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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-01-11
Farmers Urged
To Plant Trees
On Idle Acres
Can Earn up to $50, Large Va
rlety of Seedlings Avail
able from Nursuries.

The farmers of Ashe are being
urged by the county agents Of
ice to make those idle and per-
maps eroding acres producing ac-
res by planting forest trees" this
winter and spring and also con-
servatlon payments by doing
same.
The agricultural conservation
program offers every farmer an
opportunity to make use of his
poor, idle, eroding acres under
the 1910 program" a recent let
ter stated. GA special allotment
or payment of $50 per farm has
been set up to be earned by
planting forest trees. This pay
ment can be made to any farm
er cooperating with the agricul-
tural program who furnishes the
trees and plants as much as four
acres, lesser acreage in proper
ton.
''Tree seedlings are now avail
able at the State Forest Nurser-
les include: longleaf, loblolly,
shortleaf, and slash pines, black
locust, yellow poplar, cypress,
red cedar, and white ash at So
per thousand. White pines, both
one and two years old, at So per
thousand"
The demand for trees is heavy
and the supply limited. make
your plans now; we have appli-
cation blanks in the county Of
fice," Mr.. Rich said. 1000 trees
will plant an acre."
r. w. Graeber, of the extension
service, states that 100000 two
year old white pines produced in
Henderson county are now avail
able. 5>s
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s1OldChristrnas''
Is Celebrated
At Wilmington

WILMINGTON. - Wilmington
last Saturday celebrated Old
Christmas :. the day, according
to the old Julian calendar, on
which Christ was born.
Between 5000 and 1000 peo-
pie thronged Pembroke Jones
Park and environs despite bitter
ly cold weather to witness the
second annual celebration.
For half hour prior to the
celebration all the church bells
in the city rang to summon the
people to the park. AS they stop
ped ringing the carlton in the
PRESBYTERIAN church of the Cove
nant rang out program of yule-
tide carols.
Carols were sung by a mixed
quartet and after an Epiphany
address by Father James A. Man.
lev of st. Mary's Catholic church,
Mavor Thomas E. Cooper lighted
. huge torch from which others
were lighted by Boy Scouts, Girl
scouts Hi-Y members and 9TH
ere who then set huge pile of
old Christmas trees ablaze in the
center of the park.
By the light and heat of the
|bonfire the crowd joined in sing
ing familiar Christmas carols.
A pyrotechnic display conclud-
led the program.
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PAGE THREE
MARCH

MARCH
2O-charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2-Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title
at Atlanta, Ga.
17-Joe Louis. heavyweight champion.
18-Joey Archibald wins featherweight
title from Leo Kodak in Is rounds.
MAY
6-Johnstown won Kentucky derby.
20-Joseph F. Carr, National Football
league president dies.
25-Henry Armstrong, welterweight, de.
feats Ernie Roderick, British cham
>pion, in Is rounds.
3O-ShaW wins Indianapolis auto race,
averaging 115.035 miles per hour.
Roberts killed.
JUNE
Lou Nova scores technical Knockout
over Max Baer in eleventh round.
12-Centennial birthday of baseball cele-
brated at Cooperstown. N. Y. where
21-Lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic physicians
announce after check-up, has infan-
tile paralysis; playing career ended.
28-Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the
fourth round.
JULY
8-Alice Marble wins British tennis
championship at Wimbledon.
11-American league wins all-star base
3O-Dick Metz wins St. Paul open golf
27O.
AUGUST
7-Elmer Layden of Notre Dame cho.
hooH 0noRh nf a11.Cfar football
14-Chicago White Sox play first night
game in Comiskey park.
22-Lou Ambers regains lightweight title
in 15-round bout with Armstrong.
SEPTEMBER
5-Roscoe Turner wins Thompson tro-
ply air race third time.
15-Tony, Galento stops Nova in IA
rounds.
16-Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. S.
net titles.
17-Yankees cinch American league pen
nant.
2o-Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in
28-Cincinnati Reds win National league
pennant.
OCTOBER
8-Yankees win worlds baseball series
in four straight games.
17-Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher,
voted most valuable player in Ma
tional league.
24-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
NOVEMBER
Al Davis stops Tony Canzoneri In
third round.
17-Billy Conn, light heavyweight cham
pion, successfully defends title
against Lesnevitch in Is rounds.
DECEMBER
9-Eddie Anderson awarded plaque as
football coach of year.
10-Green Bay Packers whip New York
Giants to win professional football
title.
named No. athlete of all sports in
annual poll.
13-New York Yankees voted best team
in any sport.
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SPORTS

IRON MAN STRIKES OUT
Lou Gehrig, ''iron man of base
ball." retires from NeaO York
Yankees uOith paralysis infection
after hanging up Gll-time rec
ord for games played.
JANUARY
2-Southern California football team de.
featS Duke in Rose Bowl:
17-EdWard G. Barrow elected president
of the New York Yankees.
25-Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
stopped John Henry Lewis in first
round in New York.
FEBRUARY
9-National Professional Football league
reflects Joseph Carr president for
10 years.
23-Tony Galento scores technical knock.
out over Abe Feldman.
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Germans InUade Poland
SEPTEMBER


3-Britain and France declare war on
Germany.
British ship Athena torpedoed off
coast of Ireland. 1.400 aboard. 43
lost.
Germany blockaded by British navy
5-Germans shell Warsaw; government
and citizens flee.
neutrality.
6-Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid
France invades Germany; British
troops arrive.
7-NaZi torpedoes sink five ships.
8-French planes bomb Siegfried line
10-German cOunterattack halts French
on western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish bor-
der.
12-German forces shut wise on War.
1s-Big British army lands in France
without loss.
Polish defense cracks; Nazis move
eastward.
16-Russian troops invade Poland to
protect minorities."
17-Warsaw decides to fight on after
truce talk fails.
Poland's defenses collapse under
Nazi pressure.
Russian army drives so miles into
Poland.
2O-Report Red purge of former officials
in Polish Ukraine.
23-French repulSe wave after wave of
Nazi shock troops.
25-French defeat Germans in two big
air battles; lombard whole length
of Siegfried line; bomb Zeppelin
works.
27-Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20-day siege.
Estonia signs alliance with Russia.
29-Britain defies warning by foes to
stop war.
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FOREIGN

RUSSIA FACES WEST-Dic-
tator Josef Stain, having CON-
pIeted a pact ,Uitt Germany, con-
quers part of Roland end n1oveS
into Estonia, LatUia, Lithuania-
and then into Finland.
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MAY

MAY
! 6-King and queen Of Great Britain
sail for Canada.
Hiking and queen Of Great Britain
. welcomed at Quebec.
liking and queen start on tour of
Canada.
25-Bill setting up dictatorship over in
dustry introduced in British parlia-
ment.
29-New border war develops between
Japan and Russia in Manchuku0.
JUNE
seven persons.
14-Japan presents Britain with new de-
mands as troops tighten blockade
at Tientsin.
2O-British women and children flee
Tientsin to escape Japanese economic
22-King and queen given tremendous
reception on their return to England.
26-Soviets repulse Jap air attack on
Mongol border; shoot down Is planes.
planes in battle over Outer Mongolia.
JULY
13-France jails two newspaper execu-
tiveS, charged with receiving pay
from Germany:
l9-Danzig political police purge city OF
24-Chamberlain promises Britain will
stay out of Japan's way in China.
Japan orders Canton river closed to
foreign shipping.
26-FOur bombingS in England blamed
on Irish Republican army.
AUGUST
18ritain offers to mediate Japanese.
Chinese war.
6-Spain executes So persons for com.
plicity in Staying of civil guard Off
s-sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
SEPTEMBER
26-French cabinet decree ends Com
munist party in France.
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Rus
STA.
28-Constantine Argesanu appointed pre-
mier of Rumania.
OCTOBER
2-Delegates of q republics at an inter
American neutrality conference fixed
safety zone around two Americas.
3JapaneSe admit loss of 1900 men
in fighting Russians.
5-Chinese halt Japanese drive in HUI
nan province; report 10000 slain.
10-Soviet returns Wilma to Lithuania.
11-Britain and Russia sign trade agree.
ment.
27-Pope Plus in encyclical assails die.
tatOrS.
28-Thousands arrested as Czechs and
NaZis battle in Prague.
NOVEMBER
2-Slovak mob wrecks shops and news.
papers in Bratislava, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish self-rule
in India.
2O-Ex.kaiser narrowly escapes death in
storm at Doom.
DECEMBER
3-Japan faces scarcity of food this
winter.
Peru opens great new port facilities
to CaIlao.
11-Italy quits league of nations.
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JANUARY

1-Chinese dictator "purges" govern.
rnent ranks of 200 peace party"
leaders.
3-Japan's cabinet resigns over poll
cies in China.
Spanish rebels report capture of Ar
tesa.
6-Hungarians and Czecho.Slovaks fight
along border.
15-Spanish rebels take Tarragona in
drive toward Barcelona.
18-Madrid rushes fresh troops to de.
tense of Barcelona.
22-All citizens of Barcelona called to
dig trenches
24Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26-Rebels take Barcelona without a
battle.
30-Hit1er demands return Of colonies
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NOVEMBER

3-Norway frees City of Flint and In.
terms German prize crew. Finland
defes Soviet threat; ready to fight.
7-Belgium and Holland offer to medi.
ate peace between warning nations.
8-Hitler escapes plot; blast in Munich
beer cellar kills and INJURIES so.
9-Dutch open defense bikes; clash at
border with Germans.
French repulse night infantry raids
by Germans.
10-French repulse two German attacks.
15-Four more merchantmen sunk in sea
warfare.
H-Germans shoot nine Czech students,
seize 1000 and close academies for
three years.
18-Dutch liner hits German mine In
North sea, sinks with 40 lives.
19-Four more ships sunk by German
mines off England.
20-Germans extend war at sea; 10 YES
sells sunk since November IS; 1873
dead or missing.
French-Belgian treaty seen as chan
mel for France to get German coke.
Germany opens officers ranks to all
soldiers; royalty backs Hitler.
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NEUROLOGY

POPE SUCCUMBS-The de-
Uout kneeI in prayer before cas-
ket containing the body Of Pope
Plus XII.
JANUARY
13-Col. Jacob Rupert. owner of the,
New York Yankees.
26-Former Sen. Joseph I. France Of
Maryland, in Baltimore.
FEBRUARY
3+Frederick steiwer. former senator
from Oregon.
9-Pope Plus Xl.
13-Rt. Rev. J. NJ. Francis, Episcopalian
bishop of Indianapolis.
15-CharleS R. Crane, former diplomat.
16-Dr. Clarence True Wilson. prohibi-
ton leader.
MARCH
2-Howard Carter, who found King Tut's
tomb, in London.
5-Former U: S. Attorney General John
29-Gerardo Machado, former dictator
of Cuba.
APRIL
6-Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia.
9-James Hamilton Lewis, U. S. senator
from Illinois.
lis. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer,
real name Willard H. Wright.
MAY
26-Dr. Charles Mayo. famous surgeon.
JUNE !
19-Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare
worker and University of Chicago
professor.
26-Ford Maddox Ford, British author.
JULY g.:
7-Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the
8-Havelock Ellis. scientist and philoso.
pher.
49,. Louis Comiskey, owner of Chi.
cago White SoX baseball team.
28-Dr William J. Mayo, co-founder with
his brother of the Mayo clinic.
AUGUST
At. E. Powers, famed cartoonist.
SEPTEMBER
4-Charles Donnelly. president of North
ern Pacific railway.
18-Charles NJ: Schwab, steel magnate.
23-Sigmund Freud, originator of psyche.
analysis.
24-Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent.
Carl Laemmle, pioneer movie pros
Queer.
OCTOBER
2-George Cardinal Mundelein, arch.
bishop of Chicago.
Count Won Bernstorf, German envoy,
to u. S. in 1917.
23-Zane Grey. noted writer of western,
stories.
2s-Alice Brady, stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2-Opie Read, famous author.
8-Dr. Livingston Farrand, president
emeritus of Cornell university.
16-Pierce Butler. u. S. Supreme court
25-James Simpson. Chicago business
27-Dr. J. A. Naismith. inventor of has.
ketball.
DECEMBER
3-Alfred Granger, prominent architect.
Princess Louise, duchess of Argyle,
oldest living child of Queen Victoria.
4-Marshal WI Pei-fu, poet-Soldier Of
Republican China.
J. Butler Wright. American ambas.
sador to Cuba.
9-Col. John S. Hammond. sportsman
and soldier.
11-Douglas Fairbanks ST.. stage and
screen star.
Charles r. Walgreen. chain drug
store head.
Broun, columniSt.
LNReleased by Western Newspaper Union.)
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FEBRUARY

Spanish loyalist army of 100000 fees
to France to escape trap.
6-Japan refuses to give up inundated
islands Germany lost in war.
12-TWo hundred thousand move past
bier of Pope Plus in St. Peters.
14-Pope Plus buried in tomb beneath
St: Peters cathedral
18-Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
coded to Italy.
20-Italy moves to place colony Libya
on war footing.
23-General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyal
lists.
24-Britain and France decide to recog-
niZe Franco government in Spain.
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britain calls 100000 more troops.
7-Hitler makes peace proposals to Brit.
ain and France; seeks armistice.
9-Hitler sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to be transplanted from
other countries.
10-French premier spurns Hitler's peace
terms.
12-Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conqueStS.
14British battleship Royal Oak sunk
by sub, 1856 lost.
H-German planes raid Scapa Flow.
Iron Duke. training ship damaged.
23-British report three U-boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City
of Flint and take it to Soviet port.
26-American ship City of Flint, turned
over to Germany by Russia. sails
from Russia.
28-Germans claim lis foreign ships sunk
since war began.
Five freighters sunk by Germans.
3l-Soviet demands raise new crisis in
Finland
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DECEMBER

Films disable Russian cruiser. with
500 aboard.
Russians capture Finnish port.
New cabinet takes over Finnish gov
eminent.
Germans sink five ships of four ma
tons.
Finnish rebel regime cedes territory
to Russians.
Regular. Finnish government orders
evacuation of all southern towns.
Sweden tightens its defenses.
British tanker sunk, two German
ships sunk and liner beached.
3-BritiSh planes attack German naval
base and score hits on German war
ships.
Firms shatter Red troops in Arctic
battle.
League of nations summoned to hear
Finnish appeal for aid.
Britain puts blockade against Ger.
man exports into effect.
4-German pocket battleship sinks Brit.
ish steamer Doric Star in south At.
lantic.
ties on Soviet troop concentration.
6-Finns repulse Russian army of 200.
600 on three fronts.
7-Russians to. blockade Finnish coast:
warn shipping.
s-Finns repel offensive on Karelian
isthmuS.
1O-Finns report Russian attacks re.
PEELED on all fronts.
11-1eague of Nations requests Russia
to cease hostilities against Finland.
12-Russia rejects league of nations pro.
posal to mediate conflict with Fin
land.
German liner Bremen runs British
blockade to home port.
13-British ships disable and chase Ger.
man raider Graf Spec into South
American port.
14-Russia expelled from league of ma.
tons.
Uruguay gives Graf Spec Y hours to
make repairs.
16-Finn coast artillery sinks Russian
destroyer.
18-Germans scuttle Graf Spec outside
Montevideo harbor rather than risk
fight with British ships waiting out
side.
19-Huge Red forces storm Firms noun.
tain positions.
Germans claim "a out of "A British
planes shot down in battle over
Heligoland.
British claim sinking of German
cruiser and damage to two others.
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EUROPEAN WAR

MARS GOES 10 YORK
French poilu puzzles over street
sign in captured German uiLIoge.
Hitler Still Grabbing
MARCH
12-German troops mass near border Of
SlOvakia.
-Czecho-Slovakia submits to Hitlers
demands for further breakup OF the
Czech state.
14-Slovakia formally secedes from
CZecho-SloVakia and becomes indie
pendent state under German protec.
ton.
Hitler seizes Bohemia and Moravia.
completing subsection of CZecho-SlO.
vakia.
16-Hitler absorbs Slovakia Hungary
anneXes part of Carpatho- Ukraine.
2-Germany puts pressure on Poland.
28-Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia.
APRIL
17-Germany pushes drive to take Dan
zig. French fleet guards Gibraltar.
British fleet sails to Malta.
MAY
7-NaZis plan plebiscite in Danzig.
8-Pope invites five powers to Vatican
parley to settle Polish.German dis.
pute.
20-Germany fortifies its eastern frontier
against Poland.
JUNE
Hitler pledges Germany will support
Jugo.SlaVia'S border.
20-German troops move to encircle Pc.
land.
2S-Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
6-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families
in East Prussia are forced to move
away from border.
AUGUST
13-Germany and Italy establish policy
on Danzig; Polish attitude called I'm.
bearable.
18-Germany takes military possession of
Slovakia.
21-Germany announces nonaggreSsion
pact with Russia.
22-German troops massed near Polish
corridor.
23-Germany and Russia sign nonaggres-
sion pact.
25-Britain and Poland sign war alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandonS Rome.
Berlin lineup.
29-Poland asks British help under new
mutual aid pact.
Germans InUdde Poland
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CeSE TeSCULHg Do SURVIVORS from
sunken submarine. TWenty-si1
others die.
JANUARY
21-The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea
of Cape May N j. three lost 10
23-Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles; pilot killed.
25-Thirty thousand killed, $4,000 injured
by earthquake in Chile; towns wiped
FEBRUARY
2-Japanese submarine sunk in COLI
sion.
11-Army mystery plane crashes after
coast-to-coast fight at 340-mile rate.
MARCH
1.-TWO hundred killed in explosion of
munitions dump in Japan; 300 houses
destroyed.
1s-Ten Killed in airplane crash near
Tacoma, Wash.
25-Airliner crashes in Oklahoma, killing
eight.
APRIL
-Four navy f1iers killed when planes
collide in naneuVerS.
13-TWenty- killed, so injured in
train wreck in Mexico.
16-Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and
Louisiana cause So deaths and in.
jurieS to 300.
MAY
23-Fifty-nine trapped in sunken sub.
marine Squalls.
24-Thirty- three rescued alive from Squa-
luS &c dead,
JUNE
1-Missing British submarine found
mired in mud; SO lost.A
4-Twenty-tWo persons killed in Mexi-
can theater fire.
16--Seventy- lone lives lost in wreck of
French submarine.
18-Ten dead. So injured in Minnesota
tornado.
JULY
5-Fifty-three drowned, At missing, in
food in mountains of eastern Ken
lucky.
navy aircraft carrier Ranger.
14-TWenty-elght perish in mine blast at
Providence, KY.
17-Five killed as train hits auto in Chi
cago suburb.
Avalanche on Mount Baker, Wash,
kills two, four missing.
AUGUST
11-Nine u S. army fiers and two navy
fiers killed as two bombers crash.
13-Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de
Janeiro plane crashes in Rio harbor.
Twenty three killed, 60 injured, when
streamliner is wrecked in Nevada;
rail officials charge sabotage.
SEPTEMBER
25-Storm in California kills 100: dam.
age, $1,000000.
28-Munitions plant blast in Britain
kills Is.
OCTOBER
11-Wreck of school bus at War, w. Va,
kills six; II injured.
NOVEMBER
1-Five hundred killed and injured when
fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port.
DECEMBER
3-Typhoon ravages five islands in the
Philippines.
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DISASTERS

SQUALLS SINKS-U. S.
navy's diving bell gets first real
test rescuing 30 SURVIVORS from
sunken submarine. Twenty-sie
others die.
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JUNE

1-Senate passes bill lifting long term
bonded national debt limit above
2LContract for "a warships costing
$3.50, 100000 awarded by navy depart.
aFormer Judge Manton found guilty
5-House rejects plan to make Hyde
Park home memorial to President
liking George and Queen Elizabeth of
Niagara Falls; officially welcomed
by Secretary Of State Hull.
skiing and queen of Great Britain
welcomed to Washington by Presi-
dent IT,, Roosevelt; attend state dinner
10-House votes big slash in payroll
taxes; benefits are increased.
liking and queen end u. S. visit.
13-HouSe votes drastic limitations on
future operations of iva.
15--King and queen sail for home.
19-House passes tax bill of 1874 mil
lions; retains nuisance taxes. but
reviSeS levieS on corporations.
2O-Senate committee boosts pork bar.
rel bill from $50, 848, 100, as passed
by the house, to $407, 1855 900.
22-House restores 81 millions previously
cut from army appropriation bill.
Farm bill boosted 225 millions by
the house.
25-Fraud barred at Louisiana university
26-Gov. Leche steps down and Lieut.
100000 fraud laid to President
Smith of the Louisiana university.
28-Senate adds 70 million to relief bill
and passes it.
of neutrality bill; endorses embargo
on arms shipments.
30-Senate lets RooseVelt's money rule
die by preventing legislation to ex-
House passes neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
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DECEMBER

2Curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
again escapes from prison in Arizona.
5-FritZ Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced
to prison for two and half years.
Upward trend seen in several lines
of business
adel e''.S nun pio'eS'S 0rl'iSn oiocN'
9-Rooseve1t orders a special naval dis.
trict in Caribbean.
11-RFC grants $40. O00, 900 loan to Fin.
land.
u. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
13-TWelve naval captains promoted
to be rear admirals
ACC approves trainload rail rate re-
duction.
18-Garner announces candidacy for
Democratic presidential nomination.