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The Week in Washington A RESUME OF GOVERNMENMKNTAL HAPPENINGS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington, Feb. 3.?Topping all other subjects ol conversation in Washington is the speech which Alfred E. Smith made at the Liberty League Dinner, and its possible effects upon the political situation. No utterance by a private citzen in recent political history has stirred up so much discussion. It is taken here by some political observers as the most important wedge that has been driven so far to bring about the much-talked of split in the Democratic Party. Of course, Mr. Roosevelt will be renominated, but there is no mistaking the intention of Mr. Smith and his followers, .included in the Liberty League, to bolt the parly, whether they undertake to put a third ticket into the fieJd or not. How serious this defection may be in its effect upon the President's chance for re-election is a question upon which opinions vary widely. Naturally, the warm supporters of tile adminstratlon ridicule the idea that the Liberty League crowd can inlhience any material volume of votes. But behind the Liberty League is a practically unlimited amount of money, and at its head is Jouett Shouse, a very able pcllteal organizer. Rumblings From South Considerable signifcance was attached here to the declaration by the late Governor Allen, of Louieana, that his organization would join up with the Liberty League in ttying to prevent Mr. Roosevelt's rcnomlnation. Gov. Talmadge of Georgia, long an outspoken enemy of the adminstratlon, i3 the spearhead of another revolt Inside the Democratic Party which is beginning to be taken seriously in the South. The expectation here is that the Talmadge movement 1 may also be lined up with the Liber- i ty League movement. The point of greatest doubt is how far these attacks upon the President and his policial may be carried if they fail to stop his renomination. It 1 is conceded by the politcal experts that a high percentage of those Democrats who dislike the New Deal will nevertheless swing Into line under the party banner, preferring to retain their "regularity" than to bolt the ticket. They may, as AI Smith i expressed it, merely "take a walk," i rather than affiliate themselves with t a third-party movement. I , Towiisewl Ptou partes -w.J One third-party movement, that * seems to have been pretty well blown ' up Is that threatened by Dr. Town- ' send if the present Congress did not adopt his plan of old-age pensions for everybody. In fact, Dr. Townsend's mu^i-pariy uireai nas nau exactly v the opposite effect on Capitol Hill ; that it wa9 intended to have. a Instead of scaring Congressmen to t flock to the support of his Old Age ; Revolving Pension plan, it has rath- t er inpelled many members to look 1 upon it with less seriousness. That s is partly due to the realisation that from an economic standpoint the plan 1 of paying every old person $200 a J month would be ruinous, and partly because the voting strength behind the Townsend plan is so far confined to a few areas and Congressional districts. 1 Representative John S. MacGroar- a ty of California has a modified f Townsend plan in the form of a bill 1 which would provide for $50 a month ? (Continued on Page 8) j First Aid School r To Be Held Later ' The first aid school which was to have been held at the College on the evening of the third has been post- , poned indefinitely on account of the _ ^weather, and a further announce- g ment will foe made at some future date In this regard. TV,f I? A? 1? * ' ?."V. nuiiu io W UC COI1UUCI" ^ -ed by Coach E. E. Garbee of the ^ College faculty. Is designed primarily for the benefit of WPA workers in 1 this territory, and all foremen and " at least one other man from each project are invited to attend. Due I notice will be given as to the new date for the school. Doughton Supports Chief On Inflation 1 c Winston-Salem, Feb. 3.?Repreeen- a tatlve Robert I- Doughton, chairman d of the house ways and means com- t mittee, said here tonight he "will o stand by President Roosevelt on the t mthoHhn Af onii?wvn??? " ijuvw^uik wi bui iviivjf jiuiauviii. s Pointing out that the President and secretary of the treasury are charged r with the responsibility in matters of t federal finance, he said he would re- t spect their recommendations. s Dougbton was en route to Wash- c lngton from Laurel Springs, his home j in ABeghany county. t Asked for his views on new taxen, l Doughton replied that his committee t had received no request for new rev- 1 cnue and no action would be taken until a message is forthcoming from i the President or the treasury depart- 1 ment. He expressed his personal hope < that new taxes could be avoided this i year. I WAT An It VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 32 FORD REPORTS ( Auto Magnate Tells of Birthday Ball Spending F SHSShmi s! DETROIT . . Edsel Ford (above) u Ford Motor Company president, as w a member of the National Birthday jr Ball Commission for President Roosevelt, announces disposition of Ql some of the funds raised by the annual birthday ball Ten grants C] amounting to $110,000 of 1035 V funds have been allotted to 10 leading universities for research on in- _ fantile paralysis. ? MM TO ATTEND LINCOLN DINNER I si iVatauga to be Well Represented at Greensboro Meet; Dick uiaOu To Speak. fi ei More than twenty-five Watauga t? :ounty Republicans are expected to w ourney to Greensboro on the 12th, hi vhen the annua! Lincoln Day Din- lr per is to be held at the King Cotton " fotel, and County Chairman Russell r< 1. -Hodges ts very anxious that an hose interested in attending get in cl ouch with him at once, in order that P1 he necessary reservations may be et nade and transportation facilities irovided. Cl Senator I.. J. Dickinson of Iowa, vill deliver the principal dinner adlre3S. The Senator is known as one if the most able orators in the upper lu iranch of Congress, has a forceful personality and is frequently men- 0 lonea as a potential candidate for ai tepubllcan Presidential honors next !s lumnier. ; di f? Pastime Plays Nine m Of Ten Best Films ^ The Pastime Theatre of Boone is j J\ endering a superior service to local ihowgoers as is evidenced by the fact hat of the 'Ten best" films produced n 1935, nine of them have been icreened at the local playhouse. The y< op-notch pictures of the year, as de- 0i ermined by the Film Daily National oi tnnual Critic Toll, were: David Cop- cc >erfield. Hie Lives of a Bengal Lan- b :er. The Informer, Naughty Mari- r tta, Les Miserables, Ruggles of Red lap. Top Hat, Broadway Melody of r 936, Roberta and Anna Karon]na. n. Hie one which has not been shown w ocally is Top Hat and the manage- w nent of the Pasting will likely si crecn it later. a 5CH00L HOURS ARE C CHANGED LOCALLY Hffort Made to Make Hours Bet- L ter for Children During Extreme Weather. The hours at the Boone High and lemonatration schools have been hanged in order to give the children I . better chance to meet their classes g, luring the cold weather, according n< o Professor Chappel Wilson, head f0 >f the Department of Education at in he CoHege and Director of the city ai chools. fc Mr. Wilson states that classes are ai iow beginning at 9:30 a. in. rather cl han 8:45, and that the students are ai icing liberated at 3 p. m. instead of it 3:30 rs heretofore.. The change is et tue largely to the almost utter lm- ct k>s3ibility of many children getting ri 0 the bus routes before daylight on be litterly cold mornings, and also that tt he buildings may be more thorough- bj y heated before classes are called. tc Mr. Wilson states that it has been w 1 very difficult problem to keep the 2, >uildings warm here, and in spite of in iue diligence that considerable dam- gi ige has resulted to the plumbing dur- ol ng the continued cold weather. bi ? i pAyv, Aua ldependent Weekly New BOONE, WATAUGA CPUE MLSIiORTAOE REACHES BOONE uel At A Premium as Another Cold Wave Looms; Situation Improves. The home fires have been kepi :>n:ing, but in many cases not so rightly as desired due to the aliortje of coal which ceearuc a problem i this community the last of the cciv. jmny luiKa nave oorroweu nail quantiteu of coat from more irtunate neighbors, and local dealrs have rationed out the supply . of id in an effort to make as many jmfortablc as possible. Monday and Tuesday there was no lei on the local yards at all, but in ic evening a supply was received hich is being divided today among le residents. ITtoso who have been ucking coal from Virginia have eon able to secure but lit tie, and iformattcn is that the shortage over ic nation is to become more acute, ionday coal mine executives estllatcd that production had been cut y 50 per cent, due to rains which ad flooded some mines, and allongh the miners worked last Satrday, ordinarily a holiday, they ere able to make scarcely a smudge i the empty coal bins of the nation. The situation here is more seri13 because of the fact that rough eather has precluded many farm's from marketing supplies of wood i the community. lirthday Balf w a a Noteworthy Success The President's Birthday Ball, held t the Daniel Boone Hotel lastThuraly evening was pronounced a do uetny successful event, and grossed 11.40, saya Tracy Counclll, Chairian of the local birthday ball corailttee. Some seventy-five couples took the oor, and a general good time was ljoyed, those not caring to dance iking hands of bridge or mingling ith friends. The Cara Lomes furishcd the rythrn, and there was an itcrmi33ion while the President devered his birthday message to the ivclers. After .iioLcl vccCTomotliiti?aa, orlestra fees, and other expenses were lid, said Mr. Councill, there remalh1 $54.00 of which $37.80 refnain3 et irnc. The proceeds last yetfr for the immunity's share were $53.00, bad eatlier and increased expenses cutng down this year's net receipts, esidcs no refreshments were sold i is usually the case. The sum of ?31.40 is now in care : the county welfare department id Miss Fisher, public health nurse, working with the board in disbursrg it to worthy cases. Those ehll-en In the county afflicted with inintlle paralysis are asked to notify [iss Fisher, who will in turn, secure d, or try to get them in an orthopedic hospital. ilrs. Stevenson Dies In Hickory On Tuesday Mrs. Julia Bowles Stevenson. 68 jars old, died at her home in Hick y on last. Tuesday after an illness : one week, and the funeral was inducted Wednesday from the First aptist Church of that city, with Dr. . K. Redwine, the pastor, in charge. Mrs. Stevenson was the widow of le late Robert W. Stevenson, promi?nt merchant of Hickory, who was ell-known to many Wataugans, and as tne mother of Mr. diaries S. tevenson, who for many years was resident of Boone. (ROUND HOG FAILS TO CASTSHADOW egendary Prediction of Woodchuck Runs Afoul With Human Prognosticators. The lowly groundhog, most prlmive if not the most accurate prog- . isticator of pending weather condi?ns, couldn't have seer, his shadow inday, even though he had used biiculars, for the sun didn't peep out r an instant in this locality. Thus the face of radio predictions of lother cold wave, that would make irmer efforts of King Winter look ck, the woodchuck daringly proaims the breaking of the icy mon en's grip. j 'Groundhog Day" found rooderat-i 1 temperatures with snow, Monday' ime warm and raining, Tuesday cared away the most of the snow, and ilieve it or not, Wednesday noon, te sun is shining, and the predicted izrard hasn't arrived. According > the tradition of the hills, had the ild pig seen his shadow February he would have retreated into the mermoet recessed of his underround castie to escape the six weeks : severe weather which should haye< jen in the offing. ' . A DE spaper?Established in the rTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURS ASKS TO MAKE LIE Inventor of Lie Detector Asks G Use In Haupti TK&kiu.v, IN'. J... . Above is pic York, inventor o? the Systolic Bloodhas requested Governor Hoffman to a marin, convicted murderer of the L,im from death He is pictured demons trt lie di teeter device, or. Mis3 Dorothy R Many Local ^ Applications 1 QUEEN OF ICE ; SSBSnr PBTOSKY, Mich. . . On February 7th. Gov. Fitzgerald will crown 17-year-old Shirley Squier of Harbor Springs (above) "Michigan Ice CJueen for 1936." She will rule over the National Amateur Speed Skat- ; ing Championship races. REV NORRIS HIIRT ! BY FALLING TREE Former Wataugan Seriously Injured as Timber Is Cut For Church Annex. Rev. J. L>. Norris, Lutheran pastor at Maiden, N. C., was seriously hurt iust v# eunesuay, oy a laiung" tree, ni: was assisting- members of one of bin congregations in cutting timber- to build an annex to their church building, when a tree fell the contrary .11rection from which the cutters intended. The top of the tree struck the minister, breaking three ribs, one bone of a leg, and crushing his ankle. He was rushed to a Lincolnton hospital for trestmcr.t. His parent* and other members of the family visited him Sunday, February 2nd, and found him doing as well as could be expected, considering the severity of the shock. Rev. Norria is a former Watauga boy, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Norria of Route 1, Boone. He has a host of relatives and friends in the county who wish for him a speedy recovery. Mother And Son Are Buried At Same Time Brushy Fork cemetery was the scene of a double burial Monday when the bodies of Mrs. Stuart Hayes, 45, of that section, and a oneyear-old son, Alton, were interred. Mrs. Hajes died Saturday, and the son the following: day from an illness with pneumonia. \ihe husband and one of the surviving twelve children are described as dangerously 111 with the same malady, and for this -;~3on funeral services were not held at the time of burial. The Hayes family has many friends in the county, who are aggrieved or. account of the deaths and continued c illness. < t The U. S. Forest Service will sponsor an educational program and mo- ; tion picture show at mowing Rock February 10, at 7 p. m. There is no admission charge and everyone is invited. 1 MOCI i \ ear Eighteen Eighty-Eig JDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936 DETECTOR TEST jl overnor Hoffman to Allow Its ^ rnann Case ???? tured Dr. win. H. luaiakOii of New j es Pressure Deception Test, which lie dv J low him to use on Bruno Haupt- fo libergh baby, now under reprieve ta Lting the Sphygmomano meter, or re ichey. fij Veterans File ? B< Bonus Bonds I 19 D; Mr. Lionel Ward of Boone, dls- tc trict service orficer of the Ameri- re can Legion, said Wednesday morn- Qt Ing that 80 World War veterans of Watauga county had already sent w in their applications for payment gQ of their bonus certificates, and at m the snme time announces that he d? will be at the Boone Denartment - ;-sj Store fi?S day Friday and Saturday sc of this week for the purpose of helping; others fill in their necessary papers. in Mr. Ward, who is in charge of th this work in all of the counties of le the seventeenth district, has en- is gaged other veterans to take care is of the applications in the outside territory and is giving his full attention to Watauga, county at pres- ?"] ent. Wednesday he went to Vila for |j the clay, where a number of veterans met him and executed their bonus applications. Although the bill providing for i tin payment of the bonus in baby H bonds, passed the Senate only Monday of last, week, riding through both houses of Congress in top-heavy fashion over the presidential veto, blanks for making individual application were on hand in Boone Cil late Wednesday afternoon, and many had been filled by Thursday Ti evening. Blanks had evidently been lt: printed ahead of time, due to the apparent certainty of the success of the legislation. .e Mr. Ward particularly requests all veterans to briner their ills- c charges when thc.v come to make ^ applications. Those who have borrowed on their certificates, he says, will also be required to present their "pink slips." He Is very an- ; xious that the work be facilitated as much as possible, and has already set something of a record in the number of applications for- ^ warded to the veterans bureau. Watauga county veterans are ^ scheduled to receive something like SI 67..000 on their adjusted compensation certificates. The payments 09 are to bo made In $50 bonds, and m odd amounts paid In cash on or F about July 1. Most local veterans * are said to be mostly interested in clearing themselves of debts in- P1 curred during the depression when ol their money comes, while some few are expected to retain the bonds as a thee per cent, tax-free Invest- A ment. vc President Roosevelt ha>- vsked that the veterans exercise patience ? following the execution of applications and refrain fro mwriting follow-up letters to learn why payment has not been made. It is now thought that it will bq July 1 be- st fore payment can actually he start- g. ed. due to the fact that much m work remains to be done by the rP treasury department before baby j tj bonds of $50 denominations can be a< sent out. It to thought that some c, 38.000,000 individual bonds will be 3t required. These bonds will be re- to deemable at par at postofflces pl throughout the country. th to RECORDER'S COURT After having missed two sessions d? >f recorders court for lack of defen- vi lants, only one case appeared on the ie locket Tuesday involving the posses- lil lion of a negligble amount of whis- fo cey. John Beach was assessed with te he cost. H rc Vassar will double its present li- bi >rary capacity of 200,000 books. \\ 7 J||L>0 PER YEAR HE LOmDWN ON ^EATHERmGlVEN; OW RECOHolS SET rofessor Wright Has Kept Accurate Account of Weather For Seven Years. \YS TEMPERATURE FOR 2 MONTHS AVERAGED 30 curate Instruments at College Tell of Record Frigid Wave; A Resume of Weather Conditions In The Past. Professor J. T. C. Wright, member the faculty at Appalachian College s for the past seven years kept an curate record of the whims of the jments, and states with authority at the months of December and .nuexy are the coldest he has known tring the time or in fact since 1917!. Professor Wright deduces that for e past two months the thermomer has averaged below freezing, and the same time gives some interring information on the weather iring the past years. Since most Iks in this section are engaged in .Iking about the weather, it occurd to the Democrat that some of the jjures might prove quite interesting. The Data "At the lequest of the publishers the- Democrat, I have compiled a w statistics on the weather in xine over a period of the past sevi years "1 commenced keeping a record of e weather, beginning December 1, >28, at the request of Prof. D. D. augherty. I immediately became inrested in keeping as accurate a cord of what happened as T could >tain. I have never !ost interest in loping such a record. Whenever I as absent from town, I always had me one take the dally readings for c so there would be no missing its.. So far, I have not missed a rvgle day's readings in more than ven years. "I keep the instruments in an inrument house, constructed accordg to specifications supplied me by e Weather Bureau Station at Raigh, N. C. This instrument house located back of my house on what known as cemetery hill. The lnstru (Continued on Page 8) USTRIfT IMW MEETING FRIDAY igh Officials of Soldiers' Organization Will Address Local Gathering. :| A district meeting of the A merlin Legion aiul Legion Auxiliary i3 i be held at the Legion Hut In oone Friday evening, February Tth. was announced Tuesday Officials of the local post are urgg alt world war veterans of this rritory to be present at tlie gatherg, when full information on the mus payment will be given. At. this me veterans may have their applitions for payment filled out. Vice Department Commander Burn Pennoll of Asheville and Deparlent Vice-Pres. Mrs. C. M. Taylor, ' Oteen, will be the principal speakers the occasion. The program will : followed by a ham and bean sup:r, and there will be a small charge r the benefit of the local post. wsmivi OHjETlXNti The Ladles Auxiliary of the Ameriji juugiuii, acviiitccriui district, vdll eet at the Daniel Boone Hotel riday afternoon, February 7th, at Mrs, C. M. Taylor of Oteen, deirtment vice-prea., will be in charge ' the meeting and a large number I ladies from the Lenoir, Morgann and Newland units are expected. II wives and mothers of world war iterana are invited to attend. ] tockholders of Bank Meet; Elect Officers A considerable number of the ockholders of the Watauga County ^gd|J| ink were present at the annual eeting last Wednesday and heard ports of improved financial condims and a greatly bettered outlook i to the future of the local institution. infidence in the bank has been retired it is said, there are ample notes take care of the remainder of the eferred stock, when collected, and le outlook at the banx was said , be exceedingly bright Mr. I-. A. Green remains as presi;nt of the bank, G. P. Haga.nan, ce-president and P. A. Coffey, casn r. while the board of directors will tewise remain the same as taeretore: L. A. Greene, W. W. Mast, Baxr Linney, B. B. Dougherty, G. P. agaman, S. E. Gragg, P. G. Car- "rS ill, R. C. Rivers, Mrs. Luna Rotons, J. M. May, R. H. Hardin, W. F. 'inkier. t
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