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m-i -PATRii: —-H Mb« BLAZED THE TRAIL OF ga®“i -I—I- fewsOf ^•Nation Briefly -V l^-' iE AW VICTIMS • - ^ Va., ■ May 13.a4ctyo men Trere killed Ibstantljr and a woman.was fa- ISt tally hurt in an antcmobtle accl- * den^/on 'I^e hl«hway al»ut alx ^lea (bat'of bere Jsite Monday. ""state PoMwman H. T; Fergneen, , of FarmriHe, said the men were Androw lenkins, of Oumbertand cbanty^ and Harry Tranler, of Wbaalngton, D. C. REPUDIATES TALl^ * Neaark, ff. J.. May 11.—Paul H. Wiondel, former • Trenton at- tfiraey,. repudiated from the wlt- nleas stand today three “confes- "wtons’’ that he kldnai>ed Charles A. Undbergh Jr. He was under orow-ezeminatlon In the trial of EUls Parker. Burlln*ton county e^tiTe, and his son,'EUls Jr.— of kidnaping Wendel In attempt to delay or arert tte execntton ' o f Bruno . Richai^ Hauptmann. of No i^Txxil, NO. 61 PuTHiaheJ Monday, .nd Thured»ys, House Comimttee Slashes Funds For Construction New Bhie Ridge Road Appropriations For Coining Year Cut One-Half By “Economising” Group MAY BE RESTORED Doughton and Weaver Seek to Have Amount Raised Back to $5,000,000 KING GEORGE CROWNED MliUons In London Wednesday from ail 'walks of life and from SH parts of She British Empire gathered to pay- homage to their king, George VI. At 12:30 Wed nesday he was crowned In histor ic We>itmlni8ter Abbey after mil-! parkway, no one expected such a Washington. May 11. — Re sponding to the economy wave which is sweeping over Capitol Hill, the House appropriations committee today slashed the ap propriation for Blue Ridge Park way construction during the fis cal year .bo.glnnlng July 1 from $5.000.0.00 to $5,500,000. While North Carolina congress men anticipated the committee would have the budget recom mendation of $5 000.000 for hhe lions had cheered him and otherc of the royal family along the six- mile route from Buckingham Palace. He succeeds King Edward VHI, who abdicated the throne to marry Mrs. Wally Simpson. t FOES CLAIM VICTORY Washington, May 11. — The foes of the Roosevelt court reor-1 inlsatlou proposal added Sena tor Shipstead (F-L), Minn., to their ranks tonight and claimed ■"at least 52 Senate votes’’ against that measure. Shlpstead, u veter an of the Senate and one of Us two Farmer-Labor members, re turned to the city today from a long vacation and lost no time in taking sides in Washington’s great controversy. “I gha, not in favor of expanding the court by ..six," he told reporters. "I see no .reason for any increase in the ' .art.” . \i \ fUEE TEXTBOOKS Raleigh, May 11.—School offi cials witJhln the next two -weeks will start p'acing orders for $1,- 500.000 worth of free basal text books authorized for elementary public schools by the 1937 gen eral assembly. Clyde A. Erwin, superintendent of public instruc tion, said today no bids would be received on books since publish- Nge already are under contract to Tarnish the state an unlimited supply of texts at certain specifi ed prices. rediiciion as voted by the com mittee. Kesloralloii Sought Immediately after the commit tee action became known today. Representative Robert L. Dough- ton and Representative Zebulon Weaver went into a huddle with their colleagues for the purpose o£ moving to restore the appro- mates. It will be seen iparktyay - eut atohe"accounts for 50 per cent of the economy ef forts of the committee. the The bill provides 76,500., Jp/ » Great Ginokr-Moimtalim (Continued on page eight) May Day Festival Viewed By Crowfl Many Compliments Heard On High School Effort Here Friday Afternoon ABimdR^der Washington, D. C. . . . Miss Frances Wright, 8 years old and blind, reads a Braille book dur ing a Congressional hearing on a bill to aid the nation’s physically handicapped. Commissioners Draw Juries For JuneTermCourt Will Convene On MtHiday, May 31, With Judge Felix Alley Presiding Jurist priation when the Interior Oe- pariment appropriation bill car rying the park-way item comes up for conslderaiion in the Hou.se Thursday. The Interior Department bill provides for a total appropriation of $115,871,264.85. which Is $4.- 741.340 less than the budget estl- le j Wilkes county board of com missioners In May session drew jurors for the June term of Wilkes superior court, which will convene on Monday, May 31. Judge Felix E. Alley, o f Waynesville, will preside over the term, which will be for trial of civil cases. The list of jurors and the townships In which they re side follows: First Week Paul Byrd, Edwards, R. M. Brame, North Wllkeeboro; W. W ^TRIBUTE TO DEAD New York, May 11.—Arms raised toward the sunset In nazi salute, thousands of persons filed past 28 coffins tonight in the final American tribute to Ger mans who died in the Hlndenburg Inferno. In the throng at the Hudson river pier of the Ham burg American line, preparatory ^(lo sending home by water those who were to have gone by air, were about 20 survivors of the catastrophe, some of them still swathed in bandages. '7 Teams Entered In Junior Baseball Millers Creek, Traphill and ♦foravian Falls Are Lat est Recruits I ■W. J. Bason, member, of the Legion oommlttee In charge of Sing junior baseball, re- today that seven teams kave entered for play and only _oi»0, mor» team Is needed to tsom- tte ^ght-team league. ' •‘‘•iJje "Cutest entries are Mora vian With L. G. Critcher in charger Millers Creek, under di- recUon of Cecil Vannoy; and Trapibill under management of C. P. Farmer. The Legion will have a called meeting on Thursday night of next week to perfect plans for the beginning of a schedule. Hundreds of interested school patrons went to the North Wll- kesboro school building Friday afternoon to view the second an nual May Day festival. Visitors were enthusiastic in the praise of the manner in which the May Day fete was car ried out. The children not only .showed evidence o f splendid training but of unusual ability. Elvery detail of the fete was carried out in an admirable man ner and all features were above expectations. This was the second May Day festival staged at the school, the first one being in 1936. Miss Annie Bell Pardue was crowned May Queen and attend ants were Micky Bryant, Virgin ia Alexander. Vivian Kerbaugh, Eliabeth Neel. Gwendolyn Hub bard, Virgie Bumgarner, Chloe Church, Edna Absher, Mary Lois Frazier and Mabel Kilby. \Vllke^oro: Buel Brooks, Wil- kesboro; L. C. Hall, Mulberry; George W. Bumgarner, Mulberry; T. J. Bishop, Reddies lUver; S. Bock €re^" ^ johnscB, ’Walnut Grove; R. G. Bumgarner, Reddles River; J. B. Hall, Elk; K. M. Allen, North ■Wllkesboro; A. M. Elledge, Mul berry ; Floyd Cooper, Reddles -River; A. J. Bobblt, Brushy Mountain, J. A. Longbottom, Ed wards; Manley Byrd, Rock Creek; J. ’W. Livingstone, Beaver Creek; George ’W. Adams. Mulberry; Joe P. Hayes, Reddies River; R. M. Htncher, Mulberry; J. ’W. Walk er, Walnut Grove; K. S. Hawkins, Elk. Hccoiul Week Roy Simmons, Traphill; M. G. Matherly. Lewis Fork; W. A. Clinton, .Moravian Falls; W. F. Law'rence, Somers; J. P. Coffey, Mulberry; A. C. Bdsel, Moravian Falls; W. R. Phillips, Jobs Cab in; J. W. Wingler, Union; Perry Duncan, Traphill; Avery L. Cole man. Somers; M. F. Laws, Boom er; C. C. Bishop, Jobs Cabin; Martin Harrold, Mulberry; J. P. McNeill, Lewis Fork; W. H. Jones, New Castle; Sam P. Pen nell, Moravian Falls; N. J. Isya- ley. Union; Ted W. Lyon, j Ed wards; C. W. Lyon, Traphill; F. A. Dancy, Mulberry; Clarence Hendren, Lovelace; W. B. Hall, Traphill; Noah Griffin, Union; H. D. Byrd, New Castle. Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to make a better ar ticle.—Phillip D. Armour. Largest Class In History of School . Receives Diplomas at Wilkesboro Moofe^ Carries On S' .. W-W. Exchanges Circ^tkm Good Farmers Invited To Grange: Meeting On Tuesday Night state Maetw and State Lectnrer To.Addrem Open Meeting at Wilkeeboro Sriiool All farmers and others Intereet- ed in the .promotion of the wel fare of rural people are Invited to the open meeting of the WJlkes county Pomona Grange at the Wllkesboro school building Tues day evening, May 18, beginning at 7:30. Ben F. Wilson, state master, and Harry B. Caldwell, stat® lec turer, will address the meeting and a large attendance is dec ired. It Is especially urged that overy Grange member b® present and that they insist upon attendance of their neighbors and friends. Wilkes Chapter Red Cross Gets Honor Awards Chapter Chairman Receives Certificate of Honor From the National Chairman Attorney J. H. Wihicker, chair man of the Wilkee councy chap ter of the American Red Cross, has received an honor award for the dhapter for the execellent presumably In S-'k this vear, • raising lunn^ lb. ....nn-oar- ferers. The certificate of honor came from Cary T. Grayson, national chairman,, was the second In d recent mcmili: 'tBar' Ing received an honor certificate for the sple|idld rc!l call Inj No vember. Auxiliary Plans Poppy Day On Saturday, May 29 Bat More Bo^ Needed gnlJinrary Branches Are Set Up at M|. Pleasant, Millers Creei^'^ Wllkesboro, Dookerjr ' USE IS BROADENED May Term Federal Court Td'Coiivehe In WiDcesIxn'Oj.Ihi Monday, May 17th Usual Large Number Crim* utel Cases Pending Trial Daring Regular Term FEW OTHER CHARGES Cases Originated Since No* vember Term; Docket Usually Cleared With Larger Number Elooks Library Could Form Ad ditional Exchanges Four 'book exchanges hav® been set up In ’Wilkee county as :branches of the Wilkes county public library, which opened on ly a few months ago. The book exchanges which hav® been set up are at Mlsa Cbessie Bdmlnsten’s home at Champion; at Millers Creek high school with Albert Wellons in charge; at Dockery with Mrs. T. S. Myers In charge; and at Wllkesboro school. Thes® are under supervision of Mrs. Ruth Holder, supervisor of the WPA book mending project, but those in charge of the ex changes are donating tbelr serv ices. Although the library has grown at a satsfactory rate, many ad ditional books are needed to keep step with the library’s Increased use and .popularity. In this connection attention Is. again called to the fact that mem bership In the library association may be had by; a cash donation of net less than 25 cents or a •iiSok brary. The library association will Steer the pollciee of tihe library ae a public Institatlon and will have anns^. ms^Sae.,gaMb Ssh Fn^flcisco . . . Tom Moon ey, world's most famous labor prisoner, now In 21st year of Im prisonment, takes his plea for freedom In person to the Californ ia Supreme Court. State b Divided hto 10 Districts ByH^hwayBody Haekett’s District Contains Counties Proposed in the General Assembly Will Be Occasion of Person al Tribute to Those Who Gave Their Lives Checker Champion U Visitor Here Oialy Few Days To^ List For Taxation Attention has again been called te the fact that the time for the current ta-rery short and every property owner who has not UMad is urged to see the U*t- rekor o hto or her-respective tewBtiriF and atiend to matter ** once. A ysnalty iHU be added hy tew OB Met. .. " , thoae InviWw (hecker Players of Wilkes To State Tourney To Be Held In Winston-Salem W. S. Anderson, of Winston- saiem. state champion checker player for the past two years, was In Wilkes this week and took on some of the tougihest local followers of the board. Mr. Anderson announced that the checker tournament for the state will be held in Winston- Salem‘on. July 6 and issued an invitation for all Interested play ers to attend and take part. Has Sample Of Postal Currency John A. Brown, of this city, baa in hto poeaecsion a remark- a.ble piece of currency. It la a rare bill In that it la five cento and 'waa lasued by the Dr. B. B. Dougherty Delivera Commencement Address In Finals On Tuesday Fifty - seven graduates, the largest class .In the history of the school, were presented di plomas of high school graduation at Wllkesboro Tuesday nlglht. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of A. B. T. C., Boone, delivered the commencement address. The commencement season began with music recitals by pupils of .Mrs. R. E. Prevette’s classes Thursday and Friday nights, followed by the commencement sermon Sun day night by Rev. J. C, Canlpe, of Boone, and a unique class night program Monday night. Dr. Dougherty inj hla addreaa Tuesday night stroesed "applied education,’’ urging that graduates use to their ibeet ability the knowledge they gained In school. Ha also gave attention In. hto addreee to th® matter of msUng govenunent as poetage currency give due thought to major dechF -W«#* -lBth, at four o’olbok. Rev, wtoa- to under act of ooagrees In 1862. (Continued on page eight) Poppy Day will be observed in NorBh Wllkesboro and all Wilkes county this year on Saturday, May 29, Mrs. A. F. Kilby, chair man of the poppy committee of Wilkes county unit of the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, has an nounced. Extensive preparations for the observance of the day are being made by the Auxiliary women. ■Memorial popples, to be worn in honor of the World War dead and to raise funds for the wel fare of the disabled veterans and needy families of the dead and disabled, will b e distributed throughout th® city by organiza tion of corps of ‘^poppy girls’’ to offer the flowers to everj’one on the stree-.s during the day and to receive contributions for the Le- lion and Auxiliary welfare funds. The flowers hav® been ordered from Department Headquarters at Charlotte and wer® made by disabled veterans. "Poppy Day is the day of per sonal tribute to the men who gave their lives in the nation’s defense,’’ explained Mrs. Kilby. On that day everyone can show that they still rememiber and hon or the sacrifices of those who lost ttbelr lives In the war. ’The poppy Is their flower, made In their memory by their disabled comrades. "The American Legion Auxil iary will ask no set price for Its po])plee. We want everyone to wear a poppy and to contribute as he is able for the flower. All contributions will be used for the work of the Legion and Auxlliaty among the men who lost health and strength In the war, and a- mong the children whose fathers are dead or disabled. ’Tibs bulk of the money will be axpead^ right here In Wltkee county ^ the work our unit to conateotly do ing among needy families of vet- erana here.” iSffimeg. However, use of th® library to not confined to members of the association. 'Ibe library,Is a project of the Wilkee County Council of Social Agencies and now has a total of about 1,000 volumes. It is hoped that cash and book donations within the next few weeks will increase this nuntber to the point where additional book exchanges can be set up In other communi ties In the county. The library is located in the Reins-Sturdivant building on B street. Ten northwestern counties composed the eighth highway dis trict to be represented on the state highway commission by J. Gordon Hackett, of this city. The commission was in meet ing in Raleigh Tuesday and Wed nesday, at which time fihe state was divided Into ten districts of ten counties each. Th® counties in this district are Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany, Wa tauga. Caldwell, Davie, Yadkin. Surry, Stokes and Forsyth. -an,fjw.jaufe, 1. the ninth and tentl^ufti as follows: Ninth—McDowi Bu May term of federal court for trial of cases originating la Wilkes, Alleghany, Aeb® and Wa tauga counties -will conveuo la Wilkesboro Monday with , Judgo Johnson J. Hayes, of Greensboro, middle district jurist, presiding. As usual the court faces a large docket of criminal cases r^ suiting from the succesefnl raids ■mad® by federal alcohol tax unit Investigators In their continual drive against Illicit liquor manu facture, traffic and sale. However, there are a few caaea involving alleged violations of postal laws, antl-narcotlc laws and the auto theft act. ■Very few csises are continued In federal court here, said to be the largest In the district wltk the exception of Greensboro, and the cases pending are with few exceptions those which have orig inated since the November, 1936, term. District Attorney Carlisle Hig gins and his assistants will prose cute the docket during tihe term. Deny Excessive Speed In Wr^ Driv«r and CiMupanioiia Smj Home Coming at Union May 16th Presiding Elder to Speak; Public "Has Cordial Invi tation to Attend Announcement has been made by the pastor. Rev. A. W. Lynch, of a home coming and quarterly conference at Union Methodist chiiroh. niiar Cricket Sunday. Rev. J. W. Hoyle,; Jr., presid ing elder of the district will speak at eleven o'clock and din ner will be served In the grove near the church at noon. All methodists of the Wilkes boro charge, all members of the church, former members, neigh bors and friends have a cordial invitation to attend. land,' Rutherford and Polk; 'Tenth —Avery, Mitchell, Yancey, Madi son, Buncombe, Henderson, Tran sylvania, Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon, Clay, Graham, and Cberokee. No other news of public Inter est came out of the meeting and the next meeting will be held on May 25. The commission Wednesday gave some attention to the Blue Ridge Parkway construction, which is threatened by a reduced appropriation from the federal government. Scout Leaders’ Institute Here Begins Tonight And lotst .Session Will Be Held Friday Night; 'V’aughn-Lloyd To Have Charge Tonight and Friday night, be ginning at 7:30, a Scout leaders’ institute will be held at the Pres byterian hut with W. E. Vaughn- Lloyd, executive of the Winston- Salem council, in charge. All Scout leaders and every body interested In Scouting are urged to be present at both ses sions, it is announced by Rev Watt M. Cooper, chairman of the boys’ and girls’ work committee of the* North Wilkesboro Kiwanls club, sponsor of the institute. May Festival On Saturday Here S«rviee ’Veeper sorvloa Si, Pud’a Slpto-' deotolons, adrlsiii.x that gradOktiilWiWiCokureJi; Siui^. i||MMiooa. Graveyard Robbers Nominated For Distmetion d[ Being World^s Meanest B. M. Lackey, RMtor, In diarge. Not so l(«g agio when meat waa stolen on two occaalons from tii6 Wilkes county home for the poor It wa« certain that “the meanest man" had been found but now th® qneetion has been overshadowed with doubt by the robbery of the cemetery at Arbor Grove •’Methodist .church near Mlllew Chwek; Shrubbery Ranted at the graves by r^ativee ot departed onee aaddenly.became mlwalng and people filled with righteOBS indignation began efforte to lo cate the m*ivff*pg shrubs and flowen. The inveetigation by cltlBeiia and dqretiee atueriff led to.the dtocoTfcy that shrubbery had been seeu on a truck In the community about the time the gravefyard robbery took i^lace and further teivtiry revealed the tect timt the trudk doaely resembled one in wlihA pigs had been hauled Into the community from Glendale Springs in Ashe county. Offiem-s went to the home of the parties, Ernest Miller and wife, liillie lifiUer, at Glendale Springs and there found fretii- ly planted shrabberj’ lu the yard and some ot the plants were Identified as those taken from the graves, officers said. A man whom officers thon^t was Ernest Miller ran from the house as they ^pproacl^ but Mrs. Miller was placed under arrest and later rdeased under bond of gaOO. Her husband has not been apprehended. Mrs. Miller eraphatioally pro tested the arrest and claimed that the shmbbery about her home was porefaa^ ttom' • trntit which Ae described as being of the sams model and appearance of the one they used tn haoliag pigs to boMSa in the Arbor Qrove community about the time the sfarnbbery Jake G’Meai, driver ot the car which movTTd a tmildlng and. otherwise went on a rampage when It loft highway 421 near Wllkesboro early Saturday morn ing, emphatically denied reporte that the car was making a speed ot 93 miles per hour when. It crashed He is collaborated In his de nial by two young men who were with him at the time, in his claim that the speedometer registered not over 50 miles per. hour when It swerved In the fog just beforo leaving the pavement. Tracks left by th® car indicat ed that It did not touch tho ground for about fifty feet after leaving the pavement, that It rodu over a slight rise and again left the ground and landed into tho- foundation of a stor® building be longing to Rich Barber. The un usual wreck has attracted wide interest and has been the sub ject of much favorable comment. The Dance class of Mrs. Rich ard Finley will have a May Day Festival at her home on th* lawn, Saturday afternoon at 5:30. This is being sponsored by th* garden department of the Wom an’s club. A silver offering to carry on the work of that depart ment will be taken. The club will serve delidous refreehments. Miss Peggy Forester has bee* elected May ()ueen by the claa* and will preside with four at tendants at the feetrival. The dances represent the hi^ penings in a flower garden in th* three months of wring. i.: The dances in order of their appearance ar® as follows; The heralds of Bpring—Grae* Frank Kilby, Beeaie Lee Andup- son, Mildsei^^jU^ms, AUe* Wells, BHtilgiiiM^i^itry Park- The Dawe d ^ Hopl Allen, Rrewlle CaT>dlil,]| Peggyr-.^’ Nichols, Pe^ Finley. April Bhowen—Gladys T«m*^ pletoB,: Clarice Snetoon. Snn—Sue Lundon. Nareimus—^Aiu Wplto, Billy. Hoofe, Catherine Wall, Blair Co^>' fey. Breeie—Jano CartMr, RabbU—Doris WUee. Batterfiiea—^Dorothy (tebrta^ Nancy Long. ^ o ’The Flowers—^Nanoy* ITmiren—, Betty Gwya Finley, UU Be)ah, Mary Virginia Dattor. B*tty Jaae-T^*r. m 'M.
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