North Carolina Newspapers

Journal-Patriot has blazed'*the trail 'of process in the “State years; -■'iv ¥ ,1-' — 3? »«w^. ■ > 5s-^ 's. 4a > ' ^ ,4*1^ ^ : xxix/1^42^ Published Mondaj^'and Thursdays NOftTH.Wlffiis&O, ;==«r>r i- ms^soF ATE AND !«' NATION New Postoffke To Be Comideted Sometime h May ; .i)lMill»ee AnMUim; Dies 8iubU Monica. Calif., March 5. a Client of the national jiry home near here. ^Ved- 'ormBi^ Kcke, civil war veteran. aniMUoa-~-to reach 94. Ha lea^aed the ambition yester day, his? birthday, and died to- day. Workmen Now Laying Floors In Govemmettt Building On C Street New Car Sales Up Raleigh, March 5.—New car sales for the first two months of 1935 more than doubled the number for the similar period of lasC fear, records at the mo tor vehicle bureau of the de partment of revenue revealed to day. Held For Robbery Bllzabeth City, March 5.- IJnable to furnish $1,000 bond, Marion Gallop, 41, of Currituck, was held in the Pasquotank coun- L.ty Jail today charged with enter ing the Point Harbor postotfice the night of November 24, last, and taking a pistol and $4 '•worth of stamps. Would Curb Probes Washington, March 5.—In an attack on “publicity seekers” in the senate. Representative Can non, Democrat, Wisconsin, sought today to check “wasteful de lays” in Congress by introduc ing a bill which would prohibit bol($ing congressional investiga tions until adjournment. Execution Date Set Little Rock, Ark., March 5.— Gov. J. Marion Putrell late to-, day signed an order directing the electrocution of Mark H. Shank, Akron (O.) attorney, at Tucker prison farm next Friday morning. Shank was convicted of ►-0 poison-murder in connection with the deaths of tour members of an Ohio family. D. .\. R. In Convention Goldsboro, March 5. — The 35th annual state conference of the North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution was opened here this afternoon at e Woman’s club by Mrs. Wil liam Henry Belk, of Charlotte, state regent, with a large num ber of delegates and visitors in attendance from all parts of the state. Programs will last through noon Thursday. Williams Resigns Washington, March 5.—Fol lowing an exchange of letters with President Roosevelt, signi fying the existence of the most cprdial relations, S. Clay Wil- "V Hams this afternoon resigned ' the chairmanship of the nation al Industrial recovery board, and the President accepted with the reservation that Mr. Williams re main at his present post “for at least another two weeks." Dust Clouds Whirl Chicago, March 5.—A whirl- M^lng cloud of dust moved across ' 'fhe middlewest today to give Kansas a “blue" sun, shadow southern Ohio with yellowish light, and annoy residents of nearly a dozen states. Dust clouds were reported over the lower halt of Illinois and Indi ana, along the lower edge of Ohio,,and southeast as far as Nashville, Tenn. Seek Girl’s Slayer Raleigh, March 5.—Governor ^.Fji/inghaus late today offered a reward of $200 for the arrest, delivery and conviction of the unknown person or persons who killed Pattie Mae Faulkner, 13- d^ear-old Franklin county girl, ^^t Friday. Baptist Pastor Resumes Duties Rev. and Mrs. Avery Church Retm-n From Seminary- At Louisville Rev. and Mrs. Avery Church ■eturned to Wilkesboro Saturday irom Louisville. Ky., where Rev. Hr. Church has just completed ;wo months of additional study n the Baptist Theological Semi nary. Mrs. Church was engaged n a course of Woman’s Misaion- iry training. Rev. Mr. Church is now pastor )f the Wilkesboro and Jonesville Baptist churches but will con- ;lime to make his home In Wil- Uaboro. First and third Sundays n each month will be church i^ylces at Wilkesboro and the lecond and fourth at Jonesville. UNEMPLOYED USED Labor Furnished From Un- emjdoyed Applicant Files Quite Satisfactory North Wilkeshoro’s govern ment owned postoffice building, located on C street between Ninth and Tenth, will b© com pleted early in May, according to information received today from Lundberg-Richter, holder of the contract tor the erection of the building. The outside structure, of col ored brick and stone, has been completed and workmen are now engaged in laying a reinforced concrete floor. About four weeks will be necessary to complete the interior. The contract calls for a circu lar drive about the building with macadam construction. It is said that authorities are contemplat ing changing the specifications to concrete in order to assure greater durability. Pending completion of the building local postoffice authori ties hav© received no notice of the opening date or moving from the present quarters on B street. It is presumed that the new building will house the postof fice early in June or perhaps during the latter part of May. Labor used on the building is being obtained from the Nation al Reemployment office here. A member of the contracting firm stated today that the men sup plied from the files of the unem ployed had turned out to be very satisfactory workmen. Lund- bergh-Richter is now beginning work on two postoffices in the stat.e .Qf Oklahoma erected almost 100 government buildings in the past several year.s. 324 Children In Wilkes Registered “Register Your Baby" Cam paign Still Far Front Be ing Comirieted Raleigh, Mar. 6.—North Caro lina parents are classed as “fair” in their responses to the appeal of the Bureau of the Census, the State Bpard of Health and the State ERA for a complete regis tration of babies born in the State during the past year. Dr. John H. Hamilton, director of the Division of Vital Statistics, is informed. North Carolinians had report ed approximately one-third of the number of births recorded for 1933 on the little cards sent out from Washington up to the end of last week. Recorded births in 1933 reached 75.422’ in 1933 and already in 1934 the number has reached 79,350, by which Dr. Hamilton estimates that complete recording will show at least 80,000 births last year. Wilkes county parents have reported in the present “Register Your Baby” campaign the births of 324 children during the past year, or 30.5 per cent of the 1,061 actually recorded births for the year 1933, up to last week, as compared with about 33 per cent for the State, Dr. Hamilton said. This indicates that fully 50,- 000 parents in North Carolina have had children born to them during the past year who have not filled in the buff-colored cards distributed by the Post- office Department to them from the postoffice from which they receive mail, said Dr. Hamilton. The children who have thus been slighted may have occasion many times in the future to condemn the parental neglect, the vital statistics man said. The campaign Is about to end, but there is yet time for parents to secure these cards from the nearest postoffice, the State Board of Health or from the field or case workers for the re lief organization, if they have misplaced those received earlier, and get them to Washington in time to be counted and checked at the State Board of Health in Raleigh. A bee travels an average dis tance of 43,776 miles to gather one pound of honey. HEADS BtG U. New York Man Named Head of Johns Hop- kins University Baleimore ... Dr. Isaiah Bow- mau of New Y’ork (above), has been elected President of Johns Hopkins University here. He is the fifth president and succeeds Dr. Joseph S. Ames. County Health Department Has Very Busy Month Much Work Done Among Schools if County; Dis eases On Decline Report of the Wilkes county health department for February shows that Dr. A. J. Eller, health officer, and Mrs. Bertha Bell, county nurse, were very busy during the month, despite the fact that the number of com municable diseases reported dur ing the month represented a de cline as compared with the num ber for previous months. During February these were no epidemics in the county and very few eases of communicable diseases of the more . type. The report also disclosed that whooping cough has been very mild in the county and that there were only three cases. No cases of measles, typhoid, small pox or diplietheria, the quartet that causes most trouble to health departments, -were report ed. The activities of the health department for the month was perhaps greater in the examina tion and inspection of school children than in any other lines of work, there being a total of 1,061 grade school children ex amined aad Inspected by the health ofijeer or nurse. Report on veneral disease con trol showed that treatment was given to several cases of siphilis while the other types of these maladies were not so much in evidence. Much work was also carried out among tuberculosis patients and in the maternity clinic ac tivity. Many inspections of sani tary conditions were made through the office .in February. Tjiomas R. Biy^ 4 Tax Supervisor )AV:laiiCB7,1936 HEADS BOARD Lady - Named Chairman aay ’ of Consumers' Board Of NBA Appointment Made By Comi ty Ckmiinisflimrs In March'Sessfon TO NAME TAX LISTERS Board Endorses Plan For State Park On Sifmmit of Historic Rendezvous Thomas Rhudy Bryan, resi dent of Traphlll and a son of Representative and Mrs. T. S. Bryan, was appointed tax super visor for Wilkes county by the board of commissioners in their regular March session this week. The newly appointed tax sup ervisor is an attorney, having passed the recent bar examina tion and on Monday was admitt ed to the bar in Wilkes court by Judge W. F. Harding, presiding. In addition to the naming of a tax supervisor the commission ers attended to routine and a number of less Important mat ters. All members of the board, D. B. Swaringen, chairman, M. F. Absher and Ralph Duncan, were present in the meeting. Appointment of tax listers was discussed and the names of list- taker for the various townships will be announced soon. Endorse Park Plan The commissioners endorsed the plan for the proposed state park on the summit of the Ren dezvous mountain. Among the other matters dis posed of were admitting Ruby Edwards to th© county home. T. R. Parsons sworn in as constable in Jobs Cabin township, T. R. Owens as constable in Union and B. L. Combs was also sworn in as constable and bonds were filed. Washington . . . Mrs. Emily Newell Blair (above). Is the new chairman of the Consumers Ad visory Board of the NRA to suc ceed the late Mrs. Mary Harri- man Rumsey. 4 Wilkes T^ams In Contest In Winston-Salem Federal Officers Get Man al^till David M. Gregory Arrested Monday For Operating Il licit Distillery Pomona Grange Will Meet 14th Every Member Urgently Asked To Be Present For Important Quarterly Meeting The Pomona Grange of Wilkes county will hold Its quarterly meeting at Wilkesboro on Thurs day, March 14, at 7:30 p. ni. This is announced as a very important meeting and every member is urgently asked to be present. New York, March 3.—Three slayings today, all of which po lice linked with the lucrative policy game, gambling, dope or vice rackets, made a aramatic prelude to a sweeping grand jury Investigation beginning to- Officers of the federal alcohol tax unit made a raid in the Brushy Mountain section o f Wilkes Monday which netted one man, David M. Gregory, and a medium sized still. Gregory was given a prelimi nary hearing before Commission er J. W. Dula and released und er bond of $500 for appearance at the May term of federal court in Wilkesboro. Officers taking part in the raid were C. S. Felts, J. C. Fort ner, Leonard Roope, J. T. Jones and Clinard Johnson. 30 From Wilkes At Appalkhiah Student Body Now Made Up Of 1,009 Students, Regis trar’s Report Says represented Wilkes county is in the student body at Appalach ian State Teachers College in Boone by 30 students, according to a recent report issued by J. M. Downum, registrar. The report also shows that there are 1,009 students enroll ed from 68 North Carolina coun ties and from 13 other states. Watauga county leads in num ber of students with 135 and Lincoln is second with 48. It is interesting to note that the stu dent body is made up of pupils from widely separated sections, there being one from Baghdad. Asia. The spring term will close on May 3 and the summer term will begin on Juhe 4, Mr. Dow num stated. North Wilkesboro and Wilkes boro Boys; Wilkesboro and Ronda Girls Four basketball teams repre senting three high schools in Wilkes county have entered the Northwest North Carolina Bas ketball Tournament, which is now in progress in Winston-Sal em under sponsorship of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sen tinel. The Wilkes teams are North Wilkesboro boys, Wilkesboro boys and girls and Ronda girls. Wilkesboro boys were the first Wilkes team to go on the floor and were paired yesterday; a- gainst Happy Valley. As the game was about to end in a 20-20 tie a Happy Valley player fouled Linney and he sank the winning point after the final whistle. Ronda girls will see action this afternoon when they play Pilot Mountain. North Wilkes boro boys will see their first ac tion in the tournament at 4:30 Friday afternoon against Beth any high. Films Moving To Florida Woud Use N. C. Scenes Miami, Fla. — Joseph M. Schenek, Hollywood film produc er, told Florida today that a $10,000,000 motion picture in dustry is hers for an assurance against burdensome taxes. The president of United Ar tists arrived by airplane from New York for the announced pur pose of inspecting possible sites for a studio. From the airport, he went to the home of friends at Miami Beach for “two days of relaxation.” Miami was mentioned b y Schenck as the “logical site,” with its waterfront, weather that seldom changes, and its luxuri ant tropical foliage. Newspapermen asked him a- bout mountain scenes. “North Carolina is not far away,” he re plied. STATE GETS RELIEF FUNDS FOR MARCH THBl llfT OP.TI CoafnMidst Of First Week W " Bilk RetiiniedbCai^ SCHOOLMASTB3RS CUIB I WIt4- MEET ON FWAY Docket Is 0ear«^^]|l.SevMd 'Wilkes county schoolmasters club tvill hold a meetlnf in the Wilkesboro school building - on Friday evening at slx^o’eleck. All prtneipals and high schobi teach ers are asked to * attend. Plates for the dinner meeting will be fifty cents each. Biff Introduced By Wilkes Solon Raleigh, March 5—Mrs. Thom as O’Berry, state relief adminis trator, announced today that North Carolina has been allotted $1,514,075 federal relief funds tor use in March. Funds have already been re ceived for the first half of March, she said. They Include: general relief, $675,000; education, $80,000; student aid, $36,825: transient relief, $45,000. COUNH BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE DECIDED IN GAME IN CITY TONIGHT Basketball championship of a scJioduIe sponsored for Wilkes county by the school masters club will be decided tonight (Thursday) wlten Wil- kesboro boys meet Mountain View boys, and Mount Pleas ant girls meet Mountain View girls in tlie final and deciding pimes to he played in the North Wilkesboro high school gymnasium. The first game will start at 7:30. I\)r several years the school masters club, aa organization made up of principals and teachers of the hig(h schools, have sponsored basketball cliaiiipionshlp schedules for the county. 'This year the county was divided into what was called the eastern and western divis ions with four schools in each division. Six games each were playecl and the division cham- pionslUps decided on a iH?r- centage basis. As the result of the sche dule W^llkesboro boys and Mt. Pleasant girls will rc’present the western division against the two teams of Mountain View in the final games to- nFght. Attractive trophy cups will be awarded the winning teams. The race for the division titles has attracted much interest and the winning teams in both divisions had ke?1i and close competition. The games to- nlgflit are expected -to draw a large crowd. The admission prices wUl be 10 and 25 cents. Would Validate Purchase of Mountain View School Property by County A measure introduced in the house of representatives yester day by Representative T. S. Bry an would ratify the purchase by Wilkes county of the Mountain View school property from Mrs. Lula Kilby, former owner. The measure was placed on the cal endar tor Immediate passage without going before a commit tee. The bill sets out that the school property consists of 30 acres of land and tour brick buildings and that the original cost was around $30,000. It goes on to state that Mrs. Lula Kilzy purchased the property at a fore closure sale for $14,000 and that in September last year she enter ed into an agreement with the county board of commissioners and the board of education whereby she was to receive $8,- 000 for the property to be paid in installments, the last one coming duO in 1937. The mea sure introduced is only for the purpose of making the contract valid, it is stated. NEW YORK POLICE SHAPE-UP ORDERED New York, March 5.—In the most drastic police shake-up of his regime, Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine tonight ordered 2’50 vice squad plainclothesmen trans ferred as authorities pressed for ward In the war to wipe out the rice, policy and bail-bond rack ets. The order was one of the most far-reaching in recent years. Notice For Blue-Blooded Citizens; Stand By Your School On Friday Night Support “Pineville Meets The Prince” and see one of the fin est local talent plays that has come to this town. It is being given by the North Wilkesboro High School Dramatic Clubs, and none of the money made will leave town. The members of the cast are well known, and their efforts are well worth witness ing. They are Marcella Pendley, Gwyn Kilby. Harry Kerley, Mar garet Cassel, Jay Brewer, Emily McCoy. Ulysses Foster, Mayme Yates, Bruce Vickery, Norma Sue Sprinkle, Hazel Horton, and Elizabeth Grayson. The price of admission is practically the same as movie tickets—25c for adults and 16c for children. The story, laid in Virginia, tells of the efforts of Claire Vaughan D’Auby, an American- born Queen of Dalvaria, who brings her son, Peter, to her former home town, wife hunting. The son, who would rather be known as “Pete” than “Prince,” is willing but not enthusiastic. Mother’s high-powered sales talk gets in his blood and he goes shopping ^for love on his own. Those charming bits of bait, I.,ucy Jefferies and Peggy Pren tice with their title hunting and social rival mother: Mr. Jeffer ies. a hard, scheming business man: Donald Lee and Allen Con rad, typical examples of clean young business men; Anne Jones, who turns out to be not so plain as her name; Cassie, the colored maid, all have a vital place in the working out of what seems at first an Impossible situation. Don't miss “Pineville Meets The Prince,’’ Friday night, March 8, at the school auditorium, at 8 o’clock.—Reported. » ' Mioor Cases Route Pnil COURTNEY INDICTB» True Bffl Char _ With PoisoiiinglroiHilf 1 Grand Jury Boost Tax On Out- Of-State Corporations Raleigh, March 5.—By an ov erwhelming majority, the joint finance committee of the Gener al Assembly today adopted a foreign and domestic franchise tax boosted from $1.50 per $1,- 000 of net worth to $1.76. As the March term of Wilkes superior court for trial of crim inal cases reached the middle of the first week of the term many cases had been removed from the congested docket, several by trial and a number of minor ac tions by the nol pros route. The two-weeks term begaa Monday with Judge W. F. Hard ing On the bench and Solicitor John R. Jones prosecuting the docket. ' The grand jury has returned true bills of indictment in three capital cases, two for murder and one for burglary. A true bill of burglary was re turned against Veldon Bowers, who is accused in the indictment of entering the home of Willis Miles Monday night of this week and taking valuable property from the home. A true bill for murder was returned by the grand jury In dicting Dock Anderson tor the raurd'jr of Dink Love on last De cember 4. . A true bill was also found a- galnst Ed Courtney, colored, who is charged with poisoning Noah Bryant, also colored, on last Sep tember 3. Courtney is alleged to have wilfully sold some poisoned liquor to Bryant and it is fur ther alleged that Bryant died from the effects of poison sold him by Courtney. The court is making rapid headway on the docket of more than 300 cases. A number of minor cases that have been on the docket for years have been removed by the nol pros route. Following are some of the cases tried: Hillary Foster, cost, three months on the roads. James Wesley Hall, larceny, two years on the roads. Hillery Billings, assault, judg ment suspended on payment of cost. John Foster, assault and aban donment, 2-years sentence su spended on payment of cost and condition of good behavior. O. M. Wyatt, larceny and re ceiving, 12 months on roads. H. E. Elledge, destruction landmarks, fined $50. Martha • J. Hendren, keeping disorderly house, two years at work at county home. Sam Dula, colored, nonsupport, 12 months on roads. Gus Wingler and Everetto Shepherd, drunkenness, 30 days on roads. Tom Davis, violating prohibi tion law, fine of $25 and costs. Cases of the following defend ants were nol pressed: Tom My ers, J. B. Carter, Ira West, Char lie, Russel and Hardin Harris, Sam and Bine Brown, Ned Tay lor, Everett and Eck Wiles, Roby Kilby, Roy Robinson, Lessie Shew. Other cases nol pressed: Law- son Eller. Dewey Y’ates, Charlie Jenkins, John Williams, Lake Cooper, Hazel McGlamery, Roby Kilby, Von Combs, John Pardue, Arnold Nichols, Garvey Huffman, Wade Blackburn, Roland John son, Emmett Holloway, Roy Lowe^ Clonnie Blackburn, Cleve and Woodrov Marley. Board Education In Quiet Session Only Routine Matters Before Body In Re^rolar March Meeting Monday Wilkes county board of educa tion had a very quiet session in the office of Prof. C. B. Eller Monday. C. O. McNeill, cHairman, and R. R. Church were present. There were very few delega tions appearing before the board and no matters of public nitereet were disposed of. The greater part of the, session was taken up with routine matters. Lincoln farmers say they will plant some 200,000 pounds of lespedeza seed on small grain and will sell another 100,000 pounds elsewhere.