Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-27
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DIR. j. w. Skinner, president of the
Texas-Mexico school, Kingsville, Tex,
was last week at Pensacola, Fla,
named moderator of the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church in
the United States.
Fire destroyed almost the entire
manufacturing section of the johnson
City Shale Brick Corporation, the
largest of its kind in the south, locat-
ed at Johnson City, Tenn, early Sun
day morning, with loss estimated at
about S200,000
Prohibition took its place among
the issues of next falls election cam
paign in New York state with the an
nouncement Thursday by Governor
Al Smith that he had signed the
Karle-Phelps bill providing for a
referendum on the question at the
general election.
Washington, May 20: The senate
today passed the civil service retire
ment bill providing for retirement of
civil service employees on annuities
not exceeding $1,000. The bill, al
though carrying the house title, was
radically amended by the senate. As
passed by the house the maximum
annuity was $1,000. The measure
now goes to conference.
Investigation of expenditures in
all senatorial campaigns this year
primary as well as general-was or
dered last Wednesday by the senate,
after charges of corruption in the
Pennsylvania primary of Tuesday
had been made and denied on the
floor of the senate. Complying with
resolution adopted, Vice President
Dawes appointed a committee to con-
duet the inquiry.
Washington, May 21: Fandrenlief
legislation received setL Lve nrethe
house today with the de orava co to
-c.., as .ae Haugen pricee.ied Miss Bn
bill. This action cleared, Le a.cn-
dar of all farm proposals as the two
other bills, the Tincher credit plan
and the Curtis-Aswell commodity
marketing measure were withdrawn
by their authors. 9Ninety-eight Re-
publicans and 66 Democrats support
ed the bill while 121 Repu5 e..sss
and 80 Democrats opposed it..
A plea of not guilty was entered
by Harry M. Daugherty, former at
torney general, when he was arraign-
ed in federal court in News Y York last
Thursday on an indictment charging
him with conspiracy to defraud the
United States. He was released on
$500 bond Thos. W. Miller, former
alien property custodian, indicted on
similar charge, was not in court.
Attorneys said he was confined to
his home in Wilmington, Dsl., by
blood poison. The case will be argu-
ed within the next two weeks.
Baltimore, May %: Richard Reese
Whittemore, bandit-dandy and con-
fessed slayer, has greeted his fate
with a snarl. His feet figuratively
treading the gallows stairs, he last
light spat III the face of the youth
full states attorney who had fixed a
rope about his neck. Whether he is
to plunge to oblivion at the end of
it rests with criminal court. A jury
decided that the slayer of Robert
Hoffman, Maryland penitentiary
guard, deserved to expiate his crime
on the gibbet. Tacitly, it gave Judge
O'Dunne authority to exact life for
life, but he may, in his discretion,
sentence the "Candy Kid" to life i'm
prisonment instead.
The Watson-Parker bill for settle
ment of railway labor disputes was
signed last Thursday by President
Coolidge who said in statement that
although he would have preferred "a
more definite declaration for the
possible, protection of the public" he
believed there was involved an issue
of "first public Importance" that of
encouraging an industry to adjust re-
lations between employer and en-
ploye, without the intervention of the
government. With presidential ap-
proval, the railroad labor board, in
existence for six years, was abolish
ed and new system provided for by
the establishment of conference
groups and adjustment boards within
the industry, and the creation of
board of mediation whose five men,
bers are to be appointed by the presi-
dent.