iO. 11
raUkdied Monday® «Md C., THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1934
iII'! ifr ]j:'.:ifr':-'■■■ T
■:^ijpur
Sr Fills TO
SIP"
:^Hy and County Boards Vote To
IBrooksiure i
srtyChosen i
^ Its iocationi
Marion Comes Back
Meetinf ol Boards Held
-' MMday Afternoon la |
City Han :
KBSOLUTHHfS PASSED
$100,000 Tin B» Sought of
CWA To" Hrbvida Labor
For the Project
The morteent to secure •«
airport for Noitli Wllkeoboro and
^Okaa eonntr made considerable
.proRToaa Monday ■when the board
•of dty commissioners and- the
., hoard of county commissioners in
a Joint session at the city hall
7 voted to Jointly acquire a loca-
’ tlon tar the proposed Clrll Works
^ Administration project
All members ot the county
' hoard, N. B. Smlthey. chairman,
C. C. Hayes and M. P. AbOher.
were present for the meeting. J.
C. Reins, mayor pro tom, I. B.
Pearson and Ralph Duncan,
menahers of the city board, at
tended- Mayor J. A. Rousseau
and Commissioner S. V. Tomlln-
eon were out ot the dty.
The board selected the proper
ty of D. J. Brookshire and the
Parker heirs as the location ot
the proposed airport and author
ised Mr. Smlthey ard Mr. Reins! Bids
to negotiate a lease lor sixty j face on
days with the owners. The select
ed site Is located near the Inter
section ot Highway No. 60 and
the Hunting Creek-Statesvllle
road about three miles east of
Wllkesboro.
Representatives ot the boards
•- were also authorised to obtain an
option to lease the 185-acre tract
owned by Mr. Brookshire at an
annual rental of $480 for five
years and an option to purchase
the property for $8,000 at the
expiration of the lease.
A resolution was passed to Hie
application with the aeronautics
branoy ot the Civil Works Ad
ministration tor the sum ot
1100,000 lor the project,
of this would be paid
labor.
It has been pointed out that
an airport project would not at-
lect the CWA quota tor other
j Auto Near Hay^
Here Slated For
Eaiiy Erectron'
Treasury Departmoit Has Al
ready Taken Steps Toward
Erecting Bnflding
LAMBETH URGES ACTION
Government Already Owns
Site; To Be Locate On
“C” Street
Marion Talley, Kansas farm'
girl who at 17 stormed into
grand opera ranks, now 27, made
a comeback from retirement on
New Year Eve as soprano with
the Chicago Grand Opera Com
pany.
Bids Received
For Surface On
H^hwayNo.l8
The new post office building
for North Wllkesboro, which was
authorized more than a year ago,
Is slated lor early construction,
according to information receiv
ed here.
The government already owns
a site here, the I'revette property
located on “C” Street between
Ninth and Tenth streets having
been purchased before the pub
lic works program in which It
was Included had been hatted by
the transfer of funds to the Civil
ian Conservation work.
Plans lor the building have al
ready been compIetejD and the
supervising architect of the treas-
The New Korit eimy • about
the birth ot a baby la an
aatmaobife, wfilsk Asaod-
ated Prwa of suf-
fimii l&iMrUmce ' f or its
wiresi^tas iidt^di«‘ba .WBkes
covmtf width wWi tbS hiwaa,1t>f
a doiflar evepi hMt wMc.
Mr. and Mif. HmwC Bteharil-
son, of Often, are the 'proud
parents ot m uiae-ponad son.
Jack, who was born in an auto
mobile in front ot the home of
Mr. and Mrsr-Jonah Myers at
Hays about wldWght last Wed
nesday night, ^ \
Bn route to the Wilkes Hos-
pltal, it was
and get Mrs. Mjdip, a midwife,
to accompany tin. lUdiardson
to the hospttnL^ Mrs.
Myers was bciai^'caWid," the
baby was bom. ’ ,
Both mother and baby
doing nicely at the home
Mr. and Bfrs. Myers.
Big Fire Loss Is
S^ered Tuesday
At Mipers Creek
Big Wibon Roller MSDs and
Store Biffldlag Are Bam-
r ed-To Groand
LOSS AROUND $15,000.00
Hundreds Gather There as
Structures Burn; Families
Made Hometess
are
of
(v.
■l
Eight Per
Dividend Is l^aid
ByD.&S.Bank
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed the Wilson roller mills
and an old store building .occu
pied by three families at Millers
Creek Tuesday evening, doing an
estimated damage of $15,000.
The fire was discovered in the
upper section of the four^tory
mill building about 6:45 o’clock
and although It had not gained
I much headway, fire fighters were
i hampered in their efforts to ex
tinguish it by the long flights of
I stairs up which they had to car-
|Ury department will advertise
Kiker and Young, of Reids-1 for bids at an early date. It is re-
villes Are Bidders; Is For 'ported. j All Old Officers Are Re-elect-
11.68 Miles j Several weeks ago It vas an-i ed; Two Members Added
omnT'o Krr mAfDDT * rMQ I $50,600 had been | Board Directors
STARTS AT FAIRPLAINS I gg^ aside for the erection of the:
building here, a reduction hav- BANK HAD GOOD YEAR
Ing been made from the orignal
allotment to conform to the
economy program whob has been
Inaugurated by the treasury de
partment.
A new post office will also be
erected at Plnehurst In the near
Pinehurst and North Wll-
for a bituminous sur-
11.68 miles of State
Highway No. 18, beginning at the
end of the concrete at Falrplains
and extending in the direction of
the Alleghany county line, were
opened Tuesday by the State
Highway Commission at Raleigh, j future
The bid was for $4S;»14 and | kesboro were the only towns In
was entered by Klker and Yount, I North Carolina to have post
of Reldsville. offices authorized by the public
I The bids are forwarded to w’orks administration.
the federal bureau of roads in
Washington for approval before
contracts are let.
Much
out for!
Vannetta To Be
Here Tomorrow
Congressman Walter Lambeth
has urged that the work be ex-
pidlted, according to a news
story In the Charlotte Observer
yesterday. Both of these post of
fices are located in his district.
State Master of Grange To
Speak To Pomona Grange
In Wilkesboro
A. S. Vannetta. of Orange
projects in any reject **‘^ ^^*^ .county, master of the North Car-
of an airport would | ■'i \,
em-
opproval
tuean that much additional
l^oyment for the county.
Many counties have taken ad
vantage of the opportunity pre-
Mitod bT the CWA and have, , . „
tfrelr projecu already under way. |
olina Grange, will address mem
bcrs of Wilkes Pomona Grange
[and their guests at a quarterly
[meeting of the organization In
[Wllkesboro school auditorium to-
o’clock.
open to the
Institute To Be
Held Wednesday
Rev. A. C. GiWw To Preside
Over District Meeting at
Local Church
.-.When the airport was discus^I
ad a few days ago, a committee
of C. T. Doughton,
N. B. smlthey. Ralph,
aposed
uan,
scan. A. B. Johnston and Carl j
toUoT, was named to take the
atter in hand and this commit-1
tee has been working tirelessly to j
aanplete all deUiU preliminary!
te^. pphiaission of the project
anthorlties at Washington.
Unless funds for this type
project have been exhausted,
to believed that approval will
ftven within a short time.
interested Is
cordially invited.
Officers of the Pomona Grange
F. C. Tomlinson Sees
New Pontiac-Eight Car
F. C. Forester At
F. C. Tomlinson, of the Boone
to Trail Motor company, local Pon-
!tiac and Buick dealers, attended
of j a Pontiac dealers meeting and
It pre-showing of the 1934 model
be I Pontiac at Charlotte Tuesday.
1 The new cars will be on display
here in the near future.
rv 1 aa .- Smith To Have Charge
OlL Dealers Meet Of Lions Club Meeting
of
P. C. Forester, prominent lo- j Dr. H. B. Smith, president
gasoline dealer, attended a, the Lions Club, will have charge
meeting of the state committee j of the regular dinner meeting
la Charlotte Tuesday. Mr. For-j program tonight at Hotel Wilkes
tmtot was accompanied on t^e at 7 o’clock. This will be the
t(ip by Mrs. Forester and their-first meeting of the year.
A Kingdom Ehttenslon for
churches In the Mt. Airy Metho
dist district will be held at North
Wllkesboro Methodist church
Wednesday, January 17, It was
learned late yesterday from Dr.
W. A. Jenkins.
Rev. A. C. Gibbs, presiding,
elder, will conduct the institute.
'The first session will begin at
10 a. m.
Churches from all over the
district are expected to be repre
sented.
Hold Bdiool In Tents
Berkeley, Calif., Jan. 8—Tents
housed 2,300 out of 12,700
Berkeley children upon their re
turn to school today, because a
number of structures .have been
found to hold possible menace in
case of earthquakes.
An eight per cent dividend was
declared by directors of the De
posit & Savings Bank at their
meeting following the annual
stockholders meeting Wednesday
afternoon last week. Cheeks have
already been mailed io stdBto
holders, Mr.
cashier, stated yesterday.
The bank had a very success
ful year, Mr. Doughton stated In
his annual report to the stock
holders. Since the banking holi
day in March, the bank has en
joyed a profitable business, the
report said. '
The stockholders re-elected the
old board of directors and added
two new members. The board as
now constituted Is composed of
W. C. Pearson, N. B. Smlthey, R.
L. Doughton, J. T. Prevette, C.
A. Lowe, George Forester, Ralph
Duncan and C. 0. McNeill.
All the. old officers were re
elected, these being as follows;
R. L. -Doughton, president; J. T.
Prevette, vice president; Ralph
Duncan, vice president; C. T.
Doughton, cashier; D. S. Hill, as
sistant cashier, and Miss Annie
Duncan, assistant cashier.
ry water in buckets. Their efforts
proved futile .18 one after another
were forced down by the smoke.
The old two-story store build
ing and garage and storage build
ings In close proximity to the mill
caught fire as the mill building
was eaten up by the flames and
immediately became a roaring In
ferno.
Hundreds of people living In
the Millers Creek community and
even from this city rushed to the
scene after seeing the flames
shoot Into the sky or word of the
fire was received, bat had to
stand helplessly by as the build
ings were destroyed.
, 'Wiree famlligs were made
homeless by the' destruction of
Enduiaace Qiuspions
Above, Mrs. Frances Marsalis
and Miss Heleu Richey, below,
are the two women flyers wtho
established a new endurance
flight record at by remain
ing in the air more than 8 days,
5 hours and 5 minutes.
Heariiq[WiIIBe
Held on Railway
Application Soon
ExaMner Davis To Condact
Hearing At Winston-Sa
lem Jannary 19
WHICKER IS ATTORNEY
A hearing on the application
the old store building owned by|of the Wilkes 4k Western Rail*
J. W. Nichols, but all ot them
managed to save their household
furnishings and personal effects.
Warned of the danger as soon as
it was learned that the mill could
not be saved, the famillee imme
diately vacated the building and
began moving out their furni
ture. Living in the store building
at the time were the families of
way company for authority to
acquire the properties of the Wa
tauga and Yadkin River railroad
and to rehabilitate and operate
trains over the road will be held
in Winston-Salem on Friday,
January 19.
J. H. Whicker, attorney for
the local railway company, re-
_ celved noUce of the date of the
J®*? hearing from George B. McGlnty,
J. L. Parker Is
Taken By Death
Iredell McNeill and Ted McGlam-'
mery.
The roller mill was owned by
A. L. Wilson, formerly of Har
mony. Mr. Wilson was across the
highway at the service station of
Mr. Tom Nichols when the fire
secretary to the IntersUte Com
merce Commission, this week.
Examiner Davis will represent
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at the hearing and will
hear the facts in the case. The
hearing will be held in. the fed-
Vlrtoc Giri In
Beyond Donbt; Am*
A*
SoUdtor Jones To
InyeBttgatfcms latol
Death.
An autopsy psrtomed yester
day shed little light the
mysterious death of MW^'Oda
Childress, whose UfstssM; tody
was found on Decemher 80, la
the home of her fnnt-nTiifetrrntt.
Rou-
Mr. and Mrs. W, W-
BenOiam between Blkla"
da.
-Little Information Of Import-’
ance was obtai^ from^Jto ex-
amlnatloa mcee-^' to tjfaw the
eonrse of the ballet
the life of the 80-year-oM girl.
The .22 caliber bnllst penetratai
the heart and lodged the
skin on the back.
The examination established,
the girl’s virtue beyond W.dovht
and refuted the that.
Miss Childress might iiav^^iosi-
mltted suicide because- sa^ did
not wish to be the am
illegitimate ebiid. Dr. T.
Mitchell, who assisted Dr. A. J.
Eller, county health offiwr, and
Mrs. Bertha Bell, county ...health
nurse, stated poaittvely^last nidht
that the girl had not. been un
chaste.
Benham church cemet^y waa
the scene jof a large gatiiering
yesterday morning when the
body was exhumed. 'The autopsy
was performed, howesret> he^tM
locked doors inside the churoh.
Dr. Mitchell stated that the
course ot the ballet indicated
that the gun had bee^ hald at
right angles to the i>t*4y. l!%ere
were no powder bhnu oSf tha
body, although that would not
have been unnatural even In tha
cese of suicide In view of the
aipron, heavy dress and ths slip
worn by the girl at the time of
her death, Dr. Mitchell said.
Asked to express an opinion.
Dr. Mitchell, who was the only
member of those performing tha
autopsy that could be reached
by telephone last night, Aated
that evidence disclosed'^did' not
preclude the possibility of sui
cide.
Solicitor John R, J^nea
■
was discovered. His assistant, O. building at Winston-Salem
Prominent Merchant and
Farmer Dies At His Home
At Hunting Creek
New Baby Named ‘84’
.Espanola, Fla., Jan. 8.—^Mr.
and Mrs. Georgia Bowers today
christened their son, horn at B;09
a. m. on January 2, “Thirty
Four,” because he was the first
baby -bom here in 1934.
unghter,' Miss Lina Forester.
WAKE FOREST TO NOTE
ITS 100th ANNIVERSARY
■^'Wake Forest, Jan. 5.—The
inpth anniversary of the fonnd-
iuf of Wake Forest college will
bo otosrved In Wingate memorial
aafitorium here ’Tnesday evening,
Jaanary $0, President Thurman
D. Kitehin -has announced.
"The
P-T. A To Moot
-A-
jParent/TMCher Associ
ation will meet in the city school
cadltortum this afternoon at
2:46 o’clock. An addrsn by Dr.
H. HoNsfll .Fill feature the
f^etcnna. A meeting'of th« exeto-
eommittee^cjirill be held at
tiiti immediately pretoding the
Jtomi-Slila
of this city, wets ftol-
’jp^totofrrtelem Itosday.
Civic and Fraternal Leaders To
Meet Tomorrow on ‘Birthday Ball’
Mayor J. A. Rousseau received hall tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. At this time, the matter
a telegram yesterday afternoon
asking him to aid the national
committee In arranging for North
Wllkesboro and 'Wilkes county to
co-operate In the nation-wide
movement on behalf ot the
Warm Bprltags Foundation aad
give a charity ball on the eve
ning ot Jaanary 30, birthday of
Presldmit Roosevelt.
Immediately after receipt of
the telegram from Oolopel Hen
ry Ifc Doherty, of New York,
Jfajor Ronsseau announced that
to tod sailed a meeting ot nWei
dgtoUfrd fraternal lesAon of tto.'E^
kesboros and sarronsdlfl
munittos to be held at
’^corn-
will to taken under conalder-
atlon and arrangements mads to
give the ball provided it ii de-.
cided to sponsor .'the event.
The Warm Springs Foondatlon
is to he endowed as a national
center for Che development of
methods of treatment ot infantile
paralysis, an affliction which
President Roosevelt' suffered a
J. L. Parker, a member of a
well known Wilkes county fam
ily, was claimed by death at bis
home between Straw and Hunt
ing Creek Monday at 6 p. m. He
was 82 years of age and had
been in falling health for some
time.
Mr. Parker was a well known
Yarmer and merchant and was
highly esteemed in his commun
ity.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the home yesterday morn
ing at 10 o’clock by Rev. W. E.
Llnney, Baptist minister at Wil
kesboro. Interment was made at
Fishing Creek Arbor cemetery.
Surviving him are his wife,
Mrs. Nancy Parker, and the fol
lowing children: Harrison Pf
er, of Illinois; Richard Parker,
of Murphy; Lawson, ot Hunting
Creek; Virgil, of Lexington; Miss
Dora Parker and Mrs. E. L.
Brown, of Greensboro.
G. Sells, of Harmony, was oper
ating the mill at the time.
’The mill building, equipment
and stock had an estimated value
ot more than $13,000. U was re
ported that 7,000 pounds of
flour, 1,000 pounds each of meal,
I crushed corn and rye chop were
^ burned.
I Three gasoline engines, an old
. Model-T Ford and an old Essex
[touring car were burned in the
garage and storage annex to the
i old store building. The stdte
; building and annex together with
their contents that were destroy
ed had an estmated value of from
$1,500 to $2,000.
Only a small amount of Insur
ance was carried on the mill. It
is understood, with no Insurance
on the store building.
'The fire caused much excite
ment In the commnnity and hun
dreds gathered during the eve
ning.
J. c.
Grayson Accepts
Position At Forester’s
Mr.
J. C. Grayson has accepted
a position with Forester’s Nu-
Way Service Station. He will take
an of the, clerical work connect-
recovered to asoend .to the high
est office in the. nation.
Ihe puMie gansrally It Invited
to attend thb meeting tomerrow
moftttoj and leaAets et local civ
ic orguiiiations ore espedady
eitir: unsd to attend.
WILKESBORO P.-T. A
TO MEET ON FRIDAY
The regnhur monthly meeting
of WUkesboro Parent-Teacher
Association will bo held PVlday
altccnoon at 3:16 Instead ot
Thuriday afternoon. ’The change
few years ago and from which he’.^, upon because of a
conflict with
games today.
the
heskethaU
Mrs. W. V. Will
dty, is spending a fe
her tsthe^ Mr. Lowe
T&tmcA.
ed with the badness.
.
at 10 a. m.
Approval of the application by
Elxaminer Davis will he one of
the final details In connection
with the plans of the local com
pany to rebuild the roau to
Darby.
con
ducted a second coroner’nr hear
ing yesterday afternpon the
home of Mr. and Mrs. 'miey, bat
little light was shed ut)on tha
tragedy. Coroner Stephen A.
Rash, of Millers Creek, and the
coroner’s jury heard the evi
dence.
Olive W31 Give
Kiwanis Program
He WiB Announce Sponsors of
2;^ Programs For flie Next
Several Weeks
Rev. Eugene Olive, whose ap
pointment as program chairman
of the Kiwanis Club by the club
president, R. Q. Finley, last Fri
day, will have charge of the
club’s luncheon program tomor
row.
Daring the program tomor
row, Rev. Mr. QUve will an
nounce program sponsors tor the
next several weekd.
New ofticeniaC Che dnh were
installed last Friday.
he^did not^
Mr. Press Horapton,
Gap, was a busing vtoitor In the
city a short while yesterday.
In 1933, Vital Statistic Reveal
North Wllkesboro had 117
births and 47 deaths In 1982, ao-.
cording to IMomotlen Jnst r«-
iMsed by W. A. Bnllls, rsgtotror
of vital statistics. TBs number
of blrtha include mna still bixtha.
Mr. Snilts pointed oat Umt the
number of the deaths included
m an y out-of-town residents
utboss dsotha wers rai^ktored
hsre. toeonss death oceuxtod In
rity, . , ,
eanim of; 4aaRL*a.,u|;
Pneumonia
Heart dlseassa
NsQihritis
Poratoals
Peritonitis
{ratwrealooto
Meningltla
Ulcer of stomach
Colitis
Coroner Rash said
believe that the girl cotoOiltted
Buleide.
The bearing was continued un- -
til January 24 wben.iu.t^kAT io-
formatlon will be given the jury *
if additional evidence is obtained.
W. A. Shulenbergerr 'Jr., of'
Charlotte, bronght here as a.
handwriting expert. saM kls''re
port on specimsfS of ItoAiirrit-
ing, including toe note
to have been left by the^glrl,
stated that the note was not writ
ten by Andrew Smoot, suspected' ;
suitor of the girl. Smoot is held
in the county Jail at WUkstooro
In connection with the JJJMng. .
W. M. Pardae, of WitifeUboro,
who attempted to oWnin _ fInger-^i i
prints that might lead to [^ntioa.
of the crime, si^d those bis woa
able to’obtain of
Smoot. Several ptojilsJ^M^sd
the gun found near thd.^|gwund
[for this reason, no ftege^rinto
of Windy obtained from it
Solicitor Jonw
morning that the. CortSdSl^ j ' "
arrived at the cbnelosiou^U
girl did not wxlto lihe ni^-
tidd of robbers Invadiig"
toy home and at
her to give
hidden in the hfruil.’
The solicitor ho