THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872.
JURY SAYS SET
DEED ASIDE
i
CASE OF HENDERSON FUN
CHUM AND OTHERS SUING;
ROBERT FLINCHUM, DE- j
CIDED IN FAVOR OF PLAIN- j
TIFFS—OTHER ACTION FOR >
$4,700 CASH MAY BE
BROUGHT CIVIL COURT
STILL IN SESSION.
A deed from James Flinchum,
deceased, to his son Robert Flin- ]
chum, is null and void by reason
of having been obtained from the
grantor when his mind was affect
ed by old age and illness.
This verdict was handed in ati
civil court today by a jury after l
having been out with the evidence!
two days. The land in controv
ersy is valued at $5,000 and lie.s |
near Piedmont Springs.
It appeared from the evidence
that the defendant Robert Flin
chum had lived with his father
for several years prior to toj
death. The plaintiffs alleged j
that he used undue influence to j
obtain from his father a deed to j
the tract of land of about 80!
acres, and that the grantor's I
mind was affected with 01.l age
and illness at the time the deed
was made. Other heirs, includ
ing Henderson Flinchum, Tom
and William Flinchum sued to j
get the deed set aside.
It was reported here that at;
the time of his death James Flin
chum who was administrator, also
detains the plaintiffs from their
lawful portion of the same, and
action will be started for the re
covery of the same by the other
heirs.
Other cases disposed of by the
civil court which is still in sess
ion are as follows:
W. J. Bullin vs. Martha Ann
Bullin, action for divorce. Judg
ment for plaintiff.
Mahala Bullin vs. Odell Bullin,
action for divorce. Judgment
for plaintiff,
i R. F. Westmoreland vs. Moir
S. Martin and Martin Memorial
Hospital. Non-suit.
W. D. Rothrock vs. State Plan
i terg Bank and S. Gilmer Sparger,
Trustee. Consent judgment.
™ Cases vs. J. W. Neal, C. E
Davis et al, in Nos. 15, 16 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27,' 28, 29,
L 30, 31, 32, 33,
non-suited.
Andy Nhinn vs. Everett Stan
ley. Trial pending.
Lula A. Martin vs. R. J. Scott, j
admr., of J. P. Smith, dee'd, and j
J. Morris Smith. Consent judg
k m(ent.
W. Jack Wall vs. Nannie Bos
tick Wyrick Creason. Consent
judgment.
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Volume 64.
SEVERAL DEATHS
OCCUR AT KING
i ;
DAUGHTER OF MR. AMD MRS.
; IRA KIRBY PASSES RE
| MAINS OF WILBURN NEW-
I SUM BROUGHT HOME FORI
BURIAL JACKIE HUNTER
! IS ARRESTED OTHER
NEWS OF KING.
King, April B.—The three-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Kirby diej at their home Fri- j
i day night following an attack of
pneumonia. The funeral service
was conducted at Trinity church
just west of town Sunday after
! noon at 2 o'clock and burial fol
| lowed in the church cemetery.
Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Helsabeck
. and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stone
are spending a fifteen days' va
j cation in Florida and Cuba.Thev
I expect to return byway of New
I Orleans.
I
Raymond Marion underwent a j
minor operation here last week.:
Dr. Belmont Helsabeck performed J
I the operation.
j The remains of Wilburn New
! sum, aged 32, who was accident-i
I
! ly killed by a train at Kannapolis
| Sunday morning, were brought 1
I back here and the funeral service!
was conducted at the first Bap- !
list church Wednesday morning j
at 11:00 o'clock. Rev. R. A. i
Helsabeck, of Tobaccoville, was i
jin charge of the service. Two
| sisters also survive. They are
. Mrs. Roy McGee, of King, and
'Mrs. Sam Powers, of Winston-
Salem, and his mother, Mrs.
Erich Spainhower, of Dormaha.
The deceased is survived by three
small children, two boys and one
girl. His grandmother, Mrs.
Hester Love, also survives and
several uncles and aunts.
E. M. Hauser and family, of
Bethania Statical, formerly of
King, were visitors here Sunday.;
S. P. Wright, of Troutman.!
visited relatives in Walnut Hills
Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Michael,
Moravian Missionaries, of Quin
hagalc, Alaska, are visiting Mrs.
Michael's brother, Rev. Edward j
Helmich, pastor of the Ki'ng
Moravian church.
Mr. and Mrs. James Love, of
Winston-Salem, were week-end
visitors to relatives here.
Work is under way on a new
addition to the dwelling of Gil-
I mer Newsum just south of town.
Albert Sidney Boles, retired
railway mail clerk, of Washing
j ton, D. C. f is spending a few
I days with relatives here.
The mercury registered 22
here Friday morning. All early
fruit was killed.
Elder Reed, of Walnut Cove,
was among the business visitors
here Saturday.
Joe Johnson, prominent platat-j
ier of the Mountain View section, \
was here Saturday on business.
Clint Stewart, of Tobaccoville,
was here Sunday shaking hands
with old friends.
Prof, and Mrs. C. C. Carroll, of
Mount Airy, formerly of King,
were here Sunday.
Julius Alridge and Miss Sallia
Mae Culler were united in the
holy ' yi' matrimony Satur- '
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, April 9,1936 !
(An Editorial.)
Ignis Fatuus,
An ignis fatuus is a small, brilliant, sput
tering light that moves slowly about and
dances on the face of a pond. It is produced
by a vapor exhaled upward from the muck.
In other words, the illumination from a puff
of gas. Those who follow it are said to
sometimes find difficulties and danger in
the swamp.
Are the enthusiasts of the Winston-Salem
candidate following the perambulations of
an ignis fatuus, or the gyrations of a jack
o'lantcrn?
Dr. McDonald is smart and brilliant and
exceedingly argumentative no mistake
about that. His words are honeyed, his
personality is captivating especially to the
ladies, he takes prisoner one's imagination.
Many people consider him a great medicine
man from the west. He can paint rain
bows whose iris tints blind the sight of
those who do not have a habit of examining
chromos on the reverse side.
There is reputed to be a bag of gold at the
end of all rainbows. We doubt if at the end
of Dr. McDonald's rainbow a bag of gold
dangles for the tax-payers of North Caro
lina, but there may be a bag of chestnut
burrs.
Hard-headed, practical North Carolin
ians believe he is a wild visionary, a puffed
up theorist, a groping dreamer, a jack
o'lantern.
But he is dangerous. He has all the ear
marks of a false prophet. His specious
reasoning may naturally lead one on in the
rainbow chase till the stop comes in the
morass.
The Winston-Salem speech was an epic,
be it known. Dynamic sentences were
hurled calling for deafening huzzas. The
call was obeyed always. Anon seme excited
guy reached up and pulled the welkin till
it rang, shrieked, and squawked with sound
and fury.
Such sentences as the statement involv
ing the character of some of Winston-
Salem's great citizens and the integrity of
the county "machine," were received with
deafening applause. The echo to this par
ticular statement, as published by the Win
ston-Salem Journal, depicting the Doctor to
be without the foundation of facts in his
statement, was palpably embarassing.
Nobody in North Carolina is enjoying Dr.
McDonald's furor and his frantic efforts to
discredit the Democratic party, so much as
the Republicans. They are packing away
his thunder with unction to use against
Hoey or Graham later on.
Ninety-nine out of every 100 Republicans
are pro-McDonald, and why?
His picturization of the machine in the
State is graphic. It is an evil, sinister, in
fernal contrivance to be used against hon
est men.
The spectacle of the Democratic party on
trial is almost as thrilling as when the lines
are tightly drawn on an ordinary November
1. The great "machine," which is only the
great Democratic party, has survived other
attacks.
Maybe it will survive this.
Washington, April 8. The
house, late this afternoon passed
the tobacco states compact bill,
of primary concern to the states
states in the flue-cured area.
The bill, waa approved by a vote
of 189- to 117, and action is now
aw iea»t»
- Washington, April 8. —The sen-
I ate lobby committee scored a di-
X court victory over William
dolph Hearst today, and in
. simultaneous hearings disclosed
• a select group of wealthy indus
r trialists contributing heavily to
Jul maiUMfc
BOWMAN GRAY
ESTATE DID PAY
STATEMENT OF DR. McDON
ALD IN HIS WINSTON-SAL
EM SPEECH FOUND TO BE
AT VARIANCE FROM TIIE
FACTS.
i
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald is bas
ing his gubernatorial campaign
on avowed factualilies says the
Greensboro News of Apiil 7. I
alone knows what he is talking
| about in North Carolina. Tl-.ow
| who have run and observed state
affairs for lo these many years ,
are wrong. His statements, his
figures and his analysis must bo ]
accepted, for they only are the ;
true picture of needs, condition':'
and solutions for the common-'
wealth. ',
It was Dr. McDonald the infal
libilist who spoke at Winston-
Salem several days ago and who
gave, among other items, this
information to his audience and ]
to the entire voting populace of
North Carolina:
The will of a respected citizen
of Winston-Salem was probated
in this very court house, reveal
ing an estate which has been ap- ]
praised conservatively at eleven .
and one-half million dollars. The
name of this man did not even
appear on the tax books of For
syth county.
Opinion was immediately and 1
generally expressed, with no 1
denial so far as the Daily News ■
has observed, that Dr. McDonald '
man Gray. So general was the |
•.vas talking about the late Bow- '
ipplication that it found its way '
! nto the public prints. A Wins- 1
on-Salem Journal reporter, re- '
■"erred to tlie Forsyth tax books, !
took a look for himself with the 1
following results, as given in a 1
front-page Journal story:
Mr. Gray's name appeared on 1
j the tax books, being listed twice '
jointly with Mrs. Gray.
The tax records showed the
following listings for 1935:
Old Town township—Mr. and
Mrs. Bowman Gray: 72 24-100
Reynolda and Brookstown roads.
Valuation: 5420,580 real prop
erty; $117,455 personal property.
The total was $538,035, on
which was paid $2,691.17.
Winston township—Mr. and
Mrs. Bowman Gray: 22 acres at
Reynolda and Brookstown roads.
Valuation: $28,160 real (no
personal) property.
On this a total of $140.80 was 1
paid. |
The value of the properties
listed by Mr. and Mrs. Gray was
shown on the tax books .is '
$566,195. County taxes levied
totaled $2,830.97.
True, this is but a single item
in a long McDonald catalogue,
but it centers in the good doc
tor's home city where he should
b« more familiar with conditions
and facts, as they are, than any-|
where else in the state. A turn-1
ing to the tax books himself be-1
■ i
fore he made his statement |
would easily have avoided the
misinformation. Surely the re
velation which now comea to light
is not representative in the least i,
of the atndy and reaearch which J:
Number 3,337
Father Of Fred
P. Carter Dies
At Moeksville
F. M. Carter died at his home
at Moeksville Monday after an ill
ness of several months. Durin-j
( the last few weeks his condition
i had become critical.
Mr. Carter was the father if
Fred P. Carter, linotype operator
on the Danburv Reporter. Fred
tv.lived news of his father'. 1 ) crit
ial cor !i ion Vomhy by tele-
I'Vor.o ;t ii i *«■!t iniiiH iii'tely for
Mo ksvillo. He f'.und !,is ] ircit
•leal w!ii ,; i he reached his home.
110 h.'d just retimed tV-im th?
bedside early Mondi y moaning,
and had spt nt the week-end with
the patient.
. The deceased, who was a promi
nent citizen and business rmn of
Moeksville an.j Davie county, i.s
survived by his wife and three
sons.
The funeral was one of the
largest ever held at Moeksville,
attesting the high regard in which
Mr. Carter was held. Attending
from Danbury were N. E. Pepper
and son Vance.
The interment was at Fork
Baptist church cemetery, S miles
south of Moeksville.
FRANK M. CARTER.
Moeksville, April 7. Frank M.
Carter, well knewn business man
and church and civic leader, died
Monday at his home here follow
ing illness of several weeks.
He was a native and lifelong
resident of Davie county, having
been bom and reaied in the Fork
Church section, where lie lived
until coining to Moeksville In en
page in the mercantile business
several years ago. At the time
of his death he was in
the automobile sales business her-;
and was sunerintendi nt of the
Baptist Sunday school.
Surviving members of the
family include his wife. Mis. Jan
nie Smith Carter; three sons
>
Hicks Carter, of Winston-Salem;
Fred P. Carter, of Danbury, and
Hubert Carter, of Moeksville; two
brothers. DeWitte Carter, of
Davie county, p.nd Ncal Carter, of
Tyro: three sisters, Mrs. l.ee
Walser, of Winston-Salem;
Nora Carter, of Davie county, and
Mrs. Charles Foster, of Fork
church.
Funeral service was held at
j Fork Baptist church Wednesday
[ morning with Revs. E. W. Turner
|E. J. Harbison, June Carter and
T. I. Caudell in charge. Inter
ment was at the church cemetery.
I .
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E. F. Richardson of Madison,
was in town today.
fairness and factualily of bin