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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
TEXAS VILLAGE VICTIM
OF SWOLLEN COL. RIVER

The treacherous Colorado river
slashing through central Texas on
the first flood in it's history drown
ed one man Saturday, inundated
the entire village of Brentwood,
drove hundreds of families from
their farm homes and caused inesti-
mable property damage.
Only the rescue work of boatmen
prevented a greater loss of life as
the muddy current, spreading wide
1y over thousands of acres of the
richest farming land in Texas, rolled
downstream on its rush to the gulf.
Gaynor McBee, so, a ranch hand,
was swept from his horse while
driving cattle out of the path of the
flood at Milburn. His body was re-
covered. The little McCulloch coun-
ty farming community, consisting of
three stores and few homes, was
buried under flood water.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
MIDWEST GETS RAIN AND
COLD WEATHER FOR FALL

In the Midwest, six weeks ago
sere and brown with heat and from
lack of moisture, copious rains have
fallen during the past week or two
and in some localities the complaint
has been of too much rain, rather
than not enough.
Last Wednesday heavy to exces-
sive precipitation was reported in
the lower Missouri and upper Mis-
sissippi valleys and the upper Great
Lakes region, with considerably
more than two inches at Chicago
within "a hours. That city's rainfall
for September went above seven
inches Wednesday.
Iowa's average rainfall for the
month to date was gagged at more
than four inches. Kansas had good
showers.
Abnormally cool weather and frost
stretch across the northern plains
Light to heavy frost was reported in
North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming
Idaho, the eastern section of Wash
lngton and Oregon, northern Mime
sofa and northwestern Wisconsin. In
some areas in those States the tenn.
perature dropped to freezing -ever
lower in some localities.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
LITTLE SPEED SHOWN IN
LEGION MURDER TRIAL

Pressing for conviction of r. al
legged members of the Black Legion
on charges of numbering Charles A.
Poole, the State of Michigan Tues
day held up before the circuit court
jury in Detroit the dark robes of the
secret order-marked with white
skull and cross bones.
Detective Lawrence Sheehy iden-
titled the hooded garments he testi-
fled were found in the home of
Colonel Harvey Davis, one of the
defendants, who had been named by
Dayton Dean, confessed execution
err in the Poole Staying, as the
"ringleader."
Davis had led other Black Legion
men to believe, according to Dean,
that Poole had beaten his wife
which Mrs. Poole denied,
Mystery was added to the trial by
the disappearance of three of the
States witnesses, all members of the
secret order, who had been missing
for two weeks. The court was told
Wednesday by detective that the
disappearance of the witnesses had
been kept, secret in hope it might
help in the search for them.
Mrs. Poole testified on the stand
Thursday that her husband was
kind to her and never mistreated
her.
The trial has dragged through two
weeks.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

The doctors asserted Monaghan's
nose and jaw had been broken, IL
ribs fractured and that his body was
badly bruised.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
doWn-gulch breeze

doWn-gulch breeze.
Garth stood up to pilot the pilot.
"A clump Of spruces stood few
yards in from the water smoo thed
ledge on the right bank of the
stream Hubby obeyed the signal to
shut off the motor As the propeller
ceased to spin the plane glided in
between the banks of the outrushing
stream.
Uncoiling the line as he went,
Garth ran out on the right wing.
From the overhang he leaped down
on the shelf ledge and bounded
along it to the nearest spruce. The
plane had already lost its Roadway
and was starting to drift backwards
in the swift outswirl of the stream.
The line tautened as Garth whip
ped it around the tree trunk. To
make double safe, he used the last
foot for pair of half bitches. He
knew what would happen if the
plane should drift free with no pilot
aboard.
Snubbed fast, the monoplane
swung to the near bank and lay
with the right-hand float snug
against the polished waterline of the
ledge. Hubby came out on the wing
and jumped off to peer down the
CLASSY slope of rock at the pontoon.
''Not so bad" he admitted.
IT had the place picked out, Garth
replied. "The rock is very slick.
There'n be no need of tenders dur
ing our few hours stay"
The engineer pilot showed his
goggles up on the front of his he'll
met. "How's that? Picked out you
say. Been around airplanes, have
your"
81 know how rough stone will
chafe boat" Garth replied. "Your
floats are kind of canoe. Can you
get Mr.. Rami1l and his daughter
ashore by way Of the wings?"
Miss Ramill called from the cabin:
why didn't you pick decent land
ing place, Vivian? We never can get
ashore up this smooth sloping rock.
The steps are no use. You'll have to
make a gangway for Dad and me. y
Garth valuted upon the wing and
walked in along it to the fuselage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
Caught
in the
Wild :
By Robert
]. Ames Bennett
wNU Service
Copyright by
Robert Ames Bennett
THE STORY

/ CHAPTER las Alan Garth
prospector, is preparing to leave fol-
his mining claim in the Far North, a
plane lands at the airways emer-
gency station. In it are Burton Ram
i'll, millionaire mining magnate, his
daughter, Lilith, and Vivian Huxby,
pilot and mining engineer. Believing
him to be only an ignorant prOspec-
tor, the men offer to make an air
trip to Garth's claim, although they
refer to the platinum bearing ore as
nearly worthless" Lilith Ramill
product of the jazz age, plainly
shows her contempt for Garth.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
ELECTION BOARD HEAD
ASKS ALL FOR HONESTY

County boards of lection in North
Carolina were urged in a letter sent
their chairmen last week by Ray
mond c. Maxwell, executive secre-
tary of the State Board of Elections,
to cooperate with us in an effort
to rid our elections of the abuses OF
absentee voting so far as possible"
Maxwell said that many of the
complaints against our elections are
directed to the abuses of absentee
voting in the State"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
Police Beat Man to
Death Questioning
Pennsylvania Police Charged
With Murder Of Hotel Man
During Investigation

Attorney General Charles J. Mar
giotti, of Uniontown, Pa, declared
Sunday that an Investigation show
ed that Frank C. Monaghan, hotel
keeper, was 'barbarously and brut-
ally beaten to death" while under
questioning by officers in connection
with the stabbing of detective.
Two state troopers and a county
detective ARE charged with murder
in connection with Monaghan's
death.
Margiotti, after three-day inqui-
ry during which he summoned more
than a dozen witnesses, said:
sMy investigation of. the Monag-
han case discloseS without question
that Frank C. Monaghan, ST., was
barbarously and brutally beaten to
death in an effort to obtain con-
fession from him.
''The beating occurred in the Ber-
tillon room in the basement of the
Fayette county courthouse.
"The investigation will continue.
Pending it's completion I will make
no announcement as to who are the
culpable persons"
Monaghan, ga, died Saturday at
detective headquarters. Police said
at the time that he collapsed sud-
denly while being questioned. Cor
oner S. A. Baltz reported death
caused by heart attack, superin-
duced by acute alcoholism, but he
later filed the murder charges after
physicians reported Monaghan had
been severely injured.
The doctors asserted Monaghan's
nose and jaw had been broken, IL
ribs fractured and that his body was
badly bruised.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

The girl leaned from the big rear
window of the cabin. ''Give me your
hand" Garth said. "I'll swing you
up on the wing"
He knelt above her on the cabin
roof and reached down. Her lips
curled in a contentious smile.
eff that's the best you can do, I'll
stay right here. I've no wish to GO
bathing.
"In that case, get out Of the way
Your father wishes to see my pros
pect. I'll not waste time building q
needless gangway."
She was the heiress to millions
and had been reared in prodigal
luxury. Never had she been treated
so cavalierly as by this buckshkin-
clad prospector. She turned to her
fiance.
Vivian, you heard the insolent
fellow!"
Hubby grasped the wing tip to
pull himself up. The girls father
spoke over her shoulder: "Stay
where you are, Vivian. We're here
to look at Garth's mine. He has
agreed to help Lilith and me ashore
If she prefers to remain aboard, she
may do So"
The girl drew back into the cabin
Her father thrust out his head from
the window to look up at Garth.
won't it be more than you can
manage? I weigh over two hun
dred."
For reply, Garth reached down.
The portly millionaire hung in
Garth's grasp Almost like a dead
weight. Yet Garth swung him bodi-
ly up and around on the wing.
He led the limping gentleman out
to the far end, near the tip, and low
cred him down upon the top of the
ledge. Before he could follow, Miss
Ramill called out to him: "Come
back for me. It should be safe
enough. You did not drop Dad"
Garth looked up the ouch, smiled,
and went to swing the girl out of
the window. Up on the wing she
clutched his shoulder as if to steady
herself. Her scarlet-Smeared lips
curved in patronizing smile.
you're wonderfully strong!"
More knack than muscle"
Both! 1t was simple marvellous
how you lifted Dad without losing
your balance"
Out near the wing tip Garth drew
his arm free from her clasp, caught
her by the elbows, and lowered her
| into Huxby'S upthruSt hands.
She looked up and smiled. "Sc
nice of you, old dear. Now, if you'll
fetch a cup. I'm dying to try a drink
of this delightful ooking milky wa
ter"
1.-THE dying would be more apt to
follow your drink" Garth replied
He sprang down beside her father,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

It's pity that all campaigns are
not of the whispering kind so that
lies would not be told on both sides
of the street at the same time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

"The Cowdrey Brothers in Uncle
ting title for the gentlemen this picture cruising Cowdrey
brothers Vrde ILL., viewing Hawaiian
Head beach the island of Oahu serving flagship
Pennsylvania They each six feet
Clothes They remit total Of $16O monthly their mother
of military
basketball team which remains undefeated.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

A modern locomotive contains
more than one and one half miles
of tubular piping.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

A beauty shop for Eskimo women
has been opened recently in Alaska.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Madrid
Continued From First Page.)


coming involved is one of the major
disappointments to the workers class
which. from the beginning of the war
believed it could depend upon the
French proletariat for aid.
While anxious over the adverse in
ternational situation, the government
of Premier Francisco Largo Caballerc
is increasingly concerned over the
menace of Syndicalist-Socialist ex-
plosion which has been avoided thus
far only through exercise of the great
est tact with frequent concession tc
the Syndlcalists.
1t is a well-known fact in Madrid,
the reports declared. that the govern
ment, despite its claim Of firm control
IN the situation, is powerless to domi-
nate the Anarchist elements within
the National Workers Federation.
The F. A. I. Federation of Iberian
Anarchists) ignores government made
laws, DEGREES and ordinances and has
evidenced no respect for military men
at the mead of the government forces.
Despite the governments orders
that prisoners of war must be re-
spected and suspected rightists must
be arrested only by official police
there have been few attempts to in
terfere with the Anarchists ideas OF
sterner treatment, the reports said.
Political prisoners are shot at the
rate of IS day in Madrid, the re-
ports declared, from so to rs daily in
Evening star., 1936-12-17
ALCOHOL TAX UNIT
PROBE RESTRICTED
Only Baltimore Personnel
involved, Declares Sec
retary Morgenthau.

Secretary Morgenthau today said
that personnel investigations being
made of the Alcohol Tax Unit are con.
fined to the Baltimore office, where
reports of alleged irregularities have
come to attention of the Treasury De-
partment.
He refused to discuss details Of the
inquiry, which is said to have arisen
in connection with collection of taxes
on ost-prohibition alcohol.
At the same time Morgenthau de-
MED report that his department has
secured affidavits alleging graft on the
part Of more than dozen Washington
policemen. He said the report ap-
parently was based on certain In.
formation obtained by the old Prohibi-
ton Bureau when it was part of the
Justice Department. The data, he
said, were in files turned over to the
Treasury by the Justice Department
after repeal Of prohibition.
Morgenthau said the matter is dead
and he Is not interested in it because
the Treasury had nothing to do with it,
Morgenthau said the personnel in
quiry in Baltimore had been erro-
neously linked with another case, a
criminal investigation growing out of
the seizure near Dundalk of a large
still. This criminal case, he said, is
in the hands of United States At
torney B. ]. Flynn in Baltimore.
The Treasury head told reporters
he was glad to say there are few
cases of wrong-doing in the Treasury
personnel" pointing out there are 65,-
600 employees under his supervision.
He praised the civil service personnel
''as a whole" as being honest"
Evening star., 1936-12-17
MADRID FEARS INFANTRY.

MADRID. December II CP).-
Bombed Madrid feared today its
Fascist besiegers would unleash an
other infantry attack following an air
raid in which police said IS persons
were killed and more than 200
wounded.
About 100 government planes took
the air against the invaders and, off,
cials said, shot down four enemy pur-
suit planes and one bomber.
Heavy fighting continued far into
the night, centering around Boadilla
Delmonte and the University City
section.
The Emergency Defense Council
Evening star., 1936-12-17

American Union compiling a sum-
mary of these facts.
6. A proposal for creation of an
inter-American academy of interna-
tional law like that at The Hague,
the Netherlands.
7. A plan to establish commissions
to push a program of inter American
intellectual cooperation.
With the completion Of voting on
the nine proposals, delegates burst
into a flood of oratory, hailing the
consultative system to be created
under the peace and security con-
vention and the general good neigh
Dor" attitude of the conferees.
Delegates on the committee ap-
plauded Sumner Welles, United States
Assistant Secretary of State in charge
of Latin American affairs, when he
reiterated before them the principle
of good neighborliness and declared
all American states we're equals.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
PREMIER REVIEWS REGIME.

BARCELONA, Spain. December II
Rl.-Jose Tarradellas resumed lead
ership today Of autonomous Catalonia s
government, which an official spokes-
man called political" and revo-
lutionary regime pledged to carry on
the civil war against Spain's Fascists
with vigor
Tarradellas had resigned the premier
ship last Monday because, he said, he
could not control anarchist and ex-
treme labor factions.
The new government is composed of
representatives of big labor unions. the
small bourgeois class and the peasants.
Political parties as such are not repre-
sented. Former Justice Minister
Andres Min. once a secretary to the
one-time Russian Communist leader
Leon Trotzky, was the most important
figure eliminated from the cabinet in
the shakeup.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Valencia and from 80 to so day in
Barcelona.
Foreigners look in vain for the con-
centration camps for prisoners of war,
One foreigner was told bluntly by
an Anarchist leader: Take prisoners
when food is so short? That would
be foolish. Moreover, We don't want
to use men for guard detail who could
be fighting on the front"
A military commander told another
foreigner:
Il can do nothing with the Anarchist
militia. They fight when and where
they please-if they please. They
don't know what discipline is. If
should attempt to enforce orders I
would suffer the same fate as others
in my predicament-I would be shot. "
Even the Anarchist leader, Buena-
ventura Durruti. indisputably brave
man and courageous leader, was pow
erleSs to control his own men.
He was killed in action and buried
as a hero. but there are persistent
rumors he was shot by his own men
for insisting on an attack.
Adding to the seriousness of the
Madrid situation, the reports declared,
was increasing troop desertions.
One foreigner was informed on the
highest authority that the whole gen.
eral staff of Gen. Pozas disappeared
en- route from Madrid to Valencia. and
20 experts from the Exchange Con-
troll Board left Madrid for Valencia,
but never arrived.
officers have charged that whole
militia units mysteriously disappear
and there have been instances of en-
tire battalions going over to the enemy,
the accounts said.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
announced some Germans were killed

announced some Germans were killed,
some wounded and some captured.
Leaders expect Gen. Franco. insur-
gent chief, to send his Moorish Legion
naires and picked troops once more
against the gates of the capital. The
attack probably would come from the
west, they said, because two insurgent
columns already were moving on Ma
jadahonda from Robledo de Chavela,
some Is miles west of the capital city.
On the northeast, the Fascists
marched on Algete. some Is miles
from Madrid. From these insurgent
troop movements, government mill
tary men deduced that Franco would
strive to enter Madrid on a far-fiung
offensive. rather than through the
northwestern university city section.
in which some units Of his men al
ready have penetrated.
Then, as his next step. they said,
Franco probably would try to drive a
flank movement between Madrid and
Valencia, the seat of the Madrid gov
ernment for some weeks.
ADVANCE MADE IN FOG.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Fascists Report Planes and Troops Met
Counter Attack.

Fascists Report Planes and Troops Met
Counter Attack.
WITH THE SPANISH FASCIST
TROOPS OUTSIDE MADRID, De-
cember 17.-Spanish Fascist bombers
few through the fog yesterday in an
attack on the Madrid front as ground
troops pushed their advance against
Socialist counter attack.
Boadilla del Monte, west Of Madrid
was reported occupied by the Fascists
in an attempt of the troops of Gen
Jose Varela to re-establish contact
with those of Gen. Emilio Mola in a
movement to encircle the Spanish
capital.
Despite the mist which made the
smoke of their explosives invisible
20 large planes bombed the lines al
around Boadilla del Monte. Pozuelt
de Alarcon and Humera about sever
miles west of Madrid.
A score Of pursuit planes escortine
the bombers fought off the Socialist
craft which flew out to engage ir
machinegun fighting in the sky.
The Socialist counterattack oc.
Cured at Boadilla del Monte but
Fascist officers said their troops com.
pleted occupation of the place BY
nightfall. They said IS Socialist
soldiers were killed in the Cleaning
up" of the area by insurgents using
bayonets.
FREIGHTER CLAIMED RY SPAIN
Evening star., 1936-12-17
FREIGHTER CLAIMED BY SPAIN
Ambassador Asks Return Of Navemar,
Held in BrookIyn.

Ambassador Asks Return Of Navemar,
Held in Brooklyn.
NEW YORK, December IT P.-
The Spanish government yesterday
officially entered the case of the
freighter Navemar, held off the Red
Hook fats in Brooklyn by its crew
of 80. while its captain protested.
Fernando de Los Rios, Spanish
Ambassador to the United States,
submitted an affidavit in Federal
Court, Brooklyn, stating the vessel
had been the property of the Spanish
government since October 10. and, as
such. was immune from seizure.
The Compania Espanoka de Navi-
gacion Martina of South America,
which claims ownership, earlier
brought libel proceeding on grounds
the vessel had been seized by the crew
while riding anchor.
The Ambassador accompanied his
affidavit with an order requiring the
company to show cause why the case
should not be resumed and why the
court should not turn back the ship
to the Acting Spanish Consul in New
York.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Radio Center Planned.

South Africa's fifth major broad
casting center is to be established at
Stellenbosch.
Smyrna times., 1936-10-22
LIVE TAYLORS
BRIDGE ITEMS
Items of Community Interest
Cleaned From Around
ThorOughfare Neck
NEWS AND PERSONALS

Taylor's Bridge, Oct. 22- The
Ladies' Aid and Victory w. G. t,
u, will meet Friday night with
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Steller.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. H. Dukes, near
Odessa, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles 2. Dukes and Mr..
Harry S. Woodkeeper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Turnell Shockley
and family of near Elkton, and MI.
and Mrs. Roland Johnson, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Shockley.
Miss Mildred Deakyne of Will
mington, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Deakyne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Latta and
daughters of Marshallton, and Mr..
and Mrs. Leland Sinex and daugh-
ter of Middletown, spent Sunday
with their mother, Mrs. Fannie
Francis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dukes
were Sunday visitors with Miss
Myrtle Bennett of Port Penn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tussey and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Carroll and sis
ter of Liken, Pa, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer David
and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Keiser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Forsythe,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Curry and
sons and Mrs. Harry Shaw of
Chester, spent Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Ella McClain and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Latta and
daughters, of Marshallton, were
Sunday visitors with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Latta.
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tive would never think of ignoring.
But motorists pass similar signal
lights and many of them think
nothing of it. When one sees a
sign School, Go Slowly" and there
are no children around, he becomes
careless and fails to slow his motor
car. If the engineer of railroad
locomotive were to ignore caution
signs in this manner he wouldn't t
hold his job week. The trouble
is a good many of us get to taking
these signals with a grain of salt
and after awhile the warnings lose
their meaning entirely. Why not
obey caution signs before the var
ious states enact laws that will
take all the pleasure out of motor
ing.
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