Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-08-08
SHORT ITEMS OF
GENERAL NEWS.
Some of the Outstanding Happenings
of Past Week, Gathered From
Everywhere, Condensed For The
Busy Reader.

Announcement is made in Raleigh
that d. F. Giles of Marion, will be a
candidate for lieutenant governor of
North Carolina in the next Demo-
cratic primary. Tam C. Bowie of
West jefferson will not be a candi-
date for the Office, it was also an
nounced.
Washington, Aug 4.-Machinert
for the census tabulation next
spring which is to be the greatest
ever undertaken in the history of the
nation was said today by cnsus bu-
reau Officials to be practically COM
plete. An army of 100000 persons
will be mobilized to enumerate sta
tistics of four phases of American
life - population, unemployment,
arms and trade distribution. They
will be under the direction of 573
supervisors and will start on April
1, 1880, their census taking, which is
the 18th decennial enumeration of
the nation. No appointments of su-
pervlsors or enumerators have yet
been announced by the bureau.
Jesse Harding Pomeroy, II year.
old murderer of small children,
whose crimes Mortified the country
more than half century ago.
Thursday was given an opportunity
to glimpse for the first time the
modern life. In closely guarded
automobile he was whisked from
the Charlestown, Mass, state prison
where he had spent the last "a
years, to the state farm az Bridge
water, Mass, a distance OF about 20
miles. 1t was Pomeroy's first auto
mobile trip and probably the first
time he ever had seen machine.
The trip itself would be rcplete with
amazement for the East Boston
nwspaper boy, who since ne entered
the prison in 1878 at the age Of II,
never has stepped outside its con-
fines.
The Sino-Russian controversy over
the Chinese Eastern railway seizure
in Manchuria had a few encourage
ing developments and several threat
ening aspects, says the Associated
Press review of last weeks events.
Moscow named conditions under
which it would consent to negotiate
settlement which Marking rejected.
But meanwhile the foreign affairs
administration of Manchuria itself
went blithly ahead in it's negotiations
with Russian officials, establishing a
neutral 20-mile zone on the border
near Manchuli and arranging for viz
tual resumption of traffic between
the Trans Siberian and the Chinese
Eastern roads. The rest of the bor-
der country produced it's usual crop
of trouble reports. One of these was
that Mongolians were getting ready
to raid Chinese territory. An Off
cial call for Siberian reservists to
join the coors was sent out by Rus
sian military authorities.
Washington, Aug. at is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the Republican
national committee Will be called to
meet within the next few weeks,
mainly for the purpose of electlng a
national chairman to succeed DR..
Work. Besides, Republicans would
like to get together in the near fu-
ture for an exchange of ideas, and
to get line on how the Hoover ad-
ministration is making out. Some
think Mr.. Hoover is not overly pop
ular in the country, and that times"
are not what they should be- Busi-
ness in many respects is not so good.
While Republicans would be very
glad to hold meeting of the nation
al committee to consider the good
of the order, the Democrats find
themselves in different case. A meet
ing of the Democratic committee
would inevitably bring on complica-
tions. 1t would be dangerous; it
would result in crisis for the party.
it is certain that an effort would be
made to "dehorse" National Chair
man Raskob, as Senator immons
has expressed it.
Four men were killed and another
is in hospital, as the result of a
swath of death cut by an inoffen-
sive shipping clerk at Spartanburg,
S. c., last Thursday, VINO suddenly
became raving maniac. Deprived
of his hand axe, with which he dealt
death and destruction, T. Earl Rob-
inson, the clerk was placed in the
Spartanburg county Jail, and later
was taken to the insane asylum at
Columbia. Robertson, it is said, had
not been well for some time but
otherwise appeared normal. He sud-
denly became insane, and began to
slash his co-workers with an axe.
He was a clerk in the office of the
j. w. Bell Company, grain and flour
merchants. His victims were R. H.
Day, sales manager or the Bell COM
pany; J. L. Bussey, cashier for the
company; M. L. Davis, car repairer
for the Charleston and Western Car