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The times-news., 1936-08-22
OFFICERS FAIL
TO FIND ROPER
Brother of Alleged Arsen-
ist Held in Jail
Escape -

John Roper, who was being held
in the county Jail on a charge OF
arson in connection with the burn
ing of the home of R.. L. Moody,
near Osceola Lake, on June IA OF
this year, escaped from the county
jail yesterday afternoon between
2 and 8 o'clock. .
Roper was the object of an all
night search by some ten or twelve
officers, but had not been captur-
ed this morning. The search was
being continued today.
However, Charlie Roper, brother
of the escaped prisoner, was ar
rested last night about II o'clock
by members of the posse in the
barn of Will Shepherd, in the
Green River section, about seven
or eight miles from Henderson
vile. .
Charlie Roper was sleeping in
the barn and was arrested by OFF,
GERS before he had an opportunity
to offer resistance. He is said to
have been an accomplice in the
escape. =.
Charlie Roper went to the jail
yesterday afternoon, according to
information obtained from the
sheriff's department this morning.
1t was said that a prisoner had just
been taken from the Jail and the
jail keys had been left on a table
in the kitchen of the jail.
Roper, said to have recently
completed a seven-year sentence,
took the keys, went to the second
floor, unlocked the outer door and
released his brother from the room
| in which he was confined, it was
said.
Officers said the two men then
left by the side door Of the jail
and the back gate to the fence
surrounding the building. They
said John Roper was without
shirt and that he was given one
by Charlie Roper, who was with
out a shirt when arrested las
night.
Charlie Roper told officers las
night after his arrest that ne hae
known the numbers on the jal
keys for seven years.
After releasing his brother
Charlie Roper left the jail keys OF
the bed in the room where Johl
was confined.
The escape was discovered 1
few minutes after the two mel
had left the Jail and search wa
Immediately begun.
John Roper had been bound tt
the October term of the superio1
court by Magistrate j. F. Brooks
and was being held without bond
It was alleged that he fired thf
home of his father-in-law, h. l.
Moody, last June.
The house was burned while
members of the family were al
church and was complete loss.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
Set Net Finals
.Fo'r's3 Sunday

y
Finals of both mems doubles
and mixed doubles Of the city ten
mis- tournament will be played to-
morrow afternoon, beginning at 3
o'clock at Boyd Park. i
Mel Lane and H. A. Smith will
meet Fred Conger and Ivan Smith
in the mems doubles; and Mrs. An
drews and Charley Cheves will
meet Miss Pat Collier and Bob An
ders in the mixed doubles. =,
Mrs. Andrews and Cheves de-
feated Ivan Smith and Mrs Whaa
ley yesterday morning in q close
three-set match and Miss Collier
and Anders defeated Mrs. Ball
and Fain in another close three
set match yesterday afternoon.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
Local Boy Is On
Destroyer Sent to
Spanish Waters

Word has been received here
that Carl Lenoir Wall, gunner's
mate, second class, is serving on
board the U. S. S. Hatfield, one
of the naval destroyers that has
been sent to Spanish waters dur
ing the trouble in Spain.
Young Wall is a native of this
county and his home address is
,Hendersonyhle. route a. He was
home on. a furlough in June. Since
his enlistment he has Travelled IN
Alaska, Hawaii, Haiti Cuba, Pan
ANA, and the Midway Islands.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
Special Services
At Grove Street

At Grove Street Gospel church
there will be three services TO-
morrow with Rev. w. Norman
Greenway preaching. These ser ser
vices will be held at II a. m.' 8
p. m. and 8 p. m. Mr.. GreenWay
is holding an evangelistic meeting
in the church auditorium, ana
there will also be services eacn
night during next week at elght
o'clock. =,
A hearty invitation is extended
to the public.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
MERCHANTS TO SEE
SALESMANSHIP FILM

Hendersonville merchants and
employees will attend a special
showing of an educational film at
the Carolina theatre at 8 p. m.
Sunday. The film is on salesman
ship and is being shown through
the courtesy of the Coca-Cola Bot
tling company and the theater.
No admission will be charged, and
anyone interested is invited.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
BLACK legion
MEN. ARRESTED
13 Jailed in Plot to Seize
Government Buildings;
Others Sought

DETROIT, Aug. 22.-(UP):-
Thirteen alleged leaders in the
Black Legion plot to seize govern
ment buildings and arsenals by
force were held in Jail today while
authorities concentrated their eff
forts on a search for the remain
ing nine, still at large.
Authorities are slowly rounding
up 22 persons indicted by Judge
James Chenot's one man grand
iury.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
ID OVERCOME BY GAS

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. 22. (UP).
Fourteen men working on the
government dredge Chinook, in
Tampa Bay, were overcome today
by gas which escaped from mud
dredged from the channel bottom.
Their condition was not serious.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
Green River To-
Have A Revival

Revival services will begin at
the Green River Baptist church on
Sunday, August %, and Will be
held at II o'clock in the morning
and 7:3O in the evening. -,
Preaching for these services Will
be led by the pastor, Rev s. r
HuntIey. and William BradleYn !,
, The public is invited to attend
these services. ~. -.....g ba",..
The times-news., 1936-08-22
Methodist Men
To Hear. Seagle

The Rev. J. C. Seagle, formerly
pastor of the Episcopal church at
Brevard, and now residing at
Charleston, S. c., will address the
Mems Bible class of the First
Methodist church on Sunday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. All men, espe-
cially visitors, are invited to at
tend
The times-news., 1936-08-22
GIVEN
|FDGE NOT TO
|lEST SHIPS.
L.,, Wrath Rises E as
Fleet COncentra-
hon Alleged
kllSTS CLAIMING
MANY OFFENSIVES
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1886, United Press)
developments in the
II evil war include:
fION.-Spain takes an I'M
= ssD To placate Europe,
Is, herself not to molest
| S.Ds on the high seas and,
Lis. the ships of another
Suy-German wrath is riS-
,1,x Russia and alarmist
sr circulating in Germany
n, me alleged Russian fleet
..-a.;5n in the Baltic sea.
loyaliSt often
4 yyogressing on eight of
i, :,or;s with the northern
/ a~r of General Mola, de-
Il 70 fghy to the finish, or
E. for a north and south
ssains, Madrid.
Of rebels
,a1eh.ered in the loyalist
|rs Of Giion.
42S.-The war is reported
Ia,s COS. an estimated O,OOO
and }5.OOO.OOO.OOO. The end
h :ar away.
again re-
\ the bombardment of San
,SiaT.
ta.s civil war closed its fifth
/ Friday with military opera
On the peninsula Stalemated
International tension relaxed
IIys final acceptance of the
b. proposals for a neutrality
tgyec,S of an international
Of non-intervention bright
u a time when a food Of
IS and warnings threatened
/ OF Indirect. humane or ag-
|E7e. Intervention.
F.aia followed similar German
= with a threat to fire on
Fi ships or planes interfering
british shipping. Poland pro-
| :ae shooting of one of her
|agy coNsulS and Argentina
/ 70 effect observance of the
| Of var.
EIrch intervention in the
FEss: resulted in negotiations
--Ce IN tgntlng around San
|S2a2 and Irun.
ne military sphere both the
P and Barcelona govern
F moved desperately to ter
Z :ae Stalemate. The tough
s,:egs available to the popu-
Fo': went into action in Es-
pil-a TO meet rebel Moors
?a1lsh Foreign Legionnaires
On Madrid. Strong col
q red militia moved to the
f.; reOel StrongholdS at Cor
|1t Zaragoza.
Emilio Mola, commanding
Esn rebel forces, moved his
.a;:ers from Burgos to Val
y oO miles nearer Madrid.
Nson indicated an early, de-
a1enSlye against the capital.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
attle Paper Is
depended Until
Fharge Is Aired

i LIE, Washn., Aug. 22.-
T. ,~-tSeriunctory S picketing to-
= me only outward sign in
: "spapermen's strike which
\. taEped p the presses of the
- s,O5S'-i,ntel.igencer 1 for eight
e. oot6 sides awaited the
4. S5I p Tor September 8 be-
,riaiN regional Labor board on
t:oo. fG 5 Charges that the Post
!, 'saeer 81 discharged two en-
VII account Of guild activi-
The times-news., 1936-08-22
PdEHdence In
PlanOnd Murder. |.

IA I,i P,o..N \, Y, Aug. % CUP)
kdest,iTr,oe Thomas Dewey,
YorI z. vice and crime in
; hars C,ly today was report
! NAV uncovered information
|Rg The .Ios.3I possibly be helpful in
E,aai3 Saa IN 1881. u JACK 'Legs)
|Sieito S5fod ;,5, r5,sDortedIy controlled
tQrir5so 5oor traffic of several
feGy s,,,plyi Prohibition. Dewey
Nss but stumbled 5o oJs on the new
he refused to discuss
The times-news., 1936-08-22
200 COMMUNISTS SLAIN

SALAMANCA: Spain, Aug. ~.
(UP)-The United Press cores,
pondent at Tome Viera reported
TODAY that 800 Communists were
killed by regular soldiers OF the
Rebel forces in a clash at Naval
peral.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
GOOD AFTERNOON

Prince Otto has waited SO long
to become ruler of Austria he is
beginning to think he is only a
Per-Hapsburg. -..-,.
The times-news., 1936-08-22
WEATHER

,,onJy tonight and SUM-
rdy elouN'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
THAT DEATH SENTENCE"

THREE ways in which utility companies may
comply with the death sentence" of the Holding
Company Act without harm to investors are outlined
by Roger w. Babson, business analyst and statis-
tician, n the current Public Utilities Fortnghtly.
Holding companies swap entire properties,
that each company will have not more than two
disconnected and separate units he says eff util-
ity arrangements would spend more time in studying
the game of chess and less time with attorneys
the common stockholders in my humble judgment
would be better off, There is nothing in the Holding
Company Act to hurt the value of any operating
company"
His second suggestion:
Holding companies can continue to own 10 per
cent OF any number of companies. For instance
Electric Bond & Share owns only about 30 per cent
of of its largest subsidiaries 1t could sell 10 per
cent to two other holding companies. 49,.
"A group of public utility officials could sit around
the table and carry out this program if they have
the RICH; spirit. The result would be that holding
company instead of having 100 per cent of 10 COM
panies would have 10 per cent of 100 companies. !.
From investors point of view holding company
owning 10 per cent of 100 companies would have bet
ter Investigation and be a better investment"
The third suggestion:
Holding companies continue with their
present holdings providing they give up the voting
control This could be done very easily by turning
the common stock into two classes of common stock
"a Glass "A common which the public would hold
carrying voting privileges, and Glass B common
which the holding company would RETAIN carrying
no voting privileges. This would be perfectly sat
isfacory to the government, it would need to cause
no loss to stockholders and the subsidiaries might
be just as we'll Off"
All these suggestions made by government
officials while the holding company bill was pending
in Congress.
MIR. Babson adds: II fear that some of my utility
friends have got excited and disguised in their
reading of the act that they have thrown down
and have not read it wholly through"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IND you ever notice that women who busily are
~ pursuing their own careers always are bursting
into print with advice to the homebodiesq We have
an over-supply of such experts, with no experience
whatever, who are ready to expound their theories
on domesticity and child training and love
Any wife has right to feel irritable when some
career woman in Office sets out to tell her how
to manage her husband and family, especially when
the career woman has neither We can excuse that
however because there is always the good intention
behind the deed It's when the moving picture stars
(object, PUBLICITY begin handing out matrimonial
advice that feel revolutionary
For example, this sweet little bit from Miss Bette
Davis, who writes: Having breakfast with your
husband is equivalent to committing matrimonial
suicide"
Yes the editors print that, giving it big display
too. For what reason, heaven alone can tell unless
they aren't interested in the home, or think any
bodys going to pay attention to Miss Davis anyway
1t seems to me Hoywoods stars have done
enough to disrupt manners and morals by their
screen antics and divorce court behavior without
turning into domestic oracles for the lay woman.
In this respect the American wife is subject to
insult 1t is presumed that she knows nothing what
about her job whether it be cooking prunes,
washing babies managing husbands thousand
haf-baked theorists are after her with fool rules
few of which will work this side of heaven.
BY The time you've lived with the same husband
for 90 years you're so tired Of hearing such advice
that you hope Miss Davis and all her jejune anna
teurs will go take walk with Al Smith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Questions and Answers

iect, and Samuel insult is nat
uraliZed American.
O-Are murder and assassination
synonymous?
A-They have the same meaning
except that the latter term is gen.
orally applied to murder of public
or eminent persons, treacherously
undertaken under the impulse OF
partisanship, or secret assault.
Q-When and how did Terence
McSwiney, lord mayor of Cork
Ireland, die?
Acct. 25, 1920, in Brixton prison,
after fasting for "a days.
Q-Give the figures for the
male and female Negro population
of the United States?
A-The 1880 census enumerated
5,855, 669 males and 6,035,474 fe-
males.
Q-What is the annual consump-
ton of anthracite and bituminous
coal in the United States?
Am 1884 the estimated con-
sumption was: Bituminous, BAG, 070.-
900 tons; anthracite, SIS, AGO. 900 tons.
Q-What does picturesque mean?
A-Pertaining to picaroons. or
rogues; said of style of literature
dealing with rogues popular in
Spain in the seventeenth century.
Q-What IS the weight of the
obelisk in New York known as
"Cleopatra's Needle?
A-Apprtximately 200 tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

rough stuff" The National Guard
merely uholds the law of the state
in such cases as the New Albany
trouble; if it was an injustice to you
and yours it was still the law.
Now it stands to reason that if
you do not favor such activities
change the law If you think that
the members of the National Guard
delight in working on the work
ing man you are mistaken.
Furthermore, you will find that
in any strike the trouble never
starts until the strike breakers
enter. There is the solution-elinl-
mate the strike breaker.
You say that it is a disgrace to
the United States Army for the N
g. to wear the uniform of the
Army. A large number of the Of
flcers and enlisted men of the N. G.
are men with service in the World
War BY that I mean service.
don't mean a couple of months in
some camp in the United States.
Furthermore, without the Nation
al Guard the defense forces would
be inadequate. Perhaps you are
not aware of the fact that the Ma
tional Guard is part of the Army
in case of war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

lowed to prevail, will greatly impair our fundamental
law. Zone of these Justice BrandeisJ
-Four Of our incumbent justices beyond the
retiring age Of TO- and the next President will prob
ably be called upon to appoint their successors There
is greater domestic issue in this election than the
maintenance of the Supreme Court, the bulwark
to enforce the guaranty that man shall be de-
prived Of his property without due process of law.
Who can be better trusted to do this-Mr. Cox,
the party successor of Mr. Wilson. Mr.. Harding,
the standard-bearer of the Republican Party?"
The first "a justices of the Supreme Court left the
bench, either by death retirement, at average
of little past 60 But the next "a justices
aged just past 10 when they departed. The 20 just
preceding the present membership averaged frac-
ton under &c, End the present nine average few
months over re.
Justice Brandeis is 79, Van Devarter rs, McReyn-
dds IA. and Sutherland and Hughes 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY IS. 1885.
NEW HOMES FOR OLD

OUTLINES of the proposed new Wagner bill hold
- out promise of cohesive program heretofore
lacking in the New Deals ambitious rehousing plans.
1t is proposed, first that the Federal government
withdraw from the field Of slum clearance, except
through low-interest loans and grants cities for
this purpose. Instead of the earlier grandose project
of spending billion dollars at for this purpose
the new program contempates Federal grant
subsidies covering 1O-year program, spending pos
siby $300,000000 year.
For speeding up private home building in the
middle brackets it is proposed that government
guaranteed first mortgages 80 per cent of the
building cost for houses under $4,000 in value, in
stead Of 30 per cent now. This should enable
more small-income families to build than now find
it possible. Under the plan man wanting to build
$4,000 home would need only $500 cash. borrowing
the rest from his bank under 2O-year amortized
loan
To continue aid for modernization and repair
work the bill will extend the present acts
mortgage guarantee provisions expiring April for
another year.
Most important from social viewpoint are the
plans for slum abatement. With the best intentions
in the world the Administration has made precious
little progress in rehousing slIm dwellers Vainly
1t has tried out loans to limited dividend corpora
tons Almost vainy it has sought to rebuild
Stun areas directly PWA is busy on so tene-
ment projects to rehouse 900 families. The noun
tain has labored, mouse is born.
The new formua-Federal subsidies to cities-is
we believe, the answer to the problem of arge-scale
Stun clearance Private capital isn't interested in
really low-cost housing, 1t is quite as futile to
expect Uncle Sam to act as landlord to millions of
tenement dwelero Cities alone do the job. To
prepare the way for utilizing Federal grants and
credit the states should that their laws permit
the creation of city housing authorities
1t is estimated that there are six million sub
standard homes in the United States These
wreched dwellings are hazardous from every social
viewpoint, for they breed communicable disease,
delinquency, crime and danger of fire 1t is not only
morally right that public dollars go into their
destruction it is economic horse sense.
The millions spend in decent housing for our
multitudes will pay big dividends in lowered health
police and fire budgets we'll in better type of
humans in the generations to come
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
FROM THE RECORD

Rep Gross Cd. Text afraid of this tender
socitude being displayed for the rights of the
states For whenever state enacts a law to pro-
tect its people from monopolstic depreciation these
who are showing such tender solcitude for the
rights of the states breathless into the Federal
courts waving the national lag, and shouting that
such state law violates the due process of law
clause of the Federal Constitution. And with un
constitutional construction of that clause by the
court the act is declared unconstitutional. Laugh
teri On the other hand if Congress attempts to
protect the people of the states from monopolistc
greed this group, employing the ablest of law
yers and who have the cunning to make the worse
appear the better reason rush into the Fedeal courts
with tears streaming down their cheeks, waving a
state flag and shouting that such law infringes upon
the sacred rights of the states. Iaughter) And
straightway the court, being tender-hearted and
sympathetic, with another unconstitutional con-
strucon. holds the ACT unconstitutional, Appause)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
WHO'S IN THE WOODPILE

CENATOR TYDINGS read in the newspapers that
~ Secretary of War Dern was mot especially inter
ested" in the Tydngs Mccormack military disaf-
lection bill
That being true the Senator wrote in letter to
the secretary, Neither l. who originally intro
duced the measure"
This affords an interesting sideight on how our
laws made Somebody representing the Navy
Department handed the bill to the Senator and told
him the War and Navy Departments wanted it
passed. SO the Senator introduced it. And in due
course. when especially was paying attention.
tie bill passed by the Senate and sent to the
House where, fortunately, it still rests. Now the
Senator finds that the head of one of the mill
tary establishments is not interested in the measure
and apparently never has been. So the Senator
withdraws his support from the bill So far as
that branch of Congress where he sits is concerned
the closes the barn after the has
been stolen.
We suggest that the Senator who has been
made the goat, pursue this interesting matter fur
Their, and find out just who is back of this measure
which would make it penal offense for any one
to criticise the Army Navy
Is it the proposal of some group of swivel chair
military and naval attaches who have been so I'M
mindful of military rules to mix into the politics
lawmaking? Or perhaps, some officers who think
they need something more than autocratic military
authority over subordinates to maintain discipline
in the ranks? Or is it just the product of
ecutive secretary of patriotic society who has
. TO manufacture red to keep his job?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
BOULDER DAM

ON March 1, Secretary of the Interior Ickes an
~ nounces, the United States is to accept Boulder
Dam from the contractors In less than five years
this giant structure will have been completed
Already its benefits rolling in. This years
deep mountain SHOWS will melt in the spring and
pour down the granite canyons in great yellow floods
Instead of wreaking havoc heretofore on the
farmers of Imperial Valley the waters will be held
back in Mead Lake to be let down for irrigation pur-
poses gradually in the summer. In 1884 $4,000 900
was lost in crop failure due to water shortage In
few years the power houses will be installed and be-
gin grinding out power, already contracted for that
will pay every cent of the structures COST
For decade private power interests fought the
building of this dam. But Coolidge signed the
Swing-Johnson act under which it was built and
even Hoover wanted the dam named after him.
What terrible thing is government in bust
neSs!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
NATIONAL, NOT PARTY,
LOYALTY MOST NEEDED

u.
In the interest of free speech and
freedom of. conscience, I would like
to say few words for the benefit
of the ardent New Dealers who have
wasted so much of their spare time
and so much of your space in try
ing to analyze AL Smiths Liberty
League dinner speech. l would not
deny them this opportunity to dis
close the extent of their knowledge
of political propriety. That seems
to be a Hoosier prerogative.
But why all this wailing now
about party loyalty? Let the Hin
dus have their sacred cow AS for
me, 1 refuse to bend my knees to
either the Republican elephant or
the Democratic jackass. I prefer
to take my stand among those who
still place national loyalty above
party loyalty.
Unless my memory fails me, quite
large herd of the loyal little jack
asses grazed eagerly in Republican
pastures back in 1928. In fact, so
many of them took walk" that
the poor old donkey passed out in
40 of the 48 states, and would have
mired in the solid South" except
for the loyalty Of the Atlanta Jour-
nal. Was that party loyalty? II
taking walk" is a crime, certainly
AL Smith is not the father of the
crime.
The New Dealers had the support
of AL Smith during the 1882 pres
idertial campaign, and thus won
many votes for Roosevelt that would
otherwise have gone to Hoover