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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
COMPLEX WORLD VoIDS U. S.
ISOLATION HOPES
By BRUCE CATION


The United States may have decided
during the League of Nations campaign III
1920 TO pursue a course of unyielding $50
Iation in it's relations with the outside
world. but YOU can't stay that it isn't get
ting plentv of chances to- change its mlnd'
The most recent one, of course, IS the
proposition advanced by the heads OF three
Latin American nations for a league OF
New World states to keep the peace, settle
arguments, and turn the good neighoof
policy into something that you can get
cashed at the banks.
As with all such proposals, the potential
value of this scheme depends on how Sc
riously the nations involved could be III
duced to take it. 1t might be made eX-
ceedingly useful, and it might turn into just
one more high powered debating society,
ornamental but Impractical
However, the suggestion has been made;
and it comes, oddly enough, at season OF
year when the mere idea of national isoia-
ton looks just little bit foolish.
Right now, for instance, an American
air line is just getting under way with a
mail and passenger serJice that reaches
all the way across the Pacific. Intema-
tional negotiations are under way for line
to provide similar service 10 Europe. Our
airplanes link us with South America,
which, in turn, has just been connected
with Europe. by the dirigibie Hindenburg.
The farm belt is turning the soil for
new crop. The great industrial belt of the
East and Middlewest is hiring new men
and hopefully planning for expansion.
And, in both cases, the hoped-fOr prosper
ity will not be as robust as everyone wants
it to be unless a fair percentage of the
product can be shipped overseas.
This, in turn, depends in part or such re-
mote questions as whether the French gov
eminent will devalue the franc; beyond it
are even remoter questions, such as that of
restoring prosperity to central Europe.
Meanwhile, our progress toward pros
perity is made difficult by high taxes;
and these taxes are high, partly because
we are still paying for our Share of a wal
that began when Siberian schoolboy shot
an Austrian duke. and partly because we
are building an enormous navy, for use
presumably several thousand miles ives
of the. Hawaiian Islands. .-.
All this has very little to do with TIM
Latin American proposal for New Worlt
league to keep the peace: But that Rropo
sal, mild as It is, viii frighten a lot of gooe
people, who will insist that we must pre-
serve our ISOLATION. ~ ~, Is T..
When,you look at the way our whole ma
tional life. is bound up with things tina
happen thousands of miles beyond on
borders, you may be tempted to ask
What isolation?"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

made that it was
the transactions
in which Colonel
Lea was involv-
ed which wreck
ed the Central
Bank and Trust
c o III p a n Y o t
Ashcvillc, n. G.,
That statement
is so ridiculous
and misleading |
shall correct it
to keep the rec
ord straight.
7 h e Central
Bank and Trust
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
Ii Jews WOUNDED

TELAVIV. Palestine, Apr! Is.
N-P)-Fourtccn Jews wcr e
wounded yesterday when British
police opened fire on dcm0nStra-
ton by 1000 during The funeral
for a Jew who was killed recently
by highwaYmen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
Wait
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowcll
HES HOME working wi,

HES HOME working with
some rose bushes. Sticking them
out" Oliver Brownlcc said Of his
father. az he illustrated with 4
gesticuIation, which consisted Of
pokiug his right forefngcr wildly
downward for a few strokes as
though he were setting cabbage
plant or something more delicate.
With Mr.. Brownlec it was a
performance Of digging a hole. a
matter Of transplanting for Joy
and recreation OF Il task Of labor.
very likely the former. but not
just sticking them out Rose
growers do it more dignificdiy.
It's one Of the finer arts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
WATER. HONEY HIS DIET

GLEN FALLS. \. Y. April 70:
CUP).-Water and honey is all
the nourishmcnt Mike George, 40
year-old Syrian chef, has taken in
the past 33 days. He is fasting to
cure stomach ailment.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
SEA, Service STAFF Correspondent

WTASHINGTON. - The fuss over
/" big AAA. benefit payments has
served to bring out angles Of the
farm program which. although
they won't be made into campaign
issues. Seem 10 reflect more seri.
ously on the record than the mere
fact that big payments were made
to biz producers in accordance with
law.
Displacement ri sharCCropperS
and tenant farmers. notably in the
south. Is ground for che of the
chief complaints.
The news that Thomas u. Camp
hell had received about $4,000 for
not raising wheat was not con-
sidered az significant. except by
politicians. as that Campbell as a
"sharecropper' could pocket IS Ger
cent Of the benefit payments while
Indian owners OF land which he
rented pockcted Is per cent at
time when cotton shareeroppers
theoretically we're averaging about
Is per cent OF benefit payments
and cotton land owners about SIS
per cent.
THE r. z. Lee Wilson plantation
- In Arksnzas received the largest
cotton payments-sis9.7o9 IN 1898
and 1884. Interest in that sum is
accentuated by charges OF the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
that the firm changed from a share
cropping system In order rot to
have to share benefits. threw hun
dreds on relief. ard re-ilired work
eTs at IS cents gor IL to 14-hour
day.
This practice has been wide
spread. It is said. neces<itatinS
large relief and ResettlemeRt ex.
penditaTes in addition to AAk
benefit money.
Many troopers and tenants are
alleged to have been phenaglef: out
Of all share In benefits and the
aAA here has been powerless to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
COFFEE DRINKERS: - Just

how much coffee do We drink ?
How fastidious are our tastes? i
coffee, just coffee and nothing
more. all alike, or do We make a
fuss about it? DO stores, reStau-
rants and coffee shops draw
trade or drive it off on account
Of Coffee.
The late VI. VI. Shepherd used
to advertise his coffee when
heavier merchandise went begging
for publicity. He was likely the
"Coffee King" Of Henderson
county. Who ranks foremost now?
As Dewey Sherman was grind
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

In the publicity put out regard
ing the recent parole from the
North Carolina penitentiary Of
Colonel Luke Lea-former Ten
nessce senator, govelnor-makcr
and fnancier-the statement was
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
DIPLOMAT DIES

BOGOTA. Colombia, April 20.
-UP) .-Pomponio Guzman, 81,
former Colombian minister to
Washington and Buenos Aires.
died Sunday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

Every little while somebody Is writing doom o''
The Religion of the Future, or Inc Uoini,ie
Religion" The greatest coming religion III 'Hc
world is Christianity 1t began with the coming u
Jesus Suffer the little Children to CpNE Ui''o
me- MARK 1O:14) COME unto me all Ee 'n"'
labor and are heavy laden" Matt. 1928; II any
man thirst, let him COME" John 1879
From Sunday School Times.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

The British can't be SO persistent. A
minister quit because, the government
wouldn't take his advice, but millions OF
Americans keep plugging away. .....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

IN Japanese homes. OH May b, the
dolls and the images OF great
rational heroes will he brought oui
md the exploits Of those they rep
-esent related Unique among the
male group will be lone female
mage-that Of the great Empress
lingo. she from whom spranG the
.erm that is applied to bellicoSe
iatiOnaIiStS the world over.
For she 1t was who, in POI a. D.
led ,Tapanesesnvasion into Korea
and became the guiding spirit oil
japanese militariStS. She was i'm
PEELED to patriotic fervor by hei
vision Of the gods. in her prayers
who directed her to the rich land
Of Shiraki (korea) beyond the
sea. The MikadO Chiuai. her hus
band. ignored the portent and the
gods decreed his death So Jingt
herself sought to carry out theil
plan. Dressed as a man. she lee
her forces across the sea. although
she was soon tn become mother
The honor for this daring eX
plot. the empress decreed. was t.
20 to her unborn son, OHM. tt
whom have been erected some Of
the most magnificent shrines II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

RESPONSES Or eomn,,,,
any subject ,..ru# ......
are ALWAYS solicited
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

Kindness Week has opened in FRANCE
It might be a good TIME TO ask Paris t.
stop designing those so-called hats foi
women. =. ~. .,...
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

The London doctor, who says the aver,
age woman doesn't get enough iron in heI
food. evidently hasn't tried biting brides
biscuit. = ~, y.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

Japan.
In 1908 JapaI
first issued a SCI
of stamps honor
ing the Empress
lingo. and a sim
liar set appearet
i'm 1925. One il
shown here.
NEA Service. iuc.i
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

AS early as the century. the duration "i a'i""o"
twilight was ending when IN" sun "as ~ ~"
below the horizon and observations since then HdN" " %
necessary to change this figure However. sh"r'' h'
known 'civil' twilight Is employed To H'>-"'> '.'
u.en = certain amount daylight still remains
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20

II they say yonr tie is niee-ooking. stick out
your chest If they laugh. say your wife boushs it.
The Washington times., 1936-08-12
EHE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IL, 1895
CoIored COP. Group
Gets Legal Adviser

Perry w. Howard, locat attor-
ney and colored national Repub-
lican committeeman from Missis-
sippi, has been named legal ad-
wiser of the Negro Landon-Knox
campaign committee with head
quarters in Chicago.
Unlike previous years, the head
quarters have been shifted to the
West in an effort to enroll the
large colored vote in that section
DR.. L. K. Williams, president of
the National Baptist Convention
and Robert R. Church, Memphis,
Tenn, are directors of the colored
division of the national commit
tee.
VOTE AMERICAN
Watch for "The Boy Castaways," .
new jules Verne novel % high .,u....-u N, +,
which starts next Monday In The Wash
ingtOn Times.
The Washington times., 1936-08-12
ATION|STS
FLEE MICHIGAN
FOREST FIRE

MARQUETTE, Mich, Aug. IL
U.N.S.) S.).-Rain today checked
spread of forest fires in north
ern Michigan.
After conservation officials
had declared they were virtually
helpless in extinguishing the
fires, heavy showers fell from
MuniSing west to IrOnwOOd.
HOUGHTON, Mich, Aug. II
0.N.SO.-One resort section on
Isle Royale in Lake Superior, was
evacuated today before spreading
flames from a fierce forest fire
which already has devastated
nearly one-fourth of the island.
Meantime, on the mainland,
nearly 100 fires we're reported IN
Michigan timber country. One
was out of control and conserva-
ton department officials said they
were virtually helpless.
On the island. the resort section
at Chippewa Harbor was being left
to the mercy of the cracking
flames. More than two score sum-
mer guests and SightSeers were
evacuated yesterday and the mo-
tor ship Mary Margaret stood by
to take off the resort keepers.
The fire on that front was less
than a mile from the lake.
DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. IL.
G.N.S0 Rain forecast by the
Government weather Bureau was
eagerly awaited by the thousands
of men fighting flames in the
great pine forests of Minnesota
and Wisconsin today.
In Minnesota where thousands
of acres of timber land in the
Superior National Forest Preserve
have been swept by fire, men were
rushed to Beltrami Island to battle
a new blaze which broke out
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1936-08-12
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The Washington times., 1936-08-12

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17
JUDGE M'EVOY
 DECIDES TAX CASE
Continued from Page 1.)

liam w. Gager contended that the tax was franchise tax and that The Elton should not be assessed since 1t is in receivership and can- not act as corporation. Deputy Attorney General Frederick Dauch asserted that the tax was @ just one and should be collected from corporations in receivership.
 The Elton case had been pending on short calendar for several weeks. Attorney Gager introduced the matter some weeks ago before Judge Frederick M. Peasley, asking that he be advised as to procedure on filing of Q return under the cor- poration tax cat of l936. He was in- structed at that time to seek in- formation from the attorney-general of the state. The latter held that the tax should be paid, and the matter was reintroduced in court by Attorney Cagcr on the contention that @ concern in receivership should not be obliged to pay the tax.
 No Corporation In 1885
 In his memorandum, Judge Mo- Evoy states that The Elton was not carrying on as a corporation in 1895, and no officer could make a re- turn since the corporation was in receivership. In addition, he stated, no penalties are enforceable against the officers, since they were re- strained from acting by the receiv- ership, or against the receiver for failing to file a report. Filing a re- turn, he said, would cause conflict between the courts and would be against the meaning of the law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17

ests of the West Side Boys As- sociation, Inc. also campaigned suc- cessfully for wading and swimming pools in Central Park as only re- gently Park Commissioner Moses announced publicly that the site of the old Central Park Casino would be converted into Q wading and swimming pool.
 In his legal capacity, the local boy is well known as Q trial lawyer on insurance. His ofilces are To- cated at 99 Wan Street, and he is connected with the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York.
 At last Fridays meeting. other officers elected with Attorney Hem nessey included: vice-president. Charles F. Benfer: recording and corresponding secretary. Paul J. AL berto: financial secretary and treas urer. Gustav J. Silverling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17
Italians Win Great
 Victory M Battle
Continued from Page N

broke through Wna6 was eimoSt wing and emerged the victors, hav- ing killed 900 Ethiopians and taken i8, including chief, prisoner. The Italian losses were l7 killed and DO wounded. The bloodiest days flght- ing was on Thursday in front ot the Priests Hat when 90 Italians and 2,000 Ethiopians were killed and 27S Italians and many Ethiopians wounded. Artillery and machine guns posted at the foot of the hat moved the Philippians down merci- lessly.
 Italian Flag Raised
 At 5:30 p. m. Saturday the March 2S division of militiamen, of the Italian right wing put the italian flag on the yelled summit of the mountain. The Italians had ad- yanced @ little more than 16 miles. Badoglio had watched 1t all. his eye ct Q 45-power telescope at the obs servation post. He was there day and night. went to the bottom of the Priests Hat and saw the 1tal- ian soldiers, who had been trudging day and night sometimes through torrential rain, bringing down the Ethiopian wounded, already efdci. ently bandaged. Last to descend were the dead, thrown over mules backs, the bodies stripped by Ethi- opian warriors. The dead were buried ct the foot of the Priests Hat in cofflns made out of ammunition boxes.
 Britain Gives Curt Reply
 London, Feb. l7-(UP)-Great Britain curtly put an end today to correspondence reseulting from an Italian protest against its defensive advancement with Mediterranean powers which would become opera tive in event that Italy attacked Britain. In note delivered to Italy February 14, it was revealed, the government said:
 "The British government does not feel that any useful purpose could be served by prolonging the corre- spondence."
 The correspondence began when Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador, in communication to Anthony Eden, foreign secretary, on January 24 protested against the new mutual assistance arrangement.
 It was understood that France, Greece, Jugoslavia, Turkey, Rou- mania, Spain and CzechoSlovakia, whom Britain consulted before re- plying to Italy, would deliver simi- lar notes to Rome
 The foreign ofiice sent a copy of its note to Geneva with the request that it be circulated to the 50-odd nations joining in league penalties against Italy for its war on Ethi- opia.
 1 Addis Ababa, Feb. 17-(UP)-Ad. vices from the southern front said today that Philippians had attacked an advancing Italian column in the Bale region, about 200 miles north- east of Dolo and towards Addis Ab- aba, killing 26 and definitely halting the advance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17

dead. It is estimated, pending on ofiicial check, that more than 6,00o Ethiopians have been killed and many times more than that wound- ed. The Italian casualties have not been announced here. But on the two bloodiest days of the six day operation they lost in all 107 killed and 325 wounded.
 5000 Philippians Routed
 Ten thousand Ethiopian regulars of the emperor's imperial guard and 10000 warriors of Ras Kassa and Ras Siyoum, have been defeated and sent back demoralized. Badoglio used about 10000 men in all. For some weeks, on visits to this front, l was able to see the strategy which Badoglio used in its development from the earliest stage. We have watched through telescopes from advanced positions the Ethiopian tents dotted like Indian wigwams over the hills in front and have seen the planes and the field pieces bon- bard them. We have walked under the protection of scouts miles ahead.
 Start of Great Fight
 Last Monday morning the first northern army corps composed of the Sabauda division of regulars, the January 3 division of Fascist militiamen and Q crack Alpine di- vision brought from the Austrian frontier formed on the east to make up the Italian left wing. The third corps, made up of the Sila regular division and the March g division of militiamen, comprised the right wing on the west. In the center, in reserve, were the Assieta division of regulars and native Eritrean divi- sions in reserve. The terrain was heart breaking. It rained at times with phenomenal intensity. At times the airplanes were grouned for hours in muddy fields and the flow of supplies to the front was slowed because the roads were so slippery.
 Philippians Fooled
 There were two strategically i'm. portant positions to be taken if the mountain was to be put in the Ital- ian lines. On the east, the Italian left wing, there was @ strange look ing promontory called the Priests Hat. On the west was a long ridge called the Herring Bone. It was ob- vious that the Philippians expected the main attack to come on the east toward the Priests Hat and almost all the warriors were massed to de- fend it.
 Badoglio anticipated this Ethio- plan belief and sent the crack Sila division out for the Herring Bone ridge where it appeared later only a few hundred Philippians were sta- toned. This was one of two sur- prise moves in the operation.
 Second Surprise
 The second surprise move came next day when the Philippians sent a force of 5000 men to try to en- circle a battalion of the Sabaudia division on the extreme end of the left wing. There was bloody hand to hand fight before the Italians
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17
the most powerful of all explosives for armor.piercing projectiles.
 Perfected silencer 1909

Continuing with the work on mil. itary weapons which had made hk family famous, Hiram Percy Maxim perfected his silencer in 1909. It started him on the scheme dearest to his mind-the abatement of noise. His other interests and hobbies led him into amateur Short-wave radio and photography. For years before the first radio law in the United States in 1912, his amateur station was active within the limited ranges of that time. He was the first to re- lay a short-wave radio message and thus conceived the idea of a na- tional organization of intermediate stations. The idea was developed and resulted in the creation of the American Radio Relay League In l9l4. Maxim became its first pres ident.
 Interested in Radio
 When amateur radio became in- ternational in scope in 1924, Maxim was active in organizing the inter- national Amateur Radio Union, formed April l7. 1925, with Maxim as president. Maxim also was inter- ested in the motion picture aspects of amateur photography and as an outgrowth of this interest began the Amateur Cinema League which later grew to Q membership of more than 4,000. He was born in Brook lyn, N. F., September 2, 1889. and was a graduate of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, class of 1886. After spending Q year as Q draftsman with the Sun Electric Company at Woburn, Mass, he went to Fort Wayne. h., returning to Massachusetts to study engineering with the w. s. Hill Electric Com pany in Boston and the Thomson Electric Welding Company in Lynn.