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f 1.50 Year in Advance in The Countv.
Hold Funeral For
Charlie Stewart,
Victim Of Knife
< Irirlie Stewart, 37, of Frastus, is
ik.!?', and Jim Underwood, 67, is in
? -..'nous condition, in the hospital
hciv, as a result of an affray which
occurred at the home of Underwood,
in Mountain township, Sunday af
ternoon. Both men were brought to
lh?' Community hospital Sunday,
Stewart dying about five o'clock
Tuc-day morning.
An inquest was held over Stewart's
|.?!v. in the undertaking parlors of
tin- Medford Furniture Company, at
tv.d o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Dr.
(\ Z. Candler testifying that Stew
jut's death was caused by two knife
woun-ls in the upper right chest and
through the left kidney. That one of
the wounds was about three inches'
mid the other about two and one
half niches long.
Hiiye> Childers, who lives just on |
thi> side of the Cullowhee Moun- j
tain, Miid that he, Fred llenson, Carl
Childeis, Hoy Stewart, Clyde Car-1
roll , Alvin Stewart and Charlie'
Stewart, had all met at a point near i
I ndfiwi-od's house and that Under- ;
wood invited them into the house to
hear him play the violin. That Char
lie Stewart, with others, went into
the hoiiM' and that shortly after
wards the row had begun. That Un
derw-Mid. after playing the violin five
t?r ten iiiiiMitcs, handed it to his son,;
U iiync ! nilenvood, who continued j
thr nltivilig. .Jim Underwood and Al
beit Stewart, a brother of Charlie's j
were engaged in conversation, the:
import of which was not audible to
any of the witnesses, until Under
wood, speaking in a louder tone
cursed Albert Stewart and said he
would cut him. At this point, he
said, Hayes and C'ha lie. istewart aUl
ten-.pted to separate the two men,]
Hayes Childers' shirt being ;nt in tin
attempt. Underwood continued curs
ing and said he would kill the whole
crowd, inflicting upon Charlie Stew
art the cuts which are said to hive
paused his death. Underwood then j
left the house, going to a shop near- j
by. Olenti Stewart, another broth"!*;
of Charlie, eiime up and asked who
had cut Charlie. Underwood said
he did if and that he would e-'t h:" >
also. F ndcrwood then procured a
hand axe at which time he was
Rfni.'lc across the head with a pole'
causing serious wounds.
AI licit Stewart, last witness ex
amined, said that when Underwood
...
handed the violin to his son, he ask- j
ed Albei t to dance and that when he j
refused, Underwood cursed him and ,
said "he would make him dance"
and the fight ensued.
The testimony of all the witnesses
was substantially the same and all
said that, while none of them saw
I ndfrwood drinking, he had the ap
pearance of being drunk. No weapon
was seen by any of the witnesses
except the knife that Underwood
had.
The testimony of the witnesses in
part was as follows:
Coroner: Dr. Candler, will you please
tell the jury as to how the deceased,
Charies Stewart, came to his death?
Dr. Candler: Well, he had a knife
wound in the upper right chest.
Cor: Did the wound go through
the chest wall"?
A. I could not say. There was
another wound over the left kidney,
also.
Q: How long were the scars,
Doctor?
A: The one in the chest was
about two and one half inches long,
and the one in the left back was
about three inches long.
Q: Did you treat the deceased, did
you attend him prior to his death?
A: Yes. ?
0:Was he conscious?
A: Yes.
Q: Did he make any statement?
A: Not to me.
Q: How long did he live?from "the
tiire vou first treated him until his
<1
A: Well, he came into the hospital
late Sunday afternoon, and died this
morning' about five o'clock. I'd say
he lived about forty hours from the
time he was wounded until he died.
Q: And these wounds caused his
death?
A: Yes, he had a hemorrhage,
caused by the wounds.
(Continued an last page
FORTY YEARS AGO
Tuckwseige Democrat, July 1, 1891
Air. M. Buchanan to Yellow
Hill, yesterday.
Mri Kohort McKay favored us
with, a visit on Monday.
Miss Lipscoiuhe and .Miss Duggie
Franks, of Bryson City, were vis
iting friends here, this week.
Prof. A. T. Hoard, of Buriingtoa,
N. i'., Jias been elected to succeed
Prof. Pinekard, in tlu; Hamburg
llitrh School.
We received a pleasant cull from
Miss Bonnie Candler, of lJuiieoml>e
county, and Miss Klin Poifc, ui" o .r
town, hist Friday.
Dr. and Mrs. .1. H. WollT, Master j
Kl^:e and the editor's wife went lo
Yello?v Hill yesterday, to attend the [
commencement exercises of the Cher-1
i
okee Training School. t
Mrs. A. W. Bryson and Miss Car
rie went to Dry son City Saturday,
returning Monday. Mrs. W. C. Bry
son accompanied them home and will
remain here tiM the last .of this
week.
We are sorry to learn of the ex
treme illness of Mrs. Daniel Bry
son. Her death is almost momen
tarily expected. Later: Just before;
going to press, we learn that Mrs.
Brys >n died today, ftt noon.
hear3*'vTtlf much regret of the
denth of Mrs. .lavan Davis, at East
]mI 1 V'tc, last Thursday. She was i
n da ghter of Col. Alley, of Horse j
C:>vt\ and left a large circle of rei-1
atives and friends to mourn her loss..
We are glad to learn that our
yo. ;i- friend, Aleck/Baum, who has
lx * ii quite si< k in Asheville, is im- j
provi.r^, and that he and his sister,j
Miss Frances, who has been with
him during his sickness, are ex-j
pecteJ home the last of this week, j
Prof. A. E: Pinekard has accepted,
an invitation to deliver an address
before the Third Congressional |
Teachers' Institute, to be held at j
Ozark, Ala., on July 21.
The Masonic celebration at East!
La Porte, Saturday, July 4, promises
to be quite mi enjoyable affair. Mr.
W. K. Moore of Webster, will de
liver a Masonic address, Mr. 1). L.
Love an oration, and Lecturer Hell,
who had intended to be in Webster
on that day, has altcrd his plans
and will be at Kast La Porte on
Saturday, instead of Webster.
We are sorry to part with liro.
Curtis, of the Franklin Press. His
lease lias expired, and he n:akes the
remarkable statement that, financial
ly speaking, it has not been profit
able. The general public will be sur
prised, 110 doubt, to learn that a
country newspaper could possibly be
less valuable than a gold mine.
MRS. L. P. ALLEN PASSES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Mis. Alice Reed Allen died at her
homo here, Friday afternoon, after
an illness extending over a period
of nearly nine years. Mrs. Allen was
stricken with paralysis in October
1922, soon after returning from a
revival service and has been an in
valid since that time. She became
much worse last week and passed
away on Friday afternoon.
The funeral was held at the Bap
tist church at eleven o'clock Sun
day morning, the local order Eastern
Star, of which Mrs. Allen was a mem
ber, having charge of the first part
of the service. Rev. J. Gray Murray,
pastor of the Baptist church, Rev.
George Cleinmer, pastor of tfee Meth
odist church, and Rev. W. C. Reed
participated in the service, the choirs
of the local churches combined, ren
J dering the music.
Interment was in the Kenner ceme
tery. ) >
[ Mrs. Allen, who was 68 years old,
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sylva, x. c., JULY 2, 1931 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
A PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR
TO THE CITIZENS OF SYLVA:
We have designated the week beginning Monday, July 6th, as
"Clean-up and Paint-ip'' week and are asking that every prop
erty owner or resident in the town cooperate with r^s in making
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arrangements to have all grass and weeds cut on their property
that week and to have all trash on their lets cleaned up and
deposited on the side of the street or side walk so that we may
have it hauled away. Don't wait until the middle or end of ths
week, but start-Monday morring and let's have a clcan town by
Friday night, July 10th.
We want all broken down cars and trucks or parts thereof
ha.-led to the te wn garbage dump and ask that all garages or
other owners of same see that it is done. t -
A little white wash or paint will do wonders to improva
the looks of fences, voodsheds and ether out houses and we
hoi>3 that property owners will, where possible paint up as well
as clean up. 1
The Town expects to clean up all streets that week and to
mow weeds and grass on street edges and if the citizens will
cooperate with us we can have a clean town at the end of the
wjjek. Then we can keep it that way if each property owner
ill look after his own property.
Remember the date, Monday, July Cth, and let's all clean
i n and paint up that week.
THE TOWN OF SYLVA
: ?
. By H. E. Buchanan, Mayor.
New Government Asks
i
Cooperation Of Citizens
To the Citizens of Sylva:,
Your new Board of Aldermen and
Mayor elected in May were duly in
stalled on Monday, June 1st and sel
Tuesday night .June 9th as: their
first regular meeting.
We met June 9th and after re
viewing the town's financial copdi%
tion wfiJPfHVT town
Crispe, we decided -that everything
possible must he done t?? cut the ex-!
penses of the town and further to j
do our best towards the collection j
of ail past due water rents, taxes and
paving assessments without working:
any undue hardships on any (if its j
citizens.
"Briefly we recited some of I lit* |
most important resolutions and or- J
dinances which have been passed by'
the board to date, which have been j
enacted looking to saving the tax-j
payer.* money and at the same time
give the town efficient government
and place us in position to meet our
financial obligations.
1. The mayor has been paid $2f>.00
per month in the past. The present
mayor told the board that he would
serve without any salary during the
term of his office. This save the tax
payers $.'{(>0.00 per year.
2. .1. A. Turpin was re-elected
Chief of Police, but bis salary was
cut ten per cent which saves' tlie|
tax-payers $150.00 per year, and
much additional work was imposed
upon him| such as supervision of
street cleaning and repairs to the
water system, as well as collection of
past due water rents. We hope that
the citizenship of the town will co
operate with Chief Turpin in all his
new duties.
3. We cancelled the town's con
tract for the hauling of garbage
which saves us $000.00 per year, and
we are asking each place of busk i
ness and the property owners to
have their own garbage and trash
hauled away from their premises at
least twice each week at their own
expense. We have also passed an
ordinance directing that all garbage
cans and trash containers l>e removed
from Main Street and plaecd on Mill |
Street. These receptacles are not
only unsightly, but also unsanitary
FORMER SYLYA PASTOR
PASSES IN ASHEVILLE
Rev. .T. M. Bennett, 7H, died at the
home of his son, Rev. J. P. B( nnett,
was a daughter of the late Rev.
W. W. Reed, a pioneer Baptist
preacher of this section. She was one
of the thirteen charter members of
the First Baptist church of SvJva
and was an active worker in her-;
church as long as her health per-v
mitt?d. Kind-hearted and hospitable.'!
"Aunt Alice," as she was familiarly j
known, was a general favorite and'
manv friends mourn her passing. '
?he is survived by her husband,,
L P- Allen, and one sister, Mrs. Ar
lington, of Morganton. . j
j and iMi up-to-date down permits
I them on its in.'iiii .street.
Wo finally decided to have four
hours each day, instead of ten in
tile |>a?t, spent on cleaning oi' Main
and Depot Streets, and such refuse
as is swept up each d?ty off these
will be hauled u way each day
will save as $:W
5. Wc cut the salary town
clerk ir<nn .$74.00 to $25.00 per mouth
effecting a saving <>f $000.00 per
year and elected Raymond R. Nich
olson Town Clerk. Naturally, no one
would accept the responsibilities and
duties of the office ,at this very
small salary, unless it could bo done
in connection with other work. We
especially ask for the cooperation of
the citizenship of the town in con
nection with Mr. Nicholson's duties
as town clerk. When convenient,
pleas;' mail any payments for items ,
due the town to him and ho will"
mail you receipt, lie will he at the
Town Hall each Tuesday and Satur-i
day afternoon.
(i. We have made a new contract j
with the Dillsboro & Svlvn Electric !
Company covering the street lights
which will save several hundred doi-1
i lars per year. The town will pay for
j nil now globes after July 1st, on
I Main Street and certain other streets,!
but will expect property owners to1
pay for now globes after that date on !
all street lights which are in resi-j
dential sections and are particularly |
serving for the benefit of any one or
(two persons.
Wo will save the tax-payers of the
town about $2,800.00 per year by
the changes listed and hope to ef
fect other savings as we go along.
We can not accomplish any. of those
savings without the full cooperation
of the people of1 the town. The
town must collect its obligations and
we hope that everyone will do his
best towards the payment of all past
due water rents and taxes.
We expect to keep the people
fully informed of what we are doing
as your governing board, and solicit
any helpful and constructive ideas.
Let's work together.
II. E. Buchanan, Mayor. j
on the IlendorhO'iville Road, near
Ash?ville, last Friday and funeral
services wore conducted Sunday at
the First Baptist church, Canton,
with the pastor, Rev. A. V. Joyner,
officiating, with interment at Lo
cust Field cemetery. ,i >
Mr. Bennett, who was pastor of
the Baptist church here, for several
years, a number of years ago, had
been living in Ellerbe and was vis
iting his son when he diod suddenly,
frftm a heart attack.
Surviving are his widow, one son,
Rev. J. P. Bennett, of Asheville, aji.l
three daughters, Mrs. Carl Hill,, of
Canton, Mrs. Arnold Walker, of
Ellerbe, in Richmond county, and
Mrs. L. C. Smith, of Fort Mills, S. C.i
Leaders Like
Hoover Debt
Payment Plan
(Special to The Journal)
\Vn.->hinirtoii, I). ( i v 1.?No
!.official art. of any pr< ident since
war time lias been revived with
such genu lie approval or enthusisi.n
.as President Hoover's ment dec lar
lation regarding Uermauy's war ?!??!>;s.
Ill effeet lie proposes to give all
debtor nations a year's extra time,
during which no paymcuis will he
i asked, t. Jier ?.f principal or inter
est*. The intention is to stop the ter
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; J'.lit- drain on the linanee,s of the
, leading Kiiropean governments long
, enough to permit tlu n. to catch their!
I breath.
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No suggestion is made that any !
part of the debt will be forgiven. I
Aloftt Americans feel that the debts
should lie met with a reasonble pay
! incut, such adjustment, if arrived at,
j to be made only after Congress has i
| had i.mpie time to view the proposi-1
| lien Iron, all angles. The main pur-j
J pose aimed at by Air. Hoover, every-'
| body agrees, is to siisjmmhI payment
j long enough to enable private busi
ness to return to its usual channels.!
I All foreign governments have shown
i agreement with the proposal, Fiance
uttering the only discordant note by;
demanding that Herman paynienis lor
damage done its country by tli?? tier-'
uian armies be continued. As this
1
; amounts to only Jf 1a year, j
an insignificant sum compared with j
the full war debt, the objection is;
not expected to block the adoption j
of the plan. I
| President Hoover's statesmanlike
propositi did not ronie as a surprise
i to tho.se closely informed 011 national
politics. Several days before the plan
was broached. Under Secretary Cas
Hwy trfr-the^tase-.-^epartnieut, casu
ally told newspapermen that the Ad-:
ministration's 11 ind was not' closed j
on the subject of war debts. When (
bis ven arks went unchallenged by
the White House they were taken
to mean that an oficial utterance on
' the subject was impending.
The President did not issue his
statement without testing the tem
per of Congress, leading Democrats
beiiilT called in and sounded out as
to their attitude. Their warm ap
proval of Mr. Hoover's ideas was,
followed by the public announcement.
Rii\ce then such leading candidatesj
for the Democratic presidential now*
ination as Newton D. Baker and ^
Owen D. Young have expressed their,
appVoval of the plan. Their action
has removed the project from the
partisan field and cJevated it to the
broader field of statesmanship.
Another straw that forecast the
announcement was the appearance in
England and Europe ol' Secretary ot
the Treasury Mellon. Ilis intornial
audiences with European leaders was
folowed by the President's announce
ment.
A curious .thing about the project
iSpthat it came a few, days after the
June 15 semi-annual payment ot wui
debts had been made. No other pay
ment is due until December 1;">. ( 011
i gress will meet eight days before
the winter payment falls due and
will have to act almost instantly if
the plan is to be put into elect this
vear. Between now and that time it is
certain that business men, bankers
and farmers will bring pressure to
; bear upon their representatives in
: Congress to make them tail in line
behind the President and nobody ex-;
peets but that the plan will go
through, practically overnight, when.
Congress gathers.
If any further proof of the Presi
dent's ability to gaii^e public sent i
ment were needed, it can be found j
by the favorable reaction of tin
stock exchange to his pioposal, and j
to the fillip given business in geli
eral throughout the country by .Mr.
Hoover's utterance. It points to the.j
fact that a return to normal coudi-j
tions is only being prevented by the
mental attitude of business men. Al-i
tliou_rii they realize that the I resi
dent has done nothing that can have
any material effect for another six
months, yet psychologically the na
tion has responded enthusiastically
and evidences are already beginning
to appear that conditions are easing
off ,*nd the country is feeling it has
a m-i;i at .-the helm who can be
trusted to indicate the pathway to
a return to prosperity.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge,
Antiques
The craze lor "antiques" has
reached the point where almost any
piece of furniture that .was made
before 18'Jli can be hold at a fancy
price to somebody. There are not
enough "colonial" pieces to go around,
so the latest craze is for "Victorian"
antiques.
In a New England antique shop the
other day 1 saw kerosene lamps,
china dogs, walnut "what-nots*' and
hair-cloth-covered chairs and sofas,
which might have come out of my
grand-mother's parlor, marked at
fancy figures as "antiques." Along
side of them were a leather-seated
cobbler's bench, a home-made boot
jack and a high-wheel bicycle.
"We'll sell theui all," said the
dealer, confidently. "Most people
haven't any taste. They'll buy any
thing that looks old."
Books
It is a widespread belief that
Americans generally read nothing but
fiction.
As this is written, the most pop
ular book in America is "The Educa
tion of a Princess," written by the
former Grand Duchess Marie of
Russia. The Grand Duchess, reared
as a member of the imperial fam
ily oi* the Czar, married a Swedish
princcs from whom she was later di
vorced, and came to America to
earn a living. She got employment
in a fashionable dress establishment
in Fifth Avenue, and wrote the
story of her life, which reveals the
inner workings of the Czar's regime,
at the suggestion of friends, never
dreaming that it would sell so many
copies as to make her rich.
Actual personal ex|>eriences, if well
told, are far more interesting than
the best fiction. The trouble is that
few persons who have had inter
esting experiences-can tell them in
terestingly.
Gliders
The nearest approach to flying tin
way it bird does is the glider plane,
which is an airplane of special de
isign without any engine. OnciKit gets
off the ground it navigates on the
air currents just the way the big
soaring birds do, without moving
! their wings. i
i A Canadian,- J-icut. Lisant lieard
more, was the first to fly across the
English. Channel in a glider, a few
days ago. A German experimenter
recently covered l(i'2 miles in a single
glider. flight.
There is no likelihood ot the glider
displacing the engined (dane, but
every flight made in one increases
airmen's knowledge of air conditions
and navigation and so tends to make
flying safer. t .
Movies ' ?
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The* Motion-Picture Producers and
Distributors . America, Inc., which
is the organization of which Mr. Will
II. il:;ys is president, takes excep
tion lo my statement in this column
recently that. "Two-trim" Crowley ad
mitted that he got the idea of being
a "bad man " from the movies.
Whether he did or not, however,
does not sCeio -to me to affect my con
tention that children and persons of
immature minds who see crime and
criminals exploited in the films are
much more seriously affected than
they can jmssibly be from reading
crime news in the newspapers. For
one thing, the immature do not read
newspapers "outside of the big cities,
whereas they go to the movies every
where. >
I have no animus against Mr. Hays ,
or the motion picture industry a*
such, but T do maintain that in pre
senting life as it is not in the films
the movie magnates give youth a
distorted impression of values and
do immeasurable harm.
Speed
The world is moving at a faster
pace than ever before. A few years
ago thirty-five miles an hour wa<
considered, high speed lor automo
biles, Four-wheel brakes and smooth
roads make 75 miles a safe speed to- f; j
day and many ears can do 100 miles j'
an hour or better.
The other day the fastest speed
ever made on rails was achieved bv
the new German air-propelled "ra l ?
Zeppelin." Driven <bv gasoline motors
which whirl an air propeller, the car ?
made the 17-i miles from Hamburg '
to Berlin at an average speed of 100 jj
miles an hour, and for one stretch j:
made over 143 miles an hour.
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