VOLUME XLlll, NUMBER 33 FOSTER ACQUITTED IN MIDDLE DISTRICT COURT ON TUESDAY Found Not Guilty of Soliciting Funds in Postoffices. Cleared on All ?- - rv .r - i " * -wuui., i/cicnoant congratulated by Many Friends After Jury's Verdict Is Received. Chairman Duncan Highly Pleased. Greensboro. N. C.?By virtue of n vorili.-r not guilty on all of the remaining counts, returned by a jury in United States District Court here Tuesday everting, inc. cases of W. If. Foster, secretary-treasurer of the Republican State Executive Committee, charged with solicitation of funds for political purposes from Federal office holders in government, buildings, were terminated. The verdict was announced two and one-half hours after the deliberations of the jury began. Judge Johnson J. Hayes, presiding over the trial, which began. Thursday morning, thanked the jurors for their faithful service and directed that they be discharged. Friends of Mr. Foster, waiting with him in the courtroom, pressed forward and shook hands with him. After court adjourned for the day many others congratulated him upon the result. Among those who were near the defendant were Jame3 S. Tl.i n. ?P 1' - 1 1 - ? c'%CT!Tsr.. wi vjiccnsuuiu, cnuuinan ui the Republican State Executive Committee, and Mrs. C. B. Winn of Liberty. state vice-chairman. "The verdict of not guilty Was confidently expected by me," said Mr. Foster. "I appreciate the manifestation of confidence in ntc on the part of thousands of loyal Republicans throughout the State and by others, irrespective of party affiliation. Every ounce of energy that I have will be devoted to steadfast efforts to justify a continuation of confidence." "I am naturally pleased," said Mr. Duncan, "although I have never bad any doubt as to the result. Any investigation of any activities of the Republican party in North Carolina will simply disclose that the organization is using every legitimate and at the same time honorable method to further the interest of the party." Originally there were 57 counts in the two bills of Indictment returned bv the OranS Jury last December. : Oi this niimhor SI were eliminated ilSL^SS^. Nine of those were dismissed by order of ludgb Hayes upon : motion oi defense counsel or. the 1 ground of lack of jurisdiction, the records indicating that the places in I which offenses wore alleged to have been committed arc outside the Mid- : die District. As to 22 of the counts ' the judge directed a verdict of not guilty last week. In most of those I instances there appeared to be a lack 1 of clear evidence that the notices of t installments under the terms of i "pledge cards" signed by postmasters ; wore received, opened and read in postoffices. J. B. M'COYNOW IN ilTl A ?"Ajn*"i n-r? ?ir/\r?iri* t UlAIUiU m tlU l EL 1 Daniel Boone Pastes Issto New Hands . Monday Morning. Lease Closed With Manager Wilkes Ho- t tel. Building Refinished. , Mr. Joe Hi McCoy, manager of ^ the Hotel Wilkes since its opening j a few years ago, has leased the Dan- j iel Boone Hotel, and the local hostel- ; ry passed into new hands early Mon- < day morning. Mr. McCoy has had J men engaged in thoroughly renovat- , ing the building, retouching the wood , work and doing odd jobs of painting throughout the building, and will j start his career here with the edifice presenting a brand-new appearance. Mr. McCoy is a hotel man of wide j experience. Previous to his coming , to North Wilkesboro he managed the Taylorsville Hotel, and was for aev- j eral years connected with the Selwyn . in Charlotte. He will retain the man- ( agership of Hotel Wilkc-s, but will s move his family here in order that , the children may avail themselves of local educational facilities. The di- , rectors of the hotel feel fortunate in ( hainno* hopn nhlo hn ?pphpo fho aorv-1 ices of Mr. McCoy in this cor. nee- ! tion. Mr. E. B. Kidd, who for inoTe than , a year has managed the Daniel Boone, | left for Charlotte Monday, where he has "made his home for many years. Meeting Continues at Blowing Rock Church Rev. Alsi Honeycutt. of Linville, who has been preaching at the Blowing Rock Free Will Baptist Church every evening fok the past three months, baptized eighteen new members in a nearby pool last Sunday afternoon. The meeting is drawing large crowds, and despite its lengthy session, interest is still good. Mr. Honeycutt established the church several years ago, but the membership had dwindled to a mere handful previous to his return in BjNovember. /ATAl A Non-Partisan IS BOON VWVVW^y,-^ J. B. Horton Kills Tremendous Porker J. B. Horton, progressive farmer of the Vilas community, has, he believes, killed the largest hog of the season. The porker, which was of the Poland-China variety, tipped the scales at 700 pounds before it was slaughtered, and after dressing netted 634 pounds. It was three years old and had been raised principally on whey which Mr. Horton obtained at a cheese factory which he operates. Pretty nice pig, says We, but at the same time a report comes from Halifax County that a farmer residing near Scotland Neck has just butchered a Poland-China which on foot weighed 1,136 pounds. After dressing, 1,007 pounds of pork Was obtained. Mr. Horton has lots of pigs, and it is our guess that one of these days he will shatter the Halifax man's record. MANffliFoFir" YEARS BROUGHT TO CLOSE FRIDAY Man Wanted by Mitchell County Authorities for Murder in 1903 Is Captured in State of Missouri. Re quiaiiion Papers Will Be Forwarded to Middle Western Town Some Time This Week. Bakersville, N. C.?A 29-year search for a man wanted for murder here in 1903 ended Friday when Columbia, Mo . authorities telegraphed Mitchell County1 officers they had captured George Presnell, alias George Miller, charged with the slaying of Louis Buchanan. Present authorities here were unable to deliver a complete account of Euchanan's murder since it occurred so long ago. G. A. Ramsey, clerk of the Superior Court, stated Buchanan was stabbed in an artery and bled to death as a result of the injury. Presnell arid Buchanan Were farmers in Mitchell County at that time. Ramsey said he understood, and that a few words passed between them before the alleged fatal encounter. The county solicitor was working Saturday on requisition papers to 3end Missouri authorities for the return of Presnell to this village in the Western North Carolina mountains. Ramsey said local authorities had lought Presnell ever since Buchanan ,vns murdered. According to reports, Presnell had recn living in the vicinity of Columria, Mo., for more than a year. For he past five months he has operated i mine near Prathersville. He is 59 ^oars old. Appalachia Wins from Milligan in Court Gainej In a fast game of basket ball the j Appalachian girls team made it eight .'ictories in a row by defeating the Miliigan College outfit by a 30-23 ;cove last Saturday night. The local girls got off to a fast start and in the first five minutes an up a ten-point lead; but the vistors, led by the fiasby Dyer, staged 1 quick comeback and held the Black md Gold to an 18-12 score at the lalf. Dyer was the "big shot" of the Willigan attack, this little forward scoring all but eight of her team's mints. Her free throw record was alnost perfect, since she rung the bell .vith nine goals out of eleven tries. Better team work on the part of Betty Crew Cushing's outfit was the deciding factor in the game; but in spite of the passing and goal shootng of the forwards, honors were to :!>e little red-headed captain-guard of Appalachian?Delia Paula3. She, with Mary Baker and Nan Lingle, put up defensive wall that the Milligan forwards could not pierce. The Appalachian State guards allowed only six field goals to the visitors. The Appalachian girls have only two more games on their schedule, pne with Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory next Saturday mgni, ana one wirn '.Vir.gate hero on the night of February 24th. The line-up of last Saturday's game follows: MUligan A. S. T. C. Dyer (15) Crisp (4) (Forward) Walker (2) Austin (Forward) Holly (3) Preston (22) (Center) Cross Paulas (Guard) Crabtree Lingle (Guard) Loveless Baker, Mary Milligan substitutes, 3 points; A. S. T. C. substitutes, 4 points. HOLIDAY MONDAY Both Boone Banks, the Watauga County and Peoples Industrial, will observe Washington's Birthday Monday, and will not be open for business. Other Boone institutions will continue business as usual. 1 r A U'vjA lewspaper, Devoted to the E, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH Ci : A WPMiyrm nnr 41/ Itti ILHir l?iLF miLiill OF COUNTY JAIL IS FOILED BY KEEPER Hole sri Masonry -Discovered by Jailor Norris Early Friday Evening. Griffin and Presnell Confined in Cell Room. First Attempt to Escape from New- Bastilc. Presnell Said to Have Previous Record. An attempted break of the county jail was foiled early Friday night, when Jailor Clint Norris, returning from his duties as local police officer, discovered a stream of light coming through the brick wall beside a window frame on the north side of the building. Going immediately to the second story, Mr. Norris found that the two inmates of that particular cell room, Bill Griffin and Johnnie Presnell. had twisted a pipe from the shower bath and drilled through the masonry. The hole had been stuffed with a blanket, was almost large enough to permit the passage of a body, and doubtless the two men would have made their escape within on hour. Griffin and Presnell were removed to the main cell block, and Saturday repairs were made on the building. This is the first timo that a Break of the jail has been attempted since it was built several years ago. Griffin, who will face trial at the. Spring term of Court on a charge of assault with intent to kill, i3 & native of Asheville who for several months was an employee of the Champion Fibre Company on Grandfather Mountain. So far as local authorities know, he has no previous criminal record. Presncll is a native of the Beech Creek section and is said to have engineered a jail break at Newland several years ago when fourteen prisoners escaped. He is being held on a charge of store-breaking. Had the (wo men made good their attempt. Friday night, none of the other thirteen inmates of the bastile would have been liberated. Bound to Court for Robbing Hen House George Brown, Roy Blown and Jim Brown, al! residents of the Rich Mountain seciion. were arrested Friday by county officer-? on .1 warrant charging-the burglarising of-a hen reset at the .home^nf Mr*. Gin Love, who resides in the Oak Grove section just west of Boone. It is alleged that the trio stoic twelve chickens from the lady early last week and marketed them at local stores. George and Roy Brown, the former a married man who has been estranged from his wife for several months, and the latter a 17-year-old son of W. E. Brown, waived examination when brought before Justice Hahn Monday and gave bond for their appearance at the Spring Term of Superior Court. Jim Brown, who ; is only 15 years of age, was hailed before Juvenile Judge A. E. South . for trial, hut judgment was withheld pending the outcome of the other 1 cases, ft is understood that lie confessed to a part in the theft. For the past several weeks farmers of the Western section of Watauga have been harassed by chicken thieves and hundreds of birds have been , Twenty-Six Wataugans | Attend Lincoln Dinner TVenty-six Watauga County Republicans attended the Lincoln Day | Dinner held at the King Cotton Hotel in Greensboro last Friday evening. Senator Daniel O. Hastings, of Wilmington, Delaware, was the chief speaker, and members of the local group state that he delivered a most, eloquent address, stressing the necessity of standing behind the administration, and working for the re-election of President Hoover this fall. He was introduced by Attorney Baxter M. Linney of Boone and Lenoir. More than six hundred party men and women from nil over the State were present. LEES-McRAE BOYS DEFEAT FRESHMEN FROM A. S. T. C. The Lees-McRae quintet took a close game of basket bail from ine Appalachian freshmen here Monday night, to give the visitors four victories in succession in the past week. The Presbyterian boys began the season rather slowly, due to new players who make up the regular squad, but Monday night exhibited a flashy brand of ball. MISS WHITENER TO BECOME univM vr nr.. JUKP?e.i i Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Karl Whitener, of Gastonia, N. C., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Ruth Sumpter, to William Howard Jurney of Raleigh. The wedding will take place in March. Mr. Jurney is a grandson of Mrs. J. W. Farthing of Route 1 and a nephew of R. C. Rivers. At present he is an instructor in mathematics at North Carolina State College. Best Interests of North VR0L1NA. THURSDAY. KEBRUA ij OGDEN MILLS NE Or?rl?r? I.. Mills, left. 2??!*|a?t Sf vated to the secretaryship to fill of Andrew Mellon, right, who he Hoover as Ambassador to Great Kuester Congratulates Harris Brothers on Ad. The Democrat is in receipt of : letter from C. O. Kuester, busine: manager of the Charlotte Chambc cf Commerce, in which he calls a tention to a double page ad run i this paper by Harris Brothers Di partment Store. Mr. Kuester says: "Tell your merchant up thci v'ho runs the double-page spree he has the right idea. Advertisin in good nines is an opportunity and advertising in times like v; are now going through is a necc: sity. When he runs a double-pag spread ne is using powerful goo judgment." iiiiiiiiiiT SPEAK AT BANNEI ELK CONFERENC Third Annual Personality Meeting Be Addressed by Eminent Educ tors. Seventeen High Schools W Send Delegations. Banquet to ] Givcu Saturday Night. Conferenc Have Been Most Helpful. Banner Elk, N. C.?The Third A nual Personality Conference, to held at College. Bann Elk Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 5th. will have the following er nent Speakers: Friday evening Dr. H. E. ftondtl ler, president of Salem College, w speak on "What Is Personality?" ( Saturday afternoon Dr. A. Monr Stowc, profe&sor of Education at Ra dolph-Macon College, will deliver j address on "Creative Thinking Personality," and in the evening Iv! Victor M. Davis, general secretary the Y. M. C. A.. University of Te nessee, will make the closing addres his subject to be "Buck Passing." The previous conferences have be so helpful and inspiring that the i citations this year cover a wider ran; of territory. Seventeen high schoc in Avery, Watauga and Ashe cou ties, North Carolina, and one in Te nessee have been invited and art e pected to send delegates. Beside the speakers there will 1 group conferences of leaders, perso ality diagnosis in group confc-rencr a tea on B'l-iday afternoon for eta crons a"'l group councilors in t I.ccs-Mcltee nhrnry nnd a bunqu on Saturday evening in the colle; dining hall. HINTING SEASON CLOSED MONDA' Sportsmen Warned to Refrain fro Gunning Until Next Fall. Unusual Amount of Game Left. Fishing Opens in April. Monday, February 15th, was i last day of the hunting season, ai sportsmen arc warned hy local gar officials to refrain from gunning, e cept for outlawed birds ar.d anima until next fall. The season closes tl year, it i.s said, with more game le in the fields and woods than ev before, especially quail, squirrel a' ruffed grouse. The Department of Conscvvati and Development is very mu pleased with the co-operation th sportsmen of Watauga and As counties have given the game w: dens during the past year, and a hopeful that the pleasant relatic may continue. While it is permissible to fish 1 suckers and carp at this season the year in New River, Watau River and the power dam on t Blowing Rock Highway, the tr; fishing season does not open ur April 15th. Those wishing to f for suckers and carp are required law to have licenses, which are m on sale at the Farmers Hardwj Store and at the Clerk's office in t courthouse. Farmers in sixteen communities Craven County will plant 200 aci of cucumbers for market this sprinj OCRA west North Carolina RY 18, 1932 U7 TTir1 4 f I ir?4r ? ? ? * '! yv IRJLA3UKI riE.AU H c 8 Hi seretary of the Treasury, has been elethe vacancy made by the resignation is been designated by President Herbert Bri tain. -TWOPERCENTTO BE ADDED TO TAX : FIRST OF MARCH t- Sheriff Farthing Warns Taxpayers to n Make Settlement as Rapidly as Pos5 sible and Save Payment of the : Ever-increasing Penalty. Says Pay'? mcnts ore Retarded this Month, i it i?. / >--?* ? 1 y vwuituon* ?cre rair. g y, Sheriff L. M. Farthing gives notice 'e that already one per cent, penalty has 3- been added to unpaid county taxes, ;e and that on March 1st, a two per d cent, penalty will he added- Thus with each succeeding month until fi? nal settlement is made, one per cent, is added, in accordance with the State Olaw governing the collection of taxes. Officials hope that the people will ^ I make an especial effort io meet their 1 k obligations to the county government i as early as is possible, and save the E payment of the monthly penalties. i Sheriff Farthing says that during \ I-Yhruary the collection of tax mon- i ies has shown a marked decrease, hut 1 *?jlhat through January, receipts at his t :tl-j office were fairly satisfactory. f 'ill j J ^'Funeral Services Are Held for J. A. Idol ! ll~ Funeral services were held Sunday i be at. Laurel Springs Baptist Church for * cr mv; J A. Tdol. of Boone Route 2, i ih who died Saturday morning following < an illness which covered a period or j several months. The immediate cause of his death was a heart attack. Rev. > E. C. Hodges was in charge of the t riles, following which interment was c oe made in Deep Gap burying ground. < n" Mr. Idol was horn at Virgil. N. G., *n on December 31, 1870, At an early i ,n age he joined Three Forks Baptist)j Church, later moved his membership! to I.aurei Springs, and at the time n" of his deaih .was affiliated with Ilows.s, prd's Creek Church. He was married to Miss Flee tic Watson in the year en 1008 and to this union were born six h- children, all ox whom, with the widow, 5ef experience in the ministry to as:ure his success. Mrs. Miller will aslist her husband by furnishing the nusic for the meeting. A few of the topics on which Mr. Hiller will preach are: Wednesday light, "Sails and Souls"; Thursday light, "What Time Is It?"; Friday light, "The Two Ways"; Saturday light, "Is There Another Way?" MAN IS SHOT IN GUN FIGHT WITH PROHIBITION FORCE WHBBMBi Tavlorsville N C.?M A RnVoi- of '* Mount Holly was shot in the shoul;ler and another man named Tolvin was arrested with him, when two Federal prohibition officers captured their car and a load of liquor near here Friday night after a chase that started in Wilkes County. Officers Abernathy and Gilliam are said to have fired at the car after Tolvin Shot at them. Baker was carried to a .v.atesuiiie hospir^u Tolvin is held in jail here. Sixty-five fr gallons of liquor was confiscated. Tolvin is said to be from Mount Holly. Mrs. Tom Cnshing returned Sunday evening from the Campbell Hospital in Johnson City, Tenn., where on Friday she underwent a minor operation to the ear.