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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-18
tCOntracts For
y Attack Planes

\ LEXINGTON, Dec. 10. (UP)
s. war department yesterday
T.. Up plans to augment the
f.. nghting air strength by
a contract for 100 at
y ? ssS and accessories total
| iTSoO;O74 to the Northrop
4 Enslewood, Cal.
H. TOntraet was the first au-
| Il, Under ~ the 1856 pro-
h. C' The the army air corps, en-
W Sone 500 planes of all
|Otbass department officials
Ds' awards would follow
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-18
WATRoUs IMPROVES

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. Is. (UP).-
Condition of AL Watrous, ranking
pro golfer pulled from the S10,-
900 Biltmore open because of
threatened pneumonia, was re-
ported improved today by hospital
attaches. A night under an "oxy-
gent tent" was believed by physi-
clans to have prevented pneu-
monia.
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MN, Dec. Is. (UP).-
Z airplanes bombed the
Kuyuan, Chahar province,
night and killed and
t:d numbers of Chinese SOL
land civilians, according to
BE military reports today.
b Japanese military planes
red over kuyuan Monday
he ard scattered leaflets
be the Chinese garrison that
b u-Japanese forces would
| within q hours unless the
Sc forces withdrew.
lie the garrison commander,
bfficer of the Procincial
Ee preservation corps" was
ing What to do the planes re-
/ at dusk aud dropped
number of killed and in
was not stated.
J Chinese forces withdrew as
Is possible after the bombing
d.
b returned, however, during
light and still were holding
IT, Yesterday.
ban is about 100 miles north
eiping, in Eastern Chahar.
the border of Jehol province
the Japanese more than two
ago incorporated into Man
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h ASIATIC
|VERNMENT
iIEp SECRET
Quiet Until Consum-
tied to Prevent Riot
ing Of Chinese
bows BOMBING
Is TOWN IN CHAHAR

PING. China. Dec. Is. (UP)
ri.autonomous government
Eorai and Chahar provinces
'-maIly inaugurated today in
',,e 70 Japanese demands,
4 sung Cheh Yuan chair
political coun-
RI after the ceremony.
& relations must be main
| 5etween the council and
| /, fear of student riots
cral ceremony was held
m.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-18
WEATHER

,on;sht and Thursday;
ar e in temperature.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

Perhaps the only rivals of that
16-foot "eye" just completed at
Corning, N. r., are those Of dads
viewing Christmas bills.
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
D,C,HEADSOKAY
$3.50 TAX RATE

Continuance Of the $3.50 tax
rate per 500 on real estate and
tangible personal property in the
District during the fiscal year
1886 was approved by the Com
missionerS today.
District Auditor Daniel J. Don
ovan was ordered to make a study
of the local tax situation and
pointed out that the revenue
realized from the present tax
rate is sufficient for 1896, but
that new social legislation pend.
ing in Congress may require an
additional levy in the future.
Major Donovan pointed out:
From tentative figures pre-
pared by the auditor, the tax
rate of $1.5O is amply sufficient
to provide the necessary reve-
nues Of the District of Columbia
for the fiscal year 1886 to meet
all appropriations charges car
ried in the District apprOpria-
ton act for that year."
Major Donovan reported that
the tentative figures for the end
of 1885 will disclose an approx
mate revenue surplus of $4,000, 900,
based on current expenditures,
but that new legislation may re-
duce this surplus considerably.
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War Recruiting Check
Put Up to Justice Dept.
copyright, 1898, by International
News Service)

The State Department is def.
nitely opposed to American citi-
zens enlisting in the armies Of
either Emperor Halle Selassie Of
Ethiopia or Italy.
Furthermore, any American who
enlists in this country or anyone
who seeks to recruit volunteers in
this country for either Ethiopia
or italy is liable to three years
imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
This was learned at the State
Department today as officials be.
came concerned over reports that
recruiting stations were being eS-
tablished in New York and other
cities to enlist volunteers for ETH.
opia, as we'll as Paris reports that
efforts were being made there to
enlist a group of American civilian
aviators in the service Of the black
African kingdom.
Insofar as recruiting in this
country is concerned, the State
Department considers it matter
for the Justice Department to
handle. It has not yet considered
the situation serious enough to
call that departments attention to
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MUSICAL STAR
DROPS DEAD .

NEW YORK, July 19.-Death
rang down the final curtain on
one of the greatest teams in the
atrical history yesterday when
Cecil Lean, former musical comedy
star, dropped dead in front Of the
Plymouth Theater, here.
Mr.. Lean was walking with his
wife, known professionally as Cleo
Mayfield. His death was laid to a
heart attack. He was 81 years
old.
Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield
were musical comedy favorites fol
two decades. They were associated
for years with the late F1orenz
Ziegfeld.
They worked in vaudeville, mu.
steal comedy and dramatic com
panies and played every big city
and tank" town from New York
to San Francisco and from Maine
to Florida. And they always
worked together. No matter how
big or how small the show, 1t
was Cecil Lean and Cleo May
field" .
Some of their latest plays in.
cluded, mo, No Nanette," "Ot
Thee I Sing" and "Everybody's
Welcome"
Mr.. Lean, d member of the
Lambs Club, will be buried at
Lake Sunapee, N. H.
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JAPAN STILL
CONCERNED
IN AFRICA
Jap Envoy in. London CabIed
instructions That Clarity
Eastern Giants Position

LONDON, July 10 QN.SO
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has
informed italian Ambassador Au'
RITZ that Japan cannot remain I'M
concerned over the possibility OF
war between Italy and Ethiopia
It was stated in an exchange tele"
graph dispatch from Tokyo today.
His declaration was made to
clear UP the confusion caused by
action of Yetaro Sugimura, Japa'
nese ambassador to Rome, in as
surfing Premier Mussolini Japan
would remain neutral in the con"
flict. AS exclusively revealed by
International News Service at the
time, the foreign office in Tokyo
promptly repudiated sugimura's
guarantee.
Auriti called upon Hirota, the
dispatch said, after q foreign Of
flee spokesman, attempting to
clarity the situation, had ex-
planned that last October, Sugi'
mura was informed by his govern
mer1t that Japan was not inter
ested politically in Ethiopia.
The prospect of was has neces-
STATED an alteration in this stand,
however, he explained.
When Auriti confronted Hirota.
the message declared, he was in.
formed no special instructions had
recently been sent to Sugimura.
Hirota explained that. Japan
was especially interested in Eth
opia from an economic viewpoint,
with the result it could not re"
main unconcerned over the pos
sibility of war.
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POWER CHIEF
HAD FILES
E.
-m wm-- =
BURNED
Security Manager Admits
Ordering Destruction As
Lobby Quiz Began
international News Service

Candidly admitting he had given
the orders for destruction of files
relating to the Associated Gas and
Electric Company's 100000 cam.
paign against the Administrators
utility bill, u. E. Beach, security
manager for the company, appear.
ed before the Senate lobby investl'
eating committee today.
Mr.. Beach abSolved his immedi-
ate superior, 0. E. Wasser, from
responsibility for issuance of in
structions to divisional managers
to destroy the secret records. He
issued the orders himself, he ex'
planned.
Talked with Superior
But he admitted under close
questioning that he had discussed
the matter with Mr.. Wasser, and
that Wasser had not objected. He
admitted, too, that one Of the rea-
sons he wanted the records de-
stroyed was because of the open
ing of. the Senate inquiry which
has 'alread&v disclosed that thou
sands of fictitious kilograms were
sent to members of Congress op-
posing the utility company bill.
Don't write-use the telephone!
These were the instructions
given employees of the Associated
Gas and Electric Company by
their executives in planning
$500, 900 campaign against the
pending utility bill. the Senate
lobby committee was informed
today.
E. w. O'Brien, Erie, Pa, mana
ger for the company, was the first
witness today. He told Of two
meetings attended by divisional
managers, where the lobby cam
paign was mapped. The 100000
figure for the campaign was re-
vealed earlier in statement made
at the company's New York head
quarters.
One of these meetings, he said,
was in New York. The other in
March, was in Utica. U. E. Beach,
the company's security manager,
in the Ithaca office, presided, Mr..
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MAD SLAYER
GIVEN LIFE
SENTENCE
Goodrich Pleads Guilty After
Bargain Fails; Wife Will
Face Court Later Today

DETROIT, July 10 UN.S),
Merton Ward Goodrich today in
terrupted his fantastic trial and
pleaded guilty to the "fiend" muir
der of Lillian GaAaher, II.
Judge Henry S. sweeny i'm
mediately sentenced him to life
imprisonment
Goodrich's apparent determine
ton to cause the law all the
trouble possible, collapsed when
he realized that he would have to
take the witness stand himself and
tell how he slugged and strangled
the Detroit school girl, assaulted
her, and hid her truSsed and
mutilated body in a trunk in his
apartment.
Wife Faces Trial
The emaciated trap-drummer
had previously refused to plead
guilty unless police released his
crippled, faithful wife, Florence,
W1&U SUZUKI WRVA2 444AAA OAA 4A49 4A4A&S
month flight from the law. sy-.zs
Mrs. Florence Harding Good
rich viii be arrafg1eds in the same
court this afternoon as an aces
sorry to the crime, Prosecutor Dun
can c. McCrea announced.
The woman, a cripple, remained
at her husbands side while he
fled from Detroit after the killing
and was captured in New York
with him.
Goodrich will serve his term at
hard labor" in Marquette prison,
"Michigan's Siberia" on the shore
of Lake Superior This is the
most severe sentence possible
under the laws of Michigan, where
there is no death penalty.
The guilty plea followed Good
rich's attempt to bargain with
the court. Before court opened
this morning he offered to plead
guilty if Judge Sweeny would al
low another psychiatrist to exam
inc him before sentence was
passed, and if he could see his
wife and write the story Of his
life into the record of the trial
Judge Sweeny Indignantly re-
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Writers May Ask .
Wagner Law Test

HOLLYWOOD, July 19.-First
First test of the right of employee
groups to organize under the
Wagner labor relations act prob.
ably will come from Hollywood's
screen writer's. it was indicated to.
day. The Screen Writer'S Guild,
an affiliate of the American Fed.
GRAFTON Of Labor, has notified
studios it is the sole legal agency
for collective bargaining for screen
writer's, as provided in the Wagner
act which became effective July 5.
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PALMER SENT
! MONEY TO
MISSING
WITNESS
Former Attorney Generals
Part in Prior Investigation Re-
veaIed to House Group
international News Service

Disclosure that a fugitive wit
ness from grand jury investiga-
ton into War Department con.
tracts was paid large sums at
the direction of A. Mitchell Pal.
mer. former Attorney General,
while in hiding, was made before
the House Military Affairs Com"
mittee today.
The committee is inquiring into
activities of the firm of Joseph
Silverman and Brothers, dealers
in surplus Army clothing, which
was accused by Chairman Nc.
Swain of scattering" nearly
100000 around Washington in
an effort to obtain War Depart
ment business.
500 Payments Alleged
From Thomas J. Ryan, who
acted as Joseph Silver1nan's attor.
ney in New York, the committee
learned that Frank Speicher, the
missing witness, was given peri.
odic payments of 500 during the
time the Justice Department was
conducting a nationwide search
for him.
Ryan said the money was en-.
closed in envelopes and turned
over in his office to Harold
Schneuer, who represented him.
self as Speicher's attorney.
Bought "InfOrmatiQn"
The payments, according to
Ryan, were for information" pos
sessed by Speicher and of use to
Palmer and Silverman. Ryan ties.
titled:
"AlthOugh I advised SiIverman
that he should not make these
payments, I acted at the re-
quest of Palmer and SiIverman
i'm turning over the money to
SChneuer.
Every dollar Speicher re-
ceived, he got from SiIverman."
Ryan explained that Palmer was
Silverman's Washington attorney,
and that he had merely turned
the money over to Schneuer in
New York as a favor to Silver.
man.
SpeiCher Located
Speicher was summoned for
testimony by the District of Co
lumbia Grand July in January.
1884, to tell of his connection with
certain transactions between Sill
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AST0RS EXPECT
BIRTH Of HEIR

NEW YORK, July 10 G.N.S).
Mrs. John Jacob Aston III was in
Doctors Hospital today, and re-
ports persisted she is anticipating
the birth of an heir.
The former Ellen '"Tucky"
French and the young scion of
the Astor line were married in a
blaze of publicity June 80 of last
year, and. since that time have
sedulously avoided the common
gaze.
Mrs. Astor was incommunicado
at the hospital, where orders were
issued that no information about
her condition should be given out.
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Gov. Roosevelt

Governor Roosevelt:
The doctrine of regula-
ton and legislation by
"master-minds, in whose
Judgment and will all the
people may gladly and
quietly acquiesce, has been
too glaringly apparent at
Washington during these
last ten years.
Were it possible to find
"master-minds" so un-
selfish, so willing to de-
eide unhesitatingly against
their own personal in
terests or private preju-
dices, men almost godlike
in their ability to hold the
scales of justice with an
even hand-such a gov
eminent might be to the
interests of the country :;
BUT THERE ARE NONE
SUCH ON OUR POLITI-
CAL HORIZON, AND WE
CANNOT EXPECT A
COMPLETE REVERSAL
OF ALL THE TEACH
INGS OF HISTORY.
(From radio address broad
cast from coast to coast on
March 2, $780,
The Washington times., 1935-07-19

Preside mt Roosevelt:
We have undertaken a
new order of things. we
have proceeded through
out the nation a measur-
able distance on the road
toward the new order. =.
Let him who, for specu-
lative profit or partisan
purpose, without just war
rant would seek to dis
turb or dispel this assur-
ance, take heed before he
assumes responsibility for
any act which would slow
our onward steps.
Throughout the world
change is the order of the
day. In every nation
economic problems, long
in the m king, have
brought crises of many
kinds for which the mas
ters of old practice and
theory were unprepared. =.
The outlines of the new
social order, rising from
the disintegration of the
old, are apparent.
(Annual message to Con-
gress, January 4, 1857
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
Paris Riots Feared
In Economy Drive

PARIS, July 10 G.N.SO.-De-
tachments of mobile guards armed
with rifles were posted in the
vicinity of the Place de POpera to-
night, where clashes were feared
in a demonstration against Pre-.
mier Pierre Laval's economy pro-
gram. Civil and railway employees
announced their determination to
parade in spite of a ban imposed
by the government.
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TEACHER APPROVED

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, July 10.
U.N.S.).-Almost unnoticed in a
list of $50 principals, supervisors
and teachers, the name Of Mar
garet CRANE, of East Aurora, the
"other woman" in the American
tragedy murder for which Bobby
Edwards, Of WilkdB-Barre, Pa,
was executed, today was approved
for .reappointment,
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
5 BANK RAIDERS
SEIZE $4,000

CHESTER, Pa, July 10 G.N.S0.
Five armed desperadoes today in
vaded a branch office of the
Delaware County National Bank,
scooped up $4,000 in currency
and escaped in a sedan bearing
Delaware license plates.
Less than minute after the
crime Chester police rushed to
the scene in answer to the banks
burglar alarm. A description OF
the men and their car was
flashed across the State teletype
system.
The getaway car. a stolen Sc
dan, was found abandoned later
at Yeadon, Pa.
OBERLIN, Ohio, July 10 G.N.SC.
A gang of three well-dressed gun
men today staged raid on the
Oberlin College treasurer's office
here and escaped with $1,000 in
cash after menacing four clerks,
three of them girls.
Two of the gunner entered the
treasury building on the campus,
while the third waited outside in
an automobile.
Ruth Rayburn and Martha
Scott, clerks, were in the outer
office when the men appeared,
one from a. side door and the
other from the front. The two
girls were forced at the point Of
guns to enter the inner office,
where two other clerks, Glenola
Sutfin and Vincent Hart, were
working.
The thugs scooped up a small
amount of money in a cash
drawer, and demanded more.
Upon their threat to attack the
girls, Hart told them there was
considerable money in the vault.
The four employees were forced
to march into the vault, where the
two robbers picked up the $1,000
in cash. The two then threatened
to lock up the four in the vault.
but Hart pleaded with them that
there was no ventilation and that
all four would be dead within 10
minutes.
After a hasty conference, the
thugs agreed to a compromise
upon Harris promise that he and
the girls would not leave the vault
for "a couple of minutes" the two
shut the door, but did not lock it.
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Premier of Greece
And Cabinet Quit

ATHENS, July 10 GN.S0.
Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris and
his cabinet resigned today in pro-
test over efforts of certain political
leaders to remove three Republi-
can ministers.
Tsaldaris is expected to form a
new ministry,
The Washington times., 1935-07-19

THE WASHINGTON TINES
guarantees Home Delivery Serv-
ice every evening. Should you
fail to receive yours call Dis
trict 700 any time before 7:15
p. m. and your copy will be dis
patched by special messenger.
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Windsor Lad Wins
Rich Eclipse Purse

SANDOWN PARK. England,
July 10 Q.N.SD. The Eclipse
Stakes, highest priced classic of
the year, was won today by Wind.
sor Lad, odds-on favorite at 4 to 7.
Aga Khan'S Theft finished second
at 8 to 2, and Fair Trial was third
at 4 to /. The race paid SAT 400.
William Woodward's American
owned Bondsman was last of the
five runners. King George and
Queen Mary witnessed the race.
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
CapetOwn Reports
Comet Discovery

CAPETOWN, South Africa, July
10 G.N.SO. Discovery of a new
comet about 300 million miles from
the earth and speeding away from
the sun was announced by the
Union Observatory here today. It
was the second comet found by
the observatory this year.
Gables from the United States
said the discovery was confirmed
by astronomers Of Harvard Uni
verSity.
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
EX-RUBBER CHIEF DEAD

GLOUCESTER, Mass, July 10
G.N.S0.-William o. Rutherford,
81, former vice president Of rub
Der companies at Akron, Ohio, and
Jeanette, Pa, is dead at his
summer home on Brier Neck.
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
LANG'S LEGS FOUND

HICAG July 10 U.N.S).
The missing legs of Erwin Lang,
brutally murdered grocery clerk.
were found yesterday hidden in
a trunk in a swamp near Crown
Point, Ind, IS miles from the
Hammond Swamp, where his
torso first was found.
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
THE TWO ROOSEVELTS
A Hypothetical Dialogue

view with Wv" ~~OO~~
The Washington times., 1935-07-19
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and slightly sUdTHsr tonight. Satur-
day fair and continued tO0rm Uith possible
showers in late afternoon.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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weather Details on PGs
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-08

I. Monument 10 2.iii unknown soldiers Of ,hs
Civil var. erected IN Arlington cemetery sOon
after the elose Of the war.
2 sergean; Edward S. Younger. now chi'
cage mail clerk who IN 1927 dropped a rose on
a coffn IN France 70 select Americas Unknown
Sotdier he 10 shown placing wreath on the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier In Arlington GENE
tsrY. Cpho;o BY Harris and Es~in91
J. Ceremony a, the sniomhnen; Of an vn
known soldier o. the Indian the Custer
battlefield In Montana IN 1926.
Z. Honerino the Unknown Soldier of the Revo.
Iutien In the churehyard ef the old Presbyterian
meeting house In Alexandria. Va. A. the right
10 mrH. Mary c. PoSxi. widow OF s,an officer
who served under Gen. "stone~ali" jackson. who
rediseosereo the grave and led In the movement
20 have IL properly marked. (Phoio b. Harris
and E~ln1l
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-08

las, farewell. Today a great slab OF granite
marks the last resting place Of this Unknown
Soldier OF the Indian wars.
Where sleeps the Unknown Soldler7
Back In 1868 Cen Braxtou Bragg az Tuila-
hoaa Tenn. sent an Official dispatch TO the Con
federate government at Richmond. After paying
high tribute TO the officers serving under him In
the western theaier OF the war. he said
However much Of the credit and glory may
be given. and probably justly given. TO the lead
ers In our struggle. history will yet award the
main honor where IL Is due-to the private sol
der who without hope OF reward and with no
other Incentive than a consciousness OF rectitude
has encountered all the hardshlps and suffered
all the priyations Well has II been said: The
first monument our Confederacy rears should be
lofty shaft. pure and spotless. bearing this In
scriptiOn: To the Unknown and Unrecorded
Dead"
Could Braxton Bragg have looked into the fu-
ture. TO less than three years after the end OF
that struggle. he would have seen erected. near
the home of his comrade In arms and command
Ing general. memorial which honored the mem
ory OF the unknown and unrecorded dead" In
one part OF the national cemetery at Arlington.
former home OF Robert f. Lee, huge mOnu-
ment OF rough-hewn granite and polished marble
bears this inscription:
Beneath this stone repose the bones of 2,l11
unknown soldiers gathered after the war from
the fields Of Bull Run and the route to the Rap
pahannock. Their remains could not be identi-
fed but their names and deaths are recorded In
the archives OF their country and its grateful
citizens honor them of their noble army Of
martyrs May they rest In peace"
Some of them the Union blue and others
the Confederate gray In the War Between the
States. But now their mingled dust is that OF
2,11l Unknown Soldiers-Americans all
Could Braxton Bragg have looked still farther
into the future-to November IL, 1922-this is
what he would have SEEN
a great crowd is gathered at Arlington. which
is a national cemetery. The President of
the United States is paying tribute to soldier
home from the wars.
Today a white marble tomb magnificent In
its simplicity and bearing the inscription: Here
rests in honored glory an American soldier known
but to God" is one Of the most sacred shrines iD
all America.
For there sleeps the Unknown Soldier Of the
World war
G western Newspaper Union.