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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

Imperial Valley possible. was not
always appreciated by the pioneer
women in its original form. Pos
sibly it was because the original form
contained only about half H2O.
The other half was mud. Buckets
full were dipped from the canals or
bitches and left to settle. The more
fortunate had provided themselves
with filters of one kind or another.
The viii A. Edgars solved the
problem with a ciStern for settling
purposes. A runway carried the
water from the cistern over sand
and charcoal. From the runway an
ola was filled with water for drink
ing purposes. The desert cooler
principle, again with gunny sacks
as packing, kept the ollas cool dur
ing hot weather.
Mrs. Leroy Holt, one Of the first
women to enter the valley when
its development stage was reached,
still remembers buying drinking
water from New River by the gallon
and then having to filter it.
The Edgars, their filtering prob
lem solved, met another He was
jim, the horse. Jim loved water
The more water the better, but if
there was no more, just a little
would do. And jim learned to chew
his halter rope in two. After that
nothing could keep him out of the
ditch. Constant Watchfulness pro
vided the only safeguard for the
Edgars' drinking supply.
The first air conditioned homes
in Imperial Valley depended en-
lirely upon a very caprIcious breeze
Construction was simple. A tent
was set up. A feet above the top of
the tent was built an arrow weed
Ta09d9
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

burst. Il had been a warm June.
Dust parched palates yearned for
Just one taste Of ice cream. The
up-coming Fourth of July offered
d first rate excuse.
Ten gollons Of ice cream were
ordered from Los Angeles.
Not didn't melt before it ar
rived. It was worse yet. That Fourth
of July. 1902. was the coolest in
the annals of Imperial Valley. The
gay party shivered about the pot
bellied stove in the store building
But they ate the ice cream.
Water. precious fluid that made
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
The Women Did
| hree>Ouarters
Of Pioneer Work

Eggs dollar a dozen and butter dollar
a pound
The only time you bought a dozen eggs was when You
could eat them all the meal and if you purchased
pound of butter you took along a jar TO pour it into
In those days refrigeration was hing lou got
after you went to heaven.
Shortly before and for quite a while after 1900 m
Imperial Valley the hand that rocked the cradle the
had that did about threequarers Of the work Of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Necessities
counted then

II was the necessities that counued
in the early days-and there were
mt nearly as many necessities as
there are today. There was food.
most all Of it the kind that couldn't
be spoiled; clothing, mostly hand
made; and shelter, ranging from
crude windbreaks to arrow weed
ramadas over canvas tents. The
first children went to the first
school in Imperial-a tent shaded
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

bIlIuIIlg IIlt Witty. III LIlt ultn ulu
was reclaim the land, build the
houses and buy household goods.
The young wife of today who
turns on her electric stove, hauls
her vegetables out of the electric
refrigerator and lays her table with
a set of china in an air-cooled DOM
may have the same stamina her
mother had over a campfire or a
wood-eating cast iron stove, but she
uses ii digging a golf ball out of a
sand trap Her mother used it dig
ging a home out of the wilderness.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Homemaking Was No Easy Job Then

Butter was delivered in jars, SO
it wouldn't melt away before the
purchaser got it home. Will A. Ed
gar once paid SO cents for half
pound Of butter and a dollar for a
dozen eggs in Imperial, Mrs. Edgar
recalls.
Those eggs deserve a place in
history. They we're the inspiration
for what is believed to have been
the first cake baked in Imperial
Valley. It was a sponge cake, baked
by Mrs. Edgar and served to her
husband and the men working with
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

bearing. The Calimurma figs grew
well as long as a certain type OF
bug lived. But the bugs were killed
by hot weather. Aten was then
forced to buy more bugs. They died.
SO Aten disgustedly pulled up the
trees, tired of the process.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

and pomegranate trees are still
alive and bearing well.
Peaches and apricots grew well
for a few years, then died. The APP
ricots fruit was delicious but the
peaches were virtually tasteless.
The brown figs are still alive and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

apples. The apple trees grew well
but didn't bear much fruit. The
fruit that did grow was tasteless.
The Survivors
The grapefruit, oranges and tan
gerines grew we'll and had good
fruit but all died by 1925. the olives
The times-news., 1938-12-14
CITY TO BURN
PAIDUP BONDS
Hundreds Cancelled And
Registered to Be Dis
posed of

The City of Hendersonville will
dispose of hundreds of cancelled
bonds tomorrow afternoon at b
o'clock bv burning at the inciner-
ator, Mayor A. V. Edwards said
today.
A register of these cancelled
bonds has been made and the
bonds may now be destroyed.
Members of the city commission
will attend as witnesses and a
number of distinterested witness
es will also be on hand.
The bonds represent a reduc-
ton of almost a million dollars
in the city's indebtedness.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
VIEW BOYCOTT
OF SPEECH AS
ANAFFR0NT
German Delegation Refuses
to Hear Address by
Chamberlain
INCIDENT MAY END
ALL FRIENDLY MOVES

LONDON, Dec. IA. (UP)-A
strong police guard was placed to-
day over the German embassy as
British and German relations took
a sharp turn for the worse be-
cause Nazis boycotted a banquet
at which. Prime Minister Cham
berlain spoke last night.
The guard protected the en-
bassy from any, hostile demonstra-
tions by people who saw screams
ing headlines in newspapers which
reported what they interpreted as
an affront to Britain.
Not only German newspaper
men but German Ambassador Won
Drksen and Special Envoy Asch-
man rboyeotted the banquet be-
cause Chamberlain criticized "vi-
tuperation" Of, German newspa-
pers against British public Off
Gals, 49, ~ ..ts,'.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
PAN AMERICAN MEET SET FOR
PLENARY SESSION AS DRAFT
OF TARIFF PLAN CIRCULATED

tinental solidarity declaration for
hemispherical defense that he may
NOT present a separate draft.
The Argentine proposal, based
on HulPs own plan which he was
ready to offer the conference and
drafted after the United States
secretary of state and Foreign
Minister Jose Maria Cantilo of
Argentina agreed on the form,
was said to go much farther than
even the most hopeful member of
the United States delegation had
anticipated. The project, reported
virtually to parallel the original
United States defense plan, pro-
vides for consultation among all
American nations in event the
sovereignty or political institu-
tions of any one of them is threat
ened by an outside force.
Consultations would be called
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news., 1938-12-14

LIMA, Dec. ID. (UP)-The
United States delegates are circu-
lating in the eighth Pan American
conference a draft of an agree
ment which would bind all Amer
lean republics to do all they can
to lower tariff barriers.
1t was intended, if the draft
meets with support, to submit it
formally to the conference.
Reduction of world trade BAR
riers has long been advocated by
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull as a cure for the ills of the
universe. In his speech last Sat
urday before the first plenary ses-
sion, Hull stressed the necessity
for improved trade facilities and
the easing of tariff bars to better
world conditions.
Meantime, it was said Hull was
so impressed by the text OF Ar
gentina's proposed draft of a con-
The times-news., 1938-12-14
2l2 MEMBERS AND LEADERS
PRESENT AS AWARDS MADE
FOR4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS

ing work done during the year in
club work were made as follows:
Jean LYDIA, Dana, dairy calf prof.
ect.
Grace Brown, Etowah, most
outstanding baby beef project.
Adger Jones, Dana, most out
standing poultry project.
Clarence Ward, East Flat Rock,
most outstanding brood sow prof.
ect.
Frances Burgin, most outstand-
ing all around club member.
Joyce Kerr, Edneyyille, most
outstanding home garden project.
Prizes awarded to these contest
ants were given. by Patterson's,
Kalin's, Shelton Feed, j. c. PEN
ney, Lewis, and Railroad Savage.
Achievement certificates were
awarded to all club members COM
pleting projects during the year,
and Carolina theatre tickets were
awarded each member.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
TEACHERS WILL
HOLD BANQUET
THURSDAY EVE.
City and County Units to
Have Legislators-Elect,
Others as Guests

The social and program COM
mittees of the Henderson county
and Hendersonville schools an
nounce that plans have been COM
pleted for joint teachers BAN
quet at the Ames hotel, Thurs
day, Dec. 5, at 2 o'clock.
The guests who have been in
vited to give short talks and have
accepted the invitation are L. B.
Prince, senator-elect from the
9th district; l.. L. Burgin, repre-
sentative from Henderson county;
H. C. Jarvis, representative from
Buncombe county; w. A. Hart,
president of the Classroom Teach
ers association of the western
district and M. NJ. Redden, Hen
dersonville attorney.
Other guests invited to meet
with the teachers are Mrs. Albert
Durham, president of the Hen
dersonville P.-T.A.; Oscar Meyer,
chairman of the board of trustees,
Hendersonville, and Floyd Os-
borne, chairman of the county
board of education. &.
The social committee is headed
by Miss Charlotte Turner Of the
county schools and Miss Syretha
Sossoman of the Hendersonville
schools.
Mrs. Walter Allen is president
of the county unit and Miss Lu-
cile Sales is president of the city
unit.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
TWOESPIONACE
Are
Held IN west
Case of Russian And Nat
uralized Citizen May
Go to Grand Jury

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Ia. CUP)
The department of justive reveal
ed last night that it is holding the
manager of local office Of In
tourist Agency, of the Soviet Rus
sian government, and a natural
lied American on suspicion of es-
pionage.
The Soviet citizen was Mikhail
Gorin and the American was Hafis
Salich.
Federal agents said Salich is ac-
cuSed of supplying Gorin with con-
fidential plans pertaining to the
national defense and with conf
dental navy department informa-
tion concerning Japanese espion-
age in this country.
Salich is said to have been an
agent of the United States Naval
Intelligence unit. Both men were
arrested Monday.
CORN and Salich were arrested
Monday night and questioned un-
I'll morning. fney we're held iH-
communicate at county Jail under
bail of $4,000 each, after being
booked on charges of espionage.
Both Federal Bureau of lnves-
tigation and Naval Intelligence
agents refused to elaborate on the
charges. Both suspects similarly
declined to talk. merely stating
they had been instructed to re-
main silent. However, Gorin con-
versed three times by telephone
with Constantine Oumansky, In
Washington. The last call origi-
mated from the Jail here and last
ed Is minutes. The conversation
was carried on in Russian.
Shortly after it had been COM
pleted. George Cantillon, profes-
sional bondsman, said he had re-
ceived a call from New York in
quiring about premiums which
would have to be paid to free the
suspects on bond. Cantillon ad-
vised the caller, who did not iden-
tify himself, that the premium is
normally 10 per cent of the bonds
face value. The caller promised to
advise later if terms were salts
factory.
U. S. Commissioner David B,
Head set date of a hearing for
Dec. "a, but it was believed grand
Jury action probably would super
sede the hearing. Benjamin Har-
rison, U. S. attorney, refused all
comment on grounds the case was
a matter for the state department
He said it probably" would be
referred to the grand jury Dec.
81.
The times-news., 1938-12-14

The annual Henderson county
4-H Club Achievement Day pro-
gram was held at the county court
house this morning with 212 club
members and local leaders attend
ing.
The principal speaker was L. R.
Harrel, state All club leader, who
spoke on All Club Work in the
Community. G. D. White, county
farm agent, also spoke briefly.
Jean LYDIA, of the Dana, club,
spoke on "What All Club Work
Means to Me-"
Club members were welcomed
to Hendersonville by Mayor A. v.
Edwards, and the response was by
Frances Burgin, of the Mills River
club.
A home Identification demon
stration was given by frankie
FitzSimons and Ollie Ruth Green,
of the Dana club. :.
Awards for the most outstand-
The times-news., 1938-12-14
MRS. RECTOR IS
RECUPERATING
Here After Weeks in Two
Hospitals, Following
Wreck Injuries

Mrs. Victor Rector, who few
weeks ago was seriously injured
in an automobile wreck at Inman,
S. c., and has since. been in hos
pitals at Spartanburg and Char
lotte, is recuperating at the home
of Mr.. Rector's mother, Mrs. R.
M. Rector, 313 Grove street.
Among the many injuries sus-
tanned by Mrs. Rector was the un-
usual one of being strangled with
portion of a tooth which found
its way iAto a lung, which noted
specialists have been unable to
remove. .....-.
While Mrs. Rector is apparent
ly recovering as well as could be
expected, Mr.. Rector says she is
not in physical condition to re-
ceiye company.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
COUNTY HOME
&c. EXHIBIT
HERE FRIDAY
City, County Students to
Show Wares, 10 A. M.
at Carolina ~

Miss Charlotte R. Turner, presi-
dent of the Western District
Home Economics Teachers, today
announced a clothing exhibit Of
the home economics departments
of the schools in Henderson coun-
ty to be given Friday, Dec. 16, at
10 a. M, at the Carolina theater.
The purpose of this exhibit is
stated as being to stimulate more
interest in the selection and con-
struction of clothing problems
planned in the class work of the
home economics departments and
to demonstrate to the public
some of the accomplishments
along this line.
Entries in the exhibit will be in
four divisions: first: First, aprons;
second, smocks; third, wash dress
es, and fourth, ,woolen dresses.
Judges will be home economics
teachers from adjoining counties
to be chosen by the county home
economics teachers. D..
The three rules for entry are:
/. The garment must be select
ed and constructed by student in
class.
2. The garment must be model
ed by person for whom made, >, :.
g.. Only one entry in exhibit
from each student.
The standards for judging and
the points which each factor will
count are:
/. Suitability for ,wearer, 80.
(a) Choice of design, 20; (bl
choice of color, Is; (c) choice OF
material, Is.
2. Workmanship, so. (a) Choice
of seams and finishing and
technique of construction, %; (b)
Fit of garment, 25.
Seven of the city's leading
stores are cooperating by giving
CONTINUED on page four)
The times-news., 1938-12-14
England Would Aid France In Tunis War
CITY ASKED TO TAKE STEPS
FOR WIDENING OF CASWELL
AND CRAB CREEK STREETS
Industrial And Tourist
Advertising Planned
by c. Of c.

A resolution urging city otfic-
ials to take whatever steps may
be necessary to accomplish the
widening of Caswell and Crap
Creek streets from Main street
to a point on Crab Greek street
where it widens into Kanuga road
was adopted last night by direc-
tors of the Chamber of Commerce
after President H. E. Buchanan
had reported that officials of
Kanuga conferences had request
ed that SUCH Improvement be
made.
Crab Creek and Casweil street
form the only "bottle neck" en-
trance to Hendersonville, it was
pointed out, and the narrowness
of these streets constitutes traf-
fic hazard as well as serious in
convenience to pedestrians and
property owners. 1t was suggest
ed that a WPA or other project
be undertaken to, widen the two
streets for a distrance of about
six blocks.
The board received a report
from Thomas II. Franks, chair
man of the advertising commit
tee, who said a joint meeting had
been held with the industrial
committee, and that during the
coming year the chambers ad-
vertising will be written and
placed by a professional agency.
To start the program, a half-page
advertisement will be published in
The Manufacturers Record, and
this Kill 6efollowed with an in
dustrial booklet citing the advan-
tages of Henderson county and
directed to select list of manu-
facturers. Tourist advertising in
Florida, it was agreed, should be
placed in outstanding newspapers
at the height of the winter sea-
son, while other tourist advertis-
ing will be limited largely to the
Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit
areas.
Mr. Franks reported also that
a WPA project for developing the
Jump OFF rock area in a recrea-
tional area probably will be fin
ally approved soon. The project
calls for the expenditure of $3,-
700, of which the sponsors share
would be about $500.
The Junior Welfare Club has
sold approximately $50 of 1000
automobile tags bearing the name
of Hendersonville, the board was
informed. The tags are being sold
at S1.1O each. of which ten cents
represents the cost while the
Junior Welfare club retains 25
cents for its charity work and 75
cents goes to the Chamber OF
Commerce. The tags were made
in colors contrasting with the
Continued on page three)
The times-news., 1938-12-14
PRINCIP AIS IN.
SHOOTING
PtANT0 We'd
Ruth Etting And Myrl AL
derman Fly to Los Vagas
to Obtain License

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. ID.
(UP)-Ruth Etting, blues singer,
and Myrl Alderman, her boy
friend whom her disvorced hus-
band recently shot, flew here to-
day to be married. They entered
the courthouse and said they ir.
tended to obtain a license to wed.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. ID. (UP)
Martin (The Gimp Snyder, ex'
husband of blues-singing Ruth Et-
ting, was accused yesterday by his
former wife and his daughter Of
a cold-blooded attack on young
Myrl Alderman, Miss Etting's
piano-playing boy friend. whom he
shot in the abdomen last October.
Immediately after the testimony
of Miss Etting and 21-year-old
Edith Snyder, the state called on
Alderman, 30-year-old composer,
to corroborate their stories.
Alderman, after detailing events
of the night of October Is when
he said Snyder kidnapped" him at
a broadcasting studio, forced him
to go to the Glove cottage" where
Miss Etting and Miss Snyder were
preparing dinner for him, and
then shot him in a jealous rage,
was asked whether it was true
that he and Miss Fitting had hean
'No," he. replied firmly.
He admitted that he was "in
love with Miss Etting," but said
that on all their junkets they stay
ed in separate rooms and never
lived Gas man and wife" at any
time.
Snyder had indicated in his
statements to police that the
young musician had won the affec-
CONTINUED on page four.)
The times-news., 1938-12-14
Tree, LIGHTED
HOMES AUCNR
fine HOLIDAY
Community Service VIII Be
Held at Christmas Tree
on Christmas Eve
LIGHTING Confess
DRAWING ENTR 50

Erection of community Giy9st-
mas tree at Fifth avenu&@n
Church street and the assurance
that many homes will be entSsed
in an outdoor Christmas lighting
contest today added much to the
outlook for a successful holiday
period in Hendersonville.
Erected under the direction of
a chamber of commerce commit
tee headed by Mayor A. v. Ed
wards, the Christmas tree will be
the scene of religious service at
8 p. m. on Christmas eve. The
Hendersonville Ministerial associa-
ton is arranging the program,
which will include the singing of
Christmas carols, other music, and
a brief address. The tree is being
wired for electric lights by 7. G.
Whisnant & Sons, without cost to
the chamber of commerce.
Outdoor displays in the home
lighting contest must be in opera
tion not later than next Monday
and must be operated nightly thru
Monday, Dec. &c. Names of the
prize winners will be announced
Friday, Dec. %, in time for alo-
torists to drive past the homes md
view the displays. The five pixies
of S25, $40, So, s5 and SIS sel
be paid jointly by the chamber 0f
commerce and the Duke Power Co.
Judging will be done on the basis
of artistic effect rather than on
elaborateness.
Among the homes so far en-
tered are those of Mrs. George
M. PEBBLES, 329 Taylor street;
Drs. Branstetter, 317 Fourth ave
nue. west; Mary 10 Bangs, sos
Oak Hill Court; Mrs. Glen Mars
ton, Rugby; w. c. Bangs. 634
Fifth avenue west; Mrs. T. B. Al
len, 23O Sixth avenue west; DR..
J. S. Brown, Jr., Laurel Park;
Mrs. T. r. Barrows, AIT South
Main street; Patton Memorial hos
pital, Highland avenue, and Mrs.
Otis V. Powers, c43 Second ave-
nue. east. ~
Entry blanks clipped from The
Times-News must be filled in and
filed at the chamber of commerce
office by householders who wish to
enter the contest. Homes in Hen
dersonville and vicinity are eligl-
BILE for entry.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
Chinese COOL
70 JAP PLAN
TO HALT war
Settlement Drafted But the
Chinese Are Making
Gains In South

r, ,SshANGHAI, Dec. 13. (UP)-
SeSc SSalneSc political sources said to-
r';l. SaE That Japan's most famous
SS.',lary figure, Gen. Kenji Dol
Ia'S' ioaS' was approaching Chinese
SS 'SagfS y with a plan for settlement
!" the war in China.
g Oolnara brought instructions
~ -, tne settlement, Chinese as
tsfS t5sea, but it was highly uncer-
S.a r.,a "oether national government
'"Lt leaders would be interested.
,ro CAlheSe claimed their troops
SoS., &C. throwing Japanese back in
r. 1Snefn areas and they expect
Fecapture Canton with the ar
now swinging into action in
'optn China
The times-news., 1938-12-14
CLUB RESOLUTION
LIMITS NURSES TO
TWELVE.HOUR DUTY

Abortion of a resolution pro
viding that local nurses shall
serve on 12-hour duty only was
announced today. -.
The resolution was adopted at
a recent meeting of the Nurses
club, and the schedule of limited
working hours went into effect
Immediately, it was said. The
meeting was held at the home of
Miss Joyce Alwren and the reso-
iution was adopted unanimously.
The 12-hour schedule will more
evenly distribute work among the
nurses residing here, it was ex-
planned.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
Relief Rolls In
New SharpDrop

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ia. (UP)
WPA Administrator Hopkins to-
day announced that relief rolls
during the week ended December
10 decreased 45,514, one of the
sharpest declines in WPA history.
The relief rolls now hold $780,
045 clients names.
The times-news., 1938-12-14
|ONMONS TOLD
IUNIS STATUS
PART OF PACT
Nsddling There Covered in
Italian Accord as to
Mediterranean
MILITARY AND MORAL
AID PLEDGED FRANCE

LONDON, Dec. IA. )UP)-
Prime Minister Chamberlain ral-
ed TO the support of France
.,s;ns- Italian demands on Tunis
Ti,h the statement today in the
house of commons that the Medi-
.sranean states mentioned in the
accord applies to
TuNlS.
Chamberlain said that any ac-
ion contrary to the agreement
would be a matter of grave con-
,ern TO the British government.