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fMi5>ATiaOT HAS'BLAZED, TH IlBS? jPROGliESS. in the “STATE 6p WILKffi’’’F^il MORE TH^' T ^fel, -. ...-r«^i>., V.- ,--..^?r - -- . ,.;a^^^^vM%kS'ii.?^.g'jji.y"'' iteNiwsOf State ToM fei^. ;;-fr'. KwcwU • NegtoM XashTtll^ ^toa., Aug. 14.— Tlir«e aagrooa ■ one calm, anoth er aiafing spirituals and another weaplng—died in the electric chair at the' state henttnntlary in the .short space of 16 minutes today. r VOL. XXX, NO, 89 Publiahed Mondays andrT|lur»diyir^ KOSTH y!-C., MQMDAT, ' ' "■ ' ' "■■' ■ I " - r V •' ’ i- • • ~• . ^'■^. ' Dynamite Ijarge Still Hertford, Aug. 14.—T/enty- nlne sticks of dynamite were re quired to destroy the largest il licit Hquor factory ever captured In this county when Norfolk fed- •1-Skgents raided the atill in township Tuesday after- aot^^ . ■ i'. v JUHed Sister-In-Law . HsfW Brookland, S. C., Aug. 14. ^T*§>ferlff H. Cromer Oswald said tonlSht O. W. Sloan, 49, of near r here, had confessed beating his 44-year-oId sister-in-law to death at his home Wednesday after noon. The woman. Miss Ethelyn Bragdon, was found dead in a 4>loody bed in Sloan’s home, she lived. Five IHvorces Are Granted In Twenty Minutes Matrimonial Knots Untied Rapidly in Wilkes Court Friday Afternoon Hold 3 For Robbery- Hickory, Aug. 14. — George Tail, alias George Hill, of New ;Vork, and Marvin Brookshire, of /Newton, charged with breaking ' ......a t*« 0«%14al and entering in Salisbury, New ton and other places, were brought to HicV.ory by States ville police to trace stolen goods, which the boys claim they pawn ed here. Possibly a record was set in Wilkes court Friday afternoon when five divorces were granted within twenty miautae. versus Viola Baldwin, tested and the issues were pre sented to the jury in rapid ot^ der. The divorces were as fol lows: Julia Somers versus Dock Somers; Glenn Jenkins versus Roxie Jenkins; Tom Davis versus Estelle Davis; Freeman Smoot versus Viola Baldwin Smoot. Two divorces were granted for two years’ separation and three on grounds of adultery. Woman and Two Men Go On Ti$d For Lives In Wilkes Court To^^ Three Defen^ts Are Charged With Body of Infant Found In WeU In Eastern Wilkes Dead Body of Newly Bom Girl Thrown Into Well; Head Crushed Seven Adult and Nursery Schools Begun Today Probe Irregularities Raleigh. Aug. 14.—Maj. L. P. McLendon, of Greensboro, chair man of the state board of elec tions. said tonight the board would meet here Monday after noon to study reports from sev en county boards of investiga tions of alleged irregularities in the July 4 primary. •5r W. R. Craft Supervisor in Three Countie*; Number of Teachers Cut Three Airmen Killed New Kent Courthouse, Va., Aug. 14.—^Three army,airmen of the Langley FTeld force were kill ed last night in the flaming l-f'—their two-motored a back-country corn field, and an army board of In quiry today reviewed circum- *8tances of the crash without im mediately divulging findings. //’'Wreck Hamilton >i>liiiiistic ' Los Angeles, Aug. 14.—Mail to ^ijjgptrtfiivan national headquarters ' ^'-trom southern Five adult and two nursery .schools opened the 1936-37 term in Wilkes county today, it was learn ed from W. R.. Craft, ERE super visor in Wilkes, Alexander and Surry counties. He said that only 750 teachers are provided for in the state this year and that the number in Wilkes had been correspondingly lowered. The nursery teachers are Misses Clara Gentry and Myrtle Norris, and the adult teachers are as fol lows: Rev. I. C. Woodruff, C. J. Jones. W. H. Hurley, Mrs. Mae Lackey and Mna Irene German. This type of work has "been car ried on for the past three years and has been considered of much value to adults who wish to learn to read and write or to increase their knowledge of fundamental subjects. Home making is also taught extensively. Officers have uncovered no clue that promises to lead to the identity of the parties who threw the lifeless body of an infant in an old abandoned well near the home of John Shore about three miles northwest of Elkin in Wilkes county early Sunday morning. Sheriff W. B. Somers and I. M. Myers, coroner, made quite a lengthy investigation Sunday hut report no progress toward iden tifying the guilty parties. Mr. Shore told the officers that about two o’clock Sunday morn ing a car stopped near his resi dence and that the motor was left running while someone left the car tor a few minutes and returned and left in the car. He said he saw the oar through his window, through his window. On Sunday morning, he said, he noticed tracks leading from where the car stopped to an old well nearby where a house had burned and that he looked in the well where he saw a cardboard box. The box was removed from the well and was found to contain the lifele.ss body of a newly born girl about four pounds In weight. The box was sealed with adhesive tape. 'The body was taken to the ho.s- pltal in Elkin, where it was found that there _were bruises aboot_ head which had apparently ca'us- ed its death. Murder Cline Hall Betty and Walter Triplett and Will Dula Facing Capital Charge SPECIAL VENIRE OF Dock Anderson Convicted of Second Degree Mur der Second Time Lincoln, Nebr. , . . Because members o f Shirley Temple’s family think Sterling Powell, (above), farm boy of Grant, Nebr.', is only an impulsive and imaginative youth, they have sug gested to Federal authorities that he be not prosecuted for writing a threatening letter, de manding 625,000. ind imdiidL Democratic states Is much heavier than in 192S. when former President Herbert Hoover carried -several of the:'., John D. M. Han ilton. drum ma jor of the Republican presiden tial campaign, reported here to day. PC Association Has Good Record Laymen’s Day Held At Union Impressive All-Day Service Held Sunday; Pastor Be gins Revival Ht-ai-t Is Laid lliire Fayetteville, Aug. 14.—A han- Unlt in Winston-Salem Serv es Farmers of North western Counties ’ die from the door of a truck is the slim clue held by county of ficers here by which to appre hend the hit-and-run driver who fatally injured Luella McNeill, 30-year-old negro woman, near here Wednesday afternoon. The door of the truck, standing open, struck the woman, tearing open her breast and laying her heart bare. She died three hours later in a local hospital. / Eh*capes Gas CTianiber Wentworth, Aug. 14.—Odell Oakley. Reidsville negro, who for the past few months has faced the shadow of death at the state penitentiary at Raleigh, was giv- a second trial here this after- and sentenced to not less 12 and not more than 15 years in prison. Judge Frank M. AmuRroDg passecl the sentence aftar a brief hearing. The state -accepted a second degrq* fiary charge. Loot Deputy’s Home TT’winston-Salem. Aug. 14. — ^Whlle Floyd Teague. Forsyth county deputy sheriff. was searching for chicken thieves, his home near here was being ran sacked and robbed. Teague cap tured the chicken thieves in an other section of the county, but the robbers of his home got a- ■way. The desk In his home was rifled, deeds and other valuable papers scattered about the room, and a .32-caliber pistol and an undetermined amount of money itolen. Landon Map# Campaign Estes Park, Colo.. Aug. 14.—A series of traveling conferences i with state and county Republican leaders was arranged by Gov. Alf M. Landon today as he chart- 'hls Eastern presidential cam- tour. Ralph West Robey, of his research staff, ierred with the government UMBce and banking—a subject -which aome R^mbllcan leaders tepeet the governor to discuss at -West Middlesex. Pa., where opens hla Eastern drive. Returning from Asheville, where he attended a group meet ing of directors of production credit associations, Mr. Paul J. Vestal, a director of the Winston- Salem Production Credit Asso ciation. which serves Forsyth. Davidson, St o k e s, Alleghany, Ashe. Caldwell, Surry. Watauga. Wilkes and Yadkin counties, said that the record made by the pro duction credit associations in the first three years they operated is an indication of the service they can offer. In the third Farm Credit Ad ministration district, comprising the states of North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia and Flor ida. the total loans made by production credit associations in these states during the three years aggregated * 634,155,143, while this year the associations have to date made loans totaling 613.697.865, Mr, Vestal said. ’“The production credit asso ciations,’’ said Mr. Vestal “have quickly extended the benefits of cooperative credit to the short term lending field. Farmers in every county have access to this credit. For the first time in the records of American agriculture, loans for production purposes have been made available to in dividual farmers in all parts of the country at the interest rate of 5 per cent a year—and the borrower pays interest only tor the time he actually has the mon ey. “The production credit associ ations do not lend government money. All of the funds they loan are obtained from investors through the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank. 'The associations discount their members' paper.” Mr. Vestal said that the Win ston-Salem Production Credit As sociation had made loans to date this year totaling 688,430 to 599 farmers. Laymen’s Day was appropriate ly observed Sunday for the Wil- kesboro Methodist charge with an all-day service at Union church. Attorney F. J. McDuffie presid ed and made the feature address during the morning program. An abundant dinner was spread on the grounds at noon and in the afternoon addresses were made by W. H. Worth, of Jefferson, district lay leader, A. S. Cassel, superintendent of the North Wil- kesboro Methodist Sunday school, and by Rev. A. W. Lynch, pastor. On Sunday night Rev. Mr. Lynch began a series of revival services at Union church. The public has a cordial invitation to attend the revival, which will continue for a week or longer. ATTENDS DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT J. R. Rousseau, chairman of the Wilkes county Democratic executive committee and a mem ber of the Democratic state exe cutive committee, attended the meeting of the state committee in Raleigh Friday night, at which time the state organization was perfected. Attorney J. E. Holshouser. of Boone, is attending court in Wll- kesboro this week, he being one of the defense attorneys in the murder case now on trial. Hits Magistrate And Is Jailed For Contempt of Court Tom Swain Gets Thirty Days For Assaulting George Smith in Courthouse In Wilkes superior court Fri day, Tom Swain was jailed for thirty days by Judge J. H. Clement for contempt of court. According to the court rec ord, George Smith, magistrate, had tried some cases some time ago in which swain was interest ed, and Swain evidently did not like the way in which the cases Wilkes Superior court conven ed this morning for the second week of the August criminal term and started on a first degree mnrder case. Miss Bettle Triplett, her broth er, Walter Triplett and Will Dula were arraigned Friday before the court and entered their plea not guilty on the charge of slay ing Cline Hall in the Darby com munity. A special venire of 75 men were summoned to appear in court today for the trial. Twen ty-four regular jurors for the second week makes the total of 99 men from which the murder case jury can be selected. The case is the most recent murder trial on the calendar. It being alleged that the slaying took place on July 27 and that Hall’s death was caused by a knife wound in the chest Inflict ed by the woman defendant. Wal ter Triplett Is also alleged to have Inflicted knife wounds on Hall’s person and it is not known what specific part Dula Is alleg ed to have had In the slaying. Attorneys are Eugene Trlvette, of this city, T. R. Bryan, of Wll- Friday he proceeded to pounce upon Smith with hi* fists and caused quite a commotion. The judge was informed of the affair and after hearing some evidence passed the jail sentence on Swain for contempt. koBboio, and. J. B. lEoUhaitj^ Has Application Blanks For Vets Welfare Officer Will Aid Veterans to Be Admitted to CC Camps Charles McNiel, county welfare officer, said today that he has a number of application banks for veterans who wish to enter Veter ans’ Conservation Camps. The lowest pay offered veter ans in camp is $30 per month expenses and the camps of- and fer good opportunities for needy veterans who have no gainful employment. The department is asking that applications be filed as soon as possible because the next enlist ment will be about the first of the month. Any veterans who may be Interested are asked to get in touch with Mr. McNiel. Scout Court Of Honor In Meeting On Tuesday night the Scout court of honor met at the Pres byterian Scout hut and awarded a number of merits to three Scouts. Those passing merits were as follows: Pat WJlllams, cooking: Paul Cashlon. forestry and schol arship; Robert Wood Finley, who passed athletic merit, was given life Scout rank. There Is not a great number of witnesses subpeonaed and it is expected that the trial will be completed Tliesday or Wednes day. Dock .Anderson Guilty For the second time in his life Dock Anderson, of Windy Gap, has been convicted of second de gree murder. The jury returned verdict of second degree mur der with a recommendation for mercy “due to the fact that the slaying took place in his own home’’ Thursday after about four hours deliberation but sentence has not been passed. Witnesses testified for the state that Ander son killed Dink Lovo with a chair at the Anderson home in Decern her, 1934. Anderson claimed self defense, saying that he killed Love as he was advancing on him with a knife after he had order ed him from his home. However, witnesses quoted Anderson soon after the slaying as saying that he truck at Leonard Love and hit Dink and that be had nothing against Dink. Anderson’s Second Offense Thus Anderson was convicted on the charge of murder for the second time. He previously had served several years of a sentence for killing Columbus Bottoms in the same community In 1923. He has not been tried on the charge of arson, it being alleged that he burned hls own granary and 250 bushels corn. Youth Sentenced Charlie Owens, age only 17, was convicted of assault with in tent to commit rape on the per son of a young girl and the judge ment of the court was that he be confined in prison for a term of three years, suspended on con dition that he be admitted to Eastern Carolina training school (Continued on page eight) , OFFICIALS CHECK ALL ARRANGEMENTS TO ASSURE BIGGER FAIR SEPTEMBER 15-19 DECORATION DAY AT DEHART CHURCH 'The fifth Sunday in August will be decoration day at Dehart he church. The public has a cordial invitation to attend. Officials of the Great Wilkes Fair, which will hold its eleventh annual exposition for Wilkes and adjoining counties here September 15-19, both dates inclusive, are checking all arrangements and contracts for attractions in order to assure the thousands who an nually attend the event that the fair will be bigger and more enter taining than in any previous year. W. A. McNiel, president and general manager, has been in To ronto, Canada, during the past week looking over some grand stand attractions that have .been contracted for the fair here. The cash outlay for the free acts this year will be double what "was paid for the sensational acts a year ago and should provide real entertain ment, Mr. McNeil said. With farm crops in excellent state, the increased cash premium offerings should attract w exhibit hall ftill of exhibits of farm and home products, is the opinion of fair ofidals who have istributed 2,000 pranium catalogues and are now ready to receive entry blanks. Anyone who has not received a premium list may obtain one by seeing or writing J. C. Wallace, secretary. The midway attractions will be furnished by Marx Greater Shows, which has been enlarged by the purchase of Virginia Amusement company. The grandstand ia ing enlarged for a greater seating capacity and a larger platform is being constructed for the band. Following the usual custom, Tuesday; September 16, will be school children’s day when will be admitted on free tickets. acts and fireworks at night, "be carried out through all five days and nights of the fair. As an added attraction to add interest for every attendant, a new Ford V-8, an electric refrigi^ rator, a bedroom suite and a position. Ay In ReaffUN* Berlin, Germany . . . Here’s a picture of the United State’s fly ing speed girl, Helen Stephens of Pulton, Mo., who broke the world’s record for women in the 100 meter dash in 0:11.5 sec onds, to win the Olympic crown. Collect Library V(^ame$ Friday In Wilkesboro Teachers Will Meet August 26 in Each Central Sehodjl Diatrict CONTRACTS For Contract Bua Rorties amd •Fuel Supplies; /Few' ’ Schools Are Open\, . Wilkes county school authori ties are busily engaged In making aiTangements for opening. ^of schools on Thursday, August 27. This date was set in order to allow Thanksgiving holidays and end half the terra before Chrlst- People Who Have Books to Donate Asked to Be Ready For Collector* Wilkesboro residents who de sire to help the movement for a public library for the town and who will donate one or more books are asked to have their volumes ready Friday; August 21, when someonej wiU. call lor The library project In Wilkee- boro is being sponsored by the Yllkesboro Woman’s club and Mrs. Julius C. Hubbard is chair man of the library committee and is in charge of collecting the books Friday. Those who have any books to Fourteen small schools in out lying districts where there are n o interlocking transporUtlon facilities opened early this month and will have completed one month by the time the central schools open. Uniform opening dates were set In order to facili tate the business of the schools and will provide for uniform pay days, etc. All teachers have been employ ed, contracts have been let for transportation and fuel supplies and practically everything is in readiness for school opening. Very few changes have been made in bus routes or other arrange ments. With the exception of C. M. Cook, Roaring River principal who resigned to become head of a large Iredell county school, all high school principals with a mar jorlty of their teachers have been re-elected tor the coming term. W. D. Davis, for seven years a member o f the RoUda high school faculty, will head Roaring River district schools. The other principals are as follows: Wil kesboro, T. E. Story; Miller* Creek, R. V. Day; ant. S. B. Mattt^i^; View, B. R. Spruill; 'TritphUI, Carl Hendrix; Ronda, Ws-’'L. Bowman; Ferguson, Grady E. Tester. District teacher meetings will be held in each central district on Wednesday, August 26, the day prior to school opening, at which time all teachers are re- .. „ VTUlLli LI UAC7 Oil O • X donate are asked not to hesitate qujped to attend the meetings for on their condition because worn - ■ • or damaged books will be repair- the ed by workers employed by library project of the WPA. Sponsors wish it made clear oiiqndd B 9q "tn.tt iJBjqR aqi )Bq) institution tor use uy all the Peo ple of the town and it Is expect ed that many volumes will be ga thered Friday. their respective districts and ceive their supplies. re- At Conference in New York Today Many Examined In T. B. Clinic Total of 143 Suspects Exam' ined First Week; Con tinues This Week First week of the tuberculosis clinic being conducted in Wilkes boro by the county and state health departments cooperating was quite successful, it was learn ed today from health officials. Dr. H. L. Seay, clinician from the state sanitorium, examined 143 suspects during the first week and the clinic will continue through Friday of this week. Dr. A. J. Enier, health officer, ex pressed approval of the way the clinic is progressing but called at tention to the fact that many ap pointments can yet be made for examinations this "week of people who have reason to believe they may have contracted the disease. No charge is made for the exam inations and those in need of ex aminations are urged and re quested to take advantages of the opportunity afforded this week. Appointments should be made with the county health office, lo cated in the courthouse. Returns From Trip w. A, .HcNlel Enjoys Fine Motor Trip To Canada W. A. Mc/Nelll returned yester day from a most enjoyable motor they trip of eight days’ duration which Will uc auuuKucu Ml. „„kets. carried him as far north Into The full fair program of all at- Canada as Montreal and Ottawa, tractions, inclodl^ grandstand ’ While In Canada Mr. McNeill had the opportunity of looking over some of the attractions booked for the Great wmkee Pair this year and he was highly pleased with them. Incidentally, Mr. McNeill said found much favorable senti- he liStAFAt CS k^W**VWB*a Bwavw ”■ '' _ _ .. , Philco radio will be viven away meat- for President Roosevelt In during the fair, one prise each the northern part of the DWted night to someone attending the ex- :State8j especially In upper York state. Mrs. Jones Attends Confer'* ence Eastern Division Republican Club Mrs. John R. Jones, of this city, Republican national commlt- teewoman tor North Carolina, and Mrs. Eugene Hester, of Reidsville. state Republican vice chairman, left fiunday for New York City, where today thery are attending an important Republi can conference relative to the presidential campaign now under way. Those attending the conference are national committeewomen and state vice chairmen of tho eastern division of the Women’s National Republican club, an or ganization that is to play an im portant part in the campaign. Tho conference was scheduled for to day only. Since being selected national committeewoman in the state Re publican convintion Mrs. Jones has been quite active in work in her party and has attended a number of conferences and com mittee meetings. She also attend ed the n.ational Republican con vention in Cleveland. Paints Pictures Of Wilkes Scenes Califomla Artist Make* Splen did Picture of Stone Mountain Mian Lois Ballon, of San Francisco, California, has beeo visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John AieixaadeF, at Abshers, and has been paint> ing pictures soenM .la WUkee. jc. Miss Ballon i» a .gndaate hit' art and has an art stadto’.; 6a San Fnandsoo. Bfir wo^.- bf* been highly oqmpliBwata^.aa4 she is ooBstdend’ aa ApHlt bir rai» ability. Beoeatty ^eted an exceUeal . Stone Moantain, ..apialt. and has pnintotl other monaCndt WiUea-: ’rit ~ ;.:vc
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