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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-29

Shown above the sexet of the Jefferson high school
which the Appalachian conference championship by de-
featng Bethel girls last Friday night i'm the Jefferson GYM
28 to 3 This team favored to the tournament Boone
this week Reading from left to right Madge Dollar Irene
Hunter Anna Dell Bare Mona Bell Mullis Mabe Little and
Myrtle Little Miss Gladys Sturg has coached this team
for three and the other members of the squad Pol
Austin Lorraine Woode and Mary Lee Johnson photo
Staff Photographer Miller Ingram.)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-29
BELRvE-n-oR-Nor

The Skyland Post is the only
paper in North Carolina having
an audited circulation Of over
three times the total population
Of the town in which it is publ
lished.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-29
AsHE COUNTY

s the air-conditioned 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.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-10
Wholesale Turkey Prices
Are Reported Higher Here

Turkeys were higher on Taco
mas wholesale market Monday
with choice hens quoted at - !
cents per II. and prime hens Al
Is = cents per 10 an advance Of
one cent. Toms. over 20 lbs. slso
were higher with choice and prime
quoted al IS and 20 cents Per
ID respectively. Those under 70
lbs remained unchanged at IL
and - cents per 10.
Shipments Of lettuce and oauh-
flower were received from Cali
fornia. The former was quoted Al
s. so per crate. and the latter at
Sis. Mexican tomatoes also werc
received BY wholesalers. who
quoted a price OF $3.50 per crate
one FIGURING mill advanced the
price Of its product 20 cents per
I96-lb. Dbl. effective Monday New
price was $3.50.
other markets remained IN
changed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-10
URGE Home Defense
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON = Four a Q
laws designed 70 build up a nation
wide defense against sabotage and
fifth column activities were pro-
posed today by the federsl-stste
conference on law enforcement
problems Of national defense.
The measures will be recon-
mended for prompt enactment "a
the - state legislatures meeting
next month. The proposed leGis-
lauon deals with state prevention
Of sabotage. control Of explosives,
establishment Of home guard units
and protection Of public property.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-10
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CASH for straight iosns ard = y
contracts BrstrBd. 3i5 Fidei-
lty Bog
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Three Washington Public High
Mines Invade Suburbonites;
WI. Pulls 77-Run Rally

Suburban and nearby schools
played host to three District public
highs on the diamond today while
Landon visited st. Adams for q
private school tussle and Dewitt
travelled to Charlotte Hall.
Central, Eastern and Tech were
the guests of Washington-Lee,
Bethesda Chevy Chase and Episco-
pal of Alexandria, respectively, and
all three of the interhigh teams
were expecting victories.
WI. and BIC. c., incidentally,
squared of against each other yes
terday with an 11-run eighth inning
by the former turning q close game
into a It's rout and putting a ces-
sation to hostilities then and there
Evening star., 1940-05-15

son Of their careers. Clarence
Giles, the Montana cowboy who
swan, swum or swimmed (ac-
cording to where you live) the
Yellowstone River last year (288
miles in TIN hours, is in the
East to tackle the Hudson.
Satisfactory: As long as two
of the three brothers can get into
the game, the Di Maggie family
figures 1t is playing better than
500 ball.
We're asking you: Whoever
would have thought two months
ago that on May Il the Phillies
and Cardinals would be battling
for NTH place in the National
League-with the Phils winning?
Afterthought: Anyway, the
Buccaneers are making the Phil
lies look pretty good.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
AMERICAN
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, May 15.-Frankie
Frisch figures if he could get
Mickey Owen from the Cards,
the Pirates might finish in the
first division. Otherwise, he's
about reconciled to wallowing In
or around the cellar. The first
organized cheering section in the
history of American golf swings
into action tomorrow. Pupils OF
Paul Runyan's special golf
courses at Columbia U. will go out
to the Goodall round robin in q
body to try to root teacher home.
The Joe Gould-Mike Jacobs law
suit may be settled any hour.
The two are huddling daily at 8
am. Tan ungodly hour for the
fighS mob to escape publicity.
Identified: In reporting the
American League batting ave-
RACES the esteemed Cincinnati
Enquirer says: 80 - And Ken
Keltner. Cleveland third sacker.
with a mark of 1913"
Arthur Mann, the old baseball
writer, Is the new head puy on
the sports quiz program and nut
ting q little pep into it. Not that
his New Haven pals are sour
Evening star., 1940-05-15
ale of the Tupe

Complete Card.
Fifteen rounds for world feather
weight championship-Petey Scalzo
New York; VS.. Frankie Covelli
Chicago.
Eight rounds-Buddy Scott (Wash-
ington) VS.. Felix Del Paoi (Phila-
delphia), heavyweights.
Eight rounds-Carl (Red Gug-
gino (Washington) vs.. Jackie Carter
(MiamD, nghtweights.
-Four rounds-Indian Gonzales
(Key West, Fla) vs.. Ray Lands
(Washington), featherweights.
-Four rounds-Rex Romus New
York; VS.. Joe Zwick New Haven)
heavyweights.
Scene-Grifath Stadium, first
bout, $50.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Organized Cheering for Runyon Sets Golf Precedent
Reported Batting $33

(after that Buddy Baer thing,
but Nathan Mann is reported
ready to hang 'em up. Henry
Thomas, leading trotting horse
trainer, is offering to bet Grey
hound doesn't do the mile in 200
this season-with plenty Of TAX
ers. Every time Tex Carleton
has gone out to pitch this year.
the other four Texans on the
Dodger roster-Mancuso, Koy,
Hudson and Gene Moore-have
sung "The Eyes of Texas Are
Upon You," as he left the club
house.
Today's guest Chilly Doyle,
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph: "The
situation with the Pirates Is sim
Evening star., 1940-05-15
PETE Given Edge
In Power Over
.Rust|ing Rival
1000 Figured to Pay
$500 to See Boil
Park Bout Tonight
BY LEWIS F. ATCH1sON,

Petey Scalzo by q knockout In the
first seven rounds or Frankie Covelh
to win the decision over the full l5-
round route is the way the National
Boxing Association featherweight
championship fight shapes up as the
principals await the bell.
A crowd Of approximately 1000 is
expected to shove $500 through the
wicker to see the midget mitten
manipulators begin the arduous task
Of unsnarling the 126-pound title
situation. The first bout is sched-
uled at $50 with the main bout to
go on at 10 o'clock.
The Weather Bureau forecast Is
slightly cooler with showers this eve
ming but Promoter Joe Turner said
today there would be no postpone.
ment unless it stormed. In the
event Of bad weather, however, tho
entire show will be held over until
next Tuesday.
Scalzo Has Slugging Edge.
Scalzo, tailor made master ring
man, is given the edge because Of
superior punching power but Covelli,
q rough and ready warrior, had an
abundance Of moral If not financial
support among the fistic fraternity.
Scalzo never has been forced to
travel the 15-round distance and his
critics make much of this fact. He
must, they say, nail Covelli before
the halfway mark or the Chicagoan
will come on In the late rounds to
win on points.
Coveli admittedly does not meas
ure up to Scalzo in punching ability
but Is as strong as horse, likes to
maui and shove his opponent around
at close quarters and wear him down
by boring in.
Both appeared in excellent CON.
dition as they tapered of yesterday.
Both were well under the l26-pound
figure when they stepped on the
scales. Neither, oddly enough, ap-
peared unduly excited over the en-.
gagement.
Another Big Bout Brewing.
This will be Washington's third
featherweight title fight and the
second in which q Pete Reilly.
managed fighter has figured. Reilly's
Freddy Miller dropped his crown to
Petey Sarron in the same ring in
1886 and last year Joey Archibald
successfully defended his title, with
the aid of some rank refereeing and
Judging, in a match with Harry
Jef1ra. Archibald and Jef1ra will
meet again Monday night in Bal
timore in Marylands version of q
featherweight championship bout.
There is strong possibility that
the winner of tonights bout will be
matched with the winner of the
Baltimore scrap to establish a uni
versally recognized diadem. Mary
land, it is quite apparent, will patch
up its difficulties with the N. B. A.
and escape penalty for defying that
body. Such match would be q nat
ural for Washington and it is q WELL
known fact that all parties involved
are anxious to stage it here.
New Orleans, meanwhile, is pro-
ceeding along its own champion
ship course, having recognized
Jimmy Perrin, q native son. as its
standard bearer. Perrin also Is
scheduled to box here.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Stars Yesterday
By the Associates Press.

Gee walker. senators-His two-run
homer In sixth inning brought AZ VIC
tory over Tigers.
Cardinals. 40. on nine hits and batted
In three runs himself
Ebie Fletcher, Pirates-Hit home
run with bases loaded to end Giants
six-game winning streak.
Jimmie Foxx. Red eox-Pounded out
two home runs his seventh and eighth
Of season, to lead Boston to Victory over
White Sok
hitless through three innings until
! Brooklyn could push across run to win
in 18th.
Al Simmons, Athletics Delivered
pinch single Tor two runs In ninth In
ming to beat Indians 81.
Evening star., 1940-05-15

liar to the one in Holland. Every
time they get q leak plugged an
other one pops out"
10 10 Moore, the gaunt Texan,
is sparkling the Giant drive. He
hit 500 in seven games and was
on base Is times. We saw the
Pirates and you and Frisch can
have 'em. Gene Sarazen likes
Jimmy Demaret In the Goodall,
but Byron Nelson is our choice.
How's this 'un: Three South Da-
kota schools-Irene. Howard and
Clark-finished 1-2-3 in the
Glass B relays In the Drake meet.
At least seven. American League
managers will tell you they're
having the most enjoyable sea-
Evening star., 1940-05-15

Rockville, with one Rockville player
elected from the game.
Previously beaten by Rockville,
Blair grabbed 20 lead In the Sec
ond and never lost 1t as Johnny
Norris, all-around star, pitched
f1ve-hit ball and famed l3.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Totals--41 Is "A 9 Totals--33 24NO
Washinston and Lee--- 600 500 1919
Bethesda 300 OO1 1 O. 4

Runs--Kirchner 81, Owens, Shepherd.
Pherson l3). johnson, Miller shumate (2).
Eaton. Kinsman. Errors-Kirchner (2},
johnson. Day (2), Eaton, Kinsman t5).
(3), .Kirchner. Good. Wilson t2). McCann.
McPherson (2), johnson (2). shumate.
Eaton !2), Pahlow. Mcleod. Two-base hits
hits-Kinsman. Shumate. Kirchner. Home
runs--Eaton. Owens. Stolen bases-Miller
l2). Good Left on bases-Washineton and
Lee. s: Bethesda, T. Bases on balls-Oh
Struck out-By johnson, By Kuster. 81:
II runs In Z innings; OF shoemaker. s for
runs in / inning. Hit By pitcher-By
McPherson (ShoemAker). Wild pitches
pitcher-Kuster. umpires-Mr. lefiriek
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Pirates Release Swiourt

PITTSBURGH, May Is R.-Re-
lease Of Pitcher Oadis Swigart to
Syracuse Of the Internationals
brought the Pirate roster down to
the limit Of Is players, which Is ef-
fective tonight.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
6. A. O. Is Easy Winner

Although making only one more
hit than the opposition, General Ac-
counting Once walloped Maritime
Commission, 90, yesterday in =
Departmental League game.
Evening star., 1940-05-15

Totals 80 5 "a 5 Totals "a IL ~ 9
Richard Montgomery DOL 900 2O1-
Two-base hits-Schrider. Norris. Dou.
BILE plays-Norris to Schrider to Cassidy:
Ridgeway to Wilkinson to Carter; Mon
day to Slater to Cheeks. Winning pitcher
Morris. Losing pitcher-stanG
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Ii Should Be ScuIzo vs.. Jeffru Toniqht

should Mr.
to be sufcien
better Archibald
feath n
preferred to scazo Or least worked
after his
to Coveli affair.
Anything happen This proved the
Archibald something Of favore in that
tonight ought to be Scazo from start to finish
the Preakness.
fighting around Washing
the Probably his best
District One night
defeated
Petey Sarron.
Scazo He's getting pretty old
although Scazo
hits he
we'll and, n he ought to win.
that will be all right with Joe Turner providing he wins
like Archibald did last Old Joe didn't like
thatsu and he took the for it.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Blair Wins Spirited Battle.

Continual umpire, batting, which
nearly ended In a free-for- all,
marked Montgomery Blair's IA VIC
tory over Richard Montgomery Of
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Knockout by Sao Decision for Cove Seen as Title Foes Await Coma
Win, Lose or Draw

By FRANCIS {. STAN.

FOR the FeotheTWeIQht CLOWN IN. b. a. VeFSIohJ
fight reasonably exciting the crowd both large and
will nothing than Turner deserves We
the tonight at Grh Stadium between
Frankie Cove practically everybody
the promoter.
middleweeht getting
promoting IL
He quitting rasser and instead booking them
All this coming overnight
bunch clowns who couldn't wrest their
a whipped
wefounded that Mr. Turner while acquainted
attached racket shocked by the
Fellows didn't full Nelson
hadnng cards and launching flying tackles
had living and
did we'll though
nwady
90 of the bee into knots.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Farm Credit Netmen Win

Farm Credit beat Census Bureau
in Departmental tennis match on
the Potomac courts, 4 tol.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Official Score

sBatted for Newhouser in seventh
fBatted for Benton in ninth.
Tran for Tebbetts in ninth.
Washington - 100 OO2 10O-
Detroit " 200 600 OOO-2
Runs batted in-Lewis Walker (3),
Campbell. Averill. Two-base hit-Ferrell.
Home run-Walker. Sacrince-Leonard.
Double glayLHiEgins to York. Left on
base on balls--Oh Newhouser. 3; OF Ben
ton. l. Struck out-By Leonard. 4: By
! innings: oil Benton. j in : innings. ~ Hit III
by pitched ball-By Newhouser (Travis).
Passed ball-Ferrell: Losing pitcher-New-
houser. Umpires-Messrs Hubbard, Rom
mel. Moriarty and Rue Time-1:53 At
tendance-(5.O00 and 5000 school chill
dren)
Evening star., 1940-05-15
He Quit Once, but Fellow Hos to Eot

hasn't fully recovered from that promptly de-
promoting Boxing he said lis ruined He
sounded as if he glad of it.
these raing different from
gddy glorious golden couldn't
prize fights and tonight
presents Scalzo and Covelh.
Mr. Turner than this particular fight One
that referee will be
decision the shadows local
with the two Italians from New York
scaz win BY that mean only that people think
A. feather champ Archibald having
heavho for refusing to meet era in return bout
happened Jea Ofhand
Archibald be discarded the title would be
on the This would have
ea clearly licked Archy here and
vious knocked the champ overweight fight
Evening star., 1940-05-15
College Sports

Baseball
Princeton, 3; GEORGETOWN. Q.
Georsetown Frosh. Z; George Washing
ton Frosh. 2.
Dartmouth. 5; Brown, f.
Johns Hopkins. 8; Swarthmore. 6.
Loyola. IS: Mount st. Mary's. Il.
Richmond. 8; v. M. l., o.
West virgins; Is; Temple. z.
Indiana. Z; Butler, /.
Iowa State, "a: Nebraska, 6,
Missouri, 4; Oklahoma. 3.
Western Michigan Teachers, II: North
western. 4.
Tennis.
virginia, 9; v. M. l., O.
Western Maryland. g: Blue Ridge. 1.
Track.
Ohio o.. S1h; Albion. b2h.
EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE.
Easton. z: Dover. 8.
Cambridge 6: Centreville, 4.
Milford, 6: Pocomoke, I.
Salisbury. 4; fredericksburg, 3.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
There Are Times When Mr.. Turner Shifts

egazed-this in 1884 In Washington
still
he indicated that
things
boxing that rasslers wouldn't dare
ring game
pitched their tents
stayed He
deal
mo
time Turner promoted big fight last summer
featherweight championship between joey
Jefra fight There lot Of
would been fine except that somebody
the N B. A.
annual convention The verdict deity
apparently told about the plans
that 1t
Ahibalds hand raised
Evening star., 1940-05-15

! Results Yesterday.
Brooklyn. 6: Cincinnati. s t13 innings)
Pittsburgh Z: New York, 2.
Philadelphia. 4: st. Louis. O.
CHICAGO Boston. cold.
srAynvNa or ruR rr rms
Evening star., 1940-05-15
GAMES TOMORROW

Cinci. at BROOKLYN.
Pittshursh at N. z.
st. Louis at Phila.
CHICAGO at Boston.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
GAMES TODAY.

Cinci. at Brooklyn,
Pittsburgh at N, Y
st. Louis at Phila.
CHICAGO at Boston.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

Now, instead of buying a special
spread for table use-and a bland,
tasteless fat for baking and pan
frying - they buy flavorsome,
nourishing Parkay-and use it in
all three vays!
Like Mrs. Mair (be sure to read
her interesting letter above), home
makers are writing enthusiastic
letters to Kraft about Parkay-the
new margarine with the delicate,
satisfying flavor.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

Why, pearls -" His voice trailed off,
Pearls" scoffed Parker with a leer.
And ambergris."
What's that"
Well" said 10. and paused. Well" he
started again. remembering, 1t comes from.
whales and gets washed ashore and it S worth
hundreds of pounds an ounce
Who's been pulling your leg Jo?"
mo one" he said. Il know. you see. And
pineapples and ooconuts grow wild, yams and
taro, hut you build for yourself is all you
need for shelter, and the natives are kind and
friendly like children"
Though the others were hushed, Alf Parker
had to butt in with one of his nasty, sarcastic
remarks, the way he did: And l suppose
you'll be dancing with a couple of them hula
hula girls" He waggled his hips,
Mrs Murphy raised hand commanding
as a policeman's. You stop that now. Alf
Parker" she said. Il won't have you teasing
Mr. Vain, just because you haven't the wits
in you to understand. Mr.. Wain's quite right
Glory be to God, who wouldn't do the same?
ITO be getting away from all this - from
blackouts and taxes and wars and sandbags
and shortages of this and that and wardens
and police, and living like moles and paying
ten times what we used for the pleasure of it.
I'd give the right hand off me arm to be
going, and that's the truth. Out there where
there's blue skies and blue seas and you can
lie on the sand all day and let the ripe fruit
drop into your mouth the while slave fans
you with huge green leaf. 'Tis paradise he's
going to, and which of you wouldn't do that
same, if only you'd the sense and the fare?
You're wise man, Mr.. Vain, and takes off
me hat to you
Mrs. Murphy words carried weight there.
She queened it in that place more surely than
any peroxided beauty of Edwardian days. Her
defence, her acceptance of this fantastic ven
twe, set in sluggish motion imaginations
drugged by lfetimes of monotonous work and
monotonous leisure.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

seemed little the worse for years OF matrimony.
No" said 10, oh no, I'm not going to get
married or the like" His tone conveyed a
mind made up.
Then what are you going to do, Jo?'
a." said 10 Vain quite simply as if it were
the most natural thing in the world, ''am 60
ing to become beachcomber.'
That silenced them momentarily. They
could only cape, He wasn't joking. They could
see that. What they could not see or know
was 10 Wains mind. He hadn't been much
of reader for years and years - his work
wearied his eyes, particularly of late - but
as a youngster he'd always been in corner
over a book His mother, if she hadn't been
dead for fifteen years, could have told them
that. And not trash either. Real books from
the free library.
those books of Melville, Stevenson, Bal
lantyne were nearer and clearer to 10 Vain
than what he'd read in last Sundays paper.
Time, instead of dimming them, seemed to
make their pages brighter and more legible
than any printed today
BeaChCOmOer. I1dIS were puSllcu DdCk,
brows scratched, jaws rubbed. Where
abouts?"
I'm the South Seas of course" 10 was sur
prised they should have to be told that.
The South Seas?"
Yes"
well, I'll be damned!'
You're having joke with us, Jo?"
I'm not" 1t was the truth which was the
strangest thing of all
But when your moneys gone - and even
a dollop like yours won't last forever -whatn
you live on?'
"Yes, whatn you comb on these here
beaches"
What he'll have left of his hair, perhaps"
Il shall comb the beach, naturally 10 ex-
planned patiently, ''for what you find there"
But what's that"
Lots of valuable things
Such as?''
Evening star., 1940-08-04

They looked at drab 10 Vain Wonderingly,
seeing him escaping into world 50 unlike
their own that it took shape only in hazy
pictures of warmth and ease. bright as tech
nicolor on the screen. where there would be
neither bosses nor toll, no wages which never
went far enough, no colds in the head, no
dark days and vastly darker nights. For just
little while the walls of the Kings Arms
crumbled away. and they saw fairer visions
than any to be had from the contents of Mrs.
Murphy's barrels.
The South Seas, eh?" said the tailors
cutter, then: That's a wonderful thing to
have thought of. Jo."
But tell me this" said Alf Parker,
how'll you ever manage to make the South
Seas? Even with the dough, how are you
going to get on boat? How are you going to
wangle so much as passport even - tell me
that, mani"
Il shall manage all that" said 10 Vain,
with the serenity of dreamer.
They knew he would - and he did
! ILL., in the back of 10 Wains mind, was
still spelt Feejee. He saw it as an Eden at the
worlds end, to be won to by arduous voyag-
ing. The capital if one could apply such a
term to score of brown huts nesting among
palms, would house handful of whites. The
brown children in their brief grass skirts
would be dancing in the moonlight to the
throb of drums, drinking kava from great
wooden bowls, feasting on sucking pig baked
in hot stones. The beach would be long, end
less and white, embroidered with the lace of
the long Pacific rollers. That, and much be-
side, was Suva, Feejee.
When the big liner brought 10 Vain to
Suva, Fiji about the only point of real
resemblance was that it was certainly at the
worlds end. as the fares he'd paid proved
beyond dispute Suva was large, prosperous,
bustling town, only different from droves of
others because it seemed to have been
dumped down in botanical garden. There
were streets busy with traffic, and docks for
shipping Standards supported electric lights
and telephone wires. The handful of whites
was multiplied to thousands; the brown chill
dren all wore shoddy clothes; some of them
drove cars and owned gramophones and
radios They we're handsome enough, but they
weren't the people of "Omoo" and ''Typee."
Not by long seventy years of hustle and
progress.
10 Vain hadn't asked any questions, be-
cause he'd wanted to taste the full thrill of
surprised recognition as dream came true.
$40