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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-23
HUNDREDS OF
AMERICANS in
DANGER ZONE
U. S. Embassy Safety Of
fered; Liner May Take
Some on Board

WASHINGTON, July %. (UP)
Danger to American lives in
Spain had reached such a pitch
last night that the state depart
ment announced it was attempt
ing to arrange for evacuation of
American nationals Immediately,
without awaiting the arrival of
American warships ordered to
Spanish waters.
With one American woman re-
ported wounded in the fighting in
Guadarrama, SO kilometers north
west of Madrid, and the situation
in other parts of the country
hourly growing more critical,
state department officials moved
to have American merchant YES
sells speed to Spanish ports and
take off beleaguered Americans.
The name of the American wo-
man injured has not been disclos-
ed.
First arrangements were con-
Quoted with the American export
line to have the steamship Exeter,
due at Marseilles, France, today,
diverted to Barcelona to evacuate
those Americans who wish to
leave.
So far no Americans have been
hurt in Madrid proper, although
they have been under fire for two
days, Eric o. Wendelin, U. S. en-
bassy assistant secretary, report
ed. He said that at his request
the telephone company had trans
mitted a message to all the more
than 100 American residents in
Madrid, telling them the Ameri-
can embassy sis open to all Amer
leans and offers it's protection if
desired by them"
Wendelin reported he felt the
embassy would be safe "unless
conditions become extremely des-
perate."
The president of the Catalan
government at Barcelona earlier
yesterday had notified the Amer
lean consul there that he was no
longer in position to extend eff
fective protection to American
and other foreign lives in the
city. There are several hundred
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The third annual invitation
golf tournament of the Hender-
sonville Golf and Country club
will be held the week of August
3, ]. H. Lampley, chairman OF the
tournament committee, announc-
ed today.
The entry list is now open at
the clubhouse, which has recently
been enlarged at a cost OF more
than $4,000, the fee being SO.
Suitable prizes, including consol-
alton awards, will be provided for
each flight. Qualifying scores
NAV be turned in from Saturday,
August /, through Tuesday, Aug,
ust 4, and match play will start
Wednesday and continue through
Saturday.
Several prominent golfers now
in Western North Carolina have
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SAY DECISIVE
BATTLE With
REbELSLOOMS
Madrid Ready to Turn
Power Over to Commit
tee if Isolated
DEAD ESTIMATED
AS HIGH AS 5000
By UNITED PRESS

The Spanish rebellion is now
approaching a national state of
chaos and today seemed near a
climax as the rebel army marched
southwark and the government
army northward for what is ex-
pected to be a decisive battle.
Americans and other foreign
ers are feared to be in great dam
ger in some coastal ports.
The United States steamship
Oklahoma was refuelled and ready
to leave Cherbourg for the west
ern coast on the Mediterranean
side.
The American export liner Ex-
eter waited orders at Versailles
to proceed to Barcelona.
Refugees from Barcelona ar
irving at French frontier points
reported wild disorders and some
of them estimated the dead as
high as 5000.
Appointment by the govern
ment of an emergency committee
under Diego Martinez Barrio,
president of parliament, to rule
seven eastern provinces with a
capital at Valencia, was seen as
possible preparation for a turn
over to the committee of all pow
err in case the government of Pre-
mier Jose Gial Pereira is isolated
by the rebel siege at Madrid.
Wednesdays developments in
the civil war were as follows:
Madrid. The government bat
tied desperately to maintain con-
troll in Madrid and push on field
expeditions sent to crush rebel
strongholds. 1t bombed insurg ant
detachments and claimed several
victories, chiefly at Toledo, Qua
dalajara, Almansa and La Gran
ja..
Gibraltar: Shells fell in the
British crown colony, spreading
panic among $4,000 refugees. as
airplanes and Spanish warships
fought for adjacent La Linea. A
rebel plane, flying over Gibral-
tar, was fired on by loyalist war
ships.
Lisbon: Rebels broadcast from
Seville that their planes have
sunk three Spanish warships.
They claimed the revolution was
triumphant and that the Madrid
government had been given an
ultimatum to resign within three
hours. ..
London: British warships in in
creasing numbers spread to Span
ish waters, anchoring off ports
and virtually, ringing Spain with
John Bulls fleet.
Cherbourg: The U. S. S. Okla
homa speeded preparations to
sail for Spanish waters Friday to
receive instructions from q. s.
Ambassador Claude G. Bowers,
who is in beleaguered San Sebas-
tian.
Tangier: Rebel airplanes bomb
ed Spanish warships and threat
ened to occupy the neutral, inter,
national zone. British, French and
Italian troops were landed to pro-
tect foreign consulates. ,sa
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two HURT AS
CARS WRECKED
Miss Crawford, Fred M
Allen, Both Of Gastonia,
Sent to Hospital

Two people were taken to the
Patton Memorial hospital last
night after an automobile COLI
sion at the intersection of Church
and Allen streets about 9:3O
o'clock.
They were Miss Elizabeth Gran
ford, daughter of DR.. and Mrs:
J. F. Crawford, of Gastonla, and
granddaughter of Mrs. MobIey, OF
Hendersonville, and Fred M. AL
len, also of Gastonia.
The collision occurred as Mr..
Allen was driving a Ford sedan
east on Allen street and John Will
lis, of Due West, S. G., stopping
at Bonclarken, was driving an
Oldsmobile north on Ch u2c h
street.
Willis was alone and Miss
Crawford and Ed Bivens, of Gas
tonia, were riding with Allen. Mr..
Bivens was uninjured.
The Willis car struck the car
driven by Allen. The Ford car
then climbed high bank at the
northeast corner of the intersec-
ton and turned over in the street.
Both cars were badly damaged.
Aliens condition was reported
as good this morning at the hos
pital and he was discharged. Miss
Crawford was not believed to be
seriously injured, but was still in
the hospital this morning. Her ia
Their, DR.. Crawford, was with her
this morning.
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check for the beneficiaries was
paid this morning to Mrs Thomas
Shepherd, of the hospital associa-
ton.
In addition to this sum paid
beneficiaries, the Junior Welfare
club, which handled the conces-
sion at the grounds, cleared ap,
proximately $50, which sum VIII
be used in the soup Kitchens con-
Quoted by the organization IN the
city schools.
Members of the Horse Snow as
ISOLATION, the hospital board the
high school athletic association
and the Junior Welfare club to-
day expressed themselves as en- m
tirely pleased with the results OF u
the first show, and all anticipate
an even larger show next year.
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Fred P. Cone, Florida Democratic
Nominee For Governor, Sees Victory
For Party In His State And Nation
Resting Here After Cam
paign, He Says Hender-
sonville Climate Finest
of Any Mountain City

Hendersonville has the best
climate of any city in the noun
tains, and is a wonderful place
to spend q vacation, Fred P. Cone,
Lake City, Fla, lawyer and bank
er, declared yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Cone is the Democratic nomi-
nee for governor of Florida.
He is stopping at the Park Hill
Inn and this is his first real visit
to Hendersonville, although he
has passed through the city on
several occasions. He and Mrs,
Cone have been, here for about
two weeks and plan to spend an
other week here before returning
to Florida.
The Florida nominee said that
he came here to rest after the
strenuous Democratic primary
campaign in his native state. He
won the nomination from Is other
aspirants, being high man in the
first primary and winning from
Judge Petteway in the second
primary. Il was a hectic cam
paign, he said, adding that he
averaged six speeches a day Tor
the final 10 or II days of the
campaign.
Mr.. Cone said that he spent
most of his first week here TAX
ing a complete rest, sleeping
morning, noon and night, and ne
thinks this section the finest spot
for a rest he has ever seen. The
cool nights and moderate days are
conducive to sleep, he said.
The past winter was probably
Florida's best tourist season, Mr..
Cone said. The state is growing
rapidly and next winter is expect
ed to be even better than the sea-
son Just past. This benefits West
err-SASortA~Garslina, he Sai&s;' be-
cause Florida is one of Western
North Cardinals best customers.
The Florida nominee declared
that he would rather not talk pol
itics. He declared that he came
here to rest and get away from
politics for a while. However, ne
predicted that the Democratic
party would win in Florida. 81
expect nominal opposition from
the Republican party" he said,
"but expected to be elected next
fall"
Relative to the national situa-
ton, he declared that President
Roosevelt would receive an over
whelming majority in Florida in
the coming election and that ne
would be reelected by a large
majority in the nation.
Although Mr.. Cone has been
connected with the Democratic
party in Florida for many years
and has served in the state senate
for eight years and as president
Of the state senate, he has never
before sought a state office. How
ever, he has always been active IN
the counsels of the Democratic
marty and the national Democratic
convention this year is the first
he has failed to attend since the
nomination of Woodrow Wilson.
He was chairman of the FLORIDA
delegation to the national conyen-
ton in Chicago when PRESIDENT
Continued on page SKI
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TORCH KILLER GETS
2O.YEAR SENTENCE

WINSTON-SALEM, July 3D.
CUP). - Sadie Lawson, 35-year-
old illiterate tobacco factory
worker, stood intentionally in
superior court here today and
heard a jury declare her guilty OF
second degree murder in the
"torch Staying" of her 58-year-old
invalid mother four weeks ago.
The verdict carried a sentence
of 20 to 30 years in prison. So,
licitor Allen H. Gwyn had asked
the death penalty for the woman.
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Prise Show Audit Shows Net Profit
Vt Tl6.55-- Beneficiaries Gratified

! -ISS5'sonvi..e's first annual
! Ess Saow. held last Friday and
\ IA afternoons at the high
!, s,, athletic field. showed "'Sa q
.I 5r Of $8l6.55, the audit
sS5 y, ". Grower, account
s,,5 treasurer of the Horse
l,s %s%:s2cIa'ion, shows. ''l %
oa ., Mares. Of the show, the
,,S S.gmoria, hospital and the
nh T,.o2' athletic associSti ON
5s srs Sae sum Of $I63.3I and
d t ,So goes to H. H. Mitch
sia, ipg Southern Horse Show
secr Y., who served as execn.
sssSS o,,. and director OF o Of tSe
f SssD On n the first show have
ie:ej ted nm, 55naI.y closed and it it is !
"a an mat nat the final audit will n
"" even larger profit. The
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-23
Nv Theory For
[eVenger Death
Advanced Today

at'ILLE, July 23.-An Of
1,3e name was not dis
9aaI advanced the theory
mem o. C.eyenger, young New
s:-S.siSI'y coed found dead
20; SaSl.onaO.e hotel here last
Es ors' morning, was shot by
sa;i As she was being club
SS 1.. ;a e. early edition of to-
. asa9riIIe Times.
Ear, Ea'i.lng theory to explain
s J5oo,lne Of Miss Clevenger
NV ~ 'nSet today by an Off
I - declined to permit his
h. y ., 5e used, the story stated,
: 'ae unnamed man as say
mn a'nly believe that Miss
y. = was accidentally shot
J., ,rs gun discharged while her
s =, was A. clubbing her with
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BACTERIA HELPED HIM

NEW YORK, July %. .(UP)-
Carl Erickson revealed for the
first time today that he gained AZ
pounds by acting as q "human
Guinea pig" in a Colorado prison
where he allowed himself to be
inoculated with tuberculosis bac-
terra in return for his freedom
from a life sentence. 81 didn't do
it for humanitarian reasons" he
said. ri would rather have died
than stayed in prison any long
err" 't. ~
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F. R. APPOINT
Unit TO STUDY
DROUTH HAVOC.
Situation to Become I'm
mediate Economic Prob
lem, Is Belief
SEE ABANDONMENT
OF NUMEROUS FARMS

WASHINGTON, July 90. (UP)
President Roosevelt last night
took official cognizance of the Sc
robustness of the drouth and it's
economic consequences when he
appointed a board of six experts
to study it and meet with him nGzst
month ip. the sun-stricken area TO
make their report.
Meanwhile, the agriculture de-
partment gave. encouragement to
farmers by announcing that their
income during the first half Of this
year was S335,000,000 more than
in the corresponding period of
1895.
The presidents move indicated
to many that he expects the
drouth to be an immediate eco
nomic problem until well into the
autumn. He intimated a complete
upheaval of the farm system in
the drouth states might be neces-
sary. He wrote to the members
of his committee: L
: eve have supposed that the
modes of settlement and Of devel.
opment which have been preva-
lent represented the ordinary
course of civilization. But per-
haps in this area of relatively
little rain, practices brought from
the more humid part of the coun-
try are not most suitable under
the prevailing natural conditions"
The presidents, thought was in
line with the belief of some off
Gals of the resettlement admins
tration that areas subject TO fft-
Quent drouth, such as the Da-
kotas, should be abandoned as
farms and allowed to become cat
tie ranges again. Flowing up the
land, they believe, gradually dries
it out and leaves deserts where
once there were grassy lands we'll
suited to grazing.
Members of the presidents COM
all government officials
and technicians in some form of
and engineering, were:
Morris L. Cook, chairman, rural
electrification administrator; John
C. Page, acting director Of the
bureau of reclamation; Col. Rich
ard C. Moore, engineer, U. S.
Army; Fred H. Fowler, drainage
basin study, national resources
committee; Rexford G. Tugwell,
resettlement administrator; Harry
l.. Hopkins, works progress ad-
ministrator.
White House attaches said that
the president might appoint one
or two other members later.
Chairman Cook make it known
that he planned a meeting of the
committee today. Meanwhile, he
said he had asked w. R. Ronald,
chairman of the central southwest
regional planning commission, to
postpone its meeting of state Of
ficials August 7-20 until the ma
tional committee could join them.
Farmers were informed by the
agriculture departments bureau
of agricultural economics that
they had received 1921, 900, 900
for their products this year com
pared with $2,956,OOO,OO0 during
the corresponding period of last
year, or an increase Of $685., OOO,-
900.
Moreover, the bureau predict.
ed that farm products, because OF
the drouth, would bring higher
price during the remaining half OF
the year. That meant, of course,
higher unit price. The farmers
total income will depend on the
(Continuad on mage SKI
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Lindbergh Heard
In Plea For Peace


BERLIN, July %. (UP).-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, who with
his wife flew here from their
British home yesterday, today ad-
dressed the Aero club at lunch
con in his honor and pleaded for
peace. Peace is needed, he said,
"because of the situation which
confronts us in Europe"
Security is needed" he said,
(which rests on intelligence, not
force" 1t is no longer possible to
shield the heart of a country with
an army, because aviation has Gre
ated the most fundamental change
ever made in warfare, he stated.
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PAIN NEARS STATE OF SETTLING CHAOS
MADRID SAYS
235 KILLED AT
BARCELONA

MADRID, July %. (UP).-The
government today announced Off
cially that 235 people have been
killed in fighting in Barcelona and
6l9 wounded.
Of the dead, 14O have been
identified.
1t was announced that fighting
continues in the streets of Mellil-
liza, Morocco, and that a general
strike of two days has been de-
clared there. The city is without
bread.
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Tennessee Woman
Taken By Death

Miss Kitty T. Cox, rs, summer
visitor here, died Tuesday night at
the Patton Memorial hospital.
The remains were sent to
Knoxville, Tenn, her home, yes
terday afternoon, and last rites
will be held there.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-23
URPEOPLE
Held IN
L,onbe Officials Prefer
'r5,rges Yet in Ashe-
vile Murder
|ESTICATION TREND mp
ESY FROM WOLLNER
: DAYTON MOORE

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none Of those now IN Gus
IS suspected OF any actuaI
ksctiOn with the crime.
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tsN lies right in the hotel
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earned q reputation in this
|rtair country As a hard-bolled
e,igat0r. He would not eIao-
on his point and Declined
|nswer a question aS to wheth-
Il thought the murderer might
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LANDON WILL
BENOTIFIED
This EVENING
Roosevelt Civil Service
Ruling Timed to Pre-
cede Ceremonies
(Bx UNITED PRESS)

" AiAAC AFNaNNNAtS ANSC~V GU NON
cd or Wedgeport, Nova Scotia,
his Republican opponeN, Cover
nor Landon of Kansas prepared
to accept formally tonigNgthe Re-
publican nomination.
A few hours before SLandon's
acceptance speech was Scheduled
President Roosevelt presented
what was regarded as an answer
to the civil service issue, raised
by Landon in a telegram to the
Republican national convention.
The president issued an execu-
tive order placing first, second
and third class pestmastershipS on
the merit system, and subject to
civil service regulation.
The new rules, however, con-
tinue indefinitely in office all pres
ent political appOintees.
TOPEKA, Kan, July %. (UP).
The plain people of the prairies
and COP. leaders from beyond
the Rockies and alleghanies filled
Topeka last night to tell calm,
unhurried man in his shirt sleeves
something he already knew-that
he had been nominated by the Re-
publican party for president of
the United States. ~
Tonight Gov. ALI Nh EGsdon
will come down the SCARED steps
of the big brown capitol onto a
pine platform and in $500 words
will accept the nomination-the
first one ever rendered by a ma
jor party to a citizen of Kansas.
Then ne will officially open his
campaign for the presidency. 1t
will be his opening challenge to
the New Deal philosophy and first
public statement of any size he
has made on issues of the Day
since the sweltering June night in
Cleveland when he was nominated
by reclamation.
He approached this supreme
hour in his political career physi-
cally fit and mentally serene. In
the midst of all the hustle, the
confusion and the demands on his
pauses to inspect a gift necktle
and say: That's a pretty one,
isn't it?'
Much more than the mere mott
fication of a candidate will occur
here. After the speech-making IS
over Republican leaders will get
down to the hard, practical phases
of politics and will map the gov
errors stumping tour against the
New Deal. His advisors divided
last night into two friendly camps
the ones who want him to stay
in Topeka, as Warren G. Harding
STAYED in Marion, o., and let
America come to him. and the
ones who want to send him on a
swing around the country that
will include iuvasions, of the east
and west coasts. -
John D. NJ. Hamilton, the Re-
publican national chairman, faV-
ors a speaking tour and some of
his associates predict Governor
I.andon will be on the road early
in August to make at least one
speech in the east and perhaps
two on the Pacific coast.
The opposing camp recognizes
President Roosevelt's Oratorical
ability and his radio personality
and believes Landon should not
attempt to compete in what they
call political showmanshIp.
They are the ones who want him
to devote much of his time to
front porch chats with Republican
leaders, making only enough
speeches to get himself clearly
on record on the chief issues.
In any discussion of strategy
CONTINUED on page six)
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Third Invitation Golf Tournament
Will Be Staged Week OF August ;

indicated their intention Of enter
ing the tourney, Mr.. Lampley
said, and the list of players is ex-
pected to be the largest in local
tournament history.
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ANNOUNCE BIRTH

NJ. and Mrs. 4. A. Rice have
announced the birth Of a seven
pound daughter, Darla Jean Rice,
on ImlV %.
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WEATHER

.3 ,hundershower' to-
S !. and Friday
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GOOD AFTERNOON

It's a wonder that, this summer,
politicians haven't seen the pos
sibility of a "eold standard"
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Confinvsd from pops four

"Oh Tony. you old horsethief."
Arizona cried delightedly. "Hey. okay
this check, and hope it bounces, just
to teach you to be careful, and then
get out before IL"
before I kiss your he supple
mented under his breath. "All right,
if you'll promise to dine with me
tonight"
''Pleaser' she whispered. 'T'l
phone you at the club room upstairs.
But 60 now."
''I'n 90 this minute" he agreed
promptly. "and wait there until you
call me-"
Across the aisle, Miss Crocher was
missing no detail of the scene which
she instantly classified correctly.
Sick with jealous rage, Miss Crocher's
eye fell upon Arizona's cash book, lying
open on an inner shelf. Then after a
swift glance about to make sure she
was umobserved, she ducked low be-
hind the concealing counter. produced
a cigarette case, lighted cigarette.
and placed it carefully on the open
cash book. Then she walked away
from the counter and approached a
lady customer.
MAY I help you. Moddom?"
asked Miss Crocher brightly and
sweetly.
Five minutes later she was clutch
ing the hastily summoned Mr.. Roberts.
Look. look. s. behind the coun-
terri she screamed. "Oh. I knew I
smelled something burningr'
Mr.. Roberts dashed to the rescue
and presently returned with a half
burned cigarette and a smoldering
sales-book on which the days records
had been completely destroyed.
Whose book?" sputtered Mr..
Roberts. Whose book? Good heavens,
the store might have gonew Then he
noted the number 3O76 in an un-
burned corner. ARIZONA West" he
thundered. "you- you little fire
brand your
Honest, Miss West" said Miss
Crocher more in sorrow than in anger,
''you might have waited to 60 up to
the lounger'
Arizona searched the sea of faces
which had gathered about, but
Tony's was not among them. Il