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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
VETERANS OF BORDER INTRIGUE
BATTLE GIGGLE WEED MENACE

NOGALES, Ariz., CUP) - us.
customs agents along the Mexican
boundary. veterans in wars against
international smuggling rings, are
waging a battle to halt the flow
of marihuana from its native Mex
leo into this country.
The Federal battle lines are
moving southwark into the tiny
villages of the vast, barren North
ern Mexico country, where the
dread "giggle weed" lis cultiated
and grows wild
Agents consider their current
fight for eradication of the weed
a gigantic task, despite the fact
that they are fighting small fry
smugglers instead of "big time
racketeers.
Veterans of wild border forays
against gold. ammunition a n d
smuggling rings, these officers de-
clare their task difficult because
of elusive tactics of the narcotics
peddlers.
Law Effective in August
The agents first capture under
the new anti-marihuana law Iol
Congress, approved by President
Roosevelt last August, occurred
when they nabbed cheaply
dressed peddler with several mari.
huana cigarettes in his possession
He was turned over to Fedora
narcotics officers in P IN oenix
AriZ.
A few border officials say theil
job is easy because the marihuans
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
Oysters by Air
Turn Islanders
To New Supply

HONOLULU U.P.) Island peo-
pie, many of whom had never
tasted an oyster until the Clipper
planes from the Mainland brought
over the first shipments, suddenly
have become oyster conscious,
with the result that local beds
are to be developed
The search for a local supply of
oysters, stimulated by the luscious
bivalves that came by plane, has
resulted in the discovery of a bed
in Kanehoe Bay. 16 miles from
here.
The desire for them has become
so great that each one of the
islands has asked for supply in
an effort to develop local beds of
their own. Six tons have been
rushed by airplane and by steamer
to be distributed on the reefs around
the islands of Hawaii, Maui and
Kauai. A closed season has been
declared in the meantime and high
hopes are entertained that event.
ually the island waters will supply
the local demand.
Formerly there was known to
be an oyster bed in Pearl Harbor,
but when the latter was converted
into a naval station and basin
these beds were killed. and it was
not known that any others existed
until the recent discovery on the
opposite side of the island.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
REAL ESTATE
LEADERS WILL
MAKE TALKS

State leaders in the California
Real Estate associa tion will be the
principal speakers at the annual
meeting of the Imperial Valley
Realty board Saturday noon at
the Barbara Worth hotel.
Grover t. Russell, president of
the association, ]. Mortimer Clark,
commissioner, and Glen D. Villa
man, secretary, will be present for
the meeting.
Licensed brokers, civic leaders,
public officials and owners of real
estate are expected to attend the
meeting, according to w. E. Han
cock. kfIA
JUDGE FINES
HIMSELF So
WOONSOCKE'T, r. I. (UP)-
Justice penalized justice when Jus
tice Edward F. Dwyer violated the
traffic code. He previously had
meted out fines in such cases, but
this time he paid 50 for parking on
the wrong side of the street.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
Reorganization
Sought For Noted
Publishing Unit

BUFFALO, N.Y.UP)-The Roy
crofters. Inc, of East Aurora,
which became world famou S
through its publications and the
writings of its founder. Ebert
Hubbard, is being reorganized.
The organization petitioned Fed
eral Judge John Knight for per-
mission to reorganize under Section
77-B of the amended Bankruptcy
act, declaring that it was unable
to meet debts as they mature. al
| though solvent.
The petition was approved and
Judge Knight appointed Sen. Mel
son W. Cheney and Irving L. Price
as co-trustees in the reorganiza-
ton plan. Corporation assets as
of July /, totaled $349, ,32468 and
liabilities, $115,82120.
The petition signed by Ebert
Hubbard II as president, states
that the corporation has ample
assets to meet all its liabilities. but
as the result of operating losses
during the depression it has not
had sufficient working capital.
Several means of raising the
working capital were suggested.
Among these were liquidation of
part of the corporations "unduly
large" inventory and publication
of another edition of Ebert Hub
bard's Little Journeys already
contracted by various newspapers.
For nearly half century the
organization has been engaged in
printing and publishing, as well
as the manufacture of metal and
leather handicraft and the opera
ton of the Roycroft Inn
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
Unique Landlord
Prefers Couples
With Children

BERKELEY. Cal CUP0-Otis r.
Marston, apartment house owner
here, reversed the usual order of
things when he advertised for
tenants with children.
A sign hanging before a brand
new apartment house building
here said: For Rent. Children
Preferred"
Marston, property owner for
more than 20 years, revealed that
he had finally convinced himself
that it is more profitable to rent
an apartment. flat or home to a
family with children.
"It's taken me a long time to
realize that children aren't half so
destructive as adults, but now 1
know it's true.
He explained "In my expert
ence, all the children have ever
done was scuff a little paint or
plaster off a wall. Adults have
cost me a small fortune in one
item alone, and that's replacing
sink boards they ruined by jabs
with ice-picks."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
FIVE WILL Die
FOR MURDER OF
PEN WARDEN

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. 9.
(UP)-Five Foisom prison convicts
were sentenced to die today for
the murder of Warden Clarence
A. Larkin as California invoked
its now lethal gas death penalty
for the first time.
Superior Judge Dial M. Lennon
of Sacramento spoke the words
which started Wesley E. Eudy, Rob-
ert Lee Cannon, Albert Kessell. Fred
Barnes and Ed Davis on their way
to new gas chamber nearing COM
pletion at San Quentin prison.
Judge Lennon denied Joint
motion for new trials. Then he
asked the men individually if
there was any reason why sentence
should not be pronounced. Then the
judge said:
1T is therefore ordered that said
defendants do suffer death, that
a lethal gas be administered by
the warden of San Quentin prison
until defendant is dead"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

peddlers are petty agents seeking
little easy money, Their
crime is not of sufficient import
to force them to shoot their way
out of traps.
A recent survey along the inter
national bounary showed the av-
erage price of the weed" cigar
cites is about two for 25 cents On
started agitation several years
ago for Federal legislation. The
Harrison narcotic act was passed
in 1914, even when use of mari
huana appeared limited to only a
few MeXicans in the Southwest.
Children Took Up Vice
Soon, however, the authorities
learned that marihuana cigarettes
were being smoked by school chill
dren and college students.
H. j. Anslinger, u S. commits
sioner of narcotics, helped lead
the fight for stamping out the
vice
The Mexican government has
been fighting the use of marihu-
ana for several years. President
Lazaro Cardenas. in decree sew
eral years ago, prohibited the sale
of cheap liquor and marihuana in
an effort to elevate the lower
classes
Most marihuana, border agents
report, is grown on the West
Coast of Mexico in the states of
Sonora, Jalisco, Sinala and Ma
yarit.
the American side. Across the
line. in the squalor of Mexican
pueblos and towns, the same Gig
arettes sell for 10 centavos, or
about 3 cents. .
Agents have learned the wildly
sprouting weed generally is cul-
tivated in corn fields where it can
be concealed from casual observ-
ers by large stalks.
Prohibited in 46 States
Before Congress enactment of
the present anti-marihuana law
Federal agents on the border
turned over peddlers to state au-
thorities because Federal statutes
had no specific law prohibiting
marihuana. Arizona and as other
states have laws against it.
The agents, during those times
were lax in their efforts to curb
the ever increasing flow of mari
huana from Mexico to the states
The nations medical and law
enforcement agencies have found
many major crimes attributable
directly to use of these cigarettes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
RAIL WORKER
HIT BY SHOVEL
IN WIFE ROW

INLAND, Dec. "A domestic tri-
angle complicated by four children,
was blamed for a bloody battle at
railway labor camp near Pope
Siding Wednesday morning.
Juan Padron died in the Brawley
hos pital from head wounds
administered py shovel in the
hands of Jose p. Caratachea, hus-
band of the third point in the tri-
angle, Undersheriff Rodney Clarke
said. Caratachea is in the county
jail.
The husband told the officer he
struck Padron on the head with
shovel because he was trying to
take his wife away from him. The
woman is the mother of four chill
dren.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
PLOT TO PANIC
u. S. CHARGED
BY Sen. LEWIS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. OPP
Sen. Hamilton Lewis, D., ILL.,, to-
day denounced in the senate "the
spectators, tricksters and con-
spirators" he said we're seeking to
create panic by false cries and
murky assaults upon their nation,
its securities and its business.
Lewis read newspaper dispatches
concerning business conditions
and demands for tax revision.
There appeared to be. he said, a
peculiar unity of condemnation of
the government.
Lewis charged that "some su-
perior source" was directing the
campaign of criticism.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

Another link is added to the
Ahain of marriages and divorces
Uat Wallis Warfield Simpson
started when she left Ernest
Simpson to marry the Duke of
Windsor. Mrs. Connie de
Bower, above, former Broadway
stage beauty, was set to marry
Jacques Raffray of New York
following her divorce from Her
bert de Bower in Reno, New.
Raffray's wife divorced him to
wed Simpson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08

Twin lambs born on an Indiana
farm recently had crimson wool.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Northwestern Bank Is
} Authorized to Open
Indian Dead 800
Years Speaks

Spiritualist leaders claimed ir
New York this week to have com.
pleted the first successful mechani-
al recording of a "voice from the
lead"
While railroad train whistleo
through nearby hills Monday night
Is spirituals sitting in hotel room
said they heard the "voice" of a dead
Indian address microphone.
Later they listened in silence tc
the wax record of the seance, voice
intoned:
"There is no greater manifestation
of God than in the beauty of hum
m hand clasped to help human
hand
R.. C. Pressing, editor of the Dale
News, publication of spiritualist
summer encampment at Lily Dale
explained the procedure and said il
was the first spirit recording"
"The spirit was that of an Indian
who died 800 years ago." he said
'sHis name was Moon Trail. ..
"The seance took place in the
brightly lighted lounge of the Ma
plewood hotel "a small summer
hoteD. In one corner was the re-
cording machine, brought from New
York by a representative of the
manufacturer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Shoots 2 Relatives
Then Kills Self

Sheriff R. E. Key, of DeKalb,
Miss, said Jack Barefield, "a, shot
and killed his wife and his mother
in-law, Mrs. Lucinda Taylor, 81, Fri
day night and killed himself early
Saturday after a posse closed in on
him near DeKalb.
Mrs. Barefield was suing for di-
vorce, Sheriff Key said, and had
gone with her three children to live
with her mother.
The officer said after Barefield
appeared at the Taylor home last
night and insisted on seing his wife
neighbors reported there had beer
trouble.
Investigating, he said he found the
bodies Of the two women and or
ganized posse to search for Bare
field.
Closing in behind bloodhound:
early Saturday, Key said the posse
heard a shot and a few minutes later
found Barefield's body in a wooc
clearing, pistol clutched in his
hand
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
ROtenOne Dust
Checks Beetles

NEEXICAN bean beetles are raid
lVl ing North Cardinals gardens
and truck patches again this year.
But the invasion can be stopped
with a counter-attack of rotenone
spray or dust, said j. 0. Rowell, ex-
tension entomologist at State Col
lege.
Although this material is sure
death to the beetles, he added, it is
harmless to human beings. Also, it is
comparatively inexpensive to use.
Wherever beetles are found on
bean plants, or egg clusters appear
on the underside of the leaves, Row.
ell said the grower should start
spraying or busting with derris or
cube root containing rotenone.
To make spray, use dust contain
ing 4 per cent rotenone. Mix / 1-2
pounds of dust with so gallons of
water, or IL ounces of dust in 3
, gallons of water if smaller guam
tity is desired.
Spray the plants thoroughly at the
rate of 80 to 100 gallons per acre.
To be effective, the spray must
reach the underside of the leaves.
Or if busting is preferred, dust
finely ground derris or cube root dust
containing 3-4 of one per cent rote-
none, making sure that the dust set
ties on the underside of the leaves
as we'll as the rest of the plant APP
ply dust at the rate of Is to 20
pounds per acre.
Repeat the spraying or busting
every few days until the beetles
have been eradicated, Rowell point
ed out.
When making spray, he continu.
ed, use only dust with diluent
that will mix readily with water
The label. on the package usually
tells whether it will mix with water
Calcium arsenate and arsenate o.
lead are injurious to plants and art
not recommended, Rowell concluded
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
PAGE SEVEN

half to two pounds in weight may
be used with the smaller birds hav-
ing greater chance for complete
opeation and development.
Question: How can I keep cream
sweet and fresh until it is marketed?
Answer: Immediately after milk
ing the milk should be strained and
separated. Place the cream in can
and coll the cream by submerging
the can in cold water so that the en-
tire contents are below the surface
of the water. Stir occasionally to
hasten cooling and keep the con-
tainer in cold water until ready for
market. NO NOT add warm cream
to cold cream. If this is done in suf-
ficient quantity, the temperature OF
the cold cream will be raised and
the bacterial action stimulated
which will endanger the quality of
the entire batch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
FARM
NEWS
rual identification.

rual Identification. ~:
Personal improvement and great
er appreciation of the finer things
in life are as necessary to making
life" as practical subjects are to
making living" Harrill continued.
Registration for the short course
will begin Monday afternoon, July
26. The program will be brought to
a close with the candle-lighting GER
emony Friday evening in Riddicl<
Stadium.
The boys and girls will remain in
their domitories overnight and will
depart for their home Saturday. The
college will furnish dormitory rooms
free, and meals will be supplied at
low cost.
The Hon Club program and the
Health Pageant, in which the All
State King and Queen of Health will
be crowned, will feature the Thurs
day evening program. A style re-
view, team demonstrations, folk
dances, dramatizations, sightseeing
tours, and addresses by noted men
and women are among other phases
of the program.
Last year the short course was at
tended by 735 club members and
leaders. An even larger attendance
! is expected this year, Harrin said
On boy and one girl from each club
in the State is eligible to attend the
short course.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08

|nUESTION: How often should to-
~ bacco be primed to insure a
quality leaf?
Answer: This depends upon the
maturity of the leaves and seasonal
conditions, but usually the plants
should be primed att east once
week during normal seasons. Only
uniform, ripe, well-developed leaves
should be primed. Begin the harvest
as soon as the bottom leaves turn
yellow. The first leaves can be pull
ed little greener, if the leaf is ma
tured, than at any other printing. A
uniformity in pulling and handling
tobacco will add as much to the
quality as any other one factor. Pre-
cautions should therefore be taken
not to bruise the leaves in handling.
Question: When should cockerels
be caponized for the early market?
Answer: AS it usually takes from
eight to eleven months to properly
develop and finish capon, the birds
should be caponized from mid-June
until the first of August so as to
reach the national market between
January first and March first. Vigor-
our birds that have proper care and
feed will develop in a shorter time.
Caponizing at this time will also
take late-hatched cockerals off the
market when broiler prices are usu-
ally low. Birds from one and one
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Ali Short Course
tOCuide Living

CULTURAL courses and training
" in the art of living will share at
tention with practical instruction at
the All short course to be held at
Safe College, July 1851.
A well-rounded program, "the
best planned for a short course so
far" is being arranged, said L. R.
Harrill, All club leader for the State
College extension service.
Special attention will be given
practical subjects, he stated. In ag-
ricultural engineering, for example,
there will be instruction on the care
and use of farm machinery and in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Brief Items About
State Farmers

MIR. E. R. PHILLIPS, Randolph
lVl county farmer, is convinced
that the terraces he had constructed
onhis farm last spring more than
paid for themselves during rcent
heavy rain.
The practicability of aerial photo
fgraphs checking compliance under
the Agricultural Conservation pro-
gram was shownr gently on two
demonstration farms in Orange
county.
Flea beetle attacks in Forsyth
county have slackened, and tobacco
has improved considerably, accord
ing to r. w. Pou, county far agent
Investigations have been begun on
the advisability of establishing a
cheese manufacturing plan in Ala
nance county.
Practically every All Club in
Montgomery county will send dele
gates to the annual Short Course at
State College July $3.50, according
to J. L. RADON assistant farm
agent.
A hydraulic ram capable of de-
livering 80 gallons of water an hour
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Farm Questions
and Answers

QUESTION: How often should to-
~ bacco be primed to insure a
quality leaf?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
Business Is Begun
With Resources OF
3 Million Dollars.

NORTH WILKESBORO, June 80
License No. Els, signed by Gov
ernor Clyde r. Hoey and Quincy P.
Hood, commissioner of banks, au-
thorizing the Northwestern bank to
open for banking operations on
Thursday, July l, was delivered to
L. L. Aycock, secretary OF the
Northwestern bank, this morning, by
Hood in person.
Accompanying Hood to North
Wilkesboro Tuesday, were IA State
bank examiners, who today were
assigned to the four banks and two
branches composing the consolida-
ton, for completing all necessary
details in connection with such
work.
DISCUSS CONSOLIDATION.
Tuesday evening, the examiners,
together with Commissioner Hood,
Carbis Walker, c. P. A. of Winston
Salem, and John G. Allen, repre-
senting the State banking depart
ment, discussed the manner of con-
solidation, the composition of vari-
GUS schedules, and other relative
items.
At the closing time for bank op-
erations today the following bank
ing institutions ceased actively to
operate: Merchants and Farmers
bank of Bakersville, and branch at
Burnsville; Watauga County bank
of Boone and branch at Blowing
Rock; Deposit and Savings bank of
North Wilkesboro, and Bank of
Sparta of Sparta.
The Northwestern bank will have
headquarters here in the banking
quarters heretofore occupied by the
Deposit and Savings bank. The
Northwestern bank will operate
branches in all of the towns listed
above.
$4,000, 900 RESOURCES.
The bank begins business with a
paid in common capital stock of
$15OOOO, surplus $4,000, undivided
profits of $4,000, and with total re-
sources of approximately $3,OOO,OOO
The officers are, President, R. A
Doughton of Sparta; executive vice
president, Edwin Duncan of Sparta
chairman of the board, R. L. Dough
ton of Laurel Springs; vice presi'
dent, c. c. Hunter of Bakersville
secretary, L. l.. Aycock OF NORTH
Wilkesboro.
" The board of directors is compos'
ed as follows: w. c. Berry of Bak
ersville, P. A. Coffey of Boone, R. L
Doughton of Laurel Springs, w. D
Farthing of Boone, C. w. Greene OF
Toecane, M. A. Higgins of Ennice
John C. McBee, Sr., of Spruce Pine
w. w. Mast of Vale Crucis, J. T
Prevette of Wilkesboro, M. E. Reeves
of Laurel Springs, N. B. Smithey Of
North Wilkesboro.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08

has been installed on the farm OF
A. @. Patterson in Alexander coun-
ty. 1t will supply the home, barn,
and laying flock of 400 birds.
Tomato fruit worms have destroy
ed about half of what appeared to
be large crop of tomatoes in
Wayne county, reported A. S.
Knowles, assistant farm agent.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08

A modern battleship costs over
twice as much as the United States
paid for Alaska and the Louisiana
territory but together.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-08
FIRST HUSBAND OF
WALLY TO MARRY

SANTA MONICA, Calf, July s.
Commander Earl Winfield Spencer
first husband of the Duchess OF
Windsor, nee Wallis Warfield, will
marry Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson,
Detroit society matron, tomorrow at
her Beverly Hills home with only a
few relatives and friends attending.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
LAMPS and CHINA
Special Purchase! 6-Wav Floor Lamp.
To make room for new shipments

1--t2.s5 IMPORTED CHINA
SET; service for s; with / cup
and 1 vegetable dish missing,
$50
1-34.50 DECORATED CHINA
SET; ao-pc.: service for IL if
complete; with / vegetable dish
missing 1t.S5
I-3.50 DECORATED COVERED
DISH' expensive china in at
tractive design; Friday only 75c
Lnnsburo
Evening star., 1937-11-11

Neckwear
2O0-59c SQUARE SCARFS; fringed
style: rayon acetate and Challis: good
variety of attractive, bright 90
prints: each -
1e0-39c to 100 FLOWERS; gay clus-
ters in various styles and va COo
rieties; each
200-1.00 SHOULDERETTES brilliant
color effects; coral, blue, pink, 77o
gray and white; each -
Lansbrgh's-Street Floor.
Evening star., 1937-11-11

5-l.95 CASSEROLES; large
size; ovenproof; plate and cover;
4I--s5c IMPORTED pECoRAToo
ED SOUP PLATES; good quality
china; reduced for clearance;
eacn 1Sc
I-3.95 IMPORTED BLUE
WILLOW" SET; 31-pc.; service
for s, if complete; with l meat
platter missing 1.94
Tth Floor
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Curtains, Draperies

100-1.00 BETTER CURTAINS; Pris-
ella, tailored, bath and cottage sets;
good assortment of colors, pat SOo
terms and styles: pr
45-1.00 and 1.50 WINDOW CORNICE;
wood covered with carving in center;
fits any window up to 42-in. 40.
choice of ivory or white
25 yds.--1.0O NOVELTY SPIRAL DAM
ASK; 50-in. width; attractive
pattern; red, wine, eggshell or AOo
rust: yd. - w
50 yds.-69c RAYON MARQUISETTE
36-in. width: attractive stripe
pattern: hemmed sides; ecru or hOo
eggshell; yd. -
Lansburgh's-Fourth Floor.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
.Jewelry

1-2.95 NEW HAVEN CLOCK: good
timekeeper; walnut finish I m
wood; reduced for clearance
20o-1.00 COMPACTS; double and sin
gle styles; included are thinsy styles;
fiat and square types; some with 20,
sport motifs: Friday -
50-1.00 "SOUTHERN BELLE" JEW
ELRY; necklaces. pins. etc. with ruby
or emerald colored stones COM SOo
bined with rhinestones; each wv
3l-2.95 RHINESTONE BROOCHES:
rhinestones combined with colored
stones; variety of styles; with > on
safety clasps -
nsburgh's-Street Floor.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Children's Hose

$50 Prs. 19c to 39c CHILDREN'S HOSE;
odd lots from our regular stocks; in
cluded are many new Fall shades and
patterns; In the griup are half socks
(sizes to 1919. an
klets in u and = 1Oc To 15c
lentghs; pr.-----
Ldnsburgh's-Fourth Floor