TEAND
NATION
"'Ok Huger Strike
WUterine, Dec. 11.—B. K.
convicted November 18 for
Insarance lawa violations,
into the 18tti day of his
-hanger strike today, declaring he.
-■'wanted ‘‘Justice.”*,'
Safecrackers C!et $1,000
*. Wilmington, Dec. 10.—Yeggs
during the week-end entered
Efird’s department store, located
in the heart of the business sec
tion, cracked the safe and robb
ed it of 81,000 in currency.
Wreck Injuries Fatal
t W1 E. Cheek, 50, of Greens>
tbfirb, was fatally injured in an
i&lomobile-truck collision o ii
highway No. 10 about a mile
eaat of its intersection with the
Whitsett road, around 7:45 o’
clock Monday night.
40-Ponnd Meteor Falls
Raleigh, Dec. 10—A 40-pound
fragment of the meteor that
fell December 5 in the eastern
part of North Carolina was se
cured near Farmvllle today by
Harry Davis, curator of geology
for the state museum here, and
■was brought to Raleigh.
Satterfield Dies Friday
Raleigh, Dec. 12.—Rufus Sat-
^terfield, slated to die in the elec
tric chair at state’s prison Fri
day for the murder of Herbert
Grice of Wayne county, will not
be reprieved, Edwin M. Gill,
state parole commissioner, an
nounced tonight.
B^neers Driving
Stakes on Location
Of Scenic Parkway
Child Bureau Oiief
Washington . . . MisS Kather
ine Lenroot (above), of Wiscon
sin, daughter of the late U. S.
Senator Lenroot (Rep. Wls.) has
been advanced b y President
Roosevelt to the post of Chief
of the Children’s Bureau of the
Department of Labor.
May Touch Wilkes
At Many Points
Locating Engineers Are Mak
ing Survey in Roaring
Gao Section
Seek Approval on
Elkin and North
Wilkesboro Road
Engineers of the North Caro
lina state highway and public
works commission are driving
stakes on the route of what is
destined to be the main artery
of tourist travel in eastern A-
merica—The Great Scenic Park
way connecting the Shenandoah
Valley and Smoky Mountains Na
tional Parks.
For several weeks engineers
have been working in Surry and
Alleghany counties and. it is re
ported here, are working on the
actual survey in the Roaring
Gap section.
Work of flagging the route
from near Mt. Airy where it
enters North Carolina to Blow
ing Rock was completed over a
month ago. The route as flagged
traverses the Roaring Gap sec
tion and follows the main for
mation of the majestic Blue
Ridge to Deep Gap, thence a
cross-country route to the fam
ous Blowing Rock section.
Pro.vimity of the proposed
boulevard to this section has a-
roused much interest in the pro
ject, which will be constructed
by the federal government at a
cost of $16,000,000 or more. If
the preliminary survey and flags
New York ... Six years ago
Miss Grace Moore (above), came
down to New York from a Ca
nadian Girls’ School and started
in modeling. Now she ranks
first as New York’s most photo
graphed model.
Miss Bell b Named
ERA Supervisor
For This District
New Setup Will Be Arranged
By Dec^ber 17; District
Has Six Counties
ByTiLS For Speaker
Washington. Dec. 12.—Selec
tion of Representative Joseph
W. Byrns of Tennessee as speak
er of the next house was virtual
ly assured tonight by the sud
den withdrawal of Representa
tive Sara Rayburn, of Texas, who
had been prominent in the race.
Project Plans for Five Miles [are followed the parkway will
of Route Turned Over to
Fedei-al Bureau
To Buy P’ore,st I,imds
Washington, Dec. 11.—Secre
tary Dern, president of the Na
tional Forest Reservation com
mission, announced today the
’^'M[i^ation of $10,000,000 by
rt^ldent Roosevelt for purchase
of additional lands for national
forest.s.
Miss Victoria Bell, njitlve of
Wilkes County and a former
i-elief administrator In Cataw
ba. has been named relief jmI-
ministrator for the new or-
ganirjition in this distriet,
compo.sf.d of Wilkes, Watauga,
.Ashe, .Alleghany, Surry an!
A'adkin counties.
Appointment to this import
ant post was announcetl yes-
touch Wilkes at a number of j
points near the summit of the |
Blue Ridge, which is the line j
betwee.T Wilkes, Alleghany, Ashe |
and Watauga counties. j ter1ay by Mrs. Thomas O’Ber-
On many of the higher peaks j cy, state relief administrator,
on the Bine Ridge,- such as the i in Raleigh. Althongh It Is said
.Airbellows, tittle Grandfather,! that, the other positions in the
the Big Lump ami Tompkins new relief setup have been
Knob, all lying between Roarmg! filletl, the other appointments
Rutli For Manager
Manila. Dec. 11.—Babe Ruth,
apparently optimistic concerning
his chance.s of becoming a pilot
for some American league club,
said'tonight: "I won’t sign a
player's contract, and will quit
baseball if I fail to land a man
ager’s job.”
Hope fo.- early action on the
North Wilkcsboro-Elkin highway
revived Tuesday when a project
calling for constriiullun vvr“"Tlve
miles between Ronda and Elkin
was sent in to the federal bureau
of roads for approval.
This project has been on the
waiting list for several months
but. it is said, plans were held up
pending settling of a controver
sy over the location of the road.
Meanwhile, people of the com
munities along the road and
many who desire a more direct .
route between North Wilkesboro experienced little diffi-j yorth Wilkesboro
and Elkin have been hoping that { ' ’’“'•'•‘"S'
all obstacles in the way of con-; Practically all of whom, already l»een leasisl and
strucling the road could be re-1 ^ funiKhed.
Gap on the east and Deep Gap i
on the west, the parkway has i
been flagged to swing to the I
Wilkes side and will provide a 1
vast panorama of unparalleled j
scenery in eastern America. j
It is understood that the state.:
have not been anuoiiBced.
.Albw Bell, accoi-ding to tv-
port.s here, is well qualified by
training and cx]v*Vience to fill
the |M>Ht of district adminis
trator.
The offires of the district
which is to furnish a right of ] ^^.jn |j^, lorated ii- this city In
moved.
! ate in order that the great boule-
The project on which approv-,
al is asked of the federal bn- j
I yard may become a reality.
Costly Fortune Telling'
Henderson. Dec. 11—J. Smit.b,
alias ‘‘Madam Virginia,” fortune
teller who set tip here for a
while, is gone and Mrs. Rosa
May is out of $420 which she
says the -woman took from her
on the promise that a fortune
would come to her.
reau of roads calls for grading,
structures, gravel and crushed-
stone surfacing on five miles be
tween Ronda and Elkin.
Eleven projects involving an
expenditure o t approximately ^
$400,000 will be let on Decern-,
her IS, while eleven projects
As soon as engineers are able 1
to complete a section of the aur-1
vey work will begin, it is under
stood, in order that unemployed j
may find work on tlie road.
It wns leanuMl li,to today
that ,(he new organisation is
e.vpecfed to b«- rcad.v for busi
ness not later than Monday.
The varlou.s county offices will
continue until the nctv organi
zation is rcad.v to function.
Teachers’ Meeting Five Wheels Stolen
Be Held Saturday: Off F. L. Parks’ Car
including the North Wilkesboro-! I'c. -T. H. Highsmith Will Address |
Elkin road, have been sent iu to.
Wallace Uphohls A.AA
Washington. Dec. 12.—Con
tinuation of the policies embo
died in the agricultural adjust
ment act. despite the fact that
many of the enorniqiis farm sur
pluses existing 19 months ago
are now eliminated, was recom
mended to President Roosevelt
today by Secretary of Agricul
ture Henry A. Wallace. ^
To Fly Around World
f ' l5»e Angeles, Dec. 11.—Col.
Roe cry Turner, American speed
‘IBIS’tonight announced tenta-
L ti^e plans for two flights around
^ the world, the first to carry him
I;'’ 24.000 miles around the equa-
Et: torial belt, the second to send
F ’hlm around the globe by way of
the North and South Poles.
Bull -Attacks Automobile
Tarboro, Dec. 11.—Here’s an
other bull story for the Mergeu-
thaler. A group of local people
were en route by automobile to
Richmond. Va.. Friday night
when an enraged toro, snorting
In anger, made a plunge for the
car. The machine side-swiped the
animal but his weight ali but
smashed the door.
Tobacco Htirplu.s Gone
Washington. Dec. 11.—Remov-
ul of virtually all of the 40,000,-
000 pounds surplus of fire-cured
(tobacco by the end of the 1935
.marketing season is expected
under the adjustment program
for this type of tobacco, J. B.
Hutson, chief of the tobacco sec-
tiCHi, agricultural adjustment ad-
isinistratlou. said today.
the federal bureau. .A project in :
Ashe County calling for grading. [
structures and stone surfacing i
Teachers; Meeting To Br--
gin at 10 -A. M.
Puslril Car .Away Fi’oni Homo
.At Ron ring River Tnesglay
Night; Reward Offerel
Dr. J. Henry Highsinith, di
from the junction of route 16 to I
.s-ab-
Ore Kuob has also been
milted.
Included in the eleven pro
jects to be let on Decemt>er IS is
bltulitbic surface on 4 1-3 miles i
of number IS between Lenoir 1
and Morgauton. I
I school inspection, will address
Persons of unknown identity
pushed F. L. Parks’ Ford car
from his home at Roaring River
the Wilkes County Teachers As-|T„e«day night and stripped it of
sociation in meeting Saturday ,
morning at the W’ilkesboro'
school building. !
The meeting will open at ten
o’clock and alitendance ofl all
Wednesday morning the car
Sulphur Springs
To Get Building
County Win Secure $7,500
For Materials; ERA is to
Fumish Labor
Wilkes County board of com
missioners 1 n recess session
Tuesday voted to borrow from
the state literary and building;
fund $7,600 for the purpose ot
erecting a school building at
Sulphur Springs for Mulberry
township.
In joint session with the com
missioners several days ago the
county board of education sub
mitted a plan whereby they
pointed out the county could
save a large sum on erection of
three badly needed school pro
jects: a ten-room modern build
ing at Sulphur Springs, repairs
and remodeling the Mountain
View school property, and the
erection of an auditorium and
four classrooms at Millers Creek.
The board of education said that
the Emergency Relief Adminis
tration would furnish the labor
without cost to the county and
that the county could borrow
from the state fund around $17,-
000 to pay for materials.
Acting on this proposition
Tuesday the commissioners vot
ed to borrow $7,500, which is
the estimated cost ot materials
for the Mulberry township struc
ture, and the other projects were
also considered. It was decided
however, that only one of the
three projects would be cared
for at this time.
The -Mulberry township school
building, according to estimates
made by Foster and Allen, local
contractors, will cost around
$15,150, with the actual cost to
the county being the cost of ma
terials.
Supt. C. B. Eller states that
plans for the Sulphur Springs
school are for a township unit
and that the ten-room building
proposed would adequately serve
the purpose.
309 Enrolled In
Adult Education
Kent, O. . . . State officials
and members of her family have
revealed that an under-world
threat to kidnap Evangeline
Davey (above), daughter of Gov
ernor-elect Martin L. Davey, now
has their attention.
Preparation For
President’s Ball
Agam UnderWay
Mayor J. A. Rousseau Asked
By National Committee To
Be Local Chairman
Report of ERA Education
Chairman Reflects Interest
in Many Communities
Three hundred and nine per
sons are enrolled in the adult
and nursery schools of Wilkes
County, according to a report
submitted by W. R. Craft, of ■
Boomer, chairman of the ER.A t
education unit for the county.
These schools, paid for by the
relief administration for the
benefit of unemployed teachers
and for people passed school age i
President Franklin D. Roose
velt has again consented to lend
his birthday, January 30, as the
occasion for another nation-wide
series of benefits to rai^e
tional funds with which to com
bat infantile paralysis.
It will be remembered that the
original Birthday Ball held last
January resulted in the raising
of a fund in excess of one mil
lion dollars to enable Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation to
continue its work of treating vic
tims of this dreaded disease.
Henry L. Doherty, chairman
of the national committee on ar
rangements for the occasion, has
asked Mayor J. A. Rousseau, of
this city, to serve as local chair
man again this year.
At the president’s own sugges
tion, which is al.so in accord
with the wishes of Warm Springs
Foundation, no part ot this
year’s proceeds will go to the
Foundation. Seventy per cent of
the proceeds raised by each lo
cal ball -will be retained iu it.^
respective geogologlcal area,
under the direction of a com
mittee, to rehabilitate their in-
i fantile paralysis victims,
i Thirty per cent of the pro-
i ceeds will be turned over to the
i national committee for delivery
to HoU
Court h
Haywood Comi^
Local Attorney to Take Offica
as Judge Superior Court
in January
SUCCEEDS T. R FINLBT
WiD Pi^de Over Courts of
" 20th District Daring First
Half of 1935 '
Judge-Elect Julius A. Rono-
seau, of North 'WHlkeeboro, will
open-his first regular term of
court at Waynesville in Haywood
County on Monday, January 7,
1936, according to f&o’ Mlendar
of state courts.
Attorney‘‘Rousseau was elect
ed to the office of judge of the
superior court in . the election
held on November 6 and will
take the oath of office soon after
New Year.
Jud^e Rousseau will succeed
Judge T. B. Finley, also of this
city. Judge Finley will retire at
the end of the year as regular
judge but will serve as emer
gency judge if necessary.
Judge Rousseau’s first - conrt
at Waynesville will
weeks civil term. (Two .AraaksHm-
er the beginning of the Hay
wood County term he wJl^.h«pgin
a two-weeks term in Cherokee
County and will continue‘jyresid-
Ing over courts in the 20.th jn-
diclal district until July ac
cording to the state calendar,
and it will be sometime before
he will be riding the 17fh' dis
trict.
Judges of the superior court
rotate over the various districts
according to the slate judicial
system and several years elapse
before a judge reaches a district
for the second time unless a
change in the schedule of courts
is made or a judge is assigned
by the governor to hold a special
term.
State Master Is
Grange Speaker
E. S. Vanetta Addresses Po
mona Grange in Meeting
at Wilkesboro
who wish to learn to read and i
to the President to be presented
write or supplement what edu-
eatiou they have, are considered
a most worthy project in this
section.
-Mr. Craft has compiled the fol
R. H. Reavis Buys
I who are teaching in the schools
■ of the county is required, accord-
! ing to an announcement of the
i wa.s found about a quarter of a 1 lowing date on adult and nurs-
nille from the home, where it I gi-y education: 10 teacher.s em-
had been jacked up in order to | ployed; enrollment of :>09; aver
age attendance of 164: 197 par-
Woodruff Building
Location On C Street Will Be
Occupied By Auto Parts
Company
meeting by Prof. C. 8. Eller,
remove the wheels. The car is a
1931 model but the wheels were
for a 1928 Ford and bore over
size Corduroy Tires. Mr. Parks
county superintendent of schools, j ^
to
Thomas Edison devised an an- **'^0'*® offer inforina-
tomotive engine powered by ni-! leading to the recovery of
troglycerin in 1880.
I the wheels.
R. H. Reavis, owner ot the
Auto Parts Company, has pur-j
chased what is known as the!
'Wloodruff building on C street I
and 'Will move to that location
Coffeys Sell Interest in Yadkin
VaDey Motor Co. to Q. A. McNeill
when the Gaddy Motor Company,
present occupants, vacates the
building.
.Mr. Reavis stated that the
deal will provide adequate quar
ters for his business and will
enable his company to further
enlarge the stock. The present
location on the corner of B and
Tenth streets la badly crowded
and it became necessary to have
larger quarters in order to ac
comodate a growing patronage.
The Auto Parts Company was
established here in February
1930 and from a small begin
ning at that time the firm has
grown rapidly. At that time Mr.
Reavis was placed in charge of
the local firm and in November,
1932, he purchased the entire
(Continued on page eight)
C. D. Coffey and Sons have Yadkin Valley Motor Company
sold their intex-est in the Yad-1 are A. F. Kilby, president; Q. A.
kin Valley Motor Company, lo
cal Ford agency, to Q. A. Mc
Neill. The deal was consummat
ed several days ago.
The Yadkin Valley Motor
Company is one of the oldest
and most successful antomobile
agencies in this part of the
state. The firm is nearing its 20th
McNeill, Vice president; and C.
B. Lomax, secretary and treas
urer. All of the personnel of the
company has had much exper
ience in thP automobile business.
Mr. Kilby has been with the
firm since 1919, Mr. McNeill for
ents enrolled; 138 women en
rolled: 45 taught to write; 58
perfect in attendance: 40 visi
tors received.
.\ nursery school is maintain
ed at North 'Wilkesboro with
three teachers and an enrollment
of 42. The teachers are Misses
Clara Gentry. Jessie Kenerly and
Myrtle Norris.
The adult teachers and their
which he will create, to wl.ien
research efforts aimed to wipe
out the disease itself, exactly as
medical science has successfully
combatted smallpox, diphtheria,
typhoid fever and other mala
dies.
The national oemmittee is
confident that the whole coun
try will embrace, on Wednes
day, January 30, the opportunity
to join in a work so vital to the
future welfare of hundreds of
thousands of people, and that
undertaken in this spirit, it can
not help but be a tremendous
success as it was last year.
Mayor Rousseau will enter up
on the duties of judge of the
superior court on January 7 and
respective communities are:lf|jj. reason could not accept
James T. Nichols, Wilkesboro ^,,3 to head the local corn-
route 1; Ted R. Nichols, Pur-
lear; W. H. Hurley, Millers
Creek: A. B. Hayes, Hays: A.
R. Myers, Hay Meadow; Pearl
Jarvis, Wilkesboro route 2; M.
P. Masten, Call; A. C. Sidden,
Joynes; and Ester C. Bingham
(colored) Wilkesboro.
Mr. Craft stated in his re-
five years and Mr. Lomax since port -that the organization of
030. .Ambrose Reeves, foreman adult teachers wishes to thank
anniversary, having been or-! of the mechanical department, the churches, Sunday schools.
ganized in 1915 by F. G. Harp
er. The firm of C. D. Coffey and
Sons purchased the Yadkin Val
ley Motor Company in 1922 and
were sole owners until 1930,
when A. F. Kilby and C. B. Lo
max purchased an interest in the
business. The firm has been do
ing business at the present loca
tion on Ninth street for 20 years.
The present officers of the
has been with the firm since its day schools, and other civic or
organization and many of the
mechanics have been working
there from six to twelve years.
The firm has been most s«c-
cessful in the automobile deal
er business since its organiza
tion, having sold from 160 tx
400 new cars and trucks each
year, total sales being estlmatei
at 5,000 units or more.
ganizations for their loyalty and
mittee on the President’s Ball.
However, the national chairman
was very complimentary regard
ing the serv^es of Mayor Rous
seau in directing the ball Iasi
year.
Schoolmasters’ Club To
M-5et On Friday Evening
The Wilkes County School
masters’ Club will meet in the
home economics rooms of the
Wilkesboro school building Fri-
cooperation in the adult school | day evening at 5:30. Dr. J. Hen-
work.
Music Recital Friday
Miss Ellen Robinson will pre-
lenl her music pnpils in a recital
It the North Wilkesboro school
’.uditorlum on Friday afternoon,
xeginnlng at 3:30.
ry Highsmitb, of the state de
partment of education, 'will
speak and the home economics'
students of the school will serve
dinner at fifty cents per plate.
All high school principals,
teachers and coaches are asked
to attend.
E. ,S. Vanetta, ma.ster of the
North Carolina state Grange, ad
dressed the Wilkes Pomona
Grange In meeting Monday night
at the courthouse in Wilkes
boro.
The head of the leading rural
fraternity in North Carolina
gave a very interesting account
of the national Grange conven
tion held in Hartford, Connecti-
eutt, last month. He said that
the convention was the largest
in the history of the organization
and that a great amount of in
terest 'was shown in Grange
tx'ork.
Tonight Is Fathers’
Night Meeting For
Wilkesboro P.-T. A.
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher As
sociation will observe Fathers'
Night at the school building to
night at 7:30. A program of in
terest to all the members, and
especially the fathers, will be
carried out. Attendance of all
P.-T. A. members and other in
terested patrons is desired.
To Hold Meeting
On Friday N^t
Will Discuss Advisability of
Retaining Federal Re-em
ployment Service
A meeting of considerable im
portance will be held at the city
hall On Friday night, eight o’
clock.
The question to be discussed
by all Interested persons- is .the
advisability of conftnuing the
National Re-employment,
ice as a permanent ..insjliii^j^'.
The present setup of this semce
has expired and mass me^ifigs
are being held in each commiin-
ity where an office is located in
order to get the sentiment of
the people in reggsd to-tm bene
fits.
All members of the board of
county commissioners)- the "City
board of commissioners, - cl'ric
leaders, and others .^interested
are asked to attend. , -
November 2nd Is the birthday
of two presidents, James'^ K.
Polk, 11th president, born 17I6.
Warren G. Harding, 29th pres
ident, born 1865. '