BncA «• Owktk  >
. Foraet City.v-T. C. .Cash, W*‘
di«d of barns, received when
spark from » Motor pomp ignited
Ub cothlni'. which had been sat'
urday with gasoline as he unload
ed a tank car at an oil company.
Fewer Ask For Loans
New York, Sept. 22.—One of the
reasons he will speak in favor of
President Roosevelt’s re-election,
Jack Dempsey said today, is that
since the new deal came in he gets
fewer letters asking for loans. He
used to get 100 letters a day, he
said, but now he receives only
three or four.
Payrolls Increase
Washington, Sept. 22.—Increases
in industrial payrolls of ?7.300,-
000 and in industrial employment
of^l60,000 workers in August as
ipared with July were announc-
today by Secretary Perkins.
Manufacturing and.,-^t. /-manufac
turing industries were inc'"ded in
the study, the secretaryA^aid.'
Be Executed Friday
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—Warden H.
H, Honeycutt of central prison,
said today he had received no no
tice of an appeal in the case of
Brady Laurence, Iredell county
murderer, scheduled to be execut
ed Friday. Honeycutt added he
had received a letter from the Ire
dell clerk of court stating that no
notice an appeal had been filed
there.
Opens -Mouth: Puts Foot In
Lumberton, Sept. 22.—When
Henry Harris, negro, was sentenc
ed in recorders court to 12 months
for pushing over tombstones in a
cemetery, he appealed to superior
court Harris argued the sentence
wasn’t right. Judge P„ II. Parker
agreed with him and gave him two
and a half years.
45 Lose Licenses
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—Officials of
the motor vehicle division announc
ed the revocation for drunken driv
ing today of 45 more automobile
operators’ licenses, to make a total
of 6,578 revocations since the li
cense law went into effect Novem
ber 1.
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VOL. XXX; NO. 100 Publiahwi Mondi^ KOft'
,24,
..SOlKTmSTj
5rTHBSTAl
r$ Sek Out To
School Employes
Represents Sum Par’d Out
This Week For First
Month in Wilkes
UNIFOR PA YDATE
Made Possible by Opening
AH Schodls Regular Month-.
ly Intervals
^lis Rittenhouse, who'left home
51 years ago. got in touch with his
relatives here today for the first
time since his departure. C. L.
Fell, Hunterdon county clerk, re
ceived an inquiry from Rittenhouse
—now in California—about his
New Jersey relatives. ‘I always
kney^ we would hear from Ellis
again,” said Mrs. John H. Van
Cleve, of Lebanon, a sister.
• The first full monthly payroll
to people employed in the state
school system in Wilkes county
was mailed out today from the
office of C. B. Eller, superinten-
dqyt of schools.
Vouchers totaling over $26,-
000 made payable to principals,
teachers, janitors, truck drivers
and any others on the payroll
were prepared and ready today
for distribution through district
principals to teachers who had
completed reports of the first
month of school work, which end
ed yesterday.
These figures do not include
the payroll of North Wilkesboro
city school.s. which have not com
pleted their first month and
which have a monthly payroll of
approximately $3,000.
All the central schools and all
elementary schools with the ex
ception of fourteen which opened
early and two which deferred
opening one month, opened on
Tliursday. August 27 and the
payroll period ended tour weeks
later on September 23. Uniform
opening date.s for the county
schools were set by the county
superintendent and l)oard of edu
cation in order to facilitate the
work of issuing payrolls and re
ceiving and compiling periodic
report.s. These arrangements,
school authorities believe, will
function advantageously for all
concerned.
Salary vouchers are welcome
mail to the teachers, -who j»o
Heard Frogi After 51 Yean man to «e "??v....Ji^vitx,
;;;;^i*>-#fcmrngtoB, N. J.,' SepC - »:-5’
regularity of pay days.
Resident of Hays
Accident Victim
William Earle Byrd Killed
While Working On Blue
Ridge Parkway
Separated 34 Years
Greentille, S. C., Sept. 2;!.—Two
brothers, .separated for 34 years,
were reunited today. In 1902 Da
vid L. God.sey, then 14, left his
home in Tenne.s.see for Indian ter
ritory M what is now Oklahoma.
His brother. Ralph, was 6. David
later joined the army and Ralph
grew up ani came to the Caroli-
na.s. The brothers lost trace of i
each other and for years neither^
knew the whereabouts of the oth-'
er. During that time David went
through the World war with the
American armies overseas Re
cently he was retired after 30
years’ service and set out to find
Ralph. Through the aid of the
American Red Gross, contact was
made.
To Vote Directly
For the Nominees
Names of Presidential Can
didates to Appear On
Ballots in State
' North Carolina voters this fall
will have their first opportunity
. of marking their ballots direct
ly for the president and vice pres
ident of the United States, elec
tion officials say.
By reason of an amendment lo
the state election laws pas.sed by
the 1933 general assembly under
an enabling act passed by Con
gress several years ago, the
names of candidates for Presi
dent and vice president will be
written directly on the ballots.
Heretofore the names of presi
dential electors have appeared on
the ballots, but not those of the
presidential and vice presidential
candidates.
This does not mean that the
electoral college has been done
away with, but merely that the
ballots in the national election
have been simplified. Under the
nqj’ arrangement, however, it is
pAsible to split the ticket by
voting for one party's candidate
for Preeident and the other par
ty's vice 4>residential candidate.
Lutheran services at Girl Scout
house Sunday as follows: 7:30,
Bible class: 8:00 p. m., preach
ing service, subject of sermon—
Leapedeza is 25 per cent bet-j‘‘How Shall We Be Able to Cen
ter where the triple-superphos- quer Death.” A cordial welcome
^■■^phate was used as a fertilizer in to all—Rev. R. Pas-
Stokes county. ! tor. £ O
William Fairlo BjTd, resident
of the Hay.s eoniinunily, met
iiliiiost in.stant dealli Tuesday
afternM>n while working on
the Blue Ridge Parkway near
Ml,id- ill A.slie eoiinty.
Conililele details of tlie acci
dent were not learned here, al
though it was .stiid that an
avalanche of roek hit him
wliile iff was working.
tie was 3(> yetirs of age, a
son of Kmmett and Carolina
Byrd, lie is survivetl hy IiLs
Mrs. Etta Caroline Byrd,
live children a,s follows:
•Jeter, Goldie, Velma, Paulino
and Olive Byixl.
Funeral services were held
this .aftemiKm at Round Moun
tain church.
wife,
and
Three Injured in
Wreck Improving
Condition of George Palmer
Somewhat Improved; Two
Others Return Home
critically in-
iously hurt, have returned to
their home.s. Mr. Whittington re
ceived a broken arm and Miss
Carson sustained minor injuries.
The wreck occured when the
car. driven by Miss Carson, left
the road and overturned. She
had looked back, it is said, just
before the car left the road over
a high embankment. The acci
dent occured on the new grade of
highway 16.
ft
EstaUMM3Here
InWilkes€^ty\
Bn
Move to Centralize Activi*
ties in Interest of Econo
my, Efficiency
BRACEVnfN'CHARGE
Will Handle Records and
Accounts For 11 Farm
Loan Associations
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, whose 82nd birthday anniversary was
observed Monday at her home at Hyde Park, N. Y. President Roose
velt carried a gift and spent the day with her.
Clerical, Recreational and Book
Mending Projects Under WPA to
Be Resumed in Wilkes County Soon
m
Hectic Run From
Condition Haacl McGlamery
.^nd .Vda Williams Slight
ly Improved
Projects Suspended Unt 1
Approval is Given New
Applications
Work of Indezing County
Records Was Under Way;
Books Are Mended
Hazel McGlamery and Ada
William-s. who received serious
injuries Sunday morning in an
automobile wreck one mile east
of Wilkesboro. were reported
slightly improved at the Wilkes
hospital today.
The two girls ended a wild
chase with officers when the al
most tragic wreck occured. Sher
iff W. B. Somers and Deputy
George Holland received a call
from Millers Creek that Miss
McGlamery and her two com-
panie.s were operating a car in a
reckles.s niaiiner and when they
proceeded to investigate the of
ficers met tile girls about four
miles west of this city on high
way 421. They turned around and
a hectic chase be.gan.
The officers reported that the
fleeing car was being driven in
a dangerous manned and when
the sheriff’s car would overtake
the fugitives they would cut to
ward the left side of the road in
an effort lo wreck or crowd the
pursuing car off the road. The
chase continued through North
Wilkesboro and east Wilkesboro
to a point on the Boone Trail
near the Brookshire farm, where
the car operated by the girl ran
oft the pavement on the right,
swerved across the road on the
left a id apparently leaped off
the road, turning a complete
loop-the-loop and four side turns.
The car occupied by the girls,
near said to have belonged to Gordon
Benton, was almost a total wreck.
Gave Davis, who wsCs in the
car with the J"'® who were
Clerical, recreational and book
mending projects suspended in
Wilkes county two weeks ago
will bp roBumed at an early date,
according to information receiv
ed today from Miss Ila Holman,
head of the women’s division of
the WPA at the branch district
office here.
Reason for suspension of the
project.s. Miss Holman said, was
because the project ''under which
the work was being carried on ex
pired in September and it was
necessary to submit a new pro
ject under the program tor the
present year. The substitute pro
jects werp submitted in July and
have been approved by district
offices blit have not been cleared
at Washington. However, it is
confidently expected that word
will be received to resume work
within the next few days.
The clerical project, according
to word of county authorities and
attorneys, will be very beneficial
when completed. The project con
sists of indexing county records.
A National Farm Loan Associ
ation office for six northwestern
counties has been established in
North Wilkesboro.
A representative of the Feder
al Land Bank of Columbia, S. C.,
was here for a few days this week
assisting in setting up the office,
which will be for eleven associ
ations 1 n Wilkes, Alleghany,
Ashe, Watauga, Avery and Cald
well counties. There are 21 simi
lar districts offices In North Car
olina being set up simultaneous
ly.
The representative of the Co
lumbia bank said that the dis
trict offices are being set up In
ihe interests of economy and for
the purpose of being able to ren
der a more thorough and efficient
service to the bank’s patrons.
Bach association he said, will
retain its present individuality
and organization in much the
same form as formerly but the
greater part of the business will
be carried on through the dis
trict office and O. H. Bracey,
who has been field representative
of the bank for some time, will
be in charge of the office and
will act as secretary lor the elev
en associations. The associations
in the district are as follows:
.Moravian, Cranberry, .Ml. Zion,
Walnut Hill, Clifton, Pine
Swamp. Sugar Grove, 'Valle Cru-
cls, Avery County, Lenoir, and
Ronda.
Establishment of these dis
trict offices, the bank representa
tive said, will enable people to
.get tnt«nMUtio»
home whereas "lit the j^st they
had found it necessary many
times to take up matters with the
land bank at Columbia. The of
fice will engage In making loans,
collections, sale of real estate
owned by the bank, and other du
ties as they may appear. The
bank now has 52 farms in the
d\ counties for sale, he said.
.Mr. Bracey will be assisted in
the office by a secretary and will
endeavor to render the best
service possible. The office is lo
cated on the second floor of the
Bank of North Wilkesboro build
ing.
'J/'T
250 MUes Road
Worked By WRA
In The^Countyi
Awange of 325 Men Used!
on County-Wide Road.
Projects in Wilkes
BETTER TYPE OF WORK
State Highway CorntnissicMS
Co-operating by Furnish
ing Materials
Detroit T". . Margaret Droope
of Oakland county, Mich, (above)
can call “d-i-n—nar’’ with such
enthusiasm that she made even
the judges in the “husband call
ing” ci^test hungry, so they
award^5^®^ stat© champion
ship at the Michigan State Fair.
Exteosion Men
Td Gather Here
lOn October 23
Will Map Out Plan of De
monstration Work For
Coming Year
0. F. MeCt’ary.
agent, was in Will es
with A.
district farm
yesterday
couferitlng with A. G. Hendren
and 'fi. J. Hanna, county agent
and assistant, in regard to plans
for the district extension meet-
Tng to be held in North Wllkes-
boro on October 23.
Following plans used success-
fnltf liift yeai'^fWnJJOli workers
will come to North Wilkesboro
on thi^.^ate to spend the entire
day in''conferences with county
agents, of several counties in or
der to- map out a work program
for th^ coming year.
In the conferences it will be
establiahed just how much time
each extension worker can spend
in eacd-county and dates will be
set fot his visits.
Thist enables the various coun
ty agents to anticipate the com
ing offahe extension workers and
speciaKts and arrange their
daily ^tles accordingly in order
that t
full ti
ist in whatever work needs to be
done in-each county.
The Works Progress adminis
tration has been spending an
average of $18,883 per month on
Wilkes county roads, it was
learned today from the division
office located here. A very largs
per cent of the erpeiiditure dur
ing the past year, T. D. Heffner,
division engineer, said, has been
for labor.
The road project made up re
cently for continuation during
the remainder of this year will
be on a similar scale but a better
type of work will be done in that
the slate highway commission
will cooperate In carrying on a
more nearly permanent type of
road improvement.
Work will continue to be cen
tralized on the leading farm-to-
market roads and emphasis will
be placed on crushed stone sur
facing in order to place the roads
in condition for all-weather trav
el.
Since the WPA began work on
the roads over 250 miles of
roads in Wilkes county have been
worked over. The work has In
cluded drainage, widening, re
grading the worst spots and
more recently, crushed stone sur
facing. .
However, it .was discover^ JJ
that to widen or dig new gratia—-]^
without applying a protective
coat of surfacing was a practical
waste of effort and for this rea
son arrangements are being made
wherever possible to apply sur
face stone. The state highway
commission’s part of the expen
ditures is mainly for use of
trucks and machinery for apply
ing surface, while to some com
munities people have helped the
cause by hauling with their
teams. WPA regulations make it
mandatory that the greater part
of WPA funds be used for labor.
Robert Hayes is
Taken by Officer wafos Recreation
D : a n
Said to Have Jumped Bond
at August Term Court;
Faces Five Charges
including judgements and other sheriff.
Robert (Rob) Hayes, who took
french leave from the August
term of superior court and jump
ed bond, was recaptured near his
home in the Pairplains vicinity
yesterday by C. H. Dancy, deputy
George Palmer
jured in an auto wreck
Wilbar Sunday in which Mjss
Ruby Blanche Miller was killed. b--
was reported today as improving injured, was not badly hurt and
at the Wilkes hospital. - - • - j
Miss 'Viola Carson and Ralph enness
Whittington, who were less s'er
was fai'ed on a charge of drunk-
Lutheran Services
Special Services
At First Baptist
I.
G. Greer, Rev. Whisen-
hunt end Dr. Huggins
to Take Part
A series of special services,
which will include addresses by
widely known Baptist leaders,
will he held at the First Baptist
churen next week. Announce
ment of the services was made
by Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor.
The services will begin at 7:30
each evening during the week
and the theme will be “My Place
as a Christian in the World To
day.” Mrs. Pan! White, of Chap
el Hill, will'lead the discussions,
(Contlnned on page eight)
Hayes was Indicted on five or
more counts involving illegal sale
of whiskey and resisting arrest
and was waiting for trial when
he suddenly left the courthouse
and left his bondsmen "holding
the bag.”
Efforts to recapture him had
furnishing cost oP| been unsuccessful until Deputy
Dancy spotted him yesterday and
•hectic footrace began. The
records covering almost half a
century. By the index being pre
pared much time will be saved in
looking up records. Ten people
certified as in need of work were
employed on the project under
supervision of Mrs. B. R. Under
wood. The county is sponsoring
the work and
materials.
The recreational project, which a
is likewise expected to be resum- chase ended after about half
ed, was under direction of Miss
mile when Hayes stumibled in
Lucile Hamby an/J the work car- the roadway and fell hard on his
ried on was of a varied nature
Furnishing supervisors for play
and promoting general phases of
^recreational activities were in
cluded under this project.
The book nliSnding project was
considered the salvation of about
3,000 books in school llbrarietf In
the county and will he resumed
soon. This work was done by re
lief clients undeJ^isupervlslon of
Mre. Ruth Holder. In addition to
minding 3,000 school library
face.
Building Addition
For Rhodes-Day
Business Expansion of Local
Firm MsJxes Double
Space Necessary
Work is progressing rapidly on
new building being erected by
tx JtiC W uwaasssaajj- “'-'•“O
volumes, books loaned by the Rhodes-Day Fomlture company
welfare officer to needy children a^acent to their present building
were repaired.
This work is available free of
cost to any school in the county
and any who are interested In
having library books repaired
on Ninth street.
Rhodes-Day company moved
into its beautiful three-story
building four years ago and since
that time the buslnees of the
uavxub **»/**-^«rf 'lUllL timo V
should see either Mrs. Holder or jjjjjj doubled, according to
C. B. Eller, county superlnten- information received from 0. O.
dent of schools. Day, president anePmanager. Tbto
7—71—, business expansion made It Tory
Miss Lucile Aycock, of Dunn, aSiJIilnnal anace
a former member of the North necessary • that addlUonal anace
Wilkesboro school faculty, spent be
the week-end here ' with'
Mary Lindsay Stafford.
space
I ,pyovld6d for storage and dls-
~M1s8 play of ailenna,to furniture to
(Continued on back page)
The road projects have provid-
agents may give their ed more jobs than any other type
to assisting the special- of work under the WPA in
V.'ilkes county, an average of 325
men being given employment on
the various road jobs under the
county-wide road project.
Project Gets O. K. preaching service
^ AT WHITE PLAINS
Announcement was made from |
Raleigh yesterday that the rec-
reationV/project in Wilkes had
been ^proved by state head
quarters of the Works Progress
administration.
Costjidf the project was listed
at $4,S8j.72
.■Vnnouncement is made of a
service to be held at White
Plains church near Roaring Riv
er on Sunday night, September
27. Rev. H. A. Bullis will preach
at the public has a most cordial
invitation to attend.
Honie Making Training Course Being
Canned Out in Sewing Rooms of WP A
Open^ids Today
Fc|^ Construction
3|^hool Buildings
'The County board of education
was scheduled to meet today in
the otffco of C. B. Eller, county
superintohdent of schools, to
open bids for construction of
school buildings at Millers Creek,
Mulberry and Benham.
Providing bids were satisfac
tory, ebunty authorities were
hoping to be able to let contracts.
Outcome of the meeting was not
learned M the time The Journal-
Patriot Wnt to press today.
Leaf PVi«e» Show Gains
(^ Middle Belt Marts
Ralei
two mil!
were so!
auctions
middle
Sept. 22.—More than
pounds of tobacco
today at the opening
the nine towns of the
and prices ranged from
$6 to lib a hundredweight higher
thim th^4ffid a year ago.
The Durham market sold an es
timated MO.000 pounds at an aver
age "of jp a hundredweight and
Oxford sold a sinular amount
belt last year aver
aged I1V.61 for the 107,986448
ponnids llld.
Effort Being Made to Teach
Needy People to Help
Themselves
A training course calculated to
assist WPA workers to improve
their surroundings, lives and ha
bits has been Instituted as a part
of the Works Progress program
in Wilkes. .Miss Ila Holman, di
rector of the women’s division of
the WPA in five counties, said
today.
Five hours each week in the
sewing rooms where needy wom
en are employed are given to the
course, which emphasizes practi
cal home making.
The course teaches cleanliness,
sanitation, beautification of
homes and grounds, first aid,
prevention of minor diseases and
various other subjects which can
be explained to them in a straight
forward manner and In a way to
be understood and appreciated.
Care is taken to suggest noth
ing beyond their ability to grasp
and InMnictors refrain from mak
ing aaggesUons, which If carried
out, would entail ezpensee bur
densome upon those who work
for the mlnimnm wage.
It is believed that the course
will put across pnctlcal sugges-lo
tions that will he of great help^
to them in thMr rtforts to make;
(Conttened os’page sight);