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Waahington, Sept. 22.—A con-
atiUitioaal test of the new deal’s
fane prosram today became the
Ont obfecttre of government
lawyers mapping strategy for
winter Supreme court tilts.
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'' Student Dies Of Gas
^5>urham, Sept.- 22.—^The body
' o^damee W. Jump, of Wyoming,
Del., a student at Duke Uaiver-
^slty here, was found last night on
'"a side road near here, his head
reefing a few inches from the
exhaust pipe of his automobile,
the engine of which was running.
Borah Heard P>oin
I Boise, Ida., Sept. 22.—Senator
William E. Borah tonight de
nounced “intense partisanship
■which sometimes places party in
terests above country” as the
“greatest danger” that now be
sets constitutional government.
[ Suicide .At High Point
High Point. Sept. 22.—Inform
al examination of a number of
witnesses this afternoon by Guil
ford county’s coroner. Dr. W. W.
Harvey, led him to express the
opinion that Mrs. Ina Brown,
who was shot through the heart
and Instantly killed at her home
on Park street late last night,
died at her own hands and that
an inquest was unnecessary.
Three Die In Wreck
Fredericksburg. Va.. Sept. 22.
—Two men were killed, a woman
died of shock, and seven persons
were injured, at least one of
them critically, in three motor
vehicle accidents near here today. i
The dead; Ted Burrell. 26.!
Greensboro, N. C., truck driver,
Joseph Self, 28. Milford, ice truck
driver; Mrs. Sarah Andrews, 51,
of Bowling Green.
Farm-To-.
Included In
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I t Confederate*! Ourf * ]
Several Thousand
Be Spent In Wilkes
Road To Be Improved From
Purlear All Way To Trap-
hill Community
'Nashville . . . General Harry
Rene Lee (above), is home again
here, happy at hie election as
Commander-in-Ch.Tf of the Lnit-
ed Confederate Veterans at their
annual encampment held in Am
arillo. Tex.
Youth Is Victim
Of Auto Wreck
Sunday Night
Fred Dancy, 22. Crushed To
Death When Truck Over
turns On Boone Trail
Flight .At'einpt Pails
Ballinrore. C ^unty Mayo, Ire
land, Sept. —The transatlan
tic solo flight of Felix Waitkus,
28-yeaT-old Wisconsin aviator,
today in a smashup in a
'rSflh field but the flier himself
was uninjured. Fog-bound and
buffeted by storms along the
Irish coast. Waitkus, who had
hoped to fly non-stop from New
York to Kaunas Lithuania,
brought Ilia while and orange
plane down in a hazardous land
ing.
F'ive Killed In Crash
Andrews. Sept. 22.—Five per
sons were ki.’ed and two were
injured near here this afternoon
when an automobile plunged over
a 500-foot precipice. The dead
are; A. Bros«^s Hooper. 34, a
section foreman for the W. M.
Ritter Lumber company, at Rain
bow Springs, about five miles
from Andrews, three of his chil-
wren, Frank, 11; Vernon, seven,
and Marie, four, and his brother-
in-law, Fred I>aney. of Mount
Vernon, Tenn.
Fred Dancy, youth of Buck
community, died at the hospital
here this morning. 11 o’clock,
from Injuiie.s received 12 miles
west of this city on the Boone
Trail last night when a truck he
was driving overturnad.
The young man was pinned be
neath the truck and his chest was
literally crushed. He was brought
to the hospital here about one
o’clock this morning but was in
a dying condition and never re
gained consciousness.
He was 22 years of age. a son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dancy, of
Buck, in addition to his parents
he is survived liy five brothers
and si.sters: .Mrs. Bonnie -Minion.
Mrs. Ray Minton. Pauline, Jack
and Rndd Dancy.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed this evening but
it was said that last rites would
be at Plea.sant Grove church
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Bishop Kern Will
Preach Friday
A number of projects railing
for improvement of what Is
known as secondary or farm-
to-market roads in Wilkes
county were among the list of
North Carolina works progress
administration projects approv
ed last week by President
Roosevelt.
Total federal expenditures
approved for Wilkes roads so
far are In excess of 1880,000
and it is learned that other
projects on roads are on the
pending list.
It is expected that work will
begin as early as possible in
order to provide jobs for relief
cases. "1110 re>-empIoyment of
fice here will serve as a re
ferring agency.
The projects listed as ap
proved by the president are as
follows:
Road impi-ovement for 17
miles Wooten Creek-Vannoy
road one mile north of Mulber
ry to Vannoy community and
to horseshoe bend on highway
number 18 near Alleghaisy
line; cost 921,1)8:{.
Widen, regrale and gravel
surface roads about Roaring
River; cost $4,352.
Generally improving road
from Mtltors Creek school to
Mulberry-Pui-lear road; cost
$4,340.
Regrade, drain and widen
road from Old Popular .Springs
to Konda; federal funds $2,-
008; si>onsor’s contribution
$05.
Generally improving road
from Purlear community a-
cross northern part of county
into .Abshers and Traphill com
munities; feleral funds .$22,-
702: sponsor’s contribution
$12.5.
General rojwl iiuiu-ovrtinents
i II Ronda community 10.5
inUes; cost $8,t548.
Widenin;^ and improving
i-oad from Cricket postoffice
on Boone Trail to Hendrix
community; cost $10,252.
JeffersfMi Road
Projects^ To
Capital FotO-K.
Calls For Grading, Structures
and Surfadri: On 7.3
mOes
FOR EARLY LETTING
Next Letting Will Probably
Be On October 3; Approval
I Is EIxpected
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News that contract will be let
at an early date for construction
of the Millers Creek-Jefferson
road from Wilbar to the Ashe
county line is welcomed by the
people of both Wilkes and Ashe
counties.
This project, calling for grad
ing, structures and gravel surfac
ing, has been sent by the state
highway and public works com
mission to the federal bureau of
roads for approval, which is ex
pected in time for letting early
in October. A news dispatch from
Raleigh stated that the next
letting will probably be on Octob
er 3.
The project for which approv-
j al is' sought calls for 7.3 miles
of relocated road, which will ex
tend from the end of the present
roadbed at Wilbar to the Ashe
county line at or near the inter
section with the great scenic
pafrkway survey.
This road is one of the most
important thoroughfares that has
not been completed in North
western North Carolina. It will
be the best and most difect route
from Ashe county to piedmont
North Carolina and will be of
great benefit to Ashe countv as
well as a large section of Wilkes.
The first secti-on of the road,
extending 6 1-2 miles from the
Intersection with the Boone TnrtFf--'—
at Millers Creek to Wilbar, has
been graded and graveled and is
ready for oil treatment. The road
follows in the vicinity of the old
old route from Millers Creek to
Reddies River and from there to
the Ashe county line it will be
entirely a new route by what is
1 known as the “jumping oH place”
■ through a section abounding in
^ unparalleled mountain scenery
Engineers declare that
‘ route will be one of the
y
Here is a melia
beginning bn
em states.’
^j|eli^e«pose of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
^cro^Wountry trpis. He is soon to tour the we.st-
Street Maintenance Sum
Fiff Thk City Is Raised
AiSrHayesWai '
Practice In City
across the Blue Ridge mountains.
I M’Donald Defends
F. D. R., New Deal
Purlear You*h Establi.$hing
Office In Di^nnsit * Sav
ings Bank Building
Joseph Allio Hayes, popular
this I young man of the Purlear corn-
best 1 munity, will open his law office
this week on the second floor of
the Deposit & Savings Bank
building. He will occupy the of
fice formerly occupied by Attor
ney P. J. McDuffie.
He is a son of Mrs. Carrie
Natumal
Will Be HeaFdIdi
Wedne sday Nig^
Wilkes People To Entertsii'
Delegates bv Hodm '
ing Three-Day^eet ’- ^
PICNIC WEDNESDAr'
Win Be At Armory Hall^At
5 o’Oock as Special So- .
cial Feature
Mayor McNeill’s
Plea Is Heeded
City Will Have *2,000 To!
Spend On Streets In- I
stead of $525
Mayor R. T. McNeill, not being
satisfied with the $52 5 set aside
by the state highway and public
works commission for mainten
ance of state highways through
North Wilkesboro. took the mat
ter up with Capus M. Wlaynick,
highway chairman and he has
Hayes, of Purlear. Ho received [ advised Mayor McNeill that the
The 1935 convention of tb»
North Carolina stata^’ Grange to ^
be held on Wednesday, Thuraday
and Friday, September 2F-27 'wlU
be the best in the history of Uie- ■'
Grange in the state, is the opin
ion freely expressed by Grange
leaders.
The convention will open at
the North Wilkesboro school
building, convention headquart
ers, Wednesday morning at ten
o’clock in full form in sixth de
gree. The morning session will bo
devoted to roll call, appointment
of committees. Instructions to
committees, reports and order of
business.
Wtednesday afternoon the pro
gram will be devoted to the mas
ter’s address, report of officers
and executive committee and the
report of the secretary-treasurer
of the Grange Mutual Fire Insur
ance Association. There will also
be an address by R. C. Carrlck,
secretary of the national Grange
Mutual Liability company. Last
numbers on the afternoon pro
gram will be a report on Juvenile
Grangers and a juvenile hour Id
charge of Mrs. T. W. Ferguson,
of Ferguson. She is juvenile
deputy.
Evening Picnic
Wilkes Pomona Grtrnge and
other people of Wilkes county
will entertain the rtcle.gates at a
picnic in the armory hall at the
fairgrounds at five o’clock. All
who will contribute baskets to
ward making this feature a pleas
ant success are asked to have
them at the armory not later than
four o’clock.
0|>en Night >foetin.y
The session Wednesday uight,
to be featured by tlie addrjss of
L. J. Taber, national master, will
Ivan D. Anderson
Leases Liberty
'Eighteen Years' Experience
^vTheatre Business; To
- ^ Improve Theatre
Ivan D. Anderson. theatre
manager with 18 years of exper-
Steiice in the theatre business, has
leaned the Liberty Theatre here
and-took over its management to
day, He succeeds Harold Kay,
who auccessfully operated the es-
lishment during the past two
Mr. Anderson has operated
heatres in Winston-Salem. Bal-
Imore. Md.. Salisbury and SUtes-
1110. He comes to North Wilkes-
oro from Statesville, where he
u been during the past several
lontbs.
Mr. Anderson stated this morn-
ag that a number of improve-
iienU for comfort and conven-
sne© of movie patrons are to be
ffected at the Liberty soon and
hat the best class of pictures ob-
ainable will be shown.
H« and Mrs. Anderson and
heir children, two daughters,
lavo moved to this city.
i Bumgarner Reunion
^ The Bumgarner Annual Reun-
on will be held this year at
x>ve’8 Chapel, three miles south
r Sylva. North Carolina, on
[Ighway No. 106, Saturday, Sep-
imber 28. It is hoped that the
poigarner clan will be "well rep-
l^ted from various parts of
|A#tate.‘ There will be dinner
1 ttia grounds, with an Interest-
Revival Services
At Oakwoods Church
District Rally To Be Held At \vni Bogin On Sunday Xigiu;
Methodist Church On Fri
day Morning
K‘v. Avery (’hiirch Will A.s-
sist Pa.stor in Meeting
Bishop Paul H.
Kern, of A revival meeting will begin
ttlSllOL» rrtui xvv*... ^ X OD
Greensboro, presiding officer of ; on Sunday night. Septembei 2.
the Southern Methodist Confer
ence in North and South Caro
lina, will preach at the Methodist
church here Friday morning in a
district rally.
The district rally, which will be
attended by representatives of
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at Oakwoods Baptist church, it
was announced today.
The pastor, Rev. A. E. Watts,
will be assisted in the meeting
by Rev. Avery Church, pastor of
Wilkesboro Baptist church. Eve
rybody is cordially invited to at
tend the services.
Biggest Fair In History of Wilkes
Closes; Was Succeshil Exposition
Attendance Records Broken
Through Five-Day Event;
Comment Favorable
The tenth annual Great W’ilkes
Fair, which opened on Tuesday
and closed Saturday night, was
the most successful exposition in
the ten years the Great Wilkes
Fair Association has sponsored
the event in North Wilkesboro.
The fair opened Tuesday with
school children’s day and a crowd
of more than 15.000 passed
through the gates. Attendance
held up well throughout the week
with large crowds each night and
on Saturday attendance figures
reached new high marks.
The large attendance through
out the week was due to the
I favorable impression all depart-
! ments of the fair was making on
those who tttended. Comment
praising the fair was heard from
people from all parts of WSlkes
and adjoining counties.
Exhibits, the free acts and the
midway attractions came in for
their sn.»r© of the praise from
the manj’ thousands who attend
ed. ’The exhibit h»lL wa« eaipeclaU
(Coatijned » p«a» «icht>
Johnson Will Take
Stump A$ Friendly
Critic of New Deal
Former NR.A Chief Says He Is
Artuated By Unswerving Loy
alty 'i’o Roosexelt
Washington, Sept. 20.—Sharp
ly attacking many phases of the
new deal, Hugh S. Johnson today
revealed plans for taking the
stump as a friendly but vigorous
critic of the administration.
Soon to retire from his second
new deal post, the general in an
interview outlined an extended
speaking lecture tour for the
trank purpose of discussing pub
licly the “lousy aspects of this
administration In the hope that
some good will come of it.”
He expects to retire as works
progress administrator for New
York state on October 15. He will
begin his to with an address
at the San Diego exposition on Oc
tober 2. After the middle of the
month his engagements will take
him to the northwest, the Pacific
eoMt, the .«o(|ithweet and the^
sontheMt. -
Candidate For Governor Ex
presses Views On Constitu
tion Before Kiwanian.s
Dr. Ralph McDonald, candidate
for tlie Democratic nomination
for governor upheld the Jeffer
sonian idea of a federal consti
tution in an address before the
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
Friday at noon. The program was
in charge of Re\. Eugene Olive
and was in observance of “Con
stitution Week.”
He prefaced his address by
asserting that Roosevelt and the
new deal nas saved the constitu
tion instead of attempting to de
stroy it as critics claim. He said
that Roosevelt’s course in initiat
ing and putting through construc
tive measures had saved the
country from chaos.
Dr. McDonald said, in part:
“During this week of oratory
concerning the Constitution of
the United States, I wish to direct
attention to one simple hut sig
nificant fact: We owe the exist
ence of this document today to
the leadership and wisdom of
Roosevelt.
"When the historians of the
future write a careful record of
those who have made an preserv
ed the Constitution, there will be
found high in the list the name of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This
man has da’/ed look to the spirit
and purpose of that ancient docu
ment for a path through the
emergency conditions of the
world’s greatest economic depres
sion.
“At a time when the keenest
minds of the nation could see no
beacon of safety for American in
stitutions, Roosevelt set his pi
lot’s eye upon the greatest gov
ernmental instrument ever penn
ed, the Constitution which is one
hundred and forty-eight years old
this week. His vision has been
clearly set upon the purpose of
that document. He has hot been
dismayed by the gloom wWch oth-
his high school education at Mil-
1 e r s Creek and Wilkesboro
schools- At Wake Forest College
he took two years of academic
work and three years in the law
school. He passed the state bar
examination last month.
sum for street maintenance has j be open to the public and all who
Boy Badly Burned
Roscoe Gilrealh, eight-year-old
son of C. M. Gilreath, of this city,
was severely burned Sunday aft
ernoon when a firecracker, which
he is reported to hai'* found on
the fairgrounds, exploded in his
pocket. There were severe burns
on one leg. Treatment was ren
dered at The Wilkes Hospital.
been increased from $525 to $2,
000.
•Mayor .McNeill felt tliat the al
lotment for North Wilkesboro
was far too low and advised the
highway chairman that there
are about 3 1-2 miles of .state
highways in North Wilkesboro
and that the streets are badly in
need of repair, and that $2,500
would be needed.
An engineer was promptly sent
to North Wilkesboro to check
over street repair and mainten
ance needs and his report coin
cided with the information given
the state highway chairman by
the mayor.
Garden Club’s Flower Show Will
Be Held Here Thursday and Friday
BOOM IS REPORTED
IN HOSIERY INDUSTRY
Charlotte, Sept. 20.—Taylor R.
Durham, secretary of the South
ern Hosiery Manufacturers asso
ciation, said today the hosiery
knitting Industry in the south
was experiencing a boom and that
some mills have ceased taking
orders for delivery earlier than
January 1.
“Something definitely resemb
ling a boom lately has develop
ed in the Industry, especially in
the silk knitting division, and
buyers who a tew weeks ago re
fused to place orders now are al
most frantic in their efforts to
obtain knit goods,” he said.
dismayed by lue gtoom wa»cu wu-i fere^ a fracture of the skull, p^
tit ^ vlaton haa not .Qp|Mi rtbly whwi the b$r beliu
aivhtt ' oouDled to the train.
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Find Body In Car
Danville, Va., Sept. 20.—A
man aged 21 years and believed
to be Jack Kennedy was found
dead In a boxcar of a freight
train which arrived early this
morning ’from Lynchburg.
He was'alone in the car and
police" concluded that he had suf-
Many Premiums In All De
partments; Expect Beau
tiful‘Exhibits
A flower sh|(V open for exhib
its to the people of Wilkes coun
ty 'Will be held In the old post-
offlce building’ on B street In this
city Thursday and Friday of this
week.
The event is being sponsored
by the North Wilkesboro Garden
Club for the purpose ,ot stimulat
ing interest in flowers and is ex
pected to be a highlight of the
season. The show will be open to
all the people of the county ex
cept any who.- may be members
of garden clubs other than the
North Wilkesboro club.
Merchants and business firms
of the city are* offering .useful
and beautiful' prizes in a long
list of premiuij^ipi,eirWy depart
ment.
It is asked‘f that' all potted
plants be plarod in the postof-
flce building not later than Wed
nesday afternttpn and the cut
flowers must put on exhibit
not later than eleven o"clock on
Tbmtdv moralng,"
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are interested are invited. State
Lecturer Harry B. Caldwell will
be in charge. In addition to the
address of Master Taber will be
the finals of the Grange debate
and most representative Grange
giri contest.
Full Program Thursday
The convention will get off to
an early start at eight o’clock
Thursday morning with a confer
ence for lecturers and annual
meeting of the Grange fire in
surance association. Officers for
the coming year will also be
named in this session.
Beginning at 1:30 the after
noon ses.*iion will begin with a
.special feature, followed by a
memorial service, report from
deputies’ associations, report
from superintendent of home
making department, final report
from credential committee, com
mittee reports, selection of place
for 1936 convention, special fea
ture and conferring of fifth de
gree by Forsyth Pomona degree
team.
At four o’clock will be the
state Grange championship base
ball game on the fairgrounds.
Thursday night’s session will
begin at eight o’clock w'ith con
ferring of sixth degree by state
officers.
Friday Morning Hession
The last session will begin at
9:30 Friday morning and . the
program will consist of a special
feature, complt ion of committee
reports, miscellaneoiia reports,
installation of officers, closing of
annual session of state, Grange,
which will he followed by a meet
ing of the executive committee.
People of the Wilkesboros and
many rural communities In the
county will enteitain the dele
gates in their homes by furnish
ing lodging and breakfast. A.
joinf committee from the county
Grange, the North WUkeaboro
and Wilkesboro WoatiH' 'fftmhit *
and the Wilkes Unit of tke Aaer-
;tcan Legion, AuxUlaty to had iS
charge of htls -work. ; TAjft
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