, Jby L, L, $TEVZCM , , Ran" Into several' Radio City yarn He first concerns the president and fee president of a large Arm that oc Naples considerable apace in the trolld 'log; At they were passing along ona of the upper, floors,, they ran Into on or those tours that make regular, trips through Rockefeller Center Carious to jpknow what the college graduate guide ubv io say, aDout tneir surroundings, they tagged the sight-seen. All wept well until the guide made 4 check up ;and discovered that his party - had grown. Calling a halt, he motioned for . attenqe and announced that there would . so further progress ''untn the. two t cblselers leave, us." Whereupon,-th president 's':tjpittolliir' faces very red, slunk awly as quickly and as quietly as they could. t ' The second tale has to do with a highly paid woman executive who not .Infrequently spends her evenings at i her desk. Recently, she failed to no " tlce the lapse of time with the result that when she Anally did leave, she came down in an elevator with a group of scrubwomen who, having completed their night's work, were on their way to their homes. The woman who stood next to the executive wore a coat and J chess quite similar to hers, though. It obviously was a cheap copy. She stood behind that particular scrubwoman when she registered out and as she picked up the pen to writ her own name, the night superintendent r- marked, "Oh, that's all right two of you." ' , : : l" Last Is the N. B.' C executive who ; as, he was passing throngh a hall, no - tWed one of the nurfrouru;slir: .';.; standing la an obscure corner wlttf dif face toward the wan, On hit re tun,. some time later, he saw the yojng nan still In the same place and ; the same position. So he went up to hhn and Inquired the reason.' Tn sor ry, sir, but I'm being punished," was the reply. Conductor William B. Hobson, re tired recently by the New York Cen v tral because he had reached the age limit, served that one railroad 64 years; Forty-seven of those years he was on the Twentieth Century running be tween New York and Chicago. : He fig hts that he has traveled 2,000,000 is on that train and has "carried" y person of importance in the (try, Including every governor, ; from David Hill to Herbert Lehman. yl Of all, he holds Theodore Roosevelt to have been the greatest His ac 9 qualntance with Franklin '.D. Roose velt began when the' President was a schoolboy. And every week for a half century, he brought down a basket of fresh eggs from upstate.- .- Kate Smith not the radio singer lis fifty-three years old but doesn't look more than thirty-live. Smiling, hap py, she regards life as a great adven ture. When she was nine years old, both her arms were burned off. Re fusing to acknowledge even such a ter rific handicap, she set about doing what other little girls did. She learned to sew In school and when the teacher Sidn't thread her needle fast enough, she threaded It herself.. For years, she taught herself to do various things and succeeded well. Then Bhe received training at the Institute for Crippled and Dlsabjed. When she wants to do a thing, she practices untn the mas ters it She's shy while trying some thing new but after that doesnt care. For hands, she has substituted 'her feet and teeth. 8he combs her, hair and makes up her face with her feet She makes all her. clothes and can operate both a sewing machine, and typewriter. She 'can sign, her; name 1 with a fountain pen and is remarkably in. fnldng jmfl Inserting Jprters. fffiflVC norm-:. : : ta IS NOW LOCATED IN " Maintaining u M ... S And Other Electrical Equipment I . Estimates oir Electric Wiring Furnished, . . ! Baseboard Sockets Installed ' rrZ complete...:. l.:....0L ! '': '.i ',. i' ,.,-v. .( . ' t& , v ns Sfiets an excellent swimmer and an ex-' pert pistol shot She has been married twice but divorced botH-husbands and now makes ber own living. Her baby died In Infancy onf-she cared 'for2 It herself and for some time earned ber living by caring for; battles In a Chi cago Institution. i When nothlngelse offers, she tra els with a sideshow. That's a last resort, since she doesn't look on her self as a freak. She doesn't look on herself as unfortunate or handicapped, either. Life has given her much, she holds., I like Kate Smith. ; , ; ? e Bll Syndicate WNU Strrle. Doable Plow Uvemtad v Wrlghtstown, Wis. A new type of plow Invented here by John Nelesse'n has ytwo shares, one set higher and ahead of the other. The higher and foremost share Is set to 'turn the sur face ground, stubble or sod while the lower share to the rear digs deeper to turn a furrow. $20.50 Buys 13 Auto Boston. Thirteen automobiles seized by the Boston police went on the auc tion block and added a grand total of $20.50 to the city coffers. Two of them went in a bargain package for f 1. Brick Brings Back 56-Year Memories Newburyport, Mass. Fifty-six years ago John J. Quill and three other youths Inscribed their names on a -a brick before It was put In the oven. Today Quill has the brick, which recently was unearth ed In front of his home by FEB A workers. " ' - ALASKA PROJECT IS ATTRACTING MANY Applications Being Recenred Daily From the States. Basin, Wyo. Colonists on the wide ly 'publicized Matanuska project in Alaska now are for the most part well satisfied with their lot, despite rumors to the contrary, Don Irwin, agricultural .director, wrote A W. Koons of Basin, a friend. Despite wide publicity given some complaints, there are many now In the United States who are eager to take their places. Irwin, former resi dent of Basin and at one time a mem ber of the Wyoming legislature, re vealed that he was receiving dozens of letters In every mail from persons asking to be allowed to take the places of colonists leaving the project "Despite the stories being circulated to one here on the ground it would appear that things have gone very well," Irwin wrote. "True, we could have made better progress had the ac tual construction werk been started earlier In the season, as It might well have been. Since It has started, how ever, It is going forward with a rush." At the time of writing, Irwin said, 600 men from transient camps in the United States, 200 carpenters and la borers from the towns along the Alas ka railroad and 175 colonists were hurrying to complete the houses and get people and live stock under cover before winter set In. . uXp da.te we have either completed or have under construction 107 houses, with eryetto build," Irwin said. "1 think It safe to say that 25 per cent of the remaining hdmes will be under con struction. In the next, two days. ; "The colonists are working hard, are .considerate and expect to stay and jmake .thls xhelr home. They are well clothed, well fed, are being supplied twlth nice homes, ' furniture, good stoves, sewing machines, power wash ors and good radios. It Isn't ploneer tng J3 we. think of Jt nnnnn I 1 ' Bl .... ..; . ... ,i .ii : " ,1 . at - 4 'r j ; ' I :.t:ttttti PERQUIMANS 'WEEKLY. HERTFORD, iCFiiEGTlABlE FORT.-. - ' TO HOLD U. Si GOLD Vault Will Be Built of Steel and Concrete. - Washlngtoa The government award ed the contract for construction of lt monetary fortress at Fort Knox, Ky to the Great Lakes Construction com pany of Chicago. The gold fort will cost $468,274. The vault Is to be built on Specifi cations prepared by the Treasury .de partment. These were designed to make the storehouse as Impregnable as the skill of man could devise. : The vault also wilt be suspended in the middle of a square building with floors,- roofs, and walls two feet' thick. ' The walls and roofs are to be faced with granite. Use Steel and Concrete.'. The vault also will be two feet thick and of unusual construction. Steel colls are to be laced Into one another within the walls with steel rdds run ning through the coils to hold them together. The colls will be Imbedded in concrete. Thus, according to the designers, even though, much of the concrete Is removed, the steel colls will remain as a barrier against the passage of even a man's hand. The vault will be 40 by 04 feet and extend through nearly two stories of the completed building. The space allowing for corridors would be suffi cient to house f 19,000,000,000 In gold. 8 Its Far From Coast Under present plans the. vault will hold all i the gold of the country now In the East There are at present $900,000,000 Is gold la the country, the bulk of which Is la the Bast Fort Knox was selected as the site of the storehouse because It Is behind the lat nral barriers of the Rockies and the Appalachians 2,100 miles from the Pacific coast and 650 miles from the Atlantic coast The vault is to be open to continual inspection on all four sides and top and bottom. There Is to be an 18-lnch fDPPA nnrter the floor and. aboyft the AMMO, for more than a Million cars in 1955 , 4 ' if ;t 5 y t " t r ; f-y--nk '-v:- is.. ;.,.. v N. C; FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, ceiling, 'These" 'spaces are to 6e bril liantly lighted and equipped with mir rors sVthat guards' willie' able to see ever? Incta of the vault T ' i The building Is to be protected by a series of sensitive microphones, para pets and machine gun turrets. Preliminary work on the site was begun last June when seven laborers spaded Into a field of daisies. They dug Into bed rock for the structure's foundation. ALL-TIME HIGH SET l FOR U. S. PRISONERS Record Roll Attributed to Liq uor Tax Evasion. ; WasnlngtonThe Increase In prison terms for violations of the liquor tax law, narcotics traffic, counterfeiting and motor vehicle thefts and the antl' crime offensive of the Department of Justice brought the federal prison population to an all-time high this year. On July 1 the prisons had the high est total ever recorded at the close of a fiscal year. On July 19 the total had climbed slightly to 15,612, according to figures of Sanford Bates, director of the federal bureau of prisons, after which there was a slight seasonal de cline. Federal prisons, reformatories anl camps received from the courts during the fiscal year 1935 a total of 11,000 prisoners, as "compared with 8,775 In 1838 and 8,007 in 1934. Liquor law violations are now send ing to federal prisons virtually as many offenders as they did during the peak of prohibition enforcement For the fiscal 4 year 1935 there were 4,405 commitments. The treasury drive against violations of the Internal rev enue. laws tithe chief reason for the sharp upward movement The treasury offensive against coun terfeiters, conducted with little pub licity by its secret service, has also contributed to the current expansion in the federal prison population. Dur ing the depression years, counterfeit ers have been active on a wide front The court .cmnmiimcnls reflect -the iV. GyA (Tic. rm 7T7T 71T IftTTT II II II 11 I I IUr Tub year Chevrolet has two very - good reasons for saying "Thank you America." One reason is that people have bought - so' many Chevrolet 'ixn''.tiMpfoaction "jm- the year, will reach 1,640,000 And th& other reason is that they have placed a record number of orders for new C NEW GREATLY REDUCED lowest financing .east in history. Compare Chevrolet's low ddwend prices. 1935. Increase In their activity. In 1930, only 20 ...persons were convicted of counterfeiting and forgery of. govern ment obligalfbns. In 1933, the num ber was" 867? In 1985, the number was W54. ' , . ' V- Narcotlc offenses sent to federal prisons 1,623 persons daring the fiscal year 1935, as compared with 1,821 In 1934, and violation of the motor Vehi cle Theft Act 1,071 persons lnN 1935. Commitments for other offenses In 1935 Include the following: Homi cide, 16; Immigration act 835; In terstate commerce act, 344; Mann act HO, and postal law, 830, with sev eral hundred unclassified. These In clude kidnaping, now a federal of-fen,se. ! A Good Place To I Sell Your For twentv-six vears ; ; Company has been an active buyer of peanuts in your section. We feel that our record is ; ample assurance that you can depend on us ; ; for fair dealing and full market prices. Be- I fore you sell or store your 1935 crop, we be lieve it will pay you to get in touch with us or one of our buyers. Our storage rate is very attractive and our local bank will make lib eral Loans on Peanuts Stored With Us. The Edenton Peanut! Company EDENTON YOU 1936 Chevrolets during the first few weeks they have been on display. Chevrolet is indeed happy to say "Thank you, America," and to pledge continued adherence to the manufactur ing and service policies which have won and held the friendship of the nation. CHEVROLET MOTOR CO., DETROIT. MICH. G.M.A.C TIME PAYMENT PAGE TKREE Playful Goat Get :.v Goat of EverytJody Tacoma, Wash. Eight goats 'got everybody's goat and the owner of. the goats got Jddge Frank A US gill's goat I The real goats got In an acro batic mood.- and climbed all over the automobiles of the city employ ees parked near a city dump. In police court the owner of the athletic goats, Joe Ross, was or dered to remove them from the city limits In accordance with a city law which prohibits keeping more than two goats. Peanuts The Ed en ton Peanut NORTH CAROLINA PLAN -V -4 '4 'I s' ' . ' I"1' . ,

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