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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
w. J Citizens Are
Asked To Register

B. B. GRAPHICAL said he wished
to remind citizens of West Jeffer-
son not yet registered, to do so in
order to be eligible to vote in the
election, May z. GRAPHICAL point
ed out that throughout the week,
anyone desiring to register might
do so at his place of business, the
Ashe Motor Co., or on Saturday
at the town hall.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Show In
Schools This Wk.

The Little Jack puppet health
show is being held in the various
schools of the county this week.
This travelling exhibit was cur
tailed during the war, but is now
in circulation again.
B. H. Duncan, superintendent
of schools, said he was happy to
have this health feature again.
A number of phases of public
health and education are featured
in the puppet performance.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
MRS. r. L. COLVARD
KILLED IN ACCIDENT

It was learned here this week
that Mrs. R. L. Coward, of Keat-
ing, Oregon, who had many
friends and relatives here, was in
stantly killed in an automobile
accident on April 2, while en-
route to Oregon from New Mexi-
co. She was accompanied by her
husband, Mr.. Coward, at the
time of the accident.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
REMIND PARENTS OF
PRE-SCHOOL CLINICS

Supt. of Schools, B. H. Duncan
reminded parents again this week
that they should take advantage
of the pre-school clinics now be-
ing held in the county by the
county nurse. He said he wished
to call attention to the fact that
children must be vaccinated for
smallpox, whooping cough and
diphtheria before they enter
school.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
LAMBERT INFANT
RITES HELD MONDAY

Funeral service for Fred Lam
bert, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charlie Lambert of West Jeffer-
son, who died here Sunday, was
held Monday at 8 o'clock, at the
Nathan's Creek cemetery.
Survivors are, in addition to
the parents, one brother, Her
shell l.. Lambert.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Easter Is Expected To Be
Quietly Observed In County

down on the Easter candies, but
here in Ashe county, most peo-
pie are expected to enjoy many
items there was a scarcity of in
Wartimes.
Children have planned the us
ual egg hunts. So if the sun
shines, and weather is not too
chilly, it should be a pleasant &C.
casion for most people.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Democrats Will
Hold Township
Meetings On Sat
Will Elect Delegates To Coun-
ty Convention To Be Held
April ~

B. H. Duncan, chairman Of the
Democratic Executive Committee
of Ashe county, said this week
that he wished to again remind
the members of the party that
county conventions would be
held at the courthouse in Jeffer-
son on Saturday afternoon, April
q, at two o'clock for the purpose
Continued on Page 81
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Three Ashe Men
Indicted In Army

Three Ashe county men were
reported to have been indicted in
the U. S. Army on March 26, &C
cording to an announcement made
this week by Mrs. Louis J. Ye-
lanjian, chief clerk of the local
draft board.
Those indicted were Give w.
Parker, Earl w. Severt, and
Henry Rotten.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
News Editors Return
After European Tour

Eleven Of II newspaper executives
who have spent a month touring
occupied zones of Europe as guests
of Secretary of War Patterson land
ed at National Airport shortly after
noon today and went Immediately
to the Pentagon for lunch with
Army and War Department officials.
The group was entertained at
lunch by Secretary Patterson, AS
sistant Secretary of War Peterson
Undersecretary Kenneth Royal
Gems. Jacob l.. Devers and Thomas
Handy and 1t. Gen. Ira Eaker.
The Army scheduled press con-
ference for the editors Immediately
after the luncheon. Ludwell Denny
of the Scripps-Howard newspapers,
member of the original group, re-
manned in Europe.
Members of the group are Lee
Hills, Miami Herald; Ed Kilman
Houston Post; Roy Howard, Scripps-
Howard; Walter E. Christensen
Omaha World-Herald; J. C.
Oestreicher, International News
Service: Arthur Hays Sulzburger
New York Times; Lyle Wilson
United Press; Hugh Robertson
Macy Westchester County newspa-
pers; w. S. Gilmore, Detroit News;
j. c. Ferguson, Milwaukee Journal
and Herbert F. Corn. managing
editor of The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Another Cruiser 10 Join
u. 5. Warships at Tieste

The American cruiser Huntington
is under orders to proceed to the
Mediterranean and will report to the
naval commander of the area who
has moved his flagship to Trieste,
the Navy said today.
However, it added there is no par
ticular significance in sending the
Huntington to Trieste as she is
going to the Mediterranean under
plans formulated some months ago
Normally, she would have reported
to the commander of Mediterranean
forces at Naples, but since he has
moved to Trieste, the ship will re-
port to him there
The Navy statement followed pub
lished reports that the Huntington
had been ordered to reinforce Amer
ican and British naval units at
Trieste.
Sporadic disorders between Yugo-
slavs and italians in the Adriatic
port recently have indicated a ten
sion which some officials fear may
reach the explosion point during
consideration by the Forthcoming
Paris peace conference of Big -Four
proposals to put Trieste under in
ternational control.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Hearing Set for Monday
On Constellation Crash

A public hearing will be held next
Monday at Reading, Pa, on the
fatal crash of Constellation trans
port near that city on July II, the
Civil Aeronautics Board announced
today. AS a result of the accident,
all Consultations have been ground
ed for 80 days.
Examiner Robert w. Chrisp of the
Safety Bureau of the CAB will pre-
side at the hearing, hear evidence
and submit his findings here.
Two CAB technicians studied the
planes wreckage and will report
their conclusions to Mr.. Chrisp.
Five Transcontinental g. Western
Air employees were killed and one
was injured when the plane crashed
on a training flight.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Lag in Buying
MayForceCut
In Meat Prices
Stocks Carried Over
As Housewives Avoid
Choice but Costly Cuts

Washington grocerymen showed
up in only small numbers at the
wholesale meat markets today in
sharp contrast to week ago, when
retailers were virtually begging job
bers for meat at any price.
A source in the wholesale meat in
duStry here said the number of
takers was only fraction of last
weeks, and that jobbers were ex-
periencing difficulty in moving their
supplies.
| This, he said, is going to mean a
downward trend in current high
meat prices within a few days.
Many retail shops carried over stocks
from Saturday. rarity in recent
months.
He attributed this to further re-
luctance on the part of housewives
to pay high prices
| Along with a threatened backing
| up of meat here, the butter mar
ket was reported by a spokesman
for the butter and egg division of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association to be sluggish"
Overloaded With Butter.
He said retailers were overloaded
with butter in some instances and
have begun to cut their prices in
order to encourage sales. This
source, who also is one of the biggest
Jobbers in the city, said he had re-
ceiyed requests from several retail
erS to buy back butter at SO cents
| a pound. This same butter sold for
around rs cents pound last week,
| he estimated
Now they are stuck with it." he
observed. The offers to buy back
the butter were turned down, he
said.
Retail butter prices showed a wide
range, depending on the supply in
each store. 1t varied from SO to
80 cents a pound.
Poultry market also was reported
by the trade as weak" Todays
wholesale n1;ce for chickens was
about Al cents a pound, with plenty
of supplies on hand
An official of one retail store
commented that the law of supply
and demand has asserted itself in
poultry and butter and will assert
itself in meat by or shortly after
the middle of the week"
Nobody Wants to Buy"
James Thompson, head of the
branch Office of John Morrell g. Co.,
meat packers, reported that nobody
wants to buy" meat today. Jobbers
and retailers, he added, were stuck
so bad last week that they are slow
in buying"
Mr.. Thompson observed that the
housewife lis the one who controls
prices, and he expressed confidence
their resistance to high meat prices
would bring about drop in prices,
probably by the end of this week.
Daniel Willard, who heads the
poultry division of the Merchants
g. Manufacturers Association, dis
closed the Army had made substan-
tial purchases here last Friday for
feeding at nearby posts. This was
not expected to bring about any in
crease in poultry prices to retailers,
however, he said.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Man Injured in Fall
While Repairing Home

George E. Mierke, 46, of $50 East
Capitol street was under treatment
today at Naval Hospital, Bethesda,
for injuries received yesterday when
he fell from ladder while repair
ing his new home on the Clinton
Piscataway highway, Md. about a
mile from Piscataway.
Police said Mr.. Mierke, a civilian
clerk of the Police Department, was
treated for fracture of the left leg
at Casualty Hospital and then re-
moved to Naval Hospital. During
the war he served as a chief phar-
macist's mate in the Navy.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Amvets 10 Hold Convention
Al St. Louis in November

The second annual convention of
the American Veterans of World
War II will be held from November
81 to "a at st. Louis, it was an
nounced today.
The city was chosen yesterday at
the close of a two-day meeting of
the groups national executive COM
mittee at the Hamilton Hotel. About
20 delegates from Washington are
expected to attend, representing the
national headquarters staff, the
District department and six local
chapters.
Appointment of four national Of
f1cers also were confirmed at the
session. They included James C.
Tate, Wilton road, Alexandria,
Va, national service director; Robert
E. Mclaughlin. 800 s. Washington
street, Alexandria, national legis-
lative director; Raymond E.
Bruneau, 208 E. Glendale avenue,
Alexandria. and Vincent C. Neeson,
Ruxton, Md, public relations
director.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Liberal Congress Urged
To Give District Vote

A liberal Congress" would give
the people of the District a vote
Representative Savage, Democrat
of Washington declared last night
in radio address over Station
WWDC, sponsored by the Institute
on Race Relations.
Mr.. Savage also called for pas
sage by Congress of the anti-poll tax
bill.
I'VE now have an opportunity, -
he declared, Ito liberalize Congress
through the Democratic party which
already is mostly liberal, by seeing
to it that the 18th amendment to
the Constitution is carried out in
full. If you will help to abolish
the poll tax you will not be doing
a selfish act for a few people or for
part of the people but instead
you will be doing the greatest thing
you could do for all the people in
the whole country"
Also on the program were Hilyard
R. Robinson and Moss H. KendriX
of the Centennial Commission OF
Liberia, and Tomlinson D. Todd
president of the Institute on Race
Relations.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
National Health
InsuranceUrged
By Senate Unit
Committee Supports
Compulsory PIon to
Cover Medical Fees

A Senate Subcommittee on
Health and Education today is
sued a report urging a national
health program to be carried out
through compulsory health in
surance to provide complete
medical care at reasonable cost.
The report of the subcommittee,
which is headed by Senator Pepper,
Democrat. of Florida, said:
"" To cover every one, the ad-
verse as well as the good risks,
the young and the old, the sick
and the well, the rural and the
city dWellers, the low and the high
income groups, the poor and the
rich areas, all this takes a mechan-
ism as representative and all-in-
elusive as a national health pro-
gram, built around a system of
prepaid medical care.
Sees Equal Health for All.
ut must be financed by required
contributions to the social security
fund and by payments from general
tax revenues. Such a program will
make possible the achievement
in the forseeable future of our goal
Of high quality health care for all"
The report represents substantial
approval of President Truman's
health message of November, 1945,
and of the Wagner Murray -Dingell
health bill, but neither is Endorsed
specifically. The Wagner Murray
Dingell bill Is based on the Presi-
dents proposal but makes no pro-
vision as to the manner in which
the health insurance program would
be financed.
The subcommittee report is sign
ed by Senator Pepper and Senators
Aiken, Republican, of Vermont;
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, and
Murray, Democrat. of Montana.
Senators Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
and Smith, Republican, of New
Jersey, dissent from some of the
findings and conclusions. 1t was
announced that Senators Hill.
Democrat, Of Delaware, and Morse,
Republican, of Oregon, have not
completed their study of the sub
ject of the report.
Study Lasted Two Years.
Issued after two-year study of
health insurance, the report found
that only 3 per cent of the popula-
ton gets complete prepaid medical
care and three quarters of the popu-
lation have no medical-care insur-
ance at all.
Senator Pepper said that the
false accusations of sociahzed med
icine and restriction of free choice
against the Presidents health pro-
gram ere red herrings" and called
for constructive attitude toward
adoption of Mr.. Truman's national
health plan.
The report called for immediate
action because of the urgency of
Our health needs as shown by selec-
tive service and Army data and sub
stantial evidence that we are not
the healthiest country in the world"
Called American Methods.
The report called insurance "the
well-tried American way of meeting
the hazards of life" 1t declared
that the plan would represent "pri-
marily an increase in existing tax
supported health services" adding
that mo one need be Mortified
since more than 20 per cent of our
medical expenditures are already
tax supported"
Free care does not fill the gap."
the report contends, because little
public money is spent for such care
for rural, small-toWn and urban
areas"
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Mrs. Donald Woodward
Bride OF John @. Merritt

Mrs. Donald Woodward, widow Of
the former president of Woodward
g. Lothrop department store, and
John @. Merritt of Washington were
married Saturday at Glenwood
Springs, Colo, The Star learned
today.
The ceremony took place in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis King
and was performed by the Rev.
Henry H. Baker of Glenwood
Springs. The couple planned a trip
through the Canadian Rockies and
expected to return to Washington
about September l.
Mr.. Merritt is the son of the late
Dr.. Edwin A. Merritt, head of War;
wick cancer clinic at Garfield Hos
pital and a leading radiologiSt, who
died April 8.
Mr.. Woodward died in February.
1912, at Miami Beach, Fla, where
Mrs Merritt still maintains a home.
She also has home, Broadwood.
near Rockville, Md. and the estate
includes another home at 2118
Leroy place NV.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Man Dies in Hospital
of Stob Wounds in Eye

James E. Cash, 80, colored, 338 F
street S.W, died yesterday in Freed
mems Hospital from stab wounds in
the right eye received in a fight July
II at Fourth street and Naylor's S
court NV.
George Snipes, go, colored, arrested
and charged with mayhem immedi-
ately after the fight, will appear at
an inquest today in the District
Morgue, according to police.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Catholic School Planned
Al Hardwood Road Site

Plans for a new Catholic high
school for boys on Hardwood road
NE, between Catholic University
and the Soldiers Home, were an
nounced today by the Rev. Leo j,
Mccormick. director of parochial
schools for the Archdiocese of Balti-
more and Washington.
Parishes of the Washington Arch
diocese, including some in nearby
Maryland, have been participating
in a fund raising campaign for the
school since the fall of 1945. The
drive will continue through 1948.
Father Mccormick estimated the
proposed school would cost about
s500,000. He said the school will be
the first of its type erected under
the direct supervision of the Most
Rev. Michael j. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore and Washington.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Spectator Shot in Jaw
At Mt. Zion Boil Come

Bowie Bell, 81, colored, Mount
Zion, Md, was under treatment to-
day at Freedman's Hospital for a
gunshot wound received yesterday
while watching Mount Zion base
ball game.
Police said Mr.. Bell was shot in
the jaw by an unidentified specta-
tor. He was taken to Freedman s
by the Prince Georges Rescue
Squad.
Evening star., 1946-07-22

an official prominent in the foreign
service here in the past two months.
The gunshot death of Alan N.
Steyne, At, State Department
careerist, in the basement of the
Metropolitan Club May % was
termed a suicide, as was the death
by gas of Franklin P. Atwood, As
veteran Consular Service official
last week at 1924 North Twenty
eighth street, Arlington.
Police believed Mr.. Arnold con-
sidered the fatal plunge for about
10 minutes before a bellhop at the
hotel heard crashing noise and
found Mr.. Arnolds unconscious
form in the driveway at 9:20 am.
yesterday.
Janet Holley. colored, SO, of 1888
New Hampshire avenue NV, told
police she saw Mr.. Arnold staring
from the balcony of the room he
and his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Arnold,
occupied, at about 9:10 am Police
said William Frank Branham, COL
ored, 26, of 2715 Georgia avenue, the
bellhop, discovered the tragedy and
called help. Mr.. Arnold was pro-
nounced dead by DR.. Robert J. An
drews of the Emergency Hospital
staff, at $40 am.
The coroner's office issued a Ger
tificate of suicide.
| Mrs. Arnold, So, who apparently
was sleeping when her husband
plunged to his DEATH said they were
to have left Washington for their
Berkeley, Calf, home tomorrow
The couple was here on two-month
visit with their children, Julean Ar
mold, jr, 80. of 1929 Bancroft place
NV, former Army major, State
Department official in the Division
of Commercial Policy; Harrison Ar
mold, 36, visiting here from Dearborn
Mich, where he is a Ford Motor Co.
official, and daughter, Mrs. Frances
Lang, who is staying at 5503 Thirty
third street NV, the home of a
third son, Millard, now in Shang-
hal, China, with the National City
Bank.
Mr.. Arnold's body is at the Chevy
Chase funeral home, 5103 Wisconsin
avenue NV. Funeral service and
burial will be private.
Mr.. Arnold served in various con-
sular posts in China and Japan
from 1902 until he retired in 1910
A native of Sacramento, Calf, he
was educated at the University OF
California and st. Johns University
Shanghai, where he was awarded
an LII. D. in 1919. He was commend
ed by President Theodore Roose-
velt in 1902, the year he was ap-
pointed this countrys first student
interpreter to China.
Later, at various times, he served
as consul general at Hankow, Amer
ican Commercial Attache to both
Japan and China. chairman of the
American delegation to the China
Tariff Review Commission and hon
orary high adviser to the National
Red Gross Society of China. He was
field secretary of the American Red
Cross in China and founded the
American Chamber of Commerce in
Shanghai in 1915.
Author of numerous monographs
on Chinese economic and CONNER
cial problems, Mr.. Arnold held three
decorations from the Chinese gov
ernment: The Order of the Double
Dragon, the Order of the Flourish
ing Grain and the CHA Ho with
Sash. He was Scottish Rite Mason
a charter member of the Shanghai
chapter of the Amity Lodge, F. A. A.
M, councillor of the Royal Asiatic
Society, and member of the
Friends of China Society, the Rotary
Club of Peiping, and the Shanghai
American and Columbia Country
| C1lIhS of Chapuboi
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Naming Of New Governor
For Puerto Rico Near
By the Associated Press

bT TIE HSAocIuIco FTeSs
Presidential Press Seer tary
Charles G. Ross told reporters today
the appointment of new governor
of Puerto Rico is likely" this week
but added it is mot certain"
President Truman said at his
news conference last week he hoped
soon to announce a successor to
Rexford Guy Tugwell, now teaching
at the University of Chicago.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Hearing Postponed
For Woman Held in
Staying Of Husband

A scheduled hearing into the fatal
shooting Saturday night of Charles
Kinchloe, %. in his houseboat home
on Hunting Creek, Alexandria, Va,
was postponed today to give Mrs
Cleo Odell Kinchloe, the dead mans
wife, who is accused of his murder,
an opportunity to confer with her
lawyer.
Former Alexandria Corporation
Court Judge Robinson Moncure, ap-
pointed to represent Mrs. Kinchloe
by Police Court Judge Harry F. Ken
nedy, said he will interview the %
year-old mother later today and
then have a date set for the hearing
after conferring with Common
wealth's Attorney Albert v. Bryan.
Earlier today, 1t. Russell A. Hawes,
chief of the Alexandria Detective
Bureau, said Mrs. Kinchloe signed a
two-page statement in which, he
said, she admitted shooting her
sleeping husband in the head with a
shotgun because he had beaten her.
Common-Law Spouse Appears.
A number of the woman's friends
and neighbors appeared at court this
morning with offers to appear as
character witnesses for her or to
post bond when it is set Among
them was Jack E. Duveau, Al, 633 l
street NV, a bricklayer, who said
he was Mrs. Kinchloe's former COM
mon-law husband and father of her
two small children.
1t. Hawes said she told him her
husband, who was not regularly en-
ployed, was "one of the crueleSt'
men she knew, and started beating
her Saturday night and threw a
water glass which broke, cutting her
knee.
Earlier in the afternoon, she had
gone to the Alexandria police sta
ton and posted SIS to bail him out
following his arrest on charges of
disorderly conduct and drunken
ness.
Threatened to Cut Throat.
Lit. Halves said Kinchloe got home
about pm and went to bed about
$50, threatening to cut his throat
before going to sleep. Mrs. Kinchloe
took the knife away from him.
When he went to sleep, she loaded
q small gauge shotgun, placed the
muzzle within three inches of his
head, and fired it. 1t. HaWes eX-
planned. Then she hailed a passing
car on nearby No. l highway and
notified police.
Her two sons, Ronnie, 2. and
Jackie, 3, slept through the shoot
ing, police reported. They were re-
moved, without knowing what had
happened, by the Alexandria Board
of Public Welfare to a temporary
home with Mrs. Mildred Ingraham,
1900 Fourth street SW., Wash
ington.
A native of Mayfleld, KY. Mrs
Kinchloe lived for a time in De-
troit, her mothers home. She de-
pended for support mainly on Gov
ernment checks from her common
law husband, who left her when in
Quoted into the Army, according tc
1t. Hawes.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Two Persons Injured
In Fall From Train

L. E. F. Prince. 5439 Forty-second
place NV. and woman compan-
ion were slightly injured when they
slipped from the steps of a Chi
.Cago-bound Baltimore g. Ohio train
as it pulled out of the Silver Spring
Station yesterday.
The train was delayed about Is
minutes while the Silver Spring
Rescue Squad gave them first aid.
Firemen did not get the injured
woman's name. and Mr.. Prince
would describe her only as "a rela-
tive whom he was seeing off.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Arrested Mans Thumb
Torn Off in Cell Door

Police today were holding a 81
year-old man whose left thumb was
amputated yesterday after he in
jured it entering a cell at No. II
precinct.
The man, Lawrence E. Powell,
2349 High street Sc, charged with
intoxication, caught his thumb in
door while being led into cell
and, struggling to free himself, tore
off the end of his thumb, according
to police.
The mans thumb was amputated
at Challenger Hospital and he was
taken back to the precinct a short
time later.
Evening star., 1946-07-22
Miner. 86. Never Injured

DU QUOIN, Ill. (P.-Marion w.
Cox, 86, Illinois Oldest coal miner
before his retirement last year, not
only worked rs years without an in
jury, but, he claims, 1--WE never even
had a man working with me who
got hurt" Mr.. Cox has been given
the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Associ-
alton award.