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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-06-09
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

BY virtue of a power contained
in a certain Deed of Trust executed
on the fourth day of February 1881
by A. P. Cole and Nora Cole to J.
M. Barlow, Trustee for John Osborn
which Deed of Trust is recorded in
Boob 90 Page As in the Registry of
Ashe County and at the request of
the holders of the Note which are
unpaid and thereby secured, l, j.
M. Barlow, Trustee, will sell to the
highest bidder for Cash at the Court
house door at jefferson, N. c., on
the second day of July, 1888, at one
o'clock P. M. the following described
land to wit:
Beginning at a Water Oak Rich
ard Osborn's corner, running S. 30
E. go Poles to a stake with said line;
then S. 10 w So Poles to Beech
Richard Osborn's corner; thence
N. 81 E. 90 Poles to an Ironwood,
Alfred Osborn's corner; thence
N. 40 Poles to Horn
beam; thence N. "a E. 80
poles to a Dogwood; thence near N.
of the extreme height of the Ridge
SO P to a sugar-tree on top of Buck
ner's Ridge to an agreed corner;
thence N. Sc w. 38 P to a Hickory;
thence S. 80 E. "a p to a white oak,
Coles corner: thence S. 40 w. with
Coles line 81 P to a Cherry, Coles
corner; thence S. 80 w. SO P to a
Lynn; thence w. SO p to the Begin
ming, containing 100 acres more or
less; excepting acres of land con-
veyed by A. J. Cole during his life
time.
This ehe 1st day of June, 1888.
j. NJ. BARLOW, Trustee,
JIM. PREVETTE, Attorney.
6-2-4t
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Sparta News

Mrs. Emmerson Black and chill
dren are visiting in Bel Air, Md,
and Washington, D. c., this week.
Mrs. H. K Bujer, of Charlotte, is
at Four Oaks Tavern for the sum-
mer.
Mrs. C. w. Erwin has been pa
tent in the Presbyterian hospital in
Charlotte for some time.
Mrs. Edwin Duncan left the first
of the week for Chicago where she
will be the guest of her cousin, Mrs
Marsh.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Vail of Jeffer-
son, Mrs. Calhoun of Westmoreland
Va, and son, DR.. Walter Colhoun
of Oklahoma, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. r. A. Doughton last Thurs
day.
Miss Elizabeth Doughton, of Ra-
leigh, spent the week end here with
her parents.
Mrs. Bess Spicer and Miss Madal-
ger Wagner left last week for Cali
fornia. She expects to be away for
several weeks.
Miss Margart Jane Cheek, student
of Lenoir- Rhyme College, is at home
for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Finis Wagner, of
Shelby, were guests of relatives
here last week end.
Mr. and Mrs Clinic Halsey left
last week for California and other
western states where they will
spend two months.
Miss Evon Eldridge is at home
from Flora Macdonald College.
Miss Florence Warren and Miss
Matte Lon Edwards, students at
Woman's College, Greensboro, are
at home.
Mrs. j. M. Cheek returned last
week from visit to her sister Mrs.
Edward Courtney in Richmond, Va.
Woodrow Richardson and Ernest
Honaker are home from State Col
lege for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Chester and
MIR. and Mrs. Frick of Statesville
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. F.
Hester last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Gambill and
daughter, Billie, of Washington, D.
c., visited here last week end. Mrs.
Gambill's sisters-Mrs. Robert Gam
bill and Mrs. Mcmillan accompanied
them home for few days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Landreth and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Dwight of Wash
ington, D. c., were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Thompson last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Whitener
and daughters Jean and Joan of
Newton spent last week end here.
Herbert Hawthorne who has been
taking a mechanical engineering
course at Fort Wayne, Ind, is at
home for short visit.
Mrs. D. c. Duncan who has been
right ill for several days is improv-
ing.
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lands OF w, F. Goodman, on the
South by the dover Of Mrs. Lou
Hardin and on the West by the
lands of Mrs. lola Ray and so as to
include all the lands belonging to
NJ. E. Hardin lying to the North Of
the dover Of Mrs. Lou Hardin, and
containing 20 acres, more or less.
This May Is, 1888.
IRA T. JOHNSTON,
6-2-4t Commissioner.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA 3,
ASHE COUNTY
In the matter of Granville Cheek,
Late of Ashe County.
Having qualified as executor OF
the estate of Granville Cheek, de-
ceased, late of Ashe County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against said estate to
exhibit them to the undersigned on
or before the 10th day Of May, 1899,
'or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery.
This the 18th day Of May, 1888.
TURNER CHURCH,
5-19-6t Executor.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the matter of R. Watson, late
Of Ashe County.
Having qualified as executor of
the estate of R. Watson, de-
ceased, late of Ashe County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all per-
sons having claims against said es-
tate to exhibit them to the under
signed on or before the 18th day of
May, 1899, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
This the 18th day of May, 1888.
GLENN WATSON,
5-28-6t Executor.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
of the estate of J. M. league, de-
ceased, late of Ashe county, North
Carolina, this is to notify all per-
sons having claims against said
estate to present them to the under
signed for payment on or before
May 81, 1889, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es-
tate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This May 81, 1888.
r. C. PHILLIPS,
Administrator of j. M. league,
deceased. 5-26-6t
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Reeves. Verge Reeves, Mrs. Lula
Hudler, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Pierce,
J. C.. Pierce, Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs.
w. T. Spencer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Haynes left
Monday for Redwoody City, Calf
Miss Minnie Haynes accompanied
them to Marion, Va.
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2 UnsOlved Kidnap
Cases Face G-Men
By CARROLL PEEKE

Solution Of the Cash kidnapping by Department of
Justice agents today the Omen still with two unsoved
kdnap murders their handChare Mattson and Peter
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that the body Of the Cash boy
was hidden.
A national end international
search for the kidnaper was
launched without success. But
the Omen are still on the trail,
and ever hopeful they will event
ually capture the brutal slayer.
New Rochelle. N. Y, was the
scene of the next unsolved kid
naping on the records. 1t was
February "a last that Peter Levine
was seized after he had waved
goodbye to Schoolmate.
An hour later his mother re-
ceived a telephone call, directing
her to go to a vacant house where
she would find information con-
corning him.
This information" was . note
containing a SYMBOL as in the
Lindbergh case, and instructions
to wait until contact could be
established.
Later notes from the boy him.
self, stating he was alive and well,
were sent to the parents, with a
demand for $4,000 ransom. This
sum was prepared and kept In
readiness, but as the weeks passed
no further word came from the
kidnaperS
On May 20, more than three
months after he had been kid
mapped, the headless body Of the
boy, trussed up with wire. was
washed ashore in Long Island
Sound.
Even now Department Of Jus
tice agents are running down
what are believed to be important
clues in this case, and are hopeful
of solution.
On the day before the body of
the Levine boy was washed up by
the tide, little James Cash was
abducted from the home Of his
father, a small business man, at
Princeton, Fla.
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cash PARENTS
| NEAR COLLAPSE

ETON, Fla, June 9
G.N.SD In silence that gave
mute evidence of their suffering,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bailey Cash.
ST.. today received the news that
their 512-year-old son was dead.
victim of one of Americas most
brutal crimes.
So broken was she by the TRACE
dy, Mrs. Cash was unable to ap-
pear before those who brought the
tidingS that her sons body had
been found.
But the father made brief ap-
pearance. Then the tears could
be held back no longer, and he
turned and stepped back into his
modest home.
It was the second shock for the
parents within the brief span Of
two weeks, coming as a bitter
climax of IL days of hoping
against hope.
Even though the father had pub
licly declared he believed his child
was dead, no such direct word
came from the mother. Weakened
by the long vigil of waiting for
some word Of her son, Mrs. Cash
had been placed under the care
of a physician.
Added to the grief Of the parents
was the saddening fact that the
man arrested for writing, the ran
som notes and collecting the ran
som money had been one whom
they had known as a friend
Franklin Pierce Mccall.
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| LC N1hCs
Although occurring in widely
separated sections Of the country
there were marked SimilaritieS ir
the three "SnatcheS," and j. Edgar
Hoover and his men are still hope
full of solution of the other two
cases.
SIMILAR CASES
Three young boys-sons Of fam
lilies of substantial but not great
wealth-were the victims of the
kidnapers, and in each case the
boys were brutally slain so that
they might not be able to give
evidence against their abductorS
Charles Mattson, 10; Peter LIE
vine, IL, and James Bailey Cash
jr., 5, are the three youngsters
whose lives were snuffed out by
the kidnaperS who had Offered
| their safe return in exchange fol
the ransom money.
But it was only in the Cash
case that the money was turned
over. The other two boys were
murdered while their fathers
stood ready and willing to pay
for their return.
The MattSon case is the oldest
of the three on the records of the
Department of Justice. It was
the night of December q, 1896
that the boy was seized by q
bearded man in the home Of his
father, DR.. william w. Mattson
prominent Tacoma (WaSh0 ply
stefan.
The kidnapping took place only
a short distance from the home
of George WeyerhauSer, youth
who was kidnapped in 1888, and
whose kidnapers are now serving
life on Alcatraz Island.
FRUITLESS SEARCH
Next came the demand FOL
ransom-$28, O00-and DR.. Matt
son secured this sum and stood
ready to pay it. Negotiations
went on for several days, then
abruptly stopped, as though the
kidnappers were fearful OF a trap
And on January IL the body OF
the little boy was found concealed
lin the brush in a Snow-coVereo
field. in much the same fashion
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three summers ago and boarded at
their house in 1887 and the early
spring of this year during the to-
mato-picking season, when he
worked in the fields.
NEAR RANSOM SCENE
He had been employed as rod
man for the State highway de.
partment from June, of 1887, to
October, and thus developed an
intimate knowledge of the vicinity
Of Princeton. 1t was recalled in
tricately designed maps on the ran
som notes detailed the method of
payment.
Now married, the prisoner and
his wife had lived at the Cash
home until a few weeks ago, when
they moved to the cottage OF
Red" Lambert, according to
Hoover.
The house is at the intersec,
ton of Tallahassee Road and Sun.
set Avenue and only a few yards
from the spot at which Cash, ST.
dropped the box of ransom money
at a prearranged automobile head.
light signal.
Hoover refused to say whether
Lambert and McCall'S wife has
also been connected with the plot
but it was believed the three were
the trio reported taken into Gus
tody several days ago. Hoover
admitted Mccall had been under
questioning for more than two
days before he broke.
Mccall was born in Jasper, Fla.
on March 81, 1917. His mother
still lives there. "A brother is sale
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Mccall Looks
Like Freshman

MIAMI, Fla, June 8 (I.N.
S.. Franklin Pierce NC
Call, who confessed writing
the ransom notes and collect
ing the pay-Off in the Cash
kidnapping case, looks more
like q college freshman than
he does the type Of . man
who would become involved
in q kidnapping.
Mccall Is about 5 feet IL
inches tall and weighs IT'S
pounds. His hair is dark
and parted in the middle.
His eyes are intense and
deep-Set. His chin is square,
and there is q decided cleft
in 1t.
Mccall presented a Strik-
ing figure as he was brought
into the room where the
newspaper reporters were
waiting. He was clad in =
light grey suit and was wear.
ing o white shirt.
He was without . tie, and
his shirt collar was unbut-
toned and the collar was
turned out over his coat col
lar. He was wearing light tan
and white shoes.
If he was nervous over the
situation, he concealed his
feelings remarkably well.
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Hawaii to Get Cash
For Labor Survey

U.N.S s. An appropriation OF
$4,000 to finance a labor survey
in Hawaii, approved by the House
in passage of the final deficiency
bill yesterday, today appeared to
be certain of receiving Senate ap.
proval.
Hawaii also will benefit by a
$449,022 credit to its unemploy-
ment insurance fund by the Fed
eral Government. The amount
represents taxes collected from
the territory by the Federal Gov
eminent before the territory sys.
tenn began operation,
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n. Y. Curb Market
Firm; Trade Dull

NEW YORK, June 9 Q.N.S0.
Trading on the curb market con-
tinued very dull today, but open
ing prices were for the most part
firm. American Gas g. Electric
was y point higher at 2S1s; Lock
heed Aircraft, up "a to 11Hs;
Electric Bond & Share, off 70 at
Z; Gulf Oil unchanged at 81;
Cities Service unchanged at 8A;
American Cyanamid unchanged
ar 171A.
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Cash Break Comes Suddenly
With Finding of Body, Ransom

: parents of the little victim once
more went into seclusion.
The child's father was in tears
as he came to the door of their
modest apartment. He declined
to discuss the case.
The mother declined to appear
To the sorrow of the loss OF
their only child was added that
of the knowledge that a friend OF
long-standing was implicated in
the crime.
Mccall and his wife formerly
lived in an apartment in the Cash
home, but had moved to another
home a short distance away last
April.
Although Mccall was arrested
shortly after the kidnapping, only
to be released and subsequently
"trailed" by the Omen day and
night, so secretly did the Omen
work that McCall's name had
never been included in the list of
those known to have been queS-
toned.
GREATEST SECRECY
At first Mccall is reported to
have denied all knowledge of the
crime, but after hours of grililng
he finally broke down and agreed
to lead officers to the child's body,
it was reported.
SUDDEN BREAK
The break in the case came sud.
denly. A hint of what might be
in the wind spread only an hour
before when four carloads of
roughly clad Omen CARRYING
shovels hustled their prisoner out
Of the headquarters of the F. B. L
here and sped away toward
Princeton.
Mccall, they said, directed them
without hesitation to the thicket
Flashlights picked out the form
OF the curly-headed child still clad
IN the pajamas he was wearing
when snatched from his bed on
the evening of Tuesday, May %
DEAD FOR WEEK
Hoover said the child,S BODY
was badly decompoSed and indi
Gated he had been dead for al
least week, being killed shortly
after, if not before, James B. Cash
sr., handed over the $4,000 early
last Tuesday in a vain attempt tt
obtain the safe return of his only
child.
In that he was doomed to the
same disappointment that has
been the bitter fate Of other par
entS and relatives of kidnap vic
Tins in the last few years. There
was baby Charles A. Lindnergh
10-year-old Charles Mattson, Peter
Levine, IL, and the elderly Charles
S. Ross, of Chicago, all of whom
were slain by their abductors dur
ing ransom negotiations.
MAY HAVE BEEN CHOKED
Hoover said the boys body wa
in such bad state, it was harl
to tell the exact manner in which
he had been done to death AM
an autopsy was ordered as Sool
as the body was returned to
.mortuary in Miami. A cursor,
examination, indicated, however
he had been choked and struck OF
the head with some heavy weapon
: Summoning newsmen to hi
: office upon their return, Hoovel
| made an informal statement
: Without sleep himself for nearI
48 hours. he plainly showed tn
= effects of the strain and spoke il
: nervous, jerky sentences. He wa
: still wearing boots and breeche
: he had donned in the hunt for tn
: boys body.
Mccall, Hoover stated. becam
j acquainted with the Cash famil
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to be the pastor Of a Nazarine
church in Fort Lauderdale.
A clea n-cut, neatly-dreSSed
young man, Mccall had none OF
the appearance of criminal and
save for his extreme youthfulness
might have been mistaken for one
of his college-trained captors.
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the case, stated that Mccall hac
admitted being author of the
three ransom notes and taking the
ransom money.
From Sheriff D. C. Coleman
who was instrumental in the ar
rest of Mccall, came the flat as
6ertion:
In my opinion, this is a one
man job"
Later, the sheriff said
Undoubtedly the murder was
prompted by the fact that the
child had recognized his abduc-
tor"
FACES DEATH SENTENCE
It was the smooth cooperation
between Sheriff Coleman and
Omen which led to the apparent
solution of the case. The sheriff
first fastened suspicion on Mccall
one time arresting him for ques-
tioning during the kidnapping hunt
and then tipping" Omen to keep
Mccall under surveillance after
releasing him.
Sheriff Coleman explained that,
under Florida law, Mccall faces
q possible death sentence as an
accessory to kidnapping.
BODY A SKELETON
Meanwhile, DR.. Thomas Otto.
examining physician in charge of
the autopsy, said it would be i'm
possible to Immediately determine
the cause of the death of the
child because the body is moth.
ing but a skeleton" He said, how
ever, an examination of the body
failed to disclose any skull frac'
ture or other broken bones.
A short time later, Circuit Court
Judge Arthur Gomez, at the re
quest Of States Attorney George
A. Worley, issued an order for 6
special grand jury to be impanelec
Monday to investigate the boys
murder.
Hoover previously had an
nounced he would turn over al
evidence to Worley, since he be
lieved it was a case for prosecu
ton in the State courts.
The Cash child apparently was
not transferred across a State
line by his abductors and there
fore the Case does not come under
the famous "Lindbergh" anti-kid
mapping law.
While Hoover declined to go into
details concerning the arrest Of
Mccall, from Sheriff Coleman
came the story of what led to hi
apprehension.
PICKED UP NOTE
On Monday night. the sheriff!
said, Mccall drove to the Cash fill
ing station for gasoline. AS thu
door was opened, Mccall StoopeC
and pretended to pick up some
thing. 1t was q crumpled piece O
paper, which proved to be tn
third ransom note.
1T must have been slipped
under the door," the sheriff quotet
him as saying.
The sheriff said he became Sus
picious Immediately, since tn
note, had it been slipped unde
the door, would have been folded
He questioned Mccall closely. an
later, while the suspect was help
ing the armJ of volunteer search
ers hunt for the kidnap victim, h
took Mccall into custody an
brought him to the FBI headqual
tiers here.
Mccall subsequently was RI
leased but was kept under survei
lance by G-Men day and night. H
supposedly was rearrested yeste!
day, but the exact time of his SCI
ond arrest was not known.
At Princeton. the broken.hearte
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Lindys Leave
For ISlet Home

SEVEN OAKS, KENT,
England, June 8 N.N.S.).
The Lindbergh family has
left England, it was learned
today, for its new overseas
home, the tiny isle of Iliec off
the coast of Brittany.
The A me r c a n airman-
scientist purchased Iliec, a
small rock lying close to
shore, so he could carry on
his research work in Seclu-
sion.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

last saw her, which was in the late
fall. Johnny lost his appetite. Yes.
sir, he lost his appetite right then and
there. Jealousy took its place. He
started for the Old Orchard.
OF course. Polly might not be there.
When she came out of her long winter
sleep she might have started wander
ing about just as Johnny had. OF
course. But Johnny had feeling that
she still was tn the Old Orchard and
he travelled fast. Seeing him in mid
summer or in the fall when he was
fat, and about all he could do was to
waddle, you never would have guessed
that he ever could travel as fast as he
was running now.
Polly Chuck was In the Old Orchard.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

ON her doorstep for look around she
was pleasantly excited to see big
Chuck coming across the Old Orchard
in her direction. At first she thought
1t was Johnny Chuck and she prepared
to tell him what she thought of him
for so long neglecting her. Then she
discovered that this was stranger
and her interest quickened. The
stranger hadn't yet seen her, or If he
had he had made no sign. Quickly
she backed down until only her head
was out Of the entrance.
He was big, this stranger. He was
fully as big as Johnny Chuck. And
he was good looking. He was very
good looking. She wasn't sure but
Evening star., 1938-03-26

She was much later than Johnny in
awakening this spring. When at last
she did come out the Green Meadows
were flooded. So she had remained
in the Old Orchard, digging a new
home on quite the other side from
where she had been living. She had
missed Johnny. OF course, she had
seen no sign of him, for until the flood
he had been down on the Green Mead
ows and afterward over in the Old
Pasture. For all she knew he might
have been drowned in the flood, or
swept away. or something equally
dreadful might have happened to him.
Polly was lonesome and growing more
30 every day.
% this morning Whsu shs sa3 up
Evening star., 1938-03-26

stopped fighting. There was truce.
Johnny had discovered the approach
of Reddy Fox, warned the other, and
together they found shelter and safety
in that burrow which was one of
Johnny's old homes. There they spent
the night.
The stranger, being nearest to the
entrance, was first out in the morning.
He slipped out as soon as there was
daylight. He was very quiet about It
and Johnny Chuck didn't hear him go.
When . little later Johnny awoke and
came out the stranger was not to be
seen. A feeling Of triumph took pos
session Of Johnny. Il guess he got
enough Of 1t last night" he muttered.
He got up early and sneaked away.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

That's what he did, sneaked of. I
guess he will keep away from me in
the future"
Johnny prepared to look for break
fast. This set him to wondering if
his opponent of the night before was
doing the same thing and which way
he had gone. So Johnny went looking
about and presently discovered which
way the other had gone. At first he
gave the matter no thought, and, turn
ing aside, began hunting for something
to eat. Then suddenly he realized
where that stranger was headed for.
He was headed toward the Old Or
chard and over In the Old Orchard
was Polly Chuck. At least that was
where she vas living when Johnny
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Jealousy no reason knows;
Like . confagration grows.
Old Mother Nature.
TN AN old home Of Johnny Chuck's 8
two Chucks spent the night. One
was Johnny Chuck himself and the
other was . stranger. There was no