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projocts were opened today by of-
delals of the state hifhway and
^ablic works coumiaeion.
WTOEN ALIJANCE
London, April IS. — Efforts
were Intensified tonlpht to pet
both Turkey and Bnlyaria. Ger
man allies In the world war. into
the Frencb-British front of na
tions. The efforts hinged upon
■ ' coneeifaatlons In Moscow, Sofia
and London, and until the resnlts
are known It Is u'Jlkely that a-
greement with Turkey alone will
be announced by Prime Minister
Chamberlain,
’^iuSINBSS BWTTER
New York, April 18.—A broad
sampling of American business
was presented to stockholders In
' 'annual meetings today bP' execu
tives of a dosen big corporations.
It revealed general Improvement
in earnings the last few months
compared with last year and an
undercurrent of hopefulness, de-
apite the war threat. For Wall
f Jteeet, preoccupied recently with
' European crisis, the flow of
reports recording Increased prof
its and Orders contrasted with the
severe decline In stock prices
since mid-March, attributed most
ly to war fear.
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VOL. XXXII, j
For Manslaughter
And Hit And Run
' William Stalajr Dies of In-
' Of
••XIT!
I/'’-'
•A-V-ii.
juries Received When
Run Oyer by Car
Coroner I. M. Myers said today
that Ralph Johnson. 21. had
waived hearing and had filled
$2,000 bond on charges of man
slaughter growing out of the
death Of William Staley, another
resident of the Roaring River
route 2 community, early Tues
day morning.
According to Johnson’s own
story of the accident, he was'
driving along a county foad Tues
day morning about two o’clock
when his car rail over Staley,
who was lying on the road. John
son said that he did not see Sta
ley until his car was within a few
feet of him and it was impossible
to stop.
After his car passed ov»r Sta
ley. Johnson told Coroner Myers
that he stopped and went hack
to see what had happened. He
said that Staley groaned and he
thought that Staley was dying.
Hecause of fear, he said he liimp-
Dr. Newell Patteraen of Eaat St. LetUa, 111., who, like, iiaseball, 1:
celebratia; Ws IMih year, received the first of the seuvenfr Bt, Louie
Cardioal opening day tickeU commemoi ating the national game’s cen- lULliCC;, umjui a «.*can.n
tennial. A Civil war veleran. he said only bad weather would keep j apertment of living
him away from the Cardlnal-Chlcago Cub opener In April,
At^jO^HaR Cort
:*•' Offic« Now Id New
BMildnig; Finidiing Is
fBern* Applied’
''.tff'-'t a-.', t ..
t Wtlkmrtmro town fathers are
planning a'de^catlon program In;
the learly fttoro for fhe new town
taaH/which is nearing completion.
The mnnicipAl V bnilding has
erected as a' WFA project
W(ti the town famiahlag about
'ono^knlf' the cost and only the
Ahlshlng touches I remain before
'all the building is ready for oc
cupancy.
,T. R. Henderson, town clerk,
has already moved his office Into
the new building.
The street floor of the building
will house the fire truck, police
office, mayor’s office, clerk's of-
lOl
>5 1
VA-rvUTlES DECLINE od hack into hla car and d''nvei
Raleigh. April L8.-Highwny from the I
aecid‘'nts this year through March
meant death for 177 persons in
North Carolina, compared with
179 through March. 193.9. the
what he thought was a dving
man in the road. After leaving
the scene, he told the coroner, he
reconsidered his action and told
le IS i.-.w.,-
' ed to have picked up the accident LnecKS
.... ij I rteorge Prcvette. a neighbor, what
xi-pre 1 B35 through last month. 9 . - -
per cent less than the 1.809 re-1 victim and carried him
corded for period summoned and he ad-
and total Injuries were ' ^Ised that Staiey he removed to
killed In
Over $20,000 Paid
Fanners in County
During Past Week
o r
to his
hours later a pliv-
With Government Soil
Program Arriving
Checks received at the office j
of County Agent Dan Holler for!
Local Man Will
Attend Dinner In
Washington Soon
J. R. Finley, secre^ry-treasur-
er of Forest Furnltute company,
: will he among the gueihta at a din-
Compliance ner meeting of many leading bus-
~ " iness men and induslrlallsts of
the Carollnas to be l^ld on May
3 at Carlton hotel in Washington,
n. C.
quarters for the fire chief.
The lower floor has a spacious
assembly room, two connecting
offices, hall, and storeroom. A
space Is also provided for Instal
lation of a vault If needed.
During the past several days
the building has been the subject
of much favorable comment from
visitors.
Here is pictured Wilkesborb’s new cky hall, on whkk urlamM
are putting the finishing touches- Town anUwritieB a deE-
cation soon. (Winston-Salem Journal photo by Paul Hbrvel I.
Allot Funds For
Erection Building
At Roaring River
In addition to the 600 business
ner=ons were r'**’ hospital. Me nieu wr.i.i.i a county Agent Dan Holler ton auumu.i lu me ..uo.ucos
March, bli p ^ than minutes after he was carried farmers this week swelled j men invited, senators and repre-
the state, lou . hospital here. I tan tn*ai nt for 193S pnm-1 aentatives of North’* and South
Tor March a year ago. and 489
injuries were received in 522 mo
tor vehicle accidents last month.
Tn March. 1938, 54 injuries re-
suited from 59-2 accidents.
the total of checks for 1938 com-1 s^ntatives of North** and South
• SEEK NIT)E RIDER
Mt. Airy, April 18.—An uni
dentified man. described as wear
ing onlv a pair of shoes and dark
* glasses. Is still at large after a
six-dav search by local police,
who sought him in connection
■with a number of att»mpted
night attacks on local women pe
destrians, it was revealed tonivht.
The nude night rider, according
to reports, has been sighted a
-tumber of times as he ran his car
#£) the. curb and abandoned It to
chase his would-be victim. This
town has been much aroused by
the continued attempted attacks
by the unknown man. believed to
be mental y unbalanced or crazed
hv alcohol or dope. First report
was made to police department
on night of April 12. Since that
time other previous attempted at
tacks have come to light. Police
have made no statements, hut it
warrant charging Johnson
manslaughter and hit and
Coroner Myers said that . p]jgj,pp with the government soil j Carolina will be preseut. Arrange
ley's body had a broken leg andjp^^jg^g^ wiikes to more than | menta for the dinner, one of 36
crushed. Tb®! 1(20.000. it was learned today, j to he held for various sections of
This amount represents about the country to allow opportunity
’■"“'one-fourth of the total expected for business mift to
was sworn out by the coj.ojj®!* foc-tbe c®uii49MBD^"otbeT checks ’
expected almost daily. land senators, are being made by
"^1 As checks arrive each farmer's. Clay Williams, bead of Rey-
jis notified by mall if his check j nolds Tobacco company, and John
I has arrived and It ’*'as explained I A. I.,aw, of Saxon Mills, Spart.tn-
fhat it is not necessar.v for any | burg, S. C., directors of the ITnlt-
farmer to call for his check until j ed States Chamber of Commerce,
he has received noticf..
Parkway. May
Be ExtendM
Into Geoi^
A project for the construction
of a vocational building at Roar
ing River was among the number
approved this week by state Na
tional Youth administration au
thorities.
The amount allotted to the
Roaring River project was $3,-
162- and employment will be giv
en to 30 NYA boys.
The project is sponsored by
'■ %oari&|; River high sebool, which
will furnish materials. The NYA
will furnish cost of labor, tools
and supervision.
fore Magistrate T C. WalTftcr-
Staley, who was S3 years
age. is survived by bis wife, Mra.
Annie Eller Staley, and four -'hil-
dren.
Funeral service was held this
morning at Reins - Sturdivant
chapel and burial w'as in *he Sta
ley cemetery.
Dr. Jester Speaks
AtKiwanis Meet
“Some Unch&ngingr Values
In a Changing World'’
Subject of Talk
Dr.
gaged
John R. Jester, who is en-
in conducting the union
evangelistic services here, was
have maae m* - the speaker at Friday’s meeting
Is known that officers have been , „f jj,,. North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
assigned duties at strategic points ;
within the city at night. So far
the search for the mysterious
nude rider have been fruitless.
LINDV IN ARMY
Washington. April 1.9. -Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, world's
- most famous flier, was called to ^
r colors today in a dramatic , values that are unchanging were:
'■-■move to insure that the X'nlted j Patriotism. Rugged Honesty,
States army shall have world | pove of Home. Love of the Snir
Attorney IV. H. McElwee ivas
program chairman and he asked
Rev. Eugene Olive to introduce
the speaker.
Dr. Jester spoke on the subject.
‘ Some Unchanging Values in a
Changing World.’’
The four things lie listed as ,
Meanwhile plans for the 1939
program are going forward rap-1
idly and efforts are 5ein,g made |
»f> have every farmer participate I
this year. Several farmers who
did not take part in 1939 have j Large
already signed for this year and
early action on the part of those
who have not signed up is de
sired, Mr. Holler said.
The farmers are continuing to
show much interest in the pur
chase of lime to use with grasses
and legumes to be grown In com
pliance with the program and
more than 30 carloads have been
ordered cooperatively. The lime
is bought under government con
tract for $2.40 per ton delivered
on the railroad tracks at North
Wilkesboro or Ronda and nay-
ment for the lime will he deduct
ed from the farmers’ earnings
under the program.
Series Services
To Close Sunday
.Crowds Hear Dr.
John R. Jester at First
Baptist Church Here
A two-weeks series of evange-,
listic services in which the Bap- made to Representative Zeb
ww . /’iMMyvItno Tlf.n A in_
Atlanta. April 18.—Proposed
extension of the Blue Ridge Park
way from Pisaah Mountain. N,
C.. near AsheTllle, to Stone Moun-
"^iin,-ft'ear here, has President
Roosevelt’s approval. Ralph
Smith. Washington correspondent
of the Atlanta Journal, wrote to
day.
Mayor W. R. Hartsfield said he
recalled the President, during a
stoD-over here en route hack to
Washington after a Warm
.S'nrnigs trip early last year,
“asked ahout Stone Mountain and
incidentally mentioned that he
thought the highway through the
Shenandoah should he extended
to Stone Mountain.’’
In a speeial dispatch. Smith
said the highway could cost about
$12,000,000. He said the Presi
dent’s anproval of the extension
Board Educaion
Rejects A(C^
. Of Comn^ee
Row Raised Over Fajilure of
Wilkesboro Committee to
Re-Elect Teachers
Apparent dismissal of six
teacher": of Wilkesboro srhool haa
caused one of the biggest school
rows in the town’s histtfry.
Petitions were clrculaltpd and
signed by about 800 sebool pa
trons and students protesting fhe
action of the Wilkesboio school
board in failing tc re-erhploy the
six teachers. ;
When the action of aj majority
of the local school board firing
I the six teachers and reqommend-
-— — I Ing new ones in their place*
Good New Tnlont Added raa.cbe^ the county boarfi of edo-
Stars of La»t Year’s Base-Tea'll®^ it was nnl Ifled la
its entirety and the matter sent
back to the school board, leaving
thp situation ex.actlv as it wa*
before the first meeting of tha
hoard was held, and as
North Wilkesboro
Team Plays Well
b^ll Nine Here
Weaver of North Carolina who in
vited him to visit the annual
rhododendron show at Asheville
about June 20. The President was
tist. Methodist and Presbyterian
congregations are joining will
close on Sunday night at the First
Baptist church.
. „ . a „ renorted as acceptin.g the invita
Dr. John R. Jester, of Green- .
i ville. S. C., a former pastor of the j '
First Baptist church in Winston-; Charles Elliott, irec ^
Salem, is leading the .services and division of nar s o ^^ il ll
doing the preaching. Good crowds partment o informa
have been in attendance at the he had unofficial informa-
services and an overflow crowd
Lions Anniver?arv
Proarram Fridav
North Wilkesboro Tdons club
will observe its first anniversary
States army shall have wona i i.ove of Home. i.ove ^
leadership In the development of n,„al. The address was g, Rilkes,
warplanes. A few days after ex- as a most challenging message to
pert*^ witnesses had told congres-j every listener and was received
slonal committees that Germany with much Interest,
was building better planes than —
the United States, the i £ H. Blaclcbum
announcement was issued by Sec
retary of War Woodring that
Lindbergh, an air corps reserve
officer, had gone on active duty , e. c w u
and would make a survey of, Bethany church Sunday for E. H.
American aviation research facill- Blackburn, 53. a resident of the
Is Taken By Death
Funeral service was held at
ning. 6:30. at Hotel Wilkes.
Judge G. H. Hastings, of Wln-
ston-.Salem. will be the speaker
and following the program there
will he a dance In the hotel ball
room. 'Wives and lady friends will
be guests of members at the
meeting.
was present at tne evening ser
vice Sunday.
A short .service is held each
morning at 9:00. lasting for 40
minutes. The evening services be
gin at 7:45.
All churches join in the invi
tation for all to attend *he re
maining services In the revival.
proved’’ for fhe highway.
He did not know the route it
would take but engineers familiar
with the topography of this sec
tion said they believed it would
I probably run north from De Kalb
county through Gwinnett. Hall.
Habersham and Rabun counties
I in Georgia and Macon countv, N.
0. Then along the edge of Jack
in deference to those who Jus-' and Transylvania counties to
tlfy a sort of a “TiCan’’ religion, j Fla^ah Mountain,
let’s just say that the people of j Federal officials said they had
today can’t stand as much of the j not been officially informed of
“old-time” sort as they used to. plans for the highway.
North Wilkesbbr'o’s baseball
team looked good In the games
last week-end. despite the fact
that It lost both Saturday and
Sunday games to Hanes Onbs
from Winston-Salem, one of the
best .semi-pro teams In northwest
ern North Carolina.
North Wilkesboro will play
Hanes Cubs in Winston-Salem on
Saturday and will play here on
Sunday afternoon. 2:20, with the
Fries, 'Va., team furnishing the
opposition.
The club this year has practi
cally all of the players which
made the team last year one of
the most successful in this part
of the state and in addition to the
veterans are several new players.
Two new ones who were out
standing last week-end were For-
hand. former Presbyterian college i
star who caught but who can also
play a good game at first base, [
and Odpii Jones, former high j
school player here who showed ”P i protest a
well in his first game. I
The hurling duties fall nrlnci-
pally to T.eslie Rhodes, former
Carolina league hurler and a na
tive of the Millers Creek com
munity. together with I,pp Mul-
lis, also a pitcher on last year’s
team.
the mat
ter stands today no teacher Is
. hired or fired.
I La°t Friday afternoon, the
■school board, composed of N. O.
iSmoak, chairman. C. A. T.owe,
■ secretary, .1. T. Prevetle. T. M.
i Foster and D. J. Itrookfthire. met
I and failed to re-employ aix of the
! teachers of the school notwith
standing their recommendation
hv T. E. Story, siipei’’ntendent
for 15 vears and over tlie protest
of Mr. Smoak and Mr. I.,iwe.
As soon ns the news of the
hoard’s action hecam* known
o-er the district, the natrons and
th„ student body voicei
j through petitions circu ated and
■niod hy nearlv 800 pa
trons and
, students. The school ho ird ohalr-
meetlng
hut when
group of
r and en-
ainst the fir
man had called anothe
for Tiiesdav afternoon
it became known that a
natrons desired to annet
ties for the army air corps. The
“lone eagle’’ reported today at
Hays community who died Satur-^
“lone eagle- -- day. Rev. Jim Bryant conducted
the office of the chief of the air the service, assisted by Rev. Mr.
corps. MaJ. Gen. Henry Arnold. Calloway.
He then departed on an Inspec-1 Surviying are three children,
IN SrHODL LUNCH ROOM*; TN WILKES
RIG PUTE LUNCH IS SERVED FOR FIVE CENTS
(By Journal-Patriot Staff Writer)
A plate lunch for a nickel—
He then departed on an Inspec- Surviying are three children, offered the school
tlon trip of resear-h centers. Lat-( Tames. Luther and Rester BUck- gt many of the schools
er he will make a onfidential re
port to General Arnold.
Ronila Sinsiiui
At Union Church
AH Gospel SineerB Invited
To Take Part In All-Day
Program April 30
Ronda Singing convention will
meet with Union church on Sun
day, April 30. according to an
announcement Issued this week
by W. H. Jones, chairman, and R.
R. Crater, secretary.
All choirs, quartets and other
gospel singers are Invited to at
tend and have a part In the sing-
lag, which will begin at 10:30 a.
(burn, all residents of the
community.
Hays
Mrs. Mary Benge
Funeral Sunday
Last rites were conducted Sun
day at Blue Ridge Baptist church
for Mrs. Ma’y Benge. 84, wife of
John Bengv''. of 'Vt’alsh. She died
Friday. Rev. D. J. Walsh conduct
ed the service.
She leaves her husband and
the following children: Jim Par
sons. Hendrix: Mrs. Joe Moore,
^Gllreath; Mrs. Rebecca Martin.
Elk Park; T. R. Parsons, Walsh;
Mrs. Granville Phillips, Irfixon;
Mrs. J. C. Wheeling, Cricket.
No man properly takes care of
his wife If he continually Informs
people that he has a “cook” at
his home to prepared meals for
him irife.
children at many of the schools
I in Wilkes county and the children
eagerly take advantage of the of
fer.
School lunch rooms were estab
lished this year more or less as
an experiment, “noble in motive
and far reaching in purpose, but
unlike prohibition, the lunchroom
program has been an astounding
success.
We say astounding, because it
is remarkable how much good
food the children are belng,served
for a nickel each. The establish
ments are operated by the schools
and the only outside help comes
from the WPA and in some cases,
the NYA, which furnish the labor.
Wilkesboro school has the larg
est lunchroom and Is consequent
ly used In this article to> give
some i4sB ‘.irhgt has been done
er schools in; Wilkes.
Here is what this reporter
found one day when he ate Innch
with 217 students and teachers
and help in sufficient numbers to
run the total close to the 250
mark:
'The students who did not have
classes at that time began pour
The children are served cafe
teria style. They march by the
food counter, where the eats pre
pared In the kitchen are kept hot
over burners, select what they
want, pay the cashier and find
places at several long tables.
It Is interesting to see a large
group of hearty youngsters put
Ing into the lunch room (two away the food in such amicable
basement rooms which were used j surroundings and It is also inter-
fnr classrooms last year before i eating to see the various tastes In
the new building was completed ] evidence hy what they select to
at 11:30 o’clock and there was a
steady stream of lunchers for the
next hour and a half.
What they served us that day
on a plate consisted of snap
beans, macaroni and cheesC, slaw,
apple sauce, biscuit and corn
bread—all in liberal quantities
and of good quality, too. That
plate cost a nickel and would put
some restaurant 35 or 40 cent
plates to shame In comparison. A
1 owe r big eMce of pie cost a sioksL^si- — . — — t .u-
there, at ‘Millers Creek. Mount tra and a gla«t salad xaa A
Pleaunt, jU^ag River, Motavl-1 nickel. ■‘A--'fa»eriwni DniMhjroom.fe-», «bt.-
aa Falk and many ot the cpnid E
eat.
That little girl just in front of
us whom we later learned was
the senior class valedictorian with
a four-year average of near 95,
selected a salad- Two little girls
On our left were eating a howl ^
soup with crackers and a ganp
ling youth who was a member of
the baseball team was eating »
plate liBch and Pif. The lx>y ov*iP'
on onr right live# within a fe*
Sinsfinff April 20
AtGos^Church
Sonthside 6in»ing Associ
ation Anticipnting Suc
cessful Meeting
protest
ine of the six iesohers Messrs.
Prevette. BrooVshlre afd Foster
faMf-xl to attend.
However. th„ nafrnni appoint
ed a committee composed of Mrs.
I,. P n”la, Mrs. n.[ OgiMe,
members of the Pareijt-Teacher
Association, and Dr. Haijlhal Unn-
can. noted educato'f. and author.
This committee itier fith the
I hoard Vfednesdav afternoon bnt
I the board failed to re-^lect the
six ousted teachers.
The six teachers not Iprigjnally
r#>-elected are MlweMTUtMlc. Tut
tle, Tjishmit. MelvilioJ ‘ Aikers,
and Mrs. Robert HfW
. N, C. Smoak. rhalrmjin df ths
. ! school hoard, said late sodgv^tbat
Attorney F. 7. McDuffie, chair-|h„ will call
man of the Southalde Singing as- , the .':^^2?rt 0^ nert
sociation in Wilkes, has announc-: week or the fW T>hrt of p rt
ed that the next singing will he i week for the nuriwye-^if
hJld on Sunday. April 30, at Go-; ing teachers for the n^xt school
shen Baptist church, beginning at ^ year. '
ten o’clock. • ' ' II . « J .
Following devotional exercises ;
classes will assemble for sing.ng j l7„«*.waT
and at noon dinner will be served t uneraf .J D^aay
picnic style. The afternoon pro-' wiw ifeiA
gram will consist mainly of sing- Funeral Mrvfce ffJJ-
, . Thursday at Double Crekk^ehn^k
"^The chairman said that I
singing classes, quartets and oth- , Moxley who died Wedn^y.
ere interested In Gospel music are [Rev. L. E. Sparks was in chsrgn
Inrlted to attend. ■ j**® '*8t rites.
I Surviving are five bfi^ers.
(
John Adams. Mokley; Jsilp’'A#-
Lnde„ Atf-
Af. lAwig School ams, Maryland; Grover Adams,
Sparta; Bek*Adams, Abshers.
' . .
A,,special tlhimisafi^ dtsplay,
sl^hwl onV^nerfa7'nrght:^^i[9tift «n hs'l
Play WeHne$dav _lams, Winston-Salem:
A play entitled "Mary’s Castle
In the Air’’ will he given at Lewis
W*uOOI Ufl TV.e^ii*ooaa»»J ^ • r I « mw faa A/Wk
k3> alKkt o'cloek. The-public has j the
^ht)
WmiEt
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