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PuUifdied Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKBJSBOEO,
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Mar^ Moore
Is Up and
Robbed of Auto
Egg for Freedom 1 Lindbergh Star
Witness in Trjid
Of Hauptmann
af«4df]ig ABnlv«n»ry
Jan. 4.—i.QoTernor
sod Krs.^ J. C, B. Ehringhafaa>'to-
d»?"bteerTed their 23rd w*eddfng
■adpHewary. They -were married
J^ary 4, 1912. They ,oe]W>rat-
e%i^e dky^tr^hbat fbrdml cere^
eiD^y. ■
T ^ Vreck tnjwies Fatal
f . jaeheville, Jan. 4. — Robert
Hp^-4v''t3neawood, 75-yeai-old lumber-
gf ntaa. died here todiy irom in
juries receired when a train
^ eruhed into his car near here
laht week. Funeral services were
Youths Giving Names of Trip
lett and Blackburn Stage
Darring Robbery
CAR IS RECOVERED
Found Near Gastonia Sunday;
Taken at Mtmivian Falls
Saturday Night
held Saturday.
Viunier Baxter Bitten
Hollywood.—Warner Baxter,
aet^h star, was bitten Tuesday
niCM by a black widow spider,
ac^sording. to the diagnosis of his
physician. Dr. William E.
Branch. Baxter was out of dang-
today.
r. 4Jree4u4)oro> S150 Thefts
Greensboro citizens reported a
' total of *250 automobile thefts
i during’ 1934, according to fi
gures compiled at police head-
Quarters. Of this number of car,s
reported stolen only 126 were
reported recovered.
Seven Fishermen Drown
Havana, Jan. 4.—Seven fish
ermen died in the shark-infested
waters of the Gulf of Mexico off
Havana tonight when the S. S.
Seatrain Havana rammed and
sank their frail fishing smach,
the Julian Bengoechea.
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Confesses Murder
AslKville, Jan. 4. — Carroll
Rhodes, 23-year-old federal pris
oner charged with transporting a
;stolen automobile across a state
line, confessed this afternoon to
murdering Lennox Taylor at
iddletown, Ohio, in August.
1990.
.• ftfaPA Homes Refinanced
Salisbury. —• Since it began
operating in North Carolina, the
Heme Owners’ Loan Corporation
In this state has refinanced
mortgages on 9,296 homes and
iraed. in exchange tor mort
gages and other encumbrances
921,999.331.60.
Auto Accident Fatal
Lincolnton, Jan. 4. — Ralph.
Stewart, 24, of Lincoln county.
Aied ahortly after midnight of
injuries suffered a few hours
earlier when his liquor-laden
auCemobile crashed into the
rear of a truck on the western
outskirts of Lincolnton.
Marcus Moore, well known
local taxi driver, lost his car
and five doUars in cash when
he was held up at the point of
a pistol Saturday n4dit near
Moravian Falls by two men,
giving their names as Parsons
and Blackburn.
Moore received a call for his
taxi about nine o’clock, stating
that parties desired that he
call for them at Gordon, a cot-
tonmill village one mile west
of this city. He answered the
call as he had l)een accustom
ed to do for a number of years
and found tlwt the two men
named abov.f wanted him to
carrj- them to .Moravian F'alls,
four miles .south of Wilkes-
l>oro on higliway 16.
When they aiTived at Mo
ravian F’alls -Mr. Moore askesl
the men where they wanted
to stop and one of the men
producel a pistol, it is alleged,
and |pro-»“elel to take his
F’ord cjir and wimt cash he
had on his person.
Ml'. Moore’s taxi was found
late Sunday by Gaston County
officials near Gastonia. The
car was wreckeil and no clue
as to the whereabouts of the
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Hollywood—When the Nation
al Investor’s Congress meets here
in January the delegates will get
to see Biddy Hen doing her stuff
. . namely, “getting her free
dom by laying an egg.’’ The trick
nest has a trap door which is
opened when the egg rolls down
to the basket below. The rooster
is master of ceremonies.
Price of Butterfat
Reaches New High
At Cheese Factory
fat Pound Now Being Paid
To Farmers Here
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— HOIX: Employes Out
' Raleigh. Jan. 4.—The Home
Owaere Land corporation in
North Carolina has notified at
least 94 of its employes that they
have lost their jobs due to cur
tailment of the activities of the
agency, it was learned
here today. '
Discover Dead Body
^ Di^vUle, Va., Jan. 4.—Three
^ metabers of the Pittsylvania
county soil erosion camp yester
day uncovered the remains of an
infant dn a body of woods five
miles south of Chatham. They
were engaged in terracing when
they came upon the ramins in a
box.
With butterfat prices at the
highest point in the history of
the local markets prospects for
Wilkes County becoming a dairy
farming county are growing
brighter, is the opinion express
ed today by W. N. Wood, assist
ant county agent.
The Scott Cheese and Butter
Company, established here three
years ago. is an unlimited mar
ket for milk and cream for farm
ers of Wilkes County and adja
cent communities. The butterfat
price now being paid is 31 cents
per pound, which exceeds by one
cent the highest price paid in
any previous years or months.
Mr. Wood stated that the con
dition of the cheese and butter
market at the present time,
coupled with general business
conditions, is such as to indicate
that the present price may be
constant or that an additional
raise may be expected.
An immense volume of milk
and cream is being manufactur
ed dail.v into cheese and butter
(Continued on page eight)
Judge Rousseau
Goes on Bench
Opened First Cuurt Today at
Waynesville in Haywood
County
Judge Julius A. Rousseau, who
was sworn in last week as judge
for the seventeenth judicial di.s-
trict, opened his first term of
court this morning in Waynes-
ville, county seat of Haywood
County in the 20ih district.
The court at Waynesville will
be a civil term for two weeks, - . .
Thirty-one Cents *gr Duttei>|4fey"wk4c5
Cherokee for a two-weeks term.
He will ride the circuit of the
20th district lor the first six
months of 1935. The fall term
this year he will spend in the
11th district.
If no changes are made in the
regular judicial schedule o 1
courts Judge Rousseau will be in
his resident district for the first
time lor the tall term in 1938.
After finishing with the 20th
district during the first half of
this year he will begin with the
eleventh district and come on up,
chronologically, with six months
in each district.
Judge Rousseau took the oath
of office at the home of his mo
ther, Mrs. Lila Rousseau, in this
city on December 31. The oath
was administered by Judge T. B.
Finley, retiring jurist, who was
sworn in on the following day
by Judge Rousseau as emergency
or special judge.
Savs Defendant is Man Who
Collected $50,000 Ransom
Money From Hhn
DAMAGING EVIDENCE
Plying Colonel Calw and
Frank Uader Gru^ng
Cnws Examinaiaion
Flemington, N. J., Jan. 4.—
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, a
firm witness under piercing
cross-questioning, told a jury to
day he believed Bruno Richard
Hauptmann guilty of kidnaping
and killing his first born son.
Fir.st the famous airman, his
slightly graying hair rumpled
boyishly, said it was the voice of
Hauptmann, on trial for the
crime, that he heard in the
Bronx cemetery where he and
Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon
paid $50,000 ransom.
Tlieh, Colonel Lindbergh, re
plying in crisp, unyielding tones
to a maze of questions intended
to portray the kidnaping as an
"inside job,” was asked by De
fense Counsel Edward J. Reilly
if he now believed the defendant
guilty.
“I do,’’ he said.
Hauptmann, erect in his chair
in this ancient Hunterdon coun
ty courtroom, crimsoned and
swallowed slowly as the aviator
positively identified his voice as
that of the ransom collector.
Carying out its announced in
tention to show that a gang,
working from within the Sour-
land mountains home of the
Lindberghs, committed the ghast
ly crime, the defense flung ques
tion after question at the avia
tor concerning domestic mem
bers of tire Lindbergh and
Dwight Morrow households.
Even the movements and in
tentions of “Jafsie’’—the elderly
ransom negotiator.—were put
under a fire of Interrogation.
cool and positive. He left the
witness stand shortly after 3 p.
m.. having taken it late yester
day afternoon. He was followed
by Charles E. Williamson, one
of the first policemen to reach
the home on the night of the
kidnaping—March 1, 1932 —
and by Mrs. Elsie Whateley, wi-
Lindbergh butler,
who denied angrily that her
husband. Ollie, ever knew Dr.
(.Continued on page four)
N.W.H.S. Begins
Conference Tilts
,\sks F'or Bonus
Washington.—A shouted de
mand, “Wo want our bonus,’’
greeted President Roosevelt on
his arrival at the Capitol to ad
dress Congress today.
State Highway Commission to Place
No. 16 Detours in Better Condition
Bitten By -Mad Cat
j^boro. Jan. 4.—A cat that
S. G. Boyette Monday morn-
infected wHh rabies, ac-
rdlng to a wire received at the
nyne' health departnlent i n
ildsboro from the state health
iMtment in Raleigh where the'
^■et the animal had been sent
^ *g»^lnaUon.
Rural Electrification
ftaleigh. Jan. 4.—A final re-
fl of the committee on rural
^ieatirtfrnpvbinted .by Gov-
lor . Kringhaus, will be ready
•presentation in “about a
ek.” Dr- Clarence Poe, of Ra-
gb chairman, announced to-
The report is expected to
^ geo North Carolina com-
flltles desiring rural electrifi-
* State Debt Lowered
aleigb. Jan. 4.—On the sec-
•innlrersary of his coming to
righ Governor Ehrlnghaus
today from Treasurer
M. Johnson, a financial
eaient showing that in these
,Mu-s the debt of counties,
*^d towns has been reduc-
961.899.496.79 and the prln-
on the state debt cut $14,-
)00 in addition to payment
B intexeet charge of
Highway ChairmanTclIs Plans | North Wilkesboro
Plans For Grading and ! p ‘-i. Wall Paner
SuKaCn, Roa. I. M^ed
First Game On Conference
Schedule Will Be at Gym
nasium Tuesday Night
In answer to a communication
hy local people asking that a
portion of highway number 16
near Millers Creek be gravel sur
faced at once. Capus M. Way-
nick, highway chairman, submits
the following report of engineers
Investigating tbe matter:
“I have had this matter
checked up and find that the
Contractor has practically com
pleted the grading on approxi
mately 4 1-2 miles on this end
of the project, which leaves be
tween twenty-five and thirty
thousand cubic yards of excava
tion still to be moved. It is esti
mated that with reasonable wea
ther for this time of the year
that It will take approximately
one month longer to complete
the grading work. The Contrac
tor has only one shovel on this
project and It is his plan to be
gin the placing of the gravel
surfacing as soon as the grad
ing work has- been completed. As
ij^^g^rphabiy know. It will be
FHrm Now Located In Building
Between Prlnce«.s Cafe And
City Barber Shoi>
Paint
nectary to secure this gravel
from the bed of streams and it
will have to be moved with a
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The North Wilkesboro
and Wall Paper Company, enter
prising business firm established
here by R. E. Walters, Percy
Walters and Paris Nuckolls, is
now located in its new and at
tractive quarters between Prin
cess Cafe and the City Barber
Shop on Main Street.
This firm is distributor in this
section for products of the Pitts
burg Plate Glass Company, man
ufacturers of all forms of high
grade'paints, and the well known
line of Aristocrat wall paper.
The new location enables the
firm to carry a large and com
plete stock and to offer an even
better service to a widely grow
ing patronage. The store room
and offices are attractively deco
rated and present a most pleas
ing appearance.
The firm has an experienced
force of painters and interior
decorators who are ready to
serve cuitoiaers lu this section.
North Wilkesboro high school’s
Mountain Lions will begin their
Western Conference schedule on
Tuesday night of this week when
they play Newior. on the school
gymnasium court here. Both the
boys and girls will play.
They will couiinue the confer
ence schedule here again on Fri
day night when they play the
boys and girls from Marion high.
North Wilkesboro boys have
been practicing regularly under
the direction of Coach C. A.
Ritchie and a well balanced team
has been selected. The girls also
look promising after several ses
sions of coaching by Miss Mabel
Topping.
The games will begin at eight
o’clock and the admission will be
10 and 25 cents. All teams ap
pearing in the games scheduled
this week are reported to be in
excellent condition and fast
games are expected.
J. M. Blackburn’s
Home Here Bums
Local Attorney’s Home Badly
Damaged by Blaze Satur
day Morning
The home of Attorney J. M.
Blackburn in this city was badly
damaged by fire on Saturday
morning. When the blaze was
first discovered it had made con
siderable headway around the
chimney. The Gre department
answered the call quickly but
the entire top story was demol
ished before the flames could be
extinguished.
Much of the furniture in the
home was destroyed and the
total loss is estimated to exceed
$1,000^ which is partially cover
ed by Insurance.
For Eveiy Man In the CoiMry;
Direct Relief To Be Stop^
F.D.R.’s Message
Old Age and Unempk>y»e«*
Insurance Definite Object
ives of Administeation
BIG WORKS PROGRAM
Relief Administration May Be
Changed to Agency of E3ni«'-
gency Work Soon
Flemington, N. J.—Above is pictured the New Jersey state legal
staff which is forcing the prosecution of Bruno Hauptmann, susjrect
in the Lindbergh case. From left to right, seated, Anthony M. Hauck,
county prosecutor: Attorney General David T. Wilentz; Assistant G.
K. Large and Joseph Lanagan. Back row, left to right, Richard Stock-
ton and Harry A. Walsh, members of the attorney general staff. The
Trial opened January 2.
Twenty Farm Census Enumerators
Commence Work in Wilkes County;
Farmers Are Asked to Co-operate
North Wilkeaboro P.-T. A.
„ Win
The North Wilkesboro Parent-
Teacher Association will hold its
January meeting at tbe school
building on Thursday afternoon
at 3:45. All members and other
interested school patrons are
asked to attend.
Grows Large Potato
C. H. Jones, resident of Pur-
lear, R. F. D., has brought to
The Journal-Patriot office for
exhibition a three and one-half
pound Irish potato, which he
grew, in his garden. It is of a
late variety and was planted in
the latter part of June.
State Appreciation
In the Kiwanis directors’ meet
ing T. E. Story presented a
scrapbook containing all the lo
cal newspaper publicity. A vote
of thanks was offered the local
press for its cooperation and sup
port and appreciation was also
expressed by rising vote for the
services of Mrs. Bertha Bell,
county nurse, in carrying crip
pled children to the state ortho
paedic hospital at Gastonia.
Instruction Meeting of All
Enumerators Held in This
City Saturday
the
in
Twenty enumerators of
farm census began work
Wilkes County this morning and
are under instructions to com
plete the census during January
if possible.
The enumerators are: John G.
Eller, of Purlear: William E.
Horton, of Ferguson; Thomas F.
Greer, of Boomer; Conrad H.
Jones, of Purlear; Carl J. Jones,
of route 1, Wilkesboro: Thomas
S. Miller, Wilkesboro: James M.
Costner, Pores Knob; Arthur F.
Sale. Roaring River; Thornton
Y. Inscore, Windy Gap; Alton B.
Pardue, Honda; Dalla.s Carter,
Benham; William E. Parks,
route 1, Roaring River; Watson
Durham, Doughton; Alouzo M.
Handy, North Wilkesboro; Fred
M. Staley, Wilbar; Morgan Shat-
ley. North Wilkesboro; John D.
Hall, Halls Mills; Tyre G. John
son, Abshers; Abraham C. Yale,
Hays; John W. Joines, Joynes.
On Saturday morning at ten
o’clock an instruction meeting
was held at the city hall here
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Local People Are Injured in Auto
Accident Sunday Near Waycross, Ga.
Washington. — President
Roosevelt carried Friday before
a Joint session of Congress the
outlines of a new American eco
nomic order to make Indivldnala
and families in this country se
cure.
He revealed the new deal’s
second phase. Major factors of
the program which he asked Con
gress to enact:
1. Provide every able-bodied
individual with a job.
2. Abandon the dole system of
relief.
3. Transfer relief of unem
ployable to local authorities.
4. Old age and unemployment
insurance, plus a start towards
benefits for children, mothers
and others handicapped by de
pendency or illness.
5. Unification of all emergen
cy public works in a new and
greatly enlarged plan.
6. Orderly displacement of the
federal emergency relief ad
ministration by the new emer
gency works agency.
He assured Congress his pro
gram would “be within the
sound credit of the government.’'
Mr. Roosevelt spoke In the
hall of the House of Representa
tives. Senators and representa
tives jammed the floor. Vlsiton’
galleries overflowed with a tense
crowd eager for the message of
far-reaching consequence..
Mr. Roosevelt said the out
lines of the new economic order
had become altinu-ent. laid
down a new policy of living for
the American people.
In past years,-he said, reform
had become confused and frus
trated because it was attempted
in piecemeal fashion.
"As a result,’’ he continued,
“evils overlap. VV'e lose sight,
from time to time, of our ulti
mate human objectives.
“In spite of our efforts and in
spite of our talk, we have not
weeded out the over-privileged,
and we have not effectively lift
ed up the under-privileged.’’
But the President .said the
new deal had a clear mandate
from the American people that
excessive profits hand undue pri
vate power over private and pub
lic affairs as well must be fore
sworn. He said he did not seek
to “divide our wealth into equal
shares on stated occasions.’’
“But we do assert.■’ Mr. Roose
velt continued, “that the ambl-
CATCHES OPOSSUM
IN THIS CITY
Imagine John Snyder’s sur
prise on Sunday night when he
found a large opoesnm parked
in a wild cherry tree near his
home on Kensington Drive in
Nortli Wilkesboro!
Mr. Snydtlr saw a snsplclous-
ly-looklng bulk in the tree
and went for his flashlight to
confirm his hlea that an opos
sum was witlUn 10 yards of
Ids doorway. 'The animal was
dressed and presenteil to Char
lie FTnley. who considers the
locally grown sLx and one-
h.olf pound opossum quite a
delicacy.
Attend Relief Meeting
Miss Victoria Bell, district re
lief administrator, and Mrs. W.
J. Bason, case work supervisor
for Wilkes County, attended a
meeting of relief administrators
and supervisors i n Raleigh
Thursday. The meeting was call
ed by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry,
state administrator.
Mr. P. E. Forester returned Sat
urday to Washington, D. C„ after
spending several days in Wilkes
boro with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Forester. ; "
: tion of the individual to obtain
j for him and his a property se-
Myers, Mr. and curity, a reasonable leisure, a
decent living throughout life, is
an ambition to be preferred to
I the appetite for great wealth
Iredell M. Myers, member of a i
Iredell M. . .
Mrs. Walter Myers and
Daughter Injured
and great power. ’
prominent Wilkes County Mam-1 Mr. Roosevelt committed him-
ily, proprietor of Call Hotel here, j self to the “profit motive,” but
and county coroner, was serious- [ defined it as the right for the
ly injured in an automobile j individual to work and earn a
wreck near Waycross, Ga., Sun-. decent living for himself and bis
day morning. family.
Mr. Myers was en route home 1 in general terms Mr. Roose-
from Florida with his son, Wal-, velt defined three major factors
ter Myers, the latter’s wife and of his security project:
small daughter. They had been | y Security of livelihood
to Florida to get Mrs. Myers and through the better use of na-
daughter, who had been Usltlng ^ nonal resources,
relatives in that state during the | 2. Security against the major
holidays. j hazards of vicissitudes of life.
According to reports reaching | 3 Security of decent homes.
relatives her© Mr. Myers and
Mrs. Walter Myers were both
seriously hurt but word (today
indicated that some improve
ment was noted in their condi
tion. Walter Myers and his small
daughter were only slightly in
jured.
The wreck occured when the
Myers automobile collided with a
car from Cleveland, Ohio, occu
pied by Sylvia Leider and Ruth
Arenson. The extent of their In
juries was not determined.
Mrs. Iredell M. Myers, Mrs.
Jay Hartley and Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Wiles left here late Sunday
to be with the injured.
“I am now ready to submit to
the Congress,’’ he said, “a broad
program designed ultimately to
establish all three of these fac
tors of security—program
which because of many lost yean
will take many future years to
fulfin.” , ,
Dost Storm Kiljf ’fhiae
St. Paul, Jan. 3.--A mid-wipter
dust storm that broo|^-ddkSh
two boys, a near blizzard and teas-
peratures that dipped sharply^, as
much as 56 degrees in lees than IS
hours, were included in the weatti'
er fare of three northwest states
in the last 36 hours. a -
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