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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
l.. o. o. M.

Three candidates were initiated at last nights meeting of the Wa terbury lodge of Moose which took place ct the chapter hall. During the progress of the meeting membership drive was begun, and 1t is expected that Q large group will ge given the first degree at the January meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
NO MORE TRIALS
 TILL JANUARY Z

Christmas recess of the local superior and common pleas court started today. No further hearings or trials will be conducted until January 2, when short calendars motions will be heard.
 Offices of the clerks of both courts will be open however, despite the recess of court sessoins. Customs of previous years is being dlsregarded in not holding . short calendar session in the middle of the holiday period.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
EUGENE GALESKI
 SENT TO NEWPORT

Eugene Francis Galeski of Fair field street, Union City, has been accepted by the local office of the U. s. Naval Department for an en- listment period of three years. He has been sent to thet raining quar- ters at Newport, R. l., where he will remain for the next three months before being assigned to sea duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23

FAMOUS COMPOSER BETTER
 Paris, Dec. 2S- (UP) - Maurice Ravel, internationally famous com. poser, was reported in good condi. ton today after an emergency oper' ation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23

Rev. Gerald s, Stubbs, 60-year- old rector. and Miss Bety Fewings, aged 17 were married recently in West Chinook, England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
Ready And Willing

Ne0Qy <AnO VIHsUS
 with cheerful service right up to the stroke of nine Christmas Eve! We've enjoyed Christmas City and hope you've liked it-and the spirit of Christmas surround
 ing it!
 Actually we've been surprisingly busy-the ''streets" of Christmas City have been crowded. Daily telephone calls and telegrams have helped to keep stocks as complete as possible. There's merchandise aplenty for last
 minute shoppers!
 Gifts purchased up until s o'clock Christmas Eve will be delivered within the city limits! The Howond Hughes Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23

Shipbuilders of Belfast, Northern Irelan, report that orders for mer- cantile vessels are now very scarce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23

coeyeoNJ Vs AADoi scehEY o. "A M w.k STRAIGHT WANEs ~ THIS peooU AM 2% STRAIGHT wtskts zsM oaAM h.UnAt sk's
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
G. w. PIuRnmer
Dies in Wyoming

George Plu:nmer, Sc, prominent
Wyoming hotel and restaurant oper-
ator, died at 8 o'clock last night at
his home at 27OO Carey.
He had been in i'll health for near
ly two years from a heart and kid
ney ailment, but in recent weeks his
condition had grown steadily worse.
A native of North Carolina, Plum
mer came west when he was 18
years old to seek his fortune. With
the money he had earned teaching
school, he bought railroad ticket
to Nevada. There he worked on a
ranch for while, and then moved
to Salt Lake City to work for the
Union Pacific railroad. At 81 he was
a conductor and was known along
the line as the "kid conductor"
Before 1900 he came to Wyoming
going first to Rock Springs and
then to Saratoga and Rawlins. In
1912 he came to Cheyenne, about
that time purchasing the Capitol
Grill restaurant and building from
Harry P. Hynds. Later he acquired
the Moffat hotel here, a second
Capitol Grill cafe and the Ferris
hotel in Rawlins He also built the
Virginian hotel in Saratoga, which
was named after Owen Wister's
famous book.
Plummer sold his restaurants
some time ago.
He is survived by his wife,
Maude, four sisters and two broth
ers. They are Dora Plummer, Mrs.
Elite Holmes and Mrs. Bruce Por-
ter of Cheyenne; Charles Plummer
of Saratoga, operator of Medicine
Bow lodge; and Robert L. Plummer
and Mrs. Daisey Eller of Jefferson,
N. c., the family home.
| Plummer was we'll know n
throughout Wyoming and had hun
dreds of friends along the Union
Pacific. He was an excellent bust
ness man and had extensive inter
ests here and in Carbon county,
Wyoming newspaper.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
MAY LOSE 6 BILLIONS
New York House Sued for Damages
for Publishing Parts of Book

Six billion, five hundred million
dollars-that's what the Macmillan
company reports it will have to pay
should Susan Lawrence Davis obtain
judgment as asked in her suit alleg-
ing that Margaret Mitchell plagiariz-
ed portions of "Gone With the
Wind"
The company, a New York pub
fishing house, said 100000 copies
of the book had been sold. The suit
asks $4,000 damages for each alleg-
ed infringement, basing its claim on
similar passages in "Gone With the
Wind" and the Davis book, eau
thentic History of the Ku Klux Khan
1865-1877."
The action was filed in Federal
district court.
The company, comparing long
list of passages in the two books on
which the Davis claim was based,
said it's attorneys had advised there
was no merit in the suit and that it
would fight the case through the
courts rather than settle for cent.
The company's statement said it
was informed by Miss Mitchell said
it was informed by Miss Mitchell
that "she never saw or even heard
of Miss Davis book before publica-
ton of "Gone With the Wind"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
nub
and
KeAneN
By
TROY
ISAIAH
JONES

Some people like to talk so well
that actually they will sometimes
intersperse their conversations with
the truth.
In the sit-down strike there seems
to be no end i'm view!
=
It costs the government of the
British empire three and one-half
millions to crown a king. 1t costs
the private Individual fifty dollars
to see it. If one wants to, he can
come to West Jefferson on Saturday
night and see person crowned for
nothing.
If you don't think that you have
to pay the social security tax just
look who is a head of that depart
ment-a Mister Hell-ring.
Tennessee continues to have their
child brides. They are at last going
to disprove the theory that man
sprung from monkey and show that
monkey sprung from man.
Mrs. Perkins, looking daggers,
said to labor, BURY the hatchet."
Half the fun of the goose is hav-
ing big feet. Pity the old hens can
not look at life that way so that the
shoe merchants would not have so
much trouble fitting shoes.
Even the Indians had medium
of exchange-arrows for bullets
with a scalp to boot.
If musician is baldheaded it is in
defiance to law. If he is saxophone
player it is in defiance to law.
One doctor looks at your tongue
and feels your pulse, while another
feels of your pulse and then looks
at your tongue. If they have a radio
and have listened at the weather
report they may give you a tenn
perature.
Under the social distribution of
cards we wonder who will be the
ace?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
PAGE THREE

Watauga county during the paS4
eight months, returned home for tha.
summer, Sunday
Mrs. Pearne Dickson is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nelse XII
by, of Bina, at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Jones, wf1B
have been visiting the parents OF
Mrs. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Carney
Francis, of Crumpler, for the past
week, returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. Ray Barker, who has been
sick for some time, is better at pres
ent.
Mr.. Felix Jones has recently done
a splendid job of fencing around
his dwelling house. Be it remern-
bered that within the last year hE
has remodeled his dwelling house.
and made other improvements thz5
have changed the looks of the whoEss
place.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
Estimated 9 Million
Unemployed in US.
Unbelievers Say Figures Not
True as Number of Times
That of Year of 1929

How many unemployed? The two
agencies making regular estimates
of the number both place it around
100000 indicating that only one
out of six persons of working age
has no private gainful employment.
These agencies are the national in
dustrial conference board, support
ed chiefly by large corporations,
and the American Federation Of
Labor.
Skeptics pointed out however
that this is some five times the
number of jobless estimated for
1929, while the federal reserve
board index of industrial activity
for March equalled the 1929 aver
age.
Employment in industry, they
said as measured by the monthly
index of the United States bureau
of labor statistics, is less than 8 per
cent under 1929, and the conference
board estimates employment in ag-
riculture above 1929.
Public Airing Awaited
The controversy seems slated for
a public airing in the next few
weeks in Washington, in hearings by
the senate committee on commerce
on the Maloney bill for census of
the jobless.
Statisticians who arrive at the
9,000,000-figure base their calcula-
tons on the 1880 census, which
showed $4,000 unemployed in
March of that year, and proceed to
make adjustments based on the
monthly index figures of the bureau
of labor statistics on industrial en-
ployment, allowance for population
growth, and miscellaneous scattered
reports and indicators.
From this 1880 base point, anal
ysts first measure changes that have
occurred during the intervening
years in the number at work.
The bureau of labor statistics
gauges of employment in industry
are therefore drawn on to arrive at
an estimate of the increase or de-
crease in the number of pay rolls.
This series, however calculates
variation in occupations covering
less than hat of the total employ
ment. Shifts in agriculture, the pro-
LESSONS, independent and trades
Garages, repair shops and the like),
fishing, forestry and public service
are either roughly figured on the
basis of fragmentary data or carried
at constant figure.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
Silas Greek News

Mr.. w. w. Dickson and family at
tended a birthday dinner at Wiley
Faw's of Piney Creek Sunday.
MIR. Walter King and his road
crew are working near Gather Bar
ker's on Silas Creek at present. He
is doing a splendid job. It is to be
hoped that the state forces will CO.
operate in blasting out the rocks so
that it may be hard-surfaced.
Mr.. c. M. Dickson, who taught as
principal of Bethel High School in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
LENOIR MAN TO DIE
Former N. C. State College Student
to End Criminal Life i'm Chair

Judge Grover Adams Friday SEN
fenced Dwight Beard, q, of Lenoir,
N. c., to death in the electric chair
June 4 for the Staying of John Rob-
erts, go, retired policeman.
Beard, heavily shackled, was TAX
en- to Huntsville prison Immediately
after sentence was imposed.
Beard, a former N. G.. State col
lege student and escaped life termer
from the North Carolina penitenti-
ary, was convicted of Staying Rob-
erts December %, 1885, during the
robbery of a garage. The court of
criminal appeals at Austin last
week denied Boards motion for a
rehearing.
He was convicted several years
ago of the Staying of a Valdese, N.
c., merchant and was sentenced to
die, but the sentence was committed
to life Imprisonment.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06

I wonder what rate the Mexican
bean beetle has as public enemy.
If a man is shot in the lumbar
regions, that is no reason to infer
that it was done in the woods.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06

An invertebrate sea animal called
Medusa, is frequently eight feet in
diameter but it's body is more thara
SO percent water.
The coronation robes of Richara
II of England cost $1,000,O00.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06

The average height of the great
wall of China is % feet.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01
LIQUOR PERMIT
IS PUZZLE

ARLINGTON, Va, Feb. Al
though Virginia law restricts sale
of alcoholic beverages other than
beer and wine, to State-operated
diSpensaries, the State Corporation
Commission has granted a new
corporation charter "to buy, sell
and deal in and with liquors,
whiskey, gin, alcohol, brandy 3. ."
in Arlington county.
The charter, recorded today at
the clerks office in the court
house, listed the liquor selling busi-
ness as one of the purposes of the
new organization. Other purposes
include the establishment and
maintenance of night clubs. cafes
and cabaretS.
One official at the court house
was at loss to explain why the
State Corporation Commission had
granted the charter in view of its
specified purpose of authorizing
purchase, sale and trade IN
liquors.
The charter was granted to the
South washington Amusement
Corporation for engaging in busi-
ness in the South Washington sec
ton of Arlington county. a part
of which territory is claimed both
by Virginia and the District of
Columbia.
Officers are listed as Harry Har-
ris, president; S. Barker, vice presi-
dent. and S. M. Levinson, secre-
tary.treasurer, all of Washington.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01
APPEAL DENIED FIGHT INDIANS
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The Washington times., 1937-02-01
$4,000 RAISED
BY BIRTHDAY
BALL HERE

Receipts from the Presidents
Birthday Ball celebration staged
Saturday night in seven Wash
ington hotels is expected to total
$4,000, more than double the
amount raised last year, Com
missioner George E. Allen, general
chairman of the ball committee,
today announced.
On behalf of the planners of the
ball. Allen expressed the highest
qualification for the public re-
sponse. He said that it may be a
week or longer before complete
returns are announced. Allen
said:
"It truly was the biggest night
/ have ever seen in Washington.
Every one of the seven hotels
was jammed. The members of
the committee and are del
lighted with the way things
worked out and, what with the
heavy contribution now being
made to the flood relief, the
night proved a great cOmpli-
ment to the generosity of the
Washington public.
Last year the income from
the birthday ball was $4,000,
but this year it should run ap-
prOximateIy $4,000, including
returns from tickets, programs
and donations"
The money will be spent IN
the fight against infantile paraly
sis. The money will be shared
by the local Children'S Hospital
and the Warm Springs (Ga0
Foundation.
Jean Harlow. Robert Taylor
Marsha Hunt and other notables
of motion picture, stage and
radio, left the city yesterday
afternoon, most of them on then
way back to Hollywood.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01

tanned a 4.8 out of a possible 5
average in her studies which lacks
but 4 per cent Of a perfect aver
age. Before her enrolment at
American u, her scholastic
prowess at Central High won her
the secretaryship of the National
Scholastic Honor Society.
Her abilities, however, are not
confined to the classroom. She
is assistant editor of the Eagle,
campus weekly newspaper; presi-
dent of the Brecky Club, made up
of graduates of Central High at
the college; a member of the
Spanish Club and Delta Gamma
Social Sorority.
A junior this term. she is ma
joring in history and expects to
continue her studies to get a
masters degree after her gradu-
alton next June. After that she
expects to do extensive research
in early American history.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01

Prison sentences imposed on
Morris E. Dutch" Irwin, local
sportsman, and five others re,
Gently convicted for conspiring
to violate the gaming laws, were
affirmed by the United States
Court of Appeals today.
Irwin and his associates were
arrested in a police raid on his
gaming establishment on October
%, 1885 and were convicted after
a three-day trial.
He was sentenced to serve from
two to six years. The others con,
victed were sentenced as follows
Edward J. Gibson, two to four
years; Wilbur S. Carroll, one year
to 18 months; Leonard F. Hill, one
to two years; Frank E. Crandell,
four months to a year and a day;
James Mcintyre, four months to
four months and a day. Morris
A. Malone, a seventh member of
the gaming ring, was sentenced to
serve from four months to four
months and a day, but did not
appeal. He is now serving his SEN
tence.
Jury Law Banned
Justice F.. D. Let's ordered the
group committed to jail following
their sentence, but the appellate
court permitted them their freedom
after it invalidated the District
jury in another case. When the
United States Supreme Court held
the law to be constitutional. an
unsuccessful attempt was made by
the United States attorney to have
the defendants recommitteed, and
they are still at liberty.
The attack on the jury law was
dropped in the Irwin appeal,
which was based entirely on the
claim that the search warrant
was insufficient.
Warrant Upheld
It was contended that the war
rant described only the "humi,
dor" in a tobacco shop on the
first floor of the building in the
100 block of Fourteenth St. N. w.,
and did not give the raiders the
right to enter the rooms on the
upper floors. The higher court,
however, held that the warrant
was sufficient to give the raiders
authority to enter the upper
floors, since the entire building
was leased in the name of Gibson
and a warning buzzer located in
the gaming rooms above was con-
nected to a button located near
the door of the tobacco shop on
the first floor.
The defendants are expected to
present themselves for commit
ment later in the week.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01
D. {. CoIored Groups
To Fete Mrs. Bethune

Washington's colored citizens
are planning a banquet in honor
of Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
director of the colored division Of
the National Youth AdminiStra-
ton and president of Daytona-
Goodman Institute of Florida, on
February 13, at the Whitelaw Ho'
tel.
The executive committee III
charge of the affair includes Mrs.
Marion D. Butler, Mrs. Virginia
MCGUIRE, Mrs. Julia West Hamil'
ton, DR.. Clara S. Taliferro, Dean
Lucy S. Lowe, Mrs. Eva B. Holmes
Mrs. Georgia Lawson, Mrs. Helen
w. Gray and j. A. G.. LuValle.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01
Certificates Needed

Parents whose children will
enter the District public schools
for the first time today must
bring birth certificates and certl-
ficateS of vaccination.
The birth certificates are re-
quired by the Board of Education
and the child labor laws while the
vaccination certificates are re-
quired by the Health Department.
The Washington times., 1937-02-01
TODAY'S RADIO FEATURES

EARL GOODWIN. Times Radio News,
heard daily except Sunday, to
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5:15-JOhnson Family. VOL
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The Washington times., 1937-02-01
Today's Foreign Short-Wave Radio Schedule

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Moscow p. m.-RevieW of
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Spanish Program. W2XAF, 3l4
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The Washington times., 1937-02-01

CARACAS-8:45 p. m.-Ama'
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The Washington times., 1937-02-01
REA TO HOLD
FLOOD BENEFIT

Continued from Page 22, Col. II
its erection saves the Government
$181, $50 in rents now being paid
for leased premises. . in moving
5000 truck trips will be required
to move 100000 pieces of office
furniture and equipment the
building covers five and half
acres. Old Tyber Creek once
flowed right through the center
of the site. the 10000 steel and
concrete foundation piles, driven
through solid rock because the
building is slightly below the
Potomac Rivers level, would
stretch from Washington to Fred
ericksburg, Va. like big ocean
liner, the building has a pump
constantly at work to suck out
water Seepage. 1000 tons of
steel went into the framework. ..
and 240,000 cubic yardS-not feet
of earth were dug out for its
foundation. every room is an
outside room, because of courts
between wings. the escalators,
mentioned above, are the first to
date in a Government building.
Eating facilities-the most in
teresting part to rank-and-filers-
are simply fine the cafeteria
will be able to serve 1900 folk az
one time, having four steam tables
=. special acoustics have been de-
signed to cut echoes of rattles of
12,1 pieces of silver against 26,-
100 pieces of china plus the con-
versation that will babble between
IL and l from hundreds of chew
ers. another feature is a pent-
house eating room on the eighth
floor for those who bring their
own lunches, with a soda foun-
tain. and in summer workers
can eat al fresco" on the roof.
air conditioning reignS through
out. . all in all, Secretary Ickes,
who designed the structure along
with Architect Waddy Wood,
seems to have done himself
proud"
FederalismS-Cecil Custer, civil
service assistant budget officer,
automobiled to Kennett Square,
Pa, Friday to appear against a
man who had falsely represented
himself as selling ads for a publ
cation of the A. F. G. E., of which
Custer is treasurer the man was
remanded for the grand jury, with
a year in the pen in prospect,
probably because one of those he
"nicked" was the burgess-or
mayor-of Kennett Square L.
B. McCurdy and C. A. Whitten did
well in recent Federal Bridge
League play, winning So match
points for Coast and Geodetic
Survey, league leading team. the
North Dakota State Society meets
February 13 for an election and
dance. present officers of the
group are Sidney L. Wardwell,
president; Leslie Erhardt and
Hazel Nelson, vice presidents,
Mrs. George H. Scannell, secre-
tary, and Robert Larson. treasurer
and next Tuesday, February 9,
the Federal Electric Workers
Local Union 121, members OF
which are employed in the Gov
ernment, will hold a dinner and
dance at the Lotus Restaurant 80.
pictures Of themselves are avail
able for Betty Smallman, stenog-
rapher, and Irene Scott, Navy.