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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
CHARGE MADE
GERMANS Sell
FOE SUPPLIES
japan Announces Commit
tee Report on Manchuria
Unacceptable

TOXIC, Jan. 16-(UP).-Inti-
nations by the Japanese war Of
flee today that the United States
and China had reached an accord
brought vigorous denial from
Joseph Clark Grew. United States
ambassador to Japan.
The statement from the war
office charged the United States
is supplying China with airplaneS
and automobiles and charged that
Germany is making large ship
ments Of machine guns and NUM-
lions to China.
PEIPING. Jan. 16.-(UP).--
Chinese officials feared today that
the Japanese were planning an
advance from the Great Wall to-
ward Tientsin.
Although the Shanhaikwan area
was quiet, the fears were based
on reports from Gen. Ho Chu Kuo,
commander of the Chinese garri-
son at Shanhaikwan. Heavy Chi
nese concentrations were reported
along the railway from Tientsin
to Shanhaikwan. Japanese were
concentrating at Suichung and
Chinchow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
WEATHER

Warmer tonight and Tuesday
al increasing cloudiness to-
morrow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16

A hypocrite Is 4 man who
prays for delivery from temp
tation and then slips out to the,
auto show. ..
Evening star., 1933-11-26
PROFESSORS CHARGE
HOLT is INTOLERANT
Dismissal of Rollins Teachers
Called Infringement of
Academic Freedom.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A committee of the American Asso-
citation of University Professors reported
Friday it found DR.. Hamilton Holt,
president Of Rollins College, Winter
Park, Fla, had "infringed upon" aca-
demic freedom and liberty Of opinion
among his faculty.
The committee. sent to investigate
dismissal of several members of Rollins
faculty last Spring, published its report
in the November bulletin of the as
sociation.
Prof. John A. Rice, one of II to be
dismissed or resign. was found by the
committee to have been dismissed
upon charges which would in most
American institutions of higher educa-
tion not be regarded as grounds for
that action in such a case"
Dismissals of Profs. Ralph Iced
Loundsbury and F. r. Georgia, the re-
port stated. showed extreme intoler-
ance of legitimate criticism and dissent
in the college" and amounted to "a
breach of faith on the part of the
president, the Executive Committee and
the Board of Trustees"
The committee found no hearing was
granted any Of the professors on spe.
cific charges.
Although Prof. Rice was cited in the
and taste in conflicts of opinion with
Dr., Holt, the committee said his dis
missal removed from Rollins, known
widely for its novel method of educa
ton, the teacher who had done more
than any other at the college Ito pro-
woke the spirit of critical inquiry among
his students" and to develop "construc-
tive results both in thought and in
character"
Evening star., 1933-11-26
EituinOff Creates
Ne,oConceptionof of
Russian in Capital
PrOues Great WindOtU
Shopper and Sight
seer While in City.

By the Associated Press.
Maxim Ltvinoff, on his way home
with American recognition of the Soviet
Union in his brief case, gave Washing
tonians a new conception of the Boil
sheviki.
The curiosity about the man who
handles foreign affairs of the Commu-
mist regime was intensified by the great
guard of uniformed and plain clothes
policemen provided upon his arrival and
for the first day of his stay in the
Capital
This policing annoyed the visiting
diplomat. 1t was discontinued at his
request. Dur'u the last Is OF his II
days in the Capital only one Secret
Service man accompanied him.
Litvinoff, great window shopper,
walked endlesslv about the Capital. He
visited parks, libraries, museums, public
buildings and made numerous motor
trips into neighboring Maryland and
Virginia. Everywhere the smiling good
natured sightseer, whose picture was
widely published, was generally recog-
nized.
His reputation as blunt, direct
Washinstonians WISHING Ian expected to see a
rough, hard-fsted Russian dressed in
accordance with the cartoonEtS con-
ceptions of Bolshevists.
They were disappointed. The stocky,
huently but with decided accent. was
not unlike thousands of foreign-born
business men in the United States.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
10000 D. c. REALTY |
TAXLEv|ES UNPAID
List includes 4, 900 More Par.
GELS Than Year Ago.
qrs Sale in January.

Thirty thousand parcels Of real estate
in the District will be advertised for
auction sale because Of non-payment.
OF taxes during the past fiscal year,
1t was announced yesterday by William
T. Richards, tax assessor. The sale.
will be held at the District Building
during the first week in January.
The assessor, in keeping with Dis
trict regulations. yesterday closed his.
books on the impending tax sales. Legal
advertisements Of the January auction
will be published December 6 and De-.
cember 13.
Property owners who are able to pay
the back taxes between now and Janu-.
airy will avoid having properties SUBJ
jecr to the sale. The advertisements.
however, will be published regardless Of
what payments are made between now
and December 6.
The number of properties on which
taxes are delinquent at this time is
1000 more than was the case a year
ago. About 5000 of the $4,000 parcels
advertised for auction last December
we're eliminated on payment Of the de-
Nnquent taxes -
Last year the District government
was forced to bid in most of the prop
erty subject to the tax sale because the
operations of the professional tax
brokers had been drastically curtailed7
BY economic conditions. II Is expected
the same condition will prevail this
year.
Property owners whose holdings are,
sold at the public auction have two
years in which to redeem their prop.
critics.
More than 81 ,ooo. 900 in delinquent
taxes, which accrued during the past
fiscal year. is involved in the FORTH
coming auction.
Evening star., 1933-11-26

Dutchess County. This led to work in
politics and with Mrs. Roosevelt, she
worked steadily from 1924 to 1928 or
ganizing Women's Democratic Clubs
throughout the State. She started the
Junior Democratic Clubs for boys and
girls from 18 to 81. For several years
she arranged that scholarships should
be given to the members at the end Of
a years work. They were given their
choice of going to college or being
sent to Geneva or taking cash
scholarship. Most Of them. she said.
took the money and used it for their
college tuition.
Then she went to the Houston con-
vention as representative at large from
New York.
Friends of Roosevelts.
For many years the Morgenthaus
have been close friends Of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt and Prof. Warren
of Cornell and William Myers. Farm
Credit Administrator. Agricultural
problems were common interest to
all of them. Every year Cornell Uni
versity has what is called farm week"
For seven days intensive lectures are
given and demonstrations of scientific
improvements In farm implements are
carried on, to which farmers are in
vited Mr. and Mrs. Morgenthau and
President and Mrs. Roosevelt went
there together every year. Here again
Mrs. Morgenthau was able to en-
courage a love of the stage. She
started playwriting contest, open to
every one. and the chosen play was
acted during farm week by university
students.
Now Mr.. and Mrs. Morgenthau and
their youngest child. Joan, are living
in spacious house on Kalorama road.
The two boys are in boarding school
Here. too, is the spaniel Tim. He is
the only thing I have brought from
the farm" said Mrs. Morgenthau. as
Tim rolled over on his silky back and
cast liquid, spaniel look at her.
Last year Mrs. Morgenthau used to
ride in Rock Creek Park with Mrs.
Roosevelt, but this year the doctors
have ordered quiet. So she is reading a
good deal, with Tim as company.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 25.-The ousting
Of an Evangelical church cabinet mem
ber and the resignation Of three noted
theological professors from the Nad
German Christian movement led many
churchmen tonight to believe that only
miracle can prevent schism in the
Protestant ranks.
Thousands asked whether Chancellor
Hitler will interfere and try to compel
the warning factions to stick together,
or will he, as political leader, keep
hands off in this religious quarrel?"
At the same time 400 pastors and
churchgoers in Westphalia wrote to
Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller that they
declined to take orders from the Reich's
church government and Bishop Adler
Of Westphalia.
Determined to Secede.
German Christians in Thuringia an
nounced today their determination to
secede from the Nazi church regime
because of questions of principle"
A secession also was declared in
Bavaria, while in Wuerttemberg 300
pastors made known they had broken
with the Naz Christians.
According to the Evangelical press
service, bishops in Bavaria, Wurttem-
berg, Hesse, the Palatinate and Baden,
who met in Stuttgart yesterday. de-
Clartd that they VIII nov leave the
pastors of the Emergency Federation
(nearly 800 young clergymen, most of
them war veterans, who declined to
ACCEPT the German Christian theology
to their fate in this fight"
The fight between the Nazi faction
headed by Dr. Joachim Hossenfelder,
leader of the German Christian move
ment. and the group led by former
Reichsbtshop Friedrich Won Dodel-
schwingh started more than week
ago with orders, later revoked, for the
suspension Of three pastors "for op-
posing the Nazi reconstruction Of the
church"
Bitterness Increases
Since then developments have occur
red with increasing bitterness-speecheS
at a mass meeting attacking the Old
Testament as outmoded; demands that
Bishop Hossenfelder be removed, and
Evening star., 1933-11-26
FlREFIGHTERS PRESENT
CLAIMS TO MRS. JENCKES
Formal Charges Not Divulged Dur.
ing Representatives Absence
in Philadelphia.

Definite charges against the admin
istration of the District Fire Depart
ment were filed late yesterday at the
Office of Representative Virginia E.
Jenckes, Democrat. of Indiana. by Paul
E. Jameson, attorney for the City Fire
Fighters Association. Mrs. Jenckes, to
whom these charges were first presented
orally as member of the special sub
committee on District investigations,
asked that they be placed before her
in the form Of brief for presentation
b. her to the congressional investiga-
tion, which she has requested from
Senator King and Mrs. Mary T. Nor
ton as chairmen, respectively, of the
Senate and House District Committees.
As Mrs. Jenckes was attending the foot
bali game in Philadelphia yesterday,
the charges as presented by MIR. jamie
son were not made public.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Acting Secretary
OF Vars Identity
Hard to Determine
Gen. COnIey assumes Re.
sp0nsibility Under Odd
Circumstances.

A light comedy entitled, "who Is the
Acting Secretary Of War;" was staged
at the War Department yesterday, and
the mysterious identity of that hapless
victim was never quite legally deter
mined.
With the Army and Navy game at
Philadelphia drawing heavily on the
personnel Of both departments, some
one who ought to have known better
asked the embarrassing question.
The lone clerk remaining in Secre-
tary Dern's Office didn't know the
answer The lone officer on duty in
the Office Of the chief of staff didn't
know. The press relations section
didn't know. Nor did the adjutant gen.
erals Office know the answer.
Then the presence of Brig. Gen. Ed
gar T. Conley. assistant adjutant gen
eral. was revealed.
Are you the mysterious Acting Sec
retary Of WARP" he was asked And
Gen. Conley didn't know-for certain
well, I guess I'm the ranking officer
left" he chuckled, "and I'm willing to
assume the responsibility If anything
happens. But as for being the legal
Acting Secretary of War, don't know
Evening star., 1933-11-26
FECHNER IN VERMONT
Will Conclude c. C. C. Unit Inspec-
tl0n in AREA TQmQrTQW,

Inspection of Civilian Conservation
Corps units in Vermont by Robert C..
Fechner, national director Of emergency
conservation relief, will be climaxed TO-
morrow when Army officers, Forest
Service employees and members of the
corps will hold a meeting at Norwich
University, Northf1eld, VT. Approx
attend.
Gov. Stanley C. Wilson, Perry H.
Miller, commissioner OF forestry; Col
Charles H. Plumley. president Of Nor
wich University; Gen. Fox Conner,
commanding officer of 1st Corps Area:
Col. Joseph F. Barnes, commanding
officer of the second C. C. C. district,
and other officials interested in the
forest projects will attend.
Director Fechner will address the
gathering.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
FILLING STATION HANDS
VOTE TO RETURN TO JOBS
Accept With Slight Notifications
Peace Offer of Eight st.
Louis Companies.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, November 25-Striking
filling station employees late last night
accepted. with slight modification. the
peace offer Of eight major companies
and voted to return to work yesterday.
Approximately 600 filling stations
owned by the eight companies-Stand-
ard, Phillips, Texas, National, Dubrite,
Shell, Cities Service and Sinclair-have
been closed since Saturday, when 1,500
attendants struck for higher wages and
union recognition.
The wage. union and other issues Of
the strike will be arbitrated before the
National Petroleum Labor Policy Board
The strikers voted to return to work
after Secretary of the Interior Ickes had
appealed to them by telegram to submit
the controversy to the board.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Scl,ism IN Protestant Ranks
Seen Ouer Nazi Movement
Evangelical Church Cabinet Member Is
Ousted and -Four Noted Theological
Professors Resign. 4

Mueller's agreement to rescind all
church laws Of recent months, tnclud-
ing the bothersome clause pertaining
to the participation Of Jews in church
work
Bishop Hossenfelder forced Simon
Schoeffel, Bishop Of Hamburg, to resign
from the church cabinet.
Almost simultaneously Profs. Carl
w. Fezer, Arthur Weiser and Hans
Rueckert of Tubingen University quit
the Nazi movement in disgust.
posed of Bishop Schoeffel, DR.. Hossen-
fielder, Reichsbishop Mueller, DR.. Helm
rich Weber of Munster, representing
the Reformed Church members, and
DR.. Friedrich Werner Of Berlin, legal
counselors.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
ARMY MEN ARE CITED
FOR RESCUE OF SOLDIER
Three Officers and Enlisted Man in
Hawaii to Receive Soldiers
Medal.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Three Army officers and an enlisted
man stationed at Schof1eld Barracks,
Hawaii were cited yesterday in a War
Department order for the Soldiers
Medal as a result Of the rescue OF
fellow trooper on an Hawaiian beach.
Those cited were Maj. Cliff Andus OF
New York City, Capt. Louis Bliton OF
Monroe, N. c.; Capt. Lowell r. Hanson
of Tuscaloosa, Ala, and Pvt. John A.
Chowaniec, Buffalo, N. Y. All are at
tached to the 18th Field Artillery at
Schof1eld Barracks.
The order said they rescued Pvt. (First
Glass; Alexander j. Kaye Of the same
regiment after his boat capsized on a
surf-swept coral reef at Mokuleis, Oahu.
Kaye ives unable to swim.
The Soldiers Medal is for acts OF
heroism not involving actual conflict
with an enemy.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
100 WILL GET Jobs
|NH0US|NG SURVEY
Valuable Data Expected d
From Study to Start Tomor-
row Under c. W. A.

One hundred men and women Of the
| white collar" class will be set to work
under the District Civil Works Admin
istration before the end of this week
on a housing and rental survey, planned
several days ago, 1t was announced yes
| terday by a special committee on this
phase OF the work, headed by William
| P. Richards, assessor.
The survey will provide great mass
| of information regarded as valuable to
the Public Utilities Commission in Its
study of rental conditions here, being
made at the direction Of the United
| States Senate. The data will be Of use
also to other District agencies, on
cials say.
Thorough Canvass Planned.
The plan of the survey calls for q
house toulouse canvass of the District
beginning with the old limits Of WASH
| ington. Later the survey win be ex-
tended to the outlying sections.
Office space, equipment and supplies
now are being procured.
James Ring. rent research assistant
| to the Utilities Commission, a member
of the Housing Survey Committee, said
Yesterday the workers making the can
vass would seek information on the fol-
lowing questions:
Occupancy: Is the dwelling rented,
occupied by the owner, vacant and for
| rent, and race Of occupants, II premises
| ore Tented2
Type: Family residence. two-family
| building, apartment, rooming house, or
| rooms over store?
Construction. Brick, frame, row, semi.
detached, detached?
Size to Be Checked.
Description: Number of stories in
building, number of rooms, number OF
baths. basement. garage space?
Utilities: Water In house. hydrant In
yard, water-closets, electricity and gas?
Heat: Coal, oil or gas furnace, OF
latrobe, or wood or coal burning stoves?
What rent Is charged now and what
was charged a year ago?
What is the number of occupants over
16 years of age; the number under 16?
Special forms will be used for apart
ment and rooming houses on which
C. w. A. agents will seek additional in
formation as to service and equipment
At least so persons will be employed to
conduct the canvass. The remainder will
be stationed in the offices Of the Survey
Committee to tabulate the information
daily as obtained by the canvassers.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
BY GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS.


"HE wife of Acting Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau, is a
lady of dark-eyed elegance. Her
manner Is tranquil and her voice
unobtrusiye She regards her
husbands career and her own position
with the detached interest of woman
whose concerns have been diversified.
Mrs. Morgenthau was born and edu-
Gated i'll New York. When she went to
VasSar she became absorbed with what
has since become her hobby, the the
ater. She started the Workshop"
there, where the students write and
produce their own plays.
the Neighborhood Playhouse in New
York and put on the first childrens
play ever produced there. 1t was called
The Gift of the Fairies" written by an
Englishwoman named Meta Syrrett.
The little children who acted in it lived
in the neighborhood and special music
was written for it.
Takes Up Farm Life.
When she married Mr. Morgenthau,
whom have always known" she said,
she went to live on his farm near
PoughkeepSie. She could not continue
with this work steadily in New York,
so she started the Community Theater
in Poughkeepsie and one Winter she
gave q course on the history of the
theater at a theatrical school in Man
haitian
The farm is in a rolling agricultural
country. On it they grow apples and
sell milk. 1T is a lovely spot" Mrs.
Morgenthau said, II get SO homesick
for it. The children love it devotedly
and we are all going there for part of
the Thanksgiving holidays"
When Mr.. and Mrs. Morgenthau were
married, they lived in an old house with
no electricity. Then the three children
came and they moved to roomy, white
frame house. Its style was essentially
Victorian and as they remodeled it and
renovated it, they kept the Colonial
quality. In Mrs. Morgenthau's room
where she works. are collection of
bright Currier and Ives prints. Circling
the house are great maple trees and
skirting the drive is broad row of
them
This city-bred lady has become at
tached to all the country can give.
She delved into community work in
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Property owners whose holdings are
Dies Before Harvard Glass.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, November Is
P)-Stricken with a heart attack be-
fore a class of 20 men and women to-
day. Prof. George H. Barton of the de-
partment of geology at Harvard Uni
versity, died in the class room as a doc
tor arrived to administer to him. He
was 81 years old. :
Evening star., 1933-11-26
INCREASE OF OF PER CENT
IN LIVING COST is NOTED
Fortnight Ending November z Saw
Rise, u. s. Figures Show.
Eggs and Cereals Up.
b. the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press.
An increase In the cost Of living Of
one-fifth of 1 per cent in the two
weeks ending November z was an
nounced yesterday by the Bureau of La
nQr Statistics, the bureau said the IN
dex figure for retail food prices in 81
cities increased to 1867 during that
time.
The high point for the year was Sep.
tember 6, when the index was 1914.
Present retail food prices, the bureau
said, are more than 18 per cent above
the low point reached in April, when
the index was 9o.4. The bureau takes
1918 as base of 100.
The rise was due to a general
strengthening in average prices Of eggs,
lard and cereal products. Fresh milk,
potatoes, beans and vegetables re-
manned unchanged. Meat items and
fresh fruits weakened.
German Highways Good.
Automobile roads IN Gerrnanv nou
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Seek Paris Trade.

British dressmakers are making an
other bold bid to capture the Paris
trade.
Evening star., 1933-11-26

Siam Builds Railways.
The government Of Siam Is boosting
railway construction.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
The high point for the year was

German Highways Good.
Automobile roads In Germany now
have a total mileage of 217,935.
Evening star., 1933-11-26

Since then developments have occur
red with increasing bitterness-speecheS
at a mass meeting attacking the Old
Testament as outmoded: demands that
Bishop Hossenfelder be removed, and
The Washington times., 1933-04-04
BRIDE FOES SET
FOR BATTLE

Organized opposition to the re-
appointment of William w.
Bride as Corporation Counsel is
expected to develop at a "sur-
prise" meeting of the House Dis
trict Committee scheduled for TO-
morrow.
The meeting has been called
by Representative Mary T. Nor
ton, Democratic chairman, al
though her office denies that any
meeting has been called.
10 Back Bride
According to those who have
received notices, it is to be a
harmony" meeting at which the
candidacy of Bride will be dis
cusSed pro and con with an idea
of obtaining full committee sup
port. ...
At last reports, Chairman Nor
ton had only obtained 10 Of the
81 committee members to sup
port Bride, two of them being
Republicans.
Representative Wright Patman
Cd Of Texas, who is leading
the opposition against Brides
reappointment, refused to COM
ment. However, his friends said
he would have additional evil
dence to present if he were in
vited to attend.
The Washington times., 1933-04-04
STUDIES
P|ERSON DATA

Assistant Corporation Council
Robert E. Lynch today began
compiling data in preparation for
the trial before a special trial
board of Capt. Joseph w. Pier
son, commander of the Second
police precinct, on a charge Of
intoxication.
Captain Pierson was suspended
approximately three weeks ago
after police officials claimed they
found him intoxicated at his
home when he was supposed to
be on sick leave. No liquor was
found in the veteran police cap
tain's home, however, and it is
understood he will make a
blanket denial of the charges
against him.
Trial of Captain Pierson is 70
be before a special board ap.
pointed by the District Commits
sioners.
The case has been delayed
while Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride studied the evi-
dence in an effort to decide
whether or not to bring the case
to trial or drop it. A conference
on the matter between Bride
and John F. Costello, national
Democratic committeeman and
counsel for Pierson, was held
several days ago.
The Washington times., 1933-04-04
Arlington Women
Elect NeLD Officers

Mrs. c. M. Rogers, of Ballston,
was reelected president of the
Arlington county Democratic
Women's Club at a meeting last
night in Clarendon.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Magruder, first vice
president; Mrs. Isabel Simpson,
second vice president; Mrs. Her
meine Reichert, recording secre-
tary; Miss Pauline Knee. CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Prescott
Bates, treasurer; Mrs. Dudley Har-
rison. parliamentarian, and Mrs.
Mary Perkins Snyder, historian.