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Evening star., 1936-01-12

A FoURrEEN-YEAR old lad, Grover A.
~ Whalen, Jr., was leaving his
~ fathers Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, es-
a tate, for preparatory school. This
was on September q, 1885. Early in the day
he left his home to make round of the neigh
borhood to say goodbye.
And he didn't come back. An hour passed.
The telephones we're set to work. No trace
of the boy. Then the hue and cry was raised.
The New York City police were notified. So
was Troop X. of the New York State Police,
at Hawthorne Barracks.
Official motorcycles whizzed questingly in
every direction. Folk were questioned. Cars
were examined Telephone lines were tapped.
Neighbors turned out to search the woods and
hills. All the laws mighty machinery was in
action The hunt was vehement. And the hunt
was futile.
There was no reason to think Grover had
run away. There was every reason to think
he might have been kidnapped. His father was
wealthy and prominent. The web of the police
was spread far and wide - and caught moth
ing in its costly meshes.
Then it occurred to the authorities, as
last and possibly hopeless resort, to listen to
the urgent plea of an athletic young giant in
uniform This athlete - Captain Christopher
Kemmler, of Troop X, New York State Police
said over and again that the kennels in the
troops Hawthorne. N. Y, barracks contained
three bloodhomds which never yet had failed
to track down their quarry. He begged that
they be allowed part in the chase.
Permission was given. This after many
hours had passed and after countless clump-
ing human feet had been allowed to stamp out
or confuse any possible trail. Kemmler tele-
phoned command to the barracks. As fast as
state car could carry them, Troopers VIII
liam Horton and George Gaydica reached the
Whalen house. In the cars tonneau lounged
brace of right unspectacular dogs. One Of
them was rufous; the other was black and TAM
They we're Red and Queenie
good friends of mine, by the way),
smallish in stature, friendly of
heart and of aspect, with ridicu- .x
lously long lop ears and hanging 4aS
dewlaps Each wore black leather -
harness with greenish three-foot
woven leash. A state trooper was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-21
PARK RIDE ENDS
IN DROWNING

Tragedy ended an automobile
ride near Hams Point in Potomac
Park shortly before 2 a. m. today
when a man, tentatively identified
as George L. Schinker, 26, eleva-
tor operator at a downtown hotel,
was drowned.
He was riding in a car with six
other men and three women. Be-
hind them was another car loaded
with six other companions. They
stopped near the seawall at Hams
Point, police were told, and mem
bers of the party said they heard
a splash but none could remember
the man leaving the party.
Harbor and Park police were
called, but it was not until Ray
mond King, 80, of 932 Twenty
third st. N. w., climbed over the
wall and waded out into five feet
of water that the body was found.
Members Of the party were taken
to No. Police station and ques-
toned by Coroner A. Magruder
Mcdonald and later released. An
autopsy will be performed today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-21
PLAN
TACKY PARTY

The washington Air Derby AS
ISOLATION will sponsor a tacky
party at it's clubhouse on the
College Park Airport September
rs at 8 p. m.
Members of the association are
instructed to wear the oldest
clothes they have and prizes will
be awarded for the most un-
usual costumes.
Col. ]. Carroll Cone, assistant
director of the Bureau of Air
Commerce, will speak at a meet
ing Of the Association at the
Racquet Club September "a at 8
p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-21
JAP EMPEROR
BACKS FORCES
IN CHINA
By JAMES R. YOUNG

TOKYO, Sept. 81 GN.SO.
Emperor Hirohito today gave his
imperial sanction to the i'm
mediate dispatch of naval land
ing forces to Chinese territorial
waters.
Confirming that Japan has
reached the limit of her patience.
and now proposes vigorously to
carry out her threats Of drastic
action to curb anti-Japanese
movements in China, the an
nouncement of the Emperor's
step gave no details of the num-
Der of ships and men involved or
their destination.
Action Decided
In the heat of japanese anger
over a series of murders of jap
anese subjects in China. Inter
vention by the Emperor indicates
that sweeping action ending in
further japanese domination over
China has been determined upon.
This was borne out in a COM
munique issued by the Japanese
navy department, partially ex-
planning the Emperor's order as
dictated by requirements OF self
defense"
The statement declared:
"Anti-Japanese terrorism has
extended its hand across China
and is gradually becoming more
rampant.
I'm consideration of this fact,
the Navy has been compelled to
Ordanize a special landing party
to reinforce the Third Fleet
(already in Chinese waterS.)
CHINESE DOUBTED
"Since the Marking govern
ment lacks sincerity, and since
the Chinese authorities are
likely to refuse to accept all
Japan's demands in connection
with past incidents, Japan'S
naval authorities deem that re-
sort to measures Of self-defenSe
is inevitable"
Possibility that the japanese
army in Formosa, off the coast Of
South China, will be utilized was
seen in foreign diplomatic quar-
tiers, where the fact that Japan
means business" was seen in the
navy departments consultation
with the foreign office after the
Emperor'S decree.
Marines and gunboats, it is
therefore believed, will be sent to
the three principal points of dis
turbance imp r t n t
river port where there are a large
number of Americans; Pakhoi,
adjoining rebellious Kwangsi
Province, and Chengtu, North
China.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-21
LeGore 10 Address
Republican Farley

TAKOMA PARK, Md, Sept. 81.
State Senator Harry w. LeGore,
of Frederick County, candidate for
Congress from the Sixth District
of Maryland, will speak at a
Republican m e ting in the
Takoma Park, Md, Public Library
Thursday at 2 p. m.
Miss Pearl Mccall, former
Assistant United States Attorney,
also will address the meeting. After
the session an informal reception
will be given for Senator LeGore,
under the auspices of the Mont
gomery County Federation Of
Republican Women'S Clubs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
NO WONDER

Cap'n Charlie Farmer head of the state high
way patrol, had not been unaware of all the critl
cism from those who say they never see a patro!
man on the highways. So Cap'n Farmer called II
the newspaper boys and showed them some figures
The figures showed:
That members of the patrol average IA hogrs OF
duty working day, during February; that they
travelled an average of 2,426 miles each in that
month, or 100 miles a day; that there are ll,OO(
miles OF primary roads and $4,000 miles Of secon
Diary roads in North Carolina, with only Il men
to ride them
This would seem to indicate that The patraI
really is, IN spite Of inVisbity on the job. Or
the other hand it shows that the patrol is on pretty
much of stationary job. TO spend average of
IA hours day covering an average of only 100
miles would be to make an average speed of but
seven miles per hour. And to patrol 81 200 miles
OF roads at seven miles per hour would take regi-
meht OF patrolMen.--C Charlotte News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
DOES THIS ANALYZE?

The logic Of this National relief business is
heroglyphics
year ago 4,SOO,OOOOOO was asked for and
appropriated 1t was regarded by the President
and his advisers as absolutely imperative to take
care of the pressing and distressing situation
This year the President asks for $500, 900 900.
That will be sufficient, both he and his advisers
think, for handling the problem for another year.
The uninitiate will conclude that this difference
Of billions only represents the difference in the
relative unemployment load being carried, in the
comparative measures of need that are to be re-
lieved as between the two given periods
But 1t is generally concluded that no such diff
ference exists in the status of the unemployment
load.
Indeed, some contend that the relief need is prac
tically as high today as it was year ago.
If, therefore, only 81, 500, 900 900 is necessary
now, why was $4,000, 900 900 needed wear ago ?
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
ON THE SUBJECT OF RELIEF

Senator Joe Robinson has done both smart and
stupid trick in resorting to such strategem as will
block Congressional investigation of relief poll
ties.
Smart i'm the sense that he is such parliament
tary genius as to resort to so clever device; STU
piod in the sense that his coup will be more harm
full than helpful to the country.
Perhaps, the relief administration has done as
neat lob as is humanity possible in keeping TINS
service above the plane of low-down politics; per-
haps, better than the Republicans would have done
in this respect.
But that's not the point.
Coolies of people think there are some rough
edges on this administration and for the powers
that-be to rely upon twist in parliamentary pro-
cedure to keep the light from flooding in is none
TOO good for the party.
Why it is that this matter Of figuring ON the
number of people in this country who need and are
entitled to Federal relief should continue to be
made simple issue of guessing is powerful
strange?
Nobody knows with any degree of accuracy
what the status is.
And the Federal government which is frequent
" making a census Of this that and the other thing,
surely has all the necessary facilities for going oat
in the highways and hedges and making a count of
noses.
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
URGES INDUSTRY To- EMPLOY MORE"

The headline above or headlines of similar
meaning appear and reappear over reports of ad-
dresses and messages by President Roosevelt.
All of US can sympathize and share in his wish
~ sec unemployed men find regular work on pri.
vate instead Of government payrolls. But as has
hen pointed out in this column aforetime ''indus-
trv" is a misleading word to be used in such con-
nection.
Whore employment will have to be found, if the
majority of the unemployed are to be at work, is
:, every kind of work The usual and narrow
sonsa in which Industry" is used refers to manu-
featuring and the larger transportation and dsrri
button organizatons-"big business"
R,,t nv the figures, this is the kind Of industry
which has taken back to work larger part of the
,,,ampoyed than the other branches of gainful
o+;,,;+,. embraced IN using the word Industry" III
. more general sense.
The farming industry, for example
pe5,ct;on Of money crop production raised pric-
a., and proved Of real benefit to thousands of farm
ov,na,s and tenants. But it was also productive
81 ACCOMPLISHMENT for other thousands of tenants
ond farn, Iaborers. 1t is these unemployed who
hove 81 greatly sweled the relief rolls of the agr
cultural South.
1f farmers are to employ more help than they
are. they must receive more money TO De able -
paw that help They must either raise more crops
or else be able to cut down working hourS-as
workers on some government payrolls and IN Varl-
ous other kinds of industry are demanding Tor
still pay as much day or week
or month as with the dawn-to-dusk farm working
day.
We wonder whether in lesser degree it has its
,,,,IeIs in other Of the general kinds of industry
and whether it may not be nearly as hard to carry
ont the Presidential desire and demand IN Such
other lines of activity it is in farming Colds
bOro News-ArguS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEt Saryicc stan Correspondent

Nth SeTNIVt 'A''h W. -
VTASHINGTON.-The candida
w cy OF Col. Henry Breckenridge
against President Roosevelt in
certain state Democratic pri-
naries is causing more puzzle
ment than eycitement--or alarm
in Washington.
Other evidence may turn up
later, but thus far no one has
been able to discover that there's
anybody behind it except Colonel
Breckenridge. Neither the Liberty
League nor any Of the prominent
anti.Roosevelt Democrats seem to
be linked with the colonel.
The only possible effect of the
colonel's bid for delegates would
be to measure the strength Of anti
Roosevelt feeling in the Democratic
party in a few states oE possibly
to poll enough votes to build up
the psychology that Roosevelt can
be licked and encourage formation
Of such a third party of walkers"
as the Liberty League leadership
has been considering.
Democratic party leaders are not
worried that Breckenridge will re-
ceive any vote worth talking about
and aren't even taking the precau-
tionary measures they would con.
slider advisable il a more widely
known Democrat had entered
against the president. But they're
specializing bit.
Breckenridge is q Wall Street
lawyer, the friend and intimate ad.
wiser Of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Some time ago Breckenridge sent
to Ohio for primary application pa.
pers, saying they would be filed in
the name of q candidate who hadn't
been mentioned yet. The man who
filed was Breckenridge, but some
. politicians have wondered whether
he might not originally have had
Lindbergh in mind.
II, Isl copSideTsd more likely
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

however, that CoIonel BrecKinrluge
is merely fired with the traditions
of an old fighting. conservative
Kentucky family, and feels that it
is now up to him to carry the torch
of protest against New Dealism
when others fail.
It was a Col. John Breckenridge
who became presidential candidate
Of a ticket named by slave-state
boilers from the Democratic con.
vention Of 1860 and who, along
with Stephen A. Douglas-candi.
date Of northern Democrats--was
defeated by Abraham Lincoln.
HRAMPTON HARRIS, Birming.
~ ham lawyer brought to Wash.
ington by Senator Hugo Black Of
Alabama to defend his lobby COM
mittee's right to look at kilograms
received by Silas Strawn's law firm
in Chicago. wasn't the least bit
awed by the prominence Of the
case or the limelight which shone
upon him.
More than inferentially, he
threatened that the Senate com.
mittee would defy the district su.
preme court if it were enioined.
He had q brief which he never
had a chance to file, because, in
stead Of taking the case under
consideration, Justice Alfred A.
Wheat broke in and gave an in.
junction against the committee.
Judge Wheat was appointed to
the bench by President Hoover
and at one time was a special as.
sistant to Attorney General Harry
NJ. Daugherty in the Harding ad.
miniStration.
The brief had its hot spots. In.
sisting that there was no conflict
of interest between the Strawn firm
and the Western Union, Harris
tried to show by a decision Of
Chief Justice Taney's that the two
were punishable for contempt o.
court"
4 :GAnvriebt haas. NF0A. saryice- Inal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
Stamp New~
BY |. S. Klein

FERROUS talk of a proposed new
- ISSUE of U. S. postage stamps
aas been partially confirmed by
President Roosevelt. The presl-
lent revealed that the Postoffice
Department has been considering
4 series of stamps hon0ring Amer
lean army and navy heroes. ana
possibly including illustrations OF
West Point and Annapolis.
Whether these will replace the
current series, which came out III
1929, or whether an additional
Issue will be produced to replace
the existing stamps, is still III
doubt. Even the subjects for the
ARMY and navy issue are hard to
decide because Of the variety ol
suggestions that have come III.
Among these are requests Iot
stamps hOnorinR John Paul Jones
Lafayette, John Barry, and Robert
f.. Lee.
The army and navy set, Presi
dent Roosevelt disclosed. had been
uuder discussion ever since the
DAYS of Theodore Roosevelt. II may
be several months before the sci
will appear.
Uncle Sam won't lose a cent Oh
the costs entailed in printing tie
stamps that were to be issued 10
farmers who held their potato
rrops to certain limits. before the
supreme court declared the AAA
unconstitutional. The potato tax
stamps now are being gobbled uE
by collectors at face value-a total
of S5,1S. The stamps may be Oh
lained from the Bureau Of Internal
Revenue at Jacksonville, Fla, OF
Washington. d. G..
The 50-cent Graf Zeppelin stamp
now is being offered at from 81 To
$3.50, superb, and from $50 tc
S1.75 used. An unused sheet OF
80 recently brought sl42. or S2.S4
stamp.
tcoDyrigkt, 1876, NEA Service, Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
EINNIEE THAN DUCKS

"A friend Of mine who raises
ducks" observed Mr.. Brickcr,
"sayS the duck is the funniest an
imal there is. But | don't believe
it's as funny as Il congressman.
Take for instance, those congress
men who are all net up because
an army officer got laid off re-
Gently for getting fresh with his
SupcriorS."
If nothing worse than that eve.
happened in Washington we'd be
in fine shape. With the world
about to go on the rocks and this
whole nation in the worst shape
it has ever been in, congressman
are fiddIing around mixing into
Il little matter Of army discipline
which really isn't any Of their
business.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
A COMFORTING REMINDER
MODERN CITY HELPLESS IN
FACE OF DISASTER
BY BRUCE CATION

Whatever else the recent floods nave
done, they at least have shown how The
modern city leaves the lives of its habltantS
forever at the mercy of a mechanical aecl-
dent
What hurt Pittsburgh the worst, for IN
stance. was not the fact that great tor
rent of water went slOshing through the
streets and Easements of the downtown
district. 1t was the fact that electric pow
er was cut off, that heat was not available,
that the city water supply was menaced.
The flood itself took comparatively few
lives in Pittsburgh. The monkey wrench
which the flood dropped i'm the city's utlii-
ties threatened to take great many. 1t
left Pittsburgh, for day or so, facing the
most dreadful fate Imaginable for a mod
em city.
OF course, the danger passed. The flood
waters subsidized, people got their base
ments shOveled out and mOpped up, the
power plants began to hum again, and life
was going forward on the usual basis be-
fore so very long.
But the threat had been just real enough
to show what slim thread it is that
holds up the lives and the happiness Of
the millions in our cities
We do great deal of talking about the
horrible things that could happen in a
modern war, with airplanes raining explos-
ives and incendiary bombs on a densely
populated city. The picture is frightful,
but it is too elaborate An invader bent
on destroying a city would not need to hay
down any intensive bOmbardment.
All he would need to do would be to drop
few bombs on the power plants and the
pumping stations. Then, if his aim had
been good, he could fly serenity away anu
leaye=the city to writhe helplessly through
ist death agony. Il dozen bombs, properly
placed, would do the trick.
A modern city is essentially an I'M
natural thing. 1t groups together some
hundreds of thousands of people and
strips them all Of the ability to fend Tor
themselves in case of need. The water
that they drink, the fire that warns Their
houses, the power that gives them light
preserves their food, enable them to move
from place to place, and permits them TO
keep in touch with one anOther-ail THESE
things are as much out of the individual
citizens control as they are out of the con-
troll of his pet spaniel.
For the city dweller depends on CO.
operative effort for all these things. Pro-
duce an accident or hostile blow when
disrupts that effort and he is as helpless
as a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in mid
ocean. He can do absolutely nothing to-
ward supplying these wants for himself
He can only wait until the services or
which he depends are restored.
Postpone their restoration for only a
few days, and you would let loose in the
modern city a horror of darkness, cold
hunger, and panic such as the world has
not seen before.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
THIS AND THAT
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

we might start a little contest,
with prizes.
The same official further re-
ports that his county has DRINKS
who have averaged 4 stay in jail
every thirty days since 1884.
isn't that Il pretty dish to set be-
fore the king?
Looking up chronic DRINKS over
and over again and turning them
out over and over again to get
drunk over and over again, is
about as intelligent as locking up
chickens over and over again for
scratching up gardens, and turn
in" them out over and over again
to scratch up gardens over and
over again.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
NEW POSTOFFICE AT
ROXBORO PLANNED

ROXBORO. March 27. (UP)--
The new post office building for
Roxboro will be completed and
ready for occupancy within Il
year, local representatives have
been told by authorities in Wash
ington. -
1t was understood abstract Of
title already is in hands Of postal
authorities. As soon as it is APP
proved by them and by the dis
trict attorney, bids for the con-
tract will be advertised.
The new post office will be q
onc-story brick building with a
large basement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27

speech on 'WOman's Place in the
SUM- and / want to thank the
company for extending me the
use Of its facilities"
And that reminds me Of a
wholesale produce man in my
old home town who attended a
national convention as represent
tative Of his local association. In
his official report read at the
next meeting after his return
from the convention, he praised
the services Of the "North Caro-
lima & st. Louis Railway" Those
were the days when shippers got
passes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
SOME EGG

One way to
gal n ma tional
publicity is to
own q hen which
lays IN unusual
ly big egg.
1t is the for
tune of +. A.
Cline of WalIa
Walla, Washing
ton, to have i
hen which laid
ali egg. weighing
half Il pound,
nine and a half
inches i'm circnnl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
A BRILLIANT SHOWING

An official in the office OF the
sheriff of the only one Of the
three thousand counties in THIS
nation that has a dictionary def
milton, reports that one out Of
every twenty-five of the inhabl-
tants Of his county has been Ill
Jail during the past four years.
Can any other county show a
criminal record as high? Perhaps
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27

A prominent Greensboro attorney told the men,
bers Of civic organization in that city last week
that Coach Snavely who is leaving the University
to direct athletics at at Cornell made the statement
sometime ago that "under the Graham plan I do
not believe could put the field team that
would beat the Raleigh high school," If this be
true, the Graham plan is worse than we thought Or
else Raleigh high has been putting out some extra
good 'teams.-Albemarle News-Pr
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27

"Well, well| commented MIR.
Beezer, as he looked over his
newspaper. 81 see that a hundred
and forty-seven members Of the
congress are war veterans and
will get u total Of hundred
thousand dollars out Of the sol
dierS' bonus law"
Goodness gracious" ejaculat-
ed Mrs. BeeZer. "No wonder the
bonus bill went through over the
presidents YetOW
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27
MINIATURE EARTH

EDINBURGH, March y. tUPD
An "earth sculpture" laboratory
has been established here by Prof.
Alan Ogilvic. It's purpose is to
show, with the aid Of models. how
rain. rivers and the waves Of the
sea combine to mould the chang
inc shape of the earth.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-27

If the japanese, who shot the premier 5
in-law by mistake, had tried similar stunt
in Washington, they would have bagged
something like an uncle and eight cousins.