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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
Tiney Family Is
Freed In Death
OF Orphan Girl
Judge 0glesby Calls for
Instructed Verdict
Late Saturday

WILKESBORO, Aug. ia
rugged mountain family of five
was acquitted late Saturday of
conspiracy to murder Leoda
ChildreSs, 18-year-old adopted
member of their household, and
TODAY were resuming life on their
small farm where they left off
SIX months ago.
Freedom came suddenly and
dramatically for the defendants
on a direct verdict of mot
guilty" withthe courtroom full of
spectators, mostly grim and be-
MnisSered mountaineers and a
Tpr,nklng of townspeople, as
Suuge John ". Oglesby brought
END. '''e 'S vi S'"'''
g Inc motion for a non-suit. or
directed verdict, was made by j.
nayden Burke of defense counsel
mJ Is after the state rest
w. TtI llS case. Freedom came after
Judge Judge Oglesby had instructed the
J"rr 70 return a direct verdict.
Inere was no demonstration,
no sound from the courtroom, as
the defendants won their free
. aom' The five. grim and tact
urn As they had been through
Out the week of the trial, showed
no emotion, receiving the verdict
VIII characteristic stolidity.
me defendants sat in a row
nehlnd their arrav of counsel. In
me center was Warwick w. Til
Iey' 90, patriarch of the family,
a robust farmer in overalls: his
shoulders high, gaze unflinching,
and as earefree as though he had
INST stepped from behind his
blow.
Reside him was his 5S-year-olc
wife, a bespectacled little woman
with water blue eyes: Luther Til
lev, their S2-year-eld son, Luth
er's wife. Minerva. 80, and IS
year-old Clyde, youngest son Of
the household of which Leeds
was an adopted daughter.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
CALENDAR
OF Local Events
Arranged bv Mrs. Fred Justus,
Chamber of Commerce Hostess.
Telephone 474
Monday, August -

Monday, August ID
Cabaret dance, Skyland hotel,
music by Jimmy Livingston's or
chestra.
Street dance.
Florida = .Hendersonville clu b
meeting, Chamber of Commerce;
bridge party, members to furnish
cards and tables.
Dixie Blackbirds minstrel.
Tuesday, August ID
Benefit dinner, M. E. church, 3
to 8 p. m.
Reception for camp directors
and councillors, Skyland hotel.
Dixie Blackbirds minstrel.
Girls bid dance, city gym, music
by Jimmy Livingston's orchestra.
Wednesday, August IS
Rotary club meeting, Skyland
hotel, l p. m. -,
Woman's club benefit, Druid
Hills guest house, 3:15 p. m.
Thursday, August Is
First Annual Indian Summer
Festival. Pageant, "The Fire
Cod" S:15 p. m. Water sports in
afternoon.
Coming Events
Aug. 24-Annual flower show,
city gym.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
TEMPERATURE
FALLS TO 100 in
DROUTH AREA
No Rain in Sight But 0c-
rasiiOnal Thundershowers
May Still Help
DROUTH PUNY ARRAIR
SAYS SETTLER OF SOS
By DAN ROGERS
limited Press Staff Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 10
UPl.-The heart of the drouth
area enjoyed the comparative
eoolness of 100-degree tempera-
ture Sunday. And a gentle breeze
cooled by Saturday nights thun-
dershowerS, blew from the north
east.
But although life in the drouth-
.cOrched states was more COM
Portable, the heavy rains needed
70 rehabilitate the heat-ravaged
COUNTRYSIDE still held off. A half
dozen showers which fell in the
lest two days totaled less than a
uaarter-inch of precipitation. At
that, they were strictly local in
nature. Many areas were UNI
4 touched.
temperatures in Kansas City
drOppe dto 10 last night, the cool
est night here in almost two
months. The mercury climbed
slowly until at A p. m. it touched
100. then began to recede.
The weather man said tempera-
lures the first part of this week
would hover around the 100-de-
gree mark. This, however, would
be several degrees lower than the
record scorcherS hung up last
week when readings of no to
lie were common.
No rain was in sight.
Consider us lucky if We get
occasional thunder showers" a
weather observer said. This is
not the season for general rains
and We have no reason to expect
one soon
As bad as the current drouth
Is, old timers say that this drou-
IN is a punny affair. William
Hammond, Emporia's oldest set
tier, recalled the drouth of 1860.
"The trees were bare of leaves
by August l, jack rabbits died
Of starvation and men and wo-
men had but one meal a day"
he said.
The food they did have was
shipped in from the east by re-
lief agencies. No rain fell in 16
months. Grasshoppers were so
thick that after dying of starva-
ton they filled the ruts in wagon
roads four inches deep. Food was
50 scarce that antelope and buff
falO disappeared.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
Laurel Park Club
In Picnic Tuesday

The Laurel Park Civic club will
hold a picnic on Jumpoff rock
Tuesday evening between the
hours of S and z o'clock. 1t had
been previously announced, by er-
ror, to begin at an earlier hour.
Not only members of the club
but their friends have been cor
daily invited to attend. Com.
munity singing will be held at
shutdown. In case of Indictment
weather, it is announced, the
party will go to the Fleetwood, on
the same mountain.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
REPUBLIC STEEL TO
PAY UNION SCALE

WASHINGTON, Ape. IL. (UP).
Republic Steel corporation agreed
to adhere to the union scale of
wages, hours and working condi-
tions in the operation Of its plant
at Warren, o., it was learned at
the American Federal Labor Of
fices.
Although no formal contract
was signed it was said that the
district manager at Warren sent
a letter to the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Iron Steel and Tin
workers. Warren unioners con-
sidered the letter an acknowledge
ment of the corporations inten-
ton to renew a working agree
ment. II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
THIRD CONVICT DIES

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 10;
(UP). = Michael Antakly died
Sunday and Gerald WKramer,
who was also critically wounded
in an attempted prison break at
Angola prison camp Saturday
that cost the lives of two other
conyicts, at the time was report.
ed in q dying condition at the
state prison hospital today.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
SUPPORTING
HOME PROGRAM

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug.
10. (UP).-President VIM. Green
said today that the American
Federation Of Labor is support
ing the federal governments
home modernization and renova-
ton program. He said he believ-
ed that this program will aid two
million people.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
PLAYWRIGHT DIES

NYACK, N. Y, Aug. Is. (UP).
Augustus Thomas, IT. dean of
American playwrights, died of a
heart attack in his apartment at
the Clarkstown Country club
yesterday. Thomas was most
prominent in the theatre between
1890 and 1920 during which time
he wrote many plays, among his
best known works being Gala
bama," ARIZONA" 1.-THE Witch
ing Hour" and "In Mizzoura."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
B. AND P. WOMEN WILL
MEET ON TUESDAY EVE

The regular meeting of the
Business and Professional Wom-
ems club will be held Tuesday
evening of this week at 7:45
o'clock with Mrs. L. j. Peacock,
at her home, Hebron Lodge, on
the Hebron road.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
Unison TO SPEAK
IN COUNTY SUNDAY

Rev. Tom P. Unison, of Char
lotte, and former pastor OF the
Mills River circuit, will preach at
Horse Shoe next Sunday morning,
Aug. 10, at IL o'clock. A basket
dinner gathering is expected to
be held in connection with the
service. -- - =
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
Florida Club To !
Gather Tonight

The Florida Hendersonville club
will meet at the Chamber, Of Com
merce this evening at 8 O'Clock.
Members nre asked to, bring
card tables and cards aha any
other games which they may have
to use Tor ENTERTAINMENT -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13
WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with scattered thunder
showers
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-13

Scientists ksrss that radio isn't
Tho cause Of the drouth. Huh!
We could have told EN- that. Too
many programs are all wet.
The Washington times., 1934-01-01
Stimulation of Foreign Trade

Stimulation Of foreign trade through depreciation Of the
doarreveaed in sharp rise Of exports in recent months
Repeal-and restoration Of beer-steps by which an en-
trey and legal industry has been created to replace
vast illicit racket that levied toll the
public.
Establishment of codes Of fair competition, which pre-
vent large business units from taking undue advantage Of
small ones of unscrupulous employers from forcing the
well-meaning down to their level
The Washington times., 1934-01-01
PAYROLL
NEAR '29 MARK
national News Service

International News Service
Under the operations OF the
steel code, employment in the iron
and steel industry at the present
time, with greatly reduced opera
tions, is close to the level OF AGO.
900, estimated by the National Re
covery Administration for 1929
when average operations approx
imated 80 per cent of capacity.
Employment in the industry in
October totaleG 416.277, against
AIT ,020 in September and 1888. .46
in June. in 1893 the total drop
ped to 10000.
Although production in the in
dustry declined about nine per
cent in October, compared with
September, employment fell off
only one quarter Of one per cent
and payrolls increased by nearly
$500 900 to a total Of $37,977 1886.
These facts are shown in the
second monthly report on employ
ment, hours and wages in the In
dustry compiled by the American
Iron and Steel Institute under lie
steel code, to the National Re
covery administration here.
According to the Institute, an
expansion Of operations in the
industry to as much as 10 per cent
of capacity would require approx
imately 125,0000 additional en-,
| nlOVeS.
The Washington times., 1934-01-01
YADEN REVIEWS CITIZENS FEDERATIONS BUSIEST YEAR


time, but on each occasion Q
higher peak is attained with the
recovery.
Latest official reports show that
freight car loadings are still in.
creasing, contrary to the usual sea-
Sonal trend: that steel ingot pro.
duction Is up almost per cent in
one week; that electric power
output is gaining at more than the
normal seasonal rate; and that
construction contracts are advanc.
ing steadily.
So far as Washington specif.
ically is concerned, Commissioner
George e. Allen estimates that
employment Is now back practi.
cally to the 1880 level.
The Washington times., 1934-01-01

same rate. Industries concerned
with supplying consumer goods
have responded first The others
are picking up as the public works
program begins to be felt.
It has long been accepted as a
truism in business that newspaper
advertising, according to the most
conservative estimates, has in
creased IL per cent, and an even
larger rise was shown by NRA
computations covering some of the
larger city papers. General ad-
vertising in all mediums has in
creased 7 per cent.
Naturally, in any upturn, prog
ress is not smooth and continuous.
| There are receSsions from time tt
The Washington times., 1934-01-01

representing disbursements Of
$28,O4O,49 to stockholders.
"A group Of 20 companies
has declared extra dividends
tOtaling S24,1SS,639.
"In addition, nine other COM
panies have increased regular
rates net by $3,467 ,4OS for the
current payment"
This pertains only to actual in
eased dividend declarations
during a period C 80 business days
among corporations listed on the
stock exchanges. It takes no &C.
count of hundreds of regular divi-
ded payments made during this
period by listed companies, nor Of
thousands of unlisted firms and
partnerships that divided normal
or increased profits during that
time.
Firms Listed by Hundreds
The current Dow-Jones dividend
record occupied arly four
columns of agate type in the Wall
Street Journal Of December 16 and
contains the names of 586 firms
listed on the New York Stock and
Curb exchanges. OF these, IS re-
ported increases over the last
previous announcements.
Before the period covered by
the above international News Ser
vice article, back in September
and still more in October, the re-
sumption and increase of divi-
dends was becoming noteworthy.
Since it was printed, 43 firms
coming to the notice of this writer
alone have announced dividend
improvements, putting the total
net gains to stockholders in the
past six months far above the
hundred-million-dollar mark.
Profits Spread Widely
That improved profits are not
confined to listed corporations, to
materialize in dividends, but are
shared and being distributed by
partnerships and companies in
merchandising and other lines
which never have attained, or
aspired, to a stock exchange list
ing, is shown by the Federal Re
serve Board report on retail shop
gains in November, on which q
Wall Street Journal writer COM
mentS as follows.
From the retailers view.
point the important factor is
that good profits are being
earned even at the current level
Of dollar sales.
Another evidence of the general
permeation of increased profits
throughout business is contained
in the banking reports. usually a
fair barometer of rising or falling
trade conditions. Up to Decem-
ber 20 quarterly dividends s
amounting to $19,252,937 had been
declared by 18 of the Is dividend
paying New York banks, bringing
the total for the year, up to that
time, to $82 2,457 ,937. Others in
sight were expected to bring the
final total to $85. .000,0 900, only 20
per cent below the 1882 figure, in
spite of the bank holiday which
eliminated some big payers Of last
year and made the going more or
less difficult for the survivors.
The Washington times., 1934-01-01

Results of the institution of
these policies are evident on
every hand. More people are at
work. PWA projects have given
jobs to large numbers of skilled
workmen, and CWA emergency
work is tiding through the winter
several millions who will undoubt-
edly be absorbed in public works
projects or private industry in
the spring.
Security markets reflect the i'm
provement, both in activity and in
rise Of prices. Extraordinary in
creases in dividends nave been de-
clared by many great national en-
terprises. Deficits have been con-
verted into surpluses.
Expansion Planned
Commodity markets also show
the effects. Business is planning
The Washington times., 1934-01-01
CONTINUED from Rage IS)

Greatly increased employment with consequent distr
button Of purchasing among the groups that most
needed it.
Marked Improvement in the agricultural situation
result of which profit from their
work and enter the market for many goods Of which they
have long been forced to deprive themselves.
The Washington times., 1934-01-01
JOBS GAIN is STEADY

Canadian employment continued
an unbroken upward trend for the
eighth consecutive month when
November records showed an in
crease of 4.603
The Washington times., 1934-01-01

expansion. Practically all busi-
ness indices point upward.
Naturally, not all business en-
terprises have prospered at the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08
Ohio All Clubs Busy

Ohio All clubs, being organized for
the 1884 season, will have to do good
work to better their record of last sea-
son. A summary of 1888 accomplish
ments tells of the size of the job faced
by $4,000 club members and their 1900
leaders. Ohio ranked fourth last year
in total number of All members en-
rolled by states, and according to the
latest records of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture. first in the
number of members who finished the
job they had set for themselves to do.
Eighty per cent of the membership re-
ported having completed their projects.
Club members undertook 1924 prof.
ects and completed 1892 of them. Ma
tional reports state that Ohio topped
the list by 5000 in number of members
who had completed their work. Total
membership in the United States is
100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08
Pasture Seeding for ga
Contract Acres Suggested

More Illinois land will be seeded to
grass during the next two years than
ever before in the history of the state,
prophesies FL. P. Rusk, head of the
animal husbandry department Of the
College of Agriculture, University Of
Illinois.
This back to-grass" movement Is
spreading throughout the state as a
result of the governments corn-hog
and wheat adjustment programs In
which some 2,OO0,O0O acres of land
will be taken out of crop production
by cooperating Illinois farmers.
A large percentage of this former
wheat and corn land will be seeded
to permanent or semi-permanent pas
lures for live stock, and many Illinois
producers are wondering what grass
seeds or mixtures of seeds should be
used.
For early live stock carrying ca
pacity Of permanent pastures, all rec
ords at the University of Illinois were
broken by a heavy seeding consisting
of 1873 pounds of bluegrass, 25 of red
clover, 25 pounds of sweet clover, Al
pounds of timothy, 1.6 pounds of alsike
clover and A pounds of white clover.
This mixture may be used for seeding
contracted acres, without violation Of
the AAA corn-hog contract, provided
1t is in addition to the average acre
age devoted to pasture in 1882 and
1888 and is not pastured in 1884.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08
Short Burrows
The world crop Of tobacco is about
4, 000,000,000 pounds a year.

The world crop of tobacco is about
4,000,000,000 pounds a year.
Unusually early crops are aiding
strong agricultural situation in Cali
fornia.
For the first time in three years
oOtton planters Of Peru expect to
make a profit this season.
Nearly 1900 acres of farm land,
owned by Indians of the Kiowa reser-
walton In Oklahoma. have been ter
raced in a soil conservation program.
Mississippi ranks as the twelfth
state In the nation in cheese production,
manufacturing more than 100000
pounds last year.
Cotton growers of the South realized
about $3.50, 10000 for the 1888 crop,
including lint and seed.
The number of horses on farms con-
tinued to decline in the last year, al
though at a less rapid rate than in
recent years. the Department of Agri-
culture reports.
Five courses were given in Ken
lucky recently to teach instructors in
state agricultural institutions how to
grade tobacco according to standards
of the Department Of Agriculture
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

CHARGES are made by the house
~ agriculture committee that joint
stock land banks have been using fed
eral funds made available under the
1889 farm loan act to buy In their own
bonds at 80 cents on the dollar while
pressing foreclosures on their debtors.
The committee approved the Fulmer
bill to authorize farmers who have OBJ
tanned loans from Joint stock land
banks to buy on the open market joint
stock land bank bonds, rendering same
to the joint stock land banks in pay
ment of their Indebtedness. The bill
would also enable farmers to repur-
chase their lands that have been pre-
viously foreclosed If said lands are still
in the possession of these banks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08
Shortage Of Food
in Early Pasture
Impossible for Dairy Herd
to Get Enough to Hold
Weight, Strength.
BY John A. Arey Extension Dairy Special
list, North Carolina State College.
WHIT aarvica

BY John A. Arey. Extension Dairy specai-
list, North Carolina State College.
wNU Service.
1t Is false economy to make cattlb
depend entirely on pasturage for
roughage at this season of the year.
Yet many dairymen are inclined to do
so on account of the usual shortage of
rough feeds In the spring. The belief
seems prevalent that young grass will
supply sufficient amount of nourish-
ment for the cattle.
Immature grass Is about 80 per cent
water, and it is physically impossible
for cattle to eat enough Of 1t to main
tain their bodyweight and strength
and produce a profitable milk flow.
Such practices are also liable to re-
suit in the cows eating weeds, wild
onions, and buds in an effort to get
sufficient ration. When they do this,
their milk Is unpalatable and not good
for drinking or butter making.
Dry roughage provides the bulk feed
needed and also much nourishment
that is essential to constant and profit
able milk production.
Another factor In heavy grazing Of
young pastures is the damage done to
the sod by extensive tramping and
grazing before the soil has dried out.
The result, will be greatly curtailed
yield later in the year.
Temporary grazing can be provided
by such grazing and soiling crops as
cereals sown in the fall. Later in the
summer, when permanent pastures are
in good condition, the cows can grad
ually be introduced to a more substan-
tial green diet. However, grain ra-
ton is needed at all times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

ton had been taken
President canon de
Valera said: 1--WE
want England to get
out. We do not want
to have anything to
do with Britain. If
there is to be any
form of association, it
must be in the COM
mon interest of both.
w e m u s t b e t h e
judges of whether 1t
is to our advantage
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

CRAFTSMEN from many nations
~ met in Geneva and reopened the
sessions of the disarmament conference,
with full realization Of the fact that
their failure may mean the renewal Of
war in Europe in the not far future,
and possibly the end of the League Of
Nations. Such hope as they had of
breaking the impasse seemed to rest on
the plan which Foreign Commissar Lit
vinov of Russia said he was ready to
offer. It was believed he would con-
centrate on a policy of political secur-
ity as a basis for disarmament. Nor
man FL. Davis, American ambassador
at-large, presented the views of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, urging an accord en-
phasizing supervision Of arms and a
more rigid control Of the interna-
tional traffic in arms.
Louis Barthou, foreign minister of
France, showed no inclination to yield
to the German demands for rearma-
ment. The French are said to believe
Hitler Is due soon to run up against
domestic troubles that will tie his
hands; they will continue to promote
their defensive alliances until the
German chancellor gives in, and just
now are counting on pact of mutual
assistance with Russia and the little
entente which will be signed If. as
expected, Russia enters the League of
Nations.
Premier Mussolini of Italy, in
speech before the chamber of deputies,
said that disarmament talk was fool
ish and in so many words suggested
that war was the only way out of the
economic adversities that beset Italy
and Europe generally.
THE Irish Free State took another
L step toward becoming republic
when the dali cream passed bill
abolishing the senate. After this ac-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

erty on the island.
They took extraordi-
nary precautions to
protect Mr.. Caffery,
but despite the pres
ence of soldiers at
the entrance to his
home some unidenti-
fed assailants drove
by in a car and poured
a stream of bullets
from sawed-off shot
guns just at the time
Mr. CaffprV usually
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

vigorous attack on
critics Of his plans for
national recovery. In
troduced by Governor
Pinchot as "the first
citizen of the world"
Mr.. Roosevelt first
paid eloquent tribute
to the men of the
North and South who
fought bravely on
that historic field, and
described how the
sections of the nation
bad hoon Uoldpd into