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PaWshed Mondays aad Thursdays
NORTH
, N. Cv MONDATv SEPT. 11, 1933
fl,t>0 IN THE STATE—IUO OOT OP THE
SI
R, Lmreme Will
Speak Here Thursday
Evening on the NRA
Anderson Begins
Work As Acting
Postmaster Here
;|No School Will
at
Hi Is Appointed To Job Un-
tU Permanent Man Can
Be Assigned
President of Union
Labor Federation
Appearance Here Will Be Un
der Auspices of Local
NRA Committee
.'ii.
TO SPEAK AT 7:30 P. M.
Everybody Is Extended Invi
tation To Hear Speaker
.3*,^.—On This Occasion
Twin City Man Is T Bride Changes Mind
HE IS NOT CANDIDATE
—rw— —w- — ——- — — r
J. H. Armbrast apd (Hhers Present
DaC^Sa]^
■
Tick*** For Chfldren To Bi
Given Prindpato During
Thin Week 4
! Walker Succeeds Anderson As
I Police Chief Until Ander-
I son Returns
Rev.J.H.Annbrust [
Told of Death b
R, R. Lawrence, of /Winston-Sa
lem, president of the North Caro-
^^na State Federation of Labor,
will deliver an address on the NRA
movement at the North Wilkesboro
school auditorium Thursday eve-j
ning-, September 14, at 7'30 o’clock. |
The public is invited to hear Mr. I
Lawrence discuss the NRA pro
gram and business leaders are es-!
pecially extended an invitation, j
Mr- Lawrence ran for state com-1
missioner of labor in the primary j
in 1932 and is widely known. He
has been engaged in the printing
bofiness for many years.
The peopH wnll be greatly inter
ested to learn more regarding the
purposes and effects of the nation- I
al industrial recovery administra
tion and the auditorium is expect
ed to be filled to capacity for the
address.
James M. Anderson, chief of
police of North Wilkesboro for
the past two years, took up his
duties as acting postmaster at
!the North Wilkesboro office this
morning.
The appointment of Mr. An
derson as acting postmaster was
announced Thursday from the
office of the postmaster general
at Washington.
Mr. Andeison succeeds Captain
Sermon Last Nigbt
Minister Speaks To Congre
gation On “Sill's Last Mile”
At M. E. Churrch
IT IS GRAPHIC STORY
Rev. J. H. Armbrust, pastor of
North Wilkesboro Methodist
church who called upon Bryant
Stone at state prison last Thurs-
R. E. Walters who served as
Janet Snowden, heiress to oil
millirr.s, married a Prince after
a -two-weeks courtship. Five days
later she was living under her
own name again and is reported
as saying. “It was all a mistake.
I don’t love the Prince.’’
Robbers of Bank
At Taylorsville
Sentenced to Die
j postmaster for nearly five years.
Mr. Walters was allowed to serve
, for several mouths after his term
I had expired.
j The board of city commission-
! ers met Saturday morning and
' relieved Mr. Anderson of his du-
I ties as chief of police until such
time as a permanent postmaster
is named and he returns to the
service of the city.
John E. Walker, city patrol
I ir.an No. 1, was appointed acting
Convicted of First Degree
Murder In Alexander Su
perior Court
chief of police by the board. B.
J. Robinson was named to fill
the vacancy on the police force
during the absence of Chief An
derson.
GREENS STILL AT LARGE
Parents-T eachers
To Meet Thursday
Stevanoff and Black Will Die
In Electric Chair On
October 26
First Regular Meeting of the \ear
W^ill Be Held In the School
Auditorium
■ The North Wilk=>sboro Parent-
Teacher Association will hold its
first meeting of the school year
Thursday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock.!
The meeting will be held in the
school anditorium. i
An appropriate program is be-1
ing arranged and every parent and;
friend of the school is cordially in- |
vited to attend. I
Wilkesboro P.-T. A. To
Meet On September 21st
The Wilkesboro Parent-Teach
er Association will meet Septem
ber 21 Instead of the coming
Thursday, it was announced this
morning. Patrons of the school
are requested to take note of the
change in date of the meeting.
CANNON ASKS COURT
TO REVIEW HIS CASE
Washington, Sept. 8.—Bishop
James Cannon, Jr., and his sec
retary, Ada L. Burroughs, asked
the Supreme court today to re
view the decision of the District
6t Columbia court of appeals re-
' Wiping them to sUnd trial for
indictment charging violation
"Of the federal corrupt practices
•ct.
The federal government ob
tained their indictment alleging
they had failed to report certain
^ntrlbutions received in their
.campaign against former Gover-
®OT-Alfred E. Smith in 1928.
The District of Columbia Su
preme court held the indictment
detective, but the district court
of appeals reversed this decision
holding the Indictment good, and
equlrliig the defendants to stand
Taylorsville, Sept. 9.—R. E.
Black and Mike Steveiioff. charg
ed with shooting a bank cashier
to death during ar, attempted
bank robbery here July 29. were
convicted of first de.gree murder
by a Davie county jury late to
day.
Judge T. B. Finley sentenced
them to be electrocuted at state
prison. Raleigh, October 2 6. be
tween the hours of 10 a. m. and
3 p. m.
Both defendants received the
verdict with apparent calm in
the packed courthouse. Stevanoff
turned and kissed his niece, the
only relative who has been at his
side during the trial. Black’s mo
ther. Mrs. Mary E. Black, of
Blacksburg. S. C.. who. with oth
er relatives, has been with him
throughout the trial, was not in
the courtroom when the jury re
ported.
Davie County .lury
The jury, selected from a spe
cial venire from Davie county,
deliberated but little more than
two hours. The case was given it
I Mr. Anderson, a native of
; State.sville, came _to North Wil
kesboro ten years ago and for
several years was connected with
F. D. Forester and company, lo
cal wholesale firm. He was ap
pointed chief of police in June of
1931. He married a North M'll-
kesboro girl, Miss Kate Forester,
I daughter of Mrs. F. D. Forester.
I He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
I Geo. R. Anderson, of Statesville.
I Mr. Anderson stated in an In-
i terview this morning that he is
I not a candi-date for the perma-
I nent appointment and expects to
I return to his place as chief of
the police department when the
permanent postmaster is named,
possibly within 60 or 90 days.
W. I. Hall Passes
At Purlear Home
W. I. Hail, aged citizen of the
Purlear community, was claimed
1 by death early Wednes.1ay morn
ing. He was 90 years of age.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from Mt. Zion church Thurs
day morning at 11 o’clock.
Surviving Mr. Hall are four
children, Jim Hall and Cline
Hall, of Darby, Mrs. O. L. Pen
nell, of Purlear, and Mrs. Lottie
Welch, of North Wilkesboro.
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J. P. Mills Joins
Newspaper Stafi
Experienced Advertising Man
Now Associated With
Journal-Patriot
Speed Action on Loans
W'ashington, Sept. 10.—Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., governor of the
farm credit administration, said
today the federal land banks are
making au Intensive effort to act
quickly on the 154,379 applica-
11 o n s for loans aggregating
$714,157,000 on farm mortgages.
He said the force of appraisers
at the banks is being increased.
trial.
Grange Members
To Have Pici
[}nuid Occa.rion WUl Take
At Smlthey Hotel In
Wilkesboro
t J:
A picnic for all Grange mem-
ers win be given at the Smith-
y Hotel In Wllkeeboro Friday
September 15, at 7:30
*cl^, Mr. A. O. Hendren an-
ounced title morning.
“Every Orange member, past,
resent f>r prospective. Is invited
J come and bring a basket
iUed with eats," Mr. Hendren
(^ted.
-program has been arranged
o. r, .Bretholl and T. W.
Mr. J. P. Mills, of Statesville,
an experienced advertising man
and copy writer, has been added
to the staff of The Journal-Pa
triot and arrived last week to
enter upon his new work.
iMr. Mills has been engaged in
the advertising business for 20
years. Before going with the
Statesville Record at Statesville
two years ago, Mr. Mills was ad
vertising manager o f eleven
stores of Sears-Roebuck & com
pany.
He is a married man and Mrs.
Mills and their four children,
Margaret, Betty, Shirley .and Bar
bara, who are now at Statesville,
will move here within a few
days. Mr. and Mrs. Mills are
members of the Presbyterian
church.
The addition of Mr. Mills to
the Journal-Patriot staff gives
the newspaper an additionaj ex
perienced advertising man — who
able to devote his time to
the merchants and bus;;
men in preparing their ad*'
copy-.v . ‘
Bids On Wood For
Schools Requested
Bids Will Be Received From
September 15 to Septem
ber 23 At Noon
Contracts to supply wood for
the various schools of the coun
ty will be let in the near future.
County Superintendent C. B. Bl-
I ler stated Friday.
Bids will be received, begin
ning Friday, September 15, to
Saturday, September 23, at noon.
No bids will be considered unless
I they are filed at the board of
I education’s office prior to noon
■ of September 23, Mr. Eller said.
I The schools require several
hundred cords of wood each
winter and the usual arrange
ment is for some person in each
district to supply the necessary
amount under contract.
day at the request of the slay
er’s family and who remained
Friday to walk the “last mile”
with him at Stone’s request, told
the story of the electrocution of
the Wilkes man to a large con
gregation at the Methodist
church last night.
“I tell some of the intimate
details of my contact with the
doomed man with his authority,"
Rev. Mr. Armbrust stated. The
minister, however, omitted the
gruesome picture of the electro
cution.
“Do you still believe in capital
punishment?” Rev. Mr. Arm
brust said he had been asked
since his return from Raleigh.
“I do," he said was his reply.
Choosing for his subject, “Sin's
Last Mile.” the local minister
said last night he hhd thought i
the result of sin when Stone’ was
being marched to the death chair.
The consequences of violating
the laws of God and man were
foremost in his mind, he said,
when the electricity was turned
on to snap out the life of the
Wilkes man.
Mr. Armbrust quoted Stone as
saying that “liquor, the very
thing the people are clamoring
for now. brought me to this.” “If
I ha,’, never believed In prohibi
tion, if I had never believed in
temperance, if I had never be
lieved in the Eighteenth Amend
ment before I went to Raleigh
and talked with Stone and wit
nessed his electrocution, I would
do so now," the minister declar
ed. “How anyone can go to the
polls November 7 and vote to
bring back the thing which took
Stone to the chair is beyond my
comprehension,” he stated furth
er.
Rev. Mr. Armbrust explained
that it w-as not through idle cur
iosity that he saw Stone die. Only
at the request of the doomed man
and with the hope of carrying a
message home people of
Stone’s county did he go through
the ordeal.
Rev. Mr. Armbrust, who is
chairman of the Wilkes Citizens
Association, is expected to deliv
er the sermon he delivered last
night t o many congregations
throughout the county during the
anti-crime wave campaign now
in progress.
He Likes Hpo]^
Jy Is Returned
To Wiftes County;
Buried Saturday
Electrocution Had Few Nice
ties, Says Raleigh Corre
spondent In Press
have BIG ATTRACTIONS
Fair Officials Worttng Eerer. ^
Whly To Comply AH
Plans For Opentas j
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A school holiday on ¥aesday,
September 19, the opening day
FAMILY SAYS FAREWELL
John Wade Gordon, 21, of
Memphis, Tenn., was trying to
make his way to San Francisco.
. . . Near Petaluma an automo-
i bile approached and stopped to
' give Gordon a lilt. It was former
President Hoover, Gordon got
the lift, a nice dinner and, at
partinj, a crisp $100 bill.
Wilkes All-Stars
Triuiiiph Over
Watai^a Stars
Leslie Rhoades Hurles Bril
liant Game'.To Turn Back
Watauga Outfit
GAME PLAYED AT BOONE
I Home Runs By Billings and
I Winfield' Cooper Aid
Wilkes Leaguers
Flower Show On
Friday Evening
Methodist Auxiliary Will
Stage Show At Call Hotel;
To Serve Dinner
be
Shanghai, China, has kdd’syst^
matic plapa for re-building Chapa,
where fighting caused heavy
age about a year ago.
In addition to a flower show, the
ladies of the Methodist Missionary
auxiliary will serve a tempting
dinner on Friday evening, Septem
ber 15, from 5;30 to 7:30 p. m., in
the Call hotel buildmg- A delici
ous menu is being plann^, and
tickets at 50c will soon be on sale.
Following is a list of flowers to
be displayed, for which first and
second ribbon awards 'will be made:
Roses, one variety; roses, mix
ed.
Dahlias, one variety; daiilias,
mixed.
Basket mlx^ flowdrs and bowl
mixed flowers.
Displays of zinnias, marigolds,
cosmos.
Flowers may be displayed in
either baskets or bowls . and chief
among the points considered' will
be beauty of arrangement and
size and perfecthm of blosstmts.
The BiUe is printed in 623 lan-
‘guages and diaieeta. .
The Wilkes League All-Stars
defeated the Watauga League All-
Stars 9 to 4 Thursday afternoon in
the second of a three-game series
between the two teams. The game
was played on the Appalachian
State Teachers college Held at
Boone.
Playing brilliantly afield and
using their bats with telling effect
in sharp contrast to their first
ganie with the Wataugans a week
earlier, the Wilkes boys completely
outclassed their opponents.
An eight-run rally in the fourth
inning in w-hich Rob Billings and
Winfield Cooper crashed out home
runs drove Bingham, Watauga’s
starting pitcher from the hill. Bill
Lentz, who replaced Bingham aft
er the local team had scored four
runs, fared no better and before
three men were out, four more run
ners had crossed the plate.
Watauga started the scoring with
one run in the second and added
three more in the third. Two mis-
cues and four solid smashes gave
the Wataugans their four runs.
Rob Billings, first man up in the
fourth inning, started the scoring
for Wilkes with a home run over
the right field fence. Gwyn Coop
er singled and Winfield Cooper
sent another one of Bingham’s
slants over the right field wall.
Allie Hayes then tripled to the
gymnasium in left field and scor
ed when the left fielder threw wild
to third. That saw the end of
Bingham.
Before the rally could be halted,
however, four more runs had been
tallied.
The game then settled down to a
pitcher’s duel between Leriie
Raleigh, Sept. 8—Bryant Stone,
citizen of the Jungle, who was
eonceived In it, brought forth
and lived In It, met civilized
North Carolina’s application of
It in the electric chair today and
North Carolina bumped him off
exactly as he dispatched his son-
in-law, Wayne Norman, of
Wilkes county,
Norman died when Stone found
a crack In a smokehouse and
brought the kinsman down with
a well placed pot shot. He was a
crude killer, this man Bryant
Stone. The state went him one
better. It fixed up an easy chair
and sat him down in it. It blind
folded him and held him tied
with leather strops. It turned 2,-
300 volts Into his body. And then
North Carolina turned the body
over to neighbors who put it Into
a truck and sent It 180 miles to
be buried.
The Wilkes man was the big
gest fool who ever took the rap
here. The jungle blood would
show In his every- speech. He
killed the man who ran off with
his 15-year-old daughter and
married her. Unquestionably the
40-odd years of fierce hatred to-
w-ard men who overcome women,
broke into a primitive fury. He
assassinated his son-in-law, lied
about It months on months and
after confession of his crime
could not talk about It without
speech that reeked of this same
jungle. Appealing for mercy he
hissed the name of his daughter’s
husband and established beyond
an^ sort of doubt his absolute
guilt of deliberate and premedi
tated murder to which crime was
added the lying in wait and the
shot in the dark.
Not greatly worse than a score
of antecedents. Stone’s electrocu
tion had as few niceties about it
as any celebrated in these 24
years electrical displays. The at
mosphere was morbid.
Paul Yelverton, Raleigh under
taker, was out there today. He
had gathered up dead bodies for
20 odd years.'But when that old
humming dynamo this morning
took Stone’s life it was too much
for Mr. Yelverton and he fell in
a heap on the floor.
“Do you want to say anything.
Stone?” Warden Honeycutt ask
ed him, and the Wilkes farmer
shook his head. He then began to
chant almost in a whisper “Lord
have mercy on me. Lord have
mercy on me.” It became a litany
which his bound lips could utter
only with difficulty. In the mid
dle of the sentence Dr. Colpman
gave the sign and the supulchral
song ended.
In 10 more minutes Bryant
Stone was in the truck and going
back to Wilkes county. North
Carolina had beaten him at his
own game.
(Continued on back page)
(Continued on page five)
Deciding Game of Wilkes-Watauga
Series To Be Play^ Here Thursday
of the Great Wilkes Fair, was aa»
nounced Saturday by Prof. Chel-
sie B. Eller, superintendent of
the Wilkes county school system^
The holiday was declared, Mr.
Eller explained, in order to give
the school children an opporttMir
ity to take advantage of the priv
ilege extended them by the Great
Wilkes Fair Association to at-.y
tend without cost on this day.
No school in the county will
operate on this day, Mr. Eller
said. The superintendent said he
regretted that no county school
busses could be used in trans
porting the children to and from
the fairgrounds.
Tuesday was designated as
"School Children’s Day" by of
ficials of the Great Wilkes Fair
Association several days ago and
tickets for the children are now
ready for distribution to princi
pals of all the schools. W. A.
Rousseau, secretary of the asso
ciation, has the tickets at his of
fice In the D. & M. Blectric com
pany store on “C” street between^
Ninth and Tenth streets. Princi
pals are requested to furnish Mr.
Rousseau the number of chil
dren enrollsQ in their schools so
that the package. of tickets for
every school may be prepared.
Principals should call for the
tickets prior to Saturday eve
ning, September 16.
Mr. Rousseau Is also furnish--,
Ing a half-fare ride ticket for
each school student.
Many free acts and other at
tractions have been arranged and
officials of the association arc
working feverishly In an effort
to complete all details in connec
tion with the opening of the fair.
The fair will be in progress four
days, September 19-20-21-22.
Eight DroWn As House Is
Razed By Cloudburst
Fort Thompson, S. D., 8ept.
*10..^A 12-foot wall of water,
sent tumbling down a creek by a
cloudburst, swept eight persons
to death early today after ■rip
ping apart a small frame house
In which they were sleeping.’'^
’Two families were wiped out
as the surging torrent, resulting
from a 10-inch rainfall last
night, smashed the tlTree-room
bouse In Soldier creek without
warning at 3 a. m. Five bodies
have been recovered.
The victims, all Indians, were
Fred Lounner, janitor of a
school; Mrs. Lounner, anl their
four children and a couple named
Laplant from Rosebud in Todd
county. The children, three girls
and a boy, ranged in age from 2
to 16 years.
The five bodies were recovered
as soon as daylight permitted
search and word of the tragedy
spread. Foor were foond along
the creek bank, a short distance
from the homesite and the other
was taken from the Missouri riv
er at Chamberlain, - aboot 20
miles soiftli of here.
The bodies recovered were
those of Mrs. Loudner,' her five'
and 16-year-old daughters, seven-
year-old son, and that of Mrf^
The third and deciding game
between the Wilkes League All-
Stars and the Watauga League
AU-Stars will be played at the
fairgrounds here Thursday aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock.
With one game each to their
credit, the all-atar teams repre
senting the leagues in the two
counties are expected to furnish
a battle royal in the final game.
The game will be played be
fore what is expected to be the
largest crowd of the season.
Manager Willard Cole, presi
dent of the Wilkes Baseball
league, aimoaiieed this mendiig
that in all probabiiity the same
team which playdd so enecmfnl-
ly against-the Wataugans last
Thursday will compose the start
ing line-np.
The following players are ask
ed to report in uniform at the
playing field at 300 o’cloOk:
Carl Church, Gwyn Cooper and
Winfield Cooper, of Purlear;
Rob BaUngs, Coy Mlmgs,’Gil
bert Pardne and ftemiie Tro«t-
man, of North Wl&esboro; Lesr
lie Rhoades,' of Millers Creeks
Jimmie Henderson and Wayne
Rnthoford, of Wilkeoboco: Phil
Scroggs and Dayton Fergnson,
ai Morevian Fa&; Johnnie De-
bone and Gilbert Oabonw. ef
Grier Mills; HonowclFand
SNAKE TaLe
Mr. Fred Marlow and his son,
jLee, killed an unusnally Jaige rat-
J. T. Joyce, of the O. O. Oemp.
jtleanake on the mountain nears
thrir home at (Bireatit Sunday- The
reptile hi)d seven rattles and n
.'button, mSaanred. 40 inclm long
’’and was seven Inehse asdnhd'. at
one po&t. "TS
I Stndies of ceiin|n,.lf«iican eae-
tos plants an itlbig mimAt detft-
'mine whether.thrii liin jpsfgiljpB
^can be exploited cmmiMpeiBny.
4
Laplant. Search was continued
for ttose'of Lourner, Laplant and
a tw^year-old girl.
.It was feared the missing bo-:
dies were swept into the Mis-,^
sourl river, into which Soldier*
creek empties about half a mlle^
from Loudner. Residents down
stream as far as Yankton were ^
asked to be on the lookout.
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