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_ \ltaliliigtOD.—^Tte federal re-
' ■tifre board Teeterday eatlmated
tbat dspartmeat atore sales in the
weak ended Maich 16 were 6 per
C4^ tarser thaa^** In the cor-
rasponding week' of last year.
Sal«» tn the weak ended March
t.)&d ^been 11 ^r cent larger
year, 'aad the 'average
OW,|ait year for the four
_J('end^ March 16 -waq 7^per
%.’•. ’
' a- .UliripiaateB.—Senat* pass-
" ad' taraittr'.- atas.dao.ooo farm
aaytopHattoa' MB—^03,000,000
above Uw'biidget estimates—yes-
Wrfli^ ItL tlie face of a warning
ti;n Secretary Morgenthau that
It eiionld not expect the Increase
«o>'be ^d from the Treasury’s
eaali bainee. That balance, Mor-
geatkaa •wrote to Senator Byrd
(l»..'Va,. will ran etbout as low
ae n eaji.be paraalU0d..tP SoZ
khe~eloee''of the present fiscal
^ear, without dipping Into It for
nnhndgeted agricultural expendi-
turee.
H^EACE LOVING REDS
iMoecow. — The Soviet press
lashed oat yesterday at the aciiv-
Ities of "Brltlsh-Freuch imperial
ists’’ in northern Europe and em
phasised Russia’s own ’'poace-lov-
ing” policy toward the small na
tions of the north—'partlcnlariy
Finland, Norway and Sweden.
“Anti-Soviet llee’’ was the way
Pravda, organ of the Oommunlet
party, described what It called
reports o f “Unaginary Soviet
claims for free porta addressed to
Sweden and Norway’’ and which
the newspaper said were being
bandied about chiefly by the Brit
ish and French press.
OCMfING TO STATE
'Washington. — Dedication o f
the Great Smoky Mountain Na
tional Park is the number one
Item OB President Roosevelt’s ac-
.ttvlttes. Presidential SecreUry
BSwd Bdwln |fc. ,Wat-
Tntlon that the visit to the park
atgiLtt wt the head of the presi
dent’s list V reports were
Teylved on Capitbl Hill that Mr.
Roosevelt was plaJpUng to make
the croes-countryi ,tOor that was
cancelled last fall because of the
fcreiy situation.
Y KILLS BROTHER
Emmeteburg. Iowa—Palo Alto
county officials said William
Mundu 11. related yesterday
that he shot and killed his 9-
year-old brother, Bernard, while
* Ifcpiaying “SUck ’Elm I’p’’ last Sun-
* ^day in the Mundus farmyard.
The body -was discovered when
the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Mundus, returned from a visit in
town. State bureau of investiga
tion officials said ballistics tests
disclosed the fatal bullet to have
been fired from a .38 calibre re
volver found in a kitchen draw
er in the Mundus home.
VOL. XXXm. No. 29 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKFiSR0RCOLJ^^^M0NDAX^iARCHjS^_1940jL60_W^BEjTATg-*j2£0^0UT_0PjrHECTATO^
Project Calling
For Widening Of
421 Is Approved
Will Add Four Feet To Con
crete Pavement On Road
Eavt Of Wilkesboro
Death Misses Qassroom Mark by One Hour
NEW BOMBER BIGGEST
Washington.—The army an
nounced yesterday that it soon
win acquire from the Douglas'
Aircraft Corporation the world’s
largest plane, a 70-ton juggernaut
oapaible of making a round-trip,
non-stop traaaatlantic night while
carrying 28 tons of bombs. The
huge ship will be double the size
of the fWnOu* super flying fort-
cnrrontly the army’s blK*
which weigh only
3#^toea ft Is being bulH under
editions of atrlctest secrecy,
iOA, adding that it mv
pUas for this ship which were
stolen last'year but recovered
prl«P*iy tor the Federal Bureau
f af hWMltl—flop lt-wtth>bave.,ja,
■wlng^read of more than 219
feet, and will be equipped with
four engines deUverlng 6.000
horsepower.
e Heavy Snowfall
Easter Sunday
half
had
For the first time In
century, Wilkes county
white Easter Sunday.
Snow began falling about seven
o’clock Sunday morning and fell
rteadly all day, reaching a depth
^of from four to five Inches all
over the county.
In -Wlnaton-^alem, where the
annual Easter Sunrise service at-
jets many thousands, there was ^ffg^noon saw “Young Tom Edl-
ll^ter snowfall but sufficient Liberty Theatre,
o cover the ground. It was the
Vl> CV.- -ooc
first mow on Bastar since 1886. ,
The temperature sUrted tumb- school at Chapel Hill, has been
I Un* Saturday «n* all day Sunday spending a few days here with his
= bMpw freexlng as the snow father and mother. Attorney and
Ma^alad the earth.
A highway project providing
for widening of the concrete pave
ment on highway 421 about sev
en miles east of Wilkesboro has
been definitely approved, it was
learned today from highway of
ficials at the highway commission
divijsion office here.
The project calls for addition
of four feet on concrete pavement
to the present road.
Widening of the pavement will
result in great improvement to
the road, which is considered too
narrow to accomodate present
day traffic.
Stone to be used in the paving
operations will he mined from a
quarry opened between the high
way and Windy Gap last year.
Dougherty Speaks
To Conunitteemen
Of Wilkes County
School Committee Members
Hear School Law Dis
cussed Saturday
Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president
of Appalachian Teachers College,
Boone, addressed a county-wide
meeting of schoel committeemen
of Wilkes county held in Wilkes
boro Saturday afternoon.
The subject of Dr. Dougherty’s
address was “Qualities of A Good
Teacher.’’ He also touched on a
number of the duties of school
committeemen during his re-
morks._ ^ ~ ~ ^ ......
palled..by. C.
^t^M*^roi8eiit~(>t l^lkes'
schools, and about 75 committee
members from all parts of the
county were in attendance.
C. O. McNiel, chairman of the
Wilkes board of education, also
spoke, pointing, out the ri.se in
average of teacher training for
the schools of the county system.
Tiie school law, particularly as
it relates to duties of cominittee-
tneu, was discussed.
Accidentally Shot
Roscoe (dbei^
Death was cheated by one honr’a time recenUy when Metier ta
■choel at Modeato, Calif. The heater blew up at 6:55 to tt^JPiitoiM^ ripped oat
athletic bnUdtog. left. It sailed 150 feet through the air WM projectgl flueugh
right, piercing both walto of the structure like a giant canm ball. It saUrf MolhtT ^
itself in the (round. There were no casualties as clawes were not uchedwea to gotbor vnU obo
inter.
G-Man Scheidtj
Tells Club About;
F.B.I. Proceedure
I
Delivers Interesting Address
About Crime Problem In
United States
.andstand
1561’.
Woman’s Foot
Shot Off Today
Mrs. Relin Lowe Suffers Bad
Injury At Home Near
Roaring River
Mrs. Leona Blackii'urn I.nwe.
age 20. wife of Relin Lowe, of
the Roaring River community,
suffered a had injury and prob
able loss of her right foot in an
accident at her home today.
According to in'ormation ob-
t-ained from membtu's of the fam
ily. Mrs. Ia)we was in the home
when the shotgun presumably
fell from where it ■ft'as standing
against the wall and accidentally
discharged.
The load went through her
right foot just below the ankle
joint and also caused some in
jury to her left foot. Physicians
at the Wilkes hospital said, after
preliminary examination, that in
all probability she would lose her
right foot.
Ferguson School
Students Visit
Newspaper Plant
Forty students of the seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth grades of
Ferguson .school made their an
nual tour of a group of business
and industrial plants here on
Friday.
Included In the day’s sightsee
ing was a visit by the classes to
the office and plant of The Journ
al-Patriot, where they were
shown the processes involved in
the making of a newspaper and
in commercial printing.
The group, led by Prof, and
Mrs. G. E. Tester, also visited
Key City Furniture company, the
telephone exchange, Grier Mills
and the pubJic library. They were
served lunch in
school lunch room and in the
Calling attention to the fact
that there were a million and one-
half major crimes and eleven mil
lion minor crimes in the United
G-Wan In Charge of the CfaiarlDi.t4u
bfffce of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, told the North
Wilkesboro Klwanis club here
Friday that the crime problem
must be encountered on two
fronts.
On one front he said, the prob
lem can be attacked by the
homes, schools, civic groups and
citizens generally and on the oth
er front by a .scientifically direct
ed police force such as the FBI
maintains.
He prefaced his address to the
club by drawing a parallel be
tween Sherlcck Holmes fiction
and actual FBI proceedure. Much
success attained depend.s upon tne
psychology used and boys and
girls are often helpful bee; .sc
they often observe more keenly
Ilian older people, he said.
Ho spoke of the high rating of
training of FBI men, how they
are selected and how they eon-
tiiiiie their training all along with
their duties.
Dr, A. C. Chamberlain was pro
gram chairman for the day.
In the business session of the
club meeting J. B. Williams call
ed attention to the sale of Easter
seals to raise funds for work a-
mong crippled children and urged
members to support the move
ment.
The directors meeting was post
poned until f’riday night because
of conflicting with the date of an
inter-club meeting in Greens
boro. An invitation from Roaring
River for the club to meet there
on -April 12 was considered and
the club deemed it advisable to
postpone it until a later date.
At the meeting W. H. Patton
was a guest of L. M. Nelson, Mrs.
A. C. Chamberlain was a guest of
Miss Lois Scroggs, B. G. Gentry
was with H. H. Morehouse, Dr.
J. W. -Morris and Fred Hu-bhard,
Jr., were guests of Dr. F. C.
Hubbard, George Roes, Sr., and
George Ross, Jr., were guests of
A. A. Cashlon.
A marine mine which was washed
up on the English coast provides a
grandstand for this youngster who
gazes out over the ocean. It isn’t
as dangerous as it looks for the de
tonator was removed from the high
ly explosive machine, which is pow
erful enough to sink a ship.
Meeting Thursday
Night To Discuss
Board Elections
Organizes For
Prihi^'Duties
New Registration Or Trans
cription of Books Is
Not Determined
Wilkes county board of elec
tions met on Saturday at the of
fice at the office of the clerk of
court according. 4o,
until
Wednesday evening, six o’clock,
of this week.
The board organized by elect
ing E. P. Inscore chairman and
J. C. Grayson, the Republican
member, secretary. C. C. Staley
is the third member of the board.
The clerk of court delivered
the poll books and registration
books to the chai man of the
board of elections, in whose cus
tody they will remain until tlie
primary.
No action was taken on wheth
er the new registra,tion will be
called for the primary or a trans
cription of the registration books
to a book for each party will ib&
•ulled as provided by a change
in the election law.
The board members are plann
ing to attend a course to be con
ducted in Statesvil'!. Tuesday by
W. A. Lucas, chairman of the
state board of elections.
Sfth Sunday Singing
' On Hinrfiaw Street
V-
' Membeiw of the Htoahaw Street
Baptist church la this city today
announced that the church la ex
tending a cordial inTltatlon to all
"-singing classes, qnarteta and oth
er singers to be present and take
part in the Fifth Sunday singing
'to be held Sunday at their church.
The day’s program will begin at
teU; a. m.
Checks To
ToUess Gone Out
Freun Office Here
In Tw»T«iur» aati Two Mon-
, tlM4^7.^.05 la Paid
Throvgli Loc^ Offioa
Raleigh.—The North 'Wilkes
boro Employment Service office,
which serves the area embraced
in Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe,
Watauga and Wilkes county—
counties, has delivered 6217,-
624.05, included in 32,871 checks
to unemployed or partially unem
ployed workers in that area in
the past two years and two
months, through February, fig
ures compiled in the Centrol of
fice of the N. C. Unemployment
Compensation show.
'The 4-6 white Employment of
fices, with 10 colored branches
in as many cities with large col
ored pomitoUoitq, distributed 1.-
iihe-fwd^
and two months, less than 18,684
checks for 6215,095.21 sent to
residents outside the State who
had previously accumulated re
serves in North Carolina. The
distribution for January -was 49,-
209 checks for $285,382.35 and
for February, last month. It was
59,775 checks for $308,145.51.
In January, the North Wilkes
boro Employment office deliver
ed $3,658.29, included in 736
checks, and in February. 850
checks for $4,360.27 were dis
tributed.
Benefit payments of $13,436.-
933.89 had gone to unemployed
workers of North Carolina from
January. 1938, through March 20.
last week, from the Slate Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion. Contributions and interest
on the state’s balance in the U.
S. Treasury amounted to $33,-
149,830.03 through last Wednes
day, leaving a balance in the
Slate fund as of that day of $19,-
712,896.14, Chairman Charles G.
Powell reports.
Celebration Plans Wilkes Girl Is ^
Contot Winner 4 pimis Sponsor
Quartet On Radio
A. K.“ Pearson
Taken By Death
Prominent Citizen Of This
City Dies Of Injuries
Received In Fall
Commerce Bureaus And Civ
ic Groups To Plan For
Anniversary Pageant
A serial 'meeting of North Wil-
keshoro’s Commerce Bureaus,
representative groups from civic
organizations, city officials and
other Inte-ested people will meet
on ’Thursday night, 7:30 at the
cRy hail to lay definite plans for
North Wllkeabcro'8 fiftieth anni
versary celebration to be field
some time this year.
Myron Calvin, a representative
of a nationally kno'wn producing
com'pany, met here recently wRh
the advertising bureau and dis
cussed tentative plans for the
event, which is expected to be
one of the most outstanding oc
casions in northwestern North
tfife yea'r. '
However, It was decided that
a meeting .of all civic groups be
called to join in the definite
plans for the anniversary cele
bration, which may be in the
form of a pageant depicting* the
growth and progress of north
western North Carolina’s metro
polis during its half century of
existence.
AtNoonTdii^
9lMt‘ lb Head By. GaailJb ~
Hbuds Of Cn9«De^SclBaB>
rod At Fairgrounds
RoMoe Gllresth, li-yespeM
eon of Mr. rad Mrs. Chai OH-
reath, of this city, was .shot ,aui
killed, about noon today >
blsylnr with some other boya
hMr 'ue fairgroimda.' ~ “
Sheriff C. T. Dott^ten saH
that according to infomstira lia-
recelved, the Gllresth'yoatti^iaid
Eurane Eckenrod iwere sbaottafg
fiifdi tHih a 22-caUbte rifle sa«
thii CUlreoth stepped in fixtot mt
the ghti just as Eckenrod waa
pulUhl the trigger to shoot. Tta
hitliit entered the back of the
Doy’S heed. Odell BBltogs, anoth
er boy, was with them but ssM
he did not see the shooting.
An ambulance rushed tb»
Wounded boy to the hospital but
he died within a few minutes aft
er arrival.
Officers said that all evidence
indicated that the shooting wao
accldentol.
Surviving the accident victim
are hie father and mother and the
following brothers and sisters:
June, Arnold, Paul, Faye, Tst,
Maty and Billie Gilreath.
Funeral service will be held,
some time Wednesday.
Miss Ina Lee White Takes
First Honors Li District
Legion Cmtest
Miss Ina Lee White, Honda
high school girl who won first
place in the American Legion’s
fifteenth district oratorical con
test held Saturday in Wilkes
boro, will go to Lexington ’Thursr
day night to take place in the
Legion’s regional contest.
Miae 'Madge Kilby, of Lansing,
was second place winner in the
district contest. The district is
composed of Wilkes, Alleghany,
Radio Listeners Invited To
Hear Southern Harmoni-
zers Each Saturday
Four North WllkesWoro busi
ness firms are B'ponsoring the
radio broadcast by the Southern
Harmonizers each Saturday aft
ernoon, 1:30 o’clock, over radio
station WHIG, Greensboro.
The Southern Harmonizers are
male quartet composed of four
COmpOSea 01 Wliaes, AueKuaujr,. - on/I
Ashe. Alexander and Iredell coun- ^
Mr. Charlie Whicker, who is in
Mrs. J. H. Whicker, Sr,
Albert Konrad Pearson, one of
North Wilkesboro’s best known
Wilkesboro clfi*6ns, died--at the Wilkes hos
pital at six a. m. Friday as the
result of injuries rocelved in a
fall in his home on March 6. In
the fall his hip was broken and
complicatlona set in, causing his
death.
Mr. Pearson was bom In Lln-
koping, Sweeden, on March 23,
(Contianed on page eight)
Baity Child Dies
Last rites were held at Edge-
wood cemetery today tor Charles
James Baity, a6a hbm to Mr. and
Mrs« L. Hciity, of North
W’ilkeMiimo route 3, on Pebrnary
29. He died Saturday. Surviving
are the father and mother, one
brother and two sisters.
ties.
L. M. Nelson, commander of
the Wilkes poet of the Legion,
conducted the contest .held in
Wilkesboro and five judges se
lected the winners.
The subject of the orations
was “Hoiw the Constitution Bene
fits the United States and its
Citizens.’’
Winner in the regional contest
will take ipart in the department
contest to select a ■winner to rep
resent the state in the national
contest, where a $4,000 scholar
ship will be the grand prize.
Junior Order Will i
Initiate Five
Mr. Charles Sink, University
of North Carolina student, has
been spending a few days here
with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. C.
S. Sink.
North WlHlMboro council of
the Junior Order will Initiate fire
candidates In the mooting to be
held ’Tuesday night, 7:30. All
members, and especially the der
gred team, are urged to atUmd personal appearances
the ' meeting, which promises to North Carolina and
since their debut on the air a few
months ago their singing of gos
pel songs have won popular ac
claim-
The North Wilkesboro business
firms sponsoring the broadcast of
the Southern Harmonizers are
Deans Jewelry store. Mark Down
Furniture company, Gaddy Motor
company and Red Cross Pharm
acy. They join in extending a
cordial invitation to all people in
this section of the state to hear
the Harmonizers each Saturday
afternoon, 1:30, during the next
twelve weeks.
The quartet is composed of
Clarence Sebastian, first tenor,
Earl Wiles, second tenor, Eugene
Sebastian, baritone, and Paul;
Luffman, 'bass.
The Harmonizers have been on
the air for several roonths and
their programs have been in
creasing rapidly In popnlarity.
They have also made many
Passes Sudden^
Young Man Dies While Rid
ing In Automobile; In
quest Held Today
Woodrow Mathis, age 28. a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Mathis,’
of Roaring River route 2, died
Sunday night while riding around
in an automobile with Taft John
son, resident of the same com
munity, and Albert Combs, of
Stafesv'lle.
Coroner I. .M. Myers conducted
an inque.st today and the verdict
of his jury was that Mathis died,
of unknown causes.
At the inquest Combs stated
that he was driving his car and
that Jolin.--on and .Malhls were
with him. that they had been
drinking heavily and were rldlne'
around when the car stuck in a
mud hole in the Mt. Sinai com
munity. He said that Mathis was
prparently asleep in the back seal
and that he and Johnson tried to
awaken him and have him help
get the car out of the mud whra
they found that Mathis was dead.
Johnson’s ac'.ount of the affair
corroborated Combs, although h»
said he was unable to remember
very distinctly just what happen
ed.
Suspicion that foul play had n
pan in Mathis’ death was ttrto. _
aroused by the discovery of • -
slight knot on top of his bend—'
but it was derided that the in
jury was In all probability not -
sufficient to cause death. John
son and Combs said there bad _
been no trouble between them
during the afternoon and night-
before he was found to be dead
about eight o’clock.
Persons who lived nearby said
that they fomnd the car stuck 1*.-
the mud, that Johnson and Comhnr
were sitting in the car and that
Mathis’ body was slnoLped lii-
the hack seat. Combs asked them
to notify officers of ^the death
and Sheriff C. T. Doughton went
to the scene for an investigation-
Funeral service will be held
Wednesday. •>-
their pro-
tne meeting, wiucu yiuiu.ooo — ^
be one of the most InteresUng In grams, have been enthusiastically
received hy large crowds.
several weeka.
Splendid Play At ,
Mulberry School
The Show Boat Players, the
same group who so delightfully
gave “Rebecca- of Sur. uybfook
Farm” ;*t several places In the
county, ■will present-a comedy-
drama entitled “Sweetest Girl Im
Dixie” at Mulberry school aa
Tuesday night, March 26, 7:80
o’clock. ''‘i’
’The school Is sponsoring
.play and assures all who will ad-
tend tha^ It will be highly enter
taining. Admission charges wttt
be 15 and 26 cents.
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