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Destitution In North Carolina Declines ^ - —-—: —* _ v ———-* ---* — Relief Work Expenditures Are Much Less State Leaders Pleased Over Pros pect Of Improved Conditions An improvement in the statu: of destitution in North Carolin: was indicated in the total amount of money spent for relief purpose: during March, according to an an nouncement made by the gover nor’s office on relief. The total ex penditures amounted to $1,323, 346. . This total represents an increast over the expenditures for February which required $1,166,432. B) taking into account the fact that March contains three more day: than February, the fact 4s reveal ed that the total daily requirement for March was less than February State relief officers regard thi: as an encouraging sign because oi the fact that the banking holida) during March caused a larger ex penditure in many instances than would have been true ordinarily. The amount of money - actually spent during March in Rowan anc surrounding counties follows: Rowan _17,591 Cabarrus __..._:_ 11,997 Davidson _ 19,382 Davie _ 5,45 3 Iredell ___ 13,817 Stanly _ 6,288 LEGEND FORECASTS PROSPERITY Tahoe City, Calif.—An ancient Indian legend forecasts prosperity this summer' Indians of this dis trict report. The legend is that when a cross of snow can be seen on Mount Tallac in early spring, - ’lae summer to follow’ is certain to bring prosperity. A large cross snow is visible on the mountain. j Klondike on Air 1 “Klondike” lead dog on the U. S. Mail sled team between Nome and Point Barrows, Alaska, stepped into the role of radio crooner while in Chicago. “Klondike” has served Col. Lindbergh, Admiral Byrd and Father Hubbard on famous Alaska trf»kp9_ OFFERS HOOVER FUNDS Casper, Wyo.—Martha Rouse, 10-year-old, felt sorry for Her | bert Hoover when she read how j the bank holiday had caught him in New York City with a scarcity of cash. She promptly penned the former President a note explaining she had a small savings bank and if it would help, she would like to send him the contents. POLICEMEN ARE ROBBED Seattle, Wash.—Seattle police men are losing revolvers, cars, bad ges and even handcuffs. For ex ample: Patrolman H. A. Horton reported his revolver was either lost or stolen on a street car. Pat | rolman Frank E. Hugo reported the theft of his badge handcuffs Land revolver from his home. -1 □guCITY and COUNTY.,5**. ^IVEWS BRIEFS^ S KILLED IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH Five school children have diec as a result of the crash of twc school buses in the Pot Neck sec tion of Franklin Township - ir Rowan County, April 21. The accident occured on a nar now curve near Woodleaf higl school, Friday morning, when ar empty bus, returning from th( school, suddenly struck the side oi one containing 48 children en rout< to school, ripped a six-foot hole ir the loaded bus, instantly killed twc students, and seriously injured fiv< others, three of whom died afte) reaching the hospital. Frances Louise Broadway, 11 was instantly killed, and her sister: Mary Jane, 8, and Amanda, 7, diec shortly after the accident. Willian Curtis Hartley, 12, was also in stantly killed. Grady Weant, 12 died Saturday afternoon. At a Rowan County coroner’: inquest, which ended Saturday af ternoon, the jury returned a ver dict that the accident between twc buses near Woodleaf, Friday morn ing, which claimed five lives, wa: not caused by any criminal liability on the parts of the two drivers Fred Shoaf, 18, and Guy Etheridge 20. The jury was composed of :• Ros' M. Sigmon, Renton Lud*wick, R. C Mills, E. B. Arey, J. B. Lingle anc C. E. Kizziah, and was presidec over by Coroner Dr. Walter L Tatum. Funeral services for the Broad way sisters were held Saturday af ternoon, at 4 o’clock, at Calvary Baptist church with Rev. Percy Bloxam, pastor, officiating, Rev Reid, of Mocksville, assisting. Services for Grady Weant anc Curtis Hartley, school chums, were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock it the Mt. Tabor Methodist church, with Rev. Cox officiating. ASK FOR SAFE SCHOOL j BUSES - • ’ Following the recent tragic school bus accident, which cost the lives' of five Rowan county children, : committees of parents and1 interest ed citizens of the Ellis, Fisher and ■ Woodleaf school districts, have pre pared a petition for state legislative 1 action, which will be personally, : presented to the three Rowan legis lators to whom it is addressed, j The petitioners ask the legislators 1 guarantee that rural bus transpor : tation will be made safe for those children going to the consolidated ^school?, by employing experienced j drivers, and using well built buses ,! that can safely carry the number of j children who must go to school by| i bus, and seeing that the buses are in I good order ^specially the brakes. | This petition will be presented to ! the legislators early next week, and i it is. hoped that these petitioners re ceive the consideration asked for. TWO DROWNED IN YADKIN Melvin Grass, 27, and Bill Litak cr, 21, of Kannapolis, members of a fishing party of six, at High Rock lake, were drowned Sunday morn ing about 11:45 when their row boat struck some shoals and over turned about a mile above the Stokes Ferry bridge. Clyde Grass, brother of Melvin Grass stated that as the boat starred over some shoals, the front end of the boat became half filled with water, and very quickly they hit an other shoal and the boat went dov. n. Melvin Grass is survived by his wife, Dora King, before marriage, of Kannapolis, and one son, Excel, 4. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Grass; six brothers, Clyde, Avery, Raymond, E. P., Roland, and Her man; and four sisters Margaret, Evelyn, Margie and Mrs. Jess Car ter. I Those surviving Bill Litaker, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Litaker; three brothers, Raymond, Frank, and Archie; and one sister, Pauline. —Buy I n Salisbury— fighting rooster and OWNER JAILED Tyler, Texas.—A fighting roost er was arrested and jailed here. Its master pleaded that the fowl be imprisoned with him! Sheriff Earl Price consented to find some charge to file against the rooster. RESUME TREASURE HUNT Norfolk, Va.—The Travelers Theresa and Dan and Norge of the John Hall-Klass Evarts treasurer hunting expedition departed to re sume their search for the sunken steamer Merida and its hoard of $5,000,000 in gold, silver and jewels. “Clean Up, Paint Up” Program Begins May 1. A "Clean Up and Paint.- UP”r campaign will start here next week, May 1-6 inclusive, and city officials, chamber of commerce and Boy Scouts are making extensive plans for a complete renovation of the city. A proclamation was issued by Mayor B. V. Hedrick, Wednesday, urging all citizens to help in-the program to "safeguard health, prevent fire, stimulate civic pride, promote thrift, and make our^ homes and city beautiful.’’ A Senior Boy Scout has been put in charge of each of the 18 districts into which the city has been divided with as many junior! scouts as may be needed to assist him. It shall be the duty of each scout to present a letter of intro duction at each home and also a letter of instructions on ways to cooperate with the scouts in their work. The* scouts will take note of garbage cans, condition of the premises and amount of repair work and painting to be done, and will report to the city officials or others working in the campaign. J. H. Hess, sanitary officer, will be notified by the scouts where trash is located, and when premis es will be cleared. City trucks! will visit each district on days de- - signated for the removal of trash. It is expected that the campaign i vill greatly aid in beautifying the city, as well as make it less free from vre hazards, and unhealth ful conditions. The proclamation reads as fol ows: Proclamation Know all men, women and child - -en by these presents: That, whereas the Salisbury Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign will -esult in many advantages to com nunity life throughout the city, In safeguarding health; In promoting thrift; In furthering fire prevention; In stimulating civic pride; and In making the home and city peautiful; 'Now', therefore, be it known chat plans have been perfected for i thorough clean up and paint up campaign in Salisbury beginning May 1. This date to mark open ing of a real campaign of persist ent and constructive effort in cleaning up and keeping it up. Ir this worthy movement of cleaning painting, planting, repairing and general rehabilitation and beauti fication we urge each citizen to dc his or her best part to make out community CLEAN, HEALTHY THRIFTY, SAFE AND BEAU TIFUL. (Signed) B. V. Hedrick, Mayor >f the City of Salisbury, N. C. | Court Orders Operation"] 1 Here is 2-year old Helen Vasko of New York who has been the storm j center between parents and the court which ordered an operation to remove j the child’s right eye and part of the ‘ optic nerve effected by cancer. Both mother and father refused to have the child subjected to an operation, j The court appealed the case. LiL/urLii i/i!t. run. u. o. RUBBER BOAT Libson.—An Austrian, Rudolph Zwerenz, and his wife, Josephine, sailed for New York in a rubber boat 24 feet long and six feet wide. They planned to go by way of the Canary island's, the Antilles and Florida. FIGHT SMUGGLING RING Ffavana.—The American consu late general here, aided by the U. S. coast guard, is dealing hard blows at an international alien smuggling ring specializing in sending fore igners into America. -Narcotics land the liquor traffic also are com ing in for a share of attention. BURNS FATAL TO BABY SCALDED BY MOTHER Boston.—Scalded when his mother accidentally spilled boiling water on him as he played on the kitchen floo- Robert Day, 11 months old son of Mr si Wilma Day, died in St. Elizabeth’s Hospi tal. THREE R’S RETAIN SCHOOL POPULARITY California, Pa.—The three "R’s” still are popular.* A poll of 1,400 teachers attending demonstration j courses at California State Teach ers’ College here showed! most of j them were interested in “reading, l ’riting and ’rithmetic.” -< Professor Piccard Plans New Flight Into Stratosphere From Soldier Field at A Century of Progress Exposition Chicago, April 00.—Last summer Professor Auguste Piccard captured the world’s imagination by soaring 53,856 feet above the earth into the stratosphere — in a hermetically sealed aluminum sphere. He reached the greatest height ever attained by any living being and brought back a startling description of the strange world that lies beyond our atmos phere. Because the ascent was made from the Dubendorf aerodrome near Zurich, Switzerland, only a few thousand people witnessed this his toric event. This summer, however, when the daring Swiss scientist-adventurer makes his next expedition into the stratosphere, he will probably start from Soldier Field on the grounds of A Century of Progress—Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair—in the presence of hundreds of thousands of spec tators. <>« Discusses His Plans Plans to make the World’s Fair, Which opens on June 1, the starting point for his next scientific excursion were disclosed by Professor Piccard when he visited A Century of Prog ress recently with his brother, Jean, as guest of Prof. Henry Crew, chief of the Exposition’s pure science divi sion. Conferences are now being held with American rubber and metal manufacturers. ■ The grounds of A Century of i Progreso ve a peculiarly fitting place for i..ofessor Piccard to start be cause the Exposition itself is a huge demonstration of man’s progress dur ing the last century in scientific achievement—progress that Profes sor Piccard’s new flight is admirably designed to dramatize. ' In addition to this Chicago is the home of Professor Arthur Compton, winner of the Nobel prize for his dis covery of the mysterious cosmic rays, which continuously bombard t • earth from outer space and which may provide man with a new source of energy after his present fuel resources ate exhausted. It is the observation of these mysterious rays that is the object of Professor Piccard’s flights into the strato sphere. The tremendous,' startling possi bilities involved in a successful solu tion of sources of energy that can be transformed into heat and power may be grasped mentally, by Professor Piccard’s illustration: “Calculations show that energy liberated from the modification of atoms contained in six drops of water would suffice to light up a city for several hours.” Answers Queries In making tentative plans for the flight, Professor Piccard replied to queries of those curious to know just what the upper region, 10 miles or so above Chicago, looks like. “The sky is beautiful, ten miles up—a bluish purple—almost black— but not quite dark enough to see the stars.” The practical side of Professor Piccard’s expeditions into the strat osphere has already been demon strated, he points out. Stratoplanes At the left, Professor Pic card’s balloon is shown just as it will appear when it rises f rom Soldier Field at A Century of Progress. The balloon was ac tually photographed as it left the Dubendorf Aerodrome near Zurich last summer. Above, Professor Piccard (the third fig ure from the left) is discussing the proposed flight with his brother Jean (left), Prof. Ar thur Compton and Prof. Henry Crevj (right). They are stand ing in the balcony overlooking the great hall of the Hall of Science, where Prof. Piccard’s stratosphere gondola is to be ex hibited this summer. are already being constructed in va rious countries on principles devel oped in the aluminum sphere used on his last voyage. A flight between New York and Paris will undoubt edly be made in from six to eight hours by use of this new plane, he predicts. The aluminum gondola in which Professor Piccard soared above the earth at Zurich, August 18, 1932, will be seen by visitors to the Exposition in the Hall of Science. It is a globe about six feet in diameter, hermet ically sealed, equipped with observa tion windows, parachutes and breath ing apparatus. I Firestone Has Not Cut Quality to Meet Today’s “War” Prices BUY NOW! s. \ PRICES MUST GO UP. Don’t take chances this vacation. Tire prices are too cheap to make the last possible mile of your tires worth while. Compare Construction, Quality and Price and you will realize I that Firestones cost the LEAST in the long run. There has been no reduction in the quality of FIRESTONE TIRES. Take advantage of the low prices and buy tires that are built up to quality and not down to a price. We will allow you a liberal allowance on your old tires when you buy new FIRESTONES ! . * TIRE I I REPAIRING i VULCANIZING I ROAD SERVICE r JUST CALL 299 I I Salisbury Ignition & Battery',Co. 122 West Fisher St. Phone * \
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