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Hauptmann Still Can Smile
Tha shadow of a smile crosses the face of Bruno Hauptmann, reliev
ing the mask-like stolidity that he presents in the courtroom to the
scores of eye* boring into him, as he confers with his attorney,
Edward J. Reilly, in the Hunterdon county court library. Reilly,
florid, big-framed, and correctly dressed for the role, heads the de
fense staff of four.
COUNTY DRAINAGE
PLAN IS DRAFTED
(Continued from page one)
the land, and following his first
visit to Hendersonville and Bre
vard he soon made a second visit
with a TVA reoresentative. Prep-i
arations were then made for a
large delegation of about 10 men.
They represented every depart
ment of the North Carolina and
the Tennessee Valley authorities
that would be interested in the
purchase of sub-marginal lands,
reforestation, drainage, coloniza
tion, farm experimentation, etc.
This delegation was attended by
the committee, which visited the
farms where individual drainage!
had been done at considerable
-xpense, to demonstate the pos
sibility of better drainage. A sur
vey was made of the Mud Creek,
section, and the delegation made
the trip covering the French
Broad valley from a point near
the P.uneombw county line to
Davidson river, where "thev cross
ed the river and visited the sec
tions of Little river. Crab creek.
Mud creek. Big Willow and Jones
Cap. Some of this territory was
visited with the view of showing
the possibility of land planning,
where'y owners of sub-manrinal
land would be given an opportun-j
ity to sell th<ir property for park
and forestry purposes. The river
was observed and photoeraphs
taken in order that the delega
tion miffht have a first-hand op-1
portunity to study the possibility I
of accommodating a much larger
population under better drain
age. and other development pro
grams.
The l'>cai committee renamw
with the visitors from noon until
midnight. This group outlined a
program which would fit into the
activities of the various depart
ment: of the state and national
government represented by this
delegation. The part of the pe
tition which interested the vari
ous officers in this delegation
was taken away for a more care
fijj study, in connection with
cllArts and other data in the pos
sesion of their home offices.
T^he delegation appeared en
thusiastic over the possibility of
a large development program in
Henderson and Transylvania
counties, which contemplates ex
tensive employment in the way of
blasting out Buck Shoals so as to
make possible a lower bed
stream, in removing logs and
other obstruction; from the river,
cutting trees from its hanks, and
cleaning out the channels.
The local committee was very
mi;ch impressed bv the interest
shown by the visitors.
At the request of the North
Carolina contact man of the TV A
no publicity has been given to
this movement, despite the vast
amount of work that has been
done. The program is now ready
for submission to the citizens of
Henderson and Transylvania
counties. The committee feels
confident that if the citizens
want a iaml development of th:s
nature in connection with the
large employment activity that
the same is within the scope of a
possible accomplishment. It will
be necessary for the people to
become united on thh program
if any deve'on ~>ents are made.
If they prefer some other pro
gram naturally the TV.\ will not
be interested in land develop
ment. The co nmittee announces
that if the public is interested,
now is the time for civic organ
izations, farmers, and other
It Has Helped i XlOUSUKuS
Men and women who are orroMon
ally upset by constipation in one w»>
or another, such as sick header he.
biliousness, dizziness, pcor appeite
gas pains will obtain refreshing re
lief by taking Thedford's Biaik
Draught.
"I found I had to nave something
for constipation tot it was making
me feel dull and tired." writes Mr
J. L. Brittan. ol McAdenville. N C
"I had heard so much about Black
Draught. I began taking it. and af
ter a dose or two of Black-Draught
I feel fine "
TflEDFOKD'S OL U K-DU-U GH1
groups to manifest an interest in
the program, and to advise the
county commissioners of the sup
port that will be given them in
their endeavor to bring larger
developments, and greater wealth
production possibilities to the
farmers of Henderson and Tran
sylvania counties.
The following is a copy of the
letter addressed to the N'orth
Carolina representative of the
TV A. copies of which were given
to each department of the govern
ment represent0'1 oy the delega
tion which rece My visited Hen
derson and Transylvania coun*
ties.
"Dear Sir:
"In keeping with your sugges
tion that our committee of local
citizens interested in the develop
ment of Henderson county submit
a plan of proposed developments,
we are herewith offering the fol
lowing suggestions:
"First, Make an agricultural
survey of the French Broad val
ley and its principal tributaries
with the view to determining our
agricultural possibilites and the
advantages that would result
from better drainage and flood
control.
"Second, Analyze the practic
ability of blasting and moving
Buck Shoals on the French Broad
River with the view tc lowering
the stream bed of the river and
removing numerous logs and
drifts of fallen timber which have
clotwred the streams, and lower
ing the stream beds of the river
and tributaries and straightening
the stream channels where neces
sary to increase the flow.
"Third, Make a survey with
the view to determining the in
creased population that could be
placed to advantage on the
French Broad river and its tri
butaries, a.s a result of drainage,
prevention of soil erosion and
other agricultural improvements,
this increased population in val
ley to come from Henderson
county sub-marginal lands.
"Fourth, Continue in the area
testing of fertilizers made by the
Tennessee Valley authorities and
demonstrate the value of the
same, and show the practicabil
ity of prevention of soil erosion
through demonstrations of land
terracing.
"Fifth, Study the advisability
of restoring the Blue Ridge Lime
plant, the brick ai\d ceramic in
dustry near Fletcher, and the es
tablishing of other small indus
tries as a means of providing em
1 ployment for people who have fot
years depended on these indus
tries. also for providing materials
needed in the area.
"Sixth, Develon an extensive
• program of reforestation or
»lands best suited to that purpose
Epworth League
I Union To Meet
Cabinet Session Will Be
Held Tonight
J. C. Coston, president of the
Henderson County Ep worth
League union today announced
that the Januarv meeting of the
union will be held at Ear; Flat
Rook Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Mr.
Coston asked that all chapters in
the i nion be represented by a
large delegation in view of the
fact that important business will
be transacted.
The monthly cabinet meeting of
all the presidents and secretaries
of the chapters will be held at
7:30 o'clock, and will also be at
the East Flat Rock M. E. church.
| Much of this reforestation will be
on the sub-marginal agricultural
land.
"Seventh, In view of the co-op
eration to be expected from vari
ous departments of the govern
ment. Henderson county and the
citizens in the drainage area
would gladly cooperate and could
be expected to supplement the
government in employing a coun
ty farm agent, a home demon
stration agent, and furnishing a
reasonable amount of machinery
necessary to executing a program
of land improvement such as ter
racing, ditching of small streams,
etc.
"A large work program neces
sarily would have to be inaugu
rated, and the work department
of the emergency relief adminis
tration would doubtless approve
such as one of its major work
projects in Henderson couqty. It
is possible that the nearby CCC
camp could furnish considerable
labor in connection with these
impro* ements.
"O'.r committee has been ad
| vised that by removing Buck
[ Shoals the stream bed at that
point could be lowered about five
feet. Your attention is called to
the fact that a general drainage
program would be necessary in
order to reclaim thousands of
acres of land now of little value
because of frequent overflow.
Our committee believes this could
be done by clearing the river
banks, remo ing from the streams
the logs, trees, and other debris,
and that the stream beds could
be lowered for about fifty miles
so as to facilitate the flow of the
streams and reduce to a minimum
overflow of the banks, as is fre
quently the case under present
conditions. There is a fall of
i about 50 feet from Buck Shoals
I to the Transylvania county line
j and proper drainage would not
I only be of untold value to Hen
derson county farms, but to thou
sands of acres within Transyl
vania county.
"It is estimated that approxi
mately 40,000 acres of highly
fertile land would be drained by
such a nroject, which would em
brace the following tributaries,
with approximate mileage on
each stream in Henderson county.
"Cane creek and tributaries,
110 miles.
"Mud creek and tributaries, 15
I nines.
"Mills river, five miles.
"Boylston creek, five miles.
"Big Willow, three miles.
"Such a program of drainage
once introduced could be perpe
tuated and thereby convert Hen
derson county into perhaps the
most attractive agricultural area
in Western North Carolina. The
land is fertile, and majority of
the present owners of this ^vop
erty, through the encouragement
that would come by such a de
velopment, would of their own
initiative make wonderful im
provements on their properties.
Frequent overflow on thousands
of acres of the most fertile bot
tom lands, and lack of drainage
because of high stream beds ha\^
destroyed yrivate initiative and
removed the attractiveness of ag
riculture in much of this area.
The drainage problem has been
too big and too widespread in
its scope to be practical of ac
complishment by individual ac
tion, hence the virtual abandon
ment for profitable agriculture
of thousands of acres.
"We respectfully ask your seri
ous consideration of a program
of the nature outlined herein."
Never trust your memory. If
you save Christmas junk to give
next year, you may send it back
to the people who gave it to you.
Japan Bids for Flivver Dominion
i Japanese flivvers will dot highways of the world if builders of the
car shown here can make their vision come true.. Apparently copied
largely from an American make, the tiny machine, the Dat-Sun, will
sell at' a lower price than U. S- cars and is said to be already in the
trial order stage in Czechoslovakia, Britain, India, with an assembly
olant planned in Australia. Prince Cnichibu, eldest brother of the
Mikado, is shown at the wheel at the Yokohama plant.
GOLD CLAUSE
RULING NEAR
Administration Defenders
Declare Whole Recovery
Program at Stake
WASHINGTON.Jan.il. (UP).
Argument of the gold cases
which, administration defenders
contend, carry an implied threat
to the entire new deal recovery
program, reached its final stage
yesterday with members of the
bench actively questioning the
lawyers for the government.
The court's questions centered
on the contention that paying off
gold obligations dollar for dollar
at a time when gold has been de
valued is a taking of private
property for a public use without
just compensation.
Should the court hold with this
claim it would mean that every
$1 called for in a gold clause ob
ligation would have to be met
with $1.65 in present-day cur
rency. It would add to the pub
lic debt of the nation $09,000,
000,000 based on the assumption
that the oresent debt is $100,
000,000,000.
Question., were fired at the
government lawyers from all sides,
of the bench. In addition to the
recognized members of the so-1
called conservative group, Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
and Justice Harlan Fiske Stone
were active in the interrogation.
Angus MacLean, special gov
ernment counsel in the present
cases, was particularly the target
for questioning. At the close of
the session he was defending the
right of the government to pay
in any currency the fourth 4 1-4
per cent liberty bonds called last
spring. The power to do this has
been challenged by John M. Per
ry, a bondholder, who argued his
own case inthe court.
Perry held that this obligation
of the government to meet these
bands in gold was greater than
the obligation of private debtors
j to pay theirs in gold. MacLean
took a contrary view.
"Where do you find any au
thority in the constitution for the
government, which has agreed in
time of war to pay these bonds
in gold by legislation to alter the
face of that contract?" Hughed
asked.
MacLean said he relied on that
section which gives congress the
power to coin money and regu
late currency.
Irish National
Schools Ban The
English Tongue
DeValera Moves to Force
the Gaelic Language
on Free State
DUBLIN, Jan. 11. — (UP) —
President Eamonn de ^ alera's
government is trying on a "catch
'em young" policy in its latest ef
forts to make the Irish Free State
a hundred per cent Irish-speaking
nation.
In future, English is to be
banned altogether as a teaching
medium in infant classes in all
national schools where there is a
competent Irish teacher. As a re
sult, nearly every Irish youngster
up to the age of nine will hear
nothing but his own native lilting
Gaelic during- school hours.
These measures to insure that
"all God's chillun"—in the Free
State—shall speak Irish, have only
just become possible because until
recently there were not enough
teachers who could speak Irish
themselves. More than one-third
of the 14,000 school teachers in
Southern Ireland are now certified
as being competent Irish-speakers,
and all those who have not yet
acquired a working knowledge of
Gaelic are being compelled, what
ever their age, to attend special
language courses during vacations.
The Church of Ireland has just
established a preparatory college
for tea. hers, where nothing but
Gaelic will be heard.
"HOTHOUSE" IRISH
There are not a few Irishmen
who complain that these efforts to
pump fresh life into the ancient
language that presumably echoed
once through Tara's halls will
produce nothing but a kind of ar
tificial or "hothouse" Irish. They
argue that the majority of chil
dren in the Free State are being
made to learn a language which is
as remote from the English they
Two Languages to
Die With Woman
Aged Princess Lone Sur
i vivor of Indian Tribes
| HANFORD, Cal., Jan. 11.—Two
■Indian languages will die when
Yoi-Mut, 79-year-old lone survi
vor of the Wowul and Chunut
| tribes of southwestern Indians,
passes on to the happy hunting
ground.
| In a humble hut the aged prin
cess, who speaks excellent Eng
lish, Spanish, and the language
I of the Taehe Indians, as well as
her native Wowu! and Chunut
dialects recalled her life for
Prank F. Latta, central California
historian and authority on Indian
normally speak as Chinese or Hin
dustani would be.
In fact, a recent report of the
Free State Department of Educa
tion revealed the fact that while
Irish is being fostered in the
schools of this country, it is rap
idly dying out as the home tongue
of those areas of the Emerald Isle
whose inhabitants are officially la
beled as Irish-speaking.
J The result of the "hothouse"
(methods now being adopted, ac
cording to the critics, is that Irish
children acquire a book knowledge
of Gaelic, which is necessary for
all candidates for the Civil Serv
ice as well as for the teaching.
I medical and legal professions, and
i proceed to forget it with a sigh of
I relief as soon as it has no more
J immediate practical use for them.
CAN "SASS" BACK
The compla nt has also been
heard that lrsh youngsters are
able to "talk oack" to their par
ents in Irish, a language which
many of their leaders cannot un
derstand, with disastrous results
to faulty discipline.
I Among the methods now being
; adopted to make Gaelic speakers
I out of Irish children is the intro
j duction of Gaelic games in schools
' in place of such "foreign importa
i tions" as rugby, soccer and cric
I ket. Irish is the language spoken
at these games. Another scheme
! tried out last summer was to send
some thousands of children for a
two weeks' vacation in the Gael
tacht, the officially Irish-speaking
section of the country.
lore. . .•
Latta is preparing a dictionary
of the two languages, which will
d,-e in their spoken form with the
passing of Yoi-Mut. More than
16000 words of the two dialects,
I in addition to 500 pages of notes
have been recorded. Her tribalj
folk-songs have been preserved
on phonograph records.
A niece of Mah-Tay, chief of
the once important Chunut tribe,
Yoi-Mut was born just after the
tribe ceded its land to the United
! States in 1851. She spent her
early years at a rancheria near
Visalia, Cal.
Indians already were neglecting
their crafts, Yoi-Mut said, and
she learned little of the arts of
basket-making, pottery, and weav-|
ing. For a living she washed
clothes and worked in the fields
picking grapes and cotton.
"Hello, stranger," Yoi - Mut
smiled at the visitor to her shack,
where she occupies her time by
separating seeds from raw cotton,
later making yarn and weaving
'stockings on her primitive loom.
Her eyesight has been dimmed by
the years and she has "one bad
ear." Otherwise, she feels "quite
well, thank you," except for a
stiffness in her bones.
"They're all gone now. I'm all
i alone now. And my time won't be
long," she remarked sadly, remin
| iscing of the days when she
| worked in the fields with her
I Mexican husband.
\ Yoi-Mut is very alert mentally
jfor one of her years, Historian
| Latta observed. She has the
{greatest fund of Indian lore of
anyone he ever knew, he said.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under the power of sale con
tained in a deed of trust executed
by Esther Lewis et al, dated May
8th, 1930, and of record in Book
128 at pasre 435. of the Trust
Deed records of Henderson Coun
ty, the undersigned trustees will
on the 11th day of February,
1935. at 12 o'clock noon, at the
courthouse door in Henderson
ville, Henderson County, North
Carolina, offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described land,
to-wit:
All that certain land in the City
of Hendersonville. Henderson
County, North Carolina, together
with a two story brick store and
apartment building and all othei
| improvements thereon and rights,
i ways and appurtenances thereto
I belonging, located on the eastern
line of Main Street between Third
and Fourth Avenues, an<J ri ^
as follows: J ^scrfy
Beginning on the oasfa
of Main Street, at the ^ ^ &
tern corner of the
building now occupied ?
dersonville Hardware Pn -v H«
thereon 76 feet from > S
western corner of the
(Davis> olock) brick building ^
corner is at the point if ***
tion of the northern lin°!>
Avenue East and the ^
of Mam Street, an,i fP rB*
point of beginning ran S1 *
eastern margin 0f the *
sidewalk on Main Stree Vf®«
deg. East (V. 3 1-2 ,j,.„ {S°?l
9 inches to the center/*
?n -ern ^'aI1 of th<' M c r(
(Davis Block) briek ' k .T':
thence with the center 0f*
northern wail of sai,[ ? 1
North 77 dee. East ?,'14
deg.) 126.8 feet to a <-aU ll
North 13 deg. Wes ff: ^
deg ) 22 feet 0 inches to j J
in the line of the lot 7*
owned by W. F. Edwards [3
with the southern line of „ «
wards lot South 77 ,|J J
(V-.3 1.2deg., ,2fi.h
beginning; together with , 5
bl°ck) building, and alsoTh/S
CS^ w j Grantors in the if
Sa'n t u°f trUst in th*' sous!
^ J u store roo,n now J
Pied by HendersonviJIe Hard2
C°-. being the interest CTaB,3
M. C. Toms by deed of \\ r,
wards and wife, dated r.„
31. 1903, of record in Boo!
page 275. Henderson CouT,
"try, which interest ha, J
by instruments properlv of £
to said Grantors, and also the
of a strip of land 10 feet r
along the eastern end of th,
known as the Davis hlock of V
h,?"v k °ri° r°0m lot' now "5
b> Ewbank, a strip of Iar!(j
^etf.wi[,et along the eastern,
of the lot herein described k
subject to use as an alley. p*
the same land, easements andi
purtenances as are described
deed from T. B. Allen and r
Ella Allen and Jimmie Jon?<j
len to Lena Kantrowitz and:
ther Lewis, dated Mnv 18, U
of record in Book J 3<5. pap"
of the Records of Deed* fcfi
derson County. North Carol*
This the 10th dav of Jra
1935.
| J. FOY JUSTICE a;
PERRY SEAY, TrunL
11-11-Fr i-4tp
—so Jar as we know tobacco was
first used about 400 years ago
'■ . > i ? 1 . '. >,m ' " :• '' '
_ throughout the years what one thing has
given so much pleasure..so much satisfaction
Early Colonial planters
shipped hundreds of
pounds of tobacco to
England in return for
goods and supplies.
They came looking for gold
... but they found tobacco
.. .and tobacco has been like gold ever since!
The tobacco raised in Virginia and exchanged
for goods helped the struggling colonists to get a
foothold when they came to America.
Later on, it was tobacco that helped to clothe
and feed Washington's brave army at Valley
Forge.
Today it is tobacco that helps—more than any
other commodity raised in this country—to pay
the expense of running our Government.
In the fiscal year 1933-34 the Federal
Government collected $^25,000,000 from ■
the tax on tobacco. Most of this came
from cigarettes — six cents tax on every
package of twenty.
Yes, the cigarette helps a lot—and it certainly
gives men and women a lot of pleasure.
Smokers have several reasons for liking
Chesterfields. For one thing, Chesterfields
are milder. For another thing, they taste
better. They Satisfy.
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