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AsheTlUe, Mltfck:il.—Dr. C. T.
^Wans. CUneM ambassador to
tbo ITaited States, said hero to-
airht that he beliOTed the people
of Japan were against the em
pire’s military program In China
and expressed the opinion that
•were the Question submitted to
the people, they would vote a-
gainst it.
VALUE TOBACCO
Raleigh, March 11.— North
Carolina growers sold their 1937
tobacco for 3141,056,845, an in-
l.S|^crea8e of $40,924,039 over re-
^^^^ns from the 1936 crop, W. H.
Rhodes, chief statistician of the
state agriculture department, said
today. The 1937 average was
^1.50 more per 100 pounds than
In 1936, he said. Growers sold
577,623,891 pounds last year,
compared with 437,552,728
- pounds in 1936.
LEGION CONVENTION
Winston-Salem, March 11.—
The North Carolina department
of the American legion will hold
Its annual convention at Winston-
Salem June 26, 27 and 28, Miss
Alice Gray, department vice com-
^ Tnander, announced tonight. The
dates were set at an executive
committee meeting held at Fay
etteville. Miss Gray said the ex
ecutive comjnUtce would hold its
session June 26 and the
memorial service would be held
that night. The convention prop
er will open Monday and continue
through Tuesday.
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American Legkm
Sponsors Junior
Baseball Lef^eh
County This Year
Same Plan as Used Last
Year Will Be Carried
Out By Wilkes Post
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
League Plan Affords Oppor-
timity for Many Boys
to Participate
WIFE DRUGGED
Pittsburgh, March 11.—Mrs.
Lucille Poarce told a jury today
of being drugged and beaten for
mtix weeks while her husband car
ried on an illicit romance with a
nurse. Speaking in low whispers,
the fashionably attired Canons-
burg, Pa., woman accused her
husband. Maxwell D. Pearce, and
Margaret Gordon, of Cleveland, of
dosing her with sleeping powders
and whisky then, she said, they
forced her to open a saiety de-
^ posit box containing $8,000 worth
of securities, jewels and cash.
DEIFIES PRESIDENT
Washington, March 11.—Dr.
Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of
TVA, bluntly defied President
Roosevelt today; and declared
himself not a participant in a
hearing called by the chief execu
tive to determine “the facts” be
hind TV’A’s bitter internal row.
Face-to-face with the President
and in the presence of his oppon
ents on the TVA hoard—^\’’lce
Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan
^ Director David E. Lilienthal
y^he chairman criticized the in
quiry as “an alleged process of
fact finding” and repeated his
plea for an “impartial, compre
hensive and complete” investiga
tion by Congress.
Wilkes post of the American
Legion will again sponsor junior
baseball in Wiikes county, it was
decided in the March, meeting of
the organization.
In 1937 the post sponsored
junior baseball and eiglit well
balanced teams played a 14-game
schedule with Moravian Falls
emerging champions on a per
centage basis.
Th« same plan will be follow
ed this year. Legionnaires said,
but lu the fall there will be a
playoff here between champions
of Wilkes, Alexander, Watauga.
Ashe and Alleghany counties if
posts in those counties decide to
sponsor junior baseball this year.
The idea of the post sponsor
ing a team for district and na
tional competition was abondoned
because of the fact that a county
league of junior teams affords
opportunity for a much larger
number of boys to participate.
Last year the Legion spent a-
bout $350 to equip and maintain
the eight teams In the league.
The Bingo party held recently
resulted in raising enough mon
ey to clear up a great part of the
outstanding indebtedness for last
year’s baseball program and an
other Bingo party is scheduled
for the near future to raise funds
to finance the league this year.
The Legion baseball program
met with popular approval last
year and an opportunity is given
anyone to contribute toward the
program tirta yoaT.-~
However, it is not expected
that the expense will be as much
this year as in 1937, due to the
fact that the post has some of
the equipment on hand.
The number of teams to be
maintained this year has not
been decided or the communities
where they will be located. Mean
while the post is I going ahead
with arrangements for the sea
son and it is expected that games
will begin some time in April.
In Conventm
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Re-elected Head
County G.O.P.
Conventifni Is Harmonious
Occasion; Precincts Are
Well Represented
delegates named
TAXES BOOSTED
Washington. March 11. A iew
hours after President Pnos-v.-it.
in h is regular press conference,
reaffirmed his devotion to the
■closely held corporation siirla.x,
the house rejected I'inal'y. end I y
a record vote of 233 to IM. liiat
principle of taxation, and shortly
thereafter sent the bill to ttie j jjjation
senate. Not only did the house ap-
i-^prov6 the McCormack amend-
H-Jraieht, eliminating the third bas
ket, the family controlled, or
closely held corporation tax, but,
to the extreme annoyance of Sec
retary Hull and Secretary Wal
lace. approved by a 201 to 182
vote the Thompson amendment,
providing for a six cents a pound
excise tax on imported pork pro-
dticts, aimed primarily at Poland.
Legion Birthday
Krty Thursday
Legion and Auxiliary Will
Meet Jointly Thursday
Night at 7:30
Next Tuesday to Thursday,
.March 15-17th. marks the Nine
teenth Anniversary of the organ-
of the American Legion.
New Rochelle, N. Y. . . . Peter
Levine, 12, son of a New York
To State, Congresaional, Ju
dicial and Senatorial
Conventions
Wilkes county Republicans
held a harmonious convention to
day in Wilkesboro and re-elected
N. B. Smlthey, prominent merch
ant. as chairman. R. Don Laws,
- . *
TBRUBL, Spain ... Lost to the Government fo^ a^fw mont^ ago o'rgaWtion de-
the Spanish Insurgents voted to the better appreciation of
an enonnous cost oX won and inunitions. KegaruW oy loreign nuii
tary experts as a Pyrrhic victory, the occupation of the city by Fran
co^s troops revealed only a battered and deserted sharnoles.
.a-. w. — - ^ ant, as ciiairmau. rv. xjaws
attorney and the latest victim | “Yellow Jacket^
••anatPh" rapkpf. was last re-elccted secretary - "
the “snatch” racket, was last
seen Feb. 24. Since then his
father has received ransom notes
demanding . $30,000. Although
law-enforcement authorities have
promised to stay out of the case
no reliable contact has been made
with the kidnapers and it is fear
ed the boy is dead.
Jobless Checks
Are Delivered
More Rapidly
New Check Writing Ma
chine at Raleigh Fa
cilitates Work
a new type check writing ma
chine was installed in the Raleigh
office. ’This machine will turn out
checks faster and has enabled the
state to Include more than one
week in one check and thus catch
up with some of the checks due
for the past several weeks.
The number of new claims be
ing filed is decreasing weekly,
reports show, and many who have
been unemployed have found
jobs.
Stills Replaced
Soon After Raid
Sheriff Destroys Two Large
Outfits in Windy Gap
was re-eieciea secretary a n
Spencer Richardson, a local bus
iness man, was re-elected assist
ant secretary.
Precinct meetings were held on
Saturday afternoon throughout
the county and ail ' townships
were well represented at the con
vention today.
The convention was called to
order at 12:30 by Chairman N
With majorities in proportion
to the remainder of the state,
Wilkes county tobacco and cot-
uiuci «- - farmers Saturday voted over-
B. Smlthey. who called Attorney ^helmingly for compulsory con
J. H. Whicker to the chair as , , . tobacco and cotton crop:
Checks due unemployed for Job
insurance are being delivered
more promptly, it was learned
here today from the employment
service office.
In order to faclUtato the worfc- members' of 'tbs sUrtb' -exswatl^'
temporary chairman.
On motion of Solicitor John R.
Jones Mr. Smlthey was anani-
mously re-elected and Mr. Laws
and Mr. Richardson also received
unanimous endorsement of the
convention as secretary and as
sistant.
The officers addressed the con
vention briefly, asked the con
tinued loyal support of the par
ty and predicted a sweeping vic
tory in the fall elections.
H. C. Kilby and Miss Mazie
Johnaop were recommended aa
committee.
No contests arose during the
convention.
With the exception of the del
egation for the Judicial conven
tion to bo held in Wilkesboro
on Saturday, March 19, delegates
were not Instructed.
With but few opposing votes a
resolution Introduced by Attorney
Allie Hayes that delegates to the
judicial convention be instructed
to vote for Attorney J. P. Jordan
as candidate for the nomination
for solicitor was adopted and the
candidates were so Instructed.
The names of delegates and
alternates elected for the judici
al convention to be held in the
courthouse at Wilkesboro on Sat
urday, March 19, two o’clock, fol
low:
Sheriff C. T. Doughty a n d| j Absher, W. H. Sebastian.
Chief Deputy Odell WhitUgton;
destroyed two stills m the Windy I . j^^^Kinley Billings, Char-
Gap vicinUy in the same mountain, p^e^-ette, A. P. B.augess.
hollow where they cut a number " .’
of stills onlv a few weeks go > Gaither Pruitt. Richard Sidden,
01 siiiis only a lew weeics go. , periie Foster. J. C. Ellis. Pearley
. I At one of the large outfits theyi““'“® . ,, „
On that date in 1919, approxi-j^^^^j gOO gallons of sugarhead! Baugess. Charlie McNeil, .4. B.
'liquor. A car was loaded with gsj Matherly, J. J. Walker, M. A.
gallons and the remainer was de-1 Bayne, Dewit Miller, Jo n . c-
stroyed on the spot. The 95 gal-'
Ions placed in the car was poured
out on the street in front of the
jail Saturday morning.
Large quantities of beer was
destroyed and there were indica-
Hitler Takes* Austria
Vienna, March 12. (Saturday)
—Austria has submitted to Adolf
Hitler.
The government yielded to
German’s armed might and gave
up its five-year fight against
domination by the German Fue
hrer.
German troops, massed on the
border, marked into Austria at
three points. '‘•Early today they
were^reported at Linz, Austria, 40
xnilee from the German frontier.
» Major Clausner, leader of Nazi
f S. A. troops in Vienna, broadcast
an announcement that:
^“Austria has become free—
r^Awtrla has become National So-
v'^elallat ... a new government has
formed.” *
.•m^tvxbe anti-Nazi chanceUor, Kurt
Jt^uschnlgg, resigned In the face
k German ultimatum demand-
xeorganlzatlon of the govern-
■^rmany’s action, fcomlng pro-
te^ by Great Britain and Prance,
(AMted Bhipope’* most omlnoue
libation alnoe Hitler defiantly
^Oe^pted the Rblneland on March
mately one thousand representa
tive officers and enlisted men of
the A. E. F. met at a great Cau
cus in Paris, France, and laid
plans tor the organization of the
American Legion.
In celebration of this event,
Wilkes County Post No. 125 and
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Le
gion will entertain at a birthday
party on Thursday night of this
week and a suitable program has
been arranged for the occasion.
One feature will be the big Birth
day Cake with its 19 candles and
refreshments after the meeting.
The meeting will start prompt
ly at 7:30 and every member of
both Legion and Auxiliary are
urged to be present, and especial
ly the'Charter members and Past
Commanders and Past Presidents
of these organizations. The festiv
ities will close with a dance and
a most enjoyable evening is look
ed forward to, by those privileg
ed to attend.
Grady, Hamp Elledge, Charles H.
Day, Ruff Dockery, Reid Royal,
W. G. Gabriel, W. K. Sturdivant,
J. Ambrose Reeves, Sherman
Bumgarner, H. T. Stout, Jim Mas-
tin, Dick Stout, Buel Brooks,
UVOblUjCU dUU tiicic wciC iiitaivsa- »
tions that liquor was being made*. I^awson Curry, Bill Miller, Reece
on a large scale. I (Continued on page eight)
f
Minstrel Show Is
Very Entertaining
Darktown Minstrels, presented
Friday night a t Wilkesboro
school, proved to be highly enter
taining. The house was filled to
capacity and the show went over
in a big way.
Many of the •best known ama-
tuer actors and singers were In
cluded in the cast •with selected
high school children and the pres
entation reflected able direction.
Miss Elizabeth Paw, member of
.the Wilkesboro school faculty, di
rected tbs shoir.. r
Overwhelming *s To
Cvop Contvol Project Is Ap.
proved by Commission;
Bars Truck Traffic
trol of tobacco and cotton crops
under the farm bill passed a few
weeks ago by congress.
For tobacco marketing quotas
Wilkes farmers voted 377 to 47
and the cotton farmers voted for
control 29 to 5.
The voting places Saturday in
Wilkes were Wilkesboro, Trap-
hill, Benham, Clingman and Som
ers school house. The polls were
open from seven a. m. to seven
p. m. and only those who produc
ed tobacco or cotton in 1937 were
eligible to vote,
Highway number 815, now be
ing constructed from the Wllkes-
Iredell linq to highway 421 two
miles east of Wilkesboro, will be
extended across highway 421 and
•will enter North Wilkesboro by
the lower Yadkinl bridge, it was
learned today from J. Gordon
Hackett, eighth division highway
commissioner.
This extension will shorten the
distance into North Wilkesboro
by about one mile. At present
traffic toward North Wilkesboro
over 421 and 315 from the south
and east comes through Wilkes
boro.
Hoey and other state officials
joined tonight in expreeslng grat
ification. over crop control’s vic
tory In yesterday’s referendum.
“The overwhelming vote in fa
vor of tobacco and cotton con
trol,” the chief executive com
mented, "assuree stabilization for
agriculture and guarantees the
farmers at least a reasonable
price for these t'wo basic crops.”
With, complete returns record
ed for all but two the state’s 796
polling places, the AAA office
her© listed North Carolina’s vote
as:
For flue-cured tobacco quotas,
150,226; against 17,112.
For cotton quotas, 126,838; a-
galnst, 15,232.
Tobacco Majority 89.8 Per Cent
North Carolina gave cotton
quotas an 89.3 per cent majority
and tobacco quotas one of 89.8
per cent. AAA officials here had
predicted an 80 to 85 per cent
majority for control.
Dean I. 0. Schaub of the N. C.
State College Extension .service
had estimated about 150,000
farmers were eligible to vote in
each referendum.
Commissioner of Agriculture
W. Kerr Scott said he was “pleas
ed” over the substantial majority,
which, he added, "obviously” will
make enforcement of control eas
ier.
“I believe the majority of
growers have voted wisely,” he
said, “and the acceptance of this
program to save the farmer from
ruinous prices that have resulted
from over-production will have
desirable economic results
throughout the state.”
Schanb Gratified «•.
Dean Schaub said he was “very
bkrred from the lower bridge
road, Mr. Hackett said, because
the lower bridge has a load limit
which would make it unsafe for
heavy trucks.
The hlghrway extension will
pass in front of the highway di
vision shop near the lower bridge
and near the proposed location
for a prison camp. The proposed
route from highway 421 to the
lower bridge is about one mile
long.
Meanwhile work of grading
315 through the Hunting Creek
community is near complotiou
and crushed stone will be applied
as rapidly as weather conditions
permit.
prised” that control won such a what he said was
victory. “I don’t think I have' gneugii candles,” read
ever seen more interest in any-
growers.
I lom, ■orwicu
todas^o: ToicS
j. voted to the better appreciation of
i- home and family. The purposes
behind this movement are:
1. Pro'vidc our citizens ■with in
formation on the best standards
of home building, home furnish
ings and equipment.
2. Encourage families to study
their housing needs and to plan,
build, and furnish their homes in
accordance to these needs.
3. Disseminate information on
home ownership, saving for home
ownership, methods of financing,
and to acquaint families with the
benefits'to be derived from owning"
homes of their oym.
4. Promote and encourage the
building of single-family houses.
5. Acquaint families with the
best methods of reconditioning old
houses and the improvements of
home grounds.
6. Make communities housing
conscious in order that all sub
standard housing eventually may
be eradicated.
7. Supply knowledge on more
convenient methods of housekeejH
ing, the elimination of drudgery
and waste in household operation,
and the fundamentals of house
hold management.
8. Encourage music, reading and
recreation in the home; the build-
ic fMBiiy _
Ju^e Pless At
Kiwanis Friday
Delivers Interesting Address
On Value of Law
and Government
Judge J. Will Ple.ss, of Marion,
who is presiding over Wilkes su
perior court, told the North Wil
kesboro Kiwanis club Friday a-
bout the cost of crime and the
value of law and government.
Judge Pless cited some figures about liquor, „ -
to show the high cost of crime months in jail or on the roads
and he declared that the every
day citizen must be aroused to
this tremenduous cost if be is to
appreciate what law and order
means.
J. R. Hix.
Secretary T. E. Story, who ear
lier in the meeting was presented bill charging Clyde Hollemau
much gratified and rather sur- ^ beautiful birthday
v.w -— . - from R. R. McLaughlin, director Ing A. P. Huffman,
thing on the part of farmers,” he motor vehicle bureau of ' '
said. He added the control “un- -
doubtedly’’ would.help, farmers meijaugniin iniormeo me ciun miies wei
this year, particularly tobacco a contract with 13, 1937.
—' the Carolina Motor club to sell "—
- . license piaies ana mat me wnoie mnnms sentence suspenaeo
Box Supper Tiiatter of the removal of'the lie-1 payment of $25 fine and cost.
eahe bureanKitrom North Wilkes- *'—
- wise DuremiiKtrtJin norm nu&es- j.7on
Announcement has been made rests '«dt]i;.that organization, guilty,
n. box aunner to be held on Sheriff C. T. Doughton was a
Everett Warren
iley. ^
guest
a box supper to be held _ _
aturday night, Mareb 26,' at gqggt of 'W. H. ICeEIwee and Lenderman, asault with intent to
Fishing-;Cre^ Arbor - schoo^ Thomas Ffale;
house. The supper Is for the pnr- judge T. B.
pose of raising funds to paint the
church and everybody la tovlted.
Ford Phut to teopen"^ "
Atlanta, March 10.—fl. D. Bpt
Episcopal L«iien 'Service
Brewing prayer and sermon at
8L. PauTa': '^B;|^acopal cbnrdh
To ^ ,Sponw^,
In
Csunpaign la To End With "
“ Better Homes Week” i*-:
April 24th to 30th
HOME AGENT IS LEADER
Well Balanced Demonstra-
tiona to Feature Cam
paign hi County '
Miss Harriett' McGoogan, homo
demonstration agent, has been ap
pointed county chairman of Bet
ter Homes in America for 1988.
This movement is backed by a na-
9. To develop an appreciation of
all arts for the real pleasure to be
found in them.
Annual Better Homes Campaigns
are organized as means of co-or
dinating the activities of various
educational, social, civic, govern
mental, and religious organizations
(Continued on page eight) •
Many Are Tried
In March Court
Large Number Cases Dis
posed of During First
Week of Term
With Judge J. Will Pless pre
siding the March term of Wilke*
superior court entered the second
week today.
Scores of cases were removed
from the docket last week as the
business of the court moved a-
long rapidly.
Cases tried during the first
week included the following in
which sentences were meted out:
Marshal Dry, colored, received
an active sentence of two to five
years and a suspended sentence
for larceny.
Koonce Prevette, who shot his
father in the leg following a row
was given eight
John C. Cline, reckless driving,
two months sentence suspended
on payment of $35 fine and cost,
not to drive car for two months.
Bill Irvin, for affray $25 and
The p.”ogram was in charge of cost, for drunkenness $10 and
cost.
The grand jury returned a tru*
cake with the death of Sam Jolly
“not February 6.
A true bill was returned charg-
of Lenoir,
. with the death of Otis Yates In
the department of revenue. Mr. an automobile accident three
McLaughlin Informed the club miles west of this city on June
— James Dancy, ^slander, t
license plates and that the whole months sentence suspended on
AvUMIUBg AMMvu -vMss — - . _ ^ ^ m
tom, branch manageiv annouiMSed Tlinrsday owoing, hbreh;,. „17tb,
. ^ at half paa^ sev»n o6Dl6dK^3eY.
„ .. M, Bootor, in atetHk.
ksMi ViMtorii. and friends
Invited attend *’■*
of kill and ivlth deadly iteaponf.^'
prayer tor Jndgmont continued o»
payment ot cost 5 and ' condition
that they are of good beharlor-'^";
Clove Marley, trMpaio, fin*
$10 and ■•?»■'.-'S’.IJpa..
The craad;-Ji^p^tenMd^a. ti»a
bU) charging Jirttli
'the death of Jate#pii|rr' ^
, t^Aess Adadat da>« Tbr falt-
another