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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-11

FOR SALE-One garden tractor,
one cream separator. Perfect
condition. E. T. Brown, Phone
81.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16
FORMER CORP EMPLOYEE
 MARRIED AT ANCHORAGE
January Is, l936

Miss Rita Revell, former 7almer- ite and secretery to Eugene Carr, was united in marriage by Reverend Father Sulzm1n to Norris Wilson (Slim) Moore at the Fotel Parsons in Anchorage on January l9.
 Due to an injury sustained when she sli0Ded and fell while working here, the bride, dressed in a pale blue gown with cream lace trim, was married from her wheel chair.
 The ceremony was performed at 9 in the evening with Irene Holden as matron of honor and Fred Parsons as best man.
 Guests were Hrs. Andy Si1nons, mother of the bride; Hrs. Agnes Barry; Hrs. Fred Parsons and Walter BraWingtOns
 l-r. Moore is a guide and trapper from the interior and he plans on flying with his bride to PaxOn on the Richardson Highway where they wi Il make their home.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

Motor freight service to Anch- orcgo was inaugurotod over the weekend when Ernie Kling man. ager of tho Palmer l-OtOr Service. md Elmer Sch2kel drovc through *Witn ( .locd of lTat2nuska vegetable and returned with . full cargo of beer in the truck, we mean.
 1-GnogCr Fling will maintain a weekly schedule, looving here on Sunday and returning the next day. If business warrants, he will also make trips during the week.
 Rates, said Er. Fling, will be 3Oq ton milo, about the sono as tho railroad, but with q saving Of delivery end pickup charges ct either end.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16
FANDIC2AFT SHOP RF0OPT
 crOr'c, 500 HAVE VISITED

The hcndicrcft or curio shop, founded by ITS. Lydia Fohn-Fonsen of the Extension Division of the University of Alaska, shows q to- tol of 45349 in sales since being taken over by Mrs. Frank Ring on November II.
 The report lists hand woven scorfs made by colonist women as the most popular item, 90 of them being sold. Eight pcir of hand madc gloves, 20 purses, 8 bill- folds, l apron end 35 souvenir coin Dursos account for the $265 taken in by women of the colony. Another $84 worth of Indian made crti los Wcro sold for native Wo- men.
 Five hundred callers hCd Visi- ted the shop up to the beginning of the yccr.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

John Odon, with two helpers, has just comp letGd mGnufI cturo of ell the cOncrctC flu6 tile almost q mile of it that will be used for colonist homes. Tests made ct the U. of 4. show that concrete mudC from local .urlWC>shod gravel has . strength fir cbOvc stcnd-,rd.
 lillian C1ssler from the Butte reports that Gll chimncys arc fin- ished in that Greo. ThcrC arc 26 ovUr there and now with the work comp leted Cossler is released to start building cabinets for the homes. re will ODcn tho cabinet shop it his own home.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

Hrs. Vida Dillon, beouticic ic.n, who is established ct tho Community Gen. ter barber shop, announces that she will return from hGr place of busi- ness in Anchorage md be open for 1ODO intments here on the 2l, 22 end B.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

If things seem brighter down at Rosie osky's, there's q reason. Tie now Kohlor electric light plant s in OpGrCt ion under the cCpGble di- rGction of Sam ChecolC, Sammy says there's moro juice at Eoslos@. ky'a than anywhere else in town.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16
Over N-r. Ross L. Sheely

Over Nr. Ross L. Sheely's signa- ture, a notice appears announcing that in an effort to cut down un- necessary oxDCnse foed d1liveries ill be made only once q month.
 COlonists 1~rC asked to order enough at on3 time to carry them through 6 thirty day period.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

A. A. (clim) Johnson of NenCnc wi II rGDlcco J. V. Frost IS Palmer stctiOn 4gCnt of the Alaska Rail- ro~d. l~r. Frost lcs bocn transfer rId to Curry.
 "elim" is around shaking hands wi tn old friends md getting cc- Quaintcd with his new surroundings
 There is pride in his eye cs he looks over the finest little depot in Al1>aAu, his new homo.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

Oscar Xindgr6n of Tract l7O sug- y9sts th-t lot of this business Of the COWS bUing under the weather is due to taking them from a warm barn out to the pump and loading them uD with ice cold water. TIe clr- ri6s his Water to tho barn and has lad no trOublo Witl his animals.
Matanuska Valley pioneer., 1936-01-16

SPRAYED: 4 gray marc and a black mare belonging to Scotty Dreghorn and Donald Parks of the Butte sec- tion. Whon last soon they were headed t0WCrd Wasillc. Please corral if possible and notify the PIONEER OfficC.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
WHY EUROPE TOYS
WITH VAR DEBT QUESTION

Certain European nations have in
dicated through diplomatic channels
that they may be willing to reopen the
United States. Of course, the United
States would have to make the proper
approach, by way of polite request for
payment. and possibly even some reduc-
ton in the amounts due. All that could
be considered, Europe believes, at
time when the correct negotiations have
reached the proper stage.
1t is queer that the European nations
should wish to reopen the matter of
their debts to this country at just this
time. They are spending more money
than at any time since the world war
on armies and ornaments. They are
building up fighting machines without
equal-always for self defense, you un-
derstand! They are in no better condi-
ton to pay now than they were two,
five or ten years ago. Yet they are will
ing to talk about paying. Why?
The fact of the matter is that Uncle
Sam is still considered something of a
rich uncle He is ideally fitted, at least
in the continental mind, for the role of
International banker. He is not too
harsh when his debtors do not pay, and
he is pretty gulllble as usual thlng.
1t is not that Europe wants to pay the
war debts; it is that Europe might want
to borrow some more money in few
months.
If the European nations again estab-
lish credit by beginning to make war
debt payments, they see no reason why
they should not use that credit in the
event of another major conflict In other
words, they hope that they can begin
now to induce the United States to help
finance their next war.
1t would be utterly foolish for the
United States to refuse to consider al
lowing Europe to reopen the debt ques-
ton. 1t would be more foolish if the
United States allowed itself to be placed
in a position in which other loans to
European nations would be advisable
in event of war.
Just now Uncle Sam can do a lot to
prevent war by letting it be known he
will not furnish the financing for an
mother conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
THE FUTURE HOLDS MUCH
FOR WESTERN AMERICA

In business, cultural and political life,
the eastern portion of the United States
remains most important. There are good
reasons for its Importance. Chief among
them is that the eastern states are the
Oldest They were settled first, and so
have reached a state of maturity. An
other reason, contingent upon the first,
is the comparative density of population
in the east. Another hundred years may
change all this
The west will become known in far
less than a hundred years as the great
est agricultural area. It's cities, ever in
creasing IN size. already are among the
nations largest cities. It's industries
are developing every day The west Is
still a changing scene, scarcely out OF
its childhood. 1t is not entirely unreason-
able to believe that its population will
be as large its business as great-and
its culture greater-than in the east.
In our own Imperial Valley is an out
standing example of the vests develop
ment. The valley, for agricultural and
community purposes, is scarcely more
than 80 years old. Yet it is one OF the
greatest comparative agricultural COM
munities in the nation.
Up in the Pacific northwest is another
example, where government engineers
are harnessing the Columbia river for
irrigation and electric power. A great
country is in the making there. Other
examples west of the Rockies are too
numerous to mention.
We in the west are living through an
historic period that the east can never
see again.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
PRESIDENT LAZARO CARDENAS
WRITES MEXICAN HISTORY

South of the international boundary
there are changes going on, the import
of which are realized by few persons
in the United States. Mexico today wit
nesses events which will be told of in
its history books for coming generations.
President Lazaro Cardenas, entering the
third year of his six-year term, will
not be forgotten in Mexican history.
Whether right or wrong-and most Am
orleans will agree with his basic policy
he is great man.
The Mexican president recently COM
pleted part of the program that makes
him an outstanding man among leaders
of his race Known as the Laguna pro-
iect, this part of the Mexican national
agrarian program gave into the hands
of former poems the land they till. 1t
raised them from the status of peasants,
and placed them in the position of free
men.
1t is hard for us on this side of he
border to realize the extent to which
peonage has crippled MeXico's advance
ment in years past. No country with a
peon system can grow and prosper as a
great nation. President Cardenas may
not be the first Mexican leader to real
ize this-but he is the first to formulate
and carry out program to abolish the
peon system.
Mexico may yet stand among the ma
tons of the world as great nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23

young man who sailed the seven
seas to sell" his empire will be
remembered longingly by his forme51
subjects. n
After he has married 1.-The woman
I love-" will his cup of happiness
always be so brimmingly full as to
make up, in great measure, for his
tremendous sacrifice?
And, as for Mrs. Simpson, will
she live up to one of the greatest
responsibilities that any woman
ever has had to assume? Is she
prepared, as she should be, to do
more than her part to guide their
marital bark through shoals of un-
happiness? Or will this marriage
end as did her others?
If necessary, is she willing to be,
for the rest of her life, either the
Duchess of Windsor-or just Mrs.
David Windsor-wife of a gentle
man farmer; and give up forever
the fascinating glamour of CONT
Mental society?
Will she long retain the beauty
of face and figure that fascinated
one of the greatest catches" in
history? Or, if her charms soon
fade, can she, by dint of love and
womanly graces, hold the affection
of her husband?
And, finally, can the new king,
George VI, symbolic the crown SO
effectively as to strengthen the
slender bonds between Great Bril-
tain and her dominions beyond THU
seas.
x Il x
No, the abdication of Edward
and the proclaiming of George as
new king have not closed the story
which rocked the world in the last
few weeks. That was only the anti
climax. From now on. people the
world over will eagerly follow the
fortunes of the royal brothers.. to
see how. it all comes out.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Dec. %. = An ocean
hop always does something emo
tionally to a flyer The long strain
effects temperamental change SO
that he or she is never quite the
same. There is a reserve and a
shrink from the world. Col Lind
bergh is conspicuous example.
Although never cut-up, he had
his moments of caper. He liked to
play practical pranks and as "Slim"
fitted into the CHEEKY camaraderie
of the mail flyers. He loved the
theatres and movies. But never goes
now. Upon his return from Paris
goodbye to all that.
Like Garbo, he wanted to be
alone. He seldom smiled and long
| before the awful tragedy touched his
life he became detached Amelia
Earhart, too, underwent a similar
metamorphosis. She withdrew more
and more from the simple little
pleasures. Only intimates saw her.
And then Harry Richman. Once
| bubbling with frolic. Broadway finds
him of a sudden quiet, serious. He
is closer to his brother and sister
than he has been in years. His fair
weather pals have taken a back seat
in favor of aviators He talks MOTH
ing but his proposed flight to Paris.
With the arrival of the George
Kaufmans to the peaceful pastoral
scene, Bucks county, Pa, near
, DoylestoWn, becomes sort of bu-
collie Greenwich Village-an Algon-
quin back to the soil movement. It
is two hours from Times Square.
The new literary colony includes
Dorothy Parker and her actor hus-
band; Pearl S. Buck, Lester Cohen.
| novelist; Paul Ernst, S. j. Perleman.
| humorist and Edwin Justin Mayer,
playwright.
Sam Byrd is young Florida born
actor who cut quite a niche for him.
self histrionically for his half-wit
bravura in Tobacco Road" Also
special praise for his fortitude in
9naWing at actual raw turnipS for
seven performances a week over
stretch of five years. His simula-
tion of sub-normalcy accompanied
by his gaze of vacuity, like dog
scratching at flea, were realism
And SO young Byrd husbanded his
play, lived simply and away from
the lights waiting an even Bigger
Moment. 1t finally seemed oppor-
tune in week end rechauffee in a
play in which he appeared as pro-
ducer and star. John Anderson, the
critic. drew the curtain over the fail
ure dolefully with: ASK me not to
tell you the end of the story 1t is
too sad"
90
In my time no public idol ever
toppled from a pedestal with such
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. %. UP
He laughed when instalment men
tried to take his rented furniture,
but when seven other collectors
laid siege to his bungalow Parky-
akarkus freal name Harry Parke,
ne Einstein in Boston, couldn't be
funny in any dialect.
81 lease furnished house." he
moaned, blinking sadly through
trimmed spectacles. MY moth
er gives a nice party, and right
away what happens? No sooner
the guests are seated then some
men back up van and try to take
the furniture out from under us.
I'VE laugh that off, see? Ha-
ha. We don't owe the men. It's
the people we rent from. All those
nice guests understand politely,
and then what happens? A man
comes to turn off the water.
I'VE are still talking him out of
it. when what happens next? An
other man comes to disconnect the
telephone.
In the meantime a fellow comes
into the kitchen and tries to move
out the stove, while another grabs
the icebox.
We're still defending the kitchen
when a painter comes and demands
his money for painting the place,
and before he's out of breath a
man who scraped the floor calls. He
wants his money, too.
You'd think that was all,
wouldn't you? They covered the
furniture, the water, the telephone,
the stove, the icebox, the paint and
the floors. But it wasn't. Next came
a man who said he had mortgage
on the house and was going to fore
close"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23

job by convincing Director James
Whale of Universal.
Whale hunts the lass to play un-
faithful sweetheart of German
soldier in his film version of Erich
Remarque's 'The Road Back" and
here are his specificationS-which
should burn the real Miss Harlow
delicate brown.
I'VE need a girl of about % with
a sweet young face concealing
bitter inner hardness. Miss Harlow
wouldn't do. 1t was five years ago
she looked like that"
Lelah Rogers, mother of redhead-
ed tapdancing Ginger. celebrated
Christmas Sunday and is off to
Baltimore to stage Rain From
Heaven for the Maryland city's
"Vagabond Players Little Theatre.
She anticipated Christmas five
days partly because she wanted to
spend the holiday" with her
daughter and partly because it was
her birthday. Mrs. Rogers will Gel
citrate again Friday with her sister,
Mrs. Wilma Droeger, in Chicago.
Metromen aren't allied with the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce,
but they took nasty fall out of
Florida's climate just the same.
Captains Courageous" Camera
company, which has spent five
months hunting storm backgrounds
from Seattle to Mazatlan, Mexico,
has been ordered TO the Gulf of
Mexico because storms are more
frequent there" They'll make head
quarters at Miami.
90
Gail Patrick, who recently mar
ried Bob Cobb, Brown Derby pro-
prietor, in Mexico, will marry him
again in Hollywood Episcopal
church. She isn't satisfied with the
civil service and wants religious
rites to cement the tie. .--.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23

haircut After it was done, the bar
ber inquired what he wanted on his
hair. Comb and brush he BEAM
ed. Alta toWner!
There seems no stopping the spec
tacular publisher of Time, Henry R.
Luce. He is reputed with an income
of some 100000 year yet recently
took on what everybody thought
would be a publishing headache"
the almost moribund Life. But
with about three issues he shot it so
full of fresh red corpuscles that it
jumped into one of the most sur
prising newsstand sales that new
magazine venture ever enjoyed.
Fortune was another one of Luce's
ventures-a dollar a copy-the wise
ones doomed to failure, but was
Whopping success.
I was interested in visiting one
of the high priced chefs in a de
luxe hotel the other day. One thinks
of him in white high peaked hat
and uniform standing over his
Steaming array of potions. He was
in uniform but spends most of his
time in his elaborate office with an
Ina Claire looking secretary, two
messenger boys and an assistant.
There was a row of phones and a
cluster of push buttons on his desk
in the manner of the high pressure
executive. Every one who came in
clicked heels and saluted. Now and
then the chef Wanders his vast
kitchens lifting copper lid for a
peek or perhaps taste, encouraging
his helpers and listening to their
plants. I asked when he ate and
found he followed the rule of most
chefs. One big meal day and that
usually at home Because they are
forced to sample SO many food val
ues all day the edge of their appe-
tite Is constantly dulled.
90
Word came recently that one of
the Wallandas of that intrepid fami-
ly of the circus wire, pyramiding
five high and crossing on bicycle
without a net, met the inevitable
fate of the death defyer. She fell
to the arena in Stockholm And the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
6~ Sol says
TX FRANK WATkNkBE
XVS BY led HOLDEN
BY ED HOLDEN
KISSING

A doctor in The Florida Board OF
Health have uttered the following verbs: ;:
IF you must kiss :; kiss on the cheeh +,
but do not make it liquid or lingering.
Oh Doctor! Such talkingl | close my
eve and pretend not to looking. Science
saw we must take 25,O00 germs with ey-
cry kiss. Then by golly let us TAKE
THEM, knowing worse people we
could take. That Doctor say DEATH
are lingering in each kiss. And that
make me feeling very sorrow for that
beautiful girl who parks with fresh
boy every night around the corner. She
has been dead for two years! But don't
know It. My goodness
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
News Behind the News
The Pan-American Treaties They
Viii Discourage European Penetra-
fion As The President Planned

WASHINGTON. : Treaties and agreements
signed at the Pan American conference, the aa-
ministration secretly hopes, will nave a tendency
to discourage economic and political penetration
in South America by Germany, Italy, ana Japan
This consideration was one of those Wnlch
moved Roosevelt to go to Buenos AIRES ana W
throw the United States so Wholehearteoly lhto
the conference It's reason why American
diplomats are delighted over the atmosphere
cf rampant good will in which the new Pan AM
ercan peace treaties have been signed
There you find the significance OF RooseVeltS
hardly yelled criticism Of Nazi or Fascist gov
ernments in his tribute to democracy
For some time the State Department has
been concerned over loss to American trade
caused by the German practice of paying for
imports from South America in marks which
can be used only for purchase of German goods
Unofficiay. this is sometimes referred to as
blackjack stuff since the other country must
accept the arrangement under penalty of haV-
ing the German market closed to his exports
Only totalitarian state can operate that way
or meet such competition
Nazi propaganda and some colonization goes
along with trade German infuenre is said TO
have become especially strong in Brazil. Recur-
rent creation of new Fascist groups In one Latin
American country or another has been cafefully
noted in Washington
To a lesser degree the Italian influence III
South America also has been strengthened And
the State Department has known for long
time of certain Japanese shehAniganS on the
west coast OF South anQ -Centl1l America WHICH
appear to involve military-nava1 espionage as
well as trade offensives and overtures to Latin
American politicians.
The Spanish ambassador is understood to
have warned Roosevelt that Fascist victory in
Spain would have Latin American repercussions.
thanks to Italian and German groups already
operating below the Panama Canal and the in
variable reflection or Spanish events in His
panic countries. =.
Roosevelt's immediate reaction to this warn
ing against rise of strong rascist movement in
Latin America hasn't leaked out. But he kept
the ambassador with him for two hours and
subsequently decided to go to the Pan American
conference.
Here's another story about the late Gus Gen.
nerich, Roosevelts bodyguard- and close friend,
who died in Buenos Aires.
Gus was guest at semi-fashionable cock
tail party in Washington and woman he didn't
know became boisterous and profane in her
denunciation of Roosevelt Gennerich glowered
and his face became red, but he said nothing.
Then second woman announced to the first
that if she didn't leave the party she would
throw her out bodily. The lady with the hate
on Roosevelt left.
Many times after that the second woman re-
ceived notes and small souvenirs of presidential
trips, mailed by Gus.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-23
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Abdeation Did Not End CoIorfuI British Story

King Edward VIII has abdicated,
and quit his native land; a new
king is in power, and the British
Empire once more is sailing along
as majestically as it ever has. The
tumultuous events which amazed
the world have passed into history
But the story by no means Is
over. Before it has ended. questions
that are still whirling confusedly in
peoples minds will have been an
swered; and only time can give
those answers.
Most of the conjecture, naturally,
centers about the ex-king who, in
his Prince of Wales days, won the
love of his subjects and the affec-
tionate interest of the rest of the
world.
Where will be spend the remain
ing years of his life? In Denmark?
Austria? America? Or will he try
to escape aching, nostalgia longings
in some remote part of the world?
Will he be content to resume his
one-time role of peripatetic playboy
or, perhaps, lead the life of a
gentleman farmer?
X IL X
Or is it possible that some day,
using the influence he still has with
Empire subjects, he will again serve
Great Britain? Remember the words
in his abdication address-"If, at
any time in the future, I can be
found of service to his majesty in a
private station, I shall not fail"
Certainly, if Britain affairs become
ruffled under his successor, the