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the threat of Nazi economic domi- nation of King Carols nation, which has the oil and food needed by Germany in event of long war.
 Rumania, which Is signing new trade agreement with the Nazis, ap- pealed to Britain for assurances as to what support could be expected if King Carol resisted German overlordship and the dispatch of the commercial mission appeared to be part of the answer. Rumania necessarily must depend heavily on trade with the Reich but increased British trade would be likely to aid Bucharest in maintaining indepen- dence at least to limited degree.
 The mission is similar to the British trade mission-actually of greater political than economic importance-now in Warshaw and en route to Russia.
 With Nazis openly talking of a move to take over Memel or recover Danzig or eliminate the Polish corridor, the British cabinet was especially interested in the extent to which Russia will join in a united front.
 Indication of Answer
 An indication of the answer was reported to have been given when Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign com- missar, proposed to Sir William Seeds, the British ambassador at Moscow, the calling of nine-power conference to consider the crisis.
 These reports said Litvinov sug- gested that Poland, Rumania, Fur key, Jugoslavia, Greece and Bull garia meet with Britain, France and Russia. The British cabinet was understood to have discussed the proposal this morning after Ivan Maisky, the Russian ambassa- dor, visited the foreign office.
 Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain's government plunged into a series of conferences with British political leaders and foreign diplo- matic representatives which ap- peared constantly to be widening the scope of the stop Hitler" cam paign.
 Cabinet To Press On
 The cabinet this morning was
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Connecticut Man Made Supreme Court Justice
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 stock. His father was a missionary who emigrated from Nova Scotia to Maine, Minn., where Douglas died six years later, the family moved to Yakima, Wash, where young Bill grew up under conditions near the poverty level.
 He helped support his family and finance his education by following the traditional up-from-the-ranks route. He was newsboy, farm-hand, junk-dealer, sheep-herder and tutor.
 He tried basketball at Yakima high school and Topped; but pro- gressed with his studies, became class valedictorian and won a one year tuition scholarship at Whitman college in Walla Walla, Wash.
 He rode into Walla Walla in 1916 on a bicycle and with few dollars in his pocket. He kept himself at school for four years by working as a janitor, as an errand boy, a fruit picker and a waiter.
 He lived in a tent to conserve his funds during his last three years at college. He turned to teaching as a career, but after two years as an instructor at Yakima high school, he decided to become lawyer. He mailed his registration to Columbia University Law school, expressed his trunk to New York and "hopped" a freight. He rode the rods" into Chicago; was tipped by hoboes of the hazards of that form of trans 1 portation eastward, and arrived in New York in a day coach with $6 left.
 Douglas put himself through Col umbia law, finishing second in his class. He did 1t by tutoring and writing textbook. The Wall street law firm of Cratthjn D. Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood gave him a job. That was in 1925. What he learned about Wall street in three years with that firm helped formulate his phil osophy about the stock market and corporate financing.
 In 1928, he took 8 teaching post at Columbia. Then he went to Yale Law school where he served Under Dean Robert M. Hutchins. Later, when Hutchins became president of the University of Chi ! cago. he offered Douglas a profes- sorship at $20.000 year. Douglas was having too much fun at Yale and turned down the Chicago of- fer.
 At about that time, Joseph P. Kennedy was planning to resign as chairman of the SEC and was lc k ing for someone to fill vacancy on the commission. He read some pa- Ipers by DounglaS on corporate re- organization and bankruptcy. AL though he had never heard .L Doug las before, he investigated him and offered him the job. Douglas hopped at the chance. When Kennedy'S suc- cessor, James A. LanG.s quit to be- come law dean at Harvard, Douglas was the White House choice for the chairmanship.
 I Despite his rise to key place in the Roosevelt administration, Doug las remained the same easy-going, easy-to-see, -talk-to fellow. His only concession to affuence was to retain negro man of all work. named Rochester, combination gardener, butler and chauffeur. I Douglas is slim, sandy -haired. He looks 10 years younger than his age. He Is nearly six feet tall, long-leg- ged. loose-jointed. His complexion IS pallid except for spray of freckles on the forehead.
 His dress is informal, almost care-
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MORE SUICIDES
 IN SEIZED LANDS
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down a synagogue at Bruenn.
 German officials said arrests were on the decrease but declined to give figures.
 The government announced it was considering dealing with the problem of "the practice of medi- cine by non-Aryan doctors"
 Aryanization of all phases of life in Prague were proceeding at such a rate that it was obvious that there would be no reason to estab- fish the Nuremberg laws, which Field Marshal Goering reportedly had promised would not be done. These and other anti-Semitic measures will have been effectuated by the time the decrees could be put through.
 Camp In Poland
 Meanwhile British Minister Basil Cochrane-New and Wilbur J. Carr, United States Minister, con- ferred on establishing at Gydnia, Poland, a temporary camp to care for Czechoslovak refugees until they could get into other countries.
 Czechs were cold to Nazi show. What few complaints there were in Prague touched instances of German or Sudeten Nazis who molested small shopkeepers or confronted people in the streets. demanding to see their credentials.
 The Czechs boycotted the free food distributed in the city for needy by a cavalcade of trucks which toured the Reich handing out provisions and propaganda. Czech sources as- serted those who availed themselves of free food were chiefly Sudeten Germans.
 They snubbed yesterday one of the most impressive military parades that Nazi Germany ever has staged part of the "army day" celebration that is observed throughout the Reich.
 No Demonstration
 A crowd of little more than 5000 roughly half the number of troops that poured down Wenzels Platz- stoo silently on the curbs. There was none. of the jubilant demonstration to which German troops are &C., customed in the homeland. At least half the crowd seemed to be Nazis, either Sudeten or German. They carried little paper flags which the German propaganda organization had distributed free.
 Behind the crowd on the curb, Sunday sidewalk strollers went about their business. They did not bother to look at the goose-stepping troops.
 The demonstration, lasting two hours, included at least 200 tanks and great concentration of artil- lery of all types. General Wilhelm Blaskovitch. high commander of Bo- hemia. reviewing tEe parade from a special stand, watched infantry con- tingents. bicycle scouts, anti-aircraft detachment. flyers and engineers
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of all of the nations armed strength. The degrees also were expected to hold in the army indefinitely the reserve class which will have com pleted its training in April and send reinforcement into the Maginot line along the German border. This line has been manned at full strength since September.
 The mobilization of industry to speedup government rearmament contracts was expected to be partial at first, but production was expected to be expanded rapidly, particularly in the manufacture of war planes. The cabinet has authority to in- crease working hours and take any other step needed to bring the pro- duction of French plane factories to level with that of Germany.
 French Troops Get Orders
 Damascus, Syria, March 20-CUP) Leaves of French troops were can- celled and the men held ready in barracks today as unrest spread throughout Syria.
 Actual demonstrations were con- fined to Damascus, where crowds de- manded the termination of the French mandate over Syria by a declaration of independence. Troops patrolled the streets here.
 The decrees, intended to turn all France into a workshop and to in- tensify military precautions, were the first move in carrying out Dal- adier's program to guard against the European dictatorial powers by acting in dictatorial fashion.
 Calling of specialists such as machine-gunners, anti-aircraft troops, and members of the signal corps for operation behind the Mag mot line-on the German frontier was provided for in the decrees.
 The Bourse was weak as a result of general political nervousness in Paris but recovered part of its losses when mbany wild rumors cir culating in the capital were proved to be without basis. One of these rumors was that Pierre Laval, form CT premier, would go to Rome to negotiate with Italian Premier Be- nito Mussolini on Fascist demands in the Mediterranean prior to Mus solinis speech next Sunday when he may formally announce his pro- gram.
 It was learned that Paris and London were considering the possi- bility of some sort of direct contact in an effort to solve the French Italian quarrel, but nothing has been done so far.
 To See Mussolini
 The possibility of some quick move by France or London to get ir touch with Mussolini aroused wide spread speculation, particularly sheet it was considered necessary to act before King Victor Eman- uel of Italy, speaks on Thursday as a prelude to Mussolini's address.
 Laval discussed the question witt Daladier yesterday but it was not believed he would be picked for such 8 mission If it were decided to make the effort.
 Well informed sources understood that, in event of a move is made France would attempt to satisfy Mussolini and thus wean him away from Hitler without sacrificing ar inch of French soil. That might be done by certain concessions regard ing utalian residents of Tunisia sale to Italy of that part of the French-owned railroad from Dji. bouti to Addis Ababa which is inside Ethiopia; granting to Italy free zone privilege at the port of Dji- bouti without infringing on French SOVereignty there.
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chairman of the securities and ex change commission:

chairman of the securities and ex- change commission:
 Negotiated virtual 100 per cent compliance with Sne death Sen- tence" clause of the 1885 utilities holding company act:
 Obtained reorganization of the New York Stock Exchange admins tration to make it a free market in- stead of rich mans club;"
 Initiated steps to bring over-the- counter markets under some form of regulation;
 Completed during his administra- tion an exhaustive study of invest ments trusts which will go to Con- gress within a few weeks;
 Promulgated regulations designed eliminate short-selling which tended to depress markets rnduly but re- gently modified their regulations to obtain freer market.
 In Stock Market
 Douglas once tried his hand at stock market speculation during his brief and not too happy career as a Wall Street lawyer.
 He purchased small quantity of stock at $9 a share and sold out two weks later at $28.75. A few days afterward the price dropped back to $9.
 Although he profited, Douglas never forgot that experience. He WIS shocked by the thought that many other persons in his same modest circumstances probably pur- chased the stock at the peak only to be virtually wiped out for no ap- parent reason.
 The memory of that first and last fling at speculation was still vivid when 10 years later he was called to Washington to serve as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. A few years later when he was elected chairman of the commission, he announced that his chief concern would be the "protec- tion fo investors"
 Douglas friends and enemies iIl- variably agreed that he had at least one virtue-brutal frankness. Doug las said he didn't like the tradi. tional administration of the New York Stock Exchange. He said il was a rich mans club" He said the little fellow" didn't have a chance. And that he proposed to dc something about 1t. The result was reorganization of the stock market with its first paid president, Will liam McChesney Martin, like Doug las, comparatively young man. -Winger
 Wall street called him 'left. winger." Douglas said the street wa all wrong.
 What kind of a bird am IF" ht asked news men w.len he was elect ed chairman. ITO tell you the truth I think that I am really 8 brett! conservative sort of fellow from tn, old school, perhaps school too olt to be remembered. think that from the point of view of investors the one safe, controlling and guid ing stand should be conservativ, standards of finance -- no monke. business. am the kind of conserva tive who can't get away from tn, idea that simple honesty ought t, prevail in the financial world"
 Bill Douglas-he prefers Bill t. William-and Orville freezes him. came from Scotch Presbyterian
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RED LIGHT HAS
 BEEN EXPLAINED

Cambridge, Mass, March 20- (UP)-Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings were bathed in Red light instead of the usual white last night.
 At first Harvard students were accused of painting the floodlight lenses, but later newspapers received letters from "the student league for industrial democracy. berating Hit Ter and Mussolini and explaining:
 "To bring home the sincerity of this protest the floodlights of M I. T. will bathe that cradle of free thinking in flapd of crimson lights, symbolic of the blood of the tor tllred millions in Europe
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international law and justice or the principle of self-determination of nations.
 "Eighthly, in the opinion of the Soviet government, the actions of the German government, far from eliminating any danger to universal peace, have on the contrary created and enhanced this danger, violated political stability in Central Europe, increased clements of alarm already previously created in Europe, and dealt fresh blow to the feeling of security of peoples.
 T have the honor to ask you to convey the above to your eovern- ment."
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less. In his office. he often sits with his feet on the desk. At other times, he lunches himself in his chair, feet sprawled out. He is chain cigarette smoker; talks rapidly but never excitedly.
 Douglas doesn't mix much in cap- ital society. He's too busy. He lives in a modest home on the outskirts of Washington.
 He married his boyhood sweet heart, the former Mildred M. Riddle, of La Grande. Ore, during sum- mer vacation from his studies at Columbia. They have two children of primary school age. Mildred and William.
 Douglas went to Fort. Worth, Tex, not so long ago to deliver a speech. He was met at the train by dele gation of prominent citizens. They addressed him as MT. Chairman" and MT. Douglas" He quickly re- alized they were Texans: that the formalitieS were real effort.
 So he said: "Call me Bill. boys
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CONSPIRACY CASE
 RESUMES TUESDAY
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by Special Investigator George l.. Greer of the Alcorn staff.
 Bartholomew Scannel, clerk in the tax assessors office, who brought the tax lists to the trial, under sub poena, will be on the stand toHlor- row to identify the books, unless Judge Inglis refuses to admit them as evidence. 6cannel Is the 18th witness in the trial.
 Defense counsel argued at length against the admission of both ex- hibits. Attorney Sidney s. Cassells objections to the admission of the tax lists, was especially well pre- pared, and contained numerous ci- tations of supreme court decisions relevant to the issue at stake.
 Further Arguments
 Further arguments on ,he issues will be heard by Judge Inglis tomor- row before he makes his ruling, he indicated. Defense and state coun- sel were afforded an opportunity of filing briefs with Sudge Inglis during the week end as well.
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn has in- dicated tf.at a Bristol assessor will be called to the stand very soon to show records, attempting to bring out that Donate Pietraorio, Bristol trucker, never owned any trucks. An official of the motor vehicles bureau will be called by the state to testify with reference to trucks registered | in the names of defendant contrac- tors and truckers.
 Complications
 The illness of Assistant Prosecutor Mitchell, who is also a representa- tive in the general assembly, will complicate matters for the state staff in the prosecution, for Assist ant Special Prosecutor Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr.. is also member of the house, ir fact majority leader and house chairman of the judiciary committee.
 It had been the practice of the two officials to alterr>ate in their attendance at trial and assembly, in that manner, never leaving Spe- cial Prosecutor Alcorn without an assistant at the trial.
 Should Assistant Prosecutor AL corn attend the general assembly during the illness of Mitchell, his ! father will be alone at the trial. On the other hand should he neglect the assembly and concentrate on the trial exclusively, his absence from the assembly will be noted.
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march proudly through the square and down and out of sight into the crooked streets of ancient Prague.
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A Chinese chef in New York city chop suey.
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RUSSIA IS MORE
 BITTER AT HITLER

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FRANCE ON WAR
 FOOTING APRIL 1

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The cabinet this morning was
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

Construction on the Ashe coun-
ty Hospital is scheduled to COM
mence next Tuesday, August 20.
Members of various committees
and WPA officials are now max
ing final plans to launch the cree
ton of a 24-bed, stone-veneered,
$4,000 hospital on the old dormi-
tory site between the JeffersonS.
In commemoration of the sig
nificant occasion, a Construction
Starting Ceremony will be held
on the hospital location site next
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
Prof. r. E. L. Plummer, chairman
of the building committee, has
announced.
]. J. Thomas, of Grassy Creek,
president of the First National
Bank and a liberal contributor to
the hospital, will turn the first
shovel of earth for the new Hos
pital and Congressman r l..
Doughton will be present and
make short talk, Prof. Plummer
stated.
Call county officials, members
of hospital committees, contribu-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24
Old Copper Mine In Watauga
County Will Be Re-Opened

RALEIGH. Resumption, after
40 years of mining operation
full of promise for Northwest
North Carolina was announced a
few days ago by H. j. Bryson,
state geologist in the department
of conservation and development.
This is the re-opening of the
Elk Knob copper mine, in Wa
tauga county, some miles north
east of Boone. The mine is being
operated by the Carolina Copper
Corporation, one of the few min
ing companies financed largely
by North Carolina capital. It is
headed by John L. Crist of Char
lotte as president, with Leland G.
Atkins, of Charlotte, as secretary
treasurer.
Plans of the company, as an
nounced by Bryson, call for the
erection of a crushing and flota-
ton mill, for handling the ore, at
the mine upon completion of core
drilling now in process.
For many years before 1900,
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Construction On Ashe County
Hospital To Start On Tuesday

tors and the public generally are
cordially invited to attend" he
said.
Hospital committees are busy
this week getting deeds to land
made out, incorporating papers
completed and perfecting other
arrangements.
A special appeal is being made
for all those who have made
pledges to send in payments to
Roy Badger, treasurer. The mo-
ney will be needed at once to
purchase materials, Wade Eller
states.
The series of concerts conduct
ed by Don Richardson under the
sponsorship of the Jeffersons Ro-
tary Club for the benefit of the
Hospital, ended last Saturday
night.
1--WE are deeply grateful to Mr..
Richardson and to his associate
artists, Misses Marie Roseman
and Elinor Niven," Mr.. Eller said.
Lester Stump has been selected
as foreman of the job. Construc-
ton on the community house
here is practically completed.
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the Elk Knob vein of copper was
worked, even though, in those
days, it was necessary to haul the
ore laboriously over the noun
tains in wagons to Abingdon, Va.
With good highway available
for trucking now, the opportunity
to make the mine a profitable
venture is greater, Bryson point
ed out.
Preliminary tests have shown
the vein to be unusually rich,
showing from 10 to 16 per cent.
copper, Bryson explained. In ad-
dition, the vein reveals from ST
to $14 of gold per ton and small
percentage of silver.
'There is no reason why this
mine should not become one of
the leading copper and gold pro-
ducing mines in the South" Bry-
son said, adding, IF it was pro-
fitable to work this mine 40 years
ago when there were no trucks,
no roads and no railroad nearby,
it certainly is going to be prof.
table now"
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Church Bound Over To Ashe
Superior Court Under Bond
Hearing Held in Courthouse
Friday. Large Crowd.
Bond Set at $1,000.

In a he?ring before Magistrates
Paul Williams and H. c. Tucker,
held in the courtroom in Jeffer-
son last Friday morning, Clifford
Church was bound over to the
October term of Ashe superior
court under bond of $4,000, on a
murder charge CT shooting and
killing his wife.
The defense did not offer any
evidence and at the conclusion
of the States testimony, law
yers for both sides held a con-
ference end mutually agreed
upon a bond of $4,000, which
was accepted by the magistrates.
Church was represented by
quite an array of legal counsel.
Appearing for him were Ira T.
Johnston, T. c. Bowie and Eu-
gene T'rivette, of North Wilkes
boro and T. c. Bowie, Jr. For the
plaintiff were Attorneys Will Lo-
veil and Ed Bingham, of Boone.
The defendant is also under
suspended federal whiskey SEN
tence, but federal officers agreed
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Skating Rink To
Open Here Fri
New Amusement Center LO-
Gated in old VannOy Pro.
Bldg. DOggett Manager.

The West Jefferson Skating
Rink. the first roller skating rem
devious ever established in Ashe
county, will be formally opened
here tomorrow night, at Z o'clock.
The new skating rink is located
in the old Vannoy Produce Build
ing located here in town just be-
low Badgers Funeral Home. A.
M. Robinson, of Premiere, w. Va,
is owner of the building
Tor, 'n1ggett. well known ar7
popular manager of the West JEFF
ferson hotel, is manager OF the
skating rink.
The building has been remodel
led, center posts removed and a
smooth, hardwood floor laid.
Mr.. Doggett announced that
"everything is free" the opening
night. A loud speaker will be in
stalled and several exhibition
stunts given.
The skating rink will be open
every night from 7 until II and
no charge is made for spectators.
"We have the skates, but may
be you had better bring the pill
lows to fall on" Mr. Doggett de-
clared.