BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Land Ho!
The Changing Ocean
Safety and Speed
Much for Science
On Board Steamship Norroandie.?
Four nights from New York and the
ship is at Southampton- The Isle of
Wight is on your right. Passengers
are landing for England. On your
juft is France, across the water. You
land there later. On old crossings
passengers watched eagerly for the
first land. Now crossing and landing
arc as exciting as a trip by rail
2roin Chicago to Lake Forest, or
from Wall 3treet to Forty-Second
at met bv subway. You are Ir. Europe
before you realize that you have
.Mini ted. The poetry of travel haa departed
with fast ships oil the ocean
and automobiles instead of camels
on the desert.
No matter how often you croas this
Atlantic ocean, or the North Aineri
can continent me crossing: is always
different and interesting. The ocean, j
>.ko the wide plains, is forever chang- j
:1%
Two days ago the wavc3 coked i
iike playthings for children Last
night the ocean changed its mind and
rolled the waves up high with a
shrieking wind. The steward said,
We shall have to fasten the arm
chairs tomorrow." but the heavy
ship paid no attention to the waves, j
The ocean changed its mind again i
arx; calmed down.
A speedometer telling how fast 11
the ship moves is oper ated by a 11
mechanism below the keel that re-1
cords the speed of the noshing water, j
Burning oil produces steam; steam
power is converted into electric power.
ami that drives the ship. The i I
captain always knows licw deep the
ocean Is beneath him; an electric
contrivance sends a sound wave
down through the water to the bottom.
which sends back an echo.
11'
Knowing the speed at which sound : r
travels through water, it is easy to 1
calculate the depth. The machine t
does it for you. It is a feeble sound
-one hundred and sixty thousand ^
vibrations to the second. No hu- h
:nan car could pick it up, but the
machine records it. Twenty-five
thousand vibrations per second is the
limit of your ear, and that is not bad 0
for a primitive contrivance like a L
liuinan being.
I n
Newton D. Baker, secretary of war 1 J
In the "big" war, tells graduating'
so..inns of the Massachusetts Institute
for Technology it is their clu- h
ty to "carry science into politics." 1
Scientists, Mr. Baker thought, must F
seek for "the solution of world prob- i
lems wiien Uie great international i 1erisiB
domes, as it surely wi'd curie." ; ?
h
A sufficient "great crisis" seems |V
to be here now. with many countries j C
wanting to fight each other, differ- j \
eat classes alredy fighting each oth?j1
ei, and in tills richest country in the ; world?ten
million human beings jC
living practically on charity.
George Bernard Shaw, not yet j f
lghty, says, "I must give up public ;;
speaking, I am too old." That sur- j ;
prises you from a Celt and an Irish-. 1
man. At eighty many men have been :.
vigorous in thought and body; for j
instance. Pope Geo, Von Moltke,, <
Gladstone, Michelangelo. <
Not one of those, however, suffered
from handicaps that have aged 1
George Bernard Shaw prematurely; 1
ho is a vegetarian and a teetotaler.
In spite of England's pituuhy weak
arid belated backdown on sanctions,
due to London's fear of Mussolini's
air fleet; a backdown denounced as
cowardice by Lloyd George, Britain,
for face-saving purposes, will main
tain a great fleet in the Mediterranean.
Mussolini will welcome such con.
vement air anU submarine targets j
near home as a sort of British hos- j
tage to fortune. |
M. Auriol announces that Fiance
will not devalue the franc any further.
It has already been reduced by
80 per cent., as though our dollar
had been knocked down to twenty
cents instead of fifty-nine cents.
Prime Minister Blum knows that It
does not pay to scare capital out of
its wits something that our best
Washington minds have still to
learn. The French workmen will
have their forty-hour week and the
strikes are about over.
Returning to the real American
interest, the defeat of Joe Louis,
young gentlemen and old will ofo
w ve uui u is most important in
aH undertakings not to be afraid,
them "an Invincible conqueror of
Louis had encountered saw before
worn out or cowardly. Fighters that
men."
RECORDER'S COURT
Only four cases were tried before
the Recorder Tuesday, as follows:
Charles Walser, public drunkenness.
SO days on roads.
Loyd Stanbury, Robt Norris, seining
for fish. One-half the cost.
Gordon Arvuthnot, public drunkenness.
One-half the cost.
J. W. Greene, operating car without
license. Fined $10 and required
to pay one-half the cost.
WAT
An Ir,
VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 52
DEMOCRATIC STAN
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
who were nominated by acclamation to
prior to the closing of the convention it
seaiitypageant n
FEATURES FOURTH
rorty Of Watauga County' s| ?
Fairest Are to Compete tor 1 "
Title "Miss Watauga." j "
I T
The annual American Legion Beau- j *
y pageant will be held at the Legion i
ut Saturday evening, July 4 at 8
'clock, when the title "Misa Waauga'*
will be bestowed upon the c
oung iady who wins the favor of ?
group of impartial judges. This
cnor will entitle the winner to com- "
ete in the state-wide contests. g
About forty of Watauga's eomeli- 0
st young ladies will be featured in Q
his year's parade of pulchritude, and j
he event is expected to draw even a
Tore interest than last year, when
he largest throng since the ineepion
of the event gathered.
Contestants are being sponsored?
.y the following firms: Pastime 1 gu*
?heatro, Farmers Hardware & Sup- j t
-ly Co . Boone Department Store. ;
talker's Jewelry Store. New River j
aght arid Power Co.. Pearson's Store,.
Joone Feed Store. Millers Five and
"en Cent Store. Boone Trail Cafe, ] Vtr
V&tauga Drug Store. Hodges Tire;
:o., Dixie Stores. T & L Cafe, Belk- j
viuio van, v^uaii3 Furniture store,!
'rincess Cafe. City Meat Market. I
imithey's Store, Spainhour's Inc., .,v
lottreli's Quick Lunch. Watauga t^?
democrat, Danici Boone Hotel, Saniarv
Barber & Beauty Shop, Slieii '
Service Station ar.d Cafe, Barnett's
Service Station, Lillian Mae Beauty
Shop, Miller's Floral Shop, M. & M.
Motor Co.. Boone Steam laundry, ^
iohnson-Stuart Co.. Boone Drug Com- 4
:>any. Rudemar Beauty Shop, W. R.
Chevrolet Co., Highland Furniture
Bo? Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Ho ne, ar
Mayflower Beauty Shop, Daniel ^
Boone Motor Co., Boone Chamber of til
Bommeree, Ruth-Louise Shop
PRIMAWRAfE TO 5
lar-ffl tli
END ON SATURDAY S
si
Democratic Candidates for Gov- th
ernor and Two Other Of- ^
fices To Be Chosen. ()!
'.V
Saturday marks the close of the ja
second heated Democratic primary
campaign in the state, with chief in- s
terert centering ir. the battle being .
waged for the Gubernatorial honors ,
between Clyde R Hbey of Shelby ni
and Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of For- f(.
syth county. State-wide reports indi- ni
cate that a much lighter vote wll! b
be cast than In the first primary j,
when more than 500,000 visited the j*
polling places, and when Mr. Hoey
amassed a lead of a few thousand
over his nearest opponent.
Wllkins P. Horton and Paul Grady
are al9o contesting in the 9econd
primary for the office of LieutenantGovernor,
while the position of Sec- ft
retary of State will go to either Thad hl
Kure or Stacy Wade, the Incumbent. w
I?cal Interest Wanes w
Apparently from a local viewpoint, 01
interest is at a rather low ebb in the w
run-off, but it is expected that both ^
the McDonald and Hoey forces will
show an increased activity as the A
time for the battle of ballots draws
nearer. Hoey received 1381 votes in ei
Watauga county in the first prima- b
ry; Dr McDonald 281, Sandy Gra- ^
ham 81 and John A. MacRae 8. P
In view of these figures it would
appear that Hoey is the local favorite
by heavy odds, and the vote for
Graham and McDonald was so small B
as to be almost Inconsequential. v
Generally speaking, fourth of July V
vacation trips, and a generally les- C
sened interest over the state, would si
seem to vouchsafe a comparative n
light vote. B
AUG/
(dependent Weekly Newspe
BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, J
(DARD BEARERS i?Q
it
Vice-rrosiUcnt John N. Garner. 1 hllsto
head the Democratic ticket, just ,'Kl.C!
i Philadelphia Saturday.
| 24 hi
1 1 floor
VRIGHT SAYS MONDAY fnT,
BROKK HEAT RECORDS j East
j At
Temperature records covering: a er as
eriod of seven and on? half years a\jy
ere shattered in Boon? Monday, i;52
hen Old Sol's withering rays sent 0f q
tcrcury upward to 94 degrees, i pjj
4? highest recorded by Prof. J. 1 Jamt
. C. Wright, weather observer at ! was
Appalachian College. | in a
Prof. Wright also reveals that i west
lie year 193G also brought the | xh
oldest day during hLs 7, years j i'reqi
f recording the caprices of the j
leather, when the thermometer j
uicutcu a remperaiure or 7 do- ! i
ree.* in*low zero. Hi,
At th?? muviB time, it is pointed j
ut, there h;us been only one and
lie-third inches of precipitation
nring the month of Juno, as A.
gainst an average rainfall for empl
fie month of from 4?: to 5 inches. of Ll
servi
? _ vJlen
UNERAL VICTIM fa
AUTO COLLISION ijH:
' the
atnuguns Attend Rites Held j r0ljt
tor A. J. ftayfield in GraaV lot t
itc Fulls Friday. :
| rivei
A number of Wataugans attended
e funeral services held In Granite d
ills Friday for A. J. RayfieUI. 50.
former Watauga countian, who;
is killed in an automobile accident i
ai Granite Falls two .iays previ- j r
sly. Rev. Waiter Icenbour was in i ,K.r?
arge of the obsequies, which were j jeor,
!U at the Metliodist Church and; cou]
(ornmn t \iroo- Sit Ihnf J - ?
bi.i *4iv?iw "" v -f uixy
Deceased is survived by the widow chu:
id one daughter. Miss Thelma on
lyfield. Two brothers. John Ray- Hoi
;ld of Granite Falls and George or,
lyfield of Boone, also survive. the
The fatal accident occurred as the T
>rd car driven by Mr. Rayfield ap- rati
irently cut into the side of a hot- the
ng co...par.y truck, driven by Ralph Ada
'It of Hickory. The two vehicles win
ere meeting on the highway at. a he![
ight curve. Mr. Rayfieid's car nit moi
e truck near the rear wheel, car- cer;
nod into a ditch and back into the w'l]
gh.way, where it turned over three hex
four times. Mr. Rayfieid's skull
as crushed and he died two hours ! Hi
ter.
A. J. Rayfield was reared in the
ilverstone section of Watauga counr
where he lived until fifteen years A
?o. He had been engaged in the trie
ercantile business at Granite Falls Cot
>r many years, where was a pro mi- hoient
citizen. He was a leading mem- moi
:r of the Methodist Church and held hea
i high esteem by his many acquain- rerr
mces. he
A
TANDARD OIL LEADERS kcr
HOLD DISTRICT MEETING ^
A district meeting of bulk dealers
>r the Standard Oil Company was 1
eld at the Daniel Boone Hotel on ^
Wednesday night of last week, the
anquet being given oy j. rv bauran ^
r Hickoiy, formerly of Boone, who ^
a3 credited with having secured
>r his company the most competive
accounts during the months of
pril and May.
Twenty-seven dealers were preset
for the banquet, and numerous
rief talks were made. Mr. Lee Stout, ^
real Standard Oil dealer, was an es- M
ce.ially invited guest. -p,
D
SPEAKS IN LENOIR cl
Rev. J. C. Canipe, pastor of the ni
oone Baptist Church has been in- a>
ited to deliver an address to the ot
festern North Carolina Pastors' B
onference in Lenoir Monday. The n<
ibject of the address by the local tr
linlster will be "The Preacher and m
lis TTogram In His Church." R
^ Dl
iper-^Established in 1
rORTH CAROLINA, THUR!
INVENTION PUTS
MP APPROVAL
UPON R00SEVEL1
ner Will Be President's Run
ng Mate in the Campaign
Shortly To Start.
MNATIONS ARE MADE
WITH NO SIGN DISCORI
ey?Ht Appears to Accept Nomi
don, and to Defend His Administration;
Two-thirds Rale
Is Abolished.
invention Hall. Philadelphia
27?Twice unanimous, th
ocratic convention renominate*
evcit and Gamer today f.or th
Ldy - accelerotlng presidents
>aign.
th the President and Vice-Presi
aooonPtwl ?h<? fnmnaitrn
e a mamouth. audience at Frank
"ieid.
was the first time in America!
ry taht "both candidates of a po
iL party have been nominate
formally notified in a space o
mrs.
din of "ayes" from the crowde
ratified Roosevelt for the lead
dace on the ticket at 12:12 a. m
ern Daylight Time,
ter a rest, a suoducd and small
isemblage of the delegates form
designated his running mate a
p. m.P just before adjournmen
ie ninth and final session,
iced in nomination by Govcrno
ia V. Allred of Texas, Game
given his demonstration inning;
march led by his fellow south
erners.
c.ir rebel-yells were loud an
lent; but the scene contrasts
(Continued on page 3.)
jhway Forces Feted
As Bridge Is Qpene*
number of highway officials an
loyees were guests of the iadie
*e community at a picnic dituic
?d on the Watauga River a
n's Ford, in celebration of lb
ing of the highway deparlmer
r.eW bridge across the? river,
le bridge is of steel constructioi
no low-water type, on a concrel
da lion, and is a permanent stru<
. The improvement eliminate
ford on the mail and school bv
en and serves a splendid aectlii
he county, which had been, moi
ess isolated on account of tit
r.
irgess Will Speak
Here On Temperanc
ev M. A. Adams, district ten
nice director for the United Di
ces of the. state has been in tl
aty this week arranging the fic
for temperance education in t!
relies on July is), and states th
this day at the 11 o'clock hoi
i. Cale Iv. Burgess, State dry lea
will deliver an addre&? at one
Boone chruclies.
emperance programs will be t
ged in the various churches
county for that date, says &
ima, and many speakers of stal
c rehoWit :iiavo been
> out in the work. A further a
e complete announcement cc
ning the temperance gatherin
be published in these colum
t week.
ighway Official Has
Sudden Heart Atta<
Ir. E. Ford King, assistant d
:t engineer for the State Highw
amission, while en route from. !
ne in Boone to Lenoir Monti
rning, suffered a sudden and act
rt attack, which necessitated 1
loval to a Lenoir hospital, wht
is yet a patient.
Irs. King and daughter. Mm. <
Tripletf, visited Mr. King Tu
' evening, and state, that wh
condition was right serious
it, he is now showing a spiers
Movement and Is erpected to
e to return home within the rw
r dava.
lias June Lee Russell, of the W
n-Salem WPA office, la spendi
vacation with her parents her
FALSE REPORT
The story was norated freely aboi
oone Wednesday morning th:
tere had been a double murd
id suicide near Blowing K<?
lesday night Investigation by ti
BDWcrat revealed that neither a
lief of police of Blowing Boc
?r the Mayor of the town kne
lything of the alleged traged
her than reports heard fro
oone. How the story started
it known, bat certainly any six
agedy would be found out ii
lediateiy by officials or Biowii
ock.
iMOC
the Year Eighteen Eighty-]
3D AY, JULY 2, 1935
SPEAKS HERE |
I Senator Reynolds I'alrioti 2
p Speaker Saturday
Senator Robert R. Reynolds,
a who, Wednesday afternoon, accepted
by telephone an invitation
^ by the American legion to deliver
* an address in Boone on the fourth.
The Senator will speak at the Le''
gion Park at il o'clock Saturday
L~ morning, as will Joscphus Daniels
' Jr. The junior Senator will be accompanied
by his daughter, Miss
Frances Reynolds and by Miss
Marie Newsoni, who is Secretary
to Hon. Forbes Morgan of Wash1
ington. This is Senator Rcy!jt>!f!?'
first public appearance in Boone
r since be was inducted into office
r and it is believed that he will have
3 an immense audicttce.
DROUGHT ALARMS
COU'NTmRMER*
j Severe Shortage of Food Crop:
! Seems Evident As Dry
a j Weather Continues.
*3 J
r; The probability tha t truck crop
,t in Uiis section will be the poores
.e! this seaseu foi many years, is man
it' if est. as June ends with scarce!,
j more than uji inch of precipitation a
ri, j against .1 normal four o: five Inohe:
e | Potatoes, (he principal pi educe c
i- ! Watauga county, are pronounced a
tsj almost lota' failure on sonic farm:
'3.1- ...any ir.riances, it is said. U'.
..looms have iio.l, and the vines hav
"c! become mature without tubers i
ie iarl'.rtabto size. Some farmers ar
i of -.lie opinion that even though
! normal rainfall should begin at thi
! time tliu*. the potato crop would ik
j be ever, "fair."
e | There is yet a prospect for lal
j cabbage provided there is a let u
vai the drought, while corn is rep or
rv! ed as doing fairly well in most se
a'e' tlons. 11 however, cannot long e:
U | dure the blistering sun withbl
ne moisture
a<L Cattle raisers are particular
ir I aiarmed, since there is comparativ
| ly no dry feed in prospect. Indie
of lions are thai cattle which would o
I dinarily be kept as "feeders" will I
ir_ I forced on the market due to lack j
of forage, with a resultant heavy mo
jr etary loss. Extremely dry perkx
during the month of June have be<
to recalled, but scarcely has such
ruj penou been preceded by. aridity du
,n. ing May. The hay crops depend larg
_ ly on a bountiful rainfall during Ma
jjg It was not rhat way this year.
ROBBERS OF MAST
*; STORE CAPTURE
1 ?i
Sugar Grove Merchant's Pur
^ j Taken From Robbers Aplay
prehendea in Bristol.
ite
hin Two men, captured in Bristol it
;re week as they attempted the pen
tmtion of a garage robbery, a
jo_ without question those who enter
es- the store of A. C. Mast of Sug
!ile Grove on the 16th, since a purse wi
at Mr. Mast's name and his drive
jld license was found on the person
be one of tile fugitives,
act Mr- Mast's store was entered wh
one lock wan cut loose arxl a. seco
broke, and some fifty dollars woi
in- of gasoline and miscellaneous mi
ng chandise was taken. The roblx
e. failed to locate Mr. Mast's mom
but did take the tell-tale purse, whi
did not contain any currency. I
Mast believes that the robbers i
at not have sufficient room in their '
at hide to accommodate more of 1
er goods, since merchandise taken el
;k where was included in their load
ie Hie prisoners' names could not
Se learned, but it is said they are atx
k, 30 years old, and that one of th
w had recently escaped jail at Grei
y, ville. Term. They were driving a <
m stolen the night before the M:
is roberry in Johnson City, and U
rh miles had been added to its milea
n- Bristol officials refused to let 1
ig Mast have the burglars until tl
had faced trial In that state.
RAT
Eight
$1.50 PER YEAH
Tamed hostelry
razed by flame
, on sunday morn
1 Eseeola Inn, Summer Hotel at
I? f inville is Quickly Demolished
as Guests Flee.
NEW HOTEL TO BE READY
FOR OPENING NEXT YEAR
Chestnut Lodge Will be Operated
Tor the Remainder of the Season.
Boone People Helped Construct
! Hotel In 80s.
i
; Efleeola Inn, fashionable Linville
! tourist hostelry was reduced to a shea
J Sunday morning, when fire, believed
If/* linou nrifinn^/l ??
I VS- . >o<v- vttguiabiAf. Ul UIV AllUiCU,
, rapidly spread to other parts of the
huge frame building.
"J The hotel having just opened, only
I about twenty-five rooms were being ^
j occupied, it was said, and employees
| quickly warned the guests, enabling
. them to salvage many of their per
sonal belongings. There were no caaJ
ualtiea.
Other structures nearby were
threatened, but. the employees, guests
and people from the countryside,
confined the blaze to the hotel,
j Nelson McRae, president of the
Linville Improvement Company, has
announced that a new structure will
be ready for occupancy next summer,
and that Chestnut Lodge, on
the hotel property, will be operated
for the remainder of the current seasou.
Built In Eighties
The original part of the Eseeole.
Inn was constructed in the years
1888 and 1889. Of local interest to
the fact that the late J. W. Farthing
i was foreman of construction, that
the late Jordan McChce and son, J.
I W. McGhee built the chimneys, while
} R. C. Rivers, deceased editor of the
Watauga Democrat, labored as a
s carpenter on the job as did 'Bud"
Gouncill, also deceased. The structure
had, howeverf been, added to
from time to lime, but the original
remained within the enlarged bundling.
t | No estimates could be secured as
" i to the monetary loss, although it ia
y j said that there was a fair insurance x ;
a j coverage.
^DANIELS TO SPEAK
:HEREONSATURDAY
;
8 j State Commander of Legion
is ! Will Address Veterans' Pic>t
nic on Fourth of July.
o Joaephus Daniels Jr.. state Com,p
i.'.aiivir-r of the American Legion will
t- deliver a patriotic address when vet5
rrans of the world war and their
n-1 families gather Saturday in Legion
it pari; for a picnic iunch and celebration
of the glorious fourth. The ad!y
dress will be delivered at eleven
e- o'clock.
a" The. public ia cordially invited to
r- hear Mr Daniels and veterans of all
wars are urged to come and bring'
their families, together with wellb
j filled baskets for a picnic iunch. Tai
Ktao c-.-, ?? ? - ? ? - **
? j mui ai ts .ucuLg cunau ucicu uuut^r uie
iu pines and an outstandingly entera
taming occasion is promised by the
*- sponsors.
Nominating Party Is
Held Here Saturday
A large group of Democrats from
&the different sections of the county
gathered at the courthouse Saturday
evening on the occasion of the delivcrancc
by President Roosevelt of
his acceptance speech, this being one
of several thousand such rallies held
throughout the United States.
Wade E. Brown, local attorney,
^ delivered a brief message to the as> "
sembly, eulogizing: the administration
1x0 of the President and calling on his
hearers for continued support of
ar Roosevelt. The Spruce Pine band
ith furnished the music for the occasion
f*8 and the President's address was
heard through radio, many who did
not enter the auditorium listening
611 from the outside.
^ Sponsors of the rally state that it
was decidedly successful from the
^(standpoint of ticket sales, and that
many holding tickets preferred to
hear the address in their own homes.
However there was an enthusiastic
and satisfactorily large crowd at the
courthouse.
re^
BASEBALL AND FIELD
EVENTS ARE CANCELLED
be
>ut The baseball games and! round of
em field events which had been arrangen
ed by the Chamber of Commerce for
sar July 4th have been definitely canas
t celled, according to the secretary,
500 Mr. A. G. Quails, who states that a
ge. hitch which developed in the ardr.
rangements made it impractical to
ley proceed further with preparations for
the program of sports.
J