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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
1to41, the
= Ashe County
Farm Agent
e. 3. Rich
Time to Prevent
Timber Damage

Before spring work begins to rush
us is good time to run a few
strands of wire around our timber
so that cattle cannot continue to eat
the little trees when they would
start growth. 1919
Cattle running in t;aIberland not
only destroy the desirable young
growth but bring damage to the old
er timber by destroying the mass of
leaves which cover the ground. The
feet of the cattle break and grind
these leaves till they're easily wash
ed or blown out. Then the trees suf-
fer for lack of food and moisture.
Give your timber a chance by keep
ing your cattle out of it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

drove his high-speed moneplare
across the continent in seven hours
20 minutes and q seconds, averag-
ing approximately 1872 miles an
hour.
He made the distance of 2,49O
miles between STA a. m. and
12:43:27 p. M, both eastern standard
time.
Hughes beat his own previous rec
ord of nine hours, Is minutes, 10
seconds, made last January IA.
ct flew at $4,000 feet most of the
way" he said, with my highest
speed $40 miles an hour. I used
about 200 gallons of the 28O-gallon
load"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
FREE SHOW HERE

A free motion picture show will
be given at the show rooms OF the
Ashe Motor Company on January %,
20, and 80, for the benefit OF the
customers and friends of the COM
any. The show will be open at all
hours during the day and during
the evening of the dates given. The
public is invited.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
ROYAL AMBASSADORS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS

The Royal Ambassadors of the
Baptist church in this city elected
the following new officers Sunday:
Edwin Duncan, president; Carl
Jackson, vice-president; A. M. Jones,
vice-president; Leet Vannoy, secre-
tary and treasurer; Howard Phillips,
custodian.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
DOUGHTON TO ATTEND
RITES OF SISTER-IN-LAW

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Repre-
sentative Robert L. Doughton left
tonight to attend the funeral of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Doughton,
who died at her home in Laurel
Springs today. The rites will be held
at Marion, Va. Mrs. Doughton was,
the former Betty Reeves of Rich
Valley, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

one of the directors the association.
Paul j. Vestal, Moravian Falls, N. C.
The berkshire is one of the Oldest
breeds of large type hogs in the
world, and the only one of English
origin.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

The girls up North went on a
kissing strike. It was unsuccessful,
for all the old maids became at once
pickets and strike breakers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

The general assembly will act on
liquor, says news item. The brand
they get and the amount they take
will have something to do with how
they act.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
AtA

r and profiter
lers the Daily
IL Leonard for
orth Carolina
the average
worth of state
will come to
900 who pay
ay more and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

In the social security registration
the name Smith ranked first, and
Jones fifth. I knew that I had g
rank name; but it is not as rank as
I thought it was.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
Lansing Trims Riverview

Lansing High boys won over Riv-
erview in a thrilling basketball
game by score of 46-45 Tuesday. The
Lansing girl won 20 on a forfeit.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

There is a man
by the name of
Gass in the Cen
eral Assembly. He
has no trouble of
finding a substi-
tute down there.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

If the general assembly will come
up here in the mountains now they
will soon find out that we don't need
any sinking fund for the roads.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

"The Devil Is Sissy" is a new
movie title. I always thought that
the Devil had some feminine char
istics, and I have been certain that
women were sOrter deVilish.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

Every family tree has a good
crop of half-cracked nuts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

Congressman to bend ears for the
Presidents speech. That is what
they have the most of and some of
them are nothing else but.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

The way everybody is being fed
up by the country, this is beginning
to look like Reorganization"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

If few more people in the county had ra-
dios, the local Red Cross would have more flood
donations than they could handle.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
NUTS AND
KERNELS
TROY I. JONES

North Carolina looks ahead in it's
program of wild life, say news cap
ton. At last North Carolina is going
to do something about education.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

O1 O14~ 141EA4A OL VAA~
hour. He lasts just
a few minutes. Or
is it the resurrec-
ton of the Revo-
lutionary minute
men.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

Garner may have been President
for three minutes. That is the way
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

unreasonably high,
led by Monday.
le spirit of helpful
'wn III their liberal
, have had charge
found it a pleas
have given with
he subject and
sums by mail.
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28

Entered as second-class matter on Oct. l, 1925 at
the post Office at West Jefferson, North Carolina
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
We Congratulate O4M People

Saturday morning, the officials of the Ashe
Chapter of the American Red Cross received
wire to collect contributions for the flood suf-
ferers. The quota set was not unreasonably high,
but it was reached and doubled by Monday.
This is compliment to the spirit of helpful
ness that our people have shown III ttheir liberal
Evening star., 1937-11-16
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON
RETURN TO GOLD DENIED
Simon Says U. S., Britain, France
Are Not Negotiating.

4 LONDON, Nov. l6 (R.-Sir John
Simon, chancellor of the exchequer,
gave fiat mo" today in answer to
a House of Commons question whether
Britain, the United States and France
were negotiating early return to the
gold standard op the basis of reduced
gold content of currencies.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
GRAND Jury GETS
ALG|C CASE TODAY
Probers to Weigh Mutiny
Charges-Mates Plead In
nocent in Seaman's Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. GA Fed
eral grand jury convened today to con-
slider the case of IA seamen charged
with violating a mutiny statute while
the Government-owned freighter Algic
was on South American cruise.
United States Commissioner James
K. Cullen ordered the seamen held for
grand jury action after recent hear
ing at which they pleaded innocent.
They were released on $500 bond each.
The seamen were charged with con-
spring to deprive the ships master,
Capt. Joseph Gainard, of his rightful
authority in strike at Montevideo,
Uruguay.
After the grand jury session, Com
missioner Cullen planned to hear argu-
ments at $3.50 pm. on another phase
Of the troublous voyage from which
the Algic returned with its log listing
three sit-down strikes, several deser-
tions. one man killed in a water
front brawl and another drowned.
Seaman Howell v. Gill was reported
drowned September % at Victoria,
Brazil Second Mate Ernest B. Waters
and Third Mate John F. Pike face
charges of involuntary manslaughter
in the case.
The two officers pleaded innocent at
a hearing yesterday and Cullen said
then that unless he received definite
proof of Gill's death, the charges
would be dropped He said State
Department report Of Gill's death was
not conclusive proof.
Six witnesses who testified yesterday
said they had not seen Gill's body.
They said their only knowledge of his
death was through a notice posted on
the ships bulletin board.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
DEAN DOYLE AUTHOR
OF TICHNOR SKETCH
G. w. Official Writes on Progress.
sive Educator at Harvard
Century Ago.

Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, profess
sor of romance languages and dean Of
Columbian College at George Wash
ington University, has Just published
a pamphlet on George Tichnor, pro-
gressive educator at Harvard Univer-
sity during the 10Th century.
Dean Doyle's work contains a bio
graphical account and a critical ap-
praisal of Tichnor, the educators lee
ture on THE Best Methods of Teach
ing the Living Languages" delivered
in 1882, and notes on the lecture by
Dean Doyle
The pamphlet is reprinted from the
Modern Language Journal in which it
originally appeared 1t is dedicated to
j. D. M. Ford, Smith professor of
French and Spanish at Harvard, a
chair at one time held by Tichnor.
Tichnor's educational precepts in
cluded Emphasis on the Living Lam
guage," AN Eclectic Method" Frank
Acceptance of Individual Differences
Among Pupils" and "Techniques Ad-
justed to Different Age Levels" ac-
cording to Dean Doyle.
Evening star., 1937-11-16

ments had been reduced to the form
of contract"
With attention riveted principally
on the twin problems of relief and
unemployment, the Mayors prepared
to devote this afternoon to this sub
ject, hearing from Harry L. Hopkins,
Works Progress Administrator, an
outline of the national program. At
the opening session of the conference
yesterday Mayor F. H. La Guardia of
New York conference president, pre-
dicted needs for additional relief
funds, despite the retrenchment for
which the Government is striving.
Judge to Talk of Crime.
Tonight, at the the annual dinner,
the conference will hear a discussion
of organized crime by Supreme Court
Justice Philip j. McCook of the first
judicial district of New York. who has
presided at most Of the racket" cases
tried there in recent months.
At the afternoon session yesterday
the Mayors went into the troublesome
problem created by the inability to
keep airport construction in step with
the demands Of air transports that
steadily increase in size.
Col J. Monroe johnson. Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, said that
within the next 18 months there will
be mammoth transport planes in the
air which, in all probability, cannot
satisfactorily use more than five or
six, at most, of the airports in this
country in their present condition" "
Col Johnson said there was imper-
ative necessity" for developing some
well-reasoned, comprehensive and CO.
herent' plan, for a national system
OF airports, and that it was hoped to
make start in that direction at a
conference here December 81.
Branch's Message Read.
The tendency to construct airports
at too great distance from the center
OF the cities they serve was criticised
IN a paper by Harllee Branch, Second
Assistant Postmaster General, The
paper was read by his assistant, James
w. Cole, injuries received in an auto
mobile accident keeping Mr.. Branch
from the meeting.
Mr.. Branch pointed to the proposal
to build an airport for the Capital at
Camp Springs. Md, as an example
OF what he meant. BY figuring in the
motor travel between this city and the
airport, and that required between the
terminal at Newark and New York
City. Mr.. Branch pointed out, the
Washington-New York air service
Evening star., 1937-11-16
DAVIS ASSA|LS
EXCESSIVE TAXES
Pennsylvania Senator Says
Removal Would Solve
Jobs Pr0bIeE,.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. Ex-senator
James J. Davis of Pennsylvania be-
lieves industry can supply jobs for mil
lions of workers if properly encour-
aged" and relieved of punitive" taxes
Speaking with David L. Lawrence
State Democratic chairman. before the
Squirrel Hill Board of Trade last night,
the Republican Senator asserted wise
policy of administration would save
business from further recession be-
cause of excessive taxation"
Lawrence urged Pittsburghers, "now
that the election is over" to cooperate
in campaigns for better housing, flood
control and the creation of recrea-
tional facilities.
Davis, hailing recent administration
attempts to encourage business to
formulate its own program and go
ahead" declared:
"A punitive policy toward industry
will not increase production, and the
Nation is suffering now because pro-
duction has halted. = Business has
to operate at a profit before it can
make jobs, this can be done
only as business succeeds in producing
goods and selling. If this can be done
successfully, jobs and increased en-
ployment will follow automatically.
Davis assailed the undistributed
profits tax as detrimental to the small
business man and forecast that it
would either be repealed or modified
in the near future"
Evening star., 1937-11-16
Mayors
Continued From First Page.)

NSOllllllueu ClOlIl ClISL FdRe.J
organizing activities following in its
wake as a product of the inevitable
period of reconstruction which always
has and always will follow funda-
mental changes in human relation
ships"
There followed also" he continued,
"the senseleSs cry from the thought
less, and from others who must know
better and whose faith must therefore
be questioned, see what you get when
you attempt to deal with a union
which hasn't developed adequate and
responsible leadership
Says Harvest Being Reaped.
Does it not occur to these alarmists
that the public got just what the COM
panies had been engaged in for years
in deliberately manufacturing for
them - dissension between company
supervisors and foremen who were
expected to deal with unions when
they had for years been meticulously
trained to suppress unions, and men
now in position of local leadership in
unions who had been ruthlessly denied
any opportunity to develop their quail
tiles of leadership by experience? In
truth the results have been surprisingly
good, as many of you know, and both
sides have accommodated themselves
to the new situation with more success
than might reasonably have been
expected"
Chairman Madden also upheld the
/ board in refusing on occasions to rec
ognize contracts which employers con-
tend have been entered into with their
workers, when these are challenged.
Most noted of these were the pacts
made by the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, an A. F. of l..
affiliate, with the Consolidated Edison
Co. and the National Electric Products
Co.
The board invalidateu the contacts
at the instance of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, bringing con-
demnation from the A. F. OF L. Mr.
Madden made no mention of specific
cases, however.
Employer Defense Cited.
In the boards consideration of
cases under the act" he said, lit fire.
quently appears that contracts have
been entered into by the employer
with some purported representative of
his employees. Sometimes the en-
ployer addresses to the board an ar
gument based upon such contact,
which, when analyzed, is to this effect,
Yes, l did violate the terms of the
law; l did prevent my employees from
exercising their rights to have repre-
sentatives Of their own choosing; I
did coerce them into accepting repre-
sentatives of my own choosing. But
have made contract with the rep
resentatives have chosen for my en-
ployes and there is nothing you can
do about it,
That argument would make law
full a yellow-dog promise exacted from
employees. or an arrangement with a
company dominated union, simply
because those promises or arrange
Evening star., 1937-11-16
OSWEll FUNERAL RITES
ARE BEING HELD TODAY

Mrs. Susan Richardson Oswell. who
died Sunday at her home, 1855 Wyom-
ing avenue NV, will be buried TODAY
IN Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral serv-
ices are being held this afternoon at
the home Of her sister. Mrs. w. D.
Searle, 1896 Klingle road NV, with
Rev. DR.. John c. Palmer officiating.
A native of this city, Mrs. Oswell was
graduate of Mount Vernon Seminary
She was member of the Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution.
Besides her sister, she is survived by
her husband, c. Arthur Oswell; two
daughters, Mrs. c. Raymond Nc
Cutcheon and Mrs. Joseph Kerr Fry,
and two grandchildren. all of this CITY,
Evening star., 1937-11-16
JEFFERSON is HELD
COURTS WORST FOE
"Unpacking' Judiciary Cited by
Wallace in Address to
College Group.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Nov.
16.-Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace described Thomas jefferson
in a speech today as greater hater
of the Supreme Court than any Presi-
dent before or since"
Speaking at Monticello, Jefferson's IS
home, Wallace said that "one of the
first moves of the Jeffersoniaps when
coming into power was to unpack the
Federal courts, which had been packed
by Adams with aristocratic Federalists
just before Jefferson came into power. "
"As result of the unpacking ef-
fort" the speaker continued. "Jeffer-
son was accused in the most violent
terms of wanting to destroy the Fed
eral judiciary and subject all things to
his will
Secretary Wallace spoke in connec-
ton with the 18th anniversary of the
establishment of the land grant COL
lege system and the United States De-
partment of Agriculture He was in
troduced by Dr. Julian A. Burruss,
president of Virginia Tech
Evening star., 1937-11-16

actually was little faster than fast
trains which touch the center of both
cities. And this, he amplified, does
not take into consideration the incon-
venience of the motor travel, and the
fact that train fares are cheaper.
Surgeon General Thomas Parran.
jr, of the Public Health Service,
speaking at luncheon yesterday
urged action by every city to curb
syphilis. DR.. Parran said the disease
had shown recession wherever there
had been organized action to stamp
it out.
The conference ends tomorrow,
when there will be also a one-day
session of the Institute of Municipal
Law Officers.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
Beaverbrook Flies.

NEW YORK (P).-Lord Beaver
brook, British newspaper publisher,
left Roosevelt Field in his new $4,000
amphibian plane today on leisurely
flight to Kingston, Jamaica, where he
planned to spend the winter fishing
His party planned to stop at Wash
1ngton.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
Drive on Bootleg Coal.

HARRISBURG, Pa, P).-A check
of all bootleg colleries in Pennsyl-
vania's anthracite fields is underway
to learn the extent of any big time
racketeering," Secretary of Mines
Michael j. Hartneady disclosed today.
Racketeers who hauled liquor and
beer into Pennsylvania during pro-
hibition are reported building wash
cries in the hills to clean coal.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
COMPOSER HONORED
Daughters of Nile Pay Tribute to
Stephen Foster.

The memory of Stephen Foster
composer of "Old Black joe" MY
Old Kentucky Home" and many other
well-loved ballads, was honored last
night by the Samla Temple, Daugh-
ters of the Nile. with ceremonies at
the Grafton Hotel. Past queens of
the organization were paid tribute at
the same time.
Fred A. Emery, vice president of
the Columbia Historical Society and
past president of the Society of Ma
tlves, spoke on the life of 1r. Foster
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur c. Barrett sang
several of the composers better-known
pieces.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
DELEGATES Attend Session.

Delegates representing 50 land grant
colleges and universities throughout
the country left Washington this
morning for special program at
Charlottesville. Va with Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace to be the princi-
pal speaker.
Last night the delegates, holding a
three-day convention, heard J. c.
Wright, assistant United States COM
missioner for vocational education,
predict intensive training efforts in
such new industries as air condition.
ing and electrical refrigeration.
The sessions close here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
ALL RISK, NO GAIN

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16 R.-It
was labor lost for the gunman who
fed empty handed after firing twice
at Alexander Diorka and grabbing at
his stuffed brief case.
Diorka escaped with only a gashed
forehead. His brief case contained
only books-printed in Ukrainian.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-09-09
Death Strikes Noncombatants

THE undeclared war in China
continued to mean death or in
jury to hundreds of noncombatants
as the Japanese continued to bomb
densely populated native city areas.
Three hundred civilians were killed
and several hundred wounded as
bombs fell on Shanghai's Chapel dis
trict. Two hundred houses were set
in flames.
A Chinese communique said that
20 Japanese bombers raided Nam
king. the central government capi-
tai. bringing death to 100, including
many women and children, and
wounding 400 more. Bombs fell on
the National School for Orphans, the
National Central university and the
Tzesheng hospital.
Nearly 500 miles inland from
Shanghai, at Nanchang. capital Of
Kiangsi province, it was reported
Japanese bomberS had killed or
wounded 300 Chinese noncombat-
ants.
In an effort to hit the South sta
ton at Nantao, ancient walled-in
Shanghai settlement neighboring
the French concession, Japanese
bombers killed 200 and wounded 400
civilians.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-09-09
Andrew w. Mellon Is Dead

a NDREW w. MELLON, reputed-
"A ly one of the four richest men
in the United States and secretary
of the treasury in three cabinets,
died Of uremia and bronchial pneu-
monia at the home of his son-in-law
at Southampton, N. Y. He was
eighty-two years old.
Shortly before his death he had
fulfilled the ambition of his life by
giving to the nation what he termed
the nucleus" of one of the finest art
collections in the world. The col
lection he gave was valued at $780,
100000. Excavation is now under
way for a $4,000. 900 building to
house the collection in Washington.
All but $3.50, 900 of the great Mel
Ion fortune was willed to the A. w.
Mellon educational and charitable
trust. The statement Of the attor-
ney who announced the terms Of the
will said: 1.-The deed creating this
trust provides that its funds shall be
applied exclusively to religious,
charitable and educational uses and
purposes. It already has distribut-
ed millions of dollars during its ex-
istence." The $4,000 went to Sec
retaries and employees. Mellon s
two children received no bequests.
The will explained they had already
been adequately provided for.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-09-09
Planes Land Without Eyes
T OAKLAND, CALF, civil

n i OAhLAND, OALlr. CIVILIAN
4 \ and army fliers proved that air
transport planes can now be landed
under conditions which prevent the
pilot from gaining the slightest
glimpse of the ground. Using only
a radio beam for eyes" pilots
made 100 perfect blind landings
at the airport there with Boeing
PAID plane, of the type now used on
several of the nations commercial
air lines.
The cockpit windows were COW
cred with metal screens to prevent
their sneaking SO much as peek
at the field. Many pilots few the
ship and, although some of them
had never operated that type Of
plane before, not single landing
was made outside the 300-foot run
way.
So successful were the tests, the
bureau of air commerce, army,
navy and commercial airlineS rep
resentatives present agreed that the
system would be adopted for the
country as a whole. The system.
which makes it possible to bring a
ship safely to earth, even through
snow, rain, fog or dust, was called
by authorities the most dramatic
thing Of its kind since the first flight
Of the Wright brothers.