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VOL. XIV. NO. 5.
WILKESBORO, N. C. Thursday, May 29, 1919.
Price 1 yr. $1; 6 mo. 50c.
NC-4 FLIES ACROSS ATLANTIC-
Manned by Americans, American
Built Plane First to Fly
Across Atlantic.
Washington, May 27.—Blazing the
■way of the first air trail from the
western to the eastern hemisphere,
the United States navy seaplane NC-4,
under Lieut.-Commander Albert Cach
ing Read, swept into the harbor at
Lisbon, Portugal, today, the first air
ship of any kind to have crossed the
Atlantic ocean under its own power
and through its natural element.
Taking the air at Ponta Delgada,
Azores, at 6:18 a. m.. Washington
time, on the last leg of the trans
oceanic portion of the voyage from
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, to
Plymouth, England, the NC.4 covered
the 800 miles in nine hours and 43
minutes, maintaining an average
speed of better than 80 knots an hour.
The total elapsed flying time from
Newfoundland to Lisbon was 26 hours
and 41 minutes.
At the first opportunity the big
plane will continue to Plymouth, 775
nautical miles to the north. Possibly
Commander Read can start tomor
row. To the navy department, how
ever, it makes little difference when
he completes the journey. * The great
object of all the effort lavished on the
undertaking, navigation of a seaplane
across the Atlantic through the air,
has been accomplished- Twentieth
century transportation has reached
a new pinnacle and the United States
navy has led the way.
Navy officials emphasized that the
long delay at the Azores was due to
the weather and to no weakness of
the machine or its daring crew, nor
to ’any failure of the carefully laid
plans of the department to guide the
fliers to destination. The 14 destroy
ers strung from Ponta Delgada to Lis
bon reported with machine-like pre
cision today as the flight progressed.
The plane was never off its course,
and there, was no moment when offi
cials in Washington did not know
within a few miles where it was in
the air.
Dr. Ware Makes Fine Report for
North Wilkesboro District.
Dr. W. R. Ware, district director of
the Centenary drive for North Wilkes
boro District, makes the following
report: North Wilkesboro, $15,210,
full quota; Wilkesboro, $2,112, full
quota, Moravian Falls, $578, North
Wilkes Mission, $800.00; Jefferson
Circuit, $4,600.00, full quota; Sparta,
$700.00; Watauga Circuit, $2,764.00;
Bethel church, $100.00, a total of $26,-
864 for the churches named.
The latest reports from the work
ers in the Centenary movement
throughout the South indicate that
from three to ten million dollars more
than the thirty-five million dollars
the Methodist church planned to raise
in this drive have been subscribed.
Salvation Army Drive Extended An
other Week.
Owing to the bad weather last week,
the drive for the Salvation Army
Home Fund has been extended to June
3rd. This will enable the Township
Chairmen and Captains to get in some
good work next Sunday. We lack sev
eral hundred dollars of having our
quota raised. Some townships have
done themselves proud while others
have done nothing. You cannot af
ford to let your township report noth
ing in as worthy a cause as this. Sup
pose you put your returned soldier
boys out next Sunday; they will make
things hum because every one of
them appreciates the fine work of
the Salvation Army during the war.
F. B. HENDREN, Chairman.
Z Alleghany Votes Bonds For Roads.
A letter received today from Hon.
R. A. Doughton, of Sparta, states that
Aleghany county voted road bonds
Monday in the sum of $125,000 by a
majority of 600 votes. The county is
^expecting to receive aid^ from the
state highway commission amounting
to $125^00 and $250,000 from the
federal road building fund. Alle
ghany county is expecting to con
struct improved highways thru every
township in the county. The fine
showing made for roads in Aleghany
is largely due to the effort of Mr.
Doughton, commented one of his
friends today.—Winston-Salem Senti
nel.
SENATOR REED ASSAILS TREATY.
Democratic Senator Bitterly Denoun
ces it as a Monstrous and
Cruel Thinff.
Washington, .May 26.—The league
of nations was debated in the senate
again .today with an increasing show
of bitterness.
Senator Reed, Democrat, of Miss
ouri attacked the proposal in such
vigorous terms that he aroused re
peated objections from senators sup
porting it and developed a running
debate colored by dramatic accusa
tions and heated reports. The Miss
ouri senator declared the league
would place the destinies of the white
race in the hands of ignorant and
superstitious nations of black and
yellow population, and charged that
many Democrats were supporting it
for partisan reasons.
In frequent interruptions or the
[Missouri senator’s speech, Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, /ranking
Democrat of the foreign relations
committee, insisted that the premises
for these charges were false and that
the inferences drawn were unfair and
dangerous; He drew in turn a reply
from Senator Knox, Republican, of
Pennsylvania ,who suggested that
suporters of the league covenant
should read it before they discuss it.
So heated did the exchange become
at one point that the chair rapped for
order and Senator Reed declared
that Senator Hitchcock had “lost his
temper.”
The measure- which brought the
league issue before the senate was
the resolution of Senator Johnson.
Republican, of California, requesting
from the state department the full
text of the peace treaty. There was
no attempt to reach a vote on the
resolution, on which d^bat»: began
last Friday, and the measure went
over again as unfinished business to
come up when the senate reconvenes
Wednesday.
Without speaking directly on the
Johnson resolution, Senator Reed
made a general attack upon the-
league covenant itself as a proposal
to hand over control of the white race
and the civilized world to an assem
bly of nations where a majority al
ways could be brought together on
any race question in opposition to
white supremacy. He declared sup
port of the league plan never could
be explained at home by senators
from the south with its negro prob
lem, or from the west, with its Chin
ese and Japanese problems. Turning
dramatically to his Democratic col
leagues, he continued:
“If a Republican President had
brought it here—if Roosevelt had
brought it here—there isn’t a Demo
crat that wouldn’t have been stand
ing by my side fighting to the last
ditch to rescue the country from so
monstrous and so cruel a thing.”
Southern Democrats particularly
were chided for refusing to recognize
the negro as an equal at the ballot
box, but at the same time accepting
south Africa and other nations where
the black race predominates as mem
bers of the league assembly on an
equality with the United States.
“You think you can control the vote
of the black race,” he asserted, “but
on any question of race euality you
will never be able to do it.”
To support his prediction that the
black, yellow, brown and red races
would combine to embarass the white
race, Senator Reed cited the amend
ment offered by Japanese delegates
at Paris to the league covenant guar
anteeing race equality. Although the
amendment failed, he said, the Japa
nese delegates reserved the right to
bring it later before the league for
determination. .
He also quoted from a periodical
published by negroes in this country
a passage declaring a league of na
tions or some other ^“international
power” to be “absolutely necessary
for the salvation of the negro race”
in view of treatment of the -negroes
in the United States and South Africa.
In his speech of nearly three hours.
Senator Reed presented a mass of
statistics and other information re
garding the smaller members of the
league. The member nations in which
the white race was predominant, lie
said, totalled in population only 298,-
488,800, while those where other races
are in the majority had a population
of 811,425,000. He said white nations
would have 15 votes in the league and
Germany Still Refuses to Sign
Peace Treaty as Prepared by Allies
IMPORTANT THINGS OF THE HOUR ! HAWKER AND GRIEVE RESCUED
As Seen by the Business Men of
North Wilkesboro.—Better
Days Ahead.
Daring Aviators Failed to Cross At
lantic.—Thought to Have
Been Lost Six Days.
Answer of Germany to Peace Proposals
Deli vered Today. Peace Terms to
be Given Austria Monday.
Versailles. May 29.—Baron von cessions which are granted.
Lersaer, of the German delegation, i The Pan-German Gazette brands
informally delivered th® complete . tee reply as “suicide” and the Post
counter proposals to Col. Henry, the says:
[French liason officer, at 12:20 o'clock j “The German people are doomed to
I today. The Germans explained that'slavery between two masters until a
’there had been no time instructions, new Germany arrives to break the
which would be sent later. ( chains.”
The volume containing the propbs- ! 1513 Kreuz Zeitung is skeptical of
als is not bound, .corner fastners the success of the counter proposals
helping tcgeth~r the 146 pages. despite what it calls 4 Count von
The "reply is written in GermaN Bro ' Morff Rantzan's submissive-
and bears the caption: “Observations ;“® 88 ” and the Tagelische Rundchaa
of the German delegation on the con- ! S ^ S ’
diHons of peace.- d ’ “ The Oerman re * 18 “^ 38 de -
. ; pressing as the entente terms.”
Berlin, Wednesday,' May 28.—The It is reported that presentation of
conservative press of Berlin condemns the peace terms to the Austrian dele-
the counter proposals to 1 the peace gallon, which had been planned for
terms submitted by Germany, espec- Friday noon, has been postponed un
ially the financial and military con-' til Monday.
President Wilson May Run Again.
Chicago, May, 28.—President Wil
son’s candidacy for a third term will
be determined largely by the fate of
the league of nations, in the opinion
of Homer S. Cummings, chairman of
the Democratic national committee,
who came to Chicago today to pre
side at a two-days’ session of that
bod"
“While I have no information re
garding President Wilson’s intentions
about becoming a candidate for a
third term I believe the question
largely rests upon the fate of the
league of nations,” said Chairman
Cummings.
“If. the league of nations should by
any chance be defeated, and this to
my mind is unthinkable, the pressure
brought to bear upon the president to
run again would be very great, and I
feel certain he would be re-elected.
If the league of nations is successful
I do not think the pressure would be
nearly as great.”
In the absence of definite word
from President Wilson on the sub
ject, there was little gossip of can
didates among the parly leaders. The
Why The Patriot Is Late.
The Patriot held its forms over un
til Friday morning hoping to be able
to give more definite news about the
-progre^of the peace makers in Par
is,. but^ie Germans still decline to
sign tW.treaty and resorted to writ
ing Hoo. The additional seven days
that given - the Germans to
^^ 3^'v-oCAOrtent expired yesi.;>z»ay.'
It will become necessary, should they
finally refuse to sign, t o place a large
army in Germany and collect the in
demnities and enforce the terms of
peace with gun and bayonet.
Latest After-War News.
Paris, May 29.—It was stated in
high quarters this morning that a set
tlement of the Adriatic question is
now a certainty as a result of the
negotiations of yesterday and last
evening. Under this settlement Flume
becomes an independent city.
Paris, Tuesday, May 27.—Although
arrangements have been made to pre
sent the treaty to the Austrian dele
gation on Friday at noon, efforts of
the peace conference to reach a de ¬
names most frequently mentioned th® peace conference to reach a de-
were William G. McAdoo, former se- cision relative to the southern bound-
cretary of the treasury, and A Mit- : aries of Austria have been delayed
chell Palmer, United States attorney because of the position of the Italian
general, who will address the
mittee tomorrow night.
Every state was represented
committeeman or by a proxy
Chairman Cummings called the
com-; delegation.
I The Italians are linking questions
by a
when
body
to order in a session which formally
marks the opening of the presidential
campaign of 1920.
regarding Austrian coast boundaries
and the Dalamantiau problem post
poned for subsequent settlement.
Both the council of four and the coun
cil of ten had the Southern boundaries
in Austria under consideration today.
Wilkesboro High School Commence
ment Now in Progress.
The closing exercises of the Wil
kesboro High School begins tonight
with a music recital by the pupils of
Mrs. R. E. Prevette’s class, which
will be held at the school auditorium,
and tomorrow morning in the same
hall the graduating evercises will b®
held at ten-thirty. The annual lit
erary address will be delivered at
this hour by Rev. J. B. Craven. On
tomorrow night the program will con
sist of a comedy in four acts, and this
also will occur in the school audi
torium.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend all of these exercises and the
patrons of the school are especially
urged to be present.
Dr. W. D. Spinx, pastor of Brown
Memorial Baptist church, Winston-
Salem, delivered the annual sermon
this morning.
other nations 17.
As the nations where white blood
does not predominate, the senator
named Liberia, Haiti, Hedjaz, Pan
ama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatema
la, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Peru,
Brazil, South Africa, Siam, India,
China and Japan. In these countries,
he asserted, the average of illiteracy
was 85 per cent., and he quoted ex
tensively from reference works to
show that many of them were over
run with superstition.
A Busy Week Ahead.
Wilkes Superior court, a two
weeks’ term for the trial of civil cas
es, only, will convene next Monday,
June 2, with Judge J. L. Webb presid
ing. The first Monday of court, which
is also the first. Monday of the month,
promises, to be a very busy day for
Wilkes County’s various officials, it
being the regular time for the meet
ings of the’ county commissioners,
road commission and board of educa
tion. The farmers union will also
meet in regular session on that day.
Following is a list of the jurors
who have been summoned for the term
of court, beginning next week:
First Week—Walter Barnett, J. A.
Foster, A. J. Taylor, J. A. Smith, L.
Vyne, W. E. Triplett. R. F. Johnson,
H. C. Somers A. G. Anderson, G. W.
Brown, C. Q. Brown. W. R. Hutchi
son, J. D. McCann. John P. Setzer,
A. P. Bauguss, L. P. Phillips, G. M.
Earp, W. M. Sloop, G. W. Triplett,
L A. Brewer, T. J. Snow, R. J. Car
ter. N. F. Whittington, C. M. Welborn.
Second Week—W. M. Bauguss, D.
F. McCann, J. M. Byrd, J. W. Moore,
M. L. Gray, J. G. Woodruff, W. P.
Hampton, C. J. Jones, E. J. C. Myers.
W. A. Bumgarner, Sr., E. S. Fergu
son, S. A. Johnson, D. F. Adams, S.
H. Swanson. J. L. Pearson, Rev. Jno.
Burcham, S. M. Adams, R. D. Sale,
W. D. Crabb, W. L. Sparks, M. S.
Gibbs, J. G. Walsh, J. Marshall Lyon,
W. C. Watts. !
Written for The Wilkes Patriot.
The Wilkes Commercial Club, the
T. P. A. Association and the Mer
chant’s Association are strongly be
hind the movement to build a hun
dred thousand dollar hotel at once.
This can be accomplished of $25,000
of stock is raised within the next two
weeks. This stock is expected to pay
a dividend of from eight to ten per
cent from the start and every person
who is in business or has property
in this section or expects to have is
vitally interested- in this movement.
It means bringing thousands of peo
ple to this section, for the new roads
are radiating over it and adjoining
counties, and investing their money
in farms, stores and factories and
other business enterprises. Until
more houses can be completed, every
space possible should be converted
into rooms or apartment houses in
order to take care of as many fami
lies as possible who now want to
move here and cannot get room.
There is also on foot a plan to
purchase two large tents from the
government to be used ‘as exhibit
halls for the fair this fall, by repair
ing the fence destroyed by the flood,
and touching up the Grand Stand, the
Fair Company at a reasonable cost
can have a fair this fall. The County
District Fairs, Corn' Club boys and
the Tomato Club girls together with
the farmers should be preparing for
the exhibits.
The seven hundred or more of re
turned soldiers from Wilkes County
will have a celebration and organiza
tion on the 4t> of Jvly and whv not
ruvi-.e them atrei A
body as the guests of tut. :jmpaily-
and give exhibition drill every day
from half past one o’clock until two
o’clock, just before the fast races be
gin. Nine-tenths of us have never
seen as many as seven*hundred sol
diers drill at one time and it will be
a very attractive feature in the com
ing fair. With the good roads par
tially completed and at least con
necting us with the lower counties
and come with the upper counties the
automobiles from without the coun
ty together with our own citizens
will make this, the greatest fair ever
held in this section.
There is also a move on foot to re
habilitate and .start up the Chair
Company, provided arrangements can
be made to get enough house room to
accommodate the operatives. The
new Hosiery mill is running at full
time and the Underwear factory is
getting thoroughly established and
producing a large out-put. The new
factory just completed by the E. V.
Williams Mill Company will be ready
to start in a short while. The cot
ton Mill is starting up, the machinery
is nearly all placed and it will be
working in regular order in a few
days. In addition to these new factor
ies. the Brume Drug Company has
purchased the block of buildings be
tween its former double front on B
Street and the Southern Depot and
is enlarging these buildings, placing
machinery , and manufacturing
Brame’s Vapo-Mentha Salve and other
medicines to supply the growing de
mand for this product from the re
tail and wholesale trade of this pro
gressive company.
The New Williams Mill Company
has moved into their splendid new
brick factory on B and 5th Streets
and it is running smoothly by the
electric power from the city’s power
plant.
To take care of the new demands,
the Boone Trail Motor Company is
erecting a large brick building on
9th Street just South of the one oc
cupied by the Yadkin Valley Motor
Company which is also a large new
brick building.
Outlook for business was nev
er better and this community is on
the eve of the greatest progress it
has ever known. These four new
manufacturing plants have been or
ganized and put into operation with
in the last twelve months thus giving
us twenty factories small and large
thus assuring a large growth for our
town and section in the near future.
There are eight corn mill-factories
The following story, which was
given to the world by Harry Hawker
concerning the effort he made to
cross the Atlantic Ocean in a heav
ier than air machine, will be read
with interest by readers of The Wil
kes Patriot. The story was cabled,
to the Greensboro Daily News by the
London Times.
London, May 26.—By special cour
tesy of Lord Northcliffe’s Daily Mail
the London Times-Public Ledger
news . service herewith is permitted
to give Hawker’s own story;
“We had very difficult ground to
rise from on the other side. To get
in the air at all we had to run diagon
ally across the course.
“Once we got away we climbed very
well butwhen about 10 minutes up
we passed from fair clear weather
into the fog off the Newfoundland
banks. We
ever, and of
of the sea.
“The sky
got well over this, how-
course, at once lost sight
was quite clear for the
first four, hours when the visibility
became very bad. Heavy cloud banks
were encountered and eventually we
flew into a heavy storm with rain
squalls. At this time we were flying
well above the clouds at a height of
about 15,000 feet.
“After 5 1-2 hours, owing to the
choking of the filter, the temperature
of the water cooling our engines
started to rise, but after coming
down
came
went
when
several thousand feet we over-
this difficulty. Everything
well for another few hours,
once again the circulation °ys-
. ter: JA'.;ai->-^ pl
cure
poi;—^^ ^,. . boiling
til t of th ^ ''“-er ro^ ^ b .
A
rise much higher’'^i^fo'il 2 ^.....^ L^I
of motor power.
“When we were about 12 1-2 hours
on our way the circulation system
was still giving us trouble and we
realized we could not go on using up
our motor power. Then it was that
we reached the fateful decision to
play for safety. We changed course
and began to fly diagonally across
the main shipping route for about two
and a half hours, when, to our great
relief, we sighted the
ship which proved to
Mary.
“We at once sent
light distress signals.
Danish steam-
be the tramp
up our very
These were
answered promptly and then we flew
on about two miles and landed in the
water ahead of the steamship.
“The sea was exceedingly rough and
despite the utmost efforts of the Dan
ish crew it was one and a half hours
before they succeeded in taking us
off. It was only at great risk to them
selves, in fact, that they eventually
succeeded in launching a small boat
owing to the heavy gale from the
north-east, which was raging.*
“It was found impossible to salvage
the machine, which, however, is most
probably still afloat somewhere in
mid-Atlantic. Altogether, before be
ing picked up, we had been 14 1-2
hours out from Newfoundland. We
were picked up at 8:30 a. m. on Mon
day, Greenwich time.
“From Captain Duhn, of the Mary,
and his Danish crew we received the
greatest kindness on our journey
home. The ship carried no wireless
and it was not until we arrived off
the Bat of Lewis that we were able
to communicate with the authorities.
“Off Loch Eribol we were met by
the destroyer Woolston and conveyed
to Scapa Flow, where we
splendid welcome home from
al Freemantle and the men
grand fleet.”
Lieut-Comdr. MacKenzie
said:
had a
Admir-
of the
Grieve
‘When a few hundred miles out a
strong northerly gale drove us stead
ily out of our course. It was not al
ways possible owing to the pressure
of the dense masses of cloud, to take
our bearings, and I calculated that at
the time we determined to cut across
the shipping route we were about 200
miles out of our course. Up to this
change of direction we had covered
about 1,000 miles of' the journey to
the Irish coast.”
iu Wilkes County manufacturing and
shipping portable corn mills through
various agencies to several continents
(Continued on Page Eight)
Commencement exercises of North
Wilkesboro Graded and High School
will be held next Thursday and Fri
day. ,