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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

W7ASHINGTON-State Depart
" ment folks have been watch
ing the Spanish revolution with
the conviction that it has brought
The threat of European war closer
Than in many years.
Not even the most critical days
of the Italo-British tension in con-
nection with Ethiopia were con-
sidered as likely to be fateful as
those i'm which the wire-pullings,
precautions, and secret interview
lions of other nations in the Span
lsh warfare have been gradually
and partially revealed.
1t has been learned that the
pre-Locarno conference at Lon
don July % concerned itself
largely with the dangers raised
by those complications.
Officially, the State Department
only knows that the French
charge Italian planes have been
carrying munitions 10 the Span
ish rebels and that this is denied
by Italy. Actually it is aware of
considerably more activity, on the
part of the Germans as we'll as
the Italians, than has been pub
licly indicated.
THE British are secretly report
L ed to have between. 40 and SO
war vessels in Spanish waters,
only few of which are needed
for evacuation of foreign citizens.
To Britain its continued domino
ton of the Gibraltar straits is vi
tally important and the thought
of new Spanish government OBJ
hgated to and influenced by Mus
solini is worse than unpleasant.
In France the natural sympa-
thies of a left wing majority for
the Spanish workers as opposed
to the insurgent military Fascists
are coupled with great aversion
TO- finding France bordered by q
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
Are You SURE You Are Right?
Then, Go-ahead

hcub oO-diiSoa
Hurrah. for the fellow
That's blue and not yellow,
Who tells us just where he will
stand;
His aim so appealing
Produces a feeling
That's certainly glorious and
grand.
In every mans life
There's an ocean Of strife,
So many things happen that
leases;
Some stand for the right
Bring many delight,
But others, it hurts and displeases.
It's a grievous offense
To "straddle" the fence,
For the times call for men who
are bold;
Men who'll delight
To put up a fight
And honor and justice uphold.
So here's to the fellow
With no streak of yellow,
Who dareth to say and to do
Whether lauded or blamed
He cannot be shamed,
But to God and his conscience is
true.
John Dale Kempster.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
SIGNIFICANT!

There are simply not enough incomes in the
higher brackets to pay for government as it is now
being conducted. ... .'
The day will come when the average man with
small income in the urban and industrial sections
of the country will wish he had been more vigil
lantly on his guard against mounting costs of gov
eminent For he is the one who is going to pay"
Statement by Prof. Raymond Moley.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

the only nope OF
purifying corrupt
local politics.
There is little
to be gained thru
replacing one pO-
litical ring with
another--and that
often happens as
things are now
when an Organi-
cation is formed
to break the grip
of a self7seeking
or corrupt local
political machine
commonly known
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
REDUCTION THAT DIDN'T REDUC.

A, few weeks ago in Washington Presi-
dent Roosevelt admitted to a group OF
newspaper representatives that wheat
acreage this year is ten per cent. greater
than the average for 1928-1932, on which
was; based the AAA contract with wheat
GROWERS providing for FIVE per cent. re-
ducton in the winter wheat acreage, .
In other words, AAA contracted with
the growers and paid them to make five
per Icent. reduction in acreage and they
made a ten per cent. increase, according
to the Presidents public statement. ST..
The wheat growers have been paid forty
million dollars for this acreage reduction
most of the money was paid to them last
Fall
President Roosevelt made the admission
of Wheat acreage increase in disclaiming
administration responsibility for the drouth.
Being afraid to take public criticism for a
polity of crop reduction and food scarcity
under existing critical conditions, the Pres
ident naively admitted to the newspaper
men that the wheat acreage reduction pro-
gram of AAA had been a failure to the
extent of getting ten per cent, acreage
INCREASE instead of five per cent reduc-
ton: For the proposed reduction the grow
ers were paid forty million dollars.
The transaction may be summed up by
saying that the government made the
wheat growers a present of forty million
dollars. 1t is true that this was done under
an agreement with the farmers, but an
AGREEMENT which the President says they
failed to keep and perform.
AAA having been knocked out as an I'M
constitutional measure, the administration
is now busily engaged in trying to put over
a crpp control program under the name OF
'soil conservation" in which effort it is
trying to make the farmers a present of
fiveI hundred million dollars. This was
branded by all honest and candid members
of Congress as crop reduction and con-
troll program, and they were aware of the
fact that it was subterfuge adopted to
circamvent the Supreme Court decision
whith killed AAA, but these public serv,
ants did not have the manhood and cour
age to oppose this scheme of the admins
tratlpn. .,. .-.. .......-,,-., ...
However, what is forty million or five
hundred million dollars when it is distrib
uted among the farmers where it will d.
the most good?
Millions have been dumped in holes IL
FloSida; other millions have been floatet
away on the ocean tides in Maine; Tug
wells resettlement antics have cost aroun'
three hundred millions; and in scores o
other cases millions and hundreds of mil
lions of the money of the taxpayers ha
been handed out throughout the country
Thh to cap the greatest orgy of wasteful
ness, extravaganza and dishonest handhn
of public fundsin the history of this or an
oth{r COUNTRY, nearly FIVE billion dollar
was delivered to the President to be scat
tered according to his own sweet will,
Beally-we, suppose The Times-New
ought to be su1nmarily suppressed for mer
tionkng such an insignificant steal as
forty million dollar wheat acreage reduc
ticn. failure.
The independent man is the one who ha
nothing to lose.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
BooTLEGGING srIII THRIyEs

Legal liquor proves no solution to the bootleg
ging problem The industry, or whatever you de-
sire to call it, is still a paying proposition, from
the report of: the federal agents covering South
Carolina, During July, federal Investigators cap
tured Al stills, 564 gallons of liquor and 1890
gallons of mash. This, of course, is only small
proportion of the bootlegging business
Most of the stills captured are reported to have
been found in the clark corner" section of Green
vile county There are clark corners in almost
every county, where bootlegging thrives. And
we're afraid it will continue to thrive.--Newberry
(S.r CO. Observer. a:r.. ...,..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
1INcJ SAM FAILS TO COM

ment on the fact that there are
more people, five million plus,
now on relief than last year Wnen
WPA was created to cure relief
Present methods will never cure
relief. They constitute a relleI
manufacturing machine. II
found flies too numerous IN my
home and were little careless IN
keeping them out I would not go
home and say: "Gussie, there are
two many flies in this house. we
must keep them out. Let's take
down the screens, leave the win,
dows and doors open and spread
some food, sugar, molasses and
honey. l believe that will drive
them away"
When government jobs are too
attractive to the people they won't
exercise much initiative in fln0-
ing other work. Short hours, easy
work and fair pay will not cure
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

scienc, of government; whereas
government is the application and
the administration of political
principles. The church has not
only the privilege but the duty to
demand that political principles
be righteous.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
REvou1 AGAINST
IGNORANCE

FOR 800 years, up to the begin
ming of the 18th century, Qua
temala was kept in ignorance.
under oppression. Ruled by Span.
ish governors, the native Creoles
heard nothing of the revolutions
in France, the United States, and
South America.
But gradually news of freedom
gained in other. Spanish depend
encies seeped into Guatemala, and
the people became restless They
were appeased first by promises
that weren't kept, then by offers
of amnesty to political rebels
Still the Guatemalans grew bold
er. In 1911, a small force revolt
ed in San Salvador, the capital
But all other cities remained loyal
to Spain and the revolt was sup.
pressed. Other attempts were
quelled,. and many irisurgent.
were sentenced to deathgBut fear
1of further REVOLT, kept the gover-
nor FROM executing the rebels. s.
The tide of revolt, by that
time, became overpewering, and
even the new governor, Gavino
Gainza, went over to the indie
pendentS. In 1921, he called 2
meeting of citizens IN Guatemala
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

The Busk-Ivanhoc, highwar.,
mel near LeadviIlc, Colo. !. !
Of the longest in the world: !, =
intended originally for ra.br
use.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

AS former city councilman, as
an immediate past mayor and as a
student of political problems l am
impressed that in the church lies
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13
s01mE,I.ATE.DAY GUY SAID
By Noah Holloweli

-. sOME,LATE-DAY GUY SAID
a town passed out of the =hiektoWn
class when a demand for parking
lots came into vogue. We are just
about there. That will be the next
new summer time uptown ousl7
ness, preferably in connection
with filling stations having such
facilities.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

The independent man is the one who has
nothing to lose.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

Animals are much more sensi-
tive to an electric shock than hu-
man beings, one of 20 volts being
dangerous to cattle and horses.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

The New Deal has caused an epidemic
of itching palms.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

relief for most people
need relief jobs. Other. .,,:, Ss..'
work elsewhere. Some , w "a
days l may break on, and ~ ~ M I,
Hopkins how he could ID, WEI ,e.. NJ
money he has spcnt IN u van tas
county during the n "aIs,adeGsos
years cure our sicua,i@o~r> tAet.
Wait a Minute" rnI 'O~ but h.
have to be extended. We ,1 ~. |? .pG
playing with relief and are ne Jug
ing at the job. muse wors.
WE DON'T AS A Din
tach much Importance N VI AT.
mops letters, but tkjS o W anOtyy,
point worth empha s@.a one taJ.
T.; Last Sunday q charn,in. ~.
lady in! her ei ghtios, th.rEin,s -, "a
she was gong to the 1N'qy ttr
church, was accidcn,aIiv apis
to the Presbyterian cbn ,E carrie:
/ Upon being handed - Lr,n
she discovered her crTo, o'"ett
said to one Of the P,c.bn. d:
members Oh. am ] al thy ''F 3
byterian church? ! ,hopg ,''s RE-
at the Baptist church. ~ H
meet my friends there Tbo On !.
byterian said. I Sec that ' yoa re
a stranger. Ny car is on ~. :. a
and | shall be delighted y, mei
you to the Baptist church, - "a
"He Immediately took her :.
and put her in the care Of !" !.
This lady was deeply tor..
by such courteous trcatmor,
says that it is such tbona,,
consideration that makes ,Ss
Pile of other states apDras,
Hendersonville so much.'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-13

City, where
resulted the
"Act of In
dependence
in a scene
shown on g
stamp issued
by Gu a t e.
mala in 1907.
SeryicA fnh =
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
TORid WPA
OF Politics.
Chief Says
Williams Declares IT.
regularities In Ok
lahOma Will Be
Prosecuted There

Washington, July 28.-(AP)-Au-
brey Williams, deputy works progress
administrator, said today that infor-
nation concerning political activities
of Oklahoma WPA workers would be
turned over to Oklahoma prosecutors.
Williams said the WPA would give
this information ION our own initia-
tive"
IF any of these people are guilty
of violating the statutes, there are
going to be criminGl prosecutions, -
he asserted. 1--WE will turn the evil
dence over to the proper authorities.
However, we don't have to find a man
guilty of a criminal act to dismiss
him. Evidence of indirect intimidation
is enough"
Williams statement came imme-
diately after he had discussed with
w. S. Key, Oklahoma WPA director
the dismissals last week of seven of
Keys district workers after an in
vestigation of charges that they had
been active politically.
The deputy WPA administrator said
CONTINUED on Page Six
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
FARM BUREAU WILL
TAKE PERMANENCY
Organization To Be Perfect
ed at Farm and Home
Week In Raleigh

Raleigh, July 28-(AP)-E. F.
Arnold, secretary of the North Caro-
lin Farm Bureau Federation, said to-
day permanent State organization
would be effected here Thursday even
ing. J. E. Winslow, of Pitt county,
is temporary president.
Thursday, Arnold said, the Farm
Bureau Federation is sponsoring what
he hopes will be a monster mass meet
ing of tobacco growers in connection
with farm and Home Week at State
College.
Three delegates from each tobacco
growing county in which the fedora
tion has organized are supposed to be
here, Arnold said, to hear an address
by ]. B. Hutson, of the soil conserva-
ton set-up and to name an advisory
committee to work with State and
Federal officials On tobacco legisla-
ton.
Clyde r. Hoey, Democratic guber-
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
WITNESS DECLARES
SEC IS UNLAWFUL
Securities Probe Unconsti-
tutional, Financier Says
From Stand

Washington, July % (AIo) "A wit
ness at the Securities Commission liz
vestigation of investment trusts and
companies told the commission to-
day it was violating the Constitution
of the United States in proceeding
with this hearing.
The witness, Wallace Groves, New
York and Baltimore financier, was
called to elaborate upon testimony
yesterday regarding a series of mil
lion dollar deals IL the stocks of two
investment companies of which he
was a director.
David Schenker, commission coun-
sci, contended Groves marked up a
100000 profit through the transac-
tions. but the witness contended his
profit was not that large.
AS he took the stand today, Groves
filed prepared statement saying he
had consulted with counsel regarding
suit brought in Federal District
Court here yesterday seeking to pre-
vent the commission from COMPEL
ing attendance of certain witnesses
or obtaining certain records.
I'm advised by such counsel,
Continued on Page Six)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
New Angles
Add Mystery
For Staying
Chambermaid Saws
Helen Clevenger's
Hotel Door w a S
Locked at 500 a. m.

Asheville, July % (AP)-A newly
revealed bit of evidence threw the
battling Helen Clevenger murder
case open to more mystifying ques-
tons today.
A hotel chambermaid' chart, Off
GERS said, showed the door to the
slain co-ed's room was locked from
inside at 800 a m. on July IS.
That was a little more than seven.
hours after the 18-year-old New York
University student was ravished, shot
and her face disfigured with sharp
instrument.
If Miss Clevenger's room was lock-
ed from the inside, as the chart in
dictated, was the murderer in there
at 800?
Was he there from 1 a. M, when
several guests at the hotel heard
woman"s agoniZing scream, until
500?
Or was the murderer a man
bellboy saw scurrying from the mez-
canine to the outside in a raging
thunderstorm at 1 a. M?
If this so-called mystery man OF
the case was the murderer, did he
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
Leftist Spain Strikes Back
With Gloves Off at H.
Day-Old Stubborn
Rebellion
DEADLY PUNISHMENT
DROPPED FROM AIR
Even This Offensive Meets
Conflicting Rebel Claims
of Successes and Predic-
ton of Entering Madrid in
Three Days; Loyalists Re-
ported Retreating

Madrid, Spain, July % .(AP)-
Leftist Spain struck at a stubborn
eleven-day rebellion with gloves off
today, sending new fleets of bombing
planes to blast out the insurgent gar
risons and exploding rebel ammuni-
ton dumps in the Guardatrama
mountains which guard this belea-
guered capital.
Intensified. terrible punishment
from the air was ordered in a new at
tempt to sound the knell of the Fas-
cist revolt in outlying cities.
In the Guantanamo area, however
government claims of successes con-
trasted with rebel announcements of
the capture of the defended villages
and the prediction of the insurgent
general that his men would reach
Madrid within three days.
A leftist committee in Madrid was
named to take over necessary in
dustry" and the government con-
tinued widespread enlistment of both
men and women. Rebels at Toledo
were reported to have marched out
of the famous Alcazar to surrender
after government troops had made
plans to mine the structure But ad-
vices through non-official channels
through Malaga said loyalists were
retreating after taking heavy losses
in yesterdays battle.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
Lincolnton Man Chosen AS
Asheville Meet Ends;
To Gather In Durham
Next Year
ADMIRAL STANDBY
URGES LARGE NAVY
Says Fleet Had Become
Dangerously Small But Is
Emerging from State of
National Neglect; Lauds
Roosevelt Friendship For
The Navy

Asheville, July 28-(AP)-Wiley M.
Pickens, of Lincolnton, was elected
commander of the North Carolina De-
partment of the American Legion and
Durham was chosen the 1897 conven-
ton city as the Legionnaires ended
their 1896 convention here today.
This morning Admiral w. H. Stand
ley, chief United States naval OPERA
lions, told the Legionnaires that to
allow the navy's strength to fall be-
low accepted standards is to COM
promise national security.
The speaker, after recountine the
part the navy played in the World
War, described the country's naval
policy as follows:
1T is to maintain a navy strong
enough to protect our coasts and In
sular possessions and to safeguard our
sea-borne commerce.
Our naval strength is relative to
other naval strengths. 1t is computed
in terms of the obstacles it must over
come to carry out our naval policy"
Standby said the navy is now en-
crying from period of national neg
lect, (which dangerously lowered it's
strength and potential usefulness.
I'm 1916, under the leadership of
President Woodrow Wilson and Sec
rotary Daniels, a naval building pro-
gram was adopted which would have
given us by 1887 the strongest navy
in the world" he said.
I'm 1888, instead of having a navy
second to none-as our agreements
provided-we were dangerously de-
ficient.
IF we have, as we should have, the
support of all the patriotic and sincere
citizenship of the United States in our
efforts to carry through with this
program, we will have an adequate
navy. Of all the measures that make
for national security there is none
more important than this"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
americans
Face TTib
T0TheSeu

Washington, July 28-(AP)-Re-
ports to the State Department indi-
Gated today that Americans who have
been sheltered from SPANS civil strife
in the embassy at Madrid still face
the ordeal of flight to the sea.
Press dispatches yesterday said that
Americans were being evacuated by
train. Eric Wendelin, third secretary
advised the State Department today
he planned to take out the refugees
Thursday. He said the Americans
would be sent to Alicante or Valen-
cia, on SPANS eastern coast. pre-
sumably by train.
Standing by at Alicanti was the
American heavy cruiser Quincy,
which already had on board two Am
orleans and one Argentine nationals.
Wendelin's message was dispatch
ed as Ambassador Claude, G. Bowers
was believed to have established a
floating American Embassy aboard
the American coat guard cutter Cay
uga in northern Spanish waters
The Navy was notified today that
CONTINUED on Page FOur)
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Tropical Storm Is
Moving On Florida

Jacksonville, Fla, July 28.-(AP)-
A tropical disturbance of moderate
but mounting intensity moved on the
Bahamas today and storm warnings
flew from Fort Pierce to Key West
on the southeastern Florida coast.
At 2:3O a. m. eastern time) the
Weather Bureau here reported the
storm was centered in the Bahamas,
some 225 miles east-southeast of
Miami, and moving in a west-north-
westerly direction at about eight miles
an hour.
The bureau said the disturbance
was attended by strong winds near
the center and fresh winds over a
considerable area, but added that it
slowly was gaining in intensity.
1.-THE next IL hours will tell just
how intense the storm is to become, u
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
First Tests of Compulsory
Grading To Be AT Lake
City, Darlington,
Pamplico
OXFORD REFERENDUM
WEEK OF AUGUST 3-8
10 Others Have Already
Voted for 1t, With Smith
field Oaly Market Reject
ing It apA Majority of
Growers Favored There,
but Two-1hirds Required

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-(AP)-Man-
datorv government grading of tobac-
90 10 inaugurated this year on
loose leaf auction markets will have
Ifs first trial next month at three
South Carolina ccnters. Lake City,
Darlington and PamplicC in that State
arc three of the 1S markets which SO
far have voted for mandatory govern
mont grading, and with the South Car
olna market opening August 10, ear
uer than other belts where there will
he government grading markets, they
will nc the first TO give it a test
Other markets which have approved
compulsory grading are Hopkinsvlllc.
paducah Nayficld. Henderson and
MadieopviTc., Ky. GAINESVILLE, and
Snringficld. Tenn; Farmville and
Coldshoyo NJ c.; Lynchburg, Farm
vile Blackstone, Bedford and brakes
Branch Va.
A referendum will be held at Ok
ford. n. c., August 3 through 8.
Under tho plan. all tobacco brought
10 such markets must be graded by
government exports before being Of
fored for sale. Those experts will
identify on the warehouse tickets the
grade of each lot of tobacco.
The idea lack of the grading plan.
as announced by its sponsor, Repre-
sentative Flanagan Democrat, Vir-
gnia. is to furnish the farmer with in
formation on which to decide wheth-
err to accept the bid made for his to-
bacco. In addition to grading the leaf,
the government will furnish daily
sales information on prices paid for
various grades, giving the farmer an
opportunity to check the bid for his
tobacco with that for the general av-
erage for the same grade.
A requisite for the service this year
was that two-thirds of the farmers in
designated market area vote in a
referendum for the compulsory grad
ing Of 10 referendum held to date,
compulsory grading was favored in
all but one At Smithfield N. c., a
majority favored compulsory grading,
hut it tailed to receive a two-thirds
vote.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-28
Buys Coal
FOrSChOOI
Uses 1886
nnHy Dispatch bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel


Raleigh. July 2S.-"In times of heat
prepare for cold" is the motto of the
Division of Purchase and Contracts
which buys coal in the summer time
and calls for bids on refrigerating
equipment and ice machines in the
winter. At the present time the de-
pertinent t. busy nlacing orders for
coal for the schools to be used to
keep some 100000 school children
warm this winter when temperatures
skids towards zero. even though the
thermometer sizzles up around 100
degrees now.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 tons of
coal have already been delivered to
the various school systems over the
state or arc now in process of deliv-
cry, out Of a total of between 10000
and 10000 tens needed for the schools
for the coming school year, Director
Continued on Page FOurO