JUNE 2, 1938 TO^AYand gCXKBit I tX)E Sj>y>C ^4? r ibn * for study As long as men have been catching fish. little is really known about their life and habits. How do they behave under watrr? We can't see much more than a few inches below the surface of the sea. Who eats who in the struggle for existence that goes on in the ocean's depths? Nobody knows for sure, but a great scientific laboratory for the study of iivmg ;>sn or all Kinds has been established in Florida, and we are on tjie "way toward learning more about the hidden life under water. At Marineiand on Florida's Kost Coast half a million dollars has been sj;ent to build a miniature ocean. Two great connected tanks holding nearly a million gailons of filtered sea-water have been built. They have windows along the sides and the bottom through which the behavior of marine animals can be studied and photographed at close range. When I visited Marineiand in April there were dozens of sharks of different kinds and sizes, a big sawfish, innumerable smaller fish, crabs, shrimps and other crusta- j ceans, seals and porpoises all living [ together as they do in the sea. ?. ? ? DOPE catches fish Catching big fish for an aquarium is a good deal like catching big animals for a zoo or a circus. In order to bring 'em in alive and in condition to keep on living, they have to be carefully handied alter being * raUDV.i else thev will ininrw thnm. selves In the struggle to get free. Big game hunters for =eos jKhj "mercy bullets," shooting a quickacting narcotic drug into the animal's hide. On the same principle J the Marine Studios use a "hypodermic harpoon" to control big fish after they have been netted or trapped. Invented by Count Ilia Tolatoy, grandson of the famous Russian novelist, who is in charge of collecting fish for the Marineland aquarium, the hypodermic harpoon injects an anesthetic drug into a fish. Even the lnrgest sharks turn over and play dead when they get this "shot in the arm," but a few hours later they are lively as ever in the "miniature ocean." I went out with one of the "bring 'em in alive" expeditions early in April. We set a big net a few miles out on the Atlantic and anchored over night to haul the net at sunrise, the feeding time for the big ones, bui an we got was one livefoot liammerhead shark. ? SHARKS soft Whether sharks actually attack living persons in the water is still a matter of dispute. The fish experts I talked with in Florida said that, some of the large sharks will seize an injured person, attracted by the smell of blood. All agreed that a far more dangerous fish is the barracuda, the "tiger of the sea," which comes into shallow waters and frequently hits an arm or a leg off a bather. Sharks and the shark family, which includes sawfish and rays, are the most primitive type of fish. Fossil shark teeth estimated to be 100,000 years old are washed up by every storm on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. The 3hark has no bones. His spine is soft cartilage and he has no ribs at all. The shark does not survive rough handling well. One of the workers at Marine Studios found a live shark cast up on the beach. He dragged it half a anile by the tail, stowed it hi the back of his car, and drove it to the aquarium. The shark survived long enough to give birth to nine baby sharks, but died shortly afterwards from the effects of the rough treatment she had received. * * * DOLPHINS . . . warm blooded Everybody who has been around the Atlantic seaboard much, from - TJnva Scotia to Florida has seen schools of dolphins, which are usually called porpoises, leaping out of water in graceful curves. Most folk take them for fish, tout they are warm-blooded mammals, little cousins of the whale. They make their torief excursions to the surface to fill their lungs with air, which they can. do in a couple of seconds through the single nostril or "blowhole'" in the tops of their heads. While I was visiting the big aquarium at Marir.elf.nd word came that porpoises Wire feeding in a nearby , inlet. Half a dozen fishermen in rowboats went out after them. They set four nets across the mouth of the inlet. Hie first porpoi3e broke (Continued on page four) /ATM An Independent BOONE V Tries For Toga Hitj led as one of the most important political developments since 1930 was the Peniisylvania primary which gave the Democratic senatorial nomination to N e w Dealer Governor George H. Karle (above) r.nd the nomination for tlie governorship to his riuuiing | mate, ants-C.I.O. Charles A. Jones. Republicans, led by Janiea J. Davis {Hilled a creator total vote than did the Democrats. LOCAL VACATION SPOT VISUALIZED i ! Chamber of Commerce Receives Requests for Summer Accommodations "Inquiries coming to my desk daily for vacation living accommodations in Boone or the immediate vicinity convince me that Boone lias an important future, as a medium priced vacation spot." This Is the opinion of Wade El. Brown, secretary tVm wwditt.v" * ' it would have a 100 per cent endor merit of the business interests. The committee, which was cc posed of Messrs. J. O. Cook, J. Afuliins, L. L. McGill and Wade Brown, received the endorsement every merchant with the exception one, and when it was found that half-holiday would not be observ the committee asked for the pu cation of the following statement I "We regret exceedingly that < to tile failure of the Crest Stores j sign the agreement, we will not cl | Wednesday afternoon during t summer, as planned. In advocat the half-holiday we were following the footsteps ot some of the 111 progressive towns ir, the state, n we feel that could we have secu Ine one additional signature, our c tomers would have been glad to operate. We did not so much s< rest, as the opportunity to spend half holiday during the hot moll in mixing with each other and fraternizing with our customers, this respect alone, the iuJiroot bo fits would have been great to us a Luther South Dies From Sudden Hlne Luther S. South, aged 40 yea died Tuesday evening at his home the Beaver Dam section from an ness of only a few hours. The rect cause of his demise was un termined. Funeral services are to be condu ed this (Wednesday) afternoon al o'clock from the Forest Grove Bi tist church and interment will he the neighborhood cemetery. Surviving are the widow, two si and four daughters: Luther S., . John, Ruby Dare, June, Courti and Shirley South. Two brothers a survive: Austin E. South of Boo and Blaine South of St. Geor Utah. One sister, Mrs. S. C. Egg*: lives in Boone. Mr. South, who was reared Boone and lived here during his ea aduit life, was popular in the to and county and leaves a large nu her of friends. Mrs. Effie L. Pennell Dies at Blowing Roi Mrs. tsffie Leona renneu, aj 34 years, died at Blowing Rock 1 Saturday and funeral services w conducted Sunday afternoon from Blowing Rock Baptist church by R S. E. Gragg and Rev. Sexton Bu anan, interment being in the Shi Mills cemetery. Surviving are the husband, Cloy Pennell, two sons and one daughl Bernard, Jack and Blanche Penr The mother, Mrs. John IW. Lewis, Blowing Rock, also survives, i one sister, Mrs. Gumey Holler, Boone. Dixie Stores Now In New Buildii The Dixie Stores, popular lc grocery establishment, moved ti stocks Monday into the new bu ing adjacent to the Caro-Jean 1 and their friends are congratuiat them upon their elegantly furnisl building, which was built exprei for the nedes of their particular bi ness. An advertisement in T Democrat today calls attention special prices being offered in c . nection with their opening in new location. Scouts To Meet On Next Monday Evenii Members of the local Boy Sc troop are asked to meet at the St hut nest Monday at 7:30. All See are urged to be present, and o! youths interested in the Scout m< ment are invited to attend. stablished in the Year Elgt : CAROLINA, THURSDAY, lR| Long Grind Ov hat ' ^ .se. Three Indians?not from a cycled 35,000 miles, vijfting 35 i )m_ tinents, are shown hero as they A West 34th street, New York Cifr E Pacific coast. They are, left to and Kustam Ghandi. ?f " ' the NO JUNE COURT TO bii- BE HELD THIS YEAR iue The regular June term of Watlo miga superior court, which is xoleose ^ *or of disposing of h e ?'v'l actions, iviU not he held this jng- year, according to word coming jn from A. B}. South, the clerk, ost Recent nbeed terms of court Qlcj have disposed of so many civs! red cases, it is said, that attorneys did ug_ not believe the business in hand co. justified the expense of holding lek the term. a tha ~ =-~ ? ? MERCHANTS WILL no- J u I \i A mi? nim?orrnnt HMIfi ilinctiuiu __ Members of' Merchants Associ: lion Will Gather in Banquet lr3_ Meeting June 14th in ili_ The Boone "Merchants Associatio di- will hold a banquet meeting- at 7:3 de- on June 14, at which time the prir cipal business to come before th ct, g membership will be the selection of ap. new board of directors, which i in i turn will name a slate of officers ft the ensuing year. The place of tr J"3 meeting, together with other detai Jgy will be published next week. Iso The present directorate consists < nc J. A. MXillins, Frank Pearson, L. I ge' lIcGill, John Conway, C. C. Roger ^ J. L.. Quails, M. I. Clark and R. I Hodges. There are now three vacar jo cies on the board. riy - wn REORGANIZATION BILL DEFINITELY SHELVE] Washington, May 31.?Represent; tive Lindsay Warren cf North Car< !ina. and Senator Byrnes of Sout Carolina, chairmen of government r< reve- N. L. HARRISON, Chains: Z. T. GREENE, Secretary. OCRAT iteen E^ toy-Eight er Fplfi Continents VC r*^rl* , w m Y , IN reservation, but from Bombay'?have t^101 countries and pedaling over five con- ^ threaded their way through traffic on cou i, on the first lap of their hop to the con right, Rutten Shroff, Kaikee Khares 0011 prir TWO ARE BOUND ON ^ ROBBERY CHARGES ? I juni Ward and Warren Remanded to; '-her Jail in Default of $3,000 Bond; 'vho Hearing Held Monday Frank Ward and Marvin Warren map were given a preliminary hearing Monday before Magistrate Edwin N. Ai Hahn and bound to Watauga superior ciiai court under bonds of $3,000 each, on = charges of having beaten and robbed ..s)ln P. R. Shull, well-known resident of the I-auiel Creek township. In default of "1 bond the accused are - being' held in TO 4 ^ the county jail and will be tried at i *1 the September term of court. Mr. Shull believes Ward and Warren to be the man who bludgeoned him in the darkened kitchen of his home on the evening of May 21 and Kct took $50 in currency from his per- M n sen. His testimony is corroborated i q to an extent by fingerprints, allegedly those of Ward, which were found on Rl the window pane, and by footprints -peni 10 on the outside of the building, which s(!r;. a sheriff's officers found corresponded ond n to the shoes being worn by the de- to ^ fendants when arrested. calit In the preliminary hearing the 0;d x state was represented by W. R. Lov- .>v~_ ls ill and the defense by J. E. Kolshos- to s er- of < >f was N. C. Ranks 13th x Among States In Gra Value Farm Crops erec Raleigh, May 30.?iNforth Carolina wdti ranks thirteenth in total cash in- dajD come of its farmers, which reached the $271,132,000, the state department of mee i. agriculture's statistics division re- jt j ports. ti iff 11 i HI. niaic l iumtiu Its lOMOWS, in ture ?- various phases, according: to W. H, tar} ;e Rlioades, chief statistician carj : First: Tobacco, with 674,000 ask< >t acres harvested and 595,530,000 ?- pounds, putting the state at the top jjg in both acreage and production. ITiird: Cash income from crops? $232,850,000. a Third: Total number of farms? 300,967 (1835 farm census). s ]_ Eighth: Acreage of all truck e ' h crops for market.?52,720 acres. 3t Ninth: Cotton?growers harvest- e e tt ed 1,101,000 acres producing 775,000 ^ 2 ly bales. Acres planted reached 1,109,- ne2 000. T Eleventh: AAA or conservation J"15 I payments with $12,282,000 paid to 1 SHQ growers. Seventeenth: Corn, both produc- " ie tion and acreage with 45,357,000 1 "* t>ushel3 from 2.326,000 acres. le Seventeenth: Acreage of all truck j emp crops-?59,390 acrc3. 111 Twentieth: Acreage in cultivation easl s' ?6,592,000 acres. and ie Twentieth: Cash income from all ~'e truck crops?$4,290,000. fice Twenty-sixth: Acreage of all of truck crops for canning and manu- ,T facture?6,670 acres. Twenty-ninth: Hay?995,000 acres. a,>p Thirty-eighth: Cash income from ar^ -t- livestock and livestock products, nd with a total of $26,000,000. ke With a to 1 of 2,360,429 people 1 ir- living "in the country," the state's wh: et rural population comprises 74.5 per wic cent of the total. jur at by dy Mr. Spencer Miller returned Mon- it ' day from Camp Jackson, Columbia, cor ne S. C., where he attended a three-day int m. reunion of the Eighty-first (Wild fer m. Ot) division, of whicli he was a Ell Member during the World war. K am I r ~ $1.50 PER YEAR ITERS TO ENGAi: |g? PRIMARY FIGHT E X T SATURDAY nt JLocal Interest in Statewide Primary Race Bespeaks ight Vote; Only Senator and tilities Commissioner Before ucui oiccivraic > far no Intense general interest developed in the Democratic priy election of next Saturday, in :h Watauga voters will aid in the ction of a candidate for the Uinstates senate and one for state Ities commissioner, and it is bepredicted that the balloting in area will be unusually light, dictions of those whose political pivnl has always been regarded sound, indicate that Watauga's il vote may not "oe more than one jsand. /atauga Democrats name their nty candidates this year by the vention method, and this will acnt for a lessened turn-out for the nary. Besides, no intensive campi is being waged for the state et. so far as is known enator Robert R. Reynolds is beopposed for re-nomination to tile ted States senate by Congressman nk Hancock of Oxford, and while ty are of the opinion that the or senator wiii carry the county, e are supporters of Mr. Hancock are equally certain that their iidale will come through victoriState Utilities Commissioner ilcy Winborne is conceded a heavy >rity locally over Paul Giudy. I'olls to Open at 1 : cording to Mr. A. D. WKlson, rman of the county board of elecs, the polls will open at 7 a. m. close at 7 p. nu, tlie change from . to sun" having been made by last legislature. nrnitT tmn mo iDLIl i iiiiij iv BE BUILT HERE \ Graham Expects to Start [cetinf] Second Sunday in Tabernacle Friends Erect ev. I>an Graham, Blountvilie, i., evangelist, expects to start a ;s of l-cvival services on the secSunday in June in a tabernacle e built by his friends in this ioy on a portion of the Blackburn hotel property The tent which ' ' ' ' to have been used was damaged ueh air extent during the process irection in a high wind, that it temporarily abandoned, and the of constructing the tabernacle conceived at a meeting of Rev. ham's friends held in the courtje last Thursday afternoon., umber is being delivered for the tion of the temporary structure, :h will be 75x90 feet, and on Friof this week all the people of county who will, are asked to t for an old-time house-raising, s believed that there will be no iculty in completing the struc: through the medium .-if volnn labor. Those who car. serve as >enters and laborers as well are :d to gather Friday. COMPOSED BODY OF PETER LEVINE FOUND ? ew Rochelle. N. Y., May 29.? wire-bound body of long-missing' !r Levlne?head, hands and feet jing?was found and identified by dives tonight on the shore of the te of Louis Tselin on Davenport c. Long Island sound, he body was hardly more than a s of decomposed flesh and a few ss but Detectives Edwin Gleason Michael Lynch said enough of lad's clothing remained to make itification possible, ielmer Strong, a yacht captain iloyed by Mrs. Iselin, was stand uii Lilt: Uiui: v wjieu, lie sa.iu, a aue : wind blew the body landward lodged it against a rock. He aediately spread the news and ofrs were on the scene in a short le. he boy, son of Murray Levin e, a h avenue, N. York, attorney, diseared from his home here Febru24, after leaving school. WPA WORKER INJURED It. Henry Mast of Sugar Grove, ile working on the WPA countyle school repair project, was ined Tuesday when he was struck a barrel of paint which slipped as was being moved. Mr Mast was Lsiderably bruised and fearing that arnal injuries might have been aufed, he was taken to the Banner c hospital for further examination i irealmci.t