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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
Bids Will Be Opened for Around
$55O,OOO in Road Work; Ashe
County on List for Bids

The name of Ashe county is on
recent list of construction road jobs
which will come up for contract bids
in Raleigh on Wednesday, Jan. 8. The
listing as it appeared in the daily
papers is: County 504, Ashe county,
grading, structures, crushed stone,
4.79 miles from intersection Of Route
16 toward Laurel Springs.
This road, it is understood, will
start at the river bridge on the Glen
dale road and continue out through
Wagner. It is expected that the road
win aid the unemployment situations
considerably
At the time this project comes up
for bids in Raleigh, other bids viii.
be opened for work over the state
amounting to around $55O,oOO
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
"UNCLE BILLY LYALLS
BURIED AT LOW GAP
Member of Fast Thinning Ranks Of
Confederate Soldiers Passes at
Age Of Ninety -Four

"Uncle Billy" Lyalls, of the Low
Gap. community died Sunday evening
at the age Of ninety-four years. He
was one of the few Confederate vet
Grams left in the county and his
death makes the fast disappearing
line of wearers of the gray thinner
than ever.
Funeral services were held Tues
day at one o'clock and interment fol-
lowed in the family cemetery.
Mr.. Lyalls has long been affection
ately called "Uncle Billy" by all who
knew him. He is survived by three.
children: Mrs. Ruthie Wyatt, Mrs.
Polly Cox, and Mrs. Rena Jones.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
ASHE COUNTY MAN KILLED
WHEN TRUCK OVERTURNS
Jethro Cantor, Well Known Farmer,
Loses Life in Accident; Three
Others Were Not Injured

Jethro Cantor, 38 years old, resi-
dent of the Tolliver community in
Ashe county, succumbed Thursday
evening in Caldwell Hospital, Lenoir,
from injuries received a short time
previous as the truck he was driving
turned turtle on the Lenoir road near
the foot of the mountain.
Meager information is to the effect
that Cantor had just passed another
vehicle and in some way lost control
of the truck, causing it to turn over
in the road, and pin him and three
other occupants of the cab under
meath. Allsothers escaped injury. The
truck, badly wrecked, was brought to
the w. r. Chevrolet Company here
where it had been bought few days
ago.
Mr.. Cantor was a farmer, and hat
recently been engaged in lumber
hauling. He was well known to many
Watauga county people.
Funeral services were conducted q
Three Top Baptist Church Sunda.
afternoon at 2 o'clock, and intermen1
was made IN nearby cemetery. Sur
Iviving are the widow and nine chill
drsn. Watauga Democrat.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
WI. PARTS AND ACCESSORIES
co. OPENS FOR BUSINESS
Carl Coward to Manage New Store
That Is Located in Center of
Trading District

The w. ]. Parts and Accessories
Company opened in West Jefferson
this week in the center of the trading
district, near the Ray Drug Store
This new store, which will be under
the management of Carl F. Calvard
will carry full line of replacement
parts for both Fords and Chevrolets
Goodyear tires and National Bat
teries will be kept in stock as well as
all ear accessories.
Mr.. Coward, a young man of pleas
ing business ability, invites the public
to visit the new place of business and
inspect the stock before making pur-
chases elsewhere.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
New Congress Convenes in Washing
ton ct Noon January 8; May Not
Adjourn Until Next June

The United Press has given out the
following important facts concerning
the meeting of the new Congress
which viii convene in Washington at
noon on Jan. 8:
Composition: Senate, SO Demo-
Gratis, rs Republicans, Progressive,
Farmer Laborite; House, 1922 Dem
pcrats, 102 Republicans, Z Progress
sives, 3 Farmer-Laborites, / vacancy.
New House speaker: Representa-
tive Joseph W. Byrns CD, Tenn, vir-
taally assured election.
Presidents message of Congress:
TO be delivered personally by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on January 4.
Probable measures: Immediate pay
naent of bonus, old age pensions, ex-
tension Of MIRA in a permanent
organization, work relief, amend
nents to agriculture adjustment act,
public works program, banking and
monetary proposals, federal regula-
ton of utilities, 30-hour week, and
dollar devaluation.
Adjournment. Probably in June" ).
It is almost certain that one of the
big issues viii be that of paying the
bonus and there is possibility that
it may be passed in both houses. The
President is against the payment but
It has been rumored that he might
approve of paying the needy veterans
If suitable way could be found to
make the proper determinations.
Mr.. Roosevelt feels the veterans
as class have been treated as well
under the new deal as any other
group of American citizens, if not
better. He said in a letter that ex-
service men had been given prefer
eace in direct distribution of relief
and in employment.
The Chief Executives statement
was promptly challenged by Nation
al Commander James E. Van Zandt
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He
q serted Mr.. Roosevelt lacked correct
iflformation and predicted that the
bonus Dill would pass over a White
House veto.
Majority Leader Joseph w. Byrns,
Democrat of Tennessee, who is vir-
tually certain of being named speak
er, and Chairman Robert L. Doughton
Of the house ways and means COM
-mittee said last week that the house
may dispose of bonus bill by Feb. /.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
Bruno Hauptnaann Goes
on Trial for kidnapping
BOXING BOUTS SCHEDULED
AT LANSING GYMNASIUM

Plans are being arranged at Lam
sing for the greatest boxing card
ever offered the fight fans of Ashe
county Jan. 10Th in the new high
school gymnasium.
These bouts will bring together
such well-known fighters as Garnet
Clark who will meet Speedy Win
tiers Of Elk Park, a veteran of one
hundred ring battles, Herb Jones'
George Booth, Peck Davis and Dick
Fletcher and others whose names will
be given later when the complete
card will appear in the local paper,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
War Vets Bonus Big
issue Of 18th Congress
1885 MODEL FORD VS. NOW ON
DISPLAY AT ASHE MOTOR CO.

The new model Ford V-S is now on
display in the windows Of the Ashe
Motor Company and the public is in
vited to visit the local agency and
investigate the many new and up-to-
date features of this low-priced car.
One feature that the Graphical broth
ers, who own the company, are proud
of is the fact that all the cars are
equipped with non-shatterable glass.
which is great safety guard in the
event of a wreck.
On pages three and eight are
further announcements regarding the
new Ford.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03
PROF. VIM. LA RUE RESIGNS
POST AT VA.-CAR. SCHOOL
Leaves to Take Up Position as Rural
Rehabilitation Supervisor; His
Successor Not Known

Announcement has just been made
that Mr.. William G. La Rue, who has
been head of the Agricultural De-
partment of the Virginia Carolina
High School of Grayson county for
the past ten years, has been appoint
ed Supervisor of Rural Rehabilitation
of the Roanoke District of Virginia.
This district with headquarters in
Roanoke includes the counties of
Grayson, Carroll, Floyd, Franklin,
Pulaski, Montgomery, Roanoke, Giles,
Craig, Allegheny, and Botetourt.
Mr.. La Rue began work January 1,
and will be replaced at Grassy Creek,
within short time. His successor has
not been definitely decided upon but
is expected to be a capable man who
will be able to carry on the splendid
program of work underway in the
community.
Mr.. La Rue wishes to thank his
many friends throughout Carroll
Grayson and Ashe county for their
splendid cooperation and assistance
in carrying forward the program d
agricultural improvement in this sec.
ton which is recognized as second to
none in either Virginia or Nortl
Carolina, and as Grayson and Carroll
are in his territory he hopes to be o.
continued service to this section.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03

Mrs. Watson, Of Boone, Mrs. Ruth
Jones Choate, of Sparta, and Mr.. w.
B. Oliver, Of West Jefferson, head Of
their reprective relief offices, left for
4 professional trip to Raleigh We'd
nesday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03

Finding Of the worlds oldest
Bible,1 though to have been written
in the second century was announced
BY the Austrian National Library. II
antedates by two centuries the oldest
Bible previously known.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-03

More than 500, 600, 900 pounds og
cheese are produced ii this country
annually.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
An Open Letter to

ROGER BALDWIN, Director of American CiUI
Liberties Union.
JOHN DEWEY, Eminent American Philosopher and
Educator.
NORMAN THOMAS, Leader of the American
Socialist Party.
HARRY WARD, Professor of the Union Theological
Seminary
MARY VAN KLEEK, Industrial Expert of the Russell
Sage Foundation.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
LabOring Masses Go Hungry

True hundreds of factories been built in Soviet
Russia which existed under the Gar True these fac
tories turning out hundreds of tractors and automobiles
daily and millions of yards of cloth and of pairs of shoes
True the great majority Of the farms have been coecvzed
Yet the aborng of Russia go hungry The millions
of oers dressed in and shod in footwear which
American buns would discard worthless.
True there idle rich in the Soviet Union
pared with the Western World. There individual
expoers who accumulate unjust profits from the
But there in the Soviet Union exploiting Glass; the
ruling class which is like of parasites the starved
body of the Russian people There the "guardans" Of
the Soviet workers. the privileged characters of the great
Stalns bureaucracy who live immeasuraby better than
their wards who devour the lions share of the products Of
millions of helpless workers and peasants
spent several years in Soviet Russia few months
guest Of the Communist international and two years
government official and know the difference between
functonary and worker Moreover, Russia under
circumstances which exceptional that it should be
hard for the most hdebound Sanist question my
faith in Sovietism.
The Soviet Union What those words had to
by 1880! had fought for Communism for Soviet Russia
wanted Soviet America country where the workers and
farmers the masters of the factories and farms had
been arrested 81 times in connection with labor struggles in
the United States.
had faced the electric chair and finally drew 2Oyear
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
Detrimental to Labor

The American Communists have to 60 on telling lies to the
American workers. they have jobs to hold Capitalist mill
used to say ugly things about me- but that did not
deter
willing to die for the workers. in America be-
fore went to Russia. ready than to fight
for the of labor but under the banner Of the Com
munist party while is the clutches Of Stain and his mouth
pieces in America.
My experiences in Soviet Russia have convinced that it
impossible to be loyal the of labor and the Stain
regime at the time
have learned that is impossible to fight for the
people and to uphold the Soviet Dictatorship that fight
social justice to fight the Communist ogarchy; that
devotion to economic freedom cannot with devotion to the
class of usurpers in Russia.
In BRIEF what exists Russia be Communism then
opposed to Communism for the American workers.
(1hi0 Is the first of series of articles Communism
by Fred E. BeGI.)
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
WILD RIDE: ENDS
IN HOSPITAL

Robert H. Adams, jr., 80, of
6306 Hillcrest Pl., Chevy Chase,
Md, president of the American
Storage Company, was reported
recovering at Georgetown Hos
pital today from injuries suffered
in a wild automobile drive across
several neighboring lawns and a
crash into a parked car.
Complaints from residents of
the exclusive Maryland suburb
that car was running wild
through their lawns, tearing up
the turf and smashing down
hedges. brought police, who said
they found Mr.. Adams car on
West Woodbine Street, where it
had rammed w. A. Mapkis' car,
parked across the street from his
home at 3 West Woodbine.
A. charge of driving while
drunk was placed against Mr..
Adams by Bethesda, Md, police,
and a magistrate fixed bail at
$1,000 while Mr.. Adams lay in
the hospital. It was at first be-
lieved that Mr.. Adams had suf-
fered a fractured skull, but hos
pital attendants said this morn
ing that he had not suffered this
injury.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
HEAD Of At &c
WARNSOF RED
CAMPAIGN

Indications that communism
may have gained a foothold in
the ranks of the American Fed.
GRAFTON Of Government Employees
one Of the two major Federal
workers organizations-have been
revealed by an editorial in the
Government Standard. weekly
paper Of the federation.
The editorial, published over
the signature Of E. Claude Bah.
cock, president of the group,
warns all members against an
invitation received from the Com
munist Party Of D. c." for CO.
operation of Government EN-.
ployes in urging legislation that
is not named by the union
leader.
Babcock Fights Reds
Babcock, who since installation
as president has Steadfastly op-
posed radical elements within the
AFGE, wrote:
"A document which / have
Just seen addressed to The Gov
eminent Employee and issued by
the Communist Party Of D. c.
specifically refers to the Ameri-
can Federation of Government
Employees and invites participa-
ton by members Of our fedora
ton in efforts to obtain passage
Of certain designated legislation.
II desire to call attention of
all members to the fact that
our federation is not cOmmunis-
tic in any form and it is hoped
that members will not be de-
Ceived by literature bearing
some evidence of purpOrted con-
nectiOn with this federation.
RED TRENDS DENIED
"We have a big job to do in
ameliOrating salaries and work
ing conditions and working
hours for Government employees
and we have neither the time
nor inclination, as a federation
of Government employees, to
take any official part in COM
muniStic moves or strategy"
Charges of communism and of
radical sympathieS have arisen
within the organization in the
past, but are said by officials of
the union to be without basis.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
Workers. Lot Worse

What write here about the Soviet Union is the truth
take it axiom that humanity will advance and that
American labor will know what to do for it's salvation
only if the unaduerated truth is presented And
concerned where that truth appears long reaches the
greatest number of workers and to open the
the people the greatest conspiracy of times
The people Of America have the right to ask
Do the workers in Soviet Russia the factories? II
so they better fed well fed formerly?
Do the peasants in Russia the colecves state farms
and communes? If So they better fed than before?
Are workers and peasants in Soviet Russia free and
happy Is their lot getting better? Is the material wealth
of the Individual worker increasing?
The is positively: NO!
That answer should and reverberate the midst Of
the American labor until and forever the
present American section Of the Communist international is
laid ghost of advsed yesterday in the history Of
American labor.
The Russian people have less food and clothing today
paraey speaking than they had under the Gar not to
speak Of comparison with such advanced capitalist
country America And this despite the fact that the
Soviet factories running and night and the collective
farms worked hard the Stant machine drive
4la-n
The Washington times., 1935-07-08

prison sentence nearly lifetime, for my zeal in the
of the workers. 1t true that the American
leaders of the Communist party mostly seekers after
power but subordnaed this knowledge to the of
workers democracy.
had spoken every stand about the wonders of Socialist
construction the u S. R. although had only read about
them in the Daily Worker and other Communist publications.
1t with thrill of expectancy that Soviet Russia
to and perhaps share in the glorious work of building
workers. state.
Now know, that result of this series of articles the
Communist jobhoders will revile and say ugly things
about expect that What else they say face
of truth devastating of their POSITIONS their decepons
their self-deu
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
FracasAsRedS
Welcome
Beal

(Ne,US item appearing in
NeW York newspaper ON No.
vember 8, 1921
A Skirmish between police
and a crowd of 1000 workers
bearing Communist banners
took place at Pennsylvania
station last night.
The crowd had massed to
welcome Fred Beal, one Of
the men lately convicted in
Gastonia, N. c., for the MUIR
der of the chief of police.
The workers, representing
the International Labor De-
tense League, had planned to
carry Beal on their shoulders
from train platform to
street. Ten uniformed police
men, however, formed a
square about Beal the mo-
ment he alighted from the
train.
AS they conducted him
through the crowd, there was
a rush in an attempt to
break through the police
line. In the brief fracaS some
Communist banners were
snatched by the policemen
and for a moment violence
appeared imminent.
The crowd, however, re-
formed and marched to the
street, singing Solidarity
Forever" Beal was liberated
on the sidewalk.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
D. c. Man Injured
When Auto Upsets

ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 8 (spe-
ciaD Joseph Nessinesse, Is, of
2211 Nicholas Ave. S. E., Wash
ington, was hurt yesterday when a
car he was driving skidded on a
curve and turned over on the
Taylorsville Road, near here. He
was treated for decorations of the
hand and face at Emergency Hos
pital here. Hospital physicians
expressed fear the hand would
have to be amputated. Mrs. Mes
sinesse, Cecil and Katherine
Smith and Eugene Elbine, all Of
Washington, occupants of the car.
were uninjured.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
Do You Remember?
(AnSWerS to Questions on
p~4A 81


Page 81
Mrs. McCOrmic filed suit
for the return of $4,000
against her former husband,
Prince Serge Mdivani.
Refusing to go on a diet,
Miss Stem, Russian motion
picture star, broke her con-
tract.
Prince Bayer, nephew Of
the Emperor Of AbySsinia,
was awarded q degree at
Howard University.
Mrs. Faber collapsed when
the Governor Of MasSachu-
sets refused q reprieve to
her son, Abe Faber, SEN
fenced to die in the electric
chair for murder.
Acquitted by an English
jury Of the murder Of her
husband, Mrs. Rattenbury
ended her life.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
Used
On Bet Welsher

OCEANSIDE, N. Y, July Z
UP).-Three men beat David
Dickson because he "welshed on
a few racing BETS" he told Detec-
tive William Vaughan at South
Nassau Community Hospital last
night. His assailants used-ap-
propriately, police saba horse.
whip.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
Deserted BY Comrades

c. prison ever since.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08

Now the American section Of the Third Inernationale,
known the American Communist party which eagerly
seizes upon every Of injustice to labor to the Negro
make capital of for the Communist has de-
beraey refraned from any agitation in defense of K
Y Hendricks Moreover the American Communist organza
ton has endeavored to from the workers knowledge
of Hendricks confinement in the Raleigh prison.
Such is the punishment which Hendricks who and
faced the electric chair Communist received for leaving
Union All my strenuous appeals to the American
Communist leaders from Russia to take the cudgs for
Hendricks in vain. They did not want the American
public know that of the Gasona boys left the orifie
Soviet land.
Now have committed the same crime Hendricks The
American Communists will forgive that offense
Since the Communist parties Of the world including that of
America trying build their movements largely in the
reflected glory of Soviet Russia and because numbers Of
workers joining them in the belief that the u S. r.
land Of plenty and peace for the Masses addressing
self to the workers Of America to dspel that Illusion
Many Of the American workers and specialists who knew
and worked with the Soviet Union will be in complete
agreement with what have say There fanatics who
believe evil Of Stain and his group There in
tecua who refuse to the facts Of the Russion tragedy
1t would shaer cruelty their pretty dreams of perfect
social system discover that the Soviet system the
negaion of all social progress which is precisely what the
Coxyiot cr1ctoro
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
ROOKIE JAILED

NEW YORK, July 8.-The lure
of the sun was strong for Robert
Lassen, So, Saturday afternoon
and he transferred his business
activities to Battery Park, accord
ing to police of the Old Slip Sta
ton. AS a result he became the
first bookmaker ever to be ar
rested in the park.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08

You and the hundreds of other liberals who supported
me in the past in my battles for full justice to labor will
be interested in the story of my experiences in Soviet
Russia which am bringing to the American
cannot remain true to my ideals and remain silent
You and those organs Of the press which largely under
your influence have justly exposed and condemned the in
EQUITIES of the Fascist dictatorship in Italy and the Naz
dictatorship in Germany
But you and the ocaed American liberals have either
wilfuy unwttingly blinded yourselves to the equally
Ubiquitous and reactionay stainst dictatorship in Soviet
Russia.
invite your attention to my narrative which present
to the American public in the of truth which alone
set labor free and pave the way to and honest
solution Of the social problems. FRED E. BEAL
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
FACING CELL, BEAL FLEES TO LAND OF FREE'[
EXILED COMMUNIST
TELLS INSIDE STORY
OF SOVIET RUSSIA
CONTINUED from Page -


rights of the of the people,
thought Communism was the way out When went to
the Soviet Union fully expected to find the workers and
peasants of Russia exercising their naenab rights to control
their desnes and enrich themselves materially and
socially.
expected find realized in Soviet Russia all the things that
had fought for in Amerca-th right of the workers and
farmers the full products Of their TOLL the right Of the
individual to free speech and unabridged civil liberties
did find these things in Stains Russia Instead,
found the very opposite All the evils had fought in America
found hundred times hdeousy expressed In Russia,
thousand times obnoxious and completely unbearabe to
the overwhelming majority of the Russian people
So ntoerab did the sight of the suffering Of the Russian
workers become me, SCATTERING establishment in
leave Russia with 2Oyear prison sentence hanging
and to forth into the world facing dubious and precar
future rather than continue the Stain dictator
ship high official.
And not the first to take that path. My comrade
K Y Hendricks of the Gasona defendants left
Russia three years and returned secretly to America He
picked by the police and has been in the Raleigh IN
CO. prison since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-25
FARLEY SAYS
 ROOSEVELT TO BE REELECTED
Postmaster General Guest of Honor, Portland
 Democrats at Rally

PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 25.- Postmaster General James A. Far ley, on Saturday. urged the people of Oregon and the Northwest to be patient in the workings of the Can- adian reciprocal trade agreement. He said the lumber interests are un- duly aroused over the reduced tar if. He said he believed the increase in building within the next few months will "be such that the re- duction protest will fade into insig- nificance.
 The Postmaster General was neIe after participating in the inaugural of the Trans Pacific mail service at Alameda, Cal, as the guest of honor at a Democratic meeting.
 Speaking at Democratic rally The Postmaster General predicted the reelection of Roosevelt and de- clared:
 You can't beat somebody with nobody and the Republican Party has nobody. It not only has no can didate who commands the respect of a majority of it's members but has not even the outline of program which gives any promise of satisfy ing the widely divergent elements that compose it.'