irAtUN SHAKinjp
Oct. Sl^—^Premier Mus-
•oHni In it vwee^inc orerhaiiting
of tlM tuola: leaderahip today re-
time mUltary chiefs who
had oondncted statf talks with
Ctomua officers and two cabinet
memt>erB popularly regarded as
^ pro-Oerman. The shuffling of
■ atllhary chiefs, army leaders, and
cabinet ministers, however, was
regarded In foreign circlea as pri
marily dralgned to reinforce the
, laaetat regime at home with the
IntW national aspect incidental to
d»ooUc factors. Whether there
was any deliberate thought of
shelrlng those’ In the government
who had been looked on as pro-
German could not be ascertained.
Coohjy
Teachm’ Meet
Held Saturday
ASK PROTECTION CREW
i Washington, Oct. 31.—Secre-
'W1117 Hull took steps to protect
the American crew of the City of
Flint today iby Instructing the
American embassies in Germany
and Ihigland to request those
governments to avoid exposing
the crew to unnecessary danger.
The City of Flint’s pvsltlon was
unknown to the state department
tonight, but in Bergen, Norway,
she was reported making her way
slowly southward along the Nor
wegian coast. Aboard her were
Captain Gainard, 40 American
crew members and the German
price crew of 17. President Roose
velt said he had no new informa
tion on the City of Flint, hut he
still hoped for her return.
LAST HATFIELD DEAD
Ransom. Ky.. Oct. 31.—Tolbert
Hatfield, 89, who stayed friendly
—and stayed alive—while his
kinsmen traded shots with the
MoCoys, died today. Possibly the
last Hatfield clansman to witness
the
of the 1880’s succumbed to pneu
monia developing from a cerebral
stroke 10 weeks ago. Tolbert, who
became a friend of Henry Ford,
aerved as a justice of peace dur
ing the feud, which started over
'tMtimony at a murder trial. A
Hatfield was killed. A Hatfield
Mrs. C. B. Eller Is Elected
President County Teach
ers; Activities Plaijned
Plans for a number of county
wide school activities were laid in
the first meeting of the Wllkes'
unit of the North Carolina Edu
cation association held Saturday
In Wllkesboro.
M. F. Bumgarner, of Millers
Creek, vice president, presided
over the meeting of teachers for
the organization after the as
sembly was opened ;by C. B. Eller,
county superintendent of schools.
Mrs. C. B. Eller, Mulberry
teacher, was elected president,
succeeding S. B. Matthews, for
mer Mount Pleasant principal
who is not teaching In, the county
this year. R. ’V. Day, Millers
Creek principal, was elected vice
president, and V. E. Jennings,
member of the ’Wllkesboro high
school faculty, was named treas
urer.
Supt. Eller told of plans for
the district teachers meeting to
be held in High Point Thursday
night and Friday and urged at
tendance of Wilkes teachers at
the district meet. Wllkesboro will
not have school on Friday In or
der that the teachers may attend
and it was left optional with the
other schools in the county as to
whether or not they will have
school on that day.
The teachers voted to sponsor
the spelling contest In grades 1
Joim Jones’Being
Fot Death
Two In Collision
iSeveral Cases Disposed Of
During First Few Days
November Term
Visitors to Frsnce’s frost Une meet s sew ssd doUghtfn^ dMerent
1iisUiunent of war." They 6nd they csn pass Into the line upon pay
ment of a Ux of one cigarette. Payment gives the right to view German
lines hy looking over the sand bags.
International Shoe Co. Enq^oyes
Will Receive An Extra Week’s Pay
through eight and plans were al-
Hatfleld-McCoy border war discussed for recitation and
sheriff went to arrest a McCoy
and then sent back for reinforce
ments. TTie late Anderson (Devil
Anse) Hatfield answered the call
—and the feud started. Tolbert,
a first cousin of “Devil Anse,’’
somehow remained friendly with
both sides.
declamation contest for high and
elementary schools.
Supt. Eller asked that Nation
al Education Week be observed
November 5 through 11 and call
ed particular attention to North
' Carolina Day to be observed on
November 9.
The meeting was well attended
by the teachers of the county.
MRS. WHITT FREED
PUtsboro, Oct. 31.—Mrs. Mar
garet .Johnson Whitt, on. trial for
her life for the murder of her
husband. Worth Whitt who died
May 28, was found not guilty.
Mrs. 'Whitt, well-known Chatham
‘county woman, was arrested on a
first degree murder charge after
her husband, Worth 'Whitt, died
at St. Leo’s hospital, Greensboro,
May 28. A Duke hospital toxi
cologist who performed an au
topsy on the exhumed body testi
fied that it contained enough
arsenic to have killed four per
sons under ordinary conditions. A
Plttsboro druggist, said he
N.C.S.E.S. Office
Finds Jobs For 214
The International Shoe com
pany, which owns and operates
the liirg©. tannery here, an
nounced today that an extra
payment equivalent to one
week’s pay xvlll be made on
November 27, 19S9, to all fac
tory, warehonse and office em
ployes with continuous ;ervice
from January 1, 1939, through
October 1, 1989, with a maxi
mum limit of $50.
The extra pajment for the
company’s employes at the sev
eral factories in different sec-
tions of the country, will a-
monnt to approximately $000,-
000. It does not apply to sales
men, officers, dtrecCMS, sad
other major executives, but
does, of course, apply to a very
large majority of the company’s
30,000 employes.
The plant here is one of the
hirgeJt tanneries operated by
the company.
Police Look For
One Who Drained
Storage Tank
Opened Hydraait Drains Up
per Tank Of Watw Sys
tem Tuesday Nigfah
Number Placements For Oc
tober Shows Gain Over
Figures for September
Placements by the North Wll
kesboro branch of the North Car
olina State Employment Service
in October exceeded placements
In September by 214 to 208, It
was learned here today from B.
G. Gentry, manager.
During October the office
placed 67 in private employment
and 147 on public jobs, making
a total of 214.
Police Chief J. E. Walker and
other members of the force have
been looking for the Hallowe’en
celobrator who tried to be funny
by opening a hydrant and empty
ing the upper water tank of the
city water system.
Some time during the early
hours of Tuesday night a hydrant
near the upper storage tank -was
opened and the tank was drained.
As it happened it caused no dam
age but inconvenienced the resi
dents of the upper portion of the
city who had no water for a few
hours, but should there have
been a fire in that part of the
city it would have been too bad,
officers said.
Other than the draining of the
tank, police reported no major
disorders during the noisy Hal-
Icywe’en celebration here Tues-
Clifford Church Is
Freed On Charge
Of Killing Wife
Former Wilkes Man Cleared
Of First Degree Charge
In Athe^Ceurt ^
There were 317 registrations - ^ ^
go) j ' during the month, representing a
Mrs. Whitt some Paris green dar
ing the time her husband wa.s ill.
Evidence at the trial revealed
that Mrs. Whitt had expressed
I slight gain over the number for
September.
the opinion that lettuce In a bed
been
Mrs. Jeff McNeill
at the Whitt home had
sprinkled with poison, and that
her husband had been poisoned i
by eating a large amount of salad i
Claimed By Death
made from the lettuce.
TAX REVENUES UP
-Raleigh, Oct. 31.—State offici
als, viewing with satisfaction a
revenue repiwt showing tax re
ceipts are continuing to climb,
cantlonsly forecast today that
North Carolina might not have to
transfer money from the highway
to the general fund In order to
balance Its 1939-40 budget. A
provision making possible "diver
sion” of 12,500,000—If It Is need
ed—from the highway depart
ment to the general fund was
made by the 1939 general as
sembly after a hot fight. Gover
nor Hoey, during whose adminis
tration no such transfer has been
made, commented that “if busi
ness continue., to improve and
revenues keep pace with the rec
ord established this far, it prob
ably will not be necessary to have
any transfer of funds from the
highway department."
Funeral Services Held Today
For Well Known Lady
Of Millers Creek
time was had on the streets of
the main part of the city.
Window washers worked over
time yesterday cleaning marks
off of store windows and some
celebrators with a screwy idea
of a good time deflated some
automobile tires.
West Jefferson, Oct. 31.—Clif
ford Church, Ashe county filling
station operator, was freed by an
Ashe superior court jury this aft
ernoon of the charge of murder
ing his wife last July. The jury
deliberated less than two hours.
The trial was one of the most
sensational In Ashe county his
tory, an extra two-day court ses
sion being required to complate
the case.
The body of Church’s wife was
found lying across a bed In the
Church home at WarrensvUle on
the night of July 23. a bullet hole
through her right eye and her
head in a pool of blood.
According to testimony at the
trial. Church told officers when
they arrived at the house at mid
night that his wife had committed
suicide. No gun was found in the
room but later a pistol, contain
ing Church’s fingerprints, was
found under an adjoining house.
Church testified he was on the
porch when he heard the pistol
into
Mrs. Louisa L. Kirby McNeill,
age 81, wife of the late Jeff Mc
Neill, died at one o’clock Wed
nesday morning at her home near
Millers Creek following an ex
tended illness.
Mrs. McNeill was a member of
a well known family and was
held in high esteem by a wide cir
Says Higgins Not
Normal Mmtally
John Jones, driver of a bu*
collided with a car driven
.“l^fMlss Wllhelmlna Triplett 16
' mflbs west of this city four years
' ago, went on trial In Wilkes court
yesterday for the death of Miss
Triplett; and Mrs. Hubert Can
ter, who were killed in the col
lision.
’V’esterday made the second
time that the case has gone to
trial. During the year following
the accident on October 6, 1935,
the case was heard and a mistrial
I was ordered.
The first witness ‘Wednesday
afternoon was Miss Martha
Wheeling, who said she was In
the rear seat of Miss 'Triplett’s
car at the time of the collision.
She told that Miss Triplett was
going iwest on highway 421, had
been driven off the road into a
side ditch by a car, and was pull
ing back on to the pavement
when the bus and car collided.
She said the collision occured on
Miss Triplett’s right side of the
road and that the impact of the
bus drove the car Into the fence
on the other side.
The defense contended that the
accident occured on the other side
of the highway.
A large numbe’’ of witnesses
had been subpoe uid to testify in
the case which will be completed
tomorrow.
Solicitor Avalon E. Hall is as
sisted in the prosecution by For
mer Solicitor John R. Jones, J.
M. Brown, Eugene 'Trlvette and
Kyle Hayes. Jones’ counsel In
cludes Fred Hutchins, of Wins
ton-Salem, W. M. Allen, of Elkin
and A. H. Casey, of this city.
Ed Casey, who was outlawed
after he was alleged to have shot
his cousin, Paul Casey, near
Traphlll a few months ago, ’was
convicted and given a sentence of
from 18 to 6(J months. After the
shooting, which Ed Casey said in
court was in self defense, he fled
and was the object of a wide
search by officers while his
youthful cousin was recovering
from the gunshot wound.
Walter Foster received a num
ber of sentences. A four months
sentence imposed at a former
term was put into effect and he
received 16 months additional
for possession of liquor. Two
years on charges of larceny were
suspended.
Charlie Wood was glv-.i a six
months’ suspended sentence for
non-support.
George Harris and Phillip
negros, received active
six to 36
The Wilkes county Tr^a A o*'*
ganizaJlon -wac'^ 9«tieetiik^ tU$
Doctors * decided that saven*
ponflis-old Sandra Judd Kirchmatia
waa the champion baby in the an*
nnal baby parade at Ocean City, it,
J.—^and another look win convlaoo
yon the doctors were right.
Sheriff Settles For
1938 Taxes; Now
Has 1939 Books
week by the ra*«lactim.. ol tha
county commlttae by tha
munity committMaim wbo.warw
elected last week. \-
I The county eommtttea a*coni>
posed of J. M. Oarnun, ebainnM^
H. C. Roberts, vlca chairman,
Muncle Absher was retsthM ror
another year. Dan Holler, eond^
farm agent. Is by vlrtae of oftica
a member of the eommlttea imd
was elected secretary. Mrs. Rosa
B. Church was re-elected trmm'
urer. ^
The community commltteenMa
elected for the six commnnttiea
in the county are as follows:
Community A; Floyd Holman,
F. G. Hendren, 1. J. BroyhlU. '
Community B: G.-C. Green, D,
H. Jardue, J. R. Pardue.
Community C: R. L. Profht,
W. O. Barnett, J. C. Parsons.
Community D; H. H. Jennings,
A. R. Miller, J. W. Nichols.
Community E: C. E. Billings,
N. P. Myers, Bruce Billings.
Community F: T. M. Carter, J.
H. Poplin, J. F. Fields.
B. P. Roberts and J. F. nalda
were elected as alternate mem
bers of the county committee to
serve in the event vacancies oc
cur for any reason.
1939 Taxes Now Due At Of
fice Of Sheriff; Early
Pajnnent Is Urged
fired, that he then rushed
the house, saw his wife lying on j Park®
the bed grabbed mon!hr?or larceny and receiving
threw It under the house.
He said his wife'had threaten
ed to kill herself several times
• that evening. Other .witnesses
swore the woman bad made one ^
suicide attempt and uttered many,
and suspended sentences of from
five to eight years for breaking
and entering.
Tommie Cothren was convicted
of assault with deadly weapon
Will Not Go On Trial For
suicide attempt ana uuerea has not been passed.
threaU duri^ the past few years d,gturbing religious con-
tt, end everything. | Daudy Spears received
Testimony showed Church and,f* ' »n^r«w Bneara
Shooting R. C. Jennings,
Deputy Sheriff
A jury In Wllkes county court
Tuesday decided that Silas Hig-
uciu .1. - — . gins Is nol mentally capable of
cle of friends and acquaintances' >'o'ng on trial for shooting Depu
te whom the news of her passing ty Sheriff R. C. Jennings.
Plan Supper For
Annittice Event
*1110 regular November meeting
of the Wllkes county post num-
U0T 125 of the American Legion
Jfmn be held in the Legion-Auxil-
' ^ary club roolns north of the city
Frldny night, November 3rd, at
^:S0 o’clock. A fuU attendance
iwof the .membership is desired in
,r* order that plans may be complet-
^“tor'thra^niaT Armistice DayUen days, and the public has a
eo for - cordial invitation to attend.
mytper
was an occasion of sadness.
Funeral service was held at
Pleasant Home Baptist church,
where she was a member, at ten
o’clock this morning. Rev. Fin
ley C. Watts was In charge of the
service, assisted by Rev. A. W.
Eller.
Mrs. McNeill leaves four chil
dren, all of whom are well and
favorably known: Charlie Mc
Neill, of North 'Wllkesboro. Miss
es Cora, Minnie and Hattie Mc
Neill, of Millers Creek.
as-
Oakwoods Revival
To Begin Sunday
Beginning Sunday night, 7:30
o’clock, a revival meeting will be
held at Oakwoods Baptist church.
Rev. Finley C. Watts, of Purlear,
and Rev. N. C. Teague, of Win
ston-Salem, will conduct the
meeting, which will continue for
Higgins was indicted for
sault with a deadly weapon.
A few weeks ago he was al
leged to have shot Deputy Jen
nings as he was trying to arrest
Higgins for an alleged holdup at
tempt. The shooting took place
on the Brushy Mountain road
near where Higgins is alleged to
have run into the road with a
shotgun and ordered Miss Toby
Turner, who was driving her au
tomobile, to stop.
Mr. Jennings was badly hurt
by many shot from Higgins’ shot
gun, several having penetrated
his right side and arm. However,
he has recovered.
In the hearing Tuesday offi
cers and others testified that at
times Higgins was apparently
badly unbalanced mentally.
Testimony snowea ^nuren months and Andrew Spears
his wife were the only ones at|^ « additional
the house at the time of the
shooting and that they had quar
reled all evening.
Officers found a large quantity
of liquor In the house at^the time
of the Investigation and Church
is now facing a federal jail term
as he was under probation.
Church is a former resident of
Wilkes county, a son of J. F.
Church, of Purlear.
Messrs. H. C. Somers and C. C.
Mathis, of Cycle, were business
visitors in the Wilkesboros Sat
urday.
4’*'
License Bureau
Office Is Moved
North Wllkesboro branch of
the Carolina Motor Club has
moved from quarters In the West
ern Auto Associate Store to the
four months with an
12 months suspended.
For operating a car while in
toxicated Willie Foster was sen
tenced to four months.
Sheriff O. T. Doughton has
made settlement with the county
board of commissioners for coun
ty taxes for-the year--MSS and
now has the 1939 tax books for
collection.
Prepayments on 1939 taxes
prior to the turning over the
books to the sheriff were made
to the county accountant. Taxes
for 1939 are now payable to the
F. D. R. Answers
Charges By Reds
Washington, Nov. 1.—Prqpit-
dent Roosevelt, who had beem
criticized yesterday by Russlam
Premier Molotoff for “Interven
ing’’ for Finland, dug up and.Mr-
Issued tonight an official record
which recalled that Russia bad
given “profound sympathy” only
six months ago to his efforts to
prevent attacks on Finland, Po
land and other European nations.
Mr. Roosevelt’s action appar-
sheriff and back taxes for any I ently was both a reply to the
previous year may be paid to the Molotoff speech and a new effort
county accountant.
In the tax settlement the sher
iff received a fee of 70 cents for atates
costs on each land sale certifi
cate
All who can are urged to pay
their 1939 taxes as early as pos
sible in order that the county
may meet its obligations prompt
ly. Attention Is also called to the
fact that a penalty will soon be
added to unpaid 1939 taxes.
C. G. Ponidexter, county ac
countant, has also called atten
tion to the fact that the county
will at an early date begin fore
closure proceedings on real estate
for which county taxes for the
year 1937 remain unpaid. Those
who have not made payment for
1937 taxes could save a substan
tial amount In costs by paying be
fore the suits are begun, he said.
to show that a bond of sympathy
links Finland and the United
Oakwoods Road
Now Completed
Hard Surfaced Road Open
For Traffic To Foot Of
Brushy Mountain
Work has been completed on
the Oakwoods roads and It is now
open to the public, highway of-
;uGUU tu luui >
Eugene Church' for operating ficlals skid today.
a car while intoxicated, was giv
en a 90-day road sentence.
Schools To Have
HoUday Friday
The road, first in Wilkes coun
ty not on the state system to be
hardsnrfaced, was rebuilt from
Wllkesboro to the foot of Brushy
Mountain and Is a decided im
provement over the did crooked
dirt road.
The project was carried out by
Teachers of City Schools andi wpa labor with state highway
«r*n 1- *r Au .A supervision and machinery.
Wllkesboro To Attend j j q Hackett, highway com-
District Meet , jmissloner, said when the project
— I was *b©gun that the road was
Wilkesboros j f^jund by trafllc checkiiig to be
I teachers an opportunity to attend
office room formerly occupied ^.Uhe Northwestern District teach-
. . , i.:!’ *1__ In 'FTIs-h
Schools of the .
will take a holiday Friday, No-’the most extensively used road In
vember 3, in order to give the which was not on the
high way, system.
It wa.s a dramatic action, la
which the Pre.sident, as the lead
ing actor, remained off the stage.
It was a drama almost without
words or even pantomime.
Notes Bel»-)ne(l
The President merely directed
his press secretary, Stephen T.
Esrly. to run off on a mimeo
graph machine new copies of
cablegrams dated last April. Ear
ly then handed the texts to re
porters.
In one of the messages the
President appealed to Adolf-.0ltt-
ler to give assurances whldl
would guarantee at least 10 yeais
of non-aggression abroad. Spetdf-
Ically Mr. Roosevelt askeij Rltler
whether he was willing to glvu
assurances that bis armed forew
would "not attack or Invade the
territory or possessions” of Cer
tain nations. ,
The President* named Poland,
of which Russia since. has^tAkw
a slice. He mentioned EstonlA.
Latvia and Lithuania, with whTck
Russia has concluded agreement*
recently allowing her to htlllM
their territory for military pur
poses.
He specified Finland, wltfc
which Russta is negotiating Mow
for military advantages, and
also named all the otIkdC nsUthlU
of Europe and a few in western
Asia.
Kalinin’s Message
The day after the 'White &nao
made public the message td iHt-
ler last April, President Kalinin
cabled "an expression of, pro
found sympathy with the hobln
appeal which you have addrewed
to the governments of Germany
and Italy.” 'i,-
Kalinin continued:
"You may rest aMurad .thnk
your initiative finds most ardent
response in the hearts'of the peo
ples of the soviet union.** ■
the city clerk in the Polndex^
building. Entrance is by way
Gordon Avenue. -’
J. C. McDlarmld, manager of
the office, has announced thSt
1940 automobile and truck
ense plates will go on skle ■ :De-
cember 1.; ' f■ ■' ’ '
■*The office is oi^,'from^al4e a. J
m,. to^ five -9,- —
ij.
,ers’ meeting to be held in High
Point.
in the teachers meeting held
Saturday it was left optional with-
lacV school as to whether or not.
ol would be held Friday bdV
jld not be learned here early
^whether any schools ont-
North Wilkesbdro and
iro would have a holl-
The Improved sectiwi.'-egf the
road will, serve people ln.%.. big
areh* including a great paiAr^of
the apple growing section of Gve
.Brushy? Mountains.
Episcopal SorHce
, Mr. and Mrs. F, IS. Parks',.,
Hsr»ld Parks, Mrs, . Stacey "A
wider, of Roarlnr River,
'M. Alexander, and two chlW
Billie and Bobble, visited ISrK ^
Mae Hlpps in .
Vespea service will be held at
St. Paul’s Episcopal church ^a-
day afternoon, November 5th, at
o’clock. At this '^me the of-
for 'the advanced, work of
will bq and R
.iowerd" the
that
. la B^his-irRhin the