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Author of "How to Win Friends
and. Influence People."
BASIL ZAHAROFF
The Mystery Man Who May Have Been
Responsible For The Death
Of Someone You Know
ZAHAROFF— That was the
name of one of the richest, one
of the most mysterious, and one
of the most bitterly condemned
men on earth. Twenty years ago,
a reward of a hundred thousand
dollars was offered to anyone
who would kill him. Numerous
books were written about him;
he was one of the most amazing
phenomena of international sus
picion and national hate.
Bom in the most terrible pov
erty, Basil Zaharoff lived to amass
one of the greatest fortunes on
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on the railroad tracks shown above driver of the wrecked car paid no McDaniel, Kiwanlan
———————— was carried along a distance of attention to the crossing watch- —————
—————— approximately 50 feet by a rail- man, the warning flag in his hand,
rpTTriTi road locomotive Believe it or not, or his whistle blasts. Later the ———— —
A "-Ei two of the three occupants of this driver's story was, in part, "The
RANK OF 1 FJ,KTN ex-automobile lived through it, but men in my car yelled, I saw the /rcjL&X
vWA i^ one is minus a leg. train 20 feet away; I tried to turn nFISt)
All deposits guaranteed by driver, and incidentally one of the late."
the Federal Deposit Insur- two surviv °rs, was late for work When you are approaching a Sinclair Oamlln* »nH nil.
*Z/£rrZL on th e fatal day. He was accus- railroad crossing, whether pro- and Oils
ance Corporation. tomed to driving across the tracks tected or not, the safe rule is to e rrade that makes
at this point each morning before slow down. Look and listen for the grade"
Garland Johnson, Kiwanian seven, when there was no train warningsignals and trains. Don't H P R«I«M ITS
due. The morning of the accident let familiarity with certain cross- uranam, Kiwanian
he evidently failed to realize he ings breed lack of care. Like
•———————— was late and proceeded onto the guns, you never know whether
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earth. And he did It by selling
machine guiis and cannon and
high explosives. One of his biog
raphies began with these words:
"The gravestones of a million
men shall be his monument
their dying groans his epitaph."
When Zaharoff was twenty
eight years old, he got a job sell
ing ammunition for $25.00 a week
and commissions. He was living in
Greece at the time; and he knew
that the only way to sell guns was
to create a demand for them. So
he whipped up the fears of the
Greeks and told them they were
surrounded by blood-thirsty en
emies and must buy guns to de
fend their fatherland. That was
more than half a century ago. A
wave of excitement swept over
the country. Bands played. Flags
waved. Orators harangued the
crowds; and Greece Increased its
army and bought guns from Za
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haroff, and also a submarine —
one of the first war submarines
ever built.
Having made several million
dollars in commissions out of that
deal, Zaharoff ran over to the
Turks and said, "Look what the
Greeks are doing. They are get
ting ready to wipe you off the
face of the earth." So the Turks
bought two submarines. The arms
race was on, and Zaharoff had
launched himself on a career that
was destined to net him three
hundred million dollars, all dren
ched with blood.
For more than half a century
Zaharoff fattened on national
fears, arming traditional enemies
and helping to foment wars. Dur
ing the Russian-Japanese con
flict, he sold ammunition to both
sides. During the Spanish-Ameri
can War, he sold the bullets that
killed American soldiers. During
the World War, he owned stock in
munition factories in Germany,
England, Prance and Italy: so his
wealth mounted and skyrocketed
at a rate that staggers the imagi
nation.
For half a century, he slipped
in and out among the war offices
of Europe with the silence of a
cat —cloaking his movements in
the utmost secrecy.
He was said to have employed
two men who looked prfecisely like
him. Their sole duty was to ap
pear in public so that the news
papers would report him in Ber
lin or Monte Carlo when in real
ity he was on a secret mission to
some other city. He never will
ingly posed for a photograph. He
never granted an interview, and
he never defended, never explain
ed, never struck back, never an
swered the scathing denunciations
that were heaped upon him.
When he was twenty-six years
old—handsome, tall and dash
ing—he fell romantically in love
with a young woman of seventeen.
He met her on a train while trav-|
ellng from Athens to Paris, and
wanted to marry her at once;
but she, unfortunately, was al
ready wedded to a Spanish Duke
who was half-mad and twice her
age. Divorce was impossible be
cause of her religious beliefs. So
Zaharoff waited for her—waited
and cherished her in his heart for
almost half a century. Finally, in
1923, her husband died in an In
sane asylum; and in 1934 she
married Zaharoff. She was six
sy-five at the time, and he was
seventy four years old. Two years
later she died. She had been his
sweetHieart for forty-eight years,
and his wife-for eighteen months.
Until his death, he spent his
summers in a magnificent cha
teau near Paris; but he was born
to far-off Turkey to a mud hut
that had no windows. As a child
he slept on a dirt floor, tied rags
around his feet to keep them
warm and often went hungry.
He attended school for five years
but he spoke fourteen languages,
and Oxford University honored
him wjth the title of Doctor of
Civil Law.
The first time he appeared to
London he was jailed as a thief.
Thirty years later, he was knight
ed by the king of England.
One day to the summer of 1909,
this mystery man of Europe was
walking through the famous Zo
ological Gardens to Paris; and he
was shocked to see that the mon
keys in the Zoo were mangy and
hungry, and' that the most fa- j
mous lion to the Zoo was suffer- j
tog from rheumatism. Everything
about the place seemed to be go
ing to rack and ruin. So Zaharoff
called for the manager and scold
ed him sharply. The manager
didn't realize he was talking to
one of the wealthiest men to the
world, so he replied rather tartly
that he didn't have the half mil
lion francs necessary to take care
of the animals properly. Zaharoff
said, "Well, If that's all you need;
here it is," and this man whose
bullets had killed a million men,
wrote out a check for a hundred
thousand dollars to care for some
animals. The manager, unable to
decipher the signature, thought
the stranger was trying to play a
trick on him; so he tossed the
check on a pile of other papers
and forgot all about it. Months
later, he showed it to a friend and
was astonished to learn that it
was real, that it was signed by
the wealthiest man to France.
Zaharoff died at eighty-five, a
lonely, tragic figure, broken to
health. A servant pushed him
about in a wheel chair, and his
chief interest in life seemed to be
his garden of lovely roses. He had
been writing his diary for half a
century; it filled fifty-three books
and rumor has it that he ordered
all those secret records to be de
stroyed at his death.
Copyright, 1937
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Judge Carter of Winston-Salem
spent the week-end here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Car
ter.
Miss Irene Handy of North Wil
kesboro, was the week-end guest
of her parents here.
Wendell R. Wilmoth, who has
accepted a position in Alabama
left the first part of the week to
assume his duties.
Miss Thelma Dodson of North
Elkin spent the week-end here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Porter Dodson.
Omax Sprinkle returned Tues
day from Winston-Salem, where
he had been visiting friends and
relatives for sevteral days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneed and
children, Rufus, Allen and Lydia
Jane visited Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
Brickley at Pilot Mountain, Sun
day.
Mr, and Mrs. Howard Sneed and
little daugher,' Bonnie, spent the
first of the week in Winston-Sa
lem, the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Rural Sneed.
Mr. and Mrs .Felix Layne of El
kin Valley visited friends here
Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Chappell and sons,
Ralph and Warren and Miss Irma
Mounce spent Sunday at Blowing
Rock, picnicking.
Mr. Clarence Greenwood spent
Saturday in Mount Airy attend
ing to business matters.
M. A. Gaither of Winston-Sa
lem. spent Monday here the guest
of friends.
Mr. and Mrs, John Martin had
as their Sunday guests, Mr. and
Mrs. N. J. Martin of Salem Fork.
Mr. Coy Williamson was the
guest of his mother. Mrs. Etta
Williamson, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Key were
the Saturday guests of the lat
ter's grandmother, Mrs. Lene
Whitaker.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the services at the
Mount Hermon Baptist church,
Saturday evening and Sunday
morning. The pastor, Rev. L. W.
Burris of Rockford will deliver the
message.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lyons and
family of Winston-Salem, were
the week-end guests of the for
mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Phillips at their home here.
Restaurant Habits
Jackson—l notice you won't sit
anywhere but by a front window
when you go' to a restaurant.
Why is that?
Jinxson Didn't you ever no
tice how they s6rve the tables by
the window the biggest helpings?
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Pursuant to an order of sale,
made by the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Surry County, North
Carolina, on the 18th day of
October, 1937, in the special pro
ceeding entitled "J. M. Crissman,
et als, vs. Etta Crissman, et als,"
the undersigned Commissioners
appointed in the said order, will
offer for sale to the highest bid
der for cash, on the 19th day of
November, 1937. at 1 o'clock P.
M., on the premises hereafter de
scribed at the old Dabney Criss
man -Home Place, the following
tracts of land to-wit:
TRACT NO. 1. Beginning on a
stake and pointers in the public
road in the old line between W.j
W. Cornelius and Dabney Criss- j
man, runs 30 deg. west 14 chains!
to a chestnut stump at Briar \
Branch, then down the branch as'
it meanders south 7a deg. east 12?
chains and twenty links to a white!
oak on east side of said branch,
then south 30 deg. west 17 chains
along a choped line to a red oak
on east side of public road, then
with the road as it now meanders
north! 67 deg. west 5 chains.
north 45 deg. west 6 chains and
50-100 to the beginning, contain
ing 18 acres, more or less.
TRACT NO. 2. Beginning on
a willow on the bank of the
Yadkin River corner of Albert's
and Dabney Crissman land, runs
thence north some degrees east
with the dividing ditch across the
bottom running by a marked per
simmon and apple tree on bank
of djtch to a rock comer at the
edge of the bottom; thence nearly
north with an old fence row, and
a well marked line of trees pass
ing east of Albert Crissman's
dwelling house and west of Dab
ney Crissman's dwelling to post
oak near the bank of the road
leading from Rockford to Siloam
! and then south on east side of the
:road leading from Albert Criss
man's house to Siloam, where it
intersects with said public road;
thence up said road about 440
yards to a marked Spanish oak
corner on the east side of said
road in the Kelley old line; thence
east to briars branch; thence
down said branch to the old
chestnut corner, formerly Haus
jer's or Cornelius' corner; thence
routh some degrees west with the
;W. W. Cornelius line to the bank
jof the Yadkin River, formerly a
branch; thence up the north
bank of the Yadkin River to the
beginning, containing 85 acres,
more or less.
Personal property consisting of
some household and kitchen fur
niture, tools, and other articles of
personal property too numerous
to mention belonging to the es
tate of Dabney Crissman will also
be offered for sale at the same
time and place by the Adminis
trators of said estate. The said
sales are made for partition
among the heirs at law.
This the 18th day of October,
1937. V
CURTIS CRISSMAN AND J. M.
CRISSMAN, Commissioners and
Administrators. 11-11
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