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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-10
READ THIS FIRST:

In Hollywood following an ingenious
naneuver on the part of his young
wife, Janet, Joel Paynter, second-rate
Broadway actor, begins work under
short term contract. Meanwhile Janet
make a point Of cultivating the right
people. joins a tennis club and meets
Vernon Chester, an important director:
Chester asks her to play tennis and
have lunch with him., Chester likes
Janet and learns inadvertently that she
and Joel have been reading a best
seller about to be screened by Chester.
Chester selects Joel for an important
character role in his new picture and
attractive new contract and option.
Joel makes screen history in 1.-THE
Dance Was Long" and the Paynters
ind fame and fortune at their feet
within eight months.
NOW Go ON WITH THE STORY:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-10

listed it's plant at $4,000 for taxing
purposes in Beaufort, but which he
said would probably claim the same
plant is worth $6O0O0o for rate fixing
purposes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-10
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Feb. 1O-Considerable spe-
culation is going on here about Gov
ernor Clyde r. Hoey's reasons for
jumping into the New York fight
against ratification of the Federal
child labor amendment, after the Tar
Heel chief executive kept quieter
than several mice while the battle was
raging in his own legislature.
The governor, who had nothing
whatever to say in North Carolina,
now lets New York and the rest of
the world know that he considers con-
ditions in North Carolina practically
ideal. tsNT
Il can say, without any sort of hes
1tancy, that child labor in North Caro-
lima is negligible" Governor Hoey
wrote for Sarah H. Birchall repre-
sentative of the New York State Eco
nomic Council, Inc, an organizations
which is assembling data for use in
its fight against the federal amend
ment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-10

Advocates and opponents of a law
absolutely outlawing slot machines in
North Carolina are deluging legisla-
tors with data, appeal and literature.
Somebody has stirred UP enough
support for the machines to have tele-
grams sent to every law maker, while
II. Clifton Blue, editor of the Sand
dill Citizen of Aberdeen, is seeing to
that everybody in authority shall
have the chance to know that he
editor Blue) is against the slots and
all their works.
prospects are dark, however, for
any act which would effectualIy put
the machines out of operation, al
though nobody can be found who will
openly defend them as instruments
for the public good.
Advocates for Statewide referen-
Gum on the liquor question seem to he
highly elated because they have en-
listed Former Governor and Senator
Cameron Morrison as one of their
oratorical big guns for the public
hearing to be held here Thursday.
Controllers joint to the REYNOLDS
Morrison primary vote as a clearcut
indication of just how much weight
Mr.. Morrison will have.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-10

And then there are those who really
do not start to work until the boss
hreatcn6 to fire Them.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01
ROAD MILEAGE GROWS
MUCH IN PAST 8 YEARS

More than three million miles
have been added to the worlds mo-
tor highways in the past eight years,
the highways committee of the Au-
tomobile Manufacturers association
announced in New York recently.
The total mileage as of January
was estimated as 100000 miles, an
increase of only per cent over the
preceding year but 50.7 per cent
more than existed in 1929 when the
total mileage was 6,582,001.
World motor vehicle registrations,
the report said, total about 39,8OO,-
600, an increase of 2,35O,OOO in one
year and of nearly 100000 since
1929.
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Speeding Is Blamed
for Highway Deaths
Total Number Killed to Date
Shows Increase of % Over
Number in 1886

The State Highway patrol in it's
report for May said that 81 persons
were killed and $40 were injured
in 1876 accidents investigated dur
ing the month. These figures were
slightly smaller than for May, 1896,
when 90 persons were killed and 544
were injured in SIG accidents.
The May accidents brought to 395
the number of persons killed on
North Carolina highways since the
first of the year, an increase of %
over the number killed during the
same period of 1886.
The Highway Patrol blamed
speeding for the major number of
fatalities, this offense resulting in
SO deaths in non-collision wrecks,
mainly on curves. Reckless driving
resulted in 10 fatal accidents,
while drunken driving was found
to be the cause of only two deaths.
Collisions with fixed objects re-
suited in nine deaths, % pedestrians
were killed, two were killed in car
bicycle collisions. Nineteen of the
pedestrians were walking on the
road, and six children were killed
while playing in the streets.
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Local Marine Trains
in Camp Perry, Ohio

WAKEFIELD, Mass, June %
Veteran riflemen of the Marine
corps who are gathered here to pre-
pare for forthcoming rifle matches
include Gunnery Sergeant Thomas
J. Jones, formerly of Scottville, N.
c., one of the outstanding rifle shots
of the Marine corps. He is scheduled
to take part in a shooting tourna-
ment here late in July before at
tending the national matches at
Camp Perry, O., beginning Aug. u.
None of the group of riflemen as
sembled here has had more expert
ence than Sergeant Jones. He was
born in Scottville, and subsequently
made his home with his brother,
Rufus A. Jones Of Stratford. For 20
years he has been an outstanding
rifleman of the Marine corps.
Sergeant Jones began winning
prizes for shooting when he was
serving with the Marines in Cuba
in 1918, and has added to his COL
lection year by year since that time.
In 1921 he won places and prizes in
eight shooting events, and since that
time has won literally hundreds of
medals and trophies in China, the
United States and elsewhere.
Last year he was member of the
Marine Corps rifle team which won
the National Rifle team match at
Camp Perry, defeating 119 of the
crack rifle teams of the country. He
also holds the Yantze service medal
awarded to him for his service in
China a few years ago. In 1921 Ser
geant Jones broke a world record
by making 1873 consecutive bulls
eyes at 800 yards on the rifle range
here.
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of private bank ownership and op-
Grafton to challenge the bankers to
insist on and lead in progressive and
intelligent reform"
eff another crisis finds the Ameri-
can banking system disorganized
and ineffective" he added, "the
American citizenry, inherently con-
sentative enough it undoubtedly is,
may nevertheless seize a short cut. u
Discussing economic conditions
generally, he said many persons ap-
parently have the "delusion" that
issuance of vast quantities of new
currency would quicken the business
pulse.
He pointed out that money in cir
culation reached $7,500,0OO,OO0 in
the depression month of March, 1888
and said that regardless of the
amount of currency only that por-
ton which is used for business pur-
poses affects the domestic economy
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

Under and by virtue of certain
deed of trust executed by w. E.
Johnson to w. H. Worth, Trustee for
the Bank of Ashe, on the 10th day of
August, 1882, which deed of trust is
recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Ashe County in
Book 81, page SO, I, w. H. Worth,
Trustee, will sell to the highest bid
der at the Courthouse door in jeff
erson, North Carolina, on the 9th
day of July, 1887, at one o'clock P.
M. the following described land, to-
wit:
Situated in the town of Jefferson,
containing three 90 acres, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
the lands of E. A. McNeill, on the
East by the lands of the J. E. Foster
estate and on the South and West by
the lands of the w. T. Coward
estate, and known as the w. E.
Johnson home place.
This June 7, 1887.
IL w. H. WORTH, Trustee.
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New York w A
Force Protests Cuts
5000 Men and Women Demand
That WPA Continue Course
Without Labor Decrease

Chanting 'WPA must go on" 5000
WPA workers marched on city hall
in New York Saturday in a new
demonstration against personnel
cuts and filed list of demands al
the mayors office.
The marchers carried placards
reading: "Organized labor demand
WPA," president Roosevelt-have
you forgotten the forgotten WON
en?" "Pink slips won't pay the land
lord and the DOCTOR" and "Pink
slips mean pickets."
Ten women demonstrators were
received by the mayors secretary
Lester Stone. He refused permission
for them to hold a mass meeting in
City Hall Park or Franklin square
on the ground it would block traffic
and the demonstration adjourned tc
Foley square.
Announcing 1--WE women near
business and we never stop wher
we get going" the delegation gave
Stone a petition asking Mayor La
Guardia to protest to President
Roosevelt against WPA cuts; to call
as President, conference of the u
S. Council of Mayors to consider the
dismissals; and to take a stanc
against "anti-union actions" of WPA
Administrator Brehon Somervell.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

! North Carolina
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed by R. L. Austin, ct
! al, to the undersigned Trustee under
date of February 18, 1886, which
deed of trust is duly recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds for
Ashe County in Book %, page q, to
which record reference is hereby
made; and
Default having been made in the
payment of said deed of trust as
therein provided, and having been
requested to do so by the parties at
interest;
I, w. B. Austin, Trustee, will on
the 10th day of July, 1887, at 100
o'clock, P. NJ, at the courthouse
door in Jefferson, North Carolina,
sell to the highest bidder for cash
to satisfy said deed of trust, interest
and cost, the following described
real estate, to-wit:
First Tract: Beginning on a white
oak, C. w. Shepherds corner; run
ming South 81 poles to a chestnut,
fuckers corner; then with fuckers
line 80 West rs poles; then South 70
West 26 poles; then West ii poles;
then South rs West 4 poles; then
South 56 1-2 West poles to chest
nut oak; the Reed and Hill corner;
then North IA West Sc poles; then
North 10 East 81 1-2 poles to a stake,
Osborne's corner; then with fence
South rs East 38 poles; then South
"a East poles; then North 88 East
Is poles; then North rs East poles;
then South 81 East Is 1-2 poles to
an old road; then North 10 East
6 As poles to Hopper's corner; then
with Hopper's line South IS East 4
poles; then South As East 10 poles;
then North IS East "a poles and 10
links to maple in Shepherds line;
then South 20 poles to a spanish oak;
then South 81 East % poles to the
beginning, containing 80 acres.
Second Tract: Beginning on a
chestnut oak; the Hill and Reed
corner; running North 81 West SO
poles to a gap; then West poles;
then with J. w. Richardson's line
North Is West SIS poles to a chest
nut oak on South bank of road; then
Eastward with Road to a stake in
Hill tract line; then with said line
to the beginning, containing "a ga
acres.
This the 10th day of June, 1887
7-8 w. B. AUSTIN, Trustee
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ROOsevelts to Live
i'm Charlottesville
Young Groom of This Week to
Study Law at University of
* Virginia for 3 Years

The sort of honeymoon cottage
that brides dream about in June, or
in any other month-that's the home
that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and
Miss Ethel du Pont have leased for
the first three years of their married
life while he is studying law at the
University of Virginia.
It's two-story colonial cottage of
old red brick painted white, with
extra large and wide dormer Win
dows. It's complete even to the ivy
song writer's like to include.
There is a large living room, a
study, dining room, kitchen and pan
try on the first floor, and three bed
rooms, two baths and an abundance
of roomy closets above. Outside, but
connected with the home, there's
maids room and bath over a double
garage.
The young couple, whose wedding
will be at Wilmington, Del, this
week, will not be the first bride and
bridegroom to move into the house
for their first married year. It has
just been vacated by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Lyon Polk, Jr., of New York,
who had it for three sessions. They
gave it up last week when Polk was
graduated in law, second in his class.
He has gone to New York to prac-
tice law where his father, once as
sistant secretary of state under
Woodrow Wilson, is in partnership
with John w. Davis.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Having qualified as Administra-
trix of the estate of Mrs. w. J. Per-
kins, deceased, late of Ashe County
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Helton
North Carolina, on or before the
22nd day of June, 1888, or this no.
tice will be plead in bar of their re-
:overy. All persons indebted to the
said estate will please make immed-
late payment.
This the 22nd day Of June, 1887.
ALTA PERKINS, Administrators
of Mrs. w. J. Perkins, Decd. 7-29H
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01
BROKEN BONE RECORD
Construction Foreman Has Had 20
Fractures Since 1921

Lee Devereaux, 81, a Nebraska
construction foreman, thinks he has
something of broken bone record
He's had 20 fractures since 1921.
Here's the record:
Automobile and truck accidents
% broken bones.
Baseball, three broken bones.
Football, three broken bones.
Motorcycle wreck, one cracked
skull.
Both his lungs have been punctur-
ed in accidents. Three times doctors
told his wife he probably would die.
In the last 10 years, he estimates,
he's spent about $4,000 for doctor
bills.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
North Carolina
County of Ashe

Under and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in that GER
tain deed of trust executed by r. M.
Milan and wife Della Milan to The
Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust
Company, trustee, which said deed
of trust is dated first day of Sep
TENDER 1926 and recorded in Book
26, Page 81, of the Ashe County
Registry, default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness
thereby secured and in the condi-
tons therein secured, the undersign-
ed substituted trustee by instrument
recorded in Book U-2, Page $50,
Ashe County Registry, will on Mon
day, July S, 1887, at or about twelve
o'clock noon, at the courthouse door
at Jefferson, North Carolina, offer
for sale and sell to the 4. est bid
der for cash the following described
property:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing fifty-nine
and 71-160 $50 71-160) acres, more
or less, situate, lying and being on
the Crestol.- public road, about
two miles almost south from the viii
lage of Creston, in Creston Town
ship, Ashe County, State of North
Carolina, having such shapes, metes,
courses and distances as will more
fully appear by reference to a plat
thereof made by c. w. Ray, Survey
or, on the LIST day of June 1925, and
attached to the abstract now on file
with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land {
Bank of Raleigh, the same being
bounded on the North by the lands
of Frank Phillips, A. H. Lewis, and
James Latham, on the East by the
lands of Thomas Latham, on the
South by the lands of Robert Rash,
and James Latham, and on the West
by the lands of Cora Humphrey and
the Brewer lands, and being the
identical lands described in the fol-
lowing deeds, to-wit: Deed from Ira
Prather and wife Nancy Prather to
R. M. Milan and wife Della Milan,
dated February 81, 1908, and re-
corded in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Ashe County, State of
North Carolina in Deed Book Al,
page $40, together with the deed of
c. w. Ray, T. H. Ray, and ]. A.
Hodgson, Commissioners of the
Court in Partition Proceedings, de-
scribing Lot No. to Roy and Della
Milan, the same being recorded in
said Ashe County Registry, in Book
GIL, Page Ais. Deed from J. T. Pless
and wife to Roy M. Milan and wife
Della Milan, dated July %, 1920,
and recorded in said Ashe County
Registry in Book Az, Page 70. Deed
from J. S. Graham and wife Alice
Graham to r. M. Milan dated
March 4, 1926, and recorded in said
Ashe County Registry in Book K-2,
Page 1873. Deed from T. T. Latham :
and wife Emma Latham to r. M.
Milan dated March 4, 1926, and re-
corded in said Ashe County Registry
in Book K-2, page 1877, Deed from
Marion Powell and wife Laura Pow
ell to R. M. Milan dated January %,
1911 and recorded in said Ashe
County Registry in Book il, Page
1926. To all of which deeds and rec
ords reference is made for more
complete description of the said
land.
Terms of sale cash and trustee will
require deposit of 10 percent of the
amount of the bid as evidence of
good faith.
This the fourth day of June, 1887.
H. E. STACY,
IL Substituted Trustee.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
of Effie Shoemaker Vinson, late of
Ashe County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present them
to the undersigned for payment on
or before the 1st day of June 1888, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
nent to the undersigned.
A. R. SHOEMAKER,
Administrator
of Effie Shoemaker Vinson, dec'd.7-8
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01
UNITED STATES MAY
TAKE OVER BANKS IN
EVENT OF FAILURES

Chester c. Davis, member of the
Federal Reserve board, gave bank
ers broad hint this week that the
public may demand government
ownership and operation of banking
in event of another bank crisis.
Addressing the Montana Bankers
association, he said that in the pres
ent banking situation there is
enough danger from the viewpoint
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01
NOTICE
North Carolina
Ashe County

Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
Effie Lee VS.. J. J. Lee.
The defendant, J. J. Lee, will take
notice that an action as above en-
titled has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Ashe County,
North Carolina, for divorce vincu-
10; and
The said defendant will further
take notice that he is required to ap-
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Ashe County,
at the courthouse in Jefferson, North
Carolina, on the 9th day of July,
1887, or within thirty (3O) days
thereafter, and answer or demur to
the complaint in said action or the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01

North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
of j. S. Miller, late Of Ashe County
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
estate to present them to the under
signed for payment on or before the
4th day of June, 1888, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned.
This June 4, 1887.
C. A. MILLER, Administrator
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plaintiff will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in said COM
plant.
This the 9th day of June, 1887.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
7-8a Clerk Superior Court.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01

The Aleutian Islands, as part of
Alaska, were purchased by the U. S.
in 1867.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-01

The hummingbird sometimes file
backward when leaving a flower.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

of Effie Shoemaker Vinson, dec'd.7-8
The daily independent., 1937-02-27
Plant Virus Disease

First proof that a plai!rvirus dis
ease could be transmitted by an in
sect was obtained with The japanese
stunt disease of :ice.
The daily independent., 1937-02-27
STUDENT TELLS
OF SOLDERING
IN NORTH CHINA

Ravenna, o., W.P)-Still under
30, Howard Ercanbrack, Kent
State University student, already
.ookS back on a career as a SOL
dier of fortune.
At the age of Is, Ercanbrack
eft his fathers Texas farm to
Join the navy. He was diSCharg-
ed when his correct age was
learned.
In 1925, he arrived in China as
a Stowaway on a Swedish tramp
steamer. Attracted by promises OF
big pay, he Joined the Chinese
army in the North.
He saw his first mass execution
there. At one time, he says, 66
men were lined up, instructed to
kneel and then were kicked over
on their faces by guards. AS they
fell the blades of the headsmen
fell.
Elcanbrack wanted to be an
army pilot. But he took one look
at the crazy-quilt patchwork OF
the Chinese war planes and list
ened to the sputter of their worn
motors and changed his mind.
He stayed on guard post Tor
several months, was injured IN
barbed wire entanglementS and
wounded. Then he came back TO
the United States. But he says
now he wishes he were in Spain
The daily independent., 1937-02-27

SUBS: Herttord-M. Ward CD,
Gregory 90, G. White "a, New
by 80, Robertson, Chappen and
White.
Subs: WindSor-Dillis, Tucker,
Harding, Williford, Walters and
Dunning.
The Hertford Indians improved
very much since the last game
that they played with Windsor in
which the score was a tie. The
game they played Wednesday
night was much better here.
Coach Rogers boys led in the half
with the score 35 to IA. Nixon was
high scorer for Hertford with 19
points, while Tucker was high
ycorer for Windsor having 10
points. The Hertford boys did
some very good passing during
the whole game. The final score
was so to Is in favor of Hertford
Indians.
The daily independent., 1937-02-27
Hettrick Wins
AtOcean View

Howard Duke Kettrick, Eliz-
abeth City'S contribution to the
boxing wirld who recently won
the l35 pound title of the Caro-
hnaS and Virginia, continued his
string Of victories last night when
he defeated Lloyd BriStow of
Richmond in the Semi-tina!S at
Ocean View.
Making his first appearance
since lie annexed the title of the
three southern states, Hettrick
won over the Richmond fighter on
a three round decision. In spite of
a injured hand that he hurt in
the second round when a right
landed on BriStow'S shoulder the
E,izabeth boy took all three
rounC3 by q good margin.
Featuring his dynamite left
that struck with lightning speed
and giving a great exhibition of
tootwork the Carolnan weaved in
and out and carried the fight to
his opponsnt in all three rounds.
Late in the second round Hettrick
attempted to shove over a right
TO the head and hit BriStoW on
lhe shoulder 6iScolating his
.humb. But Hettrick gave no trace
If the injury during the fight and
the fans never Ser-e that the
game little 1875 FOUNDER was hurt
in any way.