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THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL, SYLVA, N. C., JUNE 25, 1931 ? . $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. hoover speaks INPRE-CAMPAIGN TOUR OF STATES Washington, C., ?' une 24.? 1'ivijJmt Hoover's trip West tor the purpose of addressing the Republi can editors of ludiunu and making a ,ji n il at the dedieut on of the lint .Memorial at Springfield, 111., ,, being taken by observers here as pivliiitinary canter to the active w.iik, "l' the presidential campaign, m.Nl u'itr. Denials that he had any: such motive were issued from the While House days before he made | .rip, luit they were taken here routine denials. The fuels are that voters are look-1 jjjir ;ai tlier into the future this yearj than tlu y have ever done, except j ihtIi;||)S i" the days when Bryan was expounding his free silver doctrine) three years before he was nominated i l?"ru:i against MeKinley in 1896. The! same reason for public interest in the | iiatimal election existed then as now, f eneral depress'on, l>oth in this ;.inl o'her countries. Voters looked j t,( i politieal Moses to lead then: out i ?t'their troubles. Bryan's plan ap-: p iil -.l immensely to almost half the) voters and he nearly won the elec tion. There Is no quest Ton but that Re-1 |, ihlii'iiti leaders realize that the at tempts Wing made by the Demo crats ii<?bt now to blame the country's 1 troubles on 'he (i. 0. P. must be /hum red often and early and lltMi-r's short swing into states that j Ino been flirting outrageously with his political enemies can have but one real purpose: iruch as he may) nt'empt to disguise it by speaking on other topics. Fi"::ikht Roosevelt is also lining; up hi* forces, his recent visit to Col. House, which resulted in his gaining the public support of Mayor Curley of Boston and other Buy State poli tiriunx who previously hud shown a; strong liking for Owen D. Young, showing he is intensively at work. Roosevelt is an astute campaigner; ami his relationship to Theodore Roosevelt will gain him many votes from Republicans, his supporters claim. That he is not overlooking that angle was demonstrated by Mayor Curlcy's remark that "it wasi time we had another Roosevelt in the White Hou?e." Older people who have lived through several other panics will not he swave.l by the old "dinner pail" promises, as they have learned that prosperity does not depend upon which party rules but only on the natural laws of supply and demand. By this time next year nearly every body expects the country to be en thusiastically on the ' upgrade and Hie rr.tire political complexion may return to the flat uninteresting cam l)n"'i^ of former years when the "'nin slogan was "don't rock the bont." nVE INJUHED IN AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR TOPTON Rrvsnn City Times, June 19. live persons in a party of seven were more or less seriously injured "ear Topton, Sunday afternoon be tween 2 and o'clock when the ear 'i' which they were riding left the liifrh.vav and plunged down a high ?ndiaiikmeiit. Peeo Sneed, driver of t'ie ear stated that as he was driv '"g in the direction of Bryson City on Highway No. 10 near Topton, another member of the party asked him for some tobacco, that as ha turned to hand it to the other fel '"w, he lost control of the car, and when he again turned his attention tc hi* task of driving, the car was ftvin<; the road. He was unable to ri'-'ht the machine and as a result it rolled down the bank completely de molishing the car. injured were Wnnediately h"'iitrht to the office of Dr. P. R. Bennett here in Bryson City where x-ray pictures were taken in order '^'termine the extent of their in juries. Upon completion of this pro cure it was found that Peco Sneed I'd received a severe injury to his r>bs . several being fractured; Serra ?ych, fractured right elbow, Emiline (joins, fractured collar-bone; Will I'oiries, three months old, fractured left leg; Donnie Driver, painful in juries about the face and head. Ned Driver and Horace Arch were the hvo members of the party who es ,!lped injury. All the occupants of the car were Indian*. TODAY and TOMORROW ' ? (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) . t j ?' Risks ? !he iirbt reaction of everyone who read about the accident to the. sub marine "Nautilus" which disabled it while it was cruising on the surface from America to England, was how fortunate it was that this did not occur while the ship was under tl|e Arctic ice. Perhaps Sir Hubert Wilki us and his crew are not proposing to take any more serious risks than did many of the pioneer aviators."* In the case of flying it was fairly easy for anyone, however, to recognize the value of these early experiments if they should prove successful. It is difficult to see any possible value to humanity, or importance to sci ence, in the effort to reach the North Pole by a submarine b^at. It looks to an impartial observer, as it human life were being risked merel ,? to provide thrills, just as a circus performer provides them. Radiodynamics That is the word coined by John Hays Hammond, Jr., and now ac cepted by the patent office and Congress, to mean the control of energy at a distance by means of radio. . Hammond began to experiment with radiodvnamies when he was ? student in Yale in 1909. He invented a method of controlling a boat on the surface of the water and a tor pedo under the surface by radio! impulses, as well as steering an air plane over a long course without a pilot on board. This is something quite different from transmitting power by radio. Only enough power can be trans-1 mitted to set a piece of machinery i in motion or stop it. The machinery must have its own independent power plant. The day nay come when actual power can be sent through the air, hut that is a long way in the future. \ Sports ) ' Interest in collegiate football is I'eclining, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report?. I There is a verp decided difference between sports participated in by students themselves, for the mainten ance of their health and the upbuild ing of their morale, and sports un dertaken as a means of advertising particular colleges or of making money. ? Nobody is suggesting that all in tercollegiate sporting contests should be abolished, but it is certainly true that public interest in .them is de clining, and it is probable that they will play a less important part in college life in the future than in the past. Rocket* Prof. Robert II. Goddard, of Clark j University, who has been experi menting with and talking -about pro pelling aircraft by means of rock ets, has taken out patents on a rock et-propelled airplane. The plane is expected to rise from the ground like any other plane, its propellers being turned by a turbine engine, for which the gas from a succession of rockets will furnish the power. When ( it gets into the rarified upper at mosphere the engine will be cut off| and the propulsive force will be that of the rockets themselves. Prof. Goddard is no idle visionary. Just what he has got in his desert laboratory in New Mexico he is not telling the world as yet, but if any one in this country is going to suc ceed in flying by means of rockets Prof. Goddard will probably be the first. Pigeons A blue homing pigeon flew 503 1-2 miles from Salisbury, N. C.. to New York City, in 13 hours, 11 minutes and 61 seconds the other day. This was not quite a record for the 500 mile annual pigeon race, but it comes very close to it. A large part of a homing pigeon's time in flying long distances, how ever, is taken up in the bird's quest ing. or circling at high altitudes to find landmarks to guide it back to its home loft. There is no longer any great mystery about how the homing pigeon finds its way back to its home nest. The b'rd has no mysterious sixth sense cr homing in .stinct. It cannot find its way home | at night or in a dense fog. or condi * BOARD SUSPENDS SUPERVISION OF JACKSON SCHOOLS The Commissioners of Jackson County, in conference with a repre sentative of the State department of Education, decided, Saturday to dis continue the supervision of schools. The supervisor has hitherto been paid $250.00 a mouth; $125.00 by the State and the rest by the county. The comissionerg were of the opinion that here was a place vThere money could be saved the taxpayers of the county, without serious injury to the schools. The move is in line with the gen eral policy of economy and reduction of expenses inaugurated by the com missioners. t' JIM COUNCILL PROMOTED BY HIGHWAY COMMISSION The following story from the Watauga Democrat, of last week, will be of much Interest to friends of Mr. and Mrs.' Council! in Sylva, and this part of the State. Their friends will congratulate Mr. Coun cil! upon his promotion, but regret to lose them as citizens of Sylva. "\ews has reached Boone to the effect that James H. Counc'll, a na tive son of this city, has been ap pointed division highway engineer in District E of the newly-formulated State road system. Mr. Councill a iv rived in the city Tuesday evening accompanied by his super.or, J. R. Walker, district engineer, who made the appointment. They are here com pleting organization plans and Mr. Councill will open an office in Boone on July 1st, where he will have an ?iRsislant and a stenographer. Mean while he and Mrs. Councill and small son, Fred Moore, will make their home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Councill. Mr. Councill, it is understood, has complete charge of th{TT!Mintenance work in the counties of Caldwell, Ashe, Watauga, Mitchell and Avery, and 2,073 miles of State highways are represented. The appointment came to Mr. Councill unsolicited! and his friends are congratulating him upoon his advancement. He began his engineering career fifteen years ago, when only a lad, received his education , at the University of tyorth Carolina, and has been ex ceedingly popular with the Highway Commission dnring h;s long years of service. For the past several years Mr. Councill has had headquarters at Sylva. COMMISSIONERS APPROVE PLAN FOR HAYWOOD COUNTY COURT HOUSE According to announcement, the Haywood County board of commis sioners has approved the plans for the new court house and jail, and will soon ask for bids from the va rious contractors. The plans for the new public buildings were drawn by Rogers and Rhodes, architects of Charlotte. The first sketch was presented several weeks ago and after some study a| number of changes were suggested. | The plans adopted are generally con ceded by architects and contractors, who have seen t|he sketches, that Haywood county will have a magni ficent building in the new court house and jail built according to the plans now on display. According to the final decision of the commissioners, the new building will be erected on the same lot ?s that now occupied by the old court house but far enough in the back to allow the old building to stand a nd be used until the new one is com-, pleted. It was decided that additional land was not necessary and the ide? of purchasing the lots adjoining the present site was discarded. ? ? ? tions of low visibility. Like almoit all birds, however, it has telescope powers of vision beyond anvthiig which human beings can easik imagine, according to Dr. Casar Wood, famous oculist, who has dt voted many years to the study ef the eves of birds. The homing pigem memorizes landmarks near its hone loft, rnd, as it is given longer aid loneer flisrht trials, it learns the liv of the land at greater distances, ui til it knows the country so well thrt, whenjiberated within 50. miles frnn home" on a clear day, it can s*e some remembered hndmark ?n the d rectioD of its home. INTERESTAROUSED BY MOVEMENT TO CREATE PARKWAY The movement to establish the Capital Parkway, a motor route from Washington. D. C., to the yreat Smoky Mountains National Park, has invoked state-wide interest :a a pro gram to enhance the beauty ot all highways in the N. C. State Highway System. A preliminary survey of a state-wide highway beautification plan, is now being prepared for E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the N. C. Highway Commission,' by Earl S. Draper, landscape architect of Char lotte. The survey was inspired as a result of the plan to mark and beau tify the Parkway route. The proposed route of the Capitol Pafkwav extends from Washington, D. C., through Richmond, Va., Ra leigh, Salisbury, Charlotte. Asheville, and Sylva, terminating at Bryson City. The movement to establish the route has received added impetus from recent meetings held at Raleigh Richmond and Washington. An or ganization meeting at which plans for the marking, beautifying and adver tising of the motor route, will be placed in active operation, will be held at an early date at Greensboro. Dr. L B. Morse of Chimney Rock is chairmaYi of the committee in charge of thp organization work. If plans of the Capitol Parkway committee bear fruit, the motor route will he one of the most at tractive touring routes in the south with the borders of the highway landscaped with rhnibbery and with bare cuts pud banks covered with at tractive vines and flowering plants The Parkway will be marked every five miles with distinctive highway markers. ? : ' A survey recently conducted by Elmer Jenkins, Manager of the tour ing bureau of the American Auto mobile Association at Washington, which 2,000 motor travelers were queried, revealed the fafct that North Carolina was second state in the United States as a preferred tour ing region. Good roads and scenic attractions were reasons given for the preference of the motorists. YOUNG CARRUTH TO SPEND SUMMER VACATION HERE Mr. H. P. Carruth, son of V. P. Carruth vice president of the Meade Paper Corporation, arrived in Sylva on Monday and will spend his' sum mer vacation working in the mill of the Sylva Paperboard Company. Mr. Carruth is a student at Dart mouth. FORMER JACKSON WOMAN PASSES IN GOLDSBORO Mrs. W. A. Becton, 34, died in a Goldsboro hospital, on Tuesday night of last week, following an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Becton, who was Miss Nina Arrington, of Cowarts, was married several years ago, to Mr. W. A. Becton, of Eureka, in Wayne county. She had been a mem ber of the faculty of the schools of Eureka for eleven years and was prominent in the church and social j life of that place. She taught in the schools of Jackson county, before going to eastern Carolina. The funeral was held on Thursday at tfiree o'clock, from the Methodist church at Eureka, and was conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. V. Duval. Interment was in the Eureka ceme tery. Besides her husband she is sur vived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Arrington, of Cowarts, by three sisters, Mrs. Mitchell Melton, of Argura, Mrs. Andy Parker, of Clay county and Miss Enola Arring ton, of Cowarts, who was with Mrs. Becton during her last illness, and by four brothers, Finlev and John Arrington, of Cowarts, Bedford Ar rington, of Winston-Salem, and Berlin Arrington, of Detroit. INDEPENDENT STORES STILL HOLDING THEIR GROUND That chain stores are not running; the endependent storekeepers out of i business is shown by a study made of the census by a Federal Bureau here, which gives the chains only around 17 per cent of the total busi ness. The figures are drawn from a survey of 489 cities over 10,000 pop ulation. Analyzing the figures, it was shown that the chains did less busi ness in the smallest cities, gaining as Deaf Mute Held In Custody Under Charge Of Murder FORTY YEARS AGO Tuckaseige Democrat, Jane 24, 1891 Ex-Governor David S. Rcid died at his home at Reidsville, last Fri day. Ue was the first Democratic Governor of North Carolina, j Among the scholarships of the Pea body Normal College at Nashville, Tenn., awarded in North Carolina, we j note, with pleasure, the name ofj John U. Gibbs, of Swain County. Among the names of the contrib utors to the fund of the Jefferson Davis ironument. taken at a meeting of the Confederate Veteran's Asso ciation of Jackson County, appear the names of three little-boys, Tom Moore, Johnnie Hughes and Ernest Wilson, the last named of whom is the son of a confederate soldier now (deceased. Rev. A. H. Sims preached at the I Academy Saturday night. i Mr. J. D. Sitton has begun saw ! ing the lumber for the new Baptist ! church here. r j We are indebted to our friend, i W. B. Morris, for the first mess of I ' i beans we have enjoyed this year. Prof. R. L. Madison returned I from his Northern trip Monday, and i is spending a short tiir.<? with friends i here. I j The assessed value of all real and ]>ersonnl property in Sylva town ship, as listed for taxation, is about 155,000 dollars. 1 The Democrat acknowledges, with I great pleasure, a visit this week, \ from our popular young merchant, ? 'y Mr. Marcellus Buchanan. ! * , . Mis. Frank Fanoning, of Ashe | ville, who has been visiting relatives | and friends here and at Webster, j returned home Monday. While here she was the guest of Mrs. W. M. Rhea. Mr. P. S. Harper, of Dillsboro, died at the Waynesville White Sul phur Springs, Tuesday. He was for merly from West Virginia, but had been engaged in merchandising at Dillsboro and at Wilmot for the past two years. The Rev. William S. Barrows, who is in charge of the Episcopal con gregations at Sylva and Cullowhee visits these points regularly on the fourth Sunday of the. months Subscribers to the fund for build ing tht Baptist church at Sylva, who have not paid their subscriptions are requested to bring them forward at once. R. M. Davis, Treasurer, will I receive and receipt for all ainonnts.1 Those who intend to pay in lumber can find out what kind is wanted by application to F. A. Luck, Sr., ? Chairman of the Board of Trustees. { Extract from a letter to the Dem ocrat from Capt. J. W. Terrell:' There are, white anri colored, forty-' fourl school districts. .The average pay of teachers last year was $27.50 per montb. ' i Produce market: Corn, per bushel $1.00; Corn meal, per bushel, $1.00, Wheat, per bushel, $1.00,. Flour, per. 100 pounds, $2.80 to $3.00; Rve, per bushel, 75c, Potatoes, Irish, per bushel, 80c, Potatoes, Sweet, $1.00; Beans, white, per bushel $1.00, Mixed 75e, Chickens, each 12 l-2c to 20c; Eggs, per dozen, 8c to 10c, Buttfr, per pound, 15c; Applies, dried, per pound, 6c, Peaches, peeled, 8c. i t .*.*'? 1 the cities became larger until in Chi-j cago and Los Angeles they accounted I for nearly twenty per cent. Even i these figures do not reflect 4he actual actuation as it exists for the small store, the survey shows, as filling stations and other lines not re<jkoped as shopkseepin&r are included in the chain totals. Bill Buchanan, u - deaf mute, is being held ' in the - Jackson couuty jail without bond,' following the death of his wife, from gun-shot wounds, last Thursday night, at the i homo of- her father, 0. A. Brown, on the Cuilowbec -road, near the poie i plant of the American Forest Pro ducts Company,' Just outside the city limits of Sylvu. The "woman was sllot in the all % domen by Or charge from a shotgun, about ten o'clock, Thursday nigV, and died at two o'clock Friday morn ing, in the Harris Community hos pital, where she was taken following ! the shooting. . ( Bill Buchanan was arrested early Frid ty morning,, a lew hours after ' the shooting, lie walked up to the car of the Sheriff's department and Chief of Police James A. Turpin, and surrendered*, just a few hundred yards below the scene of the tragedy. At the time -of his arrest he was carry ing a 410 gauge shotgun on his per son. I Coronor Neal Dills summoned Roy i Dills, Dan Tompkins, Jim Toy, R. W.Talient, W. T. Deitz, and D. A. Monteith, as a coronor's jury, and an inquest was held, Friday morn ing at the Medford Furniture Com pany's undertaking parlors. The jury returned a verdict charging that the woman came to her death from gun shot wounds at the hands of Bill Buchanan. J. T. Bird nd Miss Ruth Lewis testified that they were coming down the load in an automobile early 111 the evening, and that the Buchanan woman-flaggpd them down, and re quested to be brought to Sylfa. Miss Lewis stated, $>at on the way to l, town the woman said that she want- ?3? ed to come to Sylva to see that Bill left -?n th.e; bqs. He did not leave, and they returned the woman to her fatha/s boflie. She stepped out of the car and into the yard, and as they drove o?jf they heard a gun fire and a woman scream. They saw no ofie in the yard except the deceased. Miss Lewis testified that a few weeks ago the woman had told her of finding a letter in Buchanan s poftkot, revealing that he already had a living,.wife, when he married her, in Charlotte; last December. Mrs. Buchaujin ordered Buchanan to leave and- she was living with her parents at the Jime of her death. -Dr. C. 7i. Candler testified that the cause,of the woman's death was a discharge of a load from a shot pill,..in her abdomen. 'Otto Brown, brother of the de ceased, swore that he was at home on the night of the shooting, and that he and his mother heard a noise in the garden, which they be to have been made by a dog. He stated that in a few minutes the aar drove up in the yard and stopped, and' in a short time h e heard a woman scream, and heard the gun fire. Herrnshed out of the house and found bis sister lying wounded in ?ke yard. She told him that Bill had kiHed her. Brown swore that the next ntoming he found an empty ?bell from a 410 gauge shot gun lving-ln the lower end of the garden. James A. Turpin, chief of police. said that Buchanan had a 410 gauge *hot gun on his person at the time of his arrest, about two o'clock next morning. T. F. Reed, of the Jackson Hard ware Company, told the jury that he had sold a 410 gauge shot gun to a deaf mute Thursday afternoon. He did not know Buchanan, nor did he'know the name of the man t<> whom he had soh^ the gun. F/Ina Whittaker and Bertiee Fenn testified that they had seen the wonfian at the hospital, after the shooting, and that she had told them that Bill Buchanan shot her. ; Buchanan, a young and rather nice looking mute, had been living in Sylva for several weeks. He has been Reeking employment, and stated th<it he is a printer, having been em ployed in a printing establishment in Greensboro prior 1o coming to Sylva. The funeral of Mrs. Buchanan wn< held at Old Field cemetery, Beta, Saturday afternoon.