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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
Didn't Know
Oklahoma Prisoner
Cited for Ignorance

McALESTER, Okla. Aug. IS.
where were you on the night of
November 3 last?" might be q
fair question to ask one Of the
inmates of McAleSter penitentiary
In q letter requesting the board
Of affairs to enlarge the prison
school, the Rev. A. R. Garrett,
prison chaplain, included the fol-
lowing memorandum on a new
prisoner just matriculated from
LeFlore county:
HE didn't know who is Presi.
dent Of the United States. He
didn't know the name Of the
county from which he was SEN
fenced. and in which he had lived
all his life. He didn't know the
name Of the judge who sentenced
him. He didn't know who was
governor Of Oklahoma"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
Act0y Denies Being
Wed to StOUalUay

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % ct
P.S).-Henry Mollison, British
film actor, today vigorously de.
MED a marriage with the 23-year.
old stowaway who described her
self to New York officials as MRS
Molly MolliSon," divorced wife Of
the actor.
Perturbed at reports Of the girls
story, Mollison telephoned to deny
any affiliation with the woman
who slowed away on the liner
California, and was returned 20
New York aboard the same vessel
"This apparently is the same
woman who staged a 'sit-down
strike to annoy me in the Holly
wood Athletic Club a year or so
ago." he said.
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FAIR STOWAWAY
BLAMES DRINKS.
FOR HER PLIGHT
20 Scotch and Sodas
Led Her to Linger

NEW YORK. Aug. IS d.N.S).
The S. s. CALIFORNIA; prize stow
away today attributed her second
visit at Bellevue Hospital to too
much conviviality.
Mrs. Molly Mollison, as she calls
herSelf-or Elizabeth Schwarz, as
the ship log describes her-said
she met a party of British friends
after being returned from Scot
land and drank more than 20
Scotch-and-Sodas.
REASON FOR PLIGHT
That, she said, accounted for
her presence early yesterday at
pier No. 80. Customs guards who
seized her said they didn't know
whether she planned to jump into
the river or Stowaway on the s. s..
Roma.
Bellevue records showed she was
brought there last May 20 after
attempting to leap from the seven
tenth floor of the Waldorf
Astoria. She was discharged on
June 3 with mo psychosis."
Patrolmen Stephen Sullivan
and John Hough saw her near the
pier Of West Fifty-second Street at
midnight. At 2:30 a. M, she was
still there, talking to customs
guards.
When Mrs. Mollison saw the
policemen she ran into the pier
shed. They followed and caught
her. She refused to give her
name or explain her actions, and
when they took her to the West
Forty-seventh Street station she
still refused to talk. She finally
admitted her identity when she
was shown a newspaper photo
graph taken yesterday.
REGISTERS PROTEST
A physician was called from
City Hospital and he decided to
send her to Bellevue.
I'm not a criminal and I'm
not SICK" she protested.
When she arrived yesterday,
Mrs. Mollison was carried down
the gangplank by cheering stew
ards. ......
She explained that she had
slowed away with the intention
of marrying q Scotch airplane
pilot. He did not show up, she
said, but she received dozens Of
letters from more gallant Scots
who wanted to marry her.
The police suspect the crew Of
the California was so nice to her
that she is in danger Of becom-
ing an habitual stowaway.
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see what he could do about sing
ing in more than one voice.
whereas the ventriloquist sang
only one note as a duet, Scelp
found he could do a song as a
complete trio.
"Was I surprised" he said,
there's only one catch to the
whole thing, though. Every
once in a while my talking voice
cracks into the soprano field
and me a husky painter.
Then it's embarrassing"
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Tony Scelp, 80, house painter
Of Midland, Pa, discovered, he ad-
n1itted, today, that at 10 he not
only could sing baritone, soprano
and first tenor, but could sing
them all at the same time.
81 was singing with a bar.
ber's quartet" he said, when
I made this startling discovery.
I Immediately became a trio on
my own-why should do all
that work for them other guys?"
Scelp admits he was influenced
BY q ventriloquist and decided to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
Shot By Policemen,
Model Youth Dies

NEW YORK, Aug. Is UN.S0.
Shot three times by two policemen
after he snatched pair Of white
flannel trousers from the arm Of
a pedestrian, Frank Converse, 10.
dice in a hospital today.
Insisting Frank was a model
YOUTH" his mother said she was
unable to understand why he
wanted to steal the trousers when
he had plenty o: clothes.
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Meat Firm Sued
On Book Purchase

CHICAGO, Aug. Is G.N.S).
Officials of the meat packing firm
of Swift & Co. today faced a
suit demanding the return of
$4,000 spent for Democratic year
books with President Roosevelt's
signature.
The suit, filed by Attorney Rob-
ert c. Kewley as a stakeholder,
charges the officials had wasted
and squandered" the company's
money in buying the books.
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Tiny Wife, Big
Hubby Make Up

CHICAGO, Aug. Is G.NS).
The long and short Of it was that
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Goldsworthy
were one again today. Dorothy.
"a, agreed to a dismissal of her
divorce suit brought because Of
"in-laW" trouble when her hus-
band promised things would be
different. Whereupon Dorothy
stood on a chair and they en-
braced. She is four feet four
inches tall. He is five feet ten.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
Savants to Explore
Jungles of Amazon

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Study Of
disease and drugs of Indian tribes
along the northern tributaries of
the Amazon River will be the OBJ
ject of an expedition which leaves
here Friday aboard the Royal
Dutch liner Van Rensselaer,.
The expedition will be under DR..
William Hall Holden, staff surgeon
of the American Museum Of
Natural History, and will be the
second he has led into the interior
of British Guinea.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25

A Statue That ForetOId Murder and
Suicide. Strange Tragedy Of Circus.
Dramatic True Life Story In The
American Weekly. with Sundays WASH
iDRton Herald.
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Hunt for FOrger
Ends in Prison

FLINT. Mich, Aug. Is UN.S0.
Harold Brewer, 46, who is wanted
by authorities here on a forgery
charge, ended in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary today. Detective Herbert
Straley said he had been in
formed Brewer was serving a forg-
cry term there. He said he filed
a retainer asking that Brewer be
held for Michigan police when
his term expires.
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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
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Ontario to Erect
Four Pulp Mills

TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. IS
(C.T.P.S0-Hon. Peter Heenau,
Ontario minister of lands and for
ests, announced agreements COW
ering the erection of four pulp
mills in Ontario, located at Fort
William, Sioux, Lookout and
either Michipicoten or Sault ste.
Marie.
One mill will have a capacity
Of 100 tons while the others will
produce 200 tons of pulp daily.
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Surprising Exploits Of an English
ex.RectOr Who Led a Blameless Life
Until 60, Then Made Ardent Love to
Pretty Working Girls, Went Around
in q Barrel, Starved in o Glass Coffin
and Finally Made the Fatal Mistake
Of Stepping on a Lions Paw. The
American Weekly, with Sundays Wash
ingtOn Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25

Surprising Exploits OF an English
ex-RectOr Who Led a Blameless Life
Until so. Then Made Ardent Love to
Pretty Working Girls, Went Around
in q Barrel. Starved in a Glass Coffin
and Finally Made the Fatal Mistake
Of Stepping on o Lions Paw. The
American Weekly. with Sundays Wash
ingtOn Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06
THE NEW D Z A T.
IN WASHIN GTON
-eY RODNEY BUTCHER

his reorganization program, whit
wondering how to get congress
sional approval for that programs
framework.
At the same time, he is Crap
ping with neutrality legislation
and the intricate financial and
other aspects of foreign affairs,
doping out the budget and relief
expenditures. and attending to a
thousand other details with which
he cannot now avoid contact while
running the biggest business in
the world.
II isn't hard to sympathize with
the president when he says, as he
said recently:
81 just don't get time to think"
THE well-organized capacity of
L members of Congress to SYM
pathize with themselves may
make it easier to put the whole
New Deal under civil service than
is commonly expected.
Congressman will always be
avid for patronage as long as
there is patronage to be had, but
officials of long experience in
dealing with them about jobs say
the chief thing the average con-
gresham fears is that some other
congressman will get more gravy
than he.
Most of the sounder. more use
full members are tired Of serving
as personal employment agencies.
They do it because anyone who
tries to attend to business to the
neglect of patronage. is almost
sure to get licked. That has been
especially true of Democratic con-
gressmen in the last four years,
General civil service would
mean a considerable saving for
the taxpayers, who now support
thousands of useless political job
holders. But many congressman
are especially concerned about
their own pocketbooks. 1t costs
money, they explain, to stake job
seekers to money for board and
rSom in Washington while they
wait around hopefully for a job.
downright, 1881. NEA Service, Inc
b.
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Hendersonville, Rout, !,

HENDERSONVILLE. Por.-
Feb. 6.-Dinner guests Of NJ
Mrs. w. w. Brown las, 81. a.;
were Mr.. and Mrs. France. V Sn
and Mrs. Ina Gentry and 'S%,'
Donald and Bobby. ''a'
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmupdso,
Fruitland, recently visited NJ q
Mrs. Ralph EdmundSon. y" al.
Little Earl and Emm,
Saltz of Atlanta, are visiting i, "a
grandparents for a while, II, y. :;
Mrs. NJ. S. Shipman. u
Frances Swami, who has
working in Ashevillc, has rc,, y
home. H
Clyde Walker, who is .,
ployc Of the state, spent the W., y
end at his home. WIT
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert S,,...
were recent visitors Of NJ -;
Mrs. John Edmundson. -
. Mrs. Ina Gentry spent the v..,
end with her sister, Nlrs. Fr,,. .s
Swan.
A large crowd from this -.
munity attended the eyer,
given at Dana by the Coffee Ss
last Friday night. y"
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Editor Times-News:

Editor Times-News:
In answer to letter written to
your paper by f. }. Chaplin !
would like to explain to the pub
lie. / was out Of the city at the
time this happened but on my re-
turn | noticed this letter in the
paper and / investigated it thor
oughly.
This is what | found: This fe-
male dog with no owner had been
running loose in this town and
various complaints by our citizens
that they could not sleep at night
for the disturbance. Policeman
Seth Edmuhdson finally got her
back of j. c. Penney's store and
killed her and killed one other
dog leaving several other dogs
around there and it certainly is a
mistake about the dog being tied
up and killing every dog that
came along.
We have calls practically every
day at the city hall disturbing peo-
pie and dogs at the school houses,
demanding us to kill them. we
always try to get in touch with the
owner and see if we can get nm
to do something with the dogs be-
fore we kill them.
Instead of the police department
in Hendersonville being cruel to
dogs the policemen own too many
dogs to suit me and they are toe
good to them. ] certainly do not
allow the policemen to be cruel to
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ed by some kinds of men. Some
times an idea cannot be gotten in
to a persons head except by jolt
ing it in through letting him out
and sometimes paths to bigger
things are opened to us by persons
who dismiss us.
Whether or not we need the
money, it is painful experience
to receive one Of those we-Shall-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COM
munications; it is soak in the
solar plexus: it hurts the pride If
nothing else. Not wanted. Per-
soma nongrata. A bitter pill to be
obliged to swallow.
Some employers sugar-coat the
pill by giving a counterfeit exucse
about cutting down expenses OFT
abolishing the position or some
thing like that. And how does it
make discharged person feel aft
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courts. This has been done in manner 81
vicious and with such show OF force tina
they can be regarded as nothing less thar
insurrectionists. The duty of suppressins
this Instruction or rebellion, Of course
rested squarely upon the shoulders OF Gov
ernor Murphy. When he absolutely failed
| in the discharge of his duty it became the
duty of the President of the United States
to step in and restore and maintain legal
government and peace and order in the
State. ts .'..'
What we see in Flint, Mich, as this IS
being written is anarchy. Why we see an
archy in Flint, Mich, is explained by
Frank Kent. 1t is solely due to the pusil-
lanimity of demagogues in positions Oh
public power, who shake in their shoes
every time bullying labor agitator like
John Lewis rears up on his hindlegs and
lets out a roar. Cowardice of the most con-
temptible kind ever exhibited in this coun-
try, on the part of men elected and sworn
to maintain peace and order and the Amer
lean form of government in the nation and
in the States, is the cause of conditions eX-
isting in Flint.
The government that fails to quell law
lessness of the aggravated nature OF the
trouble in Flint, and does so because OF
partisan prejudice, class hatred, or to pay
a political debt, Gas Lewis called upon
Roosevelt to do or simply because OF
moral cowardice and lack of courage to
do right, is laying up trouble mountain
high for itself and the country That IS
exactly what Roosevelt and Murphy have
been engaged in doing.
One feature of the situation in Flint with
which the general public is probably not
familiar, is the fact that in addition TO
John Lewis strikers, who probably are
not more than ten per cent OF General MO-
tors workers in the city, there have Uttered
into Flint in the past weeks thousands OF
agitators, roughnecks and gangsters, mob
sters all of them, who are there for the
purpose of aiding the strikers in making
war on the city and county authorities ana
in defying the orders of the courts.
This is the explanation of the slowness
of the authorities to move to suppress the
insurrection. Flint's mayor has confessed
that the city does not have sufficient ponce
protection to control the situation and the
sheriff of the county is equally poweress.
In that case the man to step in is Murphy
who controls the national guard. Murphy
brought the soldiers to Flint, but instead
of using them to suppress the rebellion ne
has. in large measure, used them in a
way to aid the insurrectionists in holding
the plants.
In this connection attention is directed
to the fact that one of the Washington cor
respondents last week made the open and
shut statement (Which has never been de-
nied) that Murphy has been in constant
telephone communication with Roosevelt
during the strike and that his course has
been planned and governed by the Presi-
dent.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER


NEA Service stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. - Some people
" always have been known to
expect quite lot for a nickel, and
t is perhaps just a coincidence
hat some of those who crab most
necessarily at performances of the
government are always happy
when they can help see to it that
his or that federal branch is
forced to 60 hopping along on one
leg.
One Of the items in the presi-
dents reorganization program
which is stirring up the most OPP
position in Congress calls for the
hiring of a half dozen capable eX-
ecutive assistants at the White
House to help the president ad-
minister his man-killing job. This
might cost 100000 or $4,000 a
yean
Right now, in Washington, there
is a perceptible temporary break
down in leadership. Those close
enough to the creaking machinery
to analyze what's happening in
sist that this is due primarily to
the inefficiency Of a one-man sys-
tenn Of government, in which the
"one man" has at his side no able
aides to serve as conduits for in
2 coming information and outgoing
exercise Of executive power.
No Time to Think ... .
I'm at least a couple Of occasions
" Roosevelt was up nearly all
night handling or inquiring into
food problems. He has. had to
keep constantly in touch with de-
velopments in the General Motors
strike.
Either Of those two jobs would
be enough for a man in whom
ultimate power resided. Roose.
Welt, however. also is trying tc
supervise promotion of a new anc
far-reaching program for mini
mum wages and maximum hours
mulling over possible plans for {
constitutional amendment or other
method of. curbing the supreme
court, and working out details o,
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BENEFITS OF GETTING FIRED
-By WICKES WAMBOLDT

A cook who had lost her job
because her mistress had sudden
" lost patience with scorched oat-
meal, muddy coffee, burnt toast
and late breakfasts, mechanically
picked up a newspaper from a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06

seat IN the DuS
as she rode home.
Her eye fell on a
front-page story
of a middle west
ern university
president W h 0
had been dis
charged for an
efficiency and in
a t t e n i o n to
duty"
"Me an hin,
bofe." soliloquiz-
ed the cook.
A firing now
and then is need
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Back in 1922 the Dallas News published
this one: cts our idea that It is downright
unfair to raise an innocent young king with
no preparation for, private life Windsor
should appreciate that on Esr 7KnGoY.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06

Reigny' days in Europe are not over,
only the reigning is now done by duces,
fuehrers, commissars, .dictators and prime
ministers, instead of mere kings, kaisers
and emperors.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06

The Ontario farmer who has radio UNI
der the seat of his buggy undoubtedly is
glad that ooh, Whoa Whoa, Whoa Whoa"
song is out.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06

The ordinary husband doesn't mind be-
ing PANIED by his wife. What the divorce
seeking Chicagoan objected to was that
his spouse used a skillet. '.'2 6He
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After being out 40 years, a book was re-
turned to a Syracuse, N. Y, library. 1t
would be nice if other libraries gave one
enough time to finish best sellers.
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In family portraits, German artists, by
order, hereafter must draw at least four
children. The trend in Canada would be
to panoramas. g., .
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A squirrel ran amuck in Rockford, ILL.,,
and bit four persons, which was our first
intimation that the Marx brothers were on
the road.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06
FLOOD LEGISLATURE

DENVER. (UP)-An all-time
record was established by Colora-
dos 31st general assembly when
1897 bills proposing legislation,
both serious and frivolous. were
proposed. In the l5-day limit al
lowed for the introduction of
bills. l,196 were offered in the
house and 701 in the senate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-06
BIBLE THOUGHT
THE SHEPHERD PSALM

H. And shall dwell IN the house OF the Lore
forever" (Ps. 1850
The passing of the years awakens in our hearts
the cry for permanenee. But better than the
thought of permanence is the thought that heaven
is a HOME. ''In My Fathers house are many man.
sions" To those who trust Christ and are one with
Him disappointment is impossible. Therefore, the
weakest believer that reads these lines may dare
affirm,
II will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
From the booklet THE Shepherd Psalm by +.
b. Meyer, D. ID.
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is scarcely les preferable

is Scarcely les PIeIeI dUIe'
Until radio speakers become
more careful and more pfonuncia-
ton Conscious. we should doowell
to bear in mind that lust because
We hear it from duly authorized
air spokesman, it is not necessar-
ily correct.
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THE PANIcKY CONDITIONS
By Noah Hollowell

THE PANICKY CONDITIONS
incident to the floods and the
EVACUATION Of inundated
cities having subsidized, the flood
relief workers have returned with
a sufficiency of glory about their
valued services to suffering hui
manity. The Hendersonville area
responded nobly in materials,
money and workers, who found an
opportunity to serve well under
anything but a picnicking atmos-
phere. 1t is not often that hui
manity calls in such alarming
tones; opportunities for such rem
dering Of self are rare.
BUSINESS is EVER REACH
ing down in it's little trick box to
bring forth something new. This
time the Rigby-Morrow company
and the Brownlee Insurance and
Realty company bring US q new
note in advertising. From day to
day the former is relating some
note of progress in the building
realm, keeping before us the
building activities that don't often
reach the front page. The latter,
on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
brings notes and comments on
rentals, realty sales, insurance and
the real estate outlook. Their con-
tributions are unusually interest
ing as advertisements. In other
words, these firms are rcsorting to
one of the most valuable types of
publicity, that which appeals to
the general reader because of the
news value and the comments
thereon. These concerns are doing
little "columning" on the side.
IF OLD MAN WINTER KEEPS
this up long he will be able to
keep fruit buds and general
growth in the fruit and vegetable
;ingdom back until such time as
hey should become active.
~ToDAY's WORD STUDY:
Evacuate (e-vak-u-at) sc" slight
ly pronounced, emphasis on yak
With short a, light emphasis, and
same for at. Enormously pro-
lounced with emphasis on first,
econd and fourth syllables. To
make empty, to remove contents
Of, to withdraw from, to quit, va
cate, withdrawal; evacuation used
rs noun.
1t takes an event of an unusual
nature to bring some words to the
'front.' conspicuously. doubt if
he word, "evacauate," has been
Used so many times in such short
period in the history of American
newspapers as during the past
.wo weeks. The reporters overdid
he word because of its adaptive
hess. They used it as a noun,
verb, both transitive and intransi-
tive, and in the present, past, fu-
ture, perfect and pluperfect, and
all other lenses known to the
grammarian, as well as in the ac-
tive and passive voices. The word
was not enormously done but
simply overdone.
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The Royal Canadian mounted policeman
who is fond of doing beadwork always gets
his mantelpiece.
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Horse sense appears to be passing out
with the horse, probably because it was
the horse that had it.
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ytdgs.an6 f-ifave never s,..,

stfss.and f-haSe nercr hc..,
before but a policeman canna, " y
down and catch these doc. ' sa'
on lots of occasions and i, y, '''t
ed all the dogs that the NJ. ~
partment was demandnsy Dc.
would keep one man of n, 70 i
department busy all of ,bc ;! Police
l just wanted the gcncr,, '.Me.
to know exactly the way u pueat
happened and the policemra.aa' tbs
tainly did not have a doc % ~, Ca.
and was shooting at ali SeG i. y
passed. vi ha
Yours very truly
nj OTIS v w., powers.
February 5, 1897. " 'O'los