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Then came Betty Cow, the dark haired nursemaid who was the last member of the household to see the baby alive that March night of 1882, She had returned from her khative Glasgow, Scotland, to tas- tify to the events leading up to liner tragic discovery that the c.hild's crib was empty.
 The Crib Was Empty
 Faltering, she identified a soiled little garment as a shirt cut from her flannel petticoat for the baby because it had suffered from a Ichest cold.
 N Near tears, she related how she |fhad gone to the nursery around 10 lp.m. for a last look into the crib, Hand how she had found it empty. |IEopefully, she asked Mrs. Lind |Ibergh and Colonel L;ndbergh if lIthey had taken him out. H Then, she testified, month later |Ishe picked up from the mud of Ithe road tiny metal thumbguard | (which she herself had tied careful l Ny to the baby's wrist.
 In quick order followed New Jer- l 6ey state troopers; Mrs. Ollie What l pey, widow of the Lindbergh but Der; and Milton Gaglio and Max Rosenbain, who accompanied Jaf- Sie, to the Lindbergh home when he went to act as Intermediary With these the state concluded the first phase of it's case dealing with events leading up to and surround ing the night of the Kidnapping. The second phase raked the de- Tense with the relentless fire of a machine guH
 Its ammunition was that of "Jaf- Bie,' himself, two definite identi- yfications of Hauptmann. and the headly and implacable testimony of D corps of handwriting experts Eho figuratively placed in Haupt- mann's hand the pen which bcrawled the ransom demands.
 Jafsie's' Story ColorfuI
 For pure drama, for the detail- hg of a breath-taking story, the lisorous and colorful testimony of he white haired 'Jafsie" probably Itands unequalled.
 The retired Bronx educator, word by word, laid the amazing tale of he ransom payment before the hry, and climaxed the full story by declaring firmly:
 ".John' is Bruno Richard Haupt- ham,"
 With Hauptmann's deep-sunken Ees fastened on him, and while k4e parried with defense attorneys b his obvious enjoyment, Dr. Con- lon told of driving to Van Cort- hndt park, March 12, 1892, and liscussing the ransom payment nth the mysterious John"
 will I burn if the baby is
 ead?" This, Jafsie testified, he las asked by John" The kidnap- | spoke with market Teutonic ccent, he assured the jury.
 Railways full of surprises. Dr.
 ondon testified he saw Haupt- Aann-the John" of the case
 rom a bus a month before Haupt- hann was arrested September 19, b34, but that he was unable to
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Strikes aJ 1libi
 Attorney General Wilentz struck at Hauptmann's alibi that he worked on the day of the kid naping by producing Edward F. Morton, timekeeper at the apart ment building where Hauptmann sometimes worked. Morton testi- Ted that he was not working the day of the Kidnapping and did not work the day the ransom was paid.
 From a Greenwich Village the ater the state produced Mrs. Cecile M. Barr, ticket seller, who told the jury that Hauptmann passed a ransom bill to her in payment for a ticket.
 The final identifications were those of Willard Whited, lanky log
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get off the bus in time to catch him.
 Fulsomely, he testified finally to going to St. Raymond's cemetery the night of April 2, 1892, and there passing over the cemeteiy y hedge the package which contained the S5o,0OO in ransom bills.
 Others Name Ha1ptmann
 To this testimony was added the further identification of Haupt- mann by Amandus Hochmuth, ST. year-old Prussian army veteran.
 With trembling forefinger, he pointed out Hauptmann as the man he saw driving, with ladder in his car. toward the Lindbergh estate few hours before the fly CTS son was kidnapped.
 Joseph Anthony Perrone, h e Bronx taxi driver, slapped Haupt- mann lustily on the shoulder to identify him as the man who paid him the $1 to deliver a ransom note to "Jafsie."
 Then came the handwriting ex- perts-a corps of them, to say that in their opi 0 ns, Hauptmann penned the crude notes which de- manded $50,O0O for the return of the baby.
 Albert s. Osborn, the dean of the corps, based his opinion on his comparison of the IA ransom notes with many specimens of Haupt- mann's admitted handwriting. which he described as highly in- dividual,' as awkward" and ''pe- culiar."
 Strange mispellings "b-o-a-d'' for boat, "singnature' for sigma ture-were quickly seized upon by the men who studied the penman- ship of the notewriter and that of Hauptmann.
 "Hauptmann Wrote Notes"
 My opinion,' said Osborn to hushed courtroom, lis that the ransom notes were all written by the writer of the various papers signed Richard Hauptmann'"
 Through Frank J. Wilson, govern ment agent, the state traced $14,- 600 in ransom bills to Hauptmann's garage, and brought out testimony to the effect that following Haupt- mann's arrest none of the ran-' som bills had been passed.
 Another agent, and some two dozen minor witnesses, tra e d Hauptmann to the stock market where his purchases mounted to large sums. Most of his specula- tions, witnesses testified, took place after the date of the ransom pay ment.
 To the stand, also, came Hide garde Olga Alexander, attractive clothes model, who pointed the fin ger of Identification at Hauptmann again. The defendant, she testi- lied, was the man who stared at. Dr. Condon-"spying' on him-in the Fordham station of the New York Central railroad in March during the period when the ran- som negotiations were in progress.
 Fisch's Writing Compared
 Before leaving this phase of it's case, the attorney general took pre- cautions to thwart the defense's announced intention of shifting the blame to Hauptmann,s dead friend, Isador Fisch.
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ger of the Sourland region, who testified it was Hauptmann he saw proving around the Lind bergh estate prior to the abduc- ton, and of Charles B. Rossiter of Gloucester, N. J., who identified Hauptmann as a motorist he saw parked on the Hopewen-Princeton road few nights before the kid naping.
 Carefully, at this point, the state worked toward the climax of it's case-the linking of the hotly dis puted ladder found at the Lind bergh home, with Hauptmann.
 The testimony pertaining to it constituted one of the most re- markable phases of modern scien- tific crime detection efforts in the history of the case. It was a story of the hunt for another needle in haystack.
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Hauptmann Breaks Down

Hauptmann Breaks Down
 As Sisk impersonally told of al- legged falsehoods by the defendant when agents questioned him before finding the money, Hauptmann's face burned red. Leaping to his feet, Hauptmann cried in an agon- ized voice: Mister, stop your ly- ing"
 It was the next day that Mrs. Hauptmann, listening to neigh Dor woman testify, herself shatter- ed the calm of the courtroom by leaping to her feet with the cry Of: You are lying"
 The woman was Mrs. Ella Achen- bach, who involved Mrs. Haupt- mann in the case by testifying that a day or two after the kid naping Mrs. Hauptmann told her she and her husband had just returned home from a trip of some sort and that Hauptmann was limping.
 The states contention was, in this connection, that the baby was Killed and the kidnaper's leg in Jured when the flimsy ladder at the nursery window hroke under their combined weight during the descent.
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MASK BALL

Sponsored by the Women of the Moose, Moose Hall, Saturday, Feb ruary 16. Good Prizes. adv.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02
J. ID. BARE SUCCUMBS
TO BURNS SUSTAINED
SEVERAL DAYS PAST

Mr.. J. D. Bare, aged 81, died near
Glendale Springs the latter part of
the week and was buried at Ebeneez-
er Sunday aftrnoon with Rev. J. w.
Luke officiating at the funeral SER
vices. He had been in very serious
condition for the past week or so fol-
lowing severe burns sustained when
he caught his clothing on fire.
Surviving Mr.. Bare are the follow
ing children: Mrs. Ambrose Shepherd,
Millers Creek, D. G. Bare, Glendale
Springs; Thomas Bare, Othello; Otto
Bare and Dale Bare, Whisper, Idaho;
Fred and Paul Bare, Utah; Mrs. Lon
ME Little, Othello, Mrs. Shirley Shoe
mate, Wagner; and Rodger and
Howard Bare, Wagner.
Twenty-six grandchildren also sur
vive. Among them is Mr.. Wayne
Bare, young business man Of this
city. ~zs,'',
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02
HISS EMILY WORTH
TO PRESENT DRAMATIC
RECITAL FRIDAY NIGHT

--.Ziss Emily Worth, daughter of Mr.
I'D Mrs. w. H. Worth, will appear
:. her senior dramtic recital in Odell
.,-i:orium, Greensboro College, Fri
ay evening, May 3rd at $3.50 o'clock.
Miss Worth, who, before coming to
'reensboro College, was for two
ears student of Davenport College,
as studied under Miss Mae Kinsland,
'ormer head of the dramatic art de-
3artment of Davenport College and
Miss Elba Henninger, head of the de-
oartment of spoken English and
dramatic art at Greensboro College.
She is also a member Of the Green's
5oro Players, who has taken outstand-
ing roles in Greensboro College pro-
auctions. In addition to distinction in
he field of dramatics, Miss Worth
has the honor of being president of
the senior class Of Greensboro COL
lege.
In her recital Miss Worth will pre-
sent play in one act, elsie" by
Eugene O'Neill, and three mountain
sketches by Frances Millet Hoyt:
"Mis' Stone," "Dress Maxim" and
"Coatin' Scriptures"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02
UNCLE SAM STARTS DRIVE TO
ENROLL 100000 CCC BOYS
Part of First Money Spent from
Work Relief Funds to Be Used
to Continue Camps

President Roosevelt has. turned
over to the Civilian Conservation
corps $19O,O0O,OOO to start men mov-
ing into new camps and mills to turn
ing out material for them.
The ALLEGATION from the four-bil-
lion-dollar works fund was made
about the same time that Secretary
1ckes was telling reporters at his
regular press conference that housing
projects carried out under the fund
would not be subjected to the require
ments of being completed within a
year.
The fund turned over to the CCC
was designed to start the enrolment
of 100000 new men and purcha@ the
equipment necessary to build 1900
more camps to house them.
Robert Fechner, director of the
CCC, said $11O,Ooo,OOO would 90 to
increasing the organization to 100000
by August 1. This was divided into
$4O,OOO,OOO for clothing, $4O,OOO,OO0
for supplies, materials and equipment
including trucks, and $3O,OOO,OOO for
camp construction. The remainder
will be used to finance the organiza-
ton until July 1. Enlistment of new
men will begin June Is.
The allotment was the first money
actually made available for the
$500, 900 job drive. The CCC received
100000 and the relief administra-
ton $125, 1000, 900 on the day the Pres
ident signed the work relief bill into
law, but this was for routine ex-
penses.
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REVENUE BILLrPROVIDES FOR
RAISE IN TEACHERS SALARIES

Killed by the house was the O'Ber-
ry bill to provide for inspections each
six months of motor vehicles, and a
senate bill to prohibit advertising of
drugs by general stores where a reg
istered pharmacist is not employed.
A bill introduced by Representative
Harris of Person would authorize the
governor to create an advisory agency
to be known as the state planning
board to investigate all matters re-
ferred to it by the chief executive
and the various state agencies.
The $64,0OO,OO0-plus spending
measure will go back to the house of
representatives for concurrence in the
senate amendments.
Then house eliminated the food ex-
emptions, the senate put them back
into the bill and the conference COM
mittee struck them out again. The
house then sustained the committee
report.
The disputed revenue sections were
approved by a vote of 26 to 81. 8.
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GAME WARDEN URGES PUBLIC
TO OBSERVE GAME RULES
Oh. T. Goodman, County Warden)


AS the weather improves, the peo-
pie become more and more anxious
to fish, and we want them to fish to
their hearts content, provided they
observe the fishing regulations which
are designed to benefit those who
enjoy this excellent sport.
Without the observance of reason
able regulations provided for orderly
fishing, our supply of fish will dwin-
die down to where the sport is I'M
attractive. We have good fishing wa
tiers in our county and it is our hope
to improve them. This can be done
easily if our people will give us their
cooperation.
The season is closed for spawning
May 1 to June 10, except for trout
fishing. Trout season is closed Sep
TENDER /, until April Is. One of the
greatest causes of destruction to our
fish life is the catching of small fish.
Our people must remember that small
fish will be large fish next year if
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HISTORICAL EVENTS IN MAY

l. Dewey's Victory at Manila 1898.
2. Stonewall Jackson shot 1868.
3. First Medical School in United
States 1765.
4. Battle of Charlottesville 1868.
5. Battle of the Wilderness 1864.
6. DR.. Langley's Airplane flew 1896.
7. Steamship Lusitania torpedoed
1915.
8. Battle of Palo Alto 1916.
9. Lieut.. Byrd flew over N. Pole
1926.
10. Fl. Ticonderoga captured ITS.
II. Columbus sailed on last voyage
1902.
IL. Mothers Day.
10. jamestown Settled 1907.
i. FL. Constitutional Convention
1877.
Is. General Nelson A. Miles died
1926.
II. BENZ. Franklin died 1890.
10. U. S. and Mexico sign Peace
Treaty 184S.
90. LirdJcrgh starts fo,' Paris 1927.
4. LindberGll arrived in Paris 1927.
%. Last Civil War skirmish 1865.
%. Mckinley Tariff Bill introduced
1890.
"a. First Steamship crossed Allan
tic 1919.
Is. Call 10000 vol. for Spanish
American war 1898.
27. Morse Telegraph first used
1874.
%. Noah Webster died 1843.
20. Wisconsin became state 1848.
80. Decoration Day.
81. Johnstown Flood 1889.
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'REBECCA DARNEL
!. WINS G. '. MEDAL
Superintendent Eldridge Announced
Long List Of Accomplishments
for the Last rs Years

The graduating exercises Of the
twenty-fifth annual commencement
of the Glade Valley High School were
held on Monday when nineteen young
people were graduated. Following the
address by the class president, Ted
Wyatt, of Vannoy, N. c., the address
to the graduating class was delivered
by the Rev. H. J. Womeldorf, of
Franklin, w. Va. Each member of
the class was presented a handsome
Bible by Rev. John w. Luke, who
acted in the absence of Mrs. George
S. Norfleet, of Winston-Salem.
Superintendent of the school, Mr..
E. B. Eldridge, delivered the diplomas
to the following: Ted Wyatt, Vannoy;
Lucy Wyatt, Vannoy; Richard Os-
borne, Vannoy; Annie Bell Blair, Pr
lot Moutain; Hazel Taylor, Laurel
Springs; Rebecca Darnell, Wagner;
Leola Robinson, Charlotte; Lacy Gray
Norman, Mountain Park; Georgia
jingler, Vannoy; Theresa Blevins,
.aurel Springs; Roscoe Collins, Glade
Valley; Lonnie Mcmillan, Ennis;
Cupid Ledwell, Davidson; Ruby E.
Wyatt, Vannoy; William Telford,
Tampa, Fla; Ruth Ham, Husk; Mary
g. Smith, Danville, Va; Cleo M.
Nicely, Vannoy; and Maude Stidham,
Norton, Va.
The class, robed in caps and gowns,
vas accompanied by it's mascot, little
Miss Betty Joe Gentry. The benedic-
ton was pronounced by Rev. F..
Wayne Thompson, a friend of the
school Of long standing.
On Sunday morning the commence
ment sermon was preached by the
Rev. w. /. Howell, of Mocksville. The
sermon to the Young Peoples League
was delivered on Sunday evening by
Rev. ]. K. Fleming, of Mt. Airy. The
following students won prizes and
honors: The Louise Erwin Memorial
Music Medal was won by Cupid
Ledwell; the honor student of the
class was Rebecca Darnell, of Ashe
County, whose department for four
years was 100 per cent and whose
average for the same period was be-
tween 80 and 90; the Scholarship
Medal, awarded by the school, went
to Georgia Wingler, of Wilkes Coun-
ty; the room prize, given by Mrs.
Guerrant, was awarded to Georgia
Wingler and Mary Smith; the room
prize for the boys went to Richard
and William Osborne; the first sew
ing prize, awarded by Miss Dowdle,
went to Cleo Osborne and the second
sewing prize went to Georgia Wing
Ter.
After record of twenty-five years
of service Mr.. Eldridge announced
that there were now 265 graduates of
the High School. Of these SO have
had four years in college and an ad-
ditional II have had some college
work and 10 are now in college.
There are IS public school teachers
among the alumni Five are High
School teachers. In business there are
25-13 are nursing, 6 are ministers,
8 are doctors, S are engaged in Home
Mission work and several are farming
as profession and 20 others are in
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the leading professions among whom
is baker and an editor, the banker
being Edwin Duncan, of Sparta, and
the editor being Miss Nancy Ruth
Reeves, editor and publisher of the
Skyland Post, West Jefferson. He
pointed out that q good many had
gone into the business of making
Christian homes.
In the afternoon of the closing day
the oratorical contests were held in
the auditorium. Evon Eldridge won
the recitation medal and to Gray
Norman the declaimer's medal was
awarded.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02

If you had the foresight to preserve
your calendar for the year 1907 it
would be correct for the present year
as we'll as for 1918, 1928, 1916, 1857,
and 1868, and so on.
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ATTENTION Ladies' and Gentle

ATTENTION Ladies' and Gentle
men, we have any and every thing
you are looking for in ready-to-wear.
Ladies' and Misses rain suits, Spring
coats, suits, hats, silk dresses, shoes
and hose, all, in the newest spring
fashions and colors. Mems dress
suits, extra pants, hats, shoes, rain
coats, shirts and ties, also a complete
line of mems work clothes. Dry goods
and notions. Everything going at
money-saving prices.
McNEILL'S STORE,
West Jefferson, N. C.
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EDWARDS will leave West Jefferson
Sunday, May 18th, at 7 a. m.
for Bel Air, Md. Reduced rates. For
information and reservation see Carl
Miller, West Jefferson, N. C. or w. B.
Edwards, Darlington, Md.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02

MULE RAISERS-I will stand at my
barn during the season Of 1885 a
purebred Black Spanish Jack. Season
fee $8.O0.-L. S. Richardson, Furches,
North Carolina. So
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Statesmen Wanted

MUST DISPOSE at great sacrifice
we'll matched set, six genuine i'm
ported rugs, Oriental design, in per-
feet condition. Would sell entire set
for 500. Approximate sizes 9x12 it.;
7x10; 7x5; 3x5, and 10 #. hall runner.
Can be seen at storage. Write Rugs,
Skyland Post, West Jefferson, N. c..
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We have between 100000 and
100000 prisoners in the United
States.
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During 1884 people in the United
States purchased approximately 645,-
100000 incandescent lamps.
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Food Exemptions Still Being Fought
Over; Approved Bill Reports
$2O,O0O,OO0 for Schools

The General Assembly took long
strides toward completion Of its work
m Raleigh the first of the week as
the senate adopted the conference
report on the biennial revenue bill
and gave final approval to the appro-
priations measure.
The house contributed it's share by
adopting the committee substitute for
the biennial school machinery bill
which was reported out of committee
early Tuesday morning.
Both houses met in joint session at
noon Tuesday to hear an address by
Josephus Daniels, United States am
bassdor to Mexico and newspaper
publisher of Raleigh. Daniels praised
the Roosevelt recovery program and
the leadership of the President.
Although he made no mention of
legislation passed by the house and
awaiting senate action looking to
-~..t,.i..:-.Io Oil OF liquor in the state, the
amb~s3&dor cited the $4,000 major
fty the state gave against national
reFe2l in 1893. He cautioned the leg
isiators to represent the people and
express the will of the majority and
not of themselves.
School Appropriations Debated
Before the appropriations bill was
passed on third reading by the senate
and returned to the house for concur
renee III several anenJment, the up.
ger branch engaged in debate over
the school appropriation for the next
two years, and then defeated an
amendment to boost it to $22 ,000, 900
for each year. The vote was 90 to 6
against the increase. The house-ap-
proved figures of $20,031 900 for the
first year and s20,9O0,OOO for the
second year were sustained.
Coming to defense of the state
school system, Senator Griffin of
Chowan said, North Cardinals
schools have made more progress
than those of any other state in the
union, and the state transports more
children to and from school than any
other"
Griffin said it would not require
S22,000,000 to give teachers 25 per
cent raise the first year of the bien-
MUM, and the figure in the amend
ment would allow 80 per cent in
crease in pay. He said the teacher
load would be reduced during the
next two years, and each time the
average load is reduced by one child,
the cost to the state is $240,000 per
year.
Griffin referred to "much misinfor-
nation being disseminated about the
harm done the schools by the 1888
General Assembly," He reviewed the
achievements in public education"
since 1888 in North Carolina.
The appropriations bill provides for
a 20 per cent increase in all state
salaries during the first year and 25
per cent during the second year of
the biennium.
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hey are left in the streams. Children
are the greatest violators of the un-
dersized regulation. Let US teach GU
children that little fish are no good
to us as minnows but will make big
fish that we will be proud to catch
next year.
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FOR SALE-Good used ranges at
bargain prices.-Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02

ilOST-North Carolina car license
no. 430-663. Tinder please return
to Glenn Mccoy, Creston, N. c.
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Last year stamp taxes were paid on
more than 125, 6oO,OO0,OOo cigarettes.
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Less than 100000 persons in this
country had taxable incomes in 1893.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02

WILL TRADE furniture for live
stock.-Rhodes Furn. Co.
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FOR SALES H. P. Fairbanks gaso-
line motor on trucks. Priced cheap
for quick sale.-Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-02

James j. Braddock, New Jersey, des-
ignated by the New York state athletic
commission as the leading challenger
for the heavyweight title. has been
signed by Madison Square garden to
meet Max Baer, the champion, in a
l5-round battle for the title.