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!‘ Atlanta. May 84.^A piece of
reck spun up by the dual Wheels
Of a JieaTy truck smashed through
the windshield of an automobile
behind the truck, police said, and
killed Frank Caton, of Louellen,
Ky., today. The motorist’s skull
was crushed. The stone also hit
Caton’s clne-year-old daughter,
seated in the back of the car,
and cut her lip. Mrs. Caton and
Mrs. R. W. Landrum, also in the
car on a trip to scenic Stone
mountain near here, were unhurt.
^OT IN HEART
Concord, May 24—Jack Freeze,
62-year-old local used car sales
man. was lodged in the city jail
here about noon today and is be
ing held without bond in connec
tion with the fatal shooting at
11:30 this morning of Roy W.
Lentz. H. T. Wallace, salesman
^for Reid Motor company here,
said this afternoon that Lentz
had walked across Church street
from the Retd used car lot and
told him that Freeze was the man
who shot him. The shooting oc
curred in the used car lot, Wal
lace said. Taken to Cabarrus hos
pital immediately, Lenfz gasped
a few times and died. A'i>hyslcian
said he was shot one time
Abeough the heart.
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Published MoQdij^'&nd Thuntdays. NORTH WIL^E^ORO, N. C„
10 DIE IN CRASH
Cleveland, .May 24.—-A United
Air Lines plane carrying 10 per
sons crashed in flames near
Cleveland tonight and firemen at
the scene said all aboard must
have perished. Flames fed by
gasoline shot high in the air for
two hours after the plane crashed
into a 40-foot wooded ravine.
Fireman from suburban Indepen
dence village, near the scene of
the crash, quickly exhausted their
chemicals to no avail. They said
they saw two bodies for a time in
the fuselage and that all others
undoubtedly were consumed by
the fire.
T^i
ORGY OF TRAGEDY
Tokio. May 24.—Three disast
ers striking 22-year-old Mutsuo
Toi within a month were disclos
ed today as the reason for his
mad murder orgy in which he
killed 28 persons last Saturday.
Residents of the little village of
Nishika. where the tragedy oc
curred. said doctors recently pro
nounced the youth tubercular.
Soon afterward his sweetheart
jilted him. Then he failed in an
examinatio.-' to become a school
teacher. Shortly before midnight
he set out on the murder tour,
with an automatic shotgun, a
undred shells, a hatchet and
bree electric flashlights. .After
slaying his 80-ycar-old grand
mother he smashed an electric
transformer, plunging the village
into darkness. He fixed a flash
light over each ear and one in
tho center of his forehead and
went from house to house shoot
ing sleeping -Tien, women and
children. Then he fled to a forest
and committed suicide.
Junior
Basebdl League
Made By Legion
Season Will Open Saturday
With Eight Teams
Participating
Officials of the Wilkes post of
the American Legion today an
nounced the schedule for the
two junior baseball leagues of
tour teams each sponsored by the
post in the county.
The schedule contaias 12
games to begin Saturday, May 28,
and continue through each Sat
urday until August six and with
a holiday game on July 4.
In the eastern league are North
Wilkesboro, Wllkesboro, Trap-
hill and Clingman. Opening
games are North Wilkesboro at
Wil’xesboro and Clingman a t
Traphill. •
The western half is composed
of Moravian Falls, last year’s
champions. Boomer, Cricket and
Purlear, the latter being the only-
new team this year.
Opening games will be M?^avl-
an Falls at Boomer and Purlear
at Cricket.
Saturday will mark the open
ing of the second season of jun
ior baseball. Last year the post
sponsored a league and a most
successful and interesting season
was experienced.
People throughout the county
who are interested in promotion
of junior baseball are respectful
ly asked to contribute something
toward maintenance of the league
this year, Legionnaires are so
liciting funds to carry out the
project and all contributors will
be publicly recognized by pub
lishing the names in The Journal-
Patriot. Legion leaders said.
Managers of the eight teams
may secure balls for the first
game from W. J. Bason in this
(Continued on page eight)
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'•.s-ik’.
Here, in the Suresne Cemetery near Paris, a Gold Star Mother
weeps beside the grave of her boy twenty years after be left home
to make the World safe for Democracy. In memory of fallen heroes
Poppies will be sold here Saturday.
Three Mad Dogs
Kflled In City
Police Chief Walker Say*
Dogs Must Be Kept
Up or Be Shot
Three dogs believed to have
been afflicted with hydrophobia
have been kill'-d in North Wilkes
boro during the past week and
dog owners must keep their dogs
confined or the animals will be
killed. Police Chief J. E. Walker
warned today.
The chief said that luckily no
one was bitten by either of the
dogs killed and no laboratory-
tests were made to definitely es
tablish the presence of the dread
ed disease.
Work Begun On Parkway Surfacing
And Bridges Over State Highways
Overpass Will Be Of Rein
forced Concrete With
Stone Facing
Wilkes Man In U. S.
Army Died Monday
Corporal Tyre Y. Spicer, age
29. a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Spicer, of North Wilkesboro route
Workmen have begun the task
of surfacing the 5.8.72 miles of | k '*'ed Monday in
the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Canama following
Virginia line southward to Deep
Gap between North Wilkesbo.-o
and Boone and contract has been
awarded f o r overpasses over
highways 21. 18 and 16, it was
learned here today from official
sources.
R. B. Tyler has contract for
placing bituminous surface on
the parkway- and the work is ex
pected to be completed this sum
mer. Equipment is now being
placed on the grounds.
Federal Construction company,
of Myrtle Beach, S. C„ has con
tract for erecting overpasses over
highway 21 near Roaring Gap in
Alleghany county- and for a simi
lar structure over highway 16 at
the intersection at the Wilkes-
Ashe line. C. Y. 'ITiompson has
contract for the bridge over high
way 18 between North Wilkes
boro and Sparta at Laurel
Springs.
Work has begun on the struc-
r turee over highways 21 and 18.
The overpasses are to be rein
forced concrete but in keeping
,,/yrtth the parkway design of pre-
Ing natural beauty will be
with natural stone of the
le-grey granite 4ype.
Labor for all the projects,
which are under PWA classlfica-
aon, will be furnished through
tke'State Employment Serv^pe of-
located here and serving
-5|r«kea,Alleghany, A*he and) Wa-
^ ta«f» eouatlo#.
a hospital in
an appendi
citis operation
His father .said today that fu
neral service will be conducted at
Laurel Springs Baptist church
when the body is returned.
He had been in the array for
two years and is survived by his
parents, three brothers and two
sisters: George Spicer, who is in
the army and stationed in Ha
waii: Caswell Spicer, of Laurel
Springs: Charlie Spicer, of North
Wilkesboro route 1: Mr.s. Rebec
ca Stanley, of Winston-Salem:
and Mrs. Roe Stout, of Grassy
Creek.
Bus Station Is
Robbed of $28
Lock On Money Drawer Is
Broken In Absence Of
Station Manager
While the office attendant was
away for only a few minutes
someone entered the Greyhound
Bus station on Tenth street about
six o’clock Monday afternoon and
took $28 in cash and a check
from the money drawer.
The lock on the money drawer
was broken. Police said that in
vestigation of the theft had ^not
been wholly without results 'and
} Tv»- that they hoped to make an ar-
*oon.
Calendar Made
For June Term
Superior Cour!
Judge J. Will Pless tc Pre
side; List of Jurors
For the Term
Regular June terra of Wilkes
superior court for trial of civil
cases will convene in Wilkesboro
on Monday, June 6, with Judge
J. Will Pless, of Marlon, presid
ing.
In the term held during the
first two weeks in May more than
200 eases were removed from the
congested docket, the calendar at
that term being made up of cas‘-
es instituted prior to July 1,
1935.
Calendar for the June term has
been made up and it is under
stood that the court will endeavor
to leave the docket in current
condition.
Following are jurors for the
term:
First Week
B. H. Ledbetter. Traphill; E. S.
Kendall, North Wilkesboro; O.
R. Miller, Reddies River: T. F.
Riddle, Rock Creek; Arly Smith-
ey, Moravian Falls: Wm. H.
Tevepaugh, Brushy Mountain; J.
T. Hall, Edwards; Sam Curry.
Antioch; E. M. Miller, Rock
Creek: Wm. A. Mayberry, Som
ers; Paul P. Owens, North Wil
kesboro: J. W. ‘Adams, Wa'.niit
Grove; H. F. McMennen, Trap
hill: W. L. Byrd, North Wilkes
boro; W. F. Hayes. Mulberry:
Thos. R. Love, Boomer: Avery
Woodle, Jobs Cabin; C. S. Bum
garner, Edwards.
Second Week
J. 0. Hays, Brushy Mountain;
L. J. Mahaffey, Rock Creek; C.
M. Ellis. Walnut Grove: Ira
Dowell. Traphill; J. F. Adams,
Mulberry; A. R. Myers. Mulberry;
Virgil Jordan, North W’ilkesboro;
M. O. Faw. Stanton: W. C. Han
dy, Mulberry; J. C. Mooney, Ed
wards; J. W. Lyons, Traphill: J.
M. German, Boomer; J. H. Ash
ley, Moravian Falls: Lonnie R.
Blevins, Walnut Grove; J. R.
Woodie, Lewis Fork; G. C. Par
sons, Stanton; J. M. Wellborn,
New Castle; Tom Huffman, Red
dies River.
Arrange Program
Of Memorial Day
Services Monday
Also Special Memorial Serv
ice Sunday at Presby
terian Church
Plans for the Memorial Day
observance have been completed
by the committee of the W’ilkes
County post No‘. 125 American
Leginn. The program as arranged
is as follows;
Sunday morning. May 29, at
11 o’clock: Sei-vices at the Pres
byterian church. Memorial serm
on by Rev. Watt Cooper, the pas
tor, All veterans of all wars. La
dies Auxiliaries, U. D. C. and D.
A. R. members are invited and
urgei-4o^^4t«^ tbb*^cylce-
will meet in front of the church
and enter the church in a body.
.Monday evening. May 30, at
6:45 p. ra. Assembly on “B’’
Street, in front of Reins-Sturdi-
vant. All veterans of 1861, Span-
Ish-American War and W’orld
W’ar, together with the I). A. R„
U. D. C.. and Ladies Auxiliaries
are invited to participate in the
parade, which will proceed up
“B” Street to Ninth and thence
up Ninth to .Monument at corner
of Ninth and “D” Streets. The
American Legion Band of West
Jefferson has promised to be
present to furnish the music. The
local unit the National Guard
under Captain Reins, and all
troops of the Boy Scouts will par
ticipate in the parade.
At the Monument! the Memor
ial ceremonies will he conducted,
starting at seven o’clock. The
speaker for this occasion will be
Attorney J.. H. Whicker of this
city. It Is expected that these
services will be well attended as
the American Legion invites all
who are interested to he present.
Funeral service was hrfd Wed
nesday at Obldg. ' Preal^rterlan
church for Charles N. (Archie)
Parsons, age 18,'‘ who'Was In
stantly killed by lightning at his
home at Idlewild, Ashe county,
Monday night.
The bolt of lightning, which
struck about nine o’clock during
an electric storm and killed the
youth, badly damaged, the house
but did hot seriously injure his
father, mother or brother, all of
whom were in the house.
According to reports reaching
this city the youth was preparing
to go to bed but was standing on
the back porch with a shotgun in
his hands when he was killed.
Memibers of the family said he
had taken the shotgun from its
usual place and was going to take
it to bis room because dogs had
been causing a disturbance at
night.
Damage to the building indi
cated that the lightning had en
tered the home by a radio aerial
and had gone across the house by
the metal roof. A section of sid
ing about ten feet square on one
side of the house was shattered.
The youth’s father, J. Finley
Parsons, was seated in front of
the radio -but was not hurt.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J, Finley Parsons, and
one brother, Fred Parsons.
^ ST,
On MateridI
Wilkes
Registration For
Primary Is Light
Saturday of Hiis Week Is
Challenge Day; Saturday,
June 4th, Is Primary
Wage, Hour Bill
Passes In Hou.se
Washington, May 24.—The fair
labor standards or, as it is com
monly known, the wage-hour bill,
received house approval tonight
in the modified and simplified
form in w'hich it was reported
from the labor committee. The
bUl passed by an Impressive ma
jority. 314 to 97, and thus the
administration, after suffering
some reverses in such endeavors,
finally triumphed.
But the vote tonight did not
end the wage-hour fight, by any
means. The measure must now go
to the senate, which passed a
much different labor standards
bill last year.
The measure, as H passed, ap-
plie.s the same standards in al!
secMons of interstate industry,
with few exceptions. It calls for
a minimum wage starting at 25
cents an hour the first year, and
increasing 5 cents each year until
it attains 40 cents. It provides
for maximum weekly hour drop
ping from 44 the first year to 40
aftor the second.
Swim bladders of
source of iainj^MS.'
fish are a
Program School
Commencement
Complete program of the com
mencement of the North. Wilkes
boro hig-i scliool was announced
today.
At eight o’clock Sunday night
Dr. P. E. Monroe, president of
Lenoir-Rhyne College, will deliv
er the commencement sermon in
a service at the First Baptist
church.
On Monday afternoon, five o’
clock, an interesting class day
program will be carried out on
the school grounds.’'
On 'Tuesday night, eight o’
clock, May 31, the graduation
exercises will take place in the
school auditorium, at which time
Thad Eure, Secretary of State,
will deliver the address.
The program will open with
singing of "America, The Beauti
ful,’’ followed by invocation by
Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor of the
First Baptist church. Awarding of
prizes and medals will be the
next number and the girls’ glee
club will render "Venetian I.K3ve
Song.’’
J. R. Hix, chairman of the city
board of education, will introduce
the speaker. Following announce
ments by the superintendent, W.
D. Halfacre, W. E. Jones, mem
ber of the board, . will present
seventh grade diplomas and D. J.
Carter, vice chairman of the
board, will present the high
school diplomas to a class of 58
seniors. Rev.- W. M, Cooper,
tor of the Pr^ytertAtt dMiWh,’
will pronounce (he beBedletioa,
In contrast to primaries in
Wilkes county during the - p«at
Boveral yearsKiAhe ,print
held on June 4 promises to be a
quiet aftiilr, political observers
say.
The fact that there is only one
contest for nomination for coun
ty offices is no doubt the basis
tor the prediction. The lone con
test is for the Republican nomi
nation for representative in the
general assembly. The Ihtee who
are seeking the nomination are J.
C. Wallace, of North Wilkesboro;
A. Caudill and D. C. Sebastian,
of Hays. Wallace is a former
register of deeds, Caudill has
served in the legislature, and ,Se
bastian is a former chairman of
the hoard of county commission
ers.
There is a contest for Republi
can nomination for solicitor, the
two candidates being Mayor J. F.
Jordan, of Wilkesboro, and At
torney Avalon E. Hall, of Yad-
kinvllle.
Democratic candidates for the
nomination for representative in
congr^s to succeed Walter Lam
beth—five in number — have
mad-3 frequent visits to Wilkes,
which has the third largest Dem
ocratic vote in 14 counties of the
eighth district. The candidates
are William O. Burgin, Giles Y.
Newton, C. B. Deane, R. F. Beas
ley and George Ross.
Some interest has been shown
in the senatorial race between
Senator Robert R. Reynolds and
Frank Hancock. The other con
test for the primary is between
Utilities Commissioner Stanley
Wlnbourne and Henry A. Grady.
Unofficial reports from many
precincts in Wilkes indicates that
new registration for the primary
was light. Saturday, May 28, will
he challenge day at polling plac
es.
Hays Postoffice
Burned Monday
Building Also Contained a
Sewing Roota Main
tained By WPA
Max Schmeling, German heavy
weight boxer who will meet Joe
Louis at Madison Square Garden
next month, poses for news came
ras on his arrival on the Bremen.
Because Der Max is German,
Jewish fight fans threaten to boy
cott the match. To offset this,
promoter Joe Jacobs has offered
to turn over a percentage of the
gate to the President’s fund to
aid Central European refugees.
Committee Heads
Named For Lions;
Olive Is Speaker
Frank Blair, Jr., and John
Henry Johnson Delegates
To State Meet
111 the Lions Club meeting held
Friday night an interesting pro
gram featured by an account by
Rev. Eugene Olive of his trip to
western, states was carried out.
In the business session f’rank
Blair, Jr., and John Henry John
son were named delegates to the
state Lions convention to be held
at Wilmington on June 9 and 10.
Committee chairmen were
named as follows and each chair-
ict-the-otkOF .JBg^
hers 'of 'lhfe'ctrtnmitl#Wi! -
Activities Committees
Education, L. L. Carpenter;
civic improvement, I. H. McNeill,
Jr.; boys and girls work, Frank
Bouknight; sight conservation,
John Henry Johnson; citizenship
and patriotism. Gordon Fore.ster;
safety. Richard Deans; health
and welfare, Phillip Brame: cmii-
muniiy betterment, Z. V. Stew
art.
.Administrative Committees
Attendance, Bill Prevette:
membership, Dick Gwyn; consti
tution and by-laws, J. H. Whick
er; finance, T. G. McLaughlin;
Lion education, Jesse Giles: pro
gram chairman, L. S. Spainhour;
publicity, Charles Jenkins: club
extension, N. S. Forester.
Pec^Ie Urged to ''
Something For
AdvertUing Cottnt;y-;>f
J. B. McCoy, ebairmaa of tbog
Wilkes County unit of the
ernor’s Hospitality GommittM^.v
stated here 'Thursday mor^g’
that next Monday wedk, Jmi
will be the deadline (or reeetvific^
piateriul for incorpofation lit
adyertislng leaflet being assemble
ed for Wilkes coun*y, and.tbnt nil.
citizens who have information of
this nature to send it to him At
the Wilkes Hotel before tJM»
time. ,' ■/
Mr. McCoy said “The conulit^r
tee selected to collect data ..for,
the leaflet asks that all who hAvo
material, either photograifhs 'or
writing, will please turn It In'to'
any member of the committee by
June 5, as we are very anxious
to have the necessary inform&-
tlon at that time to put In tho
hands of the editing committee.’*
‘"rhe committee would like to
have information on the follow
ing items, in order to make an
attractive and useful leaflet:
"Historical subjects, all phases
of agriculture, financial Interests,
industrial interests, wholesale
and retail merchandise, trading
population, churches and schools,
climate, altitude, area, popula
tion, soil texture, water and wat
er power, scenery, town and coun
ty government, electric power and
distribution, health facilities.
Wherever possible, we should
like to have photographs Illus
trating the subject matter,
though this is not essential.”
Mr. McCoy stated that in ad
dition to the regular committee,
any citizen in Wilkes county who
will do so is invited to contribute
ideas and material for the leaf
let.
A meeting is planned immedi-
ately following the date set for
tb*
materfa‘,’*in'oT(rei‘ to select
Ject matter for the phamplet.
Girl Scouts In
First Class Rank
Katherine Finley, N e 1 1 e
Rousseau and Wanda Ker-
ley Receive Awards
Mrs. D. S. Hill’s
Sister Stricken
Mrs. Frank White, of White
hall, Md., died on Tuesday, May
24. She was a sister of Mrs. Dud
ley S. Hiil, of this city, and had
visited here on several occasions.
Funeral service was held at
Whitehall, Md., today.
Katherine Finley, daughter of
Mr. and Mr.s. Gordon Finlev. was,
the first Girl Scout in North Wil
kesboro to attain first class rank
and others who have reached that
rank are Nelle Rousseau and-
Wanda Kerley. Girl Scout offici
als said today.
Many mothers attended tho
Court of Honor ineetuig held
Monday night at the Girl Scout
hut, at which time awards were
mads.
Girls Scout work has been car
ried on extensively recently und
er direction of three members of
the North Wilkesboro school fac
ulty. Misses -Anne McLaughlin,
Julia Belie Foy and Carrie Bell
Strayhorn.
G-Man Investigates Reports Of
Cashing Dead Persons’ Vouchers
The building occupied by the
postoffice and WPA sewing room
at Hays was totally destroyed by
fire about midnight Monday
night.
'Lightning Is thought to have
set fire to the building, the J, P.
Elledge place.
Postoffice property was saved
from the flames but the ^ equip
ment of the seeing room, which
Included six sewing machines and
some materials, was completely
destroyed.
-Mr. and Mrs. John B. Justice:
nsa MW. J- B. Gnrt«f
tots in Charlotte Tuesday.
Small Goat Roams
Over Countryside
J. B. Rhudy, of Elk Creek,
Va., gave his small cousin, T.
R. Bryan, Jr., of Wilkesboro,
a small monntam sfoat tor a
pet but the goat has caused the
lad trouble in abundance.
'The goat, which had been
used to the mountains of Vir
ginia and felt out of place In
town, got loose 'Tueeday after
noon and the cliase began. .All
the boys of Cheny street vol
unteered their services In help
ing to catch the pet and the last
report was that the goat had
led the chase over several
milco of countryside and was
stilt in the lead.
Old Age Assistance Checks
Cannot Be Endorsed
After Death
To Play Morganton
Team Here Saturday
The Forest Furniture baseball
team will play Company B of the
106th engineers N. C. N. O. here
Saturday afternoon, 3:30.
The company B team will be
the strongest to face the local
nine so far this year and a large
attendance of supporters of the
home team is expected to be
present. ^ ^ . .
The EMshmtte in the
river in tre*t« AnJ*. ^
A special investigator from the
Charlotte office of the bureau of
investigation was in Wilkes re
cently investigating reports that
two checks for old age assistance
had been endorsed ahd cashed
after the death of the persons in
whose favor the checks were
drawn, Charles McNeill, Wilkes
county welfare officer, said today.
Mr. McNeill said that a check
must be returned to the welfare
office when delivered after death
of the person to whom the ’aid to
being tendered.
Results of the Investlgatlbn by.
the Q-Man were not disclosed.
Additional Penalty
Taxes After June 1
Attention is called to the fact
that the penalty on unpaid county
taxes after June 1 will be 4. 1-t
per cent and will increase each
month thereafter.
The time when property, will
be advertised, for unpaid taxes is
drawing near,and those who.hnve
not paid their «>hnty Yaiss LJMW f-
nrgpd to p*y as ,^)y sa posslhl*;^
and save additional.
costs.