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Evening star., 1934-10-26

Liquor Control Board by the State
Legislature at its extraordinary ses-
sion in 1888.
He denied the charge that the
county bond debt has been increased
to the point where it has had to bor-
row money to pay of the interest
charges on the bonds and asserted
that the bond refunding plan is the
same plan used by virtually every
Jurisdiction in the country to keep
the tax burden as light as possible
during these times of depression"
Prescott also attacked the Fusion
party for criticizing the participation
of county police in politics. He said
that the Fusionists themselves have
made campaign issue of the very
thing which they denounce by promis-
ing every police position in the county
to many people in return for their
political support.
The speaker, referring to the Fusion
party's platform in which it condemns
the creation of unnecessary jobs for
political purposes" challenged his op-
ponents to name the jobs which they
deem unnecessary. He said that every
position now held by a county employe
has been promised to Fusion sup
porters.
Property Charge Attacked.
He further charged the Fusion
party to name the property purchased
by the county which it did not con-
slider had been bought with proper
safeguards. He pointed out that the
new party's platform advocated the
Evening star., 1934-10-26

headed by Robert v. Fleming, presi-
dent Of Riggs National Bank Of this
city, has been given q new chairman,
Tom K. Smith of st. Louis, because
of the elevation Of Fleming to first
vice president, and election Of Smith
as second vice president.
Fleming will continue as a men,
ber of the committee. The name of
the group also was changed from the
Committee on Proposed Revision of
Banking Laws to the Committee on
Banking Studies.
Other members OF the committee
named by Hecht are as follows:
F. M. Law, Houston, Tex, vice
chairman; w. w. A1drich, New York;
L. A. Andrew, Mapleton, Iowa; Henry
Bruere, New York; M. P. Galloway,
Mem York; F. F. Florence, Dallas,
Evening star., 1934-10-26
FUSION ATTACKS
REVIVED AT RALLY
Montgomery County Admin.
istration Denounced by
Candidates.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Ocober 26.-At a
rally here last night, following a card
party sponsored by the Rockville Dis
trict Woman's Unit of the Fusion
party, the approximately 300 persons
present heard candidates for Office on
the Fusion ticket severely criticize and
condemn the administration of county
affairs by those now in power.
INSTRUMENTATION, extravaganza and
waste were charged against the regime
which has dominated Montgomery
County affairs for 16 years, the prices
paid for land for school and liquor
dispensary purposes, the tremendous
cost of maintaining the dispensary
system and operating other depart
ments coming in for special denuncia-
ton by Joseph A. Cantrel, candidate
for the House Of Delegates.
Costs Are Compared.
Cantrel declared that it costs from
three to nine times as much to main
tain the various departments Of Mont
gomery County as it does similar de-
partments of the adjoining counties of
Frederick and Prince Georges, and he
compared the cost of operating the
liquor dispensary system with those of
Wlcomico and Worcester Counties and
the State of Ohio, citing figures in
support of his contention of fragrant
extravaganza"
Other speakers included James Cum
ningham Rogers, candidate for the
House of Delegates, who stated that
he had agreed to become a candidate
on the Fusion ticket because he had
become sick and disguised" with the
conduct of county affairs and not be-
cause of the IS day a Maryland leg
islator receives. He stated that should
he be elected to the House of Dele
gates, his expenses would considerably
exceed the compensation he would re-
ceive.
Other Speakers Heard.
Walter w. Dawson, candidate for
States attorney; Thomas C. Kelley.
for Judge of the Orphans Court;
Leonard Burns, for sheriff, and Paul
Coughlan, for county commissioner,
also gave short talks. and Thomas D.
Darby, for register of wills; Harry C..
williams, for clerk of the Circuit
Court; William H. Burdette, for Judge
of the Orphans Court; William H.
Fulks and Charles E. King. for county
Commissioners; Ira C. Whitacre, for
county treasurer: Frank H. Karn, for
county commissioner, and Lawrence
Tolson, for the House the Delegates,
all of whom occupied seats on the
stage. were introduced, several speak
ing very briefly. Thomas NJ Ander-
son, chairman of the Fusion County
Committee, presided.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
DEMOCRATS J|BE
FUS|ON|ST FOES
.Takoma Rally Told Mont
gomery Records Show
No Extravaganza.
BY JACK ALLEN,
Sttff Correspondent Of The Star.

0VNA SOlA ACoPOliuCAb VI 4hC 0tuAs
TAKOMA PARK, Md, October 26.
Charges that the taxpayers of
Montgomery County have been de-
prived of $3,l34,125 in public i'm
provements for which bonds have
been issued were ridiculed by candi-
dates and leaoerS of the Democratic
party during the rally here last night.
The speakers also f1ayed the claim
made by the Fusion party that the
county dispensary system is being
operated at a loss and presented fig
ures purporting to show that the
dispenSaries have netted a profit of
approximately $95,000 for tax relief
purposes.
In addition. other campaign
charges made by the new political
group were vigorously attacked
States Attorney Stedman Prescott,
head of the Democratic forces in
Montgomery and candidate for State
Senator, scoffed at the charge made
by John OXley, the Fusion party
nominee for State Senator, that there
is shortage of $3,134,l25 between
the public Improvements carried out
by the Democratic organization since
it came into power in Montgomery
Is years ago and the amount of
construction bonds issued during
that time.
Road Figures Disputed.
He pointed out that Oxley, during a
speech at Silver Spring on Tuesday
night, said that he had obtained
figures which indicated the shortage.
One of the items, Prescott said, was a
fair estimate" of the average cost of
road construction work obtained by
Oxley from a "disinterested Frederick
firm" which placed the total cost of
county road construction during the
past is years at $2,407,000.
Competent engineers have in
Spected the Montgomery County roads
and estimated their value to be be-
tween $l3,O00,OO0 and $4,000, O,0OO,' -
Prescott stated. CONSTRUCTION of hard
surfaced roads cost about $4,000 a
mile and the cheapest type of roads
cost in the neighb0rhood of $4,000 a
mile. Mr.. Oxley's figures place the
cost of road building in this county
at an average of approximately $4,000
q mile.
There is no shortage of public i'm
provementS or public improvement
funds in this county. If any one had
anything substantial on which to base
a shortage charge, you can bet they
would have been before the grand
jury before this time"
The charge made by Oxley also was
flsyed by Miss Lavinia Engle, county
commissioner candidate, who declared
that the Fusion senatorial nominee
omitted an item of S2,926,000 in the
compilation of his figures. She said
that sum had been paid by the coun-
ty to the State Roads Commission for
county road d-building work and the
receipts are on hle.''
Firm Not Disinterested."
During her talk Miss Engle denied
that Oxley had obtained his road
construction figures from a "disinter-
ested Frederick firm and said that
the head of the firm which supplied
them was supporter of DR.. Charles
H. Conley, who vigorously opposed
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Tex: A. p. Giannini. San Francisco;
M. A. Graettinger. Chicago; Harry J.
Haas, Philadelphia; T. o. Hammond,
Helena, Mont; Beverly D. Harris,
Houston, Tex; p. D. Houston, Nash
vile, Tenn; j. M. Kemper, Kansas
City. Mo-: M. H. Malott, Abilene,
Kans.; J. c. McHannan, Cleveland.
Other Members Named.
William S. Miller, Chicago; Charles
H. Mylander, Columbus, Ohio; Max
B. Nahm, Bowling Green, KY; John
H. Puelicher, Milwaukee; Andrew
Price, Seattle; Thomas r. Preston,
Chattanooga, Tenn; Ronald Ransom,
Atlanta; E. F. Swinney, Kansas City,
Mo-; Thomas F. Wallace, Minneapolis;
F. o. Watts, st. Louis; Thomas H.
West, jr., Providence, r. l.; John G.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

establishment of proper safeguards
in the purchase of property by the
county"
In addition to Miss Engle and Pres
colt the meeting was addressed by
Judge Charles w. Woodward, candi-
date for Circuit Court judge; James H.
Pugh, nominee for States attorney;
Roger J. Whiteford, counsel to the
county commissioners; ]. Bond Smith,
president of the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club of Takoma Park, who
presided. The remaining candidates
on the Democratic slate were intro
duced.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

White, Richmond, Va; Evans Woollen.
Indianapolis; Charles r. Zimmerman,
Huntingdon, Pa, and John K. Ottley,
Birmingham, Ala.
While the convention adjourned yes
terday at the general session at the
National Theater, the Executive Coun-
Gil met yesterday afternoon, followed
by the Administrative Committee.
Today the program called for a golf
tournament at Columbia Country Club,
under auspices Of committee headed
by G. II. Pope.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

tCOnunueu FTOm F1fbC Page.D
bank, Hecht said the Bankers Asso-
ciation officially had taken no posi-
ton yet on the matter, but that the
general subject was being given close
consideration by the association COM
mittee on Banking Studies. Many
pending questions of vital Importance
to the banks will be scrutinized by
this large committee, Hecht said.
The committee, which formerly was
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Long and Short of Legion

"ItS tn e
Ion g a n d
short OF it,
buddy" said
Tommy Step
ems of CO.
lunbus, Ohio,
the smallest
man in the A.
E. F., to Wal
ter Spencer,
OF Fran k
fort, In d.,
one of the
talleSt, tDhen
they met in
Miami, Fla,
at the sir
teenth annual
convention of
the American
Legion.
A. P. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Completes Pipe Organ.

Joseph King has Just dedicated in
his home in London a pipe organ
which took him 40 years to build in
his spare time.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
BANKERS PLEDGE
FULL COOPERATION
FOR U. S. RECOVERY

Continued From First Page.)
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
Only Needy Will Remain On CWA Roll Here
DEAD IN INDIA EARTHQUAKE
MAY RISE TO 10000, AIR SURVEY
OF DISASTER REGION SHOWS
Famine and Disease Are
Again Threatening the
Survivors Today

CALCUTTA, India. Jan. IT,
(UP) Cities, villages and hill
stations over wide area of north
central India were devastated to-
day, their populations scattered
or seeking dead in the ruins Of
their homes. after an earthquake
that had reached the proportions
of major disaster.
Airplanes that surveyed the
quake area brought story Of a
country Frustrated. thousands of
its buildings crumbled. whole
towns under water, bodies lying
in streets. buried in ruins or float
ing down streams toward the sea.
Capt. Frederick Dalton, men,
Der of an air circus, who piloted
the first plane to penetrate the
area, said he believed the dead
must total between 5000 and
10000.
Threat of famine and disease,
age-old enemies of crowded India,
faced survivors who were still cut
off from ordinary communication.
The quake occurred at 2:3O p.
M. Monday. Many buildings here
were cracked. Large towns over
north central India whose COM
munications were not severed be
gan reporting damage and small
death lists. But it was not dream
ed that the devastation was so Sc
we're as Dalton reported.
Dalton reported that the town
of Muzafarpnre in northern Bihar,
an important trade center with a
population Of 49,750, was the CEN
ter OF the stricken zone there. For
100 miles around. he said. on the
fertile plain. dotted with man
grove trees and bamboos and rice
fields, with $40 persons living on
each square mile Of ground,
corpses were strewn and centerS
of population ruined. ,
"The streets were full OF
bodies" he said. Hundreds must
have been buried in debris. APP
parently the quake, ripping great
assures in the ground, sent water
squirting into the air until some
areas were flooded. Tops of some
houses were visible.
Three airplanes that flew over
north Bihar this morning confirm
ed Dalton's reports of terrible,
devastation. Their pilots reported
that the quake and floods seemed
almost to have wiped but a porI-
ton of the countryside. Floods
had ravaged whole districts. build
ings were destroyed railways and
over so railway bridges wrecked
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
By FREDERICK OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, Jan. II. - (UP). -
United States consular authori-
ties yesterday made inquiry into
the beating of Max Schussler, a
naturalized American citizen, by
a Nazi storm trooper in uniform.
The beating was so severe that
Schussler was confined to his bed
and unable to talk on the tele-
phone when the United Press
called and sought to get his story
of the attack.
Schussler reported the incident
to the United States consulate
general, however, filing sworn
affidavit describing the assault
by the storm trooper. 1t was the
first occasion of a beating of an
American citizen in some months,
after several such attacks last
summer, which aroused United
States officials here to sharp pro-
tests and action in behalf of pro-
tecting Americans travelling or re-
siding in Nazi Germany.
Schussler'S affidavit said that
he was a naturalized American
citizen owning considerable prop
erty in Berlin. He said that the
Nazl member of the storm troop
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
fire DESTROYS
.l7-ROOM HOUSE
Early Morning Blaze Will
Be Investigated, Chief
Powers Said

A fire about 1:3O o'clock this
morning of undetermined origin
destroyed a 17-room frame house
on Common avenue. the property
of f. f. Lee. of Orlando. Fla.
Damage was estimated at ap-
proximately $4,000. covered by
insurance. The house was IN
flames when the fine department
reached the scene and most OF the
departments efforts were contine4
to preventing the fire from spread
ing to other houses.
Mr.. Lee and another man were
sleeping in the house at the tlme
of the fire. 9,
Fire Chief Otis Powers stated
this morning that he was making
a thorough investigation of the
fire. He said the house had re-
NAMED vacant for some time, and
that it had been entered and part
of the plumbing fixtures removed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
HOME LOAN PROBLEM
WASHINGTON TOPIC

Copyright, 1884, United Press
WASHINGTON Jan. II. (UP)
More than 100000 families whose
homes are menaced by foreclosure
should be made secure under their
own roofs by July 81 if potential
ties of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation discussed today with
the United Press are realized. The
figure is unofficial in that no loan
quota has been fixed.
Chairman John H. Fahey Of the
corporation said 1--WE are trying to
make every safe and sound loan
that it is possible to make. We
are reviewing our operations n
every state finding out whefe
screws are loose and how they can
be frightened"
1t may be possible to extend
s1,5OO,O00,000 of aid to dis
tressed home owners by July 81.
Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton records show that loans are
being extended at the rate OF
about $3,5O0,000 daily. During
this week it is to be stepped up.
To attain the S1,500,000 figure by
July 81 it would be necessary -
achieve an average daily business
of about S8,000,000.
The corporations $2,OOO,OOO,-
600 lending power represents po-
tential aid for 100000 home own.
ers. The staff is said to be capa-
Bile of handling business up to
S1O,OO0,O00 daily.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
OPPOSITION TO.
MONEY BILL IS
NOT PERILOUS
St. Lawrence Waterway
Scheme Still Being De-
bated in Senate
By c. c. NICCLET
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Jan. II. (UP)
The Roosevelt monetary program
started its progress through con-
gress Yesterday, with no signs Of
crystallization Of dangerous oppo-
sition.
Strong protests will be advanced
by conservatives, but comfort
able majority in both houses IS
expected by administration lead
erS.
The senate banking and cur
rency committee started consider
alton of the money bill with Sec
retarv of Treasury Morgenthau
appearing as first witness to ex-
plain the treasury's views on it.
Limited executive sessions are
planned by the committee, though
conservative eRpublicans in cau-
Gus voted to fight for open hear"
ingS.
In the house. consideration of
the program was delayed by a
parliamentary squabble. with the
coinage committee and the bank
ing and currency committee both
claiming the right to consider it.
Speaker Rainey decided that 1t
was the coinage committees bust
ness, but withheld action to per-
nit the banking group to call for
a house vote today.
Father Coughlin, appearing be-
fore the coinage committees gen
eral hearing on monetary prop.
lens. warned that revolution
would follow if the Roosevelt
plans were defeated. Hhe advo-
Gated silver reconciliation.
Inhationist senators and repre-
sentatives met last night with Fa-
Their Coughlin and other non-offi-
cial monetary experts. Today they
will meet again and are expecte1
to vote approval of the presidents
program with a recommendation
for naturalization of silver.
Governor Black Of the federal
reserve board sought to end re-
ports of reserve bank opposition
to the program. He said the re-
serve board itself had proposed
to the president the plan for treas
ury acquisition of all gold. He ex-
nlained that federal reserve notes,
backed 40 per cent by gold, would
be backed in the future by gold
certificates instead. with the gold
CONTINUED on page four.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
Second Beating OF Naturalized U.S..
Citizen By Nazi Trooper Is Probed
American in Hospital; Refused to Retract Summons
for Non-Payment of Rent

corps called at his office at 8 p.
m. Monday and demanded that
Schussler retract a court sum-
mons against him for non-pay-
ment of rent.
Schusssler declared that ne re-
fused, whereupon he said the
storm trooper, in uniform, at
tackled him, beating him severely
about the face and head, knock
ing him down.
u. S. Consul Raymond GelSt
took the matter up with the chief
of the Prussian political police
and the Prussian ministry OF IN
terror.
Schussler remained in bed yes
terday, under the care of a physl-
clan, and efforts to see him for
further details were futile. His
condition was said to be satlstac-
tory, his injuries being more
painful than serious.
1t was recalled that last March,
a detail of Nazi storm troopers
visited Schussler and forced him
and his wife at the point OF pls-
tolls to get out Of bed and retract
an eviction order against a Nazl
tenant.
Mrs. Schussler was not IN any
way connected with the present
incident.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
POUNDS ACQUITTED
IN PATRICIDE CASE

CONCORD. Jan. 17.-CUP).--
Frank Pounds. Concord business
man yesterday was acquitted OF
a charge of numbering his father,
a r Pounds here last October.
Judge w. F. Harding rendered
the verdict after Pounds and 80
witnesses had testified that the
Younger man had shot his parent
70 death in self-defense. The ell
der Pounds had threatened the
SON and his family several times,
they said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
DR.. WYNEKOOP
COLLAPSES IN
MURDER TRIAL
Gruesome Exhibits Are
Brought Into Chicago
Court
MAY TRY TO CONTEND
RHETA KILLED SELF

CHICAGO. Jan. 17.-(UPD.-
Attorneys who hope to save Dr..
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop from
death in the electric chair limited,
by developments in cross eXamina-
ton. that Rheta Wynekoop might
have died by her own hand.
DR.. Wynekoop collapsed when
the bloody clothing of her daugh-
ter-in-law, Rheta, whom she is
charged with numbering, was
spread before her in criminal
court yesterday.
at is terrible to bring those
things before me. | can't stand
it," she sobbed and then collapsed
in the arms of her daughter. Dr..
Catherine Wynekoop. A court re-
cess was taken while physicians
worked to revive her.
This climax to the dramatic
trial came as hundreds of women
clamored for admission to the
small. high-paneled courtroom
Rioting spectators had forced oall-
ifs to lock the doors.
Spectators suddenly We're cleo
trified as the leather-covered op-
Grating table on which Rheta S
almost nude body was found, was
wheeled into the room. -.
The wheels of the old-fashion-
ed table soueaked as it was rolled
before the jury of - men. DR..
Wynekoop blanched and then
avertcd her head. Defense at
torneys leaped TO their feet to
protest, and were overruled.
Prosecutor Charles Dougherty
argued that the table was necs-
sary to reconstruct the scene in
the basement operating room In
the Wynekoop home where the
23-year-old musicians body was
found, pierced by a bullet. last
November p.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
{, OF c. DINNER
THURSDAY EVE
5 PM. Today Is Last Hour
at Which Reservations
May Be Made

Reservations were being made
TODAY for the annual Chamber OF
Commerce dinner meeting. which
will be held at the Skyland hotel
on Thursday evening at 1880.
It was stated today that reser-
vations will close this afternoon
at 5 o'clock. Reservations have
been made for Chamber of Com
MERGE members and members OF
the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs.
Those expecting to bring guests
should make reservations for them
at the hotel.
In the absence of Milo Strong,
president. E. w. Ham. vlce-presi-
dent, will serve as POSTMASTER 1or
the occasion.
Reports to be heard at the meet.
ing include the annual report OF
Secretary Noah Hollowell, the re-
mort of the Identification commit.
tee by A. S. Truck; the report O.
the golf committee. by DR.. ). U.
Bennett; the report of the enter
tainment committee by 0. Y.
Brownlee; a talk on the Southern
Appalachian parkway. by L; b.
Morse of Chimney Rock, and on
the CWA, by Mr.. Hollowell, re-
Gently appointed director.
Mr.. Brownlee will introduce
quests and welcome them to the
meeting. and special musical num-
beers will also be on the program.
The Rotary and Kiwanis clubs
have postponed their regular
meetings this week and will meet
with the Chamber of Commerce
at this meeting,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-17
TICKETS FOR
BALL ON SALE
Community Shows Interest
in Affair for Warm
Springs Fund

Ticket sale for the presidential
ball to be staged January goth is
now underway with committees
from all the civic organizations
participating. The Junior Welfare
club has assumed responsibility
for the distribution of the tickets
to the many sales committees.
Mrs. Michael Schenck and May
or Edwards state that the enthu-
siastic reception for this civic and
social affair is simply wonderful.
Numbers of volunteers have
sought to be Of aid in putting
over the big party and numerous
tickets have been requested even
by people who are not expecting
to attend. The heart of the pub
lie has been touched with this
plan to assist President Roosevelt
in his effort to make possible a
great Institution for treatment
of infantile paralysis at Warm
Springs, Ga. The Hendersonville
community is interested and the
co-chairmen are greatly encour-
aged.
Other committees appointed
from civic clubs are announced
by Mrs. Schenck and Mayor Ed
wards as follows:
American Legion-L. B. Prince,
commander; J. NJ. Thomson, j. l.
10y. P. J. Johnson. w. D. Stepp
and J. B. Creech.
American Legion Auxiliary
Mrs. Paul Johnson, Mrs. Thomas
Shepherd, Mrs. William Mcguire,
Mrs. Ed Anders, Mrs. w. o. Allen
and Mrs. w. o. Croft.
Business and Professional Wo-
mems Club-Miss Winnie Hogsett.
Miss Robbie Ross, Mrs. Ruth AL
len, Miss Hattie Fuller and Miss
Jane Truck.
Kiwanis Club-Dr. J. L. We'd
dington, C. M. Ogle. P. F. Sud-
duth. G. NJ. Flanagan. E. R. Dol
bee and Fl. E. Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce.. W.
Ham c. X. Hoover. 7. D. Clark.
J. H. Lampley, H. H. Ewbank and
Leonard Lewis.