HAfe BLAZED THE TRAH; OP PROO^^ B[
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Nation
Briefly
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j^APi WITH SPOONS
'■ 8ao P»tt)o, Brazil, Feb. 12.—
W siMi^ns spelled escape for 16
,, EUtlcal. prisoaers from Jail to-
-^^^T'Uiey dug a 20-foot tniiuel
^wlQi them. Police said the group
the spoons to dig the under-
enmnd passage from their cell In
the Paraiso Jail.
BURNS ARE FATAL
Henderson, Feb. 12. — Mrs.
Sallle Pleasants, 75, of Hender
son. died at a hospital here to
day of bvirns suffered yesterday
when her dress caught fire at her
home. Friends said her clothing
Igni.ed whilfe she was standing in
front of an open fireplace.
STRUCK BYTRUCK
Wilson, Fed. 12.—W. D. Hack
ney, SO, formerly head of a wa
gon and buggy factory, sufferetl
a fractured skull, cuts and bruis
es this afternoon when struck by
a truck while crossing a street
here. M. L. Williamso'n, of Wil
son, driver of the truck, was
placed under $500 bond.
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INVITES PROBE
Raleigh. Feb. 12.—A legisla
tive investigation, of the state rur
al electrification authority, pro
posed in the senate b.v L. M.
Abernethy, of Caldwell county,
was “welcomed” In a resolution
adopted today by the authority.
The state electrification group al
so urged that the Inauiry Include
a probe ‘‘into our inability to
secure co-operation from the fed
eral electrification authority.”
VOL. XXXI, NO. 36 Published Mondays and Thursdays
MAY BALK COMPACT
Raleigh. Fob. 12.—Governor
Hoey said today he had been In
formed by.. Governor E. D. Rivers
of Georgia that tho tobacco com
pact bill pending before the Geor
gia. legislature might not be pass
ed unless quotasvalso wore fixed
for Florda. .\orth\ Garollna. Vir
ginia and Kentucky’ already have
passed tobacco compifct legisla
tion, but the producti'ipn agioe-
ments will not be vafl^ until
Georgia and South Carolii.'^a. ap
prove the measure. \
FEAR KIDNAPING
-TV»i«rt«rr-Feb. I!.—(-C«B«dinn
Pr«e3).-^>^®«port8 of a plot to
kidnap at least two of the Dionne
quintuplets were circulated to
night, as it was understood pro
vincial police had taken extra
measures to protect the five little
girls at their Callander home. At
Callander. Dr. .■Vllan Roy Dafoe,
physician to the children, was
^ not available for comment on the
“eports. A servant at his home
said he wa.s traveling and would
not return until Saturday night.
li^
STUNTED HIS GROWTH
Redisville. Feb. 12. — Leon
Moore, 11-year-oId son of Mr.
and .Mrs. H. C. Moore, of 126
Piedmont street, escaped death
by a ''hair’s’ breadth” Iherally,
when his cight-year-old brother,
Wnlter, accidentally discharged
shotgun directly over his head j
Wednesday night. The boy.s were .
akme in the house and WaPer |
foand his father's shotgun, a 12-1
^rmge of the six-shot, pump type _
which had been left in a corner i
CropClassification
In Relation to Soil
Conservation Aci^
Pay For Diversion
Benefit Payments Will Be
Made for Diverting Land
From Depleting Crops
SOIL IMPROVEMENT
W’ill Be Made Practical By
Payments for Gro'wing
Soil Enriching Crops
Classifications of soil-conserv
ing and soil-depleting crops for
the 1937 soil-conservation pro
gram in North Carolina have
been announced by J. F. Criswell,
of State College.
Crops to be counted as de
pleting are;
Corn, cotton, tobacco, peanuts
harvested for nuts, broom cern,
sorghum when harvested, and
truck and vegetable crops, in
cluding melons, strawberries, and
Irish and sweet potatoes.
Wlie.at. oats, barley, rye, buck-
■aheat. and grain mixtures when
cut tor grain or hay. Sudan, mil
let. and Italian rye grass harvest
ed for hay or seed.
Bulbs and tlowei'B.
The following crops which help
build up or Improve the soil are
u> he counted as soil-conserving;
Sweet, red. alslke. white, and
mammoth clovers. Alfalfa, kiidzu.
:tnd scricea. Soybeans, velvet
l)eans, field peas, and cowpeas.
j Vetch, Austrian winter peas, bur
and crimson clover, crotalaria,
and annual varieties of lespedeza.
Peanuts when pastured. Sudan,
millet, and Italian rye grass not
'.larvested for hay or seed. Blue-
gni.ss, Dallis. redtop, timothy,
orchard grass, Bermuda, carpet
grass, and mixtures of these.
barley, wheat, bnek-
for gra?n^ or hay, provided a
good growth is left on the land.
Forest trees planted on crop
land since January 1, 1934, and
sweet sorghum that Is not har
vested.
New Provision.s
When land is used to grow
both depleting and conserving
crops, the entire acreage will bo
,’ounted once as soil-depleting,
and a part or all of the same
LL.T-agc will also be counted as
.soil-con,“erving.
When summer legumes are
grown in combination with de-
y.ienng row cropfl, the entire
.'.creage will ’le counted once as
seil-depieling, a.nd half of the
.•■ui;ie acreage will also be count
ed as soii-con.scrving. provided
north WILKESBORO, N. jCm , MONDAY, F^*?|6;;4B87
New Yorw . . . Florence Hurl-
hut, 2 3. of Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
is the fair lady for whom the
“chained to a radiator, sit-down-
striking-Romeo-sultor” got many
newspaper headlines. She's here,
via plane, for radio appearance
and it looks like cupld has gone
to press-agenting. However, she
finally accepted the proposal.
WPA Sanitation
Project To Be
Resumed Soon
Efforts Will Be Made to Con
struct Privies Necessary
On Watershed
The sanllatlor. project conduct
ed by the Works Progress admin
istration is to be resumed about
March 1, it was learned here to
day from T. D. Heffner, division
engineer for the WPA In this
branch district.
Tho project, which had been
iinderway for about one year,
Wii:i tempo;-arily suspended be
cause of lack of funds, it Is un
derstood.
Fnder the project privies are
constructed for homes where the
home owner pays cost of mater
ials. C. M. Crapor is supervisor
of the project for the county.
G. S. Odell, county sanitary
statement whereft ho said that
many homes on the watershed of
Reddies River, from which the
Wilkesboros get their water sup
ply, do not have prives in accord
ance with tho law and warned
I lie people residing in that ter
ritory to take immediate steps to
correct a b.id situation. It Is
understood that when the WPA
project Is resumed lliat special
attention will be devoted to build
ing privies at homes on tho wat
ershed.
Photos Entered
in Contest May
Be Sent In Not#
Kiwanis Club Offering Ten
Dollars in Prizes for Best
Publicity Pictures
Those ■who wish to enter plc^^
lures in the contest being spon
sored by the Kiwanis club to ob
tain suitable views for postcard
pictures should carry or sen^'
them to J. B. McCoy at Hotel
Wilkes.
The Kiwanis club is offering a
total of ten dollars in cash prlzj
es for the most suitable pictures
to use. on postcards to publicize
North Wllkesboro and Wllkejt
county.
Th-so who would, try to win
cither of the three rirlzes offered
would do well to k !ep in mind
that the subject matter of the
picture will be chief y the deter
mining factor, although the nega-
ive must be one ths|t can be re
produced satisfactorily.
It has been suggested that
mountain scenes, highway scenes,
waterfalls, precipice^, forest
scenes, orchard scenes, bridges,
poultry or dairy farm scenes, pub
lic buildings, industries, bird’s
eye views and other scenes of
general interest would stand a
good chance of getting the prize
money.
Anyone who wants to take pic
tures may enter as many as they
like in the contest but the club
reserves the right to use any of
them judged suitable for use on
postcard views. The following,
statement in regard to the con
test was released by the commit
tee in charge, composed of J. R.
Finley, J. C. Reins and J. B. Mc
Coy:
‘ The committee appointed by
the Kiwanis club to get kodak pic-
tues to make post cards from, asks
t.hflt the conteatfiitk'‘'ifiiv^ th6 p.ic.'
THE STATE—42:C0 OUT OF THE MTATB
Wilkes(McersAre
Aiding In Seardi
For Murderer Gill
In Alle^y Co.
R. C. Jennings and J. M. Be*
shears Help Sheriff In ■
Alleghany On Cases
ARRESTS EXPECTED
'WASHINGTON . . . President Roosevelt’s message proposing sweep
ing reform of the Federal judiciary, including giving the President the
right to appoint as many as six ne-w justices of the Supreme Court,
gets the attention of Congressional leaders. Above, Vice-President
Gamer (center), with Senator Ashurst (Ariz.)^ Chairman Senate Ju
diciary Committee and Senator Dietrich (III-), committee member,
right. Below: Speaker Bankhead of the House, ;going over the message
with Rep. Sumners (D), Texas, and Rep. Guyer, (R) of Kansas.
I. E. Peai’son Is Girl Seriously
111 Froffli Poison Wounds Herself
Feeling Runs High After
Body Attacked and Mar>
dered Girl Is Located
J. B. McCoy at Hotel Wilkes. The-
contest will not be closed for sev
eral weeks, but would like to owner since its establish
ment many years ago, he took a
half dozen tablets of the deadly
poison
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le,gume.s occupy at least onc-
■lair the land and a .sood growth
■ :u been attained.
This means. Criswell explained,
i!'.at i;i figuring the general soil-
,l.-'Pk-!ing base lot’ » farm, the
entire acreage of these mixed
Senham Building
Near Completion
following a recent hunting trip, j crops will be counted in. And in
It was empty but the boy found dyu-rmining the .soil-conserving
shells and appropriated them as. one-haif of the same
"playthings.” "r.iixed acres’’ will be counted.
..^7777; T-r»r>v^ (Centinued on page five)
WANT REGl LATION.-.
New York. Feb. 12—T'he adop-,
tlon by the hosiery indtustry con- j
forence of a declaration fa\oiing|
“reasonable” federally-enforced
legislation to regulate hours, wag-
es and fair trade practices was;
announced late today by Karl | CQ^jains Four Classrooms
Constantine, managing editor ofi and Auditorium; Will Be
the National Assocatlon of IIos-, Used This Year
Manufacturers. It was decld- | ^—.
said Constantine’s annon .ee-} Construction of the Benham
ment that In any such legisla- clonientary school plant as a
uan for the textile industries P’-ibHc Works administration pro-
“ ...... ig near completion and will
be u.sed during a part of the pres
ent school year, it ■was learned
today from C. R. Eller, county
..iuperintendent of schools.
T!;o buildin.g contain.s four
u:a=srooms, an auditorium, prin
cipal's office and teachers rooms.
The building was erected In ac
cordance with plans approved by
'he federal government and fi
nanced jointly by AVllkcs coun
ty and the Public 'U'erks admin
istration. A heating plant is be
ing Installed and workmen are
engaged la digging a well for the
'chool. It is hoped that the build
ing will be ready for use within
a few weeks.
The Benham building is the
•brst of three to be erected
through the bond Issue of $65,-
000 and a 'W'P.V grant of $49,090.
Construction Is under way on a
central high and elementary
school building at Millers Creek
ri'.d a large elementary unit for
'•lulberry township, north of this
city on highway 18.
Two Are Held On
Brntality Charge
Charlie McGlamery and Tom
Davis Face Serious
Court Charges
rharile iMcGlamory ami Tom
Di'vi.-^, of tho Millers Creek com-
muiiily. wore ordered held for
court following a hearing before
-Ma.gistrate J. C. Wallace on
char.ges of mutilating a milk cow
and doing other rash acts at Mil
lers Creek .several months ago.
They are alleged to have cut
teals from a milk cow belonging
to Mrs. C. H. M. Tulburt and al
so injured a cow at the home of
a .Mr. Cox. Mrs. Tulburt’s cow, a
prized dairy animal, was so In
jured that it wa.s necessary to
kill her.
McGlaroery will face trial In
the March terra for a number of
offenses. Last week .he was bound
to court following a hearing here
before Mayor R. T. McNic! on
charges of forging checks.
these pictures as soon as possible.
“The prizes arc to be $5.00 for
the first choice, $3.00 for the next
and $1.00 for the tiiird and fourth
choices. The committee realizes
that the prizes are small, but ako
think that it -would be a pleasure
to anyone owning a kodak to join
in this movement for advertising
our town and county in a public
■way an'd would be glad for any one
with a kodak who wishes to enter
the. contest to give their names to
Mr. McCoy, or better still, give him.
the pictures as soon as possible, •
“These pictures should be of in
terest to tourists and people awa^
from our town. We would suggest
that the pictures should take in a
varict)' of scenes that would be of
interest to people of different lo
calities of the country, such as
mountain pictures, daii'y herds,
chicken farms.
“We hope that we will have a lot
of interest in this contest
each should be permitted to draft
Ita own regulations subject to
government approval.
Constable Cuts
Still On Sunday
Roby Elledge Destroys I^rge
Chitfit Near Dehart; Su
gar Beer Is Cut Down
Roby EBedge. constable of
Mulberry township, on Sunday
morning destroyed a large steam
dtatlllery outfit near Debart. He
was assisted in the raid on the
^ant by Claude and 'Wayne El-
The officer reported that the
etin had a capacity of 110 Ksl-
lone and apparently had been in
operation for some time. Over
4,000 gallons of sugar beer were
- destroyed.
A land snail travels at a speed
of about one mile a month.
J. B. Farmer Is
Accident Victim
Wa.s Hu.sband of Former Miss Ln-
cile Cardwell, of This City;
Died -Monday
J. B. Farmer, salesman who
lived at Manasses, Va., died a
week ago from injuries sustained
on February 7 in an automobile
accident.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Lucile Cardwell,
daughter of Mr. a ad Mrs. tenlo
Cardwell, of this city, and four
childrcn. Mrs. Farmer Is well
known here and has many fnends
who extend sympathy In her be
reavement.
Details of the accident have
not been learned here. Mrs. Card-
well left early last week to he
v.iih hci' daughter, who will re
turn with her to this city in a
Liw days.
Many Republicans
At Lincoln Dinner
:*
Wilkes Well Represented at
Republican Gathering in •
Greensboro Friday
Wilkes county was tho banner
county in representation at the
Lincoln Day dinner staged by the
state Republicans at Greensboro
Friday night.
Wilkes had the largest delega
tion in the assembly with abouf
70 'll attendaiico. Practically evel'
ry township in the county was
represented in the state wide
meeting of Republicans and much
enthusiasm wa.s manifested by
the assembly.
Appearing as the chief speaker
at the eighth annual statewide
Lincoln Day dinner at the King
Cotton hotel, Greensboro, Friday
night under the joint sponsorship
of the North Carolina 'Young Re
publicans and the Republican state
executive committee. Representa
tive Fred A. Hartley, Jr., of Kear
ney, N. J., exhorted his hearers to
refrain from undue pessimism ov
er the sweeping Democratic tri
umph of 1936.
“Let us not be dismayed by the
overwhelming defeat of last No-
One ounce of oil ■will cover nine
acres of 'water.
vember,” the 10th New Jersey disr,
trict’s represent- tive in CongresklK: •»' —. -.
counseled the audience, “for just ' "One MRmRg6 LiCra^
as certain as night follows the -lay — Tv „
as soon as the people fully reali^ during th© past week, e
the tme intent of the present un
democratic administration, they
will turn to our party for deliver
ance. It is our duty to be prepared
(Continued on page tour)
Prominent Merchant In Crit
ical Condition; Took
Bichloride Mercury
I. E. Pearson, one of the most
prominent wholesale and retail
merchants In this part of the
state. Is critically ill frOm a dose
of bichloride of mercury tablets
taken Saturday morning.
-Mr. Pearson had been In ill
health for several months and
if 'despo'ntfeht con^
dltion. Saturday morning while
In Pearson Brothers store, with
Which he has been affiliated as
It was immediately learned
what lie had don© and he 'VM
rjished to the Wilke.s hospital,
'w’H.ere the contents of his stom-
aoU were immediately removed
^t'the poison had already dls-
^Ived. His condition has been
veiy serious.
Held For Court
h Larceny Case
Rocky Mount Man Will Face
Trial for Stealing Auto
mobile at Ronda
In a hearing held Friday be
fore Magistrate A. S. Cassel, Wil
liam Harvey Hayes, who gave his
address as Rocky Mount, was or
dered held for trial In the March
term of superior court for the
larceny of an automobile belong
ing to R. R. Crater, Ronda mall
carrier, and for entering and tak
ing merchandise from two estab
lishment! In the town of Ronda.
Hayes is an ex-convIct. having
completed a term early this year.
He abandoned the car stolen from
Crater a few night later when he
was run away from A. H. Rob
erts store after an exchange of
shots. H«. has so far refused to
reveal the identity of his com
panion, who has not been appre
hended.
Ethel Brooks Misses Heart
In Alleged Attempt On
Own Life Sunday
Miss Ethel Brooks, a resident
of tho Dehart community is in a
serious condition at the Wilkes
hospital as the result of a self-
inflicted bullet wound Saturday.
Miss Brooks, a highly respect
ed lady of that community and a
memtor-'Of a well known family,
chest with a 22 calibre rifle. 'The
bullet missed her heart and went
all the way through her chest
and out th© back. Although he:
condition is regarded as serious
she has been resting very well
since the wound was dressed.
She is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Brooks, well known
residents of the Dehart commun
ity, and a granddaughter of an
aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. Y.
Brooks. No cause was attributed
for the alleged attempt on her
own life.
Merchants Elect
Seven Directors
Members of the North Wllkes
boro Merchants’ Association met
at the City Hall Friday night
and elected directors for the en
suing year.
The following board, members
of which represent various lines
of business, are as follows: W. G.
Gabriel, A. F, Kilby, A. 3. Cassel.
Julius C. Hubbard, J. B. Wil
liams, Tal Pearson, ^d Obas.
Jenkins, Jr.
Th© board will meet within
the next few, days, to recommend
officers for tho coming year. "
Dairy Meetings
Will Be Tuesday
Farnhsma to Meet With Dairy
Farmers at Two Points
In Wilkes County
Wilkes county farmers inter
ested in dalryin.g are invited by
County Agent A. G. Hendrcn and |
members of the extension service, Uoberls said she
Sparta, Feb. 14.—Sheriff Wal
ter M. Irvin said tonight that h*
had a "suspect’’ In the criminal
assault-murder of ' pretty Elva
Brannock, 16-year-old school girl
whose body was found Friday
morning In the Saddle Mountain
section after she bad been miss
ing since Monday, and stated that
he expected to make an arrest
“within the next 36 hours.’’
Earlier in the day Sheriff Irv
in aided by Deputy Sheriff Perley
P.ainey and a posse from Surry
county along with Deputies R. C-
Jennings and J. M. Besbears of
Wilkes county, arrested Everett
Fortner. 22, and Delter Fortner,
2 4, brothers, on assault and pro
hibition charges.
Both men were subjected^ to
close questioning throughout tho
day in connection with the Bran-
mick girl’s murder. Both denied
any knowledge of the attack and
murder and tonight Sheriff Irvin
expressed the opinion that neith
er man knew anything of ths
crime.
The two men had been sought
for about a year on charges of
assault on Bob Wright. A capias
was issued by the ' .eghany
county grand jury and they were
taken into custody after Sheriff
Irvin and bis deputies raided a
still pear,„,.the
'church Slv^rday during funefif
services for the Brannock gdrl.
Sheriff Irvin said that the still
was found about 200 yards from
tho place where the gJrPs body,
badly affected by the wet wea
ther, wa.s found Friday morning
Sheriff Irvin declined to ampli
fy his 'statement that he was ex
pecting to make an arrest other
than to intimate that he knew th©
identity of the suspect and was
expecting to make the arrest
sometime Monday or Tuesday.
Meanwhile .Sparta had quiet
ened down from the tumult and
excitement that has prevailed
since the girl’s body was found.
Mni'lier Roitort.s
Sparta. Feb. 12.—Stran.gh.d to
death apparently by powerful
liund.s after she had been crim
inally attacked while en route to
school Monday morning, the body
nf pretty, brunette Elva Bran
nock, ]ij-year-old daughter of a
well-to-do Alleghany county
farmer, was found early this
to two dairy meetings to be held
on Tuesday, February 16.
The first meeting to be held
win be at Maple Springs at 9:30
a. ni. and ths afternoon meeting
will be held at Mountain View at
1:30.
F. R. Farnham, dairy .special
ist of the extension service, will
attend th© meetings and discuss
problems related to dairy farm
ing. Mr. Faruham Is well known
In Wilkes, where he spent sever
al weeks in the interest of dairy
ing prior to tho establishment of
the cheese and butter factory
here. The factory offers a market
for all the milk and cream which
may ho produced in th© county.
dead
since Monday
liad been
morning.
Sheriff Walter M, Irvin, of
Alleghany county, said an autop-
(ConUaued on page four)
Cnpld had a holiday In Wllkee
inly on© license to wed Issued
by Old Wiles, register of deeds,
that being to Sam Cothren, ol
Ljomax, and Ruth Pruitt, of Roar
ing River.
“I Allow So”
'Tuthep day me and Cy Ho
gans went to town. Cy sez:
"There most be some kind wv
hollcrday. There ain’t many
cars here. I sez: ‘T allow so.’’
Well after w© finished our
transaction we climbed in our
lizzie, and there It was, a lit
tle paper tag, which sea wo
had parked too long. I gist al
lowed we’d bo pnt to gall. But
wo got loose with a One.
Cy allows It sure were tet^
riblo. But I aez that werient
BO bad after all. The tnther
time© we sniB here I tore off
fire times that much to fen
ders and minbords tryln to git
up the street, and thmi park
In the country.
lilN HKINEIR. .
Farmers to Meet
On February 19
Compliance Supervisor Will
Address Meeting to Be
Held at Courthouse
An educational meeting in an
ticipation of the sign up for the
soil conservation act this year
will be held at the courthouse in
Wllkesboro on Friday, February
19. The meeting will begin at
one o’clock in the afternoon.
H. A. Patton, compliance sup
ervisor of the soil conservation
act, will be present and explain
the benefits to be derived from
signing work sheets and comply
ing with provisions In the act for
which payments will be made.
More than 1,000 farmers m
Wilkes daring the pMt year sign
ed work sheets to participate in
the program and approximately
900 complied with provisions for
which payments _ nr© /j b© mad*
and checks ere- expected within
the next few days for those who
carried out soil conservation pol
icies and who diverted land from
cash crops to soil conserving and"
soil improving erpps-
It Is expected that mor© farm
ers 'Will sign work sheets this
year than partidpaied to thw
program during 19S6. _ _ j-