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Evening star., 1939-12-18

read the letter Mr.. Phillips wrote to
Mr.. Witt, and asked:
Nov do you want to change or
correct your previous statement?"
Il do not" he replied. =.
Mr.. Toland led up to the disclosure
Of the purported telephone CONVEX
sation between Mr.. Phillips and Mr..
Greenfield by asking the witness II
he ever threatened a respondent by
saying "Ill get you"
II may have said something to a
respondent to the effect that if he
did not obey the law I would issue a
complaint"
Assistant District Attorney Laskey
then arose from q seat near Mr..
Toland, took an oath, and exhibited
a photostatic copy of the purported
telephone conversation, the original
of which, he said, was left in the
files in the Cincinnati office.
The excerpt in the letter to which
Mr.. Toland called particular atten-
ton quoted Mr.. Phillips as saying to
Mr.. Greenfield:
well, don't talk to me until you
want to, but when you do, I may be
hard to see. You can't talk to the
Government of the United States
that way. I tell you, Greenfield, I'll
get you"
Greenffeid's Reply.
Ihe memorandum shows that Mr..
Greenfield replied:
You're going to get me, Is that
what you're saying?"
The conversation then continued
as follows:
Mr.. Phillips-I'm going to enforce
the law. I am telling you this, you
can't disobey the law and get away
with 1t.
Mr.. Greenfield have somebody
listening in on this conversation and
I'll use it.
Mr.. Phillips-The law is here to
be obeyed.
Mr.. Greenfield told you had
been advised about the law. Silver
(board field examiner) no doubt told
you all about it.
Mr.. Phillips-1f Slyer advised me
would not have asked you about it
The memorandum ends with this
statement in parenthesis:
cThereupon Mr.. Greenfield hung
up IN Mr.. Phillips ear)
Mr.. Phillips earlied had told the
committee he had been strictly
neutral" in the conduct of his Office
The witness made the statement
IN response to question by Mr.
Toland as to what instructions he
had received from the board as tt
his attitude and policy with respect
to various labor unions.
ITO keep strictly neutral, and ]
have kept myself that way came
the reply.
Mr.. Phillips also pointed out he
never issued a complaint until he
had exhausted every conceivable
effort" to settle a case.
Miller Report Demanded,
Before Mr.. Phillips began his tes-
timony, Representative Murdock
Democrat, of Utah demanded that
a report from the boards files re-
lating to James P. Miller, former
regional director in Cleveland, be
read into the report.
The report was made by Robert M
Gates, board investigator, and re-
lated chiefly to details of a dinner
Mr.. Miller attended in New York, in
March as the guest of Glenn O
Smith. director of the E. w. Bliss
Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y, an incident
Mr.. Miller discussed in detail while
on the witness stand Saturday.
Committee Counsel Toland object
ed to reading of the report at this
time. pointing out that Miller
would be recalled to the witness
stand in January and that he want
ed to proceed without further de-
lay in the examination of Mr.. Phil
lips. The committee, however, Or
Evening star., 1939-12-18

.dered the report read. The docu-
ment covered Is pages.
Mr.. Miller in his testimony Sat-
urday, said his attendance at the
dinner was one Of the incidents
leading to his forced resignation as
the regional director in Cleveland.
After reading of the lengthy re-
port, Chairman Smith asked Mr..
Toland II the boards files revealed
whether any action had been taken
against Mrs. Gilmore Herrick, board
regional director in New York and
two other board employees who also
attended the dinner "for which Mr..
Miller was fired"
Not the slightest as far as we
have been able to ascertain" Mr..
Toland replied.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Berlin
Continued From First Page.)

Hague agreement of 1907 and said
Uruguay had contravened interna-
tional law in granting only u hours
for repairs to the battle-damaged
German warship. They expressed
belief Uruguay acted under British
pressure.
Although not committing them
selves directly, these sources voiced
the opinion that if Uruguayan re-
sponsibllity for the scuttling of the
Admiral Graf Spec can be proved,
Germany can demand reparation for
an illegal act.
Langsdorif Cites Article.
Capt. Hans Langsdor1 of the Ad-
miral Graf Spec in letter Of pro-
test last night over ~Uruguay's time
limit also cited Article XVII of the
Hague Convention, saying 1t pro-
vided "warships belonging to bel
ligerent nations may be granted
stays in neutral ports sufficiently
long to permit repairs indispensable
to security of their navigation
Earlier the official German news
agency, DNB, said the Nazi minister
to Uruguay had protested against
the order yesterday expelling the
Graf Spec as fragrant breach of
international law"
Uruguay under a fragrant breach
of international law and usage re-
fused to grant the damaged warship
permit for the stay self evident
under the circumstances as needed
for re-establishing seaworthiness, :"
DNB reported.
Tells of Mani Flights.
Scuttling of the Graf Spec and
Nazi air force reconnaissance flights
over France and Great Britain high
lighted today's army high command
communique.
Artillery action between the Mo-
selle River and the Palatinate Forest
was reported at "livelier."
The communique. covering opera
tions yesterday, follows:
Between the Moselle River and
the Palatinate Forest, artillery was
lvelier on both sides. The air force
carried out reconnaissance flights in
East France and the North Sea.
German planes in the north ad-
vanced as far as the Shetland Is
lands and in the south as far as
Portsmouth. At several places they
chased English vanguard ships and
coast guard vessels from their posi-
tions.
"One vanguard ship was sunk by
bomb. -(The British admiralty an
nounced the 487-ton British steamer
Serenity was bombed and sunk In
an air raid of the northeast Eng
lish coast. In the evening Eng
lish planes attempted to reach the
German coast. The armored ship
Admiral Graf Spec was not granted
necessary time from the Uruguayan
government it needed in re-estab-
fishing seaworthiness. The Fuehrer,
supreme commander of the army,
therefore ordered the command to
blow up and destroy the armored
ship outside territorial waters. This
was done December II at about 8
o'clock"
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

in any paper outside Cincinnati ex-
cept in johnson City, Tenn. He
said his file and one with the As
sociatedIPress would show that there
was a local election in Cincinnati
the day the Empire decision was
released and that the wire chief,
instead of being ION the job. neglect
ed to send the story" The wire
chief, he declared, has admitted
his error"
A few moments later Mr.. Toland
Evening star., 1939-12-18
High Court 10 Rule
On Federal Flood
Control Program
Arguments Set Jan. 70
On OkIohomu's Suit
To Halt Dam

- the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court today ordered
oral arguments on litigation poten-
tally involving constitutionality of
the Federal Governments huge
flood control program.
Specifically, it called for argu-
ments January % on whether Okla
homa should be permitted to insti-
tute proceedings in the high tri-
bunal seeking to enjoin Secretary
Of War Woodring from proceeding
with construction of the $54, 900 900
Denison (TexD Dam.
Some lawyers expressed the opin-
Ion that the court might pass on
the merits of the controversy in its
written opinion announcing whether
or not the State was entitled to
file its complaint against Secretary
Woodring
This procedure has sometimes been
followed by the court. There was
no assurance, however, that it would
be followed in this case The court
would have the opportunity to make
known its views if it so desired.
Other Actions.
Among other actions before ad-
journing until Tuesday, January 2,
the court:
Sustained 1888 Federal income
tax deficiency assessed against
George w. Griffiths of Chicago on
the ground that he should not be
exempted because of the formation
of wholly owned corporation. :"
The Government had contended that
Mr.. Griffiths formed the corporation
in an effort to reduce and postpone
payments of taxes for that year
Justice Frankfurter delivered the
unanimous opinion.
Dismissed, "for want OF a sub
stantial Federal question: a Gov
ernment petition asking that the
court set aside a decision by the
Maryland Public Service Commits
sion barring from the State roads
trucks used to transport w. P. A..
workers from Baltimore to An
napoliS.
Sustained, in a decision by Justice
Douglas, an Arkansas unemploy-
ment compensation tax against
bath house company, which claimed
1t was exempt because it operated
within the Hot Springs National
Park reservation.
Urges Decision on Merits.
Although urging a decision on the
merits of the Oklahoma complaint,
the Federal Government said the
Supreme Court had no jurisdiction
to entertain the suit
Solicitor General Robert H. Jack
son said in a brief that Oklahoma
was seeking to start the proceedings
originally in the Supreme Court on
the ground that there was con-
troversy between the State and a
citizen of another State (Secretary
Woodring of Kansas.
"The accidental fact that the
Office of Secretary of War is held
by q citizen Of a State other than
Oklahoma, Mr.. Jackson continued,
sis not sufiicient jurisdictional basis
for maintaining the bill.
Moreover, since the United States
IS the real party in interest, the suit
should be considered as one against
the United States, which has not
been Joined as defendant and has
not given its consent to be sued"
Evening star., 1939-12-18
London
Continued From First Page.)

Is two airplanes and lighter
weapons.
It was also confirmed in London
that the German steamer Antio-
CHA, 3,106 tons, was scuttled by her
crew last month when pursued in
the North Atlantic.
Britons acclaimed the past week
their best of the war at sea, marked
not only by the reported submarine
blows to the German cruisers, but
also by the scuttling of the German
pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec
and the sea battle across the At
lantic which sent her fleeing to
Montevideo.
The destruction of the German
warship by her own crew yesterday
was derided in the British press as
'ignoble suicide
Great Britain sees in the scuttling
of the Admiral Graf Spec evidence
that the German government ex-
poets defeat in the war, an official
spokesman said today.
Officials Receive Reports.
New praise was given to crews of
the British warships which drove
the Graf Spec to cover in Monte
video, while relief was expressed that
the casualty list in Wednesdays IA
hour battle was no higher than 72
dead and 81 wounded.
First Lord of the Admiralty VIM
efNyH Thl1rp1oin nthor Iirl,
ing naval officers remained at their
desks until late last night receiving
reports Of the battleship's destruc-
ton, but declined to issue state
ment.
It was announced 81 men were
killed and % wounded on the British
cruiser Exeter, which bore the brunt
Of the day-long battle of the Uru-
guayan coast, backed up by the
cruisers Ajax and Achilles.
The admiralty said a temporary
hospital ship had been dispatched
from Buenos Aires to take care of
the dead and wounded on the
Exeter, which was headed for the
British naval base in the Falkland
Islands.
New Ship Losses.
The week end brought new losses
10 British and neutral shipping.
Landing Of a crew of IA, who spent
seven hours in the open sea, dis
closed the sinking Of the 1,162-ton
British steamer Amble, which
struck q mine in the North Sea.
An unidentified Norwegian ship
was reported sunk of the coast OF
Scotland, and another was aground
near the northeast English coast.
Eight crewmen were reported miss
Ing in the sinking of the 321-ton
Norwegian steamer Strindheim, and
the crew of the Jotun, 534 tons, also
Norwegian, was rescued after she
ran ashore.
Lloyd's Reports on Losses.
While the Germans reported
1000, 900 tons of shipping, bound to
and from British ports, had been
sunk during the war, Lloyd's Ship
ping Gazette today said the British
merchant loss was 100 vessels and
404,005 tons. The publication said
the total allied losses were lib ships
representing 474 ,405 tons, and that
the Germans had lost 81 ships
representing 103,736 tons. Nineteen
German ships were reported cap
tured.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Gets Fur Piece Back

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18 R.-
Mrs. Lincoln Ellsworth, wife of the
polar explorer, discovered yester-
day her valuable fur muff was
missing. A short time later a taxi
cab driver in whose car it had been
left returned the fur.
Evening star., 1939-12-18

According to legend, Chinese his
tory begins about the year $500 B. C..
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07
White House Maintains
Traditions I30 Years Old

WASHINGTON. - Santa Claus
makes his 139th visit to the White
House this Christmas, carrying on a
tradition started December Is, 1900,
when Kris Kringle called on little
Savannah, granddaughter of Presi-
dent John Adams from Massachu-
sets.
The White House in those days
was in an unfinished state and the
great barnlike rooms were only
scantily furnished, providing a great
contrast to the beautifully appointed
mansion of today. Yet the same
joyous spirit prevailed on that
Christmas morning, more than a
century and a quarter ago, as that
found in the White House this Yule-
tide.
From early years of our country.
Presidents have set aside the heavy
burden of state and made merry
Christmas day with their families
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J. R. Phipps of the Silas Creek
community was another farmer
visited. Mr.. Phipps has just built
a $4,000 barn, silo and milk room
combination. He keeps about II
or IA Guernsey milk cows and
about 10 Hereford beef animals.
Like Mr.. Pennington he has a
nice home, equipped with electri-
cal power, and gets cash in
come from milk, beef cattle,
Irish potatoes, sheep, hogs and
hurley tobacco. He sells his
lambs and wool in the pools or
ganized by Mr.. Rich, and is i'm
proving his pastures by the use
of limestone and phosphate. He
finds that broomsage is disap-
pearing where these materials are
applied to the land.
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Christmas Tree Useful
During Rest of Winter

AMHERST, MASS.-In northern
states where Christmas hdralds the
coming of cold winter weather, the
tree that warns the living room De
cember Is is being put to work the
balance of the winter outdoors. Ac,
cording to Arnold NJ Davis, exten,
sion horticulturist at Massachusetts
state college, fir trees can make ex,
cellent feeding stations" for birds
and offer them coy shelter on frosty
winter nights. Suet is often tied to
the branches. The tree is also used
to protect climbing plants, or the
branches can be ripped off and laid
as a mulch over low-growing plants
or bulbs. Northern beekeepers find
the trees handy as windbreaks.
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Britain Minimizing
Sea Warfare Losses

LONDON, Dec. Am authori-
tative announcement asserted to-
night that Britain's big navy had
ENABLED 100000 tons of Bri-
fish shipping to keep to the seas
with loss Of just 4 percent of
her total naval tonnage" in three
months of war.
This declaration followed close
ly the disclosure of another loss
to mines in waters around Eng
land, the sinking of the 8,01O-ton
British tanker San Calisto off the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07
Don't Marry the Girl
Day after Christmas

If you believe the early monks,
don't select the day after Christ
mas to get married, start a new
job or put on that new suit. It's
Childermass day, commemOrat-
ing the slaughter of the Holy In
nOcents by HerOd, and in the ear
ly days was considered an Occa-
sion of the greatest ill-omen.
Children, according to legend,
were sOundly whipped Childer-
mass day to impress on their
minds the story of the baby mar
tyrs.
So intense was the fear of this
unfortunate festival that the cOrO-
nation of England's King Edward
Nv was postponed in order to
avoid the fatal date.
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a Year in Ashe County PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

southeast coast. Two of her crew
were killed, seven injured, and IS
landed unhurt.
Balanced against this was the
capture of two German vessels,
the 2,195-ton steamer Eilbek and
the 215-ton trawler Sophie Busse,
and the reported scuttling Of the
9.521-tcn German liner W2tus5i
by her own crew.
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place. He is cooperating with the
North Carolina Experiment Sta
ton to run a real test of pasture
making and fertilizing and as a
result is getting his grass land to
where it will about carry one
cow per acre. Recently he sold
four Guernsey heifers for $1,000
and used the money to aid in re-
building his modern farm home.
Mr.. Price has an efficient milk
producing plant and is regarded
as one of the leaders in the new
type of farming, which has come
to- the county.
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Jeter Is Highly Impressed
With Dairying In Aslne Co.

dIG pau D1.OU 11ul1O4 GU pOul1o0
for all milk delivered and this
cash is largely clear. The milk is
just what each farmer produces
himself from his own COWS from
his own pastures and feed crops
Practically no feed is purchased.
"The beauty about this Ashe
county milk business is that it is
now firmly established" Mr..
Farnham said. eve have addi-
tional cows coming into the coun-
ty; there are All livestock clubs
in community and civic leaders
are squarely behind county agent
G. J. Rich in his effort to build
the dairy industry. He is getting
100 per cent cooperation from
the business men who are push
ing the dairy business as sound
business enterprise for the coun-
ty. Farmers have been buying
grass and closed seed; they are
using limestone and phosphate,
and about 10000 cows are being
MIXED at present"
AS in other sections where de-
pendable markets have been as
sured, the farmers also are invest
ing in good barns and are erect
ing modern silos. Some are still
depending upon the inexpensive
trench silos until their incomes
warrant building the more expen-
sive kind. Walter Pennington OF
Nathan's Creek community is one
grower who has used the market
to improve his farm. He has a
modern brick home, a good barn
and silo and recently began some
demonstrations in improving his
pasture. Mr.. Pennington was re-
Gently elected the best demon
stration farmer in Ashe county.
He has 81 1-2 acres in his home
place and milks nine Jersey and
Guernsey COWS. At another farm
mile or two away, he also grows
beef steers for the market. But
he says the sale of milk has en-
abled him to do many Of the
things he has always wanted to
do.
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Over the north fork of the New
River, C. B. Price, a pioneer
Ashe county dairyman owns Rich
Hill Farm. Mr.. Price was the
first man in the county to own a
pure bred Guernsey bull and he
is now carrying 40 to As pure
bred Guernseys on his 160-acre
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07

Home economics in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture have
developed commercially practi-
cal way to remove peanut skins
with low weight loss and no split
ting, and still have a nut of high
quality.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07

A near record consumption of
cotton by American mills during
the last three months has been
announced by the u. S. Census
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07
YOUNG PEOPLE WILL MEET
AT METHODIST CHURCH

The Ashe county League Union
will meet with the West Jeffer-
son Methodist Church on We'd
nesday evening, Dec. Is. West
Jefferson will give the program.
The installation of the officers
will take place at this time. Ev-
eryone is urged to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-07

Every herd of cattle in the
United States has been tested for
tuberculosis at least once. an
nounces the U. S. Bureau OF Agri-
cultural Economics.
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Rev. and Mrs. NJ " Lewis who assisting Rev. J. G..
WoottOn revival meeting which opened Sunday and
will continue through Dec IL. Mrs Lewis song evange
lis while Mr. Lewis directs the young people Both Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis we'll known in the evangelstc field having
held services in 80 states Services the Warrensve Meth
Odist church being held at 2:3O, $3.50 and 1870.
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But the remarkable fact is that
milk from North Carolina noun
tain pastures is of such excellent
quality that the resulting cheese
stands above that produced IN
other sections of the United
States. We have been taught to
regard Wisconsin or New York
State as the great cheese-making
centers of this nation and thus 1t
was with great surprise that
a@ard Mr.. johnson make this sig
&iificant statement. But F. r.
Farnham, dairy specialist, who
was with me, did not appear sur
prised at all. He pointed out that
the grass and clovers grown on
the mountain sides of Ashe coun-
ty have superior food value.
There are practically no off-fla-
vors because there are no wild
onions or garlic in the pastures.
The farmers keep their milk cool
and fresh in cold water running
from ice-cold mountain springs.
The milk is yet not handled as it
should be and when mountain
dairymen really learn to handle
their milk as do those in some OF
the older dairy states, even better
results will be secured.
The Kraft company has built a
$4,000 plant at West Jefferson.
It is the largest manufacturing
concern in Ashe county and about
'S5O patrons are sending in fresh
milk each day to the cheese fac
tory. Most of this milk comes
from Ashe county though small
Ter amounts are brought in from
Allegheny, Watauga and Gray
son county, Va. There are Is diff
ferent milk routes established and
the patrons deliver about 10000
pounds of milk day. Before the
dry fall weather began, the fac
tory was receiving 10000 pounds
a day. Mr.. johnson said he would
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Bureau, says J. A. Shanklin, of
State College.
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Lauds Cheese Plant and Des-
cribes Recent Visit In
The County.

% Editors note-The following
interesting article appeared in a
recent issue of The Charlotte OBJ
server and was written by F. H.
Jeter, Observer Farm Page Edi-
tor and director of the news bu-
reau of the extension service at
State College.)
The other day group of us
sat in the office of L. C. Johnson,
manager of the Kraft-Phenix
cheese factory at West Jefferson
in Ashe county, and heard Mr..
johnson make a remarkable
statement. He said that cheese
manufactured in his plant from
North Carolina milk won first
place in quality over all other
similar cheese from the various
branches of the company
throughout the United States.
It seems that the company had
drought in to Chicago samples of
American Chaddar cheese, such
as is made at West Jefferson, from
all of its various factories. The
cheeses were judged by compe-
tent experts and the North Caro-
lima product took first place as to
quality. 1--WE did not take first
place as to appearance" Mr..
johnson lamented, because we
are a little new at this business
and have not reached perfection
in the manufacturing mechanics
as vet"
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JOIN STORAGE COOP

All farmers are urged to join
the Blue Ridge Cold Storage Mar
keting Cooperative. Complete in
formation is available at the farm
agents office, Join at once!
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ASHE COUNTY

is the unconditional section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
Of the PARKWAY run through
the county.