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Oct. 16-^. D. (IX«)
it. #Airr, nation*!
4c«nitt«eiaan trdm
oUn*, aniioaniaM tor
tiiat te irijjl ■fcy*-**nHld*t*
.^r' 6{[$i£StMs from th» tlMi
jrorth Carolina district In tbo
I9S8 Domoeratic primary.
^ FARMER CONVICTED
' Danbury, Oct. 15.—A Jury of
t Jtokes eoionty farmer* today oon-
Qeorge Nelson of second
I murder after Jiearfam tea-
nony that Nelson .was drunk
boo he slaved hi» wife^s throat
Ejst ttelr mountain home October
f 7. jtudge E. C. Birens sentenced
/the tobacco grower to 80 years In
^prison trad stipulated that he
hall wear stripes.
SHIP DAMAGED
Seattle, Oct. 15.—A wounded
Js charged and rammed the
^riialer Unimak, of Seattle, and
dented her steel plates, Capt. A.
M. Pederson, skipper and gunner,
. said today upon returning from
in six-months’ cruise In Bering
laea. The flTe-eight|b Inch steel
on the port side showed a
hinch dent.
^jtotee
Freturn purse •
.Raleigh, Oct. 16. — Scotland
, JShgland’s famous crime-
Ifightlng agency, sent Raleigh po-
fllce today a purse, passport. $5
„ck aotf papers lost in London
.‘July'^by Mrs. W. Samuel Grif-
of Rockingham. A letter ac-
anylns the articles said the
was feund In a London
SOra minus any money it may
fJiaTe contained.
V04 yaffil M g "'PttbliBhed Monda^,|uid -iTtodgyai
fi-'rV'
Attmal
Se^kiiK lIIdd On
October lliuid 13
T. E. Story ElectMl Mod^
tor and J. F„-Jordan
Clerk for Yeira
IS WELL ATTENDED
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SBORO, N. C
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IF AIR lim VlSn'TOTBISaTTF»
Msuiy Pastors and Delegates
At Association Held At
Liberty Grow
e BUKE IS COMING -
Washington, Oct. 15.—Prepa-
Lrations began today, oh, so qulet-
Vly—for a visit by the Duke and
iDnchese of Windsor on Novem-
l-ber 15, opening day of the spect
ral session of Congress. Every-
y^ng was unofficial, .but some
fepvernment departments were ap-
l^oached regarding appointments
hrough which the former King
fof England might meet experts
Bt qualified to guide his pro-
’gKMed study of housing and work-
f^eonditloDS in , the United
i. N. C. GETS FUNDS
r'. Raleigh, Oct. 15.—The execu-
^itire commute© of the trustees of
the University of North Carolina
gMormally accepted grants from
the federal public works admin-
. Istration today for 8243,000 for
buildings at Chapel Hill and
Greensboro. The PWA gave $61,-
853 of the $160,000 to be ex-
Featured by good reports and
large attendance, the Brushy
Mountain Baptist association held
Its annual session at Liberty
Grove church Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
A total of 23 pastors and other
Baptist ministers were present
for the opening session Tuesday
when Rev. C. C. Holland deliver
ed a soul-stlrrlng sermon on the
subject of “The Church of the
Living God.’’
The program was carried out
In much the same manner as an
nounced with but tew substitu
tions necessary on account of ab
sences.
On Tuesday morning the asso
ciation opened with devotional
by Rev. W. R. Beach, followed
by enrollment of messengers and
recognition of visitors.
The following committees were
appointed: time, place and
preacher, U. G. Foster. Frank
Walker and*.. H. M. Anderson;
nominating, R. L. Proftit and
Miss Pearl Jarvis; resolutions,
W. K. Sturdivant, W. O. Barnette
and H. C. Kilby.
The cooperative program was
discussed Tuesday in thre© phas
es; “aged ministers,’’ by Rex
West; “Christian- Education.’’ re
port by J. H. Whicker read by
Rev. Eugene Olive; "Baptist Hos
pital,’’ report by Mrs. H. G. Nich
ols read by Rev. Eugene Olive.
The discussion was by Rev. J. A.
McKaughan.
In the afternoon lisk. J.. E-
Hayes led th© praise and worship
opening. Mrs. G. O. Foster gave
a report on Woman’s Missionary
Union, which was discussed by
Rev. C. C. Holland. T. E. Story
gave a report on Sunday schools
and led the discussion. The re
port on B. T. U. was by John
Kermit Blackburn. The next
number was one minute reports
StaAe
IliN,
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4,RM) GaDoiis Of
Beer Cut Down at
Large Distfflery
Conwention Op«»^ FrMkjr
And Cloa^ WlHi
Sunday Afternoon
IS welCattendeij?)
■',? —
Aboat 100 Delegate* Frcm
All Parts of State Gather
In Meeting
The North CarollMWothart
Christian Temperance U B Tb B
closed a most succeastul threih
day convention in. North ■Wllkee-
boro Sunday afternoon.
The convention seeslons*
ed Friday afternoon 2:80 at the
Methodist church and the closing
seesions were held In the Flnt
Baptist church.
Highlights In the convention,
described as one of the most suo-
cessful state meetings of the W.
C. T. U. In recent years, were *d"
dresses by the state president,
Mrs. W. B. Lindsay, of Charlottn,
and Mrs. Margaret Munns, of
Evanston, 111., world treasurer of
the organization.
On Saturday morning th© fol
lowing officers were named for
the ensuing year:
President, Mrs. T. H. Plem-
mons, Charlotte; vice president,
Mrs. W. B. Lindsay, Charlotte;
corresponding secretary, Mrs.
George W. Pressley, Charlotte;
recording secretary, Mrs. B. M.
Herndon, Durham; treasurer.
Miss Vera Herring, Raleigh; edi
tor th© White Ribbon, Mrs. W.
L. Nicholson, Charlotte; young
people's branch, Mrs. B, B.
Slaughter, Elizabeth City, and
Loyal Temperance legion, Mr*.
Guy Beattie, Charlotte.
In the opening session FrldV
greetings ^from the chnrcdies wet*
spoken by Dr. R. B. JreihpletOB,
Methodist pastor; Miss,, Mamto
Gookweil, retpresehtlng., tlie Hetib-
dOife. Mtoslonapr. .fleelt^j —'
momoBii
pended In reconditioning Spencer, j^om th© churches with a digest Deputies Whittington ., And
. . . . II .* . . Nichols On Successful
Raid in Somers
dormitory at Woman’s college at
.Greensboro. A grant of $134,905
tfrom the PWA was secured for
’’the new $410,000 medical school
building at Chapel Hill.
TO BALANCE BUDGET
Hyde Park, N. Y.. Oct. 15.—
Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, of
the federal maritime commis
sion, said after a lengthy confer-
- ence with President Roosevelt
today the latter’s primary aim in
domestic affairs was a balanced
budget. Kennedy told newsmen
he discussed governmental fiscal
affairs with the President along
with a long range survey of
merchant marine problems. “That
:really Is the thing he wants to
do most—balance the budget,’’
he said, adding: “I think ih© has
a very, very good chanc© of do
ing it.’’
Rifle Shoodng
Here Dai^[erous
Police Warns Boys That Fir-
nig Guns In City Must Be
Stopped Now
During the past few days all
that prevented deplorable trage
dies In North Wllkeaboro was
ith* absence of persons in the
patha of rifle bullets carelessly
by hoys.
f At'-least three residences . la
the elty bear witnees to the fact
by window panes broken by rifle
Polios Chief J. B. Walker in
*a interview this morning with a
joamal-
dt*d the city law making
' It a following the committee’s
M.1I laanMt a report the committee was given
of church letters read by Rev.
Eugene Olive. Religious litera
ture was discussed by Rev. J. S.
Elliot.
On Wednesday morning Mode
rator T. E. Story opened the
session with devotional and the
first number on th© program was
a report on the Baptist orphan
age by C. C. Church and a fine
discussion by R. D. Covington, of
Thomasville.
Missions were, discussed a.s fol
lows: state missions, J. F. Jor
dan;, horn© missions, report by
A. H. Casey read by Rev. Eugene
Olive: foreign missions, by Rev.
N. T. Jarvis. A general discussion
of the three subjects was con
tained in an address by M. A.
Huggins, general secretary of the
Baptist state convention.
’The other principal address of
the Wednesday morning .session
was by Rev. J. C. Canipe, pastor
of Boone Baptist church, on the
subject, “Undergirding the Co
operative Program.”
The afternoon session was
opened with devotional by Rev.
S. I. Watts. Th© temperance re
port was by Wm. A. Stroud and
discussion was in the form of a
challenging address by Rev. M.
A. Adams. A summary of the
year’s achievements and discus
sion of goals for next year were
led by Rev. Eugene Olive.
pi Kill'll ■ j
W, Cv T. U. Speaker
Odell Whittington and Win
field Nichols, deputies sheriff,
made a successful raid Thursday
night in Somers township.
'They located a large still,
which was destroyed along with
4,000 gallons of beer and other
materials used In the . manufac
ture of sugarhead liquor.
No one was arrested but there
was evidence that th© plant was
used for making whiskey on a
large scale.
2 Attorneys Are 4
Admitted In Court
H. Whicker. Jr., and
Ralph Davis Take Oaths
Before Judge
Cal#MlCoun|y
Residents Killed
On Highway 18
Hub Mahaffey and Well
born Mahaffey Mangled
When Car Wrecks
’Two new attorneJSs who passed
the last state bar examination
and received license to practice
were sworn in In the October
term of Wilkes court which ad
journed Friday.
They were:
J. H. Whicker, Jr., son of At
torney and Mrs. J. H. Whicker,
a tjj rvoT. vyiiT^ _ , . , .
The committee on time, place to enter In-
and preacher forth© 1938 assocl- pracUc© with Ms father when
he receives his degree^ from the
University of North Carolina.
Ralph Davis, of Purlear, a.SOS'
ation reported* Wednesday morn
ing that the association will be
held with Mount Pleasant church - , . '
on Thursday and Friday before ^r. and Mrs. J. H. D^yls. He
the second Sunday In September. to open an office in
The committee selected Rev. W. year. He is teaching this
B. Llnney to deliver the intro- y®®** ‘>®S‘" Pr^U®® “P*
ductory sermon and when news completion of th© school term,
of his death was received Imme-
pom *
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V la too aerloaa^ tor
* leniweyi h*
fandM* -will b* pfoaecuted In the
ahtll Wednesday afternoon to
ehani^ Its report. Rev. A. B.
Wnatta-iru deedgnated to deliver
the sermon wiUi Rev. S. I. Watts
as alternate.
T. B. Story was re-elected mod-
Mountain Lions
Lose To
By the ono-slded score of 8.7
to 0 the North Wilkes boro Monn-
eOBits, rapWdJess -sg». Par-Wtor and J. P. Jortou clerk of ^ain Lions dropped a hard fopt-
...t. advised to warn their .the association for the coming ^ „ ......
«nts Vf adiT^ 10 ball game against their heavlsr
flrsanns within the city. The! Resolutions of the association rivals at Elkfn Jhrtday afternoqu
huHMirwhich bK*e the windows In memory of Rev. W. B. .Llnney - - - -
did have penetrated hum*6 bo- were read and adopted as fol-
^onM they *a^ *e«n . In,lours: ^
of the desidly missies. {Oemtinaed on page four)
Oherryvllle*^team, Stiodg’ Ws*b'
em Conference contenders^' Will
play the Uons here Friday, of this
week.
Two were killed Instantly and
one was badly hurt Sunday aft
ernoon, 3:30, when a car over
turned a number of times on
highway 18 near Boomer and
landed in J. B. German’s barn
yard.
The dead are:
Hub Mahaffey, age about 60,
and his son, Wellborn Mahaffey,
17, of Valmead, Caldwell county.
Arnold Simmons, son-in-law of
the elder Mahaffey, was badly cut
and bruised but was ekpected to
return to bis home near Lenoir
today from the Wilkes hospital,
where he was carried for treat-
ment.
It was on© of th© most grue-
8om© and -bloody antomobll© ac-
cidents witnessed In this part of
the state, according to those
who arrived at the scene and re
covered the bodies.
The young man was killed In
stantly. Apparent the car, an old
touring model, had crushed hlS
head 6n th© pavement and por
tions of his brain were found on
the highway. Several pieces of
his skull were seen on tho pave
ment
Tbe elder man lived a few
moments, although a'strand of
the barbed wire fmice vdilch tie
car piled through alter ^leaving
the road bad removed his lower
Jaw.’j^*', ’
Tbe ^der Mahaffey-wa* drly^
Ing add the car wiis Said to
been going toward fiijudr at^.i
high ratflir of apsfd^A hatt ^M#^
bottle of liquor wa* t&uA
wreckage and .it thougifvt>i^
the driver ires uau5er ;th*if fiB01»-
ehce of llqaor.’^i'-iA - s,
■a© Jdsislt^ *»
Mrs. Margaret C. Munns, of
Evanston, III., national and world
treasurer of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union. Mrs.
Munns was one of the feature
speakers In the state W. C. T. U.
meetlng(jrblch was held in North
WilkeebOro Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
A M. Whittington
Funeral on Sunday
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PriHninent Citizen of Red--
dies River Communill|y
Taken By Death
•’ * itearoe WfcltUngton, on© of
the most prominent citizens of
the Reddies River community,
died aSK>nt on© o’clock a. m. Sat-,
urday morning at his Aome fol
lowing an illness of several days.
Although he had been jin: tor
•evertt days and death !w*s not
Unexperted, news of his passing
vras an occasion of sorrow among
man/’^ridatives and ^ends'j'who
had known JUm for-Aany years.
He ■was A won'of the latseQ^ ^^tkesborO and-w^ on i;-;--—--
and Mrs. Rfehel :thelr way home from a
"Cotthf^
Mall Week,” has \ ._
Journal-Patriot ^th Interesf
data regarding “Air Mall Week,” w C T U
and especially regarding the gniendl’d rcM
number of letters dispatched on
October 12, which was the date
the air mall plane landed at
North Wllkesboro to pick up
mail.
Mr. Williams said that letters
were dispatched from North Wll
kesboro on October 12th by plane
to points so as to reach every
state In the union and fourteen
letters were dispatched to for
eign countries, namely: Philip
pine Islands, Hawaii, Canal Zone,
England;- China, Canada, Brazil
and The Netherlands. North Car
olina received the largest num
ber, there being 393 letters mail
ed, going to 115 different post
offices. New York appears to
have been second. In which 29
post offices received 142 letters,
California taking third place with
61 post offices being served and
receiving 140 letters. Other lead
ers receiving a goodly number
■were Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, 'Virginia, West Virginia,
(Continued on page five)
Court Completes
October Session;
Tfy Civil Cases
Greater Progrea* Made Dur
ing Second Week Of
Term; Try Several
K. B. Fnw welcomeiit tie IIm _ .
•in behalf of toe local chapte^bC
More rapid progress was made
during th© last ■week of the Oc
tober term of Wilkes court,
w.hlch adjourned Friday after
noon. Judge J. H. Clement pre
sided.
During the first week only two
ea*N with the exception of un-
bohtested actions were tried but
*e§3$^ were tried during the last
wOe^lncluding the following:
-Xf iM. Hawkins versus Mattie
Hawkins, divorce.
Itolph Greene by his next
friend venns Arthur Gremie;
Splendid reriorts were received
by the convention on varioaa
phases of the work of the organ
ization in the state. Mrs. Munoir 4^1
world treasurer, congratulatad
the association for having raised
five-sixths of its allotted educa
tional fund.
The convention went on record
with an emphatic approval of the
action of the state in adding the
book, “Alcohol and Other Habit
Forming Ilrugs,” as a textbook
for the sixth grade in the school
system.
The address of Mrs. Lindsay on
PYlday night was the subject of
much favorable comment. “A
great crisis is on in our work.
The right wing of public senti
ment has been driven back, the
left wing of legislation has been,
broken, the center of public mor
als and spiritual ideals bave been
smashed, but this is not time fbr
a retreat,” Mrs. Lindsay said.
She urged the union to use eve
ry effort to get dry representa
tives in the next session of th*
general assembly.
The Saturday night sessim.
was featured by an inspiring and
thought provoking addre« by
Mrs. Munns, who alko spoke to
a large congregation Sunday
morning at toe First- Baptist
church. , i‘-
Oq Sunday afternoon Rev. G.
I. Kerr, pastor of. tho As
Reform Preabyterian church Sin '
Winston-Salem, held the rl^!ln--i
terest of the congregation In tharj
closing session with an. addf
challenging the leadei*. Ivp- gow-^
wnment, civic and ehiirch li
with what ha,termed as depl
able conditions due to^legal^
strong drink in the nation ^and i
the state. ’'■'•1$
He was emphatic ln~ pi
the blame nP®» reprseeatatlf
in congress and' th© Itjjflf
of the sennl stAtot tof
termm8 **’* ioweittng df^tbe •
al standard* .of tha,|Mpt^ dw
liquor and '
The eonventiozii-mevid' ale
^ciently Ahd smeothty a*
dnled aid' the ladia* ^ ^:
Wilkeeboto were _ _
mented for the' mainer in
pbdattff to recover $260.
weak tor benefit children. d«riug ^^2^0
Colrard JAto'ittingtqn, of th* Rod-
(GhSttoaed on Mgh«)j^
i-- j
relatives her* when th* am^l«tt.
occured.
K' B. Brown, administrator,
versus C. A McCann and Bfadn*
%arke, (plaintiff to recover 'fSO.
.. Ci D. Goffey, Jr.;. vi»rdn» P.‘jjJ
Jennings,- plaintiff to recover,.
^ ’ day whlen toitti
^ XqGlamery vendb Coear' trie 'Wire
LObli'botiiing cofpoany, mistrial.,'home-near '
Of*- H
ton,*2L ■vis'