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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
CHINESE JAPANESE
SITUATION MAY BE
CAUSE OF TROUBLE

The Japanese Chinese situation at
Shanghai became acute last week.
japanese marines were landed on
Chinese soil, some of them were
shot, and then the Japanese author
tiles placed portion of Shanghai
under martial law.
Friday Japanese residents of
Shanghai, fearful of more trouble
from Chinese partisans, urged their
government to send additional arm
ed forces to protect japanese lives
and property"
japanese naval officials, it was re-
ported from Tokyo Monday night,
had prepared to send landing par
ty into China ito protect japanese
nationals and property"
A navy office dominique said, in
announcing the decision:
: "Anti-Japanese terrorism has ex-
tended across the whole Chinese
continent and is becoming ram
pant"
Their commanders determined "to
eradicate anti-Japanese feeling in
China" detachments of 200 Japa-
nese marines were landed on Chin
csc soil at Hankow and Pakhoi
Tuesday night.
At Hankow they were to investi-
gate the killing of a Japanese con-
sular policeman three days previ-
ously, and at Pakhoi they were to
inquire into the killing of Japa-
nese druggist on September 3.
Diplomatic negotiations to settle
the incidents had been fruitless.
Naval authorities of Japan said
the marines were landed to "pro-
tect japanese lives and properties. .
They said it would be improper" to
term the expedition an invasion, y
since Japan had maintained naval
and military forces in China for
many years.
Memories of Shanghai's memoir
able 1882 seige were revived early
Thursday morning, as japanese
bluecoats, armed for war, held g
huge area of the International Set
Element under martial law in e
search for gunner who, few hours
before, had shot three Japanese ma
rines, one of them fatally.
The reinforced japanese marines
occupied the entire Hongkew area
of the settlement, where the shoot.
ings occurred.
The Japanese charged the shoot.
ings were the work of two Chinese
gunner.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
CaIifEsrnia Man
Now Building AlO
TH0usand Dollar
Swimming Hole
Has Spent Over Two Wilton
Dollars on Constructions
Of Huge Castle

Death Valley Scotty who owns
Death Valley Ranch in California
said Monday he is ready to go ahead
with his amazing 100000 turquoise
blue tilea swimming hole" oEIttiip tine
desert.
The mystery Midas put hiS;f6ot on
fence post and looked down on the
serpentinen lines of the unfinished
pool in front of his castle.
I'VE got half million in, gold i'm
the pot, and guess I'll go7 ahead
and finish things" he decided,
This summer he bought new
string of mules and went into the
rocks" Three weeks later he re-
turned tor his shack, five miles be-.
low the, castle, and then went to Los
Angeles There he announce@l he had
brought in from the mountains, half
million dollars in gold and was 60
ing to finish his castle, located in
the most desolate region of the Unit-
ed States, the Mojave desert.
Must Get Patents
Before construction work starts.
he said, the detail of actually getting
patents to- tine land from tile govern
ment must be accomplished.
"Then Wen go ahead with the
swimming hole" says Sco&ty. There
isn't another like it in tia world, I
bet. It's all curves and runs 200 feet
long: and go feet wide. See it here.
'.AW we have to do is to clean it
out amR set the tile. Th& walls and
foundation are all in.
"The tile alone for the swimming
hole cost $4,000. It's all here, has
BEEN here six years.Seeeit piled over
there? Most of it came from Spain.
Fancy Tile Benches
There are 1900 turquoise blue
tiles in 10-inch blocks for the sides
and bottom. We got all the fancy
tile too for the Spanish benches and
the walk around the pools
"The center bridge will have ''"F
fountains, and we g0t all the
gets, statues, pipes, drainage and fiji
terage system and everything for
the whole job here"
There has BEEN no construction
work at his castle for six years.
Scotty and his partner, Albert Mus
sey Johnson of Chicago, halted work
after $2,381 900 had been spent. That
was in 1880, when the government
included the 7,I0-acre ranch in
Death Valley monument, and Scot
tvs title to it was challenged.
Last year the President signed
bill authorizing title be granted to
the property. Then Scotty came out
of his retirement.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
ESKIMO CHILDREN RIDE
IN MODERN MOTOR BUS

Wide-eyed at the wonders of civ
ilization, IL farthest north" Eskimo
youngsters arrived by airplane Mon
day to attend the government Sin
ishing school, at Eklutna, IS miles
from Anchorage.
The native children, selected from
government school at Barrow, Point
Lay, Point, Hope, Wainwright and
Kotzebue,< clambered into school
motor bus at the airport.
They marvelled at the big plane
and the air cruise down Alaska from
the northernmost settlements, but
they marveled more at their first
glimpse of motor bus. They'd seen
airplanes before.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
State Has More Than
II Million Dollars of
ERA Money Unspent
Equivalent of SIS Per Person
Has Already Been Spent
in North Carolina

A total of $47,425, 697.7 5-the
equivalent of $15O2 for each mem
Der of North Cardinals population
has been spent on projects and relief
in the State from the $4,000, 000, 900
emergency relief fund appropriated
by Congress in 1895. The States I'M
expended balance, according to the
National Emergency council, is ST.
419,242.13.
May Yet Be Spent
Unlike other appropriations that
are made by Congress, balances do
not revert to the Treasury but re-
main for the purposes voted by Con-
gress, to be spent with the approval
of the chief executive.
Expenditures in the Carolinas COW
er a varied classification from i'm
provements on highways and public
roads generally to sewing, music and
arts projects, with the chief objec.
tive of the present administration tc
benefit tht largest number possible
according to the FERA, which re.
leased data on expenditures after
receiving reports from the State co.
ordinatorS.
Campaign Significance
OF special interest are figures
made public at this time owing tt
the nationwide political controversy
that is being waged, with Democratic
leaders citing expenditures or
worthy projects as one of the
achievements of the administration
and Republican orators challenging
the necessity as well as the WORTH.
ness of many undertakings
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
Black Legion Members
Tell Of Poole Execution.
Members Meant Only to Whip
Victim But Later Decided
to Kill Him
DEAN FIRED FATAL SHOTS

Black Legion Members, meeting
few hours before the execution" of
Charles A. Poole, howled for his
death, so Emerson Becker testified
at Detroit last week in the trial of
IL men charged with the killing.
Testifying for the State, Becker
said he attended the meeting, that
there was a lot of yelling; some of
them wanted to beat up this fellow;
some said to kill him; everybody
was yelling and hollering."
It had just been reported to the
crowd, according to the witness,
that Poole, described as "a Catholic
and so and so," had beat his wife
while she was an expectant mother,
and while he was drunk he had
kicked her so that she had to go to
a hospital.
Mrs. Poole has repeatedly denied
that her husband ever mistreated
her. She so testified at the trial.
Becker's testimony corroborated
Dayton Deans version of events
preceding the Staying of Poole and
disputed the stories told by Harvey
Davis and Erwin D. Lee, two of the
defendants, that Dean was the sole
investigator of the murder.
Z Circuit Judge Moynihan dismissed
the jury Monday for the day, to hear
arguments of counsel on motion
for directed verdict of not guilty,
which had been submitted the pre-
>.vious weekend after the State had
completed its case. The motion was
over-ruled.
Defense counsel, in seeking free
dom for nine of the twelve alleged
Black Legion members on trial for
murder, contended the State mad
failed to submit testimony that the
nine defendants had agreed to be
parties to the killing He contended
also that the State had failed to
show they took part in any conspi-
racy or had any intent to commit
murder.
During the trial the State charged
that Dayton Dean, chubby self-styl-
ed 'executioner" for the Black Lee
gion, fired the shots which killed
Poole and that he acted on the order
of Colonel Davis. Dean, who
who pleaded guilty to the charges,
was one of the prosecutions princi-
pal witnesses.
Harvey Davis, colonel of the
Black Legion, testified Tuesday that
he saw Dayton Dean shoot Charles
A. Poole to death last May, but he
denied the States chatge that he
knew the WPA worker was to be
executed"
He admitted he presided over the
meeting where the State contended
the alleged execution" plot was ar
ranged, but said he did not hear any
one say Poole should be shot.
Dean handed me note while
was up 'front.' Davis said. cit was
about man whipping his wife. I
read it to them and asked what
ought to be done about it. =
Several said he ought to be whip
ped. A couple of them said we ought
to beat him up"
He then described how Poole was
abducted and taken to the lonely
suburban spot where Dean cut short
his plea for mercy by opening fire
with two pistols.
Dean testified there were shouts
of kill him, hang him." at the meet
ing where Davis presided.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
Dickson Graveyard Decoration

On Saturday, October 8, the rela-
tives and friends of the deceased are
asked to meet at the Dickson grave
yard at 800 a. m, and clean off the
graveyard. The graves will be deco
rated on Sunday following at about
loo o'clock.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

There amt no
skeletons; in the
closets any more.
They areaIT in the
ballot boxes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Somebody asked me if one rock
was all that was thrown 1T me.
There were two but / was passing
the N & w station at Tuckerdale
when the second was thrown.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

The saxophone player is the only
one that can put on the, dog and be
doing what is expected!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our many neigh
borS and friends for the kindness
and sympathy shown us during the
death of our darling little girl,
Minnie.
p. Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Miller.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Women as a whole won the air
craft derby. Well that is due to their
familiarity with pockets.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

1929 freight cars were loaded
with freight for shipment during the
week of August 9th.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

At the present the Republican re-
covery program is to recover about
ten million votes that they lost in
1882.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Big words is the result of fat
head trying to render some thoughts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Roosevelt has the election in the
bag says party leaders, A sort of
modern sack of Rome SO to speak.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

The moon causes the tide and gets
people tied up on the sea of matri-
mGny.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Roosevelt is hoA4ing sway in this
country. Landon is trying to get the
SWAY back"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Talk about a war, wait till the
world gets to combating ignorance.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

1t locks as if
Landon is finding
the combination
to that safe for
Democracy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

The biggest statue in ain tire world
is thG statue of Liberty overlook.
ing' American Democracy
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Poisonous snakes often misjudge
distance when striking at objects.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Hoover caught more fish at Mon
sauk Point than Roosevelt. And he
caught more suckers i'm 1923 than
AT Smith.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

G. Q. P. means gone outa politics.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

The launching of a naval program
in Europe is the forerunner Of an.
other floating loan.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
NUTS AND
KERNELS
By
TROY /. JONES
TROY /. JONES

The person that shoots Off his
mouth the most often iss tine one
with a bullet head.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Chicago is the
leader in hides and maybe the skin
game.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01

Chicago Is the
eader in hides and maybe the skin
game.
The biggest statue in ain tire world
s the statue of Liberty overlook
ng" American Democracy
The saxophone player is the only
me that can put on the, dog and be
loing what is expected.
Big words is the result of fat
leaA trying to render some thoughts.
Roosevelt has the election in the
oag says party leaders, A sort of
Modern sack of Rome SO to speak.
The moon causes the tide and gets
aeople tied up on the sea of matri-
nGny.
Hoover caught more fish at Mon
aux Point than Roosevelt. And he
taught more suckers i'm 1923 than
II Smith.
Talk about war, wait till the
world gets to combating ignorance
Roosevelt is hok1ing sway in this
country. Landon is trying to get the
sway back"
At the present the Republican re-
,overy program is to recover about
;en million votes that they lost i'm
1892.
Women as a whole won the air
craft derby. Well that is due to their
familiarity with pockets.
Somebody asked me if one rock
was all that was thrown 1T me.
There were two but I was passing
he N & w station at Tuckerdale
~ n
Evening star., 1936-09-01

In 1860 North Carolina was twelfth
ranking State in the Union in popu-
lation.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
PRICE SPEAKS TONIGHT
Lieutenant Governor to Address
Fairfax Democratic Rally.

BEecIaI DlSpdtCu 70 ne 0tar. q
FAIRFAX, Va, September IA
record attendance is anticipated to-
night as Fairfax County Democrats
open their presidential campaign with
a countrywide rally on the court house
green, with James H. Price, Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, as guest speaker.
The program is being sponsored by
the Fairfax County Young Democratic
Club. Invitations have been extended
to all Young Democratic groups
throughout the eighth congressional
district.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
SPANISH LEFT|STS
|NPAR|S ASSA|LED
French NationaIists Claim
Delegation Is Seeking
Arms Delivery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 1.-The presence
in Paris Of three supporters of the
Socialist Spanish government aroused
protest from French Nationalists
today.
The Spaniards arrived yesterday,
asserting they wished to consult
French political friends"
Included in the group were Marcel
ino Domingo, Spanish minister Of
education; Antonio Lara, minister Of
public works, and Madame Dolores
Irriburi, Communist deputy, known as
La PASSIONATE"
Violation Of Policy Charged.
The French Nationalist charged the
presence Of the Spanish delegation
violated the spirit of the non-inter-
vention policy of the government Of
Premier Leon Blum, formulated after
the start of the civil war between the
Madrid regime and Fascist rebels.
Views of the Paris Nationalists were
expressed by the newspaper Echo de
Paris, a Righist organ. which charged:
This woman Ua Passionaria) and
her two companions have come to
France to try to obtain delivery of
arms, munitions and airplanes, and
recruit technicians."
Attaches Expulsion Recalled.
The paper recalled the French
government had expelled a military
attache at the Spanish Embassy in
paris who, after his resignation. had
been charged with negotiating on be-
half of the Fascist commanders. The
same treatment was demanded for
the Spanish delegation now in the
French capital.
Echo de Paris asserted Madame
Irriburi and her companions would
attempt to contact officials of the
French government and later would
60 to London.
The group, upon its arrival yes
terday, was met by q French Com
munist delegation headed by Deputy
Andre Marty.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
BRITISH MATRON
SET FOR SEA HOP
Mrs. Markham Hopes to Be
First to Make Solo Flight
Westward.
Ry the Associated Press.

ABINGDON, Berkshire, England.
September Her plane groomed for
solo Atlantic flight to New York,
Mrs. Beryl Markham, 33-year old
English society matron, awaited a
favorable weather report today for
take-of from the Royal Air Force
airdrome here.
The low winged, single motored
plane, The Messenger. was refueled
in readiness for the fight.
She will life the Queen machine into
the air the moment she is satisfied
with the weather, she said.
Mrs. Markham, mother of a 7-year-
old boy, hopes to be the first woman
to accomplish the westward crossing
alone-a feat few men have dared.
II know it is a difficult flight" Mrs.
Markham said recently.
But she said she was convinced Of
the future of Atlantic air service
and ! want TO be in 1t at the be.
ginning"
A background Of aerial exploits in
Africa prepared Mrs. Markham for
her great adventure.
Tall, blond and athletic, she be-
came a big-game hunter by air,
spotting animals for hunters on the
ground. She few from Africa to Lon
don three times, and recently was
pilot for a French financier.
She is the sister-in-law Of Sir
Charles Markham, colliery baronet,
and grew up in Kenya Colony.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
D. c. NAT|VEHEADS
FLEET Off SPAIN
Capt. W. F. Amsden, on
US. S. Quincy, Formerly in
Intelligence Office.

A native Washingtonian, Capt. Will
liam F. Amsden, today is the senior
ofdcer Of the Navy present in Spanish
waters, following the departure of the
battleship Oklahoma, which sailed from
Gibraltar yesterday for Norfolk, Va.
Capt. Amsden Is commander of the
cruiser Quincy. The Oklahoma, which
has been in Spanish waters recently
aiding in evacuating American citi-
zens, is commanded by Capt. William
A. Hall. She will reach Norfolk Sep
tember IL.
Born Here in 1884.
Capt. Amsden recently was on duty
at the Navy Department in the ONCE
of Naval Intelligence, leaving here
late last year in conjunction with the
fitting out of the Quincy at the Boston
Navy Yard. The Quincy was commis-
stoned June 8. Capt. Amsden was
born here September S, 1884, and was
appointed to the Naval Academy in
1902
His World War service brought
Capt. Amsden the Navy Cross. He is
a graduate of both the Army ana Navy
War Colleges. Prior to coming to
Washington on duty, he was executive
officer of the U. s. S. New York from
August, 1881, to June, 1888.
Sailed With Midshipmen.
The Oklahoma sailed from Anna
polls, Md, on June S with the mid
shipments practice squadron on a
cruise to Northern European ports.
The midshipmen aboard were trans
ferred to the Arkansas and Wyoming,
other vessels of the squadron, when
the Oklahoma was called upon, at
Cherbourg, France, on July %, to
undertake the Spanish assignment.
Normally the Oklahoma operates
with Battleship Division ! of the
Battle Force.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

frustrated by government submarine
which fired from the dock where il
was being repaired. The rebel air.
plane fed .Iithout dropping its full
load of bombs. officials stated.
Madrid's citiZenry, now accustomed
to the laundering explosions Of aerial
bombs and the blast Of anti-aircraft
pieces. walked quietly about the streets
after todays raid.
There was much grumbling, how
ever, over loss of sleep. f
Revision OF the membership of Pre-
mier Jose Giral Pereira's cabinet, ito
comply with demands of the present
circumstances" was outlined by q
high authoritative source.
The personnel changes, it was de-
clared, would be designed to give
representation to additional factions
of the Popular Front political coali-
ton.
Four Would Withdraw.
Four present ministers would with
draw, this source asserted. naming
the quartet as follows:
Minister of state, Justine Azcarate:
minister of public works, Antonio
Lara; minister of education, Marce-
limo Domingo, and minister of justice,
Manuel Blasco Garzon.
The new cabinet members were pro-
posed to include one Communist, one
Socialist, one representative of the
Confederation of Labor. and 1ndalecio
Prieto, Socialist leader, who formerly
held the ministries of public works
and finance.
The Socialist government, fighting
to suppress a Fascist revolution now
in its seWnth week, announced q
series of fresh victories in scattered
engagements with the rebels.
The war ministry reported officially
these victories:
Defeat of a column Of Moors at
Navalperal in the Guadarrama noun
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Melting Art Relics
For Bullets Urged
By Spain's Leftists
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADRID, September 1.-The
former Royalist newspaper A B
G, which has been taken over by
Leftist government newspaper
men, today published letters ask
ing that church bells and the
bronze from historic facades
around Spain be melted to make
bullets.
The newspaper commented:
almost all these monuments
constitute an ofiense, not only to
the liberal idea but also even to
art"
Fernando de los Rios, former
Socialist minister, simultane-
ously was named dean Of Madrid
University.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

tains north Of Madrid with 1876 Of the
insurgent supporters killed.
Badaj joz Advance Halted.
Hating of an insurgent advance in
Badajoz Province by government
fighting planes.
Ambush of rebel forces near Sierra
de Ronda, Malaga Province, by groups
Of armed farmers who killed %
Fascists and wounded many more
The farmers were reported to have
captured large quantity of arms and
ammunition.
Occupation Of the towns Of Alpu-
Evening star., 1936-09-01
PHONE RATE CUTS
| IN EFFECT TODAY
Reductions Ordered by Uti|i-
ties Commission Will
! Total $251,8O0.

Reductions in telephone rates
amounting to S25l 300, ordered last
week by the Public Utilities Commis-
sion, went into effect today.
The rate cut-apportioned among
approximately $4,000 subscribers, ac-
cording to the class of service they
use-was the result of negotiations
with the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. started about two months
ago when the commission found the
concerns return was in excess of
per cent.
The reduction was based on a prin-
eiple upheld by District Court in litiga-
tion over a cut of about $500000 ef-
fected in 1882. In that case the COM
missions reduction order was calcu-
lated to permit the company return
of 6 per cent on its investment and
the court held the order was not un-
reasonable.
Domestic Rates Cut.
Fifty-f1ve per cent of the new rate
cut has been applied to domestic
schedules and IS per cent to COM
mercial subscribers.
An entirely new residential service
Is provided. 1t is two-party fiat rate
of $3.50 a month. The subscriber
taking this service will have the ad-
vantage of an unlimited number OF
calls, just as the subscriber who pays
S420, but will be on two-party line
instead of a private line.
Individual Lines Reduced.
The individual fiat rate for private
line was reduced from $4.30 to $4.20
Subscribers having a two-party lin
1ted-message service will continue to
ay $225 month, but the number oi
calls is increased from 40 to As.
For the business service the indi-
vidual message charge is reduced from
80 messages a month at $3.50 to SO
for $3.50 The individual busines.
message rate also is changed from 100
messages a month at $3.50 to ITO
messages for the same price.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

jarreeds, Jubiles and Mieles In Al
meria.
Frustration Of q rebel attempt to
establish contact between two Fascist
columns near Oviedo.
A government-sponsored purge Of
Fascists and Fascist sympathizers in
Madrid continued as a popular tri-
bunal pronounced additional sentences
on prisoners brought before it.
One Of the defendants was reported
to be Rafael Salazar Alfonso, former
minister of the interior, who was ar
rested by q group Of Anarchists.