.XXIX,
Publi^e
)R0, N. C,
i'ot JtofiiP' lloant^
«« alUtad» 0L 8OO
littca Hiniod JUf»
koas, July n. ~ Mm.
fke Uy^t Doris Duke,
Ho^^bol oa bar honey-
todart^ teMMr •h'dl' has a
and to “hetp me taka care of
Jb» KUled
M.
t^kore
tan
a oat
16*. M. C.
eolltded witk n-
KgnccMatod
Gap, Va., July tl.
mystery, an un-
lay in a Penning>
lOTgne tonight whlla
of Rose HRJHrUlir
>M had Jfiiimed
as the eofM^,-said SJ^ didn’t
v**know what^KMIMflWront it.”
See* Ibflatloa Measore
^Washington, July 21—A pi om-
1m that tire billion dollarr of
Inflationary legislation woull be
laid in front of the administra
tion program in the senate  ame
today from Senator Borah, Re-
■pablican, Idaho, -with a predic
tion that Congress would be herb
aatil Norent'ber 1.
PoUtical Pot Boils
Palo Alto, Calif., July 20.—
'' While political observers pon
dered today the significance of
eoincldental visits of prominent
Republicans to the home of Her
bert Hoover, the former Presi
dent and a group of friends spent
the week-end at a northern Cal
ifornia resort section.
|kw Briljge'^er
les 'l^r k
Opoi For Trare!
New Stractnre On Boone Trail
and His^wajr 14 ^^ed
To
GREAT
EHminatm
and and Uso
> Bridge, Old
The new bridge spanning Red
dies .River gt the western boun
dary of this' city on. highways 60
and 1.6 was opened for f.raffic
by D. R. ^V>rbed. el^i^turday morning.
yTbe bridge will remove from
pd%ic use the old covered
:e, which has served to ac-
date traffic over the stream
asr about half a century. The
old bridge was not wide enough
to accomodate two-way traffic
and was limited in capacity. It
was also so situated that there
was a dangerous corner on the
east end that has been the scene
of numerous automobile mis
haps.
Construction on te new bridge,
located about 100 yards below
the old one, began last fall. It
is a seven span bridge with con
crete paved fills on both sides
about' a quarter of a mile in
length, extending from near the
intersection of D Street and For
ester Avenue in North 'VVllkes-
boro to the point of a curve cn
the Boone Trail on the west side
of the river.
The nfiw structure is hailed as
one of the most needed improve
ments on the highways in this
section and will be greatly ap
preciated by all motorists who
use the famous Boone Trail or
highway 16 leading into Ashe
county.
Bo, Drowns In River
Goldsboro, July 20. — Paul
Blackman, nine, son of Mr. and
Mn. Sam Blackman, of this
place, was drowned when he fell
lato Little river, about three
mil** northwest of Goldsboro
moruins. Searching crews
Eged the river Saturday aft-
eraoon but had not recovered the
body by nightfall.
Wreck Takes Toll
Ridgeland. S. C., July 20.—
Two men and one woman were
klUed and five men and one wo-
aian were seiiously injured to
day five miles south of here in
a irreek among three automo-
bllM..The dead: Reginald Good-
l" about 35, of Savannah, Ga.;
Mm. Florence Tallulah Stone, of
Ba^aaah; J. C. Black, manager
of tlie Yemmassoe, S. C., base
ball dob.
Moontala Tragedy
■Prestonsburg, Ky., July 20.—
A mountolnslde tragedy came to j -w’alker, for distribution
Watauga Man Is
In To3s of Law
Robert Walker Said to Have
Endorsed and Spent Large
Sum Government Checks
Utility Labby Investigation .
Wash&gtoh Stirr«d By Reports TTiat $80^,000 Was Spent
By LbbbyistSvTo Defeat “Death Sentence” in
Holding Company Bill
Washington . . . There was
plenty of action here as the
House Rules Committee hearings
and the special Senate Lobby
Committee investigation got
under way on lobby activities
when the public utilities bill,
with the “unnecessary” holding
companies clause, was before the
House. Top photo shows a gen
eral view of the House commit
tee hearings. Center, Represen
tative Sam Rayburn, (D. Tex.)
and Senator Burton Wheeler,
(D. Mont.) co-authors of the
utilities bill, looking on at the
House hearings. Below, Philip H.
Gadsden of Philadelphia, Chair
man 6f a Public UtUities Com
mittee of Executives which was
formed to oppose the abolition
clause. He gave evidence before
the Senate Lobby Committee,
that more than |SOO,000 had
been spent by the utility execu
tives in an effort to defeat the
provision.
Robert Walker, resident of
Cove Creek, Watauga county, was
Jailed in Wllkesboro Friday on
charges of endorsing and spend
ing several hundred dollars In
government checks made payable
to farmers of "Wlttauga county by
the agricultural adjustment ad
ministration.
Acordin^ to reports gathered
here today, checks totaling ap
proximately $1,500 Tiere mailed
to Robert Walker’s brother
llgkt today with the announce-
MMt by county officials that 14-
I f^yei^ld Hattie Irene Hyden had
..confesaed slaying her brother,
_.fnth*ma8 James Hyden, 9 years
t »*i^wldle they were picking
Officers said the moun
tain glyl. .apparently crazed by
the son beating down on the
BiMl|ataiBBide, flashed his throat
with a butcher knife with which
been whacking at the
^^j^owth as they climbed up
^FkelBtWint^n- ^
Slow Local
ili^Again
Tkeatre Purchases
ir To 9e Shown 1%«T8-
day and Friday
Jdil^kes Coonty’a Hero," a lo-
If^alSSiortn* picture made here
under auspices of The
^ ^Patriot, has been pur-
by the New Orpbeum
end will be shown there
etlon with the regular
on ThuMday and Prl-
"thls week.
W local picture with a local
bee a Mg hit when It was
[^Ke for tfekee day* and it
1 .that many will take
re of tbs last opportun-
e^w v ** local people dn
■ screen. . , „
■t is eoWpoeed of J. a.
Norma Stevenson*
ibeth Faw, Pari* Nuck-
Duncan, .Miss Lillian
aeveral hundred lo-
^ '^ who w«re snapped by
^ whUe the pictnro was
lied.
one acre ofitospedesa
la Alexander eonnty;:
bm are 6,l« acres
at of
to the farmers to whom they
were made payable. Howard was
was not at home at the time the
checks arrived by mail, it is said,
and Robert took the checks and
left on a trip to mid-western
states. In the meantime Howard
did not know the checks had
been mailed to him and the farm
ers were wondering why their
money did not come.
Robert is said to have mailed
to his brother about $700 in
checks and told him he had spent
the remainder. He came home
and decided to give up to officers.
He went to Boone early Friday
morning and surrendered to
Sheriff A. "I'. Howell, who
brought him to 'Wllkesuoro and
there he gave himself up to a
deputy United States marshal.
It is expected that a prelimi
nary trial will be held before a
United States commissioner with
in the next few days.
Tent Meeting Is
Under Way Here
Ambassador’s Quartet Begins Re
vival in Tent on Tomlinson
Iiot OB B Street
The Ambasador’s Quartet, com
posed of four Cross brothers,
who have been holding revival
campaigns in many communitiee.
are beginnintf a tent revival on
the Tomlinson lot on B street.
The meeting begins today and
will continue for an indefinite
period with serrices each evening
at 7:30. The public has a most
cordial invitation to attend any
or all serrices throughout the
campaign.
Mteriff Wredk FkAiitt
Murfreesboro, July 21.—-F- M.
Spivey, 48, sheriff of FMuklin
county was fatally injured 11
miles north of hare skortlf h*-
fore dark this aftarnpon trhl^ ^Slxty-two of in^^rs
Girl Prisoner
Drinks Poison
In Wilkes Jail
Mary Rachel Trlee To Take
Own Life By Drinking. Quan
tity of Disinfectant
Miss Marj’ Rachel, who said
she was a resldrtit of 'Wln-
ston-Salein, tried, to end her
own life in the Wilkes jail
Thursday night after she had
been incarcerated on a charge
of drunkenness, according to
information from offlfers at
tile jail. ,
Miss Rachel was arrested by
members of the North 'Wilkes-
boro police department, and
placed In the eonnty jail at
Wilkesboro for the sake of
convenience.
Thursday ni^t when she
asked Deputy H. C. Kilby, jail
keeper, for some disinfectant,
he did not think hut that she
was g>>ing to use it for legiti
mate purposes an^ complied
with her request.
Shortly afterward she be
came 111 and he learned that
she had drunk the disinfect
ant. Hie girl was rushed to
the WUkes hospital, where ex
amination di^osed that She
was painfully but not danger
ously 111. She apparently suf
fered no serious effects from
the drink of disinfectant fluid,
which could be fatal in Urge
quantitieSv acwdlng to advice
of ^yslcians.
Company ‘A' Is
Back From Camp
Spent Two Weeks In Annual
Summer Tranriug At Samp
Jackson, S. C.
Company A of ' 106th Engi
neers, North Carolina National
Guard, returned to North 'Wll
kesboro Sunday^ at noon irom
Camp Jackson, S. C,, where they
spent two weeks in summer
eamp.
During their stay" there the
men were In training on the rifle
range and in engineering^ and
combat work.
OfftceM over company A were
CapUin Ralph R. Reins, First
Lieutenant B. P. Robinson and
Second Liauteoant W. O. BWiey.
Sheriff W. B. Somers and
deputies spent a busy week-end
making arrests and investigating
reports of fighting, stealing, gam
bling and other crimes.
Outstanding among the arrests
was the capture of Phln Atwood,
who escaped from the county
home- after spending one day of
the six-months’ sentence Impos
ed on him during the August
term of court.
The arrest of Atwood was
inade by Sheriff Somers and de
puties Oid Wiles and H. C. Kil
by in the Millers Creek commun
ity.
Although many other arrests
were made, they were on charg
es of little public Interest. How
ever, several were added to the
jail population Saturday and
Sunday.
Twin Born
A cow OB iilo fann of B. C.
Meadow* at Fbres Knob gave
hUth to twin calve* Soaday
nomiag. IKe calve*, althoo^
somewtuM
.kwepitige,!"
Pri
St
the
Sheriff Somers and Deputies-Biuy
During Week-En^ Atwood Captured
Arrested By Sheriff and
Deputies Saturday Night;
Several Others Taken
PremhoDg Inerimggd jQi . ^
Depiurimeiits of Frir To %
firid bi September
PREMIUMS ARE CASH
P)aiis Going Forward For An
nual Expiation Fiw West-
wn North Carolina,
The Great 'Wilkes Fair Is go
ing to'give something $hat can
be useful to anyone—-cash—as
premiums Jp Ihe aann^ expos!
tlon to- hS-^ld A
^i^eek-beginning on £
16.
Much was spent in
piling the catalogue and apeolal
attention wae given to the.woric
of apportioning th* premi^mk on
a fair. haeiMlai^ll departments.
Several Inor^M were inade in
classes wheM It Is partienlarly
desired that greater Interest be
stimulated.
The list is now on the press
and win be ready for distribu
tion by J. C. Wlallace, secretary,
within the next .few detys. Those
who do not receive a list through
the mails are invited to see Mr.
Wallace and obtain a copy of the
fair catalogue early in order that
they may have ample time to
prepare exhibits.
With a good growing season
this year It appears that the ex
hibit hall of the fair should be
filled to capacity with unexcell
ed displays of farm and . home
products.
In the meantime W. A. Mc-
Nqlll, president and general man
ager of the Great WUkes Pair
Associathin, is devoting much
time to perfecting plans for the
annual'^exposltlon. Departments
of the fair heretofore considered
under par will be built up to the
point where the Great Wilkes
Fair wUl compare with any of
the largest fairs held in the state.
Particular stress is being plac
ed this year on getting a full
program of free acts In front of
the grandstand, while one of the
best carnivals on the road will
occupy the midway and Increased
cash premiums should draw a
full array of exhibits.
The Great Wilkes Fair Is for
Wilkes and adjoining conntles
and during the several years It
has operated it has become
kno'wn as the outstanding gala
event for Northwestern North
Carolina.
To Play Iffikory
Here Thursday
Will Be First Game For Lo
cals In Charlotte ObservCT's
Semi-Pro Toumey„
“Crazy Cutups’’ To
Render Program at
Courthouse Friday
Ni(dd At Eight o’clock Under
Auspice ®f WUkeeboro Boy
Scont Troop
‘‘Crazy Cutups,* a string band
which has become very popular
over radio in programs put oh
by the Crazy Water Crystal com
pany, win appear In a program
at the courthouse In WOkesboro
on Friday night at eight o’clock.
Their appearan6e Is being spon
sored by the Wllkesboro Boy
Scout troop, which will share In
the proceeds of the admission
charge of 15 and 25c. A good pro
gram is assured all who will at
tend and the public is cordially
invited.
Furniture Men At
High Point Show
« ■
Representatives of furniture
manufacturing plants here are
attending the furniture exposi
tion In High Point this week.
Ivey Moore is representing
Home Chair company, N. 0.
Smoak the Forest Fnmltnre coin-,
pany, and Dick Gwyn the ^inert-
can Furniture company. It Is ex
pected that they will attend the
show for severe 1 days.
North Wilkesboro’s baseball
team will play its first game In
the Charlotte Observer seml-pro
tourney here Thursday afternoon
against Hickory, unless some
change is made in the present
arrangements, It was learned at
noon today.
North Wllkesboro was origi
nally paired with Forest) City
but Forest City forfeited and as
a result North WUkeeboro ad-
ranced to the third round of the
tourney.
Hickory has an exceptionally
strong team and the game to be
played here ThuMday will no
doubt be the biggeet drawing
card of the current- baseball sea
son because of its special signi
ficance. If Hickory comes hero
'Thursday it Is. expected that the
locals will play Hickory there on
Friday night.
Manager Bistruff will make a
special effort to .get all hta
players in the best of condition
and trained as well as possible
for the tournament game.
Pension Board
In Meeting Today
Wilkes county pension board,
composed of W. B. Pharr, J. Q.
Hackett and MIm Nell Rqusseau,
met In the office of C. C. Hayes,
clerk, of court, thfs morning.
RouUne matteM wore. Uken
up . and a number of ctaims were
approved.
ad E
PURVIS out
Famous *6-Man! Resigns ;
May Establish. Detec
tive Agency
Chicago . . . Melvin H. Purvis
(above), youthful “G-Man’’ of
the U. S. Department of Justice
who tracked the nation’s master
criminals, during the last 6
years, including Dlllinger', Is now
on vacation after resigning. It is
reported he will establish his
own detective business here.
Sixty-three Are,.
Enrolled In
Summer Session
Teachers’ Summer Schoed in
Wilk^boro Prospressing’*^
Nicely Faculty
sixty-three teachers are en
rolled In the second term of the
Lenoir - Rhyne CoUege branch
summer school which began in
WUkeeboro last week, it was
learned today. This represents
an Increase of four over the 69
which studied there during the
first term which ended last week.
Standard summer school
courses are being offered by the
seh^ol, which Is under the di
rection of Prof. 'V. V. Aderholdt,
of Lenoir-Rhyne. Others on the
faculty are Mrs. Brown, also of
Lenoir-Rhyne, W. D^ Halfacre,
of North Wllkesboro, T. E.
Story, of Wllkesboro, and M. F.
Bumgarner, of Millers Creek.
Baseball Benefit
Show Friday Nite
Midnight Performance at lib
erty Theatri Expected to
Draw Large Crowd
Actors and professional ball
players join forces to figure In
a gripping detective mystery In
"Death on the Diamond,” Metro-
Goldwyn - Mayer’s sensational
production coming to the
Liberty Theatre Friday night,
July 26, eleven o’clock in a
benefit performance In behalf of
the North Wllkesboro baseball
club. Regular admission prices
wUl prevail and it Is expected
that a large crowd will see the
picture and at the'same time con
tribute to the maintenance of
the local baseball team, which
is making quite a record In ama
teur basebaU competition and is
putting NorHi Wllkesboro and
Wilkes county on the baseball
map.
• Based on an amazing story by
Cortland Fitzsimmons, author of
“70,000 Witnesses,” and dealing
with a series of mysterions kill
ings in a baserball team during a
pennant race, the picture
blentfs barrowing bewlldernaent
State Warelsiiae - °
h W^ei^pji
A Cornice Em»
11 School Buses
Three Others
aged in Saturday maae
DAMAGE AlWONP $tMi» ^
Highway Commission Laaeg-
Shop Equipment and SUr>'^ >
eral Items of ^Machinefy. '
Fire of nndetemtttbd oviffte
destroyed eleven aekoo!-' boMPk'
damaged three othezf»„aiyl
stroyed highway eimipiieot val
ued at several thoas*:^ doilahl
at the highway warehonsa. Ik
Wllkesboro early Saturday nuna-
ing. Total damage Wfc* eatfioatte
to -be over $10,000 part' of urlililt
is covered by insnraace.
The buses and equipment wan
stored In a shed warehouse tkpt
the state had used flnee taki^
over the road system anil' iflUdk
was constructed by the. coumtg.
Two employes of the highWSfjr
department had been sleeplnlr^^
the building to guard
erty. Saturday morning tiiout
five o’clock one of them had-tak
en bis truck from the 'bultdinig
when he heard the One on t&e
Inside give the fire alarm. 'Wkwc
he first saw the fire some coii-
bustible materials had buHtud
into flame and the lire wsa
spreading rapidly. The theoCF
was advanced that, the fire -ariurt-v
ed from some electrical
or apparatus.
Within a short time gasoU]^
tanks had exploded and spread
the fire ever the building until
It had become a blazing Inferne
that thwarted all effort at con
trol and explosions reverberated
over the town.
C. B. Eller, superintendent oC
Wilkes schools, was on the seeac
this morning making an inven
tory of school bus losses and
damages. It was found that It
school buses, including three
purchased last year, were de
stroyed and that considerabl»
damage was done to three otheM.
Bodies of two trucks that were
out hauling coal for schools were
burned.
Engineers of the highway and
public works * commission said
that shop equipment destroyed
would amount to $500, one trac
tor $2,000, two trucks $40d
each, one road machine $800.
Although the building had been
used for several years and wa»
in a dilapidated condition the
replacement cost would be more
than $r,000.
Superintendent Eller 'stated
that he hoped that the school
buses can be replaced in time
for schools to start on Augnst
28. Insurance on the bases 'waa
carried by the state. It Is under
stood.
Although under serious han-
dirap due to loss of the tmeks
and shop equipment, bigh'way of
ficials expressed a hope that.-
enough of the eqalpn^t
sared to carty on the road -Wokk,
although it may be somewhat
curtailed pending rupladhmpat..
Some of the highway tracks ware
in tbd front of the building aad
were removed before the flrw
had completely devasted t h«
warehouse.
Clarence Hendren
Injured In Fsli
Taklnif TresUmeBt -At Bjnsvitidr
Here For lajarie* Received ^
'Wbea ThrowB By-Mzie -n-
with hundreds of uproarioiul
comedy interludes, and with a
love romance. In a distinctively
new form of' screen entertain
ment.
“CacjUnal*” Oo^«kerwte
Filmed wth the cooperation of
the St. Lonls Onrdlnals, which
geneMlftahia, ns well as the Cincinnati
Reds and Chicago Cubs, are seen
-Jtt action, the picture;*was dlteat-
ed by Edward Sedgwick, former
bait player and noted for his
Eiltin Store Buglariaed
Cash Regiater la Removed
Elkin, July 21.T^Xhe
store of T. T. Mitchell, lour miles
east of YadfdtrlUey was entered
Friday night, or early Saturday
morning and burglarised of a
quantity of goods from ths stock, spo^ ploUres. The qoartoM of
iBcludlng overalla, ^ slto
■mi
wore used tef:
eonalderablo of thi
eSarrace HendMn, a residMi
of Brushy Mountain viclnftyr
was seriously hurt Snndsy whoa'
thrown by a mule.
Be was carried by^ ambnlgaca'
to the WUkes Hosplti^,,wher#^lt
was learned that ho had received
painful injury to a .s^ul||gj|R^
hla chest. His eondfttbn to£ty'
waa described as satWIketory.
—-.a::;'
It was learned today from
reoeatativos of S. V.
wholesale firm thatj the
this yew for cans^ hb
ries is better thaiirte;
ye*M and that
through the