•P^RIOT. ‘flAS fiLAZEPT'Tfe^^^TRAiL^g^PROGRl
NewlOf
ri«:'J
rBSAT C!ROP
, tttftoD, Jnn» 10.—^Tii»
‘ agHevltare deiwrtnrat forecut
totey • 1088^ American whut
crop of between 1,OS'0,888,000
and 1^045,683,000 bushel*—the
larK^ erer recorded. The larsest
preYlene crop wu 1,008,637,000
bnahels U 1915.
KH.LED IN CRASH
Mt. Airy, June 10.—Clotus
Phillips, 17, near Mt. Airy, was
Instantly killed lut night anout
|1:S0 o’clock when the stolen car
which he is said to have been
rtftfns sldeswlped a telegraph
pole and crufaed into a ditch a-
bout two miles east of here on a
dlVt road.
8 FLYERS DIE
Delavin, 111., June 10. — A
storm-tossed army bombing plane
burst Into flames and plunged
Into a farm field today, scatter
ing the broken bodies of Its full
brew of fight soldiers over the
rain-drenched prairie. The huge
craft, caught In the onslaught of
lifhtnlng thunder, rain and buf-.
4 tMtog winds, crashed to the
^^nd with terrific force.
LIONS CONVENTION
-jWrlghtsville Beach. June 10.—
M. Sorrick, of Jackson,
Mich.f delivering the keynote
speech at the state Lions conven
tion her»* tonight, lauded the
growth of the organization and
said it would grow In the future
as never before, not only in ntetOr --- ——.
bershlp but in service to hugaan- dances, military dances,
Ity Sorrick’s speech brotight narfioinatine shi
a close a convention which elect-
ed Charles A. Lano. of Sanford,
governor of the eastern district
Robert Cooke, of Shelby, gov-
ew>r tho western district and se
lected Winston-Salem a s the
meeting place for 1939.
SCARCITY “FOOLISH”
Charlotte, June 10.—The fed
eral government's $10,000,000
crop control program In North
Carolina was termed "a mere shot
in the arm,” by Kerr Scott, state
commissioner of agriculture, in
an address bore tonight. Scott
said the program was certain to
fall unless better marketing con
ditions w»re developed. Scott
before the Mecklenburg
'fiRter of the State College
A.Iumjil association. Millions
spent'for limiting farm produc-
tlop. might placate the farmers
temporarily, Scott said, and add
ed that artificial scarcity in a
land where millions are ill-fed
was “foolish.”
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Qidb fj^mmends
$1,006 Be Spent Tp
A^ertne Wilkes
Under Proaoutl Cost Would
Be Shared By City and
County Alike
The North Wllkesboro Kiwanis
club has gone on record as favor
ing an advertising campaign for
Wilkes county to be financed
jointly by Wilkes county and by
the city of North Wllkpsboro.
The question was raised in the
club meeting Friday by S. V.
Tomlinson and after brief discus
sion the .club voted unanimous
ly to recommend the spending of
$1,000 for advertising, one half
to he paid by the city and the
other half by the county gov
ernment.
Other pq'hlic matters discussed
Included'the need for street
markers In North Wllkesboro.
G. S. O’Dell was a guest of W.
H. McElwee and J. D. Holcomb,
•of Elkin, and Jim Pritchette. of
Lenoir, were visiting Kiwanians.
Program chairman Ed Gardner
was not nresent, hut W. D. Half
acre substituted. He Introduced
Mrs. Richard Finley and her
dancing class. Mrs. Finley's class
rendered a very entertaining p^t.
gram consisting of clog d
Victim
Five-year-old James Cash, Jr.,
whose dead ly''ly was found
Thursday near the home in Flor
ida from which he was kidnaped.
A neighbor youth has confessed
to the slaying and Chief G-Man
Edgar Hoover has announced
the case closed. The $10,000 ran
som money was recovered.
Assodation Of
W.M^;ioHpld
Me«tii9Jiuie22
Annual Meeting to Be Held
at Oakwoods Baptist
Church June 15
The Woman’s Missionary Un
ion of the Brushy Mountain Bap
tist association will hold its an
nual meeting at Oakwoods Bap
tist church on Wednesday, June
22, according to an announce
ment issued today.
Mrs. Edna R. Harris, state sec
retary, will speak and Mrs. Let-
tie Spainhour, of Hamlet, mis
sionary now OP furlough, has
been invited to address the meet
ing. All women and usstors are
urged to attend the meeting.
filing si'
Every girl participating showed
ahillty and fine training. Miss
Myrtle Norris played the accom
paniments.
Carolina Textile
Plants Reopening
Large Government Contract
Helps Textile Business
In Norvh Carolina
FASTS 18 DAYS ^
‘ ;>Chattanooga, June 10.—Liuher
ill, 35-year-old University of
"Ylhattanooga graduate, today
broke what he said was an 18-
day fast with a glass of orange
Juice vhich he asserted “was
provided by the Lord.” Hill had
said he received divine instruc
tions to undergo the fast. The or
ange juice was taken to Hill’s
hotel room by a traveling sales
man stopping at the same hotel.
He said he had “heard the fellow
■was about ready to eat.” “With
out the help of the Lord I could
never have endured the suffering
Twent through.” Hill said. He ces.
.added that he had lost 32 pounds
faring the fast.
nkgro executed .
Raleigh, June 10.—Empie fEb-
ble) Baldwin. 25-year-old Colum
bus county negro, died humbly
and quietly in the central prison
gas chamber today for criminal
attack. “Tell my mother I died
and am going to Jesus.” the n^gro
told Warden H. H. Wilson. Chap
lain E C. Cooper said Baldwin
aaeerted his tate “as a matter of
course, without any great worry,
and eateied the gas chamber “in
a chll4-Hke faith, fearlessly.” The
gas switch was thrown at 10:36
o’clock and Baldwin was dead li.
minutes and seven seconds later.
He was *he 31st person to die by
gas here and the 202nd to he
executed since the death chamber
waa Installed in 1910.
Ariomdbile Cuts
(Mf a Thone Pole
■ 1—
L^a Franklin Kirby, Dn-
y wer, I* Not Injured In
V The Accident
orporal Carlyle Ingle, oX.-^
a highway patroiit
Franklin Kirby under
on charge of driving drunk
the antemoWle which Kirby
drirlng''left highway 421
kjWlUteaboro Friday and cut
la teloPlMUft pote..
car was tmvellng toward
Wk^ the accident ocenred and it
orsaJ^-into a fence after cutting
ly (iprihii Jtilt the officer said.
,.»aa wparentty a '
Washington, June 11.—Looms
In the textile mills of the Caro-
linas will turn out large govern
ment contracts during the sum
mer. The Doca'.ah Cotton Mills,
Inc., of Lexington will, manufac
ture $11,771.31 worth g)f cham-
hray: the Erwin Cotton mills of
Erwin will turn out $17,487.90
worth of denim on a contract
placed by a New York firm, and
the Ragan Knitting company of
Tho.masville will manufacture
$34,623.75 worth of cotton socks
tor the OCC under a contract a-
warded today.
The Rock Hill.»S. C., Printing
and Finishing company will man
ufacture $46,573.37 worth of tex
tile pajama checks on a contract
awarded to a New York firm,
while the Granteville company of
Graniteville, S. C.. was awarded
the contract to furnish the War
department $114,200 worth of
cotton cloth for the CCC. The
contracts represent part of nine
million dollars of government
work during the week ended to
day. chiefly for emergency agen-
4-H Club Meets
For Month June
Announced Today; to Select
Delegates to Annual
Short Course
McCall Confesses
Killing Cash Child
Said Child Was Accidental
ly Strangled When He
Was Kidnaped
Sets Last Date
For Work Sheets
Miami,
June meetings of 4-H clubs
were announced today by the
county agent, assistant agent and
home agent.
These meetings are considered
of importance because members
will be selected to represent
Wilkes at the annual short
course at State College. The sche
dule of meetings is as follows—at
10 a. m. unless otherwise speci
fied:
Ferguson, June 14, Mountain
View, June 15 (senior): Moun
tain View, June 15, 2:00 p. m.
(Junior): Ronda, June 16; Trap-
hill, June 21; Champion, June
22; Millers Creek, June 23.
Clyde* Texas, Buries
Victims of Tornado
Clyde, Tex., June 12.—Clyde
buried seven of Its 12 tornado
victims today and appealqd for
aid In identifying another'
Fnneral rites for thre others
will he held tomorrow.
The unidentified 'victim was a
transient who died in t® wreck
age of a box ear to^sedA^ pieces
when Friday night’s
a freight train In twoT
As an estimated 6
thronged tho'little^
jriew the
Fla., June 10.—J. Ed
gar Hoover, dire^r of the feder
al bureau of Investigation, an
nounced Franklin Pierce McCall
signed today a detailed confes
sion that he kidnaped and killed
James Bailey Cash, Jr.
Hoever named the 21-year-old
truck driver as the single-handed
kidnaper and killer, said the po
lice investigation was closed and
turned the case over to state
prosecutors today, less than two
weeks after the crime. '
Tho P. B. I. cRi^f'^sald the
eight-page confession was signed
shortly before the victim’s • par
ents attended funeral services for
their five-year-old only child.
Seeks Two Indictments
Even before Hoover’s a n-
nouncement. State’s Attorney
George Worley said he would
seek both murder and kidnaping
indictments against the young
minister’s son who once roomed
in the Cash home at Princeton
and frequently played with the
boy he’s accused of killing.
Both murder and kidnaping for
ransom are capital crimes in
Florida and Worley said he
would seek to speed the case to
J^rlal—possibly within three or
^four weeks—it an already sum
moned grand jury returns indict
ments when it meets Monday.
The prisoner was brought by a
devious route from F. B. I. of
fices to the county’s skyscraper
jail where he was booked on an
open charge of “held for the
state’s attorney.”
>Iay Plead Guilty
Sheriff D. C. Coleman express
ed the opinion McCall would
plead guilty to whatever charge Is
filed against him.
“At least, in his present state
of mind he has indicated that,”
the sheriff said.
“I don’t think it’s any good, I
won’t make a statement,” McCall
said when asked if he cared to
comment.
He was taken to an inside wm-
dowless cell after being searched
and having his belt and shoelaces
taken from him, presumably to
forestall their possible nse in a
suicide attempt.
McGalL who had no previous
criminal record and was regarded
as “well behaved.” was arrested
last week hut his detention was
not made public until the badly
decomposed body of little Skeegie
was found early Thursday.
Breaks After Grilling
At that time Hoover said Mc
Call admitted getting the $10,000
ransom which also was recovered
but denied any further part in
the crime. The G-man chief said
the prisoner broke and began his
detailed confession today after an q
all-night grilling.
E. Y. Floyd, of State College,
has announced that June 18 will
be the last day North Carolina
farmers can submit work sheets
for participation In the conserva
tion phase of the 1938 farm pro
gram.
Floyd pointed out that filing
work sheet with the county office
obligates a farmer in no way.
merely supplies Information
bout the farm which serves as
basis for participation in the
program.
WASHINGTON, D. C. . . . Marian Richardson, 12-year-old Elizabeth,
Indiana, farm girl, shown holding the plaque sh® received for wi^ng
the 14th National Spelling Bee held in the Capital city. Jean I. Pierce,
of Buffalo, N. Y., failed to spell the word “pronunciation” correctly,
and is checking the spelling of it in the dictionary.
Policeman C. V. Lloyd, of the
North Wllkesboro police force,
has resigned, his resignation to
become effective July 1.
His resignation was accepted
by the board of aldermen and
— — Harold David, now an employe of
day at Mount Pleasant Baptist Home Chair company, was named
church for Mrs. Carrie Lula For- as his successor.
Mrs. J. A. Fairchild
Rites Held Friday
Last rites were conducted Frl-
ester Fairchild, age 69, who died
at her home Wednesday. ^
She was a meiiiber of a well
known family in Lewis Fork
township, a daughter of the late
k,UvvllOUip, a va vuv. lb IQ u i o bv/b/u,
E. W. and Jane Eller Foster. She enter the furniture business
is survived by her husband, J. A
Fairchild, and two sons, Archie
and Theodore Fairchild. Also sur
viving are four brothers and two
sisters, Frank, Grant, Ed and
Rutherford Foster, Mrs. Tencie
Stout and Mrs. N. C. Huffman.
She joined Lewis Fork Baptist
church at the age of 13, later
moving her membership to Mount
Pleasant. She was held in high
esteem by the people of her com
munity.
Rev. A. E. Watts, pastor, con
ducted the fnneral service, as
sisted by Rev. G. W. Sebastian. A
large crowd attended the last
rites.
Musical Program
At Colored Church
There will be a musical pro
gram at the colored First Bap
tist church in North Wllkesboro
on Sunday, June 26, beginning at
three o’clock. There will be sing
ing by a number of good choirs,
including the choir at Boomer,
Damascus choir, the' Sunset quar
tette and others. The program
will consist mainly of old time
spirituals. Special seats will be
reserved for whites and an offer
ing will he taken for the benefit
of the church. Everybody Is In
vited. Rev. J. W. Caldwell la pas
tor, L. F. Harris will be master
of ceremonies and Nath Ford is
in charge of arrangements.
Preaching Services
Announcement has been made
of nreaching services to be held
Sunday. June 19, at Liberty
Grove church. Rev. Ed O. Miller
will preach at 11 a. m. and Rev.
Richard Pardue will preach at
_:30 p. m. The public has a cor
dial invitation to both services.
Louisville, Ky., Tune 12.
Max Yannoy, Age
. 9* Taken By Death
Funeral service for Max Van-
noy,-nine-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard*'VaSnoy, of Pur-
lear, was held -Friday morning at
New Hope Baptist church.
He died Thursday night fol
lowing an opdtation for ruptured
AD^dJx. He la survived by hi*
ftather and ' mother, RieblMrdl a^
“ 80oUt VS«u»oy,,'iui4
works progress administrator
from Washington, denied today pHcant physically and in
that the WPA was misusing fed- ways,
eral funds for political actlvitlee - *
In Kentucky.
TO INCREASE CCC
Policeman Lloyd
Will Quit Force
To Enter Business In Yad-
kinville; Harold David
Is Named Successor
David, it was learned, has had
sosae experleaee -f» an --officer
and on several occasions has serv
ed as a special policeman here.
Lloyd, it Is understood, will
in
Yadkinville.
Ten Dogs Killed
By Police Here
Determined to Rid the City
Of Dogs Not Properly
Immunized
Police have killed ten dogs in
North Wllkesboro during the
past week because they were run
ning loose and displayed no tag
showing that they had been vac
cinated against rabies. Police
Chief J. E. Walker said today.
He said that a canvass of the
city will 'oe made during this
week and all dogs found which
do not bear vaccination tags will
be shot if the owners do not have
them vaccinated immediately.
The drive to rid the city of
dogs not vaccinated got under
way after a mag dog had bitten
two persons on the streets here a
week ago.
Myers Case In
Circuit Court
Hearing On Appeal Will Be
In Asheville Thursday
Of This Week
The case of 1. M. Myers, Wilkes
county coroner, against Bronsen
Cab comnany, of Akron. Ohio,
will be argued in circuit court at
Asheville Tliursday, it was learn
ed here today.
Mr. Myers was critically injur
ed in an automobile collision near
Wayeross, Ga., on January 6,
1935. In a case In Akrojj^._^^g
nn'CJIy'ers wasr awardetf-a'TlfmBi
of $7,500. The supreme coU'rt of
Ohio abstained the vefflict.
Tie insurance company then
instituted a case in federal court
on question of liability and won
in a hearing before Judge John
son J. Hayes in Wllkesboro. Mr.
Myers, through his counsel. At
torney Eugene Trivette, of this
city, and J. E. Holshouser. of
Boone, appealed to the circuit
court.
Several North Wllkesboro peo
ple are planning to attend the
hearing in Asheville Thursday.
Trayed Deane'
Abooi 701;
In First
a-
Good Baseball In
Games by Juniors
Cricket Is Only Undefeated
Team; N. Wilkeaboro,
Traphill Are Tied
Second Primary-4¥jU|.
July 2nd;
Contest U jHntod^
J
William O. Bitrgim^e^-^[xi^g>
ton, who trailed'C.' k> Dnne of
Rockingham, by about 700 voU*
in the primary held June 4, .luH
called for a second primary,
which will be held on July 2.
There were five candidates for
the Democratic nomination for
representative of the eighth dis
trict and neither received a mar
jorlty necessary to nominate ac
cording to the primary law.
The other candidates were
George Ross, of Jackson Springs,
R. F. Beasley, of Monroe, and
Giles Y. Newton, of Gibson.
Deane polled a large vote In
his home county and a substan
tial vote throughout the district.
Burgln’s largest vote was In
Davidson county and the coun
ties west of Davidson.
Burgin polled a large vote In
■Wllfces, the offical vote on the
five candidates being as follows:
Burgin, 1.295; Deane, 2$1, Ross
338; Beasley, 198; Newton, 90.
The contest between Deane and
Burgin to determine the nomina
tion will be the oply contest In
fne second primary for votes In
Wilkes, ail other nominations be
ing settled without opposition or
by majority vote in the first pri
mary.
Wilkes Boys May
Join CMT Camp
There remain six vacancies in
■Wilkes county for the Citizens
Military Training Camp which
will be held tnls year from June
16th to July 15th at Port Bragg,
North Carolina. All boys and
young men who are physically
qualified and of good moral char
acter and who are between the
ages of 17 years and 24 years are
eligible to attend this camp.
At this camp, the Government
will furnish the applicant trans
portation from his home to Camp
and hack home hut he gets no pay
RELIEF FUND MISUSE for attending; everything needed
IN KENTUCKY DENIED at camp (food, clothing, shelter)
as well as medical attention and
laundry work are furnished with
.-rf.f ^ IHUlluljr
Hunter, assistant out charge. The' month of military
instruction Is beneficial to the ap-
othM
Information about this camp
and appHwUon blank# m»jf he ob
tained without cost by caliing on
or writing to Joe B.. Metjoy, North
Wllkesboro, or. the C. M. T. C.
Washington, June 12. —The officer. Room SIii Fedml Bldg.,
olvHlan conservation corps pro- Charlotte,-North: C*rolhm'i*^, /'5»a
poses to reoruit between 80,000
and 86,009 men during the tirat
. . Sobert
titfuiirimld'today, thla j loald falwa
K. dh« . total ap-4q Oa^llna
i,000, the autborised fdoiliilll North* CaroUna SUte Dotfuetmaiit'
Suttmarj^''4
and 86,000 men during the first Therw'’dfd 69,000 hofs^SrfS^
io daye,«l Jaly- Dteoctw-Robart at |8,6irt,OOOsahd'8OWffl0i|»itfm JMSer eontraraUpo^wffl he
;i .2.,...^, ..:i..au.«eanA/v. AA-.tie>«i4''afpfae{ated. - - --.r't,.- •CvW'W-•—r—r*
The ei.ght junior baseball teams .
in Wilkes sponsored by the -Amer
ican Legion came through the
third playing date Saturday in
grand style.
In the eastern half Saturday
North Wllkesboro was defeated
for the first time, dropping a fast
contest to Cliugman 4 to 3 at
Ciingman. Meanwhile Traphill
edged out Wllkesboro 7 to 6 and
went Into a tlo with North Wil-
kesboro for top place.
In the western half iCrlcket re
tained undisputed possession of
first place by making it three In
a row In defeating Boomer 16 to
2 in a game where power hitting
went for runs. Purlear, a new
team in the league and suffering
some from lack of experience, lost
to Moravian Palls 13 to 2.
The standings In the two
leagues are as follows:
Eastern
Team
N. Wllkesboro
Traphill —
Ciingman —
Wllkesboro —
Western
Cricket
Compliance Checking
Two Times As Great
Approximately 2,000 local sup-
_ ^ .wsii cheeh-
cOmpliance on 240',000 North
Carolina farms under the 1938
AAA program, according to H. A.
Patten, AAA compliance officer
at State College.
Because of the complexity of
the new program, fne job of
measuring farms this year will be
about twice as great as in any
past year.
North Carolina cotton gins
start opening about August 15,
so all cotton farms will hAvpu.tt :
be measured before that' date.
Therefore, as fast as local super
visors are trained, they are dis
patched ’mmediateiy Into cotton
counties.
Farm acreage will determine
the number of local checkers
placed in a particular county but
enough men will be provided to
do a thorough and accurate job.
To check up the accuracy of
the local supervisors, district sup
ervisors will "spot check’’ tho
work. This is accomplished by
I picking out any one farm which
has been cheeked in a community
and re-measuring it. If the origin
al measurement fails to agree
with that of the district supervis
or’s, the entire community has to
be re-checked.
L. Pet.
Moravian Palls 2
Boomer 1
Purlear
1000
667
444
000
Tho schedule for Juno 18 is as
follows:
Purlear at Boomer
Moravian Falls at Cricket
Ciingman at Wllkesboro
N. Wllkesboro at Traphill.
legion officials reported today
a cdiltTlbiitlon of |10 from Wll-
kssbhOe manutaoturing company,
the total of contrlbn-
-toward malntaawoe ot )an-
of Agrkmt
Daly apot fm#’:
T ranscontinentalT rip
T. B. Story, Don Story, Vaughn
Jennings and Sam Smoak left to
day on an automobile transcon
tinental trip to California and
many interesting places In the
western states. While on the trip
Mr. Story, who is secretary of the
North Wllkesboro Kiwanis club,
will attend the international con
vention of Kiwanis in San Fran
cisco. They will be away several
weeks.
North Wllkesboro
Shuts Out Scotts
North Wllkesboro’s baseball
added another victory to its
string Saturday afternoon when
thoy shut out Scott’s from Iredell
county 8 to 0. *
Kcott’s collected only five bln-
gles off Leslie Rhodes u he boro
down in the pinchee and kept the
situation well In hand for North
Wllkesboro. •
Hugh Reavls, Gwyn Nichols
and Leslie Rhodes slsmmed ont
homers, Rhodes’ homer bela|[. a
freak hit In that the hall was lost
lif the grsiS-l* the ontfWia;: Rk
Sharp ooUsetsd th^.of tho
hits ter the Ttsitow, 'jr '
'^i’’".R. H.'B.
■‘f
geott-’i—— 0
NonH^; Wllkesboro,
Rko^ 'ioA iioMbo^: Scon’s, B.
Morrison and .