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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
PIRATE BELLIES
 ON JACQUESSTACE
Amy FOng, Chinese Stage Star Heads Burlesque
 Unit Next Week

Engagement of the beautiful and exotic Chinese dancer, Amy Fong, for the entire coming week, Monday
 through Saturday is considered a "ten-strike" by the local manage -ment of Jacques Theater who will present her with the Pirate Belles" company Monday matinee, and in the eening, and twice daily through out the remainder of the week.
 Burlesque patrons who saw the loely Chinese girl last year will be abck to see her again while the noelty of her appearance will at- tract hundreds of additional thea ter-goers who will see her for the first time. In addition to Amy Fong, the company includes the clever comedian, Jack Diamond, in addi- tion to a dozen other principals and chorus of 16 girls, brightly cos- tuned and able ot entertain in ex- cellent fashion. Harry Shuttle" Levan, the team of Honey and Tod dy, Chick Hunter and the trio of Hayes, Haige and Howe, are among the entertainers who will make the presentation of Pirate Belles one long to be remembered by local theater patrons, who like the lively attitude of burlesque presentation in show in which singing, danc- ing, modelling, and comedy is we'll balanced and ably staged.
 Therefore, there is excellent req soin for the confidence of the Jacques Theater management to ex- pect steady turnout next week, most of the patrons, attracted, of course, by the lovely Chinese star, Amy Fong, who likes Waterbury and its people for the manner in which she was so well-received year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood-All over the lot: The acsor who's most talked about k Hollywood these days, and who draws the biggest galleries when he works, is Charlie Mccarthy. Wooden he may be, and 8 dummy.
 But then" queries Edgar Ber-
 gen, his mentor, whats the aver-
 age movie hero, after all?"
 Mccarthy and Bergen (you mo- tice that even l give the dummy
 top billing) have been under con-
 tract to Universal for some time
 now and the studio hasn't been able to do anything more con- StrUctive with them than rent
 them to Sam Goldwyn for his
 .'Follies." You'd think, though, by the way Charlie takes to screen acting that he's an old-timer in
 the business.
 Bergen isn't so sure of himself. Mccarthy sits on his knee and seems glib enough, but Bergen forgetS his own lines.
 When that happens, Charlie
 looks up at him and sneers,
 ,"Whatsa matter, didn't you read
 the Script?"
 When Bergen'S makeup runs, a mae-up man runs over and ad- ministers first aid with paint brush and powder puff. McCar- thy Sneers again and says, "Think you're pretty handsome, don't you?"
 And the things that Mccarthy says to the gals! And how they like 1t! = Andrea Leeds, Ella Lo- gan, zorina, the premiere dan- seuse with whom Charlie has a love scene, and the chorus girls. Bergen just sits quietly and looks apologetic and embarrassed. It's the Humidity
 On the "Buccaneer" set, Cecil DeMille is staging a scene in the Barataria swamps. The set looks very real and, incidentally, was insatlled by the jungle and swamp expert, Charles A. Reese, whom I mentioned in a recent piece.
 Pelicans are perched on a log beside turgid stream. The hu- midity is so great that it's faintly visible in wiSps of vapor. Big trees are dripping with Spanish moss: .
 DeMille is arranging the set-up through the camera finder, and in his riding brooches and laced boots and open shirt, he looks very much the big director, but when he reprimands Evelyn eyes for not paying attention to his dircc- ton, he sounds like a school teacher.
 Peach of ''Whopper"
 Carole Lombard's left eyebrow plays a big part in her new picture, True Confession" She plays the role of a prodigious liar, and according to the script she must twitch her left eyebrow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
STRAND

Performances this evening wind up the engagement at Warner Bro- thers' Strand theater of Wee Willie Winkie" with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen also "Mr. Dodds Takes the Air" with Kenny Baker.
 Tomorrow's new show will be headlined by Kay Francis in the most highly emotional picture of her brilliant career.
 It is the Warner Bros. drama confession, adapted from the famed European play "Mazurka," !" which had sensational runs in the Continental capitals. The story concerns a famous opera singer who kills her betrayer in order
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
ONE for the tab feature eds :

0NE for the tab feature eds: " Byron Scott, youngest member of the Stock Ex- hange (his grandpa founded the nationally known paper ,product) is wooing Orpheum Dancehall Beauty, M a b e l Stewart The loud blast in Hollywood the other after noon was the explosion be- tween Client Leo Carrillo and Agent Leo Morrison |. Snootiest semi-private club in filmdom is now being operat- ed by Ted Snyder formerly of the music firm of Waiter son, Snyder and Berlin) and the packer is Playwright Preston Sturges Former Columnist Paul Yawitz's first big pic for R. K. o. is Break fast for Two" starring Bar bara Stanwyck and Herb Mar shall :. Yrs ago, subbing for Robert Coleman of the Mir TOT, Yawitz reviewed "The Moose" and wrote: "She is the type of actress I'd like to write a play for" Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hep burn have turned off the frig- idaire-but 1 gets you 10 it won't last. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

Now word drifts thru that if Marta Rocafort presses her divorce suit against Count Covadonga, her papa and entire clan have threat ened to disown her Is it true that the American Legion would not accept President Roosevelt as an &C., tive member because, although Asst Sec'y of Navy during the war, he wasn't actually a member of the navy? Sounds screwy! -.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

Agent Paul Small booked Bell Bakers and Editor Elias Sugar. mans honeymoon trip-into the Chez Farce in Chi Junior Laemmle has done 1t again-this time Phyllis Welch was on the receiving end of the proposal [. . One of the swankier East Side bistros has been barring Legion naireS While the proprietor was growing about keeping his place quiet and free from Legion
 hi- jinks, in strutted two LeEion-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
CoULEE CEMENT IMPORTED

Olympia, Wash.-UP)-Although Grand Coulee dam will be the big gest pile fo cement in the world, Washington has only six cement factories within its boundaries. These factories employed 3S6 men and produced $2.500,582 worth of cement in 1885. Coulee cement came from out of hte state, for the most part.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

naires from FIOrida-gaudy uni- forms and high spirits .. Accom- panied by the owners brother! ...
 Wealthy Louisa Carpenter, who arranged for TaIIulah Bankhead's wedding plane, presented the bride with 8 gold cig case on which was engraved a map show ing the course of the flight Tip to feature eds: Check on the smart gals of Manhattan-Irene Stephens, Cora Stephens and Georgia Moore, all former hat check pirates, who raised 60 Grand from Wall Street to open a night club, the WhirIing Top After the club was opened, they were called in by an airplane concern and offered fancy Salar- ieS to promote funds for the com pany ...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
NEW FASHIONS FOR ABORIGINES

Sydney (UP)-The fashion craze has reached Australia. One night the wind indicator, consisting of a long "sock" from the top of a pole, disappeared from the landing field at the Granites, a mining field. The next morning three female abori- zines apepared in white skirts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

The mama of the late interna- tional dancing star, Bee Jackson, Is now in charge of the wOmen'S powdering room at MariO's Mira dor The Edw. Jaffins join the pram- -pushers shortly (she's Pau line Lowe, Joseph Schenck's cou- s'n) Observation: Too many nations arc busy making war ssares-instead of making war scarce ...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
NEW fad sweeping Manhat

NEW fad sweeping Manhat- l\ tan - making animals out of cigarette tin-foil . Paper magnate Harry Gould and Lucille Love (among1 the towns gorjus models) were merged yesty by Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pc. cora Advance reports in- dicate that Leslie Howard gives the greatest perform ance of his career in the new Gene Towne-Graham Baker film, Stand h." Incident ally, Fay Garnett, who di- rected, journeys Down Mem. ory Lane in this col'm tomor- row Metro is bidding for Hello Sucker" the biog of Texas Guinan by John Stein and Grace Hayward, to be published shortly ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

More about that whisper that David and Waffle Simpson Wind sOr will become residents of WeStchester The informant hints the estate Is about IS miles outside of Mamar0neck-and has something like 30 acres Jack Buchanan arriving here shortly from London will find his former flame, Gloria Piere. sweeping over Bridge Expert Robert L. Apple yard (Herbert Hoover's c0usin).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

GEORGE RAFT flies in from " the Coast for the Cotton Club opening tonite The Harry Lanzners (he's pres. of the Park Central Hotel) have drifted Report is the French Casino will not reopen in Miami this season . Joan Alison, dtr. of Banker Levi ton, merges with her Dutch baron as soon as her final pa- pers come thru-but her war hero is threatened with dis inheritance when and if the elopements takes place-reli- gious differences The Worlds Fair will have Colleen Moore's famed dollhouse on exhibition Aimee Semple McPherson and her mgr, Giles Knight, their intimates insist, will take the altar march on or about Nov. 5th .
 Incidentally, Rheba Crawford has aired her church activities and en- listed with the Red Cross After all these yrs, Tommy Guinan and Sally ONeil have iced each other -. Fredric March's return to the Broadway stage in November will nick him about 250 gees Gin pic con- tracts set aSide) .. Description of Hollywood-a place where they take what you've got as soon as they dis
 cover you've got what 1t takes :.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25
THE VOICE OF Broadway By Louis Sobol-

During the illness of Walter WincneI confined to his hotel apartment Hollywood through The Waterbury Democrat vn carry Louis sobOrs place wncheH-EditOrl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

first time you will hear the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas set to modern musical setting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

Caryl Gould. the handsome lark, front-paged last VT. with Vic. Oliver, has shifted to Nite-ed Erie Strohl.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
EMPLOYERS FREE TO
WORK OUT SOCIAL
SECURITY RECORDS

WASHINGTON, February g.
Some INSCRIPTIONS or over-zealous
statesmen and business concerns are
working a wage record racket"
against employers, G. r. Parker,
regional director, region Nv, Social
Security board, warned today. Mr..
Parker said:
reports reaching the office of the
regional director of region ~, COM
prising the District of Columbia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia,
and West Virginia, indicate that
many employers are being imposed
on by over-zealous or INSCRIPTIONS
statesmen and concerns seeking to
sell one or another bookkeeping or
wage record system.
"Some of these systems are repre-
sented as official systems. Others
are said to be the system approved
by the Social Security board. The
fact is that no official system has
been devised or approved by the
Social Security board. Any state
ment to the contrary is a misrepre-
sentation.
Each employer is free to follow
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
Find Mother.
Baby Trapped
NEARBY Snow
Husband Missing After Leaving
Car to Go for Help on
Foot a Week Ago

1--WE must get food quickly for the
baby" Mrs. Maud Lanear, about 20,
gasped weakly when rescuers reach
ed the snowbound automobile in
which she and her two-year-old
daughter spent Is days with only a
bit of muSh and can of mustard
to eat.
Mother and daughter were crest
ing easily" in a hospital in Carson
city, Nevada, Sunday while search
ers sought traces of the husband,
Earl-missing for a week in the
Sierra Nevada mountains west of
Carson City.
II feel pretty good,' said Mrs.
Lanear of Nevada, Mo-, when a ski
party reached her stalled car eve
must get food quickly, though, es-
pecially for the baby"
Weakened by the narrowing ex-
perience, Mrs. Lanear was able to
speak only few sentences. eve
haven't eaten for three days." she
said. II had half a package of oat-
meal mush and a can of mustard.
When that was gone there was moth
ing to eat. We got water from snow,
and one day it rained and was able
to get a little rain water" She re-
ported her husband left the strand
ed car on foot a week ago to sum-
mon aid.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11

The critics who are contending that Cover
nor Hoey is not doing so well in getting the
Legislature to follow his recommendations must
have a notion that he is Houdini
1t would require the legerdemain of some
such wizard to get some of the Governors
recommendations through a General Assembly
that was against him and his policies before he
even took the oath of office
Governor Hoey recommended re-apportion-
ment and Eastern representatives in the Assem-
bly, nailed that right off, The East was aginst the
candidacy of Mr.. Hoey in the first place.
Governor Hoey recommended that the liquor
issue be settled by Statewide referendum, and
the same Eastern representatives have cliqued
to defeat that wise request.
When it comes to legislative enactments
Eastern North Carolina additionally and his
torically has its way.
Western and Central North Carolina must
continue, it appears, to be satisfied with the
honor of being financially able to pay the pre-
ponderance of all the taxes from which Eastern
North Carolina profits. Charlotte Observer
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11

Mountain boys and girls are known to be-
come excellent debaters and speakers when they
practice it. Many Of our leading business men
in the county today can point back to their
younger days when they won medals in various
high school or college debates or defamation
contests.
Are we neglecting to develop one of our
greatest talents at time when it is necessary
for us to haveit?
Our girls and boys will be the citizens of to-
morrow. They will have to assume the respon-
sibilities of standing up for their rights-for
thinking out the things that are best for society
and then presenting them to the world. Will
they suddenly know how to present their argu-
ments, to stand before crowds and think and
speak intelligently and calmly? Without prac-
tice, they certainly will not. And no time is
better for learning the art Of public speaking
than when one is young. It is not impossible for
inexperienced older men and women to become
good speakers but it takes hard work that could
easily be avoided by starting earlier in life.
It is up to the teachers and educational lead
ers in the county to see that this important part
of youthful training is not neglected
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11

his own system of bookkeeping and
record-keeping, provided the system
complies with the very simple regu-
lations of the Bureau of Internal
revenue of the United States Treas
ury department."
Mr.. Parker called attention to
regulations No. 81, Bureau of Intern
al revenue, which read in part:
mo particular form is prescribed
for keeping the records required by
this subdivision. Each employer
shall use such forms and systems of
accounting as will enable the COM
missioner to ascertain whether the
taxes for which the employer is Ii
able are correctly computed and
paid"
Regulations No. 81, Mr.. Parker
pointed out, also say:
Records of employers - Every
employer liable for tax shall keep
accurate records of all remuneration
paid to his employees after Decem-
Der 81, 1896, for services performed
for him after such date. Such rec
ords shall show with respect to each
employee-(1) the name and ad-
dress of the employee and the ac-
count number assigned to the
employee under the act, (2) the oc-
Of the employee, (3) the
total amount (including any sum
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
Let's Keep Fighting

It is too easy for us to follow the line of least
resistance and sit mournfully down and declare,
"No use for us to try to get roads We just don't
seem to have the pull" True, we don't seem to
have the pull to get as much as we want in the
road line, but we'll never get it if we don't get
together and keep fighting.
During election years, our Democratic lead
ers skin the woods for voters in order to keep
Ashe in line with state politics, but for the good
it often does us, we might as well go communist.
Anyway, whole county full of Republicans
that can manage Democratic majority ought to
command and get something for it's trouble
when it comes to asking favors of the ones we
help elect in Raleigh
There is nothing like managing votes to get
recognition from those running for office In
stead of being content with being patted on the
back during election years, we might use our
ing the "off' years.
The state highway commission has money it
is spending elsewhere Our farmers are in the
mud; our school buses either can't run or are
brought in every other day with broken springs
or axles. Our farmers are taxpayers; our school
children are forced to attend consolidated
schools.
Something needs to be done and something
will be done if our leading citizens could once
convince the highway commission that we are
something more than Santa Claus on election
day.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
CCC Boys Doing
Big Piece of Real
Work for Nation
Public Forest Being Made Into
Fine RecreatiOnaI Centers as
Well as TimberlandS

Of the many activities carried on
by Civilian Conservation Corps en-
rollees, none is of more interest and
benefit to the general public than
the development of forest recreation
facilities More and more the public
is becoming forest minded, and in
creasingly large is the number of
people seeking healthy outdoor re-
creation.
The Pisgah, Nantahla, and Croa-
tan Forests were created and have
been developed with a number of
purposes in view, all coordinated
with the Forest Service policy Of
''the greatest good for the greatest
number of people in the long rum.
In other wods, multiple use plan
ming. While the primary detectives
of National Forests are timber pro-
duction and the protection of
stream flow, the public may picnic,
camp, hunt, fish, and otherwise take
full advantage of the recreational
and scenic attractions of the Forests
without interfering with their more
utilitarian functions.
With headquarters at Asheville,
the CCC is developing eleven COM
pletely equipped recreational areas.
Those that were ready for use last
summer, although in some cases not
completed, were very popular. Bent
Creek campground, for example,
had $4,000 visitos during the sum-
mer season, Carolina Hemlock camp
ground had 10000, and Craggy gar
dens had $4,000. All of the camp and
picnic grounds are equipped with
picnic shelters, picnic tables and
benches, drinking water, fireplaces,
and comfort stations. Several areas,
where bathing is available, have
lighthouses. Nearly all have facilities
for camping, while several can ac-
commodate house trailers.
Trout fishing, already excellent
on the Pisgah, has been improved
through the work of the Civilian
Conservation Corps in constructing
rearing pools and improving and re-
stocking the streams. Hunting, both
for deer and for small game, is an
added attraction. The portion of the
Forest lying in the Pisgah Noun
tains southwest of Asheville is
game preserve where deer may fire.
quently be seen. Scenic roads con-
structed through this preserve by
the CCC have opened up several
magnificent routes for motorists.
Most of the work of the CCC
camps supervised by the State For
ester of North Carolina has been in
connection with protection against
forest fires. At a number of fire
towers, picnic tables and other IA
cilities have been provided for the
public, At Rendezvous Mountain in
Wilkes county, famous as the gath
ering place of the patriots who took
part in the Revolutionary battle of
Kings Mountain, roads, trails, and
other conveniences for visitors have
been constructed.
North Carolina, replete with seem
ic and climatic advantages, is mec-
ca for summer visitors. The work
done by the Civilian Conservation
Corps is long step forward toward
the full utilization of the Old North
States recreational attractions.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
Where Are Our Debaters?

What has happened to the debating spirit in
Ashe county schools?
The state, each year, sponsors inter-high
school debates wherein winning deabters enter
into inter-county debates in certain districts
and continue until they fail or win at Chapel
Hill or Raleigh.
Since we have been on the job of printing
the news, we have not reported any particular
interest in these forensic events. Nor have we
been able to point with pride to any outstand-
ing debaters in the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
Man Suspected
obtaining for
Mint Robbery
81, 600, 100000 in Gold and Large
Unknown Amount of Other
Money in u. S. Mint

District Attorney John Carroll, of
Denver, Colorado, reported this
week that he is investigating the
possibility Francis L. Obey, arrested
there in the kidnapping Of John J..
O'Connell, Jr., Albany, N. Y, was in
Denver to plan robbery of the U.
S. mint.
Millions of dollars in gold, silver
and currency are stored in the mint.
Carroll disclosed two mint en-
ployes brought about Oley's arrest.
"This gang of holdups-the same
men who kidnapped O'Connell- have
already to their credit the largest
money holdup in history obbery
of the armored truck in Brooklyn in
1884 when $427, 900 was taken"
Carroll named the mint employees
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11

Modern inventions have fully justified them
selves during the flood of the past few weeks.
Long ago no one would have know of the catas-
trophe until bodies began to wash. ashore, per-
haps several hundred miles away. Coming down
to later period, isolated groups would just be
organizing concerts to raise relief funds In the
present instance, the Red Cross was on hand
while the waters were still rising and relief
contributions were coming in from all parts of
the United States, including the PHILIPPINE
Islands. Coast guardsmen and their boats were
rushed to the scene of the disaster, and medical
science was on hand to keep down epidemics of
disease. The value of organization is never more
strongly felt than in the hour of an emergency.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
SARAH ALMEDIA BLEVINS

Sarah Amedia Blevins was born
Dec. %, 1899, and died Jan. 7, 1887,
at the age of 81 years and 16 days.
She protested a hope in Christ about
Is years ago and joined the Land
mark Baptist Church and lived a
loyal Christian until death.
She was the daughter of c. r. and
inertia Blevins. On March 18th,
1886, her mother died leaving her
father, seven brothers, two sisters,
and many friends to mourn her loss.
But their loss is her eternal gain.