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VOL. XXX, NO. 88 Published Mondays and Thursdays
lUtUaoa Beoteii Back
V Addia Ababa, -Jan. 10.—The
Bla]r!n« of several hundred So
malia, fishting under the Fascist
banner, was reported today by
the Ethiopian government.
Vote For Bonus
Washington, Jan. 10. — The
ele^n members of the North Car-
delegation voted solidly to-
for Immediate cash payment
the bonus. Representative
nghton, as chairman of the
and means committee, pilot-
bill through the House,
,1 vote for passage being
58.
C. C. Sidden Is .
Tax Supervisor;
Advertise Bonds
NORTH WILKESBORO,' N. a,' SEtjitroAY, jM. M'
ftwr 1mtiag^4m Wortb ■
Iteeborb; the' tiidiiv ei
of-Nottnweet jfoiih‘-Oai€«l
Um.
•s?
decdog Newsmen to Witness Hau;
J. M- Abaher Reappointed
Supervisor of County Home
^md Farm by Board
$40,000 SCHOOL BONDS
Ordered Advertised in Addi
tion to $25,000 Advertis
ed on Previous Date
1^ Earthquake Kills -,'SO
- Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 10.—A
destructive earthquake, followed
by landslides which swallowed
up villages, killed between 200
and 300 per.ions In Southwestern
Colombia, dispatches said to
night.
Wilkes county board
raissioners in recess
'Thursday appointed C.
den, prominent citizen
of corn-
session
C. Sid-
ot the
Kill*.l By Brother
Whiteville, Jan. i 0.—Hilton
Simmons, five-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Simmons,
who live a mile from Evergreen,
was shot and instantly killed last
^ight when a gun which his bro-
had just taken from a rack
harged.
SeutenrcI P’or Mur«lcr
Concord. Jan. lo—Otis (Jacki
Rogerson, 17-year-old farm hand,
w'as sentenced to 2 5 to 30 years’
imprisonment in superior court
here today after pleading guilty
to second-degree murder for the
shotgun killing of .\. Homer
Widenhouse, 3 3-year-oId
rus county farmer.
Calmr-
I’oe On ('oniiiiittc.'
Washington. Jan. 10.
ence Poe, Raleigh farm e
•was--today selected as one
'committee of 13 to meet
Traphill community, tax super
visor for the coming year. j
Another item for major inter-1
! est -was an order passed directing |
; the county attorney to advertise |
for sale of $4^.000 in county
bonds to be used in construction |
of school buildings. 'Dtis, it was ;
pointed out. will be in addition
to $25,000 already advertised.
Through the Works prograss
administration at $25,000 build
ing is undei; construction at
.Mountain View, a large central
school, but it will be necessary
for the county to furnish a large
part of the cost of materials The
remainder of the funds will he
used for construction of buildings
and additions in other districts
according to previous allotment.
,1. M. .\bsher, superintendent
of 'lie county home for the
si'vtial years, was reappoiMed
ipinporarily.
.\ii order was also passed by
tile board directing the sheriff to
seize all slot machines in the
couniy on which licenses liuvo
not been paid.
TRENTON, N. J. . . . Declaring that the execution of Bruno Hauptmann
was not “lo be made a .show’ V Mark O. Kimbcrling, Warden of the New
Jersey State Prison,'' turned down more than 400 news representative
requests to witness the electrocution, limiting them to eighteen, some
of which were included among the twelve “official’’ witnesses as required
by law. Photo shows Warden Kimbcrling addressing the newsmen.
aMi&r-ia-OO OPT OFin?g ST.
'
AAA Payments
To Jwiiary 6tli"
To Be Completed
Government Intends to Keep
Faith With Fanners,
Schaub Says
Sick Mol^
members of Congress. AA.\ offi
cials and other interested parties
to draft a substitute farm pro
gram for the agricultural udjust-
m'ent act which the Supreme
Court Monday declared uucou-
stitutional.
blue
Hunt For Substitut*-
Sr
4 Large Schools
Closed Because
Of Muddy Roads
to Receive Bids Twelve Scjiools
For Placing Roof; For Adults Are
On County Bastilej Being Operated
Improvements Designed to
Make Jail Safe Ordered
by County Board
Adults in Several Communi
ties Have Opportunity to
Broaden Education
PrMtdeat |
tt today on the farm'
Em. After leaving the ’White
]e, Bailey said he was conti-
some plan would he worked
out to meet the situation, and
none of the gains mad“ by farm
ers of North Carolina .since the
depression would be. lost.
4hg
River and Mt. Pleasant
Suspend Operation
Reynolds Co. Karniiig.s
Financial report of H. J. Key-,
-nolds Tobacco Company for the
year ended December 31, 1935.
shows net earning.s of $23,856.-
398 after deducting taxes, de
preciation and all charges, coin-
paiTid with $21,536,894 for 1934.
Earnings for 1935 are equal to
$2.38 per share on comoined lu.-
000,000 .shares of common and
class B common stock outstand
ing, as against $2.1.5 for the
previous year.
Konr central hi.eh schools in
Wilkes were closed the lattei
Dart of last week on accoiinl of
the extremely bad condition of
roads over which buses were ope
rated to carry a large per cent
of tile children.
Kouda. Roaring River, Trap-
hill and .Mount Pleasant were the
Wilkes county board of com
missioners is culling for Itids on
improvements to the Wilkes jail.
Bids will be received until Felt-
ruary 4 for the construction of
a concrete roof slab with
forcemeiitir’Vr'^^liOBrtn^r^^
and treatment tor the floors.
Tile Wilkes jail, erected IS
years a.go. Is quite a sate bastile
for keeping prisoners with the
exeeption of the roof, tlirough
wliicli prisoners made several es
capes during tile past few years
by culling through tin
sheeting and metal roofing with
only a pocket knife or some simi
lar Instrument, With tlie exeep-
one oecasion when a jail
Twelve .schools for adults are
lio’sv bein.g operated in Wilkes
county through tlie V'forks Pro
gress administration in coopera
tion with the school system, it
was learned today from W. R.
Craft, of ^j£ier;
E\>rm Pension flub
Raleigh, Jan. 10.—Off lo a
state organization the North rar-
olina old age pemsion club today
elected Sam O. Daniel, of Warren
county, as president; Kriice H.
Carraway. of High I’oint, vice
president, and .1. C Hardy, of
Norllna. secretary-treasurer, and
Jled on Governor Eliriiighaits lo
^nmon the genera! asseinhly iii-
^jyjcclal se.ssion.
sciiools forced lo close or deprive lion of one oecasion when a
more than half the enrollment of [attendant was m’cri'owered while
the nnmlier of days of schools to | carrying a meal to the prisoners,
which they aiv entitled. The four | practically all of the jail breaks
schools liave a total enrollmeiU | liave hcen through the roof. The
rf more than 1.500 students. ! improvements ordered by the
counties. ■ ^
The Wilkes schools are located
in the following communities:
North Wilkcthoro. Roomer. Lit
tle Rock, Millers Creek. Gordon,
Pit clear. Wilkesboro route 1. Call,
fishing Creek. High Rock and a
colored unit in Wilkesboro,
Tliis is the third year that
lioard i atliilt sciiools liave been operat-
I ed to give employment to uncm-
Mtloycd teachers and to provide
^idiilts an opportunity lo hrooden
; their knowledge of the fiinda-
I mentals of education.
: R“Ports from various connnun-
i ilies last year indicated that the
; schools were appreciated hy liotll
and the adults who
All AAA benefit payments due
North Carolina farmers up to
January 6, 1936, will be paid, ac
cording to word from Washing
ton received by Dean I. O. Schaub
of State College.
The treasury department has
announced that all AAA checks
now being distributed are good
and may be cashed at any time.
The dean could not say just
when checks for payments now
due will be distributed, as prep
arations for these payments had
not been completed at the time
the AaA work was suspepded.
The tobacco marketing cards
used during the past season had
been checked over at the State
AAA tobacco office at State Col
lege and were almost ready to be ,
sent to Washington for Anal ap- i
proval. I
'riie marketing cards are nec-
e.ssary in determining the amount
of the tobacco adjustment pay
ments for each grower, the dean
said.
The State AAA cotton office
was making preparations for the
Does Notinjade
Increased V aloe
OfCropsProdoced
Figures Released by 'State
College Say Value of Fam'■
Crops Almost Doubled ^ ^
JOHNSTON GETS MOST
CHICAGO . . . Tommy Tonhy
(above), last of the mobatcr
“Touhy Gang’’ is now in the
hands of the G-Men, who have
fiiiled him since 1933. He was cap
tured in bed, a tnberenloaia invalid
1935 Was Best
Year In History
Of D. & S. Ba^
Business Has Doubled Since
March, 1933; Officers and
Directors Re-elected
Resources of the Deposit and
- o --- Savings Bank here have more
cotton price adjustment payments i doubled since the institution
which were ottered to assurc'the .
growers at least 12 cents a pound
for their lint.
Dean Schaub expressed his.Jie-
lief that some way will be worked
out for completing those and
other payments within a reasona
ble tlpte.
reopened following the bank holi
day in March 1923, the bank
statement shows.
In March, 1933. when the
vvM^^g^d^^mr^^es were
at
as on Decemll«r
St'S resohreea tinie tb
From the summer of 1883 up
to September 30, 1935, farmers
in 'W'ilkes county received a total
of $26,657.67 in AAA rental and
benefit payments.
During the two and a" half
years of the AAA, the total in
crease in North Carolina farm in
come was more than $416,785,-
000.
This figure is the sum of the
AAA benefit payments pins the
increased valuation of farm crops
since 193.
In 1932, before the AAA, the
value of farm crops in this State
was $104,362,000, said Dean I.
O. Schaub. of Stale College, who
had charge of the AAA pragroms
in North Carolina.
With the inauguration of the
AAA in 1933. fhe valuation of
farm crops rose to $194,390,000.
The following year it climbed up
to $262,973.00, and in 1935 it
was $246,348,000,
The total increase over 1932
during the next three years
amounted to $390,625,00. In ad
dition, the farmers coporeating
in the crop control programs ■ re
ceived more than $26,160,000 in
benefit payments.
Up to September 30, 1935, the
benefit payments had resehed a
total of $26,159,193. Slnca that
mnts hajai feaea.
up to' the tline' tbe Supreme court
invalidated the AAA deserve to
get the payments promised, the
dean said, and the government
intends to keep faith with these
farmers.
Tobacco Cards
Are Called For
Important That Farmers
Turn In Sales Cards This
Year, Farm Agent Says
School Inis drivers termed tlie
task of going over many of the
roads a physical impossibility.
.•Snows and rains almost contin
ually for the past three weeks
wer^ attributed as th,- cause of
til'* liad conilitinM of county
roads.
The srliools were shut down
with the uiidersianding tltat work
would be resumed at the earliest
possilile date and when tile wea-
;!icr permitted school bus travel.
1 111i»iI*ViTiiioiii.-i . the teaciieis _— —^ —
cimnty hoard, according to plans! attended the classes. Surprisingly
by a w-ell known arciiitect firm,' good results were obtained Ity a
will eliminate tins danger of es- j mimbel of tin- schools in teach-
rapes and make tin- jail one of ling readiiiK, writing and arith-
Uie siifesl in this itart of the
stall-
metic, as well as instructions in
iractical work.
SCOLT COl RT OF
HONOR WILL MEET
Boy Scout court ot nonor will
meet Tuesday evening, seven o’
clock, at the Presbyterian Scout
hut.
Hardware Store
Will Open Soon
PURPOSES AND ACTIVITIES
OF RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM
AVAILABLE FROM BOOKLET
C. Hendren. county farm
agent, reported today that there
is quite a misunderstanding a-
mong toliaeco farmers of the
county in regard to the import
ance of turning in their tobacco
sales cards for the past year.
It is still of major mportance.
notwithstanding the fact that the
.\.\A has Iieeii voided, that the
liinis he turned in in order that
cashier, to the stockholdenf in
annual meeting Friday afternoon
showed that 1935 'was the best
year in the history of the bank.
Resources climbed rapidly, and
reserve filnds were set aside. '
The healthy condition of the
hank and the rapid progress it
has made is attributed to gen
erally improved business condi
tions and sound management of
the institution.
In the stockholders meeting
the board of directors was re
elected as follotvs: N. B. Smith-
cy, chairman. J. T. Prevette, C.
T. Doughlon, Carl A. l,pwe, R.
L. Donghton, George S. 9'orester,
Ralph Duncan and C. O. McNiel.
The directors re-elected all the
officers as follows: Congressman
It. L. noughtoii. president: J. T.
Prevette, vice president; Ralph
Oiiiican. vice pre.sident; T.
Dunghton, cashier; Dudley H.
Hill, assistant cashier; Miss Anne
Duncan, assistant cashier. A. H.
fled by: commodities, wszd > dis
tributed to North Carolina farm
ers thus; Tobacco $14,515,000;
cotton $10,689,54 6; corn-hogs
j $848,005; and wheat $97,461.
Johnston county received the
j largest amount, $1,196,670.48.
I Alexander $63,276.64; Alle
ghany $16,305.29; Ashe $14,-
731.21.
Caldwell $117,362.77; Iredell
$277,687.49; Surry $282,215.87;
Watauga $9,653.7 5, and 'Fad-
kin $200,698.77,
I he
department of agriculture ! .«as named attorney
A.M. Hadley and J.F. Moore
Moore Partners in New
Enterprise Here
Explosion Of Blow
Torch Results In
Injuries To Worker
! Families Being
Rehabilitated
! may have records on which to
I base estimates and it is ot still
greater importance shiinld money
le appropriated for adjustment
I-ayments. Tobacco farmers are
j nr.gently requested to tarn tbeir
( cards in.
J, C. Steele Dies
^ Grandm Home
'Catb«r of Mrs. F. J, Hartley
Jand Mrs. H. A. Carlton
Passes; Funeral Sunday
J. C. Steele, aged and highly
esteemed citizen of the Grandin
community, died at his home Sat
urday morning. For several
months Mr. Steele had been in ill
health and for the past two
'weeks crltici ily ill- Re was S3
years of sg .
Mr. StOwie ’was known by many
friends in this part of the state
and to all his acquaintances his
death was an occasion of sad-
He was known for his
character and wielded
Influence for good in his
„„^unlty. He was recognized as
oB» bf the most prominent farm-
ersXla’Caldwell county.
viving are four children,
I whom.' are well and favor-
rtittmn- Bd C. Steele, of
sna: Mrs. F. J. Hartley,
^o: -Mrs. H. A,, Carlton.,
ry-X r-y,:’
PFnneral rites were conducted
jn-, at Grandin Cap-
hnreb..
Woikmen are engaged in re
modeling quarters formerly oc
cupied by the Dixie Diner oppo
site Hotel Wilkes on B street in
iireparation for the opening of a
new hardware store.
A. .M. (Jack) Hadley and J.
F. (Frank I .Mooi’e are partners
in the new Itnsiness firm, wliich
'.vill carry a complete line of
plumbing and heating supplies,
paints and general hardware.
Both -Mr. Hadley and .Mr.
.Moore are well and favorably
known tii this part of the state.
.Mr. Moore was reaied in Wiikes
and for some time held a po
sition with Jenkins Hardware
company before moving to Boone,
where he operated a hardware
store for 12 years. Recently he
has held a po.sitioii at the Jenkins
store here. Mr. Hadley was con
nected with the Jenkins company
here for several years.
They stated today that they
expected to open the new store
during the latter part of this
month.
High I’oint. Jan. in.—Tom
Ward, night foreman at the
Huntlpy-Jackson Hosiery mills,
English street, had impre.esed up
on him about 6:30 o’clock last
night the danger lurking within
so small a working device as a
blow torch.
Mr. Ward was using it blow
lorcli in connection with his du
ties when it exploded in his
hands. His face and arm.s were
iKvinfnlly but not .seriously burn
ed.
Fellow employes succeedml in
extinguishing the flames and
took him to Guilford Generai hos
pital for treatment. He remained
a patient today. Mr. Ward gave
credit to his co-workers for sav
ing his life.
Tom Ward is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. M. D. Ward, of North
Wilkesboro.
Rehabilitation Will Reach
More People Than Reset
tlement, Booklet Says
Fruit Growers to
Meet January 18
Dtiriiig the past year a director
of the liatik. W. C. Pearson, was
I’laimed Ity death and the follow
ing resolutions were drawn and
adopted by a committee of the
directors:
In .Memioriimi—W. ('. Pearson
Since our last meeting death
has removed fro mour midst W.
C. Pearson, a valued personal
friend
Board
District Musk
Contest Planned
Will Be Held in Lenoir April
3; is Open to Schools of
Wilkes County
The district music contest will
he held in I,etioir at the high
school aaditorinni on April 3. The
Lenoir district embraces Alex-
aiider, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Cald
well. MacDowell. Wilkes and Wa
tauga counties, in which are lo*
cated some fifty-five high schools
eligible to cuter the contest. Not
all of these schools, however,
have taken part in tlie contests
heretofore, hut Hie contests have
been growing in numbers and in
a faithful member of our | the interest which they have a-
of Directors and a loyal 11’onsed for several years, and
WILKESBORO P.-T. A.
WILL MEET THURSDAY
Grange Meet PostiMMied
Meeting of the Wilkesboro sub
ordinate Grange has been posft-
poned until January 21, It was
learned today. The - portpSnement
wd&'■toade'bti“''hccount of "batf
roads and it is hoped that every
member will he i>ble to attend
tbe »eetlB§ on tbf
The January meeting of the
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation will be held in the school
auditorium Thursday, January
16, at 3:16 p. m. The meeting
was postponed one week from the
regular meeting time on, Jahuary
S.tudents pt.. lUj^S; Cynthia Hw:
vette’s fourth grade will give .the,
program^aBd'.tbera wlllnbe a dls-
tu8sidi?^’o4;''tJle?4b4)ic, ‘‘Tlie.^dtJ
eht. Guardian of Childhood.” All,
The first regional pamphlet de
scribing rcsettlenient and rehab
ilitation activities has just been
issued from the Division of Infor
mation of the Reseltlemenl -Ad
ministration’s regional office. Ra
leigh, North Carolina. W’ade R.
.McHargue. who is Rehabilitation
Supervisoi for the Resettlement
Administration in Wilkes and Al
exander counties presented this
newspaper witli a copy today.
In addition to giving the origin,
background and purpose of the
Resettlement .Administratlo'i, the
booklet gives a rather thorough
explanation of rehabilitation and
roKottlement which are the two
major phases of the Resettlement
Administrative program in North
Carolina. Teni.es.see, Kentucky,
Virginia and West Virginia, the
States compri.sing Region IV. It
also tells who is responsible for
the program, outlines the activi
ties and projects which have been
started in this region.
"More people will be reached
immediately under the rehabilita
tion phase than the resettlement
phase,” the boolde^ktotes.
Figures aresjtWn.fc the book-
jljt; showing the broAkdown by
States of■■"R^ablUtation families
beMgJ earha ftt, • ttie total ^aota
lor Re^on lY being
.A z...
Brushy Mt. Fruit Growers’
Association to Meet at
the Courthouse
friend lo our institution. Because | this should be one of the best
ever held.
■All schools planning to enter
this year should write for a copy
(Continued on page eight)
HONOR STUDENTS AT
GREENSBORO COLLEGE
Fruit Crow-
have its an-
Bnishy Mountain
ers Association will
nual meeting at the courthouse in
Wilkesboro on Saturday. January
18, at two o’clock. It was an
nounced today by Mrs, C. F.
BrothoU. secretary.
This meeting ■will be for the
purpose of electing officers for
1936 and a general discussion of
orchard affairs. All members are
urged to be present.
school patrons are cordially in-;
vlted .to ^
P,-T. A. Meetinsr
Regular meeting of the Millers
Creek Parent-Teacher Associa
tion will be held at the school
building on Thursday night, sev
en o’clock. All members and oth
er interested school patrons are
asked to attend.
Miss Jane Whicker, daughter
of Attorney and Mrs. J. H.
Whicker; Miss Virginia Harris,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Harris; and Miss Mary Sink,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. f. b.
Sink, all of this city, were re
cently made meinliers ot the
Greensboro College Honor soci
ety where they are attending
sdtool. Miss Sink is a member of
the senior class, while Misses
Whicker and Harris are Juniors.
To be eligible tor membership in
to the society a student must
average 90 or above for a period
of two years.
Besides being honor students
those students are also very out
standing in extra-curricula activi
ties.
Ifes. WWle quotas are not Ustod;
by oountiea, Mr. McHargue. re-
Annual Report of Qerk of Court
Pul^hed In this Paper Tpila;
The^ annual report of 1. C.
Hayes, eldrfc Wlikea anperlor
court,’ td‘ the county comnilsslon-
ei» ^,of December jl, 1836,. is
'pnblished on -t»ge six of this la-
atle of The Journal-Patriot.
- The ife
ottlee for various Indfrldoalr kf®
It iB 6«>eetpd to^lt*’etfU ba i.,., va
earein’ly with consrdernhli^fgKii
est'5y pwple of tbe cotfn-*’ rcQuI
{Publication of the report wa«
ordered by th.e .cpifnty commS«-:
of the official contest bulletin,
which may tie hud free from Dr.
Wade R. Brown, Dean of Music,
Woman’s College ot the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Greens
boro, N. C. This bulletin contains
all the rules of the contest, lists
of music which may he used, and
other information. Contest music
should be obtained as promptly
as possible and practice sUrted
early if students are to obtain
the best training and make the
best possible showing in the con
test.
It Is especially urged that all
teacherti interested read careful
ly the rules in the contest bul
letin, as they will have to be fol
lowed closely; and the' comp»lt-
tee would regret to penalise any
contestant when a careful read
ing of the rules-by the contestant,
or the teacher would have made
such a course unnecessary. A rule
this year requires that all school
principats must certify la ’writing
tjimt-^l. t^ students.i-epyimtmUug
*‘'-)ir ^qtmools nieet V**^'***^
ineUfS’ibid dowA fqr'el^SOttJi’flt
WiktAktest.
eligible, ani
ed In thi
iude tha'agei
%l
naiB' are' to.Jto
are uU-lAmd-
bnlleUn. These
'number .of