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PAGE TWO CHARLES CURTIS DIES SUDDENLY Former Vice-President Passes. Unique Political Career Is Ended. Washington, Feb. 8.?Charles Curtis, former vice president, who left an Indian tepee to scale the heights of American public office, died unexpectedly of a heart attack today at the age of 76. For 40 years he had been in the thick of Republican political combat, and. despite hi3 age, death came just as hp was planning to return to the arena as champion of his old friend and fellow Kansan, Gov. Alf M. Landon, for the presidency. tor sevtiai days vmrus naa oeen suffering: from a cold. This inornov* he seemed much unproved, and, en cnu raged, Airs Gam went shopping*. Sometime afterward. Curtis suffered a heart attack. A frightened maid phoned Mrs. Gann to return at once and called Dr. George E. Calver, congressional physician. Both rushed to the shrubbery-sirrounded house in Cleveland Park, hut the former vice-president was dead before cither arrived. Dr. Calver returned to the capital, called ne vspapermen and handed them a brief statement: "The Honorable Charles Curtis, former vice-president of the U? ited States of America, died of a t :art attack at 10:25 this date." Ale an while in the living room of the home, Airs. Gann walked jack and forth until immediately members of the family had been notified. Repeatedly, she expressed regret that she had been unable to reach the home a few minutes earlier. "He died easily," she said. "I'm so glad he didn't suffer." Then she retired to her room \n coping. Curtis' political career knew defeats as well as significant victtries before the Roosevelt landslide sv opt him out of office with Prcsh ent Hoover In lOdil. In an active lifetime, the high points were: 1KN4 -- Elected prosecutor of Sli avneo county, Kansas. 1892 Elected to the house of rop (90??Defeated in oampdien lor a seal in ihe senate. 1907?Elected to the senate. 1924 ?Became Republican leader of the senate. 192S?Elected to the. vice presidency with Herbert Hoover. 1932- Defeated seeking re-election. Curtis was born in IStiO, on a farm near north Topeka, the son of a Kansas pioneer. Capt. Syren A. Curtis who had married a girl of Indian descent Curtis, himself was one-eighth Kaw Indian, the only person of such ancestry ever elected to the vicepresidency. llcared l$y Imlians Curtis was still an infant when his mother died and his wrinkled old Indian grandmother, Julie Poppin, daughter of chief Wliite Plume of me Kaws, took him in charge. He spent his boyhood on the Kaw reservation. He liked that life so much that once later, he wanted to return to it but was dissuaded. At 15. he left the reservation. An expert hand with horses, he quickly found employment as a jockey on tvansns race tracks. His love of horses ajid racing stayed with him throughout his life. For years, he was a familiar figure at the Maryland tracks carrying his own elaborate form book and making punctilious entries after each race. But after a year or so as a jockey he went to school, supporting himself by driving a hack in the evening, and then studied law. As county prosecutor, he crusaded against vice and achieved such a reputation that he was readily elected to Congress. There his career a3 a national figure began, marked with victories and defeats until he became the senate's majority leader. In that post he depended more on quiet back stage negotiations than upon oratorical flourishes on the floor. Made Good Ruling Officer As vice president, his long experience in the senate had preeminently equipped him to become that body's presiding officer. While his predecessor, Charles Gates Dawes, now the only living former vice president, had grown irked at the slowness with which the senate operated and advocated changes in the rules. Curtis proclaimed in his inaugural speech that "the senate is the master of its own rules." He did, however, insist upon order in the chamber, and broke many a gavel in pounding to maintain it. Running for the vice nresidencv in 1928, Curtis spoke in every state in the union. He finally was equipped with a luxurious private car after Mrs. Gann had protested to Republican leaders against making him travel in an ordinary sleeper. Nettles were the favorite spring greens a generation ago. HOLLYWOOD STYLES IN XA~ TUBAL COLORS Now you can see how Hollywood film folks dress. Through a new departure in newspaper printing photographs sre reproduced in their true, natural colors Enjoy this new feature by reading the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. On sale by all newsdealers or by mail for 50c a month WA ONION KING Former Millionaire Works Id Store To Come Back PAS ADEN A, Calif. . . Clyde H. Mellon (above) of Devine, Tex., former "World's Bermuda Onion King * whose $3,500,000 enterprise could not survive the bank failures of 1933. is working in a store here but making plans for a comeback. Congress Plans For Adjournment May 1 Washington, Feb. 8.?Administration leaders concentrated all their energies today toward pushing the soil conservation subsidy bill through Congress next week as the spearhead of a drive toward adjournment by May 1. In the face of an amendment rusn and an assertion by Senator King. Democrat. Utah.. Uiat the AAA replacement measure was not a farm bill but a proposal to "carry out the I ideas of Tugweli anil Wallace," Chairman Smith. Democrat, South Carolina, of the agriculture committee, said he had plenty of votes to block an opposition recommittal move. Smith added that the legislation would be sent to the house by Wednesday at the latest House farm leaders cleared the way for consideration by Thursday, apparently regardless of whether the senate acts before that. Tile May 1 adjournment deadline discussed on Capitol Hi'd today, although tentative, was welcome news to those facing rc-election campaigns N'o date is loo early for them, some said, especially those who are not so sure of their constituencies. Privately, some leaders said a definite adjournment date hinged largely on whether the Supreme Court throws out any more new deal acts. Such I occurrences to date have invariably I led to legislative substitutes. The Smith-Jones bill to authorize federal subsidies to farmers directly or through slates which set up soilimprovement programs conforming to basic principles outlined by the secretary of agriculture is one substitute. Railroad pension and farm mortgage moratorium laws enacted last summer were others. Republican Leader McNary, of Oregon, may try to have the senate re ! commit the farm bill for public hearings, but Smith was confident such a move would fail. Other farm bill leaders believed few if any amendments would be adopted. A CORRECTION Mr. D. L. Greene who wrote a letter to the Democrat last week under the heading of ''More Corn" states that there was an error made as to the analysis of the fertilizer used. It should have been 4-10-4. BEAUTIFUL PICTURES IN TRUE COLORS It's something new! Something different: Beautiful pictures reproduced in natural tints appear regularly in the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. These color pictures are reproI duccd in all their original tones. You will like them. Remember?in the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Your newsdealer has your copy; or mailed to you for 50 cent! a month, $5.00 a year. Helping Your I COWTRQ8 When Colds Threaten.. |pjg Vkks Va-tro-nol helps 1|| Prevent many Colds [ j At the first warning sneeze or nasal irritation, quick!?a few drops of VicksVa-tro-nol up each nostril. Especially designed for nose and throat, inhere most colds sfcart, Va-tro-nol helps to prevent many colds?and to throw off head colds in their early stages. Follow Vlcks Plan for A helpful guide to/ewer colds ant Chemists and Medical Staff; te . tiang physicians?further prove lions. The Plan is fully explaine 153/ Vfc TAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY 1 Meat Camp News The many friends of Mr. L. A. Greene will be glad to bear that he is improving. The people of the community are 1 deeply grieved over the death of Mr. J. C. Norris' two sons, Glenn and Hubert, who were fine boys. We extend our sympathy to the family. Mr. Marvin "N orris and Mrs. Robert Norris are reported to be nicely improving from pneumonia. Mr. Manly Greene has been very sick but is better at this time. There are four new made graves in Meat Carnp cemetery, occupied by persons ranging in age from 13 years to S6. Should we not get a lesson from this? That the young die as wed as the old. Therefore, let us be prepared, for as death leaves us so will the Judgment find us. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Wilson and I son .1 G: wat-a dinner wtfati with Mr. and Mrs. Verne Greene Sunday. Mr. Kayburn Michael is still singi ing bass whenever opporiuuity af' fords. My! how he does enjoy singing. We had a fine Sunday School at Meat Cao-.p Church last Sunday. The attendance was not quite so large, but the interest v.as fine. Many of our roads are still blockI etl with snow and ice and many old ! fashioned pick-ups are in use. Surely that little pesky ground-hog borrowed some kind of a light and saw his ; shadow or this bad weather would j cease some time. | Glad to see Miss Lena Mae Foster at Sunday School after her serious . illness. Rev. A. E. Moretz made a fine ap, plication of fhe Sunday School lesson at Meat Camp last Sunday. Brother Moretz is a fine teacher as wall as a good preacher. Some church in need of a wideawake pastor would do well to call j him. Friends of Meat Camp community are very sorry to hear of the serious illness of Farris Bumgardner of . Zionvillo. N. C., who is suffering with ! pneumoniia. We hope for him a spec dy recovery. | Tiie attendance of Greene Valley j is exceptionally large despite the bad weather and so much sickness. The teachers are very much pleased. The classmates of Bernard Norris are very anxious for his return, being absent from school for several week.; due lo an injury he received : sometime ago. He is gaining slowly. I Mr. Clayton Greene whose illness j has been mentioned before is slowly improving. Mr. John Wilson spent the weekj end with his daughter, Mrs. Henry Miller, of Zionville. It seems that the "Good Ole Ways" of travel "can't be forgotten when j we yet 3ee the old-time sled team going to church and bringing in food supplies over the blocked roads. A few of the old ways still remain and supplies fur. for the young folks. OUK BABY Our baby is lots of joy to us, I Although it cries and maks lots of fuss; And its so tiny and so red, Lying there in its little bed. To us it is lots and lots of company; And just as sweet as he can be. We wouldn't take anything for our boy, For then we wouldn't have so much joy. ! TL wears such liny little clothes; j And like daddy, it has a 'little nose. ! Ar.d when dad comes home at night Every tiling for baby is all right. Though our baby is so innocent anc small, ; We couldn't do without him at all: Por everything then would seem bare If our baby wasn't there. A FRIEND. WEEK'S RADIO PROGRAM Advanced program cf leading sta tions for an entire week, anothei i page devoted to interesting personI alites of radio folk. One of many EX CL.USIVE features in the BAL.TI MORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Tout ' 1 favorite newsdealer will reserve youi 1 copy. Family to Better . 4 COLDS If a Cold Strike* . . Vicks VapoRub helps End a Cold sooner If a cold has already developed, use Vicks VapoRub, the mother's standby in treating colds. Rubbed on at bedtime, its combined poultice-vapor action loosens phlegm, soothes irritation, helps break congestion. Often, by morning the worst of the cold is over. Better Control of Colds 1 shorter colds. Developed by Vicks sted in extensive clinics by pracd in everyday home use by mild in each Vicks package. ks Open House: teilh (jrCkC?.T4}00'i?. ttery 'ulay 9:30 p. m. (e. a. T.) h'BC coas:-to-coaa flURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. FOR SLAYING Liquor Salesman Fates Court f or Slaying Publisher MINNEAPOLIS . . Above is a j court picture of Tsadcre Blumen- j fold, alias Kid Cann. liquor sales- j man, as his- trial started for the al- j legtjd slaying of Walter Liggett, crusading publisher, shot down following newspaper attacks on racketeers and officials. BOONE HIGH .SPOUTS KEVXEtt (By Jack Storie) Boone Hi had tough luck during I this bad weather, with 4 conference j games to be played to even the games j with the rest of the tcair.s. Due to : the bad weather and the roads so bad, Boone Hi had to postpone three games ; to be played at a later date soon. Boone Hi is now tied with Cove i Creek for the first place in this dis- j trict. by defeating the strong unde- i featea quint last week bv a close margin of 22-21. It was Cove Creek's ! first defeat. The conference tournament will be ! held here at the college gym, Feb. 27, j 28. 29, it will be a fast, close contest j between the leading teams. It. hhs been rumored around town, > that Cove Creek and Boone Hi play j two more games, one at Cove Creek and the other here, the crowd was | pleased with both grimes. The games 1 I were worth the price paid. Baseball season is not far off, and [ Boone Hi will be ready, the schedule ' i is not finished, but games with sev- ! [ eral fast clubs will be scheduled for j Boone Hi. Charlotte, Winston-Salem, 1 Mr. Airy, Aslieville, Lenoir, Hickory,! i and North Wilkesboro are on the ten| lative schedule, and more games will be played. We have the best material this year that has ever been at Boone Hi. and, we also have a fine coach, j a former leaguer himself. Mr. C. W.; j Teal is also with us again this year i to assist Mr. Merrit, head coach, and 1to back the team as he has always j ydodff *The boys welcome Mr. Teal to .help. Practice will start sometime In . j March. vVe also welcome the Cham- j i ber of Commerce to be with us again j this year. PICTURES IN COXA)It PhotogTaphs reproduced in their true natural colors. Pictures of famous people as they appear in real life. A new feature of the BAL.TIMORE SUNAY AMERICAN. On sale bv all nowwlpui^ro 0? n> jn HH I V'h JI ayWi Hundreds of boys and great S-d word contes for another one. So here it i prize to shoot for! There is nothing hard about this cc knowledge of words...and the sh try to work from the picture in th fcur.s a folder for you with a large See him today and closes on March 1! to y?u! sure >KS3ttmJr\ them from your SSMITH-DOl FCAMTS AT MOftFOLM* VA. DA ' mmiizm Farm Radio Program Saves Rural Women . | No Dr. Jane S McKinimon. assistant : aiK director of extension and head of honxe demonstration work in North ! ? Carolina, gave two recipes on the \ Carolina Farm Features radio pro- j gram recently. Since that time she i ] has received a flood of Setters from j women ashing for the recipes which she prcronted. The home demonstration head ex- " pressed herself as being highly picas cd with the response which she re-; ceived from her broadcast. Similar . programs will be tried in the future, ifi she said IH ! Tlnirsday of each week is devoted j U to speciaiists from tlie home demon-IB stration department at Stale College, is? who give information of interest to IE farm women. The agents may be j 1 heard in mrson from Station WPTF 5 Raleigh, each Thursday at 1:35 P m. In addition to a seven or eight \ S minute talk op some timely subject.! R news items of general interest are |g presented. The news items have to do Eg ; with home demonstration club work g| < as well as 1-ii club activities. The schedule for the week of Feb- B ruary 10-15 follows: Monday, A. C. 9 Kimrey. "Questions and Answers on k 1 North Carolina Pastures"; Tuesday. fi Glenn O. Randall, "The Trimming of jg Rose Bushes"; Wednesday. J. W. 9 Johnson. 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