North Carolina Newspapers

BOONE SKETCHES By j. C. R. CONFLICTING OPINIONS We .scorched the Liberty I<ea a. couple of weeks ago . . . did a ri neat job, we thought . . . and qi a number of foiks here and tt bragged mightily at the effort . . . from out at Somerset. Ky.. our g friend and former associate. Wag A. Reese, writes a letter that ki takes the wind out of ou: sails. W iter undoubtedly objects to the pr fixing clause of the Graphic it Cede agreement, and feels that right smart of his liberty has b taken from him . . or, rather, be taken from him. Here's what letter says: "I always very grea tly enjoy yd 'Boone Sketches.' They ai e not or amusing. out generally instructs However, In a recent issue, yo comments on the newly-formed Li erty League (I believe that is t name of it) I think raised the ma considerably. Now I know almr, nothing ol those who are proraine in this new move, hence would n undertake to defend them. Nor i I know just the motive liiey ba\ and cannot judge the same. But do say that you are wholly wroi ill trying to deny that the Consl tutionai rights and liberties arc b ing tak ;r f roin the peopie of Oi nation. And if this movement not checked, America will soon i no better than many of the Eur pean countries, where personal li erties are practically unknown. "Right now 1 am being thrca ened with imprisonment, and at ti present I. am o! the opinion th; those threats will be carried oi. And what is it all for? Certainly, have not hilled anyone, nor have robbed any bank nor handled ar moonshine. It ia simply because operate a little country print sho where I do perhaps $250 Susine per year, to supplement a rneag' me,me, so that I and my farm may have a living. I have alwai conducted it. on an upright baai But this New Deal (or dirty dca makes demands upon me that I cai not eonseientloiisiv rr.vnniv ?si j " *Ti both irorr. a business and religloi standpoint. For ran to comply thci with would mean for me to trim pie under foot principles, and rel gicus convictions that are sacrc to me. Thi3 I cannot, and will nt do. T'ne only thing left for inc. this administration carries out i threats, is to spend perhaps man months in prison. Do you call th! LIBERTY ? When an American ci izcn 'can even be threatened wit imprisonment, when there is r charge against him other tha that he is conducting his own li lie business in his own way, it co talniy looks to me as If the libcrtti purchased by the blood of m forefathers is about a thing of tl past." We do not, of coarse, quite und aland the libe.rties of which our gc friend makes mention .... hence is impossible io offer comment his plight . . . hut we arc willing predict that he will not spend c single night to prison. The NRA t perhaps wrought certain injustic for reforms of such wufc scope v naturally place burdens on a few order to bring long-dreamed-of rel to multitudes. The NRA has its gc points ... it took tens of thousar of underfed children out of the ti tile factories of the South . . . Kun-eriiica UU' swo.lt-.sticp.'- v/hl hollow-eyed, emaciated women toi from dawn to sunset in virtual sli ery . . it increased wages and sho ened working hours ... it gave e ploy men t to millions of men who h been jobless for months: Jcseplius Daniels, American An bassador to Mexico, read the art cle referred tc by Mr. Reese, and i a letter to a Boone frter.d referre to it as "an admirable skinning f< those who. under pretense of sa' ing the Constitution, are upholdir a privilege, and sec-king to return U nation to an Old Deal which gai up "ragged individualism.' " We're sorry that Wagner Reese 1 been injured, for no better fellow tt he ever left. Watauga . . . but we i forced to believe, with the editor a prominent national magazine ti we are losing some very objections liberties . . the noble liberty of st ving to death . . . tie liberty to unclothed or to be without a r over our heads in this great land our fathers. A partisan reader asks an editoi opinion as to why a Democrat sho be barred from political conside tiou because he unwittingly follov a Democrat President in the carry out of a controversial campaign i platform promise. This scribe, not ing much of a fountain of infon t!on, is following the line of le resistance by "passing the buck." Many Year# in Dungeon A world's record Is claimed for Tibetan monk who voluntarily pas> sixty-nine years In a dungeon. Wt he returned to the light, his eyes vn sightless, and he had been bleact while by the confinement. ~ WAi 1 An In VOLUME XLVf, NUMBER 12 ^ PARKWAY MAY BE I ? BUILT OVER THE! k TENNESSEE ROUTE ood , Del-elates Wage Bitter Fight in Meet* 0._ liig Before Secretary Ickes After It < it?e-1 Found Special Committee Uecirts ! omniends Koute Proposed by Neigha! bor State. Head Already Located to J een ' D'?">iig kock. Washington. D C. ? Delegations from North Carolina and Tennessee to a hearing Tuesday before Secretary j. Ickes on the Shenandoah-Grcat Smoky Mountains Parkway learned that a committee named by Ickes to locate ur the route had recommended that projj_ posed by Tennessee, he The committee was composed of rh Arr.o B. Cammerer, director of the national park service; Thomas Macnf Donald, chief of the bureau of pub0? lie roads, ami George L. Radcliffe, do formerly public works division engird neer at Baltimore. I The delegations from the two ig- states learned of the committee's reti port shortly before the hearing at e- which they presented their contends tions for the southern portion of the is route. The parkway had already been 1 be located as far south as Blowing Rock, J o- N C. b- Tennessee Request Tennessee urged a route turning t- westward at Blowing Rock, leavmg to the Blue Ridge Mountains and enat to ring the Unaka range at the Tenit. nessee line, following this range genI eraliy southward to the Pigeon River, ' I where it would fork for a loop ly through the Smoky Mountains Park, j j. vrixii mm un trance to trie park at Gat* p, linburg, Tcnn.. and another at Cheris okee, N. C. *1 The delegation from North Cnroly Una urged a route lying wholly with 'a in that state south o:' Blowing Rock, c 3- skirting Mount Mitchell and Mount 1) Plsgah and entering the Smokies in 1! ;l" North Carolina. h- R G. Browning, chief location an- " J? gincer for the North Carolina High- ' '' way Commission, who opened the srgumcnt for that State, said the Blue Ridgr came nearest the retjuirenieiiCs N> ; for the Parkway which "ahould fie j* 'J; reasonably direct, through scenery J1 '* the best possible, constructed at a reasonable cost, easily accessible und ^ located with a view to the best pos- r' J sible development of recreational fit- b ? I cilitie3." <->1 1(3 i Citea Toui-lst Indus.try u The tourist industry of North Car- " 't_ olina. with its existing facilities, was " r. cited by Robert Latham. Ashcville | jjj editor, as a reason for routing the " lr parkway in North Carolina, but W. le T. Kennerly, cf Knoxville, replied iliat' r' the tourist industry did not "belong jA lo North Carolina alone in perpeter. uity." Ij Kjd Browning's contention that the it Blue Ridge route was more desirable on from an engineering viewpoint was n to disputed by Frank Webster, Ter.nesA cop'4 Wicrhu/Qv pAmr*-? iooirmr>r- ti-ViA oin tf las serted the Tennessee route would be es, fifteen miles shorter and more easril) ily traversed. a in Webster also claimed more varied d ief and rugged scenery for the Tennessee 11 >od route, declaring tliat ne had examined o ids both routes in a rotal of eight weeks 2X- spent studying them on foot, on it horseback, in automobile and by earire plane. f led Most of the arguments except those J tv- presented by Browning, Webster and rt- Latham, consisted in conflicting m- claims by the two delegations on the ad score of scenery and accessibility, .as well as to charges by some of the li Tenneaseeans that North Carolina's i- attitude was "selfish and greedy." i- The speakers included Governor in McAlistur, Senators McKellar and id Bashman (both Democrats of Ten>r nessee, for Tennessee, and Senators V v- Bailey and Reynolds (both Democrats h :g of North Carolina), Representative ti ie Doughton, Democrat of North Car- h re olina, and Frank Page, former chair- p man of the State Highway Comthls- t< sion, for North Carolina. Governor r, tas Ehringhaus of North Carolina headed t lan his delegation and introduced the ae j speakers. p of The Interior Department audito- t rat rium was filled with several him- v ble I nreu resiaents 01 uotn slates during c ar- the hearing, which lasted three hours, s go I Ickes said he was unahle to give lj oof any' indication when he would reach f of a decii?on. r .Transfer Management of 1 ^ .Hotel at Blowing Rock c ? 8 ra~ Transfer of the management of the Mayview Manor Hotel from M. M. t in^ Chapman, manager for three yeare, c to Paul Moldcnhauer, owner of tlie t Green Park Hotel, was made known c na~ at. Blowing Rock Monday. Mr. Mol- t 33 denhauer will be in charge of both hotels next summer and Is planning i ? to establish uniform rates at both i places. 1 a He manages the Nautilus Hotel in ; led Miami Beach during the winter, while ion Mr. Chapman is in charge of the Mi- < Jre ami-Biltmorc at Coral Gables. The 1 ied present owner of the Manor is J. E. 1 Broyhili of Lenoir. < I AUG dependent Weekly New BOONE, WATAUGA CC Smouldering Remains < SIOAD SENTENCES^ TOTALING OVER 3 YEARS PASSED "rial of Criminal Cases in Superior Court Quickly Dispensed With. Raj anil Henry Pennfcll Given Two Yeai Sentences bj J u d g e Harding. Wilkes: Men Draw Six Months for Operating Car With Smoke Screen. Watauga Superior Court, whieii onvened Monday for a one-week lixed term with Judge W. V. Hardlg of Chnrlolte presiding, had disused of all criminal actions by WeQe-sday morning, the grand jury havig been dismissed Tuesday afteroon. Ray and Henry Pen 11 ell, charged ith violating the prohibition laws ad larceny, drew the longest, terms, aving been sentenced to the roads )r a term of two years. Raiph Frecland and Arnold Cilia t h, Wilkes County men, were sent i the roads for six months on barges growing out of operating an utomobiie to which a smoke screen ad been affixed, and which contained quantity of whiskey. The whiskey ise had previously been disposed of i ritCui ucl'a Court. Sherman Winebarger, charged with ssault with a deadly weapon, was Jiudged not guilty. Dwight Moretz. assault with dead weapon, 60 days on roads. Pin Wmdbarger, simple assault, asjssed with one-half cost; witnesses ot "to prove. George Bingham, charged witli reviving fence, was dismissed 011 paylint of one-half t'ne cost. Wpitf.r fiunipnrnpr inlprP^i*in<r ltrltn n officer in the performance of his uties, sentenced to 60 days on the :ads. Judgment suspended on payten c of cost. John Johnson, public drunkenness, (Continued on Page 8) 'JMMERMANNEW COACH AT A. S. T. C. ioone Attorney, Former Star at Wake Forest, Assumes Duties as Line Coach. Head Coach Garbee Locks for "Fair Eleven." With Charles Zimmerman, former (fake Forest College gridiron star, andling the linesmen for the first ime, Appalachian State Teachers ave completed two weeks of football ractiee, with prospects of a fair earn, despite Iocs by graduation Prat pring of five regular linesmen and bree starting backs. Mr. Zimmerman, who has been radioing law in Boone for the past wo years, played his fir3t football /ith Asheville High School and then ntered Wake Forest where ht tarred for four years, completing l.VS L&ICCI uicic ui l^ou. nc wcut ap* >ointed line coach the first of the nonth. Head Coach CJarbee, whose Mounameers made scoring history last rear, is not quite optimistic over the :omintr season hut expects to have i presentable eleven in action. Trippany, star halfback and cap air., is expected to carry the brum if the work in the backfield, while he veteran McOonnell, all-confer mce end last fall, and Moore, center orm the nucleus for the forewall. About eighty men have been drill ng at College Field for the past tw< vceits. Freshman Coach Wa tkins am lis assistant, Freddie McDonald, ex iect a nice frosh eleven. The schedule for the varsity, cm )f the toughest the Mountaineer: :ave faced in years, opens with Mil igan College at Elizabethton, Tenn. in September ??th. ^<^p?g5g ft..-1-f'' "'" V^; " ~'^S^?'"--:'> ^^9 ??-: ><*: A DI spaper?Established in th .XTXTY, north cakoij.na. satur :>f Ill-Fated Morro Castle - i NKW YOKK.?-The intense in to re? { I he burning; of the S. S. Morro Cast ? fleeted by the manner in which all gj persons in all walks of life. Acting; < a, tvfied that he belie veil the lire that J one." Photo above is close-up of the Asbury Park, N. J. The list of deal ! Candidates A (Republicans OPEN SEASON FOR SQUIRREL OPENS ON OCTOBER 1 Contrary to the belief of some local sportsmen, the squirrel hunting season does not open until October 1st, according to word given out. by J. A. Biadshtnv, district game and fish warden of Asheville, who visited in Boone Monday. Mr. Bradshaw says that the period from October 1st to November .SOth was fixed by the General Assembly for the shooting of squirrels and that no other power can change it. He states that the Con scrvii(ior< Department niuv shorten the ophn season, but that they have no power over the opening date. All hunter* shooting squirrel during the .nenth of September should he Vigorously prosecuted, -he added. OUT TICKET AT SATURDAY MEET Howell to Make Sheriff's Races Dean Swift Party Choice for Assemblyman; Baker and Herman Get Support for Sheriff, While Swift beads Hodges, Hagamun and Hoyden. Moretz and Hodges I-ose to South. The Democratic County Convention held Saturday morning for the purpose of naming candidates for the various county offices, was practically without incident; no resolutions were offered, and the business was dispatched in rapid-fire order As Y. Howell, present sheriff of the county, was renominated with a handsome majority of the delegate votes, while Harrison Bakei and Martin Herman came m for substantial recognition when the roil of the townships was called. Dean Swift. weU-kr.owo teacher, won easily for Representative, the names of Rev. Ed Hodges and Dr. J. B. Hagaman and D. J. Boyden having drawn lesser but at the same . time considerable support. Austin E. South, Clerk of the Court for the past eight years, won the renomination ever D. Grady Moretz and Charles G. Hodges, while Mis3 Helen ; Underdown was x-cnained 03 candiI date for Register of Deeds. W. R. Vines is again candidate foi i Surveyor, while Dr. Jack Love is run; ning for Coroner, Dr. J. B. Hagarnan 1 having refused to again accept the 1 nomination. ; The incumlxent Board of County ; Commissioners, Eller McNeil. W. F. Miller snd Coy I. Billings, was re! nominated without noticeable opposition. I Mr. A. D. Wilson acted as chairman of the assembly, which confined : itself solely to the business of siat: ing a ticket. COUNTY SINGING t The Watauga County Singing Con5 vention will be held at the courthouse - in Boone, on the first Sunday in Oc, tober at 9:45 o'clock. We will be pleased to have a clase - from every church in our county and i hope that each class is doing every i thing it can to build up itself ant - Sunday School, and then, the clasj will be building our convention. b We welcome you all and trust thai 3 you are just going to have that glac - day we anticipate you are. N. L. HARRISON, Chaumar Z. T. GREENE, Secreatry. :moc e Year Eighteen Eighty-E DAV. SEPTEMBER 20, 1S34 After Great Death Toll ...? : I B&.. ?t in the Federal investigation of le with great loss of life* was reevidence Was eagerly scanned by Daptaln Wi F. Warms (inset) tesswept the ship was "set by somedeath ship sis it went aground at il and missing was set at 186. ire Named By f Last Monday |r 1 | Prcvette and Meeklns Principal Spca iters; Denounce New Deal Policies and Call i'or Rally of O. O. P. Fol lowers. Hatley Candidate for Sheriff, while Rev. Walter C. Greene Seeks Seat in Assembly. Mrs. Ralph JBingham to Run for ClerkTbe auditorium and balcony of the County Courthouse were taxed with a capacity crowd Monday evening when the Republicans of Watailgo County nominated a ticket for county officers, and heard Hon. James M. iVevette. candidate, for Congress and Hon Wiiliain C. Meek Inn, Statt Chairman, sound the tocsin of tin coming political campaign. | Attorney T. K. Bingham was mad< permanent chairman after Russell D Hodges, head of (he Watauga Repub lican organization, ope.ned the ?ae?E tog. Mr. Bingham, upon accepting th< gave), said, a great honor had beet bestowed upou him and referred It published reports that under the Nev Deal 22,000,000 are dependent upor Government dole for sustenance Fol lowing are the nominees: The Nominations For Cierk Superior Court, Mrs Grace Sherwood Bingham. For Sheriff, Fred Hatley. For Representative, Rev. Waiter C Greene. For County Commissioners: W. A Proffitl, Arthur Mcodv and Alfrei Thomas. For Surveyor. I A. Bumgarner. For Coroner, Or. W. O. Bingham (On Tuesday Dr. Bingham refuse: the nomination, stating thai businea affairs would not permit him to ac cept, and that place on the ticket ha: been left vacant.) No candidate was named for judg< j of the Recorders Court, it being in jdicaied that the Republicans gfiner | ally opposed the tribunal. The o.ffic( j of Register of Deeds, was left vacant with instructions to the Executive Committee to name a candidate if il so desired. Principal interest centered in tin Sheriff's race, the following addition al names having been offered: I-ione Ward. Ear! Cook. W. M. Thomas, A E .Hamby, C. M. Crilcher and E. E Wilson. lite tour last named with drew and Mr. Hatley received tb .nomination on the second ballotMr. A. W. Smith, veteran politics leader, declined to enter the race fo ; the Clerkship, while Blaine Coffej former assemblyman, declared his In ability to again accept, his party' honors. Clyde Greene and Marioi Thomas withdrew after friends Ba offered their names. The names o 1 Arlie Wilson, Fowl Hollar and Jo 1 Miller were offered for surveyoi while others placed in nomination a commissioners included DeWit Brown, i?d Farthing, G. W. Robbim D. P. Coffey, C. M. Watson and . M. Hodges. Greene States Platform At the conclusion of the nomina tions Mr. Greene briefly stated th platform upon which he will seek leg islative honors, and announced hi unalterable opposition to the rata (Continued on Page 7) MARINE VISITS IN WATAUGA Archie Sims, of the U. S. Marir i Corps, left for Washington, D. C.. o i Friday after spending thirty da> - with bis mother. Mrs. J. C. Churci i who ha3 been ill at her home ne; 3 Blowing Rock. Young Sims is jui back from Haiti, where he was sti t tioned for two years at Port A 1 Prince. He will sail on September 1 | for San Diego. Calif., via. the Pan?.;r i Canal, where his company will real | a brief stop. 2* $1.50 PER Yc.AK iOOUGHTONGIVENA ROUSING GREETING I AT BOONE RALLY ' Ninth District Congressman Delivers Opening: Speech o; Campaign for Re-election in CoEUrthou.se Here. Democratic Readers from Nine Counties Present. State Chairman j WJnbovne Outlines Plans. Farmer Bob Doughton had a rousing throng of supporters at the courthouse here Saturday afternoon, when he opened his twelfth campaign for re-clection to Congress from the Ninth North Carolina District, and the veteran Alleghany statesman voiced his pleasure at the cheering I reception aiven h:ir? Democratic leaders from Stanly, Cabarrus, Rowan. Iredell. Alexander, Caldwell, Alleghany and Ashe counties joined wiht local partisans in a rally which is believed to have been the most enthusiastic in years. V. D. Guire of Lenoir, chairman of the Ninth Congressional committee, presided over the meeting, and representatives from each of the nine counties of the district brought greetings to Mr. Doughton. Wiscassett Band - of Albemarle, one of the State's leading musical organizations, played several stirring numbers during the program. Introduced by Jim Rivers of the Watauga Democrat, Congressman Doughton entered into a vigorous discussion of the accomplishments of . the New Deal, defending each and every policy of the Roosevelt administration, and outlining the accomk plishments of the past Congress. He characterized the "Old Deal" as a deal of corruption and privilege, "a ruinous. inefficient deal w h ich brought distress to millions of Amer! ican families and culminated in the 1 financial destitution of the nation." The veteran legislator pointed to 1 the reduction in unemployment, in' (crease in wages, decrease in working * hours, gains in bank deposits and * foreign commerce, rise of farm commodities and increased earnings 01" manufacturers and retailers as fruits of the New Deal, and took occasion. JI to remark that the much talked-cf [Liberty League is a voice of desrpera j tion of the special interests in this * ' COUntrv "dp?mprotfl -? ( - ?w u-.vuu.iw nivjr vau * no longer become rich at tlie expense 1 of nakedness and starvation of the > people." 7 Discusses Expenditures 1 The speech was typical of Tenner Bob Dougton, covering every phase of legislation which has come up daring the past two years, and revealing . mtner-lo unpublished figures of administration costs. "Opponents cf the New Deal,' said Congressman Doughton, "are endeavoring to mislead the people and cause them to believe that the Administration is creating an en' ormous debt. They refer to the fact that our national debt has increased around six billions of dollars, and would have you believe that this rep. rescnti; the cost of the New Deai pro1 gram. They do not tell you that the i cash balance in the Treasury is now - $1,800,000 greater than at the time 5 President Roosevelt was inaugurated; they do not tell you that tlie physical ; assets held by the government repre. sen ted by loans made by the Recon. struction Finance Corporation, the ; Home Owners' Lena Corporation and the Agricultural Credit Administrn: tioi. will be repaid with but slight : loss to the GoverfTment. "Tnese loans represent a large . pari of this six billion and in no sense . a iu?ure cnarge on uie j taxpayers, while these opponents are loud in their condemnation of thi3 increase, they are strangely silent . regarding the four and a half billion e dollar increase in our national ddfct during Uic last two years of Presi, de.nt Hoover's administration, during '* which time no effective measures for r relief or a return to prosperity were ' undertaken. Fruits of tho New Deal n Congresstnan Doughton Introduced ^ the following figures, taken from def partmental records, as "fruits of the New Deal": "Farmers' income has Increased ^ ?1,250,000 and over in the past year. t "Federal income taxpayers in fisf cal year 1934 paid on $2,000,000,000 j' more income than in the year 1933. 'More than 4,OOO.GOO re-employed I ut plivcllu mviuakiy, mure loan 4,?w,! 000 given temporary jobs, and more l~ than 657,000 given public works em^ pioymeut. "Wages in manufacturing industries have increased $40,000,000 per week more than in 1933, making a total of approximately $2,800,000,000. "Prices of seven staple farm crops have increased in price and are now ie 95 per cent, of the pre-war average, n Price of many farm products are. 1 rs more than 100 per cent greater than ii, last year, and some as high as 200 ir per cent greater. 3t "Since the operation of the national i- deposit guaranty act, instead of thouM sands of banks closing as was the 16 case during the past few years, there l? has only been or.e national and two te state bank failures. (Continued on Page 8)