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Everett Miller, St. Louis, Is Secono And Lonnie Kline, Akron, Finishes Third Akron, 0., Aug. 20.—Eighty j thousand spectators saw Indiana boyhood triumph for the second I consecutive year in the All | American Soap Box Derby here f when 13-year-old Maurice E. Bale, Jr., of Anderson, Ind., drove his scarlet and gray coaster | to victory over juvenile champions J of 61 other contending cities Seventy-pound Everett Miller, S 13, St. Louis, was second and j;, Lonnie Kline, 15, of Akron, O., third. The three finalists flew down the bricked slope to cross ; the finish line scant inches apart. | The first Derby, in 1934 at I Dayton, O., was won by Robert I Turner, of Muncie, Ind. The winner of first place re ceived a $2,000 four-year scholar ship in any state university. ' Second was awarded a Master Chevrolet coach, and third a Standard Chevrolet coach. Each of the three boys reach I ing the final also received a - silver trophy and a medal. A wrist watch was given to each of the 52 city champions. Other awards: Charles F. Kettering Trophy (for the best designed and con structed car)—Drayton Rhodes, Philadelphia. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Trophy (fastest heat)—Lonnie Kline, Akron, 30.4 seconds. J. D. Tew Trophy (best brakes) .—William Spain, Rochester, N. Y. Collins & Aikman Trophy (best upholstered car)—Kenneth Shatto, Louisville. Climalene Trophy (best balanc ed car)—Joseph Ogilvie, Cleve land. The young contestants, eyes unblinking on the track and ; steering wheels in the grip of £ small determined fists, took the I? stiff 1181-foot roadway in their | stride, and with only minor mis f haps, to the roar of a sweltering I crowd of over 80,009 people that i packed every seat and every foot of standing space. The Ohio National Guard, State Police, uniformed county | deputy sheriffs and Akron City ! police guarded the course and handled the tremendous flow of | traffic. The entire hill, and areas at top and bottom, were fenced in. The radio program was dis arranged when Paul C. Brown, Oklahoma City, developed side ■ swing on the hill and lost control of his car after it finished, strik ing Graham McNamee and Tom Manning, NBC radio announcers. Both were removed to a field hospital and later to Akron City hospital. Their injuries were found to be not serious, but both were advised to remain for several days. McNamee was un able to make his scheduled i&acast. The Tulsa, OkVa., car was forced into the fence a few yards it left the hilltop ramp, but le driver escaped a tumble and drove his car in a later heat. 1 Twenty-four preliminary heats ith three entries to each, rowed the field to six con its in the semi-finals—Bale, Anderson, Ind.; Miller, St. Kline, Akron, O.; David free, Portland, Ore.; Way id, South Bend, Ind., and C. Hawkins, Dallas, Tex.—and Miller and Kline disposed their rivals in the semi-finals. Young Kline made the fastest of all contestants when he dated the steep incline in seconds in his second heat beat Kenneth Shatto, Louis and Roy Peterson, of Oak Calif. Racing in another in the final, however, he was to duplicate, the feat and seconds was good enough NATION’S MOST FAMOUS HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH COMPLETELY IDENTIFIED A controversy waged for ovei sixty years is brought to a clos< with acceptance of identificatior of figures appearing in what i: generally regarded as the Nation’: most historic photograph, by th< committee, sponsoring the annua Robert E. Lee Week festival. Cul minating in the invitation Le< Monument ball to be given Aug ust 30 at the Greenbrier, the fes tival will be held the entire wee! of August 25 in White Sulphui Springs, W. Va., where the photo graph was taken in 1869. The identifications accepted bj to decide the race in Bale’* favor. The national final climaxed i two-day program which greetec the young Derby champions witt all the ceremony and heartiness of an Olympic Games opening Akron was theirs and they tool it over. When they were no1 posing for a battery of earners men, they were at a night base ball game or the theatres, 01 were honor guests at banquets. Newspaper planes flew the titleholders of Rochester, N. Y. and Detroit to Akron. Others came by family automobile, wit! all the family, and trains delivered the remainder to a hospitable city sumptuously festooned in tribute to them. They came from as far west as Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash.( south from Dallas and El Paso, east from Boston—a procession of juvenile champions who had disposed of an army of 50,000 challengers for the right to represent their cities in the final race. Youngest was Jimmy Fennig, 8, third grade schoolboy from Milwaukee. A spectator was Dr. H. C. Giles, Cuyahoga, O., whose son described each heat to him. The doctor is blind. Twenty of the contestants weighed less than a hundred pounds. The age limit was 16. Only two boys who won in 1934 in their home cities repeated in 1935 and had a second try to the title—Jack Furstenburg, 16, Omaha, and Walter York, 16, Knoxville, Tenn. The cars themselves reflected adolescent imagination at its ingenious peak. Few of the in ventive entrants departed far from the original soapbox idea. Tommy Nimmo> Scranton, Pa., was the only boy whose car did not cost him a cent to build, and Leon Carlson, Rockford, 111., managed it on a dollar. Race scenes resembled Derby Day at Churchill Downs or a World Series. Writers and photographers of the 52 news papers co-operating with Chevro let in handling the classic chaperoned their respective win ners to Akron. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, America’s flying war ace, was a referee, and from the finish line Harry Hartz, veteran racing automobile driver, signaled to the racers on the hilltop ramp to come on. Gar Wood, holder of the Harmsworth Trophy, was a judge, as were also T. E. Meyers, general manager of the India napolis Motor Speedway, and “Wild Bill” Cummings, national AAA racing champion. The crowd also responded to the appearance on the coarse of Tom Mix, old-time movie star; a truckload of Hagenback & Wallace clowns, and a dozen bands, and in tj»e air above the course of “Miss Chevrolet,” white bullet of the air, which holds the world’s speed record of 233 miles in hour far inverted flying. Harold Neumann, pilot of the Benny Howard monoplane, gave i thrilling performance between leats. ■ S' The semi-flnal and Anal heats were broadcast by NBC over the : oast-to-e oast Blue network, seleghaph companies strung ipecial wires to the press stand, ind the four major news reels, caught the thrills and human for the nation’s motion the committee are the result of many year’s research by Leonard L. Mackall, well-known authority on Leeana, who lives at 217 East 34th St., Savannah, Ga. His re port submitted to the committee is substantiated by documents and other old photographs, leaving no .room for doubt that each of the historic personages appearing in the film is now properly named and as such will be accepted as authentic at one of the ceremon ies at the Lee Week celebration. Although the photograph has been reproduced many times since 1869, never in recent years, and probably not for at least fifty years, has the photograph shown names correctly, either in news papers, magazines or historical works, according to Mackall, who in his report says; “In ‘The Pho tographic History of the Civil War,’ edited by Francis Treval yan Miller, the photograph is de scribed as ‘Soldiers and Citizens: Robert E. Lee, With Former Un ion and Confederate Leaders Af ter the Armies’ Work Was Done.’ Beneath, the Confederate Gener al, Gary, is identified as the Un ion General, John W. Geary. General Lawton is mistaken for the Union General Lew Wallace! In another work General Conner is described as General George H. Thomas of the Union Army. In an important history issued with in the last two years, in which the photograph is reproduced, of all those standing only General Beauregard is correctly indicated, the other seven names being wrongly placed and also partly incomplete or entirely inaccur ate.” According to the now accepted identifications, subjects seated in the photograph, commencing from Cox’s Chapel Mouth of Wilson, Va., P. O., Aug. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Dint Joines and son, Dean, of Edwards Cross Roads, were visiting Mrs. Joines’ mother, Mrs. Jincy I. Os borne, over the week-end. Miss Mabel Osborne, who has been with her aunt, Mrs. Dint Joines, of Edwards Cross Roads, | has returned home. Rev. C. W. Kimbrell, of Dur Iham, spent the past week at the home of E. P. Osborne, while conducting a Vacation Bible school at Potato creek. He vis ited several other homes in the community. Mrs. Troy Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Cox and sons, Kenneth and Donald, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Os borne. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Osborne and Mrs. and Mrs. E. P. Osborne and children, Fred Osborne and Elza Cox, were business visitors in Sparta Saturday. Little Ruth Clark Dutton, of Monroe, N. C., who has been with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Black, for some time, has returned home. Amongtthose from this commun. ity who attended the Whitetop music festival are Mrs. DeEtte Halsey and Munsey and Wayne Cox. Mrs. DeEtte Halsey and Miss Mazy Cox visited friends at Com ers Rock, last week. Mrs. Zack Ward and son, Ferd nal Cline, are visiting Mrs. Ward’s mother, Mrs. Mayme Delp, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Alex Delp, at Potato Creek. Paul Osborne spent Saturday night with his uncle, Fred Os borne, of Turkey Knob. A series of revival meetings is to begin at the local church on Sunday, August 25, The annual league convention: will be held at Sparta on Wednes day, August 28. Miss Willa Osborne, who has been with her grandmother, Mrs.. Jincy Osborne, for* some time, spent several days last week with; her parents, Mr. and- Mrs. Earl ... the left, are 1) Blacque Bey, Turkish Minister to the United States, 1867 to 1873; 2) General Lee; 3) George Peabody, of Mas sachusetts, philanthropist; 4) W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, phi lanthropist, donor of the Corcoran Gallery; 5) Judge James Lyons of Richmond, Va., lawyer, mem ber of the House of Representa tives in the First Confederate Congress, 1862-1864, intimate friend of Jefferson Davis, Presi dent of the Confederate States of America. All subjects standing are Con federate Generals. Commencing from the left, 1) is General James Conner, of South Carolina, attor ney general of that State under Wade Hampton; 2) General Mar tin W- Gary, of South Carolina; 3) Major General J. Bankhead Gruder, of Virginia; 4) General Robert D. Lilley, of Virginia; 5) General Beauregard, of Louisi ana; 6) General Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, appointed Quartermaster General of the army of the Confederate States when wounds received at the battle of Antitetam prevented his return to active service; 7) Gen eral Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, Governor of Virginia during the period of John Brown’s raid; 8) General Joseph L. Brent, of Mary land, who died in 1905, last sur vivor of all Americans in the photograph. I LOOKING AT WASHINGTON (continued from front page) canvass means anything or not, but it is interesting in view of the importance that attaches to the type of candidate that the Re publicans will nominate. Obvious ly, the campaign that would be waged by Mr. Borah would not be anything like that undertaken, for example, by Mr. Hoover. So, widely apart are these Republi cans that no platform written could be stretched to include seats for both, although, in no event, do we think that Senator Borah will stray from the Re publican reservation. Moreover, the attack that would be directed at the Roosevelt administration, while centering on the alleged abuse of the Constitution, would be from entirely different angles, aimed to capture divergent groups of voters. THE PRESIDENT’S TRIP The talk in the capital is that the President will answer Mr. Hoover, among other things, on his trip from Washington to the exposition at San Diego, and, at this writing, the date of the journey is indefinite, with the chances that it will begin next month. Present plans aje sub ject to change, although two speeches are reasonably certain, one at Boulder Dam and another at San Diego, with an exposition of the power program for the first and nothing slated for the other. Other addresses will be made and you can take it for granted that a major effort will discuss the farm program that is counted upon by Democratic strategists to play a big part in holding Roosevelt votes. amendment indefinite It is safe to say, however, that no definitely worded amendment to the Constitution will be forth coming until the Supreme Court has passed upon other controver sies this fall. Obviously, with much legislation subject to doubt and awaiting the final word of the Court, it is impossible for anybody, even those advocating an amendment, to state what it should be. Until the Court sets a definite limit to Federal power in dealing with social and eco nomic matters, which it is expect ed to do in a series of opinions, the extent of any change desired will be problematic*l. If the Court upholds some of the legis lation, this phase, at least, will fade and if most of it is upheld might vanish altogether. The general belief is that the Court, however, will knock out some of the New Deal measures, and that unless the administration wishes to abandon its efforts for reform an amendment will be necessary. The manner in which this is pre sented and pushed will depend in a large degree upon popular reaction. COUNT ON WEST AND SOUTH Facing the presidential election next fall the Democratic party leaders profess no doubt of the result, even admitting that a present trend against the Presi dent is apparent. The general idea is that a combination of the South and West, as contrast ed to the conservative East, will insure Mr. Roosevelt’s return to the White House. The danger of a radical third party is discount ed and serious disaffection from conservative Democrats is dismiss ed because these Democrats must run with the party, for the most part, if they run at all, More over, they have much confidence in the President’s understanding of mass psychology, and know that the entire campaign may turn on an unforeseen “trend,” or some word or act that will dominate the national arena. HULL DOCTRINE LAUDED The “Hull doctrine” of recipro cal trade treaties was lauded last week by the President as a “prac tical demonstration” of the good neighbor policy when a pa.rty of Cubans visited Washington to de termine if the policy of cobpera tion can be further extended. Secretary Hull, reviewing the ef fects of the treaty with Cuba, pointed out that in the first ten months of the treaty total trade between the two nations expand ed approximately $63,000,000 over the corresponding previous peri od, representing an increase of about 80 per cent. The treaty with Cuba went into effect last September and results of the Bel gian and other agreements are said to be almost as promising as that with Cuba. Altogether our foreign commerce, during the year ending June 30, 1935, was the best since 1931, with ex ports of $2,120,726,000 and 'im ports of $1,786,772,000. Secretary Hull, just back from Mg vacation, is determined to push his reciprocal trade agree ments and asserts his belief that it is the best method of restor ing normal trade and commerce between nations. His economic program contemplates that other governments will follow suit and that the restoration of world, com merce will give employment to many millions in different parts of the world who will otherwise be unemployed if nations insist upon domestic programs only. Naturally, he is concerned with the continuing nationalistic polic ies which, he thinks, increases the economic tension that grips the world as a whole. Little Pine Ennice P. O., Aug. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Edd Carico entertained a number of their friends Satur day night with a social gathering. Homer Wilson and Letcher Chappell made a business trip “down South” last week. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson, a baby girl on August 14. Miss Zelma Greene spent Saturday night with Miss Bessie Chappell. • Gwynn Andrews, of a CCC camp, spent the week-end with home folks. Leonard Cain visited home folks during the week-end at Low Gap Mrs. J. L. Greene visited Mrs Garnett Smith Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Carlie Lowe visited •at the home of Garnett Smith Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Flake Harris, Cleveland, Ohio, are visiting home folks here. , Misses Bessie Chappell and Zelma Greene motored to White Plains Sunday. Right On Schedule Patient—Say, doctor, pull this tooth just as quick as you can! It’s been aching like tarnation ever since last summer. I thought sometimes I couldn’t stand it. Dentist—Why didn’t you come to mee sooner and have it pulled? Patient—1 heard on the radio you should go to your dentist every six months, and I was waiting for the time to roll round. See Casteveni Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. tfc. **« • >*?* THE CAROLINAS RANK v ^ First in Prohrihs mi Value ef Cm* . Largest THE CAROLINES RANK First a Manufacture Tobacco Products Largest Factories a tfcg WaH VALUE of the tobacco crop in the Carolinas is well over $100,000,000.00 eSfch year. North Carolina ranks first among aM the states in raising tobacco, Value of manufactured tobacco products m the Carolinas—cigarettes, cigars, smoking and chewing tobaccos—is between $500,000,000 aad three-quarters of a billion dollars annually. That’s the PmfOM if The Carolina*, Inc —“TO TELL THE WORLD” . ■ .-. ' -r—-r~~ n 7k CARO LI NAS INC. Tha Cuvliaw, Inc. Bra M, Charlotte, N. C. Withoot obUcation.. float* con«ni>| Carolinaa, lac, ai Oppartaaity BalMa. Maara_.__ Straat... ...City.... aarai fall ioformatioa aopjr of tha Carollaaa l-c." g*l*?*i g.3 ^ i s mpm of North and South Carolina itod the •pace far tbl* awl a rariae. iewooBt* which will ^paar for the i brio (tag facte about the Carolina* eir people, that they may ha hotter a* to tha resource*. history and importance of the Carolina*, and ' may know haw they can aubt oad movement to advertiee to tha i of thi. favored motion.
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