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PLAN StNATB TOUR
IUl«i«)i, r»b* 14. — with a
roar of applause, members of the
•enate last night accepted ail in-
rltatlon of Wilmington and New
llanoTer county to be guests there
the week-end of February 25.
The senatore will leave here by
bus alter a session February 25,
arriving In Wilmington In time
for an oyster roast and an after
noon tour of gardens.
irS PRED(»ilNATED
r elgh, Feb. 14.—County Tax
tor iiconard James looked
around today for a black cat and
a broken mirror when he checked
orer returns.
r Robert Hinton’s tax statement
was numbered 13,000. The val
ue of the real estate was $1,300.
The tax was $13. The penalty
for late payment was 13 cents. It
was paid February 13.
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Bar Defers Action On R^oi^’s
Comi Proposal Pending (tocome
Governor’s Committee Suggestion
SAYS SON KIDNAPED
Los Angeles, Feb. 14.—Police
were informed today by Mrs..
Ruth Drew that she believed her
13-year-old son, Glen W. Kelsey,
was kidnaped last Saturday.
She told investigators she had
talked with her .son by telephone
*^^^ast Saturday, and the hoy was in
custody of a man who told her
gruffly:
"I have your boy and you’ll
never see him again.”
State Wide Bill May Be In
troduced to EstablUh
Unilorm Courts
Wilkes coonliy b«r siMOc|btion
mot In a special meetl&f Wednee-
day to discuss the proposal to ea-
tabalish a recorder s court for
Wilkes county.
No action was taken oh the mat
ter, which was left pending until
some action is Ukmi by a special
committee appointed by the gov
ernor to study courts throughout
the state and to make recommen
dations to the legislature for re
vision of the court aystem to ob
tain uniformity throughout the ■
state. I
According to a report from the'
committee which was studied by
the Wilkes barristers, a bill may
he introduced in the state legisla
ture, a sc lion o" wlv.eh wi'uid j
give county commissioners and
municipal boards power to estab- j
lish recorders’ courts.
MiUTARIZE CCC?
On
Of Wt^ttijifrShi^'
Husband Rekumed io
Moravia' Falla
John Chrosniak, lieutenant colonel
in the United States army reserve,
is president of the newly formed
The bar discussed the propo.sed American Conservation association.
took
ROBBED THE MAIL
MorgiiUon. Feb. 14. — A Ifi-
year-old Valdese youth identified
by federal authorities as Marshall
Oxentino was taken to the feder
al detention home at Charlotte
last night to await trial on a
charge of robbing the United
States mail.
Oxentine pleaded guilty and
waved preliminary hearing be
fore U. S. Commissioner T. Earle
FrankPn in a case involvin.g the
theft of a watch and other arti
cles from the mail box of J. E.
Robinson, jeweler, at the Valdese
post office, .where, officers said.
Oxentine’s father is janitor.
a group making an effort to organ-
relative to a county court! i«> the Civilian Conservntion corps
BIG SPENDING AHEAD
Washington. Feb. 14.—Demo
cratic members of the house and
senate, whose committee work
calls for specializing on fiscal af
fairs, are convinced that the
Roosevelt administration is de
termined to launch in the spring
a program on a grandiose scale, a
cash outlay witfiout parallel in the
peace time history of the Repuib-
lic.
The spending will be done with
.all of the zeal of converts, for in
' ^rly days of his administration
Mr. Roosevelt was horrified over
the relatively small spending pro
gram sponsored by .Mr. Hoover
and his associates.
POPE PIUS BURIED
Vatican City, Feb. 14. - Pope
Pius XI was eiilomlied in a crypt
of St. Peter’s today with magnifi
cence and solemnity seldom seen
in these modern times.
As night fell upon the great,
dimly-lighted basilca. the jiontiff
—invested in a red chasuble and
a mitre of cloth of gold and re
posing in a triple casket — was
lowered into the grotto beneath
the dome.
There the holy father wa.s re
ceived by some 30 candle-bearing
cardinals, a few other dignitaries
and persons closest to him who
had descende4 after the ceremony
at the altar of the choir of St. Pe
ter was completed.
In the crypt w-here once he had
remarked that he would "find
sweet repose,” tie pontiff was laid
beglde the tombs of popes, kings,
ct^^nals and others who were
oaee mighty on earth.
ITBTOL DUEL FATAL
Dungannon. Va.. F'eb. 14.- An
unexplained pistol duel in a Main
street flllln.g station here today
between two men described as
"the best of friends”, brought
death to a pprominer.t young bus-
Inees man and critical wounds to
a Scott county deputy sheriff.
John S’. Blackwell, president
of the Scott county Young Demo
cratic club and operator of ,a gen
eral store, died a few minutes aft
er two bullets had penetrated his
' right side.
Deputy Sheriff . F. Slues, 55,
was In a desperate condition in a
Coeburn hospital with a bullet
wound two inches below the heart
and two others in the left side of
his hack.
Dr. O. E. Bivens, who acted as
coroner in the case, said he was
unable to determine the cause of
the shooting. Dr. Bivens said
young Blackwell and the officer
were on friendly terms as far as
he knew, and other townspeople
said the two men were "the best
of friends.’’ .
'^hen the making and hoarding
tlM paltry doUar 1* a man’s ulU-
swinm, he 4s.^ doomed to diM#-
state-v\-ide measure and
action relative to a cj-..., . ., permanent basis, fully officered
pending the outcov.-.e of the study, hv reserve officers
and recommendations by the gov
ernor’s committee.
However, a committee appoint
ed at a meeting of the bar last
week to study a proposal to es
tablish a county recorder’s court
for Wilkes reported m favor of
such court. The committee report j
said that the recorder’s court;
could operate at a saving of from
$3,000 to $7,000 annually for the
county and that the superior
court docket could he lessened to
such an extent that two of the
eight regular terms now being
held annually might be abolished.
The committee was composed
of Eugene Trlvette, F. J. McDuf
fie and .1. Allie Hayes.
and supervised by reserve officers
' on permanent detail.
Surplus Products
Help Over 3.000
In Wilkes County
Parole Granted
Wilkes Resident
Howard Shumake Released ■
After Serving 18 Months j
For Manslaughter
There were 566 cases repre
senting 3,002 persons certified by
Wilkes county welfare authori
ties as eligible to receive surplus
commodity products during Jan
uary, 1939, Arthur E, Langston,
State director of commodity dis
tribution with the State Board of
Charities and Public Welfare, an
nounced this w'eek.
A state-wide total of 197,083
persons represented by 42,691
cases were certified during the
month, Langston said. Seven hiiii-
Howiird Shumate, a resident of
Wilkes co: nty sentenced in Cald
well county court at Lenoir in
August. 1937, for manslaughter,
was given a parole this week by
Goverr or Hooy.
Shumake was released today
through the office of Charles
.McNeill. Wilkes coiinly welfare
officer to whom he is required to |
make regular monthly reports |
shoiving tiiat he has not violated j
eondition.s of parole.
Shumake had a good prison rec
ord and his parole was recom
mended by the trial solicitor and
several prominent citizens, in
cluding some, of the Caldwell of
ficers. the mes.sage from the pa
role commissioner to Mr. .McNeill i
said.
rooms wore certified to care for
146,510 pupils during the month.
Following are the number of
j persons certified In adjoining
counties and served together with
Wilkes county from the distribu
tion storeroom located in North
Wilkes'boro: Alexander, 2,283;
Alleghany, 75,3: Ashe, 1.189;
Caldwell, 2.11.3; Watauga. 1.376.
Five Are Tried
In Liquor Cases
Dula Has Busy Day Tues
day Conducting Hearings
For Those Involved
a'
r. S. Commissioner J. W. Dula
had a busy day Tuesday holding
I preliminary hearings for five per-
I sons charged with violation of the
n -I I liquor tax laws. Five defendants
tvCSldCnt Vrf IiS.y8 were placed under bonds tor ap-
Community Dies ; pearance in the May term of fed-
j e,ral court in Wllkesboro.
Funeral service was held Wed-; Worley Levoy Carpenter
Last rites were held at Moravi
an Falls M. E. church Wednesday
morning for Mrs.'Mattie Joyce
Howell Dula. who died Monday
noon from bullet wounds alleged
ly Inflicted by her husband at
their home in Winston-Salem ear
ly Monday morning.
Mrs. Dula, age 44, was a mem
ber of a well known Wilkes fam
ily, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
■Will Howell, of .Moravian Palls.
Her husband was reared in the
Ferguson community of Wilkes
county. They were married Feb
ruary 25, 1913, and for many
j years bad made their home in
Winston-Salem.
■She is survived by her father j
and mother and six children:
Lind.say and Joyce Dula, Charles
ton. W. Va.; Howard, Richard,
Jimmie and David Dula, of Win
ston-Salem. Also surviving are
six brothers and one sister: Clyde
aud Herbert Howell, of Oak Hill.
W, Va.; George Howell, of Win
ston-Salem; Lytle and Cecil How
ell, of Moravian Falls: Harvel
Howell, of North Wllkesboro;
and Mrs. R. Don Laws, Jr., of
Moravian Falls. She whs pre
ceded in death by one brother.
Herman Howell, who died soon
after his release from the army
during the World War when he
suffered gas injuries.
Dr. Halph Herring, of Win-
stoii-S'alem, conducted the funer
al service, assisted by Rev. J. M.
Green, pastor of the Moravian
Falls Methodist church. Pall
bearers were Charles Pearson,
Joe Pearson, Joe Pearson, Jr.,
Bruce and Stacy Pardue and Eu-
enge Sloop.
Reports received by members of
the family in WHkos Monday aft
ernoon. and w'hich were published
in the Journal-Patriot in Mon
day’s edition, to the effect that
Dula had killed both his wife and
son, Richard, and had shot an
other son, were exaggerated.
Mrs. Dula died from two bullet
wounds inflicted by her husband
and Richard, was also badly in
jured, two bullets striking his
body. However, he has not died
and today was reported resting as
well as could be expected. He is
a patient at Baptist hospital in
Winston-Salem.
Dula was arrested soon after
he had shot bis wife and son and
had attempted to slash his own
throat with a razor. Winston-Sal
em police said that on .Monday
night he was apparently made
a second attempt to take his own
life. He wa.s found in his cell in
the jail with a shirt sleeve knot
ted around his throat as if he
were going to try to hang himself.
Since that time precautions have
been taken to prevent his suicide.
Dula has talked little, officers
said, except to ask how his boy is
getting along and to ask for a
lawyer
Jurors
Mair^ Ses^ Of
Court In Wilkes
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Commissioners Appoint
W. Gambill Collector of ’
Insolvent Taz^s
R. G. Finley, prominent business man and sportsman, is shown here
with a 17-pound wild turkey which he killed while cn a hunt one
day last week in the eastern part of the state. . (Photo courtesy
Winston-Salem Journal). _________
Quiz Contest Will
Feature Program Of
Local Lions Club
A quiz contest will -be
the feature of the program when
the North Wllkesboro Lions club
meets Friday evening. 6:30, at
Hotel Wilkes. John Henry John
son will have charge of the pro
gram.
Preceding the program will be
a business session with Pre.sident
L. L. Carpenter presiding. The
club has several proposed activi
ties for consideration. Every
Lion is especially asked to be
present at the meeting.
Empton Billii^s 1$
Injured When Hit
ByCarWednesday
D. V. Call, Driver of Car,
Could Not See Victim
Walking In Rain
Empton BlllingB. a citizen of
the Hays community employed at
Forest Furniture company here.
was badly injured Wednesday j Stanton; T. H. Vannoy, Ub
morning when hit bv a car said
to have been driven by D. \. (’all.
/Wilkes county board of comniis-
sioners in recess session this week
drew jurors for the term
Wilkes court to begin on Monday,
March 6, land transacted a num
ber of other business items fer
the county.
W. W. Gambill, olf Dockery,
was authorized to collect pempn-
al and insolvent taxes due 'Wllkaa
county in former years. Mr. Gam
bill said follctwing his appoint
ment that he was ready to begin
work on collections at once. He
has experience along that line rf
work, having bo(sn collector of
back taxes for .some time .several
years ago.
More than 200 cases will be aa
the docket when the March term
of Wilkes court convenes and-
Judge Wil.son Warlick, of New
ton, will preside. Jurors for An
term were drawn by the enmmis-
! sioners as follows;
First W*!c4i
W. S. Curry. Wilkesboro; Thos.
I Triplett, Elk; J. U. Norris. North
Waikesboro: H. N. Kennedy,
TTaphill: E, 0. Woodruff. 'Trap-
hill; R. L. Blankenship, Jobs Cab
in; Charles Shumate, Walnut
Grove: Page M. Hutchison, North
Wllkesboro; J. B. Sheets, Union;
R. G. Souther. Lovelace; laswU
Taylor. Union: II. H. Smith. Elk;
R. A. Kendall. Elk; A. C. Ad
ams, Walnut Grove: A. L. Par
sons. Union; W. C. Morrisoa,
Wllkesboro: T. H. Carp*mter, Roek
Creek; D. J. Ridding. New Cas
tle; Spurgeon Goforlh. Somers;
John T. Hendren. Lovelace; Joka
R. Johnson, Traphill; J. C. Par-
Rabid Dog Biles
Number People
Herb Ballings Sud to Have
Been Bitten By Dog
Killed by Hayes
an employe of Turner-MTiite Cas
ket company. -' - ’ - •
The accident occured on A
street about 6:45 o’clock. Bil.ings
was walking east and the car was
going in the same direction. Call
told Police Chief J. E. Walker.
Call said that it was raining so
hard that he did not see Billings
until his car struck him hjit tliat
he helped to carry Billings lo the
hospital.
Billing.s was painfully tuirl,
there being several severe bruises
and lacerations. Today he was
resting well, hospital attaches
said.
nesday at Oak Ridge church for
-Mrs. Sarah Myra Billings, 72,
who died .Monday at her home in
the Hays community. Rev. A. J.
Blevins conducted the last rites.
Surviving are four children:
Clarence, Marshall, Burette and
Ulan Billings.
and
Lonnie Jack Mahaffey, of the
Union Grove community, were al
leged to have been captured at a
still. Flake Oregorf. Glenn Speaks
and Leo Gregory were cited be
fore the commissioner in war
rants issued for alleged liquor
I lav violations a few weeks ago.
Square Dance Friday
The American Legion and -Aux
iliary are sponsors of a square
dance to be held at the Legion
and Auxiliary clubhouse Friday
night, beginning at 8:3P.
A good string band has been
secured and a good time is as
sured all who will attend. Every
body is invited and a small ad
mission charge will be made.
Kentucky Floods Win Race With Control Project
Loan Association
PlansAnnual Meet
Large Attendance Expected
at Stockholders Meeting
Farm Loan Group
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Aa outboard motorboat famished transportatioB to these teareliers
MiUUIesbaro, Ky.. after the tows was inuBdated by rdbrwury mountalB >
dMwm’s $50e,t4N flood coatrol r«ver>>Bi«>t pM^^effU be cdbipleteil.
CntoM damages reralled in the stsr^'^m ibofla.
One jr more local people were
presumably bitten by a mad dog
about ten days ago but suspected
nothing until an Item about a
mad dog being killed at Purlcar
by Clerk of Court C. C. Hayes
appeared in The Journal-Patriot
Thursday.
Mr. Hayes killed the dog, a
small animal of one of the pet
breeds and with long white hair,
after an exciting chase over his
farm 11 miles west of this city
on February 3. He fired two shots
at the dog going across the field
hut failed to .stop it. Ho and his
son, Billie, got into his car and
proceeded to a point on the road
ahead ol the dog. When they got
out of the car the dog got in be
fore he could get an opportunity
to shoot it but after considerable
effort the dog was taken out and
killed. The dog’s head was for
warded to the slate laboratory
at Raleigh where a report that
the dog had hydrophobia was
promptly given.
Following the apipearance of
the account of the killing of the
dog in The Journal-Patriot, Herb
Billings, a local resident, snd-
denly remembered that a dog an
swering the description of the
one killed by Mr. Hayes had bit
ten blm here several days ago and
he lost no time in securing the
pasteur treaatmeat for prevention
of rabies, and he Is now taking
the vaccine dally.
It was also reported that a dt^gtfe’’''Mk regarding the bank,
answering the. description had bit
ten E. V. Williams and Howard
Reavis. ’’ '*
Special Youth
Crusade Service
At Airs. Chiirch
A large attendance is expected
at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of Moravian Nation
al Farm Loan Association, which
will be held ia North Wilkesboro
on Saturday, Fe.'. 25th. 10 a. m.
in the City Hall, according to O.
H. Bracey, Secretary-Treasurer.
Responses from members indicate
that the meeting may be one of
the largest in the history of the
organization, he said.
In addition to the reiKirts of
officers, giving a complete pic
ture of the operations of the as
sociation during the past year,
there will be Ulks by several
who are interested In agriculture.
A representative of the Feder
al Land Bank of Columbia will
be present at the meeting also
ion; J. B. McGlamery, Reddian
River; B. L. Johnson, Antlock;
J. Q. Elledge, Mulberry; Ivey
Steele, Wllkesboro; J. B. Foster,
Rock Creek; F.li Staley, Antioch;
J. W. Frazier. Reddies River; C.
A. Sparks, Antioch: V. R. Ham
by. Stanton; M. M. Bumgarner,
Reddies River; Rudy Nicholn,
Reddies River: W. F. Flynn, Ed
wards; J. M. Dula, Elk; W. M.
Cleary. Waliuil Crovo; Ivan
Wiles, Rock Creek: T. N. Royal,
Union; T. .N Ward. RiK-k Creek;
E. S. Wyatt, .Miillx'riy; 1>. M.
IVall--, Edwards.
Si-corid Wivk
J. L. Walters, Jobs Cabin: Jake
Woodie. Cnion: (ieorge Campbell,
Nortli Wilkesboro; .1. F. Coffey,
.MuVierry: P. A. Dancy, .North
Wilkesboro: 0. F. Ricliardsoe,
Traphill; W. F. Rash, Somers;
A. (’. Spearv, Stanton: J. t. Ad
ams. .Mulberry: John W. Brooks,
Lovelace: Walter Black. Union.
Grove; H. F. Howell. .Moravian
Falls; Grover Taylor. Mulberry;
Tyre Billings. Walnut Grove; C.
B. Call. Wilkeslioro; .M. '1'. Mas-
tin. Wilkesboro; C. K. Baeguess,
Traphill; K. A. Besliears. Jobs
Cabin; Ed. Barnett, Wilki-sboro;
Clayton Woodie, Reddies River;
Levi McCann, Edwards; H. 1.,.
Ellis, 'VN'ilkesboro; S. U. Reynolds,
North Wilkesboro.
Three Gige Tilts
On Friday Night
This City and Wilkesboro te
Be Matched In One
Big Feature
Local basketball fans will ba
treated to a triple header at tha
_ North Wilkesboro high sehMl
and" wnf be"'prepar^~“to"lnswer gymnasium Friday night, the first
any questions members may wish
sloAert loans, of $193,876,011.
The office in North Wilkesboro
'[services loans in six counties,
'In keeping with the Youth Cru- representing eleven associations.
Mr. Bracey said that every
member of (the association was
urged to be present. The associ
ation serves Wilkes county and
is capitalized at $9,645,00, and j —
has loans In force at this time, expected to be one of the largMl
e.xcluslve of Land Bank Commls- crowds of the season.
game beginning at seven o’cliKk.
North Wllkesboro and Wllkd*-
boi'o boys' te^ms. which alway*
furnish interesting contests
cause of Intense rivalry bstwmu
the schools, will furnish one MT
the three features before what hi .
side Ridlies that nre bains.. Iseld
throughout Southern' Metheidism,
the eleven,o’clo»ck' aervide Sunday
morning 'at thr North Wilkdsboro
Methodist church will-feature; the
youth pf .the clnMhi^J^ putor,
Eev. JL L. Aj^oix, ia
the youag .poditel-'a
place IB the jjeryigevand'J^,
.chib, of thi Upr^’
sel^l, 'Under' tim ,^]lhMped i _
HftMd Sherril, ‘■wUI Ae
tdwlr.
mfmrn
Mr, Bracey said.
Quartet Singing,
At Bethel Sunday
'^’fhe next sesitoh, of the-Brier
Creek Quartet epeode-
tion wUl he hrfd at Be^el. church
ire miles Bouthufeet (A Ifelkth^ on
Sunday afternoon,' Felbiiiary 1>,;
epcbfding to an annonnehtnent rp*
, ' i^ved today.
kesboro girls .against a
sextet from Kings Creek.
The last game *ill be betwe
the North Wllkealboro all stank-1'.;,
and some other outstanding team r
In this part of the state.
North Wilke^ro high jBoha^
team auffered a 21-16 ’not Muy ^4
Wednesday':.night’before a
ite Falia quint which showM
usual fonn. The Lions were baifl^
off form and are ( expected
snap hpek* into -sli^pe' thf
'MnUkesitero engagement Friday
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