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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
DUCE HAD BEEN
TOLD TO GET
OUT OF SPAIN
Great Britain and France
Say Their Patience
Exhausted
THREATEN MARTIAL
LAW in HOLY LAND

LONDON, Oct. &c. (uP)-
Italy today agreed to partial with
drawal of foreign volunteers from
both .ides in the Spanish civil
war.
The agreement is expected to
90 far toward solving the crisis
caused by Mussolini's previous re-
fusal to discuss withdrawing vol
unteers with Britain and France.
The compromise was reached at
a secret session Of sub-commIt-
tee of the non-intervertion COM
mittee of q nations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
BANKERS TOO
ALOOF- smith
Retiring President Says 1t
Is Time They Mended
Their Methods

Editors Notc-Retiring Pres
ident Tom K. Smith of the Ameri-
can Bankers association, president
of the BOatmeu'S National bank,
St. Louis, No, has turned a crit
ical eye on his profession and
herewith sounds a word of warn
ing for the futurc.O
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
OHIOAN BUYS
MIAMI HERALD

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 16.-(UP)
Sale of the Miami Herald, morn
ing newspaper, to John S. Knight,
publisher Of the Akron, o., Bea-
con-Journal, was announced TO-
day. .,
knight was to assume control
of the newspaper immediately
from Frank B. Shuts, VINO mas
published The Herald since l9l0'
The purchase price was not maze
public. IL.
Shuts plans to remain active
here in legal work,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
F. R. Resting At
Hyde Park For
Strenuous Week

HYDE PARK, n. Y, Oct. l6.
- (UP). - President Roosevelt
started his weekend rest in his
Duchess county home today pre-
paratory to returning to Wash
ington early next week to delib-
crate Americas role in world d.
plomacy and to work for the goal
of a balanced federal budget in
the next fiscal year. He plans to
leave for Washington Tuesday
night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
BRITAIN THREATENS
MARTIAL LAW TO
CRUSH ARAB TERRORISM

JERUSALEM, Oct. 10. tUf)-
British authorities are ready to de-
clare martial law throughout the
Holy Land in an effort to crush
Arab terrorism growing out OF
discomfort with the plan to DIVIDE
Palestine into sovereign jewish
and Arab states.
New shooting was reported and
three buildings were burned at
LYDIA.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
ROB ANTI.CRIME OFFICES

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10
(UP)-Burglars broke into the
Offices of the Crime Prevention
association during the night and
took $500, the Rev. Thomas A.
Meryweather, executive secretary
of the organization, reported to
police yesterday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
P.-T.A. MEETING is
SET FOR TUESDAY

The Parent-Teacher association
will meet on Tuesday afternoon
at $3.50 at the Rosa Edwards
school on Fourth avenue west.
Parents of high school pupils as
well as those of grammar school
pupils are cordially invited to at
tend.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
500 LONGSHOREMEN
STRIKE IN SOUTH

MIAMI. oct. 16. (UP)-Eight
hundred longshoremcn struck to-
day. refusing TO load or unload
ships until union agreement has
been reached with shippers. The
strike call was issued for nine
South Atlantic and Gulf ports.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
goods FLEE AS
DORMITORY BURNS

SLIPPERY ROCK. Pa. Oct.
IS. (UP)-A girls dormitory at
Teachers College was destroyed
by fire today. Several hundred
goods fled into streets in night
clothing and blankets.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
SHOOTING ACCIDENTAL

FIT. LAUDERDALE, Fla, Oct.
16. (UP)-Mrs. Hazel Luke, "a,
was exonerated by a coroner's
jury today in the fatal shooting
of her husband, Dewey, SO, dur
ing a domestic quarrel Tuesday.
The jury held the shooting was ac-
cidental,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
BY ARTHUR F. DeGREVE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Oct.
&c. (UP)-John L. Lewis closed
a five-day war council of c. |. o..
leaders here last night with an at
tack on the new deal and congress
and an emphatic pledge that none
Of the Committee for Industrial
Organizations vital policies will
be seCrificc in the proposed peace
meeting with the American Fed
cration of Labor.
The $50 delegates who stood
and chccred Lewis at the close of
a 60 minute speech unanimously
reelected him chairman Of the
c. |. o. and reelected his eXccu-
tive officers. Earle, the confer
cncc had adopted a series Of reSO-
buttons including one in which the
c. |. O. promised TO join in boy
colt cf Japanese manufactured
goods and condemned all aggrcs-
sOr nations as vicious"
Lewis fighting speech cast
doubts among labor experts that
peace will come from the project
ed A. f. of Lie. |. 0. peace CON
ference. An earlier made by Lewis
had been more conci.iatOry. He
supervised the preparation of a
telegram to Frank Morrison, sec
rotary Of American Federation of
Labor in which the c. |. o. agreed
to meet with a delegation to ar
range a peace conference.
The message suggested that the
preliminary sessions be held in
Washington where the headquar-
tiers of both organizations are 10
Gated, during the week of Oct. %.
He named ten members of the G..
|. O.. haedef. by Philip Murray,
chairman of the Steel Workers
Organizing committee, to meet
with the Fcderation's delegation.
In taking this step, Lewis yield
ed to the Federation whose Off
cials frowned on Lewis earlier
proposal of a peace conference
among 100 delegates from each
organization.
But last night the bulky c. !. O..
chicftain scathingly criticized A.:
F. of L. officials and policies and
made it plain there will be no sur
render of principles upon which
the rebel organization has built a
claimed membership of nearly A.
100000 workers.
"If the leaders of the American
Federation Of Labor can forget
petty jealousies, petty pickering
and personal emolumentS-well
and good" he shouted. IF they
cannot forget them. then the re-
sponsibility is theirs. The {. |. u
is here. 1t is here to stay"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
JAP DRIVE IN
NORTHWEST IS
At STANDSTILL
Shock Troops Thrown Back
in Attacks on Key
Points
BOTH SIDES ADMIT
HEAVY CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10
(UP)-Sccrctary of State Cor
dell Hull announced today the
United States acceptance of the
invitation to attend a meeting
Of ninc-power pact slgnatories
at Brussels on October 30.
Norman II. Davis, American
ambasSador-at-largc, will repre-
sent the United States
The invitation to attend the
conference with a view to end
ing the undeclared Sino-Japa-
ncsc war was received from the
Belgian government.
NANKING, Oct. Is. (UP)-
Chinese military authorities to-
day announced that $4,000 Jap
anese troops had been cut off
from their base os supplies in
North Shansi province and are
in danger of humiliation by
the Eighth Route army, the
former Chinese Communist
army.
SHANGHAI. Oct. Is. (UP).-
Chinese reported today that Japa-
ncsc shock troops had been
thrown back with heavy losses in
drives on two key points of the
Shanghai front, and that their
offensive in Northwest China IS
dragging.
Japanese troops tried to force
their way across WOOSung creek
but were thrown back with heavy
casualties. 1t was also admitted
that Chinese and Japanese losses
were severe in hand-to-hand fight
ing at Chuchiachc. where the
Japanese were again rcpulscd.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
PEACE HOPEIN
LABOR'S CIVIL
WAR IS FADING
clio. ALL. Conference
Is Arranged But Lewis
Still Defiant
VOTE BOYCOTT ON
JAPANESE GOODS

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 10
(UP)-A conference between
delegations of the A. +. of l.. and
C. |. 0. to settle organized iabor's
civil war has been definitely ar
ranged, but there seemed to be
little possibility today that peace
would result from it. The confer
cncc is expected to be held in
Washington during the week of
October 25.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
GOOD AFTERNOON

Rejecting mounting living
costs, p.nhandlers have changed
their plea to, Buddy, can you
spare a quarter
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-16
WEATHER

Increasing eloudiness, with
slowly rising temperatures Sun
day.
Evening star., 1937-10-28

policeman who suffered smashed
finger during rescue operations.
1t took more than three hours to
clear away the wreckage-plaster and
timbers and fruit and soft drink cases
which had been stored on upper floors.
Fifty extra policemen and scores OF
spectators aided in the rescue work.
The two killed were Miss Anna Oh
son, a company employe, found buried
in the basement, and Max Zelickson,
a salesman. who died IN a telephone
booth which had saved him from being
crushed Immediately while rescuers he
directed tried to reach him.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Oct. 28-The 1888
National Automobile Show went into
high today with all the glitter Of
Christmas tree-and with spectators
as pleased as kids with new toys.
Grand Central Palace was the focal
point and officials predicted greater
attendance records than last year.
The machines, making play pri-
marily to the eye. were exhibited in
almost every conceivable fashion.
Motors with Glass Walls.
Motors had glass walls so you could
see what made them tick. some cars
were cut in half, the makers proud Of
the skeletons which they wouldn't
think of putting in closet; bodies
were exhibited in before and after"
phases to show how they looked in
rough and finished form; motors were
kept running and chassis revolving so
the patrons could see every nut and
bolt.
But the spectators weren't interest
ed primarily in mechanics. They
crawled in cars and jiggled on seats to
see how the springs worked, fiddled
with newer and more gaudy gadgets
Evening star., 1937-10-28
D. A. R. PRESENTS
FLAGS T0ACADEMY
Midshipmen Receive En-
bIem of Each Stale at
CoIorfuI Ceremony.
az the Assncia ted Pres

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 28.-The
Naval Academy received the flags OF
the 48 States and of five territories
and insular possessions yesterday as
a Navy Day gift from the National
Society of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution.
The colorful presentation ceremony
.sus held in Dahlgren Hall before Of
hcials of the academy, the society and
the maSsed regiment of midshipmen
Mrs. William A. Becker, president gen.
eral of the society, made the official
speech of presentation. State regents
of the organization sponsored the flags
of their States.
dress parade and brought the cere-
mony into the armory, where the
furled flags were laid out on a blue
covered table, guarded by two marines
with fixed bayonets. The battalions of
the regiment, mass of blue-and-gold
uniforms. topped with white caps,
formed abount three sides of the
arrnory.
Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers,
superintendent of the Academy, intro
duced Mrs. Becker.
May these flags remind you of prog
ress, through freedom and through
self-government," she told the mio-
shipmen. May you ever be the guard
ians of liberty and freedom"
Fifty-three midshipmen fiagbearers
marched to the front of the regiment
and formed facing the speakers stand
as Admiral Sellers accepted the gift.
He declared the flags would make for
q better understanding of our great
country, the United States of Amer
lea"
Admiral and Mrs. Sellers entertained
Mrs. Becker and other national Of
ficers at luncheon in the superin-
tendent's quarters. The regents were
luncheon guests at Carvel Hall Wives
of naval officers attached to the acad-
eny were their hostesses.
Evening star., 1937-10-28

lapsible wings and was powered at
the rear with pusher propeller.
Good news came to the manufac-
turers from the American Petroleum
Industries Committee, which predicted
that every third family of the 3O.000,-
600 in the United States would have
bought new or used automobile this
year
The show opened yesterday to run
week.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
PROBES SEEK CAUSE
OF BUILDING CRASH
Two Are Killed and 10 Injured
When Minneapolis Structure
Collapses.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 2S.-Four sep-
arate inquiries were going on today to
determine the cause for building coll
lapse in which two persons were killed
and Is injured.
Sixteen of the dead and injured were
trapped inside the three-story Morris
Fruit Co. structure yesterday, when
the floors gsye way with a rending
crash preceded by what some witnesses
said sounded like an explosion.
Several others, warned by an ON
inous cracking, were able to flee before
the crash. The seventh casualty was
Evening star., 1937-10-28
Justice Is Assailed.

Dissatisfied with their pay and work.
ing conditions, policemen Of Johannes
burg have adopted a resolution con-
demning the Minister OF Justice Of
South Africa and agreeing not to vote
for the present administration at the
next election.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
Well Named Sect.

Nonconformists of Fittleworth, Eng
land, have just held their first service
in church in 80 years. finances Fore
ing them to meet previously in a
blacksmith shop.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
Sugar Surplus in Costa Rica.

Having grown too much sugar, plan
tation owners of Costa Rica have asked
the government to permit them to ship
some of the sweet to other countries.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
Ne,v York Auto Sho,o Opens
To Delight Many Spectators

on dashes, opened trunks, ran fingers
over chrome and stood off and gazed
in respectful awe at the flowing sweep
of body contours.
Statesmen talked almost as fast as
pistons Founded. explaining and laud-
ing various points of interest in the
various machines.
Motor company executives were
confident the new models were as
pleasing in appearance, as efficient
and as safe as their engineers could
make them. They said so.
Automatic Gear Shifts.
Three new types of automatic gear
shifting devices were shown among
the machines which included one
the Waterman Arrowbile-that either
flies or travels on land 1t had COL
Evening star., 1937-10-28

Louis Clousing. city building In
spector, said after = preliminary irsr1
vestgation, that the crash was clearly
due to overlooking"
Evening star., 1937-10-28
Irish Farmers Better Off.

Although many crops in the Irish
Free State this year were below aver
age In yield higher prices gave farm
ers greater monetary return.
Evening star., 1937-10-28

Schools In the Philippines are to
be greatly improved.
Evening star., 1937-10-28
DUEL VICTOR SUICIDE
Man Who Killed Hitler Reporter
Takes His Own Life.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 28.-German news
papers yesterday ignored the death of
Horst Krutschinna, who killed Roland
Strunk. reporter on Adolf Hitler's
Voelkischer Beobachter. in duel.
Party sources declared Krutschinna
committed suicide rather than face a
blackshirt guards honor court because
Of the duel.
Evening star., 1937-01-22

The sluggish Ohio River, over
burdened by constant rainfall, forced
an unofficially estimated $4,000 or more
persons to desert their homes.
The brownish food tide invaded
broader areas, caused damage here
alone estimated by police at far be-
yond 100000 and threatened to
cripple industries in cities lining its
winding course
More than 10000 were homeless in
Hamilton County (CincinnatD. Some
$4,000 residents of Portsmouth. Ohio,
10C miles up the river, retreated to
hilltops.
Rising 2Ka feet in hours, the river
reached 697 feet at 8 am, within
two-tenths Of a foot of the 69e-
foot crest Of the devastating 1913
food. The river had risen steadily
throughout the morning hours at a
rate of three-tenths Of foot an hour.
Rescue workers toiled during the
night at Newport, KY, across the river
from Cincinnati, and at adjoining
Dayton, KY, to raise the total of
families moved in the two cities to
1900 and 500. The 1000 residents OF
California, KY. 20 miles upstream,
fled as the town was under feet OF
water
Disease and fire, feared companions
Evening star., 1937-01-22

where many died year ago, was one
Of the first suburban districts to re-
port water in the streets. Last March
water climbed to the second stories
there, hundreds were rescued in skiffs
and motor boats. hundreds were desti-
tute.
In Etna, where fire and floods dur
ing the inundation Of last Spring
killed many. two new launches were
ready for rescue work, but police said
there was no immediate danger
All up and down the Allegheny and
Monongahela. which meet in Pitts
burgh to form the Ohio. rain pelted
down on the mountains, turning
normally quiet streams into rushing
torrents.
Navigation was suspended for the
second time this week on the Monon-
gahela early today as the stream
climbed over its banks again. A slight
fall in the stage at Charleroi, only a
few miles upstream from Pittsburgh,
apparently was counterbalanced by q
rise on the headwaters.
Evening star., 1937-01-22

of floods, added to privation from un-
curbed waters. DR.. Vernon r. Jones,
city health officer at Dayton, KY,
ordered five members of the family Of
Joseph Haas quarantined after they
were found to be victims of scarlet
fever.
All food victims entering City Hall
tests and serum injections. The Haas
family had applied at the hall for aid.
Medical Units Called.
Adjt. Gen. Emil Marx, Ohio National
Guard commander, ordered medical
detachments to stand by for service
after the crests recede.
F1remen, prevented by high waters
from reaching a Baltimore e. Ohio
warehouse at Cincinnati stood by early
today as flames consumed thousands
of gallons of oil and other infam.
mable liquids.
officials of Speers' Hospital. 200-bed
institution in Dayton, KY, said fur
mace fires might have to be Quenched
and lis patients moved by boat. Com
munication and transportation was Sc
riouSly crippled or almost abandoned
at places in the Cincinnati area.
At Marietta, Ohio, where the Ohio
and Muskingum Rivers join, observers
said continued rainfall would bring
water into the business district to-
morrow. Units of the Wheeling Steel
Corp. and the Carnegie Illinois Steel
Co. at Steubenville. farther up the
Ohio. expected to curtail operations
because Of the swollen river.
Evening star., 1937-01-22
II REPORTED DEAD.
Ten States Are Swept by Flood
Waters.

CHICAGO, January % (R.-Re-
lentless rivers of the Ohio Valley,
swelling toward the highest crests in
their history, swept man and his puny
barriers before them today.
Flood waters along thousands of
miles of riverfront in 10 States claimed
at least II lives, made more than 80,-
900 homeless and caused property
damage that mounted into the mil
lions.
The grim prospect Of a major ca
tastrophe hung over cities and towns
along the banks of the yellow Ohio,
with $4,000 homeless in the Ports
mouth area and 10000 in the Gin
cinnati district.
Added to the homeless, the injured
and the i'll were the unemployed,
thousands of them forced from water
logged factories.
A sleet storm whipped the Southern
Illinois flood zone, breaking telephone
and telegraph connections and adding
new hardships to the army Of work.
ers reinforcing dikes and levees.
Twenty-nine hundred convicts in
the Kentucky State Reformatory at
Frankfort manned pumps when flood
waters Of the Kentucky River swept
into the institution.
The list of dead by States was: Illi-
nois, 3; Ohio and West Virginia, 2
each; Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky and Missouri, l each.
HANCOCK BRIDGE CLOSED
Evening star., 1937-01-22
GOLDEN TRIANGLE
INVADED BY RIVER
Buildings Are Evacuated as
Water Floods Low Pitts.
burgh Areas.
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, January 22.-The
steel city's three big rivers surged
upward today, flowing into low-lying
parts of the downtown Golden Tri-
angle" and threatening to rise to a
crest Of SO feet-8 feet above food
stage.
Buildings were evacuated near "the
point"-confuence of the Allegheny,
Monongahela and Ohio Rivers-and
merchants in some stores moved stocks
to higher floors. fearing a repetition
of the $2oo,ooo,oOo disaster of last
March.
Gov. George H. Earle, in Washing
ton since the Inauguration, ordered
Mai. Gen Edward C. Shannon, COM
mander of the Nstional Guard. and
other State officials to Pittsburgh.
80 Stage Predicted.
On the basis of early reports,
Meterologist w. S. Brotzman predict
ed a stage of SO feet at its "the point"
tomorrow.
The river backed up water several
blocks into the lower North Side.
where many buildings were aban-
doned after the March flood.
How high the waters might go was
a matter of conjecture, which OBJ
servers said depended on the amount
of rainfall in the next 48 hours. All
over Western Pennsylvania, rivers
were running full.
At Johnstown, the Stoney Greek
River reached flood level OF 12.6 feet
after an all night rain, and then
slowly ,egan to drop. Further rains
were feared.
Many farms and highways were
flooded in the west-central area COM
prising Somerset, Bedford, Cambria
and jefferson Counties.
The rise in Pittsburgh was slow
but steady.
The Golden Triangle" one OF the
worlds most wealthy business sections
functioned almost normally and ofice
workers and shoppers filled the dis
trict as usual.
The flood crest of 80 feet predicted
is still 13 feet under the great tide
that submerged the vast industrial
area in the previous inundation.
Pumps Put Into Operation.
The waters flowed into Water street
at Liberty avenue, and nearby shops
put pumps into motion in an effort
to clear their Easements. The chug-
chug of the pumps echoed in some
other parts of the triangle, where
water from sewers emptied into the
easements.
The Allegheny flowed over Duquesne
Way, at the end of the business dis
trict. and 2 feet of water entered the
old Exposition Building. Shore ave-
une and Reedsdale street, on the North
Side residential district. were partly
inundated About four blocks OF
Reedsdale street were under water.
High-wheeled trucks ferried workers
to a warehouse so they might carry
goods to higher floors.
Automobiles splashed through shall.
low water in some streets. Trolleys
were discontinued in threatened areas
The bottoms" in McKees Rocks
Evening star., 1937-01-22
[EVEE IS BROKEN
At INDIANA TOWN
Section Almost Mile Square
Is Flooded as Ohio
CrumbIes Barrier.
BY the Associated Press.

by lIle hSSOCldleQ fItSS
LAWRENCEBURG. Ind. January
22.-Rising swiftly early today, raging
Ohio River waters crashed through a
levee protecting this town Of 1000 citi-
zens, flooded a section almost mile
square and threatened to inundate the
rest of the community before many
hours had passed.
Swollen to record proportions by
heavy overnight rainfall, the muddy,
debris -jammed waters first coursed
over the levee, then crumbled gap
described as half mile long.
Fire bells and whistles had warned
residents of the danger, and all fled
safely to higher ground after snatch
ing a few belongings.
crew of 300 men had slaved for
several hours to strengthen the levee.
but the rapid rise of the waters was
too much for them.
Approximately 10 houses in the Sec
tion called "Old Town" were flooded
up to second floors, and river observers
said the waters probably would rise
even higher More than 20 inches of
water surrounded so homes in New
Town." located on higher ground.
Relief workers said the roar Of the
river plunging through the gap could
be heard "for blocks away"
AS the climb of the Ohio River be-
came increasingly alarming, State and
Federal authorities spurred relief ac-
tivities. They, said the flood condi-
tions throughout Southern Indiana
were Some of the worst on record"
Need for prompt relief became more
apparent hourly. At least $4,000 per-
sons already are homeless, relief work.
ers said, and the property damage
mounted rapidly.
A special train and a fleet of Ma
tional Guard trucks were en- route
from Indianapolis with cots, bedding,
clothing, food, medical supplies and
boats. The State division of the
Works Progress Administration rushed
more than 5000 men into all parts
of Southern Indiana.
John w. Maloney. Red Cross repre-
sentative, said at Evansville he had
notified the Washington Office that
more supplies and equipment were
needed quickly.