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local hospital, will increase the
quantity of medical service avail
able for the $4,000 people Of this
county. A local hospital VIII do
this by doubling, TRIPPING, quad
rupling, the quantity of service
that a physician can render A
physician working in the hospital,
like DR.. Tate or DR.. Brown at
Banner Elk, with the sick coming
to him from all over the county
instead. of his driving over noun
famous roads, which is expensive
and time-consuming to the ply
sician and to the sick, can with
the assistance of nurses and labo-
ratory technicians do at least four
times the amount of work, when
necessity arises, that he could do
without the technicians, labora-
tory, and X-ray, and with the
time-consuming factor of travel
added to his work. The hospital
enables the physician, and espe-
cially that physician or those ply
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04
Italian Woman's Dolls
Famous Around World

TURIN, ITALY. - A lonely war
mother has created one of the
worlds foremost doll factories here,
managed by Madame Lenci in
fashion that would gladden. Santa
Claus heart. Madame Lenci's real
name is Signora Elena KONG di Sea-
vini Born an artist. and developing
a passion for dolls as child, she
started making them when her hus-
band was killed in the World war.
Now her Lenci dolls are made by
800 workers and she maintains a
sales exposition in the heart of Tur-
in. Madame Lenci's ideas come
from a big collection of historical
and geographic costume designs.
,Hst famous order for dolls
was from Premier Mussolini for
four figures to be presented to Japan
as gifts. They cost him more than
$500 each.
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Duke Endowment
Official ,Stesses
Need & Benefits
Medical Service in AShn COun-
ty Declared T" Be Com
Dletely Inadequate.
Wv w. S. RANKIN NJ. D.
Director. Hospital Sect on
The Duke Endowment
1NharInffn N q
Charlotte, N. C.

CudFlUlCC, IN. ~.
editors note - Printed below
is the full address delivered by
DR.. Rankin at the recent dedlca-
tion service of the Ashe County
Memorial Hospital)
Your Problem of Sickness
Those Of you who would have a
satisfactory appreciation of what
this hospital means to Ashe coun-
" must understand its relation
ru your problem of sickness.
What is your problem of sick
Eess? We know in fairly exact
Eactual terms the size of that pro-
Diem. Governments - national,
state, and local-insurance COM
panies, and, more recently, draft
Boards, have an interest in death,
birth, disease and disability rates.
Many careful studies, lndepen-
gently made in various places,
nave resulted in reasonably uni
form findings. The number of
deaths per one thousand pOpula-
EIOn, the number of births per one
thousand population, the number
Of persons in bed from incapaci-
+a4ing illness for a given popula-
tJOn at the average time, the
gg1rnber of partially incapacitated
persons from illness per one
thousand population are all
known and, as would be expect
ii, like most conditions of HUI
nan life, do not vary widely in
different sections Of the country.
The population of Ashe county
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS

NOTICE OF SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
HERBERT GARLAND STUR-
GILL
MARY EDITH STURG1LL
The defendant, Mary Edith
Sturgi1l, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior Court
of Ashe County, North Carolina,
for a divorce a vinculo, and the
said defendant will further take
notice that she is required to ap-
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of said county
in the Courthouse in Jefferson, N.
c., within 30 days after the 9th
day of December, 1871, and an
swer or demur to the complaint in
said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This the Goth day of Nov, 1941.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
12-4-4t Clerk Superior Court
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Once you become member of the Association you
may continue your membership irrespective OF your
age or your employment, long your fees are re-
ceived on time Your disqualification may be used in
any standard hospital.
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What A Local Hospital Means To Ashe County

sistance of some six to ten grad
Continued on Page Three)
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A group of employees may become members by
satisfactorily completing blanks and paying the small
membership dues Members of your family may also
join with yOu
Mrs. Mae Liddle, Othello
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

pital Medical School in England ON the habit
of arsenic eating.
The lecturers Investigations took him 20
the province OF Styria in old Austria where
the habit was prevalent then and even now.
Every three or four years the peasants Of
the little community dug up the bodies OF
everybody who had been buried during that
time This resulted as expected mostly in
tumble Of bones but he as well as the natives,
was impressed by certain startling exceptions
men and women so wcl-prcserved that
everyone recognized them at a glance.
Because he had been gathering statistics
on which ones in the little village were known
10 have been arsenic eaters he was confronted
by the fact that these were among the mys-
tcrious decay dcfiers.
Arsenic had been the basis for the cmbalm-
ing fluid of generations of uudertakers and
used also by taxdeuHists in mounting ami
mails The chemical would presumably have
a similar effect ON the arsenic saturated flesh
of an addict With that clue he was able to
find that enough Of the other cases had also
taken IT, 10 make IL probable az an
Since the natives explained the phenomenon
by "vampirsm" this might account for the
persistence of the superstition in that area.
Further evidence lay in the fact that vam
prism and arsenic eating seemed 20 run to-
gethet through the Balkans and particularly
along the banks Of the Danube There are
many records OF whole communities becoming
hysterical in the belief that a vampire was
preying on them
At Kostartsa. Hungary, are official records
that several people died from vampires in
pitifully weakened and anemic condition
The symptoms are strongly suggestive Of per-
nicous anema unknown at that time.
The medical evidence of suspected deaths
by vampirism is rare bat in the historical rec
ords at Belgrade is the signed statement Of
three army surgeons who attended "a vampire
'huut" at The town of MedueEna iu 1852
With The fearful villagers they went TO the
cemetery where graves were dug up and the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

cheeks and red lips but rouge and hp-stlck
are taboo. Men too wished 10 look like red
blooded he-men, with rudy checks and a
good wind
Arsenic is an old remedy for anemia and
according 20 Professor Harrar's report. gives
It's addcts a rudy, flushed appearance in life.
which was especially priced by the women OF
such provinces as Styria In the men IT was
supposed 10 promote robustness and espe-
cially give them more wind for their COM
mon task Of mountain climbing
The arsenic came in the crude form OF ar
senic sulfide. from the iron shelters Even
today the peasant secretly spreads the yellow,
butterlikc substance on his bread Though
forbidden as a poison it is peddled every
where by arsenic bootleggers and is used
legally in Europe TO make horses plump and
give them soft silky hair.
Professor Harrar also referred TO the ex-
pcriments Of Mr.. II. G. A. Harding in 1924.
He began with so Of a grain and shortly was
taking /15 Of a grain after meals This is
Che accepted maximum dose that the human
body can tolerate
Gradually. through the next two years.
Harding worked up his dose until he was TAX
ing one whole grain Of arsenic at a time and
finally, when he was taking one and a half
grains al a time he thought he noticed some
discomfort.
Harding next tried to stop his arsenic diet
suddenly He found as do the natives of Syria
that he suffered i'll effects and he seemed 20
have become an arsenic addict. But then Har-
ding realized that he might cut down the
doses gradually. This he did. In a few months
he was able to stop without discomfort. He
is stil alive in Australia and in good health
some 2s years later.
While Harding was eating his arsenic he
found that his complexion became more rlddy
and he had a small gain in weight He expert
cnced the buoyant and tonic feeling which the
natives OF Styria describe. His rudy COM
pexion remains with him today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

A vampire WAS supposed 10 keep coming
back, night after night as It's victim grew
paler and more ancmic until be finally died
almost boodless Then the vctf~F became a
vampire. too, and spent the nights producing
still more vampires.
Sometimes. a person receiving nightly
visits from "A vampire would be aware of what
was happening and could postpone death by
becoming living vampire that u.s. hy re-
newing his loss of blood through stealing q
nightly supply from others keeping it up until
caught
There is the story of Balkan nobleman.
deeply in love with his beautiful young bride,
though wondering at certain pecuHarties of
her behavior Nevertheless he suspected moth
ing until one night ne shot a wolf n the left
hind leg The animal gave a peculiar howl
and trotted away on its three uninjured ones.
Returning to the castle he found his bride
unaccountably shot IN her left leg This
finally brought q confession that She was
living vampire
There was nothing for the unhappy hus-
band 10 dc but cut off her head bury her and
drive "a wooden stake through her heart
in 1885 Tho American Weekly printed Che
strange story of a yampirt hunt iu the little
mountain village of sarmiseeetuza Rumana
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

II ended IN the opening Of eleven graves of the
hunters own friends and relatives. The men
peered at the remains in the first ten only %
shake their heads as they reverontly replaced
coffin lids and earth.
But on opening the eleventh, the men cried
out as one: That is our vampire"
The grave contained the body of 2o-year-
old girl They drove a stake through the chest
of the body heaped garlic upon IT, went
through other ceremonies and then all went
home praisng heaven that they had found and
destroyed the vampire The American
Weeklys correspondent a skepucal city man.
living in Bucharest, asked how they thought
they knew the right one.
The vampire hunters al assured him that
after six months in the grave the body had
been as fresh as the day the girl committed
suicide The correspondent suggested that
since her grave was in one Of the highest
parts of tho cemetery. its dryness might ac-
count for the preservation. Professor Har-
rars paper reveals a better explanation for
her preservation as we'll as an the other Bal
kan vampires
The chemistry professor. came upon the re
markabIc report OF one Charles Hcisch unap-
prccatcd az The time and forgotten since The
1s60s when he lecturod at the MiddlcscX Hos
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19
Sucking Tour.

bodies exhumed The army sur
geons in their official report stated
that they found the body Of a WON
an named Stana, 20 years old, vha-
had died three months before.
The body OF Stana, said Surgeons
Flickinger, Siedel and Baumgartner
was untouched by any decomposi-
ton. When the body was opened
the chest was fun Of fresh blood
and the organs and yiscera had
healthy appearance. The skin aftd
the nails Of both hands and feet
were loose and came off, but be
meath this dead skin was new skin
and new nails starting TO grow.
But this was not all the surgeons
found in the cemetery. They ex
humed eight other bodies. buried
from six weeks 20 three months
which were remarkably preserved
and which the peasants. in their
hysteris, had already suspected Of
vampirism
There are inuun1erable stories Of
vampires and their healthy-look
ing condition reported by people
other than doctors Frequently the
bodies are said 90 have been buried
for years one hundred days was
the longest reported by the Hun
earian army surgeons
Why should anyone take q pot
son which produces neither sleep
nor intoxication The answer is
vanity the same motive which
makes modern girls apply rouge
Hardy mountaineers admire rosy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

This sort OF half-time immortality would
last only about as long as normal living per-
son could GO without food Unless the vam-
pire bostirrcd itself to get nourishment within
that period 1t would then become perma-
nently dead. "a vampires only food was the
blood Of some living creature preferably a
human being
Therefore tho vampire lost little time in
extrcatng itself from its tomb and seeking
victims These were usually attacked in their
sleep so gently they did not awaken
Due 20 this many have supposed that The
idea originated from the vampire bat of trdpi-
cal America which draws blood from sleep
ing person so painlessly that he does not know
anything has happened until much later. But
This theory does not account for the tradition
.n other continents whore there seem never 90
nave been any vampire bats
AS that Old tradition has IT, barred or even
tightly closed windows were Of no avail be-
eause vampire could squeeze through a bed.
r1-n keynote or crack .n tre w8l
Tae most reliable protection against q vam-
p-s~--~ur ysild garlic a necklace OF tIs smelly
seasoning hung around thc sleeper /nock was
the best vamulrc-deter rcf>~s- ----->7 HIt MANY
forgot tae rrccaution aud some especially
women sa d.sHscd scsnilnl lhe.t aal19ir ths
uay mat tney took chance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

Arsenic Eating. Which Pre-
serves the Corpse in LifeIike
SembIonce. at the Bottom of
Stories Of The "Undeod" Who
Sleep All Day in Their Graves.
Waiting for Night TO Steel
Forth for Their Safonie Meals
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

AT LAST comes a key to the most puz-
~ cling part of the vampire myth of
y the "undead who rise from their
graves at night to suck the blood of the liv-
ing, who then become vampires, too.
Science has not been so much puzzled
over the origin Of this grsly superstition
which arose in prehistoric times as in why,
though dying out in most other parts of the
world, 1t is still going strong as ever in the
Balkans.
Professor Norman J. Harrar recently an
nouneed the discovery or rather re-dscovery
Of the clue at recent meeting Of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society, in st Louis. Missouri.
The explanation is a chemical one which every
undertaken will understand arsenic
It seems that the vampire superstition, like
that OF witchcraft and others was slowly fad
ing away in the Balkans as elsewhere, only
to be revived by startling discovery.
II bodies in little country graveyard in
most had become nothing but bones, while a
few retained an almost lifehke state OF preser-
vation the reason would occur TO everyone
Some had been embalmed, the others had not
But when this actually happened in grave
yards Of Balkan peasants the explanation was
not so simple because there had been no en-
balming or other attempts 20 preserve bodies.
The priest the doctor and the school
teacher could not account for such cases of
preservation but there were others who could.
those who Will still believed in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

ancient vampire Tradition
According 10 that old supcrsti-
ton. a person became a vampire
from infection by other vampires
or dealings with evil spirits When
death came to such a person and
the body was laid IN the grave, it
did not stay dead
The corpse came 10 life and re-
NAMED very much so from the last
ray Of sunset until the first ray OF
dawn. when it became helpless
tr,oltcbcuf tho davlfuht hours
Evening star., 1941-12-11
Mccoy in Shores

. When you hear Gary Cooper
snoring in Samuel Goldwyn's Ball
of Fire" it will not be a dubbed-ir
sound. Nor will it be Cooper acting
1t will be Cooper snoring.
Gary's penchant for dropping of
to sleep on the set without warning
and at regular intervals has caused
his friends amusement for years.
In great big, soft Victorian
feather bed he was required to wait
some time while lights were adjusted
and a camera set-up made. A SCI
presided over by Director Howard
Hawks is always the epitome o1
quiet. no matter how busy. The in.
evitable happened, as Hawks knew
it would. AS the grips and electri'
clans busted themselves, there sud
denly came a gentle snoring soune
from the bed With the entire crev
milling around, Gary had dropped
off.
The scene required him to b'
sleeping when the camera started
turning, to rise on one elbow. speal
one line of dialogue and fall back
Finding the opportunity he had beer
waiting for, Hawks simply moved il
with the microphone and recorded
the snore.
Five minutes later Cooper wa
awakened-by the playback of hi
own snoring.
Evening star., 1941-12-11
Chaperon
Is Part Of
Her Career
Young Newcomer
Wins Stardom,
Loses Freedom
HOLLYWOOD.


Gloria Warren would like to go
where she wants to go, do what
she wants to debut she's can't any
more.
She is the 15-year-old singer who
recently signed contract with
Warner Bros. and is making her
screen debut in always in My
Heart" in which she plays Kay
Francis daughter.
Gloria looks and acts much older
than she is. She is full-grown and
has a mature personality for Is
year-old.
Before she started her screen
career, she went out on dates with
boys several years her senior. She
loved to frequent bathrooms where
the country's top orchestras were
playing. She attended plays and
picture shows with her favorite boy
friends and often accepted invita-
tions to college fraternity and So
rority dances.
But that's all over now.
from now on, SIle was UOlQ, a1CeT
she had signed her contract, you'll
be in the public eye. You should
never go out without chaperon.
You have to be very careful where
you go and with whom you are seen.
You'll have to remember at all
times that you are no longer one of
the crowd"
1T seemed easy enough to fol-
low the advice for a time" sighed
Gloria, what with the excitement
of signing the contract and all. But,
gosh. what I'd give to be able to
do rumba or be able to go out
alone again.
please don't misunderstood me.
Evening star., 1941-12-11

police experience had already been
inducted into the civilian defense
scheme.
The day broke chilly and overcast
and Los Angeles residents gathering
around loud speakers listening to the
declaration of war and bulletins on
the Pacific conflagration were treated
to some of the widest imaginable
rumors emanating from irresponsible
radio announcers.
Around breakfast time the report
spread that small cities along the
shoreline near San Diego, with its
giant Consolidated bomber plant.
were being evacuated Of women and
children.
At noon a commentator spouted In
tremulous tones that all Japanese
airplane carriers had been accounted
for by U. S. Navy forces except
two" which were believed to be in
an area off Los Angeles harbor." "
This story provoked such alarm
throughout the city that Mayor
Fletcher Bowron was forced to go
on the air early in the afternoon to
dispel it and urge the populace to
remain calm.
Nevertheless it was the gloomiest
of blue Mondays in Hollywood and
in the studios scheduled production
of some As pictures was a chore no
actors or technicians had the
slightest appetite for.
X x X
Work barely limped along and
Evening star., 1941-12-11

sometimes came to complete
standstill as important bulletins
came out of loud-speakers, tuned
low, but still in defiance of sensi-
tive sound tracks.
Only one lot made any attempt
to take advantage of the grave
situation by advancing a publicity
tie-up. The Goth Century-Fox ex-
plolters were making much of Pro-
ducer Sol Wurtzels Foresight" in
swinging into immediate production
a picture titled Japanese Agent,
which was slated to incorporate the
surprise bombardment of Honolulu
as its most compelling dramatic
ingredient.
Several pictures requiring use OF
large numbers of extras were halted
because studios were unable to OBJ
tain police guards to keep them in
order. Central Casting Bureau was
advised by city authorities that il
could send out no large groups of
extras to studios until the emergency
was over.
Government orders clearing the
skies of all private planes caused
Paramount a days delay on For
Whom the Bell Tolls" Arrange
ments had been made to send five
Boeing P-12 planes to Sonora, under
the direction of Stunt Flyer Paul
MantZ. The stunting was delayed
until Tuesday, so that jittery resi-
dents in that section could be ad-
vised by radio that the planes were
doing picture work.
The Hays Office announced that a
meeting had been called In the
associations Office for Tuesday al
pm. of business managers of al
studios. They were asked to check
over their individual studio resources
and report at that time on what
man power and equipment, in the
form Of trucks, beacon and f1oot
lights. etc, could be turned over II
the Government for emergency use
The studios Monday contributed
more than 100 trucks and drivers tt
the California National Guard fol
the transportation Of men from ont
post to another.
In any dire circumstance, the
studios could look for the comman'
deering of their big machine shop.
and power plants, the Hays offlc,
said.
At goth Century-Fox fears were
expressed for the safety of camera
crew of six men dispatched to Hon
olulu week ago to film atmospheric
shots for "To the Shores of Tripoli.
They have not contacted the studio
since Saturday.
In addition to a score of promi
nent Hollywood actors and techni.
clans now in the service jaime!
Stewart. Robert Montgomery, Direc.
tors Kanin and John Ford amont
them-Hollywood can look shortly tt
a further depletion of its name
ranks. Some. so more stars, fea.
tured players and directors are II
reserve Army and Navy ranks anc
subject to call at any moment.
CReleased By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, mc.)'
Evening star., 1941-12-11

dad" in which the characters use
salty, gangsterlike dialogue, Ratoft
hired a speech helper in the per-
son of another Russian, DR.. Serge
Britennson. Britennson is linguist,
but he, too, has an accent.
Another Rashian around makes
Evening star., 1941-12-11
Off to Sea Again

Enrol Flynn will be starred In
1.-THE Sea Devil" an epic of the
great days of the American whaling
fleet, it is announced by Warner
Bros. The screen play Is being
written by Robert Rossen.
Production of THE Sea Devil
has been tentatively slated to begin
after Flynn completes the next
assignment, the title role in Gen
tleman jim" based on the life OF
James j. Corbett, former heavy
weight boxing champion.
Evening star., 1941-12-11
Motion Picture Industry
Also Gets the filters
News, Rumors and War Needs
Combine to Bring Hollywood
Near to Standstill
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.


Monday the motion picture industry
busy putting wartime basis ready for call from the
the
First posting
possible This
extremely difficult because available with
Evening star., 1941-12-11
Two Accents Make
Both Sound Better,
Mr.. Ratof Hopes
BY Wide World News.

HOLLYWOOD.
Gregory Ratoff, comedian turned
director, has an accent so thick
YOU could slice 1t with q slat. SO
he needs a dialogue director to help
him over the hurdles when explain
ing the fine points of scene to his
actors.
When he started filming "Trini-
Evening star., 1941-12-11

I'm very grateful for the chance to
be an actress, but 1t sure is hard
work without much chance to play"
Evening star., 1941-12-11

James Cagney has won 81 of his
So screen fights.
Evening star., 1941-12-11

Vera Zorina prefers flying TO any
other form of travel.
Evening star., 1941-12-11
my exprassions seem lass notice.
able" explained Ratof.

India's population has Increased
i8 per cent in the last 10 years.