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Accident Victim
lUlelgb. Doc. 3.—Wmiam C.
Maagiim, SS-year-oId farmer of
Wake, was the 4 3rd automobile
victim tor Wake during the pres
ent year. He was instantly killed
about noon today, six miles from
talaigh, on the Dary highway.
Elect Tar Heel
Indianapolis, Dec. 3.—A. J.
Maxwell, of Raleigh, N. C., State
commissioner of revenue, was
elected prMldent of the National
Association of State tax adminis
trators today and A. Stone of
-■Jackson. Miss., vice president.
Negro, 101, Marries
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 3.—Ed
ward W. Hooks, negro, who gave
his age as 101 and said he was
a Civil war veteran of the Union
army, has taken 35-year-old
Roberta Williams for his wife.
PThey got the license yesterday.
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Rental Payment Totals
Raleigh, Dec. 3.—Rental and
benefit payments totaling $2.-
578,036.79 were distributed in
Julj^ August and September to
North ’ Carolina farmers co-ope
rating the crop adjustment
prograifts. Dean I. O. Schaub, of
Statd college, announced today.
Says Gas Painless
Raleigh, Dec. 3.—North Caro
lina’s new lethal gas chamber
operates perfectly and painlessly,
two United States health service
physicians decided here today aft
er watching a dog put to death
In the second demonstration of
the device.
’ Now Neutralizing Bill
' Washington, Dec. 3.—Capitol
Hill sources clos© to the Senate
munltioBS committee reported to
day that the drafting of a new
I and more strlngert neutrality
bill already is under way, with its
submission Intended lor earljt-.
■fanuary.
Killed By .Vutomobile
Concord. Dec. 3. ■— Broadus
Carter. 11-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Carter, who live
'"y^just east of Concord, was killed
Monday morning about 8 o’clock
when struck by an automobile
driven by Hubert D. Hahn, near
Mount Pleasant. The child's neck
was broken.
Billy Sunday’s Estal**
Chicago. Dec. 3.—The Kev.
William .\. (Billy) Sunday built
an estate of approximately $50,-
000 in his 39 years of evange
lism, it was disclosed today, when
. his will was filed for probate
here. He left all to his widow.
Mrs. Helen A. Sunday, who was
appointed executrix.
Less Congestion
Of Traffic Urged
By Mayor McNiel
Highway Engineer Leper Ap
pears Before Board To
Enter Complaint
ABOUT CONDITIONS
On Tenth Street in North
Wilkesboro; More Care in
Parking Urged
Engineer Leper, of Elkin, head
of the highway system in this im
mediate territory, appeared be
fore the North Wjlkesboro board
of aldermen at their regular
meeting on Tuesday night and
asked that steps be taken to re
lieve the congestion of traffic on
Tenth street. He stated that
many complaints had been voiced
I concerning the congested condi-
I tion of the street, over which a
federal and a state highway arc
routed.
Tu disrussine the matter yes
terday Mayor R. T. McNiel made
a plea for public cooperation for
better traffic conditions and ex
pressed a hope that it would not
be necessary to Invoke stringent
regulations to relieve th© condi
tion. He asked the cooperation
of ali motorists who use the
streets and particularly the co
operation of merchants who use
trucks for delivery purposes.
The ordinance outlawing hog
pens in certain zones in the city
was passed in the board meeting
Tuesday night and ordered to
go into effect on March 1. The
ordinance in full, giving the zone
boundaries, is published else
where in this newspaper.
It was ordered that crushed
stone be placed on D Street in
tersections with the new Reddies
River bridge approach and an
other order relating td 'streets
called for bids on the construc
tion of a sidewalk in front of the
new Phillips building on Tenth
street. A. F. Phillips to pay half
ih(? cost.
A contract with tli© Carolina
Motor Club to handle the sale
of city aiitonu>bile tags for 1936
was approved. City tags will be
sold at the license bureau on the
corner of Ninth and C streets
along with the state tags.
U was ordered that salary for
John Tevepaugh be increased to
$125 per month, effective De
cember 1. ,
.Mayor McNiel and all members j
of the board, S. V. Tomlinson, 1.1
E. Pearson, R. G. Finley, Hoyle
M. Hutchens and Ur. R. P. Casey,
were pre.sent for the December,
meeting. !
l-’our Die In O’a-sh
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 3 Pour
unidentified negro children and j
an unidentified negro woman, all
from the deaf, blind and orphans ,
achool for negroes at Taft, were,
killed when a truck in which they
r were en route to Muskogee for a [
Chriaimas parade was wrecked
At least 3 5 were injured,
.some seriously.
Three Wilkes Girls
On Debating Team
Mars Hill College
.Mis.ses Lucile Hartley, Kthel I>a-
Vi.s .And Lillian l,innc>
.Are On Team
To Try For Record
.Miami. Fla.. Dec. 3.-
Three M'ilkes girls, former stu
dents of Wilkesboro high school,
are members of the intercollegi
ate debating team at -Mars Hill
College this year. They are Miss-
Laura , ©s Lucile Hartley. Lillian Linney
"'^ugallH, woman flyer, landed here j and Ethel Davis.
late today and announced she was
ahotting for the Miami-Newark
record. Best time for the distance
J8 Eastern Air lines’ five hours.
lS® Hilnutes, with one stop at
.._„_-hston. Miss Ingalls, who
^][Vlew south from Newark, left Ra
leigh this morning.
Driver Sentenced
Winston-Salem, Dec. 3.—M. L.
Clodfelter. 25, was sentenced in
Forsyth superior court here to-
4}sy to serve from five to seven
years in State's prison for man
slaughter. The charges grew out
of the death of Lewis McDowell,
11, who was struck by an auto
mobile allied to have been driv
en by the defendant.
Predicted Own Death
Kankakee, 111., Dec. 3. Henry
ot” Chamberlain, 79, who be-
_ Yeved so strongly In his own pre-
jp^Ictions that h® recently purchas-
^ed a casket; was killed today
k;w li e n a descending elevator
■truck him on the head. Cham-
erlaln amused his friends with
opkeaies on question
juently forecasting weather,
onal events and sports re-
Several years ago . he told
^ ha iroold ho deadbefore
vIm lA heort b^n to
trouble.
The Mars Hill teams are com
posed of eight boys and eight
girls and during past years have
won enviable reputations as de
baters. Last year Miss Hartley
was a member of the stale cham
pionship team of junior college
debaters.
Child Is Burned
To Death Sunday
Two-Year-Old Daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Wrenn John
son Dies of Bums
.Mlldced Sarah Johnson, two-
year-old daughter of Wrenn and
Isabelle Billings Johnson, o f
Rock Creek township, died Tues
day morning from burns receiv
ed Sunday when her clothing
caught fire from a fire at the
home of her parents.
In addition to the father and
mother she is survived by two
sisters, Jean and Ruth.
Fhineral and burial services
were held at Liberty Grove Bap
tist church this morning with
Rev. Hubert Bullis and A. B.
Hayes in charge.
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NEW YORK . . . Qn the left is Dr. M. A. Warrmcr, 79, dean of
Bridgeport, Conn., practicing physicians who admits a “mercy killing’’
of an inruraoie ■•maniac " in 1887 . . . and his story is “doubted’’ . . .
(in the right is Mrs. Jeanette Binkowski, 32, of Detroit who is facing
trial on a “mercy killing’’ charge of having shot her 5 year old son,
.sufferer from infantile paralysis and rickets.
Asking Action In
Constraction of
Guard Armories
One of Proposed Armories
Would Be Located In
This City
W. E. McDonald, secretary to
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, an
nounced in Washington that In
view of the tremendous interest
being manifested in North Car
olina in behalf of the various
WPA national guard armory pro
jects, that he had been in con
ference with officials at the
Works Progress administration
in an effort to have an exemp
tion made in favor of an increas
ed percentage df skilled workers
above the 10 per cent now being
allowed. This is necessary before
the state director can aiithputo
work being colnmenced on these
armory projects. The Works
Progress administr.ation is adher
ing to a general policy ot only
permitting 10 pT cent of skilled
labor to be used on any given
project.
One of the proposed armories
would he located in North Wil
kesboro and the subject is of
much local interest. The city ha.^
already agreed to furnish an ade
quate .site on the fairgrounds and
engineers have given it their a])-
(Continued ou page eight)
Contracts On 2
Parkway Sectors
Given Approval
Work To Begin At Once On
Parkway a.s Far South as
Highway No. 18
Schoohiasten’To.
Put
Tourney Again
Organization of School Heads
PrMnote AHiIeticsriii
the Schools
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Winners To Be Determined
by Percentages in 14-
Game Scheidule
Wilkes Hospital
Building Erected
New and Modern Fireproof
Building Will Be Ready
For Occupancy Soon
I Finishing toiiche.s are being
I made on the new and modern
I fireproof building for The Wilkes
Hospital, and fixtures ar© being
I installed preparatory to its open
ing within a few weeks.
The beautiful thirty-room build
ing has been under construction
tor some time by Foster & Allen,
local contractors.
The new hospital edifice is be
ing con.structed along the most
modern lines approved for hos
pitals.
The state highway and public
works commission has been no
tified that contracts have been
approved and awarded tor the
construction of two sectors of the
great scenic parkway and . that
work will begin in the next few
days.
Work has been under way for
some time on the first North
Carolina link from the Virginia
line to the Intersection with the
Sparta-Elkln highway
ond link will extend from that
point to Alrbellows - Gap On the
Blue Ridge and the thii-d link
will follow the summit of the
Blue Ridge in Wilkes and Alle
ghany counties to the Intereeo-
tion with the North Wilkesboro-
Sparta highway at Mulberry Gap.
Contracts for the second and
third links call for an expendi
ture ot approximately $800,000.
Contract for the first link now
under construction b y Nello
Tcer, Durham contractor, in Alle-
.ahany county, was slightly under
SiOO.OOO.
■\s fa.sl as right of way deeds
can be prepared and filed ..con-
IraelK will I>c let on the remaind
er of the route from tiighway 18
along the summit of the Blue
Rid,ge to Det^p Gap and it is not
expected that tlie December 15
deadline for PWA projects will
apply to the parkway construc
tion
I.abor for ttie project in llii.i
part of North Carolina will he
furnislied tlirough the re-employ
ment office located in this city
and which serves five counties.
The parkway will furnish em
ployment to several hundred men
when work on the ' three first
links get under way.
It is reported here that the
National Park Service has been
taking options of a large area of
land on the Blue Ridge In WbI-
nut Grove township, presumably
for park development purposes
(Continued on page eight)
The Wilkes county schoolmast
ers’ club, which has successfully
sponsored athletic tournaments
of various kinds in the high
schools of the county during the
past ten years, is sponsoring a
basketball tournament again
this year.
The eight county high schools,
Wilkesl-oro, Millers Creek, Mount
Pleasant, Ferguson, Mountain
View, Roaring River, Honda and
Traphlll, will be In the tourna
ment with both boys’ and girls’
teams.
Each school will play double
header tournament games on
Thursday afternoons. The first
half schedule will end on Jan-
, uary 16 and the second round,
made up of return games played
in tho first half, will end on
(Continued on page eight)
Lieut. Ritchie
Commands Camp
Succeeds Captain Long, Who
Was Taken To For Bragg
For Treatment
Lieut. C. A. Ritchie, former
wiiu luo members'of the high school fa>
The sec- 'ulty ]|u[y»i)d; *ratetlc director for
the eliy schools, has been placed
liv commaRd of the James G.- C.
Camp near Purlear.
Liieut. Ritchie succeeds Gap-
tain Thomas L. Long, who was
carried Thursday to Fort Bragg
for medical treatment. Lieut.
Riitchie Is a member of the re
serve corps and his commission
will expire on December 31.
'I'he Junior officer at the camp
at the present time is Lieut. Da
vid K. Miller.
Ottawa, Can. . . . Leo Carroll,
14, (above), member ot the
Boys’ Calf Club, broke all records
in winning the Grand Champion
ship in the open classes ot the
Winter Livestock Fair here with
his 10-month old shorthorn heif
er, "Blywood Roan Lady 3. Two
first awards and a cup were also
won in class competition.
Election Cases
Court Decision
Opinions of Higher Tribunal
Filed With C. C. Hayes,
(’lerk Superior Court
Pie Supper At Union
School Friday Night
A notice of change of date for
the pie supper to be held at
Union school at Cricket was giv
en out this week. The pie supper,
spon.sored by the P.-T. A., will
be held on Friaay night, Decem
ber 6, and proceeds will be used j
to purchase library books.
Dyson Having Trouble With His Feet;
Tells of Experiences In Old Well
Held Out Tongue for Drops of Water in Old Abandoned Well
From Which He Was Rescued Sunday; Says He
Prayed ('on^tantly For Deliverance
Dr.»hd Mrs. J. H. McNiel
•pMt tb*' Thanksgiving holidays
with relatlvss In Detroit, Mich.
Robert Dyson, who was res
cued from an old abandoned well
in the Boomer community after
nine days without food and wat
er, is slowly regaining h 1 s
strength at The Wilkes Hospital
but some fear has been express
ed that he may lose a foot, in
jured by exposure and frostbite.
Dyson, who lost 30 pounds
during his long stay in the well,
has been able at times to tell
something of the harrowing ex
periences he went through while
awaiting rescue or a certain
death.
The first tew days he spent in
the prison into which he evl-
I dently stumbled after losing his
way home, he busied hiptself by
trying to get out by means of a
pine stick with -which he endeav
ored to dig toe holds Into the
sides of the well, only to find
that he could not get nearer
than eight or ten feet of the tv
and fraedom, ,
“I prayed all the time I was in
there," he told a representative
of The Journal-Patriot who ques
tioned him about what he did
while in the well. “I got awful
thirsty,’’ he said, "and when It
rained I held out my tongue and
the drops of water tasted so
good.”
‘T would have give a hundred
dollars for that last Tuesday,” he
said at the hospital Monday while
drinking a glass of water.
Dyson said that th© long stay
beneath the earth’s surface had
made his body sore and that felt
considerable pain when rescuers
lifted him from the hole by
means of blankets and a rH>e.
He asked for water and a b^dy
stimulant was administered;^'“
Bxclipt IWr the UgoubtetiwUli
bis feet, it la felt that’hte cohdl-
tlDW.la atoui'AW'wel* “
expected arid, ^ 1* taking -iMilfr-
ishnept regolfudf.
•‘AIM •
DecisioiiH of the North Caro-
liiui supreme court reversing
Judges J. H. Clement and F.
Donald Phillips in the noted Wil
kesboro election cases have been
filed with C. C. Hayes, clerk ot
Wi'kos superior court.
Due to tile fuel that develop
ments in. the controversy have
been followed with much inter
est. The Journal-Patriot is pub-
lisltiiig the supreme court’s de
cisions in full tor what interest
they may b© to its readers. The
decisions follow:
In the Supreme Court of North
Carolina. Pall Term, 193.5.
W. E. Harris, C. E. Lender-
man. R. R. Reins, Joe R. Barber public is invited to attend,
and L. B. Dula, composing the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of
the Town of Wilkesboro, North
Carolina, vs. T. E. Miller, Regis
trar, Fred Henderson .snd Wil
liam O. Johnson. Judges of the
Town Election, R. M. Brame, Jr.,
Chairman. Joe M. Pearson and
J. C. Grayson, cbmposing The
County Board ot Elections for
Wilkes County.
Appeal by the plaintiffs from
Clement, J., at June Term, 1936,
of Wilkes. Reversed.
This was an action brought by
the plaintiffs, who were the may
or and aldermen of the Town of
"Wjllkesboro, against the defend-
Judges of the Town Election and
the members of the County
Board of Elections of Wilkes
County, to restrain and enjoin
the use by the defendants, in the
Contlnued on page eight)
Masonic Notice
North Wilkesboro Chapter No.
78 R. A. M. will meet Thursday
evening, December 6th, 7:30 p.
m. for election of officers.
This is b very important meet
ing and all memhers are urged
to he present. ■ ^ -’
C.-P. WAI/TBB.HIgh
TRAli THROUGHOUT
NATION IS P
**GfaiKt
i. North Wilk«»bi«4^i64v" •
^ I. Trwfiig ' ^
Conunissiooers,
Board Education
Meet Monday
Routine Matters Disposed of
By Two County Bodies
For December
Wilkes county board of com
missioners held a quiet session
Monday to dispose of regular
routine business for the preced
ing month.,
All members. D. B. Swaringen.
chairman, M. F. Absher and
Ralph Duncan, were present for
the meeting.
After auditing claims and re
ceiving reports of the county of
ficers the board adjourned to
meet at a later date this month
to consider some other business
matters.
With C. 0. McNiel, chairman,
and R. R. Church present the
county board of education met
with C. B. Eller, county super
intendent of schools. Routine
matters were disposed of in a
short session.
Local Mercaatfle ’ EetiMsda-^
ments Well Stadeed For ..
Holiday Shopping
With only 16 shopping
days until Christmas, North ’
Wilkesboro merchants and
business firms are well pre
pared for the holiday trade
and to uphold the city’s rep
utation as a trading center
for the people of Wilkes
and adjoining counties.
Predictions throughout
the nation indicate a holi
day trade 15 per cent great
er than last year and the
greatest since 1929.
Anticipating a large vol
ume of holiday trade, North
Wilkesboro merchants have
prepared to meet the de
mands with the; largest
and most varied stocks in
history, making it unneces
sary for the most discrimi
nating purchaser to buy his
or her needs at a larger
trading metropolis.
This is true in all lines of
trade and commerce represented
In North Wilkesboro, clothing,
ready-to-wear, furniture, hard
ware, dry goods, notions, jewel
ry, Christmas toys and other lines
of merchandise. _,
Inducements greater than ever
'before offered beckon the cus
tomer to trade in North Wilkes-
boto to the greatest advantage.
Christmas shoppers are urged
to do their buying as early as
possible, especially those pres
ents to be mailed. The postnfflee
department is urging early mail
ing of Christmas mail In order
that the mails may not be con-
ge.sted on the eve of the Christ
mas holidays.
Tlip stores here have already
taken on an attractive appear
ance suggestive of the Yuletide
season. The decorations in the
stores which have prepared tor
the Christmas season are more
beautiful than ever before and a
joyful spirit is pervading the city.
32 From Wilkes
In A.S.T.C. Now
Enrollment at Appalachian
State Teachers College
Totals 926
Among the 926 students en
rolled a t Appalachian State
Teachers Colle.ge in Boone for the
winter term 32 are from Wilkes
county, it was learned today from
a report issued by the registrar
of that institution.
Watauga has the largest num-
Carl Triplett Is
Injwed In Well
Boomer Resident Has Broken
Collar Bone and Left
Leg Is Broken
The superstitious are perhaps
beginning to think that there is
something unlucky about wells in
the Boomer community.
Carl Triplett, who was c.igging
well near Boomer Wednesday,
suffered a broken left leg and a
broken collar bon© when dirt
Mt's? who were the registrar and caved In in a well he was digg-
'Thejber, 138, Ashe 41, Lincoln 39,
Clevelsnd 35, Iredell and Wilkes
32 each. There are 870 North
Carolina students from 64 ?ou*i-
ties and .56 students from 64
counties in other states. Tho
senior class has a membership of
151.
Christmas holidays will begin
on December 20 and work will
be resumed on January 1.
lug.
Those who were helping him
In the work rescued him from
the pile of debris and brough„
him about noon to The Wilkes
Hospital, where his Injuries were
found to be quite serious.
The accident happened to Mr.
Triplett three days after Robert
Dyson was rescued from-an aban
doned well in th© same commun
ity on Sunday aft^ nine 'days of
thirst, hunger and exposure.
Min Helf
^ tho WUkeob^
Bostic, member
solkMl taei
season at
home i)
M. E. Parsonage
In Wilkesboro
Been Remodeled
The three congregations on'
the Wilkesboro Methodist charge.
Roaring River, Union and Wil
kesboro, have thoroughly remod
eled the parsonage in Wilkee-
boro. All the rooms have been,
either 'papered er .painted and
many improvemerite have been
made that will add to the com
fort and attractlv^eos of tho
parsonage.
Rev. A. B. Hayes
Preach At Pi
On Sunday
Rov. A. B, Hayes, w4
Baptist minister, will
Bauilay morning, li
Faa^or Baittbd chnreh.
lie l^lnvlted to attend
nown