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PAGE TWO Fayetteville To Observe Historic Event Shortly By BEN DIXON MacNEILL Fayetteville, Nov. I.—Leaden sil ence gripped assembled legislating' ol North Carolina in me oegmnmg ot its first session in November. ÜB9, and for a long moment rugged John Sevier faced austere, aristocratic Samuel Johnston in grim silence. Without wavering in his challeng ing gaze, John Sevier unfolded a smudged piece of paper and laid it before the governor. “Your Excellency . John Sex iei said evenlv, “these are my creden tials as an elected member of this assembly and of the Constitutional Convention.” For a longer moment tiie txx 7 o men, the outlawed hero of Kings Moun tain and the governor of North Caro lina who had ordered a pi ice set upon his head, continued to look steadfastly at each other. Members and attendants stirred uneasily in their places. Governor Johnston said nothing at all. It is remembered in the legends of the Cape Fear that a thin smile played fleetingly about the governor’s austere lips. John Sevier spoke again. “I await your pleasure, Your Excellency. I come here representing my people beyond the mountains, to demand for them justice at your hands. For myself I ask nothing. For my devo tion to the cause of my people be yond the mountains. I have been de clared a traitor to North Carolina. Your agents have hunted me for two years. lam here. I axx 7 ait your pleas ure.” Before he was through with this simple speaking, a tumult broke in the crowded upper room of the one building then in North Carolina ade— quate for the State's Capitol. Three minutes before, when the grim stal wart mountain man strode arrogant ‘ ly into the assembly, John Sevier was the chief villian of his time. In a ■ moment the hero of Kings Mountain had again become a public hero. Acclaiming tumult swirled around him, but John Sevier stood immobile waiting. Not before nor since had a Legis lature in North Carolina witnessed an episode so starkly dramatic. Some thing. of course, had to be done about it. Two somethings had to be done — something about John Sevier and something at the same time that would save the faces of makers of , the law that had branded him a s traitor, had set a price on his head, ’ and had specifically omitted him from the general amnesty extended • the inhabitants of the trans-moun ’ tain country after the abortive es tablishment of the State of Franklin. Before evening something was done, a hastily contrived statute, adroitly obsecure enough to sax 7 e the faces of the framers of the la\\ r , but inclusive enough to make it possi Eyestrain is deceiving. By the time your eyes do com piam, the damage has bfjen done. But you can guard against it with modern, inexpensive LICH i CONDITIONING. 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This month, when Fayetteville centers the celebration of the 150th anniversary of that meeting of the I Constitutional Convention, the scene of John Sevier’s dramatic challenge j will be faithfully reenacted on the spot where it happened in November. 1789. in that scene of a spectacular outdoor pageant depicting North Carolina’s final ratification of the Federal Constitution, the chartering of the University of North Carolina, land the cession of the territory of Tennessee to the Federal Govern ment to be erected into a sovereign ! State. Governor Prentice Cooper oi Ten nessee, has accepted the invitation jof the Governor of North Carolina to xx’itne.::’ I.' ceremonial oi the sesqui-centennial, and the flag of the State of Tennessee wi 11 have an honored place in the procession of the Thirteen states in a monster pa rade that will precede the celebra tion. Tennessee was the first state erected under the Federal constitu tion, and the only state ceded by North Carolina. Meeting in that momentous ses sion in Fayetteville in 1789 the Gen eral Assembly of North Carolina en acted these three momentous stat utes, but for a generation afterward to the inhabitants of the Cape Fear valley, the challenge of John Sevier was the dramatic high light of the session, and it is still recorded among the legends of the x’allev as an au thentic happening. Actual documen tary proof of it is meagre, since the law makers were under necessity for saxung their faces, and the record is silent beyond the fact that Sex’ier was seated as a delegate. But for this dramatic interlude, the legislature, it is very likely, would have deferred again any final action on the claims of the counties west of the Great Smky Mountains for statehood. The State was reluc tant to part with that territory, as reluctant as it was to subscribe to the Federal Constitution. After Se xher’s dramatic appeal there was no \ r oice raised against the cession of the territory and when his measure x\ r as presented, it was approved with out dissent anyxxJiere. It was an unsettled time, of course, in the years between the ending of , the Revolution and the establish -1 ment of a stable government, and , thousands of men and women had migrated beyond the mountains, HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939 swelling the population of the wild erness there until it began to think of itself as a state. Sevier, after the Revolution, had settled permanently in Tennessee, fighting Cherokee Indians, and final ly, lighting North Carolina after the Watauga Rebellion. North Carolina agreed in Halifax to allow Tennes see to go its own way and become a state but the enactment was hastily repealed in the following session in Hillsboro. Disorders arose again in the mountains, and finally John Se vier, in a contemptuous letter writ ten by Governor Samuel Johnston in July, 1788, was denounced as an out law and a traitor, and ordered ar rested and imprisoned. Later new elections were held for a Convention to be held in Fayette ville. John Sevier, despite the leg -1 islative enactment that specifically exempted him alone from amnesty, ran for place as delegate and was elected without a dissenting \ T ote. All that remained for him was to get his credentials appro\ r ed before he was stood up against a wall and shot, or was hanged from some gibbet. Tie came to Fayettex’ille, almost alone—and left it again a public hero, and with statehood for his people. - WALLER TO COACH BOXING AT STATE Raleigh, Nov. I.—Appointment of ! Edmund (Nig) Waller as supervisory coach of varsity and freshman box ! U...J at Norm Carolina was confirm ! ecf todav bv lb" Athletic executi\ T e committee, according to an announcement oy j. r. ...Tlti, hefid of the department of Athletics and Physical Education. Coach Waller will have Russell Sorrell. 1938 captain of the Pack varsity boxers, and another former college boxer yet to be named as his active aides, it was said. Both the xmrsity and Frosh squads will begin training on Monday, No T vember 6, for their intercollegiate campaigns. McCuistion Mother Has Testimony (Continued From Page One) the gox'ernment in a few years. At the start of the day’s session, she took the stand, from which Mc- Cuistion had testified for two days about alleged communist activities among seamen. At the conclusion of his appearance yesterday, he was taken into custody by Washington police at the request of New Or leans authorities. fn the latter city, meanwhile, Chief of Detectix’es John J. Gorsch filed an affidavit in criminal court charging McCuistion, former com munist, with murder in connection with the slaying there in Septem ber of another N. M. U., officer, Tulip Carey. Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas, of the House investigating group, it ready has announced his intention of going to New Orleans to find out whether police there actually want McCuistion. He said he would not permit committee witnesses to be ‘brow-beaten ’ or “intimidated”. Gas Haulers Aroused By Fatal Wrecks Daily Dispatoli Bureau. In the St Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. I.—Transporters of petroleum products in tank trucks have at last waked up to the serious ness of the problem they lace as the result of a serious of spectacular accidents which hax 7 e brought nam ing death and destruction in their wake. Fi\ 7 e such fatal accidents within 1 a short span of weeks, the last of ' x\ ? hieh left two charred bodies on a roadside near Asheboro and nearly burned to death a preacher and his 1 family sleeping in a nearby dwell ing, brought this abrupt awakening | and there is little doubt that some j thing is going to be done and done immediately. Yesterday leaders of the trucking industry, representatwes of the oil interests and the State Highway Safety Division conferred with Com missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell for three hours of plain speaking of minds. As a result, another eonler ence has been set for Friday at which it is expected that definite, concrete ideas will be advanced. Yesterday’s meeting was fully co operative, although spirited, and marked by mincing of no words. The gasoline haulers were plainly warn ed that there is serious danger of their being barred completely from North Carolina’s highways unless something is done to mollify a pub lic opinion which is now almost un animous in demanding action of one sort or another. The truckers contend, of course, i that in proportion to the number of gasoline tanks on the roads and the mileage they travel there are not an excessi\ 7 e number of accidents, but they were informed that this does not change the fact that these -acci dents are so spectacular and cause so much damage to innocent parties that # a real crisis has been reached. There were suggestions that the speed limit of all gasoline carriers be limited to as low as 30 miles an hour—Commissioner Maxwell ap peared to be on the of issuing an order just that drastic—but in the end it xvas agreed that a pro gram of “self-regulation” should be gix r en a chance, although the com missioner emphatically pointed out that it is the duty of the State to see that there is real enforcement, and promised that the department xvill not be lax in doing its duty. Ronald Hocutt,. safety director, pointed out that the organized truck interests have been cooperative in all safety programs and expressed the opinion that something really progressive can be accomplished through joint action of the safety division and the transporters. The point was stressed by the truckers that much of the trouble is caused by gasoline transporters xvho own only a tanker or two and xvho do not select their drivers as carefully nor adopt as rigid safety standards as do the larger concerns. There is little doubt that the at mosphere xvas cleared preliminary to the study and adoption of rules and regulations, drastic and far reaching in nature, and as ironclad as possible. then, it is admitted, there are bound to be accidents to gasoline car rying vehicles, just as there are ac cidents to all forms of transportation on roads, or rails, in the air or on the sea. Scheduled to meet for Friday’s conference xvith Maxwell and Hocutt are C. S. Schaub, of Apex, president of the N. C. Truck Owners Associa tion; Nathan Strause, Henderson; T. R. Reid, Greensboro; J. Y. Ray, Roa noke Rapids; and J. H. Vickers, Char lotte. Rationing In Britain Will Start Soon (Continued From Page One) over personal liberty appeared to be gaining force today, despite an of ficial statement that Nazi propa gandists were at work in England. Informed circles forecast a relaxa-, lion of the “defense of the realm” regulations after nearly four hours of debate in Parliament caused me government io gi\'e ground. Flint Moves Down Rugged Norway Coast (Continued From Page One) the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk to a haven in Germany. It was assumed in shipping cir cles that the freighter would con tinue clinging to Norwegian waters, and then move into Sxvedish territor ial waters until sue reaches the Baltic, xvhere the German fleet con trols the sea lanes. SUSPECT IS ARRESTED IN HARNETT SLAYING Dunn, Nov. 1. —Janies Wright, 25 Negro, xvas arrested by Sampson and Harnett county officers near Dunn yesterday for alleged participation in the robbery-slaying of William Daniels, near Turkey, Sunday. W r right was chased by Chief of Police G. A. Jackson and Policeman D. W. Smith to the Sampson county line and arrested just across in Min go township, by Sheriff C. C. Tart and other Sampson county officers who met him there. Another Negro, also suspected in the murder, was successful in escap ing. Wright broke loose once, but was quickly caught. He refused to discuss the killing. The Negroes allegedly robbed the 60-year-old farmer, whose bludg eoned body was found Sunday. They were suspected after they shoxved up at their home here with a large amount of money. The one who escaped had over SIOO, officers said. Several citizens joined officers in the chase and were still looking for the other Negro tonight Colored Fair Is Declared Big Success ; Robert Hawkins, president and) manager of the Vance County Color ed Fair, and directors of the lair, said today they “xvish again this year to do xvhat is becoming their regular but uncommon duty toward the friends and patrons of the fair for the year 1939—thank them.” In a statement summing up the operations last xveek, Hawkins continued: “They must repeat themselves, but with increased devotion, that the op eration of the fair is purely a com munity-supported business. To see it hold up and expand itself, within as xvell as without, is commenda tion xv hi eh all must share. The ex hibits were better and the attend ance larger. It can be said that on Wednesday around 15,000 people xvere on the grounds. “In gatherings like this it is to be | expected that friction of one kind or another xvill break out, but not this year. Good order means good peo ple. “The directors arc highly pleased I that the parade-spectators saw one this year that made them feel proud. “They are very grate!ul lor the assistance given through Mayor Poxveli from the police department. Any and all improvements only in dicate that the directors take serious ly and to heart the responsibilities which such an occasion imposes up on them. They trust that they have | carried out the fair in so satisfactory way as to merit the confidence of ail again. “Looking forward for a larger and better one in the year of 1940. ’ RELIGION TEACHERS TO MEET NOV 3-4 Durham, Nov. 1. —The annual meeting of the North Carolina Col lege Teachers of Religion group will be neld at Wake Forest college on Novemoer 3-4, according to Dr. Mason Crum, of Duke university, president. Opening at 3 p. m. on Friday, the first session xvill be dex 7 oted to an address oy Or. Kenneth J. Fore man, of Davidson college; the presi dential address by Dr. Crum, dis cussion led by Dr. F. Grover Mor gan, of Lenoir Rhyne college, and devotions under die direction of W. R. Cuilom, of Wake Forest. In the excelling the group will be the dinner guests of Wake Forest college and President D. Kitchin will gix-e an address of welcome. Af terwards a program xvill be carried out with Dr. J. M. Gettys, of Queens-Chicora college; Dr. 1,. E. M. Freeman, of Meredith; Dr. David E. Faust, of Cataxvba college; and Dr. Raymond A. Smith, of Greens boro college, participating. On Saturday morning those tak ing part in the program will mciude Dr. W, N. Hicks, of N. C. State col iege; Dr. A. C. Howell, of ihe Uni versity of North Carolina; Or. D. J. Boxvden, of Elon college; Dr. Lucy Steele, of Peace college; and Dr. Crum. BURLEY GROWERS TO VOTE NOVEMBER 21 College Station, Raleigh, Nov. 1. —- A short, but thorough educational campaign to fully acquaint hurley tobacco growers with the provisions of the marketing quota plan for 1940 will be conducted in Western North Carolina between noxv and the date of the referendum, set for No\ r ember 21, it was announced here today by E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer of State College. The educational program will be inaugurated with a meeting of county AAA committee men. farm agents, and other agri Are You Waiting For Your Ship ipjggHl To Come In? Some j oiks wait forever for that gicat day. Others enjoy a shipment of happi- j /10 i ness contentment daily. How do /if jJF 3 they arran S e it? You could tell them 4 •I- 111 If ||\ easily... how you’ve never lost the spirit livel y interest in the 1? j\ good things that surround you... how i you have learned to take time each day x , to re i ax an< T enjoy the real treasures of friends, hobbies and hos incidents, Budweiser becomes important ■ —— ‘keep your friendships in repair.’ ANHEUSER-BUSCH TTfc A Makers of the World’s PR Most Famous Beer UULW 6” 8 MAKETHISTEST \ DRINK Budweiser for five days ] MUrv'fX '° N ™ E SIXTH DAY TRY TO DRINK A SWEET j \jj jsfcaifefjrSilSl: you win want Budweiser’s ■ \f " FLAVOR THEREAFTER. S-6J C om, ,#39. ANHEUSER-BUSCH. I*6. ST. LOUIS. MO, • cultural leaders from the principal 1 Burley-producing areas to be heid at | the courthouse in Asheville on Mon-j day morning, November 6, at 10 o’clock. Floyd said that committeemen,' I m.,ch.gdi S ir,q ....t, Tod,, t : making jak. 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