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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
.LINDBERCHS
STILL BALKED
in TAKING OFF
Lack of Wind Foils Sew
eral Efforts to Lift
Big Ocean Plane
WOULD MAKE HOP TO
NATAL FROM AFRICA

BANKHURST. British Gambia,
Africa, Dec. 4.-(UP).-Col. and
Mrs. Lindbergh today awaited
freshening winds to enable them
to start on their projected non
stop flight over the South Allan
tic to Brazil.
They sought twice to raise their
powerful low winged seaplane
from the calm waters of the har-
Dor here. Lack of breeze made
it impossible to get the heavily
laden ship off the water.
They spent yesterday in futile
efforts to get away. Lindbergh.
nettled, declared they would hop
off Immediately after the wind
came up, even if it was in the
middle of the night. He would
have had practically a full moon
to guide him during a night flight
to South America. along a route
unknown to both him and his
wife, who is co-pilot and navi-
gator.
He later admitted that if the
wind failed to come up until very
late, they probably would wait
until dawn today. They could
make the 1,S70-mile Atlantic
fight in less than ID hours, eX-
perts believed, their fast ship be-
ing capable of cruising at $50
miles an hour for a cruising ra-
dius of about 1000 miles. With
tail wind they might better that
a little, but not much on so long
a fight. it was believed.
There was still no prospect Of
taking the air at 8 o'clock this
morning and at that time Lind
'bergh was ready to wait until
nightfall. if necessary, for an
other attempt.
Lindbergh removed 200 pounds
of baggage after the first futile
try to get the big plane into the
air. The water was too smooth,
for one thing, experts pointed
out. a heavy seaplane needing
choppy wavelets to break the sue
ton created by the swiftly Gid
ing pontoons, nearly as long as
the fuselage of the plane itself.
They tried again at 10 a. M,
Sunday, but despite the fact
Lindbergh "gave her the gun"
wide open, the ship merely shot
swiftly over the smooth waters
surface without rising. They re-
moved 40 gallons of gas as we'll
CONTINUED on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
May NOT Give
new PASSPORT
IS INDICATED
Former Magnate Would
Then Be Deported as
Undesirable Alien"
FRIENDLY FEELING OF
u. S. APPRECIATED

ATHENS, Dec. 4.-(UP).-
The Greek government "will en-
deavor to find a way to deliver
Samuel insult" fugitive Chicago
multi-millionaire, over to the Uni
ted States, Prime Minister Pana-
yoti Tsaldaris Informed the Uni
ted Press today.
Tsaldaris said he had promised
the United States minister that
the government would explore the
legal situation again. in an en-
deavor to meet the wishes of the
American government.
81 met the United States min
lister, who explained at length the
desire that Mr.. insult be delivered
to United States JUSTICE Tsal-
darts said. "He stressed the I'M
portance of finding a means to
achieve this"
GREEKS FAIRLY TREATED
81 replied to Mr.. MacVeagh."
Tslardaris said, chat I realized
the 100000 Greek residents OF
the United States had been fairly
treated, that appreciated the
United States assistance in set
Element of refugees, and the
friendly feeling of the United
States people towards Greece.
81 also told him that we real
lied insults presence here was
detrimental to the friendly rela-
tions between Greece and Amer-
lea. and that l would endeavor to
find a way to deliver insult over
to American Justice
M. Tsaldaris emphasized that
the means of delivering the ex-
Chicago magnate must not VIC
late the findings of the appell1t6
court nor wound the feelings Of
the Greek people"
1t was believed the means"
might be found in refusing to re-
new insults permission to remain
in Greece without a passport aft
err the expiration of his present
permit, on December 81, an :: then
by deporting him as an "undesira-
BILE alien"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04

Moley Says Question Is Whether
Price OF Gold And u. S. Products
Shall Be Fixed Here Or In England

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-(UP).
1t would be impossible to find 10
representative bankers on the
lower end of Manhattan who
would be willing for the country
to return at once to the gold
standard, Prof. Raymond Moley,
former head of the Roosevelt
brain trust, said in an address
yesterday at the Brooklyn Acad-
envy Of Music.
81 don't know where AL Smith
got his idea to the contrary"
Moley added.
what is the matter with the
world today, and what is the
matter with the United States?"
he asked. at is a silly thing.
We have the food and we have
the people to consume it. Yet
we cannot get them together.
That's the problem-to get food
and people together and get work
and people together. There are
two ends to the problem, produc-
ton and consumption
MOley explained that for years
the price Of gold was fixed each
day by the Bank Of England in
London, and the price of cotton
and wheat in Liverpool. One
element in the problem now, he
said, is to eliminate the "incon-
gruous element Of foreign price
fixing on American products, and
to fix the price here
Seeking to justify American
bidding for gold, he remarked:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Trade Farley May Develop Newly
Expressed Latin Opposition To
U.S.; Want Economic Freedom
Friendly Gesture by Hull
May Be Set at Naught
at Conference
By T. P. FARRELL
nited Press Staff Correspondent

| MONTEVIDEO, Urugay, Dec
|4.-UP).-A concerted demand
of Latin-American nations that
the United States agree to end
her policy of intervention, both
military and monetary, in the al
fairs of her neighbors in the
western hemisphere threatened
last night as the seventh Pan
American conference convened
! here to discuss peace and trade
possibilities.
The United Press learned au-
tharitatively that the Cuban dele
CATION was preparing a resolution
veicing outspoken demand for
an end to WashingtOn's tradl-
tional insistence on the United
States right to intervene in the
affairs of Latin-American ma
tions. particularly Cuba and IN
Central America.
The Cubans planned to demand
economic political and social
freedom" an authoritative source
revealed. 1t further was under
stood that this motion condemn
ing United States dominance II
not ruled out of order, may be
seconded by numerous other
Latin-American countries.
The Cuban attitude includes
complete refutation of the Plat
, amendment to the Cuban constl-
tuition. making legal American IN
tervention in the island republic
Iif and when the administration
at Washington regards such a
move as to the best interests OF
peace and the welfare of the
Cuban people.
The resolution follows closely
the unofficial statement issued
hv q labor member of the Haitian
delegation, Antoine Pierre Paul
demanding an end to Cnlteo
States extra-territorial privileges
| in L.atin-American countries.
The question hung over tne
conference at the opening IN the
scarlet and brown great session
hall of Uruguay's richly con,
structed multi-marble coioreo
legislative palace where President
Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, wei
coined the delegates Of 20 Amerl'
can nations. IN I'll,
Secretary of State Cordeli Hull
heading the United States delega,
ton, remained reticent' insisting
he was here as an apostle OF
peace and President Roosevelt
good neighbor policy" among al
the Americans.
The rising movement againS'
United States intervention PrlVil'
eyes however, threatened to
wreck that gesture of friendship
almost before it was made. Inc
question of debts owed by Latin.
American countries to the United
States was also believed linked
with the Cuban-Haitian denuncla-
tions of American policy.
Of the 20 themes officially on
the Agenda. two are regarded OF
chief Importance: First, settling
of territorial disputes in Ameri-
ca; and second, restoration of
trade in the western hemisphere.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
SAYS WALL STREET NOT
TO STOP ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. tuP).
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat,
Tennessee, pledged his support
to the president and the recovery
program last night and attacked
bitterly the spokesman for of
nancial Wall Street and it's pup
pets" who, he charged are set
ting up the cry "stop Roosevelt"
"Get-rich-quick- Wallingford of
fiction fame was a piker beside
the get-rich-quick schemes of
Morgan and his layout, Kunn,
Loeb & company, and its layout,
the Mitchells, Wigginses and their
ilk," Mcclellan. said. "They cheer
ed the president in Wall Street
while their own chestnuts were
being pulled out Of the fire. And
now. with their own fingers I'M
scorched, they turn on him as he
labors to relieve the rest of the
nation"
He defended the Roosevelt
gold policy and added:
wall Street is not going to
stop him."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Juniors Planning
For Supper Meet

The regular weekly meeting of
the Junior Order United Amerl-
can Mechanics will be held at the
Woodman hall on Main street at
1880 p. m. Tuesday night.
The degree team from Blltmore
council will assist the local team
in degree work. A number OF
candidates will be present.
A delicious supper will be serv-
ed all Juniors present and the
secretary, j. c. Coston asks that
all who cannot attend notify him
bv noon Tuesday. One hundred
Juniors are expected to be pres
emf ,including visitors from Green
River AshepiIle and Biltmore. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Asserted Nephew
Of King George
Is Held For Trial
Wanted Princely Living as
the Price of Silence;
Bail Not Allowed

LONDON, Dec. 4.-(UPl.-.
Clarence Guy Haddon, 43, writ.
ing to King George that he is an
illegitimate son of the kings
dead brother, the Duke of Clar-
ence, demanded as the price OF
his silence 5000 pounds sterling
yearly and money enough to start
boarding house, it was revealed
at Bow street police court today.
Haddon's ambition to maintain
his alleged princely status as a
boarding house proprietor was
brought out at police court where
the consulting engineer-war vet
eran appeared. He was charged
with demanding money, with men,
aces, from the king.
Haddon was remanded for
eight days, to be committed
thereafter to Old Bailey criminal
court for trial. Bail was refused.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Ickes Points Out To Smith That
Jobs Found For ; Million People

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. (UP).
Public Works Administrator Icke5
has replied to Alfred f. Smiths
criticism of the Public Works Adj
ministration program by announc-
ing approximately 100000 JOB.
less nave already found work un-
der the job-making setup.
"The facts speak for them
selves. Nobody can intelligently
appraise the public works program
without studying these figures"
Ickes said.
Classified jobs made possible by
public works funds are as follows:
1, 183,267 under C. W. A.. $780,
093 under P.W.A., including 347,-
623 in C.C.C.
Approximately $2,900,000, 600
of the $780, 100000 for public
works has been allocated. indi-
eating that for every thousand
dollars in process of being spent
a man without a job has found
one.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
RITES
SUNDAY
eased Passed Away in
10Th Year in Edney-
vile Section

tnera, services for the late
Drake, who died in his 6Otn
at his home in Edneyville
lSnlp on Thursday, November
following a short illness, were
a. II a. m. Sunday from the
/ Grove chapel, with c. 5.
Prght conducting.
p following served as pail
|srs: Roscoe Stepp. Peck Bur-
Balm Stepp, George Bur-
BeIven Hyder and Gather
P Drake was a member of the
todjst church at Democrat.
+ Is survived by two daugh.
Mrs. H. NJ. Buckner nf
snville. S. c.. and Mrs. ]. c.
Ellsworth of this city, and
tTo sons, V. j., and c. II.
+. Of Asheville. The deceased
leaves one sister, Mrs. Eugene
/, and one brother, Jack
r, Doth of West Asheville
grandchildren and eight great
ndChildren.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
MISS LAIDLAW
NAMED TOPOST
Work Begun Under CWA
to Provide Jobs for
Women in State

RALEIGH, Dec. 4.-(UP).-
The appointment of Miss Alice
Laidlaw. head of the Y.W.C.A.,
here as director Of women's ac-
Invites for the Civil Works Adj
ministration in this state was an.
nounced today by Mrs. Thomas
O'Berry, civil works administra-
tor.
A meeting Of representative
women throughout the state will
be held here tomorrow at 2 p. M,
at Hall house, to discuss plans to
put jobless women to work under
the Civil Works Administration.
ASHEVILLE, Dec. A dis
trict Civil Works Administration
project which will give employ
ment to so or more teachers now
without work in Western North
Carolina counties, has received
the approval of Mrs. Thomas A.
O'Berry, of Raleigh, state civil
works administrator. it has been
learned here. Miss Pearl Weaver,
of Weaverville. district relief SUI
pervisor of the Federal Emergency
Relief administration, has charge
of the project.
The fifty or more unemployed
teachers will be used in their home
counties in organizing and con-
Quoting schools for adults in the
academic subjects as we'll as in
vocational and home making
courses. They will receive $3.50
a week in, pay,cover a period, of
four months. .v Gin ID ,nE.t
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
.IAN-SOVIET
~ MOVE PLANNED

SNE. Dec. 4.-(UP).-An
&neut TO exchange ratitica-
& on the new Italian-Soviet
y Of ami-y and non-aggres-
MAS reached by Soviet For
Maxim Litvinov
Premier BenitO Mussolini dur
j lengthy conference Sunday.
Einov, here on his way back
bScOw from the United States
u Duce were noncommittal on
Is of their conversation. How
il was learned that they dis
y International problems par
kr.v affecting the two coun-
and examined the possibility
hproyjng the general political
fion within the sipriti of the
IpaC..
Iejr conversation was held at
in the Venice palace occu-
by NuSsOlini. LitvinOv had
a. the foreign office earlier
i day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
SPAIN BLOCKS
TERROR REIGN
Wide Spread Sabotage and
Arson Attempts After
Election Expected
By LESTER ZIFFEREN
United Press Staff Correspondents

MADRID, Dec. 4.-tUP).-AlI
Spain was ordered under a estate
of prevention" last night to as
sure order following Sunday par
liamentary "run off, elections in
which Socialists apparently tri.
umphed in the City of MADRID
and the Province of Huelva.
Right wing and centrist candl-
dates apparently were victorious
in the Ia other districts voting
Sunday. Final returns were ex-
pected to show that the Socialists
won so of 55 seats in parliament,
with the remainder distributed
among the other parties, right
wing deputies predomirating.
The ministry of interior de.
clared the estate of prevention
after the government learned
that extremist elemnts in several
provinces, including anarchists,
communists and syndicalists, plan
ned widespread sabotage, incolv-
ing among other plans the de-
struction of the famous cathedral
of the virgin of pillar in the Town
of Zaragoza, where the statute
of the patron saint of Spain is
located.
The threat to destroy the ca
thedral and burn converts in g
reign of terror to embarrass the
government caused the sharp &C
ton throughout Spain last night.
TIL estate of prevention" is the
intermediate stage between full
sivil authority and martial law.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Mrs. Norwood OF
IAbbevine Is Dead

News of the death of Mrs. FL
len Norwood. of Abbeville. S. c.,
and for % years a summer guest
of Mrs. J. w. Bailey, was received
here today by Mrs. Bailey. :,
Mrs. Norwood's rites were held
this morning from the Episcopal
church at Abbeville. She had left
here in the late fall for her win
ter home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
| DUCE May
|RCE j. s. TO
inter LEAGUE
Strengthened by Ameri-
(an Membership Italy
! Won't Withdraw
INK LEAGUE DEAD
| ISSUE OTHERWISE
'BY SAMUEL DASHIELL
L. Press Staff Correspondent
Ipyright. 1888, United Press)

L. Press Staff Correspondent
Ipyright. 1888, United Press)
Ans. Dec. 4.-(UP).-Per-
h. although unconhrmed re-
we're current in well-in-
H. circles here today that
f;sv Benito MuSSolini, Of
intends to invite the United
Is formally to join the
,,le of Nations.
Duce was said to believe
President RoQsevelt'S next
|r;ant step-following recOg-
Il Of Soviet Russia-would be
h closer official collabor@-
with the league in interna-
i affairs.
bssolini was said already TO
sounded out Washington ;
Ion to an invitation to join
hague as one move which
save that organization from
/. certain collapse.
y Italian government NAV
fraw from the league, if such
BE is approved bv the Fascist
q council this week.
'ch a move. following with
.s' of Germany and Japan
4 leave the league practical
teless. it was felt-and Mus
rather than see 1t die,
i strengthen it by having the
ID States join In such an
4 il was doubted that Italy
8 quit.
Nhermore. MuSsolini was sad
Hire American membership in
4 also to strengthen the gen
world disarmament efforts,
adlocked at Geneva under
#hgue'S sponsorship.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04

"All we do is to bid for a
small amount Of gold each day.
just the same as the Bank of
England has done every day for
years, and behind closed doors.
Nobody ever recognized how the
money question was the compile
ment of the tariff question until
a few months ago."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
Woodrow Smith
OF Fletcher Dies
OF Car Injuries

ASHEVILLE. Dec. 4.-Inquest
into the death of Woodrow Smith,
17-year-old Fletcher resident, who
died Sunday following an automo.
bile injury suffered on Saturday
was set for noon today.
Officers making the preliminary
investigation said that Smith was
riding in a car driven by Clarence
Trantham, of Fairview. when il
overturned.
The deceased is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. G.. w. Smith.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04

|tndieott Johnson company
'eored S650,0Oo deducted
Pm wages of 1900 work
between December 1, last,
September 5, for upkeeP
eomPanyS medical serv-
II With three pay increases,
1 refund brings benefits to
fker' since June to more
II - 100000 on basis of a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
ARCHIVES ARE BURNED

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. T.
(UP).-Priceless historic archives
in the palace of justice were
among properties destroyed last
night when fire Quilted the build
ing. doing inestimable damage.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
WEATHER

Fair tonight and Tuesday; not
II change in temperature.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-04
GOOD AFTERNOON

Persons over IS, Il 70 revealed,
have the fewest automobile acct
dents. That's to be expected,
since people over 3S have the
fewest automobiles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17
JIM the CONQUEROR

of an impressionable male tottering
on its throne. Her nose had just es-
capped being snubby and was tilted at
so gentle an angle as to confer upon
her family naughty expression when
her face was in repose She had a
short. beautifully curved upper lip
which adorable malformation per-
mitted much too easy a display of
even. hard white teeth. Her lower lip
was full. tender and just shade will
full Her chin was full and aggres.
sive, her body beautifully formed.
1.-THE as cats and suggestive of
Astounding health and much outdoor
exercise.
Despite her almost startling beauty
one realized instinctively that Ro-
berta was not (sentimentally speak
ing) a clinging vine. One felt, too.
that she had healthy temper, despite
her perennial good nature and her
tolerance for her own sex. AS a mat
ter of fact Roberta did possess tenn
per readily aroused. but she had the
saving grace of refusing to admit 1t
except under extraordinary circum-
stances.
Appraising herself in her mirror,
Roberta reflected with a sort of sweet
bitterness that she had dressed that
afternoon with an eye single to i'm
pinging herself upon the cool, quietly
impersonal glance of Glenn Hackett.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17

In-town. going to the country by
trolley or subway. is likely to find
herself deserted as well as lost on
an empty roadside. Furthermore.
should Mrs Farmer send her private
car or car from local garage to
fetch Mrs. In-town. the chauffeur can
easily know her by her description.
But at teeming city station the
chance of recognizing anyone by de-
scription would be slight In fact.
If we take New York's Pennsylvania
station for our example, Mrs. In
town herself has but small hope or
discovering upon which OF dozen
disconnected stairways her expected
passenger is making her escape.
1.-The terminal of lost loved ones"
should be it's name! The question,
"Where shall New Yorker meet
Philadelphia arriving at the Penn
sylvania station?" can only be an
swered by, Meet him In Philadel-
phia !"
e. 1888 by Emily Post-wNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17
BY EMILY POST,
Author of Etiquette. the Blue Book Of Social
Usage" ''The Personality OF
House." Etc.

To women, the tiftieth anniversary
Of the setting up of the first electric
dynamo by Thomas Alva Edison is
of interest. 1t led not only to the
doing away with the gloom of one
candle darkness or the unending
nuisance of kerosene lamps, but
turned the hardest drudgeries of
housework into little more effort
than the switching on of magic
key. Ii Lincoln freed the slaves,
Edison certainly freed the housewife
from slavery. Even so, shall leave
the story of electric ranges, ice
boxes. vacuum cleaners. washing
machines and all other labor-sparing
blessings to writer's on domestic de-
tail. and devote this article to the
drawing together of far-scattered so
cial groups by means of rapid and
sootless electrified trains and trolleys
and subways.
The word suburban used to mean
"outskirts" in fact. as well as def.
milton. 1t meant situation set
aside from-or struggling behind
the central joint of interest. which
was the city. A man who lived In
the city, or in the suburb. was
stamped accordingly. One thought
of city person as one possessed of
worldly knowledge and cool-headed
experience. A man from the sub
urbs was simple person. The man
from the farm was utterly guileless
There have been stories. cartoons
and jokes by the million about the
innocence and gullibility of country
people on their once-in-a- lifetime Wis.,
it to the city. And there have been
quite as many lampoons of city peo-
pie equally out of place in the coun.
try. But today. we are all of pat
tern.
Taking my own mail merely as an
example: By no means except the
address can one possibly guess
whether an average letter was writ
ten in Lone Pine Junction. Bright
Ieadows-on-the-P urling, Park avenue
or Lake Shore drive; the problems
of each are identical.
A few decades ago society was
composed of separate circles-visit-
ed from time to time by members of
other circles, much as these same
members visited circles in London or
Paris or Buenos Aires. But each
stratum of society remained definite
ly fixed. Country families lived one
way; city families another. Mrs.
On-the-Land cared not in the least
about the new decoration of Mrs.
Cityleader's dinner table. or the new
est dresses brought not merely from
Paris. but from a specific designers
collection"
Today Country, Suburbs, and the
Heart of Town-it is all the same.
For example, let US say that Mrs.
Parkavenue is giving dinner AT
which she is having the Sidestreets,
the Fifthavenues. the Westchesters,
the Jerseys and the Furtheraways.
These various guests are not from
Cit SASiCos as lhCy "Ouio ohSC
have been. but all are members of
the same identical group.
Uncountable numbers of people
live in town and country. both. That
is. they live in the country and have
room or two in town to which they
go for few nights week during
the midwinter season. Others have
permanent home in town and 60
for week ends to the country.
All of which leads us to modern