North Carolina Newspapers

: Established in 1888. VOLUME XXXIV NEWS FROM THE TRAINING SCHOOL Some shrubbery is being put out on the Campus of the Training 'School. That is good. Let the good work go on. Some special exercises by the students and Faculty of the Appalachian Trainnig School at chapel the past week were enjoyed by the student body. The children of the town enjoyed an egg hunt on the Campus on Friday afternoon, given under the auspices of the Normal Department. The base ball season opened at the Training School Monday the 2 by a fame with Oak Grove, team, the results of which are not known at this writnig. Professors B. 13. Dougherty and Greer went to Ashe the latter part of the week. Prof. Greer delivered an address at the close of a school taught by Stuart Morel". as principal. Work on the new Administration Building of the Training School has been resumed and is being pushed by the contractors. They report that they will continue to push it to the earliest possible completion. Mr. Moretz, a successful merchant of Hickory, with his three hoys motored to Boone on Sunday to visit his brother, Mr. J. M. Moretz, and other relatives in the county. IDsays this is his first Easter in Boone in twenty five years. Professor A. T. Allen made a flying trip to Boone the latter part of the week to the great pleasure and profit of his many friends and the Training School. Now the NEWS AND OBSERVER reports that he has been i leeted President of Cullowhee Normal. Sincere congratulations to our good friend. He is to take charge of the work the first ot July. Cullowhee is to be congratulated on aecurring one so capable in training teachers, and it is confidently exnr?rtod that this; <chnol will riu? rnni.t ly in ?ts work. J. M Drwnum. HARDING GIVEN A TASTE OF WINTER Augusta, Ga.. April I.?The Easter cold wave of the north, reaching far down into the south, met President and Mrs. Harding on their arrival today to spend the final week of their vacation, but its chilly blast was soon forgotten in the cordiality of An gust a welcome. Aft *r nearly a month spent under the warm and sometimes almost broiling sun of Florida ii.?* return to even a taste ef the weather experienced during Mm'h in the northern states was mo t uoticeable, and members "f the vs litiert party promptly cast a ide the -trnw huts, flanr. is, and other summer clothing. An Foster stf . however, soon warmed the air,%a?' by noon everyhivig ha.l pr tv well thawed out. The pecial train arrived he-* from St. Augustine .on.; after 6 o'cu>c\ this morning. out the I're-tunr an 1 Mrs. Harding s? y?-1 aboard nmil nearly i* o'clock. n?e time of arrival had been kept but several hundred peoph v at the staler along with an official welcomeiny delegation header I>> Mayor Julian M. Smith and G so L 1 on:?ard president of the ch.ir.it er of commerce. Another welcoming group awaitec Mr. and Mrs. Harding at the Bon Air Vanderbilt hotel, where they wil stay. This group included Speakei Gillett, of the bouse, former Judgt K. M. Landis, former Senator Hitch cock, of Nebraska, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Charles B. Hilles, Repub lican national commiteeman fron New York. The president attended two serv ices. Accompained by Speaker Gil lett. Secretary* Christian and Briga dier Genera! Sawyer, he attendee the morning services at the Firs > Baptist church. After leaving th church, he went to the Masonic Tern pie an l participated in the Easte services there and made a brief talk Somewhat tired by the train ride Mrs. Harding did not attend churck In accordance with his expresses wish, no public functions have bee: arranged for the president durin; his stav here and most of the wee will be devoted to golf and resl Other members of the party on thei arrival, however, were flooded wit invitations to entertainments, barb< cues and dir.ners. SUNDAY WAS COLDEST APRIL ON RECORD Charlotte, April 1.?Today wi the coldest April 1 ever recorded h the Charlotte weather bureau an low temperatures prevailed througl out the state and in adjoining state K according to official reports. The temperature here stood at 2 / ' degrees at 6:45 a. m., and at Raleig y it registered 22. Unofficial advici from Southern Pines told of a tec penature in the twenties and expres ed fear for the fruit crop in the Sai Hills country. )C A Non-Partisan Family Newspaper. D< BOONE. \ NEW RECORDS SET , FOR FAST FLYING Dayton, Ohio, March 31.?In a spectacular aerial derby, army aviators from McCook field today set new world speed records for BOO and 1,000 kilometer distances, far eclipsing those made this week by French aviators at the Villa Sau vage airdrome. Unofficial figures tonight showed that Lieut. Alex Pearson completed 500 kilometers ih one hour, 50 minutes, 1 7-10 seconds, making ap proximately 109 miles and that Lieut. Harris and Civilian Pilot Ralph Lockwood traveled 1.000 kilometers in four hours, 52 minutes ; 35.24 seconds, averaging around 120 miles an hour. Lieutenant Battelier, of the French army, was (he holder of the 500 kilpmeter record with a time of two hours. 12 minutes. 51 3-5 seconds and Lieut. Carrier of the 1.000 kilometer distance* whose time was six hours, 30 minutes. 10 2-5 seconds. Ill addition to the 500 kilomett r mark set by Pearson, Harris and Lockwood also are on record as exceeding the French record for that distance as are four other Me Cock field aviat < rs. Kleven ships took the air shortly; after 1 o'clock today in the effort ; to beat the French records. Seven ; were to try for the 500 kilometer' mark and five for the 1,000. Five of the planes finished the 500 kilo-, others forced down. Aviators who beat (he French record for 500 kilometers and their time are: Louis Meister, two hour . 52 minutes, 48.4 1 seconds, average I speed of 122 miles an hour; Lieut. Arthur Smith, two hours, 32 minutes. 31.88 seconds, and average speed of 122.1 miies an hour; Lieut. H. H. Mills, two hours. 36 minutes. 26.G9 seconds, averaging 119.2 miles an hour; Lieut. J. S. Strorome. who went the distance in two hours, 42 minutes, 35.48 seconds, speeding at 114.4 miles an hour. The time of Harris and Lockwood for 500 kilometers. was two hours, n>i>vatca, 39.9 seconds, a speed of 157 miles an hour. The air circus w is completed without a serious mi. .p. IT'S SUMMERTIME SOMEWHERF When fall the wnitry flakes of frost, !. * summertime somewhere? Violets in the valleys, bird songs in the air, The chilly winds acy only blow the , lily, lipsapai.; It's sum hi- in the world, my dear, wncn it's summer in the heart. , When gray the skies art glooming, summer in the dell In the .i.erry songs ol reapers, iii! the tingling of ti.e boils. Tkt. v ... . \.\*t as with springtime's ma?: art, ! I ?!t tiie sweetest season, dearest, is the ?ummer in the heart. I j Still, stilt the birds are singing, and j ,: still the grove, ait green, ;! And still the rost\> readen and the I lovtly lilies lean; ; Love fades not with the season; when) r summer days depart, k It's summer still, my dearest, in the! Eden of the heart. ?Frank L. Stanton. j 1 ANOTHER SOP TO ! EX-SERVICEMEN 7 Washington, March 31.?Postmas ters and disabled ex-service men will * be interested in this statement, issued by the postoffice department - today: "In compliance with the executive - order of March 3, 1923, Postmaster d General Harry S. New today issued t instructions to postmasters regarde ing the civil service procedure in al lowing 10 per cent preference to honr orably discharged and disabled sol diers, sailors, and marines, in civil % service examinations for employemnt i. in the postal service. d "It will be necessary for the ap ? pncant lor a position to show that K because of disability he is entitled k either to a pension by authorization t. of the bureau of pensions or to comr pensation orx training by the veterh ans' bureau in order to be credited with the 10 points additional. "Similar instructions apply to an honorably discharged soldier, sailor, 1 or marine, not disabled, or to the wife of such, or to the wife of an is injured soldier, sailor or marine, y who, himself, is not qualified on acd count of disability due to his milii tary service. The latter class of aps, plicants is entitled to five points additional in civil service examination! !4 for employment in the postal ser :h vice." 58 Democrats are going o follow uj a- this order and see if it is violatec s- in spirit as the military preferenci id law has been in North Carolina an< other states in the south. i - - - \ tfctttg jvoted to the Best Interests of B< VATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH. CA BOWIE PREDICTS Ed THENEWMOUNTi T. C. Bowie, known thoughout th< state as "Tarn** Bowie, who came t< Winston-Salem yesterday to delive an address at the weekly meeting o the Kiwanus club, express the viev that active stepps Joking to the con stuction of the proposed raiload bbj the state though the northwest wil he taken in the near future. A repor er of The Journal found Mr. Bowii yesterday afternoon in his room a the Robert K. Lee hotel. The rgnftn+p explained tto Mr. Bowie that then had been some misunderstanding o confusion in this section over th< financial erms of the railroad bill a it passed the state legislature. Mr Bowie, who is the author of the bil ai d who supported it before the gene ral ass mid y with great force an< ability, . explained that under th? terms of the measure the state i; limited to If per cent of financia contribution o the construction of thi so-called branch lines, or connectir.j lines as he peferrcd 1 o express it. Tlv other 51 per cent of cost may be con tributed by counties, townships cities, towns or from private sources As for the main or runk line the onl; condtion is that the stat< contrihut* $10,000,000 for construction and tha the length of the line cannot excee* 125 miles. Connecting Lines Relative to the connecting line and the 51 putf cent that must be fur nished before the state contribute its share of 49 per cent, the Bowii bill says: "That whenever any person or per sons, firm or corporation, county town or township, shall subscribe ii good faith and pay or give security thrrpfnr fhp -? I not- ? <* .... ... |/vi vvub ? *. in*: oi.ijcn n a sufficient amount. t.o defray 5 per cent of the expenses of construe tion of any one of he proposed roads or any section of any one of the pro posed roads, of not less than fivi miles in lingth, and shall in additioi thereto execute to th State of Nortl Carolina, and deliver to the Stati Treasurer, sufficient bond or bond to be approved by the governor am council of state, conditional that s&ii person or persons, firm or corpora tion, so subscribing for the 51 pe cent, of the stock in the propose* road, thereof is completed, will cquii and put rolling stock on the same then in that event it shall be the duty when said facts are so certified b the president and board of director of said company to the treasurer o the State of North Carolina, for sail treasurer to subscribe to 49 pe con oi the stock necessary for the com pletion and construction of said roa* or section thereof, and for the pur pose of paying for the stock i" ssb company :o subscribed by the State the state trasurer is hereby autln lzed, empowered, and directed t issue and sell serial bonds of th staie payable in r.ot less than ten c more than forty years from the dat of the issue, to l>e known, styled an designated as the State of Noil Carolina Railroad Bonds, nnd sai ! bonds to mature in annual instal ! ments or series, to be determined ar. i fixed by the governor and council o | state." I Main or Trunk Line ESKIMOS SAY GHOSTS HOLD NIGHTLY REVELS. | Ancrorage, Alaska, March 10. i Some natives of Alaska profess i : believe that the angry spirits of ti j Aleuts massacred at the behest of tl early Russian discoverers and trade I under Shelikoff, Romanoff and Chi j ikoff. are lurking in the volcanoes i the Valley of Ten Thousand SmoktI Beneath the thin crust of the ear; t cover nig the lower Alaskan peninsu and the Aleutian archipelago the: spirits, the natives assert, are holt ing nightly revels and emerging pel odically to hurl fire, smoke and thu: der at the heads of the invaders. The fanciful recital of the native that of Chirikoff island, long farm as haunted, a half hundred nativ were lured into a log compound, s upon by savage enemies under dire i lioii oi tne itussians murdered ai despoiled of priceless sea otter skin Their spirits are appearing again protest. The eruption of three vole noes in January is, they say, a revi; lation of these spirits, and will co I tinue until they are avenged. For many years Chirikoff islaz , has been a place seldom inhabited 1 t natives or whites. Many harrow ii i tales from Chirikoff were broug , here by Captain Nick Gaikema, wl - has visited almost every nook at harbor along the Aleutians. Last sui - mer the skipper braved The Valley Ten Thousand Smokes emerging wi i the shoes burned from his feet, a: - with many stories to tell. > Teacher?Now, Johnnie, what 1 a pretzel? ? Johnnie?A pretzel is a doughn 1 gone crazy.?Knights of Columb Booster. m ?e ?onc, and Watauga County, "the Lea ROL1NA. THURSDAY APRIL S. 1 lRLY building of AIN RAILROAD LINE 5 As to the main or trunk line > which, it is provided, shall be of the r Class A type, the bill says: t "That said ooad shall be located r and constructed alonp the most fea sible and practicable route in the <f discretion of the special commission, 1 or majority of the same appointed by t the governor, under and by virtue of e Chapter 148 of the Public Laws of t 1923, ratified on the 7th day of _ \M ... 1 ? n winicn, wno are nereny apg point'd and constitued a commission r to ile said line after due invcstis gatian and report of competent engis neers to be employed by said cor>>. mission with the view of construct 1 ing a trunk line of railroad connect_ ing with the coal fields of southwest j Virgi? ia, east Tenn. and Kentucky., e with western centeral and eastern g! North Carolina, for the purpose of I trar nictation of persons and freight 0 : froi : the middle west to western, ; ice- and eastern North Carolina. p 'I i ?i* the purpo.- ??*' making the _ p? wary inwstgr.t ??n, survey and io< . :<>n of said proposed road, said co' -loners arc hereby authoi/.ed y1 to < ;?ioy a competent engineer or ejeru - and to expend a sum of II n<-" t weeding $50,009 in the prelimij , nor ovation of said road to be paid | by state treasurer upon warrant 1st; auditor in such amount and at s so lines as ordered by said com _ mi-sion. out of the general fund in s 1 the ate treasury. Provided, howh. ever that no more than 125 miles shall ! be constructed under and by virtue _ of the provisions of this section of r | thi act. not exceeding in c ost ten ? ! million dollars." vj Mr. Howie's statement, together | 1 with the above, sections from the [ Bowie bill, make plain the financial _ 1 side of this railway undertaking. , | Of Great Importance ,'! Mr. Bowie did not express any p opinion as to where the main trunk n; line, in his judgemen, would begin. ^ This matter, as he implied, was left p entirely to the agencies for which the g hi!! had provided. Mr. Bowie said j i that the bill was adopted in the house j bj the vote 05 to 4R and in the senate by 2s to 20. Opposition to the pror posal, he said, sprang chiefly from members who had gone to the legislature in a pledge to oppose further . bond issues by the state, and that speeches aganist the measure wore ' mainly in the nature of explanations as t owhy the speakers were in oppor sition. < (n ivspouse to a.question from The . uouriul reporter, Mr. Bowie saiu that in the northwest, opinion vas unanimously for the building of the road . and that ho had found generally ,, .through the stntn a hearty sympathy with the proposed enterprise. Mr. / Bowie said that he was convinced active steps would be taken soon tc put the understanding on a definite ? basis. The commission has not as yet held a meet ing, 1> ut Mr. Howie . seemed to think that such r.ieeuag -n i would be held in the near fur v. j Air. t50\v\e turther expressed tiic opinion that the proposed ra . oac j improvement would be of hnmeriM *- advantage to the state and that i1 would prove of great value to Win ston-Salc-ni.?Winston-Salem Journal :? LIKES WINE BETTER THAN UNITED STATES, SO ITALIAN LEAVES t. j Fresno. Cal., March 3ft?Tak ic j n*? a justice of the peace at his won 10 when told to '"give up wine or lee.v. rs|tbe country." S. A. Oliver, a leade r- in the county's Italian colony, ? : bound for a land where he can niak s.1 and drink his wine, h After bis wine had been destroy ei la by county agents in a raid and h had been taken before a justice ar.t 1- fined $300. Oliver was given a lectur i-; by the justice on the \ oistead law an n- told the Italian to go to a countr, where he couid drink wine unmolest is^ ed "if you want to drink." | Oliver the next day inserted an ad esj vertisement ir. a newspaper offerin et; to sell his twenty acres of grapes, c-i $5,000 bungalow and complete equij id ] ment of the ranch for $12,500, whic s. ; experts said is $10,000 below the va in j ue of the property, a-1 The advertisement said in part a-j "Listen laugh if you want. I d n- not care. I am Italian. I like win and Mr. Volstead wants me to drin id water. I won't do it. Just for th? >y 1 sell then 1 go to Mexico where I ca ig drink what I please." ht Twenty-five other Italians will joi ho Oliver in going to Mexico, he said t< id day. n of A MAGNET FOR SORROW th nd "Is it your practice to go aboi looking for trouble?" "No," replied Mr. Grumpson. " is has been my experience that if a pe son will stand in one place loi ut enough, and look as if he had i us friends and no influence, trouble w just naturally gravitate to him." der of Northwestern Carolina.'' 923 . DR. BROOKS HEADS CLOTHING DRIVE State School Head Ask* North Caro- | lin ant to Save Human Lives By p Sending In Cast-off Clothing. ! A campaign for old c^othnig. to u keep Armenian sufferers from free*/- *-1 ing t?> death next winter, will be ^ held during the last week of April in every county in North Carolina, ann-> r.cement has just been made ^ from State Headquarters of the Near East Relief in Raleigh. ? I' E. C. Brooks, State SuperinJ tor..! of Public Instruction, has tj ' be* appointed State clohing chairman >r this drive, which will come i to i' Umax May 1. Josephus Dan- c< iels, honorary State chairman, and j Col. George H. Bellamy, State chair- w ! man f the financial campaign, wii. 1 activ( v assist Dr. Brooks. : M ' of the county chairman who ! rai ? i their quotas in rh< campaign >?| ! jus: - <ied for money to i d ?h '< child ?i and refugees, v li handle this <. mpaign for <1 < ,td, i- ,, itpoint i out that housewives in their spn' clean nig w*ill he m> v than f> fiat) ' ? get rid of this cast-off winter cloth g. and at the same tir.it -ave p. human li^es thereby. L; . of clothing was so acute last n: v. 1:'.! that, in spite of the generosity <?f the American people, hup- gi dr? d of women and children wen foi?ml who had dragged themselves -i : for n>::t's suffering from acute rhcu nui-i.-m and pneumonia, simply for st ; lack of clothing. Others just froze to death by tht way-id. North li i arolina made a generous response last year, hut some- ?.f the other 1: slates failed to do their duty by humamtv. May 1st. has been designated as o: ''Bundle hay" by Dr. Brooks, and everyone in this county is asked to ir take or ship cast oft* winter clothes to county chairman, or send it by par- f. I eel post or freight to the Near East Relief Clothing Warehouse, Raleigh. si N. C. l>r. Brooks believes that everyone \V should have at least one complete suit of clothing which they are about a to cast-off for he winter and points <t out that if sent to the Near East t! j Relief this >.uit will save a human life in the battle between Christianity p and Mohammedanism. Every complete suit of warm clothing?coat or p 'sweater, trouser, heavy socks, shoes, heavy underwear, woolen shirt and cap, o the equivalent in women's clothing will save a life. jNorth ? -olina's goal is set by n Dr. Brook- as :0,0t0 lives. p u FORECAST TRADING BOOM IN tl THE SPRING. 1 Riehm \ a.. March ol.?Sat- k i radc dun.':. .u s'-c g and s early anmer nfonths with employ- V ;; mcr.t ? ' who watu io work is n fore in i .< monthly re\ cw of o ' cm ii.t: !!. W.i- r;!*:?i federal n-.-. rve n i dist -i<: . sh. ?i today l> the fede- n i jii iv< bbaek of Uic.v.no'u:. lie- v I . port-. : -? ijmbcr hanl.s, the re- i ?; v iou - . r indicate :ieT?_ased loans v 1 < vhrougis -he district a> customers h pre Dai . for crop plantings and nierj candle :iid Industrial activity Tor the s ". year e ! GRAND JURY J SUBMITS REPORT! 2 ) S 1 ? e?| Folhv. ing is a copy of the report ^ r of th grand jury as scbnilu ii at i s'the ccr.it just adjourned: e; state of North Carolina j J Wat.. >unty , J j To the Honorable J. Bis Ray, pre- { pj sddi g: ? ti We th grand jury for tin spring t e j term litlid Watauga Superior Court , d : respe t fully submit the following rey port: | W . i :tcd n r :nspeeled the sev- j oral k c.s in thf court house. We i [- find tht clerk's olfice kept in excel-p g lent condition. We also find the Rega ister's iifice in good condition. y- We visited the county home and h found it in splendid condition, exl-icepf the porch roof needs some re | pairs. :: | The jail also is w ell kept. The house j o 1 will <1 re-covering in the near fue j ture. kj We also find the court house in it fairly good condition, the roof need? n ing some little repair work. The waterworks are in good condition, in Respectfully submitted, >- L. A. GREEN, Foreman. FOUR FRENCHMEN KILLED IN WRECK Beur, Germany," April 1.?Four it Frenchmen were killed and three Frenchmen and one German injured It today when a freight train loaded r-. with coal wer.t over an embankment lg at Scnifferstadt while on tho way to from Lautersburg to Ludwigshafen, ill according to reports received here from Mannheim. % at Published Weekly NUMBER 23 SPRING COURT PROCEEDINGS The spring term of Watauga Suerior court, with Judge Bis Ray residing adjourned for the term Satrday afti moon. But few cases on ie civil docket were disposed of as ic state cases were not all tried uni Friday afternoon. Following are the state cases cases s posed ofWill Carroll, liquor case, three mos. n the roads. Wesley Reynolds, liquor case, guil\ three m-otths on roads. Andy Johnson, trespass, guilty, udgmeiit suspended on payment of >st Alfred Adams, carrying concealed capons, not guilty R C. Cox, liquor case, twelve nios. ght work " ! roads. J. E. Justice. larceny. guilty; two ear. on the roads. Defendant takes . pneal. 1)< wey F- rs, . guilty ; IS !??nth-" on the roads. Jordan Love, trespass. guilty: *.u<e?d judgment on jpimeiit of cost. Hosca (. ! < ? trespas.. truP.lv; stis nded judgment on payment of cost .Mr.-. Livvj. Tay'or. ' . : vi\ ;r. judglent suspended on payment of cost. B S. Dagger, tfsinsporl ing liquor, uilty. fined $200 and cost. Yeang Love, trespass, judgment ispei de(l on paymi n1 of w1 * Henry Greer, trespass, judgment impended on payment of cost. Vardry Mast, transporting liquor, ned $200 and cost. I lai*ve Moody, i an<l a., guilty, 2 months on roads. J. it Earp. assault with deadly wea on, judgment suspended on payment f cost. Josie Broyhill. assault, two years : county jail. Wesley Reynolds and dosy Broyhill and a. not guilty. T. R. Gragg, assault,, judgment ispended on payment of cost. Paul Klutz, carrying concealed eapon, guilty^ fined $50.00 and cost. Clarence Tcaguc, Ralph Teague, nd Nathan Ward, transporting liuor, guilty, twelve months each on le roads. Roby Shull, carrying concealed wea on. fined $50.00 and cost. LAG OF WHALERS FURLED AT LAST. N.-w Bedford Mass., March 31.? he firm of J. and \V. K. Wing has mi moment means little to the resent generation. but \vh? n the haling industry was at its height m flag of the house- of a ttor *4W" on a field of while and red bail on a field of blue, was nown on the seven setts. Is was in 1819 that Joseph and filliam it. Wing*, natives of the eighboring town of Dartmouth, pened a whaleman's outfitting shop 1 this city. Iii 1S5;; they acquired managing ownership of their first haling ship, the John Dawson, and ,.r more than fortv years the firm a> one of the dominating factors m t noraantie trade In that period twenty-five ships ailed under the Whig flag. Most >f them met a tragic end. The John i.twson, after making a dozen voyigos to the whaling grounds, was ost in a storm off Panama. Strangely rough, the first ship built expressly Y.t* I h? Win<r< ibt- h.irV ar.nchcd at Mattapoisett in 1856, iurvived noarh all the others and went whaling for the firm until l;*10, when .-he was sold and later ost. The bark Kathleen was in service from 18pT t?; 11*02, when she .vas rammed by a whaie and went lown tiff the South American coast. Several other vessels were crushed in :he Artie ice and still others foundered in storms at sea. The bark Triton, a veteran of exciting experiences before the Wing? bought her, was in the whalir.g: business for a hundred years before me Artie ice linany caugnt ner. m 1846 she was attacked by natives of a South Sea island at which she had touched. The crew rallied to the defense with whaling: guns, harpoon* and lances but five of their number were killed and sev*.n wounded before two Nantucket ships came up and rescued them. During the Civil War there was both perilious and profitable work for the whalers. Confederate cruisers, particiiularly the Shenandoah and the Alabama, wrere raiding northern shipping. The Wings were advised to put their ships under the British flag. "I'll send my ships out under the Stars and Stripes if everyone is lost," declared William Wing. He did, and only one of them was captured. The Sheanandoah overtook the ship Brunswick in the Artie in 1865 and buried her. Oil brought home by the fourteen Wing vessels then in the trade gave the firm a profit of $300,000 in the Civil War period.