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XXIX. NO. 29 .
Published Mondays and Thursdays
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1935
JH» STATHMI-60 out of the STATB ^
Officer
Still Moving About
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Kntert.'iin President
Washington. Jan. 20.—Negro
spirituals of the South Carolina
low country echoed through the
east room of the White House
this afternoon as the Charleston
Singers gave a recital as guests
of President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
I>eath.s anti Birts
Raleigh. Jan, 17. — Death
claimed 35.324 North Carolin
ians last year, but there were
79,350 births to ino’f than off-
(^et this total, the annual report
of the bureau of vital statistics
^ of the state board of health
showed today.
.Tail F'ire Kills One
Maxton. Jan. 20.— One pris
oner died from suffocation, an
other is in a se.rious condition in
Laurinburg hospital, while a
third is less seriously hurl as a
result of a fire in the Maxtou
jail early today. All were ne
groes.
RobI>el of $4:5
'Elizabethtown. Jan. IS.—J. H.
Croodman. representative of the
Gate City Life Insuratice com
pany here, reported to the sher
iff’s office last night that he had
been held up and robbed of ap
proximately $43 on the Clarkton-
Elizabethtown highway.
Hunting Tax Yield
Washington. Jan. 18. — The
senate committee on wild life
conservation finds that the licen
se imposed on hunters has
amounted this year to $600,000.
and collections will probably ag
gregate $800,000 by the end of
the season.
P President’s Daughter Wetls
New York. Jan. 18.—A brief,
simple, entirely secret wedding
today united the President’.s
daughter. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt
Dali, and a newspaperman—
John Boettiger. former White
House correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune.
State’s .Ygriculture
Raleigh, Jan. 18.—North Car
olina. which moved to third
-rank in the nation in value of all
crops in 1934. surpassed all the
southern states in the percentage
of increase. William A. Graham,
state commissioner of agricul-
tture, said today.
Stx Killed In Wi-eck
nford. Jan. 20.—Three peo-
ivere fatally injured and six
•8 seriously hurt in a truck-
Bobile collison on highway
laar Ryes, In Harnett county,
illes east of Sanford, about
o’clock this afternoon. The
: Mrs. W. H. Wade, about
who lived on Lillington,
I two. Mrs. Wade’s young
Cla/ence. Orville Draughan.
t 21, of the Lillington neigh-
The Reynolds Case
Tnston-Salem, Jan. 18.—.An
fatlon that Smith Reynolds
I with his first wife only two
» was put into the records
i-orsyth Superior court today
1. C. Vaughan, “next friend”
ifant Christopher Smith Rey-
8, ttled an answer to her ef-
to bar the ehlld and his
Her, Libby Holman, from
tag in Reynolds’ $30,000,-
trust estate.
Davie Youths
End Crime Orgy
Here Thursday
College Student Missing
Raleigh. Jan. 18.—A wide
spread search was under way
here today for Lorraine Ander
son, Jr., a senior at North Caro
lina State college from Wil
mington, who has not been seen
here since Tuesday night.
Said To Have Stolen Two Cars
and Held Up Two Service
Stations in One Night
AVilliam.s on NR.A
New York City. Jan. 17.—Ex
tension of NRA for one or two
years “substantially in its pres
ent form,’’ was recommended
tonight by S. Clay Williams,
chairman of the national indus
trial recovery board.
Couldn’t Take It
Riom, France, Jan. 20.—Hen
ri Rondeau, a young prisoner
serving a seven-year term for
manslaughter, coinmitied suicide
today by plunging into a 150-
gallon vat of boiling soiip in the
penitentiary kitchen here.
Three youths from Mocksville
ended a night of banditry here
Thursday morning at 5 o’clock
when they were arrested and
placed in jail by a member of the
city police Torce.
A check-up revealed that Fred
Franklin, 17, Joe Martin. 18, and
James Poplin, 17, had stolen
two cars, attempted to hold up
one service station and had rob
bed another Wednesday night.
Wben they left Mocksville
Wednesday night they were oc
cupying a Ford roadster stolen
from a Mr. Sanford. From their
home town they proceeded to
Barbers Junction where they at
tempted to hold up a service sta
tion operated by a man and wom
an of advanced age. They fled
the scene amid a hail of bullets
from guns in the hands of t'ne
aged couple.
Tlieu, according to the boyr’
own story, they proceeded to Cor-|
nelius. where they stole a late
model Plymouth from beside the
home of J. C. Sherill. They
then turned in this direction and
near Statesville entered a filling
station and stole a quantity of
bread, cigarettes, tobacco and
canned goods, which were found
in the stolen car.
Before dawn Thursday the
three desperadoes entered North
Wilkesboro and Patrolman W. E.
Winkler saw the car parked
Auto Accidents
Lead Causes of
Death b City
Nine Per^ns in North Wil
kesboro Died of Automobile
Wrecks Past Year
San Francisco . . . Amelia Ear-
ban Putnam (above), slept a
few hours after her solo tlight,
Honolulu to Oakland then hopp
ed down to see her mother at
Hollywood the next day, Sun
day. She said she would fly to
Washington and check in . . .
then planned to be back here .on
Thursday to meet her husband
who wa.s trailing her in i>y boat
from Honolulu.
end of the city. He stopped and
went to the car to investigate.
The boy under the wheel at
tempted to start the car while
the one beside him reached for
his .gun but the officer had them
covered. The third youth was in
the back seat and was sleeping.
ERA Office Seeks
Place For Number
Of Relief Cases
Landlords With Farm.s to
Rent Asked to Get in Touch
With District Office
District relief office in this
city for the counties of Wilkes,
Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Sur
ry and Yadkin is seeking farms
for relief families. C. A. Miles.
under the shed of jjharlie gown's ^
service station in the northern fUlBtrict farm supecwiuw, stated
today.
It has been pointed out that
there are many families on the
relief lists who could do much
better if they were located on a
farm and for this reason "the
ERA office is wanting to contact
Thursday morning they denied ,,^^6 farms to rent
everything until local officers] ^^are oi repair of
communicated with Mr. Sherrill buildings in lieu of rent.
in Cornelius, after they had
found his name on an invoice in
the car. .Mr. Sherrill told the
local officers that his car was
not stolen but. but when he
looked for it he found that it
was gone. With this evidence
officers here were able to gain a
confession from the youths.
Sheriffs of Davie and Rowan
Any landlord wlio has a va
cant farm building in any of
the six counties is asked to get
in. touch with Mr. Miles at the
district ERA office in the Bank
of North Wilkesboro building
here.
Kills Wife .And Self
Charleston. S. C.. Jan. 20.—
counties, accompanied by Chief j Eugene F. Dougherty, chief city
of Police Rankin, of Salisbury, | sanitary inspector, whom police
came here Thursday and carried | found in his cell bleeding from a
the three men back to Mocks-1 peck wound, died at a hospital
ville. I at 9:20 tonight, a little less than
So tar as could be learned I 24 hours after the killing of his
here, the boys have no criminal | wife. The sanitary inspector had
record, although Martin said he j been detained at headquarters
was recently discharged from a | for questioning in connection
Is AllegedI 40 Have 'Broken
WomanV^Arm; Brother
of IJkte Ed Atwood -■
(Continued on back page)
with the crime.
Tobacco Growing and Crop Control
Discussed In Wilkesboro Meeting
E. Y. Floyd, Tobacco Expert,
Explains AAA Plans For
Tobacco Control
Although Wilkes is not usual
ly classed as a tobacco growing
county there were more than
300 tobacco growers in attend
ance at a meeting held at the
courthouse on F’riday afternoon,
at which time E. Y. FToyd, tobac
co specialist of the extension
service, told about the 1935 crop
reduction program and gave cer
tain points calculated to help
growers to raise better quality
weed.
.A. G. Hendren. Wilkes farm
agent, presided over the meeting
and presented Mr. Floyd. O. F.
McCrary, district agent, was al
so present and spoke briefly.
After Mr. Floyd had explained
in detail many questionable
points in the AAA plan a round
table discussion was held as he
answered many questions per
taining to contracts and allot
ments.
Mr. Floyd gave detailed in
formation concerning who may
and may not sign government
contracts or obtain allotments.
He explained that the allotments
this year will be 85 per cent of
the base acreage and poundage
for contract signers. The tax on
non-signers will be 33 1-3 per
cent.
(Continued oa back page)
Myers Returned
To N. Wilkesboro
Four Injured In Collision Near
Wiiycross Are Convalesing .At
Call Hotel Here
Iredell M. Myers, coroner of
Wilkes County and proprietor of
Hotel Wilkes, his son, Walter
Myers and wife and small child,
were brought to this city Friday
by ambulance from Waycross,
Oa.. where they were seriously
injured in an automobile collis
ion on Sunday, January 6. Since
that time they had been treated
at a Waycross hospital.
The injured are reported to
be well on the way toward re
covery.
Phinn Atwood, who is alle.ged
to have assaulted Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Love and broken Mrs.
Love’s arm in an altercation near
Harley Wednesday, was arrested
and placed in jail at Wilkesboro
F’riday by Deputies Sheriff H. C.
Kilby, Oid Wiles and Barney
Sparks.
The prisoner is a brother of
Ed Atwood, who was killed by
Sheriff W. B. Somers while re
sisting arest in the same com
munity several months ago.
Phinn Atwood was reported
to have led a wild life a tew
days prior to the time he was
-taken by the officers and had
been carrying a shotgun over
the community and threatening
officers who dared to attempt to
arrest him. However, when the
officers found him near his
home he tried to run away hut
did not offer any resistance.
Time For Signing
Tobacco Contracts
Extended To Jan. 31
N.W.H.S. WILL PLAY
ELKIN BLANKETEERS
AT GYMNASIUM HERE
Tonight at 8 o’clock the basket
ball team of the North Wilkes
boro Athletic association will
play the Strong team of Elkin
Blanketeers on the local high
school gymnasium court.
The Blanketeers are known as
one of the strongest and fastest
cage quints In this part of the
state and the best game of the
setmon is anticipated tonight. All
basketball fans are invited to
see the game.'
Farmers who did not sign to
bacco crop reduction contracts
last year and who are eligible to
sign may do so any time during
January. County Agent A. G.
Hendren stated this morning
that the time had been extended
to give every eligible grower an
opportunity to share In the bene
fits of fhe crop reduction pro
gram and he has the necessary
blanks at his office in the court
house in Wilkesboro. January
31 will positively be the last
date for signing.
Canada leads all countries with
exports to the United States; Ja
pan is a close second.
1934 WAS WET
YEAR IN CITY
The .year ending Decemt »•
81, 1034, was one of the wet
test In some time for North
AVilkesboro, according to rain
fall ri'cord.s kept by Sam Cra
ven at the city water jflant.
During the year there were
53.42 inches of rainfall as
coinparcfl with 38:40 in ^1933,
representing an Increase of
approximately 20 inches. There
was ample rainfall for crops
throughont 1084 and at no
time was there » very damag
ing drought ia this aectton^. '
HEART DISEASE NEXT
Figures Given Out by Regis
trar Give Interesting
Information
Automobile accidents led all
diseases and other causes of
death in North Wilkesboro in
1934, according to the report of
W. A. BiiUis. registrar of yltal
statistics for the city. Deaths hj’
aiitomobilo accident totaled nine
as compared with eight by heart
disease, the next highest.
During the there were
6 4 deaths from all causes as
compared with 131 births, or
four more than double the num
ber of deaths. Of the births 64
were males and 67 females.
It is interesting to note that
the total number of deaths by
accident in North Wilke-sboro
during the year was 15, or al
most one-fourth of the number
of deaths from all causes.
Death certificates filed with
Mr. Bullis classify the accidental
deaths as follows: Automobile,
9; broken neck by fall from
tank, 1: burned in dwelling Are,
3; crushed by locomotive tun-
table. 1; gunshot wound, 1.
Other causes were: Apoplexy,
1: appendicitis, 1; alcoholism, 1:
cancer, 3: cerebral hemorrhage,
4; child birth. 2; chronic neu
ritis, 4; cause unknown, 1; de-
lerium tremens, 1; diseases of
the heart, 8; diseases of the liver,
1: dysentery, 2; gunshot wound
(suicide) 1; meningitis. 1; para
lysis, 1: peritonitis, 2; pneu
monia, 6; premature birth. 7;
tumor on brain, 1; tuberculosis,
1.
TWO INJURED
IN FALL FROM
WATER TANK
Emmet Estep and A. T. Moore
Pall I'Toin AA'ater Tank
Near Filtration Plant
New fork . . . Ever since Mrs.
Oliver C. Grlnnell 57, (above),
caught that big tuna fish last
year, business has not interested
her so much. Last week she gave
her lithographing business to
her employees and is oiling up
the reel to go fishing.
Kiwanians Ask
More Money For
School System
Resolution i'assed in Meeting
Friday Noon; Good Pro
gram Rendered
Emmet Estep and A. T.
Moore, residents of this city,
were painfnn,v injured o 11
Friday mornin}^ when they
fell from where they were
working on a water tank near
the filtration plant of the city
water system.
They fell a distance of 18
feit and Moore suffered a
painfully burned hand when
it struck a hot rivet. Estep
su.stuiiied a dislocated elbow.
'The men were employes of the
R. I). Cole Alannfacturing
t'ompan.v, contractor for tlie
erection of tanks and towers
for the city water system.
Miss Victoria Bell
Speaker For Service
Relief Administrator Will Tell of
ER.A Work In Methodist Slid-
Week Sm-ice
Phm Atwood Is’
Placed In Jaill
North AVilkesboro Kiwanis
Club in luncheon meeting on
Friday noon adopted a resolution
asking the general assembly to
“make the most substantial in
crease possible in funds allocated
for the support of ‘the eight-
months school term.”
The resolution, submitted to
the local club by Kiwanians of
High Point was passed after
brief discussion. The resolution
follows:
“Whereas. North Carolina can
not hope to command the servic
es of competent teachers without
paying them reasonably ade
quate salaries to enable them not
,^y to live but to keep them-
'es professionally up to date; ]
Miss Victoria Bell, district ad
ministrator of the Emergency
Relief Administration, w'ill speak
at the raid-week service to be
held at the Methodist church
mere Wednesday evening at 7:30,
according to an announcement
today by the pastor. Rev. H. K.
King.
Miss Bell will tell of her work
in the relief administration and
an interesting address is anti
cipated. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Yadkin Valley Co.
Buys Its Quarters
“Whereas, North Carolina can
not hope to train its children to
meet the competition of the rest
of the nation on one-third of the
naional cost;
“Be it resolved. That we, the)
members of the North Wilkes
boro Kiwanis Club, respectfully
request and urge that the gen
eral assembly omit no opportun
ity to make the most substantial
increase possible in the funds al
located for the support of the
eight-months school term, not
only for salaries but for other
expenses necessary for the oper
ation of good schools.’’
It was pointed out that the
average teacher salary in North
Carolina is $618 per year as com
pared with $1,222 for the nation.
39 students per teacher in North
(Continued on page eight)
Ford Dealers Buy Present
Quarters From Firm of C.
D. Coffey & Sons
The Yadkin Valley Motor Com
pany, Ford dealer in this terri
tory, completed a deal involvin,g
a considerably large sum last
week when it purchased from
the firm of C. D. Coffey and
Sons the building it (Msupies on
ihe corner of Ninth and C
streets.
This building, which will con
tinue to house the business, has
been the quarters of the Yadkin
Valley Motor company since its
organization in 1915. It is well
constructed and affords conven
ience to all department.s of the
establishment.
An aerial survey costing 150.-
000 pounds will be undertaken in
Northern Australia.
Advautages of Natioual Housii^
Act To Be Told iu Meetiug Here
Wilkes County Corn
In Virginia Show
Will Vlii For Honoi-s In Crop
ImprovenK-nt Exposition In
Hopewell, Virginia
Wilkes County White, a vn-
rlet.v of com fainoiLs for the
pi-eminms and honoi-s it luts
won at various fairs, will be
exhibited at an exposition
si>on.sored by the Virginia Crop
Improvement Association tO be
held in Hopewell, Va., on Jan
uary 84 ami 35.
R. Don and Ted R. Nichols,
both of Pmdear, have sent ten-
ear exhibits to the exposition,
which Ls oi>en to the Unlterl
States and Canada. The prem
iums offered are by no means
lucrative but the WUkeS farm
ers are leager to place their
product 1'txith the keenest of
. competition.
Will Be Held In City Hall
Wednesday Evening at
7:30; Public Invited
In a public meeting to be held
at the city hall here Wednesday
Calls Aittention To
Penalties On Taxes
Sheriff W. B. Somers, tax col
lector of Wilkes County, and P.
L. Lenderman. lax collector for
the town of Wilkesboro, are call
ing attention to that fact that a
penalty will be added on all
taxes not paid on or before
January 31. The county and
town jieed the money and
payers .are urged to pay during
the remdii^er of Jannary and
thv: atonnl^ of ^
night at 7:30. advantages offer
ed under the national housing
act will be fully explained by a
representative of the district
NHA in Asheville.
It has been pointed out that
this immediate section has been
slow to comprehend the meaning
of the opportunities afforded
home owners to Improve their
places of abode and for this rea
son the meeting is to be held.
In addition to this phase, a
Wilkes County Better Housing
campaign will be started with a
local organization, to he formed
in the meeting Wednesday night.
The general public, and especially
those who are interested in re
modeling or improving their
I homes or places of business, have
a most urgent invitation to be
present. Representatives of. all
banks and building and loan as
sociations are also asked to be
present.
Through the NHA home own
ers may be aided in securing
long term credit in order to
gain funds for home improve
ment. No better place or time
can be found for learning details
of the advantages than in the
mmting to be held on Wednes
day night."' • ,
triffb Schools Closed^Ok
Millerg Creek, ;
Sulphur Springs
Schools Closed
: 6
Will Reopen When Certani
Changes Are Made; Work
Is Now Going On
As the result of four school
buildings being condemned by
State insurance authorities Mil
lers Creek and Sulphur Springs
schools have been temporarily
closed down. Meanwhile, adjoat-
raents are being made on Wilkes
boro and Mountain View band
ings that will enable them u>
operate for the remainder of
this school year provided the an-
ditoriums are not used for pub
lic gatherings.
At Millers Creek two rooms
were unconditionally condemned
in the upper story of the ele
mentary building while several
changes must be made on the
high school building. Wt/rkmen
are engaged in changing ths
doors and removing the fire
hazards about the stoves and
chimneys. School authorities stat
ed today that the school may be
able’to reopen by the middle of
the week.
The school at Sulphur Springs
has been closed because the di
lapidated building has been un
reservedly condemned as a fire
trap and in a state of collapae.
Other arrangements for housing
the children must be made be
fore the school can resume work.
At Wilkesboro exits are being
made to the outside from the
basement rooms now in use.
Before the 1935-36 school
term opens a-great amount of
work must be done at Wilkes
boro, Millers Creek, Mountain
View and Sulphur Springs. The
county commissioners now have
the matter under advisement and
are expected to work out the best
possible solution.
Wilkes Solon On
Four Committees
Legislature Begins Grind wi
Hundreds of Bills Now
Introduced
T. Sherman Bryan, of Traphni.
W'ilkes county’s representative in
the general assembly now in ses
sion in Raleigh, has been named
on four house committees as fol
lows; Counties, cities and towns
committee: agriculture commit
tee: committee on institutions
for the blind: committee on insti
tutions tor the deaf and dumb.
The first two named are regard
ed as very important and essen
tial committees.
Senator Joe Williams, of Yad-
kinville .repre.senting the 24th
district, composed of Davie, Yad
kin and Wilkes, is on six senate
committees as follows: F’inance,
roads: hanks and riirrency; agri
culture; conservation and devel
opment: counties, cities and
towns.
A vast array of measures have
been introduced in both the
house and senate and, according
to present indications, the legis
lature may be in session for
several months.
Family of 13
Left Homeless
Fire Sunday Morning De
stroyed Residence on J. M.
Bumgarner’s River Farm
•Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Roop and
a family of eleven children were
left homeless yesterday morning
when fire destroyed the six-room
residence on J. M. Bumgarner’s
farih On the Yadkin River four
miles west of Wilkesboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Roop, parents of
13 children, two of whom are
married, were tenants on the
farm. About nine o’clock Sun
day morning members of the
family discovered that an up
stairs room wai in flames and
the fire had progressed so far
that it W'as unable to extinguish
it.
Practically all of the home
furnishings were destroyed aad
the building was a total loee. The
loss is estimated to exceed $2.-
000 and no inaarance was 'car
ried on the property.