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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
NRA SUCCESS
TODEPEND ON
STATES UNITS
Johnson Says Their Future
Course To Make Or
Break Recovery
NEW BLUE EAGLES TO
BE DISPLAYED SOON

WASHINGTON. Feb. l. (UP)
The success or failure of the re-
covery program depends upon the
state organizations being built up
under the. National Emergency
Council Recovery Administrators
Hugh S. Johnson told the az state
directors at their first conference
Wednesday.
The organization stage Of in
dustrial recovery is almost at al
end, and now the problem is one
of administration and enforce
ment, Johnson said. So far, ne
conceded, lack of an efficient field
organization has prevented real
enforcement and compliance has
Jagged behind the rest of the pro-
gram. He placed squarely before
the state directors responsibility
for remedying the situation. ,
Protection of consumers and
proper administration of labor
provisions of codes are the two
big problems, he said.
Enforcement and administra-
ton of codes in the field will make
or break the NRA program" he
said. 81 may even go so far as
to say that it will make or break
the entire recovery program"
The 48 state directors are ex-
pected not only to supervise NRA
code enforcement but also to CO.
ordinate all phases of the recoS-
cry program and make the vary
ing activities of all recovery
agencies fit smoothly into each
other in their territories. The
heads of all recovery agencies
viii address the state directors at
their three day meeting here. ex-
planning in detail the function OF
each group and offering advice
70 c6ordinating their activities. :
The state directors are meeting
chiefly in executive session.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
Saluda' S Cagers
Will Play Here

The Hendersonville high boys
and girls basketball teams will
meet the Salula high teams on
the floor of the city gymnasium
on Friday evening, the first
game at 1880 o'clock.
The Saluda teams are both
strong outfits and close games
are expected. The local boys
have played several games this
season. but tomorrow will mark
the first appearance of the local
girls team.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
BALL0ONISTS'.
RECORDS Lost
Nothing Tangible Remains
OF 1919 Mile Trip In
Shakespeare
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD
United Press Staff Correspondent,

MOSCOW. Feb. 1.-(UP).-
The nation today mourned the
deaths of three daring Soviet sci
entists whose record-breaking as
cent into the stratosphere ended
in a crash at dusk Tuesday near
tiny village east Of Moscow.
Their crushed gondola was dis
covered on the outskirts of the
village of Potiiski Ostorg. The
huge bag of the balloon broke
from the ball and bounded away
as the ship struck the earth and
burst into flames. ..
The balloonists who radioed ia
earth Tuesday that they had as
cended higher than any other hu'
man beings. were Paul Fedossen'
ko, pilot and in command of the
fatal ascent; Andrew Vasenko
engineer who supervised construc.
ton of the balloon, called the Sy.
RUS; and lila Usiskin, brilliant
young physicist who made the
stratosphere scientific observa.
tions during their brief fight to-
ward the sun.
The. balloon crashed between
$3.50 p. m. and 5 p. m. Tuesday,
according to the official Soviet
announcement. Witnesses report
ed there were two explosions as
the gondola hit the earth.
The bodies. were mutilated be-
You'd recognition. The precious
facts gathered in the flight were
destroyed and the delicate instru-
ments ruined.
The balloon started it's fight
into the stratosphere at 9:15 a.
m. Tuesday, without previous an
nouncement. 1t moved swiftly
into the forbidding grey skies
from a military air field outside
Moscow. The field radio operator
kept in constant touch with them
until 3:08 p. M, when the last
message picked up from the bal
loon said they were starting to
The fiiers had claimed q worlds
record of 67,568 feet. or. 1878
miles, although whether it can be
allowed now was conjectural. the
instruments having been destroy
ed and there being no opportunity
to calibrate them. The balloon
had a gas capacity of $4,000 cubic
meters. 1t was built at Leningrad.
An official commission left to
start an investigation, but doubt
was expressed by experts that
anything could be learned from
the demolished gondola or its
equipment.
Word of the crash reached
Moscow during the night, but OF.
fetal confirmation was withheld
until the announcement could be
made formally before the Conn.,
rnunist party congress in Moscow.
The delegates rose in respect for
the dead heroes when the news
was. conveyed to the session.
The delegates voted unanimous
ly to bury the three scientists in
the wall of the grim old Kremlin
"a rare honor in Soviet Russia
for these young men who, like
Icarus of the; Greek myths. flew
too near to the sun. and crashed
to their deaths.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
2 HELD ON CHARGES
OF CONTRIBUTING

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. j.
lUP)-Two alleged counterfeit
tiers were arrested here yestsr-
day attempting to pass bogus
500 bills, and were identified by
Two young moonshiners who sold
them two ten-gailon kegs of
whisky and received counterfeit
money in payment.
The suspects gave their names
as Elton P. White, Alias Smith,
"a, Of Monmouth Springs, Ark,
and Ralph Dodd, 2S, of this city.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
Spiritual Revival
OF World Asked

PARIS, Feb. L. (UP). = A
plea by Pope Plus for a world,
wide spiritual revival to avoid
Armageddon is contained in a
dispatch from the Rome CORE
spondent of the newspaper Intran-
sigeant today.
The correspondent said the
Pope in an interview denounced
hypernationalism, with its empha-
sis on materialism, sex in educa.
ton, and the military training OF
youth in the guise of athletics.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
BY c. c. NIcoLET
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. /. (UP)
President Roosevelt establish
ed a 59.06 cent dollar yesterday
for j. the. announced purpose Of
expanding credit, stabilizing
prices and protecting this ma.
tion's foreign commerce.
By a stroke Of his pen at $40
p. m.,r the president reduced the
gold content Of the official dol
lar to is 5-21 grains, nine-tenths
fine. >. It was reduced from 25.8
grains set heretofore. by statute.
Thereby the treasury gained
profit of nearly $2,700, 000, 900
on. its gold holdings. From this
profit is automatically establish
ed q $4,000, 900, 900, fund for use
in controlling the dollars value
in international exchange and for
regulating the real palns Of the
dollar n terms Of commodities
at home. 2;s -
TIL e presidents proclamation
completed a long train Of events,
starting last March, which in
effect changes the entire none
tary foundation Of the nation
and which also goes far to estab-
lish a new financial set up in
the government. The. treasury,
and not the federal reserve sys-
tenn, now is the monetary heart
Of the nations financial organ
ism. -,
Starting probably at. once, the
treasury, through the stabilize
ton fund, will deal in gold and
foreign exchange and bonds as
may be deemed necessary.
A corps of foreign exchange
experts has been selected to ad.
wise the secretary Of the treas
ury in these operations. but the
names have not been announced.
The presidents own explana-
ton of his action, contained in
the proclamation signed by him
self and, like all proclamations,
by. the secretary of state, follows
in part:
dWhereas, I find, upon inves-
tigation, that. the foreign COM
merce of the United States ia
adversely affected by reason Of
the. depreciation in the value Of
the currencies Of. other govern
ments in relation to the present
standard value Of gold, and that
an economic emergency requires
an expansion Of credit: and,
"Whereas, I find, from my In
vestigation, that, In order to
stabilize domestic prices and to
protect the foreign commerce
against the adverse effect Of de-
preciated foreign eurrencies, It. Is
necessary to fix the weight of
the gold dollar at 1921 grains
nine tenths fine.
"Now, therefore, be It known
that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Of the United States.
by virtue Of the authority vested
in my be section AZ. title III Of
said act of May IL, 1888, as
amended, and by virtue OF all
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
SWAN CREEK MAN is
A CHAMPION EATER

ELhIN, Feb. l. (UP)-Ernest
Sturdlvant of Swan Creek won
gluttOn's title yesterday.
he bested all corners in a gorg-
ing contest by consuming %
large bananas, a tin of sardines
and several bottles of soft drinks
IN 10 minutes. Sturdivant pol
lsned off the feat by eating his
regular evening meal a few min
utes later.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
MRS. RUFUS ANDERS'
FUNERAL IS HELD

Funeral services for Mrs Rufus
Anders, age so, were held last
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the
Mud Creek church. The Rev. Carl
Blythe officiated. Mrs. Anders
had been i'll for about ten days.
Mrs. Anders is survived by her
husband. two daughters Mrs. HUI
bert Stepp and Miss Madeline An.
ders; three sons, Grover. General
and Rufus. Jr.; two sisters and
her father.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
ROOSEVELT ASKED FOR
DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. (UP).
Thu sanate today adopted a reso-
Int;or ealing on the president to
Snbri, a comprehensive plan for
,Ss national development of
American rivers to provide "the
1,sxinum amount" of flood con-
troI irrigation. and hydro-electric
nOHer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
VETERANS BENEFITS
ARE STILL DEBATED

WASHINGTON. Feb. l. (UP).
The senate appropriations CON-
mittee today reversed the sub
committee decision and took the
position that it would be within
senate rules to include veterans
legislation in the independent Of
fees appropriation bill.
The committee meets tomor-
row 10 decide whether to attach
the American Legion program for
the restoration of veterans bene-
fits &c the pending bill.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
RESERVE BANK.
system UNDER.
FIRE At QUIZ.
p,olessOr Fisher Says 1t
"WilI Do Well To Sur
yiye )" As Unit
cOLDSBOROUGH BILL
Is NOW BEING AIRED

WASHINGTON. Feb. l. (UPl.
I u Fisher. Yale economist
s sa~ye e'5 system and asserted that II
S y.iI be lucky If it escapes de- a
VIII viz. y[ " Fisher testified IN IA
81 SUI ~ Of a federal monetary au7,
to5 at the house banking and
S ,.,praGcy subcommittee hearing.
The authority proposed IN the
coidborough bill would have tne
sole power to issue circulating
currency. rl,u,1 Peserva
- ~ CONTINUES to lack system
s snS has been tried and found
wanting
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
GREER GIVES BOND IN
TRANSPORTING CASE

Arthur Greer, arrested by Dep
uty Charlie Morgan at Tuxedo last
Friday on a charge of transport
ing LIQUOR. was bound to county
recorders court on Monday after
noon by Magistrate W. P. Whit
mire under 5000 bond. He made
bond for his appearance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
INCREASE HOG TAX

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1. (UP(
The processing tax on slaught.
ering of live hogs was increased
last night from 81 to $3.50 per
hundredweight and will be fur
Their increased on March l to
$2.25 a hundredweight.
The processing tax finances
the agricultural adjustment ad.
ministration's $350,000,000 corn,
hog production adjustment pro-
gram.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
EHRlNGHAUS SPEAKS

DURHAM, Feb. 1.-CUP).-
Governor J. c. B. Ehringhaus
made two addresses here today,
Une at 80 p. m, before the XII
vans club on the states tax and
gscal situation. and at 2::3O at
ne North Carolina College for
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
WARCRAFT RECALLED

WASHINGTON, Feb. /. (UP).
c,n iae navy department today re-
S y5SsS the special destroyer force
MN w"..n mas been on duty in Cuban
n1'e's since September.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
MORCENTHAU
VIEW FOLLOWS
DEYALUATI0N
House Committee Votes
To Authorize Stabilize
ton Fund Aides
DOLLAR PEGGED AT
59.O6 PCT. OF VALUE

> WASHINGTON, Feb. I. (UP).
Pegging the dollar at 59.08 per
cent Of its former value estab-
fishes the United States on an in.
ternational gold bullion, standard,
Secretary Of Treasury Morgen-
thau said today.
"The best way to describe the
system is 1884 model gold bull
lion standard. It Is one that suits
our purpose" Morgenthau said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. /. (UP).
The house ways and means COM
mittee today voted unanimously
to authorize the appointment Of
ten experts to assist the secretary
of the treasury to administer the
two billion dollar sterilization
fund created by the gold bill.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

Ontario Manufacturing Co.,
declares a dividend of Is cents
snare on common stock
Sssinst previous IL IL cent
Payment.
Pennsylvania Railroad re-
ports carloadings last week
we're Sl,01S cars, against As
0IS cars in like 1893 week.
American Waterworks and
Electric Co., reports power out
put last week was 30, 957, 900
Si0"att hours, up Is per cent
from similar 1888 week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
SON is BORN

Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. James
Barnette of Kanuga road, Jan.
20 a son. He will bear the name
of James Harold II.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
jackson Passes
State Bar Test

RALEIGH. Feb. Jonathan
Williams Jackson of Henderson
vile and Alfred Llewellyn Mont
ford-Bebb of Arden were among
the 20 applicants for admission to
the state bar to pass their exam
nations here. 1t was the first ex-
animation held under the board
of examiners of the lately incor-
porated state bar association.
Sixty-fouf entered the examl..
nations and the percentage OF
failures was said to be the high
est on record for the state.
Young Mr.. Jackson plans TO
open law office and practice IN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
WEATHER

sruS,lv warmer tonight; fair
and colder Friday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
GooD AFTERNOON

'S Circus owiGsrs locking for new
talent this spring esgkt to end
several good jugslers In the treas.
ury department at Washington.
Evening star., 1934-09-11

ahead will determine the fate of the
Nazi state. If the German people
can be tided over the Winter of eco
nomic and financial woe that def
nitely confronts them, Hitlerism may
be granted an extended lease of life.
The nation is being exhorted to steel
itself manfully against the privations
that are in sight. Its ability to do
so will be the supreme test of its
willingness to endure indefinitely the
harsh conditions of life, political and
otherwise, that the National Socialist
autocracy has brought about-tyranny
at home and isolation and mistrust
abroad
Should starvation stalk through the
Teuton land at the turn of the year
and German industry find itself
paralyzed by inability to obtain in
dispensable raw material supplies from
outside, state of affairs will come
about which all the he'll -Hitlering,"
swastika waving and Goebbels propa-
ganda in the world cannot blink out
of existence. How long the Nazi
dream would last under such provo
cations is a question that is surely
giving the Fuehrer and his idolatrous
cohorts furiously to think even in
the midst of the frenzied hero wor-
ship in which they now have their
more or less placid being.
Evening star., 1934-09-11
Hitler Ueber Allies.

Spectacular Nazi week at Nurem-
berg came to its fervid end on Mon
day without having produced sensa-
tional developments in any direction.
Notable among the things that did
not happen, though it was widely ex-
pected, was an announcement of Herr
Hitler's plans for a possible division
of authority in the future rulership
of the Reich. The fact that no dis
closures on this score were forthcom-
ing would indicate that the Fuehrer
intends to continue his dictatorship
as purely one-man show. The lead
er-chancellor has obviously persuaded
himself that his personal power, for
the time being at least, is unchal-
lengeable. 1t doubtless is, as long as
the Reichswehr and its bayonets are
loyal to his cause.
The mighty mass demonstration of
devotion which seven days of organ
lied enthusiasm at Nuremberg brought
forth was, of course, well designed
to fortify Hitler in the belief of his
invincibility. Last night, in a closing
address to q vast multitude of his
supporters, he contended that while
the Nazi regime is a minority govern
ment, it has an overwht Inning major
ity of the German people behind it.
On the face of the returns at the re-
cent plebiscite, Hitler is amply justi-
fed in making such a claim, for he
was sustained by roundly a ten-to-one
vote. Whether he is on as secure
ground as he vociferated at Nurem-
berg, in clustering that Nazi-ism is
safe for "a thousand years." and
that for millennium it is proof
against any revolution that could pos
Sibly overthrow it-that is a horse of
| another color. even though ruthless
suppression of opposition is to con-
tinue.
Many impartial observers believe
that the months that lie immediately
Evening star., 1934-09-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII.ANDER JOHNSON.
Reflections Of a "Rooter."

Reflections Of a "Rooter."
When a man makes a hit It's the sum-
init of JOY
To sit on the bleachers and yell.
The veteran gray and the freckle-
faced boy
Find pleasure that tongue cannot
tell
In watching those others that
meet In the fray.
Let them strive as they may to
hold foemen at bay,
The highest and truest enjoyment,
they say,
Is to sit on the bleachers and yell.
The man who is earnestly striving in
life
Doesn't sit on the bleachers and yell.
It's the man who is merely overseeing
the strife
Who is laughing and dining so we'll.
Full often it seems at the close of
the game,
When victors and vanquished are
weary and lame,
That the luckiest man was con-
tent, without fame,
To sit on the bleachers and yell.
Evening star., 1934-09-11

that much less money to spend on
improved equipment and other an
ticipated expenses for the betterment
of street car service to the public
under merged operation. 1t also
means that $s43,o00 is added to the
new company's investment, on which
it will expect a reasonable rate of
return. That, Of course, is the prin-
cipal argument for high fares.
The Public Utilities Commission will
therefore examine the deal through
a microscope, to find whether such
a transaction represents good money
paid for value received; to determine
whether the street car riding public
is to pay, in one way or another,
for an investment of questionable
wisdom made by the North American
Co. back in 1925, and, above all, to
determine whether such payment, in
directly made by the street car riding
public, will prevent this publM from
realizing in full some of the prom
ised benefits that were to result from
merged operation Of the lines.
Evening star., 1934-09-11
Present Day Movies are Teaching
Chinese the Art of Oscillation

Wilbur Burton in Asia Magazine.
In old China 1t was highly Of
fensive for a woman so much as to
touch the hand of any man not her
husband, and for her to touch even
her husbands hand in public was
forbidden. In young China, when
unmarried couples began to associate
in public in the western manner, they
scrupulously observed the taboo
against even the slightest physical
contact; today, however, it is very
common in Shanghai to see Chinese
couples, eager to initiate screen heroes
and heroines, walking along the street
hand in hand or with their arms
around each other, and 'petting" in
the parks is not unknown.
Another once unsanctioned famil-
iarity between men and women is
kissing. The kiss is by no means un-
known in the East, but it never has
been so extensively nor so casually in
dulged in as in the West. No longer
than 10 years ago kiss in public was
more shocking to the Chinese than
nudiSm probably still is to most Amer
leans. Early Chinese motion pictures
contained no kissing scenes; such a
display in public in Western motion
pictures was enough of sensation
without any defiance of the national
code by Chinese actors and actresses
In 1926, however, Olive Young, an
American-born Chinese cinema star,
ventured kiss that was shown only
in silhouette through a semi-trans-
Evening star., 1934-09-11

parent screen. Chinese audiences
gasped when they saw it even as
Victorian audiences did at first hear
ing the word bloody" from the stage.
Today, however, kissing is almost as
popular with young China as with
young America, though it still is not
INDUCED in SO publicly as in Paris.
Only within the past two years
the cinema has markedly altered
sexual attitudes in yet another way.
Somewhat earlier, when Chinese girls
first began to choose their own hus-
bands and their friends among young
men, they displayed quite different
taste from that of Western girls.
Athletes, ''cave men" and similar types
were viewed with disfavor, and hsiao
pal mien, or little white face"-some-
thing, in brief, like Mel Lan-fang, the
female mpersonator-was the ideal.
So, because modern young men
wanted modern girls and modern girls
were few in proportion to the num-
Der of modern young men, the youths
sought to conform to the feminine
standards. When a foreign teacher
once asked number of his students
on beach near Shanghai why they
avoided the sun they answered
frankly, IF we get sunburned, the
girls won't go out with U.S." But men
of the vigorously masculine type that
are idoliZed by American cinema audi
ences are now coming to their own
in China,
Evening star., 1934-09-11
Puncturing a Sinclair Idea.
m the Providence Journal

From the Providence Journal.
Senator William G. McAdoo of CAL
ifornia neatly punctures one of Up
ton Sinclair's favorite schemes of So
cial reform.
Mr.. Sinclair has proposed to give
every three-year resident of California
who has reached the age of go a $50
a-month bounty. That sounds won
derful. And so it is-or so 1t would
be if it were practicable.
The ex-Secretary of the Treasury
points out that the scheme would
add $500, 100000 year to the Cali
fornia State budget, whereas the
largest such budget in the past has
been $219,000, 900. Thus the Sinclair
plan takes on an obvious aspect Of
unreality.
Again, as Mr.. McAdoo says, the set
ting up of a pension system of this
sort would cause an exodus of ST.
year-old aSpirants for aid from all
parts of the country to California, in
tent on securing a permanent free
living by the simple expedient of full
filling Mr.. Sinclair's three-year citi-
Zenship requirement.