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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-30

of theaters in Los Angeles, Holly
wood, Beverly Hills and Santa Mo-
MICA, California, appearing in per-
son at the famous Wiltshire Bowl
of Beverly Hills.
The outstanding event of MSS
Workouts eight weeks was that
og being entertained by the one
and only Bill "Bojangles" Robin
son who gave her an autograph
and picture of himself.
Hettie B. possesses a natural
ability to sing and dance, originat-
ing her own dance steps. In vaude-
vile since she was three Hettie is
reaching for greater achievements
which have been promised her in
the near future.
Mrs. Sims states she is planning
to return to Hollywood with Hettie
in the late fall.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
COOPER ANNOUNCES HIS
CANDIDACY FOR GOV.

Raleigh.-With a golden rule"
platform and an assertion that he
would surprise the wise boys
who say they can't see. me with
a spy-glass," Mayor Thomas E.
Cooper, of Wilmington Sunday
announced his candidacy for gov
ernor of North Carolina.
Cooper, outspoken president of
the State Mule Dealers Associa-
ton, IaLnched his campaign at a
press conference in a hotel room
here, by issuing a terse statement
which he typed himself, hunt and
peck fashion, on a portable type
writer. The statement follows:
II have surveyed the field of
announced and unannounced can
didates and do not find one that
I feel represents the great mass
es of the people-and when I say
masses I include among others
teachers, labor, farmers and mer-
chants-and I therefore hereby
announce my candidacy for gov
ernor of North Carolina subject
to the rules of the Democratic
party.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
BAP. MEDICAL SCHOOL
BLDG. TO COST 100000

Winston-Salem.- - Construction
of the Bowman Gray school of
medicine of Wake Forest college,
adjacent to an enlarged North
Carolina Baptist hospital, which
when completed will offer at
Winston-Salem one of the most
modern and complete hospital
medical units in the south, will
get under way around June l.
Announcement to- this effect
was made here by DR.. G. c. Car
penter, dean of the school of me-
dicine at Wake Forest college,
who has spent much of his time
in recent months gathering data
on features and facilities to be
Incorporated in the unit.
The medical school building
alone will represent an expendi-
ture of approximately 100000.
This, together with the necessary
equipment and the addition. to
the hospital, will bring the total
expenditure up to $750,006.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
Brief Review OF The State,
Nation, Worldwide News
appropriations Farmers Sashed by Congress- New Candi-
dates Announce for Governor; England Experiences
Unusually Cold Weather. Many Reds Killed
PAUL ID. GRADY HAS
ANNOUNCED FOR GOV.

Raleigh.-Paul D. Grady Of
Kenly, advocating a statewide
referendum on liquor and repeal
of the three per cent sales tax
Monday announced his candida
cy for governor of North Carroll
ma.
Grady was the sixth Democrat
to enter the race, topping the pre-
vious record number Of entries
by two. At least one other person
Willis Smith of Raleigh-is ex-
pected to seek the nomination,
which is tantamount to election.
Other candidates are Thomas
E., Cooper of Wilmington, who an
nounced Sunday and j. M.
Broughton of Raleigh, L. Lee
Gravely of Rocky Mount, w. P.
Horton of Pittsboro and A. J.
Maxwell of Raleigh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
ACTRESSES ROBBED OF
JEWELS IN CHICAGO

Chicago.-Five masked robbers
held up Constance Bennett and
Anita Louise motion picture
stars, and robbed them of jewel
ry which they valued at 33,O95,
just a short distance from Chi
cago's loop early Sunday.
The actresses, accompanied by
Richard Ainley, Miss BENEFITS
leading man in a loop play which
closed last night, were returning
to their hotel after giving "a cha
rity performance at the union
station when the robbery oc-
Cured.
In their report to the police,
Miss Bennett said their car was
curbed by a small sedan. George
Bayne, chauffeur for Miss Ben
nett, said one of the robbers
jumped on the running board of
his car and ordered him to "drive
up a way or I'll blow your brains
OUT. The other car followed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
BAPTIST LEADERS ARE
MEETING IN CONCORD

Concord.-Approximately 1900
Baptist leaders are expected to
attend a B. T. U. associational Of
ficers conference to- be held at
First Baptist church, this city,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
This is the fifth year of a five
year promotional program of
Baptist Training union forces
throughout the south. This is the
fifth meeting in the five years of
the Training union forces in
North Carolina. Nathan G. Brooks,
Jr., Raleigh, is the state secre-
tary for North Carolina and these
associational leaders are under
taking to establish Training
union work in every Baptist
church in the state. Progress is
being reported from every Sec
ton. Large increases and gains
are being reported from over the
entire Southern Baptist conven-
ton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
LARGE SUM is RAISED
FOR DESTITUTE FINNS

New York. - Herbert Hoovert,
Hoover, national chairman of the
Finnish relief fund, announced
this week that newspapers of the
nation have raised $305,525 to aid
the destitute in Finland.
Because of cooperation Of the
press, he said, cit was possible to
almost overnight begin meeting
the emergency for which the
Finnish relief fund was organ
led"
Newspaper contributions by
states included:
Alabama, 1896; Florida, $548;
Georgia, 224; North Carolina, ST.
355; Tennessee, 1866; Virginia,
1929.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
TWO PERSONS KILLED
IN SHEDDING ACCIDENT

Asheville.-TWo persons were
killed in shedding accident here
Sunday night and Methodist
minister was found frozen to
death at Fletcher Sunday morn
ing.
The victims of the shedding &C
cident were Mrs. Mary Roach
Mallonese, 80, laboratory techni-
clan, and Allen Luther, Jr., IL,
both of AsheVille.
They were killed when the sled
they were riding ran into an tu-
tomobile on a steep street.
Rev. John w. Miller of Spar
tanburg, S. c., was found dead at
sanitarium where he was pa
tient near Fletcher. Coroner j. F.
Brooks said the man had left the
stitution in his night clothes and
that he had died of exposure.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
% SHIPS ARE LOST IN
IN 21ST WEEK OF WAR

Sea warfare cost II nations
more than 800 lives and 30 ships
during the 21st week of the war
the second most destructive week
of the European sea conflict.
The losses aggregated 63,8O4
tons, and in addition to the dead,
1874 persons were reported miss
ing.
Only the 18th week was more
destructive; it saw "a ships go
down under a wave of mine and
submarine warfare.
England, with nine vessels
sunk, was the heaviest loser in
the week ending Saturday. Two
were destroyers-the Grenville
and Exmouth-which went down
with 1876 perishing and sc repor-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
BRITAIN HAS UNUSUALLY
COLD WEATHER FOR JAN.

London.-British censors, who
guarded pealously all weather
news as information of possible
value to the enemy, broke down
and permitted certain revelations
which early Sunday morning pa
pers hammered just as if nobody
knew it, to wit:
Great Britain had a December
January cold snap which beat
anything since 1894.
London registered a low of 7
above zero, Fahrenheit.
The Serpentine, winding lake
in Hyde Park, froze to depth of
IL inches.
The Thames froze over for 8
miles from Teddington to Sun
bury.
Thousands of homes were with
out water because of frozen
plumbing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
FARM APPROPRIATION
SLASHED BY CONGRESS

Washington. Ignoring alike
the budget recommendations of
the President and the fact that
this IS presidential election
year, when members of Congress
are wont to deal tenderly with
the embattled farmer, the house
committee on appropriations, Of
which Representative John H.
Kerr is the North Carolina mem
per, reduced farm expenditures
Tor the next fiscal year by 1884,
100000.
The cut exceeded by $5O,OO0,-
uO0 any advance forecasts of the
probable results of economy bloc
efforts. The amount recommend
ed In President Roosevelt's bud
get message was $788, 929,519, and
compares with $1,3O1, 340,315.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
THOUSANDS OF REDS
ARE KILLED BY Firms

Helsinki. - The beaten frag-
ments of four Soviet divisions,
once 10000 strong, were report
ed by Finnish couriers Saturday
night to be scattered in headlong
flight after strewing the SHOWS
and icelocked lakes and rivers
with thousands of dead and
wounded.
The casualties and heaps of
abandoned war materials were
the price paid in a futile endea-
vor to outflank the Mannerheim
Line, to cut behind it by encir-
cling the frozen shores of Lake
Ladoga.
Moving sluggishly, the Red
army columns were caught in a
whitening crossfire that broke
their communications, smashed
supply lines, prevented the arri-
val Of endorsements and took a
terrible toll.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
BOMBERS STRIKE
AT BRITAIN'S DEFENSE

London. = German warplanes
ranged wide across the North sea
Monday to pepper bombs and
bullets against at least IA British
merchant vessels scattered for 400
miles up and down the east coast
OF the British Isles.
British sources suggested to-
night that the Nazis had gambled
with bitter weather in the hope
that fighter planes would be
grounded and unable to cope with
an aerial attack in force.
Although British railways and
road transportation was tied up
by the weather into the worst
snarl in history, Royal Air force
fighters were able to rise from
their airdromes in sufficient num-
bers to protect vital shipping
lanes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
Is ARE BURNED TO
DEATH IN CRASH

Toulca, Mexico. - Twenty-Five
persons were burned to death and
"a were injured Sunday when
flaming gasoline enveloped a
crowded bus at San Bartolo Oto-
lotepec, near here, officials said.
Prosecuting Attorney Alberto
Garcia Diego said no one knew
the cause of the fire and that the
bus driver, not injured, was being
detained for an investigation.
The bus, owned by a coopera-
tively-owned textile plant, was
filled with employees .and their
relatives.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
Temperature Begins To Rise
When Sun Shines On Dixie

ATLANTA, Ga.-The sun came
back to the deep South Sunday
bringing relief from frigid wea-
Their which had paralyzed bust
ness and traffic and killed mil
lions of dollars of vegetable crops
and citrus fruits.
A warm sun aided workers in
clearing snow and ice from slip
perry highways and streets.
! Temperatures were mounting
slowly, however, and the relief
from cold was not immediate and
complete.
Lows Sunday morning dipped
below zero. Nashville, Tenn, had
four below. Knoxville five be-
low and Chattanooga eight be-
low. The temperature rose gra-
dually south from the northern
fringe of Dixie, but stayed be-
low freezing even to the south
ern part of Florida.
The temperature in Atlanta
was 20 degrees at $3.50 p. M, and
rising.
While severely damaging truck
crops, the cold wave was a boon
to cotton and corn. The sub-freez-
ing temperatures killed boil wee
wills and conditioned the soil for
cotton and other summer crops.
The damage to citrus crops was
heavy in central Florida, and SUI
gar cane in Louisiana suffered
its heaviest loss in Al years.
Truck crops were wiped out.
Sugar cane growers in Louis
lana asked that their acreage al
lotment be increased 10000 acres
because of the damage inflicted
by the cold.
Truck crops in the Everglades
and lower East Florida were vir-
tually destroyed. The damage
would amount into the millions,
but an accurate estimate could
not be made until reports are
more complete. The temperature
fell from II to % degrees above
in central Florida last night, kill
ing from 80 to so per cent of the
cabbage crop. Celery suffered
only slight damage. Potatoes and
tomatoes on the east coast of
Florida were hit "hard."
Vacationisis who came to Flori-
da for sea bathing and other
warm weather sports awoke to
find icicles foot long. The tenn
perature sagged to 81 in down.
town Miami, the lowest since
1885, and to % in the suburbs.
The low at Key West was AZ
above, a record for 81 years.
Sportsmen estimated that TO-
600 tropical fish were killed by
the cold and washed ashore along
the Florida keys.
Temperatures plummeted to II
above in the central Florida cit
rus area, killing an estimated rs
to IS per cent of the fruit. Dam
age to the trees was negligible,
though. Growers said the cold
wave would result in "almost no
summer crop" The cold was so
severe last night that fruit was
destroyed even in the groves
where smudge pots were fired.
Swimmers believed they would
be able to take a dip at Miami
Tuesday-the first time in a
week.
Sun-selling Miami early Sun
day caught the final smash of
winters vicious drive across the
southland when nine freezing
hours piled $15,0O0,OOO in vege-
table LOSSES atop still unfigured
! damage to Florida citrus and
truck crops.
Vegetable growers in Dade and
Broward counties reported their
crops were destroyed by nine
| hours of Sllb-freeZino weather
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
LAUREL SPRINGS
NEWS ITEMS
BY WADE KEY

c. Pendry, the we'll known mail
carrier has not missed a day with
the mail, although he has had to
walk part of the way during the
heavy snow.
Mr.. Maurice Key, the McNess
dealer in Ashe, was forced to
move his headquarters to Wilkes
county until the weather condi-
tions and roads get better.
We have had some real cold
weather. The temperature has
dropped down to IL below zero
one morning and its been 10 be-
low zero several mornings.
WINTER
Heigh-Hi-Ho,
This is winter, now 1 know.
We know the cold weather is
lasting long.
But it looks like winter has just
begun.
When the thermometer is reading
10.
l have feeling for poor old Finn
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01

ted missing. Neutral Norway suf-
fered nine losses aggregating r.
436 tons. Forty of her seamen
were listed as killed or drowned.
Other neutrals lost IL ships.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01

Dairy cows which receive an
adequate ration and have warm
place to bed down can better
withstand exposure to cold wea-
Their during the day, it has been
found by experiments conducted
by the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01
''FOrd For Forty"

The Ford for Forty is surely grand.
I'll tell you you'll understand
From front end appearance to the rear,
Twenty-Five improvements you shall hear.
More inside than have ever had
Take all the family-mOther and dad.
,Finger-tip gearshift that works with
It's purely mechanical if you please
Curved disc wheels that silent and strong
AS the highways you drive along.
TwO-way adjustment your front seat,
Very convenient and complete.
The instrument panel is dressed up too
Battery indicator and everything new.
Front seat backs resilient designs;
They restful too and upholstery fine
The motor is more accessible too
So raise the hood and you'll find it true
Fully equipped is every
With ride stabilizer and torsiOn bar
Sealbeam headlamps every
Lights up the way near and far
There other improvements l could tell you about
But drive the and you will find out.
So ask your dealer for a ride today
And try it out in every way
And you'll get thrill you never knew
The Ford VS. had waiting for YOU
Get in the and take the wheel
Start up the motor and get the feel.
You soon will say what others have said,
"The Ford for Forty is far ahead.
by JAMES HARE
,Ashe Motor Company
"Your Ford Dealer Since 1919"
WEST JEFFERSON--NORTH CAROLINA
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01

with loss estimated at high as
100000.
Citrus, however, escaped inc
jury in these extreme south
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01

Mrs. Amos GRAPHICAL who has
been i'll for some time is able to
be up again.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-01

Florida counties, and very little
damage was done to ayocados
and other tree crops, it was sta
ted. !,
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-01-18
Judge BaiIy Reigns
After II Years Service

Judge Alfred D. Bailey of Bladensburg completed
Il years of service head OF the Prince George
County Federation Of Citizens Associations last week,
when Walter F. Mulligan of Daniels Park elected
president. other officers elected at the meeting
william G Copely of Silver Hill, vice-pres-
idnt; George EcCoy, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Genevieve Stewart, East Riverda1e, recording
retary, and Fred u. Cast Of Cheverly, treasurer.
In a report covering his presidency, Judge Bailey
gave credit to the Federation for the widening of
the Defense hi hway the removal of the breakwater
at Bladensburg and the widening of the Edmonston
road. The federation also aided in obtaining added
county police and desk clerk, getting the
Bladensburg elementary and high schools and started
the county hospital movement and pushed the flood
control project.
Formation of a County Hospital Board reported
by Committee Chat rnan Frank Firestein. statement
in his report that with 80, 900 residents in Prince
Georges County, we have no hospital" warmly
rected by Mrs. katherine Aness in pointing out that
Greenbelt has very we'll equipped though small hos
pital.
Senator's and repre- sentatives asked in a
tion adopted by the Federation to support the plans
of President Roosevelt to provide hospitals in
unable to afford then.
of short wei lts and throughout the county,
and it urged by all present that every effort be
made to Sea1er of Wei ghts and Measures at
the next session of the gislature.
When Judge Bailey assumed his office with the
Federation it consisted of three organization
bers. There II organizations participating
of which Greenbelt Citizens Association is one of
the par ticipants.
Representing Greenbelt at the elections and busi-
meeting were Delegates A. S. Arness, Katherine
Arness and Marie Bargas.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-01-18
CUSTER LAUNCHED ON FIRST DIRECTORS TASK

Representing Greerbelt's cooperative,
Howard C. Custer, of the directors Of the
Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc, spent Saturday
the two-dsy Recreation leadership Conference which
was sponsored by the Eastern Cooperative League.
E. Custer went first to New York City on Friday
where he met Herbert E. Evans, vice-president of
Consumer Hstri button Corporation, and accompanied
him trip through Nnickerbocker village, low
cost and limi teddividend apartment house project.
They also visited the midtown Coop Cafeteria.
The purposes of the conference, held at Shady
side Lodge--which is by the Young Women' s
Christian Association of New York conference
headquarters from September to May-was to stimu-
Late interest in developing creation acti ties in
local cooperative programs to demonstrate effective
forms of cooperative recreation, and to give leader
ship trai ming.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-01-18
LAAKso ADDED TO COOP TRAINING FACULTY

The general manager of Greenbelt's consumer
operative, Sulo Laakso, has been selected
Der of the faculty for the course in Cooperative
Food Store operation which is being given by the
Council for Cooperative Business Training, according
to announcement received last week from Herbert
F. Evans, chairman Of that organic alton. r. Iaak-
so's parti patton will probably be 1 ted to Civ
ing field training in the local store.
The 1o-week training program will &C ntinue from
Febrn ry to Nay A and will include bo ot classroom
studies in New York CT y for theoretical ins true
and training in selected cooperative stores under
the direction Of the local manager and representa-
tives Of the Coumcil's teaching staff.
During the of this field trai ming, each
student will be associated with diff ferent stores
for interval of three weeks each.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-01-18

The Cooperator has learned on very good authority
that the board Of directors Of the Greenbelt
Consumer Services, Inc, is planning to to
the membership that patronage for purchases
d,ringthe year 1899 be made.
Therefore, would advise patrons to keep their
slips, pending Developments.
Full details Of the meeting, Of the boards de-
cision with respect to the patronage return and of
nstructions regarding the turning in of patronage
return slips will be available in next weeks Coop
orator.
Evening star., 1940-10-26
100000 Housing
Project Under Way
In Southeast
Cufritz Apartment Job
Will Contuin From
IS to 80 Buildings

The largest low-cost housing prof.
ect ever to be attempted here by a
private concern with strictly private
financing is now under construction
at Minnesota avenue Sc. and East
Capitol street. Morris Cafritz, prom
inent Washington realtor, is the
builder
The project, to be built on 80 acres
Of woodland. will cost $3,O00,OOO. 1t
will include from Is to 80 apartment
buildings and will take approxi-
mately a year to complete, although
at least five buildings viii, be ready
for occupancy by December l. Each
apartment building will contain
about II apartments ranging from
the popular tWo-room, kitchen and
bath to the tWo-bedroom apartment.
There will also be a recreation
center, a playground for children
and a shopping center.
Designed by Harry Edwards, who,
with Mr.. Cafritz, conceived the
newly erected Park Terrace and
Park Crescent up Columbia road
and Rock Creek Parkway, the build
ings are to be fire resistant. This in
cludes steel interior and solid con-
crete floors. The latter will have an
additional covering of parquet for
beauty and comfort.
The buildings are to be of pink
buff brick with steel easement win
doWS overlooking SlOping lawns. All
apartments will have outside Ven-
tilation in every room and the build
ings will be spaced far enough apart
to provide adequate light and air.
Evening star., 1940-10-26
Apartment Over-SuppIy
In Some Areas Noted

Danger signals indicating an over
supply of apartment houses in some
communities are cited in a section
of the forthcoming annual report of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
devoted to rents and vacancies.
For the United States as whole,
rents and vacancies have remained
practically unchanged over almost
three years. evidence that the newly
built dwelling units could be alb
sorbed without inroads into the oc-
cupancy and rem. structure" the
report will say. Average rents ad-
vanced from 1885 through the end
of 1887 and have been practically
stationary ever since.
Local statistics compiled by the
Department of Labor for 80 indi-
vidual cities by and large confirm