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Evening star., 1937-01-07
Clearance! All 0Q
Types Of ScarfS

Crepes, woods, prints! Squares, triangles,
ascots! Including few high-priced,r one
of-a-kind models which will be snatched
up by early shoppers
(The Hecht Co.. Neckwear Dept. Main Floor)
l0-S3 Crepe TUNES. Mostly black and
green
2o-Sl Shoulderettes- tes--------------------79
1S-$2 Velvet Hats s--------------------1.09
1871 and So Assorted Neckwear. Slightly
S0ile0 -----------------------
5e$3 Lame Neckwear r--------.--2.00
(The Hecht Co.. Main F1oor)
Evening star., 1937-01-07
Sport Shop Clearance

40-195 and 2.95 Crepe Blouses 9sc
5o-3s5 to 7s5 Lace and Metallic Blouses-
1855 and 7.95 Wool Plaid Jackets
70-295 to sos Wool Skirts-solid colors
and plaids
CThe Hecht Co, Third Floor)
Evening star., 1937-01-07

39-S1 Beauty Salons for Dolls D0ls----------------19L 49,
25-75c Make Million 49c
1851 Soldier Sets Holster Popeye Pantograph Sets
Badminton Sets, Games Sewing cts and Doll
Castles OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 69c
30-S1 Speedcl0cks for Veocipedes- 59c
12-L50 Steel Locomotives --------------------9 99c
15-S2 Badmnt0n Games, large sets 139
6-2.95 Buck Rogers Play Suits s----------------1 195
5-3.75 Badminton Sets------------------I I95
2-S5 Electric Play Ranges s-------------------295 295
2-S4 Mickey Mouse Hobby yToy----.------ 295
6-3.95 De Luxe Buck Rogers Play Suits 295
SIS Blue Table with Chair Sets --------------295
3-S5 Maple Desk and Stool to match h-----------295
1-795 Ivory Table with Chairs, large size
1855 and 895 Maple Cupboards and Vanities Los
$50 Drop Table Chairs, ivory finish 695
2-1295 Large Table and Benches maple finish 895
2-1295 Large Table and 2Benches maple finish 895
1-12.95 Maple finished Dresser and Mirror ---. S95
1-6.95 Velocpede with 20-nch front wheel Floor
sample
1-795 Vel0cipede, slightly SCARED
Hiss Velocpedes. Floor samples s------------795
lass "Skippy" Vel0cpedes, ball bearing type 995
1-l395 Ball0On-tred VeOcipede, SCARED -------995
1855 Large-s Auto Slightly SCARED 8.95
Ill Large Dump Truck Auto Slightly sos
1-2495 lingo Bike" Oversize 1925
Fourth Hecht co.,
Evening star., 1937-01-07

Just so of these full-length velvet wraps!
so marvellous values for alert shoppers!
They're fur-trimmed or plain-and many Of
them have princess lines. Black only. Sizes
IA to 90
CThe Hecht Co.. Third Floor. Thrift Dress Shop,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
Vegetable Growers
Want Higher Prices

Vegetable and potato growers
urged this week that federal and
state governments enact legislation
to improve their incomes.
The recommendations came at a
time when congressional advocates
of farm legislation were divided
over the method that should be used
in the new bill.
More than 60 representatives OF
vegetable and potato growing areas
who have talked with agriculture
department officials during of the
week urged that special quotas be
set up for them under the soil con-
servation program.
They asked Secretary Wallace to
seek legislation requiring that all
potatoes moving in interstate COM
merce 'be branded, tagged, or de-
scribed in terms of United States
grades or as unclassified."
Wallace was asked to seek addi-
tional federal funds to improve mar
keting reports, crop estimates and
price studies in the vegetable field.
The group said vegetable growers
should establish large cooperative
marketing organization able to bar
gain on equal terms with mass buy
ers of their products, such as can
neries and large retail store chains.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
10000
ON State WPA
500 Have Been Cut From Lists
Since May and Others Are
to Be Dropped Soon

Fewer than 10000 persons in
North Carolina now are on relief
rolls, for the firt time since the
Work Progress administration was
established, according to J. D.
Spinks, deputy State administrator.
Spinks reported Thursday that 92O
relief recipients were being taken
from the rolls to reduce the number
of persons employed on WPA pro-
jets from 2O,72O to $4,000 by the
weekend. He said $500 have been
cut from the rolls since May Is.
The peak number of those on
WPA rolls in the State was $4,000.
The average for the last two years
was 3O,2O6.
News reports from Washington
last week said more than 100000
remained on the relief rolls of Harry
Hopkins WPA instead of the 1,600,-
600 that had been the July goal set
some weeks ago. North Cardinals
present total on WPA rolls is not
much more than one per cent of the
national total.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
Minister Admits to
Murder of Woman

The three-day-old mystery death
of Mrs. Dennis Kelly, As, of Paris,
Mo-, apparently was solved Sunday
when States Attorney Merrill John
ston announced Rev. c. E. Newton,
81, admitted he threw his former
Pensioners body into the MISSISSIPPI
pi river after hitting her on the head
with hammer.
His announced admission came
after two days of denial he had any
connection with the death of the
woman. Mrs. Kelly's body was re-
covered from the river at Louisiana,
Mo-, late Tuesday after her rural
mail carrier husband reported her
missing.
A few hours before the minister's
admission, Prosecuting Attorney
Walter Stillwell, of Hannibal, Mo-,
said Miss Myra Hanan, Newton's &C.
year-old adopted daughter, quoted
the minister as saying he had 'done
away" with Mrs. Kelly.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22

this time.
"You get around as much as any,
body" Dunn grunted. Where's the
saddle?"
Link didn't find any saddle"
Dunn glanced at the dark, lean
visaged Link Bender. dead man
must have taken his saddle with him
across the big divide" he comment
ed sarcastically.
Sheriff Amos looked irritated.
"Well, come on; we'll look over the
ground"
They turned and rode northward
at jog. A curious tension had come
over them for no plain reason.
They were nearing Short Creek;
and the believing of cattle had be-
come near and strong-a fantastic
deep booming broken by whistling
soprano squalls. what the devil
them steers raising hell about?"
Amos demanded querulously.
Nobody answered him. They rode
in peculiarly oppressive silence, a
silence somehow unnatural and omi-
nous, even among these naturally
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
The Story

CHAP. BILLY Wheeler, wealthy
Nyoung cattleman, arrives at the
"a ranch, summoned by his friend
Horse Dunn, its elderly and quick
tempered owner, because Of a my
steriOus murder. Billy is i'm love
with Dunn's niece Marian, whom he
has not seen for two years. She had
rejected his suit and is still alOof.
Dunn's ranch is surrounded by enc
mics, including Link Bender, Pinto
Halliday and Sam Caldwell, whom
he has defeated in his efforts to
build a cattle kingdom. Dunn directs
his cow hands, Val Douglas, Tulare
Callahan and others to search for
the killers horse He explains to
Billy that the morning before he
had come upon bloOdStained ground
at Short Greek and found the trail of
a sh0d and unshod horse. The shOd
horses rider had been killed. The
body had disappeared and no one
was reported missing. Link Bender
had arrived at the scene and read
the signs the way he had, Dunn re-
veals that because of a financial
crisis the ranch may be in jeopardy;
his enemies may make trouble since
Sheriff Walt Amos is friendly with
them. He says he has asked Old Man
Coffee, the cOuntry's best trailer, to
Join them.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22

muzzle of his gun skyward, and
steadled his half-stampeded horse
with his other hand. In his face was
such a white blaze of fury as Wheel
er had never seen. He was not roar
ing now; his words came through
his teeth, hard-edged as broken
rock. L could have killed you," he
said, almost as if he were strang-
ling. And I'd have done it, if
only"
Link Bender sat straight up, his
face the dusty gray-green of the
brush. Evidently he rode a gun
proof horse, for the reins hung slack
on its neck, but it stood. Bender's
left hand gripped his right arm; he
swayed slightly, but recovered him
self, and the color slowly began to
come back into his face.
Sheriff Amos brought his hand
empty away from the gun-butt to
which it had dropped, and let both
hands be seen in plain sight upon
his reins. His face was discolored by
a red flush. 'You all right, Link?"
Link Bender said between set
teeth, Good enough"
"You 60 on home" Walt Amos
said to Dunn. II can't take you in
for this because I can't prove you
were first to draw. But"
Dunn said, "You know damn well
who was first to draw"
Maybe I do and maybe I DON'T"
the sheriff said. But let me tell you
this, Dunn: you've just about run
out your rope! BY God, if ever a
man overplayed his hand, you've
sure overplayed yours! You go on
home, and see that you stay where
you can be got, until you hear from
mel"
Horse Dunn grinned, showing his
teeth. II am home" he answered.
"You fellers are the visitors here.
Set off easterly, and ride steady, and
maybe inthree-four hours you'll be
off my range! I'd start at it, if was
you"
He moved off little way into the
Scant shade of Joshua stalk; then
sat where he was. Presently, still
sitting there, he watched them ride
away, losing shape in the heat waves
and the dust.
(TO Be COntinued)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
81 Thousand Now
Under Security Act

Social security board officials es-
timated Monday that nearly 21,0O0,-
900 workers are now covered by the
unemployment compensation laws
of the 48 states, Hawaii, the District
of Columbia and Alaska. ,
This is a larger number than ex-
pected. When the social security act
became effective August IA, 1885, it
was generally predicted that 17,000,-
would be covered.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
Horse Dunn Gun
Play With Bender
INSTALLMENT TWO


For a moment Wheeler stared at
Dunn; then the spell broke To as
sumo fatty that man was killed,
when even the identity of the vic
tim was unknown, seemed to
Wheeler an outlandish stretch, even
for an old tracker.
''This is the darnedest thing I
ever heard of, Horse" Wheeler
complained. what no corpse?
What kind of murder is this? Who's
missing?"
seNobody's missing, that's known
yet"
'sWell, what I don't see," Wheeler
said, ''is why you were in such a
hurry to report to the sheriff, with
so little known"
81 had no choice. was still look
ing over the ground when I sighted
a rider, about mile off. In a min
ute l made out it was Link Bender
Maybe you can remember when
Links Steven S was bigger than the
a. Maybe you remember how he
tried to pinch out the 94-almost
put Marian's father to the wall. /
broke him of all that! But he's
never swallered that he was licked.
I've got plenty enemies, Billy; but
Link Bender is the smartest of EN-.
Naturally I couldn't leave it SOS
he could report he sent me sneak
ing away. So I had to signal him
over and show him what I found"
"And he read the sign the same
as your"
BILLY, keep telling you! There
amt any other way to read that
sign"
eyes, but look here-the supposed
dead mans horse"
Link Bender took off on the trail
of the dead mans horse. Hoping
to find the body, like a fool. I let
him 60, and haven't seen him since.
SO don't know what he found. But
he went and reported to the sheriff,
like I knew he would"
81 should think you'd have been
some interested in the other side
of it. The killers trail took to the
crick. Short Crick runs two hands
deep on stone for two miles, then
disappears in the sand. I took to
the crick and hunted for where the
killer left it. Plenty horse bands
water at Short Crick, wading in and
out lost the trail.
$50 pretty soon," Horse Dunn fin
ished, II rode back to the ranch.
By that time it had to come to me
what I might be up against here. So
I had wire sent to you"
They trotted two miles in silence.
'Tve been trying to figure out"
Billy Wheeler said at last, 'where
I fit in this
Dunn was silent for little way.
give got enemies, Billy" he said
finally.
"And you know, too" Dunn re-
minded him, "the cow country is in
terrible bad shape. Everybody has
had to borrow, for three years
Nraieht. Nobody has borrowed
deeper than the 81. Now our debts
come due again. have to 60 to
Las Vegas, maybe to San Francisco
It's close call. by God, to keep
the "a out Of bankruptcy! Now sup
pose this coyote ring, with Link
Bender at the head of it, can force
some trouble onto the "a. Suppose
that trouble is made to look bad
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22

quiet men. Now as they rounded the
shoulder of Two Bull Butte they
sighted the disturbed cattle at the
quarter mile, dark milling knot,
restless with tossing horns.
Link Bender raised his clenched
hands to the sky and swore abrupt
ly, savagely. ''There goes your sign!
There goes your evidence, and your
trails!"
Billy Wheeler's scalp crawled;
men might misread the sign, but the
cattle knew. One of the strangest
things of the range, and the source
of many a weird legend, was the
way the big white-faced range steers
would come for miles to mark the
place of killing, bawling and paw
ing, and throwing the dirt over their
backs.
The sheriff said in a strange voice,
rs that the placer"
''Sure it's the place! The fool crit
tiers have swarmed in on the smell
of blood"
Wheeler heard Horse Dunn curse
between his teeth. The Old Man
jumped his pony forward, whipping
up side and side, and charged down
upon the milling cattle. The others
joined him, whooping and whipping
up their ponies.
The steer bunch broke reluctant
ly, half inclined to face out the
charging riders.
Wheeler had been less interested
in the running off of the cattle than
in the reactions of the riders.All sign
would have been obliterated; he was
anxious now to see who would be
exasperated and who Indifferent.
Watching, he noted the conspicuous
fury of Link Bender, the red-eyed
anger of Horse Dunn-and the
watchful detachment of Cayuse, the
Indian.
The riders were gathering again,
disgruntled as they focused upon the
stretch of creek the cattle had tram
pied.
Horse Dunn circled a little and
brought them to Short Creek again
200 yards upstream.
"Here you see my trail as I come
up to the crick," he said; sits the
trail of the same horse I'm riding to-
day Here you see the trail of the
two horses of the killer and the fell
Ter that was killed, riding side by
side along the rim of the cut. Right
here my trail comes on to theirs.
You, Amos-notice that my trail is
20 hours younger'n the other two"
'I'm not so sure" Link Bender
said.
The sheriff hesitated studying the
tracks glumly from the saddle. He
turned to the Indian. "What do you
say, Cayuse?"
Cayuse Cayetano spoke briefly
and promptly in Spanish. '"This horse
Dunn's came yesterday" he said.
''The other two horses, maybe one
day before. Not the same time"
"That Indians a deer hunter"
Sheriff Amos said. "When Cayuse
. says he knows, he knows. Well let it
stand at that"
you'll have to take my word for
it from here on" Dunn told them
''The cattle sure smeared it up. But
anyway-here the two-horse trail
dropped down into the crick bed. So
did l."
He led them down into the cut and
along the margin Of water.
Dunn moved a hundred yards
down stream, checked his landmarks
| and stopped. Here's where the
Teller was shot," he said; he kneel-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-22
Parkway Building
to Be Speeded Up

Charles Ross, general counsel for
the highway commission, said in Ra-
leigh Saturday the national park SER
vice had agreed on plans to speed
up construction of the Blue Ridge
parkway between Grandmother's
Gap, near Linvivlle, and Buck Creek
Gap, near Marion.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Brain Twizzlers.
By PROF. J. d. FLINT.

BY PKOF. J. ID. FLINT.
HERE is . problem that looks as
though it may have come out
Of your old schooldays mathematics
book, but don't let it fool you. be-
cause out Of 10 people Chats being
conservative) will miss the correct
answer through carelessness or failure
to think correctly and it really isn't
hard at all.
Simon and Silas were twins. They
were carpenters. Simon and Silas
were called upon to do Job at one
time and when asked for time esti-
mate they said that Simon could
do the Job alone p tour days. while
silas could do It Pns IN three days.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

Regarding this word 4 Leading au-
thority says: THE shortening Of al
most into most Is inadmissible In lit
erature that Is not obviously colloquial
in style" Say Il see him almost every
day." not most every day"
Send . return envelope for the leaf
let, 40 Common Errors Of Speech" -.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
working together to do the job. Can
you?
(Answer on Page B-16.)
(copyrisht, 1879
Note to Parkers.

FREDERICK, Nov. "a (R.-The
Rev. DR.. Amos John Traver plucked
q note out Of the collection plate in
Evangelical Lutheran Church, eyed the
congregation apologetically and said:
Il don't like to make the announce
ment at this time, but several persons
now in church have been tagged by
the police"
The several persons" left their
pews she1 1bishly and removed their
CARS froz estricted parking areas.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Date Proves Costly.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. ~ R.-The
new creases in his trousers cost VII
liam Henry Snyder, jr, ~, $5.6S.
He paid that amount for breaking
= window to get his suit after Mrs.
Sarah spitler's tailor shop had closed
for the night. Snyder told the Judge
he had 10 hAyo the suit for q date.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

Gonfaa faced a dangerous crisis. The Amazon
warriors wanted to see Mafka, to have him bless
them with his mysterious powers for their battle
against the Zuli. II they discovered he
prisoner. they would surely vent their murderous
wrath ,pon his captors
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
.PRIN. LOUISE
 SOUTH BOUND

Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- cess Louise arrived in port from Skagway at o'clock yesterday morning and sailed south two hours later with the following passengers for Seattle;
 Miss M. Aikens. R. Jackson. H Jackson. F. F. Volk, R. Baker. E M. Baker, F. R. Sharnbroich, Mrs E. R. Sharbroich, D. A. Schmick- rath, B Roland, Mrs. s. Roland A. Ficken, Miss R. Monahan. s. S Smith, Mrs. H. V. Colburn, J. J Connors, Jr.. Mrs. J. K. Marshall Mrs. J. K. Marshall, I. Windsor Miss Vera Spicer, Mrs E. Shafer Ruth Hirst, D V. McEachran, R. A Marcum, Mrs. J w. Kirk, Miss B .Simpkins, Geo A. Dale. Geo. Dan- ner. J Finnigan, c. M. Nelson Miss J. Anderson. Miss J. Bailey Miss Francis Long, ". A. Winn Tom Stewart, ". Peggar, E. Win field, J. F Multer.
 r Freeman for Vancouver anc D. Mckay for Prince Rupert.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
ROBERTA BARTEN,
 FRED AFFORD ARE
 WED ON SATURDAY

Miss Roberta Grace Barten be- came the bride of MT. Fred Axford at a 9 o'clock-in-t -the-eyening cere- mory, Saturday, with the Rev. Will liam G. LeVasseur officiating.
 The service was performed in the presence of a small group of friends in the Church of the Nativity. For her wedding the bride wore an af- terncon dress of gray with black accessories, and a corsage of white gladiolas Mrs. Wes Oberby, matron of honor. wore a rust shade suit, with pale yellow gladioh. MT Jay Williams was the best man.
 Following the ceremony, a recep- ton was held in the Assembly apart ments, decorated in autumn flowers and candlelight.
 Mir and Mrs. Axford are to make their home ill the MacKinnon apartments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27

knew the girl casually. A copy oi song, Be Nobody's Darling But Mine also was found in her purse
 Survivors
 Besides her husband and sister, in Everett she leaves her father, Charles Allen, who was living il Sacramento, and another sister ii the Salvation Army at Los Angeles.
 On the jury this morning were William Feero, John Laughlin, Frank w. Pettygrove, Alex Gair, Jr., Bernhard Havdahl and Mike Rieser.
 U. s. Marshal William T. Ma honey on behalf of his own office and Police Department this morn ing said he wished to thank all those who had cooperated so well with the authorities in their inves- tigation by furnishing informa- ton.
 The body is at Carter's Mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
Kuskokwim Folks Declare IL Isn't
 Their Language

Artist Rockwell Rents inscription on the new Postoffice building in Washington may be the language of the Kuskokwim, but the folks up in that country doubt it, according to communication to the Bureau of Indian Affairs today from Mrs. Lulu Heron of Bethel, who has been in the Kuskokwim since 1916.
 Mrs. Heron says three Kuskokwim interpreters attempted to decipher the language Kent used on the building and none of them was able to do so. not even a word. She re- ported they declared it was not of any of the languages along the Kuskokwim, neither old nor new. :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
ALlCIAN DOCKS IN JUNEAU AGAIN WITH
 OWNER AND GUESTS

The trim yacht Alician was dock ed at Femmer's Wharf today while MT. and Mrs. L. P. Larson of Spo- kane, Mrs. Henke and daughter Barbara, saw the sights of the Capital City.
 The vessel belongs to MT. Larson who met the Alician at Ketchikan with his guests when the Mellon hunting party ended their charter. They are doing no hunting, they say, but are merely taking pleas ure cruise before they make their way back to Seattle shortly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
DUCK FLIGHT IS ABOUT SAME AS
 LAST SEASON
Shooting Starts at / O'Clock Friday Morning g-Regu-
 lations Are Outlined

With the duck flight reported about the same as last year and the season scheduled to open at o'clock Friday morning, Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission announced today that patrol has been started on the duck flats in this area to guard against any one jumping the Friday morn ing hour and assuring all hunt CTS an even break.
 Hunters also are advised again that it is necessary to have duck stamps which are available at the Postiffice. repeating guns must be plugged to three shots and license is required which can be obtained at the Commission office or in the sporting goods stores.
 Of 150 hunters checked on open ing day last season, 10 had neglect ed to observe some one of the above three requirements.
 Indications are that the duck flight is about the same as last year, DufreSne said, with mostly teal, widgeon and mallards available The flight may be somewhat de- layed, he reported, as was exper- fenced in Cordova when the season opened there. However, after the first few days, they had good shoot ing in the Westward area and it is possible similar condition will pre- vail here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. 27. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10A, American Can 95, American Light and Power 7ls, Anaconda 40h, Bethlehem Steel 71A, Calumet 10s, Commonwealth and Southern 2, Curtiss Wright 3A |, General Motors 49h, International Harvester 92, Kennecott AT, New York Central 281s, Southern Pacif- ic 32A, United States Steel 83, Cities Service 21s, Pound $495h, Repub- lie Steel 25A, Pure Oil 151a, Holly Sugar 23A, U. s. Treasury bonds 21As 9728, Atchison General fours no sale, Bremner no sale.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
JUNEAU A. (. DANCE
 PRONOUNCED SUCCESS

The initial dance given last Sat rday evening by the Juneau Ath- letic Club in the Labor Temple, the former Moose Hall, was a pronounc- ed success and the floor was crowd ed at all times with the gay public party celebrants. It was called a gen. eral Alaskan community affair.
 The club membership will meet next week in the City Hall Coun- cil Chambers, nominate officers and decide what equipment to purchase from the receipts of Saturday nights affair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-27
FIVE HALIBUTERS
 SELL AT SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Sept. 27-Halibuters from the western banks, selling here today include the Grant, 39.- 0OO pounds, Columbia, same amount, both selling for 107s and 9 cents; Mitkof, 39.O0O pounds, 11% and 9 cents; Freya, 24,0O0 pounds. l2& and g cents; Pacific, 37000 pounds, 1215 and g cents.
 The Maddock came in with Ill., coo pounds of sable, Gloria with l5o00 pounds, both selling for SIS cents; Swift II. 24,OOO pounds, F. 0. Herbert, 10000 pounds, both selling at cents straight.