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tleigh. S«pt 6.—The state J
ay a^ pabUc worics com-
In the near future may
'construction of a special pri-
for women, it was learned to-
j»y. .
^ Attack Near F^tal
^_^port. Miss.. Sept. 6.—^Lil-
>^,^;liaa Stigletts. 11-year-old daugh-
. 4er of Mrs. Anice Stigletts, was
rSiported in a dying condition at
"Hie hospital here today as a re-
^^rsult of g brutal attack committed
her between the hours of
oight and 2 a. m. .
Prisoner Tries Suicide
7.- Ekwin, Sept. 6.—C. L. Wade,
elderly Erwin man charged ■with
Skttempted criminal assaults on two
young local girls, attempted sui-
«ide here by slating his wrists.
' In a critical condition at a hos-
; pital, Wade bitterly denied the as
sault charges.
Stolen And Recorered
Raleigh, Sept. 6.—Seventy-nine
automobil es were reoorted stolen
In the state during August and a
total of 40. including some stolen
in previous months, were recover
ed. the state motor vehicle bureau
announced today.
To Furnish
BUI WllUams, who will drive a
speeding motorcycle through a
burning board wall at the Great
Wilkes Fair on opening night,
September 17.
Smothers To Death
Millers Falls, Mass., Sept. 6.—
Three boys playing on a roadside
bank were smothered to death late
today when the bank collapsed
and BtrPied them under tons of
sand. Two companions, partially
buried, were rescued by two men
who dug away the sand with their
hands.
Had Bullet In Heart
Budapest.—Wounded in Italy in
1915. Anatal Kasco. a 50-year-old
farmer of Hodmenovasarhely, has
been walking about ever since
with a bullet in his heart. Com
plaining of a pain in his side he
went to hospital. An X-ray ex
amination revealed that a bullet
was firmly embedded in his heart.
An immediate operation was nec
essary.
Kills Mail Order Wife
St. Louis, Sept. 6.—Joseph J.
Meluch, amateur detective, con-
feased today. Detective Chief John
. Oarroll said, that he beat his
“correspondence club” bride of six
weeks to death with a revolver in
their Lorain, 0., home last Au
gust 14, during an argument over
his acquaintance with a woman
called “Dago Rose.”
Will Support Hoey
Raleigh. Sept. 6.—Lines in the
campaign for the 1936 Democratic
nomination fo’ governor of North
Carolina have begun definitely to
tighten with the announcement of
Representative R. L. Doughton j
that he will not seek the post and j
his indication he would support
the candidacy of Clyde R. Hoey,
Shelby lawyer.
Bill Williams To
Drive Motorcycle
Thru Burning Wall
Is One of Spectacular Free
Acts On Program For First
Night of Fair Here
This introduces Bill Williams,
who hasn’t any more sense than
to ride a motorcycle 70 miles an
hour through a burning wall.
That is the thrill that young
Mr. Williams has contracted to
furnish the visiting thousands at
the Great Wilkes Fair on opening
night, September 17.
The incredible feat will be a
part of the free act program in
front of the grandsUnd. Bill
said on a visit here last week that
he is going to ride his machine at
the rate of 70 miles per hour
through a plank wall on fire.
Bill Williams is noted all over
the country as the stunt man who
will attempt, and nearly always
accomplish, any difficult and
hair-raising feat assigned.
Here is some advance informa
tion on Mr. Williams, furished
The Journal-Patriot by one who
has seen the dare-devil perform:
“This Bill Williams, by the
way. is some fellow. He is a
flyer, a stunt man, and will do
most anything dangerous you can
think of. His home, originally
30 miles from Dallas, Texas, but
he has come a far way. He has
Textbooks Arrive 1 ^ete Clouds of Wat are Lowerin^in^dWofldJj^
F 0 r IMslribRtiW *
To County Scbi|&
All Schools Exc^t Bfornitain
View Have Begun 1935-
36 Schofd Term
TO bent"textbooks
Books Arrived This. Morning
For Dtotribntion To Dis
trict Principals
With the exception of Mountain
View central school, whicli will
open on September 18. all schools
in Wilkes county have begun the
1986-36 term, it was learned this
morning from C. B. Eller, county
superintendent of schools.
Many outlying elementary
schools which have no interlocking
transportation system with the
high and elementary schools be
gan on Thursday morning. * This
morning the central schools and
others which did not open Thurs
day began the term. Opening at
Mountain View was delayed on ac
count of work being in progress
on the scnool buildings.
Although no figures were avail
able today relative to the num
ber enrolled in the various schools,
j ail indications pointed to an in
creased attendance in practically
all the schools.
Supt. Eller stated this morning
that the textbooks to be rented
to the children this year arrived
today and will be distributed
the central sdhool principal,
Tuesday. On Wednesday distribu
tion will be made by the central
district principals to the principals
of the individual schools.
The books to be rented at one-
third the list price include all the
elementary texts and history,
civics, sciences and home econom
ics in the high schools depart
ment. All other high school books
must be purchased. The school
textbook rental plan is entirely
optional with the student, who
may rent the books for one-third
the list price or buy them out
right
Wilkesboro school had a most
auspicious opening this morning
with a registration of more than
650 students with evedy indica
tion that the number will reach
700 before the end of the week.
Rev. Avery Church, pastor of the
Wilkesboro Baptist church, ■ con
ducted the devotional. The faculty
is composed of T. E. Story, Helen
Bostic. Mrs. .Tessie C. Pharr, Zeb
Dickson, Lillian Stafford, Ghita
I Tuttle* Thomas G. Perry, J. L. A.
worked in a number of aerial pic- , Bumgarner, Bennie M. Troutman,
lures in Hollywood and has per- ^ g Hartley. Mrs. Ger-
i trude Steelman, Mrs. Edith S.
j Hemphill. Cynthia Prevette, Lou-
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NEW YORK . .. This map shows
the waters and lands across which
Italy is reaching for a seen^gly
certain conflict with Ethiopia.
Italian troops by the thousands have
been arriving at Massaaa and Moga-
dUsio, in Eritrea and Italian
8oiMaliland,T respectively. Ad^
Ababa-ja Jibe capital of Ethiopia.
Adowa ia the place where the
Italians snffercd shattering defeat
40 years a^, a defeat which it is
believed the present campaign is in
part intended to avenge.
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Association T\>
Meet Sept. 20-21
WHI Be Held At Maple Grove
Church; Program Two-Day
Session Announced
2 Killed In Carolinas
Inland tornadoes and coastal
gales, apparently the dying bursts
of the Florida storm, swept the
Carolinas Thursday night and Fri
day, leaving two dead, several in
jur^, heavily damaged crops,
wrecked houses, and disrupted
communications.
formed many stunts there that
have gone into the pictures.
Once he was on a rope ladder to
drop in a lake from a plane
when the motor went dead. In
stead of dropping, he climbed up
the ladder, joined the pilot and
they both came down on a para
chute. He was a friend of Wiley
Host, killed in Alaska with Will
Rogers, and studied flying under
him. Bill says that the cause of
the crash was mechanical, he
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ise Melville, Mrs. Grace P. Ed
wards, Mrs. Zola G. Barber, Jen
nie Harris, Eloise Starr, Lucile
Scroggs, Mrs. R. El Prevette, mus
ic.
W. G. Gabriel, manager of
Belk’s Department Store, has re
turned from a buying trip to New
York City, where he selected fall
and winter merchandise which is
now’ arriving at the store here.
Sees Bonus Payment
Virginia Beach, Va., Sept. 6j—
The drive for legislation by* the
hxt session of Congress to au-
Jlorixe immediate cash payment
of the bonus was the paramount
consideration of addresses deliver
ed by Representative John W.
Flannagan of the ninth Virginia
district and National Commander
Prank M. Belgrano, Jr., of the
American Legion today before j
veterans attending the seventeenth ;
annual convention of the Virginia j
arm of the Legion.
Accidentally Killed
Asheboro, Sept. 6.-*Lee Free
man, 15, son of Mrs. C. B. Dea
ton, of the Moffitt Mills - section
of Randolph county, died early
this morning in Randolph hospital
of a giunshot wound received ac-
cidenUlly late yesterday after
noon. Young Freeman was re-
ling from a neighbor’s house
stopped at an orchard to get
^ ^iar. In using his shotgun to
knock off the fruit, it discharged,
the load taking effect in his chest.
North Wilkesboro ^-T. A.
Will Meet On Thursday
Rrst meeting the 1936-36
school year of the North Wilkes
boro Parent-Teacher Assoiflation
will be held at the school band
ing-on Hmrsday afternoon at
8:45. Matter* of much importance
will be taken up and all school
^tEons have a cordial invitation
i^to be present
Elk Citizen Shoots and Kills Negro;
Says Colored Man Was Attacking Him
stone Mountain Baptist Asso
ciation will meet on Friday and
Saturday, ^ptember 20 and 21,
at Maple Grote*chpch two miles
north of Hays, tf was learned
today from officers of the associ
ation.
The Association will open ut
ten o’clock on ' the morning of
the 20th with devotional by the
feflfdr.'Rev. S.
introductory skrmon will be, de
livered by ReA L. B. Murray,
widely known l^aptist minister of
State Road. Or^uiizatiop and ap
pointment of o^imitiees ■will
conclude the progvaflj^.for the
morning session.
Afternoon program of the first
day will consist of the following
reports: temperance. C. H. Col-
vard; periodicals. Rev. S.' L.
Blevins; Christian education.
Rev. A. B. Hayes: ministerial re
lief. C. C. Gamblll.
On Friday night a program
devoted to B. Y. P. U. work In
the association will .be directed
by Miss Beatrice Holbrook.
Saturday’.s program will con
sist of reports and discussion on
hospitals. Mills Home, missions,
pastors and church relations,
state of the churches and other
reports to be arranged by the
association committees.
Baptist leaders are anticipat
ing a successful association ses
sion and urged that every church
be well represented.
Dana Triplett Surrenders For
Homicide at His Home on
Friday Evening
Dana Triplett, well known citi
zen of Elk township, shot and
killed Charlie Horton, 37, negro,
in an altercation at the Triplett
home Friday evening about six
o’clock.
FAIR PRESIDENT VIEWS
MARX greater shows
W. A. McNeill, president and
general managfer of the Great
Wilkes Fair, spent Tuesday • in
Mount Airy inspecting Marx
Greater Shows, the carnival ag-
gregtation that is to occupy the
midway at the Great Wilkes Fair
September 17-21.
He reports that the shows have
season and will be the best
midway attractions ever to occu-
' py the midway at the fair here.
According to an account of the,, ^ j •
4.1, I berm greatly supplemented since
affair given by eye witnesses, the 1 „ni
colored man went to the home of |
Mr. Triplett and started a fight;
with another colored boy, who was
working at the Triplett home. Mr. 1 Pentacostal HolincM
T^plett attempted to stop the Revival Announced
fight and Horton assaulted him!
with stones and barely missed | Announcement was made today
striking his children and a visiting, gf ^ revival meeting to begin at
lady standings nearby. Mr. Trip
lett drew a 25-calibre automatic
pistol and shot the negro three
times in the chest and abdomen.
However, he threw two rocks aft- i
the Pentecostal Holiness church in
this city on Sunday, September
15.
Services will be held each eve
ning at 7:46 and everybody is
et he was shot and walked some' jg-vited to attend during the two
distance from the house before
he fell. Neighbors carried him to
the hospital here, where he died
in a few minutes after he arrived.
Mr. Triplett promptly came to
Wilkes and surrendered to Sheriff
W. B. Somers.
Funeral service for the slain
colored man were held at Beaver
Creek Snnday afternoon at one
o’clock.
weeks that the meeting will be in
progress. The pastor, Mrs. C. W.
Martin, will be assisted in the
preaching by Rev, Carl Bum-
gamer.
Ex-Sheriff G. G, Elledge under
went an operation for goitre at a
Statesville hospital today. His
many friends hope fbr him an'
eariy recovery.
City School Ready
To Open Sept. 11th
North Wilkesboro schools will
open at 8:40 o’clock Wednesday
morning. September 11. Children
who attended the city schools last
session and who are to be in the
first seven grades this session are
requested to go Wednesday morn
ing to the classrooms they occu
pied last year. From these rooms
the promotion lists will be read
and then the pupils carried to
their classrooms for the ensuing
session. It is important that these
instructions be carried out to
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Relief Teachers
Must Re-Register
All teachers who plan to teach
this year in the adult schools
maintained by the FEBA or WPA
must re-register at the re-employ
ment office this week, it was
learned today. Without being reg
istered no one will be allowed to
teach in those schools.
Several teachers who were un
able to find a position in the regu
lar schools and who depend upon
teaching^ ns a profession will be
used in adult schools again this
year. The scope of this activity
has been broadened to include
youths of relief families who are
not in other schools.
A two-weeks’. training comae
for adult teachers waa held dtraig
the paat two weeka at State Col
lege.
WANT HOMES FOR
GIRL 17, BOY
Wilkes unit of the American
Legion Auxiliary is seeking
homes for a gfirl, age 17, and
a 'boy, age 14. The children are
of a good family.
Anyone interested may obtain
particulara by writing or seeing
Mrs. A. Kilby, Mrs. W. R,
Abeher or Toby Turney.
Huey
Chance To live
Senator Huey P. Long,* Louisi
ana kingfish and figure of nation
al repute, was shot and seriously,
if not fatally, wounded in the
Louisiana capitol Sunday night.
ridor when a man laWr itlentified
as A. C. Weiss, Jr., of Baton
Rouge, fired two bullets into his
abdomen. A bodyguard brought
down the assailant with a burst of
machine gun fire.
Reports today at noon by ra
dio stated that Long’s surgeon
who performed an emergency ope
ration was of the opinion that he
had a 50-50 chance to live, al
though his condition was regard
ed as critical.
At the time the shooting occur-
ed Long had just finished pre
senting a batch of bills to the
state legislature, which he had
had calletl into extraordinary ses
sion. I '
After he was shot he walked
downstairs with blood streaming
Much Interest Is
Beii^ Shown b
Baptist Meeting
Dr. John R. Jester Delivering
Inspiring Got^l Messages
At Services
With Dr. John R. Jester lead
ing, the series of evangelistic
services at the First Baptist
church in this city today began
the second week.'
! Much_ interest is being shown in
llhe meeting, which is being well
Attended at both the early mom-
mg and evening services. A 46-
minute service begins each mom-
,ing at 7:45 and the evening ser/-
Dr. Jester is. delivering soul
inspiring sermons in each service.
Evening services were not held at
the other churches in the city yes
terday and Dr. Jester preached to
a large union congregation on the
subject, “The Touch That Saves.”
Several members were taken into
the church as candidates for bap
tism.
The series of services will con
tinue through next Snnday and
E n invitation is extended by the
hurch and pastor. Rev. Eugene
Olive, to people of the Wilkes-
boros and vicinity to attend
Brother Of Mrs. E. A.
Shook Dies In Kentucky
June Gill, a brother of Mrs. E.
A. Shook, of this city, was killed
from his mouth. No time was lost; in an automobile wreck Sunday,
in rushing him to Lady Of The, Mr. Gill was a resident of Shel-
Lake Sanitorium, where Dr. A. H. j byville. Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Shook
Vidrine. superintendent of Char- j left last night to attend the fu-
ity Hospital, performed an opera- ! neral service, which will be held
] in Shelbyville tomorrow.
tion.
Revenue Agents Destroy 500-Gallon
Still and Arrest Tbee Brothers
FIRST MEETING OF
WILKESBORO PARENT-
TEACHER ASSOCIATION
Mrs. J. B. Henderson, chairman
of the Social committee of the
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation, announces that the first
regular meeting of the Associa
tion for the school year 1986-1986,
which will be held in the school
building cn_ Friday evening. Sept.
13, at 7:30 o’clock, will be featured
by a musical program and social
hour. All patrons of the school
and members of the local and
county school boards and county
commissioners are cordially invit
ed to attend this meeting.
GATHERING AT HOME
OF REV. N. T. JARVIS
HAS BEEN POSTPONED
The following statement r^a-
tive to a gathering of people frpm
the pastorates of Rev. N. T. Jai^
vis to be held at his home was is?
sued for publication by him today:
‘iWe much appreciate the spirit
of the churches we are ^ servmg
and have served as pastor in the
last thirty years, in setting for
08 a dinner the third Sunday in
this month, but because of the
serious sickness of my dear ■wife
at this time, we ask that itjbe
defered indefinitely. tW e »el
grateful to God for our many
friends and ask to be remembeM
in your pra-rers." '
Was One of Largest Moon
shine Stills Ever Located
Officers In County
Fred, George and Henrj’ Fra
zier, brothers, may have the
distinction of operating the
largest moonshine still ever to
make a run in the coves of
Wilkes county b«t now they
face trial in the November term
of federal court in Wilkesboro.
Federal revenue investiga
tors raidwl a still in the
Brushy Mountains Friday morn
ing which was thought to be
the largest ever seized in the
county. "The still had a ca
pacity of iVOO gallons with a
125-gallon condenser, capable
of manufacturing almost unbe
lievable quantities of liquor
daily.
In addition to the •till vast
quantities of material for
manufacture of illicit whiskey
were destroyed and the Frazier
iMsMhers were balled before J.
W. Dula, United States com
missioner, in Wilkesboro for^
preliminary hearing and placed
in the WUkee Jail in defaolt of
bonds of $1,000 each.
The agents taking puri Ih
the raid Were J. C. FMtner,
W. P. Lance, J. T. /ones, €. 8.
FMts, l^ronard Rooiie, Depnty
Slarshal W. A. CUnard
jkilmscm. Will and Rob^
Jones.
Since Mt
By His
Yoath,
day, FoaatA
ntter Snndaj
SUICIDE IS VERDICT
Coroner L M. Myeis and Jurf
Investigated Death Sub-0
day Afternoon
The decomposed bJdy of
cer Roberts was fonnd
a tree about 300 yards hi*
home near McGrady San
The young man hadmeen mise-
ing from the home pareikit ;
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. jpfcerts, simie.
Monday morning, J^tember t,v
bat as he had freqqjently left home
for several days S|^ a time mem-- _.
bers of his family wore under the
impression that he was away oa
a trip with a truck. When >> the
truck returned aad it was leamad
that be had not been on the trip
^ search was immediately began
and his body was found by his
father.
Coroner I. M. Myers was called
to investigate the death and *
jury summoned by him drew the
cqnclnsion that he had committed
suicide. Iflie body was in such;*
state of decomposition that identi
fication could be made, even by
members of his immediate family,
only by his clothing. The body
was suspended by a leather str^.
Funei^ and burial seijfiees
were conducted at Roberta ceme>
tery at McGrady Sunday rfter-
noon -with Rfev. D. 0. Cleary in
charge.
The youth is survived by his
father and mother and three bro
thers: J. P. Roberts. C. C. Roberts
and 'W. M. Roberts, all of Mc
Grady “postoffice.
He was 22 years of age.
District Meeting
(HMasonk Lodge
Is Held Ifa Cttf
Grand Master Delivers Inaiiir-
ing Address Before Gafli-
ering on Thursday
Masons of the 33rd North
Carolina district gathered at tho
lodge hall in this city Thursday
night to hear an inspiring pro
gram, featured by the address of
State Grand Master Charles P.
Newcomb, of Wilming;ton, and
Grand Secretary John H. Ander
son.
In the afternoon the state of
ficers and John W. Nichols, dis
trict Deputy Grand Master, met
with the masters, secretaries,
wardens and other officers of the
lodges in the district at a busi
ness meeting, at which time Ma
sonry in the district was discus
sed.
At 6:30 o’clock, North Wilkes
boro lodge No. 407 was host at
a dinner meeting at Hotel Wilkes
and at 8 o’clock the local lodge
entertained the district meeting.
The address of welcome was
spoken by J. C. Reins, of this
city, and response was by T. B.
Story, master of Liberty Lodge.
Short talks were made by Grand
Secretary Andrews and W. A.
Jennings, secretary of Moravlaa
Falls lodge.
Grand Master Newcomb held
the assembly with rapt attentioa
as he extolled the aims and pur
poses of Masonry.
Although a steady downpour of
rain kept the number present
much smaller than It otherwise
would have been, there were
about 50 Masons here for the
district meeting.
COMMISSION CHANGES
MINIMUM SCHOOL AG2.
Raleigh. Sept. 6.—^Thc state
school commission moveI today to
increase the number of children in
school this year by several thous
and as the minimum age ffr en
trance was Iqytered by ' I w o
months, and in addition t];« «-~«np
passed on a large nopiber of oth
er important matters.
Under regulations adopted two
years ago only children who be
came six years of age on or be- .
fore November 16 of eaieh year
were allowed to enter school, bat
new reguktiaas allow them to
register if they become six on or ■
before January 16.
LeRoy Martin, execu^ivi secre-^
tary ef the commission, said,
move wonM require a number
additional teachers.