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GIVEN A BOOST BY
REPRESENTATIVES
Doughton, Thatcher an.J Flannigar
Join Movement to Mike Park-toPark
Road One of Outstanding
Federal Rcute*. Traverses Mott
Beautiful Regions of the Fast. Two
Thousand Miles Long.
lit Washington :< conference has
just been held, participated in by
Representutive M. H. Thatcher, ot"
Kentucky, president of the Eastern
National Park-tn-Park Highway Association,
arid Representatives Robert
L. Duu^iiCvti. of North Carolina, and
J. W. Flannigan Jr., of Virginia, viccPitsiueliuN
The Eastern National Park-to-Park
Highway project was adopted on April
4, 1931, at a meeting called by
Representative Thatcher, sponsor of
the movement. This highway connects
the three great national park
areas of the Mississippi, the Mammoth
Cave National Park in Kentucky, the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park in North Carolina and Tennessee,
the Shenandoah National Park
in Virginia, the national capital, national
monuments and various battlefields
in Virginia.
The total distance traversed by the
highway is something like 2,000
miles, and practically ail of it is already
of hard-surface construction
and in excellent travel condition..
There are now under construction!
several short links, and when this'
work is completed the entire highway,
will be extensively advertised, as well
as the national parks, monuments and!
other points of scenic and historic interest
throughout the line of this
route.
At tiie cotfR'iolive iofeircd to. Rep
resentalives Thatcher, Doughton and
Flannigan exchanged data and information
touching the work on the various
links ui.dcr construction and
other- features involved. They agreed
to continue vigorous efforts to make
of this highway, in matters of physical
condition, markings of historic
and scenic points, and the like, one
ot me muse oucsianiuii? motor iohus
in the entire country. They expressed
the hope that the links now under
construction would be finished during:
1932, The best methods of advertising:
the highway and the communities,
national parks, and other
points of interest were discussed in
the 'conference, and it was agreed the
affected etafe?,"eiiles, and
ties should Bo asked io cu-oueVatc
in this work in the fullest manner
IZZZ7 possible.
It is expected that within a yeai'
or so the three national park areas
connected by this highway will be
under actual improvement and operation
by the National Park Service,
and it is of the utmost importance,
tin ' ' that the entire distance of
the highway be completed ar, the earliest
possible moment. There have
already been conveyed to the United
States Government for national park
purposes several hundred thousand
aeres of the Great Smoky Mountain
area, and the same is under the admin
istvation and protection .?f the
National Park Service. When an additional
area is similarly conveyed,
the whole will be improved, maintained.
and operated as a national
park. As regards the Mammoth Oave
National Park project, the famous
cave there and adjacent territory
are being acquired for conveyance
to the United States Government for
national highway purposes. The same
process is going on as to the Shenandoah
Natinal project.
At the conference of April -1th
last, which was attended by more
than a hundred representatives from
the affected states, a permanent organization,
the Eastern National
Park-to-Park Highway Association,
Was formed. Renrckentative Thatcher
Was made its president, and Verb or
E. Kemp, of Charlottesville, Va., the
secretary. Representatives Dougbtcn
ami Fiannigan were elected vice-presidents
for North Carolina and Virginia,
respectively, and the other
vice presidents are William Coombs,
for Kentucky, and Colonel 0. P.
Fortr.ey for West Virginia. The presidents
constitute the executive committee
of the association. A meeting
of the entire committee, in Washington,
at an early date is contemplated.
ISoorie Route 2 News
Mr. Stanford Jones has been visiting
his sister Mrs. W. O. Brown in
Avery County for thr- last few days.
Messrs Wilson Brown and Boyd
Cooke accompanied Mrs. D. W. Cooke
to West Jefferson Saturday morning.
Master Robert Christian is very
much improved after a very severe
k;: case of penumonia.
Mr. E. J. Norris is in very poor
health at this writing.
Miss Ruth Elma Jones spent SunI'
day with Miss Mary Cooke.
Mr. Claude Norris made a business
trip to West Jefferson last Monday.
Mr. Till Woodring of Wyoming has
been visiting at the home of Mr. C.
| C. Greene.
if . " - . _ Miss Louise Christian has been ill
nut is able to be out again.
Prof. and Mrs. C. G. Hodges returned
to Kings Mountain Sunday,
jggjy Mrs. Hodges has been spending two
I; weeks at home.
Pastor?So God has seen fit to
send you two little brothers?
Little May?Yes, and he knows
where the money's coming from. I
heard daddy say so.
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Angustus Lindbergh, j
N. J A rough ladder was placed at
the Infant taken from his crib. The lai
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3y CALEB JOHNSON i
(Special Writer for The Democrat) I;
Never before since the world began i
has the interest of so many persons,;
been focussed upon a single individ-j
iial, ahd that individual a child JessIi
than two years old. The kidnapping
of Cfiarles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., j
from his crib in the country home:
of his parent*, the famous flier and
["Anne." on the slope of Sourland
! Mountain, near Hopewell, X. J., in-'
: lantly erowded all the other news!
i of the front page- of the press ofi
the entire world. The trouble be-,
twoer. China and Japan, the vitally-!
important activities in Washington
looking1 toward the revival of business
and induaiiy, every other kind1
f which ordinarily takes first
place was relegated to the backgrounds
The only thing people all over the
world wanted to know was: "Has thai
Lindbergh baby been found?"
a? GrasiJants an/1 ?ICfntm tpJpgrnnhori [
i their sympathy to the stricken young;
? parents. Nurae-giris in Paris ami Lon-j
ij?I.'.i.... Hi'ancSftra?nc-di;
?-vyf>n) ht;wa- hoiny-~<ihar^O(i 1
with responsibility for a child, felt j
| a new fear, guarded the utile oite^j
' as they had never be eh kUuhIcJ ~be~j
fore and joined in world-wide pray-;
ers for the safe return of the little'
1 - m "f the "Lone Eagle." The i>olice
resources r.f i1tf -nation were- n:omiized
with a single purpose, the discovery
of the child, and the capture
. and punishment of his kidnappers.
In Congress a hill to make kidnapping
across interstate lines a Federal
j offense punishable by death was alI
ready under consideration, and its
discussion took precedence over meas-1
ures of the greatest economic import, i
There was hardly a place of worship j
m the whole world, Protestant, Caih-j
olic, Jewish, Mohammedan or Bud-'
dhist, in which prayers for the Eaglet's
safe return were not offered j
during the week-end following thei
. night of March first, when the iitjtie |
one was taken from his crib and car-1
ried down a rough ladder which had j
been placed at the Window of hisj
( sleeping room.
The kidnappers. left a note demand - j
ing $50,000 ransom money for the I
' return of the little boy. For once j
I public sentiment swept aside all con-1
siderntion of cold law and abstract
justice and applauded Colonel Lind-|
, bergh's announcement that he would
, pay the money and make no effort,
| to capture the criminals if they would
j oniy p-risg- back his baby boy. Not.
! even the most legalistic minds could j
: find it in their hearts to criticize.;
| The kidnapping of a little child is
the foulest offense against societyj
'and the individual that it is possi-1
i hie to imagine, and its perpetrators)
i deserve the worst punishment that j
j society has power to mete out; but'
if greater importance th&r. the pun-'
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C id napping of the Lindb
fr.# 20 months old, was stolen from the ne
the window of the baby's sleeping room
ider was later found at "B" while footprint
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naping is
ore Common
ishmont of the criminal is the life
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:he Lindberghs felt, and the world j
agreed with them.
Kidnapping for reward is r. form j
af crime which has become increasingly
prevalent witli the rise of gangsters
and racketeers in recent years.
There have been many scattered instances
of this crime in the past to
be sure, but it is only lately that
organized criminal gangs have made
i. a source of revenue on a large
scale. It is one of the easiest of all
crimes to perpetrate, whether the viccime
be a child or an adult, and the
detection of the kidnappers and the
rescue of the person kidnapped is
peculiarly difficult because of the
danger that the criminals, if cornered,
may kill their victim. 01 leave
him or her locked up to suave while
they make their escape.
Probably the most famous child
kidnapping case of all time, certainly
ill:-the United States "SBBEfcvrii the ao. hiption
of tittle Charlie Lindbergh,
was the kidnapping of Charlie Ross.
That -occ.nrrctL-on -July .1., 1 S_7:l. and
tho mysU'rv at Lhe little boy's fate
has never been satisfactorily solved.
Charlie Ross was fouv years old when
he was takar. from his parents* home
in Germantown, Penn.. by two men.
His captors were seen but never accurately
identified. They tried to extort
ransom from the boy's parents,
but were never clever enough to devise
a plan whereby the money they
demanded could b?? exchanged for the
hoy without themselves being caught.
Two burglars who were killed -in
Brooklyn a few months later were
thought to be the kidnappers of Charlie
Ross but that was never shown to
i nc definitely true, for more than
i fifty years men have turned up from
| time to time with "concessions" of
I being; implicated in the Charlie Ross
I kidnapping, and there have been numerous
cases of men who knew nothing
about their own pasts, each believing
that he might be the missing
Charlie Ross. Rut no definite news
of that boy's fate has ever been discovered,
and no dependable information
about his captor? has ever bean
discovered.
The name of Charlie Ross became
a household word, and there is hardly
an American over fifty who has
not some memory of the furore which
that crime caused.
The word "kidnap" has its origin
in London thieves' slanev "Kid'* ts
slang for "child" of course, and
"nap^ - *s?a^corruption?^ab," a
slang expression meaning to steal or
snatch. The word came into use in
America's colonial days. There was
a great demand for labor in the
American colonies. Before the effort
was begun to solve the labor problem
by the importation of negro slaves
from Africa, it was the practice to
sentence convicted English criminals
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RY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. G.
ergh Baby |
w heme of his parents at Hopewell
, marked "A" in the picture, and
s were discovered at the point "C.w
to deportat ion to the colonies, to work
without pay, in practical slavery, for
planters who bid for their services. ,
The records of the English courts
Lin 1 BQO'g -nr.d early 1700's
I arc fillcJ with the name* <>f menand
women who had been convicted|
of crime and wove thus sent to Amcr- j
in; many of these names, moreover, I
are those of families now proud of|
their colonial descent! But the erim-i
innl courts did not supply enough la-j
bor for the American demand, so|
organized bands of "crimps" in Lon-j
don took up the practice of waylaying
young 'boys and selling them to
unscrupulous shipmasters who would
bring them across the Atlantic and j
foil them at a profit to the colonial
planters. This practice became known
in the .dang of London's underworld
as "kidnapping." In the early law
books the word is used only when a I
; soil i sent out of his or her native
country, but it has come to mean
any forcible capture and imprison
metif of an individual by another
without proces? 01 law.
Most modern kidn;>ppir.gs: however,
have h.ad adults; rather than children
as their victims. According to Co!-i
v iioi Robert Tsduuii Randolph, head
oi" Chicago'-.- ''Secret Six," an ovgan-j
i/ed gang- '>i kidnappers has recent-1
en<M><u>dor] in inany msos in ?an-j
.J.dndiBa..-Venirhv num. or men with
|wealthy connections, and in extorting
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ate said to ha\c operated in Detroit
and elsewhere. Charles M. Rosenthal,
a young New York broker, was kidnapped
by a gang which released
him when his mother paid, the $50,000
ransom demanded: but the four
i members of tnc gang were later capi
tured and sentenced to 00 years each
in prison.
Kidnappers have someetimcs been
let off lightly. Pat Crowe, who stole
young Kddie Cudahy at Omaha in
1900 collected $25,000 ransom, confessed
his crime and lived to write
a book about it, but was acquitted
when placed on trial. But the record
j of most kidnapping cases is the same
! sad story ; no trace of the child ever
found and the identity of the kidnapj
pcrs never discovered. No trace has
j fever been found of ten-year-old Grace
j Budd, who wont away from her New
iYork home in the summer of 1928
i with a man known in the neighbor:
hood only as 4'Frank Parker," nor
jhas "Parker" ever been seen in the
i vicinity since or his reai name discovered.
-And that is only one of
thousands of similar cases.
The earliest record of kidnapping
is found in the Bible, when Joseph's
brethren sold him to the Egyptians.
That was a clear case of kidnapping
for money. Human nature being what
it is, and differing little today from
What it was thousands of years ago,
it is certain that there will bo kidnappings
in the future, as in the
past. But while society cannot protect
itself against the individual, occasional
offense of this kind, it cerj
taihly seems as if something could
be done to wipe out the criminal
gangs who make a business of this
most vile of al! crimes.
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Todd News
Todd. March *?&.?-The NViiiers' j
I'iub of thft Fifth Grade elected officers
for the last month of school
it the meeting Mued|>. Iv-viv rueir.-.
:er ht.s held crtKiP office duiing thej
;ear. Nearly every member has acted
is reporter, gathering new? from the
>ther rooms. Every one has reported
and written news items from the com
munity. They have kept a news book,
a collection of their items printed in
the Skyland Post and the Watauga
Democrat, with the name of the writer
beside each item. Occupying the
place of honor in this news book is
' he letter written them by Miss
R ever, editor of the Skyland Post,
when the club was first organized,
:;nd the editorial with which she honored
the Club, The Club members and
their teacher. Miss F ii Watson are
pleased With the expressions of
appreciation they have had from
.1 friends. Thev lake this ouuortunity
to thank the people of the
community and the other grades and
teachers of the school for their cooperation,
and especially they wish
to thank Miss Reeves and Mr. Rivers,
the editors, who have so kindly published
their news items.
Prof. I. G. Greer, of the Appala
- " ?
cnian. ?tate reacners c ollege, was a
most welcome visitor at school this
afternoon, his visit being in the interest
of the state- '"ido health campaign.
After explaining the purpose
of health week. Prof Greer made a
very helpful and inspiring talk on the
things every child should bring to
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MARCH 24. 1932
school each (lav. This he summed up
:.s ueliig a "clean and wholesome mind
in a clean and la-alt y body." After
his address, at th>- urgent request qf;
the student body. Prof. Greer sang
in bis own inimitable manner, "That
r\-'!ov? that Lc%ks Liky Mo;" nnH
"Old Smoky."
The whole school was delighted
with Prof. Greer's address and his
songs, as his audiences always are.
The members of the A\ rite is Club
50 carr ' away with "The Felu
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lun Altai, uvun. 1?.
! immediately parsed a resolution urging
Professor Greer to come back
[500*1, bring- Mrs, Greer with him anil
is-ing for them r. v.holO day.
I Mr. SYaiWr v.*visited -t the
home "l* Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Huff
recently.
Mr. Jim Lewis made a business
trip to Boone Friday.
Mr. V. B. Krider and soj
went to Salisbury to visit Mr. Kriitier
s iiv Mrs. Laura
has been seriously ill.
Miss Mary Krider. R. N., of Boone
and Todd, has been spending some
| time with her sister, Mrs. Jordan at
j Salisbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krider spent,
the week end in Salisbury. Mrs. BotI
ty Krider, who has been with her
| daughter, Mrs. Jordan, returned with
I them.
Mr. George Miller, who has been
spending the winter months in FlorI
ida, returned home this week. His
1 many friends are delighted to see
I him in town again.
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