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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23

mittees are going to contact the To-
cal business firms for contributions
and everyone is urged to do little
"house cleaning now and give
those things which have been dis
carded to this worthy cause of pro-
viding relief to the needy and of
making Christmas happy occasion
for those families that otherwise
would not be visited by Santa
Claus.
"Just call any member of the post
or leave your contributions at The
Skyland Post Office, Central Radio
Shop, N. & W. Office or at my Of
fice," Mr.. Coward advises.
Here is your chance to make
somebody who is in need happy at
Christmas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
MOTORISTS MUST HAVE
TAGS BY JANUARY list

There are only six more days left
in which to purchase 1888 automo-
bile license tags, as no extern
sion of time will be granted, &C.
cording to information from Raj
eigh this week.
A large number of Ashe county
motorists have not bought their
new tags and they are urged to dc
so at once and avoid the last min
mute rush and possible delay, Pa
trolman Thomas warns.
The license bureau in North
Wilkesboro has been exceedingly
busy during the past few days.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
RUNS FOR SENATE

ASheville, Dee. 1S.-Rev. A.
A. Johnson, Baptist minister
and former BuncOmbe county
school teacher Of Gambler,
route 1, formally announced to-
day he will be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
the seat now held by United
States Senator Il. Reynolds, OF
ASheville.
1--WE have tried every Mind
of man except q preacher in
the senate, now let's sec what
a preacher will do" said MIR.
JohnsOn's brief announcement.
"And If am elected to the SEN
ate, I shall ask the ministers to
meet and pray for the proper
guidance on any given issue,
then I shall be guided by their
recommendations"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
FRANK KELLOGG DIES

st. Paul, Dec. 21-Frank B.
Kellogg, who served rs world
court judge, ambassador to
Great Britain, United States
senator and secretary Of state,
died at his home here at 1928
p. m. today. He would have
been 81 years old tomorrow.
Kellogg, noted as a staunch
worker for world wide peace,
had been i'm failing health for
more than a year. His illness
became critical early I'm Nov
ember, when he was stricken
with cerebral thrombosis
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
THREE FINED MONDAY

The following were fined S. and
cost in the mayors court here Mon
day morning for public drunk
ardness: John l.. Weaver, Stays
Creek; Iron Hartsog, near West
Jefferson; and Dean Neaves,
Crumpler. AS Patrolman Thomas
was away, other cases were con-
tinued.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
Highway Forces Are
Improving Many Of
School Bus Routes
New $4,000 WPA Road Project
Started. Several Crews
Working.
BANQUET TONIGHT

During the past several months
the State highway Maintenance
forces and the .WPA highway work
ers have been concentrating on i'm
proving the soheel bus routes In
Ashe county and have already ac-
compEshed good deal, according
to a little survey made by the Post
reporter.
Under the direction of E. Ford
King, Of Boone, district highway
supervisor; George B. Doggett,
highway foreman in the county; J..
II. Council local highway en-
gineer; J. L. Rackley, state prison
camp superintendent and B. W..
Jones, VPA supervisor, work on
the roads in every section Of the
county has been underway.
The Silas Creek school bus route,
extending from Bowers place to
Old Landmark church, distance
of four miles, has been gravel
treated. Other projects completed
include the Obids school bus route
from edwards store to Obids post
office; smile gravel road from
Beaver Creek to Idlewild, and two
or three more routes.
The 100000 WPA highway pro-
ject in the county ended Deem
Der IA and a new one, calling for
an expenditure of $4,000, COM
menced the next day. This will re-
main in effect until July LIST.
At the present time, Mr.. Jones
states, a total of 228 men are work
ing on a total of 9 different grad
ing and improvement units in the
county. They are: Big Laurel road,
2 sections of Apple Grove road,
Little Windfau road, Silas Creek
road, Fleetwood, Chestnut Hill
road, Idlewild and Sugar Tree
Branch road.
The State Highway maintenance
department keeps two crushers in
the county and an average of about
IS prisoners at work.
According to a recent statement
from J. G. Hackett, District Com
missioner the sum of $206, O40.0
has been spent in Ashe for con-
struction and $94,835.73 for main
tenance of completed units of the
county system.
In the county system there are
$50 miles of roads, but only $50
miles are surface treated with grav-
ell. There are 100 miles of state
highways in Ashe and 80 miles are
still unpaved. That includes the
road from Warrensville to Tennes-
see line and from Lansing to Vir-
ginia line.
When the location work on the
Warrensville- Tennessee line is COM
pleted, it is hoped that construction
work will commence promptly. In
terested citizen also point out that
regarding and hard surfacing Of
proposed new road out of West
jefferson for a few miles on the
Boone road should be given i'm
mediate attention. Construction
work on the Is miles of Parkway in
the county has been completed.
At the West Jefferson hotel to-
night, local highway officials are
holding a banquet meeting and will
discuss further the situation in the
county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
BRIEF News
FROM THE
Daily Headlines
AMERICANS FLEE

T1IG
Shanghai Dec. 22.-United
States consular authorities TO-
day advised Americans TO evRc-
uate the Industrial city Of
TsingtaO 90 fear increased that a
japanese attack was imminent.
Unconfirmed reports gave eS-
Inmates that $4,000 japanese
troops had left Shanghai since
Sunday aboard transports foH
an unrevealed destination.
Eighty more transports were
reported ct WOOSung waiting
for troops.
These extensive secret troop
movements led to the belief
that some Of China's great
coastal cities, possibly Using
tao, Canton and HangchOw,
would be the next objective OF
the japanese.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23

In order that Rev. w. J. Huney-
cult and his wife may spend Christ
mas with their parents, the regular
preaching services for Sunday have
betn Cancelled.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
MAY LEAD PEACE

Washington, Dec. 21,-Pre-
sident Roosevelt limited today
the United States might as
sumo the Leadership" in what
his 1886 opponent, Gov. ALI
Nj. LandOn, called IAN extre-
mely delicate foreign situa-
ton"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23

It's a whole lot cheaper to grow
your workstock than to buy it !.
if you have good stallion or can
get the services of a neighbours
stallion, and if you have plenty Of
good pasture.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
ASHE COUNTY

is the air conditioned
section Of North Oaro-
lima w h ose altitude
ranges from 5000 10 s.
600 feet above sea level.
IS miles of the PARK
WAY run through the
county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-23
De CAREFUL!

Don't let careless and
recklessnsss spoil the
joy and happiness at
Christmas time for your
self and your family.
Drive sanely. Act sane
ly.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
TAX-D0DGERPROBE
DISPUTE CLEARED
House Likely to Vote Next
Week-PubIicity Curb
Policy Is Adopted.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Settlement of a dispute over pub
licizing individuals financial secrets
has cleared the way for a House vote
next week on the proposed congress
sional inquiry into sfx dodging.
Two House copdmittees agreed, it
was learned, thayinformation obtained
at secret behring's should be made
PUBLIC only + vote of the investigat-
ing committee on each case.
The information is expected to deal
particularly with the financial affairs
Of wealthy individuals.
Chairman Doughton of the Ways
and Means Committee said he had no
doubt that any subcommittee which
might handle part of the investigation
also might determine what should be
made public.
Originally the Rules Committee had
amended the resolution to remove a
clause giving the investigating COM
mittee the right to make public infor-
nation to any extent it chose.
The committee will have the right
to name whomever it desires as in
vestigating agents, under the COM
promise, but the agents can conduct
only secret hearings and cannot di-
vulge any information they received.
Instead they must turn their facts
over to the committee itself
In the form it passed the Senate,
the measure would have let the joint
committee use any employe of the
Treasury for its inquiry, and the en-
ploye could have held public hearings.
Bureau of Internal Revenue officials,
said, meanwhile collection Of back
income taxes this fiscal year will
amount to $25O,000,000.
They said more rigid checking of
returns had increased delinquent COL
lections yearly since 1888, when the
total was $l32 100000
Evening star., 1937-06-05
5U.S.MADE PLANES
REPORTED DOWNED
IN SPANISH BATTLE
Rebels Claim Air Victory in
DOG Fight" With Gov
ernment Flyers.
MOLA KILLED BY BOMB,
LATEST RUMORS SAY
Speculate Over Death of General.
Heavy Artillery Offensive Is
Launched by Insurgents.

B! the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, June 5.-Five American-made
planes (Curtiss) were reported by an
insurgent communique today to have
been shot down in dog fight" with
insurgent airmen on the Biscayan
front.
The headquarters statement gave no
further information.
The insurgent army of the Spanish
North began heavy artillery offen-
sive against Bilbaos Eel Gallo" forth
fications, coincident with unconfirmed
border reports that the plane crash
which killed insurgent Gen. Emilio
Mola was caused by time bomb
Intensive insurgent bombardment Of
sereval points on the Iron ring" Of
forts that encircles the regional Basque
capital broke lull that followed the
death of Mola and four of his staff
officers in Thursdays plane crash be-
tween Burgos and Vitoria.
Rumors Without Backing.
The "time-bomb" rumors, which
were without any substantial backing,
We're nevertheless persistent along ths
frontier. Apparently they were baeed
on reports that Mola's body. ~hen
found, was badly mangled. II xfso was
said that while the plane was reported
to have hit fog-veiled mountain near
the village of Alcocero, there were no
high peaks in that vicinity.
Other border advices had it that
Mola, at the time Of his death. had
been authorized to preside over q
new Basque government as soon as
Bilbao should be taken and THAI a1e
left a 500-page account of the origin
and early development OF the Spanish
rebellion.
Terror Against Terror" Threatened.
The Valencia Madrid government
threatened to pit terror against ter
ror' by launching air raids on in
surgent-held cities in retaliation for
aerial attacks on government strong
holds.
Minister OF Defense Indalecio Prieto
announced that "in the face OF the
terrible arm OF aviation there is but
one recourse-aviation employing the
same methods as the adversary. in
greater proportion if necessary.
That Is to say-terror against ter
ror."
rIIeCo Salo the government pre-
(See SPANISH. Page ABB
Evening star., 1937-06-05
Starkey Police Statement

" GLOWING is the statement
l. OF James H. Starkep, made
to the Metropolitan Police
L relative to the death OF
Charles F. keene, who disappeared
from the steamboat District OF
Columbia Uhile en- route from
Washington to Norfolk, Va:
Il have known Charles F. Keene
for a matter of years and on the
evening of May l3, 1887, boarded
the Norfolk-Washington Steamboat
Co.'S steamer District OF Columbia to
make trip to Old Point Comfort,
Va, travelling on official Government
business. I arrived at the boat only
a few minutes before departure and
proceeded at once to the purser' S
ONCE to arrange transportation and a
state room. inasmuch as I had not
had an opportunity or time to arrange
the same earlier in the day.
Told Choice of State Rooms
Was Limited.
Upon request of the purser for a
state room I was told that, much to
his regret, the only thing he had
available was a 1925 room on the
gallery deck. l reminded him that
my Government travel allowance only
permitted me to pay $l.75, and if I
was obliged to pay S225, the extra so
cents would come out of my own
pocket.
He suggested that take the room
available and If after the boat left
Alexandria, Va, there were any
Evening star., 1937-06-05
FIRE ON INT SHIP
HELD ONLY SMOKE
Smoke Coming From Hold of Army
Transport Came From
Chemical Bomb.
~ the Associated Press

9y the Associated Press.
COLON, Panama. June Smoke
pouring from a hold crammed with
$50 tons OF explosives aboard the
United States Army transport Luding-
ton was smothered today. shortly after
the ship reached port with an uneasy
crew of So men.
The smoko first was noticed Thurs
day. coming from No. S hatch.
A platoon of firemen, a board of in
spectors, canal chemists and Army
Investigating committee followed the
Ludington today to an isolated ex-
plosion anchorage in Limon Bay.
When they returned COL Sherburne
Whipple said the smoke probably came
srom chemical bomb and that there
was no fire at all
Cristobal flremen danced the can
can on the pier to celebrate the news
there was no danger.
The Ludington will come alongside
the Navy pier at Coco-Solo. unload
her cargo of hand grenades and INT
and proceed to California.
She previously was refused transit
through the canal and all harbor
eSaft were moved we'll out OF her way
Evening star., 1937-06-05
''Siingng Congressman Leads
MOre to UniOnize Iron Miners

formed Virginia -Eveleth Employees AS
sociation, An independent" union
which scheduled a meeting for the
same time. The latter claims the al
legiance from big majority OF en-
ployes OF the Oliver Iron Mining Co.,
a United States Steel Corp. subsidiary
Although United States Steel is the
dominant corporate figure in the Min
nesota iron fields, the big independent
f1rms involved in the s. w. o. c. steel
strike get most of their high-grade
hematite ore from the regions open
pit and underground mines.
Several Intellectual attempts to union
ize Minnesota's miners have been
made on q small, disorganized scale
since the rich bluish-red ore first came
out Of mine near Tower, on the YER
million Range in 1884. The S. W..
O. c. drive comes at q time when
mines are operating at normal cap
acity after several years of curtailed
activity Il
Evening star., 1937-06-05
ROCKEFELLER WILL
FILED FOR PROBATE
Estate Is Estimated to Be
Worth S25, 900, ,OOO-Codi-
Gil Changes Original.
By the Associated Press.

3! the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. June S.
John D. Rockefeller's will, disposing
Of an estate estimated to be worth
$25 100000, was filed today in Surro-
gates Court, Westchester County. The
will was dated June 2, 1925, and ap-
pended to it were three codicils.
These were dated May IA, 1880;
November 4, 1882, and October 3,
1884, and the last made a radical
change in the disposition of the
estate.
Under the original will, the capi-
talist and philanthropist, who died
May % at his Ormond, Fla, home.
after disposing of his personal and
household effects, left the residuary
estate, in equal shares to the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial and
his son, John D. Rockefeller, jr.
Third Codicil Makes Change.
The first two codicils made no spe-
cial changes in the will.
BY the final codicil, however, the
entire residuary estate is left to trus-
tees during the life of Rockefeller's q
granddaughter, Mrs Margaret Strong
de Cuevas Of Lakewood, N. J.
The trustees, under the codicil. are
empowered to pay the income to Mrs
De Cuevas or to one or more of her
descendants or to the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research.
Mrs. De Cuevas is the daughter OF
Rockefeller's daughter, Bessie Rookie
feller Strong, and Prof. Charles Au-
gustus Strong, former professor OF
psychology at the University of Chi
cago. Mrs. Strong died Novembe,
IA, 1906. DR.. Strong lives in Fiesole
Italy.
Mrs De Cuevas has two children
Elizabeth De Cuevas and John De
| Cuevas. She was married August 3
1927.
Trust TO Be Divided.
Under the codicil the trust fund
upon the death Of Mrs. De Cuevas
Is to be divided among her children
and the defendants of any deceased
children, each beneficiary to receive
his or her share outright, except tha,
the share Of any child of Mrs. De
Cuevas, born during the elder Rookie
1eller's life, is to be continued in trust
for the life of the child.
Rockefeller, in writing the codicil
set forth his reasons as follows:
1 am setting up this trust for the
benefit OF my granddaughter Mar
garet, and her defendants to the ex-
clusion OF my other grandchildren anc
their defendants because when the
time came that l felt it wise to place
| upon my children the responsibility
of owning and administering sub
stantial sums and for that purpose
made large gifts to or for them, my
Oldest daughter, Bessie. the mother
tSee ROCKEFEI Page A10)
Evening star., 1937-06-05
By the Associated Press

BY the ASsoclsleO PfesS.
VIRGINIA, Mimi, June 5-The call
to unionization echoed today over the
iron ranges of Northern Minnesota
chief source Of raw material for the
Nations steel mills.
John T, Bernard, Minnesota's s
singing Congressman" took charge
of the Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee's campaign to enlist the iron
miners OF the traditionally rigid open
shop territory.
The Farmer-Labor CONGRESSMAN,
himself product OF the iron ore
region, predicted formation of q strong
miners union among the $4,000 men
employed on the Missabe, Guyana and
Vermillion ranges. He charged steel
trust barons" have imported thugs
and gunmen" to intimidate workers
who want to organize
The S. w. o. c, formally will launch
i. campaign at a mass meeting here
tomorrow. Opposing it was the neIRy
Evening star., 1937-06-05
LUMBER STRIKE
END IS FORECAST
Michigan Deputy Labor
Commissioner Sees Settle
ment by Night.

6ACh hGhOUND-
Demanding minimum uage of IS
cents an hour and single beds and
shotDer baths in camps. Timber
Workers and SduniH Workers
Union, AFFILIATE OF A. F. of L., called
strike in Northern Michigan on
Nay "A. First violence broke out
yesterday in Neuberry, in fohich
one man died and police repulsed
march OF strikers on relief Offices.
By the Associated Press.
MUN1SING. Mich. June 5.-Two
hours after the chairman of a lum-
berjscks' strike committee was ar
rested on a charge of inciting to riot,
Deputy State Labor Commissioner
Joseph Ashmore announced today the
strike probably would end by night
fall.
Ashmore said representatives of the
sawmill and lumber workers union
had agreed on his proposal that the
5000 strikers return to their Upper
Peninsula timber camps pending ne
gotiations with operators on wage
and hour demands
The deputy commissioner said union
leaders promised they would call =
general meeting of the strikers at 2
pm. for a vote on the recommenda-
tion that they return to work.
Aliays Fears OF RiotinS.
The announcement allayed fears of
a march by the strikers on the Alger
County Court House and of a rene wal
OF rioting at the Newberry Lumber
g. Chemical Co. plant, where one
striker fell dead of exhaustion during
fight yesterday,
A dozen State police, with riot
equipment, were on guard here
Two State policemen arrested Joe
Liss, chairman Of the Strike Commit
tee, on Munising street at 8 a m to-
day. A warrant issued by justice OF
the peace charges him with conspiracy
to incite a riot. Also in custody was
Liss' lieutenant, David LIE Clair, who
called himself Double Breasted Joe
as he led groups Of strikers in raids to
close lumber camps throughout the
upper peninsula. There was no formal
charge against LIE Clair.
! Advised to Leave Town.
While Liss was being taken to jail
| in a State police automobile, Henry
PAUL Of Duluth, attorney for the
union, appeared at the once Of the
| justice who issued the warrant Sher-
iff Louis Pelletier and Prosecution
Richard E. OBrien refused him ad-
mittance and advised him to leave
| town.
| The same advice was given to Luke
Raik, president Of the Ironwood local
to which the strikers belong. Paul
and Raik, with little argument, en-
| tered Paull's automobile and drove out
of town. They were escorted to the
town limits by deputies.
The strikers threatening an attack
on the court house here demanded
assurance from State authorities that
| their families would be cared for
| while their strike was in progress.
Other State police were on guard al
Newberry against any attempt b.
strikers to carry out threat to take
the town apart" in retaliation for thu
defeat they suffered in yesterday
clash with non-union men.
Townspeople at Newberry waitet
alertly for the shrilling of the f1r'
siren, the pre- arranged signal that tn
strikers were returning Nine hundret
responded to that alarm yesterda,
morning and drove away 100 strikers
Evening star., 1937-06-05
7,OOO-MiIe Trip
In Taxi Planned
By Six " omen
BY the Associated Press.


NORWOOD, Mass, June 5-A
7,000-mile taxi ride to Mexico City
and return will begin Monday for
Miss Emily Curtis Fisher, 76-year- old
retired normal school instructor.
Miss Fisher prefers automobiles to
trains, although she neither owns nor
drives a car. So she engaged Fred
Schaier Norwood taxi chauffeur, to
drive her and five woman companions
to the Dallas. Tex. Exposition to See
America First" then South to the
Mexican capital along newly opened
motor road.
A year ago she hired taxi COM
pany's car for vacation trip to Chi
cago and return.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
WAGE-H0UR BILL
ST|RS TARIFF FIGHT
Co-Sponsors' Break Over
Cheap Imports Ban May
Tang|e Session.
BACKGROUND

Elimination OF speotshop hours
and tUdges and child labor in in
dustrv has been objective OF Roose-
Delt administration. Original effort,
through ~ r. A., 1pds inudliddted
by Supreme Court. Black-Connery
bill seeks same objectiues in some-
,Dhat different approach and in
cludes specific prohibition OF use
OF labor spies and professional
strikebredkerS.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
SOVIET SEEKS TO CLOSE
RElCH-J JAPANESE BASES
Consulate Eliminations Fought
by Both Nations-Move
Linked to Spy Hunt.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June Diplomatic
sources said today the Russian foreign
ONCE has taken steps to close several
German and Japanese consulates in
the Soviet Union, but has met resist
ance from both governments.
Informed persons said they believed
the move was linked with the steady
hunt for spies and plotters and the
frequent press denunciations of the
japanese and German intelligence
services for alleged spying and sabo-
tage in Russia.
Both Japan and Germany were
cited at the two 'Trotskyist' treason
trials, which resulted in the convic-
ton and execution of 20 men. At the
January trial specific testimony ac-
cused German and japanese attaches
in Russia.