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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
Japan Changing
Policy Towards
u. S. And Others
''PacificatiOn" Of Eastern Asia
Is Proclaimed Objective.
Reds Infiict Losses.

Toxic, Jan. 16.-Japan was report
ed today to be carrying out a ma
jor readjustment of her diplomatic
policy toward the United States and
other world powers along the lines
of her proclaimed objective-"pa-
cification" of eastern Asia.
The foreign ministry was said to
have issued circular cablegram to
japanese diplomats, instructing
them to explain Japan's intentions
in the war on Japan.
These were outlined earlier in
day by government announcement
of withdrawal of recognition from
the central Chinese regime. 1t said
"Japan's responsibilities for peace
in east Asia now are even heavier
than before"
Diplomatic observers said Japan
intended to realign her foreign re-
lations with America, Britain, Ger
many, Italy and the soviet union in
keeping with her ''unshakahle'h aim
to dominate China.
China's eighth army, composed of
outlawed Communistic units, is re-
ported to have inflicted heavy loss
eS on the Japs in series of battles
in the central Shansi province.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
Stages CREEK NEWS

Mrs. z. r. Barr, who has been ill
for some time, is improving some
now.
Miss Mary Church was a dinner
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Reeves
Church Monday.
Mr.. Janus Ashley, of Amy and
Brother Fulton Ashley visited Mr..
and Mrs. c. o. Millers last Sunday.
Mr.. Jacob Faw was a business
visitor in this community Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Miller and Win
field Miller visited Mr.. and Mrs.
z. R. Barr Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Eldreth, of
Horse Creek, visited relatives and
friends in this community last
week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
BRADDOCK AND FAIR
TO FIGHT TOMORROW

New York, Jan. 16-James J.
Braddock and Tommy Farr, a
couple of business-ike men of the
leather tossing trade who are ia
miliar with its less pleasant aspects
as well as with the JOY of victory,
are Flooding over snow-covered
New jersey roads and practicing
punches these days for what may
turn out to be one of the more i'm
portant heavy weight battles of the
year.
They are scheduled to fight 10
rounds at Madison Square Garden
Friday, and the winner has been
promised a go with Make Baer, a
man they both have beaten. Then
the survivor probably will get an
other crack at Joe Louis, provided
Joe retains his title when he meets
Max Schmeling.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
1000 JAPAN SE
KILLED IN BATTL]

Shanghai, Jan. 14.-Generalissimo
Chang Kaishek's armies fighting on
China's ''last line of defense" were
reported today to have killed 1000
japanese in desperate but futile re-
sistance at Tsin1ng, southwestern
Shantung province.
At the same time the Generalissi-
mo was said by Chinese sources to
have strengthened his military hand
by arrest of one of his generals and
execution of former government
leader accused of trying to under
mine his authority.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
The Observer Reviewer Highly
Praised Shadows Slant North"

umph!
The reader who allows this book
to grip him with the full measure
of its appeal is going to be disap-
pointed by the indecisive conclusion
to which the story comes, and he is
going to be regretful that the au-
thor has touched so lightly and so
sketchfully upon a number Of Incl
dents which arouse a curiosity that
is never satisfied.
These shortcomings in the book,
plus the act that the continuity is
spasmodic at times, leaves the pres
ent reader with the feeling that the
author has, for fear of being wordy,
condensed the story to about half
its natural length, although the fin
ished volume is Of standard extent.
1 can only hope that Mary Bled-
soe's first venture into fiction will
meet with such success as to en-
courage her to write more, and to
write in the confidence that her ex-
traordinary talents for detail with
out tedium give her peculiar safe
ty in filling in detail and connect
ing links without endangering the
progress of her narrative.
In such a wealth of experience
and such a plentitude of human
understanding as this volume in
dicates its author possesses, there
must be more novels just as grip
ping and just as absorbing as this
one. hope Mary Bledsoe will
write them!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
1893 Is Election Year In N. G.
And Interest Now Being Shown

Nineteenth Some observers say
Solicitor Zeb v. Nettles, Of Ashe-
vile, may enter the race against
Judge A. Hall Johnston, also of
Asheville. Johnston, speaker pro
tenn of the senate last year, was ap-
pointed to the bench by Governor
Hoey.
Twenty first Solicitor Allen H.
Gwyn, of Reidsville, will try for the
judgeship. Archie Carter, of Mt.
Airy, R. J. Scott, Of Danbury, and
Allen D. Ivie, of Leaksville, are
running for solicitor.
There are no judicial contests in
the third, fourth, seventh, 18th,
18th, 18th, 18th, 18th and Goth dis
tricts.
Announced candidates for state
include Harris Newman, of Will
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
GET UP NIGHTS?

IT'S NATURES DANGER SIG
NAL. It's not normal. This Csc
test free if it fails. Help nature
drive out waste. and excess acids
which may cause the irritation that
wakes you up, causes scanty flow,
burning or backache. Get juniper
oil, buchu leaves, etc, made into
green tablets. just say Buckets to
any druggist and get a good nights
rest. Locally at Ray Drug Com
pany. 1-13-5i
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
Spencer Murphy Deeply Inn
pressed With Mary Bledsoe's
New Novel.

II
Newspapers throughout the coun-
try have carried reviews of Mary
Bledsoe Gillett's popular STIA-
BOWS SLANT NORTH.
The following is a review written
by Spencer Murphy, of Salisbury,
a competent critic, for The Char
1otte Observer:
Genius is one of the not few
words in this language of ours
which has never been defined to
the lasting satisfaction of any alert
mind.
So in having recourse to the term
genius at the moment I am not ne
cessarily of the belief that I am
proclaiming ranking of true classic
ism for Shadows Slant North.
But genius-it seems to me at this
moment reasonably may be
termed superlative degree of ar
ticulate PERCEPTION; and with just
that definition in mind, I leave
Shadows Slant North" with the
feeling of having been in communi-
cation with genius.
beg of the readers of The Char
1otte Observers book page that they
forgive a distinctly personal note in
this comment on the first novel un-
der discussion: but, since the author
is Charlotte woman, feel that we
can afford to dispense with the or
binary formality of this contribu-
tors humble offerings, for the pur-
pose of a more intimate understand
ing of something done by 'home-
folks"
Southern folklore has lost much
of its intrinsic power in the esteem
of contemporary readers because of
the over-emphasis which recent
years have seen placed upon the
sordid, the sensational, and the per-
verified aspects of class struggle, race
prejudice, and hereditary antagon-
iSms.
Mary Bledsoe is not the first
Southern writer to signalize a new
trend in the provincial literature of
the scene and problems of her
theme she is distinctly of the new
order, and no writer of recent years
has had greater success in synthesi-
Ting peculiarities of locale with uni
versal significance than she has at
tanned in the present volume.
Shadows Slant North" b.Eefly,
is the story of North Carolina girl
raised, by education and natural en-
dowments, far above, the level of
her environment and her kin, but
forced by combination of circum-
stances and her own sense of obli-
cation to return to her mountain
home to care for her fecund
mothers orphaned brood.
The return is at the expense of all
she has learned to hope of life, and
of her single romance.
A meager enough plot structure,
to be sure, but around and about it
Mary Bledsoe has woven close
knit fabric of characterization and
local atmosphere which fairly SHIN
mers with the glow of life.
Mary Bledsoe has not studied"
the life and the people vitalizing
her story; she has, there can be
no doubt, actually lived the life
and literally absorbed the people,
Her powers of description put the
smell of balsam, the sound of run
ming water, and the CLEAN of boar
frost on the printed page. Shadows
Slant North" is an atmospheric tri-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
Have You The Reading
Habit?

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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20

Oscar Smith of Rich Square,
Northampton county, says his 593
hens paid him a profit of $58.74
above feed costs during the month
of November.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20

Four new rural communities of
Person county will be supplied
with electrical current shortly and
the residents are now studying
about proper wiring and appliances.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20

1t is a thing of no great difficulty
to raise objections against anoth-
er mans Grafton, nay, it is very
easy matter; but to produce a bet
ter in it's place, is a work extreme
ly troublesome.-Plutarch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20

Mr.. L. B. Blackwell, of High
Point, has been employed to take
Mrs. Carl Arnold's place as book
keeper at the Parkway Motor Com
pany.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
CORPORATION RULE.
IS HIT BY BLACK
Courts Holding Firms Are
"Persons" Criticized by
New Justice.
Bv the Associated Press,

bN TIE ASSOCIATED pfeSS.
Abandonment of a 52-year-old in
depreciation of the Constitution which
gives corporations the protection Of the
fourteenth amendment by CHASING
them as persons" was urged on the
Supreme Court yesterday by Associate
Justice Black
The amendment provides that no
State may deprive any person of life,
liberty or property without due process
of law"
The court long has held that the
word person means corpora tiOns as
we'll as individuals. Justice Black sug-
gested this had wrongly subjected
State laws regulating corporations to
censorship OF the United States
courts
Writes Dissenting Opinion.
President Roosevelts first appointee
TO the supreme tribunal. Justice Black
expressed his views in dissenting to the
opinion of seven Of his colleagues that
California cannot tax premiums re-
ceived b. tlle Connecticut General Life
Insurance Co. from other insurance
companies doing business in Cali
fornia.
"A constitutional Interpretation
that is wrong should not stand he
said. Il believe this court should now
overrule previous decisions which in
terpreted the fourteenth amendment
to include corporations. ."
Sweeping Meaning"
The States did not adopt the
amendment with knowledge Of its
sweeping meaning under its present
construction.
No section of the amendment gave
notice to the people that if adopted it
would subject every State law and
municipal ordinance affecting corpo-
rations ,and all administrative op-
tions under them) to censorship of
the United States, courts.
mo word in all this amendment
gave any hint that its adoption. would
deprive the States of their long-rec-
ognlzed power TO regulate corpora
tionS.'
In two other dissenting opinions
Justice Black argued that his seven
colleagues had limited unconstitution-
ally the right of Indiana to control
its public school system and had
erred in ruling that the Federal Gov
ernment had infringed a patent for
airplane levers issued to a French in
ventor.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. Feb, !P.-Eses, 1ases;
about steady: Mixed colors: Special packs.
3oM: seconds, l9-19h: MEDIUMS and
refriserator standards. 1s-1sh: firsts.
17A: seconds, 15-16A mediums, small
and dirties. 15-16A.
Butter. 1O01.133; steady; creamery.
hieher than extra, 3d,34l: extra l9a
second seconds 'is4-sG nssas se-si sse-s' 'lM''s'
Cheese: EOS, ,le6: irregular: state. whole
milk hats fresh, fancy, 17-17h: other
Dressed poultry, irregular; boxes. fresh.
fowl. 36-42 pounds, 1923. Frozen. fowl,
36-42 pounds 17A-21h: Fresh and
frozen. old roosters. 1921. All other
Live poultry; By freight nrm. chickens.
Rocks. %: colored. 1918. mostly 1918.
Fowl. colored 26k-27, mostly 81: Leg
horn. 1924, mostly %. Old roosters. 13-
Is. mostly Il Turkeys. hens. 80: toms,
By express. steady to. arm. Broilers,
Rocks. 20: crosses. 1921. mostly 1919.
Fowl. colored. 2494-27 mostly 81: Leg
horn. 22-24; old roosters. Is.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
CARL0AD|NGSR| RISE
IN FULL YEAR 1887
Gain 5.4 Per Cent Over 1886
in Spite of Decline in
Final Quarter.
Special Dispatch to Tho Star,

NEW YORK. Feb. despite tho
slump in the final quarter Of 1887 car.
loadings for the full year totaled
37.993,0 900, as compared with 3sos3,-
600 in 1886, an increase Of So per
cent, according to the Alexander Ham,
llton Institute. Loadings in 1897 thus
showed expansion for the fifth con-
secutive year. They exceeded the 28,-
10000 cars loaded at the bottom Of
the depression in 1882 by 348 per cent.
At the same time they were 2s.i
per cent below the pre-depression VOL
ume Of 52,828,000 cars in 1929. Load
ings in 1887 thus represented the re-
covery of only 1913 per cent of the
ground lost in the 1929-1932 slump.
The prospective decrease in the ma
tional income in 1888 suggests that
annual carloadings this year will drop
to approximately the 1885 volume of
31,504,000 cars. The estimate is based
on the maintenance Of freight rates
at the present level If the Interstate
Commerce Commission permits an in
crease in rates, the prospect is that
loadings will show a greater curtail-
ment.
Since carloadings in 1885 were only
ll8 per cent above the low for the
depression, it is apparent that the rail-
roads are facing decidedly unfavor-
able conditions in 1888 In 1885. the
railroads made little more than enough
to cover fixed charges.
With gross revenue in 1888 promis-
ing to be no larger than in 1885, the
prospect is that the railroads will end
1888 with deficit since it is evident
that operating expenses will be higher
than IN 1885, the survey forecasts.
The present outlook is that the
Shippers Boards forecast Of freight
carloadings the first Quarter of 1898
will prove to be excessive. They have
estimated that carloadings in this
quarter will be 8.3 per cent smaller
than in the same period last year. If
the decrease is no greater than this
it will mean that loadings in the first
quarter will be only 68 per cent small
er than in the final quarter of 1887. a
smaller decrease than that of year
ago when it amounted to per cent.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, Feb. ] ,91 ~ S. Department
OF Agriculture Hogs. @sno0, includine
5000 direct; market uneven: mostly -
lower than MONDAYS average: top, SIS:
bu.k, GOOD and choice. 1,5o-.oO pounds.
S.35-I0: H1b-.Gn pounds. butchers. 100
500; .I0-i23 pounds. largely. ..40-15:
packing sows: IS or more lower; bulk, good
medium weight and heavy sows. $751; 90.
Cattle. 5000; calves 1000 another fed
steer run: market extremely sluggish. fol-
lowing Monday 50-cent downturn: talking
% or more lower today: not enough done
on early rounds to, make market; few
lines. 1880. these being feed-lot mates OF
! 30 cattle last week: heifers. steady to
bulls: 1918 OF. and vealers after opening
steady on strictly good and choice. weighty
KINDS, now 80 lower on light vealers at
1850 down: early TOP on vealers, - 90;
extreme top welahty sausage bulls, 6.75
Sheep, 1000. including 800 direct
fat lambs opening slow; bids and few early
sales weak TO IS lower at prices downward
from 80; choice lambs held 7;65-75 and
considered: medium: 10 pounds 500
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Figures
What They Mean
BY A. A. PATTON,
Associated Press Statistician,

NEW YORK, Feb. l.-Investment
companies. professional investors Of
other peoples money. we're heavy SELL
ers o. stocks in the final quarter last
year. study of published annual
reports indicates.
Liquidation was more general dur
ing this period than at any time in
the last three years at least, analysts
said, despite the fact share prices
f1uctuated around the lowest level
since mid-l935.
The eagerness to unload stock with
prices IS to so per cent under the
levels prevailing from November,
1886, to March. 1887. was traced to
the desire on the part Of Investment
company managers to realize losses
for tax purposes and general uncer-
tainty over the outlook.
Financial quarters pointed out that,
with few exceptions. investment con-
Germs were almost fully invested in
common stocks at the crest of the
boom last year and remained so until
the final quarter.
Shares Of automobile manufactur-
ing companies and affiliated enter
prises-rubber tire and parts pro-
ducers-became highly unpopular with
investment executives If the volume
of liquidation in these categories dur
ing the fourth quarter was any cri-
terion. Motor stocks were among the
most heavily sold by major classif-
cations.
Chemical shares were sold on bal
ance, although opinion was by no
means uniform, and moderate
amount of buying occurred in strongly
entrenched concerns in this group
With war scares juggling the nerves
of the world. armament stocks were
in demand. Buying was concentrated
in alrplane manufacture division as
the most likely to receive immediate
benefit from a rearmament program
in this country.
Agricultural equipment and gold
mining concerns were also picked up.
Railroad common stocks were
dumped in large volume as traffic
continued to slump. yielding a smaller
income with which to pay increased
operating costs.
Sharply divided opinions were
noted regarding the desirability of
owning shares in building material
firms and utilities This was at
tributed by some observers to switch
ing, both to establish losses and i'm
prove positions.
Oil producers, however, apparently
remained in favor as measured by
purchases and sales of stocks. Elec-
trical equipment makers and certain
metal producers and fabricators were
also bought on balance.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
WASHINGTON GAS
NET GAINS IN 1887
c. & P. Telephone Report
Reveals Higher Income
But Lower Profits.

Annual reports filed by the WASH
ington Gas Light Co. and the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. with
the Public Utilities Commission show
that both concerns enjoyed substantial
business in 1887.
Net earnings Of the Washington Gas
Light Co. for the IL months of 1887
amounted to $761 ,426, as compared
with s666,743 in 1896, an increase of
S94.683.
Operating revenues of 1891 ,032 for
December compared with S757,4l7 for
December year ago, an increase of
s73,665. Operating expenses decreased
$685. from $576, 1903 in December, 1886,
to s567.682 In December. 1887, prin-
cipally as result Of unusual expenses
in 1896 for which there were no COM
parable charges in December, 1887.
Incorporating revenues amounted to
$ll ,034. compared with $50. .403 for De-
cember a year ago, a decrease of $l9,-
1863. The net result OF the months
operation after all deductions for in
terest and amortization was a net in
come Of sl95, ,204. compared with Sl3l,-
1873 for December. 1886, an improve
ment of $64.02l.
The company reports an increase OF
l21 ,S83 m.ct, in gas sales from ,O99.-
306 during December. 1886, to 1921. 189
mc.f. in December this year. At the
end Of the month there were l49,454
meters in service. or gain OF 49.Oll
meters over the same date last year,
{. &, r. 1887 Net Under 1896.
Operating revenues of the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac. Telephone Co. for
1887. amounted to Sll,l37.46 an in
crease OF s540,454 over the year 1896,
but operating expenses for the year
1887, amounting to S8069 ,9oS, showed
an increase Of s532.728 over the previ-
Gus year. This increase in operating
expenses. particularly in the latter
months OF the year. was largely due
to wage increases.
Taxes increased 10 per cent in 1897
over 1886, amounting to S93O.044 in
1887 as compared with s867,32 the
previous year, and interest deductions
were S268,892, in comparison with
Sl82,79O in 1886
AS a result. the balance before divi-
dends for the year 1887. amounting to
81 ,869,685. was Sl56,653 less than for
the year 1896.
More Telephones in Use.
For the month of December. opera =
ting revenues were S97l ,685 and opera
ting expenses were s7l5,609. both items
showing corresponding increases over
the same period a year ago. Taxes
tor the month we're S60.753. an in
crease of S17,623. or % per cent over
December 1886. and interest deduc-
tions of s29 452 showed an increase of
Sl2.994 over December a year ago
The balance before dividends for the
month was sl52,336. as compared with
Sl95.253 in December. 1886.
Telephones in service were increased
over the previous month by 1888, there
being 226.957 telephones in service on
December 81, 1887 A year ago there
were 2l4,308 telephones in service.
Telephone users in WASHINGTON
made 2S2l3,000 calls during the
month. or an increase of 3,l56. 900
over December, 1886. There were
3o2 ,143 900 telephone calls made in
Washington IN 1887, a notable gain.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
RISE IN EARNINGS SHOWN
BY SHAWINIGAN POWER
SreGsl Dlsratch to The Star.


NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-The Shawn
igan Water & Power Co. in its annual
report for the year 1887. made public
today, shows net earnings. after all
expenses and fixed charges but before
depreciation. of s4.585,664. compared
with $685., 1893 for the preceding year.
After depreciation, unamortized bond
premium, discount and expense and
dividends paid during 1897. the years
surplus amounted to'sl sl.o75.Ol3, COM
pared with 1929, 9e5 for 1885.
Surplus, subject to deduction for
1887 income taxes which are computed
and payable in 1893, amounted to
81 1920 at the end of the year.
against sl,534,Tl4 at the close of the
previous year. Gross earnings for the
year totaled s14769,142, compared
with Sl3,954.359 for 1895.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
HOURLY EARNINGS OFF
3 PCT. IN INDUSTRIES

NEW YORK. Feb. l tP.-Hourly
earnings in the manufacturing indus
tries decreased 0.3 per cent, and the
average work week declined to 34.1
hours from 35.6 hours from Novem-
Der to December. the National Indus
trial Conference Board. a research
organization partly maintained by
large corporations. reported today.
Average weekly earnings. the report
showed. dropped from $25.59 in No.
vember to s2436 in December, while
employment fell ga per cent.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
LIVE POULTRY SHIPPERS
ASSAIL RAIL RATE BOOST
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
The Live Poultry Shippers Associ-
alton of Chicago filed with the Inter.
state Commerce Commission today q
brief opposing any increase in freight
rates on live poultry shipments.
The brief was filed in connection
with the railroads pending applica-
ton for . is per cent freight rate
increase.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
NEW YORK SUGAR.

NEW YORK. Feb. tP.-suear futures
nearby positions sold at new low records
for the season under increased March
liquidation and commission house selling.
March No. 4 sold of to 1.O5M and was
within q fraction OF, the low at 2 pm,
lower. In the No. 3 May sold at 2.26. or
unchanged to l point net lower.