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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-12
CONFEDERATE VETS
SELECT OFFICERS

SHREVEPORT, La, June ~
- Confederate veterans
elected new officers at their 46th
and possibly their last annual re-
union yesterday after quarrellng
in high and quavering voices over
the candidates.
Gen. Homer Atkinson, Peters
burg, Va, was named COMMANDER
in-chief. He won over Gen. j. NJ
Claypool, st. Louis, Mo-, after the
retiring commander. Gen. Harry
Rene Lee of Nashville, withdrew
in Gen. Atkinson's favor.
There were shouts from the
floor against "steam-roller" tactlcS
and Gen.. Atkinson was called
general Lees Puppet.' The vote
was PIP to 228.
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THOMAS, Butt
RESIGN SEATS
Wave Of Sympathy Sweeps
Commons as Two Retire
After Scandal

LONDON, June ~. (UP).-
James H. Thomas, the Horatio AL
ger boy of British politics, and Sir
Alfred Butt, millionaire race horse
owner and theatrical impresario,
announced in the hushed house of
commons yesterday that they were
resiging their parliamentary seats
Immediately as result of the re-
cent budget scandal.
A death-like silence fell over
the usually noisy commons as
Thomas, who rose from engine
wiper to one of Britain's political
"big fve," and Sir Alfred volun-
tarily ended their political careers.
Thomas-once referred to by
the late King George V as my
good friend Jim"-had been found
Continued on page SKI
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CRAZIANI is MADE
-. AFRICAN VICEROY

ROME, June II. (UP).-Mar-.
shall Rodolfo Graziani. commander
Of ItalyIsl southern forces during
fire East African campaign, yes
terday was named viceroy OF Etni-
opia, succeeding Marshal Pietro
Badoglio who was given the non
orary title of Duke of Adds
Ababa. o..
1t was understood that GrazI,
ani's viceroyship extends over all
of Italian East Africa, including
Eritrea, Somaliland and Ethiopia.
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Presbyteriians
Set Up Church

Philadelphia, June II. -
Presbyterian fundamental
eaders voted late yesterday to
all connections with the par
denomination and announced
"a. establishment of the Pres
[aan Church of America, a
b church.
|hIe than 200 delegates, who
Eao.ed in a convention called
ne Presbyterian Constitution
loVenant union, elected the
1 Dr. J. Gresham Machen, head
ne Westminster Theological
nary, to the post of first
'atOr of the general assem-
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||D VIGOROUS
|N)R SUPPORT
TEXAS
,ou,suds Cheer President
|, Liberal Address at
Centennial Today
TO CHARGE
/ ENTERPRISE CURBED

-irLAS. Tex. June II. (UP).
I.s9sr, Roosevelt today bluntly
IL That unless monopoly is
L., the United States faced
| inspect of becoming a nation
| Sarting houses. instead of a
H. Of homes. ,
r. chief executive attacked
I,srtrated wealth and pledged
1 v5.ection of small business
a5Or.
|.rts net result of monopoly
ne net result of financial con-
n the hands of a few means
Es,ship of labor as a commod-
he declared. "If labor is to
\, commodity in the United
RS in the final analysis, we
become a nation of boarding
|.ss. instead of a nation of
rsS"
|i!iressing cheering thousands
he Cotton Blow stadium. the
niient made a vigorous hid for
Clrued liberal political sup
~ ~
The president arrived by special
/, for q visit to the Texas GEN.
E-al. His remarks were inter
Nd as a fortnight defense of
four years of experimentation
economic reform and an answer
critics who have charged the
rniStration with slowly strang-
Z private enterprise.
.I.e president lauded Texas
s!Ehip in antitrust legislation
!! aid:
You found that certain forms
irGOpoly-the combinations of
bile utilities and other bust
uses which sought their own
nis-Tere undemocratic because
be- E;,e bearing down heavily
3 TIER smaller competitors and
t+sgsople they served. Because
i3s they were taking away op-
E-,ity.
'.liay we have restored de-
NY in government.
w are in the process of re-
y democracy in opportunity,
IL. Roosevelt said "the very
s. of free government de-
Is that there must be a line
stenSe held by the yeomanry
lsiness and industry and ag-
tqre."
{ warned that "any elemental
b, economic or political,
b tends to eliminate these de-
babe defenders of Democratic
EntiOnS, and to concentrate
mol in the hands of a few,
Continued on page six)
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S. s. Association
Group Meet Set

A Sunday school meeting of the
Carolina Baptist Association will
be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday,
June IA, at the Cross Roads Bap-
fist church.
Weldon Brandon, group super
intendent, will be in charge of the
program. All churches in the as
ISOLATION are asked to send repre-
sentatives.
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Roosevelt WarnsU. s. OMonopoiy
Landon Thrilled,
Starts Campaign
For Fall Ballot

TOPEKA, Kas., June ~. (UP)
Gov. ALT M. Landon, unanimous
presidential nominee for the revit-
allied Republican party, opened
his campaign here today for cleo
ton and an opportunity to bal
ance the federal budget.
Landon, thrilled by the Cleve-
land stampede which named him
on the first ballot attributes his
coming to national notice to his
budget balancing record in Kan
sas and believes that American
voters are ready to join most
sharply against the New Deal for
it's record of free spending.
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VSLED FROM ELEVATED

I1E YORK, June -. CUP).-
\ sS CoSgrOye, Jr., II months,
aurIed out of a window of an
yea train when a drunk coll
\. With his mother, Mrs. Ger
,.1 ToSgroce. Thomas fell on a
"a and lay for minutes with
h Te' dangling over the edge
ne was rescued. A 16-year-
y: !I yn Ieaped out the window
s. aim' handed Thomas back to
\ S. liner and disappeared, as did
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-12
TAKE WHEELS, TIRES
FROM STOLEN AUTO

A Chevrolet sedan, belonging to
Nelson Young, Duke Power COM
pany employee, was stolen from in
front of the home on First avenue
west last night, taken to the
Blythe street extension, where all
four wheels and tires were re-
moved. -.
The car was discovered this
morning by Joe Freeman. All four
tires and inner tubes were prac-
tically new.
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HAS ODD ACCIDENT

MIAMI, Fla, June 12.-(UP?.
n II. Farr awakened to find his
pillow soaked with blood. He was
the victim of an odd accident, he
found. One end of Fairs NOUS
tache. which he wears waxed to
sharp points on the tips, had
worked into nostril during his
sleep and had pricked a blood
vessel.
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omen TAKE
z CEORCIANS
Desperadoes Held in Nash
vile After Escape From
Chain-Gang

ATLANTA, June II. (UP).-
Federal officials today laid plans
to end the law-flaunting of Lee
land Harvey, who 10 times has
escaped from Georgia penal in
stitutions.
The man who boasted no Geor,
gia chain-gang could hold him and
made good his boast today faced
a prospect or federal conviction
for transporting a stolen automo-
bile across state lines.
E. E. Conroy, chief of the bu-
reau of investigation here, said
Harvey would be taken to Macon
because of fugitive complaint IS
sued there and filed in Nashville
where he and Robert Williams,
convicted bankrobber, were cap
tured. Both signed waivers of re-
moval. All that remained was for
a federal judge to sign the order
of removal.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June II.
-UP). Georgia's chain-gang
escape artist, Leland Harvey and
another escaped Georgia convict,
Robert Williams, bank robber, last
night were back in the laws
shackles.
]. Edgar Hoover's Omen this
time held the two convicts who
overpowered a guard and fled
from Georgia's Troup county
chain-gang May IS. That was
Harvey's 10th escape from prison.
Tennessee highway patrolmen
became suspicious of the two con-
victs when they stopped at road
house near Nashville Wednesday
night in an automobile bearing a
Florida license. A search of the
automobile revealed an automatic;
pistol, a revolver, a rifle and
Georgia newspapers describing the
escape of Harvey and Williams
from the Troup county prison,
After questioning at Nashville,
identity of Harvey and Williams
was established by department OF
justice officers.
Harvey first gave the name OF
R. NJ. Chandler, Macon, Ga, IN
whose car it was believed the two
convicts were riding at the time
of the capture. Williams contend
ed his name was Jack Moore.
E. H. Conroy, hea dof the At
lanta division of the bureau OF
investigation, planned to take the
Continued on page six)
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CHARGE VACRANCY

h., snAN, Ala. June IL. (UP)
h. Sts OF yagrancy are pending
h, "a negro held in the Do
b oS rUEuInty JAIL but authorities
b bs aOIe to docket him. No one
b. Ha able to identify the me-
h. ne Is deaf and dumb and
y" read or write.
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TWO CHURCHES WILL
DELETE OBEY FROM
MARRIAGE CEREMONY

NEW YORK, June IL. (UP)
The word "obey" should be
eliminated from the marriage
ceremony, the official manual
of the Christian and Congrega-
tional churches advised yester-
day. The manual said the word
was Irritating and needless. " %
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SUIT CONSIDERED

WASHINGTON, June L.. CUP
The board of tax appeals yester-
day took under adYisement fn1IeP
governments SO, 100000 income
tax suit against, Andrew w Mel
lon, former secretary of treasury.
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WEATHER

.;bIe thundershowers to-
E'' warner Saturday.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

If Al Smith takes . walk" ut
tho Philadelphia convention, it
will probably, bother the Demo.
Gratis should he slam the door.
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WAR DEBTS AND THE NEW DEAL

The Detroit Free Press reminds that the Roose.
velt administration is supposed to have done some
thing about collecting war debts from foreign gov
In the campaign of 1882 the Hoover administra-
ton was assailed because nothing was done to
make the defauting governments toe the mark.
Finland excepted, none of the war debtors is
paying and the Roosevelt administration is as COM
placent as the Hoover administration The
European debtors can find funds for war and for
preparedness. They can find no funds wherewith
to repay this country.
When the war debtors told Mr. Hoover that they
were not paying an instalment, he declared mora
torium on the debts but there was no moratorium
for the American people who had to supply funds
for paying the bondholders.
The war debtors do not choose to pay, but the
American people have no choice. Like the Hoover
administration, the Roosevelt administration makes
the American people pay while the debtors divert
the funds to other purposes.
Either the American people shall pay or the
bonds must be repudiated. The American govern,
ment foated the bonds. European governments
spent the funds The war debtors across the sec
awe a matter of $l2, 200, ,OoO, ,O0O You and 1 are
paying the interest this sum- paying it regularly
and the people of the borrowing countries are said
to be too hard up to take over the load.-Charles-
ton News and Courier.
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THE SAME OLD GAME

Apparentiy there are still many people VINO De-
love in get-rich-quick schemes, by which one may
dorble or triple his money in day
In spite of frequent warnings and the kno"i-
dce Of many victims of the confidence racket they
continue to hand over their money to the slick and
sIipnerv gentlemen who ply that trade Always 1t IS
y, some new guise, and with new names and tech
,;.Iities. but also it is always the old con-
fdence game
Three of this gentry, working the game in an
other state approached man out in the county,
wbo thew had discovered by the usual underground
methods, had three hundred dollars cash on his per-
SON and induced him to put it up against similar
amount of their own money in an automobile
financing scheme.
The nature of the scheme, of course, is non
essential The thing to be noted is that the SIX
hundred dollars were put into envelope and
given to the man to keep, while the strangers went
out to dig up some business by which the doubling
process was to be accomplished.
In some unaccountable manner, however, the
money became metamorphosed in the handling.
After the inanciers'' had been absent for several
hours the man took peek into the envelope to see
if the money was all right, and found it had beer
hocus pocused into mere stage money.
All of which suggests that it is not wise to have
dealings with a stranger who meets you on the
street and all but shouts aloud that he is going to
cheat you out of your eye tooth.-Rock Hill S. c.,
Herald.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
eAvoRs CONVENTION INSTEAD OF PRIMARY

"A
The News and Press is not particularly concern
cd what Mr.. Hoey and DIR. Mcdonald say ABOUT
zach other, and about the persons who are sup
norting them. But it is concerned with where we
are headed in the matter of government. One prl-
mary is past and we are now in the midst OF not
campaign of another Thousands upon thousands
Of dollars were spent in the first campaign ana
oven more will be spent in the second.
Where does this money come from? First, the
candidate himself just about spends all that ne mas
and all that he can borrow. Then his friends are
solicited, and after they have been Drained the
individuals and corporations who may likely hnd
il advantageous to have friend in the executive
mansion in Raleigh asked for contrloutons
And after it is all over, the governor, whoever ne
is finds that he has well-nigh mortgaged his soul
70 get the honored position.
How much better it would be if the candidates
vere named in a convention. No expensive hrst
primaries and no second primaries at all. A cam
didate could go to the convention and see where
the delegates stood No hiding behind an Aus
+raIian ballot. and no knitting in the back-Aloe-
marie News and Press.
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ton with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Allard Case.
, Mrs. Ernest Guice, who has
been i'll for some time, is improv-
ing.
A large group of people from
this community attended the Hol-
mess Baptist Sunday school con-
vention at Paris Mountain, S. c.,
last Sunday.
Miss Catherine Frazier visited
her aunt, Mrs. Pink Corn, Of Uno
last Sunday. Mrs. Corn is very
i'll.
James Wilson, who has been
visiting relatives in Jacksonville,
Fla, has returned home.
The many friends in this COM
munity Of the Rev. J. A. Clement,
president of N. C. Wesleyan Meth
odist conference, are sorry to
know he is very i'll at his sons
home in Asheville. Owing to the
illness of Rev. Clement, Rev. l..
A: Harvey was appointed to hold
quarterly conferences at Brevard,
Hendersonville and Bethel Wes-
leyan Methodist churches during
the past week.
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DUNN'S ROCK LODGE
OF MASONS TO HAVE
PLAY; CONFER DEGREE

BREVARD, June &c. Especially
The local Dunn's Rock Masonic
lodge will be visited tonight by
members of the Asheville Masonic
lodge, who will present play,
"The Greatest of These" at the
regular communication, beginning
at s o'clock.
The following visiting Masons
will take part in the play: Guy
H. Morris, as master; Chas. c.
Kicker, as treasurer; H. G. Ether
idge, as secretary; Sam P. Bur-
ton, John Foreman, Ernest D.
Chandler, Hugh M. Fielder, Frank
G. Metzger, Fred w. Starnes, En-
NETT A. Denton.
A. G Kyle, worshipful master
of the local organization, states
that large number of Masons is
expected to attend this meeting.
as this play is considered one of
the best Masonic plays ever to
have been given in this section.
A special communication of the
local lodge will bes held Monday
night at 7 O'Clock, at which time
the third degree will be conferred
Eon two candidates, The degrees
Lwill be conferred Shy the West
Gate degree team from Canton.
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A NOVEL PROCEDURE
Ry WICKEy WAMBOLDT

the right of franchise"
What | heard them say about
you," said a man in a gray suit
addressing the first speaker, "was
that you were too good to be in
politics."
81 don't agree with that at all, 4"
cut in someone else. "Nobody's
too good to be in politics. The
trouble with politics is that most
of the men in it aren't good
enough"
"Say Fellows" broke in a man
who had been listening obviously,
"do you think we should be dis
cussing this thing in here? This
isn't in the lesson. Isn't this pol
'itics? And oughtn't we to keep
politics out of the church?
: Don't you think God is inter-
ested in politics?" inquired a
member who had not spoken be-
fore. Government is the founda-
ton of everything in our commun-
ity life. Our homes, our busi-
nesses, our social integrity rest on
government. If our community
government isn't sound and
wholesome then the structure un-
derlying our community life is un-
wholesome. agree that we should
not discuss candidates and
things like that in the church.
and 7 know that some of our pill
lars in this church don't want us
to think about politics at all: the
less we think the better for them;
but | believe it is the duty of our
Christians to study more about
politics and to get into the fight
to make politics clean. If church
people get committed in their own
minds to sound principles in gov
ernment they'll do what they
should do about getting out the
right candidates and voting for
them"
Had certain church leaders
known the foregoing discussion
was going on in that class room
thew would have had a fit and fal-
len into it. But it is going to take
lust such debates, free and wide
spread to wake up the church
people to their political and gov
ernmental responsibilities an d
make them distinguish between
right and wrong in matters po-
lificaI and governmental.
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against me at the polls and told
others that they could not afford
to elect me because didn't be-
long to the ring -
"Well," remarked anot h er
member of the class, "that is
what ails politics. Our church
members themselves don't know
what it's all about. They have
been brought up to put their po-
litical affiliations above every
thing else. They have been train
I'd from childhood that allegiance
to their political party or ring is
the greatest thing in the world.
It is a form of fanaticism which
S more compelling than their love
If home and country. Iknow the
four women you were talking
about. I saw them at work and
heard what they said. In every
way except politically they are
GOOD women"
"The filthy lucre was certainly
being spent in my precinct" de-
clared another member. "They
we're buying 'em right and left.
We Americans are never going to
have honesty and decency in gov
arnment until we reach the state
of moral development where we
will not sell our votes"
"Let me tell you something,
gentlemen" spoke up still another
member, "From what you fellows
have just said, it is clear that most
Of us Americans are not yet fit
to live in republic and exercise
The times-news., 1936-06-26
WORK week IS
LARGELY CUT
IN CAROLINA
Hours in Major Industrial
Plants Reduced From
61 to 46 Per Week
By CHILES COLEMAN
limited Press Staff Correspondent

RALEIGH, June 26.-(UP)-
Working hours in major North
Carolina industrial plants have
been reduced from 81 hours
week in 1880 to an average of 46
working hours a week, a United
Press survey showed today.
Reports from 1919 plants in
eight major lines of industry IN
the state revealed that less than
22 per cent of the workers aver
age SIS hours a week or more at
their jobs today. State depart
ment of labor figures show that IN
1880, a total of 96 per cent OF
those employed in the same eight
industries worked SIS hours week
or more.
The NRA codes, outlawed more
than a year ago, are given large
measure of credit for the sharp
decline in industrial working
hours. Present-day figures show
that code standards with regard
to hours are being adhered to in
most manufacturing industries,
while non-manufacturing indus
tries are operating under AZ to
SIS hours per week work sched-
ules.
Industries for which figures
were tabulated were cotton, hos
iery, silk, furniture, crates and
barrels, tobacco, miscellaneous
manufacturing, and retail mer-
chandising.
In the cotton manufacturing
industry, approximately five-sixths
of the mills are operating on a
4O-hour week basis for their
workers, in contrast to figures for
1880, which show that more than
five-sixths of the workers put in
5 hours or more, week.
Four-fifths of North Cardinals
hosiery mills reporting were on
4O-hour week schedules, and all
but five of the states 22 silk mills
require 40 hours a week or less
of their employees. Six years ago,
13l of 161 hosiery mills in the
state and 19 of 20 silk mills were
operating on schedules which call
ed for an average of So hours per
week from employees.
The furniture manufacturing
industry, with 100 plants includ-
ed in the survey, has 65 on a 40
hour week, 25 on a 45-hour week
and 10 on a 50-hour week. Fif-
teen of Is tobacco manufacturing
plants for which figures were
available are operating on a 40
hour week. In comparison, 1880
figures show 167 of 180 furni-
ture plants requiring workers to
spend SIS hours a week at their
jobs, and &c of 80 tobacco man
ufacturing plants working 5O
hours a week or more.
The crates and barrels indus
try, in which SO plants reported,
has six on 40-hour weeks and IL
on 50-hour weeks. Six years ago,
So or "a plants in the industry
were operating on 55-hour
schedule.
In retail merchandising, hours
are longer than in manufacturing
industries, but decrease from 1880
standards is fully as great. At
present only 80 stores of 442 for
which figures were obtained keep
their employees more than So hours
a week., while in 1890 a total Of
2,097 of 2,118 stores operated on
schedules calling for 55 hours or
more q week.
The following table illustrates
the decrease in working hours
over the six-year period in the
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Wait
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowell
HENDERSONVILLE is RE-

turning to the "stone age" Two
stone buildings are under con-
struction - the Catholic church
and the city gymnasium, both
very attractive and imposing in
appearance.
Hendersonville's first develop
ment after passing the village
stage of frame buildings was in
the direction of stone. Three store
buildings remain standing, the
McAdoo building on First and
Main, Dixon's Health Resort and
Apartments on Fleming and Third,
and Govan Hyder's store building
on Seventh. There were others
but they have been removed. In
view of the prevalence of stone of
high grade we probably would
have had more stone buildings had
it not been for five brick plants
The times-news., 1936-06-26
FISH COMMIT SUICIDE

! ANACONDA, EMont.-(UP). -
Apparently = the, ordinary trout
simply can't stand thessight of the
albino or light colored trout.
When four of the latter were
placed in hatchery tank of the
Montana State Fishery, the ordi-
nary trout began committing sui
eide by jumping against the ton
of the tank until II out of 35
We're dead. The four albinos look
ed on undisturbed.