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Sittings From the Legislat ure * By SI. R. DUNNACAN Sjtfx-inl Writer Tor I tie Itciuocrat ] Raleigh, N. C.?The General Assembly, soinevvhat stunned by the developments >< the banking world over last week-end as -vere the people of the State and Nation, shook off the fear and hesitancy early in the week and settled down to clearing up business looking toward the receipt of the larger revenue and appropriations bills, clearing away numbers of less important hill . H" Governor Ehringhaus asked, in a message early in the week, that these two hills bo carried over and that they could devote their time to the other bills before them until the bonking situation cleared up a bit. Evidently the Governor feared that if fth'e law makers went into the important measures at that time they would let the Tear and uncertainty sway their better judgment and produce measures that would not be satisfactory in more stable timesHe asked that he be permitted to address a joint session soon, and that invitation was extended him, leaving the time to him. l! The. Governor accordingly dciiv? ercd his message MonAvy evening. asking ample funds for the support of the State** credit, its school system, and the maintenance of its high- ; ways, and urging a sales tav as a j means to that end. While profess- , ing a personal loathing for this sort I of levy, the Governor advocated it, I as a last resort in saving the credit i of the State. The Chief Executive called on the Assembly to follow the course which in its judgment would rest less heavily on the backs of the j people, "My chief concern,*' he said, "is adequate though economical pro' vIffQP and an unmistakably balanced budget." The banking holiday was continued m North Carolina to an indefinite date, pending the decision of {the President. All are hopeful that .something will he done and at an ? arly date, and a spirit of confidence prevails. Governor Ehringhaus asked that Christian people pray for President Roosevelt Sunday for strength ^ and power to handle satisfactorily the problems before bim. The holiday 1 WAS expected to be declared over early in^the week, when business was expected to resume its almost normal course. IJLQu "ScTintv Vi'pj struggling CVC? the new f'nn?;Hfn ft whan rmblin matters srtdad Fris; Monday jmaMBBjan be taken up again. The House fought out the Machinery bill, which fixes methods of lax collections, dates, and sets up the machinery for operations of the counties. This was not finished however. Truck bills have been considered, those growing out. of the railroad-truck competition, and are i' not finished. Many controversial measures have been considered and progress made, but much more remains to be done. The medicinal liquor bill was killed Uncertainty prevails as to the convention for the 18th amendment vote, authorities differing. The national financial trouble has resulted in a temporary hold-up of legislation, but it- is expected to figs? naliy serve to hasten the completion : of ohe work of the General A.-sen,^ b!y. The need for early completion of the task is aoparent- in order to let; business in the State resume its natural courte. The uncertainty of what the legislature may do has a t;nI doney to retard, and that is realized by the law-makers. They are earnest in tneir desire to wind up and get | away, for persona! reasons, too. Early talk of 1 cress or -adjournment was objected to by Governor Ehringhaus and the members are now bent upon sticking to it and finishing the job before going home. An unexpected spurt in introduci . tions of new bills developed last 4 week, the wjeek'a grist numbering , about 140, more than 100 in tho House and nearly 40 in the Senate. This brought the total number of i bills for the session up to some 1285, l> 365 in the Senate and 020 in the 4 House. ' Also, the number ratified increased, numbering 117 for the week, including 26 public bills and resolu[ Eons and 91 local bills. This brings die session's total to 376 ratified measures, bills and resolutions, 1U7 tof which originated in the Senate and 268 in the House Half of the public bills ratified last week had been nassed And were. TP.adv fnv vnfi-finn lion the week before and were noted ' in this COrresponueiiCe !m! ".V-ccU. Two of the new laws were brought about by the banking condition. One was the measure to provide the banking holiday to conserve assets of hanks, giving the Commissioner of Banks and Governor unusual powers . to regulate banking during the emergency. The other gave the Insurance Commissioner additional power, bo he could extend the days of grace in life insurance policies for the period of the banking holiday, so policies would not lapse while funds arc tied up. Finally the bill abolishing the Cor(Continned on Page 2) A Non VOLUME XLIV. NUMBER 37. Rainey in the Chair ] '?ti Here it the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, who used his gave! for the first time in calling the House to order a few days ago, opening the special session called by President Roosevelt. il)K. LINNEY COMES 1 TO BOONE FORI PRACTICE SURG'RY j Charlotte Man Takes Office* in Drug ^ Store Building. Will Confine Prac- 1 tice to General Surgery. Educated I at University of Pennsylvania. I Well Known Locally. To Open Of- 1 ficcs Next Week. fa C Dr. R. Z. Linney, who for the past ? several months has been located in v Charlotte, arrived in Boone last i week and rented offices in the Boone v Drug Cytnipu f.y Thttjldjng. Equipment is being installed, and Dr. Linney, i wno wi'i co..fir.: hlo practicc1^ P""-]' I eral surgery, expects to be roaay 1 or 7 [work within the next ,'en days. Dr. Linney, who is a nephew of j the late Frank A. Linney, received ? his A. B. degree at the University of { North Carolina, class of 1921. In ;. 1928 he was awarded his M. D. de- j ?tec front the University of Pennsylvania. In 1929 Dr. Linney completed a onc-ytar rotating internship at the Gradual e Hospital of the Uni- ' vcraity of Pennsylvania, and began a three-year fellowship in surgery at " me Graduate School of Medicine. This fellowship was completed in. c June, 1932, at which time a Master s of Medical Science in Surgery degree ' was obtained. f c During his fellowship in surgery Dr. Linney was chief resident physi- c cian of a large Philadelphia hospital. He practiced in Charlotte from Sep' tember la:, 1932. to March 1, 1D33, and was a member of the surgical ! staff of Mercy Hospital and the Char- ' lotte Sanatorium. Dr. Linr.ey is also c a member of the Mecklenburg Meui- ; eal Society, the North Carolina Med- 1 icttl Society, and the Tri-State Medi- ' eal Association. ) Since boyhood Dr. Linney has J visited in Boone frequently, and has cultivated a host of friends who will ' welcome him as a permanent resident, also his wife and small son, ' R. Z. Jr. For the present the family will make their home with Mrs. Frank A. Linney on Main Street. 1 620 WATAUGA MEN GIVEN wnRie p.v on ivc a< CMPirC Raleigh, N. C.?Watauga County ' men, numbering G20, were given employment during the month of Jan- j uary and were paid $5,182.00 from J ! Federal relief funds distributed through the Governor's office of re- ( lisf, a report show*.. The report reveals that 05,680 ; men in North Carolina were employed in January, to whom more than 750,000 was pi\id in wages, | which wages amount to about 65 per ] *""*t ff the 81.250.000 spent for re- , lief purposes in the State during Jan- j j uary. About two-thirds of the heads | of destitute families were at work ( for the aid they received, the others , receiving direct relief because no one in the family was able to work or . no work was available. The work was all of a type bene- , fiting the public, as highway repairing and beautif icr tion, school house building and repairing, street repairs and construction, and like projerts While all was of benefit, much of it would not have been done but for the i present emergency and the available I funds, it was stated. AUG i-Partisan Newspaper, De| BOONE, WATAUGA COuSi BANKS REOPENING 1 ON SCHEDULES AS' GIVEN OUT SUNDAY I "edtr/il Reserve Group Open Mon- J day. Those in Cities Having Clear- | iug Houses Resume Business Tues- > day, and Ayi Others Meeting R?* 1 quiremenls Authorized to Open Wednesday. No Local Information. X Explanation of why some of the ' bank* are opened on one day and ' some on other days was made by r President Roosevelt in his address ^ to the Nation Sunday night on the bank situation. This explanation ? follows: "It is necessary that the reopen- ? ing of the banks be extended over r a period in order to permit the ? banks to make applications for ; necessary loans, to obtain currcn- * cy needed to meet their requirements and to enable the govern- I ment to make common sense \ check-ups. I "Let me make it clear to you 2 that if your bank does not open | the first day you are by no means S justified in believing that it will J not open. A bank that opens on | one of the subsequent days is ex- I actly in the same status as the ? bank that opens tomorrow." t k A number of North Carolina banks J ocated in cities having clearing J louses were opened for business on $ Tuesday, following the opening c? J he Federal Reserve units on Moil- I lay, both these movemen-'s having >een authorized from Washington fl laturday. The Secretary of the treasury also authorized other banks jj o make applications for reopening h leginning Wednesday, and applica- 'jj ions from State institutions have 4 cen pouring in:o the office of Bank t .'ommissioncr Hood in Raleigh, and } re being acted upon as rapidly as 2 . :li_ rr?l _ ? - ? ' lutttiiuie. muse Danas wnicn arc pro- . en to be 100 per cent, sound, are q n regular order granted licenses to 9 enew their operations. t Reports from over the nation in- I havejj; hown a conEJ-dervce unpftrnlleled <?? J mV?national emergency, anu . mmediately. the doors were opened housands rushed to deposit their loardings, and no less than $100,>00,000 in gold has been brought in jj or deposit, or for exchange for cur- a ency as authorized by President toosevell. ^ L >l?.i Fo'ki Cc cpsrale J Mr. G?P. HagamB.ii,. cashlei*?.<>r the .Vatauga County Bank, states that v Vataugans have been bringing in v rold coin and gold certificates in an- t iwcr ?'o the Presidential decree, and f ixchhnging it for currency. He urges itrict compliance in this connection j md states that .the_order affects all fold coin, even to keepsakes. Gold j ertificatss came in also, and the loal bank will exchange other curren- i; y therefor. Local -Decision in Few Days Local bank officials, realizing the ? remendous task facing the State f* lanking department in attempting to * letermtnc the condition of moro than ' !00 banks, ha*e declined to make ^ lefinite statements as to an opening " iate. The pi-ocedure outlined by the * tederal government and which is be- ' ng closeiy followed in Raleigh, calls v lor detailed inquiries into the eoniition of al! State banks, and some 1 :ime is required. It is believed, bow- c tver, that within a very few days, it T vili be known when the local institu- ~ ions may open their doors. 1 f 1 FRANK CLINaRD PASSES SEVENTY-NINTH MILEPOST ^ Hickorv.?Frank A Ptinnrd one ' >f Hickory's most popular citizens, c (Wednesday was receiving the congratulations of his many friends on J he occasion of his seventy-ninth lirt.hday anniversary. Mr. Clinard was born in WinstonSalem on March S, 185-1, and has ived in Hickory off-and on sines 1 lis early manhood. Several outstanding distinctions ! ire claimed by Mr. Clinard, one that 1 ie is the oldest living Mason in Hie- ' tory, from point of membership, and < mother that his marriage to Mrs. ' Clinard, the former Miss Gertrude ' Tones, was the first church wedding ' to be solemnized in this city. Mr3. 1 Clinard died the past year. > Another distinction that belongs to Mr. Clinard is that he is never seen I without a flower in his buttonhole, 1 summer or winter. . SUCCEEDS WALSH i Governor John Evickson of Montana has resigned in order to accept i an appointment as United States . Scnator_to succeed the late Senator > Thomas J. Walsh. t k dh ??ted to the Best Interest; ||r, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSD^ iuirWORKERSl If ten counties meet in boone ffl*Day Session Held at State Teachffiji College Thursday. Ezeil in ^Charge. Dr. Roy M. Brown of ^hapel Hill Present. Discuss Home ;^ardcm. Refreshments Served by Economics Department. gji. very interesting and profitable Steeling of welfare and rslief workers from Surrey. Yadkin, Wilkes, Al^ghaney, Ashe, Watauga, Caldwell, Srary, Mitchell and Yancey counties gB held in the assembly hall of Lovtf>Home at State Teachers College. Ipine, on iThursday of last week. ,vThe session was called by Mr. EzState representative in charge if the ten counties. Dr. Roy M. gown, of Chapel Hill was also preset. The meeting was largely an informal discussion of the problems of reifcf in this territory. The afternoon Ssion was devoted to ways and neans of getting every family to ?nd a good-sized garden, and raise jfcveral nefiessarv field cr.nns. Tt was fie concensus of opinion tha. a more lespera'e condition will develop next 'ear unless relief case?, as well as ithers, provide themselves with plenty of honie-giown food. It was pointd out that Federal and State aid amnot continue indefinitely. ' It was brought out a' the meeting j ?i the man who does not make a \ effort, to produce his own support will not only be out of luck or relief, but in a bad way with lis more industrious neighbors, who ^ fill r.ot feel inclined to help umii ie" himself has shown a willingness p.do his best to help himself. [ It was found by an exchange of taper ience* that the problems of several counties is a common ( Bpoblcrrtj with the exception of fae- 1 biy and mill towns. ; Hiss Lily Dale, of the Department 5 ifyHome Economics of the College, ^ Ided by other women and organiza- J ions of the town, served a splendid j BTjehcon to the visitors. j Wkr? Killed in East. I . Tennessee Tornado ? Johnson City, Tenn.?With a death ( 1st I'apidly mounting, it is known that < t least a score of persons were killed < 'uesday night in a wind storm of 1 ijirrirnne proportions which struck i last Tennessee. i Cherry Hill, a suburb of Kingsport, ? fits one of the principal sufferers, i* nth a (1 ?ath list of seven and more j hail thirty injured. Other points sufering from the storm were: Pruden, Tenn., 9 dead, many inured. Nashville, Tenn., 3 dead. 50 inured. j Harrogate, Tenn.. 2 d;ad, eight < njured. Oswego, iTenn., 1 baby killed. Striking without warning about :4 5 p. m., the hurricane smashed he frame buildings of Cherry llill o kindling wood, destroying nineeen homes and a score of smaller iuildings. The little suburb ealied for lelp and members of the Hammond 'ost American Legion, Kingsport poice and firemen and hundreds of 'oiunteera rushed to the scene. Fire broke out in the ruins as the njured were being removed, but was inickly extinguished by the Kings tort fire department. All available lectors ami nurses in Kingsport were tuickly at work rendering first aid md within a short time both the larsh Clinic and the General Hoslitnl were filled to capacity. Addiional injured were taken to the iCingsrprt Inn. which was ,thrown (pen to them. Former College Student Gets Life Imprisonment An Associated dispatch front Cansas City states that Maurice C. 1 Marshall, 21, pleaded guilty Tuesday i ifternoon ?o the murdering of two lircmen who lost their lives in the >urning.of the Kansas-Missouri grain levator in the Middle Western city February 18, 1932, and was sen Kneed io Slic irajsrisor-nceni. Marshall previously confessed setting 'ire to the elevator so he might be* r job helping rebuild it. The convicted man, who is a native of Illinois, was a student at Appalachian State Teachers College iiere during the fall term of 1929. His fri -ds remember him as a quiet, unassuming youth. Shipments of Broccoli are going forward from Scotland County byexpress until the crop matures to the extent that carlot shipments can be made. 3 of Northwest North Cat IY, MARCH 16. 1933. New Treasury H? 1 j A Washington picture of William H. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, taken on one of his trips from the Treasury Building to the While House, being in constant contact with President Roosevelt during the trying hours of the new administration. FUNERALCHARLES BLAIR HELD THUR. Veil Known Resident of New River PaeBcs After Long Illness. Son of { Late George Blair. Two Brothers and a Sister Among Survivors. Funeral services were held Thurslay from the ancestral home three niles cast of Boone for Charles Ed-j yin Blair, 60, wh~ died Wednesday | Tom general debility, following a peiod of declining health of about a fear. The obsequies were in charge >f Rev. P. A- Kicks of the Boone Saptist Church, and interment was n :he Boone Cemetery. Surviving are two halt-bivvtners, Iu lius R. Blair ^ oT 1 r^prai?v T. IveafT^air ox1 ih>uTre,ana one ndtz^ UStfr,-. vr. xJ a! Icrt 'uf L-rCJi*. ::: Deceased was a son of the late jeorga H. Blair, was born and reared m the New River farm where he lied, and had spent his entire life in -v_i -i.: tt_ i- i >- - .nttL sccuoti. ne nau oten a consistent member of the Boone Baptist Church for many years, and was well ind favorably known tntpuyhou^rl-his section. Confederate Veteran Recalls War Days "Uncle" Marion Millsaps, venerable soldier of L;;'s gray-clad army, submits the following interesting lata concerning the part he played 11 the grave conflict of the sixties: V ? * Ed-'or Watauga Democrat.: Please move oyer and give an old hero a little room in your paper. 1' W. M. Millsaps, of Beech Creek, am the only member of Company D, 1st Xorth Carolina Voluntary Cavalry, now living. I left fioone on May 13th, 1861, and wont to Asheville, N. C. I left Asheville and went to Ridgeway, and from Ridge way to Kinston; then went to Richmond, Va. and took part in the seven-day battle below Richmond. We were in our saddles dnv and night during that fight, and were in every battle and skirmish up to the Brandy Station cavalry fight, where General Stuart fought General Pleasant, a Northern commander. Then General Pleasant crossed*the Rapidan River a* daybreak at Nethcly and Kelly Forge. The battle lasted all day long and until sunset, when General Pleasant retreated back across the Rapidan Rivet at dusk. 1 was wounded at 7 o'clock that morning, the 3th of June, 1663, and lay on the battle field that whole day aione, until d<=ep dual: that night when Captain Todd caine to where 1 was. A Yankee had passed by and left me a canteen full of cold coffee tc drink. I believe that coffee saved mj life. There were about 20,000 cav alrymen engaged in that fight. This is for the benefit of those whose fathers have gone on, and m; good friends. I was 91 years of agi February 20th, 1933, and my healtl is still very good. 1 thank you, Mr Rivers, and bid you all good-bye. ?W. M. MfLLSAPS, Co. D. 1st N. C. Volunteer Cavalry Beech Creek, N. C. Prospects are good f-or a heavj peach crop this year, say those grow crs who have recently completer their dormant spraying. ' olina51 50 PER YEAR HEARING filmN(T NEW EVIDENCE IN JIM HIGGINS CASE Graham Teague. Boone Youlh Arrested Last Week, Not Mentioned in Testimony Before Recorder. Prepared to Prove Alibi. Other Mi^ nor Cases Disposed of. Entire Docket to B* Cleared Next Week. Grahnin Teague, young Boone citizen who was arrested and placed in jail last Friday on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Jim Higgins of Lenoir a week previous, walked out of Recorder's Court Tuesday a free man, when no evidence was offered by the State tending to incriminate him. Higgins, who, according to former testimony, met his death in a fall down the steps of an apartment house in Boone, was said to have mentioned the name Teague at one time when he regained consciousness. tiius causing the warrant to be issued. Dr. Rudisill, head of Caldwell hospital where he died, doubted, however, that the deceased had experienced any lucid moments while under his care. The court, ruled out such testimony, and Graham Teague's name was not. mentioned, ether than by Bruce Higgins. son of decaesed, who stated that to his knowledge Teague had not been in the apartment he, Bruce, occupies with his mother, in two years, at which time he delivered some coal there. It is further known that Teague could have proven ar. alibi. Thus, in the present light of the affair, it is pretty generally believed that Higgins actually met his death in a fajl down the stairway. Other cases dirposcd of included: Noah Miller, of De-fp Gap, larceny, guilty. Suspended sentence of four niunths. Assessed with cost. Ivan Moretz, larceny, not guilty. Andrew Cornett, affray, four months sentence suspended on payment of cost. Ed Williams, trespass, nol pros with leave. Dave Dishman, f. and a., nol pros with !? ? The court will again convene next tpd continue from <j?iy to I day until the docket, has been cleared I Jurisdiction in crm "cases hoi established, hll* norm will he trior* until after the spring- term of Superior Court, which will conrene on April L'-l-.li. DRYS PREPARE FOR VIGOROUS BATTLE AGAINST REPEAL V\ asiiingcor..?Nearly 1,000 delegates representing thirty religious denominations and almost every dry organization in the country voted last week overwhelmingly to put the na ion -wide campaign against ratification of the prohibition repeal amendment under control of a central organization handed by nine men. After extended debate, the final session of the two-way conference here approved Lhe one-unit project. The plan of campaign will involve an attempt to build a political organization to oppose the anti-prohibitionists in the States in the selections which are to pass upon ratification of the betiding pronnsal to re peai me f,i(iiixeenin Arocnamtnt. TO ABANDON RAILROAD The Norfolk and Western Railroad . Satuiday was granted authority by the Interstate Commerce Commission io abandon nineteen mile? of railroad from West Jefferson to Elkland, N. C. THE WEATHER Weather report for Jifck ending March 11th, as compileo by the Cooperative Bureau at State Teachers j College: ! Average maximum temperature, 46 degrees. Average minimum temperature, 24 degrees. Average emperature, 36 degrees. 'Average daiiv Tange in tempera[ ture, 22 degrees. Greatest daily range in tempera, ture, 39 degrees; date, 5th. i Average temperature at 6 p. m. (time of observation), 37 degrees. Highest temperature reached, 57 degrees; date, 5lVi. ! Lowest temperature reached, 15 r degrees; date, 6th. ! Total precipitation (including meli ted snow) in inches, 2.03. Greatest precipitation in 24 hours, 1.98; date, 7th. (Total snowfall in inches, 0.50. .' Number of days with 0.01 inch or more precipitation, 3. Number of clear days, 3. 7 Number of partly cloudy days, 2. Number of cloudy days, 2. i Date of killing frost, 6th. Dates of high winds, 8th, 9th, 10th. '
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