• 4.
. 17.^ ■
ittiourfior Place.. Must
tSMt.To WaAbigtOD
To That Date
iy,'NoTember 21. is the'
i 4s*6 for ttUng appilcaUons
North Wllkesboro post-
»MP.
«.ead6r#tood that a number
have already sent
ff^Bpilcatlons, but there
bo leak as to the prob-
i^polatee.
'**®*acy created by the
ation of Postmaster R. E.
is expected to be filled
the Christmas holidays.
iSd Cockiii#Kfte?R^«>r
AIDS DISTRESSED
IN 120.DISASTERS
_ 3=;:
Help In FloodSy Earti^uake,
Fires and Tornadoes hi
Year’s Record
t
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IV
y«> Hi«ii School Seniors
Are Held In Store Theft |
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TODAY and
TOMORROW
fiallsbury. Nov. 14. — Willie
®0*ah and Hovard Brown, mem- i
^®*a of the senior high school |
•Sum of Rural Hall, have been ar-1
d^in the robbery of a store -
!n Saturday night and i
j. “.■■♦tf Krldbr says each has con- ‘
nsased the crime.
" A pistol and a small amount ■
: "Were taken from the j
^I'dhK' as Mrs. W. M. Snidder, who
r UUi in (diarge of the store, was
on the boys, who were
a simall purchase. The
boy was arrested at his
Rural Hall last night; PRICES
, ed bond.
is In Rowan county Jail
in* the arranging of bond.
'a is quoted as saying they
(filed* the robbery Just to
the devil.”
natural course of things, a good
thing for consumers, since bet
ter prices for -• producers will
^ mean better prices for labor. But
' liexington, Nov. 13. — John j wages and salaries are lagging
l^fl^bven, 19, is under 31,000 bond j far behind the rise in prices,
•'artfaltlng a bearing in county j Everybody must look forward to j
-court here Wednesday on a a long period of hardship.
rs.
Gone, seeniinglv forever, are the oldtime bartenders with oited hair and
waxed mustadie. Instead, when repeal becomes effective, will be American
barmaids, a la' British system. Above is shown a class of girls being taught
the art of bartending and cocktail mixing at the Bartender's Institute in
Newr York.
I A friend of mine who owns a
big New York hotel told me the
j other day that General Machado,
I the former President of Cuba,
had applied to him for rooms by
j the year for himself and family;
I twenty people in all. including
up and going up I servants. My friend turned him
Prices are going up. That is j down because his other guests
certain. They are already up. so I would feel nervous, lest some
far as the ordinary necessities of I Cuban bomb-thrower might take
life are concerned. | u notion to get the General
A good thing for producers of | some night,
commodities. Eventually, lu the Most Latin-American ex-presi-
:A|(ed Merchant Again j
Robbed At Lexington
‘eharge of aiding and abetting in j i do not know why, but retail
the robbery of Eli Lopp, aged j prices in country towns have
■merchant, who was seized as he gone up much more than in the
; Marted to enter his home early
' - Attarday night and relieved of a
9Mketbook containing over |100.
i Jt''iras the second time within
. than six months that Mr.
big cities, at least in the East.
Bread that used to sell for 6
cents a loaf everywhere is now
eight cents in New York and
eleven cents in Berkshire Coun-
had been robbed. On thelty. Mass. Other food products are
t faffner occasion he was clubbed ! up in proportion.
^ ^ Xia t T# T V ki a
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the head when leaving his | if i knew the answer I would
•tore and a considerabie sum publish it. It seems to me that
taken.
Craven admits, according to | far enough or fast enough with
notice, that he had parked his i its public works program.
car for about five minutes valuations
front of the home of his aunt.
dents go to Pari.s to live when
they retire or are' forced out of
office. Machado’s predecessor.
General Menocal. has been liv
ing ill this country for many
years and has lately gone back
to Cuba, where he has friends
who would like to see him back
in the Palace. Judging by the
recent disclosures of the ainaz-
nig financial relations between
New York banks and Cuban pres
idents, the people of that unhap
py island seem to me to have
been mercilessly exploited for the
enrichment of their rulers and
their banking allies.
HELL .... Mary Ellon's advice
It takes a long memory to re
call the time when Mary Eliza-
i our Government has not moved | beth Lea.se of Medicine Lodge
was counselling the Kansas farm
ers to trade their cows for shot-
: (K)L1>
I Half of all the gold that has
across the street from the LoppL' ^ .v, cinno
V. . .V, K been dug out of the earth since
^me, about the^ime of the ro^j Columbus discovered America
has vanished, nobody knows
, , J 1 J • I where, according to the Director
he drove awa-. and also denies'
ker7. He declar^ however, that i]
li« was unaware of the incident,
tkat he ha.i a companion.
Craven came to the police .sta
tion and surrendered himself
when he heard he was being
■MOght, according to Chief R. C.
lanning. and later furnished
kond for his releaw. His prtv-
lons record is good, police state.
Join the Red Cross.
of the Mint, who has been com
piling statistics on the subject. .\
little more than a thousand mil
lion ounces has been mined in
the whole world in 410 years, or
about 'i 1-1 million ounces a
year. Only about half of the total
i.s held by national treasuries and
hanks. lot of it lies at the bot
tom of the sea. Probably a third
of the vanished gold is hoarded
among the treasures of some of
I The American Red Croee kaa
I reached into the homes of six mil-
{ lion famlllea in the past year with
unemployment and disaster relief,
I Cbalnnan John Barton Payne an*
' nouiiced.
j "As the year closed the organlza*
tlon continued in readlneae to serve
i in the forthcoming winter at the
^ point of greatest need and to ad-
j Just Its service to meet the calls of
1‘the emergency of unemployment and
j disaster,” Chairman Payne stated.
In a year .of greatest economlo
distress in the nation’s history. In
which the Red Cross ably discharged
a relief task in distributing flour and
clothing to distressed families in all
I but six of the nation’s 3,098 counties,
I the organization also was called into
action in 120 disasters, of which 96
were within the borders of the
United States.
Earthquake, floods, hurricanes,
fires and other cataclysms visited
death and destruction upon the lives
and homes of thousands of people.
Red Cross etatistlcs showed that in
the 120 dlsastere almost a thousand
lives were lost, 148,340 homee were '
destroyed or damaged, 13,276 per- |
sons were Injured, and Red Cross
relief was given to 452,879 individ
uals.
In giving aid in these disasters,
in Its unemployment relief and in
handling the distribution of govern
ment wheat and cotton, the Red
Cross expended from its national
treasury the sum of $1,070,284.
During one period of twelve
weeks, 46 disasters occurred in 23
states. Red Cross disaster workers
were hard pressed in meeting all of
these needs occurring at once, but
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ms
HADN’T YOU
HEARD? that’s
MRS. O’LEARY’S COW AND
^ WE’VE JUST HAD A FLASH
I THAT SHE HAS BEEN COM
PLETELY EXHONORATEOOP
THE Charges that she kick
ed OVER A LANTERN AND
\ STARTED THE CHICAGO'FIRE.
"Afc tbtfi fVe.’rf
> B y » 6% /
A 1
Strong Arm of the Law Reaches Down
bto WelLTo Rescue Man, Arrest Him
foot water, Keaton Jumped from
the ledge into the water again,
i Co'ming back witih a borrowed
I windlass, the officers finally
I brought Keaton to the surface
I and an'ested him on the warrant
Morganton, Nov. 14. The was unable to be hoisted to bhe violation of the prohi
everywhere misery was promptly re- i strong arm of the law pulled | top. Manney and Smith attempt-1 bitlon laws.
Ueved.
Support of the Red Cross work is
through its annual roll call, con
ducted by chapters in the period
from Armistice Day to Thanksgiv
ing Day, November 11 to November
30. Every citizen who Joins the Red
I Gray Keaton from the bottom of: ed to pull him up with the rope.
Cross as a member aids In carrying i company with G^'^od Smith and
relief to disaster victims and in •^‘^hn Mauney when they paused
other Red Cross services, such as ' Reside the well at Robey W^b s
preservation of life, child welfare I ^ome, near the golf course. They
through the Junior Red Cross, and I dared one another to go to the
direct service for the public health.
RED GROSS CLOTHES
THE NATION'S NEEDY
Flour, Bread, Clothing Reach
Into Moro Than Five
Million Homes
guns and begin to raise "less
corn and more hell!" .Mrs. Lease
and Kansas both leaped into na
tional fame. Everybody called
her “Mary Ellen,” though her
middle name was Elizabeth.
That was when Ihe Populists
were demanding direct election
of Senators, postal savings hank,
government control of railway.s.
Eederal supervision of corpora
tions. the initiative and referen
dum, the income tax. woman suf
frage, prohibition and free silver. i
iMrs. Lease died the other day.
but she had lived to see them all .
silver.! beginning eighteen months ago, the
I.u u..,. u*. --i-s, I Given preliminary hearing be-
a 42-foot well and then arrested but couldn’t. Before leaving the Magistrate J. H. Buckley
him on a warrant about three ■ scene, they dropped a five-gal-1 Monday morning, Keaton was
months old. | ion keg into the well. | bound to Superior court under
According to Deputy Sheriff) Deputy Sheriff Causey and Of-1 $200 bond.
Arthur Cansby, Keaton was in i fjegy Ernest Whlsnant arrived at'
the scene, and struggled about a
halfshour before inducing Kea
ton to cling to the rope while
they pulled nim out. Keaton is
bottom of the well, and Smith said to have held on until he
was the first to go down. He found a ledge about half-way up
made the trip without mishap. | the well’s side, and rested on It
Then came Keaton’s turn, for a few minutes. Upon dlscov-
W.hen he got to the bottom, the erlng it was the long arm of the
W. K. VanderbUt, Jr., Killed
Nov.
Ridgeland, S. C., Nov. 15.—
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.. 26.
son of a famous New York fam
ily, waa killed here today as his
autoniobnd, speeding from Mi
ami to New York, struck a park-
windlass failed to work, and he , law pulling him out of the seven- ! way.
ed fruit truck beside the hlgh-
latdies’ and .Misses’ Winter jjjg fabulously rich Indian pritic-
DfeMses, featuring newest style
es.
The greateet task ever undertaken
by a relief agency in the history of
private charity is drawing to a close
with the final distribution of cotton
clothing to more than five million
families by the American Red Cross.
At the direction of the Congress,
Let The Stokol
kreatments. unusually attractive. Gold is worth more in dollars
«Morted size- an.l colors, price ^l,an it has Impn since 1S7 3.
come about except free suvn,, ' , . , . .
, , , .... . , ,• , Red Cross undertook to convert the
and 1 have a distinct feeling that cminsea of the
wheat and cotton surpluses or me
if she had lived a few months |
longer she would have seen that
! too.
^1.48.—The kM>d»iH --ton-.
WANT ADS
FOR S.VLK—2 Jer-e> tow- —
Yadkin Valley Motor Co K'.rd
Dealers. 11 -1 Cif
WANTED — Dry. dean. -ifted.
Black Walnut Kernels Tne
Goodwill Store. 11-16
FOR RENT—-Apartment in A-
merican Legion Building; mod
em.. conveniences. — AMERI
CAN LEGION. 10-23-tf
The I'll it ed States has passeo
Canada and become the .second
largest producer of gold. South
.\frii-a rankin.g first. Yet with
more gold available than ever in
history, only France and three
or four smaller European coun
tries remain on the gold stand
ard of money.
This is my prediction. Every
nation will be off gold within a
few months. Then there will he
a gener.t world-wide readjust
ment of currency values on a new
gold ba.sis and the next gener
ation will have forgotten that
gold was ever as cheap as $21
an ounce.
Winter Hits North
With Howling Gale
Snow t overs Large Scefions ,\iid
TciiiiH-ratures Dro|> To and
Ik-low Zero
A howling onslaught of winter
weather with 40-mile-an-honr ^
winds in abundance put a half!
dozen boats in distres-s on the !
Great l.akcs, piled up snowdrifts j
on highways, and sent tempera
tures tumbling toward zero Tues-1
day. I
I
A frigid gale swooped down on
I Farm Board into food and clothing
for the unemployed and needy. In the
consequent operation, this relief
agency entered upon a commercial
enterprise greater than any single
commercial firm has ever under
taken in the same period of time.
In the ensuing montha the Red
Cross converted 85,000,000 bushels
of wheat into flour and bread and
gave it to 5,803,000 famlllea. The
distribution was through 3.700 Red
Cross chapters and hundreds of
other charitable agencies. During
the severe northwestern drought of
1931 the Red Cross also gave wheat
in the form of food for livestock to
184,188 families.
The clothing—dresses, underwear,
overalls, Jumpers, sweaters and
stockings for men, women and chil
dren, and even blankets and com-
' JTorters—was distributed to 6,465,410
Your Firing These
Cold Mornings
WANTED—Dry Black Walnuts
or kernels. Bring them in on
Tnesdliys, Thursdays, Satur
days. Highest prices paid.—
Wilkes Crepmery. ll-16-2t
the midwest from the Canadian g^ ^OO.OOO ready-
LAND a great teacher Arctic. Snow reached' a depth of ' made garments and 92,000,000 yards
midwest! of cotton cloth were given to the
was • This clothing came from 844,-
ment proposes to spend blllionB j cc, « u , OOObales of cotton,
in building homes for industriaL I*'* Inches deep-a^ .Afiiihei'st,'
mM
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The announcement from Wash- inches in several
THE STOKOL AUTOMATIC FIREMAN
Ington that the Federal Govern-1
and eastern states, and it
1
workers, each with Us acre or
Nova Scotia.
•H.,|
^ r-ABT/XATy i two of land to be tilled, takes' Several inches of-snow covered trlbutlon of cotton clothing Is ocenr-
me beck t® my, boyhood, when I Pennsylvania, and the total at | ring in the fall months.
The wheat distribution was con
cluded in June, 1933, and final dis
used
furniture just
not been advanced,
real furniture values.
, iWilkesboro, N. C.
either white or
■‘^cbl’ored, to do light house
4|i;Work. Will pay reasonable
J ■ wage. Apply to Mrs. Joel Min-
ton, North Wiikesboro.
~ t'; " * 11-16-lt-pd
used to hear mv mother sing a, Kane, Pa., reached 27 inches for | in handling these taeks voted to
song that was popular when she,8‘* days. West Virginia Panhan-j u by Congress, the Red Cross will
was a girl, before the Civil War. die likewise was under
The refrain wW:
Snowfall In western New
snow.
York
RENT—Six-room house on
■ ■ebirMer"of 7th and G streets.
\' Oarage, bam and other out-
^ tiiilaings. Rent reasonable.—
; Siw or write Mrs. L. A. Gudger.
I • North Wiikesboro.
11-16-lt-pd.
For Uncle Sam Is rich enough approached six inches with high
To give us all a’ farm.” winds causing a near blizzard.
Farming was the ideal mode) New York city had snow flur-
of life for most people in those J"'®* with temperatures at freez-
days, when young American men . ^“8-
and women cherished their inde-| Other reports from the “wint-
pendence above everything else. ®r z®"®": Michigan-two to eight
Nobody expected to get rich atil®®'!'®® snow, temperatures
farming, but it was a way to live j droP^nK sharply^ with prospects
one’s own life and bring up
WANTED for Rawleigh
Boutes of 800 families in Wil-
’keuboro. Counties of Wilkes,
H4C*14well, Surry. Reliable hus-
'^^sbonld sUrt earning $25
;l/{ and, Increase rapidly.
"Immediately. Rawlelgh
Dept. NC-14-S, RIefcinond,
Nov. 2 9 16 pd.
family comfortably and happy.
And there never was any ques
tion of how to spend leisure
time; there wasn’t any leisure!
of 10 above at Detroit and zero
at the Soo; Ohio—Snow to a
depth of six inches, 40 mile wind
off Lake Erie, air traffic re-
etricted and snow plows work-
The best characters and the |in one district; Wisconsin
most self-reliant strain in our
American life came oft that sort
of farm. I think it would be a
magnificent thing for our nation
al morale if every boy and girl
today had to live! and work on
the land for a few years, or part
of every.yfeaTi •
MACHADO
and oar beaks
Snow general with temperatures
falling toward zero; Minnesota
and the Dakotas—Light snow
with temperatures ranging Irom
four below to 15 above zero; Illi
nois—Temperature dropping to
ward zero and a new November
record, light snow.
Read Journal-Patriot Ads.
expend from its own treasury $735,-
000. At the same time the organiza
tion carried on Its regular program
of disaster relief; of service to the
veterans of all our wars; of educa
tional and lyelfare work through the
Junior Red Cross; of health educa
tion and public health,nursing and
of life saving and first aid. Funds
tor this work come from the mem
bership roll call the Red Cross chap
ters conduct from Amlstloe Day to
Thanksgiving Day, when every one
is invited to Join the Red Cross and
aid in this vital relief work.
No need to worry about making a fire in the furnace every morning when
the STOKOL Automatic Fireman will do the job even better.
The STOKOL Fireman will save you fuel—it feeds coal regularly—works
silently and automatically. NO FIRE-BANKING, NO SOOT, NO ASHES.
Let us tell you more about how the STOKOL operates, and show you how
much money it will save in fuel cost.
A SMALL DOWN PAYMENT WILL PLACE A STOKOL
IN YOUR HOME
II
Seven hundred thousand women
volunteers under the Red Cross ban
ner sewed for the needy last year
and many thousands still are mak
ing cotton garments for their Hed
Cross chapter!.
Mr. B. A. Ferguson, of Mora
vian Falls, was in the city c
Wilkes Plumbing
Works
Phone 203 NorthWilkesboro,NeC.
traiiness today.
St-