HEAT SIX
4ar&;^A«g. *.—Phy-
» today attributed the
wifac^w six mea here yesterday
^oUy or In part to heat prostra
tion.* The temperature was 111
deKTfae with a maximum humid
ity of 59. Two heat deaths were
reported in Southern California,
one at Rice, where the official
noon reading yesterday
IBS 1-2 degrees. •
was
OfTICpRS TO MEET
Raleigh, Aug. 2.—Members of
rtlM North Carolina League of
,' iianicipaPtles will dis'^ass local
legislation, slum clearance, tax
megiptions, and retirement sys-
t^s for public employees, at
their conventioi\ In Asheville
Friday and Saturday. PWA legis
lation to be considered at a spe
cial session of the Ceneral As
sembly also is slated to .be stu
died, Patrick Healy Jr., secretary
of the league, announced here to-
. day.
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LEWIS TO RETIRE
;lf»shlngton, Aug. 2.—Senator
I (/'’J. 'Hamilton Lewis, (D), 111.,
. g dapper, bewhiskered Senate whip,
’ today announced his plans to re
ft sign from the up^jer house next
near with a stern warning that
-Resident Roosevelt may “dis
rupt” the Democratic party if he
seeks a third term. Lewis, whose
term expires in 1943. said that by
retiring in 1939 his successor
could be chosen in the 1940 elec
tion and thus the state would be
saved the cost of a special elec
tion. He said he would have re
signed this year but for the fact
that he felt he should "continue
my support of President Roose
velt in his great work.’’
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EYE PART GRAFTED
i San Francisco, Aug. 2.—The
clear cornea of an 80-year-old
“good Christian” woman who
died Sunday, was transplanted to
the dimming eye of a Portland,
Ore., minister today in a San
Francisco surgery. Medical sourc
es disclosed that the swift ope
ration was “satisfactory,” but
said it would be days before the
■ 'Itev. TT F, Harding would know
/ whether he would see again. The
^ tcnQ Mrs.
City WiH Make
Apidication For
Grant From PWA
*lans For City Hall Were
DiscuMed With Architect
Here Monday Night
TO COST ABOUT $26,000
Be
Issue of Bonds Would
Limited ta $14,000;
PWA $12,000
of
North Wilkesboro board
commissioners will make applica
tlou to the Public Works admin
istration for a grant as 45 per
cent of the coat of construction
of a city hall, it was learned to
day from official sources.
A representative of the archi
tect firm of Be»ton and Benton,
of Wilson, conferred with the
commissioners on Monday night
relative to plans for the munici
pal building and will report to
that body again at an early date
with more definite estimates re
lative to cost of construction.
It is understood that the city
commissioners are considering a
building to cost in the neighbor
hood of $‘26,000. Should such a
buil-ling be constructed the city
would be able to issue bonds in
the sum of about $14,000, which
would be equal to two-thirds of
the amount of bonds retired last
year.
The application to the Public
Works administration will be for
about $12,000, or 45 per cent of
the cost of the building.
No action has been taken to
date relative to location tor the
proposed building and this may
not be determined until plans are
comnleted and the application to
the Public Works administration
lor a grant is approved. It was
indicated today
donor of the cornea was Mrs.
Margaret Carr, o f Berkeley,
Calif . whose three daughters wil
lingly gave consent. On her
deathbed, the daughters said.
Mrs. Carr murmured. “This is
A
heaven—how beautiful.’’
RUSSIA-JAP WAR ^ ,
Tokyo, -\ug. 3.—The undeclar-
y ed war between Japan and Soviet
lussia on the Manchukuo-Siberia
_,„_atier spread today and threat-
momentarily to develop in-
*tO a conflict which might precipi
tate the gravest threat to general
peace since the World War.
Thousands of Japanese and So
viet soldiers, supported by air
planes, tanks and artillery, were
locked in a series of sporadic bat
tles in the Possiet Bay area, 150
miles south of the great fortified
Russian port o f Valdivostok.
where the borders of Jap's Ko-
rekti and Manchukuo protector
ates adjoin the Soviet Ussuri pro
vince.
^ PRIMARY RESULTS
i*—'Two Virginia Democrats, seeK-
- ing seats in Congress as support
ers of the Roosevelt administra
tion, went down to defeat in
Tuesday’s primary elections. Wil
liam E. Dodd. Jr. was beaten bv
Representative Howard Vs. Smith,
who opposed the wage-hour and
re-organization bills and reserved
the right to vote against addition
al administration measures if he
■ chose. Hepresentative Norman R.
Hamilton—who, despite voting a-
galnst the reorganization bill, de
clared himself “a staunch sup
porter of the President”—lost to
rno k-t-hsiuchi. —— casiOH of interest in
Collate W Darden, an announced fords an opportunity for the local
LOlgaie . candidate mihUp to see evidence of the
‘independent” candidate. Both
Dodd and Hamilton conceded de
feat.
^ .Still Found
By the Officers
Two Arrested at Scene of
Large Plant Tuesday
Aftemoos
County Board In
Session Monday
Routine Business Transacted
and Forest Protection
Agreement Signed
Wilkes county board of com
missioners with M. F. Absher and
Leet Poplin present met on Mon
day and transacted regular rou
tine county business.
The board entered into the
usual agreement with the state
department of conservation and
development to appropriate the
sum of $500 a? the county’s part
toward forest tire protection dur
ing the coming year.
The board will meet on Wed
nesday, August 10, to adopt ap
propriations resolution and to of
ficially set the tax levy for the
fiscal year which began on July
1.
Concert Monday
By Oxford Class
Paul S. Cragan
Is Elected Head
Of City Schools
Known As An OutUtandinsr'
School Admiiiis^tor and
Executive In the State
IS WELL EDUCATED
12 Year^ Experience In Ad
ministrative Capacity
With Two Schools
of
The Japanese Davis Oup team which is ini this country now t» Par
ticipate in North American Zone Davis Cup matches. From left to
r\ght, Fumiteru Nakano, Jiro Yamagishi, Yasumme Kuram.tsu and
Captain Tamid Abe. Yamagishi is No. 1 singles champion of Japan.
Hearing Waived j 235 Criminal Cases
By Boomer Man| Cases On Wilkes
Tom Dula Is Charged With Court Calendar
Death of Wade Swanson
On July 27th
to
A coroner’s hearing »to deter
mine whether or not bond would
be allowed Tom Dula, Boomer
resident in jail charged with the
death of Wade Swanson, wa.s not
held Tuesday afternoon as sche
duled because Dula waived hear
ing until Wilkes court convenes ]
next week.
Dula is alleged to have thrown
a six-pound stone which struck
Swanson in the chest on June 27.
Swanson died exactly one month
later from what physicians de
scribed as a hemorrhage of a
small artery caused by the bloiV.
Swanson’s mother said that
Dula struck Swanson with • the
stone following a dispute over
some chickens which
' Judge Rousseau
j First Term In Home
County Monday
Paul S. Cragan, principal
Ruffin high school and recogniz
ed as one of the outstanding
school men in the state, has been
elected superintendent of North
Wilkesboro cltv schools, J. R.
Hix, chairman of the city school
board, said today.
Mr. Cragan, who has been
head of Ruffin schools for five
years and who has worked for
the state school commission dur
ing vacation months, will succeed
W. D. Halfacre city schools sup
erintendent here since 1931. Mr.
Halfacre has accepted a respon-
Open slble position with the Bank of
North Wilkesboro and entered
upon his new duties Monday.
The newly elected superinten
dent received bis A. B. degree
from Maryville college at Mary
ville, Tenn., and his M. A. degree
from North Carolina State col
lege. He has done post graduate
work at Columbia TTnlveralty and
the University of North Carolina.
Before taking his position at
Ruffin, a large consolidated
schocl in Rockingham county, he
was head of Orlentel schools for
five years. He is well prepared to
carry out the duties of achooj^ad
JONES’ LAST TERM
Solicitor to Retire at End of
Present* Term After
Serving 12 Years
When Judge J. A.. Rousseau
opens his first term of court in
his home county at Wilkesboro
Monday morning, August 8, he
Notwithstanding the fact that
the docket is Igrge it is expected
Swanson'that many cases will be removed
has accused Dula of taking from
his premises.
A warrant sworn out by Coro
ner I. M. Myer.s charged Dula
with murder. Solicitor John R.
Jones has not indlcsted whether
or not the state will demand the
death penalty when the case is
called for trial in the term of
Wilkes court to begin Monday.
Begin Surfacing
On Highway 115
Road Will Be Closed While
Bituminous Surface Is
Being Applied
Well Trained Class to Give
Program at School
Building Here
The singing class from the Ma
sonic orphanage at Oxford will
com-J to North Wilkesboro Mon
day to render a concert Monday
night, eight o'clock, in the North
Wilkesboro school auditorium.
The visit of these well trained
boys and girls is always an oc-
that it af-
Highway engineers said today
that the task of placing a bit
uminous surface o n Highway
115, better knoiw as the Hunting
Creek highway.!will he begun
witnin the ne.xt few days and that
the road will he closed to all
traffic.
The road is closed now to
through traffic while workmen
are busilv enga.ged in shaping the
crushed stone surface in prepa
ration for the hard surface.
Also on the program to be sur
faced soon is the short cut road
between the lower Yadkin bridge
at the east end of this city and
highway 421 one mile east of
Wilkesboro.
from the calendar during the
two-weeks’ term with the resi
dent jurist on the bench. He has
expressed the hope that the
docket can be left in good shape
at the end of the term.
Solicitor John R. Jones, of this
city, will be prosecuting the dock
et for his last term in Wilkes.
Prior to the June primary he an
nounced his intention to retire at
the end his present term after 12
years in office. He will he suc
ceeded in office by either Avalon
E Hall of Yadkinville, Republi
can nominee, or W. H. McBlwee,
of this city, Democritlc nominee.
The docket for the August
term contains the usual variety of
charges with hut few cases con
sidered of much public interest.
There will be a number of cost
behavior
North Wilkesboro board of
commissioners *n regular session
Tuesday night officially adopted
the budget for the ensuing fiscal
year and fixed the tax levy at
$1.23 on each hundred dollars’
valuation of property, the same
jriito Ip e»8^ tent yeftfe'---
''practical experience
Mr Cra.gan is a member of the
Presbyterian church. His family
consist of his wife and two girls,
ages nine and seven. They plan
to move here the. latter part of
this week.
Mi-. Halfacre came to North
Wilkesboro f i o m Burlington,
where he was assistant superin
tendent of the city schools.
His record here has been out
standing. North Wilkesboro was
the second city in the state to
vote local supplement tax and
despite the depression and lower
ed state budgets the city school
system maintained its high rating
and has made much progress un
til North Wilkesboro schools have
become known throughout the
state as one of the state’s best
special charter districts. _
Various extra-curricula activi-
cosi ties designed to afford students
and better training have been instuct-
ed and carried out under Super
public to see evidence of the
training afforded orphan chil
dren.
The public has a most cordial
invitation to attend the concert,
which will he very entertaining.
Price of every admission will be
used by the institution.
* - Rheriff C. T. Doughton and
fMjtrxl officers on Tuesday after-
raided one of the largest
.taken In Wilkes in several
large still, complete with
mlide accessories, was found
Wllkes-lredell line near
, Creek. In the raW the
'arrested Glenn Combs
br^the name
TMArtka both of whom fulen
'after Pcellm»“»^
Cbaiinlsstoner J. W. Dnia
'.'s-xw. -'
Jnxtlnx
Price of Apples
Looks Promising
“Ae'
Daily market reports from At
lanta, Ga. indicate that price of
apples is decidedly higher this
year.
U. S. number 1 of 2 1-2 inches
minimum packed in baskets are
selling in Atlanta at from $1.00
to $1.50 while good apples in
bulk are quoted at from 60 cents
to Bl.OO. These prices range from
25 to 50, cents higher than prices
of a year ago.
Reports from all over the coun
try indicate a smaller crop than
last year and the apples.are ma-
tarlng from one to three weeks
i" Milter than a year^ ago.
Many Pay County
Taxes For 1937
Many taxpayers called at the
office of Sheriff C. T. Doughton
Saturday and Monday to pay
their 1937 county taxes before
the penalty increased.
Attention is now called to the
and good behavior cases
manv appeals from caagdslrate s | direction,
courts and some from the city | ♦•no «ph
court here.
Ope case of more than usual
interest will h e the murder
char.ge against Tom Dula, Boom
er resident, who is alleged to have
caused, the death of Wade Swan
son. a neighbor, by throwing a
rock and inflicting an injury
whicn caused Swanson’s death on
July 27, exactly one month after
the injurv was alleged to have
been inflicted. Swanson died from
His handling of the school
budget with the board has been
considered excentionally efficient.
During the seven years as head
of the school there has been a
cash surnlus at the end of each
year and no debts have been in
curred. In addition to school
work Mr. Halfacre has found time
to engage in many civic activities.
an internal hemorrhage of the
chest, physicians said following a
post mortem examination.
Play, And
Hanes Cub$ Teams
On Saturday. August 6, North
Wilkesboro plays Chatham Blan-
keteers of Elkin, at the Fair
grounds at 3:30 p. m. ' , -
S-anday. 7th of August, North
Wilkesboro will play the first of
- three-game series with the
Hanes Cubs, of Winston-Salem.
Al'enUUli 13 IIU" ..n.tcu —V, . . . .. 1 *
fact that a saving is still avail-, This promises to be the best game
able for those who pay this week, of the season. The locals are g(^
Advertising costs will be added to ing to put out all they have in
all 1937 taxes not paid this week, them to win this series.
Sheriff and Depuries Raid Broadway
Serivee Station and Several Homes
Sheriff C. T. Doughton and
deputies on Friday raided Broad
way service station and eight
homes in the vicinity of about one
mile east of Wilkesboro.
The raids wore not without re
sults: 35 gallons of sugarhead
liquor, 200 pints of stamped li
quor and a small quantity ^ of
peach brandy were found and do-^
otroyhd.-
Sheriff Doughton said that
several people from that section
had reported that the places
raided were engaged in the sale
of liquor and asked that the law
take a hand in helping to stamp
out bootlegging.
Liquor was found at Broadway
service station and tourist camp
(Ad in, six of the eight-residences
Three Vacancies
In Faculty Filled
Sanford Man Will Teach
Math and Coach Athletics
At the Local School
board members said today
A. C. Hood, who has been lo
cated in Sanford, will come to
North Wilkesboro to teach high
school math and to direct ath
letics. Mr. Hood is recognized as
an efficient instructor and has
firAPuslioro*-.will homft ocononi" - - —• --
tea teacher, succeeding Miss Gath- Watt Cooper, pastor oJ th^r^
erlne Turner, who also resigned, byterian church, as
All the newly elected-teachers Rev, and Mrs. Aycock and
two w^kk vi&flon
Lady Godiva Rides
Xeddlngton, Eng. . . . Miss
Mirabelle Mulb-r, 19, years old,
was forced to leave a content
school hecanse she took the
part of tlie Ijcgcndary Iiady,
riding; in the procession
through this Middlesex town.
Sei'cral objectors tried to pull
her from the horse.
City Budget And
Levy Is Adopted
City Tax Rate Will Remain
$1.25 For the Ensuing
Fiscal Year
iopt the tax rate'*fit tne sai
gure despite heavy loss in assess^
ed valuation due to the new law
which exempts intangibles from
city taxation.
The budget as proposed and
whteh was published several
weeks ago, was adopted.
The vity’s finances are in
sound condition with all obliga
tions being paid as they fall due
and bonds are retired on sche
dule.
T.he full board was present
with Mayor R. T. McNiel in the
meeting Tuesday night. The
board members are S. V. Tomlin
son, Ralph Duncan. Hoyle M.
Hutchens, Dr. R. P. Casey and
T. S. Kenerly.
Laying Plans For
McNeil! Reunion
WILL COMPLETE UHIL „
^ .'SSit
Next Letting Inclutlek
From This City to
Roaring River
Engineers are working hard to
have the project calling for con
struction of highway 268 between
North Wilkesboro and Roaring
River in readiness for the next
highway letting on August 30, J.
G. Hackett, eighth division high
way commissioner, said today.
The project will complete high
way 268 between North Wilkes
boro and Elkin, the road having
been previously graded and sur
faced from Elkin westward by
RonJa to Roaring River.
In addition to providing a
shorter route between North Wll-
keshoro, Elkin and points east
the new highway will serve a
number of communities along the
route which have long felt the
need of an all-weather highway.
'The highwav will connect with
highway 18 at the northern edge
of this city at Or near where the
temporary road enters but a sur
vey has been made for an addi
tional entrance into the city
which would connect with Main
street near the eastern end of
the city. 'This would provide a
more direct route of entrance, it
is pointed out.
Board of Elections
In Richmond Next
For Siit-
N5a
tinue Investigation
Raleigh, Aug. 2. — The state
board of elections today deferred
again its scheduled announcement
of "findings of fact” in an inves-.
Be Held at Millers Creek
School Building, Sunday,
September 4th
Plans are going forward for
the fourth annual reunion of the
widely scattered McNeill family,
which will be held on the first
Sunday *n September at Millers
Creek high school, six miles west
of this city.
C. O. McNiel, president of the
McNeill family association, said
today that Judge Johnson J.
Hayes Is program chairman for
the reunion and will have an in
teresting program to present.
The McNeill familv reunion is
expected to be lar.gely attended.
Last year there were members of
the family present from many
North Carolina counties and from
school several other states. MacNeal of
tigation of North Carolina's re
cent primaries, and decided to
meet at Rockingham Saturday
morning to continue the probe.
The session at Rockingham was
called by Chairman W. A. Luca.s
to consider charges of irregulari
ties in two Richmond county pre
cincts in the eighth congressional
district run-off contest. The ch?.- |
es were brought by W. 0. Burgin,
of Lexington, apparently the Dem
ocratic nominee for the district’s
seat in the United States house of
representatives.
Home of Deane
Richmond is the home county of
C. B. Deane, of Rockingham, who
apparently wa.s defeated by Bur-
gin. Deane has protested against
absentee votes in Montgomery,
Davidson and Wilkes counties.
Lucts said the board would re
veal no findings until it had com
pleted all of its various probes of
alleged fraud. Pi-eviously, he had
announced that the findings would
be made public about the middle
of this week.
North Wilke.shoro city seymai ,
board has filled three vacancies parra, chief of the McNeill clan
which have occured in the faculty jjjg -irorld over, atterded the re-
since the close of the last term.
union last year.
Rev. W. L. Hutchins
Will Preach Here
Rev. W. L. Hutchins will
preach at the 11 o’clock service
bLn a very successtul coach. He Sunday morning at the North
will succeed Ralph Barker, of Wilkesboro ”
Salisbury, who has held the posl- the absence of the Pa«tor, Rev.
tlon here for the past few years A. L. Aycock. Rev. Mr. Hutchins
but who resigned to take a posl- was appointed as conference dl-
tlon with Curtis Puhllshing com- rector of the Aldersgate Com-
pftny.
Miss Lillian Miller; of Salis
bury, has been elected commer
cial teacher succeeding Miss Car
rie Belle Strayhorn, who resign
ed. Miss Evelyn Sharpe, of
memoratlon at the last session of
the Western North Carolina Con
ference and will be heard with
much Interest Sunday.
The union service for the eve
ning hour will he held at the
Flrat Baptist church with- Rev.
BURGIN’S COOPERATION IS
ASKED BY CHAIRM.\N
Lexington, Aug. 2.—W. O. B-.' |
gin, apparent Democratic eighth
district congressional nominee,
this afternoon received from
Chairman W. A. Lucas, of the
state board of elections, a tele-
gp-am apprising' him the state
board will meet in extraordinary
session at the courthouse in Rock
ingham Saturday, lAugust 6, at
10 a. m. The telegram, filed at
Wilson, asked Mr. Burgin’s coop
eration in the hearing on the Rich
mond vote in the July 2 primary.
Mr. Burgin immediately replied
that he would furnish all possible
co-operation in the matter. It ■was
learned that his attorneys have
been engaged during the past week
in prepartion of e'vidence concerrf-
ing alleged irregularities in Rich
mond and that some of this is al
ready in affidavit form.
Chairman Lucas informed Mr.
Burgin that only affidavits will be
keard concerning absentee irregu
larities, but that the hearing on
Rockingham No. 2 and Wolfpit
precincts need not be confined to
presenting. eVidence. As- to Kfal-
eral brings No.'li'an affidavit
leging that 14 un^istered,
and 21 registered
.ed for C. B. Deanerta ^
on July V, and that Ape ''
twice, was reported
board duiitntUHi.
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