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the American visitor IN

incidentally, the American visitor In
December:
Dec. 1-"Hamburger Dom," worlds
greatest Christmas Mart and
Folk Festival, in full swing
at Hamburg, Germany. Au-
tumn Wine Auction opens at
Trier, Germany.
Lapp Market for three
days at Bosekop. Norway.
with Christmas illumination
Of &ll streets throughout
Norway. Winter sports sea-
son begins in Norway.
Klaushornen," old Christ
mas custom at schwyz,
Switzerland.
Steeplechase and hurdle
races at Paris, France, until
the 18th.
Dec. l-"Christ Child Market" at
Nuremberg, Germany, for
three weeks: first held 1897.
Christmas exhibition at
Basle. Switzerland. till the
31st.
AAA AoV4AdS A16t4tlLy plAy6
IN Vienna, Austria: also on
the 5th, 11th, 18th, 18th.
10th and 26th.
Dec. 6-Christmas exhibition till
January . Of works Of Ber-
nese Artists at Bern, ewitz-
erland
Jubilee Music Festival at
Vienna, Austria, with grand
concerts also from the 7th
to the 18th, with Bruno WAL
ter and William Furt- Wang
Ter conducting.
Dec. 6-Parade of the Wollishofer
Santa Clauses at Zurich and
Kussnacht-Rigi, Switzerland.
Christmas Fat Stock Show
at Navan. Ireland.
Torchlight procession to
the Tomb of st. Nicholas at
Bari, Italy.
Canada Club dinner with
the Duke of Gloucester at
London. England.
Dec. 7-Festival of Madonna di Loreto
till the 10th at Loreto. Italy.
Dec. 8-Fete Of the Immaculate Con-
ception at Chartres, Lourdes
and Lyon, France.
Dec. 9-"Peasant Ball of Old Salz-
burg" at Austrian Legation,
London, England.
Nobel Day" with distribu-
ton Of Nobel prizes at Stock
holm, Sweden.
Dec. 11-Histortc "Escalade Fete" ut
Geneva, Switzerland, for two
days
English folk dance Christ
mas party and ball at Lon
don. England.
Dec. l2-Christmas Market opens at
Skansen, Stockholm. Sweden
Dec. 13-Lucia procession in Stock
holm, Sweden
Dec. 14-King's birthday celebrations
In England.
Dec. licking and Queen at Winter
Garden Theater, London, for
actors fund.
Dec. 20-Boar's head banquet in
London.
World Fair and Circus at
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Agricultural Hall. London,

Agricultural Hall, London,
England. till January 20.
Dec. 21-"Bochsel Night" customs ct
Weinfelden, Switzerland.
Dee. 22-Bertram Mills Circus at
Olympia, London, 1ngnnd,
till January ~.
Dec. 23-Christmas holidays open in
Sweden, when many old Gus
toms are observed, espe-
cially In old manors which
have been converted to COM
Portable hop.es for visitors IN
different parts Of the coun-
try.
Dec. 24-Performances Of mystery
plays atDornach, near Basle,
Switzerland: also on the 25th
and 3sth. Ceremony Of cut
ting the "Caehofio" or Yule
log in Provence. France;
fruit-bearing tree is chosen
and borne home by the head
OF the house and burned to
bring good luck for . year.
Vigil Of the Shepherds at
Alliance, France.
Professions Of men form
at midnight in public squares
in Holland, the leaders car
rying illuminated star on .
pole which they follow "as
the wise men Of old" chant
ing Gloria in Excelsis."
Christmas eve celebrations
in Rome, Italy, with mid
night mass at st. Maria Mag
giore, where relic Of the Cross
is carried in the procession.
Dec. 25-In Denmark. customary
Blowing In Of the julie;
four hymns are played at
dawn from the church tow
ers. one to each point Of
the compass.
Typical hummer parades
IN England. Yule log pro-
-cession by servitors in Eliza
bethan costumes at Great
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The Travellers Notebook
Americans abroad at the E>emtfd Christina, Sea-
son May Pick the. Type Of Santa and
Celebrations They Prefer.
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.

BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.
-ORE1GN Santa Clauses will
- reign over thousands Of Amer
leans this season. Kris Krin-
4 gle's land. under one name or
another, Is almost universal, and by
accident or design a host Of travellers
will be away from the traditional rites
around their own collective fireside,
with its stocking -picketed mantel, ties
and toys, happy laughter and the one
stomach ache q year on which parents
smile indulgently.
For those roaming the world or tenn
porarily anchored far from home.
there will be novelty as we'll as Joy.
Europe's picturesque Christmases have
centuries of legend behind them, and
greatest rewards of an intimate for
eign holiday go to those fortunate
travellers who possess the love and
Evening star., 1937-11-21

mack Of settling down amid . people
like friendly man sinking into an
easy chair. The Old World has sew
eral Santas-which ought to answer
the question Of whether there is one
and the traveller may order the one
he prefers: Hollands st. Nicholas, for
instance, who casts his big, Jolly
shadow over the little land for weeks
after distributing his gifts the evening
OF December S; Germany's Weih-
nachtsmann, England's more formal
sounding Father Christmas. Norway's
"julenisser," gnomes who bring gifts,
at least to children, and there are
others
Europe's Christmas, with its many
facets, will mirror the faces Of thou
sands of Americans. Onicial estimates
place the number now in Europe at
about 100000, and the Institute Of
Foreign Travel points out that IS
liners-25 times as many as the old
carol singer recorded who wrote II
saw three ships come sailing in, on
Christmas Day in the morning"-will
leave Atlantic ports between Novem-
ber II and December l6, carrying
Americans to Old World Christmases.
Reports from Montreal, st. Johns.
Boston. New York and Baltimore
reveal that some vessels will be filled
to capacity.
FUROPE'S Christmas, like Europe at
any other time and like Atlantic
City's Boardwalk, brings enjoyment to
two types of visitors-those who min
gle with the actors and those who sit
and watch the show pass by. The Old
Worlds home life at Christmas, with
its traditional customs. goodies and
graces, is charming to see, but the
parades. as it were. go by the front
door. where all may see. With the
accent on folk celebrations and Yule-
tide festivals. here are the red-letter
events Europe will stage for itself and,
Evening star., 1937-11-21

Fosters House, Egham, near
Windsor. and dancing in the
old Tithe Hall. Holy Thorn
flowers at Glastonbury. Som
set.
Bears head ceremony at
Oxford.
Coupe de Noel at Paris,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
GOOD FARM PRACTICES
PRODUCE QUALITY SEED

Mixed varieties, plant diseases,
and common and noxious weeds
compose three stumbling blocks for
North Carolina farmers in the pro-
duction of quality small grain.
However, declares A. D. Stuart,
extension seed specialist at State
College, these obstacles can be
overcome to a large extent by good
farm practices.
The use Of pure seed will elimi-
nate the low yield and poor quality
of mixed varieties, he pointed out,
as wei as control most weeds, since
a large portion of the weeds pro-
duced in titled fields are planted
with the seed.
Stuart says that the North Caro-
lima Crop Improvement Association
gives the opportunity of both using
and producing pure seed. Applica-
tions are now being received for the
inspecting of small grain fields for
certification.
If growers crop passes field in
spection by the association, thresh-
ing should be done carefully. All
equipment should be cleaned thor
oughly before work is begun so that
no mechanical mixture will result,
the seed specialist advises.
After threshing and cleaning, a
small sample of the grain must be
submitted to the Crop Improvement
Association for official purity and
termination tests by the State De-
partment of Agriculture.
If tests show that the seeds must
set standards, the grower can sell
his seed with the official blue tag
of the Crop Improvement Associated
affixed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20

beans. They should be planted dur
ing or just few weeks after the
complaining season, he said.
When the legumes are turned un-
der as green manure, they not only
add nitrogen to the soil, but also
provide organic matter which aids
materially in the conservation of
soil and moisture.
Summer green manure crops
should be followed by winter cover
crops, Veazey said, and the winter
crop that follows should be moved
down and left on the land as a
mulch.
It is advisable, continued Veazey.
to leave the land idle for 10 or IS
days after the green manure crop
has been cut, in order that the plant
food may become more rapidly
available to the winter crops that
are to be put on the land.
Another important factor is that
the green manure crop should be
mixed with the soil, so as to en-
courage rapid decomposition and
utilization of the plant food ele-
ments by the next crops, he said.
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FAR. NJ
n WIS

ton has given the highest per cent
of termination, the least seeding in
jury and the highest acre yields of
cotton. Although the experimental
work in North Carolina has been
done primarily with cotton and to-
bacco, results from other states in
dictate that material increases in
yields can be obtained with other
crops. Therefore, suitable distribu-
tors for side placement may be uti-
lied for crops other than cotton"
DR.. Collins found from his results
last year that satisfactory results
can be obtained by placing the fer
tilizer in two bands, about six inches
apart, and then planting the seed
halfway between the bands with a
walking planter. This method of
placement gave an increase of about
200 pounds of seed cotton per acre
in comparison with placing the same
amount of fertilizer behind a three
inch shovel in the conventional
manner.
This side placement method, at
planting time, in separate opera
tons, gave an increase of approx
mately 400 pounds of seed cotton
more than where the fertilizer was
placed in band three inches under
the seed ten days before planting.
DR.. Collins said it is advisable
however to have new equipment
that will place the fertilizer proper
ly at planting time but that some al
terations in the present equipment
may be made to secure almost as
good results.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
Alaska Suffers From
Floods i'm Sections
Towns and Countryside Washed
Over as Ice Begins Thawing
Out Under Warm Sun

Ice-jammed waters of the Chena
and Tanana rivers washed over half
of flood-marooned Fairbanks this
week as townspeople looked hope
fully to freezing temperatures to
check the spring inundation.
Ice james which followed spring
break-ups on the frozen rivers sent
the flood waters into the city.
Officials said no fear was felt for
IL members of a Hollywood movie
company of Republic Pictures cor
poration, including Director Norman
Dawn, marooned on a nearby island.
Jack WetherWax, animal trainer for
the company, took supplies to the
party by boat after swimming the
icy water to the mainland
Mayor E. B. Collins said much of
the city, including a long stretch of
the first avenue residential district,
was under water ranging in depth
from few inches to three feet, but
that the citys drinking water sup
ply was protected from contamina-
ton.
Less severe flood conditions are
almost annual occurrences once
warm weather melts the frozen
streams and sends their pent-up
floods pouring into the Yukon.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
GROWERS MAKE PLANS
FOR SEEDING LEGUMES

Now that most farmers have seed
ed all the lespedeza they plan to
grow this year, cowpeas, soybeans,
velvet beans, and other legumes as
sumo an important position as green
manure crops and for soil improve
ment and erosion control.
Most of the legumes, whose roots
contain bacteria which take nitro
gen out of the air and store it in a
form available for plants, will grow
on almost all types of soil, accord
ing to A. H. Veazey, agronomist of
the Soil Conservation Service.
Veazey pointed out that the les
pedezas do best on the heavy soils
and that cowpeas and soybeans need
sandy soils for healthiest growth.
In a few weeks it will be time to
seed cowpeas, soybeans and velvet
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20

an attack from German subma-
rine."
The destroyer Hardy at Gibraltar
was made ready to sail Immediately,
as the British admiralty acted
quickly to determine the number
killed and the exact cause of the
blast.
Spanish sources were reported
Thursday night to have said the
Hunter either was torpedoed or
struck a mine about five miles off
the coast from Almeria, Spain.
The Hunter was one of the war
ships which had been assigned by
Great Britain as a part of the non
intervention international patrol to
prevent arms and soldiers from
reaching Spain.
In Rome Thursday, Italian Foreign
Minister Ciano declared his nation
was a little skepticaP' of the effec-
tiveness of the non-intervention
scheme but that Italy would respect
her obligations as participant in
the plan.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
Ilub
and
KeAneN
BY
TROY
ISAIAH
JONES

Flea circus runs 20 years in sue
cesslon." If there was anything that
l thought would be on the jump it
would be a flea circus.
John Quincy Adams was the only
bald-headed president Of the United
States. Just some more bare facts
about the peculiarities of our great
men.
Quit making comparisons of peo-
pies faces. You look just as differ
ent to them as they do to you.
weather is aid to court plan"
says Wallace If it would only stay
cold, probably there would be an
elimination of some of the hot air.
Strike called at Pittsburg steel
mills" I knew that they would keep
on until they got ironical about it.
OllSC uPOll q C1IIlC LIlGIS Was
king who sold his subjects air. Don't
tell the government about this for
they will be taxing air next. The
reason they have not now the air
that they are used to at the capital
has been what you call hot.
Il
Edward thought that Wally was
bigger jewel than any in the crown.
All have been stolen.
The crown used in this coronation
has been brought down from Ed
ward the Confessor. AS confessor,
he must have belonged to some ma
jor party.
"Bare-backed bathers not allowed
at Atlantic City," declares Frank B.
Off, the mayor. I think that his
name must have something to do
with his attitude.
Tentative plans are those that will
fall through.
I made a speech in Watauga at
Aho and they let me finish From
the name of the place they might
have been asleep. Any way 1 found
out that there were no rocks up
there.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
8 British Sailors
Killed Near Spain
Destroyer Either Torpedoed or
or Damaged by Floating
Mine; lowed In

A sensation in London was caused
by an explosion aboard the British
destroyer Hunter off the southern
coast of Spain which killed eight
sailors and injured more than a
score.
Friday the British admiralty Off
cially announced that eight men
were killed aboard the ship when it
was rocked, but not sunk, by the
explosion. A floating mine laid dur
ing the Spanish war was under
stood to have been definitely estab-
ished as the cause of the disaster.
Spanish government sources at
Valencia and Almeria insisted, how
ever, that the blast was caused by
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
NEW FERTILIZING METHOD
GIVES HIGHER YIELDS

Six years of research by the North
Carolina Experiment Station indi-
Gates that when the fertilizer appli-
cation is made in bands to one or
both sides of the seed and little
beow the level of the seed, higher
acre yields of the crops so fertilized
are obtained.
"In general, we would recommend
as result of our tests, that the fer
tilizer application be made two to
three inches to each side and two to
three inches below the level of the
Seed" announced DR.. E. r. Collins,
fertility agronomist. 'This applica-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20

one pound of ArSenate of Lead with
so pounds of corn meal One peck of
this mixture will cover one acre.
Place small pinch of the bait in
the center of the bud early in the
morning when the bud is open. APP
plications should begin ten days to
two weeks after the plants are set
in the field and repeated every week
or ten days until the plants are
topped.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
FARM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS

Question: When should seed be
planted in the plant bed for a late
crop of cabbage?
Answer: This depends, of course,
upon what section the planting is to
be made. In the mountain section
the seed should be sown about the
first of May. For the coastal plain
and lower Piedmont sections the
seed should be put in between July
l and Is. In picking out the seed
bed be sure to select the best land
possible as cabbage is a heavy feed
er and requires the best soil and fer
tilizer. Prepare the soil thoroughly
to a fine pulverized condition. Mix
the seed with little sand and
broadcast over the seed bed. The
bed should then be covered with a
light layer of chaff from an old
straw or hay pile or with woods
litter.
Question: What variety of chick
ems is best for developing capons?
Answer: Experimental work at
this Station, both in developing and
marketing capons indicate a prefer
ence to the Plymouth Rocks over
the Rhode Island Reds as far as
these two popular breeds are con-
cerned. No work has been done with
the other yellow skinned varieties
such as Cochins, White Wyandottes,
Jersey Giants, Langshans, Brah-
mans, and Cornish. The last three
to gether with the Cochin are slower
in development than the other
breeds, but usually make larger
capon when finished.
Question: How can I control bud
worms in my tobacco fields?
Answer: The best known control
is the poisoned corn meal bait
which is made by carefully mixing
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
In The WEEKS NEWS


SOCIETY TAKES TO
THE WHEEL - 81.
cycling is New York
society's latest fad'
and do they make 1t
good! This young deb.
for example, has a
bike equipped with a
de luxe seat uphol.
stored in mohair vel.
vet just like the cush'
ions in her car.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

County, purchased two years before at Lath-
rop, Hawthorn and Reede's in Chicago.
Gentlemen, you have had it pointed out
to you that this gun belonged to Murray San
ger - that he bought it - that he carried it
legally on his person. Does it not seem signif-
cant to you that the only prints on this gun
are the prints of Renee Fraser? Is it not plain
to you that this gun must have been handled
by Sanger? That other people must have
touched this gun in the course of the two years
it was in Sanger's possession? And that the
fact that it only carried only the prints of
Renee Fraser must indicate that other prints
were deliberately removed from it, before her
prints were placed upon it,"
1t wasn't enough. Stuart could see those
twelve stolid faces staring back and knew
that it wasn't enough.
She was known at the St. Dunstan. She'd
been seen there many times That many other
people in New York are known at the St.
Dunstan is quite beside the point. Only that
Renee Fraser was known there is relevant,
because the bellboy and the clerk who opened
Sangers door saw only Renee Fraser with the
gun in her hand. That Sanger had given speci-
fic instructions to the clerk an hour before the
shooting - to come up and open his door on
the dot of two O'Clock, if he found it locked -
would be construed as the precaution of man
who expected trouble from a woman he was
going to interview.
Her version of the shooting came out in the
papers, and the public howled with glee. The
brass of it! Here is girl who won't even use
her imagination. She won't even cook up
good one for us. She merely denies everything
that is self-evident fact and on top of it says.
He put the gun in my hand - put my finger
on the trigger and pressed it himself. There
hasn't been taller one told in twenty years.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

Don't tell me that again. Arthur
1--WE got to tell it to you," MacIvers said
quietly, ''for that's what you're up against.
offered Fleckstein two hundred and fifty
thousand if he'd take the case. He wouldn't
You can have that much. I'm buying that
girls life and her freedom Do you understand
me? Buying it with your brain"
what do you mean?" March stood quite
still in front of MacIvers.
''You know what mean. You're going to
get her admitted to bail"
II can't-ont the indictment. It'snever been
done in New York County in my memory"
There's always first time. Stuart -
Raeburn told me you were and what Raeburn
says goes. And you're going to have quarter
of a million dollars in your hands when she is
admitted"
What are you asking me to do?"
Jump her bail, " MacIvers said ''You love
her - get her away and give her her life."
'You fat fool!'
I'm not fat fool. know what I'm talk
ing about. You're done now - all the future
of you died when Sanger died. You'll tell me
that you two can't live with the memory that
you ran away. All right; the best you can
hope for is twenty years to life for Renee
Fraser No power on earth can get her off with
less. Can you live with that? She'll be an old
woman, pale and broken and gone. You'll be
an old man and you will both have lost the
one thing that is worth dying for - your
selves
March shook his head. arthur, you can't
run from murder indictment. There's no
place to go, and no statute of limitations"
You've got brain, Stuart. Use it now,
my boy - if you are ever going to. Find a
place to go. Find way to get there
(Co"sinSsd On page 12)
Evening star., 1937-11-07


Grafton for the Spring Ordinol cam
~ paign He met Renee herself that same
evening on the St. Dunstan roof and realized
that there would never be another woman in
the world for him. Two days after their first
meeting March had dinner date to meet
Renee in the lobby of the Plaza. He waited for
one hour but she didn't turn up.
Here's why: Just before lunch she had gotten
a call from Murray Sanger, middle-aged
money power behind the Convin accounts for
which Renee was working. Sanger had de-
termined to marry Renee but she had refused
him. Now the secretary asked if she would go
to his apartments at the St. Dunstan to talk
over new idea for the Convin account.
Other men connected with the business would
be there
When she reached the place, however, she
found Sanger alone. He closed the door and
put the key in his pocket.
This is the end of the road for you, Renee"
he said.
He told her that since she would not marry
him she would never marry Stuart. Coming
close to her, his hand covered with handker-
chief, he seized her right hand. She felt cold
metal underneath as his fingers pressed hers
until there was an explosion. Sanger fell to the
floor dead, and as the hotel employees rushed
in she stood over him holding the smoking
pistol. His diabolical revenge worked To the
world his suicide was hidden and Renee was a
murdereSs.
To make the case against her more certain
he had also blasted her reputation by having
in his apartment personal things initialed R. F.
which he had purchased.
The following morning after her arrest
Stuart received letter from Sanger mailed
before his death indicating Renee had been
the mistress of several men. But this did not
shake his faith in her, nor the faith of an old
friend. MacIvers.
The latter offered prominent criminal
lawyer quarter of million dollars to defend