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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
23Eeachers
Die After
Auto Crash

MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 10
Injuries received in an automobile
collision Friday morning, June 2.
caused the death several hours later
Of Miss Dora D. Beverly, dean OF
women. and Mrs. Annie NJ. Hutchin-
son ,matron. Of Alabama State
Teachers college.
The teachers had been TO the state
reform school at Mount Meigs, 10
miles away. and were just three
miles from Montgomery on their
return when their automobile COL
lided head-on with a car occupied
by A. L. Woodruff and a woman
companion.
Fast traffic and wet slippery
pavement apparently contributed
to circumstances which threw the
car driven by Mrs. Hutchinson into
the path Of the other machine.
Miss Beverly was a graduate Of
the school and had been a teacher
here for % years. Rites were held
for her Monday morning at Biz
mingham.
Mrs. Hutchinson has served two
years. She was buried at Birming-
ham Monday morning,
The tragedy prevented D. H.
Trenholm, college president, from
making a trip to Jefferson City, Mo-,
where he was 10 deliver the COM
mencement address at Lincoln uni
VeTSirV.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
FISHING
ind
HUNTING
By BRANToN CRANE

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
Lit Man And Lit Pipe
Turns Bedding To Pyre

NEW ORLEANS, June l6-A cit"
man and "lit" pipe turned a bed
into a funeral pyre last Sunday
morning. Falling asleep while
smoking a pipe in bed last Sunday
morning, Isom Holloway. As. suf-
fered fatal burns from his ignited
bedding. 1t was reported that Hol-
loway had been drinking heavily.
His common-law wife. Melvina
Harrison, who was also in the
death bed. escaped a similar fate
when she aHoke and extinguished
the flames. -
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
ENR0UTE FOR.
CAPITAL WITH
LYNCH PETITION .
New York Delegation To
Present Demand For
Bills Passage

NEW YORK, June 16-A
delegation bearing petitions
holding thousands of sigma
lures in support Of the Gava-
gan-Van Nuys Anti-bynching
Bill left this city for Washington
this week 70 present the petitions
TO Congress-
The delegation, sent by the Com
munist Party or New York, included
Theodore Bassett educational di-
rector OF the Harlem Division OF
the Communist party; Paul Crosbie,
white, Queens County chairman OF
the Communist party; Charlotte
Rucker, Harlem Division, snd Mil
ton Mann, white, Manhattan county
OF the Communist party.
The anti-lynching bill. introduced
early in the present session OF Con-
gress. is still being held up by the
House Judiciary committee. A TO-
-ef-I0l- Representatives have
signed a discharge petition. sigma
lures of III more Congressman are
needed TO take the bill out of COM
mittee and bring it to the floor to
be voted on,
The National Association FOR The
Advancement Of Colored People re-
Gently announced that 10000 sigma
lures 70 petitions urging passage ef
the bill have been received at its
New York headquarters, The asso-
citation is seeking 100000 sigma
lures
NA.A.C.P. leaders urged citizens
to write their Congressman urging
them to sign the Gavagan discharge
petition. They also urged organiza-
lions and individuals to write their
senators calling upon them to vote
for cloture Limitation Of debated
when the bill comes up on the Sen
ate floor for debate.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17

John HOPE was born in Augusta, Georgia-1S6 After
the Civil War many missionary agencies approached
the problem of educating the Negroes in the South.
Their work sincere but organized. In Atlanta
there six colleges while in other cities there
1t is in this connection that John Hope made
great contribution. After some years of elementary
training secured mostly by his efforts, he entered
Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1886. He
ceived the Bachelors Degree from Brown University
in 1894 and his Masters Degree in 1907 twelve years
later he elected to Phi Beta Kappa For achieve
ments since graduation. The degree of Doctor of
Laws conferred later by Howard University in
1920 Bucknel in 1928 McMaster University, Tor
Onto in l02S-Bates College in 1882 and Brown in 1885.
He entered the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society after graduation from college. He served for
years Roger Williams University in Nashville and
in 1898 transferred to Atlanta Baptist College
Morehouse where he professor of Latin and Greek
On the resignation of the President in 1906 he became
acting President, and in 1907 became its first Negro
President lie joined several educational and social
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
Louisiana Funeral
Directors End Meet

PLAQUEMINE, La June l6-The
14th annual session Of the Louisi-
ana State Colored Funeral Direc-
tors and Embalmers association
closed here Wednesday night at
the B-Quick hall.
The session opened last Sunday
evening with religious services at
St Peters Baptist church. with the
rendition of a program consisting
Of addresses, songs and a sermon
preached by Rev. A. L. Davis Of
Plaquemine.
The 1910 meeting will be held in
Monroe. La.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17
Pfeifer Presents
JOHN HOPE
1868-Io36
A Leader In
The Field OF Education

agencies, especially the Commission on Inter-Racial
Cooperation From July 1918 July 1919 he directed
the Y.MCA. work among the Negro troops in France.
In 1929 he led in the organization of the Atlanta
University, of outstanding Colleges of today
and became its first president.
President Hope brought into the work such prominent
scholars as DR.. W. E. B. Dubois. He was instrumental
in replacing Stun district with lveable dwellings.
Hope died in 1886 and posthumousIy awarded the
Springarn Medal
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17

nreparation and
fr G e zing Of
fruits and Vege-
tables, MISS Lii
Ian Robinson,
senior at Miiii-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-17

The sudden bnd OF criticism of the
New Deal policy in congress is likely
to retard their activities for a spell
Evening star., 1939-06-27

, and closing and the films keep
moving. In that way picture after
picture can be taken in quick order
Later the aviator takes his fim
to the ground, where it is devel-
oped and studied. If the enemy
airplane" has been snapped at close
range, the image on the flln will be
large. Experts can tell almost ex-
actly how far away a plane was by
its size on the film.
Bullets travel fast, but not nearly
so fast as light. For this reason
the experts must work to find out
where the bullets would have struck.
Knowing the speed of the enemy
airplane and its distance from the
gunfire camera, they can estimate
closely the skill of the aviator.
Aviators who handle such cam
eras find the practice kind of
game" but it points ahead toward
possible war. No doubt a nation
Of today needs expert aviators to
defend it, but hundreds of millions
of people hope for a better day in
the future. They want a world in
which no nation will dare to attack
another nation.
T~e&< Had
Tomorrow: Ayplane Run,Days
and Catdpults.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
-Aeriu| Gunfire Cameras

shooting while in the air at other
airplanes! This would be all very
we'll except that men in the other
Evening star., 1939-06-27
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Years ago I studied an advertise
ment telling about an odd kind of
camera which was for sale. This
camera was in the shape of a small
cannon!
The advertisement said a person
might buy such camera and start
travelling. In each city he could
take pictures Of people on the street,
finish the prints in hurry and
charge small sums for them. In
that way he could earn enough
money to go to the next city.
Whether any one made good sue
cess with the idea, I cannot say.
should guess that most persons
would not want to be shot" with a
camera Of that kind. 1t would seem
too much like a real gun!
Today there are cameras in the
shape of machine guns. They were
invented during the World War, and
since then have been made much
better. They are aerial gunfire
cameras"
A modern fighting airplane is
fitted with machine guns and prac-
tice is needed if they are to be han
died with skill. Aviators can test
themselves on the ground with
targets painted on moving canvas,
but that does only little to fit them
for actual fighting.
The best practice comes from
Evening star., 1939-06-27

Score 100 per cent for one spade,
80 per cent for pass. Note: This last
is quite severe, and if you are &C
customed to playing with one Of
those partners who double the op-
ponents at the drop of a hat, you
may give yourself as much as so
per cent for passing.
Question No. 40.
Oswald Jacoby is your partner to-
day. You are the dealer and hold:
Evening star., 1939-06-27

While we don't approve of the
player who bids psychics at any and
all times, we will admit that oc-
casionally hand that seems to call
for one is dealt. Such a hand re-
Gently fell to the lot of Dorothy
Price Sims. Mrs. Sims, who is mar
ried to P. Hal Sims, is the we'll
Known inventor of the psychic bid,
and her deceptive handling of the
situation brought much favorable
comment Except from her two op-
ponents).
South, Mrs. Sims partner, opened
with one club. West passed and
Mrs. Sims, surveying her worthless
hand, decided that the greatest
danger of an opposing game lay in
hearts. She therefore interjected a
one-heart bid, and now East, with
a strong heart suit and a generally
fine hand, decided to lurk in am
bush and trap his supposedly un-
suspecting opponents. South re-
bid his club suit, West again passed
and Mrs. Sims now concluded that
If she passed at this point, her
weakness would be revealed, East
would be sure to enter the bidding
and probably wind up at game in
hearts. BY boldly bidding two no
trump Mrs. Sims forestalled this.
Still trapping, East passed, and
South quite properly bid three no
trump.
When the bidding reverted to
East, it seemed that his trap had
succeeded and he cheerfully 'dou-
bled. South, having his full values,
naturally passed, but Mrs. Sims
rescued to four clubs. East was now
in spot-to double four clubs
would be dangerous; to risk a vul-
nerable four-heart bid would be
equally dangerous even though he
suspected the psychic.
Discretion proved the better part
Of valor. East passed and the four
club contract was set measly 100
points. Needless to say, East and
West had cold game in hearts.
Yesterday you were the dealer.
What was your correct bid holding:
4 A q JxxX
vX
xxx
xxx
Answer: Your correct bid is one
spade. With a strong six-card suit
and a hand above average in high
cards. you should invariably open
the bidding.
Evening star., 1939-06-27

planes would not care to be shot at
with real bullets!
Shooting with blank cartridges
would not be of much use, since no
one could know where the bullets
would strike, if there were bullets.
The answer to the problem came
with the gunfire camera.
This camera has film where the
machine gun would have cartridges.
When the trigger of the gun" is
pressed, the shutter keeps opening
Evening star., 1939-06-27
BY John Hix

4 K Qxxx
Wax
<Axx
4 Xxx
The bidding:
You. Schenken. Jacoby Maier
~ Pass Tv Pass
CD
What do you bid? Answer to-
morrow.)
released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Winning Contract

BY THE FOUR ACES.
A Double e-Borreled Psychic
South, dealer.
East-West vulnerable.
Mrs. Sims.
4 8762
VS.
= 1075
j. @ 10 64
4 J 10 3 4 A @ "a
y J875 5 N vK @ 10 6 2
= A Q994 4 W+E< KS
4 2 S 485
4 K 5
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= J 2
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
DIR. Fred Hubbard COmmends
Ashe County On Its Efforts
To Establish A Hospital

A modern hospital is the
browning achievement of our pre-
sent civilization, DR.. Fred Hub
bard, owner of the Wilkes hos
pital, declared in a fine address
before the Jeffersons Rotary club
at Shatley Springs last week.
AS an institution in the service
of humanity and its needs, hos
pital is second only to the
churches, he asserted.
every community and county
needs a modern hospital and I
commend you for your interest
and efforts to establish one in
Ashe.
"Where there is resolution and
determination, unity of action
and constancy of purpose, any
worthwhile movement can be put
across" he stated.
1T is terrible thing for a man
to wear himself out in the sorbid
pursuit of the elusive dollar and
not to do something for humani-
ty.
after all it is the things that
we voluntarily do for other peo-
pie, for our communities, that do
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
Attorney General Rules That
Ashe Sheriff Not Entitled
To Get Land Tax Sale Paw

The sheriff of Ashe county, as
we'll as all other sheriffs who are
on a salary and commission basis
for collection of taxes, is not en-
titled to receive compensation for
land sale certificates, according
to a ruling from the attorney gen.
erals office.
This information was contain
ed in a recent letter from the At
torney General to the Ashe coun-
ty board of commissioners.
According to the audit of the
county's books made by E. w.
Smith, certified public account
ant, for the years of 1882 through
1885, Ex-Sheriff Henry M. Miller
was not entitled to the $2,9O1.99
which he received from land
sales certificates. On the other
hand, Miller contends that he is
entitled to this money.
No charge was set up against
him in the audit, however, for
compensation from the sale of
1886 land tax certificates, am
ounting to nearly $500.
It is also commended that She
riff w. E. Miller was not entitled
to receive payment for the land
sales certificates Of the 1887 de-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
REA Directors
In Ashe Praised
Messick Comments Goodman,
Price, Hurt for their Ser
vices Rendered to REA.

. C. F. Messick, superintendent
Of the Caldwell Mutual Corpora
ton, this week issued a state
ment commencing the REA CO.
ops three directors in Ashe ocun-
ty for the fine work which they
have done since the expansion
of the Corporation last fall.
These three Ashe directors are:
Gwyn Price, A. B. Hurt and J. G.
Goodman.
Mr.. Messick said that these
men have attended a number OF
directors meetings in Lenoir
since their election and that they
have not received a single pen
ny for their services.
"Of course they are supposed
to get travelling expenses, but
their services as directors are
more or less honorary and with
out remuneration" he stated,
He said that all three of them
have devoted a great deal of time,
effort and thought to make max
ing rural electricity available to
the people of Ashe and the other
three countries.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29

llnquent taxpayers, which am
ounted to over $500 and which
was paid to him last fall.
The board has discussed this
matter with Sheriff Ed Miller
and he is said to be reluctant
about making the adjustment
several months {. ter full pay
ment had been ma lie. AS a re-
suit, right much of 4 controver-
sy has developed over this impor-
tant issue.
According to law, al persons
who have not paid their taxes
for the previous year by August,
their names and amounts owing
are advertised, with the lands to
be sold to the highest bidder the
first Monday in September by
the Sheriff.
For his trouble in preparing
this list and making the sale and
certificates, the sheriff has been
receiving Soc per name.
A local law, passed in 1885,
gives the sheriff a salary of ST.
500 as sheriff and a commission
on collection of taxes which is 5
percent for the first several
thousand dollars.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
Ashe County Fair
TOOffer Around
$1,000 In Prizes
Gale Mcmillan Reports Splen-
did Results. To Start Sell
ling The Ads Now.

Approximately $1,000 in cash
and merchandise will be offered
as premium prizes at the Ashe
County Fair this fall, Gale Nc
MILAN, chairman of the premium
prize committee, announced yes
terday.
81 have never seen such en-
thusiastic cooperation in my
life," Mr.. Mcmillan stated. Cali
of the merchants here, in Jeffer-
son, Warrensvi1le and Lansing
have contributed literally and I
know we are going to have a
fine fair"
Mrs. Guy Badger, of the Le-
gion Auxiliary and Mrs. Lem Ha-
fer, of the Woman's Club, also as
sisted in the solicitation which is
just about completed.
The sale of advertisements for
the catalogue will commence this
week end and the premium list
will go to press within the next
week Or two.
Committee appointments, rules
and other details will be worked
out in the near future.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
us the most good"

us the most gOoo.
DR. Flbbard said he was keen
ly interested in this county for
many 'easons, one of which is
because his grandfather Gallo
way vas, reared and lived in
Ashe and another is because of
the fire qualities of citizenship
and character that the people of
the comfy possess.
He hiefly traced the history of
medicile and hospitals and as
serted that medicine, surgery
and nlrsing have developed to
any unbelievable degree today.
Thee are $500 hospitals in the
United States that are approved
the american College of Sur
geons and they have a total of
over million beds. Last year
there were over a million per-
sons omitted to hospitals in this
county, which was one person
out q every IA.
"a modern hospital is and
shoul be public health center
and ; worth a great deal more
than t costs any community" he
Continued on Page Eight
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
Mrs. Campbell
Buried Sunday
Was Stricken With Paralysis
at the Age of 70. Was
Well Known.

A large crowd attended the
funeral of Mrs. Josephine Har-
din Campbell, which was held at
the Hardin-Ray cemetery on
Sunday with the Revs. R. H.
Stone and Roy Gentry in charge.
Pallbearers were the follow
ing nephews: DR.. R. c. Ray, Earl
Ray, Ward Ray, Walter Tucker,
Clyde Campbell and Walter
Campbell also Eliza Cooper and
Walter Burkette.
The large floral offering was
carried by the following nieces of
Mrs. Campbell: Laura Mcconnell,
Juanita Tucker, Virginia Speers,
Elizabeth Speers, Mrs. R. c. Ray,
Mrs. Walter Tucker, Mrs. Ward
Ray, also Mrs. Eliza Cooper, Mrs.
Walter Burkette, Ruth Riddle,
Mavis Riddle, Georgia Gentry.
The deceased died on Friday,
June % following a stroke of pa
ralysis from which she never re-
covered consciousness after being
stricken. She was 70 years old at
the time of her death.
She was known to hundreds as
Mrs. Rosebud Campbell and had
a capacity for making friends
which made her well liked by all
who knew her.
She is survived by her hus-
band John Q. Campbell and two
Continued on Page Eight
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
West Jefferson
Buys Land For
Town Cemetery
2 Acres of Land Bought For
$500 on Hill in Front Of
Railroad Station.
TO SELL PLOTS

West Jefferson now has mu-
ricipal cemetery.
Yesterday the board of alder
men bought two acres of land
on the top of the hill in front of
the N & w railroad station to be
used as a town burying ground.
The purchase was made from
the GRAPHICAL heirs and includes
practically all of the old Gray
beal family cemetery.
The town paid $500 for the two
acres, plus right-of-Way for a
street connection with the pro-
perty.
J. L. Segraves, in discussing
the purchase and municipal GEM
etery plans stated that the GEM
etery has already been divided
off into over so family plots and
that the town intends to sell
these plots for around SIS to $25
a piece.
Tentative plans also call for
the construction of a driveway
and Identification of it.
For several years there has
been a distinct need here for a
municipal cemetery and it is be-
lieved that the public will CO.
operate in enabling the town to
get its money back through the
sale of the plots.
A former town board agreed to
buy this property in December,
1886, but the towns financial
condition has been such that it
could not afford to do so, until
yesterday, it is stated.
The GRAPHICAL cemetery is
good deal older than the town of
West jefferson and several of the
family graves were not included
in the sale to the town.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29

Mrs. Hastings, of Sylvia,
is visiting her brother, Mr.. E. R.
Duvall, of Grassy Creek, and her
sister, Mrs. Charles Latham, of
Nathan's Creek, this week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
Big Ridge Church
To Be Dedicated
Thurs, July Is
Winston Presbytery To Meet
There. DR.. Cunningham
to Preach Sermon.
OTHERS ON PROGRAM

The Presbytery of 'inston-
Salem has determined tnat the
next meeting Of the Presbytery
will be Thursday, July 18th be-
ginning at 1000 A. M. in the Big
Ridge Presbyterian church. Rev.
J. B. Ficken, III, is the retiring
moderator and will preach a SER
mon in the morning.
In the afternoon the service of
dedication will be i1cl' r. J. R.
Cunningham has accepted the in
vitation to preach the sermon of
dedication. Rev. D. F. Helm has
been invited to give historical
address with a prophetic note
added. DR.. H. w. Mclaughlin has
planned to come if his health al
lows. He comes to deliver an ad-
dress. Of course no dedication
service in Ashe would be all that
1t should be unless DR.. E. E. Gil
lesple had part and it is expect
ed that he will participate in a
prominent way.
The ministers are asked to
bring their families to this Pres
bytery Other Presbyterian fami-
lies will particinate in the enter
tainment at lunch.
The organization and the lovely
new edifice that will be dedicat-
ed is a result of the labors of Rev.
D. F. Helm and Miss Kathryn
Hunt and others who have been
associated with them.-The Ashe
Presbyterian.