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The Washington times., 1933-02-20
WAR FRENZY
! SURGES IN
NIPPON
Hints of North China Invasion
Stir U. S. Marines to Eye
l. Menace to Americans

Fighting between Japanese
and Chinese troops broke out
at several points along the
Jehol border today as the Jap
anese army prepared to invade
Jehol province.
The first engagement had oc-
Cured Saturday near Kailu
when Chinese forces repulsed a
local attack.
War Wave Hits Japan ~
The Japanese government lin!
formed Yosuke Matsuoka, its del
egate at Geneva, of its intention
to withdraw from the League Of
Nations if the League Assembly
adopts the report of the Commit"
tee of Nineteen condemning ia
pans activities in Manchuria.
A wave of nationalism swept
Japan following the Cabinets
formal decision to launch its
drive against Jehol Province.
At the same time, a surge OF
Indignation and determination
engulfed China, with statesmen
and public bodies bending all
their resources to resist the ia
panese advance. Demands for
severance of diplomatic relations
and declaration of war were
heard.
To Safeguard Americans
American military authorities
took measures to safeguard Amer
lean lives and property in the
event the Jehol hostilities extend
to North China.
At Geneva. Matsuoka blamed
the league for driving a wedge
between East and West which
threatens "a chain of events that
can lead to developments no man
today can forsee."
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
DOPE RING CASE
L|NKSH|GH-UPS

LONDON, Feb. 20 U.N.SO "A
sensational report revealing the
secrets of a gigantic European
narcotic dope" ring is promised
within two weeks by Russell
Pasha, British chief of police at
Cairo, Egypt. the London Daily
Herald said today.
According to the Herald, high
officials of first class European
powers will be accused of receiv-
ing regular bribes from an inter-
national organization which is
spreading drugs throughout the
world.
The paper said two of the
alleged dealers we're millionaire
Greeks, while a third was a ma
tive Greek naturalized as an
American citizen.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
NOT SORRY,
He BOASTS;
LANES
PAINS
Zangara Laughs at Maximum
Sentence and Is Told He
May Get More"

MIAMI, Feb. 20 N.S).-1n
swift retribution for his at
tempt to assassinate President
elect Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Giuseppe Zangara, former Ital-
ian soldier and anarchist, today
was sentenced to so Yeas in
prison on his plea of guilty to
four counts of assault with in
tent to murder.
Sentence was pronounced by
Judge Collins in Dade county
court.
BlameS Pains in Stomach
Judge Collins meted out the
heavy punishment only a few
minutes after he had personally
concluded a cross-examinatlon OF
the prisoner. Through it all, zan"
CARA insisted that he had at
tempted to kill Mr.. Roosevelt be"
cause of "the pains in my stom'
ach." He said:
II suffer. And ] decided to
make him suffer. / wanted to
make it $780,"
Zangara's incredible bragadocclo
stayed with him even as Judge
Collins intoned the words which
mean he will spend the remainder
of his life behind bars.
Laughs At Sentence
The swarthy little prisoner
asked the judge just how long ne
would have to stay in prison and
broke into loud laughter when
Judge Collins replied:
Eighty years."
The assassin yelled, grinning:
Don't be so stingy. Give me
all, give me some more"
The judge replied:
"There may be some more
later"
Pronouncement Of sentence pro.
vided the crowd in the courtroom
with the thrill it had been await
ing.
Failure His Only Regret
They witnessed the spectacle Of
a man so callow as to have moth
ing but regrets that his attempt
to end the life of the President
elect of his adopted country had
failed.
When Judge Collins had fin
ished his Interrogation, he medi-
tated for few minutes and then
called Zangara before the bar
of justice.
Smiling and staggering, zan'
CARA walked from the counsel
table and stood before the solemn
judge.
Slowly and deliberately, Judge
Collins read his formal sentence,
adjudging Zangara guilty on his
own plea to each of the four
counts.
Sentence Is Maximum
They charged him with at
tempting to murder Mr.. Roose-
velt; Russell Caldwell, William
Sinnott and Miss Margaret
Kruis. Should Mayor Anton j.
Cermak, of Chicago, or Mrs.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
VIRGINIA CRASH
KILLS FOUR

HARRISONBURG, Va, Feb. 20.
Miss Mae Mcdonald, "a. of New
Market, died today at the Rock
ingham Memorial Hospital, the
fourth victim of a head-on COL
lision early today on the highway
near Shenandoah.
The mangled body of another
woman, found on a fence a short
distance from the scene of the
accident, was identified as Miss
Elizabeth Strobaugh, 20, of STAN
ton, Va. The other two dead are
F. T. Carper, 38. Shenandoah life
insurance agent, and Tedrick
Roger, 80, Shenandoah truck
driver, who died in the ambulance
enroute to the hospital.
Two other persons, Jesse Mil
ler, 81, of Shenandoah, and F.
w. Harris, of Staunton, are in
a critical condition at the hos
pital. suffering from fractured
skulls.
Carper died shortly after ar
rival at the hospital, which is
more than 80 miles from the
scene of the accident.
Miss Trobaugh, Miss Mcdonald,
Carper and Harris were riding
in one car and the other two
men in the other car.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
WILL ROGERS Saus:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Feb. 2O-Jim Corbett,
"Gentleman Jim''-truly title earned and main
tanned through life.
Ny ACQUAINTANCE with Corbett covered nearly 25
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Mrs. Roosevelt to Continue
Her Chief Joy, Writing
mind to important develop

mind to Important develop
mentS.
"Of course, every individual
must order her life in her own
way. We can't all live accord
ing to the same pattern. But we
can all be alive to our situation
today, and I believe women have
a big part to play in helping
remedy it,"
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

Mardi Gras at New Orleans. La. Re-
duced fares Feb Is to 2S Final limit
March 7, 1888, Stopovers. Five trains.
Southern Railway System: Phone MA. 1865
-Advt.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

any comedian worked with He never spoke
i'll of any man, a lived in good WILL and endec
in glory.
(Copyreht 1888, syndicateD
"a week.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
LONG ASSA|LS
vOTEPROBERS

An attack on the methods pur-
sued by the Senate campaign
funds investigating committee
in inquiring into the Louisiana
election of Senator elect John H.
Ove"ton was issued today in Cir
cularized form by Senator Huey
P. Long, the Louisiana king
fish,
Long sent copies of the circu-
lar to Senators by mail. The
pamphlet was entitled The Kan
garoo Court-Trying to Take
Louisiana Back to the Days of
Kellogg. Pinchback and the
Scallawag"
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Tidal Wave for War
Sweeps Jap Empire

TOKYO, Feb. 20 G.N.sD-A
tidal wave of nationalistic senti-
ment swept Japan tonight as
the nation demonstrated it's ap-
proval of the cabinets decision
to quit the League of Nations
and launch the drive for "pacifi-
cation" ofJehol province with
out delay.
Plans for mass meetings and
military demonstrations were an
nounced only a few hours after
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
HOUSE VOTES
To. REPEAL
DRY LAW
Drys Stage Short Fight as
Rules Are Suspended and
Rainey Leads Wet Bloc

The House today adopted the
Senate resolution for repeal of
the prohibition amendment and
thus transferred the 13-year
battle for repeal to the As
States.
The vote was 289 to 121.
A wild burst of applause, pune
tuated by triumphant yells of jubi-
liant foes of prohibition. followed
the amazing victory in fight
once thought lost in this lame
duck" session of Congress. ..s-,,
The resolution for the twenty.
first, or repeating, amendment,
now goes to Secretary of State
Stimson.
The Senate adopted it last
Thursday 63 to %.
Stimson will Immediately GER
tify it to the governors Of all
States.
BIantOn All Ready
Both the House and galleries
buzzed with excitement as the
House convened.
Speaker Garner asked the hun
dreds of spectators to suppress
conversation.
AS Representative Byrns (D) Of
Tennessee asked five minutes to
explain a conference report.
Representative Blanton CD OF
Texas arose. He said:
1--WE can't hear. I make the
point of order that the House is
not in order"
Garner banged his gavel.
Both the presidential and diplo-
matte gallery sections were filled.
Among those present were Mrs
Patrick Hurley, wife of the Secre-
tary of War.
Challenges QuOum
Representative Blanton chal-
lenged the presence of a quorum
and the entire House guffawed.
Speaker Garner counted 291 pres
ent.
Repeated demands for order
were made as the Blaine resolu-
ton was read. A dozen Senators
came into the chamber to watch
the proceedings.
Blanton, a bitter-end dry, pro-
tested that the drys could not get
time for debate. Garner said:
you'll get time"
Representative Rainey was given
control of the wet" time, while
Representative Moore CD of Ohio
assumed control of the dry time.
Debate was limited to 40 minutes.
Battle Under Way
Representative Rainey of
Illinois, the majority leader, was
blocked in an attempt to read
from a speech delivered by
Senator Sheppard CD of Texas,
so-called father" of the Eighteenth
Amendment, when prohibition
was first submitted. Sheppard
urged the right of the people to
pass OH II1c question:. FSpT6SeH-
tative Rankin CD of Mississippi,
cut in:
"Mr. Speaker I made the
point of order that a member
cannot attack a Senator"
"Oh, I'm not attacking him.
I'm approving of what he said"
Nevertheless Garner rule d
Rainey could not quote Sheppard.
Rainey said:
"Well, I'll just say would
vote to submit any amendment
to the Constitution to the
people"
Drys Begin Fight
Representative Nelson (R.) of
Maine, a "lame duck" opened
the dry debate.
81 venture the prediction
that unless you have a pro-
hibitiOn against the saloon, no
man here will live to see the
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
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years. He was great friend OF
Fred Stone, who is a great
friend of mine. Fred was a
great boxer. Corbett always
said he would have been middle
weight champion if he had taken
up that line.
Corbett brought boxing out
of the saloon into respectability.
He would have been a credit to
the ministry, to industry, to
teaching, to anything, the same
as he was a credit to boxing.
A great credit to the stage,
he was splendid actor-per-
haps the best straight man that
worked with. He never spoke
'er lived in good will, and ended
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Goods Barely Escape
Sorority House Fire

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Feb. 20
(1N.S0 A match or cigarette
stub carelessly dropped in a waste
basket was blamed today for a
fire which ruined the Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority house at
the University of Michigan and
almost trapped II goods who were
sleeping in the building.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14

THE giant held wee Quincy high
l. and said, We'll, lad, ! thought
youd try to pull some funny bust
less, when I saw you in my home.
you ran and hid. What did J
care, as long as | knew you were
here? / have a way of catching
.olis, no matter where they roam.
The little girls the eagle
brought were doing fine. They had
been taught to wait on me from
morn till night, ::nd then you came
along.
You planned, Of course, TO set
them free. Was that 4 nice trick,
lad. on me?. OF course not. and |
knew that ali your plans would
urn out wrong.
.LlFY doors and windows were
NI locked tight and so, when
you went out of sight, knew you'd
.ound the trapdoor. That's the rea-
son you've been caught.
Don't try to fool me any more,
cause capture always is IL store.
| hope that you will profit by the
.esson you've beea taught"
"Oh, Mister Cant, let us go,
cried Dotty. "W1 DISLIKE it SO to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE COUNTRY CHURCH

The Gastona Gazette is correct IN saying that
this country must look to the country church for
leadership. if there be any such Forthcoming. Inc
cty field is barren and sterile. The country church
is the institution accountable more than any o'her
for the moral and spiritual values and reforms
that have progressed since the white man with q
Bible in one hand and gun in the other settled
in the wilderness of the New World. There Is an
absence of formaty starchness, stiffness IN the
country church. Whether you be a wOrSh!pper OF
a stranger the people welcome you IN genuine,
wbolehearted manner The impressions OF The
Gazettes editor from recent visit to all-day serV-
ices at a country church. he interestingly sets
forth. emphasizing among other things its hes
pitality, in this way "The preacher almost broke
his neck getting to the front door to waylay and
shake hands with every single person present. o.
fcers of the church took care to see that all
strangers and visitors were shoOed into the sheep
lane to greet the preacher, rather than stray on
through a side door, Every member of the church
seemed to think it his or her special duty to speak
TO everybody else Compare that with some CT
the ice-cold customs of some of our city churches,
where many strangers go Sunday after Sunday
without single person ever stepping up to them
and speaking to them. 1t is commonly told CT
many of our city churches, and it is getting worse
instead of better Spartanburg Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
THEY WANT BOTH

People take the roof off yelling against taxes
but they yell almost frantically if somebody
tries to take away from them the benefits they
get from taxes.
In other words, they insist not only upon eating
their cake, but they equally demand that they keep
the cake too.
And that's about as hard to do as to make the
two poles relent and come together for nice,
friendly party.
Slicing off few dollars from the public payroll
is helpful, but it is not remedial. By that method
alone, no salvation will come to the American
taxpayer.
He must make up his mind to do without some
of the things which he is now demanding that his
government give him.
With the time coming, unless a violent change
takes place, when the cost of government will re-
quire so cents out of every dollar earned III
America, one can ever be stupid and see that
along this way utter calamity lies.
The craftsmanship of the future will be that
type which will bring about era of less govern
mental service.-Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Write

WASHINGTON. - Among the
w hundreds OF public men. cor
ooration executives and bankers
On the Morgan Santa Claus
list. Ferdinand Pecora found luSt
ona whose sense of ethics partly
restrained him from accepting
stock from Morgan at price tar
below the market value
+. G. auckland. president Of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, turned out to be the hero
cf the occasion. He refused to ac-
cent United Corporation stock at
SIS q share when it was selling at
500.
Unwittingly, auckland lost the
chance to become something of a
national idol when he accepted cut
rata Allegheny and Standard
Brands stock from Morgan.
OUT while other Morgan friends
- were swapping up all the stock Of
fered regardless Of political stand
ing or business connections. Buck
land apparently was the only one
to make even a subdued peep ant
his letter to Arthur ". Anderson
one of the partners, stands III
class w itself among the exhibits
Of the investigation. He wrote:
Dear Arthur: ! appreciate yer!
much your telephone suggesting
that subscribe for or purch2s'
shares us the new corporation
furnishing electrical energy.
understand that one Of these cor
noyaticns is the Connecticut Lisll
& Power Co, with which thi
company has a contract. We ar
about TO open negotiations lor III
ture dealings with this compan,
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BEER FAILS

Beer doesn't seem to be bringing in the money
its advocates claimed it would Says The Sumter
Daily Item: "The national public debt rose about
$500 900, 900 during May, although beer was being
sold and the income from the brew failed to stem
the tide of financial backslding. The beer advo-
Gates sought to have the people believe before it
was legalized that all would be well with the ma
TONS treasury afterward but now that beer IS
provided the argument is changed to embrace re-
peal of the prohibition amendment If repeal
should be brought about it would be found that,
like beer the income derived from taxing it would
be lost in decreased revenue from other quarters,
The net income is what counts and the vets hope
to keep the majority of the voters from thinking
along that line until it is too late-Cheser Is. c.
Reporter.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
Cities and Towns
To Benefit From
Public Works Act
The Times-Ncws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, June 14.-Cities
and towns that need new water
systems, sewage lines or disposal
systems, street paving or other
public works. can save 30 per
cent of the cost Of these improve
ments under the terms of the new
public works bill Just passed by
congress, it is pointed out here
today. For under the terms Of
this new bill, counties, cities and
towns that can get the money 20
pay for 70 per cent Of the cost Of
these improvements can get an
outright gift from the federal
government of the remaining 30
per cent of the cost.
This act is not intended to APP
ply to any except necessary pub
lie works and improvements, it is
pointed out. But there are thou
sands of cities and towns through
out the United States, with many
in North Carolina, that need
either new or enlarged water and
sewage systems, or new paving or
public buildings. SO in order to
encourage the construction of
these new projects right now,
with view especially to provid-
ing more work for the unemploy-
ed. the federal government has
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14

1t is not The Times-News' business, but
this newspaper would like to be in posi-
ton to second the nomination, which has
been made down in South Carolina, of Ben
E. Geer as the successor of DR.. w. j. Nc
Glothlin in the presidency of Furman Uni
versity. Ben Geer is a gentleman and
scholar, graduate of Furman, a former
teacher there, and is thoroughly informed
about the University's affairs. Furman
would continue to go forward and build
up under the able direction of Ben Geer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
BETTER KEEP OUT
Reporter

A North Carolina newspaper reports that "aid
from the National Association for Prohibition Re-
peal" would be extended to North Carolina.
1t would be better for this support to be with
held and this goes for South Carolina as well as
for North Carolina and other states.
The repeal movement is strong but the cause
will not be helped by suspicion that money from
outside is being expended to sway public opinion
in various states. ...
Let the people alone and let them vote their
honest convictions.
If they wish to vote for repeal, let them so
vote. If they wish to vote to keep the Eighteenth
Amendment, let them so vote-Greenwood Is. c.
Index-Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-14
ABSURDITiES OF OUR PRESENT
PROBLEMS
(By BRUCE CATION

: One of the most encouraging things
about the worlds present difficulty is the
fact that all of its major problems are in
the highest degree irrational. They need
only to be stated to have their inherent
absurdity made obvious; and the more
they are stated and examined, the more
likely it becomes that mankind will recog-
nize their absurdity and do away with
them.
There never was a time when natural
forces operated to make nations neighbour
~ as strongly as they do now. Worldwide
communication is an accomplished fact.
Distances have shrunk to mere fractions
Of their old length. The increasing COM
phcations of world finance and trade have
made all countries inter-dependent. A
new network of treaties has been set up
to preserve the peace. Events have COM
PEELED the dullest men to realize that war
costs more than it can possibly be worth.
Yet in the face of all of these facts, one
of our very greatest problems is the prob
lem of keeping the peace. The world IS
drifting toward war in spite of the fact
that it has more reasons for staying at
peace than it ever had before.
It is the same in the economic field. We
have developed the art of production to
the point where poverty need no longer
exist. We can make more of everything
than we can possibly need. The masses OF
mankind can enjoy more luxuries than the
wealthy could have few generations ago.
Yet, poverty is increasing and we suffer
from shortage of nearly everything; and
as Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant
has pointed out, poverty has increased
most rapidly in those nations whose ability
to produce wealth has been most aug
mented.
Similarly, world trade today ought to
thrive as never before. The facilities for
it were never so great; the need of the
various nations for the things produced by
their neighbors was never so great; the
financial arrangements whereby the flow
of goods is made easy were never so we'll
developed. But world trade dwindles,
year by year, and most nations have been
busy cutting it down still further by means
of tariffs, import restrictions, quota laws
and the like.
These problems, when examined care
fully, simply don't make sense. Is 1t toe
much to expect that we shall presently
find way to start moving with the tide
instead of against it?
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agreed to pay almost one-thlrd Oh
the cost of this new work If the
governmental units will pay the
other two-thirds of the cost.
It is also believed that most OF
the. cities and towns needing TO
build any of these new public
works projects will be able to
borrow most of the money need
ed to pay for their 70 per cent
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, to be paid back
from operating revenues. In this
case, the money borrowed Will
not have to be paid back from
tax revenues at all, so that this
new construction will not need TO
cost the taxpayers anything.
This section Of the new public
works act should enable those
cities and towns in the state that
need to enlarge or rebuild any Or
these facilities an opportunity to
do this work now at a saving OF
30 per cent and still take advan-
take of present low prices for
construction work, it is pointed
out.
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BEHIND THE SCENES IN = =. 's.s..,.,. 49,. =. -
VNSHINGTON
WlIH RODNEY DuICHEH
with RODNEY QUlNBEH

in regard 10 power requirement.
and I feel that ought not at thI
time to consider any investment
in its securities or in securities OF
any corporation which may eXer.
else a directing influence.
This may seem to you leaning
over backwards. but-eXcuSe the
paradox feel more comfortable
in that posture. Just the same. ]
appreciate your having brought
this to my attention.
MEMBERS Ct the Morgan firm
-I explained their Santa Claus
operations with variations. but one
thing everyone agreed: It's an ole
American custom and Everybody
does it," One hard'bc'Icd Wall
Street operator privately admitted
that these favOrs were il effect
"bribes." even though there might
never be a tangible pro NuId quo.
You see." explained the presi'
dent of one corporation whose
stocks Morgan had distributed at
below market price, they don't
want to stand the risk of such a
big obligation when they take on
say Si0,O00,C0G worth at once. They
don't even like TO hold it overnight
because you never can tell whal
may happen. S. they want to shed
a substantial pert and maybe they
sell half OF 1t ct the price they
paid. In any normal time you
can't :nroW ali tmat stock on the
market at once. SO YOU have to pass
it around to friends who have
money"
mo reason why we should make
a profit on it," added a Morgan
partner It's just part Of a pro
gram"
scCopyricht. 1898. NEA Service Inc .