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BIG NAVY PROVTOBD -
WMblpston, May IS.—^The bil
lion-collar navy expansion bill,
designed to give the nation the
most iK>werful fleet in its history,
went to the White House today
for President 'Roosevelt’s signa
ture after the senate approved it.
. Almost immediately it ' beeame
known that the navy hoped to
start work without delay on some
of the 46 new fighting ships, 26
auxiliaries and 950 planes the
measure authorizes.
SKUIX FRACTURED
Elkin, May 13.—H. D. Swalm.
44, Yadkin county farmer living
seven miles from Elkin, sustain
ed a skull fracture and other in
juries yesterday when he was
jolted from an empty motor truck
onto, the road as he was on his
way from his home to his work.
Albert Durham. 25, who was also
a passenger on the truck escaped
with minor injuries. The accident
occurred on a curve, it is said,
the machine having skidded as
the operator was attempting to
round tho bend.
HEADS BAmSTS
Richmond, Va., May 13.—The
Southern Baptist convention nam
ed Dr. L. R. Scarborough, of Tex-
as president, selected Okla
homa City as the 1939 meeting
site and made plans lor an “ex
tensive and intensive soul-win
ning campaign” here today. Dr.
Scarborough, president of South
western seminary, Seminary Hill.
Texas, succeeds Dr. John R.
Sampey, of Louisville, Ky., as
leader of more than 5.000,000
Southern Baptists in 18 states
and the District of Columbia.
^BLAMES BUSINESS
Washington, Mav 13.—Presi
dent Roosevelt* blamed business
methods today for many existing
economic troubles. Using one of
bis athletic figures of speech, he
said business had run away with
the ball. He made this statement
after a reporter had asked, at a
press conference, what he thought
of charges by his critics that the
present depression showed his
first big,spending program was a
'filiiire. He denied the charges.
His statement about business
methods recalled his past remarks
k about overproduction, high-press
ure salesmanship, and certain
prices he considered too high.
VOL. XXXll, NO. 61 Publiahed Monctey)? and
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Settle$40,000
Suit For $225
With the Jury out and unable
to reach a verdict in the case of
Mrs. Tyre Bowers versus S. C.
Hutchison, in which she was ask
ing f 4 0,000 damages for the
death of her husband, the parties
compromlsad the case in Wilkes
court for the sum of $225.
Hutchison admitted .shooting
Bowers on October 1, 1931. He
was acquitted in criminal court
on grounds of self defense and
defense of his own home.
Two days were consumed in
taking of testimony, argument by
coun.sel and the charge to the
jury by Judge J. Will Pless. It
is understood that the jury was
about evenly divided upon wheth
er Mrs. Bowers should recover
$1,000 or nothing.
During the two-weeks term of
civil court more than 200 cases
were removed from the docket,
a majority of the cases disposed
of being by the non-suit route be
cause of failure of plaintiffs to
appear and prosecute actions in
stituted prior to July 1, 1935.
Another term of Wilkes court
for trial of civil cases will begin
on Monday, June 6. Judge Pless
will again preside.
Judge J. A. Rouuseau. of this
city, elected in 1934. will pre
side over court? in the ITth dis
trict for the first time during the
six months be.ginning July 1.
ccaUr.ixf
TKrowa Out- X^dl^fey
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M:
“I am the law” is the alleged
boast of Frank Hague. “Boss” ef
New Jersey and of Jersey City.
On the moment this would seem
the truth for Norman Thomas,
national Socialist leader and
quadrennial presidential candi
date, was ejected from the city
twice for attempting to make a
speech. Thomas (above)-says he
w'ill contest Hague's action in
suppressing tree speech and in*
hustling him out of town against
his will.
Heard
.iV-
In’'
Miss'Zelle
O. McNeil
fleeted
rEXPRESSED
Election; Par-
braised
on
tbtisiastic
foUBe '•’in
goon
Large Attendance
Home Club Meet
Twenty-Four Wilkes Ladies
At District Meeting
Held in Boone
Wilkes county home demon
stration clubs were represented
by 24 ladies in the sir-county fed
eration meeting 4*eM in Boone
Friday, Miss Harriet McRoogan,
W'ilkes county home demonstra
tion agent, said today.
The federation is composed of
Avery, Watauga, Wilkes, Iredell,
.Alexander and Caldwell counties.
Mrs. R. R. Crater, of Ronda,
was elected a vice president of'
the federation and Dliss Ruth
Huffman, a member of tho Cham
pion 4-H club, served as a page
ATTACKS DRINKING
Wilson. .May 13.— Attacking
“drinking by southern woman
hood.” Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey. North
Carolina’s first lady, told the gar-j.,t the federation meeting,
sn department of the Wilson ] Con.sidering the fact that
^Oman’s club iiere today that “I
don’t like custom-made manners.
W'hy do things just because eve
ryone else does them?” Deploring
the habit of drinking liquor a-
mong women. Mrs. Hoey urged
the women at the gathering here
not to “do what the crowd does.” ,vue. Mr.;,
and asked them to set an example j n. Crater, Mrs. F. T. Moore and
for the childrci of the state tolars. O. D. Hentley: Boomer -
this
is the first year of home demon
stration work in the county,
Wilkes was well represented at
the meeting, being fourth in
point of attendance.
Those attending from W'lkes
were: Ronda—Mrs. H. I. Par-
Msrvin Wall. .Mr?
Work Begun On
School Gym Job
Mountain View Job Started;
BeginMillers Creek
Project Soon
lolfeffiB, vice
reMl«r, secre-
■ ■
Mnely
pi Soxh-
convention.
called the
follow b> “not
drinking habit.
indulging” in tho
A WPA project calling for con
struction of a physical educa
tion building and' imBrovement
o-f grounds, incttrdld^- liafilWp-
ing, has begun at Mountain View
high school, C. M. Crutchfield,
WPA area supervisor, said here
today.
A similar project has been ap
proved for Millers Creek school
but starting date has been post
poned because of a contemplated
change in building plans from
frame construction to brick ve
neer, Mr. Crutchfield said.
The projects, which are almost
identical, are set nn to cost over
$16,000 each with the cost about
equally divided Ijetween the com
munities as snonscMs and the
Works Pro.gross administration.
However, both communities have
some materials to apply on their
part of the cost of the projects
R. j and interested parties have been
soliciting funds for the commun
ities’ cash contributions.
and
cars
manig
cha
tary.
The
attepddf
with
era i
convei^j
W. H.‘.made con
veutlon reprMen-
tatlves of iP^JW^pWalstlng the
secretarir.’..J . v/-:*'
The ilei tof hualaesa waa
a reBolotldf^ead by the chairman
endonlliff t» reedrd of the Dem
ocratic P^ty ia tl^ nation and
state ,Wd i^pniljr^oftdorslng the
administrations'^•■Itteriff C. T.
Doughtw and qomtaHaslonera R.
G. Flnlejf and J^eet .Poplin,, who
were elected on the Democratic
ticket in Wllkea 1»
Then followeid a .»^^fber of
short*
tj exB
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Me
ia
Hundreds of feet below the waters of the Hudson the north tube of
the Lincoln Vehicular Tunnel is “holed through” to connect New York
and New Jersey. ‘ITie tunnel is designed with two tubes, each one
way. The south tube is already in use. The north one will be com-
ir jteted next year. As a climax to the two-year digging job, sandhog
"'^Sews from each shore meet near the center of the river bed.
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This Week Air Mail Week; Plane k
To Visit N. Wilkesboro Thursday;
Ask Peo|de to Patronize Ail Mail
ftiiea in© ^
Attorney Coca-Cola Company
To Buy Blackberries
Again This Season
BLAMES DEAD MAN
Laurlnburg, May 13.—A Scot
land county jury decided late to
day that Edward Rodman “Judy”
fcHudelson, 29, of Gastonia, who
^was killed near here this morn
ing when two gasoline transports
crashed and env'eloped a mill
pond and part of a 520-foot
bridge in flames died by reason
of “his own negligence in driving
on the wrong side of the road.”
and exonerated Thomas Boozer.
26, of Charlotte, driver of the
other tank truck. The trucks col
lided on the Ida Mill bridge, five
miles west of here, about six o’
clock this morning. The-west
bound truck, driven by Hudelson.
laden wBh 3,500 gallons of gas
oline, went through the bridge
rail, striking the hank of a small
stream. Hudeleon’s body was
found at the bottom of the canal.
Mias Eva German, Miss Lucille
German. Miss Annie Lou Fergu
son and Mrs. Charlie German,
Ferguson—Miss Beulah Fergu
son. Mis.s Janie Spicer and Mrs.
S. F. Miller; Mountain View—
Mrs. J. t.. Gregory, Mrs. J. A.
Blevins. Mrs. G, C. Pendry, Mrs.
B. W. Pendry, Mrs. Glenn Dancy,
.Mrs. L. W. Teague and Mrs. Paul
Church; Moravian Falls—Mrs.
S. .1. Steelman, Mrs. Janie Howell.
Mrs. W. C. Hendren, and Mrs.
Mary Lowe.
G.O.P. Will Form
Clubs In Precincts
Young Republicans to Or
ganize In Precincts On
Tuesday Night
Home Coming Day
CO’ .
Wilkes’ county aatf -speakers pre
dicted the election of the full
Democratic ticket in Wilke.s this
year, saying that tho best pos
sible ticket will be before the
people.
Among those who spoke were
Attorney Eugene Trivette; John
Henry Johnson, candidate for
representative in the legislature:
F. C. Forester, a former county
chairman; C. T. Donghton, sher
iff and candidate for re-election:
Highway Commissioner J. G.
Haehatt. who said “the biggest
fiiciory in North Carolina is the
nemocraUc party and the biggest
thing ill bankruptcy in the na-
iiiiu is tl;e Republican party”:
H. A. Crannr. a former county
chairman w-ho has not missed a
county convention in 40 years;
N. O. Smoak, candidate for coun
ty commissioner who said Wilkes
was getting into a deplorable con-
partial Demo-
Mr. W. A. McNeill, nresident
and manager of the Coca-Cola
Bottling Company, announced to
day that his company will be in
the market again this season for
blackberries. Prices are expected
to be as good, if not better than
lastiyear, Mr. McNeill said.
Announcement will bo 'made
later as to price and location of
the blackberry market.
Special Cachet For North
Wilkesboro Letters
This Week ,
^ At
Wilkesboro Church
A good revival meeting closed
last night at the Wilkesboro
Methodist church. The meeting,
in progress for a week, waa con
ducted by the pastor. Rev. A. W.
Lynch. Much interest was taken
in the se’ivices and there were
many reconsecratlona.
Music during the revival was
in charge of the choir commit
tee, and had niuch to do with the
success of the^eeting.
» » •! i dition before the
At Liberty Csrove | cratic victory in 1936; J. C.
i Reins, a former county chairman
i now postmaster of North Wilkes-
I iioro; R. T. McNiel, mayor of
North Wilkesboro, who predicted
a majority of 1.500 for the coun
ty Democratic ticket in Novem
ber: D. F. Sheppard, member of
the county hoard of education;
H G. Minton, who has never
. missed a precinct meeting or
county convention since youth: C.
M. Crutchfield, area supervisor of
WPA, C. G. Faw, former member
of county hoard of education. I The name “Rotten Ro'w” given
Others who were recognized by'a famous street in London, is a
the chairman included Judge J. 1 corruption of the original name
(Continued on pa.ge eight) “Route Du Roi.”
.'tn'unincement has been made
of a special home coming and
mothers’ day program at Liberty
Grove church on Sunday, May 22.
The program will begin at ten
o’clock and cominne through the |
day, including a basket picnic |
dinner at noon. Everybody is in-!
vlted. I
Coral islands are not solid coral,
but rock-formed mountains coated
with coral. Most corals cannot
grow at great depths, which make
it practically impossible for a coral
island to build up from excessive
depths.
O. E. S. In Meeting
Thursday Evening
Wifkes Chapter No. 42, O. E.
S. held its regular meeting on
Thursday with the newly install
ed officers, headed by Marion P.
Lomi.;;, Worthy Matron, and H.
T. Clark, Worthy Patron, filling
their places. Harold R. Moa.g,
Jr., Past Worthy Grand Patron,
of Greensboro was a guest. Fol
lowing the business session the
Worthy Matron, in an attractive
manner, directed Inez Absher
Bowles, a recent bride and an of
ficer of the Chapter, to a mis
cellaneous shower from the chap
ter. Mr?. Helen McNeill and Mrs.
Lois McGowan, two other brides
were remembered by the Chapter
with gifts of crystal.
Today begins the second an
nual observance of “Air Mail
Week’’ and North Wilkesboro h
again expected to make a good
showing in volume of air mail
dispatched.
Last year during “Air Mail
Week” a greater volume of air
mail was dispatched from North
Wilkesboro tnan any other city
of near its size and population In
North Carolina.
North Wilkesboro again will
.bave a speclayy«"^te)yKiied‘'^stfelWtf 'auf.
for air mart letters this week and
the envelopes will be given free
by Postmaster J. C. Reins, who
has a limited number for distri
bution.
“Air Mail Week’’ is observed
to stimulate interest in air mail
and to acquaint people with the
speedy service it renders.
Oil Thursday afternoon. May
19. at 1:25 a plane will slito a; j
the North Wilkesboro aii’PO*'t to
pick up outgoing air ineil from
North Wilkesboro and other post-
offices in the county.
Mail to 1)0 dispatched on the
plane must be in the office here
not later than one o’clock.
The plane w'lll stop for fifteen
minutes at the airport and will
leave promptly at 1:40.
Judge J. J. Hayes i _
• Many District
In* Attendance''
OVER loa
R. L. Vannoy May. Be T»
During Term; M4m|i^
Liquor 'Cases •
Federal court opened Iq
kesbbro this morning with St
Johnson J. Hayes on the • w ^
and began work on a doeket
more than 100 cases. ’ ,
J. Edgar Young was namsdti
foreman of the grand Jury aidt.
that body was informed that tt
would be asked to pass upon s>
bout 76 bills of Indictment, prae-
tlcally all Involving alleged tIo-
lations of liquor tax laws. ■
One exception will be ths esse
of R. L. (Diamond Bob) Vannoy,
of the postoffice of the sSBia'
name. He Is charged with estog
the mails to defraud In conned)*
tion with the alleged forgery oY
more than $1,000 on Montgomery
Ward and company. The goTom-
ment, it is understood, will at
tempt to show that he used tho
mails in cashing some of the
checks. Two of hi.s alleged con
federates, residents of the same
mountain community in Wilkes,
are serving two-year sentences
imposed in state courts.
District Attorney Carlisle Hig
gins is prosecuting the docket,
assisted by Assistants Bryce Holt,
R. H. McNeill, Miss Edith Hay
worth and Miss Margaret Brock.
Deputy Marshals attending
court are W. A. Jones, Henry
Stallins, Bob Stafford. T. C. Bla
lock and John Stevenson. Other
court officials present this morn
ing were Clerk Henry Reynolds,
Deputy Clerk L. Bumgarner and
Miss Lillian Harkreader,
‘t
assist^
Also present at the term is- J.
'j. Osteen, probation officer, who
has over 200 cases to look after
in Wilkes.
To Solicit Funds
Junior league
Schedule American Legion
Junior Baseball StArts
Saturday, May 28
Southside Singing
To Be Held May 29
Expect Successful Session At
Walnut Grove Baptist
Church
NORTH WILKESBORO HAS GOOD BASEBALL TEAM
nations squabble
Mexico City, May 13.—Mexico
severed dplomatic relations with
Groat Britain tonight. The gov
ernment’s foreign relations de
partment announced the with
drawal from London, “in view of
the unfriendly attitude” of the
British government, of her Min
ister Prlmo Vlllamichel and the
legation staff. This country’s
inHic action followed Britain s
Increasingly sharp protests at
PreMdemt Lazaro Cardenas’ ex-
March 18 of British-
owned oil properties aud Mexico s
delay in payment to Britain of
'grrowixig out - of Mexican
wars (On that date Carden-
*ook over the $400,000,000
British and American owned for-
' elgn oil industry In Mexico).
If the external application of
wttter i5 ^ panacea for the
* human beings as a
eaaas, fl» shoaM
^ gbem the hihwram stage.
Young Republicans in the var
ious precincts in Wilkes county
will meet at individually desig
nated places on Tuesday night.
May 17, for the purpose of or
ganizing young Republicans
clu'os.
The precinct plan of organiza
tion among young Republicans
was adopted in a county-wide
meeting held at the courthouse iu
Wilkesboro on Tuesday night, at
which lime A. A. Triplett was
elected president of the county
club.
State chairman of young Re
publicans’ clubs, J. Bennett Rid
dle. of Morganton, delivered an
address and assisted in the or
ganization.
The clubs next month plan a
roll call canvass of party mem
bers to secure a mailing list of
interested members of the party
and to solicit small contributions
toward a campaign fund for the
state.
Next session of .Southside Sing
ing association will be held with
Walnut Grove Baptist church near
Pores Knob on Sunday. May 29.
Attorney P. J. McDuffie, chair
man who made the announce
ment, said that the day’s program
will begin at ten o’clock and con
tinue through the day. A basket
dinner will be spread at noon and
those attending are requested to
carry baskets for this feature of
the program.
All singing classes, quartets
and others interested In gospel
music are invited, the chairman
said.
Official.? of tiie American I>e-
gion post here today said that tho
1938 season of junior baseball
will be inaugurated in Wilkes ott’
Saturday, May 28. and that tho
schedule of the eight teams will
be published on Monday, May 23.
The program of junior baseball
was widely acclaimed last year
as a most commendable activity,
affording clean recreation and
training for about 150 boys i»
eight commuiiiiies.
Legion leaders said today that
a canvass will be made this week
to solicit funds to help maintala
the league this year and that
public recognition will be given
all contributors and that their
names will be published in this
newspaper each Monday.
, Pictured hora is the North ^Ukes^o basetell sinafi towns with
several Wilkes communities. Dae to the ® somewhat of a dilemma, havinjr a good
semi-pro and commercial leagues the N»rth W Ikwboro team is in soniewim^o^^^^
team but nobodyi to play a^nst. Watkins ^teSer^ Templeton, outfield; Rcarte,
The date of the game wlft be ABhoanced lAter.^, ^ -F'-4>hoto,CoiWt«y
In Topeka, Kansas, a law limits
.each hoOMhold to five cats.
Mrs. Absher, 83,
Is Taken By Death
Mrs. Caroline Absher, age 83,
member of one of Wilkes coun
ty’s best known families, died Fri
day, She passed away at the home
of her son, M. F. Absher, a
member of the Wilkes county
board of commissioners, in Mul
berry township where she made
her home.
She is survived by two sons, M.
P. and A. S. Absher, one slater,
Martha Johnson, of North Wil
kesboro route 2, and one brother,
D. C. Johnson, who lives In Ida
ho.
Funeral service was held Sun
day at Pfne View church and
burial was in Absher cemetery.
Rev, J. M. Dillard had charge of
the service.
Nudists should be given credit
for ono thing^or not taking,off
Payne Speaker
AtKiwanisClub
The North Wilkesboro Kiwante
club’s meeting Friday noon was
featured by an address by John
Payne. An interesting meeting
was held.
The club voted to go to inter-
club and Ladles’ night meeting at
Winston-Salem on the evening of
May 19. The club also voted not
to have the regular Friday lunch
eon this week. . ■
Secretary T. B. Story read a
letter of appreciation and sym
pathy concerning the death of
Arthur A. Finley, from Fred G.
W. Parker, International Secre
tary, of Chicago.
For the program, Chairman J.
B. McCoy Introduced John Payne,
who addressed the club on "Kl-
wanls Standards.” He related tho
Good Samaritan story and made
the conclusion that most men
tall into one of theso throo
groups: The robber who takwtho
other man’s prdperty 'wlthoik
mercy, the priest who.has »«id,
keeps his own property to him
self. and the Samaritan whr.h|A,
and shares his proporty-wiij^j
ers. He argued that Jftero.'lOl
a fine opportunity "for
high standards in civic.
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