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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-25
WASHINGTON Will
Weigh FORD Case
Instruct Detroit Committee to
Forward All Complaints
Against Manufacturer

Detroit, Sept. 25.-tR-The local
N7A board in suburban Dearborn
was advised officially Monday that
any complaints against the Ford Mo-
tor company must be forwarded to
Washington and that the local COM
pliance board will be without author
ity to consider them.
A. J. Barnaud. district manager Of
the U. s. department OF commerce,
told william L. Mills, who revealed
the existence Of the complaints, that
local compliance boards have author
ity only to consider cases arising UNI
der the presidents unemployment
agreement and that where an indus
try operating under an accepted code
Is concerned, the matter must 60 to
Washington.
While the Ford company has not
signed the automotive code and has
not obtained q blue eagle, the auto
mobile industry Is under m accepted
code. For this reason, Barnaud said,
the authority Of the local committee
IS limited to forwarding to Washing
ton any complaints 1t may receive.
The Dearborn MIRA committee. Of
which Mills is secretary and publicity
chairman, had planned to meet At
noon Monday to take up the naming
Of compliance board. Mills, In max
Ing this announcement, had referred
to the fact that complaints had been
received concerning the Ford com.
pany. He had expected that the local
compliance board would take them
up.
Mills said that number Of new
complaints had come to his attention
Monday. None Of the Ford COM
plants involved hours Or wages. u
the Ford company now Is working on
Z 32-hour week and paying . mini
mum Of 50 cents IN hour. The weel
Is ahorter and the pay larger thar
the minimum requirements Of HIN
MIRA automotive code.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-25
Galnnlons' Hearing
Is Postponed Again

Motion TOR . new trial for John
0ammons. former secretary Of the
North Dakota industrial commission
convicted for embeSxling funds from
t.se so.dierE' bC:.us find, will 50
argued here before District Judge
Fred Jansonius ct 1880 p. n. Satur-
day, Sept. 80. according u Attorney
General A. ]. Gronna.
The hearing had been set for Sept.
10 but was postponed from day 70
day. An agreement between attor-
nsys for Gammons' and the attorney
eeneral was reached Saturday on .
definite date tor thu hearing.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-25
Sioux County Also
Strays From Fold

Fort Yates. Sept. 25.-5ioux Coun-
ty FRIDAY Joined the procession Of
those which normally are Nonparti-
san IN opposing the three referred
measures supported BY the LANCER
administration. Returns from u out
Of 10 precincts show: NJ
County Officers: Yes 375: No 127.
Reading Of Bills: Yes 2o6: No 272.
Banxs: Yes as: No 81.
sales Tax: Yes 243; No 362.
Conversation: Yes 263; No $40.
Beer: Yes 40; No 152.
Ncyiea: Yes 3e7; No AL.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-25
Emil Erickson Pleads
Guilty; Gets 80 Days

Emil Erickson Of Wing pleaded
guilty to assault and battery before
Police Magistrate Edward 8. Allen
Monday morning and was sentenced
70 - days II jail. fine Of $ and
costs, fine and costs 70 be paid and
sentence suspended pending good BE-
hayior
Erickson pleaded guilty t. striking
"nAbe" Knowles, fellow -fpvnsnaa,
over the h:ad with = bottle last
Thursday night during ~ argument.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-25
Administration Leaders Refuse
to DivuIQe Elements OF
Program
CLOSED BANKS CONSIDERED
Hint Release Of Frozen Funds
in Rural Communities
Would Help

Washington, Sept. 25.-(P)-A new
idea Monday stimulated President
Roosevelt's campaign to provide need
ed credit for MIRA industries and raise
the farmers income to the price level
Of the things he must buy.
It was evolved at q white house con-
ference attended by Roosevelt's fl
nancial advisors. but none would dis
close the elements Of the plans agreed
upon. Secretaries Woodin and Wal
lace and Attorney General Cummings
headed the group that gathered in
the presidents study Sunday night.
exchanged notes. and then worked
out the new line Of attack.
With the increase in farm prices
tagging still behind the cost Of COM
modities the farmer must have. 1t was
indicated that methods of releasing
funds In the closed state and national
banks of rural communities furnished
an important topic Of the white house
discussion.
win Assist Banks
Behind this lay the weeks-old pro-
blem of inducing the banks to extend
loans to commercial enterprises oper-
ating under the Blue Eagle. The
whole subject was reviewed in detail
with the result the administration, In
effect, Monday told the bankers the
governments billions were ready to
help banks give the industries Of their
communities the credit needed to in
crease employment.
It was learned authoritatively the
late night gathering discussed at
length the coordination Of four prime
federal agencies into a systematic
plan intended to release deposits tied
up in closed banks and place banks
already operating upon sound basis
Under this schema the RIG woult
|rehabilitate a banks capital structure
by purchasing new issues Of preferred
stock; the farm credit and home loar
administration would replace SLOW
real estate mortgage assets with theil
readily saleable bonds, and the deposit
guaranty corporation would guaran.
tee the funds Of new depositors.
Public Works Progress
Meanwhile. the public works admin.
istration. promising renewed pressure
for greater cash expenditures, an.
nounced 1t had approved projects
which would provide 10000 mar
weeks Of quick-direct employment. II
said 81 soc, 900 900 Of its $500 900 ,00(
had been allotted though only $59,.
l30, 756 has been drawn from the trea.
sury for real expenditure.
simultaneously Hugh s. Johnson
MIRA chief. planned q Blue Eagle
buying campaign. intended to helr
industry take on additional employee.
and raise wages.
Johnson,s appeal to buy. as he put
1t, TO buy to the limit Of prudent
needs has been delayed by variou!
circumstances within the MIRA. not.
ably the difficulty Of completing thu
coal CODE"
With reference to the inpediment o.
dragging farm prices. Secretary Wal
lace. before attending Sunday night!
white house meeting. said that unless
there IS an increase In world trade
10000, 900 acres Of farm land must bt
Withdrawn from cultivation.
Evening star., 1933-06-04

Every suicide, especially IN times Of de-
preston and mental hdgeting like the present
crisis, is bound to be source Of new trouble
for many persons who are contemplating the
act. I think that suicidal cases can be helped
only ON an individual basis by helpful agency
eff people felt that they could go to some
one and talk things over, some one who they
knew would be able to straighten out their
tangled problems. think many of them would
return home and be willing to let their instinct
of preservation triumph once more"
In highly cultured Greece brilliant statesmen
like Demosthenes and DiOgenes did away with
themselves when they felt that their missions
on earth were finished. The Roman Empire,
when it cyan to decay, seemed engulfed by
a passion for seh-destruction that drew such
prominent citizens as Cato Brutus, Nero and
Cleopatra into its fold.
These people were not insane any more than
are the Japanese, with whom in some circum-
stances suicide or hara-kri Is part Of the
moral creed In modern Japan men are ex-
pected to do away with themselves in certain
situations and rather than face inevitable dis
grace they do So according to prescribed
methods
When they do so, they are considered to have
performed an honorable act.
Christianity has done all it can to put
stumbling blocks in the path of the suicide
From its very inception the Christian religion
has always considered suicide ethically and
legally wrong.
A CCORDING to DR. Strecker, the four major
causes CT suicide are fear of disgrace fear
of disease, fear of punishment and fear of
poverty.
These broad generalties present in each case
a separate set Of particular causes and
Evening star., 1933-06-04

uCTATIsTTCs show that married men dis
- play the smallest suicidal frequency. The
number of suicides among bachelors, widowers
and divorced men is far greater than among
married men. The former do not have a feel
ing Of responsibility TO those they leave behind
them which married men have.
Another highly interesting fact is that men
resort to suicide many times more often than
women. In America the ratio is three to one:
in Europe it is four TO one; and in the Asiatic
countries, the proportion Of men to women is
even greater"
Women are apt to employ different methods
for suicide than men, Time was when hanging
held first place for men while drowning and
firearms came next. Women preferred drown
ing and poison Today jumping from high
buildings Is on the increase and death from
carbon monOxide gas in closed automobile has
also taken its toll. Women, however, stin seem
to prefer poison. perhaps because it is the
neatest way to die
Certain professions have higher suicide rates
than others. High up are soldiers doctors,
lawyers and chemists And at the low end are
the clergy railway drivers and stokers. Unoc-
cupied men seem to commit suicide in far
greater numbers than occupied ones which
might point to boredom as another reason for
suicide.
There are various ages at which suicide oc-
ours with greater frequency, and again men
QlHef from women.
Below the age of IS, less than six boys and
less than three girls per 900 600 commit sui
eide. Between Is and 10 is the one age group
where girls commit suicide more frequently than
boys-girls 27.50 in 100000 and boys 2677 in
1000 900.
After that. the males are always very greatly
IN the majority. The suicides Of women occur
with greater frequency early IN their lives, from
20 to 80. than they do IN later years. Over
cuic
Men. on the other hand, commit suicide with
greater frequency as they grow Older until the
age OF 81, after which time the rate takes a
short drop In Europe the greatest number
occurs between SIS and IS, but CT late years in
America many men have taken to suicide be-
tween 35 and 40
ITO me- the study of suicide is a vastly in
testing topic DR.. Strecker went on, "a vast
uncharted area which lies in readiness for
careful exploration
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Produce Trucking Gros,s

HE truck-to-market movement is showing
steady increase, according to figures pro-
duced by the Department of Agriculture Last
year eight large center markets reported that
the equivalent of 158 900 carloads of fruit and
vegetables reached the market directly by truck.
and increase of % 900 over the previous year.
In Philadelphia, for instance 30 900 cars were
received by truck compared with AZ 600 by rail-
road and boat More than fourth of New
York City's supplies were received in the same
manner, while Los Angeles reported 81 per cent
received by truck
1t Is estimated that "a per cent of the canta-
loupes produced on the Eastern Shore and IT
per cent of the Strawberries also went to market
by truck.
Evening star., 1933-06-04

separate set of reactions which require in
dividual treatment" DR.. Strecker continued.
To-day the breakdown Of organized religion
seems to have brought with it an increase in
the number Of suicides.
I'VE know most religions have labeled self
destruction sin and placed inhibitions in its
way. Ministers as class have very low rate
of suicide
1T is at first glance a strange fact that the
Jews, a proverbially melancholy race, should
have low suicide rate But self-destruction
peoples Of the earth, the ones who have suffered
privations for centuries, but among those whom
we are in the habit of considering the hardest
and least volatile.
The Teutons, for example a prosperous and
healthy race, resort to it much more frequently
than the melancholy Celts, while it Is more
common among the we'll bred Englishmen than
among the harried Irish, who have for long
time had one of the lowest rates in the world.
The excitable French and the passionate
Italians blow their brains out much less often
than the sterner Norsemen or Swedes and the
sturdy Germans
In somewhat the same manner suicide seems
to occur more often among the richer and more
educated classes of the population than among
those who have known little save poverty and
lack CT comfort all their lives Perhaps educa-
tion brings with it a greater senSitivity toward
the injusticeS of life.
Greater wealth sometimes means an 'obses-
sion with material things without which life
does not seem worth living That is one reason
why the millionaire who his fortune col
lapse is mere apt to take his life than the
truck driver who has lost his job
Evening star., 1933-06-04

from Japanese book
regarding bIenuans
being offered by privilege committing
he declined is enemies cut off his shead
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Joe H. Patterson
In Phi Beta Kappa

Joe H. Patterson. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. Patterson of Hender.
sonville, is wearing the key Of
Phi Beta Kappa, national honor
airy scholarship fraternity, at the
University of North Carolina.
With 81 other students. two FAC
ulty members and one alumnus he
was initiated Monday night.
Phi Beta Kappa candidates,
eligible to membership during the
last quarter of their junior year
must have maintained an average
grade of 92.5 per cent for the
three-year period. Preceding the
initiation ceremonial, a private
affair there were public exercises
in Graham Memorial. The prln-
cipal address was delivered by Dr..
J.P Harland, professor Of archae-
ology in the university. The two
faculty members elected to honor
ary membership in Phi Beta Kap-
pa were Dean A. w. Hobbs and
Dean D. D. Carroll. One alumnae,
w. NJ. Curtis, of Greensboro COL
lege, was initiated.
In "making Phi Beta Kappa,
Joe Patterson continued in the
university fine scholarship rec
ord maintained in Hendersonvliie
high school.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Junior W.C.T,U.
Has Meet: Seek
New Members

The young peoples branch of
the w. C. T. U. held its April
meeting Thursday evening at the
Lewis House, with The vice-presi-
dent, Miss Ruth Brown, presiding.
As an opening number the branch
sang "Character." Miss Claudia
Sims gave the devotional, using
as her subject, Little Things"
and closing with "The Optimists'
Prayer"
After the minutes and the
treasurer's report were read, the
business session was conducted by
the branch director, Mrs. W. K.
Ship. The branch was divided
into two teams for the member
ship drive which is arranged, and
the teams have been designated
Frances Willard" and "Neal
Dow" Time was set for the
speakers medal contest.
Mrs. Shipp gave an outline of
the first chapter in the Study in
Government"
Claude Thornton discussed the
topic, "The Hip-hask Young Per-
son is Not Typical" and David
Mashburn talked on "What Young
People Think About Prohibition"
After a social hour in which a
fox-hunt was staged, a flag ques-
tionnaire, including "The Pledge
to the U. S. Flag" was held.
Three new members were en-
rolled. The entire membership
consists of young people from
three churches. All young people
are invited to these meetings
which are held on the second
Thursday evening in each month.
Before adiojurning. the mem
bers enjoyed w. c. T. U. punch
and nut cookies.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
TAX OFFSET
BILL NOW Law
County Cannot Pay Money
to People, Owing 1t
on Tax Accounts
tcntion was called this morn

Attention was called this morn
ing to the county auditors office
to the provisions of house bill
No, $50, passed by the lower
house of the general assembly,
and providing that when a bill OF
costs in a criminal action is pre-
scented to any board of commits
sioners in any county of the
state, and the bill is ordered paid,
it shall be the duty Of the clerk
Of the board to ascertain whether
the person to whom the money IS
to be paid is indebted to to the
county for taxes and if so the
order for funds shall state pay
able only on taxes due said
county"
It was stated that this bill
would be instrumental in saving
the county from paying out scv-
eral thousands of dollars in cash
annually. as in many cases this
money will be applied only on
taxes.
Section 2 of the act provides
that it shall be unlawful for any
board of county commissioners to
pay any person who is indebted
to the county for taxes any
money payable out of the rcvc-
nues of the county on account Of
costs in a criminal case. which IS
payable by the county except as
provided in section l OF the act.
The act was passed on third
reading by the house and is not
in full force, it was pointed out
this morning.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Return of z Cent
Postage Is Seen


WASHINGTON. Apr. Ia (UP)
General reduction in postal
charges including restoration OF
the two-cent rate on letters was
forecast Thursday night as Post
master General James A. Farley
recommended President Roosevelt
be granted broad powers to revise
the postal rate structure.
Farley said congress would be
asked to give Mr.. Roosevelt power
90 lower or increase rates Gas in
creaSing business or demands of
the postal service may make nee
essary," during the period for
which the three-cent postage rate
is effective or until July I, 1884.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Parents Hide Girl,
Halt Operation
For Saving Life
High Court Debates Legal
ity of Enforcing Med
ical Attention
BY SIDNEY 3. WHlPPLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

HASTINGS, n. Y, April ID
(UP) .-Thc parents of two-year-
old Helen VaskO, who is doomed
to die unless they consent to an
operation, yesterday barricadcd
themselves in their cottage and
defed the authorities to intrdue
at their peril.
Stiffcning their re s $ t a n c c
against d state which would take
Helen from her home, TO remove
malignant growth that is bound,
sooner or later to press upon her
brain and snuff out her life, the
Vaskos family also refused admiS-
sion to a physician who was to
treat Helen's twin sister, Anna,
for fever reported to have
reached 105 degrees.
The physician, DR.. Michael Ben
der, had been called Wednesday
night to the Vaskos cottage to see
Anna. He said the child was suf-
fering from a severe cold which
might develop into pneumonia.
Knowing that Mr.. and Mrs.
John Vaskos had appealed to the
courts to prevent a surgical OPP
Grafton. DR.. Bender was accompa-
MED by a policemen when ne
called at the cottage yesterday.
He found every door barred, bolt
ed, and tightly secured with
wedges of wood.
GO awayw the Vaskos COM
manded. eve want no doctor.
Anna is all right"
Lacking any court order to en-
ter. the physician was forced to
return to his office. Meanwhile,
Helen, subject of the original
controversy between the law, on
one side, and humanitarians on
the other, was shut up in a little
room with her sister, and forbid
den to go near the windows where
she might be seen by the crowd of
townspeople who had gathered
outside.
Helen's case is now in the hands
Of the five Judges of New York's
appellate court. They must decide
whether the state has the right to
command a surgical operation IN
which. although it may save her
life, Helen is bound to lose the
sight of one eye. 80
Fighting stubbornly against the
physicians and the welfare SO
ciety, Helen's mother and father
place their only hope in prayer
and a coming miracle" Mrs.
Vasko has placed a little shrine
in the baby's room. There, she
prays every day that her daugh-
(Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Bill
Would Put State
I'm Power Industry
General and Luxury Sales
Tax Will Be Blended In
to Finance Act by New
Subcommittee

RALEIGH, April i.-CUP)-
With its revenue bill approximate
ly $1,000, 900 short of. apprdpria-
tons for the next biennium, the
house today voted to refer the
measure to the finance committee
with instructions to name a sub
committee Of seven members to
blend together into one levy a
general and luxury salGs tax.
Beer will be allowed to be
transported into North Carolina
prior to May l as a result of the
houses passage of the senate bill
today.
Senators Burgin of Davidson
and BlackStock Of Bncombc to-
day introduced a bill to put the
state in the power business by
creating state hydroelectric
commission empowered to buy and
operate plants and to sell power
at cost to municipalities and in
dividuals.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Mrs. {. B. Devine
Is Given Burial
Was Sister of Mrs. John A.
Coston of This City

ASHEVILLE. April 14.-FinaI
rites for Mrs. G. B. Devinc, 20,
who died Wednesday in an Ashe-
vile sanitarium after long i'll
ness. were conducted yesterday
afternoon at Brownell-Dunn fu-
neral chapel.
The Rev. E. Gibson Davis, pas
tor Of First Baptist church, Of
ficiated. Burial was in Riverside
cemetery. PallbearerS were How
ard Etheridge. Herbert c. Allen,
R. J. Craddock, l.. D. Nancy, o.
Y. kirkpatrick, and Roy Aberna'
thy.
Mrs. Devine is survived by her
husband; her father, w. M.
Pruitt, of Asheville. two brothers.
Harry Pruitt, of Asheville, and
Kenneth Pruitt, of the United
States navy; and two sisters,
Mrs. John A. Coston of Hender-
sonville, and Miss Hazel Pruitt OF
Asheville.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
Are RenOvating
SkyIand Hotel
For New Season
Several Thousand Dollars
viii Be Spent on
improvements

In anticipation of successful
summer season. a force Of men u
now at work renovatiug the H.
terror of the Skyland hotel, thH
linen supply has been re-stockcd'
and other improvements will he
made.
An expenditure of several tlou,
sand dollars is contemplated at
the hotel, and local labor is b"in!
employed. w. f. Owen, painting
foreman of the J. A. Jones Con
struction Co., of Charlotte. is SD
pervising the work.
The entire interior Of the botel
will be painted and decorated, in
Guiding the lobby, kitchen, coffee
shop, and guest rooms. In addl,
ton the exterior of the hotel will
be water-prOofed and re-painted
At present the force a t wor;
consists of seven men, but Others
are expected to be added and The
work is expected to require sew
craI weeks. The ballroom is be
ing redecOrated first and IS OK
pected to be ready for use by
next Wednesday, The work on the
lobby will require several day
but will not interrupt operations
at the hotel. -,
Upper floors of the hotel will
be renovated first as these floors
are not generally in use during
this season Of the year, and az
they are completed work will be
done on the lower floors.
A beauty shop in one OF the
store rooms of the hotel is ais"
expected to be opened in the neaI
future.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-14
SOVIET MANCHURIAN ROW
OVER RAIL EQUIPMENT TO
BE ADJUSTED, IS BELIEF

(UP).-Soviet railroad and gov
eminent officials showed a con-
ciliatory spirit today in the tense
Manchu-Russian railroad dispute.
Manchoukuoan demands that
the Soviet return locomotives,
passenger cars and freight cars Of
the Chinese Eastern railroad al
legedly seized at the Manchu-Si-
berian border today resulted in
return of 600 freight cars.
Manchoukuo demanded abolish
ment. of Soviet customs houses at
Manchuli and Progranitchnaya,
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