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The Washington times., 1935-04-16
WEAR|N REVIEWS
DRIVE To MOVE
CAPITAL WEST

Continuing his demands for de-
Capitalization of government and
removal of the National Capital
to the Midwest, Representative
Otha D. Wearin Cd of Iowa to,
day suggested that the corn-hog
division of the AAA be transferred
to Iowa and that the tobacco and
cotton divisions be moved South.
In a letter to Representative
Wright Patman CD of Texas,
who recently distributed a ques-
tionnaire on District rent prob
lems, Representative Wearin said:
~ am introducing a reSOlu-
ton ordering proper authorities
to cooperate with Federal HOus-
ing officials by sending a queS-
tiOnnaire to every property
owner in the District of Column
bia requiring them to list the
value of their land and build
ings that same may be cOnsid-
cred as a possible site for Gov
eminent structures to house en-
plOyeS, then compare same with
value given for taxing purposes.
IF the price compares favor
ably to the latter, the Govern
ment can buy. If it has been
raised, it can collect taxes on
the basis of said proposed sell
ing price intended to rim both
the tenant and Uncle Sam.
Secondly, the matter of
rentals can be dealt with
through the decentralization
Of Government.
81 am a JeffersOnian Demo-
crat and believe we should
start the march away from
centralized bureaucracy that
dominates Washington, as
pledged in the Democratic plat
form, by taking the cOrn-hOg
section of the AAA, for exam
pie, and its employees to my
State of Iowa, the heart of the
nations corn and hog belt,
where it belongs and can best
serve the farmers.
"Only yesterday a Washing"
ton real estate man testified be-
fore a congressional committee
that he thought the rents here
are the result of supply and de-
mand.' That being true, my
proposal will correct the evil of
high rentals by removing some
Of the demand"
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
PENALTY
FOE BEATEN

LONDON, April 16 Q.N.S0.
London's society woman leader OF
the Anti-Death Penalty Society
today bowed, albeit not with
out fight, to the superior forces
of Lord Trenchard's Scotland
Yard police.
AS the police won, Percy Ander-
son, 81, died on the gallows at
Wandsworth prison for the muir
der of his sweetheart, Constance
Drew-Bear, also 81.
The loser was Mrs. Violet Van
der EIst, widow of Capt. Jan Ro-
mon Van der Elst, wealthy artist
and shaving cream manufacturer.
She had tried to repeat her sensa-
tional demonstration of two weeks
ago today, when she "picketed" an
other Wandsworth execution with
airplanes, aerial banners, sand
wich men and loud speaker sound
trucks, all crying out against the
death penalty.
Today, however, the police were
ready. Their elaborate precau-
lions frustrated Mrs. Van der
Fists efforts to stage such mass
demonstration.
They did not, however, prevent
Mrs. Van der Elst from person
ally dashing up to the prison gates
in a luxurious cream-colored Rolls
Royce, knocking down a police
man on the way. She leaped from
the car and delivered a speech
Historically denouncing capital
punishment.
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
K|NDLEBERGER
CUSTER MOVE
IS DENIED

Justice Department officials TO-
day denied knowledge of any move
to supplant Karl Kindleberger as
assistant U. S. district attorney
in charge OF warrants and Police
Court matters.
Mr.. Kindleberger, whose name
always has been closely associated
with that of his chief, District
Attorney Leslie Garnet, has been
the object of some criticism during
and since the recent House investi-
CATION of crime conditions. At that
time he admitted participating in
so-called wild parties" in Pitts
burgh along with other lawyers.
CaruSi Denies Shift
Questioned concerning the re-
ported plan to name successor
to Mr.. Kindleberger, Ugo Carusi,
special assistant to the Attorney
General, stated:
81 haven't heard anything
about such a proposal. While
the Department of Justice
makes any actual appointments
of assistants to United States
Attorneys, such appointments
are usually made only on the
request of the attorney who is
to be aided. We have not re-
ceived any such requests from
District Attorney Garrett as
far as I know"
Henry Suydam, also special as
sistant to Attorney General Cum
mings, joined Mr.. Carusi in the
denial.
Cummings Gets Data
It is admitted, however, that
weight is lent to the Kindleberger
report by the fact that the find
ings of the Division of InveStiga-
tons probe into local police and
court matters are now in the
hands of the Attorney General.
The probe was launched last
summer by Division Chief ]. Ed
gar Hoover and, after seven
months Of exhaustive work, the
study may become the basis for a
series of recommendations from
Mr.. Cummings changing the local
court set-up.
The Washington times., 1935-04-16

MRS. JEROME LIGHTFOOT
BALTIMORE, April 16.-Mrs.
J. Jerome Lightfoot, Sc, of the $500
block of Wisconsin Ave. N. W.,
Washington, who had an cup
side down stomach" from birth
and didn't know it until last
September, is recovering today in
Johns Hopkins Hospital from an
operation which restored her
stomach to it's normal position.
The delicate operation, which
involved deflation of one lung,
was performed by DR.. William
F. Rienhoff, jr., one of the
leading young surgeons of the
Johns Hopkins staff and a SON
jn-law of DR.. Hugh Young.
Mrs. Lightfoot is prominent in
club circles in washington and
has served as president of the
World War Mothers and as an
officer of the American Legion
Auxiliary. She was presiding Off
Ger at the annual convention OF
the ladies of the G. A. R. in Jan.
uary this year. She was at one
time a delegate to the Federation
Of Citizens Associations.
Her husband, Jerome Lightfoot,
is an attorney for the Veterans
Administration in Washington.
He has been in Baltimore since
his Wife's operation,
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
zoo At BERLIN
- HEEDS CUPID

BERLIN, April 16.-Germany
as a whole may be in a fighting
mood, but at the Zoo, with
springtime here, thoughts are
turning lightly to love.
Even the elephants are making
Sleeps eyes at each other and
the hippotami are wearing eX-
pressions that hint of sentiment.
The eagles and other birds,
too, are getting flighty, showing
that love still laughs at iron
bars and cages.
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
Characterization
TOBanQuetTOnight

The colored Association of Old
est Inhabitants will hold their
annual banquet tonight at 8
O'Clock in the parish hall of Cal
vary P. E. Church, Eleventh and
G Streets N. E.
The association has n m d
Lafayette M. HerShaw as his
torian to fill the place left vacant
by the death of John C. Male.
Samuel Watson is president Of the
association and G. L. Walton,
secretary. r'~.~~,I i.
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
Itch Saves Victim
From Jail Sentence

PORTLAND, Ore, April 16
U.N.S0.-One man has found the
itch to be a help. Appearing in
police court, an inveterate drinker
received a 30-day Jail sentence.
But your honor, I've got the
ITCH" the prisoner protested, bear
ing his chest in a convincing dis
play. The judge suspended the
sentence rather than send him to
Jail where the disease was liable
to spread among the other prison
erS.
The Washington times., 1935-04-16
Purse SnatChed
Off WOman's Arm

Anna T. Hawkins, 1900 block
Florida Ave. N. w., reported to
police today that her pocketbook
containing small amount of
money was snatched from her
arm at Sixteenth and S Streets
Northwest by colored man who
escaped through an alley.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Girl Scouts Plan
Weekend Events

A full meeting of the member
shin of Girl Scouts, troop one,
this city, is anticipated for Friday,
at which time the Forthcoming in
vestiture ceremony will be dis
cussed, and plans made for a hike
to be held on Saturday of this
week. The members Of North
Star troop expecting to go on the
hike will be expected to gather
at the home of Miss Jane Truck
on Fifth avenue west and be pre-
pared to cook supper in the open.
Announcement was made at the
same time that all Girl Scouts
who plan to make the trip to
Black Mountain Friday evening
are expected to gather at the
Presbyterian church Friday at
5:15. D. m. Those who are provid-
inc cars for transportation on the
trip are osked to be there at the
same hour. ~
Members of troop one today
expressed their appreciation OF
the instructive address given at
last Fridays meeting by DR.: n.y.
att Brown on the subject OF hrst
aid.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Miss Weaver Out
OF Relief Work
Ross Also Resigns to Take
up New Duties

Friends here will be interested
to learn that Miss Pearl Weaver,
formerly of this place and now a
resident of Weaverville, has re-
signed as director of transient re-
lief for North Carolina, according
to press dispatches released in
Washington yesterday carrying a
statement by Mrs. Thomas ODER
ny, state relief director. j. b.
Moore, who has been with the
works division of the ERA, be-
comes acting transient director.
The announcement was made
without comment by Mrs. O'Berry,
other than that her visit to Wash
ington was for a routine" con-
ference with Federal Relief Adj
ministrator Hopkins.
Resignation of George Ross as
rural rehabilitation director for
this state was also announced. He
will devote his attention to the es-
of marketing centers
for those under the rural rehabili-
tation program. Mr.. Ross will be
succeeded by Van B. Swift of Cas-
well county.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Right To Secede' and Race Question
Injected Into Politics By Georgian

AS a postscript to a long article
accusing the Roosevelt admins
tration of forsaking the Demo-
cratic platform and following So
cialist and Republican doctrines,
Under wrote:
"The Socialist party believes in
equality of the races; they say so.
The Republican party advocates
equality of the races; they say so.
The Democratic party is supposed
to be the white mans party. Let's
see how far we have wandered
from this.
"The United States supreme
court few days ago revised all
the courts of Alabama in a case
where some negroes had been con-
victed of an assault on two. white
women, on the grounds that no
negroes were on the jury or III
the jury boxes. .
81 notice where the governor OF
Alabama has ordered the names
of negroes to be put in the jury
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
civic GROUPS
ARE UNITING IN.
WAR ON CRIME.
Legion, Rotary, Kiwanis
Name Men to Work
With E. of E.

Members of committee of
citizens which will seek to form
an organization to break up
house breaking and stealing in
Henderson county have been ap-
pointed by the American Legion,
Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. The
appointees of these organizations
and the committee representing
the Chamber of Commerce will
form one committee, which will
undertake the organization of
the county to combat this evil.
The representative of the
Chamber of Commerce are ]. T..
Fain, Judge j. Foy Justice and
DR.. J. G. Bennett. Representatives
of the American Legion are L. B.
Prince, DR.. Wiltshire Griffith and
Roy C. Bennett. Rotary club rep
resentatives are C. D. Weeks, j..
C. Coston and J. C. Morrow, Jr.
Phe Kiwanis club committee is
C. F. Toms, ST., H. E. Mitchell
and w, B. Sinclair.
It was announced today by
Thos. H. Franks, acting president
of the Chamber of Commerce,
that this committee will meet at
an early date to organize and
make plans for a campaign to
make property safe in Henderson
county.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
TEXAS JUDGE
And Wife Are
SLAIN BY SON
Judge Pierson and Wife,
Former of State Supreme
Court, Victims
$4,000 INSURANCE
ASSIGNED AS MOTIVE

AUSTIN, Texas, April 25.-
(UP).-Howard Pierson, 2O-year-
old youth whose former psychol-
ogv professor termed him "pe-
culiar" today coolly confessed
that he killed his parents, Justice
William Pierson, Ga, of the Texas
supreme court, and Mrs. Lana
Pierson, So, "for revenge"
The boy calmly admitted his
guilt after nine hours of question
ing, during which he persisted in
his story that his parents were
killed by hold-up bandits.
eyes, l did it. 1t was for re-
venge. | won't tell you any more
until l have had some Sleep" the
youth said.
Sheriff Lee Allen said he
learned the boy persuaded his par
ents to take a ride on a lonely
country road on a pretext that he
wanted to show them some his
torical relics.
Young Pierson himself brought
the news of his parents murder
with a fantastic tale about a fight
with the bandits. -.h
Sheriff Allen believed the mo-
tive was $1,000 life insurance
carried by Judge Pierson. "To col
lect it, he would have to kill his
mother, too," lien said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, April
25.-UP)-A vigorous drive to
trace 10000 tainted chocolate
cellars and creampuffs which
have been sold in the past SO
hours was pressed last night in the
Westchester county "poison pas
try epidemic" in which more than
425 persons have already been
stricken.
All victims were found to have
eaten pastries originating in a
single wholesale bakery, accord
ing to DR.. Matthias Nicoll, Jr.,
county health director.
He ordered the immediate re-
call and confiscation of the sus,
pected bakery's production and
delivery in four cities, 18 towns
and "a villages of the county,
Police radio warned househoi-
ders and store owners. State
troopers aided local police in at.
tempt to prevent consumption OF
pastry already sold ard the sale
of the tainted dainties delivered
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
2 convicted In
Jewel Robbery

MIAMI, Fla, April 25.-(UP).
Nicholas Montone, Italian race
track gambler, and Charles Cali,
of Miami Beach, last night were
found guilty of completely in the
$246,OOO Miami Biltmore jewel
robbery.
The jury fixed the penalty at 10
years to life Imprisonment. SEN
tence will be passed in a few days.
The men were convicted Of rob-
bling Harry Content, New YORK
social leader, of watch and $loo.
Content was a guest in a suite &C.
cupied by Mrs. Margaret Hawkes.
worth Bell, New York socialit;e
and former dancer, whose Jewels
were taken in the robbery TWO
months ago. r..
The case went to the jury after
Monte, self styled "small time
gambler" from Brooklyn, told OF
extreme brutality inflicted by New
York detectives who sought con-
fession.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25

This, said the president Is the
eight-point program under wnlen
the largest peacetime approprla-
ton in history will be spent: :,
/. Highway construction ana
the elimination of grade crossing,
2. Aid to persons in stricken
agricultural regions ana a gen
eral program of rehabilitation for
rural America. 60.
8. Eiectrification for farms.
4 Construction of low cost
houses in both country and city
5. Assistance to white coliar
workers. r tho
6. Continued expansion OF the
Civilian Conservation corps. .,
z. Loans to counties, cities ana
states. o,d
reforestation. -
So vast and intricate is this
program. Mr.. Roosevelt indicated
that it could not be covered IN n
one day. He sent his pupils
Continued on page six)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
STATES RIGHTS
CRY IS RAISED
BY SENATOR'S:
More Than a Filibuster"
Will Be Staged to Smash
Measure
NAVY BILL MAY BE
VOTED UPON TODAY

WASHINGTON, Apr. rs. (Up)
Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed"
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina,
led the southern forces into bat.
tie against the Costigan-Wagner
anti-lynching law.
Raising the cry of states rights
southern Democrats are deter
mined to smash an attempt by
Senator Edward P. Costigan, d.,
Colo, and Eenator Robt. F. Wag-
ner, D., New York, to pass their
bill.
Smith said that the bill will be
greeted by "worse than a filibus-
ter" He announced he is ready
to talk for a week.
Smith said "the right of a state
to preserve law and order within
its own boundaries is the last fun
damental right left under the Con-
stitution."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Seek To Recall Bakery Products
AS Poison Epidemic Strikes AIS

to stores yesterday.
While five telephone lines were
busy reporting cases of food pois-
oning, DR.. Nicoll received tele-,
gram from the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States. 1t
informed Westchester county had
been awarded first prize for the
best rural health administration
in the United States.
"The cream filling evidently
contained bacterial infection
which produced toxin that caus-
es ptomaine poisoning when abb
sorbed," said DR.. Nicoll. "The
persons who ate the pastry were
stricken from two to four hours
after eating it,"
The bakery which produced the
poisoned food is in White Plains
and it's pastries are distributed in
New Rochelle, Mount Vernon,
Yonkers, Scarsdale, Port Chester,
Dobbs Ferry, Mamaroneck, Phel-
ham Manor and other cities and
towns. .arg 'l..a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Stop Grain Trade
To Aid Concern

CHICAGO, April 25.-(UP).--
The Chicago Board of Trade,
grain trading center of the world,
closed for a full day yesterday for
the first time since the bank holt
day.
Similar action followed at Kan
sas City, St. Louis and Omaha.
Wheat dropped at Minneapolis
and Duluth. where exchanges re-
manned open.
The closings resulted from a Pc
tition of the Rosenbaum Tram
Corp, one of the largest elevator
concerns in the country, TO reor-
ganize under the amended bank
ruptcy laws.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Drys Win Victory In New Amendment
GERMANY IS DRAFTING LAW
FOR BIGGEST EUROPEAN ARMY
OUTSIDE OF SOVIET RUSSIA
Entire Independent Press
Of Nation Muzzled by
Today's Decree

3 BERLIN, April 25.-UP).-
Publication of a new defense law
providing for compulsory mill
tary service may be Germany's
first reply to the League coun-
cirs denunciation of German re-
1t was learned today experts in
the ministry of defense are work
ing at top speed to complete the
of new law, which
would give the country an army
Of 100000 soldiers, larger
army than any country in Europe
Soviet Russia and Fas-
cist Italy. Airplane hangers and
army barracks are being built
over the country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
Must
Claim Bank Funds

Formal notice was being issued
today by Pat Kinney, liquidating
agent for the First Bank & Trust
Co., that it will be necessary for
all depositors not already having
done so, to file claims with him in
order to participate in distribu-
ton of funds from this closed in
stitution. 1t is requirement Of
law that those receiving payment
on their deposits should file such
a claim.
Mr.. Kimzey's office, where these
claims may be filed is in the Amer
lean Bank building on Fourth ave-
nue. west.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
By GARRETT D. HORNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA, April 25.-CUP?I
The racial question and the right
to secede" were injected INTO
Georgia officialdom's war of words
against the Roosevelt administra-
ton yesterday. s,, Ton,
The new attack came from Tom
Under, state commissioner OF ag-
rieulture, writing in his depart.
ment's official organ, The Market
Bulletin, which is distributed 10
100000 farmers. ,.;,o soore-
Under, former executive seere-
tarv to Gov. Eugene Talmadge,
who VIII in recent attacks against New
Deal policies has limited ne mlghs
not be averse to heading third
m nor in 1886, hopes to succeed 10
IL Governors chair.
' like Talmadge, he is long
s+onding critic of the administra-
t; S program. He brought the
Ss.coottsboro assault cases into the
nicture Wednesday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
PACIFISTS ARGUE
AGAINST BIG NAVY

WASHINGTON, Apr. 25. (UP)
Big navy opponents took pot shots
Yesterday at the administrations
record peace:time $465, 600, 900
navy appropriation as it pressed
through the house toward a posi-
BILE vote today.
Rep. Theodore Christianson, R.,
Mimi, attacked the size of the APP
preparation and warned that the
fleet should not be permitted to
maneuver in the North Pacific next
month as planned, in order that
there might be no possibility Of
conflict with Japan.
Putting on a big show there
can do no good" he said. "The
easiest way to get war is to make
a vulgar display of our armed
force"
He recalled that after passage
Of the Vinson navy bill last year
Japan countered with a naval
building program of its own.
Rep. Usher L. Burdick, R., N.
D., deplored the New Deals Eau
dacity" in bringing up such a
large bill when farmers were hav-
ing difficulty in obtaining money
for seed. r.-
Christianson, former governor
of Minnesota, was blunt in his ref
erence to relations between Japan
and the United States.
"There is no likelihood Of war
with Japan if we keep our fleet in
our own waters and mind our own
business" he said.
Another critic of the bill was
Representative Maury Maverick,
D., Texas, freshman congressman
whose voice has been raised con-
sistently against measures that
might be construed as tending to
lead the nation toward war.
Big navy proposals, he said, are
a stumbling block in the move for
world peace. He introduced
resolution designed to keep the
nation neutral in time of war.
Drafted, he said, after converse
tions with Is international law
yets, it would prohibit wartime
loans to foreign nations and would
permit use of the army and navy
for defense only.
Other developments:
The house adopted resolution
by Rep. John j. Cochran, D., Mo-,
to investigate charges that mail
order houses and chain stores have
organized a "super-lobby" to III
fuence congress.
Byrns was asked to appoint
special committee with subpoena
powers to investigate the financial
and personnel activities Of the
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-25
SHERARD REJECTS NEW JURY
BILL: MAY BE RESUBMITTED
WITH ONE ABOLISHING JURIES
County Bar to Meet Today
for Further Action as
to Recorders Court

A bill which would provide a
12-man jury in the county recor-
der'S court instead of the present
six-man jury, and which was sent
to Representative w. NJ. Sherard,
has been returned to o. B. Gro
well, secretary of the bar associ-
alton.
In his letter returning the bill
Mr.. Sherard points out that ne
conferred with T. L. Durham,
chairman of the county commits
sioners, while here over the week
end. and that Mr.. Durham re-
quested him not to introduce sucn
bill on the grounds that it would
mean additional expense.
A meeting of the bar associa-
ton has been called for 2 O'Clock
this afternoon, and it is under-
stood that the association VIII ap-
prove two bills to be sent back u
Mr.. Sherard, one providing Tor d
12-man jury, and the second
abolishing trial by jury in the re-
corder's court.
Members of the bar, it Is un.
derstood. feel that the present
system of drawing a six-man jury
is ineffective. 1t is pointed out
that six men are drawn, and tnat
it is a rare case when any OF the
six men drawn ever sit on d jury
after the challenges of the oe.
PENDANT and state, with the result
that such a Jury usually results IN
the drawing of talismen from the
court room. The bar is opposed 10
The bill sent Mr.. Sherard pro-
vided for the drawing OF 10 men
from which the jury was to be
selected. These men would De
drawn in the regular manner OF
the superior court and would be
paid I1.5O per day.
Defendants would not be re-
ouired to deposit jury fees. as is
the case under the present act.
hut on conviction would be taxed
with a IS jury fee.
The bill provided that the jury
might be demanded by either the
state or the defendant. Provision
was also made for the setting Of
Jury trials in the discretion of
the recorder, not to exceed one
in four weeks.
The matter was discussed at a
recent meeting of the bar associa-
ton, and endorsed by a vote of
10 to 8 with the president and
Judge R. H. Station not voting.
Under instructions from the as
ISOLATION the bill and a letter Civ
ing the vote and,expression of the
opinion of the bar was sent to
Continued on page three.)