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The Washington times., 1935-11-22
TRACE POISON
SODA SOURCE

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. %
G.N.SO.-Origin of the poison
which contaminated several bar
rels of baking soda in bulk and
resulted in the deaths of three
persons and serious illness of 81
others who had purchased the
poison soda from a Mission Street
department store was tracked
down today by health authorities.
DR.. j. C. Geiger, city health
director, reported that Joseph
RoSenthal, owner of the depart
ment store, informed him two of
his employees had traced one of
the discarded barrels, which had
been carted away with other ref
use after it had been emptied.
Result Of Analysis
Analysis Of a residue of white
powder" remaining in the barrel
definitely showed it to be pure
sodium fluoride which resembles
baking soda in color but is a vio-
lent poison.
The barrel originally held 300
pounds of the poison, it was said.
! According to DR.. Geiger, Jack
Dinneen, one of the two employees
who traced the poison barrel, de-
clared the white powder" was
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The Washington times., 1935-11-22
D0NNELL
AS PENAL HEAD

Five members of the Board of
Public Welfare called on the Dis.
trict Commissioners today to
again urge appointment of Harold
E. Donnell, superintendent OF
Maryland prisons. to succeed
Capt. M. M. Barnard as the head
of District penal institutions.
No action was taken by the
Commissioners because of the alb
sence, due to illness, of Commits
sioner George E. Allen, under
whose Jurisdiction the problem
comes.
In addition to Mr.. Donnell, Col.
William Peak, superintendent of
the District Reformatory at Lor.
ton, Va, and Thomas M. Rives,
superintendent of the District
Jail, are being considered for the
post now held by Captain Bar
nard.
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
j. ). MED|CS
ATTACKED
IN ITALY
English Auto Plates
Stir Fascists; Four
Aided by Police

MILAN, italy, Nov. % G.N.SO.
DR.. and Mrs. F. Mersch and DR..
and Mrs. j. L. Bollman, all of
the United States, lodged a COM
plant with the American con-
sulate here today that they were
mobbed by FaScists in demonstra-
tions against League of Nations
sanctions when they arrived in
Padua, November 20.
The two men are physicians of
the Mayo Brothers Institute in
Rochester, MINI.
Believed BritOnA
They said they were mistaken
for Britons because their Ameri.
can car, although it bore an
American flag, was tagged with an
English license plate left on it
after a visit in England.
The two physicians and their
wives complained their car was
damaged in a savage scuffle and
that the American flag was torn
QoWn, nSulteo ana hurled at
them.
Only prompt intervention of
the local carabineri, they said,
saved the party from physical
violence.
Protected by Police
According to the statements of
the two men, the demonstration
continued for more than half an
hour before the angry mob could
be pacified by police, who had
difficulty in convincing the riot
ers they were physicians and
their wives were Americans.
The next morning, police es-
corted the party in their car
out of the city to prevent fur
ther demonstrations. They came
to Milan, where their complaint
was lodged,
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
WPA JOB FUND
IS INCREASED
international News Service


President Roosevelt has thrown
another $15O,OOO,oOO behind the
WPA in the drive to end direct re-
lief by December l.
The money was transferred
from the RFC earlier this week,
without announcement, it was
learned today.
This makes a total of $1,193,-
680,323 the President has placed
behind the organization, originally
created to check and speed other
Government agencies in the drive
to put $500, 900 employable heads
Of families to work, and later
turned into a job-creating agency
when the $4,000, 900, 900 program
failed to show the desired results.
The President still has $39, 9,331.-
S45 of the $4,000,000, 900 un-
allocated, which he may allocate
to any of the 66 agencies operat-
ing in the employment drive, or
divide among the several agencies.
Other Funds Available
But more significant, perhaps,
is the fact that Treasury state
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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Boy, Is, Given Chair
As Jury Of Women
Decide He's SLAYER

MOUNT HOLLY, N. j., Nov. %
U.N.S0.-A 16-year-old boy, the
youngest person ever doomed to
death by Jersey justice, today was
under sentence to die in the
electric chair during the week Of
January 5.
The youth, John s. Ciemiengo,
was found guilty Of murder in the
first degree after less than two
hours Of deliberation by a jury
dominated by women. There were
seven women jurors.
Convicted with John was George
H. Hildebrand, 26, Of Columbus,
N. j. They were found guilty Of
Staying 60-year-old Herman EilerS,
Florence township farmer, during
an attempted robbery ut his home
last October 4
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Italian Gains False.
Says Halle SelaSsie

"for a month has been through
Ualual, Gorrahei. and Gerlogubi." I"
This line runs approximately
east and west about 200 miles
west Of the Italian Somaliland
border. Gorrahei, the western
end, is more than 100 miles south
of Sasa Baneh, to which the
Italians reported they had prog
reSSed in a northward drive.
"It had been a long time since
I had wanted to go out amongst
my brave troops" said the NeguS
in commenting upon Ethiopia'S
recent peaceful years. He had
flown to Jijiga, headquarters Of
the southern army.
"My visit" he continued, twas
not to encourage my troops, as
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The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Niece Of Burnside
To Wed Veteran, IS

DANBURY, Conn, Nov. %
G.N.S0.-Col. Ira R. Wildman,
IS, Civil War veteran and former
official of the national and state
G. A. r. organizations, announced
at his home here today that he
will marry Mrs. Ella Bond, of
Oshkosh, Wis, on Thanksgiving
Day.
Mrs. Bond is a niece Of Gen.
Ambrose e. Burnside, officer Of
the Union Army in the civil war,
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Italians and COlOred
In Trench War Here

Without benefit of the League
of Nations, score of colored lab
orerS today declared sanctions
against a handful of Italian lab
orers on project at Thirty-fourth
and @ Streets Northwest.
The project is divided into two
sections. one on the northeast cor
ner of the intersection and one on
the southwest. Thir ty-fourth
Street das designated as "no-man'S
land" and it was two hours be-
fore Capt. GuStaf j. van Lennap,
overseer for the Kass Realty Com
pany, could bring about an arms
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Flame From Volcano
Visible in Honolulu

HONOLULU, r. H., Nov. %
G.N.SD.-A stream of lava five
miles wide was creeping slowly
down the mountainside of Mauna
Loa on the island of Hawaii TO-
day following flaming eruption
of Mokua Weoweo crater last
night.
Hundreds of valley dwellers be-
gan packing belongings and pre-.
pared to evacuate the section.
The eruption was believed the
greatest in the history of the
volcano.
Flaming lava shooting thou
sands of feet into the air was
visible in Honolulu, 200 miles
north Of Hilo.
The rumblings Of the crater
were increasing today.
Edward G.. Wingate, superin.
tendent of the Hawaii National
Park, reported the center of the
activity was in the crater of the
summit of Mauna Loa.
Wingate reported he was pro,
ceeding Immediately to the scene,
but from his vantage point, a
distance of 40 miles, he could not
be certain whether the main
flow of lava was through earth
fissures or due to the eruption.
The flow of the fiery sea was
splitting the saddle between
Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
Mountains.
One arm of the lava was follow
ing the 1843 flow toward Kona
and through rice cattle land. The
other branch was coursing over
the 1899 flow toward Hilo.
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
DROVE MAN
TO HOME
NIGHT OF
Staying
Description Of Fare
Not Given Out
BY Police

Pursuing q fresh clue in the
Corinna Loring murder mystery,
police today located Washing.
ton taxicab driver who reported
he drove a man to the Loring
home in Mt. Rainier, Md, the
night the pretty 26-year-old choir
singer and bride-to-be disappeared.
Detective Sergt. Arthur j. FL
helly, Of Washington, assigned to
the Fifth precinct, reported to
Lieut.. Joseph Itzel, Baltimore de-
tective in charge Of the murder
investigation, that he located the
taxicab driver.
According to Lieutenant 1tzel,
the Washington detective said the
cab driver reported that he drove
q man to the Loring home at
about 8 o'clock the night the girl
disappeared.
Says Fare ''NerVOuS"
It was just about that time
that Mrs. Frances Loring, the
girls mother, left the house, the
last person to see Corinna alive.
Although no description of the
mysterious cab passenger was
given out, it was said that the
cab driver described him as being
"noticeably nervous" during the
ride to the Loring home.
Shortly after being given the
information, Itzel left Upper
Marlboro, headquarters Of the in
veStigation, to come to Washing
ton for a conference with De-
tective Fihelly, and If possible, to
question the cab driver.
Police were intrigued today to
discover a broken whisky bottle,
inside Of which was a pocket
sized New Testament, at the spot
on Saddleback Ridge, q few
blocks from Corinna's home,
where her body was found two
weeks ago.
Boy Makes Find
The find was made by a 7-year-
old boz who was walking in the
vicinity with his mother.
Inside the Bible was written,
Presented to Thomas Gardner
for "a Sundays attendance, by the
First Baptist Sunday School, Mt.
Rainier" It was signed by "CyruS
Johnson, superintendent" and be.
meath the signature was written
Memory verse Romans 1913"
The verse referred to is For
whoSoeVer shall call on the Lord
he will be saved"
Breaking the silence she has
maintained since the discovery Of
the body of her daughter on No
vember 8, five days after she dis
appeared, Mrs. Frances Loring,
the mother of the slain girl, to-
day had denied emphatically that
she killed Corinna or had any
idea who might have perpetrated
the crime.
Ridiculous" Says Mother
Mrs. Loring admitted she had
heard the rumors that have been
circulated since the discovery Of
the body, but declared they were
ridiculous" The mother said
she believed Corinna was slain by
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The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Ex-Teacher Held

TROY, Nov. % G.N.S0.-John
E. Healey, jr.. former school prin-
cipal. was arraigned in police
court today on a first-degree muir
der charge in connection with the
fatal shooting Of William F.
Sober, banker and president Of
the board of education.
Healey waived examination and
was ordered held for the grand
jury. 1t is understood his attor-
neyS will plead insanity for their
client
The Washington times., 1935-11-22

tice between the warning factions.
One of the homes is being
built for Vincenzo Di Girolama,
attache o fthe italian Embassy.
1t was a trench, not of the bomb
proof variety but designed to
carry water-pipes to Signor Di
Girolama that precipitated the
conflict.
Valentino Tommasetti, 80, of
So H st. N. E., is foreman for
the supporters of II Duce.
Walter Randolph, 46, of IA De-
frees st. N. w, led the "Ethi-
opian" forces.
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
SUPPLY LINE
OF ROMANS
SLASHED
Guerrilla Warriors In
North Snag Foe;
Action Laes
War Moves:

Again the scene of Italo
Ethiopian activities shifted
to Africa and world cables
carried the following develop,
ments:
LoNDON.-Addis Aba b a
scribes reported Ethiopians
wiped out a column of 800
Italians at Womberta, seized
guns and retired into the Dan,
akil desert. On southern front,
Ras Desta, with $4,000 men,
believed advancing south from
Jijiga. Daily Mail stated
Ethiopians had cripple d
Italians in ogaden by slash
ing Roman supply lines. Trade
between Britain and Italy, cut
off by sanctions and Italian de-
crees, resulted in London ex-
change brokers dropping quo
tations on Italian Ira.
Adds ABABA.-Emperor
Halle Selassie, after visit to
front, via air, called Italian
advances in south ''pure
fancy"
MILAN, Italy.-Two Amer.
lean doctors and their wives,
believed Britons from English
auto license plates, were at.
ta-' ed in Padua, by Fascist,
Police rescued the four.
AsMARA, Eritrea.-Italian
army officials reported ETH,
opian guerrilla warfare con-
tinues outside of Makale. Ras
Seyum's small companies
swoop down on Italian camps
then fade into the hills.
ETHIOPIAN WAR FRONT,
Near Dessye.-H. r. Knicker-
booker described Ethiopian
troops as vast horde resembling
what must have been the army
of Tamerlane just after the
days of Genghis Khan.
DJ1BoUTI, French somali-
land.-Italians and Ethiopians
killed in clash near Daggah
Bur; eight Italians cut to
pieces, their uniforms seized.
ROME. - Popolo di Roma
stated conflict near Lake Able
cost Ethiopians 500 mules and
20 trucks.
BERLIN. - Hitler reported
pleased with visit from French
Ambassador Andre Francois
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
Oath Foe Signs

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. %
G.N.SO.-The signature of DR..
Kirtley F. Mather of Harvard
University, foe of the teachers
oath law, today was affixed to
an oath of allegiance to the
State and Federal constitutions
but with a reservation.
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
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News Service)

news SerVlce)
Adds ABABA, Nov. 22.-Em
peror Halle SelaSSie on his secret
airplane trip to the southern
front this week visited the town
of Sasa Baneh, thereby refuting
claims it ha been occupied by
the italians. he revealed in an in
terview today.
Presenting the first official
summary of his trip to the front
and reporting his warriors had
high morale and are eager to
fight, the Negus declared the
present Italian line on the south
ern front was more than 100
miles south of the positions
claimed by the invaders.
"Ths Italian line" he said
The Washington times., 1935-11-22
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and colder tonight and toHoTro
killing frost tonight With lOwest temperate
about rs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
Miss Livingston to
Visit County Schools
State Nurse Who Has Been in Ashe
Before Will Examine Children
Free of Charge

Miss Katherine Livingston, state
nurse, arrived in Jefferson the first
of the week and began her work of
visiting the various schools in the
county in the interest Of helping
raise the standards of health. Miss
Livingston was in the county two
years ago and visited each school and
examined each child, free of charge.
She works under the State Board
of Health and is glad to advise with
parents and teachers on any health
subjects. This year she is asking that
the teachers get the health cards Of
the students made out two years ago
and have them ready for reference
when she visits the schools. This will
greatly help to speed the work on
and will aid in Judging what help the
previous examination has been. She
expects to work this week in the Lam
sing district.
Miss Livingston is anxious for par
ents, pupils, and teachers to cooper
ate with her as she believes that the
teaching of health habits is one Of
the most essential subjects that can
find place in our present system
of education.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
STATE PATROLMAN TO BE
ON JOB HERE PERMANENTLY
Application Blanks for Car Drivers
Licenses Available at Court
house Offices

State Patrolman Thomas, who will
be permanently located in this coun-
ty, was in Jefferson the first of the
week distributing application blanks
for drivers licenses. Blanks may be
obtained in the office of the sheriff
and the office of the clerk of the
court in Jefferson and at H. c. Tuck
er's office and the Ford and Chevro-
let offices in this city.
According to law passed in the
last General Assembly, all persons
driving cars after Nov. 1, must pay
one dollar for a drivers license, and
iR the case of chauffeurs, the cost will
se two dollars. To get these licenses,
one must also stand an examination.
Before the first of November, how
ever, applications are free and IL
censes may be had fee on the pay
ment of Notary Public fees.
All persons applying for licenses
who are between the ages of Is and
18 must have their parent Or guardi-
an sign with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas expect to
move to the county at an early date.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
Crazy Water Crystal
Musicians lUiLL Be in
Jefferson on Monday
Place of Performance Changed from
w. ]. Gym to Courthouse
for Bigger Crowd

The Crazy Cut-ups, who will be in
the county Monday evening at eight
o'clock will perform at the courthouse
instead of the gymnasium in West
Jefferson as previously announced
The seating arrangements in the
gymnasium have been taken out on
account of athletic activities and the
prospects for a large crowd makes
the management feel that it is best
to make the change.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the program that is something
distinctly new in the way of musical
entertainment. This is the first time
that such a performance has been
available for the lovers Of good old
time music, and the price has been
kept within reason in order to allow
everybody to come who wishes to.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
B. H. Duncan Elected
to Head Ashe County
School Masters Club
Next County wide Teachers Meeting
Announced to Meet on Sat-.
September 28th

Prof. B. III. Duncan, of Riverview
High School, was elected president of
the Ashe County School Masters Club
at meeting held in the office of the
Board Of Education in Jefferson Sat
urday night. Prof. Paul Miller, OF
Nathans Creek, was elected vice.
president, and Prof. James A. STAN
ley, of Fleetwood High School, was
named secretary and treasurer.
The date for the next countrywide
teaches meeting was set for Satur-
day, Sept. %, and the subject that
will be discussed will be The Value
of Good Citizenship.
Among other things taken up al
the Saturday night meeting in jeff
erson were school projects, additional
teachers, and transportation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
Funeral for Charlotte
Editor Is Attended by
Notables of Carolina
Death of Col. Wade Harris Removes
One of Northwest N. Cardinals
Ardent Boosters

Hundreds of persons from many
sections of the two Carohnas, repre-
sentative of almost all walks of life,
bade a sorowful farewell to Col. Wade
H. Harris, venerable editor of The
Charlotte Observer, at simple fun
eral service yesterday afternoon at
First Presbyterian church in Char
lotte.
Colonel Harris died early Saturday
morning at his home at 518 North
Church street, after an illness that
had extended over the last year.
The congregation was one of the
largest ever to assemble for funeral
in ChasIotte. Scores of beautiful
floral designs bore fragrant testi-
mony of the love and esteem in which
Colonel Harris was held throughout
the Carolinas and elsewhere.
Burial was in the family plot in
Elmwood cemetery. Associates Of
Colonel Harris on The Observer serv-
ed as active pallbeaers, and score Of
his intimate fiends, many of whom
are high-ranking officials in the
State were honorary pallbearers.
Colonel Harris was n yeas Of age.
He had been connected with The OBJ
sever company for so years and had
been it's editor-in-chief since 1912.
For half century he had been active
in promoting the development of the
Carolinas, and was very influential
in the political, industrial and civic
life of this section.
Col. Harris was great lover of the
mountains of North Carolina and his
death removes one of the most ardent
boosters this section has ever had in
the newspaper Fraternity. It was as q
token of appreciation for his interest
in these mountains that the bridge
On the North Wilkesboro-Boone high
way was named the Wade Harris
Bridge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
WADE HARRIS BRIDGE
DRAPED IN MOURNING

North Wilkesboro, Sept. 15.-The
towering Wade Harris bridge, whose
gaceful arch of concrete and steel
spans great mountain gorge mid
way between the Wilkesboros and
Boone, was draped in black today as
q token of the mourning of the people
of the Blue Ridge country over the
death of Col. Wade H. Harris.
The city of North Wilkesboro dele
gated ]. Gordon Hackett and D. F.
Lane, intimate friends of the veteran
editor of The Charlotte Observer, to
visit the bridge and drape it in
mourning crepe.
The bridge was named in honor of
Colonel Harris by the State Highway
department when it was built about
five years ago in recognition of the
great service the editor had been in
working for good roads in the State
and for the development of Western
North Carolina as tourist paradise.
It is the second highest highway
bridge in the State.
People of this city and through
Wilkes county today expressed sor-
row at the death of the Charlotte edi-
tor, who often visited this section and
Rad many personal friends here.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
ASHE NOT INCLUDED IN ANY
APPROVED PROJECTS TO DATE
Allegheny, Wilkes, Watauga, and
Yadkin Get Projects Approved
from this District

Ashe county has not been included,
to date, in any approved WPA pro-
jects with the exception of the one to
eradicate gooseberries which is now
being carried on in the Pine Swamp
section. This week, Allegheny county
had a school ground project approved
for the Sparta High School and Wa
tauga received approval for a street
in Boone. Wilkes and Yadkin had
road projects approved.
Work in the mattress factory in
Jefferson will be resumed this week.
jefferson citizens, who have been
informed that water rents are to Sc
advanced to two dollars and a half
for private residences anu to three
dollars and a half for places of bust
ness, ner month, are interested in get
ting project made out to put in a
town water system. The chief prohibi-
tive snag to such project is that
certain amount Of money must be
raised locally and there is a law in
the county against any municipality
borrowing funds.
A deadline date for sending in
projects had been set but recent
news flash from Washington says
that this date will not be strictly
adhered to.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
E. A. Mcneil Elected
Chairman of Fair Tax
Organization In Ashe
Ashe County Unit Organized at Meet
ing Held Here Thursday Night
in Local Legion Hall
FOR MCDONALD FOR GOVERNOR

An Ashe county unit of the North
Carolina Fair Tax Association was
organized at an enthusiastic meeting
of leading merchants and business
men from various sections of the
county held in the American Legion
Hall here last Thursday night. E. A.
Mcneil, of Jefferson, one of the
county's best-known business Nmen,
was elected chairman of the unit; j.
w. Gamble, prominent hardware
dealer of West Jefferson, was named
vice chairman, and L. L. Scott, civic
leader of the county, secretary and
treasurer.
E. A. Ray and E. E. Jones, of West
jefferson; C. r. Latham, of Warrens-
vile, and C. E. WEIGH, of Lansing,
were named a special committee to
carry the Fair Tax Associations
campaign into every section of the
county. A permanent executive COM
mittee is to be named later. Organi-
zation of the local unit followed an
address by State Secretary Paul
Leonard, of Statesville, and talks by
C. w. Teal and Clyde Greene, Of
Boone, president and secretary, re-
specially, of the Watauga county
unit of the Fair Tax Association.
More than a dozen local citizens
made brief talks. All the speakers
condemned the sales tax and there
was plenty of commentator for Ashe
county's outstanding leader, Judge
Tam C. Bowie; for DR.. Ralph Melon
aid, Of Winston-Salem; DR.. John Bur-
rus, of High Point, and others who
led the fight against the sales tax in
the General Assembly. The large ma
jority Of the speakers appeared to
favor DIR. Mcdonald for Governor, and
the meeting came near actually going
on record as endorsing his candidacy.