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Evening star., 1933-12-25
RH0DANTHE CHRISTMAS
CELEBRATED JANUARY 5
Natives of Village OF North Caro-
lima Coast Hold to Custom
of Past Generations.

BY the Associated Press
kHODANTHE. N. c.. December 25-
Most Of the world celebrated Christmas
today. but in this village off the coast
Of North Carolina the natives went
about their business waiting for jan
uary Sold Christmas
Villagers since the time OF the set
tlement was founded have observed
January as Christmas instead of to-
day. 1t was the custom before the
present generation and the custom BE-
fore that.
few of the younger fox who fol-
low the modern trend declal ed the dav
one OF celebration. but the oldsters ad-
here to tradition and Will wait for the
day next month when they Will lay
aside their nets. exchange presents and
listen to a Christmas sermon.
Before transportation sped up resi-
dents Of Upper Rhodanthc-there really
are two yiilaSes-visited residents Of
Lower Rhodanthe on December IS and
on January S the visit would be re-
paid. The exchange OF visits var ed.
first one section visiting the other and
then the other paying the first visit.
Now. however. the villag2rs have re-
verted to the age-old custom and todav
was merely December Is as they waited
for their real Christmas Gay.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
IACQU|TTAL Of FOUR
IN FIRE ACCEPTED
German Newspapers Express
Satisfaction at Verdict
of Supreme Court.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BERLIN, December 25-With only a
few exceptions, German newspapers
accepted yesterday with satisfaction the
verdict Of the Supreme Court acquitting
four Of those charged with high treason
in the burning of the Reichstag last
February and the sentencing to death
of the Dutch brick mason, Marinu3 van
der Lubbe for the crime.
There is little to say" said the Bocr-
sen Zeitung. The Boersen Courier gave
little prominence to the story. saying
only, The Supreme Court has spoken. -
Opposition Dies Down.
The Lokalanzeiger said, The white
stick was broken over Van der Lubbe's
head, but the fight against his insti-
gators and accomplices must be carried
further
Previous opposition to the verdict.
which f1ared up in the more militant
section of the Nazi press. protesting the
''leniency" shown to Ernest Torgler,
former Communist leader in the Reich
stag, and the three Bulgarians, had
largely died down.
The. method by which Van der Lubbe
is to be executed, whether by hanging
or beheading. has yet to be determined
by the federal government Only Pres
ident Won Hindenburg or Chancellor
Hitler has the right to commute or
change the sentence
Since the Nazis came into power more
than so persons have been executed
throughout the Reich, during a period
in which Chancellor Hitler declared be-
fore his accession to the chancellory
that heads will rolf throughout
Germany.
Score Await AK
Only four were executed in 1881.
Even now score Of condemned Prus-
slams await the AK in jail. Their execu-
tions were regarded as certain to in
crease the "heads will rolf list in 1924.
The majority of those sent to the
block since the NaZiS came into power
| in Germany were convicted OF killing
storm troopers. Among those awaiting
death are 10 Communists who were
present at slayings Of storm troopers,
but who were said TO have taken no
part in the crimes
Evening star., 1933-12-25
SLAIN BANDIT WANTED
IN DES MONIES ROBBERY
Detroit Fingerprint Expert Reveals
Man Killed in Filling Station
Hold-up Had Police Record.

BY The Associated Press.
DETROIT. December 25.-A bandit
who was fatally wounded in an un-
successful attempt to hold up gaso-
line filling station Saturday night was
said by Mai. M. E. Taves Of the Police
Fingerprint Bureau today to be Ted
Patterson. alias Ted j. Pollock, wanted
for questioning in connection with a
band robbery In Des Moines, Iowa.
June 10.
Police files on Patterson show he had
served prison terms in various States
since 1923, and that he was arrested in
November, 1880, at Springfield, H.. and
sentenced for bank robbery. Released
on bond pending a new trial. police
circulars show he was arrested in Chi
cago last February on a charge OF
conspiracy to kidnap
The attempted hold-up here failed
when Floyd Smith. gasoline station at
tendant, ignored q command to get
going up the alley" and grappled with
the bandit In the scuff1e Smith seized
his assailant's pistol and shot him
through the body.
The bandit died in hospital this
morning
Evening star., 1933-12-25
FREED IIFER' COLLAPSES
New York Nan Suffers Nervous
Breakdown After Pardon.

BUFFALO. N. Y, December IS fPl.-
Edward Larkman. New York State S
first "lifer" ever to receive an uncondi-
tional pardon under the present parole
system is spending his first Christmas
outside prison walls in nine years. under
a physicians care. suffering from nerv-
ours breakdown and a high fever.
Released from Clinton Prison late
Tuesday after serving eight years of a
life sentence. Larkman. according to
friends. has been keyed to high pitch
OF excitement at being once more with
his wife and 9-year-old daughter.
Yesterday he insisted on trimming
the family Christmas tree. While SO
engaged, it Is said. dropped into chair
and gave way to unrestrained weeping.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
PSEUDO TAXlCAB DRIVER
STARTS NEW RACKET
Asks Families for Money to Get
His Picture Taken to En-
able Him to Get Job.

He could get Job driving taxi II
he had SIPS in order to have picture
made. an unidentified man told three
members of her family at different
times. Mrs w. j. Kerlin. 1865 Church
street. reported to The Star Saturday.
The members of her family she said,
were approached separately and each
contributed from rs cents to SIPS.
However. the validity of the man S
claim became questionable. she said.
when the three members got together
and told each other of their recent
philanthropic enterprise.
Belief that the mans requests con-
stituted new racket" caused her to
report the occurrence. Mrs. Kerlin said
in order to warn others from being VIC
timized by the newest 'racketeers."
Evening star., 1933-12-25
HEADS THIRTEEN CLUB

Edgar Morris was elected president
of the Thirteen Club Thursday night
at the annual election meeting at the
Willard Hotel.
Other officers elected were Charles
W. Prettyman, vice president; j. Frank
Moulton, secretary; J. Herbert Taylor,
treasurer; William N Rehlaender. par
liamentarian: Paul J. Dieler marshal.
and Charles E. Jackson and Dr. Philip
B. Matz. members Of the board Of
governors
Evening star., 1933-12-25
FARMER IS CHARGED
WITH SLAYING LANDLORD
Police Allege He Wanted to Be
"Free" to Go Home for
Christmas


BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, December 25.-
A 28-year-old tenant farmer spent this
Christmas in jail cell charged with
Staying his landlord in order to be
free" to return to his home in vir-
ginia.
The suspect Is Raymond w. Eagle,
who told State police he came from
Mount Solon in Augusta County. Va.
He was arrested yesterday short
time after a Shellsville undertaken in
formed State police that the body of
Harry Blatt, So. had been brought to
him with a bullet wound in the head.
Trooper KneisS OF the Harrisburg
barracks quoted Eagle as saying his
father had asked him to return home.
but that he didn't want to walk out"
on Blatt because the latter had been
so kind to him.
The trooper said Eagle told him that
on Saturday he saw Blatt working on
an engine near the barn and that he
went to the second floor of the barn
and fired at the landlord, believing that
the farm would be sold as a result and
he'd be free to leave.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
200 Winter COZ

eCoats from our Better Makers
sMany 'Sample' Goats included
sPlenty Of Large Size Goats
sSkunk, Badger, Silrered Kit Fox
sCaracul, Brorn Wolf. Marmink
sFitch, Kit Fox, Lapin (rabbiD
sMmchurian Wolf (dogskin)
sPointed Manchurian Volt (dog-
skim
Sizes IA to 20, 38 to so, 33I2 to 45l2
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
Hotel Attaches
Part of Austin
Show Receipts

A part of the box office receipts
of the Broadway Rhapsody show,
which played at the Carolina thea
ire yesterday, was attached at
the evening performance by a
warrant taken before Magistrate
w. L. Miller by the Skyland Ho-
tel company.
The plaintiff alleged in the COM
plant that one ]. n. Montgomery,
agent for the company, contract
ed for reservations at the hotel
some time ago, and that this con-
tract had been broken by the COM
pany.
The complaint further alleged
that the hotel company had been
put to considerable expense in
preparing for the troupe.
The warrant of attachment
mentioned the Broadway Rhap-
sody Co.. Robert Kerr, manager,
J. n. Montgomery, agent, and
Gene Austin.
The show company left for
Asheville after playing two per
formances here. The program
featured songs by Gene Austin,
monograph recording and radio
star and number of vaudeville
acts tied together by dialogue,
orchestra numbers and the like
The show drew only fair patron
age yesterday afternoon, but q
large audience was present last
night and , the performances at,
traeted much, favorable comment
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
New Anti-Jewish Atrocities Are
Described by Terrified Refugees
Fleeing Across the German Border

PARIS, March 23.-(UP).-
Fresh tales of alleged persecution
and torture are being brought
into France by frightened refu-
gees streaming across the German
border ahead of the anti-Jewish
storm under the Hitherto regime
on the other side of the Rhine.
The refugees are arriving in
increasing numbers. One travel
er described Germany as divided
into half. This informant said:
"The jubilance Of half the pop
ulace, flushed with victory and
power, contrasts luridly with the
sullen resentment and hatred of
the other half. Lest the millions
of Communists, Socialists. Liberal
Catholics, Jews and Democrats at
tempt to strike back, the Brown
Terror was hurled against enc
mics of the regime"
Describing the start of the
"panic," another refugee said:
'"The panic started as a rivu-
lent Just after Hitler's appoint
ment to the chancellorship on Jan.
30. A few hundred, later thou
sands. who knew their names -
be on Hitler's blacklist and re-
called his threat that heads will
roll in the sand,' began to tricklc
out of the country. At the same
early stage, numerous jewish
owned stores started to sell out
with a view to closing. The
stream of terror grew and has
deluged the country"
The fear which spread was de-
scribed by various refugees reach
ing Paris. They said that this fear
resulted in extreme caution in
daily life which, it was admitted,
frequently assumed absurd forms.
Another like the others refusing
to permit his name to be used,
saying he feared reprisals, said:
"People were afraid in restau-
rants to talk above whisper. On
streets, cabs, buses and subways,
passengers talked in muffled
voices and usually lapsed into 81
lence when a Hitherto Brown
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
Mayor Thanks
H. S. Boys Who
Made Benches
Appears Personally at AS.
sembly; Junior Carnival
Is Set March 81

Yesterdays assembly hour at
the city high school was featured
by a personal appearance of May
or Edwards, when he thanked the
bows of the vocational class for
their work in making benches
which have been placed on Main
street, and asked that the entire
school cooperate in the preserva-
ton of these benches, and by the
appearance of Albert Hewitt,
tenor who, accompanied by Miss
Mary Brooks, sang three songs,
al Must Go Down to the Sea
Again" Mother Machree," and
"Ah Sweet Mystery of Life"
Among the I announcements
made was that by Pat Brown thai
tentative plans for the Junior
carnival had been made for this
event to. be held in the city gym
nasium on March 81. 49,,
The assembly hour opened with
a song scripture reading by Miss
Ellen Fain. and the recital of the
Lords Prayer by the assembly.
Banners were awarded three
home rooms for having no tardles
during the week ending yesterday
These went to Miss Patton's sew
enth grade section, the nintf
GrsJo Girls under Miss Allen. and
the senior boys in Miss ram
room. ,,
In addition to this, basketball
trophies were awarded to the SEN
Tor bows and the junior girls by
L. K. Singley. Mr.. Slngley Is
credited with the success of the
intramural tournament.
The cup which the Honor 30
ciatv awards each six weeks was
piyen to the eleventh and seven'h
Grades by Miss Mary Lummus
These two grades tied the last SIN
weeks for first place in scholar
ship.
room project by Miss Valentines
home room of eighth grade boys
and girls was given to home room
101. senior girls, Mrs. Baughman
snonsor. for first in cooperation
and Miss Shepherds home room
and Miss Valentines home room
which also completes for thS>
award. tied for second place.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
Miss E. ". Risk
Dies Suddenly

Miss Elizabeth W. Risk, CT,
died of a heart attack last night
at 9:45 o'clock at the Cedars,
where she has been guest this
winter. Funeral services will be
held at the Catholic church Fri
day at / p. M, and indications
from the message received by
friends here from her brother,
Captain James l.. Risk, from Coco,
Fla, who will arrive here tomor-
row shortly before the funeral,
were that he will take the body
to Florida for interment.
Miss Risk and her brother oc-
cupy a summer home in Brevard.
Year before last she spent the
winter here, and last winter she
resided in Asheville. Some months
ago she suffered a fractured hip
bone from a fall, and had recov-
cred from this but was receiving
treatment for a, heart ailment.
Both Miss Risk and her brother
had travelled widely and she had
resided in many parts of this
country and had spent many years
of residence abroad, as well.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
Kiwanians Tell
What They'd Do
Il They Were Is

Thee members of the kiwaniS
club told the club today what
they would do if they were Is
years of age.
Speaking on a program ar
ranged by the vocational guild,
ance committee, S. J. ChildS SAID
he would be a farmer, HI,
wanian and marry the same girl
T. H. Franks said he would at,
tend the same high school, study
law at a large university and
seek out old men to advise him.
and Noah Hollowell said he would
chart a course in journalism,
learn all he could how to edit
and publish a newspaper under
the difficulties that beset that
profession, and then probably
be a good collector for the Cham
Der of commerce.
The Rev. w. H. Ford, commit,
tee chairman, reported that club
members had made 81 vocation,
al guidance talks in county
high schools in the last Two
months and exhibited a sheaf of
letters of appreciation from high
schol principals. The committee
also has sponsored the junior
Kiwanian idea, one high schQo'
senior being elected each month
and probably will arrange to
present an achievement medal tC
the most outstanding high schoo
graduate each spring.
George Flanagan, Jr., Kiwan
ian for March, made a brief tall
of appreciation to the club, say,
ing he hoped before many years
to become a regular club mem
Der.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
BY ERIC KEYSER
United Press Staff Correspondent
DEDIINr Mo,oI 90 ITTDN

United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, March 22.-(UP)-
Blunt charges that propaganda
stories of German atrocities "rem-
iniscent of wartime" were being
circulated in the United States re-
garding the Hitherto anti-Jewish
campaign were leveled at the
American press in official quar-
tiers yesterday.
A government spokesman told
the United Press that in the eyes
of the new regime deliberate eff
fort was being made to misrepre-
sent conditions during these days
of transition from the postwar
republic to a dictatorship under
Fascist control.
The spokesman was particularly
bitter about dispatches appearing
in the New York press.
"The reports being circulated in
the United States, especially in
the New York press, about Ger
many, appear to us to be part of
a campaign of intentional falsifi-
cation" he said. "Some are rem
iniscent of wartime propaganda
stories of German atrocities in
Belgium.
"The American public ought to
be capable by now of discriminat-
ing, especially as that wartime
propaganda has long since been
! exploded"
Turning to other topics, the
spokesman indicated that despite
the desire of the United States
to prolong the life of the Ameri-
Gentleman mixed claims commits
sion on war claims, Germany in
tended soon to reopen negotia-
tions for abrogation of the COM
mission.
He declared that 1000 or more
of the pending claims cases had
been filed after the expiration Of
the 1923 deadline. The deadline,
he pointed out, already has been
extended twice, and Germany can
no longer see the use in prolong-
ing this procedure.
Considerable interest in foreign
quarters was aroused by the de-
CONTINUED on page three)
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Shirt appeared.
Diplomats, bankers and poll
ticians quit using the telephone.
tapped by informers, and devoted
hours to paying personal visits in
order to talk to friends without
being overheard. They would tele-
phone acquaintance from public
booths. using code names and
agreeing to meet at 'Alice's' or
'Gretchen's,' yelled designations
for familiar restaurants"
Others told of alleged raids on
homes by men in Brown Shirt
Nazi uniforms. Describing these
raids, refugee said:
"They set out between mid
night and dawn. armed and in
squads anywhere from four to 20
strong. Their victims might in
clude not only Jews, but Com
munists, Socialists. Pacifists,
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
ROOSEVELT PRAISED
BEFORE COMMONS

LONDON, March 23.-UP)--
A tribute to the courage displayed
by President Franklin D. Roose-
welt in the brief time since ne
took office on March A was paid
in the House Of Commons yester-
day by Neville Chamberlain,
chancellor of the exchequer.
Chamberlain, in a speech on
world economic conditions, said:
"Only few weeks ago he could
not have looked at the condition
of the United States without feel
ings of the greatest anxiety.
To-day, owing to the initiative,
courage and wisdom of the new
president, a change is taking place
which might almost be called
miraculous" ''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
{. of {. Takes no
Stand as to Tax

Formal denial was made at the
offices of the Chamber of Com
merce this forenoon of rumor
current on the streets today that
a message had been sent by Cham
Der of Commerce officials to Ra-
leigh. asking for the passage of
the sales tax.
In recognition of this rumor it
was said that the Chamber Of
Commerce has neither considered
nor taken action for or against a
sales tax. 1t was said further that
if any merchants want the matter
of a sales tax considered either as
a whole, or by groups such as gro
GERS, hardware. dry goods OF, other
groups, the office will be glad 20
take this matter up with them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
TO
REFORESTI N 6.
BILL SMASHED
White House Conference
With Senate Groups
Is Held
CONGRESS WILL
ACT NEXT WEEK

WASHINGTON, March %. -
(UP).-President Roosevelt last
night smashed through congress
sional opposition to his unem-
ployment reforestation program
in a lengthy White House con
ference with members of the
house and senate labor commit,
tees.
After Mr.. Roosevelt had in
sisted on his program designed
to put 100000 unemployed men
to work at once, leaders predict
ed the measure would pass viz
tually unchanged by the middle
of next week.
Despite the acquiescence of
most of those who attended last
night, Chairman William p.
Connery. Jr., of the house labor
committee left the White House
saying he is still opposed to the
bill and cannot support it.
Connery already has refused to
sponsor the measure.
Il told the president l could
not compromise" Connery said.
"He would not yield"
Connery opposes the bill chief
ly because of the 81 day wage
scale which he insists is too low.
1t was learned that Senator
Hugo Black, Democrat, Ala,
| likewise dislikes the measure be-
cause of this provision.
President Roosevelt, it was
reported, insisted at the confer
ence on the wide latitude given
him under the measure to carry
out this reforestatiOn project.
He explained that funds allo-
Gated for this work, which are
expected to total 5000, 900, OOC
would be drawn from money al,
lotted for public buildings or
which work is scheduled to be,
gin after 1884. Some objection
was raised to diverting public
| building projects funds.
The president also explained
that work first would be under,
taken on government projects.
President Roosevelt, whose ex.
PLANTATION of his project last night
was said by all present to be
very clear, declined to accept
any of numerous compromises
suggested, most of which came
from Connery.
/ The Massachusetts congress
man suggested a wage scale OF
$50 a month for single men ant
$50 a month for married mer
and a five-day week and six-houl
day.
As it stands. the bill carries
no limitation on hours of work
Connery also objected strenu
ously to the provision for what
he called a draft to be used II
employing the men.
"The selection proposed is the
same as the selective draft useC
during the war;" he said. eff {
man is selected he cannot get
out of it."
, Connery suggested volun
tary form of employment, with
a 3O-day limitation upon any
individual at the outset.
Predicting passage of the bill
Senator Frederic Walcott. Re
publican, said:
"My guess is that the presi
Continued on page four}
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|larles Edison
falls on People
flo Do Own Part
F'SeVelt Has Done His,
Jays Bulletin He
Orders Posted

|1SI ORANGE. n. j., March
UP. - Charles Edison,
the late Thomas A. Edi-
9day posted the following
va In all plants of the Edi-
Ampany:
.Sldent Roosevelt has done
AT; now you do something.
H. something-Buy any
n anywhere: paint your
~, send a telegram, give a
get a car, pay a bill, rent
Tx your roof, get a hair
\ e a show, build a house,
MP, sing u song, get mar
eoes not matter what you
r get going and keep go
so, ,ais old world is starting
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
SENATE !! \ GETS
FARM RELIEF
BILL TODAY
State Bank Relief Meas.
ure Approaches New
Vote in Senate

WASHINGTON, March 23. -
(UP)-The administration farm
relief bill passed yesterday by the
house was received in the senate
today. Immediately it was refer
red TO the agriculture committee.
This committee meets tomorrow
to consider the measure. A dele
CATION of congressional leaders
conferred on the bill today.
WASHINGTON, March %. -
(UP)-Relief for state banks APP
preached another senate vote to-
day after almost a week of shut
Ting it between the senate and
house. The modified measure now
combines the Steagall measure APP
proved by the house and the Bulk
ley bill passed in the senate.
Passage is expected by the sem
ate before night, but it must be
approved by the house before 60
ing to the president.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
Reports Good
Florida Season
VIM. P. Freeze Home From
Florida Stay

William P. Freeze, who has
been in business in Miami for
some time, has returned to Hen
Jacksonville and it is probable
that he will remain here.
Mr.. Freeze reports a success
full winter season in Miami. 1t
is said that the crowds there
have been the largest since boom
days and that the people of the
city are greatly pleased with the
business of the season. Mr.
Freeze says that other Florida
resorts have similar report OF
business. notably st. Petersburg
which city reports crowds larger
than in previous years since the
boom.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-23
TOXIC PRESSES
ISL AND CLAIM

TOXIC, March 23.--IUPJ.-A
fat claim for the annexation of
inundated islands in the Pacific
was made today by Japan when
the ministry of the navy circulat-
ed pamphlet expressing the in
domitable will of the empire
against surrendering the former
German colonies which had been
placed under its jurisdiction after
the World war.