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VOL. vygni, No. 36 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C THUBSDAY, APKIL 18, 1940 $1.50 IN THE STATB->4B,00 OUT OF THE SrATM : ?^
F.D.R. IN GEORGIA
warm Springs, Oa.—Mayor W.
O. Harry expects President Roose
velt to reach Warm Siprings Fri
day on a delayed spring visit. In
Wa8hlng[t«n, the White House de
clined ai»y comment on the ex
ecutive’s plans for visiting hU
Georgia home, but Mayor Harry
said a telephone call from Wash
ington Monday disclosed that Mr.
Rooeeviatt expects to reach here
Friday unless fresh war develop
ments Intervene. Details as to the
lengrth of his stay were not given.
Knife Wound Is.
Fatal Monday to
Bristol Mathis
MORE FOR NAVY
Washington.—Admiral Harold
R. Stark, chief of naval opera
tions, recommended yesterday
that Congress add another $45,-
000,000 to the $965,000,000 ap
propriated by the House for the
navy for the fiscal year beginning
July 1. Testifying before the Sen
ate naval committee on another
matter, Stark said that the in
crease was needed because the
I'nlted States was faced with an
'emergency. An extra $45,000,000,
he added, would permit a start
on construction of 25 additional
ships and provide funds fo.' more
m%hore facilities.
CHngvnan Resident Killed In
Altercation At Ronda;
J. C. Drum Held
It’s ‘The Better ’Ole’ for R. A.,F. Pilots
TVV
STASSEN KEYNOTER
Philadelphia.—The men and
women in charge of arrangements
for the Republican national con
vention chose 33-year-old Gover
nor Harold E. Stassen of Minne
sota yesterday to deliver the key
note speech and recommended
Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massa
chusetts for permanent conven
tion chairman. Plunging into or
ganization work for the presiden
tial nominating conclave in Phil
adelphia June 24, the committee
on arrangements of the Republi
can national committee also se
lected five principal convention
officers and then adjourned until
May 16.
dragged to death
Statesville—Poley C. Wlke, 41,
ceseful Cool Spring township
pjgbt ..
bug Hospital as a re-
suiTof being dragged by a run-
aw»y horse on his farm. Mr.
Wlke’s home is on old highway
90, ten miles east of Statesville.
He was in the act of mounting
his horse when the animal be
came frightened and ran. His left
foot was caught in the trace
chain and he was dragged for
more than a mile. His wife, who
witnessed the tragedy, driving
the family car. overtook the run-
4f.ing horse and managed to extri
cate her husband and brought
him to the hospital here. Mr.
Wike’s skull was fractured and
his ih|ody badly bruised. He was
fc unconscious when picked up and
* never regained consciousness.
Bristol D. Mathis, 24-year-old
resident of the Clingman com
munity, was Instantly killed in an
altercation which occured at a
Ronda service station about 11:45
p. m. Monday.
J. C. Drum. 18-year-old resi
dent of the same community, was
arrested shortly after the affair
by Sheriff C. T. Doughton and
placed in jail at Wllkeshoro to
await preliminary hearing this
afternoon.
Mathis received a fatal stab a-
bove his heart and died within a
few minutes.
Drum is said to have admitted
stabbing Mathis but claimed self
defense, saying that Mathis was
assaulting him and that-he acted
to defend himself.
Mathis was a son of W. T. and
Maggie Green Mathis. In addition
to his parents he is survived by
two brothers, Jesse and Billie
.Mathis.
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon, two o’clock, at
Pleasant Grove church.
The hearing today was held
before I. M. Myers, Wilkes Coro
ner. and Drum was held for court
under bond of $1,500.
Awaiting orders are these members of the British royal air force,
■tatloned in a duty o£Bce dngont somewhere in France. The pflota on
dnty are sitting around the stove trying to keep warm whUe anUclpatlng
Hying orders. The switchboard at right U in direct oomniinlcatlon
with R. A. F. headquarters.
Officers’ School
To Open In City
Monday, April 22
McElwee Manager
Broughton’s Race
In Wilkes County
G-Men To Instruct Officers
Of Wilkes and Adjoin
ing Counties Here
North Wilkeshoro
Beats Boone Nine
North 'Wilkeshoro high school’s
baseball team eked out a thrilling
7 to 6 victory here Tuesday over
Boone in a splendid high school
baseball game.
Boom, scored -tour |aAA^_aa.
hnsteady fir^Thnlnig and two in
the seventh. North Wilkeshoro
kept whacking away at the lead
until the seventh when they
scored their seventh ru and
sewed up the game.
Rhodes led in hitting for North
Wilkeshoro with three and Robin-
f7t had two out of tour trips to
the plate. Others connecting safe
ly were Haigwood, Elledge and
Brown.
Shailey .started on the mound
for the locals tAU was replaced in
the first hy Brown. Storie and
Miller composed Boone’s battery.
North Wilkeshoro plays Wil-
kesboro today and Taylorsville
here on Tuesday.
HECTIC experience I
Covington. Ky.—Lillian Stick- '
rod. 35, was not dead, she assur- j
ed friends yesterday, but opined I
that maybe she had every reason j
to be. This is how it was: She col
lapsed while riding In an auto-,
mobile Monday night. Her com-1
panion, believing her dead, deiiv- |
ered the “body" to a funeral |
home, the operator of which sum
moned police. Members of a life
saving squad detected signs of life
and called an ambulance. In
rounding a corner, the ambulance
lost a wheel. Sparks generated
by the axle on concrete ignited
the gasoline tank. Passersby sent
in a fire alarm and called another
life-saving squad, members of
which took Miss Stickrod to a
hospital. There it was determin
ed she had suffered a heart at
tack.
Black Cat Beer
License Revoked
Republicans Voice
^’m£conomy Appeal
North Wilkeshoro board of
commissioners in meeting Tuesday
niglit revoked a city beer license
which had been issued to Black
Cal cafe.
The revocation followed inves
tigation of complaints Oy Col. Ed
gar H. Bain, enforcement officer
for the United Brewers and Beer
Distributors.
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
that Col. Bain is investigating re
ports that other beer dealers in
this vicinity have been violating
the law or have been conducting
their busine.ss in such a manner
as to meet the disapproval of the
authorities for the “clean up or
close up” campaign.
Tie State Convention Hears
Speeches, Adopts The
Party Platform
Directors Burial
Association Will
Meet On Saturday
Charlotte.—North Carolina Re-
ubltcans, 1.500 strong, re-eleot-
i three leaders yesterday and
vr speeches, resolutiot s and plat-
)rm- called tor “restoration of
jnfldence, prosperity and econ-
my” In government and Amerl-
in life.
The crowd, larger than two
ears ago, filled the flag-bedeck-
J,clty armory-auditorium and
esrd addresses by John M. More-
••d, of Rye, N, J„ a North Car-
[4m native, and Representative
«w«r Short, Of Missouri, the
ynoter.
T h • platform, resoundingly
opted, called for: -
1. Bconomy In the state govern-
to eliminate ‘‘wasteful over-
joiag of services and functions
virtually all of our govern-
(CouUBised OB pace eifSt)
Annual meeting of th'e board
of directors of Relns-Sturdivant
Burial association, largest organ
ization of its type in the state,
will bte held on Saturday evening,
•April 20, seven o’clock, at the
Wo'.-.an’s clubhouse on Trogdon
street In this city.
Hawk Hangs Itself
Berry Mathis, well known citi
zen of Antioch township, gives
The .iournal-Patriot this Interest
ing bit of news:
A few days ago his brother,
Charlie Mathis, was walking a-
long a w'lre fence on his firm and
found a hawk hanging to the
fence with one of the barbed
wires stuck in the top of its
head. The hawk struck the wire
with such force that the barbed
wire went in so deep as fo hold
the weight of the hawk, making
it a perfect case of suicide for
Mr. Hawk.
This is a most unusual occur
rence, and the piece of news given
by Mr. Mathis is greatly appreci
ated.
A ten-days’ course for law en
forcement officers in northwest
North Carolina will .vpen in this
city on Monday. April 22, Police
Chief J. E. Walker said today.
Chief Walker received word
from Edward Scheldt, head of the
Charlotte office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, that in
structors from the department of
justice will conduct the school.
Courses will he held each aft
ernoon. beginning at two o’clock,
at the North Wilkesfctoro city
hall, which will be beadquarteM
for the cours*.
Instructions will be given in
identification, fingerprinting and
classification, use of firearms' and
various other phases in crime
detection and enforcement.
Chief Walker, explained that
the course is open to all law en
forcement officers.
Raleigh. April 17.—W. H. Mc
Elwee. a member of the Wilkes
liar, has been appointed Wilkes
county manager of J. M. Brough
ton’s campaign for governor, it
was announced today by State
Manager E. B. Denny.
Farmers Asked To
Place Orders For
Winter Peas Now
$4339.11 Paid ’loWedkmt Government
Jobless
N.C.S.E.S.
893 Checks Distributed To
Unemployed During The
* Month Of March
Spends $2,735,815 In
Wilkes In Six Years
The Wilkes AAA office has
just received an announcement
from E. Y. Floyd, state executive
officer, that all orders for Aus
trian winter peas ,.iat are to he
used in Wilkes' county must be
filed •in time for shipment to be
made by June 30th. All the farm
«cs.-,se1u>, an antielpatlBg-r csina-
anstiian winter peas in the jjjg y g. Treasury bal-
of 1940, are asked to place the'T *^„(.e bring receipts to $33,900
orders now, in order that a car
load of 36,000 pounds may be
made up and placed on file in
the state office at the earliest
possible date, and Wilkes county
can be sure of securing its allot-
municipal, i ment of one car.
county, .state and federal, and
that it is expected that fifty or
Seeding austriaq winter peas is
a good practice early in the fall.
more officers will take advantage | These peas are being purchased
of the opportunity to
training in the course.
District Meeting
Juniors Saturday
Bradley Dancy, district coun
cilor of Jr. 0. U. A. M., today an-
nouucod that Juniors of the
fourth district will meet Satur
day. April 20. at Clingman school
building near Ronda.
The business session will begin
at tliree o’clock and the open
meeting, to which the public is
invited, will begin at 7:30.
at a government contract price of
6c per pound, and should be seed
ed at a r?te of 20 to 25 pounds
per acre. If as much as 5.0 acres
are seeded out of 100 pounds, the
practice that can he earned for
seeding 5.0 acres of austrian
winter peas will amount to $1.50
per acre, or $7.50. The actual
cost of $5.00 will be deducted
from the 19 40 check that the
farmers will receive in the spring
of 1941.
The North Wilkeshoro Employ
ment Service office distributed.
893 checks In the amount of $4,-
539.11 in the area eerved by the
office during the month of March,
It, announced by B. G. Gentry,
manager.
In the 27 months of dlstrlon-
tlon of out-of-work benefits, f;
January, 1938, through March,
1940, the North Wilkeshoro
flee had distributed 33,764 chec
In the amount of $222,163.16
the area It serves.
The 46 white employment of
fices and the 10 colored branch
offices in the State In the month
of March distributed 70,161
checks for a total of $352,225.98,.'
less 1,362 checks for 115,058.34
which went to claimants who hatf
established wage credits In North
Carolina but who resided In other
states while drawing bieneflts.
In the 27 months of benefit
payments, these local offices dis
tributed 2,019,121 checks for
$13,326,086.16 In North Carolina,
in addition to the 20,046 checks
for $230,233 which went to out-
of-state claimants. Total pay-
cuts for the 27 months to resi
dent and non-resident claimants
amounted to $13,656,320.93, In
cluded in 2,039,167 checks.
North Carolina’s Unemploy
ment Fund balance had passed
$20,000,000. standing on April
10 at $20,189,002.08, but subject
to a reduction of an estimated
$750,000 to $800,000 to be turn
ed over to the Railroad Retire
ment Board when the exact a-
mount Is determined. Chairman.
Charles O. Powell rvpbrU. Con-
Wfmitroirs'of employers and In-
Ig A Candidate
976.20, from which benefits of
$13,711,974.12 had been paid to
unemployed eligible workers in
1938 and 1939 and through
April 10. 1940.
Poppy Day Will
Be On May 25th
I>r. H. G. Duncan, prominent
plucator and author, who has
filed as the Republican candi
date to membership on the
Wilkes county board of educa
tion. He will oppose C. O. Mc-
Niel In the fall election.
Should Apply Now
For P.C. A. Loans
USB Crop Production -LrfMU
Applications Received By
The Association
Legion Auxiliary Planning
For Annual Sale Event
Memorial Flowers
Saving seconds when you
driving is false economy.
Third Shipment Morrison Pens For
Journal-Patriot Subscribers Arrives
Yesterday the third shipment
of Morrison fountain pens arrived
at The Journal-Patriot office apd
the pens are going rapidly to new
and renewal subscribers of The
Journal-Patriot.
This offer can be made for on
ly a limited time and while we
are assured that we can obtain
the Morrison pens on the intro
ductory advertising offer we urge
every subscriber on our lists and
for only a fraction of the retail
value.
A Morrison pen, in either gents'
or ladies’ style, is being given ab
solutely free to each new or re
newal subscriber.
W’e Invite you to call at The
Journal-P.atriot office, see and
write with one of these pens, or
ask the person now using one.
Every one who has received one
has been well .pleased and sur-
those who would like to have I prised that a pen of such high
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Morrison pens, just now being
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quality could be given away.
If it is not convenient for you
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Apple Trees Will Be In Bloom Soon;
Damage Is Not Extensive As Feared
It’s a/pple blossom time in
Wilkes again and the orchards of
the Brushles will be resplendent
with their coat of pink bloom
during the coming week-end.
Apple .blossom tijne In the
Brushies each spring draws many
visitors who like to see nature’s
beautiful show.
The recent low temperatures,
which probably will result in a
fruit crop somewhat curtailed,
will have no effect on the bloom,
which will be unusually heavy
and resplendent.
Carl E. VanDeman, orchard
specialist in charge of the re
search laboratory On the Brush
les, said today that the freeze
damage to the J>ro8pectlve crop
will not be as great as was first
feared.
Delicious and other fall apples
suffered heaviest, be said, and
there probably will not be more
than a half crop of several va
rieties.
However, examination of Ilm-
bertwig buds indicate that there
will be almost a full crop of this
variety peculiarly ada-pted tO’ (he
famous thermal belt of the Bnish-
-IM.
Poppy Day will be observed in
North Wilkeshoro and throughout
the nation on May 25, the Satur
day before Memorial Day, Mrs.
R. G. Finley, President of Wilkes
Unit of the American Legion
Auxiliary, announced today. On
that day all Americans will be
asked to wear memorial popples
in tribute to the World War
dead and to aid the living victims
of the -pir.
The little red memorial flowers
will 'be distributed here by women
and girls of the Wilkes Unit, un
der the direction of Mrs. Andrew
Kilby and Mrs. W. D. Halfacre of
the Poppy Day committee. All
contributions received for the
popples will go to Legion and
Auxiliary welfare work for tl »
disabled veterans, their families
and the families of the dead.
“We feel that Poppy Day will
ha’'e increased meaning to Amer
ica this year.” said Mrs. R. Q-
Finley, “because renewed warfare'
in Europe has renewed the mem
ory of those boys 4)f ours who
gave their Hves ‘over there’ twen
ty-two y.ears ago. It isi for them
that we put on the poppy each
year, to show that we still re
member and honor their sacrific
es It is the flower which grew
where they fell and which now
blooms on the coats of Americans
who appreciate their service.
“BvenU of the past year have
shown us clearly that to he se
cure the United States must have
men- ready and able to defend the
country, willing to give their
lives, in its defense, it necessary.
We can be thankful today that
we had such men twenty-two
years ago. From them we can
draw Inspiration for the patriotic
service necessary to maintain our
freedom and democracy against
today’s dangers. Wearing their
flower over our hearts means
that within our hearts their love
of America rtlll lives.”
Spring Dance
The Garden Department of the
Wilkeaboro Junior Woman’s Olubi
Is giving a dance Friday, April
26, at the Community house In
Wilkeshoro. 9:00 till Scrip
60 cent*.
Since the time the Wilkeshoro
branch office of the Winston-Sal
em Production 'Credit Association
will be active is short, farmers
and stockmen of Wilkes county
who are interested in obtaining
production credit loans should
, place their applications now with
Representative Mrs. Aline Yates
at the office of the Clerk of Su
perior Court, L. E. Francis, Sec
retary-Treasurer, stated today.
The Association has already
closed 558 loans this year for
more than $110,000. continued
Mr. Francis, and it is estimated
the application.s already written
ill the territory which will be
closed within the next few daj'^
amount to $15,000, making a to
tal of $125,000 already written.
The Association makes loans to
farmers and stockmen for gener
al agricultural purposes, includ-
i!\g the purchase of fertilizer,
S'jed, farm equipment and sup
plies. The interest rate is only
4 1-2 per cent, and interest is
paid only for the actual number
of days the members have use of
the money. Interest is not deduct
ed.
Any farmer who can use a pro-
ductlon credit loan profitably is
invited to discuss his needs with-
Mrs. Yates at the office of the
Clerk of Superior Court or with
Mr. Francis at the Home Office
in the Trade Street Branch of the
Wachovia Bank Building at Win
ston-Salem.
Over Two MiHion
Of Amount Spriit
Is Not Repayable
RepajraUe Loans By Got*
eminant During Period
In County $886,392
Between March 4, 1933 and
June 30, 1939, $2,735,815 wa*
the total of federal expenditures
In Wilkes county, according to
figures released from the office
of government reports, Washing
ton, D. C.
Of this amount $2,049,423 waO’
non-repayable and the remainder,
$686,392 represented repayable
loans through several government
agencies.
The greatest single classifica
tion of federal expenditures In
Wilkes county has been through
the Works Projects administra
tion, the amount being $832,999.
Public roads administration with
$519,706 was second.
Other expenditure figu."es in
cluded In the total for the county
were: PWA, $138,961; old age
assistance, aid to dependent chil
dren and aid to blind, $45,188;
Triple A conservation programs
1936 and 1937, $76,947; rural
rehabilitation. $3,9857 federal
emergency relief, $282,961; Civil
Works administration, $112,457;
Triple A rental and benefit pay
ments. $36,920.
The $686,392 In repayable fedr
The $686,392 In repayaPIfl i;
eral-JBxpBiSlUutes. lucIhdeHH.'SlU'
following items: Reconstructloa
Finance Corporation loans, $377,- (
916; Public Works admlnlstra- •
tlon loans, non-federal projects,
$51,000: Farm Credit administra
tion, land bank commissioner,
$76,425; emergency crop and
feed loans. $17,510; Rural Re
habilitation loans. $36,457; farm
tenant purchase loans, $46,577;
Home Owners Loan corporation,
$80,508.
The statistics given above were
released by the Committee On j.
Commerce, of which Senator J.
\V. Bailey is chairman.
Last Rites Held
For J. M. Brown
Service For Attorney Who
Died Monday Morning
Held On Tuesday
Home Coining Is
Held On Sunday
Reunion Services Held At
Wilkeshoro Methodist
Church Sunday
Many former members and res
idents of the town joined with
the congregation of Wilkeshoro
Methodist church Sunday In all-
day home coming services held at
the church.
At 11 a. m. Rev. J. L. Rey
nolds, former pastor now station
ed at Burnsville, occupied the
pulpit and the feature of the aft
ernoon program was an address
by Rev. J. H. Brendall, Jr., pas
tor of Ardmore Methodist church
in Winston-Salem. His Inspiring
message was directed mainly to
young people.
Dinner was served picnic style
ai. noon on the church premlsea.
Rev. S. N. Needham, of
Charlotte, was scheduled to
preach at 7:30 p. m. but be was
unaible to attend on account of
Illness and the pulpit was occu
pied by Dr. W. J. Flint, present
pMtbr.
An impressive funeral service
was held Tuesday afternoon for
J. 31. Brown, 38. widely known
Wilkes attorney who died early
Monday, morning.
The service, conducted by Dr.
W. J. Plint, Wilkeshoro Metho
dist pastor, and Re(^ C. C. Hol
land, pastor of the Wilkeshoro
Baptist church, was held at the
home of Ex-Sheriff P. E. Brown,
brother of the deceased, and wa*
largely attended.
Many 'bteautltul flowers were a
silent but impressive tribute by
many friends of Attorney Brown
and the family.
Burial was in Mt. Zion ceme
tery in Mulberry township.
Active pallbearers were; H. A.
Cranor, T. E. Story, J. H. Whick
er, Jr.. W. H. McElwee, J. P.
Jordan, Harold Burke, Clyde
Hayes, C. G. Gllreath.
Honorary pallbearers were: A.
H. Casey, J. H. Whicker, Sr., John
R. Jones, Eugene Trlvette, Kyle
Hayes, Ralph Davis, J. Allie
Hayes, F. J. McDuffie. T. R. Bry
an, J. R. Henderson. Judge John
son J. Hayes, Judge J. A. Rous
seau, Judge T. B. Finley, C. C.
Hayes, Old Wiles, C. T. Dough-
ton, C. G. Poindexter, W. B.
Somers, James Somers. J. C.
Grayson, C. B. Eller. Dr. G. T.
Mitchell, Dr. E. N. Phillips, Dr.
F. C. Hubbard, Dr. J. H. McNeil,
Dr. Sam Holbrook, Dr. J. W.
Davis, Dr. Thomas Lee White,
Lawrence Gray, Charles Cowles,
C. C. Sidden, Dr. W. R. Triplett,
M. F. Absher, O. F. Bll^ J. R.
Hlx, R. W. Gwyn. W, IT Half-
acre, A. P. Kilby, Norman Smoak,
W. O. Blackburn, R. C. Milter,
Buel Brooks, Dave Mink, JesM
Sheets, J. T. Wyatt, R. T. M**
Nell, John Walker. J. R. Ro«»-
seau, Lawrence Miller.. R. 8.
Gibbs, J. C. Reins, C. H Itender-
man, N. B. Smlther* J«e Peanen.
(Contlnned «n pac* ttra) ,