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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-18

AGAIN NORGE LEADS in engi-
neering, styling, construction
and features. Norge Rollator
refrigeration sets new stand
ard of value. Brunson Furni-
ture Co.
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Sell the Needless Household Advertise EN-

PIPES, valves, fittings, assorted
sizes. Get our prices and you
won't order elsewhere. King
Hardware Co. Phone 923.
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FOR SALE-Beautiful Flat Rock
estate for sale at bargain. See
Anders & Rector Realty Co.,
222 North Main Street.
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SENSATIONAL Linoleum values
Select from our extensive show
ing of new patterns. Prices be-
gin at $3.50 per yard, installed.
Brunson Furniture Co.
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5-Foodstuffs

TOURISTS and visitors, try our
delicious barbecue, country ham
and sliced chicken sandwiches.
Shorty's Pig m Whistle.
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SEE the Cut-Rate Furniture Com,
pany for bargains in new and
used furniture. Kanuga st. NJ.
n. Orr, Mgr. Phone 81. '
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Cuisines Services

AUTO ACCIDENTS are occur
ring every day. Is your estate
protected by an insurance pol
icy? Let's discuss it. Hender-
sonvillc Insurance Agency.
Phone Sl4.
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29-Help (Female)

3 SALES GIRLS to see business
houses here and surrounding
towns. Prefer one with car.
Good wages. 400 Grove Street.
$50 D. m. to 9 a. m.
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3l-Real Estate
46-MisceUaneous

WANT to be Independent and
operate your own business!
Free information. Write, Box
ITO.
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SHOE PAIR ING-Visitors
should know, home folks do,
that we have the most modern
shop in town. We sew all ladies
soles. Economy Shoe Shop. '
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-18

A SLIGHT ROOF BLAZE and
water muses. up things badly.
See us for policy covering such
damages. Morrow Insurance
Agency.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
Seconds From Life o~o e~o

from New York. He has his own business here
in Chicago, and we've want to be married
right away"
Nell and Dan exchanged glances
why haven't you told us about him before,
Betty?" Nell asked, struggling to be calm. 'If
you've been seeing him, why hasn't he called
here at the house?"
HE didn't think we-well, he said it would
be better if" Betty stammered, cropping for
words, her conscience prodding her because she
had kept secret from them.
What is this mans name?" Dan spoke for
the first time.
Tony Ricardi He's very nice and handsome,
tool" Betty told him proudly.
Dan Tracy was on his feet, his face contorted,
his eyes blazing like machine-gun as she fin
ished.
mot the Tony Ricardi who runs the Hastead
Transfer Company" he fairly beloved
why, yes. dad Do you know him.?
NAN threw his hands into the air and
u roared II know him, all right. Betty, |
forbid you to ever that man again | have
nv reasons which -- which can't explain.
But you've got to get him out of your mind
right now. You can't love man like that!"
But do, dad" Betty answered. little
frightened Then, resentfully. why shouldn't
| love him? What has he done? What do you
have against him? ! have right to know!
And can't promise won't see him again I'm
going to meet him this very night at eight
o'clock" With defiance on her lips, Betty broke
into tears and ran from the room
who is he ?" Nell asked quickly :.
"A cheap crook who rents his trucks out to
mobs and goes in for petty larceny stuff A
fool who plays at being Don Juan. He payc
me cut to let him operate The damned nerve
Of the dirty rat-my daughter! My Betty'
DO you think he said anything to BETTY
about"
Mono he wouldn't dare He's yellow clear
through Besides she'd have told us If he had.
Nell, I've got to stop this thing right now
tonight! I'm goin' down and see this bird Ri
cardi You take care of Betty"
Il won't let her out of my sight Dan," Nell
promised, as Tracy fairly tore out of the room.
He started downtown in his car, but, sud-
denly remembered that Betty had said she was
meeting Ricardi at eight o'clock, he slammed
on the brakes, pulled up at corner drug store
and hurried in to make phone call. He got
Moraski his chief henchman on the line
Now listen, Morasxi! Get this straight and
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he was edging out of the game little by little
1t wasn't SO easy after all the years, but, with
more than a comfortable fortune in cold cash
salted away Nell had persuaded him that it
was time to quit the racket. II not for his own
sake for hers and Bettys
.'You owe II to Betty and me, Dan," she had
pleaded Nell was still beautiful woman, and,
loving her as he did. it was always difficult for
Dan to deny her anything Sooner or later, now
that Betty was home she was sure to find out
about--about her father-no matter how care
fully he and Nell guarded the secret!
"All right You win! I'll start getting out
from under right away, NeIl.,' he had promised
her And he had.
ut something unforeseen and very unexpected
hap ened few days after Betty's homecoming
She anne to them one night, her cheeks flushed
her outhful eyes sparkling. to tell them that
she " Is in love
"An1 who is the young MANI" Nell asked as
casually as possible, though Dan could detect
a trernor in her voice and read a strange fear
in her eyes which he had never seen there be-
fore.
well, mother, met him on the train coming
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"RACKETEER"
By John Richard Finch

no slip ups Grab two of the boys and go and
get Tony Ricardi Ricardi, yeh, the works! I'll
tell you all about it later Just remember what
I said and get him. don't know where he is
that's your job but want that scum skinned
off the earth before eight o'clock tonight Get
it? Good Call me at the office when it's all
over. I'll be waiting there"
1T WAS nearly quarter to nine when Dams
| office phone rang He had been sitting quietly
at his desk, considerably calmer. poring over
railway timetables and steamship schedules He
knew Morasd wouldn't fail In his Job. Dan had
made up his mind to- pull out" Immediately.
He was going to get Betty away from Chicago.
She'd be little upset for awhile and the trip
would help her to forget. He'd see that the
racket never touched her! Nell needed to get
away, too-badly, and SO did he, for that mat
ter! He took down the receiver.
"Hello-hello Moraski? Well?" He was silent
for a moment listening You did! Fine! Fine!
That's another rat less in the world! Good work!
You and the boys can scram on home now but
be around early in the morning. I've got some
things to talk over with you Yeh. around nine
So long"
a Statistic. smile traced itself on Dan Tracy
face as he slipped the receiver back on the
hook That sne was still there half an hour
later when he stepped out onto West Madison
Street. He noticed the newsboys were shouting
out an extra" Surely the papers wouldn't get
out an extra for Ricard! He called a newsboy
and bought paper The story. below blazing
headlines. blurred before his eyes. 1t read:
''Riddled with machine-gun bullets, the vic
tins of a gang assassination. the bodies Of Tony
Ricardi, 28. owner Of the Halstead Transfer
Company. and two unidentified women, one
about 20 years of age and the other in her
early forties, were found In the formers car.
which, following the death volley, careened into
a store front near 63rd and Cottage Grove.
Ricardi, according to police, was himself a
small-time racketeer. On the elder woman's
finger was a ring inscribed Dan to Nell
Tracy couldn't sec any more! Nell and Betty
had been in Ricardi,s car! Nell had gone with
the girl because she couldn't stop her. of course
She had promised him she wouldn't let Betty
out of her sight! The two people in the world
he loved and he had killed them!
With the newsboy, one who happened to be
cutting him in on his corner. staring at him
in fear and horror, Tracy pulled an automatic
from his pocket and, quickly placing the barrel
against his temple, pulled the trigger.
Copyright. 1887
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even at the risk of losing her. Dan was like
that where Nell was concerned. He was soft
he knew, but somehow he couldn't help it! He
always confided everything to her. And Nell
had stuck! She loved Dan, and nothing could
change that. They agreed, however, from that
day that Betty should never know she was
daughter of a racketeer If they could prevent
it. She had been brought up in convent, and
later sent to England to finishing school.
Now q young lady Betty had come home,
and Dan and Nell were making great plans.
Dan was going to retire from the racket-get
clear out of the country They had talked about
going to Europe or South America. Right now,
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THERE were just two people on earth whom
/ Dan Tracy loved-his wife Nell and their
only daughter, Betty. The rest of the world
didn't matter to Dan. He'd been in the racket
so long as life to him was the cheapest thing
on the market and anybody who got in his
way was promptly taken for ride" by Tracy
or his henchmen.
It was back in 1919 shortly after national
prohibition swept over the United States when
Dan Tracy came to Chicago from the sticks
hoping to land job which would enable him to
take care of his pretty young wife and infant
daughter, that he first got into the racket. Dan
had put every penny he had-al the money
he had saved since he was kid selling papers
on the streets-into saloon in little railroad
town not far from Chicago, and it looked like
he was going to make good in modest but
very substantial way until prohibition nipped
his embryonic success In the bud. closing his
place of business and leaving him without .
dime to his name. Dan never got over that
blow, and in the early DAYS of his career OF
crime when fear and conscience stabbed at him.
he woUld goad himself with the thought OF
what the world had done to him.
Dan hadn't been in Chicago month before
he found himself in the bootleggng racket He
managed to make real money almost from the
first and smarter than most Of his pals ne
was soon sitting back In an easy chair In his
own office giving orders. 1t wasn't long before
half the bootleggers In Chicago were cutting
pan Tracy in on their profits His proudest
boast was that he was the originator of gang
donl,s yernacuiar phrase, put EN- on the spot
and he often remarked that he wished he had
grand for every rat he'd turned the heat on.
Dan Tracy, himself. possessed Q charmed life
He had come through dozens Of gang wars un-
scathed, and while other tcp-notch racketeers
clever ones too-were serving long sentences
behind prison bars or pushing up the daisies.
Tracy was still hauling in the shekels-free as
the air The law had never once been able TO
get any tangible evidence against himi Long
before prohibition was repealed. Tracy had
graduated from bootlegging and bootleggers 70
far bigger things He was extracting his cut
from dozens of legitimate businesses 1t was
matter of pay up close up--or worse Even
some of the newsboys paid Tracys gang for
protection on their corners. Dan Tracy was a
.big shot and nobody knew it better than he
TT WAS not until two years after he brought
| his wife and baby daughter to Chicago that
Dan made the nature of his business known to
Nell Then, one day he had told her everything
PAGE TWO.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
BY Whit Wellman

IN THE past half century an amazing amount
l of investigation has been directed at all man
ner Of curious and odd phenomena not covered
by orthodox science. When Professor Henry
Sidgwick made his first address as president of
the Society for Psychical Research in 1882, with
many scientists there was a question of fact
did these queer things actually happen? Were
all unexplained phenomena sleight-of hand, re-
suits of clever trickery? Had magicians me-
dums, and amateur photographers succeeded in
perpetrating the greatest hoax of modern times?
Sidgwick thought not. ". We are all
agreed that the present state OF things is a
scandal to the enlightened age In tohtch toe Hre.
That the dispute as to the reality Of these mar
Uelous phenomena,--of tohich 1t is impossible to
eTaggerate the scientific Importance, " only
tenth part of tohat has been alleged by gen.
orally credible Witnesses could be stOi1n to be
true,-I sayit is scandal that the dispute as
to the reality of these phenomena should still
be going on, that so many competent ioitnesses
should haze declared their belief In them, that
many others should be profoundly interested
In having the question determined and yet that
the educated i0orld, a body, should still be
simply in the attitude Of increduAty."
Today it is no longer question OF fact, but of
cause. The effects of the subconscious mind,
telepathy clairvoyance, physical and mental
phenomena have undergone severe laboratory
experiments and investigation their truth
is admitted by such writers as Hamln Garland
! c'Forty Years of Psychic Research') and
Hereward Darlington; by respected men of sci
ence, including DIR. Alexis Carrel oman The
Unknown") of the Rockefeller Institute. In
Vulnerable Investigators have accepted the oc-
currence of various phenomena under test con-
ditions as proven fact, yet few agree upon what
makes them happen. Observing events from
the birds-eye view of unprejudiced research,
they are Interested chiefly in what occurs Does
a table dance in the air, Ouija board answer
questions, voices come through mediums
trumpet? Do evidently honest and surprised)
photographers obtain extras camera plates
=. faces of the deceased? If these are facts,
you are permitted to speculate as to how" and
why"
At opposite poles are different answers Phe-
nomena result from normal human channels,
expressions of natural laws we know little about
or are caused by super-normal laws. of
which we know less. Investigators say ..
one step at time. At present we are convinced
that these things occur. Their implications are
inescapabe, but theories we leave to Others"
An impartial investigator breaches no belief
tries to convince no one; he is concerned only in
distinguishing between the false and true. This
accomplished, he gently says goodbye to the
immediate question:
How does table overcome the laws of
gravity?"
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% You Know What You Want Most From Life?
Noble Ideas, Mental
Compassionate Peace
IA /HAT is it you want most from life?
Wv Go after it,

w 1o dlleT II.
But before you can go after it YOU MUST
KNOW WHAT YOU WANTi
If you are really honest with yourself you'll
probably admit that your wants VAGUE
and UNFORMEDi
Hundreds of thousands of people who read
this Qt seems hard to realize but the figure is
right viii say thoughtlessly II want more
money!" But that is not really true!
What they want are finer clothes to impress
others. better automobiles. more imposing homes
BUT WHEN THEY GET THESE THEY
WILL STILL BE UNHAPPY!
Wise was Herbert Spencer tpoor philosopher
born in 1920 who is still being readl when he
said: 81 don't mean to get ] don't think
getting on is worth the bother"
And Robert Louis Stevenson wrote
"The streets are full of human toys,
Wound up for three score years,
Their springs are hunger, hopes and joys
And jealousies and fears.
They move their eyes their lips, their hands,
They are marvelously dressed.
And here my body stirs or stands,
A paything like the rest.
The toys are played with till they fall
Worn out and thrown away
Why were they ever made at all!
Who sits to watch the play"
Wise poets and philosophers of every age have
realized the utter futility of wanting material
possessions. NOT. understand, because material
possessions are a curse in themselves, but that
they contain no fountain of life whereby the
spirit and the soul may be fed. Man may have
them in great and abundant variety and still
walk restlessly in the room of his soul crying
out at the barrenness of his abode!
Only heroic deeds, great sacrifices. noble ideals
and mental conquests give peace!
Men who have lived in the soft carpeted and
silk draped apartments of cities and have
nounced it to pioneer in the West those you
see in this picture, have known the satisfaction
physical ease
Cities and have seen the signs of warning posted
on the desert highways of life but have gone
forward, driven by that unconquerabe spirit
which has built empires and made farms Of
great wastelands. Early fathers who built our
missions knew the glory of sacrifice and renun-
citation and are responsible for the peace which
comes today to wayfarers as they find refuge
from the world in prayer under their pictorial
roof They have left behind them world more
beautiful
This is no TRADE against those who live in
world of fashion but rather a suggestion to
those who are weary to chart their life with
more concern for the wholesome needs of the
spirit and less for what other people think"
There is stimulation in doing noble deed
that can never be found in superficial living.
The very effort of doing something unselfshly
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

you really want--the satisfaction of that inner
man--are not to be found in sham, pretense,
or keeping up with the Joneses."
You want, among other things, to be respect
ed So be not deceived by your tailor. He can
not blind your neighbors and the world so they
see only your clothes Inevitably they see you!
They have read about your secret soul and
thoughts for time has written it on your face
and you have put it into your unconscious ges-
lures.
Only a warped mind hopes to deceive the
world by bank account and if your aim and
ambitions are shoddy. then forsake them and
get new standard
If your ambitions and the things you want in
life are the right ones then HAVE THE COUR-
AGE TO DEMAND THEM OF LIFE!
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brings one closer to the source of all powers
and provokes contemplation of the GREAT
FORCE OF LIFE.
Contact with the elementary forces of the
universe also bring this AWARENESS OF
SOMETHING NOT HUMAN OR MATERIAL.
Men who have spent nights far from waterholes
on the desert, who have lain prone upon the
sands and felt the cool night breeze stir gently
over and around their bodies as they looked at
the midnight blue dome of heaven illumined by
the stars have realized that power of the un-
seen-and have returned to the cities richer by
far than those who have not dared to venture
forth.
Live dangerously" is more than quotation!
1t is sound philosophy. Obviously this need not
include jumping from rock cliffs but means to
live dangerously. In other words, DARE TO AT
TEMPT THE REALIZATION OF THE THINGS
YOU WANT!"
But be not deceived by yourself! The things
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

DARE TO STRIKE OUT FOR THEM regard
less of criticism or lifted eyebrows! If you lack
the courage, get out as our grandfathers did,
next to nature and you will find the strength
and courage you need!
Here's Hamn Garland's admonitions to you:
"Do you fear the force Of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf
Go wade like the crane.
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your cheek will tan,
You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy,
But you'll walk like mani"
Jean Rendlen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
W%,7Rfp

Beginning with this issue FIVE STAR
WEEKLY introduces the new regular fea-
ture, "Worids Within" dealing with prob
lens of the human mind-norma and
super normal laws about which new discov-
cries are continually being made.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
THUMB PRINTS
OF THE GREAT"
By Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
VINCENT ASTOR

@FTIMES the shrewder they are =. the
~ less known or appreciated. He oper-
ates most of the new apartments in the
lower Bronx which John D., Jr. does not
control and together : they own out
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

than created theirs. They include e. F.
Hutton the broker and Percy Pyne, banker.
-. Harrison Williams and George F. Baker, Jr,
utility fnanciers but closest of all is
William Rhinelander Stewart, who dabbles in
insurance. His yearly income is in the
millions through inheritance and invest
ments in realty which he and Rockefeller Jr
have made exceedingly valuable.
He COLTS and plays tennis seldom
and prefers sailboat racing to all other
sports.
He Is charitable in many ventures ? believes
that committees solve problems of poverty bet
ter than individuals and his interesting wife
from whom he is separated is often leader
of institutional drives.
His non-spectacularity his unostentatious-
ness +. his disinterest in society i. have
caused him to be under-es estimated and outlawed
. by vast number of prominent people ;.
who might otherwise be interested in him.
And perhaps he is just as happy :. that
way 4. for Franklin D. Roosevelt likes him
better than anyone else. :.
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right more realty than
any other two men in
Manhattan.
He is a tall, well-built young
man with a long oval
face and adenoids.
He dresses conservatively
quiet in dark shades
travels considerably aboard
his steam yacht "Nourmahal'
+. and was Commodore of
the exclusive New York Yacht
Club =. one of the strictest
mems clubs In America. /.
He plays poker :. for large
stakes and his principal
friends are also moneyed men
who have inherited rather
Evening star., 1937-06-10
BY the Associated Press.

bS the AosOtidteu fItSS.
GLENDALE, Calf, June lO.-The
body Of Jean Harlow rested today in
cemetery crypt snatched bare of
flowers by souvenir hunters. awaiting
final disposition by her mother, Mrs.
Jean Bello.
The remains may be cremated. II
not, they will be placed in a maui
soleum in Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Barred from the funeral service
yesterday. a crowd waited for hours
outside the cemetery, hoping at least
to see some of the 200 film notables
inside. This they missed, but, after
the brief service was finished and
everybody was gone. they rushed
through unlocked gates and scrambled
for bits Of the thousands of flowers
Some had to be content with tiny
scraps of fern. One little girl care
fully placed in her purse a few petals
from rose
One floral token. however. went
with the platinum blond screen star
to her resting place. Placed in her
hand just before the casket was closed
for the last time, it was a single gar
denia, her favorite flower, with the
inscription, Good d-night, my dearest
darling"
The card was unsigned but the
Handwriting was believed to be that
Of William Powell, constant escort OF
Miss Harlow in recent months, who
was among the most obviously grief
stricken at the funeral.
Another OF the floral tributes that