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0 ^ ^ The Journal-Patriot has blazed the trail of progress n n the ^'Statej^Wilkes” fw 28 Jej /: C'>;: j' VOL. xxvm^ NO. 72 mss .,. ^ l^liahed Moii^ya and Hi7l^ NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, TmiBSPAY, JULY 12, ^^.fcff:' ' jO OPT OF Vim rDonoartratioii tAgent Starts WoHc In County 'AMONG RELIEF CASES A home demonstration agent srin work In Wilkes county among the relief cases during the summer months. Mrs. S. Ij. Homewood, former teacher of Crayen county, has I has been asslgnod to Wilkes by p^^rg. Thomas O’Berry, state re- ' lief administrator, and the ex tension department. She has al ready begun her duties as home demonstration agent In the coun ty. Mrs Homewood comes to the county well recommended and relief authorities expect that he will aid greatly In assisting many of the families on the relief list to go a long way toward caring for themselTes during the com ing year. It has been pointed out that the work done by Mrs. Edna Reinhardt In the county last Bummer on a similar plan was a great help to the county and a movement is on foot to secure a full time home demonstration agent. Mrs. Homewood is sent to Wilkes primarily for work among the families on the relief list but the general public is in vited to all her canning demon strations. As it has been pointed out by relief authorities no further re lief of any kind will be given to any family or person who does - not strive to care for themselves ■ ~ Vby growing and preserving food, for this and other reasons those the relief lists are asked to -particular attention to the announcement of Mrs. Home wood’s appointments and attend as many of her canning demon strations as possible. Following Is a list of appoint ments within the next few days; Monday—8:30. Mountain View Bchoolhouse. Hays. Tuesday—8:30 — North Wilkesboro. Mrs. Matilda ghew’s home. 2:30^—Schoolhouse at rair ’'^Wednesday—8:30 — Wilkes- boro schoolhouse* Meeting of Lay Loaders Planned All-Day Service Will Be Held At Union Methodist Church Sunday An all-day lay leaders service for the Wilkesboro charge will be held at Union Methodist church three miles west of this city Sunday. Announcement of the meeting was made today by Attorne> F. J. McDuffie, charge lay leader, who has arranged the program for the day. The morning session will be gin at eleven o’clock, at which time W. H. Worth, of Jefferson, district lay leader, will deliver an address. At noon there will be a fel lowship basket dinner and all who attend are asked to provide for the dinner by carrying along baskets well filled with provls- >ns. ua. , . The afternoon program will ne Btured by addresses by such sll known leaders and speak- s as B. G. Price, of Clifton, C. Cook, of Roaring River, and itorney A. H. Casey, of this by. Although the meeting is an- ,unced as a lay leaders gather- g of the Methodist charge. At- ,rney McDuffie states that he [sues it made known that the ty-3 program Is for everybody ,d that the general public, of 1 denominations, is invited to So“*P»A Men Project* . L. Wooten, director of the ional Re-employment office 5 for five counties, was In ne Monday placing about fif- nen o* two road projects now er way U» Watauga, me of the projects ‘a end reewrfaclng a portion of Boone-Blowlng Hock hlgh- , nod the other Is widening resurfacing the street >ugh Blowing Bock. Pal Of Ralph Dam Is Taken In Wilkes Mn. S. Lu Homewood To j.,^Work During Sommer In Wilkes County "W^ Jktaedr Vocatkm Win Assist Them In Canning and Preset ving Food A For Winter Group of Officers Arrest Bill Rumple Found Sleeping In Russell Johnson's Garret On Sun day Night New York . . . Miss Margaret LeHand (above), confidential secretary to President Roosevelt, as she sailed for Europe on va cation which the Chief Executive termed "well earned.” Wilkes Bad Man Escapes From Prison Homer W.vatf, sentenced from Wilkes superior court for house breaking and other serious of fenses in the March, 1933 term, escaped from a prison camp near Siler City Sunday evening. Wyatt was accompanied in his daring prison break by John Willis Smith, sent up from Char lotte, and Harry Baxter, from Kannapolis. Smith, a prison camp trusty, grabbed a pistol from a guard with whom he was talking and forced him to lie do’m under the tower while the trio slipped through the gates. . Immediate alarm was turned '“Tn” but a thorough search of the nearby woods failed to result in their capture. Sheriff W. B. Somers was noti fied by wire soon after the break to be on the lookout for Wyatt. It was thought probable that he would head back toward his old stamping grounds. Bill Rumple, bad-man pal of the notorious Ralph Davis, was arrested at midnight Sunday night at the horn? of Russel Johnson In the Windy Gap com munity. The arrest was made by Sheriff W. B. Somers. Officers In several counties In which Davis and Rumple are badly wanted got the report that they were In the Windy Gap community. Late Sunday night Sheriff Kimble, of Statesville, Sheriff Gryder, of Rowan county and Chief Rankin, of Salisbury, came to Sheriff Somers’ home In Wil kesboro and asked him to ac company them on the hunt of Davis and Rumple. Armed with machine guns, gas guns and automatic shotguns the officers proceeded to the home of Russel Jonhson and sur rounded the house quietly. While the other officers stood guard Sheriff Somers entered the home and told Johnson his business. Johnson told him that two men were sleeping In his garret and that he could go up and get them if he wanted to hut added that one of the men was keeping an automatic pistol very handy. Sheriff Somers roused the two from the bed and arrested Rum ple but there was quite a bit of disappointment among the offi cers when they found that his companion was not Davis. Rum- pie's companion at the Johnson home was not wanted by the of ficers. Although armed to the teeth, Rumple offered no re- si.stance to the Wilkes sheriff. Information was gained lead ing to the whereabout-s of Davis, who was routed from a aome near Lexington Monday night. Bed Yields Man Wanted Sheriff By State Election Sherltt W, B. Somers found it necessary to Investigate a b.Q that looked too fat Satnr- (lay night in order to get his man, who was Cecil Baripw, Wilkes youth wanted In Spottsylvania County, VU^n- la, on charges of housebreak ing. Sheriff Somers learned that Barlow was staying In the Boomer community with his grandmother and an aunt. He and deputies H. C. Kilby and R. F. Eller investigated the reports and called at the wom en’s home. Mr. Kilby went to the back door to stand guard while Sheriff Somers went in to flush the quarry. The officers were assured they wtke on the rl^t track when someone tried the latch on the back door as Sheriff Somers an nounced his presence at the front. The woman who answered the officer’s call was reluctant to show him about the house and when he asked why the hump on the cover of a certain bed she first said a baby was sleeping there and that she did not want it disturbed. When Sheriff Somers did not swallow her story as easily as she might have expected and noticed that one baby was al ready in another bed he start- eel to investigate further and she ordered him not to “pull the cover off that woman.” The woman’s pleas availed nothing b!cau.se a man’s foot protuding from under the cov- -;r l»etrayed her. and young Barlow was disclosed. He Is now resting in the jail at Wilkesboro, awaiting the coming of officers from Vir ginia. J. V. Jennings Buys Virginia Newspaper Lions Will Have Meeting Tonight Large Pastures Needed For Cows President Of Club Will Have Cliarge Of Program; At tendance Urged F’irst July meeting of the ■Vorth Wilkesboro Lions Club will be held at Hotel Wilkes this evening at seven o’clock. The new president, Ivey Moore, will preside over the meeting and will also have charge of the pro gram. Since the contest among the members for the directors’ tro phy will begin at this meeting each member is insistently urged to be present. Important busi ness pertaining to the club and its activities will be taken up and an interesting program is promised. In connection with the meet ing tonight and the membership and achievement drive. Presi dent Ivey Moore has released for publication the following letter on the subject of Lionism, writ ten by Mrs. John B. Scholderer, of Montclair. N. J.: I am proud that my husband is a Lion. The ideals and objec tives of the club are so much a living part of the organization that its members have adopted them unconsciously in their pri vate lives. These high standards tend to develop finer men—men more useful to their city, more (Continued on p&ge eight) Relief Authorities Need Large Areas of Pasture For Number of Cattle North Carolina Emergency Re lief Administration is continuing its search for pasture for 75,000 cattle sent to the state from the drought areas of the west by the national relief administrator. While a number of counties in the western part of the state have furnished pasture for sev eral thousand, relief authorities in Wilkes have been requested to ask any people having large areas of pasture to lease to get in touch with Mrs. G. G. Foster, county relief administrator, who has the necessary blanks and de tailed Information. The final disposition of the cattle has not yet been agreed upon by the state relief authori ties and in the meantime It is expedient that sufficient pasture be leased for the cattle until the plans can be perfected. The state will not lease a pas ture unless it will care for at least a score of cattle. Cuba Gets Fleet Armored Cars To Battle Crime Wdkesboro Street Work Progressing Work of Pouring Asphalt Ex pected To Start Some time This Week With the work of building con crete curbs on the street In Wil kesboro completed. It is expected workmen will start pouring the asphalt pavement this week, widening the street through Wil kesboro from the Midway Service Contract for resurfacing and Station to the postoffice was awarded several weeks ago to the Atlantic Blthulltlc Company. The street Is being widened by placing concrete curbs on each side. The surface will be of high grade asphalt constrnctlo^ Pittsburgh, July 9.—An auto mobile that is as ordinary in ap pearance B.B the family ear but in reality an assasslnatlon-proof arsenal on wheels Is being press ed into the police war against crime and disorder in Cuba. Its sides are made of bullet proof steel, neatly covered by the shiny good looks of the everyday pleasure car. Its windows and windshield are an Inch thick and shatter proof. Even the top Is of armor and the upholstery between the front and rear seats conceals a large kit of sub-machine guns, rifles, ammunition, tear gas and gas masks. January was taken to the Uni- Moley Claima Nazi Fotcm Gainmg Ground in America • New York, July 9.—A warn ing by Raymond Moley, former assistant secretary o f state, against the spread of nazi In fluence In this country and tes timony of “hales of propaganda’’^ sent here from Germany, were heard today by the subcommit tee of the special house commit- \ tee Oil un-Amerieati actlritlM.' verslty Hospital in Philadel phia for a brain operation, from which she never fully recovered. Before her marriage to Mr. McGee nearly 19 years ago she was Miss Octavla Fairchild, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fairchild, of Purlear. There are two children. Misses Evelyn and Margaret McGee. Also surviving are her parents and two broth ers. Theodore and Archie Fair- child. Early in life she Joined the Bur|^ Conte^ Win Be Heard Rousseau Majority Vote Be ing Cont^ted By Alexan der Candidate The state board of elections win meet In Raleigh tomorrow at noon to canvass the vote of the second primary held in the 17th judicial district on June 30th between J. A. Rousseau, of this city and J. H. Burke, of Taylorsville, candidates for the Democratic nomination for judge. It is learned that the official vote of the six counties as sent In by the various county boards to the state board gives Rous seau a majority of 447. Burke has contested the vote, alleging fraud In the second pri mary In Wilkes. It is understood that his at torneys will present to the state board a petition contesting the vote. In which they allege hun dreds of Republicans cast bal lots .for Rousseau, coercion of ■votes, fraudulent use of the ab sentee ballot and Illegal voting. The judgeship race has held the center of attention since the campaign for the first primary started. In the first primary no candidate received a majority and Burke, who was second high by virtue of the action of the state board of elections in throw ing out several hundreds of votes In Alexander, called for a second primary. The Interest In the contest here Is so Intense that It Is ex pected that a large number of Wilkes people will go to Ra leigh tomorrow for the canvass of the vote and the Burke COU' test. SmIoi Govecoonhip Denver . . . Miss Josephine Roche (above), one of the best known -woman industrialists of the U. S., has announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Col orado. Aged Man Badly Injured By Hog Johnnie Benge, resident of the Mt. Zion community, was seriously If not fatally wound ed Tuesday by a hog. According to reports of the affair current here, Mr. Benge was carrying a bag of meal by a hog lot when he was attack ed by a large hoar, which threw liini to the ground and tore his abdomen open with its tusks. Attend B.Y.P.U. Camp This Week GunshotWi Wint Kilby ReptMtied Have KUled Self flMgdaj AftemooB”" FOUND NEAR HOBfE Borrowed SheD From bor; Sister Heard Shot In Woods i Wlnt Kilby, age 23, resident. * of the Reddles River community, died at the hospital here Tues day night from a shotgun wound, reported to have been self-in flicted. In addition to the srlous wound on his body there were severe lacerationT oii 7.L: arms * er and five brothers and sister* He made his home with broth ers and sisters at his father’s old home place. About five o’clock Tuesday evening he Is reported to have visited a neighbor'* home and asked to borrow shotgun shell with which to kill a dog. He procured the shell and returned home, where he took his own gun from the house *nl walked off into the woods. A short while later, his sister- heard a shot and after waiting some time she went to look for her brother. Neighbors aided In the search and they found him In an unconscious condition -wltk the right side of bis skull at- - most torn from his brain. He was brought to The Wilke* Hospital here about eight o’ clock, dying an hour and a half later. The general opinion among || his relatives bears out th© theory that he committed suicide, al though they can attribute no reason for the rash act on the part of the young man, who wa* apperently in good health. Ho had been an employee of tho Forest Furniture company here for about five years. He was a son of the late Uriah Kilby, of Reddies River, and Mrs. Maggie Kilby Wyatt, of Halls Mills. He leaves his moth- ami legs. as follows; Walter Kilby, Red- k -v Mr. Benge wa.s brought to | dies River; Mrs. Belva Haynea, . Kama ! A/farflo* ATra Rnr^dMUt. Former Townsman Takes Over Management Of Hopew«dl News Today J. V. Jennings, until recently president of the Statesville Printing Company and The Statesville Record, has purchas ed the Hopewell News in Hope- well, Va. Mr. Jennings left Statesville today to take Imme diate charge of hls new business. Mr. Jennings is a former townsman,- being a son of Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Jennings. The Journal-Patriot joins with hls many other friends here In wish ing him the utmost of success In his new field. Large Groups From Wilkes- boros Attend State B. Y. P. U. Assembly Miss Ila Holman Case Worker In Alleghany Miss Ila Holman, a talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Holman, has accepted a position as case worker for the relief ad ministration In Alleghany coun ty She assumed her duties in that capacity Tuesday. Mrs.ClaudeMcGee Is Taken By Death North Wilkesboro and Wil kesboro Baptist churches are well represented in the state B. Y. P. U. assembly being held at Ridgecrest this week. Reports from the assembly indicate that hundreds from all parts of the state are attending. The North Wilkesboro group spending the greater part of this week at the camp include Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Sturdivant, Bill Dancy, Marie Haigwood, Ag nes Elledge, Grace Dancy, Mabel Johnston, John I. Myers. The Wilkesboro group in cludes Tom and Don Story, Ar thur Lowe, Baxter Davis, Violet Erickson, Lillian Linney, Kath- rlne Hendren and Mrs. Helen Linney Cashlon. Those who have spent one or more days at the camp during the week include Manie Brew- e r, Mary Ella McCreddie, Lunda Hendren, John Kermlt Blackburn, Clay Elledge, Bessie Clo Rhodes, Mickie Bryant. the hospital here 'Tuesday night, where an op'ration was performed and his wounds were given surgical attention. Reports from the hospital to day indicate that he will re cover. Mr. Benge is 83 years of agfe. Revival To Start At Adley Church A series of revival services will begin at Adley Methodist church on Sunday, July 15. Serv ices will be held each evening at eight o’clock. The services will be held by the pastor. Rev. W. H. Benfleld, who extendsfta cordial invitation to the public to attend. Return From A Week’s Outing At Globe Camp Mrs. H. V. Overcash and Miss es Mary Gwyn Williams and Elizabeth and Margaret Faw have returned to the city after spending a week at the Lenoir Klwanis girls’ camp near Globe, N. C. Vesper Service WeU Known Resident of This City Passed Away at 3:40 This Morning Presbyterian Bible School In Progrre** Vesper service at St. Paul’s Episcopal church Sunday, July 15th, at four o'clock. Rev. B. M. Lackey, Rector, In charge. Commenennent Exercises Will Be On Saturday Evening; Fifty Enroll Mrs. Claude McGee died at her home here this morning at 3:40, following an illness of several months. In the latter part of last year Mrs. McGee became 111 and In The commencement exercise of the Daily Vacation Bible School of the North Wilkesboro Presbyterian church will he held Saturday evening at eight o’- Five Die From Poison Liquor Mertie; Mrs. Hester Burgess, Miss Daisy Kilby and Willard Kilby, of Reddies River. The funeral service will b« held today at Mt. Zion. Yadkin Must Vote On School Bonds Supreme Court Rules School Bonds Must Be Submit ted To Vote clock at the church and the pub- Denktured Alcohol Believed To Cause of Five Mens Deaths Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, ;Jloring Clements moving her membership to the First Baptist church here after establishing her residence in this city. She was active'* In church work and was hlgldy re- The - funeral serrico wlUv, be conducted at Mt. -Pleasant church Friday afternoon at three 6S clock. Burial wHl ii be In the church cemetery. " lie Is cordially Invited to attend. The school, which began Monday morning and will continue through Saturday, has reached an enrollment of around fifty children. A special feature of the pro gram Saturday evening will be the two pageants, Joseph and hls brothers, and Queen Ether, the first pageant la. being direct ed by Misses Clara and Jesnnle Ogilvle, and the second onh W Misses Prances MoNell and She Quite a bit of handwork Is-li*- Ing made at the school and at the close this will be sent to Korea, Glade Vsiley, and the Grace HosplUl at Banner Elk. Bpected by a host of friends. offering taken Saturtey Two other persons died In a hospital In Winston-Salem late yesterday from the effects of a deadly poison, believed to have been denatured alcohol, which was served as a beverage at a drinking party Tu«*d^-'^ deaths brought the_ total to five, three others havliig succumbed earlier In the day. James Grady Jones; 'H, of 1030 White street, and Royal Lawrence Klger, 36, of 1312 Og- bnrn street, died at 6:2S p. m. at City Hospital. Both had been un- eonselens slaor aoon ysBterday. . The death of Ro^l Klger brought the toll in the Klger family alone to lour, three oth er brothers haring died during night' iHll be given to Mr, Luke, home mission worker in Ashe and Wilkes counties. He Is ex- fils highway- neir Parkwi the morning. They, Claude]; Country Club early today Clarence Klger, 44, of BO 6 East' fratricide occurred foWW®** I Eleventh .street; Garrell L. Klg-^argument about Mrs. cSlj Raleigh, July 11.—The su preme court of North Carolina today ruled that the proposed $140,000 issue of PWA school bonds for Yadkin county must be submitted to a vote of the people, upholding a previous de cision made by Judge T. B. Fin ley In superior court. Members of the board of coun ty commissioners had voted by a vote, of two to one not to hold an election on the matter main taining that the schools were a necessary expense and an el^ tion for this purpose was un necessary. The objection was filed by a number of Yadkin county citizens including C. J. Hemrlc, Sant Mandlin, W. L. Mackie, and others. The bonds were to have been given to the public works admin istration as security for a cheap loan to-^ build new school build ings for the county. Yadkin, county was awarded $192,00P on December 16. Thirty per cen( of the amount was in the. foriat> of a grant while the other TO?? per cent was to be secured hy^ij the bonds. DILLINGER’S TRAIL MAY LEAD TO CAUF# Los Angeles. July ll.-7-Tha possibility that John DiUii _ dim trail was leading to South-^ e'.n California was seen late to«q Jay In word to the local Depart-J ment of Justice of floe that a *8-jf dan carrying fwir^ WPlo. on*1 resemhUng DUUb^, had lighted in NorihiMt Tegwi. YOUTH O KILUN Concord, Jply '^l. —isJ* Pa»te**j 16, ;Aot Shi kUlsd brother, Parvln, 27, »t the hoi of their mother, Mr*. N. 3. grath, off tho Concord-1 er,^ 48, of 1022 White *treet, and.cpw which had gotten lo«h^ ^cted to-be present for the.-^pro- Herbert Pryant Klger, 36, pfja patch of com 'helongini (Continued on page eight) 221 Northwest BoulsTOrd. > J Parrih.