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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
ATTIC
BURNS; ; DIE

CHICAGO, Jan. 2 UN.S)
Trapped by flames in an attic bed
room Of their home in suburban
Lombard, father and his two
small daughters were burned to
death early today. The mother
and an infant son escaped alive,
but received serious burns and
were rushed to a hospital where
attendants said their condition Is
critical.
The dead: Milo K. Miller, %.
q Federal Reserve Bank guard,
and his daughters, June, 6, and
Shirley, 8.
Mrs. Miller and their son
Dennis, az, are the hospital
patients.
The fire started when Miller
poured kerosene on live embers
to start a fire in a first floor
heater. Flames Spurted from, the
stove, and the room was ablaze
almost Immediately.
Miller awakened his wife, asleep
with the infant son in a first
floor bedroom, and carried them
to safety. He lost his life when
he reentered the blazing wooden
structure to save the lives of his
daughters. After firemen sub.
dued the flames they entered the
house and found the body of
Miller in a kneeling position be-
side the bed, one arm across the
bodies of his daughters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
CONGRESS Set to Ballz
Oil EMBARGO Plan

Congress will refuse to pull the
cheStnuts out Of the fire" for
Great Britain and France on the
question of sanctions against Italy.
Representative Sam D. McReyn-
olds CD of Tennessee, chairman
Of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, said today.
Mr.. McReynolds' statements,
made in an interview, answered
the recent speech of Premier Laval
Of France indicating that the
League Of Nations expects the
American Congress to pass neu-
trality legislation which will back
an oil embargo.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee chairman will introduce the
Administrations new neutrality
bill tomorrow. The measure is ex-
pected to require the President to
impose an embargo on shipment
Of munitions to warning nations,
but to give him discretion to add
commodities, such as cotton and
oil.
War Peril Recognized
Chairman McReynolds said:
81 would bitterly oppose
placing in the bill names of any
commodities on which an auto
matte embargo should apply.
That, in my opinion, would be
an instance of passing q bill to
put as into war instead of keep
ing us out.
GAS an illustration, England
and France today are realizing
the danger Of declaring sane
tiOns on oil against Italy. They
have held off action to see If
Congress would not pass what is
called a neutrality bill that
would cause our President to
open the way for them by de-
claring an embargo on shipment
Of oil to Italy from the United
States.
"In fact, Premier Laval, in .
speech before the French Cham
Der Of Deputies, practically
made this statement. He re-
cited the danger Of . decIaFa-
ton Of sanctions on oil, but
said that he expected the
United States Congress prob.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
DishNers Will Stop
Advertising Over All

Manufacturing diStillerS In
cluded in the membership Of the
Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc,
will discontinue advertising their
products over the radio, it was an
nounced yesterday.
j. M. Doran, administrator Of
the institute. said this voluntary
action, effective Immediately, was
another step in direction Of self
imposed regulation regarded in
the public interest" He added
scrutiny Of advertisements "has
resulted in material improvement
in copy"
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MOTHER, SON
DIE IN FIRE
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from the window, suffering hip
injuries.
Lucas P. Michos, president OF
the Courembis Corporation, was
carried down the ladder from his
second floor room by firemen.
From the third floor six persons
were carried down ladders by fire
men. They were Mr.. and Mrs
Robert E. Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs.
William c. Pugh, Miss DIETRICH
and Mr.. Anadale. The last two
were burned slightly before they
were rescued and treated, by a
physician.
Several of those who escaped
were taken to the homes Of friends
or relatives.
The interior Of the building was
badly damaged by the blaze, and
damage will amount to several
thousand dollars, it was estima-
ted.
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ably would take action in
establishing an embargo on oil.
I'm other words, in common
parlance, he wants us to pull
chestnuts out of the fire for
them, and I'll never agree to it."
While President Roosevelt has
favored q neutrality bill which
would give him discretion to i'm
pose an embargo against one ma
ton and not against another,
he is understood to have given
up hope of Congress giving him
the authority.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
Well Known Singer
Dies in Florida Civ

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 1.-Word
has been received here Of the
death Of William S. Henning. re-
tired druggist of Richmond. which
occurred December q at his resi-
dence in st. Petersburg, Fla.
where he had made his home for
the last several years. Mr.. Hen
ming was a representative Of q
family widely related in this State
and prominent since the Colonial
period.
He was also known here In
musical circles as a singer Of note.
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CONGRESSMAN
ASK ECONOMY
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Court rulings may throw out q
mass Of laws as unconstitutional
and give Congress additional legiS-
lative problems
Criticize Radio Chat
Partisan feeling developed on
the eve of the session over the
Presidents decision to turn his
annual message on "the state Of
the Union" into a radio "fireside
chat" with the people of the ma
ton.
His plan to address a Joint ses-
sion Of House and Senate tomor-
row night in order to get a wider
radio reception, provoked sharp
criticism from Republicans. He
was openly charged with using
Congress as a medium to initiate
his campaign for reelection to the
Presidency.
Developments at the coming
session will be watched too for
their effect upon the Presidential
aspirations of several Republi-
cans. For instance, Senator Will
liam E. Borah Of Idaho already
has given his consent for use Of
his name in the Republican Presi-
Dental primaries in Wisconsin,
New York and Ohio.
His every move will be watched
for its effect upon the campaign
to make him the Republican NOM
inee next year. In lesser degree,
the same thing will apply to Sena-
tor Lester j. Dickinson Of Iowa,
and Arthur H. Vandenberg of
Michigan, regarded by some as
dark horse" Republican posi-
bilities.
Hope for Brief Session
Some time during the session,
observers expect campaigns to de-
velop for the Republican vice
presidential nomination. A num-
Der of Republicans in both House
and Senate are regarded as likely
timber. They will be in the spot
light" for judgment of their abili-
ties.
Across the aiSles, a group Of
conservative ocrats, out
spoken critics of the Roosevelt
program, will be under obServa-
ton for light on whether they
will support or bolt Mr.. Roosevelt
in the coming campaign. Most
observers believe this group,
headed by Senator Carter Glass
of Virginia, will be back in the
presidential fold throughout the
session.
Administration leaders hoped to
hold a brief session but a number
of legislative battles may prolong
it into midsummer. Topping the
apparent program are the soldiers
bonus, a new neutrality law, a
$500,O00,000 public works bill, a
naval construction bill, and a new
ship subsidy law. To this un-
doubtedly will be added a contest
over continuing direct relief ap-
preparations and possible laws to
replace those held unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
Gen. Liggett Buried
With Full Honors

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 GIN.
sO.-With full military honors,
Lieut.. Gen. Hunter K. Liggett, Is,
who died Monday following a long
illness, will be buried in Preside
National Cemetery today.
A long line of former comrades
of the gallant soldier, veteran
of Indian skirmishes, Cuban and
Philippine campaigns and the
World war, will file past his bier
to pay q last reverent tribute.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
Virginia Liquor Sales
Make New Record

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 2
After their biggest Christmas
shopping season in years, Virgin.
ians this year paused on Christ
mas Eve to buy $240, 900 worth of
holiday spirits from SO State
alcoholic beverage. control board
stores, board records disclosed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
War Scare FADING,
Says Spain Chiei

MAD RID, Jan. 2.-The
likelihood of q European war as
result of the 1talo- Ethiopian con-
flict apparently is becoming fur.
ther removed, President Niceto
Alcala Zamora told the cabinet
yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
Will Present Play
At EPSON School

Here Comes Arabella" a thrilling
musical in three acts is being present
ed by the p. T. A. of Epson School.
You will be touched by the lonliness
of the little Gypsy girl, Arabella,
played by Miss Elaine Weldon, when
she pleads for a home with aunt
Prudence and aunt Debby, played by
Miss Selma Mullen and Miss Cath
crime Macon. Uncle Posh is played
by J. E. Gibbs, Bob Affair." by Edwin
Fuller and his college chums, Edgar
Edwards, Frank Roberts and r. H.
Ayscue are led merry chase by the
college girls, Miss Billy Newell, Miss
M. Johnson, and Miss Myrtle Mitchell
But the town gossips, who include
Misses Betty and Marie Ayscue will
take care of that as well as sending
a barrel of useful articles" to the
Chinese. Abraham Lenenski, the New
York theatrical producer, played by
Roger Mitchell will certainly tilt
your tickle box All this fun, with
contests and other attractions is yours
on, Thursday and Friday, October %
and %.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
SAYS CHANCE GOOD
WITH AMENDMENTS
Maxwell EnumerateS List To Be Voted
on and Expresses Optimism
Over Outcome
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

IL
Raleigh, Oct. 1.-THE chances for
adoption of the five proposed amend
ments to the State Constitution to
be voted on November 3, are getting
better, in the opinion of Commits
sloner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell. Four
OF the five amendments have to do
With the taxing powers either of the
counties, cities and towns or of the
State and all Of them should pass, he
believes. Commissioner Maxwell was
a member of the Constitutional Com
mission which drew up and entirely
new Constitution two years ago, but
which was Cater scrapped by the
1895 general assembly These five
amendments are regarded as being
the most worth while features of the
proposed new constitution, salvaged
from its wreckage by the last gen
cral assembly.
The five proposed amendments
would CD enlarge the State Supreme
Court from five to seven members ;
(2) permit the classification of prop
erty to be taxed at different rates;
90 grant a homestead exemption to
property owners up to $1,000; a.
increase the income tax limit to 10
| percent on large incomes, from the
present limit Of co. percent, and 90
limit the amount any subdivision can
borrow without a vote of the people
| to not more than three-fourths of the
amount of indebtedness retired the
| previous year.
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were 400 per cent as high after stabi-
lization as before the War, whereas
bonds had fallen 20 per cent.
How Various Groups Fared
Those who depended entirely upon
income from bond interest, stock divi-
dendss life insurance policies, saw
ings bank deposits, trust funds, pen
Sions, annuities, and other forms of
fiXed-income investments saw their
purchasing power shrivel to nothing
Those who put paper currency in
sock were wiped out. Salaried job
holders were squeezed numerically
Wage workers got some pay increas-
es; but their nominal wages never
kept pace with the skyrocketing cost
of living. City real estate was not
so good because rents were kept
down by law unburdened, useful real
estate, however, was a fair hedge
Prices of the unfortunate farmers
butter, eggs, and milk were held
down by public restriction. Hence,
instead of being able to cut his mort
gage with "phoney" money, he was
saddled with even more debt.
Active business men and manufac-
money into goods came out all right
Doctors, lawyers, BARRIERS, and other
service people who could boost their
fees as fast as the value of money
fell were also able to beat the game.
One lesson that everybody quickly
learns during currency initiation is
not to hold paper money overnight.
Each day it has to be turned into
shoes, bread, soap, or some other
commodity. Otherwise by the next
morning the purchasing power of
the paper money may have shrunk to
a tenth of the previous days value.
For that reason amusement houses
are a fair hedge.
How To Protect Yourself
After weighing carefully all the evil,
dence, my own advice as to the best
protection agains limitation is to di-
versify thoroughly in the following
forms of investment: Useful real es-
tate, durable commodities (both es-
sential and non-essentiaD, finished
goods (antiques, furniture, silverware,
oriental rugs, collections (stamps,
coins, jewels, cash for foreign banks,
character, education, healthy and pro-
perly trained children. Common
stocks, also, are an excellent hedge
but proper selection is virtually i'm
portant. Some concerns whose sell
ing prices or rates are fived turn
out poorly while certain companies
with large natural resources are pro-
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PAGE THREE;

screens most outstanding western
star, at the head of his congress OF
rough riders of the world-Cossacks
cowboys, COW girls, vaqueros, Sioux
and Blackfeet warriors and Aus
tralian bushrangers. Col Mccoy
plainsman cavalry officer in the D..
S. Army Reserve and friend OF the
Indian, is the idol of American boys
and igrls, and he will be seen in both
the main performances and the wild
west.
The Greatest Show on Earth heads
into this territory on four long rail-
road trains of 100 cars, with 1900 peo-
Pile, herds of full-sized elephant
actors, 1909 menagerie animals and
700 horses. Its tented city covers Il
acres of ground. There are 81 large
tents, including the worlds largest
big top, seating 10000 persons.
This is the peak season for youth
and beauty among the 800 world IA
nous arenic artists with the show.
In the air in the three rings, on the
four stages and in the quarter-mile.
hippodrome track will be, seen hum
dreds of pretty girls. In the 6O-girl
aerial ballet, the most beautiful mid
air display ever produced, there are
beauties that evoke columns of news
paper comment wherever the Ring
ling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Com
bined Circus exhibits.
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fit-makers. But simply because you
become well hedged do not give up
your fight against public extrava-
gance in the United States.
We are already well along the high
way toward public bankruptcy and in
flation. In the opinion of all who
have read history, this is a road to
ruin. We are building up here the
same type of political spending ma
chine that ruined Germany and
France after the War. From that
viewpoint our government bonds now
being issued may turn out to be
nothing more than printing-press
money. Forces have been set in mo-
ton which only a very courageous
President and Congress may be able
to stop. I hate to say it, but I fear
there is a $3.50 chance that this
country will end up in a period of
currency initiation closely resembling
that of France.
Business, as estimated by the Bah
sonchart, has now reached normal,
and is 26 per cent above a year ago.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
FILM VERSION OF FAMOUS
STORY TO BE SHOWN HERE

'"The Presidents Mystery" Repub-
lies long-heralded Elimination of the
Liberty Magazine story, which was
conceived in plot by President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt has been booked for
showing at the Stevenson theatre.
The idea for the sensational film
was told to Fulton Oursler, editor of
Liberty, by the President, and writ
ten for that magazine by an interna-
tionally-famed group of authors that
includes Rupert Hughes, S. S. Van
Dine, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Rita
Weiman, Johr Erskine and Anthony
Abbot 1t remained for Republic to
picturize the rousingly unusual story
with Henry Wilcoxon, the powerful
star of DeMille's spectacular Cru
sades" and cleopatra" in the stellar
role.
Concerning a great captain Of in
dustry who liquidates his fortune in
an attempt to "get away from it all"
the Presidents hero continues, in hif
experiences, with an attempt to re-
store prosperity to an impoverished
community.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
Big Tom Mix Circus Puts
Henderson In Gala Mood

Today is just Saturday for many
fo,l.s and usually a day when a EEL
lar has TO run errands and scrub his
,ocl, and ears, but today is different,
e., last night Tom Mix and his huge
oi,ciis arrived in the pouring rain and
mis- morning the great canvas city
,,,as being hastily constituted for the
ofternoons show. A great break for
henderson Juveniles for they were
oh, 10 be on hand from start to fin
;,h Many were able to earn the much
coveted circus ticket and to really be
. mart of it. Tom Mix was personally
ont helping, and joking with admir-
mo spectators and most attractive
natio was being constructed on one
ri5c of his tent where he parks his
tremendous Palace on Wheels"
There were canvas rugs, chairs with
linen backs, a table and handmade
hammock.
Mrs. Mix was seen in the back yard
This morning, too, dressed in a tweed
riding habit and enjoying the sun
shine. visiting with her sisters who
nerform in the Dig show, and who
have enchanting trailers which name
I'm semi-circle of travelling homes.
Until one visits the Tom Mix Circus,
II is a great puzzle to many why Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Mix prefer travelling to
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17

lnelr great mansion in Beverly Hills
california. The circus has been Man,
heo' and much time devoted bv tho
star TO make it one of the most talk
eu-oI travelling organizations on the
road. Everything is uniform colors
req and white. Even the tents are all
Dig red and white stripes, the lovely
modern trailers the star provides for
employees are of the same color and
a decided place for each which makes
the pack yard" look like a Quaint
motlon picture setting with it's grassy
streets, where colorful awnings. col
lapslble chairs and every evidence of
comfort IS found. Pretty girls were
sitting writing and sewing. there
were numerous clothes lines with
Nolortul costumes and clean tights
being dried for the afternoons show
The dining division was one of much
interest with it's compact kitchen
built on long truck, a red and white
stripped dining tent that boasts of a
lady dietition, a regular hotel chef
and colored walters with white coats.
won't tell you about the fine per
Torrance this afternoon but the next
show starts at 8 o'clock this evening
and the two hours of laughs, fun and
beauty is something you wont want
TO miss.
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he great German currency bubbl
What Happened In France

the great German currency bubble
What Happened In France
The story of French initiation is but
carbon copy of German history
Here again the real cause was not
the War but rather the sinful waste
Of postwar funds. Frances debt
jumped from 1A4 900 100000 francs in
1919 to about 500,000000,000 in 1926.
Politics. masquerading under the
cloak of relief, public works, and the
like was the real cause for her cur
rency devaluation. France did not
20 so far as Germany. Nevertheless,
when she stabilized the franc in 1927
il was worth only one-fifth it's pre-
war value in gold. In France the
cost of living continued to rise long
after initiation was over. In fact,
most of the troubles in France and
Germany today have their roots in
the fake money period.
Now, can one hedge against infl-
ton? European history definitely
says Yes" how? Economists who
have studied very thoroughly the in
fation period abroad are all agreed
on one point, namely: While few
people profit from initiation, careful
and courageous investors can keep
their losses low. For instance, a
comparison of stock and bond values
in Germany showed that the bond
owner lost over 90 per cent of his
principal while the alert stockhold-
er suffered only 60 per cent depre-
CATION In France, common stocks
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North Carolina" Capt. Farmer said.
"They know now that our drivers
License law has real teeth in it and
that the patrolmen are bearing down
or drunken drivers, so they are not
taking any chances on losing their
right to drive for a year. AS a re-
suit those who wat to drink either
get chauffeurs to drive for them or
get some one of the crowd who does
not drink to do the driving. The re-
suit is that we have had less trouble
with drunken drivers during fair
week this year than ever before"
Captain Farmer pointed out that
for several years now drunken driv-
ing to and from football games has
steadily decreased, due to the fact
that parties who wanted to drink
either employed chauffeurs to drive
for them or saw to it that the driver
was a nOn-drinker.
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their license revoked either for
drunken driving, reckless driving or
combinations of the two, drivers
would learn that they can't drink
and drive at the same time without
being arrested and losing their lie
enses," Fulk said. But there does
not seem to be much decrease in the
number of convictions for drunken
driving we get each week."
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17

With the most impressive and
brilliant seven-ring-and7stage pro-
gram in its history, the Ringing
Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combin-
ed Circus, which will exhibit in
Raleigh Friday October 80 offers this
seasbn, asS a sensational super-fea-
ture, herd of African pigmy ele-
plants the first ever to set foot on
this continent. These tiny tuskers are
not babies, but full-grown, middle
aed midget elephants, the rarest ami
mails on the face of the earth. Ac-
companying them is a herd of min
iature African pongurs, the worlds
smallest beasts of burden. The nigmy
elephants have proven the greatest
attraction the Big Show has ever
placed before the public, not even
excepting it's presentations in the
past of the disc-lipped Ubangis, the
giraffe-necked woman from Burma,
the sacred white elephant of Siam
Jumbo, Tom Thumb and Goliath, the
sea elephant.
Among the scores of new features
to say nothing of the new importa-
tons from Europe and Asia, includ-
ing the incredible Naitto troupe, the
Royal Bokara troupe, the Imperial
Viennese equestrian troupe, the great
FREDERICK and a free running horse,
pony and elephant liberty act of sixty
members, is Col. Tim Mccoy, the
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
ROSE MARIE RETURNED
TO STATE THEATRE

The State Theatre is making good
it's boast to bring back some of the
best photoplays, offering Wednesday
and Thursday Rose Marie" with the
singing sweethearts of the screen
Jeanette Mcdonald and Nelson Eddy.
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(COntlnued 1rOm Page One.1
are almost non-eXistant and where
most of the automobile driving is
done on the beach at low tide.
"It would seem that by this time,
after 6,2O8 drivers have already had
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-17
WORLDS MIGHTIEST
CIRCUS COMING SOON

Great Ringing Bros and -Barnum g.
Bailey Combined, with Pigmy Ele-
plants and POngurs from Africa,
Col. Tim Mccoy and Hundreds of
New Foreign Features, Offers Ep-
Ochaa Program.