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Evening star., 1933-12-12
OIL CODE VIOLATION
PROBE BODY FORMED
National Group Announced by
1ckes-Prosecutions Pending
in Several States.

Completion of a national organiza-
tlon for investigating infractions of
the oil code was announced Yesterday
by Oil Administrator Harold L. Ickes.
At the same time it was announced
that prosecutions are pending in sew
eral States. based on information OBJ
tanned by the Interior Department of
Investigation, of which Louis r. CLAWS
Is director.
1t was reported that more than $50
cases involving alleged violations of
the code have been investigated by
CLAWS organization to date. and re-
ports on them have been submitted to
Secretary Ickes.
The investigation organization is
working in l8 districts throughout the
country, WIN total of ITO emploves.
including special agents, oil agents.
auditors, clerks and Office workers.
There are SIS special agents for oil code
enforcement. The largest single unit
is in Texas, where more than half of
the country's crude oil output Is pro-
duced.
Another large unit of the organiza-
tion has been established in Okla
homa, another large oil-producing State.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
JAILED IN SHOOTING
Man Held by San Antonio Police
Detective May Die.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December IL
P).-After two detectives assigned to
capture a Chicago gangster'' were
wounded, one dangerously, in a pistol
fight in blind alley here yesterday,
police raided fashionable apartment
house and arrested man who gave the
name of F. L. Keiths
Officers said he carried a money belt
containing 81 400 and a .38 pistol, the
caliber of the weapon with which De-
tectives H c. Perrow and Alfred Hart
mann were shot. Perrow, 81 years old,
was reported near death in a hospital
The two detectives were shot in pur-
suit of the gunman after they had
halted taxicab in which he was riding
with girl. He escaped in a comman-
deered truck
Evening star., 1933-12-12
CALIFORNIA SALES TAX
HELD CONSTITUTIONAL
Judge Decides Against Tango
Game Operator Who Sought
t. Recover Levy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, December u.
Superior Judge Dal M. Lennon yes
terday held the State 21a per cent sales
tax constitutional in sustaining the de-
murrer Of State Treasurer Charles G.
johnson to the suit of a Los Angeles
County tango game operator who
sought to recover the sales tax paid
under protest.
The ruling, 1t was said, will have an
important bearing on hundreds of suits
filed in which merchants seek to re-
cover taxes paid to the State Board Of
EQUALIZATION upon gross receipts Of
business since the sales tax became
effective August /.
The demurrer was sustained in the
suit OF N. H. Schur. in which he sought
to recover $1,220.15 paid to the State
between August l and September IA
upon receipts of game operated at
Santa Monica.
Evening star., 1933-12-12

The Hecht Co. is open for business
as usual 9a5 to 6 o'clock
A short circuit in of windows, caused lot of
smoke and excitement yesterday afternoon. But very
little damage done-and business goes usual
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
Senate Is Barricaded Against All
Interruptions for Impeachment
Case Against Judge Louderback

Louderback of appointing Doug
las Short as attorney in receiv-
ership because Sam Leake, to
whom Louderback was under per-
sonal obligation, advocated the
appointment.
Summers charged the judge
granted excessive receivership
fees to Samuel Shortridge, Jr.,
and Marshall Woodway, attorney
and receiver respectively, in the
lumbermen's reciprocal associa-
ton case. Then went on to accuse
Louderback of appointing Guy H.
Gilbert as receiver in the Fageol
Motor Co.. receivership, "know-
ing that Gilbert was incompetent,
unqualified and inexperienced to
act"
every action that is charged
against Judge Louderback will
fall of its own weight" said Jas.
]. Hanley of counsel for the de-
Tense.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
TALK OF v Ar.
SCARE DECRIED.
But British Officials ADJ
NIT European Situation
"Most Perplexing'
By w. C. QUISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 16.-(UP).-
Great Britain IS ready to call Ger
many before the bar Of the League
of Nations for trial in the event
she tries to carry out threats OF
re-arming, it was indicated last
night.
The United Press was informed
by leading members of parha-
ment close to the government of
Prime Minister J. Ramsay Mac
Donald that the administration IS
prepared to go that far to keep
Berlin within the terms of the
Treaty of Versailles.
A special session of the cabinet
will be summoned Immediately on
receipt of the official report of
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's speech
to the Reichstag on Wednesday,
outlining his arms program. The
cabinet will decide what course to
instruct Sir John Simon, foreign
secretary. to take at Geneva when
the arms parley re-convenes next
Thursday.
Sir John will hurry to Geneva
to confer with the French, Amerl-
can and Italian delegates to the
parley, in an effort to assure a
common front against the German
Continued on page 3.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
Prof. Woodward
Made Principal Of
Fassifern School
Montreal Educator and
Wife To Be Associated
With Institution Here

An announcement of much in
terest to Hendersonville comes
from the office of Fassifern
School that Prof. and Mrs. S. L..
Woodward, former principal of
the Montreal Schools, will be con-
nected with Fassifern after June
|.
DR.. Joseph r. Sewer, the presi"
dent, is associating Prof. and Mrs.
Woodward with himself in the
running of this nationally known
school for girls and young ladies,
in order to meet the greatly IN
creased attendance which the re-
cent action of the state leglsla"
ture will throw upon the private
schools of the state. The state
schools running only eight months
will make it necessary for girls
who wish to attend "a" grade col
legeS outside of the state to take
their preparation in private
schools which run the full nine
months required for credits. Al
ready interest is being shown by
anxious parents who desire their
daughters prepared for the better
colleges, DR.. Sewer states.
Prof. Woodward holds his Alb;
degree from Peabody College, and
has done graduate work i'll the
CONTINUED on page three) ja
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
N. G.. To Be Defendant in Prison
Labor Suit; Rails May Expand by
Using Roads for Truck Transport

Until these laws were passed,
Alabama had an income Of $3,-
747,0OO annually from prison
products sold in the Is defendant
states. They were listed as fol-
lows:
Arizona, California, Colorado,
Idaho. Indiana, Kentucky, Mime
sofa, Michigan, Montana, New
Jersey, New York, North Caro-
lima, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Washington and
Wisconsin.
The Alabama officials esti-
mate the value of acreage under
prison control and 10000 spindles
used in operation of prison fac
tories at more than 100000.
This investment, it is charged, is
threatened by the laws of the de-
PENDANT states.
Another important decision was
handed down by the supreme,
CONTINUED on page three) -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
CANCELLATION
IN EUROPE IS.
LIKELY SEQUEL.
London Expert Gives View
of Outcome of Stands
u. S. May Take

LONDON, May 1G.-(UP).-
President Roosevelt has promised
moral support to Germany in case
of aggression, the diplomatic ex-
pert on the London Daily Tele-
graph wrote in Mondays issue of
that newspaper.
The article alleges that the
president offered support similar
to that he is said to have offered
to France when Edouard HerrioJ
was in Washington. 1t says Mr..
Roosevelt made this offer in re-
cent conversations with DR.. HAL
mar Schacht, German delegate to
the present economic talks in
Washington, and DR.. Hans Lu-
Their, the German ambassador to
the United States.
The writer adds that if Mr..
Roosevelt would now reveal a
plan for United States participa-
ton in a consultative pact. he
might just tip the scales in favor
of Cancellation in the European
situation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
BRIGHTON MAN
SERIOUSLY CUT
Another Held Without
Bond Following Cutting
ARRAY There

Lee Morgan, of the Brickton
section, was being held without
bond in the county Jail today, and
C. C. Barhans, also of the Brick
ton section, was in a serious con-
dition in the Patton Memorial hos
pital as a result of a cutting
scrape on Sunday night at the
home of the father-in-law of the
two men.
Barhans was cut across the
stomach and across the shoulder,
and was in serious condition.
Morgan is charged with assault
with a deadly weapon, and Bar
hans is expected to face charges
of carrying a concealed weapon
and assault on Morgan if his con-
dition improves. 4t=
& Details of the affair were not
given out by officers this morning.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
RACING ELECTION IS
CALLED IN MCDOWELL

MARION. May 16.-(UP).-
The Mcdowell county board OF
commissioners today set June 27
as the date for a referendum on
Equalization of horse racing ami
pari-mutuel betting in the county.
ASHEVILLE. May is. - II
horse racing, with a pari-mutuei
betting feature is established in
the three Western North Carolina
counties of Mcdowell, Haywood
and Polk, is iegalized, it will be
through vote of the people IN
these several counties, through
the enabling act which provides
that election for or against horse
racing may be held there.
d. F. Giles, Marion attorney,
said yesterday a petition will be
carried before Judge McElroy, at
HendersOnville, on Nav 20, for
an injunction to prevent the cleo
tion from being held.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16

WASHINGTON, May 16. (UP)
A solemn senate barricaded itself
against interruptions yesterday
and opened the impeachment trial
of Federal Judge Harold Louder
back of the northern district of
California on charges of misusing
his power in receivership cases.
Louderback's trial is expected
to last at least through today. A
chunky, black-haired man, he filed
into the senate chamber yesterday
and nervously twirled his fingers
as Chairman Hatton w. Summers
of the house Judiciary committee
detailed the charges against him.
Senators listened tentatively and
sent word to the cloakroOms that
under no circumstances were
they to be disturbed.
Summers, hearing the house
managers who have charge Of the
prosecutions, was, given an hour
to. present his case He accused
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
Two Are Held on
Larceny Charge

George and Verlin Cutshaw,
brothers, are being held in the
county Jail in default of $1,000
bond each. following a preliminary
hearing before Magistrate J. +.
Brooks on charges Of breaking and
entering and larceny. They will
face trial at the October term OF
the superior court.
The two men were arrested in
Asheville by Deputy Sheriff Tom
Gillian, following the robbery OF
Stations store. at Green River, on
Sunday night. They were trailed
to Asheville by Deputy Gillian
following the robbery and the an
rest was made there.
Approximately $50 worth OF
goods were stolen from the store,
and about $50 worth of this prop
erty was recovered when the men
were arrested.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
MORTGAGE AID
ALREADY FELT
Prompt Relief Comes Thru
Action of Mortgage Hold
ers Over u. S.

WASHINGTON, May 1G. CUP
Federal authorities were translat-
ing the mortgage sections of the
agriculture relief act into active
terms today as reports reached
here indicating creditors had list
ed the pressure on debt-riddcn
farmers.
Early available information
showed that about 20 per cent OF
agencies holding mortgages on
farm property virtually had
stopped foreclosure steps which
precipitated riots and disorder iii
the midwest. These creditors in
Guided federal land banks and
Joint stock land banks, CONNER
cial banks and mortgage and IN
Surance companies.
Chairman Henry Morgenthau,
.Jr. of the farm board, who soon
is to become coordinator of all
federal farm credit functions,
meantime met with 80 represen-
tatives Of the latter group to seek
from them an expression of policy
toward their debtors. The insur-
ance men pledged Morgenthar,
their cooperation in assuring
successful administration of mort
gage relief.
Already a majority of insurance
companies have adopted a lenient
attitude toward mortgages, off,
cials said. Some acted before
President ROoSevelt's plea for .
delay pending the operation of
his relief legislation. Others prac-
CONTINUED on page 3.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
GEORGE Fish,
LEADING Mill
Man, IS DEAD
President of Green River
Mills Epires Suddenly
at Office Monday
PAWTUCKET, R. l.,
SCENE OF FUNERAL

George Fish, age G5, president
and treasurer of the Green River
Mills at Tuxedo and agent and
general manager for the Pisgah
Cotton Mills at Brevard, expired
suddenly in the office OF the Tux
edo concern yesterday morning at
IL o'clock. Death was the re
suit Of 4 heart attack. He had
been subject 10 heart trouble for
u number of years.
Mr.. Fish had held his new as
ISOLATION with the textile indus
try here and at Brevard for the
past month. tie had succeeded
w. NJ. Sherard. who had resigned
in this capacity from the two
firms, the middle Of April.
Mr.. Fish was a native OF Eng
land. He came to America at the
age Of lG. He had engaged IN
the textile industry both in his
native country and in Canada
and in the United States as well
for a half century.
For a considerable period. up
to 10 years ago, Re resided IN
Kentucky. and came to North
Carolina. making Charlotte his
home while he was engaged IN
the industry at Fort Mill. 5. c.
For the past month, since he
had become associated with the
Tuxedo establishment, he and
Mrs. Fish had made their home
with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lott on
the Flat Rock road.
The body was prepared Tor
shipment and burial at Tom
Shepherds Funeral home on
Church street and was taken to
Pawtucket, r. l., for buria! late
Monday afternoon.
Besides his wife. Mr.. Fish
leaves two daughters. They are
Mrs. Stanhope Lyon Of Char
lotte, and Mrs. Paul Ross Moore
of Florence. S. c.
Mrs. Fish was joined ~ Mr..
Lyon yesterday afternoon an0
they accompanied the body home,
being joined at Charlotte by hrS.
Lyon and Mrs. MoOre. ,
Although his stay here had
been short. Mr.. FiSh's congenial-
ity had made many friends for
him during his residence at Flat
Rock and his business association
with the two DlGnts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
DISTRICT MEET
RUNS z DAYS.
Spiritual Life of Church
Emphasized at Opening
of the Session
PROGR AM
Tuesday p. NJ.

200 +. M.-Reports by 81
pastors, followed by discussions
Of the question Of finances,
with the district lay leaders,
II. A. Durham and Clarence
f.. Morgan of Asheville, and j.
c. Sales Of Fletcher, in charge.
First ballot for district dele
gates to the Western North
Carolina annual conference be-
inning November s ut Char
lotte.
500 =. M.-Mass meeting
Of young people Of the district,
conducted by the Rev. j. G.
Huggin, pastor of Asbury Me-
mortal church of Asheville, and
assistant director of Christian
education.
Wednesday A. M.
$50 A. M.-Conference bust
ness.
9:30 A. M.-Period given
over to talks by official visi-
tors, including college presi-
dents, church board represen-
tatives and the like.
10 A. M.-Sunday school
conference on standardization
and other problems, with all
superintendent in the district
invited.
1920 A. M.-Women's Mis-
sionary Society conference con-
Quoted by Miss Amy Hackney
of Ashevilie, district secre-
tary.
II A. M.-Completion Of
conference business.
| T. M.-Dinner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
AustrO-German
Relations Said
Badly Strained
HitIer's Personal Envoy Is
Asked to Quit Country;
He Leaves at Once

VIENNA, Austria, May 10
(UP). - Austro-German diplo-
matte relations became badly
strained last night when the Aus
trian government informed DR..
Hans Frank, Bavarian minister of
justice, and a personal envoy Of
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's, that it
desired his immediate departure
from Austria.
Dr.. Frank, who with Hans
Kerrl, Prussian minister of inter-
Tor, was center. of anti-Nazi DEM
onstration on arrival by airplane
Saturday, altered his plans for
proceeding to Salzburg, and start
ed at once to the BaVarian Dor
der. Gr :.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
THEATRE GUILD WILL
MEET THIS EVENING

The Theatre guild will hold its
weekly business meeting tonight,
beginning at 8 o'clock at the
home of Miss Septima Twyford
on South Main street.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the group of three
plays that have been planned for
Friday night of this week. They
will be given at the high school
auditorium.
Officers of the guild, in an
nOuncing tonight's meeting said
that the guild wishes to acknowI-
edge the receipt of several let
tiers from honorary members, ex-
pressing their willingness to CO.
operate with the work here IN
any possible manner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16

Sales Il. mot TO FINANCE
Biz public Works PROGRAM
Roosevelt VIII Let Congress Determine Its Own Method
Of Funding Vast Measures; Is Victory for
Doughton of Ways and Means Body
By THOMAS L. STOKES

WASHINGTON, May 16. CUP
| President Roosevelt last night
placed upon congress the reSpon-
sibility for selecting the form Of
tax to finance his $4,000, 1000, 900
public works program. There was
tacit understanding among cen
greSsioual leaders that this meant
virtual abandonment Of the con-
troversial sales levy.
The manufacturers sales tax,
party leaders said, would be in
cluded with severa, alternative
taxes in special message to con-
press probably on Wednesday
dealing with financing Of the new
program.
Emerging from a lengthy on
ference at the White House. lead
crS declared Mr.. Roosevelt would
not attempt to get congressional
approval of any special tax but
would let the Legislative body
make the decision.
He insisted, however. it VAS
said, that congress must provide
$220.000.000 in revenue to pay
interest on the 3 per cent bonds
which will be issued to cover the
elaborate public works program
now contemplated.
The message will deal with the
comprehensive public works-ln-
dustrial planning measure which
it will accompany. That bill now
has been completed. The tax was
the only disputed feature in a
measure that not only will pour
billions into all sorts of public
works to furnish employment but
will permit industry to reorganize
through sanctions authorizing con-
troll Of production, reduced work
ing hours, and higher wages.
The chief executives refusal to
assume the leadership and recon-
mend a specific form of tax was
taken as the death knell of the
sales tax. For it generally was
believed that unless he personally
appealed for that form of tax it
would have no chance of adoption.
The alternatives which the
president will suggest are:
l. Increase in income taxes.
2. Increase in the federal gas
oline tax.
3. Taxes on tea, coffee, spices,
bananas and pepper.
i. Increase in tax on stock div
idends.
5. A manufacturers sales tax.
Democratic leaders frankly told
The president yesterday that it
would take a fight to put over the
sales tax.
1t was white-haired Speaker
Rainey. who went down to defeat
for the sales tax two years ago
and announced at the White House
that the president had left the
problem up to congress. The out
come of yesterdays conference
was a victory for Representative
Robt. L. Doughton, N. c., who led
the fight against the sales tax last
session. As chairman of the
house ways and means committee,
Il role he did not occupy before,
he is in an excellent position to
kill the tax at the outset.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16

Emphasizing spirituality over
church business, the annual con-
ference of the Asheville district
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, got underway in
the First NJ. Z. church here to-
day with an attendance Of more
than 200 pastors, delegates and
other visitors in attendance and
with DR.. D. NJ. Litaker, presiding
elder, presiding. Many others
were expected for this afternoon,
tonight and tomorrow.
The opening session was term
ed a Spiritual Life Conference"
and was so impressive in its ma
ture that DR.. Litaker once in
terrupted a flow of one-minute
testimonies to remark:
"You never have to dig deep
into a Methodist meeting to strike
religion"
Five 10-minute prepared talks
by as many visiting ministers,
congregational singing led by j.
C. Coston, vocal selections by
the Harris sisters, a Tennessee
quartet frequently heard over the
radio, and the testimony service
featured the session. Ladies of
the local church served dinner to
all the visitors and a number of
local people at 1890 o'clock. SEES
sions of the conference will con-
tinue this afternoon and tonight,
and many Of the visitors will re-
main over night in Henderson
vile to attend the closing session
Wednesday morning.
Following the singing Of two
hymns by the assembly, DR..
Litaker opened the conference by
speaking on the 10th chapter of
the Gospel of Matthew, in which
Christ gave instructions to the
disciples as they first went forth
to do missionary work.
This, he said, was the first in
stance of missionaries being sent
out, and was the first authorize
ton of others to speak for Christ.
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
By JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Corresponden

WASHINGTON. May 16. (UP)
Alabama started out last night on
a lone battle against laws in Is
states barring or restricting sale
of prison-made products.
First victory came to the south
ern states yesterday when the
United States supreme court or
dered states having such statutes
to show cause on October 9, why
Alabama should not be allowed to
start action to prove these laws
unconstitutional. :,
Under pressure by organized
labor, states quickly took adyan-
tage of an act of congress which
robbed prison-made goods OF
their interstate character. The
Interstate commerce clause of the
constitution previously had pre-
vented states from taking this ac-
ton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-16
FRISCO EARTHSHOCK

SAN FRANCISCO. May 16.
CUP).-San Francisco peninsula
and the surrounding area for 100
miles was rocked by a sharp
earthquake at dawn today. The
tremblor occurred at 3:46 a. m.
and lasted 45 seconds, No deaths
and little damage were reported.