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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
HARTMAN IS
IN CUSTODY
Famous Banker Turns up
Again and Appears
in Court

NEW YORK, July 10. (UP).-
Annarently emerging from the
Hudson river, New York's disap-
pearing banker, Joseph w. Harri-
man, hailed a startled taxicab
driver at list street late yester-
day and had himself driven, drip
ping wet, to the hospital from
which he escaped" Monday.
Two hours later the elderly for
mer president of the Hartman
National Bank and Trust Co., had
been committed to Bellevue hos
pital for observation as to his
sanity.
His temperance climaxed a
police search which extended the
length of the Atlantic seaboard as
far north as Canada, and came a
few hours after his $4,000 bail
had been forfeited in federal
court. His sanity has been the
subject of an inquiry to determine
his mental and physical ability to
stand trial for alleged defalca-
tions.
Hartman denied police reports
that he had been riding ferry
boats across the Hudson river yes
terday, or that he had made two
efforts to leap overheard during
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
MORE THAN HALF MILLION
RETURNED TO JOBS in JUNE
Employment Level at Highest Peak Since March Of
1892, Labor Department Shows

pockets" she said.
Miss Perkins attributed the I'M
proved situation to a number of
developments. First, farmers and
workers have money for the first
time in months, some of them
years. They are back into the
purchasing market.
Second, many manufacturers
are struggling desperately to pro-
duce a large surplus of goods be-
fore the provisions of the indus
trial code governing their particu-
lar industry go into effect.
A warning against over-optl-
mism, however, was sounded by
Miss Perkins.
owe must not allow ourselves
to overlook the fact that we are
far from being out of the woods
of this depression" she said. AL
though the percentage in employ
ment and payrolls has been large,
it must be borne in mind that the
actual rise in both cases was small
as compared with the total num-
Der of workers normally employed.
As compared to June 1882 there
was an increase of go in the num-
Der Of wage earners at work and
81 per cent increase in Industrial
payrolls.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
ROTARY HEARS
COLLEGE DEAN
DR.. Surrat Says U. S. Fac
ing Breakdown of
Democracy

DR.. Madison Surrat, dean Of
Vanderbilt University, and at
present spending the summer at
Camp Mondamin. was the speaker
at the meeting of the Rotary club
at the Skyland hotel today.
Speaking generally on the place
of the civic club in the social and
economic life of community, DR.
Surrat said that the problem con-
fronting Hendersonville is the
same as that of other cities oVIr
the country.
Stunning up the problems of tie
nation and of its cities, he de-
clared that the country is facing
a breakdown of democracy. One
hundred and fifty-seven years ago,
he said. this nation started an eX-
pertinent. We now have to face
the question of the success or
failure of that experiment.
Briefly. he traced the course Of
European nations through democ-
racy and into dictatorship.
Eve have" he said, embarked
upon something that may set the
world back d thousand years. A
serious illness requires drastic
measures, but the course may lead
this country away from its funda-
mental principles"
1--WE see," he continued, "legis-
latorS sent to Washington and
told to keep still and leave the
operation of the government to
one man. This is a result of the
failure of the men selected by the
people. and is in the last analysis
the failure of the people to gov
ern themselves"
"a democracy is a cooperation
of people," and he told the CLUB
that such cooperation is the need
today.
A discussion on a supplement
tarv tax for schools was conduct
ed by Fred Justus. w. P. Andrews,
f. E. Lott, and Tom Shepherd.
Visitors were Walter Rose, Or
landa; J. Harry Collins, Miami;
Reese Coombs, Miami; Bert A.
Boyd, Indianapolis, and Jim Dick,
Pulaski, Va.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
REPEALISTS MAKE NROADS
ON ALABAMA and ARKANSAS
Drys Fail to Hold First Dixie States Voting on Amend
ment; Is Conceded Many States That May Back
Repeal Will Have Own Prohibition Laws

WASHINGTON. July 10. (UP)
Legal liquor by Christmas was
predicted by repealists today aft
er Alabama and Arkansas had
given repeal majorities. Repeal of
the 18th Amendment is now only
matter of time. they said.
NEW YORK, July 19.-(UP).
Repeal victories in Alabama and
Arkansas brought tremendous
profit taking into wildly gryating
wet stocks listed on the New York
stock exchanges today.
Recent fluctuations apparently
had discounted victories in the
South - sharply higher prices
which had been quoted as value
of stocks were as much as fifteen
times greater than assets of the
company-and traders took their
millions of dollars paper profit out
of the market.
At midday, National Distillers
products was quoted at $ll0, sew
en- dollars lower than vest erday's
close after an early loss that
ranged to ten dollars share,
while others were lower, in pro-
portion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
Transylvania's
Schools Placed
In Two Districts
Election of Teachers Will
Be Held at Early Date,
Is Said

BREVARD, July 10. Especially.
Pennsylvania county school system
has been divided into two districts,
Nos. l and 2, lower part of the
county to be known as Brevard,
and upper part as Rosman.
Committees appointed to serve
in the Brevard district are: Mrs.
C. H. Lyday of Davidson River,
J. A. Miller of Brevard, and A. E.
England of Boylston. Rosman dis
trict committee is Leo c. Case of
Lake Toxaway, Carl Owen of the
Cherryheld section, and W. C..
Gravely of East Fork.
Election of teachers for the va
1ious schools of the county will be
made at an early date by the
committee upon recommendation
of the county superintendent, e..
C. Bush. Contracts with teachers
will be made by the county board
of education.
Under the new districtation,
Brevard. Turkey Greek, Penr0se,
Pisgah Forest, Selica, Round Top,
Connestee, Carson Creek, Cedar
Mountain and Little River are
embraced in district l, with Ros-
man, Old Toxaway, Oak Forest,
Balsam Grove, Silversteen, que
bee and Lake Toxaway in district
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
PISCAH ROAD
FUND FAVORED
Jeffress Tells c. of c. He
Is Hopeful Of Getting
u. S. Aid

Indications point to a large eX-
penditure of federal road funds
on the state highway through the
Pisgah National Forest.
The Hendersonville Chamber of
Commarce joined Brevard and
Naynesville in the request to tbs
State Highway Commission that
be made for the use of
federal funds in the building Of
this road.
Highway Commissioner E. B.
Jeffress before LEAVING Raleigh to
visit his father who was critically
i'll on Mills River and who died
Monday night, wrote the follow
ing encouraging letter.
81 received yours of the thirt-
zenith with reference to applying
federal funds to surface route 284
through the Pispah Forest.
owe are applying to the fed
eral government for a special al
lotment of forest funds to be used
on this particular road and l am
hopeful we can obtain it. Hereto
fore this state has received very
little special forest funds, but |
am hopeful we will be able to get
a larger allotment and apply it to
this particular road. 1t will cost
about 100000 to improve this
road from Brevard to the top of
the mountain and surface it and
| am hopeful we can make start
on the project"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
Park Civic
Club Organized;
Officers Chosen

The Laurel Park Civic club was
organized at a meeting of resi-
dents and property holders called
at the home of Mrs. l. J. Foster,
Tuesday afternoon. The club, it
was announced, has social and
protective aims in view.
Miss Elizabeth Means called the
meeting to order in the role of
temporary chairman. Officers were
elected as follows:
President. E. H. Carpenter, In
dianapOlis. Ind.
Vice-president, o. B. Crowell.
Secretary, Mrs. F. c. Shelton.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday, July 25, at 4 p. m., at
the AmeS hotel. A musical pro-
gram will be featured.
Among those present for the or
ganization meeting were: Mrs. C.
B. Ames, Mrs. J. w. Miller, Mrs.
C. P. l. Rogers. Mr.. and Mrs. E.
H. Carpenter, Mr.. and Mrs. o. B.
Crowell, Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Ker-
naghan, Mrs. l. J. Foster, Miss
Elizabeth Means, Mrs. C. L. Boin-
est. Mrs. w. L. Clark, C. Few,
Robert L. Stillson, Mrs. F C.
Shelton. and the Misses Emily
and Martha Sargent. .....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
By DUANE WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 10. (UP)
More than half million unem-
ployed workers returned to their
jobs during the month of June, the
Labor Department announced yes
terday.
This figure whirled the industri-
al employment level to the highest
peak since March, 1882.
Statistics of the department
showed that nearly 100000 work
ers found jobs in mills and FAC
tories of the nation last month.
Another 100000 unemployed
were placed on payrolls OF non
manufacturing industries.
Gains also were reported IN ag-
riculture and industries not IN
cluded in the Labor Department
survey. The figures showed that
$9,0OO,000 more was PAID 10
workers during the week OF June
Is than during the week OF May
Is.
This news, Secretary of LABOR
Perkins, found Extremely hearI-
ening."
people are going back to work
and money is going into their
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
LEAS RESIST MOTION
FOR THEIR CUSTODY

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 10
(UP).-The supreme court today
denied motion of North Carolina
officers that Col. Luke Lea and
his son. now free under bond,
pending an appeal of a writ OF
habeas corpus, be taken into Gus
tody or that their bond be increas-
ed, pending a decision in the case.
The court in an opinion by
Chief Justic Grafton Green, ruled
that the Leas were entitled to lib
erty under bond pending the out
come of their appeal and that the
amount of the bond rests in the
discretion of the trial court and
that the supreme court is rarely,
if ever, called upon to review and
modify that discretion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
CHANGE IN SOUTHERN
SENTIMENT is SEEN
BY UNITED PRESS

Repeal apparently had won its
first crucial Southern test, on the
basis of early reports from Tues
days elections in Alabama and
Arkansas, additionally dry strong
holds.
While returns from yesterdays
elections were not complete, COM
petent political experts did not be-
lieve the total count would upset
the apparent wet victories.
In Arkansas approximately l.
OCT of the states 2,100 precincts
gave 57,S35 votes for repeal and
36,913 against ratio of 5 to 3.
In Alabama 1,167 precincts out
of 2,115 gave repealists 5000
votes and drys 49, a ratio of
about 3 to 2.
The twin defeats were consid-
cred the most grave the dry cause
so far has received.
Tennessee votes on repeal to-
morrow and Oregon Friday. Wet
victories were reported likely.
Fifteen other states vote before
November 7 and if the clean
sweep Of wet victories continues,
they will bring the total of states
approving repeal to 35-one short
of the necessary 36.
The indicated wet victories in
Alabama and Arkansas would
make repeal possible within the
year, most observers believe.
Drys have staked their hopes of
stopping repeal on holding fast
for prohibition the long-dry bloc
of Southern states and have con-
coded little chance for retaining
the 18th Amendment for even an
other year if they lost more than
one Dixie state.
The wet majorities in Alabama
and Arkansas are regarded as in
dications of changing sentiment in
the Southland. Deeply entrenched
dry sentiment apparently has
been overcome by the loyalty OF
OOulnGEIl bSlllOSl dIo W NiiSii PoA ~
platform and to their cherished
ideal of states rights. Repealists
have scored with the argument
that control of liquor is purely a
state problem. 1t is conceded that
many of the "dry" states voting
for repeal of the 18th Amend
ment will keep their own prohibi-
tion laws.
Alabama and Arkansas bring to
IS the number of states that have
voted for repeal. This is exactly
half the SO required for ratifica-
ton of the repeal amendment. No
state has yet voted for retention
of the prohibition amendment.
Repealists expect another VIC
tory in Tennessee which votes to-
morrow, the third Southern state
to do so this week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
in Public
Works Money to
Go to Il States
Big improvements Will Be
Made on Atlanta
Penitentiary

WASHINGTON. July 10. CUP
Secretary of the Interior IckeS,
administrator of public works
funds. today allotted SS51,0O0
for construction and repovation
work or federal prisons. referma-
tories. detention homes and farms
in y states.
The approved projects included
the penitentiary in Atlanta, addi-
tionS TO existing plants and con-
Struction Of residences for Off
cialS, on which 100000 will be
spent.
For 4 prison camp at Peters
burg, Va, construction of a hard
surface road at $4,000 has been
provided
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
.C.MAY FUND
COTTON SALES
TO RUSSIANS
Absorption Of One Million
Bales by Soviet
Is Proposed
Copyright, 1888, United Press)

Copyright, 1888, United Press)
WASHINGTON, July 10. (UP)
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration was reported today to be
considering proposals that it fl
nance the sale of a million bales
Of cotton to Soviet Russia.
Well informed quarters said the
transaction has the endorsement
of persons close to the agricul-
tural adjustment administration.
The proposal in its present form
calls for granting of six-year
credits which would give the So
Wet opportunity to pay without
disturbing its present fve-year
plans.
The r. F. C. recently financed
the sale of $5,OOO,O00 worth of
cotton to Russia by granting cred
its to American exporters on the
security of Soviet notes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
ENDS
CHICAGO STAY
Italian Fliers Take Off for
New York on Voyage
Back Home

CHICAGO. July 19.-The Ital-
ian armada of pa seaplaneS, the
personnel of which has been feted
since its arrival here from its
point of departure from Orbatello,
Italy, took the air for New York
at 6:42 a. m. today.
CHICAGO. July 19.-~UP).-
General Italo Balbo and his trans
Atlantic flierS paraded through
cheering throngS down Michigan
avenue Tuesday, visited an Amer
lean army camp, saw American
pursuit planes in daring maneu-
verS.
All the events were part of the
Chicago and Century of Progress
farewell to the daring 36-year-old
Italian air minister and the 95
young aviatorS who followed him
in mass flight from their native
country to Lake Michigan.
General Balbo and his men plan
to leave Chicago today for New
York, where they probably will
stay several days and make a side
trip to Washington to see Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
All plans for the return to Italy
are tentative and depend some
what upon the weather. The tliers
may return by way of the Azores
or they may go by way of Ireland.
Regardless of what route they
take. General Balbo believes the
hardest part of the trip is over.
Either by Ireland or by the
Azores. there will be longer over
water flights than on the more
northerlv route which the silver
fleet followed from Rome, but in
returning, the armada will have
the winds behind it.
The parade yesterday was a
climax to days and nights of en-
tertainment since the fleet landed
here last Saturday after its 6,1OO
mile flight.
Thousands of cheering Ameri-
cans lined the avenue, waving
their farewell TO the fliers who
were making their last public APP
pearance in this part of the coun-
try.
At the Michigan Avenue bridge
over the Chicago river, the fiiers,
riding in automobiles, passed be-
tween rows of shining sabers, then
speeded northward to Fort Sheri-
dan, where they inspected the
army camp and watched the Self
ridge Field, Michigan, army fliers
in breath-taking maneuvers.
Before starting their parade,
the fliers were guests of Rear Adj
miral Wat T. Cluverius.
American naval officers al
ways have admired those who
wear the uniform of Italy," Gu
verius told the fers. "They are
our beloved friends from war days
and their achievements are eXam-
pies of a splendid and real new
nationalism."
Balbo replied that his men were
proud "of the hospitality offered
by the American navy and cannot
forget that our comrades of the
United States have opened the
routes of the air for new con-
quests"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
By THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 10. (UP).
Complications threatened today
to delay the universal shorter
hours-higher wages code which
General Hugh S. Johnson, nation
al recovery administrator, will
ask all American industry to ac-
cept to boost purchasing power.
The proposed blanket code.
upon which Johnson has been
working for two weeks, was dis
cussed at length yesterday by
President Roosevelt. Johnson and
the supreme recovery council
without final decision.
Some confusing details still re-
main to be worked out. But the
administrator intends to put it
into effect within a few days.
'T'm working on it as hard as
I know how" he told newspaper
men. "You know how long it
takes to get anything approved in
this town.
Johnson emphasized that the
"white-collar" worker will not be
forgotten in the blanket code. He
will be taken care of along with
the man who tends machines and
works with his hands.
"The white-collar worker class
is the greatest field of unemploy-
ment there is" Johnson said.
While the blanket code is the
question of the hour here, it did
not submerge another problem
which arose yesterday and which
left Johnson helpless, but not
pessimistic. This came in reports
that hundreds of textile workers
had been dismissed at various
places when the new code elimi-
mating a third shift in cotton
mills went into effect Monday.
This development sent Presi-
dent William Green of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, hurry
ing to the recovery administra-
ton with a protest and a demand
for an investigation. not only Of
these dismissals but of reports
that some industries are firing
employs who join unions or indi-
cate sympathy with union organ
ization.
As for the textile dismissals,
Johnson threw out his hands and
said he could do nothing about
that.
"That's one of the eggs that
got broken in making this ONE
let" he said.
However. Johnson believes this
problem will adjust itself in abb
sorption of these workers in
larger plants. Nelson Slater,
deputy administrator, who helped
I negotiate the cotton textile code,
expressed the same belief. He
believes some of these workers
are leaving night shifts volun-
tarily to get day jobs in other
plants.
But Johnson was very emphatic
that discharging of workers be-
cause of union activities or SYM
pathies would not be tolerated.
"That's provided for in the
law" he said, referring to guar
anteed protection against such
tactics.
The administrators attention
was called yesterday to qualifica-
tons in the steel codes labor pro-
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
TOBACCO REDUCTION
TAX IS ESTIMATED

RALEIGH. July 19.-(UP).-,
Dr.. G. w. Forster, agricultural
economist of State college, today
estimated that an increase of not
over one cent per package on
cigarettes would be necessary to
finance the anticipated flue cured
tobacco reduction program this
fall in North Carolina and other
states.
The plan will be similar to the
cotton reduction program in that
it will seek to raise the purchas-
ing power of the tobacco grower
a pre-war level. Details will be
announced later from Washing
ton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
UNIFORM WAGE-HOUR PLAN APPROVED
TEXTILE WORKERS SHUFFLED
ABOUT In NEW DEAL FROM
RECOVERY ACT APPLICATION
Situation Complicated But Consensus View Is That
Textile Code "Greatest Thing That Has
HAPPENED to South in History"

ATLANTA, July l9.-(UP).-
Hundreds of southern textile
workers shuffled from one job to
another yesterday as the iron
hand of the national industrial re-
covery act whipped individual
plants into line with the new
deal"
The shuttle, unique in industrial
history, results from application
of the textile code under the n. /.
r. A, which limits working sched-
ules of all plants to two 40-houes
shifts per week, and raises wagesy
Child labor also is abolished by
the code.
The textile code went into eff
feet Monday. Instantly plants
which had been working as high
as three 48-hour shifts per week
were compelled to apply the
brakes and get down to code limi-
tations.
There were some protests, and
the situation was complicated in
spots by strikes, but the apparent
majority reaction was expressed
by A. G. Myers, Gastonia, N. c.,
textile executive who declared:
at is the greatest thing that
has happened to the South in its
history"
Until the shuttle was appreciat-
ed for what it was, there was a
tendency to regard it as the "new
deal" in reverse. Textile leaders
pointed out, however, that it
means curbing any tendency to-
ward rampant production, and
cofdently predicted the temper
arily discharged workers would
find employment elsewhere.
New jobs by the thousands have
been created by the "new DEAL"
which, it became apparent in the
South yesterday, will exert the III
fluence of a 20-mule-team driver
over industry of the nation.
An official of the Sibley Manu-
featuring Co., Augusta, Ca, esri-
mated that $50 men was a con-
sentative figure for the number
to be thrown out of work temper
arily there.
The Klumac Mills, Salisbury,
n. c.. were forced to lay off so
men to come safely under the
code, while the Crystal Springs
Bleachery, at Chattanooga, Tenn,
let out 1O5 men. The latter COM
pany had operated on three As
hour shifts, but was denied per-
mission to continue.
The chief protest came from 7.
Harvey Wilson, general manager
of the Richmond Hosiery Mills,
Chattanooga. who wired Wash
ington:
'Tf we must conform to this
code, what justification can be ar
gued to unfortunate workers who
will be disemployed and be de-
barred from any means of subsls-
tence."
Wilson estimated 800 workers
would be thrown out of employ
ment at Chattanooga alone.
Dispatches from Washington
yesterday indicated that the re-
covery administration felt the
situation called for no action on
its part, that the dismissals were
a natural part of the readjust-
ments incident to the "new deal,
and that the industry as whole
would be able to absorb the al
fected workers.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
Time Limit Ends
Soon on Bus Line
Bids, Is Stated

Announcement was made at the
county board of education offices
this afternoon that anyone inter-
ested in the submission of bids
for contract bus lines should SUBJ
nit them not later than Saturday.
Superintendent of Education K.
G. Anders said that bids will not
be accepted after that time. He
added that he would be glad to
talk to anyone personally who is
interested in submitting bid.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-19
lily Open Tennis
Play Arranged

NJ. 4 ,Hendersonville Open Cham
ss,;,,S1ip tennis tournament will be
,s.@!ed on the Brown court, on
haywood road, next week.
g. snail entrance fee will be
81 yea and prizes will be award
s.: .Ie winner. runner-up, and con-
,s .-t.a''on. Prizes will consist of
saals balls.
4. l1 matches will be two out of
r ,..se except Semi-fnals and finals
!. .,'n will be three out of five
=. =, The referee will be selected
~ entries should be mailed or
F,, y3 70 Ivan Smith, Druid Hills.
d.. ties will close on next Mon
Se,; az noon and match play will
''s'n at ? o'clock.