IE'
tWr^WARNEB
; vpwwurdv ^vUnd, Dec, 4.—
Warr, a cabinet mln-
llf^, w«rnod German; todax not
1914 mistake of
thiuctnil;; Britain decadent and of
a growlntc Bn?liah wnrictlon that
"oal; armaments can speak ef-
faetlrely.” The peer. In the cahl-
ne>£ %s president of the board
ednoatlon, also disclosed in
addrMB hero Britain’s disappoint
ment with the Nasi state since
tin September Munich agreement.
GtflTEY FOR F. D. R.
Washin^on,. Dec. 4.—Senator
Gufley (D), Pa., came out flat
ly today for the renomination
'resident Roosovolt. Declaring
le 1940 pree'dontia! campaign
would be a history-making strug
gle between “the liberal democ
racy of Franklin D Roosevelt
and “the camouflaged fascism of
powerful flnanc'al and industrial
intereets masquerading under the
colors of the Republican party,
the admini.stration sjrpporter
added: “The one man to justify
the Roosevelt '•eoord is Roose
velt.
JAMES IN BUSINESS
Hollywood, Dec. 4. — James
Roosevelt, eldest son of the Presi
dent, today became a motion pic
ture tycoon, joining Samuel Gold-
wyn Productions. Inc., as vice
preeldent. Goldwyn, gray-haired
veteran of the motion picture bus
iness who has organized and
headed more major companies
than any other man in Holly
wood, announced young Roose
velt’s appointment in a brief
formal statement: “It is with
great pleasure that I announce
that James Roosevelt has joined
my organization as vice presi
dent,’’ he said.
fi^ral CoiirtMay
CfinVeiie Again On
, Jan.'^
No Bills Presented to Grand
Jury On Evidence By
Undercover Agent
G-MAN IS WITNESS
Youths Indicted For Intimi
dation of Witness Freed
By Directed Verdict
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is the guest of North Carolina to-
d^, being scheduled to deliver an address at 4:30 this afternoon
before the Carolina Political Union, a student organization of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SPEND FOR SAFETY
Washington. Dec. 4. — Louis
Johnson, assistant se‘retar>’ of
war,'-declared todav that the na
tion “must sp°nd money” for
more and better planes and anti
aircraft guns to assure “mini
mum ’ safety from attack. Fight
ing in Spain and China has
shown "the havoc which a hostile
benbing attack could and, in the
event of war, doubtless would,
wreak on onr unprotected cities,”
said in his annual report to Sec-
retarv Woodring. Recent advanc
es in other countries have equall
ed or excelled the quality of A-
meriean warplanes, which alrea
dy were far surpassed in num
bers by the fleets ot some foreign
powers, Johnson renortert.
$5,730.52 Will Be
Paid This Month
To Wilkes Needy
Freak Egg Opened
Needy, Aged, Dependent
Children and Blind Will
Receive This Amount
Among the pgas gathered on
the farm of J. M. German at
Boo.mer recently there was one
e.xceedingly large egg, which was
described as being as large or
larger than an ordinary goose
egg.
When the egg wa.' opened it
was found to have two yolks, one
Federal court adjourned in Wil-
kesl- )i-o Thursday afternoon after
almnst two weeks work on the
criminal docket
Judge Johnson J. Hayes an
nounced that couit would again
convene in Wiikesboro on Jan
uary 9 and instructed the jurors
to rftuip on that date unless
otherwise notified.
Due to tihe fnet that attorneys
in several cases calendared for
>(trial in 'ederal court were engag
ed in a lengthy trial In Wilkes
superior court, which was also in
se.ssion Inst week, a number of
cases in federal court were con
tinued.
The cases res;i’t'ng from work
on an ‘undercover’’ agent in
Wilkes recently, in which about
40 were charged with conspiracy
to violate the federal alcohol tax
lawn, ■R'ere not presented to the
grand jury. It '? understood that
the Attorney General advised that
a co-npromise has been proposed.
Local people heard a G-man
testify in court at Wilkesboro for
the first time Thursday when
ft
There
meeting of the American Legion
and Auxiliary in Statesville on
Saturday night December 10,
Wallace 3. Clark, special agent o’clock.
The department commander
of the bureau ot investigation,
recounted results of an invwtiga- „reeident of the state Auxil-
tion he bad made into charges preaen* Those wisih-
a number of youths of the attend are. asked to please
that
PurleaFi community had attempt
ed TO int4midate a government
witness by riding by his home and
Funds to be paid rni^ for old
age assistance, aid to dependent
children and aid to the blind in
the .state social security program
Wllkc"^ county for the month
in each end, and a conxplete hard^ firing a number of shots in the
shelled egft in *he center, about uio
the =ize of a partridge egg.
t (il^tlon of his house.
jitlPHaST6y'’lCoster was th« witness
WANT MEDICAf vSCHOOl.
Raleigh. Deo 4.—Establish
ment of a state-supported four-
year medical school, meeting eve
ry requiroment o^ a Grade-A in
stitution. was roco.-umended to
day by a spw'sl .-^tudy commis
sion authorized bv the 1H37 Gen
eral Assembly. Thoiich agreeing
on the feosibility and necessity
for the proposed .school, commis
sion members disagreed on its lo
cation. Four members said in a
“ma.ic-rity repo-"’' hhev believed
the school should be estahlishod
at Chapel Hill. Two others—O.
M. Mull of .‘the'hy and Dr. B. J.
Lawrence of Raleigh- attached
dissenting statements, explaining
that “responsible parties” bed
promised a “large donation’ from
private funds to snpnlement a
state appropriation to build and
endow a four - year medical
school,” provided the school was
built at a desvnaied city in the
state.’’
of December total $.'i.7.30..'>2, it
was learned today from the of
fice of Charles McNeill, welfare
officei.
Checks total ng $3,870.52 for
Uecembet old age assistance pay-
rnen's to 4 7-1 residents ot Wilkes
county have been received and
will be mailed out as .soon as they
are nigin d by the proper county
officials.
T*'P amount represented in
check- for aid to dependent chil
dren is .$1,330.50 and will liene-
fit 3o5 children.
A total of $4'.:0.52 was receiv
ed from the state commis.sion for
the blind to be distributed to the
36 blind residents of the county
who have been certified as eligi
ble to receive this aul.
Wilkes Fanners
To Cast Vote On
Control Dec. 10
County Agent Announces
Polling Places for the
FauTners Dec. 10th
W. Grady Gaston
Dies In Charlotte
Mennber State School Com
mission Was a Former
School Head Here
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses were issued
during the past ‘wo weeks by Oid
Wiles, register ot deeds, to the
following: Roy S. Cavenaugh,
Wallice, and Carrie Mildred Bry
ant, North Wi'kpshoro: Lee
Walker. Wagoner, and Stellie
Sheets. Sherman ■ Hayes .(arvis
and Mozelle Peavis, both ot
Wilkesboro ro-itc Janies R.
McNeill. Millers Creek and Irene
Hazel Walsh, Purlear: Artjtiir
Sebastian and Dorothy Mae Col
lins, both of North Wilkesboro
route 1; Dan Rhymer anc,'Edna
Oliver, b-dh of Champion; Will
Brown, Wilkesioro. and Corda
Curry, North Wilkesboro: J. F.
Taylor and Genie Johnson, both
of Hendrix: Roher‘ Cardwell and
Alice Webb Cardwell, both of
North Wilkesboro.
W. Grady Gaston, a member of
? State School Commission,
>d unerpectfdlv Wednesday in
Charlotte hospital, -where he
was thought to be recuperating
satisfactorily from an operation a
■week previous He was 4 8.
Gaston, a native of Gastonia,
had been executive secretary of
that city’s chamber of commerce
for 10 years.
He was superintendent of
North Wilkesboro schools about
2 years ago, serving in that ca
pacity until he enlisted for service
the World War. He made a
good record as a school adminis
trator and during the latter years
of his life served w’ith distinction
on the state school comm>-^Sa.
He received his educati^
the public .schools of his. home
city and at Duke University,
where he was graduated in 1911.
He iater became president of
Duke’s General .Alumni Associ
ation a post he held at his death.
Active in the religious and civ-
Wilkes county farmers will go
to the po'ls on Saturday. Decem-
iber to, to vote as to whether or
not compulsory marketing quotas
will he rendered in the 19.39 crops
of flue cured tobacco and cotton.
Thpolling places of the dif
ferent townships will be as fol
lows:
Edwards Township at Benham
schoolho’ise; Traphill township at
Holbrook’s store. Traphill: New
Castle and An1io‘h townships at
Clingmaii' Somers and Lovelace
town.ships at Somers schoolhou.se;
All other townships will vote at
the Court'ou.se in Wilkesboro.
At the same time that the vote
is cast on cotton and tobacco, all
voters wi'l be aIio'''ed to vote in
a separate ballot box, as to whe
ther or not Wilkes county shall
be included in the Tri-Creek Soil
Conservation Di.“trict which is
now operating in Yadkin county.
In addition to the regular poll-
'in q'lestlj'il and the offense was
alleged to have taken place in
May. 1937. Foster was a witness
for the g'lvernment against Phil
lip Yates, charged with selling
liquor, but in the intimidation
case the goverument wa's unable
to chow that the alleged offense
took place after Foster w.ns sub
poenaed and Judge Hay^ direct
ed a verd.mt of not guilt/ ’ithout
bhe case going before the jury.
Defendants in the case included
Yate.s. M nrren Kiiby, who was
alleged to have fired the shot or
shots. CIv’de Vannov, driver of
the truck whi-' 'karried the party.
Wren CouperV Jrl
others
SoB^Distriet V«te
Will Be Cast On
Saturday, Dec. 10
Huffman and
Firecrackers Are
A Double Loss
Police Chief, Says No One
Will Be Allowed to Fire
Then In This City
Ordering firecrackers tor
Chrislraas celeh-ation is a waste
of time and money if you expect
to shoot them in North Wiltfes-
boro. was the substance of a
warning from Police Chief J. FI.
Walker.
Chief Walker explained that it
to shoot
is violation of the law
.11 --1 .... 1— fireCi*ackers in North Wilkesboro
ing places for the vote on tobacco limits and he said he was
and cotton, there will be three
polling places just for the vote on
mentioning the fact in time to
save people the t:’ouUle and ex-
the con.servation district. These p^nse of obtaining the noise mak-
places will be at the Mt. Pleasant
school, the Fe’-vuson school, and
the Moravian Falls school.
All people in those communi
ties are urged to go out and vote
on tills program.
Make Progress On
School Building
New Four - Room Building
at Clingman Now Being
Built Through WPA
ic
WPA workmen are making
rapid progress on construction of
a new school building at Cling-
man, it was learned today from
life of Gastonia. Ga.ston held county school authorities.
membership in the Main Street The building under construc-
j Methodist church, of which he tion at Clingman will be of brick
was a steward, the Ctvitan
and other organizations
the
He had served as president of ditorium.
veneer construction and will con
tain tour classrooms and an au-
A similar building at Boomer,
IU17 Southern Association of So- — — —
cial Sectetariesyand was an offi- containing four cKssrooms and
cer in the national association, an auditorium, has been oomplet-
The fn»eral held at 3:30 ' ' ' ' ‘ -
.m. Thursday- at Main
ed and is now being occupied by
, Street the school. It was also erected as
MeChodiBt churrh in Oestonia. a WPA project with the cost
A MlLtMTiBeirvire was held at the shared between the county and
graveetde
fedwral govenmeot.
ers for the Christmas holidays
He pointed out the extreme
danger 'n handling firecrackers,
especially for children, and urged
bhat parents not allow children to
handle them in any form.
Chanfi[e Dates Of
Home Club Meets
Miss Harriet McGnogan, home
demonstration agent, today an
nounces change.^ made in the
schedule ot home demonstration
club meetings for the month as
published last week.
The Ferguson club will meet on
December 15' Maple Springs
will meet on December
Boomer club will meet
cember 9
De-
Infant Dies
Gracy E. Blackburn, three-
Btiel.,,:
Sheriff Claude T. Doughton, (Democrat), left, and Clerk of Court
C. C. Hayes (Republican), right, today were sworn in for four-year
terms.- The proposed amendment changing terms of office of sheriff
and coroner from two to four years went into effect upon certifica
tion of the vote in the state. Iredell M. Myers, Repifolican coroner,
also began a four-year term today.
ing to attend are asked to please
notify the local commander or
preeldent in order that reserva
tions may be made
Wilkes May Be Included In
Soil Conservation Dis
trict Now Formed
Along with the meetings to ex
plain the Referenda, which is to
be held on December 10 in re
gard to marketing quotas for
flue-cured tobacco and cotton. W.
D. l.ee, who repre,«ents the Soil
Conservation and Extension Serv
ice of North Carolina, will explain
the possibility of Wilkes county
beeomming a part of the Tri-
CreeV: Soil Conservation District,
Dan ’loller. Wilkes county agent,
said todav.
In addition to the meetings
which are scheduled in the tobac
co and cotton sections, there will
be three other meetings for the
purpose of expluining the Soil
Conserva'ion Service. These meet
ings will be held at Mt, Pleasant
school on Thursday, December
Stii, at 3:30 n m.: Ferguson
school Thursda,v. December 8th,
at 7:00 p. m.: .ond Moravian
Palls school Friday December
9th. at 3:30 p. m.
.All favner.s and orchard men
are cord’ally invited and urged
to auend at le^st one of these
meetings
The vote on this district will
be December 10th,. and the poll
ing places will be the .same as
those for flue-cured tobacco and
cotton, ill addition to Mt. Pleas
ant school. Ferguson school, and
Moravian Falls school.
Football Banquet
Thursday Evening
Enjoyable Occasion at the
Wilkesboro School Anti
cipated;'Expect Many
On Thursday evening, Decem
ber 3, Wilkesboro school will give
a banquet in the home economics
rooms for ’ the football team.
which represented the school in
•_ gMziina with
fine way in eight games with
will serve a good dinner
T. E. :itory, superintendent ot
uracy a. .. .... in-rtta- ’'Teacher — Johnnie,
months-old child of E. J. and the schools, ha - ^ greatest amblt'on?
Dovie Huffman Blackburn, died tk>ns to a number of citizens and
iJOVie tlUIIHUtll u, ot
Friday and funeral servloe was schCDl friends
held Saturday at Stony Pork the banq.iet, w>>ich vrill not o y »c
olmn*-Witli Rev. Fd Haye# in be an occasion of pleasure but
cbMM. one fpr planning
torofhfrt and ebten, and comxounlty
irofhert and tUten, ana cotniounny »jai conaner the great
IWid 'Paulliw Bliwkr Xhose Who can a^t» aaka*
to notify Mr. Story.
Three WeeksTerm
District Meeting
Legion, Auxiliary • k
On Saturday Night (Jt OUpeilOr LOUTl
here will be a joint district ^ . a
Closed On Friday
Several Plaintiffs Lose Ac
tions in Civil Court; The
Docket Is Lessened
A \thrce-weeks’ term of Wilkes
superior, court for trial of civil
cases adjourned in Wilkesboro
Friday afternoon.
city, presided over tUe tWttf.Tri-. t._ t>, »
scheduled
which was originally
for ‘wo weeks but another week
was iddcrt in an effort to lessen
congestion on the civil docket.
The court was held in the fed
eral building, in order that the
federal court might have access
to the county buildiug, which has
a much larger courtroom.
Following are the cases dis
pose') of by Jury trial during the
term ■
Lonnie J. Brown versus Dr.
Popper Bottling company, plain
tiff recovers nothing.
Bettie Rash versu.s Walter
Stroud, plaintiff recovers nothing.
Elton ’TcGlamery versus Toca-
Cola Bottling company, plaintiff
recovers nothina;.
Effner Eller ve>-sus Goca-Oola
Bottling company, non-suit.
G H. Tatum versus I. 0. Speas
and Arnold Hunter, plaintiff re-
cove-rs nothing.
Two divorces were granted:
one in the case of Flliza Mcdlure
versus Fred McClure and th'
other Rc'dmer Wood versus Irene
Wood.
In the case of Roy Sanders
versus Dr Hugo Hoffman, grow
ing out of an automobile accident.
Sanders was aw'arded a judgment
of $2,000 tor i>im8elf and $200
damages to his car. The case con
sumed the greater nart ot the
third weev of court.
During the tenn several orders,
and consent judgments were
signed, resulting m additional
cases being removed from the
docket other than thoi»e tried by
jury.
Several cases in which the
plaintiffs did not appear to prose
cute their actions went off the
docket by the non-suit route and
a number ot p'nintitfs voluntarily
non-suited pending actions.
Sberiff;,Qeik
AndCorfmerh
For 4-Year Term
M. F. Absker Named Cki^
man of Board of CopiVM*-
sioners, All Repobficaik
DOUGHTON DEMOCRAT
Oaths of Office Admiaia*
tered at 10 o’Clock To
day at Courthouse
Wilkes countv officers elected
In the November election were
sworq In this morning at th*
court.house In Wilkesboro.
Today Sheriff C. T. Doughtoa,
Democrat, and Coroner I M. My
ers, Republican were inducted 1»-
to office for four-venr terras, tbs
term of office of sheriff and cors-
nor having been increased frost
two lo four y lars by the ameod-
men*. which was approved by ma-
joriti' vote in ‘be election aad
which went into effect upon cer
tification of the vote in the stats.
The oath of office was admta-
istered to Sheriff Doughton by
Judge J. A. Rousseau, of this
city. Sheriff Doughton was tAe
only Democrat elected to county
office in Wilkes this year.
Mis# Elsie Foster justice of
the peace, administrated the oath
of office to C C. Hayes, Repak-
lican clerk of court elected for a
second four-year term. She alao
admiulstered ‘he oath of offtoa
to Coroner Myers and Earl S.-
Caudill, P.epubliean county sur
veyor elected tor s second two-
year term.
The clerk of court gave th*
oath of office to the newly elect
ed board of commissioners, cooi-
Insnai-.-
bent. Dr. W. R. Triplett and C. C.
Sidden, all Republicans.
Thus the control of county gor-
ornment passed today back into
Republican hands two membera
of the board during the past tw*
years, R 0. Pinlev and Leet Pop
lin, .lemnrrats, having been de-
featej in the election.
Th'i old boar-i of commission
ers met this morning and ad-
journ^'d, the n^'w hoard taking
office.
M. F. Ahsher. th" only incum
bent on the new board and wh*
has served for several terms, wan
elected chairman on motion of Dr.
W. P. Triplett oeconded by F C.
Sidden.
Oaihs of office were adminis
tered tod'iy lo manv constable*
nd justices elected in November
_nd manv people from all parts
pf the county were visitors at th*
courthouse today, although no
piiblle installation cereraonie*
were* held.
Special Meeting
Spanish-American
Veterans, Auxiliary
Kiwanians Hear
Of Soil District
Extension Worker Says That
Farming Furnishes Chief |
Source of Livelihood
.North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
in meeting Friday noon heard an
in.stmctivc address bv W. I). L^,.
of ‘he soil conservation depart-
mont of the extension .service,
telling of the proposed expansion
of the soil conservation district
in Yadkin county to include all
of Wilkes county.
Mr. Lee slated that "there was
a time when perhaps lumber was
the chief source of income for
this countv, but ft has been mined
to its deiths. Again, it may have
been thought that industry is the
chief source of income but not
true. The truth is that farming
and its allied interests furnish
our chief source of livelihood. We
have been mining it too as we
have our other resources. ThC'^e
All members of Wilkesboro
Camp number 13 and Ladies Aux
iliary are urged to attend the 22,800 acres abandon
next meeling of the camp which , account of eroakm
will he held at the 46,000 more acres so badly
Wilkesboro, next ff'^rday, De-1 tilled at
cem5er 10, at I o’clock sharp.'
Special business of Interest to all
la loss. There are only 120,00«
a ini’? w«y til V ' Y • ■ , . * 11
other scshools ir this p^rt the members; Blect'on and installa-
state during the g-idiron season, tion of officers. C/omrade Geo. W.
sxaLe auims i-m ». ^ nvn y* —
A good program bas been planned Hartley, .leparuneut commander,
and the home ecp.uomlcs classes Fayetteville, will be present.
^ And Comb Her Hair
i Teacher — Johnnie, what
is
Johnnie—To wash mother’s
^ A Red Crj^ ObrWmas Se^ on
Christmas ,'card and’ -'W*
’wb|t*
acres in the county under culti
vation. The erosion caus^ by tb*
wind, rain and. unwise culUva-
tion not only has done Its h'urt t*
these immediate lands but tb*
damage is felt elsewliere. - Tb»
bottom lends are flooded and cov
ered, the power dams are tilled,,
and the water supply, lor all c4- ,
ties dow^itream 14 injured.
conBi^ratlon prpgi^WJsria ^ ^
coBHdete uptii
toUowing.A'ilwWf.fi^ai 
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