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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-20

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Whereas, on December IL,
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persons owning or claiming
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'mobiIe to present certified
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-20
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The Washington times., 1934-11-27

Gossip in Washington names
Anthony j. Drexel Biddle. jr., of
Philadelphia, as the next United
States Minister to Ireland, post
which has been vacant since the
death of Walter William McDoW-
ell.
Mr. Biddle is about 81 years of
age, famous as a sportsman and
interested in international affairs.
The first member of the Biddle
family in this country came over
with William Penn. Clement
Biddle was Revolutionary soldier
and his brothers, Nicholas and
James, distinguished themselves
as naval officers in the same
period. Another Nicholas Biddle
of a later date was the foremost
statesman-financier of his time.
Horace P. Biddle is still remem-
bered in Philadelphia as a dis
tinguished jurist and writer.
Mr.. Biddle has been married
twice. His first wife was formerly
Miss Mary Duke, of tobacco fame.
The present Mrs. Biddle was be-
fore her marriage Mrs. Margaret
Boyce Thompson Schulze. She
was formerly the wife of Theo-
dore Schulze, Yale football star
of 1909.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
SLAYER WANT
ELECTRIC CHAIR

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 GN.S).
Joseph Lieb Steinmetz was ar
raigned today on short affidavit
charging homicide in the deaths
of his wife and the Rev. Joseph j.
Leonard, both of whom he shot
and killed in the latter's room in
the knights of Columbus Hotel
yesterday.
At the request of the district
attorneys office, SteinmetZ's hear
ing was put off until Monday by
Magistrate Guy Van Amringe, in
Homicide Court.
Steinmetz, appearing very di
sheveled, did not say a word in
his short appearance.
He was accompanied by an at
torney, Meyer Machlis, who en-
tered no objection to the post
ponement, and Steinmetz was
hustled to a cell in Tombs Prison
The youth spent a SleeplesS
night in the west Forty-seventt
Street police station, during which
time he repeatedly asserted:
II want to be sent to the
electric chair"
When police broke into the
room occupied by the Rev. Joseph
j. Leonard, 40, pastor of Our Lady
of the Rosary Chapel and chaplain
at Morris Hall Home for the Aged
LaWrenceville, N. j., in the
Knights of Columbu Hotel
yesterday, they found Steinmet7
with an automatic pistol in his
hand, lying besides the bodies OF
the priest and his young wife
Ruth.
Steinmetz collapsed at police
headquarters and was not placed
in the regular police lineup.
His attorney revealed that
Steinmetz had bought a bus
ticket for his wife to Nashville
Tenn. She was to have taken a
bus about 1890 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, about the time at
which the shooting occurred.
She had gone to a convent
school there, the lawyer explained
and wanted to visit friends. Stein
metz was to have followed her
there in a few days.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
GIRLS
VIEWED BY
FRANTIC
PARENT
"Can't Say They're Not My
Lost Daughters" He Says
Deepening Mystery
BY International News Service

lnLeTnaClOnaI
Two persons-one from Cleve.
land and another from Philadel-
phia-came to the aid of Penn
sylvania authorities today in an
attempt to solve the mysterious
deaths of five persons who have
been unidentified and unclaimed
since the gruesome discoveries
Saturday.
Believing the three "Babes-in-
the-Woods" found covered with Q
blanket on Carlisle mountain.
side to be his daughters, Emmett
Hamilton, of Cleveland, went
Father Uncertain
Mr.. Hamilton arrived in Carl.
isle, Pa, this afternoon to view
the bodies of three children.
He saw the bodies and said:
81 can't say they are my
daughters. but would not
say they are not"
Mr.. Hamilton asked to ex-
anime moles on the backs of the
children after being unable to
make positive identification from
their faces, but after examina.
ton of the moles he was still
undecided.
by automobile to the Pennsylvania
city.
Larry Carney, "a, a Philadelphia
World War veteran, was ready to
go from Philadelphia to DuncanS-
vile to try to identify the man
in the apparent murder-sulclde
plot there as Horace Hughes whom
he knew in San Francisco.
Mystery Like Heavy Fog
But, heavy and as shifting as
the fog which wrapped the noun
tains today, there remained the
essential mystery of the case:
Who are the victims? How and
why did they die?
One earlier theory, that the
children were three who rode
from Boston to near Cresson, Pa.
aboard a bus with woman who
may be the one found dead near
Duncansville, was fading.
The theory was based on
stories told by Paul White, Earl
Sylvester and Glen Williams, bus
drivers.
Major Cecil Wilhelm, assistant
superintendent of State police,
said closer check of the stories
(Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-11-27

Back in the last Ice Age a
handful Of prehistoric hunters
set up a workshop in the Rocky
Mountains for the manufacture
Of flint-hunting implements and
obligingly left them behind for
the scientists to discover, so that
the Smithsonian Institution to-
day advances the suppoSition
that man came to the New World
thousands of years earlier than
generally supposed.
Digging about in the foothills
of the Rockies, DR.. Frank H. H.
Roberts, jr., of the Smithsonian,
has discovered in a hard, chalk,
like formation what apparently
is a Folsom habitation site-the
workshop or biVouac Of a mySte'
riouS people who evidently dwelt
on the continent in the last Ice
Age and followed the retreating
glaciers northward to oblivion.
Down 20 Feet
The deposits, mainly Clipped
flint implements known as Fol-
som points, were under 20 feet
of soil deposits which, considering
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
7 f A s j R !
DROPS 1000
THIS WEEK
Entire Alcohol Tax Unit Being
Reorganized; Morale Low
and Chaos Reigns

A complete reorganization OF
the Treasury Departments Alcohol
Tax Unit was under way today
with the definite decision that
the 1000 employees affected by the
McKellar patronage rider" are to
be dismissed at the end OF this
week.
New agents are being recruited
from the Civil Service rolls and
will be put to work Immediately.
it was announced at the Treasury
today. They are being chosen
from the lists of those made ell
igible by examinations given
in September. About 5000 men
and women took this examination,
of which number $500 passed.
Only 400 Remain
The Treasury Department on
Saturday will lose 1000 agents and
not 900, as had been previously
reported. This will leave only ap-
Fortunately 400 trained and ex-
perienced men to handle the far
flung activities of the Alcohol Tax
Unit.
Treasury officials were Sorely
distressed by the situation today
It was explained that the Con
gressional act of the McKellar
rider will create a temporary
chaos in the Alcohol Tax Unit
and that many of its functions
will be crippled.
1t is planned to take on the
new members with the greatest
possible speed. They will be as
signed to various posts through
out the country. The experienced
agents will be put in charge OF
the new recruits, who will be given
a period of training.
May Get FurIoughs
A slight possibility exists that
the agents dismissed by reason
of the McKellar rider, which com
PEELED them to take another ex-
animation despite the fact they
were already Civil Service en-
ployes, will be taken back by the
Treasury Department. It is pos
sible they will be only furloughed,
which means it is possible for
them to return to work at some
future date.
Resentment against the Con-
gressional act crystallized today
and it is believed a Senator or
Representative will come forward
at the coming session of Congress
and champion the cause Of the
dismissed workers. The Mcclellan
rider could be killed by an amend
ment.
It was disclosed at the Treas
ury Department today that for the
past few months the morale of the
personnel of the Alcohol Tax Unit
has been completely disorganized
because of the impending whole
sale dismiSSals.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
STARTS WORK
ON BIG OHIO
PROJECT
More Than 600 LoW-CoSt
Homes to Go Up in CleVe-
land, Using U. S. Funds
BY EARL GOODWIN

Secretary IckeS today nailed the
flag to the mast in the Ickes-Mot-
fett controversy by announcing a
large 1ow-priced housing project in
which homes will be sold or rented
to the public at about $3.50 per
room per month.
This new project. of exactly the
type which supporters OF James
A. Moffett have said is impossible
to finance without disaster to priv
ate business, is to be in Cleveland,
Ohio, and will start tomorrow.
81 Projects Underway
The Public Works Administra-
tion, coincidentally with a press
conference held by Secretary Ickes
issued a description of the Cleve-
land project and called attention
to the fact that Secretary IckeS'
low-cost housing program is a 60
ing concern which includes 81 pro-
jects in more than 80 cities.
The project in Cleve a n d
amounts to PIG three-room homes,
345 four-room homes and 63 five.
room homes.
The project will be financed en-
tirely by Government m o n ey
which will be returned to the
Government by rents at the rate
Of $3.50 per room per month.
Denies He Will Quit
Secretary Ickes d cellar d In
answer to a direct question:
81 do not intend to resign"
He was told that rumors to that
effect have been flying around the
city ever since his statement last
Thursday that private finance
could not undertake a house-build-
ing program large enough to make
a dent in unemployment and to
supply the number Of medium
priced homes needed right now.
Secretary Ickes was asked
whether or not he was working on
a coordination of housing actlVl'
ties with other members OF the
Government. It was called to his
attention that James A. Moffett
Federal Housing Administrator
had stated that all housing actlvl,
ties were about to be tied up into
one group or at least to have their
activities coordinated.
Hasn't Heard Of 1t
Secretary Ickes replied:
II am q member Of the
Emergency Council and 1 have
not heard of any such proposed
coordination"
Secretary Ickes was assalled by
questions from 40 or so interview
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Prehistoric BivOuaC
Found InROCkies

the nature of the surrounding
territory, were laid extremely
slowly.
The significance of the discov-
cry, Smithsonian officials said,
can hardly be oVerestimated,
since the makers of Folsom
points," first discovered five years
ago with bones of an extinct
species of bison near Folsom, N.
M, are the mystery people of the
worlds pre-hiStory.
Found in Virginia
Since the find in New Mexico,
however, the points have been
uncovered throughout the United
States, as far east as Virginia,
leading some to doubt the inter-
probation of the original discov-
cry.
However, the points have been
dug up with the bones of musk
OK and a mammoth-animals
known to have paStured in the
lush meadows at the edge Of the
retreating ice sheet.
Hitherto the Folsom hunter
was a wraith-like creature, with
no fixed abode.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Nov.
27.-WelI, sir, guess who showed
up out here. 1t wasn't a soul
but my good old friend Pat
Hurley, Secretary Of War. He
seemed awful pleased that /
remembered him.
You know there is one thing
about these Republicans, If you
are just the least bit nice to
'em, or show 'em the least little
courtesy, why they are awfully
appreciative. They know they
didn't do right, but they are re-
pentive now, and 1 just haven't
got the heart to not speak
to 'em.
Pat told me what their big
mistake was in the last cam
paignS.
"Well, we went on the theory.
that Barnum was wrong, and
that one wasn't born every
minute. But now we see our
mistake. Yours,
WILL ROGERS.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
By WALLACE x. RAWLES

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. q Q.N.SO.
In the movies she played a role
in THE Night Life of the Gods. !"
In real life Hollywood's Baby
Butterfly" beautiful 16-year-old
Ruth Armstrong Steinmetz, a
bride of two weeks, met death on
her first party.
The girl was the granddaughter
of former United States Senator
Samuel Henry Piles, who served
from 1905 to 1911, and who in 1928
was United States minister to Co.
lombia.
Her father, Samuel Armstrong,
Hollywood film agent, wept 81
lently, but without bitterness to-
day as he told of his vivacious
daughters four-monthS' "ceme'
terry courtship" that led to her
marriage to Harry Steinmetz, %,
a former student at the Bible In
stitute and the University of Cali.
fornia at Los Angeles.
Helped Pair ElOpe
Young S Steinmetz z shot and
killed his bride and the Rev.
Father John j. Leonard in a New
York hotel under circumstances
that puzzled her father who helped
them to "elope" to Aqua Caliente,
Mexico, for their marriage NoVem.
ber 10. Mr.. Armstrong said:
Ruth loved life and laughter,
but she was a good girl. Harry
seemed to be a normal boy, n
sober sort of q soul. When I
learned, after they had been
going together four months,
during which they made many
pleasure trips to cemetery be-
cause they had nowhere else to
go, that they were determined
to marry. 1 took them to Mexico
to be married.
"Then they boarded bus at
San Diego, Cal, for New York
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
CATHCART CASE
THROWN OUT

LONDON, Nov. 27 GN.s)'
The divorce petition of Vera
Countess Cathcart, central figure
of the noted moral turpitude'
case of a few years ago, was
thrown out of court today.
The countess sued her third
husband, Sir Rowland Hodge, Is
year-old multimillionaire sh zip
builder, accusing him of mi6con,
duct with Miss Enid Patricia
O'Dare.
Sir Rowland and Miss ODare
denied the charges. Countess
Cathcart said she had detectives
watch her husband who, she
charges, continued his friendship
with Miss O'Dare after their mar
riage.
Sir Rowland admitted associa'
ton with Miss O'Dare prior to The
marriage and also admitted he
had visited her. He denied, how
ever, that he had ever spent the
night.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Father, Without Bitterness, Tells Of Young
Bible Students Wooing of Daughter
and Cooling Love on Honeymoon

} and this awful tragedy.
Hollywood had nothing to do
with their romance, or this
tragedy. They were just a
couple of good kids who fell in
love and were determined to get
married"
LOVE COOLED
That the youthful love OF Stein
metz and his bride had cooled be,
fore they had been married 70
hours, was apparent from a letter
Mr.. Armstrong received a few days
ago, mailed from Yuma, Ariz. The
bride wrote that her marriage was
absolutely hopeless, and added,
II think Harry is tired of being a
married man by now, too."
Ruth also wrote her father from
Kansas City, enroute on her honey
moon. She referred to Steinmetz
as the Deacon" and also as my
keeper" declaring her husband
thought "he owns my soul, too.'
Father Not Bitter
Mr.. Armstrong was not bitter
against Steinmetz. He said:
81 don't know why he did it.
I just can't understand. Things
like this are beyond me-"
Students at the Bible Institute
from which the youth was ex
PEELED last spring revealed that al
first Steinmetz was "very studious
and serious" but that he later be
came concerned with move frivo
louS things"
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
To GET
BERLIN CASE
TODAY
Former CeIImate Says Suspect
Boosted Of Holding Up
Brewery in Capital

The Government rested its case
against John "Slim" Dunn ano
Sam Berlin, charged with partl-
cipating in the Heurich Brewery
holdup, today, and it was be-
lieved likely that the case would
be in the hands of the jury before
night.
The defense will attempt to
batter down the story told by
Arthur Misunas, tri-state gang
ster, who turned states evidence,
and may seek also to prove an
alibi.
The last witness called by the
Government was Russell V. Ed
wards. convict, now serving a
four-year term in the Baltimore
city Jail.
Edwards testified that he and
Berlin were cell-mates in the Bal
timore Jail last June. Berlin, he
said, boasted to him OF the
Heurich job and a bank robbery,
and stated that when he got
out of Jail he was going to start
his own gang and invited Ed
wards to join it.
Anthony j. Marr, manager OF
the keg department of the brew
cry, identified Dunn as the man
who covered him with gun dur
ing the holdup.
Detective Sergt. Floyd Truscott,
who was one of the officers to
break up the Tri-State gang, tes-
titled as to the arrest of the
suspects. Dunn was armed with
a pistol when he was arrested,
Mr.. TruScott said.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Sheriff Refuses
To Feed Striker

BRIDGEPORT, N. j., Nov. "
HN.SD. William H. O'Donnell'
At. grew steadily weaker today in
Cumberland county jail, where he
has been on a hunger strike since
November IA while county authorl-
ties remained undecl ID ed on
whether to attempt forcible feed
ing.
Gov. A. Harry Moore yesterday
recommended forcible nouriSh-
ment for O'Donnell, serving a six
months sentence on disorderly
conduct conviction growing out OF
a dairy strike last July, but Sheriff
William Brown indicated reluc'
tance to assume responsibility.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Smoker in Court
Draws a $40 Fine

The dignity of Police Court
must be upheld, opines Judge
John P. Mcmahon, and he en-
forced this today by imposing a
$40 fine on a youth who thought
lessly lighted a cigarette in the
courtroom.
George Delise, 16, of the 1900
block First st. N. w., the Of
fender, explained he had never
been in court before and apollo
gized. The judge, however, re-
fused to accept the apology,
asserting that someone must
teach YOU manners"
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Wife Enjioiined
From, Calling
Up Ford Co.

DETROIT, Nov. 27 GN.SO.
Mrs. Anna Wells was under in
junction today to refrain from
telephoning the Ford Motor
Company to complain about the
conduct of her husband Edgar,
a Ford employe.
Judge Arthur webs r
granted the Injunction on petit
tion of the husband, who is
seeking a divorce.
Mr.. Wells charges his wife is
"insanely Jealous" nags him,
insists that they live with her
parents and keeps calling up
Dearborn to share her troubles
with the Food company, there
by jeopardizing his position"
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Coffee Firm Head
Takes Own Life

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 GIN.
s. Ruben w. Hills, 7S, vice
president of the Hills Brothers
Coffee Company. ended his life in
the bathroom Of his home today
with a bullet from revolver,
police said. His body was found
by his nurse, M. L. Stephens. Rela-
tives said Mr.. Hills had suffered
from a bronchial ailment for a
long period of years.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Congress to Get
New Lottery Bill
Rv TuternationoI Nav. Servl

BY International News Service
The lottery issue will be back
in Congress again next winter.
Representative Edward Kenney
CDO of New Jersey who startled
staid members of Congress last
year by proposing a $1,000, 600, 900
lottery to aid veterans, announced
today that he will introduce a
new bill when Congress conveneS.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Harvard Students
Hunt Missing Drum

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. q
G.N.SO Harvard men began to
see blue today over the disappear
ance of the Harvard Bands bass
drum, stored in Lapham Field
House at New Haven before the
Yale Harvard football game, but
mysteriously m isSing yesterday
when Cambridge students called
for it. The drum is one of the
biggest of the kind in the country.
It stands six feet high and is
mounted on wheels.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Rages
In Rocky Region

DENVER, Nov. 81. Q.N.SO.
Snow covered most of the Rocky
Mountain region today, with tenn
peratureS ranging down to 20 de-
grees above zero. Dan r. Lauer.
SO, railroad brakeman, was killed
at WamSutter, Wyo., in a derail-
ment of several cars, said to have
been caused by binding snow.
Planes on the transcontinental
route through Cheyenne, Wyo,
were DELAYED by snoWstorms.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Lord Ashley
In Court Tomorrow

LONDON, Nov. 27 QNSO.
Lord Ashley's divorce suit, naming
Douglas Fairbanks, American film
star, as correspondent, today was
listed for hearing tomorrow.
Lady Ashley has indicated she
will not contest the action.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
FREE FOR DEPORTATION

TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 27 GIN.
SO.-The State Court of Pardons
today ordered the release of
George DobSon, serving a life
term for the murder of his wife
in 1922 in Camden county. His
parole is conditional on deporta-
tion tn Canada,
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Cloudy and Oeeasion0l light rain
today and tomOrrow.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-19
Bald Knob

Ed Friermuth's of GAINESVILLE
were Sunday guests of John Sher-
locks. III. o. McFerren, wife and
son Neal spent Sunday at w. w.
HOoper's, McCOnnelsville route
three. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Meier
rem were Sunday guests of Harold
McFerren's of Beckett. Herbert,
son Of John Ferguson of this vicin-
ity, was hurt pretty badly last Fri
day evening. While playing in the
dark he ran into Frank Lambert
and was thought to be hurt serious
ly, at the time. He is much better
at this writing. Jean Kapple of
GAINESVILLE and Hazel Olney of near
Beckett spent a few days last week
with Mildred Glines. Mrs. Carlos
Glines is on the sick list. She was
not able to resume her duties at the
sanatorium, Monday. Mrs. Miner
Moore and daughters Ruby and
Mrs. Chas. Hall were business Wis
itors at Beverly Monday. Roy Bur-
dine, Carlos Glines, Earl and Lloyd
Ellis have employment near Ches-
terhill.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-19
EARLE EvMAAND. MgR.
Phoao 9z8

THURSDAY and FRIDAY, July
19-20-James Gleason and Edna
May Oliver in Murder at the
Blackboard" A mystery thriller,
with a colorful amusement value
appealing to family type audiences.
Charlie Chase Comedy. And the
Max Baer-Primo Camera fight pic
lures. Eleven rounds.
SATURDAY, July 21-Paul NUM-,
Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks in Hi
Nellie" From the famous Liberty
Magazine story of the same title.
He made you hate him in "Scar-
face" made you weep for him in 81
Am a Fugitive" made you love him
in "The World Changes" now
here's the picture that proves he
can make you laugh as heartily as
you hated, loved and wept. Mu-
sical Novelty. Comedy.
SUNDAY and MONDAY, July %
23-Clarke Gable and Myrna 10y
in "Men In White" Radically diff
ferent from any of the recent series
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-19

Mr.. Carlton Henderson of Bristol
his sophomore work at Ohio State
University, left Monday for Zanes-
vile, where he will be connected
with the soil erosion control course,
which started Monday. 1t will be
under the direction of the Zanes-
vile soil erosion office. The course
is for those who have had college
work, and will continue about ten
weeks. 1t deals with soil erosion
control. Mr.. Henderson, along with
the other men to take the course,
has been selected on his training
and ability, and on recommendation
of college instructors.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-19

of hospital pictures. Pictures like
''Men In White" don't come along
every day. Something out of the or
binary. Musical Novelty. News.
Cartoon.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
July 24-25-Ken Maynard in
wheels of Destiny" Sixth chapter
of ''Perils of Pauline" And John
Barrymore, Carole Lombard in
"20th Century" A mad, fast, joy
Gus whirlwind comedy.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, July
26-27-The wonder show of the
century Kay Francis, Dick Powell,
AL Jolson, Hal Leroy, Guy Kibbee,
Hugh Herbert in "Wonder Bar
Ten great stars, 900 girls, five
smash song hits. Everything you
like in entertainment
SATURDAY, July 2S-Slim Sum-
merville and Zasu Pitts in Love
Birds
SUNDAY and MONDAY. July 30
3O-John Boles and Gloria Stuart
in Beloved"