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Omrim A—wlU New Deal
1^ ' N®w J*n. 24.—John W.
■*': YJHliipidled proposals for
.'JrtreepWr, : Maytltutional amend-
^nent tralKht tn an antl-new deal
'prelude to Alfred E. Smith’s ex
pected attack upon the Roosevelt
administration tomorrow night.
RebeUioas PrlsMier Shot
. , Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 24.—
i^owell, one of the nine negro
endanls in the Scottsboro case,
shot in the head when he al-
lly knifed an officer return-
KSlm here rom Decatur, Ala.,
the trials, today.
Food 02 Days
Yugoslavia, Jan. 34.
cials of the Inil at Poze-
BVaUr claimed today that Pris
oner Svetozar Eukich set a hung
er strike record by refusing food
tor 82 days. Lukich is protesting
a life term imposed for murder.
VOL. XXX, NO. 41 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., MONDAY,
3 ARRESTED IN CONNECTION If'nifr pjrkir3ir«1 D,
WITH ROBBERY OF SPURGEON
JOHNSON WEDNESDAY NIGHT
.Market To Close 14th
Winston-Salem, Jan. 24.—To-
Itacco sales today on the Winston-
Salem market totaled only 111,-
£62 pounds and brought ?12,-
926.57, an average price of
.69 per hundred. Announce-
fnt was made that the market
close February 14.
Bum to Deatli
Tnoxville, Md., Jan. 24.—With
ice-coated, snow-blocked roads
cutting off rescuers, four mem
here of a family of five were
burned to death early today
■when fire destroyed their isolated
frame house on South Mountain
near here.
OFFICERS SEEK
OTHER PARTIES
Johnaon S«ya Two Men TiP>k
$236 From Him In Bold
Kindap-Robbery
TWO WOMEN HELD
Mrs. SalUe Murphy and Mo*
zelle Owens In Jail; Man
Is Under Bond
TORONTO, Can.
Rev.-Father
Rufus Wagoner, resident of
Jonesville, Mrs. Sallie Vestal .Hol
brook Murphy and Mozelle Ow
ens. of Doughton, have been ar-
re.sted in connection with the al
leged robbery of Spurgeon John
son near Doughton Wednesday
night.
Wagoner, whom Johnson ac
cused of being one of the men in
a car who promised to carry him
from Elkin toward his home in
the Ingle Hollow section of
Wilkes county but who, Johnson
said, carried him to a home near
Doughton, robbed him of $230
and tied him to a tree in the i
woods nearby, was released iiild
J. M. Coulture (above), Canada's er bond.
sole “flying priest,’’ came out of
the Northland to plan for a larger
and a “closed’’ plane with which
to service his 200,000 square mile
parish. Injuries to his knees several
years ago caused him to give up
canoe and dog-team trgve'
Suicide Is Completetl
Brooklyn, N. Y.. Jan. 24.—
Louis Cuiroll. 45, a real estate
and antdatobile agency operator,
shot himself in the head, then
.^walked^ree blocks to a four-
Sryonikling, climbed to the
'roof and hurled himself to his
death today. Police could learn
no motive.
Sentenced To Die j High Point Surgeon Speaker
ReidsvUle, Jan. 24—Odell Oak-1 Meering Here
ley, 25, negro, today was sentenc- rnday at Woon
Dr. Burrus TeDs
of Opportunities
In No. Carolina
ed to die in the lethal gas cham
ber by Judge J- H.' Sinclair. The
Dr. John T. Burrus, eminent
VIr.s, Murphy lives in the house
which Johnson described as the
re.sidence where the robbery took
place but she said that she was
not at home. Miss Owens lives
with her and she is said to have
- — admitted that two men from El
kin spent the night at the house
Inn that no one was robbed there
and that she did not see Johnson.
She further claims that the men
were there practically all night
ami that it was so cold that they
sat by the fire throughout the
night.
The two women are still in
jail but Wagoner* has filled bond
pending a hearing. Meanwhile of
ficers in Wilkes and Surry are
seeking to locate two other par-
'home
charged
tr'lhg and robbing the
B. F. Sprinkle here dur-
irlstmas holidays.
tor, addreeeed the North Wllkes-
boro Kiwanis club here Friday
OUT OF THE
Above is a photograph of the former Prince of Wales, now ruler
of the British empire, following the death of his father, the beloved
King George V,
Library Project
Now Under Way
Among the Schools of the
County; Move To Obtain
Library Books
Report Many Killeri
Rome, Jan. 2 4.—Italian press
dispatches from Asmara. Eritrea,
said tonight 8,000 Ethiopians
have been killed and 4.000 taken
prisoner in a fierce battle on the
northern front. Previous dispatch
es had described the Ethiopian
losses as “several thousand "
Icy Gale Whips (.'anada |
Montreal, Jan. 24.—Canada
was whipped by au icy gale to
night as one of the worst storms
of the winter beat the Atlantic
seaboard. Giant snowdrifts block
ed Quebec highways and paralyz
ed rail traffic on the Canadian
national line between Quebec and
the maritime provinces.
■‘OplKirtunilies in .North Caro
lina’’ was the theme of his ad-
dre.-=.s. which was received by the
I'lnh and several guests with rapt
interest. In the beginning, he re
lated e.vperiences and observations
made during a trip he took dur
ing the past summer to the "'est
coast, comparing the west with
Norili Carolina and. bringing the
subject closer home - Wilkes
county,
tie said that tlie slogan used
to he. ' young man. .go west,” but
that it is changing to “Young
man, go .south.'’ In contrast to
many sectitms of the west, he said.
EARLIER REPORTS
Making his way from the
Roaring Gap section, back into
Elkin, with a broken arm dang
ling I)v his side. Spurgeon John
son. of the Ingle Hollow section
of the Wilkes county bnishies,
twelve miles from Elkin, related j
a thrilling experience savoring of
the library facilities in the
schools of Wilkes county is now
under way under supervision of
the \ Oman’s division of the
works progress administration.
C. B. Eller, county superinten-
i dent of schools, said today that
the work is going forward in a
number of schools in the central
di.strict and will continue until
early life on a Western frontier. | libraries are repaired, hooks
when hold-ups and death at the | eatalogued.
cud of a rope were not classed workers are .l«dng paid
as the unusual. ■ |j,p WPA to visit the school
According to Johnson’s
Preoict.s lA>iig Fight
Chapel Hill, Jan. 24.— If the
Ethiopians fight to the last Cuing som
ditch,- as Emperor Haile Selassie buying
Insista they will, it will require
four years for the Italiaas to
completely occupy the country . ^ ^ „
and three additional years to dis-1 *'*'■ ?-4.000,000 went to produc-
anb fihe natives. Such is the pre- i
Sn of H R Eklns, United ' cited was .sending $158,-
~war correspondent ' of slate for the pur-
' chase of black-eyed peas. He ex-
j pressed a desire that the people
fj.! of North Carolina realize their
story.I
lu- spent Wednesday in Elkin and
near nightfall sought a cab to
convey him to Brooks Cross
Road.s. on his proposed return to
hi.s home. Finding all cabs out on
trips, two men whose identity
.Noriii Carolina soil.s are fertile| has not been established, volun-
without irrigation, climate is! leered to drive hint to Brook.s
ideal for the production of any- Cross Roads. Leaving Elkin, they
thing hut tropical products and turned their course in an oppo-
iliai natural resources are plcn-| site direction and when JohnsC'ii i
tii’ul for tile state to be self-sup-: lemoiistrated, they quickly thrusl I
porting. guns in his face, proceeding to-'
liliraries. mend worn books and
to otherwise improve the existing
library facilities as well as to
make an inventory o' the books
on hand. The information thus
compiled, Mr. Eller • intimated,
will be used as a basis for plans
to add addilioiml volumes where
needed.
Electrification
Meet Postpmed
Meeting For County Planned
During Latter Part of
FeF
communities In WlHtes county
are quite much interested in rur
al electrification, County Agent
A. G. Hendren said today, in an
nouncing that a meeting to pro-
ARRESTED
TUIOIED OVER TO I
OFFICERS IN TENNESSEE!
News Of Juajklr - -
Order Meetings
Eig^ To ^ Initiated Tuesday
• Night; OlaM laitlatlons An-
aoaaeed
North Wllkeaboro council of
Jr. O. D. ,aI' M.r ,wlil meet on
TUeiBday night, at which time
eight candidate”, will he Inltfatdd.
A large attendance is desired.
Announcement Is also made of
the class initiation meeting to
be held with the local council on
February 18. State Councilor Ad
ams will be present at thaf meet-
Ing.-A similar meeting will be
held at Copeland on February 21.
Purchasiii^ Park
Lands On Route
Scenic Parkway
7,000 Aacres Will Be Pur
chased in Wilkes, Alle
ghany and Watauga
In order to provide recreation
al areas along the route of the
park-to-park highway which will
connect the Shenandoah and the
Great Smoky Mountains National
parks, some 7,000 acres of land
along the route of the parkway in
North Carolina is -being purchased
by the resettlement administra
tion, it was learned here today.
This land is now in process of be
ing acquired in Alleghany. Sur
ry, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery
counties. Similar recreation sites
along the route of the parkway
in Virginia, amounting to a total
of 9,800 acres, will probably be
purchaMjT and
Franklin counties -
vclopment at these tracts of tpod
along the parkway route are be
ing provided by the resettlement
administration as a part of its
“better land use” program. The
actual development of these re
mote rural electrification will be creational sites will be under the
hold during the latter part I direct supervision of the National
February. service. It Is regarded as
The meeting, was scheduled to
have been held on Thursday of
tills week but was necessarily
MEN WITH LONG
RECORDS
Sheriff Somers Apprehends
Men Wanted in Several
States By Officers
NAMb FWmtlOOS i
likely that additional sites will
be acquired along the entire route
of the parkway through North
postponed because of the inabil- f-jj^olina. although resettlement
ily of D. E. Jones, assistant sup-j (jedined to comment on
ervisor of rural electrifaction inangle. If this is done, the
tile state, to he present at that pyj.]j^yav will become a veritable
time. Mr. Hendren said that he park in it.self. with
instaiues of the
outside products
that should be produced within
its borders, Dr. Burrus said that
of $42,000,000 spent for butter-
fat. $24,000,000 went to produc-
, ers outside the state. Another
l|t0,O42 Pass King's Bier
Loi^on, Jan. 24,—Official
gurerOMClosed that no,042 per-! opportunities and u.se them to the
80U ioamed at the bier of King | host advantage.
passing in an end- j ’’r. Burrus was introduced by
8lon which was inter-, 'VUorney Silas Casey, of High
once. This was when
^1 was closed for a few
the royal family es-
Maud of Norway,
Ing sister of the late
I the hall for her first
'.View bt the coffin.
Pridtt Returned
- To Home In City
'WoomiImI Mon Recovering
. Nicely; Foafer, Alleged
SUyer, at Large
Arel Pruitt, 29. resident of this
j etty who was shot through the
^'lower ^part of his right chest in
altercjition with Richard Pos-
a store near this city Sun-
recovered sufficiently
'' ye be removed from The
4tal to his home,
git the wound was seri-
hullet, which entered
■ b^ck, hit no vital spot
dions arose, mak-
re«ov*ry possible. Fos-
alleged to have shot
tji« fiack.wlUt a pistol
cing .the establisb*
(-the aeifiM aed has
jlpftOheaded.
I’oint. brother of Attorney A. H.
Casey, of this city, who had
charge of the program. Other
guests included Dr. W. K. New
ton, guest of Dr. F. C. Hubbard;
C. H. Colvard, guest of Genio
Cardwell; Dr. A. J. Eller, guest
of his sou. C. B. Eller.
Eshelman Talks
To Schoolmasters
Club In January Meeting
Friday Night; Plan For
Tournament Here
I*. W. Eshelman, president and
ward the Bluo Ridge.
In the vicinity of Doughton. he j
was escorted, at the point of ■
guns, ill.' said, into a dark room |
on the second floor of a home. >
where his cash, amounting to j
t.xactly $236.75 was demanded. |
In his resistance, his arm was | general manager of the IVilkes
broken, ho Claims, by a woman | Hosiery Mills, spoke very inter-
who used an iron as a weapon, j fittingly Friday night on “What a
Afterward he was escorted into Manufacturer Expects of School
a strip of woods, far from the Graduates.’’ The address of the
home and tied to a tree with a j local manufacturer, who employs
roiH'. His pleas tor liberty that | around 550 men and wom^n, was
he might return to his young wife
would announce the date of the
meeting ns soon as it could be
set.
Many communities in the coun
ty are now being served by rural
lines of the Duke Power company
system from the branch in this
city and a steady program of ex-
p.insiou has been carried on for
several years. The interest that is
now being shown in other com-
i munities can be expected to re-
]sult in still greater expansion of
iihe system in Wilkes.
Mrs. W. R. Bradshaw
Stricken In Hickory
Wife Of Prominent Baptist Mln-
inter Dies Suddenly; Fbiner-
iil Monday
and children, back in the Urush-
ies, gained his release, however,
and in agony, he wandered back
the twenty-mile stretch into El-
(Contlnued on page five)
Senate Expected To
Back House In Vote
To Spurn Bonus Ban
House Votes 334 To 01 To Over
ride President’s Veto; S«-n-
ate Votes Monday
no..
Wasliiagton, Jan. 24. - The
house thundered a 324 to 61 dis
approval of President Roosevelt’s
hand-prenned veto of the immedi
ate payment bonus bill today and
rushed it to the senate, where an
equally hostile reception appar
ently awaited it.
Even senators who almost un
varyingly support the administra
tion announced they would vote
to override when the veto is tak
en up on Monday. Not a single
leader ventured a prediction that
the PiWsident would be sustained.
Thns a final chapter in the
JegiiiastlTe htatorr of the bonve—
a cQBgreasional atorm signal for
neariy two decades
I. G. Greer To Be
Banquet Speaker
Annual Banquet of Berean
Class To Be Held Thurs
day Night Here
Dr. I. G. Greer, superintendent
of Mills Home. Thomasville, will
be the principal speaker at the
annual banquet of the Berean
class of the First Baptist Sunday
school to be held on Thursday
night, seven o’clock, at the Amer
ican Legion and Auxiliary club
house.
Dr, Greer is known throughout
the state as an untiring Baptist
leader and Is oue of the best
speakers to ever visit this city.
The class feels fortunate In being
able to secure him to address the
'oanquet.
The Berean class is one of the
largest and most influential Run-
day school^claases in this part of
the state and aBBnnl -t«a«ttet
is always an outstanding occas
ion.
before the Wilkes County School
masters’ Club.
He stated that when the hos
iery mill began operation here a-
bout 15 years ago that the aver
age education of employes was a-
bout four years in elementary
school and today the average is
between the ninth and tenth
grades. He remarked that there is
a corresponding increase In the
type of work.
The two essentials he stressed
was “energy and ability with the
emphasis on energy.’’ He stated
that the firm he manages in
quires carefully into the record of
a person to be taken into their
employ, especially for positions
where promotion is likely and
that their school records are
scanned carefully.
The club accepted an invita
tion from the North Wilkesboro
city schools for teams of the
county high schools to play in a
tournament at North Wilkesboro
in the near future. The proposal
was turned over to the athletic
committee to arrange-
Hickory, Jan. 24.-
cump sites, picnic tables, foot
ami bridle trails, likewise fire
places and .sanitation facilles at
frequent intervals along the park
way. For in addition to these
eitecial recreational areas now
being provided by the resettle
ment administration, the right-of-
way for the parkway is to be about
2U0 feet wide, with easements ex
tending as mnph as 1,000 feet on
each side, all of this land to be
developed under the supervision
of the National Park service. It
will not be defaced with advertis
ing signboards, hot dog stands,
filling stations and so forth, un
less permission is granted by the
National Park service and unless
ihi’y conform to definite rules
I and speeitications.
i By means of these special re-
Mrs. M. E. I areas, those who en-
Were In Company Vk^itlt
Thos. Padgettt fii
Charged With Robbery
'WIilliam C. Gutter sandi'. Pttaer
Miller Crocker, despuFadoua- who
have made trouble for officers in
at least a dozen states, have been
released to officers from the- po
lice daprtment of Nashville,
Tenn., by Sheriff W. B. Somers,
who picked them up here several
days ago for investigation. • ■
After they were arrested by
Sheriff Somers he sent their fin
gerprints to the department of
justice in Washington for identi
fication and within a few days
was informed that both men were
wanted in several southern
states on numerous charges.
Crocker had a record in Mem
phis, 'i’enn., of crimes ranging
from carrying a pistol to highway
robbery and twice had been sen
tenced to three years tn prison for
assault and robbery and them
was also a record of minor of
fenses in Alabama.
Gutter bad the more lengthy
record, including grand larceny-
in Alabama and Tampa, rioridv.,
lottery -'in Indiana, holdup and
robbery and highway robbery in
Dayton, Ohio,, auto larceny in
Knoxville, Tenn., cohabitation in
Danville, ’Va., gambling in At
lanta, Ga., assault with Intent to
rob and murder only a few
months ago in Alabama.
His most recent offense, for
which he was wanted by Nash-
lUce, was cashing forged ,
Ih' th» '''TeiRidMM iifaow ■ batata '
they took leave from that insHtn-
tlon. They bad a number of these
in their pockets when placed in
jail at Wilkesboro. Along with
their criminal records was a long
list of aliases, showing that in
each locality they had used dif
ferent names.
When they were arrested here
they were registered under fic
titious names at a local hotel and
had been in company with Thos.
Padgett, who is wanted for the
holdup and robbery of Lawrence
Gray, Wilkesboro furniture deal
er, a few days ago f^ar Moravian
Falls. Padgett took Mr. Gray’s
car and about $75 in i-a-iii as Mr.
Gray was giving him a lift to
ward Lenoir on highway 18.
Bradshaw. 63, well known Hick-1 camping out and "roughing
ory resident, died at th© home of
her daughter. Mrs. Earl N. Carr,
this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock as
the result of a heart attack. She
was the wife of Rev. W. R. Brad
shaw, prominent Baptist minis-
ter, pastor of Brown Memorial ;
Baptist church' here. j
Mrs. Bradshaw before mar-1
riage was Miss Zori Bush, of Lin- i
vllle Falls. |
She is survived by her hus-1
band, one daughter, Mrs. Carr;
a half-sister, Mrs. Hallie Bush, of'
Granite Falls, and a half-brother,
Ed Bush, of Knoxville, Tenn.
Since their marriage in 1892
the Bradshaws had lived in Hick
ory, Wilkesboro, North Wjllkes-
boro, Reidsville and Morganton,
where Rev. Mr. Bradshaw held
pastoratee. They had only recent
ly returned here from Morganton
where the minister had been pas
tor of the First Baptist church
since 1926. Prior to that time he
was pastor of the First Baptist
church lii Hickory.
Funeral service will be held
Monday morning at 11 o’clock at
the First Baptist church here.
it’’ may pitch their camps while
traveling from one park to an
other.
Three Taken On
Federal Warrant
Joe and Grant Holbrook and
John A. Lockhart Ar-
^ rested By Officers
Deputy Marshal W. A. Jones on
Sunday arrested three men in the
Traphill section of Wilkes coun
ty on charges of violating sever
al sections of the U. S. revenue
laws.
Joe Holbrook. Grant Holbrook j
and John A. Lockhart were the
three men whom the officer hail
ed before J. W. Dula, commis-
aioner. tor preliminary trial on
fehdrge of aiding in the escape of
fugitives, harboring; fugitives,
etc., they filled bond for appear
ance at the May term of Federal
court in Wilkesboro.
ments.
Aoto Acfltdfp^JFatal
New Bern, Jan. i4.—Idnwood
B. Shaw, 36, died in a
pital today of
about 1- o'clock '-tbla
an automqUlo accident itt
boro, near bsr«>
WAYNE MAN KILLED
Goldsboro, Jan. 26—-B. F. Qax-
ria. 49, near Goldsboro," was Mll-
lUntly. abettt 8 o'doelt Sat-
sdHtt/tiaB Stocy** knock*
on
Illicit Liquor
Business Slow
Officers Search Whole Day
Without Finding Still;
Many Serving Terms
The biKuiiss of manufacturing
moonshine liquor in Wilkes
county is at a low ehli, if news
over the grapevine telegraph can
be i-elled upon.
Although raids by federal reve
nue agents and deputy marshals
about ten days ago were quite
successful in that 13 men. 925
gallons of liquor and one large
still were taken, it was reported
Thursday that a poss© of federal
officers searched all day in north
eastern Wilkes without finding
tone still or any moonshine liquor.
I In the November term of fed
eral court in Wilkesboro about
fifty men drew sentences for
manufacture, sale or transporta
tion of illicit liquor and since
that time federal officers have
been able to affect the arrest o( -
many others, some of whom were
considered leaders in the illicit
business. Meanwhile the drive to ,
stamp out manufacture and traf
fic In moonshine spirits is going
forward with considerable re
sults.
SUDDEN DEATH TAKES
WICKEBSHAM IN CAB
New York', Jan. 25.—George
W. WickeraJiam, one-time attor-
ney-gentfal bt the United States
and Igteir choljfmw ct the com-
miwloiii cofr
jjiM »«d49>ty today ‘
BEARD IS INDICTED
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 25,—Augus
tus Dwight Beard, North ^ Caror'
llna prison ftigitive caught near
Dallas, January 14, was indicted
for murder today tn connection
with the kllUBg of John R. Rob^
erts, former city deteettve,. In a .
robbery.
Beard also was indicted on five
robbery charges, in which it was
alleged th> convict took A ^ total
of 1164. .0*'
Tying his loato to iliC,'!
Jimmy Roberts of
oat to get wlM
won’t agy >p hg
Nkwtog car, C|i-