716 Are Eli^ble
To Cast Vote In
Election!
Voting Will Take Place At
CaU Hotel Building On
Main Street i
VOTE ON 16-CENT LEVY
Status of School In Balance;!
Much Interest In Elec- |
tion Result
I
Voters of North Wilkesboro
will march to the polls tomorrow
In a special election to vote on
the proposed 16-cent levy to sup
plement state funds for the op-
■'eratlon of schools in the North
Wilkesboro city administrative
unit.
Seven-hund cd and sixteen per- j
sons are eligible to cast a bal- j
lot, It Is learned from Jack i
Bnme, registrar. A new regis
tration was ordered tor this elec- |
tlon and only those whose names I
were placed on the books during I
the registration period are en-1
FULL FACULTY ELECTED!
R. G. Vannoy Is Chairman of |
Board; J. C. Whittingtmi i
Is Secretary j
; R. V. Day. of Ronda, was i
I elected principal of Millers Creek |
I high school to succeed S. B.:
! Smithey at a meeting of the Mil- |
' lers Creek school board Saturday |
I afternoon. Mr. Day was a mem
ber of the faculty of Wilkesboro |
high school last year and was j
I re-elected last week. i
The central school committee |
I at Millers Creek is composed of i
R. G. Vannoy, chairman, J. C. i
Whittington, secretary, L. L. '
i McNeill, Spainhour Whittington
land J. F. Caudill.
, „ , , _ . J • • J. T. 1. . r I The entire faculty for the com-
President Roosevelt and Recovery Administrator Hugh o. Johnson |
Indianapolis Manjls Found Gidty
Heard At Meetingj In Second
Labor Union Here ‘
Jim Bradford Speaks of Or
ganization of Many La
bor Unions
BECK IS ALSO HEARD
Indianapolis,
Jim Bradford, of
Ind., a representative of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, addressed
eltled to vote. , demonstrated exactly what they meant about teamwork in their,.Saturday. The complete list
The voting will take place atlaunching of the National Recovery Administration program and
the CaU Hotel building where j now watching with much satisfaction as one after another industrial njgj, gehool
the general election was held in division adopt codes and start operation. Photo shows the president: , r. v. Day, principal; Hight
November., The entrance Is on j of jjr jirg. jjugj, g. Johnson on his re-J Dodson, science and athletics;
ing year was elected at the meet-
Main street.
With their ballots, voters of |
the city will determine whether
the state school standard will be
supplemented or whether the |
schools will be operated in the 1
aame manner as the rural schools, j
Much interest has been shown |
covery address.
Brushy Mountain Association Will
Meet At Mt. Zion Church August 25
Tom W. Hayes, English and
French; Mrs. Fred Gaither, Eng
lish and history; M. F. Bumgar
ner, history and mathematics.
Elementary
Ralph Davis, sixth and sev
enth; Mrs. G. E. Vannoy, fifth;
iMiss Wilhelmina Trlplett, fourth;
In the election thus tar and in-. Splendid Progi-am Is .Announced By J. L. Hemphill, Modern-i jj,gg pannig McNeill, third; Mrs.
dicatio-js are that a large vote toi% and J. F. Jordan, Clerk; .A.ssociation Will Be In Ses- | d. c. Whittington, second; Mts.
will be cast. I sion Two Days^ Friday and Saturday, Aug, 25-26 -- Florence Thompson, first.
The polls will open and close: I
The Brushy Mountain Baptist aiice and Law Enforcement, TI.
lit keeping with the laws for the
conduct of the regular elections
and otherwise the same regula
tions for the conduct of elections
will apply.
'McNeill Reunion
McNeill Clan Gathers At
Of A. B. .McNeill
Home
A reunion of the immediate
family of A. B. McNeill was held ,
at the McNeill home on the Boone
Trail, two miles west of the city
Sunday.
Among those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNeill and
son, Ralph, of Washington. I). C..
Mr. and Mrs. Press Inscore and
Children, of Windy Gap; Mr. and!
Mrs. Felix McNeill and children. I
of Charlotte: Mr. and Mrs. Ru
fus Church and Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Williams, of near this city. i
and Mr. Roger Bare, of Wagoner,
Ashe county.
Association will meet at Mt. Ziois
Baptist church Friday and Sat
urday, August 25-26. J. L.
Hemphill, moderator, and J. P.
Jordan, clerk of treasurer, an
nounced Friday.
A full program, together with
a notation by the association of
ficers. was released. The splen
did program, which has been ar
ranged, follows:
KViday Morning, .Aug. ‘2^
Song service and devotional
exercises led by W. O. Barnett.
11 a. m. liitroductorv sermon,
by Rev. A. J. Foster.
12 M. Recess for one hour and
dinner.
1 p. m. Organization, and vi.s-
itiiy; associations and brethern
recognized.
1:30 p. ra. Report on Tempsr-
G. Foster. i
2 p. m. Mills Home, Rev. W. |
C. Meadows. |
2:30 p. m. Co-operative Pro-1
gramme, Rev. Eugene Olive. i
3:15 p. m. Religious Lltera-1
ture, Rev. Avery Church. ;
3:45 p. m. Miscellaneous. i
4 p. m. Song and adjournment. ■
New Stock Series
Opened By B.&L.
Chicago’s combined Irish AL. , iu vt _j.v
liances held their annual beauty ^bout 400 members of the North
contest amid the beautiful fiow- Wilkesboro union at the armory
ers at the World Fair horticul
tural exhibit . . . and there se
lected Miss Mae Murphy as
“Queen” lor 1933.
Thursday evening.
Mr. Bradford declared that the
labor movement had made much
progfress in recent weeks and told
RAfarAA Ta organization of unions at
•wClCICC 1 U IICmI iDrexel, Morganton, Marion, Hick-
day Afternoon After Be
ing Out 4 Hours
5’-
Slayer of Grayson: ConleiNd
To Shooting On the
TRIAL LASTED
Witness Stand
Bankruptcy Cases
Here August 23rd
Glenn Walsh, of Summit, slay
er of Policeman James R. Gray
son, was sentenced by Judge T.
B. Ihlnley to 30 >.ears in the itatw
pen Just before Wilkes Superior
court adjourned for the. noon
recess today. - . - •
The maximum sentence was
imposed  under the verdict ren
dered by an Avery county Jnrg
Saturday afternoon. ’ -
The case was given to the Jury
Saturday morning about 10
o’clock following Judge Finley’s
charge. The verdict of second de
gree murder was returned after
bonrs of deliberation.
L. C. McKaughan To Conduct '30“ cents'for' The confession of Walsh and
Three Hearings; Finley ten-hour day during the past tbe plea of sellndefense were
Matter Is One three years, the local union work- high lights of the long trial
told. Mr. Bradford' which began Tuesday morning.
;0ry, Newton, Conover, Statesville,
Lenoir, Galax, Va., Bassett, Va.,
Sumter S. C., and other furniture
manufacturing centers in the
south.
Some manufacturers have actu-
i
BE HELD AT COURTHOUSE Sumter, S*”c., m oneTf'thMe; last*®* for ‘lay®-
A special meeting of the credi-,places. Labor must organize to: Selection of the Jury required
tors of Judge T. B. Finley, bank- prevent a return of these condi-1 one
day, two and a half day*
tions, Mr. Bradford declared. ' were required for the evidence
mpt, will be held in the federal | va., has the largest'and one'day, not including the
courtroom at Wilkesboro, Au- this section of the south !“lBht session, was required for
gust 23, at 11 a. m., it was an- with 5,000 organized carpenters and | the arguments and the charge to
Is Open Until First of Sep
tember; Big Profits So
Fai- This Year
nounced Saturday by L. C. Me- joiners, Lenoir has 3,260 members. |
The board of directors of
a. in.
Moss Blackburn
the jury.
Kaughan, referee. T),e North Wilkesboro union now | Walsh On Stand
At this meeting the creditors has approximately 600 members, | The sensational feature of the
will consider the petition of the |Libert S. Beck, representative of | case was removed Thursday aftr-
j Bank of North Wilke.sboro the brotherhood in this territory, i ernoon when the defendant took
the j a.galnst the trustees of the bank-'g^id. -'•^ithe stand in his own behalf and
, I rupt, in which the petitioner , jjr. Beck, who is NRA member i confessed that he shot Grayson,
'seeks authority to sell 55 shares ifgr the labor movement in this: Walsh testified that he wa*
Loan association at their regular Carplina Mort-'gtate, addressed the local workmen | drinking heavily and that he re-
-i.;_ iir.j i„„ de-jgage Indemnity Company, 18 jxbursday '.(vqning and declared | membered being in North WIl-
! cided to open the forty-third series! shares of the Turner-White Cof-;that it was the patriotic duty ofikesboro, but could recollect Ut-
iof stock as of August 12. ! G" Company, 13 shares of For-'every working man to co-operate I tie of what transpired. His mind
it wasi®y*-b Furniture Company, 5 3 with the government in the nation-
share.s of Deposit and Savings ;al industeial recovery program.
The charter of the local union is
Saturday Morning, .Aug. 26
9 a. m. Devotional, Mr. R. L. ' North Wilkesboro BuiMing
Wooten.
9:15 a. irf. State Missions, meeting Wednesday
Rev. A. J. Foster.
9:45 a. m. Home .Mi.ssions,
Rev. George Sebastian.
10:30 a. in. F'ereign Missions, | Following the meeting,
Mr. V. .McGhinnis. ^announced that anyone desiring to | shares of North Wil
11 a. in. Sunday school, Mr.'subscribe to this new stock I kpsboro Hotel Company stock.
'may do so any time before Sep-, ^ mortgage executed by the
bankrupt. Testimony of Mrs. W.
(Contiiiiied on page, four)
expected within a few days, Mr.
Beck said. Until the charter is
closed, members will be received
flashed on at the time he met
Grayson and he said he thought
his life was in danger and that
he fired Ir self-defense.
The prisoner was put through
a gruelling cross examinatloji.
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i
Ice Cream Supper
Merchants Of City To Meet At
City Hall On Thursday Evening
tember 1
“The directors feel, one dirMtor| McElwee, intervener to the'for only $3.15, the organization | but the main points of his evl-
stated, “that it is an oppo ne i g]gg be heard, as having reduced the charter fee and! dence were unshaken.
time for the new series to be
! will a petition for counsel fees.
WUl
Be Given Friday Evening I
By Baptist liadies
Ladies of the Wilkesboro Bap
tist church will give an Ice
cream supper on the courthouse
lawn In Wilkesboro Friday eve-
^ag, beginning about 8 o'clock.
-Along with the ice cream sup-
NRA Stamps To Be
! Issued August 15
Local Postoffice To Have Supply,
To Advertise Recovery
Program
Fair
Send Representatives
Here For Meeting
MEETING AT 8 O’CLOCK
The national recovery program
per, there will be an open air will be further advertised through
concert and entertainment ga- ^be medium of .stamps, R- E. Wal-
will he used '
lore. The proceeds wm ue useu Wilkesboro postmaster,
for the benefit of the church and | . . , , . , u
Se public is cordially invited to |Was advised last week by the postal
attend. department.
Stamps bearing the insignia
Merchants of the city will meet
at the city hall here Thursday
evening for the purpose of or
ganizing the Wilkes county unit
of the North Carolina Fair Tax
Association which was organized
a tew days ago in Greensboro.
J. Paul Leonard, of Statesville,
the petition of ’S^te
Planters Bank and Trust Com-
in which release of certain
started because the whole country, creditors of F. D. Mea
ls coming out of tte depression m
such a fine way and ! o’clock on the same day at the
,they are cooperating with Pres^ ]
Tax Association To (dent Roosevelt m stertmg a
series at this time.’ | “
! The association has paid $8,-1
493.73 to its installment share-:
,j .1. m #nii r\ov/4' realty holdings tli6 bftiiKropt
holders this year. To its full paidi,_
stockholders, the association has
paid $6,779.76 since January 1.,
Total profits to stockholders,]
therefor^, amount to $16,273.49. Hearing alsd will be
The association, it is learned, has
made mortgage loans amounting to
$80,400.00 and stock loans of $8,-
345.00 during the seven-months
jperiod.
same day in the interest of con-
is sought in error that the trus
tees under the mortgage may
Hearing also will be held In
the matter of J. G. Hackett,
bankrupt, on the same date, for
I the pnirpose of coasiderlng the
! bid of $4,100 for certain real
I property owned by Hackett. The
executive secretary of the new! in addition to the profits and' hearings were set for the
!the blue eagle, |o be known as the j representatives will attend
of I state group, and possibly other Ijoans made, the association has
'Attorney Luke- Grayson, of ^
Mountain City, Tenn., was among ; ftp' u - ! address the merchants
attending the trial of Glenn |NRA emergency stamp, will be is-
I sued on August 15. e **®^|ganized for the expressed pur
j stamp, which is to be of the three- | pogg gf fighting the general sales Itime during the financial cricis has
cent denomination, will be furnish-; |tbe association been embarrassed
led the local poatoffice immediate! j merchants of the city are ]or unSble to take care of any de-
those
' -kt^alsh in Superior court at Wil
kesboro last week.
and .paid back to installment stockhold
ess the sum of $56,471.00 and to
full paid stockholders $14,000.00,
or a total of $70,471.00. At no
! venience to the referee and Inter-
! ested parties.
hree-months dues rate during the! Witnesses were placed on tho
present organization drive. | stand to show that Walsh had
I been drinking heavily during the
Repeal Vote Date Set ■ j gix months prior to the Shootlng-
tbat
Denver, Aug. 11-—Colorado was i
and that he was drinking
definitely aligned today with the
states voting this year on rati
fication of repeal of the 18th
amendment when Governor John
son signed the bill passed by an
extraordinary session of the gen
eral assembly setting the special
election date September 12, The i
measure provides for a constitu- j
tional convention September 26 to i
record the vote of the election. 1
Legion Auxiliary To Meet
A meeting of the local unit of
the American Legion Auxiliary
will be held at the Legion-Auxil
iary Club House tonight at •
O’clock. Officers of the unit are
day.
Just before the evidence was
completed, the state put Rnfe
Parker on the stand in an effort
to prove premeditation. He testi
fied that Grayson and a man had
had some trouble at the fair
grounds last fall and that the
man had stated that he would
get even with Grayson. Ho said
the man was Glenn Walsb. How
ever, the defense connSered with
two witnesses who dedsred that
Parker had told them this waa
not the same Glenn Walsh and
It was brought out thai thorn
were three or four men by the
’I
■.I':
PARKER BOLKS
CONNG SUNDAY
Boone Trail Motor
Co. Now Agent
For Pontiac Eight
especially anxious that all mem- |
hers attend.
(Continued on page four)
Former PaStot* WiB DeKver
ion At Local Meth -
odist Church
lly after they are issued. 1 invited to attend the meeting,'mands upon it, an official stated! A..inmnKiiea Ni»w On Dia-
I Post office officials here have 1c. E. Jenkins, prom- last week. 1 At Moter f^rpa^'s
; placed an order for a large supply, jnent local merchant, who has j The percentage of profits so far 1 ** ^ g|,ow Rooms Here
been in commiinicaiion with Mr. this year is approximately 7 peri .
Leonard. cent. j Aimouncement has just been
The purpose of the association! The stock series now open is not|,]]Q(]0 of the appointment of the
will be explal’ued and other de- limited to those residing in North goone Trail Motor company, of
Bev. Parker Holmes, a former
^tor of North Wilkesboso
thodist church, will deliver
^rmon at the local church
iay morning at 11 o’clock.
t«T. Mr. Holmes w-as one of the
[ders In butldi ig the present
'r«S ami Is remembered by
^ny of the older citizens of the
Ity.
Another feature of the Sunday
morning service will he a solo
by MIm Bert Holman, of Wilkes^
will eon-
John R. Jones To
Speak At Boomer
Wilkes Now Has
- No Dry Officer
. bOTO.^ Miss Lois Scroggs
dlKt the mpsic.
Solicitor Will Be Heard Sun
day At the Boomer Bap
tist Church
I tails concerning the organization jWilkesboro, but may be subscribed ^thig city, as a new dealer for the
I made clear at the meeting, it is to by any person in Wilkes county pontiac Economy Straight Eight.
R. E. PrWette and J. R. Bram
. don Are Indefinitely
Furloughed
HACKErr.HEADS
REPEAL FORCES
Veetran Democratic Leader
To T.ead F%ht For Amend
ment Repeid
: announced.
'or elsewhere.
Solicitor
deliver an
John R. Jones
address on law
Ransom Money List Issued
I Oklahoma, City, .Aug. 11.—J. E-
will [Hoover, chief of the federal bureau
Wins Unusual Record
and-of investigation, yesterday sent to I from San Diego, Milo G.
Los Angeles. Aug. 11—Hanging
head downward in a 126-mile flight.eral Motors products, Buick
r • — - • »
Appointment of the local firm as
Pontiac dialer gives the Boone
Trail Motor company the agency
for two of the most popular Gen-
and
order at Boomer Baptist church jOklahoma City banks a list of jham, '30-year-old’head of a Long
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. 1 serial number? of $199,620 in fed- Beach a'viation school, yesterday
Bruc-i Pontiac. The local firm has been
dealer for Buick for many years.
The solicitor will speak under eral rwerve notes paid "as ransom
the auspices of the township W. Ifn kidnaping.?.’’ How much of this
C. A. unit and the public Is cor- j sum was iiaid for- the release of
dially Invited to hear him. Charies F. Urschel, Oklahoma City
the
Ur. Janes is vioe chairman of
Wilke* Citlien* Asaoclation.
oil millionaire, was a matter for
CMiJectace.
esuiblished a new world record for
upside down flying. He had pinc-
tieed for the feat by “sitting” in
am was in the air one hour,
minates
m
The Pontiac straight eight is
now on display at the Boone Trail,
Motor company show rooms on “A”
street. The paUie is invited toi
For the first time since the
Eighteenth Amendment was rati
fied, WilkM county is without a
federal prohibition officeri In
definite furlonghs were given R.
B. Prevette and J. R. Brandon;
who were stationed here daring
July, last week. '
The furlough amounts to " a
pwmanent dlscontiauaiice o
their connection with
partment.
J. Gordon Hackett, veteran
Democratic leader of
has been selected to head ^ the
forces seeking reiieal
Eighteenth Amendment,
been announced.
The local man.: has been chosen
I
to lead the repeal fight in WiygM
wUl%ei
the ,.de-
and an active campaign
_ waged; It Is understood.
f$Sr-The repeal eleettou, will'
held November 7. .^w to
time, both antl-repeadar* a*4
^ inverted'kitchen chair. Burch-'Viait the show room. »nd 1st the’ Only four dry agent. %
.14. ulesmea exulsm its snlenifid femj located In this dlstrlot. It Ista »ttw Wd ter WUke*
salesmen explain its spleniM fea*
tare*.
located
learned.
a atam
vete. '