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The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Herald Play Off
At Bowling Field

In a play-off for the first half
honors in the Herald Government
Basketball League. Boiling Field
and Bureau of Engraving will
tangle Monday at 9 p. m. at Boil
ling Field.
The second half will start Janu-
ary 26. Teams wishing to enter
are urged to call Mr.. Clipper,
Georgia 568l, in the evening.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Middies Triumph
Through Rally

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 20.-In
one of the best court tilts of sew.
eral seasons, Navy came through
with a fine finish to defeat Gettys.
burg, 1851, here yesterday after,
noon.
Gillette, with II points, and
Laney, with 10, were best for the
victorS, while ONeill, with 13
was best for the losers.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
COlOnialS
Streak Is
Broken
L. |. u. WINS, 35-25
Uncanny Shots Upset
Locals in N. Y.
Floor Test

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The
George Washington University
basketball team stepped into the
cage of the Long Island Black.
birds and had their five-game win
ming streak pecked to pieces. Last
of the undefeated Eastern colleges,
the Buff and Blue quintet took the
court against a rival which had
suffered a couple Of early-season
defeats, but which, on its own
court, was we'll nigh invincible.
They call the Long Island Univer-
sity court the Blackbird cage, ana
it isn't much bigger than a bird
cage.
The Long Island quintet was
thoroughly at home in tn e
cramped quarters and made some
uncanny shots from angles they
knew so we'll. Small wonder that
the home talent triumphed by a
score of IS to 25.
TRAIL AT HALFTIME
George Washington trailed at
half time by a score of II to IL.
/ and despite an heroic effort to
rally through the closing min
utes, found itself outmatched.
The Blackbirds played a smart
and effective zone defense against
the Colonials. They covered the
scoring zones with two and at
times a three man defense which
compelled the Colonials to do most
of their shooting from long range,
or at least from greater distances
than Bill Reinhart approves. The
Colonials must have scrambled
their firing data, for they missed
the basket.
Tommy O'Brien, left forward of
the Colonials, was the leading
scorer of the night. He Gagged
six field goals and made two more
from the foul line for a total of
IA points.
The game developed into some
Chlng OF a battle OF foul SnoOClng
in the second half. Three of the
ColonialS were forced out of &C
tion on personal fouls. They were
Sid Silkowitz, George CARRIER and
Bob Faris.
The outstanding performer for
LongIsland University was Bill
King, Negro guard of the Black.
birds. He scored a dozen points,
half of them on goals from the
floor.
For a few moments in the first
half the Colonials led by a score
of 4 to 8, but it was not long be-
fore the Long Island team began
to click, and, playing a court
around which their game was
built, they drove through to win
in workmanlike manner.
Tho
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
CUP REGATTA
DATES NAMED

With September %, %, "a, and
Is authorized as the dates for the
Presidents Cup Regatta, recog
nized as the most complete re-
gatta in the nation, plans are
going forward to present an even
bigger and better event.
In last September's marine con-
test, 389 motor and sail boats
competed, with $4,000 persons
attending,
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Louis Watches
BraddOCk Work

POMPTON LAKES, N. j., Jan.
20.-Joe Louis, world heavyweight
champion who watched Jimmy
Braddock's final workout before
the Farr fight here yesterday, will
make a personal appearance to
night at the Lincoln Theater where
the world premiere Of his starring
movie. spirit Of YOUTH" will be
shown.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
A.A.U. Swim Meet
In ShOreham Pool

An impressive list of male swim
Sners are included in the roster of
23 teams and 1874 contestants who
will compete in the 10 events
scheduled in the, D. C. A. A. U.
swimming meet to be held at the
Shoreham Hotel pool, January %.
The Junior National A. A. y.
f0O-yard free sytle championship
for men will be one of the featured
events.
Dorothy Forbes, who recently
broke two world records in Florida,
will be entered
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

George Wendlandt, with six
wins against two losses, was No. 2,
while L. C. Moore's five wins out
of eight starts rated him third
place.
The Woodward-V -Vineberg COM
bine ranked second in the doubles,
and Goldstein.Nash took third.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Gun Club Holds
Weekly Shoot

The Washington Gun Club will
hold it's regular weekend shoot
Saturday. The two events staged
will be at so and Is targets. re-
spectively, and a trophy will be
awarded in each event. Follow
ing the trophy events, practice or
special contests will be held at
option of contestants.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

You have to look no further to.
day than John Perry, Of the C.
& P Telephone League, as the
holder of the city's record season
duckpin single game score. A
huge 1877 string is his mark.
Staggering the naples for five
strikes and two spares, Perry
literally scorched a pair Of Lucky
Strike drives last night as he
started his record-smaShing with
a triple-header strike in his second,
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
lack SchWdrtz Coins
"Y" Hdndbull Crown

Jack Schwartz proved his right
to the Districts No. / ranking
handballer with his victory in
last nights final round of the
Y. M. C. A. tourney. He also
teamed with Paul Pearlman for
five straight wins and the No. /
doubles rating.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Iowa Grid Coach
Rests Comfortably

IOWA CITY, Jan. 30.-After be-
ing confined to the Iowa Univer-
sity infirmary with a severe throat
infection, Ira Tubbs, new Hawk
eye coach, was resting comfortably
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Credit Bureau Five
TRIPS Lee-JacksOn

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 20.
Defeating the Lee-Jackson High
basketball team. 23-16. in the
Lee-Jackson gym yesterday, the
strong Farm Credit Bureau five
added the Little Generals to its
list of victims.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

third and fourth frames. He fin
ished his huge count with spare,
strike, spare, strike in his last four
frames.
TOTALS 41O FOR SET
Totaling 41O for his set, he
aided Government twice to nick
Accounting.
Other matches resulted in 81
wins for Northern, Cleveland,
Georgia and Construction No.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

DODSOn anu
Jim Pixlee
t a k in g a
years leave
ro m MI S
c o a C hi ng
chore at G..
w. to recover
his physical
aplomb!
Tu t, t u t.,
tut, and tish,
tish, tish!
This is dis
turbing, in
deed.
IT. b a d
enough that
pivlao m nC T.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

Aids Ring SOlOns

Assuring the d. c. Boxing
Commission that they were
willing to cooperate in every
way, the New York Athletic
Commission yesterday aided
the local commissions fight
to get a closer check on box.
ers appearing on the local
cards.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
HerndOn HOnOrs
Baseball Team

A banquet will be given tonight
at $3.50 in the Eastern Star hall,
Herndon, Va, to honor the Hern'
don A. C. baseball team.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Tickets on Sale

Reserved seats and gen.
eral admission tickets for
sunday nights all-star
charity bowling exhibitions
may be purchased only at the
Convention Hall alleys. Gen.
eral admission will be 35
cents and reserved seats IS
cents.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

Crazy Jobs Only the Movies Could
Create. Backstage in Hollywood
There Are Dozens Of Freak Profess
sions That Seem Fantastic and silly.
But Bring the People Who Follow
Them Big Salaries. Read This Inside
story Of Hollywood in the American
Weekly. vita Sundays Washington
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Part of the Plan

And feeling as I do about
Frank Dobson, I also feel that
Maryland's purpose would be
quite defeated were it to let him
slip through their fingers, now
or later.
Dobson's presence at Mary
land dates concurrently, or
nearly so, with the establish
ment of the Maryland George
town game, which has taken
such root here.
It requires something more
than mere coaching ability to
conceive and carry out football
fixtures of this nature for which
Dobson properly shares equal
credit with Gabe Murphy, Of
GEORGETOWN, both of whom
worked out the plans to submit
for the sanction of their supe-
riorS.
Let me tell you, while I'm
about it, something of the coach
ing psychology of the Maryland
mentor, who would be so lightly
absorbed, who would be so deftly
according to excellent authority.
He tells his squads, be they
good, bad or Indifferent, that
they are capable of accomplish
ing whatever they themselves
believe possible-no more, no
less.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Kirk Miller
Times Sports Editor
Says:---
Times Sports Editor

Hey, hey-what is this2
Mississippi State casting Gov
etous eyes at Maryland's Frank
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Likes the Impossible

He tells them it is no particu-
lar feather in his own cap to
develop a corking good team
out of admittedly corking good
material.
He tells them he's prouder OF
q team, say like last years
which had lost much of its threat
by graduation, than he is OF
one that has everything OF
which a coach could possibly
dream.
I gather these things, under
stand me, not from being ad-
mitted to the sanctity of any
of the Terrapin dressing room
talks, but by sitting charmed
and enthralled as he has ad-
dressed football people quite off
his campus.
That attitude of Dobson'S, that
tendency he has of putting it
right up to the boys, smatters
very strongly to me of the char
acter building purpose origi-
nally attributed to inter-collegi-
ate football.
don't know; after all I may
be a Semi-sentimentalist!
But there's a paternal, and if
not that then an older brother
mien about Dobson's approach
to his task, and I like to think
of boys being exposed to that
tvpe of football coach-do you?
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

, of halves-20 minutes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19
Grain Mill And Chair Factory
Run By Unique Power System

for some use to make of the many
acres which had just been utilized
for the lumber. AS a result Of the
success of this plan, Mr.. Barr is de-
veloping another of the same order
across the highway. Here the plant
will take advantage Of a 50-foot fall
with much more water. Here will
be erected a roller mill for the man
ufacture of flour. Mr. Barr is the
Son of Felix Barr, who is widely
known as maker of the fine furni-
ture and his ingenuity as mechan-
ic. Although in his SOS he is able
to carry. on work in his shop, wide
ly know for its fine products.
The management of the chair
plant as well as the distribution of
the product is in charge of Clyde
Barr, son of Robert Barr, the own-
err. He finds a ready market for
all that the factory can turn out. So
far many chairs have been market
ed by the truck loads in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vir-
ginia and even as far west as Wy
oming, to say nothing of the local
market.
The Phoenix Chair company has
employed an expert chair maker
who finds employment for his whole
family as well as neighbors who
come to the factory for the purpose
of bottoming chairs and other fin
ishing operations necessary before
marketing them.
This power plant is one of the
hundreds of possibilities of hydro
electric power in Ashe county. All
it takes is the favorable outlook for
the utility of such possibilities.
However, there are scattered over
the county many small plants Of the
over-shot wheel type that serve the
purpose of private lighting plants
and the purpose of charging auto
mobile and radio batteries. This
is the first and perhaps only plant
of its kind in eastern America, and
perhaps in all America, that utilizes
situation like this to commercial
advantage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19

merce, except agriculture, fisheries
and retail business and transporta-
ton workers under the jurisdiction
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. It provides for sliding
scale, both of working hours and
of wages, beginning with a mini
mum of Is cents an hour for a.
hour week, which would be effec-
tive the first year, graduating to a
4O-hour week at 40 cents an hour /
at the end of three years. The OPP
position from the South is based up
on the belief that it would handicap
the development of manufacturing |
industries in that region, by de-
priving them of the wage-and-hour
differential they now enjoy over
competing industries in the North,
and which the South claims is JUS
tilted by reason of lower compare
tive living costs.
The belief is now general on Cap
itol Hill that the House will pass
the bill, but that is likely to run
into a snag in the Senate. Senators
as well as Representatives are eager
for adjournment by early June, and
an organized filibuster against the
hours-and-wages bill would delay
their return home.
Oppose Executive Spending
Another effect OF the pro-Admin-
istration victory of Senator Pepper
has been to strengthen the OPPOSE
ton to giving the President any
more blank check" in the form Of
lsamp=sunas appropriations which he
can alIot 8as he pleases to be spent
in particular states and Congress
districts Realization Of the extent
of the political power which that
method places in 9the hands of the
Executive was brought home to
Congress by Florida results, and
Congress is as firmly determined as
ever to reassert its power as CO.
ordinate branch of the: Federal sys-
tenn and yield to the Executive on
ly under the, strongest compulsion.
Therefore, the outlook rs that Con-
gress will make its own allotments,
so farsaat hat is possible, Of the dis
tribution of money under the new
Relief and Recovery program. That
most Of the PROPOSALS in the Presi-
dents new pump printing plan will
be enacted into law is now consid-
cred probable. but the effort will be
made to specify the particular uses
to which every dollar shall be put,
instead Of leaving it to the Presi-
dent to use the money as he pleases.
The real scramble will be among
the Senators and Representatives to
see how much each can grab off for
his own state or district.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19
r. C. Barr Obtains Power For
Plants Through Nozzle. Erect
ing Roller Mill.
INV Troy Isaiah Jones)

Located two miles north of JEFF
ferson on the Crumpler Grassy
Creek highway is probably one of
the most unique power plants in
America, certainly without question,
in western North Carolina.
High up in the Phoenix mountain
several springs are collected into
a small reservoir. The reservoir is
about 10 feet by IL feet and is suf-
ficient to hold a head of water to
keep the supply always at an ade-
quate head. The reservoir is at an
elevation of 600 feet above the pow
er plant, which is supplied by pipe
line 1000 feet long. To begin with,
the pipe is five inches in diameter
at the reservoir and at distance
about half way down is diminished
to three inches. This size is main
tanned until the plant is reached
and here the pipe is reduced to
nozzle three-eighths of an inch, or
about the size of lead pencil.
Hand-forged buckets done by a
local blacksmith are bolted to an
ordinary cast pulley upon which
the water through the nozzle, with
its tremendous pressure is released.
These buckets are so designed by
the ingenious inventor that the pres
sure does not accumulate in any one
particular spot, thus saving them
from wearing out from the high
pressure. They are corrugated in a
manner that the water hits almost
all over the entire surface at the
same time.
The wheel runs at the speed of
1882 revolutions per minute, devel-
oping Is horsepower. Attached to
the wheel is line shaft for the dis
tribution of the power for the vari-
Gus uses made of it. Operated in
this plant are two grain mills, one
a hammer mill and grist mill. But
the main feature of the establish
ment is a chair factory with an out
put of from 900 to 800 chairs per
month. The plant also develops
electricity sufficient to supply the
factory and the residence of the
manager.
Two types of chairs are made in
this plant, one a special split bot
tom dining chair and the standard
split bottom chair. Several people
are employed on piece-work bas-
is for bottoming them. They are
bottomed with a rattan split i'm
ported from South America. AS
well as these two types of chairs,
novelties such as foot stools, can be
made.
The invention of this plant and
it's APPLICATION to practical use is the
result of that ingenious mind of
Robert C. Barr, who looked around
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19

all America, however, makes his
victory the more impressive. That
his plea for loyalty to the President
was coupled with, if not based up
on, the material benefits which
have flowed from the Federal treas
ury into their pockets, and the de-
sire to keep them flowing, has raised
the question in many Congressional
minds as to whether it will be safe
for such Democrats as desire re-
election to take stand against an
Administration which controls the
purse-strings, lest their own con-
stituents might fear for a cessation
of Federal largesse by way of re-
distribution, if they voted to reseat
a Member who was not in good
standing in Washington.
In short, the victory of Senator
Pepper has again brought sharply
to Congressional attention Vice
President Gamers oft-repeated die
tum that you can't beat a govern
ment which has four billion dollars
to spend as it pleases," and the
Florida primary results seem to fur
nish proof that Cactus Jack" was
right.
One immediate result of Mr.. Pep
per's triumph and its national poll
teal implications was rush of
Southern Congressman to sign Mrs.
Norton's petition to bring her pet
hours-and-wages bill out on the
floor of the House for vote. The
President had been extremely ur-
gent and. insistent that this be done.
Before the Florida primary. election,
however, it looked doubtful that
the necessary 218 signatures could
be obtained, so strongly were most
of the Representatives from the
South opposed to the principle of
the measure. :. >-..>
Cramping Southern Style
What will happen when the wage
and-hour bill comes to vote in
the House is another question. AS
it stands now, the bill as reported
out by the House Committee dis
cards the original plan for Fed
eral Board with power to make ex-
ceptions to the general application
of the law and to establish differ
entails based on regional and other
differences in living costs. If en-
acted, it would apply to all employ
ers engaged in interstate COM
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19

Washington.-The clean-cut vic
tory in the Florida primaries of Sen
ator Claude Pepper has had def
nItely noticeable effect upon the at
tltude of many members of Congress
IN respect of measures in which the
Administrators program and poll
cy have been under heavy fire. Sen
ator Pepper made his campaign for
denomination, which in Florida is
equivalent to election, solely on the
plea that he is faithful follower
OF the President through thick and
thin, ito the death" as he put it,
and that if Florida people wanted
the flow of Federal money into their
state to continue and increase, they
should sent him back to the Sen
ate.
Senator Peppers victory by a
clear majority over four opposing
candidates, the strongest of whom
was anti-New Deal Congressman
Wilcox, was extremely impressive
in its effect upon numerous Demo-
cratic members who have been in
cined to waver in their support of
the Administration. To many Of
them it was evidence that they
had been mistaken in their be-
lief that public opinion, in the South
at least, has swung very far away
from its allegiance to Mr.. Roosevelt.
How far the vote of Florida repre-
sents that of the South in General
is conceded to be an open question.
The majority of Florida's popu1a-
ton migrated to that state from
commonwealth farther North, so
that they cannot be truly represent
ed as typical of the old Southern
traditions.
When Money Talks
The very fact that the voters who
sent Mr.. Pepper back to the Senate
are a cosmopolitan cross-section of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19

this dreaded disease. To have q
clinic a county or town must have
a full time health unit, therefore
Ashe does not have one. Neighbor-
ing ones are found in Boone and it
is open every Saturday morning;
in Wilkesboro and it is open on Fri
days and Saturdays. Each clinic is
operated by a physician.
The state needs the clinics because
in it there are around 100000 cas-
es of syphilis, now, or in other
words about one out of every ten
adult persons has the disease.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19
Leads Nation In
Syphilis Clinics

Raleigh, May 16.-North Carolina
has more clinics for the treatment Of
syphilis than any other state in the
union, it was revealed when DR..
Carl v. Reynolds, state health offic-
er, recently announced that there
are 1O5 such clinics in the state.
The state is leading in the war on
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19
Aslle Mfg. Go.

WEST JEFFERSON, N. @.
House Trailer, 10 feet long, $3.50.
Smaller sizes, $500. Motorcycle and
parts. Batteries charged, Csc.
New Atlas Batteries $500 less
than cost.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-19

Burma plans to ship 100000 tons
of rice to other countries this year.
The heaviest metal known is os-
MUM.
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Announcement
My Friends, GREETINGS:

My Friends GREETINGS:
Since many of my friends have asked me to
again for the Office holding, taking this
method in announcing my candidacy for denomination
for the office of Register of Deeds Of Ashe County for the
ensuing subject to the action of the Democratic
Convention.
During the time have served Register of Deeds,
have endeavored to the best of my ability to faithfully
and mpartialy the people of Ashe County prom
the service and the best that in appreciate
the support that has heretofore been given and
cit the continued support and confidence of the citizens
of Ashe County,
l.. p. Coward.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-12
MIDGET Race Drivers Vie Tuesday Mite
Caradine Car, Auto
To Watch in
Speed Events

III CentTO's midget race drivers,
HObe Herriek, Claude Herrick ano
Bob Douthitt, back from more vic
tory runs in san Diego, viii battle
for supremacy at the Imperial
speedway Tuesday night.
The race which starts at SIS viii
match the El Centro speed kings
against other valley drivers anG
against @ list of drivers from San
Diego. Yuma and Los Angeles.
Doc Caradine, in Imperial, who
week in and week out enters his
speedy race car at the Imperial
races, viii have his wagon on the
field for a record run Tuesday
night.
Caradine has had three weeks
to get his car in shape and has
promised an outstanding perfor-
nance Tuesday
Races at the Imperial speedway
have produced crackups as we'll as
brilliant performances in recent
events and the crowds have shown
tremendous increases over early
season clashes.