davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-12-13

lars can't fix" assures Woody, who,
after seeing the rough cut of the
Evening star., 1939-12-13

a b a n d o n e d
movie, insisted
on the right to
finish it.
Leading Lady
Hedy Lamar is
W e a r n g h e
same dress as in
the first version,
but the figure
inside is differ
e n t. "Y O u
n o t ic e ?" she
queries, showing
me where the
dress had to bel
taken in a cou-
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Arts Club Plav

Life for the Living" bv Dorothy
Ann Rutherford, will be staged to-
morrow and FRIDAY nights bv the
Arts Club at the groups intimate
theater at the club headquarters,
2017 I street NV,
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Director Van Dyke Speaks
A Word for Hedy Lamar
Being a Further Report on That
Oft.Started, as Yet Unfinished,
4 Take This Woman
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

HOLLYWOOD.
This is the third time Dr. Spencer
lake lhs woman This is where came ago. grins
tracy anent
featuring its third director Woody Dyke Credit
resurrection belongs to Van Dyke There's nothing
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09
Will
Meet Next Year
At Meadow Fork
Minutes of Roaring River Pri-
mitive Bap. Assn. Prin-
ted and Distributed.

The Oath. annual session of the
Roaring River Primitive Baptist
Association will be held at Mea-
dow Fork church, two miles
south of Laurel Springs on Fri
day before the 4th. Sunday IN
September, 1910, according to an
announcement contained in the
Minutes of the 93rd. session
which have just been printed and
distributed.
There are five churches in the
Association and they are: Mea-
dow Fork, Rock Springs, Fender
Grove, Double Creek and Null
berry. The total number in fell
lowship is around rs.
Elder S. G. Caudill is modera-
tor, J. A. Miller, of Laurel
Springs clerk and F. T. Miller
Wagner, assistant clerk.
The 93rd. session was held with
the Mulberry church in Wilkes
county on September %, % and
oath.
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Mcclure, motored to johnson
City last Sunday to spend the
day with him.
Mrs. w. S. Miller has been ser
iously sick at her home.
A daughter, Sonia Lois, was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Conley
Worley on October 81.
Mrs. H. NJ. Winkler entertained
the ladies of Mill Creek and
Fleetwood at a quilting party on
November 2. Two lovely quilts
were finished by the social group
A community church sponsored
by Mr.. Tatum Brown, Mr.. Hamp
Greer and others is being or
ganized at Brentwood. Begin
ming Saturday, November IA
meeting will be held every Sat
urday evening in the old Greer
store building.
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VIC School And
Community News

The senior class sponsored a
party last Saturday evening in
the home economics building.
Games were played throughout
the evening and refreshments
were served by members of the
senior class.
The grade teachers sponsored a
Halloween carnival last Tuesday
evening. Proceeds will be used
for benefit of grade school libra
ry. The books have been ordered
and are expected to arrive before
the end of the month.
Mrs. Tene Duvall will be hos
tess to the Workers Council Fri
day evening at 7:30 o'clock.
At a recent meeting held by
officials of the Sunday school,
the following officers were cleo
ted for the ensuing year: Supt.,
Mr.. Duvall; secretary, Mrs. Ed
gar Ashley; teacher for adult
Glass;. M. w. Reynolds; assistant
teacher, John Dixon; young peo-
pies group, Miss Julia Hager; as
sistant, Mrs. Duvall; intermediate
group, MIR. Edgar Ashley; assist
ant. Miss Elizabeth Payne; child
ren's group, Mrs. ]. c. Pierce;
assistant, Mrs. M. N. Reynolds;
beginners, Mrs. Lula Huddler; as
sistant, Miss Minnie Haynes.
The Rev. Ma. Startling will hold
services here Sunday evening at
1880 o'clock.
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Stamps For Red
Cross Anniversary

Washington. - Four European
nations - Belgium, FIN a n d.,
France and Skitzerland-have is
sued commemorative postage
stamps to mark the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the signing of the
Treaty of Geneva which founded
the Red Cross movement.
Issuance of the Swiss stamp
was accompanied by special air
mail flights between Geneva and
Zurich. The event was recorded
for philatelists with special
cancellation on 50-centimes
stamp. Other Swiss commemora-
tives were issued at 20 and 80
centimes.
It was IS years ago that repre-
sentatives of Is nations met in
Geneva to sign a treaty which es-
tablished the neutrality of the
Red Cross on the battlefield. The
emblem of a red cross on a field
of white-the reverse of the
Swiss flag-was adopted in honor
of the native land of Henri Du-
nant, through whose efforts the
treaty convention was held. The
Belgium stamp issued this year
bears the likeness of Dunint as
he appeared shortly before his
death in 1910.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09
AGED Silas Greek
Woman Died Fri.
Mrs. Rosa FISHERMAN Died At
Her Home Last Friday At
ter Lingering Illness. :

Mrs. Rosa FISHERMAN, 81, after
a long illness, passed away last
Friday morning at TOO and was
buried at the old Peter Tester
man graveyard Sunday after
noon, with Revs. Jimmie Barker,
of Troutdale, Virginia and Ed
Mcclure, of Helton, officiating.
She was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Peter FISHERMAN who
lived and died in the same COM
munity. Thomas FISHERMAN,
grandfather of Mrs. FISHERMAN, is
said to have come from England
in ITS and served with the
Americans in the Revolution.
Mrs. FISHERMEN was married to
w. w. FISHERMAN, September "a,
1874. To them were born four
children, two passing away af-
ter becoming almost grown. The
other two, Arthur and Mrs. Jas.
Paisley, live near the old home
place in Helton. She also leaves
a husband who is in his ninety
first year, two brothers, Nelson,
of Helton, and Wilson, of New
Windsor, Maryland, a number Of
grand children and numerous
friends to mourn her loss. Mrs.
FISHERMAN was a good neighbor
and a faithful church worker,
having been member of Baptist
Chapel Church for more than fiji
ty years.
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controversy that has arisen from
his effort to change the date of
Thanksgiving from the last to
next to last Thursday in Novem-
ber).
The same message was sent to
Vice-President Garner and was
read to the senate.
In addition to requiring that
the belligerent governments in
European war zones, when buy
ing here, pay cash and furnish
ships to transport their purchas-
es, the bill passed today places
severe restrictions on American
shipping. The vessels of this ma
ton are forbidden to enter Eur
opean belligerent ports, and to
traverse combat zones as de-
lineated by the President.
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Todd School And
Community News

Miss Ruth Lewis has reorgan-
lied a girls glee club at Elkland.
The group includes about thirty
five members and Miss Lewis ex-
poets to have a better glee club
than ever before,
In the first unofficial game
played at Jefferson, Thursday
night, November 2, Todd boys
won by a score Of 25-15 and the
Jefferson girls won by a score of
1915.
The first issue of the Elkland
newspaper, "The Blue OK" was
issued Friday, November 8. Keen
interest in it's pages was dis
played by all the high school stu
dents.
The cast has been selected for
the play, Lighthouse Man."
which is to be given in Decem-
Der.
Honor Roll Announced.
The honor rolls for Elkland
high school for the month of Oct
ober are:
Citizenship-Celia Raglan, Thel-
ma Winebarger, Annie Norris,
Carolyn Bledsoe, Carrie Looka-
bill, Lucille Miller, Lovely Mil
Ter and Kathleen Ragan:
Scholarship - Nancy Lookabill,
Merrill Norris, Thelma Winebar-
ger, Annie Norris, L. D. Graham,
James Lookabill, Lucille Miller,
Carrie Lookabill and Kathleen
Ragan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Prince of
Beckley, West Virginia, announce
the birth of daughter, Saturday,
October %. Mrs. Prince was Miss
Ruth Holman of Todd.
Mr.. David Newton and family,
of Nankima, Washington, are Wis
iting at the home of Mr.. w. T. A.
Jones, of Toliver.
The recent conference trans
ferred Rev. and Mrs. H. o. Huss
to Stony Point, North Carolina.
Rev. w. w. Hager will fill the
Todd pulpit for the coming year.
Mr.. Vernon S. Ragan, who for
the past four years has been in
the marines in Peging, China and
Annapolis, Md, has returned to
his home. MIR. Ragan received
several honors during his four
years of service.
Mrs. J. B. Miller and small son
Joseph, are visiting with Mrs.
Miller's parents, DR.. and Mrs. w.
J. Robinson of Creston.
Little Martin Shelton, of Mar
tinsville, Virginia, is spending
several weeks with Mr.. and Mrs.
R. T. White.
Mr.. R. T. Winters, electrical
contractor, of Todd, is taking
treatn,ent at Volunteer Soldiers
Hospital in Johnson City, Tenn.
Mrs. Winters, accompanied by
Junior Graham and Miss Lucille
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House Voted Embargo Repeal
And Congress Adjourned Fri.

The special session of the 18th
Congress adjourned at 6:35 o.
clock Friday night after finally
approving the Roosevelt admin
istration bill to repeal the arms
embargo and substitute a system
of "cash and carry" sales to the
belligerent governments of Eur
ope.
The legislation, product OF six
weeks fighting as to the best
way to keep America free of war,
went to President Roosevelt for
his signature, scheduled to be af-
fixed at noon tomorrow. Cere-
monies will accompany the sign
ing of the measure, with mem
bers of house and senate who
were prominent in the long fight
attending.
From the White House, mean
while came word that soon at
ter approving the bill the chief
executive would issue proclama-
tions making it effective as ap-
piled to the war in Europe.
Final congressional action
came with the approval by both
branches of conference report
agreed to earlier in the day by
representatives of house and Sc
nate making one bill of the Sc
parate measures passed earlier by
each. The senate approved it SIS
to "a and the house vote was 243
to 172.
Despite a Republican effort to
keep congress in session, the adj
journment thereafter was COM
paratively uneventful. Debate on
motions to adjourn is forbidden
by the rules of both houses, so
nothing could be said. The senate
voted to end the session, 46 to Is,
and the house 223 to 189.
Thereafter, the membership
quickly filed out and there were
few present in the house to hear
the reading Of message from
the President expressing the hope
that world events will not make
it necessary to have any other
extraordinary session" and ex-
tending his best wishes for a
pheasant Thanksgiving and a
merry Christmas.
One additional line brought a
loud laugh from those who had
waited.
MAY I add that l hope those
members in the states where gov
vernors have set November 80 as
Thanksgiving day will celebrate
both Thanksgivings-on the 23rd
and We 3Oth.",,
! (Tha President referred to the
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Senter District
Assn. Minutes
Are Distributed
87th. Session To Be Held At
The Horse Creek Church.
Twelve Churches.

Minutes of the 86th annual ses-
sion of the Senter District Print
tive Baptist Association, held
with the Church at Big Helton on
September 8, 8, and 10, have been
printed under the direction of
Clerk F. T. Miller, of Wagner,
and are now being distributed.
There are IL churches in the
Association and the total men,
bership is over 500. Big Helton
church has the largest number in
fellowship, 81 and next comes
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THURSDAY, NOV. 9. 1889

Pond Mountain with II and SEN
ter with 70.
The ordained elders are E. Da-
Wis, G. D. Rotten, w. w. Davis,
Blair Kilby and Ed Ham. The
churches are Senter, Roan's
Creek, Bear Creek, Beaver Greek.
River View, North Fork, Pleasant
Grove, Pond Mountain, Horse
Creek, Big Helton, Silas Creek
and Cranberry.
The next session of the Asso-
citation will be held at the Horse
Creek church, beginning on Fri
day before the second Sunday in
September, 1910. Elder Ed Davis
is moderator.
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ENTERTAINED AT DANCE

Miss Selma Bare entertained a
number of friends at an old-tlme
square dance at her home at
Glendale Springs, last Wednes-
day night.
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by Hubert Severt, Jack
Miller, Clayton Sheets, and Ed
Sheets. Around 35 guests were
present for the dancing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

Present indications are that the
number of cattle and lambs fed
in 1939-4O feeding season will be
larger than in the 1938-39 sea-
son reports the u. S. Bureau of
Agricultural Economics.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09
CAPE FEAR VALLEY WILL
OBSERVE 2OOth ANNIVERSARY
FAYETTEVILLE. N. c.. Oct. 6

FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Oct. 6
- Commencing November 49,,
Fayetteville will observe a gala
week of festivals, parades, and
pageants concentrating 200
years of Scotch settlement of the
Upper Cape Fear Region of North
Carolina. +. -.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

Foreign trade of the United
States in September of this year
increased in value compared
with both August and September
of 1888, with war conditions play
ing a part in both import and ex-
port trade.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

To really appreciate how
cheap electricity is today, we
should consider how much
work a kw-hr. will do. There
fore, lets compare kW-hrs. to
man power hours. Did you ever
try to climb the Washington
monument? I did once and 1
would not Gimp it again for
$500 and I do not believe you
would take a contract to climb
it once every day for much less
than that as it requires $4,000
foot pounds of work to raise the
average mans $50 pounds up
the 500 foot climb. While on the
other hand 1 kw.-hr. will raise
40 people in the elevator to the
top at cost of only .02c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

G. T. Robbins, Div. Mgr.
"Your friendly neighbor"
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llZZ


With last weeks article or
lighting the Bathroom" we
have concluded our series of ar
ticles on lighting the home. We
hope that some of the ladies of
Ashe County may have derived
something useful from our eff
forts. If we can ever be of any
;assistancet to you in planning
electrical installations please do
not hesitate to call on the wri-
ter.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-11-09

We wish to extend our well
come to the new Methodist pas
tors, Rev. H. H. Wood, West
Jefferson's new pastor and Rev.
H. D. Jessup, Jefferson's new
pastor. Let us all join together
in making their work success
full and their stay in Ashe
County the happiest years of
their lives.
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''When you buy electricity you
buy work..
Evening star., 1939-04-09
.&G
IS Fair
a, and
.: plans

ection of the Fair. with the great British
empire building towering over the gaily
trped tentlike entrance rotunda. Gardens on
Parade will be, in effect. mammoth flower
how, with the flowers growing in their natural
ut of door element More than fifty gardens,
{ every kind imaginable, will be included:
3rmal gardens informal gardens, woodland
ardens. perennial gardens, tropical gardens.
ock gardens. water gardens. naturalistiC gar
ems, rose gardens, boxwood garden. an es-
alier fruit garden. even a garden of unusual
rasses
Throughout the gardens, varicolored umbre
IS and garden furniture will add their touches
gayety and reality. Lily pools will combine
nth the masses of bloom to make the place a
ruardeners paradise The central motif will be a
n aixurious circular garden, the Havemeyer
Png iemorial, in memory of the late president of
Plaae Horticultural Society of New York. Theo
exore A. Havemeyer. Here. from row of weep
dug cherry trees planted as a hub, four paths
h.' il emanate like spokes of a gorgeous wheel.
scrsetween the spokes. the four garden plots will
|pere massed with ANIMALS of contrasting colors.
30 hingled with beds of rare plants and set off by
Pry. .Oups of unusual shrubs.
|nati
Evening star., 1939-04-09

Then. outside the Havemeyer circle. the
other gardens will extend in all directions to the
limits of the grounds: to the creek at one side,
to the long, low exhibition hall at the other.
At one end will be greenhouses, and restaurant
where garden-lovers may eat amid the sights
and scents of the show, while an orchestra
soOthes the ears, too, with garden music
1t is all labor of love with Mrs. Harold
Irving Pratt. A member of one of the wealth.
lest families in America she could just as we'll
sit in corner of her own lovely gardens, and
never lift finger as to push herself from here
to there making it possible for the rest of the
world to enjoy gardens. Nevertheless, that is
what she has spent good part of her life doing.
Gardens and gardening, she thinks, are much
too inspiring and ennobling - too healthy"
she herself less dramatically puts it - to be
the exclusive province of the rich. And though
Gardens on Parade will be worthy of all the
circus adjectives hitherto applied to them,
they will aim primarily to help you and me and
the folks next door to go home and do likewise
- or, at least, approximately likewise.
1t goes without saying that Mrs. Pratt her
self will get considerably less than nothing out
of the project, in material way. Though the
plan is to make it pay for itself by charging
admission, she will undoubtedly have put
enough money into her own personal expenses
in connection with the enterprise, before it is
through, to finance good many ordinary
gardens And that doesn't count her expendi-
ture of energy, or the inevitable headaches that
60 with directing any big undertaking. Nor does
it count the contributions of hundreds Of trees,
shrubs and plants from her own estate, which
contributions will remain, after the Fair, to
adorn the public park that the city of New
York plans to make of the site.
Mrs. Pratt today is gray-haired and has
(Continved on poee 12)
Fifty sofdens will surround this
gigantic circular display in the
worlds greatest flower exhibit
Below: Five million people will
poss through this rotundo into
the fobvIov. "Gorden. on Porode''
From tie original sketch by Riekord Dslono
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Ramsay Services Set
Tentatively for Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mr.. and Mrs.
William Ramsay, who were found
shot to death in their residence,
3053 Sixteenth street NV, Friday,
have been set tentatively for to-
morrow afternoon at the S. H. Hines
Co. funeral home, 29O1-7 Fourteenth
street NV.
In issuing certificates of murder
and suicide, Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald attributed the 77-year-
old retired jewelers. act primarily to
i'll health.
Mr.. Ramsay was born in Chicago
of Scotch parents. He went to Glas-
gov to learn the watch trade. and
settled in Washington, for years
operating jewelry shop in the 1900
block of F street NV. He was a
life member and a former. vice
president of the Horological Insti-
tute. He is survived by a daughter
by his first marriage, Mrs. Jean
Ramsay Chase of Miami, Fla, and
granddaughter.
Mrs. Ramsay was former treas
urer of the Starmont Aid for Con.
sumptives and chaplain of the
Eleanor Wilson Chapter of the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton, under the regency of Mrs.
Robert Vandenbergh, and an ac-
tive worker in the Crittenton Home.
Prior to her marriage to Mr. Ram
say, she had been his assistant
and bookkeeper.
Besides her stepdaughter, Mrs.
Ramsay is survived by two sisters.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
5000 Park Savings
Checks Are Unclaimed

More than 5000 depositors of the
closed Park Savings Bank have
failed to call for their dividend
checks, averaging 1917 per cent of
each deposit, it was announced last
night by Receiver John F. Moran.
This latest dividend, which
amounts to total of about s4OO, ,OOO
was recently made available and
brought a rush of depositors to the
temporary Office of the receiver in
the Post Office Building at l4l3 Park
road.
But to his surprise Mr.. Moran
explained last night only about 5000
out OF the 1000 checks available
have been called for. He could
not estimate the amount of funds
represented in those checks still
available.
IT the owners want their checks
before Christmas, they can call at
the temporary Office during this
week, Mr.. Moran said, from 8 am.
to S pm, with the exception of
Saturday, when the Office will close
at noon.
The dividend is payable to all
general creditors of the bank who
have proved their claims.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Two Admit $1,570 Ho|dup
Of Coal Company

Chief of Detectives Bernard w.
Thompson announced yesterday aft
ernoon that two colored men had
confessed to the $3.50 robbery of
the Alaska Hufnagel Coal Co., in
which five persons were threatened
with a revolver last Saturday night.
One of the men, captured Friday
night by Detective Sergts. Robert
Bryant and Carl Schamp, gave his
age as % and an address in the
400 block of N street NV. The man,
Chief Thompson said, leaped sud-
denly from dark room, fourishing
revolver, as the detective sergeants
were searching a house in the 1900
block of Sixth and one-half place
NV, with a narcotics warrant.
The other confessor in the hold
up, Chief Thompson continued, was
suspect brought back from Will
mington, N. c., yesterday by Detec-
tive Sergts. Paul Ambrose and FL
mer Lewis, who had been on his
trail since Monday. He was 80 years
old and lived in the 1900 block of
Union street S.W., the detective chief
declared.
Only about 500 Of the money
taken in the robbery has been recov-
cred, police said. One of the men,
it was stated, lost $500 and spent
500 for . watch and coat for q
woman companion.
Evening star., 1939-12-17

There they had all the old Cohan
scripts-and I played some OF the
music on the piano. At the time,
the radio and stage were going back
into American music lore. So l
thought, why wouldn't it be a good
idea to pull all of this grand old
music out of the files. Down IN
Washington at the Catholic Uni
versity was a young playwright, Leo
Brady, who had made hit with his
first play, Brother Orchid" If Leo
could be inspired to write the script
we might 60 to town.
Written by Junior.
He came to Washington and
started Mr.. Brady, Junior in the
university, on the task of writing
Mr.. Cohan's life. When the script
was in presentable form they
phoned Mr.. Cohan, who asked to
see the script. It was sent to him
in New York and he mailed it back
without one blue pencil mark.
"Okay, boys" Mr.. Cohan wrote,
you've done good job
At the Players Club on Gramercy
Square and at the Lambs, of which
he was once president, Mr.. Cohan
told some of the old-time Broadway
stars, among them James r. Powers,
the comedian, that bunch of COL
lege boys down in Washington had
v1,ritfey, thu roha, life
"That'u be great. George" Jimmy
Evening star., 1939-12-17

Powers said. ''Let me know when
the first night is scheduled and I'll
meet you there-where the powder
smells" So Jimmy Powers is the
first man booked for seat at the
opening tomorrow night.
Tomorrow Night Counts.
It is not quite the opening, since
the play actually went into produc-
ton last night before a select group
at the University; but the people
who are putting this play on the
boards consider that only dress
rehearsal. There will also be an
other production tonight. That, too.
is considered in the realm of "try-
outs" The only performance that
counts, according to the cast, is the
real premiere tomorrow night when
Broadway-as represented by Mr..
Cohan and his fellow Thespians-
comes to Brookland.
Mr.. Brady, responsible for getting
the George M. Cohan character be-
fore the footlights. is only %. He
is native of Wheeling. w. Va. and
came to Washington six years ago
with his family. His father Is .