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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27

YARD, March 27.---
Especially That the Queen of
Sheba's capital in Southern
Arabia, asserted to have beFn
found recently by French avla-
tors, may have been the base
from which the Mashonaland
gold mines in the Zambesi re-
gion of South Central Africa
were developed, was suggested
today by S. P. Werner, who led
four expeditions to Central &S-
RIGA. helped to organize the IN
ternational Mining and Fores-
try company and the American
Congo company more than a
quarter of a century ago, and
is now the ranking tropical ex-
plorer in the world.
Mr.. Werner referred to the
long-standing mystery of the
origin of the vast mining re-
mains in the Zambesi, a puzzle
to engineers and archaeologists
ever since they were discover
ed some 60 years ago, with
evidence of Semitic occupation
there ages ago. The novelist
Rider Haggard made those
mines famous in his novel
"king SOlomon's Mines" The
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
MORE LOCAL
BUS SERVICE
BEING ASKED
Adequate Transportation
to City From Balfour and
E. Flat Rock Sought

E. w. Ham, vice-president OF
the Hendersonville Chamber of
Commerce went to Asheville this
morning to attend hearing be-
fore a representative of the State
Corporation Commission on the
question of whether the Carolina
Scenic Coach Line should con-
tinue to operate buses through
Hendersonville between Spartan
burg and Asheville. and whether
a franchise should be granted to
a Mr.. Shelton, CT Greenville, 5.
c., to operate buses between East
Flat Rock and Balfour through
Hendersonville. 1t was understood
that a number of interested citl-
zens living in the East Flat Rock
and Balfour communities and on
the Mills River road, over which
the coach line operates buses to
Asheville via West Ashevllle'
would attend the hearing.
Mr.. Ham said he did not De-
lieve the bus service of the Caro-
lima Scenic Coach Line should be
discontinued and that he favored
establishment of bus service from
Balfour to Hendersonville and
from East Flat Rock to Hender-
sonville. Both services are or
would be in competition with the
Greyhound lines, which operates
between Greenville and Asheville
via Hendersonville and the direct
road to Asheville via Fletcher
Present bus service is not ade'
quate to meet the needs of resi-
dents of East Flat Rock and Bal
four, particularly on week-encs
when they wish frequent service
to Hendersonville to do their
shopping.
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By c. c. NICOLET
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 81. -
Conservative forces attacked the
administration program on three
fronts yesterday, charging that
the tariff, stock market and Wag-
ner bills would injure industry
and investors.
The tariff bill empowers the
president to negotiate reciprocal
trade treaties would destroy in
dustries in which millions Of
Americans are employed" Repre-
sentative Bertrand Smell. R., N.
Y, charges as the house resumed
debate on the measure.
The stock market bill, through
q provision restricting floor trad
ers. would work Substantial in
jury to the interests of the en-
tire investing public of the Uni
ted States" the floor traders
committee Of the New York stock
exchange charged in a petition to
congressional committees con-
sidering exchange regulation. The
president. however, renewed his
request for passage of the stock
market bill and charged a con-
certed attack designed to pre-
vent it's passage.
The Wagner bill preventing
management from influencing
Continued on page four)
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R. |. WHTTMlRE
TO MAKE RACE
Assails Party Practice in
Announcing Candidacy
for Solicitorship

r. L. Whitmire, Hendersonvllle
attorney. announced today that ne
would be a candidate for solicitor
of the eighteenth judicial district
opposing Solicitor ]. Will Pless'
Jr. of Marion, in the Democratic
primary in June. -,
In announcing his candidacy,
Mr.. Whitmire made the following
statement:
'In becoming a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
the office of solicitor of the eight
eenth judicial district, shall take
a firm position against any man
attempting to perpetuate hlmSelt
in a high public office. A public
office is a public trust and every
man who aspires thereto should
do so with feeling that 1t Is both
a privilege and an honor to serve
his people. Under our system OF
government, there is no provision
made for permanent office hold
ers. both the spirit and the letter
of the constitution are against IT,
"And l shall contend to the
last ditch against the chairman OF
the Democratic state executive
committee and the governor OF
fbe state of North Carolina IN
attempting to manipulate the cleo
tion machinery of the state and
district in the interest of favor
cd candidate. This is not only
wrong and unfair as a matter OF
principle, but is highly unbecom-
inc of those who wear the mantle
of these high offices, and reflects
M credit upon the Democratic
party pa to say nothing of its d I
ocratic organizations in the c0un-
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
STEEL MEN TO
GET ten PCT.
WAGE ADVANCE
Announcement Made En-
tire Industry To Be At
fected at Once
u. S. BANK REPORT
SHOWS STEADY GAIN

NEW YORK, March 81. CUP
Dow-Jones and Company financial
news service today said that LEAD,
ing steel producers tomorrow Will
announce a wage increase probab-
ly 10 per cent, effective April l.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March
27.-UP)-Steel companies OF
the Youngstown district are eX-
pected to announce tomorrow an
increase in wages, probably of 10
per cent. it was learned here to-
day.
More than 10000 steel workers
in the Mahoning valley area will
be affected by the increase.
The statement of the increase,
it is said, will be made through
the American Iron and Steel in
stitute. 1t was indicated that no
change would be made in the 40
hour work week, as provided by
the steel code.
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By RICHARD L. GR1DLEY
United Press Financial


WASHINGTON, Mar. 27. CUP
An increase in factory employ
ment and payrolls in the first six
weeks of this year to the highest
level, on a seasonal basis, since
the summer of 1881 was report
ed by the federal reserve board
yesterday in it's monthly survey
of business.
The survey reported a further
sharp advance in industrial activ-
ity during February for the third
successive month, carrying activ-
ity to the highest level since Sep
TENDER. With the exception of last
summer, activity was the highest
since mid-1931.
February activity was estimat-
ed at 81 per cent of the 1923-25
averages, compared with 78 per
cent in January, 50 per cent in
February, and the depression low
of SO per cent last March.
The further advance in Febru-
airy on. the board said, reflected
more than seasonal advances in
steel, automobile and textile bust
nesses, but activity at meat pack
ing establishments declined.
The reserve board survey did
not take into account further
gains in business activity during
March, which private business re-
ports show at substantially above
the relatively high levels of Feb
ruary.
"The number on the payrolls
of the civil works administration
declined from about 100000 in
January to about 100000 in the
week ended March l." the reserve
board said. "At automobile fac
tories there was a large increase
in the number Of employed to ap-
proximately the level prevailing
four years ago. Substantial in
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
COTTON BILL
IS UNDER fire
OF SENATORS
Borah Declares South Will
Never Agree to Bank
head Measure
BAILEY DECLARES IT
TO BE SLAVERY BILL

WASHINGTON, Mar. 27. CUP
The proposed Bankhead cotton
bill is unconstitutional and the
"south will never agree to 1t,
Senator William E. Borah Repub-
lican Idaho, charged yesterday.
The measure limiting the ma
TONS cotton production in 1884
and 1885 to 10000, 900 bales, has
passed the house and probably
will be voted upon by the senate
today. Debate will be limited to
Is minutes for each senator.
A so per cent tax would be inn
posed by the bill on all cotton gin
ned in excess of the individual
farmers allotment.
Borah said passage of the meas
ure probably would establish a
national policy of government
of the production of agricultural
commodities. The next step, he
said, would be to put industry I'M
der similar regulations.
eve are starting a movement, j"
he added, "the purpose of which
is to control the productive forces
OF this nation in their entirety.
Has the congress of the United
States the power to say to man
with 10 bales of cotton, You may
not ship that cotton in interstate
commerce? l do not believe the
south will agree to any such prop
osition."
The bill was also attacked by
a southern senator, Josiah w.
Bailey, Democrat, of North Caro-
ina. as a slavery BILL" offering
a choice between "a free republic
and a regimented socialism or
communism"
Senator Bailey, who has refus-
ed to follow the administration on
previous occasions, declared: eff
it should pass and be upheld by
the supreme court / would know
the end of all things had come in
America and / shall prepare for
the socialist regime and the dicta-
tor"
Senator James H. Lewis, Demo-
crat, Illinois. appealed to the sem
ate "to stand behind the presi-
dent" and pass the measure.
Senator Ellison D. Smith. Dem
ocrat, South Carolina, pointed out
that between IS and 90 per cent
of the cotton growers, covered in
a poll by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace, had expressed
Continued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
BRAIN TRUST
MEN SCOFF AT
WIRT'S STORY
Charges Branded as "Ab'
surd," "Rediculous,
every Facetious"

NEW YORK, March 27. (UP)
Members of the Roosevelt brain
trust" scoffed openly yesterday
at DR.. William A. Wirt's allega-
ton that they are preparing to
supplant President Roosevelt with
a dictator on the order of josef
Stain. :,
The Indiana school superintend-
ent's charges were branded as
ridiculous" "absurd" and Every
facetious." .,
The men identified with the
"brain trust" who voiced vigorous
denial of DR.. Wirt's charges were
Rexford G.. Tugwell, assistant
secretary of agriculture.
A. A. Berle, Jr., special counse
to the railroad division of RFC.
James M. Lands, federal trade
commissioner.
Prof. Mordecai Ezekiel, eco
nomic advisor to the secretary Of
agriculture.
Charles Taussig, president OF
the American Molasses company.
Prof. George F. Warren, the
presidents chief currency advis.
err.
Prof. William I. Myers, head OF
the farm credit administration.
BY telegraph, telephone and
wireless these men denied the
Gary educators charges, adding
that the allegations might be a
cred herring" calculated to divert
congress, and public attention,
from useful legislation.
In a radio message from the
liner Cambion on which he is
going to Europe, Ezekiel said:
"Do not recall talking with DR..
Writ. I have never advocated or
predicted either a dictatorship or
communism for America. Instead,
| believe in liberal democracy"
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Reports $500 OF New York's School
Teachers Are Mentally Unbalanced
Medical Examiner Says Many Hopelessly Insane;
Blames Politics for Conditions Said to Prevail

money.
DR.. Altman cited several spe-
cific cases without mentioning
names. In his files is the story of
a teacher who showed chair leg
into a boys eye and twisted the
chair "to distract attention of the
class from myself"
This woman, according to the
medical examiner. was retired by
the board of superintendent, and
then returned to service under the
aegis of the teachers retirement
board. Because of subsequent con-
duct, they had to retire her again.
DR.. Altman cited another case
in which he said political pres.
sure was brought to bear. involv.
ing another teacher who had a
chair complex.
81 was told" said DR.. Altman.
"that what I took for symptoms
was simply reselessness because
the woman was seated on an un.
Continued on page four)
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RELIEF
CONFERENCE HELD

BRYSON CITY, March 81
Seventy seven representatives
trom II Western North Carolina
counties met here yesterday for
a conference with Miss Pearl
Weaver, Of Weayeryille, district
supervisor Of relief, and DR.. Roy
brown state supervisor of relief,
isatye to the closing of the
IVA projects and the beginning
o. new program.
D'. Brown, the principal speak
sr, reviewed the work of the past
Ss'era. months. declaring that
.ne IVA had been worth while
ana :. mat It had helped to re-es-
.4oIlSn the credit and self re-
SpTC' Of many people.
RQra. rehabilitation he said, is
.Ie o'gges; program ever attempt
81 IN North Carolina. at is aim
a' making people self-support-
nr ms, Il Is planned as a longtime
;r,aT! and it will take all our
cD. s.''sence and energy to put it
.,,r lac inst objective is the
;1S; ~Gg Of foOdstuffs, either as
|nr [',,I4sI or community farm
o. rg.syS' with enough work on
HI 's . projects to assure people
$an5 mans s Of obtaining clothing
TS I'm I sE that they must buy.
3necs,ss5ao should be accomplished by
|sn .SS,a.!pe'VlsOr for farming and
fIC@,.sory board of men and
'''u'1nled on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
|LIQUIDATING COSTS IN N. c.
ABOUT / PCT. OF AMOUNT
COLLECTED, kinney REPORTS
Local Agent and Staff Re-
turn From Meeting
in Raleigh

Pat Kinney, liquidating agent
for the First Bank and Trust COM
pany and American Bank and
Trust company, with his staff of
assistants, Miss Sara Moss OF
Hendersonville. Mrs. A. B. Owens
of Brevard, Erskine Duff and
Miss Launa Clayton of Ruther-
fordton. have returned from a
meeting in Raleigh of all of the
liquidating personnel of closed
banks in North Carolina.
The meeting was caiIed by the
commissioner of banks in order
that employees of the banking de-
partment might receive instruc-
tions to enable them to do their
work in more efficient manner.
Special emphasis was laid on
the fact that debtors to closed
banks can now refinance their in
debtedness by obtaining loans
from the Federal Land bank and
Home Owners Loan corporation.
Representatives of these two or
CARNATIONS addressed the meet
ing, outlining in detail their pol
icy in connection with assisting
in liquidating the closed state
banks. The commissioner of banks
also strongly emphasized the fact
that he was very anxious to close
out liquidation of closed banks as
quickly as possibly consistent
with the best interest of the de-
positors and creditors.
Reports on the progress of all
the banks in liquidation in North
Carolina were made and on the
average were satisfactory, Mr..
Kinney said. Several closed banks
have paid their depositors in full
and the remainder of the assets
turned back to the stockholders.
The reports also showed that the
average gross cost of liquidation
of assets of closed banks, includ-
ing taxes. insurance, attorney
fees, salaries, ETC., amount to
about six per cent of the amount
collected for the depositors and
that income, such as interest on
note and rents, amount to approx
imately five per cent, leaving an
average net cost of liquidation of
banks in North Carolina of about
one per cent. On Friday after
noon Governor Ehringhaus ad-
dressed the meeting and in his ad-
dress expressed his appreciation
to the commissioner of banks and
his personnel "for the conscien-
tious and efficient manner in
which they had conducted the af-
fairs of closed banks under most
trying and difficult circum-
stances" The governor said he
was also gratified to learn of the
economical way in which the IL
quotation of closed banks had
been conducted. Following the
governors address, Mr.. Kinney
and other agents in the state were
! called on for extemporaneous
| talks.
On Saturday afternoon the
staff OF. the Raleigh office gave 8
banquet at the, Eden Street Meth
odist church for the field work.
ers,- At this meeting the principal
l Continued on page four)
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By H. ALLEN SMITH g.
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, March II. (UP)
New Workers learned with great
distress yesterday that more than
1900 of the city's $4,000 public
school teachers are mentally un-
balanced, and that many OF them
are hopelessly insane. ,
DR.. Emil Altman, chief medical
examiner of the public school sys-
tenn, blamed politics mainly for
the conditions which he says exist
in New York classrooms.
Women who are almost mani
acs, he said. are permitted to
teach in the city's schools because
of the influence of politicians,
and because the teachers retire
ment board avoids payment of dis
ability pensions whenever pos
sible. Thus, according to DR.. Alt
man. a teacher who is mentally
unbalanced is reinstated in her job
by the retirement board to save
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27

Henderson county has naa
small taste of highway beautlilc sJ
Fiona subject that has rec S;rteJ
Local IrC attention. The CWA llsteo
one of its projects under !, o snJ
T S of Identification. anu
a a6"ut two miles of beautifIcaTtiG1n
work was done between Sauna
and the high bridge on highway
w Native shrubbery was planted
olong the highway. Rough, s un-
S;obtlv banks were removed. some
of tbe most unsightly, steep banks
S W. re-. planted with vines so as to
nravent crumbling of earth farkI
ine places were built and sanded
Of ste the most advantageously scenic
n nC r A few rock gardens We're
COME The CWA has arranged with E.
u Webb. who is in charge of the
tate prison camp and road work
IN henderson and Polk counties,
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NEW PLAN YET
|TO Be MAPPED
|F D ACTIVITIES
Vo,kmen Asked to Leave
All Jobs so Damage
Not to Result
.rIITIRE AID TO BE
ON SMALL SCALE

Tho Henderson County Civil
~, Administration has given
' 800 70 all foremen to bring
W.. work to a final close at the
!as- - the work week not later
sna T. T,rrsdav the 10Th. This will
.aar no complete rehabilitation
a me- eva army.
0. r =, have been requested
r. I.,rs all their projects in a
S.,s hat will not sustain heavy
i s NC or cause inconvenience,
- .-iss or distractions in roads,
aSsaris6ed privies. up-torn roofs,
-. - The rehabilitation has been
~ ,- 40, since the 22nd OF
r y no About one-third of the
,ymy has been employed during
the past week. .o
us =, < now in order a program
5siro in preparation that will
coii for the self-support of every
a., family after December l,
where there is one or more able
bodied men therein.
Assistance will continue IN a
small way to those on direct re-
Tef but they will be expected to
a, least grow gardens while 9TH
ey will De expected to engage IN
farm work which will provide a
,aupIy of food sufficient to carry
through next winter.
4 limited amount of work will
be provided but this program has
no. been definitely worked out.
The limited amount of work
that will be given to relief cases
will be distributed in finishing
the projects that were left un-
finished by the CWA. 1t is likely
that a few small projects, where
little material will be necessary,
NAV be undertaken. The local
office would welcome written
denominations about such prof.
ectS. Applicants should state the
Mature, location of the work and
maae an estimate of truck hours,
team hours. man hours and ma
'tsras necessary for the compile
tol Of the loo.
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Highway Identification Sponsored
By CWA Will Be Pushed In County
Ahou. T,vo Miles Of Roadside Improvement Already
ACCOMPLISHED; CWA Is Asking Suggestions

to help further the Identification
program by planting, msnuring
and cultivating cuttings at the
state prison camp. They are to
be transferred next fall or spring.
A few thousand such cuttings
have been provided from the
pruning by the CWA on the Hen
Jacksonville high school grounds.
Rose cuttings of all kinds. as
well as shrubbery, will be appre-
ciated and if those having such
cuttings in good condition will
notify the CWA office provision
will be made for taking care OF
the plants.
Those having Identification
projects in mind are requested to
see CWA officials. .g,
The Identification work near
Saluda was under suggestion Oh
the ladies of Saluda. The same
highway was beautified between
| Saluda and Tryon. -.
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VETO MESSAGE
ON MONEY BILL,
READ This AIN.
Rainey Looks for House TO
Sustain Position After
Careful Study
PRESIDENT SIGNS
THE BIG NAVY BILL

WASHINGTON. Mar. 81. (UP)'
President Roosevelt today decided
to return the air mail transporta-
ton to private operators without
waiting for the passage Of the
permanent legislation. The presi-
dent said temporary bids will be
called for Immediately.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 81. (UP)
Speaker Rainey said today he
would make every effort to delay
until tomorrow" the house vote
on the presidents veto Of the in
dependent offices bill, predicting
that the veto would be sustained
by the house.
Rainey said he considered it
desirable for members to study
the veto message before taking
action on the bill carrying veter-
ans compensation increases and a
partial federal pay-cut restora-
ton.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 81 (UP)
President Roosevelt today signed
the Vinson- Trammell navy bill
which provides for construction
of new battleships to bring the
country's sea forces up to the
limit of the London treaty.
Cameras clicked as the presi-
dent in the presence of Repre-
sentative Fred Britten, Repubii-
can of Illinois and Representative
Carl Vinson, Democrat Of Geor-
gia, signed the document.
President Roosevelt issued 4
statement. saying: at has been
and will be the policy of the adj
ministration to favor continued
limitation of naval ornaments. IL
is my personal hope that the ma
val conference to be held in 1885
will extend all existing limitations
and agree to further reductions"
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W. E. Thurston' S
Rites AT Clayton


CLAYTON, March 27.-W. c.
Thurston, 6S, who married Miss
Lillian Waldrop, daughter of the
late DIR. and Mrs. ]. G. Waldrop,
of Hendersonville, died in Jack,
sonville last Tuesday, and funeral
services were held in Burlington
on Thursday.
Mr.. Thurston had been critical
ly i'll for several days. He was
reared in Clayton but went to
Burlington when a young man
and was one of that city's leading
business men.
He is survived by six children
by his first wife and by his second
wife, formerly Miss Waldrop. and
a young son, John Waldrop Thurs
ton, and sister and brother.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
Michoacan Gold
Load Is Found

MEXICO CITY, March 81
(UP).-A gold lode discovered in
the state of Michoacan was de-
scribed by government biologists
TODAY as one of the richest veins
found in Mexico in many years.
They were not sure whether the
deposit, found in the northern
part of the state, was a new one
or continuation of others already
known. They were certain. how
ever, that it would prove to be
even richer than the famous Dos
Estrellas mine in the same state.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-27
|DlLNGER MEN
|SENT TO JAIL
''eaVy Squad Guards Two
on Way to Lima
State Pen

A Iva ca,.a4, Ohio, March 27. (UP)-
Score a'a'Sade Of more than half a
tin, ,,. VI automobiles, each bris-
denssr%.lJ;h machine guns and rifles,
tsE ErsSed I, today for Columbus,
to t5s G ;nree Dillinger gangsters
TIE r5e ONO state prison.
STAR heavily armed caravan
pectoJ q. al $3.50 a. m. It was ex-
wbor1S 'nat the gangsters, two of
Of da., are to die under sentence
up W.T. +st, would be safely locked
within three hours.
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KIDNAPPING CHARGED

BUCHANAN, Mich, Mar. 81
(UP)-Vincent Bernardo, 18-year-
old Notre Dame freshman, was
held in kidnapping charges in con-
nection with the disappearance Of
Miss Ruth Strunk, pretty 17-year-
old high school student.