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Evening star., 1938-07-01
RYAN SAYS REDS
FINANCED STRIKE
Russia Sent Unbelievable
Sum to Aid WaIkout,
Union Head Asserts.
)! the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-Joseph p
Ryan. president Of the Interna tiona
Longshoremen's Association "a. F.L.)
told legislative committee today that
money was sent from Russia to New
York in 1925 to support a fur strike.
Mr.. Ryan made the charge after
challenging the testimony of Ear
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist party in the United States
who denied the party here is aided by
Soviet Russia.
The longshoremen's president, called
rs witness before the Joint Legisla-
tive Committee on Law Enforcement,
said he was president of the Central
Trades and Labor Council in 1925 and
served on committee which in
vestigated the strike.
How much money was sent from
Russia to aid this striker" asked State
Senator John j. McNaboe, committee
chairman.
Mr.. Ryan said he was not prepared
to State the exact amount, but added !:
The money spent was unbelievable.
There must have been $1,000, 900
squandered on the strike"
The fur strike, Mr. Ryan said, was
called by joint board, OF which seven
members were Communists, against
the wishes Of the membership and
the International Executive Board.
Strikers. he said, were compelled to
take out red card" which was an
admission into the outer fringe of the
Communist party.
Mr.. Browder testified yesterday his
party maintains units in hospitals,
schools, city and State government
buildings and home relief stations, but
denied existence of a Communist con-
spiracy to overthrow the Government.
He apparently enjoyed his tilts with
Senator John c. McNaboe, chairman,
who solemnly remarked God forbid
when Mr.. Browder said he hoped that
headquarters Of the Communist Inter-
rationale would some day be in New
York instead of Moscow.
Mr.. Browder, Communist candidate
for President in 1886, testified he found
nothing inconsistent with Communism
as practiced in Russia and American
ism as 1t exists in the United States.
Il think administration of Justice
In the Soviet Union is better than in
the United States" he said
Questioned about the existence OF
Communist units in relief stations,
Mr.. Browder said with smile. I'VE
make no determinations against those
on relief"
In answer to a question, Mr..
Browder admitted greetings had been
sent to Stain by the recent American
Communist Party Congress and added
1t was in line with a good American
tradition" He cited an instance of
Abraham Lincoln sending greetings to
the first International under Karl
Marx
You don't take any orders from
Mr.. Stain, Go you?" asked Mr.. Nc
Naboe.
Il do not" Mr. Browder replied.
i've never received any or had occa-
sion to receive any"
Evening star., 1938-07-01
ROOSEVELT TO REVIEW
WARSHIPS WHILE WEST
Plans for San Francisco Visit
Expected to Be Announced
for President Shortly.

HYDE PARK. N. Y, July R.-
President Roosevelt will review ships
OF the United States fleet at San
Francisco on his tour to the West this
month.
Temporary White House officials
said the date Of the review and other
details concerning the Chief Execu-
tive's San Francisco visit probably
would be announced within a few days.
The date of the review will be about
July Is and a good portion of the feet
based in the San Dieso-San Fran
cisco area is expected to participate.
Evening star., 1938-07-01

Specially oii-treated uppers.
heavily stitched Moccasin
toes. genuine raw n de
thongs. patented Panro
sport soies with Orthopedic
heels-d o n Bile stitched.
Sizes to IL.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
new U. S. INSTRUCTIONS
ON CHACO ARE EXPECTED
Delegation to Buenos Aires Farley
to SPresent Statement to
Conference Today.

by CnE ASSOCI1Ced FfSSe.
BUENOS AIRES, July 1.-The
United States delegation to the con-
ference attempting to settle the long
Chaco dispute between Bolivia and
Paraguay announced yesterday it ex-
pected to receive new instructions from
Washington.
The delegation said that on the
basis of the new instructions it would
present statement to the conference,
probably today.
The conference of neutrals Is At
tempting to end century-old dispute
over the ChAco area which plunged
Bolivia and Paraguay into Q costly
three-year war in 1892.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
HARRISON WIDOW
IS VOTED PENSION
Senate Approves $1,000 a
Year and Sends Bill
to House.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Senate sent to the White House
yesterday legislation to provide PEN
sion of $4,000 a year for Mary Lord
Harrison, widow of Benjamin Harri-
son, 23d President
Mrs Harrison, who was 80 on April
80, never occupied the White House
as the Presidents wife, but lived there
for two years during the prolonged
illness of her aunt, the first Mrs. Har-
rison
She was married to Mr. Harrison in
New York City three years after he
left the White House. They made
their home in Indianapolis until his
death in 1901. Since. Mrs. Harrison
has spent most of her time with her
stepdaughter, Mrs. James Blaine
Walker of New York City.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa-
chusettS opposed the pension legisla-
ton yesterday on the ground Mrs.
Harrison never had been First Lady
and that she had an income of $4,000
a year. Senators Minton. Democrat.
of Indiana and Copeland, Democrat. of
New York replied that the amount
was only $4,000 year. Senator
Copeland said she could not afford the
upkeep of car and had to use buses.
The widow of a former President,
80 years old, is forced to climb on a
Fifth avenue bus he said
When the pension bill was intro
duced. Mrs Walker, only living child
of the former President. asked the
Senate Appropriations Committee to
approve it.
The testified the widow lives on the
income from a 100000 trust fund left
by the President, plus S25 900 inherited
from her first husband, Walter E.
Dimmick.
Earlier this session Congress ap-
proved pensions for the widows of
Calvin Coolidge and William H. Taft.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt had formerly been voted
pensions.
Officially such pensions are CLASH
fed with those given the country's
military defenders or their surviving
relatives. The President is COM
mander-in-chief of the Army and
Navy
Evening star., 1938-05-19
MAY FETE STARTS
AT BARNEY HOUSE
seth Annual Festival Will Be
Featured by Varied Program,
Including Playlet.

The 36th annual May festival of
the Barney Neighborhood House will
be held at the headquarters, 470 N
street SW., for three days beginning
at 3 pm. today. The various pro-
grams are to be given in the garden,
but in case of rain will be moved
inside.
More than 200 children. who have
made their own costumes. with the
aid of mothers, older sisters and in
structors at the house, will take part.
Today's program will include play
let, The Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe; songs by the nursery and kin
dergarten children. Scotch and Rus
sian dances. a Maypole dance and
music by the Toy Symphony.
During the interval between the
afternoon and evening programs the
Mothers Club of the house will serve
supper A variety of the children's S
craftwork. as we'll as homemade pies,
cakes and candies. will be on sale.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
PENNEY SEEKS DIVORCE

PHOENIX, Ariz.. May 10 R.-
James c. Penney, jr, 81. son Of the
nationally-known merchant. fled suit
for divorce here yesterday from Mrs.
Elinor Snyder Penney, charging de-
sertion in New York City in August,
1884.
They were married in New York
City June %, 1929.
Friends said Mr.. Penney came here
about two years ago to learn the citrus
business
Evening star., 1938-05-19
Sunshine to Heat Water.

Heating water by the suns rays is to
be tried at the new 100000 meteoro-
logical plant at Pretoria University in
Pretoria, South Africa. The apparatus
consists of large insulated glass
covered frame with a dozen parallel
pipes through which the water passes.
The pipes are blackened to absorb the
maximum Of heat waves.
Evening star., 1938-05-19

Hawaii hopes to add another star to
Old Glory, but the disturbed state Of
international affairs and Hawaii's
mixed Oriental population, with Jap
anese majority, makes the United
States conclude that the present Terri
torial status will be safer at present.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
DR.. RUTLAND CITES
TRAFFIC MENACES
Drunken Drivers and Pedestrians
Twin Dangers, Women's Safety
Committee Is Told.


Drunken drivers and drunken Pc
destrians are twin menaces to traffic
safety, DR.. George " Rutland. Dis
trict health officer, told the Women's
Safety Committee at meeting yes
terday at the Sulgrave Club.
Dr. Rutland told his audience, how
ever, that dangerous driving is not
confined to the younger and sup
posedly more reckless age groups. con-
tending that persons between As and
so figure frequently in accident re-
ports. Most accidents, he said. occur
In early evening hours and on week
Snds.
Mrs Frederick H. Brooke, national
president of the Girl Scouts, and Miss
Edith Coulson of the Council of So
cial Agencies also addressed the meet
ing
William A. Van Duzer. traffic di-
rector. spoke on the safety devices of
the future at the luncheon which
followed the meeting.
Mrs. George c. Thorpe, chairman of
the committee, presided at the meet
ing. She will spend the summer in
Europe making traffic studies.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
so ASSAULTS ADMITTED
Ex-Convict Confesses Attacks on
Women in Past 4 Years,

CHICAGO, May 10 R.-Louis Ser
raille, ~, an ex-convict who was ar
rested as q suspect in the hammer
beating Of two women Sunday. con-
fessed, Police Capt. Ray Crane said
today, having raped SO girls and
women In Chicago during the past
four years.
Capt. Crane said Serraille had
signed a confession that he lured his
victims into his automobile and
Evening star., 1938-05-19
Double Parenth0Od.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 10 up.
Walter Grow, q w. P. A. worker. be-
came grandfather and father the same
day.
In the morning his son and daugh-
ter-in-law became the parents of a
baby boy. That night Mr.. Grows wife
bore him girl.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
SHIP SPONSOR NAMED
Admiral Davis Granddaughter
to Christen DESTROYER.


Miss Elizabeth Davis of Jamestown,
r. l.. has been named by Secretary
Swanson as sponsor for the U. s. s.
Davis. new destroyer to be named in
honor of her grandfather. the late
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis,
U. S. N.
The u S. S. Davis is scheduled to be
launched at the plant of the Bath
Iron Works Corp, Bath, Me, between
June 25 and July S. This will be the
Evening star., 1938-05-19

bert Cutler. David L. Seller, Miss
Audrey Baker. Robert Nix. Harvey
Ogden, Miss Margsrita Tench. Miss
Evelyn Henderson. Miss Ruth Fitz-
gerald and Miss Helen s. A. Lewis.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
them with death II they

threatened them with death II they
resisted.
The officer said seven victims have
identified Serraiile as their assailant.
Among them were the women beaten
with hammer early Sunday morning
One of the latter was In a serious
condition.
Evening star., 1938-05-19

third vessel of the name, the others
having been a destroyer and torpedo
boat. The new vessel was authorized
by Act of Congress Of March 81, 1884.
Evening star., 1938-05-19
ART WINNERS NAMED
Bert Morris First in Animated
Cartoon Contest.

Bert Morris. 1922 Wisconsin avenue
NV, was announced today as winner
of the art contest sponsored recently
by the Washington Animated Cartoon
School
Other winners listed were Miss Mil
dred Ward, Miss Dona. Marie Hill,
Clarence A. Bauer, Ralph Muschlitz.
Miss Josephine Worman Miss Violet
r. Williams, Miss Marie Barkley, AL
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-29
DEATH TAKES L. W.
HASKELL HERE TODAY

(Contiuued from Hao" onel
captain and lieutenant colonel IN
the Second South Carolina regl-
ment. and resigned As lieutenant
colonel when he entered the for
eign service in 1910.
He served as American consul
at Vera Cruz, Mexico; Hull, Eng
land: Belgrade, Serbia; Geneva.
Switzerland, and was promoted
consul general while at Geneva.
In this post he served at Alglers,
Algeria. and at Zurich, Switzer-
land. at which position he reached
retirement age and left the dlplo-
matte service.
He as the representative OF
the United States at the opening
of the League of Nations, and rep
resented this country at the inter
national conference on customs
formalities, and also at the con-
ference on communications and
tranSitS.
He was a member of the Society
of Cincinnati and was South caro-
lima delegate of the Society in
Paris.
His humanitarian work during
the World war Won him the deco
ration of the Serbian Cross and
the Austrian government was
about to decorate him for similar
work when this nation declared
war on Austria.
In 1882 The Citadel conferred
on himsthe degree of LID.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Aleta Geddes Haskell, for
merly of Columbia. 5. c., and a
sister, Mrs. Charles West of Okla
homa City, Okla.
Active pallbearers at the funer-
al services will be P. H. Nelson,
Frank Haskell. Jr., Henry Fair,
Jr., Herndon Fair, Munro Shand,
Jr.. DR.. William Weston, Jr., all
of Columbia: William Augustine
Wright of Savannah, and Charles
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-29

sign and aerial tactics.
Mai = Gen. Oscar NeStoVcr,
chief of the army air corps, re-
Gently announced that "while not
capable of true stratospheric
flight, it is planned to conduct ex-
periments at high attitudes and to
collect extensive data on the re-
actions of personnel and material
under varying conditions"
RADICAL CHANGES IN
PROSPECT
High hopes are held for the
results of these experiments" he
said, "and it is believed that the
data obtained may result in radi-
cal changes in the design of flu
ture long-range, high altitude and
possibly pursuit types of air
planes.
The efficiency of the FNM-l
type--a two-engine, pusher type
ship-will be tested thoroughly,
The fact that the engines are
mounted behind the wings permits
much greater frontal angle of
fire than would otherwise be pos,
sible and frees the gunner from
operating in the propeller blast,
thereby increasing the accuracy
of fire.
The plane is a low-wing, all
metal monoplane and carries a
crew of five, including three gun
nerS.
1T is probably the most formid,
able aerial fighting weapon of its
type yet developed" Wcstovel
said, adding that tests to date in,
dictate that it is the answer to
many of our pursuit problems
and that it has a definite place in
our future plans"
Some maneuvers already have
been held in southern sections of
the country. Results were not
made public, but it was reported
that much of the new motorized
equipment, particularly tanks,
met the test better than was eX-
pccted.
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Vocational Az.
Teachers OF Two
Counties Gather
Y.T.F. Camp To Be Op-
Grated in Western Caro-
lima for First Time

The Henderson Pennsylvania
group of vocational agricultural
teachers held their April meeting
at the Brevard high school on
last Tuesday.
E.. T. Frisbie, of Mills River,
chairman, presided, and M. f.
Nesbitt, W. A. Franklin, and R.
D. Bruce were on the program
for short discussions on methods
of teaching agriculture. Each of
the speakers outlined main points
of their programs, giving methods
used and subject matter present
ed to men and boys.
Each community presents diff
ferent problem and each pupil al
so is different problem, the
speakers said. Speakers also
agreed that each teacher has his
own method of instruction.
Tai H. Stafford attended the
meeting and told the group that
a Young Tar Heel Farmer camp
will be operated this summer near
Barnardsville. This will be the
first time a camp has been opcr-
ated in Western North Carolina,
students from this section former
" attending a camp at White
Lake.
At the close of the business
meeting, teachers joined their
wives and others for dinner at the
home of r. J. Lyday, vocational
teacher at Brevard.
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SEN. MINTON AIMS
MEASURE AT PRESS

Continued from rage onel
American press opposed the ad-
ministration in the last election
and attacked by name the New
York Herald Tribune, the Chlca-
90 Tribune, the Washington Post
and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Portions of the press, ne added,
spread so niue h propaganda
against the New Deal that the
administration is forced to use
the radio to defend itself.
Minton scoffed at ANPA fears
that persistent use of the radio
by the president to carry de-
Tense of his policies to the people
will lead to dictatorship.
"The administration can get
headline in the newspapers, ne
said, attacking as an eXhlbitloi'
of "unmitigated gall" the ANpA
radio report. "But let someone
make a loose statement and 1t Is
placed in screaming headlines.
"The president goes to milllons
of people of the country = IN
their own homes-and that mignt
lead to a dictatorship! Think OF
it! The press would deny the pres
ident. of the United States the
right to speak to the people OF
the United States. 49, .,oo
"The only objection the free
press might have to that Is Ihat
truth. which they wouldn't find IN
the, propaganda sheets OF TINS
city" Tho sorate
lobby committee which recently
Investigated; iu the activities of the
National Committee to Uphold
Constitutional Government against
the presidents government 1 reoI-
1an;zation bill. The group is head
ed by Frank Gannett.. newspaper
publisher.
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Foster Is Again
Named Principal
For Mills River
Telephone
Number
90

A. NJ. Foster, principal of the
Mills River high school for the
past Ia years, has been reelected
to the position for the next school
year, and members of the high
and elementary schools have been
elected.
Members of the high school fac
ulty are: Mrs. A. R. Pope, c. H.
Price, w. J. Middleton, Miss Will
lie Lou Jordan, and f. 7. Frisbie,
vocational agriculture teacher.
Members of the elementary
school faculty are: Mrs. c. H.
Price, Miss Louise Bowen, Mrs.
Margaret Combs, Miss Gladys
Turner, Mrs. Catherine White,
Miss Ruth Corpening, Mrs. Dor
othy Foster, Miss Carolyn Kim
zey, Miss Edith Byrd, Miss Beat
rice Corpening and Miss Anne
s lien
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TAKELEASE
WOODFIELDS
Ohio and Florida Hotel OPP
orator Leases Sum-
mer Hotel

Woodfields. a summer hotel, To-
Gated on the Greenville highway
in the Flat Rock section. has been
leased to Luther Damron, Ohio
and Florida hotel operator, it was
reported here today.
The hotel will be operated this
summer as Woodfields Inn. 1t is
located on one of the oldest es-
tates in the Flat Rock section, and
has served as a hoste!ry for about
100 years or more. 1t was former.
" known as Planters Inn.
The property is owned by Mrs.
Annie D. Martin, who has operat-
cd it during the summers for APP
proXimately Is years.
Mr.. Damron is proprietor of the
St. Lucis hotel, at Stuart, Fla.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-29
BELCLANS FEAR.
RUIN OF CITIES
If WAR COMES
Nearby Countries Within
Ten Minutes Air At
lacking Time
By LUCIA RIZZARDI
nited Press Staff Correspondent


BRUSSELS, April 20. (UP).
The fate Of Belgium's civilization
population in the air warfare of
another European conflict would
be appalling, according to Albert
Devezc, former Belgian minister
for national defense.
What happened in Spain and
at Shanghai would be nothing
compared with our fate if Bel
GUM were dragged into a general
war;" he said. Just consider the
tremendous air armadas of Bel
gums neighbors and the small
ness of our territory. Our cities
are situated so close together that
the devastation that could be
caused in a few hours is fearful
to think Of"
That explains why the Belgian
government today is working fe-
verishly to protect the civilian
population against air attacks.
LIEGE JUST INSIDE BORDER
Liege, first Belgian city to fall
to the Germans in the World war,
lies only 81 miles from the Belgo-
German frontier. Charleroi, one
of Relgium's great industrial CEN
tcrs is only 60 miles from the
frontier. Brussels itself is 90
miles-less than a half-hour's
flight for fast bombers-from the
border.
Brussels, the fortified city of
Antwerp, the important ports of
Client and Ostend and the fac
tories of Charleroi all would he
the detectives of immediate air
onslaughts if Belgium were
caught in another European wal.
All are almost equally vulner-
able. The powerful fortresS-city
of Liege, with its great steel
works and arms factories, would
be bombed Immediately on out
break of war.
Belgium's preparations for pro-
tecting civilians against air raids
are in the hands Of two organlza-
tions-the Commissariat de De-
Tense Passive Aerienna, or the
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commission of passive air defense,
and the Ligue de Protection Aeri-
enne-air protective league. They
cooperate with the Red Cross.
Concrete air raid shelters al
ready have been constructed in
many Belgian cities. Some, shaped
like beehives, can accommodate
20 persons. A few can hold as
many as 700. Other shelters have
been built in underground cellars.
More are of concrete, 4 feet
thick.
ACTION MUST BE FAST
Probably only 10 minute would
intervene between the first air
raid signal and the arrival Of hos
tile planes. In each city through
out the country volunteers are be-
ing trained intensively to carry
out the evacuation of civilians
and provide them with gas masks.
At the same time local Red Cross
SQUADS would be called out to
take over emergency hospitals.
Plans also have been made to
evacuate whole populations Of
cities if necessary. The evacua-
ton would be superintendent by
members of the air protective
league. Trenches would be dug
along main roads in which rcfu-
gees will be able to find shelter
if suddenly attacked by enemy
planes. Accommodation in castles
and houses in the country will be
reserved for old and sick rcfucecs.
while civilians generally will be
housed tcmnorarilv in barns,
schools or empty factories.
Most refugees will have to
leave the citeis on foot, although
plans have been prepared to take
some in automobiles and buses.
The Belgian people already are
being accustomed to air raid
alarms THROUGH practice raids car
ried out on Sundays. 'Steadily in
creasing numbers Of volunteers
are being trained for air raid pre-
cautions.
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ARMY TOFACE
RIGID TESTS
IN MANEUVERS
Mock Battlefield Zones
Will Extend Over the
Entire Nation
By GRATTAN McGROART4
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 20. (uP)
The army's newly streamllned
fighting forces will "go to war;
next month against an imaginary
foe in the greatest series of mill
tary maneuvers in the country's
history.
With official Washington con-
cerned over the rapid spread of
relationships and the daring
successes" of totalitarlan gov
ernments. orders have been issu-
ed to lift the wraps" from the
army's war machine and turn 1t
loose at full speed.
The Battlefield" area will eX-
tend from coast to coast and
from the Canadian border to the
Gulf of Mexico, with all branches
of the service receiving the most
severe tests possible except under
actual war conditions.
Most spectacular part of the
extensive maneuvers Will take
place from May IL to IT when
the air force attempts to defend
the northeastern section of the
United States against a theoreti-
cal enemy aiming to destroy the
nations chief industrial area.
TO CONTINUE THROUGH
SUMMER -,
Similar military problems will
be worked out in all other sec
tions of the country, continuing
until late summer or early fall
Details of the program to mass
the air fleet have not been an
nounced, but hundreds of the
worlds finest fighting planes
ranging from huge four-motored
bombers to SubstratoSphere pur-
suit ships - will participate. In
addition, thousands Of infantry
men and units of the mechanical
cavalry and field artillery will be
massed to guard airports.
During the mancuvers, the ar
corps will conduct tests with
pressure cabin" planes, now in
the experimental stage, which
may radically change future de-