ti^llewsOf
Sbite; Nation
Told Briefly
Tornado Hits City
Radio ROWS Nilletins today told
of a 'UMMtrons toroado this morn*
iBSSa ChartecRon, S. C. Buildings
In several blocks of the city were
badly damaged or destroyed and
the Its-rvn dead st noon today
had reached 25. Appeals were
made to the President to send
marines to aid the national guard
In rescue work and keeping or
der.
McADOO HAS JOB
Washington, Sept. 27.—Wil
liam G. McAdoo California Dem
ocrat will resign from the senate
In about two weeks to become
chairman of the board of the
Dollar Steamship lines. McAdoo
■was defeated in tne California
primary. His term would expire
January 3.
RELIEF FLOUR
Raleigh. Sept. 27.—North Car
olina has received 3.057.600
pounds of floiu—enough to make
mors th.an 4,500,000 loaves of
bread—from the federal Surplus
Commodities corporation tor dis-
Wbutlon to the needy, E.
Langston, director of commodity
distribution, said today. The
stato also has received 147.000
pounds of Graham flour and 160,-
000 pounds of wheat cereal.
HELD FOR ARSON
Lenoir, Sept, 27—Clay Pox,
young Caldwell county white man
of the Antioch section, has been
lodged in the Caldwell county jail
here under $2,500 bond to face
a charge of arson in connection
with the burning of the residence
of Jim Fox, his fatiier. in the An-
tio:h commiinitv Ia.st Tuesday.
Fox was arrested in the Bum-
town section after extensive in
vestigation and search hv Sheriff
J. C. Tolbert and Demily George
Carroll.
WANT EARLY .‘REASON
Raleigh, Sept, 27.—Delegatee
from piedmont counties urged
the game committee of the state
board of conservation and devel
opment today to advance ■ the
quail season from December 16
to December 1, and to defer the
rabbit season t^om November 20
to December 1. .Approximately
100 sportsmen appeared to sup
port the plea, contending that
rabbit hunters should not be al
lowed In the uatil the quail
season opened.
ALL WOULD LO.^iE
Washington. Sent. 27.— Ex
perts her® predicted :oday that if
Europe p'unged iuto a general
war, no nation wouk' emerge a
victor. Based on the assumption
that Germany Italy aid perhaps
other nations would tiattle Eng
land France, Russia, Czechoslo
vakia, and some =maller coun
tries, a Of highly informed
opinioa virtually unani-
mons AKreeme^^;^^B the following
prodictioi^"; Czehoslovakia
■vvald be 'Jiimtted into submis-
si«* before effective aid
ooali offered by England,
France and Russia. Germany,
■with Italy and any other allies,
would succumb eventually to su
perior resources in a war of at
trition like tha* of 1!>J4-18.
■■OL. XX-Xll, HO 1"" --■'■■•W Mondw. Md Thnndays. NORTH fflLKESBOBO. K. C. THOWPAT, SEPT, 29, 1988 THE S!»CT-t2.0» OOT OP T
Savings Effected
Refinancing Debt
Town Wilkesboro
Qiatriond Jubilee
Twenty - Seven - Year Refi
nancing Plan Approved
By State Commission
LOWER INTEREST RATE
Will i*ay d)nly Four Per
Cent For First Ten Years;
Five Thereafter
Europe On Brink 0/
Two Members 01
Davidson Board
Elections Fired
Officials of the town of Wil
kesboro today said that the re
financing plan of the town's $57.-
000 outstanding debt had been
approved by the local government
commission and had been put
into effect.
An ultimate .saving of between
$15,000 and $2'>,000 will be af
fected through the issuance of
refunding bonds at four per cent
interest for the first ten years
and five per cent thereafter. All
the l ends to be replaced by the
refunding bond? were six per
cent.
The refunding bonds will fall
dne $1,000 each year for the
first four vears and will increase
until near the end of the 27-year
period when the annual amount
of bonds to br retired will be
$3,000. This arrangement was
made to equalize total payment
of principal and interest each
year because annual interest pay
ments will decrease as bonds are
retired.
The town had been defaulting
on principal and interest for a
number of years and the refi
nancing plan had been under ad
visement for a similar period of
time with the town officials
working diligently toward a plan
, ■which would affect the greatest
saving for the town and at the
same time minimize the burden
to the taxpayers.
The present tax rate Is $1.25
and officials of the town express
ed the opinion that the principal
and interest under the refunding
plan can be paid yearly without
an increase in tax rate provided
regular expenses remain normal
and :io extensive public improve
ments are necessary.
An ordinance authorizing the
issuance of the refunding bonds
to cancel the total outstanding
debt, including bonds, accrued in
terest and notes, was published
toda:’
Beverly Hills, CaUf. . . •
Man and wife for three-quar
ters of a century. That was the
milestone passed recently by
Mr. and Mrs. J. Epman. Even
President Roosevelt took eog-
nizance of the occasion, send
ing a congratulatory nlessa^^e.
Epman is 9.5 years of age and
liis wife, 93.
Engineers Shaping
Highway Route to
TraphillSection
Say Following In Vicinity of
Present Road Is Most
Practical Route
Removal Two County Offi
cials Latest Move in Deane-
Burgin Contest
CHARGES ARE MADE
State 'Board Says Partisan
ship and Deceptive Deal
ings Practiced
Story Heads
Schoolmasters
Club For Year
Democrats Will
Meet on Friday
Each Precinct Will Have a
Meeting at 7:OJ o’CIock
On Friday Night
The Democratic campaign will
get under way in every precinct
Friday night. September 30, sev
en o’clock, when precinct meet
ings are held to discuss campaign
plans.
The plan of precinct meetings
was adopted in a meetln.g of the
county executive committee he'd
here last week
Each precinct has been asked
by the county organization to
hold a meeting once each week
until the November election. The
county candidates will attend the
various precinct meetings before
the election.
reduction of meat
tie, sheep and hogs
In North Carolina In
^valued at over $28,-
eports W. H. Rhodeo,
iticicn for the State
of Agriculture. Of
the net production
Ihughtered contributed
,000.
( Duplin county cotton ginners
pW^plstlc orer prospects
Fbia Jmsin •Inc® wenthw condl-
IK'been unfavorable for
S?*i«^tlon of'cotton in their schoe V teachers and superinten-;
■t ' dents, holds monthly meetings.
■Mr:.:
School Heads In First Meet
ing of Year On Tuesday
Night; Eller Speaks
T. E. Story, h-^ad of Wilkesboro
schools, wa.? eketed president of
the Wilkes County Schoolmasters’
club in its first meeting of the
present school year held Tue.sday
evening .ht Wilkesboro.
Other officers elected for the
year were R. V. Day. Millers
Creek principal, vice president;
Miss Helen Bostic, ot Wilkesboro,
secretary-treasurer. The pro
gram. committee is composed of
Grady Miller. Mulberry principal,
chairman ■ L. W. Teague, Moun
tain View principal; and Miss
Elizateth Parker, of Millers
Creek.
C. B. Eller, county superinten
dent of schools, addressed the
group and gave some interesting
facts about the county school sys
tem, stressing the need of school
facilities. He said that there are
72 whiti' and seven colored
schools and that the schools
range in size from 35 one-teacher
units to Wilkesboro, the largest,
with 24.
He said that 71 additional
rooms are needed at present to
properly house the students of
the present enrollment. Thirty
buses are needed in addition to
the 61 now in use, 21 of which
are contract buses. He totaled the
cost of buildings, buse.s and sup
plies needed in addition to pres
ent facilities at $221,000.
Tile club met in the home eco
nomics rooms of Wilkesboro
school, where Miss Ghita Tuttle’s
classes served dinner to the 45
attending. The program consisted
of the address by Supt. Eller and
two vocal numbers by Zeb Dick
son, who sang "Irish Eyes’’ and
“Ram.ona.’’
The club, with a membership
composed of principals, high
State highw,'y engineers have
completed a traverse (map) of
the present county road from
Fair.ulains to Traphill as prelim
inary work for a location survey
for construction of a highway, it
was learned today from the
eighth division highway office
here.
The opinion was expressed by
an engineer of the project that
the route would be located along
the present road, preliminary
work having revealed that it is
the most, direct and practical
routo through that section of the
county.
However, he explained that
the new survey ■would eliminate
many of t’ae curves and would
greatly shorten the distance.
Cricket Is Winner
Two-County Title
Wilkes Boys Take Final In
Baseball Series With
Grassy Creek 5-4
Cricket’s team in the American
Legion j.’nior ba.seball project
won the Wilkes-.Ashe title in the
final game of the two county ae
ries played at Laurel Springs
Wednesday afternoon with the
hard hitting nine from Grassy
Creek.
Dominating junior play in this
section like the Yanks do in or
ganized baseball, the Cricket
team went through a 14-game
schedule during the summer
without a defeat and won the
county ployoff 3 out of 5 against
Traohill, "astern Wilkes cham
pions.
Cricket dropped the opener of
the • two-county series 6 to 3,
won the second 9 to 8 and edged
out the last game yesterday 5 to
4. Parsors, lanky pitcher who
carried most of the mound bur
den for the champions, faced his
supreme test Wednesday in the
final game, which also ended his
junior baseball career. Although
allowing several hits, he was ef
fective when hits by the Ashe
county boys who had been known
throiighovt. the season tor their
hard slugging would have count
ed most.
By virtue of winning the se
ries the Cricket team will receive
a trophy donated by the Forty
and Eight, an affiliate organiza
tion of the American Legion.
3 Lions Born At
Forester’s Zoo
Born to I eo and Cleo at
Fcre.ster’s Nii-Way Service sta
tion zoo on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, two sons and one
(lauglitcr.
Two baby lions were bom
Tnesd.'^y' and one Wednesday
• o tlie large pair which xvas
added to the colleetloii of ani
mals more than a year ago.
Toloy interested spectators
were not allowed to view the
baby lions becan.se the mother
lion raises a great disturbance
wiien she thinks somebody
may bother her brood. But in
.a day or two when the little
ones become stronger and can
move about faster and get out
of the mother’s way everybody
who wants to may see the new
ly born additions to the zoo.
Raleigh, Sept. 28.—The state
board of elections ousted two
members of the Davidson county
elections board' today and heard
charges that bullets would re
place ballots unless sweeping "re
forms” were effected in North
Carolina’s voting practices.
The ouster order came shortly
after tho state board had receiv
ed ' final’’ returns from the two
Davlilson officials ot the county’s
vote in the e'ghth district run
off primary. The returns gave W.
0. Rurgin, of Lexington. 6,917
votes and C. B. D"ane of Rock
ingham. 961.
Bcturn.s Vary
Tlie state board of elections
has insisted that those returns
are based in part, on fraudulent
absentee ballots, and that the
correct result of ijhe county’s vote
is: Burgin. 6,776: Dean. 956. The
difference in tbel two sets of re
turns is sufflcieiit to swing the
nomination from Deane, who the
state board cla’’^R has a 23-vote
majority, to Burgin.
A resolution pa.ssed by the
state board said the two David
son officials. J. David Sink and
Ford Myers, both Democrats, had
displayed “intense partisanship,”
and had attempted to "obstruct
and prevent the orderly and due
administration of the election
laws.” The resolution added that
the men, "by unfair and deceptive
dealings wtllii the state board of
elections.” had ‘demonstrated
their unfi(ne.ss to hold their of
fices.”
Successors to Sink and Myers
may be appointed by the state
hoard tomorrow.
.‘Suspends Rules
The board also announced that
it intended to suspend its rules
and "proceed in a summary man
ner to deal with the situation now
confronting” It. The suspeasion,
it added, was made necessary by
“the circumstances with refer
ence to the determination of the
candidate for Congress of the
Democratic party from the eighth
congre.ssIonal district.’’
Some sources interpreted this
to mean that the hoard and the
candidates would make a final,
concentrated effort to dispose of
the puzzling eighth district prob
lem before the November general
election.
Thi only vote against the ous
ter resolution was cast by George
McNeil, ot Fayetteville, who said
he did not believe the two men
were “dishonorable.”
Charges that bullets may re
place ballots in North Carolina’s
elections were made by J. E. Hol-
shouser, of Boone Republican
member of the Watauga county
hoard of elections.
Holshouser, heading a delega
tion of Wntauca citizens, asked
that the Boone precinct, in which
approximately 2,000 votes a,re
cast, be divided, and that Repub-
lican.s “be given fair treatment.”
“It’s going to come to guns if
you gentlemen don’t give ua 80.me
relief,” he said. “Why they won’t
even allow a Republican judge
of elections to be near a ballot
! box. ’
W. A. Lucas, of Wilson, chair
man of the state board, said that
it was the duty of county boards
to determine what precincts
sliould be divided, and that “if
we had the power, there wouldn’t
be a precinct of more than 600
votes in the state.’’
D. L. (Ubby) Ward, of New
Bern, candidate for the speaker-
.=hip of the state house ot repre-
sentatalves conferred with Gov
ernor Hoey on the eighth district
question today, hut details of the
conference were not learned.
|4RulersGatI]^
1
Eyes of the world
nre upon Adolph
Hitler, Germany’s
iron hand ruler
T)ho threatens the
p‘ac« of the world
with his Intended
conquest erf the Su
deten lands of
(^zechoelovalda. In
this picture he is
shown reviewing
(onie of his hi|^y
trained storm
troops.
In Last EflortTtf
Settle Di^^
Great Britain, France, Ct
many and Italy Repreiio
tatives Confer
MARCH POSTPONED
Lions Club Milk
Fund Is Off To
Excellent Start
Sum of $18.75 Has Been
Contributed to Date By
Individuals and Firms
In an interview this morning,
I,. L. Carpenter, president of the
f.ions Club, stated that the club’s
project to raise money to furnish
milk for underprivileged and un
derweight children, in the city
schools is off to an excellent
start.
He said’ “The people of North
Wilkesboro fully realize the great
need for milk for underprivileg
ed c’nldren in our city schools.
The support you are giving us
in this work proves the fact that
nothing shall be left undone In
effort to give all the little fel
lows milk who need it. Your mon
ey is being turned over to the
proper authorities to be used for
this very worthy cause. For the
conveniences of everybody who
wish to contribute we have placed
deposit .lars at the following
places:
Tenth Street—-Red Cross Phar
macy, Beeche’s Place, Dick’s Ser
vice Station, North Wilkesboro
Grocery Co., Gaddv Motor Co.,
Mountain Maid Ice Cream Parlor.
Main Street—Smoak Furniture
Co., Northwestern Bank. Payne’s
Clothing Store, Blackburns,
Deans Jewelry. Wilkes Drug Co.,
Spalphour’s. Belk’s Department
Store, City Barter Shop, Princess
Cafe, Rexall Drug Store, Wilkes
Hotel. Central Service Station,
Crest Store, J, C. Penney Co.,
Prevette's. New Orpheum Thea-
tre. Sandwich Shop, Jenkins
Hardware Co., Roses 5 and 10,
Bramo’s Drug Store, Tip Top
Lunch, Horton’s Drug Store,
Wilkts Barber Shop, Bank of
North WilkeSiboro.
A total of $18.75 had been con
tributed to date by the following
firms and individuals:
Re.l Cross Pharmacy, $1.00.
R. H. Pea,rson, $1.00.
B. H. McNeill .50.
J. D. Reece, $1.00.
S. B. Richardson, .50.
Friend of Children, .25.
Wilkes Hatchery, .50.
Tal Pearson, $2.00.
R. F. Whittington. $1.00.
H. H. Pearson, $1.00.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., $1.00.
M. B. MrNeill. .50.
Bare’s Fair Store, $1.00.
Horton’s Drug Store, $2.00.
Mrs. Pearl rampbell, $1.00.
Mooresville Flour Mills, $4.00.
Wilkes Court To
Convene Monday
For Civil Cases
Judge J. A. Rousseau Will
Be On Bench For Reg
ular Term of Court
Wilkes superior court will con
vene in Wilkesboro Monday, Oc
tober 3, for a tv'o weeks’ scss on
tor '.’’ial of civil cases only.
Judge J. A. Rousseau, of this
city, who Is presiding over courts
of the 17th district during the
latter halt of 1938, will preside.
Hundreds of cases, many of
which date back several years, are
pending trial and the calendar
has been made out for the term
by the Wilkes bar association.
Jurors tor the term will be as
folloT.s:
First Week
Rufus C. Church, Turner Pre-
vette, F. P. Taylor, Boss Jarvis,
S. Y. Walker, Roscoe Golds, W.
M. Minton, J. A. .Tohnson, Zeb
Davis, Arthur •llutchlson, Noah
St. Tohn Chas. H. Cowles, J. C.
Kilbv, Worth, Phillips, V. T.
Walsh, John L. Comer, G. J. Hol
land, John M. Staley, Jr.
Second Week
F. J. Whitley, W. D. Weston,
S. A. Lyons. N 0. Hendren, Lee-
ter Cockerham, J. F. McNeill of
Lewis Fork; J. F. Parlier, J. G.
Woodruff, E. Ti. Mitchell, A. M.
Hamby, J T. Adams, R. C. Har
ris, J. M Durham, Ira Walker,
T. A. Tucker, of Edward.s; W. A.
Shumate. George Combs.
Representative
Parole Office Is
Checking Cases
T. C. Bethea Is Visiting All
Persons In County On
Parole This Week
Tobacco Grading
School Tuesday
Representative State De
partment to Give Instruc
tions To Farmers
T. C. Bethea, parole supervisor
from the office of the state pa
role commissioner, is in Wilkes
county this week making a check
up on all persons under parole,
Charles McNeill, welfare officer,
said today.
Under the present setup a
more accurate check is made on
the parole cases, who are required
to report once each month and
show that they have not violated
conditions ot parole.
Mr. McNeill, to w'hom the cases
make reports, explained that
when a prisonc is once paroled
he remains governed by condi
tions of narole for the remainder
of his life or until the parole Is
ended by executive older.
Plan Stunt Night
At Mountain View
stunt Night, one of the most
, entertaining programs of the
school year, will take place at
Mountain View school on Satur
day night, October 1. The admis
sion charge will be 10 and 26
cents -and the public has a cor
dial InvUation to attend. Proceeds
will be used for the benefit of
me school.
W. P. .Hendrick, a trained rep
resentative of the state depart
ment of agriculture, will conduct
tobacco grading course In Wilkes
county 01: Tuesday, October 4.
The forenoon course beginning
at 9 30 will be held at the farm
of B R. Pardue at Ronda. The
afternoon session, which will
held at the home of R. C. Harris
one mile cast of Benham school,
will begin at two o’clock. Dan
Holler, Wilkes county agent, said.
Grading tobacco properly is im-
poriant, farm authorities point
out, because tobacco is purchas
ed mainly by its grade, which Is
determined by quality. Low
grade leaves with better grade to
bacco lower the value of the en
tire lot, whereas more would be
paid for the tobacco with the
grades properly separated.
All farmers interested are in
vited to attend the courses to be
held Tuesday, Mr. Holler Mid.
Another Club
Broadcast Soon
Wilkes Family Will Tel
Radio Audience About
Keeping Records
-
me
Wilkes county will be repre-
contftd on the air again Saturday
afternoon, 12:12, when 4-H
club members and others broad
cast again from radio station
WATR in Winston-Salem.
The subject of the broadcast
will he "Improvement in Farm
Records” and those taking part
will be Mr. and Mrs. P. E.
Church and two children. Mary
Ruth and Paul Ed, of North Wil
kesboro route 2, who are keeping
full records of farm operations
this year
Very favortible comment has
been received relative to 4-H club
broadcasis In which other Wilkes
boys and girls hare participated
during tbe past several months.
Hitler's Threatened Mar^
Into Czechoslovakia Is
Postponed
London. Sept. 28.—Europe 'wsa
halted on the brink of war to
night by a swiftly called peace
conference o f Great Biitaln,
France, Germany and Italy.
Episcopal Service
The four powers working a-
galnst expiration of Germany’s
24-hour suspension of mobiliza
tion plans, will meet tomorrow la
Munich seeking some peaceful so
lution of Adolf Hitler’s demands
for Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenlsnd
by October 1.
Thus peace, menaced by tha
ever-mounting millions of men
under arms, got at least a re
prieve.
Oliamberlaln Speaks
Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain revealed this when he
announced to a tense house of
commons that Hitler had agreed
to postpone German moblllzatloa
for 24 hours from 2 p. m. (10 a.
m. E. S. T.) tod.ay.
Chamberlain, Hitler, Premier
Daladier of France and Premier
Mussolini of Italy are to meet In
Munich for a peace conference,
possibly the most vital since Ver
sailles, which yet may avert war
over German demands for Sn-
detenland.
Reuters British news agency,
reported in a dispatch tonight
from Prague that the Czechoslo
vak cabinet met tonight follow
ing the annuncement of the four-
power conference tomorrow in
Munich. ,
The dispatch said President
Eduard Benes presided at the
meeting.
The soldier premier, Jan
Syrovy, postponed his scheduled
broadcast tonight as a result of
the meeting.
Before he spoke (^hamberiain
had sent s last minute appeal to
Mussolini to urge pe.sce upon his
German ally.
Even until h? was well into his
parliament speech the British
prime minister did not know th*
result ot that anpeal.
President Roosevelt in a per
sonal message also urged Mus
solini to use his influence to keep
Europe’s armies from marching
to a new world war, a plea that
was credited with influencing th*
Itali&n duce.
Plea Successful
W'len Cham''erlain found he
had met success he told a cheer
ing .-ommons “I will go to see
what I can do as a last effort.”
Jubilation greeted the an-
nourcement throughout Britain
whose fleet was mobilized while
the nation, acting as did the oth
er peoples of Europe, frenziedly
prepared for war.
The threatened victim of th®
attack which Europe feared and
expected—Czecnoslovakia — will
be absent from the Munich coun
cil table, though her minister to
Britain, Jan Masaiyk, quickly
protested to Chamberlain against
the fact.
Work On Prison
Camp Progresses;
Is W P A Project
Work of construction of a 125-
man prison camp just across the
Yadkin from the eastern end of
this city and near the lower
bridge is progressing rapidly and
the camp will be ready for use
with'n a few weeks.
The camp, one of several being
constructed in the state, is a
WPA project sponsored by the
state highway commission and
will he the property of the state.
The other camps now under con
struction are being erected by
contract and financed jointly by
the slate and the Public Works
administration.
Vesper service will be held at
St. Paul’s Episcopal church San~
day afternoon Ocig>ber 2nd, at.
four o’clock, in -.barge of th® r®®-
tor. Reverend B. M. Lackey.
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All forms of paymchta hF AAAw
to farmers of Kanwi -tkia -;
will nm to