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The Washington times., 1935-09-13

District of Columbia-Fair to
night and Saturday; little change
in temperature; gentle variable
winds.
Maryland - Generally fair to-
night and Saturday; not much
change in temperature.
Virginia-Fair tonight and Sat
urday; little change in tempera'
ture.
Temperatures
Yesterday Today
4 p. m. 80. 79 4 a. m. 80. SO
8 p. m. .... 10 8 a. m. .... 81
Midnight. . GA Noon. ...... 76
Departures From Normal
Accumulated excess Of tempera-
ture since Jan. l, 1935-273.
Deficiency of temperature since
Sept. /, 1935-37.
Accumulated excess of precipi
tation since Jan. /, 1935-2.42.
Excess of precipitation since
Sept. /, 1935-6.27.
Tide Table
High tide today is at 1904 a. m.
and 1925 p. m.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
SAY ROOSEVELT GETS
REPORT ON SITUATION

PARIS. March 21.-(UP).-A
confidential report on German af-
fairs requested by President
Roosevelt has been sent to him by
three attaches in Berlin, the finan-
cial newspaper Agence Econom-
ioue Eft Financiere said today IT.
had learned "from an absolutely
sure source"
The report was said to contain
these conclusions:
Peaceful evolution in the Reich
is impossible.
The Nazi government is dura-
BILE.
Financial, followed by economic
collapse can be expected in Aprlii
due to lack of raw materials and
limitation of imports of war ma
terials.
Confiscation of industrial capt.
tai is to be feared and Americans
are advised to withdraw holdings
from Germany.
German resources are too re-
stricted for the present popula'
tion..
. A central European war is pos
sible.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
u. s. TAX MEN DEMAND TO SEE
NEW ORLEANS QUIZ EVIDENCE

identified only by their voices, tes-
tilted through the microphone that
gambling and bawdy houses were
assessed for graft by certain city
officials. Names and amounts were
cited. A candidate for judge was
accused of manipulating home
stead properties to his advantage,
and another. candidate for judge
was seen drunk at saloons, the
witnesses said.
Long ruled the committee as its
counsel. State Senator James Noe
was chairman. He said yesterday
that federal agents asked for the
records of the investigation and
he said eff the proper authorities
issue the proper order, the records
will be turned over to them" 1t
was understood the internal reve-
nue. men would ask federal court
for an order to get the records.
For two years, federal agents
have been investigating incomes
of state politicians aligned with
Long. Several, including Sey-
mour Weiss, president of the Port
of New Orleans; Abe Shushan,
president of the Orleans Parish
Levee board; State Senator Jules
Fisher and State Representative
Joe Fisher, were indicted on
charges of evading taxes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
SENIOR PLAY
FRIDAY NIGHT
Cast Is Announced; Dane
ing Attractions Are
Added Feature

Announcement of the cast Tor
the senior class play, which will
be given at the high school audi
forum Friday night, beginning at
eight o'clock, was made this morn
ing. Those taking part will be as
follows:
George Mcintyre - Clifford
Pace.
Terry McIntyre-Sue Garren.
Mrs. McIntyre-Elizabeth Lew
is.
Professor Mcintyre - Ralph
Boys.
Sophie-Katherine Corne.
Mrs. Patterson-Gertrude Eng
lish.
Elsie Patterson-Nancy Rose
McManaway.
Traffic 0fficer-Canpbell Mil
Ter.
Prudence-Ellen. Waddell.
Dutch-Oscar Page.
Brian-Bennett Hunter.
Patty-Nancy Noble.
Neighborhood young people
Margaret Martin, Nina Pace, Will
ma Young, Myra Moriss, Billy
Bracket, Benjamin Cliff, John
SHEPPARD, Fred Yelton, Mary
Louise Todd.
"Growing Palms." heralded as
an ENJOYABLE comedy, was written
with sympathetic memory for the
small tragedies and excited joys
of adolescents. 1t is play of de-
Continued on page FOUR
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NEW ORLEANS, La, Mar. 81.
-UP). - Federal income tax
agents have demanded to see the
evidence uncovered" by Senator
Huey Longs state legislative COM
mittee that investigated alleged
graft in the New Orleans city ad-
ministration, it was revealed yes
terday.
This indicated that the federal
government was on the trail OF
enemies as we'll as friends OF
Longs political dictatorship.
The city administration, headed
NV Mavor T. S. Walmsley, is bit
terlv opposed to Long. The legls-
lative investigation, instigated by
LONG a few days before the con-
gressional primary last September,
was intended to prove that city
officials were collecting graft
from gambling and vice dens: The
Investigation served one of Its
lain IMPOSES when Longs candi-
datas for congress defeated those
of The citv political ring. After
that the investigation Jagged.
r. was a strange proceeding,
nrotected by national guardsmen,
,u;tb public and newspapermen
horred and all the testimony
broadcast over the city by radio
Unseen witnesses, who could be
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
U.S.. REDEEMS.
BONDS.
Fourth Issue Exchange to
Terminate Wednesday;
Firsts Until June Is

The opportunity to exchange
Fourth Liberty Loan bonds for
new issue of treasury bonds will
terminate next Wednesday, March
81. officers of the State Trust
company pointed out today while
announcing also that all First
Liberty Loan bonds have been
called for redemption not later
than June Is.
In a telegram to the bank, Hen
ry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of
the treasury, says that Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds with terminal
digits 5, 6 and 7 are included in
the redemption call, and that in
terest will cease on March 81.
The call for redemption of all
First Liberty Loan bonds was is
sued several days ago. They may
be exchanged for other interest
bearing obligations of the govern
ment,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
By DAN ROGERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

copyright, 1888, by ~. r.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Mar. "a.
(UP). - Swirling prairie dirt
turned day into night and choked
this city of half a million yester-
day in the worst dust storm in
history.
The scourge of the drouth-
stricken plains states has swept
farms and towns of Kansas, Ne
braSka, Oklahoma and parts of
Texas, New Mexico and Colorado
for eight consecutive days. Yes
terday it logged eastward, blan-
keting Kansas City and fertile
Missouri.
Damage to soil and crops was
tremendous. Thousands of tons
of powdered silt was snatched up
by a 40-mile wind from the
southwest and hurried toward the
Great Lakes. Wheat fields were
ruined.
Transportation was paralyzed,
All airplanes were grounded. For
the first time in history, train
schedules were cancelled on one
division of the Santa Fe railroad
because of dust storms. Kansas
highways were closed by state
patrolmen, traffic hazard was so
great.
Street lights and automobile
lights made a dim glow in the
murk. The Kansas City skyline
was blotted out. Skyscraper
buildings were invisible block
distant.
Breathing was difficult. Hun
dreds of hospital patients gulped
in through wet cloths. Mail car
riers went their routes with
masks of wet handkerchiefs over
their faces.
The few women on downtown
streets DOTTED spring coats to
wrap them about their heads. as
they buffeted the grit-laden wlnd;
Most Kansas schools closed
yesterday before noon: AL Al
Hutchinson, it was Impossible ior
children to study because hghts
in school rooms would not pierce
the dust which filtered through
closed windows. J;u,,.,,
Merchants stripped display
CONTINUED on page four)
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Senate Speeding Relief Bill
1885 WHEAT CROP REDUCTION
ABANDONED AS DUST STORMS
OF MIDWEST CONTINUE HAVOC
Administration Tries to
Keep Down Bread Prices
as Others Soar
BY WILLIAM A. BELL, JR.
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. q. (UP)
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace acted yesterday to
keep bread prices from soaring
because of drought, telling farm
ers they could ignore 1885 crop
reduction agreements and plant
all the spring wheat they want to.
The ruling came at a time when
food prices in general were at
high depression levels and the cost
of steaks and chops was steadily
rising, making a distinct impress
sion on housewives pocketbooks
and resulting in threats of con-
Sumers' boycotts.
Continued drought through the
DakotaS, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
homa. Texas, Colorado, Wyoming
and Montana has brought a dam
ger of rising bread prices because
of a shortage of spring wheat.
eve have definite duty to pro-
tect the consumers" Wallace said.
eve do not want to have to i'm
port certain kinds of wheat in case
of severe drought"
In return for being allowed to
plant full quota of wheat this
year, farmers who have signed
crop reduction agreements must
pledge themselves to curtailing the
1886 crop.
Wallace made his announcement
shortly after a department of ag-
riculture acreage report Indicated
this years wheat crop would be
little more than 100,000,000 BUSH
els in excess of domestic needs.
Farmers who pledged to reduce
their 1885 spring wheat crop will
receive benefit payments anyway
under Wallace's order.
The increased acreage as the re-
suit of yesterdays ruling will be
between 100000 and 100000
the department of agriculture es-
timated. That will mean an in
crease of from 100000 to 3d.
100000 bushels of spring wheat.
The curtailment program of the
AAA has driven up the price OF
other foodstuffs. Meat, particular
ly, is on a rising price level IN
obedience to the law of supply
and demand.
The total winter and spring
wheat crop was estimated at 67O'-
100000 bushels, the agriculture
department said. Of that, 49,
100000 bushels is winter wheat.
Corn acreage was estimated at
95,692,O0O an increase of about
100000 acres over last year.
Under normal conditions that
would give the nation a corn crop
of about 2,344,O00,000 bushels.
The agriculture department ex-
poets increased acreage this year
in oats, barley and rice, and a
slight decrease in potatoes.
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FRANCE Calls.
FOR SHOWDOWN.
ON REAR Ming.
Believe War Her Only AL
tentative if Germany Re-
jects Possible Demands
AIR MANEUVERS IN
BERLIN CONTINUING

Copyright 1885 by United Press
France, refusing unequivocally
to recognize Germany's re-arma-
ment, dispatched a note to &C.
neva last night demanding inter
vention by the League of Ma
tions to save the peace of Eu-
rope.
The French government in thus
demanding a showdown on Adolf
Hitler's bold scrapping Of the
Versailles treaty and his plan to
rebuild the reich's military DOW
er, forced an international issue
that may mean peace or war.
League and other circles were
gravely concerned. 1t was re-
allied that if the league makes
specific demands and Germany
rejects them the only alternative
other than armed force-war-is
for France to back down. Few
expect she would accept such hui
initiation.
The note to Geneva was dis
patched at $40 pm, last night
for publication this morning. 1t
was based on Frances desire "to
bring Germany to see she cannot
disregard her agreed obligations, "
a for. n office spokesman said
at IL pm.
A special council meeting was
demanded.
The spokesman confirmed ear
lier advices that the note was
based cn article II, of the league
covenant, which gives members
the right to call the leagues at
tention to the threat of war. He
denied France had any desire to
apply article 16. which carried
sanctions (penalties) or demand
Germany's Punishment from the
league.
With full support of the form
err allied powers, France refused
flatly to recognize Germany's
right to rearm without the con-
sent of the other signatorles to
the treaty ending the World
war.
In support of this historic de-
cision, France drafted two notes,
throwing the. issue drawn by Hit
ler's action squarely before the
League of Nations.
Reichscuehrer Adolf Hitler.
pursuing a temporary policy of
"watchful waiting" at the storm
throughout Europe which his con-
script army program has aroused,
conferred privately with high
Nazi officials Wednesday.
Der Fuehrer, who has maintain
ed absolute official silence since
his Notwithstanding announcement
last Saturday, met his aides in
Stuttgart for the parlay-but
left at noon for his retreat in the
Bavarian Alps without saying a
word on the next plans:
The nation awaited the French
note, due today, following up the
British protest, with some mis-.
givings. However, the "new era
of confidence which Hitler's mill
tary program has inspired almost
overnight remains in evidence;
and the people appear unworrled
about the allied program OF call
CONTINUED on page four)
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HUNDREDS SEEK FORTUNE IN
CASH LADY THREW OFF TRAIN

estranged wife Of Sidman ,Mehie,
publisher of the Hammond, Ind,
Times, was removed from the
train, hysterical, yesterday and
taken to a hospital at Battle
Creek. =,
Mrs. Mchie, according to the
train crew, was placed on board
the train at Chicago by an un-
identified man. Her ticket called
for passage to Montreal and she
had rented a private compart-
ment.
Soon after. the train left Chi
cago a puzzled Pullman porter
told the conductor the woman was
hundred dollar bills" on
the floor of the compartment. The
CONTINUED on page three}
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
DUST STORMS
HAVOCCOVERS
BROAD AREA
Last Years Billion Dollars
Devastation May Be
Repeated

KANSAS CITY, March 21.-
CUP).-DuSt from the fields of
half dozen states today shroud-
ed crop hopes of midwest farm
ers and brought acute discomfort
to every living creature.
The drought which left the soil
unanchored against March gales
persisted in the middle south and
northwest. 1t appeared that the
billion dollar damage wrought
upon crops by last years drouth
would be repeated. The duststorm
area extended from Texas and
the DakotaS to Oklahoma and Hi
nois.
Hundreds of thousands of acres
of wheat land are denuded.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
|ECRET HEARINGS TO BE HELD
WFUTURE SOVIET RELATIONS

h. sSSSS,HtlNGTON. Mar. 21. CUP
i 5s. tse foreign affairs commit
h. Ss. Ssa Yesterday to hold Sc
j. rss sSslngs late this month on
b T; DIIt Of Rep. George Hol-
Fav 5;aIla R., Mass, to with
tsia T5p am recognition from
s,ic nee oeeause Of alleged commu-
Az t,tIOpaganda in this country.
'antsS i"e time recognition was
ht + russia russia gave assurances
|read Gov, would not attempt to
'AroD ssoogmmunistic ideas here.
At secras oy the announcement
hi 'sI sessions would be held
'uncsd resolution, Tinkham de-
b. and ru such " action as "unAmeri-
any i, tsareatened to make pub
Information uncovered.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
SHERIFF TAKES APPEAL FOR
SECOND DEPUTY TO RALEIGH
Orr Asks Sherard if Law
Prohibits Payment of
Salary by County

M. N. Orr, sheriff of Henderson
county, today carried an appeal
to Representative w. M. Sherard
in the legislature in an effort to
secure a second deputy sheriff for
his department.
eff there is law which prevents
my having two deputies regularly
paid by the county, think it is
only fair to the people of the
county that you repeal it and
have a law passed which will per-
nit two regular deputy sherlffs
in order that we can give
better protection to lives and
property" Sheriff Orr said in a
letter to the legislator.
Included in the letter is a state
ment that the sheriff has paid
some of the expense of law en-
forcement out of his own pocket,
that the former sheriff, w. A..
Garren, had two deputies, and that
the board of county commission
ers has so far refused to extend
him this cooperation. The letter
made public by Sheriff Orr fol-
lows:
"Hon. w. M. Sherard,
blouse of Representatives.
Raleigh, N. c.
Dear Mr.. Sherard:
GAS you know for the past sew
eral years Sheriff w. A. Garren,
while he was sheriff, had Tom
Gillian as a chief deputy and Zeb
Corn as deputy, and c. C. Mccall
as deputy sheriff and court Off
Ger. The salaries of all the sher-
ifs help were paid by the coun-
'S"The sheriff's department has
been terribly handicapped since |
have been sheriff because l have
been able to have only one regu-
lar deputy, that is, John Drake,
who is on full time salary and
paid by the county. / have had
Bill Mccall acting as court depu-
ty, and he is paid by the county
only for the days he serves as
court officer in court. | have been
employing him to assist me in the
general work of the sheriff's Of
fee, when he was not serving IN
court, and for this work !! have
been compelled to pay Bill Nc
Call out of my salary. The county
has not made any provision what
ever for letting me have suffi-
cient force of deputies, and pay
ing their salaries. as the county
did under Sheriff Garren.
81 have had this matter up with
the county commissioners many
Continued on page three)
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The house committee has ques-
toned William C. Bullitt. Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia, on con-
ditions under that government.
The hearings have been secret.
Committee Chairman Sam u
McReynolds, D., Tenn, said Bul-
lit had been talking Informative
w on the whole Russian situation
rather than on any particular
phases. Hi
Secretary of State Cordeli Hull
wrote Senator Key Pittman, D.,
New, chairman of the foreign re,
lations committee that the United
States has no intention of with.
drawing diplomatic recognition OF
Russia because. of the breakdown
Continued on page fourl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
CHICKEN SUPPER
IS CHURCH BENEFIT

Attention was called today to
the benefit chicken supper which
will be given Friday night by the
ladies of the Shaws Creek Baptist
church at the home of Mrs. A. j.
Nancy, 318 Fifth avenue west.
Hours of the supper are from E
to 9 d. m.
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Bv KENNETH r. MACDONALD
II.;.aI P-... Staff Cnrresnondent

United Press STAN Correspondents
DETROIT. March 21.-CUP)-
Track walkers, railroad men and
hundreds of other persons last
night searched the Crank Trunk
railroad right of way between
Battle Creek and Chicago in hope
of finding approximately $1o,ooo
in cash scattered through the ven
tilators of a Montreal bound tram
by a 60-year-old woman.
Police attempted to untangle
the mystery of how Mrs. Isabel
Nav Mchie came into possession
of s173,5O5 in cash and jewel
case containing 100000 worth OF
diamonds. -
The woman, identified as the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
SHERARD FOR
S. FLAT RATE
LICENSE TAG
Advises J. 5. Sargent, Sr.,
He Will Take Floor
to Urge This

J. S. Sargent, Sr., who was
among those interested in the
matter of change in the cost of
licensing automobiles in behalf
Of which a mass meeting was held
earlier in the year, and for which
there were many petitioners in
county. yesterday revealed corre-
spondence he has had with Rep
resentative w. M. Sherard con-
corning this.
In response to his letter Of in
quiry to Mr.. Sherard, in which
Mr.. Sargent advised that 1000
petitioners were anxious to know
what is being done by the legis-
lature along this line, Mr.. Sher-
ard has written Mr.. Sargent as
follows:
Raleigh, N. c.
March Is, 1886
Mr.. J. S. Sargent, Sr. ,''..
Hendersonville, N. c.
Dear Mr.. Sargent:
Replying to your letter of the
18th, will state that six bills have
been introduced in the legislature
for the purpose of reducing the
Continued on page three)
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MARCHING TOWARD WAR,
LABORITE DECLARES

LONDON, March 21.-(UP)-
ave are marching towards war;
George Lansbury, labor leader de-
clared in the house of commons
today as he opened a full debate
on foreign affairs and the Euro
pean crisis. He plead for ablition
of air fighting in warfare.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
SIX KILLED IN RIOTS

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March
21.-(UP)-Six persons, includ-
ing a woman, were killed and IL
wounded in rioting last night at
Entroed, southeast Hungary, dur
ing q political demonstration.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-21
RESULT looms
SHOULD GROUP
Vote REbUKE
Won Neurath Rejects Mild
Note Forwarded
by Italy
DECLARES ALLIES ARE
NOT KEEPING TREATY

GENEVA, March 21.-UP)-
A majority vote rebuking Ger-
many for repudiating the YER
sailles military clauses is foreseen
here if the French citation of Ger
many's rearmament reaches a
league vote.
1t was said by high authority
that the council would meet dur
ing the first week of April. 1t was
hoped a condemnation vote of
Germany could We avoided as it
would only bring German def
ance.
PARIS. March 21.-(UP).--
Europe's rearmament crisis today
moved swiftly towards a historic
climax.
Frances citation to the League
of Nations charged Germany had
directly repudiated the Versailles
treaty in its military clauses. It
demanded an extraordinary meet
ing of the league council.
Frances direct note to Germany
held the Reich responsible for any
consequences for her laws rein
stituting compulsory military SER
vice and her military air force.
But it left the way open for a
pacific negotiation.
Italy, in a more pacific note
maintained reserve on Germany
decisions, pointing out that Ger
many could not enforce them un.
der the treaties by direct action.
Baron Konstantin Won Neurath.
German foreign minister to whom
the notes were delivered. formally
rejected the argument they con-
tanned.
The German argument was that
the Versailles military clauses had
been violated by the allied nations
and that they didn't carry their
own disarmament promises.
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&.wASHNGTON, March 81
ErP,-ysx Dea, expenses al
saty ,,s 50 high President
kOoseye.. -soesr': dare tell the
hu,h" sbO1. hen, and passage
h the soldiers bonus will triple
he eos, Of government, Repre- q.
senta,ive John Taae,, Republican
of New York. warned the house
YESTERDAY.
Members listened without en-
$huSasn Few ts., ike fighting
)Yer the question O.: whether the
Eonus should be pad. Representa-
Ives saved their energies for the
IAN igh.-wn.ch vii come Fri
by when they are called on to
kciie now the S2,O00,000,000
nus vi, 5s paid.
This bonus bill, IS out here on
+ floor because. instead of con-
Fvlg ne resources of the
Gn:ry, instead Of saving the
Pney O. The people. instead of
S cuC,lg ne expenses of the gov
hmen., ne have embarked on
promotion Of all kinds of wild
tenss Which have provided no
be! from unemployment" Ia
snol:ed 20 MS liStless COL
RggsS.
10 attempt 5 made in this
OF any other bill that comes
Pore tie house 10 raise taxes
meet the expenses of the gov
brmen, The president doesn't
The people that we must in
|fase their taxes if We are to go
Martin Dies,
/ fnoc'a:, Of Texas, cited the tax
9ne1t as one point in favor
NE Pa,man initiation bonus
y, under which the veterans
laG receive newly printed
fsnoacaS. The American Lee
"a a. 'nson bill, which does not
teiiy now the money is to be
'sSa' will mean higher taxes.
sayment of the bonus has
= sold to the country on the
4lp'Ion that it won't mean
increase in the tax burden"
! Speaker Joseph W. Byrns said
cVlSe would not hold a ses-
\ saturday, so that final action
!. IeIayed until next week.
~. VET. the limitation of debate,
EVER the house will decide
I rsy, which bill to pass.
rnerleS A. Beard, patriarch of
l '.,T; historians, made anoth-
\. saoue appearance yesterday.
- . m'ncing words, he charg-
> ,D@' LOO men in Wall Street
-. manipulated railroad fl
-'s s al a loss of millions of dol
49,, \ ~ investors. Speaking as the
m r,ITSsenIatlve Of an independent
!. 1lOloers' committee, he urged
senate Interstate commerce
r,nD e to approve Senator
, r.Sa 4. Wheeler's resolution to
1 S Ste finances, receiverships
iI,osa5lA connections of all