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Evening star., 1935-03-17
j. s. AGENT SHOT
IN RAID ON STILL
First Blood Shed in Big
Crime Orive-PIant
Dynamited.

First blood flowed in the Treasury's
Nation wide crime war yesterday dur
ing gun battle between Federal raid
ers and mountain moonshiner about
10 miles from Leesburg, Va.
George Kirkpatrick Of Fairfax Va
investigator for the Treasury's alcohol
tax unit, was shot down in a blast oil
shotgun fire from a white moonshiner
barricaded behind his own barrels at
an apple brandy still. The assailant
escaped
The wounded man was carried more
than a mile through the dense woods
and taken to Loudoun County Hospital
at Leesburg, where he was treated for
wounds in his chest and left arm
Late last night his condition was be-
lieved not to be serious.
Meantime, with a roar of exploding
dynamite, another bootleg still making
rye whisky was blown into bits in a
deep swamp woods near Morgantown
Md. by alcohol tax investigators. Two
colored operators were arrested.
Local Seizure Probed.
In Washington. the Federal men
continued their investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the seizure
Friday night at Twelfth street and
Florida avenue northeast of truck
load of 243 cases of whisky. The driver
Lee Cochran. believed to be of Balti-
more, and a colored helper were ar
rested. The whisky is being tested by
a Federal chemist to determine
whether it Is genuine or an imitation
of a well known brand. Cochran is
being held for investigation. but no
charge has been placed against him.
Investigating the Capitals retail
liquor dealers, alcohol tax agents yes
terday cited 79 for alleged violation
of various excise tax regulations. A
total of $50 was investigated
Throughout the country, the six
enforcement agencies of the Treasury
pushed forward their battle against
many kinds of law violators, driving
the total number of arrests during the
last three days far above 1000 officials
feel arrests will reach 5000.
Results Please Morgenthau.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau was jubilant. and indicated the
anti-crime drive would be continued
indefinitely.
A wide variety of contraband was
being seized, including illicit stills,
narcotics, lottery tickets, silk tapestries,
smuggled live stock, automobiles, cabin
cruisers. spurious Canadian liquor
stamps and counterfeiting plants.
The spectacular gun battle in which
kirkpatrick was shot down took place
in an isolated section below Negro
Mountain in Loudoun County.
kirkpatrick, who formerly worked
at the Capitol here, was one of a
raiding party which came upon the
still in full operation. A colored look
out sounded the alarm as Federal Off
GERS came in view. Immediately a
shotgun appeared above a barricade
OF barrels that barred approach to the
still and opened fire. Kirkpatrick fired
once, but his gun jammed and the
moonshiner blazed away, dropping
Kirkpatrick to the ground.
Exchange Shots With Moonshiner.
The wounded mans companions
Clyde Saunders, Virginia Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board inspector;
Federal Officer Maurice Rosenberg of
Alexandria, and Deputy Sheriff Paul
Alexander-ruShed to KirkpatrickS
aid. They exchanged shots with the
Continued on Page 4, Column So
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Striped Bed Ticking Suit Idea
SnarIs Routine of Relief Heads

the order came down to have the
material dyed.
Dye firms said it would be ex-
pensive to dye the material, and be-
sides, the stripes still would show
up. This has all been sent on to
Washington. but the F. E. r. A. has
remained firm.
"If you don't want the material
and won't dye it, send it back" is
the inflexible order.
Kansas officials were figuring to-
day on making some of the ticking
into mattresses and maybe dyeing the
rest as best they can.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Versailles Pact Violation by
Others Charged in Resuming
Compulsory Military Service.
FIEHRER REAFFIRMS PACIFIC
INTENTIONS In BURSTING TIES
Frances Action in Introducing Two
Year Obligatory Training Requires
Move, Says Chancellor.
tcopyright. 1885. by the Associated PressJ

BERLIN March 16The German government declaring Ger
longer obligated under the Versailles treaty today
nounced approximate quadruping of its regular army
(Under the Versailles signed at the OF the
Germanys ornaments sharply restricted and
standing army limited 100000
simultaneously Chancellor Adolf Hitler laShing out bitterly
disclosed that the cabinet in
military the Reich the French
increasing the of onScrpt service to two
of IL Army Corps.
provided that Germanys
time shall IL three divisions each
SO devsons in all 1t will number according to Semiocal
estimates, from 325000 to 100000.
"a dispatch from London said Hitler blunty told
Phpp the British Ambassador that the German Army
will number 100000 men,
Fuehrer reiterang GermanyS peaceful intentions said
her national safety demanded increased
Evening star., 1935-03-17
VANDALS TRY TO LOOT
TOMB OF "IRON KING"
Crypt Containing Body of Peter
Donahue, California Rail
Magnate, Guarded.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March l6.-At-
temptS to rob the tomb of Peter Dom
ahue, San Francisco's early day Iron
king" we're discovered by police here
today. A double guard was established
at the expensive crypt containing the
The vandals pried loose granite
slabs walling up two Of the ornate
caskets which contain the bodies Of
two small Donahue children.
Whether anything of value had been
taken was not apparent to police.
Peter Donahue was a 49er and
later became a financial factor in
coastal railroad development.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
WIRE FIRM WINS RIGHT
TO MARYLAND PLANT
Williamsport Company Receivers
Authorized to Pay $S7 900
on Factory Balance.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
wILLIAMSPORT, Pa. March TO-
Federal Judge Albert w. johnson to-
day granted receivers of the williams
port Wire Rope Co. permission to pay
the balance of $4,000 necessary to
take over ownership Of the company's
branch plant at Sparrows Point, Md.
The Maryland plant has been the
property Of the Beth-Mary Steel Corp,
a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel
Co. Attorneys for the Bethlehem
company offered no objections to the
court order.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
UTILITY INVESTORS
NAME D. c. DELEGATE
Kansans Elect Former Gov. Clyde
M. Reed to Act at Bill
Hearing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., March 16.-Two
hundred Kansas investors in public
utilities securities voted today to send a
representative to Washington to repre-
sent them during hearing on the
Rayburn utility bill, pending in Con-
gress. They asked former Gov. Clyde
M. Reed to act for them.
William A. Biby, who called the
meeting, said that in addition to the
200 persons at the meeting he held
proxies from 1.500 other persons. The
meeting was called for tn announced
purpose of protecting interests of in
vestors in connection with pending
legislation.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Hits Others Violations.
He cited rearmament throughout
Europe, assailed violation of the Ver-
sailles pact on the part of other pow
ers and said under these conditions
Germany had to take the necessary
measures to put an end to her de-
fenselessness."
Rushing back to Germany from
Berchtesgaden to shepherd the big
army" decree through the cabinets
secret early morning meeting, the
chancellor issued an impaSSioned ap-
peal to the German people. saying
Germany is compelled to take her
military fate in her own hands.
When Germany laid down her
arms and submitted to humiliating
conditions in 1918" he said, "she
hoped to serve humanity.
81" Only because Germany ex-
pected that general international dis
armament would follow in the wake
of Germany's disarmament was she
willing to destroy her vast military
equipment.
No Paeification Resulted.
"No real pacification followed, yet
Germany fulfilled all the inter-allied
conditions"
Germany, the leader said "had the
right to ask that the others disarm"
because she herself was disarmed and
because the Versailles treaty obli-
gated the others to diSarm.'
Other European nations, however
"disregarded our pleas" the chancellor
continued, "and the world resounded
again with cries of war"
He recalled Germany's willingness
to enter ..scuSsions Of pacific plans,
"defeated by other nations" and said
'the equality promised us in Decem-
Der. 1882 (when other powers de-
cided to recognize Germany's right
to theoretical equality provided an
acceptable treaty was negotiated).
was also rendered illusory.'
THE new (NazD government,
therefore, found itself unable to con-
tinue in the League of Nations and
in the Disarmament Conference.
Zone National Aim"
Protesting that "the German gov
ernment has but one moral and ma
tional aim: To safeguard the worlds
peace" der Fuehrer said:
I'm an historically almost un-
precedented manner, We brought
about political and military sacrifices,
yet to our regret the rearmament OF
the rest continued apace.
Thus Soviet Russia alone has a
peace army Of 100000 men. Similar
measures have been taken by other
nations"
The French governments action in
introducing two-year compulsory
military training, Hitler said, was the
last warning that Germany hence
forth must look out for herself.
Declaring there is no longer any
purpose in keeping the German people
In ignorance of what the government
is doing" der Fuehrer asserted Ger
many wishes to safeguard her terri
torial integrity and command inter-
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Evening star., 1935-03-17
FRANCE CONSU[TS
S|GNERS OF PACT
ON GERMAN MOVE
British Hold Superiority,
Not Equality, in Arms Is
Inspiration.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March l6-France tonight
started consultation with other sigma
tories of the Versailles Treaty con-
cerning German institution of COM
pulsory military service.
French diplomats at European capt.
tails were ordered to get Immediately
in touch with the governments to
which they are accredited to discuss
what steps, if any, shall be taken.
1t appeared the whole question OF
the strength of Frances Army, be-
iieved to have been settled in the
Chamber of Deputies vote increasing
the Army period of service to two
years, might be thrown wide open
as a result of the German action.
Frances Army 100000.
Frances Army theoretically num-
bers 900 900 men, of which at least
one-third are stationed in the COL
onies. If Germany maintains the
600, 900 men which French Army men
believe she has. she has so per cent
more men on the continent.
If conscript forces be added to the
present ReichSwehr, it was suggested
in some quarters that the army might
reach such size as to arouse French
fears and result in demands for fur
ther increase in the French Army
through still longer service.
The German governments action
led France to picture Europe again in
two armed camps, struggling for the
balance of power. just as before the
devastating World War.
The elaborate set-up of anti-war
and mutual assistance pacts has been
definitely wrecked, officials said pri-
vately
The government for the moment
was silent on its policy. while Premier
Pierre -Etienne Flandin and his cab
met minister consulted.
Capitals Linked by Phone.
A telephone network hooking up
London, Rome, Brussels and the Little
Entente with Paris brought grave"
comments from the other capitals.
War was openly discussed in the
chamber at midnight by the govern
ment opposition when Flandin was
forcing through his two-year military
service plan, to which Hitler today
gave defiant reply.
The very sequence of events in 1918
was recalled. In January of that
year Germany suddenly ordered its
army increased, and on August T.
1918, the French Parliament voted
extension of its military service from
two to three years.
Economies have trimmed minis
terial expenses. but Frances 1885 ma
tional defense budget slightly exceeded
previous budgets. 1t totaled 12.000.-
100000 francs. part of which goes to
rebuild aviation. modernize and mo-
torize the army, extend western for
tifications and store up ammunition
reserves.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
BY the Associated Press.

TOPEKA, Kans., March 16.-
Stripes are giving Kansas officials Of
the F. E. r. A. spots before the eyes.
Kansas relief headquarters has re-
ceived 100000 yards of blue and
white striped bed ticking from the
Federal Government with instructions
some of 1t should be made into over
alls and jackets for men on relief.
After sending the ticking Federal
relief authorities apparently feared
the striped material would make the
relief workers look like convicts. So
Evening star., 1935-03-17
RAIL SALE PROTESTED
China Reasserts Her Interest in
Chinese Eastern Railway.

OHI1l1OoO ~1tfSeC11 II 1ses1I " "J'
SHANGHAI, March 16 (P).-China' S
Nationalist government told the world
tonight it objects to Russia's sale Of
the Chinese Eastern Railway to the
puppet regime" (Manchoukuo).
An official spokesman said the gov
erlment addressed notes to the United
States, England, Japan, France, Italy,
Holland, Portugal and Belgium saying
although the formal signing of the
Sino-E Eastern Railway transfer agree
ment is slated for March %, China
continues to reserve its rights and in
terests in the road, despite its illegal
sale"
Evening star., 1935-03-17
SUPERIORITY HELD AIM
British Cabinet Committee to Dis
cuss Move Today.

LONDON. March 16 (P.-Germany
shocked all Europe today by assum-
ing the equality she had long de-
manded, evoking an official British
announcement that Germany has
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Evening star., 1935-03-17
WEATHER.

tU. 8. weather Bureau F0recastJ
Cloudy with mild temperature followed
by light rain today, colder this afternoon,
much colder tonight; tomorrow fair and
much colder. Temperatures-Highest, 70,
at $3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest. So, at $50
am. yesterday. Full report on page B-4.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
Another Arrest
Made In Robbery
OF Mars Fiji Bank
Curly Nichols, Alias Ander-
SON, Will Be Arraigned
in Roanoke Today

ASHEVILLE, Dec. 24.-Curly
Nichols, alias Eddie Nichols, alias
Eddie Anderson. was arrested in
Marion. Va, Yesterday on charges
of participation in the robbery Of
the Mars Hill branch of the Citi-
Zens Bank of Marshall last Sep
TENDER.
Nichols was arrested by federal
agents while being shaved in n
barber shop. and was reported 10
have said he was glad it was all
over. Nichols is the last of the six
bandits to be arrested. Kyle Ram
sey, of Newport. Tenn. the fifth.
is now in Jail at Knoxville and will
be brought to Asheville.
Four men have been convicted
for the robbery and are now serv-
ing long terms, and Cecil Buckncr
is serving a sentence for harbo"-
ing the men after the robbery.
Evidence offered at the trial C
the four men named Nichols rs
the man who shot Miss Dorothy
Sanderlin, college student, during
the robbery.
Nichols will be taken before TIE
U. S. commissioner at Roanoke to-
day for arraignment, and 1t Is
planned to bring him to Ashevllle
after the hearing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
WINTER GRIPS,
z CAR0LINAS
Zero Temperature Record
ed at Henderson; New
Snow Here Foreseen

With weather forecasts predict
ING colder weather and cloudy
skies, the prospects again were
that the Carolinas would have q
white Christmas for the first time
in several years.
In Hendersonville today skies
were overcast and it looked like
more snow for Christmas. Tenn
peratures fell during the night and
were lower this morning than yes
terday afternoon. A cold wind
blew clouds out of the northwest.
Warm weather was forecast for
TODAY in eastern North and South
Carolina, in the grip of icy winter
weather for the past three days.
Henderson reported tempera-
ture of zero yesterday; Greens
boro reported one degree above
and Winston-Salem four degrees
above. Snow which fell over the
Carolinas Sunday remained on the
ground. nj.
Ten inches of snow fell at Eliza
beth City, the heaviest since 1921
Raleigh, with low temperaturc
of 10 above zero, reported a II
inches of snow over the weekend;
Columbia reported Is degrees and
Spartanburg % for low readings
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
POULTRYMEN OF VINO.
TO GATHER JANUARY 4
CONTINUED from mage cnel

(Continued from mage cnel
ference is expected from all west
crn counties of the state. About
fifty are expected TO go from
Henderson county for the meet
ing. Through the offices of the
extension department at State
college, all county agents are be-
ing urged to attend and bring IN
terested persons from their coun-
ties. Teachers Of vocational agri-
culture in the high schools are
likewise being specially invited to
attend and bring their advanced
students.
The committee in charge of ar
engagements for the meeting IS
composed of l.. II. Mckay of
Hendersonville, w. X. Pike of
Skvland, and Mr.. Hood van den
Arend. Of Fairview. 1t expects to
announce the full and detailed
program for the meeting in the
near future. 1t is known at this
time, however, that the principal
sneaker will be Mr.. Alfred Scar
borough. president Of the Colum,,
bia Bank for Coopcratives, and
director of the Federal Land
bank. Columbia, S. c. Others eS-
pected to be present, and take
part in the program, are DIR. L.
4. Dearstync, C. F. Parrish of n.
G. State college, and T. I. Brown
of Raleigh, of the state. depart
mont Of agriculture.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
J. S. SARGENT
MISSES DEATH
Confined to Home 10 Days,
Car Halts at Edge of
Precipice i

Friend Of J. S. Sargent will be
glad to know that he is able to be
out again after being confined to
his home for the past ten days rs
a result of injuries sustained when
his car skidded on the icy pave
ment en- December ~. -
Mr.. Sargent was driving from
Sylvia to Franklin in a binding
snow and just after passing Cur
rahee mountain gap, an altitude
of $500 feet on a down grade and
curve the car skidden and ran
over a deep culvert. The car
struck a rocky cliff, turned COM
pletely around and started back
wards over a thousand foot cliff
when the rear wheel collapsed and
stopped the car.
The accident was the first ex.
perienced by M. Sargent after
travelling Southern States for the
past 20 years. !,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
Currency Imitation

Currency imitation is dispropOrtion-
ate and relatively sharp and sudden
increase in the quantity of money
or credit or both, relative to the
amount of exchange business, notes
a writer in the Indianapolis News.
Such an increase may come as a
result of an unexpected addition TO
the srpnly Of precious metals, or
in times of business activity by eX.
pansiOn OF credit through the
banks. 1t may come in times Of
financial difficulty by government
issues of paper money without ade-
quate metallic reserve and without
provision for conversion into stand
ard metallic money on demand.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
PERSONAL,
PARAGRAPHS

Mrs. Horace Leconey and dauyh.
ter, Miss Caroline B. Leconey, of
Noristowp, n. j., arrived TO-DAY
FOR a holiday visit to the formers
son, Mr.. Fl. NJ. Leconey. and fam
lily in the Bellevue apartments.
Mrs. Mortimer Dantzler and
daughter, Irma Elizabeth, of Co
mmbia, s. c., are here to spend
Christmas with Mrs. w. II. Justus
where Mr.. DGntzler will join them
later.
Miss Winona Ewbank attended
the Christmas dance given by the
Charlotte Cotillion club on Friday
evening and one ut the Charlotte
Country club on Saturday even
ing.
Mir. Joseph Patterson, student
at Vanderbilt university, Nash
vile, Tenn. is here for the Christ
mas vacation.
Mrs. 0. Z. Sheriff. left Tuesday
afternoon for Miami to spend the
Christmas holidays with her chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Fra6y, and
James and Charles Sheriff..
Mr.. Marion Justice, who teaches
at Lexington, is at home.
Thomas HudgenS is here from
Pa. State College at Mont Alto.
James Pace, of Brevard college,
at Brevard, is spending the ho.i-
days here.
Bennett Hunter, who attends
Emory at Oxford, Oxford, Ga, is
spending the Yuletide with his
aunt. Miss Haskin.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. /. Hodges, of
Landrum, S. c., will be Christmas
guests of Mrs. Mabel Baughman.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
PRESENTED

An attractive Christmas pro-
gram of songs, readings and a hit
tie play, appropriately, called
Christmas" was presented by
the following small folks of the
School for Little Folks: Evelyn
Lane, Josephine Overton, Mary
Ann Manassa and Margaret Stone
cipher. A lighted tree and other
decorations made the setting eff
fective and the children brought
a large number of gifts for the
less fortunate children
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
Selling Short

To sell short Is to sell securities
with the expectation that one will
be able to purchase again at a low
er price: in other words, says a
writer in the Detroit News, 1t
amounts to speculating for a de-
cline in pr.seS. The word short
in this sense means lacking" or
mot being in possession of the Sc
curitieS that are being sold" The
stocks are borrowed for the trans
action; if in the interval between
selling and buying the stocks have
declined the trade is profitable and
if there has been an advance II is
Improbable. If the seller actually
owns the stock he is not SELLING
short.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
900 ETHIOPIANS
KILLED IN BATTLE

Copyright, 1885, United Press)
ASMARA, Dec. "a. (UP)-Six
hundred Philippians We're killed
and 1000 wounded in terrific
hand-tO-hand fighting Sunday ~
the Tambein sector Of the north-
ern front, it was announced last
night.
Italian losses were FIVE white
officers killed, three wounded and
100 native Askaris wounded.
The Philippians, numbering s.
600, exhibited craftsmanship by
picking off the white officers one
after another in the battle which
began at 9 a. m. in the Tanqua
river valley near Add abb and
Enda Marian and lasted until i
p. m.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
ITALIANS PUT ASIDE
THE HATREDS OF WAR

Continued from page one)
night but just before they were
scheduled to land the soldiers, got
up steam and left for an unknoTwn
destination-reportedly near tho
Libyan frontier.
Italian residents of Port Said
have been advised to be in readi.
ness to leave for Trinoli on shot
notice.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
Street Under Tree Canopy

The main street in the mountain
town of Jefferson, n. c., lies I'M
der a canopy of huge cherry trees
on each side with limbs interlOcked
in the center
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24

Flora in Greece Is Richest
The flora in Greece is the richest
in number Of species, cnnSiderin!
the area covered, in all Europe.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
L.TIONS ISSUED TO
|suINC AFFAIR

allowing invitations which
Seen received by some
h in the city are Of much
4 interest here:
(l,-a1ant Colonel and Mrs.
psinh Cabot Holiday
y Ms. John Edward Agnew
f. Oliver Bond. Junior
- the pleasure of your
company
,ea dance in honour of
Il. Dorothy Ann Holiday
4 Elizabeth Holmes Agnew
Mss Mary Ellen Bond
L;sr. December the thirtieth
-.,tsirtv to Seven-thirtv
t.,sr Hall-Fort Moustrie
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24

Chinese Students Come to u. S.
China sends more students to
America than does any other for
eign country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24

The fact that Governor Landon
wears old clothes won't help him
much. Roosevelt has the old
clothes vote.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24
Use for MaCuetic Mop

a magnetic mop is used in at
electric research laboratory TO re-
trieve steel hall bearings and Sho,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24

There's always something. A big
family is expensive and a little one
isn't enough for bridge.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-24

Awful thought! When every
body else is employed, the relief
workers will all be out of jobs.