tATE NEWS OF
STATED
NATION
Many Viident Deaths
Danville, Dec.' 4.—The
ords in the ctfice of Dr. J. B.
jrlor, city coroner, today show
ed that 20 violent deaths have
' occurred in Danville during the
;«st eight weeks.
Killed By SawnUil
• Albemarle, Dec. 4.—A. G.
Murray, 61-year-old farmer and
saw mill man of Oakboro, route
1. met Instant death about 10
o’clock this morning when he
fell into a circular saw being
operated near his home.
'Xegro Magistrates
Durham, Dec. 3—For the first
time in the history of the state
two negroe.s today took the oath
of office as magistrates of Dur
ham county. They were Louis H.
Austin, editor of a negro weekly
paper, and Frederick Watkins.
( Hoo«l Damage Great
Raleigh. Dec. 4.—Flood wat
ers now sweeping into south
eastern North Carolina have al
ready caused damage estimated
at “well over $100,000” to state
property, including highways and
bridges, it was estimated here
today.
No Clemency
Is Expected
Doomed Men Apparently
Given Up Hopes For Com
mutation of Sentence
TRIPLE ELECTROCUTION
Unless Governor Ehringhaus
commutes one or more death
sentences between now and to
morrow morning three white
men will die in the electric
chair at the North Carolina state
prison.
B. G. and Lester Green and R.
E. Black, High Point men. have
apparently given up hopes for
commutation and calmly face
their doom tomorrow for the
killing of Cashier T. C. Barnes
in an attempted holdup ot>^the
Robert E. Snow to Serve 3
Yeairs For Forging Check
Endorsement
Killwl In Wreck
^ Statesville, Dec. 3. — Lee
Rhyne, 24, who received a frac
ture of skull Saturday afternoon
when his car crashed into the
side of Alex Cooper’s grocery
truck here, died at the Davis
hospital today. He never regain
ed consciousness.
New York . . . Com. Evange
line C. Booth, for more thaii 30
years iu charge of America’s Sal
vation Army, photographed as
she sailed for London where
she takes office as General of
the Salvation Army of the
World.
To Die In Chair
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Dec. 3.—
Standing alone in a court room,
with no member of his family
.present, Edward Allen EdwarJs
today heard a judge senter.ce
him to die in the electric chair
for slaying his sweetheart, so
he could marry another girl.
D. J. Carter Will
Head Farm Census
In Eighth District
bank in Taylorsville.
Although it is still possible
that executive clemency will be
extended to one or more of the
doomed men their hopes are
now at a low ebb since the
hearing last week. Although a
part of the jurors have requested
mercy tor Lester Green, the
judge at the trial has remained
non-committal and Solicitor
John R. Jones has publicly stat
ed his unalterable stand against
leniency for either of the three.
If clemency is not extended
and reprieves are not granted
the electric chair will blot out
three lives on the same day for
the second time within a month
and the second time in the blg-
Headquarters For 8th Con- electrocution in North
gressional District‘TTSe
In Lexington
Doctor Be«in.s Sentence
Raleigh. Dec. 3. — Doctors
raes A. and J. W. Dugtiid.
ctitioners of Vancehoro and
D9i^ in Craven county, report
ed today to United States Marsh
al Ford Worthy and tonight lell
for the federal prison to spend
an indeterminate sentence for
alleged violation of the Harrison
narcotic act.
vy Five Negroes Killed
-tlbcky Mount, Dec. 3.—Five
• Tegroes were almost instantly
killed and two others were In a
lospital in a serious condition
here tonight after a north-bound
’Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train crashed into a stalled au
tomobile at BatUeboro. eight
miles north of this city, late last
night.
D. J. Carter, of this city, was
named by the census bureau in
Washington Tuesday to head the
taking of the farm census in the
eighth congressional district. E.
P. Fresson, of .Monroe. was
named as assistant supervisor.
Headquarters for this district
will be maintained a
from which the enumerators in
the 14 counties of the census
district will do tiieir work.
I The census will start on Jan
uary 2 with approximately 100
enumerators in the district at
work. Wil'ies County will have
sixteen enumerators.
The farm census is taken
every ten years, coming between
the regular decennial census of
the entire population of the
country. Its purpose is to gath
er comprehensive data on the
rural population and agricultur
al industry.
Flies 9 Miles Up
Bartlesville, Okla., Dec. 3.—
Confident he set a new airplane
^tltude record of some 4 8,000
flet today. Wiley Post announc
ed tonight he would defy the
stratosphere’s howling gales and
"Q degrees below zero cold
again within “twc or three
days” in an attempt to fly 10.-
000 feet higher still.
Carolina. Three negroes'’ were
electrocuted three weeks ago
for the killing of a service sta
tion operator in Sampson county.
Mike Stefanoff, alien member
of the robbery conspiracy of
four, has already paid with his
life. The Greens. Black and
Stefanoff were at one time all
residents of High Point but
Stefanoff had moved to Wilkes
t Lexington. making his
’ ‘ home about four miles northeast
of North Wilkesboro when the
Greens and Black came to his
home and planned the hank rob
bery.
Black was an employee of the
city of High Point until shortly
before the Taylorsville killing.
It has been reported that he was
fired because of insnbordinatlon.
W. L. McOahey. Beaufort
county agent, is working to
stamp out the small outbreaks of
hog cholera ^d swine plague
which hie that section lately.
Deputy Marshals John H.
Stephenson and Law'rence ,M.
Huffman returned Monday morn
ing from ChilUcothe, O., where
they delivered into the custody
of federal prison officials 17
men who Svere sentenced by
Judge Johnson J. Hayes at the
regular term of court in Wilkes
boro which ended last Saturday,
these prisoners being as follows;
Robert E. Snow, forger.v of
indorsement on govern ra e n t
check, 18 months; Roosevelt
Norman, liquor, on® year and
one day; Taft Benton, liquor,
one year and one day; Mitchell
Pruitt, liquor, one year and one
day; Ira Billings, liquor, one
year and one day; Hal Teague,
llqiior, two sentences of 36
months each, these, however,
running concurrently; Ralph
Teague, liquor, one year and one
day; Glen Hamby, liquor, one
year and one day; Everett Nor
man, liquor, one yjar and one
day; Marvin Warren, raising $1
bill to $10. three years; Frank
Dyson, liquor, one year and one
day; William Grlnton. negro,
liquor, one year and one day;
Lee Grlnton. negro, liquor, one
year and one day; Odell Jones,
violation of postal laws, one
year and one day; Leonard Pen
nell, liquor, 18 months; Lana
Woods, alias Lainey Woods, vio
lation of Dyer motor vehicle
Cost of Labw
On the Project
•I Mulberry Township, Blimitaiii
View and Millers
Districts Considered
SAVING IS ESTIMATED
Board of Eklucation Says Pfaat
Would Save County Over
$25,000; Tells Need '
Marietta. O. . . . John Hupp, 69. and J. W. Yerian, 61, (above),
trudged “over the hill” to the Washington County Infirmary, 3
years ago. They were both veterans of the oil derrick rigs and they
“allowed there was oil in them grounds’’ after they had looked
about a bit. Superintendent L. A. Hall listened to their story, loan
ed them funds . . . and they “struck” a 30 barrel-a-day well. Now
the Pauper Oil Company has been organized and another well will
be sunk if the first well continues to flow.
Federal Statisticians See Prospects
For Best Holiday Trade Since 1930
J
Raleigh, Dec. 4.—R. E. Black,
of High Point, slated to die in
the electric chair Friday with
his father-in-law, Bascom Green,
and his brother-in-law, Lester
Green, Monday wrote a final let
ter from hls- cell on death row to
his 15-montbs old son, burn |
while he was on trial for mur-
I der.
* (Continued ou page eight)
Church, liquor, one year and one
day. r-'
The cases involving liquor in
this connection relate to alleged
infraction of th© internal reve
nue laws as they pertain to li
quor. In one of these actions Hal
Teague testified that it was he
who threw Special Deputy M. S.
Phillips, of Ferguson, into a vai
containing hot mash at a still Iu
Wilkes county last spring, in
flicting serious injuries, from
which, however, the deputy ap
pears subsequently to have re
covered.
Tuesday morning Deputy Mar
shal C. P. Vanstory left for
■VNlashiiigton, taking with him
Estle Love, 16, who Is being
placed in the National Training
school there tor two years be
cause of his violation of the
Dyer motor vehicle theft act.
Love was convicted at Wilkes
boro last week.
Wdkes Poet and Mrs. McDiarmid On
Program Literary, Historical Meet
Swaringen Is
Chairman of
County Board
\V)».shlng;tou, Dec. 3.—Gov
ernment statLsticli»n.s conclud
ed tod.vy, on the basis of offi
cial and private flghires, tlvat
bnsines.s would enjoy the best
(Christinas trade since 1980.
Tile conclu-sion was cheered
by John Dickinson, assistant
.secretary of com mere % who
declared he saw in the Improv-
el retail trade the basis for
“sound lecuverj-.”
In making tlielr prwiictions
of gi-eater spending tills ,>Tile-
tiile, officials rflictl on feder
al statistics showing inoreasetl
farm income, higher factory
pay i-olls, increased govern
ment emergency exiiendltnres
for job-creating projects, more
stable liank conditions ami on
what they Intei-preted' as a
more confident, optimistic
frame of mind on the part of
the people.
“The prospects for a big
Uhrlstmas trade,” Dickinson
said, “show veiy cleariy the
state of mind—^a satisfied and
optimistic state of mind.
“All of the evidence imli-
cates tile people are In a great
er siiending mood, but not for
reckle.ss sfiending smJi as we
saw some years ago. This mood
to buy can be directly attrib
utable to more eniplo>Tnent
and more money in tlie peo
ple's pockets.”
The statisticians checkeil
olosel.v estbnales that farm in
come this year will be nearly a
billion dollars greater than
1933, rising from $5,051,000.-
000 to about $6,000,000,000.
October income as figured at
$736,000,000 against $622,-
000,000 a year ago,
■\ good part of tills rural
wealth Is expected to go di-
rectiy in to the retail trade.
Officials believe It will
swell the baying looked for
from the .$.3.50,000,000 t o
$370,000,000 now being dis
tributed by banks tlirougheut
tlie country to their Christmas
club de|K)sitors.
Wilkes County board of educa
tion in joint session with the
board of county commissioners
this week submitted a proposal
whereby three central school
distrieCs in the county may have
adequate buildings at a uvhig
to the county of over $25,'00(>.’
The proposed plan calls. a.
modern ten-room strucfifiw”-4or
Mulberry township, • repaHrtag
and remodeling the Mountain
■View -school property, and the
erection of an auditorium and
four classrooms at Millers Creek.
The board of education reconv-
mended that the commissioners,
cooperate in securing from thp
State Literary. Bhilding Fund a
loan of loans for the purpose''of
materials to be used in. the jffo-
jects and informed them that
labor could be furnished by ,the
Emergency Relief Administra
tion.
On estimates submitted by
Foster and Allen, local contrac
tors, the cost of labor for the
three projects would be $25.-
593.40 and the cost of materials
$16,994.58, which would be the
sum the county would need to
secure from the‘’foi1ding fund.
The mulberry toy-sship school
building, according to' the esti
mates, would cost $15^4.’5]54,, of
which Wilkes County^3 ■* pwt
would be $7,592.54 for mateip-
ials. The other buildings asked
for in the proposal are repairs
and remodeling at Mountain
View, and an auditorium and
four classrooms at Millers Creek.
It is proposed that the abandon
ed school buildings known as
Bell View and Gordon could be
used in this structure. The total
estimated cost of the three build-
(Continued on page eight)
Basketball Tonight
Dock Anderson Is
Jailed For Assault
North Wilkesboro all star has-;
j ketball team will meet a strong
team from Booneville on the, Love In Serious Coo-
North Wilkesboro high school pYom Being Hit On
Heaci With Chair
gymnasium court tonight at
eight o’clock. A fast game is an
ticipated.
Organization and Routine
Matters Keep New Board
Busy For Two Days
A.
07 Engineer Dies
, Spencer, Dec. 4.—William
Kini»h, veteran Southern rall-
vray engineer, died at his home
here today, ending a career that
had eaabraced service at the
throttle of the famous “old 97.”
the Crescent Limited, and every
^ilpll^ial special over the
Sont^ern lines since the days of
MciClnley. He was 71 years old.
and had a record of 49 years of
. railroading.
James Larkin Pearson One of Xo Get Away
; Woman Is Coptnred
Chicago, Dec. 4.—Mrs. Helen
GlUis, first unofficial woman
public enemy, was a federal pris
oner tonight. The tiny widow of
the notorious George (Baby
jrtface) Nelson was seized here
"^ast Thursday, federal authorl-
'^tles announced, a little more
.than 24 hours after the shatter-
id body of her husband had been
found on a muddy parairie neai
Niles Center last Wednesday—
the posthumous victim of Agents
'Samuel P. Cowley and Herman
B. Hbllis, who sacrificed their
lives in a game effort to capture
tJiim.
Principal Speakers at
Opening Session
of
With Sheriff’s Car
l^iJessrs. Charles Hulcher and
111 Cashion had as their guests
the week-end Mmks- Dun-
in Malloy, Jose "Vasquez. and
id Morgan, students of the
•bytertan Junior College .at
laitM, :N. C. Both Mr. Hulcher
Mr.‘ Coftdnn are also stu-
of tka eoUege.
James Larkin Pearson.
Boomer. "P o e t Laureate of
North Carolina.’’ was a principal
speaker on the opening program
of the annual convention of the
North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association.
The convention opened in Ra
leigh Tuesday and closed last
night.
Dr. Frank Graham, president
of the University of North Car
olina, is head of the association
and delivered the opening ad
dress on the subject of “Benja
min Franklin and the South.’’
Mr. Pearson followed the presi
dent in Tuesday’s program with
an address on “The Soul of
Poetry.”
A highlight of yesterday morn
ing’s session was the reading of
a pap'er entitled “North Caro
lina’s Claim to the Whistling
Mother,” by Mrs. James C. Me- i
Dlarmid, of North Wilkesboro.
Mrs. McDiarmid is considered
quite an authority on this sub
ject and her paper proved to be
of much interest to-the assemb
ly.
Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman,
editor of the Richmond News-
L^der, was a principal speaker
last night, discussing “Robert E
L^*s 'Association ’With North
' (CoAti$aed on pAge five)
A man giving hls name a.s
(Tay Caudill picked the wTong
car this morning' and landed
in custody of Sheriff W. B.
Somers, whose car he tried to
drive sway from the streets
here this morning.
Sheriff Somers was driving
a depaty’s car when he recog
nized a man driving his. He
immediately gave chase and
overtook his own car driven ’
by Candill at the Reddles Riv
er bridge • just west” of this
city. Candill drove back to the’’
city^after saying he had enter-'
ed the wrong car bat started
to leave on foot at the first
opportnnity. He was appre- .
bended shortly by Sheriff Som
ers and is being held today for
investigation.
Judge I. M. Medkins
Hurt In Car Crash
Raleigh. Dec. 5. — Federal
Judge I. M. Meekins, of Eliza
beth City, suffered painful but
not serious injuries this after
noon when the car in which he
was a passenger was In collis
ion with another machine near
Bailey, it was learned here to
night.
D. B. Swaringen. of Traphill.
was named chairman of the
county board of commissioners
after the members were sworn
in for the new term on Monday
morning.
Following the organization the
board, now composed of D. B.
Swaringen, M. P. Absher and
Ralph Duncan, entered into the
business of swearing in other
county officers and recording
their bonds. Bonds for all offi
cers were filled with the com
missioners as prescribed by law.
The board was swamped with
routine matters and swearing in
township offices, making i t
necessary that a two-day session
be held. The board will hold a
recess session some time this
month to take nP nny unfinish
ed business.
Health Office Report Shows Number
Of Contagious Diseases on Decline
Urge People To Buy
Seals For Christmas
Three-Fourths Of Fnnd-s Derived
Fi-om Seals Will Be Us a In
Wilkes Ckmnty
Quarterly Conference
Mrs. B. F. Pollard, of Marion,
visltpd relatives' for a few days
here' the first Of ’the Week. --
First quarterly conference of
the Moravian Falls Methodist
charge will be held at Beulah
church at Moravian Falls on
Wednesday, December 12, ac
cording to ■ an announcement by
the pastor. Rev. J. C. Gentry.-
The meeting will' open at elev
en o’clock and the forenoon ses
sion will be devoted to a wor
ship service led by Rev. A. C.
Gibbs, the presiding elder. At
noon there will be dinner on
the grounds and business of the
conference will be taken up 'tn
the afternoon. All official mem-'
beta' of the churches on the
charge ata asked to attaad.
People of the county are be
ing urged to buy Christmas seals
to be used on Christmas mall
and gift packages.
The sale of seals is being
conducted by the Woman’s Clubs
of the Wilkesboros and the pur
pose is to raise funds with which
to carry on the fight against- tu- ^
bercnlosls. Three fourths Of the • typhoid
funds will be used In Wilkes
County.
Dock Anderson, Windy Gap
resident and an ex-convict, is
again in jail at Wilkesboro, this
! time for a.ssault on Dink I^eve
! at the Anderson home on Tues-
I day night.
I Deputy Sheriff W. B. Somers
• u L • i Jailor J. B. Sheets weut to
Seven Cases of Diphth-CU13 J,is home Tuesday night and
and One Typhoid; Patients | brought him to wilkesboro.
Quarantined J where he is being held pending
the outcome of Love's injuries.
Communicable diseases i n. iijt on the head by a
chair in a drunken brawl, ac-
diseases i n!
Wilkes County are very much on |
the decline, according to the re-1
port of County Health Officer A-1
J. Eller for the month on No- ■
vember. ’ ' j
The number ofi cases of con-
cording to reports of the officers.
Anderson 'was so intoxicated,
according to the officers, ’-that
he could not give a coherent ac
count of the affray but stated
tagious disease reported to the j that he hit Love after his wife
health officer for November to-1 had ordered him from the home,
taled only 16, half of which werej He also told the officers ’ that
venereal, diseases. The report, he struck at another man when
showed seven cases of diphther-1 he hit love. ■‘'
da, six cases of gonoi^rhea, two | Love suffered a concussion ol
eases of syphilis and One case of | the brain and was still uncon-
' scions yesterday when he. was
1 Of the seven cases of diph-l carried from his home to'‘ a
! theria six were quartntined by | Statesville hospital. It was stat-
Junior AVoman’s Club
visit of the health officer or i ed that his condition was .grltl-
To Sponsor Food Sale
nurse and the other through the cal and that his chances M re-
The members of the Junior
Woman’s club of North Wilkes
boro, will sponsor a food sale^
at the WJilkes Drug Store, Sat
urday morning, December 8, be-i
ginning at 10 o’clock and con
tinuing until 12:30. The fol
lowing foods will be on sale,
dressed chickens, apple sauce
cake, coconut cake, chicken sal
ad, divinity fudge, chess , pies,
butterscotch pie, and brown
bread. Homemade rolls.ready for
baking can'be "secured by calling
Mrs, Frank P. Eller.'i*dne *«-'
Anyone desiring .a ipaelal
of' food other than meationad
gbo've may also call Mrs. Eller.
mails. The small number of cas-! covery are slight. *. -
es of diphtheria and typhoid is i ' Anderson is rem^nfbeifjp.., as
considered a result of vaccina-' one of a party convkted-Jofrsec
tions and immunizations made ond degree murder in connection
by the health department during j with the killing of a man by. the
the past few years in the coun
ty.
The health officer and the
county nurse_made a large num
ber of appointments In practical
ly every section of the county
during the'^nfinir'^glvlng Im
munizations'^ against ^ typhoid and
other disease and ‘several han-
dreds were af^e ! immane. Dr.
Eller Is all chltdioa
.over six laO^bK iot age be rac-
daated a$a^rH$htheUa » they
oil page alght)
name of Longbottom about ten
years ago. He was paroled from”
state prison attpr. serving a-, jjaft
of his sentenofe'Si*-
Berean Claaa To Eloct^'C' ’^
Officers Suadajr Mftmnig
T-he Berean class of the Ft^ ''
Baptist Sunday school wlU
oftioers tor the coming yi^'dlkV;-
Suhday morning at the.
Suaday school hour. git'WSir* ■
beta of the class are urged to hss
present.^
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