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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-16
.OFFICERSFIND
STOLEN auto
AT HIGH POINT
Captives Released After
200.Mile Ride in
Three Cars
WERE LAST SEEN AT
Up. M. NEAR VASS

RALEIGH, Feb. 16. - High
Point police officers today report
ed they had located the stolen au-
tomobile in which seven convicts,
who escaped from the Caledonia
prison farm yesterday, had been
travelling.
Numbers Of state highway pa
trolmen, assisted by local officers
and airplanes from Raleigh and
Rocky Mount, apparently had lost
track Of the men, who Travelled
more than 200 miles in three sto-
len automobiles yesterday, and
last night released Captain ]. D.
Hinton and Steward w. L. Rob-
erts, Of the prison farm, and WAL
ter H. Willard, of Raleigh.
The escape occurred when Rob-
ert s. Smith, of Goldsboro, serv-
ing 10 years for murder, and
Ralph Page, of Drexel, serving q
life sentence, held up Capt. Hin
ton with pistols, and forced him
into the gun-room where other
weapons were obtained.
simultaneously, Clark York,
serving 45 years for, bank robbery
and 80 years for murder, held up
q clerk and obtained blue denim
clothing. Others captured Roberts
and all escaped in q prison truck.
Others escaping were j. w.
Turner, Marion, serving 10 years
for store-breaking; C. F. Yeagsr,
Norfolk, 10 years for larceny and
safe-cracking; Arthur Pettitt,
Charleston, as years for robbery,
and Bill Payne, of High Point, 40
years for robbery with firearms.
The convicts first fled toward
the Virginia line, then turned
back to Louisburg, where the
truck was abandoned and two
cars and the third hostage taken.
In mid-afternoon the party skirt
ed Fayetteville, and the three
hostages were released near Vass
about 7 p. m. None Of the three
men was harmed, and Hinton re-
ported they we're treated well.
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OUTLINES FOUR
soIST PROGRAM FOR
I'm TENANT PROBLEM

WASVINGTON, Feb. 10. (UPD
p,ssiJen, Roosevelt today told
,,.,,sss the American dream of
a.. S,r,ily size farm was becoming
:, r,w6,e that action to provide
s,rr,y was imperative.
i, outlined a broad four-point
"a, % correct farm tenant prob
~, The first action is to pro-
n, liberal credit and technical
,4res ior capable tenants; sec
49, modes, loans and aid to small
,xr,rs 70 increase their security
ri preyar, them from becoming
.,r,,ts: third. retirement by pub
II agencies of land proved un-
S.sl for farming and assisting
iI-iTes thereon TO find new homes
n nod land; fourth, cooperation
s,A state and local agencies OF
ceynment 70 improve the gen.
,ll leasing system.
The presidents recommended
acw were presented after an ex-
.a1siye study BY q committee
.slisd By Secretary Wallace.
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Chas. Fowler OF
New York Buys
Calm Property

Sue o! the Mrs. Z. Calm prop
Cy, located in Laurel Park in the
Nd.i,y o. the HenderSonville Golf
az Country club. TO Charles
f'T,ey ST.. Of New York city,
ss announced today by Station
Issuance and Realty company.
Ice purchase price was not dis
|tcS!.
he property includes about %
ANS, a dwelling and caretaker's
Ms, Ny, Fowler plans TO make
''yementS 10 the property and
2 .aSe Il his home. Il els a re-
rst business man.
r0perreS Of the Allied and AS
SEATED y Mortgage company of
Sa@noTe, Nd are being handled
Y he Station firm. il was an
Nitec today.
'ne properties include about %
a io;Ses IN the Laurel Park section,
s,a ! large number of lots and
A'ger tracts.
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CONTEST WILL
OF {. F. TOMS
Children Aver Signature
Obtained by Undue
Influence

With the filing of a caveat be-
fore the clerk of the supreme
court late yesterday afternoon,
proceedings were instituted to set
aside and annull the will Of the
late Charles French Toms, Sr.,
filed for probate on February 8.
Aside from a bequest Of $1,000
to the vestry of St. James Epis-
copal church, the will left the es-
tate to the widow, Mrs. Meta b.
Toms, and directed that at her
death it should go to Mr.. Toms
grandchildren.
Caveators named in the proceed
ing are Charles French Toms, Jr.,
NJ. F. Toms, ST., Hortense Toms
Brown, Margaret Toms and
Maurice A. Toms.
Caveators set out: that MIR.
Toms died on February 8; that on
February 8, the executrix, desig-
mated as Meta Toms, presented a
paperwriting, purporting to be the
last will and testament of Charles
French Toms, Sr., with codicil,
and that the same was probated as
such.
It is further set out that cavea-
tors are children, distributes, and
Tho oplx, haira- O .law
The caveat further sets out that
the paperwriting is not the last
will and testament of Charles
French Toms by reason of the
fact that the signature of Mr..
Toms was obtained by Meta Toms
by undue and improper influence
and duress; and that at the time
of execution and continuing until
death, Mr.. Toms did not have the
capacity to make and execute q
will because he was not OF sound
and disposing memory at and dur
ing said time, as caveators are in
formed and believe. -,
Caveators pray that the clerk
transfer the cause to the superior
court for decree to set aside and
anull the probate, and suspending
ali proceeding under the paper
writing until decision is had.
An order was signed by the
clerk of the court suspending
proceedings under the will as pro-
bated, except as provided by law,
and proceeding was issued to all
beneficiaries to become parties to
the action.
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AGAIN
NORMAL OVER
MOST OF U. s.
Weatherman Cites Febru-
airy Records as Ten
.ative Proof
By KILLER KRlEGHBAUM
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. l6. CUP
Forecasters looked over their
weather maps today, sighed and
hoped that at last recalcitrant
nature had staggered back to nor
NAL.
Floods near Los Angeles, Calf.
over the weekend were the latest
uuirk of a weather genii who for
the past year seems to have taken
a perverse delight in treating the
United States to the unusual.
Wilfred p. Day, forecaster of
the U. S. weather bureau here,
said that the southern California
floods resulted from a local
precipitation of nearly four inches
within AZ hours ending at 5 a. m.
Yesterday. This is far in excess
of normal for that region.
Day said it apparently was due
20 a sectional weather disturbance
along the southern California
coast and not a repetition OF the
tug-of-war between a low and
high pressure area over the ohio
valley which caused the floods
there. 40
Los Angeles during the as
hours received 500 inches of rain
while nearby San Diego during
the same period received only ID
of one inch.
To confirm his belief that at
last the weather had returned to
an even keel. Day cited the tenn
peratures of the Atlantic sea-
hoard for January, one OF the
(Continued on page three)
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BY CAPTAIN I. D. HINTON
Caledonia Prison Farm Directory
Written for the United Press)

RALEIGH, Feb. 16.-(UP)-
Seven dangerous men took me for
ride, but I'm alive to tell about
it.
It isn't a pleasant feeling to be
stuffed into q car and wheeled
about the state at go miles an
hour with armed desperate for
freedom.
In 20 years Of prison work I've
never experienced anything like
it. 4,
Everything worked quietly and
smoothly in the prison break.
Robert Smith, one Of the eonvicts,
held q gun on me and from the
way they worked it. was easy to
see the whole thing had been plan
ned.
We all piled into q prison truck
in the yard. I sat on the outside
and intended to fall out when we
cot near the guard at the gate.
But Clark York held me by the
belt and we drove through.
From the time we left the farm
it was some ride:
We twisted and curved, doubled
back and redoubled over Eastern
North Carolina. Except once when
we went through q part OF Fay
etteville we kept away from the
fhe convicts took all our mon
(Continued on page four)
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GERMAN PROTESTANTS GIVEN
BALLOT ON ADHERENCE TO
NAZI GOSPEL; FEUD RACES

state?
2. Should the new gospel OF q
blood and race purge be preached
in the churches?
3. Should the Old Testament Dc
rewritten?
Church officials and laymen
were reluctant today to hazard
predictions on the elections out
come but they agreed that no con-
Citation was possible between the
Nazi foes of the Old Testament
and the clerical opponents OF
Modification" of the church.
Hitler's decree for new church
election found both sides of the
feud weakened by internal dis
putes. many of which are four
years old.
The decree, signed by Hitler at
his holiday retreat in Berchtesga-
den, was addressed to Hans Kerrl,
Reich minister of church affairs.
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BERLIN, Feb. 16.-(UP).-
Chancellor Adolf Hitler last night
gave 100000 German Protes-
tants the right to decide by ballot
whether the church should become
an adherent of the Nazi gospel.
Der Fuehrer, intervening IN a
feud among angry factions with,
in the Evangelical church, ordered
a new general synod election 70
provide the church with revised
constitution.
The conflict between conserVa-
tive churchmen and Hitler's eX-
treme Nazi followers was brought
to a head by the mass regimen
tation of the governments own
church administrative committee.
The Protestants will vote on
these questions:
l. Should the Protestant ehuren
become an instrument OF the Nazi
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SITUATION NOT
|DESPERATEBUT
GRAVE, IS VIEW
Strengthened Rebels Are
Hammering Away in
Juraina Section
By HENRY T. GORRELL
Downright 1887 by United Press)

MADRID, Feb. l6.-(UP)-
Government leaders today urged
Loyalist Spaniards to supreme
effort for victory as Rebels re-
ceived reinforcements and the
greatest battle of the war SEEM
ed imminent.
General Jose Miaja, head of
the defense junta, announced
through newspapers that the Ma
drid situation "waS not desperate
but grave" and appealed to "cv-
erybody to make Il supreme ef-
fort and supreme sacrifice to
win"
Premier Francisco Largo Ca
ballero, addressing a mass meet
ing of 100000 in Valencia, urged
the conflicting factions in the
popular Front" to unity their
efforts. He also read a siX-point
program drafted by the political
and trade unions which included
establishing n single military COM
mand.
Meanwhile, strengthened Rebel
forces hammered away in the ia
rama river sector southeast of
Madrid, seeking to cut commune
cation with Valencia and starve
the capital into surrender.
The LoyalistS counter-attacked
with artillery and tanks, repuls-
ing the Rebels. They said the
highway still was open.
Other rebel forces attacked ut
Morata de Tajuna hoping to cut
off the detour road to the nam
Valencia highway.
Rebels also tried to advance IN
the West Park sector Of Madrid,
but were repulsed with heavy
losses.
What apparently is worrying
the Loyalists is that, although the
Rebel advance has been checked
so far, the enemy is being rapidly
reinforced. Landing of several
thousand new Italian troops was
reported.
Estimates today placed the num-
Der of casualties at Valencia when
it was shelled by q Rebel cruiser
Sunday at 65, of whom Is were
killed. Twenty-Five are in provin-
cial hospitals and % others were
under treatment at various hrst-
aid stations.
Robledo de Chavela is 35 miles
northwest of Madrid along the
main railway line from Madrid to
Avila. It's capture by Loyalists
would deprive General Francisco
Francois main armies outside the
western and northern gates Of
Madrid Of the bulk of their am
munition and supplies.
Miaja, it was announced Sun
day night, has been given COM
mand of all Loyalist armies on the
central front.
News Of the capture of Roble-
do de Chavela was brought here
from Escorial by military courier,
who also reported that Loyalist
troops gained nearly two miles OF
territory when they counter-at-
tackled the enemy at San Benito
in the Escorial sector.
A mutinous outbreak in the
Rebel-controlled city of Toledo,
in which Carlists (Monarchists)
and Phalangistes spanish Fas-
cists) fought each other, was re,
ported yesterday by the Madrid
newspaper Informaciones.
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Labor Front Is
Comparatively
Quiet
BY UNITED PRESS
On tho labor front.


Observation-Disclosures, nation
wide organization of steel work
ers recommended by Bookings
Falk report, following three-year
study by University Of Pittsburgh.
Bitter struggles" in iron and
steel industry forecast.
Observation-Disclosures William
Green of American Federation of
Labor said he would oppose pro-
iected expulsion from United
Mine Workers of America as
"type of Hitlerism." Policy COM
mittee of mine workers unani-
mously voted custer recommends
ton. CLIO leaders conferred with
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed
ward F. McGrady on lack of steel
bids for navy building program
and demanded investigation.
Trenton-Gov. Harold G. Hoff-
man warns Clio that New Jersey
will oppose sit-down strikes even
at cost of bloodshed.
Detroit-100,000 General Mo-
tors employees returned to work
following end of costly auto
strike.
Anderson, Ind.-Martial law re-
Taxed to permit two union meet
ings following violence. Union and
non-union men returned peaceful
ly to work in General Motors
plants.
New York-Building employees
union warned six leading hotels
that strikes would be called We'd
nesday unless arbitration began.
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
donate 100000 of $4,000, 900
annual pay increase to CLIO war
chest.
San Francisco-Seven injured
in riot between rival longshore-
men factions.
DETROIT, Feb. 16.-(UP).-
General Motors executives and
union, officials meet today to
weave wages and hours agree
ments into the strike settlement
| which already has returned 100,-
600 workers to their. jobs of max.
ing automobiles.
A six-point program was pre-
| pared for discussion in the big
| conference chamber in the Gen.
eral Motors building, scene of sew
eral efforts to end the 44-day
strike.
! The corporations assembly lines
were moving throughout the coun-
trv toward record production at
the rate of 225,000 cars a month.
plants closed by the strikes were
being reoponed as quickly as pos.
sible. officials believed it would
not be long before all would be
| operating. -, a..
| since Governor Frank Murphy an
nounced settlement of the strike
Continued on page four)
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|Borah Opposes
judiciary Bill
| Present Form,

DISTINCTION, Feb. l6. (UP)
80 ...;' !, Sorah said today he OPP
isT ss .ae supreme court justices
80, 80! retirement bill in it's
| s,s...'. form but didn't disclose
I. - ~. whether he would fight
,s.,. measure on the floor Of the
A.. 'sa announced his attitude
ritz senate judiciary sub-com-
|r0,,Sy. nad reported the bill IA
F 49,, 49, 70 the full committee with
s. 'r : Of prompt senate ac-
a,-. y ~ SaSS the bill possibly next
| ~ ~ IN. .1e oil is expected to pass
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CAPTIVE DESCRIBES
RIDE WITH CONVfCTS

Editors Note: Captain /. ID.
Hinton, superintendent of person.
mel at Caledonia Prison farm near
Halifax, N. c., was held captive
for more than 10 hours yesterday
by seven convicts who escaped
from the farm. In the following
dispatch, Hinton tells Of his more
than 200-mile ride through mid
die North Carolina with them be-
fore his release.)
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pis. B. Weitz Is
Dead In Georgia

|se;,, !. nav Weitz. widow of B.
|ccv1is VI !. savannah and Hender-
ero,ji,,,u ,ed at Savannah today.
Eer % information received
[.c,eJ a. services will be con-
FN W.. :, Savannah tomorrow.
Z Eoyy,iS, formerly resided here
r. ma MN avenue and she and her
Pee '"od were widely known
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Mrs. Murray Is
Dead At Sylvia

Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon Murray
n sister of Miss Grace lCordon'
died at Sylvia last night, according
70 information received here to-
day. -, IN hold IN
SILVA on Wednesday and burial
viii follow here at 3 o'cock Wed,
nasdav afternoon. She is survived
bv her husband and several broth
ers and sisters.
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COP GIVEN GUN TASK

NEW YORK, Feb. 16. (UP)-
A policeman with gri nlassign-
ment waited last night for Mrs.
Josephine Rooney's husband out
side their apartment. He was to
tell the husband that his wife COM
mitted suicide with gas while she
held his picture and love letters.
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Gums Physician
I'll OF Influenza

TORONTO, Feb: 16. (UPl;-
The condition of DR.. Allan Roy
Dafoe. the quintuplets' physician,
Confined in a hospital with a Sc
vore attack of influenza, was re-
rorted improved today. DIR. Da-
foe was taken i'll last Wednesday
as he motored to Toronto from
Callander.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-16
house GROUP
n 9EFERS ACTION
m HIGH COURT
LADDERS Wish Opportunity
10 Study National
Sentiment
,OOSEVELT URGES
NV SECURITY ACTION

v,SHINGTON, Feb. 10. (uP)
-. ,,se judiciary committee to-
= 5.I,yed action for at least a
= an President Roosevelt's
Wv. ,+ reorganization program.
W. movement was in line with
.s s.,,s sentiment of administra-
90 ..c,,, : leaders TO move
' 'sa NV With the plan in order to
49, 80 tull opportunity for nation
: ~. .,r,iren, 70 develop.
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SNOW &DE'l
JAPAN KILLSS

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 16. Cup:
Eighty persons were reported
killed today when an avalanche OF
snow swept through the town OF
Morioka and destroyed 20 build
ings. Many Of those killed were
children who were killed when .
snowslide crumbled two schools.
Details were meager as communi.
cations were disrupted. Nearby
communities rushed assistance.
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STORM WARNING

JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 10
uiPl-The United States wealth
er bureau today issued small craft
warning from south of Cape Hat
teras to st. Augustine.
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FIGHT TO FINISH
SEEN IN GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 10. tof)
Prohibition repeal, always an ex-
plosive issue in Georgia, was again
before the house of representa-
Continued on page FOUR
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T. B. kYsER DEAD

rPl.@%p5 MOUNT, Feb. 10
I Eav E B, Kyser, rs, father
ID pioDs "ySer' orchestra leader,
aSe her. T druggist, died at his
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SHE'S A VALENTINE

MIsHAWKA, Ind, Feb. l6:-
UipI MARY E. Rudduek, %, be-
came cam a Valentine Sunday: She
was married to Vernon f. Valen-
fipp
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JAMES sTEPP ILL

Jas. Stepp, owner and manager
Of Mountain View dairy, has been
i'll at his home for several days
but is improved today.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-16

hA
per house of the general assembly
today was prepared to debate the
county option liquor plan bill,
passed last week by the house,
and set for a special order in the
senate today.
Meanwhile, in yesterdays SEES,
sion, the house accomplished
nothing, although two votes were
taken on Governor Hoey's mea-
sure to provide free text DOCKS
for elementary school children
The lower house, however, dodg.
ed a purely political issue, brought
up by the youthful representative,
BAILEY, Republican member. who
sought TO force the issue be.
tween U. S. Senator Bailey and
president Roosevelt on the court
Without opposition, the house
nassed the administrations free
text hook measure, only to be re-
minded by Representative Bryant
tbat the measure carried bond
issue Of $l,500,000 and neeaed d
record vote. ..o. .oror
A record vote was then taken
hut Chairman Horton. Of the edu,
cation committee, then reminded
the house that such legislation
nonst go before the finance COM
mittee. The bill now re SITS with
the committee after the t"o i"'
tile votes by the house.
'' No major legislation came to a
yote in either house after the two
useless e votes by the house during
the day. -. .,,,o corera,
IContinued on page three)
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.SENATEOPENS
ARGUMENTS ON
LOCAL OPTION
House, Meanwhile, Fails to
Get Action on Free
Text Books

RALEIGH. Feb. 16. (16).-The
senate finance committee deferred
action today on S25,OOO,OOO
bond issue for construction Of
county roads.
The senate education commit
tee reported unfavorably on a
measure extending from October
| to November l the birth date OF
children who may enter school
during the fall term. A bill to out
law child marriages in North Caro-
lima, introduced in the state sem
ate, provides for a minimum age
limit of Is years but authorizes a
special license to be issued with
consent of parents to those 10 or
II,
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WEATHER

,.,,y cloudy and colder to-
:I Nov Wednesday fair
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GOOD AFTERNOON

Boston Judge gives . woman
3lls years to pay off loan" Al
that, she will probably pay off
before France.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04

Baroness Shrez1e Ishimoto, ia
pans most famous feminist leader,
writer ard lecturer, who is on a
tour of the United States, interpret
ing the spirit Of the modern Jap
anese woman before American au-
diences. With a guiding determina-
ton to bring education within the
reach of every japanese woman,
the baroness claims but one ideal
to bring the women of her country
out of feudalism into the light of a
greater freedom.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04

William Booth (above) of West
Jefferson, has been playing fine
basketball for High Point College.
Having made the varsity squad in
his freshman year, this is his fourth
year on the Panthers' first team. He
has played center and also has seen
plenty of action as guard and for
ward. Booth is also a star baseball
pitcher for the High Pointers. He has
made his home in West Jefferson
with his brother, George Booth, since
graduating from Oxford Orphanage
High School, where he was an out
standing athlete, playing football,
basketball, baseball and also being
a member of the tennis, swimming
and track teams. Booth is interested
in getting high school teaching and
coaching position in his adopted
home of Ashe county next fall, since
he graduates from the High Point
College this spring with a degree
and a grade "a" high school teacher
certificate. .....-...
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
FAMED EXPLORER BURIED
IN NATIVE KANSAS STATE

Martin Johnson, who spent much
of his life exploring tropical isles
and African jungles, was buried on
Saturday in a snoW-covered Kansas
cemetery in his home town of Cha
mute.
Sorrowing friends, paid him final
tribute at funeral rites in Chanute's
municipal auditorium.
The explorers body was brought
from California where he was injur-
ed fatally January IL in the crash of
an airliner. Mrs. Johnson attended
services. She still is unable to walk
because of Injuries suffered in the
accident.
The Rev. J. J. Macinerney of St.
Patrick's Catholic church, a close
friend, eulogoized the explorer.
He recalled Johnson, Will Rogers,
Knute Rockne, and Wiley Post, all
friends, met death in the same man
ner in comparatively short time
and said:
'"These men have not died in vain,
for others will come and gather
courage and inspiration from their
works and will 60 forth into new
fields of endeavor and high resolve"