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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-24

KAY ALLISON, daughter Of CAR
TER and MYRA ALLISON. has pre-
pared for a large church wedding
In Memphis. She Is 10 marry
BARRY FLYNN. q Nevada mine
owner who operates his mine In
partnership with JETTA DORNL.
a Eirl with whom he had once
thought himself In love. Jetta
sends notes TO Kay, telling her
Barry will not show up for the
wedding Barry sees the notes.
SCOTS az them. However. with
everybody waiting 81 the church.
the wedding margh Is heinz played
for the third time and Barry has
failed to arrive. Hurried calls To
Barry's apartment. the hospitals
aud the police station provide no
clews. After the wedding guests
have been dismissed. GEORGE.
kay's brother. and her parents are
bitter. Kay. however, sure there
Is reasonable explanation. sets
out 20 find the man she still hopes
90 marry. AZ Barry's apartment she
finds STANLEY GILBERT. CHING.
Barry's valet, tells Kay Gilbert
called shortly before the wedding
and told Barry ne was coming up.
KAY learns that Barry had flown
out OF town In his plane.
CHAPTER FOUR
What did you find out" Myr'
Allison asked when Kay returned
home. Did something happen u
Barry7 Is he in a hospital ?"
He left town" Kay confessed
Left town? Why. Kay Why
would he do that7 It's unbeliev
ablel It's unbearablei"
II know It's probably all thos'
things, Mother, but the fact re
mains that Barry has left town
He drove out TO the airport. go
in his plane and took off for som'
place. He didn't even say wher'
he was going"
You poor child" Mrs. AllisoI
moved to take the girl in he
arms, but Kay stepped back.
II appreciate your sympathy
Mother. but let's not get emotions
about IL. It will do no good. VIVA
I've got TO do now, Is use m.
head"
sYour father has already don
the thinking for the family. w
are leaving early in the morninI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-24

up.
S. Act ~ though there was
uas nothing TO IL.
Evening star., 1941-06-08

rays in a planes exhaust flame. 1t is
said to be effective at a distance of 100
miles.
The British also have been working
with the infrared principle and when
their anti-aircraft fire suddenly picked
up IN effectiveness last fall, it aroused
conjecture in Congress as to whether
they had instituted some device like the
American one
Meanwhile two brothers, Sigurd and
Russell Varian had been working for
about four years at the Stanford School
OF Physics on an electrical device which
would send out extremely short wave
signals as radio BEAM
When they finally got the device,
called the Klystron, in shape. they dis.
covered that it would not only produce
a radio beam but, if pointed out into
the air would produce an instant BOOM
erang" reaction signal when a plane
crossed its path, providing an instanta-
neous beam for aiming gunf1re.
The Army is working with the device
now. 1t hardly will be able to stop
bombing altogether, but it may bring
about another of the radical changes
methods OF warfare are going through.
Radio Controlled Planes.
The day of aerial battles and bombing
forays executed by aviators on the
ground 1000 miles away may still be far
off, but it's steadily getting nearer.
The basis of such imaginingS is that
old will the-wisp of aviation, the
pilotless, radio-controlled airplane.
It's been dreamed about for SO long
that flying men yawn when you mention
it. But the same skepticism marked the
embryo days of every notable advance,
from Noah's Ark to the automobile and
television. And right now there's so
much smoke in the radio-plane field that
there's bound to be fire not far in the
offing.
In the first place both the Army and
the Navy have been experimenting with
radio-controlled planes.
During recent naval operations in
Honolulu it was unofficially but reliably
reported that a pilotless plane, con-
trolled by radio from another plane,
was sent off from an airport and flown
over cruisers at sea.
And the Army Air Corps officers at
Selfridge Field, Detroit. have been
making no secret of surprising expert
mentS with robot ships.
The planes in use there are obsolete
tWo-Seater biplanes. converted into
single-seaters, with one set of controls,
operated through radio-controlled mech
anism by flyer" on the ground.
The other set of controls. discon-
nected but usable at the flick of a
switch, is in the cockpit with an OBJ
server flyer, who goes along to grab
the ship if it gets out of control and
to save all the apparatus from being
smashed.
Evening star., 1941-06-08
They Are Tom, Dick and Harry to Their Mother

WINCHESTER, Va, June 7.-"Antarc-
tic expedition leaves ice pack"
Virginia Senator assails Federal 'ex-
travagance.
Huge apple crop starts to market"
Newspaper headlines-and certainly
varied-but to snowy haired Mrs Rich
ard Evelyn Byrd, sr., they are just an
index to the activities of her famous
sonS-Tom, Dick and Harry. She's proud
of them, of coarse, and says the traits
that later were to distinguish them were
apparent early in their youth.
Tom-Capt. Thomas Boiling Byrd-the
youngest, is now so.
Dick-Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn
Byrd-is So.
Harry-United States Senator Harry
Flood Byrd-is SO.
Dick was always doing dangerous
things" Mrs. Byrd says. He was always
on top of house or a tree. Danger
was all that thrilled him.
The world knows Dick as the first
man to fly over both North and South
Poles, and as commander of the first
multi-motored trans Atlantic flight.
Mrs Byrd recalls that he crawled into
a drain pipe at the age of and had
to be coaXed out-heels firstly fran
tic mother Perhaps it was just the
same spirit of adventure and desire
to know things which caused him to
spend five months alone in the track
less waste of the Antarctic on the Sec
ond of his three South Polar expedi-
tions.
Harry who left Shenandoah Valley
Academy at the age of IA and told his
parents he was going down to the Win
chester Star office ito run the paper"
exhibited early business acumen which
amazed his family
Evening star., 1941-06-08
By GIadwin Hill.

and ski troops, the Army is having its
face lifted by multiplicity of smaller
changes.
The Army experts are studying the
feasibility of concentrated foods; pack
dogs carrying 65-pound kits apiece
on the basis of the experience of Faith
er Bernard Hubbard, the Glacier Priest
in place of the customary sleds of ski
troops; close fitting steel helmets for
soldiers, in place of the old basin type,
to cut down head wounds
American airplane builders have de-
veloped an anti-submarine autogiro
which can land and take off from the
deck of a ship, cruise five hours and
carry heavy load of depth bombs; an
observation plane, with a 52-foot wing
spread, which can land at only 25 miles
an hour, permitting the use of very
small fields; an observation plane with
special wing flaps and slots which can
take off in 300 feet and land in its own
length, and a tank company and an
airplane company are working jointly
on tank-carrying airplane.
Uses Remote Control.
Out III Los Angeles a technical re-
search foundation established by Singer
Bing Crosby is experimenting, among
various things, with device for firing
nests of machine guns by remote con-
troll, and a hydraulic retractable gun
turret for airplanes which, by lowering
wind resistance, will increase their speed
an estimated 40 miles an hour.
Army engineers are perfecting a de-
vice for getting heavy equipment across
rivers that is far ahead, in concept, of
the Germans remarkable portable
bridges and pontoon setups. 1t is a
portable galloway, consisting of two 40
foot towers which can be set up in a few
minutes on opposite banks, heavy
cable that runs between them, and a
travelling pulley from which the load is
hung in big nets.
In the home defense field there also
have been some remarkable develop
ments. The Army has already organ
lied a barrage- balloon unit like Eng
lands. A short-order bomb shelter made
by pouring concrete over a rubber sheet
and blowing up balloon underneath
it to form an igloo has been invented
by John Fraser, Ben Avon, Pa, artist.
Then there is semi bombproof three
room-and- -bathhouse made of pre-fabri-
Gated pumice panels which can be erected
in % minutes on prepared foundation
and welded together Immediately
One of the remarkable inventions the
war has brought out is a new plane de-
tector.
Ever since the airplane came into mill
tary use, the standard method of spot
ting planes and aiming guns at them
was with supersensitive sound pickups
usually clusters of horns, working in
reverse.
Army Detector.
Recently the United States Army de-
veloped a different type of detector that
worked by picking up the infrared light
Evening star., 1941-06-08

his A. B. from Harvard Dick married
Marie Ames of Boston and Virginia.
They have four children, Richard Eve
lyn, jr, now 90 Evelyn Boiling, 49,:
Katherine Ames, 16, and Helen, 13.
During this spectacular career of Dick,
Harry had advanced rapidly in business
and politics. Before he was q he Dor
rowed money on his own name to buy
an orchard with an Episcopal minister.
That was the first step toward his
present position as the largest individual
apple grower in the United States and
also head of the largestsapple storage in
the country.
Harry borrowed more money to buy
out his partner and Immediately began
making money.
He was State Senator before he was
30 and resigned in 1925 to run for Gov
ernor.
He was appointed to the United States
Senate when Senator Claude A. Swanson
resigned to become Secretary of the Navy
in the Roosevelt cabinet. He was elected
for the remainder of the Swanson term
and has been reelected for two full
terms.
Senator Byrd, who used to say in his
political campaigns that the only thing
his opponents could prove against him
was that he was born in West Virginia
(and he was, though just across the line
in Martinsburg), became known as the
leader of the Democratic organization
in Virginia and occupies that role today.
When the Senate convenes in January,
Senator Byrd closes his home in Berry
vile and he and Mrs. Byrd move to
Washington for the winter months. He
weather permits, and works IL or IL
hours. He attends relatively few ban
quets and late formal dinners.
He is chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee and a member of the Com
mittees on Finance, Naval Affairs and
Civil Service.
Byrd has served as vice chairman of
the Democratic National Committee, and
in 1882 received the Endorsement of the
Virginia General Assembly for President
and the pledge of the States votes
for him in the Democratic National
Convention
At the age of 26 he married Anne
Douglas Beverley of Winchester, Va.
One of their sons, Harry Flood Byrd,
jr., edits the Byrd papers, the Winchester
Star and the Harrisonburg News Record.
He is 26. Other children are daughter,
Westwood Byrd, "a, and two other sons,
Beverly, 20, and r. E. Byrd, 18.
Tom, who has number of important
business connections aside from his ap-
pie business, lives at Boyce, miles from
Winchester, with his wife, the former
Mrs. William Mitchell, widow of the late
Gen. William Mitchell, and his daugh-
ter, 21-year-old Margaret Lewis Byrd.
He devotes most of his time to his busi-
ness and his family, and enjoys quail and
duck shooting as hobbies
Tom is tall, well proportioned, and
his hair is we'll sprinkled with gray.
Did Mrs. Byrd have the Tom, Dick
and Harry combination in mind when
the boys were named?
"Yes, it came about this way:
Harry was named for my only brother
When Dick came along, Mr.. Byrd said,
I'm going to name him for me- agree
ing that if the next child was a girl
I should name her. When third boy
Joined the family, we said: We'll, that's
Tom, Dick and Harry"
And so 1t was.
Evening star., 1941-06-08
By G arter Lopance.

The printers ink at The Star Office at
the time showed a distinct tinge of
red. fguratively speaking, but Harry soon
made the paper paying proposition
He worked at the job 10 years without
any fixed pay himself and during that
period his only salary came from work
for a telephone company.
Politics attracted him and he ad-
vanced rapidly from the State Senate
to the Governors Office and then to
the United States Senate.
Tom, perhaps with little more liking
for schools, attended Shenandoah VAL
ley Academy and studied for two years
at the University of Virginia before
going to the University of Richmond
for his degree in law. In between, he
also worked for three years with the
telephone company, a sort of business
training ground for the Byrd boys.
Young Tom had just begun the prac-
tice of law with his father, former
Speaker of the Virginia House of Dele
gates, when the World War came along.
He entered the Army, served overseas
and won a citation for distinguished
and exceptional gallantry" with the
A. E. F. at Bellicourt, France, on Sep
tember 90, 1918
Harry had been elected Governor and
Tom, who returned from the war; to
enter the apple business with him, had
become an authority on the apple in
dustry when Dick burst into the ma
tional spotlight by flying across the
North Pole with Floyd Bennett, May
9, 1926.
At the age of when Tom, then 5,
was the bigger, Dick began exercising
in boyish effort to overcome the dis
parity, and has remained athietically
inclined ever since. This had an i'm
Evening star., 1941-06-08

portant part in switching him from
strictly naval to flying pursuits.
Admirals Career.
The admiral's career as a boy was far
different from that of the average
youth At the age of II he took trip
around the world on the invitation
of Adam c. Carson, a district judge
in the Philippines and a friend of Dicks S
father.
Shenandoah Valley Academy, the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, and the Uni
versity of Virginia were Dicks prepara-
ton for the Naval Academy and grad
uation there started him on a remark
able career.
Twice after graduation he rescued
seamen from drowning and won cita-
tionS for bravery. He was assigned to
the yacht of the Secretary of the Navy,
but this he considered too tame. He
asked for retirement, which was granted
in 1916 on the ground of Interpretation.
Hardly had this happened when the
United States entered the war and he
asked to be reinstated. He wangled a
transfer from a pen-pushing job at
Washington to the Pensacola (Fla.)
Naval Air Station for flying instruction.
After the war the Navy ruled out as
too dangerous Dicks proposal for a
transatlantic flight. He was in charge
of navigational preparations for the
flights of three naval seaplanes in 1920,
but he wasn't aboard when they took
of from Newfoundland. Only one of
the ships completed the Atlantic cross
ing.
He went to England in 1921 as navi-
gator for the newly purchased dirigible
zR-2, arrived at Howden too late to
get aboard for a trial fight and re-
turned to London to learn that it had
exploded, killing AZ persons.
Byrd and Benefits plans for flying
the Atlantic together were dashed in
trial flight in the tri-motored America
from New York in April, 1927. The
ship overturned in landing seriously
injuring Bennett and fracturing Byrds
wrist.
Various Setbacks.
There were other setbacks and Lind
bergh made his crossing before Byrd got
into the air June 20 with Bert AcoSta,
Bernt Balchen and 1t. George o. Novile.
They made Paris, but didn't know it be-
cause of fog, and finally came down in
the English Channel, dumped themselves
in the water and padded ashore in a
rowboat.
THE Floyd Bennett" named in honor
of his companion on his North Pole
fight. was the plane with which Byrd,
Balchen, Harold L. June and Capt.
Ashley Mckinley topped the South Pole
November %, 1929. Bennett died before
the expedition got under way.
II was on the second South Pole trip
in 1884 that Byrd elected to brave the
dangers of the Antarctic alone at an
advance base 100 miles from Little Amer
lea to gather scientific data. Overcome
by fumes from a small stove and motor
he had to give up manning the radio to
conserve his strength. His companions
knew something was wrong, and on the
third attempt rescue party reached him.
Two months were needed for him to
gain sufficient strength to return to
Little America.
Byrd's earlier work in the Antarctic
led to congressional appropriation for
the United States Antarctic Exploration
Service, and another expedition to the
South Pole in 1910.
Before the war and while acquiring
Evening star., 1941-06-08
By Philip II. Lore.

the bureaus scientists point out, to sup
ply the Nations petroleum needs, at
the present rate of consumption, for
nearly 5000 years.
OF course, this does not mean that the
'gasless Sundays" and the fuel oil re-
strictions that you've been hearing so
much about in recent weeks will not
Evening star., 1941-06-08
y. S. Now Producing Gasoline and Oil From Coal

In the midst OF all the talk about
possible restrictions on the use of gaso-
line and fuel oil, motorists and house
holders may be enheartened by the
news that the Bureau of Mines has
developed a method of obtaining these
important products from coal And
the United States possesses enough coal,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
WILKES COUNTY DOG
REACHES FIT. JACKSON,
COLLAPSES AT TENT

COLUMBIA, S. c. A tired
foot-sore puppy from Wilkesboro
N. c., Joined Battery A of the
l28th Field Artillery at Fort
Jackson Tuesday.
The dog, about nine months
| old, scratched on the flap Of
Corp. George Schenk's tent and
then collapsed. Schenk and his
tent mates lifted the dog inside
wrapped him in blankets and
then fed him hot cereal and meat
scraps from the battery mess
hall
The dog wore a collar with a
license number and the name
Pat NJ Williams, Wilkesboro, N.
c., inscribed.
Schenk from St. Louis, Mo,
said he could probably qualify
as a ol1e-man travellers aid
society for stranded dogs. The
North Carolina puppy is the fifth
in recent months to come to his
tent.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Rotary Meeting
Well Attended
Sons and Daughters Honored.
Wade Eller i'm Charge Of
Program Tonight. ava

The meeting of the Jeffersons
Rotary club devoted last week to
sons and daughters was one OF
the best attended and most eff
fective meetings of the year.
There were more than SO pres
ent to hear. Mr.. Walter Worth
discuss the important relations
between youth and maturity, ia
theirs and sons. ITO have a good
son, one must be a good father"
he declared and urged that all
men try to know and understand
their children better. He was in
troduced to the club by j. Lester
Segraves.
Levern johnson, song leader
arranged some special music ap'
propriate for the occasion.
A large majority of the mem
bers either brought their OWL
sons or daughters or those OF 9TH
ers, The youngest future Rotar'
ian" present was Frank Quessen'
berry, the two and one-halt year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. II. u
Quessenberry.
Professor Wade Eller is If
charge of the program tonight.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Utilities Company
Held Meeting Sat.
Directors And Officers OF
Northwest Carolina Re-
Elected

The Annual Meeting of Stock
Holders of Northwest Carolina
Utilities, Inc, was held at the
Home Office of the Company in
Burnsville, N. c., on Saturday
February 18th. Messrs. E. A.
Feldtkeller, J. w. Perry, E. w.
Mullikin, C. B. Woody and Geo
T. Robbins were elected to serve
as Directors of the Company un-
til the next annual meeting.
Following the Stock Holders
Meeting the Board of Directors
elected the following officers:
President: E. A. Feldtkeller,
Vice Present an Treasurer: J. W.
Perry. Vice Present: George T
Robbins, Secretary and Assistant
Treasurer: T. P. Street.
Mr.. Robbins will supervise all
operations of the company. The
company provides electric ser
vice in Madison, Yancy, Mitchell
| Watauga, Ashe and Allegheny
Counties for 5000 customers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Phenix Chair Co.
Here Now Making
100 Chairs Daily

The Phenix Chair Company,
one of Ashe county's thriving in
dustrial plants, has been enjoy
ing increased business during re-
cent months, it was learned this
week.
The plant, which is owned by
r. c. Barr and is located here III
one of Mr.. Bars buildings at the
lumber yard, is now making on
an average of 100 chairs a day.
Between eight and ten persons
are employed regularly.
The chairs made by this COM
pany are regarded as being ex-
ceptionally sturdy and strong
and the demand for them is in
creasing every day.
The company has recently pur-
chased a long delivery truck
which has an 18-foot bed, plus
the extension over the cab and
up to the front bumper.
During recent years chairs
made by this company have been
shipped all over the country
Clyde Barr is associated with his
father in this business.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Nathan's Greek
Hi School News

The seniors and faculty mem
bers were entertained at a Valen-
tine party last Wednesday even
ing by. the losing team in the
French contest The guests en-
joyed Chinese checkers rock and
bingo. Miss Dickson and members
of the Glee Club entertained the
group with several musical num-
bers. Refreshments, carrying out
the Valentine motif were served
Misses Rosa Wilmington, Iva
Pierce, Virginia Douglas, and
Ethel Shatley spent Wednesday
night with Miss Phyllis Nuckolls
Mrs. Lloyd Mcmillan, cook in
the school lunch room, was un-
able to fill her place Monday on
account of illness.
The school dentist, who has
been working here for the past
few days, has corrected the. teeth
of all first and second grade pu-
pills. The faculty members and pu-
pills are very pleased with this
valuable work.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Mr.. And Mrs. HOuck Observe
j 56th Wedding Anniversary
Popular Ashe County Couple
Have Many Friends. Mar
ried In 1885.
Especial to The POst)

Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Houck of
Mill Creek near Todd, quietly
celebrated. their Seth wedding an
niversary Feb. Is, 1941.
Uncle Lee and Aunt Roxie, as
they are affectionately known by
young and old, represent that old
fashion hospitality that is all too
seldom seen today. For more than
half century their home has
been a meeting place for the
folks of the community of every
age. More people have sat down
to table Of good things to eat in
their home than in any other in
the community.
When a young man Uncle Lee
went to the middle west and
spent some time there. After his
marriage, he and his wife made
their home in Arkansas for a
greater part of a year, but love
for his native hills caused him to
| return to Ashe.
! Their interests have always
! been in the betterment Of the
community. They have worked
for the improvement of the
church, schools and roads.
Uncle Lee has always had an
interest in nature and until he
was taken sick a few weeks ago
no young man could climb to the
top of a mountain quicker than
he. He has been able to get lot
of pleasure from hunting and
fishing. He knows where the trout
and bass are to be found and his
bait seems to attract more fish
than most fishermen. His marks
manship is equally as good on
wild turkey or grouse.
| Fifty six years of married life
has brought many hardships and
disappointments to this couple,
but they have lived to see their
children take their places in the
world: Lawson is a mechanic in
West jefferson, Oscar teaches in
West Jefferson, 1vor of Brevard,
is carpenter, Calvin is owner
of Houck Advertising Co., in Roa-
noke, Va, Rev. T. H. Houck is
member of the Western N. c,
Conference and has a charge at
Stokesdale. The other children
Mrs. Marvin Wilcox, Mrs. Charles
Houck and Lawrence live near
their parents and are highly res
pected citizens.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Extension Work
Now Being Given

At the request of a number Of
the public school teachers in
Ashe, Allegheny and Wilkes coun-
ties CataWba college has arranged
to offer some extension work in
Sparta. It has been decided to Of
fer about six semester hours in
Guiding courses in Character Edu-
cation and Student Activity Pro
gram.
The class will meet in the Spar
ia high school every Friday af-
ternoon at four P. M. and will
be conducted by Professor John
c. Hadley who is head of the De-
partment of Education at Cataw-
ba college. This course is offered
to teachers and other people who
are interested in studying this
type of work.
A number Of Ashe teachers
were present last week and 9th
ers are expected to attend this
week. The courses offered are
similar to those presented in
summer school,.