davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-03-09
LiyerpooI OuotationS.

LIVERPOOL. March 9 lP.-Cotton. N
points higher. Quotations in pence
American strict good middlins 6aT goo,
middling. 6.S1: strict miodling. s Al: MID.
ding. 6.@1 strict low middlnE, s 10: Low
middling. ) SIS; strict eood ordinary, s.
good ordinary. 5.35. Futures closed bareli
steady. March, sol. May 5S3; July
5.14: October, 5.52; December. $40; Jan
uary. 40
Evening star., 1936-03-09

Saturday at the
Willard Hotel when
Carroll G. Day of
Oklahoma City will
be the guest speak
er. More interest
has already been
manifested in this
meeting than has
been evidenced for
a long time in
other sessions.
District under
writers call them
selves lucky to get
Carroll Day on the
monthly luncheon
,0-@~raKN D,Irit1n
Evening star., 1936-03-09
Chicago Grain

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 9-Suggestion
from British sources that Germanyj
military movements in the Rhinelanc
would not cause war led late today W
material fall of wheat prices.
Disappointment was expressed al
absence of any urgent European de.
mand for wheat from Canada. Do,
mestic wheat crop advances continued
Evening star., 1936-03-09
DAY WILL SPEAK
TO UNDERWRITERS
Oklahoma insurance Leader
to Draw Large Crowd for
March Meeting.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

J. E. McCombs, president of the
District of Columbia Life Underwriters
Association, and other officers fore
cast a record March meeting next
Evening star., 1936-03-09
Futures closed steady. unchanged to I
CottOnseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil future: \
closed easy. May, e.35b; July, 9.38
September, 9.31b; October, 907b
Sales, 1873 contracts. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-03-09

Dividend rates as gwen n the above table are the annual
quarterly deca
tAecumulated dividends Paid this
reorsanised < Ex-dividend. = '
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Verdict Nearing
In Torch Killing

WINSTON-SALEM, July %
(UP).-Defense and prosecution
attorneys presented closing argu-
ments to jury of nine married
men and three bachelors today in
the ''torch murder" trial of Sadie
Lawson, 35-year-old illiterate to-
bacco factory worker.
After two prosecution witnesses
had testified, Sadie told them she
poured gasoline on her invalid
mothers bed and set fire to it.
The jury heard her testify she
didn't remember" confessing to
the crime.
w. G. Hobson, Winston-Salem
fire chief, and Police Lieutenant
P. E. Ledwell, who investigated
the fire and found the mothers
chared body in her bed at the
Lawson home, said on the stand
they heard the factory worker ex-
plain that her mother "called me
q vile name, and we quarreled and
poured gasoline on her be6 and
! set fire to it." go.
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MAYOR NAMES
TWOWOMENON
SCHOOLBOARD
Mrs. Franks and Mrs. Just
us First Women Members
in City Annals

The appointment of Mrs. Fred
S. Justus and Mrs. Thomas n.
Franks as members of the city
school board was announced TINS
morning by Mayor A. V. Edwards.
Appointments of Mrs. JustuS
and Mrs. Franks mark the hrst
time in the city's history that Wo-
men have been named to the'
school board.
Mrs. Justus and Mrs. Franks
were named by. the city board OF u
commissioners TO serve terms OF
four years each. They succeed d.
D. Pullen and C. M. Ogle, whose
terms recently expired. >.
In addition to the two LADIES';
other members of the city schooi
board are: R. P. Freeze, chairman
Bryce Drysdale, o. A. Meyer, r.
F. Patton, C. M. Pace, and Z. r.
Stonecipher.
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may have survived was dissipated.
Officers of the Vigilant WIRE
lessed that the drum bore the leg
end 1.-THE Texas Co. No. 3672243:'
A cabled inquiry to the U. 5.
consul at Georgetown as to wheth-
err the Nunoca customarily carried
oil drums brought the following
response: ,.
"Yes....more or less. Approx
mately so galvanized drums OF the
Texas Oil Co."
This circumstance was the
strongest thus far to bolster the
growing belief that an explosion
shattered the boat some time al
ter it sailed from Tampa and that
all hands were. lost "a. - rot
The Vigilant reported the drum
chad not been in the water long
and small pieces OF burned wooe
were sticking to, its top A por'
| CONTINUED on page three) go
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
Set Fifth Annual
Queens Ball At
Flat Rock, Aug. 3
Miss Marie Justus New
Queen; Fred Yelton to
Rule as King

The fifth annual Queens Ball
will be presented at the Flat Rock
gymnasium on Monday evening,
August 3.
Miss Marie Justus, daughter of
Mrs. Tommie Lane Justus, will
reign as the new queen over the
fete, and Fred Yelton, son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Yelton, will rule
as the new king.
Miss Nell Stepp, selected as
Miss Flat Rock, in the 1888
beauty contest, and who played
the role of Duchess of State at
the court last year, will serve as
the retiring queen this year. Miss
Lillian Barber, last years queen,
has since married.
Sponsors for the fete who have
been selected are Miss Jean
Huger, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Huger of Charleston and
Tryon, who will represent Tryon,
and Miss Kitty Brownlee and Miss
Alice Louise Powers of Hender-
sonville. Sponsors for Forest City,
Rutherfordton, Charlotte, Sylvia,
Waynesville, Brevard, Greenville
and Spartanburg are expected to
be named shortly. Sponsors for
the states of Georgia and Florida
are also expected to be named.
The Queens Ball has been held
for the past four years and has
become an outstanding attraction
here. The first scene of the pag-
cant is given to the rule of the
retiring queen and king, who re-
ceive sponsors and chaperons. The
second scene features the passing
of authority to the new king and
] (Continued on page Sky
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RADIO CORPORATION
STRIKE CONCLUDED

CAMDEN, N. j., July % (UP).
Striking employees of the Camden
plant of the Radio Corporation OF
America voted at a mass meeting
late yesterday to end their walk
out and return to work today, ,
The strike, frequently marked
by bloody riots, has been in prog
ress for several weeks.
The strikers-members of the
United Electrical and radio work
ers of America-accepted an
agreement offered by RCA in
which the company recognized the
union as the bargaining authority
for it's members, but not for other
RCA employees.
The company also agreed to
pay wages as high as are paid in
any radio factory in the Camden
Philadelphia zone, will discharge
workers taken in since the walk
out started and will reinstate
strikers without discrimination.
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PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT
OF u. S. LAND RESOURCES
NEW WORK RELIEF OBJECTIVE
Flood Control, Building Of
Fairgrounds to Absorb
Millions =.
BY RICHARD L. HARDNESS
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July %. (UP)
Protection and development of
the nations land resources be-
came a prime purpose OF the gov
ernment's new work-relief pro-
gram last night.
Millions of dollars will be spent
safeguarding New England against
floods, and constructing recrea-
ton parks throughout the rest of
the country.
The money will come from the
81, 425,000,000 appropriated by
congress to make jobs for relief
roll needy during the current fis-
cal year.
Developments yesterday were:
l. Representatives Of six fed
eral agencies, Pennsylvania and
New York, prepared a flood con-
troll program designed to prevent
recurrence of this springs devas-
tation.
2. The Works Prograss admin
istration divided $1,O28,9OO among
26 states and New York City to
develop parks and Fairgrounds.
8. The WPA allotted $310,764
for public utility developments in
Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Mary
land and Rhode Island. The prof.
ects included work on airports,
water and sewer systems.
The flood control conference
brought together Secretary of In
terror Harold L. Ickes, Gen. Ed
ward M. Markham, chief of the
Army Engineering Corps, Abel
Wolman, water expert of the ma
tional resources committee, and
officers of the U. S. Flood Con-
troll Federation.
They decided that. since con-
gress failed to provide funds for
the work at its last session, WPA
and other government agencies
would coordinate their efforts to
start preliminary work on prof.
ects in New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio.
Activity will start next month
with the army engineers survey
ing projects needed most to pre-
vent future floods. WPA will
spend work relief money supply
ing labor to clear dam and reser-
voir sites and new light construc-
ton work.
Then, when congress meets IN
January, President Roosevelt can
present his flood control program
for New England for financing OF
building of the project themselves.
State Senator William B. Rodg-
ers, Pittsburgh, president of the
u. S. Flood Control Federation,
predicted that "actual construc-
ton of flood control reservoirs
should begin sometime in August
of this year"
"I am convinced" he said, "that
the administration proposes to
start within the next few days the
necessary surveys and all other
works preliminary to the actual
construction of reservoirs and col
lateral works to prevent any fu-
ture recurrence of the devastat-
ing floods which have been a men
ace to our people for so many
years."
The WPA playground money,
| to be used only to pay labor, in
cludes the following ALLEGATIONS:
Arkansas $5,751; Mississippi
S715; Kentucky $62,642; South
Carolina $4,000; Tennessee $780,
1O1: Virginia $12,655.
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LEWIS DEFlES
A.F.L. EFFORT
TO TRY HIM
He and Associates Refuse
to Consider Federation
Step Legal
WILL PUSH DRIVE
FOR ORGANIZATION

WASHINGTON, July %. (UP)
John L. Lewis led 100000 or
ganized workers today in an open
revolt against the American Fed
Grafton of Labor executive coun-
ell, declaring "there can be no
surrender"
Refusing with II associated
committee of industrial organiza-
ton leaders to stand trial before
the council on instruction charg-
es, Lewis threatened to carry his
fight to the A. F. of L. convention
this fall.
While disputing authority of
the council to try them August 3,
the ~ C. I. o. leaders, all heads
of powerful unions affiliated with
the A. F. of L., denied any inten-
ton of boiling the federation.
Lewis indicated the c. l. o. will
push vigorously it's drive for or
ganization of $4,000 steel, auto
mobile, rubber and textile work
ers into zone big union" in each
industry. For this activity the
council had threatened to suspend
c. l. o. members.
At conclusion of a secret meet
ing late yesterday Lewis and his
associates sent William Green, A.
F. of L. president, a sharply-word-
ed letter declining to appear for
trial and denying power Of the
council to exile them.
"The council, which incidental
ly has VIGOROUSLY prejudged the
issue, is without authority to dis
member the federation" the let
ter, signed by Lewis, said. "The
C. I. o. declines to submit to its
Jurisdiction"
Lewis emphasized that his quar-
rel is not with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, but with its
crafts-union-dominated executive
council. The decision to ignore
the council summons was unani-
nous, Lewis said.
After acknowledging receipt of
the council summons, Lewis let
ter said "the proceedings you con.
template are wholly unwarranted
by the constitution of the A F..
of L." The constitution, he said,
provides that expulsion can only
take place Eat a regular A. F. OF
l.. convention and upon a two
thirds roll call vote of the dele
gates" -.
Asked directly by reporters if
he would carry the suspension
fight to the floor of the Tampa
convention in November, Lewis
said:
"Deponent sayeth not"
Unless a compromise is reached
within the next IL days, it was re-
garded as certain that the council
will vote suspension of the IL in
surgent unions. Hopes for a COM
promise, however, appeared slim.
Green declined to predict coun-
ell action. 81 do not want to make
| any prediction on what the coun-
ell will do because do not want
to PREJUDICE the case" he said.
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CITY LIBRARY
IS UNIQUE AS
CARNEGIE GIFT
Came Unsolicited by Local
People c. F. Toms,
Sr., Recalls

Probability that Hendersonville
was the only city to ever obtain
a Carnegie library without the So
licitation of the community to An
drew Carnegie and therefore
stands unique among the public
gifts of the late steel magnate is
stressed in correspondence be-
tween Mrs. Lila Ripley Barnwell
and Charles French Toms, Sr.,
giving an authentic account of
the origin of the city library here,
The gift came through the asso-
citation and close friendship of Mr..
Toms with Col. Sylvester Everett,
Mr.. Toms recalls in a letter of To-
cal historic value, which, with a
communication from Mrs. Barn
we'll, follows:
Hendersonville, N. c.,
yes. July %.
Editor, The Times-News:
For some time it has been my
intention to give a brief history
of our Carnegie library. For cor,
rect information / went to Mr.
Toms, to whom we are deeply in
debted for obtaining this valued
gift.
The lot upon which the build
ing stands was the gift of his ia
Their, Captain M. C. Toms. The in
formation from Mr.. Toms was SC
exactly what | wanted that | am
with his permission, asking you to
publish his letter, feeling sure that
it will be of great interest to many
of our people in both the towr
and county.
Very sincerely yours,
LILA RIPLEY BARNWELL.
GIFT RESULT OF A
PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP
Hendersonville, N. c.,
July IA, 1886
Mrs Lila Ripley Barnwell,
Hendersonville, N. c.
My dear Mrs. Barnwell:
Replying to your recent inquiry
as to how we obtained a Carnegie
library in the town of Henderson,
vile, l will be glad to state the
facts to you as to what happened
about the matter, and as to how
the library was obtained.
Colonel Sylvester Everett, who
was one of the most prominent
men in Cleveland, Ohio, and who
was interested in the steel bust
ness with Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
owned what was known as the ole
Lowndes place, near Brevard.
Colonel Everett was one of the
best friends l ever had.
At the time that the library wa'
donated to the town, l was taking
a great interest in politics anc
Colonel Everett requested me tt
(Continued on page three)
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July ~.
UP).-Norris Dam, multi-milllon
dollar unit in Twas farflung pow
err spider web, Monday will begin
producing electrical energy.
Fulfilling the final purpose Tor
which it was constructed at q cost
of more than $30,000,0OO, Norris
next week will send power from
it's generators into the 220mlle
high tension transmission line
linking it with Wilson dam, once a
wartime "white elephant" at Mus
Gle Shoals.
The dam was completed early
this year. This spring, the mon
ster flood gates in the huge con.
crete barrier were closed and
waters of the Clinch river backed
up to form an artificial lake with
a shoreline nearly as long as Lake
Michigan.
It proved its value as a flood
control unit thi sspring when
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
Norris Dam Generators Are Tested;
ToBegin Producing Power Monday

Tennessee rivers rose to flood
stage. Had it not been for wat
ers impounded behind Norris, en-
gineers said. damage might have
been heavy.
It's second purpose is being con-
sumated daily as it; aids in con-
trolling the river level, aiding
navigation in the lower Tonnes
see by release of impounded
waters.
A 24-hour test run Of the first
two turbo-generators at Norris
dam was completed yesterday and
termed q success.
at ran like top" said Ross
White, Twas general construc-
ton superintendent. liz. "a
"There still are q lot of things
to be done before we can turns the
power into the line, but unless
something goes wrong, we will be,
able to begin the test operation
next Monday
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First Baptists
Will Hear Visitor

Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor of the
First Baptist church, this morn
ing announced that a visiting
speaker, in the person of Rev. DR..
B. ". Thomson, will address the
prayer meeting gathering at this
church tonight at eight o'clock.
Rev. DR.. Thomson, noted plat
form speaker and one of the out
standing members of the Southern
Baptist convention, is pastor OF
the First Baptist church at Edge
field, S. c., and is a visitor in the
city for few days.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
'DandOn Hope But Search Pushed
For Missing Ship With q Aboard

EHsnIP5,A Fla, July %. UP1-
| 3 % all hope for survival of
[, - n! men, women and children On
Ia az r. the missing motorship. Nu-
BE- % fsS abandoned early today
| drnH SSoS Very Of a charred metal
/. West. ''''S northeast of
IN, an almost unpreced IE5tad
D No.. ol = cOastguard cutters
thai ya,'2 .. boats was augmented Trea !
|sn nee : Flights of amphibians At Ar
b vs. a.ne-tooth search of tbe
|seI "a a..; % start for the 1iO-foo ,t
/ C%u1en vanished after claar.
& JnI, U'Setown, Gran Cavman
Ill., men the patrol boat vi.i,. =
ktasn,u,p 4 the oil drum last Si ,,i,t'
es o; the final hope that t'9 the H.,
pad tb nine and 10 passengers ers
S Organising Nunoea
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS ARE
SPEEDING TO SPAIN TO GIVE
HELP TO NATIONALS In DANGER
Will Evacuate Americans
in Port Cities if
Necessary
By HOBART c. MONTEE
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July %. (UP)
Two American warships sped to-
ward Spain today, marking the
first time since the World wal. that
U. S. battleships have been des-
patched to European waters TO
protect American lives.
The warships - the battleshlp
Oklahoma, one of the first line
dreadnaughts of the American
navy, and the U. S. S. Quincy,
newest of the navy's 10,0OO-ton
cruisers-were ordered to Spanish
waters late yesterday when dis
patches from the U. S. ambassa-
dor and consuls at various cities
in Spain indicated American lives
might be seriously jeopardized by
the revolution now raging there.
The orders were decided upon
at a conference between Secre--
tarv of State Cordell Hull and
Admiral William H. STANDBY,
chief of naval operations and act
ing secretary of the navy.
The Oklahoma was at Cher
bourg, France, with the squadron
carving U. S. navy midshipmen
on their annual training cruise,
Other vessels in this squadron at
Cherbourg are the battleship Ar
kansas and the U. S. S. Wyoming,
former battleship now obsolete
and partially dismantled. The
SQUADRON is under the command
of Rear Admiral Wilson Brown,
until recently naval aide to Presl'
dent Roosevelt. ;,
The Oklahoma, one of the OLD
battleships but fairly modermzed,
! was ordered TO proceed from
Cherbourg to northern Spain to
get into communication with AM
bassador Claude G. Bowers at San
Sebastian, and with the American
Continued on page slx)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
Violet Ray Destroys Influenza And
Scientists Hope TO End Scourge

DR.. w. F. Wells, an instructor
in sanitary science at the Harvard
school of public health, and DR..
H. w. Brown of the London
school of tropical medicine have
been working a year on the ex-
periments, using a specially-conI-
structed, hermatically-sealed tank.
Continued on page six)
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BY E. DAYTON MOORE

United Press Staff Correspondent
ASHEVILLE, July %. (UP).-
Two negro employees of the fash
ionable hotel where Helen Clev-
enger was attacked and murdered
were added. last night to the list
Of persons held for questioning
about the six-day old crime.
The two negroes = Edward
Fleming, bellhop, and L. D. Rod
dey, elevator operator = were
questioned secretly for more than
two hours by Sheriff Laurence
Brown who then ordered them
locked up in the Buncombe coun-
ty Jail.
Sheriff Brown said last night
that the "key. to the whole situa-
ton" rests with Daniel Gaddy,
nervous hotel night Waterman
who also IS in custody. II don't
suspect him of having committed
the crime" Brown added, "but |
do expect him to tell me some
thing Wednesday,"
A pass key of the type issued
only to hotel employees and found
in the door to the 19-year-old
New York university students
room when she was discovered
ravished, beaten and shot to death
last Thursday morning, "'posl-
lively" was used by the murderer,
the sheriff said.
He would not reveal results OF
his questioning of the two negroes
or why they had been taken into
custody. 1t was believed that Of
ficers may have hoped to learn
from them something about the
mystery of the key, apparently
! the only clue so far unearthed in
the investigation. Both were on
duty the night Of the murder, ac-
cording to the management, al,
though Roddey was discharged
Monday for. "telling lie."
Detention of the negro hotel
employees was announced soon art
err Asheville chief of Detectives
Fred Jones told reporters he was
convicted that Mark Wollner, con-
cert and radio violinist, "is en-
tirely innocent" of any connection
with the fatal assault on the
young New York visitor: :,
Wollner has been held in jail
since Saturday night while county
| officers attempted to "crac k" his
alibi that he was at home in bed
at the time Miss Clevenger was
slain.
Jones-whose statement was
said not to affect the separate In
vestigations being directed by the
county sheriff and the city cher
of police-said "the crime looks
to me like an inside job"
"The man who did this job must
be placed in the hotel by eye.wit-
nesses. So far no witnesses have
reported seeing Wollner within
| five blocks of the hotel on the
night of the murder" he said.
Wollner was taken into custody
after a haberdasher's clerk told
officers he had heard the must
clan say he had "a date" Wed;
nesday night with cir! he had
lust met at the hotel in which
j Miss Clevenger was murdered.
The sheriff has obtained state
ments from eight persons VINO
| Continued on page SIX
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July y:
(UP).-Two Harvard UNIVERSITY
scientists announced today thae
they have discovered a means VI
killing influenza germs by Vlole'
ray and hope eventually to per.
feet a technique that will remo,,s e
the disease from among man .
major scourges.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
VIM. FREEZE HERE
WITH MIAMI FRIENDS

William P. Freeze, son of Mr..
and Mrs. R. P. Freeze, of Hender-
sonville, and member of the staff
of the Miami Tribune; Robert
Quinn, city editor of the Tribune,
and Miss Louise Powers, OF MI
ami, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Freeze.
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o., 1UNO NOT LOWERED

kPt -1HASSEE, Fla, July %.
|,o,ion, = p petition by AL House,
/ , ,otS Tampa payroll bandit,
EjiT S-1 l Of $4,000 bond
IT, i outcome oE litigation by
|rjo," muse hopes to gain a re-
49,, VI sentences, was denied
oy the supreme court.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-22
SONS OF AMERICAN
LEGION WILL MEET

Sons of the American Legion
will meet in a called session
Thursday night at 7:10 o'clock at
the club house, it was announced
today. Important business is to be
considered at that time, it was
stated.
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OPINION WITHHELD

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 22.
(UP).-State Attorney General
Cary D. Lands yesterday declined
to give an opinion of legality of
revocation of Jno. o. McNamara's
commission in the national guard.