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VOLUME V, NUMBER 52
BYRNES SEES
BONUS VICTORY
NEXT SESSION
Representative Doughton States
That He Expects Bonus
Bill To Be Passed
Amid predictions of speedy pass
age, the controverted problem of
the soldiers bonus surged to the
front this week among' congression
al leaders the capital.
[T'" Sgeaker,^,Byms said the issue
ought to be disposed of by Febru
ary 1, but declined to forecast defi
nitely that it would be enacted over
a veto.
Almost before he finished speak
ing, however, Senator Byrns, Dem
ocrat, South Carolina, left President
Roosevelt’s office with an unquali
fied, assertion that the compromise
bonus measure he and Senator
w 'Steiwer, Republican, Oregon, have
rj? introduced would override a veto,
■ft That bill, providing for financing
a federal bonus issue,
would' give veterans 97 per cent of
the face value of their adjusted ser
vice certificates and the full value if
they held them two years.
Back from a voyage to the Philip
pines, Speaker Byms sat on a com
er of his desk, a red carnation in
his lapel, and told reporters the
chances of enacting the bonus over
a veto would be strengthened if the
inflation element was removed.
The Patman bill, ready for a test
in the house January 13, would pay
off the bonus in $2,000,000,000 of
new money. Only by a narrow mar
gin in the senate was President
Roosevelt’s veto of the plan upheld
last session.
Opponents of inflation already are
considering strategy for heading off
another house vote on it by press
ing forward with a non-inflationary
measure, one of the leaders in this
movement, Representative Vinson,
Democrat, Kentucky, arranged a
conference with Chairman Dough
s ton, Democrat, North Carolina, of
Mi\fhe house ways and means commit
■F tee, with the bonus as a topic.
* Even before they met, however,
Doughton told reporters he expect
ed some bonus bill to be passed.
Chairman Mcßeynolds, Democrat,
Tennessee, of the foreign affairs
committee held the same idea.
13 Killed In Bus
Tragedy In Virginia
North Carolina Man Drives Grey
hound Bus Off River Bridge;
All Persons Drowned
One of the worst tragedies in the
history of the Greyhound Bus Com
pany occurred Sunday when a bus
carrying 13 passengers, and possi
bly more, was driven off an open
draw bridge near Hopewell, Va. The
bridge had been open to allow a
boat to go by and the guard
gates were up. The bus crashed
through the gates and plunged into
the icy waters below. Only one man
was brought out alive and he died
shortly thereafter.
It is thought that the bus driver
was unable to stop the car because
frozen brakes, but that is a
that will probably never
be solved. There was no way of
identifying the people on the bus
since a record is not kept of all who
ride buses.
Rescue work was. carried on all
of Sunday night and identification
went on Monday. Every glass in
the bus was broken out and it was
-feared that some of the passengers
might have washed on down the
river.
The bus driver was a resident of
Wake county in this state.
One-Armed Man
Saves Boy’s Life
A boy on a sled struck the icy
tracks of the Baltimore railroad at
a crossing Friday and fell stunned
in the path of a rushing train.
Grover Bowersox, 52-year-old
crossing watchman, rushed forward.
His shoe caught in the rail. He tore
tree. He grasped the boy with his
one arm and jerked him to safety.
The watchman has only one arm
because 20 years ago he slipped on
iFih icy crossing and rolled beneath
a train.
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SI.OO A Year In Ashe County
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
225 Drivers Licenses
Revoked By State
Driving Permits of 225 persons
in North Carolina were revoked
during the first 46 days after the
new State Driver’s license law
went into effect November 1, and
219 of the revocations were be
cause of convictions of driving
while drunk.
Four others were of alleged
hit-and-run drivers.
High Point led all other cities'
in the State in number of li
censes revoked, with 19.
Charlotte ranked second, with
17, Greensboro was third and
Raleigh fourth.
State Reduces Debt
Some $17,000,000' ’ „
State Treasurer Chas. M. John
son, speaking to the Winsfon-Sal
em Rotary club Tuesday, ‘ said
North Carolina had reduced its
total State debt by $17,132,948
during the administration of .Gov?
ernor Ehringhaus.
During the same time, he point
ed out, the State had substanti
ally increased its appropriation
for schools, pushing it up. to $29,-
300,000, and increasing the teach
ers’ salaries by 20 ’pier ednt 'this
year, as compared with last.
Contracts For 103
Airplanes Let
The army ordered new rein
forcement for its fighting air
fleet. Saturday—awarding- con
tracts for the purchase of 103
multimotored bombing planes of
the swiftest modern type.
The Douglas Aircraft company,
incorporated, of Santa Monica,
Calif., was given an order for 90
all-metal, low wing, twin-engin
ed monoplanes, costing a total of
$6,498,000.
Thirteen giant four-motored
“sky cruisers” were bought from
the Boeing company, of Seattle,
Wash. The price for the Boeing
craft was not given.
Young Democrats To
Sponsor Dinner
Democratic campaign to re
elect President Roosevelt will get
under way in North Carolina, as
well as in all other states, on
January 8 when Jackson Day
dinners will be held throughout
the country.
Plans for Jackson Day dinners
in Asheville, Winston-Salem, Ra
leigh, Greensboro, Charlotte and
other North Carolina cities are
being discussed.
North Carolina has been asked
to raise $15,000 to wipe out the
committee’s debts so the 1936
campaign can get under way with
a clear sheet.
The Jackson Day dinners will
be sponsored by the Young Dem
ocratic Clubs of the state.
President Roosevelt will ad
dress the Jackson dinner to
Washington, D. O, and those at
tending other dinners will hear
him over the radio. Those attend
ing will be asked to pay $5 a
plate, the profit going, to the
Democratic committee to clear
the debt.
U. S. Asked To Help
Prevent Dust Storms
The government has been ask
ed to finance a three-and-a-half
million-dollar program to combat
recurrence of devastating dust
storms in the Southwest.
Asserting 36,000,000 acres of
farm land were blighted by the
“black blizzards” of last spring,
a committee of the Federal Re
settlement administration recom
mended the appropriation to re
habilitate the “dust bowl” area
in Colorado, Texas, Kansas, New
Mexico, and Oklahoma.
“The continued drought in this
one area, combined with improp
er farming methods, have created
a situation which unless halted
immediately will create a new
American desert.”
THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1935, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
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FOUTS BOUND OVER TO
COURT IN DAYTON, OHIO
Earl Fouts, the man arrested with
bonds, the numbers of which cor-
to.4hose token from the
Bank of Ashe in a recent robbery,
was bound over to court in a pre
liminary trial held in Dayton last
week which was attended by W. H.
Worth, Vernon Lillard, Arthur
Graybeal, and J. M. Prevette.
Coldest Weather
In Years Seen In
Carolina Friday
Joe Worth Gives Out Official Tem
perature From Jefferson As
Exactly Zero
* From Manteo to Murphy, from
Asheville to Charleston, winter set
tled a firm grip on North Carolina
Friday night, and one of the hard
est freezes in many years was ex
perienced.
Rapidly dropping thermometers
—the one at Winston-Salem, drop
ped 29 degrees to 17 above in eight
hours—were accompanied by pierc
ing winds, which carried light
snows to some areas. For the most
part, however, it was clear.
At Asheville the temperature fell
from 23 in mid-afternoon to 15 at
8 p. m., with a forecast of 5 above
by morning, and it was much cold
er in the higher mountain areas
where there were no official weath
er stations.
The United States coast guard
station at Manteo, on the North
Carolina banks, reported a 36-mile
wind, freezing temperatures, but
no ships in distress.
At Greensboro the thermometer
was down to 18 at 8:30 p. m. and
still dropping, Raleigh was expect
ing it to be even colder, and Dur
ham was "the same Charlotte was
expecting a low of 15.
Mr. Joe Worth, official tempera
ture recorder for this section, stated
Saturday morning that his govern
ment thermomenter stood exactly
at zero.
Raymond Hudson was seriously
hurt in an automobile accident be
tween Bristol, Va., and Gate City
last week. He died later in a Bris
tol hospital. He was from Balti
more, where the body was taken
for burial, but he was known in
this county.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Doggett ex
pect a gathering of their children
at their home for Christmas.
WORTH BOGGS
PROMINENT IN
SLEUTH WORK
Son Os Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Boggs
Given Credit For Solving
Murder Os Woman
Walter Worth Boggs, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. O. Boggs, of Waterloo,
Ohio, formerly of Jefferson, has
gained recognition as a detective
and fingerprint expert recently. He
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WALTER WORTH BOGGS
is given cretfit for first identifying
the fingerprints of Ralph Fulmer
and later drawing a full confession
from him of the murder of Miss
Helen Shannon, 50-year-old Iron
ton, Ohio, woman.
Fulmer, aged 27, has recently
been convicted of the brutal slay
ing but the case, when first report
ed, was entirely without clues.
Fulmer was a member of a CCC
camp.
MEETING OF NYA POSTPONED
The county committee of the Na
tional Youth Administration which
held its first meeting in Jefferson
Thursday voted to ask J. B. Hash to
meet with them during next week,
but the meeting has been postponed
until Mr. Hash gathers more data
on the subject which is, as yet, very
new.
Further meeting announcements
will be made later by the county
chairman, G. R. Stafford.
« $1.25 A Year Out Os County PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY
MRS. W. O. DICKSON
BURIED ON SILAS CREEK
Mrs. W. Q. Dickson, formerly
Miss Bessie Lee Blevins, died in a
Winston-Salem hospital Thursday
night. Funeral services were held at
her home and interment made at
the Old Fields Creek cemetery.
Relatives of Mrs. Dickson in the
city who attended the funeral in
cluded Mrs. Wyck Vannoy, and
Messrs. Clay, Cole, and Con Blevins.
Parkway Officials
Want More Money
For Construction
$6,900,000 Initial Outlay Expected
To Be Exceeded Next Year
By $1,000,000
The National Park service said
Sat. it expected to spend $6,000,-
000 to $7,000,000 next year for new
construction on the Shenandoah-
Great Smoky parkway.
. The parkway was begun this
year with an initial $6,000,000 out
lay.
If the second installment on the
scenic highway connecting the Vir
ginia and North Carolina national
parks, builds as much as the first,
400 miles of the 500-mile parkway
would be completed or in advanced
construction by the end of the
1936-37 fiscal year.
Park service officials, said with
the “exceedingly favorable bids
submitted on the first links, 200
miles of the parkway will be built
with the initial allotment to the
project.”
They added, however, that con
tracts for some of the “more diffi
cult mountain top stretches are yet
to be let, especially in North Caro
lina,” and probably will increase
the average cost.
Authorities were not inclined to
be specific about sources of the new
money. They are prohibited from
discussing matters subject to ap
proval by the budget bureau.
“We are hopeful of getting the
money,” was the answer to the
' question of whether it was expected
• under the new works program re
-1 cently discussed by the President.
1 Construction started in North
’ Carolina several months ago.
i i
Mr. Charlie Holland has recently
installed and opened up some valu
s able milling property at the corner
I of his lands at the forks of the state
road and the South Beaver road.
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Son Os Wealthy
Family Tells Os
Kidnaping Plot
Kept Four Days; Fed Only Once;
Leads Officers To Hideout
Os His Abductors
Caleb Milne, fourth, Friday gave
federal agents a description of four
men who kidnaped him in New
York and through his description
enabled them to find the hideout
where he was held prisoner for four
days.
Milne, scion of a wealthy Phila
delphia family, was abandoned by
his abductors on a highway near
Doylestown. Government authori
ties said no ransom was paid.
Federal agents and a stenogra
pher who sat about his bedside in a
hospital took his story.
They said they had found the
hideout—a dilapidated house on a
farm near Wrightstown, in south
eastern Bucks county, about 10
miles southeast of the spot where
Milne was thrown out of a car last
night—from an accurate description
of movements made by the kidnap
ers given by Milne.
The agents said they sent identi
fication orders, on the four kidnap
ers to every federal bureaus of in
vestigation office in the country.
Near the hideout, they said they
found a hypodermic syringe . and
two needles, which they believe the
kidnapers used to keep Milne in a
condition bordering on unconscious
ness during the four days and
nights he was held.
The agents said they also found
several tin cans, recently opened,
from which they believe the abduc
tors obtained their food. Milne said
he was given food only once during
his imprisonment.
Recuperating from exposure and
heavy doses of a narcotic, Milne in
formed the agents he could recall
scarcely a thing of what occurred
from Sunday night until last night.
He remembered the kidnapers,
however, because he saw each one
before he was given the narcotic.
Agents said Milne told of answer
ing a telephone call from a “Dr.
Green, of Gracie Square,” in New
York. He met the “doctor” Satur
day at the square.
Milne had been told on the tele
phone that his grandfather, Caleb
J. Miln, Jr., in Philadelphia was
“very ill” and wished to see him.
The “Dr. Green” was to take him
to Philadelphia.
Agents said Milne related that
three other men met the “doctor”
in the park and all five set out in a
sedan tor Philadelphia.
They rode along for several miles,
Milne was quoted by the agents,
then suddenly turned into a dirt
road near Summit, N. J.
Then, the agents said, Milne was
told he was kidnaped.
The agents said Milne told them
one of the men informed him:
“You’re not going to see any doc
tor. You’re going to stay with us.
And keep your mouth shut, too, if
you know what’s good for you.”
“I was scared,” Milne told the
agents. “I was so scared I didn’t
know what to do. I didn’t know
what they might do.”
Agents said the young man relat
ed the abductors put. a blindfold on
him and he surmised that they
drove to a point about 10 miles be
low New Hope, then turned west
ward to Wrightstown.
The agents said MHne told them
the blindfold was removed before
they walked into the farmhouse.
Sunday, Mito was quoted by the
agents, “they stuck the first needle
into me.”
Hospital physicians said Milne’s
right arm had about 25 marks made
by a hypodermic needle.
The same day, the abductors at
temped to force Milne to write a
note to his grandfather in Philadel
phia, but he refused. After that the
agrats said, the young man was not
able to recall what happened until
yesterday.
At that time there were only two
men in the house, judging from the
sound of their movements. Milne’s
eyes and mouth were bound with
adhesive tape.
“Come on, you’re going home,”
Milne said some one told him, at
the same time slapping his face.
Milne recalled riding again in an
automobile and being pushed
from it.