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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Charles Reyes Is
Planning To Move
Back To Ashe Soon
Says "Ouster" Case Against
Them Dropped. Thinks He'll
Sue For SANDER.

Charles KeveS, former local citi-
zen who has been living in Winston
Salem since last fall and who was
recently tried there under an old
"oueter law, was in town this week
looking for a house.
eyes, I am planning to move back
if I can find place in which to
live" Keyes stated. "They haven't
forced me to leave Winston. In fact
they dropped that suit against me
and my family and I am thinking OF
fling a Islander suit against the
city," he said. 81 wanted to have the
case tried over again because ]
had new evidence and could lick
them, but the solicitor decided to
take a mol pros"
A short time after Keyes and his
family moved to Winston they APP
piled to the Associated Charities for
relief assistance. This was granted
to them for month or two and
then after Christmas the agency en-
deavored to send them back to
Ashe, the county of their last legal
residence in test case to rid For
syth and Winston of about so re-
lief families from other sections OF
the state. It was tried once in the
higher court and a new trial was
ordered.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Child Health Day
Will Be Observed
In County Sunday
Treatment For Every Crippled
Child In County" Is Slogan
OF Observance.
PREACHERS TO HELP

"Treatment for every crippled
child in Ashe county" is the slogan
for this years May Day Child
Health day program to be sponsored
in the county by the board OF
health.
BY proclamation from President
Roosevelt, Sunday, May list, has
been designated as "Child Health
Day" and throughout the nation
next week will be observed as
Health week" for children, infants
and mothers.
every community is urged to
make full use of it's resources in
order to insure children safe birth,
normal growth and protection
against direase and accident from
infancy to maturity" Mrs. High
smith, of the State Department,
stated.
Every crippled child in the coun-
ty or any child who has any physi-
cal deformity other than that of be-
ing blind or deaf, is urged to get
in touch with Miss Pearl Weaver,
county health nurse, and she will
gladly arrange for free treatment at
one of the state clinics during May.
From the sale of Easter seals
money has been raised to help buy
trusts, shoes and other necessary
items for needy children, but the
treatment is available to all.
During the past month a total OF
16 crippled children from the coun-
ty were given treatment in the elm
les and many of them restored to
normalcy. eve want to see all chill
dren on the road to health" Miss
Weaver said.
The ministers are asked to CO.
operate with Child Health day OBJ
cervance and members of the local
executive committee will be glad to
make talks any where in the coun-
ty, Miss Weaver said.
During May she also plans to hold
health centers" at the homes of the
26 mid-wives of the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Robbers Get Cash
From Cafe Here
Broke Into Green Lantern Cafe
Last Thursday Night And
ESCAPED.

Robbers broke into the Green
Lantern cafe here late last Thurs
day night and escaped with around
$4,000 in cash, Miss Hattie Gallo
way estimated.
The robbery was not discovered
until Friday morning when Miss
Galloway went to work. A hidden
slot machine, said to have contained
right much money, and several 9TH
er dollars, were taken. It was stat
ed that the machine was taken out
of operation and hidden when the
Judge issued the special order.
No trace of the robbers has been
found. Troy /. Jones, who lives at
the West Jefferson hotel, stated
that about 2 o'clock Friday morning
he was awaken and went to the
window. He said that he saw two
men running up the alley, jump in
a car near the depot and drive off.
Thinking that they had stolen
my car, got dressed quickly, rush.
ed down and found the night Of
ficer,'' Mr. Jones said. ''My car had
not been stolen and after little
investigation I went back to bed"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Henry Winters
Home is Burned

The large two-story, 12-room-
home of Henry Whittier, Ashe coun-
tvs famous musician and compos-
er, was completely destroyed by
fire last Thursday night and he is
now making plans to erect new
one on the same location in the
Crumpler community near the
Healing Springs resort.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whittier left their
home about o'clock Thursday af-
ternoon and visited friends in the
Piney Creek section. Upon their
return Late that night they were
greeted by a charred mass OF
smouldering embers to which
flames had reduced their once beau
tiful home. There was no one in
the house and the origin of the fire
is not known although it is believed
to have caught from the kitchen.
Mr.. Whittier, the composer of
"The Wreck of the Southern"
"Old Ninety-Seven", Lonesome
Road Blues, and many other pop
ular folk songs that are sung
throughout the world, estimated his
loss at around 100000. part of
this loss was covered by insurance, 7"
he said.
The Guitar and harp artist has
been living at Crumpler for the past
5 years. He was born and raised
in Grayson county, but makes Ashe
his home. He travels from place to
place giving performances. He has
made many records for r. c. A.,
Paramount and other companies.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Friday Deadline
For Seal Reports

At meeting of the executive
committee of the Ashe county di-
vision of the state Crippled Chill
drenis League Monday might, re-
ports from the Easter seal sale
drive were announced and, accord
ing to the ones submitted so far
Nathan's Creek school has won the
high school flag.
A final decision will not be made
until Saturday, however, as all re-
ports had not been turned in. II
was decided at the meeting that
the dead line for rendering reports
will be tomorrow afternoon. A win
ner among the grade schools will al
so be chosen. Reports are to be
sent to Mrs. J.. A. w. Davis.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
HELP ORGANIZE JUNIOR
BALL AT TAYLORSVILLE

District Commander p. G. Wright
Commander Ed Barr, and L. P. Col.
ward, former commander of Ashe
post, attended Legion meeting OF
the Taylorsville post Tuesday night
and assisted this unit in organizing
a junior baseball league, disaster re-
lief and sons of Legion organiza-
tions. The post there has recently
built new clubhouse and the To-
cal Legionnaires were very favor
ably impressed with it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
GIVES INFORMAL RECEPTION

Following the graduation exercis-
es last Thursday night Mrs. j. A.
w. Davis entertained the members
of the senior class, their parents and
the teachers at an informal recep-
ton at her home near here. Mrs.
Davis presided at the punch bowl
and delicious refreshments were
served buffet style in the dining
room. Dancing on the spacious
porch was enjoyed by the guests.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28

y. w. Luke, will open this year at
Deep Gap Sunday night, May and
continue through May 10. Preach
ing service will be held each night
at 8 and Bible study each morning.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-28
Wis and the family, however, will
continue to live here for q while.

The Christian Chatauquas in Ashe
county, conducted annually by Rev.
Evening star., 1938-09-18

swinging, he hung anchored. impotent to make
a move.
Ahead. the cliff bulged, masking the further
face Beyond it, upright me, high IN the sky.
snow-mzntled peaks scared, gihed by the suns
first rays. Old Smmo0. .cr1nng. .sawhim insect
like, high On the predpns face above the
drop two thousand feet to Dchr1 stream
Helpless he hung while moments passed and
the day spread across the hills that. far below.
rolled grandly south. He could not see the
beauty. All he saw was gray green hchen close
before his eyes and, all around the naked rock.
Family, from far below, reached him the boom
Of waters.
His arm began to cramp, his calf to quiver.
Forearm grew numb, the hand that held him
would not answer God! He was going. Ere his
grip failed. in clutch for life he thrust his leg
straight and heaved up his body. His left hand
swept across an area till then beyond it and the
fingers found crack and locked His left toe,
paving wildly. caught. His right hand still
could steady him. He stayed -.
Evening star., 1938-09-18

Ten minutes later found him still clawed
spide1like against the cliff, an elemental crea-
t,ne lost to thought, to consciousness to all but
instinct fighting With blind desperation for its
hold on life His limbs burned sweat stremed
down his face; his breath, drawn asooizingly.
Kissed through his nostrils He was stretched
across the bulge which had impeded his view
Of the further face, and. inch by inch. was work
ing round it Suddenly his sight cleared and he
saw beyond. His heart plunged.
The sheer pedpice was ended. From here On
the rock sloped and was rift and broken; in its
crevioes grew jumpers and gnarled dwarf CEDAR
Fifty yards easy climbing; then, abruptly, this.
too, ended and the cliff shelved into one of those
steep alpine meadows that descend in green
swaths from the glacier fanks down to the
streams.
He half fell. half clambered down the last
slope, collapsed into the fragrant grass -.
1t was long before he came to consciousness
of anything bu: bliss for racked limbs and ex-
coriated fingers. Dew cooled his face and Ian
Evening star., 1938-09-18

guor soothed his throbbing frame There was no
sick knotting in his middle now Exquisite rest
was all he knew. For many minutes he lay
supine, lost in sensuocs satisfaction. Then, at
last, he rolled on to his back and looked about
him.
The sun was we'll above the last white PIN
nacle; its light, its friendly heat. poured down.
Around his face the slim grass stood, flower
spangied, and he smelt lis perfume; high above.
he saw the galaxy of vast calm ranges and their
shining peaks. He stretched until his joints
cracked. filled his lungs with ice cold air How
good it was to rest, to feel, to see, to be alive
In their due time. his thoughts resumed their
march and things came back. Came back that
he had finished with the regiment and the blood
rushed to his face. He'd been thrown out "a
card-cheat!
Protest. and then fury. swept him. Despite
what had occurred, he was no cheat. The thing
had been an accident; a fall into trap set for
him by an unkind fate Had the card been one
(Cons;svsd On poss 15)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
"FINAL" ULTIMATUM
DELIVERED TODAY

WARSAW, Oct. 1. (UPC.-Po-
land delivered its "fina" ulti-
matum to Czechoslovakia early to-
day, informing Prague that unless
it agreed Immediately to hand
over the Teschen area, Polish
troops would cross the frontier
and seize it.
The note, handed the Czech
minister almost on the hour of the
previous deadline for a Czech
surrender to Polish demands, set
noon today as the final hour for
a satisfactory" reply.
The Polish note, which official
quarters said was the "final de-
mand" before an armed attack on
the Czech border, was delivered
shortly after the Prague govern
ment had replied to an earlier de-
mand with what q Polish spokes.
man called "a maneuver for de-
lay"
Poland Immediately dispatched
a note to Prague, again demand
ing annexation Of the Tescren
area in lower Silesia.
More than 100000 Pu
troops were reported under arm,
ready to march.
An official government broad
cast from Teschen said:
"The hour is approaching when
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
CATS LIFT End
CONTEST OFF
OF MARS HILL
Timekeeper's Error Is Be.
lieved to Have Kept
Down Their Score

The Hendersonville high school
Bearcats downed Mars Hill, 60,
here yesterday afternoon for their
second win in two starts this sea-
son.
The Cats rolled over Coach Don
Parker's team in the first half but
an error in time-keeping which cut
the half short stopped an almost
certain score. A sustained drive
for II yards in the final period
ended when Bobby Quarles went
over for the only score Of the
game.
The Bearcats got Is first downs
to 4 for the visitors and gained
1873 yards from scrimmage while
Mars Hill was netting Is. The
visitors gained 40 yards passing
for their only yardage gains IN
the final minutes of the game.
The locals opened up early IN
the game and with Coston and
Miller getting off nice runs pushed
to the Mars Hill 30-yard line be-
fore being stopped. Just before
the half ended Miller ripped of a
nice 2O-yard run around end and
Miller and Shepherd went to the
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
'CAPITULATION
IN final HOUR
PREVENTS VAR
100000 Poles Msssed On
Border Fail to March
as Demands Won
LOWER SILESIAN
AREA NOW POLISH

TESCHEN, Polish Czech Bor-
der, Oct. /. (UP).--The threat of
war was lifted at the zero hour
today when Czechoslovakia capi-
tulated to the Polish the ultima
tum. The main forces of Poland's
army Of 100000 were massed
here and had expected to march
to war at noon &c q. m. E.S.T.).
The Polish government had
given the Czechs until that hour
to make satisfactory reply to its
demand for 500 square miles of
lower Silesia, seized by Czecho-
slovakia in 1919 while Poland was
warning with Russia. The dead
line arrived and the army was
poised and ready.
A few minutes later the gov
eminent announced in Warsaw
that the Czechs had surrendered.
The terms az announced in War
saw were that the Czechs would
make a token withdrawal of
troops from the disputed area this
afternoon with Polish troops &C.
cupying the area by progressive
stages, starting tomorrow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
BURLAP BOUND
COTTON BALES
SHIPPED HERE
History Making Change t.
Greatly Boost Cotton
Consumption

History was made in the cotton
textile industry at the Green River
Mills this morning with the arrival
of six bales of cotton, completely
wrapped and bound in a cotton
covering.
Formerly cotton was shipped in
q covering of jute burlap and was
bound with iron bands.
The shipment received at Green
River was covered in q cotton bur-
lap and was bound with ropes
made Of cotton.
R. w. Boys, president of the
mill, stated that the shipment
came through in perfect shape"
and that he was delighted with
the condition in which the cotton
arrived ut the mill.
The Cotton Textile Institute,
representing practically all of the
textile mills of the nation, has
long been experimenting with va
rious uses Of cotton designed to
increase consumption. The use or
cotton burlap and cotton rope on
cotton bales is the result OF actiV-
ity of the institute: .
The cotton was shipped to Green
River from Greenwood, Miss, IA
the delta country, and was the
first delta cotton shipped entirely
in cotton.
The bales were shipped in ac-
cordance with an agreement be-
tween mills and the New Uses Of
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
ONLY PART OF
CEDED zone IS
TAKEN TODAY
Germans Poised for AID.
vance at Dawn But Move
ment Not Hasty
COLONEL GEN. LEEB
COMMANDING FORCES

WITH THE GERMAN ARMY,
Oct. /. (UP)-The German army
entered Czechoslovakian Sudeten-
land at the zero hour of 2 p. m.
e a. m. EST.
The army of occupation crossed
the frontier exactly at the ap-
pointed time between Helfenberg
and Finsterau with Col. Gen.
Wilhelm ven Leeb in command.
The German war machine had
triumphed without firing a shot,
but it had been prepared for ac-
ton.
Efficiency such as astounded
the world when the imperial army
went into action in 1914, marked
preparations for the march.
Since dawn, troops had been
poised for the order to advance.
They moved up during night
under cover of darkness.
The general staff planned to
occupy perhaps only one-third of
area number one as the need for
hurry was gone.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
EXILED DON JUAN MAY TAKE
SPANISH THRONE TO END WAR
Liquidating Spanish War,
African Conquest May
Appease Europe

PARIS, Oct. l. (UP)-Euro-
pean statesmen last night were
understood to be considering a
formula for liquidating the two
outstanding irritants on the politi-
cal horizon-Italy's conquest OF
Ethiopia and the Spanish civil
war.
1t was reported in diploma tic
quarters that the French govern
ment already was considering at
least two steps leading toward an
appeasement of these questions:
/. Return of a French ambas-
sador to Rome to re-establish full
diplomatic relations with Italy,
which were broken off when Am
bassador Charles de Chambrun
was recalled from Rome two years
ago. ..
2. A joint agreement for plac
ing Don Juan, the exiled Prince
of Asturias, on the Spanish throne
as a compromise candidate ac-
ceptable to both sides of the Span
ish war.
The first move would be regard
ed as a prelude to recognition of
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, since
the ambassador would be accred-
tied to the king of Italy as the
emperor of Ethiopia.
The second would be regarded
as a solution to the problem of
mediating the Spanish conflict. If
both Republican and Nationalist
regimes could be induced to. ac-
cept Don Juan, it was believed q
compromise solution to the Span
ish war would follow. p.
The latter initiative was ex-
pected to come from London, and
was believed in diplomatic quar-
tiers to stand an excellent chance
of meeting the requirements of a
solution satisfactory both to the
totalitarian powers, Germany and
Italy, which have supported Gen.
eralissimo Francisco Francois re-
gime, and the democracies, Bri-
tain and France, which nominally
supported the Republican govern
ment. o..
Premier Edouard Daladier re-
turned from Munich yesterday to
be greeted by the unanimous &C
claim of the French public. For
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
League Delegations See Czech Terms
Harsh AS Those For Defeated Enemy

to choose members Of the com.
mission and direct its work. b.
livia and Peru abstained from
voting on the report which ere.
ated the commission.
While de Valera paid tribute to
the Statesmen of Munich" fol-
their solution Of the Czech crisis,
Maxim Litvinov, foreign commits.
sar of the Soviet Union, took ad.
vantage Of discussion of the Chi.
nese-Japanese conflict to manifest
his country's dissatisfaction with
the four-power accord for Czecho-
slovakia's partition.
He regretted that the report
authorizing league members to
apply san let ions individually
against Japan does not go further.
'Tt is regrettable," he said,
"that we must limit ourselves to
Continued on page five)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
ETOWAH FAIR
WILL Be HELD
OCTOBER rs
Grange Sponsors Event for
All Living Within
School District

Sponsored by the Etowah
Grange, the Etowah Community
fair will be held at the school
building on next Friday and Sat-
urday, October z and 8. Any per-
son living in the boundaries of
the Etowah school district is eli
gible to enter exhibits.
All exhibits must be placed
ready for judging by noon next
Friday, and animals must be en-
tered by 9 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. Exhibits will be released at
8 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Officers of the fair are Robert
D. Bruce, president, G. w. ALI
son, vice president, and G. o.
Morgan, secretary-treasurer.
Directors are Mr.. and Mrs. R.
W. Jones, Mrs. C. T. Dotson, Mrs.
G. w. Allison, Mrs. Lewis Cairnes,
Mrs. T. Whiteside, Mrs. H. Nc
Kinna, Mrs. Rankin Allison, Mrs.
Keller, Mrs. J. E. Gonce, H. L. F.
Drake, Mrs. Annie May Parker,
Ralph McKinna, F. Allison, Ho-
mer McKinna, ]. E. Gonce, c. W.
Adcock. w. Nicholson, J. o.
Youngblood and Miss Gladys
Blythe.
School exhibits will include pri-
mary exhibit, aprons, canned
goods, dresses, notebooks, themes,
business letters, insent collections,
flower collections and shop prof.
ects.
Cooking exhibits will include
layer cakes, loaf cakes, meringue
pies, double crust pies, bread, bis
cults, mullins and cookies.
Sewing exhibits include print
dresses, patching, bed spreads,
center pieces, knitted dresses,
plated rugs, hooked rugs, and
children's dresses.
Canned goods exhibits include
apples. soup mixture, tomato
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
EPTEMBER
BRIGHT, warm
6nfall Deficiency for
ear to Date Advances
to 100 Inches

deficiency in rainfall of 100
fhes has been recorded for Hen
fsonyille during the first nine
hths Of the year, according to
pres Of the cooperating wealth
Station here.
70 date, the deficiency is ap-
PSimately II per cent. The nor
rainfall for the first nine
PnthS is 1896 inches and the
Tor the nine months this year
been 1905 inches.
ne deficiency for 1898 was in
fased during the month of Sep
peer, when the recorded fall
only 3.76 inches as compared
the normal of 5.04 inches.
September proved to be a
IContinued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
LEHMAN WILL
RUN 9TH Time
Empire State Democrats
Choose State and Sena-
torial Ticket

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. l.
(UP)-The New York state Dem
ocratic convention pledging COM
plete support for the New Deal,
nominated a state and senatorial
ticket yesterday which they hope
will keep President Roosevelt's
home state in the party fold in
November.
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, once
termed that "good right arm of
mine," by President Roosevelt,
was selected to run for the fourth
consecutive time. The only minor
change was the dropping of Lieut..
Gov. M. William Bray, foe of the
national administration, in favor
of Supreme Court Justice Charles
Poletti, a liberal.
Rep. James NJ. Mead Of Buff
falo, known as 900 per cent"
New Dealer, was nominated to fill
the unexpired term of the late
U. s. Senator Royal S. Copeland.
Lehman, who agreed to run
only after the insistent demands
of Postmaster General James A.
Continued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-01
NAZI-FRENCH
AMITY ACCORD
IS NEXT GOAL
This and Negotiations to
Limit Armaments on Hit
Ter Program
POPULATION BOOSTED
BY II MILLION PEOPLE

BERLIN, Oct. l. (UP). "A
German-French friendship agree
ment and negotiations for gen
eral limitation of ornaments are
expected to complement the Nun.
ich agreement on Sudetenland and
the historic British-German re-
nunciation Of war, it was reported
today.
This disclosure was made today
as Adolf Hitler returned 20 Ber-
lin and a Nazi triumph.
1t was asserted in most reliable
quarters that a German-French
declaration Of friendship was &C
tually in process of preparation
and might be issued at any time.
Government quarters said that
declaration of the same character
as that announced at Munich yes
terday bya Hitler and Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain-equiv-
alent to a non-aggression pact,
which they regarded as defining
both agreements.
Further, it was learned that as
the direct result of the British
French German-Italian agreement
on Sudetenland signed at Munich,
and the supplementing German
British and German-French agree
meats, goysrnmeat asiacs hes EHset
ed That the question Of limitation
of ornaments would be the sub
ject of international negotiation
soon.
1t was asserted that limitation
of ornaments negotiations would
be conducted most probably along
the same imam to man" lines
which led to the success at Mum
ich, and that direct negotiations
would be supplements through
normal diplomatic channels.
Wei Informed quarters sug-
gested here that heavy bombing
airplanes, heavy artillery and poi
son gas-the three most terrible
weapons of modern warfare
most probably would be the prin-
cipal subject for limitation talk.
1t was in these fields, German
sources suggested, that limitation
might first be achieved.
A million Germans, massed in
Continued on page three)