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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-07-30
North { Carolina is
Leading Nationsin
Navy Construction
Ninety-Five Ships Now Under
Construction and More
to Be Built

Speeding to build its navy to the
full strength authorized by existing
navy pacts before they expire De-
cember 81, the United States now is
leading the world in naval construc-
ton.
The naval intelligence division to-
day published figures showing that
the United States now has 95 fight
ing ship of 287,915 tons under con-
struction or appropriated for, and is
entitled to convert 44,510 more tons
into warcraft before the years end.
The navy reported on July / that
70 ships of 265,515 tons now are act
ually under construction, many near
ing completion. All ships provided
for in the building program are
scheduled to be on the high seas by
1912.
Ships under construction and
planned include three aircraft car
riers, two heavy cruisers, nine light
cruisers, So destroyers and Is sub
marines. The navy now has 324 ships
of 1,080,715 tons.
The British admiralty has an
nounced that, as quickly as the pres
ent navy pacts end, they propose to
lay down two new battleships, with
construction expected to begin early
in 1887.
Admiral William H. Standley, act
ing secretary of the navy, has let it
be known that when Great Britain
begins construction, the United
States plans to start building two of
its own to replace average fighting
craft and match the British.
Great Britain has 81 ship of 1885,
096 tons under construction or ap-
propriated for. The new British war
craft include two aircrafte carriers,
Is light cruisers, 35 destroyers, and
II submarines. The British now have
3O7 ships of 1,224,329 tons.
Japan is adding to its navy of 213
fighting craft of 722,797 tons by
building "a new ships of 93,907 tons,
including two aircraft carriers, four
light cruisers, 20 destroyers, and
eight submarines.
The French navy of 178 ships of
$50, 452 tons is being increased by the
construction of 80 new vessels of
194,O98 tons, including four capital
ship, five light cruisers, 20 destroyers
and 10 submarines France under the
present treaty also is permitted to
lay down $4,000 more tons of capital
ships and 1884 tons of aircraft car
riers by the end of the year.
Italy, with 191 ships of 4O3,865
tons, is building 38 warships of 49,,
344 tons, including two capital ships,
two light cruisers, 18 destroyers, and
Is submarines. The Italians also
have the right to convert 10000
more tons into capital ships, and
$4,000 tons into aircraft carriers be-
fore January l.
The Germans are now engaged IN
doubling their present naval strength
by constructing 80 warships of $780,
$50 tons, including three capital
ships, three heavy cruisers, 16 de-
stroyers, and II submarines.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-07-30

Candidate Landon was given a
present of barred rock fryers re-
Gently. Said the donor: "Their feet
are as big as an Oklahoma tool
dresser and their legs as yellow as
Kansas pumpkin. These are signs
of good meat chickens"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-07-30
Murderer Tries to
Commit Suicide

Convinced Robert James, of Los
Angeles, Calf, intended to cheat the
gallows with a razor blade found in
his pocket, officers carefully guarded
the green-eyed barber, convicted of
drowning his seventh wife after tor
turing her with a rattlesnake.
eve took it from him, Tailor Glenn
Peoples said in answer to the red
haired James insistence that he
voluntarily gave up the blade.
James, whose sentence is death by
hanging, was quoted by bailiffs dur
ing the bizarre murder trial which
ended in conviction last night as say
ing:
eff had good straight razor,
would save the State lot of trou-
ble."
Peoples asserted that guards found
the blade in James denim Jail jacket
after his hints of suicide had
prompted a vain search of the bed
clothing in his cell.
The State charged during James
trial that he killed his fifth as well
as seventh wife for insurance col
lecting motives and yesterday his
confessed associate, Charles Hope,
said James attempted to kill him
after the bathtub drowning of Mary
James, wife No. z.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
PROPOSED SITE
FOR WEST SIDE
PARK INSPECTED
Board Members Consult
Civic Leaders; Willing to
Spend $4,000.

Park Board members inspected a
150-acre tract on Big and Little
Eagle Creeks between w. Washing
ton and w. Michigan-sts today and
made numerous inquiries from West
Side civic leaders about purchase
prices.
This Is proposed site for a new
West Side park, which the board
hopes to add to this city's $4,000
900 system this summer.
The Rev. c. G.. Baker, Hawthorne
Community House superintendent,
told commissioners the groups that
had differed on the location last
summer now had agreed on this
tract. He added it probably could
be purchased for a reasonable
price.
I'VE have $35, 900 available in the
budget for the purchase" Jacket w.
Joseph president, said. This board
does not intend to go above that fig
ure and :, lie bonds for the project.
1t has been our policy in recent
months to put in Improvements only
IN those sections where property
owners are willing to make dona-
lions to the city. This ground has
no great value, and we intend to get
large tract for our money"
Mayor Kern has urged the board
to expedite action on this proposed
park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19

chance of his escaping the death
sentence disappeared this week
when the Federal Circuit Court of
Appeals upheld the decision of Judge
Robert c. Baltzell of the Federal
Court here.
Judge Baltzell today called at
tention to the fact that local at
torneys who prepared Barrett's ap-
peal after E. E. Rice, Hamilton. O..
counsel, withdrew, served without
fee, and also paid for preparing
briefs and trips to Chicago. They
were Will H. Thompson, Fred C.
Cause, Arthur R. Gilliom and Al
bert Rabb, who were appointed bv
the judge when Barrett declared
himself pauper.
since Congress has made no pro-
vision for the paying of attorneys
in such cases they could receive
no remuneration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
GALLONS WILL
BE BROUGHT TO
JAIL ON SUNDAY
Barrett Execution to Be
Directed by George Phil
Hanna, Illinois Farmer.

Gallows on which George w. Bar
rett is to be hanged here for the
murder of a Oman are to be
brought to the county Jail Sunday,
where the execution is to take place
some time between midnight and
dawn on Tuesday. The gallows are
now in Jackson County, Illinois,
where they have been kept since the
last hanging in that state several
years ago.
George Phil Hanna, lam owner
of near Epworth, ILL.,, rated as an
expert in hanging. is 10 direct the
execution. Mr.. Hanna yesterday
made final plans for the hanging
with United States Marshal Charles
w. James, and Julius j. Wichser,
chief deputy, who visited him at his
home.
Barrett is confined to his cell in
the Jail and apparently has become
resigned to his fate. Practically all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
How Cardui Helps
Month After Month

Where there have been severe
pains every month, from functional
disturbances resulting from poor
nourishment, Cardui has helped
thousands of women to obtain re-
lief. Their confidence in Cardui
makes them eager to recommend it
to other women needing such a
medicine.
II suffered a great deal with
pain in my side and a weakness in
my back" writes Mrs. Walter Page,
of Evansville, Ind. This made me
so nervous I couldn't rest. Each
month I would suffer all over and
would have to go to bed. One of
my neighbors told me how Cardui
helped her, so I took it and it
helped me. After taking eight bot
ties, I was much better. I surely
can recommend Cardui for weak
ness and pain"
Of course, if Cardui does not ben
eft YOU, consult a phySician.-Adv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
FAMILY LIFE is TOPIC
OF SCHOOL MEETING

Ohio State Professor Addresses st.
Mary's Conference.
By United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 49,
An address by DR.. j. E. Hagerty,
Ohio State University, featured
opening sessions today of the two
day Catholic conference on family
life at st. Mary's College.
Prominent teachers and educators
throughout the nation are expected
to attend the meeting, sponsored by
the National Council of Catholic
Welfare, Washington, D. C.
DIR. John O'Brien, chaplain of the
Newman Foundation at the Univer-
sity Of Illinois, is to address the
delegates at closing session tomor-
row. His subject is to be "prepara-
ton for marriage"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19

ings and Loan Association: Edward
w. Springer, Atkins Savings and
Loan Association; Elmor F. c.
Weber, Peoples Mutual Savings and
Loan Association, and Charles r.
York, Fletcher Avenue Savings and
Loan Association.
Directors were elected last night
at the fifth annual meeting of the
association, at which Mr.. Cannon
told the members that some of the
most important steps taken in the
solution OF problems brought on by
the depression were made through
interchanging of ideas among indi-
yidual firms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
900 SCOUT EXECUTIVES
CONCLUDE CONFERENCE
Meeting Closes After Eight Days at
French Lick.

Times Special
FRENCH LICK, Ind, March 49,
Nine hundred Boy Scout executives
today were en- route to their homes
after concluding a national con-
ference in which they heard their
organization described as "a mill
tant force working for social justice
without taking part in partisan pol
itics."
The conference adjourned yester-
day after an eight-day training pc
Rod. DR.. James E. West, national
Scout leader, praised the organiza-
tons leaders and their influence
in holding character.
John s.. Wilson, camp chief of
Gilwell Park, England's training
center for Scouts, was cheered when
he eulogized DR.. West for mag
nificent leadership" of American
Scouting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
MARCH 10, 1886
examiners. announced

the board Of examiners. announced
today.
Positions open are for associate
physicist, junior calculating machine
operator, and junior meteorologist.
Details may be obtained from Mr..
Boatman, AL Federal Building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
P0STMASTERS TO MEET
SUNDAY AT NEWCASTLE

Officials From Nine Counties to
Affiliate With National Group.
Times Special
NEWCASTLE, Ind, March 49,
Postmasters from nine counties
comprising the Tenth Congressional
District are to meet here Sunday
to organize an affiliate of the state
and national postmasters' associa-
tons.
M. G.. Goodwin, Newcastle post
master who announced the meet
ing, sale the business session will
follow a dinner at l in the Plaza
Hotel. Counties included in the
district are Randolph, Wayne, Rush,
Henry, Delaware, Decatur, Union,
Fayette and Shelby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
BUILDING AND LOAN
DIRECTORS ELECTED
Seven Posts Are Filled by
County Group.

The Marion County League of
Building and Loan Associations to-
DAY had new board composed of
seven directors.
Members of the board are Fermor
5. Cannon, president of the or
ganlzation, who also is president OF
the Railroad Mems Building and
Savings Association; Earl P. Ensley
Union National Savings and Loan
ASSOCIATION; Otto Janus, Indiana
Savings and Investment Co.
Albert H. Losche, Columbian Saw
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
400 Attain High Rating

LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 10
-Four hundred Purdue University
students attained the rating of the
distinguished student, the schools
highest scholastic honor, during the
1lrst semester, according to an an
nouncement from the office of Pres
ident Edward C. Elliott.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
SKIN BLEMISHES
TREATMENT RELIEVES

You don't wait long for relief
when you use mildly medicated
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Stub
born itching and irritation of pim-
pies, eczema and rashes respond to
its soothing, yet highly effective &C
ton.
Just battle affected parts freely
with the Soap, dry gently, and
anoint with the Ointment. Over a
half century of success. Ointment 25c.
Soap pc, all druggists. Sample FREE
by writing "Cuticura," Dept. B4.
Maiden. Mass ,-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
PURCHASE OF BYRAM
APARTMENT APPROVED
Vogel Realty Co. Buys Property on
Bid of S53,35O.

The Vogel Realty Co. today had
received the approval of Circuit
Court Judge Earl r. Cox to pur-
chase the Byram apartments, 1880 N
Illinois-st. The property has been
in receivership about three years.
The company's bid of $55.350,
made yesterday, was reported to be
the highest of three bids.
A three-story brick building, the
Byram contains 48 efficiency apart
ments. j. Allen Dawson, receiver
announced that the building is en-
tirely rented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
FEDERAL JOBS ARE OPEN
Civil Service Secretary Announces
Examinations for Posts.

Three examinations are to be
conducted for civil service positions,
Frank j. Boatman, local secretary OF
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

defense and ruled against the woman
testifying, leaving the government with
only circumstantial evidence to prove
its case.
There we're no accommodations for
the jury in the courthouse and a room
was fixed up for them over a saloon
to which they were retired to consider
the ase and endeavor to arrive at a
verdict. The Q formerly had been
used for gambling tables, and there
was a miniature elevator or dummy
waiter which had been used to con-
vey food and drinks to the gamblers
from the floor below.
Saloon Card Room Jury's Quarters
Some of the jurors Immediately took
advantage of this arrangement. They
could not arrive at an agreement, and
were held there for four days and
nights by Judge Coburn before he
would release them, hopelessly dead
locked.
Most of the four days and nights
were spent playing poker. Foreman of
the jury was Parmelee Billings, son of
Frederick Billings, after whom the city
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

Mrs. Thompson quotes it, as follows:
1T was December now and the snow
was SO deep that the small outfit was
abandoned and Stevens and his guide
set out on improvised snowshoes they
themselves had strung with rawhide.
It was very cold. When they reached
what is known as False Summit, q
place some miles east of the pass, the
Flathead guide declared himself un-
able to proceed and Stevens went on
alone. He modestly attributes to mere
chance the fact that he walked right
into the present Marias pass and con-
t1nued by it far enough west to make
sure the divide was really crossed and
ne was In western drainage.
Then he turned back. At the sum-
NIT he made a bivouac for the night.
The cold had become so extreme there
was no question Of lying down. He
built 2 fire and tramping out q run,
forth all night to keep from freezing
to death. He learned afterward that
at the agency IN the plains the Their
mometer fell almost to 40 degrees
below zero; what 1t was up there on
he ridge Of the continent, hundreds OF
rect higher, Nj. Stevens makes no at
tempt to say"
Abronze statue of John Frank Stew
ems stands IN the pass at the crest Of
High Trails Of Glacier National
Park" Is profusely illustrated with pho
tographtc reproductions and color
plates Of oil paintings. It is one Of the
finest books yet issued from the press
o. b western publishers, The Caxton
FTfnters, Ltd. OF Caldwell, Idaho.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

head to the point where that stream is
joined by Nyack creek, and thinking
this the main stream, followed it.
Nyack comes out of one of the most
precipitous sections of Glacier park.
Mount Stimson, the second highest
mountain in the park, sits in a bend
Of an elbow which 1t forms. On all sides
the mountains rise straight to the sky.
Cut Bank pass at the head of it is ex-
tremely precipitous On both sides. OF
course Tfnkham reported it not prac-
ticable for railroad purposes"
Stevens was not satisfied with the
Tinkham report. When the appropria-
ton given him by congress was ex-
hausted he sent James Doty on a hur-
ried trip north for a final search of
the pass. Doty sighted an opening in
the mountains, the opening Captain
Lewis had seen from his Camp Disap-
pointment. He disagreed with Tink-
hams findings: but time was short;
he had already exceeded the time given
made his report, and Stevens expressed
regret that Doty had not exceeded his
authority and satisfied himself as to
the western exit Of the pass.
Mrs. Thompson comments on the
coincidence that 1t was another Stew
n who discovered the pass. Twenty
seven years after Governor Stevens
DEATH she says, John Frank Stevens,
q civil and railroad engineer in the
employ Of James J. Hill, alone and in
mtdwtnter, made the discovery In 1850"
Grace FIandrau,S account Of this dis
covery, written as q brochure for the
Great Northern railway company, q
now Q collectors Item. =
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02
ALABASTER SEA
NEXT WELLS TALK
CARLSBAD CAvERNS, ANOTHER
NEW MEXICO SCENIC WONDER,
WILL ALSO BE DESCRIBED

Picture a billowing sea of pure white
Enthusiastically wonderland Of its kind
on earth-a dazzling fairyland 80
miles long and 9 miles wide, with min
iature mountains of white crystals 100
feet high. This and other interesting
New Mexico sights will be featured by
Carveth Wells in his Continental Oil
radio broadcast, "Exploring America
with Conoco and Carveth Wells" on
Sunday, Oct. 4.
On a recent 1O,0OO-mile trip through
out the United States, Wells travels
included a visit to Carlsbad Caverns,
so vast that a party of 500 people in
n group may explore them without
the slightest overcrowding." At the end
of the underground journey. Wells re-
lates, electric elevators lift touring
parties to the surface through $50 feet
Of solid rock.
There are other things to see in New
Mexico, too. The famous globe trotter
will discuss the strange superstition of
the Indians of Isleta, and tell why
Roswell is a garden spot On an other
wise treeless plain.
Local listeners who wish to tune in
on Carveth Wells Sunday, Oct. 4, may
do so by dialing at 1870 to noon, KOA
Denver; at 100 to 1870 p. M, KGHL,
Billings; at 100 to 200 p. m. KGIR,
Butte and KFBB, Great Falls; at
800 to $3.50 p. M, WCCO. Twin Cities;
at $50 to TOO p. m, KSL, Salt Lake.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

ment to the court, Strevel objected to
the introduction of testimony or the
ground that the clerk of the court at
Miles City, in making a copy Of the
indictment from the Custer county
records for the use of the court in the
new county Of Yellowstone, had omit
ted the name of the foreman of the
grand jury by which the indictment
was returned, which, under the law
feet.
Defective Paper Saved Prisoner
johnson asked the court for a con-
tinuance so that the defect in the
paper could be corrected.
The court, however, held that the
territory had failed in its prosecution,
upheld the contention of the counsel
for the defense, and inasmuch as the
defendant had once been placed in
jeopardy, dismissed the charge.
Among the attorneys of that day
who rendered service in the district
courts over a wide area were Col. Will
bur F. Sanders and Warren Toole of
Helena, brother of the late Gov. Jo-
seph K. Toole, and Judge o. F. God
dard Of Billings, one-stick octogenar-
ian golfer who is still active in the
practice Of law and whose erect fig
ure makes him conspicuous not only
in the courtrooms of the state, but at
tournaments on Montana links from
the Dakotas to Idaho.
Judge Goddard came into Billings
and opened a law office in 1883. Mis-
fortune logged his footsteps, for one
of the first things that happened after
his arrival at Billings was a fire which
destroyed the building in which he had
rented an office, and which also burned
his entire library, consisting, says the
judge, of one copy of the Montana
codes. Two other times in later years
Judge Goddard's library was burned
when fire razed the frame buildings
which preceded the present brick struc-
lures now forming the business section
of Billings.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

Sanders, Toole and Goddard were
employed as counsel for the defense Of
James Carpenter in 1885, in one Of
the most famous of the murder trials
to occupy Montana courts during the
eighties.
Carpenter was charged with killing a
man named Reed at Musselshell. Reed
the quarrel was over Carpenters al
legged attentions to her. Pomp Dennis,
a cattleman and friend of Carpenters
took an interest in the case, and Sc
lected the lawyers to defend him.
Judge James Coburn of the territorial
supreme court was on the bench. Sam
H. Wilde was prosecuting attorney.
Reeds wife was the only eye witness
to the shooting. When the prosecuting
attorney placed her on the stand, the
defense objected on the ground that
without the husbands consent, and
that as in this case the husband was
dead, his consent could not be obtained.
Wilde countered with the claim that
Reed and the squaw had not been
married according to the laws of Mon
tana, and that therefore the legal re-
lation of husband and wife did not ex-
ist. The defense maintained that the
Reeds had been married according to
Cne CrlDaI cuSUOmS OF the INDIANS, ana
therefore were legally we'd -
Argument upon this point occupied
two or three days, and during a large
part of that time Colonel Sanders read
to the court page after page of Bishop
on Marriage" standard authority upon
the subject.
The court stood it for a time, but
finally objected to Sanders reading any
more.
judge" said Colonel Sanders, lit
has been a long time since I have read
this book and it probably has been
equally as long since you have read it,
and I don't believe it will hurt either
one of us to hear it again." And he
kept on reading.
Finally the court agreed with the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

Grace Stone Coate cut down to narrower
boundaries in 1887, federal authorities
foreSaw such q tranScontinental road,
and embodied in the act an authorize
ton for granting a right of way. Now
the Theodore Roosevelt highway has
followed the railroad through this pass.
The Indians once used this route,
superstitious reasons before n COM
In a very early map published by
Robert Greenshow it Is marked only,
Route across the mountains"
Mrs. Thompson says: In 1853, Isaac
I. Stevens, governor Of Washington
territory . went through the country
survey. The object of the survey was
to find q practical route from the
ACROSS Mass north lerri territory eG tor the The ex SoSan
ing party made steady progress from
st. Paul west across the prairie until
they came to the mountains. Here the
going was more difficult. A wagon
road crossed them in the vicinity of the
present route Of the Northern Pacific.
But that was no argument that the
route was the most practicable for rail-
road purposes. Stevens knew in q gen.
eral way Of the existence Of this pass
conviction that ity was the best one
across the mountains. At Fort Benton
he interviewed Little Dog, chief Of the
Piegan branch Of the Blackfeet, and
obtained from him some information
"Then he sent two detachments to
examine 1t. Engineer A. w. Tfnkham
went first from the west side, led o
party up the middle fork Of the Fiat