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MARCH 8, 1328 BRIEFLY TOLD Ootttandiftg Happenings of Week Gathered from Everywhere Con* denied for the Busy Reader Trustee? of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation voted unanimously last week to give Col. Charles A. Lindbergh the Woodrow Wilson awuxi, which will consist of the Woodrow Wilson medal and $25,000 in recognition of his transatlantic a?ul Central American flights. More than 71,,0Q0 flood sufferers in the Mississippi vallev are still he ing.fed by the Red Cross as the anniversary of the great disaster approaches. Recent reports to the national headquarters of the Red Cross from field workers listed those receiving rations as follows: Arkansas, 4,729; Louisjana, 49,659; Mississippi, 16,514, and Tennessee 150. Acreage replanted since the disas| * ter with the help of the Red Cross totals 1,669,516, while 570,965 persons have received reconstruction aid to date. Red Cross officials said ; it was impossible to know when the j relief program would close, butj hoped that all reconstruction work would be completed during the spring Newark, N. J., March 1.?Contents of what purported to be another letter from the man who soaked the clothing of Miss Margaret Brown with gasoline and left her to burn j to death near Morristown, N. J., the j night of February 20, were made public today by the deputy police of this city. The letter was printed by hand, lik" the one received at Bernardsviile two days after the crime was committed. It reads as follows: "No need of looking for me. I am stopping temporarily with friends here but I am going to leave almost any day but if you do gel near me you won't hike me because 1 have with me a nice-looking and ] nice-tasting bottle which contains I small II. G C. pills which I will take j because I don't want to he burned j to hell with your famous Jersey justice" The letter was signed "From?" I St. Petersburg, Fla., March 4.? I Charging that Governor A1 Smith of I New York and Governor Ritchie oi? i Maryland, have done more to en-1 courage a breakdown of the prohi-| bition law than all other agencies | combined. Bishop James Cannon, Jr .j chairman of the board of tcmpoiancc and social service of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, colled on dry voters of the nation here today to prevent the election in 1928, of a wot cocktail president." Addressing the opening session of the southeastern states prohibition convention called by the Anti-Saloon league. Bishop Cannon, who also is a in ember of the league's administra live committee, declared that "it is useless to attempt to eliminate the prohibition question in the presi dential campaign because the wets themselves have determined to force the fighting for the nomination and ! election of an openly declared op j ponont of prohibition." Will II Hays; former postmaslcr general, testified Thursday before > the senate oil committee that Harry } F. Sinclair had handed him a total BKH of $260 000 ill Liberty bonds for use by the Republican eallbnn! eomihittee after the oil operator had leased Teapot Dome. Of this amount $160,000 actually was used to help ! extinguish the committee deficit re- j suiting from the 1020 presidential j c-tmpaign, which Hays directed as, chairman of the national committee, j Ihe remaining- $100,000 being la;-i turned to the oil operator. The! transaction occurred ir. L!!2;l after | the Continental Trading Company of j Canada had made its $$,OSO.OOO in i profits and gone out of business, but I Hays said, and Senator Wash of | Montana, agreed with him, that he knew nothing of the Continental company at .that time. When testifying before the same committee in 102-1, the fovmer cabinet officer and now a major figure in the motion picture industry, placed Sin VERY LITTLE * TO SAYbut a lot to think about: A savings account can be spent at any time; but it is never desired more keenly than the time when its need is most im?. perative. Bank of Blowing Rock BLOWING ROCK, N. C. P " ' ? clair's contribution at $75,000 ami i an that point was sharply questioned ! hv Senators Walsh ami Bratton. He j explained that the $75,000 was all ; j he was asked about at the time and | l>e did not volunteer information about the other because the plan I had been to return all of it to oinl cl&ir. Fort Myers. Fin.. March ?Thej tragic fate of Harry Brooks has not; shaken the faith of Henry Ford in j the commercial practicability of/ small airplanes of the type in which! the chief pilot of the Ford company ! plunged to his death in the sea off the Florida coast last Sunday. End-: ing a vacation of two weeks at hisj | winter home here today, Mr. Ford \ told newspapermen just before hi*! departure that his company would I continue its experiments with small] planes and when perfected and putj into volume production they would I sell for about the same price as the | automobile which he makes. Mr. Ford said he could not estimate the time it would take to do the preliminary work, required before starting manufacture of the plane? in the quantity necessary to market them at automobile prices. Tests similar to the Detroit-Florida non-stop flight which ended fatally for Brooks will he undertaken as soon as another plane of similar design is ready, Mr. -Ford said. He added that no successor to his late chief pilot had been named, but that one of the airmen of his organization would be promoted to carry on the work. BUILDING GALLOWS FOR DOOMED AMERICAN GIRL Montreal, Canada, March 7.?Carpenters are busy building the gallows that will end the life of Julia Palmer McDonald, former Mount Vernon, N. V., society girl, on March 23rd, if the frantic campaign for commutation of her death sentence fails. On the same day her young husband, George McDonald, is scheduled to die also. They were convicted of killiner a Montreal Taxi driver. FIFTY-YEAR-OLD MOTHER DUE TO HANG IN ARIZONA j Tucson. Arizona. March 8.?Mrs.) Eva pagan, who. at fifty, is awaiting execution for the murder of A. J. Mat his, rancher. She is the first ! woman to face the gallows in Avi- ; zona. j . JHii /A Bis I ift fl9 f B 3fiMr/ ?HaiggpM pgnpn v Jt* Trmjtaft+TfttiG """ ^Jowei \ ever ] Whe The COACH drive 585 a ????'*495 ^c, SS*. * ,*595 The: TKt 4-lloor */znC Biggl S?1.? 0<-> is]al SSrlSS1 . *665 it br; The Imperial -t ? Vaiiti landau . . / IJ r crafi Uriliry Track SA.QZ , (ChtuiiiOnlv) tv-D read ^,^SS375 even All (truxs f. r/.b. Flint, such. tJons Check. Chevrolet the ( BlUwi'li PtIcm ?wl They include fbe Jot*# j O VV < eit handiingand booinc- t >n| chute* nvxMU. piaCt Boone f ' i QUALITY 1HE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?fcl THIS WEEK By ARTHUR BRISBANE Labor Sacsijfj Machines Employment For All Thomas EHison a Young Man 17,000 Years From Stone Arc ' If a drop of sr*U water could tails it would tvii the whole story of the Pacific." One Santa Fe freight train goin>; through the* Kansas City yards to Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas ^rain fields told the story of progress and prosperity ;n tms country and prom iscci a solution of its labor problem, aggravated by immigration restrictions. That train of thirty-one cars earned $250,000 worth of "Combine Harvesters" and will soon be followed by a thousand carloads of those labor-saving machines'. They cut. grain, thresh it, pile up the straw, delivering: the grain in sacks or by spout to miniature grain elevators. In Kansas last year they saved the work of 40,000 men. Employment conditions are not satisfactory in New York state and Governor Smith instructs public officials to help "take up the slack" by putting men to work on public enterprises. That should be, automatically, part of national and state programs. A farmer finds something for his farm hands and his own hands to do in winter, when crops are in. A good farmer keeps his horses at work, earning their keep in winter, hauling wood or otherwise. National and state governments. oil vtswwi;*,... J?: M" Mvvuing UlUIIIilgC, all sorts of improvements, should find work for everybody willing' to work, and at decent pay. Thomas A. Edison says he is really IG2 years eld, because iie has done two days' work every day of his eighty-one years He did ten thousand years' work when he changed man's lighting system from kerosene to electricity,1 His habit of working two days in one accounts for the fact that mentally he is forty, not eighty-one. An active mind stays young in man or woman. Women grow old prematurely because badly organized civilization gives them nothing to do except taik and dress when their children are grown. st Price jlaced on an aui Body by Fi revcr automobiles are Bodyt ;n, the emblem "Body racy., isher" is recognired as a Duco . nark of quality. Every- built < e, it identifies automo- and st thatare distinguished for qualiti , beauty, and comfort, and sa sensational success of the iS''j ? sr and Better Chevrolet ofdo11 gelv due to the fact that Come ngs all these exclusive ad- the Bi tgesof Fisher styling and rolet. 1 tsmanship within the gineer h of everybody, ider, for instance, Chevrolet Coach rich carries the est price ever JeiQ' ;d on a car with xiSjP' Chevro! 300NE, N. C r AT L o VERY THURSDAY? BOONE. N. C. . . "=="~TT~ Eskimos within reach of civiiiza tion. sell their valuable tiars t<> White traders and wear coals of leatb.o and cheap, ready-made suits. T.iej can sympathize with some farthers that sell cream, and butter to cities and eat oleomargarine. ? ii") ^Flaming youth." dancing, drinking or shooting worries ofcaer countries also. Lawyers from Japan, ; Fiance and Britain are watching a > Berlin murder trial. Hc.u; Kraut . as-eti nineteen, helped his yotmg : friend, ScheUer, and Sclielier's sis' tor, Hildcgard, to pass an evening: pleasantly with dancing:, tobacco and ! much drink. Hiidegard, only, 16, smuggled a friend, Otto Stephen, into her bedroom, and .Han . at Inched to Hflaegard, told rhe girl's i i? ?' ;w-~ - - ??3? i K.vuiur ne eugni to kill Stephen. He j did it. then killed himself, l The question isr did Krantz commit murder when he told his friend, "Avenge your sister's honor hv killing the man"? Americans talk today of many things?prosperity, politics, assorted crimes, sports. News that will interest. future generations is the fact that actual moving pictures of human beings were sent through the ether, without wires, across the Atlantic ocean. j Humans actually saw each othI or, separated by three thousand | miles of water. j Jf that is done by a race onl\ I } 17,000 years from the Stone Age, j | who can doubt that a million years j hence our race will sec pictures, | coming through the ether, of life on other planets. Mr Bo 11 ills, through his Denver Post, tells the world he wants "every family in the United States to own a home, automobile and radio," because "this would tremendously increase the happiness and prosperity of all our people." It would have seemed preposterous in Home to sucrsrast that n?ir_i body but the emperor and a few of the great should own a bathtub. There were serious protest against installing the first bathtub in the White House on the ground that it was not democratic. The Bonfiis trinity of comfort?home, automobile and radio?for every family will{ bo realized, plus freedom from v;or- j ry in old age, more important thani the other three. i Th< odqe?t thing about secrets of success is that they've told every j where. tomobile with sher! J >y Fisher. Long, low and . . finished in genuine . . . and with its body >f selected hardwood eel?it offers all those es of beauty, comfort fety that are character: cars costing hundreds ars more! in today and inspect gger and Better ChevN'ote the advanced ening in every unit. Go for a drive and learn the full meaning of Chevrolet performance. Learn,like tensof thou -t -i ? auiius in otners nave, thathere is the world's most luxurious low* priced automobile I let Co. fc fm W COST ' lonacco f lUf WU 4 .William T? Tilden 2nd to protect his throat smokes Luckies ' During the course of seme cf my stage appearances, 1 can called upon a- intervals to smoke a cigarette and naturally 1 ha ve to be v-fid about my choice. I smoke Lucky Strikes and have y _ to feel the slightest effect upon my throat." p- . , j 1 f* L TT1 ti No Throat kriiadon-No Cough. ?1328, The Americur: lubu.ee,) Co., Xr.c. ================ i EXPER^^^^^G WORK AT A REASONABLE PRICE Wo guarantee that cur Piuuibihg Work veil! give <<ornpi<^ satis taction ar.H that our prices arc the most reasonable in town. When you phono here for a nlumber von know i that the work will he done right and at the right price. ? I PROMPT, EFFICIENT SERVICE | Open 7 a. m. io 6 p. rn. every Hay except Sunday C. S. STEVENSON Telephone 87 Shop 13 Main Street PLAY SAFE KEEP YOUR CAR IN ORDER Don't "take a chance" when driving. Tf your engine is not in order drive in and we will fix it in I "no time." ongm aajustmcnts cost but a "trifle" and will assure you a perfect trip. DON'T neglect your car. Our mechanics are experts. Come in today and tcii us your car troubles. LET US CARE FOR YOUR CAR A W.R. 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