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PREPARES FOR RAIDS
Londoa, Dec. 7.-—Sir Samuel
Hoare, Britiali home secretary,
told Parliament today the yovern-
ment regarded the: question of
eracuatlnK ciTiUan population In
the event of a!r attack as “very
urgent." He Introduced a new
clause to tbe air raids precautions
bill darigned to enable the gov
ernment t.0 proceed with plans
for trsupfeirluf papulations, as
well TU pro^diuji tor the care of
refugees la war time.
ilei^ Fffr ;3
!«m^ To Boo^
GenOfoI BusraeM
I^oun^aln
Area Sup«rriaor Her* Buys
Materials for First Quart'
er Of 1938
TOTALS ABOUT $27,000
kD MAN CLEARED
hlngton, Dec. 7.—Andrew
to. H^on, won today, three
liiiniiLlihia death, formal
^dn«Klon of.4ucome tax fraud.
^Tbn^^unlted States board of tax
appeala tlirew out^' the govern
ment’s fraud charge unanimously
and In a divided ..opinion on^ oth
er issues slashed the goTemra'ent
claim tor additional tazra on Mel
lon's 1931 income from 133,075,-
108 to. about $700,000.
FIRES CABfPAIGN GUN
Washiu^B, Dee. 7.-—Senator
a^sbvrt R-' Reynolds today prao-
'Beally opened his campaign for
re-elestioir on the wages and
hours bill, which he favors, and
which his 1 opponent for the Sen
ate, Representative Frank W.
Hancock, opposes in its present
form. "I shall do everything in
my power to see a wages and
hours hill, which I voted for when
before the Senate, enacted int)
law,” said Reynolds.
Street Project For North
Wilkesboro To Get Un
der Way Next Month
As a .part of a natlott-wlde
drive on the part of government
agencies to stimulate business,
materials costing $22,000 for
area 10 of the Works Progress
administration have been pur
chased for the first three months
of 1938, It was ’earned here to
day from T. D. Heffner, area
supervisor for the WPA In eight
counties.
Requisitions for $18,000 in ma
terial wars made out yesterday
IH aaditlod to $4,000 previously
this month and there is likeli
hood |hat other purchase orders
amountlBK to $8,000 will be made
for the area before the end of
the year^ he said.
Sponsors of projects, Mr. Heff
ner said, are being encouraged to
buy materials now for the months
of January, February and March
and a majority of them have al
ready done BO.
Mr. Heffner said that the WPA
will start the North Wilkesboro
I street improvement job early in
I January, or as soon as the sewer
j project in the Finley Park addi-
jtlon to the dty is completed.
Here’s a worm’s-eye view of an avalanche In the mi^Kingr. LdWer-
ing himself into a huge fissure at the top ffif the “moving m^tam”
in Los Angeles’ Eysian Park, a daring cameraman shows how the
everwidening crack is being checked hourly to^detemine courw and
extent of the next in a senes of huge eartb-slides ^^at have alre^y
sent millions of tons of rocks, earth and tiws tumptag 360 feet mto
Riverside Drive, Dayton Avenue, below, and even mto the dry bed of
the Los Angeles ri\ter, 1,000 feet away.
to the dty is
7—Returns I ferred to the street job, which
, J i calls for improvement of several
from the house-to-house unem-!*^®"® lor iuijmu ^
Schools To Reach 500 Applicatioiis
Rlidtem Vacation l^rF^ Benefits
SHAȣfflNEW
IMANTLOi
>. Ill .1 I I
Sev«itMii C^mtioo In SllM
Sdcota^ For Loona To *
Umite8~Nttmhor
On December 21st Sent Tins Week
Larger Schools To Disband
For Holidays On That
Date UnGl Jan. 3
Wilkes county schools will
complete the first half of the
1937-38 term on December 21
and 22, it was learned today from
C. B. Eller, county superinten
dent of public Instruction.
In contrast to a year ago when
several schools were forced to
close because of road conditions,
all the schools this year have
operated on a uniform schedule
from the house-teahouse UDem-|ca“3
ployment census check conducted! a total cost of about ^tion in the time they complete
in Charlotte and other North 1 r.r™
Carolina cities between Novem-
J , 'being used on the sewer project
er an jie,* ] under fVireman McOlmsey will i ^ the. cbristma.s boU-,
s the
the first half of the term.
'The larger schools with the ex
ception of Mulberry and ’Traphlll
ormation on these^ cards will he I Pfo^ement Job,
Bsed to deck the thoroughness's™^®' ““d f°“®
voln.l.ry T.-
Which Includesj her 21. Traphlll aiW .
tnrns made through the Charlotte
area.
end of the city and widening
Forester /.venue.
LONG WAR SEEN
Washington, Dec. 7.—Spanish j
Ambassador Fernando de los Rios 1
said tonight the Spanish civil war j
"Is just beginning” Declaring,
that the Republican Tgovenment |
is overcoming lack of arms and;
ammunition by ^ectiag^war ma
terial factories'on a large scale
(283 factories up to now), the
bearded ambassador told news
papermen the insurgent offensive
has been postponed, and this is
"a definite sign of weakness.”
Cranor Chairman
For President’s
Bail January 29
Wilkes Chairman For Bene
fit Evenf Announced In
New York City
WOMAN HTttvTFD
Monterey. Calif.. Dec. 7.—The
hunt for Mrs. Sarah Flavin.
Broadway playwright’s wife who
has been missing since yesterday
noon, was concentrated along the
rugged Carmel shoreline tonight mes.? uimiiuic. .....
after searchers found her tripod 1 of the organization
camera but one foot from the:.. . .. . 1... t,_*v
^^e of a 30-foot sea cliff. The
''Ti-year-old wife of Martin Flavin.
Pulitzer prize winner, disappear
ed while taking photographs near
their home at Carmel Highlands.
New York, Dec. 9.—Keith Mor
gan, Chairman of tne Committee
for -the Celebration of the Pres
ident’s Birthday today announced
appointment of a number of ad
ditional County Chairmen in
North Carolina for this year’s
“Fight Infantile Paralysis” cam
paign. These chairmen will have
of
their respective counties, both for
the founding of the new Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Pa-
win close on the following day.
Ail'the central schools plans to.
resume work and start the sec
ond half of the term on January
3rd. The smaller elementary units
will observe only one week for
the Christmas holidays.
Street Decoration
Lishts Beautiful
Gay Holiday Decorations
Lighted Tuesday; Ap
preciated by Public
Lights on the gay holiday
street decorations in North Wil
kesboro, the shopping center of
Northwest North Carolina, were
turned on this week and now
present a beautiful holiday ap
pearance to all visitors to the
city.
And suggestions of the holiday
* season are enhanced by beautiful
All Farms Expected To Be
Checked; Other Applica
tions to Be Sent Soon
MEETING PLANNED
Hope For Large Attendance
At Meeting To Be Held
Saturday Morning
Together with an announce
ment of a couaty-wide meeting of
farmers Saturday to discuss the
1938 farm plan offered by the
government. County Agent Dan
Holler said today that one fourth
of the aPpUcatlons for payment
under the 1937 program are he»
Ing forwarded to the state suthor-
ittoL^ JWM^,
^ .^^PMfidrs We -Mio' _
Omar jbt^est in the soil consw-
vatlon "plan for 1938, Mr. Holler
said, and a large attendance is
expected fori the meeting to be
held at the courthouse, begin
ning at ten o'clock. State authori
ties will be g)resent to clear up
any questions the farmers wish
to ask,
The remainder of the applica
tions for payment under the 1937
program, Mr. Holler said, will be
forwarded as soon as possible.
Some farms have not been check
ed bnt supervisors are expected
to complete the task In two
weeks.
There are a total of .more than
2,000 farms In the county under
work sheets and the number of
appHcatlons to be sent off this
week will be approximately 500.
However, payment for the entire
number in the county will be a-
bout the same time early next
year, Mr. Holler said.
Wilkes county Is one among
the seventeen.'^in North' Carolina
in which fibhi loans' to aid
tenant -tami loans' to aid tenant
farmers ,hecomO owners^.wlll he
made, it was announced today In
Raleigh. ’ iv ■
. Dm to. limited funds for first,
year's operation, of the act, a max
imum of tdn«ad minln;nm of flye
tefs^ PQjf^uisa.jaaiu will bp
made '(h the 17 designated conn-
tfes.
The loan conntiM aiw Caawen,
Chatham,' ,Clev4fah’d,'^dB^^^8mhe,
Franklin, 'Onllford, Handmon,
Hertford, XfedeU; Madison,
slow. Orange, Rtchmond;^' Ro^
son. Union, Washlhgton aO'4‘
Wilkes. '
The state farm tenant com
mittee recommended the above
donntles. Their 'action was
proved by the Department ,.of
Agriculture. North Carolina wlH
receive $527,060 of the $10,000,-
000 appropriated under the ten
ancy act.
B Street Parking
Limit I* One Hour
The city board of commis
sioners In session Tuesday
n*ght passed an ordinance re-
dnclng the parking limit on B
street from Tenth to 8th
streets from two hours to one
hour. Everybody is asked to
keep dlls in mind and $g|.^vlo-
late th© Mdlhance, fogfwhlch
violations are one dollar for
the first offense and five dol
lars each for snbseqnent of
fenses.
Among other tnudi^
HudRedH
[Membenliqi'
Period it Exti
39
Teaching ProfeoMon . H Aa
ContribnteA Owar 70 Far
' CentOf AnMNBkt $8
;
ONLT 878 MEMBIEKI
Wilke* Ftf Behind
Of Last Yaak) Odwn
May Tat
Miami, Florida . . . After Initi
ating 126 new members, a picked
party of ^ansmen raided the La
Paloma night, club on the out
skirts of this, tlty, paddled sever
al ehtertaiders and chased out the
otwtomerS, It was explained that
neighboring residents wanted the
club closed ,but were afraid to en
ter a couA complaint against the
owner. These two were caught by
the camera-of a fleeing patron.
Dr, Cook Tidk$
Of Aiminty Plan
Fortheteadiers
Head of Education Depart
ment of W. C. U. N. C.
Addresses Teachers
Dr. John H. Cook, head of the
department 'of education at the
Woman’s College of, the Univer
sity of North CaroUna,,^ Oreew-
tapi^^d .to WBkes ‘4oi^
■ A chockhp on memU«»'W’tta
annual Red Cross roll ea&, M
Wilkes county this year ieW^
the fact that so far the UMumUr
profession has 'comtrtk|4M n
large majority of the 'totsl umbs-
bershlps for the county aM Huit
the total number of membtia fa
distressingly low in compaffson
with the 900 who joined last yaa&
Of the only 376 people jahe
have contributed to this, greats^
humanitarian organisation dhrtas
the 1937 roll call 229 have h«aa
teachers. Chapter officials sad
Others interested hellevo that
there are many other people fa
the county who will take up the
challenge offered by the teachesa
and raise this total for the epha-
ty by several hundred and that
the people of the county will not
allow the year to pass witbovt
doing more for the organlsatioa
which through many years has
done so much for underprivileged
and distressed people in Wllk«
county and in practically every
community in the nation at some
time or other.
In view of these facts the roll
call has been extended a few mor«
days in order that others may
have a part in the roll call and
contribute a dollar each as mem
bership contributions. Those who
are not contacted may mail dr
personally lake or send their dot-
window displays at many stores.
These displays depict the holiday
ai sounaauon lor In all Its joy.
ralysis and also the multitude of j decorat:
benefit entertainments to be held
Saturday, January 29th, in cele-
RAPS ON CONGRESS
New York, Dec. 7.—Members
of Congress unwilling to serve
'Nie "national interest’’ by help-
jng to halt ’‘nnUmely, uneconomic
bration of President Roosevelt’s
; birthday.
j The chairmen appointed
■ low:
I H. A- Cranor, Wilkesboro
i The street decorations were fi
nanced cooperatively by many
firms and individuals in the city.
fol-
Legion Auxiliary Meeting
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Monday night, 7:30, at
the home of 'John Hall with
Miss Toby TnrnM and Mrs. Jack
Quinn associate ■'hostesses.
expenditures” and to balanc© the I (Wilkes CoMty),
were denounced tonight! Marion
hv an administration fiscal officer jW. Picquet. ^uthern
as nnm to hold their jobs. Sucb| (Moore County); J. C. P^s. Tad-
.tops of retrenchment. 9 a 1 d ' klnvllle (Yadkin County
Wayne C. Taylor, fiscal assistant R- Price. Asheville ’Buncombe
secretary of the treasury, in an County), . . av s, •
address prepared for delivery be-1 (Dare County), W. E. Brooks,
;re tbABronomlc club of New i Plttsboro (Chatham County) J.
>ork WCTO “minimum national Claud Allison, Sylva (Jackson
^W9^o requirements."
Home And Grounds H£^y JJskting
(^n«d
street northward he cFfiiod
and be in^(M la the W#A
street Imiwovement project
soon to begin.
Will Present Play
Under sponsorship of the Par
ent-Teacher association a hilar
ious comedy, "June In January,”
will he presented in the Wilkes
boro school auditorium Friday
night, 7:30. A more detailed ac
count of the fun in store for those
who attend is-carried in another
article elsewhere in this news
paper
illiivo to A retfremeht' anaM)jf('
toachers.
It was a very inthreatlng ad
dress In which ho outlined a plan
of security for the teaching pro
fession, who are not affected by
the social security act. The Plan
he proposed, and which was re
ceived with favor among th©
teachers, would call for contri
butions by the teachers and the
state toward the retirement an
nuity fund.
Following the regular teachers
meeting B. N. Peeler, secretary of
the state textbook commission,
addressed a principals’ confer
ence.
Checkup Shows That WPA Workmen
Are Only 80 Per Cent Regular on Jobs
Mrs. Rufus Barlow
Funeral On Friday
Concro Citizen Is
Claimed By Death
BTTSY FIRST LADY (
Washington, Dec. 7.—The rov
ing rt»t Lodg threw sway her
time-tables today and settled
down at the 'White House for the
„wiBtea. Without waiting to un-
wfhtNP fiWIii ate bought
to Ke# York, Sthanof Ro^welt
NtTr;*i*r hushed, h^d at.j,press'
"" entortalned lihlnet
ladlea »t luncheon and gave two
iMg She reeled off a schedule
tor ihe week that left newspaper
women gasping—a housing wn-j
•* tofti-— pen-women’s meettog,
a symphony concert in addi
tion to the Gridiron Windows’
stnot party, and half a doM teas
•bo la^Mng at the Whtte House.
JkMU to MR 0*4 Ar#
aad'ehU4,. at the
i aed gerikic aleag
Cdunty): Blount Rodman, Wash
ington (Beaufort County): R. F.
Holland, Charlotte (Mecklenburg
County).
A. G. Eller, 72, citizen of the
Congo community, died this
morning at his home. He leaves
three children:. Mrs. Coy Foster,'
of Congo: Mrs. Genine Bussel, of
North Wilkesboro; Verlie Eller,
of California.
Funeral service will he held
Friday, 11 o’clock, at Pilgrim
Baptist church with Rev. James
T. Nichols in charge.
Schoolmasters To
Meet December ft
In keeping with tte purpose of
jpromotiag projeots tor a more
heautiful'clty, .the Garden Depart-
Wnt of the 'N^orth • Wllkesboto
woman's OInb In apomioiingft
home and grom^ R^hUng con-
teat for'the hollitoy 8i&i»Oh in
North WGkoshpre:"''*
Husband
Progratn Centered Around
School Problems WiH Be
Csurried Out at Meethag
The next meeting of the School
masters’ Glnb to ho held at Wil
kesboro school Wednesday, De
cember 15. six p. m., will feature
jt general disenssisn of school
Lob Angeles.—Hra, Osa John
son, wife of Martin Johnson, the
noted explorer, had a $602,639
damage siytson file here today
against an air transportation com
pany for the death of her hns-
band. The Johnsoiu were flying
Garden DiqHurtBMnt' .Wom
an’s CliA %MMMbr
je4 purbg'Holida^
Mrs. Rosetta Barlow, 61, wife
of the late Rnfus Barlow, died
today at her. home on Boomer R.
F. D. Funeral service will he
held Friday and burial will be in
^lie family cemetery. Rev. S. I.
Watts will conduct the la it rites.
Surviving .are th© following
children: Mrs. Carrie Walker and
Theodore BWlow, of
Foster Barlow, of Independence,
Va.; Spencer Barlow; of Morgan-
ton; and Heath Barlow, of Boom
er.
All Workera Encouraged to
Put in Every Hour Allow
ed Before Holidays
Following a checkup which re
vealed that WPA workmen put
in on an average of only 80 per
cent of the time allowed them,
area WPA officials have decided
to check more closely on the
workmen and may drop from the
payroll those who are very ir
regular In reporting to their jobs.
Iflis generally agreed that a
Baomer; Menient policy toward 'WPA labor
ers has encouraged Irregularity
hut the practice has on 'several
occasions seriously curtailed pro-
and the 'WPA
-The Duke Power co^ipany Is
donating $16 for cash, prizes. In
th«.contestrajiiA il7^0. Orst
problems and the program will ho here from Salt Lake City on ^ a
In chtrge of R. V. Day, Millers lecture tour last January 12,
.Cr««* PrinclPftl- . .l irhon the Western Air Bxprew
, It will ho ft dinner meeting and plane , enwhod on a mountiUn
tSutocftB attend arte asked peak. A ^ ^-4
to poUfy Pjrof. T. B. Story not, —
^ later Imp December 16 of the- »'GhrietaaM SooJis t .idmyaT
piuater of plfttm ^ ho »
prize, $5.00''second'- and - $3.60
third.
Judges who arO’:to fc selected
goon will make a-tour of the city
bn the evening of December 28rd
to.'.pfok the mo8tkmtl|nlj)r li|^
lE^'^wn. hn^ It ti ,4^red that the
d^boratlona te^ pliiced te>«arly: as
ph^le ia ord^/to tte
appearance of the homes and Aha
dty aB4kto - ere4to^sP h«9dag at
ptosphbfp, S * ■*
^ hM al
william T. Finley. ”aie »n4 about >0 Is the high-
JyMrnm was;
^ to
of tbOrtc
^ ^tday
i^Oth aanlvers-
^^ihreon-
itlon.
gress on projects
now. is striving to get work done'titnte families
,wlth speed that would compare j on Sunday Sheriff Donghton.
with what would be expected of j and Deputy Whittington leairoi^
a private contractor and in many'^ij a gigantic outfit on the Brushy
cases the goal Is accomplished ,de- j Mountains. Included. .In the op^,
'spile workmen who seem to workwere a 200-gallon "capa«|r
• “ whenkhey want to orwhenneces-jatlll and'over 3,000 gallops oC
Ag^ Wid^drives them and at no other jpear. no arroBte;W*r« ftia*|^
- 'As-i.n example a WPA official ""
pidd .that 40 men were'assigned
' the wilkesboro school hulldlng
Win T. Finley
La^tRit^HeM
Known Wilk^ Fwaily
*^''-P4dad» 'Ak-: Hiwe
llles, died Mbuiuy evonl^tti^
homo on the Brhsh'jT IfoniftalnB.
He is 8urvt,7®d Iqf’.hMrwttu.'Mrs-
'err TtebiOte,.
tor,-
[ewTMri. B. a. Bl^r- W.MW^
* * ’ '" 8b^#a;wa|i held Wed-
ckdit- idiiW-ftt the iode ^h
K
-jl. :J«Tla lP-tteTK«,' M»l)rted te
Rev. . Watt M. Cooj^, of .this city.
Butlal - vras' l*f ,thO .Freehytsrlan
cAdtorr'Wfc'
a '
g ■
.^6 splendid way-: In''
teliehea’j^l^ded' thia. yeay ’ la
shown hr the fact that tow dte
tricts were 100 per cent In meiU^
bership. North Wilkeshoro, Mdt-
berry, Mount Pleasant and R^ftr-
ing River districts have a
record. Union, Ronda and WB-
kesboro school teachers lofhed
100 per cent.
Three Men taken
At Still Tuesday
Federal and County Officer*
Make Successful Raida oo
Moonshine Plants
No doubt the supply of illicit
“holiday spirits’’ will be dimin
ished by activity on the part of
federal and county officers who
have raided' a large number of
stills in Wilkes county during the
past week.
Sheriff C. T. Donghton, Deputy
Odell Whittington and a number
of federal officers made a suc
cessful raid Tuesday In the vicin
ity of Blackburn hollow in Lewis
Pork township, there they do-
stroyed a large still, conflscstojl
900 pounds of sugar and arreetod
three men,'Llnney and Joe 'Wood-
le and Rom B. 'Whittington,' who
pere placed under bond for tolid
In federal court. _ ' -y ■'
The sugar was turned ovqp*to
the Wilkes county welfare depari^
I ment to be used for relief o^^^S:•
boldest and test kp^,^: ^ •fTlS
Is directed tokrard all the work-
me$if puusy' of ■whom Jm^vo. raised
tnulT#^ gt^eiu add who
lalhrvals
;iio .edris . loc 4j8a wops,. hstrtier:
$goigA and nertermL sindlsr and
^ 4utmm tasks.
sfn>A VT>J
The area WBA-Offtclalz are an-. — --- ~ -
oonregtog^ery pereox-to irtriai^iftia list taxes to Wi. ».
hour ftllbwsd.- hstore:
ktef $2,.dhen titok«t,j^^
tors Ghristfias sndk.’^'TldS
jnlatod to not only ^isnlftfe
teBUnSss trat*^ Wbenaftstol to
f; workmen who will. liwpfs;!-
,3k full nay ehesk for hclld^
For TliO
Shertft.C: T. DoAfthton Is s*>
pected to nreks sstUi'msnt-kUs
week wlth^ths! ebnnty hoard/ st
’edmm^dosiers and will recite
the Jfi»7 - tax' hodte which teija-
hss$,reAa nR :«5^iM» now ,hsitogt
...-S'
. ..
RSeslpts for'those
wh^'
bar
eponty aoeonntant, mr* hs^:'ts ^
moved, from Gtp books,
comlnl^ners »re.
'BM^ thik''Wiief'
ment wtthl^thd 1 _
taxss..an4 order, the 18]
thrnsd over to tte sf
lection. ^