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Iwt^ED TO DEATH
Btowinf Rock, July 26—Lloyd
9stSS> so, of Globe, was crushed
to. death near here today when
ai caterpillar tractor which he
was driving for the State Hlgh-
■way Commission turned down an
embankment.
Ovor 1,000 Farms
h W3kes County
Checked In Crops
Taxpayers .Would
Save By Paying
Taxes At Once
Hoaon Wat Dead
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LETTER IMPORTANT
Dubiin, Ga., July 26.—Pastor
T. P. Selbenmann advertised
"seats free” at Centenary Metho
dist church and witnessed a start
ling influx of worshippers. He
looked again at his church no
tice. Av letter was missing. It
* read: “Eats free.” -
Msuiy Have Qualified For
Payments In Soil Pro
gram For Year
Trained supervisors have
checked one-fourth of the farms
TWO WIN, ONE LOSES
Altoona, Pa., July 26.—George
Bowers and Solomon Books were
inside a culvert, cleaning it, to
day, when thov became aware of
a strong odor. Bowers was over
come and needed a doctor’s at
tention. Bocks escaped—so did
the skunk.
MISSES MRS PAYMENT
Dee Moines, Iowa, July 2.—An
applicant for Iowa unemploy
ment Insurance today for the
first time frankly advised the
commission In his application
that he quit his job because he
was tired of paying alimony. Job
Insurance checks cannot be at
tached for alimony.
REYNOLDS SPEAKS
Boone, July 26.—Health im
pairment. whether it is formed
among the preventable, corrective
or curative group, is a handicap
to education, Dr. C. V. Reynolds,
state health officer told the sec
ond annual state school superin
tendents conference at the open
ing session here tonight.
FI.OOD DAMAGE
Raleigh, July 26.—North Car
olina rivers, swollen from a nine-
day rain, tonight rolled over ad
ditional miles of lowlands, de
stroying crops and washing out
small bridges. I^ee A. Denson,
head of the weather bureau here,
said the flood In Eastern North
Carolina was the heaviest of the
year. The rivers will go still fur
ther out of the banka tomorrow
and Thursday, he added.
in Wilkes county and will com
plete the Job of checking com
pliance with the government’s
soil program by the last of Au
gust, It was learned today from
the office of Dan Holler, Wilkes
farm agent.
More than 5,000 farms In the
county will be checked by the
supervisors, who make a person
al Inspection of the farm and
plot It by aerial maps which are
used to facilitate the work. The
maps, which are photographs tak
en from army planes, show clear
ly every field and the supervis
or’s task is tb learn what fields
are planted to different crops.
Examination of a few of the
reports of supervisors indicates
that a large per cent of the farms
have complied with at least part
of the provisions for which the
government makes cash payment.
While individual payments are
not expected to be very large, the
total for Wilkes will in all prob
ability greatly exceed the amount
paid to farmers of the county in
any previous year of the program.
Tobacco poundage allotments
will he distributed to Wilkes
farmers who have made applica
tion about August 10, T.awrence
Miller, clerk of the soil conser
vation association, said today.
He said, however, that about
200 tobacco farmers have not ap
plied for poundage allotments and
advised that they apply at once
in order that they may receive
their poundage allotments with
out delay and in time to sell tax-
free tobacco when the markets
Final notice Is given that an
additional penalty and advertis
ing costs will be added to 1987
raxes due Wilkes connty If not
paid on or before Monday, Au
gust 1.
Attention Is also called to the
fact that a dlsconnt of 2 1-2 per
cent will be allowed on 1938
county taxes paid on or before
August 1.
WilksWiDNot
Share Reynolds
Foundation Fund
y.-:
Funds For Venereal Disease
Control Available
When Matched
Game Seasons Are
Changed For Year
Quail Sjeason Shortened;
Squirrel Season to
Open Oct. 1
Homer Brookshire, Wilkes
county game protector, today an
nounced that new combination
hunting and fishing license are
now available at convenient lo
cations in Wilkes county and call
ed attention to changes In open
season for hunting and trapping
this year.
Notable among the changes
made by the department of con
servation and development was
shortening the quail season,
which will he December la to
February 20. Other open seasons
follow:
Opossum (with gun or dogs):
October 15 to February 15; for
trapping, November 1 to Febru
ary 15.
Rabbit: November 20 to Feb
ruary 15.
Squirrel: October 1 to Jan
uary 15.
Dove: September 1 to Septem
ber 30; December 20 to January
31.
Game officials express the
opinion that there will be a more
plentiful supply of game this year
than In the past several years.
NEW YORK CITY . . . Visiting
here on the first anniversary of
Japan’s undeclared war on Chi
na, Miss Loh Tsei, knowti as
China’s “Joan of Arc,” because
of valiant work on the battle-
field’s, joins Chinatown young
sters at shrine to pay tribute to
800,000 Chinese soldiers killed in
first year of fighting.
3 Boys Caught
On Car Charge
Talmadge Holland,Roy Rose
and Garland Davis
Are Arrested
open.
BI’SINESS T5KTTEU
New York, -Tuly 26.—The Unit
ed States Steel Corporation, the
leading producer in one of the
nation’s basic industries, report
ed today for »hp three months
ended June 30 the largest deficit
it hos shown for a comparable
period since 1933, b*it sounded a
cheerful note by calling attention
to a recent upturn in steel busi
ness. Apparentlv taking the July
Improvement in new orders as a
guide, rather than the second
quarter ios-s, the directors decld-
etj to dip into cash reserves to
maintain the regular quarterly
payment of $1.75 a share on the
preferred stock.
TwoPoullryFirms
,\re Consolidatec!
Swimming Pool
Is Opened Here
Cranbury CcnsolidatesWith
E. E. Eller; Is Now An
Unlimited Market
SALES SHO'V GAIN
High Point. .luly 26.—Steady
sales at fh-> Southern Furniture
and Rug Market here today
brought optimistic report.s from
both manufacturers and buyers.
Bud of steady rains which cut
attendance totals last week rais
ed hopes of a sharp Increase in
sales volume. Manufacturers saw
the attendance gain as potential
buying power and 286
were on the floor today. Market
officials said they expected a
.A.
“steady level’’ throughout
c'.ld
the week’Td pointed to general
gains in .all lines of industry and
commerce as a stimulus to fall
retaU demand. Small purchases
outnumbered large contracts. The
general buying trend Is sealed
to demand expectations, officials
said.
JUMPS TO death
New York, July 2®.—nonng
John Ward, who perched for 11
hours on a 17th-floor ledge of
the Hotel Gotham undecided
whether to live or die because of
r spat with his sister, plunged
to his death late tonight as res
cue workers hauled up. a net to
prevent his suicide. Thousands of
horrlHed spectators, who had
Jammed the Fifth avenue and
Bath street Intersection ^ the
Jbtel is located, screamed and
Aouted when they saw the 26-
!r“old man leave the narrow
JAge and catapult downward to
l^fh on the curb at
Kith street entrance. The body
nnrecognlzable.
.knnou’icpnipnl was made today
of :ue c''nsoli(l'ui''n of Cranbury
Poultry company, -v'lich h.as been
oopf.iting a br.ancli ' pr°. with E.
E. Eller Pron’ico poiunanv, for
30 a le.uiiug poultry and
profiycp market in tbe south.
The consolidation move makes
the ‘inn an outstaoriing market
in this part of the country and
able 'o nandle iinlim’tod quantl-
tic,^ of poiiUry .md other produce
at :on marhel pcices at ail times.
Operations af the iivm will
consist principally of dressed
ponltiy and tbs total payroll of
the .-ompail/has increased to 100
since Monday, first day of opera
tion under consolidation, when
4 0 were put to work.
Parent firm of the Cranbury
PouPry company is located at
Cranbury. N. J. and the branch
here had been operated since
January 1. under management of
M. Albert, who had become well
and favorably known among
poultrymen and who is now con
nected with the consolidated
firm.
The consolidated firm here has
excellent connections with north
ern markets which will enable
unlimited volume business for
this territory at highest market
prices, company officials said.
In addition to poultry the firm
will continue to purchase butter,
eggs, dried fruit and other pro
duce items which it has been
handling, providing a cash riar-
ket for all these products In un
limited quantities.
Hapgeant and Mrs. W. B. Lentz.
Sine, are the proud par-
Lentz made their home
wmotlme, the former
Injured Youth
Now Recoverinf
Lions Club Operating River
side Pool Between the
Wilkesboro
Riverside Swimming Pool lo
cated between the Wllkeshoros
has been opened and Is now be
ing operated by the North Wil
kesboro Lions Club as a project
In boys and girls work.
The pool ha.s been a popular
spot since the advent of fair
w’eather this week. The pool is
open twelve hours dally from
eight a. m. to eight p. m.
Bill Crews and Charles Sink
are operating the pool for the
club. Both are well trained swim
mers and have passed life saving
tests. It is being operated as a
non-orofit project and the admis
sion charge is to defray cost of
operation and repairs necessary
before the pool could be opened.
City water is used.
Tenth Street Wins
In ‘Rubber Game’
After a chase over a county
road several miles to a point near
Traphill Chief J. E. Walker and
officer Hayes captured three boys
with a stolen ear Tuesday.
L. G. Caldwell Tuesday morn
ing reported to police that his
car was stolen from the street in
front of his home on Kensington
Avenue some time before day
light.
Officers learned Tuesday morn
ing that the car had been seen at
Fairplains and was traveling to
ward Traphill. They caught up
with the car near Traphill and
crowded ft into the ditch. Three
boys got out and tried to run but
were unable to get over the road
bank before the officers grabbed
them.
The boys were Talmadge Hol
land, Roy Rose and Garland
Davis. Holland, who was under
bond along with other boys on a
charge of stealing meat from
“Wilkes county will not share
In the Reynolds fund for treat
ment and prevention of venereal
diseases because no funds have
been appropriated by the county
to match the condition donation,”
Dr. A. J. Eller. Wilkes county
health officer, said today.
He said, however, that the
clinic which the health depart
ment conducts continues to pro
gress and that a total of about
100 cases are being treated, 65
regular and a number who do not
appear regularly as they are in
structed. Under the present plan
the patient must pay the net cost
of medicine, which Is administer
ed by the health officer without
charge.
If the county was able to ap
propriate funds to match .the
Reynolds fund now being used
in the state, medicine could be
furnished those unable to pay,
the health officer explained.
Discussing the extent of ve
nereal diseases In the county, Dr.
Eller said that if medicine was
furnished without cost and a
campaign of ' tveatroent for pre
vention and eradication of the di
seases was promoted that the
cost for the year would be over
$3,000.
Several counties In the state
have appropriated funds to match
conditional donations from the
Reynolds fund, which has as its
primary pairpoce the control
of
syphilis. However, several coun
ties have not added to the bud
get for this purpose because It
would in many cases increase the
tax levy or ma’xe operation un
der present or contemplated le-
vies difficult.
7. J. Russel Dead
cnarge QI U1C.»C num mjr • 1
homes near this citv, was driver Fifth Sunday
of the car. The others had been
given a suspended sentence by
the juvenile court for stealing
cigarettes. The trio intimated
that they had planned to leave
the state In the stolen car.
Holland was placed under bond
for trial In Wilkes county court
and the two juveniles were for
warded to .Jackson training
school.
Program At Damascus
There will be a varied program
of music and Dramatic Reading
given in the new Damascus
church (colored) on Sunday,
July 31, 1938.
The public is cordially invited
to attend and enjoy solos, quar
tet selections and dramatic read
ings.
State Election Board May Ask County
Boards to Change Returns In Primary
Ralph Hayes Released From
Jail Und^er Bond
Of $1,000
Ralph Hayes -vas released from
jail today under bond of $1,000
after officers learned that Coy
Staley will In all probability re
cover from Injuries alleged to
have been Inflicted by Hayes in
a street brawl about, one o’clock
Sunday morning.
Staley received severe cuts in
the affray and an eye was remov
ed at a Statesville hospital where
he is receiving treatment. His
condition, however, was reported
today as satisfactory.
Bob Brame’s chargers from 10th
street completely overwhelmed
Chilton’s team from Ninth .street
Wednesday evening by going
’round and ’round the bases until
dark.
When it became too dark for
the score keeper to put down
runs the score was approximate-^
ly 21 to 4.
It was the rubber game, the
results to that date leaving the
teams tied one game each and one
tied. RuOber game is the proper
descriptive word. Tenth street
players stretched should-be-outs
and one base knocks into dou
bles, triples and runs.
Jay Church, tall graduate of
last year’s junior baseball, turned
in masterful pitching for Tenth
but received good support. Ed
Day. a this-year junior, started
on the mound for Ninth but the
heat and a sieve of an infield got
him. Anse Church took the
mound and turned in good pitch
ing until the f'nal frame when
everything blew up except Tenth
street.
Tenth street will play the Hos
iery Mills team soon.
Preaching Service
Rev. A. E. Watts will preach
Sunday morning, 11 o’clock, at
Moravian Falls Baptist church.
Rev. Mr. Watts for 11 years was
pastor of the church. 'The puMiq
la cordially invited to thf>
W. A. Lucas, chairman of the
state board of electinns, said yes
terday in Raleigh that any
change in the returns of North
Carolina’s recent primaries would
be made by county boards of elec
tion, and not by the state board.
1,’icas emphasized, however,
that he and hs colleagues had
not and would not merely “rub
ber stamp” findings of county
boards.
“The state board has no power
to certify any returns except
those certified by county boards,”
Lucas said. “After the state board
concludes its fact-finding inves
tigation. I am confident that we
can work the matter out with
county boards.”
The chairman’s statement was
interpreted to mean that the
state board, if convinced that re
turns certified hy county boards
were incorrecU would “recom
mend” that the returns be
changed.
However, since the state hoard
appoints members of the county
board, it could enforce its recom
mendations by discharging any
member of a county board who
refused to follow them.
Lucas reiterated his assertion
that the state board would cer
tify no returns that it had reason
to believe” were illegal.
The board, now meeting in ex
ecutive session, has under ad
visement charges of alleged Ir-
regularltles in the sixth district
sollcitorlal and eighth district
congressional Democratic run-off
primaries; the fourth district so
llcitorlal Democratic , first-pri
mary; and the Republican pri
mary for sheriff of Avery county.
Sitting around a conference
table, the board members con
tinued . their study of - affWavits
concerning abaentee baUota ewt
Causes Death
Bdomer Reside
rl
f
Exploding Stove ..
Sets House Afire
’The fire department answered
a call Wednefday afternoon to
tlie Gllreath shoe shop building
on Main street, where an oil stove
exploded in the residential quart
ers upstairs and set fire to the
building. ’The fire was quickly
extinguished.
Annual Picnic Of
Orchardists Soon
Will Be Held at Re-^sarch
Laboratory at Kilby’s
Gap In August
Funeral service was conducted
at Boomer Wednesday hy Rev. E.
V. Bumgarner for J. J. Russel, 86-
year-old resident of Boomer who
died Tuesday at his home.
The Brushy Mountain Fruit
Growers association has set the
date of its annual picnic tor Au
gust 19tli. to he held at the ap
ple Research Laboratory at Kil
by’s Gap.
Plans for the program have
not hefin com.aletert but will be
announced in detail as soon as
arrangements have been made.
There will he a Woman’s Pro
gram in the morning under the
joint direction of the Home Dem
onstration Agents of Alexander
and Wilkes, Misses Agnes Wil
liams and Harriet McGoogan,
and while this is in progress the
fruit growers will make a field
day tour inspecting some of the
projects directed from the Re
search Laboratory.
After the picnic dinner a pro
gram of speakers on subjects of
interest to Fruit Growers is being
arrariged. All Fruit Growers in
the district are cordially invited
to attend with their families and
dinner baskets and enjoy the oc
casion. While the .picnic Is spon
sor^ by the Brush^ ' Modtitaln
Fruit Growers organization, it is
not confined to members and any
one interested in fruit growing
may attend.
Baseball Gaines
Saturday,Sunday
Wade Swanswl^
Victini of Stone-:
Blow, Joy Say:
Tom Duia Held as Alleged
Assailant; Blow Causes
Hemorrhage of Chest
MURDER IS CHARGED
Mother of Slain Man Shows
Fatal Stone Weighing
Six Pounds
All Stars Play North Wilkes
boro Saturday; Hickory
Team On Sunday
in Davidson county, in the eighth
district congressional contest. C.
B. Deane of Rockingham, ap
parently defeated for the nomina
tion, has questioned the legality
of 300 and 400 of the county’s
1,700 absentees.
Burgin’s Answers Awaited
All of the affidavits, except a
hatch filed by Deane within the
last 10 days, were considered.
Study of the last batch was with
held pending the filing of answ
ers hy W. O. Burgln of Lexing
ton, who was nominated on the
basis of returns originally certi
fied by county officials.
Lucas said the board, which
has been meeting in executive
session for the last three days,
probably would conclude Its study
of written evidence tonight, and
would then dictate Its findings
of facts.
He declined to disclose what
percentage of the Davidson ab
sentees appeared irregular or to
comment on reports that the
board would recommend a re
count In Davidson and would cer
tify without change returns from
the fourth and sixth sollcitorlal
districts.
Deane has alleged illegal ab
sentee votes were cast in Mont
gomery, Davidson, and Wilkes
counties, and that ballots cast In
the wrong boxes in Union county
were voided. Burgln’s principal
charge has involved absentees in
Richmond eoftnty.
Another development on the
election front tndav was the an
nouncement by Secretary o f
State Thad Eure that legal ac
tion under the corrupt practices
act would be taken against can
didates who fall to file immedi
ately
On Saturday, 3:30. North Wil
kesboro will play an all-star team
made up of 15 of the outstanding
players of Boomer, Pnrlear, Fair-
plains, Rock Creek and Moravian
Falls, namely, “Wilkes County
Allstars.” This should be a good
game.
Sunday afternoon, 3:00 o’clock.
North Wilkesboro will play “Hut
ton Bourhonis” from Hickory.
North Wilkesboro will he play
ing in new uniforms that were
secured through donations from
citizens and business houses of
the city as follows:
Jim Carter, Bill Absher, Qual
ity Cleaners, G. W. Childress,
Dean's Jewelry Store, Dixie Bar
ber Shop, North Wilkesboro Serv
ice Station. Bares Fair Store,
Gaddy Motor company, C. G.
Poindexter, Employes Forest
Furniture company. Employes
Home Chair company, Forest
Furniture company, J. B. Wll-
llama, Jamestown Wood Finish
ing company, Hadley Hardware
company, J. L. Wells, North iVil-
keshoro Grocery company, R. &
0. Grocery company. Green Pig
Barbecue, Belk’s Department
Store, Reins Market, Cash & Car
ry Grocery. Carolina Mirror com
pany, Goodwill Store. C. G. Day,
Red Cross Pharmacy, Orpheum
Theatre, and Brame Drug com
pany.
accounts of their
Ray Love Funeral
Rites Held Sunday
Funeral service was held Sun
day at Pishing Creek church for
Ray Love, age 24, who died Fri
day at the Wilkes Hospital.
He Is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Gladys Mayberry Love and
one son, R. D.; his mother, and
the following brothers and sis
ters: R. L. Love, Wilkesboro: E.
E. Love, North Wllltesboro; Gor
die LoVfe, Richmond, Va.; Mrs.
Royall Holland, West Jefferson:
Mrs. C. J. Johndon, Cycle; Lade
Love, Wilkesboro.
Rev. N. T. Jarvis conducted the
last rites. The service was at-
t«ided hy a large crowd.
Wade Swaason, Boom“r resi
dent, died yesterday, July 27,
from injuries leceivsd one month
previous on June 27 when he
was hit hy a six-pound stone al
leged to have been thrown hy a
neighbor. Ton; DuIa, a coroner’s
jury decided last night after an
inquest conducted by Coroner I.
M. Myers and post mortem exam
ination by Dr. A. J. Eller, county
health officer, and Dr. H. B.
Smit.h, of this city.
SVanson had been ill and un
able to work since he was hit by
the .“'.one but his condition had
not been considered serious by
physicians until ye.“terday morn
ing, when he began to smother.
An ambulance was called and he
died on the way to the hospital
hers.
Coroner Myers, after hearing
report that the man possibly died
from injury, went to his home at
Boomer, where Swanson’s moth
er told him that Duia hit her son
a month ago following a dispute
over some chicltens. Mr. Myers
Immediately notified Sheriff
Doughton and Duia was arrested.
A warrant sworn out by the coro
ner charged premeditated mur
der.
Physicians conducting the au
topsy said that Swanson died
from a liemorrliage caused by a
blow on the sixth rib or between
the fifth and sixth r!l).s on the
righ:. sidv! of the body. The chest
cavity on that side was filled
with about half-gallon of blood,
which indicated that the hemoT^
rhage of an artery occured a few
hours before death and eventual
ly caii.sed the lungs to cease func
tioning.
The coroner said that unless
Duia w'aived hearing that he
would call the jury together again
to hear evidence and pass upon
whether bond would he allowed.
The coroner’s jury was composed
of .John F. Morrison. R. T. Par-
due, W. .A. Bumgarner, Branford
Brooks. H. L. Summers and C.
B. Mayberry.
The mother of Swenson showed
Coroner Myers a stone weighing
six pounds, which she said Duia
threw and struck her son. It was
reported that Swanson had ac
cused Duia of taking some chick
ens. The altercation took place at
or near Swanson’s home.
Uptown Service
Station Opened
Free Lubrication Job With
Ten Gallons Gasoline
Friday-Saturday
Boll weevils are plentiful in
eastern Carolina cotton fields
the pl*nU ere growing
Announcement was made today
of the formal opening of Uptown
Service station located on Main
street at Eighth
The station, one of the most
modern and attractive In this lo
cality, was recently completed
and equipped with the most mod
ern and convenient equipment
available for service stations.
Under the management of Roy
Spalnhour, assisted by Wlnt El-
ledge, the station will render a
complete service. Sinclair pro
ducts, Including Sinclair H-C gas-
olina, Pennsylvania and Opaline
motor oils, tires, batteries, ac
cessories and a complete line of
Sinclair lubricants will be sold.
The station will feature a com
plete service and will specialise
in thorough and complete lubri
cation.
As a formal opening special
the station'on Friday and Satar-
day of this week will-give free
chassis lubrication ..'With every
purchase of ten ■ gallons of gaeo-
line. The Inbrleatlon J.ob b»
obuined any ntt*r thn pt%’;
,^nne of gas. shi^j