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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-04-10
FARM SELLS AT AUCTION

The c. c. Barker farm located
2 miles west of Grassy Creek and
several head Of livestock was sold
at auction, Monday, March 81.
Mr.. Reece Osborne, of Grassy
Creek purchased the farm. There
was a good attendance at the
sale and a number of free prizes
were given away, the sale was
conducted by the Catron Land
Company, Of Marion, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-04-10
CHAPTER XIV

"Of course it isn't ALI" said
Mark. Naturally, I'm not ques-
tioning what you say. But there's
something back of it. Have you
any idea where she went? Or at
what timer"
II told you I didn't even know
she was gone" said Dorothy.
, That, at least, was the truth, she
thought virtuously.
Valerie laid her head against
Marks arm, sobbing. He had
shown her Lucy's little note. In
all her life, nothing had ever hurt
her 80 much.
1T must be mel mean, 7"
she said. "1'd have done anything
for her-father - She broke
down completely.
Mark gave her gentle shake,
and spoke almost roughly. "Stop
it, Val! Lucy will come back!
You'll have to pull yourself to-
gether!"
"Your father is quite right.
said Dorothy. It was probably
better to take some part in it than
to stand and say nothing. "There
was nothing about the young wo-
man, after all, that is worth your
> making yourself ill over"
: Valerie raised her head. She
wiped her eyes and faced her
aunt. Lucy is the most wonder
full person in the world, next to
my father! You could not possibly
understand. I'm going upstairs,
father. TIL do whatever you want.
If you say you'll find her, you
will. So everything will be all
right" She turned and ran out Of
the room.
Dorothy gathered up her digni-
tv. II shall go to my room, too,
if you'll excuse me-" she said. 81
find I may have to leave quite
suddenly. Perhaps in the morn
ing
If she expected any opposition
to this, she was disappointed. He
nodded, as if he hardly knew
what she was talking about.
Mark sat down by the fire in a
complete daze. He tried to reason
it out. He would have staked any
thing on Lucy. Why had she
|. gone?
Chiltern brought in fresh ciga-
( He filled it, and set it on the ia
BILE within reach. Filled Marks
cup again. Made obvious, small
excuses to linger in the room.
Mark looked up at him suddenly.
Why hadn't he thought of the
man before?
Chiltern was at the doorway
when Mark called. He came back
and stood beside Marks chair.
eyes, sir?"
II want you to forget yourself"
Mark said surprisingly. eyes. All
about your station, or position, or
whatever you call it. I'm in a de-
vii of a mess, and I have bunch
you could help me out"
"Quite, sir" said Chiltern. "You
mean Miss Lucy, I suppose"
"Of course I mean Miss Lucy. I
leave the house this morning with
everybody happy, and everything
>. as usual. I come back at night,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-04-10

We cater to those who do not
wish to pay the high-priced
fees charged by some for ex-
animation and glasses and
who wish prescription ground
glasses at a reasonable price.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-04-10
TO PREACH AT SN1ETHPORT

Rev. G. c. Burkett will preach
at Smethport Sunday night April
Evening star., 1941-03-31
G. 0. p. Will Pay
Doctors Bill
For WWkie

The bill for treatment of Wendell
L. WILKES throat during last fall S
presidential campaign is considered
q proper expense" of the Repubh-
can Committee by Chairman Joseph
w. Martin.
Mr.. Martin said last night that Mr..
Willkie had offered to pay the $l3.-
900 bill submitted by DR.. D. H.
Barnard of Beverly, Calf, who
boarded the Willkie train when the
candidate became hoarse during his
Western speaking tour and remained
with him for two months.
In a statement, Mr.. Martin said
the bill was "a proper expense of the
campaign" but that he thought
the bill was too high and I turned
the matter over to the treasurer of
the committee for adjustment"
Evening star., 1941-03-31
French Announce Protest
To Britain on Attack

VICHY, France, March 81 tP).-
The French government announced
today it was protesting to London
against what was described here
as a British attack yesterday on a
French convoy in the Mediter-
ranean
The French said the protest would
be made through the United States
Embassy in London.
The Navy Ministry declared the
conveys cargo included neither
rubber nor war material nor any
food supplies destined for enemies
of England"
Instead, it said. the freighters
carried 5000 tons of rice from Mad
agascar and French Indo-China for
Algeria and Marseille, 1500 tons of
vegetables and seed from Morocco
for the unoccupied zone and about
1000 tons of oranges from Morocco
for Algeria.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

drove for positions today to strike
the blows they expect to knock out
Fascist resistance in Eritrea aud
trap the Italians in Ethiopia on the
inland plateau.
The British moved up from cap
tured Harar, second largest town in
Ethiopia, to cut the Adds Ababa-
Jibuti Railroad at Diredawa, whose
Italian defenders withdrew inland.
Would Cut Rail Line.
BY reaching the railway the Brit
ish broke the Italians only rail
link with the outside world and left
them to fight 1t out around Adds
Ababa, with British and native
forces closing in from the East,
South and Northwest.
British military observers, who
said they expected to see Emperor
Halle Selassie's Ethiopian flag over
Adds Ababa soon, declared the
Fascist survivors of the long battle
for Cheren also seemed in a hope
less position as they retreated to-
ward the Eritrean capital, Asmara.
The British placed Italian
casualties in the seven-week fight
for Cheren at 5000 to 5000 and said
80 far we have captured 3,775
prisoners, including 68 officers"
Retreating Forces Strafed.
The rest of the Italians were re-
ported being bombed and machine
gunned from the air along the
Cheren-Asmara road rs they sought
to hold back the British by rear
guard action.
Observers expressed doubts that
the remaining $4,000 to 81 900
Italians could hold Asmara long
and said even II they retreated to
Evening star., 1941-03-31
British Reinforce
Singapore With Ace
Fighter Pilots
Veteran Units Of English
And Indian Armies Also
Reach Far East Bose
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SINGAPORE, March 31.-Crack
fighter pilots from the Battle of
Britain and veterans of the cam
paign in France have reached this
Far Eastern stronghold to reinforce
its already strengthened defenses,
it was disclosed officially yesterday.
Arrival of veteran units of the
British and Indian Armies and the
Royal Air Force was announced by
Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke
Popham, Britains commander-in-
chief in the Far East.
Singapore's defense already had
been raised to unprecedentedly
formidable proportions last Febru-
ary 18 when Australian forces came
to join the armed watch over this
key link in Britain's empire life
line.
The air reinforcement was the
first to arrive from the home front
Ill Illsldlld JiiC odGpl Cdh VI
the war Land forces included in
fantry, artillery and mechanical
units equipped with the latest
weapons perfected on the battle
fields of Flanders and Africa, the
announcement said
Britain's greatly increased
strength in the Far East is a threat
to no one" Sir Robert asserted,
but is a great stabilizing force and
influence for peace"
The commander-in-chief said it
was a cause of satisfaction that the
situation in other war theaters was
so favorable that Britain not only
was able to spare forces from the
United Kingdom but also could
transport them such a distance de-
spite the axis sea warfare.
A Ministry of Information COM
munique described the newly ar
rived army units as probably the
most highly trained troops stationed
in Malaga"
Indian army units constituted the
major portion of Malaya's latest
manpower reinforcements. They
included men from all parts and all
races of India as we'll as representa-
tives of the personal forces Of sew
eral Indian princes.
1T was good to know that We
have in Malaga the same happy
combination of British, Australians
and Indians which, few weeks tgo
crushed Mussoini's pretensions to
be the ruler of North Africa" said
Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor of
the Straits Settlements. in welcom-
ing the arrivals in radio broadcast.
Despite the outside reinforce
ments, Malaya is not shirking its
defense responsibilities. the gov
ernor declared, announcing a deci-
sion to raise an additional battalion
for the Malaga regiment-regulars
recruited locally under British
officers.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Battle
Continued From First Page.)

carrying goods to French ports from
which they soon reach Germany"
he said.
Athens dispatches said survivors
OF three destroyed cruisers. the 10
0OO-ton sisterships Fiume, Pola and
zara, had been landed at Piraeus,
port OF Athens, along with men from
a DESTROYER which the British have
not claimed.
The Admiralty said the destroyers
VincenZo Gioberto and Maestrale
were sunk, along with the three
cruisers, that a third destroyer was
a probable" victim and that the
5.069- ton cruiser Giovanni dele
Bande Mere possibly had been sent
to the bottom.
The destroyer in the Athens re-
ports was given as the Alfiera, which
is not listed in recent authoritative
naval manuals. There is Vittorio
Alfieri, however, and naval officials
said this might be the one meant.
Visit and Search" British Say.
In referring to the naval action
In the Western Mediterranean the
Admiralty said reports had been
received that the convoy
carried important war material for
Germany" and that Britain's only
interest was in the normal pro-
cedure of visit and search"
The convoy was called upon to
stop outside Spanish territorial
waters, communique said, where
upon French shore batteries opened
up on our ships, Notwithstanding
that they were merely engaged in
the exercise of our legitimate bel
ligerent rights"
His majesty's ships were COM
PEELED to reply in their own defense
and hits were observed on the shore
batteries" the communique went on,
adding that the French merchant
vessels and their escort were not
in the nearby French port of
Nemours, Algeria.
Attacked Twice by BOmbers.
On the way back to Gibraltar, the
British vessels were attacked twice
by French bomber formations, but
without suffering damage or casual
ties"
One of the four French ships, an
Informed English source said, was
loaded with rubber from Bangkok
and destined for Germany.
"a sharply differing account of
the incident came from Vichy.
The French government asserted
that "a large British naval force
attacked in French waters
convoy of four French merchant
ships"
The convoy's escort, the 1900
ton torpedo boat Semoun, land
batteries and aviation replied to
the fire of the aggressors and
turned them away" it declared
The French said the British
naval forces were made up of a
cruiser and five torpedo boats.
"a French spokesman, who
termed the escort only SYM
bolic," declared the British "ag-
gression" unjustified because it
was plain that the ships were
going from one French colony to
another with food for the civil
population.
(He said there was no danger
OF the food on the ships reaching
the Germans since the vessels
were travelling from Casablanca,
Morocco, to Oran, Algeria)
British naval fire had been turned
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Son Of j. ). Official
Faces Hearing Today
In Staying Of Wife
Or. Joss Arrested in
Maine After Attending
Funeral Services
~ the Associated Press.

~ tbs Associated Press.
BATH, Me, March 31.-Dr Mer-
rill E. Joss, 81, of Richmond, was
summoned into Municipal Court
today to answer charge of slay-
ing his wife, also a physician.
Attorney General Frank I. Cowan
said there is q woman angle to the
case" in which DR.. Luverne Harris
joss, 38, formerly of Birmingham,
Ala, succumbed to a savage beat
ing about the head.
Her husband, stout and prema-
turely bald, was arrested yesterday
at the couples combination office
and home only IS minutes after at
tending funeral services for the
woman he married five years ago
after each had won a Reno divorce.
DR.. Joss collapsed after the serV-
ices in the arms of his mother, Mrs.
Edward C. Joss of Washington.
But the young physician recov-
cred composure during a brief eX-
animation at Augusta after his
arrest on a murder warrant. He
protested innocence, and reiterated
belief that a shabby, beared stranger
to whom he had refused narcotics,
had entered the Joss home and office
and had beaten Mrs. Joss to death.
No weapon was found in the brick
Colonial house. and police believe
Mrs. Joss head had been battered
against the cement floor of the eel
lar, where DR.. Joss said he found
her unconscious last Thursday night.
DR.. Merrill Joss is the son of DR..
Edward c. Joss. chief of the Meat
Inspection Division of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry in the Department
Of Agriculture, who lives at the Vic
toria Apartments, 2520 Fourteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

the port Of Massaua escape would
be cut of by British naval forces in
the Red Sea.
The Italians announced yesterday
their troops had withdrawn to the
west from Diredawa in the face OF
the British drive against the town
200 miles by railway east Of Adds
Ababa.
British advances toward the
Eritrean capital were said by the
Italians to have been checked by
counterattacks.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

and buildings, valued at $4,000, 900
lei, the remaining properties in Ru-
mania owned by Nine. Magda
Lupescu, have been confiscated by
the government.
Nine. Lupescu has gone to Portu-
gal with the abdicated King Carol.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Diredawa, Strategic
Jibuti Rail Point,
Capturedby British
Seizure Puts EneIishmen
Only 200 Miles Eost
OF Adds Abubu
B, tkt Associated Press.

Bs tkt Associated Press.
NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, March
31.-Diredawa, on the Adds Ababa-
Jibuti Railroad, has been in British
hands since Saturday, it was an
nounced officially today.
This puts the British only 200
miles east by railroad from Adds
Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, and in
control of the only railroad link be-
tween that inland city and the
coast.
(The Italians acknowledged
yesterday that Diredawa had been
abandoned)
Pushed 500 Miles.
The British communique merely
said:
"Diredawa was occupied by our
troops on the afternoon Of March
29."
The British now have pushed
about 500 miles into the newest
colony in Italy's East African en-
pire since the capture of Fer Fer,
on the Ethiopian-Ita Italian Somaliland
line, March 6.
Milestones in the advance to the
railroad were the capture of Jijiga
March % and Harar, one of
Ethiopias most important cities,
March 27.
Carsa Taken Earlier.
An earlier communique today said
the British had occupied Carsa, 20
miles beyond Harar on the way to
Diredawa.
The town, approximately half way
from Harar to DiredaWa on the
Adds Ababa -Jibuti Railway, was
said to have been entered last Fri
day.
The British pushed on, clearing
obstacles with which the Italians
blocked the mountain road, the
communique said.
1t reported AL Italians and BIT
native troops captured in the pre-
ceding three days and said 10 heavy
guns, three field guns, three tractors,
19 trucks and quantities of other
war material had been seized.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Little White Hen

HAYS, Kans. P)-Merle Criss<
man, farmer, was hearing noises
Mostly, he thought, they came frona
under the hood of his car. FinaAS
he drove to a garage and mechanics
lifted up the hood.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
YueosIovs Deny Officers
Fled to Join Greeks

Bv the Associated Press.
The Yugoslav legation made pub
lie today a statement by the Gen.
trail Press Bureau of Belgrade,
which described as fictitious" re-
ports that three Yugoslav general
staff officers and four pilots fed
their country to join the Greek
army.
Dispatches on March 22-At q
time when the former Yugoslav
government was negotiating its
agreement with the Axis-said the
officers and four pilots had gone to
Greece to offer their services.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

on France three times previously:
At Oran and at Dakar shortly after
the armistice when British war
ships struck at French fleet units
to keep them out of German hands,
and again at Dakar when the Brit
ish helped Gen. Charles de Gaulle
and his free French" forces in an
unsuccessful landing attempt.
Britons believed the latest blow
at the Fascist feet left Italy only
two-or perhaps four-undamaged
battleships, of eight at the start
of the war. and 13 of the 10 cruis-
ers she had. Two battleships un-
der construction may have been
launched since Italy entered the
war. they said. Three Italian bat
tleships were said to have been
damaged in the November II raid
on Taranto.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Last week
you came into
my Office and
told me you
w wanted an
o tn er life
insurance pol
icy.
II wonder
If Vou roalizo
Evening star., 1941-03-31

that you were the 34th person
to do this in the 20 years l have
been a life insurance agent. Not
quite two a year! During this
time l have made about $4,000
business calls and arranged pro-
lection for many hundreds of
people.
"I have come to know init.
mately the problems of 400 fam
lilies in this community. Over 100
of these I have followed for a
full generation, and in some
cases I am now arranging per.
sonal security for three genera
tions of one family. Of all the
people I know and have served,
only a handful believe they have
enough insurance. And yet you
are only the Saith to come and
ask for more!
"Life insurance is an odd kind
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Mexico will have a mother and
child week in connection with Moth
er'S DaV.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

The German and Italian high
commands, mentioning the sea bat
tie in Sunday communiques, said
German planes had scored three
bomb hits on a British aircraft
carrier and that an italian plane
had torpedoed light British cruiser.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Soldiers in Africa are staging
fights between scorpions and cent?
pedes.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Fight Eost of Cheren
Fierce, Italy Reports

ROME, March 81 (P.-Fierce
fighting east Of Cheren, British-cap-
tured stronghold in Italian Eritrea,
was reported by the high command
today.
Both the British and Italians, it
said, suffered heavy losses.
In British air bombardment of
Asmara, capital of Eritrea, about 10
persons were killed and wounded and
civilian dwellings damaged.
British Forces Converge
To Knock Out Italians
CAIRO, March 81 (P.-Britain's S
converging columns in East Africa
Evening star., 1941-03-31

of business. Everybody wants 1t,
but expects it to be brought to
them. Oh well, the things we
manufacture here in town didn't
just walk into peoples homes all
over America electric pumps
and clothes wringers, for ex-
ample. Somebody had to show
people what these things could
do for them. Sometimes l Won
der what this country would be
like-how many people would
have good jobs and good family
security-if it weren't for Ameri-
can salesmanship.
CAS- you know, this city has a
population of 115,000. Of these,
5000 carry life insurance-117
million dollars worth. 1t Is a
good manufacturing town and
you had a part in making it so.
1t is a better-than-average in
surance town and I had a part
in making it so. We both know
what it is going to take to make
it better-honest, vigorous sell
ing of what people need"
W&&~
President. Institute ef Lis Insasanes
rovided by the Institute to permit it's Presi.
ho own life Insurance.. Address inquiries sst
:, New York City. |
Evening star., 1941-03-31

it. P'i-
IInsitu oil IL. last nj
Evening star., 1941-08-12
Ohioon Granted
Priority Plea
| In Only 4Hours

George w. Houk. general manager
of the Dayton Tool & Engineering
Co, says talk about red tape
strangling the defense program is
so much poppy cock"
Mr.. Houk's firm found that before
erecting a new plant, the blessing
of the ONCE for Production Man
agement priorities division had to
be obtained. So Mr.. Houk took a
train to Washington, arriving at 8
am. yesterday. He went straight
to o. P. M. headquarters, where he
was referred to the project priori-
ties group. There he filed his ap-
plication.
On the advice of the priorities
group, he visited the aircraft ma
chine tools, and ordnance depart
ments, obtaining letters from them
verifying the necessity for the pro-
posed expansion. He took the letters
back to the priorities division.
At exactly noon he received what
he had come for-an ALA blanket
project priority. After q bite of
lunch. he was on his way back to
Dayton, wondering what 1t was that
he had been worrying about.
Evening star., 1941-08-12
Natures Children
Oriental Sun.Dial Shell
(SOlariidae perspectiVum)

The whorls are purplish, the upper
margins white. beautifully decorated
with large brown dots in a single
row and very snowy. The whole sur
face resembles china.
The West Indies member is from
1 to inches across. 1t has a
creamy to gold ground color, decor
ated with many short lines of brown.
There are prominent teeth on the
narrow umbilicus.
The creatures inhabitating these
shells close their doors by placing
their horny foot in the opening.
Few foes can pass the tough lid.
In almost every kind of shell, after
babyhood has been left behind, you
will be able to identify the shell
home and its owner by the success
sive knobs, ridges, spikes and what
ever else the family tradition has
established along the lines of sculp-
turing. Even if you find only a
broken part of the, shell, it is enough
to identify by genus and species.
That is what makes sea-shell col
lecting so fascinating.
AS we have said before, sea shells
are easily cleaned and thereafter
are little trouble to care for. They
are always interesting. They never
fail to yield their individual story,
for the handsome overcoat, so SLOW
ly yet so perfectly made, can be
studied under a magnifying glass
where 1t is seen to have even more
beauty than the unaided eye has
detected. In short time you can
place each shell in it's own family,
order, or even subclass, because
shell characters are based on diff
ferent anatomical characteristics of
the animals themselves, such as the
arrangement and number of the
teeth in each row on the radula, the
structure of the heart, gills and
nerve loop. Other features are
clearly described by scientists, so
that complete picture of the liv-
ing creature may be visualized as
you carefully examine the empty
home.
Evening star., 1941-08-12
STREETCAR,
BUS OPERATORS
WANTED

Steady work at good pay
for men who can qualify. $50
per week guaranteed after
short training period; many
earn more; no experience
necessary.
Applicants must be % to
40 years of age, 5 ft. 7 ins. to
6 #, 2 ins. in height and must
weigh in proportion GAO to
225 pounds.
Apply in person Monday
through Friday, inclusive,
8::30>to 10 am.
EMPLOYMENT DIVISION-J,
CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.,
36th and Prospect SITS. NV,
Wash, D. G..
Evening star., 1941-08-12
800 Men Are Dropped
From Parkway Work
By the Associated Press.

bs tDe hSSOeldted frcSS.
ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 12.-Larger
portion of landscaping and recrea-
tional development along the scenic
Blue Ridge Parkway has been sus-
pended, resulting in the layoff Of
more than 300 men in Virginia and
North Carolina.
How many will be re-employed
depends upon the size of quotas
the Work Projects Administration
will approve in both States, park
way officials here said.
A change in the type of operation
from E. R. A. Emergency Relief
ADMINISTRATOR to State organized
w. p. A.-dictated the suspension,
Sam P. Weems, assistant parkway
superintendent, said.