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Y VOL. 52, NO. 4 The Week in Washington A RESUME OF GOVERNMENTAL. HAPPENINGS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington. July 26.?It's at about an even bet among Washinj ton observers whether congress wi adjourn around the first of Augu !or stay in session indefinitely, wranj ling over neutrality legislation !The action of the senate commitU on foreign affairs, in voting, 12 \ 11, to postpone consideration of nei trality legislation until next sessio; is not necessarily final. The hof for some compromise between ti administration's desires and those < congress still persists. It can be stated indisputably tlu the entire membership of bot houses of congress and the entii executive branch of govern men from the President down, are in al solute and complete agreement i I one important point of national pol cy. They all want wholeheartedly t keep the United States out of warany war. The disagreement is who ly on what particular means wi hest accomplish that purpose. Shall the United States forbid tli sale of arms and war supplies to an nation engaged in any internation; war? The present law requires tli President to proclaim an embarg against all belligerent nations in cas of war. This plan of keeping America nci tral lias the support of practically a the Republicans and some of tli anti-administration Demcrats in bot houses, thus bringing party politic i into an international question an tVl?- hpliof lV?ot a ,, ? -.WW-,, of the opposition to the administr; j t'Oo'lf rieclr-. to have Hie neutralit ' iaw, ; .mended Is baaed q.-r. the tlesli to embarrass the President, ratht than upon the real welfare of the nt tion. The position of the oclministratic was expressed in a long: statement t Secretary Hull who stated flatly th; the present neutrality act would ten to draw the United States into wi rather than to keep tne nation out He recommended thai the law I amended, if congress continued to l> lieve that a special neutrality la was required, so as to eliminate ti present arms embargo. It is tl right, in international law and preo dent, he said, of any nation to bu or sell arms to any other nation, ui der any conditions, if they are able t buy and the sellers are able to di liver. Mr. Hull's I'ropnsuls "Mr Hull's proposals were: To prohibit American ships froi entering combat areas; to restrii travel by American citizens in con hat areas: to require that goods e: ported from the United States 1 belligerent countries shall be pr< ceded by transfer of title to the fo; eign purchasers; to continue the o: xsiuig legislation respecting loans an credits to warring nations; to regt late the solicitation and collection i this country of funds for belligerent and to continue the licensing systei tinder the munitions control boar covering importation and exportatio of war supplies. The net effect of the administra tion proposals would be, it is agreec to give England and France an ati vantage. They have the funds t buy war munitions in America, imic of them in ''earmarked" gold alread on deposit in American banlcs. Th dictatorships have no such financif resources. England and Prance hav the ships necessary to carry Amer: can supplies across the ocean an could easily prevent their successfi transportation to their enemies. The argument against the admir istration program is that, such bein the case, the Roosevelt-Hull pla would be un-neutral in reality, sine it would favor one side against th other. Last War Analyzed Back of all the neutrality restru tions imposed by the present law the belief held by many that it wa the sales of munitions to the Allic (before we got into the (World Wa which dragged us into the war, t insure collection of what the all?e powers owed American bankers. That belief persists, in spite of th fact that in 1934 a senate committc i. _j i -i ? x-r_.? ern /wi newKQ oy offnawr -Ny v apem and many weeks of time trying: t prove it was true, and succeedin only in proving that all of the loai: made to European nations before * got into the big war, were secure by American securities depositc with the bankers, and other securit; and that they would have been pa in full, whether the Allies won < lost, as they actually were. That there will be actual fightin; marking the beginning of what mi turn out to be the most disastroi war in human history, before the er of September, is definitely feared 1 (Continued on page (our) ^ATAl An Independent ~ BOONE, : BUSINESS GOOD AT LIVESTOCK MART 221 Head of Stock Brought t< Local Market Last Wednesday; Gross Sale $3,009 ill Eighty-three farmers brought 22 head of livestock to the local marke ill last week, where 37 buyers took i S1 at a good price, the gross sales fo: r_ the day being $3,000 The marke was steady, except lambs were of ;c 25 to 50 cents due to the falling t0 market j_ Farmers generally were well pleas with .? *?-* ? ?1 ?? **- * U "mi uiv; j;i n-ca anu su.y liiui Ull >e market is proving itself to be a great ie asset to the county. Sales start cacl >f Wednesday at 2 o'clock and farmer: are being urged to get their stock ii lt early so the sales may start prompt h ,y c Following are the market quota ^ tions for the last sale: Choice calves, 8.75; good calves ,n 7.50 to S:00; medium calves, 6.50 t? 7 50; common calves 5.50 to 6.50 Q stock calves, 15.00 to 40.00: goot _ steers, 6.75 to 7.25, medium steer, j. 0.00 to 6.75: common steers, 5.00 ti U 6 00; good heifers, 6.75 to 7.25: modi um heifers 6.00 to 6.75; common heif ie ers 5.00 to 6.00; best cows, 6.50: gooc y cows, 5.50 to 6.00: medium cows 4.50 to 5.50; canners, 3.50 to 4.50 e milk cows as to kind and quality 0 30.00 to 40.00; best lambs, 8.50. 1 PRESIDENT TO \ DEDICATE PARK s d Chief Executive to Visit Ashe vif!e September Her 15; Will y Visit Secrv?av\ :r Washington, July 25 x*re.?' ion i- Koosevelt will visit North Carolina u September. This was the announce >n ment made here yesterday and als< y at Hyde Park where the Presiden it has been snendin^ Llie week-end. I id was stated that Mir. Roosevelt woult ir go Lo Aehevillc probably Septerabe 14 or 15 und visit Marvin Mclntyre >e one of his secretaries who has bee: e- ill there for some time. After spend w ing a day with 'fMack" as the Prcsi le dent refers to the former newspaper ic man, Mr. Roosevelt wiil go to New 2- found!and Gap on the North Caro iy lina-Tennessee line and deliver th? 1- main address at the dedication of th< o Smoky Mountains (National pari 2- which will then be turned over to th< government for supervision and con tinued improvement. The President will proceed by au m tomobile to Knoxville, Tenn., wher< 2t he will take a train for the San Fran 1- Cisco world's fair where he wil c- speak. After the San Francisct :o speech, he will visit his daughter ii 2- Seattle. r Orphanage Singing - Class Will Appeal 21 s' Tlie Oxford Orphanage singing class will appear in concert at tlic u Cove Creek high school auditoriuir n Thursday evening, August 1, at 7:30 under the snonsorshiD of Snow Lode^ ^ No. 3fi3, Ancient Free and Accepted !' Masons. Tlie singing class, whose appear ? anccs are always looked forward tc in this section, has a new personnel y this year and one of the most attraeI tive programs of music, songs, drills l" dances and folk songs in the history e of the popular organization, and tht l" complete co-oi>eration of the people is asked. Enjoy the children, while II they help their home. g Library Week To Start On Monday ie " Next week will be observer throughout the county as Library ,_ Week when a special effort is to be [g made throughout the churches and ^ elsewhere to interest the people ir ,s the support of the county library ^ Miss Jewel Hagaman, the librarian Q joins with the special library commit d tee in asking the people to co-operate during this period by either donating volumes to the library or by making ,c cash donations. A generous response tn iVio orvnool Ko k 1 1,. |Q *-v nvuiu W lllglliy a^lC 0 elated. g ' is Disease Free Dairy d Herds Are Reported d y. The New River Dairy at Boone has id discovered that its herd3 are abso >r lutely free of any traces of tuberculosis or Bang's disease, from tests ? recently made by state inspectors iy Brown's Dairy at Blowing Rock was JS also free of either ailment. Curious'd iy enough, these are the only t\v< >y dairy herds in the state where n< traces were found of these diseases. a" '"Tfflfj". ;9' :-7':IW~: ' "i >33?** ?." [JGA ] : Weekly Newspaper?Estat WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH~Ci NEW POS i ) L sISR&nBfc 1 * t BilWSBgC^ r . -1 ,v' V ' ~ i Boone's new $7.1,000 federal build press. Postmaster W. <i. Hartzog stn etc, to the new structure across the in the new building sure new, no equ ' 90 WPA WORKERS 1 DISMISSED HERE _ _ ? New 3-.UV Retires Public 1 L '^Vorks Employees; 610 Bis- ' hai'ged in This District ? Ninety persons, working under the ; t WPA program In Watauga county, | 1 have been discharged under the pro- 1 r visions of the new lav. making dis- 8 ? charge automatic when a worker haa been in continuous employment of f ~ WPA for IS months, C. ML Crutch- t . field, area engineer. North Wilkes- 1 - boro, announced Monday. The total s " dismissals for Mr. Crutchfields dis- ? - trict are about 610. ** i Wilkes county leads in the number c of these automatic dismissals with 5 210 men and 21 women leaving the ' payrolls of the emergency organization, representing about 20 per cent " of the male workers in Wilkes. ? While figures on women workers w - were not immediately available, Mi*. ai 1 Orutchfield gave the following ap* proximate totals of men discharged m 1 from WPA in the other counties of the area: Alexander, 27; Alleghany, ^ 3; Ashe, 191; Avery, 39; Caldwell, 65; Iredell, 54. EThe automatic discharge law af* fects all workers on WPA who are n certified and includes skilled and un-1 S? r skilled labor and a number of time- j W 1 keepers and project foremen. j atj i | . Traveler-Lecturer to 1 . i o\ i Appear At College M ba Dr. James ML Carpenter, traveler ^ , uu ^ and lecturer, will be presented at the vj college auditorium Saturday evening, to Tui.r votv, o a ???i --v uoyu, UV U W uiwvrw, All a ^ugiaiu ir | of illustrated lectures on English and &r ? Scottish ballads. For five years an instructor at pe | Harvard. Dr. Carpenter receiver! the Hi Ph.D. degree in 1929 and went to fl< Britain as a Sheldon fellow Remain- m ing for six years as a traveling fel- pi low from Harvard, he made a collec- la tion of British folk-lore that will be sr outstanding for all time. Returning pt to America, he has spent his time ' lecturing and preparing for the press th ' two publications that will appear is ; soon. Dr. Carpenter holds a part- p; ' time teaching fellowship at Duke Uni- Fi 1 versity. aj The public is invited to attend ths bj - program. fii br. 1 MAXWELL WILL HUN ' FOR GOVERNOR IN 1940 "f th HendersonviUe, July 22?A. J. P' Maxwell, state commissioner of reve uub, oaiu Jiuc inuiouaj' iUkCiUUUU that he definitely expects to be a ar candidate for the 3940 Democratic f* gubernatorial nomination. ' "I have no doubt that T will be in to the running next year," the North i Carolina official said when interview ed following an address before the rc - Hendersonvlle Kiwanis club. s "And I have received ?the very finest report^ of interest over the IP i state in my contemplated candidacy," - Mr. Maxwell added. Governor Hoey, > he said, '"has asked us to withhold ) formal announcement of candidacies CI for the nomination." th DEM< >lished in the Year Eight IROLINA, THURSDAY? .JUL\ TOFFICE IS NOW OC i ing, which is be ing occupied today t<sl that the employees of the. post street this (Wednesday) evening, i ipment is to lie taken from the old INEMAN INJURED ! AS POLE TOPPLES Clayton Moretz, employee of the Vow Itivor Light and Tower Co., vas seriously injured Tuesday afiu noon, when a power pole on vhieh he was .working, tell to the ground. Mr. Moretz suffered a 'raetured thigh, and after an examination at the Watauga Hos>ital was Liken to Charlotte for reatment by Dr. Miller, iione specialist. *nr cicn ??iui wiih.ii mr. ?iureiz | vaa working was replacing an old i lole with a new one, and as the last | vire was removed, the pole topped, catching the lineman as it truck the ground. SA Extends Farm Tenant Program to Fiftv New Counties Every county in North Carolina ill receive loans to help farm tenits become owners under the Banked-Jones farm tenant act, accordg to information received here by 3A county supervisor, Paul J. lappell, from the state director of e Farm Security administration, V. Swift. Blanketing the entire state, 50 !W counties wore designated by cretary of Agriculture Henry A iallace upon the advice of the state I visor j' committee. "The KSA has helped 389 tenants North Carolina to become landvners during the past two years," r. Chappell said. "Congress, in its ittle to keep the American farmer i his farm, appropriated $40,000,0 recently to he used under the prosions of the Bankhead-Jones farm nailt act to heln aton thp nlnrmirn' end from farm ownership to tenicy." These loans arc made for a 10-year riod at three per cent interest, owever, the act provides that after ire years payment in full can be adc at any time. Under a variable lyment plan farmers may make rger payments in good years with aaller payments due in years of irtial crop failure or low prices." Mr. Chappell said repayment of ese loans all over the United States remarkable with borrowers relying 135 per cent of maturities, iirther information about how to >ply for these loans will be given r the county supervisor whose olio is located in the Wade E. Brown lilding. A three-farmer advisory committee ill assist the supervisor, examine e applications, appraise farms apicants wi3h to buy and recommend najits for successful farm ownerfp. Borrowers will have the help id guidance of the Farm Security Iministration in building or repairg their homes and in making plans do better farming. Although land purchase loans are nited, Mr. Chappell said the regular habilitation loans for items such as ed, seed, fertilizer, livestock and rm equipment arc available to elible farmers unable to secure adelate credit elsewhere. Misses Laura and I>eona Query of narlotte, are spending two weeks at e home of Mrs. Belle Winkler. " ko.b xgf3?nfzBfj I > _ jt* x:ra JT een Ei' ^.y-Eight :^/ :cu:'ed ' v. BjjjijK ~ W : -vC2 jj| As the l>emocrat was going to toffice. would transfer the records, Since all the furnishings to l>e used I site. (Photo by Weston) DR. HUTCHESON TO SPEAK HERE AUG. 1 Authority on Crops and Genera! Farming to Address Farmers in College Auditorium Dr. T. li. Hutchesoa, well-known authority on crops and general farm ing from V. P. I., Blacksburg, Va.r will speak to the farmers of Watauga county on Tuesday^^ugmrtl, at 2:30 p. m., County Harry Hamfftori announced this week. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the administration building at Appalachan College. A number of WJatauga farmers heard Dr. Hutcheson speak at the Cullowhee farm meeting last year and they were all more than pleased with what he had to say on the subject of farming. ' This is our first attempt, to hold a big county-wide farm meeting," said Mr. Hamilton, "arid we hope that every farmer in Watauga county will attend this meeting and learn more about better farming practices." Road To Tater Hill Is Near Completion The two-mile stretch of highway connecting Titter Hill .with the highway known as the Howard's Creek road, is practically graded, according to Mr S. C. Eggers, who states that with! favorable weather the new link will be open for travel within the next few days, bringing the famous scenic peak within a few minutes of Boone. Mr. Eggers says that following the completion of the road work will proceed with the development of the mountain top. A lake is to be constructed, golf course laid out and and other improvements made for the i benefit of summer colonies. Negro Is Killed In Electric Storm John Speers, 19, colored waiter at Mayview M&nor, Blowing" Rock, was instantly killed Thursday afternoon by lightning as he was walking from the Manor toward the servants quarters. During the same storm lightning split a bedpost in a room in the servants building. The body of Spears was taken to Charlotte for interment. Wataugans Attend 4-H Short Course A number of Watauga 4-H Club boys and girls are in attendance at the 4-H short course heing given at State College, Raleigh, this week, among them being: Margaret Perry, Mildred Perry and Reid Harmon of the Bethel club; Council! Htenson and Paul Brown of the Cove Creek club. Assistant County Agent George Farthing accompanied them. Mrs. V. J. Honeycutt and V. J., Jr., have joined M!r. Honeycutt in Richmond, Va. T Cci] $1.50 AYm CLIFFORD CHURCH HELD ON CHARGE OF SHOOTING WIFE Slain Woman. Former Wataugan, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller; Church Attempts Getaway Following Suicide Story to Officers Clifford Church, former Wilkes ' county resident, who has been operating a service station at Warrensvilie. Ashe county, was lodged in the county jail at .Jefferson Monday inorning on a first degree murder charge, growing out of the fatal shooting of his wife, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Miller of Watauga county. The shooting took place in the Church home about 11 o'clock Sunday night, Sheriff Ed Miller of Ashe county. stated. When officers, in company with Dr. B. E. Reeves, county coroner, arrived at the scene of the fatal shooting, they found the woman lying cn a bed with a bullet hole through her right eye. Dr. Reeves said that death was instantaneous, the bullet having: passed throup.h the brain. Sheriff Miller .said Church had been drinking and declared that his wife had committed suicide. However, the gun could not be found, and upon further questioning, Church ran out of the house and was finally caught on a nearby bridge by Roy Ashley, mayor of "VVarronsville. Church was taken to the county jail, where difficulty was experienced in. his incarceration. Neighbors said that the couple had been quarreling recently. In searching for the gun officers found 72 gallons of blockade wbis'-cy I ucKed away in a rear rocre. Monday morning, a pistol behoved to have been the one used in the alleged murder was found underneath Church's Funeral services for Mrs. Church, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Elk township, Watauga county, whero the deceased was born and rearevr JJhe l%.8?U-viv-d , parents, Mr. and Mrs. WHtit- SHHtr ' ( and by two small children. She was 33 years old. Blue Ridge Parkway Now Open For Travel The Blue Ridge parkway is now open lor travel all the way from the Virginia line to Deep Gap, a distance of approximately 60 miles. Although surfacing has not been completed in. some few sections, the road will be kept open for travel from now on and in places where the. work is under way one side of the road will be open for travel, park service officials announce. Some work remains to be done between Glendale Springs and Laurel Springs and from Laurel Springs eastward to Bluff Park, but will be completed by the middle of August. However, parkway travelers may drive over the entire distance from Deep Gap to Virginia now without detours or much inconvenience. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES ARE AVAILABLE Combination hunting and fishing licenses, state wide, are now available at the usual sales points in the county, states District Game Protector H. Grady Farthing, who points out that by purchasing the combination license, sportsmen affect a saving of $1.10 over the amount they would pay if the permits were bought seperately. The licenses sell for $3 00 and are good for hunting this fall and winter and for fishing to August 1, 1940. Mr. Farthing says that work of restocking the streams is steadily going forward and that about a quar- * tPr rrtilliAn +ww.*- 1 i ?' - * ?- wvuv nave ueen ruiensea in waters of WTatauga county this year. Due to frequent heavy rains, comparatively few trout have been, taken this year, he says. The bass season is now open, and there are prospects of successful angling. The n season will remain open until April 15th. SMAI.L SON OF MR. AND MRS. BYERS SUCCUMBS John Wade Byers. son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Byers, died last Saturday at the age of two years and six months. He is survived hy the parents, one sister, Betty Jo Byers; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W Byers and Mr. and Mirs. J. W. Fletcher. Funeral services were conducted hy the pastor. Rev. G. A. Hanvby from the Oak Grove Baptist church near Boone at 11 o'clock Sunday morning and interment was in Mjeat Camp cemetery.
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