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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
JAPANESE PLANES BOMB
HEART OF CHUNGKING

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Jap
anese planes bombed the heart
of Chungking Sunday in dew
astating assault in which dozen
bombs crashed within 100 yards
of the new press hotel being built
to replace the one wrecked Aug
ust Is. Much of the new con-
struction was destroyed.
The raiders were one OF SIX
patches of planes, altogether num-
bering 1876, which sWarmed over
Szechwan province, Chengtu and
Liangshan were among the cities
attacked. Thirty-six planes at
tackled Sichang, communication
center of Sikang province - the
first raid on that city, the second
on that province.
Liangshan is fruit-groWlng
center in eastern Szechwan.
Anti-aircraft fire and the de-
donation of bombs merged in an
explosive din as the japanese
struck at Chungking, the Chinese
capital, for the 142nd time.
The alarm lasted five hours and
As minutes. Bomb craters and
wrecked buildings gave whole
sections the aspects of a dead city.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
ARMY PLANE CRASH
PROVES TO BE FATAL

Los Angeles. - One man was
killed and two were injured criti-
cally Sunday in the crash Of a
BIS type army bomber four min
utes after it took off on a test
flight.
James knight, "a, Los Angeles
the radio operator, was caught in
the flaming wreckage and per
ished.
Passersby dragged Pilot Will
cox B. (Tex) Wild, 81, of Los An
geles, and Co-Pilot Paul Penrose.
of Dallas from the flames. They
suffered serious burns in addition
to their crash injuries.
The bomber, built by North
American Aviation Corp, for the
army air corps, left the Municipal
Airport near IngleWood for a test
flight.
North American officials said
the cause of the accident had not
been determined.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
TENNESSEE CITIES GO
BACK ON CENTRAL. TIME

Memphis, Tenn.-After a month
of daylight saving time, cities in
the Memphis area Sunday began
returning to central standard
time.
Oklona, Miss, went back on
standard time Thursday midnight
and Senatobia, Miss, planned to
follow suit Sunday night.
Grenada, Miss, went off day
light time Monday, along with
Water Valley and Batesville,
Miss.
Officials said principal reason
for the change was schools open
ing, which would conflict with
train and bus schedules, and the
fact that merchants had voted to
return to standard time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
MOTHERS OF SELECTEES'
TO FORM ORGANIZATION

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Local mo-
theirs whose sons have been draf-
ted have banded together in an
effort to stretch the maternal ap-
ron string from the home kitchen
to the army camp.
The organization, known as the
mothers of Selectees," is headed
by Mrs. Alan Kistler, whose three
sons have been called to the COL
ors.
Explaining the aims of the
group, Mrs. Kistler said:
"Our objective will be to work
for the welfare of our boys in
camp. Nobody knows the prob
lens of the boys better than their
mothers who get letters from
them every week."
The local group is contemplate
ing organization on a national
scale.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

Kannapolis.
Miss Boselee Hoffman, of Kan
napolis, was the week end guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Black.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forney Miller and
daughter, of Glendale Springs and
Mr.. Edison Wingler, Of Laurel
Springs, made a business trip to
Boone, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ice Hudson and
children, Burton and Dean, of
Switzer, w. Va, and Miss Bell
Harmon spent the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. Forney Miller, of
Glendale Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hudson. Mr..
and Mrs. Forney Miller visited
Mrs. Queen Douglas at North
Wilkesboro Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
EIGHT MORE PERSONS
EXECUTED IN PARIS

Vichy. - Eight more persons
have been executed in Paris for
aiding enemies, dispatches from
Paris reported today, bringing to
eleven the number executed since
the attempted assassination of
Pierre Laval and Marcel Deaf last
Wednesday.
Three of those executed, includ-
ing naval Lieutenant Count Henri
Destienne Dorbes, were con-
demned for espionage, presumab-
ly for De Gaullists.
The other five were accused
under the new French law pro-
viding death for "activity against
the occupying power"
All eight were stood up against
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
Record Number OF Traffic
Deaths Listed On Week End

Accidents on car-clogged high
ways caused more than three
times as many violent deaths as
all other causes combined as the
nations celebration of the three
day Labor Day week end reached
the halfway mark Sunday.
At least III persons were killed
in traffic mishaps, compared with
81 deaths from such causes as
drownings, plane crashes, sui
cides, hunting accidents, and stab
bings.
Yet despite the comparative
heavy traffic toll, such fatalities
were tagging appreciably behind
advance estimates of the national
safety council.
The organization estimated that
600 persons would lose their lives
in motorcar accidents from 6 p.
m. Friday to midnight Monday,
compared with the average 420
deaths for a summertime week
end.
Two of the worst motorcar ac-
cidents were in Illinois and Indi-
ana. Five members of an Indiana
family were killed in a crash
near Greenfield Saturday and
four members of an Illinois fami-
lv died in collision Sunday near
Wilmington.
Illinois led all states in traffic
deaths with 10. California was
second with Is and Indiana third
with IA.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

creases in costs of Is food staples
were listed.
White flour, 08 per cent; white
bread, IL; round steak, is; chuck
roast, 3.6; pork chops, "a; sliced
bacon, O.3; roasting chickens, O.3;
pink salmon, 81; butter, 0.5; fresh
milk, O.8; eggs, 3.5; oranges, O.3;
canned tomatoes, IL; navy beans,
1.3; coffee, IL; lard, IA and SUI
gar, or.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
rOOD PRICES CONTINUE
TO RISE PERKINS SAYS

Washington.-A continued rise
in the cost of major foodstuffs
was reported this week by Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins.
The weekly report, based on a
survey of costs in 18 large cities
during the last two weeks of Aug
ust, appeared in a new form
which did not show the percent
age of the general change, ordi'
narily included by the department
in living cost figures.
! The following percentage in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
Brief Review OF State, World News

France less than two years ago."
IF you will read these" Lind
bergh stated, Il believe you will
agree with me that we must de-
pend upon ourselves and our
selves only for our security in the
future"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

Rorno1p,c Engines. Trae-
Gums tors. Saw Mills,
Wood Working and Road Build
ing Machinery. Well Drilling Ma
chimes. Gasoline Engines, etc.-R
p. JOHNSON, Wytheville. Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
WILL PREACH SUNDAY

Rev. Mr.. Yelanjian will hold
regular services at the West JEFF
ferson Presbyterian church next
Sunday morning at HOO o'clock,
it was announced this week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

Whatever strengthens and pur1--
fies the affections. enlarges the
imagination, and adds spirit to
sense, is useful. SHELLEY
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

American consumption of wool
is on the rise. More than 10,5O0,-
600 pounds of secured wool was
used by U. S. mills in June this
year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
Glendale News

Mrs Walter Black, of Glendale
Springs, has returned home af-
ter spending a week with his sis
ter, Mrs. Vera Biggerstaff, of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

a wall at Vincennes prison just
outside Paris and shot to death
by a firing squad from the French
garde mobile.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04

Secretary of STATE Thad Eure
who on Friday was elected presi-
dent of the National Association
of Secretaries of State at the an
nual convention which was held
this year at Los Angeles, CalifOr-
MIA. This is the first time the hon
or has ever been given to a North
CarOIinian.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02
Gable in Mayor Race
To Demand Recount
nv FRANK NORRIS

With two days 10 60 before The
election, Andrew J, Gable, the
scratch" candidate for mayor, Is
demanding a recount. '
He said Saturday that he has
spent $4,000 i'm his lonely cru
SADIE and that, come what may he
Us going toZget his money worth.
This time" announced Gable.
IT am going 10 have a recount.
Very Suspicious
II think IL IL very suspicious
when a candidate spends $4,000
IN pre-primsry campaign and
the ballot-counters give him
only 6,I7t votes
81 don't trust those boys In
City Hall and when this election
II over next Tuesday, 1 am going
to have a recount"
Gable explained that since the
5000 primary effort. he has
passed out another $1,000. Unlike
seasoned politicians. he dug this
money out of his OWN pocket
81 would have checked the
primary vote, but I did not
know that i had only five DAYS
10 petition for recount" ex-
planned the persevering opti-
mist, who failed 10 attract 169,-
Co. voters IN the primary.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

ADVERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02
Children S Book
Week HerdIded

Chlldren's Book Week in Mich
igan from November 2 IN 8 was
proclaimed Saturday by Gov.
Murray D. Van Wagner, who at
the same time designated Novem-
Der s as Public Library Day.
In the proclamation the cover
nor said
Children need hooks 10 grow
mp with and to grow up on. De-
mocracy cannot he n living force
unless. through good education
ana good reading, our young
people have access 10 the wis
uom OF the ages. Such educs-
ton Is the greatest assurance
that freedom will survive"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

coffee. The boys
had been at ii
since 6 in the
morning an d
they looked as
if they could do
with a 4S-hour
stretch of sleep.
, Kaye WASH
too tire d TO
speak. though,
especially when
ne was asked
10 give the
low d q w n
on H O n F. Y
BUNCH" the
new number he
has chosen as
the third song
hit in the series
of Weekly Song
Hits being pre-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02
Builds Family Home

Since retiring from business,
Gable has built a home at 1913
Chicago boulevard. He is married
and has a daughter. Nancy. who
is 42. and son, Ronald. who is | u
They also have a farm of 127
acres in Oakland County.
He said Mrs. Gable Is not sur
prised that her husband is a
scratch" candidate--and prepar-
ing for a recount.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02
Income Tax Challenge

In running as a scratch" candi-
date. Gable is challenging the
council members 10 uncover their
income tax reports hereafter as a
check against each others honesty.
ut will be a guarantee against
cheating II we all produce our
income tax figures" he said.
The candidate explained that he
decided 10 run for mayor last May
when he heard Mayor Jeffries
make a speech which indicated 10
him that there is faVoritism in
City Hall
II will reveal Monday night
exactly what the mayor said
he stated. I'm keeping that for
an election eve surprise"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02
Sammy Kaye
OF Swing, Sway
Picks Song Hit
His Selection TO Be
in Next Sundays
Detroit Times

Sammy Kaye and the Swing and
Sway orchestra juSt had finished
cutting a disc and were lunching
on sandwiches and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

For the "Tnside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column in the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

Comic Section of The Detroit
Sunday Times. Hayes selection
4. COMPLETE. with words and
music e. will appear in next Sun
days Detroit Times.
Suits Their Style
"you know" said Sammy, T
picked HONEY BUNCH he
cause its suits our style OF play
ing. Our styles rather diff
ficuIt TO describe.
But here's the general idea.
The alto sax carried the lead,
and frequently. In the final
chorus, the soprano sax Is used.
I'VE use cIarinets more fire.
quently than the average dance
band, especially behind vOcaIs.
"The brass section Is usually
muted and we use special mutes
OF my own invention.
1.-The rhythm section. while
important, is kept toned down
make itself most apparent.
1--WE always felt that tho
melody Is most important and
should not he buried under
heavy orchestrations or deafen-
ing percussion playing.
III we did that TO HONEY
BUNCH why, IL would sound
like a mess.
Honey Bunch has n beauti-
full melody and like all the
songs we play that's what we'll
feature when we record IL for
BIuebird."
Music fans, please remember
that Honey Bunch" will come
with words, music and piano ar
ready for you to
play and sing in Puck :.
The Comic Weekly with
next Sundays issue of The De-
troit Sunday Times. Honey
Bunch never has been published
before.
2 on Way, to Hits
Already two other song hit
tunes, presented IN The Detroit
Sunday Times, are well on the
way towards becoming the ma
tons No. ] hit tunes.
First, there was Dear Ara
bella, the choice Of Maestro
Glenn Miller, which appeared in
the October 26 issue of this news
paper and word has come that it
has Immediately caught on.
Tommy Dorsey, exponent of
Sentimental Swing. selected the
second number. The Night We
Called 1t a Day" which appears
in this Sundays issue of this
newspaper.
Dorsey will be in Detroit Mon
day and Tuesday with the RCA-
Victor Dance Caravan at the
State Fair Grounds.
Following Sammy Kaye. there
will be song hit selections by Fred
Warlng, Guy Lombardo, Artie
Shaw, Freddy Martin. Vaughn
Monroe and Benny Goodman.
Watch The Detroit Times for
further details OF the Weekly Song
Hit series.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

t, when I went 10 the City Hall
and asked 90 have the boxes re-
opened, IL WAS too late. This
time I am ready 60 check mp"
A recount will cost Gable 81
precinct He says he will no
-TnrCK III or The I,UIO precincts
merely enough 10 find ont whether
the professional politicians are
giving him the business.
He explained that he is runnnl
as a scratch candidate" not as Z
'Sticker candidate, as has been re-
ported
Appeals to Voters
ON my radio talks ! am ask
ing the voters To scratch the
name Of MAYOR Edward y. JEFF
fries Jr.. or Judge Joseph \.
ellis and write in the name OF
Andrew i. Gable" he said.
Gable who j. 3S years old
hadn't enough money 10 years ago
TO buy a wagon let alone a band
wagon HIS name then was Andrew
J. Gabryszek.
II had exactly $50 and no job"
he said II organized the Stand
ard Paper Company with Offices
AT 26O7 Fourteenth street and
began selling paper.
"Two years ago ! sold the bust
ness 10 my brother and retired.
I have enough put away to give
me an income Of $50 a week,
providing 1 get q per cent.
But this politics sure runs
into money. If ! keep this up, L
couId On broke"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

sented TO you each Sunday in the
Comic Section of The Detroit
Sunday Times. Hayes selection
COMPLETE, with words and
music will appear in next Sun
DAVIS Detroit Times.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Little Bohomion
| Steamers Garry
Tramp Trippers'

NASSAU, New Providence, Ba-
hamas, June 21.-Sea- going holidays
aboard the sturdy little Out Island
steamers which follow routes charted
by English navigatorS when the New
World was aborning are attracting
Increasing numbers of vacationists to
the Bahamas.
A number of these mail and
freight boats put out regularly from
Nassau bound for nearby Islands
where life is much as it was CEN
tury ago. Strung like a necklace OF
white Jade across the peaceful,
emerald Bahamian waters, the is
lands extend southeastWard from
the United States mainland, stepping
stones to a quaint world of customs
in refreshing contrast to those OF
the bustling, dynamic U, S. A.
One of the mail stops made by
these inter-island boats is at San
Salvador, where Christopher Colum-
bus made his landfall in 1892. Un-
like the big cruise ships which dock
at Nassau, these little ships have no
prearranged schedule for passengers
who create their ow namusement
and plan their own exploratory trips
ashore. Usually there are no more
than a dozen passengers and fire.
ouently they form clubs and COM
municate with each other after they
have returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Historic Hotel Reopens
In Yosemite Park

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK,
June 81. Marking its 67th con-
secutive season, the historic Wa
wona Hotel, located in the south.
western part of Yosemite National
Park, opened today for the summer
season.
The hotel is located at an eleva-
ton of 1000 feet in beautiful
Wawona Valley. which is watered
by the south fork of the Merced
River. In years gone by it was a
stage stop en- route to the Mariposa
Grove of Big Trees-only 10 MIN
utes' drive away-and Yosemite
Valley, where the main hotel units,
camps and park entertainment fea-
lures are concentrated.
Evening star., 1941-06-22

over and in which he makes changes.
But this is not the end and the
wording of many of his decisions is
altered when he receives the printed
proofs.
But despite his absorption in law
it is not his only love
Music and art also hold great in
terest for him.
Prefers Classical Music.
Although his taste in the former
inclines towards the classical he
says that no one who enjoys Stra-
whisky can be called a conservative.
In literature he puts Shakespeare
in class my himself. He gets more
enjoyment out of seeing the plays
on the stage than from reading
them, but considers it necessary to
see one of them acted at least a
dozen times before it is possible to
fully appreciate the beauty of Ian
guage.
In art his taste is Catholic. He
Raeburn and Hogarth and also Van
Gogh. He is particularly interested
in etchingS.
Studied With Coolidge.
1t was many years before he could
indulge in this hobby. Harlan Stone
was a poor New Hampshire farm
er's son who had to teach in order
to work his way through college.
After his graduation from Amherst
where he was a student with Calvin
Coolidge. whom he described as re
firing but purposeful," he taught
chemistry in Newburyport, Mass
He has always been interested in
science, and in this way earned
enough money to study law. He
received his law degree from Co.
lumbia, and while there taugh at
Adelphi College in Brooklyn.
For a time he practiced law, then
he returned to Columbia to teach it.
At the end of 20 years he retired to
enter the firm of Sullivan and
Cromwell which had an extensive
corporation practice At that time
he was Kent professor of law and
dean of the la Wschool Seventeen
years ago President Coolidge ap-
pointed him Attorney General and
within a year picked him for tse
Supreme Court
I had though that this was the
first time in the country's history
that President belonging to one
party had named as Chief Justice
man belonging to the opposing
party. When I asked him if this
were not the case he recalled the
Evening star., 1941-06-22
By S. ], WOOLF.

NEW YORK, June 21.-The morn
ing after Harlan FiSke Stone was
named chief justice of the United
States he walked into his sons law
office on lower Broadway, his pockets
bulging with letters and kilograms.
Taking off a more or less shape
less raincoat and hot not TOO wen
blocked, he sat at a long table IN
the firms library, asked for a sec
retary and dictated answers 10 tne
notes of congratulations. Ihe glSI
of them all was that he hoped ne
would prove worthy OF the honor
which had come to him.
Such modesty is characterlStlc OF
the man. 1 discovered this when
early that morning l called on the
telephone to make an appointment
TO sketch him and have talk. l
asked if I might speak to the chle1
Justice and a mans pleasant voice
answered, This is Mr.. Stone, but
he is not chief justice yet.
Essentially American.
There is something big and rug
ged about the new chief justice,
something that brings to mind the
old frontier spirit of the country.
7 have drawn other members OF
the Supreme Court. About Chlel
Justice Hughes there is JoVlan
remoteness which even his extreme
courtesy does not dispel. Justice
KHolmes was typical of the Boston
of Henry Adams and George SAINT
vana. Felix Frankfurter has
sharpness of intellecgt that is al
most brittle in its brilhGnce.
But about Mr.. Stone is an honest
homespun quality which makes one
Immediately feel at ease.
AS he sat hunched in his chair,
the light from above falling on his
CRAVING brown hair and broad fore
head, as it cleaned along the bridge
of his well-shaped aquiline nose,
throwing a shadow on a mouth
with a thin upper lip and deter
mined under lip, I felt that here
was a man to whom precedentS were
something more than printed rec
ords in calf bindings, I could un-
derstand why he regarded law as
"a human institution for human
needs"
Although Chief Justices, even be-
fore they are confirmed, may not
be quoted, when my half-hour ap-
pointment stretched to an hour and
a half, and the conversation ranged
from Chitty to Cezanne; as Beetho-
ven and Blackstone shone with
equal brightness and Whistler's line
rivaled Kent'S writings in lmpor-
tance, a picture of the man with
out his exact words became possible.
When some one says that he
never had a job in his life which
he did not enjoy, that no man con
do god work unless he gets fun out
of what he is doing and then eX-
plains that he has never once wor-
ried over what the future would
bring because he has been so intent
upon the present, that his life has
been fashioned on sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof" you
have a pretty clear idea of the type
of man he is.
His days begin early and by $50
or 7 he is taking his daily walk.
This walk is a substitute for the
medicine ball which he tossed every
morning on the south lawn of the
White House during the Hoover ad-
miniStration.
Many Revisions.
BY 9 o'clock he begins % write
his decisions in the large two
storied library in a wing of his
Washington home.
He sits at a large desk beneath
them and makes his notes in an al
most illegible hand, which he, him
self, at times, has difficulty in
reading.
Then comes a typewriter tram
scription which he carefully goes
Evening star., 1941-06-22

be in the whirl of a real Scottish
celebration.
Announcement of the date of the
Highland games at Antigonish is
awaited each year with great deal
of interest, particularly among
those of Scottish extraction, and
this year the date has been set for
July 8.
The games include the Scottish
classics, tossing the caber, putting
the shot and throwing the hammer
and there will be the customary
contests in bagpipe playing and
Scottish dances, including sword
dancing.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Scottish Games Dute
Set in Nova Scotiu

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, June
21.-The wayfarer in Nova Scotia
who climbs Sugar Loaf, near An
tigonish, and looks eastward may
see Scottish shores-not those of
Scotland itself but of Cape Breton
Island, whose scenery is much like
that of the land of the heather
One day each year the illusion of
the nearness of Scotland is par
ticularly strengthened, for the Wis
itor will hear the skirl of the pipes,
see the swirl of kits and, indeed,
Evening star., 1941-06-22

naming of Justice White by Presi-
dent Taft. Then he went on to
say that Justice White had told
him he was the most surprised man
in the world when this happened.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Bomb Danger Curbed

Through scientific research, treat
ments have been evolved by the
British which protect floors and
other timber work in buildings
from incendiary bombs.