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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
MASS MEETING
SET FOR THURS.

Spruce e-Westmorland farm center
has cancelled its meeting for this
week in order that every member
may attend the mass meeting
Thursday night at which the power
issue is to be discussed.
The meeting will begin at 1870
o'clock in the Eagles arena opposite
the Wilke machine shop. John Scott,
director, announcing postponement
of the center meeting, urged all
members to attend the mass meet
ing.
Spruce -Wetmorland will not meet
again until October.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Fines Exacted In
CantalOupe Cases

Strict enforcement of the state
standardization law in regard to
shipping produce from the valley
was continued Tuesday. Two cases
came before Judge j. f. Simpson
this week with $50 fines ordered
H. Nakashima pleaded guilty to
packing and shipping Gull canta-
loupeS and was fined $50
T. Sakeuye arso p1eaded guilty to
a complaint OF deceptive packing
and shipping OF Gull tomatoes and
was sentenced to pay fine of $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Man in Iron Lung
Off to Yokohama

KOBE. Japan, June 9. W.H-
Frederick B. Snite, jr., the man
in the iron lung" left Kobe today
for Yokohama on the second leg
of his journey from a Peiping hos
pital to his home in Chicago.
Encased in a special "iron lung"
respirator installed aboard the S.
S. President Coolidge, the youth,
suffering from infantile paralysis,
was asleep when harbor physicians
made their routine quarantine in
spection. ~
Snite will leave the liner at San
Francisco for a special pullman
car that will carry him to Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Russians Plan to
Fly to Seattle

JUNEAU, Alaska, June 8. UP
The weather bureau today said a
group of Soviet Russians planned
to make nonstop airplane flight
to Seattle Thursday along the l23rd
meridian and another week from
today with a few -stops-en route.
No mention was made as to the
starting points of the flights.
a. -O0-----
SEATTLE, June 9. UP)--The Wea-
ther bureau admitted there might
be" Russian airplane flight to
Seattle June 10. but would say no
more than that.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Suspect in MattsOn
kidnapping Hunted

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 9.
WP)-Police have been asked by j.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal
bureau of investigation, to watch
for a possible suspect in the Mattson
kidnapping, it was reported today.
1t was said that Hoover believed
suspect was hiding III Central or
South America. b.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
WINDSOR AND BRIDE SLATED TO LEAD PRIVATE USEFUL LIVES
Churches Demolished
In Sudden Tornado

PERRIN, Tex, June 3. W.P)-Two
churches we're broken up and prac-
tically every other building and
residence in town was damaged
when a tornado swept through Pei
rim yesterday.
No casualties were reported.
The tornado was accompanied by
torrential rain and by hailstones
that tore through roofs Of houses
and in some places were piled three
to four feet deep.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
ONOT EXPECTED TO
TAKE OFFICIAL JOB

NOETSCH Austria June g. P-The
today in somewhat cryptic statement that
windsor wished to lead "pivae useful lie"
The statement issued through
Dukes Summonng newspaper especially
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09

open to all interested in the pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09

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The Washington times., 1937-04-30
YOU'VE HAD
that ITCHING
LONG ENOUGH

You've itched and scratched and
suffered, but you haven't used
Poslan. Use it tonight and get
your first real relief from the itch.
ing and burning of eczema. Poslam
works faster because it penetrates
the outer layers Of the skin. It
soothes first, and with the irrita-
ton stopped, the skin soon begins
to improve. Why wait any longer
for skin comfort? Get PoSlam to-
day at any drug store, soc, or we
will send you a convincing trial
free also interesting circular de-
scribing many of its other valuable
The Washington times., 1937-04-30
RECOVERY HERE
NOLEY TELLS
ADWRITERS

WHITE SULPHUR, SPRINGS,
W. Va, April 80 Q.NGS0.-Despite
political methods, devised and
used to make business negative
political asset and threat to prog
ress, business has recovered ana
now looks something like its for
mer self, Raymond Moley, former
so-called brain truster in the Roose-
welt administration, asserted here
today.
In an address before the Ameri-
can Association Of Advertising
Agencies, Moley, editor of News
Week" and professor of law at
Columbia University, attacked
much Administration legislation
concerning business. He termed
President Roosevelt's Supreme
Court reorganization plan an
incredible child of caprice"
Battle" Unnecessary
Moley regretted that the Admin.
istration limited its drive for
restoration Of confidence until it
meant simply confidence that Con.
gress and the Administration
would fight a supposedly neces-
sary battle for the public against
business He stated:
II don't and didn't believe
the battle was necessary. I
deeply regretted it as an anti
climactic outcome of the New
Deal but, in spite of all that
a good many of us could say,
political methods were devised
which used business as a mega
tive political asset, holding it up
as a threat to-aS an opponent
Of progress. ...s. c.... .-..-
"The Administration still per-
SistS in playing the part Of
avenging angel rather than that
of a mediating and unifying
force, uriwiSely, / think, despite
the temporary political success
it has achieved"
Moley declined to give the Ad.
ministration sole credit for recov.
cry, asserting "there is life" in the
old economic system.
Appeal to Emotions
During 1885 when new eco.
nomic and political monstrosity"
Misunderstanding legislation was
hailed by the public "as a child
born Of the genius of supreme law
givers," protests of business were
drowned Gin the shouts inspired
by emotion appeals" Moley as
The Washington times., 1937-04-30
Drives TooSIOWly,
Va. Woman Cited
As Reckless

DANVuLE, Va, April 30.-Vir-
ginia's reverse English reckless
driver was hailed into court here
yesterday and bawled out by q
traffic Judge because she drove
her automobile too slow.
She was Mrs. Harry Sager, Of
Fredericksburg, Va, whose auto
mobile was struck from behind by
another car driven by Nathan
Coleman. The accident probably
wouldn't have occurred, the court
decided, if Mrs. Sager hadn't been
driving "reckleSsly" slow.
The rearend collision resulted
in nina persons going to hospitals.
Among the injured were Mrs. Sa-
ger and two sisters, Deborah Lev
inson and Helda Belle, of Balti-
more, who came here to attend q
wedding.
The Washington times., 1937-04-30

serted. Despite this, he stated,
business recovered.
The former "brain-truster" urged
delegates to "sen business men"
and explain to new generations
which are interpreting social life
in totally different terms the place
business holds in civilization.
The Washington times., 1937-04-30
"Y" to Have 2 Speakers

DR.. J. E. Elliott, rector Of st.
Luke's P. E. Church, and Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell, widow of
the late Judge Robert H. Terrell,
will be the speakers at the
thirty-second anniversary cele-
bration of Phyllis Wheatley Y.
w. c. A., Sunday at 4 p. m.
The Washington times., 1937-04-30

ADVERTISEMENT
The times-news., 1937-12-02
CANCELLlNC OF
FEDERAL ROAD
AID OPPOSED
Southern Spokesmen Give
Views; Said Not Favored
in Congress

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2. (UP).
President Roosevelts suggested
change in existing laws granting
federal aid for road construction
last night drew protests from
Senator Pat Harrison that con-
gress is not in sentiment with the
suggestion.
Harrison, D., Miss, and chair.
man Of the powerful senate fl.
nance committee, telegraphed
Governor Hugh White that he is
mot in sympathy with the presi.
dents program" and that as far
as he ascertains there is no senti-
ment in congress to have the
presidents suggestion made ef-
fective."
Governor White communicated
his and the highway commissions
views to Harrison and their esti-
mates Of the difficulties the pro.
posal would impose upon Missis-
sippis completing its current
$42,O00,0OO highway program.
Meanwhile, l.. p. Abernathy,
chairman of the Louisiana high
way commissioners, said enact
ment of the plan to curtail fed
eral aid for highways would re-
suit in loss of 100000 to
Louisiana. Such action would Sc
verely hamper the highway pro-
gram, he said, including farm-to-
market roads and grade crossing
construction.
The times-news., 1937-12-02
TAX REVISIONS
VIRTUALLY
READY. IS SAID
"Shake up" in Estate and
Gift Levies Would Net
u. S. $25,000,O0O
AVERAGE TAXPAYER
SAID UNAFFECTED

WASHINGTON, Dec. >. (UP)
Tax lew revisions to encourage
business revival virtually were
completed yesterday with q tenta-
tive agreement by a house ways
and means subcommittee on a
"shake-up" in levicS on estates
and gifts which experts estimated
would swell treasury receipts Sl5,-
100000 to 25,000,000 annually.
The proposed changes would es-
tabliSh a new set of rates on es-
tateS ranging from i per cent on
$50, 900 TO 1853 per cent on $780,
100000; would consolidate the
present $4,000 gift and $4,000
estate tax exemptions and permit
only one exemption Of $4,000 in
both categories and would lower
from $4,000 to $4,000 per year
the gift tax on an individual.
Under the present law the es-
tate taxes range from 2 per cent
on the first $4,000 If taxable IN
come to 70 per cent on fortunes
in excess of $50,000,000. The gift
tax is three quarters of the estate
levy. The new plan projects a
schedule Of taxes to be applied TO
the total estate and eXemptS the
first $4,000 from taxation.
Chairman Fred Vinson, d., KY,
of the subcommittee Otld ncwspa-
per reporters that the proposed
changes will not impose higher
levieS on the average taxpayer but
he explained that the government
would obtain additional revenue
through simplifcation of the law
and through lowering of cXemp-
tionS.
With its task almost completed,
the subcommittee discussed the
problem of imposing federal taxes
upon hundreds Of thousands of
state and municipal executives
and employees whose salaries now
cannot be touched by the govern
ment. Vinson sought to correct
the impression that the salaries OF
federal employees or executives are
free from federal taxes, pointing
out that even President Roosevelt
must pay. Federal salaries, how
ever, cannot be taxed by states
or cities.
No accurate estimate yet has
been reached by the amount OF
revenue the treasury will lose or
gain through the tax changes soon
to be submitted to the house. They
Continued on page five)
The times-news., 1937-12-02
Think Sino-Jap Peace May Be In Making
COMPLETE REVISION OF LABOR
RELATIONS ACT is URGED BY
WEIR OF NATIONAL STEEL CORP.

CHICAGO, Dec. =. (UP)-Er-
nest Weir, chairman Of the Ma
tional Steel corporation, today
charged that the administration
and labor leaders are responsible
fox IN cunScttlrd labor conditions
and urged Il complete revision of
the National Labor Relations act
aS the first step toward remedy.
Secretary of Commerce Daniel
c. Roper admitted frankly last
night the experimental" nature
Of the administrators undiStrib-
uted corporate earnings tax and
assured business men that con-
greSS and the treasury already
were working TO eliminate "amy
injuStices in our tax laws"
Roper'S address, delivered be-
fore the business advisory coun-
ell. was interpreted as an admin
istration reply to charges that
"uncertainty" as TO New Deal pol
icy was an important cOntribut-
ing factor i'm the heSitancy Of Ia
veStorS and business leaders" to
make those investments believed
necessary TO stable prosperity.
The times-news., 1937-12-02
FORD CITED BY
LABOR BOARD
Complaint on File Is Based
on Accusations Made
by clio.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2. (UP). -
The Ford Motor company was
cited yesterday to appear here
before the national labor rela-
tions board December 10 to an
swer charges of unfair labor
practices at its local assembly
plant, where a strike called by
the United Automobile Workers
of America is in its second week.
The complaint, filed with the
regional office of the labor
board, was based on accusations
made by the Clio. union.
1t is charged that the company
"interferred with, restrained and
coerced its employees in the ex-
ercise of their rights of self
organization" and threatened to
discharge employees who refuse
or refused TO sign statements
they are or were satisfied with
their conditions of employment
and the labor policy of the COM
pany,"
The times-news., 1937-12-02
SOVIET POLAR ICE CAMP IS
THREATENED WITH BREAK UP
Drifts Rapidly Toward
Greenland, Over 600
Miles From Pole

LONDON, Dec. 2. (UP)-The
Soviet polar" camp of four men,
who have been living on an ice
floe since last May 81, is drifting
rapidly toward Greenland more
than 600 miles from the North
Pole and is in danger of breaking
up, the party said in a radio mes
sage picked up by the Daily Ex-
press today.
"We are now over 600 miles
from the pole and have had to
battle with many difficulties" Ivan
Papanin, leader of the expedition,
radioed to Petrozavodsk.
"We are approaching the shores
Of Greenland and must be ready
at any moment to face another
grim problem-how to carry on
amid crushing ice."
The other three members Of the
camp are Ernest Krenkel, radio
operator who participated in the
famed Chelyuski rescue expedi-
ton; Pytor Shairshoff and Eugene
Feodoroff, experts in Arctic ex-
ploration.
The party, which landed 15
miles beyond the pole by plane,
has been drifting several miles a
day ever since. The men erected
Continued on page eight
The times-news., 1937-12-02
WINDOW SHOPPING EVENT
SET HERE FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
Will Be Featured by Dis
tribution of Over $500
in Gifts

Hendersonville merchants will
inauguratc the Christmas shop
ping period here on Friday night,
which will be observed as "win-
dow shopping night" and will be
featured by the distribution of
more than $500 in gift ccrtifi-
Gates, and the turning on Of the
city's street lighting system.
Merchants Of the city today
without exception were busily en-
gagged in preparing for the Christ
mas season. Stores were taking
on n holiday air, decorations
were being installed, and Christ
mas merchandise was being at
tractively arranged.
Mayor A. V. Edwards an
nounced this morning that all ar
rangements had been completed
to turn on the gaily colored street
lights on Friday night at Z
o'clock. The colorleSs bulbs in
the lights at present will be re-
moved and the colored lights in
stalled. In addition merchants
planned to use much outside dec
Grating material. and the city
will be dressed in holiday attire
by Friday night,
At the Chamber of Commerce
office this morning it was an
nounced that merchants had sign
ed 2l0 of the gift certificates,
each worth one dollar in merchan-
disc if used on Saturday, Dec. 4,
the day after the shopping night.
These certificates will be dis
tributed in the crowd of window
shoppers on Friday night. Uni
Identified persons will mingle with
the crowds on the streets on Fri
day night and pass out the cer-
tificates.
tificateS. The certificates will be
given only to persons looking in
store windows between z and 8
o'clock.
The Hendersonville high school
band will play during the window
shopping period.
The times-news., 1937-12-02
Won
TO DISCHARGE
Com MlTTEE
McNary Urges Senate to
Recommit Hastily Drawn
Farm Measure
STATES ROOSEVELT
WOULD VETO BILL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. (UPj
The administration today won its
fight to free the wages and hours
bill from the house rules commit
tee which had pigeonholed the
measure last August. A total Of
2l8 Representatives affixed their
names to the petition, discharging
the rules committee from further
consideration of the bill and au-
tomatically bringing it up for con-
sideration on the floor Of the
house on December l3.
Threats to sabotage cotton sec
tions Of the administrators vital
farm program last night appar-
emily broke a southern blockade
against consideration Of the con-
troversial bill.
After a dramatic, high-pressure
cloak.room drive in which wage
hour advocates plead for Support
of the president" house leaders
late yesterday had obtained 2lO
signatures, which was just eight
SnvTI VI lue tHeScSSdly IHdyViNs'
The drive brought l6 new sig
natures yesterday and the re-
naming necessary eight today.
The apparent break came after
irate: industrial and urban repre-
sentatives threatened to wreck
the. farm bill, particularly the
cotton section, If southern con-
gressmen persisted in opposing
their measure.
House Majority Leader SAM
Rayburn, D., Tex, had said the
fight is won and we will have
the required signatures by p. m.
Thursday" Minority Leader Bert
rand H. Smell, r., n. Y, in turn
agreed that the bill was headed
for the floor and said that "We
might as we'll have a showdown
now."
Representative Martin Dies, D.,
Tex, member Of the rules COM
mittee, charged the administra-
ton with trading to get the pati-
ton filed.
"They have traded and promis-
ed members everything to get
them on that petition" he said.
Continued on page eight
The times-news., 1937-12-02
Band and Choral
Club Concert Set
For December 9
Tickets Placed. on Sale To-
day; to Swell Fund
for H. S. Band.

Announcement was made today
that tickets were on sale for the
Forthcoming concert to be given
by the Civic Choral club and the
Hendersonville high school band,
at the high school auditorium the
night of Thursday, Dec. 9th. The
program will open at S:l5 o'clock.
A varied and attractive pro-
gram of selections is being pre-
pared for the choral club under
the direction Of Alva H. Lowe,
and will include classic and popu-
lar selections.
Tickets are to be had at the
Economy Drug company, or from
school students, who are selling
them in view Of the fact that the
high school band will participate
in the proceeds which they will
use for the purchase of equipment
and music. or .s
The times-news., 1937-12-02
MISS MAXWELL AT
PEN; CLEMENCY FOR
HER IS STILL URGED

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. .. fUP)
Edith Maxwell, young Wise coun-
ty schoolteacher, yesterday was
initiated into routine at Virginia's
state penitentiary, where che is
under sentence of 20 years for
killing her father.
Prison Superintendent R. NJ.
Youell said Miss Maxwell will
spend 10 days on a series Of ex-
aminations given all new prison
ers before she is assigned to work.
Meantime, Governor George c.
Perry continued to receive 4
stream Of letters urging pardon
for Miss Maxwell.
She entered the penitentiary
Tuesday to start serving the sem
tence imposed after she was cen
victed for the second time in the
death July 81, 1885. Of 52-year-
old Trigg Maxwell. The mountain
teacher, then 81, contended she
hit her father with a shoe when
he tried to whip her for staying
out late at night. The state su-
preme court ordered a new trial
after her first conviction.
The times-news., 1937-12-02

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec.
2.-(UP)-An expert witness,
Consulting Engineer Rufus W.
Putnam, Chicago, yesterday told
a three-judge federal court that
the Tennessee river could be
made navigable with 9-foot
channel from Paducah, KY, to
Knoxville, Tenn. for one-SiXth the
cost of the Tennessee Valley au-
thority program.
Putnam's plan for developing
the river for navigation provided
for construction of low, non-pow-
er dams - the same as recon-
mended by the chief of U. 5. en-
gineers in 1880 - whereas the
IVA program specifies high dams
for generation of large quantities
of cheap "yardstick" electrical
power.
The consulting engineer, a rud-
dy-faced man in his 40's, who re-
signed as u. S. engineer of the
Chicago district in 1926, took q
suitcase of data to the witness
The times-news., 1937-12-02

The charges were contained in
report of the council, composed
of approximately GO industrial
leaders, to the department of COM
mercc and President Roosevelt.
The president sent his greetings
to the council and said:
81 am looking forward to meet
ing with all Of you at the earliest
practicable date SO we may have
the opportunity of talking over
problems that affect all of us so
vitality. | am confident that appro-
pirate action can lead to increas-
ed employment and more effec-
tive purchasing power in the
hands Of great masses of people
still without adequate income"
Roper defended the undiStrib-
uted earnings tax as an admit
tedly experimental" move to
bring about Il higher velocity of
money through larger and more
widespread distribution OF cOrpor-
ate earnings, which, in some out
standing cases, had been retained
as excessive surplus funds"
The times-news., 1937-12-02
(copyrish,, 1887, United Pre.s)

(Copyright, 1887, United PresO
SHANGHAI, Dec. 2.-(UP)-
Important political developments,
possibly involving the initiation Of
peace conferences between China
and Japan are reported today IN
dispatches from scattered parts OF
China.
Diplomats attached consider
able Importance 10 the Marking
visit of DR.. Oscar 7. Trautman,
German ambassador TO China.
Generalissimo Chang kai-SheS
of China is in NanEing, although
all other Chinese government oi-
ficialS had departed.
Diplomats considered IT mot
improbable" that peace et. ortS
are TO be made, maybe by China
herself, before NanSing falls.
Meantime at Hankow China and
Soviet Russian officials asserted
that Chinese armies were recelv-
ing war materials from Russia by
airplane by way of Chinese Iur-
keStan.
Russia is known TO be interest
ed in the Chinese cause.
4 month ago RuSSia'S General
Vassily Bleucher said. "FasciSm' S
offenses against the Chinese peo-
pies is in preparation for an at
tack on the Soviet Union. Russia
is prepared, if necessary, TO car
ry on war beyond its boundaries,
If necessary to protect her inter
ests."
Russian sources said that ma
terials are easily moved from RuS'
sia 10 China in 10 hours.
Japan today was reported 10
have landed $4,000 soldiers III
South China in an apparent drive
on the great metropolis OF Can
ton, a principal source OF Chinese
military supplies.
Foreign military attaches sand
that if Canton is taken q vital
blow will be struck at the huge
trade of the British crown colony
of Hongkong and already tense
relations between London ano
Tokyo, strained further.
Hongkong exists almost eNcluS'
iyely on commerce with Canton
the financial and commercial cen
Continued on page tive)
The times-news., 1937-12-02
FOUR Clio MEN
ESCORTEDOU
OF ASHEVILLE
Step Follows Workers In
vitation to Men to Leave
Hosiery Mill

ASHEVILLE, Dec. 2.-Ashe-
vile city police officers last night
escorted four CIO organizers
from Il hotel to the city limits
when a crowd of about 100 nos
iery employees sought to gain en-
trance to the rooms occupied by
the men. >,
The incident came after trouble
earlier in the day at the hosiery
mill when eight alleged organizers
Of the CIO were asked to leave
the mill by workers. Spokesman
for the workers said they escorted
the men to the mill door and told
them to get out of the building.
Company officials said they were
not at the mill at the time and
knew nothing of the trouble.
Last night crowd gathered at
the hotel, but was dispersed by
officers, who escorted the men to
the city limits and took the eight
men elected from the mill out OF
a side door. The men escorted to
the city limits said they were 60
ing to Spartanburg, S. c.
The times-news., 1937-12-02
Expert Witness Says Tennessee Can
Be Made Navigable To Paducah
For ON. Sixth IVA Planned Outlay

stand and testified in a crisp, mil
itary voice for six hours.
He was the first expert witness
called by the Is southeastern util,,
tiles making the second federal
court fight against the constitu-
tionality of the IVA. =,
Excluding the Wilson dam and
two other small ones which eX,
isted before the IVA was created
in 1893, Putnam estimated a sys-
TEN of low dams would cost $75.-
600, 900 as compared to the estl-
mated cost of $473,65O,OOO Tor
the IVA project of combination
power and navigation dams.
The witness further stated that
the present freight waterway traf-
fic, or the traffic which might be
expected reasonably" within 30
years after creation of the 9-foot
channel, for the entire length OF
the Tennessee river, would justify
a capital investment Of between
$35. 100000 and $47,365, 900, q
Continued on page five)