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Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Lighting Judges
Plan Last Tour

Judges i'm the Christmas Light
ing contest planned their final
inspections Wednesday before
deciding on the nine winners
in the competition for best dis
plays on Ell Centre homes. Pre-
urinary inspections showed the
judges face difficult task, be-
cause nearly a score of displays
are outstanding.
Prizes will be awarded in
in three divisions, larger homes,
medium sized homes and small
homes. Donors are Nev-Cal
Electric, Imperial Irrigation dis
trict, 1. V. Hardware company,
Sears Roebuck, SOnes Lumber
company, Chamber of COM
nerce, Nj. o. King company.
Prizes total more than $50 i'm
cash value. Three will be award
ed in each division.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

to train annually 10000 youths,
between the ages of ID and 25,
to be competent pilots. A 100000
allotment of National Youth Ad-
ministration funds has been set
aside to begin the project shortly
after Jan. l.
The announcement preceded by
a few days the presidents budget
message in which he is expected
to ask congress for funds to triple
military air strength and bring the
combined total of army and navy
fighting units to around 10000
planes.
The CAA stated frankly that the
training move is an effort to build
up a reserve of men capable of
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Sub Zero Weather
Grips Wide Areas
East of Rockies
Gales Subside, Leaving
Snow Blocking Roads;
Communications Down
BH United Press

Winter aimed a second
blow Wednesday at a nation
reeling from his first Wintry
blow.
U. S. Weather Forecaster j. R.
Lloyd at Chicago warned that a
second cold wave was sweeping
down from the Arctic Circle while
the first wave held almost the
entire nation east of the Rocky
Mountains in its grip.
Fringe of the new wave reached
Montana and Lloyd said by tomor-
row night it would blanket the
plains states and the Missouri Val
ley
. temperatures in the central
states crept upward from zero and
the cold reached the Atlantic sea-
board where thermometers drop
ped to 20 above zero.
Lloyd said the cold lost some of
its security as it moved eastward
and reported minimum tempera-
lures at 20 degrees along the Maine
coast and at New York and at %
degrees for Boston.
The second cold wave will be
less extensive and promises to bring
zero temperatures only to the Mis-
souri, valley and plains states but
will send thermometers to lower
levels east of the Mississippi river.
A considerable fall in tempera-
lures was reported in northern
Florida last night as the effects of
the initial cold wave reached that
state. Jacksonville recorded "a de-
grees above zero and Tampa 40
Continued On Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Farm Bureau Board
ToLaunch Drive

Plans for the yearly Imperial
county farm bureau membership
drive will be discussed at the Jan.
7 meeting of the bureau directors,
Scott Foulds, secretary, announced
Wednesday.
Frank Pierce, state farm bureau
director of organization, will spend
one week in the valley to aid in
the membership drive.
Seven hundred ten members are
included in the 1888 membership
roll according to Foulds, as COM
pared to 649 in 1887. Goal for 1889
will be $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Hull Satisfied
With Lima Results

LIMA Peru, Dec. %. CUP)-
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
other members of the United States
delegation to the eighth Pan Amer
ican conference are completely
satisfied with the work done here
toward uniting the 81 American
republics against outside aggres-
sion, it was understood today.
The conference ended last night,
and the United States delegates
sail for home in the liner Santa
Maria today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
japanese Jailed
As Illegal Aliens

Two Japanese are held IN the
county Jail while immigration au-
thorities investigate their right to
be in the United States.
Tadayoshi Araki, 2l and Harry
Arita, Sc, were arrested at Trito-
lium while en- route to Los Angeles
on board stage. Arita said he had
been in the United States only
one day but Araki said he had lived
in Los Angeles several years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Mooney, 2Years in Prison, Pledges
Rest Of Life to Bringing Together
Warning factions in Labor Unions

Mooney, after % years in prison
is still a paid up member of the
Molders union of San Francisco,
He was an active, aggressive labor
leader at the time of his conviction
of completely in the 1916 San Fran
cisco Preparedness day bombing in
which 10 were killed and 40 in
jured. He has maintained through
out that he was 'railroaded" to
prison by powerful interests" who
wanted him out of the way He
was sentenced to hang, then COM
muted to life Imprisonment.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Insurgents Hammer Wedqe
Into Loyolist Stronghold

HFNDAYE, FRENCH SPANISH
FRONTIER, Dec. %. (UP) - The
Spanish InSurgent armies, seeking
to close a powerful military pincers
movement on the road to Barcelona
smashed slowly forward in the
north today but suffered heavy loss
es as they hammered at strong
Loyalist defense lines in the south.
Italian legionnaireS fighting in
the armies of Gen. Francisco Fran
co were reported in Loyalist dis
patches to have suffered heavy
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

that the Nationalist attacks contin-
ued on big scale in the Aspa and
Soleras areas, where small gains by
Franco were admitted, but that the
offensive was still far from It's Inn
mediate objective of BorJas f3lan-
cas-.
More than 300 airplanes, aided
by Italian and German artillery
blasted at the government defense
lines in a vain effort 10 open
path for infantry In the southern
sector, the Loyalist messages said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Ed Holmes Stabbed
In Street Fight

Police in Ell Centro Wednesday
investigated fight in which Ed
Holmes was stabbed in the back.
His injuries were painful but not
serious.
Holmes was brought to the police
station Tuesday night. He said he
founght with an unidentified man
in the alley between Main and
State streets and somehow In the
battle was stabbed in the back. He
was treated at the county hospital
and released.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
3CaIipafrians 3
Licensed to Fly

Three new air pilots, one Wo-
man, held licenses in Imperial val
ley Wednesday after passing tests
at the Imperial airport.
They are Eugene Robinson Mrs.
L. E Sinclair jr and Fred Hauser,
all of Calipatria. Robinson receiv-
ed a private license and the other
two solo certificates. Mrs. Sinclair
was believed to be the only licensed
woman flyer in the valley at pr
sent.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Witness Sails for
Bond Fraud Trial

MANILA, Dec. %. (UP)-Felipe
Ruencamino, member OF the Phil
ippine legislature, left today on the
liner President Taft to appear as
a witness in New York against
William p Buckner, promoter and
friend of actress Loretta Young,
movie actress. Buckner is charged
with having defrauded the public of
S1,000,000 by manipulating Philip
pine railway bona prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

losses in repeated unsuccessful at
tacks on government defense lines
in the southern sector where Franco
is pushing toward Borjas BlancaS.
Italian prisners seized when the
Loyalists left their positions for
bayonet and grenade counter at
tacks reported that Italian divisions
were in Frances front lines. the
dispatches said, adding that scores
Of bodies of Italian fighters were
left on the field.
The government messages said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

prisoner, made his statements IN
anticipation of his expected pardon
by GOVERNOR -Elect Culbert Olson
early in 1889.
MY long range work after I get
out of prison. he said, will be to
seek unity for the labor movement
"a progressive unity that looks to
the future instead of the past"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

industrial machinery.
One of the important factors ov-
erlooked at present because of the
stress of war time is that the gov
ernment has taken charge of the
westward movement almost entire
ly and now controls or supervises
almost 80 per cent of the new west
ern industries.
Szechuan province, a thousand
miles westward from Shanghai, is
the center of the new industrial
set-up, with most of the factories
located at Chungking.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

SAN QUENTIN, Calf, Dec. %.
CUP)-Thomas j. Mooney said to-
day he will devote the rest of his
life to bringing together labor's
split forces" He expects to live
"at least 25 more years
Mooney, San Francisco bombing
convict and Americas most famous
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

dreds of thousands of laborers,
many hundreds of skilled techni-
clans and engineers are moving
westward as japanese bayonets cut
off China's great coastal CONNER
cial areas.
The movement may be one of the
most significant developments of
the Far Eastern struggle which
recently has resulted in mounting
japanese resentment against the
United States and Great Britain
because of financial aid to China
for purchase of agricultural and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
new ARRESTS H|NTED IN k|DNAP PUzz[E
Artic Spell UnbroI<en:
New Cold Wave Forecast
A MERRY yULE FOR 1899

Broken toys will become Christ
mas happiness under a plan an
nOunced Wednesday by EI Centre
Fire Chief Corn Reed for new
annual Christmas party for under
privileged youngsters.
"Plans already are under way
for the 1889 party" Chief Reed
said. "The department. proposes to
accumulate as many damaged or
discarded playthin IS as possible
and repair them during the year so
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

that by Christmas of next year we
will have big supply on hand to
give out to children who otherwise
would have to go without toys
Chief Reed appealed to Ell Centre
residents to donate damaged play
things.
with Christmas just passed,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
CHRISTMAS Gift CAR
INJURIES FOUR BOYS

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 90. CUP)
-Four boys, all students of San
Mateo junior college, were injured
today, two seriously. when their au-
tomobile-a Christmas gift to one
of the youths - crashed into
switch engine on Third street. A
fifth boy escaped injury
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

many homes have toys that have
been discarded in favor OF new
ones. If owners will contribute
them to the department we will see
that they are repaired for next
year." he said. Either bring them
to the fire station or telephone us
and we will call for them"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Little Change in
Weather Expected

The weather man predicted more
of the same for Imperial Valley
Thursday and Friday. Skies will
be clear and a light frost is ex-
pected.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Olson Sets Time
ToHe ar Moonev

SACRAMENTO, Dec. %. (UP)
Governor Elect Culbert L. Oh
son said today he would hold a
public hearing between January
2 and 16 on release of Thomas
Mooney, convicted of the 1916
San Francisco Preparedness day
bombing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Government Will Train 20 900 Youths
1oFlyin Program Building Up U.S..
Reserve Manpower for Defense
Funds Set Aside to Instruct COlegians as
Reserve Corps Pilots; Move ForeshadOws
Budget Message Asking Greater Air Force

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. (UP)-President Roosevelt
set in motion today broad plan to double the nations
civilian manpower available for wartime air service
The president and the civil aeronautcs authority
announced under which the expects
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Chinese Move Industry to Western
Provinces Before Advance Of Foe;
American, British Finance PROGRAM

CHUNGK1NG, China Dec. %. (UP) - The Chinese
government-partly with the aid of United States and
British loans-s undertaking almost unprecedented
transfer of industrial the unexpoted
provinces of western China. Millions of dollars worth of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
3 Coster-Musica B|ackmai| Suspects
Arrested Others Sought by Police
For Bleeding Notorious Swind|er
Former Associate of Arch Criminal Battles
Officers When Placed Under Arrest, Goes
To Cell Maintaining StOlid Silence

NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (UP)-Police held woman and
two men today and sought five more persons all sus
ricon of having blackmaled F. Donald Coster the swim
ding president of McKesson Robbins Inc. who killed
himself when he exposed Philip Musca, ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28
Lions of the Party

Lions of the Party
The Lions gave a party for the
youngsters and it looked to RR as
though the Liens had as much fun
as the youngsters. You should
have seen:
Robert Elliott when Edith Bar
nard sootbed the tears of child
whose difficulty was too complica-
ted for Bob to handle. He
breathed Thank gosh Tor Edith"
Mark Washburn trying to tie a
napkin around the neck of a chub-
by little girl with red curls and
failing miserably to make her join
in a conversation with him.
Viggo Hansen on the receiving
end of a Bronx cheer because his
young guest was sadly in need OF
pair of suspenders.
Bert Fawcett, gladdened by AT
LAST finding someone, if only a
small child, who appreciated his
raspy tenor.
Painless joe
Joe NorthrOp now is eligible TO
join one of the most exclusive
clubs in the world, the organization
for those whose pants have been
pulled off by tractors
Part of Joe's covering Tor his pc
dial eXtremeties was caught in
part of the tractor machinery and
the next second was being pulled
slowly but steadily into the trac-
tors NAV. Joe got out OF his
pants just in time to keep from
knowing what the inside Of trac-
tor looks like, from the inside.
Have Some Exercise
1t wouldn't be fair to Just dis
miss John Hunter by saying he is
an enthusiastic tennis player 1t
wouldn't be fair to either John or
tennis.
Not long ago RR passed the ten
mis- court early in the morning and
John was hard at it. Throughout
the day RR passed again at in
tervalS of an hour or so and al
ways John was batting balls. He
wore out partners at the rate OF
one every two hours. The last time
RR visited the courts it was night
time and he stopped and asked
John if he ever did anything ex-
cept play tennis.
Sometimes I eat" said John.
Memories
Ask Charlie Delp to show you
the most novel Christmas card he
received. 1t is photograph OF
Charlie washing clothes at his
mountain cabin.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

Memories
Ask Charlie Delp to show you
the most novel Christmas card he
received. 1t is a photograph OF
Charlie washing clothes at his
mountain cabin.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-28

Butter: Los Angeles. 30oi butter
fat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 3Se; manufacturing milk
31c; route gathered cream 2S,sc.
LA. Hay: U. 5. No. extra Ieafy
S16-17; u. S. No. 1. Sl3.50-14i No.
2 Ieafy S13-135O; No. 9, s1i.50-1s'
Minneapolis flax, May, S1.s9is.
Evening star., 1938-11-27

EAGLE THAT LOST
DOUT WITH AN
AUTO. Not o gun but
the windshield Of .
speeding motor truck
ended the life Of this
big eoele. Il hoppe"ed
on the Tomiomi Troll
neor kopIes. FIo.. ond
Suck Ne ton. the driver.
exhibits his prize.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
STURGILLS NEWS

The people of this section are busy
gatheringsup hay and harvesting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Griffith and
children, of Grassy Creek, were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Griffith Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Eller are the
proud parents of baby boy, John
Kenneth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve Sturgill and
son, Jr., spent last week end with
relatives at Marion, Va.
Miss Jessie Brooks spent this week
end with her uncle, Arthur Brooks
of Piney Creek.
Several of the young people as
well as older ones attended the base
ball games both Saturday and Mon
day played in Ray Davis's Meadow
on Little Helton.
There will be box supper and
Fiddlers' convention at Helton
schoolhouse on Saturday night,
July 9. Everyone is cordially in
vited. It is sponsored by the Hell
ton baseball team
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
S. S. Convention
Postponed Month
County Convention OF Sunday
Schools To Be Held On Third
Sunday In August.

The Ashe Sunday School conven-
ton, which was scheduled to be held
on the third Sunday in July, has
been postponed until the third Sum
day in August, due to difficulties en-
countered in getting appropriate
speakers for the occasion, c. M.
Dickson, president of the association,
announced this week:
His formal note is as follows:
ION account of being unable to
contact the secretary Of the North
Carolina Sunday School Association
in time to get a definite program
made out and assign the speakers
their part, we have deemed it wise
to defer the Ashe county convention
until the third Sunday in August.
The convention will be held at Ash
land Baptist church as heretofore
announced &C. M. Dickson, Presi-
dent.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
Jones Bound Over
: For Shooting Horse

Homer Jones, of Wilkes county,
was bound over to the October. term
of Ashe superior court for shooting
and seriously wounding a horse be-
longing to Ola. Long, of Laurel
Springs, following hearing before
Magistrate A. F. Rose here Monday.
Bond was fixed at $4,000 and up
on failure to raise this amount, he
was placed in the county Jail.
Shooting of the animal took place
the latter part of May, according to
evidence given at the hearing. The
horse, it was stated, got out of the
pasture and went over on the farm
of George Keys, a neighbor. At that
time Jones was visiting Keys, rela-
tive by marriage. 1t was stated that
the horse did some damage to the
garden and that Jones shot him with
a shotgun. He was recently arrest
ed in Iredell county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
Sparta News

Mrs Robert Hacker and son Bob
bic, of Washington, N. c., are spend
ing sometime with Mrs. r. H. Hack
Ter.
Mrs. Sallie Vass is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Jean Sheets in Bluefield,
w. Va.
Mrs. Claude Carson, Mrs. Whit
ney and daughter, Elizabeth, of In
dependence, Va, were visitors here
Sunday. n.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ed Carson
and daughter, Ann, of Elizabeth
City, have been visiting relatives
here.
Miss Emaline Hawthorne re-.
turned last week from a visit To
Parisburg, Va! -. y.
Miss Naonie Jones, Of Elkir1s; rs
spending this week with her daugh.
ter, Mrs. George Cheek.
Mrs. w. A. Thomas and Mrs. Mae
Noae, of Statesville, were guests OF
Mrs. r. A. Doughton last Saturday
Miss Frances Wrench has returned
to Sparta from Lynchburg, Va.
where she has been spending some
time with her brother.
Leonard Roupe went to Maryland
last week where he has a mail
route.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Ford and Miss
Gussie Bumgarner, of Taylorsville
were recent guests of Rev. and Mrs
H. j. Ford.
Miss Madge Gambill, of Ashe
county, was the guest of relatives
here last week.
Mrs. Emmett Smith, Stony Point
visited her daughter, Mrs. Howard
J. Ford last week. - s2>s>
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Choate were
home for the week end. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Dotson Fender, Of
Bel Air, Md, have moved to Spar
ia and are making their home with
Mrs. Tenders mother, Mrs. w. E.
Cox. . 80
Mrs. Lola White spent the week
end at Corners Rock, Va, with her
sister Mrs. Garrett Cornett.
Congressman and Mrs. r. l.
Doughton are spending some time al
Laurel Springs and Sparta.
Rev. and Mrs. c. w. Erwin have
returned from South Carolina and
other places where they have been
! spending some time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
METHODIST CAMP TO
BE HELD JULY Ills.

The fourth annual Methodist
Young Peoples camp for Ashe coun-
ty will be held July Ills at Camp
Raven Rock, at Clifton, Rev. G. r.
Stafford, director, has announced.
ANY person between the ages of
IL and % who attends Methodist
Sunday School or Epworth League
in the county is eligible to attend.
The activities are varied and include
worship and discussion, horseshoe,
hiking, swimming, volJov hall, etc.
The cost of attendance is $3.50
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
Bishop Purcell To
Dedicate Church
Dedication Service For Jefferson
Methodist Church To Be
Held July "a. s.

Bishop Clare Purcell will formal
ly dedicate the Jefferson Methodist
church building on Sunday night,
July "a, it was announced in the
June-July issue of "The Circuit Rid
er', published by Rev. G. R. Stat
ford, who is pastor of the church.
Jefferson church was built in
10000, but SO far as can be found,
was never dedicated because it was
regarded as incomplete until the
new pews were installed. These
were placed in the church about
1926. Then last year furnace was
installed and the addition built" the
little paper explained.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
CIVIL WAR VETERANS
CLOSE LAST REUNION

Gettysburg, Pa, July 5.-Veter-
ans of the blue and of the gray babe
one another sad farewells tonight
and started home from "the greatest
time in our lives"-their last re-
union.
Special trains bore the old civil
war soldiers homeward, leaving sec
.tional enmities dead on the battle
field with the thousands who fell
there rs years ago. The happiness
of reunion memories crowded. out
the thought that time is closing in
and that the remnants of the once
proud Union and Confederate ar
mics must join their comrades.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
WORK WILL START ON
HIGHWAY 16 AT ONCE

H. B. Morris, of Winston-Salem,
an engineer of the State Highway
Commission, this week opened an
office on the second floor of the
West Jefferson hotel and is getting
everything in readiness for grading
and construction work to commence
on the highway Is project from
Warrensville towards the Tennes-
see line, a distance of FL miles. E..
Ford King, Jr., of Boone who is al
so a State Highway Engineer, will
assist Mr.. Morris The contractors
force is expected to start work at
once.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
GREEN CHILD BRUISED
WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO

Edith Green, small daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Green, Of West
Jefferson, sustained many bruises
when she was struck by car driv-
en- by Walter Combs, local boy, last
Friday. The car belonged to DIR.
Ed Jones.
A hearing for the Combs youth
will be held before J. D. Stansberry,
juvenile judge, in the near future,
Patrolman Thomas stated this week.
He said that in his opinion the boy
is not old enough to drive a car and
had obtained DR., Jones automobile
under false pretense.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
GROUP WORKING ON PLANS
FOR ASHE COUNTY HOSPITAL

A small group of leading Ashe
county citizens, composed of repre-
sentatives from various organiza-
tions are now busy mapping a pro-
posal for the ultimate establishment
of a hospital in Ashe county, and in
the near future they expect to have
some definite plans to announce,
Wade E.~Eller stated this week.
The Skyland Posts 1887 Ashe
county hospital expense survey is
still in progress and everyone is
urged to cooperate by sending in
the amount spent with hospitals last
year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
WILLIAMS-BLACKWELL

Miss Juanita Williams, attractive
daughter of Mrs. j. N. Williams, of
West jefferson, and Leon B. Black
we'll, also of w. Jefferson and form
erly from High Point, were married
last Saturday afternoon at the
brides home by Squire A. F. Rose.
The bride is popular member of
the towns younger set. Mr.. Black
moved here several months ago and
is a bookkeeper at the Parkway
Motor Company.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
HARDIN-COOPER

Miss Grace Hardin, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Hardin, of Beav-
err Greek, and Mrs. Whit Cooper, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Cooper also
of Beaver Creek, were married in
a quiet ceremony by Justice of the
Peace J. w. Duncan on Sunday
night, July 3 at 800 P. M. The
ceremony was performed at the
Duncan home with only a few
friends end relatives present.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-07
EXPECT LEGION OFFICERS
TO ATTEND MEETING SAT.

Jack Lang and G. p Pate, Of the
state service office in Charlotte, are
expected to attend the meeting. of
the American Legion which will be
held Saturday night, Commander Ed
Barr announced yesterday. He said
that Major A. L. Fletcher was al
so expected to be present. !, District
Commander Wright and Commander
Barr will give reports on the Lee
gion convention.