S. MbOfiSHAL NAMK)
. ^WkaMncton, March ' 8.—The
: ttMnte eoafirmed today the nomlr
^%iitlon ol Ford S. Worthy, as
tfntted States marshal for the
Sastern District of North Oaro-
Uaa.
BARE BIG SALARIES
Waabiaaton, March 8.— The
Hoose today yleldod boisterously
to -Preeident RooscTelt’s demand
that large incomes of corporation
cxecotiree be published as a
“matter of public morals,” but
the scope of publican
on to salaries of $75,000 or
more annually.
HarmYottth
Die$M Barns
In Slop
FREIGHT RATE UP
Washington, March 8.—The
Interstate Commerce Commission
granted a $270,000,000 annual
Increase in freight rates tonight
to saye the railroads from threat
ened tnsolte^ee and possibly to
sttmnlate Industries 'which sell
railroad equipment.
If SnLI£ ^IDED „
March 8.‘-^Fourteen
were raided during
the past ■week in North Carolina
^by the agents of the federal alco-
^[^pl tax unit. It WES reported this
interning at headquarters here of
the unit. The preceding week set
a,.record for raids, with 17 stills
'addition to the 14
stills, the agents seized 15 auto-
mobilee and a truck and made 38
arrrst?
IlAMBAST W.P.A.
Washington, March 8.— Ru
mors that Senator Burton K.
Wheeler (D), Mont, and Presi
dent Rooseyelt were about recon-
dled were bellered blasted today
..^^hen the Montanan excoriated
The administration for "playing
politics" with the WPA. Wheeler
fell out with the White House
last year when he led a success
ful crusade against Mr. Roose-
rrtt’s Supreme Court reorganiza
tion bill. Recently, when he and
the Chief Executive conferred. It
was believed the one-time friends
had recast the bonds of harmony,
but Wheeler’s assault today was
Interpreted otherwise.
Robert Donthit Harris, age 18,
uled at the hospital here Tuesday
night from btttns received about
4:30 Tuesday afternoon at
moonshine still three miles north
of Roaring River when he was al
leged to have been thrown into a
vat of hot slop by George Petty,
a negro.
Sheriff C. T. Doughton and
Coroner I. M. Myers conducted an
investigation yesterday and ob
tained statements from two wit
nesses who said the negro threw
, the white youth into the boiling
I mash.
I Paul Blevins and Dean Harris
I were the men w^ told the offi
cers of the affair, saying that
th^ pulled Douthlt Harris out
of the slop and that he was burn
ed so badly that part of his skin
came off as they removed his
clothes. Officers found a sock
which corroborated their state
ments.
The two witnesses said that
Harris dinged to the negro and
pulled him partly In after him.
The negro was badly burned but
Is expected to recover and will
face murder charges. Paul Blev
ins and Dean Harris are under
bond on liquor charges.
Petty claims that Harris’ death
was an accident.
The still, of medium size, was
being used to make sugarhead
moonshine 8md there were 1,200
gallons of beer, Sheriff Doughton
said.
The slain man was a son of R.
H. and Ethel Holloway Harris, of
Roaring River, and in addition to
his parents is survived by eight
sisters and three brothers.
Phmeral service will be held at
Rachel Church Thursday, 11 a.
m.
LOVE DETECTOR
New York, March 8.—Folks
wonder if they really are In
love with each other can find out
now, William Moulton Marston,
Inyentor of the blood-pressure
lie-detector, iinnonneed tonight
and gave a demonstration to
prove It. The subject was Mrs.
Smith Christopher (not her real
nPme) and she said she wanted
to know why she had a physical
leakdown which forced her to
up her Job. It turned out,
ordlng to the Mhrston instru
ment, that the cause was her love
for a n unnamed man, even
though Mrs. Christopher denied
Ti$;oron8ly that she was in iove
Many Sentenced
In March Court
Term To Continue Through
Next Week; Judge Pleas
Presiding
W. Hayes Foster, former reg
ister of deeds and road superin
tendent in Wilkes county, who
died Monday night at his home
in Augusta, Ga.
W. H. Foster Dies
FromHeartAttack
At Georgia Home
Was Register of Deeds Of
Wilkes County For Six
teen Years
■with him.
Polling Places For
Farm Vote Named
Iw
’ The polling places at -w'hich
wakes county farmers may vote
on the cotton and tobacco referen
dum on Saturday, March 12, have
been named by Dan Holler, Wilkes
county agent.
In Ed'wards township the voting
will be held at Benham, with Jack
J^ots, Coy Durham and J. A.
F^lin as referendum coommittee:
at iWalnut Grove, Traphill town
ship, conducted by Charles Miles,
Fries and J. L. Adams: at
school, for Somers town-
by Albert Myers, Otto Som-
L* P- Somers. AtCling-
■dpnTTor Ne'wcascle township, by
cTm. Welbom, M. L. Gray and
Ifrwip Jones. The rest of the
odtoty will vote at the county
aoqithouse in WUkesboro, with
Hendren, T. M. Inscore and
Church as referendum com-
tefiarendum carries by a
Jrds majority, it is expect-
l- io affect the marketing quota
ners engaged to the pro
of fine-cured tobacco. If
the quota will not go
j^eperation.
area comprising the east
I region consists of the
of North and South Caro-
eorgla, Florida, Tennessee,
nd, Delaware, West Vir-
[ and Virgiaia.
March term of Wilkes super
ior court for trial of criminal
cases is in the midst of the first
week. Judge J. Will Pless, of
Marion, is presiding and Solici
tor John R. Jones is prosecuting
the docket.
Some of the cases In which sen
tences have been meted out fol
low:
Major Baker was sentenced to
serve two years for disturbing a
religious congregation. Judge
P'633 recommended that the pris
oner be released on probation aft
er serving six months.
The grand jury returned a true
bill cliarging Fred Walker with
rape, a capital offense. The of
fense was alleged to have been
committed against Lula Wayne.
Raymond Elledge was sentenc
ed to two years in the penitenti
ary on conviction of forgery and
on another count was given a 2
to 5 year sentence suspended.
On a charge of larceny and re
ceiving Artie Wyatt was released
under sentence of 12 months,
which can be put Into effect at
any term of court. Clinton Hack-
ett, colored, was given six months
and a suspended penitentiary sen
tence for forgery.
Raymond Hampton, colored,
was sentenced to six months at
the county home or on the roads
for assault with deadly weapon.
Marshal Dowell, colored, was
sentenced to the penitentiary 2' to
3 years for breaking and enter
ing.
A true bill was returned by the
grand Jury charging Roe Church
with the death of Mrs. Lonnie
Kilby in an automobile accident.
Wade Pipes, for possession of
liquor, was given a six months
susrpended sentence.
Accounts of other cases tried
this .week will appear in The
Journal-Patriot Monday.
W. Hayes Foster, age 58, for
many years one of the best known
men of Wilkes county, died Mon
day night at his home in Augusta,
Ga. Death was attributed to a
heart attack.
Mr. Foster, who had been con
ducting a contracting bnslness at
Wadley, Ga., since 1935, was a
native of Wilkes county, where
he was elected for eight consecu
tive terms as register of deeds,
retiring from the office in 1924.
Re then served as superintendent
of roads until 1929.
Prom 1929 until 1934 he was
secretary-treasurer of theJlepub-
Ilcan state executive committee
and had always ibeen active in
the affairs of the party. He was
member of First Baptist
church, Greensboro. While mak
ing bis home there he was man
ager of the Carollnas Joint Stock
Land bank. He was engaged in
the highway and bridge construc
tion business at the time of his
death.
■Surviving, in addition to his
wife, are four sons, R. G. Foster,
of Wadley. Ga., C. C. Foster, of
St. Petersburg, Fla., H. B. and S.
B. Foster, of Greensboro: three
daughters, Mrs. R. L. Teague, of
Taylorsville, Mrs. O. P. Barn-
hardt, of Danville. Va., and Mrs.
R. P. Cranor, of Greensboro.
Also surviving are the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Mrs. W.
C. Triplett, Mrs. Com Eller, Mrs.
Jesse Eller and G. M. Foster, of
Purlear; A. G. Foster, of Congo:
Mrs. Carl Bullis, of Wilkesboro;
and one half-sister, Mrs. Ernest
Green, of Purlear. He •a’as pre
ceded in death by his father and
mother, Adney and Martha Fos
ter.
The body was returned to his
native county for burial and fu
neral service ■was held Wednes
day afternoon at Mount Pleasant
Baptist church in the presence of
a large congregation.
Participating In the funeral
service were Rev. A. B. Watts
and Rev. C. C. Holland, of Tay
lorsville, and Rev. J. M. Hayes,
of Winston-Salem.
Heart Atti^ Is
Fatal To Woman
Coroner I. M. Myers was call
ed Wednesday to the Traphill
community to investigate the
death of Mrs. Pheroby Brown,
age 63, who died suddenly while
on the way from her home to a
neighborhood store yesterday
morning.
Mrs. Brown was walking along
the road when she called to a
neighbor to come to her. Before
the neighbor reached the spot
where she was standing she fell
and was dead.
The Coroner attributed the
death to a heart attack and no In
quest was held. Funeral service
will be held Friday.
Kilby. G. E. Blevins. N. B. Smith-
ey, H. P. Eller, C. B. Eller, Old
Wiles and J. B. Williams.
Ready To Present
“Coast To Coast”
the school auditorium tonight
and tomorrow nlgbt.
The cast has 'been
Sale Saturday
hard to present an outstanding
The vote on March 12 will de-fe»“a to the people of
food sale will be sponsoi^
h» Senior ■Woman’s club of
h*- WUk^oro Saturday be
at ten o’clock In the
g. All kinds of food will be
»t 8paInbour-Sy door's
MV h*oratOTy for
V HBsstoo wtU t>a established
cide the question of marketing
quotas for 1938 only and is for
all growers of cotton and tobacco
and not for any griven s^on of
any state. The of all a^ot-
ton growers of •thd'S
cide marketing Jhotq
and of all the grqweta'
tobacco the marfet^
flue-cured tobaccoC'^^
« entertainment. , -
Ife cast has been well trains ?•«*«. Ho
^ week und« the expert «* ms c^mtortaMe, ^
Lanndries otteitMe bln§.V
ping papw '
Igesfs
of Miss Boirs.
HirtJy
Of WlHsethomt Died On
W«&swd«y Morniiiff
Rrst^IfefAj^
The fighting spirit which characterized General John J. Pershing been a member of the Republl- commissioners In regular
during the World War has won again. The famous general, now ag- can executive committee of North lug.
ing, has rallied from a serious illness after physicians said death was Carolina,
imminent.
Mrs. C. N. Sherrill Donates Strip
Of Land h City For Park Purposes
Spanish-American
Auxiliary Meeting
All members of the Auxilary
of Wilkesboro Camp 16 are noti
fied to attend a meeting to be
held at the courthouse In Wil
ke s b o r o Saturday afternoon.
Located Near
Cemetery; To Be Devel
oped by Woman’s Club
A called meeting of the North
WUkesboro Woman’s Club was
held on Monday, March 7, 1938,
at the home of Mrs. F. C. Por-
March 12, 1:30. Members are^e8ter. The president, Mrs. For-
urged to bring a dollar and be a ester, called the meeting to order
full member of the organisation.
She had been in ill health for
two years but patiently endured
her suffering. To many friends
her passing Is an occasion of sad
ness.
Surviving Mrs. Brown are her
husband, two sisters and one
■brother, Mrs. Tobin Stover, of
Greenwood Beckley, W. Va., Mrs. W. P.
Smith, of Dothen, Alabama, and
R. D. Walding, of L«othatchle,
Alabama.
Funeral service will be held
Friday afternoon, two o’clock, at
Wilkesboro Methodist church and
burial will bo at Mt. Zion ceme
tery In Mulberry township.
DARKTOWN MIN.STRELS
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
The following announcement
of a minstrel. show Friday night
at Wilkesboro school was issued
today:
Let’s get together! Everybody
come to have a good time with
us at the Darktown Minstrel
(Continued on page eight)
A special feature of the meeting
was the discussion of nuUclng a
pafk out -wf a strip of Ignd neah
the Greenwood Cemetery. This
land was given to the Woman’s
Club by Mrs. C. N. Sherrill, of
Shelby, a sister of Mr. W. F.
Trogdon. The park la being given
as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs.
Trogdon, and will he named
Trogdon Memorial Park, and a
marker with granite base and
bronze plate will be placed in It.
A most gracious letter of presen
tation from Mrs. Sherrill was
read and the club voted unani
mously to accept the gift.
An advisory board for the park
wto named as follows: Mrs. C. B.
Jenkins, chairman, Mrs. J. C.
Reins, Mrs. W. R. Absher, Mrs.
W. P. Absher, Mrs. F. C. Forest
er, Mrs. A. B. Johnston.
The club voted to have the
park designed by a landscape
gardner and Mrs. J. B. Spainhour
was appointed as a committee of
one to get estimates on,the work.
The club voted to have a Food
Sale on Saturday, March 12, at
Spainhour’s. The committee for
the Food Sale was named as fol
lows: Mrs. Ivey Moore, chairman,
Mrs. Tip McNeil, Mrs. Jack
Brame.
After several other Items of
routine business the meeting ad
journed. '
Two Big Still
Prayer Spoken In Wilkesboro In 1827
Results In Building Majestic Church
In Philadelphia By A Manufacturer
How a family prayer spoken at
an Inn in the town of Wilkesboro
one hundred and eleven years ago
resulted In the erection of Arch
Active pall bearers were H. C. street Methodist church in Phila
delphia was related in a book
publlehed several years ago by L.
Nash, at that time a Metho
dist minister.
John Marls was a wealthy man
ufacturing chemist in Philadel
phia but was better known as
the patriarch of Philadelphia
Methodism. The latter dlfUtq-
tlon can be traced back to the
believe in selling or drinking 11-
qnor.
"I was provoked to think that
any man would keep a hotel and
not keep a drink for a guest. But
he made me comfortable as I sat
by a large fireplace and got warm
and dry. He gave me a good sup- pectlve
per, served In family fashion.
"We have family prayen. and if
yon do not object, we wtU he glad councils, in the county, are very luBuraadd.
to have yon remain with ns. If
"Coast to Coast” the thrllll^ stopped at
epic, comedy-drama, .sponsored
by the North Wilkesboro
TMre an Inn In Wilkeeborq and heard
th. ».« . th. u.l> M
your room.
"1 decided to
stay and see
what they did at family prayws,^ tog
ae I had never been, at family
prayers in my llfe» Tftn old gen
dresses by Rev. A. L. Aycoek,
prayers in ray zmo wio eou- uicdixjo ... — — ~
tleman took dowh hie family Bl- pastor of the First Methodist u® and seven used cart b«loiMd«K
God.
Here la how It happened as re-
^in^ ^*iV^n*rw««^mng man*i Wo”and read a chapter. He gave church of this city, and Rev. J.
Nortfr took a trip to New Orleans In an
old fashioned Bulky. There were
spon«,red by the .no railroad. i^On my ^
depart- from' Orieana, I paseea
out a hymn' and yn alt,.ddod dnd
’((hlhesboro.
play la
Nqr#i*^irnke8boro fire nmiina
nent, which is to need of funds through
for the purchase of some addl- One
Uonal equipment. Those ‘
lave bad an opportunity to leaA Jhn
as all the family.did and I
jiaa an opponunivy w itmru - t
(thing about the production Uttle Inn. It I
Jly recommended It to the drove n®, and whM I went in i
f recommenaea w ww —--
of thl. section as an eve- called for a jWnk. fhe^P^r
told me he did not kee® ardent
>:■ _
iw«».a ChHattan man and did not>|.
(ContiaMd on pftcn eicht)
Mrs. Rosalie Walding Brown,
wife of Exwherift P. B. Brown,
died^Wedmwday morning at her
home In WUkesboro.
She was both Kay 10, 1884,. at
Newton, A-lahatila,~ a danghtmr of
the late B. V. and Ann Walding;
She vras educated at Nevrton high
school, Newton, Alabama, and
took a course in millinery at Roa
noke, ,Va.. She. Was engaged in the
millinery business In North Wil
kesboro whan ^e was married to
Mr. Brown on December 24, 1910.
Mrs. Brown was, one of the
most highly, esteemed residents
of WUkesboro and was actively
aftUlated with a_ number of
church and civic organizations.
Including Wilkesboro Methodist
church, Woman’s Missionary So-
Cotnmlasiopers Th ;Om
March 18
List Of Litters ''‘'*
KELLY IS SUPERVISOR
Routine Maltera-TraMmeted
By Board In l|arch Nleet-
inf Mondajr
cletyj,.^ the Wdlkesboro Woman'
club and WUkes Valley Guards
chapter of the United Daughters day Included a resolution to
oTthe Confederacy.
Since 1986 Mrs.
Broiwn had
s
Sheriffs Find One On Brush-
ies and Brsuidy Outfit at
Summit Saturday
Sheriff C. T. Doughton, Depu
ty Odell Whittington and Deputy
Marshal W. A. Jones located and
destroyed a brandy still Saturday
afternoon near Summit. No one
was found at the still and indica
tions were that the operators had
completed a "run” earlier in the
day.
On Friday Mr. Whittington de
stroyed a largo still and 1,500
gallons of beer on the Brushles.
The still was not In operation.
Junior Rally On
Tuesday Evening pire Destroys
Well Known Resident Of
Deep Gap Was Father of
Ira D. Payne
A program committee compos
ed of D. E. Elledge, E. A. Shook
and T. H. Waller Issued the fol
lowing announcement of a Jun
ior Order rally to be held on
Tuesday evening.
The local council, of the Jr. 0.
U. A. M. will hold a rally, at the
lodge hall, ’Tuesday evening,
March 16, 7:30.
The meeting will be an open
house affair, and will be for all
members of the order, and pros
members, and
else who will come.
Every Junior Is expected to
that I enjoyed very much^ Q-rery juuivi u. — ■«. r.
"After supper he isld to me, bring hla wife, or sweetheart, and feed ata^ and the mm
_ . . .. attend this meeting. The other bufldlng.was partially covered;by
cordially Invited to come and be
W UMT® JWU IVilMttft UO. . .
you prefer we will show you to with u«. at this time. We are also frame atructuiA-was
Juniors to bo here for this meet-
Out 9k n/ulB RHU •**« ^ V* f —•w* .
sang and then th«y >prit down Baptist church, Boone, 'neso men soatotoed by Chnreh Motof
» have been outstanding'membera i
Oe oil UU0 MUUilJ . 1**1* waaaa • w
thought it would boTltopoUte not of this order for several yaata |»ee.
to, I knelt down toi. I ' never and^ytm cannot afford to mlw| W1
According to an order pai^
hy the WUkes eoitiity bootil.'.ot
commissioners in MBweh
Monday, tax listing this ywjir wfli
begin promptly on April 1 an prm .
vided by law. . "“V
The commissioners a®p^ted
W. P. Kelly again as tax gnper-
vlsor for the year and ordered
that he submit a list of tax list
ers to the commissioners tot con
firmation at a special meeting to
he held March 15, tsn o'clock.
Other bnsiness traivMcted Mon-
new a county note and routine
matters such as always face the
meet-
All members of the board were
present.
Republkans To
Gather Saturday
In The Precincts
County Convention Be HeM
On Monday, March 14,
County Courthouse
Republicans of Wilkes county
will gather Saturday afternoon,
March 12, at voting places to
form township organizations - and
to elect delegates to the county
eoBventton to bet' held at -Uto
courthouse in WUlkeeborO Mon
day, March 14, 12 o’clock noon.
’The call for the convention and
precinct mi^etlngs was Issued a
few weeks ago by Chairman N. B.
Smlthey, R. Don Laws, secretary,
and S. B. Richardson, assistant
secretary.
The precinct meetings with th*
exception of North , Wilkesboro
will be held at two o’clock. In
North Wilkesboro the precinct
meeting will be held at the city
hall at 12:15. In addition to
naming delegates to the county
convention each precinct ■will
name a member of the county
executive committee.
In the county convention a
chairman and secretary wUl b*
elected and delegates will b*
named to the state convention,
the congressional convention, and
the Judicial and senatorial con
ventions to be held in Wilkesboro
on March 19.
Large Bid£ng
Farmers Supply and Live
stock Co. Building Bums
Wednesday Morning
Fire of undetermined origin
early Wednesday morning total
ly destroyed the Farmers Supply
and Livestock company bUlMtog
between the Wllkealtorofi.
The fire was dlscovwed about
t'wo o’clock by a passing- motor
ist who gave the alarm. A bblDr*
ed man from nearby turned the
livestock out of the lower part
anyone of the building.
The building was own^ by C.
Williams, who operatod a
th*
G.
Also to the buildtog,' a
the
largo
ua«4
ezpacting a number of visiting car stock of Church Motor com
pany. Two new cars were remov
ed but the flamei^ had ma4o so
The program will consist of ad- much headway that .Im
possible to remove one nasr plek-
to the company and two ^-cara
C. Kanipe, pastor of-, the First stored for other people. The loan
pany was *not covered by toa«n> ^
Wtiketiboro volgntoor ftramati
heard any man talk to God like
that man did. Ho MMatod to l|e —
talking to him toco to face. He qnarteta, renderad by sofno of
prayed for the stranger within hla tho local boy*. At the cloao of tho
that God woM4 program, light rafieahmenta will
Joamoyii^ in®rcIoa; that* h e be served. Make your .now^
these addreasea. Othm features of wmrk^ valiantly to aava oUmt
the program will be a number of buUdlnga In the timnwllato -
Jty and ‘wore sneoewtot
building collapesd many pan-
tlie ead oC-Ui Joara* to attloul moctfiMr boA M ui' wg
oy aafa^, andj tint (ttt Lord iMPn a good timo tofettar. Wo» —
would awakan and convert him are coantlag oai you. Moage d
• * not toil na ^ ^ “
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gatlHired at the ^
fiamaa brightly fihnaifHitod %