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Evening star., 1935-12-22
Davis. Jr.. Signed.

OWEN DAVIS, ,JR., one of Broad
~ ways most able and popular
young leading men, has been signed
to a term contract by R-K-O Radio
Pictures. Davis, the son of the pro-
life playwright, has been busy in the
theater since his graduation from the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
in 1926. For five seasons he has been
juvenile leading man in the famous
Lakewood Theater Summer company
at Skowhegan, Me. Among his more
recent Broadway engagements have
been in Spring Freshet." "The Shat
tered Lamp" Times Have Changed"
and "Esensong."
Evening star., 1935-12-22
North Randle Highlands
To Get Two Portables.

GANTA CLAUS, impersonated
- by the Board Of Education, is
going to reward the baby citi-
zens' association with two port
able school buildings. The board
at its last meeting managed to look
through the red" haze which has
been haunting it recently and
transact some constructive school
business. Among these items was
the provision for the schoollesS
North Randle Highlands COM
munity.
This energetic association came
into existence chiefly because of
its school need, as has been here
tofore explained in this column. A
very effective campaign was Or
ganized along well-pIanned lines.
Their problem was graphically
and very definitely presented to
the Board Of Education. The chill
dren Of school age had no nearby
school. There was no site nor
money to buy one, but there was
United States land, conveniently
located, lying idle. Now permis-
sion has been obtained from the
National Park Service for the use
Of six lots at Thirty fourth and E
streets southeast for a maximum
Of two years. On these lots the
two portable buildings are to be
erected.
The members of the association
are much encouraged at their sue
cess in getting this "stop-gap."
They are now planning to go right
after permanent school accommo-
dations through obtaining appro-
priation for a site and the erec-
ton of a building. They promise
not to let up until they succeed,
and they intend to use the same
thoroughness as in the successful
campaign for the immediate relief.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
ROYAL ARCANUM

Grand Regent James C. Dulin Wis
tied Oriental Council last Tuesday
evening. Regent Roger L. King pre-
sided.
District of Columbia Council, Loyal
Ladies of the Royal Arcanum, met
Wednesday evening under the leader
ship of Regent Mrs. Dorothy r. Hess.
There was Christmas party, Christ
mas bags for the poor and needy of
the city were prepared, to be given
out on Christmas through the Central
Union Mission and other charitable
institutions. Grand Regent Dulin and
Past SNpreme Regent Mrs. Maud S.
Childs were GpeakeSs.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Hodges to Make Trip.

Curtis Hodges, director Of the
Greater National Capital Committee
of the Washington Board of Trade,
will leave Christmas day for New
York to attend the annual conven-
tion of the Society Of American Bac-
teriologists meeting from December
26 to %.
He will accompany the Washington
delegation and with them extend an
invitation to the scientists 70 meet in
the National Capital in 1887.
In addition to the invitation from
the Washington Society Of Bacteriolo-
gists and the Greater National Capital
Committee, Hodges also will present
the invitations of the Board of Trade
and the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association. Attendance usually
ranges from 500 to 1000 delegates.
Included in the delegation from
Washington will be DR.. L, H. James
of the Bureau Of Chemistry and Soils
Of the Department Of Agriculture,
president of the group. and DR.. Leland
w. Page of the George Washington
University School Of Medicine, sec
retary.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

H r s 7 M AS shopping,
Christmas neighborhood
celebrations and the gen.
- eral seasonal spirit has,
to an increasing degree, slowed
down civic activity. Last week
was notable for the Board of
Trades District night" the meet
ing of the Interfederation Confer
ence and the opening of the tran
sit hearing by the Public Utilities
Commission.
Sporadic discussion was noted
of the Districts threatened in
creased taxation, the Allen referen-
dunn proposal and the Guyer pro-
hibition bill. The Board Of Educa-
ton Special Committee to examine
and report on certain text books,
to which objection had been made,
reported and the report was held
over for action until the meeting
January 2, 1886.
Some members Of the Districts
all-powerful and exclusive legisla-
ture, in which the District is not
represented, have returned to
Washington for the approaching
session of Congress with plans for
new legislation. Representative
Mary T. Norton, chairman Of the
House District Committee, an
nounces she is preparing bill for
the reorganization of the Juvenile
Court procedure. This is matter
in which the Voteless District of
Columbia League of Women Voters
is much interested. A special
committee of that league, under
the Craftsmanship of Mrs. Jesse
c. Adkins, has gone extensively
into the matter and it is pre-
sumed that Mrs. Norton's bill will
reflect the desires of that COM
mittee.
Mrs. Norton also has announced
her intention to introduce a bill
to legalize race track gambling
in the District. The Black bill in
the Seventy-third Congress to sc-
comphsh the same purpose was de-
feated through the efforts of the
Federation of Citizens Associations
and some of the religious and re-
form forces. The same forces are
lining up to make a determined
fight against the new proposal.
Representative Jennings Ran
dolph promises to renew his efforts
to enact crime deterrent legislation,
the need for which was developed
during the extended investigation
by the House subcommittee which
he headed. Well up on his list is
the anti-gambling bill which was
passed by the Senate last session
but has since been held in a House
subcommittee. A number of i'm
portant measures are included in
the Randolph program and for all
of them there is a very general
civic organization support.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Mrs. Muchmore on Leave.

Mrs. Sallie P. Muchmore, merchan-
disc manager of the Better Business
Bureau of Washington, has been
granted a leave of absence until after
the first of the year for a complete
rest. Mrs. Muchmore has recently
been in ill-health and physicians COM
PEELED her to give up her work, at
least, for the present.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Trade Meetings OFF.

Because Of the holidays, all Board
Of Trade committees have called of
their meetings for the remainder Of
the year. The coming week will be
the first since early Autumn in which
no trade board group convenes for a
study Of pending civic problems.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Africa Playing Bennington.

Bennington is developing into o
craze in South Africa. Not long ago
the game was unknown.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
REBEKAH LODGES

Martha Washington Lodge had ofh-
cial visitation of Mrs Ora L. Pfrim-
mer, president of the Rebekah As
sembly, Thursday evening She was
attended by all other assembly officers
and by Grand Master James H. Solt
of the I. o. o. F. Capt. William F.
Becker, with Canton Washington in a
body, and Ladies' Auxiliary.
A program was presented in form
of a playlet depicting a few Of the
earlier scenes of Mrs. Pfrimmer's life,
told by Mrs. Rena Norton. instructress
of lodge, and enacted by officers and
members.
Santa Claus presented gifts. Spe-
cial music by Mrs. Laura Wallace and
Miss Mae Harding was a special fea-
ture.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

Local Appointments Under
Our Own Civil Service Board.
A NEW method of filling po-
sitions under the District gov"
ernment is proposed in resolutions
reqently adopted by the Fedora A
tic. Of Civic Associations Of the
Evening star., 1935-12-22

Esther Rebekah Lodge will hold
divine services at I. o. o. F. Home
today at pm.> Rev. Clarence H.
Corkran will speak.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

HRISTMAS shopping,
4 Christmas neighborhood
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LIQUOR DEALERS GET HEAVY
SENTENCES IN WILKES COURT
One Man Draws S Years and $1,000
Fine; Judge Hayes Closes
First Week Sat.

North Wilkesboro, May 25.-Prison
sentences totaling SO years fines ag-
gregating $1,000 were imposed by
Judge Johnson J. Hayes in the first
week of Federal court in Wilkesboro,
which recessed this morning until
Monday.
Trial of a conspiracy cases in
which "a are indicted on charge of an
illegal combine to violate the revenue
laws is to be called Wednesday. 1t
was learned from Deputy Marshal w.
A. Jones today that % of the "a NAM
ed in the indictment had been appre-
hended and placed under bond.
The indictment charges that Anvil
Pruitt, reputed to be the head of the
conspiracy, sold as much as 1000
gallons of liquor through Jarvis Par
sons of Winston-Salem. John and
Lena Pitt Christian and Maude Will
liams Gentry, also of Winston-Salem,
have been apprehended.
Evidence will be produced, it was
learned unofficially today, to show
that Pruit, who has already been SEN
fenced to five years in Atlanta and
fined $4,000, handled 1000, 900 pounds
of sugar as head of the gang last
year.
Other cases in which judgment was
handed down follow:
Travis Triplett, fined 500 and SEN
fenced to one year and a day; Spen-
GER Bishop, $100 and year and a
day; Bonom Triplett, 5000 and IS
months; Charlie Pruitt, $500 and IS
months; David Gregory, 500 and a
year and day; H. Shobe Minton and
Albert Minton-Shobe placed under
temporary probation until next term
of court; Albert 500 and two years !;
Forrest Hiatt, year and day; Ray
Weatherman and Thurmond Myers,
$100 and year and day; Levi Be-
shears, $500 and Is months; Fred
Love, 500 and six months; Branson
Roberts, 800 and Is months; Felix
Lunsford, 500 and a year and day;
Dennis Lunsford, 500 and Is
months; Herbert Lunsford, 500 and
a year and day; Rufus Cheek, tenn
porary probation until next term of
court; Frank Cheek, 500 and year
and a day; Sturgeon Cheek, placed
on probation for three years.
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administration, said that the Presi-
dent on numerous occasions had in
formed him and Senator Robinson
that the Harrison compromise, which
was rejected by the legislative rep
resentatives of the veterans, would
have been signed had it received the
approval of Congress.
In fact, it is suspected that bad
judgment has been shown in handling
the bonus bill, and that the bonus
advocates grievously erred in permit
ting their proposal to get caught in a
number of congressional cross-cur-
rents such as the demands for cur
rency expansion, the paramount con.
sideration of members of the senate
like Borah and Thomas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
IRA T. JOHNSTON HEARS
PRESIDENT DELIVER VETO
FROM FLOOR OF HOUSE

Hon. Ira T. Johnston, of this coun-
ty, had the privilege Of seeing and
hearing history in the making last
Wednesday a week ago when he was
on the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatives when President Roosevelt
delivered his veto message to Con-
gress.
Mr.. Johnston was accorded this
honor through the courtesy of Con-
gresham R. L. Doughton while even
standing space in the galleries was
impossible to get.
Mrs. Hiram Johnson, wife of the
Republican senator from California,
was among those who had to sit on
the steps in the members gallery,
which is rarely filled. Ethel Barry
more, the actress, was seated not far
away.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
PARENTS READY TO PAY
100000 FOR SONS RETURN

Somewhere outside the law, the
kidnapers of little George Weyer-
haeuser, of Tacoma, Wash, were be-
lieved laying final plans the first of
the week to attempt collection of
100000 ransom for their curly-hair-
ed captive-and deliver him TO his
parents.
1t was indicated the parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, awaited
only directions from the abductors to
begin negotiating over the ransom
demand
Wednesday was the "deadline" set
by the kidnapers for payment of the
100000.
Fearing for the 9-year-old victims
life, if the ransom is not paid on
time, the lumber-wealthy parents in
serted an ad in the personal column
of Seattle newspaper announcing
they were ready to deal.
whether the new ad meant the
family had raised the demanded price
or whether it wished to open negoti-
atoms for lesser amount could not
be learned.
Silence and secrecy surrounded
movements in the large home over
looking Commencement bay.
Friends declared during yesterday
it would be impossible for the dis
tracted parents to raise 5000, 900
the sum paid in the Bremen and
Urschel kidnapping cases.
The Weyerhaeuser family is reput-
eddy vastly wealthy, with timber
holdings throughout the Northwest.
Friends said however, they had suf-
fered heavy losses in recent years.
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ELECTRIFICATION REPORT
PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR
Chairman Says Zone of Greatest
Movements in History of Rural
North Carolina"

That rural identification promises
to be zone Of the greatest forward
movements in all the history of rural
North Carolina" is the confident pre-
diction of DR.. Clarence Poe, Chair
man of the North Carolina Rural
Identification Committee, in present
ing his formal report to Governor
Ehringhaus Wednesday, May 20.
Without going into details regard
ing the survey conducted by the COM
mittee in the effort to find (1) what
proportion of rural pepole are inter-
ested in electrification and (2) would
take advantage of it if reasonable
rates are offered, it was found.
AS result of announcements in
newspapers and the agricultural
press community leaders in about
seven hundred North Carolina neigh
borhoods made preliminary rural
identification surveys and asked the
committee to make them in more
complete and thorough-going fashion,
and more than twenty-five thousand
heads of families, representing
ninety-seven thousand people, were
interviewed.
For Ashe county, DR.. Poe's report
summarizes the results of surveys so
far made as follows, together with
state averages of totals in parallel
columns.
Number of lines surveyed: Ashe l.
State SIT.
Length of all surveyed lines in
miles: Ashe GIL, State 4,486.57.
Total number of interested pros
poets: Ashe 33, State 22,779.
Interested prospects per mile: Ashe
4.92, State sos.
Estimated connected load in XIV
Ashe 900, State 79,374.O.
Estimated cost of all lines survey.
ed: $11,O72, State $7,477,273.
Estimated connected load in XIV
per mile: Ashe 14.70, State 1910.
Estimated line cost in dollars pei
mile: Ashe $3.50, State $1,666.
Estimated line cost in dollars per
prospect: Ashe 1884, State 1923.
Estimated annual revenue: Ashe
1864, State $742,454.
Estimated annual revenue per mile
Ashe $252, State $165.
Estimated annual revenue pei
prospect: Ashe $51, State $32.
Estimated annual consumption ir
XVIII: Ashe 14,904, State 10,64S,534
Estimated annual consumption, K
VIII per mile: Ashe 2221, State 1878
, Estimated annual consumption, K
VIII per prospect: Ashe 452, State
ACT.
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reach into community and tell a
poultry dealer whose business only
indirectly affects interstate COM
merce how much he shall pay his
help and what the latter's working
hours shall be.
The verdict of the court threw the
administration and congress into a
state of confusion and bewilderment.
So sweeping was it, that it left
them cropping for means of creating
new MIRA on the wreckage of the
old, and posed to them the question
of whether that could be done with
out more legal dispute.
In addition to the all-important
question of what now shall become of
MIRA, the decision at once set New
Dealers to bordering the constitution
atty of other key measures-the
codes of AAA, federal control of the
liquor industry, and the Wagner
labor disputes act.
Labor was disappointed, too. Viii
liam Green, president of the A. F. Of
L., FASTENED back to Washington
from New York and Francis J. Cor
man, vice president of the United
| Textile Workers, warned that depart
ures from the textile codes wage ant
hour provisions would be followed b!
immediate strikes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
SEES FARM VALUE ON INCREASE
Federal Bureaus Report Agricultural
Real Estate Price on Upturn;
Farm Income Increased

Washington, May ga general
upturn in farm real estate values for
the first~time in "more than" de-
cade Z I'd an easing in the farm credit
situation were reported simultaneous
ly todaygby the agriculture depart
ment and the Farm Credit admins
tration.
Entering it's third year tomorrow,
the credit administration said it had
lent $3,OOO,OO0,OOO in the last two
years-averaging 100000 day
and said 80 per cent of the money
advanced had been used by farmers
to pay creditors, resulting in an in
terest saving of $35, 100000 annually.
A three-point rise in the index of
farm real estate values in the year
ending March /, or 70 compared with
rs in 1884, and the depression low"
of 70 in 1888, was announced by the
agriculture department. The period
1912-14 represents 100.
Values were reported to have in
creased last year in 80 States, to have
remained virtually unchanged in ID,
and to have dropped slightly in five.
The largest gains were reported in
cotton states. The decreases in the
drought area.
Attributing the general improve
ment" to Increased farm income,' y
the bureau said farm real estate
values also were aided by relieved
credit conditions" and IAN expansion
of the farm mortgage credit facilities
of the Farm Credit administration"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET
JUNE z WITH MRS. KELLY

The regular meeting of the Wom-
ans Club has been unavoidable post
pened to Friday, June Z, at which
time Mrs. J. Clyde Kelley will be
hostess at her home on the hill over
looking the town.
Mrs. j. M. Prevette will conclude
the programs on art at this meeting
and part of the time will be given
over to short memorial service in
memory of the first president of the
club, Mrs. James Allen.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
WORK TO BE STARTED ON
NC. SIDE OF SCENIC ROAD

Capus M. Wynick, chairman of
the state highway and public
works commission, has announce
ed that contracts for IL miles of
the National Scenic Parkway
from the Virginia state line to
North Carolina route 26 will be
let on June Is.
The legislature recently gave
the highway commission power
of eminent domain in securing
necessary rights-Of-way for the
route, the chairman said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
PARKER TIE COMPANY
INFORMS PUBLIC OF
FEDERAL HOUSING
Local Building and Supply Company
Can Handle q Limited Amount
of Work at Present

The Parker Tie Company is work
ing to get new construction loans
handled according to the rules Of the
federal housing administration and
so far, they are able to arrange to
finance repair work on old buildings.
They hope to accomplish financing
for new building soon.
Mrs. Carl GRAPHICAL will make out
applications for those wishing to ap-
ply for loans. Other information
about loans may be gained from the
office of the Parker Tie Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
COURT DECLARES
Mr.. A. UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Farmers All Over Land Affected
Business and Administration
in Doubt of Future Course

Business throughout the nation and
debt-burdened farmers were blinking
with an effort to think of the future
as the Supreme Court held that the
NRA with it's vast code structure and
the legislation enabling farmers to
obtain a partial five-year moratorium
on their mortgage debts is unconsti-
tutional and illegal.
According to Associate Justice
Louis Brandeis, who spoke of the de-
cision on the farm-debt act, "The
fifth amendment commands that,
however great the nations need, pri.
vate property shall not be thus taken
even for a wholly public use without
just compensation"
This ultimatum pitched out of the
court the 11-month-old moratorium
act-a measure designed to allow
farmers to retain their lands for five
years at a reasonable rental, despite
efforts of mortgage holders to fore
close, and at the end of the five years
to permit the farmers to fulfill the
mortgage by paying the appraised
value of the property regardles of the
amount stipulated in the mortgage.
Reason for Declaring Illegality
Justice Brandeis, in delivering the
opinion for the court, said tie la,s
had deprived the mortgage holder of
five definite rights of property which
he would have enjoyed under the
Kentucky laws.
He named these as:
"The right to retain the lien until
the indebted ness thereby secured is
paid.
"The right to realize upon the Sc
curity by a judicial public sale.
"The right to determine when such
sale shall be held, subject only to the
discretion of the court.
"The right to protect it's interest
in the property by bidding at such
sale whenever held, and thus to as
sure having the mortgaged property
devoted primarily to the satisfaction
of the debt, either through receipt of
the proceeds of fair competitive
sale or by taking the property itself.
"The right to control meanwhile
the property during the period of de-
fault, subject only to the discretion of
the court, and to have the rents and
profits collected by receiver for the
satisfaction of the debt"
President Roosevelt in signing the
bill into law last June said it was in
some respects loosely worded and
would require amendment, but added:
Nevertheless the reasons for sign
ing it far outweigh the arguments on
the other side.
The administration, in the fact of
the ruling which reduces the MIRA to
a scrap of paper, plead for the con-
tinuance of code observance as a
necessity to the escape from a return
to unbridled competitive conditions
which were rampant prior to it's en-
actment.
On two specific accounts the court
found the sections of the national in
dustrial recovery act unconstitutional
It held that the congress had illegally
delegated it's own powers to the Pres
ident in authorizing him to approve
and promulgate the codes.
1t ruled that congress may me-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
WE SHALL NOT SLEEP
(By Lieut.. Col. DR..
John McCrae)

lin observance of May both
which is a national day for re-
membering our war dead, we
quote one of the best known
poems that comes to us from
the World War;.
"In Flanders fields the peoples
blow
Between the crosses, row on
row,
That mark our place; and in
the sky
The larks still bravely sing
ing fly,
Scarce heard amidst the guns
below.
We are the dead;
Short days ago we lived,
Felt Dawn,
Saw suset glow,
Loved and were loved,
And now we lie
In Flanders fileds.
Take up our quarrel with the
foe;
To you from falling hands
We throw the torch
Be yours to hold it high;
If We break faith
With us who die,
We shall not sleep, though pop
pies grow
In Flanders fields"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30
E. E. JONES AND DAUGHTER
OPEN STORE NEXT TO THE
SKYLAND POST OFFICE

E. E. Jones and daughter, Inez
formerly connected with the T. E.
Parker Store of this city, have opened
store of general merchandise and
notions in the building recently occu-
pied by w. M. Poe. They invite the
public to visit them and examine
their unusual values.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30

The edwards Service Station, un-
der the management of C. E. Miller,
is installing quick lunch stand for
the convenience of summer tourists
and any others who wish to avail
themselves of the opportunity to get
a reasonably priced meal.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-30

Mr.. M. G. Marsh, Obids merchant,
was a visitor here this week.