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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24
Early Christmas Mailing
Urged By Postmaster
w. D. Farthing, Local Postmaster,
Asks For Cooperation of
Patrons Here

A reminder that the Christmas
season is not far away and that
those who are intending to send
Christmas packages should do SO
before the rush sets in, was made
here today by w. d. Farthing, post
master.
Announcement has been made by
postal authorities in Washington that
every effort will be made to handle
the mail as expeditiously as possible,
but that this can only be done
through cooperation on the part of
the public. 1t is advised that in or
der to insure safe delivery of pack
ages before Christmas, they be sent
early with the .requst ''Plase do not
open until Christmas" written on
the outside face of the parcels.
Unusual care should be exercised
in giving the exact address of the
person to whom the parcel is sent,
it is suggested, as mail is more east
ly misplaced during the Christmas
season than at any other period of
the year.
Christmas shopping should be done
early so that packages may be sent
week or two before the holiday
rolls around, it was stated. A COM
plete list of instructions relative to
the wrapping, packing and mailing
of parcels during the Yuletide is be-
ing distributed by the 10 al postef-
flee.
Santa Claus is going to m,,!:c tie
postoffice department dig dow. :. &
shell out approximately S9,O00,0v0
to pay the extra cost of handling
gifts and greeting this Christmas
in addition to the ordinary expense
of the running of the mail service.
The great volume of Christmas
mail that poured into the vast postal
transportation machine last year re-
quired extra expenditure totaling
$8,688,215. Additional clerks re-
ceived $2,858,672; railroads for ad-
ditional transportation, S2,2OO,000;
additional city letter carriers, ST.
623,575; overtime and travel allow
ance for railway mail clerks, $685.
600; additional motor vehicles,
39s,6OO; operation of government
owned vehicles $26O,OO0; additional
smaller sums were spent for other
services.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24
VALE cRUcIs

Vale Crucis, Nov. 23.-Mr. Oscar
B. Mast of Missouri is visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Mast.
Gordon Taylor, who is attending
State College, Raleigh, spent the
weekend at home in the valley.
Mrs. Charlie Baird and Mr.: J. L.
Tester, whose illness has been men
toned in this correspondence, remain
quite sick.
A good force of hands and the
steam shovel on highway 50 between
the Vale Crucis school and the
Avery county line, is encouraging tc
the traveller.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24
DAUGHTER OF DR.: AND MRS.
BLACKBURN HURT IN WRECK

The following dispatch sent out
from Hickory under date of Nov. 21,
will be of interest in Watauga coun-
ty, the former home of DIR. Black
burn, brother of the Late Hon. E.
Spencer Blackburn and M. B. Black
burn:
Seven prominent young Hickory
high school girls narrowly escaped
death late Saturday afternoon when
the large sedan driven by Margaret
Blackburn, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
T. C. Blackburn, of Hickory, turned
over three times OH the highway this
side of Lenoir. The injured are Miss
Blackburn, who has sprained back,
deep cut on forehead and cash on
back of head; In Hamrick, broken
collar bone; Margaret Whitener, cuts
about head and other bruises; Doro-
thy Yeager, broken collar bone;
Lena Hamrick, severe shock and
bruises; Mary Everett, cuts on fore
head and knee; Mary Hart, cuts on
forehead and hand.
According to witnesses to the ac-
cident. Miss Blackburn's car was
coming toward Hickory when anoth-
er car cut into the highway from a
side road. Miss Blackburn swerved
sharply to the left, it was said. Her
car rocked on the edge of the high
way and then somersaulted three
times. The girls were tossed out
like balls, witnesses said. Several
went through the windshield and the
others were thrown through the top
of the car.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24
RUTH SNYDER AND JUDD
GRAY LOSE APPEAL IN N. Y.

Albany, N. Y, Nov. 22.-Ruth
Snyder, the blonde Now York house
wife and mother who denied her guilt
to the last, and Henry Judd Gray,
her mild-mannered paramour, who
told freely how they both strangled
and beat Ruth's half-sleeping hus-
band to death, today lost their joint
appeal from sentence of death. Both
are in the death house at Sing Sing
The date of execution is expected to
be set by the court of appeals here
tomorrow. If Mrs. Snyder dies, she
will be the third woman executed il
New York state.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24
Go To Texas, Advises
Former Watauga Man
w. E. Shipley Recites Many Reasons
Why He Is Booster of Empire to
the Southwest
By w. E. SHIPLEY

rOrL WOrLn, IeXaS. NOV. H.
A little news from Texas might bt
of interest to the readers of The
Democrat. l may not tell you about
Texas like Dick Hodges tells it. dc
not think he or l would either gel
it told like it should be.
l am located in Fort Worth, about
ITO miles west of Dicks town
Paris. Fort Worth is a city of two
hundred thousand inhabitants, sur,
rounded by a great farming country
They grow cattle, wheat, cotton, all
kinds of vegetables. One nice thing
in their favor, they do not use any
commercial fertilizer. Fort Worth is
great market. Last Monday, the
7th, there was four hundred and
eighteen loads of cattle on this
market, forty cars of hogs and sixty
cars of sheep, seventy car of mules
against 100 on October 81.
This is practically a new country,
undeveloped to what it will soon be.
There is an established air mail route
from here to New York, Chicago,
Detroit and Washington.
The Armour and Swift packing
companies have large plants here,
employing several thousand people.
There are numerous large. oil re-
fineries here. Gasoline retails here
for IA cents per gallon. Texas pro-
duces approximately 60 per cent of
all the poultry produced in the Uni
ted States. There was shipped this
week from Brady, Texas, $50 cars
of turkeys. Brady is the town from
which the president gets his Thanks
giving turkey. The turkey this year
going to the White House weighed
forty pounds. Mr.. DAVIS and Mr..
Longworth each got one from here
this year.
The largest chicken ranch in the
world-Johnson's Chick Hatchery
is located at Bowie, Texas. More
five million chickens are Matched
here annually.
They do things in big way out
here. They have the best bred cat
tie here of any state in the union. 1t
is a fine sight to take drive out in
the country and see the green
fields dotted with fine white-faced
calves.
Texas largest ranch, the King
Ranch, covers nearly all Of two coun-
ties, grasses over sixty thousand cat
tie. 1t is sixty-five miles from the
front entrance to the ranch head
quarters. They have several head of
purebred cattle of different breeds,
principally Bramas, or the sacred
cattle of India.
Land leases here for from 40 cents
to $40 per acre per year. Not many
ranchmen feed during the winter.
Today, November 18th, it is nice and
pleasant, no frost so far this year.
The Texans are just plain folks.
They know what it is to go broke and
come again. Drought is about all
the Texas farmer has to fear.
young mango west" Horace
Greely wrote. l say, Go to Texas,
work and take care of your money.
Go where money is. There is no
loafing here on the street corners
everyone is moving. Got something
to do. Some take care Of their
earnings-others work.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24

whose record of service caused
his unanimous reelection as COM
mander of Watauga Post, Ameri-
can Legion. During his admins
tration the American Legion Park
debt has been paid off, the big
Fourthof July celebration staged
last summer and the Legion treas
ury yet shows neat surlus.
Legionnaires state that the out
look for the post is exceedingly
bright for the coming year. Past
progress, they say, is largely at
tributable to the efforts of Com
mander Isaacs.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24

Failure of Governor Bibb Graves
of Alabama to answer summons,
marked the first day of the trial of
"a men accused of completely in
score or more cases of masked vio-
lence in Crenshaw county. Twenty
three of the men indicted were pres
ent for trial. Rev. L. A. Nails, for
mer pastor of of a Georgiana church
was one among the number who has
been fugitive from justice since
his indictment.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-24

A terrific rainstorm swept over
Watauga county last week. 1t came
out of the south, and it is said that
the water courses were the highest
they have been for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
PATRIOTS PAY HONOR
TO BARRY'S MEMORY
Tribute to First American Com
modore Today Sponsored by
Sons of Revolution.

Tribute to the memory Of the fiji st
was paid by group of descendants
of revolutionary patriots at the Barry
Statue in Franklin Park today, when
Assistant Secretary of the Navy r.
Douglas Robinson placed a wreath at
the foot of the statue during brief
ceremonies under the auspices Of the
Sons of the Revolution.
The national emblem, the Bourbon
emblem of France, continental stand
ards, the banners of the Sons of the
Revolution and the first flag of the
Continental Navy were massed during
the ceremonies. The invocation was
Ivy Chaplain e. l.. Ackiss of the
United States Navy Chaplains' Corps.
capt. Edmond u. Wilm. naval at
tache, represented the French embas-
~ at the ceremony.
The committee of the Sons of the
Revolution IN charge of the cere-
lock. u. S. n, chairman; Lieut..
Comdr. Joel r. Boone, L. s. n;
Comdr. Charles G.. Copp, L. S. n:
Rear Admrals Albert Gleaves and
Cary T. Grayson, L. $. ~; Brig. Gen.
George Richards. l.. S. NJ. c.; Lieut..
Col. Benjamin K. Russell, U. S. NJ. c.;
Col. George c. Thorpe, u. S. NJ. c.;
II. Lawrence Choate, Bertram Ches-
terman, Harry A. Gillis, Thomas L..
Hume. ST.; Hugh M. Southgate, Wal
ter S. Penfield and William Walker
Smith. The committee was accom-.
panied by the color guard. as well as
officers and members of the board of
managers, headed by DR.. Marcus Ben
iamin, president Of the society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
COSTELLO LEGION POST
INSTALLS ITS OFFICERS
Thomas Mason, Jr., Becomes Com
mander for Ensuing Term-Oth-
er Officers in List.

New officers elected by the Costello
Post OF the American Legion were
installed last night. Comdr. Mason
was placed in office by Senior Depart
mental Vice Comdr. j. Thad Baker,
who presided at the ceremonies.
Others installed We're: Maj. l.. T.. At
kins, senior vice commander: Kin Car
roll, second vice commander, and
Harry J. Photis, third vice com
mander. John II. O'Connell was APP
pointed finance officer; Maj. Daniel j..
Donovan, judge advocate; Martin
Goerl, adjutant, and Edward F. Nc
Cabe, assistant adjutant.
AS a protest against the opposition
of Vincent B. Costello Post, Of the
American Legion to the form of the
proposed World War Memorial In
Potomac Park, Past Comdr. Charles f.
kohen rendered his resignation from
membership in the post at meeting
in the District Building last night. He
declared in submitting the resignation
that he could not affiliate with Il
group taking such action as did the
post with regard to the proposed me-
mortal.
Thomas Mason, jr., newly elected
post commander, was authorized by
the post to appoint a committee to
draw up plans for an equitable dis
tribution of the World War trophies
brought here by the post from the
Raritan Arsenal in New Jersey, rep
resenting the Districts shsre in the
captured material Of the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
JOHNSON STILL
GETTING PRAISES
Messages of Generalization
Come From Home Town
and Atlantic.

Walter Johnson continued 10 re-
rciVe congratulatorX messages today
incident 10 tho celebration Of his
twentieth anniversary yes crday as a
member Of the Washington Club.
Perhaps the message which touched
him the most WAS u telegram from
his home town of Humboldt. kans.,
informing him that all business was
suspended yesterday as the towns
people, many Of whom knew him
when" assembled at stadium named
in his honor and paid tribute to his
long career.
From mid-Atlantic came a radio
message from Frank Morse and
Charlie McClintock, aboard the steam
ship Cedric, and kilograms were dis
patched from San Francisco from
former woman Representative Nolan
and Postmaster Power.
George Moriarity, manager OF the
Detroit team, who is on the injured
list In Detroit, extolled Walters worth
as a sportsman and wished him many
more years of service Ray Schalk
of the White SoX. Bill CarriGan of the
Red Sox. and Dan Howlev of the st.
Louis Browns sent personal greetings
and also the best wishes of their
teams. Roger PeCkiEpaugh and Joe
Harris Wlfed tnelr greetings. Many
National League players and mana
gers. including Pie Traynor DOME
Bush, Xxi Cuylar and Johnnie Evers,
sent appropriate messages.
Frank J. Navin, president of the
Detroit Club, sent a greeting saying
THE American League is proud of
you. Your name will endure as long
as base ball is played. which thought
should make you very happy. l nope
that you will be in the game for many
years to come"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
guards at the mine manhandled. John
Hines. one Of the guards, was shot and
slightly injured.
WANTS FISHER IN FARLEY.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, August R).-
P. T. Pagan, district president of the
United Mine Workers, today suggested
that Gov. Donahey of Ohio should in.
clude Gov. John Fl. Fisher of Pennsyl-
vania, among the governors asked to
seek a recovering of the joint con-
ference of operators and miners of the
central competitive field in the hope
of settling the coal wage dispute. The
Ohio executive announced yesterday
he had asked the governors of Illinois
and Indiana to join him in seeking
such a conference of operators and
miners.
Pagan pointed out that Western
Pennsylvania is a part of the central
competitive field, which includes also
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and said
it would be advisable to include the
governor of Pennsylvania in such a
conference. 1.-THE action of the Ohio
governor, the union leader said, is
most commendable, but the miners
will not return to work except on the
basis Of no reduction in wages"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
FAMED FRED TOP"
TO BE TORN DOWN
Building Was Summer Home of
President Cleveland During
His Second Administration.

Famed "Red Top" the Summer
home of President Grover Cleveland
during his second term in office.
located on the northeast corner of
Thirty-sixth place and Macomb
street. is to be torn down in the i'm
mediate future to make way for other
developments, it became known to-
day. when a razing permit was is
sued to the st. Johns Realty De-
velopment Co.
1t was from this home in which
President Cleveland lived during the
Summer months of his occupancy
of the White House from 1898 to 1897
that the present community. Cleve-
land Park. obtained its name. The
short street now known as Thirty
fourth place and a block and half
from Red Top was formerly Fol
som place" named for Mrs. Cleve-
land, who before her marriage was
a Folsom.
President Cleveland was a familiar
figure during his residence at Red
Top" as he drove back and forth to
the White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
NAVY NOT EXPECTING
TO AID IN AIR RACE
Receives No Request for Detail Of
Ships for California; Homo
lulu Flight.

While the Navy will give all posi-
BILE aid to participants in the Califor-
mia .to-Honolulu air race August II in
case of actual disaster, Secretary Will
bur said yesterday that ships would
not he detailed to patrol the sea, nor
would other special orders be issued
in contemplation of the eventuality of
Il mishap. He added that no request
had reached him for special naval
assistance.
The Secretary said, however. that
Rear Admiral Thomas Washington.
commanding the San Francisco naval
district. would he authorized to con-
fer with the organizing committee of
the race for suitable arrangements.
Assistant Secretary Warner. in
charge of naval aeronautics, said he
believed the safety of the race could
he better protected by strict appica-
ton Of the safety requirements speci-
lied in the entrance regulation than
by scattering ships along the route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
NAVY PREPARING
TO TRY AVIATOR
Williamson May Be Summon
ed Here in Alleged Viola
ton of Law.

Preparations went forward ut the
Navy Department today for the con
Vening of a general court martial to
try Lieut.. Thomas b. Williamson OF
the aircraft squadron's scouting neet
on charges of violating low hNIn&
regulations In the vicinity of Sixteenth
street and Columbia road on the attcr
noon of July "a. The airmar, accord
ing to witnesses, who Comp'atTHd tu
the police and the Department of Com.
merce. dove and zoomcd buildings in
that area. although the pilot irrla|Ns
his acrobatiCs were confined to the
space. ahovS Rock Greek Tark
Secretary WILDER late yesterday
ordered the court martial after Hn-
proving The recommendations of the
Bureau of Navigation which CON.
Quoted an inNeStiG1 ton. The ll,lcr
advocate generals office OF the Navy
now is engaged in drawiuS mn }hr
formal charges anG specifications.
after which the personnel OF the
court will be considered. In View Of
the fact that the prosecutions case
IS built up almost entirely on tcsti
mony of civilian witnesses rcs}dinS
here, it was thought at the depart
mcnt today that Lieut.. Williamson
would be ordered here for trial. No
tA tiis Alstlc VI tIit ttutl-
MARTIAL was given.
The Bureau OF NavigationS report
to the Secretary was based on investi-
cations by two separate boards. one of
which functioned here and dealt with
testimony of complainants, and the
other. which sat at Hampton Roads,
Va. to hear the facts from the pilot y
viewpoint.
The alleged offense committed by
the young officer involved Federal,
civil and military regulations prohibit
ing low flying and acrobatics over con-
gested areas.
These regulations were violated
when. in one instance, the pilot flew
his speedy Navy Curtiss Hawk, fight
ing plane. down to the fifth-story level
of the Argonne Apartments. the wit
nesses told the police and the Depart.
ment of Commerce. After several
days investigation the identity of the
pilot was learned.
The regulations prohibiting low fly
ing are designed to protect the life of
the pilot and also persons on the
ground. Should plane get into diff
ficulty over congested area and not
have sufficient altitude to glide to an
outlying field. serious injury to the
pilot and innocent persons on the
ground undoubtedly would result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
JAPANESE ARE SKEPTICAL.
Dispatches Say L. 8. is Expected to
Make Counter PROPOSAL.

TOXIC, August P).-Notwith-
standing Admiral Saito's compromise
proposal, made in an effort to save the
Geneva naval conference, the Japa-
nese naval ministry is represented as
considering the success of the confer
ence doubtful, unless the Americans
and British get together on the gun
caliber question, which is regarded as
most difficult.
Special dispatches from Geneva to
the vernacular newspapers anticipate
that the United States will be unable
to accept the Japanese proposal, al
though Hugh S. Gibson and Rear Ad-
miral Hilary +. Jones, the chief Amer
lean delegates, are said to have been
favorably impressed. All the leaders,
the dispatches add. expect the United
States to make counter proposal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
PRESIDENT ENTERS
EMPLOYEES FIGHT
Calls Attention of Personnel
Board to Protest of Clerks
Organization.

President Coolidge has brought to
the Immediate attention of the Per.
sonnet Classification Board. the pro-
test of the National Federation of Fed.
eral Employees against refusal of the
board to deal with the federation con-
corning salaries and ALLEGATIONS of
woman employees of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing.
In a letter to the federation, Ev-
erett Sanders, secretary to the. Presi-
dent, writing from the Summer White
House. in South Dakota, said the
Chief Executive had ordered the mat.
ter brought to the immediate atten-
ton" of the board. but did not OK.
plain further what directions If any
the President sent.
Federation Up in Arms.
The federation is up in arms over
the refusal of the Personnel Classif-
cation Board to deal with the union
OF woman employees and the fedora.
ton in the Women's appeal for higher
classification and consequent higher
salaries.
The board in its refusal said that
the women must deal directly with
the board, and could be represented
by no outside organization or repre-.
sentative.
Miss Gertrude McNally, who is both
secretary Of the women's union at
the bureau. and also secretary of the
National Federation of Federal EN-
ployes, said today the women had de-
cided not to deal with the board direct
now, but were waiting until the larger
problem of the boards refusal to deal
with the womens union could be
threshed out.
May Go to Congress.
The federation has determined to
leave no stone unturned in it's fight
for recognition of it's right to repre-
sent groups of Federal employees be-
fore a Government board, or official.
limitations have been given that the
fight may go to Congress.
The letter from Secretary Sanders
was in reply to a vigorous protest
from the federation, in which they re-
ported the action Of the board, and
asked the President to take some
early action
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03
BODY BROUGHT HERE.
Police Try to Identify Corpse of
Man Found in River.

The body of an unidentified colored
man, found floating in the Potomac
River off Indian Head yesterday after
noon by Worllmen on a dredge. was
brought to Washington today by
Sergt. G. NJ. Mundie of the harhor
precinct, on orders of Coroner j. Ram
say hewitt after Charles County
authorities declared they were without
jurisdiction in the case as the body
was on Government territory.
The only information received here
late yesterday was that a body" had
been found in the river. Authorities
did not know whether 1t was that of
white or colored person, so Sergt.
Mundie was dispatched to Indian
Head to return 1t here; and bring
about identification If possible. The
condition of the body indicated it had
been in the water a week or more.
Coroner hewitt explained that bodies
found in Maryland waters usually are
not brought to the District, but in
this case it appeared the deceased
might have been from this city.