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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Three Directors Re-Appoint-
ed Also by Governor
Along With Head
of Department
THREE NEW MEN ON
BOARD DESIGNATED
Six Old Members Whose
Terms Have Not Expired
Hold Over; Etheridge, Ma
tive of Manteo, First APP
pointed in 1888 by Cover
nor Ehringhaus

Raleigh, May 5.-(AP)-Governo
Hoev today re-appointed Bruce Ether
idp as director of the Department
of Conservation and Development for
four-year term.
The governor re-appointed as mem
hers of the board of directors of the
DEPARTMENT: Colonel J. w. HARRISON,
J. P. Rawley, High Point; and SAINT
ford Martin, of Winston-Salem.
AS new members he named Roy
Hampton, of Plymouth; Coleman w.
Roberts, of Charlotte, and John Nc
Laughlin, of Statesville.
Six old members whose terms have
not expired are: j. @ Gilkey, of Mar
ion J. ]. Stone, Greensboro; j. L.
Horne, Jr., Rocky Mount; Harry
Lindsay. of Leaksville; F. P. Carter,
of Asheville, and J. L. McNair, of
Laurinburg.
Etberidge, a native of Manteo, was
Amounted as director in 1888 by Gov
ernor Ehringhaus.
The governor said that under a
ruling of the attorney general the
terms of Senator w. G. Ewing, of
Fayetteville, and Representative D. L.
Ward of New Bern, on the board
were ended when they took their leg
islative seats. They were not reap
pointed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
PLANS HEAVY TAX
TO AVERT SLUMPS
That Appears to Be Roose-
veltian Theory AS Told
by Mr.. Wallace
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, May 5.-The Roose-
welt administration appears to be con-
centrating it's policies in an effort to-
break UP the alteration of boOms and
depreSsions.
At least this is the obvious con-
clusion to be drawn from remarks
made by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace in lecture he de-
livered a few weeks ago at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, a lecture
which, rather oddly, for it was very
interesting, was only belatedly given
out for publication.
Wallace by the way, is supposed to
be much in the presidential confid-
ence and presumably expressed him
self authoritatively
THEY DO ALTERNATE
Booms and depressions do alter
nate; that is a matter of historic re-
cord.
Secretary Wallace referred to
slumps as averaging 10 years apart.
Major crashes occur at about 20 to
3O-year intervals. These intervals may
be punctuated by mild flattening out,
but the frightfully bad ones do not
occur as often as that.
We had one in the 1905, one in
the 1905 and were on the verge of
one when the war broke out and in
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05

StrikeMny
Close Soon

Hollywood, Cal, May 5.-(AP)-
Picket reinforcements from long
shoremen were promised film strikers
today as major producers predicted
ar end of the five-day strike.
A riotous union clash in the head
quarters of the International Alliance
of the Theatrical and Stage En-
ployees last night apparently marked
a crucial turn in the walkout of 5000
studio employees.
1t was followed by a statement
from Pat Casey, labor relations execu-,
tive of the producers association that
the Los Angeles Central Labor Coun-
Gil had suggested peace plan to be
studied today.
eff all parties find the terms OF
the proposed agreement satisfactory,
l feel justified in asserting the strike
will be called off," he said.
Later the screen actors guild, po-
tentially capable of making or break
ing the strike, opened committee
negotiations with the producers to be
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Motions In
Deuh1rdtS
Case Fail

New Castle, KY, May 5.-(AP)-
Circuit Court Charles Marshall today
overruled defense motions to dis
charge the jury trying Brigadier Gen
eral Henry Denhardt on charges OF
murder for the death of his sweet
heart. Mrs. Verna Taylor.
Judge Marshall also overruled
motion to exclude the paraffin tests
which the commonwealth held prov
ed Denhardt had fired a weapon and
Mrs. Taylor had not shortly before
she was found dead on a roadside
last November.
Clark Otte, defense attorney,
sought to have the jury dismissed on
the grounds the judge had failed to
instruct it's members not to discuss
the case outside of the jury room
when they were locked up last night
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Bomb Is Exploded
On French Train;
One Dead, 5 Hurt

Marseilles, France, May (AP)-A
mysterious bomb exploded aboard the
Bordeaux-Marseilles express To-Day,
killing one man and wounding five
other persons.
The explosion set fire to the FIRST
class passenger coach, in which the
bomb was secreted, and to a second
class coach.
Both cars were detached at SAINT
Martin de Crau, a way station, while
tho train continued toward Marseilles.
Ten minutes after the bomb went
off the Paris-Nice express Numbered
by on its daily trip carrying many
tourists to the Riviera.
The dead passengers body was so
badly burned it could not be identi-
fled Immediately.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
PAROLE SYSTEM IS
OUTLINED BY GILL
State Commissioner Speaks
to Southeastern Group
in Alabama
Bx Staff Correspondent.

Montgomery, Ala, May Estates
that do not yet have well worked out
parole systems should proceed slowly
and cautiously and work out parole
plans that are best suited to their 10
cal conditions and local attitudes to-
wards paroles, Commissioner of Pa
roles Edwin M. Gill of North Caro-
lima, today advised in an address be-
fore the Southeastern States Parole
Conference, in session here. Commits
sioner Gill also recommended the en-
actment of broad enabling acts rath-
err than detailed parole laws, so that
the details of the parole system set
up can be worked out by the agency
or agencies charged with putting it
into effect to meet the needs of the
State and conditions prevailing.
"a parole system, in order to be
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
SITDOWN STRIKE IN
ST. LOUIS STARTED
Chevrolet and Fisher Bodies Plant of
General Motors Involved in
New WalkOut

st. Louis, Mo-, May 5.-(AP)-
Members of the United Automobile
Workers of America at General
Motors Chevrolet and Fisher Body
plants began sitdown strike today
in protest against the discharge of 81
employees.
Norman Smith, organizer for the
C. I. O., with which the automobile
workers union is affiliated, said $500
men ceased work an hour after the
plants opened this morning, forcing a
complete halt in operations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Dare Ruled
ToBe Wet
At Inquiry
Dry Votes Thrown
Ou t by Election
Board; Columbus
Drys Are In Lead

ManteO, May 5 (AP)-Dare coun
tty was declared wet by six votes
today when the County Board OF
Elections, after an investigation
INTO the ballot box of Avon pre-
cinct, threw out 2G dry votes and
one wet vote from that box. Wet
forces had demanded an investl-
cation after alleged Irregularities
Oy drys at the referendum April
"a. Dry forces attorneys today
sald they would appeal to the
state Board of Elections.
The final vote, as put by the
county board, was: 651 wet, Gas
dry.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Flat Increase 71uo Justices
On Supreme Court Proposed

the Senate Judiciary Committee S
hearings on court reorganization.
Heretofore, changes suggested by com
mitteemen have been included in pro-
posed amendments to the bill.
The beginning of the fifth month
of the 18th Congress found the SEN
ate idling and the House attending
to minor legislation.
The Senate civil liberties commit
tee was scheduled to wind up it's in
vestigation of conditions in Harlan
county, Kentucky, during the after
noon and then recess for several
weeks before beginning new inquiries.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05

Washington, May s. (AP) = A
Democratic opponent of President
Roosevelt's court plan, Senator Nc
Carran, Nevada, proposed today flat
increase of two justices in the men,
bership of the Supreme Court.
Under his substitute bill, provisions
of the Presidents plan for so addi-
tional lower court judges, a Supreme
Court proctor and other changes in
the judicial system would be discard
ed entirely.
McCarran's action was a departure
from precedent in the long course of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05

Representative Rogers, Republican,
Massachusetts, proposed Congress or
der a securities commission investiga-
ton of price fluctuations of Alumni
mum Company of America common
stock Immediately preceding and fol
lowing announcement the government
had brought an antitrust action a.
gainst the big firm in Federal court.
Looking back over the first four
months of Congress, now involved in
controversies undreamed of when it
convened in January, leaders were I'M
certain whether to expect adjourn
ment in July or October.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
and
Italy Offer
Mussolini's Editorial
Spokesman Warns
Britain and France
To Accept

Rome, May 5. - (AP) Italy and
Germany held out to other powers an
offer of wider collaboration" for Eu-
ropean security today
Themselves bound in a come what
may" alliance, the Fascist state and
the Nazi state made the offer at the
close of conversations between Pre-
mier Mussolini and Foreign Minister
Konstantin Won Neurath, Of Germany.
1t was contained in an official COM
munique.
Virginia Gayda, often Mussolini's
nouthpiece, writing in II Giornale de
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
NINTH CLEVELAND
MURDER IS FOUND
Torso of Woman Located in
Lake Erie at Pier Near
Business Area

Cleveland, Ohio, May SLAP
The mutilated body of Cleveland 8
ninth torso Staying VICTIM a woman
was found today in Lake Erie at the
East Ninth Street pier, only short
walk from the downtown district.
The woman's arms and legs and
head had been cut off. The torso had
been in the lake for about two weeks,
police estimated.
The body was taken to the county
morgl1e. where Coroner Samuel Ger
Der was to make a closer examina-
ton.
First reports indicated the Staying
followed all the weird details OF the
previous killings.
Coroner Gerber a month ago warn
ed police the mad torso slayer prob
ably was making friends" with his
ninth victim.
Today's victim was the fourth wo-
man in the list of slayings. All OF the
women's bodies except one have been
found in Lake Erie.
Only :.1ree of the nine victims nave
ever been identified.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05

Cleveland, May 5 (AP)-Coast
guards took the lower part OF a wo-
mans torso from Lake Erie today
giving new impetus to the police IN.
vestigation of Cleveland's series OF
beheadings.
Coroner Samuel Gerber reported to
police the piece of human flesh found
today definitely was the lower part OF
a torso found in the lake nearly ten
miles away about two months ago
the eighth victim of the killer. The
vertebrae of the two parts matched as
did the angles of the cuts, he said.
The portion of the body found TO-DAY
had been cut off below the breasts
and at the hips. It was first seen
in the lake by Howard .Yochem, ope-
rator of a concession at the Great
Lakes Exposition on the lake front,
who called coast guards and police.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
OFFERINGS LIGHT,
BUT COTTON RISES
Market 9 to IL Points Up AT Close
With Middling Selling at
1855 Pound

New York, May 5.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened steady up 10 to IA
points on higher Liverpool cables and
trade and foreign buying, with offer
ings light. At midday July was sell +
ine at 1911, with prices generally .
to points net higher. 80
Futures closed steady, TO L
noints higher. Spots steady, middling
126E
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
STOCKS LOSE SOME
OF RECOVERY GRIP
Majority Settle Back Into Lower Ter
ritOry During Days Trading
At New York

New York, May 5.-(AP)-Stocks
lost some of their recovery grip in
today's market and the majority set
tied back in lower territory.
There was no appreciate change
in the new picture, but buying steam
was lacking after slightly improved
opening.
Bonds improved. Transfers were
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
OOLUMBUS DRYS LEAD
BUT RECULT UNKNOWN

o VAUDEVILLE, May 5 (AP)-Columbu
w. IoOnty, taking its liquor election calm
~ Will wait until tomorrow to learn
lug nnal outcome of the vote taken
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
Announcement of Settle
ment Comes AS Two
British Warships
Speed to Scene
ITALIAN DESTROYER
POSTED AT BILBAO
Reputedly Joining Insurgent
Fighting Ships To Prevent
Evacuation of Civilians
from Basque Capital; Ital-
ian Troops in North Are
Trapped

Perpignan, France-Spanish From
tier May 5.-(AP)-A government
radio broadcast from Barcelona an
nounced peaceful settlement today of
the anarchist uprising against the
Catalan and Valencia Spanish re-
gimeS.
The brief rebellion is reported to
have cost 100 lives and split the for
ces fighting the Spanish insurgents.
The radio announcement reported
Juan Oliver, minister of justice in the
Valencia government, and spokesman
for the revolving anarchists, had ar
rived at a peaceful solution Of the
crisis with President Luis Companys,
of autonomous Catalonia
The announcement of peace came
as two British warships sped to Bar
celona as a ecautionary measure
because OF the violence there.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-05
ITALIAN DESTROYER IN
BILBAO ENEMY'S FLEET

Bilbao, Spain, May 5.-(AP)-The
Basque government defenders Of Bill
bao charged today IAN Italian de-
stroyer" and seven insurgent fight
ing ships were massed off this port
in an attempt to prevent by force the
evacuation of 1900 women, children
and old men.
The Basques said they would defy
the insurgent fleet and would eva
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
1863 WELFARE
CHECKS HERE
Superintendent Randolph
Calls Attention to
Office Rulings

Instructions for persons rccciv-
ing social security checks were
given this morning by A. G.. Ran
dOlph, county welfare Supcrinten-
dent, and at the same time Mr..
Randolph called attention to
hours and days on which applica-
ton for aid might be made.
Instructions issued by the SUI
pcrintendcnt were as follows:
The welfare department has
received so far this month l29
checks for old age assistance, 22
checks for aid to dependent chill
drcn, and ~ checks for the blind
The rules Of the state welfare
board require that each check be
indorscd by the recipient himself;
exactly according to the printed
directions on the back OF the
check.
The recipient of public as
sistancc' check may sign receipt
and receive his check at the wei
fare office, or he may send writ
ten order by some responsible
person, authorizing said RESPONSE
BILE pcrson to sign receipt and re-
ceive check for him, Recipient
should bring or send notification
card, as it contains his Identified
ton number. .....
Persons wishing to apply for
old age assistance, aid to depend
ent children, or for WPA or NYA
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
U.S.. Would Subsidize Air Lines
To Compete With Pan American
Charge Made Concern Has Sranglehold on Business;
Kennedy Wants Air Routes Jurisdiction

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. (UP).
Pan American airwayS was charg-
cd before the house merchant ma
rinc committee yesterday with
maintaining a Stranglc-hold on
trans-occanic air travel and with
seeking 70 prevent the govern
ment from granting subsidies for
the operation of competing lines.
The charge, made by John f..
Slater, executive vice president
of the American export lines and
concurrcd in BY two aircraft man
ufacturerS, cast the die for a bit
ter, triangular fight between COM
panies which want TO enter the
trans-oeeanic business, Pan Amer
lean, and Chairman Joseph p.
Kennedy Of the maritime commits
sion who wants jurisdiction over
ocean air routes.
Kennedy, appearing before the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
American Industry's Congress
Adopts Platform to Aid Confidence
OPPOSITION to Government Colectivism, Promotion Of
international Peace Are Two Detectives

of collective bargaining, level sea-
sonal valleys of production and
employment, oppose government
collcctivism, and seek information
al peace.
While specific reference to cx-
listing legislation was lacking, it
appeared that the manufacturers
desired changes in the Wagner la
Dor act, taxation, and tariff poll
cies (which increase imports Of
foreign goods competing with do
nestle industry and labor"
The association declared its OPP
position to child labor and urged
"thc enactment of federal legis-
lation, using the commerce power
to support state child labor laws"
1--WE likewise are opposed to
sweatshops, and favor adequate
state legislation for their elimina-
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
NEW LABOR BILL IS
BASED ON NRA LINES

Copyright. 1897, United Pross)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. (UP)
The house labor committee has
rewritten the senate approved
wages and hours bill to provide
governing committees similar to
the code authorities Of the NRA,
the United Press learned today.
The committee, headed by Rep
rcsentative Mary T. Norton, d.
n. j., meets today for a final dis
cussion Of tho changes before
seeking passage in the house Mon
day. The senate approved the UNI
revised bill last session.
A confidential print of the re-
written bill. prepared for exclu-
sive use of committee members
revealed these details Of the pro-
posed committee set-up:
/. A wage and hour division
would be created in the labor de-
partment under the direction OF
$4,000 administrator in place OF
the iive-man board proposed in
the senate bill.
9. The administrator would APP
point "a wage and hour commit
tee to consider and recommend a
minimum wage rate or a maxi
mum work day and work week.
or both "for any industry in
which he has reason to believe OPP
prcssive LABOR conditions exist.
No committees, however, would
be appointed for industries in
which the minimum wages and
Continued from page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
Are TRAPPED
IN End FLOOR
APARTMENT
Building Was Condemned
and Occupants We're
Advised to Move
SURVIVORS SUFFER
FROM EXPOSURE

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Dec. p
(UP)-Firc which swept a three
story wooden apartment building
early today. resulted in the death
OF eight persons who were trap
ped on the second floor.
The ninth was believed trap
ped i'm Smouldcrjng ruins.
The dead: Mrs. Mckinley Con-
Master, 35; her children, Virginia,
4. and Vallcc, 4; Mrs, Cora Tate,
So: her son, Eugene, II; grand
sons. X. I. Melton, u; Junior Mel
ton. 6: and James Earl Melton, ..
Flrcmcn searched for the body
OF Luther ConnaStCr, -, believed
dead in the ruins.
His father, Mckinley Commas
ter. IS, Snatchcd up a baby aged
five months and jumped 20 safety
Five families occupied the
building which Fire Chief {. VI
Johnson said had been condemned
by the FIRE inspection bureau.
Occupants had been advised To
move out, nc said.
Survivors escaped by running
out into freezing weather. They
were taken in and treated for cN-
posture by their ncigEborS.
Before noon the death list had
grown to nine when the body OF
Luther Connastcr, also feared
dead. was found in the ruins of
the apartment building.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
FORECAST IS
FOR NEAR zero
Light Snow Falls Here; AL
most Score of Deaths
Laid to Weather

A light snow fell IN the early
hours Of last night and the tenn
pcrature later dropped to Is de
grces. Most Of the snow had melt
ed by noon today and the temper.
ature had moderated slightly,
The coolest weather Of the sea-
son as yet was predicted for this
section.
Clearing and much colder was
the official forecast for North
Carolina with freeze which was
expected TO carry the thcrmome.
ter TO above zero in this area
by tomorrow morning.
Recordings yesterday were as
follows:
Maximum, 81 degrees; mini
mum, ii degrees; mean, % de-
grces; days range, 80 degrees.
Normal mean temperature for
December, 1913 degrees; rainfall
to date, Ia inch; normal rainfall
for December, 5.46 inches.
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S43,600 Saving
REPORTED IN
DISTRICT deal
Interest Rate Also Cut
From 6 to 4 Percent
on Bonds
NO INCREASE In
TAX LEVY SEEN

Refunding of the bonded in
debtcdncss Of the Druid Hills SAN
itary District at q saving Of $i",-
600, in addition to lower inter
est rate, was effected last evening
when the board Of commissioners
of the district paid bondholdcrs
$1,000 in cash and agreed TO re-
deem three bonds in 1898 and two
in each subsequent year until ~
have been taken up.
Principal and interest indebted
ness Of $4,000 was reduced IN
the transaction to $4,000, before
payment Of the $1,000. and the
former interest was cut from 6 to
4 per cent. The district had an
original Indebtedness Of $4,000
but had defaultcd since May,
1892, and at the time Of settle
mcnt yesterday the indebtcdncs5
amounted TO $68.000 principal
and $4,000 interest.
John S. Forrest, chairman of tho
districts board. said the district
will be able to meet subsequent
payments from annual tax collcc-
tons without increasing the levy.
and that the entire indebtedness
will under the new set-up be met
in full in 10 years. The current
Druid Hills tax rate IL 80 cents.
Other members Of the board are
Steve W. Camp and a. II. vii"
liams. Tax collections for the dis
trict are made by the county adj
ministration. go:
No refnancing charges were In
volved in the refunding agree"
nrent, il was said. the cash pay
mcnt of $1,000 from accumulat
cd tax collections and the obliga-
ton to meet $4,000 in bond pay
mcnts. plus interest, being tho
only financial factors.
Rcfunding Of the district debt
is expected to enhance Druid HIS
real estate values and may result
in a resumption of sales and build
ing activities in the district, OBJ
servers said today. Property valu.
a,ions in the district, which is stu.
atcd at the northern edge OF
Hendersonville, are approximately
$395, 900.
r. L. Durham, chairman of the
board Of county commissioner.
said he regarded the refunding
agreement as Every favorable" for
Druid Hills property owners.
In addition TO Mr.. Forrest, Mr..
Durham and w. NJ. Gregg, Druid
Hills resident and property owner,
were largely instrumental IN nego.
tiating the settlement. II was said
here today that this is one Of very
few instances in the state in which
an Incorporated town or sanitary
district has been able to refund
its debt at a saving in principal
as we'll as interest.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-09
NEW BLUEBEARD' CONFESSES
TO MURDER OF MISS DEKOVEN
Paris Police Say He Slew
-Four Beside American
Girl, for Money

PARIS. France, Dec. .. (UP)--
George Wcidmann, German engl'
neCr, today confessed to the STAY
ing Of five persons. including Miss
lean DcKovcn, 20, dancer, from
Brooklyn, y. Y.
Wcidmann said after being qucs-
toned for - hours that his livcli-
hood had been earned by murder,
He killed Miss DcKoven for $24
cash and $500 in American travel
crs checks. She was last seen July
30.
Police, amazed by Weidmann'S
calm and methodical revelations,
called him the new bluGbeard,"
He later led police to his muir
der villa" where Miss DeKovcn'S
body was disintcrred from gar
den in the rear and search was be.
gun for the bodies Of other vic
tins. They were: Raymond Leso.
brc, Roger Lcblond, Arthur From.
NOR, and the lattcr'S chauffeur.
Jean Coulry. -,
Wcidmann said he murdered all
for money over the period Of the
last six months.
His villa is situated in an eXclu'
sive district, an ideal location for
sinister crimes.
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senate education and labor COM
merce committees while Slater
was tcStiCying, said that since the
commission is charged with de-
vclopmcnt Of overseas transporta-
ton, he feels the merchant ma
rinc act should be broadcned to
include overseas air commerce to
make it eligible for the aid given
shipping.
"Thc present need" he said,
sis for the initial financing Of
acronautical enterprises" He
added a warning that unless the
United States makes proper pro-
vision for support of ovcr-ocean
flying, the nation may lose its
leadership in that field.
Slater's ideas conceded with
Kennedy's. After asserting that
Pan American had obtained a
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