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V VOLUME XUV, NUMBER 14 HOOVER BIDS FOR SUPPORT IN IOWA SPEECH TUESDA\ I2-Point Program Is Promised fo Relief of Stricken Farmer*. Pre?i dent Declares Democratic Leader Dangerous. Cites Last Congress Declares Democratic Legislatioi Would Have Prevented Recovery. Dcs Moines.?President Hoove Tuesday night declared his sponsor ship for a dozen policies for the re nei ot agriculture, ana, naming tin Democratic leadership directly, as sorted that if the program propose* by members ot that party iu the las session of Congress had ever reache* enactment "it would have been th end of recovery." In his first campaign address sinc< accepting the renomination, the chie executive said he favored such pro posals as radical revision of the agri cultural marketing act, readjustmen of land taxes, reorganization of th* Federal land banks, and the applies tion of any annual payment on wai debts to "securing an expansion oj the foreign markets for American ag ricultural products." For Higher Tariff# As another major point he prom ised his farm belt audience even high > -r tariffs than now existed on farn commodities "where necessary to pro tect agriculture." Then, quoting directly from criticism of the present tariff act by hi. Democratic- opponent, Franklin D Roosevelt, he asserted: "What the Democratic party pro poses is to reduce your farm tariffs Aside from ruin to agriculture, suet an undertaking in the midst of th;; depression wii disturb every possibility of recovery." Karlier, Mr. Hoover listed proposal; he said were initiated in the Demo cvuiic controlled house of roprescn ? latives, "under the leadership of the gentleman who has been nominated the Democratic candidate for vice president and thus these measure; and policies wer* approved by then party." =- - "Pork Barrel" Bill. One after another, the Presidenl named a pitam of ) * > barre legislation in the sum of $1,200,000, OnO," the bonus bill, the "creation ql ~VjJ> thj effectiveness of the tariff com ' v " mission," and "a price?ft*ing bill." "All this," he asserted, "under mined public confidence and delayed all the efforts of the administratior and the powerful instrumentalities which we bad placed in action to save the country. "These measures representing tut dominant Democratic control broughi discouragement and delay to recov ery. That recovery began the move msnt when it was certan that these destructive measures of this Demo cratic controlled house were stopped Had their program passed it would have been the end of recovery. If it ever passes it will end hope ami re c.-iverv. . . . "Do you ptopose to place thest nun in power and subject this coun Bet ' try to that sort of measures and poll cies? It is by their acts in Congres: and their leadership that you shal know them." Earlier in his address, the Chie Executive recounted what he de scribed as efforts of the administrn tion against depression's economh forces, and declared "a great nation al victory has been achieved." Speaking of the drive to moiiitaii the United States on a gold basis he said: "We won this great battle to pro tect our people and home. We heh the Gibraltcr of world stability. Th< world today has a chance. It is grow ing in strength. Let that man whi complains that things could not b worse thank God for this victory am make reverent acknowledgement o the courage and stamina of a grca democracy." Outincs Hi* Policies In outlining what he called tin "policies of the Republican party,' the President listed the following 1! points: 1. Maintenance and possible eleva tion of the protective tariff on farn products as the "very basis of safet; to muciiciiii agucuivwie. ?2. Revision of the agricultural mar keting act, including repeal of th stabilization clause. 3. Creation of a program for "th vp/ivrrortittoh'AW ""TJCUltUrC ?~ S to divert lands from unprofitabl to profitable U3e and to avoid th cultivation of lands the chief retur of which is the poverty and miser of those Who iived upon ihem," 4. Speeding up of the completio of the Great I^akes-St. Lawrence wa terway "as fundamental relief to ag riculture b7 cheaper transportationi 5. Leniency in the collection o farm loans totaling $120,000,000. 6. Readjustment of land taxe through a conference of tax expert to be called "as soon as the nation; election is out of the way. 7 Restoration of normal short ten (Continued on Page 8) iATA\ A Non-Partisan Nt BOONE WHWUWWiWWWVWWW Registration Books to Open Next Saturday ; T . ?; The registration books will be j open in the various voting places of the county next Saturday wornr ing and will remain open each iuc* i- cceding Saturday, including Octo? bcr 29th, for the registration of ' voters for the general election of 11 j November 8th. The books open at ! the polling plares at 9 o'clock. SatI urday, Novemoer 5th, is to be obj served as challenge day. -j Registrars point out that ail - ; those who have previously voted in 2 i a township either in the general election or a primary need not reg1 istcr, but new voters and those t coming from other points are urged j i to attend to this at once. wwwwwwwwwwwwtww- j 5 TVH>C UPimiDD TUI7CI I1TI1U3. iiurrilCiR UiJUd; iiAT HOME IN BURKE : I Mother of Mrs. G. K. Moose Passes After Brief Illness. Funeral Services Conducted Sunday Afternoon at Glen Alpine. Mrs. Harper Heffner, 57, of Glen Alpine, mother of Mrs. G. K. Moose and T. D. (Bud) Ileffner of Boone, died suddenly at her home Saturday morning following a brief illness with asthma. Funeral services wtr; conducted from the Episcopal Church of Glen Alpine Sunday afternoon, and burial took place in.a nearby cemetery. Mi and Mrs. Moose and Mr. Heffner were present for the rites. Mrs. Heffner was a native of Mc> "DowelI County but had resided at Glen Alpine for many years. She was a consistent member of the Episcopal Church, and throughout a useful life had surrounded herself with a [ wide circle of friends who will hear j of her untimely passing with genuine sorrow. She had spent several visits ~ with her daughter here and was well | known locally. Survivors include the husband and the following and daughters: | Russell Heffner, of Rnodhiss, Mrs. Jj Roy Pitts of Glen Alpine, Leslie Heffjnor, u. 6. i\.,~ ."\orroii:, vs., ana *|:Moose and Mr. Heffner of Boone. ' j Montana Man Pays Visit | l o His Native County i1 I"1 Rev. D. O. Ray, Baptist minister of Miles City, Mont., who was born ami reared to young manhood in Wa..teuga, is spending an extended vaeaI tion with his father, Alex Ray. at ,! Deep Gap, and on last Thursday paid 'I The Democrat a visit. Rev. Ray is pastor of the Pleasant | View Baptist Church at Post Falls, Idaho, and speaks interestingly of the Watauga colony in that state. L. D. | Kggcrs, Bob Hodges and Grady Hodges, all of whom are natives of the Zionville community, are located at Post Falls, where they have succeeded well, ho states. Back in 1301 Mr. Hay was employed by the Dougherty brothers in " Boone, and states that he hauled the j first load of lumber that was used in the building of the old Watauga f Academy. He left Boone and for sevi.al years resided in Caldwell County, where he entered the ministry. " Sixteen years ago he went West and looted in Miles City, where he has * sine? made his home. The church over which he presides * at Post Falls was under the pastor? ship of the late Rev. E. F. Jones for several years. Rev. Ray is spending " this week in Caldwell County where * he expects to preach several sermons. 2 ~ Baxter M. Linney to ? Make Campaign Talks 3 1 Attorney Baxter M. Linney, of t Boone and Lenoir, is scheduled to deliver a campaign address at tbc Rich Mountain schoolhouse next Saturday. - afternoon, it was made known by the | Republican county chairman Wed-! - nesday. Mr. Linney wiU also be the! speaker for a political gathering at j - Todd or. the 15th, both meetings! o having been scheduled to begin r promptly at 7 tot). The titate committee has not vet designated the cx-i . - - - - act dates for the local appearance ol e State Republican candidates, it was said. ? RECOVERING FROM INJURIES e John Farthing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Zcb V. Farthing, of Route 1. who n suffered a fractured collarbone in y football practice at the local high school on cftsmoon of n last week, is slowly recovering from i. his injuries at Grace Hospital, Ban.. ner Elk. Reports coming from that place Tuesday are to the effect that 1 the young man's condition is satisfactory to attending physicians, and he lt is expected to be returned to his home , the latter part of this week. The ,, collarbone is said to have been broken in two places, and preliminary ? examination indicated that an oper? javion wouiu be iivccsmuj Iw Unite I the fracture. ;wsDaDer. Devoted to the B * ?' i, I, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAEC THREE ARE TAKEN! ON ROBBERY COUNT BY LOCAL OFFICERS Organized Band Takrn nv Slmkiffik Force* at House on Yonahlossee. Automobiles and Vast Store of Dry Goods Found. Three Women Allowed to Vacate. Tell Story of Or* ganized Group Over State. What is believed "to nave been syndicate of pH|erens was definitely broken up last Friday morning when the Sheriff's forces raided a hous&s on the Yonahlossee Road, and too& into custody three men giving their names as W. A. Williams, George Williams and Hosier Maynes. The arrest came as a result, of the attempt of a Mr. Morris of Rutherford County i to locale a stolen automobile, which, it was found, had been traded to a local garage. \V. A. Williams, it later developed, was an escaped -convict from the ,? Mecklenburg County roads, and Superintendent Lyda came for him FVi- Jp day. Other members of the trio were wanted in Burke, Avery, Rutherford and in South Carolina on various robbery counts, and they were delivered to the sheriff of Rutherford County. Among the goods found at the temporary home of the accused \yas 300 pounds of flour bearing the brand jnj of a Shelby mill, a quantity of cloth- We ing, overcoats and ladies* ready-to- st. wear, a store of snuff, two automo n0 biles and a number of chicken coops. Three women accompanied the men, <ji\ but as no charges had been preferred C01 against them, they were allowed 10 in( go. One of these, however, is said to ra] have told officers that the three ar- tal rested had buddies all over North and South Carolina, and that the automobile sought had been taken to a thi junk dealer*s in Charlotte and motor *m changes made before it was offered j by for sale. cai Th LEGION OFFICERSTO 5 BE INSTALLED FBI. _____ *uj Ralph G. Greer to Succeed Lionel! Ward aT'Coininander of Local Post. Gross to Succeed Stewart Barnes as Aajuiaui. On Friday night, October 7th, at 7:30 o'clock, Watauga Post-American Legion, meeting n joint session with tiie Legion Auxiliary, will install new am officers for the ensuing year and Do formulate plans for expansion of the wil organization. Lionel! Ward, who has ide commanded the ioeal unit fui the Ev past year, will relinquish his post to to Ralph G. Greer of Boone, and Stew- a 1 art; Barnes, adjutant, will be succeed- bal ed by James G. Gross, also of Boone, die These officers were elected at the July meeting. tht Commander Ward, under whoso by leadership Watauga Post na-: become thi one of the most active units in North vol Carob-na, is anxious that a large frc crowd be present Friday night. Wal- pu ter Greene; of Boone, is expected to sp< speak; and various entertainment po features are being planned. A com- cal pinto list of the newly-installed offi- wil cers will be carried in next week's Democrat. ioi " ~ p St Mrs. Dwight Moretz ^ Dies on Meat Camp rci Oh Mrs. Dwight Moretz, 21, of the let Meat Camp community, died Sunday night at. her heme, following a brief byillness with milk poisoning. Funeral re) services were conducted Tuesday and fit uuna; IVUJV cU IIIC ?> UieUUlgCl "" Graveyard. J?i | Mrs. Moretz was a daughter of to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Proffitt. and re; i was horn and lived her entire life in lot Watauga. She was a member of the nt I Pleasant Valley Methodist Church, was a regular attendant at its sow- Ot ices, and was known as a most charitable Christian lady. ? Surviving are the parents, the husbaud ^nd three small r'liidri1!]. BOX SUPPER AND PLAY AT OAK GROVE SATURDAY NICHT A free play, followed by a box sapper, will be given at Oak Grove school house on next Saturday night, S o'clock. Proceeds from the food sale will b. used to purchase school equipment. The public is invited to attend, and patrons and friends ot the school are asked to bring either a box or a pie. MOVES LAW OFFICES Attorney Wade Brown, who for the past several months lias occupied joiiices m uie warauga county uaiiKi Building, ltloiiuitv uiovcu to the Critchcr Hotel where he established quarters in the corner room on the main floor. Attorney George Suddreth, of Blowing Rock, who in the future will spend much of his time in Boone, will share offices with Mr. Brown; however, it understood W rm nartneship has been formed. I DEM< est Interests of Northwe >LINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 0, The Presidenti Hoover, Republican; Roosevelt, D Prohibition; Coxey, Farmer-Labor; Roosevelt Lead i First Tabulatio This is the second week of the na- j n-wide presidential straw vote he- I r conducted by more than 2,000 j ekly newspapers in the United ites. National returns are of course j t available at this early stage of' i poll, but at such points where in- j ddual newspapers were ulready iduct'ing a straw-vote the figures iicate that the auiAtl town ?.!? > vu- ' sentiment varies little from votes I ten in larger centers of nopula n. j The Watauga Democrat is one of ! i weekly newspapers asked to join ! this nation-wide vote being taken approximately 2,000 weeklies lo"ed in states throughout the nation, e local vote here in Boone an 1 surinding territory shows the followr results at the end of the first ek; Local Vote Up to Wednesday morning the rets of the first week of the Demoits straw poll, indicated the folaintr^ cTci licit Heave*' 17 Uoshmv r 1 Tn(n; Oft Interest is increasing in the poll d by the next week's issue of The mocrat it is believed that enough I have been tabulated to give some a . as..to the national political trend, cry one is urged to vote, but not vote twice. As many members of louseholti, however, as may secure Slots, and who are voters, may inate their preference. In the first tabulation its is shown it 58 of the total of 89 were ease residents of Boone Township, and it some of the heaviest Republican Ling* territory has not been heard >m to any appreciable extent. Tho biisher insists on a generous re>use, this is r part of a national ii, and the more interest shown lolly; the mere accurate the figures ; II be. First Returns from Ohio The first votes to be counted hat-J ialiy by the Publishers Autocaster ; rvice of New York, national head- j arters for the weekly newspapers' tion-wide straw vote, were those I ported oy ihe Mews, of fronton, do, of which Ml*. Charles L. Colt is editor. The Ironton News vote is taken News representatives who follow jularly assigned routes covering all Ids of community trade activities d where voters in all walks of life ly be encountered without regard party affiliations. One day the presentatives will take secret bal-3 in the retail stores; the next day garages and machine shops, etc. The tola] vote taken in Ironton. do, by tht News to date is as folvs: Herbert Hoovei*. Franklin The Watauga Ders VOTE FOR 1 A Straw-Vote conducted by wee throughout the Union to show town an,i rural America in iheiiiour year. TO VOTE: PUT A CROSS (X) 1 NAME OF THE CANE These Candidates have b [~|HERBERT HOOVER [~] JACOB S. COXEY [J W. Z. FOSTER HI VERNE L. REYNOLDS Voters need not sign his or hre tabulation, please fill in name of TOWN (Mail, send or bring i 3CR/ st North Carolina 1932 al Candidates emocrat; Thomas, Socialist; Upshaw, Fosier. Communist., is Indicated in 11 of Straw Vot< D Roosevelt, 957; No choice f President, 85. It might be stated that these f5 ures from The News' vote at Iro ton check with the first figures a nounced by The Literaly Digest its nation-wide vote, so far as an i dication of sentiment is concern* The Digest vote showed Ohio as f< lows: Hoover, 1483j Roosevelt, 14-S It will be interesting to check t weekly newspapers^ vote against th of The DigeStj as the voting pr greases, and note whether or not the is any wide difference of politic leanings between small town and r ral America on one side and that i the urban voter on the other. Out in Kansas Out in Kansas the Wichita React is conducting a straw vote whi< shows a sudden Hoover strength ai a gain on the- lead Roosevelt pil< up from the first days of the vot Roosevelt is still leading 9,157 Hoover's 5,561 at the last report. ilmKAwnr tHSfih pavlv fignrp^ i Such meager returns give neither si< any assurance ot what the final vo wiil be . . . and all political prop'nc sre q?iUK too early to go on record . . . exec that che presidential race can roigh easily ueyt'iup inwi a very citmf!?ai a very hot contest. All of which makes it highly ir port ant, front your own politic standpoint, to take advantage of tl opportunity The Democrat is offt ing you to cast a straw-vote here North Carolina for the president! candidate of your choice. Here is tl ballot. All you need do is clip it o vote for your favorite candidate ai send it to the office of The Watauj Democrat. Let's ifti on record here in Booi and Watauga County as to who \ want for President . . . The Dem erat will send the votes on to hea quarters in. New York Cor nation tabulation and this will help she th,- small town sentiment througho the nation. Also, and more impovtai it will help show who we here North Carolina want, as President f the nexi four years. Let us have youi vote early in t week so that. it. will be included the laea! vote totals which we w publish next week. ALBERT FARTHING IS RETURNED TO HOME HE! Deputy Sheriff Albert Farthi] was discharged from the Caldw Hospiial Saturday, where he had be a patient for two weeks, follow! gun-shot wounds as he attempted effect the arrest of a negro. He now at his home in Boone, and started well on the road to recove: it is believed. Tccrat Nation-wide PRESIDENT KlV HcVt C^??pc?3 - lwCa*eCw j;ic-civ;bbivu> &cuuwcab ui fellU'.i: choice for President lor the next N THE SQUARE BEFORE THE IDATE YOU PREFER een officially nominated: [~~| FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT | | NORMAN THOMAS I | WILLIAM D. UPSHAW name. But to assist in national Town and State. STATE to Democrat office) ST 51.50 PER YEAR MISS JEAN GRAHAM DEAD AS RESULT OF AUTOMOBILECRASH ; SxleiUdv Fatally Injured on Sunday Evening When Tire Blow*. Former Student Here and Employed in Local Store for About a Year. Funeral Service* Held Tuesday j Morning at Todd. Jogn flrnhnm. 2-1 vr-nr--. old i and n resident of Boon? for more I than a year, was fatally injured on J Sunday evening when a car operated by a cousin, Mr. Robert Graham and occupied by hi-; wife and child, overturned on the Boone Trail Highway near Laxon postoffice. A blow-out precipitated the fatal accident, It is said, and when it appeared that the machine was frying out of control, Miss Graham is believed to have attempted to get out of the coupe, and was pir.ned between the door and the body of the machine. Passing- motorists rushed the injured lady to Dr. Perry's office in Boone, but death came within a space of five minutes, from a crushed chest. Neither of the 0 other occupants of the car received injuries. Funeral services were conducted from Blackburn's Chapel at Todd on Tuesday morning by Rev. Mr. Smith 8- who was assisted in the rites by Rev. b- Williams and Rev. Winkler. Interb ment was in the neighborhood cem'b etery. n- Miss Graham was a granddaughter id* of the late Ishmael Graham and M- came from one of the county's most substantial families. She graduated he from the Appalachian College two at years ago, and for the past year she had made her home with Mrs. J. L. re Harkleroad, being employed as a sales al lady in the dry goods department of VI- the Smithey store. She was a corisisof tent member of the Methodist church and was well known to Boone and Watauga County people generally, >p being held in the highest esteem by all of her acquaintances * ATIAM CAVA! ui liimiiun rmiiLi I TO WILL G. RHYNE Jo 1 Father of Boone Druggist Succumbs ;JS in Gattonia from Effects of Operation. FuneraL Services on Px Wednesday Afternoon. ty ?:i_i_ Will G. Rhyne, prominent citizen of the Ranlo section of Gaston Counn" ty, died Tuesday afternoon at a Gastonia Hospital after an operation peru" formed last Saturday. Dr. C. L. Rhyne, popular Boone druggist and in a son of the deceased, was called 'a* to the bedside of his father Sunday, and upon his return Monday evening ut believed the condition of the parent ll* to be improved. He was summoned ?a by telephone again Tuesday morning, j however, but the patient never raine | iicd. re j Funeral services are to be held ?"jat 2 o'clock this (Wednesday) afteri noon ar Chapel Lutheran Church, of ,al i which Mr. Rhyne was a member. Rev. tW [ C. O. Lippard, the pastor, will be in ut I charge, and interment, will l.?- in fchft. ll' Chapel cemetery. in Mv. Rhyne is survived by his wife k>;" and the following children; C. L. llhyne. of Boone; A. R. and J. G. Rhyne and Mrs. Gllie Jones, of Ren111 io; and the following brothers and <<", sisters: .3. C. L Rhylis and Dr. R. E i Rhyne, of Ga stoma; A. A.. Rhyne of East Gastonia; Mrs. T. R. McArver and Mrs. FaFnnio Rhyne, of GastoH^tnia, and Mrs! Ada Torrence.of Greenviiie, S. C. Deeeascvl had visited in Boone duel] ring the past summer at the home of ,en his son and during his short stay had made a large circle of friends who find sorrow in the news of his un13 expected demise, is ' | Fall Bargain Carnival ? I Attracts Large Crowds Hinnr'? second annual Fall Bargain t [carnival ; now ir. full swing and the \ i crowds filing into the local retail esI j iablishmonts during the first two days ; iof the week foretold one of the most i i riighiy suuccsaiwi 5??23G?8 events wroi! j far proposed in this territory. Special inducements have been offerer! by those participating, and the j two windows next the Pastime Thej atre have been decorated with move II ; tnan thirty premiums which will be I given away Saturday evening to those I who have traded in Boone this week. [The capital prize is a $10 gold piece, and nrany handsome articles of wearing BrowSi-l. house furnishings, toiletries and groceries complete the list of awards. Trade coupons are being dstributc-d by the various merchants, and these determine the distribution I of the prizes. Advertising matter has been distributed throughout the adjoining counties and an effort is being made to impress the citizens throughout this region of the promises held out by Boone as the logical shopping cen-i.' .v.-.-A;;'-V'c''
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