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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
Children S Slippers

GOT ANY old felt hats? Well
II YOU have a couple that YOU
were thinking of throwing
away, just get them out and
use them. Clean them and then
since felt is a soft material IT
makes comfortable soles for
children's bed slippers. Trace
around a shoe on the felt, cut
out, and crochet tops of color
full wool and there you have
warm shoes for your youngster.
You can use the bits OF felt
that are left too. Felt makes
a smooth base for vases, can
delabra or even for the men
in YOUR chess set and thus you
will protect your tables and
chess board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
Review Club Program

DETROIT REVIEW CLUB
will meet at 1;30 p. m. Monday
in the Women's City Club TO
hear musical program ar
ranged through Mrs. August
Helbig. The club members,
headed by Mrs. John G. Howey.
arc selling tuberculosis seals.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
Perfume Clothes

MOST WON + y like the
dainty aroma OF perfume TO
give them an air Of sweet
feminincness. One way TO gain
lust the hint of delicate fra
GRANGE is to have your night
gowns and dainty slips give
forth a delicious scent. The
best and most lasting way 10
accomplish this is to sprinkle
the ironing board cover with a
bit OF your favorite perfume.
The dampness of your clothes
will cause this delicate fra
GRANGE to be released and your
underclothes will seep in the en-
chanting aroma.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
Clean Wrinqer

1T IS best to keep your wash
ing machine wrlnger clean to
insure the cleanliness of your
clothes. The best way. and the
easiest. Is to clean it with kero-
sene. Then after that has been
applied. rinse the rollers in
clean warm water.
When lubricating the rollers,
which they need frequently, use
shaving soap II you will use
this mild lubricant you will
avoid the disaster of oil spots
on clothes caused by oiling the
rollers with a greasy substance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10
Special
Food Gifts

ONE TYPE of Christmas gift
" which will be more accept
able than ever this year is food.
Especially the gifts you make
yourself, which can be very rea-
6onable in cost and will mean
HIhe most to the person who re-
ceives them.
You've doubtless seen the
fancy Christmas food boxes and
baskets sold by some grocers.
Well. why not use that same
idea. and make up your own
boxes? Select foods TO suit the
individual. and make the pack
age festive with colored wrap
pings and ribbons. You may
have TO make your own trim
mings this year but it's a grand
chance 10 use your ingenuity
and imagination.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-10

ERE pleasant little game will give you message
every day 1t Ii numerical puzzle designed to spell out
Count the letters nrst name the number
letters the number Is less than
ada The result Start at the left
hand corner of every Of key
numbers right Then read the the letters under
the checked figures give you. IL 10
Copyright 1914 by william Miller Distributed by King Features ine
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Brother OF Local
Man Is Praised
Sgt. Emert L. Frazier, Brother
Of Arthur Frazier, Re-
ceives Recognition

Somewhere in the South Pacific
-Probably one of the
best explanations of Marine Sue
cesses in the Pacific lies in the
fast that many of the NON-com-
missioned officers had served
considerable time in the Pacific
prior to the outbreak of war and
were familiar with the terrain
where battles are being and will
be fought.
Others, like Marine Gunner
Sgt. Enert L. Frazier, son of Mrs.
A. Kennedy, Central City, South
Dakota, had previous tropical
service, such as the Nicaraguan
campaign of 1890. It was there
that many Marines learned the
ways of jungle fighting which
are proving so valuable today.
Frazier, VINO enlisted in Octo-
Der, 1928, has served more than
IS years in such places as Nicara-
qua, Samoa and Hawaii and at
other times at posts within the
United States where he has train
ed and passed on to other Marines
the knowledge that he gained in
the tropics. -.. @~a..e.
Today, the veteran is again in
the Pacific with a Marine unit.
That his experience is held in
high regard is evident from the
respect with which Marines serv-
ing with him give his advice.
The present conflict is no sur
prise to the gunnery sergeant,
who tells the story of accompany
ing another Marine into a Japan
csc store in a Pacific island as
early as 1885 and coming out
with an illustrated book describ-
ing the plans of the japanese for
conquering the Pacific.
AS is CONSTANT with good Ma
rines, Frazier, whose wife, Mar
tina, resides at 483Ok Morgan
Street, Seattle, 8, Washington,
wears the medals of expert rifle
man and pistol and bayonet ex-
pert. In addition, he has been
awarded the --icraguan Cam
paign and the Nicaraguan Exped-
itionary, Pacific Asiatic, Ameri-
can Defense and two good con-
duct medals.
Formerly employed by the
Hearst Mercantile Company of
Lead, S. D., the 39-year-old vet
eran has served at San Diego,
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the ablest men and women to be
found in America)
Except for the intense interest
in the coming political battle,
there has not been much activity
in Washington since congress be-
gan it's recess. But many of the
government war agencies are
busy trying to figure out how to
reverse the obvious home front
decline in war activity. The need
for some immediate action was
made clear by General Marshall,
Admiral King and General Ar
mold who, after visiting Nor
manded, made a report to the
President warning him against
the overoptimistic state Of mind
which existed in this country.
Denouncing "desertion on the
home front" the chiefs Of staff
said:
''The recent favorable course OF
the fighting seems to have per-
suaded some people that the war
is as good as won, and that accord
ingly they can throw up their
war jobs and go back to civilian
life. No doubt most of the men
at the front would also like east
er and better paid peacetime jobs;
but they are sticking to the jobs
they have now.
'There is still a tough fight
ahead of us. Anyone can see that
desertions on the fighting fronts
would protract the war and re-
duce our prospects of victory.
DesertionS on the home front
would tend to the same result.
The war is not yet won; it will be
won the sooner if everybody in
war work sticks to his job till
complete victory has been at
tanned"
At the same time that this state
ment was issued, the War Pro-
duction board made its monthly
report for May showing that pro-
duction was below schedule for
aircraft, ammunition, motor We
hicles, and communications and
electronic equipment. The WPB
report said: ''The greatest task of
the months ahead will be to COM
bat the assumption that the war
production job is now practical
ly completed"
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: Washington, D eff Presi-
dent Roosevelt should decide not
to run, who could the Democrats
choose who would have a chance
of beating Dewey?" That ques-
ton has been banded about here
ever since the Republican con-
vention and there seems to be no
satisfactory answer. You hear
names mentioned like Barley,
Wallace, McNutt and other men,
bers of the present administration
but it is the general opinion
that any of these men would be
considered second string players
on the New Deal team and that
the coming tussle with the reviv-
ed Republican team could not be
won without the star in on every
play.
So it appears as if the Demo-
crats-even the anti-New Deal
Democrats-will again "draft"
President Roosevelt as the one
man who has a chance OF saving
their party from defeat. Talk of
a third party, to include the Dem
ocrats who oppose the New Deal
and the Republicans who can't
get enthused about Governor
Dewey, is often heard but is not
taken too seriously.
Most political analysts here are
being very cautious about pre-
dieting results of the coming cleo
ton, most of them feeling that it
will be decided by what happens
and what is said during the next
few months. When Governor
Dewey has revealed more clearly
his stand on International pro-
blems, and has given his recon-
mendations for preventing un-
employment, it will be a lot
easier to measure how much
public backing he will have. One
political strategist, who has been
through many campaigns and
made many accurate predictions,
believes that Dewey's best chance
rests on naming his cabinet "a
head of time-and naming cab
met of men who are respected
by the whole nation. Gle was
referring to the statement which
Mr.. Dewey made in his accep-
lance speech when he said his
cabinet would be composed of
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California; Bremerton, WASH;
Wakefield, Mass; Quantico, Va;
and New River, N. c., in addition
to his sea and foreign shore duty.
Like all ether Marines, regu-
lars and reserves, he looks for
ward to a speedy victory and a
chance to return to the United
States.
Sgt. Frazier is a brother OF
Arthur Frazier. He has visited
here and will be remembered by
many local people.
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NOTICE OF SALE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

James E11er, Administrator OF
Blanche Eller Manuel, deceased
vs..
John Eller. Mary Eller West and
husband, Victor West, Stella Ell
Ter and husband, Ronda Eller,
Violet Eller Manuel and husband,
Ed Manuel, Bascomb Griffitts,
husband of Maude Eller Griftltts,
deceased, and Charles Griffltts,
Louise Griffitts, Dorothy Lee
Griffitts, Margaret Jean Griffitts,
Heirs-at-l of Maude Eller Crit
fits, deceased, and Mrs. Alma
Perdue, Mrs. Goldie Segraves,
Frank Eller, Ruth Semison and
Lou Mcclure.
Pursuant to an order of the
Court made in the above entitled
cause, I, w. B. Austin, Commits
sioner, will on the 9th day of
August, 1914, at 100 o'clock P.
M, at the Court house door in
jefferson, North Carolina, offer
for sale to the highest bidder for
cash, an one-seventh undivided
interest in and to the following
described tract of land, to-wit:
Lying and being in Ashe Coun-
ty, North Carolina, Helton Town
ship, on the waters of Big Helton
Creek, and described as follows:
BEGINNING on a hickory on
top of Campbell ridge, Enoch
Sexton and Newton McClure's
corner, and running North 75'
West 37k poles to a white oak,
Willie Pennington's corner;
thence North So West 27A poles
to a stake; thence North "a East
1872 poles to an apple tree on
the ridge; thence North 1917
East Is poles to stake; thence
North 21' East Is poles to a stake;
thence North IT. West IL poles
to a stake; thence North So East
100 poles to a stake in Newton
IMcClure's line; thence South IT
West 871a poles to an ironwood,
Newton McClure's corner; thence
in and with Newton McClure's
line % poles to the beginning,
containing 40 acres, more or less,
and being described in a deed
from w. J. Sullivan and wife,
Myrtle Sullivan, to Blanche Ell
Ter, ct al, dated August IA, 1922,
and of record in the office of
Register of Deeds for Ashe Coun-
ty, in Book F-2, Page lis, to
which record reference is hereby
made for a specific description of
same.
This the 9th day of July, 1914.
w. B. AUSTIN, Commits
Sioner. 7-13-4T
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NOTICE

NOTICE
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
Jesse Lyall, Mrs. T. M. Hayes,
Flora Cockerham, B. E. Miller
and Everett Lyall
Plaintiffs.
VS..
Robert Lyall and the children of
John Lyall, to-wit: Mack Lyall,
Spencer Lyall, Blain Lyall, Gale
Lyall and Mary Zell Lyall
Defendants.
To Mack Lyall, Spencer Lyall,
Blain Lyall, Gale Lyall and Mary
Zell Lyall:
You, and each of you, are here
by notified that an action as above
entitled, has been instituted in the
Superior Court of Ashe County,
and summons therein was issued
on the goth day of June, 1914, re-
turnable on the goth day of July,
1914; and that a petition therein
has been filed, which said action
is for the sale of land for partition
among the petitioners and de-
PENDANTS; and you are further no
titled to appear at the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court
in Ashe County on the Goth day of
July, 1914, and answer the petit
ton filed in said cause or the re-
lief therein prayed for will be
granted.
This June 20. 1914.
C. S. NEAL. Clerk Su-
perior Court of Ashe
County. 6-22-4T
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dersigned at jefferson, North
Carolina, on or before the 18th
day of June, 1915, or this notice
will be plead in bar OF their, re-
covery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make i'm
mediate payment.
This the 9th day q JWne, 1914.
Ira T. Johnston
w. B. Austin, Ezecuters of
J. M. Norphew, deceased.
6-15-6T
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please help us out?

Observation-Disclosures of Ag-
riculture w. Kerr Scott has fired
two blasts at milk distributors in
this State, pointing out that they
are not paying the farmer enough
for his milk The OPA in most
sections of the State now permits
a distributor to pay the farmer
$40 per hundredweight for
Grade A milk but only handful
are doing it. What with milk
producers being forced to sell
their cows and 60 out of the
business nearly every week,
Commissioner Scott thinks the
big distributors-you know them
could and should do much bet
ter.
He will speak to the Dairy
Council people in Winston-Salem
Thursday night, July Is, and at
that time you may expect anoth-
er blast. Incidentally, Ralph
Scott, one of the big distributors
who won't pay the ceiling is
Srott's brother-but that doesn't
deter the Commissioner from
speaking his mind on the matter.
REMINDER-Keep your chill
IroYo of hoToo
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FOR SALE-14 acres of land,
5 real bottom land; cottage, IA by
"a; l doz. fruit trees; 5 springs; IL
mile from highway Is; near three
churches and school; IL miles
from Blue Ridge Parkway; cleo
tricity available. See Rev. Lou
is ]. Yelanjian, Glendale Springs,
N. G.. 7-6-4tc
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WANTED AT ONCE-Ambi-
tious boy Is or II years old or
young man classed in AZ for per-
manent position in our printing
department. Experience not nee
essary. Excellent opportunity to
learn printing trade and earn at
same time. The Skyland Post,
West Jefferson, N. C.
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FOR SALE-About Is acres of
beautiful building sites, one mile
east of Jefferson, on north side of
Jefferson, on north side of
Wilkesboro Highway, known as
the old Todd-Foster Place. also,
good grazing boundary of ITO
acres on Big Phoenix mountain.
See or write j. E. Foster, 27O6
Rosedale Ave. Raleigh, N. C.
7-6-4tp
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PERMANENT WAVE. SOC! Do

PERMANENT WAVE, soc! Do
your own Permanent with Charm
Kurl Kit. Complete equipment,
including 40 curriers' and shampoo.
Easy to do, absolutely harmless.
Praised by thousands including
Fay Mckenzie, glamorous movie
star. Money refunded if not sat-
isfied. GraybeaPs Drug Store.
5-11-10tpd.
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FOR SALE-1612 acres of land,
5 real bottom land; cottage, IA by
"a; l doz. fruit trees; S springs; "
mile from highway Is; near three
churches and school; 112 miles
from Blue Ridge Parkway; cleo
tricity available. See Rev. Louis
J. Yelanjian, Glendale Springs,
N. C.. 7-6-4tc
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EXECUTORS NOTICE

Having qualified as Executors
of the Estate of J. M. Morphew,
deceased, late of Ashe County,
North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
the estate of the said J. M. Nor
phew, to exhibit them to the an
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-07-13
NEWS AND COMMENTS FROM RALEIGH
CAPITAL LETTERS
By Thompson Greenwood

LOCKERS-Although several
communities in North Carolina
are greatly interested in freezer
locker plants, relatively few
seem to have the drive necessary
to get them established.
Materials are scarce, and the
Government is requiring each
locale to present ample evidence
that the plant is really wanted by
the people. Signatures are re-
quired of the people who plan to
use them, and cash must be on
hand, too. Interest is sometimes
insufficient to put the project
across.
Elizabeth City is the latest COM
munity to fail in the plan. At the
present time, approximately a
score of towns are trying to es-
tablish the plants, but Is per
cent of them are finding it tough
shedding.
This, despite the fast that towns
which have them say they have
been a means of attracting more
trade than any other project Of
recent years.
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FARM FOR SALE-A good
dairy, grazing and grain farm of
126 acres. Plenty of saw timber.
Located near Ebenezer church
and Parkway. If interested, see
or write S. B. Shoemaker, Wag-
oner, N. G.. 7-6-4tp
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FREE! IF Excess acid causes you
pains of Stomach Ulcers, Indiges-
ton, Heartburn, Belching, Bloat-
ing, Nausea, Gas Pains, get free
sample, Udga, at Ray Drug Com
pany. 4-27-14tpd.
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year to obtain teachers at all.
Back in the pre-war days, teach
ers were forced to Withstand a
great deal of gossip and back
biting by the long-tongued enc
mics of the schools, but now they
are finding other jobs. Boards
of education who have wide
awake principals or superinten-
dents who are finding their teach
ers for them are extremely for
tunate.
But then, again, some folks in
some school communities need to
have some trouble with the hir-
ing, and then they would not be
so INSCRIPTIONS in the firing
DEWEY-This column would
appreciate it if some good read
er would send in the words to
that old song which was popular
1920 years ago and went some
thing like this: what do we do
when we go out walking on a
moonlight night in May. Oh,
what do we do, what do we do, on
a dew, dew, dewy day."
Will some good Republican
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WANTED-Someone to take IL
to Is good young ewes to keep
on the shares. See or write J..
H. Gentry, RID l, Box At, West
Jefferson, N. c. 7-6-2tp
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TYPEWRITER and adding nsa
chine service. Factory trained
mechanics. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Deal Typewriter Exchange
CO The Skyland Post. ii
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WANTED-Girl for homework
and cooking. Light work. Fam
lily of three. Good pay. Apply
'T', care of Skyland Post.
6-22-tk
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FOR SALE or TRADE-Two
battery radios, late models and
new batteries. See F. M. Hud-
Ter, West Jefferson, N. c.
7-13-1tp
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Cotton is double barrelled
crop, when the value of both the
lint and the cottonseed is taken
into consideration.
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FOR SALE-One horse, two
years-old, and two young Guern-
sey cows. flush with milk. See
w. P..-Colvard, Crumpler, N. C.
6-22-4tp
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PRINCIPALS-The mills of
the gods grind slow, but they
grind exceedingly small-and a
few communities which have had
teacher turnovers in the past are
finding it extremely hard this
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RorOo1ne Engines, Trac.
tors. Saw Mills,
Wood Working and Road Build
ing Machinery, Well DRILLING Ma
rhlnes, Gasoline Engines, etc.-R
P. JOHNSON, WythevilIe, Va.
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FOR SALE OR RENT-55-
acre farm, six miles east of JEFF
ferson. Write Effie Mcmillan,
COL Sandel Drive, Liberator Viii
lage, Fort Worth, Texas.
6-13-4tp.
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NOTICE-Just received car
load asbestos siding shingles and
asphalt brick siding. It will pay
you to see us. Parker Tie Com
pany. West Jefferson, N. c.
7-13-1tc.
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WANTED-Sweet cherry seed,
washed and dry at Zoe per pound
and will call for them. E. w.
Jones, Woodlawn, Va. 6-8-4T
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RATES

FOR SALE-One slab pile, es-
timated at around 40 cords of 49,
zach wood. Half oak, near high
way. See R. c. Barker, Grassy
Creek, N. c. 7-13-1tp
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ASHE COUNTY
CALLIE BROOKS
VS..
EMMA NEESE, JENNIE ELLIS,
EFFIE STIKE, EFT AL
Under and by virSas Of an order
of the Superior Court Of Ashe
County made in the above en-
titled proceeding, T, ira T. John
ston, Commissioner, will sell to
the highest bidder for cash at
the Courthouse door in Jeffer-
son, North Carolina, on the 31st
day of July, 1914, at one o'clock
p. M, the following described
land, to-wit:
A one-half undivided interest
in a certain tract of land con-
tanning II acres, more or less,
the same being fully described
in a deed from James e. Neese
to Emma Neese and Charlie
Neese, which is recorded in the
office of the Register Of Deeds of
Ashe County in Book E-2, page
43 for which reference is made
for full and complete description
of said land.
This June 80, 1914.
Ira T. Johnston, Commits
sioner. 7-6-4T
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NOTICE OF SALE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
CALLIE BROOKS
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INFLUENCE-Now that Gregg
Cherry will be your next Gov
ernor, you likely are wanting to
know who has more influence
over Mr.. Cherry than anybody
else. Everybody around Raleigh
is asking questions of this nature.
Well, that man is probably Will
kins P. Horton, of Chatham coun-
ty, lieutenant governor under
Clyde R. Hoey.
Mr.. Horton probably knows
political North Carolina better
than any other man, including
Mr.. Cherry himself.
Others extremely close to Gov
ernor Cherry are Leroy Martin,
Lloyd Griffin, w. B. Umstead, and
a half-dozen others scattered over
the State. However, considering
the fine race Mr.. Cherry ran and
the walloping he gave DR.. Ralph
Mcdonald, you'd be surprised at
how few intiments the man from
Gastonia really has-political in
Inmates, that is. He isn't tied up
with lot of hangers-on, or so it
looks at this stage of the game.
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MELONS = North Cardinals
1914 watermelon crop began NOV
ing out of the Laurinburg area
last week. When you buy them,
they may be high, but the grow
er received only $35 a ton-that's
the ceiling;
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REMINDER-Keep your chill
lren at home
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-25

fairbanks (Pi = It. Leon Lne, A, of Phi adelphia, ehed here after 84 days in the b-Arctic wilds and brought t word of the fate of a U. s. nber missing with 5 men a. Ard since December 21.
 Fbe other 4 are still missing. ley were members of the U. s.
 Transport Command and
 survivor said they bailed out 3 Liberator when 1t went into pin al an altitude between 10 ] l5 thousand feet. Crane said spent the first 9 avs with no d, huddIed in the folds of his fachute to keep from freezing, Eventually he reached an un- HDied cabin stocked with food after living a solitary exist e in the Yukon valley until rch l met Albert Ames a Dper, who guided him to an ska mining camp where he ted arrival of a mail plane.