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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
GOLD SEEKERS OFF
TO COLOMBIA SOON

MIAMI, Fla, Nov. i. up
Gold is the goal of an expedition
which will leave here soon for
Venezuela and Colombia in the
3S-foot auxiliary kctch Mystery.
"Wc'll find it. too" declared
Capt. Harry II. Benton Of Lake
Mary, Fla. who will head the cx-
petition. II know where it is and,
better than that, I've had twenty
seven years of experience in the
gold mining and washing business
and III know just how to proceed
when we find it.
Accompanying Captain Benton
will be- O. +. HirsCh, architectural
craftsman Of St. Louis, and Alex
Brun, mechanic, navigator and
airplanc pilot.
For Captain Benton the voyage
and the gold hunt will be the real
ization of plans he made 80 years
ago.
at seems like I've always had
the gold search idea ~ my hCad,
he said. It's 4 sort OF dream that
! know will come unv.'
\ years provisions are bem"
slowed away ON the boat. From
here the expedition will proceed
to Colon. Panama Canal Zone,
and then on 10 Venezuela and
Colombia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
SWITCHING HORSES

Proved disastrous to Mr., Quar-
terbacE in picking last weeks
football winners. He can't seem
20 get right on that Georgia Tech
team. For instance. he picked
Tech over Duke. lost by one
point. rode for a fall with the
Jackets against Auburn, and last
week switched To Vanderbilt, only
10 see the Atlanta boys win Ii to
o.
The other bad ones were Caro-
lima over Fordham. Boston over
State, Furman over Davidson.
Auburn over Rice, Sewance over
Tennessee Tech and Blue Ridge
over Concord.
The record for the season IS
Southern and Southeastern games
plus the fortunes o. the Bear
cats and HilltOppCTS, Is 81 wins.
% losses. and : ties, diScounting
ties. an average Of 7"S. The old
average has consistently dropped
from better than 900, and pros
poets for this Weekend are no
better.
The only high spots of the sea-
son have been: First. OUtgueSS-
ing the wise guys one Saturday.
Second. Picking Citadel over Fur
man. Third, Picking Carolina
over Tulane. Slim pickiU'S,
HERE WE ARE AGAIN
This week we have dlSrcgarjed
any advance dope and will merely
guess. Tipping an occasional coin.
The way this game Is now played
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
STROKE FATAL
FOR JURIST'
Judge Thomas ]. Shaw
Served 81 Years on
Superior Bench

GREENSBORO, Nov. 4. -
Thomas jefferson Shaw, &c, dis
tinguishcd iuriSt who served on
the superior court bench for 81
years. Succumbed at Ills o'clock
yesterday afternoon at his home
- = stroke of paralysis suffered
xix days ago.
He had never completely rccov-
cred from the effects Of heart
attack ne suffered while prcsid-
ing over Alamancc superior court
about Il year ago and a recent re-
cuTcncc of this trouble combined
with paralysis to prove fatal. He
passed into state of coma soy
Cval hours Before death overlook
him.
Funeral service will BE- held in
First Presbyterian church. in
which he was q ruling elder for
many wears. =; $50 O'Clock this
afternoon. Dr.. Charles F. Myers.
pastor. vii! be in charge Of the
rites.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
BREVARD PLAYING
HOT SPRINGS FRIDAY

BRENARD. Nov. =. lSpcciaD }.
Hot Springs high school from
Madison county comes here Fri
day afternoon for the first Of a
thrce-game series which the local
high griddcrS Will play at home
The game will be called ut $3.50
on the Brcvard field, and Coach
Rhyme plans 10 start several -!
his reserves. Probable lineup will
be- Nelson and NJ. Lofts, ends;
GaIren, Kirby OF Dickson, tack!-
es: Jones and X. HilemOn, guards;
Walden. center; ShuiOrd, GUAR
ter: Jackson and Wright, half
backs. and league. fullback.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
SQUIRRELS PROBLEM
IN CALIFORNIA TOWN

CARMEL. Cal, Nov. 1. up.
Carmel mas one more complaint,
and this time IL Is not against the
literary. artistic and musical
colony that is established there.
il is against squirrels.
City coUHciImcn say they have
gone "nutty." Instead of eating
nuts, they are chewing off the
bark of pine tree branches until
the latter drop 20 the ground.
One school of thought here in
SiStS the squirrels are cntailing an
unnecessary expense on the city
for cleaning up Of the broken
branches, while the second school
Of the squirrels Is 4 money saver,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
NEUTRALiZING OF
SHANGHAI BLOCKED
CONTINUED from page u

NSONlIHuGO from pare II
eral Chinese-Japanesc war is
over"
Thus it appeared certain that
the great trade of this city--bc-
fore the war one Of the worlds
greatest ports --- will not be re-
stored to normally for long
time.
uiltish and American business
men believed that even after &C
tive fighting has ceased the Jap
ancac will maintain military con-
troll of the Shanghai area for an
indefinite period - possibly
years.
This, they added, means that
foreign business in Shanghai viii
bc stranglcd unless the Chimes"
succeed in winning the war,
The Japanese have consented.
however. to the creation Of a lin
tied safety zone in the Nantao
area OF the native city which Is
adjacent to the French concrS-
sion.
\ Japanese embassy spokesman
said that. u, the request ol wei
fare organizations trying TO pre-
vent the killing Of Chinese civil
iaMs. they had agreed tn the dc
naturalization Of about onc-thrd
of Nantao. chiefly the section
north Of Forgpang road in the
form Of Il horseshoe area around
the southeastern tip OF the French
concession.
Foreign military obscrycgS be-
licvcd that the Chinese rapidly
were withdrawing most Of then
troops from the whole Shanghai
area.
Yesterday WAS the birthday OF
Japan'S great former emperor,
Mciji Tcnno. and there was little
fighting here.
The Japanese army at dawn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
iiy Mrs. 10y a0V MADDOX
NEA Service StgT NTltCc

THE welfare OF the average
I american ianii% rs thgCa,-
cned. Suddenly, at the approach
of wiNtc" we find ourselves IDc-
ing almost p.o&.bI..yc costs Tor
The MEETS rcGara.c" as necessary
part oi our daily ICoG allowance.
Il we can't lover meat 2.!cCS 10
former lCvelS, what .a&.i W. Co
about i?
Rising food costs without . coy
responding rise IN income have
produced an increaSc in TIE cost
OF living about Is Der cent
Should women rise up and attack
the politicians? Should iney boy
colt butcher Shops and hC!C out
until prices drcp again 20 where
they were?
Boycott Has Disadvantages
A boycott is a tW.o-cdec5 wc.-
pon and the inexperienced migAt
easily cut themselves. Whenever
women have refused 10 buy @:O-
cGrleS or meats IN protests against
high prices, prices have eventual
ly dropped for & time. But il is
not as simple as it looks. The
local butcher may have TO cur MS
prices 10 dispose of stocks on
hand, but the large packers may
Just sit tight and lock their re-
frigerator doors. It's the little
fellow who takes the rap, nor the
big one. And if the housewives
boycott lasts very long. the fam
lily suffers from lack of essential
and expected items in the diet.
The question now is, can we
maintain our American standard
Of living in the face Of the high
cost of living? TOO much of our
standard Of living is composed
Of waste and Self-indulgence.
Americans love good prime
roast Of beef. We regard porter
house and Sirloin steak as a ma
tional birthright. Both loin lamb
chops and rib chops seem but the
inherent privilege of any good
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
Football Schedule
FRIDAY

FRIDAY
Geo. Washington ". Miss.
Miami W. StctSon.
Z. {. rs. Mercer.
Rollins ". Oglcthorpc.
SATURDAY
Auburn vs.. Tennessee.
Americas ". Randolph Macon
Amherst ". Trinity.
Baylor ". Texas.
Boston L. ". American Init.
California ". Washington.
Catholic -. W. Va. West.
Centenary ". Texas Christian
Chattanooga vs.. South.
Davidson ~. y. Carolina.
Delaware ". Penn. Military.
Duke ". Wake Forest.
DuuucSne W. Carnegie.
Florida ". Georgia.
Fordham W.. Purdue.
Furman ". Buckncll.
Georgetown ". W. Virginia.
Georgia Tech vs.. Clemson.
Harvard W. Army.
Holy Cross ". Colgate.
Iowa ~. Minnesota.
Kentucky vs.. 5. Carolina.
Lafayette ". Rutgers.
I..S.U. ". Mississippi State.
Manhattan W. Detroit.
Marshall ". Centre.
Michigan W. Chicago.
Nebraska ". Kansas.
Nowbrrry ". ErSkine.
N.I.U. ". Lehigh.
y. {. State vs.. Citadel
Northwestern ". Illinois.
Notrc Dame vs.. Pittsburgh.
Ohio State vs.. Indiana.
Pennsylvania vs.. Penn State.
Princeton W.. Dartmouth.
Rice ". Arkansas.
Roanoke W. Emory-Hcnry.
Southern Calf. W. Stanford.
SwarthmOrc vs.. Johns Hopkins,
Syracuse vs.. West. Reserve.
Tampa W.. Louisiana Tech.
Temple VS.. Michigan State.
Texas Ag. vs.. S.M.U.
Tulane VS.. Alabama.
Navy vs.. Columbia
Vanderbilt VS.. Sewanee.
Nillanova vs.. Marquette.
W. & l.. vs.. Virginia.
West Maryland vs.. BoctOn Co,
W. & NJ. VS.. Hampden-S.dney
Yale vs.. Brown.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
g. s as E CO n D
GGaa Z G U E S S | n G
= AESMe BY M. M QUARTERBACK
By M. Nj. QUARTERBACK

that's the best system anyway.
y. c. State to take Citadel.
(Thc Wolves get better and the
Cadets are crippled. Georgia
Tech 70 beat Clemson. "a pos
siblc upset. but we try the Jackets
once more). North Carolina TO
beat Davidson. (Ry three touch
dowusD. Duke to take Wake For
est. CBy S6 points,.
Furman's Hurricane to down
Blackwell. Again gone with the
wind). Will over Maryland "a
flippcd coinl. N.PL over Rich
mond. NO CommenD. Kentucky
over South Carolina. without
The man i'm the brown suit. NW-
ginia over Washington and Ice
(aYothcr Tipped coin). William
and Marry over Hampdcn-Sidncy.
SOUTHEASTERN
Alabama 20 take Tulane. Au-
burn over Tennessee. (Thc third
filmed Cu:np. Georgia over Flor
ida. tAnothcr flip. L.S.U: over
MisSisSippi State. George Wash
ington over Mississippi. Nandcr-
bilt over ScwanCC.
NINE MORE.
Makes an even %, and here
they are. Baylor over Texas. Pur-
due over Fordham. Harvard over
Amy. Colgate over Holy Cross.
Minnesota over Iowa. Nebraska
over Kansas. Pittsburgh over No
ire Dame. Arkansas over Rice.
Yale over Brown.
And thu, my friends amt side
stepping a thing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
FIREMEN CALLED as
TRUCK Is DAMAGED

The fire department answered
4 call at an early hour this morn
mg. 4 Chevrolet truck, belonging
to ,hc Cantrpll Produce company.
was damaged, and The blaze was
believed due to short circuit IN
the wiring system.
Australia shipped 2c".SO5 bales
OF wool to the United States in
the last year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
POLICE CHIEF LOSES
FINGER AFTER BITE

HARRISBURG, H.. Nov. 4. -
CUP).-Otto Pickering, local po-
lice chief, is wary of biting pris-
OnerS.
Recently q prisoner bit the
chiefs finger. Infection develop
ed and the finger was amputated.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
Tomorrow Menu

BREAKFAST: Grapefruit
;.;ilc. oatmeal, broilCd calves
Drains. brown butter, whole
wheat toast, coffee, milk.
LUNCHEON: Deviled crab
meat. sliced cucumScr5, no.
biscuits. nut cake, tea, milk.
DINNER: Cranberry juice,
stuffed shoulder fresh pork,
roasted potatoes, brussels
sprouts, CAIRO, salad, steamed
giuScr pudding, foaniy sauce,
coffee, milk.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
FAC" TAX AIDS SCHOOLS

Ell PASO, Texas. CUP. - FL
PaSo public school teachers who
attempt TO instruct their pupils
on the evils of strong drink and
the harmful effects of cigarettes
are in a somewhat embarrassing
position this year. Taxes on liquor
and cigarettes provide a subStan-
tial part of state school funds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
ICE" STRUCK IN WELL

BUEYEROS. y. NJ. CUP. -
Two Pueblo, Colo, men struck
"icc" here when they brought in
2 well that will produce an csti-
mated % to 30 million cubic feet
of carbon dioNidc Gas day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

honored the memory of their late
ruler with 4 l0l gun Salute--us-
ing high explosive shells which
they dropped on the Chinese lines.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

as it keeps the city from having
TO prune the trees.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
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Evening star., 1937-01-10

landing of German troops and build
ing Of barracks and Notifications in
Spanish Morocco, now controlled by
Fascist Gen. Francisco Franco, vio-
late the treaties.
Berlin denied today any knowl-
edge of events in Morocco, where
French and British reports said Ger
man functionaries had taken over
administration. that illegal fortifica-
tions are being erected. and num-
ber of German troops had landed.)
Garrison Raised to 100000.
French Moroccan troops. normally
40,00J. were stepped up to 100000
and the vanguard of the French
Atlantic feet wes on the alert in
Mediterranean waters-ready for ac-
ton at a moments notice. The
Franco-Spanish Moroccan border was
reinforced.
Accords between Spain and France
state that if military action in
Morocco becomes necessary for either
OF the contracting parties. the one is
to advise the other at once.
Under no circumstances would
either party have the right to appeal
fol- aid from third nation, which it
appeared Gen. Franco had done. 1t
was under terms Of this agreement
that France went to SPANS aid
against the Riff chieftain, Abdel-
Krim, in 1925.
Evening star., 1937-01-10
BROAD PROGRAM
FACES CONGRESS
First Week Ends With
Months Schedule A.
ready Mapped.
BY the Associated Press.

bN lilc hNSOCldteu FIcSS.
Congress completed its first week
yesterday with broad first months
legislative program already shaped.
The Senate expected to begin COM
mittee consideration this week of the
Roosevelt administration plan to pro-
long the life of the monetary and
other emergency laws.
Slower to organize, the House
planned to complete the task of form
ing its committees early this week, but
week before any legislation would be
ready for floor debate.
Four Bills Up This Month.
Though leaders plan to push four
bills through by the end of the month,
they say there is little likelihood Of
either house acting on any of them
before the Inauguration.
The four measures slated for con-
Sideration this month are:
A deficiency appropriation bill carry
ing at least s7eo,O0O. 900 for work re-
lief and other agencies for the rest of
this fiscal year.
An administration bill to extend
until June 80. 1889, the Presidents
power to devalue the dollar and to
use the 81 000, 900. 900 stablization fund
to regulate foreign exchange.
REC. Bill Scheduled.
Another administration measure to
extend authority to issue Federal Re-
serve notes on the basis Of Govern
ment obligations.
A third extension bill, continuing the
life of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, until June 80, 1889.
An effort to add s2o0. 900 900 to the
work-relief fund for the balance of this
fiscal year got under way yesterday at
a meeting of Senators and Representa-
tives from six Western States. On
the other hand, Senator King. Demo-
crat. of Utah, proposed to cut the
recommended fund in half.
Evening star., 1937-01-10
WOMEN TO HEAR
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Educational Alliance Board
Opens Three Day Session
Tomorrow.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is among
the speakers who will address three
day annual meeting of the Southern
Woman's Educational Alliance Board
Of Trustees, scheduled to open here
tomorrow, with headquarters at the
Mayfiower Hotel.
Establishment of Washington
branch OF the association to CORE
spond to centers now maintained In
New York, Chicago and Richmond will
be discussed. A change in name to
indicate the national character of the
association also will be debated by the
body.
Joint Session Scheduled.
The first meeting. to be held at 8
pm. tomorrow in the assembly hall Of
the American Red Cross Building,
will be in joint session with the Grad
uate Nurses Association Of the Dis
triCt, with o. Latham Hatcher. S. w.
E. A. president, as chairman. A series
of business sessions will follow on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. Roosevelt will assist in recelv-
ing guests and will speak briefly at a
tea at $50 pm. Tuesday, when trustees
will be entertained by the National
Board of the American Association of
University Women. Fifty representa-
tive Washingtonians have been in
vited to attend. Informal group din
ners Tuesday evening will be followed
by a brief forum on occupations in
rural areas.
Parran On Discussion Panel.
Thomas Parran, jr., surgeon general
Of the United States Public Health
Service, will be a member of the panel
arranged in connection with a discus
sion tomorrow night on nursing needs
of the underprivileged in rural areas.
Mary E. De Laskey. chairman of the
Public Health Division Of the Graduate
Nurses Association, will preside.
Other speakers will include Anna
belle Petersen, assistant director Of
public health nursing in the American
Red Cross: Naomi Deutsch. director of
public health nursing. United States
Children's Bureau; Marie r. Turner.
county superintendent of schools in
Breathitt County. KY; Kathryn Nc
Hale. general director. American As
soclation of University Women: Eu-
genia Spalding. instructor in nursing
education at Catholic University. and
Pearl McIver, senior public health
nursing consultant, United States
Public Health Service.
Evening star., 1937-01-10
WARSHIPS OFF MOROCCO.

CASABLANCA. French Morocco,
January R.-French and German.
warships anchored tonight off Mo-
rocco, where reported Nazi troop con-
centrations reused France and Britain
to fears for peace.
The Nazi pocket battleship. Admiral
Graf Spec, and a second German
warship have reached Tangier inter-
nationalized Morocco zone, telephoned
advices to Casablanca said.
The French warships were the van
guard of the Atlantic fleet, ordered
into Mediterranean maneuvers at q
strategic moment. More were due
here tomorrow.
Tangier is 30 miles by sea from
Ceuta. Spanish Morocco. where re-
ported incursion of German soldiers
and construction of modern fortifica-
tions brought French diplomatic pro-
tests and threats of military action II
necessary.
Fortifications between French and
Spanish Morocco were strengthened.
and a new regiment of Senegalese
troops was ordered to Fee to join bor-
der patrols. paris dispatches sald
French forces were stepped up to
100000 troops)
Under German Control.
The border between the two Moroc-
cos was closed, because of execution
of a French citizen by Fascists IN
Spanish Morocco last Summer.
Travellers asserted that all persons
except those carrying Spanish insur-
gent or German passports were turned
back when attempting to enter the
Spanish zone. They said the passport
control was under supervision of Ger
mans.
Communications we're cut between
Casablanca and Melilla, one center
of the reported German activity. Te-
tuan and Ceuta communications re-
manned intact, but under strict SPAN
ish censorship.
Gibraltar dispatches reported thou
sands of German and Italian troops
were landing daily at the Spanish
insurgent port Of Cadiz. transported bv
ships without identifying flags or
names)
Evening star., 1937-01-10
BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

hoSOCAdICu Etpos HSiCAiSC CoAboA'
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. January g.
One of the mysteries of 1887, discov-
cry of a new force in atoms, may be
explained by Albert Einstein's revised
mathematical analysis of gravitation,
which was announced last night.
The mystery is a force found at
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, last April, to be at work In the
hearts of atoms. The force was said
to be apparently the binding power
which holds atoms together.
Measured at the Carnegie Institu-
tion, the force proved to be "a million
times stronger than gravitation" and
many times stronger than any known
electrical or magnetic attraction.
Wave Motion Indicated.
Einstein's new mathematics, pub
lished in a bulletin of the Franklin
Institute Of Philadelphia, showed by
rigorous" mathematical treatment
that gravitation may be a wave
motion. These waves, his deductions
further suggested. range from bill
lows hundreos OF billions of miles
long down to short waves that may
be briefer than X-rays.
The earth. he suggested, in its an
nual trip around the sun, sets up a
gravitational disturbance resulting in
a wave perhaps 600, ,000, ,00O, 900 miles
long. The length of this great wave
seems due to the earth's great mass.
Atoms. with their small mass,
would, under the same calculations,
set up exceedingly short waves. The
masses of the parts" forming atoms,
that is, of electrons and other "parti-
cles," would presumably send out still
shorter gravitational waves.
The new Carnegie force which
measured million times" that OF
gravitation might be the effect oi
Evening star., 1937-01-10
PEACEPLEAMADE
BY YN0TEDBR|T0N
DR.. Maude Royden Ad-
dresses Women's Groups
at Luncheon Here.

A challenge to America to stay out
OF war and, through a position Of
strict neutrality, to use its influence
and guidance to help other countries
solve their war problems was sounded
here yesterday by DIR. Maude Royden.
British peace advocate and former
woman's suffrage leader.
DR.. Royden pictured America as
the nation best situated to contribute
to world peace in an address to ap-
proximately 800 guests OF the Womens
International League for Peace and
Freedom and the Emergency Peace
Campaign at a luncheon at the Will
lard Hotel, and said:
II envy you your opportunity. I
am jealous for my country"
Greeted BY Mrs. Roosevelt.
Greeted by Mrs Franklin D. Roose-
welt, DR.. Royden, the principal speaker,
attacked the subject of peace from a
psychological angle and urged:
DO not allow yourself to think
that you can do any service to the
world by entering war.
You thought SO in 1911" she con-
tinued, and pointed out the predomi-
nant results had been a 'shattering
Of hopes, loss Of ideals and suffering
in a quarrel not your own and which
has not availed to help the world to
a real attainment Of peace"
DR.. Royden placed the major re-
sponsibility for international under
standing on women, whom she called
the leaders of the world in psychologi-
cal studies"
Mrs Royden. who has been ac-
claimed as Eprope's greatest woman
preacher, was followed by Sherwood
Eddy, author and lecturer, who ex-
pressed the belief that a world war
is rising already in Europe-"a war
that threatens to destroy civiliza-
ton"
Urges Strict Neutrality Laws.
Urging the necessity for the strength
ening Of neutrality laws in America
to prevent ENHANCEMENT in foreign
loans and munition sales. Eddy en-
phasized that the country must pay
the price of peace as well as war.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who was introduced
by Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman
of the United States Tariff Commits
sion, brought greeting to DR.. Roy
den from the President as we'll as her.
self, for. she said, we both have a
great feeling for the peace in the
world she is trying to promote"
Mrs Hannah Clothier Hull, presi-
dent Of the league. opened the meet
ing.