davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
%TODAY'S WORD STUDY
PENNSYLVANIA PICKS
SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS

BREVARD, June IL (SpeciaD
DRIVERS for the school bus
routes in Pennsylvania county
have been named by the board Of
education for the l937-3S school
term.
The drivers named are: Brc-
ward districr---Ccdar Mountain,
Joseph Jones; Little River, Mer-
rimon Shuford; Penrosc, II. Il.
Talley: Boylston, Robert Taylor;
Carson Creek, e. +. Rains: Rich
Mountain, John Mann.
Rosman district-I.akc ToXa-
way. g.. Clarence Norton; Silver
steen, Harlow Mccall; BalSam
Grove. Orville Long; East Fork.
Charlie Gillespie; BaISam Grove
(contracD, Walter Fisher; Mont
vale (contracD. Robert Wilson.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

er referring to a narrowing theme
recently discussed by lady col
umnist.
Dear reader, had you seen that
lady columnist pacing her apart
ment frantically tearing her hair
in an effort TO think of some
thing to write about, you would
see why.
Some columnists just do get
their stuff to the linotype opera
tor ahead of the deadline and
chats all.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virgin
ia in his protest against the re-
settlement plans for the Virginia
mountaineers. Senator. By d
characterizes the plans as out
rageous in cost and impractical
and inefficient in operation.
A college professor sitting in
Washington may work out at his
desk on paper ideal theories for
the rehabilitation Of a people with
whose tastes, requirements and
traditions he is not intimately ia
miliar, and he is liable to turn
out something about as valuable
and acceptable as a bulls ear
sewed up with a grapevine.
What might seem ideal TO one
person might seem outlandish to
another. One could imagine Il
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
ON THE PLANET EARTH
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

well-meaning yet uniformed bu-
reaucrat shipping carload Of
hams to the needy i nJerusalem.
Rehabilitation plans for a dis
tinctivcly individualistic people
should be worked out in close
consultation and cooperation with
leaders of such peoples.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
BUT ! THANK YOU

To the many kindly, prejudic-
ed persons from whom / am con-
tinually receiving communica-
tions asking me why | do not
write a book, let me in reply ask,
"Why should ! add another me-
diocre book to the already over
whelming supply of such litera-
ture?" Unless one has special,
vital, burning reason for writing
a book, he should pity the public
and refrain.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
THOSE CONVENIENT PARK.

ing spaces IN the JUSTICES uISITIcV
dock very inviting and accommo-
dating to the shopper. Let's re-
member those engaged in busi-
ness just off Main and not con
gest traffic by parking in front Of
their places, which are just as inn
portant to them as are those on
Main to people who do business
i'm the leading business district.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
TOO FAR
AWAY

One of the
dangers in too
much centraliza-
ton of govern
mental control
h a S b e q n
brought out by
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

gether too much
leniency on the
part of the law
in dealing with
those two class
es of highway
ScourgeS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
SPEAKING OF
UNEMPLOYMENT

John d. Rockefeller, Senior,
oil king, who died recently at the
age of ninety-eight, walked the
streets of Cleveland for six
weeks when he was sixteen, be-
fore he could find job that
would pay him four dollars and
fifty cents a week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

Land crabs often steal lost golf balls in
Australia, whereas over here the guy who
loses the ball usually turns out to be the
crab.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
SATURDAY, JUNE IL, 1897
BIBLE THOUGHT
Observation-Disclosures

Unto Him THAT LoVETH U.s." REV l:5, R.v.)
That covers past present and future. The love
of our Redeemer stretches from eternity to etern-
ity. 1t had no beginning. and will have ending.
1t is unchanged, unmodifed, untouched, either by
lapse of time or variation of circumstance. Utterly
inexhaustible, it flows necessarily in undimnshed
and ndiminishabe tide into the lives towards which
it is directed-Hector Mackinnon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
DAD" cRoASDELL WILL

be only 81 years old next We'd
nesday and he hasn't applied for
any old-age relief, being at ms
fruit stand every day and Dbserv-
ing long hours, taking in allireg-
ular church services and many
public meetings in between
dad" keeps young by MAINTAIN
ing a youthful mind, and keep
ing limbered up with regular
work.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
THE PRINCIPAL OFFENDERS

Elmer E. Lawton, New York
state deputy highway commits
sioner, says that the two main
causes of motor vehicle accidents
are speeding by day and drinking
by night. There has been alto
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

Fact that Washington's new Interior
building has 500 pieces of china in its
cafeteria brings danger of new Juror
over the Yellow Peril.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

Dueling disqualfies political candidates
in seven states, but after election the win
ners nearly always are at swords points
anyway.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
DOES HE?

DOES HE?
eyes, sir" boasts a man with
pardonable pride, 81 own my
home-I haven't another cent to
pay on it,"
He'll find out otherwise about
that little matter when the tax
gatherer comes around every
year. He may think, too, that he
has paid for his electric refrig-
orator, his radio and his electric
range and water heater. But wait
until he makes up his list of per-
sonal property for taxation. All
me! What a world! If by applied
frugality you accumulate COM
forts of life, you are penalized
by your government. England
once taxed windows. Now the
whole home is taxed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

neighborho9d of his store on. First
avenue between Justice and Whit
ted greers,3, and Who ranks along
with Preston Wooley in extensive
flower growing around place Of
business, offers a good suggestion
for converting lots covered with
weeds and ugly growth into some
thing to delight the eye. Employ
gardener with team for short
! periods in the fall and spring and
broadcast peoples, larkspur and
other plants blooming at different
aperiods. This would make very
iattractive spots, and by departing
from "FORMAL gardening would
icost comparatively little.
"TODAY'S WORD STUDY.
Formal gardening is that type
done according to form, custom,
regularity, orderlincss, tending
toward landscape gardening. v
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12
A NOTE FROM THE LONG

departed reveals that Miss Eliza
beth n. Elgin, daughter of Mrs;
Frances r. Elgin, who resided
here about Is years ago, is being
graduated from the University oil
Southern California, at Los An
geles.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

Most of the apartment build
ings being constructed in Finland
have electric rcfrigeratorS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

C. F. CHAPLE, WHO HAS
produced something unusual IN
poppy and larkSpur volume in the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

THE great spinal column" Oh
L mountains that runs down the
western back" of North and
South America is being revealed
gradually to the view Of Amer
cans, by means of broad high
ways that wind over it. Eventu-
ally, from the Arctic Circle to
Buenos Aires, for $4,000 miles,
such Pan-American highway
will link the two Americas in what
is expected to be the most fasci-
mating scenic panorama in the
world. s ..I..r. s...
One link, that between Laredo.
Tex, and Me&ico City, was opened
70 travel in 1886, after l1-years OF
construction. 1t runs for 763 miles
across the fiat plains south OF La
redo. then upward into the Sierra
, Madre mountains, across jungle
land. ancient villages and more
heights until it reaches the capita!
Of Mexico, -,
II cost Mexico sll.0co.ooo. Now
this money is beginning TO come
back in tourist travel from the
limited States. Mexico. in 1886.
:v.-.-..'"5 issued O series OF
kf1M5S7n ! regular and air.
Shu5ryysGl mail stamps COM
IHR%& lBl memorating tn e
lNiHfE&HI opening of this
iHkE.laN, I'M ] road. One Of the
!SsssssI regular postage is
.Hs.sMI1kI!I shown here.
1Copyright. 1891. NEA Service. lnc.>
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-12

WHY SHE DID
Gust why did she write on
that awful subject?" asks a read
Evening star., 1937-04-01
HITCH.HIKER ROBS
BENEFACTOR'S WIFE
Man Who Was Taken From Street
and Given Meal Ties Woman
to Bed Post.
BY staf Correspondent OF The Star

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md, April l.
Although befriended by her husband
several weeks ago, lone white man
entered the home of Mr.. John Har-
rison, 1921 Thirty-first street, early
today, tied her to a bed post and took
$40 from her pocketbook.
According to police, the robber had
been picked up by Harrison about
three weeks ago while hiking
and taken to his home and given a
meal.
Last Friday the robber, also be-
lieved responsible for jewelry theft
in Washington, went to the st. James
School here and talked to the g.
year-old Harrison youngster. Jackie,
police said. The boy was unable to
remember the trend of the con-
versation.
According to Eugene Plumer. local
police chief. Mrs. Harrison was gagged
with a handkerchief and tied to the
bed post by the robber, who took her
money before he tied her up.
The bandit was described as s
feet tall weighing $50 pounds and
wearing a dark blue coat, gra. pants
and brown shoes. His right hand was
bandaged.
Evening star., 1937-04-01
Phones Spared
By Tipping Off
April l Victims
loo Official Thinks
People Too Busy for
Jokes This Year.

April fools are having bargain
field day today.
No longer does it cost a nickel to
feel like a perfect fool after telephon-
ing the Zoo for Miss Fox" or st.
Elizabeth's Hospital for Elizabeth. y
The telephone company has ar
ranged to make you feel like a fool
for nothing.
Unsuspecting fools" who unwit-
tingly carry out messages to call Miss
Fox" or Elizabeth" are connected
with a special operator who asks If
they are calling the Zoo or ST Eliza
beth'S.
I'VE had more than 100 calls before
7 O'clock" said one of the operators,
who didn't think it was very funny
When we ask the party if they are
calling the Zoo they say kind Of BASH
fully, oh, no, I have a message tc
call Miss Fox. I guess I have the
wrong number"
The telephone company doesn't
charge the fools" for calls it is able
to intercept, but it could not protect
them from practical jokers who LEFT
telephone numbers of cemeteries with
messages to call Mr.. NJ. T. Graves.
Ernest P. Walker. Zoo official, pre-.
diets a Nationwide let-up in Apri
Fool Jokes 1t isn't that the country!
getting any saner-folks, he says, art
| Just buster this year.
Evening star., 1937-04-01
HULL DENIES j. s.
|. SEEKSPEACE TALK
Scouts Report Davis Will
Seek World Conference
on Disarmament.
BY the Associated Press.

Secretary Hull said today that the
United States is not planning an in
ternational disarmament conference,
and is not making any proposals to
European nations through Norman H.
Davis, now in London, for such
meeting.
Asked at a press conference about
Davis, American Ambassador at Large,
might discuss the armament question,
Hull said there was nothing new" In
Davis mission abroad. He has gone
there to attend an international sugar
conference.
Whether Davis will 60 to the meet
ing Of the Disarmament Committee tc
be held in Geneva on May /, Secretary
Hull said. will not be determined un-
I til later
! Outlines U. S. Position.
| Hull said that the United States
along with all of the Latin American
1 nations which were recently repre-
sented at the Buenos Aires Peace Con.
ference, were interested in keeping
alive indispensable international rela.
| tionships which we're considered to bt
| the foundation for the restoration O.
international order.
The United States, he added, is yer,
much interested in keeping fresh il
the minds of peoples and nation!
everywhere that international law, in.
ternational morality and the principle
of n-intervention in the affairs O.
large or small nations must be KEEP
alive.
Along with those fundamental prin'
ciples, Hull said, it is vital that eco
nomic rehabilitation through fair trad
ing and equality of treatment also bt
re-established
Hull added that, although TIN
United States is interested in achiev
ing those high international ideals, /
did not mean that Davis had gone u
Europe to do missionary work, or tina
the United States was planning o.
making any proposals for the conven
ing of an international conference Il
consider the questions at this time.
1t is understood by high administra
ton officials that Hull feels that un
less and until all of the important ma
tions become converted to the broae
(See PEACE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-04-01
QUARREL WITH GIRL
LEDT0 KIDNAP HOAX
El Paso Sheriff Says Scout Execu.
tive Told Him He Wanted
to Disappear.
~ the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex. April 1.-Sheriff
Chris Fox said today Robert M. Miller,
23 Stafford, Ariz., Scout executive,
told him quarrel with girl friend
moved him to disappear for week,
during which he was sought widely
as a kidnap victim.
Miller appeared at natural gas
station near here yesterday and told
officers he had been the captive OF
kidnapers in a desert adobe hut. Fox
said he admitted later his story was
q hoax and that he spent the week in
. hotel here.
Discovery of $26 in bills under the
inner band of Miller's hat caused him
to change his story, Fox said. He had
related the kidnapers took all his
money, $50.
I'VE can't believe you now" the
sheriff told Miller.
"Yes, you are right" Fox quoted
Miller. Il had quarrel with a girl
friend and wanted to get away from
every one for a while to think things
over"
Miller departed for Stafford today
with his brother George, who had
hunted tirelessly for him, and q dep
uty sheriff. He was uncertain as to his
future plans.
At Stafford, directors of the Scout
council said they would withhold any
decision as to Miller's retention as
field executive until they learned al
the circumstances of his absence.
Bob Miller is one of the finest boys
I have ever seen," said Dell Stapley
q director. There is something back
Of this thing we don't know anything
about.
Evening star., 1937-04-01
Sheriff Is Ready for Siege
In Jail to Preuent Ousting 2

in his office until the State Supreme
Court ruled on the custer.
Lyon declined to say what he would
do if Evans refused to bulge.
Evans said he was comfortable IN
his Office.
I'VE got a shower bath in the
dressing-in cell next door to my off1ce,
he said. THE only elevator in the
building is in the Office and runs up
to the Jail on the top floor.
I'VE have Jail kitchen and a cook
and when one Of us gets hungry, up
we 20 to the kitchen"
Across the front door, leaving an
aisle for passage, Evans placed desks
in the outer office. His office opens
from that.
I'VE locked the doors at night, but
they're open in the daytime" he said.
Anybody with business here can get
in and transact it"
The perjury indictment against
Evans charges he listed property on
which he was not record owner IN
signing q bond last December ls for
M. O. Parr, Oklahoma City.
Evening star., 1937-04-01

Under the tax legllation intro
duced in the House yesterday, Dis
trict residents would be forced to
pay more than s12J00,000 a year
in additional leWes.
Approximately 10000 owners Of
automobiles registered in the Dis
trict would be affected by two OF
the bills, one Of which would place
weight tar on motor vehicles,
while the otler would increase the
present gasoline levy from 2 to 4
cents a galpn.
The weifht tax, which would re-
place the present 81 registration
fee and personal property tax,
would produce about $l,500,000 an
nually, according to rough esti-
mates made today. The gasoline
levy, u was estimated. would cost
motorists about s2,000,0OO year
more than they paid last year.
Here is what owners of various
types OF cars would have to pay
under the weight tax:
Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth, Ter
raplane, De Soto, Dodge, Chrysler,
Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Lafay-
cite, STANDARDIZATION $3l.2
to $3.50 a year.
Pontiac, La Sale, REQ, Hupmo-
bile, Packard 120, Oldsmobile, Au-
burn, Buick and other cars Of SINH
lar size-$3750 to SALTS.
Lincoln, Pierce-Arrow, Cadillac
and similar machines-s67.50 to
$3.50.
Rough estimates of the yields of
the other taxes follow:
Income. Ranging from / per
cent on a net of less than $4,000
Evening star., 1937-04-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHAWNEE, Okla, April IA SELF
made prisoner" in his own jail,
Sheriff Eliza Evans prepared for a
siege today and asserted he would
even withstand tear gas, If necessary,
to keep his Office from falling into a
rivals hands.
II heard they were going to use
tear gas to smoke me out" he said.
well, I'm going to try and get some
gas masks.
II also heard they're coming down
here and throw me out. II they get
tough, I'll jail EN-"
Sheriff Evans, whose appointment q
county grand jury report said was
void, spent the night in his Office on
a cot, softened by mattress from the
county jail.
Rufus Lyon, appointed by county
commissioners to succeed Evans,
sought possession of the ofncial
sanctum.
Evans, also indicted on = charge OF
perjury, declared he was going to stay
Evening star., 1937-04-01
DEAN BATES HITS
COURT PROPOSAL
Michigan Witness Sees Peril
to Liberty and Insti-
tuti0nS.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.

Far from being liberal attempt to
promote human rights" President
Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan is
''retrogressive and reactionary," the
Senate Judiciary Committee was told
today.
Testifying in opposition to the court
bill. Henry M. Bates, dean OF the Uni
versity of Michigan Law School, told
the committee the addition of six new
justices to the high tribunal would
ultimately endanger individual liber-
ties by impairing the independence OF
the court.
THE proposed revamping of the
Supreme Court" he said, has been
characterized by some Of its pro-
ponents as a move in the effort to
establish human rights and as liberal
and progressive.
Adoption of the scheme might in
sure the early valuation of the Wag-
ner labor act, because that is a part
of the immediate program, but when
one considers what the future may
bring forth in a country like this, l.
at least, cannot doubt that human
rights, so-called, would be ultimately
endangered by the impairment OF the
independence of the court.
In short, the proposal is not lib
eral and progressive; it would move
not in the direction of the English
scheme, but toward theory OF gov
ernment triumphant in part Of Europe
at the present time. 1t is retroeressive
and reactionary."
Trial Jury Compared.
Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken
lucky asked Dean Bates whether. Il
he were trying a case before a jury
of nine men he knew to be against
him, he would seek six additiona
jurors if he could get them.
The witness said he might possibly
do so, but didn't consider it gooe
analogy.
Logan said he didn't like the plan,
but felt prompt action to alleviate
conditions among farmers and llk'
groups is imperative unless the coun
try is to undergo a "cataclysm" |
might not be able to withstand. HI
said he felt three or four years nigh
be too long to wait.
Dean Bates said that while some o
the recent decisions of the court ma.
be regarded as erroneous, there /
"just ground for resentment at tn
exaggerated and unfair criticism
aroused by these holdings"
After asserting that much that wa
sought to be accomplished by N. R. A
can be obtained by constitutions
legislation" he added:
Much Of the New Deal Legislation
has been in fields wholly novel t
Americans, and it was inevitable tha
the judgments of able, conscientiou
and patriotic judges should dif1e
greatly. With better legislation thai
some Of that rejected, it may be con
fldently anticipated that the admins
(see JUDICIARY, Page A-15.)
Evening star., 1937-04-01
BLOND IS SOUGHT
IN TRIPLE Staying
"LittIe Ruth" Friend Of
Gedeon-ModePs Father
Weeps at Rites.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Veronica Gedeon, 20, artists
model, her mother, Mrs. Mary
Gedeon, 81, and Frank Byrnes, IS.
roomer, ,Dere found slain Easter
day in the Gedeon apartment,
Beckman Hill, New York, the
,oonlen strangled and the man
stabbed
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Switch-
ing off suddenly on new tangent In
the battling search for the triple mur-
derer OF Beekman Hill, detectives to-
day hunted an attractive blond model
known as Little Ruth" who, they said.
had lived recently with Joseph Ged-
con, 55-year r-old father of one stran-
gled victim and estranged husband Of
the other murdered woman.
Still weathering bombardment of
questions after "a successive hours,
Gedeon was taken to his tiny apart
ment back of his upholstery shop on
East Thirty-fourt street after attend
ing the funeral of his 20-year- old
daughter Veronica, :. model, and mis-
wife Mary
The body of the third victim,
Frank Byrnes, English waiter in a
fashionable club and roomer in the
Gedeon woman's apartment, lay un-
claimed in Bellevue Hospital Morgue.
Photographs Line Walls.
The walls of his bed room, back Of
his upholstering shop, are lined with
nude art" photographs. Police say
that young blond model shared these
quarters with him.
But today, when he attended the
funeral services of his wife and
daughter, his eyes filled with tears he
put his head on a big detectives
shoulder-and borrowed the neatly
folded display" handkerchief from
the detectives outside coat pocket to
wipe his eyes.
The underground" brings out the
story of what has been happening to
Gedeon in the detective room in the
East Fifty-first Street Station, where
John Fiorenza, less than a year ago,
confessed to the sensational bathtub
Staying of Nancy Evans Titterton.
Pounded With Questions.
For almost "a hours now, until time
out was taken for the funeral today,
Gedeon has been walking in a circle,
! naked, detective at each side, while
other detectives walk with him, pound
ing him with questions, trying to make
him break"
He has had little or no food and no
Sleep He answers all questions and
the police find only small discrepan-
cies. His thin, mustached face Is red
and fatigued, his glasses are logged
with perspiration and his narrow
shoulders droop.
The detectives, working in relays,
fade first.
Said one Of them today: He amt
human. He's wearing out the force"
Considerable mystery surrounds the
findings of the revolver, supposedly
last night For two days after the