PtLe WEEKLY 'WASHINGTON
MERRY
TRADE MARK
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REGISTERED
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
Gibson’s Diplomacy Triumphs Over Brazilian Noise—
But Not Dogs; Arms Embargo Gets First Test As Italy
Orders Munition Machinery; Last Minute Neutrality
Drive Begun By Call From Mrs. Homer Bone; What
Was Back Of All The Mystery Over Building Florida
Canal.
Washington—Few people realize
how close that crack career dip
lomat, Hugh S. Gibson, has come
to being recalled as American
Ambassador to Brazil.
Those few who know about it,
think it was because Gibson once
was a great pal of Herbert
Hoover’s. But this is not the
case.
Gibson’s trouble was the sensi
tive quality of his wife’s ears.
The American Embassy in Rio
de Janeiro is in a one-time resi
dential section, now developed by
business, and Mrs. Gibson com
plained constantly of the noise.
Finally her husband wrote a
letter to Mello Franco, then Bra
zilian Foreign Minister, stating
that his wife could not sleep ,and
asking that something be done
about the noise. Mello Franco
shrugged his shoulders. But the
Minister of Interior, an obliging
soul, roped off the side street
and tram-line near Mrs. Gibson’s
room. After 10 P. M. all citi
zens of Rio de Janeiro were re
quired to detour.
This, of course, did not in
crease Ambassador Gibson’s local
popularity.
Some months later, Foreign
Minister Franco received another
letter from the Ambassador com
plaining that workmen bathed at
the waterfront near the Embassy
every morning at 6 A. M., thereby
NOTICE OF SALE
I will tell, on Thursday, October
10, 1935, at m,y home at Citron,
N. C., the following peraonal
property of the late R. G. Hop
pers:
One two-year old colt; ten head
of cattle; one Ford V-8 Coupe,
mowing machine, rake, plows and
numerous other things.
Sale will begin at 12 o’clock.
Terms: All sales under fire
dollars, cash on day of sale; all
sales over live dollars, twelve
months note with approved
security.
MAE HOPPERS,
Adm’trix of R. G. Hoppers.
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causing Mrs. Gibson more loss of
much-needed sleep.
Again the Minister of the In
terior obliged and closed the bath
houses until seven.
A short time later, Ambassador
Gibson again wrote to the For
eign Office complaining that work
men on the Standard Oil build
ing, about a block down the
waterfront from the Embassy,
began driving rivets at an early
hour, and once again Mrs. Gib
son’s sleep was interrupted.
This time Minister Mello Franco
did Sot turn the letter over to
the Minister of the Interior. In
stead he replied to Ambassador
Gibson that the Standard Oil
Company was an American con
cern and that it was up to the
'Ambassador to use his own good
offices.
For some time this appeared to
have a silencing effect upon Mr.
Gibson. Finally, however, the
Foreign Minister received a new
note.
This one desired that the at
tention of the Chief of Police be
called to the heroic work of a
police officer who had come to
the rescue of Mrs. Gibson’s thor
oughbred dog when it was wan
tonly, cruelly and viciously at
tacked by a Brazilian mongrel.
This heroic officer, Ambassador
Gibson said, might well deserve
promotion.
In reply Foreign Minister
i Franco wrote:
“I have turned over to the
Chief of Police your commenda
tion of the police officer for his
heroic work in rescuing Mrs.
Gibson’s dog. Please accept also
my regrets for the failure of the
Brazilian mongrel to recognize the
extra-territorial status of your
thoroughbred.”
FIRST WAR ORDER
What Secretary of State Hull
will be up against when he has
to impose an arms embargo
against Italy and Ethiopia was
indicated when Italy secretly
placed her first real war order
in the United States.
The order goes to Lebond Ma
chine Tool Company, of Cincin
nati and it is for twenty-eight
lathes for boring shells. The
lathes are to be of different sizes
according to the shells, and the
price range is from $30,000 to
$50,000. This is going to keep
a group of Cincinnati workmen
busy for some time.
When war is declared Mr. Hull
Follow the Thrill Trail with
FLOYD
GIBBONS
IN THIS NEWSPAPER
The fast-talking ace of war correspondents
and headline hunters is in a class by him
self when it comes to finding adventure
and telling about it in a stirring and
entertaining manner.
You have heard FLOYD GIBBONS
over the radio. Now read his thrilling
tale* in your own home neiuspaper
The tales you will read are true stories of
adventure in every-day life ... stories of
adventure that has come to people just like
yourselves, in towns just Hke the one in
which you live.
Gibbons has challenged the fiction writers
of the world to invent more thrilling ad
ventures than those which happen every
day in die ordinary lives of men, women
and children,.
The stories with which he is
this challenge are to appear in
Watchforthem in
up
paper.
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will have to decide whether these
lathes are war material or just
machine tools; whether or not
they fall under the embargo.
Public sentiment in Cincinnati
probably will play a part in his
decision. And this is one of the
almost imperceptible steps by
which the United States may be
drawn into the coming world
catastrophe.
NEUTRALITY DRIVE
The secret reason for the last
minute neutrality drive in the
Senate was a long distance tele
phone call for Homer Bone. The
Senator’s wife was on the wire.
“Homer,” she said, “all day
mothers in every part of the state
have been telephoning and wir
ing me, asking why you don’t do
something to ensure our country
from becoming embroiled in this
European war that seems so im
minent.
They say they don’t want their
sons involved in another Euro
pean war and they can’t under
stand why officials in Washington
aren’t doing something about the
matter. You must do something!”
Bone immediately communicat
ed with his fellow Senators and
the drive for the neutrality act
began.
FLORIDA CANAL
No Federal project nas causea
so much mystery, so muc!i con
fusion, yet is so important as the
Florida Ship Canal, finally OK’d
by the President last week.
Costing $100,000,000, it will
be more than three times the
length of the Panama Canal, will
cut straight across north Florida,
joining the Gulf and the Atlantic,
and will save several days to ship
lines between New York and New
Orleans.
Despite this importance, plans
for the canal were shrouded in
austere mystery. Geological ex
perts, when questw*g§d regarding
the effects of the salt water canal
on Florida farm land, looked out
the window.
PWA experts, when questioned
whether the canal would be built,
held up a warning finger and re
plied: “Sh-h-h.”
Behind all this were two raging
controversies:
1. A bitter dispute between
North and South Florida regard
ing the merits of the project.
2. Rivalry between PWA and
the Army Engineers as to which
should build the canal.
Northern Florida strongly fav
ored the waterway. Southern
Florida did not. It claimed the
short cut would leave the lower
half of the state isolated. Rail
roads and the Lykes Brothers
Steamship Company, whose Gov
ernment mail income will be dras
tically cut, joined the southerners.
MORE MYSTERY
PWA at first joined the North.
In December, 1933, it reported
the project to be self-liquidating,
“a public necessity and of real
social value.”
About a year later, PWA join
ed the South, issued another re
port which read: “The canal is
outside the normal self-liquidating
requirements under PWA regula
tions for repayment and amorti
zation.”
The mystery surrounding this
switch never has been cleared up.
It may lie. however, in the report
of the Geological Survey, which
found that the porous coral sub
strata of Florida is sufh that salt
water would leak through, ruin
ing well-water and vegetation in
large areas along the canal route.
Thi9 report never has been
made public—officially. It re
mains another mystery. Its con
tents have leaked out, and just
as it was to be published, it was
suppressed.
Reason; It did not jibe with
the Army Engineer’s report.
Next day—despite the confus
ion— Roosevelt announced the be
ginning of work by the Army
engineers.
SCHOOLDAYS
School days find the FERA pre
paring for the education business
on a wholesale scale.
After several months of quiet
consideration plans have been
worked out that will give class
room instruction in economics,
history, current events and civics
to several million dole and work
relief recipients.
The undertaking has a double
barreled objective. The plan is
not only to staff teacherless
school-houses, but to give steady
employment to 60,000 idle teach
ers.
They will be paid work-relief
wage scales, averaging between
686 and 604 a month.
MERRiY-GO-ROUND
John Dillinger's death mask is
among the assorted attractions
drawing 100 visitors a day to J.
Edgar Hoover’s Chamber of Hor
rors in the Justice Building. . .
CCC officials, alarmed over the
number of accidents from reck
less driving of CCC trucks, are
installing governors on all engines
to keep speed below 32 miles an
hour. . . The only diplomatic af
fairs attended by ex-Senator
Smith W. Brookhart are at the
Russian Embassy, where the
Iowan, in a wrinkled business
suit, sits at a three-wines dinner
with stiff shirts on every hand
New* Commentator
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Grady Cole (above), whose
voice is familiar to many persons
in Alleghany county. Mr. Cole is
the popular radio news commenta
tor, whose broadcasts are heard
daily from Station WBT, Char
lotte.
Nuts and Kernels
Troy liauh Jones
“Germans ‘file’ protest over
court insult.” Knowing of their
articulation, I feel sure it was
done in “raping” tones.
When you think that you are
better than any one else, keep
it up; for thinking is all there
is to it.
Every select society has been
called a “cult” except the nudists.
A man in Chicago stole some
pigs. But they squealed on him.
The latest depression hit is
“Rag Time Annie.”
“Japanese spend honeymoon in
real fog.” If they but knew it
they were just getting started
in life.
If the government were to re
duce baseball like they have hogs,
there would not be any short
stop.
I wonder if the British will
get mad at us for cancelling that
Ethiopian war engagement.
A conscience-lashed person is
one who is not certain whether
anybody knows that he has done.
People raise more sand over
what doesn’t cost them anything
than what they have to work for.
A mindreader often has a blank
expression.
Some times the “tight” nut at
the wheel is more dangerous than
the loose one.
Some one suggested that the
government tax our breath next.
Well, it would, but all the taxes
have taken our breath.
Bigotry is a cross between
ignorance and learning.
That was a slick trick that
Ethiopian had in mind when he
tried to palm off a war on us
through oil consession. But you
usually slip up when you mess
with anything as greasy as oil.
I wonder how big the crack
of dawn is down there where
Byrd spent a few days and nights
six months long.
Too Bad
Ajo—What kind of a fellow is
ooberpea?
Dismuke—He can tell you how
to adopt an improved system of
currency which will pay off the
national debt
Ajo—Has he made much prog
ress with the plan?
Dismuke—No. He hasn’t been
able to pay his own store bills.
and protests he iB the only pro
letarian in the crowd. . . Spread
out on a table in the Pure Food
and Drug offices are 100 different
weight reducing medicines. Ex
amined for presence of dinitro
phenol, which produces severe
fever, sometimes blindness, it was
found that 26 of the 100 contain
that chemical. . . Two floors above
Henry Wallace’s office in the De
partment of Agriculture is a
sound-proofed radio room where
the Department’s spokesmen prac
tice at the "mike” before going
on the air- Experts teach them
the trick of reading a manuscript
in conversational tones. . . When
asked if Ickes is making any
money on his new book, "Back
to Work” Interior Department of.
ficials reply: "Oh, it’s a self
liquidating project.”
(Copyright, 1985, by
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Gruesome Reading
But Maybe It Will Jar
The Reckless Motorist
Publicising the total of motor
injuries—almost 1,000,400 last
year, with 36,000 deaths—never
gets to first base in jarring the
motorist into a realisation of the
appalling risks of motoring, de
clares F. C. Furnas in the Aug
ust issue of the Reader's Digest.
He then proceeds to translate dry
statistics into what he terms "a
reality of' blood and agony,” as
follows:
Figures exclude the pain and
honor of savage mutilation—
which means they leave out the
point. They need to be brought
closer home. A passing look at a
bad smash or the news that a
fellow you had lunch, with last
week is in a hospital with a
broken back will make any driver
but a bom fool slow down at
least temporarily. But whiat is
needed is a vivid and sustained
realization that every time you
step on the throttle, death gets
in beside you, hopefully waiting
for his chance, liiat single hor
rible accident you may have wit
nessed is no isolated horror. That
sort of thing happens every hour
of the day. everywhere in the
United States. If you really felt
that, perhaps the stickful of type
in Monday’s paper recording that
a total of 29 local citizens were
killed in week-end crashes would
rate something more than a per
functory tut-tut as you turn back
to the sports page.
An enterprising judge now and
again sentences reckless drivers
to tour the accident end of a city
morgue. But even a mangled
body on a slab, waxily portray
ing the consequences of had mo
toring judgment, isn’t a patch
on the scene of the accident it
self. No artist working on a
safety poster would dare depict
that in full detail.
That picture would have to in
clude motion-picture and sound
effects, too—the flopping, point
less efforts of the injured to
stand up; the queer, grunting
noises; the steady, panting groan
ing of a human being with pain
creeping up on him as the shock
wears off. It should portray the
slack expression on the face of a
man, drugged with shock, staring
at the Z-twist in his broken leg,
the insane crumpled effect of a
child’s body after its bones are
crushed inward, a realistic por
trait of an hysterical woman with
her screaming mouth opening a
hole in the bloody drip that fills
her eyes and runs off her chin.
Minor details would include the
raw ends of bones protruding
through flesh in compound frac
tures, and the dark red, oozing
surfaces where clothes and skin
were flayed off at once.
Those are all standard, every
day sequels to the modern passion
for going places in a hurry and
taking a chance or two. by the
way.
Not So Good Thor* Either
"My husband is so careless of
his appearance. It seems like he
just can't keep buttons on his
clothes.”
"Are you sure it’s carelessness?
Perhaps they are—uh—well, sew
ed on improperly.”
"Maybe you’re right. He is
terribly careless with his sewing.”
Strang*
Mrs. Peck—Now, Henry, what
are you thinking about? I can
always tell when you have some
thought that you are trying to
conceal from me- Out with it!
Henry—I was just wondering
what the Mormons could see in
polygamy
State of North Carolina,
County of AUoghany.
Aa Commissioner appointed in
tha caa* of tha Fader al Land
Bank of Columbia vs S. F. Up
church at al in tha Superior
Court of AUoghany oounty, I will
offer for sal* at public auction
to th* highest bidder at tha Court
House door in Sparta on tha 30th
day of September, 1935, at 11
o’clock A. M. the following
described lands
All that certain lob tract or
parcel of land containing 40,0
acres, more or lees, located, lying
and being in Cranberry Township,
County of Alleghany, State of
Mortis Carolina, being bounded on
the North by tha lands of John
Taylor; East, by lands of H. P.
Edwards; South by lands of W.
T. Upchurch; and West by lands
of J. ML Tilley and F. O. Rich
ardson, and having such shape,
metes, course* and distances a*
will mere fully appear by refer
ence to a plat thereof made by
L. E. Edwards, Surveyor, May
10th 1920, which plat s* on file
with the Federal Land Bank of
STAFFORD—REEVES
The first wedding to be sol
emnized in the new Laurel Springs
Baptist church was tint of Miss
Mary Reeves to Mr. James Hart
well Stafford which took place
at four o’clock Saturday after
noon, August 81.
Prior to the Wedding, Mrs.
Katherine Duncan, who was in
charge of the music, played Ver
di’s Triumphal March from
“Aida,” and Mrs. Carl H. Gray
bual and Miss Clara Perkins sang
“Believe Me If AH Those En
dearing Young Charms,” which
was foUowed by a solo by Mrs.
Graybeal, Geibel’s “Mizpah.”
Mrs. Duncan was attired, as were
Mrs- Graybeal and Miss Perkins,
in print silks and wore shoulder
corsages to match.
Following the wedding, the
young couple left for a trip
through the Shenandoah Valley
and to Washington, D. C., after
which they will be at home in
Bishopville, S. C.
Mrs. Stafford is the popular
and attractive daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Reeves, of Laurel
Springs. She received her edu
cation at A. S. T. C., Boone, and
has been a member of the teach
ing profession in Ashe county
since that time. She taught sev
eral years in the grades of West
Jefferson high school.
Mr. Stafford was educated at
the University of S6uth Carolina
and taught for a number of years
in West Jefferson high school
where he also acted as athletic
coach. At present he is principal
of the high school at Bishopville
and is also connected with the
Bishopville Motor company as
bookeeper. He is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Stafford, Sump
ter, S. C.
CLENDENIN—WILLIAMS
Invitations reading as follows:
were received here recently:
"Mrs. Mattie McCarry Williams
requests the honor of your pres
ence at the marriage of her
daughter, Emma Tate, to Mr.
Eugene Vaughan Clendenin. on
Thursday, September 12, at 7:30
p. m. Presbyterian church, Mount
Olive, N. C. At home after
September 22 at 2131 Florida
avenue N. W., Apartment 33,
Washington, D. C.”
Following the marriage last
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as tin Execu
tor of Mrs. Alice Smith, deceas
ed, I hereby notify ell persons
indebted to iher estate to come
forward and make settlement,
and any having claims against the
estate to present them to me
within twelve months or this
notice will be plead in bar of
recovery.
This August 27th, 1935.
ALBERT BUTLER, Executor
of Mrs. Alice Smith, deceesed
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Thursday, a reception was held.
The groom Is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Clendenin, Wilming
ton.
NOTICE OF RE-SALE
In The Superior Court
Before The Clerk
North Caroline,
Alleghany County.
D. R. Crouse, Walter Croupe,
and G. G. Crouee, Executors
of Frio] Crouse, Plaintiffs
n.
Margaret. Brown et al,
Defendants
The undersigned Commissioners
appointed in the above entitled
matter will offer for sale at the
Court House door in Sparta, N.
C, September 18,' 1935, at 11
o'clock A. M., the following
described tract of land:
Containing eighty acres, more
« leas, adjoining tbe lands of
Everett Truitt, T. L. Crouse, J.
A. Crouse, Effie Shumake and
others.
Terms Of Sale: One-third cash
on day of sale and remainder in
two equal installments due in six
and twelve months from date.
This 3rd day of September, 1935.
D. R. Crouse
Waiter Crouse
G. G. Crouse
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Commissioners
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ALLEGHANY.
As Commissioner appointed in I
the case of The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia vs. S. F. Up
church et al in the Superior
Court of Alleghany County, I
will offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder at
She Court House door in Sparta
'on the 15th day of October, 1935,
at 11 o’clock A. M. the followin'#
described land:
All that certain lot, tract or
parcel of land containing 40.6
acres, more or less, located, lying
and being in Cranberry Town
ship, County of Alleghany, State !
of North Carolina, being bounded
on the North by die lands of
John Taylor; East by lands of
H. P. Edwards; South by lands
of W. T. Upchurch, and West by
lands of J. M. Tilley and F. O.
Richardson, and baring sudh
shape, metes, courses and dis
tances as will more fully appear
by reference to a plat thereof
made by L. E. Edwards, Surveyor,
May 18th, 1925, which plat is am
file with the Federal Land Bank
of Columbia.
Terms of sale, one-third cash
on day of sale, and balance in
! two equal annual installments.
This 26th day of August. 1935.
R. F. CROUSE,
4kc-10AT Commissioner.
AUCTION SALE
Of Livestock, Personal
Property and Household
Furniture
At The Old John Tedder Farm
One Mile West Of Stratford, N. C.
Fii.Sent.27 10 a.m.
On Friday, September 27, at 10 A. M., at the address
above, 1 will offer for sale to the highest bidders, the.
following livestock, personal property and household
furniture:
3 good young stock cows
1 black Jersey cow—
7 years old
1 pair of work bosses
1 black horse—
6 years old
1 black mare—6 years old
1 pair of bay horse cplts
1 year old
1 pair of gray horse colts
2 years old -
1 pair of mare colts
1 year old (half sisters)
1 horse mule colt
2 years old
I mare mule colt
1 year old
10 good ewe*
6 ewe Iambi
13 good male calve*
4 heifer calve*
15 »tacks of hay
| 2 rick* of straw
i 1 Van Huron grain drill
I 1 mowing machine j
i l rake 1 .
1 wagon
1 spring tooth harrow
(new)
1 *<40X” Oliver plow V
(new)
1 section harrpw,,,,
And Other Fanning Tools
Also * lot of Good Household end Kitchen Furniture
including a new RCA Radio Bettery Sot.
Terms will be made known on day of sale
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Luncheon Will Be Served
Frank
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