North Carolina Newspapers

.-I lAL-PATRIOT HASs.BliizE6 - .:v T8jgj»- • ■ j Hi iteNewsOf Sitafe-iMoii ToM Br*^ OHIO FLOODING Cincinnati, O., April 16.—i Hood” swept a section of the Ohio, West Virginia and Ken tucky; one drowning was report ed; many roads were blocked; and more rain was forecast. The weather bureau issued flood warnings from the mouth of the Kanawha river in We.st Virginia to Carrollton. Ky.. with a crest of 55 to 58 feet, and higher if rains continue. wiT’**' VOL. XXXTI. NO. 70 Publi8h€d MoBd»yhint) 1 huwdav» %NnF‘’ ‘ kFHHORO: >f ir:i‘- -' [«0boir BT ot I oitb Kl MDter at Ntnrtbird Jio r:- JJiK. III! mil mmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmmim 17, ti.60 Bf THF 8TAm~#8.W out OjF lire fTA'r • ' -imii I -I «m- ai FWHTING FIERCE SiHkitghal, April 16.—See-saw fightilfk was in progress on Chi na’s Inajor war fronts today with both sides apparently paying cost ly tolls for inconsenuential gains. Chinese reported advances in a k-old offensive against Kai- i ^feng. Honan province capital. Japanese countered that the op position was t^rpWtt.'.baCk else where along a l.Sf^mile line '"Wttnltng through China from Shansi province, north of the Yel low River, to the South China coast. Casualties were reported to be heavy. ' TRANSIENT KILLED Lexington, April 16.—Identi- led by papers in bis possession as John K. Vineyard, 28. a trans ient, a white man found beside Southern Railway tracks here early today died in a local hos pital this afternoon. An identifi cation card requested that Mrs. H. T ?chmidt. Eureka, falif.. he State’s iveuresentatives At World’s i Fail Are ToM of The Resources aud i Advantages In The ’State of Wilkes’j Civic Leaders Meet Youngr People To Repre sent StAl« With Exhibit; Judge Finley And J. G. Hackett Speak The attendant* Mjected to man ; few of th* many attractive isset* North Carolina’s Whiblt at the of our covnty. With about 40,0001 i ~ r., »k. World's Pair spent a short time ! inhabitant*., Wtlhes county i*,»He) ® by ar tM i_ rt.4- ; morning i taTgest county in the western b >lfM*J'***t. npwoet ^. voce* ever cw - - a-Nofth WilVesboro election t "ft Mayor R- T*^McNi^l csndidatas for eowhaiaAti two mcHbera.of the fmisent bomid wer* nomtnnted in North WHknn;' boro’s primary held today (Mon- Iday). A total of 1,510 people cast in tbia city Saturday gathering information about North WllkesMWilii-ilJd Wilkes county to be used at the (air. The group. conslOtiif Of four young men and four young ladies of the atatO; with 725 s4ttar»|>» miles. Hiara are 5,680 (arms in Wilkes county and every (arm _ produces poultry and milk cows. ' The tax books of the state, a few years ago, showed that Wilkes county had more milk cows in 'it than any other rural county In the State—in fact, It was exceed ed only by the counties of Guil ford. Mecklenburg and Buncombe. "One poultry man In the coun ty has 32,000 chickens and ships thousands of eggs every day to northern hotels—The Southern were greeted bt elTle leaders at Hotel Wilkes artd in addition to hearing oral accounta about the city and- county, were presented with litel-ature setting out the In dustrial. agriculturhl and scenic advantages of this immediate part of the state. Judge T. B.‘Plnley addressed the group, telliiig many intere.st- ing facts about Wilkes county ] Railway reports that more poul- and gave to each of the attend- try is shipped from North Wll- notffi'‘d in ca.se of accident and j ants a copy of his address. t kesboro than my other point on police late today wired her. Cards j. 0. Hackett. a state highway |ifs entire system, except Morris- and a marked road map indicat- commissioner, spoke briefly about | town. Tenn. ed the man had wandered across j the citizenship of North Wllkns- the nation from Stockton. Calif, ( boro and Wilkes county.- pointing rhi f W. R. Lanninc. of the I.ex-jout that Wilkes county had ington police, stated that natnr-' throughout its history furnished leaders in government and indus try in many high capacities and assuring t h e delegation that Wilkes county offers genuine ho.s- pitality and friendship to visi tors and ptmple wno came here to live, work or go Into business. The address of .Tndge Finley before the attendants follows: "It is a great pleasure to wel- al ev'dence indicated the man had Vieen seated on a crosstle and was struck hy a southbound freight. .TUSTU'E SWORN IN Washington, .\pril 16—Wil liam 0. Douglas, who gained a na tional reputation as a regulator of stock exchanges, will he swam in tomorrow as the youngest Su preme Court justice in 127 years, jeome to our county such dis The 40-year-old chairman of the , tinguished visitors as we have to- "Seouritles Commission will start j day. You know we have ll mera- his Judicial career hy taking , bers in the Housji jjf_Re£resenta- oaths to support the Constitution ^ tives and two in the Senate, rep- and to administer justice impar- j resentin.g the whole State of tially. Clad in the traditional | North Carolina at Washington— black rohe. he will march into the j hut you here tc^’ey represent the court room at noon with his eight; entire state, in i‘c greatest sc-ien- colleagues and swear with up raised right hand to give justice to everyone. "But we are eapecially blessed i with the finest apples grown anv- ‘ where. In the year of 1937 this .county produced 2.59.090 hushels 'of »i«)1p8. Our apples have taken ] prt miums in the fairs ot many j different state-s. and distrkl fairs I for their exceptionally fine flavor. I But the greatest of these tri- I umphs was at Asheville several •years ago, where premiums The vote, *8 shown by the Ub- aUtion cotgleted *t two-thivty a. m„ Tnesitey moming;, wws as fol lows: FOR bIaYOR R. T. McNid, 845. R. R. ReiitB, 653. FOR .COMMKSIONERS Ralph Onnean, 878. W. K. Sturdivant. 793. Ilo.vie M. Hutchens, 782. J. B. Carter, 763, A. G. Finley, 726. T. S. Kenerly. 721. J. K. Caudill, 721. S. \. Tomlin-son, 715. K. P. Casey, 691. F. P. Blair, Jr., 625. Despite the rain voters went steadily all day into the city hall, which was the votlpg r-.tee in the p'rimary. ’There waa li' hours of voting, from seven a. m. until the polls closed at seven p. m. and election officials began the taboripns task of counting and tsbnlating the largMt vote in thw blatory of municipal eloettona here. ‘ " It was avident that there w'ontd be no landslide throughout the day as both the present officers and the new ticket had plenty of workers on the streets and there was no scarcity of cars to haul in the voters. The primary was the first contest in municliwl elections here since 1931 when Judge J. i Roussesu was elected mayor a- long with a new board of city commissioners. R. T. McNiel suc ceeded Mr. Ronssean aa--mayor by appointment when he was elected superior court judge and had been re-elected twice without op position, along with the commis sioners. . . .. Gob wMuars b HeaMi Contest Chosen Sativday Kinc Aa4 HcsiKlk For Ceot^ B«- An- Boineod'Soon Werid’s Fair Wants Scenic Post' Cards; North Carolina Day Planned $300.00, $200i.00 and $100.00 and less for apples exhibited by counties. Tu'enty-nine conntioR in western North Carolina entered the contest. Wilkes county apples- won over them all and our exhib itors brought home the eipUal prize of $300.06. In (act this county has such J. B. McCoy, chairman of the Governor’s Hospitality commit- , tee for Wilkes county, ha.s receiv- ofied the following communication nf interest relative to publicity materials a.hout North Wilkes- boro and Wilkes county to bo STTPORT F. D. R, Washington, .\pril 16. --.Mmost tho whole of the western hemis- phere reinforced tonight Presi- ^tiejit Roosevelt’s appeal for peace to'Hltler and Mnssotini. The state department made public raessa.ges of appeal and adherence to Mr. Rooeevelt’s Saturday statement from 17 countries.-\o renly had yet been received from Germany and Italy. State officials appeared heartened. However, hy the en thusiastic applause from this hemisphere. Only four western nations bad not been heard from tonight, and there were indica tions messages from them would arrive tomorrow. a fine reputation for apple pro duction that the state has located tific art and industrial congress jthe county an experiment sta- of the world at New York this 'i"" '‘"‘I*’’' ‘I*® anpervision of a competent expert to aid in the ^‘*"We are proud to have yon lu I produation and further deveiop- our little city and to tell you a (Continued on page four) Apple Bloom Is At Its Height Many Visitor* Expected To Brushies This Week To See Orchards Lions To Observe 1 s t Anniversary Judge Hasting* To' Speak at Ladies Night of Club Here Friday Development at Raleigh for any information about this State, etc. All appropriations wlB be pnt into yonr own cards and no part of It goes to the World’s Fair Commission. Yet the cards must jjQtj, Chnrch and Paul he printed by the World’s Fair used in connection with North j Commission as a matter of nni- Carolina’s exhibit at the New formlty. and in order to get more York World’s fair and also ask-' cards by buying in large quantl- iiig a yonng ledr as sponsor for ties. city and county in the North Car olina day on June 19. Excerpts from the communlca- ,nnder' this arrangement We contact 5 people for every visitor to b(ir ExbilA because we give Year’s Wtirk Wifl EDili}[| ftMay On Saturday the winners in the ^he Wilkes doiinty 4-H clnb health contest in WllkiW gniy two exceptiewa county were selected for each of «ju close the term on Friday, the eight cluba,{n tee county. lApHl 21. i- The conteetants were examined j only two schools •which arw by Dr. A. J. Eller, health officer, behind the unlfonw coitnty seh*- Hnbbard.of the Wll- two elei^entAry aoKs. iwfBoepital. Austin and Pleasant HRI, ▼>*•!» Within a few days the county wlpsera, a boy and a girl, will'- be aiin;iBiiced and will, be> crowped King and Queen of health to rep resent Wilkes is A ‘ district con- fest'which will be held In Greens boro on April' 27, and if success- were dosed for two weeiks rereat- ly tfecaufle of a threatened epidem- io of measles. I Millers Creek, Mount Pleasant, Mountain "View, Ronds .in'i Roar ing River high schools fill have Doro on April zi, ana ii buccobb- ^ I..... .ut.rr.'-';: .11 follow. winners in the individual clubs were as follows: Mulberry. 'Vir ginia Adams and R. V. Hayes; Ronda, Beatrice Scott, Dean Par- due and Lonnie Somers; Fergu son, Lena Broyhtll: Mt. Pleasant, Gay Dell Ellis and James Wooten; Milters Creek. Eda Mae Crysel and Odell Whittington: Wilkes day night. Traphlll finals will b* on Monday night and Wllkea- boro’s graduating progn m will bw on Tuesday night, at -which time Dr. P. H. Owyn. dean of educatioa St Davidison College, will deliver tho address and dlplomiis will b* awarded to a class of pbout 8# seniors. ' The school term now fomins to teo,T;;;ini.'"i7.™7nd ci„d. .jf, Robinson; Mountain View, Mary Ed Chnrch: Traphlll, not represented. Sdiool%^ At IvKCcrjIi “ 11 iyU4 111x3 VV*xi as4 Mil ' VS* tion which should prove to be of * the paclt of 5 cards to every white interest to people interested in adult who registers. The apple orchards in Wilkes co-inty. particularly in the Broshy mountains, heginnina today and continuina through the next week will he at the height of their beauty and will be a renter of in terest for nature it'.ers. The principal apple section, now clothed in a've-ipspiring scenes of pink .and white flowers, is in the Brushy mountains and ,11-1 y lie reached from Wilkeshoro over the Oakwonds county road fatalities and hy highway 16 between Mora- W, L. ivian F.alts and Taylorsville. STORMS KILT M.^NY Haynesville. I,a.. April 16. - Eleven persona were reported killed and more than 70 injured hy tornadic winds -which swept tl^rough Texa.s. T.ouisiana and Arkansa.s last night and today. Tire heaviest toll in was in this city where Kendrick. newspaper reporter, j The apple blossom season has listed six dead and 24 injured hy [again revived the talk of an apple a tornado which swept through blossom festival for Wilkes and it here this afternoon. blowing i.s expected that plans for such an down houses and causing probab- .event will be shaped ..before an- Iv $100,000 damage. At Pipe other spring rolls around. Creek. Bandera county. Texas, j - - tlM>ee persons were killed outright ! last night and eight were injured ‘ when a tornado swept a path OVER-BOOTED ANGLER four miles long through the farm ing community there. MONROE hTs FIRE Monroe. April 16.—^A spectacu lar $100,000 fire swe.pt do-*'n-. town Monroe before dawn today. Thirty firemen, with the aid of p 210 negro CCC boys, battled for p hours to bring the blaze under, control. ^ Fanned by^ a steady northeast breeze’, the' fire threw sparks over an area of "ight blocks and for a time the entire business area waa threatened. The f(rf_no one knew how it start ed—quickly destroved a stable to .the rear of the block-long Brewer Bandars Mule company barn. The iblaze then leaped to the barn iitself. the State theatre building ion South Main Street, three negro Minuses, a negro cafe, and an old frame church used for storage. mi M A DYEINQ^HELP vSf household Wflshgr is -ideal fv ifc'cing curtains, draperies and etner articles m^e' ‘of fabrics thrt cafi'he colotW ’^ith’ tinte lha; d^'^noT requHe:boilinC,H Vstg ; r„v can let the w- sorticles are s washeji rfuvjunt^i, $b# uilficlehtls’' and eVBftr>* ■"js ■♦'V -'5. . Oi^ng of i.$he state -troaF seasoSlV^AprR' 1, -AdiitLicatdk j4Ag.Albert Rtglxih aaprepafed. Nst wwe oM.fer .ttmir first Bab, the over- 'b^tek-aalk^'^agiit this prise near North Wilketjboro TJonx Clnb will ohser-i’e its first anniversary on Friday evening of this -week with Ladies' Night. ,, The meeting will begin ? Ho tel Wilkes at 6:30 and a roo=t in- teroeting program has been plann ed, featuring an address hy Judge Hastings, a widely known speaker from Winston-Salem. During the one year of Its his tory the. club has been very ac- publicizing advantages of this sec tion follow: Every county, city and town in the State is asked to appropriate $100.00 or less, minimum $2.5.00. for the printing of appropriate cards descriptive of .vour locality. These cards are to be out up in packs of 5 each, together with other cards addressed to the De partment of Conservation and Development, with the descrlp- It is requeated that your check for the amount of monej' you wish to appropriate for the printing of yonr own cards, be received by April 22. V. C. Day At World's Fair We are also asking the coope Senior Play To Be Given On Saturday Night; Gradu ation Monday Night tlotial authorities to be! the most sucwsBfnl year in the IJistory of Wilkes nchooLs. Commenting on th© school year, C. B. Eller, connty superintendent of schools, said today that tk* term had experienced a mlnlmn* of-tOv^rruotloDs in schedule or friction which works to the detri ment of school affairs; This year there ■were ilo ssrloua epidemics pf disease, no onusual- ly severe weather and roads did not become impassable. The enrollment for the terra set The graduating exercises at g ne-w record of more than 10.00* ' 'Traphlll high school will he held studenU and the final report ia -on Monday at the schools. expected to show that the total IT a,T> o OT, TOO...,. , ' learned here todav. The school enrolled -was far in excess of tea ration o7aTNoTth Carolina cUi- has enjoyed a good year and a number for any previous year, sens particularly Civic Clubs, larger than average class will re- North Wilkeshoro clfv schools. Coiinlv Commissioner". City and ceive high school diplomas. ' operating as a city unit und« Town Officials in observing North I Announcement has also been ^ spMiai charter, has a nine-moatk , ,v .. . - r-..rnHna Dav at the World’s Fair made of the senior play, to be (term and consequently a later r7r'.rr.,'i. “;r,rr,"o',ntru™" have for free distribution and In- We are asking each city, town structlons to the recipient of the and county in the State to iVenrT- card. to fill in and mail the card a young lady sponsor. 16 to the Department of Conserva- of aee or older, frt represent their 1 full' selected and is w ii , tinn and Development for any in-; nnrticular Vocality at the World’s formation desired on the subject. . Fair. We are also asking e.-tch citv. town and connty to select a sec youth at their best.,An .,i y color bearer—a' young man of able evening is assured to all. and lb js expected that a large num'ber of members will bp pres ent with wives and lady friends as .guests to celebrate the occajs- ion. i and it will he mailed to them at their home address. The scenic postcard would pro vide on the scenic side, brief in formation about the particular town or county which the view represented with instructions to write to the Chamber of Com merce or Mayor for further in- school age.- these young ladies. the announcement said. ...... — formation about the County or tive in carrying out civic Projects,j^e reverse side 1,. t>,o, o ioT»o .address Slide, there will he a short space for correspondence with printed, material urging the recipient of the'cArd to -be sure and visit -thetNofth Carolina Ex hibit when they come to !the World’s Fair and to write the De partment of Conservation jind To Hold Singing | At Ml Pleasant On Fifth Sunday; Judge Hayes Will Speak In' Forenoon Program and young men to participate in| ^ •- | the North Carolina Day urogram.' Biicdad. Anril : — A three-year ^ The North Carolina Dav pro-,old boy becameMlie king of Trap ram contemplates a parade at 4'and the youngest monarch in the I i Seventeen Grads At Roaring River District Commencement Fri day; High School Final* Friday Night o’clock in;New York City at which time approximately 100 North Carolina airplanes will fly over the City. : Cornmnnities and comities are asked to send an official delega tion of their connty or town and they are to take part in the pa rade. All schools. Colleges and miform bodies are invited to send their band! drum or bugle- (Continued on.page eight) world with the death of his fath er. King GhazCl. in an aiitomo- i>;in accident today. The sucres ,‘ion was announced by the coun cil of ministers as thousands of Arabs gathered before the royal "palace of flowers’’ and heat their breasts in mourning for the 27-year-old sportsman - monarch who crashed his swift automobile into an electric light pole at 12:40 a. m. , Biggest Gold Shipment Arrives in New York Next session of the Blue Ridge Singing^ Association will he held with Mount Pleasant Baptist | church on 9’unday, April 30th. ac cording to an’announcement hy J. C. McNeill, ohalrman, The meeting will open at ten "’clock with devotional hy Rev. A. E Watts, pastor. Mrs, Llovfl Hen drix will deliver the hddrtiss of welcome and response wiljhe hy ■T A. Eller. Classes will af4emhle fdr singing at 10:30. at (which time there -will he an address, by fudie Jphnson J. Hayes, j ! .. Following the noon hour when liinch will he eaten on the jehttreh "roun^is, . the afternoon program will cqnsist mainly of singing tind ■ hP .aihgini^Vlaases, quartets hud i\render gospel mltsic he present and take irograms. both mprn- ■noon. '■ oMfeVs invl •^art Inj fug. am tifta ijist.^0 bad that the ctolor and the “tendern^s” ^not permit ojne’f wearing heavy hose, at leasi iisaSs ^ 'v.i* It?. .. ^ ... •--;,.v..T V .-: i ; fiiVf't. -fl'i iihI*"W9,(Hfc.W rf ioifi whfeh was bronght lo the U; to be tliv Wgrtisfavir csr^jlrtfia ■k--- -Ti;-; Roaring River high school will com'^lcte .a good year' of school on Friday night. April 21, when diplomas of high schooi gradu ation arc presented to a class of seventeen seniors. The class nfgkt exercises wll! he- given In donpec- tion with graduation and presen tation of diplomas. The district commencement will be held on Friday morning. An interesting program has been planned for the occasion. i_s,— ' p y' Dr. Marshall ' To Atlanta Chiawh Dr. Marshall L; Mo«.e. widely '-T,n»-n evangelist' who l'lliioWTI where ho condneted atf evan- ”-e!(ctic campaign spVdral -yhara sVo ha** pcce-nted 'he pMtorSt* of Tabernacle Bap4ist churitb-, in Atlanta. Ga. ^ : ■ Dr. ^fnt’. whn«et hntnh ha#’we« *n Anderson. ?, ft., Is W eon-*• tea late Marshall Mott, who wn^ ir*ny vears 970 solicitor of‘this’^ittlrict ihd’made fils fi'OttiOlh 'WinteSlter*. A D. D. degree-'..'wak .reosatly conferred on the ■ svajisrlist by . iFurman University.' -;•' A irtl \r K-iws'' disjfiiclii«.‘‘frdtk?^^eirt -'srrv the new# that i oai