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at
National CHnie Drive
Auto FutulttieB Mount
* An antomoblle filled with
•oon-aged boys and girls, pUing-
Info a bridge abutment near
i-wJw.M Forest, and killing six of
flia,^tar^ occupants, swelled the
■Week-Saa’?^ highway death toll
tx'^the CaroTinas to 15.
Unemployables
Dropped From
Relief Roster
Emergency Relief Administra
tion Turns 129 Into Care
of Local Government
FORH-THREE WILKES BOYS
New Army Air Chief |
MEMBERSHIP OF C.C. CAMPS
Artie Arrested
In’Welch, W.Va.
RELIEF TO EMPLOYABLES
Fanner Kills Self
hd ^ 5 liincolnton, Jan. 7—John Car-
' penter, 64. wealthy Lincolnton
county farmer, was found dead
of a shotgun wound early today
In the yard of his home near
liong Shoala and county autbori-
c ties said he had killed himself.
L to
Balldli^ Up Defense
Washington, Jan. 7.—Obvious
ly pleased with their part of a
5792,000,000 budget request sub
mitted by President Roosevelt
today for the army and navy in
le coming fiscal year, naval of-
fcials said tonight plans were
ready for constructing 24 new
warships under this fund.
Bandit Shot to Death
Gary, Ind.. Jan. 7.—George
Hall, 28. named by authorities as
one of three gunmen who robbed
the Burlington, Ky.. bank of $2.-
200 last Thursday, was shot and
killed by city policemen here to
day as he attempted to shoot his
way out of a trap.
Futurf! Policy of ERA Will Be
To Provide Work for Able-
bodied People
Washington ... J. Weston
Allen, of Boston (above), is the
newly named chairman of the
National Crime Commission in
the offensive launched against
under-world forces. He voices
the opinion that Congress will
provide for the establishment of
a national police school.
Moravian Farm
Loan Group in
Annual Meeting
,\s the result of the recent
ruling from the nation’s capltol
to the effect that unemployables
are to be dropped from relief
rolls, the emergency relief ad
ministration in Wilkes county
has discontinued aid to a total
of 129 persons.
,\ list of all those whom the
ri'ii.’f organization had been
caring tor in the unemployable
class was recently made out by
relief officials and turned over
to Charles McNeill, county wel
fare officer.
It is presumed that these cases
Many Loan Applications Filed
by Farmers of This City;
Report is Made;
School Cost.s Cut
Raleigh. Jan. 7.—A reduction
In operating expenses and a sav
ing in transportation and mile
age costs wer© effected in oper
ation of the North Carolina
schools during the 1933-34 term
. although with that session the
Cstate assumed control of the
schools and the length of term
•as increased by one month, the
..iennial report of the state
ichool commission showed today.
Oil Baling rnvalld
Wfishlngton, Jan. 7.—With
only one dissent, the Supreme
court today declared unconsti-
tational the first imporUnt bit
W new deal legislation to come
^fore it—the section of th© na
tional Industrial recovery act
under which the government is
attempting to control oil produc
tion.
Banks To Finance U. S.
New York. Jan. 7.- Wall
street received calmly today
news of President Roosevelt's
. proposal to boost the public deb^
above $34,000,000,000 by the
middle of next year. In answer
to the question, W’here is the
9 money coming from? leading
bankers agreed that it would
com© from expansion of bank
credit. The banks will buy the
goods, barring some unforeseen
upset.
Census of Farms
- Gets Under Way
Twenty Enumerators Calling
at Farm Homes All Over
V Wilkes County
Twenty enumerators are busy
this week calling at farm homes
In Wilkes county gathering in
formation that is destined to be
nf great aid to agriculture iu
that it will give the federal gov-
^Utfnbnt a basis on which to
in regard to relief to the
basic inductry of the nation.
These enumerators will ask
each farqjer a number of ques
tions and attention is called to
the fact that it is a violation of
the federal statntes to refuse to
answer the questions.
■ The enumerators will appreci
ate the fullest cooperation from
the farm owners and tenants. Tt
It aecessary that they work rap
idly If ff*® census is to be com-
^ted during January.
The farm census is now und-
i r way throughout the nation
Kd M Is expected that all the
■will be gathered and filed
the bureau of census in
ashington within the next few
snths.
A most interesting meeting of
the stockholders of the Moravian
Farm Loan Association was held
in this city yesterday. Many
members of the association were
in attendance.
Following the report of the
year's business by Frank D.
Hackett. secretary-treasurer, the
following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: P. E. Dan
cy. president: H. H. Jennings,
vice president; Frank D. Hack
ett, secretary-treasurer. Directors
are P- E- Dancy, H. H. Jennings,
B. C. Price, J. F,
G. Foster. The loan committee is
composed of B. C. Price, J. F.
Pearson, U. G. Foster with C. C.
Gambill, J. W. Jones and Wm.
A. Stroud as substitutes.
The report of Mr. Hackett
showed that a total of 348 loans
amounting to $419,775 had been
made since the association was
organized and that of this num
ber 131 amounting to $151,450
had been paid and cancelled,
leaving 217 loans amounting to
$268,325 in force on December
31, 1934. Twenty-three applica
tions totaling $68,404 are now
pending.
The following statements are
taken from the report submitted
by the stockholders:
"Your Secretary has been ad
vised by Mr. O. F. Bracey, Field
Agent for the Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, that some
thing over one hundred mem
bers of this Association were de
linquent on their instalment
dues as of January 1. 1935. It is
to be hoped that these delin
quents will make special efforts
to get up these payments at
once, as the Hank is getting very
restless over these delinquents,
and Mr. Hracy advises me that
he looks for u number of fore
closure suits to b© instituted at
an early date.
"There are now 2.3 applica
tions for loans to the amount of
(Continued on page four)
will become the charges of the
county or municipalities and
communities in which they live.
Mr. McNeill has turned the list
over to the county board of com-
missioner.s and they have the
matter of furnishing aid to these
needy under consrderation at this
time.
The greater part of the 129
are aged and infirm people or
those who are not able to work
because of some physical handi
cap. The number turned over to
the county welfare officer does
not Include persons from any
families where there are people
able to work. The families arc
still responsibilities of th© relief
organization where there is one
or more people able to do ordi
nary labor.
Schoolmasters To Meet
Wilkes County Schoolmasters’
Club will hold .Usjiext meetlM -
on Friday evening, 5:45, at the
Wllkesboro school building. This
will be a dinner meeting and the
price of each plate will be 50
cents. All superintendents, high
school principals, teachers and
coaches are invited to attend.
Forty-three trakes county-
youths were Included In the
last Civilian Conservation
Camp allotment, according to
information gained from the
district relief office here.
Recruits from this county
for the COC were selected by
Mrs, W. J. Bason, county case
work supervisor, upon recom
mendation of the case work
ers. This will result in several
families being removed frofm
the relief lists, due to the fact
tliat 82.5 of the boys’ $30 per
month will go for the bthefit
of their families.
The boys went to Greensboro
Satnrdii.v for e.vamination and
were sent direct to (X) camps
in various loc.jition.s, some of
tlie 48 from this county being
a.ssigned to the James Camp
near Pnrlear, 15 milrb north
west of this city.
The applicants accepted
were James Deward B.vrd, Joe
Isaacs, Royal McCartw, Coy
Ix>ve, Raymond Sinunins, Elarl
Shepherd, Eldward Arnold
Lowman, Lloyd Perry, Hensley
Loren EIIe*y% Oannie Purvis
Kilby, Tom .-Bngene Htdder,
Chrl Adams, John William
Rash, Paul Key, Sam Milam,
Challle Nkhols, Edd L, Pow
ell, Taft Marley, James C3iel-
cle Green, CarlJe Royal, 'Char
lie Guy McGlamery, George
Souther, Monroe Tracy Shu
mate, Blaine Whitley, John
Walter Cain, Vaughan Clinton
• Burchette, Minton McKinley
Handy, Vance Johnson, Har
vey Holbrook, ArvU Johnson,
Kelly Blaine Combs, Wedford
Wagoner, Wade Shumate, Reu
ben EUer, Jasper Cardwell,
Otris Minton, Tedro Smithey,
Swan Olden Hayes, Claude El-
ledge, Robert Truman John
son, Claude Ransom Shumate,
Robert Ijc© Miller and Rufus
Hall.
Wade Bladcbum * Serioorff
Wounded in Cla^ With
State Officer There
PARSONS IS TAKEN
Two Wilkes Men WanU^ for
Long String of Crime*
ConurJtted Within Wedi.
Washington . . . Lieut.-Colonel
F. Andrews (above), has been
named commander of the newly
organized General Headquarters
Air Force. The move Is to estab
lish a general headquarters for
our air force which will embrace
virtually every army combat
unit in the U. S. In effect his
appointment fiupplants M a j.-
Gen. B. D. Foulois.
1935 Beauty Winner
Paris, Franc© . . . Mile Andree
Lorin (above), displays her vic
tory smile after winning highest
beauty honors and being crown
ed "Miss Paris of 1936.’’
City Aid
bmieii Ask Less Double
Parking and Traffic CongestitHi
..-.m
Tobacco Farmers
May Sign Up Now
Eligible Growers Who Did Not
Sign (Contracts liost Year
Have .Another Chance
Young Minister
Now in Seminary
Tobacco growers in Wilkes
county who did not sign crop re
duction contracts last year and
who are eligible to sign may do
so between now and January ^15,
according to information gained
from County Agent A. G. Hen-
dren,
Mr. Hendren has the blanks at
his office for any farmer who
desires to sign. Attention is
called to the fact, however, that
it is not necessary for farmers
who signed last year to sign
again in 1935, due to the fact
that llie contracts they signed
■were for a two year period.
Bids Received
On Highway 268
Makes Recommeii^ltioas For
Motoring Public; Cwnmit-
tee List Revised
Board of city commissioners in
regular January session Tuesday
evening took up the matter of
congestion of traffic on
Four Public Works Projects in County
Provide Added Stimulus to Business
Rev. C. W. Robinson ^
Preaches His Fortieth
Anniversary Sermon Here
Rev. C. W. Robinson greeted
his congregation at the Presby
terian church here on Sunday
morning on the fortieth anniver
sary of his coming to North Wil-
kesboro as Presbyterian pastor.
Although far advanced in
years the venerable minister ap
peared young in spirit and vig
orous in body, preaching with
marked enthusiasm and direct
ness which has made him th© be
loved and esteemed character
that he is in this city and com
munity today.
Reddies River Bridge Near
Ccmipletion; Soon Finish
Grading on No. 16
Aggregate payroll on all
public works’ projetts i n
Wilkes county for the month
of December was $0,812.57, it
wwi learned today from B. L.
Wooten, director of |the re
employment office. A total of
243 men were used by con
tractors of the sercta projects
during December.
S. S. Aisociation
Will Meet Sunday
Session of County Baptist Or
ganization Will Be Held at
Mountain View
Wilkes County Baptist Sunday
School Association will hold its
next meeting on Sunday after
noon, January 13, 2:30, at
Mountain View Baptist church,
according to an announcement
issued ‘his week.
A program of especial interest
is planned and the attendance of
at least one representative of
every Baptist Sunday school in
the county is earnestly desired.
Special features of the pro
streets here and made a public
plea for less congestion and con
fusion.
gram will be reports of the
Southside Sunday School conven-
i tion held last week in Raleigh
The commissioners and mayor | by some who attended from
request that all motorists refrain, \v5ikes and an address by Prof,
from double parking on the lx. E. Story, principal of Wilkes-
streets here. It had been called |j,oro high school, on "Running a
to the attention of city officials | Sunday School.’’ This address
that many people have become j 5© particularly interesting
careless in the matter of double ;or Sunday school superinten-
parking cars and trucks and ] dents and every one in the coun-
that many drivers leave their ] ty is urged to be present,
vehicles parked for several min-j ■
utes at a time in such a manner ■ I D
that traffic is partially or whol-jlTllS# D* IvUlllS
ly obstructed.
It was further suggested that
drivers observe more carefully
the parking lanes that have been
Taken By Death
tne parKing lanes uiai uave oeeu 1 ; ^
laid off for the convenience of; Funeral Service Will Be Held
Rev. Avery Church Left Mon
day for Two Months’ Study
in Louisville, Ky.
E. W. Grannis and Hobbs-
Peabody Successful Bidders
on Ronda-Elkin Road
Star Baricet^ll
Team To Play Lenoir
: tlie
te North Wllkesboro Ath-
Associstion baaketball team
pUy a strong all-star team
n Lenoir at the high school
immliini her© tonight at eight
dock A lait game is antlclpat-
id all bngketball fans are In
to l*r» 0®* support
Home tenm.
Rev. Avery Churhch, pastor!
of Wilkesboro Baptist Church,
left this week tor Louisville, Ky.,
where he will spend two months
in additional study at the Bap
tist Theological Seminary. He
was accom'panied by M r s.
Church.
Before leaving for Louisville
Rev. Mr. Church accepted the
pastorate of Jonesville Baptist
church and resigned as pastor of
New Hope and Roaring River
churches, where he had served
most satisfactorily for the past
two years.
The young minister, on his re
turn, will divide his time be
tween the Wilkesboro and Jones-
viile churches but will continue
to make his home at th© parson
age in Wllkesboro. Services at
Wilkesboro Baptist will h^ held
on the first and third Sundays
and at Jonesvill© on the second
and fourth Sundays.
At a meeting of the state high
way and public works commis
sion in Raleigh today low bids
on nine road projects were can
vassed, including bids for the
construction of 4.86 miles of
highway 268 between Elkin and
Ronda.
Low bid for grading, gravel
and stone surfacing wa.s sub
mitted by E. Wl Grannis, of Fay-
ettville. contracting firm which
now has three contracts in this
county. The bid was $44,403.20.
Hobbs - Peabody Construction
Company, of Charlotte, submitt
ed th© low bid of $13,366.20 tor
structures. This company Is now
engaged in erecting 'the Reddies
River bridge here.
It is presumed that the bids
will be found to be satisfactory
by the state officials and will be
the motorists, in order that the
greatest number o f parking
spaces possible b© available at
all times.
It is pointed out that it is a
violation of a city ordinance to
park a vehicle over 17 feet in
length at an angle to the curb
At Residence Here This
Afternoon at 3:30
Mrs. Ethel Hill Norris, wife of
J. B. Norris, died at her home
here yesterday morning at 7:15.
Death came following a long
and .serious illness, caused by
ugtn at an angle to tne curm ■ j ^utomo-
The commissioners also made|j^.j^ Burlington on
a request that owneryf business I ^
firms and their employes shou d ^ undergoing treatment for
endeavor to park their cars in,
back lots or off the principal,
thoroughfares m order to lessen ^
the congestion of traffic and pro- _ ©onsclous condition for
When four public works’ pro
jects now under construction are
completed Wilkes county will be
benefltted by five miles of new
highway, and a badly needed
bridge, while North Wllkesboro
will have ,a, hs^dsiome govern
ment owned pbstoffice building
and larger and Improved system
of water works.
About three weeks of favor
able weather is ail that will be
needed for the completion of
grading four and one-half miles
of highway number 16 leading
from the Intersection with num
ber 60 at Millers Creek toward
Jefferson in Ashe County. As
soon as the grading is completed
the contractor will begin the
placing of a surface of creek bed
gravel. It is presumed that an
oil-tar surface will be added aft
er the gravel has thoroughly set
tled.
Only a few more weeks of
working weather are all that
will be needed for contractors to
complete the structure of the
Reddles River bridge on high
ways 60 and 16 on the western
boundary of this city. Fills on
each end of the bridge are now
awaiting the completion of the
actual structure before the con
crete surface is laid.
The North Wilkesboro postof
fice structure is taking shape as
rapidly as weather condition will
permit, outside labor and the city
water works project is virtually
finished.
These projects have furnished
labor during the past few months
to around 175 men who were
registered as unemployed at the
National Re-employment Office
in this city and the payrolls from
the various contractors have pro
vided quite a stimulus to busi
ness, at the same time removing
Two young men of Wllkea
county, said to have been emu
lating Dilllnger by a fearful bar
rage of crimes over the week-end
1 n Western North Carolina,
reached the end of the journey
in Welch, W, Va„ on Monday
night when on© was serlonalT,
perhaps fatally, wounded while
resisting arrest.
The two are Wade Blackburn
and Tam Parsons, who, it Is re
ported, called themselves "th®
Dillinger boys.’’
The two men, both ex-convicta
with long records for minor of
fenses in this county, are alleged
to have started their whirlwind
of banditry on last Wednesday
when they stole a car near here
an^ burned it near Parsonvllle
after they had driven it off' the
road. From that time until they
were captured in the West Vir
ginia city they are alleged to
have held up more than a dozen
people and stole at least three
automobiles.
Blackburn’s home is near this
city. Parsons was reared in the
Parsonvllle community.
At the time Blackburn was
shot in Welch he was snapping
his revolver at TTooper Crit Hall,
of the state police, according to
reports. Blackburn was snapping
his revolver on three empty
chambers and had not xeached
the loaded cartridges when th®
officer fired.
At that time they were driving
a taxi stolen from Hickory and
the officer did not know that
the men were wanted but had
only stopped them to examine
operator's licenses but bad dis-
Coirered a sm»itf4iuantity of liqu
or. Helen Beard; qf Malden, was
placed in jail but at ’ that' time
(Continued on page five)
County BoardI in
Sessicin Monday
County Corntn^ssioners’’ and
Board of Bdacation Have
Quiet January Meetings
The county board of commis
sioners and the hoard of educa
tion held quite sessions on Mon
day and Tuesday.
Many routine matters wer© dis
posed of with few matters of
public Interest gaining the at
tention of either board.
The Commissioners ordered
that the office of constable in
any township is vacant wher© the
constable had failed to file
bond. E. D. Barkley was named
constable for Edwards township
and G. D. Wellborn was appoint
ed local register for Elk town
ship. All members of the board
of commissioners, D. B. Swarin-
gen. chairman. M. F. Absher and
Ralph Duncan, were present in
meeting with Register of Deeds
O. F. Eller.
The board of education trans
acted routine matters with all
members. C. O. McNeill, chair
man, R. R. Church and D. F.
Sherpard, present with Prof. C.
B. Eller, county superintendent
of schools.
a number of families from relief
rolls.
Mountain Lions To
Play Marion Here
vide mor© parking space for their j
customers and visitors in the, ^ member of
, J o I a prominent eastern North Car-
All members of the board, S. | daughter of the
V. Tomlinson. I. E. Pearson, | g
Hoyle M. Hutchens. R. G. Finley;
andDLR.P. Casey, were pr^-,^^^^ etepdaughter Miss
ent with Mayor R. T. McNeill for „
some time.
the meeting.
Due to th© fact that two new
members are now on the board
Myrtle Norris, this city, and
step-son. Dean Norris, of Oxford,
(Continued on page four)
the list of standing committees j Wilkesboro P.-T. A. To
was revised and Is now as fol-j Meet This Ajfternoon
lows:
Finance
S. V. Tomlinson,' Wllkesboro Parent-Teacher As-
chairnian, Dr. R. P. Casey and j sociatlon will meet this after-
Hoyl© M. Hutchens." I noon, 3;15f at the school bull^-
Water and lights—^Dr, R. P. j lng. All members and'other Ih-
forwardsd to tho -fedwal bureau' Cssey, chairman, R. 0. ' Pinlby 1 temted patrons are asked to at-
of loads for approral. I ' (ConDnied on p^e foir) Itend.
North Wilkesboro Mountain
Lions, who started" the western
conference schedule so success
fully on Tuesday night by de
feating Newton 12 to 8 here,
will play Marion Friday night
at eight o’clock on the school
gymnasium court. Both boys
and girls will play.
Admission will be 25 and 10
cents and a large crowd is ex
pected to witness the high school
team in an effort to continue its
winning streak'toward the cham
pionship goal. The victory over
Newton, recognized as one of
the strongest in the conference,
is giving the local team added
impetus and fast games can be
looked forward to during the re
mainder of the year.
Wilkes' countjr; apple growers
report 60 per cent of a normal
crop hartrested last fail bnt good
prices throughout the winter.
Economy Auto
Supply to Open
New Business Firm Onens on
Corner of 9th and B Streets;
E. J. Pierce Manager
The Economy Auto Supply,
newest addition to the business
life of North Wilkesboro, will
open for business on Sat&rday
on the corner of B and Ninth
streets, in th© store room ocen-
pled until recently by Spain-
hour’s Shoppe.
This new business 'is a snh-
sidiary of the Goodrich Rubber
Company and will at all times
carry a large stock of automobile
accessories and parts. C. W.
Kuykendall, refpresentatlve ot
th© company, has been heilii tot
a few days assisting in making
arrangements for the opening.
Edward J. Pidl^ee,p6#idisr
young man of this cijty wIuj^iMw''
had nine yean ezperieiiM tn th®
automobile bokineu '
‘ (ConflBiwa OB p»ge four)