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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
Mountaineer Apple Seller
Berates Presidents Critics

Ira Parker, who speaks a Shakes
peariaa dialect and dresses like a
forty-niner, caume into court at
Sylvia recently keeping up his 73-
year-old record and offered his ap-
ples for sale.
The old mountaineer, his hair
whitened by 7S winters, sells ap-
pies to the court throngs. He's
been at it since he was IL years
old but he attended his first ses-
son of Jackson county court at the
age of five.
Everybody knows Ira. He
knows almost everybody. His ap-
pies are good but his sweetbreads-
gingerbread-taste better. In the
fall he sells chestnurs. -
When he isn't attending court,
he farms and digs "yerbs' and tells
the world what l think"
He stopped selling apples for a
while and, to the crowd in general,
denounced roundly any who oppose
President Roosevelt. He's the sage
OF this section and is probably The
most quoted man in the mountains.
Then he Offered his apples again
the finest fruit to be found or
the great footstool of creation
And you may have 1T two for five
cents. g.
A boy of 20, deaf and dumb
walked mp and stood smiling. TIKI
boys father explained his condi.
ton and Ira Offered an apple. The
boy smiled and shook his head but
Ira placed 1T in his hand. The boy
smiled his thanks.
Then Ira turned again to hi
selling but paused to remark to
bystander. "T'd pour groundhos
oil in his ears, or hot salt water
He'd be able I'd hear we'll then,
have tried It"
A crowd gathered to listen.
IF the President didn't have
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
SALE OF REAL ESTATE

Pursuant to the terms of a GER
tain mortgage deed of trust exc
cuted by Kerr Walker and wife,
Jennie Jones Walker, dated May
|26th, 1923 and recorded in the Of
flee of Register of Deeds for Row
an County in book of mortgages
No. ITO, page 176, default having
been made in the payment of the
indebtedness therein secured, and at
he request of the holder of the
note therein secured, the under
lsigned, J. M. McCorkle, Trustee
Twill expose for sale at the court
house door in the city of Salisbury,
N. c.. on Saturday, July 9TH,
1884, at the hour of II NJ, the
following described real estate
situate in Franklin Township,
Rowan County, and described as
follows:
Lying on the East side of the
|Old Mocksville public road about
two and three fourths miles from
Salisbury, N. c., and Immediately
North of and adjoining Andis
Chapel Church, ct al;
Beginning at a stake in the mid
die of the Old Mocksville Road,
thence South SS deg. East 3.33 Is
chains to a stake; thence South 9
deg. West ; chains to a stake, in
Andis Chapel line lat Grave
Yard) thence North SO deg. West
1913 1-3 chains to a stake On the
East side of the public road; thence
up said road North 9 deg. East 3
chains to the beginning, contain
ing 1 acre of land, more or less,
and being the same land conveyed
by ]. S. McC ubbins and wife Am
anda Turner (now Amanda Nc
Lees), by deed dated February 9th,
1898 and registered in the office
of Register of Deeds for Rowan
County in deed book No. go, at
page 1874. For back title see book
of deeds No. 1903, page 39S."
Terms of sale, Cash.
This June 18th, 1884. .
]. M. McCORKLE, Trustee
John L. Rendleman, Attorney.
June 15-July s.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15

more seAse than we do, pray tell
me why why he is sitting in the ma
tons CAPITOL" Ira wanted to
know. why curse and berate him
for the treatment you receive? My
good friends, he is every mans
president,
Pick up where you left off.
lGet out and work. Bend your
back to the labor, however tortur-
Gus it may be-and smile"
Ira continued to talk and his ap-
1ples continued to sell. Then he
looked at his empty sack and said
he had made about three dollars
Its not much but it is an hon
est living" he said. SAT least
can sleep the sleep of an honest dis
iciple of the mountain clan"
He said he had never taken 4
dose of doctors medicine in hi
life
II use VERBS"
Then he sold his last three ap-
piles for a nickel, tucked the sack
under his arm and moved through
the crowd toward his little hillside
cabin.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15

IYERE ID one Of the earliest fore
4 runners Of our town clock. It is
the famous Aztec Calendar Stone. or
Stone c. the Sun. by which Mocte-
zuma's people once told time. Back in
the days when Cortez arrived in Mex
leo to find the country already in
habited. when Mexico City was a
Venice-like place of sparkling canals
enlivened with busy barges. Of paved
streets lined with stone buildings,
and a plaza dominated py the ornate
palace of Moctezuma and the great
sacrificial temple this Calendar
Stone reposed in a wall of the ancient
temple of Tenochtitlan. s
The stone gave a complete account
of time-hour. day. month. year and
cycle. and also indicated the lucky
and unlucky days. On its face were
carved astronomical and chronology
cal characters presenting the calen-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
ALE OF VALUABLE SPENCER
ROPERTY

Pursuant to the provisions con-
Itained in that certain mortgage
deed of trust executed by E. F.
lCahil and wife, Minnie R. Cahil tc
A. M. Suggs, Trustee, dated No
vember 18th, 1922, and recorded
in the office of Register of Deeds
for Rowan County in book OF
mortgages No. 80, page 3o2, de-
fault having been made in the pay
ment of the Indebtedness therein
secured, and the said A. M. Suggs.
Trustee, having died and ]. Temple
|Gobbel having been designated SUBJ
stituted Trustee by Instrument
dated May 10Th, 1884, and recorded
in the Office of Register of Deeds
for Rowan County in book Of
deeds 221 page 42s, and at the
request of the holder of the note
secured by the said mortgage deco
Iof trust, the undersigned, ]. Temple
IGobbel, substituted Trustee, viii
EXPOSE for sale at public auction
flor cash, at the court house door ii
Salisbury, N, c., on Monday
July 9th, 1884, at the hour of Il
M, the following tract of land ly.
ing on the Southwest side of 5tf
street between Spencer and Hudson
Avenues, Spencer, N. c.
Beginning at a stake on the
Southwest side of 5th street at a
point SO feet from the West Stone
corner at the intersection of 5th
Street and Spencer Avenue and
runs thence with the margin of
5th Street in a Northwesterly di-
.rection Is feet to Ketchies corner;
thence with Ketchies line in a
Southwesterly direction, parallel
with Spencer Avenue EOS feet, more
or less, to line of lot No. 10; thence
with line Of lot No. Is, in a South
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
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dar; erected As It was in a vertical
position It acted as a sun dial reveal.
ing the hour At present this famous
~time-recorder is housed in the Ma
tionai Museum in Mexico City and Is
M of hundreds of relics left by races
inhabitlng oul continent hundreds OF
centuries ago-to be een by travellers
taking the weekly cruises from New
York and San francisco to Mexico.
The calendar used by the Aztecs~is
considered one of the most amazing
scientific achievements accomplished
by a ace of equal culture. According
to it the year was divided into 1s
months-the first 18 having 20 days.
the>'9th having only 5 days. to give a
tota' of 1865. By the addition of extra
days during the cycle the calendar
was Kept remarkably accurate. losing
only one day IN % 5000 years as agains,
the l day in about $500 years lost by
the Gregorian calendar now IN use.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
BEES KILL DOG.

bees KILL DOG.
Staunton, Va.-Frank S. Driver.
hearing his Belgian police dos
Chang" yelp, investigated and
found that the dog, tied to an ap-
lie cree, had been attacked by
Hundreds of bees. SEEING that the
dog was in agony. Driver started
flor a veterinarians but the dog
died IN route. He was also badly
|stung in trying to liberate the
dog.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
SOVIET RUSSIA HAS GOLD

Soviet Russia has passed the
United States and Canada as a pro-
ducer of gold and is second only to
the T~ransvaal, according to Off
Gals. Production in 1888 is ex-
pected to reach $10o, 100000,
compared with $23S,oo0,0oo for
Africa, s63,o0o,oo for Canada and
|$45 100000 for the United States.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
LAKE POISONED

Clarksburg, w. Va.-All fish
ling, boating and swimming have
|bett1 prohibited in Oral Lake, a
Fishing and swimming resort noted
for wears as one of the ,clearest and
finest bodies of water in central
West Virginia, because of a mys-
ferrous poisoning in the wafer.
Thousands of fish are being killed.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
CAUGHT IN FENCE; DIES

Plymouth, Ind.-With his feet
tangled in a wire fence, an elderly
nan, apparently about 20, was
hanging, head-down, during
the intense heat wave He was
|un>cnsSious WI 4 discovered and
died shortly afterward.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
MATCH BURNS PLANE

MATCH BURNS PLANE
Cumberland, Md.-A spectator,
watching the refuAing Of a single
Imotored U. S. Army biplane which
ihad made a forced landing here,
|struck a match which ignited
fumes from the gasoline, destroyed
thet plane and seriously burned an
AIRPORT attendant.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-15
FROST IN JUNE

Lancaster, O.-Severe damage
was caused to corn crop, wheat
and fruit by a late frost which
visited this community recently,
A hot sun soon dissipated the cold
bur the corn wilted and fell.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
Paraguyan Refusal To Renew Its
Truce Blamed In The Technical
Resumption Of Gran Chaco War

La Paz to arrange a basis Tor
arbitration of their dispute.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jan. 8.
(UP).-Paraguayan troops push
ed steadily westward through the
Chaco territory yesterday follow
ing refusal of Paraguay to renew
the truce with Bolivia which eX-
pired at midnight Saturday. No
fighting was expected for sew
eral days as the Bolivian soldiers
took advantage of the truce
which became effective December
20, 1888, to withdraw somewhat
from the war zone.
Following a hurried cabinet
meeting yesterday, the Paraguay
an government telegraphed Al
varez Del Vayo, chairman Of the
League of Nations Chaco COM
mission, at Buneos Aires declar-
ing that continuance of the
truce would have resulted in Ser
jious danger for Paraguay" The
message added that "peace might
have been reached if Bolivia had
separated the questions of secur-
ity and arbitration. The Para
guayan government charged that
Bolivia had utilized the truce to
strengthen her positions along
the ChacO front.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
BUYING power
IN HUGE GAIN,
REVIEW SHOWS
Business Still Under Nor.
NAL; Labor in Fear of
Fiat Money

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. (UP).
A total of 6,400,000 unemployed
were removed from relief rolls in
1888, business activity increased
10 per cent over 1882 and work
ers' total buying power per month
is $543,O0O,OO0 greater than in
the previous wear the American
Federation CT Labor reported last
night.
The federation's monthly sur
vey of business, in which actIvl-
tips during 1888 were reviewed,
said 100000 unemployed per-
sons found jobs in industry and
100000 were given temporary
work under CWA, PWA and
CCC.
While definite progress was
made last year toward economic
recovery, the labor organization
warned that 100000 workers
still were unemployed last Novem-
Der; that CWA FUNDS giving Cem-
porary employment to 100000
will be exhausted by February 10
and that business still is 80 per
cent below normal.
"The outlook" the statement
cautioned. els overshadowed by q
danger which might destroy all
progress made-infiation by fiat
money"
"Coincident with the fedora
tons announcement, the Ameri-
can Railway association issued Il
statement last night predicting
that freight car loadings in the
first quarter of 1884 will be about
6.5 per cent above actual load
ings in the same quarter of 1883
cars compared with
Continued on page fOur.)
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$50, 900 In CWA Funds Is Being Spent Here
FUGITIVE FRENCH BANKER
WHOSE FAILURE ROCKED THE
NATION ENDS LIFE TODAY
Caught in Hotel Near &C.
neva, Shoots Self When
Police Operatives Bat
ter Down Door

CHAMONIX. France. Jan. 8.
(UP).-Alexander Sacha Stavi-
sky, head of the defunct Credit
Municipal Bayonne, whose failure
caused a national financial scan
dial, shot himself to death here
today when trapped by police in
his hotel.
The fugitive banker, sought
throughout the nation, committed
suicide sending a revolver bullet
into his head as three policemen
battered down the door of his
room to arrest him.
The man whose $30,000,000
pawn shop failure rocked the ma
ton and imperiled the cabinet
itself by the implication of its
members involved in hi saffairs,
was trailed to this Alpine region,
As miles from Geneva by secret
service operatives. He had been
in hiding for almost a week
avoiding the gay crowds of Win
ter sports enthusiasts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. s.
UP).-Foreign Minister Carlos
Calvo placed centre blame" for
renewal of hostilities with Para
quay on the Paraguayan govern
ment yesterday in a telegram to
the League of Nations Chaco COM
mission at Buenos Aires. Minis
ter Calvo pointed out that b.
livia had accepted the truce last
December, had later agreed to an
extension of the truce and finally
had agreed to an arbitration
formula which Paraguay had re-
fused.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 6. (UP).
All efforts to conciliate differ
ences between Bolivia and Para
quay were abandoned yesterday
by the special Chaco commission
of the League of Nations follow
ing technical resumption OF hos
tilities between the two countries
Saturday night.
"The commission will now
draw up its report" Alvarez Del
Vayo, its chairman, told the Uni
ted Press. The report, to be
submitted to the league for fur
Their action against the belliger-
ent countries, will cover the com
missions efforts at Asuncion and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
China Resident
Buys Farm Here
To Retire Upon
w. E. Strickland to Make
This His Home When
He Quits Business

That Henderson county is con-
tinuously drawing people from
distant lands as well as nearer
territory is again emphasized by
the purchase of the Pace farm IN
Edneyville township by w: T..
Strickland, long of Hankow,
China. Mr.. Strickland has reside !
in China for the past 13 years and
has been back in the United States
on a visit to his relatives in At
lanta. Ga. :,
While in this country he decd
ed to purchase a farm upon when
he can retire when his work IN
China is completed and he set out
to find what appeal to him as the
best country and climate IN which
TO make his selection. After trav-
cling over much of the country
from Boston throughout the
Southeast he came to Henderson
Vile and was so impressed with
the climate, the beauty of the
country and the outlook for the
future that he decided to locate
here when he retires from his
work in China. A friend will oc-
eupy the farm for him until his
return.
Mr., Strickland was induced to
come to this section through the
Ey-A Strout Realty Agency, rep
+asortod nv G.. L. Stark and the
Home. and Garden Realty com
PAW. who are advertising this
section extensively.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
SOVIET ENVOY
IS At CAPITAL
Troyanovsky and Bullitt
Both Reach Washington
on Sunday
BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (UP).
"A swarthy, stocky man stepped
from a pullman car to the rain
spattered platform at Union Sta
ton yesterday, dotted his black
felt hat and said he was glad to
be in the capital of the United
States.
By so doing, Alexander Troy
anovsky. Soviet ambassador to the
United States. forged virtually
the last link in the resumption of
diplomatic relations between two
great republics. Close behind him
on the train step was red-cheek-
ed man with thinning hair-Wil-
liam C. Bullitt. American ambas-
sador to Moscow, returning after
brief trip to the Soviet Union
to select his embassy staff and
confer with President Roosevelt
on Soviet-American trade prob
lens.
Three men thrust out hands TO
greet them-Jefferson Patterson
of the protocol division of the
state department; Robert Kelly,
chief of the Eastern European di-
vision of the state department;
and a diplomatic representative of
Japan, the nation that is perhaps
most vitality affected by the United
States recognition of the Soviet.
But Toshihiko Taketomi, charge
d'affaires of the japanese embas-
sv here. said he was there as an
old friend of Troyanovsky rather
than in his official capacity. The
Soviet envoy formerly was ambas-
sador to Japan.
Troyanovsky was reticent on
the question of Soviet-Amerlcan
relations, but it was learned that
he might present his credentials
to President Roosevelt today. Or
dinarilv it takes a week to go
through that procedure which IS
encountered with all the intrlca-
cies of diplomatic formulate.
QUICK dCIlOIl, HO"SNNi. wa
Keeping with the whole spirit OF
Americas recognition of the So,
Wet because Mr.. Roosevelt and
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvln-
off moved with what, for dlplo-
mats, was binding speed during
their negotiations last fall.
Bullitt, who accompanied Troy
anovsky from Moscow, said they
discussed "everything under the
sun" on their trip across Europe
and the Atlantic. With Bullltt was
his nine-year-old daughter Ann
who danced a jig on the station
platform in her joy at getting to
Washington.
Rullitt said he would remain IN
the United States several weeks
before going back to Moscow as
the first American ambassador
since the Kerensky government
was overthrow and Lenin seized
mower
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
W.C.T.U. FIELD
SECRETARY TO
VISIT This CITY
Miss Erwin of Ohio, viii
Be Here for Conference
Wednesday Night

Miss Mary b. Erwin of Nenia,
Ohio, national field secretary for
the W.C.T.U.. who is spending
the first month of the year IN
North Carolina will come here
from Asheville for a visit on
Wednesday, and will hold a con-
ference with the young people at
the regular Y.P.B. meeting on
Wednesday evening at 1880 in
the Hollowell Bible class room.
Miss Erwin is laying plans for
a new crusade of education
among young people who are in
tereSted in the cause, and all
those interested in this movement
are urged to be present at the
meeting.
While in Hendersonville Miss
Erwin will visit the biology class
in the local high school and ar
engagements have been made for
her to visit Fruitland Institute
and Dana school.
Members of the United Dry
forces in the county are eSpe-
cially urged to meet Miss Erwin
on Wednesday night. Her ex-
tensive travel in this country and
Europe give her a broad and
sympathetic understanding of
people and conditions and it Is
expected that she will be of great
assistance in aiding future plans
of the local organization.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
Prince Escapes
Process Servers

RENO, New, Jan. 8.-(UP):-
Prince Alexis Mdivani who miss
ed California process servers by
disembarking from a transconti-
mental train here, continued his
journey to San Francisco by air
last night.
The husband of the former
Barbara Hutton, heiress to the
Woolworth Five and Ten millions,
boarded a United Air Lines plane
shortly before 9 p. m. after a
short stay here.
Prince Mdivani is sought by
process servers in connection with
the oil ventures of his titled bro
theirs, Serge and David, in South
ern California. The Mdivanls are
scheduled to sail from San Fran
isco Thursday for the Orient.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
F. R. MAY STATE
MONEY POLICY
Great Pressure Is Brought
for Definite Future Stand
by Business
Copyrieht, 1884, by ". p.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (UP).
International complications which
require delay in development OF
administration monetary policies
appeared likely today to compe
President Roosevelt to take con-
gress and the country somewhat
into his confidence regarding
plans for the American dollar.
Protests from the financial CEN
tiers and big business in general
is sharpest against administration
refusal to state specifically the
detectives of the monetary pro-
gram. This attitude is increas-
ingly reflected in both houses of
the congress.
ASK MONEY MESSAGE
There is a general desire on
Capitol Hill that Mr.. Roosevelt
address himself to money in one
of the series of short messages
which is to be submitted to con-
gress during this session. Big
business is described as anxious
for assurances that unhealthy
peculation is to be avoided in
further dollar devaluation. Bust
ness, might, in fact, welcome bad
monetary news in preference to
denial of authoritative infor-
nation.
Despite close administration
protection of monetary secrets, it
is known and generally recog-
nized now that permanent stabll-
ization of the dollar or citation to
world currencies is many months
distant. Mr.. Roosevelt frankly
explained in his message to con-
gress that domestic conditions in
several foreign countries made it
impossible for them to discuss
sterilization at this time. BY in
ference, that statement was an
unqualified acknowledgement that
worldwide monetary detectives
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON. Jan. 8.-UP).--
Anglo-American political relations
appear to some observers here to
have cooled in recent months. The
evident warmth which permeated
them before and during Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald's
visit to Washington last April has
largely vanished, it was evident
today.
Rivalry for commercial advan-
tages in the worlds and particu-
larly Latin Americas markets has
contributed appreciably to Great
ing a chasm between both coun-
tries. 1t might be said that no
blame can be attached to either
for the result Of trade COMPETE
ton which is inherent in modern
civilization. But the fact remains
that. with markets growing scare
er. narrower and continually more
coveted. the struggle between the
United States and Britain for
leadership in commerce has been
intensified.
Despite official assurances TO
the contrary, the British govern
CONTINUED on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-08
Rose Buildings
Heating Plant Is
Badly Damaged

Stores and offices in the Rose
building, owned by Burckmyer
brothers were without heat today
because of estimated damage Oh
$500 to the boiler of the heating
plant Saturday evening. 1nvesti,
cation disclosed that someone hao
gone into the basement of the,
building, opened pet cock ana
drained the boiler while the furn-
ace contained hot fire. Absence
of water in the boiler caused each
of six sections of the plant to
crack wide open. it was said;
Practically the entire plant Will
have to be replaced.