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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
JAIL GUARDED
AS LYNCHINC
PROBE OPENS
Third Negro in Alabama
Case Found Wounded;
Will Testify

TUSCALOOSA. Ala. Aug. Is.
(UP).-A national guard COM
pany surrounded the Jail here to-
day to protect a negro victim of
bungled lynching.
Elmorc Clark, the third negro
taken Sunday from a sheritf's au-
tomobile was found wounded in a
shanty near here last night and
returned to jail. A special grand
jury assembled today to investi-
gate the lynchings. Clark was to
testify.
Promising speedy. sincere
and thorough investigation, Cir
cult Judge Henry B. Foster sum-
moncd the special session of the
grand jury to start its probe to-
day into Alabama's first serious
racial disturbance in three years.
Attorney General Thomas F..
Knight. Jr., announced from
Montgomery late yesterday that
he would come here today to pros
ccutc the investigation. His pres
cnce had been requested by local
authorities. 81 intend to Sift this
daplorable matter to the bottom"
Knight said.
Judge Foster, 70-year-Old white
haired veteran jurist and Baptist
deacon. answered charges of the
International Labor Defense that
he and Cheriff Fayettc Shambln
were to blame for the lynchng
with the allegation that activities
of the LID. were responsible for
exciting the mob spirit.
The quiet-voiccd judge said d
determined feeling to keep this
from being another Scottshoro
case" had been aroused among
some citizens by efforts of the
LID. to place its attorneys on
the negroes defense counsel.
National guardsmen were need
ed to protect three LID. attor-
neys barred from the defense III
a recent hearing here from a mob
which made no attempt at the
time on the lives of the negroes.
Judge Foster believed Sundays
violence was indicated by an
nouncement that the LID. would
send attorneys here again for the
trial set for August 22nd. The
Judge said he and the sheriff hal
done all in their power to protect
the prisoners.
The three negroes charged with
brutally Staying 1S-year-old Miss
Vaudine Maddox on May 81 were
snatchcd from a sherilf's automc-
bile while it was en- route with
them TO Birmingham for safekeep-
ing. Two carloads Of armed and
masked men seized the prisoners:
Several hours later bodies OF
two of the negroes, Dan Pippen,
Jr., 10. and A. 7. Hardin, 16,
were found beside a highway.
They had been shot to death.
There was no further evidence
of a mob spirit in Tuscaloosa.
Sundays lynchings constituted
the first serious racial disorder IN
Alabama since the incident of the
"blue-eyed negroes" at Emelle on
Independence Day, 1880. Two
white men and four negroes were
killed in that outbreak which be-
gan with the Staying of a white
merchant by a prosperous negro
in an argument over small bill.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
BOOK EXCHANGE
ASKS DONATIONS

The Henderson county book ex-
change is asking for donations OF
pencils, tablets, crayons and blunt
pointed scissors. or for books that
might be used in school library
Fiction, travel books, biogra-
ply. or text books will also be
helpful if left at the exchange,
which is located in the building
formerly occupied by the Bright
waters Farm Supply Co.
The exchange is also handling
potatoes, apples and handicraft
articles which are being sold to
help some of the county school
children pay for their school
books.
The exchange will be open on
Tuesday and Thursday mornings
and all day Saturday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15

While the judge and jury look
ed on, Chief of Police Otis Powers
played a slot machine in the court
room yesterday afternoon.
The machines were introduced
in the trial of three negroes, Hu,
lett Young. Walter Green and
George Byrd yesterday on charges
of operating slot machines. when
defense counsel objected to testl-
mony as to the operation of the
machines, Judge J. Foy Justice
ordered the machines brought into
court and Chief Powers played
one of the machines in order that
the jury might see it in operation
The three negroes were con-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
POLICE CHIEF PLAYS SLOT
MACHINE AS JUDGE AND JURY
LOOK ON; THREE CONVICTED

victed by the jury after 10 min
utes deiberation. and sentence
was to be passed by the court to-
day.
Trial of three defendants on
charges of operating slot machines
and maintaining public nuisance
in connection with the operation
of the Red Frog, a resort on the
Asheville highway, was started in
the county recorders court this
morning.
The court spent several hours
in an attempt to select a jury to
hear the case, and when the noon
recess was taken only two jury
men had been passed by the state
and defense counsel,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
1874 MINERS
MUTINY IN
! TENNESSEE,

PETROS, Tenn. Aug. 10
CUP).-The states attempt to
starve out miners was having the
desired effect. Fifteen had left
the mine before noon.
PETROS, Tenn. Aug. 10
(UP).-Extra guards were rushed
today to Brushy Mountain prison
where 1874 prisoners had mutinicd
against prison authorities. The
convicts refused to leave a coal
mine where they worked yester-
dav in protest against tactics Of
guards.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
Police Break up
Tampa Uprising

TAMPA. Aug. 15-(UP)-Po-
lice speedily broke up a commun-
ist demonstration during which
circulars branding the NRA pro
gram failure were distributed
here yesterday.
Several demonstrators were
taken to the police station and
later released.
Leaders of 5000 striking cigar
makers disclaimed any connection
with the demonstration and said
no strikers took part in it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
SUPT. WATERS DUE
HOME THURSDAY

Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Waters and
son, Frederick, will arrive home
Wednesday evening or Thursday
morning from Russiaville. lnd'
where they spent a months vaca-
ton with relatives. Plans for the
opening of the city schools on
September 7 will be made upon
Supt. Waters return,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
JUDGE RUSSELL OF
GEORGIA IS VISITOR

Chief Justice Richard B. Rus
sell of the Georgia supreme court,
whose home is in Windet, Ga,
accompanied by his son, the Rev.
H. E. Russell, of McDonough,
Ca. were visitors to Henderson
vile yesterday and today. They
were the. guests of Mr.. Brumby
in Flat Rock while here. y
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
WILKIE.HUNTLEY
REUNION SEPT. II

Announcement was made yes
terday of two family reunion,
that of the Wilkie and Huntley
connections, to be held on the
third Sunday in September, fall
ing on the 18th, at the Oak Grove
Baptist church at Rutherfordton.
This event was enormously an
nounced yesterday as the Wilkie-
Hamilton reunion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
Strikers in Cigar
Plants Consider
NRA Settlement

TAMPA, Fla, July 15.-(UP).
Ten thousand striking cigar plant
employees were to meet today to
discuss the cigar code adopted in
Washington yesterday. All plants
here adopted the code providing
a wage scale of 80 cents hourly
and strikers will decide whether
to take the code as basis for a
strike settlement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
Britain to Build
100 New Planes If
Conference Fails

LONDON. Aug. 15.-(UP).-
Great Britain will build 100 fight
ing planes, the fastest and most
efficient in the world, and a new
force of seaplanes if the disarma-
ment conference fails. The Daily
Herald said today. The planes
will cost two and a quarter MIL
lion dollars.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
May Put Capone
On Trial Again

WASHINGTON. Aug. Is CUP
States Attorney Courtney today
asked the department of justice
to allow AL Capone to leave the
Atlanta pentitentiary and stand
trial on Chicago racketeering
charges. The department of JUS
tice will consider the matter to-
morrow when Attorney General
Cummings returns from a vaca-
ton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15

ON HOGS
MAY Be NEXT
.,Dvhile Gen. Johnson
Goes 10 Bat With
Steel Industry
mon ISSUE IS
STUMBLING BLOCK

81 lSHNGTON, Aug. Is. (UP).
I,sssing tax on hogs may be
4 d October l to provide
H. for adjustment of the ad-
| sration5 emergency hog
1 nrtion program, Secretary Of
k.cul;ure Wallace said today,
\ aSHINGTON, Aug. Is. (UP).
.rs-aI Hugh S. Johnson, blunt
s;ep national recovery admin
k,,or. went to bat with leaders
.5e steel industry today on
H. disputes which have block
i APPLICATION of the NRA pro-
H. to important sections of
ksrcan business.
Amed with fresh instructions
H. President Roosevelt, john
scheduled a conference with
kds of the two largest steel
k,psnieS - President w. A.
H. Of the United States Steel
.,,r,-ion and President Eu-
T. G. Grace of the Bethlehem
III company.
Ebe foremost issue was wheth-
4 steel and allied industries
&ied by some of the country's
powerful financial inter-
would permit their employees
Join unions other than those
knsored by the employers.
bring hearings on its proposed
He. the steel industry withdrew
Specific provision for mainten-
Ice Of company unions" But
4 the same time it served notice
ht i, intended to resist efforts
organized labor to extend
bde unions in that field under
protection guaranteed by the
|cOvery act.
In addition to the problem
sa,ei by this defiance, john
\ VAS understood to be not en-
feIy satisfied with the Sched-
B Of hours and wages propOs-
in the steel code.
|Ths administrators conference
&ay promised TO have an i'm
fal, bearing on the bitumin-
! coal code deadlock. There
a close alliance between the
J. industry and major non
'FH coal companies which re-
b to accept a proposed code
Uniting unionization of their
pes The U. S: Steel corpora
owns the H. C. Frick Coke
|hpany, where the Pennsylvania
strike began and where new
3pu.es now are threatening.
Possibilities that Johnson might
swinging around in favor OF
Pc form of price fixing was IN
fa,ei when the administrator
T.
/ p can see where in some cases
Enlistment of a minimum price
Fl, be- considered essential to
p dangerous price cutting.
fTerer. as 7 have said before
4 repeat il. any such proposal
PEI does not have as its basis
\ control of production is an
fHomir monstrosity and | re-
E to have anything to do with
President Roosevelt approved
fnanent codes for the corset
z oraSsiere and lace manufac-
fng Industries. They become
galiy effective on August %.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
July Consumption
OF Cotton Placed
AT 6OO,l43 Bales

WASHINGTON. Aug. II CUP
The census bureau reported July
cotton consumption at 600, l43
bales as compared to 696,472 IN
June and 278,56S in July of last
year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
WEATHER

p.,,Jv cloudy tonight; local
.b9~ers Wednesday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-15
GOOD AFTERNOON

With many savings banks Offer
ing only 3 per cent, many men
may be tempted to put their
money in 81.
Evening star., 1933-08-09
The Newspaper Code.

Since the announcement that the
newspapers of this country were to be
included in the scope Of the national
recovery act, The Star has been walt
ing for the submission of code gov
erning hours of employment and mini
mum rates of pay in the newspaper
industry. That code has now been sub
mitted and is under consideration for
approval. The Star has been prepared
to come under the act and the provl-
sions of the code as soon as 1t was
filed. and enters wholeheartedly into
the spirit of the national recovery act.
It will reorgar.ze these branches OF Its
force of workers which are included in
the code. revising the pay and working
hours of those affected as of August IA.
Evening star., 1933-08-09
Slogans and Realities.

In a letter to the President suggest
Ing the slogan, "Only One Job for
Every Person." Representative Coch-
ran of Missouri says the chief offender
in permitting persons to hold two jobs
is the Federal Government itself. He
develops this thought as follows:
Stenographers and clerks are known
to Immediately report in lunch rooms
where they are employed during the
supper hours, while messengers and
porters In the employ of the Govern
ment have positions running elevators
and doing other work around apart
ment houses and hotels.
The Civil Service Commission scme
time ago sent a notice to employees in
Government service containing the i'm
piled warning that it would be advisable
to get along with one job.
That might be advisable. But there
are two clements that must be consid-
cred in that connection. One is the
impossibility. for some of them, o1
living on their Government pay ant
supporting their dependents at ths SAINT
TINA y can be taken for granite p thai
Evening star., 1933-08-09

he was much beloved" that he Is re-
membered. Rather, 1t is because of the
great book which he brought out in
| 1853 that his name is immortal. Super
ficially, the work is a treatise on the
technique of fishing, closely adhering
to its title. 1.-The Comp,eat Angler"
But actually it is much more than that.
| The style is SO quaint, SO intriguing, so
winning that the reader sees through
the pages the portrait of the writer,
recognizing him to be richly notable
spirit, gentle and kindly, a humane
philosopher. The times in which he
lived were not serene On the contrary,
they were exuberantly turbulent 1t is
the placidity of Walton himself that so
strikingly engages the affection of his
public. The poise of his temperament,
the charity of his mind the warmth of
his heart would be novel in any era !;
{ they we're unique in the seventeenth
century. In no other literary enter
prise of that epoch does genius so
| definitely triumph over turmoil. That
is why the author is counted among
, the spiritual conquerors. Only an in
; dividual of essential worth of charac-
ter could so rise above his environ
ment.
Walton wrote other books. among the
number the standard biography of
Donne, similar monument to George
Herbert and lives of Sir Henry Wotton
Richard Hooker and other comrades,
and he thus achieved for himself a
permanent place among the founders
of that department of English letters
But it is for his Angler" that the
modern piscatorial cult does him
homage. He did not claim to be an
expert with the rod and line An
amateur classification. he felt. was cor
rect for his talents. and it was for
amateurs that he wrote. 1t is a curious
circumstance that no professional ever
has been able to excel him. Perhaps
that is a manifestation of divine justice
In any event, it is a partial explanation
of the fame which the book enjoys.
1t was granted Saint IZaak" to attain
a ninetieth birthday He died at Win
chester, December Is, 1858. and lies at
rest in the glorious cathedral of that
town. The final philanthropy of his
career was that of bequeathing his
property at Shalford to the poor of the
community.
The years do not dim his figure. Full
many are his disciples. The Waltonians
in the United States are estimated at
from ten to fifteen million. Going forth
of a morning in pursuit of flnny prey,
they think of him gratefully.
Evening star., 1933-08-09

the "stenographers and clerks" who rush
from their Offices to some lunch room,
to serve more fortunate persons or to
wash dishes. would rather do something
else. But they are faced with some OF
the hare realities of life. such as rent
paying. food buying. doctor paying and
the purchase of shoes that are some
times forgotten by the makers OF popular
slogans. More than half the Govern
ment personnel receives less than 81 ZOO
a year and the ma jority of these re-
ceive less than ST 500 year. Supporting
a family of four on ST 500 year job,
minus pay cuts. furloughs and retire
ment allotments, is no sinecure. The
efforts that some Government workers
make to do it, by Shaving after work, are
worthy of praise. rather than the con-
demnation of those fortunate individuals
who are not forced to do it.
The second consideration is that be-
fore ST 200 clerks and stenographers are
forbidden to earn extra cash by working
in restaurants, running elevators or
tending furnaces, their well-paid supe-
riors, who receive fat checks for weekly
radio talks, magazine and newspaper
articles, and who spend part of the time
lecturing before their college classes
and part of their time in Washington
Offices. must be forbidden thus to double
in brass.
When that is done, then some ar
rangement might be discussed by which
the lower paid Government workers will
be enabled to live on their Government
pay.
Evening star., 1933-08-09
Outside the Civil Service.

Under the last four Attorney Generals
and Edgar Hoover, Director OF the Bu-
reau of Investigation, this bureau has
achieved reputation for efficiency ana
discipline without benefit of civil serv-
ice or merit system selection. There
are some who will argue that the re-
uuirements for positions in this bureau
are far more strict than those imposed
under the merit system, and that the
process of selection of personnel is more
exacting than under the merit system.
1t is also argued that discipline is better
maintained when the director is not
hamperad by civil service rules, thus
making it possible to discharge or sus-
pend the faltering or unfit at the will
of the director.
All this NAV be true, and the same
arguments might be mentioned in con-
nection with almost any Government
agency. But it is also true that the
maintenance of high standards, etc,
outside the civil service depends almost
entirely on the character Of the indl-
vidual in charge. The merit system
came into being with the realization
that individuals in executive positions
vary with the changing tides Of poll
tics. The Bureau of Investigation was
not always the efficient and nom
political organization that it is today.
Tomorrow, with a change CT director
ship, it might become political loot
ball and its ranks might be filled by
every Tom, Dick and Harry who had
the pull to be appointed.
Many of the scandals involving pro-
hibition agents resulted from the fact
that they were selected by patronage
instead of by merit. When they were
placed under civil service requirements
about half of them were unable to pass
the examinations Placing them under
civil service was hailed at the time as
one of the ma jor reforms in connection
with prohibition enforcement and the
Strengthening of the merit system.
Tomorrow the Bureau of Investiga-
ton becomes the Division of Investiga-
ton and it absorbs about twelve hum
dred members of the defunct Bureau
of Prohibition. In the process of abb
sorption, all of the prohibition agents
and members of the former bureau lose
their civil service status. The new
Division of Investigation becomes about
twice as large as it was before, and its
members will be outside the civil service.
to be appointed and discharged at the
will of the officials in charge.
1t is to pe hoped of course. that the
new and greatly enlarged Division Of
Investigation will not become patron
age dumping ground and that its ef-
ficiency will remain unimpaired. If It
can weather the certain storms ahead
It will be through the labor of few
individuals strong enough to resist po-
litical pressure The protective and
safeguarding merit system is out Of the
picture.
Evening star., 1933-08-09
Walton's Day.

This is Izaak Walton's day. and all
good fishermen salute his memory. He
was born at Stafford, August 9, 1898,
a small matter of three hundred and
forty years ago. OF his childhood and
youth there is scant surviving record,
but between 1914 and 1914 he Is known
to have been an ironmonger in London,
with tiny shop in Fleet street, to the
west OF Chancery lane. His friends
during that period included the cele-
brated DR.. John Donne, metaphysician,
teacher and poet; and he married Anne
Ken. sister of Bishop Thomas Ken,
nonjuror and author of the famous
Morning and Evening Hymns" still
universally popular. One of his daugh-
ters married a prebendary of Win
chester.
But it is not for his social status nor
fcr the eminent pesssnases "of whom,
Evening star., 1933-08-09
Increase in Federal Trade
Stirs Debate as to Polici>

which suggests that the chief matter
interest in the report is the novelty {.
import balances. of which this country
mas seen but few" That paper con-
cludes: 'On the face of the figures of
values as given, it does not seem as
though currency depreciation has been
a great Stimulant to our export trade.
Perhaps it has not had time to effect a
great change, but as to a month in
which imports show quite an appreci-
able increase in value. one might ask if
the United States is a better market
IN which to sell than it is to buv 1t
is true that since the first of May there
mas been marked increase in the VOL
ume OF cotton exports. and at higher
prices in American currency. This in
crease would more than account for the
gam in total of exports over those of
June, 1882. and still leave unanswered
the question as to whether currency
depreciation, accompanied by a price
rise here, will stimulate our export
trade. Then there is the question of
an increase in imports. Theoretically.
they should have been less But instead
OF that they were sl5.0OO.O0O larger
than in May and $40 900 900 larger than
IN June, 1882. How is it that facts can
run SO contrary to theory? The only
explanation that will explain is that
consumers were in need of certain raw
materials and found it profitable to i'm
port them
The tendency for the currency change
to increase exports and diminish i'm
ports is recognized by the Cincinnati
llmeS-Star. with the explanation as to
other factors: While the dollar was de-
Ginning on foreign exchange. prices we're
rising IN the United States. Many raw
material prices scared above the amount
or currency depreciation, carving I'D
Win them the production costs of goods
INTENDED for export. At the same time
world rise in raw material prices was
III process, which further SWelled the
dollar value of such raw materials as
had to be imported. In addition to
these forces working against the sup
posedly benefited exporter must be con-
sldered an increase in labor costs bound
to follow the operation of the national
recovery act. Producers for the dornes-
tic market may be amply protected by
agreements. but the exporter must com
pete in world market, oblivious of the
new deal"
Observing gains in the American trade
with the Far East in the month of Nav.
the Pasadena Star-News offers the judg-
ment: Imports advanced So per cent
and exports went up II per cent. Much
OF the goods exported consisted OF iron.
steel, mineral oils, trucks and raw cot
ton. Pacific Coast shipping points can
not overlook the great promise which
these figures provide