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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-22
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MORGAN SENIOR
WASN'T SURE

Seven years before the bomb,
the Pujo Committee learned from
the elder Morgan that deposits OF
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce aggregated SCI, 1868, 421
The aggregate Of corporate and
Individual deposits was $IO0,000,,
600 to $11O,00G,0O0, The elder
Morgan could not be sure.
The names Of the rs depOsiting
corporations would have been in
tcresting. 1t was the contention
of the investigators and the indi,
cation Of testimony that a depos-
iting corporation gave to Morgan
and Company prior rights in the
flotation Of securities, for which
service the bankers took an as
sued profit, in some instances ]
1-2 per cent of the face value OF
the stocks or bonds. Untermyel
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-22
MORGAN PROBE WILL
REVEAL FIRM SECRETS
Continued from page one)

vestment bank-its lists Of assets
and liabilities. And not, Of course
because liabilities were large, but
more likely to prevent the public,
or competitors, from learning how
much cold cash and colder credit
actually are controlled by the
house of Morgan.
You recall the bomb, Sept. 16,
1920, 80 dead, 10 injured, prop
crty damage $2,OO0,OO0. Steel
nets long had been stretched above
the roof Of the Morgan fort to
fend chance missiles from adjacent
skyscraper windows. But this
bomb arrived in a horse drawn
dray, exploded at the Morgan curb
and Clipped from the Morgan pill
box chunks Of building stone.
Sightseers explore these cavities
with their fingers and in time Will
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-22

"a biz bird gives the TIMES
scare in the next st0rvD
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-22
- THIS CURIOUS WORLD

LCM4NCEIE. 4 eUckSkN HORSE,
WAS THE Only SURVIVOR OF CUSTERS
ARM, AFTER The CATTLE OF THE LITTLE
BIG HORN. HE NOW STANDS NJ TIE MUSEUM
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF kANSAS/
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
HEADS
FIGHT SLASH

Restoration of numerous school
items stricken from the 1884
District supply bill was urged
today at conference of school
officials with the Board of Edu-
cation finance committee.
The bill as reported to the
House by the District subcom-
mittee of the appropriations COM
mittee reduces the estimates of
the Bureau of the Budget by
approximately $5O0,000.
It is expected that school Off
cials will request that reductions
of $4,000 made in four school
building projects be increased to
the original estimates.
Three items for land, amount
ing to 100000, are also said by
school officials to be of great
Importance for the continuance
of needed construction.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
SECRET AGENTS
V|G|LANT 7 At
WHITE HOUSE
Detail Also Keeps Watch Over
Vice President Elect;
March 4 Plans Stand

More than 400 Marines will
guard PreSident-elect Roosevelt
during the inaugural ceremonies
on Capitol Plaza, March 4, Ken
meth Romney, Sergeant-at-arms
of the House, announced today.
In addition, he said, from 100
to 200 policemen will mingle in
the crowd or will be stationed at
strategic points.
Arrangements for the Marine
guard had been made before news
of the attempted assassination of
Mr.. Roosevelt in Florida reached
Washington.
The attempted assassination
gave rise to Congressional de-
mands for an increased guard
along the route of the inaugural
parade.
More Money If Needed
Representative Byrns CD0 of
Tennessee, chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, said if
more money is needed to provide
police protection at the inaugural,
I'VE will appropriate it,
Byrns said $4,000 had been
given the District of Columbia to
bring 400 policemen from out of
the city and $4,000 for the cere-
mony on Capitol Hill.
Extraordinary precautions to
guard the lives of President-elect
Roosevelt and Vice President
elect Garner will be taken Inaug-
uration Day, it was said at the
inaugural committee headquarters,
but plans for the inaugural cele-
bration have been in no other
way changed.
Plans of the public order COM
mittee and the Secret Service de-
tail will be checked and re-
checked in order to obtain the
utmost of precautions.
News a Shock
News of the attempted aSsassina-
ton stunned inaugural headquar-
ters in the Washington Building
and virtually brought all activities
to a Standstill.
Extra guards are on duty today
at the White House and at the
Washington Hotel, home of Vice
PreSident-elect Garner. No threats
have been received, but every pre-
caution will be taken, neverthe-
less, William H. Moran, chief of
the United States Secret Service,
declared.
Lewis Apprehensive
At the hotel where the Garners
reside, guards were placed on
the floors above and below as
well as on that on which their
suite is located, and no strangers
were allowed to approach.
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis,
close friend of Mayor Cermak,
suggested that plans for the in
auguration be changed from out
door ceremonies, believing that
this attack may be the forerIr.
ner Of others and the open air
ceremonies would make the Presi.
dent-elect "a target"
Admiral Cary T. Grayson.
chairman of the inaugural com.
mittee, said, however, that no
change is CONTEMPLATED
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
How Hot Is a Kiss?
DR.. Abbot Makes
Device to Tell

Scientists, always wanting to
know how hot is hot, may now
have their curiosity satisfied by
the latest invention of DR..
Charles S. Abbot, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution.
DR.. Abbot's contribution to
the field of thermatics is called
the "kampometer." It is so
sensitive and so delicate it is
capable of measuring the bod
lily temperature generated by a
kiss.
Hollywood papers please copy.
It would take a graduate of
school of technocracy-if
there were such-to understand
the new mechanism, which, in
its simplest form, is a rival of
the thermopile, the balometer
and the radiometer, instruments
for detecting heat gradations.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
KATE SMITH 8.
SISTER SUES

Kate Smiths little sister,"
Helene, objects to being "con-
densed" when referred to in
print.
This she revealed today in a
suit for $4,000 damages filed in
District Supreme Court against
Time magazine.
Time, according to Miss
Smiths suit, in an article pub
lished February 6, said that the
renowned Kate supports her
mother and a 9O-pound sister,
who is clerk in the Department
of Justice"
Helene, Department of JUS
tice employe, says she supports
herself, and that she weighs
not 80 ut 1877 pounds. She says
she is the only sister of the
singer, and charges that the
magazine meant to contrast lu-
dricously their respective weights.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16

Desiring to bring District appro-
priations in the 1884 supply bill
up to the level recommended by
the Budget Bureau, Representative
William P. Holiday R0 of
Illinois, today launched on the
House floor the first of almost a
score of amendments.
Holiday offered an amendment
which would increase salaries in
the Highway Department approx
mately $4,000 and then went into
an attack on a provision of the
bill which would close the high
way testing bureau.
Was Saving Money
Under the bill the Commits
sioners are restricted from using
any money for the operation of
this laboratory. Holiday said the
laboratory had cost the District
100000 to build and was saving
the local government approx
mately $4,000 annually.
The House took up the bill
where it left off yesterday. It ad-
journed when Representative
Thomas L. Blanton CD of Texas
raised a point of no quorum on a
vote on the amendment by Repre-
sentative Holiday to raise the ap-
preparation of the Register of
Wills office from 100000 to $685.
400, the sum recommended by the
Budget Bureau.
On a standing vote today, the
amendment was defeated, IS to
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
BURIAL HALTED
BY CEMETERY
OFFICIALS
Birth Certificate Said to State
Margaret CoIvin, 18, Stu
dent, Was CoIored

Funeral arrangements for Mar
garet A. Colvin, 18-year-old for
mer student at Business High
School, were abruptly halted a
few hours before the time set for
the services when cemetery Off
cials refused to allow her inter-
ment at Cedar Hill.
The girl, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Colvin, 1900 block
North Capitol St., died Monday
after a short illness and the fu-
neral was set for 2 o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
Says She's COlOred
A birth certificate, issued in
Richmond, Va, said by cemetery
officials to report that the girl
was colored, was given by them
as the reason for their refusal to
allow the interment.
The family Indignantly denied
this, stating that they are white,
and the father said he might take
legal action against the cemetery.
He went out early today and
made arrangements for interment
in some other place, -efusing to
reveal where it would be.
Accuses Enemy
Mrs. Ada Colvin, mother of the
dead girl, said:
"ThiS is terrible lie. There
is no cOlOred blood in our FAM
lily. Some enemy is responsible
for this in our time Of great
sorrow. 1 can not understand
the inhumanity of the person
who has done such a thing"
The mother pointed out that
the girl had always attended a
white school and a white church
and was vigorous in her denunci-
alton of "the persons who have
done this terrible thing"
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
Ritchie's Reception
Packs State Mansion

Maryland officials gathered at
the executive mansion in Annap-
oils yesterday to join in Gov
ernor Albert c. Ritchie's recep-
ton to members of the general
assembly.
Visitors packed the lower floor
as they passed David c. Wine
brenner, Sd, Secretary Of State,
into a small ante-chamber where
the governor stood. Following
the reception many attended a
dance at CarVel Hall.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
in Near Camps
For 9,84O Idle Boys

Approximately 9,84O transient
youths could be housed in camps
of the Third Corps Area if Con-
gress approved pending measure
for that purpose, say military au-
thorities.
Under the plan of Senator
Couzens CRO of Michigan to give
homes to unemployed boys, the
two big concentration camps in
the area would be Fort Meade,
Md, and Fort Monroe, Va. Half
a dozen other camps could be
utilized. =
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
80 Minutes Record
PITTSBURGH FLiOht

A new record was established
today on the Pittsburgh Wash
lngton division of Pennsylvania
AirlineS, Inc, when Pilot R. l..
Baker made the trip in 80 minutes
this beating his own record of
80 minutes.
Baker is the senior pilot of the
line. He first soloed in 1919.
He has been flying the Cleve-
land-Pittsburgh-W run
since 1928.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
K|WAN|S FETES
SEC. ADAMS

A variety of jobs, some mari
time, some political, and all of
them of a humorous nature, were
offered today to Charles Francis
Adams, retiring Secretary of the
Navy, at a farewell luncheon dedi-
Gated to him by the Washington
KiWanis Club, of which he is an
honorary member.
Edwin F. Hill, Kiwanis District
governor, was in charge of the
program for the New Englander,
and Secretary Adams seemed to
enjoy the features of which he
was the target.
Song parodies extolling his
abilities, tribulations, political
complications and predicting his
future activities were heard.
President Dewey zirkin presided.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
Duncan Nominated
West Point Cadet

James w. Duncan, 700 block
Underwood st. N. w., was named
for appointment as a cadet to
West Point by the District Com.
missioners yesterday, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
Cadet Rodman N. Ordway.
William B. McC. Chase, $500
block Woodley Rd. N. w., was
named as first alternate, and
Eugene Staniszewski, 700 block
Quebec Pl. N. W., second alternate.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
BUILDING TOPIC
At SESSION

A building program for guiding
Federal and District authorities in
the future will be formulated at a
joint meeting of the District Com
missioners and the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission tomorrow.
The program will be discussed
at the monthly meeting of the
planning body, presided over by
Frederic A. Delano, chairman.
Col. D. H. Sawyer, of the Federal
Employment Sterilization Board,
will also participate in the dis
cuSsion.
Future planning is necessary,
Major D. H. Gillette pointed out
today, for avoidance of costly mis-
takes.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
Holiday Fights Closing
OF Highway Bureau

81, but on a teller vote the tabula-
ton was 80 against and 86 for.
Representative Howard w.
Smith CD of Virginia sought to
double the appropriation of the
Recorder Of Deeds office, but was
ruled out of order on the ground
that he was too late.
The bill carries an appropria-
ton of $48,585 for that office, and
Smith wished to raise it to $97, ITO.
Smith indicated he would reintro-
duce the amendment after the bill
has been read and before a vote
is taken.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
; Japanese Students
Entertained bY Lions

Three japanese students paus-
ing here on a good will tour
appeared before the washington
Lions Club meeting in the Hotel
Mayflower yesterday and urged
a better understanding between
the United States and Japan.
The students who are in this
country under auspices Of the
Oriental Culture Society spoke
and later submitted themselves
to a series of questions pro-
pounded by the Lions Club men,
bers. They are K. Sumomogi,
Tad Yamada and T. r. Maxi
yan1a,
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
Often Honor Guest
Of Veterans TOnight

William j. often, commander
in-chief Of the United Spanish
War Veterans, will be the honor
guest at the local departments
annual banquet tonight, in the
Mayflower Hotel.
j. A. Costello is chairman Of
the committee in charge, and is
assisted by James j. Murphy,
John Lewis, William L. Mattocks,
Arthur H. League and Samuel j.
McWilliamS.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
Foundation Plans
Naval Museum Here

Washington will have a Naval
Museum soon if plans of the
Naval Historical Foundation come
to fruition. A proposed site on
the south side of the Mall, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh Streets
and east of the Smithsonian In
Stitution, has been selected for the
building, which would be of mar
BILE and which would cost about
$1,OOO,OOO,
The Washington times., 1933-02-16

business. The republican guard
aided the police; heads were
knocked together and the taxpay-
ers withdrew, announcing that they
intended to come back another
day. The "contribuables," as they
are called, have heard that every
"a hours the French deficit is
mounting by million dollars; and,
as thrifty people, they foresee
danger. 1t is only some 60 years
since open warfare occurred in the
streets of Paris, but l doubt that the
taxpayers were intending to over
throw the Third Republic; they
were merely applying the lessons
of other countries to themselves.
They had probably heard that in
the United States cities and States
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
POTTER TO SPEAK

Edwin S. Potter will speak on
The Llano Cooperative Colony
It's Message of Hope and Good
Cheer" Saturday night at the
headquarters of the League for
the Larger Life.
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
LOAN To |NSULL
EXPLAINED BY
OWEN YOUNG
General Electric Chief Before
Senate Committee Probing
Fall of Utilities Group

Owen D. Young, chairman of
the board of the General Elec-
trio Corporation, was called be-
fore the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee in its probe
of affairs of the fallen utilities
empire of Samuel insult, sr., to-
day.
Young was listed as one of the
friends" who received 1000
shares of insult utilities common
stock in the deal in which Sam
uel insult, jr., told the COM
mittee his father and other mem
bers TO the family made $26000,,-
600 paper profits.
Went Up to $149
The insults, and few of their
friends, the inquiry has devel.
oped, were allowed to buy the
stock before it was placed on
the exchange at from $3.50 to
SIS a share. The stock touched
$50 share the day it was listed
and the second day touched $40.
Six months later the stock was
up to $149. It is now held vir-
tually worthless.
Young was called after Samuel
insult, jr., heir to the fallen
insult empire, who has been on
the stand one full day, testified
briefly earlier.
insult had been asked about
the loans to the insult Utilities
Investment Corporation and the
Corporation Securities Company,
two insult concerns in 1880 and
1881. He had said that these
totaled about $70,O00,000 and that
they reached their peak just four
months prior to the date the
insult companies went into re-
ceiverShip.
Tells of Loan
Young was asked whether the
General Electric Company in De-
cember, 1881, made a loan to the
insult concerns. He said:
"Ye8: it was made Deem
er 22,1931.
''Md: insult Samuel insult,
ST. came in to see me Decem-
er 10, 1881. He said he would
like to talk to me aout loan
of $2,OOO,OOO. He said he
would deposit as collateral Sc
curitieS with a market value Of
40 per cent in excess of the
loan. He said he would keep
the security 40 per cent in ex-
cess of the loan and offered to
endorse the loan personally.
The loan was finally made for
six months.
"Mr. insult did not say to
which of his companies he
wanted the loan to go. AS q
matter of fact that was not
a very important matter as we
were satisfied with the Sc
curity.
Talked with SwOpe
II discussed the matter with
Mr.. Gerald SwOpe, president Of
the General Electric Ompany.
Mr.. SwOpe said insult had
made prior loans and had al
ways paid them. He further
remembered he had not asked
for a loan since 1915. He did
a very large uSinesS with us.
We agreed to recommend the
loan.
Young explained that insult
said he wanted thea loan to cut
down his outstanding debts to
banks. He said the Central Han
over Bank and Trust Company
was one, ut did not mention the
others.
''Mr. Swope and 1 asked at
least three members of the
General Electric board about
the loan and they informally
approved. So the arrange
ments were made and although
not formally ratified until the
meeting of the directors on
/To1fioupd nm Pace IS. Col y
The Washington times., 1933-02-16

and even the Federal Government hard pressed
Tor money and that, in spite of having vast
of gold in their possession they threatened with
the same kind of economic stranguation which has
occurred elsewhere.
Lotteries Wanted
They not only want the government to stop spending
Wastetuly, but to lower taxes and of the means
OF raising money without oppressive taxation they sug
ges national lottery. If the project is taken up
shall call the French nation of gamblers, because
know, in America, that lotteries are immoral. But
economic pressure is hard taskmaster and of the
excuses it does not admit is morality Lotteries in
which the principal sum is to be devoted to a
struction program have never been successfully at
tackled by economists on purely economic grounds.
Stuart Chase and W. E. Woodward, as l noted once
before think it quite likely that shall have them
in America. For those who can't wait there boats
to Cuba.
Ring the Bell!
The Paris marchers began at Magic City, which is
long distance from the Paais Bourbon and can't help
wondering whether the demonstration took place early
enough for the taxpayers to get home before their
doors were shut against them This is one of the ele
mens in Partisan life which always staggers the for
eignerthat at 10 in the evening the heavy doors
of almost every apartment house in Paris are changed
to- and thereafter have to wake up the concierge
to get in. few houses now being built without
concierges' rooms; you have your key and
actually allowed to come and go as you please. Il
my friends.) But good Parisians still frown the
innovation. They love their concerges. They also
hate them.
If you rent apartment for term of years fixed
is added to the rental and turned to the
clerge thereafter you give h or her. series OF gifts at
recognized intervals we'll tips for special occasions
The concierge suppose prevents burglars from entering
stops undesirable visitors at the door, finds aundress for
you and gets percentage for doing so and otherwise
acts porter But why he should have to wake ten times
night to let you or out, quite knows. The
panation usually given is that every concierge is in the
hire of the Paris police
Doubtful Liberty
1t is frequently said that the French have liberty
actually than Americans have They certainly have high
degree of liberty for press and public assembly, you
see placards for the most violent antnatonal meetings
and read the most furious denunciaons of the Republic
from Royaists and Communists both Yet two things
check the exercise of liberty understand it, the
of the concierge and the tongue of the petty official
Officaldom in France u.s. to the foreigner positive
ace and the suspicion that the concierge not only
tolls ic rritat
The Washington times., 1933-02-16
True to Type
FRENCH HATE TAXES,
BUT TOLERATE
CONCIERGE
BY GILBERT SELDES-

"A day when $1,000 taxpayers met to demand econ
omy in the national government and then marched
the Chamber of Deputies to show that they meant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

agreements promised.
 The latest crop reports from the wheat section west of the Missouri river indicate a lighter winter wheat crop than for many years Thus the wheat surplus problem may solve itself with the resultant much-needed rise in prices.
 Overbuilt, perhaps in some re spects, our cities cry for slum elim- ination and housing projects whick will employ building tradesmen raise living standards, increase property values.
 Lower Expenses
 We have a definite promise o1 a balanced budge9, lowered federal expenses, lower taxes for the or. dinary man, and threat of higher ones for the fortunately placed.
 Several industries which may well sweep the country as the au- tomobile and the radio did may be hiding around the corner, waiting only for slight impetus. Tele- vision, fabricated steel housing improvements in air transit, and many others await only the first sign of restored confidence to start rolling.
 Shorter hours. better working conditions, the shorter week, better security against sickness and old age. these are social benefits which if they come promptly should lend their aid in the up- swing.
 All these are factors which in- dicate that the future may be judged somewhat by the past, and that recovery may be achieved by n united effort,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

was tried in Nebraska for 30 years, but wound up in the red. It re- uuired all state banks to pay into a guarantee fund a percentage based on average daily deposits. For years not a depositor lost q cent. More than dozen states modelled plans after Nebraska.
 But in trying time the guar antee fund became insolvent. Ne braska bankers turned against it, claiming it was unsound because it had a limited income, but unlim- a federal scale, and some varia- tion of it will certainly be pro- posed. Whether it merely puts a premium on bad banking is not quite definitely shown by the Ne braska experiment.
 Security Regulation
 There is going to be closer and closer regulation of security float ing, and a more realistic inspec- ton of capital accounts and divi- dend policies. Faster than many realize. many overcapitalized cor porations are continually going. through the wringer, and as the water is squeezed out they are get. ting into fighting trim to go for ward again.
 The new administration Is pledged to "a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards" Note that this does not guarantee that there will be no change in former standards. But it does fulfill the condition that is requisite to pros perity-a sound currency.
 Foreign trade, dwindled to a shadow, may be gradually nursed back to strength by the reciprocal