North Carolina Newspapers

It *3 . is printed in Ashe county, and *be newspaper with by far the W subscription list of any »per eirefeiated in the county tfVOLUlii!*Vl, NUMBER 1 Doughton' s Committee Votes For Cash Payment Os Bonus 3,000,000 War Veterans Would Benefit; N. C. Would Get Liberal Share BILL CALLS FOR $1,000,000,000 Congressman R. L. Doughton’s Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously, Monday, to pay the 3,000,000 U. S. veterans of the World War their bonus in cash, "The bill will have a speedy hearing be fore both houses of Congress. Only minor changes were made in the measure, which would: Give former soldiers full matur ity value of their adjusted compen sation certificates. Allow those so desiring to hold their certificates and cancel unpaid * Set up no definite method of rais ing the money for payment, esti aurted by supporters of the bill at M,000,000,000 immediately upon en air.tiiieiit . •: •?. County Fathers Insure Courthouse And County Home First Monday In 1936 Exceptionally Quiet In Jefferson; Weather Cold and Rainy The Ashe County Board of Com missioners held their regular meet ing Monday begun the new year by taking out insurance on the county home and the surrounding buildings and the courthouse. ® A resolution was passed confirm tog the law regarding the salary of the sheriff which was passed during the last legislature. The county also sold 15 acres qf land from the MHy W Taylor. The day was very quiet with few out. The weather was cold rainy apd the roads were cov ered with sleet. Save The Children Fund Committee To Meet Friday A Save the Children organization is being sponsored in the county by the efforts of Rev. and Mrs. F. P. Cook, of Lansing, who have been working with the fund for some time within their district. Now that the organization is to be county wide and non-denominational, a committee of outstanding men and women in each community is being named and the committee will hold it first meeting at the school build tog in Jefferson Friday afternoon at three-thirty o’clock. William Hedrick, formerly direc tor of welfare in Tennessee and pow field administrator of the Save the Children Fund of America has been asked to be present* and ex plain the purpose of the work. Jordan Hodgson Buried On Buffalo Jordan Hodgson, who had been very ill for some time, died at his home in the Fig community, Sun day afternoon, and was buried at Buffalo Tuesday morning with Rev. T. A. Farmer, officiating. Mr. Hodg son was 87 years old. The deceased is survived by his wife, Mary Hodgson, and the fol lowing children: Bert, of Meat Camp in Watauga county; • Tom, who lives in Oregon; Piper, who is in the Veterans Hospital in Johnson City, Tenn-; and Mrs. Bessie Gray beal, of Fig. J?HA Man To Be In J ; County January 14 J. W. Bolich, of the Federal Administration, will be at Vhe Parker Tie Company on Tues ■bay, Jan. 14, for the purpose of ftfari losing any problems the public is interested in concerning federal housing loans. Oe Milton ii I’M SI.OO A Year In Ashe Couni LATE NEWS I BULLETINS I ••7? ' .. •SOLICITOR /FROM THIS f DISTRICT ENTERS RACE > .REIDSVDLLJE, JAN. 3.—Al£n . .Hatchell Gwyn, solicitor of tms . judicial district, announced tod|y that he'will be a candidate in the June, primaries for.. Congress this, the fifth district, to succeed -Frank W. Hancock, in cumbent. 4 This announcement comes some what as. a surprise inasmuch as it had been reported that Solicitor Gwyn would not “throw his hat ... info the ring” unless Congrem- ■ inan Hancock contested with : Josiah W. Bailey for .the senator ial honor. i Solicitor Gwyn,though a young Jinan, has been in the. public eye for . several years, having served as solicitor of the county couj£, and other public offices of trust. He has strong; following in Rocto ingham and Caswell, his county, as Well as other£eounti<p throughout this district. He is a tireless worker. and a fluent orator. •••.'■ LAST OF'TOUGHY GANG ARRESTED The law claimed a victory in a race with death in Chicago, oif Jan. 2, with the capture of Tomi j my Touhy, last of the “Terrible Touhy” gang, reportedly doomed by an incurable disease. Palised by his ailment—vari ously reported ml JnhnrcutMris and cancer—Touhy tremblingly obeyed when the officers awak ened him with the command: “Come out with your hands up.” He did not even raise his hand toward the pistol he had near. For 30 months Touhy had been sought. Among the many crimes in which authorities suspected him of complicity was the $105,- 000 mail robbery at Charlotte, N. C„ in 1933. LINDBERGHS WILL RETURN TO U. S. A spokesman for the Morgan family in Wales, British Isles, re lated by marriage to. the Charles A. Lindberghs, said Saturday the flier expects to return to the United States with his family within about three months. “There is no question of them remaining after the Hauptmann . ease is disposed of and the pub licity dies down,” the spokesman • asserted. It was learned that a Welsh girl has been engaged as a nurse for three-year-old Jon, only child of the famous couple, during their stay in Wales. LIGHTNING TEARS OFF CHILD’S SHOE ■ ANDERSON, fe. C., Jan.6.—The shoe on the right foot of an eight year-old girl. was torn off by * lightning at a country house near ' here during, a rainstorm today, rendering the child unconscious for five minutes and leaving a slight injury resembling a scald. OFFICIALS ON TRAIL OF SAVAGE KILLER An intensive hunt for an un named chiropractor was pressed in Chicago this week by police seeking solution of the savage killing of Dr. Silber C. Peacock, 40, brilliant young child special ist The killer who lured Peacock from his home Thursday night on the pretext he was wanted to treat a sick child did not rest when he had shot him fatally through the forehead,but evident ly had attempted to scalp the vic tim, also. Nine knife wounds completely encircling the head were found. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1336, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. Tobacco Growers To Sign New Contract For 1936 Program County Chairman J. R. Phipps To Meet Farmers At Court house Jan. 13-18 All burley tobacco growers who have signed tobacco contracts prior to this date will have to re-sign if their contracts are continued. The blanks are now in the hands of J. R. Phipps who is chairman of the County Control! Committee and as soon as they can be prepared will be ready for signing. All growers who have not previ ously signed a contract are request ed to present their bills or sales slips to the county chairman so that an allotment can be worked out for each farmer in the county who is eligible to be placed under contract. This should be done whether the operator desires to sign a contract or not. * M". Phipps will be at the court house in Jefferson Monday, Wed nesday and Saturday, Jan. 13th., 15th, and 18th. from ten o’clock un til two o’clock. He urgently re quests any and all growers who wish to sign the new 1936-1939 con tract to meet at the time and .place above mentioned. City Aidermen To Decide On Sunday Movies This Month The aidermen of this city have promised to hand down a decision during, this month on Sunday pic ture shows, a question on which the public was asked to vote during the month of December. J. L. Farnsworth, owner of the Jeffersonian Theatre, appeared be fore the aidermen at their meeting of last week and laid his side of the matter before them, giving them at the same time the figures of the recent voting. Mrs. Vance Miller Buried Thursday On Christmas Eve night Mrs. Vance Miller, of Apple Grove, suc cumbed to a lingering case of tuber culosis. She had been sick for a number of months—a part of the time being spent in a hospital. On Thursday the funeral service was conducted in the Gillespie Presby terian Church, of which she was a charter member, by her pastor, Rev. R. H. Stone, and Rev. G. O. Miller. Interment was in a ceme tery overlooking the valley of Little Horse Creek. Before her marriage, Mrs. Miller was Miss Flossie Roten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Roten, of the Rich Hill section. Mrs. Miller was thirty-six years of age. She is sur vived by her parents, three sisters, one brother, her husband—the post master at Apple Grove, and two children—Helen and James Miller. She is a neice of Dr. U. G. Jones, of Johnson City, Tenn. Fine tributes of her sterling qualities and fine Christian charac ter were made at the funeral ser vice. Until her declining health for bade it she was a Sunday School teacher. She was one of the most beloved women in that section of the county. Despite the snow and bitter cold a good congregation at tended the service. Alec Miller Buried On Meadow Creek Alec Miller, aged 86, was buried on Meadow Creek Thursday with Reverends H. M. Winkler and Joe Green officiating. Mr. Miller had been ill for about six years. He is survived by the fol lowing children: Riley, of Toliver; Tom, of Meadow Creek; Mrs. Ruth Greer and Mrs. Walter Parsons, of Meadow Creek, and one other daughter whose name wasn’t learned. Americans Greeted by Tibet Lamas W" ft?---a A mI mb i| qMlm tRWw ■ma**;si&• *The priests of. the great shrine lashl-Lhuapo, dressed In their ceremonial ▼eMraen'ts and wearing long cone-shaped hats, waiting to receive Suydam Cfl|ting and Atthtir S. Vernay, who after five years of negotiations were per mitted to enter Lhasa, the holy city of Tibet. They were collecting anthropo loglcal material for the American Museum and botanical specimens. for the New York Botanical Gardens and the British Museum. Supreme Court Holds AAA Unconstitutional IN MAYOR’S CABINET / jls ■ To Miss Georgina Pope Yeatman socially prominent aviatrix, goes the honor of being the first woman to be come a member of a Philadelphia mayor’s cabinet Her appointment as director of city architecture at SB,OOO a year was announced by Mayor-Elect S. Davis Wilson as fulfillment of bls pledge to have at least one woman serve on bis cabinet. Miss Yeatman is a registered architect Ragan And Nye. Prepare For Foreign Service As Marines Savannah Offices Os U. S. Marines Reports 20 Vacancies For Month Os January Kemp B. Nye, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fernando C. Nye, of Grassy Creek, and Vernon S. Ragan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Ragan, of Todd, who were accepted for enlistment in the U. S. Marine Corps in Octo ber, 1935, have completed the basic training course at Parris Island, S. C., and have been transferred to the Marine Barracks, Naval Operat ing Base, Norfolk, Va., for futher transfer to the Asiatic Station, for duty, it is announced by Major C. E. Nutting, Officer in Charge of Marine Corps recruiting activities in this territory with offices in the Post Office Building, Savannah, Ga. , Foreign service is a popular choice as it offers a varied life full of new experiences. Marines are serving on the Asiatic Station in Guam, the Philippines, with the Fourth Regiment at Shanghai, China, at the American Embassy, Peiping, and on the ships of the Asiatic Fleet. It is their duty to protect American lives and proper ty when conditions threaten in the Far East. It is important and exact ting duty and only the best men are selected for this assignment. Privates Nye and Ragain left for their new station on December 28. The Savannah office has twenty vacancies for the month of January, Major Nutting stated. Applications will be mailed to high school grad uates upon request. $1.25* A Year Out Os County Administration Will Hunt For Substitute; State To Feel Effects Os Dicision PROCESS TAX IS STOPPED The Supreme Court smashed the Roosevelt farm-aid program Mon day with an uncompromising opin ion throwing other major New Deal laws into question. Administration leaders, stunned by the 6 to 3 decision, with held im mediate comment. President Roose velt called major advisors into a hurried White House conference. Justice Roberts read the views of the court majority killing the entire agricultural ■ adjustment act as invalidating the “reserving rights of States” and “beyond the powers delegated to the Federal govern ment.” Under AAA, $1,127,000,000 has been paid farmers since 1933 for reducing crops under a national plan intended to raise farm income. In a vehement dissent, Justices Brandeis, Stone, and Cardozo as serted that “courts are riot the only agency of government that must be assumed to have the capacity to govern.” No State will feel more seriously than North Carolina the effects of the decision. This is because bene fits paid to farmers in the State since the AAA began to function in May, 1933, have amounted to sl,- 250,000 a month, and on the other hand textile and tobacco factories have paid into the Federal coffers far in excess of this amount. For example, from January 1, to No vember 30, of last year, farmers were paid a total of $13,937,260, while textile mills, tobacco factories and other mills and factories have paid into the treasqry in this period $22,910,784, which, went to adminis trative purposes end payments to farmers. Cotton farmers alone, from January 1, to December 1, were paid $4,285,538, while textile mills paid processing taxes in the sum of $10,580,256 under the AAA. With the possibilities of the thou sands of suits to recover processing taxes provided the processor can establish that the tax was passed onto the consumer in prospect, Tar Heel members realized the grave import of the decision of the court, which is taken as wiping out every phase of the AAA. The treasury ■ announced the blanket suspension of all collections of taxes and payments under the AAA. After a three hour discussion with counsel, the department issued the following statement: “No further steps will be taken for the collection of processing taxes, new or old; “For the present no checks will be issued for benefit or rental pay ments, or refunds, or for adminis trative purposes.” SUBSCRIBE to The Skyland Post, the only newspaper that is printed in Ashe county, and the newspaper that is by far the most popular and widely read of any circulated in Ashe PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT FOR 500 ASHE ROAD JOBS Major Fletcher Confers With Hash - In Jefferson As To Parkway • Employment Problem At present prospects are bright for employing from five to six hun dred men from the county on vari ous links of the parkway. Major Arthur ’ Fletcher, state head of the employment office, and Mr. Dodge, former member of the State Highway’ Commission, were in Jefferson last week conferring with J. B. Hash, of the district em plpyment pffi.ee. Efforts are being made to work out a satisfactory ad justment' of- hour and wage sched ule between* she contractors and the employment offices. The contractors, it is understood, want two five-hour shifts. This' at the rate of 30 cents .an. hour would be only one dollar and a half per day for the workers. That price is satisfactory unless the worker lives several miles from the job. that.'.event, the hours would not be • long enough to hardly pay for the trip to and fro. A clause in the road * contract reads that the meh needed *fdr Week must appear within 48 hours or the contractor may hire whomsoever he pleases. Due to the time -it takes to notify some of the'men who need work mostp4B hours does not seem a long enough time to do so in this county of poor country roads and no tele phones. These are some of the problems that Major Fletcher and Mr. Hash are planning to smoothe out for the interests of the men in the county who need employment. Rufus M. Richardson Buried At Cranberry I*adl3g Citizen In CbAnmit) Os Furches Stricken With Stroke Os Paralysis Last Week Rufus Mitchell Richardson, aged 74, died at his home near Furches Thursday, Jan. 2, after having been ill only a few days. He suffered from a stroke of paralysis. Funeral services were held Monday at Cranberry church and interment followed in the Cranberry ceme tery. Elders Kilby and Williams were in charge of the services. Mr. Richardson was a leading citizen in his community and was the father of a large family who have made good and useful citizens in their respective sections. Mr. Richardson was a son of the late Canady and Sara Cox Richardson. He was married to Amanda Jones in his early manhood. She was the mother of his children. She died several, years ago. He was then married to Millie Miller Cox, who survives him. The following chil dren also surivive: Fred Richard son, Carrie Jones, Ida Shepherd, and Linda and. Izetta, who married in western : states. Mrs. George Woodie and Mrs. Paul Taylor, daughters, preceded him in death. One sister, Mrs. . Jennie Warden, survives. • fc *' Frank Porter Raises Record Tobacco Crop Frank Porter, of the Helton com munity, has raised a record crop of tobacco, according to a statement given a news reporter on the first Monday. Mr. Porter says that he raised 1,044 pounds of tobacco on one-half acre of land. He sent a sample of the soil to a government experi mental station and had it analyized for the proper kind and amount of fertilizer to use. He states that he used about 500 pounds of fertilizer, Mrs. Quincy Baker Heads ERE Schools Mrs. Quincy Baker, of Warrens ville, who has recently been ap pointed to head the ERE schools in the county, began work last week and around fifteen schools were started. Mrs. Baker assumes the work that was carried on last year by Mrs. J. Clyde Kelly.