Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-22
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SAANA S'So anu NhIL(h VI
will parade through that city Sun
day, May 2, in protest against any
modification of the prohibition laws.
The National League of Women
Voters, in session at St. Louis, Mo-,
this week, refused to commit itself to
minority report opposing modifica-
tion of the Volstead act and the 18th
amendment.
Three men of the crew of the sub
marine $40 were killed by an explo-
sion in the battery room of the under
sea ship at New London Conn,
Monday. The $40 is sister ship of
the Inflated S-49 which was sunk last
September with the loss of 33 lives.
Nine scientists, led by Commander
Donald Macmillan, American Arctic
explorer, will go to the frozen north
| this summer to collect specimens of
animals and plant life in the sub
Arctic region for the Field Museum
of Natural History at Chicago.
Rev. E. B. Moll, evangelist of the
Mississippi Methodist conference, was
arrested in Danville, Va, last Thurs
day, on charge of cashing bogus
checks. Moll is alleged to have
given bad checks in many states.
His home is at Jackson, Miss
Three members of the crew of the
Norwegian steamer Sir James Clark
Ross were asphyxiated in an oil tank
and three others narrowly escaped a
similar fate last Wednesday while the
ship was several hundred miles at sea
it was learned in Norfolk Saturday
when she ship arrived.
A protest against the proposal of
the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy to restore the mansion in
Arlington national cemetery occu-
pied by General Robert E. Lee and
make of it a shrine TO the memory of
the Confederate veteran, was voiced
last week at the annual meeting of
the National Society of Danes of the
Loyal Legion in Washington City
A dead man won the Republican
nomination for clerk of the appel
late court of Cook county (Chicago)
in last Tuesdays Illinois primary.
Frances P. Brady, Republican candi-
date, died before the ballots were
cast, but the elections commissioners
ruled they had no authority to re-
move his name from the ballots and
the voters gave him an overwhelming
plurality.
The eleventh victim in the three
year warfare between the kid Drop
per" and Little Augie" gangs of
lower East Side gunmen, New York,
was killed Sunday. A woman was
the cause of the shooting that started
the feud three years ago, and
woman was involved in the death Of
the eleventh victim, Max Goldberg,
who was shot by two gunmen early
Sunday as he was answering a tele-
phone call in a restaurant. Police
believe the telephone call W
The Volstead act can be enforced
relatively as well as other laws, Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant
attorney general in charge of liquor
prosecutions, declared Monday be-
fore the United States senate prohi-
bition investigating committee. More
teeth, she declared, were necessary.
The League of Nations invitation
to the United States to participate in
the World Court conference in Ge-
neva next September was formally
declined by the Washington govern
ment Monday.
The automobile output for 1925
in the United States totaled 4,314,-
636, an increase of nearly 20 per
cent over 1924, according to the
Copper and Brass Research Associa-
tion of New York. Registrations
passed the twenty million mark,
showing a rise of 13 per cent since
1924. Figures of the national auto
mobile chamber of commerce show
1,138,4OS cars were produced in the
first quarter of 1926, setting new
record for the quarter.
Five persons are dead and more
than dozen are in hospitals suffer
ing with injuries in Chicago as re-
suit of two fires that terminated
revelry carried into the early hours
of Sunday morning, A gallon can
of kerosene exploded at the climax
of birthday party, showering the
guests with liquid fire and fatally
injuring four of them. A four-story
building was swept by flames which
originated in drinking party. Three
occupants of the building were killed,
a fireman received fatal injuries
and six others were burned seriously
Quantities of drugs and hyprodermic
needles were found at the latter
place. Joseph Jamison, proprietor Of