Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
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Edward W. Browning, wealthy
New York real estate operator, 81
years old, was married Saturday to
Francis (Pcaches) Heenan, Is, his
second Cinderella Girl" at Cold
Springs, N. Y.
Bidding for Muscle Shoals closed
Saturday with seven proposals to
lease the entire property and two a
part of it in the hands of the congress
sional committee which began this
week to study the offers to determine
which one, if any, should be recon-
mended for acceptance by congress
None of the bids were made public.
The corn belt farm relief bill was
approved Tuesday by the senate agri-
culture committee, but indications
are that it is unacceptable to the ad-
ministration. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Jardine, outlining a legislative
program in a letter to Chairman
Haugen of the house agriculture COM
mittee, advocated creation of a fed
eral commission to aid farmers
through the agriculture department
and their own organizations, in mark
citing thir products.
Rigid enforcement Of dry laws and
opposition to their modification were
the keynotes sounded at the opening
session in Washington Monday of
the woman's national committee for
law enforcement. The delegates as
sembled Monday for threc-day ses-
sion. A message from President
Coolidge and an address by Mrs.
H. w. Peabody, of Beverly, Mass,
chairman of the committee, formed
the high lights of the opening ses-
sion of the conference, at which a
score OF more of women's organiza-
tions was represented.
United States Senator Smith w.
Brookhart, Republican insurgent of
Iowa, was on Monday unseated in
the senate in favor of Daniel F.
Steck, Democrat, by margin of four
votes. The vote, As, to Al, came aft
er week of debate, which terminal
ed in fiery arguments during the last
hours of discussion. Sixteen Repub-
licans joined the 20 Democrats in vot-
ing to unseat Rrookhart, overwhelm-
ing the Democrats, Republicans and
one Farmcr-Labor senator who sup
ported him. Steck is Iowa's first
Democratic senator since the Civil
war.
Greatly augmented by the two oil
ship disasters in the Mississippi river
near New Orleans, traffic toll in II
southern states last week reached IS
dead and 256 injured, it is shown by
survey conducted by the Associated
Press. The survey was of all forms
of traffic casualties, highway, rail-
road and river, including those by au-
tomobile, trolley, train, motorcycle,
boat or otherwise. Louisiana's death
toll was exactly half that of the en-
tire south, that states total injuries
being 80, of which 67 were due to
river disasters: The deaths by states
follow: Virginia, 2; North Carolina,
9; South Carolina, 3; Georgia, 81;
Florida, s; Alabama, q; Mississippi,
/; Louisiana, 80; Arkansas, O; Ten
nessee, 8; Kentucky, S. Total, IS.
Seven men are dead as result of a
renewal Of factional troubles at Her.
rim, Ill, late Tuesday in connection
with the hotly contested primary
election. Company K, Illinois nation
al guard, was ordered out and arrived
at Herrin Tuesday night. Since the
trouble started early in the day
troops had been guarding the homes
of two alleged khan clergymen, the
John Smith garage and the Masonic
Temple, where the killings took
place. Bitterness dating back to the
time when S. Glenn Young was die
tator of Williamson county, is be-
lieved responsible for the rioting.
The most bloodshed was near the
Masonic Temple where two carloads
of alleged gangsters got out of cars
and opened fire on klansmen. Ac-
cording to John Smith, klansman and
garage owner, the first shot was fired
at him about 2:3O pm by man he
identified as "Blackie" Arms. Smith
said he was standing in front of his
garage talking with friends when the
car containing the gangsters drove
up Troops arrived at A o'clock ant
thirty minutes later trouble broke out
anew before they could be rushed tt
the scene. Several were left dead o.
i wounded near the Herrin Masonic
4 Temple. Smith, following the attack
\ barricaded himself in his garage witt
relative and returned the fire.
which then became general on Mon
roe street between the European hote
and Smiths garage. The first casual
ty, an unarmed man, was shot i
r front of the. hotel. It is said that NOR
, than 500 shots were fired into tn
e garage. With the arrival of NOR