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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
One Died Every
Six Minutes In
1895 Accidents
National Safety Council Announces
$4,000 People Were Killed
During Year 1885

The National Safety council an
nounced the past week that its rec
ords showed $4,000 persons died in
American accidents last year-one
every six minutes on the average.
The accidents cost, according to
the councils statisticians, approx
nlately three billion dollars in prop
erty damage, wage loss and medical
expense.
Council statisticians told the
story in these grim figures:
$4,000 killed; 365, 900 permanently
injured; 100000 temporarily dis
abled; 271 killed every day, II eve
ry hour, one every six minutes;
$4,000 injured every day, 1000 eve
ry hour, 16 every minute; 1000 per
manent1y injured every day, Al
every hour.
Motor vehicle crashes brought
death to 36,400, an all-time high,
permanent injury to $4,000 and
temporary hurts to 1,17O,OOO. Mon
etary loss in this bracket was set
at $1,6OO,OOO,OOO.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
76-YeGr-OLd Attends
Relief School Glasses

Rutherfordton, Feb. 8.-One new
er grows too old to learn, says j.
S. Goode, who, at rs, only recently
has learned how to read and write.
Mr.. Goode, oldest known student
of an adult school in Rutherford
county recently won a perfect at
tendance prize for not missing a
class at the Race Path adult educa-
ton school, near Ellenboro, for nine
months.
He offers a good example of
hearty cooperation for a perma-
nent program in adult education,
his teacher, Miss Vernelle Weast,
claims.
Many of Mr.. Goodies fellow stu
dents are past the half-century
mark in age.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
EdentOn Storm Rated
The Worst Since 1858

Edenton, Feb. Last nights
blizzard was reported to be the
heaviest since the great storm of
1858 by which the Alebmarle dated
it's weather calendar for several
years.
Rain, sleet and more snow up to
noon today forced all traffic to a
standstill. Milk and food deliveries
were hampered. County and town
schools were closed.
Ice foes in the sound have piled
up more than ever about the Nor
folk Southern railroad bridge, ne
cessitating still additional working
crews and requiring much dynamit-
ing to save serious damage to the
four-mile span.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
II. S. Only Country
That Doesn't Censor
It's Newspapers

Elisha Hanson, general counsel
for the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association, in an address at
Columbus, Ohio, last week that the
United States "is the only country
in the world which has press Sc
cured against hostile action by eth
er the legislative or executive
branches of the government or from
restraint by judicial injunction"
Addressing the annual convention
of the Ohio Daily Newspaper Pub
fishers association, Hanson asserted
that "any effort, directly or indi-
rectly, to control a newspapers
revenue through an attack on adj
vertising or circulation constitutes
a direct threat against the freedom
of the press" and that any law
which harms business as whole
must be of concern to publishers.
cat the present moment" Hanson
said, "there are any number of bills
pending in Washington which, if
enacted, would seriously cripple
the press of this country"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
permanent fiscal policy of the

a permanent fiscal policy Of the
State"
He advocated more efficient
school system, including increased
and extended vocational training
and night classes in the centers of
population.
81 am definitely in favor of re-
trieving our lost ground, of recap
turing our vacated position, and of
going forward until we have fully
restored our teacher salary sched-
ules, lghtened our teacher load"and
given the childhood of the State
equal educational opportunities
with the children of the more pro-
gressive commemorative"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

The Sultan of Turkey, 'the sick
man of Europe" was dethroned.
Great changes came also to the
British empire after the World war;
southern Ireland became the Irish
Free State; India won greater self
government; the Dominions achiev-
ed almost complete independence
from the mother country.
World crises shrouded England's
industrial and textile centers in
gloom.
But through it all, one unifying
influence remained-the British
crown, personified in the adaptable,
unobstrusive ruler beloved by high
and low, George V.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
King Of England Survives
While Others Lose Out

The reign of King George V of
England extended through one of
the most crucial quarter centuries
in the history of the world.
Elsewhere, thrones toppled, en-
perors and monarchs fled; but the
war-titled House of Winsor stood,
and George kept his throne and
with it the hearts of his subjects, a
sad-eyed ruler whose motto might
have been the word on the Prince
of Wales crest: II serve"
Through war, through political
and economic crises, he stayed close
to his people, a royal statesman
above party, above considerations
of self.
In England in 1918, it was "For
King and Country" Elsewhere it
was not well with kings and rulers,
including Georges kinsmen.
A cold cellar at Ekaterinburg,
Siberia, was the execution chamber
of the Car of Russia.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicated
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
fled to Holland.
The ustro-Hungarian Hapsburg
monarchy collapsed; in Spain, an
other Hapsburg, Alfonso XIII, born
a king, fled when a republic was
proclaimed.
The kingdom of Montenegro was
dissolved.
Fascist Italy relegated King Vic
tor Emanuel to secondary posi-
ton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Having qualified as Administra-
trix of the estate of Dent Blevins,
deceased, late of Ashe county,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Crump-
Ter, North Carolina, on or before
the 18th day of January, 1887, or
this notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebt-
ed to the said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 10th day of January,
1896.
NOLIA BLEVINS,
Administrative
of Dent Blevins, Deceased.
Grant Bauguess, Atty. 2-27
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Children To Spend
Night In School

? Colorado was warned Friday of
the approach of wintry storm
similar to one which froze to death
five children and driver in a trap
ped school bus five years ago next
month near Towner, Colo.
Near Briggsdale, Colo, % chill
dren waited Friday, for the wealth
er to clear, to spend the night IN
their isolated school building.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
DOughtOn Proposes
Name Of Parkway

The 'Blue Ridge Parkway will
be the official name of the scenic
highway connecting the Great
Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah
national parks, if a bill introduced
the past week by Representative
R. L. Doughton of North Carolina
is enacted into law.
The bill, which was drawn by the
National Park service, would give
that agency jurisdiction over the
parkway.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
HOey Would Be For
Liquor Referendum
Advocates More Efficient School
System; Declares Against Sales
Tax On Basic Foods

Formally opening his campaign
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of North Carolina, Clyde
r. Hoey, in a 45-minute speech in
Charlotte Thursday night, that drew
a large audience despite a blizzard,
stated his position on the liquor
question, taxation, education and
other issues.
Declaring 81 have been life
long dry in theory and practice"
and that IT have not changed either
my opinion or position on this ques-
tion," the Shelby lawyer and form
er congressman said:
81 am perfectly willing for this
matter to be submitted to the peo-
pie of North Carolina and let them
determine it at the ballot box. I
am not sponsoring any particular
method of liquor control, but I am
willing to keep an open mind as to
the method to be proposed and the
plan to be submitted"
He declared for immediate repeal
of the sales tax on basic foods and
on meals served in public eating
places and for eventual elimination
of the general sales tax, declaring
he continues to regard it as an
measure and twill not accept it as
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Egg Shortage Looms
As Hens Go On Strike

Aberdeen, S. D.,merchants report
an egg shortage as a result of the
snow and cold wave.
One grocer reported receiving 40
egg orders, which he was unable to
fill, within a few hours. Even stor-
age eggs were at a premium.
The, shortage was attributed to a
'cold strike by hens as well as to
snow-block roads to market farms.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Why Get Up Nights?
This Csc Bladder Laxative Free

This Csc Bladder Laxative Free
:. If it fails to flush out impurities
and excess acids which cause the
irregularity that wakes you up.
Get buchu, juniper oil, etc., in little
green tablets called Bukets, the
bladder laxative. Works on the
bladder similar to castor oil on the
bowels. Poorly acting bladder can
cause scanty flow, frequent desire,
burning or backache. In four days
if not pleased any druggist will re-
fund your Csc.
RAY DRUG COMPANY
West Jefferson, N. G..
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
One ELectrOcuted and
Three Gassed Friday
Witnesses OF Executions Prefer
Electricity After Watching
Negroes Die

Three negroes were executed by
the State of North Carolina Friday
one by electrocution and two by
lethal gas.
William Long, 10, convicted in
Alamance, was put to death in the
electric chair, and, in order, J. T.
Sanford and Thomas Watson, SEN
fenced in Durham, were asphyxiat-
with hydrocyannic gas. All were
convicted of murders committed in
robberies.
In all, one hour and 81 IL min
utes elapsed between the time Long
entered the death chamber and the
moment Watson, last to die, was
pronounced dead. The State never
before had used dual means of exc
cution the same day.
Only 10 minutes elapsed from the
time Long entered the chamber I'M
til he was pronounced dead. San
ford, the first to be asphyxiated,
came in at 1888 and it required
II IL minutes to execute him.
There was considerable interim, due
to the necessity of clearing the
chamber of poison fumes, before
Watson was brought in, and 10 IL
minutes elapsed before he was
dead.
Witnesses Prefer Electricity
The Greensboro Daily News re-
porter stated that the witnesses to
the deaths preferred the electric
chair route out of this life Said the
Greensboro man:
i'The easy outgoing of Ed Jenkins,
fat white of CASTOR county week
ago, stopped the horror chronicles
for seven days, but the young
black brought again to the specta-
tors all the signs of torture that
were present in the gas execution
of Allen Foster. To be sure, Foster
apparently remained conscious much
longer than either of his successors,
but groanings that could be heard
through two thick plate glass win
dows today put new burden on
science. Experts have risked their
regulations on the guess that these
gas chamber occupants experience
no pain after a few seconds, if at
all. But the spectators who glue
their eyes on the dying would feel
much better if there could be other
proof than the ante-mortem specu-
1ations of medical men who have
not looked upon the choking crimi-
nails"
Long JONES Catholic Church
Longs crime was committed be-
fore July l, 1885, the date the new
gas law became effective. Thus he
was sentenced to be electrocuted.
Longs only words as he was be-
ing strapped in the electric chair
were to thank Father Mcmillan,
Catholic priest of the North Caro-
lima Apostolate here, who entered
the chamber with him and read
Scriptures during the execution,
Long joined the Catholic church
Wednesday.
A minister accompanied both
Sanford and Watson to the death
chamber. Sanford smiled while
preparations were being made for
generation of the gas, and did so
even as the vapors began rising
about him. Watson's manner was
calm, and he was interested in ac-
tivities of prison attendants as they
strapped him in the chair and COM
pleted preparatiOnS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

Twenty persons were lynched in
this country in 1885, five more than
in 1884, despite the fact that there
were So instances in which officers
of the law prevented lynchings.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

The elf owl is only six inches
long and is native of Arizona. It
feeds mostly on beetles and grass
hoppers and nests in deserted
woodpecker holes made in the giant
castus.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

Harvard Observatory astrono-
mers report that Nova Herculis,
which fared up last year and is
now growing DINNER, appears to
be getting hotter as it fades.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

A New Mexico boy rides pet
Jersey bull to and from school eve
ry day. Pasture near the school is
provided.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

Farmers are being urged to scat
ter grain for wild birds. More birds
saved mean fewer insects next
summer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

The most costly of precious
stones are the hardest and the soft
est-the diamond and the emerald.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

Among the Moors, midnight is
the customary hour for a wedding.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

DEATH valked Nth them to the altar.
Read "HONEYMOON MURDER"
by Carolyn Wells Which UiU
begin In The Post Feb. 81.
- No more battling puzzle ever faced Fleming Stone
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Evening star., 1936-11-13
COUNTY TAXES HELD
BELOW u. S. AVERAGE
Montgomery Rate, However, Not
Sufficient to Keep Pace With
Growth, Yohe Says.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md. November
14.-County taxes are well below" the
national average in comparison with
other places having the same facilities,
H. S. Yohe, chairman Of the Public
Finance and Budget Committee Of the
Montgomery County Civic Federation,
told members of the Woodside Park
Civic Association in talk before that
group in Jesup Blair Community
House.
Advocating the retirement Of the
county bonds. Yohe declared that al
though this would create a sharp rise
in taxes, they would still be on parity
with taxes in similar areas.
Two of the heaviest items In the
county budget are the schools and the
police, Yohe said. Speaking Of the
proposal that the number Of police
men be increased from 80 to 100. he
declared that from his point of view
the character Of the population in the
county didn't seem to indicate the need
for such a large increase.
The speaker declared that the growth
Of the county causes the expenses OF
government to increase faster than
the tax revenue derived from the new
residents.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
SAILOR IS SILENT
|. lin MURDER QUIZ
"Man of Steel" Refuses to
Talk in Probe of
Fatal Fight.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, November l3.-Gail
Gilmore, blond sailor dubbed q man
Of steep by officers who questioned
him for IA hours. was called into
Richmond County Court today to face
q charge of staying William Moritz,
fishing sloop owner, last August.
Thomas j. Walsh. district attorney.
said Gilmore met police questions with
silence or pretended sleep. About the
only thing the officers got out Of 1t, nc
said, was the privilege of feeding the
sailor IL ham sandwiches and IL cups
Of coffee.
He charged Gilmore. who was ar
rested Wednesday in Baltimore. with
killing Moritz in a fight because Moritz
would not sell him an interest in the
Georgiana, Moritz' sloop. Moritz' body.
with bullet and knife wounds In the
head and chest, floated ashore on
Staten Island. August IS.
IT have evidence that Moritz was
killed the night Of August IL last and
that the only people on the Georgiana
were Gilmore and Moritz." the prose-
cution said.
Gilmore contended two sailors,
known to him only as "Biff" and
Frank" were aboard the sloop and
that they did the killing.
Police also continued their effort to
link Gilmore with the unsolved slay-
ing of Benjamin Ceilings aboard lis
Evening star., 1936-11-13
DAUGHTER OF GRIDLEY
TO SPONSOR DESTROYER
Navy Vessel Named for Comman-
der at Manila Bay to Be
Launched December |.

Secretary Swanson today designated
Mrs. Lewis Buddy, 3d. of East Orange,
N. j., as sponsor for the destroyer
Gridley, named for her father, the
late Capt Charles Vernon Gridley,
U. S. NJ. who commanded the Olym-
pia, flagship of Admiral George Dewey,
at the battle of Manila Bay in the
Spanish american War.
The Gridley is to be launched on
December at the plant of the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding Corp, Quincy,
Mass. She is the second vessel in the
Navy to bear that name and was au-
Evening star., 1936-11-13

thorized by the Vinson-Trammell act
OF March n, 1894.
Admiral Dewey's famous command
You may fire when ready. Gridley." I"
was addressed to the officer in whose
honor the new ship will be launched.
Capt. Gridley, although i'll. refused to
be relieved from duty and in person
directed the movement Of the Olympia
in the battle.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
RUSSIAN SHIP SEEN
UNDER REBEL ESCORT
Freighter May Be Under Arrest
in Harbor of Ceuta, in Span
iGh Moroccn

lsn morocco.
By the Associated Press.
GIBRALTAR, November 13.-The
Russian freighter Sojusvod Nikov en-
tered the harbor Of Ceuta, Spanich
Morocco, yesterday, followed by two
insurgent warships. British naval au-
thorities reported today.
The British officials declared they
were unable to determine whether
the Soviet vessel was under arrest
when It put into the Moroccan harbor.
The Spanish ships trailing the So
jusvod Nikov were the Fascist warship
Almirante Cervera and an armed
trawler.
Naval authorities first observed the
Russian ship passing Gibraltar from
east to west at $40 am. Wednesday.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

The finest imported and domestic fab
rics, skillfully hand-tailored expressly
for men used to custom tailoring !.
Famous "Agah-Shah'' CamePs Hair
Topcoats and other quality fabrics
that were up to Sou.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

cabin cruiser In Huntington Harbor,
Long Island, In 1881. A detective
went to Stamford. Conn. to show
photographs Of Gilmore to Ceilings
widow.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Mexico Protects Sea Elephants.

Sea elephants of Guadalupe Island,
of the coast of Northwest Mexico. are
to be protected by the Mexican gov
ernment from extinction.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Farmer Killed, 80 Hurt.

One farmer was killed and 30 In
jured in q battle between beet-root
growers and sugar factory workers on
strike at Toury, France.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

OF entries the "horeless buggieS procession
hch M precede the opening OF the Seventeenth Annual Auto
event O held along Constitution apsnus at 10
American Automobile Association and the Wash
ington Autootiue Trade Association and M dDad
prizes rs 20 years old older expected to
Evening star., 1936-11-13

Northern Ireland's birth .ate con.
Sinues to decrease
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
DOLLAR CONTINUES
ON DOWNWARD PATH
Foreign Currencies Remain Firm
Despite Lessening Pressure
Due to Uncertainties.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Foreign currencies continued firm
against the dollar in all exchange
centers yesterday, despite lessening
in pressure due to week end uncer-
tainties surrounding the international
monetary situation.
In New York the British pound
sterling advanced cent to s5.0l, the
French franc gained .01 Of a cent
at 6.67Ia cents, and Holland guilders
we're boosted by 10 Of a cent at 68,75
cents.
Earlier in London the dollar con-
tinued to work lower, closing at 5000
to the pound and in Paris it was of
at 6.666 cents to the franc.
Based on the franc at its final New
York rate, the dollar was at a dis
count of 63-100 of per cent. COM
pared with a discount of 48-100 on
Friday and a premium of 66-100 a
month ago.