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TWO MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL CAUGHT St. Joseph Police Capture Frederick Burke, Notorious Gangster, as He Sleeps. Accused of St. Valentine's Massacre. St. -Joseph, Mo.?Fred Burke, known as the most dangerous criminal in America because of bis alleged wholesale murders and robberies, was captured without a struggle Thursday of last week. At a farm house near Milan. Me., four St. Joseph policemen, a sheriff and a rural constable surprised the killer in bed. K? surrendered without a shot being fired. Word of his arrest sent Chicago detectives racing to St. Joseph by automobile in the hope of being first to claim the prisoner. They carried warrants wnich charge Burke with being the assassin who lined up seven Mo ran gangsters in a Chicago garage St. Valentine's Day. 1920, and riddled their bodies with machine gun fire. Meanwhile, Prosecutor W, N. Cunningham a?id Sheriff Fred Cutler left Benton Harbor. Michigan, in an effort to return him to stand trial for the slaving of Policeman Charles Skelly, December , 1928, at St. Joseph, Mich. Burke is; charged with a dozen or more murders, and robberies totaling at least a million dollars. The capture, which ended a nation-wide search for the man so badly wanted that $90,000 in rewards have been offered for his apprehension, was the result of a farmer's observation. E. M. Mathews, chief of St. Joseph police, said. Noticing that Burke displayed bills of large denomination and never left his automobile when visiting neighboring towns, the farmer reported his suspicions to the Depart rrient of Justice, which requested St. Joseph officers to investigate. Officers armed with machine-guns rushed into Burke's room at dawn on Thursday and -seized him before he could reach for his gun on a nearby chair. price apparently believed he. was to be meted gang vengeance. He expressed relief vyhBn he found his raptors were officers instead of gangsters. Brought to St. Joseph, he was identified by U. T. Amhews, superintendent of the bcrtdJon department. Burke first gave his name as Richard Franklin White, but later admitted his identity, officers said. Confined in a specially constructed cell with two patrolmen detailed to guard him, the gunman today made non-committal replies to question!? about his career. Since becoming the object of a widespread search, Burk e had changed his appearance by growing a mustache. It covered a scar on his lip noted in a description of the gangster broadcast over the country. Democrats of South Move Against Raskob Washington. B. (A movement ;.n the Southern vine: of the Democratic party was inuler '.vav Friday to head off The ar.li-prohibition and economic proposals made by Chairman Ras.kob ar the recent meeting of he' national committee.' The movement, its 'coders said, is designed to prevent approval of the Raskob program at national convention next year ami i?> make husiliess condition? r.paramount i?'<he Iir, 1932 by steering the party toward a liberal ec-.monr.c stand: 4 Southern Democrats are leading the movement whiclvis an outgrowth !?& of the conflict at the recent national committee meeting. |S$jr>v:vPians .for carrying it oiit were v!i^cussed by lour of them at an infor?|?jYi mal conference last' week ir. the office of Senator Robinson of Arhansas, the Democratic, leader. ? Those who attended, in addition SBBs^! to Robinson. were Senators Swain ^ ion of Virgin!ap tlull oi Tennessee and former Gc vern-jr Byrd of v'lr|: ??1^^ CLASS HEMSTITC H TXG- Special attention to mail'.'order*. Located at Farmer* Hardware Hiivfel Supply Company. Phone -J. Mrs. I 'jjjjyj C. Greer. S -1-2- J p Dr. C- B. Bau^hman, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, Johnson City, Tenn., will he in the office of r:y-r.:, Dr. J. B. Hagaman in Boone, on the first Monday in each month for the it'/. orscticc of his orofriiion. 10.t7.tf BUY CHICKS THAT LIVE?99 per cent, of all chicks we have sold this season are alive and flowing:. For f,r;. a limited time we are offering day C' old Barred and White Hocks, R. Ijk; . Reds and White Leghorns at SI 2.50 "C" hv.r. :n I etc of 100 cr ever p; at the hatchery. Ten days old started chicks, 15c. Fine hatching eggs at reasonable Tatcs. Wilkes Hatchery. North Wilkesboro, N. C. 3-12 I ^ FOR RENT?Six-room house with ? \ bath, in Boone- Close in on hard\ surface. MraC D. F. Brown, Lax%' on, N. C. 4-2-4t ? . NOTICE &JB&. s to notifv all persons cony eeroeu1 ttiat an application is being Sfe<-v." mfcde to . the Governor for the parj Vf tr, T. Bobbins, who is now *erifn ?f eighteen months the Sfote Prison for forgery, i This llarch 25, 1931. 3-26-2tp E. G. BOBBINS.. ? -? His Simple 7 j " A plaui wen ijin name painted on it is all that cnarfcf the last resting, place, in Arlington Cemetery of the man who was Presidem >f the Uniteil State s >nd Chief * Justice of the S"pr? tre Court DATElS SETTLED" i FOR CRUCIFIXION < looted Berlin Theologiau Has Dis- ^ covered Data to Prove Theory. ^ Much Research Made in Order to Fix Exact Day. t J. Berlin, Germany. -Doubts as to t the exact date of the crucifixion of jt j Christ may have been set at rest by j i Professor Oswald Gerhaidt, promt- j. nent Bevlin theologian n By collecting vbliShinous Biblical,'j historical and a&tronomiea! data, he has fixed April 7 of the year 30 A. ; D. as the day on which the Saviour i was executed. Professor Gerhardt explains in a scientific journey that fixing this date was by no means a simple nfI fair. As a matter of fact, arguments y could be advanced that the cruci- a fixion year might be 20, 30, 31, 32 1 or 33. V Jesus made his first appearance in public, Professor Gerhardt explains, ; after the advent of St. John the Bap- * | tist, which was, according to the " | gospel of St. Luke, in the fifteenth v | year of the reign of Tiberius Cae- s -ar. The Emperor Augustus having 11 | died A I). I I. the fifteenth year * ! might have been either A. D. 28 or 11 "J1.*. b J Bui Tiberius had gubernatorial niMK ana privileges cquai 10 tne em- ~ peror while Augustus was still alive, and Roman provincial coins exist on J which A. D. 12 i< designated as the first year gp Tiberius. That would \ make the baptism of Jesus by John * occur in 2d or 27. This tallies with the gospel of St. [ John, which says, 2-20, that Jesus first came to Jerusalem at the time when "forty and six years was the temple in building"; that is, in the v spring of 27. 1 * The gospels agree in fixing Christ's f : public activities as extending over,} three years and nine months. Jesus i died on Friday in Passover, a feast * j beginning on the 14th Xisan. It was ^ I the next day that the crucifixion took 2 place. What date, then, corresponds * to Friday, the loth Xisan? The first day of the Jewish month a was the'one on which the young c i ju^uii is ticstVHl i ll^L UeCSiTlie yiSiPiO. j Therefore the question resolved ilj self ;nto this In which of the years \ 29 to 33' did, after a new moon, the a ! first h?isaq fall on such a day that;a the loth should be Friday? To answer this astronomical prob-j bin. Professor Gerharut studied ta"-J ' hies- by half a dozer scientists whoII ? had calculated the mooiEs period.-? and ascensions at Jerusalem. The re-i i salt pointed jto the. April 7th of iSGo! ; crucifixion. -ASTIMEj T H 12 A T K E| "Phcc of Good Shows" FRIDAY-SAT., APKIL 3-4 BUCK JONES ; ?m I "DAWN TRAIL" | i i MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 6-7 j NANCY CARROLL j ?in? i "STOLEN HEAVEN" | Packed with emotion, suspense dramatic thrills from first to final climax. YooTl like it! WED.-THUR5DAY, APRIL 8-9 Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan ?IN? "MIN AND BILL" Packed With Drama, Laafiu and THRILLS nn^iaHnHiiiHnMnK THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV iMMANY BEGINS ! SWINGING BROOM | iger Political House Cleaning Begins in Anticipation of Coming Visitors from State Capital. Mayer Still in CaliforniaNew York.?The clean-up broom wished fuiiously Tuesday as Tamiar?y hastened to tidy up house gainst the coming of unbidden uests from Albany, the State espial. A legislature committee is coning to investigate the city from top o bottom. uust new in tnc lenvmen; nouses; lepartment and when it settled 383! iten found themselves i:i new fobs, t was the most, drastic share-up in he department's history. William F. Deegan. head of the lepartment, said every Inspector in 3rookivn had been transferred to Manhattan and vice versa. Inspectors n the three other boroughs also were ifteeted. Deegan said he had found i shift ever sc often was the way o get results. Mayor James J. Walker, still in "alifornia, was reported to be con- j idering changes ijt two other cityj uireaus?the department of markets >nd the hoard of standards and appeals. A grand jury began investigating he case of Rollin C. Bastrcss, Queens lepuhlican and chief inspector of he Manhattan Buildings bureau. He < accused of taking a bribe from; ilderman Walter G. Jones, of Yon.-J eisr, a contractor. Jones waived imnunity and went before the grand ury. -ife ot Service A mono i ? .. . Lepers Ends With Death Honolulu. H. I.?Ira 'Brother Joeph" Dutton. who sought to expiate worldly life by bumble service to he lepers of Molokai, died in a hoslitai here last Thursday of eld age. Dutton would have been 88 years Id April 27. His health had been! ailing for the past year. More than | nlf his life had been devoted to the! ictinis of the world's most loath-1, pie disease when, his eyesight a!-} riost gone, he was brought here last) uly that a cataract might be reaoved from his left eye. He never eft the hospital again. What impelled the dashing Ira >utton, Civil War hero and sueees-su! business man, to forsake the; yorlo and seek atonement in a . rc-j igious life was something he never, old. Once, commenting on the ap-j ireach of hip ninetieth birthday he | aid with a twinkle in bis eye thati he graph of his life represented "45 roars dowiv, and 45 years up.,r But while the secret of whatever le regarded us his sins was locked cithir. his heart, it was said his conversion at the age of 40 and his lesire to become a religious worker : cere regarded with some doubt byhe Trappist brotherhood. The result as he remained through the rest of iis life merely a lay brother, never dmitted to full membership in the uiestly order. Dutton never ^contracted leprosy, Ithough he lived 44 years in daily ontr.ct with its victims. Regardless of the impulse which 2<1 him to Molokai, Brother Joseph as r.o mournful martyr. He found T jL | THE i i Weather Treed is sope- BXjfl t '.or in traction. Note Sow the deep-cut, tight gripping blocks are placed in the EH center of the tread, where hH they belong. Press the paim fWB Of your hand upon this treod and feel how the blocks svra grip and pinch the flesh. . . . This illustrates the All- H|Mj Weather Tread s holdfast action on pavement or road. '1 30x3H TIRES 3.50 29x4.40 TIRES 4.45 SCz4.50 TIRES 5.4S Standard Service Station, Home Owned BBBEBBBBHHBMI E?.iMiMiBia?iii?mn?i y-Bi~-^'Mn5^iVifffls5WMMMB^wEfe? - '- yflr- _,..'-?Vi '.. ERY THURSDAY? BOONE, N. C. happiness in serving those lepers assigned to the group he supervised in Kalawao, one of the two towns making up the MoJokai colony of five hundred-odd lepers. Despite the threat of ?o\v prices this fall Harnett County farmers will probably increase their tobacco acreage by fifteen per cent, accordin^ to present indications. AVAVAV.V?W//AV/nV.W. 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