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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-06

WANTED TO TRADE Free,
,Iear, modern Florida home for
iarge home and acreage in or
near Jacksonville. Call 627.
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Seeds and Plants
i-Misceilaneous

al ,oGfG,&i~A4 MAJ is the thief
linz I aD5 Better DO your build
Moro 'e2GalrIng now. Rigby-
Build, company, Lumber,
Fourth d, supplies. Mill Work.
sOnviIIe. Venue u east, Hender-
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cOOIEY's OFFERING mems all
wool suits, including 16-ounce
blue serge from $3.50 up,
Mems felt hats 75c to S1. W..
Cooley's oadhand store, 10y
North Main street.
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departments

e0oS!NiSHED bedrooms and
street e. BIT Buncombe
Fourth between Third and
.2 aFenues west.
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2S-Rooms and Houses
31-Transportation

WANTED-Transportation New
York. Address Serge Borrow
sky, TimeS-NewS.
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FOKSALE

2-HOuses and Real Estate
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TORRENT
l3ROoms

west ptioME, Sixth avenue
mace bd @oomS and board, fur
now ays ,Is' FIRST floor room
- a..aO1e. lO28-J.
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WANTED
22-Positions Female)

LADY DESIRES POSITION as
nurse or housekeeper Or work
of any kind. Phone 36-W.
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North Main street.
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27-Real Estate

WANTED to buy small mountain
farm. Must be cheap. w. n.
SprOuse, Fairview.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
Says Attacks On
Utilities Are Not
Trade Stabiliziing
Ed. Benjamin Suggests
Washington Quit Scar
ing Business

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 27.-UP)
Governmental attacks "such as
that upon public utilities" is not
stabilizing American business, Ed
ward B. Benjamin, fnancier and
philanthropist of New Orleans,
La, and Greensboro, N. c., said
last night.
eff Washington will quit scar
ing the business element of the
nation with such individual at
tacks as that upon the public utili-
ties industry" he said, national
confidence will be restored in short
order and prosperity will become
stabilized"
Benjamin, who is here for the
races at Tropical Park where he
has entered IL of his thorough.
breds, is president of the E. v
Benjamin Co., of New Orleans
vice-president of the Myles Sal
Co., and the Bay Chemical Co., Of
Louisiana, and director Of
the Whitney National bank, the
South's largest banking institu
ton.
( Benjamin is opposed to thu
wealth redistribution plan sug
gested by Senator Huey P. Long
"There will be no need for re
distribution of income" he said
cts enormous productivity offer
ample income for all, providing
the wheels of industry are allowed
to resume under feeling of full
confidence"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
American Girl Four Months Prisoner
OF Nazis, Happy On Home Soil Again

NEW YORK, Dec. 81. (UP)-
Isobel Lillian Steele, Canadian
born American girl who spent
four months in a Nazi prison
not knowing whether she would
ever get out-was back on Uni
ted States soil last night, appar-
emily a fire ewoman bu tstill shiy-
cry over her experiences. .
Picking nevrously at hand
kerchief, the 23-year-old girl told
a hating story of her fears of
German persecution-surl posedly
because she had engaged in spy
activities, but actually-she in.
sisted-because she expressed
horror at the Nazi blood purge OF
last June.
81 can't say much-until
have a chance to think it over"
she said.
care you still afraid of perse-
cution?" she was asked.
The slender, dark-eyed girl,
with straight black hair drawn
tightly over her pale forehead,
| smiled nervously.
''I'm glad ODE home. Its
wonderful to see American faces
again-to know you ca ngo where
you like, do what you please ano
say what you feel"
| Miss Steele registered in New
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
By IAN FRASER
ed Press Staff Correspondent

GENEVA, Dec. 27.-(UP).-
Abyssinia yesterday appealed to
the League of Nations for assist
ance against alleged Italian ag-
gression on the SOmaliland from
tier in. Northern Africa. Further
attacks are expected" the Abys-
sinian note declared.
Reconnaissance by AN Italian
military airplane over Gerlogubl
on December 81" the message
continued, "seems to point fur
Their attack in that locality, which
already has been bombed. The
situation therefore is increasingly
serious, and we wish to reiterate
or" protest.
The dispatch confirmed reports
that Abyssinia is seriously con-
sidering appealing formally to the
January ii session of the league
council, although article X of the
covenant pledging members of
the league to respect each others
territory has not yet been invok-
ed. ....
The telegram limited that Abys-
sinia fears Italy is preparing to
make an advance in considerable
force over the Somaliland border,
although so far the clashes have
been confined to comparatively
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
PAYROLL CAR FORCED
INTO DITCH BY BANDITS

LANCASTER, S. c., Dec. 27.
(UP).-Three deputized guards
transferring an $4,000 payroll
of the Springs Cotton mills from
the main office here to mills at
Chester, S. c., were held up by
four bandits near here yesterday.
H. R. Rice, secretary of the
Springs mills, said the bandits at
gun point forced the guards to
drive their car into a ditch, Sc
cured the $4,000 and fled in an
automobile without license plates.
He said the payroll was insured.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
Explosion Kills IS And Injuries ~
Coast Guardsmen
Are Charged With
Withholding Aid
PLAYED Glide and Seek
With Suspected Rum
Runner During Storm

HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 81
(UP).-Capt. Freeman Anderson,
master of the motor vessel Mary
E. Kenney, on arrival yesterday
charged that the U. S. coast guard
had refused to come to his aid
when the suspected rum-running
ships motors were disabled in a
storm and she was at the mercy of
the sea.
The ship was towed into port
after playing hide and seek with
U. S. coast guards preventing her
from entering United States ter
ritory.
"The guards violated every ira
dition of the sea-" Anderson de-
clared, "when they refused to take
US in tow. They did offer to take
US off and scuttle our ship, but
there wasn't a man aboard who
would agree to that. They all
stood by me, while the coast
guard stood by and demanded our
arrest, refusing to aid.
"My men suffered a week from
food shortage and lack of water.
At the end, all we had was 40
pounds of flour and what water
we could collect from the rain
fall"
He said the coast guards saw
his men chopping up the ships
ice chest, water tanks, bulk heads
AID a dory for fuel but still re-
fused to take them in tow.
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Heavy Water One Year Old But No
Man Is Yet Found Who VIII Drink 1t

ne the cause of old age. 1t never
eyaporates, but absorbs ordinary
water rapidly, and they believe 1t
POSSIBLE that the heavy water
gradually accumulates in the
human body, causing the shrink
aoa and progressive waste charac-
teristic of old age.
In any case, it raises the body
temperature of animals, and
would probably have the same et-
feet on human beings. Tadpoles
and other water creatures die a
few minutes after they are re-
leased it in.
So far the chief experiments on
humans have been in connection
18th cancer research. They have
sbovn it is not cure for cancer
L,,t various cancer institutes are
buving large quantities for sxper-
mental work. -,
Amateur astronomers have a
telescope maker building a tele-
800 in another exhibit. Start
inc with an ordinary disk of glass
he will grind for days until tne
lens is completed. The BOOM mas
nin+uros of telescopes made py
proo+eurs in various parts OF the
country from such odds and en ,SS
as stove. pipe, automooiIe trans
CONTINUED on page iour'
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York hotel. and made plans TO
stay a nindefinite time. Her
home is in Hollywood, Cal, where
her mother, Mrs. Clara Steele,
no Wives.
Miss Steele's unwillingness to
tell much of what happened in
Germany was ascribed in part to
the report that she sold the ac-
count of her experiences to a
newspaper.
She described phases of her
life in the German prison, Moabit
where she was jailed as spy, link
ed with the notorious Baron
Jurek Sosnowski, now in jail in
Germany
She said the "white cross Of
DEATH was marked on her cell
door, and she was Stunned by
other prisoners.
Miss Steele went to Germany
in 1881 to study music. She
would not say whether she con-
sidered herself a Communist, al
though she insisted she wa sail
ed for her belief, not for any spyI
ing activities.
81 did not believe in persecuI
ton Of the Jews" she said
From that grew the whole mon|
strous affair"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
ROOSEVELT WILL ASK
AID OF CONGRESS IN
CHEAP POWER DRIVE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. (UP)
Authoritative sources today re-
vealed that President Roosevelt
plans to enlist the aid of congress
in a campaign to reduce power
rates. The presidents message
to congress next week is expect
ed to contain recommendations
for broad plan of national pow
er development. President Roose-
welt is also studying a proposed
extension of the electric home
and farm authority which finan-
ces the retail purchases Of cleo
trical equipment in connection
with the iva to a national scale.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
By UNITED PRESS

A cold wave that brought be-
low zero weather to a large north
ern portion of the United States
moved southeastward Wednesday
night.
The Atlanta weather bureau
said freezing temperatures were
expected over the northern half
of Georgia and about half of
Alabama. Indications were the
cold would grow more severe and
extend farther southwark and
eastward by Friday morning.
The cold wave is not expected
to be quite so bitter nor so ex-
tensive over the South as the
destructive blast of winter that
damaged crops in semi-tropical
Florida two weeks ago, however.
A 28-degree temperature was
predicted for Atlanta by Thurs
day morning, with a thermometer
reading of around 20 indicated by
Friday. Weather observers ex-
pected the cold to begin moderat-
ing after Friday.
Indications were that freezing
temperatures would not extend
very far southwark into Florida.
A low pressure area bringing
the surprise cold wave to inland
states and a promise of similar
weather for the eastern seaboard
made an almost unprecedented
speed flight from Denver to De-
troit in less than "a hours. 1t
caught weather observers by sur
prise, Gaping a year of unusual
weather with new freak.
Temperatures in the wake OF
the Glow" fell precipitately. On
the northern edge of the cold
tarea it was 46 below zero. The
chilling blasts were felt from the
Pas, in northern Manitoba down
to Abilene, Texas.
Wednesday night the Glow
skipped up the st. Lawrence riv'
err. Behind it the cold was
drawn in over Michigan, Indiana
and Ohio. The frigid blasts were
expected to sweep down over the
! Appalachians Thursday to the
! Atlantic coast.
! In Chicago, Minneapolis, Mil
l.waukee and other midwestern cit,
les cold down to 20 below sent
derelics to overlooking relief
! shelters. Livestock en- route to
market suffered. Frozen steam
pipes delayed trains.
/ Automobile radiators wore
steaming plumes and smoke from
chimneys drove straight up. There
was little precipitation in the colo
! area.
At Duluth, Mimi, where Lake
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
COL. ANDREWS
HEADS FORCE
Is Commander of the New
CHIC. Air Force Re-
Gently Organized
By HOBART c. MONTEE
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (UP)
Lieut.. Col. Frank M. Andrews,
air corps officer of II years ex-
perience, yesterday was designat-
ed by Secretary of War George
H. Dern as commander of the
new G. H. @. air force, recently
organized by the army general
staff.
With Andrews appointment,
the work of organizing a new air
force which will enable the Unit
ed States in time of emergency
to throw from 900 to 1000 fight
ing planes into attack, was prac-
tically completed. Andrews will
have the task of whipping this
new organization into fighting
trim, and of working out details.
"This force will be highly mo-
bile and will have great striking
power" the war department said.
at will be able to employ its mo-
bility in such a manner as to ex-
ert the maximum influence upon
land defense, not in one restricted
region, but potentially in all thea
tres of operation, ready to meet a
threat from any direction"
The air force will operate d.
rectly under the orders of the
chief of staff and the commander
Continued on page FOUR
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By LEVINGS S. WILLIS
United Press Staff Correspondent


PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27. CUP
C.AlmaSt a year after discovery
VI heavy water. science is stlil
waiting for a man who will drink
glass Of it.
It might kill him. 1t might
make him drunk. But probably 1t
you'd age him so years in few
A Cleveland, Ohio, concern is
demonstrating some samples OF
asavy water at the American As
SSoClat!on for the Advancement OF
Science Convention opening to-
way The company advertises cut
t$a'es-you can buy a thimbleful
to' 5000. The same water would
nave nave cost $4,000 a few months
We fed some of the water to
Palr of mice" the exhibitor
S aug picking up a few hundred
UOa s.4 worth of it gingerly.
They had the prettiest jag on
:ou ever saw. First they ran
sound in circles. Then they
SS;ssyed tag, and finally they tried
S lung pieces out of the glass
o. Several scientists who have
'1a1ed the water believe it may
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
1000 PETITION
FOR BUILDING
OF dam HERE
Sponsors Say Definite An
nouncement Looked for
Early in Year

A petition said to bear the sig
natures of more than 1000 citi-
zens of Henderson and Transyl-
vania counties and asking that the
Tennessee Valley Authority pro-
coed at once with construction of
a storage dam on the French
Broad river at Bent Greek were
exhibited here today. The petit
ton, it was asserted, was ready
for submission to a "high govern
ment authority" accompanied by
a statement signed by several To-
cal citizens affirming that the sig
natures to the petition are highly
representative of the citizenship
of this county and section.
The petition was drafted by a
Hendersonville attorney and those
circulating it said that only three
landowners approached in the
Mills River valley, which would
be most affected by the IVA prof.
ect, refused to sign it.
Sponsors of the petition said
they expected a definite announce,
ment early in the new year that
the dam will be built. The text OF
the petition follows:
WHEREAS, it seems to be an
established fact that the Tennes-
see Valley Authority has been au-
tborized and empowered to de-
velop the Tennessee Valley region
by the erection of seven dams on
the several tributaries of the Ten.
nessee river, for the purpose OF
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Says COP Task to
Clean Own House

MANI BEACH. Fla. Dec. 27;
UPJ. Raymond Benjamin OF
Washington, friend and advisor
of former resident Hoover, said
Yesterday that the public is rap
;dly Kidding the Republican party
of "its outmoded reactionarles.
eve are getting a good object
lesson and it is to be hoped we
shall be able to profit by it," de-
clared the past grand exalted rul-
er of the Elks. =,
~ can't criticize Mr.. Roosevelt
or his policies, he added, "be;,
cause he is eminently sincere and
may find his plans are satisfac-
tory remedies.
diet others Judge when the
time comes. We Republicans
ought to concern ourselves with
getting our own house in shape
not trying to find out where our
competitor is erring."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
Woman Wins Claim
Parrot Hers When
He Acts Chummy
Petshop Operator Fails to
Prove to Court Bird Is
His Property

NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (UP).-
Courtroom scene:
A parrot in its cage perched
upon the bench in the courtroom
of Magistrate David Hirschefield.
Mrs. Rosa Gallo, so, through an
interpreter insisting it was her
Frankie" who flew away five
months ago. William Fritschler,
60, pet shop proprietor angrily pro-
testing he bought the bird for SIS.
"Its my Frankie" Mrs. Gallo
said tearfully. "He called to me
hello Rosa He only speaks 1tal.
ian, except he says hello and
goodbye in English"
"Your honor" Fritschler inter
rupted, "that bird only speaks
American. I'll give this woman
$1OO if it speaks Italian. 1t would
eat the hands off her"
The magistrate, perplexed, or
dered Mrs. Gallo to speak to the
pet in her native tongue.
"Give mama a kiss" she said
according to the interpreter.
Rosa, Rosa" the parrot creak.
ed, blinking its eyes and sort OF
grinning.
"Shake hands with the parrot,
the court ordered. Mrs. Gallo
thrust her hand through the cage
1t was gripped by horny claw.
"Now you try it," Hirschfield
told Fritschler.
The parrot screamed as the
man approached. He took it from
the cage. Still screaming it top
pied to the floor. Mrs. Gallo
picked it up, smoothed it's feath'
ers. 1t nestled in her arm.
"Mama" Gallo and :"Frankie'
left the courtroom a moment lat.
err. She talked earnestly to hel
pet in Italian. The court inter
prefer thought she said, "we're
going home now, frankie"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
SWITCH THROWN BY ERROR
CAUSED CRASH FATAL
TO IS CANADIANS

TORONTO, Dec. 27.-(UP).
Canadian National Railway Of
ficials today announced that
Brakeman E. Lynch of the
Christmas excursion train,
threw the switch which caused
the fast express to crash into
the excursion train, killing Is
persons near Dundas.
The statement said Lynch
thinking his train was on the
main track. threw the switch
shunting the filler to the other
rails and into the rear Of the
excursion train.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
OPINION FILED
BY FEDERAL
JUDGE ME- Otis
Roosevelt to Ask Congress-
Help in Power Rate
Cut Campaign
STUDIES EXTENSION
OF FARM AUTHORITY

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 81. (UP)
Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis
today filed an opinion ruling that
congress has no authority to fix
prices even in Interstate Com
merce. ......
Judge Otis further held that
the president has no power to
approve MIRA codes which include
price fixing, because price fixing
destroys fair competition. The
ruling was made in the case
against Sutherland Lumber COM
pany against which the govern
ment asked an injunctin prohibit
ing the violation of code provi-
sions. -s,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
; Are HELD AT
CHARLOTTE
FOR ROBBERY
Ready Confession Made in
$4,000 Payroll Rob-
berry at Lancaster
PART OF LOOT is
RECOVERED TODAY

CHARLOTTE, Dec. 27. (UP).
James and Manuel Miller, broth
ers, and Leroy Holiday, taxi
driver, were arrested here today
and readily confessed to the rob-
berry of the Springs Textile mills
$4,000 payroll at Lancaster, S.
c., yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff Phil Thurman,
who drove the payroll car, was ar
rested at Lancaster and charged
with conspiracy. Part of the loot
was recovered near Charlotte.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
|ICONOTIVE'S
FATAL
GINNING MEN
Ebby Holm a n Reynolds
ACCEPTS S6,OO0,OO0 Set
| dement, fer Son
|IUST CHILD TO GET
100000 ESTATE

i p0WELLTON. ". Va, Dec.
E-lUPI-The locomotive of a
+. -ers' wora train owned and OPP
,rs-s8 ~ The Elkhorn Piney Coal
/, exploded today, killing Is and
t.s..nE -.
Tive steam poured through four
,a,5es after the explosion.
The dead included the fireman
ii engineer and the others were
,srs which were making their
/ liz run from Montgomery thru
Isye-a. communities taking min
k 20 he shaft.
TIE dead and injured We're
hisn 70 Montgomery, where Of
has were hampered by throngs
\ men. women and children seek
b 70 learn the fate of their rel
,.,v-s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
Abyssinian-Italian Controversy
Brings More Tension In Near East

small frontier patrols on each
side. The most serious fight oc'
Cured at Valual, with numerous
casualties on both sides. Italy has
refused to submit the conflict to
the league for settlement.
While Abyssinia maintains Ital-
ian troops continually are invad-
ing her territory from Italian CO.
lonial possessions, marching thru
the border land at will. the Ital-
ian government issued counter
charges that Abyssinians have
been the aggressors.
The threat to peace in the Near
East increased last night when
Persia telegraphed the league,
protesting charge lodged in Ge-
neva last week that Persia had
violated the Iraq-Persia boundary.
The dispatch said the Persian
foreign minister was leaving for
Geneva at once, to attend the
January council session, which
will hear the dispute under ar
ticle XI of the covenant, adding:
eve ae convinced our legitimate
rights will have the full conf
dence of the council" '
ROME, Dec. 27.-(UP).-The
government issued a communique
last night answering Abyssinia's
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
Green River Co.
Host To Large
Christmas Party

Management of the Green River
Manufacturing company was host
to between 260 and 275 children
of the community at a Christmas
party on Monday afternoon.
The affair was held at the COM
munity house and R. W. Boys,
head of the mill, distributed
Christmas presents to the children
in the role of Santa Claus.
The children and grownups
present sang Christmas songs and
all children were given the oppor-
tunity to meet Santa Claus in the
person Of Mr.. Boys.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
RESERVE BOARD is
DEFENDING POSITION
AS TO INTEREST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. (UP)
The federal reserve board, af-
ter two days of heated confer
ences over theattack of Senator
Carter Glass, D., Va, on its, re-
duction of interest rates, last
night issued statement Defend
ing its action. =, ~
Governor Mariner s. Eccles
said the boards reduction OF
maximum interest rates on time
and savings deposits from 3 to
y 1-2 per cent, made recently at
the same time the federal deposit
insurance corporation took SINH
lar action, "was taken in accord
ance with the provisions of the
banking act of 1888 requiring the
federal reserve board from time
to time to limit by regulation the
rate of interest which may be
paid by member banks on time
deposits.
'Its recent action" the state
ment added, "like similar action
taken Aug. 20, 1888, related only
to member banks. The federal
reserve board has never assumed
that it had authority to regulate
the rate of interest paid by nom
member banks. 1t clearly has no
authority to do So" )
Eccles said the FDIC action
was taken separately from that Of
the reserve board.
Eccles did not mention Glass
attack, but said he was issuing
the statement because "a misap-
prehensiou has arisen with respect
, to the scope of and the authority
for the action recently TAKEN"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-27
|l9BY HOLMAN is
EXCEPTING 100000
las SONS ESTATE

i EINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 81
|rPl-Libby Holman, singer,
! gaose marriage to Zachary Smith
REYNOLDS, tobacco heir, was ended
Z? Reynolds mysterious death IN
|Ig,y, 1882. today accepted an Of
f. Of 100000 from the estate
4: her infant son, Christopher
Smith Reynolds.
The acceptance was announced
E:en Libby agreed to a settlement
awarding S9,OOO,OOO to the in
|tllt's half sister, Anne Cannon
|2synolGs II, Reynolds daughter
|'g MS I rst marriage to Anne
Ramon.