THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Volume 59.
FARMERS TO MEET j
AT DANBURY
Will Discuss Agricultural Out
look For North Carolina and
Especially Stokes County
For This Year District
Farm Agents Coming.
I A meeting is to be held in
I the court house at Danbury for
I the purpose of discussing the
■ agricultural outlook for North
V Carolina and for Stokes county
I in particular.
r The meeting will be held at
10 o'clock A. M., Friday, Jan.
to 22nd.
~ District Agents Mrs. Cornelia
. Morris, Mrs. Margaret M. Bar-
ber and Mr. O. F. McCrary
will lead in the discussion of
"Farm and Farm Home" prob
lems.
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The discussions will concern
a Live-at-Home program for
Stokes county during 1932.
It is requested that there be
a full attendance in ordier that
as many as possible may get
the ideas advanced by these
experienced agents.
I
Parent-Teacher
Meeting At Cove
Walnut Cove, Jan. 13.—The'
first meeting of the Parent-
Teacher association for the|
year was held Tuesday evening,!
• Jan. 12th, in the High School
auditorium, with the president,
L H. R. McPherson. in the chair.
America was sung as an open
ing song, after which Mr. Mc-
Pherson read the scripture les
son. and Rev. Fitzgerald led in
prayer.
The following program was
given:
Recitation: "It Can Be
Done." Joe Helsabeck.
Dramatization of a story, by
four sth grade boys.
Music was furnished by the
Toy Orchestra, and included,
"Home. Sweet Home," "Whip
porwill." and "Ginglebells."
The speaker of the evening,
| Dr. C. J. Helsabeck, gave some
helpful suggestions on diet of
the school child. School days
are very active ones and care
should be taken that the child
has plenty of good food and
refresh air, he said. Oatmeal
with cream was suggested as
the best cereal. Milk, especial
ly ly for the undernourished child.
MfeaJ; such as steaks, mutton,
fresh "fish, eggs, green vege
tables and custards were some
of the foods recommended.
Meals should be served attrac
tively and not eaten in too
great haste.
t Miss Claudia Neal. secretary,
read the minutes of the last
meeting.
Mr. McPherson suggested a
debate for the February meet
s ing. Mrs. Anne Carter and Mr.
Hinshaw were appointed to ar
range for this.
Mrs. Carter, chairman of
Ways and Means, made a plea
for the Ranting of more shrub
* bery about the school grounds.
She spoke of having # an old
Established 1872. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1932
WILL WE GET
FEDERAL MONEY?
Millions In Federal Treasury
For Roads In North Carolina
But It Must Be Matched By
State Under Present Act.
According to our Representa
tive Frank Hancock there is
now in the Federal treasury be
tween five and six million doll
ars coming to North Carolina
for road building, but under
the present act of Congress it
must be matched by State,
funds, dollar for dollar.
Governor Gardner has an- j
nounced that there will be no
mere money spent out of th-?
State treasuy at present for
road building, so we can't get
the Federal aid without a
change in the law.
Mr. Hancock proposes that
Congress change the act so that
the States can get the Federal
road funds without putting up
an equal amount, in considera
tion of the unemployment situ
ation.
Congressman Hancock will
likely introduce a bill soon to
allow the States to spend their
money without hvaing to match
it, In order to give employment
to some of those who are out of
a job.
FINANCE BILL
SOON TO BE LAW
Two Billion Dollars Will Be
Placed Into Business By U.
S. Gavernment lnsolvent
Banks To Be Included.
Washington, Jan. 20.—Out of
a two-day conference of House
and Senate fiscal experts theri
emerged tonight in definite and
carefully considered form the
mightiest peace-time financial
institution ever reared.
Called the "Reconstruction
Finance Corporation," this
giant $2,000,000,000 govern
ment credit agency is to pour
its billions in loans into electric
as well as steam railways, into
exporting agencies, agriculture
and a long list of financial in
stitutions, including insolvent
banks.
S. Gilmer Sparger
Is Made Chairman
Attorney S. Gilmer Sparger,
progressive young attorney" at
Danbury, was recently named
chairman for Stokes county in
connection with the Democratic
victory fund. Mr. Sparger was
named by Hon. C. L. Shuping.
of Greensboro, who is chairman
of the work.
Mr. Sparger, it is learned,
is being strongly urged to make
the race for the State Senate
in the fall to represent Stokes
and Surry counties in the next
Legislature.
' time spelling match at which
would be charged.
Plans for this were left with
I
her committee.
MARRIAGE OCCURS
AT KING SUNDAY
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Hauser Brcs. Lease Store Build
ing Now Occupied By Ben
nett Bros.—Several Births
Recorded.
King, Jan. 20.—Mr. and Mrs.
Wilburn Newsum, of Winston-
Salem. spent Sunday with rela
tives here.
Mrs. Leo Nail has returned
to her home in Winston-Salem
after spending a few days with
her mother, Mrs. W. I. Rumley.
Nume Tuttle and Van Tuttle.
of Walnut Cove and Pine Hall
respectively, were among the
visitors here Sunday.
Several people from here at- 1
tended a stockholders meeting
of the J. G. Fl.vnt Tobacco Co.
at Winston-Salem Saturday.
Simple New, of Durham, is
spending a few days with hi.s
brother T. B. New. who resides
here.
The following births were
registered here last week: To
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Kiser. a
son; to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas
Briggs, a son; to Mr. 1
and Mrs. Wilburn Baker, a
daughter, and to Mr. and Mrs. i
Julius Helsabeck a son.
Preston Ferguson, prominent;
planter of the Haw Pond sec- j
tion, was her e Saturday look-:
ins after some business mat-,
ters.
The Hauser Bros. Co. have
leased the Bennett Mercantile
Co.. two story brick building
on East Main street and will
move their stock of groceries
from their present location on
Depot street to the new stand.
They will do both a wholesale
and retail business. Their in
creasing business made b t
necessary to have larger quar
ters. The contract calls for
possession March 15th. It is
understood that the Bennett
Mercantile Co. will put on a
sale and close out their stock |
of merchandise which is a verv
large one.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Tuttle i
and Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn
Shuse. of Rural Hall, spent
Sunday with relatives here.
Coy D. Slate. Jr., and Miss
Ined Kiser. both of King,
were quietly married here Sun
day. Only a few of the near
relatives and friends were pres
ent at the ceremony, which
performed at the home of the
bride's uncle. John Smith. Rev.
Romie Adams, of East Bend,
officiated. The bride is a grad
uate nurse of the Martin Me
morial Hospital, Mt. Airy, and
the groom is a promising young
man of King.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Caudle,
Edwin Caudle and Miss Flossie
Caudle. of Winston-Salem,
spent Sunday with relatives
here.
LEAF TOBACCO HAS
POOR AVERAGE
For More Than Thirty-Eight
Millions Sold On Winston-
Salem Market Average Price
Has Been Only $6.92 Per
Hundred.
The Winston-Salem tobacco
' market Up to last Saturday had
J sold 38.334,000 pounds of leaf
and the average price had been
up to that time $6.92 per hun
dred pounds.
For the past week the sales
amounted to 3,124,000 pounds
and the average price was only
$4.81 per hundred pounds.
It is expected by the ware
housemen that prices will re
main about the same and thac
more than one-fourth of the
crop is yet to be sold.
Most of us try to put off
everything except a good time.
HARRY TILLEY
SHOT AND KILLED
Emmett Hooker In Stokes Jail, :
Charged With Crime—Hear- j
ing Set For Thursday At 1
Walnut Cove.
Emmett Hooker shot and
almost instantly killed Harry :
Tilley two miles south of Wal- i
Cove Thursday evening about j
4 o'clock. Hooker escaped, but I
later surrendered to Sheriff J- 1
John Taylor, and is now in jail
at Danbury.
The hemicide was the result .
of whiskey troubles between!;
the two men. who were doubt- j:
! less engaged in the illicit traf- i 1
fie. Sheriff J. John Taylor and .
deputies Bert Smith and Mack 1
Wall, who arrived on the scene I
shortly after the homicide, I
found a copper still and five !
gallons of liquor near the house. I
which had been occupied by .
both Hooker and Tilley. Tilley j
had married a sister of Hook- !
er. He was aged 32, and is ;
survived by his wife and 3 chil- .
dren. Hooker is also married,
with a wife and one child-
It is said there was only one
witness to the killing, viz.,
Hooker's wife. A revolver was
used, the ball passing entirely
through Tilley's body, near his'
heart.
It is learned that Hooker will :
be given a preliminary hearing
at Walnut Cove on Thursday of \
this week. ;
WILL OPPOSE MORE !
TOBACCO TAX ]
Plan Before Congress Would
Place One-Sixth More Tax Oil j
Leaf and Manufactured Ar
ticles. j
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Washington, Jan. 20. A \
combined effort on the part of
tobacco growers and tobacco j
manufacturers t 0 prevent any 11
increase of the federal tax on J
tobacco products will be made |,
before the House Ways and ,
Means committee Friday, when ,
it begins consideration of the ;
proposed plan t 0 increase the
present rates one-sixth.
The Ways and Means com
mittee is now holding open
hearings preparatory to writ
ing a new tax bill which will
aid in balancing the federal
budget now burdened with a
two billion-dollar deficit. Secre
tary of Treasury Mellon has
recommended that the tobacco
tax be increased one-sixth over
the prevailing rate.
Bucket Fell On
Boy In Well
J
King, Jan. 20.—Alvin White,
while digging a well at the
home of his fathe v . R. C. White,
on Forest Grove avenue, had
a narrow escape Tuesday when
one of the handles or; the wind
lass slipped and let a bucket
fall in the well, a depth of 21
feet, striking Mr. White on the
head and shoulders. Fortun
ately he was not seriously hurt.
TWELVE COUPLES
GET LICENSES!
North Carolina Boys and Girls
Continue To Go To Virginia
To Buy Marriage Papers.
Recently out of fourteen
couples who secured license to
marry at Martinsville. Va., only
two of them were from Vir
ginia, the other twelve couples
being North Carolinians.
The name of th e North Car
olina coupleh are as folows:
Dolly H. Southern, 22. and
Minnie Eatn, 22- both of Ger
manton; Claudie F. Templeman
21, and Sallie M. Shumaker. 21.
both of Kernersville; Roy C.
Joyce, 22, and Annie Beeson
both of Kernersville; Virgil
Smith. 23. and Nina Priddy, 21
both of Walnut Cove; William
11. Hodge. 21. and Sudie X.
Shaffer. 24, both of Mayodan;
Arnold L. Styers. 21, and Lillie
L. Pegram, 24, ooth of Winston-
Saem: Frank Johnston, 21,
and Mary Seats, 23. both of
Advance.
PREDICTS WAR
WITH
General William Mitchell Thinks '
We Are Going To Fight—
Japs Not Afraid Of Our
Navy. i
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New York, Jan. 20.—War be- j
tween Japan and the United,
States i declared inevitable by !
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General Mitchell, former com
mander ol' the A. E. F. Air
Forces, in an article in tlu
current issue of Liberty.
I
lie said the war would bt j
for commercial supremacy i'i!
Asia and "for Japan's very ex-,
istence." Already, he wrote,!
Japan is preparing for such i
hostilities.
Discussing such a war from j
the standpoints of strategy and \
preparedness, he says:
"Japan is in no way afraid :
of our naval power. Any Unit
ed States fleet setting out to!
operate against Japan would'
be attacked from the time it
left Honolulu by air forces at
the Ladrone Islands and sup
ported by submarines.
"What she is in deadly fear
of is our air forces. She offers
an ideal target for air opera
tions. It would be entirely
practical to attack her by air
from Hawaii, and she can be
attacked directly by air from
Alaska, the key point of the
whole Pacific.
"The Japanese know these
things, but they reason that
just at this time our vacillating
foreign policy makes us impo
tent in the Pacific. The Japan
ese air forces at this time are
superior to that of the United
States, with its few paltry ser
vice airplanes that are poorly
organized and poorly armed."
Avery county farmers recent
ly sold 4.000 pounds of onions
and 5,000 bushels of I dish po
tatoes to the Soldiers Home in
Johnson City. Tennessee.
Number 3,709
! STATE WANTS
ITS MONEY
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New Treasurer Calls On About
Fifty Counties To l'ay Hack
Borrowed Money For
Schools.
About fifty counties in North
Carolina owe the St..'.*e $702.-
000.00 borrowed money used
for building school houses.
Now, the new State Treasurer
John P. Graham, says this
money must be paid back at
once, as the State needs its
cash.
While Forsyth county has
paid its full indebtedness.
Stokes county owes a balance of
59.690.00. and it is noted that
the poorer counties have failed
to pay back while the wealthier
counties have met their obliga
tion.
State Treasurer Stedman,' .' n
a letter to the chairman of the
board of county commissioners
in each county an:! to each
county superintendent, calls at
tion to the fact that the law
give the state treasurer the
power to deduct from the
amount due any county for
' school purposes the amount
! due the state from the county
and if necessary to seize any
or all money collected for
! school purposes in the countv.
I
i until this indebtedness is paid.
[He tells the county officials that
!of course he does not want t j
j exercise his power and does
.
not want lo mterlere in any
h •" with the schools in the
county, but insists that ar
i rangements must be made at
j once to pay this past due nion
!ey back to the state treasury,
iso that the state in turn can
j meet its obligations.
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KING CITIZEN
| PASSES AWAY
: Sanders F. Slate Dies After
Long Illness With Heart Af*
' fection—Aged 75 Years.
Sanders F. Slate, one of
King's oldest citizens, passed
away Wednesday night after
an extended illness with heart
trouble.
The deceased is survived by
five children, having been mar
ried twice. By the first wife
there were four children, Mrs.
W. H. Hauser, Miss Hattie
Slate and Coy D. Slate, of King,
and Mrs. R. F. Bondurant, of
Guilford College. The only
child by the second wife is Mrs.
I Nathaniel Spainhour, of King
| Funeral services will be held
at the home Friday afternoon,
conducted by the pastor of the
Baptist church. Rev. Adams,
of East Bend, and also by Rev.
R. A. Helsabeck.
Tobacco Sales On
Winston Market
During the past few days
■ since Monday tobacco sales on
i the Winston-Salem market
■ have been light, prices ranging
i between 4 and 5 dollars per
|hundred.