North Carolina Newspapers

■^i (PHJE^tJENAL-PATRIOT^HAS'BLAZED tHE TRAIL OF PROGRESS IN THE^^STATE OF 5>> ’ K - Late News Of State-Nation Told Briefly KILLED BY TRACTOR Duon, Jui»» 11.—Rudolph Re«- tetar, aO, farmer near Splvey« Oomera, was instantly killed to day about noon when the tractor he was using to snake logs wifch on his father’s farm reared up and crushed him as it overturned. ^R. MOl%; Vaf'aiataal jemr ImytMt kMfbMO, (be.. of HofthwMt Mo ^iTxXXir^; 70 Published Mondays and^fh^days, NORm WILKESBQRQ," N. MOI^AY, 1987 $1^0 IN THE~gffiiS-^2.00 OUT PEACHES RIPENING Hemp, June 11.—^Peaches be gan moving from the Candor and West Knd section this week, with some shipments by express and trpck Only the small Mayflower peaches are marketable at -this early season, but growers report that they are well pleased with the returns. Prices on the New York market are quoted rt $9 per bushel. ROBBED OF $200 •-4^ Raleigh, June 11.—D. Ivan ^^hlassey, 60, operator of a store and filling station near here, told police today he was held up at the point of a pistol, beaten on the head and robbed of about JJbO early this morning. Massey said two unidentified men com mitted the crime. TOBACCO RUINED Mt. Airy, June 11.—Hundreds of thousands of tobacco plants are dying dally In the fields of the old North Carolina belt from some unknown cause, it was in dicated here tonight. Within the past 48 hours the situation has become desperate, with only halt a crop in prospect. Tl>e general opinion is that the leaf crop can only be saved by immediate ac tion. Junior Baseball ls!l Ve8t'Poipt^^Cadeta^^^_j^^fi Laundied Friday b Wilkes County; is Legion Project Moravian FaH* Beats Cling- man In Formal Opener Hero on Saturday TEAMS SHOW UP WELL Prospects Good For Success ful Season Among Eight Wilkes Teams DIES IN SWIMMING Goldsboro. June 11.—Herbert N. Lewis, 21, of the White Lake CCC camp, drowned late yester day iri Little river near Golds boro. Lewis, on a visit to his mo ther here, was swimming with a party of friends and sank before help could reach him. Deputy Sheriff Roy Precise said the youth apparently -had been stricken with cramps and that no inquest W'ould be held. Friday and Saturday were hap py days tor many boys in Wilkes county who for the first time in friistory entered organized base ball. On Friday six teams of the American Legion’s junior base ball league began the season and on Saturday the formal opener was played on the fairgrounds here follDwing the safety parade ill th© city. Reports from all communities in which teams are located indi cate that much interest is being ijhown ill Junior baseball and the opening games went off in good style. In the formal opener here Sat urday afternoon baseball fans were treated to a.s good an exhi bition of 'baseball as has been [seen on the fairgrounds in years, spite of the fact that all the INVESTIGATE FJ>.R. Washington, June It. — The house heard Representative Fish, Republican, New York, suggest today that congressional investi gators of alleged tax dodgers scrutinize President Roosevelt’s income tax return. He said he had information from a ‘reliable authority," that Mr. Roosevelt had deducted losses on his “so- called farm at Hyde Park,” N'e«' .York. In realilv. he said, it “is ■fiot u farm, lint a palatial resi dence.” NO THIRD TERM Manchester By-The-Sea. Mass., June 11.—.An assertion that Pres ident Franklin P. Roosevelt, would not lie a candid-itp for a third term came tonight from Col. Edward .Mandell House, once known as the “maker of Presidents" and the “sphinx of politics. In an interview—and he rarely grants one—the diminu- 4tive. wh'tehaired Te.xaii suggest ed tlie President “will probably do some writing afLer ho retires." Asked if lie thought the Pres ident would seek another term. Colonel House asserted: “Roose- veil will not be^ a candidate for a third term.” players were youngsters and none were older than 17 on January first of this year. For the first six innings both Cliugman and Moravian Falls played airtight baseball and no run crossed the plate until Cling- raan broke the Ice ..with one in the latter half of the sixth. In the seventh Moravian Falls put four across and the game ended 10 to 7 with Moravian Falls on the big end of the score. Cling- man rallied mightily in the ninth to score five runs but were un able to overtake the lead estab lished by the s'tickwork of the boys from Moravian Falls in the seventh, eighth and ninth' frames. (Continued on page eight) WEST POINT, N- Y. . . . (Dadets of the U. S, Military Academy on pa- rade during annual visit and inspection by members of Congressional Board of Visitors. Two Children Killed Result Auto Accidents Injuries Fatal To Yates Child On Highway 421 Hit by Car Driven by Lenoir Man Sunday Afternoon; Died This Morning: Four Are Held On Robbery Charges Otis Yates, three-year-old son ot Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Yates, was hit by a car and killed on high way 421 in front of their home about four miles west of this city Sunday afternoon. The cih'ild had gone with his ■parents across the highway and they were returning when the child ran ahead of Its father into the path of the automobile travel ing toward this cly. He died at two o’clock this morning at the hospital lh«re. The car was driven by A. P. Huffman, of Lemjifr. who was •placed under bond of $1,500. Besides his parents the child is survived by two sisters. Cleo and Winnie Sue Yates. Funeral serv ice will be held Tuesday, 11 o’ clock. at Union church. MRS. F. D. R. IN STATE Wallace. June 11—'Mrs. FTank- Hn D. Roosevelt, in a dawnj to. dusk whirl through this coastal ylflin region, today tripped a few meaauree of an old-fashioned equare dance, said in two formal addressee that .Americans were cooperating more, watched men and women at work on a bonjq- project, visited a sick child, ' and then had a giant type of atratwberry designated as "The -neanor iRooaevelt.’’ "We in A- :'^nerica have imaiie tremendous Cains from the depression, in my opinion, by learning to work to- gadbor—^^by getting the spirit of doing things together,’’ said Mrs. Roosevelt, here as honor guest at .WoUaee’s annual strawberry fes tival and to inspect a vesettle- meni project at nearby Fenderlea bomeetead. Pythians Attend The Convention North Wilkeoboro Pythian Lodge was repreaented at Wil mington 4n the state convention Tneeday and Wednesday by four ^ members: J. B. (Mlreath. T. B, Story, L. Vyno and Pete Moore, ^^r. Gilreath. waa elected Grand Guard. The election of Mr. th as an officer in tbe QMnd Lodge comes ad an honor to him and to the lodge of which is a member. Negro Bound To Court For Beating And Robbng Henderson Hackett Roll Hill. Ceif Vaniioy. Am-i tiioii Turner and Major Revels, all' colored, were 'bound over to sn- imrior court on charges of high way robbery this morning follow ing a hearing in city court be fore -Mayor K. T. .McXiel. The four negroe.s, it i.s said, held up and robbed Hendreson Hackett, also colored, abort three o'clock on Thursday morning and beat him into unconsciousness, taking his money and clothes, Charlie Combs and Otto Snow were convicted ot larceny on evi dence that they took iron from E. V. Williams’ machine shqp and sold it to a local junk yard. Combs wa.s sentenced to four months at the county farm and Snow, who was under 16 years of age. was cited to the juvenile court. Rumors Sheriff Doughton Shot Are Unfounded Riiuinr:s may .start from a • ii-.all iH'giiiiiiiig and g'row fapidly a-s tliey sjn-ead but ■Sheriff T. Doughton and otliers are mystified as to the N'ginr.iug of a rumor that he was sTiot on., ilay la-t week. Ill fart the rumor that he was sliol wliile on a raid trai'closl so fast and gained siK-Ii )>roportioiis lliat he re ceived long distance cails from other points in tlie, .state try ing to learn how badly he was hil. The rumors that he was .shot are entirely unfounded. In fact lie lias not even been .shot at. The first rumor which gained wide circulation was that hb was .shot Thui'.stlay in Lewis Fork st-etlon and when this one died down another gained momentuiii to th© effect that he was shot while in the Win dy Gap vicinity and Sidewalk Begiin; WA Project * Doughton Child Killed By Truck In Yard at Home Bstaline Holcomb, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. For rest Holcomb, was fatally injured Friday afternoon at the Holcomb ihome near Doughton. when she was run over and crushed by a motor truck. Older children of the family, in the absence of their parents, were tampering with a truck in the yard of the horn©'and after suc ceeding in starting the motor the machine was thrown in reverse, running backwards over the little girl and crushing her lK>dy. The lihild died within thirty minutes, shortly after the return of her mother from the 'bedside of a sick relative. Surviving baaidej, »ronts are thro'a-'slsteja-AfliJ irolher, Faye, Olene, James and 'Vraneea Holcomb, and the paternal and maternal grandmothers, Mrs. Preston Holcomb and Mrs. Eunice Scott, all of the Dotighton com munity. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon from Charity Church in Wilket conuty. J -o 'll. Baric Fo^ WSh BeExenqrt:^rom State Tax After Car 0|)eral^ By Electric Control Is Big'Al^aiction Ten Foods Will Not Be Sirib* Ject to Tax Under La.w For Next Bienniim COMPLETE RECORDS Captain Lync^ Pilots “Ma gic’ Car .From Car 20 Feet In Rear Will Be Required of Mercli*^ ants; Act to Be Strmg- ently Enforced Officers Locate Number of Stills In Wilkes County That tOue people of thds section are becoming more safety minded was evidenced Saturday arternooB: by the throng attending the safety' parade In this city. ”01© parade, featured by the drlverlesa car performance by Captain Jimmie Lynch, was spon sored by city officials, thei high way department of safety and The Journal-Patriot. In the parade were many in teresting features depicting saf ety. Tbe parade formed on east B street, proceeded to Tenth, over Tenth to C, over C to Ninth and back to B street and point of be ginning. The piloting of a car by remote control was an unusual attrac tion and one that had never been witnes.sed in this city before. The parade was headed by the North Wilkesboro fire department, fol lowed by the "magic’’ car which operated without a driver or any one being in the car. Captain Lynch piloted the driv erless car from a car about twen ty feet in the rear and he made the car start, stop, turn left or rlgtht, blow its horn or perform just the same as if a capable driver were behind the wheel. This was by means of electric control and all Its actions were ooatroil^ by Captain Lynch’s nUtnlpnlations of a -key similar to a telegraph key In -the seat of the (Ckmtinued on page eight) Seaside Heights, N. J. . . . Ear ly appearance of horseshoe crabs forecasts a long summer, just as groundhogs’ appearance forecasts Spring. The frightened Catalln angle fish on Gloria IngersoH’s suit is heading for the sea. Workmen Begin Surfacii^ Link Of Highway 16 Engineers Say It Is One Of Best Highways In State To Cross Blue Ridge Conservation Talked at Club H. E. Ochsner From Pisgah National Forest Reserve Is Speaker at Kiwanis Three Men Bound Over to Federal Court on Liquor Charges In 'Week Federal and county officers raiding moonshine stills in Wilkes last -week made three ar rests and destroyed at .least a half dozen stills. Several stills were taken in Somers township and federal of ficers arrested Clyde Mahaffey and Jodie Gregory at a still. TTiey w'ere released 'under bonds of $500 each following a hearing before J. W. Dula, United States commissioner, in Wilkeeiboro. Federal Officers C. 3. Felts, C. C, Noble, A. R. Williams, J. C. Fortner and J. R. Brandon cap tured E. Hobeon Crappa, of Ashe county, with an automobile laden with 40 gallons of illicit liquor. Sheriff C. T, QCfllgWon and Itepnly Odell V^lttlngton. companled by Y’edMal OfiSicerS C 8. Mrs. B. H. Walsh Funeral Friday Will Result^ in _Gr«at Im provement in 'Appear ance and Convenience titelts and LeooiaiM 'RoOp, de stroyed a ISO-jtalloir still and 2,066 gailoiui of b^' 4n the 'Windy Gap vldiiity Thursday. Funeral service was held Fri day at Elk church 'by Rev. J. C. Gentry for Mrs. Mary Ann Walsh, widow of the late B. Hw Walsh, Of Ferguson. Sihe died 'Thursday. She leaves the following chil dren: James Walsh, EvaneLm. Wyoming: Mary and Fannie W’alsh, of Ferguson; and H. B. Walsh, also of Ferguson. Mrs. C. G. Prevette Funeral On Friday Funeral service was h^d Fri day at Pleasant Grove church for Mrs. Julie Prevette, who died Wednesday at her home in New Castl© township. She waa the wife of C. G. Pre vette and leaves three children: Jodumie and Don Harris and Grady Prevette; Workhien employed by the W orks Progress administration under a com-petent foreman have begun the task of widening a block of 0 street and sidewalk on the south side between Ninth and Tenth streets. When ccumpletpd the block will have a full width street and side walk similar to that constructed a few years ago on the north side of (he block. T'^e cost of the project is being paid by the WPA and the city of North Wilkeslboro. The changes will greatly improve the appearance of the block and will facilitate traffic over the street. T. D. Heffner, division WPA engineer, said that the project ]^11 -be rushed to completion os early as possible in order J. Paul Leonird 1$ Visitor Here Secretary Of Fair Tax Asso ciation Makes Business Call In This City J. Paul Leonard, of Statesville, president of t)h« North Carolina Fair Tax AssopisjMon, was a visi tor in North" 'WUkeslwro Friday, calling upon a nnmber of merch ants and other friends, CiHnmenting on the organisa tion which he r^reaents. ^Mr. Leonard said that the fight-'on the'sales tax In the state is con tinuing incsesantly and la sa la- terview with a representative eC .u oiMcr w^dTho Journal-Patriot again assail- ©ssssd one merit little Inconvenience 'will be e*-_: *d the sale«;tax as nnfWr sad nn-iOolwa«, AWatolaater ot tfw, ’Suitable ionn of tattWoh.^,7’“ H. E, Ochsner. from Pisgah national forest west of Ashe ville. addre.ssed the North Wil kesboro Kiwanis club Friday in a program furnislied by E. G. Finley. "Need For Preservation of For ests" was the .subject of the ad dress, in which he pointed out the rapid depletldh of natural resources and the filling up of reservoirs, ravages of erosiion and other evils as direct results of de struction ot forests. He continued with comment on the Pisgath rcserv© and his re marks concerning deer in the forest proved particularly inter esting. He said that in the 90,- 000-acre preserve there are ap proximately 8,000 deer and that deer are becoming overstocked. Work of surtacii) , about ten miles of new highway 16 from Wilbar in Wilkes county to Glen dale Springs in Ashe county 'be gan this week. Kiker and Yount, contracting firm, -holds contract for placing the asphalt-stone surface treat ment on the new gradaM,:..WhlBh has just recently 'been completed. In addition to 'being one of the best highways for commercial purposes to climb the Blue Ridge, the new highway abounds in scenic interest, following the °ii “jumping off” road reminiscent of wagon trains of only a few decades ago. Near the summit of the Blue Ridge the roadway waa blasted from the rock H:.ong the north side of the "Jumping Off Place,” a sheer precipice about 500 feet in height. Emerging from this precipice the highway intersects with the Blue Ridge Parkway on the summit of the Blue Ridge and will pass under the scenic road. There a rock quarry has been set up, from which stone is being taken to place the sub surface on part of sitate liighway 16 and a- bout 20 miles of the parkway. 'The task of surfacing highway 16 to the top of the mountain from Wilbar will be completed shortly but it is expected that a few months will elapse before the three-mile link to Glendale Springs is ready for the finish surface treatment. Labor for the project is being furnished by th© district state employment service office In this city. Raleigh.—Bread and rolls wfll not be subject to the sales tax alter July 1, after which date nine other basic food articles will also become exempt, it was -pointed out today by department of revenue officials, coincident with the announcement by Com missioner of Revenue A. .T. Max well that the tax would be more stringently enforced and collected than ever before, that merchants would be required to keep more complete records. The nine other exempted food articles are flour, meal, meat, sugar, salt, coffee, milk, lard and molasses. By meat Is meant any fresh, smoked, salt or processed meat other than canned meat. For canned meat, also canned milk, will continue to he subject to the sales tax. Merchants selling both taxable and non taxejble articles must keep an accurate record of all sales of taxable and exempted ar ticles, otherwise they will be re quired to pay the full 3 per cent sale tax on their gross sales. It was pointed out by officials In the sales tax division. In making their returns each month, merch ants must list their gross receipt* then their total taxable sales and total non-taxabl© sales. But If they do not keep accurate and detailed records ot both the tax- »1>19 oad aoivJtXM«a-: *01** their stores, they will 'be* taxed on the basis of their'gross sale*. It was pointed out. Several differ ent methods are being outlined for use by grocery stores to ke^ track of their taxable and non- taxable sales and these will be mailed out soon to all merchant* along with th© new rules and regulations. So far no definite system for separating taxajjle and non-^tax- able sales to the customer, so that they will not get mixed up and the customer taxed for ex empted articles, ha.s not been worked out. it was said. But it was indicated that thought is be ing given to this problem and that grocery store operators may b» required to record sales, on sep arate slips, so that there will be no danger of charging customers the sales tax on commnditie* which are e.xempt from it. Inspector Gives Ratings For June Many Eating Places Show Improvement In Sanitary Conditions for Month Merchants’ Association’s Float In Safety Parade Is Subject Comment MRS. McNEILL TEA^Hpi JfiLLERS CREEK SCH^ It was erroneously repdBbd la The Jouroal-P^riot Thursday in the Hat of teachers that Mrs. Mae Riggs 'McNeill had been elected teacher at Mountain Valley. Mrs. McNeill's name should hs-ve ap peared in the list of teacners at Millers Creek, where ahe will teach during the next term. G. S. Odell, Wilkes county san itary inspector, today released for publication sanitary raUng* for the month of June. Some improvement was noted in, tb.a4 seven eotabllUhTOents ror cely,ed a grade A rating jndividTOl ' gi’ades ”* ! for any recent month. The rating* Award Merits In Court of Honor Scout Court In Biuy Moot- inf Tuesday Night At Hotel Wilkes Scout emat ot honor In meet ing Thiesday night at Hotel Wilke* avh^od a number of mer it 'badges ito local gboota. V Bob 'McCoy and Bat William* perienoed. paffeed the electricity merit. Grade A The Black Oat 9L# Goodwill Lunch S2.K The Little Grill Broadway Tourist Green Lantern 9L* South Side (col.) »*•» Call Hotel Futility of R*^I«»t PljyjBg Portrayod By Hospital Imitation , ffoliowr-‘"^!Tr*;T OiilMdiidifag id tlie Safety Pa> Grade rade here Satai*diy wte a flat by the Wilkes County Retail Merch ants’ Association. The float vividly portrayed the futility of-recklessnesB. The truck was aittractively decorated and "Live and Let Live’’ was the slo gan In big letters on both sides of the truck. On the truck was an operating table and a "patient” wfco was bloody and showed the effect of a tragic auto wreck. Two nurses were working over the patient and a suwon was making ready to do this utmost to sate the life of the patient. Thee® parts war© played by Johnnie Allen as the surgeon, Annie Catherine Moore and Margaret McNeill as nunee. The Retns-Stardhraiit ambn- lance also portrayed tbe frulte of raoklesB, driving tn that it oon- tatned a "wreck vicUni" and a burse. 111* throng ‘witneesing Mi* was. vary taVonhiy im- prea^. with Grade B EUei’s Cafe — Princeee Cafe *5.* Moore Bros. — *5.5 Rock Diner **•• Green Pig **•* Liberty Lunch — —- W-onder Oaf® ——;— TVy Me ——- —■ The Sandwich Shop Jim’* Cafe .Grade C Snappy Lunch Beeehe* Ptaeif^ MfOil TV* Oentral Cafie • - " "'iSJrr.jSi ‘if Sunny Cat*. Morehiiai OMy John M. 'itort^M^, ernor of Ah* Stata *5’