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'Ttgorous and roeal objection to
third term movement inan$;n-
i^^rated some weeks ago in behalf
ot President Roosevelt.
NEW PATROL GARB
Ralkgh, Jnljr 21.—The divis
ion of pnruhase and contract to-
^ay bought new, swanky uni
forms for North Carolina’s hlgh-
Of»y patrol—uniforms designed to
distinguish the officers from bus
drivers. In the past, an official
of the division said, patrolmen
sometimes were mistaken for bus
drivers, and vice verse. This oc-
^^W^ionally led to a situation which
^tRs embarrassing for the
bus
driver, the patrolman and the
persons who did the mistaking.
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Satur&y Morning
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Seven-Ye«r Convict Who Eiiiri
caped From Kenanswille
la Captured Here
NEED NEUTRALITY ACT
Hyde Park. N. Y.. July 21.—
President Roosevelt said today
^hat from every canltal, in Eiir-
pe there was evidence of prep-
ations for an eventuality that
vas believed to be fairly close,
asserting at the seme time that
business would suffer from Con
gress failure to act on neutrality
legislation at this session. He
added that it should be empha
sized. however, that there were
no allegations of probabilities of
trouble abroad, only statements
of possibilities.
Here is pictur^ die new club house which wm ruc^ly
adjacent to OTrogdon memorial park as a WPA, project with the
North Wilkesboro Woman’s clUha as spo^r. An open houM
was given on Friday afternoon and night and many called tc see
the new building.
A man who said his name«
Jake King and further told poflcC
that he ti^us an escaped comrii)^
was arrested early Saturd^
morning here.
Policeman Keller Slim- madef'
.the arrest. King was seated ln~
Ian automobile and was Intoxicate I
I ed when approached by the o^^
fleer
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He talked readily, telling the
] noUceman that his home was naan?
Winston-Salem and that he escap-
Open House Friday In Observance Of
Opening North W^esboro Woman’s
Club Community Bldg.; Many Attend
pd on July 10 from the prison
camp at Kenansvllle, where he'
was serving a seven-year sentence
for highway robbery, which he
received in court at Winston-Sal
em.
j Questioned later by Police
I Chief J. B. Walker. King said,
that he bad stolen the car in
I which he was riding, a 1934
Everett Felts
Died On Saturday
Of Wiik*
Ford coach, in Wliiston-S'alem on
boros Call Friday, July 14, and that on the
To Club House , same night had stolen license
At Trogdon Park ] plates from a car in Yadklnville.
^ j Continuing to tell of his ex-,
llv MI.SS >I.-\MIK sOCKWKIJ> | plnits, he said that he had broken
ACCIDENTS DECLINE
Raleigh, July 21.—The first
half of 1939 brought 396 motor
vehicle fatalities In this state and
3,OSS injured, whereas the same
period last year saw 383 highway
deaths and 3.6 20 injuries. Direc
tor Ronald Hocutt of the highway
safety division, in releasinv the'ters.
figures today, said that total ac-
'cidents dropped from 3.718
^‘through June last year to 3.346
from January, 1989, to June
1939. He said he was encouraged
in the accident decrease and that
"If this decrease can be con-
—rinued, a decrease In fafjMMies is
bouml to follov.”
E-'erett Felts. 40. for manv
years an employe of P- ^ | ^ jn the Koarlng River
Brovn's lumber plant here, died | An important event in the his-1 Wilkes, where he
Saturday at his home at Me- tor>' of the North Wilkesboro clothing.' cigar-
Grady. Funeral service was held Woman’s club was Friday when automobile tools and a lew
Sunday, two p. m„ at Cain Creek the members of the Senior and
church. |.Junior clubs entertained at « jn the car.
Mrs., charming tea to celebrate the
Here is pictured part of 979 gallons of liqnor which Sheriff C. >T.
Dcughton and deputies poured into the gutter on the street between
the courthouse and jail in Wilkesboro Thursday. The liquor was an
ao urauiation from seizures by the sheriff and deputies during the
past several weeks. 'The liquor was in 31 five-gallon cans) and 140
cases of fruit jars. The jars were emptied and turned over to t}\e
welfare department fer distribution to needy families. Officers in
wcnaie UC|g«l iUlVllt t-WI. UAShlJUUVaVU W
the picture left to right are: Homer Brookshire, deputy andi game
1-k a-. rk.n.«.e»l.0,n.n ThAMS^wT onsl'
Lite f/IVLUlC Id t. Ilglliv V..........-w, t gl
protector. Deputy Oscar Felts, Sheriff Doughton, Deputy and Jailor
R. C. Jennings. —Photo by courtesy Winston-Salem Journal.
Surviving are his wife
Delia .\bsher Felts, five children, opening of the new clubhouse
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John ^-n-hich has been recently complec-
Felts, six brothers apd three sis-
H.LTCH BILL PASSED
Washington, July 21. — The
Hatch bill barring federal em-
^ ployes from politics was indorsed
* finally by the senate today and
Placements Gain
At NCSES Office
During Past" Year
Figures for Past Fiscal Year
556 Above Those For
Previous Year
iiuaiij u.i I.IIV- , Plafeements by the Nor.th Wll-
aped to the White House after its , keshoro branch of the state em-
author. Senator Hatch, Democrat, j pioyment service for the fiscal
V New Mexico, had pounded Ms. year which ended June 30 snowed
desk and warned against what he a gain of 556 over the preceding
called a movement to bury it in
the ‘‘graveyard’’ of a conference
mjmimittee. There was no word
whether President Roosevelt
■would sign or veto it. -After the
senate first passed it weeks ago.
Mr. Roosevelt criticized it as bad
ly drafted. The house judiciary
year, fiigures released today by
B. G. Gentry, manager, today
showed.
During the past year the serv
ice placed a total of 3.677 on
jobs as compared with 3,121
during the preceding year.
Of the 3,677, 2,178 were prl-
committee subsequently revamp-| vate placements and 1.499 were
ed it but its backers induced the | public.
house in a memorable struggle Rpiristrations during the year
last night to restore ■what they showed a gain of about 600 but
termed its "teeth.” 1 during the last few months of
'the fiscal year placements ex
I Ilf iiat-ai vcoi
WANTS VOWS annulled .ceeded new registrations,
Manteo. July 21.— -A hearing Registrations in the year ended
on a habeas corpus proceeding is 3P 1938. were 4,828 as
■compared with 4.227 during the
t.
slated to he held by Judge C.
Everett Tho.npson in Elizabeth
City Saturday morning at 10 o -
clock to separat‘d 14-vear-old A1-
a Hughes Oard—a bride of 20
■;iys—from her IT-vnar-o'd hus
band. Johnnie .Alvin Hartley.
Ftsherm.an Alfred B. Gard, father
of the girl, secured the order
from Judge Q- K. Nimmocks
Thursday for the return of the
girl to hor home, but she could
not be found when Deputy Sher
iff Ben Dixon McNeill sought to
carry out the order. The couple
married July 1 in Suffolk, and
the father. In his petition for an
nulment of the ceremony, alleges
the license was “wrongfully, un
lawfully and fraudulently ob
tained,” charges that the hus
band gave the girl’s age as 21
and his age as 22 in order to se
cure the license to wed. In a case
now pending in Dare county re
corder’s court, the youth charges
Oard with beating the girl "with
• belt in an attempt to force her
|o learo him.
Death Row Hears
‘And Angels Sing*
By Torch Singer
Raleigh, July 20.—Prisoners
on "death row” at state’s prison
oeldom see visitors e^ept minis-
lers. relatives, newsmen.
'friends and officials.
Todav Dorothy Long, attrac
tive torch singer appearing here
vrith a show, sang “And the Ang-
8lng" .for the 1« men under
le tit death
ed as a WPA project. The hour®
of tea were from 4: no to 6 in
the afternoon, and from 7:30 to
10 in the evening, and during
this time a large number of the
-citizens of the two 'Wilkesboros
called to see the new building
and to congratulate the club
members upon their accomplish
ment.
The lot, upon which the build
ing is located and donated to the
club by Mrs. C. F. Sherrill, of
Shelby, in memory of her broth
er. W. F. Trogdon. a pioneer citi
zen of the town and often refer
red to as founder of North Wll-
kesboro. has been develoned into
a heaiitiful park by the club and
is named the Trogdon Memoiial
Fark. Mrs. Sherrill and her
daiiehtrr. Miss Oliie Sherrill,
both of Shelby, and Mrs. Henry
Reynolds, of Greensboro, a char
ter member of the club, were a-
mong the out of town visitors
present for the celebration.
The spacious reception room,
in which each end is a huge stone
fireplace, was artistically deco
rated in gorgeous gladioli, with
red and white being the predom
inating color. In the dining room
the tea table was spread with a
white lace cloth and centered
with a lovely bowl of cut flow
ers.
Miss Lois Scioggs presided at
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Police Chief J. E. talker on
Saturday checked King’s story and
found it remarkably in accord with
the facts and with but few varia
tions.
Winston-Salem officers came
here on Saturday afternoon and
Fines In Conspiracy Cases Total Near
$14,000; Penitentiary and Reformatory
Sentences Amount To 348 Months
Judge Johnson J. Hayes
The four conspiracy cases in
here ^ Friday completed the task of which about 75 defendants were p,ained. are expected to maKO or-
camed him back there to ans e sentences to many convicted or submitted resulted jp^ts to secure private employ-
hirlncr from work of an undercover a- ^ a^t* *.
further charts. j 1.1, ,. i,- Wilkes people convicted
Officers there learned that his
vTToc r.lfliido Fidward . . .. . ,
real name was Claude Edward ^,0,3,0 the federal 11-
King but ;«.t he waa familiarly
known as Jake. ...
King admitted under further
questioning that he had broken in
to two stores in Yadkin and a
like number in Wilkes.
It ■was intimated that King will
be tried in Winston-Salem on the
charge of stealing an automobile
and may later face the charts of
breaking into the stores, all in ad
dition to the more than four years
awaiting him on his former sen
tence.
during from work of an undercover a
con-1 gent working in Wilkes out of
the Charlotte office of the >aJco-
quor tax laws. hoi tax unit last year.
The fines and pen terms given Tlie criminal docket at Wll-
Friday brought the total of fines ^ kesboro was practically cleared
given defendants In the four during the two-weeks special
cases to $13,625 and penitentiary term.
and reformatory time to 348 j on Friday Judge Hayes passed
months. [sentence on a number of liquor
John Robert Byrd received the,law offenders who had been con-
heeviest fine Friday, $750, andjvicted or who had entered pleas
was placed on probation three in cases tried during the last
years. Jiillns Johnson was fined week of the special term. Sen-
12 50 ar.d given three years pro- tences were as follows:
Almost 20 Fw Vj,
Employed I® ___
Are Cst Oft ^
610 IN THIS AR^
May Get Biick On Afti^ 30
Days IfiTlMy Do Not
Find Other Work L t
A total of approximate^ tl§
men working o'ii''WPA' I*, tUi'
area have been «UalrtCX^|rB4tf,
provisions of the new law maK^
Ing discharge antomatlc wkeo. #
worker has been in conftnnona
employment of 'WPA for '!•
months, C. M. Crntchfield, area
engineer, said here today... . '
Automatic discharges la.'WIlkea
during the past three days have
totaled about 210 men and 21
women, Mr. Crutchfield said.
The number represent* about
20 per cent of the WPA mala .
workers in Wilkes.
While figures on women work
ers were not immediately avail
able today, Mr. Crutchfield gaw
the following approximate totals
of men automatically discharged
from 'WPA in the other connties
in this area: Alexander, 27; Al
leghany, 3; Ashe, 191; Avery,
39; Caldwell, 65; Iredell, 54;
Watauga, 90.
Mr. Crutchfield explained that
under the law the process of 1»-
Buing discharge notices to work
ers who have been in contlnuons
WPA employment for 18 months
will continue at each pay per
iod.
Workers “so discharged, he ex
plained, are expected to make ef-
Mrs. A, A. Finley
Died Here Sunday
Was Member Widely Promi
nent Family; Funeral At
Home Tuesday Morning
previous year.
Registrations during the past
vear were highest in August,
September. October and Novem
ber while placements were high
est in July and August.
Uniforms Needed
For Local Band
Elliot Funeral
Held On Sunday
Rev. J. S. Elliot Passe* Wed
nesday Night, Well Known
Resident Of Knottville
Funeral service was held Sun
day at Liberty Grove church’ for
Rev, J. S. Elliot, who died Wed
nesday evening 5:45 o’clock.
Rev. Mr. Elliot, who was 66
years of age. was a well known
Baptist minister and a prominent
citizen of the Knottville com
munity. In addillon to his min
isterial duties with many church
es in Wilkes, he had always taken
an active part in church and
community affairs. •
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Dora Alexander Elliott, and four
children, Mrs. C. B. Brown, Ger-
manton; Mrs. J. C. Coogan,
Crown Point, N. M.; Mrs, Harry
Rothrock, Walnut Grove; John
close!A. Elliott, Knoxville; four sisters
and one brother, Mrs. Ida Hutch
ison and Mrs. Martin Vernon,
Mayodan; Mrs. Bud Wilkins,
Madison; Mrs. Lloyd Pardue and
J. L. Elliott, Culbertson.
funeral
Many attended the
• how much the! service in respect to the life of
.«n^lated the unusual.Rev. Mr. Elliot in his commun-
,Mra appreciated me » »
3>n/i sm/ine friends and ac
St^mm^the way they listened Ity and among friends and ac-
from the way m Luajntancea in WHkee ’and In
l^.jcatch every other eountlee. Rev. A. B. Hayes
other eountlee. Rev. A. B. Hayes
conducted'the last rites, assisted
Many Ask Opportunity To
Have Part In Promoting
Organization Here
‘The North Wilkesboro Rand
which is sponsored by the local
Lions club has become an organi
zation of which the town of North
Wilkesboro is justly proud.
The band was organized some
five months ago under the spon
sorship of the Lions Club and has
grown from a very small group
to a band containing around
twenty members. Its first direc
tor was R. Oratz Cox who is suc-
ceer.ed by W. B. Greer. During
these five months the band has
been supported by the Lions.
In order that the band may be
improved and .made to have m
better appearance in public the
members have decided to put
forth a great' effort to get uni
forms. new instruments, and new
music. Many of. the local merch
ants and citizens have asked that
they be permitted to have a part
in promoting this worthwhile en
deavor'by contributing funds with
which the band may buy Its nec
essary equipment.
This progressive Interest in
worthwhile activities ls_. charac
teristic of the to^wn of North
Wllkesbo.ro. Not ..only Is a good
band a good advertisement for a
town but it stimulates "an Inter
est In and an appreciation Of
mu4lc among the younger boys
and girls. A toWB—to he * r«*l
Mrs. Arthur A. Finley, a mem
ber of one of North Wilkesboro’s
most prominent snd best known
families, died at her home on E
street Sunday afternoon, 4:30 o’
clock, following an extended ill-
ne.s.s.
Funeral service will be held at
the home on Tuesday morning,
10:30 o’clock, with Rev. Watt
M. Cooper, pastor of the North
Wilkesboro Presbyterian church,
in charge. Burial will be in
Green'wood cemetery.
She was the widow of Arthur
A. Finley, pioneer manufacturer,
business leader and North Wil
kesboro’s first mayor, who died
about a year ago.
Surviving are four children, A.
Gordon Finley, who is a mem
ber of the North Wilkesboro
board of commissioners, Arthur
C. Finley. Misses Grace and Lucy
Finley, all of North Wilkesboro
bation. Jesse M. Byrd was sen-
•enced to Chilliicothe, Ohio, re
formatory for 15 months
John Thomas • Byrd drew 18
months in the same ins Itutlon.
Ivory glass was sentence d to a
year and a day in the federal
prison at Atlanta. , •
Completing sentences Jn the
Mathis case, Daniel Mathis was
fined $ .500 as Indicated Wednes
day and Thomas Mathis was fined
$500.
Slater Call, $100 fine and year
and a day in Lewisburg, Pa.,
and prison.
Talmadge Curry, $100 fine and
year and a day in Chillicothe re
formatory.
Bryant Benge, $100 fine and
year and a day in Lewisburg.
Camie Williams. $100 fine and
year and a day in Lewisburg.
Roosevelt Church, violation
terms of probation, year and a
day in Lewisburg.
ment and failure to accept em
ployment at prevailing ■wag*
scfiles, although the wages offer
ed may be lower than the WPA
wage, may seriously affect their
chances of being certified for
further employment oa WPA aft
er the necessary 30-day waiting
period has elapsed.
He also explained that a dis
charged worker must wait 30
days after the effective date of
the discharge before applying at
the county welfare office for re
certification. A worker seeking
to get hack on the rolls must be
certified and his case must be
investigated In the same manner
as the original certification and
Investigation when they first se
cured WPA employment.
The automatic discharge lair
affects all workers on WPA who
are certified and includes skilled
and unskilled labor and a num
ber of timekeepers and project
foremen.
Parkway Is Oper
For Travel Over
Sixty-Mile Link
Motorists May Drive All The
Wav From Deep Gap To
Virginia State Line
l%iitnii^ Kills
Man Near City
This Afternoon
The Blue Ridge Parkway is
now open fbr travel all the way
from the Virginia line southward
to Deep Gap between this city and
Boone,a distance oT'’about sixty
miles.
Although surfacing has not
been completed in’ some few sec
tions, the road will be kept open
for travel from now on and In
nuicj, HI* u*. places where the work is under
Also surviving are three grand- way one side of the road will bo
children, Katherine, Mary Elmore open for travel, Park Service of-
and Gordon, Jr., Finley and two fidals said today,
sisters, Mrs. J. R. Finley, of
Some work remains to be done
North liVllkesboro, and Mrs. J. A. between Glendale Springs and
Link, of (foronado, Florida
She was born on August
Laurel Springs and from Lanrel
1i Springs eastward to Bluff Park
one Vfpn wa •» o '
1866, Ji daughter of the late , but will be completed by the mid-
- , r Aiicrnot WnWftVAr. Park-
John A. and Lucy Martin Cam
eron, of Summerville, Hartnett
county. In 1890 she was married
to Mr. Finley.
Until her health failed several
years ago she took an active part
in church and civic affairs and
always was interested in move
ments to promote the welfare of
the town and community.
At the funeral service Tuesday
morning pall bearers ■will be
nephews Jind flowers will be car
ried by nieces and Intimate
friends. - •
die of August. However, Park
way travelers may drive over the
entire distance from Deep Gap to
Virginia now without detours or
much inconvenience.
Charlie Dancy, citizen of tlie
Mulberry community, wa.s In
stantly killed about one o’clock
this afternoon when hit by
lightning.
Mr. Dancy, with R. M.
Cbnix* and Ijarry Blaekbnm,
Dad gone to the woods to re
sume catting timber after
Innch and Dancy and R. M.
Church were sawing a log.
Blaekbnm was standing near
by.
The lightning aapparently hit
'a small tree near the me* and
Jumped to Dancy. ‘The ooly
signs of bams on his body were
scorched hair and slight home
on his legs. Coroner I. M. Kjr-
ers, who inv»ttigated the death,
said.
Church was badly hurt and
was brought to the Wllkea ho*'
pital for treatment. Blackball
wtts knocked a distance of sev
eral feet and was injnred by
shock but soon recovered.
Lands For 1938
Taxes Are To Be
Advertised Soon
Attention is again called to th*
fact that land will be advertised
during the month of for
unpaid 1938 taxes due Wllkea
county.
Those who have not paid their
1938 taxes to the county aro
urged to pay during the remain
der of this month and save ad
vertising cost and additional pen
alty as prescribed by law.
Attention is also called to .tho
fact that Sheriff C. T. Doughton
has been ordered to proceed with
garnishee and personal property
levies to collect unpaid if*®,
personal taxes. A substantial sav
ing may be effect by paying ’be
fore these proceedings are Instt-
tuted early In August.
8 Drunk Drivers
Face Court
In growing poUtoe*, Belgium
averages more,than 800 bnsbolB
to the Mile: H'ollaniL 280 .bush
els; Germany' ju»Vre,tpsu 200: b^;
sbeia; “ ■ —
tbb ui
To Begin Revival
At Hunting Creek
A series of revival servloes
will begin at Hunting Creek Bap
tist chtfrch on Sunday, August.*.
The pastor. Rev. Perris Pirks,
will be assisted by Rev. S. I.
■Watts.;-, ■
Services will be'heW at X0:80
a. in,,and eight , p. m. ‘The. public
EXPORTS
During the first dlhe months
of the current marketing season,
the world’s eight largest export
ing nations shipped 7,924,000
bales of cotton as compared with
9^260,000 bales: laat year.
cordial invitation to
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at-
■ GOOD ooNtnoL y'
Following axtenskm ’ Soridee
rMohmendationa for ."edntfolUng
bf4l weevUa ^
a/iholasses-cakbia autanate j^
Policemen Find Nomber Of
Drunks Behind Sheering
Wheels In This j
Police Chief J, B-' 'Walkw i*-'’"
ported this morning that
persons were arrested In ' me •"
city Saturday and Sunday og
chargee of operating automnMIni
while, Intoxicated.
SevWal of the drivers were
badly intoxicated and were tt|K
tally nnable to operate * car af
fectively, policemen said. ^'Onec,
sraa reported so ba41y htiddr'^Ute
influeac* ot 'ilanor that he alam»-
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