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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Little Old New York ="
To Be Presented Here

Little Old New York" will be
presented by students of the Stu
art Junior High School tomorrow
and Friday nights in the school
auditorium. Among those cast in
the production are Vivian Stew
art, Peggy Ballard, Jeanne Schwab,
Hilda Glover, Pete del Crosse,
Charles Bostian, David Silas, Jack
LySScom, Andrew Kirk, Melvin Toll
Stoi, Robert Kramer, and Phil
Gentilcore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
ONLY 10 DAYS
LEFT TO BRING
TOYS FOR KIDS
Santa Claus Must Visit
$4,000 Needy Here

You have ten days left in which
to do that little job of packing
up the caSt-off toys-or stopping
in the midst of other shopping to
buy the little trinket that costs
you almost nothing-but which is
such a BIG thing to one of the
Districts 10000 needy children
Q week from Saturday night!
For Santa Claus just MUST
visit every one of them-NOT only
with the necessary things which
Christian charity should provide
on other days-but with that gen
uine. Christmastide JOY that can
come only with gift.
WHERE'S YOUR JOY?
Little minds don't understand
depreSSionS-tiny eyes don't see
economic diSarrangementS - little
feet will patter trustfully to a
chimney-or chair in the corner
Or wherever little minds think
Santa MAY have been. And lit
tie hearts are more easily broken
over trifles than stout, adult and
cynical organs!
Where's your toy-Mr. and Mrs.
Washington? Come on now
you've got one the children have
used up-or you're hiding it be-
hind that big package you've
bought tor your own! So call .
Metropolitan 4141 and let the
Premier Cab Griver-all of them
have enllSted!-bring it to the
Washington Herald Times Good
Cheer club
Or, if it needs mending little
they'll take it to the nearest fire
house where the District firemen
have been busy for days fixing up
toys to look like new for the Good
Cheer program of 10000 Christ
mas smiles!
Maybe it will be taken to the
Playground Department-the Dis
trict has 1000 happy children
painting 0olls-painting toy trains
and the WPA has whole staff
Of men and women doing the
same thing with your toys!
SATURDAY SHOW
Maybe you'd like to combine a
little pleasure for yourself with
this business of bringing cheer to
others. If so, remember that
Loew's Capitol Theater, which !
staged such big, successful TOY
MATINEE last Saturday morning, !
is inviting you to attend its regu-
lar Saturday morning showing of 1
Dickens immortal Christmas
Carol" on the same terms THIS
Saturday-if you're there before
ii a. m. Just toy-toSsed on the ,
big pile-and you shall be COM :
pensated, friend with the wonder
full story of Scrooge and Tiny Tim! t
And-if you want the REAL !
lowdown on how badly your toy is {
needed-just listen to big-hearted {
Art Brown on his regular morning I
broadcast on VOL! HE knows {
where the heartaches are-and he
has been eloqdently pleading the :
Christmas Cheer Clubs cause!
Well, that's the story - now,
where's your toy? I
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Major Wins
Reprieve
SAN QUENTIN PRISON,

SAN QUENTIN PRISON,
Cal, Dec. IA H.N.S.).-Execu-'
ton of one condemned pris-
Oner on the galIOws Friday
was averted today with grant
ing by Gov. Frank F. Mer-
RAM of a three-mOnth re-
pricve to Allan d. BOggs, re-
tired Army major and former
Detroit sOciaIite.
BOggS was convicted and
sentenced for the mistake"
Staying Of his wife at Santa
Cruz prior to the date the
new law establishing the
lethal gas chamber as the
mode Of execution became ef-
fective, and therefore was
scheduled to be hanged.
He shot his wife when he
found her in bed at the home
of q friend, with q imam"
lying in an adjoining bed.
After the murder, he dis
covered that the man" was
their 12-year-Old son.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Fireboat Batt|ers
Douse Trolley Fire

Whether it be on land or water
a fire is a fire to the men at Fire
boat Headquarters, Seventh and
Water Streets Southwest. YeSter-
day when the pillow of street car
burst into flames while passing
their station the doughty firemen
dashed out with eXtinguishers and
put out the blaze before it had
done any appreciate damage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Woman Badly Hurt
In Auto Collision

Two persons were injured in
traffic accidents here last night.
Mrs. Gladys L. Leitch, 20. of the
1900 block of F st. N. E., suffered
q brain conclusion and fractured
ribs when her automobile collided
with another at Second and c
Streets Northeast. Frank x. Bel
air. %. of the 1900 block of Brent
wood Rd. N. E., was taken to Sib
ley Hospital suffering from a
brain conclusion after he was
struck by an automobile while
crossing the street in the 900
block Of Franklin st. N. E. -~..,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Church 10 Present
Christmas Pageant

everywhere Christmas To
night a Christmas pageant, will
be presented next Sunday night
in the National City Christian
Church. The pageant, with a cast
of 10 persons, will be directed by
DR.. H. Augustine Smith, director
of church and community music
of Boston University.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Virginia Democrats
Score Byrd POLICY

Members of the Virginia Demo
cratic Club of Washington were
on record today as opposing the
anti Administration policies of
Senator Harry F. Byrd CD of
Virginia. Meeting at the home of
the president, Arthur Clarendon
Smith, 2949 Macomb st. N. W..
the organization elected two new
honorary vice presidents, Governor
James Price of Virginia and j.
Murray Hookar, chairman of the
Democratic State central com
mittee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Marine Board Seeks
Bids on Munson Line

G.N.S) Bids for the purchase
or charter of four MunSon Line
ships we're asked today by the
U. S. Maritime Commission. Bids
must be filed with the commission
by January II 1889 The ships
are the American Legion. the
Southern Cross, the Western
World, and the Pan-American.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
D. C. Guard to Expand

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mander Ct the National Guard, an
nounced today the War Depart
ment has authorized an expansion
of so per cent in the enlisted per
sonnet of the 260th Coast Artillery
of the District National Guard.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14

ODER, Milton D. Norman, Milford
F.. Schwartz, Edward Roosen-
bloom, director of the Jewish
Community Center, g.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Sander Is Installed
Masonic Lodge Head

Jacob Sander Washington attorney and professor of law
elected and installed worshpfu master of Samuel Gompers
Lodge No. 45, F. A A. NJ during impressive ceremonies at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14

Beautifully d 9.
signed sparkling
marcasite W it h
three permanent
~ installed mi
tials put on while
you wait.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
CAUSE OF RECESSION

What is the cause of the recession? why are
millions of workers idle in the face of an abun-
dance Of everything to eat and of an abundance
of money in banks?
We think former Shelby youth who Is no"
president Of manufacturing plant in the East
explains it fully when ne cites few figures fea-
tive to his business. For the year 1897 his COM
pany paid S352,247 in direct taxes, which means
1--WE had to operate our plant approximately 1ouf
months in order to earn the taxes paid, OF when
$297,S09 were federal taxes"
That is typical experience of every small ousi-
ness in the country. In addition to the tax puraeh
small Shelby plant employing 20 people Is asked
to make out annually l2l tax reports or reports
having to do with taxes. It has been necessary &c
install system of record keeping that requires
virtually all of the time of one individual asiue
from the worry and anxiety that report might DC
neglected and penalty be imposed.
You ask the cause Of the recession! BUSINESS
big and little has lost heart. The incentive 10 pusf
ahead and expand has been Debated. Expansion
means more taxes more risk, more money. Ever
the young man who is ambitious to start III ousi
ness for himself, finds to his dismay that the fegu
lations which govern his legitimate operations af'
more difficult to learn than the business ltSeh' %
he is discouraged, too.
Congress is now starting out on cure Inc
cure, however, does not lie in the ereatfon Oh
lending fund.- to the little business man. out II
lifting the tax load and letting up on the humpe
of required reports.-Shelby Star.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TakDY FACTS

During the agitation for crop control legislation
and more particularly during the socalled educa-
tiOna campaign which preceded the referendum
amongst Tar Heel tobacco growers, the Washing
tonpad educators pictured the ogre of excess pro-
duction and the economic devastation which it was
certain to cause
While the education at that time Was based upon
generalitieS which at best appeared mere guess
work, with the cause mayhap fathering the estl-
mate, tabulation Of the votes has hardly been COM
peted before official figures, which we take to be
accurate, are available in this very field 1t is the
state department of agriculture which announces
that survey, conducted too, mind you before the
crop control referenda but only now made public,
of growers intentions for the next season showed:
Tobacco growers in the old hurley belts report
ed expected increase but III the border or South
Carolina, belt, where 5000 acres planted
last season. growers reported intentions TO increase
their acreageS II per cent. In the new belt, all
intended increase of per cent over the 328,O0O
acres hast season was reported.
Farmers indicated they will plant 261,00 acres
of tobacco in the old belt and 5000 in the hurley
belt For the entire flue-cured belt, growers indi-
Gated they would plant 100000 acres, or an in
crease of 5 per cent over 1887"
Whether not five per cent increase would
play economic and financial havoc amongst the
tobacco growers, the Daily News does not profess
to know or say as any decision would be dependent
upon more or less technical information which in
cluded future marketing outlooks the world over.
In this very connection, however, as indicative OF
how an increased production may not upset the
works, it is simultaneously revealed i'll the state
departments Agricultural Review that North Caro-
lima tobacco growers received $3.50 more per 100
pounds for their 1887 crop than they received for
their 1896 production although last years total
crop exceeded the preceding years by approximate
ly fourth.
To be sure, it's late date, with the referendum
and its educational campaign behind us, to be
bringing forth this factual information for what
ever it may be worth now. But evidently the edu-
Gators with all the rush and the exgences of their
partcularist pursuits simply could not get around
to its compilation and dissemination sconer.-The
Greensboro News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
TEXANS RELINQUISH
LIEN ON Pixies PEAK
AND ACCEPT TOKEN

FORT WORTH, Texas, April
6. OUP).-Colorado's Governor
Teller Ammons, who "lost" Pixies
Peak in bet with Governor Jas.
V. Alfred of Texas, on the out
come of the Rice-Colorado foot
ball game in Dallas last January
/, is making token payments.
Alfred wagered Texas Big
Bend park against the famous
Rocky Mountain peak. Colorado
lost the game and several comic
proposals were made for collect
ing the debt.
Ammons dispatched a represen-
tative to Texas with souvenir pa
per-weights made from Pixies
Peak granite. The tokens were
given to Governor Alfred, Mayor
w. J. Hammond of Fort Worth,
and other officials. Winners Of
the bet announced that they were
satisfied"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
HE FORGOT SOMETHING

Totaiitarianisn, says Secretary Iekes IN nation
wide bookun sis real threat to our institutions"
This newspaper has long been saying as much
The Secretary of the Interior grows eloquent in
his dennnciatons and powerful in his emphasis of
the perils of this deadly foe of democracy
Hear HIM:
"Let us make no mistake fotahtaflanism Is IN
sidiousiy boring today from within the temple OF
our liberties and assaulting 1t from without. 1t
rides the radio waves, spews from the presses, scars
through the air in bombing planes siiiiAs under the
Gao Tn submarines. aud crosses the surface of the
earth 70 o chorus of clanking tanks"
With all of the inchusiVeness of that mastery
paragraph Mr.. Iekes forgot something.
He forgot to mention the little matter that the
same vicious germ of totalitarianism subtly turks
IN MANY policies of the New Deal of which he is
ono Of tie master opponents and for which he is in
GOOD measure responsible.-Charlotte Observer,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER.

ADMIT the act was constitutional.
Davis leaped into the Baltimore
federal court TO challenge the
act a week after it was signed.
On behalf Of Baltimore dentist
who owned a few bonds in a
bankrupt holding company, he
asked Judge Coleman to instruct
trustees that the act was invalid.
"Now you will have TO practice
law" he whispered challengingly
to Corcoran, Cohen and SEC Gen.
eral Counsel Johnny Burns. The
New Dealers replied with yells Of
flake case" and "collusion!' after
Davis had met his dentist client
in the courtroom for the first time.
Judge Coleman decided against
the New Dealers and so did the
Court of Appeals.
But the Supreme Court accepted
the Corcoran-Cohen argument
that the Baltimore case, in which
the government wasn't party,
was no fair test of the act.
Then an armada of utility law
yers launched So suits against
the act. Once again Corcoran and
Cchen fought up TO the Supreme
Court with Attorney General
Cummings in what utility lawyers
called an "unheard-of" maneuver
designed to stay other suits while
the governments own suit under
the act against the huge Electric
Bond & Share Company was be-
ing tried.
Meanwhile Corcoran and Cohen
had recruited Robert H. Jackson,
New Deal ace trial lawyer who is
now solicitor general, to take spe-
cial charge o. the Bond and Share
case.
And to date the courts have
handed the big-time lawyers and
the utilities which employ them
= nothing but a bunch of goose eggs.
| Copyright. 1898. NEA Service. Inc !
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

Observation-Disclosures or
" what anyone thinks of the
holding company act or Of brain
truSterS in general. the New
Deals inexperienced young saw
yers" have won a striking victory
over the leaders Of the American
oar" in the Supreme Courts hold
ing company decision.
Here is further proof that the
government, under fire, has de-
veloped string OF lawyers who
ran take on the best and most ex-
oensive OF the private practition-
ers.
The demonstration has been
especially convincing on the cleo
!ric power front, for the holding
company decision-in perhaps the
governments most difficult legal
battle of a generation-was pre-
ceded by the Supreme Courts
valuation Of PWA municipal
power plant loan grants and the
decisive three-judge opinion up.
holding IVA.
The legal generalship has been
supplied from the beginning BY
those two widely publicized but
amelight-dodging brain trusters
Fom Corcoran and Ben Cohen
Those two wrote the holding com,
2any bill, nursed it through Con.
gress and then skipped vacation!
TO pilot it through the courts.
H. c. Hopson of Associated Ga
and Electric once said he'd b,
willing to spend billions to bea
the act and was active in support
ing one Of the biggest Hobbies eve
to oppose a bill in Washington
That battle lost, nearly all the BIZ
New York law firms banded to
gether under leadership of Johl
w. Davis 10 bust the government
power program. Their fees ra,
into millions. Only the modest
paid government lawyers wom
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
Payne And Turner
Appeal Argument
Set For Next Week

RALEIGH, April 6. (UP) The
appeal of Bill Payne, former ace
desperate of North Carolina, and
Wash Turner, his first lieutenant,
for a new trial in the death of a
state highway patrOlman, will be
argued before the state supreme
court next week. Edward Murray,
chief clerk of the court, said yes
terday.
The last fight of the convicted
slayers Of George Penn, the pa
trOman, who was slain near Ashe-
vile last year, to escape the
states lethal gas chamber prob
ably will begin a week from next
Thursday. Murray said.
Counsel for the defendants will
be the firm Of Jones, Ward and
Jones, Asheville, and J. Walter
Haynes, Ashevillc. Walter ID.
Silcr, Pittsboro, also has acted as
counsel for Payne and Turner,
Murray said.
The appeal Of the ex-despera-
does, who left Il wide swath of
bank robberies and kidnapingS
after their escape from Caledonia
prison farm more than a year
ago, will be based on three con-
tentiOnS:
|. That the court erred in adj.
hitting evidence Of other crimes
than the one with which the pris-
oncrs were charged.
2. That the court erred in adj
hitting evidence of firearms and
other articles taken from the priS-
offers when arrested and in per
hitting the state to exhibit same
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
SIGNS ONG; PUMP
By NOAH HOLLOWELL

SIGNS WRONG; PUMP
BROKE: jim Barnwell rushed in
yesterday fresh from his orchard
with a piece of his spray outfit
out of commission and face show
ing the evidences Of orchard work
as though he had submerged it
in barrel Of liquid lime sulphur.
Mr.. Barnwell has in charge the
Burney orchard on Bear WallOw,
from which he harvested big
crop last year. His spraying out
fit went wrong and that's a big,
disappointing event when the
signs are right, the blossoms are
crying for the juice and the wind
is behaving and idle help is stand
ing around, helpless.
"The signs must have been
wrong" said Mr.. Barnwell. At
least luck was against him as he
TANNED his boot on the accelera-
tor and rushed back to his or
chard with repairs without eX-
planning whether the signs were
wrong for the machinery or the
apple blossoms, but we can get
that information later from Joe
HollingSworth, the zodiac special
icf
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
Wamboidt -
THE SHOW MUST GO ON

The dictator has one dangerous
problem ever before him: He
must constantly keep his people
so engrossed looking outward and
admiring him that they have no
time to look inward and appraise
him. If he lets things get dull and
the people bored, they will turn
on him.
The dictator is like the western
bad man: He has got certain
reputation which he must live up
to, or lose out.
When the dictator runs out of
thrills he runs out Of power.
Then, in desperation, he may
plunge the world into war.
Before a dictator gets too bad,
some patriotic chancellor or prime
minister should get a private con-
ference with him and shoot him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

forever on what he did to the
Philippians. That is already be-
ginning to be old stuff with the
Italians. Benito can't hold the CEN
ter Of the stage and keep his
people applauding just by going
around with his jaw sticking out.
What next, BenitO?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

ldhc IL VII IIlN
chin before Wen
fight. At last the
distators h a V C
come to believe
that peace = at =
any = price talk (;
but they were
mighty leery for
Il while. T h e y
were not sure
the democracieS
meant that no =
fight stuff until
after Japan seiZ-
ed Name h u T j q
q n d Mussolini
raped Ethiopia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
MILLS RIVER OPERETTA
SET FOR FRIDAY NIGHT

The intermediate grades of the
Mills River school viii present an
Operetta entitled "Sunny of Sun
nyside," st the school auditorium
on Friday night April 8, at s
o'clock.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
THEY'LL APPROVE, OR ELSE

News reports from central
Europe announce that in April
Austrians will vote on approving
the union Of Austria and Ger
many. Nazi methods being what
they are, the word "On" should
have been omitted and the re-
port should have read, "In April
Austrians will vote approving the
Nunion of Austria and Germany"
The voting age is to be reduc-
ed, since the Nazis are FREEDOM
inantly the younger people. And
the Jews are not to be allowed
to vote since the Jews are pre-
dominantly anti-Nazi.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
ONE OF THE TWO

Austria'S former Chancellor,
Kurt Schuschnigg, who permitted
DE Juror" Hitler to place Nazis
in key positions in Austria's gov
eminent, was either the worlds
greatest dumbbell or the worlds
greatest traitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

cient to shake the cor idence of any citizen
of common intelligence and moderate un-
derstanding of business and economic laws
and rules.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
VICTIM-BANDIT HELD

PHILADELPHIA. (UP).-Two
patrolmen in a cruising car saw
a holdup and arrested the bandit
and-the victim. One was charged
with highway robbery, and the
other with drunkenness.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
SHORT FALLS pEpu

NJ MELBOURNE. uPl"W,.
a Few hours afJcr she brr.,", ''- u
hrSt woman parachute iu,",'o o % .
Australia by making . snc ,'rS' ]
descent Of 1000 Zee. Miss G.s
Burns, II, lost her balance " "s-y
appearing on tn" stage thar S ".-.'
ing, fell ) feet and injured h.
head. "S'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

For years the democracies have
been advertising to the world,
ave don't want TO fight; we are
not going to fight; in fact, We'll
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

England's frantic arming shows history
repeats. Our first parents began raising
Cain when they lost Eden.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

The only person more irritating than the
one who argues all the time is the one who
keeps still and just looks contradictory.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

All of us are pacifsts. Some think no.
body would hurt a dove, and some think
nobody would hurt a bull dog.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

Adequate defensive argument would
make us safe from enemies, but what if it
made some president talk too big?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
OUR LANGUAGE GROWS

Teacher: Johnny, what is a
chamberlain"
Johnny: cts when a prime
minister believes a dictator's
promise"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

Ten of the SO judges who Sign
ed the death warrant of Charles
| were executed at the Restoration
in 1860, .s n
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

WHAT NEXT, BENITO?
With Hitler stealing the show
things are going to get so dull
around Mussolini that if he would
save his face he must start some.
thing spectacular. He can't &c
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06

before the jury
3. That the court erred IN ,
charge to the jury.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-06
NOT ALL GROWN: Back to

vocational school tomorrow night.
1t was hopeful sign that 140
should attend a night school in
search Of something as a means
Of promoting their social secur-
ity. Such courses, given free, of
fer great possibilities along the
line Of self-improvement.