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Vol. 12. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 1939
JAPANESE POSTERS
DENOUNCE AMERICA
Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. I.—Jap
anese police maintained a strong
guard around the American em
bassy today after posters appear
' ed in Tokyo streets proclaiming
that the United States, together
with Great Britain and Soviet
Russia, is the “common enemy"
of Japan.
The police guard was provided
for the American embassy after
rumors that a demonstration might
be staged there against the Unit
ed States' abrogation of its 1911
commercial treaty with Japan, but
no hostile incidents occurred.
The posters in the streets, be-
J'evcd to have been by an
obscure ultra-nationalist political.
organization, said:
“Britain, America and Russia
are our common enemy."
The Osaka newspaper,
said in an 'article by its pofrttieal
r. commentator that if the United
denunciation of the Japa
-’’nese-AmerVan commercial treaty
- ffected Japanese citizens lesiding
in tb° United States then “tiie
United States will forfeit the loy
slty of more than 100,000 citizens
of Japanese parentage in Hawaii.
—Asheville Citizen.
BOY'S CLUB PLAY
BALL-THE-JACKS AT 6:30
The Boys' club will meet the
Ball-the-Jacks today for the sec
ond time in the League schedule.
The Ball-the-Jacks took the first
-am* A bit of good-natured rhr
ry makes this a promising scrap
See it! *
Brownlee Estate Is
Valued At $45,000
An inventory of the estate of
Mrs. Ethlyn Mi Brownlee of Try
on who died on June 21 at the
State hospital at Morganton, has
been made to the Clerk of Court,
Robert McFarland, at Columbus.
Stocks and bonds are listed to the
value of approximately $45,000.
The heirs are named as one son
and two daughters as follows:
Glendall Brownlee of Cincinnati,
Ohio; MVs. Elizabeth B. Smith of
Jamaica Plains, Mass.; and Miss
Winifred Bryning of Boston, Mass.
Wachovia Bank ft Trust Co., of
Asheville is the administrator of
the estate. Mrs. Brownlee wRs
the widow of the late Eugene
Brownlee, former owner of Oak
Hall hotel.
50c Down; 50c Weekly
Bays Lot Here
A Tryon business man who owns
a track of land within the town •<
limits has cut it up into lots of
good size and will offer them to
the public for about SIOO each
and make it possible for anyone
to own them by paying as little as
50c down and a minimum of 50c
a week until the full amount is
paid. The purchaser can make his
payments as large as he
and pay for the lot as soon as he
wishes. Tryon is growing, mid
workers are finding it difficult to
get homes and lots within their
budget.
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ins .U war debt resolariy.