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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Ildo CASoCSO d game
sanctuary in the state of Tennessee
I think that Republican introduced
the bill to try to protect the rem
nants of his party in that state.
I have not seen a missionary in so
long that I have forgotten what sort
of appetite cannibal has.
A dream is the imagination work.
ing overtime with an unbridled and
uncurbed nightmare.
Pilgrims Progress Puritans
leaving England on account of relig-
ious persecution. They brought the
persecution over here because that
they could not do it over there.
When a man gets it in his head
that he is thinker that is about all
he thinks about.
How do they expect to end an in
dustrial war with Madame Perkins
looking daggers at them.
When person becomes conscious
of his own brilliancy he gets to
blowing around and puts out his
own light.
That sit-down striker must think
he is bargain for that girl.
The way that the gibbon ape
bowls one would think that he
would be used as evolutionary proof
instead of the ape.
A man in Tennessee married a girl
nine years old and one in New York
a girl twelve They must be rehears-
ing for the old play called Cradle
Snatchers."
Mrs. Newlywed- "John, I don't
like your stenographer."
Mr.. Newlywed-'Now, dear, you
have no cause for jealousy, what
eveFi Why, that girl refused me four !
times before I ever met you'll"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

The legislature in Alabama has voted for a
sales tax. 1t held out against one, but money had
to be raised from somewhere, and a sales tax
seemed painless. The tax was adopted as an
emergency measure, as was the one in North
Carolina Alabama can live to learn, as have we,
that taxes once enacted into law are hard to do
without The only safe way is to cut down the
expense that calls for them.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Spring coats $5.95 to 1888; Lare-
est and best line of mems suits at
1915 to $21.00 in sizes up to 46; ALI
overcats and top coats at actual cost,
Largest and best line Of shoes, hats,
shirts, sweaters, piece goods, and
everything to wear for the whole
family at money-saving prices. Come
to McNeill'S Store, West jefferson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

answer and tied
himself to a radia-
tor until his girl
gave him an an
sWer. If he will
stay tied lon g
enough to the rad
iator and keep the
handouts on long
enough, he may
realize his grim
fate and back out.
The legislature
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

This wise owl has 1ugubrious ali
about him and no wonder. The bird
is deeply attached to Charles Kor.
net, of New York city, who found
him in Bronx park and made a pet
of him. But Charles, unable to care
for the bird, took it to the Bronx
ZOO, where he is pictured just be.
fore he said good-by to his feathered
pal. The owl likes his perch, which
provides a means of gauging his
size, which is inches tall; weight,
8 ounces.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Old Glass
Drill

Old Class Professor Beard does not want to
Drill deprive the Supreme Court of the
right to pass on acts of Congress. He
thinks President Roosevelt's plan "clever and
amusing" But he does see much good coming
out of the nationwide debate. Americans are
now busy delving into the fundamentals and
first principles of their government and history
and policy.
1t is in order to suggest that return to fun
damentals and first principles is not the only
good for a people every so often to return to
ordinary school-history names and dates and
votes. There is way of getting lost in pro-
found study of Forces and Interests and Trends.
Sometimes it is useful to recall the dates for
the bred Scott decision, John Brown and the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, as we had to memorize
them in school before memory work in school
went out of fashion.-New York Times
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Elizabeth Wilson

Elizabeth Wilson, seven-day old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
Wilson, died February 23rd, and was
buried the following Thursday with
Rev. L. C.. Stevens conducting the
services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
County Deaths
w. w. Phillips

w. w. Phillips died at his home at
Oval Wednesday after an illness of
about two weeks.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete late Wednesday afternoon.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
The Liquor
Vote


Vote that liquor is like murder, an evil
that the human race cannot get
along without but we still do not believe in
letting murders commit murder without pun
ishment just becaust it can't be stopped.
But, if we are going to have liquor, we can
not possibly imagine what the legislature was
thinking of to refuse statewide vote on the
matter. We should be either wet or dry. We have
just heard about the mess that we will actually
be in when one county under the same state
government votes wet and another votes dry!
Drys can take some consolation in the hope
that the mess will be so obnoxious that even
vets will be glad to join in voting out liquor by
another session of the legislature. The so-called
vets have their arguments as well as the dry
side but we fail to see any sensible argument
in the county option plan adopted last week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

There was a sit-down striker out
west for love. He insisted upon an
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
NUTS AND
KERNELS
By-
TROY I. JONES
TROY I. JONES

It rains on the just and unjust
alike. Sometimes more than either
one needs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Entered as secOnd-class matter on Oct. 1, 1925 at
the post Office at West Jefferson, North Carolina
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

A man in Tennessee married girl
nine years old and one in New York
a girl twelve. They must be rehears-
ing for the old play called Cradle
SnatcherS."
Evening star., 1937-08-11
MARYLAND Road Board Permits
SIGN H0n0riin Q Noted Mud Hole

With the full but unwilling sane
ton of the unsuspecting Maryland
State Roads Commission, Frederick
County farmers yesterday unveiled"
a huge signboard in honor of Mary
lands most famous bad road, accord
ing to an Associated Press dispatch.
At the most conspicuous point along
the Georgetown pike, between Fred
erick and Urbana, the Farm Neigh
bors' League has erected huge sign
urging motorists to:
See Americas most famous bad
road, the road that Gov. Nice promised
the farmers March IL, 1887, to be re-
built at once.
"See Dynamite Bend where an
auto was blasted from frozen mire-
five miles south-40 minutes from the
Nations proud capital"
Charles L. White, secretary OF the
league, organized several months ago
to negotiate for q new road, explained
that the State Roads Commission Is
Evening star., 1937-08-11

sued the permit to erect this sign
before reading the wording of it.
White promised that the wording
would be changed at intervals until
the road is repaired. Eventually it
may read:
Visit Maryland-the best cooking
and the worst roads in the world"
The Urbana- -Thurston road. about
mile long, is in the Sugar Loaf
Mountain district of Frederick County
and will be impossible this Winter
as it was last unless it Is repaired,
White declared
The motorist who furnished the
inspiration for the curve to be known
henceforth as Dynamite Bend"
worked for hours attempting to free it
from mud hole before taking up a
collection from drivers of cars lined
up behind MIN. He bought several
sticks Of dynamite to blast out his
stalled machine. He succeeded In
. blasting it out, but also wrecked it.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
DR.. MANN STARTS
BACK FROM INDIES
S. S. Silverash Transformed Into
Latter-Day Noah's Ark. Is Word
From Zoo Director.

With veritable "Noah's Ark" load
of rare animals, birds and reptiles, DR..
William NJ Mann and his companions
on a collecting expedition have sailed
for home from Medan. Sumatra, on
the other side of the world, aboard the
S. S. Silverash.
The National Geographic Society,
which, with the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, sponsored the expedition, an
nounced that the ship should dock at
Baltimore late in September after 4
voyage via the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean. No list of the many
animals was available, but DR.. Mann
promised some surprises" for Zoo
fans when he arrives here.
DR. Mann is accompanied by Mrs.
Mann, DR.. Maynard Owen Williams,
Geographic staff representative; NAL
colin Davis. keeper of the Zoo bird
house, and Roy Jennier, keeper of the
reptile house.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
HOMESTEAD STRIKE
PEACE is REPORTED
West Virginia Communities De
z, lie to Present United Front
in Dispute.
BY the Associated Press.


E1.KINS, w. Va, August ll.-Both
sides of the inner community conflict
which developed in conjunction with
the strike at the Tygart Valley home
steads buried the hatchet" today and
awaited word from Washington to re-
store homestead operations to nor
malcy.
L. O. Baker, secretary of the home
stead association which called off its
two-Week-old strike. and c. l. Heck
ert, secretary Of the non-strikerS
group, wired Milo Perkins. acting Fed
eral reSettlement administrator, that
united We stand
Perkins had urged both groups to
settle their differences and present "a
united homestead front" before agree
ing to resume construction of "a new
houses on the homesteads which was
halted by the strike called to protest
'inefticiency and waste" by the Re-
settlement Administration.
; Heckert's group demanded yester-
day that Robert z. Wilson, outspoken
leader of the strikers, be asked to
leave the community.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
AL JOLSON ENDANGERED
AS BOTTLE is HURLED
Ruby Keeler in Peril, Too, and
Chico Marx Slightly Cut in
Affair at Prize Fight.
~ the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 11.-Police
jailed Theodore Watts, 26, early to-
day on suspicion of throwing an empty
liquor bottle that endangered Al Jolson
and Ruby Keeler and slightly cut
Chico Marx when it splintered against
the Olympic Auditorium boxing ring.
The bottle crashed over the heads
of ringsiders in the seventh round of
the main event, between George God
frey, colored heavyweight, of Leiper-
vile, Pa, and Hank Hankinson, Ak
ron, Ohio. Referee Max Baer stopped
the fight while officers searched the
balcony.
Visibly shaken, Jolson clapped on
his straw hat, while Miss Keeler, his
wife, brushed glass off her dress. They
left Immediately, but the piano-play-
ing Marx brother and Mrs. Marx
stayed for the fight. Marx suffered a
slight scratch on his arm.
Refreshed by the 2-minute rest,
Hankinson made short work of God
frey. The 265-pound colored man
went down for nine in the eighth and
his seconds threw in the towel. Hank
inson weighed 215.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
STRANSKY CHILD
WITH HEREAFTER
Parents Lawyer Reports
Little Girl, Taken From
Mother, Is Safe.
Picture on Page B-l.)

A battle for custody of their Swear
old daughter, begun year ago in
Singapore, was climaxed yesterday aft
ernoon when DR.. Pavel Stransky, dis
tinguished choslovakian diplomat,
went unannounced to East Falls
Church, Va. home of his estranged
wife, Mrs. Anna Henry Stransky, and
drove off with the child
Dr. stransky's attorney, James R.
Murphy, reported to the Missing Per-
sons Bureau of the Washington, Police
Department that the girl, Mary Pey-
ton Stransky, is in the custody of her
father, well taken care of and safe.
Murphy declined to say whether the
diplomat had left Washington with
her
Alter the girl was spirited away
from the home of her grandfather.
Rev. j. B. Henry, retired Methodist
minister, her mother went to Minister
Vladimir Hurban of Czechoslovakia
and asked his assistance in regaining
custody of the child
The diplomat informed Mrs. Stran-
sky that if DR.. Stransky was in Wash
ington, he came in an unofficial ca
pacity and did not announce his pres
ence to the legation. Dr. Stransky
Is in this country in the course of his
transfer from Singapore to his native
city, Prague.
Mrs. Stransky, who returned from
Singapore with her daughter about a
year ago, has petitioned the Arlington
County Circuit Court for Mary's
custody. The petition was contested
by the father, and the case will be
brought up at the Fall term of the
court
The mother, who is employed as an
assistant in the Office of DR.. Charles
F. Kincheloe of Falls Church, was
away at work, she said, when two
automobiles turned into the driveway
and stopped in front of her grand
fathers home, where the child was
playing in the yard.
Mrs. Stransky said the only witness
was her brother, Province Henry. about
25, who had never seen DR.. St.ansky.
| The brother said the front car con-
tained two men wearing dark glasses,
while the other machine was occupied
by only one man.
Child Held Taken F0rcibIy
Henry had supposed the men stopped
to ask directions until one of them
suddenly leaped from the front ma
chine, seized the child, placed her in
| the machine and sped away. Mrs.
StranSky said her daughter kicked and
screamed as she was carried away.
Murphy, however, said he was as
sured by the father that his daughter
voluntarily entered his car and &C
companied him after he called to her
Murphy said Mrs. Stransky left Singa-
pore with the girl while her husband
The attorney for the husband said
he was hopeful of effecting a recon-
ciliation between the estranged
couple.
Mrs. Stransky, however, laughed at
the possibility of reconciliation" D."
She said the matter was in the hands
of her attorneys and she was conf
dent they would win the immediate
return of her daughter
Murphy said he did not know
whether the father planned to take
the child out of the United States
prior to settlement of the custody
petition in court. The attorney
would not reveal DR.. Stransky's pres
ent whereabouts.
The couple was married about 10
years ago while DR.. Stransky was first
secretary of the legation here. Later,
the diplomat was assigned. to Singa-
pore as consul
Evening star., 1937-08-11

Paul. a son by former marriage,
had taken his Stepfather's name.
Paul told police his father seemed
to think at times that some people
were after him.
A neighbor said the older daugh-
ter, Charlotte, told her recently that
her father had been worrying about
money and had said he didn't know
how he was going to buy clothes for
the new baby
Friends at the Webster School,
Tenth and H streets. where he had
been employed since September, 1884,
said Givaudan had been worrying
about something" for almost a year.
He always had been a faithful worker,
they said.
Mrs. Harold J. Monahan, another
neighbor, took Paul to her home and
told police she would take the girls
there when they awoke
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said he would issue a certificate of
suicide.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
.NEAR-R|OT FLARES
At D. {. HEARING
Attorney HoIzWorth Elected
by Police After Hot
Words Fly.

A wild disturbance bordering on a
riot marked a special meeting of the
House District Committee today as a
result of efforts by John NJ Holzworth,
attorney, who has had several en-
brief career in Washington, to make a
speech against the wishes of the men,
bers.
Holzworth, who figured for a while
in efforts to save Thomas Jordon,
convicted slayer of Mrs Elizabeth
Jaynes, from paying a penalty for the
crime in the electric chair, was
forciblv elected from the committee
room by Capt. jeremiah A. Sullivan
of the fourth precinct, before order
was restored.
A few minutes after the committee
convened HolZWorth arose from a
front seat and started to speak Chair
man Palmisano advised him the meet
ing had been called for a specific pur-
pose and that anything he had to say
would be taken up under new buSi-
ness"
Hot Words Fly.
1T isn't new business" shouted
HolzWorth. Il want to talk about a
matter that has been before your
committee for two and half months
Palmisano ordered his secretary to
get policeman to throw" Holzworth
out.
You're nothing but fXer and a 60
between, and you have been ever since
you've been chairman of this commit
tee? barked Holzworth.
Holzworth continued his TRADE and
Representative Sacks, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania screamed for regular
order" A moment later Representa-
tive Arnold. Democrat, of Illinois
joined in the demand for regular
order"
Throw him cut" said Arnold.
Hes faker You should never
have given that man an opportunity
to appear before the committee"
You're q faker yourself" replied
Holzworth.
Direct and Flank Attacks.
Arnold leaped from his chair
Come on, let's take him out" he
shouted as he started in the direction
of HolZWorth. Sacks and Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal simultaneously
advanced also.
BY that time Capt Sullivan, who haG
| just left the committee room aftel
| appearing as witness before specia
subcommittee Of the District Commit
! tee returned at the request of Palmi
| sano's secretary, pinned one arm be
hind the shouting lawyer and led hin
from the room.
| Capt. Sullivan escorted Holzwortl
to the elevator in the House Offic,
Building and warned, Now get ou
and don't come back, big boy. The,
don't want you in there
At one point during the hubbut
| Holzworth invited the committee mem
bers to come outside and settle it."
Holzworth was arrested on the Cap
itol steps last week for displaying {
| banner. He is scheduled to appear II
Police Court this afternoon to answer
this charge.
Several months ago he was forcibly
| elected from District Court.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
d. c. School Engineer Leaps
To Deatl, as Stepson Pleads
Stands on Root ? Hours
Before SOmersaulting
to Ground.

A 48-year-old public school steam
engineer, respondent over financial
matters, somersaulted 20 feet to his
death today after refusing to heed the
pleas of his 14-year-old stepson as
he stood on roof outside the boy S
bed room.
The man, Charles Givaudan, father
of three other children-one born only
last Friday-stood on the roof over
the kitchen of his home, at 1882 Mon
tello avenue northeast, for almost two
hours, neighbors said.
The boy, Paul, saw his stepfather
outside his window when he awoke.
The man talked with him for almost
quarter of an hour, Paul said, bab-
bling lncoherently at times, before
diving to the ground His body turned
a complete somersault, striking the
ground head-on.
Two of his children, Dorothy, 10. anC
Charlotte, II, We're asleep in another
bed room at the front of the home
They were not awakened immediately
the stepson asking that they not be
told of their fathers death until later.
Paul pleaded with his stepfather al
most 10 minutes, then went downstairs
and out to neighbor's house to sum-
mon police Returning to the room
he found Givaudan still standing OF
the roof.
L couldn't understand much Wha
he was talking about" Paul said. u
kept telling him to come back in the
room, but he didn't seem to hear me.
just as Policemen R. w. Smith anc
H. M. Hilldrut stepped into the youth:
bed room they saw the man leap
they said. A Casualty Hospital ambu-
lance was called, but Givaudan was
dead when it arrived
Givaudans wife Margaret, Al. gave
birth to her fourth child last Friday
She is still in Gallinger Hospital
Evening star., 1937-08-11
area in Idaho
4 Mile Square
Starts Sinkir,g
By [ be Associated Press


BUHL Idaho, August 1-Almost
before eyes of watchers, land area
approximately one mile square is sink
ing away. Farmers in the area eight
miles from here are hastily harvest
ing crops.
Il cut grain in the new valley all
day, at times within six PAGES of the
edge where assures several feet wide
were opening, and you could actually
see the land sinking said Farmer H.
A Robertson
One l0acre cOrnfield has dropped
200 feet within the last two weeks, a
neighbor said
Horton B. Abel, geologist, studied
the area today.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
SKIPPER DENIES CHARGE
CREW LACKED FOOD
Sailor Asserts Water Was Ra-
toned, Provisions Ran
Out Quickly.
By the Associated Press

BY tne Associated Press.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, August
1.-THE four-masted schooner Her.
bert L. RaWding came home yester-
day at the end of towline, with
captain and crew members disagree
ing over whether there had been a
food shortage during the 29-day voy-
age from Newcastle, New Brunswick.
Seaman Joseph Henry of New Bed
ford. taken to Marine Hospital for
stomach ailment, said water had
been rationed out at two drinks daily
for several days, while thermometers
were close to 100. He said provisions
ran out early because the steward had
provided for only 12-day trip.
Robert w. Rickson of Maiden. cap
tain, asserted the vessel carried
enough water and staple provisions
for six months. He said she was
held up by winds in the Straits OF
Canso, and on August l ran into q
gale off Cape Sable which disabled
her rudder The Coast Guard cutter
Algonquin took her in tow l20 miles
east of CAPE Cod.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, August 1.-THE execu-
ton of 70 alleged Far Eastern Railroad
wreckers accused of conniving with
the japanese secret service was re-
ported today by the Irkutsk newspaper
East Siberia Pravda"
The executions followed others in
series, but the group was one of the
largest to be executed in Soviet Rus
sia S far-flung Siberian purge
Now the total of known executions
in this Far Eastern campaign to root
out spies and wreckers is 800.
The IrkuLsk band was described as
made up of Trotskyist, Rightist ter
rorists who wrecked trains along the
Siberian Railway at the behest of the
japanese intelligence service, thus
weakening Soviet transportation in the
case of war with Japan.
They were charged with causing
one wreck in which IA persons were
killed and many injured. The victims
were workers and their families, en-
route to settle the new town of Kom-
somol
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Man, "a, Sues Bride, 35.

MACON, Ga, August II (P).-R. T.
Perry, "a, filed a petition for divorce
against his 35-year-ol6 bride yesterday,
stating he is ito old to stand the cruel
treatment of his wife" whom he mar
ried May 49,
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Summary of Today's Star

FOREIGN.
japanese warships choke Whangpoo
River at Shanghai. Page Al
Soviet executes 70 railway WreckerS in
purge. Page Al
Zionists vote to negotiate with Britain
on Palestine. Page AS
NATIONAL.
Rail unions and company heads in
wage parley. Page Al
Reorganization program dead this ses-
sion, Byrnes says. Page Az
Hint of Fall session seen in Roosevelt
farm loan comment. Page AZ
Presidents voice missing from chorus
of harmony pledges. Page A-3
Coal freight rate cut would bankrupt
railroads, says Young. Page A
This promises to be big year for COM
cts; seven seen already. Page AS
Committee O. ks bill to give President
reorganization power. Page AZ
Accused teacher denies teaching evo-
luton. Page BIS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
D. c. crippled children denied security
benefits due them Page Al
Man plunges headlong to death as step
son pleads with him. Page Al
Committee recommends reinstatement
of Cole as policeman. Page AZ
Zoo receives seven rare dwarf kangaroo
rats, all tame Page AZ
Five local bills to be reported favor
ably to Senate. Page As
D. c. Guardsmen observe regimental
day ceremonies. Page AS
Western Maryland combed for trio Of
Brady gangsters Page AS
Seven prisoners In Cecil Jail saw locks
and escape. Page Ala
Evening star., 1937-08-11
S65, 900 in Lumber Burned

WILLOW GROVE, Pa, August II
P).-Fire swept through lumber
yard of the Dyre Meyer Coal 4.
Lumber Co. today, causing damage
estimated by flremen at &s5,o00. Two
f1remen were slightly injured.
Evening star., 1937-08-11

LAWRENCE. Mass, August II (P).
Mrs. Isabella Diblas, 32-year- -old
divorce. who had been unconscious
since found Monday morning with the
lifeless bodies of her three children in
their gas-filled home, died today an
hour before the scheduled time Of the
chtldrens flneralS.