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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
Deputies And Local
Police Arrest Post
office Robbers
HeltOn Post Office And Roscoe
TeSterman'S Store Robbed
Last Friday Night

John Petty and Blame Blackburn
were lodged in the county Jail Sun
day afternoon charged with rob-
bling the post office at Helton and
Roscoe Testerman's store which is
in the same building as the post
office. According to Mr.. FISHERMAN,
only about four dollars was taken
from the post Office, but about sew
enty-five dollars was taken from
the store and about that much more
damage was done in wrecking the
store and its contents. The store
looked as if a wind storm had
struck it, according to those who
were first on the scene. The robbers
had deliberately torn up all they
could not take with them.
The boys were chased from. Sat-
urday morning until Sunday after
noon before they were finally ap-
pretended. Blackburn is said to
have gone to his home after the rob-
berry and been frightened away
without taking time to put his shoes
on and because of his barefoot con-
dition he was more easily tracked.
Those assisting the locul deputy
Frank Porter in arresting the boys
were David Burkett, Walter String
er, Otto Parsons, w. c. Baldwin,
w. C.. Thomas, Avery Ashley, Yes
Shumake, and c. P. Mcmillan.
Rumors are abroad that the boys
taken had hand in the Bina and
Tuckerdale post Office robberies.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
Zeb GanlbiLL Elected
Treasurer Of County
Dem. Executive Com.
Contributions From Those Who
Are In Sympathy With Party
, Are Welcomed

The Skyland Post is in receipt of
the following letter:
Editor of the Skyland POST Since
a number of people in recent weeks
have made inquiry of me as to the
proper person through whom to
make contributions to the Demo-
cratic Party in the County, and
since the County Democratic Exec
,utive Committee has not heretofore
had any duly designated Treasurer,
at a recent meeting of the said
Committee, Mr.. Zeb. v. Gambill,
the Secretary of the Committee,
was duly elected as Treasurer also.
Therefore, any person desiring to
make a contribution to the Party
for campaign purposes will please
make said contribution to Mr.. Gam
bill as Treasurer so that proper
credit may be given and proper rec
ords of such contributions may be
kept. The County Democratic Or
ganization welcomes any contribu-
tons from any person in sympathy
with the aims and purposes of the
Democratic Party and will appreci-
ate it if all persons having. any
money they desire used for that
purpose will place same in the
hands of the duly designated Treas
urer of the Committee.
IRA T. JOHNSTON,
Chairman,
Ashe County Democratic
Executive Committee.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
All High Schools
Except Three Are
~
Closed In County
Buses Unable To Make Usual Trips;
Superintendent Expects All
To Open Monday

ALI high schools in the county,
with the exception of Nathans
Creek, Elkland, and Healing Springs
have been closed during the past
week because of the extreme cold
and the condition of the roads
which makes it impossible for some
of the buses to travel.
Superintendent Miller regrets
that the school will be delayed in
letting out for summer vacations as
it may work a hardship on many
who plan to attend summer schools,
but the situation that has develop
ed has been impossible to avoid.
All schools are expected to re-
sumo their usual work next Mon
day.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
Bank Deposits Now
Largest In History

The comptroller of the curren-
cy reported in Washington this
week that national bank deposits
of $24,947,7 33, 900 at the close Of
1885 were the largest in history.
The total shown in condition
statements of 1892 active institu-
tions list December 81 exceeded
by 2.06 per cent the previous
peak by $5OO,353,OOO. That was
established December 81, 1928,
when 1855 active banks reported.
Officials attributed the upturn
primarily to heavy government
spending.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
GdnabiU To Fill
Vacancy Left By
Elder Edd DaUis

Mr.. Edd Davis who has been a
member of the County Board of
Education since April 1888, and
Chairman of the Board, has resign
ed as member of the County
Board of Education. Acting under
Section 5416 of the North Carolina
Code, the Ashe County Democratic
Executive Committee met and
unanimously elected Mr.. Zeb v.
Gambill as a member of the County
Board of Education to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Mr.. Davis.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
M0y Not Need NelU
Taxes TO Pay Bonus
Senate Asked To Make ApprOpria-
ton; Tax Program For Farm
Relief Is Delayed

An appropriation of $1,846, 100000
to pay the soldiers bonus was asked
in the Senate Friday-with word
from an administration spokesman
that it would not require new taxes.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat South
Carolina, introduced an amendment
to the independent Offices appropri-
alton bill to provide the funds for
paying the bonus out of borrowed
money. He issued a statement say
ing it would not require additional
taxes. D..
A short w 81 earlier, Represent
ative Pataas, Densgcrat of Texas,
filed a petition in the House design
ed to put that chamber on record
as to wheather the bonus should be
paid in new money.
House leaders claimed this move
as we'll as the companion infa-
tionary move to pay $3,OOO,OOO,OOO
of farm mortgages with new money
would be beaten. Twenty names
were reported on the Patman petit
ton when the House adjourned at
nightfall. Nearly 200 additional sig
natures would be required to force
vote on the question.
Meanwhile, perfection of the adj
ministration's tax program for fl
nancing the new farm plan was de-
layed at least until this week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
Accused Slayer
Is ACQUITTED

Kid Cam, former bootlegger
and accused slayer of Walter
Liggett - Minneapolis newspaper
publisher, was acquitted Tuesday
of first degree murder after a tri-
al that lasted several weeks.
Kid Cam, whose real name was
Isadore Blumenfeld, was definite
ly identified by the murdered
q mans wife as the killer. One 9TH
er witness to the murder identi-
fed him. Cams defense was cen
tered around an alibi that he was
in a BARRIERS chair at the time
and in no way near the crime.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
Prof. Martin To Be
Speaker At Church
In Jefferson Wed

Professor Joseph Martin, Princi-
pal of Lansing High School, will be
the visiting speaker at the midweek
service of the Jefferson Methodist
Church Wednesday night, Feb. 26.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

The island of Barbados in the
West Indies has no jungles, no for
ests, no mountains, no rivers, no
lakes but is the most density popu-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20
Number Of Farms
In North Carolina
Increase In Number
Allegheny County Shows Increase
In Ownership And Ashe
Slight Decrease

A recent issue of the University
of North Carolina News Letter re-
veals some interesting information
regarding farms and farm owner
ship in North Carolina and in the
various counties.
The 1895 census of agriculture re-
veals many INTERESTING facts about
agricultural conditions and trends
in North Carolina, especially in the
field of farm tenure.
In the first place, in line with the
national trend, there has been a
large increase in farms in the state.
North Carolina now has about three
hundred and one thousand farms,
or twenty-one thousand more than
five years ago. The increase has
been principally in the western part
of the state, frequently in the poor
er agricultural areas, which indi-
Gates return to the land by urban
unemployed to engage in subsistence
farming.
Probably the most interesting
fact revealed by the 1885 census of
agriculture is the large increase in
the number of farms operated by
full owners. From 1910 to 1880 the
entire increase in farms in North
Carolina was more than accounted
for by the increase of tenants alone.
From 1920 to 1890 North Carolina
had a loss of 1902 farms operated
by full owners, and an increase of
20,156 farms operated by tenants.
During the last five years the num-
Der of farms operated by full own
ers has increased from 115,765 to
128, 1894, and farms operated by part
owners have increased from 25,680
to 29,717. On the other hand, the
farms operated by all tenants have
increased from 1888 to 142, 1873,
and farms operated by cropper ten
ants have actually declined from
69,091 to 66,393.
The following table, based on the
1885 census, giving Ashe and neigh
boring counties is of interest:
First column, No. Farms; Second
column, % Owners; Third column,
90 Part Owners; Fourth column,
% Tenants.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

The Woman's Club will hold its
February meeting Friday, the 18th
with Mrs. c. D. Neal entertaining.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

Col. willard T. Chevalier, vice
president of the McGraw Publish
ing company, who was elected
president of the American Road
Builders association for the year
beginning in May at the annual
convention of society at Cleveland,
Ohio. Colonel Chevalier will lead a
or-Ordinated campaign of the
American Road Builders to reduce
motor vehicle deaths and accidents
on our highways through an engi-
neering analysis of this problem.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

Just few years ago Clyde III.
Melton Of Devine, Texas, headed a
$3,5OO,O 100000 enterprise and was
known as the "WOrld's Bermuda
Onion King" The depression came,
bank failures wrecked the financial
structure of business, and today he
is fighting his way back to ecOnOm-
ic independence as a salesman Of
toys in a store in Pasadena, Calf.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

WOMAN's CLUB TO MEET 2STH
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-20

ADVERTISE in The Skyland
Post. the only newspaper that
IS printed in Ashe county, and
the newspaper with by far the
best subscription list Of any
paper circulated in the county
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
INCREASE DAIRYING. SAYS
THE MILK INSTITUTE

The Milk Institute of Imperial Val
ley IS to be highly congratulated upon
Its enllghtening and important record
for the first year of its existence and the
excellent need which it is so capably
filling for the dairy industry. The re-
port made Wednesday by president Wal
ter Havekorst related many accom-
plishments effected in cooperation with
other agencies. These include the sue
cessful efforts by institute leaders in
Guiding r. B. Whiteaw, Earl Northrup,
Walter Mcdonald and Robert Hays to
keep the San Diego market open for val
ley milk producers; obtaining the coop
Grafton of the Imperial Valley Associa-
ton in financing proven and tested
herds; aiding the Imperial Valley Milk
Producers association in shipping mar
ket cream to Los Angeles; working with
the County Board of Supervisors and DR..
Warren +. Fox, county health officer,
in the formulation of necessary speclfl-
cations to meet the requirements of the
many potential markets; and countless
other efforts in behalf of the industry.
The organization has been increased to
include many hundreds of businessmen
1t is making the local public realize more
the Importance of dairying to the Val
ley. That dairying faces many problems
cannot be doubted. Such hurdles go with
any and all fields of endeavor. 1t would
appear, however, that the difficulties
facing this industry are comparatively
small in view of the fact that the one
essential of any successful business,
namely a big demand, already is over
come With demand for 1000 gallons
of milk daily going begging, and the pos
sibility that such may increase steadily
in the near future the dairVman can de-
pend upon being able to sell his product
to ready buyers That Imperial Valley,
once leading dairying section of the
state, should drop back to sixth place,
is to be regretted. Instead of the $4,000
head of dairy cattle here, there are but
10000 today, which number faces fur
Their depletion. Not only would the Val
ley as a whole be benefited by turning
the tide upward but, judging from the
reports of the Milk Institute, it would
be wise business for those participating.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
Marketing Company
Cleared of Blame

The Growers Marketing COM
pany of Los Angeles was cleared
Of blame in the damage suit ,
brought against that company and
Robert Y. Kim by % growers of
Imperial Valley, according to
decision received Wednesday from
c. j. Carey, chairman of the div
ision Of market enforcement.
Carey's decision set forth that
the marketing company had not
purchased produce from the grow
ers but had purchased the prod
ucts from Kim. Kim, the evidence
showed, had net been the agent of
the company, but had handled the
products upon his own responsible
ity.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

elf-conSciouS. Recently it is told,
she stepped out of her temporary
hotel home, sWathed in rare furs,
to- walk across the sidewalk to her
limousine. Half way she stopped,
stamped her foot, and inquired
petulantly: Where are the photo
graphers?"
Nothing's SO distracting as COL
umn suddenly bucking at the last
paragraph. Often one arrives there
lickety-split and zipl like that,
come to a complete stop. The
trouble is that most OF us try to
put a little English on the final
fling. You know, duke it up! When
the sensible thing is to go right
along in even jog. If they have
read up to the last paragraph they
will keep right en- reading, just
as you are doing now.
An annoyance tinged with the
menace of stark danger becomes
increasingly prevalent at New York
first nights. This is the lighting
of matches and pocket lighters
during darkened moments to read
programs. It's a fire law violation
with a severe penalty. John Ander-
son, critic, eportS London din
gus called the glowgramme, a pro-
gram in white lettering with a
purple background reaabe in a
dim lights.
Few Americans journeying to
London have not shared the friend
ship of Bucky Taylor. He is past
all possibility of cure, greeter
And hopes for nothing save one
has good time. For twenty years
he has been indulging this passion
to make strangers feel at home in
perfidiouS Albion. He is one of
the few who can produce the shy
Thomas Burke and even overcome
his neurosis for making a speech.
Everybody knows him, the Prince
Of Wales calls him Bucky and the
stars want him at their openings
because they believe his presence
lucky. Lucky Bucky!
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23

NEW DIRK, Jan. 23.-Book low
ers are in a lather about crazy
titles. They are annoyed by the
fad not only to make the name
of a book abusive but in instances
to bestow no meaning whatever
on the text. A striking example,:
Duranty's 81 Write as I Please"
Yet he confesses in his book he
does not write as he pleases.
Many bibliophiles believe Rob
inson Crusoe" is the most satisfy
ing of titles. Defoe started the
vogue of naming his volume fer
the central character. And it has
been followed by Fielding, Scott
and many others along with the
more modern Sinclair Lewis with
"DodsWorth."
Winnifred King Rugg, who has
made a study OF titles past and
present, finds that Jane Austen
started twin titles with Pride and
Prejudice" followed by "Wives
and Daughters" etc. My personal
choice for top in titles is Death
in the Afternoon" the bull fight
book by Hemingway.
The poet Shelley has been ms
piration for many titles. Such as,
If Winter Genes" and "a Dome
of Many Colored Glasses" There
can be no lawsuits over the name
of a book. A title cannot be copy
righted. A title may annoy read
ers but rarely the publishers.
What's in the book is the thing.
The legal see-saW ever the Gus
tody of the young Gloria Wander
bilt has had the inevitable result.
The child has become amazingly
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23

Every SO often Stubby was cued
into the scene, and had to stagge-
off with his bottle to be background
for the fetching Simon, who was
quarreling with stage soldiers up
front.
Although Stubby's parents were
German, he was born and raised in
Honolulu, and rose to water fame
with the first flight of Hawaiian
wonder swimmers led by Duke Ka-
hanamoku.
They all swan together at the
Healani boat club, and as boys many
of them, including Stubby, used to
dive for coins tossed by tourists off
inbound steamers. In 1920 Stubby
was world backstroke champion
He cleaned up at the Olympics in
Antwerp.
Not many amateurs did as we'll
as did" said Stubby, returning
But then I give EN- a complete
act, with comedy diving. These
amateurs today don't make much
dough. I guess they just haven't
got the color.
Why did I turn pro? Well, I
wasn't getting much younger, Che
is IS now, and seen I was going
to get knocked off. An amateur
can't make much after he's been
knocked off.
so I turned pro. Lots of times
I doubled for Douglas Fairbanks and
Joe E. Brown in diving scenes. Then
I've made some comedy diving
shorts, belly-floppers off high plat
forms, and that. I tour around with
Johnny Weismuller sometimes, do
ing exhibitions, and between times,
there are always extra parts.
No. I don't do so bad-but it's
not like the good ole amateur days"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
Is YEARS AGO
January %, 1921

Mark Rose, director of the I'm
perial Irrigation district from the
HoltVille district, will arrive in the
city this morning from Washing
ton, d. c., where he has been dur
ing the past few days, securing af-
fidaVits from various government
officials to substantiate the justice
OF the award made to the Impe-
rial Laguna Water company by the
Secretary of the Interior.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
News
behind the neuVs
= WOODROW WILSON {.
= SENATE SPLIT -. :.
= PROBE COLLAPSE Z.
= NEUTRALITY LAWS
By RODNEY BUTCHER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON.-On the conten-
| ton that the memory of woodrow
Wilson has been besmirched may
rest the fate of strong neutrality leg
| islation at the present session Of
Congress.
A serious split in the Senate Mum
itions committee over criticism OF
the acts of Wilson and other Amer
lean statesmen threatens to cause
collapse of the inquiry conducted for
two years in to the world arms traf-
fic and World war financing.
The success which semed so near
may be snatched from Senator Ger
aid P. Nye, who has labored inces-
sanity since 1884 for a stringent
neutrality law. The lions share OF
the credit for the inquiry goes to
the North Dakota Republican, the
only senator who could be persuad-
ed to fight for investigation of the
powerful munitions industry.
Not only has the committee head,
ed by Nye uncovered convincing ev-
idence of the need of laws to keep
the country at peace, but Nye has
made more than hundred speeches
over the country, pushing home the
neutrality doctrine and outlining the
sequence of development that sent
us into the conflict in 1917.
= 4
1T seems certain that neither the
administration nor Congress would
have acted without the spur of
strong public sentiment Nye did
more than anyone else to provide
that spur.
Although recent hearings have
disclosed Vaccinations by American
statesmen without which, many au-
thorities say, we might have avoided
war, and revealed the Morgan firm
as an instrument of financial-in-
dustrial process which made war ap-
parently inevitable, Nye declares, Il
have never before tried so hard to be
without prejudice"
He and Senator Bennett Champ
Clark of Missouri assert that they
have had no desire TO smear" any
one.
Their idea has been to show, they
0boLC3 LlIdJ Vic 4lDI gains were ODcI-
ating during the World war just as
they would operate again in a sim
liar case were there no neutrality
law, and that Wilson, as he came to
favor the Allies over the Central
Powers, was virtually helpless under
the pressure Of trade, traffic, and
finance.
THE morgan partners, who made
vast profits from the war, are as
fiercely patriotic and pro-Ally as
ever. Senator Bennett Clark of Mis-
souri, spent an afternoon running,
by historical citations and hitherto
secret documents, their contention
that German submarine warfare
alone plunged us into conflict.
If Wilson and Lansing had been
as stern with England as with Ger
many, he showed, unrestricted sub
warfare probably could have been
avoided
It was then that handsomely
groomed Mrs. George Whitney, wife
of one OF the chief Morgan partners,
turned TO companion and whisper
ed:
rs Senator Clark a German?"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
STROLLS THRU HOLLYWOOD
BIZ HENRY SUTHERLAND, United Pres

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. %. QU.H -
Movie studios are sailors snug har-
bors" for dozens of former topflight
amateur athletes caught in the
stretch by old Pop Time.
Among them is Harold (Stubby)
Kruger, Honolulu Dutchman, who
held a hatful of world swimming
records a decade ago, but who yearns
for the good old days when he made
real money.
Stubby is an extra, working be-
hind a struggling beard as a For
eign Legionnaire in the goth Cen
tury-FoX Under Two Flags" Vic
McLaglen and Simone Simon, a
couple of other good actors, are al
so in the picture
Sure, you make nice dough III
this movie business" said Stubby,
twitching his needle French bayo-
net to a more attractive angle, but
it's nothing like what used to get
as an amateur.
How did amateurs make money?
oh, the usual way. You did your
stuff, and people gave it to you. 1t
was all in cash, too. You didn't
have TO fool around with checks.
Il was always a cinch for 500
a week the year round. Then there
were special occasions, like when
Tex Rickard opened that pool in
New York in 1921 Now there was
a guy. Amateurs never had bet
ter friend than Tex Richard -
Clutched Tea Bottle
While talking Stubby leaned on
the corner of a bar in French
Moroccan estaminet set, clutching
a bottle of tea labelled Win Rouge"
Your correspondent sat on a flight
of pseudo stone stairs, around =
corner from the camera, and con-
versed in whispers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23

1t wasn't an ordinary ariplane
that crashed near Goodwin, Ark,
the other day, killing II persons.
1t was Shirley Temples Good Ship
Lollypop.'
American Anyways lent the twin
motored Douglas Ala to the studio
for exterior shots of Shirley'S
Bright Eyes" in which Jimmy
Dunn acted her father, an airmail
pilot. In a studio replica ri the
cabin, now smashed in an Arkansas
swamp, Shirley's aerial birthday
party was filmed, and she sang to
the crew:
ON the good ship Lollypop,
Full speed ahead to the candy
shop -.
And there you are.
Happy landings on a chocolate
bar"
Al Jolson and the Yacht club
boys do dance through city traf-
fic for the Warner Brothers Sing
ing Kid. Idea is that Jolson, Nee
Asa Yoelson), wants to sing his
Nanny" song, but nobody will
listen until all are tired out and
PROSTATE on the pavement. Scene
should have sympathetic reception.
90
Workmen are putting finishing
touches on a movie Heaven" for
The Green Pastures. It looks
like an Alabama camp-meeting
ground. Surrounded by synthetic
live oak trees draped with Spanish
moss. Nearby a gang of Scandin-
avian carpenters are building
"Noah's Ark.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
10 YEARS AGO
January %, 1926

Imperial Valley grapefruit won
the sweepstakes, silver trophy and
SIS cash prize at the California
Fruit Exhibit at Alhambra this
week. A number OF first prize
awards also went TO Imperial VAL
ley growers for individual displays
of oranges.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-01-23
L o O kin e
3 a c k W ar d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
20 YEARS AGO
January %. 1916

The greatest flood in the history
Of the Colorado river apparently
reaching 10000 second feet or g.
100000 miners inches is subsiding,
and at noon today Imperial VAL
ley had apparently escaped dam
age from the flood entirely.