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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
SPEEDER FOR THIRD TIME.
Co1ored Driver Sentenced 80 Days
and Fined 500.

Convicted for the third time Of
speeding, Albert Hinton, colored. OF
2404 Virginia avenue, was sentenced
by Judge Isaac r. Hit In Traffic
Court yesterday evening to serve 80
days in Jail and to pay a fine Of
500. 1t was the first case of its
kind under the new traffic regulations
adopted by Congress and effective last
May. The boy being only 18 years old
caused the judge to give him the
minimum sentence.
Hinton was arrested for this offense
and for driving on the wrong side Of
the street January 3 by Policemen
John Nicola and w. c. McGinnis.
Records of the court show that
Hinton was arrested and convicted
December s for reckless driving, Oc
tober for a second speed offense
and July % for the first speed offense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
BUYING OF PLAZA
SITE GETS SENATE
COMMITTEES o. K.

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

plete the evidence for a memorandum
to be laid before the President in re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

plete the evidence for a memoran dum
to be laid before the President in re-
gard to the personnel situation"
Claims People Are Sovereign.
Virtually Diminishing the contention
of the commission that 1t should not
reveal records involving another bu-
beau, on account Of the "embarrass-
ment" likely, and the need for har-
mony in working together Mr.. Stow
ell called the attention Of the COM
mission to the principle that in the
United States 1t is the people who
are sovereign, and they have created
the Civil Service Commission, and
secured the appointment of the pres
ent commissioners in order to fulfill
the duties which they have delegated
TO them.
The people," he added, have a
right to know how their mandate
has heen fulfilled"
Continuing. Mr.. Stowell said: VI
would call to, the attention Of the
commission that when, in February,
1919, the National Civil Service Re-
form League was refused certain in
formation upon a formal demand from
It's investigating committee, of which
| had the honor to be chairman, the
league published statement In
which President Wilson was request
ed to remove Mr.. McIlhenny, presi-
dent of the Civil Service Commission.
A few days subsequently Mr.. Nc
uhenny resigned from the commits
sion -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
Fire Damages Cecil Apartment.

Fire in the apartment of John +.
A. Cecil at 2400 Sixteenth street to-
day. caused damage estimated at ST.
600. Although quickly eXtinguished,
the fire and chemicals used to put
IT out destroyed valuable furnishings
of the apartment. Mrs. Cecil is the
former Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt
The fire is believed to have origi-
mated in debris accumulated by in
terror decorators. who had been at
work in the apartment.
All of the prominent lumbermen's
associations on the Pacific Coast have
trained foresters as their executive
OfficerS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
RaiIey Refused Permission.

In the league committee resolution
attention was called to the fact that
Chairman Bailey of the Personnel
Classification Board, representative OF
the Bureau of the Budget, had denied
a request to examine the minutes of
the board, and stated that he did not
believe it would serve any useful
purpose"
Mr.. Stowell considered" said the
resolution, that it would serve very
useful purpose, in that it would show
the public that the board was not
meeting with sufficient frequency TO
discharge the duties which have been
intrusted to it, and that the system
of appeals has broken down.
The communication from the Civil
Service Commission refused to COM
municate information in regard to ap-
pointments in the Bureau of Efficiency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

Lincoln Park Citizens Association
will meet Tuesday, s pm, at Bryan
School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

Mount Pleasant Citizens AssOcia-
ton will meet tomorrow, pm, in
Mount Pleasant branch library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

The Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton will give an entertainment and
dance Sunday evening, at its building,
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
STATES REVENUE NOW
SHOWS BIG SURPLUS

Raleigh, April 1.-THE report of
the state auditor and state treasurer
for the month of March, shows that
surplus of $3,217,3s6.04 has been
created out of a deficit" or "cash
overdraft" of $1,23S, ,087.15 ON the
first day of March. During the month
the collections totaled $5,516,450.33
while expenditures totaled $1,060,-
977.l4. After the overdraft existing
at the first Of the month and the dis
bursements had been subtracted from
the receipts, the general fund shows
handsome balance.
This balance probably will enable
the state to operate safely within it's
income during April, May and June
for in those three months there will
be some collections of late income
taxes and other taxes which are due.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
BILL PROPOSING
PARK INTRODUCED

Washington, April 14.-Establish-
ment of the first two extensive ma
tional parks in the east YVES provided
for in a bill introduced in the house
today by Representative H. w. Tenn
pie, Republican, of Pennsylvania, fol-
lowing receipt of a report transmitted
to the house and senate by Secretary
Work favoring that action.
Secretary Works decision was bas-
ed on a report by the Appalachian
Park commission which he had ap-
pointed to consider the whole matter.
The proposed parks are the Shenan-
doah, to be located in Virginia along
the crest of the Blue Ridge noun
tairs south of Fort Royal, and the
Smoky Mountain national park elong
the boundary of the states of N nth
Carolina and Tennessee. The COM
bined area Of the two parks will be
a little less than 1000 square miles
the Smoky Mountain park compris
'ng about LOO and the Shenan
doah a little less than 900 square
miles.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
YOUNGEST CIVIL WAR
VETERAN FOUND DEAD

Nashville, Tenn, April I4-Wil-
liam Lillard, II, who at the last re-
union was the youngest. living Con-
federate soldier, was found dead at
his home here at noon Sunday.
Mr.. Lillard's civil wcr life teens
with tragedy that has for a climax
one of the happiest celebrations ever
held in Rutherforuton county When
Ii years old, he answered the call to
arm. for his native land and enlisted
in 1868.
He was assigned to cavalry duty in
Hubbard's brigade Skirmishing in
the Carolinas, the boy cavalryman
received wound from bullet in his
chest. Soon afterwards the war
ended.
Soldiers began to return home,
families were reunited, and the after
war drama of the southland started,
But at the home of Colonel William
G. Lillard, wealthy landowner aod
influential citizen of Rutherfordt0n
county, the tragedy of the war was
emphasized when the little boy who
went away to enter the big fight dio
not return. Finally the family, rec
onciled that he had given his life te
the cause, no longer looked for him
Then six months after the fighting
ended the youthful soldier quietly
returned. He had been in hospita
in the Carolinas, part Of the time
lingering on the edge of death. Wher
the shock of his return was over, &
celebration and great rejoicing oc
Cured, people from all over tbs
countryside attending.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15

Twenty-Five seamen were trapped
and burned to death IN an explosion
Of gasoline on the oil tanker Gulf
of Venezuela in the harbor of Port
Arthur, Texas, Sunday morning
Eleven others were injured. The men
nset their death I'M a caldron of boil
ing gasoline. The tanker was dock
ed where $4,000 barrels of high test
gasoline had been pumped into her
the day previous. The men had gone
TO sleep in their quarters aft, and
Captain John Charlton was asleep in
the officers quarters forward. The
dock and harbor lay quiet when the
early morning darkness was rent by
an explosion that could be heard for
miles. A pillar of burning gasoline
leapcd 100 feet into the air. In a
few seconds several sailors in flames
appeared on deck and jumped into
the water, their bodies going through
the air like flaming rockets. These
men were savel, but were badly
burned. After the fire was brought
under control attempts were made tc
bring the bodies out, nothing but
ashes clinging to few bones re
manned.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
PRESIDENT ON
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Coolidge Discusses World Tribunal
Disarmament Before Newspaper
Men in Washington

The press of the nation was urged
to "create a noble and inspired pub
lie opinion" and to aid in developing
a spirit of justice and liberation by
President Coolidge last Thursday in
laying the cornerstone of the Nation
al Press building, new home of the
National Press club in Washington.
Speaking before an audience of
Washington correspondents and
newspaper editors and publishers not
only from many sections of the Uni
ted States but from Latin-America
through the presence of delegates to
the Pan-American congress of journ-
alists in session in the national CAPT.
tai, the president restated the posi-
ton of the government on interna-
tional questions, including the world
court, the league of nations and limi-
tation of armaments.
"While the United States has re-
Trained from interfering in the poll
tical affairs of others by refusing to
adhere to the league of nations" the
president declared in his address, it
has adhered to the world court that
it may take part in administering in
ternational justice because it affects
u.s."
The reservations laid down as a
condition of adherence to the world
court, the president asserted, "ade-
quately safeguarded American rights
and also tend to strengthen the in
dependence Of the court"
"Our country" he added, t'has TAX
en- this step because it believed that
it was the most practical method by
which it could exercise it's great in
fluence in establishing the principle
of region of international law un-
der which disputes and differences
would be adjusted not by force but
by reason"
AS to armament limitation he said
the American government was seek
ing it "by the only practical method"
but added that it could not be accom-
plished without "an intellectual and
moral disarmament"
Appealing for spirit of federation,
the president said that race hatred,
class feeling, religious persecution,
however these may be exhibited,
whether under form of law or
through the force of public opinion
or even in defiance of law, have no
justification in reason and are dis
astrous in their consequences"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
TWO SONS IN JAIL ON
CHARGES OF HOMICIDE

jefferson correspondence Winston
Salem Journal: George Stike, of Bina,
by peculiar and pitiable coincidence
has two sons in Jail charged with
homicide, one in Florida and one in
West Virginia.
Guy Stike is held at Reckley, w.
Va, charged with the killing Of j.
Lillard Price, of Lansing, whose
body, showing a bullet wound in the
head, reached Lansing Tuesday after
noon. Price was killed in a brawal
and besides young Stike, it is report
ed that another man and woman
are being held, pending investigation.
Cicero Stike was arrested an car
ried to Florida on charge of killing
fellow laborer on construction worS
there. It is stated that young Stike
will plead self-defense. The killing
was done with a shovel.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
FUNERAL OF MRS.
GREEN MONDAY
Prominent Lady of Boone Succumbs
After Operation in Char
lotte Hospital

Regardless of the downpour of rain
ON Monday the large auditorium of
the Baptist Church was filled to over
flowing with people from the various
parts of the county, assembled to
pay their last respects to one of our
choice ladies, Mrs. T. M. Greer, who
died in Charlotte following an opera
ton last Thursday afternoon. The
funeral services were conducted by
her pastor, Rev. F. M. Higgins, and
DR.. J. D. Rankin followed with an
eulogy on the life of the splendid
lady, who had made her home in
Boone for nearly two years. The ser
vices, by request, were very short,
at the close of which the remains
were in charge of Foley & Evans, To-
cal undertakers, who inferred the bo-
dy in the city cemetery. The burial
services were also brief on account
of the rain. Elder Baldwin pronoun-
ced the bencdiction. The floral offer
ings were profuse and beautiful, the
entire grave having the appearance
of huge heap of flowers.
Mrs. Greer's maiden name was Miss
Addie Belle Huff, of Dorchester, Ne
braska. She was married to Mr.. Mil
ton Greer of Watauga County on
November 10, 1910. They resided in
that state until about two years ago
when they decided to return to Mr..
Greers native county.
Deceased was highly educated, and
real teacher by profession. The
first year she took work in the state
Normal here, the second she was ell
ected as one of the teachers in the
Deep Gap Consolidated School and
her work there was so efficient that
at the close of the term she was ask
ed to sign a contract for the next
term, which she did. She was real
dynamo when it came to work. Dur
ing all the rough weather of the
past winter she drove to Deep Gap
and return, distance of about "a
miles each day and missed very few
trips there, on account of snow drifts
instead of cold weather. She was a
lady who made friends quickly and
held them indefinitely.
Surviving her in her Nebraska home
are father mother, three sisters and
two brothers. two of the sisters, Miss
Lena Huff and Mrs. Gordon Jones
coming here for the funeral. A hus-
band and three children, Virginia,
~
No lady was ever held ip higher
esteem in Boone than was Mrs. Gree
an. her death caused genuine SORROW
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
Smith Wins Over Mckinley

Colonel Frank L. Smith, making
his race for the Republican noraina-
ton for the United States senate,
won over William B. Mckinley, in
cumbent, in the Illinois primary Tues
day by about 100000 majority. Col.
Smiths supporters attribute his vic
tory to his opposition to. the United
Safes adherence to the world court,
for which Senator Mckinley voted.
George E. Brinnan, running on a
wet platform, won the Democratic
nomination for senator, pilizg up a
vote three times the size of that cast
for both of his opponents.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
LUTHER BURBANK
DIED SUNDAY
Great Horticulturist Passes, Holding
to Belief That There is No
Hereafter

Luther Burbank, withered by age,
died at his home in Santa Rosa, Cal,
early Sunday amid the Towering
fruits and blooms that he had Gre
ated for mankind's benefit.
The noted horticulturist passed on.
to the adventure of a hereafter in
which he had no faith. Only a week
before the end, the great plant wiz
ard had declared that he could not
believe in a life after death. And as
life ebbed away and he stood at the
brink he did not falter in his convic-
tions.
Infirm and worn after years de-
voted to developing and guiding
plant life the controversy started by
his pronouncemdnts on religion and
reinearnation contributed to his last
illness.
The storm of protest came from
religious leaders after Mr.. Burbank
gave out his statement declaring him.
self to be an infidel. His home was
swamped with letters and kilograms
condemning his stand. The stress he
was subjected to in defending and ex-
planning his beliefs brought on a
nervous condition that his n years.
could not withstand.
Fortified by vigorous examina-
ton, which had it's roots as deep as
tho flowers and plants he tended, he
put up a valiant struggle against his
illness.
Mr.. Burbank always decla1ed that
his object in increasing the yield
of plants was to better the condition
of his fellowmen and he died be-
lieving I'VE must look for survival
only in the spirit of the good we
have done in passing through life"
''If it has been good life it has
been sufficient" he held. ''There is no
need for another. Once here and
gone the human life has served its
purpose.
"The universe is not big enough TO
contain all the human souls and the
other living beings that have been
here for their short span. A theory
of personal resurrection or reincarna-
tion of the individual is untenable
when we but pause to consider the
magnitude of the idea
Recognition of the existence "of a
great universal power" was admitted
by the horticulturist, but he declared
hend"
He said he was clover of Christ
as man and his works, but never
theless he was an infidel then as |
am an infidel today"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
STREET WORK is
NOW UNDER WAY

Engineers of the state highway
commission arrived in Boone Monday
and as soon as the rain and mud,
would permit, the work of surveying
the new city street was begun. I'm
der the supervision of the state
highway commission, ]. A. Temple
ton, a competent civil engineer with
a good corps of helpers have prac-
tically completed the preliminary
surveys ON the main city thorough
fare.
The firm of Weeks & Shell has a
new steam shovel on the job today,
and work is going forward rapidly
in front of the E. S. Coffey proper
ty. The sidewalk at this point will
be raised about four or five feet to
make a grade here The construc-
ton work is in charge of the Foster
Company of ,Wilkesboro. 1t is ex-
pected that the work of paving Main
street will be rushed through in a.
short period of time.
Contracts have been made with the
Cranberry Furnace Company to sup
ply 500 cars of stone for the base of
the concrete streets. The grading
will require but short time, and
according to Commissioner Hanes, 22
days will be necessary for the actu-
al concrete work, under favorable
conditions
The water connections along the
main street have all been made and in
a few days sufficient grading. will
have been done so that the actual
! ,,orL of navino NAV he started
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
DIXON TELLS OF:
SOUTH'S RECOVERY
Playwright Recalls Tragic History as
He Sees Section Developing, and
Cites New Problems

e The marvellous stsory of the rise
&ni the south from out of the ashes,
havoc and desolation wrought by
9ivil war and reconstruction was told
at Greenville, N. c., last week at the
Eastern Carolina exposition by
Thomas Dixon, preacher, author and
playwright. His subject was "The
Rising South" and those who heard
the speaker, who is a great orator and
q native of this state, were gripped
by the epic story as it was unfolded
to them.
"When we recall the history of
The SOUTH" Mr.. Dixon said, "it is an
astounding fact that the south has
RISEN. l never go over the south but
what l am amazed at what see. l
never look at her glorious presence
hat do not recall her tragic history
and wonder how it has been possible
toY the south to rise in such glory
within the brief period it has been
accomplished.
81 look abroad and see the south
hand rising I'M glory and beauty. 1
ace the wealth and prosperity in
leaps and bounds. cannot keep
back the tears when see it.
! "Now you are facing new prob
lem, and this is what turned the cur
sent of my life. You have solved the
problem of your daily bread. Now
You have gotten to the place in your
lie where you have to face more
difficult problem-the pursuit of
happiness, which is far more duti-
1Hl, difficult and dangerous task
than the struggle for existence, and
within the next 35 years you are go
sng to establish your ideals of life
ssad character and it is going to beat
the old hard materialism of the north
and it is going to be new ideal. I
am hoping that when this newly
risen south shall find her soul that
b shall belong to the dreamer, the
visionary, rather than the hard, the
cold and the materialistic. You are
going to establish that ideal.
''The old south knew how to live
knew how to play. The old south
loved beauty and they took time to
suitivate it .and make it part Of
their lives. That sort of civilization |
produced some wonderful things. You
have fallen short in some ways. Be-
lore we can preserve that which is
worthwhile one of the first things is
70 slow down long enough to learn
how to live. We have got to get
back to the heart of nature and learn |
how to play. You have got to listen |
10 the murmur of running water and
teel the kiss of the breeze from the |
ocean on your brow. With the high
pressure of modern life, our fast
moving about, our automobiles, we
have no time to live. You have got
TO stop that sort of life and get back
TO the heart of nature. Now you say,
] am preaching. Well, l am. l am
preaching a crusade for return to
mature and the renewal of life
through the inspiration of nature"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
,wooDRow WILSON MEMORIAL

In a letter from DIR. A. L. Allen,
state superintendent, and state chair
man for the Woodrow Wilson Birth
place Memorial, he says that he wants
all the offerings to this fund received
by May 1st. So, by his authority, l
am extending the time for the receiv-
ing of the offerings till that date. I
feel sure there are still some who
wish to help in this cause, which will
mean the honoring of one of our
.country's great men. Send check to
Mr.. G. P. Hagaman, Boone, N. c.
J. M. DOWNUM,
County Chairman.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
Assistant Attorney General Frank

Assistant Attorney General Frank
Nash has advised the Pabst Corpora
ton of Milwaukee that it had better
omit North Carolina from its beer
sales campaign unless it wants to
present test case to the supreme
court. The Pabst Corporation sent
Mr.. Nash bottle with request that
the attorney general render an opin-
ion as to whether sales would be
permitted under the state prohibition
law. Mr.. Nash wrote that, in his
opinion, the law would prevent the
sale of 3.75 beer in the state.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
Two Aviators Killed

Neil w. Abbott, of Rochester, N. ",
and Clarence w. Mix, of Durant,
Mich, attached to the marine base
at Quantico, Va, were killed in an
airplane crash near Kings and Queens
Courthouse, Va, yesterday.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
Beredoll Acquitted

Grover Cleveland BergdolI, notori-
Gus American draft evader, was ac-
quilted yesterday at Mosbach, Ger
many, on charges Of seduction and
impairing the morals Of q minor. The
trial lasted seven hours.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15

Let the animals run out in the
open pasture some of these warm
nights, advise livestock workers at
State College.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
What To Do?

"Give Marie kiss Harry"
Nothing doing. I don't like her"
"Well do something quick--any-
thing to stop her singing"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-09-16

AIRS. kaleber, accompanied by her
daughter. Mrs. +. Appert, OF. Hazel
ton. wire the guests Of Mrs. J. q.
DeFramre Thursday.
j. y. McCuskcr autOcd to HazeltOn
Tuesday.
DIR. Walker Of Hazelton was a
Braddock caller Saturday afternoon.
Miss Mildred Briggs spent the
week lend with Mr. and Mrs. Il. r.
Savage
Mrs. Wayne Baxter, accompanied
by her little daughter. Bernadine.
and two sisters. Mrs. Thos Masce
AMI Miss Esther Weber. were pas
sengers TO Bismarck Saturday after
noon TO spend Sunday with friends
there.
Mr.. aud Mrs j. u. Mctsusker and