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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-07-20
n C.. Democrats
Meet For Caucus
At Convention
Miss Beatrice Cobb, Of Nor
. canton, Is Reelected Nation
al COmmitteewOman

Chicago-W. P. Horton, of Pitts
boro, was unanimously elected
national Democratic committee
man from North Carolina at a
state caucus Tuesday night and
Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton,
was reelected national committee
woman.
Gov. J. M. Broughton was
named chairman of the North
Carolina delegation, Lieutenant
Governor r. L. Harris, vice chair
man, and Mrs. E. L. Mckee, of
Sylvia, secretary.
Josephus Daniels, publisher OF
the Raleigh, N. c., News and OBJ
server and former secretary OF
the navy, was named to the con-
vention platform and resolutions
committees, and Luther Hamilton,
of Morehead City, was named to
the credentials committee.
Walter Lambert, of Thomas
vile, was named to the permanent
organization committee; Willis
Smith, of Raleigh, rules; John D.
Larkin, Jr., of Trenton, to COM
mittee to notify president of the
convention; ex-Gov. J. c. B. En-
ringhaus, honorary assistant vice
president; Gov. ]. M. Broughton,
honorary secretary and Miss Stel-
la Low, of Newland, honorary as
sistant secretary.
Mrs. w. T. Bost, of Raleigh, was
named a member of the resolu-
tons committee.
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<lnfantile Paralysis Ban To Be Enforced
Lamb Pool Will
Be Held July 81,
Good Prices Paid
First Pool Held A Short Time
Ago Brought Growers
$5,115.67

The second cooperative lamb
pool will be weighed at the West
Jefferson stock yards on Monday,
July 81, from 1880 A. M. till 1900
noon Roy H. Grouse, county agent
announced yesterday. Farmers are
urged to bring their lambs early
as no lambs can be weighed later
than 1890 o'clock and get in the
pool, Mr.. Grouse explained.
''The lamb committee has made
arrangements to sell this pool
direct to Swift Packing Company
Those selling in the pool will
know the exact price for each
grade being paid on the morning
of July 81, as the lambs will be
sold on West Jefferson weights
and sales confirmed before the
pooling date. We have been as
sured better prices by selling
lambs comparatively in this man
ner," he said.
The first lamb pool of sos
lambs was sold on the Jersey City
market. AS whole, this was con-
sidered an exceptionally good
shipment of lambs which shows
a marked improvement in the
quality of lambs being put on the
market by Ashe County farmers.
The following prices were re-
ceived by grades at Jersey City:
Blues, $1,000; blue bucks, $14.80;
reds, $3.50; red bucks, $3.50;
yellows, $500; yellow bucks
$11.OO; No. 4, $3.50; aged ewes
1925; bucks, 1925. The total
amount received for the pool, net
to the growers, was $5,115.67.
''The grade of lambs can be
improved by keeping them free
of worms and shifting them to
fresh pasture a few weeks before
selling. The Phenothiazine treat
ment for internal parasites is
most highly recommended" agent
Grouse said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-07-20
48 Ashe County Men Enter
Service; More Are Examined

The following group of 48 Ashe
county men left last week for
Camp Croft for induction into the
armed services:
Beaver Lee Cheek, James Ker-
NIT Roberts, Wayne Goodman,
Charles E. Munday, James E.
Scott, Thomas H. Severt, Thomas
C. Ellis, Benjamin F. May, Clar-
ence L. Roark, Jack Risdon Roupe,
Ray c. Taylor, William c. Blevins,
Thomas Lee Reedy, Roy Allen
Blevins, Ralph Ray McNeill, John
Thomas Dent, Hoyt Elwood Jones,
Robert II. Mullis.
Hamp Vernon Osborne, Lester
Paul Hart, Herbert Garland Day,
Robert Lee Severt, Robert Blan
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-07-20
Allies Make Gains
In France And Italy;
Reds Hit NaZi Lines
Americans Take Town OF St.
Lo; Huge Rail Terminal
Threatened By Russians

British and Canadian armored
forces broke through the German
line across the Orne river at the
eastern end of the Normandy
front Tuesday in full-scale Of
fensive which was rolling in dust
southeastward across the Caen
plain yesterday with a power
recalling the historic British as
sault at Ell Alamein.
On the American sector to the
west, 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's
doughboys captured the hillside
hinge stronghold at st. Lo after
an eight-day battle, forcing a
German withdrawal of a mile and
a half and threatening a crumb-
ling of the Nazi positions west
ward all the way to the coast.
American troops crashed
through strongly held German
positions yesterday and swept
three miles across open country
into the town of Pontedera on
the Arno river between Pisa and
Florence, reaching the enemy's
Gothic line" defenses and vir-
tually outflanking the great west
coast port of Livorno.
Pontedera is situated on the
south bank of the Arno-12 miles
east of Pisa, Is miles northwest
of Livorno and 80 miles west of
Florence.
Red armies of the south in a
powerful new offensive have
cracked strong German defenses
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Ration Board To
Move Next Week
Will Be Closed To The Public
From Friday Through
Next Tuesday

Ruby E. Barker, chief clerk of
the local War Price and Rationing
Board, announced this week that
the office would be closed on Fri
day, Saturday, Monday and Tues
day, July 81, %, "a and Is, while
the office is being moved from
rooms over The Skyland Post to
the Eller building across from the
J. & J. Store.
The new office will be opened
to the public on Wednesday, July
26, it was announced.
OPA officials said that a change
was being made due to the fact
that a ground floor office was
considered more convenient to the
public.
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Naval Recruiter
Coming Tuesday

J. E. Huffman, Waves and
Navy Recruiter for this area an
nounced yesterday that he would
be in West Jefferson again or
Tuesday, July Is, and that Wave
Officer, 1t. Gg) Georgianna Pent,
large from Naval Officer Procure
sHnent would be here with him tC
$ talk to Ashe County young women
about service in the Nays
Waves.
Any young woman between the
ages of 20 and SO having no de-
pendents under Is years of age
and having two or more years OF
high school education are eligible
according to Recruiter Huffman.
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County Is Still
Around $4,000.
Short In E Bonds
Figures Show That Nearly
$12O,OOO.OO In E Bonds
Has Been Sold

Ashe county is slowly climbing
toward the E bond quota of $3.50,
10000, but is still short of it by
around 100000. With a little
more than a week left, officials
urged that every one, who can,
buy extra bonds during this drive
in order that the county may raise
it's E bond quota. The overall
quota of $197, 100000 has already
been surpassed.
Sources of sales available for
publication yesterday reveal the
following totals: Lansing Post Of
flee, $7,106.25; Ashe Building and
Loan, $1,518.75; Sturgills Post Of
flee, $2,56875; West Jefferson Post
Office, $72,075.00; Northwestern
Bank, $22,981.25; Jefferson Post
Office, $2,665.O0; First National
Bank, $4,000; Hemlock Post Of
flee, $1,181.25.
State War Finance Chairman c.
T. Leinbach said yesterday that
North Carolina had reached the
70 per cent mark in its drive to
sell 500, 100000 worth of E bonds
during the Fifth War Loan Drive.
He said Mondays sales, totaling
$500, 900, brought the E bond total
to $27,5O0,O00. Pointing out that
II selling days remain in the
drive, he said 1--WE will need an
average of a million dollars a day,
or slightly more, to make our
quota"
Leinbach announced that II
counties had attained their E bond
quotas and that 80 had reached
Continued On Page Four)
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the outbreak was we'll on the
way to complete control in mid
August.
The State Board of Health has
asked that all possible conferences
and meetings scheduled in the
State be postponed in order to
help control the spread of infan-
tile paralysis. It has also been
recommended that all nonprofit
camps be closed and that com
mercial camps operating in coun-
ties where the disease " has alb
normal prevalence" admit no new
campers.
c. H. Crabtree, State Repre-.
sentative for the Foundation, sale
that $4,000 of the total came from
the national office, and the re.
TContinued on Page Four)
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Little, Glenn Dishman, Vaughn
Lester Hart, John Henry Miller,
Roger Denton Howell, J. c. Ian
mis- Blevins, George c. Stanley,
Thomas J. McGinnis, Garland
Hamm, Fearey V. Price, Ray
Russell Ham, Arthur E. Allen,
Ross D. Houck, Jr., John w. Good
man.
Bower James Woodie, Burl w.
Hartzog, Frank c. Woodie, Robert
Glenn Norris, Miles Grant Hart
soc, Robert N. Lewis, Marvin B.
Jones, Joseph S. Bowers, Ray
mond B. Osborne, Emerson z.
Roark, Warren j. Sullivan and
Raymond r. Mahaffey.
Continued on Page Faur)
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Good Prices At
Bean Mart Here

Ashe county farmers along with
others in this section, selling their
beans on the market here are
continuing to receive good prices
The demand remains good with
plenty of buyers on the market.
On Monday night $3.50 bushels
of beans were sold at auction and
on Tuesday night 5000 bushels
were disposed of. The average
price for these two nights was
$1.6O, netting the growers around
10000.
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Will Bury Mrs.
Calhoun, Today

Funeral service will be held at
HOO o'clock this morning at the
family cemetery at Apple Grove
cemetery for Mrs. .Letha Calhoun,
age 80, who died in the Baptist
hospital, in Winston-Salem, on
Monday night.
The deceased, who had been
seriously ill for some time, is
survived by her husband and two
children.
Rev. Carl Sturgill and Rev.
D. o. Miller will be in charge Of
the service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-07-20
Glendale Man
Hurt In France

Mrs. James B. Walters, of Glen
dale Springs, has received a mes
sage that her husband, Pfc. James
B. Walters, was wounded in
France, on June II, while partici-
pating in the invasion of France.
Pfc. Walters is with the infan-
try. No details were received by
Mrs. Walters as to the extent of
her husbands injuries.
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1t. Scott, Todd
Man, Seriously
Hurt In Invasion

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Scott, of
Todd, have received a message
from the War Department, stating
that their son, First Lieutenant
Stewart Scott, was seriously
wounded in the invasion of
France, on June 9. The Purple
Heart Decoration, which was
awarded 1t. Scott, was also sent
to his parents.
1t. Scott entered service three
years ago, and has been overseas
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ATTENDING CONVENTION
IN CHICAGO THIS WEEK

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell w. Barr
are attending the National Demo-
cratic Convention in Chicago this
week.
Mr.. Barr was chosen as dele
gate from this district at the state
convention in Raleigh.
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A union singing will be held
at the Little Laurel Methodist
Church on Sunday afternoon, July
30. All singers, choirs, quartets
and anyone interested are cor
daily invited to attend.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
Those Charming Old New York Customs
Lots of Kissing, Petticoats, and Hot Beer

hcverge kerbokerH oiday"th
ad ~ Joe Browna hrto
the
which
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ton, food processing and other
industries.
We want serVicemen to know
they are considered by business
men as an integral part of our
total life, explains Henry Gins
berg, Paramount studio exec,
one of the prime movers.
George Shellenberger, Mer-
chants & Manufacturers Assn.
exec, is another leader, and a
varied roster of business Off
cials and technical experts has
started visiting the army and
navy hospitals in this area.
Civilian Servicemen would
give the vets insight into all
types of industry, broaden their
knowledge while they are hos
pitalized and occupy their minds
through discussions among the
men themselves"
Doctors, nurses, chaplains will
be urged to encourage conversa-
ton on business topics between
the beds.
Presumably the businessmen
will have an easier time getting
permission to conduct bedside
seminars than some unions
whose sole purpose was to en-
liven the wards with music and
games Sunday afternoons.
Committees of girl members
of, Screen Office Employees Guild
(AFL) have been holding hos
pital parties every week for sew
eral months-and with no sales
talks. Still they report rebuffs
from some hospital authorities.
There is constructive base TO
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X X 4 X X X
STAR LIFELINES
By ETHEL VINE


rather than clotheshorse parts,
and she doesn't like to pose i'll
giddy makeup or dress; shed d
much rather be photographed in
overalls in her garden.
Just an adolescent school girl
with large, bright, staring eyes
when she first visited a picture
set in suburban Vienna, Miss
Lamar was caught up by for
tune in one of those Cinderella
like transformations that some
times outshine the most imagi-
native movie press agent.
After her first bit role came
Man Braucht Klein Geld"
Money Isn't Everything) in
which she registered still more.
From this picture, Ecstasy"
and other European efforts to
"Algiers, and again Hedy made
it with shining colors. And now,
if they'll keep the banner label
ed glamour girl in the other
corner of the sound stage, she'll
be perfectly happy.
Among Miss Lamarr's most
popular vehicles, since she came
to this country under an M-G-M
contract, are Boom Town, .
Come Live With Me-, "Zieg-
field Girl, H. NJ. Pulham ESQ. >"
"Tortilla Flat" and White
Cargo"
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Wanted TO Act,
WiIIiom Powell
Wrote His Aunt

In addition to his highly re-
munerative work as an actor,
William Powell has done a bit
of writing. He admits the most
successful thing he ever wrote,
however, was a 23-page letter to
a wealthy aunt in Pennsylvania,
explaining why he needed a
loan of $1400 for a two years
course of dramatic study in New
York. The letter brought him
$500 and enabled him to embark
on a career that was to prove
one of the most colorful in Hol-
lyWood.
In his latest M-G-M picture,
"The Heavenly Body coming
to Loew's Valentine Theatre,
Powell has a role radically diff
ferent from the sort of thing he
had been doing as Nick Charles
in the Thin Man series, but
which permits him to exercise
all the infectious humor dis
played in that earlier character
He is seen as a professor of as
tronomy, faced by helter-skelter
domestic problems because of
his attractive young wife's re-
lance on astrological predic-
tions. Hedy LAMAR, playing
opposite Powell, was a unanim-
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Hedy Lamar, who has PROB
ably won more collegiate popu-
larity-poll sweepstakes than any
other Hollywood actress, and
who is California's number one
exponent of the Viennese tradi-
tion, again appears opposite
debonair William Powell in THE
Heavenly Body" coming to the
Loew's Valentine Theatre.
In the new role, one of the
most unusual of her movie
career, Miss Lamar blends a gay
sense of comedy antics with her
magnetic allure. She appears as
the astrology-hepped' wife of
Powell, who is himself a noted
astronomer, with little respect
for the practice of forecasting
events through the position cf
the heavenly bodies. The sup
porting cast of the new picture
includes James Craig, Fay Balm
ter, Spring Byington, and Con-
ME Gilchrist. Alexander Hall,
who made MY Sister Eileen" is
the director.
Raven-haired Miss Lamar,
whose chief hobby is puttering
about her acre-and- ahalf Cali
fornia ranch, has a special dis
like for the phrase, glamour
girl" She has a strong prefer
ence for good comedy roles
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/ Gus studio choice for the wife's S
role.
Halls From Smoky City
Born in Pittsburgh, Powell at
tended the theatre no more fire.
quently than the average school
boy and showed no serious in
terest in activities behind the
footlights until his senior year
in high school. After playing a
leading role in "The Rivals" he
decided he wanted to go in for
an acting career.
After the first year of study
in New York, young Powell was
more broke than ever, but de-
termined now that nothing
would interfere with his deci-
sion to pursue a stage career.
He managed to keep going, un-
der great financial stress, until
the end of his course.
Took Stock for Two Years
Just in the nick of time he
found a part in the road show,
within the Law" and earned
a very good living in this pro-
duction for the next two years.
After another season of stock
in Pittsburgh and a 40-week
tour with a repertory company,
Powell decided he should be
able to make the grade on
Broadway.
Scouts for silent pictures were
greatly impressed with the pos
Sibilities of this tall, debonair
young leading man, and in the
early '20's Powell made his
screen bow with John Barry
more in Sherlock Holmes"
Among some of the other
Powell pictures of recent years
are Manhattan Melodrama," /"
"The Great Ziegfeld," in which
he had the title role, "My Man
Godfrey" "The Last of Mrs.
Cheney" Double Wedding" Il
Love You Again" Love Crazy"
and Crossroads"
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is at a loss about her hands, then
she should smoke or hold some
thing,
Poise, that most important at
tribute, should be cultivated as
siduously. A good beginning is
to slow up; not to rush places,
but to move slowly enough to be
sure where one is going and just
how. There is nothing quite as
unWoman- of -the-world-l k as
tripping over something because
of misjudgment due to nervous
haste.
GAS for the clothes them
selves" continues Spring Bying-
ton, Il advocate simplicity as
basic rule for all women. l
think line is the most important
factor. Accessories and jewelry
can make costume if the dress
or suit is we'll cut. Surplus trim
mings, extreme styles, too-silly
hats are all bad.
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prove highly pleasing to those
affected with nostalgia for the
past.
Some of these felicitous Gus
toms of the old New Amster-
damers could, in fact, elicit a
pang of envy from more mod
ern-minded individuals. AS bit
of social naivete, for example,
kissing was unreservedly termed
gesture of friendship, which
earned the otherwise staid Man
hattanites the appellation of
kissing Dutchmen." Hot beer
as the popular beverage, and
petticoats dotting the scene,
were two other earmarks of this
generous era.
AS for the petticoats-fretting
over the time-consuming task of
enveloping her young form in a
dozen of them, lass of the peri
cd would be reminded sharply
by her mother that the greater
the family affluence, the greater
the number of petticoats. A rich
young lady didn't dare upset
this ration, that is, appear on
the street without sufficient
b ouffancy at the hips. In
"Knickerbocker Holiday" flax
en-haired Tina Tienhoven (Con-
stance Dowling) grumbles, but,
as a member of well-to-do
family, she dutifully dons four
teen petticoats.
Whatever may be said against
this undergarment as deter
minant of social philosophy, it
had its aesthetic place The pet
ticoat hemlines, tumbling into
place as young lady gracefully
curtsied, made a pretty sight.
And when the lovely Tina sheds
all fourteen of hers, and stands
stripped to her pantaloons (des-
habille 1647 vintage) she is still
a few garments upon the aver
age female of the winter of
1943.
In an era when mink and sa-
bic were raiment reserved for
fabulous potentates, another
item-the unelaborate manner
in which a lady acquired fur
coats something which should
have distinctly utopian ring to
female ears. The female of the
species was eXhorted by preach
ers to uphold decency by re-
framing from curling her fair
tresses, but as for sporting a
couple of fur coats, there was no
stigma. In fact, with as little
provocation as a request for his
wife, a spouse in 1647 or there
abouts, if he were any kind of a
man, was expected to remove
the shotgun from the mantle.
make for the woods, and return
home with a fur coat tucked tri-
umphantly under his arm.
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the businessmen's project, de-
spite the undoubted purpose to
sow seeds of business philosophy.
Might be smart for unions to
hand out some rehabilitation
ideas too.
MEDALS FOR BIGGIES. Maj.
Gen. Joseph Fagen of the ma
rines told 20th-Fox studio execu-
tives that war chiefs recognize
men out of uniform are helping
win the war. MANY decorations
will be bestowed on you men in
motion pictures who have done
such a meritorius job" he said.
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that's why some of the best
dressed women in this and other
countries are not debutantes and
young brides, but women of ma
ture years.
This about sums up the atti-
tude towards clothes of one of
the most elegant ladies of the
screen. Spring Byington, who
has a featured role with Hedy
Lamar and William Powell in
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer's IT h e
Heavenly Body" Despite fire.
quent "fluttery' portrayals on
the screen, Miss Byington is in
real life a woman of the world,
a woman who has learned to
live and has acquired real
sense Of values.
81 believe carriage and grace
of movement are the most i'm
portant factors of woman's chic,
says Miss Byington. Il have
seen short women look taller
and plump women look simmer
by the very way they held them
selves, by the grace and dignity
of their gestures.
Omit Too Many Gestures
A womans carriage should be
1.-THE, effortless, believes Miss
Byington. Superfluous gestures
should be omitted. Arms should
never be folded, and if a woman
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
Spring Byington, Woman Of World,
Speaks Her Mind on Valuable Hints

fairly good with grace and poise chic
really dress simply covering because
happens be the last word in fashion.
long time-years in fac-for a
choose clothes Perhaps
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

HOLLYWOOD, 81 (FP)-Busness leaders here have
organized Civilian Sevicemen to visit wounded
them bedside chats about the bright world industry
planning The intention is interest discharged
training technical positions televon pastcs ranpora
Evening star., 1944-02-20
General Activities in Alexandria
Residents Return From TribS:
Farewell Parties Are Given

Mrs. John Leadbeater has returned
from visit in Contoocook, N. H.
with her son and daughter in-law
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Chandlee
Ieadbeater and their young son Der
rick, who have now gone to Colum.
bia, S. c., to visit Mrs. Charles
Nichols, formerly Miss Carol Lead
beater.
En- route home Mrs Leadbeatel
visited her sister, Mrs. M. G.. Star
rett, in New Canaan, Conn.
Mrs. Robert F. Gooding is spend
ing few days in Atlantic City.
Mrs. James Marvin Collins, for
merly Miss Dorothy Bohraus, left
Friday for Santa Ana. Calf. to join
her husband, who is an aviation
cadet at the Army base there.
Mrs. James R. Dawson has been
visiting in Kentucky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Youry are
spending few days in New York.
Mrs. Gilbert Edmund Stringer was
the honor guest at farewell lunch
con given Tuesday at the Old Club
House before her departure with Mr..
Stringer and their daughter Janet
for Chicago, where they will make
their home.
The luncheon was given by group
Of friends and neighbors, including
Mrs. Ralph w. Davis, Mrs. Homer L.
Cupples, Mrs. John Ingles Palmer,
Mrs. John Thornton Ashton, Mrs.
Theron Wade Jenkins, Mrs. Linwood
B. McCloud, Mrs. Carl E. Miller, Mrs
I. T. Haig, Mrs. Nelson T. Snyder,
Mrs. William H. Hulfish, Mrs. Sibley
Everitt, Mrs. Nelson Carr. Mrs.
Dabney T. Waring, Mrs. Waverly