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Can,nninn Fund Cannon.

According to newspaper re-
ports the pouring-out grounds of
the enforcement officers in this
state send such ceaseless strea inns
of pop-skuli liquor draining Into
the creeks and rivers of this state
that even the fish are becoming
cockeyed and won't bite at any
thing less than 80 per cent cover
seas" And with all Of this de-
struction of the lively stuff the
price stands at 81 per gallon
while the Bookkeeping industry is
afflicted with tower production
1t is enough to make pot metal
bust of Sitting Bull rise and
sing, "Shall We Gather at the
River"
If | could be assured of the
solid vote of the bootleg legion
and the wet-drinking drys
would immediately announce my
candidacy for the governorship
with the certainty of election by
majority running into six fig
urcs. Instead it looks as if shall
have to vote for a candidate for
the legislature who is so dry that
were he to learn that John Bar
leycorn was actually dead be
would dissolve in lachrymal brine
Z. w. EWBANK.
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Scratching Each Others Backs
Bv WICKES WAMBOLDT

within the states that will inter-
fere with anybody's doing busi-
ness anywhere he wants to.
We should not have tariffs in
the guise Of special licenses and
other restrictions set up between
our states and our various COM
munities. We should not sock a
fellow from some other town who
wants to come to our town and
do business: if we do, then we
can expect his town to sock us if
we try to get there and do bust
ness, For instance:
Some merchants in our city
raise sand because great truck
loads of cheap oranges come up
from Florida. These merchants
wants those truckers taxed heav-
lily SO as to discourage them from
coming or to make them raise
their prices. That policy is not
good sense for the merchant him
self; it certainly is not good med
icine for the public that needs
orange Juice and needs it cheap
it is not good for the Florida or
ange grower whose fruit will not
if he has not quick and easy dis
GTibution Of 1t: it is not good for
Che trucker who wants to make
an honest dollar hauling and dis
trihuting oranges. 1t NAV seem
to work against merchants who
sell oranges in our citv, but in
reality It does not. For these
cheap oranges which flow into
our city but a short time each
winter, teach our people to eat
oranges; and thew keep right on
eating oranges the rest of the
year, buying them from the local
merchants when the orange
truckers are not operating.
Everybody, whether he realizes
it or not, benefits by the general
welfare of the public. Anyhow,
our slogan should be, "the great
est good to the greatest number"
If the laws OF our city are I'M
friendly to Florida's oranges, then
Florida can logically be expected
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come to our city and go INTO the
same kind of business. The law
meant class legislation; 1t te1Ided
to set up a monopoly; it was de-
signed to create a benefit for a
small group.
Fundamentally any law that is
not for the benefit Of the whole
people is o questionable law. Per-
sonally, / en- instinctivelv op-
posed to any law that somebody
comes to us with and asks us to
pass. It usually means that some
body or some group OF some
bodies is trying to take advan-
tagc of somebody or some group
Of somebodics. But that is not
the point l set out to make IN
this article. The idea | desire to
emphasize is this: We should
consider ourselves nation of
PEOPLE who ere living here on
this continent together, working
together. trying to help one an
other, and who are giving as
well as taking. We should not
regard ourselves as a collection
of independent isolated communl-
ties, each standing with its horns
pointed in all directions toward
other communities. We should
not erect barriers between our
states or between communities
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BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WNSLI- -IIN,lIGTON,!

TWENTY-ONE members Of tn,
l. Canadian Legion at Stratford
Ont, stood before the British En-
pirc flag and picture of Kine
George to give up their Victor,
war medals so the StratfOrd post
might send them to finance min
listers of q nations which tool
part in the World War.
The medals were sent witt
message which said: TODAY
nationalism fiourishcs, greed is
rampant, ornaments menace
our homes, and war impcnds.
The fruits of our victory have
vanished the Victory med
ais, now empty cmblcms in de-
feat, we surrender, one to each
cOmbatant nation, to be melted
down in metal and swallowed
with aII other rewards of armed
conflict i'm payment of the war
costs of the world"
One medal came to the Treas
ury here. Secretary Morgentha'
returned it, approaching 9TH
high-minded purpose" but dc
claring himself without authorit
to use the medal in the name
suggested.
THE New Deal has lost plcnt
L. of steam, if you can belieV
what certain administrator
henchmen in Congress are tcllin
their colleagues.
They spread word that
Roosevelt is willing to lei
Congress go home after it pass
cs the tariff, taxation, ana
stock market bills. And that
he won't insist on the Wagner
unemployment insurance bill,
the Wagner labor board bill, or
the modified pure food and
drugs bill.
This report takes the heart on
of New Dealers interested in tn
social phases of the Roosevelt
program. -.,,
] downright. 1894. NEA Service. Inc.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEk Service staff Correspondent

~
WASHINGTON. - The airmail
w mess has dampened the en-
thusiasm here for cancellation OF
ocean mail contracts.
Senator Hugo l.. Black Will
soon resume his investigator IN
to ocean mail, but the resump-
ton is overdue. One reason Tor
delay is believed to be that VIM
cent Aston, power in the Inter
national Mercantile Marine and a
probable witness, is busy enter
tanning President Roosevelt Oh
his yacht down south.
Black has favored cancellation
of ocean mail contracts. Evl-
dence indicates more collision in
their negotiations than was
proved in the case of airmail.
But it's doubtful whether the
administration will act as boldly
against steamship companies as it
did against aviation concerns.
Forty-One ocean mail contracts
involve payments of $336.OOO,O0O
over 10-year period. About
S14O,OOO.OOO has been paid, as
compared with only 100000
to air lines.
INSIDERS now believe the peak
J. of federal public works con-
struction will be reached in Sep
tember-not in June or July, as
commonly predicted.
Less than $4O0,000.O0O oil
PWA's $3,30O,OOO,OOO has beer
paid out, though the budget esti
mate called for $1,677,000,000 b.
July.
Realists in closest touch with
the National Emergency Councils
plans for a big housing drive
think the measure of the efforts
success may depend on tht
amount of PWA money allocatet
to it.
Some PWA funds are assured
but most Of the money is to come
from local lending agencies. t
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to set up laws unfriendly to our
potatoes and apnles and other
commodities which we need to
distribute and which others need
to receive.
We can not have our cake and
eat it, and eat the other fellows
too.
On the policy Of eliminating
outside competition, if taxicab
company OPERATING in a commun-
lty that annually has rush sea-
son Of, let us say, three months,
had enough cabs to meet the de-
mands of the rush season, it
would be obliged to maintain o
large number of those cabs in
iUleness during the slack season.
mat would mean a heavy ex-
pense which would have to be
passed on to the public in taxi
Gao IareS. A sounder plan would
re TO allow taxicab companies in
locahtles where business is tenn
porarlly dull to shift some of
lIelr uneeded cabs to localities
Where the business is temporarily
l heavier than the local taxis could
There should be recinrocal
trade in everything throuphont
the United States. A sincere an
plication of that policy would
tend to keep the entire co mnt,
prosperous and to serve the rub,
lie, economically. WV pun
II we vii but refuse to be mar
row, selfish citizens of orr own ur
individual communities on5 WI WI
insist on being broad, nneolf Gl.
citizens of the United States . ,sd
realize that we must not be ar" NV
dependent entities but an in+o OH
dependent whole, we shall have
adopted a principle that Vii
make for the welfare. and tha
satisfaction of our entire nation
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EDNEYVILLE

EDNEYVILLE, Apr. 13.--Mrs.
w. C. LYDIA, age y years, died
last Saturday morning after an
illness of several days with pneu-
monia. She was a member Of the
Edneyville Methodist church. Flu
neral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon by Revs. Nc
Clamrock, Corn and Guice. Her
body was laid to rest in Edney-
vile cemetery.
A large crowd attended the flu
neral of Rev. Jesse Edney at the
Coston cemetery Wednesday aft
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Colds That Han,

Don't let them get 4 .,,,,..
Fight germs quickly. CreSr-j;,,
bincs I major help: in o.. },
but harmless. Pleasan, 10 nj. !
cotics. Your own drugsi,, !. =,
to refund yOuT money on i.
your cornl or cold !: M -
Crc0m"l i'm.
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To Editor of The Times-News:
Last week a preacher in Bun
combe walked up ard delivered to
his congregation q sermon full Of
real wisdom in the matter of pro-
hihition. He stated that the night
before the Asheville Jail housed
SIS DRINKS for the weekend. He
stressed the fact that coercion
was not getting us anywhere
that we had to get back to a pro-,
gram Of moral regeneration, edu-
cation, precept and example if
we are going to get anywhere IN
dealing with the liquor problem.
The next day the Times-News
published a list Of bootleg GUS,
toners who had paraded before
Mayor Edwards on the charge of
being drunk and disorderly'
that would make the roll Of con-
veits at q negro camp meeting
look like the list of survivors of
a lost cause. The next day
bunch of the brethren of Baccue
foregathered in i garage on King
street, loaded themselves with
mixture Of fusil oil and alcohol
and started a clinic in plastic
surgery that left one man look
ing like 8 facsimile of the hi
eroglyphics on the tomb of Tu- !
tankhamen when he was finally !
sewed up and another looked as I
if he had been smitten on both |
cheeks by the business end of
Sarcho Pan2a's ass! One Of the !
assembled guests was "colored !
gentleman" and he was said to
be tho expert in pulchritudinal /
alterations while no one knows
who wrought the commissioned
charges on the face of the smit-
ten victim. Finally in mutual, I!
wcll-besceming ranks they were
parsdod before a magistrate and
"took the count" And so it goes.
Prohibition goes marching on in /
North Carolina while the authori-
ties in Virginia illuminate and /
illuminate and eliminate in full
minating because North Carolina
bootleg liquor is wrecking the |
market for legalized liquor in
that back-sliding state where An
hauscr Busch has supplanted |
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attorney GeDlS-
senting a special
interest.
That ordinance
provided for par
ticular consider
alton for q GER
tain class Of
business folk in
our city and was
intended to OPP
crate a g a i n S t
anybody Fl o n
gu t S i d e who
might wish to
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TIL! curious little water ouze builds It's nest III W
r. waterfall so that the mist vii! keep the moss heS ~
green and fresh. NGt on doe. the bird walk III "e V
stream. but it actually flies through the WatCf'
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LETTERS To
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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The other day our city council
sensibly turned thumbs down on
an ordinance that had been
brought to us for passage by an
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-07
TO BRING MRS. TOUHY
TO NORTH CAROLINA

ASHEVILLE, April Mrs.
Jessie Toughy, wife of Tommy
Toughy. notorious Chicago gang
leader, waived examination yes
terday in Chicago and will be
brought here soon for trial on
two counts growing out of the
100000 mail truck robbery in
Charlotte last November, accord
ing to advices received here.
District Attorney Marcus En-
win, of Asheville, was quoted as
saying at federal court in Char
lotte Wednesday, when Isaac
Costner was sentenced to 80
years in prison upon conviction
in the mail holdup. that he had
requested Mrs. Toughy and Basil
Bankhart, two or the six gang
sters indicted for the holdup. be
brought here soon for trial.
Mr.. Erwin said last night that
the woman, who is charged with
receiving stolen goods and with
conspiring with the actual hold
up men, and possibly Banghart,
who is held in Chicago under a
99-year sentence for the kidnap-
ing of John "Jake the Barber
i, Factor there, would be tried at
, the criminal term Of the federal
| court which opens here May Ia:
The Chicago dispatch stated
that Banghart also is expected
t.. be sent here for trial. He,
Costner, Charles Corners and
Ludwig Schmidt are charged with
staging the holdup. Mae Bla-
lock, Banghart's sweetheart, is
charged as an accomplice and
DR.. Leo Brandenburg, of Ruth
erford, N. j., is charged with at
tempting to pass $4,000 of the
loot, approximately $4,000 of
which is still unaccounted for.
Connors is dead, the victim Of
gangdom ire: and Schmidt has
not been arrested. Costner re-
ceived sentence for participation
in the holdup, this week. DR..
Brandenburg is held and will be
tried by federal court in New
Jersey. Since the Blalock wom-
an has been allowed to return to
her home in Knoxville, as all ex-
pectant mother, it is uncertain
when she will be tried.
An aftermath of the centen-
ton Of Costner's attorneys when
his sentence was pronounced at
the Charlotte trial, was evident
here yesterday morning when H.
M. Atkinson, Knoxville, Tenn,
attorney of the gangster, con-
ferred with District Attorney Err
win on data for an appeal from
the sentence.
Mr.. Erwin said that Atkinson
was gathering material for an
appeal to the circuit court of
appeals. and left here for Shelby
to see Federal Judge E. Yates
Webb of the Western North
Carolina court. about arranging
bond for Costner. He is to pre-
sent that matter to the court
today.
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INCOME TAXES
May Be RAISED
Move Under Way In Con-
gress To Increase These
By 10 Percent

WASHINGTON, April 7. CUP)
Administration leaders in the
senate said last night they would
accent an amendment to the
pending tax bill calling for
flat 10 per cent increase for one
wear in all income tax returns.
Under this plan a person now
having 500 income tax would
Adoption of this proposal and
q compromise agreement Whlch
would increase sharply the In IN,
heritance and estate tax VIII
raise the total amount Of re-
venue expected to be OBTAINED
bv the bill to approximately
S475, 100000, it was estimated:
Senator James Couzens, H.
Mich. one of the wealthiest men
in the nation and leader IN the
"soak-the-rich" movement on the
floor Thursday is expected to
offer the amendment proposing
an emergency 10 per cent tax
ranvnant increase on Monday
ryben the senate meets again to
consider the tax bill. The mea-
Snre was sidetracked late yestcr-
dav to allow immediate action
on the legislative appropriation
VI Chairman Pat Harrison, D.,
Miss in the senate finance COM
mittee said he expected final
action on the measure early next
week. In announcing that his
committee would accept the
Couzens amendment when offer
ed Harrison said:
"There is nothing radical
about this. 1t has been done
before in an emergency"
He explained the Couzens pro-
posal would not change the basic
normal income tax rate of q
per cent as was recommended in
the amendment offered by Sen
ator Robert NJ. LaFollette, K.
Wis, and defeated yesterday.
Tax experts said the propose
would net the treasury an add
tional $55,OOO,O00 for 1884 taxes
payable in 1885. Taxes from IN
creased Inheritance and estate
levies will total approximately
| S92,000,000, making an aggre'
gate of $147,O00,000 in new re-
venues expected from the two
amendments. The original sen
ate revision of the house OIL
Continued on page three)
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Ed PATTON IS
GIVEN JOB in
BEVERAGE UNIT
Will Head Alcoholic Law
Enforcers In The Two
Carolinas ,

WASHINGTON, April THE
six-month battle to Gust James
Clifton, Jr., as agent in charge
of the Charlotte office of the
Carolinas' region of the alcoholic
beverage and law enforcement
unit of the treasury department
came to a successful tremina-
ton yesterday for Senators Bal
ley and Reynolds. Clifton is to
lose his job in Charlotte some
time next week. He will be sue
ceeded by T. Ed Patton, of Bre-
ward, former Democratic sheriff
of Pennsylvania county.
The office will remain in
Charlotte.
Nollie Robinson, of Aiken, has
been appointed assistant agent
and Herbert Gulley. of Raleigh,
chief inspector.
The disposition of Clifton,
listed in Democratic councils as
a Republican hold-over, but with
the law enforcement division of
the department of Justice as "a
good officer" has not been an.
announced, but it is expected
that he will be shifted to some
place where he will not be under
fire of Democratic sharpshoot-
ers.
Clifton is also a former sher-
iff of Pennsylvania county and
was previously in charge of pro-
hibition forces in South Caro-
lima.
Joe Lawrence, trouble-shooter
and general field man for the
beverage unit, and former assist
ant to the attorney general. who
has ironed out the situation in
the Carolinas, Friday notified
Senator Bailey of the charge:
The move yesterday fixes
everything up in perfect order
for all concerned from politi-
cal standpoint and kilograms
were today sent to Patton to
get ready to get on the job. The
position pays $4,000 per annum,
though that has not been definl-
tely determined, and under the
new set-up it may be jumped to
$4,000 since the unit is now un-
der the commissioner of internal
revenue of the treasury depart
ment.
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auto STRUCK
BY TRAIN HERE
Mrs. Constant, Of Upward,
Most Seriously Hurt,
Is In Hospital

Mrs. Mary Constant. "a, OF
Upward, was treated at the Pat
ton Memorial hospital this after
noon after car in which she
was riding with several other
people was hit by a Southern
combination train at the crossing
on the Spartanburg road just
outside the city. L.,
It was not thought that her
injuries were serious, but tney y
were painful. About elght
stitches were taken to close
wounds on the head and ABOUT
the face. ,.o.;,,
The train was the combination
freight and passenger Tram
operated between here and Bre-
ward and at the time of the COLI
sion was proceeding to BreVard.
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Many Sign AT Edneyville ;
Dana Conference Set
Tuesday night

A second meeting will be held
in the county next week to secure
the cooperation of those farmers
who would like to sign up for
the production of produce to be
shipped out of the county. The
meeting will be held at Dana, and
follows that of Wednesday night
of this week when J. C. Bennett,
agricultural agent for the Sea,
board Railway met between 6O
and 70 residents of the Edney-
Vile section at the Edneyvllle,
school who, among them, signed
up for the production of so acres
of crops, the produce from which
will be shipped.
E. T. Frisbie, vocational IN
structor at Edneyville and Dana
high schools made this announce
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j. s. COMBINED
FLEET SAILING
EAST SUNDAY
Is Coming To Atlantic Sea-
board As Pacific War
Clouds Lift
BY CARROLL KENTWORTHY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 7. (UP)
War clouds in the Pacific faded
today as the combined United
States fleet, lying off California,
gathered steam to return to the
Atlantic after an absence of more
than two years.
For the first time since the
outbreak of hostilities in Man
churia in 1881, the vista of tran
guilty in the Pacific basin ex-
tended almost as wide as the
ocean itself. This left Central
Europe the only immediate poten-
tial source of new war danger
visible in the world prospect, ac-
cording to high circles here.
Minor causes of irritation re-
naming between Japan and the
Soviet Union do not alter the
general view almost universally
expressed in high quarters that
no serious trouble may be expect
ed in the Orient in the measure
bic future.
Even as regards Central Eu-
rope, where the racial and polltl-
Continued on page three)
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COURT BALKS
NRAPAY PLAN
Restraints Payment Of Mine
Wage Under Order Of
Administration

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 7.
(UP)-Federal Judge c. B. Ken
manner yesterday granted Alaba-
ma coal mine operators a temper
airy injunction restraining Jim
C. Smith, district attorney and
NRA enforcement officer, from
enforcing the nationwide mine
wage increase ordered by the re-
covery administration.
In presenting their petition,
the operators contended the $3.50
a day minimum wage set by the
NRA was "confiscatory and dis
criminating." The increase
amounted to $1.20 a day above
the present salary rate.
Alabama mines have been clos
ed, rendering idle $4,000 miners
pending action on the operators
protests.
Attorneys representing forty
four operators told Judge Ken
manner that the shutdown will
have "a whitening effect upon
public confidence and all good
which has resulted thus far from
the recovery program will be de-
stroyed" unless the order was
countermanded.
Forney Johnston and Borden
Burr were attorneys for the
operators. Both frequently argu-
ed that the wage increase order
ed by Gen. Hugh Johnson would
have the result of confiscating
property.
Continued on page 81.
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Writ ACCEPTS
SUMMONS FOR
QUIZ IN PLOT
Representative Cannon Of
Wisconsin Attacks Pro-
posed Hearing

GARY, Ind, April 7.-(UP)-
DR.. William A. Writ announced
yesterday that he hes accepted an
order to appear before congress
sional committee in Washington
next Tuesday to explain his
charges that intellectual radicals
have plotted a revolution.
DR.. Writ, the Gary educator
whose charges caused a furore
throughout the nation, telegraph
ed Chairman Bulwinkle of the
special congressional committee
as follows:
accept telegram of April 5 as
service of subpoena for hearing
as witness before special commit
tee of the house of representa-
tives. Will be present at commit
tee room 10 a. m. April TO-"
Before sending the telegram,
Writ conferred with attorneys in
Chicago. Some doubt previously
had been expressed over whether
he would go to the hearing or re-
fuse to go unless sent for by con-
greSS.