Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 7

ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, ASHEVILLE. N. SUNDAY. JANUARY 31. 1932 Section A--Page SEVEN KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY DO YOU KNOW THAT the building present site of the Langren hotel, was one the States, it housed Zebulon Baird Vance building was occupied by stores, while the was taken about 1900.

The building was Today's suggestion was made by Gay 24 Couples Licensed To Wed In January Marriage licenses were issued to 24 couples during January at the office of George A. Digges, register of deeds for Buncombe county. This number 15 of 17 under the number issued the previous month. In January, 1931, a total of 23 licenses were issued. Repeating Sellers advertisements Sale.

For the last day we advertisements. Here they sharply at the articles TER SALE Tomorrow! VALUES IN TOMORROW! Genuine Maple Bedroom $59.85 Hollywood Vanity Bedoverlayed Walnut. $98.95 YOUR CHOICE. FREE Stove Mat and Pipe $38.00 Walnut enamel circulator $29.50 $48.00 Three room size circulator. $39.85 $1.00 DELIVERS "It's Easy to Pay the Co.

Haverty Way" Store" I the country will be replaced by local labor within few days, It Wits Announced Howard P. Clayton, business managet for the Asheville Carpenters' union, Local No. 384. yesterday Issued a statement expressing appreciation for the attitude and cooperation shown by the federal officials and the Ryan company the investigation Mr. Clayton RING Robert R.

Reynolds, attorney, representing carpenters appeared before Secretary Doak last Monday in protest of alleged practices of the construction company, The statement follows: "I am deeply pleased at the outcome or the conterence with Mr. Howard Colvin, and the Ryan Construction company. Mr. Colvin has shown A very fair attitude towards us, and Mr. Halverson, of the Ryan company, has cooperated in a did manner.

'We feel that these negotiationa will be of benefit to Ashe are sure that local carpenters will be treated in a fair and Impartial manner which will result in employment of many citizens who reside here all the time, and by reason ot employment will be able to make their contributions to the progress and advancement of our community. committee was received most cordially by Secretary of Labor N. Doak at the hearing in Washington. Congressman Zebulon Weaver and Senators J. W.

Bailey and Cameron Morrison were very tie in the support of the Asheville men, for which we are profoundiv thankful. "To our attorneys, George Pennell and Robert R. Reynolda, we are everlaatingly indebted, for their coupsel, advice and appearance' MUST SHUN MOTHER OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla One of the most unusual wills ever probated here la that Leopold helm. He stipulated in his will that Paul Guggenheim, 14, and his sister, Mary, his grandchildren. must live at least 300 miles from their mother before they can collect what he willed them.

OTEEN DISPUTE THOUGHT ENDED Ryan Comes Here For Conference With Construction Men "No further labor trouble at the veteran's hospital at Oteen la antielpated." Howard T. Colvin. United States commissioner of conciliation of the Department of Labor at WashIngton said yesterday prior to his departure for Washington. Mr. Colvin declined to amplify the statement but indicated he Wes assured the labor situation at Oteen was settled for all time.

He will make A report of his investigation at Oteen to H. L. Kerwin, director of the United States Conciliation bureau and W. N. Doak, secretary cf the Department of Labor.

H. B. Ryan, head of the H. B. Ryan Construction company, of Chicago, arrived here yesterday morning Other than to say his company "always did what the government asked them to do." Mr.

Ryan declined to make a statement. He conferred with Mr. Colvin shortly before the conciliator left for Washington. Protests Made Mr. Colvin WAS Rent to Asheville after protests were made 111 Washthat the Ryan company was importing labor for the 6538.000 addition to the veterans hospital The Investigation WAS completed Thursday.

The Ryan company, In n11 agreement reached between the firm and Mr. Colvin, assured conciliation commissioner the number of Imported carpenters, would be slashed to 10, foremen, resardless of the number employed, An result, seven carpenters imported to the city from other sections of DAVIS IS GIVEN LONG SENTENCE the Must Serve 17-22 Year Term For Slaying His Son With Knife Prison sentences with a minimum of more than 53 years were given nine defendanta last week by Judge Hoyle Sink in superior court. The prisoners will be taken to the state prison, at Raleigh. early this week. W.

B. (Bill) Davis, of the ler section, received the longest sentence. He was given from 17 to 22 years for killing his son. Lyde, Christmas eve at their home. The boy was cut to death by his father when the two had an argument over meat.

David Smith, negro, was given from 15 to 20 yeara for slaying AIbert Whitson, negro, with a shotgun Christmas eve 011 southside avenue. Other defendants are: Silas ford, breaking and entering. 15 months: Elate Mellone, highway robbeyr. three and one halt to five years: Georgia Whittemore, highway robbery, three and one half five years; James Whittemore, highway robbery, one to Are years; Harry Moore. assault with intent to kill, to 10 years; Robert Jarrett, larceny.

two years; Prank Roper. breakIng and entering, 15 months to three years. Five prisoners were taken to the convict camp yesterday who were convicted last week and given road terms. They were: O'Dell Kelly. receiving atolen goods, alx montha: Charles Blair, breaking and entering.

18. montha: Wiley Johnson, housebreaking. elght months: and Len Burlison, larceny. 60 days. Creator of Reasonable Drug Prices 31 Patton Ave.

Monday and Monday 5 TON and Tuesday Tuesday SOAP SALE GUEST IVORY SOAP 15c One Dozen Cakes IVORY FLAKES 43c 2 for 15c SOAP Palmolive 25c 10c CAMAY From "The Trees" Soap Woodbury 5 cakes for 49c (4-10c Cakes) Soap Genuine Cannon Towel Free 23c 3 for 47c IVORY SOAP Brocabelli Castle Soap Imported 3 1-2 Pound Bar 2 Pounds 10c Ivory Soap 6 10c Cakes $1.39 39c One Pound 40c $1.20 Syrup of 15c Pepsin 69c Storks Castile Roger Gallet $1.15 Herb Juice 69c 2 for 15c Bath Soap $1.20 Scott's The Soap Everyone Emulsion 69c 50c Knows. 75c Agarol Noxzema 1 Pound and Three 40c Cakes 25c Listerine 16c 25c Cake Noxzema Free 89c 35c Aspirin Bayer's (2 doz.) 19c 43c 10c Beautiful 25c 15c Powder Spray SAYMAN'S LUX Jar of Packages SOAP SOAP Bath Powder (One Pound) Both for TAR (3-15c Cakes) SOAP 3 for 19c 98c 16c 28c Blue Ribbon Genuine Cannon 70c Value Dog Food 9c 35c KOTEX Pint Nor-Co-Hol Towel 20" x40" 35c KLEENEX Alcohol 25c FREE! Both for 49c 25c B. C. 15c 25c Feenamint 15c With Purchase of $1.00 Adlerika 79c 5 Cakes Cold Cream 25c 40c Squibb's JOHNSON'S Tooth Paste 25c BABY POWDER Soap $1.00 Petrolatum Squibb's 59c All for 49c 2 for 25c 180 Degree Proof Denatured Alcohol, gallon 49c RITES SET FOR TODAY Widely Known Railway Conductor Passes Away At Sylva W. C.

Bryson, 64, of 1 Riverview road, off Druid drive, West Asheville, died suddenly of apoplexy at 12:10 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Sylva while returning to Asheville from on the Southern Railroad passenger train of which he was conductor. Mr. Bryson was one of the oldest conductors on Asheville division of the Southern in point of service, having been with the company more than 40 years. He belonged to a prominent family of Western North Carolinair ill before reaching Sylva and Dr. Charles Chandler was notified to meet the train and give medical aid.

but Mr. Bryson died almost immediately after leaving the train. His death occurred within a stone's throw of his boyhood home in Sylva, where his father, Capt. A. W.

Bryson, died several years ago. Mr. Bryson is survived by his widow; 12 children, C. W. Bryson, Wilbur V.

Bryson, Joe R. Bryson, Wen- dell H. Bryson, Richard Bryson, Phil Bryson. Ted Bryson, Mrs. Hattie McCombs, Mrs.

Guy H. Morris. Mrs. William M. Jones, Mrs.

Herbert Henderson and Mrs. James A. Campbell, a sister, Mrs. Carrie McKee, Sylva; three brothers, C. A.

Bryson, of Portland, Ore, R. E. Bryson Akron, and George W. Bryson, of Asheville. Mr.

Bryson was a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner. He belonged to the Order of Railway Conductors and other railroad organizations. Funeral rites will be at his home at 3 o'clock this afternoon. the Rev. Carlock Hawk, pastor of West Asheville Methodist church, of hich Mr.

Bryson was member, officiating. His seven sons will be pallbearers. Burial will be in Green Hill cemetery. Members of Asheville High school 1931 footbal squad and the present RECITALS ARE TO BE FEATURED IN SCHOOL PROGRAM Two student recitals and a gram of one -act plays will mark closIng exercises of the Southern Workschool of expression at the building on Edgemont road. The first recital will be held at 8:30 o'clock on Tuesday evening readings, one-act plays, and stories by advance students.

First year pupils will 0 read short stories and poems at 4:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Four one -act plays will be presented at 8:30 o'clock on Friday evening. These are "Juliet and by Harry Gribble; Love Love" by Evelyn Ewig Mellor; "The Closet" by Doris Holman; "Lima Beans" by Alfred Kreymbourg. Students taking part in the plays are Miss Lucy Gaston, Miss Betty Suttle, Miss Mary Suttle, Glenn Smith, Miss Mary Lineberger, Miss Pauine Byar, Rush Wray, Miss Ida Miller, Miss Ruth Rich, Ozelle Kiser, Miss Retta Byar, and Miss Madoline Taylor. The first semester of work at the school will close on Wednesday.

Registration 1s now being held at the school building for the second term. Meredith Founding Will Be Observed Fifty North Carolina communities. among which Asheville 18 expected to be included. will observe Meredith college (of Raleigh) Founders' Day, Friday. Raleigh the celebration will be featured by a program over Radio Station WPTF at 6:15 o'clock.

Miss Mae Grimmer, alumnae secretate has announced. After special music. Mrs. J. W.

Bunn, president of the Meredith Alumnae association, will extend greetings to all alumnae. basketball squad will attend the funeral in a body. Phil Bryson 15 8 member of both squads. The players are asked to meet at the house a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon. Honorary pallbearers will be J.

A. Sullivan, A. H. Sullivan, W. H.

McLean, J. B. Hendley, G. F. Low, S.

J. Mulvaney, J. F. Hendricks, W. B.

Nelson, R. J. Simpson, J. F. Rickert, T.

A. Wakefeld. and J. K. Payne, Now! the Best from previous offered in this last advertisement.

Haverty's advertisement. MID FURNITURE -ends Tomorrow we close this unusual Mid-winter Furniture present the best sellers from each of the previous are--the choice of the discriminating buyers! Look Close Out Of all $5.00 Blankets as a final special. at $2.95 OUTSTANDING BEDROOM SUITES $98-3-piece Couch pattern Suite- Extra Special $135-3-piece Venetian room Suites, with beautiful Monday $1.00 DELIVERS $1.00 DELIVERS QUALITY LIVING AT A SPECIAL $98.00 3-piece all over Room SuitesMonday $135-All over Wool Mohair with reverse cushions to Special $1.00 DELIVERS ROOM SUITES PRICE Jacquard Velour Living $59.85 Living Room Suites match- $98.50 YOUR CHOICE. Special Terms on Demonstrat- ing FURNITURE Radios "Asheville's Greatest Furniture (on the corner) shown above, of Asheville's first hotels? Built and other notable guests during upper floors were given over to torn down about 1907, to make Green, 152 Pearson drive, Asheville. FOUNDERS' DAY TO BE OBSERVED P.

T. A. Plans Special Program For Tuesday At School Founders' Day will be observed at a meeting of the Parent -Teacher association Asheville sentor high school at 3:15 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at the school on McDowell street. Plans for the special program were discussed at an executive committee meeting of the group yesterday, Mrs. A.

afternoon D. at Stoner, the city, president, hall presiding. A -lighting service will feature the Founders' Day program. Mrs. N.

F. Reiner will be soloist, Mrs. Whit Gaskins is chairman of the program, A reception in honor of mothers of 9-R atudents entering the senior high school for the first time for the spring term from junior high schools, will follow the business session and program. Mothers of these children are especially urged to attend. Automobiles will meet mothers attending the meeting.

Senior high school will run on a short schedule on Tuesday, students being dismissed at 2:45 o'clock. Teachers will remain in their rooms to meet mothers of their students. Beginning with the meeting on Tuesday this be A regular feature of the Parent meetings. OLD BOOK LISTS CURIOUS NOTES Women Of Prayer Found Among Collection Of Dr. Sondley One of the most interesting volumes foand in the Sondley library is a Confederate prayer book, printed In London and captured with a the taking of blockade runner oft Southern port during the Civil war and sold at auction in Boston Inter.

The book. according to George H. Wright, chairman of the library board, contains some handwritten notes that are extremely interesting. The title page shows that it WAS designed AS "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal church in the Confederate States of America, It was published by J. W.

Randolph, of Richmond, Va. George Wright Chase, of Hyde Park Boston. into whose hands the book tell after being sold at auction following its capture on the blockade runner in 1864 wrote the following 011 the fly-lent. "This prayer book was printed in London, for J. W.

Randolph, of Virginia It was intended as the standard for 1186 In the Confederate states, now in frebellion against the United States: and allusions to the latter were intended to be changed to 'Confederate States." Curiously enough, the change not made in the "Prayer to be used WAR at sea." The omission seema most an interposition of Providence. This 18 one of several thousand prayer books, Bibles, testaments to be or ptared from a steamer attempting to run the blockade into a southern port and sold at auction in Boston. Years later when the book came Into the possession the late Dr. Foster A Sondley. Asheville, he of the Buck hotel, which occupied the many before the War Between its time The ground floor of the years, the hotel proper.

The picture above way for the Langren hotel. SPIRO AND GRICE ARE TO SPEAK IN SHOP MEETINGS 'The schedule for shop meetings sponsored under religious work department of the Y. M. C. A.

WAS announced yesterday by Seth J. Perkinson, membership secretary 111 charge, Meetings are held at the noon hour In various mountrial plants. The Rev. R. H.

Spira will speak in meetings on Monday and Tuesday, and the Rev. J. B. Grice, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church. will speak on Wednesday and Thursday, The schedule 19 as follows: Monday, National Casket company; Tuesday, Southern Round House; Wednesday, Williams- Planing mill; Thursday, Biltmore Dairy Murie will be feature of the meetings.

JEFFRESS HERE ON INSPECTION Maintenance Will Be Kept Up To Standard, Says Road Head State highway employes are carryIng on to the best of their ability, E. B. Jeffress, Greenshoro, chairman of the state highway commission, said yesterday AS he stopped in Asheville briefly on his return from two-day trip over Western North Carolina roads. "Though appropriations are duced tor a short time." Mr. Jeffress said, "every man in facing his tasks with enthusiasm and energy.

New construction will be curtailed, of course, but maintenance will be up to standard." The only new highway building in this area 1s in the Great Smoky Mountains National park to connect at Newfound Gap with A Tennessee road at the state line. We are within three -fourtha of mile from the Mr. Jeffress said, "Grading and surfacing are continuIng as usual. The road should be completed this spring On this Inspection tour, Mr. Jettress was accompanied by J.

C. Walker of Asheville, division engineer, and J. H. Council of Boone, district engineer. Roads were found in excellent condition.

Mr. Jeffress addressed the Rotary club at Lenoir at 1 o'clock Friday atternoon and the Civitan club at nets Elk nt. 8 o'clock that night. n. NINE MEN SAVED AS VESSEL SINKS OFF NOVA SCOTIA HALIFAX, N.

Jan. 30. (P) -As their vessel sank beneath them, nine men were rescued today by the American steamer Fluorspar. A cryptic message, without details, toid of their rescue the British auxiliary schooner Ruth P. listed by coast guard headquarters at Boston as a liquor runner out of St.

Johns, N. P. The East Cont Radio signal service here received only the bare fact of the rescue from Its Cape Race, N. station, which said the scene was approximately 100 miles southeast of St. Pierre, Miquelon.

The Fluorspar had given its position latitude 45 degrees, 42 minutes north and longitude 55 degrees 32 minutes went, 111 wrote the following passage under the above statement: "Few the same length have an many lies an the foregoing. "The idea of mixing up God Almighty with Yankee deviltry! "No doubt the book wAs printed and stolen A8 atated! A. BONDLEY." Delightful Travel Everywhere via MOTOR COACH Comfortable, luxurious coaches equipped with every modern scientific safety device. Courteous drivers, carefully trained and dis-, ciplined. Coaches leave from Union Bus terminal on rigid dependable schedules.

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