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Evening star., 1935-04-08


stop twice at Diane Lees desk and say
something to her which caused the
Sycamore Landing scribe to look at
him with her wide blue eyes and smile
A month passed. And then one
night up in Danes apartment, with
the remains of steak on the table
between them, Phil said suddenly,
impulsively and without preamble:
Diane, I can't go on playing this
game any longer. My conscience Is
killing me by inches. And the fact
remains that you're not a newspaper
woman or ever will be. I could get
one of a thousand females to do your
work, better than you're doing it, for
half the salary. You're fired"
Diane looked at him with her wide
blue eyes, bit one of her full red lips,
looked down at the table and said
20. K. I expected it.
Phil dragged his chair around and
sat down beside her. Good. I knew
you'd take it that way. And now that
that's over, let's be honest with each
other. Diane, I'm in love with you.
I have been ever since the day you
got by the Office boy. You must have
guessed"
Il had to guess. didn't -" She
looked up at him. Because you never
mentioned it. You only talked about
the-the darned old newspaper"
Excuses" he said. Excuses to be
with you. You knew that"
She watched him steadily And
you knew 1 didn't come from Syca-
more Landing, Alabam?"
Il admired you for trying TO get
away with the gag. and for getting by
the office boy. Because of that I
thought you might make a good news
! paper man.
rs that the only reason you
! hired me?"
No. Will you marry me?"
Diane bit her full red lips again.
Mr.. Kimball thought I was a
Southerner. How did you know I
wasn't?"
"Shucks. Kimball's a Southerner
himself. You can fool him. That's
why 1 warned YOU
"Kimball is-but. aren't you?"
Nope. I hail from New York,
Flatbush. Lived there all my life.
Five years ago I heard Kimball was
looking for city editor. So l went
in and told him came from a little
town outside of Richmond. Yes. sub.
And he swallowed it. That's why 1
felt almost obliged to give you the
same chance I had Two people
working the same gag, you know.
But all the time I kept thinking of
those other $50 newspaper women.
All of them. And hang it. Diane, you
weren't making the grade. You
weren't made to be a newspaper
woman. You were made for-other
! things" He leaned toward her.
Diane, why not try being a news
paper mans wife?"
Diane considered. And Phil watch
! ing her, thought for a moment that
! he'd figured everything wrong. Then
he saw the corners of her mouth be-
gin to twitch. and he breathed again.
She looked up at him. We'll. sub.
promised myself I'd get to work on
a newspaper. But since I'm not cut
out for it, maybe second best will
have to do. Yes. suh."
| Whereupon Phil took her into his
arms and told her they'd spend their
/ honeymoon in dear old Alabam
Sure enough.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
C0UGHL|N BACKS
S|XPEND|NG BILLS
Social Justice Union, Five
"Competing Systems"
ContraSted.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 8.-Rev. Charles
z. Coughlin has thrown the support
of his Union for Social Justice be-
hind six pieces OF legislation now
pending in Congress.
After o detailed contrast of the
principles of TIE union with five other
great competitor" systems of capi-
talism, the priest yesterday said his
organization was prepared to as
semble its ranks" for the protection
of labor, of agriculture, of small in
dustry and of the mulcted American
veteran" He recalled that the union
was a factor in the defeat of the
World Court proposal.
He listed the following bills as car
Evening star., 1935-04-08
Missing Boat Found.

TOXIC. April 8 LA).-A motor boat
with II Japanese aboard which had
been missing for five days was found
by freighter today drifting near the
Coto Islands and was towed into port
All aboard were safe.
The vessel was chartered by a news
paper to send reporters and pho
tographers to meet Emperor Ksng
Teh Of Manchoukuo while he was at
sea before his recent arrival in Toxic.
Evening star., 1935-04-08


more Landing. Just south of Birming-
ham, Alabam, sub"
DO tell" Phils' eyes ran over the
trim figure appraisingly. And the
name is?"
Diane Lee, sub"
Phil scratched his chin. He was
thinking of the $50 other girls, New
York born and bred, who asplred 10
the girl reporters position which was
open on the Ledger. He wondered
how Diane Lee got by the office boy,
but decided not to ask her. He'd
rather guess. Where $50 others had
failed Diane had been successful
Hum.
Il suppose you've had experience,
Diane?"
oh, yes. sub. I worked fo' two
wears on the Sycamore Landing S
Commentator. Yes, sub, I've had
experience, sub"
Phil scratched his chin again. He
was trying to make up his mind to
some things, but before decision
asserted itself the girl asked:
"You-all are from the South,
aren't you, suh?"
Phil started. How in the world
did you know that?'
Why, sub? We Southerners--
She broke off. staring at him in
round-eyed significance. Phil cleared
his throat.
I'll tell you what he said "You
run down to the Municipal Building
and get me a story on Carlos de
Sureda. He's up here from Mexico
on business. Color it up and turn 1t
in for the afternoon edition. If
you've got something on the ball"
oh. thank you, sub. I'll get the
story. suh."
Phil couldn't think of any good
reason why he should take Diane Lee
to lunch, except that he wanted to
talk to her about the story she'd writ
ten on Carlos, and because also he
wanted to ask her more about Syca-
more Landing Both of which he
thought sufficient excuse
When I told you to color it up"
he explained over coffee, Il didn t
mean to write an essay. After all,
there are certain rules that every
newspaper writer must abide by. Even
the star reporter from Sycamore
Landing. Alabam." He went on pa
tiently to explain what those rules
were, although he didn't know why
But after awhile. when the conver-
sation shifted to Alabam and she told
him about Sycamore Landing in the
soft, drawly way she had, he felt
repaid.
There's one thing you'll want to
remember" he said as they crossed
the street back to the Ledger office.
'Kimball--he's the managing editor
comes from Virginia" She flashed
him look of grateful understanding.
Thank you, Suh," she said Thank
you"
And don't" said Phil, "call me
sub Call me Phil"
It was more than a week before
Phil permitted anything of Diane
Lees to appear in the Ledger. Then
he did so in fear and trembling But
nobody said anything, no reader wrote
sarcastic letters to the editor asking
whether the squib was a new humor-
Gus column or treatise on the wild
life in Central Park. and Phil felt
that he'd passed crisis.
During the first week he spent three
evenings with Diane trying to explain
to her that news was supposed to be
presented in boiled-down facts and
not in lot Of guShy, f1owery phrases.
Her style of writing made him skepti-
cal about the type of paper the Syca-
Evening star., 1935-04-08
FALL HURTS WOMAN
Hurled From Car by Companion,
She Tells Police.

Dolly Swift, 80, giving her address
as 1928 Fourteenth street, was taken
TO Gallinger Hospital from Maryland
avenue and Seventh street southwest
early today and treated for lacera-
ton Of her forehead.
The injured woman told police she
received the injury when elected from
an automobile by man she knew
Only as Mike
Evening star., 1935-04-08
MR.. osGooD.
NL e,,h I 1lYader-

h - SuIl, 1 hAANCA
stand you-all
are lookin' for a
gal?"
Phil Osgood. city
editor of t h e
Ledger, swung
around in his chair
and looked up at
the girl. Wide. blue
eyes stared at him
from beneath a
close-cropped head.
She was hatless,
and wore an egg
shell colored dou-
ble-breasted linen
suit. Very smart.
We'll, we'll" he
.a{d aCo V0ll'rp
from the South?"
Evening star., 1935-04-08
Copyright. 1887

across the thoroughfare, with auto
mobiles barely missing it, until he
was captured and taken to No. 8 po-
lice station.
There the drake was lodged in q
basement room and today waited to
be released In custody" of the owner,
if he called
If not claimed. police say, the fowl
will be turned over to the property
clerk whose duty will be to sell it as
quickly as possible as "perishable
property"
Evening star., 1935-04-08
Dangerous for Police.

After being grilled for five months,
Boku Tai Retsu is alleged TO have
confessed in Hello, Korea, to setting
fire to police box and numbering
three policemen and one other man.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
DARTING DRAKE KNOTS
INTERSECTION TRAFFIC
Large White Bird, ARRESTED, "
Awaits Owners Arrival at
Police Station.

A large white drake unsuccessfully
essayed the role of traffic policeman
at Wisconsin avenue and Albemarle
street yesterday. tangling traffic.
The bird darted back and forth
Evening star., 1935-04-08
more Landing Com
mentator might be.

mentator might De.
And all the time
Phil was conscious
of a feeling of gilt.
He felt that way
especially when he
read Danes stun
and thought of the
$50 other pros
poets, New York
born and bred. He
expected momen-
tarily that kinbau
would come stomp
ing over and make
some S arc a S t l C
crack about Gen.
Lees daughter and
her muSh, blu t
Kimball didn't. In
fact, Phil saw the
~
Evening star., 1935-04-08
WILL ELECT OFFICERS
Executive Council of Local 2, Fed
eral Employees, to Meet.

The Executive Council of Local 2.
the departmental local of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes. will elect officers Friday night,
end the installation will follow imme-
diaely, in charge Of Luther C. Stew
ard, national president.
Several other meetings are sched-
nled by units of the organization this
week, at all of which the principal
business will be to plan for the three
months membership campaign now
under way.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14

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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
MCINTOSH EXPLAINS
ADMINISTRATION OF
STUDENT AID FUNDS

RALEIGH, Nov. 9.-The confu-
sion which has attended the admin
istration of student aid funds to
students in institutions below col
lege level in this state may now be
cleared by the following informa-
ton according to statement today
by c. E. Mcintosh.
In the first announcement of this
below college" aid program, that
is the program of aid to students
between 1925 years of age in high
schools or graded schools, the fol-
lowing regulation was in force. The
youth must have been a member of
family on relief in May, and the
family must be on relief now.
This regulation was subsequently
modified so that youths in families
coming on relief since May could
also receive aid.
A third supplementary regulation
is that any needy and worthy youth
may be recommended for aid by
school officials, provided that those
in the first and second group have
received prior consideration.
It is now possible, therefore, for
youths to receive aid in the follow
ing groups:
l. The first group eligible for ap-
plication must belong to families on
relief in May.
2. The second group need not
have been on relief in May, but
must be on relief at the time of ap-
plication.
3. When applications from the
above groups have been met, then
any needy youth may apply.
"It is hoped, concluded Director
Mcintosh, that this broadened
scope will allow any needy youth
to receive aid. A city or county unit
which has not awarded these
scholarships by the end Of the Sec
ond payroll period will be deprived
of the unassigned portion of FEEDER
al funds. If county OF city unit
cannot use these funds, the scholar
ships should be transferred where
they are needed"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
OTHER CONTRACTS ON
PARKWAY TO BE LET

WASHINGTON, Nov. THE bu-
reau of public roads has opened
bids for construction of two addi-
ton sections of the Southern APP
palachian Parkway and are ready
to award contracts as soon as the
North Carolina highway depart
ment completes certain right-of-
way details.
Contracts have been previously
awarded for construction of the
parkway south of the Virginia line
to Route 26. The new bids are for
a stretch from Route 26 Air Bellows
Gap, distance IT'S miles, and anoth-
err stretch from this point to Null
berry Gap.
Just as soon as the necessary pa
pers arrive from the North Caro-
lima highway department the new
contracts win be awarded, it was
stated at the National Park Ser
vice.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
], 1000 ATTEND BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION OF JUNGLE
BILLIE WOOTEN" SUNDAY

w. J. Wooten, father of r. A.
Wooten, of Winston-Salem, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday at his
home near Sparta in Allegheny
county Sunday.
'Uncle Billie" as he is affection
ately known to relatives and
friends, was joined in the celebra-
ton of his birthday anniversary by
approximately 1000 persons who
came from all sections of North
Carolina and points in Virginia,
West Virginia and Tennessee.
After a delicious birthday dinner
had been served picnic style, the
gathering heard a sermon by one of
MIR. Wooten's grandsons, Rev.
Charles Wooten, a Baptist minister
who resides at Whitehead in Allie
ghany.
'Uncle Billie" is a leading Demo-
crat in Allegheny and has always
taken an active part in the civic
and political affairs of the county.
-Winston-Salem Journal.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
ATTEMPT TO HOLD
UP SPARTA MERCHANT
rs UNSUCCESSFUL
Four Highwaymen Fail To Stop
Graham Myers A. Sp5t Where
Mail Was Robbed Recently

ELKIN, Nov. 11.-An attempt by
four highwaymen to hold up
Graham Myers, of Sparta, manager
of grocery store of the mountain
town, on Saturday night about
1890 o'clock on Highway 26 be-
tween Sparta and Elkin, proved un-
successful, for the reason that
Myers stepped firmly upon the ac-
celerator of the car and left the
scene, instead of hating.
The attempted holdup occurred
at the spot near Cherrylane where
the Elkin-Sparta star mail carrier,
Dewey Mathis, was held up a short
time ago and relieved of about
$4,000 in cash which he was carry
ing to Sparta for local department
store for deposit in the Bank of
Sparta.
When Myers, en- route to this city
on business, declined to stop at the
signal of the unknown men, mis-
sile of some kind, thought to have
been tear gas bomb, was hurled
against the car, smashing the rear
window but in1licting no injury to
the OCCUPANT of the machine.
The scene of the repeated hold
ups is a spot bordered by dense
thicket of timber and underbrush,
an ideal place for such villainy.
The investigation of the robbery
of the mail carrier has revealed no
clues of value, so far, however de-
tectives are continuing the search.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
DECE .nB aR I SET AS GOAL TO
GIVE WORK TO UNEMPLOYED

BON to take care of employables
transferred from the relief rolls,
md also, the needs of unemploya-
les are provided for by states and
aeir localities"
Hopkins employment report in
dicated that WPA may have to sup
ly about 2,750,000 jobs if the De-
:ember objective is reached.
CCC Total Drops
Other Federal agencies were TAX
g care of 174,685, an increase of
only 1858 in the week ending No
ember 2, while the Civilian Con-
rvation corps showed 26,697 de-
line to 55,717.
The WPA, providing employment
or the first time in Iowa and
iaine, boosted it's total in the week
Y 219,666 jobs to 1907, 208.
Comptroller General j. r. Nc
'arl meanwhile gave WPA another
cost by approving an additional
167,010,853 worth of projects. This
Used the total of approved pro-
vets, available for selection for
PA State administrators to $751;
81, 347, 250. Release of $4.684, 349 in
VPA allotments made $1,023, 1885,
523 available for expenditure.
Among States for which projects
we're approved was Arizona, which
so far has no WPA employment.
The total actually employed in the
work relief program declined dur
ing the week in that State, the Dis
trict of Columbia, Idaho, Massachu-
sets, and Montana.
In all except Arizona, the lag by
other agencies accounted. for these
declines, and talk was renewed in
some quarters of new cancellations
to increase WPA's present ear
marking of $780, 100000.
To date continuance of direct re-
relief has cost more than $780,
100000 above the $80,0OO,OO0 first
estimated.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
GIRL FOUND DEAD TWO
DAYS BEFORE WEDDING

The battered body of Corinne
'Loring, who disappeared two days
before her wedding, was found Sat-
urday in a clump of trees near Mt.
Rainier, Md.
Police said the 26-year-old bride
to-be had been murdered. A pool of
dried blood was found 20 feet from
where her body lay.
:. The girls disappearance from the
white bungalow at Mt Rainier,
where she lived with her mother,
was discovered when Richard
Tear, her 29-year-old fiance, went
to call on her Monday night.
/. When found, the murdered girls
head had been crushed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
WPA Still Short OF Halfway
Mark In Providing Jobs For
S,5OO,OOO Out OF Work

The Works Progress Administra-
ton is still short of the halfway
mark in its drive to provide $780,
600 jobs for the unemployed by
December l.
Harry L. Hopkins works progress
administrator, said the number put
to work in the week ending No
vember 2 totaled 194,425, compared
with 121,715 in the preceding week.
The total given jobs in place of
direct relief November 2, however,
was only 1,737,610, in contrast with
the original plan to have the entire
100000 employables at work a
day earlier.
If the new December / goal is at
tanned, 1,762,390 jobs remained to
be provided in the four weeks be-
ginning November 2, a weekly av-
erage of 440,597.
Hopkins nevertheless expressed
renewed confidence that the pro-
gram would succeed. Simultaneous
ly he cut four additional states
Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi,
and Connecticut-off direct relief.
Total Withheld
What this actually meant, how
ever, became uncertain when he
declined to say how much he had
simultaneously allotted these States
to supplement earlier November
grants. Ohio already had received
$2,084,0 South Carolina, $349, 1888,
Mississippi, $442,50, Connecticut,
$401, 500.
Most of the Is other States SINH
larry cut off direct relief received
supplementary allotments. Hopkins
said only that "the allotments have
ended for the II States because
works program employment is eth
er well enough along or will be
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
Honorable r. T. Mcneil
Very Ill In Greensboro

The many friends of Hon. P. T.
McNeill will regret to learn Of his
serious illness in the Clinic Hospital
in Greensboro where he underwent
an emergency operation Saturday.
While the operation was of seri-
Gus nature, the latest reports from
the hospital are that Mr.. McNeill is
doing as well as could be expected.
Mrs. McNeill is at her husbands
bedside.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
VEHICLE LICENSE SALES
ARE NEAR NEW RECORD

The sale of motor vehicle licenses
in North Carolina last week moved
within 1923 of a new high record
for a single year.
. Through Wednesday night SOL 1862
pairs of plates had been sold as
compared with 503,590 for all of
1929. Motor vehicle division officials
predicted a new high mark would
be set before December /.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
Man Who Tried CrucifixiOn
Arrested For NOn-SuppOrt

HIGH POINT, Nov. Or. j.
Riggs, who attempted to have him.
self crucified about three months
ago because of separation from his
wife, was arrested here today on a
bench warrant signed by Judge
Lewis league for contempt of court
in failing to support his family.
He is being held in the High
Point Jail without bond and will be
given a hearing Monday morning.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14

A man in the Show-Me state has
been shown clearly that mules are
unlucky. In the spring a kick from
mule broke o. c. Carpenters leg.
This fall he was knocked senseless
by bolt of lightning which struck
and killed the mule as he was rid
ing to shelter in the barn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
H0nOr Roll For Seventh
Grade Of West Jefferson

Honor roll for the seventh grade
of West jefferson for October is
reported by Mrs. Ray as follows:
Tommy Oliver, Hazel Enopier,
Irene Hudler, Edwin Weaver, Grace
Wyrick, Bernen Poe, Myrtle Jean
Wyrick, June Smith, Aida Gambill,
Melba Gambill, James Dale Taylor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14
Scouts To Be Organized Here

All boys who have been Scouts
or who are interested in scouting
are asked to meet in the basement
of the Presbyterian church on Mon
day night, at Z p. m.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-14

See the beautiful living room
suite we are giving away. Come
in and get full details of this
great sale that will last until
December Gath.
RHODES FURN. co.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-07-19

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