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Melvin
Committee Reported Bill Un
favorably Last Week
In General Assembly
sry eonvieted
'^“^ Ttd tenant farm
MAY BE REINSTATED
tg4|S'.«|«j^t degree mnr-
[gr tha~&®46g Tebmary 23
'dilne i*Q*leman, with
alleged the
thf'tiir^Ssve 4>een intimate,
tot ^ecutlon In the
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■v«rdi^, iraa .not-Immediate-
Bill Introduced by Repre-
resentative McDuffie Rel
ative to Elections
ly ae| by Jadge J. Paul Frlizelle.
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Logmn, W. Va.,_March 12.—
The black depths of the blasted
Mashith aain»i j>eld nine dead
Soaigbt .v^la the bodies of
nlaa Othen khled In West Vlr-
gtnia'B worst mine disaster In a
deeade Rested In a funeral home.
Stamldfiuc reecne crews, so worn
'•ut -tbay eonld only speak with
^ttticnlty of the terrors of the
^^$Qloalon In the deep pit, had
hroaght oat the nine and had
defiidtely located the bodies of
ihfr.Other vtcttms.
iieSAlL COURT PLAN
•*Now York, March 12. — In
' "Imeiajhee described as an answer
to President Roosevelt’s “fire
side ®“ bis court proposal,
three, ikmocratlc senators to
night assailed the plan as a dan-
ge^tts and nnn^ssary move.
ajesVcm were Senators Ed-
. «. Bnrke, of Nebraska, Roy-
' W 8- Copeland, of New York, and
Dfrld L watoh of Massachusetts.
;iO( gt a mass meeting in
> httii, they,addressed the
0 y • f a coast-to-coast
F. J. McDuffie, Wilkes coun
ty’s representative In the general
assembly, last week Introduced a
measure which If passed would
permit the county commissioners
to make a tax levy for special
purposes, including 10 cents for
cost of jail and prisoners and 12
cents for courts, making a maxi
mum levy of 22 cents on each
hundred dollars valuation of
property.
This, it Is understood, would
be a supplement to the county
general fund and has as Its pur
pose raising the county general
fund to the point where the defi
cit would be paid up and bills
. could bo paid. The general fund
j has been running behind for sev
eral years with the 15 cent levy,
the maximum allowed by the con
stitution for county general
funds.
- The bill was reported unfavor
ably in committee and It is under
stood that efforts have been made
to have it re-instated on the cal
endar.
Representative McDuffie intro
duced a measure Saturday rela
tive to elections in Wilkes. Con
tents of the hill have not been
lerrned here.
New Propo^
(kiC^PIaii
Are Discus^
Revision Scope Ranges Wide
in Counter Suggestions
Made at Capitel
VAGUE PEACE PROMISE
Bar Association Heavily O]^
posed; Wagner Act Is
B^g Weii^ed
WANTS ADJUi^ENT
Greenville, S. C., March 12.—
V Daniel C. Roper, secretary of
•• sommerce, said here tonight that
changed economic and social con
ditions had made It inevitable
that the nation’s Judicial system
he adjusted. He told the Green-
Vllle chamber of commerce that
Fresident Roosevelt, “recognizing
that our judicial system is an in
tegral pan of the whole scheme
of government.’’ had recommend
ed “reforms In the interest of
more expeditious functioning and
for serving the ends of justice.’
8jftte«*igr6L
Last Days Court
UPHOLD BLUE LAWS
Jerusalem, March 12.— The
Supreme court of Palestine today
upheld Moslem "bluo laws’’ pro
hibiting Moslems from eating,
drinking or smoking between
sunrise and sunset during the
SO-day holy period known as
“ramadau.” In a decision of far-
• reaching importance to Pales
tine’s 800,000 Moslems, the tri
bunal ruled that guarantees of
religious freedom under the Brit
ish league of nations mandate
were Ineffective in this case un
less implemented by a specific ad
ministrative order
DEATH IN PRISON
Nashville, Tenn., March 12.—
A sullen negro slayer, doomed to
die -next Thursday, fatally stabb
ed one of his guards and then
was shot dead by another on
•‘death row’’ at the penitentiary
today. Nlneteen-year-old Frank
Hsynie Jr., convicted with a ne-
j^o companion of a holdup slay
ing here last May, leaped upon
J. L. Simms, 47, as the latter
opened the cell door to put a
stool Inside after the noon meal.
He plunged a knife under Simms’
right arm pit, severing an artery.
The guard died within half an
hour from loss of blood.
Fairplains School
Bdiding Burned
Court cases disposed of during
the closing days of the March
term of Wilkes court follow:
Horace Hayes’ sentence of six
months in the penitentiary was
changed to prayer for judgment
continued until the next term of
court.
A fine against O. F. Robinson
of f50 was reduced to 125.
Prayer for Judgment continued
was entered on three counts of
violation of the prohibition laws
against Carl Wallace.
The sentence of Ernest Ash
ley was changed to six months at
the county home. The same
change v?as made in sentences
earlier meted out to William T.
McQuage and Charlie McGlamery,
who were originally sentenced to
work on the roads.
Nick Darnell, convicted o f
burning a barn, was sentenced to
two to three years on the roads.
Minnie Call Benton and Gypsle
Benton, keeping disorderly house.
Cost and suspended sentence of
three months for Minnie Call
I Benton and three months in jail
' for the latter defendant.
W. B. Wood, larceny. 90 days
on roads.
Jesse L. Nichols, driving drunk
and reckless driving, fines of
175 and costs and 6 months sen
tence suspended.
William Harvey Hayes, larceny
and receiving, 18 to 24 months
on roads and suspended sentences
in other cases.
Glenn Redmon, injury to per
sonal property, six months on
roads.
Dwight Blair, larceny, taxed
with costs and 12 months sen
tence suspended.
S. E. Robertson, driving drunk,
$50 and costs and six months
sentence suspended.
J. P. Mitchell, affray, prayer
for judgment continued on pay
ment of costs.
Scarsdale, N. Y. , . . Carl Limhacher. Jr., 12 years old. is editor
and publisher of the Scaredale Eagle News, published monthly and
on a paying basis for the last year. Peter Conese (standing left) is
the compositor; James Duff, handles sports and writes a column.
The plant’s headquarters takes up most of the basement of the Llm-
bacher home.
Wilkes Is Seventh
In Percentage of
Farm Ownership
Only Six Counties in State
Have Less Percentage of
Tenant Farmers
While Wilkes county has not
taken any laurels as the most
prosperous county In the state,
the percentage of tenant operated
farms speaks well for the rural
people of the county, a recent re
port by the Resettlement Admin-
'Isiaslll .Tiai'thn
agriculture shows.
Seventy-seven per cent of the
farms in Wilkes county are ope
rated by the farm owners, the re
port shows, and only 23 counties
are listed more favorably with
less percentages of tenant ope
rated farms.
Dare county, which ha.s a scat
tered population and little farm
ing, has the lowest percentage
with only seven farms of each 100
operated by tenants. Others with
a lower percentage than Wilkes
are Watauga, Alleghany, New
Hanover, Brunswick and Mitchell.
Edgecomb has the highest per
centage of tenant operated farms
with 79 of each hundred being j
operated by tenants Instead
owners.
Farmers to Be
Notified When
Checks Arrive
Cards Will Be Mailed From
Office of County Agent
to Those Complying
Farmers in Wilkes who earned
payments under the 1936 soil
conservaton act will be notified
when their checks arrive at the
office of A. G. Hendren, Wilkes
farm agent, Miss Rosa Billings,
secretary of the soil conaervatioi;
Washington. March 14. — A
half dozen connter-proposals held
indefinite promise today of bring
ing about a peace 'by compromise
in Washington’s wordy warfare
over the Roosevelt court reor
ganization bill. 1
As the Senate judiciary com
mittee—Itself closely divided on
the White House program
turned to its second week of
hearings, these alteanatlve prop
ositions were most talked of:
A constitutional amendment
proposed by Senator O’Mahoney
(D), Wyo., to provide that two-
thirds of the Supreme Court must
concur If an act of Congress Is to
be declared unconstitutional.
An amendment, offered joint
ly by Senators Wheeler (D),
Mont., and Bone (D), Wash., to
give Congress the power to re
serve a Supreme Court decision
invalidating an act of Congress
by a two-thirds vote of both
houses.
Mandatory IVoposal
i A proposal by Senator Pittman
(D), Nev., that the court be in
creased mandatorily from nine to
fifteen, accompanied by a con
stitutional amendment barrin.g
future changes In the number of
justices.
An amendment proposed by
Senator Burke (D), Neb., to re
quire the retirement of federal
judges upon reaching seventy-five
years of age.
A bill by Senator Norris (Ind),
kWSkes’ SbrnAng
Teacher Training
In State Is Better
Than In 1925-M
County Ranks 87th Frooi
Standpoint of Teacher
Training in State
WAS 98TH 12 YEARS AOa
Boston . . . Andrew Anld, 48-
year-old shipyard worker here be
lieves he may be able to establish
claim to a $20,000,000 estate l^It
by a 19th century relative In
Aberdeen, Scotland. Mr. Anld is
■ ?*ery busy studying his family
Hree.
r a
People Showing Mtnre Inte^
" est.in Training Teachers
in the Schott '
General Meeting
Of/TeachersWill
BeHeIdMarch20
Wilkes county has moved np A
few notches in teacher tralntag
during the past 12 years bat
there is still room for gnat te-
provement, figures recently re
leased by “State School Facta’'
show.
All Teachers in County Re-
quired to Attend Meeting
to Be Held Saturday
A general teachers meeting for
all the teachers In the county
will be held in the Wllkesboro
school auditorium on Saturday,
March 20, It was announced to
day by C. B. Eller, county super
intendent of schools.
Several matters of general in
terest and importance to the
teachers will be taken up and
attendance is required. Under the
arrangement now being carried
out county-wide meetings are
held only when the need arises.
Several Small
Schools Closmg
The statement, was mads in
ply to many Inquiries as to when
the checks are expected to ar
rive.
Final application for vouchers
were mailed in several weeks ago
and the checks are expected dally.
In the meantime the sign-up
of work sheets for the coming
year is going forward and any
who wish to sign now may do so
at the county agent’s office In
the courthouse.
An itinerary of community
meetings will be announced with
in the next few days.
jostlces concur
legislation.
in
Hint Doughton
To Oppose Bob
In August, 1936, Are
to Close March 19
Ninth District Congressman
Says He Hasn’t Made Up
His Political Future
the _sam»
Schools Which Started Early time Increasing their pereonal
Income.
The counties which have a low
er rank than Wilkes' In teachse
training are Macon, Watauga,
Dare, Chowan, Madison, Transyl
vania, Alleghany, Mitchell, Aabe.
Yancey. Graham, Clay and Chero
kee. The highest rank is Meck
lenburg.
The world’s highest suspension
bridge is over the Arkansas River
of |. in Colorado. It is 1,053 feet over
] the floor of the Royal Gorge.
State Senate Passes Free Basal
Textbook Act With Amen^ents
Raleigh.—The senate, by a 38
to 4 vote, amended and passed on
third reading a measure provid
ing free basal textbooks for ele
mentary school children, while
the house approved the motor ve
hicle bill.
The textbook proposal, which
passed the house without opposi
tion earlier in the session, was
sent back to the lower body for
concurrence In the clarifying a-
mendments.
After reducing a j)roposed $50,-
000 annual appropriation to $25,-
000, the house passed and sent to
the senate a bill setting up a pro
gram of adult education in the
state.
Auto License BUI
The motor vehicles measure,
which also must be considered by
the senate, provdes for a reduc
tion from 40 to 30 cents per 'hun
dredweight In the cost of auto
mobile license plates, with $6
instead of an $8 minimum.
A proposed amendment to the
concurrence was 41 to 0, with
Bell, of Mecklenburg, who oppos
ed the measure when It was first
considered by the upper body,
voting present.
S. S. Convention
To Be In Charlotte
Fire of undetermined orlglii
completely destrooed the Fall'-
plains school building Satur
day afternoon. The fire was
discovered about three o’clock
and had made wmsiderable
headway. Dtttle equipment waa
Mved from the building.
The building was a four-
room •tructnre and 197 »tn-
denta were enroUpd^t^.T®**’
to date. ’The term wffl ha com-
I In Falr^alna church.
Shew, assault with deadly weap
on, three months each in jail.
Hugh Phillips, possession of
liquor for sale, to pay cost and
jail sentence suspended.
Ida Graybeal versus James
Graybeal, divorce granted.
Judgment at a former term of
court wherein Bettie Triplett,
Walter Triplett and Will Diila
were sentenced to from IS to 20
years after conviction for second
degree murder was ordered Into
effect. They lost their appeal to
the supreme court a few months
ago.
state constitution, which would
Hardin Benton and Henry have abolished capital punish
ment 4n North Carolina, was kill
ed by the senators.
The house passed on final read
ing a senate social security meas
ure providing for aid to the in
digent blind. Passed by the boose
and sent ‘to the senate was a bilf
to place a tax on scrap or united
tobacco and license Its buyers.
Without an opposing vote, the
•senators concurred with house
amendments to the old age assist
ance nnd child aid social security
bill. If the amendments are ap
proved on third reading, the
measure will become law. Vote on
According to an announcement
made by Trela D. Collins, Execu
tive Secretary of the North Caro
lina (Council of Churches and of
the North Carolina Sunday School
Association plans have been com
pleted for the holding of the an
nual convention 1 n Charlotte
April 19-21. The meetings will be
held in the Second Presbyterian
church, beginning Monday evening
and closing Wednesday evening.
This conference on religious edu
cation is designed to minister to
Sunday school workers in the
various denominations through
out the State. The theme around
which the program Is built Is
"Ttogether We Build a Christian
Community.”
All the phases of Chnrch and
Sunday school work will be help
fully presented by an outstanding
gronp of competent leaders. Dr.
Howard B. Rondthaler, Prerident
of Salem College, will deliver tto
opening address Monday
The possibility that Represen
tative R. L. Doughton may op
pose Bob Reynolds for the sena
torial nomination next year^ was
revived in Washington ’Tuesday.
In reply to a statement carried
in a North Carolina paper that he
would not be a candidate for the
senatorial nomination in opposi
tion to Senator Reynolds in 1938,
Representative Doughton declar
ed, “I am not in or out of any
political contests for the next
election and made no statement
to anyone regarding the matter
on my last visit to Raleigh, or at
any other city I visited. -I have
not stated or made up my mind
whether I shall be a candidate
for the senate, re-election to my
position In the house of repre
sentatives, or for any office at
all,” the congressman continued.
“When I do make up my
mind,” Mr. Doughton said, “I
will state It to the people, and
not to one Individual.”
A number of small elementary
school units which opened early
In August, 1936, In order to com
plete a great part of the term be
fore inclement weather during
the winter season will close the
eight-months’ term on Friday,
March 19, It was learned today
from C. B. Eller, county superin
tendent of schools.
Two school opening dates were
set last year and there would
have been uniform closing had
not many of the larger schools
been forced to suspend operations
at frequent Intervals because of
inclement weather and bad road
conditions which made school
bus transportation Impractical.
EASTERN STAR MEET
HELD THURSDAY NIGHT
On Thursday night, Marck,j$i,
the Wilkes chapter. Order of dtte
Eastern Star, held the reg^^r
meeting and conferred degrees on
two candidates. 'Ibere will be a
special meeting of the Chapter on
Friday night, March 19, Tor the
ceremonies of Initiation, at which
time several candidates will take
the degrees.
TAX COLLECTOR URGES
PAYMENT TOWN TAXES
W3ke$ Now Has
22 In A. S. T.C.
A report from J. M. Downum,
registrar at Appalachian State
Teachers College In Boone, says
the total enrollment for the
spring term has reached 963.
Of this number 22 are from
Wilkes county. Watauga with
153 leads the list while Iredell
with 48 la the next highest. Sev
enty North Carolina counties and
14 other states are represented In
•the student body.
The spring term will close on
April 30 and the first summer
term -will begin on June 8.
using for his topic “The
P. L. Lenderman, tax collector
for the town of Wllkesboro, Is
urging tax payers of the town to
pay their town taxes, to which, a
penalty will be added If not paid
during the xemalnder of this
iFtonth.
' '^,He also asks that water bills
lenge of Cooperation." Dr. fbo paid promptly In order ttat
a. Tha.. >
Binkley, pastor of the'Flret Bap
tist church of Chapel H^JI, will
conduct a series of devotional
servlceB throughout the conven
tion. He will nse as bis toples
no one be Inconvenienced by hav
ing their water supply cut"(^.
" Eastern Star Meeting
’There will be a speolalj; meet
ing of the WllkM Chapter, a
Mrs. Cynthia Caudill
Funeral Held Today
Mre. Cynthia Caudill, age 76,
died Sunday morning at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. G. M. Earp,
at Boonville.
Mrs. Caudill was a well known
and highly respected lady among
a wide circle of acquaintances.
She was the .vrifo of the late
James Caudill, of the Boomer
community, and leaves the fol
lowing children: Mrs. H. C. Mc-
Nlel, Leholr; W, A. Caudill,
Boomer: Mrs. G. M. Barp. Boon-
Tille; J. F. Can^l, Goshen; Mre.
D. C. WIUlanM, Charlotte. Alio
surviving are 14 grandchildren,
82 great-grandehildren, and one
brother, David Hart, who llveo at
..IjMrel Springe.
ir^^iral eervlee was conducted
^{•‘afternoon at Boomer ehnreh -
by. Rev. B. V. - Bumgarner and
“Fellowship Through Worship,"»ui* v» .uw r 0 In
“Sensitivity Through Wbrshlp" [s. otf Friday. March 18, 8$ J*
and “Energy Through WorshH».” 1 for degree work.
In 1925 there were only twe-
counties In the state which rank
ed lower in training of teachm*^
employed In the schools than
Wilkes, the two lowest eonntlea
being Cherokee and Yancey.
After five yean Wilkes stepped
up one in rank and was listed a»
97th.
In 1935-36 school term Wilkes
had climbed more rapidly and-
now ranks 87th in teacher train
ing. there being 13 counties with
teachers having a lower average
of training tban those employed
in Wilkes schools. Cherokee still
ranks 100th and Clay county la
99th.
The better training of teachers-
is due, in part, to a realization
on the part of the people that
better trained teachers contribnt*
to a more progressive and effici
ent school system. It also means
more income to the teachers and
from a financial standpoint a
teacher earning more than $10#
per month la worth more to a
community and county than ons
earning $65 per month.
School authorities are also «b-
couragiag teacher
'
ity, 4hus pToraofingu a^ better
school system and at
Winter Weather
Makes Late Call
The weather today regained
tbo most prominent place in
conversations.
All day Sunday was a coM
drizzling rain of the t}'pe that
farmers once called the “sheep
killing rain of spring.” Earty
this morning tlie rain changed,
to snow, which was still falling
heavily by noon today and was
clinging more than an Inoik.
deep In some places. Tnie late
call of winter weather r.^pre-
sents quite a cliongc from tbo
mild spring weatlicr of the
past week.
Good Results From
Advertisements
With an order for Insertion
of anoth«'r want ad. Dr. JT. F.
Striipe, of Tobaccoville, made
the following comment rela
tive to an advertisement which
he had rt;cently inserted in The
Journal-ratrlot:
“I got good results from the
ad I ran. in your paper a few
days ago relatives to the land
I had for sale.*? .'
This is only.;-one o the
many instances of good resnUo
from Journal^’atrlot adtertiO-
fng. One lady reoefvdd IS a»
swers to one «d . mutiteg; to
employ a saleohan. ‘Whr'Beog'*
ads abnest'''tevartaMy- 'get
those nnooenptod rooms on *
paying baals.'^“Fnr~ Sal^ ads
are receiving more eepUes each
week, niroa^ h-waat ltd. t
bnslnesa stdihai luis eontocted
many projects.?'and- sereeat
new studenta wwe enrolled.
If yon have semedtiBg yee
do not need cwnrert tt,:,iitte
eaah becaase ooaeaae else
may, want that aitiele. ■ badly.
U yoa waa$. aomrthiqg Jet the
people know a»d fled
it. Results testttr that the
want ad ooUakt of Ihe .JMgie-
a^Fidx4ot Jsr itc; i«lIttaUe idh
verttolng nkedNHtiftt th« ad>
•> s-
i;faihily camMery near Goehen