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VOL. XXIX, NO. 2
Published Mondays and Thursdays
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, NOV- 1, 1934
41.00 IN I^ATE^1.50 OUT OF THE STATE
Ijambeth Talks On Xo Let Hunting Creek
Insurance, j November 7th
Old Age Pensions
Highest
Iding
Congressman At Ferguson
Tdb About Benefits Of
y The New Deal
>j?A1
AT ROARING RIVER
In Birth-Control Row
Subject In Latter Address.
“Uncompkted Portion Of
New Deal
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A strong defense of the admin- [
Istratlon's farm program as a \
guardianship instead of a dicta-1
torship and citation of figures |
allowing how Wilkes farmers i
"have benefltted from the New'
Deal were characteristics o f
tJOBgressman Walter Lambeth’s
campaign address at Ferguson
scno^ building Tuesday nlgbt.
Declaring that the value of
t farm crops in Wilkes County
have doubled in the past two
years he said, "Our opponents
attack the administration farm
program by calling it a dictator
ship. It is not a dictatorship, but
a guardianship by the govern
ment in a supreme effort to puli
the American farmer out of the
helpless, hopeless, bankrupt con
dition in which the "old deal’’
had left him on March 4th,
1933.
"The results are demonstrated
hy figures showing the total
value of farm crops in Wilkes
tnty in 1932 as being $472,-
"^20. compared to a value thi.s
year of *1.019.038, or an in
crease of 120 per cent In just two
years of the New Deal.
"This phenominal improve-!
ment in condition of Wilkes i
county farmers is due to legi.sla-|
tive measures by a friendly gov-;
ernment backed by patriotic co
operation of 90 per cent of the
farmers of the land. It that coni-
Atlantic City . . . Rev. Simeon
A. Huston, Olympia. Wash, (a-
bove), lead the drive of Protest
ant Episcopal Bishops in voting
approval of a measure endorsing
efforts to obtain for physicians
the legal right to disseminate
birth-control Information. . . .
Opposition was characterized as
largely, "pious twaddle from
celibate clergymen,’’ and con
tended that, “the poor were en
titled to information . . . already
available to the wealthy.’’
Wilkes Writer
Will Speak At
Historic Meet
James Larkin Pear.son To Ad-
dretss State Literary
-\s-sociation
Raleigh. Oct.
bination does not solve the farm ! Larkin Pearson,
problem and restore the farmers’
purchasing /power to pre-war
parity, then I ask how will tlicj
farmer ever be .saved?’’
The speaker added a plea for
Wilkes County to elect the full
Democratic ticket to show
Jje county is hacking the New I December 4-.">.
30.
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— James
Boomer,
Wilkes county, author of “Fifty
.Acres’’ and number.s of other
poems that have attracted na
tion-wide attention, is to be one
of the speakers at the annual
meeting of the State Literary and
that 'i Historical Association in Raleigh
New 1 December
1. Pearson’s poems, published in
1 telling what the New Deal a small volume last year, have
_ a’S*done for Wilkes County he j been published in numbers of
gave figure.s to show that feder-' leading literary publications and
a! money for roads under act of' magazines of national circnla-
June 16. 1933 had amounted to i tion. They deal in large measure
$225,000 while money tor relief 1 with nature and the homely iu-
and eWA from June 1, 1933 to|fidents, largely in the mountain
Sept. 1. 1931 totaled $199,373.1 area of Wilkes county. He oper-
The farm credit administration. 1 ates a printing press back in the
he said, had advanced $82,216 j hills of Wilkes. His speech will
to 59 farms between May, 1933, | he delivered on the opening
(Continued ou page eight)
night, December 4, when Presl-
Wilkes Woman
Given Parole:
dent Frank P. Grahan' will deliv
er the president’s address. Dr.
Douglas S. Freeman, editor of
i the Richmond .News-Leader and
author of four volumns on Rob-
( ert E. Lee. speaks on the second
i night, when the Mayflower So-
Mrs. Nellie James Is Granted; cietv Cup win be awarded.
Clemency: 47 Petitions j nr. a. R. Newsome, secretary,
Are Denied | announces that one of the books
entered in the competition,
Mrs. Nellie James, convicted in “Swing Your Mountain Gal,’’ by
the August term of superior | Rebecca Cushman, is not eligible.
^ourt on a charge of fornification having been published after Sep-
and adultery and sentenced to tember 1. It will he eligible next
12 months in Jail or at the coun-jyear. Another, "The Proposed
ty home, was granted a parole ^ Constitution for North Carolina.’’
Monday by Governor Ehringhans i by Dillard S. Gardner, is added
and Parole Commissioner Edwin !*o the li.st. making 37 publica-
H. Gill. ! tions that are in the competition
While petitions for four pa-1 for the Mayflower Society Clip
voles were granted the governor for tlie past year.
turned a deaf ear to 47 pleas. j —-— -
As an “emergency matter’’ the | DEMOCRATIC LEADERS’
temporary parole was granted to | POWER TO BE TESTED
Davidson. 7S-year-old|
county man serving a j
E. A.
Cherokee
sentence in states prison for vio
lation of the state’s banking
lawk.
lldwln M. Gill, parole commis
sioner, said the governor’s ac
tion was taken after the prison
physician said Davidson was in a
[ieritical condition due to his age
■“and other complications.
Gill said the temporary parole
would probably be followed by
a regular parole if Davidson s
condition does not improve. He
said the prisoner was formerly
president of a bank in
and had served part
yeaV sentence.
Cherokee
of a five-
Still U Destroyed
Several days ago Federal
'Agents J. E. Kanipe and Leo A.
Began, accompanied by Deputy
Sheriff L. F. Caudill, destroyed
;a very large liquor plant in the
TrapWll section.
The outfit consisted of 35 fer-
'^eaters, a 200-gallon still, 100-
doubler, 100-gallon con-
er and a 250-gallon steam
ft addition to the still about
-.AiO -g*Hon* mash, ten gal-
fftns of whiskey and live gallons
of lo'Sf wines were destroyed.
Wa.shington. Oct. 30.—A pos
sible test of the administration's
influence on Capitol hill was
shown to be in the making to
day with word that passage of
controversial farm act amend
ments will be pressed vigorously
at the ne.xt session of Congre.ss.
Chester C. Davis, A.AA admin
istrator, remarked that “the
lime for passage is up to Con
gress, but we favor enactment as
soon as there has been a suf
ficient period for careful consid
eration.’’
"We believe passage of the
amendments would clear up pres
ent uncertainties.’’ he added.
The AAA decided on the form
of the amendments only a few
weeks before the last session of
Congress ended. Before they ever
were approved by the senate agri
culture committee. Senator Byrd,
Democrat. Virginia, and others
said they would "regiment” agri
culture and make Secretary Wal
lace a “Hitler” of agriculture.
Thirty herds of Jersey cattle
in Catawba county, consisting of
about 1,000 head of cows, are
being tested for Bang’s disease
under the cooperative plan of
fered by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. *
First Project Will
Be To Wilkes Line
Calls For Grading, Gravel and
Crushed Stone On 11.65
Miles of Road
The state highway and public
works commission has called for
bids on 11.65 miles of what is
commonly known as the Hunting
Creek road. Bids will be received
On this and other projects on
November 7th in Raleigh.
The project calls for grading,
gravel and crushed stone surfac
ing on 11.65 miles of road, be
ginning at the end of the as
phalt pavement in Statesville on
route 115 and ending at the
Wilkes-Iredell county line, pre
sumably at a point near Comer’s
store. It is expected that the
Wilkes end of the project will be
let for contract at a not far dist
ant date.
News that this highway is go
ing to be constructed is gladly
received by the people in the
communities along the route and
by numerous people who desire
the
this direct route between
Wilkesboros and Statesville.
Projects in six counties to he
let on Wednesday of next week
will entail a total cost of ap
proximately a quarter of a mil
lion dollars. The projects are lo-
c a t e d in Halifax. Carteret.
Wayne, Catawba, Iredell and
Lincoln counties.
HAUPTMANN TRACED
TO NORTH CAROLINA
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Charlotte, Oct. 30.—The Char
lotte News today says that Bruno
Hauptmann, charged with the j
kidnaping of the Lindbergh ba
by, is believed by the department
of justice to have spent some
time in Hendersonville under the)
name Ackerman Ockerman about )
a month after the kidnaping. t
Agents of the department are
investigating the North Carolina
end of the crime and the alleged ■
criminal, the paper says. j in the job of repairing and wash-
"During his sojourn in North I ing the great marble shaft.
Carolina.” the '
Parties Arrayed For
Vote Batde Tuesday
Parties Active As
Campaign Nears End
Last Minute Appeals Are
Made To Voters of the
Coiui'ty and State
On Tuesday of next week, No
vember 6, from sunup to sun
down voters will go to the polls
to select county and state offi
cers.
Included in the oflcers to he
elected this year are members of
the supreme court, judges of the
superior court, and congressman,
all on the state ticket. All coun
ty officers will be selected r.nd
the candidates of both parties
are on the county ticket. Town
ship officers will also be elect
ed.
With the election only five
days away both political parties
are exceedingly active and indi
cations point to a large vote if
weather conditions are favorable.
This week all sections of the
county have been visited by the
county candidates of both parties
and an enthusiastic campaign
has neen carried on. Last minute
appeals will be made during the
remaining days of the campaign.
So far the campaign has been
characterized by many speeches
b y candidates and political
speakers of both parties and ac
tivity during the registration
period showed evidence of or
ganization.
Congressman Walter Lambeth
has appeared in the county for
two speaking engagements and
his Republican opponent, Attor
ney Avalon E. Hall, of Yadkin-
vllle, has also bid for the votes
of Wilkes, with three addresses.
Saturday of this week will be
challenge day and the registra.
Engineers Are
Staking Scenic
Parkway Route
Hoj>e to Locate Boulevard on
High Altitude of Blue
Ridge Summit
CONSTRUCTION URGED
All Westem Carolina Wffl
Bmefit From Road, Is
Opinion Here
Washington . . . Above is pic
tured the hig*'Cst monument
scaffolding ever erected. 11
shows workmen nearing the 555
feet, 5 1-8 inches top of the
historic Washington monument
will be at the polling 4 ^cea for
the purpose of hearing challeng
es.
Wilkesboro To Play
Harmony On Friday
paper says,
“Hauptmann was in the company
of another man and a woman. He
received several telegrani.s from
New Jersey during his Hender
sonville stay.”
Resurfacing Street Here
Work on resurfacing a portion
5-Point Program
For the Schools
Is Recommended
Game Will Start On Wilkesboro’s
Field Tomorrow Afternoon
M 2:45
of D .Street over what is locally
has been in
past .several
known as "the fill"
progress during the
days.
The original pavement had
cracked up and has been badly
in need of repair for the past
two years.
Council On Education Asks
For Appropriation of $25,-
000,000 For Schools
j Wilkesboro high school’s foot-
I ball team will play an eleven
I from Harmony high on Wilkes
boro’s field Friday afternoon.
The kickoff will be at 2:45.
It is expected that there will
be many lovers of the sport out
to see the game and to see what
the prospects are for the North
Wilkesboro-Wilkesboro game to
be played here on November 9.
Episcopal Services
at St.
I Raleigh, Oct. 31.—A five-point
I educational program in North
I Carolina for the present and con
tinuing over a long period of
I time was adopted by the North
Carolina Council on the Emer
gency in Education, composed of
leaders in all lines and from all
Service will be held
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-1 sections, which met in Greens
boro, Sunday afternoon, Novem
ber 4th, at four o’clock. Rev. B.
M. Lackey, Rector, in charge.
Neil Hartley On
Debating Team Of
Mars Hill College
boro last week.
The program asks, among oth-
(Continued on back page)
Gain In Red Cross Membership Is
Reported By Local Unit Chairman
W- E. Jones To Have
Kiwanis Program Friday
W E. Jones will be program '
chairman at the meeting of the |
Cnran'zatj!>p Did Not Suffer
1.0S.8 of Members During
the Depression
Wilkes Alumni Making Excellent
Record At Baptist Institu
tion This Year
Volunteer
I
workers for the
Chapter of the
Friday at noon. A full attend- j American Red Cross are making
ance of members is asked. j plans now for the annual Roll
Program ^airmen for the re-1 call membership campaign which
meetings in
mainin
are as follows: November 9, B.
E. Altman; November 16. C. O.
McNeill: November 23, C. B. El
ler: November 30, J. C. Reins.
Another Loses Life
November | opens on Armistice Day, Sunday,
November 11, according to a
statement today by Mr. J. H.
Whicker chairman of the local
chapter. The quota assigned to
this chapter is 1.000, and Mr.
n I u* i. Whicker says there is every in-
On Robeson Highway | jjjg „jjj j,g
reached, if not passed, during
the roll call campaign.
"A gain in membership was re
ported by the national organiza
tion for last year,’’ Mr. Whicker
said today. “The organization did
not suffer a serious loss in
members at any time during the
period of stress; such decrease
as occurred was checked last
year, and the response to the
roll call this year is expected to
be well up toward the pre-de
pression figure.
“Immediately after President
Roosevelt was inaugurated in
March, 1933, the Red Cross
pledged him its support and the
use of all its facilities, and over
and over again the federal gov
ernment has called on the Red
cross for cooperation. Disaster
relief and relief and rebabillta-
(Ckintlnued on page elsltt)
Lumberton. Oct. 29.—Death
this afternoon of one of six peo
ple injured in a collision of cot
ton trucks in Big Swamp. 12
miles east of Lumberton on the
Bladenhoro road, brought to sev
en the number of people who
have died in highway accidents
in this section within the past
three days.
Reynolds To Speak
In Yadkin Monday
Raleigh, Oct. 30.—Senator R'.
R. Reynolds, through his secre
tary at Washington, today wired
J. Wallace Winborn, state Dem
ocratic chairman, that he will
speak next Monday at
vllle.
Reynolds’ speech, at
will be on the eve of
eral election November
Yadkln-
Mars Hill. Oct. 31.—Mr. Neil
Hartley, son of Mrs. Pearl Hart
ley, of Wilkesboro, was recently
selected to represent Mars Hill
College on the intercollegiate de
bating team for the second suc
cessive year. He also holds the
following positions on the col
lege campus: Member of the stu
dent council. Secretary of a B. Y.
P. U., Treasurer of the Senior
class.
Last year he was President of
the Euthalian literary society for
one term, Pianist of the same so
ciety for one term. Secretary of
the French Club, and a member
of the cast of the original play
given at Chapel Hill.
Before coming to Mars Hill
college he graduated from Wil
kesboro high school in 1933.
During his attendance there he
was President of the Music club.
President of the French club,
President of the Senior class
and a member of the debating
team for three years.
Food Sale
The members of the Mary
Brame Circle of the North Wil
kesboro Methodist church will
hold a food sale on Saturday,
November 3, at Spalnhour-Syd-
nor’B store. All kinds of food will
be on sale and anyone desiring a
special order call or see Mrs. A.
B. Johnston, chairman of circle.
Scores Injured When
Relief Forces Strike
Denver, Colo., Oct. 30—Scores
of heads were cracked, one man
shot, and about a dozen persons
jailed as result of demonstra
tions held here today against re
ductions In relief allowances. All
'4police reserves were called:.out. .
Belgrade, Yugoslavia . . .
Above is the last picture of Peter
II, as a care free boy of 11 years,
seeing London sights. The photo
was taken 18 days before he be
came the boy King of Yugoslavia
through the assassination of his
father. King Alexander, while on
an official mission in France.
Voter Interest
In Elections Is
Noted In Nation
Compilation Shows 47,949,928
Citizens Registered Above
1928 Figures
Washington. Oct. 30.—A high-
voltage voter interest in next
Tuesday’s first nation-wide test
of the new deal, with 47,949,-
928 men and women qualifying
themselves to vote, was shown
today by an Associated Press
compilation.
This figure, unusually high for
an “off-year" battle, was indi
cated in a gathering of registra
tions and official and unofficial
estimates of voting strength in
ail the states which ballot No
vember 6. J
Although falling a million be-
1 o w the record registration
brought about by the Roosevelt-
Hoover presidential contest in
1932, the estimate is more than
5,000,000 above that for the
Hoover-Smith election in 1928.
Recortl Set In 1934
Two years ago the number of
fConHaued on page four)
Residents and property own
ers along the summit of the
Blue Ridge Mountains from
Roaring Gap to Deep Gap brins
the report that engineers of the
state highway and public work*
commission are busily engaged
in scouting for location of the
Great Scenic Parkway, which
will connect the Shenandoah and
Smoky Mountains national parks.
The proposed route enters
North Carolina from Virginia,
about 12 miles northwest of Ml.
Airy, proceeding to the Blue
Ridge in the vicinity of Roaring
Gap, thence following mountain
and valley in the region of the
Blue Ridge summit to Blowing
Rock. From Blowing Rock to the
southern terminal the route is in
dispute between North Carolina
and Tennessee.
In flagging the proposed loca
tion the engineers have worked
for the best scenic route and
have followed closely the sum
mit of the Blue Ridge, it is re
ported here.
It the preliminary work so tar
is followed up and adopted the
parkway will be as near to this
section and altitude will permit,
furnishing the parkway travelers
a vast panorama from the
heights of the Mountains bor
dering Wilkes on the north and
west.
Since one of the purposes of
this great project of the Public
Work.s Administration is to fur
nish employment to the present
jobless, every effort will be made
to complete the surveys within
a short time in order that work
may begin.
The state’s part in the con
struction of this collossal project
is to furnish right of way and
survey. Practically all of the
property owners along the Blue
Ridge route have signed agree
ment indemnifying the state a-
gainst damages, it is reported
Local Church To
Begin New Year
Pastor Will Give Report of
Annual Conference In
Sunday Service
Work On Highway
No. 16 Progressing
Contractors Moving Dirt Rap
idly; Several Men Are
Employed
Nello Teer, contractor for
construction of highway number
16 leading from the intersection
with the Boone Ti-ail at Millers
Creek toward Jefferson, is mak
ing much headway on 'the grad
ing, more than one mile having
been completed.
Although the dirt is being
moved rapidly it will be several
weeks, however, before the en
tire project of 5.68 miles can he
graded and gravel surfaced. It is
presumed that the gravel sur
face will be oil treated after it
has thoroughly settled.
E. W. Grannls Construction
Company, of Fayettville. holder
of the contract for structures,
has completed some of the cul
verts and work on that part of
the project is being pushed to
completion.
Work on this road project and
other PWA construction in the
county has greatly relieved the
unemployment situation. Labor
la being furnished the contrac
tors from the reemployment of
fice here. Veterans are given
preference.
On Sunday the North Wilkea-
boro Methodist church will begin
a new year, which will be usher
ed in by a special service at 11
o’clock. All members and friends
of the church are urged to be
present.
The pastor. Dr. W. A. Jenkins,
who was returned by the confer
ence. will give a brief report of
the conference which closed Sun
day in Greensboro. The chairman
of the board of stewards. Prof.
W. D. Halfacre, will speak of
the church budget for the com
ing year and the board of stew
ards will be installed by the
pastor.
Services will be held S-'n'i''v
at eleven o’clock In the momlns
at seven-thirty in the evening.
Visitors and friends will receive
a hearty welcome.
Lad Is Killed On Way To
His First Day In School
Salem, Ore., Oct. 29.—Proud
ly on his way to his first day at
school. Tommy Judd, six years
old, "was crushed to death by a
falling tree today as he stopped
to say “Hello, Daddy,” to his
father, who, with a neighbor,
was felling a huge oak.
The men had sawed only a few
inches, but the entire’core
tree was rotten.
Evangelistic Club
Continues Active
Will Hold Service Sunday
Morning At Silver Stone
In Watauga County
The Wilkes Evangelistic Club,
organized here several years ago
by a number of church laymen,
continues very active in aiding in
religious .services in the churches
of Wilkes and other counties in.
Northwestern North Carolina.
On Sunday night a delegation
of the club, composed of W. G.
Gabriel. W. B. Raymer and W
M. Briggs, conducted a service at
Brennan church In Yadkin Coun
ty. On Sunday morning the ciub
will conduct a service at Silver
Stone church In Watauga Coun
ty. The organization delights in
answering any calls for church
services.
Each Thursday evening at aev-
en o’clock the club holds its reg
ular meetings in its room pa the
second floor of the Baakf .of
North Wilkesboro building.;,Any
one . interested in evangidlntle
work is invited to attend. >'