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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
3 Are INJURED
AS TRUCK And
AUTO COLLIDE
Two From Saluda; John
Spurlin of Tryon, Re-
ported Unconscious

Two Saluda men ,one the town
clerk and treasurer, were admit
ted to Patton Memorial hospital
this morning after an automobile
wreck just east Of Saluda, and a
TryOn man was reported as UNI
conscious in the hospital there.
The injured here were: +. Baty
Hall, city clerk of Saluda, who
sustained a bad cut on the left
side of his face; and d. r. Fisher,
railway telegraph operator, who
sustained a shattered left leg in
and below the knee.
On the advice of DR.. f. NJ. Sal
ley, attending physician, Fisher
was taken to Biltmore hospital for
treatment by an orthopaedic sur
geon.
The injured Tryon man was
John Spurlin, truck driver for the
Tryon Builders Supply company,
who was reported as unconscious
at a Tryon hospital this after
noon.
According to r. NJ. Hall, father
of Baty, his son was driving a
Ford VS., occupied in addition by
Fisher and Ernest Thompson, of
Saluda, in the direction Of Tryon.
Spurlin was driving a truck to-
ward Saluda.
The elder Hall said that his son
turned out to avoid a rock slide
in a highway cut, that a tire blew
out, and his car struck the truck.
Thompson sustained only minor
injuries and was not brought
here.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
ONLY 3 WEEKS OF
SESSION REMAIN

WASHINGTON, Nov. p. lUI)
President Roosevelt yesterday
gave congress a "gO-ahcad" on
immediate revision of severe bust
ness taxes and then struck again
20 curb the trade slump by de
handing a cut in federal high
way grants and ordering govern
ment agencies 70 speed purchase
OF $245, 100000 in supplies.
simultaneously, Chairman Fred
VI. VinSon, d., Ky. of a house
ways and means subcommittee on
tax revision and one of the few
congressional leaders who persist
emily has discounted prospects OF
action at the special session ON
revenue law changes, revised his
position. He refused to say when
the tax bill would be ready but
added that 1--WE are working Is
hard and fast rs we can.
II have no objection TO acton
nj this session if a well-rounded
program can be drafted in time,
Vinson said. He explained. how,
ever, that there are several real
obstacles ahead.
There are only three weeks re-
manning in the special session and
experts familiar with the bicker-
ing and delays that hit revenue
bills doubted that u 'well-round-
ed" program could be passed by
the house, studied by the senate
finance committee an dthen enact
ed by the senate before the first
weeks of the regular session in
January.
Other developments in the adj
ministration's attempts TO bring
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
Gerardo Machado
Is Under Formal
Arrest In Gotham

NEW YORK, Nov. q. (UP)-
Gerardo Machado, former Cuban
president, was placed under for
NAL arrest yesterday in the Muir
ray Hill hospital from which he
was too i'll to be moved for sur
render under an extradition war
rant from Cuba, charging embez-
element and murder.
Machado, a fugitive for two
years, came here from Montreal a
few days ago and entered the hos
pital. Francis O'Neill, his attor-
ney. had announced he would sur
render to U. S. commissioner
but he was too i'll to be moved
and a guard was placed over him.
A bedside arraignment may be ar
ranged.
1t was understood that the pres
ent Cuban government does not
desire Machado's arrest, since he
was one of several political eXiles
to which it granted amnesty.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27

In Joint statements issued to-
day, Chief of Police Otis V.
Powers and Sheriff w. +. Davis
denied that there was any fric-
ton between the Sherif's and
police departments over seizure
of slot machines, or any other
issue.
In making the statements,
Sheriff Davis and Chief Powers
said as follows:
Since there apparently Is an
effort being made by newSpa-
pcrS in another city to create
the impression that the sheritfs
and police departments are not
in accord on law enforcement,
we feel that some statement
should be made by us to the
people of Hendersonville and
Henderson county,
Both officers denied that there
was, or ever had been, any fric-
ton between the county and
city law enforcement agencies.
Sheriff Davis said: There has
always been the closest of CO.
operation between my depart
ment and the police department.
For twelve years | worked I'M
der Otis Powers and consider
him my best friend, personally
and officially.
IL know rs a matter of fact
that Chief Powers has always
co-opcrated with the sheriifS
department. regardless of the
politics of the sheriff. | know
that he has always done every
thing to cooperate with me
since | have been sheriff.
Relative to the slot machine
matter, there is no friction be-
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Court Denies Power Firms Right To
Show IVA Prices Absorb Business
Lienhal Says He Did Not Suggest Excessive Taxes to
Wipe Out Private Competition

the start to refuse to advise mu-
inequalities on the subject of ac-
curing distribution systems"
The testimony Of Wilkerson fol-
lowed court ruling which re-
moved another of the foundation
contentious from the suit filed by
Is power companies, including
subsidiaries Of the Commonwealth
& Southern Corp, and Electric
Bond G. Share, which operate in
the Tennessee Valley.
Circuit Court Of Appeals Judge
Florence f. Allen, presiding, stat
cd the court would not admit evil
dence showing consumers had
been attracted from private COM
panies by the cheap "yardstick"
electrical power rates of the IVA.
Wilkerson related conversation
at meeting between Chattanooga
city officials and Lilienthal in
Knoxville during 1884 concerning
the municipalities plans to acquire
a distribution system to use IVA
power in competition with the
Continued on page three.).
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LONG ILLNESS
0FL.J.FLUKER
ENDSIN DEATH
Rites for WelI-Known Bust
ness Man at Presbyter-
ian Church Sunday
MASONS WILL HOLD
GRAVE-SIDE SERVICE

Lamar j. Flukcr, iS, widely
known HcnderSonvillc business
man, died last night at 1880
O'Clock ut Patton Memorial hos
pital. He had been in i'll health
for about five years, and his con-
dition had been critical for the
past several weeks.
The funeral services will be held
on Sunday afternoon at o'clock
at the Presbyterian church, of
which he was member, and
burial will follow in Oakdale
cemetery.
DR.. l.. r. Wilds, pastor Of the
church, will officiate at the
church and services at the grave
will be conducted by the Masons
Of Kcdron Lodge, Of which he
was u member.
All members Of kcdron Lodge
are requested to meet at the
Lodge hall at 2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. Flukor was native of
Georgia. He was born at Union
Point in that state and was a son
Of the late William o. and Julia
Barnes Flukcr.
He had made his home here for
the past II years or more, COM
ing here from Augusta, Ga. Dur
ing his residence here he was en-
gagged in the wholesale tobacco
business and as a salesman. For
the past year or. more he had
been practically inactive in bust
ness due to his health.
He had been in i'll health for
about five years. About three
years ago he underwent the first
of several operations, and since
then he had been practically in
active in business.
He was a Mason, Shriner and
Knight Templar, and at the time
of his death a member of kedron
Lodge. He was a former high
priest Of the HenderSonville chap
ter, Royal Arch Masons, and a
past grand master of Chapel
Lodge. in Georgia.
He is survived by his widow,
formerly Miss Ruth Chapman of
Georgia. one daughter, Miss Al
line Fluker of this city, and one
brother, Dr.. c. B. Fluker of
Tampa, Fla.
Pallbearers at the funeral will
be Lee Allen, S. f. Powers, L. r.
Gciger, j. j. Jenkins, j. Harvey
Riggan and w. G. Mccall.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov.
81. (UP)-David E. Lillienthal,
Tennessee Valley Authority direc-
tor, advised the city of Chatta-
nooga to "tax hell out Of" a pri-
vate utility, a power company wit
ness testified yesterday at a hear
ing on a suit challenging validity
of the New Deal "yardstick"
agency.
w. C. Wilkerson, former Chat
tanooga city commissioner, testi.
fled before a three-judge federal
court that Lillienthal said the way
for municipalities to get rid of
competition from private utilities
was to tax hell out of them'-or
words to that effect.
81 made no such statement to
the representatives of the city of
Chattanooga or anybody else,"
Lillienthal said in statement re-
leased from iva headquarters in
Knoxville through the Authority's
attorneys here. r ..r
1.-THE policy of the Tennessee
Valley Authority has been from
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
TAX REVISION
MAY BE- MADE
RETROACTIVE
President Strikes Again to
Push Business Over
Dull Spot
HOUSING MESSAGE
EXPECTED MONDAY

WASHINGTON. Nov. p. lUP)
President Roosevelt today advised
Majority Leader \. ". BarkIcy
that expenditures for the new
farm program must be kept with
in $5OO,OOO,OOO or that new rcvc-
uues must be provided for addi-
tional amounts needed.
The president, in Il letter 10
Barley, said that the $5OO.OOO,-
600 now allocated TO agricultural
programs is the only amount
available in the budget structure
for farm purposes.
simultaneously, the president
emphasized ne is determined 70
balance the budget for the next
fiscal year.
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New Directors For c. c. Merchants
Unit Will Be Named Monday Night
II Will Be Chosen Out Of SO Nominees; to Map Christ
mas Shopping Activities

or. II. NJ. Flynn, J. w. Farmer,
Wiltshire Griffith, w. NJ. Gregg,
A. II. Houston, +. f.. Hartnett, G..
h. Hoover. Sam kalin, Leonard
Lewis, f.. F. Latt. IL. +. Mitchell,
j. T.. Mitchell, J. p. O'Dell, Ed
ward Patterson, J. Steve Porter,
A. Patterson, Ezra Ray, A. 5.
Rubcnstein, G. c. Richardson, w.
H. Rusher, 2. F. Sudduth, MinguS
Shipman. T.. G.. Thomas, w. Il.
Wilson. Kenneth Williamson, Lee
ona Allen Young.
Retiring officers and directors
are II. r.. Buchanan, chairman
n. f.. Mitchell, vice-chairman
Mrs. Kathryn Wiseman. secre-
tary; A. S. Rubenstcin, treasurer,
and T. ID. Clark. T.. X. DOlbec,
Wiltshire Griffith, w. A. Keith,
Jr., Edward Patterson, G. {.
Richardson, and A. II. Houston.
A former director, +. w. Ham,
has moved from the city, and an
other. w. A. Keith, Jr,, is not
now in the mercantile business.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
M. E. SOUTH'S
MERGER VOTE
is LANDSLIDE
Final Tabulation Made;
Other Branches Already
Approve Plan

NASHVILLE, Nov. 81. tUP)-
Conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, nave
voted overwhelmingly for unfit
cation wit hthc other two branch
cS of McthodiSm.
Church headquarters here to-
day announced the final tabula-
ton as 1877 in favor 20 LAT
against. The other two branches,
Methodist Episcopal and McthD-
dist Protestant chwcneS, already
are on record in favor OF unfit
cation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
Chief Powers, Sheriff Davis Declare
No Friction Between Departments
Two Enforcement Branches Here on Friendest o
Terms; Have Always Co-operated

tween Chief Powers and me.
made no statement that | would
clean up the city Of Henderson
Vile unless the police depart
ment took action. | told a rep
reSentative of q newspaper IN
another city that would take
no action in the city unless 1t
was the wish of Chief Powers.
That representative quoted me
as saying that ! would extend
my activities against slot ma
chimes to the city unless the
police department took action.
did not make this statement
and | did not intend for him
to imply such by my remarks,
made to him over the tele-
phone"
Chief Powers repeated the
statement of Sheriff Davis that
there was no friction between
the two departments. "Smce l
have been chief of police | have
always tried to cooperate win
the shcriff's department." he
said.
"Thcrc have been several
cases in the past where | drop
ped some of my city work to
cooperate with the sheriff's dc.
partment on cases. | worked
harder with Republican sher-
ih's department on two cases
than | ever did on any others.
"My officers have instructions
to always work with the sher-
ifs department, and | know
that the sheriff has given his
officers the same instructions.
There is no friction between the
two departments now and never
has been since / have been cher
of police"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
THOUSANDS OFFERING
TRANFUSION BLOOD


WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 27.-
(UP)-Blood donors in America
and abroad are responding to
broadcast appeals to help Weston
w. Fletcher, suffering from
streptococcus viridans infection
from which few people recover.
More than 1000 persons, in
GLIDING one in London, have Of
fered blood but only that of per-
sons who have recovered from the
disease is disable. The London man
is such but his blood may not be
the same type. Doctors may try 20
get sample of his blood if suit
able flood for TRANSMISSION is not
found in America.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
Los Angeles Moving Mountain
Collapses With Force Of Quake;
City Fathers Lament Publicity
Charge Oil Mems Scheme
to Promote Field; Freak
Delights Vast Throng

LOS ANGEIES, Nov. -. lOi).
The moving mountain" Of ElyS-
ian park here collapsed today
with the force and noise of an
earthquake and delighted Il
swarm of spectators who were up
all night to watch the thrilling
scene, despite the pcrils of the
avalanche.
Nobody was hurt. The damage
was only a buckled and buried
stretch of highway and the
bridge approach.
The hill was two blocks long
and 100 feet high before it
started swaying and sinking a
month ago from some subter-
ranean cause. Last night it start
ed shedding bouldcrS as big as
autos. One large section disrupt
ed power wires and plunged a
section of the route in darkness.
RumorS spread that men were
buried alive. AmbulanccS with
sirens blowing rushed to the
scene. but nobody was hurt, it
was found.
The moving mountain last night
had kept on moving, threatening
to become Il 2.O00,000-ton land
slide despite the assertions of
some city fathers that it was all
q publicity hoax.
Occasionally deep rumbles
came from the hillside. Minia-
ture Slides bounded down its
slope onto oncc-buSy Riverside
drive below. Once it shook con-
vulSivcly and sank at least an
inch. 1t moved farther from the
mother mountain and crushed Il
i0-inch water main.
And on the floor of the city
council. Councilman Darwin W.
Tate rumblcd: 81 think that the
reports Of the rumblinGs and the
twistingS of the hill are purposely
exaggerated at the instigatlon of
wildcat oil men"
He charged that the unnamed
oil men wanted to bring prices Of
lots near the hill down and buy
them up, because cts a known
fact" that the section covers Il
rich oil pool.
Oratory flew in the council
room. All agreed it was bad
publicity" for Los Angeles. Some
said it was u molchill suddenly
grown into sliding mountain by
some mysterious quirk-although
il really was still u molehill.
The civic groups wanted it
known that the slide area is more
than n mile from the downtown
district and mcnaces no more
than dozen small shops and
houses in an isolated section of
the city.
While this was going on, the
mountain snapped the water
main. pouring water onto the
drive. Work crews labored for
hours to plug the main some dis
lance back from the break.
The superstitious found that
some old pioneer once put 4
course" on the hill because he
had been hoodwinked on some
property near the billy park years
ago. At least, biologists couldn't
establish definitely the cause of
the slipping.
And alongside the hill, camera
men waited for the time when the
mountain might collapse.
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PUZZLE never
TO Be CLEARED.
Court Reporter at His
Trial Dies Without Find
ing Record Sought

AUSTIN, Tex, Nov. 81. CUP
Charles +. Pickle. 90, Il quiet, UNI
assuming court reporter, died yes
tcrday, leaving unanswered one Of
the great literary mysteries.
As reporter Of the Federal Dis
trict court i'm Austin, Pickle was
at mis- desk one morning in 1898
when testimony started in the en-
bczzlcmcnt trial of William Sid
ncv Porter.
Pickle. intent on his notes, paid
little attention to the bored de
PENDANT. q rather foppiShly dress.
ed fellow. tanned by the sun OF
Central America.
He recorded that Judge Thomas
!. MaXey sentenced Porter, for
mcr auditor in an Austin bank
and rollicking editor of "A Rolling
Stone" 70 five years in federal
pcnjtentlary.
The reporter filed away has
notebook. Years passed with little
other mention of the matter until
1910. when William Sidney POr-
ter. famed as u story teller under
the pen-namc of go. Henry died
i'm New York.
BiographerS descended on Pic
klc. They offered him large sums
for his notes of that dimly remcm-
bcred trial in 1898. They hoped
that the notes might answer their
question:
Was William Sidney Porter
guilty of embezzling funds of the
Austin bank in which nc worked
as an auditor, before his uneN-
pccted trip to Central America?
Or. was he merely n victim of his
own careleSSnesS about the proSalc
things of business?
Pickle searched for his note
books. but they had been mis-
placed.
Literary historians bccam e
pressing. Pickle spent years IN
search for the notebooks. He
never found them. =.
Pickle was one of the last OF
fetal participants III the O'Henry
trial. Defending lawyers, prosecu-
tor. Judge and jurors all are dead.
Whether Porter'S flight to Cen
trail America was a contributing
factor To his conviction never was
known. The fact remained that
he decided to come back and face
the charge. He utilized his spare
time from duties in the prison
apothecary shop at Columbus, o.,
to perfect the style of short story
writing which brought him fame
after his release.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
3 ARE KNOWN
DEAD IN FLOOD

SANTIAGO, Cuba, Nov. 81
(UP)-Twenty-three are known
killed and an unestimated number
was injured as u flood swept
across Oriente province. Doctors
and nurses were rushed to Cayo
Mambi, where the damage is re-
ported as most extensive.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
ROOSEVELT LEAVES
FOR MIAMI TONIGHT

WASHINGTON, Nov. p. lUP)
President Roosevelt today COM
pleted two messages To congress
and prepared TO leave for fish
ing trip off the coast Of Florida.
His special train leaves tonight
for Miami. There the president
and a small party OF friends will
board the presidential yacht Po-
tomac.
The congressional messages on
the housing act and highway aid
law will be delivered to congress
Monday and Tuesday especially.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
MOVING TO SMASH
LAST RESISTANCE
1887, by United Press

Copyright, 1887, by United Press
SHANGHAI, Nov. 81. (UPl-
Japan moved rapidly today III her
campaign to smash the last YES
tige of organized Chinese reSiS-
lance to her conquest of this war
ravaged country.
The japanese assumed control
of all important agencies of the
Chinese government in the Inter
Continued on page three)
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Barkley Told Farm Aid Funds Limited
RAIL MEN ARE
BEING SUED IN
BUS WALKOUT
Millions Asked in Dam.
ages; Charge Strike in
Favor Of Railways

CLEVELAND, Nov. ~. (UP)
Greyhound bus lines officials to-
day filed in federal court nine
suits against the Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmcn. asking ST.
500, 900 damages and charging
that the union is attempting to
cripple the bus industry in favor
of the railroads.
The rail brotherhood is sponsor
of the walkout of the Greyhound
drivers which has curtailed bu
service in l6 northeastern states.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
DOG SHOOTS MAN

WARREN, o., Nov. 81. (UP).
4 dog shot a man yesterday
Cecil Parthemer, 81, out hunting,
leaned his shotgun against "a
fence and started to climb over.
His dogs paw touched the shot
gun trigger. The charge buried
itself in Parthemer's left armpit.
City hospital attendants said he
would recover.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
MISSES MOTHER BY 2 DAYS

CINCINNATI, NOV. - NCrJ'
Louis Sparks, 81, yesterday COM
pleted 25O0-mile bicycle trip
from Nevada ranch to Cincin-
natl, seeking his mother, Mrs.
BeStina Sparks, from whom he
was separated when a child. Ac-
ouaintances of his mother said
her whereabouts were unknown,
Although she was known to have
been i'm Cincinnati two days ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
JUNIOR ORDER WILL
CONDUCT ELECTION

Attention today was called to
the meeting of the Junior order
to be held Monday night at 1880
o'clock ut the hall when officers
for the first six months of 1888
will be elected. In view of the
important business on hand, Off
GERS are asking full attendance
of the membership.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
FIREMEN CALLED TO
ANDERSON HOME

The fire department answered
a call yesterday afternoon be-
tween 1880 and o'clock at the
residence of Shack Anderson, on
South Church street. Small dam
age was done by the blaze which
originated beneath a fireplace in
the house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
LEG AMPUTATED

MARLBORO, Mass, Nov. q.
UP).-SurgeonS amputated the
dangerous left leg of Oscar C..
Wheeler 70, at Marlboro hospi-
tai yesterday while his brother,
L. S. Senator Burton X. Wheeler,
d., Mont, waited in an ante
room. The patients condition
was reported good"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
FULL CENSORSHIP
NOT ANTICIPATED

SHANGHAI, Nov. ~. (UP)-
Japan today took over Chimes"
government communications facil-
tiles in greater Shanghai and pre-
pared "if necessity" arose, to
seize Chinese customs. 1t was not
believed that cables would be
bothered. They are owned by for
eign companies but there is a
prospect that Japan will look over
questionable" messages as did
the Chinese,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-27
STATE REQUIREMENTS
MORE EXACTING

G.. w. Tidd, city electrical in
spector, this morning pointed out
that more eXacting requirements
are being made by the state. The
city. he said, operates under the
state statute which makes is man.
datory to meet the regulations.
Under the written permit syS-
TEN, Mr.. Tidd said, before any
work is done either by electrical
contractors. consumers, OF prop
erty owners, they must make APP
plication to the electrical inSpcc-
tor for a permit. Ii the condi-
tons are satisfactory, a permit
will be issued by the Inspector.
No wiring should be concealed
before inspection, Mr.. Tidd said,
and ordinarily there are two in
spections, first of rough wiring
Continued on page three)