»EEN BANK .
jB, 'fvne IS.—Francis
Ple»s»m», oWbt of the Aber
deen branch of the Bank of Pine-
horat, reported to officers today
that an armed, unmasked man
and a woman robbed the bank of
about 13,000 In cash. Pleasants
nald he was the only person In
the hank at the time of the hold
up. shortly after noon. The cash
ier said that the loss was fully
hSeured. Federal agents were no
tified since the bank is a mem
ber of the federal deposit insur-.
ance corporation.
Chains Made InjCo^l,
BookmobSc Route Close Ss^irday
In Wilkes'County
Library Conunittee Gives
Revised Itmeriiry Of
Botrir ‘fntck
A. F. L.-C. I. 0. FKJHT
Washington, June 13.—The C.
1. O. executive board, summoned
here to prepare for a new organ
izing drive In the nation’s big in
dustries, was asked today to au
thorize the use of Injunction and
damage suits In the war against
the rival American Federation of
Labor. Lee Pressman. C. I. O.
general counsel, said such legal
actions would be aimed at A. F.
of L. Boycotts against products
manufactured by C. I. O. work
ers and “collusive contracts’
signed by employers and A. F. of
L. unions to freeze out the C. I.
O.
KILLS DOG AND SELF
Salisbury. June 13.—Dr. W. L.
Tatum. Rowan county coroner,
announced this morning that A.
Ct. Holder, 40. found dead in bis
front yard last night, had com-
■mitted suicide. Officers recon
structing events last night at the
Holder home said that the dead
man wrote a. note saying, “I and
mother and* my dog are now in
heaven.’’ went to the barn and
fired a bullet Into the head of his
favorite dog. put three bullets in
his own chest, and finally shot
himself in the head. The note al
so said he could not "stand to be
lonesome.” .
WANT SILK UNDIES
Lansing. Kas.. June 13.—A
“silk underwear” revolt of 229
laxnry-loving convicts in a Kan
sas state penitentiary coal mine
was queued today by a determin
ed new warden who answered
their demands with a show of
machine guns and tea gas. The
prisoners surrendered meekly
four hours after they had sent
up demands, for continued privi
leges. including bedtime snacks
in their cells a'ld the right to
-.'lU next to their' skin, as
the price of their work. Warden
MlUon F. Amrine denied all de
mands. except that conviQts would
be permitted to wear out the silk
underwear purchased previously
ut the prison commissary. He sent
down 20 guards with machine
guns and tear gas and ordered
them to shoot if necessary.
VarloBt changes have been
made In the sckedule of the WPA
bookmobile now touring the
county, it was announced today
from the Wilkes county public
library, sponsof of the project.
The following statement an
nouncing change in bookmobile
schedules was given out by the
library committee today:
“After the first week of circu
lating books from the bookmobile
ws have found it advisable to
make a few changes in routing
and time. For the third week in
June and the first and third
weeh.s in July we have the fol
lowing routes and approximate
hour of arrival:
Route 1 Highway 26f»
1. Welch’s Filling Station, 10
ra.; 2. McNiel’s store, Fergu
son. 10:3C a. m.: 3. Hendrix.
11:15 a. m.; 4, Mt. Zion Postof
fice. 12:00 noon; 5. Wood’s
Store, Darby. 1:30 p. m.; 6,
Boomer Filling Station, 3:30 p.
m.
Route TT (Wednesday)
1, Templeton’s Store, Hays,
!i:30 a. m.: 2, Reynolds Filling
Station. 10:00 a. m.: 3, Reds
Filling Station. 10:30 a. m.: 4,
Traphill Filling Station. 11:00
a. m.: 5. Holbrook’s Store. Trap-
hill. 11:30. a. m.; 6. McBride’s
Store on Joynes Road, 12:30 p.
m.: 7, Joynes Postoffice, 1:00 p.
m.: 8, Absher Postoffice, 2:00 p.
m.: 9, Holbrook Store. Absher,
2:15 p. m.; 10. Moxley Postoffice,
2;45 p. m.; 11, Dehart Postoffice,
3'30 p. m.: 12, Rhodes Store.
Radical., 5 :00. p-.m, -
Route m. Highway No. 18
(Friday)
1, Mrs. Waddell’s, Falrplains,
9:00 a. m.: 2. Mulberry, 9:45 a.
m.; 3. Brown’s Store, Halls
Creek, 10:15 a. m.; 4, Halls Post-
office. 10:45 a. m.; 5, McGrady
Postofflce. 11:15 a. m.; 6. Wll-
bar, Dancy’s Filling Station.
12:30 p. m.;* 7, Vannoy Postot-
fice. 1:30 p..m.: 8, Nichols Store,
off Highway No. 16, 3:00 p. m.:
9, Millers Creek School. 4 p. m.
’The Wilkes county board
commissioners in session this
week passed an order permitting
the office of re^ster of deeds,
sheriff and county accountant to
close at noon each Saturday
through June, July and August.
'The office of clerk ef court was
permitted to close at noon on Sat
urdays several days ago by order
of Judge Wilson /Warlick, who is
presiding over court.
The: resolution by the commiv
sionere relative to county offices
closing on Saturdays at noon fol
lows : 1
“Wnbreas, the Judge Presiding
and holding the Superior courts of
Wilkes county, has ordered, for
the relief of the women clerks and
stenographers in tlie Office of the
Clerk of Superior Court, may close
at noon on Saturday, June 10 and
each .Saturday thereafter until the
1st day of September; and Where
as this Board is of the opinion that
said order is wise and fair, by
reason of the heat and long days
and for further reasons that the
business of the county can be
.
UU0111C3D —- -- g V. 'J'om-
properly done and not be mcon-| ji„j,^ |,airman of the board. R.
ww A w 9 1 ^ O ^ L1 v^ A A J LJ
venienced by said order, and that
this order should be granted to the
Office of the Register of Deed’s
G. Finley, president, and W. P.
Kelly, executive vice president, of t...
V. — 1 Bureaus, organized Monday night in a
of Wilkes county, Sheriff’s office business and professional men.
of Wilkes county and the Accoun-- _ • .
tent’s office of Wilkes county; It
is therefore ordered that said of
fices be granted the same relief,
and permission to close their
doors at noon on Saturday for the
period above set out.”
Commissioners
Appoint Traphill
Man As ^en!
Power Sales At Edward M. Frea» Gets Ap-
' pointment; Subject To
Action Of State
North Wilkesboro
$122,407 Last Tear
Electric 'business Here Com
pares Favorably With
Larger Cities
Authorities
Wilkes county board ot com-
missloners In session this
State Consultant
Girls NYA Work
Visitor In County
Quartet Singing
At Pleasant Home
CHURCH INDICTED
Winston-Salem. June 13. —
A third indictment ag'’’nst W. E.
Church. Forsyth Superior court
clerk, in which he wa.i charged in
rive counts with failui-p to dis
charge the duties of his office,
was returned 1)v the grand jury
here today. Each count referred
to alleged “unlawful, wilfui and ,
corrupt” omissions of duty with
regard to the auditing and re-'
porting of the public guardian ac
counts to W. T. Wilson. Wilson,
former mayor of Winston-Salem,
was convicted last month of a
charge of embezzling $611.52
from the account of one of his
wards while serving as public
guardian. He was sentenced to
wervo six to eight years in the
state prison, and gave notice of
appeal to the state Supreme
court. 'The incident brought a-
pOnst Church today is in addi
tion lo others returned by grand
juries in January. chargin'g
Church with misapplying funds
of his office, and conspiring with
W\ T. Penry, former tax collector,
to misapply county funds.
The Bine Ridge Quartet Sing
ing association will meet at Pleas
ant Home Baptist church near
Millers Creek on Sunday, June
IS. *wo o’clock in the afternoon,
it was announced toda.v. All sing
ers are invited to attend and have
a part in the program.
week
appointed Edward M. 'Freas, a
citizen and farmer of the Trap-.
hill community, as county agent
to sncceed Dan Holler during the
A report released from Raleigh ne*t fiscal year beginning July 1.
yesterday shows that the Income Before going into effect his
of the North Wilkesboro branch ' appointment must be approved
Duke Power company' in , by extension authorities at State
College in Raleigh.
Mr. Freas Is 31 years of age.
I He was born In Springfield. Mo.,
and has lived In Missouri, Vir-
Mrs. Pansy A. Fetzor, state
consultant of girls work in the
NYA in North Carolina, was
greatly impre.ssed with the work
being done in Wilkes, she said
following a recent inspection.
She visited the girls working
quarters in the Community House
in Wilkesboro and made a thor-
MKh laspection of the. quarters
,and the type of work being car
ried out.
While in this part of the state
she iilso visited girls’ NYA pro
jects in Alleghany, Ashe and
Watauga counties.
of the Duke Power company' in
1938 . for sales ot electricity was
$122,407.75.
This total was divided as fol
lows: residential. 1.562,088 kilo-.
watt hours. $61,702.26; jMaryland, and Canada hut
cial, 777,929 kilowatt hours, ^ q, 20
(years in North Carolina.
He graduated from State Col-
$29,389.28; industrial. 1.300.308
kilowatt hours. $25,085.39.
Total for other cities in north
western North Carolina were list
ed as follows: Winston-Salem,
$1,467,191.88; Thomasville,
$178,896.25; Reidsville, $478.-
106.58; Mount Airy, $186,081.50:
Elkin. $107,725.03; Madison,
$79,291.41: Leaksvllle, $138.-
085.86; High Point, $562,808.19.
NEUTRALITY FIGHT UF
Washington, Jan. 13.—By a
strictly party vote. 12 to 8. the
house foreign affairs committee
today approved the new adminis
tration neutrality hill, a measure
so drawn that if war should come
to Europe, America’s vast re
sources would concededly be a-
vallable to Great Britain, France
and theli allies. The leglslatibn,
denounced by its foes as "unneu-
tml” and likely to drag foreign
.conflict that comes along, goes
next to the house proper. Action
there is planned for late next
week, or early li\ the week fol
lowing. Leaders were confident
that the house would approve the
bill,’ bat readily conceded that its
chances in the senate were of a
different sort. There the old iso
lationist bloc, augmented by some
new reenrtts, was waiting to
Sght th» measure to_ the
Special Term Wilkes Court To Begin
Monday For Trial Of Criminal Cases
Revival Going On
At Welcome Home
A series of revival services is
in progress at Welcome Home
Baptist chinch four miles west of
this city this week. ‘
Rev. A. W. Eller, the pastor,
is being assisted by Rev. S. I.
Watts and services are being held
at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
The public has a cordial invita
tion to attend.
Efforts Will Be Made To
Clear Criminal Calendar
Of Cases Previously
Continued
Rufus Hendren
Taken By Death
Rufus Hendren. retired school
teacher and member of a well
known Wilkes family, died at his
residence here Tuesday after
noon.
Funeral* service was held Wed
nesday afternoon at Edgewood
Baptist churct with Rev. A. E.
Watts, assisted by Rev. Eugene
Oyve, conducting the service.
Mr. Hendren was stricken 111
Friday and gra^ally grew worse
until his death.
There is only one surviving
member of his immediate family,
a sister, Mrs. R. C. Hendren.
with whom he made his home. He
was a brother of the late A. G.
Hendren, who for more than a
quarter of a cantury was Wilkes
county farm agent.
He was a'graduate of Wake
A special term of Wilkes su
perior court far trial of crimin
al cases v/ill convene in Wilkes-
I boro on Monday, June 19.
j ’rhe term was called at tbe re-
j quest of the Wilkes bar asabcl-
(atioA and Solicitor Avalon E.
j Hall for tbe purpose of reducing
j the number of cases pending on
the criminal calendar, which in
cludes several homicide cases
which were continued during the
regular March term.
A grand jury will be put into
service Monday only for the pur
pose of passing npon new bills of
indictment.
Judge Wilson Warllok, who is
presiding over the two-weeks
criminal term now in session,
will also preside over the special
term.
The special term lasting for two
weeks will set a new'record for
continuous court in Wilkesboro.
The June civil term now in
progress began on Monday fol
lowing adjournnient of three
weeks of federal court, which to
gether with the special term will
'fUlbtfstw’ against-« con- •**
Aor« thii A possf- tah^t 1st seSoolg
of court. At the end of the spe
cial term there will be one
lege ip Raleigh in 1933, where
he majored In animal husbandry
and received his B. S. Degree.
He married Miss Nina Bryan,
a daughter of (he late T. S. Bry
an ami Mrs. Bryan, of Traphill.
and for the past four years has
been engaged in farming in the
Traphill community.
Name Forest Warden
Arlnn Triplett, a citizen of
V>'ilkesboro, was this week ap
pointed'by the WJlkes county
board of commissioners as forest
warden in Wiikes county during
the coming year, to succeed Hom
er Brookshire, who has been
serving during the past two years
as game protector and forest
warden. It is understood that Mr.
Brookshire will continue to serve
as game protector.
Mr. ferookshire had offered his
resignation as forest warden some
time ago.
M, P. Absher, chairman, and
C. C. Bidden were present in the
meeting of the board this week.
The commissioners on Monday
met as tho county board of equa
lization.
Changes Made In
Supervision NYA
Holiday Singing
Held At
Courthouse July 4
All Singers Invited To At
tend Session And Have
Part In Day’s Program
Organization of North Wi&»-
boro’s Commerce Bureau’s
cooperative effort designeijj>F~
promote the progress and gi'm
of . North 'Wilkesboro, was
fected in a meeting held at ’
city hall on Monday night.
A charter was granted the or
ganization by Secretary of
Uiad Eure last week. Eighty^jNv
charter members representative wi.
all lines of business activltiea ia
the city composed , the' orgaui»-
tion.
’The six bureaus are: Manufae
turers’, Wholesalers’, Iferchaate’,
Credit and (Collections, AdvertiW'
ing and Better Business.
Each bureau is represented om
the board of directors as electod
Monday night by three memborw
as follows:
Manufacturers—E. F. Gardner,
J. R. Hix and R. G. Finley.
Wholesalers—N. S. Forester,
Jr., R. H. Pearson and S. V,
Tomlinson.
Merchants—Vf. G. Gabriel, A. F,
Kilby and A. A. Cashion.
Credit and (Collections—J.
The regular semi-annual ses- —
sion of the Wilkes county 8in^4ffi|liWBa> Braxoe.
association, always an anticipated ®
and 'IItgely attended event, will
'W. R. Craft Enters Soil Con
servation Work; S. T.
Walsh, Mrs. Miller
In Charge
Hackett Speaker
For lions’ Meet
Highway Commissioner J. G.
Hackett, of this city, will address
the North Wilkesboro Lions elub
in meeting Friday evening, 6:80,
at Hotel Wilkes. The program
will be in charge of Meek Moore.
Also Included in Friday eve
ning’s program _wIH be a report
of the state convention held this
week in Winston-Salem. The
North Wljkesboro club was well
represented at the conventlop,
several members from here at
tending the various sessions. >
The swliumlng-pocl.-Whleh was
opened Tuesday, by; tKo 'c8ulf« -ia
affording recreation and (dhrer-
gether with the special term wm airoraing reCTeaiiou auu WilkeibpTO ^ -
cotLoose seven consecutive weeks elon for many people In this ,vf- -wot and lost Aweach ^
- - Jclnlty. Two life guards are em-™™ teetuin teniofeww*
ployed by the clah to inrare
ciai .lerm inero win w vuv yiw/kju v—^
Wlthodt court and feder»r c'ohrt lmum safety tor those wJ4)-uss;
pool is kep^W
* abo.»v*jP>^vsrt»w'
W. R. Craft, National Youth
Administration supervisor in
Wilkes for the past two years,
has resigned that position to take
work with the soil conservation
service in Wilkes, J. M. Smith,
area supervisor, said today.
Mr. Smith said that Mr. Craft’s
resignation was effective on June
10. In discussing his work with
the NYA, .Mr. Smith said that Mr.
Craft had done some very good
work with the-NYA. Some of his
last work was rehabilitation of
the swimming pool between the
Wilkesboros, which is being ope
rated by the North Wilkesboro
Lions, club. Under Mr. Craft’s di
rection the NYA boys constructed
a board walk In front of the bath
house, built stalls in the dressing
rooms, cleaned and beautified the
grounds about the pool, and
painted the pool.
Mr. Smith explained that sup-
errlsion of NYA work has been
divided into boys’ and girls’ di
visions. Mrs. Maude Miller, who
has been directing work among
the girls, has been made super
visor in charge of all girls’ work.
S. T. Walsh, who has been fore
man of boys’ construction work,
has been made supervisor of the
boys’ division in the county.
Junior Baseball
Games Announced
Advertising—J. R. Prevette, X
E. Spalhhour and W. J. Caroon.
be held at the courthouse in Better Business—G. 0. McNeiL
Wilkesboro on Tuesday, July 4, an W. H. McElwee and W. D. Half
announcement today by J. A. Gil- acre.
liam, chairman, and Wm. A. In the meeting prior to tbs
Stroud, secretary, said. election of the above named dire^
„ tors the assembly adopted consH-
Tho singing will open at ten a. , . ,
J 11 L • * I tution and by laws and accepteo
m. and all choirs, octets, sextets, „
quartets trios, duets and | ThVeonstitution and by law set
are invited to attend and have a u- r
L. • ^ f ,1*1. ;«'cut the objectives of the central
part m the meeting. 4th is the duties and
a national holiday, _ so let us take
a national noiiaay, so lec us laKe -u i-*- -r i , „ntA
.L J ^;p e?«rair,«FI responsibilities of each branel^
the day otf and jom in singing - . ..
piaises to the
nouncement said
Lord,” the an-
The county-wide association has
singings at the courthouse on July
4th and ’Thanksgiving day.
Begin Story
Hour and Readinr
Club At Library
Children From First to Fifth
Grade May Take Part
In Club Soon
A story hour and reading rlnh
for children will be instituted at
the Wilkes county public library
on Thurjsday, June 22, Miss Haz
el Horton, librarian, announced
today.
The story hour and reading
club will meet each Thursday at
10:30 a. m. and will be for
children from the first through
the fifth grades. All children in
the city and county are .nvited.
Miss Horton said that prizes
will be awarded and asked that
parents encourage their children
to attend.
The four teams in the ^ Wilkes
county American L«gion Junior
baseball league will play their
third game of the season on Sat
urday of this week.
North /Wilkesboro will play
Clingman at CHfngman and Cricket
will play Temple Hill at Temple
Hill, Legion officials in charge of
the baseball program said today.
After two pliymg dates Cricket
is leading the League with two
victoHba and .no defeated North
an^ Clingman have
"WVM mmM — —•
Hfll, Bie new twtrtt in jgntoife
tfU, haa not entered the
uinn bnt givee promiae
n good \uaa before tha dWw-
■■ ■ ■ -
42 Club Giris
At Room SiJiobI
Girls From Yadkin and Sur
ry Join Wilkes Girls To
Hear Mias Bryan
Forty-two 4-H club^ girls at-
teMed a room improrement
■diool held in Wilkesboro Wed
nesday by t Miss Rose Elwood
Bi^n, extension speolallst.''
’ Inbludad In the number .- 'pres
ent .were home agents of Wllkad,
Sorry and Tadkin counties
nine club me'mbers from
'and Tadkin. ^ '
aeaeon,'’
to-tri4B-glrb..for parti
jPlajMblest to he held,
■’MaC ’tiw North .
setting forth many of the objee-
tives and ixplaining .some of the
advantages which may re.sult from
cooperative effort.
Following the general meeting
the directors named the followhig
officers: S. V. Tomlinson, chair-
man of the board; J. E. Spainho({g(
vice chairman, R. G. Finley, pr«»-
ident: E. F. Gardner, W. G. Gab
riel. N. ,S. Forester, Jr., J. B. WU-
liams, J. R. Prevette, C. 0. Mle-
Niel, vice presidents, and W. p.
Kelly, ^ecutive vice president, 'v
Each of the vice presided^
he.ads one of the bureaus.
Members of North Wilkesbor^i(|
commerce bureaus are as follows:
(Continued on page eight)
Postmasters To
Gather Saturday
Dinner Meeting Poatmaafcite
Two Congressional Dia^-
tricts To Be Here t.;,**
J. C. Reins, North Wilkesl
postmaster, has announced
postmasters of the 8th and
congressional districts will gat
in a meeting to be held at “
Wilkes In North Wilkesboro
Saturday evening, June 17,
o’clock.
The meeting has been call
the announcement said, in or
that postmasters might get
gether and dlscnss leglslat
and other- matters of vital ^
portance to all. All ttostmi
regardless of whether or iM#?
are members of any organ!
are asked to attend tba A
the ’only cost being f-i
•for banquet dinner. '
'The speakers win hd.-.’
Culpepper,.. of -
Wythe M. Peytdlfc*',, -t- -
Mrs. Annie Loii'PWtt,'^
and Paul R.
eonntlOT ot t
Iptti’-
large attent^
Id TddKin. • ,T^:, ^ wBc. -
•Phe aoheol .was held eeMctdlli’ from, covwt'img
^ ^ ... -'it . ■ > a_ Ana ImaadtmAA
dxiMCted. -im-tartUI
attend boon
oUtha 41','ho
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