Late News of
State and
Nation
RepoMicans Rap TVA
Washington, April 9.—E n-
couraged by Republican house
^,-*^Jwders, Representative McL«an,
I Kepubllcan, New Jersey, today
called the Tennessee Valley au
thority “illegal” and “visionary.”
Pitches No Hit Game
Mount Airy, April 9.—Ray
mond Simmons, big freshman
twirler for Mount Airy high
school, entered the hall of fame
here today as he pitched a no-
hit, no-run game against Win
ston-Salem high.
.^Vsk.s Business To Help
Chicago. April 9.—Secretary
of Commerce Daniel C. Roper
pictured revival o f durable
goods activities as the key to re
employment tonight and urged
American business to provide the
needed stimulation.
Convict Is Kille«l
Van Tucker. Reidsville negro
convict, was fatally injured and
three white prijjn companions
.seriously hurt about 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon when an
automobile crashed into them as
they were working on highway
70 near Lambertson's service
station about two and one-half
miles south of Reidsville.
Com-Hog Crop
Control Group
Now Organized
J. M. German Heads Associa
tion For Wilkes, Surr>’ and
Alexander Counties
DIRECTORS ARE NAMED
Approximately 150 Wilkes
Farmers Have Signed 1935
Reduction Contracts
•Suggests Wage Raise
Washington, .\pril 9.- .\n em
battled industry became further!
aroH.sed today when the head of [
a commerce department advisory
committee suggested that the
cotton textile industry might he
asked to increase wages by 10
per cent in return tor removal
of the cotton processing tax.
Takes HLs Still In
Texarkana. Tex., April 9.—A
man brought his still to the
Bowie county jail today and an
nounced to Jailer Tom F’ostor
that he was “through” with the
moonshine liquor business. Fos
ter.said the man had asked him
^cently as to his chances for
■^immunity fr(>m prosecution it he
brought in his still.
Work.s Program Read.'
Was’ ngton. .A,prii 9.—A giant
■work /rogram designed to put
treee ■Where none grew ‘before,
set ivers to flowing in new
channels and all but move moun
tains to give work to 3.500,000
men awaited only word from
VresideiU Roosevelt tonight be
fore getting under way.
J. M. German, prominent farm
er and dairyman of Boomer and
master of the Wilkes Pomona
Grange, was elected president of
the tri-county Corn-Hog Crop
Control Association in a meeting
of the directors held at the
courthouse in Wilkesboro Tues
day. Other officers are C. G. Wil
liams. of Goshen, vice president,
B. L, Johnson, of Roaring Riv
er. secretary. Miss Rosa Billings,
trea.surer. R. I,. Profflt, ot Gosh
en, member, H. H. Beshears, of
Summit, alternate member.
Corn-hog crop reduction con
tract signers in Wilkes, Surry
and Alexander counties made np
the membership ot the associ
ation. The directors, elected in
a recent meetin.g of the contract
signers, are the above named of
ficers and Rev. h. B. .Murray, ot
State Road, in addition to one
member each from Surry and
Alexander.
The directors are also com
munity representatives and each
one represents the contract sign
ers in his vicinity.
In Wilkes county last year
there were about 120 signers and
a preliminar.v count of those wlio
have signed contracts tor the
1935 crop shows that there are
more than 150 in Wilkes and a
number in the other two coun
ties in the organization. Reduc
tion benefits to Wilkes farmers
on corn and hog crops last year
amounted to approximately $10,-
000.
Will Begin Paving
Bridge Approach
Workmen Will Start Pouring
Concrete On Reddies Riv
er Bridge Fill Soon
Hii-s Tiix Troubles Xow
Washington, April 9.—Bruno
Richard Hauptmann charged to
day that he was “railroaded to
the Trenton death bouse ” and
denied that he owed the feder
al government $9,67S..30 for
back income taxes, penalties and ;
fines.
Deatli Is My.stei-y
E. W. Grannis Construction
Company, holders of the con
tract for construction of fill and
concrete roadway as approaches
to the new Reddies River bridge
in this city, will begin work on
paving the approaches some time
next week, it was learned from
officials of the contracting firm
today.
Hobbs-Peabody. Charlotte con
struction company, has the
bridge structure near completion
and if pre.sent plans materialize
the bridge and fill will be ready
for travel by .June 1. With the
exception of one span the bridge
is virtually completed,
j Frequent rains during the past
I months greatly retarded work
Durham.
Bowles, 24,
April' '9. - Robert j
has been treed, while
Weldon Hartou, 2S, is at liberty j
under $500 bond in connection
with the strange death Monday
morning of Forrest Shuford, 32,
well known Durham man. Shu-[
ford died ot a burst bladder; Emergency Crop Loan Office
Applications For
Loans Are Taken
caused either by a blow in
stomach or a terrific fall.
the
Little Man's Plane
Marshall, Mo.. April 9.—A lit-
tje airplane that builders hope
aay help meet the demand for
one a man of moderate circum
stances can afford Is nearing
completion here. The craft—a
small, high-wing monoplane pow
ered' with a relatively inexpen
sive 6-cylirder automobile en
gine—is being built by the Fah-
lin Aircr,*ft company on order of
the United States department of
commerce.
Torture Charges Brought
. Charlotte, April 9.—Torture
charges were brought against
two more former prison officials
here today as tales of convicts
being pulled from their cells In
the dead ot night to be beaten
by guards climaxed a judicial in
vestigation of prison camp con
ditions. As furtive negro witness
es told of being beaten and
kicked while serving road sen
tences, Judge Don Phillips, at
the request of Solicitor John G.
Carpenter, ordered the names of
Dr. C. S. McLaughlin, prison
camp physician, and T. S. Brown,
camp superintendent. Included in
warrants already brought against
four other former officials charg
ing torture.
Located In Federal Build-
ipgf In Wilkesboro
The emergency crop loan of
fice. located in the federal build
ing at 'Wilkesboro. is now receiv
ing appli '.ations for loans to fi
nance the planting of 1935
crops. J. Boyce Dillinger is in
charge of the office.
Emergency crop loans are
made in amounts as low as $10
and as high as $500 but no loan
of $100 or over is made until
the applicant has found himself
unable to secure a loan from a
production credit association.
Funds borrowed through the
emergency crop loans office can
be used only for seed, fertilizer,
and feed for stock and the secur
ity required is a first lien on the
crops to he produced. Interest
rate is 5 1-2 per cent per an
num.
TO HOLD REVIVAL
MEETING AT GORDON
A series of revival services
will begin at Gordon Baptist
church one mile west of this city
on Sunday night, March 14, ac
cording to an announcement by
the pastor. Rev. J. E. Hayes.
The public has a most cordial
Tahlequah, Okla. . . . Miss
Lois Thompson, 19, (above),
student at the N. O. Teachers
College here, received "death
threat” letters which so upset
her t lat she opened revolver fire
on th! Campus at a Chinese stu
dent, wounding him.
157 Unemployed
Placed On Jobs
By District NRS
77 Placements Made So Far
This Month; List Of Appli
cants Decreases
The National Re-employment
Service office located here plac
ed a total of 157 unemployed on
jobs diirin.g the month of March,
according to a report released
by R. L. Wooten, director. By
placing this number the local
office ranked 16th with the oth
er offices in the state in point
of placements and exceeded the
number placed by several offi
ces located in the larger cities
of the state.
The North Wilkesboro office
.serves five counties. Wilkes, Al
leghany,—Ashe, Watauga' and
Alexander. The greater part ot
the placements during the month
were on public works projects,
although some were placed ■with
individuals and industrial con
cerns.
Until yesterday the local of
fice had made a total of 77
placements in Apr ! and indica
tions pointed to more placements
as some additional public works
labor will get under way soon.
Mr, Wooten states that the
active file of unemployed is de
creasing, although there Is still
no difficulty in securing men for
all demands. Applicants for jobs
must renew their applications
periodically to stand a chance of
being placed. Cards are mailed
to each person when their appli
cation expires and if they do not
indicate their de.sire to
Wilkes county’s jail Is emp
ty and young and old alike are
taxing their memories to re
call such a condition existing
heretofore.
Thd March term of court
almost cleared the cells but
soon more prisoners were
behind, the They^ gave
lH>nd but not until Walt Beck-
nell and Robert Grinton, ne
groes, were: jailed for larceny-
on April 1. Ijast night they
gave bond and left H. C. Kil
by,, Jailor, with nothing to do
hut look after the empty build
ing.
The fact that the Wilkes
jail, which has at times housed
more than a half hundred pris
oners for weeks on a stretch,
is empty is cause for quite
much comment. \ number of
former officers and aged peo
ple who have kept in close
touch with county affairs were
qiKStioiuHl i-egardiiigf the last
time the county bastilc w-as
vacant and none could reniem-
ber when there wci-c no pri.s-
oiici-s, althougli it was i'i*ciill-
cd that the prison population
had dccrcasi'd to only one
about *,jr> ycai-s ago.
Tax Settlement
Repeal Measure
Is Voted Down
Senator .loe Williams Calls
for Defeat of Horton Bill
in Speech Yesterday
A measure introduced in the
senate several days ago by Sen
ator W. P. Horton, of Chatham,
calling for repeal of a measure
passed by both houses earlier in
the session validating tax set
tlements between Wilke.s com
missioners and the sheriff, was
killed Wednesday. Judiciary
committee number 2 had pre
viously given the bill introduced
by Horton a favorable report.
Before the bill was voted
down Senators Horton and John
son had spoken and called for
its pa.ssage on the grounds that
the courts were the proper
agency for settling the tax set
tlement dispute and said that
many Wilkes people, both Dem
ocrats and Republicans, had re
quested passage of the bill.
Senator Joe Williams, of Yad-
kinville, one of the youngest
members ot the general a.ssemh-
remain ■ made a 15-minute speech ask
an applicant their names are
dropped from the active list.
Mr. Wooten emphasizes the
fact that any firm or individual
wanting laborers or workers of
any kind need only to notify his
office and placements can be
made promptly.. Since the re
employment service has been
made permanent by state and
federal provisions, the opinion
lias been expressed frequently
that the service will be a great
aid to the jobless and to in
dustry.
Brother of D. S.
Hill Disappears
Thought of Have Drowned
Near Long Island Satur
day; Body Not Located
Gerald T. Hill, brother of D”d-
ley S. Hill, assistant cashier ot
the Deposit & Savings Bank, dis
appeared at Jones Beach ou Long
Island, N. Y., Saturday and it is
thought that he drowned while
swimming in the ocean.
Mr. Hill had been residing in
New York for a number of years
and on Saturday wa.s visiting a
friend, Albery C. Lowery, at
Jones Beach. He told Mr. Lowery
that he was going to take a
swim and walked down to the
shore, a distance of about one-
third of a mile. When he did not
return a search was started and
his clothes were found on the
beach.
It is supposed that he suffer
ed a heart attack while swim
ming in the cold water and
drowned, although he frequent-
went in the ocean during
ly
winter weather.
Coast guards
invitation from the church and have constantly searched the
its pastor to attend any or all beach hut have found no trace
services during the meeting. of the body.
ing that the hill be killed and
championed the cause of the
Wilke.s sheriff. He argued that
the fees received by the sheriff
tor land sales were not excessive
{■1 that the sheriff had to pay liis
own deputies and cover one of
the largest counties in the state.
Mconshiners
More Daring
Federal Officers Find Still
Running Within Two Miles
of This City
Federal officers and a deputy
sheriff destroyed a still and ar
rested two operators Monday
night within two miles of the
Wilkesboros.
The still was found in a se
cluded spot just south of North
Wilkesboro and east ot Wilkes
boro by J. C. Fortner, federal
investigator. W. A. Jones, deputy
marshal, and Silas Reynolds,
deputy sheriff. The 50-gallon
still was operating at full blast
and two men, Frank Bouchelle
and Henry Anderson, were ar
rested On the scene. In a prelimi
nary hearing before Commission
er J. W. Dula Tuesday morning
bonds of $500 each for appear
ance at the May term of federal
court in Wilkesboro were filled.
Junior Order To Hold
Interesting Meeting
On Tuesday Night Here
North Wilkesboro chapter of
the Junior Order will hold an
interesting meeting Tuesday
night, 7:30, at the lodge hall.
There will be degree work and
local council are urged to be
Durham . . . Miss Jane”^ Wil
liams (above), of SU'^Paul,
Minn., a senior at Duke Univer
sity, has been elected 1935 May
Queen to rule in elaborate cere
monies here. May 4.
Jury Drawn For ,
The May Term of
Federal Court
Will Convene In Wilkesboro
On Monday, May 20; Many
Cases Pending
Spring term of federal court
tor trial of cases originating in
Wilkes. Alleghany, Ashe and
Watauga counties will convene
in Wilkesboro on Monday, May
20, with Judge Johnson J. Hayes
presiding.
A concerted drive by the alco
hol tax unit to wipe out the
manufacture of liquor on which
tax has not been paid has result
ed in many arrests since the No
vember term and a large docket
will face the court.
LinvlIIe Bumgarner, deputy
clerk, has released the following
list of jurors, who were drawn
for service during the term:
Wilkes County
Clarence Hendren, Gilreath;
Monroe German. Boomer; Adol
phus Brown, Halls Mills; J. Lu
ther Jordan, Roaring River;
Roby S. Ferguson, Boomer; Clar
ence H. Day. Elkin; Jeter P.
Hayes, Gilreath; Gaither A. El
ler, Boomer; R. W. Gwyn, North
(Continued *n page five)
Start Graveling
Highway No. 16
Creek Gravel Will Be Placed
On Newly Constructed
Grade On Jefferson Road
Work of placing creek, gravel
on the newly constructed grade
of five miles of the Millers
Creek-Jefferson road 'A’iU begin
in a few days, it was learned to
day from representatives of Ncl-
lo Teer, who holds contract for
grading and graveling the road.
Grading was completed sever
al weeks ago but it was neces
sary to allow the new grade to
settle before the gravel surface
is put on. After the gravel sur
face thoroughly settles the road
will be given a crushed stone
and oil treatment surface simi
lar to other highways in this
part of the state.
Home Chair Will
Play First Game
0 f Season Against High
Point Team At Fairgrounds
Saturday Afternoon
Home Chair Company's base
ball team, rated one of the best
commercial teams in western
North Carolina last season, will
open this year’s play with a
game on the fairgrounds field
here Saturday afternoon at four
o’clock. Adams-Millis team from
High Point will furnish the op
position.
Practically all ot last year’s
best players are with the Home
Chair Company team this season
and some promising new mater
ial has been added. Adams-Mll-
it is learned here, also has a
Us
very strong team.
Killed At MiU
delegates from Connelly Springs ator of Smithtown, near —mspecuon arw »uirii.cu
are expected. All members of the was killed tonight when a pulley Captain Reins stated.
1.,-ai aakhaii awa ..a«,a.i tn K.1 j|j his mill broks and struck hint — ’ ■
present and visiting juniors ■will on the head. His wife and three
be welcome. children Burvlve. In
Beautiful Ceremony Carried Out
At Methodist Scout Hut On
Friday Night
Tenderfoot badges were pre
sented to 10 members of Meth
odist Boy Scout troop number
3'4 in a beaiflifully carried out
program at the hut on Friday
night.
Rev. H. K. King, pastor, pre
sented the badges to Junior
Jones, Russel Pearson, William
Covington, Ikie Eller, Harry
Schaefer, Hauser Douglas, D. T.
Bush, Mack Miller, Julius John
son and Bobbie Hathcock. The
badges ■were pinned on by Scout
master H. F. Bouknight.
This is the largest number of
boys to be presented badges at
one time and the troop is pro
gressing splendidly under direc
tion of Mr. Bouknight.
The hut -was appropriately and
attractively decorated for the oc
casion Friday night and a num
ber of parents of the boys were
On Boone Trail Near This
City; Children On Way To
Winston-Salem
NONE SERIOUSLY HURT - ^
Several Suffer Minor Cuts
and Bruises; Vteit Made
To Industrial Plants
passed a highway truck on a
ber 01 parents ot tr.o uoys were highway on
present, together with the three . , . ^
members of the Scout committee
At the end of the ceremony the
new assistant scoutmaster, Har
ry Pearson, was introduced to
the troop.
Debaters Leave
For Chapel Hill
Wilkesboro And Mount Pleas
ant Schools To Partici
pate in State Contests
Wilkesboro and Mount Pleas
ant debating teams leave today,
for Chapel Hill, where they will
take part in the state-wide high
school debating contest for the
AycorclfMeTnoiiar Ctnh®-®iW»rded
yearly to the high school win
ning the finals in debating.
Wilkesboro debaters are Pau
la Craft and Lee Settle, affirma
tive, Lillian Linney and Tom
Story, negative; Mount Pleas
ant’s teams are Holly Green and
Vecie Church, affirmative, 'Va
leria Blevins and Grace Baker,
negative.
To be eligible to take part in
the debates at Chapel Hill a
school must win both the affirm
ative and negative in a triangle
with two other schools. 'WMkes-
boro defeated Mr. Airy and El
kin. Mount Pleasant won over
Millers Creek and Cove Creek.
The first assembly of debat
ers will be in Memorial Hall at
the North Carolina University
this afternoon at two o’clock.
Debates start at seven o’clock
this evening, the semi-finals will
be tomorrow and the finals will
be on Friday night at eight o'
clock.
Twenty high school children
sustained minor injuries five
miles west of this city Tuesday
morning when a school bus from
Cranberry high school, Avery
county, ran off the pavement and
turned bottom side up.
The truck ■was loaded with 33
children and was a member of a
calvacade of three trucks from
Cranberry headed tor Winston-
Salem, where the children, ac
companied by four teachers, were
going to spend the day in an edu
cational trip through a number
of industrial plants.
The bus over turned as it
he left side when the wheels
struck the soft dirt and a cul
vert abutment. Electricians who
were working on a home nearby
rushed to the overturned truck
and helped the children from the
wreck. All who appeared to be
injured were placed in another
school bus and brought to The
Wilkes Hospital, where their
wounthi were dressed. None of
the injuries proved serious and
the children were allowed to
leave the hospital after their
wounds were dressed. The in
juries ranged from scratches on
the hands to F'ainful sprains and
bruises.
Ernest McGuire, age 28, was
driving the bus when the wreck
occured. Prof. P. V. Parks was
the teacher-vi^-ckarge ot
children on the bus and the oth
er teachers in the calvacade were
Prof. W. M. Bagby, superinten
dent. Misses Alda Brown and
Naomi Woll.
The children wlio received hos
pital attention were Mary L.
Hurt, Bill King, John Fltspat-
rick, Ernest McGuire. Kathrine
xMcCurry, Elma Story, Irene
Bureson, Rosalee Dearman, Syl
via Bagby, Lucy Cook, Juanita
Jobe, Mary Alice Moore, Maxine
Hughes, Edith and Kathrine
Bureson, Lola Wiseman, Lola
Fields, Jack Eller, Gladys Story,
Olive Ward, Katherine Keener,
"Wanda and Mary Ledford, rang
ing in ages from 12 to 2i).
After the wreck occured the
trip to Winston-Salem was aban
doned and the children spent the
day in going through a hosiery
manufacturing plant, a tannery
and other industrial plants here
before returning to Avery county
Tuesday afternoon.
Litde Damage
Done To Fruit
By Sleet Monday Morning;;
Prospects Still Good For
a Bumper Crop
Teachers To Have
Meeting Saturday
Prospects for the 1935 crop
of fruit on the Brushies are still
good, notwithstanding the fact
that much of the bloom was cov
ered with ice in the sleet Mon
day morning, it was learned to
day from County Agent A. G.
Hendren, who owns and operates
a model farm in the fruit grow
ing section.
Although the opinion has been
expressed that the sleet possibly
did some slight damage to the
coming fruit crop, there will be
an ample crop if no other freez
es occur.
To Inspect Guard
On Tuesday Night
Any Interested Citizens Invited
To Annual Inspection Ijoeal
Company
Regular annual inspection of
Company A. 105th Engineers
North Carolina National Guard,
will be on Tuesday night, 7:30,
at the armory here, according to
information' received from Cap
tain Ralph R. Reins.
Captain Day, of Charlotte, -will
be the guard Inspector. Any lo-
Elkin, April 10.—L. C. Bow- gumu , —
man,* 33-year-old sawmill oper- citizens interested in viewing
jjgyg inspection are invited to at-
The Saxophone was Invented
1842 by Adolphe Sax.
In Wilkesboro School Audi
torium; Interesting Pro
gram Is Arranged
A meeting of all teachers in
Wilkes county will be held at
t h e Wilkesboro high school
building on Saturday morning,
beginning at ten o’clock, accord
ing to an announcement this
week by Prof. C. B. Eller, coun
ty superintendent of schools.
Meetings are being held this’
year only when the need is ap
parent and all teachers are re
quired to attend. In addition to
the routine matters to be taken
up Saturday there will be a pro
gram of interest to all teachers.
Wilkesboro P.-T. A.
To Conduct Food Sale
The W.ilkesboro Parent-Teach
er Association will conduct a
food sale at Spainhour’s new de
partment store on Friday and
Saturday, April 19 and 20. All
kinds of delectable foods, easter
eggs, etc., will be on sale.
Proceeds will go for the bene
fit of the P.-T. A. and patron
age will be appreciated.
Pie Supper At Boomer
On Saturday Night
A p4e supper will be held at
Boomer schooBiouse on Satur
day night, eight o’clock, for the
benefit of the baseball team.
'The public -Is Invited and a goo*
time is assured all who ’will at
tend. >