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rHE JOTJESHli-PAII^lOT' HAS BLAZED .THE. TRAOJ OF PilOSBESS :M THE “STATE ifco-»rttir ".-.tTn*- .1- . - ' • . W - //"I I II' jf •:aTW^'-:-t;'. . ,^i-:.. - i fc’ia f''~i'ifcii iiiir irminTnriMiir wt'"'' '‘i \ ‘rirli >■ ^ ■4.f^ I" i >‘Stoteattd Nation Tok*coo Market' Report Wla«|OB-^ero, Nov. 19.—The WtiliiibniinSaiB market sold 941,- r 448 j|ou;a4rof tobacco for $181,- 462.71^ average price of $19.28 a hundred. Ex-Slave, 105, Dead Lenoir. Nov. 19.—Alex Vaught, negro, reputed to have been lOR years old last April, died near here today after an extended ill ness. A former slave in eastern "Tennessee, he had no .relatives and was never^ ^ marriea. Kill«l .'Vt Oo68ing ^ “Rocky Mount, Nov. 19.—Death nltou to J. H. Taylor, 53, grist mill operator and formerly with the Atlantic Coast Line here, when a southbound freight struck his car on a cross! n.g here today. Prosident’.s Vacation ^ Washington. Nov. 19.—Presi dent Roosevelt plans to depart tomorrow night for his annual Thanksgiving visit to his home at "Warm Springs. Ga. While there, the chief executive said today he hop«d to push the 1937 budget toward • completion. VOL. XXX, NO. 14 . PubKshed Mondaj^ yid Thurgd^fg ' NORlH^ WILKESBORO, N. C.. TH Wilkesboro Cases I Are Reversed By Supreme Tribunal High Court Reverses Two De cisions By Judges Clement and Phillips MUCH LITIGATION “Old Board” and Mayor Har ris Win Suits Before Su preme Court The supreme court of North Carolina handed down decisions yesterday that nullified the pur ported election in the town of Wilkesboro on May 7 and in so doing said in effect that the “old hoard” and mayor are the gov erning officials with rights to office. The decisions reversed both Judges J. H. Clement and P. Donald Phillips. Judge Clement liad ordered the illegal ballots counted and results of the elec tion certified. A decision by Judge Phillips ordered the books, funds and records of the town turned over to the “new board.” He was both reversed .Accidentally KUlel . Morganton, Nov. 18.—Joe -A.. Bernard, 4 7, was found shot to death near his home at Valdese today, and a coroner's jury at-, tributed death to accidental' means. lie was shot through the j heart with a shotgun with which j he was huntin.g a fiuarter of r. | da.v before the election date and mile from liis home. and remanded. Tile Wilkesboro election case has a long and interesting history of litigation which began on the •Vge U«. II ChiliLeii Rutherfordton, Nov. 19.—.An other son has just been horn to Rev. Robert Early, minister liv ing near here, and his wife—- making the couple parents of 11 children, 10 of whom are living. Early is 29 years old. He was married when he was 19 Infestesl Witli Twins .Mayodan. Nov. 19.—Born to Mr. and .Mrs. Jake Tucker, twins, a boy and girl, Monday, Novem ber 11. Mrs. Tucker is a sister of Mrs. Alonzo -Atwood, who gave birth to two sets of twins in 10 month.s. They also have another eister. Mrs. George Perdue, gave birth to twins four months go. They all reside in Mayodan. .X LfsJ Rank Robbed of titU-.-vOO Ahoskie. Nov. 19.—Bank of Harrellsville. 12 miles northeast of Ahoskie. was rdbbed early this morning of approximately $2,500 in cash and valiiahle papers. En trance was made through the rear window, and a torch used to cut the vault door. No trace of the robbers has be“n found. Mrs. T. R. RoosAvelt III Glen Cove. N. Y.. Nov. 19.— As her children kept vigil near her hospital bedside, some im provement was noted tonight in the condition of Mrs. Edith Ker- mit Roosevelt, widow of Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt. who suffered a grave heart attack yesterday in the course of con valescence from a fractured hip. Jailed For Death Kinston. Nov. 19.—Ed Stanley about 80. Jones county farmer, was found dead from a shotgun wound at his home near Trenton today. His wife and son were ar rested and jailed here. Officers said Mrs. Stanley, 55. and Her bert Stanley. 57. confessed that latter shot the aged man in neck. f-ndecl in the supreme court’.s de cisions. The decisions by the high tribunal means that W. E. Har ris is mayor. C. E. Lenderman, Joe R. Barber, L. B. Diila and Ralpli R. Reins, heretofore re ferred to as the “old board and mayor" are the governing offi cials of the town. The litigation over the elec- Uon began when a restraining order was issued on the evening before the election restraining T. ,s. Miller, registrar, and the other election officials from using any ticket other than the one bear ing the signature of O. P. Blev ins, town clerk, and classed as ^ ticket bearing the^-«ig- ' nature of R. M Brame, Jr„ ' chairman of the county board of elections. On the day of the election a liearing was held on the order signed by Judge F’. A. Daniels, then holding court in Wilkes boro. and the restraining order was made permanent. Notice of appeal was filed. .Votwith.standing the restrain ing order. T. S. Miller, registrar, allowed 57 of the illegal ballots to be cast in less than one hour of voting and the polls were closed by him for the day about the noon hour. Mr. -Miller was then cited for contempt of court and the bal lots east were ordered impound ed by Judge Daniels, who .signed another order setting the matter to be heard before Judge J. H. Clement in the June term of court. Judge Clement ordered the i'allots cast to be canvassed and certified, notwithstanding the fact that Judge Daniels had rul ed that they were illegal and that ; llie “new hoard” had filed notice of appeal, 'although the appeal was never perfected. Wlien the ballots were counted it was found that the “new board” had a majority of voles cast and they issued a writ of mandamus asking the “old board to turn over records, funds, etc., to the “new board.” The writ was Over 700 Rkned On WPA iVojects lnWiike»Coiinty •GiMnitywld^ Rdad Finject Now Under Way In Sev eral Comnumities ELIGIBLES ARB PLACJJft Less Tan 200 Men On Eligible Relief Lists Yet To Be Given Jobs CHICAGO . . . Harrison E. Spangler (above), of Iowa, the strong man of the Western divLsion of the National Republican party, is now directing the O.O.P. work from new headquarters opened here. To Place Women Relief Eligibles In Sewii^[ Rooms Over 15.5 Now At Work In Wilkes County; Work Pro gressing in District More than 150 women arc now employed in Wilkes county in sewing rooms provided by the works progress administration, according to information today from Miss Ila Holman, in charge of the women’s division of WPA in five counties, tVilkes, Alle ghany, Ashe. Watauga and .Alex ander. .A total of SCO women are now at work in tlie five-county district. In keeping with the drive by the WPA to put all relief eligi bles to work immediately, Mies Holman stated that she hoped that all women eligibles on re- j ('onti’actoi' lief rolls could bo placed on jobs by Monday. This dlvisioTi of the drive to furnish work to relief families is considered of great import ance, due to the luce that there are a large number of families without men able to work and in this manner the WPA can more fully carry out its purpose. There are eleven sewing rooms in Wilkes county located in the following communities; Maple Springs. Congo. North Wilkes boro, Cycle, Lovelace, Brushy Mountain, Moravian Falls, Roar ing River route 2, Hays, With over 700 men of relief families employed on W)PA pro jects in Wilkes county to date, there remain less than 200 to be placed in order to provide jobs for^all clas-sed as eligible by the relief administration. The county-wide road project, calling for Improvement on a number of the county’s most im portant secondary roads, got und er way yesterday, providing jobs for a large number of men from relief families. The Elkvllle-Darby road, road from John Eller’s to route 60, from Champion to route 60, from Oiikwoods to Wilkesboro, Hays to Traphill, and work on roads in the Gilreath, Lomax, Austin and Hunting Creek communities is under way. The relief cases certified as eligible for work and who have not been given jobs are being placed as fast as arrangements can be made and work started on approved projects. Orders to begin work are ex pected from the district office soon on some other general pro jects which have been approved. Reports from the office here indicate that practically all of those assigned to jobs so far have .shown a remarkable willingness to work and that there is little difficulty e; . erienced on that North ‘■^r- OX^iSF' -it. 1935 8^.Cros%J^er, jmbership Baptist Heads Ri^C^^I h the, Wilkes Hosieiy- Mtt Enroll One H Cent St ORGANIZATION SET UP Using 2 Sh^s On H^hway 16 Making Rapid Progress in Construction of New Highway With (more than 100 men working in two six-hour shifts, T. M. Strider and Company, Nash ville contractors, arc making rap id progress in the construction of highv/ay 16 between Wllbar and the Wilkes-Ashe line at a point only a few miles from Glendale Springs. A deisel shovel and modern ac cessory equipment is used in shaping the mountain grade, which engineers consider one of North i the best across the Blue Ridge In Health Department Appreciates Red Cross Work In the Counjy Expect Big Singing At Courthouse On Thanksgiving Day Singiiie Classes Froiii All Parts Of Cxiunty To Gather For .411 Day Program Woman lavscs IJceiisc Raleigh. Nov. 19.—The high- "Tx'ay safety division of the state 'department of revenue today an-j issued by Judge F. Donald nounced the first revocation of | (Continued ou page eight) a woman’s driver’s license under [ — — the 1935 act. The license revoked j UrMl ^ ^ was that issued to Leona Jeffer-1 H UKCO VOlU VlUCd near Pinetown. in Beaufort j division officials said. The official court notification f showed she was convicted j Variety In Competi- - driving '■ ; por Honors In Inter- .Aforgan’.s Outlook Gloomy i New York, Nov. 19.—Attack-1 ing the administration’s taxation) program, J. P- Morgan, the li-' nancier, predicted tonight upon To Chicago Show national Show Wilkes'boro and Cairo, colored. Three other sewing rooms will i be established Monday in order! that facilities may be provided ' for all eligibles to be placed on | jobs. Those employed, except for a small number of the more high ly skilled, are being paid the min imum wage provided in WP.A wage scales. Mother And Her Three Children Burned to Death Idaho F’alls, Idaho, Nov. 20.— .Mr.s. Henry C. Beesley and her three young children were burn ed fatally today in a fire that de.stroyed their farm home near Roberts, Idaho. Beesley said he filled the fuel tank on a gasoline-powered wash ing macliine and left to attend to his chores. A short while later ho saw flames sweeping the house. Investigating officers expres.s- ed belief the gasoline ex.iloded. western North Carolina. By using two shifts the con tractors are enabled to spread employment among a greater niimher of people snd at the same time speed the on the road. .Actual work began about a month ago and it was estimated that a year would be necessary for the work but it construction forges ahead as it has progressed in the past week the required lime will be considerably lessen ed. Box Supper At Parker School Friday Night A box supper will be held at Parker school on F’riday night, November 29. The public is cor dially invited. The proceeds will bo used for the benefit of the school. Singing classes from many churches and communities in Wilkes eonnty will gather7»t the cotirthoiwe in WilkesbWg on Thanksgiving pay, November 28, to engage in a'program of sing ing sacred music- L. Bumgarner, of Wilkesboro, is chairman of the organization and extends a cordial Invitation to all singing classes, quartets and others who render sacred music to be present and take part In the program for the day. Tlte singfng will open at ten a. m. -Mrs. H. Taft, of West Jeffer son. is spending sometime with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Pardue in Wilkesboro. Several Marriages Seven licenses to wed were is sued during the past week by Oid Wile.s. register of deeds. The couples were: Eugene Stroud, Ronda, and Dorothy Lowe, Roar ing River; Roby Broyhill, North W'ilkesboro, and Ella Sue Lov- ette, Millers Creek; H. E. Wing- ler and Stella Dancy, Hay^;; Lona and Otto Roten, Daylo; Gwyn Nichols, Pnrlear, and Minnie Faye .McGlamery. Millers Creek; Reece Billings and Hallie Bil lings, Roaring River; Perry Put man and Mollie Rash. Oakwoods. ’ Mart Oberly, state highway en gineer, reported “lost’* a bridge at Knobtown, Mo. Thieves who dismantled and removed the structuf^ wpre epught.. his arrival from Europe that all private fortunes would be wiped out in the United States within^ 30 years unless taxes and gov ernmental expenditures were cut. I More Cigarettes ■Washington. Nov. 19.—That the cigarette Industry is sharing IS^n the general improvement ex perienced by business was indi cated today by figures made pub lic by the bureau of internal reve nue. both as to the number of cigarettes withdrawn from wire- house for the trade during Oc tober, and by the amount of tax- paid. Last month 12.710,187,- ^0 cigarettes were made avail- ibla to the cdMumer, an increase qI nearly two billion over the tiwto® laat year. I F’oiir Wilkes county tanners have started exhibits of corn to Chicago to compete in the. grain show department of the Interna tional Livestock Exposition, it wa.s learned today. Samples of Wilke.s County White, a variety of corn having its origin in the Purlear com munity, will be exhibited in the general classes by R, Don and Ted R. Nichols and in the 4-H clnb department by Quentin and i Kermit Nichols. | Exhibits by Quentin Nichols j have won the sweepstakes in the North Carolina state fair for two consecutive years and they are hoping tor success in Chicago this year. The international show will be held there early in De cember and products from North Carolina will compete with ex hibits from all sUtes south of the Xason-Dixoa line. By RUPERT HUGHE.S (Famous Author) It was my good luqk to hear Will Rogers make some of his most uproariously funny speech es. As a toastmaster I called on him several times and more than once in such circumstances that there was no chance for prepar ation and his remarks could on ly have been extemporized. They never failed to be side-splitting. But the occasion that haunts me unforgettably was a luncheon at which Will Rogers was pres ent, along with five or iiix pub lishers of Los Angeles newspap ers. at the Milton H. Berry In stitute where victims of infantile paralysis, broken backs, and oth er disasters are “reeducated’’ and so trained that they ca.n rise from their beds or wheel chairs and walk. Few'sights are so touehisg as the joy these victims take in the slow and often meagre return of lost powers. The beholder does not know whether to laugh or cry. His hearf aches with sympa thy and with delight in equal measure. On this occasion, when We moved among those whom Milton Berry refuses to call “pa tients” and insists on calling “students,’’ we ail tried to seem cheerful and to give forth cheer. But we were a melancholy lot. Will Rogers, however, had some uproarious remark for each of them whether a child, a stalwart youth, a pretty girl, an elderly man or woman. They hung on his words, smiling before he spoke and breaking into roars of laugh ter at bis words. And he laughed with them.^ . :, . It w%s wAA^hiial to $ee KBiFionA ati^. FricslesB t^ae rlctim. t^ such'^iBm'ci fortunes, but I could not help wondering how anybody could be so boisterously gay with such peo ple, and show never a sign of being touched by their sufferings. Later I learned that after he had kept them all roaring and writhing with laughter for a long time, he Asked Milton Ber ry where the washroom was, and slipped away. Milton Berry open ed the door to hand him a towel and found Will leaning against the wall, his head against his arm. He was sobbing like a child. Milton Berry closed the door softly unnoticed, and when Will came , out he went back to tell the "students” goodbye. He was laughing as hilariously as before and he left them in stitches. . /'.Berry; never • toW Will tiat m had looked ia upon hhn tire^ Ing. It would doubtless hare oot- . (Centtaued ea page foar),;^ Red Cross. Funds Aid Help less and Distressed Back to Health in Wilkes In order to better acquaint the people of Wilkes county with the work of the American Red Cross in their own mld.st. The Journal-Patriot is reproducing letters to the chapter chairman from Dr. A, J. Eller, Wilkes county’s health officer, and Mrs. Bertha Bell, county nurse; Dr. Eller’s I^etter “Messrs. J.H. Whicker, chairman, J. B. Williams, treasurer, V ilkes County Chapter Red Cross “Gentlemen; “The Red Cross is a wonder ful charitable organization. Its wonderful acts of charity reach es out to the helpless and dis tressed in all the county. “It has been of special help in furnishing yeast for our chari table Pellegra patients. “I especially advise all persons to join the Red Cross, and there by help in the relief of the suf fering indigent and helpless. “Respectfully submitted. ■‘A. J. ELLER, -M. D.. “Health Officer.” Mi-s. Bell’s Letter “.Messrs. J.H. Whicker, chairman, J. B. Williams, treasurer, Wilkes County Chapter Red Cross "Gentlemen; "The Red Cross has helped me wonderfully in providing means for some of my T. B. Patients in getting treated so as to get well of the dreaded disease. “We have had holp for some babies in ptting cod liver oil. where it cdtHd not be purchased otherwise. “I have not asked for any worthy causes of Mr. Whicker or Mr. Williams without their help, so please join the Red Cross and help with this wonderful work. “Respectfully submitted. “BERTHA BELL, R. N., “County Public Health Nurse.” These letters and many other facts can be given to show that the Red Cross has helped the helpless in Wilkes county and that the Red Cross deserves the support of the people who are able to join during the present roll .gftJl- Kiwanis Club Will vase of Business District Friday Afternoon With Rev. Eugene Olive, .ps»- tor of the First BaptfsC-CkOlieb. as chairman, the annual Red Cross roll call is in-fnlV,]sW«jr. to North Wilkesboro' 'Wd county. The local organization, perfects ed to cover every phase of the roll call, hopes to complete th* greater part of the job and rea lize the county’s quota this week, although the call will continue through Thanksgiving Day and any who are missed by the can vassers may join before the roll call ends. The roll call got off to a fly ing start On Tuesday when the employes of the Wilkes Hosiery Mills enrolled 100 per cent, there being between 500 and 600 em ployes. P. W. Eshelman, presi dent and general manager of the company, is in charge of the can vass of industries for the Red Cross in the county. Following is the organization for Wilkes county: Attorney J. H. Whicker, chapter chairman; Rev. Eugene Olive, roll call chair man; Mrs. Palmer Horton, house- to-house canvass chairman; Mrs. Dudley Hill, materials chairman; P. W. Eshelman, industrial can- YBSB- chairman; J. B. McCoy, special gifts chairn.an; W. D. Halfacte, publicity chairman; C. B. Eller, county schools; T. E. Story, Wilkesboro schools; W. D. Halfacre, North Wilkesboro schools; Wm. A. Stroud, canvas ser for business district in Wil-* kesboro. - The Klwanis Club will have charge of the business district canvass in North WJilkesboro, which will be made Friday after noon Immediately after the Kl wanis luncheon meeting at noon. The Red Cross has been very active in disaster relief during the past year and it is hoped that it will be favored with a large membership this year in order that it may be able to meet all distress calls. J- Wtuits Daniels Recalled Boston, Nov. 19.—U. S. Repre sentative Hamilton PJsh, Jr., Re publican of New York, declared today he would demand the re call of Ambassador Josephus Raniels from Mexlco^when Con- grm* .eilSvenes. in’ January, Fish, rankiug Republican on the House for^gn affairs oomnstttoe, crltl- eised" the non- toterve lURieo. Prison Sentences In Federal Court Meted Out By Judge Hay^; Civil Cases To ^ Tried ’ During Second Week Judge Johnson J. Hayes has meted out prison terms and fines to more than 30 defendants in federal court aud when court ad journed yesterday afternoon there remained 55 cases on the crim inal docket, which the court hopes to clear this week in ord er to devote next week to trial of civil actions. Although there are some few cases charging violation of the narcotic laws, auto theft act, white slave act and violation of the postal laws, the majority of the criminal cases charge viola tion of the federal liquor laws. Following is a list of cases in which judgements were rendered during the first three davs of court: Hamp Parks, colored man con victed of defrauding through the mails, was sentenced to three years in the Atlanta prison. It was brought out that he had or dered merchandise under a num ber of aliases. Frank M. Bell, young man re cently arrested in Wilkesboro by federal agents on charge of vio lating the automobile theft act, was given a fine of $100 and sen tenced for three years to the Cbillicothe reformatory or any other Instltutioii that may be recommended byx the „ attorney, general. \ -■ Clyde Staley, year'nnd a day in formatory. TalUe Andersoh,.! year and day . j Reuben,)