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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
Radio Records
Songs Of Birds

ITHACA, N. Y, Sept. %. CUP
The first attempt to record the
voice of any bird on film by means
of radio has been pronounced sue
cessful by ornithologists at Cor
nell university, where the first rec
ords ever made of the voices OF
Atlantic petrels were tested.
Albert r. Brand of the Labora-
tory of Ornithology at Cornell,
pioneer in bird song recording,
sought the petrels on their own
doorstep. With the the aid of an
assistant, Brand travelled in his
sound truck to northern Maine,
ferried across to the island of
Grand Manan and arrived within
six miles of Kent Island, where
Bowdom college maintains a bio
logical laboratory.
A mile from the laboratory,
among the rocks on the outer slope
of the island, Brand found a col
ony of Leach's petrels in burrows
which they dug in the loose soil.
Wishing to get an accurate rec
ord of this frog-like chorus of bird
voices, but being unable to get the
sound truck to the island, a mile
of telephone wire was laid from a
short-wave radio station which
keeps the laboratory in touch with
the rest of the world, to the petrol
colony.
A sensitive microphone, with its
parabolic reflector, was attached
to the end of the telephone line.
When the petrels gave their
croaking notes, the microphone
picked up the songs and with the
aid of an amplifier they were
transmitted to the radio station,
thence across the intervening six
miles of the Bay Of Fundy to the
sound truck waiting on the island
of Grand Manan.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
Cave Dwelers In
British Midlands

LONDON, Sept. 23.-(UP)-
There are still cave-dwellers in
Great Britain, and, strangely, they
are to be found in the busy Mid
lands.
At Kniver. Stats. within a few
minutes of Birmingham, live men,
women and children who have
plunged thousands of years back,
in caves hewn out of solid rock
by early Britons.
The caves are seen on the cliff
side and all lead into a giant cave
known as the ballroom" Land
lords are the National Trust.
"The caves make great home"
II. M. Gibbs, chief caveman, de-
clares. They're really cozy-cool
in summer and warm in winter,
and dry all the year round. Life
here is much the same as outside,
really for we have water and gas
laid on, and we paw rates and
taxes like other folk"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
WAR in SPAIN SAID
COSTLY TO INSURERS

LONDON. Sept. 23.-(UP)-
British underwriters and insur-
ance companies will lose many
millions as a result of claims
arising out of the Spanish civil
war.
Already large number of
claims have been disposed of, 9TH
ers are pouring in, and those yet
to come will exceed any that have
preceded.
An assessor who adjusts claims
estimates that the aggregate will
not be less than 10000, 900
pounds sterling ($100,000,000).
Many British firms had huge
stocks of their goods in Spain,
and conducted an enormous bus
mess in that country. They had
insured themselves against loss by
fire, civil riot, pillage, and confis-
cation.
Their warehouses have been de-
stroyed and their "oods looted,
confscated or burned. There is a
total loss, and the claims are
founded on that basis
Mines, rolling stocks, buildings,
and other kinds of property were
insured for large sums, and the
appropriated owners are covered
in their loss.
A large number of the claims
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
MAN OWNS CAR BUT
LIKES HITCH HIKING

CEDAR FALLS, Ia, Sept. %.
(UP)-Although he has an auto
mobile of his own, Henry Snider-
man of Cedar Falls, hitch-hikes
when he wants speed.
On a recent 270-mile jaunt in
to western Iowa, Sniderman SAID
he averaged 81 miles an hour
hitch-hiking.
81 wouldn't accept rides in any
but fast cars" he explained. lone
man gave me a ride but when
found ne drove only % miles an
hour, | asked him to stop his car
and | got out"
He then caught ride with an
other motorist and finished his
trip at an S0-mile-an-hour clip,
Sniderman said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
SHAWS CREEK

A revival meeting started ut
the Horse Shoe Baptist church
Sunday night. Rev. Rhinehart is
conducting the services, assisted
by Rev. "Bud" McHaffey. Sew
eral from here have been at
tending.
Miss CHAIRMAN Dotson of Bat
Cave spent the weekend with
Misses Gladys and Ethel Blythe.
Mrs. hilburn Williams of
Plea ant Hill visited Mrs. Grover
Williams Sunday.
Eoin TO Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Stovor recently, SOP, who will
be called Clarence.
Mrs. Victoria Clayton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd Cable, and Robin and
James Clayton visited the for
mcrs brother and wife. Mr.. and
Mrs. T.. f. Orr, at Laurel Park
Sunday.
The movement to establish Yale
university was started by a group
of Harvard university graduates.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
S0RCERER'S CURSE
DOOM ABORIGINAL
POLICE TO DEATH

DARWIN, Sept. %. (UP)-A
tall, athletic black police "boy''
has left Darwin for his home in
Katherine to die of fear and SUI
perStition.
Harry, who has been employed
by the police and has lived for
N"n"s among white men, forgot
all he had learned from them as
soon as old BIsmark pointed
bone" at him - the sorcerer's
verdict of death.
Some of the aborigines say they
have seen" the bone enter Har-
ry.
Bismark, old and wise and
""'S"d in the ways of sorcery and
black magic, has performed a sa.
cred ceremony in which he used
piece of bone from the leg OF
some lOng-icad black man. Dur
ing the ceremony he sung Har'
ry so that Harry is now CULVER
ing wreck, dying by inches. thru
his belief in an age-old rite.
Before he resigned himself to
die, Harry was fine athletic type
with huge chest and biceps. Bis
mark is a shrivelled old man
whom Harry could pick up in one
hand.
But once Bismark pointed
bone" at Harry, all the white
mans influence was powerless to
save him. Harry believes he must
die.
In the old days if the police
found anyone pointing bone"
they tied him to a tree and gave
him a taste of the rope-end until
he decided to "un-sing" the bone
pointing. But this method of deal
ing with the problem now brings
such protests from humanitarians
that it is not longer used.
In New Guinea man found
pointing bone" is hanged, but
here the mere hint of such pun
ishment brings a storm Of pro-
test.
Occasionally a bone-pointed
victim escapes. If he can get the
dreaded death bones" from the
singer and can reverse the curse,
then he will live and the singer
die. 1t sometimes happens that he
can induce his tribe to spear the
bone pointer and compel him by
force to "un-sing' the magic.
One aboriginal who had been
bone-pointed declared that he
could feel the magic inside him
q hard white ball that was grad
ually growing larger and killing
him.
The local doctor persuaded him
that his own medicine was more
powerful than that of the bone
pointer and could undo the dam
age. A Whit of chloroform sent
the victim off to sleep and he
awoke to find a small cut in his
side and the doctor exhibiting a
small white ball to the other men,
bers of the tribe.
1t was a golf ball. and as golf
balls were unknown in Darwin IN
those days, the doctor was hailed
as a magician mightier than any
bone-pointer. The victim recov-
cred rapidly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
EAST BLUE RIDGE

EAST BLUE RIDGE, Sept. %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Thomas and
family of Spartanburg, S. c.,
spent Sunday with the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Gil
liam, Of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Marshall
and son, Ivory, of Union Hill were
visitors at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. A. Young here Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Justus and
family Of North Blue Ridge were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
f. Young here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Harvey of
this place attended the all-day
singing at Silver Creek Sunday.
Mr.. S. NJ. Law Of Dana was
visitor here Sunday.
The people of this section have
been very busy the past week
harvesting their crops.
Friends are glad to learn that
Mr.. Thomas Young, Jr., is able
to be out again after undergoing
an appendix operation at Patton
Memorial hospital some few
weeks ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
TROOP NO. q

At the meeting of troop No. a
plans were discussed as to the
completion Of the cabin on Noun
tain Side. 1t was learned that the
cabin would have to be raised and
set on pillars instead of staying
on the rock foundation as 1t Is
now. 1t is hoped that group or
men can go up and see that the
cabin is finished properly in the
near future.
Plans were discussed in regard
to the advancement for the COM
ing month, and number are ex-
pected to go before the next
court of honor. ,
Jerry Henderson was appointed
acting junior assistant Scoutmas;-
ter until his birthday, after when
he will be made Junior assistant
Scoutmaster, due to the loss OF
our senoir patrol leader. Inc
leaders have three boys IN mlnu
for this office and the one tnat
is selected will be announced at
a later date.
The first aid demonstration
showed that the boys were a mt
tie rusty" and all decided 10
make a general review of TINS I'M
portant phase of the work.
A contest among the boys was
opened, and all who have attain
ed the rank of frst-class Scout
or above will have a banquet at
the expense of one of the lead
ers. These boys have until after
the January court of honor 10
reach the rank. The question IS
Glow much will it cost this lead
err"
Letters received by some OF
the Scouts tell us that Alfred Is
about to burn up at his new home
in Dallas, Tex. Let's hope nc
doesn't burn to a crisp Tor q
while; then all he will nave 70
worry about is how to keep from
freezing to death when the Their,
mometer drops down to about III
below zero.
More Scout news next week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

I,rd9v. Sept. %.
|s"trroromy S:ll-2O.
f. hand Of God in the making
f. Hebrew nation has been
r frrirr these three months
!. mainly in the books of
+ We have seen how God
1 a ucoplc'S cry as he did
| in Egypt: how God provides
[5pr a, he did Moses in Mid
T5ow God encourages a leader
l. Nd Noses on the threshold
mighty task: how God pre-
Il a Deoplc for the crises they
| face: how God leads a peo-
I5eSp,,e the pursuit of foes
the obstacle of hindering
how God feeds a people, pro-
!, uuaiIs and mamma and
in the desert; how God
| laws 90 a nation in the peer
Words from Sinai; how
ion occupies the central place
nations life; how God con-
incompetence which de-
4 rulers and people; how
requires social justice as a
mart Of national morality I;
religious homes are a primal
in every nation; and finally,
dircc,lv a nations choices af-
is peace and prosperity.
we rcSurvev the greatness
coodrcSS of God in making a
n we glimpse the duty of
a nation 70 God as given by
in a paragraph from one
) last addresses.
MAKES A NATION
member God. Here is Il SOL
warning against forgetting
More than mental lapse Is
he'd There is moral neglect.
bitten is rhp Word of God ex-
ed in his spoken commands
their authority a sat Sinai,
in his ordinances with their
enactment 10 meethuman
as in the laws of Israel,
biz statutes with their bind
obligation everywhere. The
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
RARE TOAD DISCOVERED

WILMINGTON, Del. (UP)-A
pov Scout at a camp near here
discovered a spadefoot toad, one
of the rarest American varieties
The spadefoot is a burrowing an
;mal seldom found above the
ground.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
TROOP NO. 2

After vacation of few
months the boys are glad to get
back to work. The troop has a
new Scoutmaster, Mr.. Thackson,
one of the new teachers in high
school. Mr.. Thackson has been IN
Scout work before and we are
looking for some fine work from
this troop in the coming months.
Go ahead, troop 2; we are pulling
for you, and next week we want
good news article from your
troop.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
RAT CATCHERS RETIRE

PASADENA, Cal. (UPD-PaS-
adena has - or, rather, had =
an eight-man team of rat catch
ers. The squad resigned after
turning in a record of 10,0S6
rats, squirrels and gophers. The
retirement was not due to lack
of more rats, but to a lack of sal
airy allowances in the city funds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

are being made by Spaniards who,
long before the war started, in
sured their property against war
risks.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

The regular court of honor was
not held this month due to some
misunderstanding among some of
the boys as to where the court
of review was to be held. In view
of this fact, the next court should
be one of the largest in Hender-
son county for several months.
All of the troops are beginning to
get back to work and all things
point to some real work in Scout
ing for the coming months.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

Cabrera, a Zapotec Indian born
in 1895, is regarded as Mexico's
greatest painter Of colonial
times.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
TROOP NO. l

lNOOf NJ. L
The boys of troop No. l decid-
ed to fine their Scoutmaster, John
Stephens, 81 for each night ne
showed up without his uniform.
No definite plans were made to
collect it, however. Assistant
Scoutmaster Kenneth Williams
was Laid up" with a sprained
back from unloading car of
stoves. Tough luck; hope you are
OK. now. -,
The inter-patrol contest got off
with a good start. The Panther
patrol, with Fred Waters as pa
troll leader, made the most points,
largely by coming up to the best
standards on inspection. The indi-
vidual making the most points
was Patrol Leader Forest Gard
ner of the Hawk patrol.
The troop is now organized to
do some fine work and the boys
seem TO have taken a new interest
in advancement.
The following boys recently
left for college, all being men,
bers of troop No. /: Billy Lamp
ley, Kalmain Sherman, Ed Kan
trowitz and Julian Raynes. We
feel there is no doubt but that
they will make more successful
students for having been Scouts,
and they have also improved their
chances in life. Because OF the
above vacancies, the boys are
looking around for good material
to replace them.
Thanks, Mr.. X. S. Gibbs, Jr"
for all the good news.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

CALIFORNIA; state flag, having
the figure Of bear, originated
in an attempt to set up republic
in 1916.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

~ years before Spain was e
|mge itself into the current
Of civil war, citizen Pablo
Pas saw the handwriting of
POLITICAL forces on the wall.
P'olngly he helped form the
spanish Socialist group in
nl!e still in his teens Pablo
N a member Of the Socialist
national Of Marx, La Sale
|Oner pioneers. At the age of
e was elected editor of the
-S organ, La Emancipation.
F:qOenty he became editor OF
SocialiSta, organ Of the
FSn 'aoor movement. And in
capacity ne grew to be Ia
| foremost champion.
|o'o founded the Topographic
E0Cie'y Of which he later be-
/ president; ne was success
4 elected a member Of the
/, >a Cortes Chamber Of Dep
l Until II was dissolved by
i,A.'ary directorate in 1928.
sang the forces of labor,
[ met repeated rebuffs. He
eight terms of impriSon-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
God In The Making Of A Nation
By HIGHT E. MOORE

chief sin is to forget God. The
central duty is to remember God.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

ment for his ac-
tivitieS on behalf
Of the workers.
He died in Ma
d rid in 1925.
IgleSias Is pic
tured on a 1891
issue, now in
current use.
MA Caryina Ina
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

Fri-L. SUIEenL use.
1881. NEA Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
litVinoV Has Flu

MOSCOW, Feb. II G.N.SD.
Suffering from influenza, Foreign
Commissar Maxim Litvinov was
ordered by physicians today to
keep to his room.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
REVEALS PRICE.
OF 6. NJ. SPIES
Interna tional News Service

The giant General Motors Cor
poration paid the Pinkerton De-
tective Agency $419,650 for labor
spy service from January |. 1884,
to July /, 1886, the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee disclosed to-
day.
Robert A. Pinkerton. youthful
president of the agency. testified
General Motors represented the
agency's biggest industrial ac-
count" for this type of work.
He testified previously the
agreement with General Motors
was terminated January 81, 1887.
Of the amount General Motors
spent for spy" service, $121.490
was expended for Fisher Body:
$4,000 for Chevrolet. and the
general executive" branch of
General Motors at Detroit, $124.-
759 The balance was expended
among other General Motors af-
filateS, it was said.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
FARMER LOSES
H0NET0U. ).

LURAY, Va, Feb. ia three
year fight against the Govern
ment, in an effort to retain his
small farm in the Shenandoah
National Park area, was lost here
today by Walker jenkins, Page
county farmer, when a court order
for his eviction was issued.
Jenkins, with family of eight,
has refused repeated offers from
the Government to give him
another homestead site for a deed
to his own farm land.
Nearly a year ago the sheriff of
Page went to the Jenkins farm TO
evict the family, but postponed the
procedure on the advice of DR..
George Long, county physician,
who reported that Mrs. jenkins
and several of their seven children
were too i'll with influenza to be
moved.
The court order for jenkins re-
moval gives the family until March
90 to vacate. 1t is expected that
Jenkins will leave his farm volun-
tarily this time, however, as he
agreed sometime ago to give up
the land after his family had re-
covered from their illness.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
I'D. e.. Auditorium Bill
Awaits President

these men. l believe the Jeffer-
son Memorial, when it is built,
should be of the same general
character in the sense that it
would be a memorial and moth
ing else.
"Offhand, 1t has seemed to me
that it might be appropriate to
build it near the Capitol and the
Union S tatiOn-do down here
across Massachusetts Avenue or
along New Jersey Avenue. Lo-
Gated there, it could be readily
tied into the general plan for
the development of the Capital,
would be readily accessible to
the station and to the hotels,
and would have the additional
advantage of clearing out an
area of dilapitated buildings
which at present are only an
eyesOre."
Both Senator Austin and Rep.
reSentative Lanham made it plair
that they do not favor or oppose
any particular site for the audi.
torium. Senator Austin suggested
that the wisdom of appropriating
additional sums for public build.
ings might be questioned. but said
he expected to go into the whole
problem thoroughly with his as
sociates on the commission, and
reach his own conclusions "on the
basis of the facts"
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
WHITE HOUSE
CONFIDENT
ON COURT
President Is Prepared
Personally to Lead
Finish Fight
By GEORGE DURNO
International News Service

The White House exuded conf
dence today as President Roose-
welt settled down for finish fight
to force through Congress his pro-
posal concerning the Supreme
Court.
While congressional observers
we're predicting that for once Mr..
Roosevelt would be unable to make
the grade, presidential lieutenant
prophesied the final roll call in
the Senate would find not more
than fifteen Democrats voting
against it.
Those who have campaigned
with and against the President
know he loves nothing better than
a stiff battle. His friends say he
is prepared to pull every trick out
of his bag-and they are numer-
ous-to win this one.
Old Enemies Seen
The very nature of the rapidly
mobilizing opposition is giving the
Chief Executive an added incen-
tive to hammer out victory, these
friends aver.
With State legislatures being
importuned to adopt memorials of
disapproval and with members of
Congress being flooded by tele-
graphic protests. many in identic
language, the Roosevelt board of
strategy senses the same under
cover sources of opposition that
developed in the Utilities Holding
Company fight during the last
Congress.
Already the White House, in a
very quiet way, was understood to
be raising an inquiring eyebrow at
certain Democratic members Of
both houses who pleaded for-and
got-active presidential support to
insure their election last Novem-
ber, but who now are lifting their
voices against Supreme Court re
juvenation."
War May Be Ruthless
These men must live with the
President for the next four years
and depend upon him to a great
extent for patronage and political
favors. They are dealing with a
second-tern President who pre-
sumably is not shaping up still an
other campaign for personal re-
election and who thus can afford
to be ruthless with those who de-
sert him in what he considers his
biggest battle.
The extent Of opposition to such
an unprecedented proposal as the
addition of six new justices to the
Supreme Court was foreseen and
carefully weighed by the Presi-
dent, say his close friends.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
NOW ENJOY
Rea|EGG
WAFFLES
without the bother
of making them!

TATAFFLES with the EGGS
w and all other ingredients
already mixedl Waf1es with
that grand old-fashioned
Southern goodnessl Waffles
you can have ready to serve
in S minutesl All you have to
do is add water and bakel
Ask your grocer for FIXT
WAFFLE MIX - there's no
other waffle mix like it'll Easy
inexpensive deliciousl
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
COURT ISSUE UP
IN MARYLAND
ASSEMBLY,
Resolution Opposing
Roosevelt Program
Strongly Backed

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 10.
Maryland General Assembly pre-.
pared to act today on the resolu-
ton of Delegate Philip Dorsey, Of
st. Mary's county, asking the
Maryland delegation in Congress
to oppose President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's proposal to change
the personnel of the United
States Supreme Court.
While the assembly is over.
whelmingly Democratic, there is
evidence that a strong faction is
opposed to the plan.
Just before Dorsey introduced
his resolution, Delegate William
S. Wilson, jr., of Baltimore, chair.
man of the House Judiciary Com.
mittee, had in his hands reso-
luton that would express the
approval by the House Of the
Supreme Court proposal.
AS the Dorsey resolution was
sent to the committee of which
Wilson is chairman, the favorable
resolution was withheld.
Should Wilson fail to bring the
Dorsey resolution out Of COM
mittee at an early date the
sponsor was in position to force
action with a petition he was
ready to circulate among the
members of the House, he said.
Had he made it a House resolu-
ton, instead of making it a joint
one swift action on the floor
would have resulted yesterday.
Dorsey was one Of the staunch
supporters of the late Gov. Albert
c. Ritchie.
Into the Senate Hopper yester-
day Senator George Hofferbert
CD of Baltimore City dumped a
200-page bill revising the motor
vehicle laws of the State.
The senate yesterday passed an
amendment to bill offered by
Senator Mary E. Risteau of Hart
ford county granting ten days rae.
ing instead of five at Marlboro.
DR.. H. c. Byrd, president of the
University Of Maryland, appeared
before the ways and means com.
mittee of the house asking ap-
proximately 100000 increase in
the budget and bond issue Of
$1,170,000 to carry out a l0-year
plan for the university.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
LIQUOR BOARD
HITS RACKET
Continued from Page ~


transferred for as high as $4,000
last year, the board disclosed.
Main Points
The amendment sought is mod.
eled after the New York State
liquor law and includes the fol.
lowing provisions.
/. No license shall be trans
ferable or aSsignable.
2. No license shall be pledged
or deposited as collateral for a
loan. Any such pledge or de-
posit shall be void.
3. In event Of a death or
bankruptcy. the board shall ap-
prove or refuse continuance of
a business by an executor or
administrator, and the fee for
this shall be S25.
T. No license shall be trans
ferred to another location ex-
cept with the approval of the
board, and the fee SIS.