davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1938-09-16
PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT
EXPORTS SET RECORD

BY the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department says
American exports of petroleum equip
ment are holding up at record volumes.
A semi-annual review of the indus
try comments: Unlike the market for
any other types of industrial machin-
cry which is concentrated in the more
lndustria1ized countries. the demand
for petroleum equipment. particularly
the drilling and other well machinery,
arises wherever resources OF this liquid
power exist beneath the earths sur
face"
venezuela, the Netherland Indies
Colombia, Trinidad, Iran, Canada and
Argentina were listed as principal pur-
chaSers.
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INSURANCE BUSINESS
lAGS DURING AUGUST

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept, le.-Life In
surance written in August was 2le
per cent below the same month OF
1887. while the total for the first
eight months OF this year was 23.a
per cent less than for the same
period last year. the Association Of
Life Insurance Presidents disclosed to-
day in its monthly report to the De-
partment Of Commerce.
The report aggregates the new
paid-for business of 40 companies hav-
ing 81 per cent of the total life in
surance outstanding in all United
States legal reserve companies.
The August, 1898. total was $3.50,
100000, against $703.l23.000 in the
same month last year. For the first
eight months the total was $4.764.-
l8l. 900, compared with $6,208, LOG, ,000
in the same months last year.
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NEW-CAR PRICES
ARE FIXED EARLY
Motor Industry Departs
From Usual Secrecy
Before Auto Show.
By the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Sept. 16.-To stimulate
interest in new models the motor car
industry has its annual automobile
shows, its policy Of keeping details Of
design secret as long as possible and
withholding price tags until the cars
are formally introduced to the public.
During the last few years, however,
there have been few producers who
have waited until show time to dis
close details of their new types Sew
eral weeks In advance of show time
the new models have appeared on city
streets, details Of sales appeal have
been disclosed and the prices made
known.
This year apparently will follow the
trend, for one manufacturer put his
new models on display at Michigan s
State Fair even before many of his
dealer outlets were able to answer
questions concerning the styling and
mechanical changes to be expected.
Moreover, he has announced a price
reduction amounting in some instances
to SIS. Others plan to start selling
cars as soon as prices are fixed and
deliveries have been made to retailers.
The practice has led to a question
in many quarters of the trade as to
why National Automobile Show"
The show is scheduled for early No.
vember, but 1t seems now a safe pre-
diction that every car will be known
to the public before that date. The
National Automobile Show in New
York is the one display of all types
that Is sponsored solely by the manu-
facturers. Thus it Is up to the manu-
facturers themselves to answer the
question.
Wards Automotive Reports, discuss
ing price probabilities, said in a recent
issue that there Is no question but
what the price tags will be in lower
ground. The reductions are cur
rently reported as being around 4 per
cent. or approximately the amount of
the advance which heralded in 1898
cars
No authority in the industry will
question the Ward assertion that price
cuts will stimulate demand for new
units. The trade. however, would like
to make sure reduction once decided
upon, can be maintained throughout
the year. Increasing prices in mid
season has been one of the most diff
cult things the industry ever has
attempted and results almost invari-
ably in loss Of sales volume that
nullifies any gain from the higher
retail cost tags.
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CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. Sept 18 UH.-Poultry, live,
/ car, Al trucks. steady. prices UNCHANGED.
Butter. 1.laO,O99. steady: creamery
seconds ts4S7h score). 21; other prices
unchanged
Eggs. 8.959. unsettled. prices UNCHANGED.
UNITED States Department Of Agri-
culture Potatoes. 20: on track. 232
quality Russet Burbanks steads. demand
moderate. fair quality. slightly weaker. de-:
mand light; other stock steady. demand
cwt. Idaho Russet Burbanks. United States
No. i. 1.4O-6O: occasional large. 10:
mostly 1.4O-5O; showing decay, ]. 80: Idaho
50; Colorado Bliss Triumphs. United States
No, /. 1.35; Wisconsin Cobblers: United
States No. l. heavy to medium. 90: Bliss
Dakota Bliss Triumphs. United States No.
!. mostly 96-1 90: Cobblers. United states
No; !, 95; Early ohios. United States No.
l. 05.
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Paris Quotations.
STORE COLLECTIONS DECLINE

The Commerce Department says de-
partment store collections dropped
seasonably to 43.5 per cent on open
credit account and 14.9 per cent of In
stallment accounts in July, compared
with 452 per cent on open accounts
and 1874 per cent on installment &C.
counts in June and 45.1 par cent on
open accounts and 1874 per cent on
installment accounts in July, 1887.
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NEW YORK SUGAR.

NEW YORK Sept. 16 R-Raw sugar
as quiet and UNCHANGED early today at :,
Tents for spots with no sales reported
Futures were higher in both contracts on
Commission houses, encouraged by the
3rmer ruling of the London market and
Ienewed uneasiness over the European
kolitteal situation. March No. 4. sold
rom ! 10h to liz, and May from IA
b 1.15, or 312 to 4l2 points net higher.
Harch, No. 3. sold at 2.06 and May at
|. 90. tor 2 to 4 points net hiGher. with
he market at midday holding close to the
s Refined was unchanged at Assoc for
kne GrAnulated.
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US. TREASURY POSITION.
ny the Associated Press,

penditures. sis.s4i ,2Ss.ss; 'f1i net Balance.
So. 1S0 1929 90. including Sl5s2-
2S4 .4l2.11 working balance: customs re-
cepts for the month. $12. .s40. .ss9 SO.
Receipts for the fiscal year .(since July
y, ~ ;oos; b49 $685. ~; expenditures 81
OF emergency expenditures; excess Of ex-
penditures; S75O,3s1 ,553.21; gross debt.
below the previous day: gold assets, sl3,-
42O,56S. Sol AZ. .
Receipts for September a. 1897. (com-
parable date last YEAR, S25 $40. 9Ol 40: :
expenditures. Sl1,729.37l. 40; net balance.
S3; O35, q. S01 40. including S1,403. .O1 -
S25 working balance; customs receipts for
the fiscal year, S1,110. .337. .S33 .O2: expendi-
lures. $L526. .3O3. 222.93. including $40. g.
cess of expenditures. $415. .963. $3.50. .a1;
gross debt. S37,22O. s97 .s42. SO; gold as.
sets, $12, ,644. 740, 760.40.
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BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON Sept. l6 N1 u. 8. Depar artment
of Agriculture) Scattered sales OF limited
volume were being closed on the inner
Western grown vools in the Boston market
today. Twelve-month Texas wools brought
"a to SO cents, secured basis. Bids
around So cents. secured basis, for 12-
month Texas woods were being rejected.
Greasy eiEht-month Texas wools moved at
50 to 81 cents secured basis short
French combine lengths. fine territory
wools In original bags we're being sold ct
around so cents, secured basis.
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NEW YORK METAL MARKET.

steady; electrolytic. spot. 1928; export.
1865. Tin steady: spot and nearby,
43.3! h-43.5O:.- forward. 1850. Lead
St. Louis. 4.85. Zinc steady; East St.
Louis. spot and forward. 4.85. Pig iron,
aluminium. antimony. quicksilver. platinum
and Chinese wolframite UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1938-09-16

New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Co.-Defcit after charges Of
company in August amounted to slight
ly more than 100000, against deficik
around 81 ,000, 900 In August, 1887.
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LONDON METAL MARKET.

LONDON. Sept 10 R.-closing: Cop
per, standard spot. f42 13s I'd; future,
f42 lis Cd: electrolytie. spot, bid. f47 15s;
iatSs: tsa:S iss S Is: I . 'f3s sa f.et &c., Iii iiS
us Cd: future, Els So Cd. Zine spot f11
los; future. f14 16s
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In bankruptcy or receivership or being
reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed by such companies.
Rates Of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annual declarat atoms.
Unless otherwise noted special or extra
dividends are not included.
Alison extra or extras. Declared or
paid SO far this year. no regular rate.
I Psyaoie .,s IN STOCK paid last u; year;
paid or declared this year. Wv With
warrants. xv Without warrants. war War.
rants.
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STEEL PURCHASES HEAVY.

approximately 100000 gross tons
Of steel rail, SUFFICIENT to build track
10000 miles long, are normally pur-
chased each year BY the railroads Of
tho United Statek
Evening star., 1938-09-16

LIVERPOOL, Sept 16 P.-Wheat fu-
lures reacted late today on realizing and
closed had net hisher Prices at one time
were up three pence due to smaller weekly
Withdrawn all offers to Europe.
Nervous shorts in cotton futures covered
their nearby holdings in view of European
insurance rates. There was some specuia-
tive buying. although offerings were light
with f1nal prices UP l to points,
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FOREIGN BONDS.

ww-With warrants. xw-Without "
rants New. st tstp)-Stamped
sNegottability impaired by maturity
rCompanies reported in receivership.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, Sept: 16 F.-Stock exchsnc-
traders awaited today more definite new
REGARDING Prime Minister Chamberlain s
visit to Germany before making new com
regular. British government bonds closed
about "a point lower and transatlantic
shares were down i to 3. Considerable
lower prices and the industrial group was
heavy. European bonds finished slightIy
Evening star., 1938-09-16
U. S. DOLLAR ADVANCES
IN TERMS OF STERLING

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 16.-The United
States dollar registered an advance
of 11s cents in terms of sterling to-
day. Final rate for the unit was
4SO to the pound compared with
$4.8O7s for sterling in New York over
night.
French francs continued at 1881
to the pound.
Paris Quotations.
PARIS, Sept. Is (R.-In final for
eign exchange transactions today the
United States dollar was quoted 37.135
francs (2.693 cents to the france COM
pared to 2.697 cents to the franc in
New York overnight Exchange on
London 1881.
Principal rente issues in the Bourse:
3 per. cent. 1850; 41zs "a" 1900;
AIS 1887, $4,000.
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PARIS. Sept. 16 OP,.-The bourse closed
weak today with all sections OF the list
30 to 1sO centimes and sharp declines
were recorded in industrials suez Canal
declined more than 500 francs. Royal
| were down rs francs
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DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK. Sept 16.-Dividends de-
olared (prepard by the Standard Statistics
CO...
Initial.
n Pc Stock of Pay
Rate riod. record able
Phila Ac Co So pf $50 S 81 -
Accumulated.
,Carroon & r S6 cv pf 75c - 9@3 10-1
Deferred.
Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills II pf.
Increase.
|Eea board Finance - 15c @ q-15 9-3O
Universal Pdts- .5c - go $50
Extra.
6eaboard Finance - sc - 9-15 $50
Liauidating.
)Simms Petroleum - soc - 9-26 1910
Resumption.
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INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK. Sept. Is R),-Investmen-
Bankers Conference. Inc
moon quotations
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NEW YORK SILVER,

ETy YORK, Sept 1s HN.-Bar silver
2A; Unbalanced.
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Quotations as of 9 o'clock.)

NEW YORK. Sept 16 (P.-Investment
Bankers Conference Inc:
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INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK Sept 16 R-Inyestment
Bankers Conference, Inc:
Evening star., 1938-09-16

Ygstwn 4 4 Il S1-- lOON lO0h 1907
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
Germans Present
Lindbergh With
Service Cross
He ard Ford Now Hold
Highest Honor Given
Abroad by Berlin

BERLIN, Oct. 20. (UP).-Col-
onel Charles a. Lindbergh, who
was denounced by II outstanding
Soviet filters as a Nazi "lackey"
yesterday was presented the Ger
man distinguished service cross by
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Goering.
The cross with the star, Of the
order of the German eagle is the
only German decoration available
to foreigners. Henry Ford also
had received it.
Goering presented the decora-
ton in behalf of Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler. The American flier is
here inspecting German airplane
production. ....-..
(The war department in Wash
ington said Lindbergh does not
come under the act prohibiting U.
S. military men from accepting
foreign decorations as army re-
serve officers such as Lindbergh,
are exempt from the laws provi-
sions). .g
Lindbergh holds decorations
from other, foreign countries, i'm
Guiding the Royal Air Gross OF
Great Britain and the Order of
Leopold of Belgium. He also is
a Chevalier of the Legion of Hon.
or of France.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
MAKE OVER $50
E. OF C.. DINNER
RESERVATIONS
{. N. Walker, Asheville
Banker, Will Be the
Speaker Tonight

More than $50 reservations have
been made for the annual all-mem-
Der meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce to be held at z o'clock
tonight at the Skyland hotel, 1t
was reported at noon today.
The program, which will include
a dinner, will be highlighted by an
address by Clarence N. Walker,
Asheville banker. and is as fol-
lows:
H. E. Buchanan, POSTMASTER.
Invocation-Rev. A. j. Linn.
Group singing-Roy C. Ben
nett, leader; Misses Mary Brooks
and Kate Dotson, accompanies.
Dinner.
Introduction Of guests-Toast-
master.
Activities of Chamber of Com
merce-H. E. Buchanan, presi-
dent.
Treasurer's report. C. Nor
row, Jr., treasurer.
Reading-Mrs. Jno. H. Farmer.
Address-Clarence N. Walker.
Motion pictures (local scenes)
Worth X. Lyerly.
Song-"America."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
3ritons Fear Onslaught OF Arab Forces
REPUBLICANS CHECK RECORD
ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS
HERE FOR NOVEMBER VOTING
Hollingsworth Intim a ties
Validity Of Local Absen-
tee Law Will Be Tested
in Federal Court

Joe Hollingsworth, Republican
member of the county board of
elections, was given access to rec
ords of absentee ballot applica-
tions this morning after an ex'
change of kilograms yesterday be-
tween the local member and the
state board of elections.
Mr.. Hollingsworth stated this
afternoon that he was being given
record of all absentee ballot ap-
plications that have been filed for
the November election and that a
record was being made in prepa-
ration for challenges against such
ballots on election day.
Jake F. Newell. chairman of the
state Republican executive COM
mittee, stated yesterday in Char
lotte that the state election board
would be asked to investigate in
Henderson county before the cleo
ton on November g. if any illegal
tiles or irregularities were found
in the examination of the records
here.
Mr.. Newell, according to. re-
ports from Charlotte, made this
statement after Attorney General
Harry Mcmillan had ruled at his
request that Mr.. Hollingsworth
had the right to copy the list of
absentee voters from the absen-
tee record here.
In the exchange of kilograms
yesterday between Hendersonville
and Charlotte and Charlotte and
. Raleigh, R. G. Maxwell, secretary
of the state election board, ruled
that absentee ballot applications
were a public record for public
inspection.
Henderson county is one Of
eight in the state with a special
absentee ballot law, making it il.
legal for a person obtaining an
absentee ballot to go to the polls
on election day and get the ballot
back. ....
Mr.. Hollingsworth intimated
this morning that this law would
be challenged on its constitution
atty. He further intimated that
a test of the law would be made
in the federal and not in the state
courts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
CATS GOING TO
TRYON FRIDAY
Fans Optimistic as Passing
Attack Drill Is
Stressed
By WILSON AYERS

Down on the high school ath-
letic field Coach John Stephens
has been drilling his Henderson
vile Bearcats every afternoon IN
preparation for the game with the
Tryon high Tigers at Harmon
field in Tryon on Friday after
noon.
Although defeated last week by
Marion q to 7, local fans are an
ticipating a victory for the Red
and White gridders. Coach Steph-
ems is drilling the team entirely
on their passing attack this week.
In this department the Bearcats
have shown considerable weak
ness and loose defense.
In 1886 the Hendersonville-
Tryon game was a Go tie, while
last year the Bearcats won IA
to 0.
Captain Johnny Magness and
Bobby Quarles, who were injured
in practice this week, may be out
of the lineup Friday. However, it
is hoped they will be able to play.
A large delegation of local
fans and high school students are
expected to accompany the team.
The probable lineup:
McCrary, LIE; MagnesS, LIT;
Sims, LG; Marlborough, C; Coffey,
re; Morris, RI; Drake, RE
Ouarles, OBJ; Sheppard, HB;
Chandler, HB; Miller, FB.
Subs: Bates, English, Dorm,
Reese and Coston.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
Fort Bragg Roads Blocked For 10
Miles As Greatest Night Review
OF Anti-Aircraft Guns Is Staged

horses and mules. paraded past
the reviewing stand in display of
armed might.
Great long guns capable of
hurting 95-pound shells IL miles,
drawn by clanking half-truck,
half-tank monsters; short-nosed
howitzers that shoot the same
shell, hauled by 11-ton trucks,
gave by their passage a hint of
our answer to militant countries.
But they were dwarfed by the
gigantic howitzers that take five
lotion tractors to pull them, and
which in action shoot 345-pound
parcels of destruction.
Contrasting were battalion OF
the powerful midgets of the field
artillery, the mountain howitzers,
each broken into six parts and
carried on the backs of mules. A
touch of the old artillery was CIV
en- by a battalion of horse-drawn
French 75's, with all the glamor
of the older days as horses pranc-
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
TO WORK AGAINST
SPREAD OF tISMS'

WASHINGTON, Oct. 90. (tP}
The United States will use the
Forthcoming Pan-American con-
ference at Lima, Peru, as a for
UNI to combat the spread Of Fas-
cist and Nazi influence in Latin
America through the initiation Of
one Of the greatest campaigns to
strengthen democracy in the
worlds history, it was indicated
last night.
A high government official said
the drive against all foreign
"isms" probably will be based on
the economic principles laid down
by President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hull in the
New Deals reciprocal trade pro-
gram, on its good neighbor policy
and on the tenets Of international
law.
Wholesale propaganda CAM
paigns such as certain totalitarian
states are conducting in the
Americas to further their political
and economic policies will be
avoided, it was said, because many
of this country's experts feel that
much Of this propaganda now is
defeating its own purposes.
Nevertheless, the same experts
believe that the propaganda, if
continued, may become a real
threat to democracy and thus
must be counteracted. AS a step
in this direction, the United States
will make known it's intention to
expedite the reciprocal trade pro-
gram on the theory that benefits
Of expanded commercial inter-
course constitute the most effec-.
tive antidote to European and
Asiatic political doctrines in the
western hemisphere.
Americas traditional policy OF
avoiding all entangling alliances,
it was said, will be scrupulously
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
LABOR BOARD In SWEEPING
RULING AGAINST STEEL FIRM
Issuance Sets Stage for
Fight Through the
Federal Courts

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (UP)
The National Labor Relations
board yesterday found the Re-
public Steel corporation, Cleve-
land, O., guilty of seven alleged
violations of the Wagner act,
scathingly denounced its labor
policies and ordered the re-hiring
of 5000 company workers involv-
ed in the Little SteeP' strike OF
1887.
The 100000 word decision was
triumph for the Steel Workers
Organizing committee, an afflli-
ate of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, which made an
unsuccessful effort to unionlze
Little Steel" after it had organ
lied big Steel"
The verdict, however, was not
a surprise. The board made a SIM
liar decision months ago and then
withdrew it from the courts to
correct possible procedural er-
rors. Counsel for the corporation
indicated at that time that the
boards ruling would be fought to
the U. S. supreme court.
In it's ruling yesterday, the
board held that "the company,
not the union, had chosen the way
to industrial strife" 1t accused
the corporation of ''illegal and
provocative" conduct in reputedly
seeking to deny its workers the
right to unionize and added that
the "whole history of the COM
pany's unfair labor practices, cul-
minating in this lockout of May
20, had placed the union in a po-
sition where it had to fight for
its life or be destroyed"
Although the board conceded
that the corporation need not re-
employ II strikers who were con-
victed of crimes or pleaded guilty
to charges of violence growing
out of the strike, it brushed aside
Republics contention that other
strikers arrested during the dis
pute should be isolated for the
same reason. The decision found
that the corporation chad itself
been guilty of brutal acts of vio-
lence or was responsible for acts
of violence during the strike far
more serious than those attrlbut-
ed to the strikers in question:,
and added: :.
"For these and other reasons 1t
does not lie in the mouth of the
corporation to assert that the of
lenses of its striking employees are
necessarily and of themselves a
bar to their reinstatement, or that
thew are any less fit to be en-
ployes than the corporation is to
be the employer"
On one of its most sweeping de-
cisions, the board ordered the cor
poration to:
Reinstate all striking employees
or pay remedial wages dating
from five days after the date Oh
unemployment application to the
date of reinstatement or place
ment on a preferential hiring
list.
Reimburse employees allegedly
locked out at the Canton, O., Tin
plate mill and the Massillon, o.,
Continued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
METHODISTSIN
LAST FARLEY
BEFORE union
Churchmen Throng to
Charlotte for VINO
Conference

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 2O.-Meth.
odists of Western. North Carolina
convened at the First Methodist
church here this morning at 8
o'clock in the forty-ninth and fl.
nal conference before the union
next spring of all three branches
of Methodism.
The historic conference, the
seventh to be held in Charlotte
since the Western North Carolina
conference was formed in 1890,
will continue through next Mon.
day at noon, when the appoint
ments of the ministers will be
read, and already ministers and
laymen from every section Of the
conference are in Charlotte for
the opening session.
Bishop Clare Purcell of Char
lotte, with the nine presiding eld-
ers of the various districts assist
ing him, will administer the holy
communion as the conference
opens. After the sacrament has
been administered, the bishop will
deliver a Commute episcopal ad-
dress, the only address he will
make during the conference, ne
said yesterday. Organization OF
the conference will follow. One of
the first acts of the conference, it
was forecast, will be the election
of Rev. E. H. Neese, pastor Of the
West Asheville Methodist church,
as clerk of the conference to sue
coed Rev. w. L. Sheriff. Of Char
lotte, who resigned the position
since the last conference after
having served without Interrupt
ton for "A years. Rev. Mr.. Neese
has been acting as assistant to
Rev. Mr.. Sheriff..
Another important business mat
ter scheduled for consideration at
the session this morning, it was
revealed, will be the election of
representatives of the conference
to the general uniting conference
of tn denomination in Kansas City
next spring. Ten ministers and
10 laymen are to be named.
The conference has $40 official
delegates, including its 303 min
listers, it was announced yester-
day. These delegates and numer-
Gus other convention visitors are
being entertained at the homes Of
Methodists and members of other
in the city. The at
tendance at the conference ses-
sions, it was forecast, would more
than double the number of actual
delegates.
At the session this morning
CONTINUED on page four).