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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
late NE VIC
FROM THE
State and Nation
2 of Z Escaped State
Convicts Captured

Clark York and A. w. Petit,
two Of seven long-term convictS
who escaped from the Caledonia
prison farm Monday of last week
and carried three hostages with
them on wild 2OO-mile dash
have been run down and captured
near Wilmington by a squad Of
city and county officers.
York was wounded in the back
with a single buckShot, but Sher-
lift C.. Davis Jones said the wound
was not serious enough to necesS-
itate hospital attention, and both
men were lodged in the New
Hanover Jail.
At Raleigh, Oscar Pitts, acting
head of the state penal depart
nent, said the two prisoners
would be taken to Raleigh.
at Is q relief to know that two
Of the men are captured" he add
ed, "and my only hope is that
they get the other five before
they kill some innocent person
and commit some horrible crime.
They are desperate men. I am
convinced now that the seven
must have split up into groups Of
two or three"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Civil War Gains
Strength Lately
European Nations to Withdraw
All Help; 1,OOe Reported
4ss4s@+~~ Killed This Week

The Spanish Civil War has ragged
with renewed intensity during the
pastSWeek. Severe. fighting was con-
centrated III the siege Of Madrid as
the conflict entered its eighth
month, and Fascist victories were
recorded at various points on the
war map.
Many dead and wounded were
left in Madrid streets Thursday by
a triple air attack, as GeneraliSSimo
Francisco Frances forces were hurl-
ed against government troops in
mass offensives to the southeast of
the capital.
Thanksgiving government troops
were reported Tuesday to have cap
tured strategic Pinzarron hill in the
Jarama sector, halted an insurgent
drive on Viver, northeast of Valen-
cha, and killed 1000 men on the
Guadalajara front.
Twenty-six European nations unit
ed last week in plan to stop for
eign help from reaching either side
in the Spanish civil war, which rag
ed with increased intensity.
Portugal late in tie week remain
ed the only important hold-out from
non-intervention efforts in London,
refusing to join the other nations in
presenting a united front to isolate
the Spanish conflict. It was reported
Friday night, however, that Portu-
gal had yielded.
In France President Lebrun signed
a decree prohibiting Frenchmen
from joining either side in the war.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Huge Revenue Bill Gets
Approval ofLegislators
Bill Passes Third Reading With
Little Opposition; Tax Issue
Now to Be Approved
TAX ON MEALS CONTINUED

The General Assembly advanced
another step toward sine die adj
journment yesterday when the Sen
ate passed the approval of the ap-
preparations measure Al to 8.
+ All but four sections of the appro-
priations bill, which provides for
State-spending of. approximately
$145, 000, 900 during the 1887 80 sbien-
MUM, were adopted in committee-of-
the-whole. =.
The revenue proposal, provides for
general fund taxes of approximately
SIC, 100000 during the two-year
period.
If unchanged by the Senate, the
appropriations bill automatically
becomes law.
The tax bill, which has been SUBJ
stantially altered by the Senate,
went into a conference where legiS-
1atorS began to iron out differences
between the two Houses principal
changes. adopted by the Senate
would:
i. Place a three per cent sales tax
on building materials, with certain
exemptions.
2. Continue the three per cent
sales levy on. meals sold at reStau-
rants or hotels. (The House voted to
remove the levy, in line with a
pledge made by the Democratic
party9
8. Levy a 81 tax on all gasoline
pumps at filling stations. (InStead Of
graduated tax on chain filling sta
tons, as recommended by the
House.)
Forty-one lawmakers voted to
pass the revenue bill on second
reading, with Senator's Brock Of Da-
vie and Long of Halifax casting the
only opposing votes. Asserting he
would never support q measure as
damnable to the business interests
Eof the State as this" Senator Hal
stead of Camden declined to ballot.
Legislative leaders, among them
Webb of Lenoir, chairman OF the
Senate finance committee, said q
move would be made In conference
coznnlittee to remove the three Per
cent tax on meals.
Removal Of the meals tax was said
Fto be backed by Governor Hoey: II
By an overwhelming oral vote, the
Senate refused to strike out the 3
per cent general sales tax, with basic
foods exempted, but amended the
measure to eliminate directions as to
how the levy should be passed on by
the merchants.
Rental System Approved
An important bill referred to
books for elementary grade pupils
and to continue the rental system
for high school students. The bill
provides for a $1,500,000 State bond
issue to finance the free text book
plan. The vote was unanimous in the
House and sent to the Senate.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Rufus Duvall Is
Killed i'm Wreck
Former AShe Man Was Serving
as Superintendent of City
Schools at Time

Rufus Duvall, native of this coun-
ty and son of the late Mr.. and Mrs
Lee Duvall, died Monday morning
following car accident the previ-
Gus Sunday. The accident and Mr..
Duva1ps death occurred in Birming-
ham, Ala, where he had made his
home for many years, and where he
was superintendent of the city
school system.
Mrs. Wiley Elliott, of Smethport,
left Sunday afternoon to join her
sister, Mrs. Roy Wilson, of Mt. City,
Tenn, to 60 to their brothers bed
side.
Mr.. Duvall was a well-known and
popular man here and he had made
a decided success in the educational
field in Birmingham. Funeral SER
vices were held there.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
House Escapes Burning

The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
M. Prevette caught fire Monday
morning and escaped burning down
only by the quick work of neighbors
who gathered Immediately. House
hold furnishings were hurriedly car
led and thrown out of the house, and
in the confusion, w. H. Worth suf-
fered some broken ribs. It was re-
ported that he was on the first floor
preparing to catch mattress that
was being thrown down from up
stairs when the mattress struck him
with such force as to knock him over
against the newell post to the stair
case.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Z More Farms Chosen for
AShe Farm Demonstrations

The county committee in charge of
selecting demonstration farms met
February 10th. This was their last
official meeting of the year. They
selected seven additional farmers to
serve as. demonstrators.
The following are the ones chosen:
J.';B. Pierce, Chestnut Hill
H. H. Duvau, West Jefferson
S. V. Alexander, Grassy Creek
c. M. Yates, Pine Swamp
J. P. Miller, Clifton :.
r. B. Brown, Elk. -. -
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Men Do Good
Work on Case
Less Than 24-HOur Notice Given
Local Authorities to Get
Prisoner to State

Sheriff w. E. Miller and Deputy
Walter Stringer are credited with
doing fine piece of work irn Allan
tat last week in. connection with the
bringing Of John L. Jenkins to- tile
state prison in Raleigh. 2 ~.
Sheriff Miller was notified at II
o'clock, Feb. Is, that Jenkins was to
be released at 9 o'clock on Feb. Is,
from the federal prison in Atlanta
Jenkins had employed an attorney
to resist being brought back to
North Carolina and officers from
here had to leave without the prop
er requisition papers. After arriving
in Atlanta, Mr.. Miller and Mr..
Stringer were forced to commune
cate with Governor Hoey, who was
attending a Farley banquet in
Washington, and get matters straigh-
tened out.
It is pointed out that the manner
in which the arrest was made was
handled in very capable and eff
cient way. There was some doubt
expressed that Messrs. Miller and
Stringer would be able to make the
proper arrests, but they were de-
termined not to fail.
It is reported that Jenkins made
a pleasant prisoner once he found
that he could not get free, although
he wore handouts back to Raleigh.
S. S. GRAPHICAL, brother of the
murdered Joseph GRAPHICAL, and At
torney Grant Bauguess went to At
lanta to help in any way possible,
but they arrived after the officers
had left with Jenkins.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
9Th Woman's Body Found
in Cleveland, Ohio

The discovery OF q woman tor.
so-slaying victim - Cleveland.
eighth since September, 1884
sent police this week i'm search Oi
a sex-crazed, surgically-skilled
maniac they believed responsible
A fireman came upon the torso
cleverly severed from the arms
head, and legs, on the shore Of
Lake Erie in Cleveland's East
Side.
At almost the same spot one
previous victim was found. Five
other mutiIated bodies were left
In the desoIate Kingshury Rum
section, q few miles away. @
The body found apparently had
not been In the water more than
a day Or two.
The dissection had been clean1y
made in support Of the police the
DRY that the same person was re-
ssonsibie for all the eight slay-
ings that have shocked Greater
Cleveland's LOCO, 600 residents.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Blood
Tests May Aid
inCnl Murder
Allegheny Sheriff Awaits Report
Before Releasing Information;
Girl Was Not Killed at Once

Sheriff Walter M. Irwin states that
he has received telegraphic report
from the federal bureau of identifi-
cation at Washington, D. c., on the
tests made of blood found on gar
ments worn by Elva Brannock, 16-
year-old school girl victim of an
attack-murder February 8, and on
clothing worn by Paul Edwards, be-
ing held for investigation in connec-
ton with the murder, but that he
would not release the information
until he had received detailed re-
port.
No new arrests have been made
and Irwin said he would mark time"
in his investigation until after the
report has been received. He would
not make any statement concerning
the FIJI telegram.
Irwin went to Washington several
days ago and sought the aid of the
FBI laboratory in testing bloodstains
found on the clothing of the Bran
mock girl when her body was discov-
cred February IL after being expos
ed to the weather four days. He also
took clothing worn by Edwards, now
in Allegheny Jail here.
Meanwhile, Connie Wright and
Everett and DETER Fortner, arrested
for questioning in the same case, are
being held at Wilkesboro on federal
liquor charges.
It has been ascertained that the
Brannock girl was not killed at once
since she ate hearty breakfast be-
fore leaving for school the morning
Of her disappearance and an autopsy
report showed her stomach to be
empty.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Ruth Morphew
Contest Winner
Amateur Program in Jefferson
Proves Success; Many Parts
of County Represented

Little Miss Margaret Ruth Nor
phew, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Morphew of Buffalo, won
first prize in the amateur program
staged at Jefferson Friday night
She won through a tap-dancing act
Miss Betty 10 Snow, of Creston, was
awarded second place. She gave a
tap-dancing act accompanied by
singing. Miss Irene Baldwin, Of Lam
sing, won third place with a piano
solo.
The program was a decided sue
cess and many talented young peo-
pie from various sections Of the
county entered. L. p. Coward, OF
Jefferson, presided over the program
as Major BowleS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
BARE MILLING COMPANY
ROBBED OF FURS, HAMS

Thieves broke into the Bare Mill
ing Company building here Friday
night and made away with around
sixty dollars worth of hams and furs
Several clues have been followed
and it is thought that the guilty par
ties may be apprehended.
This is the twelfth time the milling
company has been the victim of rob-
bers during the past eight years. An
entrance was made Friday night
through rear window.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
West Jefferson and
Lansing Win in
Ashe Tourney

FLEETWOOD, Feb. 22.-WeSt
Jefferson High boys and Lansing
High girls were crowned AShe
county high basketball cham
piOnS in the annual tournament
here Saturday night.
These two teams survived q
grueling series of battles I'm win
ming the championships.
The Lansing girls defeated
Nathan'S Greek i'm the finals by
a score Of al to 16, while the
West Jefferson boys grabbed .
45-16 decision.
Lansing girls defeated Todd,
27-18; turned back Jefferson, 81
II, and then licked Fleetwood i'm
the semi-finalS, 25-15.
The West Jefferson boys won
from River View, Jefferson and
Todd in reaching the finals.
The Lansing girls victory was
the twentieth straight Of the
twentieth straight Of the season.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Railway Workers Want
$3.50, 600, 900 More Pay

The nations 100000 organized
railroad workers have united in
demanding an annual wage in
crease Of around $500, O00, 900.
Estimating about $3.50, 600, 600 in
yearly income would be at stake
when negotiators for the brother
hoods and for the management Of
the carriers sit down to party on
the demands, George M. Harrison
chairman of the current meeting
declared:
"These are the largest negotia-
tons ever undertaken by organic
ed railroad workers."
The delegates planned to serve
formal notice ON the railroads
within 80 days.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Professor of Psychology at
Local NJ. E. Church Sunday

Prof. v. G. Hinson, professor OF
psychology at A. S. T. c., Boone,
viii fill the pulpit at the local Meth
odist church Sunday morning, Feb.
%, at II o'clock. Prof. Hinson Is q
very able speaker and Rev. Mr..
Honeycutt, who will be absent, urges
his congregation and any other visit
tors to be present.
Due to Mr.. Honeycutt's absence,
there will be no night services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Dry Forces to Continue
Fight Against Liquor

The united dry forces, defeated
i'm attempts to prevent passage of
local option liquor legislation are
preparing to shift their battle
ground to the 81 counties in
which special liquor elections
may be held in April.
ct is a fight to the finish-nO
surrender" said Gale X. Burgess
of Raleigh, the organizations vice
president, and campaign leader,
in a letter to drys throughout the
State. eff and when county cleo
tons are called, we must fight
day and night and defeat liquor
stores and liquOrcratS."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
INSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM
AT DAIRYMEN'S MEETING

The Ashe County Dairymen's As
ISOLATION held a very instructive
meeting at the courthouse in Jeffer-
son last week with F. H. Farnum, of
State College, as the feature speak
er.
The main points in the various
talks have been made available for
publication and will be carried in
the next issue of the Skyland Post
due to lack of space in this edition.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Potter Town Shooting Fatal

Roy Brown was arrested and TAX
en- to Jail last week charged with the
fatal shooting of his cousin, Burchie
Potter in Potters Town, near Trade,
Tenn. The report is that Potter was
trying to take Browns truck for
some purpose or other and Brown
shot him in the back.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
More Than Hundred
Philippians Executed

OF the 1000 suspects rounded
up in the Ethiopian wounding Of
an Italian vicer0y in Adds Ababa
this week, it is estimated that 100
have already been executed. Elk
actly how many were executed
has been kept q secret.
Scores Of quaking black men,
found with weapons about their
persons or in their dingy, grass
tuculs, or huts, marched out to
the edge Of Adds Ababa-to
swift, unyielding death.
This is being done I'm compli-
ance with Musselini's program Of
getting the still unconquered fol-
lowers Of Halle SelaSSie under
control.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25
Taking Donations for Drys

Rev. r. H. Stone is collecting
money with which to fight the wet
forces in the counties that will soon
be voting on the liquor question.
All contributions from Ashe should
be forwarded to him.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Alaska is longer east and west
than from New York to San Fran
cisco-and it's north and south
breadth is as great as from the gull
TO Canada If peninsh1as and is
lands are counted both ways
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Miss Melba Gambill, who has been
receiving treatment at Duke. Hos
pital in Durham, returned home this
week. ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-25

Lillian Et.:i2e1. maid in a West
Erg'ewocd. N. j.. home. took a day
off to visit New York when she
heard that she had inherited $780,
900 from her foster father in Nor
way, but she is going to hold her
job until the fortune is turned over
to her. Lillian's family name is
Petersen and she was born in the
United States, but when she was
two years old she was adopted by
a Norwegian shipbuilder and was
taken by him to live in Norway.
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The Human Side of the News
By Edwin C.. Hill

stuffs, one especially rich in
milk, green vegetables, fruit,
butter, eggs and food with am
pie protein of good biological
value, gives the best results"
Another scientist from Column
bia, DR.. Henry C. Sherman, holds
that seven years can be added to
the human span of 10 years by
a diet which would be adequate
in four essentials: Calcium, pro-
tein, vitamin A, which promotes
growth, and vitamin G., preventive
of pellagra.
In his research, DR.. Sherman
has come to the conclusion that
for life and health alone all the
needed food could consist of only
a mixture of five-sixthS whole
wheat and one-sixth dried milk,
plus table salt and distilled water.
When the four essentials for
longevity are added to this diet,
vitality increases along with the
expectation of life.
Those who go in for reducing
should be interested in what still
another expert on nutrition, DR..
Milton Bridges, advises:
at has never been recognized"
he says, "that nature or man
has been able to produce any
such thing as a reducing food.
There does not exist any fruit,
vegetable, meat, fish or other
food which in itself is capable
of reducing physical weight as
much as one thOusandth of
pound
OLD BELIEFS
It is the doctors opinion that
middle-aged Americans make a
mistake when they fail to eat sui
ficiently Of meat, eggs, cheese, fish
and gelatinS. Lack of protein, in
duced by such abstinence, makes
them anemic.
His statement about the non
existence Of foods which will cut
down weight is partly borne Out
by tests recently concluded at the
University of wisconsin.
Three students lived for period;
ranging from seven weeks to foul
months on "mineralized" milk anC
a little fruit each day. There was
no loss of weight.
Copyright. 1897. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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1--WE, the People >

A MONUMENTAL task confronted the IS statesmen
IA who assembled at Independence Hall in Philade-
pha at the first session of the Constitutional Conven
ton $50 years ago.
On the successful outcome of their efforts depended
the future of their infant nation which had wrenched
itself from British dominion after eight bitter years
of Revolutionary War.
This they realized fully and completely.
With George Washington presiding, with James
Madison and Alexander Hamilton leading in their de-
beraons these founding fathers in four months gave
to the United States the glowing document that has
brought it to paramount rank among the nations of
the EARTH
Had it not been for the Constitution they drafted
perhaps the United States would not exist today.
It remained for themthese Constitutional delegates
to guarantee religious liberty freedom of speech and
assembly and all those rights Americans hold dear
Shaken to the marrow by understandable differences
among the delegates at the opening of the convention,
brilliant Gouverneur Morris shouted
"This country must be united. If persuasion does
not unite it, the sword will!''
And Washington wrote to Patrick Henry after the
Constitution drafted for submission to the States:
The political concerns of this country are sus-
pended by thread and the convention has been
looked up to- by the reflective part of the community
with solicitude which is hardly to be conceived and
if nothing had been agreed upon by that body anarchy
would have ensued, the seeds being deeply sown
in every soil''
Washington great man that he was, saw far ahead
He realized that the adoption of the Constitution
meant UNITED NATION, nation of FREE MEN,
nation that would be the very CRADLE OF HUMAN
LIBERTY
And without the Constitution-CHAOS!
So it is today.
Now, as it was thea, the Constitution remains the
stout and oft-tested, BUT ALWAYS INVULNERABLE.
BULWARK OF FREEDOM.
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any age, willing to let MON AND
THE KIDS DO TIP"
However, I'm well aware there'n
be bitter replies to this opinion.
So bring them along! We both can
take them-and need them!
Having started one major racket;
let's leap into another. MAGGIE
JOHNSON speaking-stating some
mighty deplorable facts about
working girls conditionS-a n d
winning the other $40 prize.
Dear Miss Robinson:
81 would like the crowds frank
opinion on the working situation
of typists, cashiers, bOOkkeepers
and sales girls. I am writing
from Chicago but I have no
doubt there are the same or
worse conditions in other cities.
PUBLIC SCANDAL
81 am familiar with the vari-
Gus jobs I have named and it
would be a public scandal if
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-31
Tremendous Progress
RuL. Williams, Jr.

is the second largest buyer Of
wheat flour and the third larg.
est buyer Of lard from the Main
land"
Concerning existing conditions
in the Island, the Governor con-
tinued:
There is no part of the world
which affords its people a wider
opportunity for free expression
of their ideas than does Puerto
Rico. The well disposed people
of the Island, including by far
a very large majority of its citi-
ZenS, realize the importance Of
the responsibilities of organized
government and have no SYM
pathy whatever with Subversive
activities.
"Any fair.minded person will
agree readily that Puerto Rico
really has made tremendous
progress since the beginning Of
the administration there"
Turn to the record and you will
find convincing proof that the peo-
pie of Puerto Rico deserve the
commentator Governor WinShip
so gladly gives their loyalty, their
patience, their hard work and
their high hopes. Here is what
the record shows:
The Government of Puerto Rico
has maintained a balanced budget.
rAVHT ANN nDnED
Usury has been practically
eliminated. Commercial loans are
now being made at reasonable
rates of interest with the result
that a building boom is now in
full swing.
Law and order have been gen.
orally maintained and public sen.
timent is increasingly on the side
of its continued maintenance
against subversive activities inSti.
gated from without or within the
island.
Puerto Rico has a child labor
law which is rigidly enforced.
Labor conditions are very much
improved and wage payers and
wage earners are working in har.
mony to maintain the eight-hour
working day established by law.
Collective bargaining for labor
has been accepted under an agree
ment reached three years ago and
a model workmen's accident COM
pensation law, which includes ag'
ricultural laborers, is in successful
operation.
Puerto Rico is now developing
increasing attractions for tourists
and Americans from the Main
land can always be assured of Q
hearty welcome from their island
neighborS and fellow Americans.