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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Father Charged
With kidnapping
Young Daughter

Los ANGELES, Oct. 81 (UP)
Otto b. Kayser. 36-year-old
former IOWA high school teacher
and Colorado University athlete,
was under arrest today charged
with kidnapping his seven-year-
old daughter, Mary Jane from
Lynnville, Iowa.
Kayser, police said. admitted
he took the child from. school
six months ag3 and brought her
here, stoppine briefly at Denver
enr0ute. He refused to disclose
the whereabouts of the girl,
saying she was living with
friends and attending school.
'1'll never tell where she is
unless / am forced to do so,'
he said. "If necessary. I'll waive
extradition and return to Iowa
to face this charge"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

was eommuted to time served by
Gov. Frank Merriam. Officials said
Berman could be sent to a state
prison in event he failed to pay
the $4,000 Judgment.
Berman's release followed a long
legal battle during which he pro-
tested that he was brought to Al
catraz Island here from the federal
penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa, the
day before his federal term expired.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

be was held six months, when it
was announced that President
Franklin D Roosevelt commuted
10 year federal sentence against
him TO time served in federal peni-
tentiaries-seven years.
Against Berman still remains a
fine of $4,000. which the govern
ment agreed to accept as a civil
judgment.
Meantime, a one to "A year state
sentence against Berman previously
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Records Will be
Checked on Every
Valley J.P. Court

Records showing uncompleted traf-
fic cases and outstanding warrants
will be checked in every justice court
in the county this week by Mrs.
Mary Van Norman of the Califor-
MIA Highway Patrol office.
All reports concerning this phase
of the patrol work in Imperial coun-
ty must be forwarded to the Sacra-
mento office before the first of the
year,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
HUGE MILITARY AIR FLEET
TO TAKE PART IN MANEUVERS

and close by the Spanish Balearic
Islands of Minorca and Majorca.
Italy is alleged to have taken over
the insurgent-he1d Island of Ma
jorca and to have installed several
thousand troops.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
BRIGHT BOY OF
NOTORIOUS OIL
SCANDALS FREE

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. q. lUP)-Jacob Berman, the
bright boy of the notorious Julian oil scandal was
free today after having spent 2 years in Imprisonment
after his conviction various fraud charges.
lie released from San Francisco county jail where
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

CALUMBIA, Mo. U.P = Missouri
ranks above all cotton producing
states of the South in the average
yield per acre Of the crop, accord
ing to a joint survey made by the
University of Missouri AMI the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

He insisted this was a violation
of his constitutional rights and a
move designed only to bring him
under the jurisdiction of the Cali
fornia courts so he could be held
on his state conviction on charges
of forgery and Misrepresentation in
violation of the corporate securities
act.
His federal conviction was on a
charge of using the mails to de-
fraud.
During the time that the $780,
100000 Julian Oil company's stock
was traded coastwise, Berman gain
ed a reputation in Los Angeles of
being able to arrange million dol
lar pools" overnight. The collapse
of the company in 1927 brought
him his first trouble with the law
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

These fine Rayon Panties in the
new styles and here as a Certified
Dollar Day value at 2 for LOO. See
these in our Apparel Aisle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
LOOKING THE FACTS IN THE FACE

The staggering sum of fourteen billions Of dol,
lars has been added to the national debt; the cost
of government operation has risen from four to
seven billion year; the Federal machine has been
expanded to the point where administration is in
crediby confused, unbelievably wasteful and inef'
ficent; millions of people are supported by Federal
funds and millions more are receiving checks. Nc
real way to retreat from this business is proposed
It Is also true that, despite business improvement
the unemployed are not apprecably diminished OF
the cost of relief lightened; that great labor
strike, menacing recovery, has been precipitated
without adequate cause; that the threat of infa-
ton is by no means holloy one. The President
of course knows all this as we'll as any 1t is hard
ly possible he is deceived by his own propaganda
These are the problems he has to tackle this term
The difference is that while in 1888 the depression
with which he wrestled was already beginning to
ebb and he was aided by the great worldwide eco
nomic laws, this time the solution will depend much
more upon his own wisdom and capacity.-Frank
Kent in Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT A wEDGE7

To The Christian Science Monitor:
The editorial on Health Assurance" in recent
Monitor brings to the fore very poignanty an ele-
ment which unfortunately so few are sufficiently
alert to detect in the present social trend.
The one dangerous element in the Social Secur-
ty Act is its compulsory nature. The necessity OF
such legislation as would provide for the needy
aged but surely there are those who would prefer
to make their own provision for the future and
have the means and confidence to do so; and these
should certainly have that privilege.
BY submitting to compulsory legislation there i:
always the danger of admitting wedge that will
initiate other compulsory measures, as this very
proposal for health insurance would indicate. How
many of us would care to subject ourselves to a
compulsory health insurance. which would natural
ly also involve compulsory medical treatment? Yet
how can we feel secure from such measures when
we have already accepted old-age insurance as .
compulsory measure? What guarantee have we
that we may not further be forced eventually to
accept a religion which the government prescrbes
or a system of education that is governmentaly
controlled?
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" and
it is my sincere hope that the present generation
has not become so passive and acquiescent as to
permit itself to be luled to sleep to the soporifc
tune of social security."-(Mrs.) Elsie L. VALID
hauer, Brooklyn, N. Y, in The Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
ADMINISTRATION HAS NO PURPOSE TO
q n.y. ECONOMIZE

Supporting this contention with irrefutable evil
dence, Mr.. Byrd states that there are today in
Washington SO Federal legal divisions, "a agencies
lending Federal money, 81 agencies concerned with
acquisition Of land, 16 concerned with wild life
preservation, and 1o4 information and publication
bureaus. Now the crisis has passed, he would like
to see some of these weeded out with the view of
saving the people money. One would suppose such
q senatorial suggestion would be cordially received,
particularly as there is no argument to Justify the
continuation of these overlapping agencies Instead,
Mr.. Byrd's economy ideas are to be rebuked and
he himself sighted by having the presidents plan
referred to special committee instead of his COM
mittee. There is some talk that he will be re-
fused place on the special committee, though, as
he can easily be blanketed there, that would seem
an unnecessary slight. Talk about the Forgotten
Man'-what about the forbidden word-"Econo-
my."-Frahk Kent in Charlotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
THE ACID TEST

The poet Horace looked upon the null
titude of common people and spoke OF
them as pigs.
The Roman Senate looked down from
its place of easy security upon the fierce
struggle for. existence and called them
wolves. s :.
The elect of Egypt and Babylon made
war upon their neighbors among the ma
tions and subjected all their captives to
slavery.
There was once Man who looked upon
the masses and called them sheep having
no shepherd" No wonder the common
people cringing under the sneers Of pig
wolf and slave" followed him gladly
It was of such people that the worlds most
enduring Republic was born. 1t was to
such people that Lincoln attributed the
love of God, for "He made so many OF
them"
The man who aspires to be leader apd
friend of mankind today must open the
contents of his mind and heart to the
scrutiny of the masses. What does he think
of the people when he has no need to flat
ter them? What does he call them wher
he is with the circle of his confdants? ,
Does he then look upon the world with
a hard light in his eyes and contempt II
his voice? Is his service to the people sim
ply the lip service that seeks to win then
suffrage? .- ,..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
ALCOHOL: HABlT.FoRMING POISON

Some alarming facts about alcohol-and facts
which will be new to many readers-are brought
out in an article in The Progressive Farmer by Or.
Scale Harris, one of the South's foremost medical
authorities Celebrating medical proof that aeo-
hol is really poison, he continues: F.sA,.
"But the great danger from alcohol comes not
only from the fact that it is ~ atrue toxin but
also from the fact (2) that it IS a habit-forming
drug. We are often told that few glasses OF
beer or wine, or q few drinks of whisky or gin
Goddess cocktails, and highballs) may do no ap-
precable harm if any boy girl, man or woman,
will simply take an occasional social drink and stop
at one drink This if however, is as big as a
barn door. For no person, young or old, male or
female, is immune from forming the alcohol habit
so long as he or she drinks at all. / have known
men who led sober lives until they were 40 or 5O
years old and then became confirmed drunkards
and died from some form of alcoholism. DR.. w. j.
Mayo, in a recent address to the young doctors at
the Mayo clinic, said:
civilian Allen White is of the opinion that
three out of ten who take alcoholic drinks, like
whisky and brandy, become addicted to the use of
liquor; that is they become steady drinkers, by
common parlance 'addicts.' Of course not all of
them become what we term irunkards, but they
find it nearly impossible to break themselves of the
habit and the results may be deterioration and un
happiness which bear heavily on the family and the
family's future. The 70 per cent of drinkers who
do not become addicts in the sense that we ordi-
nary understand the term, as well as the 80 per
cent addcts, sometimes develop changes in the
liver and the vascular and nervous systems later in
life which we have reason to believe are late
result of alcohol Can the doctor, of all men, af-
ford to take a 80 per cent chance of becoming an
alcohol addict?
"Can anybody, boy or girl, man or woman, af-
ford to run a three-out-of-ten chance of becoming
an alcohol addict in order to be socable? Certain
", the only safe plan for any person is never to
take the first drink of any alcoholic beverage?-
Morganton News-Herald
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
Stamp News
BY |. 5. Klein

RUMORS from Washington pre-.
~ dict a new stamp, or set oil
stamps, covering the trans-Paciie
lights. Some sources hint that the
present ascent rate will be re-
iuced. Others mention stamps OF
varying values covering the trips
o Hawaii, Guam, Manila, and
China.
Rumors also cover possibility OF
Early connections with China. An.
Iouncement Of this opening flight
may come too late to be included
IN this column and still give COL
lectors time to send their covers
10 China for the return trip. Local
oostmasters, however, get such
aews in their postal bulletins di.
rect from Washington. Collector:
should see them for earliest in
formation about such covers.
Liberia has issued new series
Of bi-colored triangles in sis
values. "a The first five picture
birds and animals of Liberia. The
six-cent stamp bears portrait o:
President Edwin ]. Barclay.
g.iN..
King Christian x Of Denmark
next June will celebrate his 25tt
anniversary on the throne, and
set of six stamps will be issued
Tor the event.
Peru has Just issued a colorfuI
series Of 10 postage and Is air.
mail stamps, illustrating important
places, industries, events, anG
leaders Of that country.
Similar issues are expected
shortly from Nicaragua. There
will be IL values of ordinary post
age, one semi-postal, and nine air.
nails. -1n pd 90 - 9r0 sd Eml
tcopyrish,. 1897, NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
THE NEW DE Al;
IN WASHINGTON
.RY RODNEY BUTCHER

Murphy then won a l5-day
truce for negotiations. The union
would take its SitdownerS out Of
G. M. plants and G. M. would
promise not TO try to produce
automobiles in the plants or TO
move equipment away.
This was n remarkable conces-
sion from such a corporation.
Everyone who knows labor his
tory realizes what an innovation
il was compared to the old-fash-
toned practice Of arresting and
beating strikers, using local cops,
hired thugs, and militia if neces-
Sary.
The point of all this, as seen by
many insiders, is that Murphy is
a young and ambitious politician
who is by no means through run
ming for office in Michigan, that
he was on the spot, and practically
had to 90 down the line for labor
if he expected to be elected to
anything again.
MURPHY is also a pleasant
-'I gentleman of no small talent,
a liberal, and presumably fair
minded and friendly to labor, any
way. Possibly he would have acted
in the same way regardless of his
future hopes. .,-,g ZOO.
But the realistic warriors for in
dustrial unionism are not counting
on that. They feel Murphy knows
he couldn't have been elected last
November without heavy labor
support and that, what's far more
important, he can't be reelected
or sent to the U. S. Senate with
out labor support.
What they feel applies to Muir
ply applies to other governors
also. Among other executives of
large industrial states more or less
heavily indebted to organized
labor are Earle Of Pennsylvania,
Davey of Ohio, Horner of Illinois,
and Lehman Of New York.
None Of these men will be quick
to use troops against strikers; all
are compelled 70 recognize labor
ms a strong political force. r.
I,lCopyright 1887, NEA Service. Inc. J
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
In BOTH CASES 1T is A SWEET MESS

Our facetious contemporary, The News
and Courier of Charleston calls upon all
patriotic South Carolinians to souse their
battercakes in molasses and thus aid in
promoting the business to which DIR. Rex
Tugwell is now devoting his talents. II
Tugwell adds to the prices of molasses IN
the proportion he increased the cost of ma
tional government while he was connected
with it. few South Carolinians will be able
to buy molasses. ......
On the retirement of the Doctor from
the governing business Frank Kent pointed
out that his little foray into that field had
cost the people of this country many hun
dreds of millions of dollars. Kent says that
President Roosevelt was completely under
the spell of Tugwell's vagaries and gave
him a free hand to scatter the cash OF the
taxpayers. Kent calls the Tugwell regime
'.folly", which is mild word for it.
The fact is that DR.. Tugwell knows as
much about business as the average ten
year-old kid and possesses no more fitness
or capacity for the job he had with the
government than any number OF ten-year-
Odds who could be found in any section OF
the country. His Uranium is filled with
wheels and they don't synchronize and are
all running in different directions.
The public has not yet been able to
learn what use the molasses industry has
for Tugwell, but it is certainty he is not
being employed on account of his business
wisdom, capacity and experience.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent

NEA Service stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. General Mo-
w tors strike developments
show clearly what the Lewis
group and other labor leaders
were aiming for when they threw
their, full weight into the last
election.
Tactics of Gov. Frank Murphy
Of Michigan, the general belief
among observers that Roosevelt
will eventually. have to step in to
achieve a settlement, the great
care taken by General Motors to
maintain pleasant public rela-
lions, and the breezy confidence
of members Of the Committee for
Industrial Organization may all
be taken into account in deter
mining whether this is the same
country it used to be insofar as
concerns dealings among govern
ment, industry, and labor.
That doesn't imply that anyone
can tell what the result of the
automobile strike will be or that
there's any strong belief in Wash
ington that the strikers will win
their demands.
But the fact that neither the
governor Of Michigan nor the
president of the United States de-
sires to crush the strike by giving
organized labor less, than an even
break is a'factor both historic and
important.
A WRIT was issued in Flint on
"A the basis Of which authorities
were planning to eject sitdown
strikers with gas--and clubs and
guns if need be. A. the first out
break of violence Murphy ordered
in state troops, with assurance
that there would be mo riots and
no trouble"
John L. Lewis announced that
he was authorized by representa-
tives of Murphy to say that troops
would not be used to evict strik-
ers, with an implication that the
troops would keep anyone else
from chasing them out. ...
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
Bishop Mouzon
Declares Vets In
Minority In N. {,

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 23.-Bishop
Edwin d. Mouzon Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South be-
lieves that the vets are in a mi
nority in North Carolina.
Speaking at a luncheon given
by the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union in celebration of
that organizations Education
Day." the churchman said:
eve would remind members of
the General Assembly that they
are not our masters but our rep
resentatives and they must do the
will of the people of North Caro-
lima. The time has come for a
state wide referendum and we in
vitc it. We welcome it. The vets
do not want it. They are afraid
of it. They know the facts are
against them and they are afraid
Of the facts"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
PRISON CAFETERIA

MOUNDSVILLE, ". Y, -,
A cafeteria in the Wc>' ny
state penitentiary AZ whirI :
oners can have all they Mas.
eat provided they seat The ~.
clean" has been proposed .
c. +. McClintic. warden. v
the cafeteria system cogV :
the state between $4,000 ari " y
600 annually. y
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
ANIMALS REVIVE
NEW YORK (UP)-J,,

NEW YORK, Jan. -. ~
Animals which have been e.
cutcd can be saved hy Cos.
shocks administered with, !
minutes, according to rc>es,,
Prof. William 7. McNiii ni,
Leonard J. Piccoli of FaS
University.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23

ing CRIES were
uncompr ehend ed
by him until too
late to correct
his blunder.
The statesmen
of the world are
d Gi n & exactly
what that con-
f u S ed football
player did--thSy
are rushing mad
ly into wal
though all the
while imagining
they are moving
sanely tow ar d
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23

A season or so ago spectators
at a California football game were
amazed and Mortified to see a
player who had become turned
around in his mind, seize the ball
and race swiftly down the field
directly away from the goal in
stead of toward it. Frantic warn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?

A bootlegger in my city who
has been fined five thousand dol
lars during the past year, has
threatened to quit selling moon
shine liquor unless the courts
cease taking his money away from
him.
That is a threat that is a
threat. The first thing we know
the kidnapers will stop kidnapping
persons unless the G-Men cease
catching them and putting them
in Jail for life.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
RESCUE GOLDFISH

SYRACUSE, n. Y. (UP)-
Four police cars answered the call
when Allen NJ. Ruch's homemade
wall aquarium splintered and
crashed. They got there in time
to save the lives of five goldfish
Somewhat sheepishly, the police
placed the fish in a bucket OF
water and departed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
BARRED For LEE

TIFFIN, o. (UP)-As plenty
for conviction on a manslaughter
charge, Herman Tannenbaum. AZ
a commercial artist, has been
barred from driving for the re.
mainder of his life. Judge Ralph
Sugrue revoked Tannenbaum's Ii,
cense as substitute for one
to-20-year prison term.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
ADVERTISING SALE SINE N
By Noah Hollowell

ADVERl JAIL y !" ~
have heard business men say they
didn't want any publicity because
they had all the business they
wanted. Of course, they were
nominated for the |ANANlAS
club. But here is a business that
has all the business it wants and
has been operating a whole year
with no sign over, under or on the
door or windows to indicate the
nature of the business or its loca-
ton. The sign is just now going
UP on Third avenue east but not
for advertising purposes but as a
means of direction to out-of-town
visitors in the personages of Off
Gals. 1t is the Henderson county
welfare office, and Miss Norma
Spence, who presides therein, as
sures us that they are not bidding
for more business.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
THE DESERTED VILLAGE

AS far back as ITO Oliver
Goldsmith in his famous poem,
"The Deserted Village" deplored
the decline of the rugged, whole
some English peasantry with its
simple pastoral life, and the adj
vance of commercialism and the
concentration Of wealth.
A person who would weaken the
foundation of his dwelling would
be regarded as foolish. Yet the
great middle class is the founda-
ton of any government. What
ever weakens that class or pre-
vents its being strong and virile,
impairs the foundation of the
nation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
Do You KNOW A HENDER.

sonvillc business man who is more
sympathetic, encouraging and law
ish in praise of men and measures
than Ross Sutherland? But, woe
be unto him who comcth under
the condemnation Of his wrath
but this doesn't often get stirred
IN.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
ONE THING AND ANOTHER
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

SelfiShness and greed have al
ways been shortsighted and prob
ably always will be. To keep our
selves from being short-sighted
we must keep ourselves from be-
ing selfish and greedy.
The breakdown of its villages
means the breakdown of the ma
tons sanest units. Great cities
have always been pestilential in
their effects on human life.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
MY SOUVENIR

Members of the Utah State
Legislature steal so manX of the
brass spittoons from the State
capitol that a new supply has to
be purchased for each session.
OF course the Utah lawmakers
would deny that they steal the
cuspidors, but merely take them
as souvenirs. 1t would be inter-
esting, however, to observe how
many spittoons the lawmakers
would snitch if the receptacles
were made of tin stead of brass.
OF course if the Utah legislators
do not steal anything from the
taxpayers but cuspidors, that
would help.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23

The U. s. dcpartmon, o, ID,
mcrcc has estimated ,hqr h
production of cigarette IN /.
country totalcd l38,65f,O0ods
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23

Itlwas down in Indiana that stadium
program seller was fred for. crying, Get
the names, numbers and salaries OF all the
playersp' He should have. written it UP in
an article. go
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23

Indians in the Southwest have been ma
rooned by blizzards, and it looks as If the
knitting mills Of Nashus would have to rush
q supply of those Navajo blankets.