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w»y uid.' pttbll«' %y>As 'eomaiis-
stoa It oohaidarlaf placing a.aiin
«t .Mcb d^&cmaa carra. In' the
state to denote **the m^mum
safe speed ot the eorr*,’' Ehigl*
aeer Janee S. Bwrch said todar.
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NORTH WH^BaeORO, N, C.rTHUR8I)Ay^ AtJG. 18,1986 $1.60
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He Avoided Artest
Loalsa, Va., Aos. IL—J. S.
Keanon, &0, shot himself to death
behind. the locked doors ot his
fllllag station today. Sheriff
JTnnk Bickers said, rather than
bmlt to arrest for the ironnd-
of a vomaa companion.
Cam|ia^ Pted 8meB» -
New York, An*. 11. —- W.
Morgan, treasnrer of the
ioeratle national committee,
utd totey the Democratic party
,hah received more than |1,000,>
OdO^ln eontribntlons since the be-
gUinlng of the year.
WPA ihnploys 82,884
Washington, Au*. 11.—The
w^l^orks Progress Administration
Teported today that 32.3S4 per
sons are employed in North Car
olina on strictly WyA projects
of whom 19,198 are men and
[ 13,186 women, the percentage of
I women being 40.7.
Fr^ Gnawers’
F^Day and
Picnic Aiij;. 21
Interestmv and Helpful Pro-
gnm Outliued Fot An-^
nual Event
TiKs of Hero Rote
DR. WINTERS SPEAKER
liandon On Vacation
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’ Topeka, Kas., Aug. 11.—
Gov.
Alf M. Landon headed tonight tor
Colorado’s mountains and a
week’s vacation with his family
before striking across the con
tinent to deliver his first eastern
addressee i n the presidential
campaign.
Preached In I'nderwear
Newton, Aug. 11.—The urge
to preach was so great in Dan
Isenhour, 50-year-old Catawba
county farmer, that he neglected
to put on his clothes in Kan
napolis, and was arrested for
thing on the streets in his
rear.
Ooiaplete School PImus
Raleigh, Ang. 11.—Lloyd Orlf-
,fla, weretniy,' said the State
si Couimtaton Friday wUl
for the lA3«aJ-|-
term throughout the State.
The commission has allotted 23,-
,^00 teachers thus far, Griffin
Mid, compared with 23,581 used
last year.
Weed Prices Average 25.27
Aug. 11.— Garland
ey7 statistician ot the State
•department of agriculture, an-
onnced today that first week’s
'•ales on the Georgia tobacco mar
ket totaled 24,049,002 pounds at
an average price of 25.2'7 cents a
pound.
: ' Fire Loss Lower
Raleigh. Aug. 11.—Approxi
mately 500 delegates attending
'th© 49th annual State Firemen’s
association convention here heard
' a report today that their effi
ciency and additional s.-ifety pre-
|j cautions had caused North Caro
lina’s per capita fire loss to drop
to a new low record of 81.89
during 1935.
New Deal Foe to Run Again
Providence, R. I., Aug. 11.—
United States Senator Jesse H.
Metcalf, Republican, today an
nounced his candidacy for re-
ion, “if my party desires my
^continued service.” He has been
senator since 1924 and foremost
In the attack upon New Deal
|i,/legislation since 1933.
Touches 11,000 Volts; Lives
if ’ Jfctimore. Aug. 11.—A negro
attempted to hitchhlko a
. on » Pennsylvania railroad
omsAIve, touched an overhead
fwlr* uirrying 11,000 volts and
‘ ‘ • tell police about it. The
kid he was Bernard Snead,
'Lynchburg, Va. He suffer-
^rst, second and third degree
burns and Is in a hospital here
a-critical condition.
Alienists Examine
Suspect In Sla3ring
PAttocney For Negro Held In
Asheville Murder Withhold
Findings
shevilie, Aug. 12.—Defense
altenlats today examined Martin
ore, 22-year-old negro who
_ed Sunday ho slew Helen
l^^get' in her room at the Bat-
r Purn hotel about 1 o’clock
morning of June 16, but re-
__ _ reveal their findings.
E- •rte jjhysiclans. Dr. B. B. Mor-
tu nnd Dr. Charles A. Hensley,
ESr . ^ request of the court-
counsel for tho negro,
t, Jones, Jr., and -J.
'atylaa.
ji ntSitrt**" Nettles said
Ki^y Jioore’s trial would open at
Eter o’clock next Wednegd^
Court oOlcifU andgSte
’ (iiiff"ssted the opinion the
> n£kuielaAed .in from
Picnic Dinner to Be Feature
of Occaaion} Special
Woman’s Profram
Program was announced today
for the sleventh annual field day
and picnic of the Brushy Moun
tain Fruit Growers association to
be held on FViday, August 21, at
Mount Olive church in the north
ern part of Alexander county.
TTie day’s activities will fea
ture “Orchard Management Prac
tices and Problems” and a spe
cial pfogram for farm women.
Perry Lowe, president, will pre
side at the meeting, which will
begin at ten a. m., with the first
number on the program being
“History of the Fruit Growers,”
by Mrs. C. F. Bretholl, secretary
of the organization composed of
progressive orchardlsts of the
Biushy Mountains in Wilkes and
Alexander counties.
Dr. R. Y. Winters, director of
research of the North Carolina
experiment station, will discuss
“Agricultural Research in Rela
tion to Fruit Growing.” M. E.
Gardner, head of the horticulture
department of North Carolina
State College, will speak on
“Fruit Growers’ Problems.” The
morning program for farm wom
en will be conducted by the home
demonstration division of North
Carolina State College.
Next number on the program
will be the picnic dinner, one of
the main features of the annual
field day and one that has been
widely complimented by every
visitor and guest to any annual
London . . . Gordon Dick, 36,
(above), a traveling salesman
going his placid way a fortnight
ago, has found the role of hero
rather trying. He is the man who
knocked the gun from the hand
of the assassin, now charged with
threatening the life King Edward
recently.
Three Arrested
By Federal Men,
In the County
Successful Raids Made in
Hunting Creek and Lewis
Fork Communities
Officers ma)tlng the ra(d were
picnic since the organisation was A. R. WtlUaiMi. I
formed. The anntmttWBtent sayrfT. Jones-’kW rfe
“Your basket well filled will add
to its popularity. A barrel of iced
lemonade will be at your dispos-
al-’’
The afternoon program will be
devoted to the demonstration of
pruning and fertilization results
in Herman Deal’s orchard and a
special program for farm women.
All who are interested in fruit
growing will certainly find some
thing of interest it they attend
the annual field day and picnic.
Work Two Shifts
On New Highway
Contractors Seeking to Com
plete New Grade on 16
at Early Date
In order to take advantage of
every daylight hour and to com
plete the project in the specified
time, contractors are working
two shifts on the new grade on
highway 16 between Wilbar and
the Wilkes-Ashe line on top of
the Blue Ridge.
Construction work is now cen
tered in the vicinity of the “jump
ing off place,’’ where the new
highway is being blasted from a
rock precipice. This stone is be
ing salvaged and crushed as sur
face stone to be applied on the
new brade.
Meanwhile, surface treatment
is being applied on the new grade
on the first project extending
from Millers Creek to Wilbar and
this section of the road will be
in condition for travel within a
very short time.
C. E. Johnson Is
Superintendent Of
Meadows Mill Co.
C. B. Johnson, formerly of
Ellington, S. C., is superintendent
of Meadows Mill Company, It was
learned this week from officials
of the company. Mr. Johnson
succeeds C. L. Sockwell, who
died a few weeks ago.
Mr. Johnson has had wide ex
perience in manufacturing and
is considered (fuite capable ot
handling the duties of his posi
tion here. He and Mrs. Johnson
and two children will make their
home here. ,
Federal alcohol tax investiga
tors have been quite successful
in raids during the past few
days in Wilkes county. Monday
in the vicinity of Hunting Creek
they destroyed a medium size
illicit liquor plant and arrested
John and Ernie Brooks on charg
es of manufacturing. Following
hearing before U. S. Commission
er J. W. Dula In Wllkesboro they
were released under bonds of
85U0 each for appearance in the
November term of federal court
in Wllkesboro.
A. Jones
On Friday a raid in ' Liewls
Fork township netted a large
still and three men, George An
derson, Burt Cleary and Vernon
Shumate, who were placed under
bonds of $600 each following a
hearing before Commissioner
Dula. Officers making that raid
were C. J. Metter, W. P. Lance
and J. C. Fortner. Other stills
have been destroyed where no
arrests were made.
Wilkesboro High
Faculty Complete
Only Two New Members in
Faculty of 18 Teachers;
Opens Aug. 27th
T. E. Story, superintendent of
Wilkesboro district schools, to
day announced the complete fac
ulty for the Wilkesboro high and
elementary schools, which will
open the 1936-.37 term on August
27. p
The faculty is as follows: first
grade. Miss Margaret Hensel and
Mrs. Zola Barber; second grade,
Mrs. Grace Edwards and Miss
Louise Melville: third grade. Miss
Liicile Scroggs; fourth grade.
Miss Cynthia Prevptte; fourth-
fifth grades, Mrs. Gertrude Steel
man; fifth grade, Mrs. Edith
Hemphill; sixth and seventh
grades, Mrs. Pearl Hartley.
High school: T. E. Story, prin
cipal; Mrs. R. B. Pharr, Miss
Lillian Stafford, Miss Helen Bos
tic, Miss Ghita Tuttle, Zeh Dick
son, T. G. Perry, J. L. A. Bum
garner, J. Ray Graham.
Only two members of the en
tire faculty virin be serving their
first year, the two new members
being Miss Hansel, first grade,
and J. Ray Graham, who suc
ceeds Benny Troutman as a
member of the high school fac
ulty and athletic coach.
Investigate Death
Colored Woman
Coroner I. M. Myers was called
to Boomer last week to Investi
gate the death ot Ida Banert col
ored woman ot that community
who died suddenly in her bed and
was found bf children who ask
ed neighbors to “wake her up.”
'Tka aoroaer cava the opinioa that
aho died from natural causes.
Ji
Masonic Picnic To
Be Held In Elkin
On August 27th
Elkin, Aug. 10.—^The Surry-
Yadkin-Wllkes Masonic picnic,
for a number of years an annual
event hete, but discontinued for
the past several years, will again
be staged this year, the data hav
ing been set for Aagnst 27. A. U-
Griffith is chairman.
The main feature of the picnic
win be a concert by th« siaging
class of the Oxford . orphanage.
In addition to this cenMft, a
prominent speaker will be' pMent
and tho R. €. Lee riding derioes
w,lU also be here tor the entire
Elkin stdrM, it was stated, will
be elOMd:trom 10 a. .m. until 2
p. nu on the day of the picnic.
T. B. Clink Now
Under Way; Many
Get Exammarinns
Will Continue Through Next
Week; Exnmmntidns by
Appointaient
28 ON FIRST DAY
Expect Clinician From State
Sanatorium in Charge; 'No
Coat Attadied
Twenty-eight were examined In
the first day of the adult tuber
culosis clinic in Wilkesboro Mon
day and several have made ap
pointments for examinations this
week.
However, the clinic will con
tinue through next week and
there is time available and not
yet taken up by appointments for
at least 100 additional suspects.
’Thbse who for any reason deem
a tuberculosis examination advis
able are urged by Dr. A. J. El
ler, county health, officer, to
make an appointment at his of
fice and be examined during the
clinic. No cost is attached to the
examination, the clinic 'being one
of tlie many services offered
without cost by the county and
state health departments co
operating.
The examinations are being
made by Dr. H. L. Seay, expert
clinician from the state sanitor-
ium. He has in his equipment a
portable floroscope, which is very
valuable in making diagnosis ot
tubercular suspects.
In discussing the clinic Dr,
Eller emphasized the mportance
of early examination and diagnos
is as being the first steps toward
cure if one has contrtmted the
dreaded disease. He described it
as being treacherous and a di
sease that creeps on often with
out the patient’s knowledge ot
anything belog wrong physically.
An effort is being made t to
hayo parents other,te
tubefculmb has been foond ra-
aminod but attention is called to
the fact that any adult' desiring
an examination may take advant
age of the opportunities afforded
in the clinic.
Venion Porter
Given TiWM
Fonrtee»'¥ei^.
Ploada Guilty to!
tor in Dondi of W. F~. ’
ley OB Highway
OTHER LONG PEN TERM5
George Waahington Rupert
6-10 Yeara For A$>-
sault On Girl
Outline Pn^am
Wright Memorial
Service to Be Hdd Snndai^
at Edgewood Church;
Dougherty Speaker
Detailed program was announc
ed today for the memorial serv
ice to be held Sunday, August
16, at Edgewood Baptist church
in honor of the late C. C. Wright,
for 34 years superintendent of
schools in Wilkes county.
The program will open at
10:55 a. m. with address of wel
come by A. G. Hendren, followed
by devotional by Rev. I. C. Wood
ruff and a solo by Miss Bert Hol
man.
Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president
of Appalachian State Teachers
College at Boone and a close
friend of the late school superin
tendent, will deliver tho feature
address on the forenoon program
at 11:30. He will be Introduced
by C. B. Eller, present superin
tendent of schools in the county.
Prom 12:16 until 1:30 will be
recess for dinner and addresses
will be delivered on the afternoon
program by T. E. Story, Wllkes-
boro school principal, and Attor
ney H. A. Cranor. The program
will be supplemented by special
music, including numbers by a
male quartet. Mrs. R. E. Prevette
will be accompanist.
A cordial invitation is extended
everybody to attend the service.
Farley Confers With
Democratic Heads From N.C.
New York, Aug. 12.—^Demo
cratic Chairman James A. Farley
today conferred .with Democratic
leaders from fonr states in tho
first of- a series of group eonfor-
encee which ho said would bring
the leaders from every ^te her©
within the next two wteks.
The meeting today was attend
ed by national committeemen, na
tion^ committeewomen, state
chairmen and state vice chairman
from MasaaabHsetts, Connecticut.
Rhode blithd and North Carolina.
Completes Residence
bnllcUttg
apartments.
~ • ■:
Mr, f. L. «Wwa, of Banford, is
spendinx sevsral days xitb rato-
tjTes and, f.rjonda »t.Tujapsr and
oth w parts'of tha 001
a.
J.8-yeat^^ ehorister
sweetheart, Donajd Wigfetiahn (above), ,reyi|«9d this populace, hard
ened to brutal crimes, in the confessed mnfoer of the girl's mother.
Donald, holding the mother while Gladys battered her down and to
death with a hatchet. It vras all over a trivial quarrel because Gladys
had to get an early supper for herself so she might play tennis with
Donald. They say the mother had a knife in her hand,
Ashe County Men Jailed For Second
Time On Charge Postoffice Robbery
Abshers, Inc.,
Aik4 Bladi^uni’t
Now Ooteq^Jitog
ao Fteddteg
Abahers Imoation On
B Street
The building on B street which
has been occupied by Abshers,
Inrf, has been remodeled and now
bouses that firm and E. M.
Blackburn and Son, which for the
past few years has been in busi
ness on Tenth street.
The building has been attrac
tively reflnlshed and a partition
separatee the two firms.
Abshers, Inc., will hereafter
handle only men’s clothing, in
cluding suits, pants, overcoats,
etc., and B. M. Blackburn and
Son will handle men’s’ furnishings
of every, tyfia.
Both of these firms are well
known and widely patronized by
many people in Wilkes .and ad
joining counties. Under the pres
ent arrangement each will be
able to specialize in their respec-1
tive lines of merchandise and of
fer an Improved service to their
customers, who are'invited to
visit them at their earliest con
venience.
Administrators
Must File Report
To Revenue Dept.
Mr. Rousseau Also Calls Atten
tion To FaUure To Report
Sales ’Fax
J. R. Rousseau, deputy collec
tor of revenue for tho state in
this territory, today called atten
tion to the fact that all adminis
trators and executors of estates
must file inheritance tax inven
tories to the state of North Caro
lina. He also called attention to
the fact that the law prescribes
a fine of $600 for failure to make
such report. Additional informa
tion as to tax liability may he ob
tained from Mr. Rouseean, who
maintains an office in the De
posit & Savings Bank building.
Sales Tax Reports
He again pointed out that the
revenue law requires that all
merchants or others engaged in
retail selling must file report of
sales tax on or beforp tho 16th of
each month covering-business for
the preceding montU^or t)i» P*“*
alty will be invoked. The mini
mum penalty for failure to mAke
report is one dollar and rangea
upward according tq tho Amount
of tax dpq. f
REV. W. R COOFBR’
Work ha* bwn completed on a
ten-room brick reeldence on I
street for R. L. Wellborn. xt-jlta Marth WUkei-
contains taro t,i,ArAk. ■wflL
TO CliP:
Rot. W. B. Ctftwr, naqr «P-
Henry Bare and Adrian
Long Held in Defjkiilk of
of the Atlanta' penitentiary after
serving long terms tor breaking
Into postoffices, were jailed in
Wilkesboro again Tuesday by
Deputy Marshal W. A. Jones on
the same charge.
Henry Bare and Adrian Long
were arrested Tuesday in Alle
ghany county for looting the post-
office and store at Glade 'Valley
on July 20. Following a hearing
before the U. S. Commissioner at
Sparta they were lodge in jail at
Wilkesboro in default of the re
quired bonds of $6,000 each.
One of the two, it was learned,
had only a few weeks ago com
pleted a six-year term In Atlan
ta imposed in federal court at
Wilkesboro in 1930 for breaking
into postoffices in Ashe county.
’The other served three years on
the same charge. The one who
served the six-year term had
been out only two weeks before
the Glade Valley robbery occured.
It was also learned that the
two men had made quit© a record
for themselves in a short length
of time and that state officers
were looking for them on charges
of stealing wool and farm pro
duce in Alleghany county. The
postoffiCe robbery case will bo
calendared for trial in the No
vember term of federal court at
Wilkesboro.
Resurface Part
Of Highway 16
Hifl^way From Moravian
Falla to Kilby’s Gap Re
surfaced Tbis Week
Forces employed by the state
highway and public works com
mission are busily engaged this
week in resurfacing highway 16
from Moravian ?aUs to the
Witkes-Alezander county line at
Kilby’s Gap.
The surface treatment will
greatly improve that section of
the highway in that the road bed
was made more even before the
new tarvla surface was aroBed.
Tar and gravel sections of
highway 16 were among those
most badly damaged by the se
vere winter of 1935-38 and the
now surface will no doubt pre
vent a recurrence of heavy dam
age to the highway.
Condition Emmett
Lawsm Is Smipus
boro Pritet^arisn .eakrah,
BfMk In th* Friday siea^ of
thy KIwanIs club. P. J., Cartar
win have charge, of ^ pfogr^
I’^ogga will » pro-
Lois'
chairman M
Hoapltal attaches reported to-,
day that the condition of Bmmett'
Lawsoii, wounded Snnday idtAtj
by Pati^h^ J. J. Johnaen, war
WflU unite sertotis.
fte kuUat punotnred Lawson's Ity. On thrte.
liver and aa oMration -was par- nix montlk'' toeSr
formed and mnafeatows 
given in an ettoit to
This morning Judge J. H. '
Clement delivered his charge to
the jury in the trial of Dock An
derson, charged with the murder
of Dink Love at the Anderson
home near 'Windy Gap in Decem
ber, 1934. At the time Th« Journ
al-Patriot went to press the Jury
has not returned a verdict.
Trial of Anderson on the mur
der charge began Wedneeday
noon and the evidence was pro
duced rapidly from a large num
ber of witnesses. Judge T. C.
Bowie, of West Jefferson, was
attorney for Anderson and the
case was vigorously prosecuted
by Solicitor John R. Jones. An
derson claimed self defense and
that bo bit JLOve wltb a chair as
Love went at him with a knife,
Qftok Gets 20-25 Yeett( “Q-
Dave Cook, convicted for the
murder of John Robinson at a
garage here last winter, was sen
tenced Tuesday to not less than
20 nor more th.an 26 years in the
state penitentiary.
Eye-witnesses testified that
Cook boat Robinson to-’ death:
with a chair to
yeara on a charge of^ aaMsttlag
Jean Ralls' jg. the Windy Gap Vli ‘
clnity a few weeks ago. ’This
sentence, however, runs concur
rently with the sentence Imposed
in the murder case. . ..
Assaolts Small Giri
George Washington Rupert, of
the Wfndy Gap vicinity, was
tried and convicted of assault
with Intent to commit rape on a
six-year-old child. He was sen
tenced to from six to ten years in
prison. " '
TW3 Oet liOtig Temie
Roy Hotbreok, of Norlina, and
Raymond Yale, Of ttld ’Tritphill
vicinity, were convicted of assadlt
and robbery on the person of a
Mr. Murray, cattle buyer from
Pennsylvania, whom they carried
into the foothills of the Blue
Ridge on a wild goose chase aft
er cattle and attempted to rob
him. They were given five years
each on the roads.
3 Indicted for Murder
A true bill of murder was re
turned by the grand jury against
Miss Bettle ’Trlpplett, Walter
Triplett and Will Dula for the
death - of Cline Hall, of Darby.
Hall died a few days after he was
alleged to have been stabbed in
the chest by Miss Triplett In an
altercation on July 27 at tho
home of Zeh Triplett.
Porter Pleads Guilty
Vernon Porter, of this city, en
tered a plea of guilty of voluntary
manslaughter in the case whom ,
he was charged with the dwth
of W. P. Gilley, of Winston-Sa
lem. Evidence was produced
show that he was racing with a
car which carried his estranged
wife when the collision with Mr.
Gilley’s car occurred about 'x5
miles east of the Wllkesboros on
highway 421. He was also con
victed of layceny of the automo
bile he was using when the wreck
occurred, the car belonging to
Shuba Queen. He was also tried
on a charge of breaking into S.
V. Tomlln8on”s store.
Porter Gets homg Term
Porter was convicted on alt
counts and on the charge': ot
mansU-nghter was sentenced to
not less than 10 nor more than
16 years in the state penitentiary.
On the other charges ho was gfv-
en two years each.to run conenr-
rently with the longer sentenoA
Ijoeetfsa Aie*'8eateaoed
Jcdin Love$te.' Nko was eon-
vieted On five counts, including
ieeisUng an offleer, dreir three
and ono-half yeara on the roa(hk
It wRl be recalled that LeMiF
and his trlfe assanltod: Degii^
C. H. Dancy and Geoi^ge HollHbd-.
and Deynty Marshal W. A.
when ther 'FdQi’'to
ytaee iia the
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