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Evening star., 1933-12-15

state Commerce Committee. said a
single monopoly Of radio, telegraph and
telephone companies would be very
Objectionable although he would oppose
separate monopolies in each aeld with
retention Of competition.
He saw no objection to further Gov
ernment regulation to supplement exist
ing Interstate Commerce Commission
power to regulate telephone rates.
Speaker Rainey said he believed legis-
lation on communications should be
postponed until we get out of this
Oppression"
Necessity Of Move Doubted.
Senator johnson, Republican, Cali
fornia, said he did not 'quite compre-
hend the necessity in these trying times
of undertaking such far-reaching and
important plan"
"It is quite essential" he said, "that
we fullys understand first, the effect
upon employment, second. the exact
nature of control, Third. whether this
freedom Of the air might be further
curtailed, and lastly, II the Government
is to take hold of this vast activity
whether it ought not go the full way oi
absolute ownership.
"The difficulties which have ariser
from monopoIes should be most care
fully studied. Personally I prefer tt
deal with our present pressing anc
manifold ills rather than create possible
new ones"
Evening star., 1933-12-15
CONGRESSMEN FAVOR
RESTORING PAY CUT
Several Leaders Give Support to
Government Employees in Their
Campaign.

Renewed assurances Of support for
elimination of the pay cut have been
received from number of congress
sional leaders, it was announced today
by the American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, which made public
messages received in connection with
invitations to attend the mass meeting
Monday night.
Senators Wagner, Democrat, Of New
York; McKellar, Democrat. OF Tennes-
see. and Capper, Republican, of Kansas,
and Representatives Bloom, Democrat,
of New York, and Mcleod, Republican,
of Michigan, were among those respond
ing, and the last named said he would
attend the meeting if possible.
The gathering will be at Central High
School and is in the interest Of lifting
the pay cut.
Evening star., 1933-12-15
MITCHELL DEFENDS
income TAX CASE
Concurs With Attorneys in
Saying Trial Exoner-
ated Him.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 15.-Charles
E. Mitchell, former head of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York, said
last night that the following comment
field g. Levy, quite adequately COW
cred his feelings" on the rejection
yesterday of compromise settlement
on his income taxes by the Treasury
Department.
His attorneys. statement follows:
In Mr.. Mitchell's recent trial the
court and jury completely eXonerated
him of all charges of fraud in connec-
ton with income tax matters and dis =
posed of that issue forever.
I'VE cannot understand how the
Government can now claim in another
department that it is not bound by
the decision of the Federal Court and
jury in Mr.. Mitchell's favor.
There was one item which the court
ruled as 1929 income. Any claim OF
conclusively disproved by the trial.
This was the management fund pay
ment in the midyear 1899 which was
the basis of all of the indictments.
He had been advised by counsel that
the item was not taxable as of that
year. In view of the courts ruling, Mr.
Mitchell felt that this was moral
claim which he would like to adjust.
Accordingly he asked consideration
from the Internal Revenue Bureau, Of
fering to pay the tax on this item in
full, but, being without the immediate
means to do SO, petitioned for time in
which his sole asSetS-earning' power
would be pledged
His proposal Of settlement diSpoSing
of all controversy with the Govern
ment was first subjected to an ex-
haustive inquiry by the department
both as to equities and as to his exist
ing financial status, and the depart
ment indicated that if he would make
a certain offer in compromise, it woulo
be recommended for approval. Such ar
offer was made, and, in the best of oul
knowledge and belief, received the ap-
proval of every Government official in
the bureau, including the commissioner
of Internal Revenue, and the general
counsel, as well as the then Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, in i'm
mediate charge of the department.
with this approval and recommen-
dation, it was submitted to the Acting
Secretary of the Treasury, who re.
jected it on the grounds as stated ir
the public press that it is in the pub
lies interest to proceed with the ordi-
nary legal processes of collecting
taxes
I'VE had hoped to avoid the long
delay of legal proceedings. We fee
very strongly that Mr.. Mitchell in re-
sponse to his voluntary proposal to pay
an outlawed tax was entitled to every
sympathetic cooperation on the part
of the Government, and we regret that
he is subjected to further delays anc
expense"
Evening star., 1933-12-15
ABUSES ARE seen.
! IN MONOPOLY PLAN
Congress Members Of Both
Parties Oppose Uniting
Communication Lines.
By the Associated pres,.

By the Associated Press.
Congressional members OF both parties
yesterday voiced opposition to any plan
Tor q monopoly Of communications
services given under Government super
vision and regulation.
Such proposal, along with alterna-
tiyes OF leaving the situation as 1t now
stands or Of Government ownership
and control, was suggested in a report
to President Roosevelt Wednesday by
an interdepartmental committee.
Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho
told newspaper men that when "monop.
olies are created to be run by a COM
mission, the monopolies will soon con-
troll the commission"
Opposed to Monopolies.
If the alternative to monopolies Is
Government ownership and control, ]
am for Government ownership and con-
troll" he said.
Senator Couzens of Michigan. a Re-
publican member Of the Senate Inter-
Evening star., 1933-12-15
OIL STOCKS DECREASE
BY $4,000 BARRELS
Secretary Ickes Announces Drop
Represented Daily Average
of 100000 Barrels.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes, oil administrator, said
yesterday the stocks of domestic and
foreign crude oil at the close of the
week ended December had decreased
687, 900 barrels from the preceding week
to 342, BAT 900 barrels.
The decrease represented a daily
average of approximately 100, 900 barrels,
compared with daily average increase
of 253,00o during the preceding week.
Stocks of domestic crude totaled 340,-
$4,000 barrels, decrease of 691 600
while stocks of foreign crude held in the
United States amounted to 2,709,000 an
increase of 1000 barrels.
Current import statistics recorded a
decrease of 247.000 barrels in receipts
of foreign crude oil during the last
week as compared with the preceding
week. Daily average crude runs to stills
were 2,1e0,0c0 barrels a decrease of
$4,000 from the daily average of the
preceding week.
Evening star., 1933-12-15
FILIPINO COMMUNITY
TO HONOR DELEGATION
Reception and Dance to Be Held at
Hay-Adams House Tonight
for Island Visitors.

A reception and dance will be held
this evening at the Hay-Adams House
by the Filipino community of this city
in honor of the Philippine independence
delegation, which is here seeking COM
plete independence for the islands, and
to give an explanation of why the
Hawes- Cutting Hare act is not accept
able to the Islands Legislature
Secretary of War Dern and Com
missioner Guevera, chief of the Bureau
of Insular Affairs, have been asked to
attend. Other prominent public off,
cials also have been asked to the recep-
tion.
The delegation is composed of Manuel
A. Quezon, president of the Philippine
Senate, who is its leader; Isauro Gabal-
don, former commissioner to the United
States Congress; Senator Elpidio
.Quirino. majority floor leader of the
Philippine Senate; Jose p Melencio;
Severiano Conception, Jose de Jesus,
Manuel Nieto and DR.. Flaviano Gavino,
secretary of finance.
Evening star., 1933-12-15

A single tuning knob brings into view
each Of different scales, which more
than doubles your range Of radio en-
joyment. It makes available to you the
activity Of 1,940 communication chan
nels, not merely the standard $40 to
1,500 Kilocycles, but full Dual Wave
reception, ranging from $40 to 10000
kilocycles- entirely different tuned cir
cults being used for each wave band.
Evening star., 1933-12-15
LONG-HAIR STYLE AIDS
GERMAN RIBBON TRADE
Long Blond Plaits Again Ideal of
Feminine Beauty Of
Nazis.

berlin R.-Fair Gretchen with
the long blond plaits is becoming again
the German ideal of feminine beauty.
The revival, stimulated by officialdom,
is based on the fact that long locks
need ribbons and the ribbon industry is
languishing.
Nazi statisticians figure that If all
German mothers bid their daughters
bind their hair there will be an i'm
mediate daily demand for close to
1000, 600 yards Of ribbon.
Evening star., 1933-12-15
PRESENTS STOLEN
Thief Enters Window to Take
Christmas Gifts.

Numerous toys, pairs of gloves, socks
and ties in packages intended fol
friends at Christmas time were taken
from the apartment Of Mrs. Ruth H
Porter, first floor of 1925 Seventeenth
street, last night. The burglar also stole
numerous articles Of wearing apparel
the value Of the loot being fixed at $85
Entrance was gained through side
window that had been left unfastened.
Evening star., 1933-12-15
italian Flag Stolen.

Police last night were asked to insti-
tute search for an italian flag reported
taken from knights Of Columbus Hall,
900 block Of Tenth street, week ago.
John Finigan, who reported the loss
to the police, valued the flag at 5000.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
HOW ABOUT YOUR STATE?

Morgan T. Ryan, registrar of motor Vehlcles IN
Massachusetts,, is troubled about 10 per cent IN
crease in auto accidents this year, though there IS
a decrease of per cent in the number of cars
registered. Has beer anything to do with the IN
crease? A "wet" Boston daily suggests not, but a
correspondent, j. G. Oster, of IslingtOn, presents
this interesting comment, and some incisive facts
and comparisons. He says:
at may not be beer alone that is the cause OF
the increase of accidents but the general let-down
regarding strong drink that followed the agitation
for beer But here are some facts that beer lovers
and 'repealers' might think about. In this country
we have almost eight times many motor vehicles
according to population, as they have in England
1t is known fact that the hazard increases out OF
proportion as the number of cars is increased. In
other words, thousand a certain road will
produce certain hazard. But double the number
of cars and the hazard becomes not double, but
several times great
"In spite of this fact, England, where there is
no prohibition and with eight times less cars, pro-
duces almost three times as many motor vehicle
deaths in proportion to the number of cars. If IN
toxicants come back to country, and leaving
out the increased hazard of the greater number of
cars but figuring only the number in England,
we will have over 1880 people killed every year
by automobiles. And that would equal the wiping
out of city the size of Salem (Mass) every year.
I am speaking of automobile deaths only. Automo-
bile accidents that resulted in manning and in
juries only would run up into the millions."-The
Presbyterian Advance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
DRY FIGURES

Before prohibition there were 10000 open sa-
looms in the United States; now there are $4,000
gasoline stations.
The open saloon paid an annual revenue to the
government of 1868 million dollars; the annual tax
of automobiles and gasoline is 779 million dollars
Since prohibition the drinking of liquor has de-
creased Ga per cent, and the drinking of milk has
increased % per cent, while infant mortality has
decreased 80 per cent.
Since prohibition 30 million new savings accounts
have been opened up.
Since prohibition 100000 new homes have been
built annually
Since prohibition there has been an increase OF
6S billion dollars in life insurance.
Since prohibition there has been $50 per cent
increase in high school attendance, and 800 PEI
cent increase in college attendance.
Since prohibition all but ten of the $50 institu-
tons for the treatment of inebriates have been
closed, and eight of these have no patients.
Since prohibition there has actually accrued to
the United States in fines and confseated property
of liquor captives profit of about rs million dol
lars year over the cost of enforcement.
Automobile fatalities in England, wide-opeN
beer country are almost three times more frequent
per thousand car registrations than in the United
States.-Rutherfordton News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Editor, The Times-News,
HenderSOnVille, n. c.

Editor, The Times-News,
Hendersonville, N. c.
Dear Sir:
In Saturdays paper my name
was listed as being among those
to participate in a local golf tour
nament advertised as beginning
on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath,
or Lords Day. Let me say that
this was an error on somebody's
part. Should | take part in a tour
nament, it certainly will not be in
one, any part OF which is played
on the Lords Day. Those who ar
range such events should consider
those who play this fine game Tor
recreation and pleasure but who
do not do so on Sunday. l under
stand very well that the qualify
ing might be done on Monday as
we'll as on Sunday. But when a
tournament is arranged and ad-
vertised to begin on Sunday, that
bars out those who disapproVe OF
Sunday athletic contests, who see
no difference in principle between
Sunday golfing and Sunday base
ball, fishing. movies, and the Ike
A city golf tournament was re-
Gently held in Columbia, 5. g., IN
which there were a hundred par
Elephants; but the Lords Day was
respected-it was from Monday
through Saturday.
Those who indulge in such con-
tests on Sunday are rarely found
to be supporters of the church and
of religion; and if all Christians
followed their example, we would
have a churchless and religion
less community. God makes prom
ises of rich blessings to observers
of His Day. May I quote one OF
them. "If thou turn away thy feet
from the Sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on My holy day; and call
the Sabbath delight, the holy Of
the Lord, honorable; and shalt
honor him, not doing thine own
ways. nor finding thine own pleas
ure nor speaking thine own
words; then shalt thou delight thy
self in the Lord; and I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places
of the earth, and feed thee with
the heritage of Jacob thy father:
for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it." lisa. 58:13, l4).
Yours respectfully,
1. T. WILDS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
CHANGE IN TAX ON
SALES TO BE EFFECTED
CONTINUED from page onel

Continued from page one
now finding that they are not
working out satisfactorily. AS a
result, after conferences with
different groups of merchants
within the next week or so, we
are planning to work out a sin
gle composite schedule that will
apply to all sales and all mer-
chants alike, to become effective
August l."
The ruling requiring merchants
to collect the tax on each in
dividual sale, rather than on the
aggregate cumulatives sales of
several articles, has also not
worked out as was expected. Mr..
Maxwell said. This ruling was
made with the idea of helping the
merchants collect enough tax on
taxable items to make up for
those not taxed. But many OF
the merchants now say they
would rather be permitted to
charge the straight tax on the to-
tai sales of number of articles
rather than on each sale, both
from the standpoint of greater
convenience and better satisfac-
ton to the public. AS a result.
this regulation will be changed
after August /, Mr.. Maxwell in
Dictated.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
(READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE)

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
WHERE ARE ANTITRUST LAWS?

What becomes of the antitrust laws under the
new national recovery act? Are they to be abro-
gated suspended during the emergency or will
they continue to have their original force and eff
feet?
These are pertinent and natural queries in con-
necton with the business of adopting codes among
businesses ard industries relating to prices to be
charged and to other vital factors in the manage
ment of these enterprises.
While the act was under consideration in the
senate, Senator Wagner accepted for the admins
tration and the senate adopted, an amendment by
Senator Borah providing that codes under the act
'shall not permit combinations in restraint OIL
trade, price fixing, other monopostlc practfceS'
As the bill emerged from conference and was pass
ed by congress, the Borah amendment read ohly'
"Such code codes shall not permit monopoheS
or monopolistic practices" Senatr Wagner ex-
planned that the change had been made because
broad court interpretations of the phrases re
strant of trade" and "prce fixing" might Illustrate
the purposes of the act In signing the industrial
recovery bill, President Roosevelt stated:
| ave are relaxing some of the safeguards of the
antitrust laws We are putting in place of old
principles of unchecked competition some new gov
eminent controls (but) the antitrust laws still
stand firmly against monopolies that restrain trade
and price fixing which allows inordnate profits or
unfairly high prices"
/ General Johnson, the administrator of the act,
announced that codes submitted might properly
contain agreements not to sell at less than prOduc
ton costs. Nevertheless, the first code which
public hearings have been held, that of the cotton
textile industry, makes direct mention of prices.
1t merely cites among the subjects which amend
ments of the code may later be asked, "the naming
and reporting of prices which may be appropriate.
| The farm relief act provides that marketing
agreements between the secretary of agriculture
and producers, professors and handlers Of agrl-
cultural products shall not be held in violation of
the antitrust laws. This exemption follows similar
exemptions from the antitrust laws for farm as
sociations contained in farm relief legislation of
the last 20 particularly the Clayton act of
1914, the Capper-Volstead act Of 1922 the coop
eratve marketing act of 1926, and the agricultural
marketing act of 1929 The farm relief act, unlike
the recovery act, directly aims at establishing
prices-not at specified levels, but so as to main
tain the prewar relationship between agricultural
and non-agricultural commedites-The Charlotte
Observer. ..'s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
DEMPSEY WILL WE'D
In NEVADA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO, July IL
UP).-Jack Dempsey and Miss
Hannah Williams, New York ac,
tress and former wife of Roger
Wolfe Kahn, will be married
quietly by justice of the peace
somewhere in Nevada today, An
ell Hoffman, manager of Max
Baer, the fighter. said here yes,
terday.
Hoffman said he left Dempsey
and Miss Williams at Salt Lake
City, where the ex-heavy cham
pion was visiting his mother.
Dempsey and Miss Williams
were to start thi snoring on
their leisurely motor trip through
Nevada, said Hoffman, and the
time and place of their marriage
had not been decided.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
WHY WE NEED A NAVY OF TREATY
STRENGTH 81, .
(By BRUCE CATTON)

A few years ago a great many Amerl-
cans would have been seriously disturbed
by an announcement that their navy was
to be built up forthwith to treaty strength
and made literally second to none.
Today the news that this is to be done
bothers hardly anyone; and this change OF
attitude measures the failure of American
efforts to get the other nations of the world
TO agree on an effective disarmament pro-
gram.
No peace-loving American need be
ashamed of his cOuntry's record IN respect
to disarmament.
Shortly after the close of the World war
the United States fleet, counting vessels al
ready built, vessels laid down and vessels
definitely appropriated for, was by far the
most powerful fleet ever dreamed of.
If the program then in effect had been
completed, no other navy on earth could
have hoped to cope with. American sea
strength. The Washington conference saw
this country voluntarily throwing away the
finest fighting ships ever built. Of our own
free will we scrapped our newest and
strongest warships, accepted parity with
England and pledged ourselves not to seek
naval superiority.
That was magnificent beginning. But
it was not followed up; and the fault for
that failure does not rest on the American
government. Repeatedly during the next
decade Washington sought to extend the
arms reduction treaty and scale down
world navies, and repeatedly other powers
refused to go along. Sometimes it was
England that stood in the way, sometimes
France, sometimes Japan.
As a result, it has been made very ap-
parent that world sentiment has not yet
reached the point at which any genuine,
far-reaching naval disarmament program
is possible. We have tried, we have made
sacrifices, but it is no go. We have what is
left of the Washington treaty, but there is
no likelihood that anything better can be
obtained. for years to come.
That being the case, what is there left
to do but build up to treaty strength? The
time has not yet come in which we can
discard our defenses. If we continue to
maintain any navy at all, it has to be a
good one; and since no one else is willing
to go with US on a new reduction program,
we can hardly do anything else than make
our navy the best navy that the existing
treaty permits.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-17
OAVATION AT CHICAGO
ITALIAN FLIERS GIVEN
4 from napn nnel

Continued from page one)
revealed when he landed at Ieni-
pelhof airdrome here at 1l;56
a. m. (6:56 a. m. EDIT.
The robot pilot worked perfect
ly, he said, and his speed was IN
creased by tailwinds over most OF
mis- course after leaving the coast
of Newfoundland.
Post met murky weather over
part of his course. Headwirds re-
tarded him slightly between New
York and Newfoundland.
Post flew so high and the mists
were so thick that he did not signt
land after leaving Newfoundland
until he zoomed to low altitude
them.
Wednesday the squadron is
scheduled to lift again from Lake
Michigan and return to Italy.
Balbo had pleaded before ar
rival that his crew be given as
much freedom from ceremony as
possible but the welcome Satur-
day night lasted far into the
morning and Sunday was COM
pletely occupied.