WHIRL AT THE WORLD OF NEWS
Items of interest gleaned during the past week
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Real Efstate Active
Chicagc—Seventy per cent of the
cities in the United States have re
pelled that real estate is more active
than a year ago.
Retail Business Up
Retail business in the United States
is running at a level seven per cent
above this time last year, according
to buyers for retail stores over the
nation.
Trustee’s Sale Of Real Estate
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the
power and authority contained in
that certain deed of trust executed
and delivered by F. Y. McCracken
and Bertha Lee McCracken, dated
the 11th day of June, 1927, and
recorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Transylvania County,
N. C., in Book 16, at page 619, and
in the office of the Register of Deed?
for Henderson County, N. C., in Book
124 Folio 12. and because of default
in the payment cf the indebtedness
thereby secured and failure to carry
out and perform the stipulations and
agreements therein contained and,
puisuant to demand of the owner
and holder of the idebtedness secured
by said deed of trust, the undersigned
trustee will expose for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
at the usual place of sale in the
county court house of Tranrylvania
County, in the City of Brevard, N. C.,
at 12 o'clock, noon, cn Monday, the
10th day of September, 1934, ah
that certain lot or parcel ;t lana,
situate, lying and bting in Boyd
Township. Transylvania County and
i.i Mills River Township, Henderson
Countv, State of North Carolina
and more particularly described as,
fellows: ;
BEGINNING at a post ork on me
p.dnt of a ridge in the Bryson line,
ar.d running thence North 67 West
76 poles to Morgan’s stone corner;
thence X rth 17 East 25 poles to a
stake; thence North 44 Kast 22 poles
to a stake; thence North 190 poles to
stake. Morgan's coiner; thence
West 10 or 12 poles to a point oppo
site the post oak corner, Garren s
Cctner; thence North about 16 poles
to said p st oak corner; thence South
87 East 60 poles to a locust. Gar
ren's corner; thence South 6 West 16
poles to a white oak; thence East 46
poles te> a Spanish oak in a hollow,
with pointers; thence South, crossing
Bryson’s Creek, 235 poles to a stone
in ‘Henderson and Transylvania Co
unty line, Baldwin’s and Gash’s cor
ner; thence South 52 West, 20 poles
to a sassafras; thence South 77 West,
26 poles to a hickory; thence South
66 West 8 poles to the BEGINNING,
containing 160 acres more or less.
This being the same tract f land con
veyed to Julia E. Woodfin by N. J.
Morrell and husband, S. N. Mtrrell
by ’deed dated April 5, 1917 _and
recorded in Book of Deeds No. 37 at
page 283, in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Transylvania County,
t which died and record reference is
hereby made as a part of this descrip
tion, also being the same tract of land
conveyed by F. J. Woodfin and wife
to Lou M. McLean by deed dated the
22nd day* of February, 1918 and
recorded* in the office of the Register
i f Deeds for Henderson County in
Book of Deeds N'o. 97, page 41-4
and registered in the office of the
Register of Do ds for Transylvania
County in Book No. 37, page 550.
This deed being the same deed from
J. P. McLean and wife Lou McLean
to C. H. Lanning in Transylvania
Countv in Bo k No. 42. page 31,
Records of Deeds, and being the same
land conveyed to F. Y. MeCraken
and wife Bertha Lee McCracken by
C. H. Lanning unmarried, by deed
dated January 2, 1920 and recorded
in the office of Register of Deeds for
Henderson County, N. C., in Book
105, Page 91.
This sale will be heiu open ten nays
for upset bid as by law required.
This 6th day of August, 1934.
0. B. HENDERSON, Trustee.
Aug. 16-23-30-Sept. 6.
Whitlock, Dockery & Shaw,
Attorneys,
Charlotte, N. C.
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I Woman Executed
Ossining, N. Y.—Mrs. Anna Anto
nio, mother of three small children,
was executed Thursday night for the
murder of her husband. She was the
first woman to be legally killed in
Sing Sing since Ruth Snyder was led
to fhe chair in 1927.
Seek Better Mail Service
Cullowhee—Efforts are being made
to obtain better mail service for the
tourist town of Highlands and for
the communities located along the
12 miles of State Highway No. 28
between Highlands and Cashiers.
Qumtaplets Near Disaster
Callander, Ont.—A biaze from an
! akvhol lamp that might have brought
isaster to the Dionne quintuplets
Thursday painfully burred Mme. Lou
ise de Kirline, nurse for the 72-day
old babies.
Twenty-four hours previously the
antics of a night prowler had brought
additional worries to the occupants
of the little farm heme.
Kansas Fugitive Taken
Oklahoma City— Frank Delmar,;
who with Jim Clark and the late!
"Bier Bob” Brady, escaped from the j
Kansas penitentiary at Lansing last t
January, was arrested by two federal i
officers on the highway near Clare-!
more Friday.
Expect Better Health
Washington—A public health ser
vice physician Friday predicted that;
better health—and consequently In- :
creased efficiency—from CWA and i
federal relief malaria control work
would pay the south’s depression ■
costs within ten years.
Appeal To Roosevelt
Minneapolis—An appeal to Presi- ■
dent Roosevelt to take immediate
steps to end the 23-day-old strike of j
truck drivers was made Friday by!
a group of citizens at Minneapolis, j
They charged that they were being I
deprived of their rights by military <
control.
State Men Appointed
Washington — Two high appoint
ments in the textile industry went to,
North Carolinians today when Recov-1
ery Administrator Johnson named i
Arthur M. Dixo of Gastonia, textile
manufacturer, and C. M. Fcx of Shel
by to fill vacancies on the cotton
textile national industrial relations
board.
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Alan e inn in Workers Stiihc
Pittsburgh—Production! was par
alyzed in the larger plants of
aluminum industry Friday by a strike
of approximately 13,000 union work
ers who quit work with the sanction
of the American Federation of Labor.
Much Darn Salvaged
Washington—A surprising and en
couraging amount of data is being sal
vaged from the stratosphere expedi
tion whose balloon and instrument
filled gondola crashed.
Go-Ahead Signal Given
Washington — President Roesevci’
gaw the go-ahead signal Saturday
t'i, pi- grains of two of the gover
inert’s newest agencies- the housing
viid stock exchange control commis
sions.
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Dives Deep Into Ocean
Hamilton, Bermuda—Dr. William
Beebe, marine explorer, descended
2,510 feet into the ocean depths Sat
urday. father than any man ever
had gone.
I The dive was made in a steel ball,
called a bathysphere.
Prison Break Foiled
Baton Rouge, La.—A desperate
break by Louisiana penitentiary con
victs who tried John Dillinger s
wooden gun trick collapsed Saturday
when Angola prison guards met the
bluff with a withering blast of gun
fire that left two prisoners dead and
six wounded. One of the wounded
died Sunday.
Three ethers who were “in” on the
LABOR DAY
Monday, September 3
Spend the Week End and Labor Day in the Country—
the Mountain*—at the Seashore, or visiting Friends and Kels
tives Back Hom9.
Our Very Low Fares make a Short Vacation extremely
economical. f
Tickets On Sale Dally
One Way and Round Trip -t *
Coach Tickets.€«ntS Trsvel#d
♦Round Trip Tickets . A .0Hi.
Return Limit 15 Days .* C«MtS T""l#d
♦Round Trip Tickets ©1
Return Limit 6 Months.*5 CCHt? Tr.v.I.d
♦One Way Tickets.3 CdltS Par Mila
• Good in Sleeping and Parlor Car* on payment of proper chargei
for space occupied. No Surcharge.
Compartment. Drawing Room and Open Section Sleeping Can
Modern Coaches—Convenient Schedules
Be Comfortable in the Safety of Train Travel
For full information consult
R. H. DeBUTTS,
Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Asheville, N. C.
.Southern Railway
System
attempted escape immediately sur
rendered as the guards quelled the
near riot. Two convicts refused to
join in the riot, holding up their hands
as soon as the break started and then
quietly sat down.
Predict Ocean Air Mail
Washington— Dreads of regular
trans-oceanic air mail and passenger
service moved toward reality Satur
day wlIffi“TKe~posl oiflce department
announced it hoped to establish routes
to Europe, Hawaii and Alaska within
the next three years.
This Year Hottest, Driest
Washington—The year 1934—the
hottest and dryest on record, thus far.
The weather bureau says so and it
has been keeping tab on rain and heat
for 70 years.
Guns Stolen From Guard
Washington—The underworld has
stolen 1,027 guns—ten of them deadly
machine guns—and 23,110 rounds of
ammunition from national guard
armories in 29 states since January
1, 1932.
Death Stalking Through China
Shanghai—The Horseman that is
Death is riding throughout China,
gathering in the harvest of thirst
and starvation in the wake of a sear
ing drouth.
From the province of Anhwei came
an appeal to the national government
for help. Five hundred thousand face
starvation there, the message said.
The drouth is described as one of
the worst in centuries, one of the
worst ip a nation where vast treeless
lanus encourage drouth.
President Back At Work
Washington—Bronzed and bouyant,
President Roosevelt Friday returned
to the White House after a 1 ".000
mile trip to begin immediately a
study of the problems that have ac
cumulated during his absence.
Gone 41 days, the president's vaca
tion tour carried him to American
possessions in the Atlantic and ihe
Pacific and across the North Ameri
can continent.
Crop Report Comes In She.it
Washington—Half a million ;ed
eval or. p reporters wrote the gloomy
story of drouth toll Friday in terms
of bushels, tons and pounds.
A crop report, graphically dins
trating the three months’ pillage of
the nation’s worst drouth, estimated
tc have stolen five billion dollars from
American farmers, was released at 3
p. m. ,
The report showed:
The smallest corn erqp since 1901.
The smallest wheat crop since
1893.
The smallest oats crop on record.
Tobacco Sett Record Price
Record-breaking prices for tobacco
-“-in some places t.he highest in his
tory—are spreading a blanket of
comfort and well-being through the
Carolinas.
Mountain Crops Good
Though drouth is threatening feed
crops in many sections of the south
and partciularly the eenteral south
ern states, Western North Carolina
crops are thriving under a normal
rainfall and abundant crops aTe an
ticipated.
Indians Stage Rain Dance
Geary, Okla.—Eight hundred or!
more bronzed Indians became ieap-1
ing, painted figures in supplication to I
the rain gods Friday. _ „
The dance is so old that it is legen
dary and if correctly danced is sup
posed to bring rain.
London Puzzled By Silver
London—Nationalization of silver
in the United States Friday found
London financial circles frankly puz
zled and there was speculation as lo
whether the move had any connection
with recent heavy purchases ol the
metal here.
Trttetf Heads Baptists
Berlin—T h a Rev. George W.
Truett of Texas Thursday was electee,
president of the Baptist world con-j
gress, over the session of which he j
had presided in the absence of the j
president.
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Naval Balloon To Try Stratosphere;
Chicago—A gas bag with a radio j
brain and without a human crew is.
ready for a solo jaunt into the j
stratosphere the scientist’s question:
What and where is the cosmic ray?
Haiti In Midwest
Chicago—Rain over eight midwest-j
ern states which sharply lowered j
temperatures, brought surcease Sun-1
day from a heat wave ar.d drouth i
which have killed hundreds of per
acne and cost more than 1,000,000,000
in damaged crop*.
Substantial rains fell in Ohio, In
diana, southern Michigan, Illinois,
southern Wisconsin, southern Iowa,
northern Miesouri, eats tarn Kansas
and central Nebraska.
Deputy Sheriff Nabs Chief
Daytona Beach, Fla.—Chief of
Police Ilaney was free today on $600
bond.
[ Haney arrested Deputy Sheriff
William Slaughter for reckless driv
ing and speeding despite his assertion
that he was trailing a car. Haney
contended there was no car to be
trailed. Later the sheriffs ofjfice ar
rested Haney on charges cf interfer
ing with an officer in the course of
duty.
Fliers Lund In England
London—James Ayling and Leon
ard Retd, adveturesome Canadian
fliers, completed a trip across the
Atlantic ocean Thursday but storms
they encountered defeated their ef
forts to set a new non-stop airplane
flight record.
Bandits Killed
l Lebo, Kas ,—Soft-nosed bullets of
; Kansas state police Thursday thwsrt
;ed an attempted raid on the State
'Bank of Lebo. Mutilated bodies of
1 throe outlaw suspects on an Emporia
morgue slab bore mute testimony of
police efficiency,
, NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
conferred upon me by that certain
Deed of Trust from Frank B. Torley
dated' Oct. 5, 1931, and recorded in
Book 25, page 361, Records of Ddeds
of Trust for Transylvania County I
will at. 12 o’clock on Monday, Aug.
•27th, 1934, at the court house door in
Brevard, N. C., offer for sale and sell
for cash to the highest bidder, the fol
lowing described properly to-wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or lot
of land described in a deed from T. H.
Hampton to Frank B. Torley dated
October 5, 1931, and recorded in Book
65, page 67, vecords of deeds for
Transylvania county. Sale made to
satisfy said indebtedness.
This July 25, 1934. M
A. E-Hampton, Trustee.
Aug^jLJ), 1 , 23. _
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