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1 '• m /\s / IITTU AMERICA ^ANTARCTIC* tuCrf.rfSefkjk I V.J.K.A.. S MuAidatt JN o. li—IjOsi ana r ouna : On Board The Byrd Flagship, Jacob Ruppert, Antarctica, Jan. 29 (via Mackay Radio)—Well, here I am folks. Back again on the good old Jake. Filthy dirty and no chance to get clean. Dog tired every joint I possess ach ing madly. But gosh! What mus cles I am developing! I’ve been told by the club secretary, by radio, that I’ve been lost. I didn’t know it. But I’ve had the amazing experience of spending three nights—or rather the tiny parts of night I could spare for sleep, with the sun shining all night—in a tent with a snow iroor. And only the ex haustion of 20 hours a day of the most terrific physical labor could make me sleep on that cracking snow and ice floor. I’ll never see a crack in a con John O’Brien Crete sioewaiK Second Mate of a g a i n without the Ruppert wanting to run away from it. Down here you’ll see a tiny crack you could hardly put a knife-blade into. A few minutes later it is three feet wide and you’re sprinting away from it as fast as you can go. In half an hour a piece of terri tory as big as ten football fields, with a horrible grinding sound, has slid into the ocean, which is 1600 feet deep around these parts | and darn cold. Nice stuff to sleep ! on> eh ? My job won’t sound impressive j to you. Checking gas and oil. j Prosaic enough, I imagine, doing | that In some warehouse or freight j CAnYou Imagine/ (AN YOU IMAGINE the surprise of the New Bedford citizen who came to Boston to con- , suit a stomach specialist, experiences . on attack of acute indigestion,took o dose of BISMA-REX ot the Liggett Store in the South Station, felt such relief that he returned to his home and bought 6 bottles of BiSMA-REX! EXPLANATION Bisma-Rex is a new antacid treat ment that is bringing welcome re lief to thousands everywhere who suffer the agonies of indigestion and other acid stomach ailments. Bisma-Rex acts four ways to give lasting relief in three minutes. It neutralizes excess' acid; relieves the stomach of gas; soothes the irritated membranes; and aids digestion of foods most likely to ferment. Bisma-Rex is sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. Get a jar today at B. & T. Drug Co., Sparta. station. But on the edge of a slippery, crumbling cliff or snow and ice which Ls likely to dis appear any minute and take you with it, well, prosaic is not quite the word, believe me. All day yesterday and prac tically all night we worked with furious energy on the ice to take advantage of good weather. The shin had been able, with the aid of our wonderful motor boat cruiser, to snuggle up to the treacherous and unsteady ice cliffs after drifting about the bay for three days to save her from being sunk in a smother of falling ice cakes as big as houses. On the end of the big boom the landing net was spilling radio equipment and great red drums of gasoline and oil out onto the ice. And George Noville, C. P. Lindley, of Warren, R. I., several other fellows and myself were working frantically loading them onto the dog sledges and tractor sledges for the mad das'h away from the edge of the ice to Pressure Camp, four miles back, where the ice hasn’t started to crack up yet. Admiral Byrd, on a tour of inspection, had located several cracks behind us but we were too busy to worry. He worried, though, as he always does about his men when there is danger iround. He considers the break ing up of the bay ice a terribly serious problem. But we toiled )n undisturbed. Pretty soon, from the bridge, ve heard the Admiral yell through i megaphone to Lindley, “Hey, Lindley, you’re too close to the ?dge to work without a life line. !’ut one on immediately.” This vas Lindley’s lucky day. The •est of us had life lines on, groups > )f us tied together on long ropes. Lindley did as the Admiral told lim and attached himself to No dlle and me. Darn good thing le did! We were loading up another .ledge for another wild run to 3ressure Camp when suddenly we leard the four ominous blasts on ;hat deep whistle on the Rup jert. It scared the wits out of is. This was the signal to cast oose ship and dash aboard. In >ther words, it meant both we tnd the ship were in deadly dang :r and the ship was going away ’rom there immediately. Before ve could move a muscle the ioe itarted breaking up all around us ind underneath us, with that aw :ul grinding sound. The sharp :yes of Admiral Byrd and Com nodore Gjertsen had spotted its jeginning from the ship. Tre nendous cracks appeared like nagic on all sides of us. One >pened up directly under Lindley ind he went head over heels into t, out of sight and almost took ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified a* Administra tor of R. D.. Wataon, deceased, 1 hereby notify all persons hav ing claims against his estate to present them to me within twelve months of this date, or this notice will be plead in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the estate are notified to make settlement immediately. This February 12th, 1934. W. B. REEVES, Admr. of R. D. Watson, Deceased. AT-4U-8 Used Pianos Like New You Choice of world’* ttcnd -td makes, Pease, Laft argue, Story & Clark, Estey, Wilbur, Lauter, Sterling and many others. $40, $50, $60, $70, $80 and up Players $90 And up Why wait five year*-longer? Your dollar will do double duty, now. It will pay you to come mile* and mile* for bargains like these. BOWEN PIANO COMPANY Trade Street — Next to Poet Office WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. George and me with him. With all our strength we hauled him out, like a huge fish, and in the excitement Novill'e gave him a good kick, for no good reason at alt. On the piece of ice that was falling next to the ship- were sev eral packing boxes of precious supplies and ten big drums of priceless gasoline. These simply had to be rescued. The big boom swung out quickly over the side and almost buried us with the landing net. Working like mad we rolled the drums and boxes hurriedly into the net and it was jerked into the air and onto the broad steel deck of the Ruppert. Thank the Lord that’s not cracking up! On al'l sides men were scurrying about *on the ice—some to dig out the buried steel hatch covers to which our mooring lines are attached and casting them off, others rushing to the makeshift gang plank to the ship, made of telephone poles and more hatch covers. Up that gangplank we scampered madly and the men on board got busy hauling it in. Will you believe it, five minutes after that whistle went off, the ship was moving out to open water, just as the whole area where we had been working, hundrds of yards of it, tumbled into the ocean. Oh boy, some excitement! But we’re get ting used to tnese sudden moves. Nothing happens slowly down here. Wonder if I shall' ever be able to accustom myself to a peaceful life at home again. I certainly will for the first six months because I’ll sleep that long the minute I reached there. You should see us. Our nice white working suits are filthy black. So are we and the beards we are growing are comical to see. We haven’t had a real bath since we left New Zealand and the Ruppert, being an oil burner has deposited on all of us a nice layer of sticky, oily soot which no amount of cold cream seems to budge. If I ever get into a nice white tiled bathroom, with plenty of hot water and towels and scrubbing brushes, I’ll kiss its walls and eat the soap. The club tells me that all the cards and working maps which members get witrout cost have been sent to date but that some of them have been returned be cause names and addresses were not clearly enough written by ap plicants. Write them about this j if your card and map haven’t ar rived and they’ll send them. If you haven’t applied yet for mem bership, which costs nothing, do so now, with your friends. Simply send us a self-addressed stamped envelope and your membership ; card will be sent you immediate- j ly, with the map being mailed | the following day. Address your envelope to Arthur Abele, Jr., Little America Aviation and Ex ploration Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th Street and Lexington Ave nue, New York, N. Y. Furches Furches, March 13. — Elmer Rose spent the week-end at the home of R. M. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Petty spent the week-end at the home of F. G. Brackins. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roupe and children visited at the home -of Harrison Taylor Sunday night. R. W. Hall, who 'has been ill for some time, does not impiove. Miss Hazel Mabe, of Laurel Springs, spent the week-end with her mother near here. F. G. Brackins h-as been sick for the past week. Miss Blanche Caudill spent the week-end with Racine Taylor. Mrs. Jane Halt visited friends in this community one day last week. Emmett Evans made a business trip to Sparta Saturday. Andy Mabe and son, Ollen, spent one night last week at the home of Sessie Mabe. Miss Zell Evans spent Satur day with Gladys Caudill. Thelma Osborne, of Pine Fork, spent one night last week at the home of R. M. Taylor. Steve Osborne visited his daughter, Mrs. Harrison Taylor, one day last week. Miss Phay Evans spent Satur day with Delia Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Taylor spent the week-end at the home of John C. Church. See Cattevems Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. tfc. Bar Groups To Hold Meetings At Duke Raleigh, March 13.—Meetings of both the North Carolina State Bar, legal body, and the North Carolina State Bar association, will be held at Duke university, Durham, for three days, June 28-30, according to an announce ment made recently by H. M. London, who is secretary of both organizations. What is expected to be an outstanding event of the occasion is the address to be delivered on the night of June 29, the second night of the a,s | sociation’s convention, by Earle i W. Evans, Wichita, Kansas, presi I dent of the American Bar as sociation. The State Bar will hold a one day session, the 28th, with Presi dent I. M. Bailey, Raleigh, pre siding. Newton D. Baker, form er secretary of War, has been invited to attend and .speak The program is not completed. The association will convene that night with a welcome by Frank L. Fuller, Jr., president of the Durham Bar, and response by Kingsland Van Winkle, Ashe ville. President J. Elmer Long will deliver his address and Judge Robert W. Winston, historian, will speak. A reception will probably follow the meeting. Friday morning former Jus tice F. Faville, of the Iowa su preme court, will speak, and some younger member of the state association will be on the pro gram. Following the address of President Evans, the Durham Bar will entertain, arid social"features will be receptions at Duke Uni versity and the Hope Valley Coun try club, where golfing and other sports will be in order. The ses sion will end with a Saturday morning session, at which com mittees will report and officers will be elected. Twin Oaks Twin Oaks, March 13.-—Mr. and Mrs. R .V. M'oodey and Thelma Osborne visited friend? here Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Edd Miller, of Laurel Springs, spent Saturday night at the home of Monro1 [ Fender here. llc-ne Kilby and Madge McMil lan visited Stella York Sunday. Rose and Wade Irwin have [ been confined to their room with measles for most cf two weeks. ; Mr. and Mr. Fred Handy and ' small son, Billie, spent Saturday! and Sunday nights at the home I of W. R. Robbins. Mack Atwood and family .-pent Saturday night with relatives in Mount Airy. v Walter McMillan and family, of Galax, Va., spent Saturday night at the home of Grady Irwin. Little Pine Ennice P. 0., March 13.—Wal ter Greene died suddenly Thurs day morning and funeral services were conducted at Crab Creek Friday. Mrs. W. H. Handy, who has been ill, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Handy and son spent Saturday night with Mr. Handy’s, father, W. H. Handy. Marie Smith is spending a few days with her brother, Garnett Smith. Misses Zelma and Cleta Greene spent Sunday with Nellie and Emma Lee Wagoner. Miss Bessie Chappell spent Saturday night with Miss Emma Lee Wagoner. Miss Marie Smith spent Sun day night with Miss Cleta Greene. Lerfer Greene visited his father, J. T. Greene, Sunday. Those who visited at the home of Fred Handy Sunday night were Marie Smith and Ray, Zelma, Thelma and Cleta Greene. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE I, the undersigned, have till* day qualified as Administrator of the estate of James A. Williams, late of Alleghany (county, North Carolina. All persons having claims against the estate will pre sent them I to me on or before February 27, 1935 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. This Feb. 27, 1934. 1 4tc-22 AT J. M. ESTEP, Administrator James A. Williams AUTO REPAIRING THAT IS RIGHT Is your car safe? If it is not, drive it in and we will give it a once over. Gas, Oil, Exide Batteries General Repair Work Blacksmithing Sparta Garage F. M. JOINES, Manager —NORTH CAROLINA. SPARTA, WHEN SPARTANS RALLIED Broadcast under a Raleigh date I line is a story by Lieutenan! I Croom, of the highway patrol | that is an old familiar but ol the kind that should always have notice if the old abusing set ou1 is to be checked. Passing through the Alleghany count} seat of the noble name the pat teroller lieutenant says his at tention was called by the local policeman to a car in the dis tance that wobbled suspiciously. Overhauling the car the patrol man found the driver decidedly and emphatically drunk and a woman companion in the same fix. Taken back to Sparta the pair were headed for the county jail, as is the custom in such cases. Then a number of Spar tans rallied ’round and told the patrolman that would never do; that the man was a member of one of the best families in the county and “it would be a dis grace to put him in jail for driv ing while drunk.” Under the familiar circumstances mentioned it isn’t what the offender does that disgraces him, according to the logic of friends. He can only be disgraced if and when the law takes him. They didn’t seem to care about the disgrace to the woman if she was locked up. She evidently didn’t belong to the elect. But they became so persistent about the best fam ily member that the lieutenant says he had to threaten one of them with arrest for interference with an officer. Presumably the best family member, driving while drunk and a menace to all on the road, best families and otherwise, was really “disgraced” by being locked up. The officer’s story ends as stat ed. But if he went his way and left the disposition to local of ficialdom we may presume that the best family man was free as soon as the officer’s back was turned and probably told to go and forget it. The lieutenant closes the relation of his experi ence at Sparta with the state ment that it is but an example of what highway patrolman fre quently meet elsewhere in their endeavor to enforce the highway laws, especially against drunken and reckless drivers. Which statement isn’t news, of course. That certain of the law less in almost every community are considered too prominent to be treated as the common var iety of that class is of common knowledge, as is also the fact that the consideration is frequently extended. Arrests that should be made are not made when the of ficer knows the offender is in the preferred group. Sometimes it is made and there is no report and subsequent trial; or the ac commodating judge may change the offense charged to a lesser that the penalty may be lessened. That is an old story but it should be broadcast at every opportun ity. Lieutenant Croom should have given the name of the best family member who was not dis graced by drunken driving but by being locked in a common iail os one of the common. Also he should have obtained and in cluded in his broadcast the names of the protesting Spartans. While wTe know the patterollers Not Responsible Neighbor, just returned from an afternoon of golf—Good heav ens ! You don’t mean to say you’ve beer, working in the gar den since seven o’clock this morning! I wouldn’t think of doing such a thing. Victim—I wouldn’t either; it was my wife who thought of it. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE — Under and by virtue of power vested in me in a certain deed o{ trust executed by B. O. Choate and wife and 'P. L. Choate and ; wife on June 1st, 1926, and re corded in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds for Alleghany County in Book 14, Page 124, to secure certain indebtedness to The Mountain Loan Corporation, and default having been made in pay ment of said note> and demand having been made to the under signed Trustee to execute the power vested in him in isaid deed of trust, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Sparta on'the 22nd day of March, 1934, at 11 I o’clock A. M. the follow ing described tract of land, to wit: Containing 48 acres, more or less, and being the tract of land conveyed by R. J. Edwards and wife, Ollie Edwards by deed dat ed February 15th, 1919, to B. O. and Leff Choate, which deed is recorded in Book 31, Page 93 offico of Register of Deeds for Alleghany County to which refer ence is hereby made for a more complete and specific description. This February 20, 1934. R. F. CROUSE, Trustee. I 4tc-15 AT have that experience the concern is how they meet it. Presum ably Lieutenant Croom met the situation at Sparta as an officer and a man. If he stood the Spartans off in the full knowledge that his official head, Cap’n Farm ! er has a weakness—as exposed in a Lexington case—of suggest - j ing to his patrolmen to go easy ; with the prominent, then the more glory to him. He also knows that I there is in almost every com j munity persons of political influ | ence sufficient to “break” a I patrolman, and some of them wouldn’t hesitate to use it in be half of a member of a prominent family who wa-- disgraced by be ing put in jail. If the patrolmen show a disposi tion to go straight under that, handicap, to know no violator of the law except for what he is, ; then it become-- all good citizenry, even tho: e wh claim to favor | law enforcement and frequently j proclaim for it in public while i privately trying to defeat it, to give all aid and encouragement to the patterrollers who have the ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra tor of T. W .Green, deceased I hereby notify all persons having j claims against his estate to pre i sent them to me within twelve , months of this date, or this notice will be plead in bar of recovery. : All persons indebted to the estate are notified to make settle ment immediately. This March 13th, 1934. 4tc-5 AT A. M. GREEN, Administrator of T. W. Green, * deceased. NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT BEFORE THE CLERK R. D. Richardson, Administrator of Daisy Barne!tj plaintiff vs John W. Barnett and others, defendant;’. The defendants, S. C. Barnett and Ettie D. Barnett Marlow®, in the above entitled action will take notice that on action en titled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Alleghany County for the pur pose of selling land to create assets t>o pay the indebtedness of the estate of Daisy Barnetti and tho said defendants, and each of them, will further take notice that they are required to appear at the office of the Clerk of Superior Court on or before the 26th day of March, 1934, at Sparta, North Carolina, and answer or demur to Complaint in said acthon, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the Relief demanded in said Complaint. This 22nd day of February, 1934. 4tc-22 AT A. F. REEVES, Clerk of Superior Court. See Casteve.ns Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. tfc. normal courage to do right. If it is the purpose to -avoid this discrimination, Whidh the ! head of the patrol has encourag ed, the beats of these officers would be frequently changed. It isn’t good for them to stay in a territory until they get too well acquainted.—Clark’s Comment in the March 11 issue of the Greens boro Daily News. NOTICE OF SALE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT BEFORE THE CLERK NORTH CAROLINA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY. B. D. Beamer, Executor of J. H. Rhudy, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Mrs. Hattie Rhudy, et al, De fendants. Under power vested in us a# Commissioners in judgment of the Superior Court ordering a re-sale of the land hereinafter described, wc the undersigned Commissioner.' will offer for sale at public auction at the Court house door in Sparta on the 16th day of March 1934, :.t 11 o’clock A. M. the following described tract of land. Beginning at a hickory on the ridge North residence of Alma Richardson; thence South 44.40 East 40 ft. to middle, of road; thence ' with road Sort.h 5 deg. West 1012 poles; South 30.15 East 9 34 poles; South 61 East 1212 poles; South 39.30 East 11 1 > poles tc n stake; South 71 East 85 polei; to a Spanish Oak; South 31 East 60 poles to a locust; Ncvth 44.36 East 32*2 poles to a stake; North 53 East 121 > poles to a chestnut stump; South 75 East 22 poles to a Spanish Oak pointers near the 'ow notch; North 28 East 40 poles '-3 a hickory; North 32 West 48 poles to a forked chest nut oak; North 87 West 14 poles lo a forked chestnut up the :>ranch 100 pchs to a locust iti:.mp; Wes': 100 poles to a white :>ak; South 54 West 107 poles :o the beginning, containing 152.69 acres more or less, ex* :ept lot 151 ft. fronting the Highway and running back 227 Ft. cm the East line and 250 ft. 3n the West line and 150 ft. -vide on back side, except right to spring and right of way of T rms of sale- One-half cash on day of sale. Balance on six months time. Thi March 1, 1934. J. M. PARSONS R. F. CROUSE ttc-15-AT Commissioners. 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