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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
LIE BOOZE COMES BACK

Politicians in Washington say that if the 18th
amendment is repealed and hard liquor is legalized
for manufacture and sale it will result in a half
billion income to the government in taxes.
If this be true it would mean large consump-
ton of liquor. The consumers would pay this ta;
just as the cigarette smokers pay the tax when
they purchase the goods.
These consumers will probably number about
half of our people. The half that does the con-
Stunning will range from light to heavy drinkers.
There will be considerable drunkenness and police
forces where hard liquor is dispensed will have to
be increased. There will be an increase in drunk
en- drivers on the highways. And increased casual
ties due to liquor. Some families will suffer be-
cause money is spent for booze which should be
used to purchase food and clothing
1t is not good investment for the government
Ito collect revenue from such source However,
the right of state to forbid sale of hard liquors
within its borders will remain if the amend
ment is repealed But wherever it is sold its evil
influence will be effective and some of the revenue
the government derives from this source will mean
hungry and illy-ciad women and children.-Rock
Hill Is. c. Herald. as
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
DRY LAW REPEAL WON'T END
RACKETEERING
(By BRUCE CATION

Congress appoints a committee to inveS-
tigate the racketeering evil, and immedi-
ately afterward gangsters shoot down four
peace officers in busy part of Kansas
City-thereby proving that Congress in its
wisdom acted none too soon.
We have been scandalized by our rack
eteers for a good many years, now; but so
far we have done nothing whatever to put
them out of existence, and we have hardly
even been able to get very greatly alarmed
about them
This, perhaps, was due partly to the fact
that we had good alibi-prohibition
Whenever any city displayed a peculiarly
ugly manifestation of underworld inso-
lence, we could lay the whole thing to the
18th amendment, shake our heads sadly
over the evils of prohibition and let it go
at that.
But unless all signs fail we are about to
lose our abb; and it will be interesting to
see what we do about the racketeer there
after.
One would have to have child-like
faith and an unquestiOning optimism to be-
lieve that racketeering will automatically
cease the moment the 18th amendment is
repealed-if, of course, it actually is re-
pealed.
The dry law has given aid and comfort
to the racketeer, unquestionably; but it
didn't call him into existence, and he won't
vanish when it vanishes.
What we must face is simply the fact
that the underworld has discovered, dur
ing the past dozen years, that organized
society is often helpless before daring and
ruthless criminals.
This is partly due to an Anticipated and
cumbersome legal system, which gives the
criminal much more than an even break
when he is charged with crime. 1t is
partly due to a disorganized, politics-rid-
den police system which puts every city
under terrific handicaps in its fight on
crime. 1t is partly due to the automobile,
which has given the criminal new mobil-
ity. 1t is partly due to the traditional cor
ruption and inefficiency which pervade al
most every large city's government from
top to bottom.
These are the points on which the Con-
gressional committee must give us lot of
detailed information.
The time for dismissing all of the evils
of racketeering with the airy remark that
it's all due to prohibition is about over. 1t
is up to US now to roll up our sleeves, find
out Just exactly how and why the under
world is what it is, and do something to
remedy matters.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
iEA Service Writer

NbR ScTN1ce "rIi'r
WASHINGTON. - Washington
" regulars" don't realize how
the town is being reshuffled un-
der their feet.
A great deal has been said
about the New deal, and the new
cards, and even a new game, but
Washington is rapidly providing
a new table for the game to be
played on.
The open-mouthed wonderment
of a Washington "old-timer" re-
Gently returned for short visit
showed us regulars" how the
changes have been sneaking up
on US.
Historic Pennsylvania Avenue,
he pointed out. looks like a re-
splendent butterfly just emerging
from its cocoon Of frowsy slum
dwellings. The south side of the
avenue, once more picturesque
than beautiful, has almost become
the imposing row Of marble ia
cades it was always intended to
be.
Chinatown has moved from its
ancient seat below the dome of
the Capitol to make way for a
long-needed Archives Office, and
Constitution Avenue, which for
so long existed mostly on paper,
has become the dignified marbled
approach it was planned to be.
Harvey's, the capitals famous
old seafood restaurant, stands
dismantled and ready for the
wreckers. It's now cnsconccd in
dignified atmosphere on Con-
pectiCut Avenue.
Even the vacant lot where the
bonus army of a year age was
driven from its DitiablG little
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

IGNTOW, let's he patient" Scouty
1 ' said. Il think, if | just use
my head, that can think of some
good plan to help poor Dotty out.
The tree that's holding her is
tall and we would have no chance
at all to pull her from the limbs
OH my, just hear the poor girls
shout"
Shes merely scared" said
Windy. "She seems just as safe as
safe can be as long rs that old tree
Eanys on and doesn't let her drop.
Perhaps the trees just having
fun, and likes the play beneath the
sun. It's running now. | wish l
knew how / could make it stop.
DOOR Dotty, in the meantime,
was a very frightened girl be-
cause she sill was held high in
the air. please put me down. she
cried.
I'D rather be right on the
ground. Your running makes me
bob around. Why did l let you
eatch me. when / had chance to
hide"I
"Well, don't know" the big tree
man~pl "baI iii iny long arm you
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
LIFE SAVING
COURSE ENDS
Ninth Annual First Aid
Institutes Attendance
Is A Record

BREVARD, June "a (SpeciaD
Activities of the ninth annual
American Red Cross life-SavinG
and first aid institute, held at
Camp Carolina for the past ten
days, closed Thursday night with
an elaborate waterfront pageant,
in which the entire student body,
numbering over 100 took active
part in the program.
Appropriately named "The
Peace Pipe" the pageant depict
ed life of the early settler of the
Tennessee Valley, battles, love
scenes, folk dancing, and fancy
diving and swimming being
adapted in the pageant with final
curtain falling upon the Indian
and palefaces smoking the pipe
of peace.
Several thousand people lined
the banks of Carolina lake for
the GORGEOUS spectacle, cars from
the surrounding countryside be-
ing damned together for a mile
or more in length, parking space
near the camp being inadequate
to take care of the traffic. A
squad of stat patrolmen, etgheth-
er with large detail Of the in
stitute students handled the
traffic without a single accident
occurring.
Outstanding among visitors al
the pageant was Harold f. En-,
loes, of Washington, d. c., ma,
tional director Of first aid and
life saving for the American Red
Cross. Director Enlos is author,
ity for the statement that the in
stitute closing at Camp Carolina
Thursday night was the largest
ever to be held in America, break
ing attendance records by an
even sevnten pople.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
Rules Evidence
insufficient In
Scottsboro Case
RetriaI For Negro Grant
ed AS Testimony Has
faint OF Unreliability

ATHENS, Ga, June "a. (UP)
Circuit Judge James f.. Horton
ruled here Friday that the states
evidence was insufficient to sus-
tain a conviction against Hay
wood Patterson, one Of the nine
"ScOttsboro case" negroes.
Patterson, who has twice been
convicted and sentence to death
on charges of participating in al
legged criminal assault upon two
white women aboad a freight
train near Scottsboro. Ala, more
than two years ago, was granted
another new hearing.
Date for PattcrSon's third trial
probably will be set at the reg
Ular term of Morgan county cir
cult court next fall,
Judge Horton based his deci-
sion purely upon the evidence in
the case, disregarding defense
concerning purported mob senti-
ncnt at the last trial here in
March and alleged exclusion Of
negroes from jury service. He
heard no arguments yesterday.
Reading from a prepared state
.ment, Judge Horton said:
"No defendant should be con-
victed in a prosecution for as
sault when the testimony of the
prosecutrix bears evidence Of un-
reliability, under the Circumstance
es it was necessary to have cor
rohnration of Victoria Prices
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
' W>I;$y;AZ5>;S::;jE:=I[NGTON
With RODNEY QUICHEB

8hackS, is full OF marble columns
and the walls of new govern
ment building. And almost right
across the street is the Worlds
rgest Service Station-ip
Washington Of all places!
All the old frame buildings
which cluttered the area between
Union Station ard the Capitol
during the war. and which were
to have been torn down imme-
diately after the war land stayed
many years insteadj, are gone.
Instead is a spacious open plaza
with pools and fountains spar
king in the sun.
The historic corner OF 18th
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue,
where thousands have seen the
inauguration parades. has been
opened up wide, 40 longer cor
ner, but plaza. Polls Theatet
is gone, RACED to make room for
the quarter mile or so of marble
columns that row house the De-
partment 81 Commerce,
Marble buildings dop't make q
capital, though, and those who
remember Qre-war Washington
will be glad u know that some
things remain The same. The
squirrels still Scamper unafraid
in Lafayette Park across the
street from the White House, and
the White House itself remains
the most simply dignified and ut.
terly beautifF official residence
of any national leader.
And government Torkers still
fill the great Ellipse behind the
White House on Saturday after
noon, playing baseball and tom
MS as light-heartedly as though
they had never heard Of salary
cuts or government reorganiza-
ton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
Will Recondition
Confederate Fort

NEW ORLEANS, La. June
ID. (UP)-Old Fort Beuregard
has been returned to its wars
this time it is the war on unem-
ployment.
The old storm center, which
played such, a strategic part in
the defense of Harrisonburg
during the Civil War, is to be
repaired and reconditioned, and
this project will furnish 1000
working days TO jobless men in
this section. ,.....
Officials of the Louisiana
emergency relief administration
announced the plan yesterday.
The fort overlooks the Ouach-
tia river at point just below
Harrisonburg. On May 10,
1868. federal gunboats under
command Of Commodore Wood
worth demanded the garrison of
400 conferderates to surrender.
Lieut.. Col. George w. Logan,
commander of the garrison ans
Wered never, ana the Dattle
was on, the gunboats and the
fort Smelling each other heavily.
Finally the gunboats retired, and
an attempt to storm the fort was
made, but repulsed.
Early in September of the
same year a land expedition un-
der General Croker marched
from Natchez on the fort whose
garrison had been reduced to 40
men. Logan withdrew, and the
Ouachita territory was opened
to the federals. The fort was
named after Pierre G.. T. Beau
regard, one of the south's most
gallant generals.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
MRS. KEMP TO SEEK
SEAT in CONGRESS

BATON ROUGE. La, June. "a.
(UP)-Mrs. Bolivar F.. Kemp, Of
Amite, widow of Congressman
Kemp. Of the sixth congressional
district, who died ut the family
home several days ago, yesterday
announced she would be a candl-
date to succeed her husband as
representative in congress.
Her announcement was made
through Lem Bowdcn, former
sheriff of Tangipahoa Parish,
who mana aged Congressman
Kemp's campaign for reelection
last fall.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

testimony and there was no such
corroboration, her TESTIMONY was
in almost square conflict with
that of the examining doctors at
%cOttShoro.
George w. Chamlce, of Chat
tanooga. Tenn, retained by the
international Labor Defense as
an attorney for the negroes, hail
ed Judge Horizons decision yes
tcrday as "the end of the "Scotts-
boro case" "Thc states evidence
will never stand up" he said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
DUNN'S ROCK LODGE
TO HEAR HARTSELL

BREVARD, June "a (SpeciaD
-Masons of Dunn's Rock lodge.
will hear the Rev. Paul Hartsell.
pastor of Brevard Baptist church
in the annual Saint John sermon
at the church Sunday morning at
II o'clock.
Special SETON Of the church
will be set aside for members of
the lodge, with an expected at
tendance of so or more members
CT the Masonic order.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
First CROSSWORD Idea

The oldest known crossword puz-
Zle was found on the island Of
Crete and Is about two thousand
years old. A copy is in the archie
illogical museum at Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, Md.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

Alabama doctor at American Medical
Association convention announced diScov-
cry of new disease in which the patient
is hungry all the time. Shucks; every fam
1y with a small boy has known that dis
ease all along.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

We don't know what wedding march
was played when that Irish broker married
Ruth Kresge, daughter of the rich chain
store. magnet, but perhaps an appropriate
tune would have been 81 Found Million
Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent
Store!"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
Sz1READ THE STORY. THEN COLOR THE fICTUREJ

were trapped. / haven't any play
mates. so | think I'll keep you
here.
as long as you treat me rea
kind will do nothing. you vii
mind, but il YOU get real naughty
you will have lot to fear
WEE Quincy heard this and he
w cried, Il have plan that car
be tried. Our good old friend the
Imp gave me a funny magic mute,
"He said, IF something goes
amiss, dor't worry, son; Just blow
on This. Now, .i3ccn lads. and you
will shortly hear me make it foot.
"All right, we're waiting" Scouty
said. why hesitate, lad? &c
ahead. However, l can't see what
good thing like that can do
We'll soon find cut cried
Quincy. Then he looted once, and
once ag1in. That's terrible" said
Colby. Kindly huiry and get
Though"
| Copyright, 1888, NEA Service. Inc
Tho magic flute brings some
/ tb;n,r forth i'm the next StOry.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

the Son of man cometh.-Matt. 24:44.
The Soviet government of Russia concludes its
official dispatches with the words keep ready"
This nation. blasphemousy challenging God, be-
lieves in preparedness Have not we who have
named the name of Christ need, also, to keep
ready?
''Watchman, what of the night?" Elsa. 21:1D.
He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
(Heb. 1O:3).
Arthur l. Brown, NJ D., Vancouver, B. C.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
BIBLE THOUGHT
PREPAREDNESS

Be ye also ready: For in such hour ye think
not the Son of man cometh.-Matt. 24:44.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24

Tho magic flute brings some
thing forth in the next storyo
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Pes o My Heart
Was Sensational
Stage Hit

Upon its twenty-firSt anniver-
sary of its debut in the theater,
Peg O. My Heart" finds itself
still going strong in popularity
and has been filmed as a talk
ing picture by Cosmopolitan Pro-
ductions for Metro-G -Goldwyn-Mayer
with Marion Davies in the title
role. It opens locally at L'oew'S
Fox on June %.
Having broken all stage records,
translated and played in every
tongue in the civilized world,
Peg" is said to have been pre-
sented to a greater collective
audience than any work in the
history of the theater. The an
niversary of the famous play is
recalled by Robert z. Leonard,
noted film director. who is film
ing the new peg"
Leonard, oddly enough, played
in the first presentation Of
"Peg o. My Heart" appearing
in support of Laurette Taylor
in the role of Jarvis, the comedy
butler. He also was assistant
stage director.
It opened at the Cort Theater
in November 1912, and ran for
six hundred consecutive perform
ances, one Of the longest runs
recorded in the New York The
ater, even in later days. After
playing it around the United
States, Miss Taylor took Peg" to
London where she opened in
october 1914, at the Comedy
Theater, breaking the previous
New York record by playing seven
hundred and ten performances.
She returned to London with the
play several years later and dupli-
Gated its success. Peg" also was
revived in New York in 1921,
and in 1923, Miss Taylor made
the play into a silent picture.
Gas a talking picture" says
Director Leonard, 81 think Peg
will be even more popular, par
ticularly with Miss Davies as
Peg It is the type of picture
that everyone is waiting to see
nowadays. 1t has all the sweet,
Old-fashiOned romance with the
hOydenish comedy we need to-
day."
Onslow Stevens plays opposite
Miss Davies in peg o. My
Heart" and the cast includes J.
Farrell Macdonald, Julie tie
Compton, Alan Mowbray, Irene
Browne, Tyrrell Davis, Robert
Greig and Nora Cecil,
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Brooke Students
To Appear
tomorrow

The second term students OF
the Clifford Brooke Academy OF
Stage Training in the Dramatic
Arts will be seen at the National
Theater tomorrow night in four
plays, the performance marking
the closing of the second term OF
the academy. The program is
made up of the following pieces
the trial scene from "The Mer
chant of Venice" by William
Shakespeare; a one-act play en-
titled Waterloo" by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle; a travesty in one
act, THE Sweet Elysium Club
by Alice E. Ives and a farce II
one act, "The Rest Cure" by Ger
trude e. Jennings.
The performance Is directed b.
Clifford Brooke, assisted by Maur
ice Greet. Many well knowr
local thespians will appear, in
Guiding a number who have beer
seen during the current seasor
with the National Theater Players
Enthusiastic critical comment
greeted the performance given By
the first term students Of tn
academy on April 2, last. 1t i
promised that tonight's perform
ance will be Of an equally excel
lent character.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Neishborhood Movie Programs

} HLombard and Jack oakie in Hell to
Heaven"
SYLVAN-Sunday and Monday: The
Great Jasper" with Richard Dix ana
Edna Mae oliver; Charlie Chaplin COM
edy; cartoon. Tuesday: John Gilbert
and Robert Armstrong in Fast Work
ers"; comedy; cartoons; review. Wednes-
day and Thursday: The Three Barry
mores in "Rasputin and the Empress" /;
Laurel and Hardy comedy. Friday:
James Dunn and Boots Mallory in
Handle With Care: chapter 8. Jungle
Mystery; comedy; cartoon. Saturday:
Double feature-"Mr Robinson Crusoe."
with Douglas Fairbanks; Tom. Mix in
"Rustlers' Roundup; chapter s, Devil
Horse; cartoon; matinee, 1 p. m.
TAKOMA-Sunday and Monday: Joe
e Brown in ELMER the Great" Tues
day and Wednesday; James Dunn in
Sailors Luck" and Katherine Hep
burn in "Christopher strong" Thursday
and Friday: Kay Francis and =, GsoPgs Geo &c
Barthelmess and Central Airport" and
Clyde Beattys Big Cage"
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Here and tn ere
In the Realm Of
Broadcastins
BY STANLEY BIGELOW

Apparently, the National Broad
casting System thinks the weather
isn't hot yet.
Way up there in the National
Press Building, where N. B. c. has
it's studios, is one studio equipped
with a very elaborate air-cooling
system. To date, however, the
boiling temperature in that par
ticular studio (and the rest of
them for that matter) still pre-
walls.
The privileged studio is known
as the Gold Room, reserved for
speakers, mostly Senators and
Representatives and Cabinet mem
berS.
The air-cooling equipment was
installed last year and hopes are
high that it will be put into
operation some time soon.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Troupers to Give
Comedy June 16

"The Sap" a comedy in three
acts by William Grew, will be
presented Friday night of this
week, June 16, at o'clock in
Eastern High School auditorium,
Seventeenth and East Capitol
Streets, by the Troupers Of East
Washington Community Center
The cast of characters in this
comedy which proved a success
full starring vehicle for Raymond
Hitchcock in New York city a
few years ago, comprises Frances
Wilson, Mary Walter, Helen
Tucker, Richard Kreuzberg, Ed
ward Finlayson and Marshall
Baggett.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Louise Dresser Again
In Will Rogers Film

Louise Dresser, well-known
character actress, has been added
to the cast of "Life's Worth Liv.
ing," in which Will Rogers will
be starred with Vera Allen.
Miss Dresser was last seen op.
poSite the star in Estate Fair"
"Lite'S Worth Living" is the
new title for "The Last Adam" p"
the James Gould Cozzens Liter
ary Guild book that is being di.
rected by John Ford.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Universal Buys
New Hurst Book

Said to possess the same tense
human appeal as Back Street, "
but decidedly more dramatic
color, Fannie Hurst's most recent
"best seller" Imitation Of Life"
is to be brought to life on the
screen by Universal.
Contracts were signed this week
by Fannie Hurst in New York.
Carl Laemmle, jr., young Univer-
sal production chief. purchased
Miss Hurst's brilliant American
novel with the understanding that
John M. Stahl, who directed
''Back Street" and made it inter
nationally recognized as one Of
the screens ten best films of
1892" will direct Imitation Of
Life"
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

156th anniversary of the adop-
ton of the flag by Congress, will
be celebrated over N. B. C. net
works by two special programs,
one from New York and the other
from Monticello, Va, the home of
Thomas Jefferson. John de
lara Almonte. N. B. C.'s manager
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
"Stu" in MYSTERY Film

Stuart Erwin will find romance
as well as thrilling mystery in his
newest role. He has been signed
for the male lead in The Death
Watch" RKO Radio perturbation
of the late Edgar Wallace's story,
which has just gone before the
cameras. Irving Pichel is directing
and Dorothy Wilson, Warner
GLAND and Gertrude Hoffman
have the other leading roles.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

of night operations. once applied
for a job as a reporter on a New
York paper attired in a top hat,
gray-Striped trousers and frock
coat-and got the job. with the
admonition from the city editor
that he'd better come. to work
without the dukes costume" 80
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
to Play
In Modem Film
Of 'Cyrano'
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1898. King Features
syndicate Incl


HOLLYWOOD, June los
RKO trying to feminine the slim,
boyiSh Katharine Hepburn
After Little Women" they
have her slated for another ro-
mantle role, Roxanne in the mod
ern version of "Cyrano De Ber-
gerac." Undoubtedly some changes
will be made in this part. 1t will
be enlarged for one thing. But
unless the spirit is changed en-
tirely, you'll see a softer Kath-
arine Hepburn here.
Interesting that the Edmund
Rostand tragedy should link
this actress with John Barry
more for the second time in her
brief screen career. He played
her father in Bill of Divorce
ment" and now, of course, he's
to be the SWaShbuckling, but
poetical Cyrano.
Wonder how Rostand followers
will take the changing Of his
play from 1640 to 1916? Kenneth
MacGowan, who will be the as
sociate producer on the picture,
says that all the situations Of
the original can be paralleled in
wartime France.
Another moot subject will be
the famous Cyrano nose. For
Barrymore to play the part with
out the physical Disagreement
would be to change the great
souled fighter entirely. But how
much realism is possible with the
nose? The camera is merciless.