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Evening star., 1938-12-02
Ida Lupino Signed

Ida Lupino has been engaged by
Columbia to play the leading
feminine role opposite Warren Will
liam in the first of the new series
Of Lone Wolf" pictures.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Shirley Temple Again Tops
Box>0mce Champions
Following Her Are Clark Gable,
Mickey Rooney, Sonia Henie,.
In That Order
BY SKEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.


Shirley Temple Clark Gable Mickey Rooney
namedw shortly listed
Who would have that skater would take
Myrna Bette Davis!
such excellent emoe as
Tracy give word of advice
want to sta avats
Evening star., 1938-12-02

refer to your
recent exhibition
on the set when
saying goodbye
to that young
lady fan from
Kansas City.
Next time you
say, "g a d to
have met you,
I'm sur Elm
not 50 sure,'
make sure the
visitor is out Of
earShot before
saying the last
four words.
d C~~c1~vy
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18
JULY AUTO DEATHS
IN STATE DECLINE

Raleigh.-Deaths from automo-
bile accidents in North Carolina
during July totaled SO, as compared
with IS the corresponding month of
1887, DR.. r. T. Simpson, director
of the Bureau of Vital Statistics,
State Board of Health, reports. The
total number of deaths from all ac-
cidents for the month was LOT, as
compared with 121 for July, last
year, including three resulting from
collisions between automobiles and
railroad trains and two airplane
casualties. Thirteen persons were
burned to death and 81 were
drowned.
Suicides were up again, the total
number for last month having been
q, against Is the corresponding
month in 1887, while homicides
numbered "a, a decrease of two.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18
State Officials
Await Approval
Requests For Grant Sent To
1, Washington. Legislature Ad-
=" jOurned Friday.

F
The special session of the North
Carolina legislature adjourned at
1:O7 last Saturday morning after
passing special laws calling for a
$4,62O, 100000 bond issue to be APP
piled to state building improvement
program.
A request for $5,3OO,OOO.OO in
grants has been sent this week to
PWA officials in Washington and as
soon as approval is given, work on
the various state institutions, includ-
ing several proposed buildings at
A. S. T. c., will commence.
This will be one of the largest
public works programs ever
launched in the state.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18
~ The FEUD al :
49, SINGLE SHOT :
WEI ..-~..- By Luke Short
By Luke Short

way over the coal until he could see
down into the engine cab.
Two masked men stood facing the
fireman and engineer, who had
been backed into one window seat.
The red heads action was quick.
He slid down the heaped coal,
both guns roaring at the two ban
dts silhouetted against the fire.
door. One man pitched his length
on the floor plates and the other
made a wild, crippled dash for the
steps,. The red-head heard him
sprawl on the ground.
Continued Next Week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18
9 AvrocAsrm

The gambler shook his head.
! "Finney's startin' a game down in
back if you still feel like it."
you're a gambler, amt your"
when I'm at table, yes"
The gambler looked across the
aisle. When his eyes turned, they
were staring into the steady muzzle
of a Colt in the hands of the chin
less puncher.
II say We'll play cards"
81 reckon not" The gamblers
speech was a quiet drawl.
He saw the eyes of the punch
err smear over and watched the
thumb start to slide off the ham,
mer.
Gamblers don't come high in this
country, stranger" the puncher re-
piled thickly.
The gambler shrugged, but made
no movement.
"Once more" the cowpuncher
said softly. Lets you and me play
cards."
The gambler shook his head slow
ly. -
From across the aisle q gun
lanced fire in a deafening explosion.
It was followed by sharp cry
from the cowpuncher who drew a
bloody, gunless hand to his chest.
The gambler was out of his seat like
cat and drove his fist into the face
of the cowpuncher.
Turning, he saw a sleepy-eyed
cowboy sitting erect, sixgun
dropping across his knee, a slow
grin creasing long, lean face un-
der raven-black hair.
When the red-head stepped out
the train door on to the front plat
form, the man squatting over the
coupling from the platform of the
baggage car ahead looked up.
''Howdy," the red-head drawled.
"Whatda' you want?'' the man
growled.
"Air," was the brief reply. The
red-head lounged his even six feet
of height against the end of the
car. Slowly, the man came erect,
his figure squat and shadowy in the
light of the turned-down lamp.
81 been watchin' you in there for
the last ten minutes" the red-head
said. ''You was smokin'. You lit
that cigarette eight times when it
was still goin'. Who's out there?"
He jerked his head out toward the
night. A shot rang out from inside
the coach.
The train gave a sudden buck as
the brakes screamed on. The red
head felt himself lifted from the
wall His hands sttehked to his
gun, swiveled up and exploded. The
man on the baggage-car platform
slid abruptly to sitting position,
coughing pulpily, as the red-head
crashed into the end of the baggage
car. He took an accurate snap shot
at the lantern, then opened the door
to the baggage car.
BLOW them lights! It's a stick
up" he yelled, then swung himself
to the top of the car.
The train had come to a stop
now, almost at the top of the grade.
The red-head could see horsemen
ahead in the glare of the engine
light. He crouched low on the roof,
raced forward, leaped to the tend
er, then crouched down.
LET 'em know we're here" a
voice growled from the ground be-
side the baggage car.
"You fool. Wait till we're inside.
They'll slam that door shut on us
and we can't blow 'em out. Wait'll
Snipe and Chinch cut that passen-
ger coach off,"
Stealthily, the red-head made his
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18

This is the fundamental prin-
ciple upon which the American
government was founded and
which made possible the develop
ment of the nation.
Yet, the railroads Americas
largest corporate industry and its
essential transportation agency
are denied equal rights, while their
competitors are given special privi-
leges. Hence, the critical railroad
situation.
If rigid rate regulations and re-
strictions are sound public policy
for railroads, then they are equally
sound for other forms of trans
portation.
If it is sound policy for the tax
payers to furnish airports and
beacon lights for airplanes; canal
lied rivers and locks and dams for
boats and barges; and highways
for motor carriers at inadequate
charges, then it is equally fair for
the taxpayers to furnish terminals,
and to build and maintain tracks
for railroads.
If it is sound public policy to tax
railroad tracks and the cars moy-
ing on those tracks, then it is sound
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hamilton and
two sons, Of Atlanta, Ca, visited
Mr. and Mrs. w. P. Hamilton last
week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18
''Equal Rights to All :.
Special Privileges to None''

to equally tax the carriers of the
highways, airways and waterways.
If it is sound public policy for
the federal government to finance
and operate the Federal Barge
Line in competition with privately
owned transportation agencies,
then it is equally sound for it to
operate grocery stores, department
stores, factories, filling stations
and other businesses.
The railroads, nor any other in
dustry for that matter, cannot
survive and prosper if our own
government plays favorites the
favored few are given privileges
denied to others.
Perhaps most of our problems
could be solved, if the people de-
mand that our public servants
strictly observe that fundamental
principle, equal Rights to ALI
Special Privileges to None"
That is all the railroads of the
country. ask that is all they are
entitled to-but that is now being
denied. And, so long as equality
of treatment and simple justice is
denied, the railroad problem"
will go unsolved.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18

Mrs. Elizabeth Ray GRAPHICAL,
postmaster at Tree Top, is a patient
in the Baptist hospital at Winston
Salem.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-18

Stealthily, the red-head made his
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
z BOYS ESCAPE
DEATH IN RIVER

Two Boy Scouts, one of whom
could not swim, were rescued from
the chilly waters of Anacostia
River yesterday after they had
clung to an overturend canoe for
nearly 80 minutes.
A life preserver tossed to the
boys by Robert Craig, of the Navy
Yard, from the Anacostia Bridge,
kept them afloat until a rescue
boat from the Navy Yard arrived.
The boys, Allen Stager, is, and
George Watts, IA, both of the 600
block Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.,
were thrown into the water from
the wash of a passing speedboat.
Stager refused to abandon his
younger friend, who could not
swim. After assisting his com.
panion to the overturned boat,
Stager bolstered Watts spirits by
singing for more than half an
hour until rescuers pulled them
from the water.
Watts told his rescuers that
Stager had to slap him several
times when the canoe first over
turned to keep him calm.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
3 Young Fugitives
Held in MARYLAND

Charged with stealing an auto
mobile and housebreaking, three
youths who escaped from the Ma
tional Training School for Boys
Saturday were captured near
Annapolis, Md, last night by
Anne Arundel county police.
Police said that the youths
were charged with stealing an au-
tomobile from White Marsh, in
Prince Georges county, which
they later abandoned, and with
entering the cottage of Mrs. Susan
Leach at Beverly Beach. They
took a quantity of food and cloth
ing and a shotgun from the cot
tage, it is charged.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
Capital, Labor
Urged to Join

A plea for the cooperation of
capital and labor in maintaining
the cooperative system" in indus
try was voiced by the Rev. John J.
O'Conor, S. j., in his sermon yes
terday at st. Aloysius' Church.
Maldistribution of wealth and
property-which he characterized
as the prime evil" - might be
overcome, he suggested, if en-
ployers and induStrialists treated
their employees as brothers" and
recognized their natural right to
form unions and obtain a living
family wage"
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
MILGRIMS LOS Sc
$4,000 IN LOOT
TO Gem THIEVES
Victim Is Tortured by
Lighted Cigaret

WOODMERE, N. Y, March 2s
dN.S0.-A blue sedan and a New
York night club address today pro
vided police with clues to the
identity Of four bandits who bound
and tortured Charles Milgrim
wealthy Manhattan couturier. in
his home here and escaped with
loot worth more than $4,000.
Jewelry valued at $4,000, in.
cluding a $4,000 diamond ring,
and $1,70O in cash were taken in
one of the boldeSt recent house
robberies in this exclusive Long
Island section. The thugs invaded
the Milgrim mansion with drawn
revolvers.
AMBUSH HOUSEMAN
Surprising John Waller, 80, Negro
houseman, as he prepared break
fast for the sleeping family, the
men forced him folead them to
the master bedroc where they
bound Milgrim and his fashion
designer wife, Sa11y3aa>
where's the big ring?" one of
them demanded after ransacking
the place. When neither victim
answered, Milgrim was floored by
a blow to the jaw and then tor.
tured by a lighted cigarette held
against his bare instep until he
cried out:
sally, for Gods sake tell
them where the ring isl"
RING SPOTTED
It was this 18-carat diamond
ring, found in a glove on Mrs.
Milgrim's dressing table, whose
CLEAN. police believe, led the four
bandits to the Milgrim horne.
The ring, they declared, had at
tracted the attention of "spot.
ter" at the night club where the
Milgrims had entertained until
early Sunday morning.
Acting on the spoilers" tip,
the thugs apparently drove to the
home in blue sedan, police be-
lieve, which was seen outside the
residence during the robbery.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
lands BARRED
FROM WIFE'SB BIER

James Lands, rookie District
fireman, will not be allowed to at
tend the funeral of his wife,
Blanche, %, whose love for him
was so great she sought to pro-
tect him on her death bed, homi-
eide squad detectives declared
today.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lands,
who died Saturday from a merci-
less beating she suffered Thursday
on a lonely Northeast road, will be
held tomorrow at 9 a. m. in St.
Anthony's Church. Burial will be
in st. Mary's Cemetery.
Emotionless and Sullen in a
Ninth precinct cell, Lands has as
yet made no request to attend his
young wife's funeral. He will be
arraigned before a coroner'S jury
at an inquest at the Distric
morgue tomorrow at 1880 a. m.
Lands. unShaken by hours Of
grilling, today remained adamant
in his statement that his wife
died accidentally when her head
struck the bumper of his car after
she became frightened and leaped
from the machine.
Detectives insist she was blud-
geoned to death with a sand and
rock filled sock The sock, they
pointed out, was filled with sand
similar to tina on the fireboat
where Lands was stationed.
Mrs. Lands, when first brought
to the hospital declared she had
been beaten by two men, one Of
them q former suitor.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
Mrs. Roosevelt
Will Open Show

NEW YORK, March % G.N.SO .
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of
the President, will cut a tape at
noon today to open the seven
teenth annual Women's National
Exposition of Arts and Industries.
During the afternoon Helen Nor
gan, blues singer, will show visitors
how to bake beans. Helen Men
ken, actress, will demonstrate how
to prepare a Sunday night supper.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
Is Moose NOviceS
Facing Initiation

Twenty-Five candidates will re-
ceive first-degree initiation at ex-
ercises tomorrow night by Colum.
bia Lodge 1875, Loyal Order of
Moose. The degree staff consists
of Killen Alberts, Frank Hamill,
Theodore E. Bearer, of Baltimore;
Leroy WhitehouSe of Arlington,
Va; Wade Mitchell and John Low,
of Washington.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
COMPROMISE PLAN

The conference report, a com.
promise, provides that the parking
meters should be installed as an
experiment in 6 blocks.
Public hearings began this morn.
ing on the Sacks racing bill by the
House District Committee. This
measure is designed to legalize
racing in Washington.
The committee also had on its
schedule the Schultz bill providing
drastic penalties for armed rob
berry in the District.
Representative Jack Nichols
D), of Oklahoma, chairman OF
the House District fiscal affairs
subcommittee, is holding the final
meeting of his group for last-min-
ute preparation of the new local
revenue bill. He plans to present
the measure te the full commit
tee at it's next meeting on WedneS-
day.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
1875 Crossing Deaths

The Association of American
Railroads reported fatalities re-
sulting from accidents at highway.
railroad grade crossings were
greater in 1897 than In any year
The Washington times., 1938-03-28

since 1880. A total of 1875 per.
sons lost their lives in such acci.
dents last year, the association
said, This was 500 below the peak
year, 1928.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
SEXES PISTOL

When Erhardt reached Four
teenth and K Streets, he pulled
his cab over to the curb and made
a sudden lunge for the pistol.
After a furious battle, the cab
driver overpowered his passenger.
and passersby summoned police.
Two successful cab holdups
were also reported earlier in the
day and police questioned Igel-
hart about these. George H.
Kenny, colored taxi driver, of SIS
Fiftieth st. N. E., said ne was
hailed by a hatless overcoatless
white man at Fourteenth and H
Streets Northeast.
Kenny said he drove the man
to the 1900 block of Bladensburg
Rd. N. E., where his passenger
brandished a pistol and robbed
him of SO. The man then forced
Kenny to drive to Florida and
Montello Avenues Northeast,
where he forced the driver from
the vehicle and sped away.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28

vest in the proposed track and tc
become a member of its board Of
governors.
JONES TALKS
II don't care how long people
live" John Paul Jones, general
counsel for the District Fedora
ton of Business Mems Associa-
tions, told the subcommittee,
they will always get a thrill out
of the sport of kings"
with a propery regulated
track here" he continue
there would be an increase in
revenue and an end to the ever
lasting talk of deficit. The rev.
enue is the most important fea-
ture. With taxes being slapped
on us right and left, this gives
both Congress and business an
out"
Malcolm S. McConihe, Demo
cratic National Committeeman fol
the District, definitely announced
that Walter S. O'Hara, former
race track operator ousted from
Narragansett, would not be con
nected with the local track. Oh
jections had been raised to previ
GUS intimation that he would con
troll the track.
McConihe told the subcommit,
tee that the track would be run by
District people and envisioned the
local race course as "the finest
track in the country"
He said that in conversations
with local officials, they had in
dorSed the proposal to legalize
racing. He mentioned Commits
sioners Melvin C. Hazen and
George Allen, Police Superintend
ent Ernest w. Brown, and District
David A. Pine.
LABOR UNION FAvoRs
W. C. Murphy, an attorney rep
resenting the proponents of the
told the subcommittee
that the Central Labor Union, rep
resenting 100000 District resi-
dents, had indorsed the measure
The bill, he said, would make
it possible to give employment
to 1000 men during construction
of a track, and to 1000 men dur
ing a meeting. Eighty people, he
said further, would be employed
at the track the year round.
He discounted conte n tions
establishment of a track in Wash
ington would precipitate a crime
wave, citing Washington police
records of the years Immediately
preceding and following abolition
OF racing in 1908 as proof.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
Horses Absent,
Trough for Buds

CLEAN, N. Y, March 28.-The
city council voted to convert q
horse watering trough into a giant
flower pot for the city park be-
cause of lack Of patronage.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
DC. Racing Backed
Before House by
Jones, MCConihe
Revenue Cited as Inducen1ent for Track Here
To Ease Taxes on Business
By JULIA A. BoNWIT

Benefits to the District, in and in employment
from operation of track in Washington cited to
the House District Judiciary subcommittee today in support
of the Sachs bill to legaIze horse racing here.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
Taxi Driver Thwarts
Holdup in Struggle

Threatened by gun in the hands of woudbe taxi bandit
Lawrence Ehard 28 cab driver of 228 St. early today
elected fight it out and won.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28

AS a result, police arrested
Harry N. Igelhart, %, of the 400
block of Third St. N. E., who,
Erhardt said, held a gun at his
ribs and ordered him to drive to
Fourteenth and K Streets North
west from Fifteenth and H Streets
Northeast.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28
GHAPrObe,
Numbers
Bill

Congressional attention wa
drawn almost exclusively to Dis
trict matters today.
On the House floor the contro-
versial numbers bill, designed to
rid the city of the numbers racket
and its promoters, will come up
for a vote under the House rule
designating the second and fourth
Mondays as District days" The
House will act on a measure
granting local amateur boxing
groups the power to divorce them
selves from the control of the
Boxing Commission.
HEALTH PROBE
The House will also receive a
resolution today from Representa-
tive Byron Scott Cd, of Califor-
mia, creating a select Congress
sional committee for investigation
of the dispute between the District
Medical Society and Group Health
Association.
Representative Scott has an
nounced the resolution calls for
an investigation of whether group
health is a corporation engaged
In medical practice: of alleged
cases Of discrimination against
CHA members at local hospitals;
alleged discrimination against
CHA doctors by hospitals, and of
the Medical Society's alleged con-
troll over the hospitals.
Disposition of the 1888 District
supply bill, in controversy over the
parking meter provision, will also
come up on the floor. Represen-
tative Ross Collins CD of Missis-
sippi. chairman of the House Dis
trict Appropriations subcommittee
is to bring up the conference re-
port, probably before the numbers
bill is considered.
The Washington times., 1938-03-28

And it has the whole town talking :.
talking about the REBUILDING
=. talking about the reductions on
REGULAR NEW STOCKS. And
those reductions count up to quite a
sum at time when the season is Just
beginning and men are in mood to
buy whole outfits, instead of at the
seasons end to put away in moth
balls for "next season." Remember
-. whatever you have in mind
=. it's here at reduced prices.
These few items are only a sam
pie of what's here at reductions!
The Washington times., 1938-03-28

Labor, business and well-known
stable owners we're represented as
hearings on the measure began.
Indorsing District racing was Mrs.
John Hay Whitney, prominent
horsewoman, cited as ready to in
vest in the proposed track and to
become a member of its board of
governors.
Evening star., 1938-09-05

the party labels didn't mean as much
as they do in local contests, some
such realignment as Mr.. Roosevelt
outlines might be easier to accomplish.
AS it is, there are lots of people who
will agree with the President that
the good of the country should be
placed above party and that the
voter should support the honest and
efhclent and courageous public serv-
ant irrespective of the party label.
But differences Of opinion will arise
as to which candidate will meet the
test OF the good Of the country" and
1t Is quite possible that a majority
OF the American people will never
wish Mr.. Roosevelt or any other Presi-
dent or any other one man to do the
deciding of who is liberal" and who
Is a conservative" or who is a pa
triot' and who isn't
Weakness in Position,
The weakness in Mr.. Roosevelt's
position is that he feels he has the
right to use his prestige as President
OF the United States, his command
OF large numbers of offlceholders and
public funds to further his political
campaigns.
The European dictators always claim
that what they are doing is for "the
good OF the country" and so long as
America has free and honest cleo
tons 1t will not matter what one man
IN the White House says to the voters.
The danger is that millions of voters