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CXYm, NO. 24
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Published Mondhys and Thursdays
NOBTH WILKESBORO, N. C.,
THURSDAY, BIAR. 1, 1984
■L_. ■ : UiUM'-m
Vjl.oo IN THE OTATE—81JIO OUT OF THE 8TA1
■„..,ii,ie.' iV'i' r'' .nai'LJi II"
of
On
, iToPre-
Oiies Are
TO LASt t WEEKS
4^ Oooriitt Dock*
hninal Cases
Onljr Crtsinl
To Be Tried
Tke Mereh tern of Wilkes 8u-
Mior oo«rt tor tke trial of erim-
lael eons wUl mrene Mondar
ooBTene
nnHfelae. Jadee Wmon Warllck,
Moore,
Ifowtoa, arlU eome here from
Ta4ktBTilla 'to pnMde.
^ , The docket seems hopelessly
.erb'wded and there is little
ic^ tint it eatf ' be cleared
eren If the Eldrid^e and Chil
dress murder cases are not tried.
' *nie term is for two weeks.
Following is the calendar for
the term:
Monday, March 5tk
1. Glenn Church, Cost.
2. Edgar Johnson, Carl
Cost.
S. Fate St John, Cost.
4. Jud Neeves, Cost
5. Tedro Minton, Cost.
8. Sherman Jarvis, Cost.
8. Ace Byers, Cost.
9. Henry Frazier, Co.st.
10. 0. C. Turner, Cost.
11. A. M. Jones, Cost.
12. Roy Cardwell, Cost.
18. Roy Cockerham, Cost.
14. Vance Lovette, Cost.
16. Ford White, Ford Kennedy, Os
car Smith, Cost.
16. R. H. Warren, Cost.
17. Hubert Day, Co.st
18. Foy Shepherd, Cost.
19. G. H. Reeves, Cost.
20. Arlie Myers, Cost.
21. Jesse Cleary, Roosevelt Sheets,
Cost.
22. Buster (L. R.) Porter, Cost.
23. Vance.Adams, Cost.
24. Cecil Faw, Cost
W. R. Haynes, Cost.
Boss Absher, Bill-Gilreath, Cost,
bon Mitchell, Cost.
28. Clate Brown, Cost
29. Lundy Nichols, Lela Lambeth,
Cost.
31. Elliott Williams, Cost.
32. Council (Pet) Hayes, Cost.
33. George Vannoy, Cost.
To Austdui FrOdt
Wife and Hini
Carves On Sdf
Harris, Cfdored, in Se-
rieos Omditioa With Wind
pipe Severed
ED . HARRIS 'IN JAIL
Coi»Ie Had Been Estranged
For Month; Took Place
City Counts Damage As
King f Winter Re I e a se s
Hold; Snow, Ice Melt
NowHiin^'i
r''"*
' - V -y *
l^y Cm i)n_^
Co^Odei
For Trial
Three Stills Cut
By SheHff Somers
Tuesday Night
Sheriff Is Assisted In Raids By
H. C. Kilby; Two Cat On
Last Satnrdny
Wire'^And Phone
Si-
Two In^rtant MttrieivCdiM
On Cafendar F«r Seeoiii . -
Week Of Tens « {
SET FOR MARCH 12TH
WASHINGTON: . . . Ckorge H.
Earle, 3rd, U. S. Minister to Aus
tria, home on leave to enter
Pennsylvania gubernatorial race,
was rushed back to hid iwet by j
President Roosevelt in view of lall also suffering from wounds
the Internal crisis there.
Hattie Harris, colored, is In a
critical condition with cuts on
her throat and about the body,
and her husband, Ed Harris,
from whom she had been separat
ed for a month, is in the county
More eWA Men
To Be Cut Off
Payroll In Wilkes To Be Re
duced 205 Men Friday of
This Week
Instructions to cut off 205
more men from the CWA payroll
in Wilkes have been received and
tomorrow morning a new week
will be started with 365 men.
Until reductions were ordered
the first of last week, 891 men
had been on the CWA payroll.
That number was reduced to 570
last Friday.
Ed Dancy, county projects sup
ervisor. has gone to Raleigh In
an effort to hold next week’s
quota a little higher. He will con
fer with Mrs. Thomas O’Berry
relative to the matter.
R. L. Hawkins Is
which were self-inflicted as the
result of a meeting of the two In
Wllkesboro Tuesday evening.
Harris slashed *his wife with
, his razor and then began carving
!on himself In apparently what
was an attempt to commit mur
der and suicide.
Events leading, up to the near-
fatal cutting were not known last
night. Harris had called at the
home where his wife was staying
and apparently a quarrel had en
sued.
Both the man and the woman
were carried to the Wilkes Hos
pital for medical attention. The
woman's wind-pipe wa.s severed
and she suffered severe cuts on
the hands and on the left arm.
She was later removed to her
home, but she is not out of dan
ger.
Harris, less severely injured,
had cut himself on the throat.
After his wounds were treated,
officers placed him under arrest
and carried him to the county
jail in Wilkesboro.
'Three dlstBl«rka WWO de
stroyed Satmday nd^ Tweadaiy
by Sheriff W. B. SobmM and
Depaty Wiertff H. C. Kilby.
Two of the three were cot
Saturday by the officers, one
being located in the Windy Gap
scetton and ttte other in the
Dellaplane commnnlty. Neither
was in operation.
The same officers destroyed
another distlllwy near tAPp-
herd’s Cross Roads Taes^iy. '
All three plants were large
and were capaWe of taming
oat a big supply of whiskey.
HSiiei'*-jy.. "V
Efforti TD
POWER SERVICE BAOi
[Power, Telephone And Tele-
I graph Companies Were
Heavie^ Losers
State President
Is Speaker Here
Western Union telegraph
lines, oat of operation since
.Sunday night, were bock in ose
this morning and tc4©graph
messages may now be trans
mitted as osoal.
The lines were repaired * n-
expectedly last night, (ho lo
cal manager, K. L. Chilton,
having expressed the opinion
late ydstei^y that it mi^t be
two or three days before serv
ice was resumed.
GHICA60: ... A nattoo-wlde
seanh is under way for Louis W.
Gruber, (above) former pn^has-
Ing agent for the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Co., who is aRegod to
have defrauded his enjiloyen of
approximately |500,000.^ .
Doabtfnl Whether Etther
Case Win Be Reached At
Term, However
The ChildfesB murder eaae la
which five members; tbs TO-
ley family are defen^gs^.ion
the ealeq^ar of th^pfln tiritt
of Superior court fofuBralgdsring
the second week. ' ^
This case and the Eldi^^m''
case are set for Monday, MipRb
Taxpayers Wilt
Discuss Senate
BiO On Mo^y
Board of .County ^iqinis-
sioners Rfay Be Urged -To
Accept Bill
i Telephone, telegraph and pow- ]VfEETING AT 1:00 P. M.
J. H. Norwood WiU Address companlp were the heaviest
Carriers of District At
Meeting Today
losers from winter’s biggest snow
I and ice, it was ascertained as the
j cold snap was partially broken
•' II* A • Harris is well known in the
OCriOUSly Injured | having worked here for
“ ,, _ „ many years. At the time of the
.Son Of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Haw-1 .
kins
At
I cutting Tuesday evening, he was
reported to have been under the
I influence of liquor.
(Continued on page four)
Yadkin Democrats
Endorse Rousseau
struck By Auto
Riclunond, Va.
R. L. Hawkins, of 'Richmond, I —; —
Va., was seriously injured one j PrOgn^’eSSIVe BloC
day last week when he was struck C" O P WH1
by an automobile as be stood In | . • •
J. H. Norwood, president
the North Carolina Rural Letter 1
Carriers Association, will address | Although many telephones tem-
porarily out of use have been re-
ninth district carriers ‘his after-! ,g
noon at Hotel Wilkes at 4 o’clock. distance connections.
Letter carriers from Iredell. | Workmen of the South East Pub-
Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell, j Service company have worked
Wataugt. Ashe. Alleghany, Sur-, feverishly to restore service,
ry. "Vadkln Forsyth and Wilkes | Telegraph lines were still
will gather for a general confer- j jo«.n and messages are being
ence on matters of Interest to the ggnt by special messenger to
association. Statesville. *K. L. Chilton, man-
Wlves of the carriers are ex- ager -A the local Western'Union
pected to accompany them here office, said this morning h© had
for the banquet which will be ■ ^o information as to when re
held following the conference. j pairs would be completed.
All power lines wer« back
12, but one or both wUI 1)0 i
poned.
It is doubtfut whe^er. eMhV
case, both of whlch^fre co^lir
ed major casedf nncl^A
during the term. .^Thn do«|mt In^.
unusually large and.jil^ pr^hlCK
that an effort, will bum«(le to g#’’'
rid of the minor cases flnfk^||[^^
Solicitor John R. Jonet glKUm
Monday, however, that h« tntei^-
both.
Mrs. O. F. Eller Is
in
Interested taxpayers will bear
the matter of accepting the pro
visions of Senate Bill 186 dis
cussed at a mass meeting to be
held during the noon recess of
court Monday afternoon at 1
o’clock.
It Is estimated that between
2,500 and 3,000 foreclosure suits
must be instituted before Octob
er 1, If no action la taken. Ac
ceptance of the provisions of this
bill by the board of county
commissioners would permit tax-;
payers who are delinquent In the 1
e*d to urge trial of
during the term. / '
Should the ^ses be pMtpopA
until a speci|J|,' term or tha.nezt
regular ternti an effort will hu
made to obtain ball for the de
fendants, It is understood.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Tilley and Clydn
Tilley are in jail in connecthm
with the Childress case. Luther
Tilley and Winfield Stanley are
held for the alleged slaying
Eldrldge.
of
Harry Williams
Given Liberty
If sentiment favors this pol-1
icy. the mass meeting may urge!
I . I the commissioners to accept the |
^ use yesterday morning. City aerv-1 provisions of the bill. The coun-
Feted On Birthday resumed Monday * ty board may accept or reject the
noon, but the task of re-establish-1 ^igcretlon.
payment of taxes for 1927-28-29-
30-31 to Issue notes to the coun-j Koamiiig Cowboy Not Want-
ty and pay In InstallmenU. gj and He Is Free By
Local Police
a safety zone waiting for a street (;„thering WUl Be Held In .Sails-! Children In This (Tlty Stirprise ing service in all the rural sec
V , - 1. ii-i ' =• f -w wvj 4 —-1 tinna xroo nnt COniplGlBa Unlll ■
car. He was rushed to a hospital
where he is reported as getting
along as well as could be expect
ed. His condition is still regarded
as critical.
Mr. Hawkins is a native
Wilkes county, being the son
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hawkins,
this city.
bury Saturday Evening;
Butler Calls It
Her
With Dinner .And
Vumber Of Gifts
of
_ tlons was not
’ Tuesday night.
'■ Damage to shade trees in the
A call for all progressive Re-1 Mrs. O. F. Eller, of Wilkes- cjty considerable. However,
publicans in North Carolina to j boro, wa.s delightfully surprised the loss to orchardlsts appeared
attend a meeting at the County on her sixtieth birthday Tuesday to be less than at first thought.
Exteutive C^ommittee Ck>es
On Record For Local Can
didate For .Tudge
The Yadkin county Deniocatic
executive committee endorsed the
candidacy of J. A. Rousseau.
North Wilkesboro attorney, for
judge at a special meeting of the
committee Monday.
The endorsement came on the
heels of an endorsement by the
Wilkes county Democratic execu
tive committee Saturday after
noon. Twenty-one of the 25 mem
bers of the Wilkes committee
present at the meeting Saturday
went on record as favoring Mr.
Rousseau's candidacy, four mem
bers having left before the mat
ter was brought before the com
mittee.
J4r. Rousseau's campaign for
Judge received added encourage
ment a few days ago when
64 members of the Forsyth
ebunty bar endorsed the local
man for a place on the bench.
The North Wilkesboro man is
-eppoeed In the race for the Dem-
Henry Reynolds
Buys Residence
Ip Greensboro
sented to her. Mr. and Mrs. Z. O. i
oorutic nomination by J. Hayden
Burke, of Taylorsville, and John
l,W. Ragland, of Spruce Pine.
Rufus Morrow To
Preach In City
of I Coiwthouse In Salisbury, March
of 3, at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose
of endorsing a virile and ener
getic State Chairman who can
lead the party to victory at the
polls this fall, has been issued
by Edward F. Butler, of Wins-1 El'e''- Mrs. I. M. Eller and sons.
ton-Salem. temporary chairman. Isaac, Jack, Mack and Bill, gave
,of “An Arganization tor the Ad- the dinner for Mrs. Eller. One of
(Greensboro Daily News) I vancement of the Principles of i her sons, I. M. Eller was sick and
Henry Reynolds, clerk of Unit-j the Republican Party in North
ed States district court in the Carolina.”
middle district of North Carolina. I Mr. Butler announces that a
has purchased from H. Floyd | state-wide movement has been in-
Coble the handsome residence at j itiated by the progressive ele-
evening when her children and The total loss, of course, could
grandchildren in this city gave not be estimated with any degree
her a surprise birthday dinner of accuracy.
at her Wilkesboro home. A num-1 —
l>er of birthday gifts were pre- Coutlty TcachcrS
Train To'Arrive
On New Schedule
Harry Williams, 34, whose al
leged statements that he “might
be ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd’’ led city
police to hold him for Investl-
1 gation, was released Tuesday aft-
jer the authorities learned that ho
I was not wanted for any major
crime.
I Washington bad no record of
Will Make Arrival Here This his fingerprints and local au-
Morning At 10:50; To jthorities were notified of this
Leave Earlier i Tuesday.
■ Williams was taken into cus
tody Friday after the police do-
Meet March 10th
unable to be present.
.Announcement Of Meeting Is
Made By Superintendent Of
Schools G. B. Eller
2505 West Market street. Sunset
Hills. The transaction was handl
ed by Mrs. A. O. Spoon and Mrs.
Alice Vanstory.
Mr. Coble will continue to oc
cupy the place until removal of
the family of Mr. Reynolds from
North wilkesboro to Greensboro
early next fall; Mrs. Reynolds,
their son, Henry, Jr., and daugh
ter, Louise, will join him here
then. However. Mr. Reynolds
will retain his place at North
Wilkesboro, primarily as a sum
mer home.
ment of the Republican party, to
endorse a chairman who will
Legion To Meet
' A county-wide teachers meet-
! ing will be held in Wilkesboro
The regular monthly meeting I high school auditorium Satuf-
of the Wilkes County Post No.'day, March 10. beginning at 10
125, American Legion, will be a. m.. Prof. C. B. Eller, county
held at the Legion-Auxiliary Club ^ superintendent of schools.
wage a campaign tor victory In House tomorrow evening at 7:30jnounced this morning,
both local, state and congression
al contests this year. With the
many issues at hand, it Is ap-
2 Killed By Train
College Student To
Talk To .Xevpg People At |
rieibyVerian
Rufus Mefrow/ --a ministerial
stodeat at Duvtdao®. College, ■will
p^Mieh at the Presbyterian
clwreli Sunday morning at 11
o^ib^. Young i*eoplo’8 day will
bF'ObMrved.at the local church.
Morrow spent last summer
in the dty and. aaaisted Rev, C.
W. Robinson, pastor, In the work
of the local church.
Home Of C. G.
SH^y Painaged by Fare
Fire originating from a flue
sUghtlr damsLged one room of
the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Tttihy near the school hullding
yentarday ^ 11:60. The fire de-
. Fayetteville, Feb. 27.—Cattie
Stock, 30-year-old negro woman,
and her four-year-old child, Hll-
burn, were Instantly killed and
another child Injured, probably
fatally, when they were struck by
an Atlantic Coast line freight
train while crossing a trestle near
Hope Mills this afternoon. The
injured boy J. D. Stock, five,
was rushed to Fayetteville In the
locomotive cab.
His recovery Is doubtful. He
was severely injured on the top
of the head when the train passed
over him as he clung to the
crossties. The mother and the
younger child were hurled to the
creek bank 40 feet below. They
had crossed the trestle over Big
Rock Fish creek to gather fire
wood. '
The husband and father, Jim
Stock, a railroad section hand,
was working not far from the
scene of the tragedy. The train
was an extra, hauling perishable
freight and Engineer D. B. Pow
ell said he saw the victims too
late to stop.
parent, with an aggressive or
ganization, that the Republicans
throughout the State have a
splendid opportunity at the polls
in November, he said.
The purpose of the meeting
called for Salisbury is to cen
tralize the activities of the var
ious leaders throughout the
state, on one candidate for the
office of State Chairman, as well
as give the members of the Re
publican party throughout the
state un opportunity to get bet
ter acquainted with the candi
date, In advance of the state con
vention.
All Republicans Interested in
the success of the party at the
polls this fall are urged to at
tend, the one purpose being to
unite all liberal and vigorous
Republicans, young and old, in a
common effort to raise the party
to a position of leadership and
power In the governmental af
fairs of the state, Mr. Butler said.
o’clock. A large attendance is ex-. The program will be given by
pected. ;the teachers.
Barring politics and accidents, | Mr. C. D. Coffey, Jr., proml-|
Mr. McCrary’s terra would notjnent local business man, is quite i
j The dally passenger train op-
■ crating between Winston-Salem
and North Wilkesboro begins
1 operating on a new schedule to-
j day. If It arrives on time. It will
pull in at the local station at
10:60 o’clock.
The new schedule also calls
for an earlier departure, being
scheduled to pull out this after
noon at 1:15.
Southern Railway officials
jjj. made the change In schedule in
I order to provide mail connections
with trains going north each
partment had received instruc
tions from Charlotte officers to
investigate a man answering bis
description. Statements made by
Williams during his three-week*
stay here increased the susplc-
I ion that he was wanted .some-
where.
Habeas corpus proceedings
were instituted Saturday and a
final hearing was held yesterday
before Judge Wilson WarMjPjt-, *t
Yadkinvllle. He was set free
when police failed to identify him
as “Pretty Boy" Floyd or con
night. In recent weeks, mall go
ing north remained in Winston-' jjjjjj with'^nny crime
Salem over nigght.
have expired
1936.
until
the spring of ill at his home here. He is suf-
* fering from a deep cold.
President Announces New Relief
Plan To Aid Farmers and Jobless
Washington, Feb. 28. — A
broadly-drawn plan to meet the
immediate emergencies of unem
ployment relief was laid down
today by President Roosevelt In
Billie Jarvis Is
Claimed By Death
Rifle Match In
City Saturday
LiUle Son Of Mr. And Mrs.
O. Jarvis, This City; Fu
neral At 3 P. M.
i Company "A" And Civiliau
Tennis To Meet At Armory lU
Contest At 7 P. M. ..*•
-i'-fw*;.-' ■**
program, directly linking the
latter agepey with the activities,
of the relief administration.
Back of this move is an ad
ministration theory for creating
looay oy ncDiucuv — —. >■ ,
a Statement regarded as provid- a niche in the economic wall suf-
Ing a pattern by which a perma
nent change In one portion of the
nation’s economic life might be
effected
ficient to shelter something like
ten million persons whose unem
ployment some officials say
promises to become permanent
The President said the relief under the existing Industrial sys
Local Man Will
Move To Mebane
John Ward Accepts Position As
Nl^kt FAweiuan For Baker-
0»«uuc, lac.
; yuAmI to tk* aeuM »ad
^ dattamtakad tto tiro without dif-
Mr. and Mr*. H. A. Saxon, of
Leoolr, were here for aeveral
■ Tuesday. **^- ■
John Ward, who has been con
nected with the Wilkes Hosiery
Mills for 14 .years, has accepted
a position a* night foreman with
the Baker-Commax Textile, Inc.
and will 'be located in the Mebane
mill.
- Mr. Ward will move hi* fam
ily to Mebaae this week and ent
er upon hi* new dutlee. ^
plans were drawn to meet the
situation arising from demobiliz
ing the Civil Works administra
tion and to reshape the present
formula In accordance with the
results of nine month* of relief
experimentation, which had
shown that "the unemployment
problem must be laced on more
than one front.’’
The broadly-drawn plan, yet to'
be worked out In detail, calls for
aid to Idtatressed famlU^ In
rural areas, aid to the "straoded
poimlatlons’’ whose Jobs perma
nently moved away or died, and
aid to the cities’ unemployed.
Mass treatment of all types of
relief is to be abandoned for spe*-
cialized treatment in each Held.
A part of the 1966,600,000
that congross reoently appropri
ated for relief waa axpeeted to
go to the subsistence farming
tem. The administration holds
that the long-range problem of
these ten million is part of the
immediate relief qneetlon and
should be so considered.
Generally, the plan is for the
relief ad ministration to furnish
the money of Its $960,000,000
fund and for the sabsietence
homestead and kindred agencies
to furnish the ideas, the people
and the material to put the per
manent plu under way.
In speaking of the need for
furnishing a means of self-sup
port to the needy of rural areas,
Mr. Roosevelt oheerved that "!a
many parts of the country tW*
calls tor. a change firom com
mercial farming and dependence
upon a single cash crop to itlia
raising of the various eommodl-
tles needed to maintain the fam-
-litar.’’ >.
Billie Thomas Jarvis, little son
of Mr?tend Mrs. C. 0. Jarvis, who
reside on “C'’ Street., this city,
died last night at 8 o’clock. He
was one year, seven months and
20 days of age.
The funeral will be conducted
from the residence this afternoon
at 3 o’clock by Rev. J. B. Hayes.
Interment will be made In Edge-
wood Baptist church cemrtery,
near Straw postofflce.
Surviving are the parents and
the following brothers and sis
ters: Holden, Prances, Earl, Mae,
Richard. J. C., Albert and Bobble
Jarvis.
Pallbearers at the service will
be Odell Jones, Max Kilby, Hous
ton Steelman and Ben Reynolds.
An indoor rifle '
Ilminary to a bigge
test, will be staged
U. D. C. WILL MEET
MONDAY AFTERNOON
Guards
pre-
con-
at tbe arm
ory here Saturday evening by
Company “A” team and a civ[.Uan
team.
Contending that
team 1s equai to t -
Guard teaig, -the cIvUla'irf_(^t- ^ ^
lenged the Vu*r4«|piMi» some ftme
ago, but uafavnmle wM(3teF
caused a postponemOitt of ^
meeting. The match Satnfdki)
start at 7 p. m. ^
Company "A” team Is
ed of Captain Reins, Seireants
Hidl, McNeill, Widlac© and Wyhtt i
and Corporal Candlll.'
The civilian ^te»m Is composed -
of Captain .tlTOerr LienMnliit
Wolfe, Meesi#;' Lee. Hamilton,’
Rhoades and Bumga^er.
•nie Wilkes Valley
Chapter U. p. C. will meet Mon
day at 8:30 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. B. R. Underwood, with
Miss Nell Rousseau as Joint hos
tess.
The J«ijk>r Wonm’s Club
ot Wilkesboro meeCs Friday
altetnoon at 4:80 at the |pme
ot Wm KatlMrtM
with Miss liMille BhsO«r •>
Ford Norfolk Plwt Will^
Increase To 300 UnitSi
Richmond,'^ Va„ Peb. 23—flt4p-
jdng up production, the Nprfolk.
Va., assembly plant of the Ford
Motor Co. has just added ISO
men to the force of 1,000 and
announced the payroll would ho
increased to 1,604: W Friday.
, Production will limroasa from
the present eighty units to ISO
^by the end of the woek, and
sihly SOO unit# daily next week.
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