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NO NEW TAX BILL
Washiagton. — Possibility of
■‘■ikew tax legislation this year ap
peared more remote last night
despite the rout of congressional
economy forces by farm bloc lead
ers who succeeded in tentatively
boosting agricultuial approptia-
tlons for 1941 by abont ?300,-
000,000. Latest to join in pooh-
poohing prospects for a new rev-
■ enue w:t wag Chairman Pat Har
rison (D); Miss., of the powerful
Senate finance committee, who
predicted on emerging from a
conference with President Roose
velt that Congress will adjourn
by June 1 without enacting a tax
measure.
LARGE LINER USED
Balboa. Canal Zone.—^Heading
for a recret mission across the
Pacific, Britain’s fifth largest
liner, the 35,739-ton Mauretania,
nosed slowly through the Panama
Canal yesterday after an unevent-
jjjj^ful. five-day dash down the At-
lantic from New A'ork. The gray-
eamouflaged liner, apparently de-
ystined for service as a troop
/ transport between .Australia and
f the N ear East, entered the At
lantic end of the canal at 9:45
a. m. (e.s.t.), and approached
Balboa on the Pacific side at
sundown. She will take on fuel
here before continuing her furtive
sea journey.
CREW REBELLED
London.—The British admirai-
ty last night, quoting an "au
thorized report," said that Adoit
Hitler ordered the scuttling of
the German pocket battleship Ad
miral Graf Spec after the crew
mutinied and refused to take the
warship out of Montevideo Har
bor into probable battle with Brit
ish naval units waiting outside.
This report, the first released by
any government regarding the
circumstances which prompted
Abe scnttUng, said the crew of the
eight
nher
BOMB IS TESTED
J Baltimore. — Lester Barlow’s
liquid oxygen-carbon explosive,
so powerful a n eight - ounce
charge sent a 40-foot telephone
pole flying skyward, withstood a
public trial of shock and fire yes
terday and the inventor announc-
• ted last night he was ready for
.Jfgovernment tests. He said he
would send his proposal for offi
cial trials to the Senate military
affairs committee today and pre
dicted the first would be held
f within three weeks. They were
ordered after a meeting last week
of congressional war and naval
coDQDiittees.
INDICT RED AIDS
Washington. — Reperesentative
Dies (Di. Tex., warned last night
that he would seek to have every
Communist leader i nthe United
States sent to jail for contempt
unless they furnished his commit
tee on un-.American activities
with a complete list of Commun
ist party members. He said he
had Information that members of
the party were acting as secret
agents for Moscow, and sending
American military and industrial
secrets to Soviet authorities. To
halt such activities, he held, it
was necessary that the nation
baow the names of the estimated
1*0,000 party members in this
country.
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VOL yvyitt No 30 Publiihed M«days and Tharedaya. NORTH WUKESBORO. N. C TBDIiSDAY, MAS. 28, 1940>1.60 INTHESTAl^-ltdlO.OUT OF THESTATB
? REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN WILKES COBUH,ORDERED
R^ional Meeting! April Date For
^ And C»udtyQ_o.P.Convention
Onicers Is Heidi —• „ , i
nlCall Is Issued
Fifty-Five From Ten Coun
ties Attend Meeting Held
Here On Wednesday
Contest Winner
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Youth Crusade
RaDy April 4th
The young people of the Elkin
district will assemble at the
Methodist church in North Wil-
kesboro at seven-thirty on Thurs
day evening, April 4, for a dis
trict wide Youth Crusade Rally.
The rally is a meeting of the
young people emphasizing and
cooperating with the Bishops’
Methodist Advance Movement, a
courageous forward movement of
a great new church in the cause
of Christ’s Kingdom here on
earth.
Bishop Clare Purcell, of Char
lotte, will be the speaker of the
evening. Young people from dif
ferent parts of the district will
famish special music. Large rep
resentations from each young
Bople’s organization in the dis-
■Ict are expected to attend.
A White Leghorn pullet con-
Bomes around 8 pounds of feed
or more per dozen eggs if she lays
i-lOO egg's a year, but less than 5
^pouads per dozen eggs If she lays
IM eggs a year.
A regional meeting of city and
county officials from ten counties
was held at the city hall here
yesterday to discuss proposed
legislative matters pertaining to
municipal government.
The meetin.g was one of twelve
in the state sponsored jointly by
the North Carolina League of
Municipalities and the Association
of Count:* Commissioners.
The counties in the region, all
of which were represented among
the fifty-five in attendance, were
Wilkes, .\lexander, Ashe, Avery,
Caldwell, Iredell. M'atauga, Sur
ry, Yadkin and Alleghany.
Mayor R. T. .McNi«l welcomed
the visiting officials with appro
priate remarks and Mayor Wil
liam E. Tate, of I.enoir. presided
over the meeting.
Various matters, including use
of highway funds, proposed re-
liiement fund for officials, tax
revenue fields and other subjects
wore discussed, the views of the
organizations throughout the
state to he ultimately included
in recommendations to the next
general assembly.
Following the meeting local of
ficials were hosts to those at
tending at a supper served at
the Woman’s Clubhouse by the
North Wilkesbtoro Woman’s club.
The meeting was described as
very stict^essful and municipal
‘ tlth the at-
Veterans Foreign
Wars Unit To Be
OrganizedMonday
Meeting Of Veterans Called
To Be Held At City Hall
On Monday Night
iHHiis Hill ,renkins, son of
•Mr. anti ,4lr ■. E. .leiikhi.s,
won first place in a inoilel air
plane 'Oiilest l)et,l ill this city
ami s|Hmsoi*eil by KaiiiU Sales
and .Service company. 3Iore
Ilian 12.5 lio.vs entered the con
test. S«-e news article elsewhere
ill tills iiewspai>er.
Baptist Pastors
Of Nine Counties
Northwestern Baptist Pas
tors Conference To* Meet
In North Wilkesboro
A W'ilkes unit of Veterans of
Foreign Wars will be organized
in a meeting to be held at the
city hall here on Monday night.
April 1, T;30 o’clock, according
10 an announcement here today.
V. L. Chandler, of Greensboro,
department commander, and B.
.\I. Crosby, national deputy chief
of staff, will be here to assi.st in
the organization, which is con
fined to veterans who had foreign
service in any war in wliicb ihe
United States participated. Veter
ans are asked to have tlieir dis
charges with them at the meet
ing.
Roarii^ River
To Get BuiMing
NYA Will Erect Two-Story
Structure For Home Eco
nomic Department
Work will begin on April 13
on construction of an education
al building as an addition to the
Roaring River school property,
Mrs. Lawrence Miller, NYA sup
ervisor in W’ilkes county, said to
day.
The building, a two-room frame
structure to be used to house the
home economics department of
the school, will be erected as a
NY.A project with the county fur
nishing the materials and the
federal government bearing cost
of labor, supervision and tools.
S. T. Walsh will be foreman
for the project and 30 boys will
get employment and training on
the building. The project speci
fies that the building must be
completed by July 1.
The Northwestern Baptist Pas
tors’ Conference, composed of
Baptist ministers in nine coun
ties, will meet at Reins-Sturdi-
vant chapel in this city on Mon
day, April 1. an announcement to
day by Rev. Eugene Olive, secre
tary. said.
On February 8 the conference
was formed with about all the 13
associations represented. It was
decided that quarterly meetings
be held and that the conference
would not supplant or interfere
witli any existing organization,
most of which hold meetings
monthly.
The day’s program will open
at ten o’clock with devotional by
Rev. R. R. Crater, of Ronda.
Rev. Eph W’hi.senhunt, of Elkin,
temporary chairman, will talk on
“Who Are We.’’ Rev. W. T.
Whittington, of W’est Jefferson,
will have as his subject “Prepar
ing For a Revival.’’ The conclud
ing address on the morning pro
gram will be by O. R. Mangum,
of Lenoir, whose subject will be
“The Terms of Discipleship.”
The afternoon session will be
gin at one o’clock with a talk by
Rev. J. C. Canipe. of Boone on
“The Pastor and the Boy In Our
Midst.” Next will be Mrs. Earl C.
James, of Elkin, regional W’. M.
U. president, who will have as a
subject “The Appeal of Our W’ora-
en.’’ An open forum on pastoral
problems and election of officers
will conclude the program.
’The counties in the conference
are W’ilkes, Yadkin, Surry, Alle
ghany, Ashe, Watauga, Avery,
Caldwell and Alexander. All pas
tors in the conference are invited
to attend.
For County And
Precinct Meets
Precinct Meetings Will Be
Held On Saturday, April
13th, In Wilkes County
N. B. Smithey, chairman, and
R. Don Laws, secretary, of the
Wilkes County Republican Execu
tive Committee, today issued the
call for the W’ilkes County Repub
lican Convention to be held on
April 15 and the precinct meet
ings to he held on April 13.
At the precinct meetings the
precinct organizations will be per
fected and delegates will be
named to the county convention.
At the county convention a
chairman and secretary of the
county executive committee will
he elected and delegates will be
named to state, congressional, ju
dicial and senatorial conventions.
The call as issued by Chairman
Smithey and Secretary Laws is as
follows:
“Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, as chairman of the
W’ilkes County Republican Execu
tive Committee, hereby calls a
convention of the Wilkes County
Republicans to be held in Wilkes
boro, N. C., at the courthouse on
April 15, 1940, at 10 o’clock, a.
m. The purpose of said conven
tion being to elect a chairman and
secretary of the Wilkes County
• Republican Executive Committee
to" the
State. Congressional, Judicial and
Senatorial Conventions, to elect
two members of the State E.xecu-
tlve Committee and to transact
such other and further business
as may properly come bfefore the
said convention.
“A meeting of the voters of the
various precincts in Wilkes coun
ty is hereby called to meet on
April 13, 1940, at 1 o’clock p.
m.. at their regular voting places
except in North Wilkesboro the
meeting will be held at the City
Hall, and in Wilkesboro No. 1
the meeting will be held in the
court room. The purpose of said
meetings is to elect delegates to
attend the County Convention
heretofore called and to elect
members of the County Executive
Committee and precinct commit
tees, and for the purpose of or
ganizing the precinct in accord
ance with the plan of organiza
tion, and for such other business
as may properly come before the
meeting.’’-
FIVE GENERATIONS
James K. Jennings of Pores Knob, Wilkes county, celebraUd his
88th birthday Monday, March 18, and Oene LoyaU Brock, the fifth
generation shown in the above picture was three years old ElMter
Sunday. Other members of this Tive-generation family shoTO above
are, Jennings' daughter, Mrs. Gertie £31edge of North Wilkesboro,
seated ibeside him. Standing behind Jennings is his granddaughter,
Mrs. Carl A. Jackson of Fort Bragg and the fourth generation is
represented by Mrs. Julius Brock of Pores Knob, who is holding her
three-year-old son. (Photo through courtesy Wineton-SaJem Journal.)
Judge Walter Siler, ambassa
dor without portfolio for Horton,
paid a courtesy call at Maxwell
headquarters In the Sir Walter
Hotel one day this week. He look
ed over the very attractive steno
graphic personnel and with his
most Chesterfieldian manner said
“You folks sure know how to
pick them.’’ “Are you talking a-
bout candidates?’’ fired hack one
of the staff. 'The judge grinned,
"Well,” be said, "I was talking
about these girls.’’
Saturday Deadline
AAA Applications
Applications For 1939 Pay
ment Void Unless Signed
Before Saturday Noon
will
work.
Election Laws
Course Is Held Cricket School
Chairman State Board Elec
tions Meets With County
Board On Tuesday
A group meeting of county
boards of elections and Demo
cratic chairmen of executive com
mittees was held Tuesday in the
county courthouse in Statesville.
Similar meetings have been held
in various other counties In the
state. ,
Attorney Hugh Mitchell, chair
man of the Iredell board of elec
tions, presided over the meeting
and acted as master of cere
monies. He called on Mayor Gar
land Shelton who welco^med the
visitors to Statesville. Short wel
coming addresses were also made
by Carl Smith, chairman of the
Iredell county Democratic com
mittee. George Emory, president
of the Statesville Kiwanls club,
and John Lewis, on behalf of the
Statesville Lions club. The re
sponse to the addresses of wel
come was given by Attorney Ira
Lawrence Miller, clerk of the T. Johnston, of Ashe county.
Triple A organization In Wilkes, Mr. Mitchell then Introduced R.
today called attention to the fact Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia, chalr-
that all applications for payment
for compliance with the 1939 imiicc, wuu -
program will be void unless sign- wanted clean elections In North games scheduled are at
ed by Saturday of this week. Carollna.Mr.Cherry told the Dem- April her.
There yet remain a tew appli- oc'ratlc election board members
cations which hare not
signed and those farmers
V.,.,....,. North Wilkesboro high school
man of the state executive com- opens the baseball season at Tay-
mlttee, who stated that his party lorsvllle Friday, April 5th. Other
scheduled are at Boone,
9th; Boone here, April
12th; at Galax, April 15; Galax
been that this reform under way only here, April 19; Tnylorsville here.
meant that all would have to April 2^3.
lose payment for last year’s' com- double their party enthusiasm
pliance unless the applications and work harder to get the Dem- In practice, due to the severe
are signed before noon Saturday, ocratlc voters registered and vot- weather, but . should get ^Into
when the office closes Us week’s ed. He Said there was no need to shape In time for the .opraing
(Continued on page tire)
License Plates Non^r ProjecU
Sales Far Akead Are Carried Out
Of Sales In 1939 By NYA Workers
Three-Quarter Price Will Go
Into Effect On Satur
day, March 30
Sale of automobile and truck
license plates here are 650 ahead
of the number sold to the cor
responding date in 1939. J. C.
McDlarmld, manager of
North Wilkesboro branch of the
Carolina Motor Club and license
bureau, said today.
He also said that the
fourths price for license for ve
hicles not used on the highways
this year will go into effect on
Saturday, March 30.
Approximately 50 North Wil
kesboro motor vehicle owners
have so far failed to purchase
city tags, according to records in
tlie license bureau, and the police
department has been ordered to
make arrests of persons who have
failed to buy their city tags tor
motor vehicles.
Election Board
Makes Dedrion
In Meeting Here
PuhAic Meeting To Diecaan
DiTukm Townships To Be
Held Monday Nig^t
Wilkes county board.of elec
tions In meeting yesterday eve
ning ordered a new regtetratloa
for all precincts in WllkM coun
ty.
Changes made In the election
laws by the last legislature made
It mandatory that county boarda
of elections either order traaa-
Bcriptlon of the registration books
prior to the primary this y|S)f or
call for a complete new reglstld*
tlon of voters.
The board, composed of B. P-
Inscore, chairman, J. C. OrayBOn,
secretary, and C. C. Staley, also
discussed the advisability of di
viding townships with a large
number o f voters, especially
North Wilkesboro, Into two pre
cincts.
After discussion the board set
Monday, April 1, as the date for
a public meeting, at which all
citizens of the county who are
interested In the proposal to di
vide large precincts might appear
before the board and express
their views.
The meeting will be held la
the North Wilkesboro city hall,
beginning at seven p. m.
Board members also explained
that changes in voting places
for any precincts may be taken
up at the meeting.
According to the date set by
law, registration books will b*
opened at all polling places on
ApriU '27. The primary this year
will be held on May 25.
Model Home For Girls In
Home Making Project
Wilkesboro Completed
Needs Buildup
A special meeting of the Par
ent-Teacher Association and all
other patrons of the school who
may be Interested In a new build
ing has been called to be held at
Cricket schoolhouse on Friday
night, 7:30 o’clock. Ralph L. Be-
shears, principal, said today.
Efforts to obtain a new build
ing for thi school, one of the
largest elementai’y units of the
county system, have been under
way for some time. The six-teach
er school Is now housed in a di
lapidated frame building which
is badly crowded.
Mr. Beshears said that the
members of the county board of
education and the county com-
ml.Ysloners have been invited and
are expected to attend the meet
ing Friday night.
First High School
Baseball Game 5th
The team has been hampered
A model home for the girls' of
the National Youth Administra
tion home making project in
I Wilkes county has been prepared
jjjg’and will he put into use April 1.
Located on the outskirts of
Wilkesboro, the hou.se has a liv-
, ing room, bedroom, kitchen and
three- l>t®akfast room. It has just 'been
painted and remodeled, and
placed in readiness for the va
rious uses the girls w'lll make of
it.
The home making project of
the NYA of Wilkes has 24 girls
on the roil. The project includes
the making of clothing for the
county home of Wilkes, the tuber
culosis hut and the welfare de
partment and for distribution to
the needy families of the county.
In addition to this work and the
keeping of the model house, the
project also includes the bottom
ing of chairs belonging to the
county.
Mrs. Maude 'Miller, in charge of
the Wilkes NYA announced today
that there were four other pro
jects than the home making pro
ject.
The lunchroom project, which
has 26 workers, is operated at
Boomer school. The group pre
pares and serves about 1,500
meals each month. They do this,
Mrs. Miller said, without direct
supervision.
Another project, which employs
30, is the woodworking shop.
This project is providing well-
made and needed furniture for
the schoolrooms of the various
county schools. This project Is
sponsored by the board of educa
tion. Workers are engaged in
making desks, chairs, filing cabi
nets, library and primary tables
and other pieces of needed equip
ment which are being installed In
the place of used furniture or
placed in schools as extra needed
pieces.
A clerical project has 28 on the
role, workers engaged In various
duties In county, city and state
government offices.
The last project is the repair
and improvement work, with 25
working. These workers are en
gaged in working on educational
buildlngB, the project b*-lng spon
sored by the Woard of education.
The crew do general repair work,
paint, put In floors, ceilings, etc.
game.
High School Girls’
Chorus In Contest
North 'Wilkesboro high school
girls’ chorus will participate in
the District Music Contest to be
held at Boone Friday, March 29.
The girls will enter the girls’
chorus, the trio, and soprano solo
events. Members of the club, un
der the direction of .Miss Anne
Jones, with Miss Ellen Robinson
as accompanist, are Ruby Wanda
Pardue, Ruby V. Pardue, Edna
Absher, Edith Craven. Katherine
Finley, Sylvia Johnson, Mable
Johnson, Ruth Herman, Rosezell
Caudill, Gladys Templeton, Helen
Blankenship. Dare Bumgarner,
Annie Ruth Blankenship, Mildred
Stafford, Josephine Martin. Peggy
Nichols, Billie Barnes, Margaret
Rhodes, Ruth Wyatt, Lucile Cas
ey, Kathleen Hayes, Helen Wy
att. Katherine Brewer. Billy Rudd
Trogdoii, Dorothy Campl'ell, Jes
sie Foster. Jackie Frazier, Joyce
Brewer.
Woodrow Mathis
Funeral Is Held
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon at Cranberry
church for Woodrow Mathis, age
27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
Mathis, o t North Wilkesboro
route 3. He died Sunday night
while riding an an automobile
with Albert Combs, of StatesvUle.
and ’Taft Johnson, of North Wil
kesboro route 3.
The service was conducted by
Rev. L. T. Younger and burial
was in the church cemetery.
Surviving the young man are
his father and mother and the
following brothers and sisters;
Mrs. Era Lee Johnson. Mrs, Ora
Lee Johnson, and John Mathis,
of North Wilkesboro route 3;
Miss Mabel Mathis, of York. Pa.;
Hazel, Gwyn R.. Dean Noah Dan
iel, Frances Christine. Sallle Sus-
anne and James Shirley Mathis,
all of North Wilkesboro route 3.
Shell Banquet
Held Tuesday
Dealers Of Northwestern
North Carolina And Com
pany Officials Attend
One of the most delightful and
entertaining banquets or get-to
gether meetings held In the city
in quite awhile, was that given
by Rufus W. Colvarf, of West
Jefferson, agent for flhell ®ro-
Mr. J. P. McCartney, manager
of Uie local J. C. Penney Co.otore,. ■ - .. ,
ante In Wlnstm-Salem on tisinew(ducts In four adjoining cowtl«%
todgy. . i I-