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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

We resolved then that it woulc
never, never do to turn flip-hops or
a horses back when ones tummy was
full of muddy potatoes.
That aversion has little to do with
circuses as an institution, a Roman.
esque flourish amidst the spotty aus.
terity OF our lives, but it does brine
us to little story about Mr.. anc
Mrs. Newman Sudduth and the trick
riders in the Ringing Bros Barnum
& Bailey Show.
The Sudduths were watching a lady
rider cavort about the ring the othel
night on tremendous white steed
built along the lines Of brewery
horse. The lady also was a trifit
large, and Mrs. Sudduth remarked ad.
miringly, Il don't see how that horse
can carry such a big woman, what
with all those leaps and somersaults
and ALL"
why not?" said Mr. Sudduth. "His
shoulders are broad enough"
There was brief silence. Then:
What did you say?' said Mrs Sud.
duth.
Nothing dear, nothing" said Mr.
Sudduth, who didn't get a chance te
laugh until he told us the tale.
| X
VERBOSE.
When 1DOrking on a murder case,
Sergt. Marlin Burbaker OF the
Maryland State police is about as
laxative as a sleeping dummy.
Newspaper men uho questioned
him as he Uas departing to begin
1cork on the Keene mystery this
ueek tried every knoWn ruse to get
some information from him. He
stuck by his guns, wouldn't say
anything one ,Day or the other.
Finally reporter said: "Ill put
one to you thatH make you say
yes Ho1p about glass OF beerr
NO" said the sergeant, gloomtly.
| X
TOKEN.
TO RETURN to the subject OF the
circus, an elephant nurse in town
with the show this week (whatcha.
| cellema "mahout" in some countries)
said that people in the United States
have heard of an ancient Hindu super.
'stition which says the hair of an ele.
| plants tail has great potency in ward
ing off evil
Americans are forever sneaking ur
behind the circus elephants and
snatching hair or two, the mahout
told us, and some of them are sold for
as much as S. Quite a few of the
Ringing Bros. elephants are now al
most bald abaft, and not very happy
about it, either.
WILES.
MAYBE one reason the abuse isn't
stopped is because the circuses
carry around mostly female elephants
which belle the saying that the female
of the species Is always more deadly
than the male. In pachyderms the
reverse is true. A bull elephant has te
go nuts about one week a year or elst
lead life Of great repression and
dependency. The annual jag is all
right in zoo, where the cages ars
strong and solid, but on circus picket
line bull elephant on the rampage
| is not q cheerful fhipo IN Coo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

The government Of Brazil Is en-
oouraging the establishment Of new
industries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
CIRCUS.
3HE season for circus stories

-HE season for circus stories Is
upon US. Although Our own
yen to run away and join a
L troupe of trick riders ended on
a cold dank morning many years ago,
we admit the fascination of the big
top. The day We quit thinking about
circus tents in terms of a career came
when chef cooking for the perform
ers plucked potato from a vat OF
boiling water, threw it on the ground,
broke it open with the muddy heel Of
his shoe, then, deciding the potatoes
weren't done, tossed the broken spud
back into the vat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

Only advantage of having the bulls
in the circus herds would be to put a
stop to this foolishness about hairs
from elephant tails. Any one who ever
tried to snatch a souvenir from a bull
would probably get a large paw in
the prss, socko. That's the best
known cure for superstitions.
X X X
TYPE.
Some day great psychiatrist will
compile a massive study of the
phenomena known as the printer, the
newspaper man, the proof reader.
Some day we will know what strange
things happen to the human mind
that is daily entangled In a maze of
typewriter keys, linotype machines,
unrelated facts and columns like this.
Light will be shed upon the peculiar
state of mind that makes a police re-
porter wonder what his wife will say
if he's late to dinner because he had
to work overtime or the creates rnur-
der mystery of the year e. . the mental
twist that causes printers to put the
headline Of a suicide story on the
lead OF q wedding :. the quirk that
inspires a reporter to substitute the
name Of his great aunt Mamie for the
name Of the defendant in a notorious
larceny trial.
Some day we will know these
things, but blessed If we'll Vver know
why a compositor ticking OF the title
Of the Aim "A Star is Born" yesterday
blandly changed 1t to read "A State
Fair Is Born
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Police Identify
Three-Nunle Girl
As Hospital Case
Boston Officers We're
Battled Quizzi,,g
Psychological"
Py the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 2O-Detective Will
liam Slack announced that blond
mystery girl, who baffled police yes
terday by identifying herself as three
different persons. including a missing
Ohio Wesleyan student, today was
definitely identified as Mary V. Day.
export of Troy, N. Y.
The identification was made by Of
ficials at the Hudson River State
Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N Y, Slack
said, after Boston police had provided
them with description of the girl.
Officials of the New York hospital
told him, Slack said, that the girl had
been released from the hospital short
~ before Easter Sunday.
Slack said that pending arrival of
her parents she would be committed
to the Boston Psychopathic Hospital
for examination.
Despite the identification made by
officials of the Hudson River Hospital
the girl continued to parry all ques-
tons concerning her real identity.
'Melancholia" Victim.
TROY, N. Y, May 20 (P-Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin J. Davenport Of Water
vliet, parents of Mary v. Davenport,
Boston's blond mystery girl. said today
their daughter was suffering from
"melancholia.
They said she had disappeared three
times since suffering q nervous break
down while training to become a nurse
In Troy hospital in May, 1896.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

Presumably at. the instance of
Secretary OF the interior Harold
L. lckes. there ,oas hung recently
on the todlls OF the Interior De-
pdrtment's executive dining room
the motto, neatly lette-ed In Gothic
symbols:
ut is better to die of hunger
than to season our Sdctuals Nth
the Dorries OF Office"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
JONES GAP

JONES ; GAP, Feb. 27.-Mrs.
Jessie Hawkins, of Marion, is the
weekend guest of her parents,
Mr., and Mrs. 5. NJ. Mace, and
other friends here. -
Mrs. Ruby Higgins and small
daughter, Annie Lucille. were din
ner guests of Mrs. II. II. Mace on
Monday.
Carl McCarson. who has been
in the Patton Memorial hospital,
is at home and much improved.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Hicks Summey
are planning on moving into their
new house this week.
Miss Mary Lou Owenby was
the overnight guest of Misses
Donna and Opal Dalton on
Thursday night.
Mrs. NJ. X. Dalton and Mrs.
Sue Lena Higgins called on Mrs.
r. S. Sentell on Tuesday evening.
Tom Mace has returned from
South Carolina, where nc mas
spent several days.
Fred Summey and family were
dinner guests Of John Summey on
Monday.
Mrs. Jerry Nelson was IN this
community recently.
Mrs. II. S. Sentell visited her
daughter, Mrs. Catherine peeler,
at Balfour, on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allison Jones
spent Friday night with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. T; Jones.
John Gilbert and children VISIT
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
LEGISLATURE VOTES
z FINANCE BILLS

Continued from page one)
approval after Senator Gold of
Guilford withdrew an amendment
which would have earmarked a
similar sum for buildings at the
Agricultural and Technical col
legc for negroes at Greensboro. ,
, The senate passed on second
reading the Pittman bill to allow
divorce on the grounds Of one
year separation, but third reading
was postponed at the request OF
Martin of Davidson.
An amendment by Martin which
would allow divorce only. on the
grounds of two-year separation,
as now provided, was voted down
1913 with Lieut.. Gov. W.'P. Hor-
ton casting the deciding ballot. -,
The Pittman measure also would
permit divorce on the grounds OF
drunkenness of six months dura,
ton, drug addiction and criminal
contraction of venereal disease.
Passed in the upper house with
out a dissenting vote was the
Gravely measure to appropriate
$3.50, 600 for the systematic adj
yertising of the state.
A bill to issue 81. 9S0,Oo0t In
bonds for permanent improve
ments. at. state institutions was re-
ferred back to the senate hnance
committee, and a proposal Tor q
s25, 100000 issue to finance sec,
ondary road betterments was SET
as a special order for Monday;
On a motion Of Rep. Spruill OF
Rertie the house killed the small
loans bill which would have al
lowed interest of 81 per cent q
month on loans of 800 or less,
A measure to abolish primaries
in the state was introduced IN the
house by Dellinger of CASTOR
Four representatives offered .
nroposal to increase taxes on beer
and wine bottlers and dealers
Brooks of Johnston proposed man
datory jail sentences OF from ~
DAYS to six months for persons
convicted on two or more occa
s;ons of driving while under the
influence of liquor. He also intro
duced a bill allowing state SUI
preme court justices to retire VIII
full pay at the age Of 10.
Among other measures omeret
were one by Senator Ratchn o,
Forsyth to relieve banks OF tht
collection of the new intangible:
tax and one by Rep. Johnston o,
Iredell to change the franchise oil
vision of the state utiiities com
mission to a motor vehicle carrier
department, which, he said, woult
conform more closely with the
federal regulation of highway car
] riers, 49,. ~-. -.---....-.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27

BY Mrs. GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Service Staff Writer

brides should promise to do
- more than love, honor and
cherish. They should agree also
to provide rnanful Sunday morn
ing breakfasts for their youthful
husbands. Mrs. Joseph Genung,
Of Households, N. Y, celebrated
her Sixtieth wedding anniversary
by advising newly we'd brides
you should know how to cook
Her husband Is q fiddler. For 60
years Mrs, Genung has delighted
him, with Sunday breakfast to
his liking. He is still q fiddler,
still married.
A nationally popular restaur-
ant man in New York, consulted
on the Sunday breakfast, ques-
ton, bangs his fist on a table,
shouts with feeling. Tell those
young women who wonder why
husbands get restless, that q man
wants to feel like lord in his
own castle on. Sunday morning.
He wants leisurely breakfast
With food he favors, and he does
IT want the kids tearing through
the house while he eats t."
What Husbands Like :
Assured that the girls Of Amer
lea would be duly informed of
his opinion, this noted provider
of breakfasts for countless fa-
nous men, Gains down, discusses
food. around this time Of the
year" he confides, "a breakfast
planned to a mans taste would
consist Of either fresh or stew
ed fruit. such as fresh rhubarb
or baked apple. Fifty per cent
of the masculine world prefer |
ham and eggs or bacon and eggs
as a second dish, although such
dishes as picked-up Goldfish in |
cream (salt codfsh), steamed |
finnan haddie, kippered herring, |
blcater. corned beef hash with |
an egg, and saIsages and eggs
have their devotees." l
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
M0AK
CONVICTED IN
POISON Death
Sentenced To Die In Kill
ing OF Daughter; One
Wife Also Poisoned

WILMINGTON, Feb. 81. (UP)
Pale and shaken. Edgar l.. Smoak,
middle aged railroad carpenter,
last night heard a superior court
jury pronounce him guilty of kill
ing his daughter with poison. .
He was sentenced to die April
% in the gas chamber at state
prison.
Annie Thelma, Smoak's To-
year-old daughter, died last De-
ccmber /. An autopsy. performed
after two physicians refused to
sign her death certificate, reveal
ed presence of large quantity
of Strychnine in the girls body.
vestigators found bottle of the
Smoaks arrest followed when in
poison in his possession.
Facing trial only for the death
of his daughter, Smoak was also
alleged to have poisoned his two
wives, who died Ia years apart,
for the purpose of collecting in
surance policies.
DtIlltu IlioNiVHo W oSS viz We
dict aside and for a new trial by
Judge J. II. Clement, defense
counsel served notice of an ap-
peal to the supreme court and was
allowed As days for perfection of
the appeal.
The jury received the case at
5:45 p. m. and the verdict was
returned in court at 9':l0 p. m.
The jury took about an hour off
from deliberations for supper.
Smoak, a native of Bamberg,
S. c., was arrested last December
10, after the body of his daugh-
ter had been exhumed in Orange
burg county, S. C.. Before he fac.
ed trial, the body of his second
wife was also exhumed and the
state obtained a murder indict-
ment in her death.
Relatives of his first wife have
now obtained an order to- exhume
her body, buried Is years ago,
and DR.. Haywood Taylor, Of Duke
hospital, who made, the examina-
ton of the second wife and
daughter, will make chemical
analysis. ...' *
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Mrs. Carroll P. Rogers, Of Try
on. was accompanied on a trip
this morning by Mrs. Frank A.
Ewbank. They will spend tonight
in Chapel Hill, where the latter's
son, Frank Ewbank, is a student
at the University, and from there
will go to Chatham. Va, to visit
Miss Hope Rogers. who is study
ing at Chatham Hall.
Miss Kitty Brownlee comes
home today from Erskine College
at Due West, S. c., to spend the
weekend with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. o. Y. Brownlee. She will
have as her guests. Miss Ruth Fer
guson of Lancaster, S. c., and
Miss Grace Calvert of Abbeville,
s. c.
Tracy Harberson and Donald
Keith, who have been. connected
with fruit stores during the win
ter in Wilkesbarre, Pa, are ex-
pected home tomorrow night.
Friends here of Miss May Good
rich, of Asheville, formerly .of
Hendersonville, will be interested
to know that she has taken a po-
sition in New York City as as
sistant to the rector of an Episco-
pal church there. She prepared
herself for this work at st. Faiths
in the Cathedral Close, New York
City.
Mrs. ]. F. Brooks and Miss Mary
Brooks heard beautiful concert
in Asheville last evening, given by
Miss Mary Heath. who was pre-
sented by, the Saturday Music club
at Homewood, the lovely home Of
DIR. and Mrs. r. S. Carroll.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27

This astute obser.'e- of hus-
bands believes that a man will
eat cereal if 1t is served to him
on a CLUB breakfast" or II II is
a regular part of his usual home
breakfast, but that II he sits down
to decide for himself, he will
usually omit cereal. Men like
hot cakes, though" he adds.
But as they grow older and have
to be more careful about what
they eat, the popularity of hot
cakes sharply declines. Youth
and hot cakes 60 together. An
expanding waistljne and gray at
the. temples had better sigh, then
pass them up
Spring Rhubarb Sauce
Use pink rhubar'b. Clean thor.
oughly. Cut into 10 inch pieces.
Place in earthenware or enamel
saucepan and sprinkle with SUI
gar, using Z cups sugar to every
4 cups rhubarb. Stand for al
least an hour, until the sugar
draws out some of the juice. Cook
slowly, adding little water If
there is not enough Juice. When
tender, mash through a sieve.
Serve cold with a pitcher Of
thick cream. Now you're one up
on that all-for happy-marriage
Sunday breakfast question.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
GARCIA
IS INDICTED

NEW YORK, Fob. 81. (UP)-
Peggy Garcia. the blonde who lost
a" 100000 heart balm suit
against fiddler Dave Rubinoff,
was indicted on charge of bigamy
yesterday. 80, 49,. .
"Bigamy," helpful detective
explained to her, "mcaps that you
married a guy while you still was
married to another one"
"Oh," said Peggy.
A bigamy indictment also was
returned against Michael Larocca,
Peggy's husband, after Mrs. Kath-
leen Larocca testified before the
grand jury. Previously she said
she had lived with Larocca as his
wife for IL years and had three
children.
Peggy was still in jail last night
because she could not raise ST.
500 bail. She was anxious to re-
sumo rehearsals for a night club
act .($400 a week for four
weeks). The act will be ready as
soon as. she learns to sing and
dance. She got the spotlight yes
terday. however--in the lineup
at police headquarters where she
was taken after night in Jail.
Peggy said she didn't like jails be-
cause they have iron cots that
leave marks on you and no dam
Ger should have marks.
On the way to the lineup she
bought herself bunch Of violets.
They promptly wilted under the
lights Of the lineup. So did Peg
gy.
"To whom were you married
before?" asked a detective.
"When?" Peggy replied,
smoothing her hair nervously.
Thrown for a fve-yard loss, the
detective hit the line again: 81
mean who was your prior hus-
band?" -.
"When?" Peggy answered.
"Look," said the detective pa
tiently, "who was the fellow you
we're married to before you mar
ried the fellow you are married
to now"
OOH" Peggy said. 81 was mar
riGd in Virginia IL years ago
They let II 90 at that ana Peg
gy was asked whether her. father,
who came here from Virginia to
testify in the Rubinoff suit, had
gone home yet. Peggy said no.
That brought up something that
depressed her. Yesterday was the
65th birthday Of her father and
they were planning quite a party.
Bewildcred by the rapid pace Of
the law and disappointed at miss
ing the party, her father summed
up his state of mind by saying:
"I'd like to go back to the Vir-
cinia mountains and hide under
rock" ....y...
District Attorney William C.
Dodge delivered a stern lecture
to Peggy, telling her he suspect
cd that there might be an utter
ior motive in her suit against Ru-
binoff. -.
"You had better come clean,"
Dodge said, land tell me whether
there was any extortion."
"Extortion," Peggy said. Gee,
I never did that"
AS soon as Peggy's night club
is ready, she will appear at the
Maxine club where another per-
former is Mary Nolan, the form
er motion picture actress. In the
DISCUSSION about dancing, re-
porter remarked:
"When was kid studied to
be a terpsichorean."
go" Peggy said, you're
lawyer, too, huh"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
MADRID GROUP TO
OPEN NEW SEARCH
FOR SECRET FOES
CONTINUED from page one)


tested by Italy and Germany, as
sufficient victory, and they
were content to keep their vessels
away from the rough waters Of
the Bay of Biscay, TO which they
had been assigned. 49,,
Experts pointed out neither
Russia nor Portugal had navies
equipped for modern sea service,
particularly the stormy seas IN
which Soviet ships were detailed,
and that this probably dictated
the withdrawals. -
The fleets of England, France,
Germany and Italy made prepare
tions TO begin Wednesday to
guard the waters around Spain
and see that neither troops moi
munitions for either side Of the
civil war are, landed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
ROOSEVELT ASKS
CONSERVATION FIGHT

Continued from page onel
ton of certain specified materials
on American ships.
The Nexada senator got the
right-of-way for his measure Just
before the senate recessed FRIDAY.
The house did not meet. The
house will spend Monday on DIS
trict of Columbia bills and prob
ably will consider the navy anpro..
priation Tuesday. The amount OF
the latter has not yet been reveal
ed.
The president said at his press
conference that he intends to seek
two new pieces of major leglsla..
ton at this session. low cost
housing bill and. a measure reg
ulating the soft call industry.
Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y,
has introduced a $1,000, 900. 600
housing bill and Sen. Joseph r;
Guffey, D., Pa, has a coal bill
pending.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
BIRTHDAY PARTY
BEAUTIFUL

y-S Lawrence "A. Blair gave q
,.,s.;ful party yesterday after
We from 4 to s, celebrating the
~ birthday of Mary Elizabeth
r,r. The attractiveness OF the
s"ms was enhanced by the lavish
.,s AZ dafodils and all the ap-
|,oiu.nents we're significant of the
|g,ter season. Appropriate games
L. contests were arranged and
|, u. latter the prizes went TO
|,rre Sullivan and Sammy Hodges
Ecrt
The festive table bore an Eas-
b crepe cloth, adorned with col
|o,icl chicks and rabbits, and was
|E,r,ered with the beautiful birth
|,ay cake. the piece de resistance.
|y,s,er baskets Of candies marked
Ess places for the little bellies and
kssux Of the future.
Attending this charming party
kUy Mary Elizabeth were Bertha
Poster. Joan Sample, Sara Lee Al
Ia. Billy K. Shipp. Martha Sud-
k,.h. Barbara Bennett, Anne Sui
Nan, Billy Howe, Dorothy Foster,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
EPISCOPAL GROUPS
TO MEET

Trinity Group of st. James
Episcopal church will meet Mon.
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Ben L. Foster on Blythe street.
The Epiphany Group will meet
with Miss Carrie Hughes on Oak
land street, both at $3.50 o'clock.
The meeting Of the Advent Group
will DO at the home Of Mrs. R. p,
Freeze on Washington street at 8
o'clock. These are the regular
March meetings.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
BRIDGE CLUB ENTER
TANNED DELIGHTFULLY."-

Mrs. C. NJ. Ogle was hostess at
an attractive meeting of her
bridge club yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. j. G. Bennett held club high ;
Miss Mae Bloomer, of Asheville,
guest of a member, Mrs. Ray Ar
ledge, was awarded the guest
high, and the low went to Mrs.
Melvin Lane. A salad course was
served when cards had been laid
aside.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
DILL. Smathers,
Passes AT Clyde

CLYDE. Feb. 27.--D. |. l..
Smathers, &c, who retired as may
or of Clyde last year after Ia
years of service, died at his home
mt 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
after an illness Of four weeks.
Death was due to heart trouble.
Funeral services for Mr.. Smath-
ers. long prominent in business
and political circles, farmer and
cattle raiser, and former mmcber
of the board of commissioners,
will be held on Sunday morning
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
Open Electric
Service Monday

The Electric Service company
will be. opened Monday at lO9
Fifth avenue west by Z. Z. Hart
nett and son, E. f. Harnett, Jr.t
This new firm will render. a
general electric service, making
installations and servicing electri!
caIly operated machines.
The senior member Of the firm
has been in Hendersonville Ia
years, having started here with
Sanders & Jackson, continuing
with their successor, c. N. James.
For the past seven years he has
been with T. C.. Whisnant & Son.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
!: S0 9? , { ;.,!,,!;;. !: !: :: ::

Jane Roberts, Ruth Childs, Mary
and Adger Mckay, Barbara Sta
ton, Bobby and Shelby Swanson,
Sammy Hunt, Martha Lee Ed
wards, Betty Page Redden, Billy
and Frenchie Bude. Ginger Smith,
Katherine Anne Latt, and Bobby
Wilson.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27

ed w. H. owenby on Sunday
evening!
Mrs. H. II. Mace has returned
home after visiting friends in
South Carolina last week.
Alvin Gilbert spent Friday
night with Junior 0wcnby.
Mrs. J. P. Higgins, who has
been i'll, is much improved.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-27
BAN QUOTATIONS

BERLIN, Feb. 27.-tUP)-Au-
thorities today banned the quota
ton of foreign securities on all
German exchanges, ruling that
sale or purchase of any foreign
securities would require special
peri nit.