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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Countrywide W.M.U.
Meeting Successful
All Old Officers Are Reelected;
Adjournment Made to Meet
Next Year at Big Flats

The w. M. U. meeting held at
Warrensville last week was consid-
cred by church officials to be one OF
the best ever held in the Ashe Bap-
fist Association. The theme was
Christ for the World" The main
speaker was Mrs. Edna Harris, Of
Raleigh, who spoke on "Our Work
to Share"
Other honored guests were Rev
and Mrs. J. F. Fletcher, of Oak Hill
and both had a part on the program
Local speakers included: Mrs. w. T.
Wilmington, Rev. G. L. Trivett, Mrs
J. M. Prevette, Miss Minnie Hare,
and Miss Blanche Hartzog. A play
let was presented by several small
girls from West Jefferson and di-
rected by Mrs. Burl Vannoy.
All of the old officers of the or
ganization were reelected and the
meeting adjourned to meet next
year at Big Flats.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
ID. HartsOe Buried
Near Warrensville
Deceased Was Well-KnOWn and
Well-Liked Citizen; Died
After Period of Illness

David Hartsoe, aged SO, died early
Tuesday morning following an ill
ness of several weeks. Funeral SER
vices were held Wednesday and in
terment followed at the Ashley Gem
etery at Warrensville. Preachers in
Guided Reverends w. E. Denny,
Roby Burkett, and A. C. Lackey.
MIR. Hartsoe was well-knoWn
and well-liked citizen who worked
hard in spite of having lost one
arm. He was an honest man who
brought up respected family of
ten children who with his wife sur
vive him. They are: Joe, Adolphus,
Wiley, Dorse, of Crumpler; Elmer,
Mrs. Claude Watson, Mrs. Henry
Wiles, of Kannapolis; Mrs. Rosa
Sharpe, Conference.-The, Pa; Miss
Laura May Hartsoe, of Crumpler.
"a grandchildren; 3 great-grandchil-
dren; one brother, S. A. Hartsoe, and
three sisters also survive.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Rescuers Dig Snow
for Crash Victims
Mail Plane Found With Seven
Frozen Bodies; Plane Was
Hard to Get to

Frustrated diggers among the fro
zen remnants of smashed airplane
halted near Alpine, Utah in their
quest for seven broken bodies, Tues
day after full day of searching not
so much for the bodies themselves
as for means of reaching them in
the vast, Outbound glacier in
which they lie.
Armed guards were stationed
around the Observation-Disclosures
en- wreckage to remain through the
semi-artic night. Wengen, Postal In
spector directing the search was
quoted as saying a shipment of jew
elry was found Sunday. Dozens of
torn Christmas packages and a
three-foot-high pile of mail and
small parcels were collected.
Activity will center at the base of
towering rocks where the main part
of the plane apparently is buried in
snow as much as so feet deep.
"The wreckage," said Wenger, sis
strewn partly on top of snow-buried
Hardy ridge at an elevation of 1O,-
$40 feet, and partly at the base of
the 1,00O-foot cliff in which the
ridge terminates.
Evidently the plane-we think it
must have been travelling about zoo
miles an hour-thundered head on
into the steep-slanting knife-edge
ridge only 20 feet from its top.
part of the undercarriage and
nose, with much of the mail, ripped
off upon the ridge, and the rest OF
the plane, with the seven bodies,
plunged over the cliff, striking once
about 400 feet down and then rico
cheting off and tumbling some 600
feet more into the uptilted snow
field.
cts the problem of descending
that cliff, and then of getting the
bodies and wreckage back up, that
confronts us now"
Block and tackle were hoisted up
the peak and a rough rope lift was
prepared to swing searchers down
the dizzying height to the cliff base
Seven large sacks, carried up the
| hill as containers for the bodies
were flung over the precipice.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
North Carolina Man
Executed i'm Texas
Dwight Beard Goes to Electric
Chair Declaring He is Not
Guilty of Murder

Twenty seven year old Dwight
Beard of Lenoir, N. c., was electro
cuted at the State penitentiary in
Huntsville, Texas, Tuesday with an
assertion on his lips that he was in
nocent of Sayings in Texas and
North Carolina of which he had
been convicted.
The former N. c. State college
football player and wrestler and re-
ligious worker deliberately seated
himself in the chair and told War
den w. w. Waid and witnesses:
II want to say that the crime I
was convicted of in Dallas, another
man is guilty. He is in Arlington.
The crime in North Carolina that
was accused of, another boy was
guilty in that crime. I'm well pre-
pared through Father Finnegan and
the Catholic church."
Beard then kissed the cross, and
the switches were pulled. He died
for the fatal shooting of John R.
Roberts, a former Dallas detective,
during garage holdup December
%, 1885.
The North Carolinian had been
convicted of killing Augustus Boun-
Gus, Valdese merchant, in his home
state but death sentence there was
committed to life Imprisonment and
he later escaped the State prison at
Raleigh.
Until few hours before the exc
cution, he apparently maintained
high hopes of escaping the chair but
late Monday he lapsed into tacturn-
ity and apparently had abandoned
this hope.
Shed No Tears
He wrote a number of letters be-
fore he died, including one to his
mother telling her he hoped she
would "shed no tears" over him.
Beard told witnesses short time
before the execution that crime was
one of the best paying brackets" in
the country.
The North Carolinian attempted
unsuccessfully to escape the prison
with the aid of pistol fashioned
from soap.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Doughton Asks for
Reduction of Debt
Believes in Balanced Budget;
Speaks to North Carolina
Merchants Association

Chairman r. L. Doughton, of the
House ways and means committee,
said in New Bern, Tuesday, that the
national budget should be balanced
and reduction of the public debt be-
gun "soon," but warned that there
was little basis for hope" for low
ering of Federal taxes in the i'm
mediate future.
In an address to the North Caro-
lima Merchants associations annual
convention, the veteran Democratic
leader defended the 1896 undistrib-
uted profits tax as fundamentally
sound" although containing "a num-
Der of inequalities" and causing
hardships sin many instances" The
committee, he said, is making a
study of the law with view to pro-
posing remedies at the next session
of Congress
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
PROFESSOR STATES RED
HAIR NO SIGN OF TEMPER

The popular belief that persons
with red hair have a temper is dis
counted by DR.. D. B. Klein, profess
sor of psychology at the University
of Texas.
'eNo relation has been worked out
vet between a certain characteristic
and a givevn bodily trait" he says.
''The average person may remem-
Der only the outstanding examples
when he forms an opinion. The be-
lief that person with red hair has
a bad temper is popular one. Nc
doubt every person can think of an
example among people he has
known. We tend to forget the ones
with mild tempers and remember
only the hot-headed ones"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
EXPECT ROCKEFELLER
TAXES TO BE $15,112,6OO

Internal revenue officials estimat-
ed this week the maximum estate
taxes on the 25,O00,0O0 estate of the
late John D. Rockefeller would be
$15,112,600.
At the same time, they said it
was impossible to estimate at pres
ent how much of the $25,000,000
would be taxable. If all of it were
taxable, the total tax of $15,112,600
would be divided between State and
Federal governments. New York
States tax officials estimated the
State would receive about $4,350, 900.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
NO ADJOURNMENT
in SIGHT FOR LAW
MAKERS OF NATION
President Roosevelt Urges That
Speed Be Made and Court
Plan Acted on Now


House chiefs looked over the leg
islative slate with President Roose-
welt this week and returned to the
capitol with predictions that Con-
gress probably would be in session
until late summer.
Speaker Bankhead and House Ma
jority Leader Rayburn described the
President as anxious for Congress to
act before adjournment on:
Revamping the Supreme Court,
recognizing governmental agencies,
setting wage and hour standards,
planning conservation of water, soil
and power resources, aiding farm
tenants, building low cost dwellings,
closing loopholes used by tax dod-
gers, and extending the nuisance
taxes.
'Mr. Roosevelt" Bankhead said,
didn't insist on anything being
passed but urged that we try to get
all these matters through as soon
as possible"
81 think we'll be here maybe until
the end of August" Rayburn re-
marked.
I'm somewhat of a pessimist on
adjournment" the speaker said, "but
I certainly hope to be in Alabama on
Labor Day."
Congressional leaders said they
looked for no more major sugges-
tions for legislation this season.
The Roosevelt proposal to add
five justices to the Supreme Court
unless incumbents past 70 retire re-
manned the big hurdle in the path
to adjournment. Bankhead and Ray
burn said they discussed it only gen.
orally at the White House.
The House leadership decided to
seek action on the two tax features
of the legislative program this week,
Chairman Doughton, Democrat Of
North Carolina, and Representative
Vinson, Democrat of Kentucky, of
the ways and means committee, dis
cussed them with Mr. Roosevelt.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
SLOT MACHINES FARE
HARD IN FAYETTEVILLE

Fayetteville, June 4.-Seventy slot
machines were ordered destroyed by
Judge M. v. Barnhill as he ended
the June term of superior court to-
day. Accepting pleas of approx
mately u defendants charged with
possessing the gambling devices
Judge Barnhill fined each $40 and
costs.
The machines were valued be.
tween $4,000 and $4,000, Judge
Barnhill examined each one, ano
several of them were ordered re-
turned to their owners, having beer
found not to be gambling devices
Mol presses were taken in several
cases.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Delinquent Taxpayers Land in
Ashe County Being Advertised
to Be Sold for Taxes on July )
Freak Hail Storm
at County Home

A freak hail storm at the
county home, directly across
from the Good Gulf storage
tanks, cleared away Monday aft
ernOOn to leave two and one
half feet of hail stones covering
an area as big as an ordinary
sized vegetable garden. The hail
had drifted in the ditch by the
roadside and completely filled
the ditch to the top with little
balls of ice which remained for
hours after it fell. 1t covered
several yards of the corn field
and beat the surrounding corn
and potato fields to ribbons.
However, since the corn and
potatoes are young, it is thought
that the actual damage was
slight as they will grow out of it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Germany and Spain
Exchange Gun Fire
Peace of Europe Is Endangered
as Germany Seeks Revenge
for Bombing of Ship

Five German warships lombard
ed Almeria, Spanish government
port, Monday in retaliation for the
bombing of the German pocket-bat-
tleship Deutschland Saturday at Ibi-
"a. Demanding guarantees that such
incidents would not be repeated,
Germany withdrew from the Euro
pean non-intervention committee.
Twenty were killed and more
than 100 injured in the Almeria
bombardment.
Such warlike acts brought new
danger to the peace of Europe, and
leading Democratic and Republican
senators in Washington took the
view that de facto war had develop
ed and that the United States i'm
mediately should apply its neutral
ity law to all participants.
Italy joined Germany at once in
withdrawal from the non-interven-
ton committee and demanded salts
faction for the bombing of the Itali-
an naval ship Barletta off the port
of Palma and the death of six of her
officers.
Meanwhile the Spanish govern
ment promptly protested to the
League of Nations against the AL
meria bombardment, asserting the
attack was without warning and
contending the bombing of the
Deutschland was provoked by the
ship firing on Spanish government
planes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Work Sheets Must
Be Ready June II

Don't forget that June IL is
the last day to sign work sheet
for the 1887 soil conservation pro-
gram" warns E. Y. Floyd, of
State College.
All growers who have not sign
ed up either last year or this year
must deliver their work sheets to
their county soil conservation Of
fees by Saturday to become eli
gible for payments, he added.
Work sheets are necessary in
helping plan a farms program of
soil conservation and in determ-
ming how much diversion and
soil building payments are earn
ed, Floyd explained.
'If you operated under a work
sheet last year, but have made a
change in your farm since then,
notify your county agent at
once" he pointed out.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
l3-YEAR-OLD MOTHER WAS
MARRIED WHEN ONLY 10

Mrs. Dimple Lee, IS, and her one
year-old son, Junior Lee of Avery
county, North Carolina are number
ed among the youngest family
groups in the state. Mama Lee will
be Is years old August Is, and Jun
ior will round out his first year June
%. Mrs. Lee, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Champ Vance of the Blevins
Creek section in Avery, was married
at Johnson City, Tenn, May 5, 1884,
at the age of 10. Her husband, Bus
ter Lee, is 81 years old and is WPA
worker at Newland.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
HI. M. Miller to Settle Up With
County and Turn Books Over
to Sheriff w. E. Miller
FRANK JAMES TO COLLECT

Delinquent taxes for 1896 are be-
ing advertised for sale during the
month of June according to an order
made by the county commissioners
on the first Monday in May and
which was ordered carried out at
their regular meeting on the first
Monday in June. The list is smaller
this year, due to lower property
valuation and more money in circu-
lation.
Ex-Sheriff H. M. Miller, however,
must get the taxes under his juris-
diction collected in order to turn the
books over for 1887 taxes to the
present Sheriff w. E. Miller.
Frank James, of Amy, has been
appointed to collect old taxes for
the several back years that still have
many payments outstandings. He
expects to go to work at an early
date.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
TOnsil Clinic Will Be
Held Here 18th, 18th
Drs. ]. F. and Reeves Gambill to
Hold Clinic Appointments
Must Be Made

DR.. J. Frank Gambill and DR.. ].
Reeves Gambill, of Lincolnton, are
much pleased with the number al
ready making appointments for op-
erations at the tonsil clinic to be
held in West Jefferson at the school
house on Monday and Tuesday,
June 18th and 18th.
According to a recent communl-
cation from the Lincolnton special
lists, there will be no more room for
operations on Monday and those
who plan to take advantage of the
clinic are urged to write DR.. Frank
Gambill, Lincolnton, N. c., at once
and make reservation for Tues
day, June Is. Those who have failed
to make an appointment for the
time on Monday or cannot on that
day should come between eight and
ten o'clock Tuesday.
The operations are being perform
ed for half the regular price and
will be done for twelve dollars and
fifty cents. Experienced nurses will
assist.
It is thought that this opportunity
is an excellent one for the many
school children in the county who
need tonsil and adenoid operation
and the cost has been kept at rea-
sonable price. Because of this, it is
very necessary that those wishing tc
take advantage of it should make
their appointments at once as there
are only two days and one is already
filled
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Bank tOOpen

The Northwestern Bank, formed
by consolidation of four banks and
two branch banks in five north
western North Carolina counties,
will open on July 1, it was an
nOunced in North WilkesbOrO Sat
urday following meeting of the
board of directors. The institution
was Organized through colls6lida-
ton of the Deposit & Savings
Bank, which will be headquarters,
the Bank of Sparta, the Watauga
county bank with a branch at
Blowing Rock, and the Farmers
and Merchants Bank at Bakers
Vile with branch at huntsville.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Sells Wife

William Ebaughn, 20, six foot,
235 pound woOdsman, was jailed
Tuesday in California on Mrs. Ray
Delama's charge that he kept her
captive three months after "buy-
higher from her husband for $40.
william B. Woods, sheriff's depuk
ty, said Ebaughn admitted paying
Mrs. Delama'S husband $40 for her
and also admitted he broke her
ribs when / Rugged her too tight"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
BRIEF News
From the
State and Nation
Finds Peace

The Duke of Windsor and his
bride this week found the peace
and privacy for which he asked
when they were married Thurs
day. They settled down on d0meS-
tic life in old Wasserleonburg
castle in southern AuStria'S Do
bratsch mountains. It was perhaps
the greatest peace the former
British King had ever found.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Killers Sentenced

Seventeen-year-o Gladys Mac
Knight and her former sweet
heart, Donald Wightman, 10, made
no show of emotion in Jersey City
as Judge Thomas F. Meaney SEN
tencened them to from 20 to 30
years at hard labor i'm State prison
for the Ratchet murder of the
girls mother.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Petition Withdrawn

The council for the defense in the
alleged shooting of Jim Mcneil by
H. B. Woodie withdrew their petl-
ton for writ of haebus corpus at
hearing in Wilkesboro "Wednesday
afternoon. Consequently, Woodle
was returned to the county jail &c
await trial at the next term OF
criminal court.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
Services at st. MarY's

There will be services and preach
ing at st. Mary's Episcopal Church
Sunday June IS at II a. m. Rev. J.
B. Sill will be at Jefferson and
Glendale Springs from June 9th un-
til 18th.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10

Fred Hudler is opening new
beauty parlor in the city on Friday,
June Is.
The name of the shop has not been
decided on. It will be located over
the pool room in the Cope building.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10

what you have to sell
or what you want to
buy in The Skyland
Post which is read in
more than 80 percent
of the homes in Ashe.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-06-10
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The Washington times., 1937-10-25
BobeI Duel
Too Many Tongues
Cause Trouble

There are ways and ways of pro-
nouncing the French phrase Ca
Ira" (meaning 1T will go,") but
when a Belgian and an Italian
linguist get together, sparks will
fly if it's pronounced with a Ger
man accent.
DR.. Emile Simon, As, a Belgian
teacher of languages living at 1922
Park Rd. N. W., claimed in police
court today he was assaulted last
Saturday night by one of his
students, 51-year-old Frank Rizzo,
an italian and an employe in the
Patent Office, when Rizzo flew
into an ungovernable rage and
struck him over his pronunciation
Of Ca Ira"
ITO theenk," said Mr.. RizZo
on the witness stand, that he
should pronounce eet weeth
such a harsh, gutteral German
accent. I was angry, but only
tried to keep him from striking
me-"
We'll, did he strike you?"
asked Judge Edward M. Carran
in Police Court.
We'll, no, but that accent-it
was terrible!"
RiZZio was fined SIS,
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
MYSTERY BLAST
ROCKS STATION

RIVERDALE, Md, Oct. 25.-A
blast of undetermined origin this
morning rocked from it's founda-
ton a large Standard gasoline
service station on the Baltimore
Boulevard at Pierce Avenue in
Riverdale.
The blast, believed to have oc-
CURED under the floor, broke all
the windows in the station, blew a
hole in the floor and knocked the
building nearly a foot off its
foundations.
Edward Shaffer, Riverdale, the
only attendant at the station at
the time, was thrown against the
wall by the explosion. He was
badly shaken up but otherwise
uninjured.
Police believe the explosion was
caused by gasoline fumes which
had accumulated in the station or
by sewage gas under the floor.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
LEAGUE ENTRY.
BY U. S. MAY Be.
AIM OF BRITON.
Lord Robert Cecil Due
To Visit President
BY EARL GOODWIN

BY EARL GOODWIN
Lord Robert Cecil, England's
outstanding leader in the League
of Nations a Joint President of
the League and one Of the world
greatest individual forces for in
ternational effort, is coming to
this country and will be a guest
of President Roosevelt some day
in the middle of November.
The fact has not been an
nounced; it Is not generally
known. Does it mean that an ef-
fort will be made to drag this
country into the League or induce
this Government to keep step
with the Leagle in an interna-
tional joint effort in League
plans with respect to present
world-conflagrations?
PEACE WORKER
The visit of this outstanding
pro-League of Nations elder states
man is linked by Washington OBJ
servers with President Roosevelt's
Chicago speech in which he an
nounced the United States could
no longer pursue a policy Of iSola-
ton, with State Department an
nouncements and with Secretary
Hull'S recent talks in Canada in
which he used words against ag-
gressor nations unparalleled in
recent official utterances.
Lord Robert Ceci's whole life
since the World War has been one
long effort to make the League ef-
fective. One of his deep sorrows
is the absence of the United |
States from the League. The queS-
ton being asked is: Will he sue
ceed in inducing President RooSe-
welt to follow President Wilson'S
tragic effort to put the United
States into the League-or not?
DICTATORSHIPS HIT
In view of this amazing and in
teresting visit of the man who
worked side by side with President !
Wilson at Paris, it is worth while
realizing the full trend of the
Roosevelt international policies.
They are all aimed at Cd knit
ting the countries Of the Western
Hemisphere together; CD at band
ing the democracieS of the world
against relationships. In the Sec
ond of these categories the present
attitude Of the League toward
Japan in the ASiatic undeclared |
war finds an harmonious friend.
President Roosevelt has sharply
aSsailed aggreSsor nations. At the
same time he has not taken up the
weapon of neutrality as outlined in
the recent congressional enact
ments on the subject.
JAPAN CALLED AGGRESSOR
Japan has been asSailed as the
aggressor in the Sino-Japanese
struggle by the assembly Of the
League of Nations, and a violator
Of the Kellogg Pact and Nine
Power Treaty which guarantees
the safety of China against parti-
ton by any aggressor.
The League has urged members
of the League who are SignerS OF
the Nine Power Treaty to hold a
conference under that treaty-and
that is the conference to be held
in Brussels in a few days-with
Norman Davis heading an Amer
lean delegation.
In the eyes of many observers,
the United States, though not a
member of the League, is keeping
fairly good step with the League
in respect to this conference.
DYNAMIC EFFECT
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
THREE MEDIUMS
ARRESTED HERE

District clairvoyants and for
tune tellers, practicing without a
license, would do well to gaze into
their own future if they would
avoid arrest. -
Police have already arrested
three of the psychicS, who had
neglected this little formality
when two poicewomen called to
look into their futures and are
planning additional raids this
week.
Among the three arrested is
of the Spiritualistic
Church of Psychic Science, the
Rev. Carol E. McKinstry, of the
1900 block of Ga1laton st. N. w.
DR.. McKinstry, who is now at lib
erty on $500 bond, is scheduled to
appear in Police Court today.
The other two arrested are Mad
cline Mae Atwater, 40, Of the 1000
block of o st. N. W., and Eleanor
Thomas, 40, of the 1400 block Of
Chaplin st. N. w. The latter was
fined $40 in Police Court, while
at Atwater case is pending.