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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09
Obituary
MYRTLE FENDER REEVES

MYRTLE FENDER REEVES
It has pleased God, in his in
finite and inscrutable wisdom, to
remove from our midst his faith
full servant and our beloved
friend Myrtle Fender Reeves.
We bow in humble submission
to his will. We express the deep
est sympathy to all the bereaVed
family. We express our deeply
felt sorrow and pay loving tribute
to her memory.
Myrtle Fender Reeves was born
at Whitehead, Nov. IA, 1887, and
died under the most tragic cir
cumstances in a fire at the
Reeves hospital at Lincolnton, N.
c., shortly past midnight of Nov,
3rd, making her age II days short
of So years.
She Joined Liberty Baptist
church at Whitehead and was
baptized Aug. Is, 1909 in which
profession of faith she lived a
consistent Christian life and in
which faith she died a humble
Christian. She later moved her
membership to Sparta Baptist
church. Since that time she has
been a loyal and faithful men,
Der. She was ever devoted to her
church, Loyalty supported all its
causes and was always eager to
render any service in her power
to help promote the work OF her
church.
She is survived by both pa
rents, T. A. Fender, now old and
feeble in his 84th year, and Sa-
ra Wagner Fender now also
aged and frail in the evening OF
her life and by one brother, N.
Arthur Fender, Washington, D.
c., and one sister, Ethel Fender
Pugh, at Whitehead, one brother,
Walter Fender having died many
years ago. {.
She is also survived I by her
husband, VIM. B. Reeves to whom
she was married on Jan. q, 1904,
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hurley REFERENDUM
REASONS EXPLAINED

Continued from Page One)
nual income of more than 81 mil
lion dollars as compared with
about 48 million during the pre-
ceeding five-year period.
In marketing the crop this year,
it is believed that prices will be
higher if buyers know that pro-
duction will be adjusted next
year to probable demand.
If the referendum is carried,
the new act provides that quotas
will be solely on an acreage ba-
sis and not on an acreage allot-
ment and poundage allotment,
too "In other words, a farmer
who does not plant over his acre
age allotment, can sell all of his
tobacco without penalty Mr.. In
low said.
On the other hand, if a farm
er plants more than his acreage
allotment, he will be taxed with
penalty of 10 cents per pound
on all over the acreage allotment.
A definite system for checking
this has not been worked out as
yet, he said.
The acreage allotments will be
determined by establishing US
ual or normal average for each
farm. The normal averages will
be established in each county on
the basis of the past acreage of
tobacco, plus average diverted
under AAA programs affecting
hurley production.
This means that 1910 allot-
ments for all farms, both large
and small, will be computed on a
comparable basis. After these
computations, the allotments for
small farms will be increased 20
percent, but not above the ave-
rage which, with normal yield,
would produce 2,4OO pounds" it
was stated.
This clause will be highly ben
eficial to Ashe farmers as many
of them do not produce as much
as 2,400 pounds and will there
fore be subject to such aid.
A general statewide of 10 per-
cent, however. will be made, it
was pointed out. There can be
no transfer of quotas from one
farm to another, it is stated.
The referendum will be held
on Tuesday, November 81, and
all farmers who raised or helped
raise hurley tobacco this year are
eligible to vote. It is estimated
that there are around 1000 farms
in this county who are eligible.
Places for voting will be an
nounced later.
MIR. Shaw pointed out that the.
flue-cured growers voted about
80 percent for control in a recent
election and urged that hurley
voters do the same thing.
In case two-thirds vote favor
ably, acreage quotas will be
worked out by the first Of the
year, it was explained. Burley is
raised in Is states.
County Agent c. J. Rich pre-
sided over the meeting yesterday.
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LAST RITES HELD FOR
VIM. HI. MCGUIRE, Z:

Funeral services for William H.
Mcclure, 70, who died at his
home in Todd last Monday night,
were held last Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock at the Todd Bap-
fist church the Rev. w. D. Ash
ley, officiating. - x - '''''
1nterment was in the family
cemetery.
Mr.. Mcclure was a printer and
early in the century edited and
published a religious paper.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09
SERVICE AT ST. MARY'S
ON SUNDAY MORNING

There will be morning prayer
services at St. Mary's Episcopal
church at Beaver Creek on Sun
day, Nov. IL, at II o'clock.
Rev. J. B. Sill of Asheville will
be in charge of the service. Every
one is cordially invited to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

NOTICE-All farmers in Ashe
are urged to join the Blue Ridge
Cold Storage Cooperative. Pro-
gress is made only through CO.
operation. This is the finest thing
that we ever tried to get. Allie
ghany and Watauga farmers also
invited to join. Apply at farm ag-
ent's office or any business place
in the Jefferson. Jeffersons Ro-
tary Club. 11-9-1t
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Classified Ads

Which arrived too late for the re-
gular classified columns.
BUY a good used car before pri-
ces increase. We have large
stock of real bargains. See
them. Duncan Motor Co., West
Jefferson . 11-9-1t
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WANT A BARGAIN in Good
Used Cars? If so, come to see us
today. Sale now on. Duncan Mo-
tor Company, West Jefferson
11-9-1t
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REMNANT SALE-All kinds of
good cloth now on sale for only
6 1-2c yard. Richardson's 5 and
10, West Jefferson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

NOW is the time to install that
heater. We have one to fit your
car and pocketbook. Also anti
freeze. Duncan Motor Co., West
jefferson 1l-9-lt
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THE RED CROSS

The annual roll call of the American Red
Cross, the greatest humanitarian organiza
ton in the world today, starts Saturday
and will continue through Thanksgiving
Day, November 80.
Every man and woman in this county is
urged to join the Ashe chapter, which is
seeking to reach a new high goal of 300
MEMBERS
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

HOW'S YOUR RADIATOR--We
are now equipped to tear down
and rebuild your radiator. Let us
fix yours before it freezes up.
Duncan Motor Co., West Jeffer-
son. 11~9-lt
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

Because of the greatly in
creased responsibilities at
home and broad, the Amer
lean Red Cross this year ap-
peals for a great many more
members. Last year the Red
Cross emblem of mercy
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

Vacuum Packed, red or white
covered. Buy this superior
tennis ball dollar day at this
Sale price.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
Agreement Ends
Shipping Row in
NeufrahtyFight

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. CUP)-
Chairman Key Pittman, D.. New.
announced agreement of Democra-
tic members of the senate foreign
relations committee today on an
amendent to the neutrality bill TO
open up the Pacific and south At
lantic TO American shipping.
That action narrowed the con-
troversy over neutrality to the sole,
but vital issue, of repeal of the en-
barge. The same group has agreed
to eliminate the provision granting
90-day credit to belligerents.
Democratic members of the COM
mittee who participated in draft
ing the neutrality program agreed
10 permit surface vessels TO carry
any materials except arms, ammu-
milton and implements of war TO
any ports in the western hemis-
phere south Of 80 degrees north
latitude, which cuts trough New
Orleans and Jacksonville, and to
the Pacific and Indian oceans, Chi
ma, Arabian seas and the Bay Of
Bengal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

Corrugated rubber hose with
ali connections. Is size, on
Sale Dollar Day only at this
price
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
Oil Settlement in
Mexico Reported
In Enjoys Hands

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19. (UP)-
Newspapers, heralding the return
to Mexico City of U. S. Ambassador
Josephus Daniels, today announced
in front-page headlines that he was
bringing a plan for solution of the
19-month-old appropriation dispute
between the Mexican government
and American oil companies.
Daniels is due here today after
a brief visit to Washington and his
Raleigh, N. c., home.
The newspaper headlines recalled
the last time the ambassador re-
turned from the United States. 1t
was said then also that he carried
a settlement plan, but it turned
out he came back empty handed.
Today's headings were interpreted
in some sources as reflecting Mexi-
cans hopes for early solution of
the controversy. The allied block
ade has seriously interfered with
exports OF the appropriated oil and
made settlement desirous to enable
this country to seek markets here
tofore closed to her because of the
seizure.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

fuss. We petitioned for a divorce
by mutual consent. There was no
sentimental, artistic or economic
question involved. It's really in the
nature of Il precaution.
Asked il he or his wife planned
to remarry. he said. "one never
knows. As for me. believe at my
age it's something that is outdated.
I don't believe Frida intends to re-
marry. But Frida has her whole
life before her and l am already
old and could not give her any more
help"
Rivera is SO: his wife. 20. Under
Mexican law. neither will be per-
mitted to remarry within a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
DECO Rivera Divorce
'Motter of Convenience

COYOACAN. Mexico. Oct. l9.
GUP)-The joint divorce petition OF
Diego Rivera. world famous paint
er, and his wife, Frida Kahlo, was
filed today in civil court, which can
grant a decree within a month.
1t will be Rivera's third divorce
and one. he said, that would be
purely a matter Of legal conye-
nience in the spirit OF modern times,
since there has been no change in
the magnificent relations between
us and we are doing it to improve
Frida's legal position"
Mrs. Rivera, also an artist and
ranked by her husband among
the four or five best modernistic
painters in the world" disclosed
that they had been separated five
months. She has lived at her home
here, where the Communist leader,
Leon Trotsky, spent the first two
years of his Mexican exile, and
Rivera has lived in his modernistic
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
Barbara Worth Bowl Corporation
Makes Bow to Imperial Valley

Mrs Robert G. Mcdowell of
Brawley, president; j. w. Donohue
of FL Centro, first president
and director of public relations;
Mrs. Adolf Binder of Calexico, sec
ond vice-president; Mrs. Fred j.
Harder of El Centro, third vice
present; Mrs. F. G. Rebel of Holt
vile, director; James c. Simons of
Brawley. director; T M Montgomery
Of INLAND, director; Eva B. Cava-
nah of Calexico. director; E. R
Gilmore of Calexico, treasurer; and
Mrs. Will Won Fluss of El Centre
secretary.
The association planned to pre-
sent a pageant every year.
Mrs. Mcdowell, Donohue. and
Simons were appointed TO prepare
bylaws.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

The Barbara Worth Bowl COR
poration made its official bow TO
Imperial Valley Wednesday with
the filing of articles of incorpora-
ton.
Dedicated to promoting talent
and cultural life in the valley, the
first presentation planned by the
association is expected TO be pa
geant based on the Harold Bell
Wright novel, THE. Winning of
Barbara Worth"
Several sites for the bowl for
dramatic and musical entertain
ments have been suggested 10 as
sociation members, but selection
has not been maze.
Officials of the corporation are
as follows
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
Sophia Townsend
Death Announced

Mrs. Sophia Townsend, II, Negro.
resident of El Centre for many
years. died at Bakersfield at p. m.
Wednesday, relatives in El Centro
were Informed Thursday
The funeral will be held in El
Centro at a time to be announced
later. The body was sent to the
Lemons mortuary. Mrs. Townsend
lived in Imperial Valley for %
years. Five years ago she went to
Bakersfield to live with a daughter.
She is survived by her daughter,
Mrs. Laura johnson of Bakersfield;
son, Daniel, also of Bakersfield;
two. sisters, Mrs. Mary Hall and
Mrs. Dora Fair; two brothers, Levy
and George Craig, all of El Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19
Physicians Guilty
In Narcotic Cases

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 10. CUP)-
The state medical board today de-
ferred until June, 1910, penalties
against four Santa Rosa physicians
found guilty of furnishing drugs
TO narcotic addicts in violation Of
the state medical practices act
The physicians are Joseph B.
RlackshaW, Edward J. J. Finnerty,
Roscoe E. Hamlin and Roy P.
Woodruff.
The board revoked the license
OF DR.. Bailey B. Erelby, of San
Bernardino, after finding him gull
ty of aiding and abetting unlicensed
practitioners in promoting a cure
for tuberculosis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

red and blue studio in San Angel.
She said their difficulties" began
soon after her return from Paris
and New York, where she exhibited
her paintings.
we were not getting along well. -
she said.
Rivera. interviewed in his studio
with a monkey on his shoulder
said:
There has been no trouble, no
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

It's just the ball you need for
regular playing full life.
Very tough. Save on Dollar
Day at 1. V. Hardware.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-19

Regulation size axes not
polished but made of the
same high grade tool steel
of the higher priced AK on
sale at .................................-..
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Leader of State Federation
Looks on Youth as Handicap
Mrs. Mash Is Proud of
7 Achievements of
Mississippi Clubs

Among the State presidents at
tending the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs meeting here is a
slim, attractive young woman who
thinks being young is a handicap
when you're guiding the club des-
TIMES of 4,6O0 women.
She is Mrs. E. B. Nash of Indian
ola, Miss, 36-year-old president of
the Federated Women's Clubs of
Mississippi.
Please don't talk about my being
young she begged. Its handi-
cap, really"
Mrs. Nash would rather talk about
her clubs. Her State program, she
said, centers in the American home
because she believes children are
taught fundamental principles in
the home and other ideas can be
added later.
Explaining that the federation
program is based on adjusting
democracy for human welfare, she
said she believes anything along
that line is investing in the future, u
so she has chosen that as her theme.
She is particularly proud of two
achievements Of her State clubs.
First, they sponsored the collection
of funds to purchase two iron lungs
to combat infantile paralysis, and
secondly, they have their own club
house.
The clubhouse is completely paid
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Hurricane DAMAGE
Fund Request Cut

A squabble with Vermont's Gov.
George Aiken over State rights
influenced House Appropriations
Subcommittee members in cutting
by 50 100000 funds asked for repair
OF last September's hurricane DAM
age in Vermont and other New Eng
land States, they disclosed today.
The committee reported favorably
for House debate today the first de-
flciency appropriation bill, calling
for total of $9979, 900, a reduction
of $3,750,000 in President Roose-
velt's recommendations.
1t cut from $500, 900 to $500 900
the estimates for hurricane repair
work in New England forests and
inserted a requirement that Federal
funds for such work be matched
with State money.
Gov. Aiken has contended the
Federal Government was trying,
under the Flood Control Act, to con-
denim and seize State property.
Committee members said they
thought that if he was so insistent
on protecting States rights in con-
nection with flood control, then
Vermont and the other New Eng
land States ought to have the right
to take care of their own hurricane
damage.
The committee left intact a So
100000 fund for new census
building here to serve as headquar-
tiers tor the thousands of workers
on the 1910 census, but cut $1,000, :
600 from the So, 800 900 asked for in
sect pest and plant disease control
and 100000 from the $3.50, 900 asked
for administration of the Wage
Hour Act.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Ickes Will Not Remove
Smoky Mountain Head

Secretary Of the Interior Ickes
made it clear at a press conference
today that he is not going to remove
Supt. j. Ross Eakin of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park as
demanded by Senator Kenneth D.
Mckellar, Democrat, of Tennessee.
Senator McKellar had charged
that Supt. Eakin, Republican ard
civil service appointee, had packed
the park staff with employees who
are from other States than Ten
nesee and many of whom are Re-
publicans.
Il would not remove a man except
Tor cause and his political affilia-
ton is not cause Secretary Ickes
said today in reply to the charges.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Chest Deficit CurtuiIs
Rehabilitation Work

Reform, work with released pris-
oners and their families here has
been curtailed by the Community
Chest campaign deficit, Joseph E.
Dayton, director of the Bureau of
Rehabilitation, said today.
Mr.. Dayton said that if the Chest
budget had been reached, the bu-
reau, one of the affiliated Chest
agencies. would have had 81 900 more
for relief work.
Recent months have seen twice
the usual number of men coming
to us for guidance" Mr.. Dayton
said. "The community has a re-
sponsibility to help the wives apd
innocent children of prisoners MAIN
tain their homes and decent living
standards while Furnishing offenders
against the law or trying to re-
habilitate them"
The bureau is located at 424
Fifth street NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Kennedy Assai|s
Use Tax Feature
Of D. {. Program
House Member Describes
1t as q Hardship
On Honesty

The so-called "use tax" feature
OF the proposed 2 per cent sales tax
for the District was condemned to-
day by Representative Ambrose ].
Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland,
who described it as hardship on
honesty"
Mr.. Kennedy, ranking majority
member of the House District Com
mlttee, who turned down the chair
manship in order to remain at the
head of the Claims Committee, said
he would have more comment to
make later on the new tax program
as whole, but right now he is
deeply concerned over the "use tax
The "use tax was recommended
as a weapon to threaten District
residents who might attempt to
evade the sales tax by making pur-
chases in nearby Maryland or Vir-
ginia. The plan is to levy a 2 per
cent tax on all commodities i'm
ported into the District in excess
OF s25 a month, providing they
would be subject to the sales tax
here.
Il can't see the practicability of
SUCH plan" declared Mr.. Kennedy.
Il don't know how it could be
worked. The merchants in nearby
Maryland and Virginia are not going
to collect the tax for the District.
And how will District authorities
know when resident goes into
these States and makes purchases
to escape the tax? And what will
the honest person do who happens
to make purchase outside the Dis
trlct? suppose he'll have to call
up the commissioners and tell them
to send some one out to collect the
tax
such a plan, it seems to me, is
placing hardship on honesty"
Mr.. Kennedy is the first member
OF the District Committee to criticize
tne tax program since its formal
presentation Monday to the House
ana Senate. He said he had only
mace cursory examination of the
tax report, but after a more COM
plete analysis he would elaborate
on his views.
Two years ago, Representative
kennedy headed a special sub.
committee of the District Commit
Tee, which wrote the first "stop gan"
tax legislation for the District
legislation that gave birth to the
present business privilege tax on
gross receipts which is scheduled
70 expire at the close of the present
fiscal year June 80.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Reserves to Hear ToIk
On War in Far Eost

Maj. Blythe G. Jones. United
States Marine Corps, recently re-
turned from China, will be the
speaker before the George WASH
ington Chapter, Reserve Officers AS
sociation, in the auditorium of the
Virginia Public Service Co. at AL
exandria on Monday night.
Maj. Jones will discuss The Chi
nese-Japanese War Mai. Jones
served in various parts of China
during his tour of duty and was in
Shanghai when it was bombarded
and finally captured by the Japa-
neSe.
A new-type target weapon will be
available for the officers to show
their craftsmanship after the meet
ing, according to 1t. Col. Guy N.
Church, president of the chapter.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Andrews Suggests
Wage-Hour Law
Amendments
Employer Should Be
Relieved of Retroactive
Penalties, He Says

BY the Associated Press.
Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour ad
ministrator, recommends three i'm
mediate changes in the Fair Labor
Standards Act.
Mr.. Andrews suggested these
amendments in testimony before a
House Appropriations Subcommit-
tee:
l. Simplification of the law with
out change in its fundamental prin-
ciples.
2. Provisions relieving an en-
ployer OF retroactive penalties If he
follows Mr.. Andrews advice and
later finds the advice bad by virtue
of court decisions.
3. Congressional definition of the
area Of agricultural production, in
which workers are partly exempt
from the act.
The law provides that an en-
ployer found by the courts to have
violated the law is subject to heavy
penalties, which in most cases, would
be retroactive.
Asserting that he and his lawyers
were called on many times to de-
fine general terms Congress wrote
into the statute, Mr.. Andrews told
the committee that both he and
industry would be better off If the
person receiving the advice would
be relieved from any retroactive ac-
ton in any court in the way of
awarding back wages, for instance. y
I'VE can now advise employers on
some questions. but there always is
a possibility that the courts might
overrule u.s." Mr.. Andrews said.
In answer to questions from SUBJ
committee members, the administra-
tor reported that wage-hour officials
had received about 5000 complaints
involving nom compliance with the
act. Most of them, he said, involve
borderline cases.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Dr.. Kinder Pleads
For Opera House as
Jefferson Shrine
Takes Stoge Following
Symphony Concert
To Urge Memorial

An audience filling Constitution
Hall to capacity last night for a
special National Symphony concert
heard Director Hans Kinder voice
a plea from the stage for the erec-
ton here of a symphony hall or
opera house as memorial to
Thomas Jefferson.
With foundation work on a wholly
different type of memorial already
under way, DR.. Kinder insisted that
washington should have ''the kind
OF cultural memorial that Thomas
Jefferson. who was cultured man
and musician, would have en-
joyed."
The orchestra gave the concert for
members Of the National SYMPHONY
orchestra Association. The mem
oers came from neighboring States
as well as Washington, and repre-
sented almost every walk of life,
Dr. Kinder said the friends of
the orchestra had made possible its
phenomenal success in the brief pc
flod OF eight years. The group now
plays from 10 to 80 concerts a season,
and tours as far north as Canada
and as far south as Florida.
DR.. Kinder said he had faith the
future OF the National Symphony
Will include the addition of II much
needed players, national con-
serVatory, an auditorium and an
opportunity to make good will tours
OF South America.
The program last night consisted
OF only two works-the Violin Con-
certo in d Major" and the First
symphony IN c Minor" by Brahms.