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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
Hull Warns World Relations Threaten
Military And Economic Disaster
IT, S. Does Its Best to Stem Tide But Can't Yield All
Neutral Rights in Crisis
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20. (UP)

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20. (UP)
A warning by Secretary Of State
Cordell Hull that the world arma-
ment race and generally chaotic
international relations threaten q
disastrous military or economic
catastrophe unless other nations
change their course within year
or so, was presented to congress
yesterday.
The United States is doing its
best to "arrest this disastrous
trend" by preaching and practic-
ing" n program of equality and
fair play among all nations, Hull
said i'm secret testimony made
public by the house appropria-
tons committee.
81 think it is more true during
recent years than formerly that
international relationships have
been more chaotic, if I may use
a word that strong-and in some
instances it is not strong enough.
"Many worthwhile information
al relationships have been neg
lected, flouted or abandoned.
There has been d tendency among
nations to drift apart and into
conditions of less mutual under
standing, less real friendliness to-
ward each other, and less effort
to cooperate for common prog
ress."
Hull pointed to the concrete
cooperate peace program develop
ed for this half of the world at
the recent inter-American peace
conference as an example of rae
tical action offering encourage
ment at time Of very serious
disturbances in many parts of the
He said he believed the recip-
rocal trade policy developed by
| the United States is generally rec
Iognized by world capitals as "the
central point in any program
looking toward rehabilitation, &c.
onomic, peaceful and otherwise"
He said permanent neutrality
LEGISLATION should allow the pres
dent some discretion in dealing
! CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
DR.. Phillip jung
Is New Rector AT
Calvary Church
Baltimore Divine Was Reg
mental Chaplain in
World War

The Rev. DR.. G. Phillip Jung, a
native of Baltimore, Md, arrived
at Fletcher on Wednesday to as
sumo his duties as rector of Cal,
vary Episcopal church, and VIII
conduct his first service on Sun
day at II a. m. ~
Rev. Jung came to Fletcher
from Brownsville, Pa, and was
accompanied by Mrs. Jung ana q
son. At present the family is max
ing its home with Mr.. and Mrs
NJ. F. Tongue, but will take up
residence at the rectory in few
days. e. 49,.
For the past nine years the Kew
DR.. Jung has been pastor OF ChriS'
Episcopal church, Brownsville.
A chaplain with the rank OF
captain in the Officers Reserve
Corps of the United States army,
DR.. Jung is a graduate of Boys
Latin school, Baltimore, Md; Gen
eral Theological Seminary, New
York City, and Syracuse UnlVers'
ity, Syracuse. n. Y.
He received the degree of bach
elor of arts at Syracuse and the
degree of bachelor of sacred the
ology at the seminary. He was
honored by Temple University
Philadelphia, Pa, with the degree
of doctor of sacred theology.
DIR. Jung was regimental chap
lain Of the 394th Infantry, 99tf
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
: NURSERIES
HERE MERGED
Sinclair and Rev. Nielsen
Consolidate Their
Interests

w. B. Sinclair, owner of Sin.
clair Nurseries on the Kanuga
road, and the Rev. A. j. Nielsen,
owner of Nielsen's Nursery OF
Fletcher have consolidated their
nursery interests and Mr.. Nielsen
becomes manager of the Sinclair
Nurseries, to which he will give
his full services, disseminating the
Fletcher enterprise as soon as dis.
position is made of the plants
there.
The Sinclair Nurseries will EN-.
phasize perennials, shrubbery, or
namentals, grapevines and fruit
trees and will render services in
landscaping.
The nursery is planning a more
extensive line Of plants and in
preparation for such is announc-
ing in the advertising columns q
special sale of the larger plants in
the nursery.
Mr.. Sinclair, after. two years in
the nursery business in Georgia,
established his nursery on the
Grab Creek road in 1920, and will
continue his connection Herewith
with Mr.. Nielsen as manager.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
Clio. SQUADSIN
TEXTILE Mill
.CENTERS now
Seek to Enlist Workers
Under Banner of Lewis
Organization

NEW YORK, March 20. (UP).
Squads of union organizers moved
into the nations textile centers
today enrolling many of the in
duStry's million and a quarter
workers under the banner of John
l.. Lewis Committee for Indus
trial Organization.
Regional headquarters were es-
tablished in Atlanta with Steve
Nance, president of the Georgia
Federation of Labor, in charge.
The Roanoke, Va, office is UNI
der John A. Peel, international
vice president of the U.T.W.
Sidney Hillman, chairman of
the organizing committee, said OF
the textile industry, is now on a
profit-making basis and that the
workers demand better pay and
conditions.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
SEEK TO HUSH.
SHOOTING OF
FRENCH COUNT.
international Scandal Seen
as Woman's Name Link
ed With Duce
Bv RALPH E. HEINZEN
IJn;,.J Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS March 20. (UP).-The
case of exotic Madeleine de Fon-
tages. who shot the Count de
Chambrun because che ruined my
idyI with Mussolini," threatened
last night to become an lnterna-
tisnal scandal when she was re-
vealed to have been friendly WIN
a former premier of France.
Police revealed her friendship
with the former premier, said to
have been famous in international
affairs but refused to identlfy
him, Nor would they say whether
his name was contained IN a lurid
diary seized from Nine. Fontan-
ges' apartment, the walls of which
were covered with photographs Oh
Premier Benito Mussolini.
The Italian ambassador, Vito
rio Cerutti. conferred last night
with Foreign Minister won Del
hos at the Quai D'orsay, suppos;,
edlv to ask what had been learned
from the diary.
Police said the woman formerly
was a stenographer at the foreign
office.
Influential quarters were said
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
Award Court For
Troop One, Girl
Scouts Arranged

The Spring Court of Awards
for Troop No. 1, Girl Scouts, VIII
be held at the high school audlto-
rum on Monday night, March ~,
at 1880 o'clock.
Members of Troop 2, Girl
Scouts. and all Boy Scout troops
have been issued invitations to
attend. Mrs. Zeb Nettles and MRS;
Gaines, of Asheville, both council
members, will assist in the court.
The following program Will be
observed:
Hail to the Scouts, sung by all;
Laws and Promise, Girl Scouts;
introduction of speakers, Mrs. L:
II. Franks; The Importance OF
Camping, Mrs. Zeb Nettles, Ashe-
vile: "Home on the Range, sung
by all; "The Girl Scout Program
and It's Effect on the Comm4n-
ity," Mrs. Gaines, Asheville; In
vestiture of Tenderfoot Scouts,
Mrs. Gibbs; second and first class
Scouts, Mrs. Gibbs: award OF at
tendance stars, Mrs. FRANKS;
award of badges. Mrs. Games;
america" sung by all.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
STATE SENATE
REFUSES OKEH
OF COURT PLAN
Important Bills Remain Te
Be Acted on in Both
Houses -

RALEIGH, March 20.-Only
three important legislative meas
ures stood in the way of sine die
| adjournment as the general as
sembly completed its session last
night. The house last night agreed
to senate amendments in the high
way reorganization bill and the
| $2,344,000 permanent improve
ments measure, and the bill to ap-
propriate $675,000 for the build
mig of new state office building.
The senate refused to consider
a house-approved resolution en-
dorsing the Presidents court re-
organization program. 8
Important measures still to be
approved are bills to allow coun-
ties and municipalities to issue
bonds to match federal PWA.
grants, the motor vehicle act, and
the school machinery act.
The PWA measures are before
the senate chamber committee,
and a conference committee Is
considering the school machinery
act. Another bill that may delay
adjournment is the maximum
hours measure. The motor vehi-
Gle law, as amended, passed sec
ond reading in the house yester-
day ard was 10 be ratiaed. today !
In it's present form. it cuts auto
mobile license costs from 40 to
35 cents per hundred pounds OF
weight, with minimum charge OF
ST instead Of IS.
Bills ratified by the senate
would: Amend the High Point law
to issue revenue bonds: create a
State planning board; impose
tax on agricultural lime; place a
tax on sale of scrap tobacco;
amend the 1888 fertilizer law;
tighten optometrists' regulations;
and create state bureau OF iden-
tification.
Laws enacted by the house
would: Abolish the title of assis-
tant pharmacist after January,
1889; allow the highway commits
sion to cede to the federal govern
ment a highway in the Great
Smoky Mountains Park, and in
crease the salary of commissioner
Of World War veterans loans
from $1,000 to $4,000.
A bill providing for a $55,Ooo
appropriation to allow this state
to participate in the New York
worlds fair and the Golden Gate
international exposition was killed
by the representatives, then re-
vived and passed after the allot-
ment was stricken out.
A measure to pay teachers IN
IL monthly installments was
taken from the house unfavorable
calendar and then tabled again.
Killed by the representatives
were bills to allow the utilities
commission to investigate service
complaints, to amend the state
BARRIERS law and to prohibit coun-
ties and municipalities from APP
propriating funds to press high
way and other claims against the
state.
The senator's passed on second
reading a house bill which would
authorize the governor and the
council of state to appropriate
500, 900 for a gasoline terminal,
at a location still to be decided.
Another hot debate took place
Continued on page six)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
N.C.Legion And
Auxiliary Heads
Plan Conference
Several Leaving Here To-
day for 2.Day Session
at Salisbury

A number of Hendersonville
American Legion members and
members of the auxiliary will
leave this afternoon for Salisbury,
where they will attend the post
officers conference Of the North
Carolina Legion department, which
will meet there on Sunday and
Monday.
Among those going from Hen
Jacksonville are: L. B. Prince, de-
partment vice-commander; G. ].
VILE; Nathan Patla, department
Boy Scout chairman; Mrs. Patla,
district chairman; Mrs. Paul John
son, district alternate chairman;
Mrs. Paul English, president Of
the local auxiliary; Mrs. H. j.
Morris, Mrs. Wade King, Mrs. w.
C. Armstrong, Mrs. Ed Anders.
Mrs. Frank Marlborough and Mrs.
w. A. Howard. Co.,
Among distinguished guests who
will attend the conference are Ma
tional Commander H. w. Colmery
and Mrs. Hahn, national auxiliary
president. as
Mr.. Prince will appear on the
program, replying to the address
of welcome, and Mr.. Patla will
tell Of Boy Scout activities In the
state department. .g - =
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
Chrysler's Labor
Attitude Fair, Is
View OF Worker
clio. Policy Of Coercion;
Firm Would Avoid
Bloodshed

SHELBY, March 20.-Henry
Fultz, ChrySler employee for the
past Ii years, now on q visit here,
saws conditions in Detroit in the
motor industry are in dangerous
shape and that delayed action by
the Chrysler corporation in evict-
ing sit-down strikers is in the nope
of avoiding bloodshed.
The Chrysler attitude toward
the c. |. o., says Mr.. Fultz, has
been extremely fair and employees
were of the opinion no strike
would be called. Recognition OF
the union had been the Chrysler
policy for sometime. The only
matter at stake now, it seems, Is
that of sole bargaining power
The union knows, according 10
Mr.. Fultz. that many members
will be lost once the danger OF
being beaten up is over ana the
nnion leaders want a closed shop
with union dues deducted by COM
pany paymasters and turned over
to the union treasury 10 insure
membership continuance.
Around 90 per cent OF ChryS-
Ter employees have joined the =; l.
O., he says, but great NUMBER
would Immediately quit the union
if coercion stopped. He plans 70
return to Detroit as soon as the
iahor trouble is over and the plant
resumes work. He is, as ne mas
been for Ia years, in the motor
block division. ,..o,
In his opinion, Chrysler's labor
attitude has been extremely IAN
and the delay in asking eviclioiI
proceedings is for elimination OIL
danger of killing men. 1t is well
recognized in Detroit that it will
take what amounts to an army 10
remove the strikers, to say nothc
ing of handling the thousands OIL
sympathizers outside.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
No Move Is Made To Arrest Strikers
LEWIS BRANDED AS TRAITOR
TO AMERICAN IDEALS in HOT
CLASHES ON SENATE FLOOR
Debate Ranges Wide in
Court-Economic-Labor
Situation

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 (UP)
Labor Leader John L. Lewis was
branded traitor" sit-down
strikes were condemned and the
/ U. S. supreme court assailed in
bristling congressional floor fights
yesterday as the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States APP
pealed for support of law and
order.
The debates ranged from bis
tering castigation of Lewis by
Sen. Allen J. Ellender, d., Ala, to
the sarcastic assertion by Senator
Sherman Minton, d., Ind, that
the supreme court, is son n sit
down strike" and finally to a
charge by Rep. Clare f.. Hoffman,
r., Mich. that President Roose-
welt is taking "his labor orders"
from Lewis.
Crossing sharply athwart party
lines the struggle over sit-downers
found Sen. William E. Borah, r.,
Ida, and Chairman Hugo Black,
D., Ala, of the senate labor COM
mittee, fighting side by side. They
emphasized the illegality of the
sit-down but insisted that labor's
newest economic weapon had been
forged as a result of mal-distribu-
ton Of wealth and monopolistic
control of industry.
sBorah drew. a parallel between
conditions today and those OF the
boom years of l92S-29 when he
said the country produced I'M
heard of wealth but when more
than so per cent of the population
lived on less than bare necessities.
"These sit-downers are fighting
for what they believe to be their
rights in an economic system
which is dominated by lawlessness
because the government fails to
enforce the law" he declared.
Black, an ardent New Dealer
and prepayment Of the presidents
proposal to reorganize the nations
judiciary and the U. S. supreme
court. said the high tribunals de-
Law in deciding the validity of the
Wagner Labor Act and its invali-
dation of other labor measures
had left the government power
less to intervene in the current
situation.
"The only legal means we have
left is the bayonet and the gum"
Black snapped. He added that he
agreed with Borah that there
must be control Of "vast accumu-
lation of wealth in the hands of a
few"
Blacks remarks on the court
conceded with those made AZ
hours earlier by Senate Majority
Leader Joe T. Robinson, D., Ark,
and Speaker of the House William
B. Bankhead, D., Ala. The high
court has been bordering the con-
stitutionality of the Wagner Act
for four weeks. 1t recessed last
Monday for a fortnight. =,
An ominous note crept into the
senate debate when Sen. Arthur
Vandenberg, R., Mich, said events
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
wet GAS May
HAVE LET GO
IN PRESSURE
Testimony Taken as End
less Stream Of Hearses
Bears Dead Away
TEXAS BLAST TOLL
REMAINS AT AIS

NEW LONDON, March 90
| (UP).-A military inquiry court
today took evidence that improper
heating installation had charged
the wall Of the rural school with
"wet gas" which exploded under
pressure, killing 426 pupils and
teachers.
The inquiry proceeded in the
gymnasium Of one Of the sections
Of the plant which escaped dam
age, while hearses rolled by in
an endless stream bearing the
bodies Of children.
Questioning Of ]. L. Downing
of the firm that designed the
building, indicated that q faulty
heating system was the most logi-
cal theory for the blast.
NEW LONDON, Texas, March
20.-(UP)-The 425 broken bod
les of one-third of the school chill
dren in this region and Ii Of their
teachers were prepared for their
graves today while q military
court Of inquiry convened to de-
termine the cause Of the explo-
sion that wrecked the worlds
largest rural school.
Ministers and grave diggers
modified for the gigantic task Of
providing individual services and
tombs.
Ten of the children's bodies
still are unidentified. Seven of
them are beyond hope Of recogni-
ton.
Search for the cause Of the
blast has now narrowed down to
technicalities with all investiga-
tors agreed that 1t was the result
Of accumulated gas, probably in
the basement.
Residents of this disaster-stun-
ned oil boom countryside last
night watched the last of the 426
Tiny bodies from the wreckage.
As the shock Of the tragedy
the worst schoolhouse disaster in
the nations history began to
wear off, mothers moved quietly
through crude morgues scattered
through towns in q radius Of 40
miles from the ruins, trying to
identify torn bodies.
Five hundred oil field rousta-
bouts cleared off the debris Of
the yellow brick school building
known as the "largest rural
schoolhouse in the world"-after
the last body had been pulled out
and carried away. Others, who had
identified their dead, returned to
their homes.
National Disaster Director Al
bert Evans of the Red Cross set
q toll of 425 dead, including Ia
Of the SO teachers.
Investigators decided there was
possibility that additional bod
les would be found under q four
foot layer of silt in the basement.
Preliminary digging uncovered
pieces of cloth and rs fresh men
were assigned to resume excava-
ton work.
Fresh scenes Of grief were be-
ing enacted hourly as trains
brought in oil field workers who
had left their children with rel
|. Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
CARY-ELWES'
AUTO STRUCK
Driver Of Other Auto Lo-
Gated and Offers to Pay
for Repairs

sALUDA, March 90. Especially.
The car driven by Mrs. II. Cary
Elwyes, en- route to Henderson
Vile after the ball game at the
saluda gym on Friday night, was
hit by another car and seriously
damaged. The driver failed to halt
=" sSs what damage had been
done. ou.,ro,
- r;d;np behind was able to get
the license number and the sheriff
..as Notified with the result that
The driver was found and will pay
tn r renairs to the Cary-Elwes car,
,rh;sb was practically new. For
tunately no one was hurt.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
lrs. Williams
Funeral Held
3P. M. Today
|urlal in 0akdale Follows
Mites at First Meth
odist Church

! ;i a!neral services for Mrs. A. ].
[v. aai,'S' who died at her home on
,en ,D.,, avenue yesterday morn
r. .,' WI be held this afternoon at
y; VS'Gck from the First Meth
'T5SlceS will be conducted by
\ %sy, 9. r. Combs, pastor of
: SnI u! assisted by the Rev.
h., : wall, pastor of the First
H., s' church, and burial will
|g,H, " NO. 0,akdalc cemetery.
h. ns \, Williams was prior to mar
| Son slsS 5 Allie Ballard, a native
4 nun Carolina. She had made
n % ",l here for about 85 years
h." a !, The widow of A. J. Will
b, Who died about eight years
b. + Is survived by two sisters,
b. = p a, Hall of Hendersonville,
c, ara a. Ragon of Spartanburg,
kpheW. humber of nieces and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
IN
SHERIFF
kTUDIES CASE
Eal Do His Duty But
| Method Of Procedure
Not Determined
lapOR SECRETARY
| HAS 3-POINT PLAN

WASHINGTON. Mar. 20 (UP)
Isre,ary Of Labor Perkins today
I,,osed three-point program,
| sicred 20 end the Chrysler au-
[~oble strike. She recommend
r. Evacuation of plants by sit
lgn strikers;
r. Ina, Chrysler guarantee that
lsrua,ed plants be kept inopera-
T. until the strike is settled;
Tina, conferences between the
tO and the corporation start inn
| etia,ely
Jotr Lewis was reported TO be
EIlirg 10 accept the Perkins pro-
[al. provided ChrySler would
| b part in the peace confer
hes
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
WEATHER

s,,,..r, tonight, followed by
'.J somewhat colder weather
Sunday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20
Y 'MlEat6@E

Maximum, ~ degrees; mini
mum, 35 degrees; mean, 63.5 de-
grees; days range, 32 degrees. No
precipitation.
Normal mean temperature for
March, ATS degrees; normal rain
fall for March, $50 inches.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-20

DETROIT. March 20. (UPl.-
an atmosphere of optimism,
pssentatiyeS of Sit-down strik-
and the ChrySler corporation
2, late last night in the hotel
he OF Governor Frank Murphy,
ChyySlcr President X. 7. Keller
h Homer Nartin, president OF
United Automobile workers,
ught 10 iron out their Difficult
Is around the conference table
the request of the governor,
10 found this method successful
settling the recent General Mo-
rs strike.
As their union leaders and en-
Oyes talked, 60O0 sit-downerS
Ia nine plants. No immediate
oence was anticipated since
keriii Thomas Wilcox had post
tred attempting TO arrest them
hter a court order of Circuit
tdge Allan Campbell.
Hone for settlement was eX-
fesed By George s. Wilson,
resident OF the Dodge plant To-
!, and Governor Murphy believ-
conditions were favorable"
An hour after the conference
Fgan, the ChrySler group-keller,
I. Hutchinson, finance chair
ar, and Nicholas Kelley of the
;pOra,ion'S legal staff-depart'
Murphy remained in conference
.h Martin, Richard T. Franken-
ben, JAW. organizational di-
ctog, and Z. J. Thomas, head of
e ChryS,cr local.
L was reported on good author
that there had been some dis
Pssion Of beginning negotiations
the union demands Monday,
fiS, u was understood, would ne
estate an arrangement whereby
e Sl.downerS would evacuate
ChrySler plants.
Meanwhile Sit.down strikers
PISSED shoulder TO shoulder be-
nd barbados made of big
ccks and chains inside the gates
ChrySler corporation plants
night and defied Sheriff
iomaS Wilcox 10 carry out al
der that they be arrested and
oagnt into Wayne county cir
t court.
SGerIit Wilcox, puzzled by the
Oo'em Of how he was going to
les: 5000 men with only 4C
'Continued on page three)
Evening star., 1937-11-20
ELECTRIC DEVICES
THEME OF SESSION
Members of Real Estate
Board Meet at Electric
Institute Offices.

Approximately 100 members at
tended the monthly meeting Of the
Washington Real Estate Board held
Wednesday at the Electric Institute
onaces, Potomac Electric Power Co.
Building. A buffet supper was served
following the business session.
A. r. E. Horn, president of the in
stitute, was introduced by Morton j.
Luchs. president Of the Real Estate
Board, and told Of the activities of
the organization. Horn said the in
stitute would gladly furnish advice
and information concerning electrical
equipment to builders, architects and
prospective home owners.
Facts on Ownership Trend.
J. S. Bartlett, managing director Of
the institute. gave the members OF
the board some basic facts on the
trend OF home owners preferring cleo
trio health kitchens. Over $500 all
electric health kitchens have been in
stalled In Greater Washington. Mr..
Bartlett concluded his talk and the
program with brief discussion on
Winter Air. Conditioning" Com
plete winter air-conditioning in
cludes temperature control, humidifi-
cation. circulation and filtering and
the addition Of the proper amount Of
fresh air.
Prior to Mr. Bartlett's talk Miss B.
Burns OF the Institutes home eco
nomics staff covered the subject Of
the Value Of Kitchen Planning" TIL,
Evening star., 1937-11-20
RAILS RATE PLEA HIT

Attacking the proposal of the
Association Of American Railroads to