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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-01-18
CHERRY is OPPOSED
TO TAX MEASURE

CONTINUED from Page One)
the third week of it's wartime ses-
sion.
The House received measure
from Rep. Stoney of Burke, to
amend the State Teachers and
Employees Act to authorize the
State to continue payments into
the fund for a person who con-
tinues in State employment after
reaching the age of so. The State
now matches the contribution up
to so.
The Senate received a bill by
Senator Mitchell of Iredell, to au-
thorize the commission for the
blind to cooperate with the Fed
eral Government under the Bar
den Rehabilitation Act to allow
the appointment of guardians for
the incompetent blind.
Three measures by Senator
Penny of Guilford, would: Pro-
vide for the Improvement of live
stock; provide for keeping of
records by dealers in metals,
leather, rubber and glass sold as
junk, and allow the State, coun-
ties, cities and towns or other
subdivisions to purchase supplies
and equipment from the Federal
Government without advertising
for bids or signing contracts.
The Joint Committee on Agri-
culture Tuesday considered a
long-range tobacco research pro-
gram for the State.
In the meantime, the Joint
Committee on Appropriations
heard S. G.. Hawfield, superin-
tendent of the Jackson Training
School at Concord, who said the
State must provide improved ed
ucational facilities for correction
al instructions.
Moving swiftly to retire the
States general fund bonded in
debtedness, the North Carolina
Legislature last week passed a
bill setting aside $51,853,O79 of
the States surplus for that pur-
pose less than a week after Gov
ernor Cherry had requested it in
his inaugural address.
The measure, introduced in
both houses on Monday night,
was passed scarcely 40 hours la
ter. It was presented in the
Senate by Eagles of Wilson, Price
of Rockingham and others, and in
the House by Stone of Rocking
ham, Pearsall of Nash and others,
and was sent to the joint COM
mittee on appropriations.
Cherry had advocated payment
of the indebtedness both in his
primary platform and in his inau-
gural address. BY the time the
Legislature heard the recommen-
dalton repeated in the new Gov
ernor's budget message, the meas
ure had been enacted into law.
A bill to raise the pay of teach
ers and principals in the States
public schools was introduced in
the Senate by Pittman of Lee,
Price of Rockingham, and others.
The bill, now up for consideration
by the appropriations committee,
said that 10 per cent increases
based upon income both from sal
aries and war bonuses should be
granted not only in the interest Of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-01-18
RESIGNS FROM BOARD

Bruce Bowlin, who has served
efficiently on the local draft
board for the past several years,
has resigned because of his du-
ties at school. He is member
of the faculty at Jefferson. No
one has been named as yet to
succeed him on the board.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-01-18
EXECUTORS NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

Having qualified as Executors
of the last Will and Testament Of
M. H. Goodman, late of Ashe
County, North Carolina, this isl
to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to pre-
sent them to the undersigned for
payment on or before January 10,
1916, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please. make immedi-
ate payment to the undersigned.
This january l6,a 1915
Mary Goodman and Ralph
, Tomlinson. Executors Of
M II. Goodman, deceased.
1-18-6tp II 3. s.g 60 .,+1
Evening star., 1945-07-19

several rehearsals he becomes a man
of few words-rnostly at his own
suggestion. Then he begins helping
the others cut their lines.
"Bendix wants TO do it all in pam
tomime, Ladd says to Farrow. He
knows we haven't a chance against
his mugg.'
Wed better shoot it." advises
Farrow. One more rehearsal and
well be back to silent films
just before the take, Seton I.
Miller, the producer, strolls onto the
lset.
Are you here as Miller the pro-
Queer or Miller the writer2" de-
mands Farrow.
To-day I am the producer" grins
Miller.
Then you may stay" Farrow de-
cides, "and see what we're doing to
Miller's dialogue"
Besides producing the picture,
Miller also wrote 1t.
u n X *
Now we travel across town to 20th
Century-Fox to have look at Gene
Tierney, Cornell Wilde and Jeanne
Grain doing complicated scene for
the psychological drama, Leave Her
to Heaven"
| The setting is the entrance hall OF
spacious New Mexico ranch house,
with three more rooms visible in
the background. 1t takes long time
to light the set because of the multi
pie problems involved, including the
fact that, besides the stars, there
will be six other players in the scene
Finally, everything is ready. Di-
rector John Stahl calls for a re-
hearsal. The three stars, together
with Mary Phillips, are arriving at
/ the ranch house; the others are
welcoming them. There is a rapid
exchange of dialogue and considera-
BILE movement. 1t takes several re-
hearsals-and more time-to smooth
out the action. But at last Stahl is
satisfied and the cameras roll.
Then everything happens. 1t Is
one of those days when a director
finds it tough to lay up single foot
of usable film. The first take is
spoiled by an offstage cough. Dur
| ing the second, one Of the arc lights
starts spluttering and has to be re-
paired. On the third, the micro
phone boom casts shadow. BY this
time the players are becoming jit-
terry. On the fourth take, overanxi-
Gus, two of them anticipate" their
lines.
| X y X
Every one looks toward Stahl, half
expecting him to ask: Can any
thing else happen to hold up pro-
duction?"
But he smiles and says quietly
Relax, children, and well have a
cup OF coffee" The beverage served
Stahl says, Now I think we can
make it"-and he was right.
The script girl confides to us why
the sometimes crotchety Stahl Is so
unruffied today. The director had
Just received word that his SON.
1t. C. Ray Stahl--is back in this
country for brief spell of shore
duty, after being on a destroyer in
the South Pacific for two years and
going through "a major engage
ments.
released by North American Newspaper
AliiRnce,1
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time OF Showing

Stage.
National - Ballet Russo High.
lights: $50 pm.
Catholic Uniyersity-"Peer Gynt":
$50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol "The Clock: II am,
/ so, 4:35, 7:20 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows: 1855, 3:45, $50 and $40 pm.
Columbia Salty ORourke";; IL :3s
am 1:35, $3.50. $50, 7:3o and $50
pm.
Earle-'IA Medal for Benny. II
am, I.50. 4.30, T:15 and e:55 pm
Stage shows. 3:45, 6:25 and s:to
pm.
Keith's - "Along Came Jones':
HIS am, 100, 3:25, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Little Thunder Rock: IL am.
12:45, 2:30, 4:20, sos, 7:55 and 9:45
pm.
Metropolitan Conflict: 11:2t
am, lilo, 3:l5, $40, 7:3o and Gas
pm.
PaIace-"Vailey of Decision: II :3t
am, 2, 4:30, Z and $50 pm.
Pix-"Grand Illusion: $50, $40
9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-07-19
On the Sets They Rewrite

into the scene and greet the pilot,
John Whitney, who has flown in a
new motor to replace the port en-
CINE that conked out and forced
Ladd to land on the emergency field.
y
Farrow and company proceed to
demonstrate what often happens to
a screen writer's efforts. 1t is COM
mon practice for directors to cut
dialogue on the set to speed up a
scene, and actors often suggest al
teration or deletion of lines they
cannot speak naturally" In this
case neither Farrow nor his actors
hesitated to use the scissors.
Bendix, for example, starts out
with six lines of dialogue and after
Evening star., 1945-07-19
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

al HOLLYWOOD.
Make believers at work: Our first
set today is an emergency landing
field in India, reproduced in part on
a big stage at Paramount, where a
shiny Douglas DC-3 transport plane
stands. Because of its 95-foot wing
spread, the ship had to be assembled
inside. Recently purchased from the
Army, the plane makes its film bow
in Calcutta" in which Alan Ladd
and william Bendix play pilots fly
ing the Hump" from India to
China.
Director John Farrow has trained
the camera on the door of the big
ship. Ladd and Bendix are to run
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Claudette Exceeds
Own Clothes Record
HOLLYWOOD.

Claudette Colbert, long known as
the screens best-dressed woman,
tops her own record in Interna-
tionals RKO Radio release, TO-
morrow Is Forever" She wears a
platina mink coat valued at $42, 900
and IS changes OF costume designed
for her by Jean Louis, former
Partisan fashion creator.
Evening star., 1945-07-19
She Studies Recipes
HOLLYWOOD

Louise Allbritton, starring In Uni
versal's Men in Her Diary" is
learning to cook Hungarian deli
cacies from the Charles Korvins,
who live in the same apartment
building.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
La Fontaine Motion
For New Trial Denied

Montgomery County Circuit Court
Judges Charles w. Woodward and
Stedman Prescott today overruled a
motion for a new trial in the case
OF James H. La Fontaine, who was
ordered by Circuit Court Jury
May Is to pay $4,000 to a Hyatts-
Vile man who claimed he lost the
money IN gambling establishment
operated by La Fontaine.
The court also overruled a motion
by La Fontaine's attorney to set
aside the jury's verdict and enter a
Judgment for the defendent.
The $4,000 verdict was won by
Harry w. Wilson, So, Hyattsville,
after he told the jury he lost the
money while gambling at the La
Fontaine establishment at Eastern
avenue and the District line in
Prince Georges County.
Wilson, former bookkeeper at
the Capitol Service Station, 1765
New York avenue NE, had testified
he had embezzled approximately
s43 900 from the firm. A companion
suit for s33,886.52, filed by Wilson's
former employers. is pending in
Howard County after being trans
ferred there from Montgomery
County.
Both suits originally were filed in
Prince Georges County but were
removed to Montgomery on petition
by ATTORNEYS for the defendent
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Midshipman's Fioncee Chosen
Color Girl at Naval Academy
Miss Cordes of Ohio
Will Be Honored
During June Week
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 31.-Miss
Lillian Cordes of Napoleon, Ohio,
has been chosen color girl for June
Week graduation activities at the
Naval Academy, Rear Admiral j. R.
Beardall, superintendent, announced
yesterday.
She will present the colors June S
to the 18th Company of Midshipmen,
winner Of the annual intercompany
competition for the regimental flag.
The company which will carry the
regimental colors throughout next
year is commanded by Midshipman
1t. Eldon H. Knape of Defiance,
Ohio.
He chose Miss Cordes, his flancee,
as color girl.
Midshipman Knape is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin A. Knape of
Defiance. Before his admission to
the academy he attended Ridgeville
Corners (Ohio) High School and
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio.
The color girl, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Cordes, is a former
student at Ridgevilla Corners High
School. After graduation she worked
In Toledo. Miss Cordes, who is 81,
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Pennsylvania Will Assist
Potomac Basin CIeaninu

Gov. Edward Martin of Pennsyl-
vania has signed legislation au-
thorizing the State to cooperate
with the District, West Virginia
Maryland and Virginia in combating
pollution of the Potomac River basin,
the Associated Press reported today
from Harrisburg.
Harold A. Kemp, director of sani-
tary engineering for the District and
a member of the Interstate Com
mission on the Potomac River basin,
said Pennsylvania action added
that State to an interstate compact
to take joint action in combating
pollution. He said Pennsylvania had
not been in the agreement before.
Edwin Cotton of the District is
engineer r-secretary of the commits
sion. Others serving with Mr.. Kemp
from the District are James Lauder
dale, peoples counsel, and DR..
Daniel L. Seckinger, acting super
intendent of Gallinger Hospital and
assistant health officer.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Visiting Servicemen 10 &c
Beds in CAPITAL Schools

District schools will be employed
during the summer to house service
men who visit the Nations Capital,
it was announced today by Recrea-
tion Services, Inc. BY June %, al
most 1000 cots will be available.
The arrangements for accommo-
dating them were made by Mrs
Henry Grattan Doyle, president Of
the District School Board and vice
president of the recreation agency.
Some $50 servicemen will be ac-
commodated at Mckinley High
School, beginning June 16, it was an
nounced, and on June % about 125
cots will be made available at the JEFF
ferson Junior High School. Seventy
five already are available at the Stu
art Junior High School.
The cots will be placed in we'll
ventilated gymnasiums where show
ers and dressing rooms will be avail
able. The Girl Scouts will make
beds and the American Legion viii
provide guards.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
$4,000 Sanatorium
For Alcoholics Urqed
ByMrs. George Thorpe

The Commissioners today were
asked by Mrs. George c. Thorpe,
chairman of the Womens Safety
Committee of the American Auto
mobile Association, to consider a
municipal sanatorium in the coun-
try for the treatment and rehabili-
tation of alcoholics.
Mrs. Thorpe submitted a plan for
a 100-acre, $4,000 institution, but
said the institution might be started
on smaller scale and gradually
expanded.
In stressing the need for such a
home, Mrs. Thorpe said a woman
had called her recently to tell her
about how her husband apparently
had been beaten from head to foot
in a private institution in Maryland
to which she had sent him for
treatment of alcoholism.
Told Suit to Be Brought.
The woman is bringing suit against
the institution. Mrs. Thorpe said
she was told, adding that three doc
tors from Gallinger-where the man
was taken after being in the Mary
land institution-were prepared to
present evidence that the man was
beaten.
Mrs. Thorpe said there was less
justification for such brutality in
this country than in the concentra-
ton camps of Germany. where the
guards were acting with wartime
passions.
Commissioner Guy Mason told
Mrs. Thorpe he thought the institu-
tion outlined involved too much of
the taxpayers money for an ex-
pertinent. He pointed out that the
cost Of construction, aside from land
was $4.500 to 5000 per bed and at
the present time the cost of main
tenance is about $50 per patient at
such an institution as Upshur Street
Hospital.
See Institution as Helpful.
DR.. John F. Owen, head of the
new Mental Hygiene Bureau, and
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger. acting head
Of Gallinger, both said an institution
in the country would be helpful in
curing alcoholics.
Commissioner John Russell Young
told Mrs. Thorpe her plan would be
given a lot of thought" by the
Commissioners
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Camporee Plan Announced
By River Terrace Scouts

Organization of Boy Scout troop
has done much to eliminate van
dalism in the area, Elwood E. Stump
told the River Terrace Citizens AS
sociation last night.
Mr.. Stump, vice president of the
association and scoutmaster of the
troop, discussed plans for the troop
to attend a "camporee' in Fort
Dupont Park June 8, 9, and 10. He
said the Scouts were making their
own tents.
Dickie Hurt and Richard Fayian,
members of the troop, displayed an
American flag and a troop flag
which had been bought with funds
from their paper salvage campaign.
Much equipment will be financed
in this way, they said.
c. v. Parker, association presi-
dent, announced that a request for
a wire netting railing on the Ben
ming Viaduct had been refused by
the District commissioners. The
refusal cited the "unesthetic quail
tiles" of the railings and the lack
of materials.
Mr.. Parker also announced that
request had been made for trees
in the River Terrace area.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Children S Museum 10 Stay
Until Evicted From Site

Children's Museum. ordered to va
cate the Villa Rosa Mansion on Mas
sachusetts avenue by today, will
remain on the premises until a
House District Subcommittee decides
whether or not to propose that the
Government buy the property, or
until legal action is taken, Miss Ma
tilda Young, museum director, said
today.
At hearing earlier this month be-
fore the House District Fiscal At
fairs Subcommittee witnesses urged
the District buy the property for the
continued use of the museum, non
profit, private educational organiza-
ton.
The owners, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Fig, acquired the building more than
a year ago as a site for an apart
ment development, and have written
the museum officials requesting that
they move by today.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Buildings Group OK S
New Ceiling, Lights
For Senate Chamber

The Senate Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee today placed
its stamp of approval on measure
authorizing the installation of a
new type Of ceiling, modern acous-
tics and lighting in the Senate
chamber when marterials become
available.
The committee ordered a favora-
Die report on a resolution which
would motivate plans prepared by
David Lynn, architect of the Capt.
tol. Similar work is planned for
the House chamber.
The architect also has proposed
extension of the east front of the
central section of the Capitol to i'm
prove the architectural appearance
and afford additional needed space
IN the building. This project, how
ever, is not covered IN the measure
reported today.
Several years ago temporary steeI
supports were installed under the
skyllghts of both the chambers wher
1t was found the old cast-iron sup
ports were unsafe. 1t had been
planned to modernize the chamber
but permanent improvements were
deferred because of the critical ma
terials situation.
The resolution. now to 60 to the
Senate for action, provides for the
installation of a reinforced con.
crete roof and a Slightly curved, O,
"coved" ceiling. Indirect lightine
would replace the present direct
artificial lighting and sunlight.
Changes also would be made tt
improve acoustics, in response Il
repeated complaints that even Sen
ators seated in the chamber Otter
cannot hear what their colleague.
are saving.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Thousands 10 Lose
Federal Jobs Soon,
Ramspeck Predicts
By the Associated Press.


Federal payrolls are on the down.
grade.
Reporting that 5,7sl Government
employees were dropped during
April, Chairman Ramspeck of the
House Civil Service Committee pre-
dicted today thousands more would
give up or lose their posts in the
next few months.
He commented, however, that the
decrease would be a gradual one, at
least until Japan is defeated.
The May l total Of 2,914,6el Fed
eral workers is an increase OF 4,1Oe
over the same date year ago.
Temporary Jobs Dropped.
The reductions have already
started among those who hold tenn
porary war jobs" Mr.. Ramspeck
told q reporter.
"As the war picture brightens,
We should be able TO cut of many
more, particularly those in the Army
and Navy operated plants"
At present, he noted. Of 2,9l4,69l
Federal workers, 2,o2o,661 are in war
agencies.
Some of these can be dropped
soon,' Mr.. Ramspeck asserted. "But
many will have to be retained until
our armed forces are reduced. There
are thousands of paper work Jobs
which must be maintained"
Employment Check Due.
The chairman said his committee
investigators would start checking
soon to see which jobs can be elm
mated to the best advantage.
Another point marked for scrutiny,
he said, is why some agencies
dropped 1887 employees during April
while others showed an increase of
12,248.
This may be due to the increased
work of the Surplus Property Board,
or some equally good reason, but we
certainly want to know why it has
occurred" he asserted.
Evening star., 1945-05-31

A District wine purveyor who did
not follow instructions was respon-
sible, according to the District War
Finance Committee, for the nine
Intellectual swings with a bottle of
champagne taken by Mrs. Truman
at an Army plane christening at
the National Airport yesterday.
When the nine attempts left the
bottle unshattered-and Mrs. Tru-
mans composure unshattered also
a military aide took over. He
bounced the bottle four time against
the aluminium nose of the plane and
succeeded only in denting the metal
Today. with the Army unhappy
about the event and referring in
quiries to the War Finance Com
mittee, the committee investigated
Then it issued its findings.
The wine purveyor had had in
structions - definite Instructions
that the bottles should be scored:
that is, deeply scratched in lines
with glass cutter so they would
shatter easily. In addition, they
were to be netted and taped so the
shattered glass would not consti-
tute danger.
Used Unscored Bottle.
Three bottles were supplied" said
the committee spokesman. by some
error of omission one of the bottles
was not scored, and it was that
bottle that was used for christening
the Army plane This error-ob-
vlously regrettably-is due to the
human equation in the situation"
The Army Air Forces, which had
watched Mrs. Truman move on to
Navy plane and shatter a bottle.
there, said today it didn't want to
make any formal statement. A
spokesman did say, however, that
the bottles were furnished by the
Treasury (that is, the War Finance
Commlttee). The Treasury, he said,
had been instructed to get bottles
appropriate for the occasion and
properly scored, and the bottles were
not properly scored. 1t was Treas
ury's responsibility.
Before the air forces had decided
what its official position should be
Evening star., 1945-05-31
President Prepares
Conference Address
On Holiday Cruise

President Truman returned to his
desk today, after an absence over
Memorial Day which was spent
cruising on the Potomac and work
ing on the speech he will deliver at
the close of the San Francisco Con.
ference.
Stephen T. Early, a special as.
sistant, who is retiring this week te
enter private business, and George
Allen, former District of Columbia
Commissioner, who Travelled with
Mr.. Truman during his vice presi.
dental campaign, accompanied him
yesterday to help with the prepara
ton of the speech.
Meanwhile, the White House an.
nounced further details of the ar.
rangements being made for Mr.
Truman's trip to the coast, which
is expected to be around June 6
and will include a brief side trir
to Olympia, Wash.
Mr.. Truman and his aides will,
travel in the special C-54 which the
late President Roosevelt used or
some of his historic missions abroad
1t will be followed across country by
second fast plane carrying news.
paper, radio and photo men.
White House Press Secretar,
Charles G. Ross announced that the
press party will include reporters TO,
the three press associations and 9
token" representatio ton of individual
newspapers, due to space limitations
Joseph A. Fox of The Star was Sc.
lected for this representation be.
cause of his presidency of the White
House Correspondents Association
and Paul Leach of the Chicago Daily
News was additionally designated al
a representative of the central part
OF the country. The major radio
networks will agree on one man tt
represent them.
Charlie Mack of MGM will repre.
sent all the newsreels and George
Skadding of Life magazine will ac
as still photographer on a pool
basis for the still photo services.