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:;,\P.CH 1. 1934 TWO CHM)RENAN? MAID DIEAS RESULT OF BURNS FRIDAY Children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair Jr. Host Tragic Death u? North V. ilkesboro. Colored Maid Fatally Burned in Effort at Rescue. Fu-' nrral Services Sunday. Grandfather Weakened by Shock. North VYilke.sboro.?A small child and a negro maid died of burns here early Saturday, bringing to three the i number of deaths resulting from the j fire which the day previously badly, damaged the residence of F. P. Blair i Sr.. prominent business man of this I city. Tne three who lost their lives were | F P. Blair III, aged three, and Bar- j bt-r Blair, aged 14 months, children of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Blair Jr. and grandchildren of Floyd C. (Tom) Forester. and Nellie Barker, negro woman of Wilkesboro. The negress. who was working in the Blair home, was fatally injured in an effort to save the children. The baby, who died at 7 o'clock Friday night, was the first victim of the lire. The negro girl died about '2 o'clock Saturday morning and the death of the three-year-old boy took place about two hours later. Funeral services for the two children were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Forester, grandparents of the children. Following the rites the bodies were interred in one grave in the Baptist cemetery. The fire, presumed to have started , when the negro girl was starting a fire with kerosene, took the two children from one of the most prominent families in North Wilkesboro and the tragedy has shocked the entire community. The residence was slavaged from the flames by the local fire department but damage to the attractive;' home is estimated at more than $2,000. The Blair residence was one of ' the first in North Wilkesboro having been constructed by the late Colonel Blair when the city was in its in- 1 fanev F P. Blair' Sr., who lost his eyesight recently in on automobile acci- , dent, -was carried from the home with- . cul injury, but the loss of his grandchildren was such a shook that in his ' weakened condition fear is expressed for his recovery. He was carried to ! a Statesville hospital and his enndi- 1 tion the first of the week was report- . ed as improved. Parents of the children were up town at the time the ' fire occurred. A TOAST There were five sea captains who j chanced to meet, one Russian, one Turk, one Frenchman, one American and one Englishman. One of them ' proposed a champagne supper, each ; one to give a toast to his native coun- j try, or pay for the wine drank after , supper, and here is the result: The Russian?Here's to the stars , and bars of Russia that were never pulled down. The Turk?Here's to the moons of , Turkey whose points were never clipped. The Frenchman?Here's to the cock of France whose feathers were never picked. The American?Here's to the stars and stripes of the United States of America, which never failed. The Englishman?Here's to the rampant, roaring Hon of Great Britain that tore down the stars and bats c: K-.issia, clipped the wings of Turkey, picked the feathers off the cock of France and ran like h from the stars and stripes of the United i States of America. Can You Imagine j CAN YOU 1MAG1NC" o mors convincing testimonial than thot of a man in Rochester, N.H., who suffered from gostric trouble forover40yeors, hod hts oiuntuva nuj"l?.u UUl Ui ICUJl VIIW a week for two years, ond finally oor. BISMA-REX with the result that he eats whatever he likes and has almost forgotten how it tcels to have an upset stomach/ EXPLANATION Bisma-Rex is a new antacid treatment that is bringing welcome relief to thousands everywhere who suffer the agonies of indigestion and other acid stomach ailments. Bisma-Rex acts four ways to give lasting relief in three minutes. It neutralizes excess acid; relieves the stomach of gas; soothes the irritated membranes; and aids digestion of foods moat likely to ferment. Bisma-Rex is sold only at Rexall Drug Store3. Get a jar today at the Boone Drug Company. ?Adv. I g anc \ Que BRUSSELS, Belgium . . , His "Leopold III, King of the Belgi grief at the sudden and tragic dei in a mountain fall, has further c to his people and today he nas an cn Top photo, a most recent picture of Queen, who was Clrbwn Princess Astr and portrait of Leopold lit. Father And ? For Part In 1 Judge Warlick Sets JJeatb Date for April 27th for Father and Son Who Participated in Slaying of Taylorsville Bank Cashier. Appeal Notices Given. Case to Be Carried to Supreme Court. Taylorsviile, N. C. B. G. Greene, 47. and his son, Lester Greene. 2-1, were convicted of murder in the first Jcgree by a jury from Iredell County which returned its verdict in the Alexander county court room Friday night at 9:25 o'clock. It recommended mercy for Lester Greene. Five minutes before the verdict was returned the jury filed back into the court room and asked Judge Warlick if it might recommend mersy for Jester Greene. Judge Warlick told the jury he would receive such i verdict but it would not alter the ieath penalty. The Greenes were convicted of siayng T. C. Barnes, cashier of the Merchants and Farmers bank here. 27 I. Judge Warlick pronounced the leath sentence oa both father and son, setting the cxecuton date on Friday. Aprt! 27, for both. The elder Greene had nothing to )ay when he stood up to receive the judgment. Lester Greene said in reiponse to the inquiry of Judge Warlelt if he had anything to say: "Yes i have a few words to say. I arr. not fuilty of murdering any one. I didn't shoot anybody." While the sentence of death was being pronounced on the young boy a woman wailing was heard untli after the judge had finished. Within five minutes after the jury had retired to its room a ballot was taken and the vole was 11 to 1 foi conviction of both defendants, it was learned from a member of the twelve after they had returned their verdict The vote remained this way until the last ballot was taken at 9:20 p. m One juror held out for saving the life of the yoUDger Greene. Women Weep ut Verdict Women were weeping all over thf courtroom as Judge Warlick cndec his judgment /or each of them, "Gcc have mercy on your soul." Among those who were shedding tears \ver< Mrs. T. C. Barnes, widow of the slair banker. The little town of Taylorsville witi its 900 souls and its slain banker whc sleeps at the foot of Brushy Mountain had justice come home to it or Friday night. In addition to the two Greenes, whc received their death sentences, twc more men, Mike Stephenoff and R E. Black await execution on deati row. -? In his confession from the witnes; stand B. G. Greene said that he wat told by Mike that the Taylorsvilh bank would be easy to rob because theTe wasn't anything in town but f sheriff and a deputy and both wer< weak, but aa the elder Greene saic when he was describing his pursul by the officers: "The law was com ing down the road." Notice of appeals were given b; counsel for both defendants. A crowd that filled every nook o rhu, .--.-.nt't nnuvM waifnrt furfliftr upr diet. All day long Friday from the tim the State finished its rebuttal abou 10 o'clock, arguments flowed bad and forth between the walls of Ales ander's courthouse. The throng tha fairly made this ancient brick build ing bulge from the time selection o the jury was started Wednesday mor ning and followed through every syl lable of the testimony in the trial o the two outlaws, hung on tenacious ]y to hear' the attorneys have thei say. Not ODe time from 8 o'clock ii the morning was there any spar standing room in the courtroom. Burke Opens for State Shakespeare, the Bible and eve: Bob Ingersoil were quoted withou j stint. The veteran Hayden Burke, wh WATAUGA PKMOCRAT? BVEF en of the Belgians supremo hour of being declared iaus,'f tempered by an agonizing! ith of his father, Albert I, killed ndeared the former Crown Pzince tire nation 'r sympathy and mmihrt the ne-.v King; Leopold III ar.d his id. Inserts: the late King, Albert I ion Must Die Hank Robbery knows the language of the people of this section like few other people do, opened fire for the state this morning and there was a visible effect on the jury. He was followed by Archie Myatt, of High Point, counsel for Lester Greene, and in turn by Harold Burke. Leland Stanford and last of all by the prosecutor of the 17th Judicial District, John R. Jones. Mr. Jones brought to a ciimax the day's oratory. Before he had finished he had at least one member of the j jury In tears and quite a few ir? the i audience. Hi3 depicting of the murder of T. C. Barnes as one of the blackest and most cold blooded crimes ever committed in his jurisdiction carried a convincing tone. It took Judge Warlick just fifty minutes to analyze the evidence and give the law to the jury. He put the j case in tncir nands at 15:17 o'clock, j Tbey went to supper at 7 o'clock and I were back deliberating at. 8 o'clock. Two Verdicts Feasible Judge Vv'arlick told Ike 12 men that they could bring in one or two verdicts as to either or both of the prisoners, guilty of murder in the first degree or not guilty. Ho also told them that if they found that the two prisoners had conspired among themselves or with others to rob the Farmers and Merchants Bank and that In perpetrating such a robbery T. C. Barnes was Killed, all those who had eonapired would be guilty, or if by their presence they had aided and 1 abetted in the robbing of the bank in which Barnes was killed they would also be guilty, whether they fired the actual fatal shot or not. When court reconvened Friday mor' ning Myatt announced that the de i?-nse resteu m tile case of 3. G. 1 Greene. ! "Because of tbe brief- time allowed us to prepare for the trial ani in i; bility on such short notice to secure all the witnesses we would like to ' present we rest our case," he said. Hughey Greene, younger brother of I .ester, was then placed on the stand j and testified that Mrs. Leoia Greene, wife of Lester, gave birth Thursday ' in High Point to a baby. Counsel for Lester then rested. ' Identifies Signature Solicitor Jones recalled the elder , Greene to the stand and had him to , identify bis (Greene's) signature and . fingerprints. j "Why did you have your gun loaded when you went into the bank?" , the solicitor asked him. , "I always had my gun loaded," said Greene. , On the stand Thursday the elder Greene testified he had not intended , to use any violence In the robbery, 3 but shot because Little raised his , hand in a threatening motion, j The solicitor then recalled Little I to the stand. , "Did you reach for a gun ?" he askj ed the assistant cashier. t "I did not. We had no gun in the . bank," answered Little. Tho nmonnntn*. ' * J^vubvubui uicu 4UKtllUIICU J-jtLf tie again about previous testimony that an ink well, hurled by T. C. j Barnes, the cashier, was the only . weapon the bankers brought into use against the robbers. The banker ree peated his earlier teittimony and the ? state rested its rebuttal evidence and arguments were begun. The elder Greene took the stanc ? yesterday after 14 state witnesses hac enmeshed him in a net of evidence f He admitted participation in the robbery but denied the fatal shooting . He said his son was unarmed. f Revealing new secrets of the Frencl r Detective Police. A series of startq ling articles by a world-famous de e tecttve, in which methods for crlnx detection are explained. In the American Weekly, with the .Baltimore Sun d day American of March 4. Buy youi t copy from your favorite newsdealei o or newsboy. IT THURSDAY?BCX)NK. N. O, TODAY and ijl UHNK ' ? j i S.-VJVIP . . . good eating ^ When I was a boy down east one ^ &f the familiar figures on the streets f of our town was the "hulled corn c man." He peddled from a huge can * what the Indians taught our Piigrim * ancestors to make and to call "samp." r It was Indian corn parboiled in lye, * so Chat the outer skin came off and the kernel was white and fluffy and ; very good to eat, especially, I used to < think, when served with Porto Rico 1 molasses. i Tn the Middle States the Indian name for this processed com was 1 "hominy," and farther South the name began to be applied to coarsely-ground corn which had been put 1 through a similar process, and which the folk of the Deep South now call i "grits." i When I henr anyone talk of the deliciousness of hominy, alone or in the familiar combination ot 'hog and hominy' I am never sure whether they ate talking about, our Yankee "samp" or the southern, "grits." But I do know that both are mighty good eating. I RABBITS . . . and fever Twenty years ago the small animal life of some of the Alaska islands was wiped out by a volcanic eruption. This left the Indians in bad shape, for they lost not only an important food supply but the foxes, whom they kill for their pelts, also had their food curtailed. Now the Government Is "planting" colonies of rabbits on those islands, in the expectation that they will increase rapidly and restore the balance of animal life What. I want to hear is that the Government has found a cure or prevention for the "rabbit fever" which is often fatal to men who handle rabbits or rabbit pelts. A Maine guide died the other day from this disease, winch he caught from n fox he had . Kjjiueu axicr uie rex nsa oeen eating a rabbit- It i3 a curious Infection which seems to be spreading all over tbe country. ' ?? II sssre Royster' Good quaiii to grow, tney experience, fav< proper soil and fertilizer. The investment in n of worry. Ye) nothing if thi right. Why rut not play safe? vestment. Trus Royster's?the tested out right Remember tl made in one qi best. You can can pay less, bu better fertilizer. r. 8. Ft 0 Y ST ? n | FIEI For Royste ! J. E. HAR BOONE, OLD . > . to market price i'i 33-> an ounce for gold. >az, :?i|?raily, stimulated gold nun-1 ar< everywhere that a trace of the; ?ycc1ou3 metal lias ever been found, n-'l in some places where tliey have nly guessed it might he. One of my teighoors. a few miles from my farm. ias taken out a license to dig for gold r: the Berkshire hills. I hope he finds tThey arc getting gold in paying | luantilies from several abandoned j nines in <\Torth Carolina. Before the ] ;o!d strike in California there were | irofitable gold mines in many parts i if the Atiantic seaboard. So much; told was mined in the Carolines and Georgia that for years the Govern-1 nent maintained a mint at Dahlon-j ;ga, Georgia. Now there is no more gold coin?ge, but anyone who finds an ounce >f gold anywhere can get $35 for it ron> Uncle Sam, aud some folks are joing to strike it rich somewhere MUSIC . . . neighborhood sings I am not yet convinced that the j radio is a good thing in all respects. ] People do too much listening to pro-; fessiona! singers and musicians, make not enough effort to produce their own music. Not that it is not refresh ing to listen to first-rate music? which we get too seldom "on the air" ?hut it ought not to be too ea3y. There is more social value, more that makes for love of home life and neighborly spirit, when everybody in the husehold, or a group of neighbors, get together, in a home or a church or a town hall and try what they can do to make a little music for themselves. I know of nothing that is so heart-warming in its effects as a "neighborhood sing " In the part of New York where I hole up for the winter, Greenwich Village, we've been having these old fashioned musical evenings this winter, and hundreds of my neighbors are beginning to say to each other: "I never knew what nice, friendly people the New Yorkers were." Oi course, they're just like all other people. everywhere, but it takes something that they can all do together to bring out the human qualities. WATER . . . heavy brand Science has discovered a new kind of water. It is called "heavy water," because the hydrogen molecules which it contains are composed of atoms which weigh twice as much as ordinary hydrogen. "Heavy hydrogen" is itself a re MR. FARME 'a isjlsu * * B ?.IA*?.BBI $ VTiiy yO&i siiuu s Field Tested I :y crops are hard Royster es take hard work, ally studying jrable weather, learning all i the right kind of about fcrtili v call for a real ? never stop exp loney and plenty . . 1 7 proving. Thei t all this means , , , ' f ... . 'zer ui the labt : fertilizer is not . the risk? Why * Protect your in- ?nl> it your crops to to n fertilizer that is Pl,resl obtaina in the field. Royster sacks, lis: Royster's is know that Ro; tality only?the B"ve you the r pay more or you See your R< tyou cannot buy and let him : tons you need, R GUANO COMPANY, NORF r* \yysier t O TESTED FERTILIZERS ~~ r Fertilizers, get in BIN and C. I N.C. SHULLS Ml PAGE THP-EB ' cer.4 scientific discovery It combines 'iti cli.u '.inn os way ordinary HtokugSjxi dm.-.. "out gives entlre.lev. coaip .uuds. Thus, heavy wa? ter' kills seeds instead of aiding them to germinate, and tadpoles in it quickly die. Just bow widely this poisonous "heavy water" is found in nature nobody yet knows. Hut some think it may account for the barrenness at desert kinds, and the absence of animal life in some odd corner* of the world. New discoveries of science, especially when they deal with matters of everyday use, are one of the greatest stimulants to the imaginative mind. Some day we may see some bright young man turning "heavy hydrogen" into gold, by using it t.o make, some revolutionary invention work. A large, cork, dipped first in water aivJ then in scouring powder, will clean soiled knives easily and well, without soiling the hands. ; ? ? "s Extra-Fast Relief * ? ? Demand and Gel /1\ / A \ mAVERij GENUINE' BAYER ASPIRIN BECAUSE of a unique process in manufacture. Genuine Bayer i Aspirin Tablets arc made to disj integrate?or dissolve?INSTANTJ LY you lake liicni. 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