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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09
THE WORLDS GREATEST ADVENTURE
(Bv BRUCE CATTON)

A very old map was found in the arch
ives of the former sultans of Turkey not
long ago. 1t proved, to the delight of
scholars, to be a copy of a map used by
Christopher Columbus himself On the
border, in Arabic, was the story of Column
bus voyages, written for the ruler of Tur-
key by some court scribe way back at the
dawn Of the sixteenth century.
A paragraph of this story is worth re-
reading today, as a reminder that the
whole Columbus epic is one of the finest
bits Of courage and high adventure ever
told.
The unknown Turkish author, after
telling how Columbus begged the men of
Genoa for ships with which he could eX-
plore the western ocean, quotes their re-
ply:
They say: oh, you simpleton, in the
west is to be found the end and extremity
of the world and its boundary; it is full of
the vapor of darkness
There is somehow a creepy quality IT,
those words which helps us to understand
was that Columbus tackled.
The earth today offers no voyage even
remotely equal to it. For there were no
charts of the western sea then. A resolute
and foolhardy man heading west might
fetch up anywhere from the Isles of the
Blest to the very jumping-of place itself
He didn't know and no one else knew
There was an abundance of weird tales
about the dreadful things that could hap
pen to him, and however much he might
doubt them he had no way of proving that
they weren't true, but to go himself and
find out.
All he could be sure of was that he
would sail into an empty sea, a sea that
never had seen a sail before. Columbus
believed, as the old Arabic writer says,
that "the western sea has an end, that on
the side of the sunset there are coasts and
islands, and many different kinds of mines,
and also a mountain of precious stones"
But he couldn't quite be sure, and there
must have been moments, late at night,
when he had only stars and waves for
company, when he must have wondered if
he were not sailing right out of the ordi-
nary world into unimaginable and ines
capable perils.
Those eerie words about 'the vapor Of
darkness" are more than an expressive
phrase; they tell what most men actually
expected Columbus to find.
The earth's history holds few stories
more romantic than this one of Columbus.
Once a year is not too often to reread it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

raising the standards of nurses
training schools and in raising
the quality rather than increa:-
ING the quantity Of nurses: thc
first set of officials was elected
in April OF this year at meet
ing of the Tri-State Hospital as
ISOLATION in Charleston, S. c. Tbs
second set was elected last week,
September 27, at a meeting in
Charlotte. The officers elected
in the first meeting in Charleston
this spring maintain they are the
rightful Officers and that the
meeting held last week in Char
lotte was only 'rump' meeting
Of malcontents and the officers
and the board members chosen
there entirely illegal. The first
group further maintains that the
attorney general has ruled that
their election was regular and
their appointments to the board
of standardization entirely regu-
lar - under certain conditions
which were met.
On the other hand. the second
group of officials holds that the
meeting in Charleston was stack
ed" with representatives of the
mailer hospitals, and that the
four members named to the board
of Standardization cannot legally
serve because they were appoint
ed while the president was out
side the state. They maintain
the law stipulates these repre-
sentatives must be named by the
president and an executive COM
mittee of the association meeting
within the state. They even doubt
if the association could elect Of
ficers in another state, as it did.
They further maintain thatN
the officers of the first group
were doubtful of the validity Of
their acts, in that they asked the
attorney general for a ruling and
he held that in order to be sure,
the executive committee had bet
ter meet again here in North
Carolina and rename the men,
hers previously appointed to the
board of Standardization. That
was then done. The members of
the second group maintain that
by advising the first group to-
meet again within the state, aft
en- it had already met and acted
in South Carolina, the attorney
general virtually admitted that
the first meeting and the action
taken by it was illegal. Repre-
sentatives Of the second group
were here this week and are re-
ported to have sought supple
mentary ruling from the attorney
general on this point. He was
out Of town Saturday and his Of
flee said nothing was known of
such a request. The general be-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES TOO LARGE

Reports from Raleigh are to the effect that
there has been a considerable decrease in the
amount of funds spent in this state for relief pur
poses. We assume that the same is true of other
states. This was to be expected. The federal gov
eminent cannot go on indefinitely supporting a
large number of the country's population. The
public debt is already huge and rapidly increasing.
The government gets most of its money from in
come taxes, tariff duties and taxes on tobacco.
Taxes of this sort about as high people can
stand Too much taxation cripples industry, dis
courages employers and causes people to lose their
jobs. The administration at Washington promised
to reduce expenses but it is not doing it. EXCEPT
during the World war more public money is being
spent now than in the history of the nation.
This spending orgy must stop or else more trouble
will follow.-Beaufort News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

People who think leisure will be strange bur-
den to workers should watch them when the boss
is out .I
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09
LETTERS n
THE Edition
ANSWER To Pro,.

Editor, Tines-Ncws. E'S
l have been asked
friends to give ny a,..
the repeal Of the INK
ment of the conS.i'.,sor
to be excused. / viii <,.
want my fricnds and a..
else in Clear Greek Tom.
Henderson county and (,
Carolina TO vote On r..
and to vote their own ~. ,
and convictions. Don, +.
or give over to any rro,
for either side Of this y
A voter who will vote :.
she is 5old to vot" on \,
r or at any othcr election
be called a legal, pIai.#..
and should not vote.
r. II. pRy
P.S.-Most Of my friend
and | want all to lpow. n
a candidate for the uffic.
collector in 1884. By,
you more about this late.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

lief here. however. is that the att
torney general is the referee who
must decide which set of officials
and board members are the right,
full officials and members and
which are the trump" officials.
The first set Of officials of the
State Hospital association, elect
ed in Charleston in April, are Dr..
H. A. Newell, Henderson, presl-
dent; Dr.. John F. Brownsberger,
Asheville, vice president: Dr..
Maynard o. Fletcher, Washing
ton. secretary-treasurer.
The second set of officials,
elected in Charlotte last week are
Newton Fisher, Wilmington, su-
perintendent of James Walker
hospital, president; DR.: NJ. S.
Martin, Mount Airy. first vice
president: J. L. Melvin, Rocky
Mount, secretary-treasurer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09
WEBS STAGE. BEAI

GREENWICH. Conn. (
(UP). Tommy Manyi'Ie.
ti-millionaire BroaGwar
and heir TO the Mauy.'ia
riches. was married hes
day when MarcelIe Edwsr
beauty, became his ,h
Manville. long cOn>ldcl
the most eligible o. ",
wealthy young men. Ia,
years been a subject o.
gossip regarding his pro,
marriage. His name q
linked with those of C.sr
sor. of the movies: Mn,
former Follies girl. a.
Lynn. an actress.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09
Ford Will Speak
At Green River
For Prohi Cause

A precinct mass meeting of the
nrohibition forces of Green River
township is announced for Thurs
day night. October y, at Tuxedo
school building. -,
There will be music by the
Osteen string band and the prln-
cipal speech will be made by the
Rev. W. Herschel Ford, pastor OF
the First Baptist church of Hen
Jacksonville. J. T. Fain of Hender,,
sonville will be present, also, ard
make a short talk.
The prohibition committee on
organization in the township eX-
tends an invitation to all voters
of the township. and TO the pub
lie generally, to attend this meet
ing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

New York preacher says persons who
fail to vote should be fined SO. It's worth
that much not to be blamed for most of
those who are elected.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

Scientist says it would cost S100,0OO,000
to finance a rocket ship fight to the moon.
We'd rather walk.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

Squirrels in Connecticut have begun mi
grating, according to an official report.
Does that mean that the state has rid Itself
of nuts?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-09

OLA million copies of Hitler's book, "My
TO to- ht," have been published. What bon
!. Man they would makel
squal t ..'
Both fe 97a ,T
the bal
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
OWEN WARNS Of
COMMUNISM

Former Senator Robert l.
Owen CD of Oklahoma fears
Communism if President Roose'
velt's monetary program is sabot.
aged, and has issued a warm
defense of the Administrations
policy.
AS chairman of the Senate
Banking and Finance Committee
some years ago he figured promi-
nently in drafting the Federal
Reserve Act. He said that Roose-
welt wants a stable currency, and
added:
"The truth is, no initiation is
being proposed, but a just ex-
panSiOn, an honest regulation
in conformity with the COnsti-
tuition, which instfuctS Congress
to regulate the power of money.
"ShOuId the opposite course
be taken, namely, the course
being demanded by the cOntrac-
tiOniStS, recovery would be
stopped, depression would be
renewed and there would prob
ably come a violent plunge into
communism"
The Chamber of Commerce OF
the United States, however, holds
that uncertainty has increased
as a result of the money policy.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
KEN 7 TUCK|ANS
D, K, REPEAL

FRANKFORT, KY, Nov. q
U.N.SJ Nineteen delegates as
sembled in State convention here
today to formally make Kentucky
which was thirty seventh to vote
for repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment, the thirty-third &C
tually to ratify it.
The action was to be taken
in the House of Representatives
chamber in the capitol following
an address by Governor Ruby
Laffoon.
Technically the delegates were
unpledged but all were chosen by
the United Council for Repeal
and planned to vote en- masse
today to end national prohibition
All had to take the historic oath
against dueling which the Ken
lucky constitution requires of
office holders.
Kentucky's majority for repeal
was unofficially 147,652.
Modification of the State pro-
hibition enforcement statute is
expected of the legislature which
meets next January but State
constitutional prohibition can.
not be repealed until a popular
election in 1885.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
COUNTY SEEKS
|NC|NERATOR

Taking advantage of the present
Public Works unemployment situa-
ton, advocates of a county-owned
garbage and trash incinerating
plant are urging the construction
of such plant to take the place of
the unsightly dump, located off
the east-west highway in Mont
gomery county. Backers think it
can be made self-supporting.
1t is understood that a tract of
land, located north of the east
west highway, near the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad tracks, which
would be suitable for this purpose,
is owned by the washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission. The
commission has made a detailed
study of the practicability of build
ing incinerating plants, but con-
siderable opposition developed.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
MINE WORKERS
BURN RIVAL

UNIONTOWN. Pa. Nov. 81
U.N.SD.-Ill feeling between rival
mine unions in the strife. torn
Fayette county coal field became
perilously intense today following
a demonstration in which gunfire
rent the air and Martin Ryan,
insurgent leader, was burned in
effigy.
Company union members chose
baseball field to "cremate"
Ryan with mock ceremonies at
tended by 500 miners and their
families, celebrating their victory
in the captive mine elections.
The doleful beat of a single
drum marked the funeral process
sion," while Dude" McClendon,
colored miner, delivered the
"eulogy," mourning aloud because
Ryan died "by accident on pur-
pose" The crowd howled ap-
proval as the ceremonies were
climaxed with the coffin"
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
z BOYS INJURED
BY H|T-RUN CAR

Howard, II, and Junior Duff, g.,
sons of R. H. Duff, of Riverdale,
were reported improving at Wash
ington Sanitarium this morning,
where they were taken Yesterday
after being struck by an auto
mobile, alleged to have been
driven by Carlos Deathradge, of
Riverdale.
Following the accident, Death
radge is said to have abandoned
his machine and disappeared in
the woods. He was found a few
hours later by John w. Heinicke,
who joined firemen and police in
their search for the owner of the
car.
Bond was set at $4,000 and
trial is to be held up pending
outcome of the boys injuries, said
Judge Harry K. Clare. Howard
is said to have a fractured pelvis
and Junior, a broken leg.
Deathradge was charged with
driving while drunk and for
leaving the scene of an accident.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
100000 COAST.
ROAD PLANNED

OCEAN CITY, Md, Nov. 27.
Construction of a $500,O00 high
way and bridge project, opening
direct route along the Mary
land-Virginia coastal peninsula
between Ocean City, Md, and
Chincoteague Island, Va, a dis
tance of 38 miles, is planned, it
was announced here today.
Plans call for bridge connect
ing Chincoteague and Assateague
islands in Virginia at the south
ern terminus of the proposed
beach highway. A hard surface
road would be built from ASA
league northward toward ocean
City.
Two plans are under considera-
ton for The Ocean City terminus.
One calls for building bridge
across the Sinepuxent Bay six
miles below Ocean City, extend
ing the highway from the beach
peninsula across to the Worcester
county mainland and thence up
Sinepuxent Neck to west Ocean
City. The second calls for con-
struction of a span across Sine
puxent Bay south of this resort
between the beach and mainland
intersecting the Berlin-Ocean
City boulevard.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
WALLACE TAKES
RUM CODE To
ROOSEVELT
Hopes Treasury Will Handle
Most of Regulation;
Controversies Absent

WARM SPRINGS. Ca, Nov. 81
GN.SO.-Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace came to the Little White
House" here today to talk with
President Roosevelt about the
manufacture and distribution Of
liquor.
The Agriculture Department
chief was ready to explain details
of the nearly-completed NRA
diStillers code, under which whisky
will be regulated after the effec-
tive date of repeal and before Con.
gresS enacts permanent legiSla.
ton.
Controversies Absent
There are no controversial
points of regulation at present,
Wallace said, but there are sew
eral matters in the code which we
want the President to go over as
soon as possible. The code was
virtually complete when he left
Washington Saturday and he eX-
poets a copy of the completed
document here by mail late to-
day.
AS now drafted. Wallace ex-
planned, the code gives the in.
dustry considerable power to
regulate itself, but leaves a final
power of initiation or veto in the
hands of the Government.
Conferences between the PreSi-
dent and Secretary of the Interior
Ickes and Recovery Administrator
Hugh S. johnson were ahead Of
Wallace on Mr.. Roosevelt's pro-
gram for today.
Wants Treasury Goat
Wallace personally is dry as a
bone, and does not find the job
of regulating whisky as head OF
the Agriculture Department much
to his taste. He said:
"YOu can say for me that
Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, a personal dry, is working
to have the Treasury handle as
much of the liquor regulation as
possible"
Secretary Ickes. who is also
administrator for the Govern
ment's public works program.
came here to talk public works
with his chief and to report fully
on the new Civil Works Admins
tration program. designed to put
1000 900 idle to work by the
middle of December.
Hopkins In Charge
Harry Hopkins, Federal erher.
gency relief administrator, heads
the civil works set-up, but $400,-
100000 of it's funds came from
Ickes' public works treasure chest,
and the Interior chief thus has
had an opportunity to follow the
course of organization closely.
The controversial moving picture
code was one of the Is which
Mr.. Roosevelt was to go over with
Johnson. The NRA chief came
here on Friday but Mr.. Roose-
velt has not yet had a chance
to go over these codes with him.
Approval of most of the codes
brought here by johnson was on
the schedule for today.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Maxine
Elliott, here to visit again the land
where she was born and made her
first fame, should be invited to oe
a guest at some distinguished
post-repeal celebration.
She was famous on Broadway
when people knew really what
they were talking about when they
likened the lights of that street
to bubbles in champagne and
toasted her in the beverage.
She quit he American stage
about simultaneously with the
banishment from the American
scene of legal liquor.
1t will complete the picture for
some old bon vivantS who, after
Dec ember S, can say, "Ah. Pom
merry sec! I'm glad TO be able to
taste it again." to be able to add,
"Ah, Maxine Elliott! I'd like to
see her again"
She made her last New York ap-
pearance in 1880, as Cordelia in
Trimmed in Scarlet"
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
'KidnGping' PrOUes
False, Just An Aibi

NEW YORK, Nov. q QN.S).
Just hoax, was the kidnapping
of Charles R. Cohen, 18-year-old
Cornell University sophomore and
son of Samuel B. Cohen, New
York city attorney. This was
admitted to a Department of
Justice official today by young
Cohen. The boy explained he
had not been doing we'll in his
studies and, fearing he was about
to be "flunked," concocted a
kidnapping story. His motive was
to work up sympathy.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Smithsonian ShOWs
JiUurO Indian Relics

A collection of outstanding ex-
amples of jungle craftsmanship,
gathered among the Jivaro In
dians at the headwaters Of the
Amazon river, has recently been
received by the Bureau of Amer.
ican Ethnology, Smithsonian In
Stitution, it was announced today.
One of the most remarkable OBJ
jects in the collection is violin.
carved from native wood with
strings of palm fiber. 1t is known
to the Indians as "quer- -quer," and
is plainly adopted from the white
mans musical instrument.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
IS CALLED
|NBOOST|NGOF
GOLD PRICES
Treasury Refinancing HI Id
Reason For Temporary
Sterilization at $33.76
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service

The Administration apparently
is slowing down it's drive for
higher commodity prices through
artificially boosting the price of
gold.
For the sixth consecutive day,
the Treasury left the price un-
changed today at $33.76 per
ounce.
AS usual, no explanation was
forthcoming as to the reason, but
in some quarters it was inter-
preted as indicating that the Ad-
ministration has determined upon
a cautious policy at this time,
when its whole monetary policy
is under fire.
To Push Program
Dispatches from the winter
White House at Warm Springs,
have stated that President Roose-
velt, far from being moved by
criticism of the experiment, plan
ned to push steadily ahead with
his gold buying dollar deprecia-
ton program.
Consequently, when Acting Sec
retary Of the Treasury Morgen-
thau returned to Washington to-
day fresh from conferences with
Mr.. Roosevelt, it was expected in
many quarters that the reply to
critics would take the form of
another increase in the gold price.
1t did not materialize, however,
and last weeks price of $33.76
was allowed to remain.
The $33.76 was fixed last Tues
day. This is the longest period
that one price has been main
tanned since the Inauguration of
the policy on October Is. At
first the price was advanced
daily from the initial figure of
$31.56. Two weeks ago there
was a short period of stabiliza-
ton, then the increases were be-
gun again.
Re-Financing Is Issue
The fact that the Treasury
must soon engage in a huge re-
financing program, involving
some $727 100000, was held in
some quarters to account for the
slowing down policy.
Treasury experts, in view of
the weakness in the Government
bond market, are understood to
have recommended that nothing
be done to further weaken or
unsettle the market at a time
when the Government must go to
the public for new money.
Whatever is the reason, it is
apparent that Mr.. Roosevelt is
proceeding cautiously at this
stage of his experiment. although
he is represented as being firmly
convinced of the soundness of
his program, and is fully deter
mined to proceed with it.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
FRENCH LAUNCH
FARM REVOLT

PARIS, Nov. 81 GN.S).-An
agricultural revolt, similar to that
recently launched in the Middle
West of the United States, de-
veloped in France today as Camille
Chautemps attempted to organize
o new ministry to combat the
acute financial situation.
At more than a hundred mass
meetings, organized by a newly
formed "Farmer-Peasant" party
and attended by more than 100,-
900 persons, the government was
den0Nnced.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Grdu Leads Mourning
Holiday In Havana

HAVANA, Nov. 81 G.N.SD.-
Today, a holiday of mourning for
eight students martyrs shot to
death by Spaniards in 1871, was
to be observed by the freeing of
200 civilian political prisoners
from government jailS. The me-
mortal program, led by President
Ramon Grau San Martin, was
the first held in several years.
Commemoration of the 1871 event
was banned by President Gerardo
Machado during the final years
of his term.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
128,663 Men GiUen
Work On u. s. Roads

Contracts awarded by States
for road work under their shares
Of the 100000, 900 Federal high.
way fund have shown steady in
crease in number, it has been re-
ported to the Public Works Ad-
miniStration by the Bureau of
Public Roads.
Actual highway work financed
from the fund is under way in
every State, according to the re-
port, and work has been furnished
for 128,663 men on the 3,245
projects that are already in opera,
tion.
The total approved so far totals
$237 7,375, 900, and 281,64 men are
expected to be employed within
a week on the projects.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
D. {. MOTOR|ST
FACES TRIAL

Harry G. Peffley, 1900 block
Seventeenth st. S. E., was lodged
in the Upper Marlboro Jail and
bond set at $1,000 yesterday after
a crash near Marlboro between
Pefflev's car and another driven
by John D. Staight, of Capitol
Heights.
Peffley was charged with driv-
ing while drunk, reckless driving
and failing to stop after an acci-
dent.
He will be tried Friday.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Hitler At Funeral
Of Slain Soldier

NUREMBERG. Germany, Nov.
81 GN.SO.-Chancellor Hitler
flew here from Berlin today to
attend the funeral of Private
Schumacher, Reichswehr soldier
slain by Austrian border guards
near the frontier on Friday. The
Geman government has lodged a
formal protest with Vienna over
the incident.
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
HurmOndCrQzy
WthFear; Says
Big Lyncher

SAN JOSE, Calf, Nov. 81
G.NSO.-In a beer parlor after
the lynching of Jack Holmes
and Thomas H. Thurmond, a
husky man early today told Of
dragging Thu1Inond from his
cell. The man said:
'He was plumb crazy. He
was trying to climb the walls
of his cell like a monkey when
we came in. He was Squealing
and leaping about and 1 had
to chase him and pull him
down."
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Police Hunt Slayer;
Quarrel Their Clue

Police today were searching for
a colored man believed to be the
killer of Norman Johnson. colored.
As, of the first block Aliens Ct.,
S. w.
johnson was found dead at his
home yesterday, a knife wound
in his chest. Homicide squad
detectives learned the name of
q man with whom Johnson is
said to have quarreled few hours
before he was killed.