellborn allow •him to carry him
home. The offer, witnesses said,
was at that time declined and no
one testified that they left the
cafe together.
Suspicion was aroused by exam
ination of the body, which showed
two bruises on Wellborn’s face
and a cut on his left ear. The in
vestigation was continued until
this afternoon to allow time for
more thorough examination of
the body by physicians in an ef
fort to determine cause of death.
Wellborn, who was secretary-
(Continued on page fourl
The Wllkesbnro Woman’s club
maintains vegetable gardens to
produce food In making lunches
for underprivileged school chll-
dren.
Now the ladies are
can^ products from the wJbub;^
which have produced well this
summer. This Is the second year
of Che project, which was carried
out very ynccessfullv last year.
The club announced today that
empty canning jars are needed
and the town will be canvassed
during the week to gather the
cans donated.
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LOCATE HOSPITAL
Washington, July 9.—An in
formed person said today Presi
dent Roosevelt had approved a
location in the “general vicinity
of Fayetteville’’ for a proposed
new veterans hospital in North
Carolina. It was understood an of
ficial announcement would be
made tomorrow hv Brigadier
Oeneral Frank T. Hines, veterans
administrator. President Roose
velt was said to have approved
the Fayetteville location too late
today for tt to reach General
Hines’ office for announcement.
refused RESPITE
TAilabasseOi Fla., July *.
Fran’xlin Pierce McCall, 21-year-
old kidnaper of Jimmy Cash, a
youngster he had often played
irlth, was refused respite from
death .today by the state pardon
board. His family, however, auth
orised. Defeuse Attorney G. A.
to prepare an appeal to
—Itba Supreme .court. This
W have the effect of indefi-
" nlwKr'postponing McCall’s elec-
''troeotlon, which otherwise could
out as early as the
week of July 18 under Florida’s
logal ■ reiiairements.
Teiun Beats
lovia Oil Nine
"Korth
£«aam won
Wilkesboro’s baseball
^rTTT- 5 to 4 over Wachovia
OH aompauy team from Winston-
!: ^om here Sunday afternoon.
V Tlnioly hits and Rhoades’ effec-
l' tiy»-raeiflng. wUh. men on bases
"" i for the close . victory,
three errors served to
J^^oadee in the hole a num-
aulktt the Twln-
^stoe 41 to 8. No one was out-
fitting for either
Ifteth WUkesboro baseball
Hoone.4Ui »ta«
■f?j3uignoon, four ©clock.
ai'lMBlne Haye won one game
the rubber game is ex-
fe be * thriller. Both
9B0trn unusual power
^b#4wo preriou#
In Oregon, mountain bee keep
ers have found electric fences
very effective in keeping bears
from robbing the hives of honey.
To Help
Super
V**
WILKES 4-H
To Stale of Wilkes
The Carolina-Callfornia Conti
nental Caravaii, which consisted
of three boys in an old model car,
returned to the “State of Wilkes’’
Sunday night titter 40 days of
travel.
The travelers were Joe McCoy,
Jr., and Shelton Canter, of this
city, and Lowry Wilson, of Low
ell.
They traveled 8,888 miles dur
ing the 40 days on the road and
experienced no car trouble except
one blowout, four punctures and
one flat cause unknown.
They went over what is known
as the Southern mute by wav of
Atlanta, New Orleans, tbron.gh
Texas. N e w Mexico. Arizona,
Boulder Dam and Into Los .Ange
les. They proceeded to San Fran
cisco. Reno and 'Vellowsione and
they motored over the most di
rect route back to their home
state.
Points of outstanding interest
visited included Carlsbad Cav
erns, Petrified Forests, Painted
desert. Omnd Canyon, Boulder
Dam, Zion, Bryce and Yosemite
parks. Hollywood and Yellow
stone.
Her« are pictured the officer, of th^ Wfllfe. county icSj^ df 4-H club, formed by
the officers of each individual club., Left to right are Miller. Cre»K,
Rl**-'-*'* 4»F
N.C.S.E.S. Office
Here Makes Fine
Record This Year
Registrations Total 3,100;
Private Placements
Gain Steadily
«*ModeI MM**
LOS ANGELES, Cal. . . . .Miss
Betty Green was declared the
champion mode! for advertising
illustrations by the Pacific Ad
vertising Clubs Ass’n, at their
annual convention here. Miss
Green was awarded the title of
‘Model Model’ after judges had
looked over scores of faces and
figures of favorite models used
in adverti.sing.
Roger W. Babson ! Tagging Cars In
Predicting Rapid Meys Of City
Business Incline
Nesbit Wins Tennis Championship In
Closely Contested Play In Tourney
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* \^ASHING’TON , , . Franklin
Waltham. Jr., former political
columiiiat, was oppointed Direc
tor of PuWi.'lty for the Republi
can 'Naticnal Committee. 'In
h's new job, Waltham ha. as
h’s o-penent, Oias. Michelson,
the Democratfe Publicity mentor.
Tho buying and selling of girls
nnd women iu etl'l a legalizei and
Uc90.qd bu3ine.!3. in Tokio.
Thomas Nesbit, day clerk at
Hotel Wilkes, won the singles
tennis championship in an excit
ing match with Albert Garwood.
Nesbit and Garwood went into
the finals Wednesday after Nes
bit had defeated Ross Reeves and
Garwood had eliminated Ralph
Crawford. Twenty-three took part
in the singles tourney.
Nesbit and Garwood played
from five until 7:45 o’clock Wed
nesday evening and the game was
called on acccunt of darkness
with the fifth set yet to be 000-.
pleted. They played one set
Thursday and Nesbit won 6-3.
Scores of the others were 6-3,
4-6.3-6, and 6-1.
Doubles competition Is now
under wav with 15 teams enter
ed. The first round will be com
pleted Monday, second Tuesday,
sRoil-finals Wednesday and finals
Thursday. William Carrlgan and
Albert Garwood are first seeded.
the singles finals were wit
nessed by a large crowd of en
thusiastic spectators and the
match developed into one of the
most closely contested sports
events ever witnessed here.
As darkness gathered Wednen-
day evening Nesbit and Garwood
w^e showing slight sign, oti; "
tlgne but neither had let np
Noted Columnist Say. Busi
ness Hit Bottom, Now
Bouncing Back
(By Roger W. Babson)
Omaha, Neb., July 9.—Business
h.as finally hit bottom and is now
bouncing back. Conditions have
improved sharply in the last sev
eral weeks. Sentiment has also
changed almost overnight. Sensi
tive bu.iness barometers have
risen vigorously.
Business should now continue to
nick up very rapidly, at least un
til election day. Everyone should
be cheerful and happy over the
events of the last few days. Had
the recession of 1938 continued at
the rate it was traveling in recent
months the only result could have
been economic chaos in the United
States.
Business today is nearly 5 per
cent higher than a month ago. It
••eached 28 per cent below normal
on the Babsonchart at the bottom
of the dip compared with minus
40 per cent at the extreme pit of
the old depression. Today, it has
recovered to 25 per cent under
noi-mal and is rising weekly. While
we have had several false starts
in this recession, I am convinced
that this one is the real taming
point. The other temporary pick
ups were not preceded or accom
panied by the traditional signs of
an important change in the busi
ness trend. This current turn has
come with most familiar baromet
ers forecasting better times ahead.
Here are some of the most impor
tant of these indicators:
1. Bond prices have been slow
ly edging forward in recent weeks.
Such a rise ordinarily indicates
that invesUnent cash is'piling up
and yields on good bonds cannot
be overcome any longer. Hence,
bond investing increases, prices
rise slowly, yields fall, and buying
power spills over into stock mark
et bargains. Moreover, volume of
new security financing has been
movin ghigher for several months.
2. Stock prices are up about 30
per cent since their extreme lows
several months ago on March 31.
The market traditionally turns
upward i>r downward two or three
months Wore the business trend
phangM. Moreover, hlatory show,
that when rtocfc tradinf drys^up
to 10 per cent or lew of tiie,peak
volume idE liie previon. bull mark-
tank in fn^iaes. ia, about
t I>e«i, made. Hm
in' page tour)
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
today that cars parked in alleys
are being given tickets In accord
ance with the city ordinance pro
hibiting such practice.
He said that man> complaints
had been heard from business
firms which had found the ways
of entrance at the back blocked
by parked automobiles.
Seeking Two Men
For Hit and Run
Moi'gaiiton. .fuly 10.—Police
officers are searching for two
men who fled after the auto in
which they were riding crashed
into a car at the intersection of
White and Meeting streets about
9:30 o’clock Monday night.
Thj pair jumped out and ran
after the car is said to have run
throiigh a red traffic signal and
.struck an auto driven by Byron
Gentry, icn of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Gentry, of North Wilkes-
boro. No one was injured, but
both cars were considerably dam
aged.
The car. belonging to Charles
W. Leslie, was reported to have
been taken while the local man
was visiting at Collettsville Mon
day afternoon, and Mr. Leslie ar
rived here to report his loss to
officers, only to find that it had
been Involved in the collision and
abandoned.
Registrations at the North
Wilkesboro branch office of the
North Carolina employment serv
ice for the first six months of
1938 totaled 3.100, it was learn
ed today from B. G. Gentry, of
fice manager.
The North Wilkesboro branch
has been leading other offices in
this district ii. number of private
placements, which reached a new
high for the year with 78 during
the month of June. Private place
ments Increased steadljy from a
IB Mwtob^
51 in May.
Of the total registration during
the fix-months period 1,974 were
men and 1,126 were women.
Mr. Gentry said that the service
was pleased over its use by pri
vate people and firms desiring
labor of various types but that so
far the service had not been used
extensively by farmers. He point
ed out that the service is in po
sition to supply farm labor anr
he explained that the service does
not fix wages and that the n'les-
tion of wages is left entirely
the employer and the applicant.
During the past two weeks
many unemployment benefit
checks have been paid out from
the office but a decline is expect
ed due to the fact that there has
been a pickup in industrial pay
rolls in the past several days.
Checks are now being deliver
ed with a minimum of delay, he
said.
Route From MeBajpfctpFTi
toWiI -
PaM Tlt^
A committee reprewtttiiift^ il».
North Wilkesboro
The Lions and the Mercteats?
soclation in moettB|:
noon heard Larry' Vaughn, jSc '
Johnson City, Tenn.,. explhUPj^,
proposal to establish a Tenae-
Sea Trail and assured Hr. Vaog&n
cooperation in the undertakiBC.
Although details have not been
worked out, it is understood that
North Wllkesbrwo, one of the ci
ties along the proposed “Dixie’s
Main Street” will have a part in
publicizing the trail and will
share in the cost accordingly.
The plan Is explained In the
following excerpts taicen from the
first bulletin issued by the Ten-
ne-Sea Trail association.
CTiain Advert fsing
Stretching from foe Atlantic
Seaboard to the Mississippi, tak
ing the eiislest passage over the
mo'untain;’ through unsurpassed
scenic beauty, ekirting the Smoky
Mountain National Park, the
Scenic Circle and then passing
through a territory rich in his
toric lore, this Trail links Into
one continuous route a paved-way
lengthwise of North Carolina and
Tennessee. While most of the
route Is fully improved, provis
ion is made to strengthen •* the
weaker links that this may be
Dixie’s favored super-highway.
Chief effort of the Association
will be to mark and advertise it,
publicizing its historic and scenic
attractions. The Association rep
resents a chain of communities
itiyeht_; hi a
to
PROGR.\M FOR SOUTH
Washington, July 6.—A report
recommending a broad pro.gram
of economic rehabilitation of the
south, with possible suggestions
for legislation during the comin
Congress, is expected to be offer
ed to President Roosevelt within
the next 10 days or two weeks by
the national emergency council
The report Is the outgrowth of
the conference held hefe yester
day of leaders of southern Indus
tries, education, and welfare,
called to disquss the ecopomic
conditions of the south and means
of lifting the standard to the lev
els of other sections of the coun
try.
Boney Congratulates Local Building
& Loan Association On Fine Record
The North Wilkesboro Bufidingr and Loan Associatoin ^s r^eived
many congratulates since the edition of TTie JouiTi^-Patnot of last
"f^ursday which 'was principally devoted to the assiKiation m Mlebra-
tion of its 35th anniversary. Outatan^ng among the congratnlatory
messages was the following telegfram from Dan C. Boney, insurance
commissioner of North Carolina: ttttv a
RALEIGH N CAB 1016 A JULY 9
Sl^R^A^^raEASURER NORTH WILKESBORO BUILDING
- AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES ON THE THIRTY-
F^fASrtvSlS^Y OF THE FOUNDING OF YOUR
ASSOCIATION STOP DURING ITS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS Of'
SUCCKSFUL OP^n(>N YOUR ASSOCIATION HAS DONE —
SIlWAS) THE your GO^C^ BY N WUk^boro
KblSg NUMB^ OP YOUR CITIZENS TO BEC(^ HOME
OWNKM RATHER THANHQUEB RENTERS STOP TOim
HAYiSa PROMINENT PART m TTO
ENCOURAGEMENT; OP THIPT IN YOUR COMMUNITY VVITH
8IIGHT HAVE OTHf»WISB SQICAMDEOT) TH|SlR.
I HAYE every REASON’to Boomer
I RECORD WHICH HAS
«,»OFNO ONE WHO BEGAfiJS
OVERLOOK THE GREAT
—^ tS YOURS STOP WtSHOfO
AND mCRfSASING
C»MMISSroiTO
cause beneficial to all—employ
ing a plan by which the dollars
spent cooperatively by ail com
munities will bring back far
greater results than if the same
funds were spent by an individu
al community.
A budget of *10.000 is being
raised. The plan is to mar’r; the
route, then to advertise it, using
(Continued on page four'
Cricket, Traphil!
Are Now In Lead
Traphill Edges Out North
Wilkesboro and Cricket
Beats Moravian
Traphill’s 3 to 2 victory over
North Wilke.shoro behind the
sensational pitching of Spruill
placedj TVaph'll in the lead in
the Eastern American Legion
junior leaene in Wilkes Saturday
by two gsmes.
Spruill, pitching for Traphill,
allowed no hits, according to the
score of the garne as reported,
and the runs were scored on
walks and errors. Mention v»s
made of a protest by North Wil
kesboro over an umpire’s decision
on a play at third'base.
Clingman had little difficulty
ruunlng up a one-sided score over
Wilkesboro at Clingman.
In the Western league a battle
royal was staged at Moravian
Falls which resulted in Cricket
winning 6 to 1 and remniolBg .ub-
defeated this year. ’The lom 'taQjr
made by Moravian Falls was By
a player who reached first on an
infield error. Only one score has
been chalked up against Cricket
in the last throe games. >
Boomer and Pnriear did not
play.
The Traphill-Clingman game on
July 4 was erroneously reported
last week and the report resulted
in an error in the standing pub
lished Thursday. Traphill ♦ won
the game Jnly 4 and was one
game in the lead before'playing
North Wilkesboro Satnrday.^
The standings to date are as
follows:
Eastern
Team W.
Traphill —
Clingman
Wilkesboro
Western
Cricket
Morarlan Fails —
L. Pet,
1 875
3 625
6 375
7 146
0 1000
-A^tM
5 ItV
• >000
Pnriear ———,
Games Satn^y of^ this wsii
follow: , - "
Boomer at Crkfcet,. . At b
HoraTlan’^ Falls, • ' at
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