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The Washington times., 1934-05-23
PITT UNLIKELY
To DEFEND
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BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON


Once one of the major attrac-
tions for prominent District golf
ers, the 1884 tournament Of the
Baltimore Country Club has failed
to attract the local leaders.
In fact, Harry G. Pitt, of Manor
Club and winner of the tourna-
ment for the past three years,
has not forwarded his entry and
it has been reported he will not
be among the starters.
Nor will Roger S. Peacock, IN
dian Spring Club, be among the
entrants. The names of Gene
Vinson, Martin F. Mccarthy,
Johnny Shorey, Hickman Greene,
Luther C. Steward, jr., etc. do not
appear in the entries. Nor is it
likely that any will be among the
post entries.
Probably Overgolfed
OF course, there are some two
dozen local entries but the local
headliners have summed the Bal
timore event. Perhaps, they feel
they've played enough tournament
golf to date and would rather
take a rest.
j. o. Bergelin, PWA, today pos
sessed the individual champion
ship of the Interdepartmental
Golf League. He blazed around
the Indian Spring course in 1913,
148, for SO holes as the tourna-
ment was concluded yesterday.
Par for 18 holes is II. Bergelin
halls from Ann Arbor, Mich, and
his best performance in competi-
ton in his home State was reach
ing the third round of the Michi-
gan amateur championship.
The War Department team OF
Major H. C. Dagley, Capt. Kenn-
dali j. Fielder, Tom Belshe and
Frank G.. Butler, retained the
team championship with four
man aggregate score of 646. Tom
Belshe was second low gross IN
Class A with 1919, 1855.
Other winners
G. P. o. with ITO won low gross
in Class B and PWA low net with
602. w. C. Lawrence, G. P. o.,
was low gross winner with $685.
1862, and E. F.. Mifflin, 174-32, 142,
was low net winner. Other low
net winners were D. K. Bent, jr.,
PWA, 171-28.143, and Max Taylor,
Marines, 179-34,145.
Treasury annexed the team
prize for low gross in Class C
with TAG and Interstate Com
merce Commission the low net
with 610. Individual low gross
winners we're C. w. Griffin, I.C.C.,
1870; C. R. Maxwell, Treasury, 181,
and r. F. Lynch, Navy, 181. Low
net winners were C. L. Hall.
Marines, 182-36,146: w. E. Brig
ham, Marines. 183-36,147, and V.
B. Dodge, Post Office, 1887, lat.
Mrs. Strong Triumphs
Mrs. Earl Strong, Beaver Dam,
today stood victor in the buffers
tournament for women, held at
the Kenwood Country Club yes
terday. with upwards of two hun
dred taking part. She scored
1G4-29, IS, for low net honors.
Mrs. j. H. Vance. another Beaver
Dam member, also scored a low
net of rs but elected to take the
runner-up prize, stating sh
hadn't turned in sufficient
number of cards for regular
club handicap. Mrs. Vance
scored 109-34, rs.
Mrs. Roland r. Mackenzie,
Congressional Country Club, was
low gross among the low handi-
cap players with 81. Mrs. Harvey
j. Cooper, Kenwood, was low in
dividual scorer among the higher
handicap players with 96. The
prizes were presented by Miss
Elizabeth C. Harris, president of
the Women's District Golf Associ-
alton and donor of the buffers
trophy.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
NET.
LOOP OPENS
SATURDAY

The Suburban Tennis League
opens it's 1884 season Saturday
With three matches booked. The
schedule follows:
MAY cs
Beaver Dam at Argyle.
Lakeview at Wesley Heights.
Edgemoor at Standards.
JUNE
Standards at Beaver Dam.
Edgemoor at Lakeview.
Argyle at Wesley Heights.
JUNE 9
Wesley Heights at Standards.
Beaver Dam at Edgemoor.
LakeView at Argyle.
JUNE 1s
Argyle at Edgemoor
Wesley Heights at Beaver Dam.
Standards at Lakeview.
JUNE 2S
Standards at Argyle.
Lakeview at Beaver Dam.
Edgemoor at Wesley Heights.
JUNE 80 OR JULY
Argyle at Beaver Dam.
Wesley Heights at Lakeview.
Standards at Edgemoor.
JULY "A
Beaver Dam at Standards.
Lakeview at Edgemoor.
Wesley Heights at Argyle.
JULY 81
Standards at Wesley Heights.
Edgemoor at Beaver Dam.
Argyle at Lakeview.
JULY 28
Edgemoor at Argyle.
Beaver Dam at Wesley Heights.
Lakeview at Standards.
AUGUST
Argyle at Standards.
Beaver Dam at IakeView.
Wesley Heights at Edgemoor.
Worry! Worry! Worry! The sOlu-
ion to many Of your varied problems
'an be found in the WANT AID SEC
rION of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
WARNEKE A MUSICIAN

Lonny Warneke, ace of the Chi
cago pitching staff, holds another
distinction aside from baseball.
Lonny is a swell guitar player and
can do that Hawaiian steel guitar
stuff like nobody's business,
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
C9RwM,S C931aSHx1S
BY BILL CORUM
Our TOlUn Comes Back
Probably 1t Was Never
Better In the Old Days

NEW YORK, May 23.-My
friends, since nobody else has
seen fit to mention it, let me
tell you that our town has
come back.
Never since the days when
the Battery was away up town
has our town been more awake,
more interesting, more opti-
miStic than it is today. I
missed the good old days be-
cause of extreme youth, thank
goodness. But if the good old
days were any better than these
they were corkers.
I'll bet they weren't. I'll bet
the girls were not as pretty,
the music wasn't as good, the
food and drink were no better,
and not as we'll served in half
as many inviting and enter
tanning places.
Everything that made the
good old days good, and also
lively, seems to have come back
at about the same time. And
this includes those always
popular and fascinating affairs
known as battles of the CEN
tury. Instead of paying host
to one of these. which is par
for the course for a season, our
town is "fixin'" to hold two
within the next fortnight.
You may think this an ex-
eggeration. You may even think
it worse. But it has been my
observation that nothing can
come quite so close to starting
a big city to fizzing as good
fight. That may be because of
some long suppressed primal
instinct in all of US. 1t may be
for anyone of many reasons,
I'm not smart enough to know.
But do know it's true.
a red hot election will rouse
a city. an epic feat such as
Colonel Lindbergh's flight, a
sensational crime-but for a
proved year-in-and-year-out ex-
citement stirrer, show me some
thing that excels fight that
has caught the public's fancy.
T.. Fights Sell Papers
And if you still duobt that
I'm right, ask the gentleman
who sell the newspapers how
many stories will sell out more
editions than a real heavy
weight championship match,
such as the coming Camera
Baer bout.
Not since the days of Master
Promoter Rickard has our town
been quite so steamed up about
things pugilistic as it is right
now. I say that because my
mail indicated it, as does the
conversation wherever I 60
about town.
Late yesterday I stopped at
a newsstand to buy a paper.
It was threatening rain and I
was in a hurry. The newsboy
called me by my first name and
asked me something about how
Barney Ross looked. I said
"great" and was on the verge
OF rushing away when a gen.
tleman, who had also been
buying a paper, touched me
on the arm. 1t was young
priest.
II beg your parden," he said
In a rich Irish brOgue, "but are
you the Bill COrum that writes
for the spOrts?"
said that was afraid I
was.
"Well, tell me then, and how
does McLarnin look to yOu?"
A few minutes later in the
course of my daily sports talk
on the RADIO I chanccd to say
that when these two bouts were
first announced that I had
thought perhaps McLarnin and
Baer might be a good parlay
bet to score knockouts, adding
that the closer we got to the
fights the less sure 1 was.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Rockfish Put In Appearance
AS Locust Tree Blooms
By GINO SINH

An expert fisherman must also be something Of arboricu
turist according capt. Bob Wilson, erudte angler
Don't get scared must have knowledge Of trees
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Three Men Pin Loop
Will Omen Tonight

The Three-Men bowling league
opens at Temple tonight at 8
o'clock. Teams desiring franchises
are requested to be present at
that time ready to bowl.
The league is limited to three
men teams with a grand average
of $50 or under for the past
season.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
) Battle of Century
Also Return to Make
broadway Fizz Again
Gets Phone Call

Gets Phone Call
No sooner was the broadcast
over than I was called to the
telephone.
wanna bet one thousand
dollars to three that you are
right about McLarnin and Baer
scoring knOckOuts?" inquired a
strange voice.
Certainly not" I replied,
"and even if 1 had the thou
sand, wouldn't be dumb
enough to bet it on any prize
fight that ever happened in
history. Not even one that was
already over. That's what 1
think about fights as a betting
proposition"
"Well, 1 just wanted to know"
said the fellow on the other end
of the wire and hung up.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Everett Threatens Record
In D. G.. Track Title Meet

Grover Everett pride of Eastern High and newly elected
captain of the 1885 University of Virginia track and field
team probably will celebrate his return his home this
year by breaking the present District of Columbia A. A. u
high and low hurdles records in Catholic University Stadium
on Decoration Dav,
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Learning to Swim

By ZOE RANSAVACE

Today into the action in which get almost 80
per cent of our propelling power in swimming.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
II Duce Hurls New Gbe AT Germans;
France, Italy To Sign New Pact Soon

eve can look with contempt up
on the doctrine of a certain race
which knew not how to write while
we already had a Caesar, Virgil,
an Augustus"
More than 100000 citizens
heard the premier today in an ad-
dress which will deal with the ma
ior social problems now harrass-
ing Italy and the rest of the con-
tinent, and which made special
reference to the operations of
the cooperative state by which II
Duce hopes to solve the economic
crisis.
His speech also dealt with the
international situation, especially
the new alignment growing out OF
the Franco-Italian rapprochement.
He told the cheering throng that
the Franco-Italian agreement con-
sidered one of the most significant
accords in recent years will be
signed by the end of October.
All the workmen in Milan
marched directly from their work,
in overalls, and stood at attention
in the huge square facing the
cathedral, to listen to Mussolini.
II Duce will stand, alone, on a
tribune 80 feet high, and his voice
will be carried by loud speakers to
the multitude.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
FINDS brown
SHOT HIMSELF
Coroner's Jury Bases Yer
dict on Notes Left
for Father

A coroner's jury this afternoon
decided that Claude Brown, FL,
of Fletcher, R. F. D. No. l, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a shotgun about 2:30 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon in a clump
of woods near his home. The flnd-
ing was that he came to his death
"by gunshot wounds at his own
hands,"
The verdict of the jury. was
reached after Coroner Brooks in
troduced notes written by the de-
ceased to his father which bore
out the suicide verdict. 80 ...
Young Mr.. Brown was the sou
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown,
of Fletcher, R. F. D. 1. He was
last seen Wednesday afternoon as
he left his home with shotgun,
but it was thought that he was
going hunting.
A search for him was insti-
tuted the next morning and the
body was found by John Dalton,
one of the searchers, just off a
path in the woods about half a
mile from his home. A load from
the shotgun had penetrated his
heart and the shotgun lay nearby.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
COUNTY FAIR WILL OPEN
AT HIGH SCHOOL GROUNDS
AND GYM MONDAY EVENING
Stage Rapidly Being Set;
Fair Wedding Gifts
Are Arriving

The stage was rapidly being set
today for the opening of the Hen
derson County fair at the Hender-
sonville high school grounds and
gymnasium Monday night.
Booths were being constructed
in the gymnasium, few farm
products exhibits were brought in,
and the grounds were being plac-
ed in readiness for the Krause
Greater Shows, which will arrive
in town Monday and which will be
the midway attraction.
Fair officials said the number
of exhibitors promised to exceed
expectations, and with anything
like a "break" in weather condi-
tions the fair should be big sue
cess.
Monday has been designated as
opening registration day, with the
fair proper opening Monday night.
Tuesday will be Fraternal day,
members of all lodges being ad-
mitted free when displaying their
membership cards between noon
and 6 p. m.
Wednesday, October 10, is Chill
dren's day for all Henderson coun-
ty and surrounding communities.
All school children will be admit
ted free, day and night. All shows
and rides will be five cents to the
Riddles. Wednesday at 8 p. m. will
be the Baby Pageant. Wednesday
at 10 O'Clock will be the Miss Hen
Jacksonville Popularity Election.
Thursday, October II, is Hen.
derson County day; also Ladies
day. All ladies will be admitted
free between the hours of noon
and 6 p. m.
On Friday night, the legal pub
lie wedding will take place when
a local couple will be joined in
matrimony. Friday is also Hen
Jacksonville day.
Saturday, October ID, the
grand climax will come In the cor
onation and browning of Miss
Personality" in Henderson coun-
ty.
Many beautiful gifts and cash
contributions have already been
received at fair headquarters in
the Chamber of Commerce build
ing for the public wedding, which
will be staged on the fairgrounds
next Friday evening at 9 o'clock.
Fair officials are busy making
the final preliminary arrangements
for the fair opening Monday, and
it becomes impossible to visit the
variy US stores in the city to Sc
cure >resents for the bride and
groom that mi; ut be offered by
these store man ,gers, it was said.
On this account. fair officials will
appreciate their being 'phoned by
| any establishment in Henderson
vile that feels inclined to make
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
DEATH CALLS
MRS.0CKERMAN
Four Months Illness Fatal
for Wife of Educator;
Rites Not Arranged

Mrs. J. E. Ockerman, wife of
Prof. j. E. Ockerman, former
principal of the Flat Rock school,
died at her home on North Main
street this morning at 11:25
o'clock, following an illness of
about four months.
Funeral services had not been
arranged this afternoon pending
word from relatives as to their
arrival here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ockerman had been
married for Al years, and had
been residents of Henderson coun-
ty and Hendersonville for about
ten years. Mr.. Ockerman was prin-
cipal of the Flat Rock school for
a number of years, and more re-
Gently has been connected with
the relief work in Henderson
county.
Mrs. Ockerman was formerly
Miss Mary C. Carter. She was a
native of Batavia, Ohio,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
LETTERS GIVE ANOTHER
PHASE OF EVIDENCE

NEW YORK, Oct. 8. (UP)-
Four psychiatriSts last night is
sued a written opinion declaring
that Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
charged with extorting $4,000 in
ransom from Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh, is sane.
The doctors issued their opinion
after making a study of the Ger
man carpenters mental processes,
after a thorough examination
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann,'
they declared, 1--WE have come to
the conclusion that he is sane and
that there is no evidence indica-
tive of any previously existing
mental diseases.
"The patients intelligence,
Judgment and memory, his knowl-
edge of the difference between
right and wrong, of the relation
ship between cause and effect,
and his understanding of the ma
ture and quality of his acts, are,
in our opinion, all normal"
The report was signed oy Ut
James B. Spradley and DR.. John
A. Connolly, representing the
state of New Jersey, and by DR.
S. Philip Goodhart and DR.. Rich
ard Hoffman, representing the
Bronx. DR.. James H. Huddleson
the alienist named to represent
Hauptmann, would make no com
ment.
The circumstantial case that
has been built to connect Haupt-
mann with the payment OF ran
som in the case was materially
strengthened by discovery OF a
series of letters indicating that the
prisoner suddenly became prosper
Gus at the time the money was
paid.
The letters, found in Haupt-
mann's apartment, were IN Ger
man script and after translation,
were placed in the hands of Dis
trict Attorney Samuel j. Foley OF
the Bronx.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
THINKS MORE
IN BRIDE PLOT
Huntsville Sheriff Gets New
Names in Scottsboro
Suspect Group

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Oct. g.
(UP)-Sheriff Ben Giles an
nounced today he had uncovered
new evidence tending to implicate
more persons in the plot to bride
Mrs. Victoria Price, star state
witness in the Scottsboro case.
Giles attached Importance to
an envelope found on J. T. Peer
son, one of three bribery suspects,
bearing the return address of Geo.
Chamblee, Chattanooga attorney,
who prepared the brief in the
first appeal of the cases of Hay
wood Patterson, Clarence Norris,
two of the nine negro defendants
convicted of criminal assault.
Meantime Governor Herbert
Lehman of New York telegraphed
Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama
protesting extradition of other
bribery suspects, Daniel Swift and
Sol Kone, New York lawyers from
Nashville to Alabama.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
Copyright 1884 by United Press)
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 6. (UP)-

NSOpyFlRnI 1901 by ShitCo 1907
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 6. (UP)-
Benito Mussolini hurled another
taunt at Teutonic pretensions yes
terday, in a speech to 5000 Of
ficers of the Italian militia.
The premier's jibe at Germany,
his second outburst in recent days,
reached a climax in the phrase:
at is a stirring thought that
you are officers of a militia whose
determined spirit met Teutonlc
emperor-and for three days he
did not know whether he was ruin
ed or completely lost"
eff this could be done by a few
Italians, when Italy had not reach
ed the height of its united
strength" he continued, "what
can we do when the whole Italian
people are united, and have ar
rived at their full strength to
achieve victory?"
In a recent speech at Bari, dur
ing the Italian war maneuvers,
Mussolini used the word "con-
tempt" to describe his feelings for
"a certain race" whom he indl-
rectly termed barbarians.
Regulating the doctrines OF
Nazism, Mussolini declared at that
! time; -..-.,.-.I.--.-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
MARINE STRIKE
IS CALLED OFF
But New Orleans Leader
Says Strike There Will
Begin Monday

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. (UP).
The Internal Seamen's union has
called off it's strike set for Mon
day, Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman
of the national labor relations
board, announced last night.
Collective bargaining will be
given a fair trial by employers
and employees, he said.
The strike, which would have
involved 100000 seamen would
have paralyzed Atlantic and Gulf
coasts shipping, wasiaverted when
the board obtained agreements
with several ship lines to recog-
nize the union.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
Vanderbilt Court
.Souabble Closed
To The Public
Gloria Will Tell Court Own
Story; Contempt Is
Threatened

SOUTHAMPTON, Eng, Oct. 6.
(UP).-Lady Furness, sister of
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, sailed
today for New York to aid Mrs.
Vanderbilt in her suit to regain
the custody of her daughter,
Gloria, 100000 heiress. She
said she would testify if asked TO
do so.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-(UP).
Ten-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt,
heiress to 100000, will be
taken into New York's supreme
court to testify against her own
mother, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Van
derbilt, in the bitter squabble
over the cstody of the child, the
United Press learned last night.
But little Gloria, described as
high-strung and temperamental,
will not tell her story for public
consumption. The plan, it was
said, would be to have her testify
in a secret session before Justice
John F. Carew.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, her sister, Mrs.
Consuelo Thaw, Nathan Burkan,
her attorney, and other lawyers
gathered in an impressive huddle
al during yesterday afternoon,
consolidating the evidence which
they hope will return Gloria to
her mother. The child is now in
the custody of her aunt, Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney. Mrs.
Whitney and Mrs. Laura Kill
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06

NOT U. S. GOAL
I'npulsOry Arbitration Is
Folly, Miss Perkins
Tells Labor

r: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. G.
IH.-The American Fedora
wa IVA Oh Labor convention yester-
:! heard Secretary of Labor
,. .a.CeS Perkins plead for COOP
alOn' peace and patience in la
:. regulations and then plunged
, 49, naIt hour of vigorous ora
\ n'y over the status of the negro
I" organized labor.
"aoame Perkins reminded la
A. maj this administration Ut
o. :. ''aer administration cannot
Ill.,, s Us the millennium on a silver
~, Se Praised the labor advisory
,.,e Of the NRA for its
a 's = policy" and support
T,r r demands Of President Will
A. 'een Of the Federation that
49,. be given adequate represen-
a. a. VI code authorities.
Oh " .. ;ong as labor has no place
r,. we authorities" she said,
,s,a % long will the powers of
lie ,l groups be under question by
pam people"
r.r an' Roosevelt administration
Conn.,, contemplated demanding
srr..Sory arbitration of labor
10, - -, and the President did
an iD uSa3 MS recent proposal for
a,ra ,SGaStrlal truce to be so con-
'~Se S' she said.
goys, .ne groups have wanted the
ttit,Julent to adopt a two-fsted
pqtes e toward industrial dis
coe,oi.-ln other words to attempt
toDv wi 1t would be historical
noie,s 70 be stampeded into i'm
tctat;sa,.e >, appeals or government
Of ''.lNax in an internal A. F.
he dispute was reached when
,GisCu[Ive council, supreme
ion Jung body of the organiza,
trades tSled that the building
when = apartment acted illegally
Of tS, - refused to seat delegate:
bdckiavs unions, the carpenters
Tho y . and electricians. 49,.
council added that all bust
'"'nued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-06
PEBBLES Home
LOST BY fire
$500 Summer Residence
Near Reservoir Burns
Friday Night

A fire last night about $50
o'clock completely destroyed a
summer home owned by Mrs. c.
G. PEBBLES, of Chapel Hill, located
Just beyond the city reservoir.
The home was closed for the
winter and the origin of the blaze
was undetermined. Damage was
estimated at about $4,000. ? %2.I.
The house was partially COW
cred by insurance, but there was
no insurance on the furnishings.