ttWG TO COLLECT
’WUhlagtoH. Oct 27.—Got.
;fewiuiient otncials ar«'taking into
own kands, It waa learned
today, efforts to nego-
^ttate between Lntln American
American conntries and United
; States ottisens who hold more
than 11.000.000,000 of their de-
tftaltttd bonds.
™»» ■■! I -’.f rffiaiii II, M LT? -T-TTwi-
Finland to Safeguard Hold on Aaland/Isl&dspiepdijre- R
Inj
In Auto
ITALY IS ARMING
Rome, Oct, 27.—Fascist Italy
eeldbmted the eve of the 17 th
anniversary of the Blackshirt
march on Rome today by tossing
about 1873,000,000 Into the
world anmament race.
The government’s announce
ment that It would spend 17,376,-
000,000 lire on Raly's military
» isA?ht In a new arms program.
'^H^rUght Fascist army, navy and
air force expenditures to 133,-
281.000. 000 lire (currently about
26.694.000. 000) in 17 years.
STATE BAR MEETS
Raleigh, Oct. 27—George C.
in, of Weldon, today was
l^ted president of the North
Carolina State Bar, succeeding
Fred S. Hutchins, of Winston-Sa
lem. L. P. McLendon, of Greens
boro, was named vice president,
succeeding Green.
nie election of officers con
cluded a one-day session of the
bar, which featured speeches by
Charles A. Beardsley, of Oak- j
land, Calif., president of the
American Bar Association, and
five other authorities on various t
phases of bar organization activi
ties.
tb^ianM To City"
Funeral Service For Aged
-Man WUl Be Held On
Tueaday Afternoon
D. Theodore Finley, age 80, a '
member of one of the most wide
ly prominent families of north
western North Carolina, died at
7:30 this morning at the Wilkes
Hospital.
i Mr. Finley received a broken
4hip and other Injuries in an auto
mobile accident on October 17,
from which he never recovered.
The accident occured on highway
268 between Wllkesboro and Fer
guson when a car driven by Glenn
Jones and in which Mr. Finley
’and two other men were riding,
overturned.
jmany Unrong^ &
Aid Ciwneo
^leran Qualify As FirirAa^
Instructon Following
Courses Hora
Im'Wreck Of U-Boat
oresttirein^ Found By British
Mountains Burns
James M. Anderson, and fam
ily, who have for the past two
, . . „c,„ ......— , - vears been living in Hickory,
lan reefs, make up the Baltic manhood he left Wilkes j where Mr. Anderson was employ-
Tfaongh Russia has not form y V ^ ^ county and made his home in ed as manager of the North Car-
„ 20 ollna State Employment Service,
years ago. For the past several . office, moved back to North Wll-
years ho had made his home | kesboro into their home on “D”
sister, Mrs. Eda Reece,
^ I He was a the late Wll-
iM ■. * M.-1 diova Martha Horton Finley.
Th;ms.nd. of tiny Wands, some of them - more rSJSTi^ STt foSil^SS^L^tluU i ^ early manhood he left Wilkes j
on the map as the FinnUh-controUed Aaland Wm^s, when It comes, wUl bo r®. county and made his home
U bo anowed to esUblish a naval base on the islands. It sweten Denm.Tk and NorUy. met in Texas, returning here about
Jected flatly by Finland. Rulers of the other three Nordic powers, S ,
Sweden recently to study mutual war problems.
Over 1,500 Acres
PLEADS FOR PEACE
Castle Gandolfo, Oct. 27—Pope
Pius XII, in the first encyclical
of his pontificate, today assailed
governments In which civil au-
^thority "puts Itself in the place
lU of the Almighty and elevates the
4K state Or group into the last end
V of life." “It is quite true that
power based on such weak and
unsteady foundations can
at times under chance
Blaze On Mountcuns Near
Stony Fork Does Much
Damage Saturday
A forest fire which started ear
ly Saturday from a sawmill
burned over 1,500 acres of tim
ber land On the mountains be
tween Stony Fork and Elk Creeks
before it was brought under con
trol.
A brisk wipd fanned the flames
L attain ■all day Saturday and made It next
clrcnm-! to Impossible for a large band of
stances material sucoessra apt
to
fire fighters to effectively com-
i London, Oct. 26.—The British ;
admiralty announced tonight H'st *
“the shattered wreck of a Ger
man U-boat was found today on
the Goodwin Sands.’’
(The Goodwin Sands are con
sidered exceedingly dangerous
shoals in the strait of Dover.
They are Just off the southeast
coast of Kent, England. They are
oft Ramsgate and flank the
southern approach to the Thames
river.)
Boatmen at Deal, just opposite
the treacherous shoals, said they
saw most of the conning tower
sticking out of the water.
Gunfire was heard off Deal
yesterday but a heavy mist pre
vented the s’^ht of any action.
Ladies’ N^ht At
Kiwanis Club Is
A Gala Occasion
Dr. Alonzo Hall TeiUs Of
Peculiar and Humorous
Epitaphs He Had Seen
qK Xlames.
However, late Saturday night
"But the moment comes,” he! snd Sunday mornings the wind
warned, "when the inevitable law j ceased and the fire was brought
triumphs, which strikes down all
that has been constructed upon
a hidden or open disproportion
between the greatness of the ma
terial and outward success and
the weakness of the inward value
and of its moral foundation.’’
GERMANY HAS SHIP
Washington, Oct. 27—Russia
stormed United States officials
knight that she had acted ac-
‘ cording to international law and
the'"obligations of a neutral’’ in
ordering the captured American
freighter City of Flint to leave
her territory with a German prize
crew in charge. Csurence A.
Steinhardt. United States ambas
sador, who relayed this message
from Moscow, said he had been
informed that the vessel had been
ordered out of Murmansk in the
"same status as she entered,”
,J>at is, with the prize crew in
the American crew on
jLboaxd, and the cargo intact. The
Unted States had demanded pos
session of the American vessel,
which had been seized by a Ger
man raider as a conterband car
rier and taken to Murmansk.
However, Vladimir Potemkin,
asststsnt commissar of foreign
affaire, told Steinhardt today that
to accede to the American de
mand “would be an nnneutral
act”
quickly under control.
According to reports available
today, the fire did extensive dam
age. One tawmill was burned and
several yards of lumber, contain
ing many thousand feet, were to
tally destroyed. A great part of
the lands burned were well tim
bered and the remaining acreage
was cutover lands.
Many men from the Stony Fork
and Elk communities joined in
Surplus Foods Are
Given To County’s
Needy Last Month
! With 41,138 cases represent
ing 188,944 persons certified in
North Carolina during Septem
ber as eligible to receive surplus
commodities distributed through
county welfare departments, 36,-
— — - I 642 case.s actually were serviced
combatting the flames and were ! J^r(pg month, A. E. Lang-
aided by 50 members of C. C. ■ ~ ■
Camps.
J. R.
ston, State director of commodity
i distribution with the State Board
S'pratt, district forester, Charities and Puhllc Welfare,
A. A. Triplett, Wilkes county for
est warden, and B. T. Campbell,
park service ran.eer, were in
charge of the fire fighting forces.
Another Fire Sunday
Late Sunday afternoon a small
fire broke out on the Blue Ridge
near Tompkins Knob ibut was ex
tinguished by people c; the com
munity after it had turned over
about ten acres.
Lake To Be Built
OverlookinE Boone
Boone, Oct. 26.—X contract for
the construction of a lake over
looking Boone, 4,000 feet above
sea level, and covering from five
to seven acres of land on the
Tater Hill property has been let
by S. C. Eggers, local realtor, to
the Perry M. Alexander Construc
tion Company of Asheville.
A crew of men started Monday
clearing away the timber and un-
derbmsh from the site. A steam
ataovel will be moved to the prop
erty the latter part of the week
will begin moving the neces
sary earth the first of next week.
who Is In cb'.trge of
wk*t^:»lU eventually be one of
thto A»e«OB’s largest tourist de-
T^opments, said that drurlng the
4MBip cottages will be
that the first step in
£ ^liarelopnient will cost ap-
Xcimately 126.000.
Tlia staua shovrt, while on the
77rfli grade a road lead-
the highway of standard
bridle trails
hgna laid oat coraring a-
iKMUaUttU
k OB the mpaatala.
Drive Leaders Named
By Baptist Hospital;
Story Is A Member
Winston-Salem, Oct. 26.—The
steering committee for the re
gional campaign of the North
Carolina Baptist hospital was in
creased to 12 members today with
the addition of prominent Bap
tist leaders in several important
centers.
The steering committee now
comprises:
Rev. D. H. Wilcox, of Winston-
Salem, chairman, moderator of
the Pilot Mountain Baptist asso
ciation; Dr. C. C. Carpenter, dean
of the medical school of Wake
Forest; John T. Coley, of Rocky
Mount, moderator of the Roanoke
association; Mrs. Paul P. Davis,
of Yadklnville, trustee of Mara
Hill Junior college; Bmlth Haga-
man. of Winston-Salem, Baptist
hospital superintendent; Grover
H. Jones, High Point attorney:
Mrs. F. D. Lethco, of Charlotte;
F. W. McGowen, of Kenansvllle,
Duplin county accountant and
veteran moderator of the Eastern
association: 8. M. Mull, of Shelby,
legislator; Mrs. J. J. Roddick, of
Winston-Salem, Baptist hospital
trustee; T. B. Story, of WlHces^
boro, moderator of Brushy Moun
tain association; and Dr. William
M. Watkins, Durham physician.
said this week.
Twenty-seven school lunch pro
grams were aided doring the
month in which 1,296 needy and
undernourished graded school pu
pils of the state received free hot
lunches, while 318 persons in
four children’s camps were help
ed by the extra food supplies.
Since the first of October 243
school lunch rooms with an allot
ment of 21,998 needy, under
nourished puplig have entered the
commodity distribution division’s
new program to have 150,000
poor children on the records for
free lunches during the current
school year, Langston said.
Wilkes county welfare depart
ment certified 626 cases involving
3,341 persons with 624 cases be
ing serviced with the commodities
during September, the director
said.
The Wilkes county welfare de
partment is supplied with surplus
commodities purchased by the
federal government for North
P'lrollna distribution from the
district number, four warehouse
at North Wllkesboro.
As of the first of October the
fo’former surplus commodity
districts were changed into six
areas to provide better supervis
ion of distribution of the food
“A grand time was had by all’’
at Ladles’ Night observed Thurs
day evening by the North Wllkes
boro Kiwanis club.
Total attendance at the gala
gathering was 120, including 62
lady guests. The banquet hall of
Hotel Wilkes '--as attractively
decorated in autumn colors for
the event.
The guests were welcomed by
President D. J. Carter , and Pat
WilliaiBs Imti ebeflit.
of the prbgraifl during Irlri'di a
gift was presented to every lady
present.
P. W. Eshelman was in charge
of the program and he presented
Miss Geraldine Weaver, of Brooks
Cross Roads, who delightfully
sang “A Heart Is Free," "Pale
Moon,” “'Tales From The Vienna
Woods” and “Over the Rainbow.”
The program chairman then in
troduced Dr. Alonzo C. Hall, of
the Woman’s College of the Uni- j
versity of NorthXarolina. Greens
boro, who entertained the club
in a great way by reading from
his collection of epitaphs collect
ed from ail parts of the country.
He discussed briefly his inter
est in this hobby and told of some
of the rich experiences he has
had finding them in cemeteries
in widely separated parts of the
country.
with hii
his brother, the late Will Finley,
and Mrs. Finley on the Brushles.
The only surviving member of
his immediate family is one sis
ter, Mrs. Reece, and there are
several nephews and nieces.
Funeral service will ibe held
Tuesday afternoon, two o’clock,
at Reins-Sturdivant cha.pel, with
Rev. R. L. Isbell, of Lenoir, in
charge of the service. Burial will
be in the Horton cemetery in
Happy Valley near Elkville where
the bodies of his ancestors were
interred.
Another Cripple
Clinic Nov. 9th
Examination Will Pe„Giy*®
c ' ■ ' “
Street Saturday evening. Mr. An
derson has resigned his work
with the State Employment Serv
ice to move back to North Wllkes
boro where he has purchased an
interest and will assume an ex
ecutive position with the North
Wllkesboro Insurance Agency.
Mr. Anderson, who is commonly
known to his many friends as
"Jimmie,” with his family, were
former residents of this city and
are welcomed back to North Wil-
kesboro. Mr. Anderson will as
sume his duties with the North
Wllkesboro Insurance Agency on
November 1st.
Articles Made By
NYA Employes In
1q JWbit
Wilkes county has- witnessed
tkldd increase in the' number fC
qualified "First Aiders” durUkv
the past few years as a result'of
Red Cross first aid c coanea>. ft '
was learned hero todeiy --tUronlilt'
information from Isaac Duncaa,
ttrst aid Instructor. ' *
Daring the past year Ih*"
Wilkes county chapter of the R^
Croes has sponsored classes 'vhAjfc
have qualified 86 men and wom
en as authorized and standard
first aid givers.
Mr. Duncan explained that tbw
Wilkes chapter was fortunate
during the past year in obtainiBR
an outstanding representative of
the American Red Cross first aid
and life saving service, Charles
Mix, who conducted a class in
first aid for those interested in
becoming first aid Instructoni.
The class brought congratula
tions from national headquarters
for the chapter.
Those who successfully com
pleted the instructors’ course
were: Miss Margaret Faw, Bffnor
Eller, H. V. Overcash, Mack
Reavls, Vaughn Jennings, Mrs.
Lawrence Miller, Mrs. Ethel B.
Moore, Miss Pansy Ferguson, W.
H. Hurley, R. E. Caldwell and
Eudy Wood.
Mr. Duncan commented further
on the work, saying that the Red
Cross plans an extensive drive
during the coming year in the
field of first aid and life saving.
"Your Interest in the Red Croee
Roll Call will be a stimulating
factor for those who work for
your local Red Cross chapter,*
he said.
Another cripple clinic win be
held at the Wilkes hospital on
Thursday, November 9, It was an
nounced today by the Wilkes
county health office.
Health authorities are expect-
Fall Fastival Of Arts And
Crafts To Be Held In
Asheville Soon
Ing another successful clinic. As I
The Federation of Woman’s
Clubs of District No. 2 will spon
sor a Fall Festival of Arts and
a result of previous clinics held
during the past year many crip
ples and deformed persons have
learned that they can have their
defects corrected, members of the
health office personnel stated.
Examinations are given by a
specialist without charge and the
health department is asking that
all crippled and deformed persons
In the county, especially children,
take advantage of the opportuni
ties afforded.
'The clinics are sponsored by
Crafts to be held in the Art ex-
I the North Wllkesboro Kiwanis
club in cooperation
health department.
with the
Mrs.Almedia Elledge
Is Claimed By Death
Punersil service was held Fri
day at Round Mountain church
Elledge,
The speaker said that the re
ligious points of view, the social
and other background elements
enter into the type of epitaphs
that people put on the grave
stones of their dead. In earlier
history, he said, if a person came
to a tragic end there was an ef
fort to tell it on the grave stone,
as well as a noticeable attempt to
tell something of the character of
the persons buried.
The following were examples
of Dr. Hall’s readings: “Here he
lies aa he always did,” the epi
taph of a lawyer; for a good girl
—“Here lies the body of Mary
Jones, Death held for her no ter
rors; She was born a virgin, died
a virgin. No hits, no runs, no er
rors”; a warning—"Ma loved Pa'
and Pa loved women, Ma caught I , _ .
Pa with one In swimming, here L&St Rltet SuilCl&y
hlbit room of the City Hall in
Asheville beginning Monday, No
vember 6th, through Saturday,
November 11th.
This exhibit will show the var
ious types of work being done by
the youth enrolled of the Nation
al Youth Administration and the
workmanship and skill acquired
from their training on this pro
gram. The exhibit will include
weaving, needlecraft, basketry,
metalcraft, woodcarving, craft-
made furniture, pottery, hooked
and woven rugs, and novelties.
Articles made in the wood work
ing shop and on the Home Mak
ing Project of Wilkes will be on
display.
Mrs. John S. Forrest, President
of the District No. 2 Federation
Ed Casey Trial
In Court Today
Trapihill Man Being Tried
For Shooting Cousin A
Few Months Ago
Ed Casey, Traphill resident,
was on trial in Wilkes court to
day for the alleged shooting of
his youthful cousin, Paul Casey,
near Traphill several weeks ago.
Ed Casey, it is alleged, shot his
cousin and inflicted serious in
jury. Hoiwever, he claimed self
defense, saying that Paul Casey
was in the act of assaulting bins
at the time.
Following the affair Ed Casey
fled and was hunted by offlcere
for several days. He was declared
an. outlaw before he was takes
while sleeping in Garden Creek
church.
The trial had not been con»-
pleted at press time this after
noon.
Judge J. Frank Armstrong is
presiding over court this term.
ol tne Disirici wo. z r eaerauou ^ , .
. i. • ir, which is for tnal of criminal and
of Woman’s Clubs, is in charge i , ,, ...
. ,, , . , . „ civil cases. The first three days
of the plans and is working with |
for Mrs. Almedia
yeai^old resident of MoUierry
township wh5 died Wednefcday.
She is survived by two dcrfgh-
tere, Mrs. Jack Williams, of Nor
folk, Va., and Mrs. G. W. Adams,
of Hays.
were set aside for trial of crimi
ng Mrs. Margaret Stauffer, Assist-1 Solicitor Avalon K.
Ministers taking part in
ant District Supervisor of the Na
tion^'Youth Administration, and
Mret Marie H. King, NYA Sapor-
^sOr of Buncombe county.
Mr. George M. S'uggs is In
charge of.the western district of
- — -
^i^ tthe NYA which includes an area
funeral service were Rev. J. M.
Owens, Rev. Clarence Miller and
Rev. H. A. Adams.
of thirty counties. Mr. John A.
Lang Is the State Administrator.
{William Swanson
Grange Leaders Hear
Hoey Denuonce Isms
nal cases and Solicitor Avalon K.
Hall is prosecuting the docket.
Homicide cases against Deli
Richardson and John Jones, sche
duled for trial today, were post
poned until Wednesday. ’They
were indicted for the death of
Miss Wilhelm Ina Triplett and
Mrs. Hubert Canter in an auto
mobile-bus collision 15 miles west
of this city on highway 421 »
few years ago.
lies Pa.”
To Form l^bwnie
Troop For Girls
The Girl Scouts are having a
ton or ttisinpuuon oi me looa — =
and WPA-made clothing In the Girl Scout party at the Woman s
Work Is going along well on
the attractive new brick bunga
low being erected for Mr. Donald
MeiviUe on his lot on Cherry
jStroet ht WUkreboro.
counties. Wilkes county has been
allocated to the fourth area and
will continue to be served from
the North Wllkesboro warehouse.
District personnel in the ware
house distribution points will in
practically every instance be re
tained in the area offices.
Figures for September distri
bution of commodities in adjoin
ing eonatlea-are -as felicrws; Alex
ander, 364 cases; Alleghany, 151
cases; Ashe, 167 cases; Caldwell,
430 cases; Watauga, 230 cases.
Misses Ruth and Kayt Laws,
who holds positions in Charlotte,
spent the week-end at Moravian
Falls with their mother, Mrs. U
B. Lam. | ,
club House tonight at 7:30 In
celebration of National Oirl Scout
Week.
The Senior Scout troop is act
ing hostess for the Girl Scout
Council and invitations have been
issued to parents and Scouts at
this time, announcement is being
made of organisation of a Brown
ie Troop, ages 7-10, to be under
the direction of Mrs. R. 8. Gibbs.
Registration of 1^ troop wlU 1»
limited to 24, and the first 24 ap
plying for registration .will be ac
cepted. Call Mrs. Thomas A. Fin
ley, 339-J to register.
The Brownies .will meet at the
home of Mrs. Gibbs on F Street
Funeral service was held Sun
day at Boomer chufCh- for Wil
liam R. Swanson. 76-year>^ld citi
zen of the Boomer community
who died Friday. Rev. Isaac
Watts was In charge of the last
rites.
He leaves two brothers, Sydney
Swanson, of Boomer, and Lindsay
Swanson, of High Point; also
three sisters, Mrs. Matilda An
drews, of Boomer, Mrs. Looellen
Barlow, of Buckner, Va., and
Mrs. Amelia Hartley, of Spring-
field, Oregon.
’T(»DMmS*8 LUCK
“Tommie," mother iwvere-
ly, "there were '^o.pieces of cake
in the pantry t. wont but,
and now there W 0*^^
did that happen^
“I don't know," aald Tonunle.
“But it was dark,' an^ I snppose
I didn’t see the other piece."
•* . r .,
John HcGaeli^ a
oTjLnto; afternoon, t l:S0 to
^ >• V" •' V;’ ■9-;-. 'J*'mUes and then MllBiF'st.
AsBerille, Oct. 26.—^Amld the
applause of more than 500 North
Carolina state grangers and their
friends. Gov. Clyde R. Hoey to
night declared the United States
does not want to go to war to
settle the boundaries and disputes
of Europe and Invited thoee who
believe in communism, nazlsm
and fascism “to go back where
they came from and stay there."
Governor Hoey’s address at
Central Methodist church was the
climax of the second day of the
11th annual convention ol the
grange, which will came to an
end here tomorrow tollawing a
meeting of the state executive
committee after a business tos-
■lon tomorrow morning. * * '
By a onaniBious vote at a si^
per MemOiI at the church, the
|Ndee()Bd. Salisbury as tt»
9^ %okyenficn city, on Invlta-
tibn of the ROwan county Pomona
gi^ttge. Invitations also were ye-
Oattodi^from Charlotte ^
C0B^ned m pacef«lsbt)
KennedjrYoudi
Struck By Car
C. L. Kennedy, Jr., Soffors
Skull Fracture. In Ae>,
cidenti Sunday
C. L. Kennedy, Jr., 16-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Ken
nedy, Sr., of Wllkesboro, was.'aer-
lously injured Sundsy after^^^on
•bout 12:30 o’clock wben;ha'wM
struck while riding hi. Mcyela
by a car which police ludd^Wea.
driven by J. C. Llving.ton,‘‘Wl»
resides near Wllkesboro.
The boy was carried tmaed6v
Italy to the hospital here WlMie ,
mmmlnstion showed that he -had.
yufiered two fraetnree of jtbd
ek^l. Hoepital surgeon*/ Sundiur .
B^bt, however, said that Jie hed -^^
a chMiee to reporery-
It he had regained eqaaOlba.-
t'hie Ao^'
rsVli-