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ADVERTISE in Tha Skyland Post, the only newspaper that is printed in Ashe county, and the newspaper with by far the best subscription list of any news- 1 paper circulated in the county. VOLUME V, NUMBER 39 President Roosevelt Restores Four and Half Million Dollars to Scenic Park-to-Park Road Congressman Doughton Personally Asks that Funds Be Restored for Great Work NOTHING FURTHER IN WAY Washington, Sept. 25. —Represent- ative Robert L. Doughton of Laurel Springs, chairman of the Governor’s State committee, to further construc tion' us the Appalachian scenic park way, announced after a conference with the President this afternoon that the Chief Executive had signed an order resoring four and a half mil lion dollars to the parkway fund, so that work might proceed. The ninth district congressman reached Washington and met Gover nor Ehringhaus, Caupus Waynick, chairman of th e State Highway com mission; Charles Ross, highway coun selor; and Construction Engineer C. *G. Browning of Raleigh by appoint ment, who had given the veteran con gressman the distress signal on in formation that the entire scenic high way project was blocked for lack of funds. This situation developed last win ter when action on the emergency re lief appropriation bill, from which additional funds were to have been allotted for the parkway, was delayed over the McCarran amendment de manding the prevailing wage on pub lic works. Money was diverted from the six million dollar parkway fund for general relief. Funds All Expended The sum that was four and a half million dollars. Now that contracts ar e being awarded on the $16,000,000 parkway that is to extend from the Shenandoah to the Smoky Mountain National parks, no funds were avail able as the million and a half dollars had been about all expended. With this situation before the Tar Heel highway commission, Mr. Doughton made an appointment by telephone from his home at Laurel fepringo the Pretsideni and to day laid the entire situation before him. “The President not only issued an order restoring the four and a half million dollars,” said Doughton, “but he also talked with enthusiasm of the project, saying h e was greatly in terested in seeing it completed in the quickest possible time. The result of th e action on the part of the four and a half million dollars has been re stored, and contracts may now be awarded for construction as rapidly as contracts can be let.” Dr. W. R. Graham Is Buried at Todd Dr. W. R. Graham, aged and re spected physician of the Todd com munity, died at his home there Mon day after having been in feeble health for several weeks. Dr. Graham was 81 year old. Funeral services were held Wednes day afternoon and interment was made in the family graveyard near the home by the side of the wife of the decased who was formerly a Miss Blackburn. Dr. Graham was a prominent mem ber of the Republican party in the county and had served as county chairman of the executive committee. He is survived by one son, W. R. Graham, of the U. S. Army, and one grandson. Paul Jones, who made his home with his grandfather. LOCAL TEACHERS TO GIVE ANNUAL DINNER OCT. 10 The members of th e West Jefferson High School faculty will giv e their annual dinner for the benefit of the school from six until eight on the evening of Thursday, October 10. The dinner will be given in the high school building and tickets will sell for twenty-five and fifty cents. All the patrons of the school are especially invited and are urged to bring their friends. The public is promised an excellent dinner and in vited to attend also. Many improvements have been made on, in, and about the school building, but many things are still weeded and it is for this reason the teachers hope to serve a record crowd. Oe Msl Wst Hood Urges G-Men Be Assigned Here Gurney P. Hood, State bank commissioner, telegraphed the Federal Deposit Insurance corp oration in Washington Tuesday asking that “G-men” be assigned immediately to aid local and State officers in trying to apprehend persons who broke into the Bank of Ellenboro early Tuesday and the Bank of Ashe at Jefferson a week ago. Mr. Hood said the 1935 bank ing law provided for assignment of “G-men” to run down persons who rob banks in the FI DC. PASSENGER AIRPLANE TO BE IN CITY THIS WEEK Ed Honroth, owner and chief pilot of a 2-passenger Waco plane, will be in the city Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the purpose of taking the public to ride. Mr. Honroth is from Northfield, Ohio, and is an expert pilot. He will have with him in the air, R. B. Jennings, who Js helping to sponsor the plane while here. Mr. Jennings has 15 flying hours to his credit. Th e ball diamond will be used as a landing field and passengers will be taken up on all thre e days with the exception of the hours during regular religious sevices on Sunday. There will also b e stunt flying each day. MRS. PLESS IN CHARGE OF WOMAN'S CLUB PROGRAMS Mrs. Baldwin Pless was elected to have charge of the programs for the first three months of th e Woman’s Club work that was begun at the first meeting of the club last Friday. The first part of the year will be taken up with a study of music and Mrs. „Pless, assisted by Mrs. T. C. Bowfc, "*vill be responsible for the series of programs. A report on the progress of the Ashe County Libary was given by Mrs. C. D. Neal, librarian and various plans for work were discussed. FEDERAL ADVISORY BOARD SAYS BUSINESS BEST SINCE YEAR 1929 Secretary of Labor Reports Decided Pick-up in Employment and Payrolls “The most optimistic summary of business conditions since the depres sion began” was presented by the Federal Advisory council, whose members represent the 12 Federal Reserve banks, at the quarterly meet ing of the Federal Reserve board. The reports brought to Washington about better business by the members of the council were enthusiastic, and rcounted increasing retail and farm land sales, increase in real estate ac tivity and home building, among oth er evidences of a mounting general demand for Reserve bank credit. Secretary Perkins on the same day reported a pick-up in employment and payrolls. She reported 180,000 workers added to the payrolls of manufacturing industries during Au gust, and increased payrolls of SB,- 900,000. Hovrever, in non-manufactur ing industries, s he reported an off set of 25,000 employes and $900,000 in wages. Th e Federal Reserve board, in its monthly summary of general busi ness and financial conditions, report ed a “more than seasonal increase” in steel output, factory employment and payrolls. The report also said that wholesale price of farm products and metals showed an advance during the month, but that th e output of automobiles and anthracite coal declined sharply. State Finances on Up-Grade According to a news release from Raleigh this week our state is also on the up-grade fiancially. North Carolina had nearly $20,000,000 in cash August 31, to be statistical, $19,615,061.01, of which $5,209,537.86 was in the general fund and there v. ill be more September 30, it seems. The growing surplus, a stranger at THUSDAY, OCT. 3, 1935, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. Mrs. Millard Jones Buried at New Hope Cook-Harless Quartette Sing; Mother of F. B. Jones, Merchant of West Jefferson Mrs. Millard Jones, of Lansing, died Tuesday after having been seri ously ill for several days. She was 74 years old. Funeral services were held at New Hope Baptist Church Wednesday morning with Reverends W. A. Gray beal, Zekiel Sexton, and W. T. Whit tington officiating. The Cook-Harless quartete were present and rendered a number of beautiful songs which were special favorites of the de ceased. Before he* marriage to Millard Jones, who preceded her in death by several years, Mrs. Jones was a Miss Stamper. She was a highly respected woman in her community and the mother of a large family of sons and daughters, prominent among them being Mr. F.. B. Jones, prominent business.man and merchant of this city. ALMOST PERFECT ■MFZWHH Private -1 First (lass) Remes de la Hunt, United States Marine corps, win ner of the Coast Guard Trophy match at the National rifle matches at Camp Perry. Ohio, with a score of 99 out of a possible 100. against 1,500 con testants. this time of the year generally, re flects the improving business, state officials say, and receipts month seem to lead disbursements easily. The s tate had $2,306,692.09 August 1, 1935. The receipts were $4,312,275.71 and the disbursements were $1,411,- 393.95. • These collections wiped out a cash overdraft of $2,310,497.25 and the thing that helped to do that was the receipt of $9,875,691.26 for the months July and August. The war rant disbursements for that period ■were $2,355,620.16. . LANSING TASTES DEFEAT AT HANDS OF SALTVILL TEAM The Lansing Bulldogs were defeat ed last Friday by the much more ex perienced Saltville football team 31-0, on the latter’s field. The eleven rep resenting Saltville was a powerful scoring machine. Thg Lansing team made only two scoring threats during the game, reaching th e twenty yard line on two occasions. The game was hard fought from start to JKnish, but the hard offensive drives of the Saltville team caried them on tQ H .victory. APPLICATIONS FOR DRIVERS’ LICENSES ARE POURING IN Appliations for the new North Car olina drivers’ licenses are pouring in to the state highway safety division at the revenue department at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 per day, and George G. Scott, director of accounts, estimated last week approximately 250,000 applications already have been received. Scott said 1,500,000 of the applica tion blanks have been distributed, and an oixler ha s been placed for printing 500,000 more, marking the second order of this size. The initial demand w?s for 1,000,000. Two Record Breakers of the Air 111 rl 1 SHiKI B Howard Hughes, left, young millionaire tilm producer and aviation enthusi ast, photographed Just before he set a new land plane speed record of 253 miles an hour His ship crashed but he was nnhurt. Maj. Alexander P. De Seversky, at right, war time pilot ami airplane designer, set a new mark at Detroit for amphibians, making 230.93 miles an hour. War Between Ethiopia and Italy Seems to Be Almost Certain and Unavoidable Lansing Coach Fears , Experienced Locals Real Rattle Exyerted on W. Jefferson Gridiron This Friday Afternoon; Conteai Worth Seeing ■ Lansinsr, Oct. I.—Coach R. Earl Hood told his Lansing Bulldogs today that they are in for the battle of their lives in their tusstle with the heavy, experienced West Jefferson team on Friday. After learning the score of last Friday’s game, in which W. Jefferson defeated the powerful Crossnore team, Coach Hood realizes that it w»U <toke all he to either beat ■West Jefferson or keep West Jeffer son from beating Lansing. His squad isn’t in good shape. He has four men who are on the injured list, due to the teyific pounding they received in the Saltville game last Friday. The four men, around whom his offensive drive is usually built, will be badly needed in Friday’s clash. Without marked improvement, none of the four will be able to start the game. Garnet Clark, “Dynamo” Barlow, and Captain Ramon Moore in the backfield, and “Hardrock” Webster in the line, are hurt. Clark, who is cap able of brilliancy any time, has a bad ly sprained right ankle that kills him when he uses it. So ther e is little chance of his getting in Friday’s game. Barlow is out for the season with a dislocated cartilege in the knee, while Moore is suffering from a broken nose which will not be well by Friday. Webster has some frac tured ribs. So there is plenty excuse for the sad expression which Lansonians see on the countenance of Coach Hood nowadays. He will consider himself very lucky to come out with a tie in Friday’s encounter with West Jeffer son. West Jefferson, Oct. 1. —A game which promises to be one of much interest and activity will take place on the West Jefferson field at 3:00 p. m. Friday, October 4th—the two participants being our home team and Lansing. West Jefferson is highly elated over its 6-0 victory over Cross nore—while Lansing has in mind its 32-0 defeat at the hands of Va. Both teams are in good shape, and the contest promises to be a lively affair. TO LET CONTRACTS FOR 2 MORE LINKS OF PARKWAY Capu s M. Waynick, chairman of the Highway and Public Works commis sion, said Sunday he was assured by Federal authorities in Washington this week that contracts would be let for construction of two more links of the National parkway by October 15. First dirt was moved in construc tion of the pai’kway on September 19 on a 12-mile stretch near Roaring Gap and deeds giving the Federal government rights-of-way for the project have been gent to Washington for other secions. League of Nations Works to Prevent Explosion That Is Expected Hourly Now Geneva, Sept. 27.—League dele gates heard tonight that Premier Benito Mussolini had announced: “It may cost me a crown, maybe a hundred thousand Italian lives, per haps my head —but Italy will proceed wit}, her plan regarding Ethiopia on the date we decided upon months ago.” French quarters revealed the al most overdramatic version of recent conversations at Rome between the dictator and French Ambassador Count Charles de Chambnn, who made an extremely discouraging ♦•e? pori to Pierre T aval. Most delegates were in-lined to ac '•ent th e account with agr :in of salt but its essential truth was gi’ en gen eral credence. The League of Nations proceeded with three-fold action in anticipation of war between Italy and Ethiopia. Delegates with litte hon c of sway ing Italy from the road to war, con centrated on preparaions for decisive action in the gravest crisis to world peace s ince 1914. Nation-Wide Racket Drive to Be Launched Soon by U. S. G-Men The dreaded threat of prosecution by “Mr. Whiskers” —underworld term for Uncle Sam—was hurled from Washington, Monday, at criminals who bludgeon interstate commerce into paying annual millions in tri bute. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau of investigation, announced that his “G-men” are making a na tionwide investigation of organized crime’s invasion into business. Field Pretty Wide Open “The field,” h e s aid, “is pretty wide open now, because kidnaping, extor tion, bank robbery and crimes of that type are pretty generally under con trol.” Joseph B. Keenan, assistant attor ney general in charge of crime cases, said the year-old federal racketeering law “is circumscribed by obvious sharp limits.” > He added, however, that it would permit the government’s crack man hunters to move against racketeers whenever their actions affected goods on business moving across state lines. Hoover’s announcement followed his return from what he termed a “bird dog” survey of conditions in New York, where a special investigation into widespread racketeering was or dered recently by Governor Lehman. Actions to Be Halted The “chief G-man” said the bu reau’s survey will be general, rather than localized, and will be directed primarily toward such lines of busi ness as jewelry, poultry and truck ing. Keenan said that racketeering un der the guise of labor unions is out side th e federal government power, and that strictly local rackets can not b e attacked by the “G-men.” SUBSCRIBE to The Skyland Pant* th® orty fcewmpor that 4b printed in Aaha county, and th. MWffaprf b by far the most popular and widely raui aay cireafated fa Mb. O'E DOLLAR A YEAR Bank Robbery at Ellenboro Duplicates One in Jefferson Insurance Companies Work on Bank of Ashe Robbery but Clues Are Meagre MARS HILL ROBBERS JAILED A bank robbery at Ellenboro, N. C., which took place Monday nightr— one week after the robbery at the Bank of Ashe—was an almost exact duplicate of that crime. The bank had just received a large sum of money that day, the robbers used an acety lene torcj, to into the vault, and they forced th e back door to gain entry to the building. Bank officials pointed out that if the robbery had occurred Saturday only a few hundred dollars would have been lost. Officers believe that J. O. Wright, who sleeps in a room over the bank, frightened the robbers away before they completed their job. A suitcase of tools, the acetylene torch and tank and a heavy piece of canvas were left behind in the bank. I Wright told officers that he was awakened about 8 o’clock by a noise and that he saw an automobile speed away from the bank toward Shelby. H e gave the alarm and shortly after wards the rear door of the bank was found open and the robbery discov ered. A dog which usually slept in front of a stor e adjoining the bank was found dead Tuesday morning. It had been chloroformed. Officers theorized that th© robbers became friendly with the dog Monday night, caught it and chloroformed the animat. Five men have been arrested and placed in jail in connection with the bank robbery at Mars Hill on Sept. 19, when the bank was held up in the middle of the day and the bandits ! sped away after seriously wounding j Dorothy Sanderlin, a student at Mars I Hill, who was. on the street at the itim e the robbery. I * ‘ln vest rations ar e being carried on by he ins n ance company as to the burglarly at th e Bank of Ashe, but so far, H tie has been learned and | clues are very meagre. James Pennington Dies at Age of 84 James P. Pennington, prominent citizen of the Bristol community, died at his home there Friday night, Sept. 27, alter having been very ill for some time. ■ Mr. Pennington is survived by his wife, Dora Mullis Pennington, and a number of. sons and daughters. He was married in 1877 to Julia Brown, deceased, to which union five children were born: Lettie, who died in in fancy; Charles H., of Hiawatha, W. Va.; Lula Pennington Wilcox, of Jeff erson; Maggie Pennington Barker, of West Jefferson. In 1898, he was mar ried to Dora Mullis. One child, Lucy Pennington Kelly, of Coalwood, W. Va., survives this manage. Mr. Pennington united with the Bristol Baptist Church in 1928 and remained a faithful and devoted member until death. GOVERNOR SETS OCTOBER 7-11 FOR FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Raleigh, Sept. 23. —Governor Eh ringhaus today proclaimed the week of October 7 to 11 as fire prevention week in North Carolina and urged that mayors of cities and towns also set aside the week by proclamation for the purpose of correcting fire hazards, promoting public and private fire protection and “arouse th e peo ple generally to the need for habits of greater care.” ASHE HAS FORTY STUDENTS ENROLLED AT A. S. T. COLLEGE Ashe county again leads all other counties in the state, excepting Wa tauga, in having the greatest number of students enrolled at A. S. T. C., at Boone. Out of the 858 students enrolled, Ash e has supplied forty. Watauga has 121. Twelve states outside of North Carolina are represented in the student body. Chicago defeated Detroit, 3-0, Wed nesday afternoon in the first game of the World Series which was opened in Detroit.
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