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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-23
MRS. RAY HOSTESS
TO AUXILIARY GROUP

Mrs. Earl Ray was hostess to
the Women's Auxiliary at her
beautiful home on Beaver Creek
on Thursday when most Of the
members as we'll as some visi-
tors were present.
An interesting program was
carried out when talks were
made by Mrs. T. c. Bowie and
Sister T. Evelyn Howe.
At the close of the program the
hostess served delicious refresh
mentS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-23

IL teaspoon Of ginger; legs
slightly beaten; l tablespoon of
melted butter Mix thoroughly.
Bake in a hot oven at 400 degrees
F until edge is set: Then decrease
heat and bake for about 80 min
utes at 300 degrees F.
Serve with whipped cream if
desired. eeE$+Tig}s'r
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-23

liz pound of Kraft grated cheese,
(also an Ashe product). Add
enough ice-cold water to make
stiff dough. Roll thin and line pie
tin, building up fluted edge, then
fill with the following mixture:
l IL cups stewed strained pump
kin; 2 cups of rich milk or cream;
% cup of brown sugar; IL tea
spoon salt; l teaspoon cinnamon;
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-23
PERSONALS


Of interest here is the news of
the promotion of Corporal Emert
L. Frazier to the rank of Ser
geant. He is the brother of Arthur
Frazier, whom he has visited
here. He is now stationed at Pearl
Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.
John Bowers, prominent attor-
ney of Lexington was visitor
here last week. He is native of
Ashe county.
The November singing conven-
ton will be held at the Friend
ship Baptist church Sunday af-
ternoon at one o'clock. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend.
Mrs: NJ. j. McFadden, of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, has been visiting
her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. y! D. Williams, at Scottville.
She returned to Ohio this week.
Miss Ella Rec Winebarger, OF
Creston is visiting relatives and
friends in Washington and Mary
land this week.
The rabbit season opens in Ashe
county tomorrow, but the quail
and grouse season does not open
until next Thursday, Thanksgiv-
ing day.
Rev. Woodrow Casteloe of Gro
sin, Pa, and Rev. Mr.. Baker OF
Philadelphia spent Thursday
night at DR.. Reeves.
Rev. w. T.. Wilmington and
Mrs. Wilmington are attending
the Baptist State Convention in
Winston Salem. Mr.. Fred Cook of
this city accompanied them.
Miss Mae Goss, Miss Alease
Gambill, Mrs. Essie Gambill
Gambill and her nephew j. L.
Miller, were weekend visitors Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Miller of Roa-
noke, Va: '.
Mrs. Bruce Dent made a bust
ness trip to Asheville Saturday.
Messrs. Charlie Bailey and
Gwyn. Gambill spent Saturday in
the Spruce Pine vicinity hunting
deer.
Mrs. Bracket Grayson and Miss
Ina Ruth Grayson are spending
some time in, Bristol, Va, visit
ing Mrs. Grayson's father, Mr..
Campbell. }
Miss Marie Parsons, of Char
lotte, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Forest Mcmillan.
Messrs. Carlyle Higgins, Dick
Gentry and Bane Doughton, of
Sparta and J. H. Doughton and
Johnny Mclaughlin, of States
vile, spent several days last
week at the Tucker Hotel and did
some bird hunting in nearby
counties in Virginia.
Mr.. J. Ivan Miller. of Roanoke,
spent the past weekend with
friends in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stradley Of
ChilhoWie, Va. and Miss Julia AL
len, of Martinsville, Va, spent
the week end in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Barr and
Mr.. and Mrs Don Francis were
the week end guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Faison in Winston-Sa-
lem.
Prof John Foster, of State Col
lege, Raleigh visited his brother,
Edwin Foster and his sister, Mrs.
Tyson, last week end.
Miss Hilda Froman of A. S. T.
c., was the week end guest of
Miss Evelyn Brown of Jefferson.
Mrs. Joe Cearley, of Crumpler,
underwent an appendix opera
ton in the Wilkes hospital this
week.
Mr.. Ed M. Anderson attended
an executive committee meeting
of the North Carolina Press AS
ISOLATION held in Durham at the
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Laboratory Blast
At {. u. Injuries
Graduate Student
Ralph Robenovets Was
Experimenting With
Diozomethune

A Catholic University student was
injured today in a blast in one of
the university laboratories when a
dangerous chemical with which he
was experimenting exploded.
Ralph Rabenovets, %, of 1856
Warder street NV, a graduate STU
dent who was conducting expert
ments leading toward a Phi. D. de-
gree in chemistry, was knocked to
the floor by the force of the ex-
plosion. He was removed to Gar
field Hospital for treatment Of
numerous cuts.
DR.. F.. o. Rice, head of the chem
istry department at the university,
said Mr.. Rabenovets had been ex-
perimenting to determine the effect
of diazomethane upon organic
compounds.
At one point in the experiment,
DR.. Rice said, the diazomethane be-
comes a highly dangerous sub
stance, likely to explode with great
force. There have been explosions
of the chemical in this state in the
laboratory before, he said, and as a
result anyone using the stuff is pro-
tected by shatterproof glass shield.
Mr. Rabenovets had brought his
(See EXPLOSION, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-08-08

infants, it is bound to result in in
jury in infants as long as human
nature is actuated for greed and
desire for gain.
The court therefore thinks It
proper to suggest to the welfare or
ganization that they consider legis-
lation to be presented at the next
session of Congress to place the
matter of custody and adoption in
the hands of a public organization
responsible only to the public and
having no possible commercial in
terest in the custody or adoption.
Will Have Courts Cooperation.
The passage of such legislation
will have the cooperation of the
court and my full cooperation"
At the request of Mrs. Growers
counsel, H. L. Mccormick, he said
again that most specifically my re-
marks do not apply to Mrs. Grover"
When Culver B. Chamberlain, the
Thorne counsel, asked the court to
put in the permanent custody order
a statement saying that papers such
as the one signed by the babys
parents IN surrendering it to Mrs.
Grover were contrary to public safe
ty and therefore void, the justice
said. The court has already said it
was very much against the public
policy to have private individuals
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Trapped on Mountain Peak,
Climber Dies From Exposure

In all, the peak has claimed 80 OF
more victims since 1880.
Mr.. Clark was stranded on the
ledge at 2:30 pm. Sunday when he
dropped the hammer he used tc
drive petanes, mountain-c climbing
spikes. His companions, Eddie Wat
son, %, and Edmund Cooper, 80, both
of Denver, were unable to follow
him up the Second Chimney, a per-
pendicular trough" and went after
help.
Coroner Orville Miller of Larimer
County said MIR. Clark died of expo
sure and a conclusion.
CLARK was still alive when we
lifted him on down but he was
gashed on the head" related Watson
who waited at the cliff base. He
must have been hit by a rock while
Ernest Field and Bob Boyd and Bob
Lewis (his rescuerO were letting him
down."
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Parking Meters
| Smashed and
|Coins Stolen

The Police Department sadly list
ed the District government as a
robbery victim today when it was
discovered that eight downtown
parking meters had been smashed
and the coin boxes stolen from
them.
Thieves who decided to take their
lives in their hands for small gain
broke open the devices during the
night. Policemen discovered the
theft this morning while walking
their beats in the vicinity of Elev-
enth, Twelfth, E, F and G. streets
NV.
Some heavy instrument h&d been
used to smash the locks, and the
coin boxes in which nestled snickles
deposited by trusting motorists had
been removed. Collector of Taxes
c. M. Towers said he believed there
was about SIS in the boxes.
More serious than the monetary
loss was the damage done to the
delicate, expensive meters. The
meters will be out of commission for
some time, and, police vowed, 20
will the thieves If they are caught.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Pastors Daughter, Once Beaten
By Abductors, Is Found Slain
Girl, II, Had Gone
To Buy a Pair
Of Stockings
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CAMDEN, N. j., Aug. Swearing
a corsage of red and white roses, a
minister's 17-year-old daughter was
found mysteriously slain today be-
side muddy lovers lane eight
blocks from her home.
The Rev. Walter Dworecki of
Camden Polish Baptist Church
identified the bruised, rain-soaked
body as that of his authenticated
daughter, Wanda, who left home last
night Ito buy pair Of stockings"
Coroner Franklin johnson said
the cause of death was not imme-
diately determined. Her throat was
bruised as though she had been
choked. Her face was discolored as
If from a blow. There was a wound
in her temple which might have
been made by bullet or knife.
She had been released from a
hospital only recently after weeks
Of treatment for injuries received
April 3 when she was abducted,
beaten and tossed unconscious from
an automobile in Auburn, N. j.
Beside her body, along narrow
lane opposite the Camden High
School athletic field, were fresh
automobile tracks.
A diamond ring remained on her
finger, indicating robbery had not
been motive.
The Rev. Dworecki seemed on
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Garrett Park Mother
Spotted Fever Victim

Rocky Mountain spotted fever
caused the death early today of
Mrs Harry E. Toston, 37-year-old
mother, of Garrett Park, Md, &C
cording to DR.. Robert Maher, the
family physician DR.. Maher said
United States Public Health Service
tests following an autopsy con-
f1rmed the diagnosis
1t was the fourth death by the
disease in this area this year, local
health officers stated.
Mrs. Toston, wife of an assistant
Inspector in the municipal architect S
Office here, gave birth to son two
weeks ago, but before she was re-
leased from the hospital she was
stricken with a fever.
The family physician, DR.. Robert
Maher, was at a loss to explain
where the disease could have been
contracted as it is normally caused
by the bite of wood tick affected
with the virus.
In addition to her husband, Har-
ry E. Toston, and the infant, she
leaves another son, years~old. A
native of Woodstock, Md, Mrs. Tos-
ton was an active member of the
Garrett Park Civic Study Club.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Burke Cites Gain
Obtained THROUGH
Court Fight
Citizens Acquired New
Conception Of Wisdom
Of Constitution Drufters

By the Associated Press.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska, said today There has been
but one legitimate gain" to the Ma
ton from the congressional battle
over the court reorganization in
1887.
Millions of citizens" he said,
acquired new conception of the
wisdom of the men who drafted
the Constitution in providing for
three independent departments Of
government.
TT is safe to say that it will be
a long time before a Chief Execu-
tive again proposes to enlarge the
Supreme Court because of dissatis-
faction with its decisions"
| Senator Burke, one of those who
led the opposition in its successful
drive to defeat President Roosevelt S
court bill two years ago, took issue
in a statement with Mr.. Roosevelt S
assertion last night that although
the legislation was not passed. the
objectives he sought had been
achieved.
Repudiated by Congress.
THAT Inflated proposal" the Ne
braskan said, had a single OBJ
| jective, with certain minor sugges-
tions scarcely controversial The
plan was to enlarge the court in
order to enable the appointing
power to fill the new places with
judges who would interpret the
Constitution in accordance with the
will of the executive and legislative
branches. 1t was a proposal to 'ap-
ply force to the judiciary
1T was repudiated by Congress
and by the country. 1t is a proposal
that should be left in the oblivion
to which it was properly con-
signed"
While justices Mr. Roosevelt has
appointed have made the tribunal
different from any the country
has known" Senator Burke said,
the appointments would have been
made without the court bill ever
having been proposed.
Few People Deceived.
He argued extension of retirement
privileges to Supreme Court men,
bers, claimed by administrationists
to have resulted from the court bill,
was subject Congress had con-
sidered prior to 1897 and coupling
it with the enlargement proposal
was subterfuge that deceived few
people"
The occasion of Mr.. Roosevelts
statement was his signing of bill
creating an administrative officer
for the courts. This, the President
said, marked attainment of the
final objective" of his original court
proposal.
Senator Burke declared, on the
other hand. there was mo kinShip"
between the new office and the office
Of proctor" projected in the court
bill.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Soliciting Employees
For Roosevelt Library
Defended by Official
Action Is Declared
No Different From
Other Funds

Solicitation of Agriculture Depart.
ment employees for contributions te
the building fund for the Hyde Parl
library to house President Roose.
velt's papers was defended by q de.
partmental spokesman today.
Charles B. Ingram. assistant tc
the Assistant Secretary, who signed
the circular letter bringing the mat.
ter to the attention of the Agricul-
ture staff, refused comment, but Pau
H. Appleby. assistant to Secretary
Wallace, who had suggested the col.
lection to Mr.. Ingram, said the pro.
cedure was no different than hao
been followed in similar cases, citing
for example the Symphony Orches-
ira fund.
Personal Solicitation Banned,
He said the circular letter hao
been sent around because persona,
solicitation is barred except for the
annual Red Cross campaign.
Mr.. Appleby declined to say where
the suggestion for the solicitation
came from originally, but declared
1t could not be assumed" that the
source was Secretary Wallace. Nor
did he know what response was
being received.
A committee of 60, headed by
Frank c. Walker of New York, for
mer chairman of the National
Emergency Council, was formed
lSee SOILCITING. Paqe A-5l
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Food Stamp Plans
Expansion Favored
By Wallace
Business Stimulated in
Cities Where Tried,
Secretary Says
BY the Associated Press.

Hoy tlic ASSOCldtcu FTeSS.
Secretary Wallace said today re-
suits of the Agriculture Depart
ment's experiment in distributing
surplus food to needy families by
means of stamps warranted grad
ual expansion" of the plan this fiscal
year.
1t has been tested in Rochester,
N. Y; Dayton, Ohio; Birmingham,
Ala; Seattle, Wash; Des Moines,
Iowa, and Pottawatomie County
Okla.
"The food stamp plan," the Sec
retary said in a statement issued
by his Office, may develop into an
extremely effective national program
through which to move surpluses of
those agricultural products for which
there is an elastic demand, at the
same time providing more food for
those of our people who now have
inadequate diets"
Mr.. Wallace did not indicate what
plans the department has for ex-
panding the new scheme.
Under this system, eligible families
receive a part of their work-relief
pay or grants in the form of orange
stamps good for purchase of any
commodity at regular grocery stores.
For each dollars worth of orange
stamps so acquired, the family gets
so cents worth of blue stamps free.
These stamps are good for purchase
of surplus foods at the same stores.
The Agriculture Department re-
deems the stamps from the grocer.
Secretary Wallace said economic
studies indicated significant re-
suits" in Rochester in stimulating in
creased consumption of such sur
plus commodities as butter, eggs,
flour, .prunes and cornmeal.
He said the plan had met with
favor of relief clients because "they
like getting surplus commodities
through regular grocery stores" He
also said it had stimulated business
in the cities where it had been tried.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Un-Americun Activities
Quiz Resumes AUG. Is
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Officials of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities an
nounced today public hearings would
be resumed here August l6.
They declined information as to
witnesses and subject matter, but
members previously had said the
committee probably would take testi-
mony on the activities Of an anti
Semitic organization in New York. 4
Evening star., 1939-08-08
BY the Associated Press.

0y tHc EssOCldIeu ETeeS.
ESTES PARK, Colo, Aug. ga
Denver commercial photographer,
gashed on the head by falling rock
after spending 20 hours on a ledge
in lashing rain and snow, is the
latest victim of a Longs Peak climb
ing tragedy.
Gerald Clark, 30, died late yester-
day while being lowered $500 feet
down the sheer east face of the A.
255-foot peak in Rocky Mountain
National Park. He had scaled the
east face five times.
Just year ago today, John Fuller,
20, of Ames, Iowa, fell to his death
while attempting to scale the peak S
north face. Hewes-Kirkwood Inn,
climbers resort at the peak base,
listed Mr.. Clark as the thirteenth to
die attempting to scale the east face.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Plone Lands Minus Wheel

MONROVIA, Calf, Aug. 8 LP).-
Ray Shirk, student pilot, taking of
on training fight, left one whee
on the ground.
Airport Manager James Most flew
up, signaled Shirk, then brought
down his own ship on one wheel tc
demonstrate how it was done.
Shirk descended in a perfect two
point landing.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Judge Asks D. G. Adoption Law
In Restoring Baby to Thornes
Welfare Board Urged to Seek Act Creating
Public, Non-CommercioI Agency

Justice T, Alan Goldsborough gave
5-month-old Barbara Alicia Thorne
back to her real parents perma-
nently today, after urging the Board
OF Public Welfare tosback legislation
putting the adoption of infants in
the hands of public organization
having no possible commercial in
terest."
He preceded his remarks, conclud-
Evening star., 1939-08-08

the verge of collapse as officers
sought to learn whether his daugh-
ter ever was able to give any in
formation to identify men who alb
Quoted and beat her last April 3.
She had related then:
L was on my way to the drug
store. Someone called my name.
saw two men in an automobile. 1
walked over to see who they were
and what they wanted. The man
sitting nearest dragged me into the
car. That's all I can remember
until was pushed from the car"
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Po|icePushHunt
For Thousands
Of Franco Foes
Asturion Dynomiters
Still Hiding in Hills;
81 Die in Madrid
BACKGROUND

Although hundreds OF Repub-
Hcun Sympatiisers hare been er-
ecuted and thousands more jailed
and interned in concentration
camps BY the Nationalist goU-
ernment since the end OF the
Spanish ciuil 1Udr March 29, re-
ports OF unrest haze continued
to seep out OF Spain. NationdliStS
recently hare intensified their
driDe to 1Uipe out Republican re-
siStance to the Franco regime.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France cat the Span
ish Frontier, Aug. 8.-Spanish Ma
tonalists were reported today to De
engaged in a widespread hunt for
thousands of men without a gov
ernment," hiding in the Asturian
Mountains of Northwest Spain.
Advices fltering through to this
border town said Generalissimo
Frances men had arrested hundreds
of civilians accused of giving for
mer Republican soldiers food and
shelter
The Cities of Oviedo and Gijon
were said to have yielded large num-
bers of persons accused of harboring
the night-riding mountaineers.
Catalonia, in the northeast, where
the autonomy spirit was so strong,
also was said to have her share of
night riders Nationalists have not
acknowledged the scope of their
campaign to wipe out Republican
and other resistance since the end of
the civil war March %, but border
sources pointed to the execution of
81 persons at Madrid in the past
three days as an indication of trou-
bles facing the new regime.
Large-scale Roundup On.
The 81, including four women, were
condemned as conspiring against the
regime and of actual completely in
the Staying of military police in
spector, his daughter and a civil
guard.
A Madrid dispatch said Gen.
Frances military police and all other
law enforcement agencies had or
ganized a large-scale roundup of
"Communistic, Socialistic and crimi-
nal bands to suppress any sub
versive plots"
Within Madrid police pushed
manhuntS, armed with increasing
lists of persons accused of assassi-
nation, robbery and denunciation of
Rightists while Madrid was in Re-
publican hands.
ANehorities said appeals for public
cooperation in finding the accused
were producing results. Wanted
persons were being denounced in
cafes, on the streets and wherever
recognized by prosecuting witnesses.
Dynamiters Turn Nomad.
Asturian mountaineers, once
among the hardest fighting of Re-
publican soldiers, were said to have
turned to a Nomadic life in the
northwest, some of them still using
their weapons for sniping. They
get their food from secret sympa-
thizers or by theft.
Ragged bands of them took part
In the Republican siege of Oviedo,
which collapsed when the Repub-
lican government failed to send help.
Among them were the "Dinamiteros'
dynamite throwers) from the As
turian coal mines.
Leaders of the old Republican
regime, which itself was split in its
Paris headquarters, admit that they
have their own intelligence services
in the new Spain.
Once sorely troubled with Ma
tlonalist fifth columns" (behind-
the-lines sympathizers) during the
civil war, the Republicans now have
their own organization in the VIC
tors camp.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Tropical Storm
Reported Headed
Northwest
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. g.
The Weather Bureau reported to-
day indications that tropical storm
was forming in the Atlantic Ocean
about ITS miles north northeast Of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The warning said the storm, If 1t
developed, probably would move
west-northwest. It's present posi-
ton is about 1,200 miles southeast
Of Miami.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Woman Says She Painted
And Feuthered Self
By the Associated Press.

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, Aug. g.
Mrs. Charlotte Cain, 34-year- -old
Wichita Falls woman found virtually
stripped of her clothing and covered
with red paint and feathers, told
Detective Chief L. E. Hanaway and
a newspaperman today, Il did it
myself"
The former nurse previously had
told police three women pulled her
into an automobile last night and
kicked and beat her into uncon-
sciousness.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
browns in Potomac

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug. 8
R.-D. M. Boxley, about IS, of
Orange was drowned while SWIM
ming in the Potomac River near
Fairview Beach, 20 miles from here.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
MongoI Force RepuIsed,
Japanese Report
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Aug. "a Domei, Japa-
nese news agency, dispatch from
Hsinking reported today that 300 in
vading Mongol sharpshooters were
repulsed by Japanese Manchukuo
forces in a two-hour battle.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Foreign.
Hundreds seized for aiding Frances
enemies. Page Al
Nazi press joins in concerted attack
on Poland. Page Az
Courier sent to check fate of Ameri-
cans at Kaifeng. Page A-3
British air defenses manned for
enemy raid tonight. Page AS
Baby with heart outside body puz-
zles Manila doctors. Page A
National.
President in Hyde Park; claims vic
tory for court plan. Page Al
House G. o. P. aims at program on
three major topics. Page Az
$50, 900 reward offered for Gangster
Lepke. Page Az
U. S. hunts "big violators" in
Louisiana probe. Page Az
Mississippi primary being held, its
issues shrouded. Page AS
Business activity well ahead Of year
ago, Hopkins reports. Page AS
Evening star., 1939-08-08

mercial considerations in anything
she has done"
THE court" he said, has no
doubt whatever that as long as the
law in the District permits the pos
sibility of commercialism in the
matter of custody and adoption of
Evening star., 1939-08-08

(See TROOPS, Page A-3O
Evening star., 1939-08-08

(See SOLICITING, Page A-5.)