912.000 ROBBERY f Boston, Not. IE.—Four men, idiootliiK wIIdlT, today robbed the Boston agency of the Packard Motor company of a pay roll which company officials said might exceed $12,000. Judge Johnson J. Hayes Confined to His Home By Illness Today U. A. W. PRICE PROTEST . , Detroit, Nov. 12.—Homer Mar tin, international president of the United Automobile Workers, called tonight upon UAW locals throughout the country to take •■‘direct action” to lo'wer the cost of living, ‘‘principally” that of meat. OPENING DELAYED 1^0 GOVERNORS TO VIE Angusta, Me., Nov. 12.—Gov ernor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine and Baiibiila W. Clark, chief exe cutive of Idaho, today agreed to compete against each other in a potato-picking battle next tall. The two governors, however, de ferred agreement as to the scene of the proposed contest—^whether Maine or Idaho. FIVE CHILDREN BURN OUvet, Mich., Nov. 12.—The fiv^-^lidren of Mr. and Mrs. HardU WVlgglesworth were bnrn- to death today when fire de- . atroyed the small building in I-which they had been living on -•the farm of Gordon Raymond, one and a half miles north of here. The children’s parents with Raymond, who lived in the other end of the building, were in the barn when the flames broke out. Until Three ©‘Clock This Aft ernoon; Many Criminal Cases Pending Judge Cecil Wyche, of Spar tanburg, S. C., Is presiding over federal court in Wllkesboro in the absence of Judge Johnson J. Hayes, who is ill at his home in Greensboro. Until yesterday Judge Hayes had planned to open courc at ten o’clock this morning as schedul-.-week. ed but upon the advice nf his physician ho remained at his home and the judge of the West ern district of South Carolina was assigned to open court this afternoon at three o’clock and to preside until such time as Judge Hayes may bo able to take his place on the bench. Judge Hayes Is suffering from a severe cold, accompanied by high temperature. The court faces a heavy dock et of criminal cases and it Is ex pected that trial of the criminal calendar will consume all this week and perhaps part of next week. Several civil actions are also pending trial. Liquor cases make up practic ally the entire criminal calendar. Court opened at three o’clock this afternoon and Judge Wyche charge Red Cross Drive Gets Under Way In County Today Inclement Weather Delayed Active Work During Lat ter Part of Week The annual Red Cross mem bership campaign which formal ly opened Thursday did not get under way actively until today, due to unusually rainy weather during the latter part of last bjuve BEDBUGS RUN COURT Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 12.—Bed bugs forced Kentucky’s highest j delivered an instructive tribunal—the court of appeals—j to the grand Jury, to vacate its regular meeting place today. Hordes of tho vermin appeared when radiators were turned on in the Capitol early this week. Members of the court expressed th© opinion—informal- i^nt -without dissent—flood gees brought th© bugs in last winter- Today’s meeting of the ribunal waa conducted in the conference room because work men combatting th© army of in vader? had torn up the> regular ’chamber. CHARGES DICTATORSHIP Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 12.— Former President Herbert Hoov er today charged the New Deal with attempting to abolish the ^Mrit system in public service mSid to substitute in its place ^'personal political control.” He »poV© at the dedication of Syra cuse university’s new $500,000 school of citlsenship—-first of its kind in the country—attended by faculty member representatives of close to a score of eastern and midwestern colleges and univer sities. Several Hurt In Auto Collision One Held in Connection With Crash on Highway 16 Saturday Night BULWINKLE TALKS Washington, Nov. 12.—Imme diate repeal of the surplus prof its tax, passage of a wages and hours bill with a reasonable dif ferential for the South, enact- of a farm bill that will tabllize and maintain adequate prices for farm commodities, coupled with a general economy program were outlined today by Congressman A. L. Bulwiakle of the Tenth North Carolina district as his concept of what Congress should do. 'Sta Six people were injured and two cars were almost completely demolished in a bloody accident Saturday night on highw.ay 16 about three miles north of Mil lers Creek. Cars driven by Lonnie Kilby and Todd Wyatt crashed headon and six were hurt. The Injured were Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Kilby, Bronard I-ong and Connie Dan cy, Mrs. 'Podd Wyatt and small child. The injured were treated at the Wilkes Hospital and Mrs. Kilby, who .sustained severe cuts, b^^lisc^ and possible interna! in juries. was admitted to the hos pital while the others returned to their homes after their wounds were dressed. Todd Wyatt, said to have been the driver of one of the cars, was arrested near his home by Patrolman Carlyle Ingle. How ever, there were conflicting re ports relative to who was driving the car, it being reported to of ficers today that Roe Church The largest membership In many years is eicpected from Wilkes county people. A canvass of the city will be completed at an early date and some very gratlfjdng reports have come In from industrial plants, many of which are trying for 100 per cent membership among employ es this year. C. B. Eller, county superinten dent of schools, heads tLe drive in the schools and the rural sec tions of the county. Every prin cipal is considered a canvasser for his community and member ship contributions may be given to school principals, making it more convenient for people in rural communities to make their contribution to the World Great est Mother. Miss Keys Will Speak Nov. 17th At Welfare Meet -4, District Ccmferetite To ' Be Held At Boone; Program Is Released Miss Lavinia Keys, regional representative of the social se curity board, Washington, D. C., will address the Northwestern district welfare conference at Boone on Wednesday, November 17, it was learned today from Charles McNeill, Wilkes county welfare officer and president of the conference. Mr. McNeill released the en tire program of the conference, which will open at 9:30 and continue through the luncheon meeting at one p. m., at which time Miss Keys will speak. Her subject win be ‘‘A Forward Look In Public Welfare In North Carolina.” The annual message in the morning session will be by Miss Mary O. Linton, president of the association of county superinten- tents of public welfare. Follow ing the message will be ‘‘The County Welfare Superintendent at Work,” presented by the Guilford county welfare depart ment. The ‘‘Open Forum” will be led by George L. Stanbury, chair man of the Guilford county was driving and fled when th© cars wrecked. There was evidence j board of commissioners. that Wyatt had been drinking. Afrs. £. P. Albea Taken By Death Free Examination Crippled Childrer ^;Died Sunday Night At Home >f Brother, R. M. Brame; Funeral Tuesday Underprivileged May Services Specialist Thru Welfare Department Mrs. E. P. Albea died at the borne of her brother, R. M. Brame, Sunday night at 11:30. *^Jjrs. Albea has been in ill health for a long period of time but be came seriously HI a week ago. -49he Is survived by two sons, Cbas.. B.- Albea, of Bridgewater, Bt -Norman Albea, of Ga.j five brothers, W. of Rocky Mount; P. J. and.R. M. Brame, of North Wllkesboro, J. D. Brame, of High Point, and M. M.. Brame, of Nor- Itna. f.... - . Mrs. Albea was educated at College in Winston-Salem. .’.^flRiere •will bo a short funeral 'tIMwic© Tuesday morning at 9 ck at the home of R., M., eimdiicted by her pastor, St/ a. !»• Aycock. Her nephews irlll ^pall bearers. Inter- win he ia the Wlnston-6al- cemetery. a. Announcement is made of a free examination clinic for crip pled children to be held In Le noir on November 18 and on the third 'Thursday in each month. Dr. Gaul, a specialist, is in charge of the clinic and any who have crippled children and are financially unable to carry them to Lenoir for examination ar© asked to get in touch with Charles McNeill, Wilkes county welfare officer. Geese Say Its Time To Fill Coal Bins And Put on Woolens The keen ears of Mrs. J. H. Finley caught th© sound of a flock of wild geese Saturday morning. The geese were headed south eastward In the nsnal V-shaped fomatlon. The migration of geese southward denotes the eemtng of cold weather. Other features of the morning program will be an address by Mrs.W. T. Bost, state commls- ' sioner of public welfare, on “The Development of an Adequate Pro gram of Public Welfare.” The closing address of th© morning session will be by Nathan H. Get Yelton, director of the division of public assistance, on ‘‘Public Assistance.’’ Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of Appalachian State Teachers College, will preside over tho luncheon meeting at one o’clock. Both morning and luncheon ses sions ’Brill be held at the First Baptist church. Counties in the Northwestern district are Ashe, Surry, Rock ingham, 'Wilkes, Forsyth, Ala mance, Stokes, Davidson, Alle ghany, Watauga, Yadkin, Gull- ford, Davie and Randolph. All people Interested In social work are Invited to the confer ence. Tho Wilkes county board of welfare, composed of Dr. W. W. Miles, P. J. Brame and Wm. A. Stroud, are members of the hos pitality. committee for the con ference. -Children in school must be al lowed freedom to develop active qualities of initiative. Indepen dence, and resonfcefulnets, ' be fore the abuses and fallurMT of democracy •will disappear.—John Dewey. 0^ all unemployed and partially itn-. nited States will be taken between A natiO‘ employed pertain the the dates of Nmeniber 16 to 20, by ,act of Congress, and at the direction of Preifdent Roosevelt. Here, in que^i^fon-and-answer form, is the information you need to know about this plan. WHAT IS POBP08E OF THE ONEMPLOVMENT CENSUS? “To get an accurate count of the unemployed and partly unem ployed. TO WHOM mix CARDS BE SENT? To every family in the United States. ♦ UNDER WHOSR AUSPICES IS THE CENSUS BEING TAKEN? Congress has decreed, and the President has directed, that it be taken. II IS THE CENSUS COHPULSORYT No. But every unemployed or partly unemployed person is urgently request to cooperate. HOW WILL tn CENSUS BE CONDCCTEOr Through the facilities of the Post OflBoe Department. Report Cards will be ddiwer^ to every family. Cards are to be returned by mail to Washington for tabulation and analysis. WHEN Will TBB CENSUS BE TAKEN? Cards wdll be ddivered on November 16 and must be returned by MIDNIQOT NOVEMBER 20. They are already addressed and no postage is required. WHO SHOULD VilX AND RETURN CA^Sf Every person who is ‘unemployed or- partly unemployed who ia able to work and wantg-wrlc. WHAT AGE LOOTS APj^t? There are no age limits mccept existing State regulatimis concern ing workers’ agss. , ^ SHOULD MORE THAN ONE UNEMPLOYED PERSON IN A FAMILY RETURN A CARD? Yes. Every unemployed member of a family should fill out and return a card, if able to work and seeking work. WHERE MAY ADDITIONAL CARDS BE OBTAINED? At any post office or from your postman. WHERE CAN INFOBMA-nON BE SECURED IN FILLING OUT CARDS? At your post office or from your postman. IS THIS CENSUS CONFINED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS? No. All permanent residents of the United States are included. IS THE INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE CARDS TO BE CONSID ERED CONFIDENTIAL? i " Yes. This infonoRtfon will be used for unemployment statistics Persoiu Who Do Not Have Regular Jobs Asked To ^ Fill Out Blanks INFORMATION GIVEN On Tuesday, November 16, the -postal service will attempt to de liver to every home a blank to be used by unemployed people in the voluntary census of nnem- ployed authorized by act of the last congress. The postoffice here will deliver to every home on the carrier roBtes and other homes not on the rentes blanks to be filled out. Cards •will also be sent on the mral routes and to ©very postof- flee for 'delivery to every family. Tbe information in the two columns adjacent to this article CaUy explains the census and may be used asi a guide concerning who should fill out and retuni the cards which the mailman will carry to homes Tuesday. Ask Cooperation h the Count Of Jobless People Employes Asked To Advise Jobless To Regis- ^ ter With NCSES James M. Anderson, manager of the employment service office here, issued a statement this week asking postmasters, postal clerks and carriers to advise job- Say Station Should B# dy For Use Late Tkb Year; Raise Funds/: M. E. Gardner, head of-, the horticulture department, pt State College, and H. R. NlSwongSt; a>- tenslon specialist, thli week -ap proved location for ..the fmit re search station at Kilby’s Gap on highway 16 near the Wllkes- Alezander line. The laboratory, a 25 x 8S frame structure, will be erected near the apple house of Perry Lowe and on a lot donated ’ by him. Th© extension men approved the location because it lies in the Brushy Mountain apple belt, on a hard surfaced highway and is accessible at all times. Carl E. Van Deman, named by the extension service to man the station, said that it will even tually be a well equipped labo ratory with the necessary fix tures, mlchroBCope, insect cages and other essential things to be used in research work. Work is expected to begin in about two weeks and authorities hop© that the laboratory and building will be ready for use by tho latter part of December. A committee of the Brushy Mountain Fruit Growers associ ation is soliciting funds to be used In defraying expenses of equipment for the building in order to make more of the $6,- 000 appropriation by the state available for actual research Yes. To obtain' the most accurate information possiUe, tha PnaL- dent asks that each question be answered. Numbers 9 and 10 are particularly important However, failure to answer some of the questions will not invalidate the card; 15 questions WHO IS AN rUNEMPLOYED" PERSON?, A person of either sex or any color who is not working and is able to work and seeking work. WHO IS A -PARTLY UNEIOPLOYED” PERSON? A person of either sex or any color with part-time employment who is able to do more work and is looking for more work. ARE PERSONS ON EMERGENCY WORK PROJECTS INCLUDED? Yes. They Should register as unemployed. A specific question. Number 2c, is provided‘bn the Report Card for all persons work ing on a W.P.A., N.V.A., C.C.a, .or other emergency work project which is suDpnrted by public funds. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESmENT OF THE UNITED STATES The White House Washington TO EVERY WORKER: If you are unemployed or partly unemployed and are able to work and are seeking work, please fill out thU report card right away and mail it before midnight, Saturday. November 20, 1937. No postage stamp Is needed. , The Congress directed me to lake this census. It is Important to the unemployed and to everyone In this land that the census be com plete, honest, and accurate. If you give me the facts, I shall try to use them for the benefit of all who need and want work and do not now * FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Unemployment Benefits to Be Paid To Jobless m State After January 1 Those who figure that the un employment compensation act which will pay benefits after Jan uary 1 will be a means for draw ing money for nothing ar© doom ed to disappointment. After a person gets out of a job through no fault of his own he must register at the nearest em ployment service offic© and re port weekly while out of a job. If th© service is able to place him on a job and he refuses the job he will draw no unemployment compensation cheek. Payments cannot start, how ever, until after the third week In January. The act requires a waiting period of two weeks, aft er the -worker has reported to hie local . employment office that he is out of^vrork. Ho must con tinue to report weekly. If he is stilt unemployed 'for tke full third woek,'tli«i a check !» writ ten for klm;1a tl»JPP«“Plopient Compeneatiiil Ik? Raleigh and sent td'ihe local eMiBplojrpent office. He aWpUeo- to that office for the .qlimKiPr therAhlrf^iie^ ms htod M it UktotiM-riejport eatue to Ralt^ the eheek to written and get back to the local employment office. However, If the unemployed worker Is placed in a Job by the employment service after nnem- ployment benefits start, then the last check would b© received sev eral days after he returned to work. The Unemployment Compensa tion Division In Raleigh le work ing day and night posting the wage records of the individual workers from the wage reports made quarterly by the employ ers. Three shifts are at work for eight hours each In posting these wage reports for the first quart er, the second quarter and then for the third quarter, in an ef fort to get them all posted and up-to-date by the end of the yea?, and ready for paying benefits soon after Jhe first of the year. “W© are urging, mployers lia ble undw -the act • to iha'ite their monthly contribution .nports and their quarterlT* wage teKptUf promptly, 80 we will- have the .proper refeords.^on which to base unemployment benefits and can ^ pay them promj^ to wortqrs W''.'^ade >ii|rho hecOma nnOmployed and.aro past three montbs.- On Tuesday the postal service .will deliver to each home a blank for unemployed people tn fill. This is the method by which the voluntary count of unemployed will be made as provided in an act of the last congress. As a favor to the jobless peo ple and to the employment serv ice the postal employees are ask ed to tell those who fill out blanks to register with the em ployment service, a state agency whose job it is to place unem ployed on jobs when possible. Kiwanis Ladies’ Night Is Enjoyed Largest Attendance In His tory of Club Laughs At Various Stunts A total of 131 Kiwanians and guests, probably the largest at tendance In the history of thd North 'Wilkeshoro Kiwanis club, thoroughly enjoyed a I-adles night program Friday night und er direction of J. B. •Williams. O. G. Bain, president of the Salisbury Kiwanis club, Mrs. Cloo Smith and Miss Hazel Leonard, also of Salisbury, were the fun sters on the program, which be gan with humorous stories by Mr. Bain and continued with tele phone switchboard stunts i n which the performers played at ‘‘listening In” on conversations between members of the club. A blackface act with the two Salisbury ladles participating drew much laughter. Rev. Eugene Olive led the as sembly in a number of songs. Ladies prizes went to Mrs. Kathleen Morehouse and Mrs. E. G. Finley, with th© gentleman’s prize going to J. B. McCoy. BrethoU and COwuir t Agent Dan Holler, of Wllkea, H. S. Deal, Dr. Zeigler and John P. Legans, county agent of Alexand er county. The research station and labo ratory Is said to be the first ven ture of this type In the state and fruit growers ar© of the opinion that it will prove to b© of much value in the incessant fight a- galnst insects and other orchard plagues. Legion Observes Armistice Day; Has 73 Members Old Time Fiddlers Conventiem Nov^ 27 At Benham S^ool 4?"^ -jf ■JS. Announcement' has been made of an‘old time fiddlers' conven tion to be held at Benham Mheol Oh Saturday night, Novembee 2^. A large number of artists, fnelud- ing professionals: and amateurs, are expected to take pmrt * The program will consist >.ot music by ^string .bands, qnarfi^ 'Kaiuur solos, Tlollh^w^, piano jsoloB and ^^jo solos.{;)’Proe6eds from admlMlon charges arill 1!>e nded henem of ' the actwoL . '-Sr ■ -• :y}-\ ' I' Wilkes post; of the American Legion celebrated Armistice Day Thursday by conducting a chapel program at the North Wilkeshoro high school and by a Dutch din ner at the Legion and Auxiliary clubhouse in the evening. Guests at the dinner included Cadet William Gardner, of West Point, who made an interesting address, managers of four of the junior league baseball teams and the members of Moravian Falls team, which won the county championship. Much to the delight of the A- merican Legion members of this section, the name of the Wilkes County Post No. 125 was among the few Posts in the State that had achieved th© distinction of having enrolled their quota’ of members for 1938 and also to exceed their 1937 membership on Armistice Day. This announce ment was made over a five sta tion hook-up .from 'Wilson, N. C. where Btat© Uommander Hector Blackwell addressed the Armis tice Day banquet of- the Wilson Legionalres. The local Post has already enrolled 73 members for next year, which is 'four more than their 1937 meinbtsrship aihd •‘ eight more than their quota. The membership contest, which came to a close with the Armis- ttee Day dinner, •was won by the. team captained by Ralph ^Reim. The contest was ycry dose' and exciting, there being only twelve points difference between. the winners and the totar'ctiRaiiied by Jack Qiiiqtt,: 100 Siii|h1ifW'Is the objectlre f^ 19SS klidrAB d- m -^11 AWW V fort will bp inode to reoi^; ‘' At st^tpol 'HnnMiBrLelMa co^ufted' . -^fordiisr,’ deVoHdiai by. -g; Price hy,; l^hk Xohdson, inist comaiMdsr. -Jv -

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