CHILD WELFARE SURVEY
WILL FINISH JOB TODAY
Construction of
Postoffice Here
Will Begin Soon
Perfea Pistol Score
Reaching Results of Sur
vey Seen as‘Final Re
ports Come In
IS AUXILIARY PROJECT
Steps Are Being Taken To
Help PhysicaBy Handi
capped Children
Public Child Welfare Survey
being conducted by the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary in North
a will end today, aceord-
ini^V^hstatement issued here
by w UJ^achel Payne Suggs,
supervisor of the project.
The project was originated by
Mrs. W. R. Absher, department
president of the Auxiliary and
the survey has been conducted
under her direction from the
etate headQuarters here.
A complete tabulation of the
results of the survey will not be
available until some time next
week. It was indicated, but the
workers in all the 100 coun
ties in the state will send in their
final reports today.
‘‘Results of the survey have
been even greater than was an
ticipated,” Mrs. Absher stated to
^a newspaperman here today. A
complete tabulation has been
made of all veterans, veterans’
wives, widows of veterans, chil
dren of veterans, orphans and all
physically handicapped children.
Pay for ten weeks' work for
the worker or workers in each
county in the state was appro
priated by the North Carolina
Emergency Relief Administra
tion. In addition to appro.ximate-
' ly 40.000 hours paid for from
this course more than 50,000
hours were volunteered by the
American Legion and Auxiliary,
other civic orgaaivatieB# and in
dividuals who showed a great
degree of interest in the project
throughout the state.
Mrs. Absher stated today that
Bj»a-wished to extend thanks for
'^e'VuxUlary to every person
whblfelped in any way toward
making the survey the wonder
ful success it has proven to be.
Sine® an accurate survey of
all physically handicapped chil
dren was one of the primary ob
jectives of the survey all chil
dren listed in this class have
been classified as to the nature
of their disability, including
deaf, dumb, blind, crippled, tu
bercular, mental deficiencies,
poverty, distressed and orphans.
. In order that steps may be
■ made to help these children who
have been throughout their lives
handicapped and who do not en
joy life as other children,
taken the names of the blind
have been turned over to the
state school for blind at Raleigh
. dumb to the deaf and dumb
school at Morganton. and crip
pled to the supervisor of rural
»rehabilitation in North Carolina.
In many of the counties in the
state steps have been taken to
correct many of the physical de
ficiencies. In Wake county it is
reported that every handicapped
child listed in the survey has
^n given attention while many
Copied children In Wilkes and
Other counties have been given
treatment and advice at ortho
paedic clinics.
IB order that this work may
be facilitated a duplicate card
of each child listed in the sur
vey has been turned over to
CLty authorities in their r^
^pectlve home counties in the
Junior Golf Champ
Sunset Kiuge, ill. . . . Shirley
Ann Johnson (above), is the
junior U. S. Women’s West
ern golf ‘champion for 1934. She
defeated Hilda Llvergood in a
desperately fought final round.
To Let Contracts
For School Wood
Communication To Re-employ
ment Diro.ictor Sets Date
August 22
CONT.RACT IS LET
Lundberg-Richter Bid of $45,■
600 is Approved By
Government
August 18 Last Day To Re
ceive Bids On Fuel For
the Schools
Contracts w'ill be let within
the next few weeks for wood to
supply the schools in Wilkes
county, C. B. Eller, county sup
erintendent of schools, stated to
day.
Blanks for bids for wood sup
ply have been furnished to the
committeemen of the various
schools. Anyone wis^iljig-Jtg ..^ace
a bid should ffst In touch with
the school committee or call at
the office of the county super
intendent, where a supply of the
blanks is on hand.
The clesing date to re lelve
bids will be Saturday, August 18,
at five P- county sup
erintendent’s office.
State Flair Premium Books
To Be Ready by August 15
I Raleigh, Aug. 6.—Premium
i books for the 1934 state fair to
! be held here October 9 to 13 will
I be ready for distribution August
1.5, Norman Y. Chambliss, man
ager of the exposition, said to
day.
I The fair is offering $10,000
I in premiums, with the prizes all
I to go to North* Carolina entries
in the various exhibits.
.Miss Toby Turner had as her
guests yesterday and today her
sister. Mrs. Edna T. Robertson,
of Charlotte, and her cousin. Mr.
A. A. Turner, of Statesville.
Juniors Advance
Fund To Orphan
e survey has attracted much
eat, not only in North Caro-
but in other states, irom
\x have come many letters of
nendation of Mrs. Absher s
atlve in originating and
rvlsing this project.
commenting on the splen-
cooperatlon received from
,U8 sources Mrs. Absher In-
1 that news accounts of the
sy carry mention of the or-
lation’s appreciation to the
papers of the county an
for calling attention of the
ic to the survey in so many
and for the backing they
the project in the editorial
Miss Faye Adams Will Be
Sent To College This Year
By Local Club
Faye Glass, a student in the
Junior Order Orphanage school
at Lexington, will be given a
one-year scholarship to Catawba
College at Hickory. The scholar
ship is an award by_ the North
Wllkesboro council, number 51,
of the Junior Order fraternity.
The scholarship was voted in
the meeting of the local council
held here Tuesday night. Miss
.Adams’ father was a member of
the local council.
It was pointed out that Miss
Glass has been in the orphan
age at Lexington for six years
and that she has a splendid rec
ord. She is graduating from high
school this year.
The fund for her expenses in
college during the coming year
will be advanced as o. loan.
ICE CREAM SUPPER
! AT ROARING RIVER
r© Award Degree*
Augi e^Appalachlan
Teachers college will hold
>r school commencement
les August 23 with close to
rsons scheduled to receive
On Saturday evening at six
o’clock an ice cream supper will
be held at Roaring River high
school.
A pleasant time is assured all
who will attend. Proceeds from
the sale of lee cream, cold drinks
and other refreshments will be
used for the benefit of school
library. The public has a most
cordial invitation to attend and
enjoy the evening.
According to a communication
received here by the National
Re-employment Office, construc
tion of the North Wllkesboro
postoffice building should begin
during the latter part of this
month, probably around August
22.
Bids for the construction of
the building were received some
time ago by the treasury depart
ment in Washington. The low
bid was submitted by Lundberg-
Richter, of Oceanport, N. J., in
the sum of $45,600.
On August 2 the low bid was
approved by the treasury de
partment and the contract was
awarded.
According to the communica
tion received by R. L. Wooten,
director of the re-employment
office, from the supervisor of
reemployment in North Carolina
kesboro. He is connected with the
project within 20 days after the
date of the contract, which
would be around August 22.
The contracts call for furnish
ing all labor and materials and
erection of the building within
250 calendar days from the date
of notification by the treasury
department, public works
branch.
Mr. Wooten was officially no
tified of the anticipated Btarting
of work on the building because
of the fact that the postoMlce
building is a public wor’scs pro
ject and labor for such work
must be furnished from the files
in his office.
The postoffice lot on C street
has been cleared of personal
property in order that the site
may be ready for the contractors
when they come to this city to
begin work.
j| Third Special Vinire Ordered
From Yadkin Reported Today
Jury Box Filled
Albany, N. Y. . . . Extensive
checking up discloses that a
world’s pistol record was estab
lished when S’gt. A. M. Stanwix,
(above), of Troop G„ N. Y. State
Troopers, scored 45 bullseyes in
45 shots on the U S. Army range,
using a 38 calibre.
Daniel Call Is
Found Dead In
Field of Com
Lifeless^ Body Discovered By
Neighbors Thursday
Afternoon
DEATH INVESTIGATED
No Evidence of Foul Play; Be
lieved Death Caused By
Natural Causes
WILKES TAX RATE WILL BE
80 CENTS FOR COMING YEAR
Wilkes county’s tax rate for
the ensuing year will remain
at eighty-cents on the one
hundred dollars' valuation of
property, according to the ten
tative budget adopted by the
county cdnunlssioners.
In keeping the tax rate at
80 cents the commissioners
worked downward on all items
of the budget where possn>Ie
in order to provide for the
small incivhse expedient in
some funds. '
The utmost in economy was
sought (by the commissioners
throughout the compUing of
the budget estimates with the
county accountant.
The ei^ty-cent tax rate Is
the same that has been in
force for the past year, the
rate having been reduced from
91.20 to 80 cents last year.
Mrs. W. C. Moore, Jr.
Nominated In Lenoir
Daughter Of Mrs. W. W. Bar
ber, 8r., On Caldwell Coun
ty Ticket
Re-Employment
Given
Figure!
Many Have Been Placed On
Jobs Since Re-Empteyment
Daniel Call was found dead In
a cornfield a half mile from his
home near Call postoffice Thurs
day about noon.
The body was first discovered
by Seth Love, who paSsed along
a road in a wagon. He saw the
body but did not Investigate for
himself, eaillng attention of his
helghbors to what he had seen.
When some of the residents of
the community reached Call they
found that he was dead and had
been dead for sometime.
Coroner S. A. Rash was called
to investigate the affair at the
insistence of Mrs. Call, who su
spected that her husband had
been killed.
Dr. A. J. Eller, county health
officer, was summoned by the
coroner to examine the body.
The county physician stated fol
lowing the examination that
Call had died sometime Wednes
day niglit, probably around mid
night. No wounds were found on
Service Began
A recent summary of the work
accomplished by the National
Re-employment office here for
five counties shows that since
th' office was established in the
latter part of November that a
total of 3.238 people have been
placed on jobs of various kinds.
At the time the re-employ
ment service was started in No
vember each county was given
one office until three months
ago, when the offices in five
counties. W’ i 1 k e s, Alleghany,
Ashe. Watauga and Alexander
were merged with headquarters
here.
The total of 3.238 placed on
jobs is for the five counties
since the service was instituted.
The placements are classified
as follows: CWA. 2,470; PWA,
441; farms, 8; government serv
ice, 9; lumber industry, 31:
commercial, 4; domestic, 47;
(Ceutlaued on page Mght)
the body and the theory of foul
play was discarded by the coro-
The ground about the spot
where Call’s body was found had
been trampled and there was
evidence of much commotion.
Dr. Eller said he thought it
probable that the man had been
stricken with an attack of acute
indigestion.
Information gathered by Coro
ner Rash was to the effect that
Call had been drinking exces
sively for several days. His
tracks was said to have been
found leading from a spring to
the spot where his body was
found.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. R. Call, of the Call commun
ity. In addition to his parenU he
leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Call, and four daughters, Irene,
Inez. Beulah and Mary Call.
The funeral service was held
at Antioch church yesterday
morning at eleven o’clock with
Rev. H. A. Bullls In charge.
Mrs. W. C. Moore, Jr., of Le
noir, formerly Miss Margaret
Barber, of Wllkesboro, was nom
inated for register of deeds on
the Democratic ticket in the
Caldwell county convention Mon
day.
Mrs. Moore gained the neml-
nation on the first ballot, receiv
ing 127 votes to her principal
opponent, Frank White, 95. Mr.
White was the incumbent candi-
Housekeepers
Are In Demand
At 10:40 Toda^
Evidence Begins
Total Of 275 Men Sununoacd
In Special Venires Fnwi
Yadkin
FIVE ARE ON TRIAL
Tilley Family Being Tried ¥•
Lives For Death of Leoda
Childress
Middle Aged Women With
Good References Asked To
Register Here
aulonai venire or du men to re-
There is a great demand for o’clock this momfng'
middle aged women for house- in order to secure the required
keepers, R. L. Wooten, director number, twelve regular Jurors
of the national reemployment alternate to serve in
.41 case of emergency.
office here, told a representative .. .
of this newspaper yesterday.
In response to a request that jury Judge Oglesby ordered a
people wanting a housekeeper second of 100 and of this nmn-
vv sisvc? rvc*© tuo xjit/ uaii fscTcioA
date, having held the office for have put in calls for honsekeep
four years. j -
V.. — „. era and the supply registered at
Friends of Mrs. Moore and her his office lacks much of filling
family here congratulate her on the demand.
the occasion of her nomination
to this important office. Noml
nation is tantamount to election
UOrVlVit *o w.-s,. wl/UL ITir. TTUULCU BLaktSS (.Uai. tUC
due to the fact that Caldwell is demand is for older women who
a Democratic county
. . uttll lUl UlOU euuu
Mrs. Moore is a daughter of housekeepers who can care for
Tim
Mrs. W. W. Barber. Sr., of Wll
kesboro and a sister of Miss
Elizabeth Barber, Joe Barber
and W. W. Barber, Jr., all
whom are well known here.
children.
During the past several days
a number of people have been
placed by the office here.
Night Game On
Home Chair Card
To Play At Hkkory
row Night; High Point
Team Here Today
Local' baseball'lilayers on the
Home Chair Company team will
have a new experience Friday
night when they go to Hickory
to play that aggregation in
night game, beginning at 8:15.
Many local fans are expected to
attend the game.
This afternoon Horae Chair
will play the Adams-Mlllis team
on the local field at 4:30. The
visiting team is reported to have
won a number of games this
year and a close contest is ex
pected.
On Saturday afternoon the lo
cals will play Winston-Salem’s
Unique Furniture team at South-
side Park in Twin City.
Genic Cardwell WiH^
Have Program Friday
In Kiwanis Luncheon
Oenio Cardwell will have
charge of the program for to
morrow noon’s Kiwanis Club
meeting. A good program is an
ticipated and a large attendance
of the club’s members is ex
pected.
STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEERS TO BEGIN
WORK ON SCENIC PARKWAY IMMEDIATELY
Engineers of the North Caro
lina state highway and public
works commission will start
staking the location of the 'Ireat
Scenic Parkway through .'lorth
Carolina within the next few
weeks, it was Indicated bj Chair
man E. B. Jeffress on his visit
here a few days ago.
States through which the park
way will be located must furnish
the rlglit ol
neers must survey the route,
subject, of course, to the approv
al of the federal bureau of roads
and the Public W'orks Commis
sion in Washington, D. C.
Surveyors now at work on the
North Wllkesboro - Statesville
highway will start at ' Adney’s
Gap at the North Carollna-Vir-
ginia line as soon as they com
plete the work now under way.
It Ir the intention of the high
way chairman and the commis
sion to place as many corps, of
engineers on the parkway route
as possible in order that the sur
vey can be completed and work
started on construction.
It is unofficially learned that
the route now getting most con
sideration in North Carolina is
to follow as nearly as possible
the crest of the majestic Blue
Ridge. It is also learned that
there will be only one primary
objective in selecting the route
and that Is scenery.
The great scenic parkway is
destined to become the outstand
ing achievement of recent years,
is the opinion of those who have
discussed the matter with the
powers that be. With a sixty-
foot pavement and a right of way
of 200 feet it will be the prin
cipal artery of travel between
two great national parks. The
Shenandoah and Great Smoky
Mountains.
The route has been selected in
North Carolina from Adney’s
Gap 12 miles northwest of Mt.
nute North Carolina wanting It least 600 people,
r * ... ft
to go through the scenic Ashe-
jt'wpic naubiue a uuuBvivwpct gcvuiiu vl aw aim tiiiB uiuia—’
register at Mr. Wooten’s office her only three qualified, briaga
in the city hall several people Ing the total selected until thto
Several girls aged- 20 or less
have registered for employment
but Mr. Wooten states that the
can furnish good references a»
Lions Will Have
Meeting Tonight
BUI Absher Will Have Charge
Of Program; Large Attend
ance Expected
Members of the North Wllkes-
boro (Lions Club will gather at
Hetel Wilkes this evening at
seven o’clock for the regular
semi-monthly meeting.
Bill Absher has the program
for tonight and has something
wort-iwhlle and entertaining
planned. In addition to the pro
gram of entertainment some
very important projects will be
up for discussion and attendance
of every member is urgently re
quested.
Champion Wood
Chopper Victor
Peter McLaren Won in a
Walk Over Opposition
Here Yesterday
Peter McLaren, champion wood
chopper of the U. S. A., came to
North Wllkesboro yesterday, met
all comers and is still champion.
The contest, sponsored by
diameter was the specimen on Among the Yadkin county men
which the choppers vied for hon- were several who declined,-to,, be 1
axir/bm rotatnor fHoIr rferkf kaiM(
ora.
Gao 12 miles DOrvunent ua — — T ” . „ a. w i* a I a a a,
tA Riowlne Rock. The re- ends the log had fallen apart be- It discussed. A Juror sUting
..... M aU. ro«A t\f of Ha koi9 TIAf rAOfI akAIlf
Airv to HiowinK itocit. it?- —— . «
malnder of the route is in dis- fore the astonished gaze of at he had not read about the,
.. I.—. Knn or heard it discussed wsuj ir
At 10:40 today the jury box
was filled for the trial of five
Tilleys for the death of thefr
foster child, Leoda Childress.
When court adjourned yester
day afternoon only eleven Joron
had been selected from two'sgiM-
cial venires, totaling 225 men,
from Yadkin county and Judge
John M. Oglesby ordered an ad
ditional venire of 50 men to re-
When the first special venire
of 125 men failed to produce &
Church Hardware Company, was
held on the poetofflce lot here
yesterday afternoon at five o’- —
clock. A pine log 12 inches in calmly watching the proceedings.
.. X.1-.
morning eleven. The eleven’JBZ*-
ors are G. M. Holcomb, R. B.
Crlssman, A. C. Steelman, A.
Clifford Shore, W. A. WllIiXBU,
Hubert Williams. Kyle Johnson
and G. H. Brinkley, selected
Tuesday. C. D. Spillman, J. tf.
White and Howard Dixon, select
ed from the second speelxl ve
nire.
The defendants, Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Tilley, their sons. Lather
and Clyde, and Mrs. Luther TH-.
ley, are on trial for their live*
for the alleged slaying of their
foster child and sister, Leodn
Childress, on December 30 at
the Tilley home near Benham.
Trial of the Tilley family im
the sensational case was called
Monday, at which time Judge
John M. Oglesby ordered a spe
cial venire of 125 men summon
ed from Yadkin county. ’
Of this number 107 reported
at court and were examined
Tuesday, resulting in the selec
tion of eight of the necessary
thirteen Jurors. When the IfeC
was exhausted at four o’clock
the presiding jurist ordered an
additional 100 men from Yadkin
to report yesterday afternoon at
two o’clock, to which hour court
adjourned.
Prospective jurors were re
jected in rapid succession oa
they stated that they had form
ed or expressed an opinion that
the defendants, or some of them
were guilty. Many proved their
incompetence by stating thefr
unalterable opposition to capital
punishment while some few
stated thrft they would hesitate
to return a verdict of first de
gree murder on circumstantial
evidence.
In answer to a direct question
propounded by defense connael a
number of men stated they had
formed or expressed an opinion
that Luther Tilley was guilty.
The defendants sat at the bar
behind their counsel throughont
the selection of the jurymen.
Among the Yadkin county
sworn, raising their right
B. * ^ ^
Tom Redding won in the ellm- and making the required stafee-
Ination contest and gained the ment of affirmation. They wera
right to challenge the champion, members of the Friends Church.
Redding was instructed to chop which does not allow its mem-
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first and was able to get the log hers to swear an oath and which.
in two pieces in what looked like incidentally, is opposed to capi-
. .
3~ tal punishment.
Widespread interest
in the
a record breaking time
minutes and 22 seconds. , —
Then the champion got on the case, which has been strouded tx
log and started making the chips mystery, is shown by the fact
fly. In less than one minute he that practically all of the Yadkin
had cut the log haif way through county men stated that they.,1^
and in one minute and 26 sec- read about th® case or had
The champion offered fifty an exception,
Other Gaaes Coatintiefl
to KO luruusu tuo pvoaaav, **««« - -
vine part of the state and Ten- dollars to his nearest competitor
nessee wanting a part of the if he used more than two thirds
the of the time used by the chal
lenger. A Plumb Axe was given
road and its entrance to
Smoky Mountains Park. —.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes Redding for winning the ellml-
has planned to go over the two nation ..contest. The contest was
oroposfcrt routes in dispute be- to demonstrate Uhe Plumb Axe,
fore making a final decision. w.v.f.a a-
which the ^ champion used. ‘
In anticipation of a loac*
drawn-on t trial Solicitor Jobm
announced just before adjona^^
ment of conrt Tuesday >* eveiifiiif^
that all other'’ cases .,caleadah9. ’
for this week are continued and
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