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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-29

on North Main street, Mrs. |. i.
Carson operated Il boarding house
on Seventh avenu" east. MISS r.
Jordan at the Laurel Park VIVA.
and numerous other boarding
houses took care Of summer VlSl-
| tors.
Another advantage Offered by
the Hendersonvillc Of 1916 was
its excellent educational facilities.
Fassifern School for Girls under
the direction Of Miss Kate c.
Ship and Mrs. Anna c. McBe",
was an accredited preparatory
school. Blue Ridge School for
Bows, under J. K. Sandifer, head
master and Fleet School for Boys
prepared boys and young men for
college.
At this time Henderson county
had SO public schools, 81 for
white and nine for c0lorrd and
there were G2l2 children in
school. Prof. W. s. Shitlc was
superintendent Of the Henderson
! county schools. The board Of edu-
cation was composed Of J. Claud
Sales. chairman, Prof. J. W. Nor
gan and J. Foy Justice. The
graded school was located in It's
present building on Fourth ave
nue..
In 1916 the annual payroll Of
| knitting mills in Henderson coun-
tv was approXimated at 81 2J.OOO.
while other industries had pay
rolls amounting to 100000. The
| Green River Manufacturing com
pany was the leading industrial
/ unit of the county. It's employees
numbered 200, its payroll annual
lv was 100000 and the value of
it's output was placed ut 100000.
s. B. Tanner was president of the
company with J. A. Durham vice
president and J. O. Bell treasurer
and manager of the mill. Nearly
10000 spindles were used in the
mill and 112 bales Of cotton were
used each month in the produc-
ton of yarn. -,
The Freezc-Bacon Hosiery mill
was another leading industry of
the county. Organized in 1912 by
K. ?. Freeze with an output OF
600 pairs of hose per day, in 1910
IFS OUTPUT had increased to 5000
pairs a day.
The Skyland Hosiery company
was the chief industry at East
Flat Rock. Its payroll amounted
TO over $1,000 Il week and its out
nut amounted to around 500 per
day. C. p. Rogers was Supriin-
tendent and manager Of the mill.
The mill employed $50 operatives
and had the largest knitting mill
payroll in the county and the
largest of its kind IN the state.
Other industries IN the county
included the Grey Hosiery mill,
Wilson Lumber company. Hen
Jacksonville Buggy and Wagon
company (owned by d. S. Pace).
Rigby-Molrow Lumber company,
creameries, diaries, poultry farms
and commercial printing plants.
In 1916 Henderson county had
$50 miles of improved roads, of
which $50 were sand-clay of the
best type. Bonds amounting to
100000 were issued in 1914 for
the construction and maintenance
Of roads in the county.
According to the North Caro-
| lima Bureau of Publicity, the
value of real estate in Henderson
county in 1910 amounted to
s3,O55,193 and value of personal
property was set at Sl,182,3l3.
icon. on page 5, Section three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-29
MAIN STREET OFFICE OF SUMMER DAILY

Billy Kinch. He was said to have
been faster typeSettcr than
many grown printers.
The short young man in the
front row Of the picture was Jesse
Bcal, now dead. Just at his left
is Willie Warlick, probably now
of span tanburg, one Of the car
rier boys, and on the extreme
right is J. Carol Waldrop, now
of Grcenville, n. c.
Mr.. Waldrop carried papers on
the entire east side OF Main street
from Mud Creek to the old rock
building al Five Points" for 10
cents a day. and when he went
back to school Mr.. Shipman gave
him silver dollar as a bonus for
hi; services. Five route boys OF
The Times-NcWS nov serve the
territory then covered by Mr..
Waldrop.
Others in the picture could not
be identified.
Mono Lake. Calf, known as
the Dead Sea of America has
-, n.rcnOtihlr nlItlpt
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-29

The accompanying story PIC
turcs the HenderSonville Of the
period in which the post Office
was constructed. S. y. BrySon
was postmaster.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-29

Birds cannot see blue or violet,
but they do see red and infra-red.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
Legion Asks
Draft of
Capital

LOS ANGELES, Sept. %
N.N.S.).-The twentieth an
nual American Legion con-
ventiOn was officially at an
end today with the ex-sOIdiers
still standing for the princi-
pie of universal service, pro-
viding for war time draft Of
capital, industry and man
power alike.
The Legion voted down a
substitute resolution which
would have favored a taxa
tiOn plan for the drafting of
wealth.
Also in the closing hours of
the convention, Stephen F.
Chadwick, of Seattle, was
elected national commander
by acclaim and Charles w.
Crush, of Virginia; Henry C.
Oakley, of Wisconsin; Earl
T. Ross, of Nevada; James T.
Crawley, of Mississippi, and
Edward Quinn, of Maine,
named vice commanders. The
Rev. Jerome L. Fritchie, Of
Nebraska, was chosen as chap
lain.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23

Signed by General Syorvy. the
leaflets said:
cat this vital hour we appeal
to YOU to stay by your posts.
the soldier by his arms, the
farmer by his plow, the worker
in the factory, the employe in
his office.
"The army is guarding the
security of the republic. Show
your spirit OF determination by
your work, for your country"
The Prague population obeyed
the governments appeal for order
Most of the people who yeSter.
day had surged up and down
the streets, yelling imprecations
against Germany and shouting
for arms, returned to work today
The streets of Prague were normal
General Syrovy assumed the
The Washington times., 1938-09-23

premiership following resignation
of Milan Hoza's cabinet to guide
the nation through the delicate
amputation of the Sudetenland
and the negotiations that seem
certain to come up regarding Polish
and other Czech minoritieS.
The new government of ma
tional concentration" is predom1-
nantly military in character. Gen
eral Syrovy is both premier and
defense minister. other impor-
tant members are:
Foreign Minister-Kamil Krofta.
Interior-Josef Czerny.
Finance. Kalfuss.
Justice-M. Fajnor.
Without Portfolio-Peter ZenKl,
mayor of Prague.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
DR.. COLEMAN,
U.
HEAD, IS DEAD
Rose From Little Red
SChooIhouSe" to Top

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 23.-Lo-
tus Delta Coffman, president Of
the University Of Minnesota, died
in his home tonight at the age
of SO. He had been suffering
from a heart ailment.
Born near Salem, Ind, Janu.
ary 7, 1875, DR.. Coffman attended
a "little red schoolhouse" and
taught, too, in country school
houses after his graduation from
the Indiana Normal School at
Terra Haute in 1896.
While superintendent Of schools
at Salem and at Connersville,
Ind, he prepared himself for the
scholastic work which won him
his bachelors degree from tho
University of Indiana in 1905 and
his masters degree in 1910. He
received his Phi. D. from Columbia
University in 1911.
DR.. Coffman wrote many books
on educational theory. In 1928,
he was a member of a group Of
American educators that surveyed
the school system Of the Soviet
Union.
He held honorary degrees from
George Washington University,
University of Indiana, Columbia
University, Carleton College, North
field, Mimi; Northwestern Uni.
versity, the University Of Michi'
gan, the University Of Denver,
the University of South Dakota
and williams College,
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
TOKYO TROOPS
KILL z RUSSIANS

TOKYO, Sept. % O.N.S).-Two
Soviet soldiers were killed as
Japanese M chukuoan bor-
der guards repuIsed a detachment
of eight Soviet soldiers crossing
the Manchukuoan border near Sui
fenho, a message received here
from Hsinking, capital of Manchu-
kuo, stated today.
The report said Manchukuo has
protested to the U. S. S. R. against
the alleged border violation.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23

Rite Masonry in this section, the
degree classes have been desig-
mated as the William Lewis Allen
Memorial. Glasses will be con-
Quoted each Friday evening until
the closing date in December.
Besides the degree work at the
weekly meetings, there will also be
a program of entertainment for
those attending.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
nany's Threats Czechs Will Hold All Frontiers With Army
Russ Warn
Poles, Is
Report

LONDON, Sept. % (I.N.SO.
Soviet Russia has verbally
intimated to Poland that she
will denOunce the Polish Rus
sian nOn-aggreSsiOn pact IL
Poland marches into CZechO-
slavic, it was understood
here today.
Warsaw has threatened
armed action against CZechO-
Slavkia unless its minority
is accorded the same treat
ment as that given the Su-
deten Germans.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23

der, orders of the government
against all disruptive activities,
all menaces against the state,
no matter from what quarter
they come.
Every member of the army,
from private to general, must be
filled with absolute confidence
in and devotion to his Superiors
and must carry out orders with
the knowledge that he is assur-
ing the safety Of the state and
nation.
THE army will remain firm
and absolutely disciplined at all
costs and in every situation"
APPEALS FOR ORDER
The government broadcast sp
pealing for order stated:
"On the Czech side everything
will be done to prevent Incl
dents, and the government ap-
peaIs once more to all classes
both Czech and German, to re-
spect order, not interfere with
the normal work Of authorities
and abide by the law.
'The government will do
everything to prevent disturb
ance of Anflo-German diplo-
matte negotiations and hopes
others to whom Prime Minister
Chamberlain's peace appeal was
directed will do the same"
Shortly after noon, airplanes
flew above Prague dropping leaf
lets which appealed for order
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
International News Photo

"a MILLION FOR MARTY"
q new novel new feature OF
the added fiction section with color
illustrations in the American Weekly
with Sundays Washington Herald
Times Tel. RE. 1884 for Home
Delivery.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
MASONIC LODGE
GIVES DEGREES.
At ALExAND DRIA.
Fourth to 32d Ranks
Will Be Conferred

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Sept. a
Degrees from the fourth to the
thirty-second will be conferred on
members of the four local lodges
of the Scottish Rite beginning to-
day and continuing through De
cember %, it was announced to-
day by Erdman T. Stultz, vener-
able master Of Washington Memo
rial Lodge Of Perfection.
The opening session will be in
the Masonic Temple on Cameron
Street at 7::30 o'clock tonight.
Prior to the beginning of the de-
gree work, brief business session
will be conducted by the four local
lodges.
WASHINGTON LODGE
Business sessions will be opened
with the Washington Memorial
Lodge of Perfection meeting first.
This lodge will be followed by meet
ings of the Lafayette Chapter,
Knight Rose Croix; Randolph
Chapter, knights of Kadosh, and
the Virginia Consistory.
Many prominent Masons from
lall sections of the State are eX-
pected to be guests of the four
local lodges during the extended
reunion and all visiting members
will be invited to participate.
MEMORY HONORED
Honoring the late William l.
Allen, one of the most active mem
'bers affiliated with the Scottish
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
WON'T EVACUATE TILL Terms
OF PARTITION ARE AGREED ON
Troops Ordered
TOSudeten
Regions
BY GEORGE LANGWELL

OplIVlOuS W GcIMdu GLu cdLo1
CZechoslovakia will hold all her
frontiers with the full might of
her army until Great Britain and
France draw up full terms of their
partition plan, it was authorita-
lively stated today.
The new military government of
Premier General Jan Syrovy has
no intention Of bowling to Nazi de-
mands and evacuating Czech
troops from the Sudeten and other
border areas until a formal COM
lnunication is received from Lon
don and Paris setting forth actual
details of the partition, it was
said.
TROOPS DISPATCHED
One hundred and twenty-five
new truckloads of Czech troops
were rushed to Carlsbad near the
German border.
Czech troops remained in posi-
Gin in most of the Sudeten area
and along the Polish and Hun
garian borders, it was announced.
Officials stated that the country
was generally calm although some
clashes between Czech troops and
Sudeten volunteers were admitted.
While awaiting a new Anglo
French communication describing
in full detail the districts to be
ceded to Germany, Syroy'S new
cabinet met to draw up plans for
maintenance of order and prevcn-
tion of total dismemberment of
the nation.
President Edouard Benes issued
q proclamation ordering the Czecn
army to stand firm" and protect
the republic.
A few minutes later the new
government broadcast an appeal
for maintenance of calm and
order. In doing so it carried out
. suggestion given by Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain of Great
Britain.
DISORDERS DENIED
Meanwhile, German reports
that Czech troops have reentered
Sudetenland towns or fired on
Sudeten Germans were officially
denied here. The Berlin allega-
tions were termed Imaginary"
Authorities explained that in
the official view of the Czech gov
er11ment there could be no frontier
reoccupations because there has
been mo evacuation from the
Sudeten territory"
What is probably happening,
one official here said, is that
Czech authorities in the Sudeten-
land are now reoccupying customs
houses, police stations and rail-
way stations from which they
were illegally expelled" yesterday
by strong Sudeten German de-
tachments.
ORDERS TO ARMY
President Benes, in his procla-
nation to the army, declared:
Enemy propaganda here and
abroad is attempting to under
mine the confidence of the peo-
pie and create unrest and op-
position.
"The nation turns to the army
for protection and for salvation
of the nation and state. The
army will stand imnOVahle I'm
Evening star., 1938-03-24
DENTAL REGULATION
NULLIFIED BY COURT
Ruling Exonerates Robert Scott
for Practicing Without
ANY License.

In decision which nullifies a ree7,-
lation adopted by the Board of Dental
examiners March 18, 1881, Police
Court Judge John P. Mcmahon today
sustained a demurrer which will. in
effect. permit operators of dental lab
oratories to deal directly with the pub
lie in repair of artificial teeth or
dentures without going through a
registered dentist.
The ruling was in the case of Rob-
ert B. Scott, who operates -labora-
tory in the Westory Building. The
arrest took place April 20, 1896, and
the case has been in the courts ever
since.
Mr.. Scott had been charged with
practicing dentistry without a license
in that he repaired an artificial den-
ture without the request of or for q
registered dentist. The courts ruling
exonerated Mr.. Scott.
In his written opinion, Judge Nc
Mahon pointed to the fact that the
Government had contended that the
regulations passed by the Board Of
Examiners were legal because Con-
gress had failed to describe what con-
stituted the practice of dentistry.
The court held that in an act Of
June Z, 1924, Congress had defined
dental operations as diagnosing or
treatment Of diseases or LESSONS Of
human teeth Or Jaw.
Evening star., 1938-03-24
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

The mystery of the black COM
panion of Epsilon Aurigae, strangest
star in the sky, which no human
eye ever has seen, was presented
before the annual conference on
theoretical physics, meeting at
George Washington University last
night, by one of its discoverers, DR..
Bengt Stromgren of the staff Of
the University of Chicago and the
Yerkes Observatory.
The conference was a meeting of
some of the foremost physicists in
the world under the joint auspices
of the university and Of the ter
restrial magnetism department Of
the Carnegie Institution OF WASH
ington.
The weird, invisible star was first
announced about two months ago
by its three discoverers, Drs. Kuiper
and Struve of the Yerkes Observa-
tory and DR.. Stromgren. It has
5000 times the radius of the sun
and 100000 times its surface
area. It would fill the space Of the
suns entire system of planets. Yet
Evening star., 1938-03-24
Ickes in Dark
On Mt. Vernon
Roads Lights

Secretary of the Interior Ickes said
today he was going o~look into the
question of lack of light at night
and too much in the daytime" on the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.
He was asked at a press conference
why the electric lights on the road
were kept burning during the day.
Somebody in the park service must
own the stock in the light company"
he chuckled.
Mr.. Ickes said he was unaware Of
signs forbidding parking after 7:30
pm. and suggested that perhaps some
one connected with the park ofice
was q moralist."
Because the electric lamps have
frequently been made targets for
sharpshooters, lights have been turned
of during the night along the high
way. Mr.. Ickes explained that he
had no idea one way or another on
restrictions on "petting" and sug-
gested that maybe between midnight
and I am. was q good hour for the
lights to be turned on.
Evening star., 1938-03-24

it is only about 100 times the mass
of the sun and less than one-third
as hot, although it sends out TO-
900 times as much energy.
DR.. Stromgren told for the first
time how it happened to be dis
covered and the efforts that now
are being made to explain the ex-
istence of such a paradoxical body.
The star Epsilon Aurigae-about
5000 light years away from the
earth, or the distance that light
travelling 10000 miles a second
would cover in 5000 years-has
been known to astronomers for
about 40 years. The lines Of its
spectrum showed that it must be
travelling in q circular orbit. The
only possible explanation, DR..
Stromgren said. for stars moving
In circles in observable periods Of
time Is that it has q companion
roughly comparable in mass with
itself. Then their joint gravita-
tional attraction will keep the two
stars curving around each other
rather than moving OF In straight
lines.
Evening star., 1938-03-24

But this companion was abso-
lutely invisible. The solution OF
the riddle came with an eclipse Of
Epsilon Aurigae when the other
star got between it and the earth.
The light of the known star was
dimmed but it was the same light.
That is, the light of Epsilon Auri-
gae was shining straight through
another star. The astronomers
were faced with the problem OF
star that was invisible and trans
parent and yet, from mathematical
considerations, of enormous mag
nitude.
The explanation arrived at was
that it was mostly atmosphere
vastly more so than the sun itself.
This could be explained on the
basis that one star was very hot
and the other very cold, for q
star. In such a case, it was shown
mathematically, the light Of the
hot star would come through the
atmosphere of the cool star little
changed In the visible spectrum.
It was calculated that the surface
Evening star., 1938-03-24
ACTION PLANNED
ON GATE HOUSES
Removal to Capitol Grounds
Favored by Roosevelt,
Board Is Told.

President Roosevelt favors preserva-
ton of the gate houses originally de-
signed for the Capitol Grounds and
now located on Constitution avenue
at Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets
NV, the Fine Arts Commission was
informed at its meetings today Steps
were taken to confer with Secretary
1ckes to have the gate houses restored.
Designed by Charles Bullfinch for
the Capitol Grounds. when he COM
pleted the old Capitol Building in
1927. the gate houses were removed
to their present sites in 1872, officials
recalled.
E. P. Caemmerer, executive secre-
tary of the commission. explained this
was necessary due to enlargement OF
the Capitol Grounds.
Gettysburg Plan Studied.
The commission took under consid-
Grafton a plan submitted for the in
scription and landscaping of a me-
mortal to be erected at Gettysburg
Memorial Park. Gettysburg. Pa. The
memorial, featuring shaft of light,
is being given by the State of Penn
sylvania to commemorate the seventy
fifth anniversary of the famous Battle
OF Gettysburg, and it is to be dedi-
Gated in July.
Sketches for painting and sculpture
in the new Interior Department Build
ing were submitted by the Section
Of Painting and Sculpture of the
Treasury Department. This will illus
trate the various activities of the
department, officials said.
Publication Issued,
A number of projects under con-
slderation for the area, prescribed by
the Shipstead-Luce Act regulations
were adopted. A new publication
dealing with the regulations under
this statute. which gives the COM
mission jurisdiction over buildings 70
be erected in the vicinity of public
parks and buildings, has just been
issued by the superintendent of doc
uments of the Government Printing
Office.
Progress plans were submitted BY
the National Park Service for the
improvement of the grounds sur
rounding the Statue of Liberty in
New York harbor.
This afternoon the commission ar
ranged to view the progress of con-
structlon on the new Chain Bridge
and also to visit the Naval Testing
Basin project at Carderock, Md.
Evening star., 1938-03-24
.PALM|SANO SEES
I. D. c. INCOME TAX
PASSED BY HOUSE
Salaries of U. S. Officials
and Congress Members
Are Exempted.
WAY FOR BILL CLEARED.
CHAIRMAN NOW FEELS
Subcommittee to Hold Final
Meeting Next Monday on
Revenue Measure.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

With the salaries of high Govern:
ment officials and members of Congress
exempt from the proposed local income
tax. Chairman Palmisano of the House
District Committee today predicted
approval of the 1899 revenue bill by his
committee as we'll as the House.
The House last year revolted against
an income tax plan for the District
because it contemplated taxing the
salaries Of members of Congress.
Specifically, those who would be ex-
empted under the income tax, in addi-
ton to members of Congress, would be
the President, cabinet officers, mem
bers of the Federal judiciary and secre-
taries and employees of members of
Congress who do not reside in WASH
ington throughout the year.
Written in by Group.
The special list of exemptions was
written into the bill by the Fiscal At
fairs Subcommittee of the District
Committee after it became convinced
that another attempt to tax the SAL
aries Of members of Congress might
jeopardize passage of the measure.
Il am in entire sympathy with the
proposals Of the subcommittee to
exempt high Government officials and
members of Congress" declared Mr..
Palmisano. Il don't know any reason
why an official serving the Government
and who is forced to live in Washing
ton because Of that reason should paw
the Distxict an income tax. Such per-
sons would not have to pay the District
tax on their salaries if they did their
work in their own States.
Forecasts Passage.
Il believe my committee feels the
same way about the exemptions as we'll
as the House membership itself. And.
I further believe. the income tax plan
will be approved this year by both
Senate and House."
The subcommittee also has changed
the original revenue bill to apply the
tax to incomes in the current calendar
year instead of making it retroactive to
cover 1887 incomes. The tax, accord
Ing to present plans. would have to be
paid between February Is and May Is
OF 1899. In subsequent years, however,
1t could be paid in quarterly INSTALL
ments like the Federal income tax.
Final Meeting Monday.
The subcommittee will hold its final
meeting on the tax bill Monday. At
that time 1t will decide definitely on a
proposal in the bill to continue the
existing SITS real estate tax rate and
whether to place 81 tax per barrel on
beer and raise the present tax on hard
liquor from so cents to 81 a gallon.
All Of these tax plans are estimated
TO yield about $6,40O.O00 in additional
revenue. The estimated budget deficit
in the coming fiscal year which the
bill is designed to Offset, is now placed
at a maximum of s3,700,00O.
Evening star., 1938-03-24
Schools ShO,v,,
Using Too Much
{ Electric PO,ver

Lights Out" may be the theme song
for about 80 District public schools If
they don't stop using so much electric
current.
A committee recently appointed by
the Commissioners to study the new
electric light rates and their relation
to the public schools has been given
a survey of power consumption in the
schools indicating that about 30 are
using too much, even at peak demand.
The committee met in the Office of
Walter Kern, electrical engineer, early
this month. The schools were repre-
sented BY Assistant Supt. Jere j.
Crane.