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The Washington times., 1938-10-27
TRIAL OF IRWIN
TO RIVAL DRAMA
OF THAW CASE
Opposing Counsel Rate
High in Profession
By JAMES l.. KnGALLEN

NEW YORK. Oct. q 1.N.Sr.
The Robert irwin murder trial.
which opens a week from today
will be the most fascinating
legal drama since the Thaw case,
in the opinion Of Samuel Leioo-
Witz. noted criminal lawyer
Ieibowitz will defend Irwin,
youthful triple slayer who. on the
night of March q. 1887 strangled
Veronica "Ronnie" Gedeon, beall-
tiful 2O-year-old artists model. and
her mother. Mary. and hacked
Frank Byrnes. roomer. to death
with an ice pick in the Gedeon
home.
The OPPOSITION
Opposing LeiboWiz in the legal
arena will be Jacob J. Rosenolum
assistant district attorney IN
charge of the Homicide Bureau,
and one of Racket Buster
Thomas E. DeWey's brightest
young lawyers. Rosenblum. grao-
uate of New York University Law
School. is 80. Leibowitz. a Cornell
University graduate, is As.
Rosenblum is the one lawyer
who has stopped" LeiboWitz in
the later's amazing record of keep
ing murder trial defendants from
the electric chair. On June 29 last,
Rosenblum convicted one of Lei
bowitZs clients. Salvatore Gattl,
for killing a policeman. Gatti. how
ever. has not vet gone to the chair.
Leibowitz. one of the cleVereSt
criminal lawyers in the country
has won 1l6 acquittals in 1913 muir
der trials. The walls of his office
are decorated with photographs OF
characters he has freed.
Since the first of the year. Prose
cutor Rosenblum has tried 10 per
sons for murder and all Of them
have been sentenced to the cleo
trio chair
TO ASK CHAIR
Indications today were that
Rosenblum will demand the
chair" for Irwin. He will contend
that the so-called mad sculptor"
knew the nature and quality OF
the acts he was committing the
night he slew Mrs. Gedeon. her
daughter. and the boarder, Byrnes.
Leibowitz, on the other hand,
viii try to beat the chair" for
Irwin. He will contend Irwin was
insane that fatal night. has IN
fact, been mentally incompetent
for years. and is a pathological
case now.
The Washington times., 1938-10-27

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
Garner, Farley
Block Plans For
Nominating West
Was Presidents Choice for
Comptroller of
Currency
Convright, United Press

WASHINGTON, May II. (UP).
Informed sources said today that
Vice-President John N. Garner
and Postmaster General James A.
Farley had blocked plans to nOml-
nate former undersecretary of the
interior, Charles West, to the
S15,OOO-a-year comptroller of the
currency's post.
Earlier this week, persons close
to the White House, had said that
West was slated for the job va
Gated by J. F. T. O'COnnor and
that his nomination would be sent
to the senate by President Roose-
welt probably within a few days
Publication of this plan, the
United Press learned, surprised
Garner, Farley and Secretary Oh
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau'
Jr., who were said to have had d
different understanding.
Garner, Farley and Morgen-
thou, the United Press informantS
said, told the White House thaC
the choice of West would be con-
trary to pledges made to OIon-
nor when he left last April 10
campaign for the Democratic gu
bernatorial nomination in Call
fOrnia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
RENEW ASSAULT ON CONTROL
OF CROPS RECOMMENDATION
Andersen Says "Uprising''
in Behalf of Fundamental
Rights "Spontaneous"

WASHINGTON, May ID. CUP
Rep. August H. Andersen (R.,
Minn.) charged last night that the
administrations new crop control
program smacks of Fascism and is
rapidly breeding discomfort among
farmers because of it's stringent
regulatory features.
Andersen asserted in a radio
address that efforts to regiment
the farmer" under the new deal
will lead to "dislocation of agri-
culture" and that the recently
enacted crop control act "has the
appearance Of a first class GRIM
inal statute"
He contended that it was en-
acted at the insistence of Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace by a "misinformed but
we'll intentioned congress" and
that corn, cotton and tobacco
farmers already are protesting
vigorously against its compulsory
features.
"This so-called revolt-is not a
rebellion against the government
or any federal law which will hon
cstly meet the true test OF our
constitution" he said. at is, ra-
Their, a spontaneous uprising on
the part Of thousands of honest
and patriotic American farmers
in the defense of constitutional
freedom to live and operate as
American citizens under guaran.
tees set forth in the bill OF
rights" , g
Andersen, who is member or
the house agriculture committee,
asserted that southern cotton ana
tobacco farmers voted to impose
drastic marketing restrictions up
on themselves because of "coer,
cion and lack of understanding
but warned that when Wallace or
ders those in the corn belt 10
"take it or leave it" he will ind
that che is not dealing with pup
pets or pawns." ,,
"And it will not be long until
the wheat farmers of the country
Join the procession Of opposltion,
for we now understand that the
secretary of agriculture proposes
to cut the nations wheat acreage
for the 1888 crop from SO,OOO,,,,
900 acres to 50,000,OO0 acres
he said. -
The acreage cuts under the pro-
gram, he emphasized, have been
so drastic that cooperating farm
ers are unable to make living
despite benefit payments.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
BILLY BATES
STUDENT Head
Miss Marie Brookshire
Vice-President of H. S.
Student Body

Billy Bates, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. E. Bates, member of the ris-
ing senior class at the high school,
was elected president of the stu
dent body in the voting at the
school yesterday.
He defeated Miss Nell Smith in
the voting which came as a eli
max to a week of intense political
activity on the part Of students.
Miss Marie Brookshire, member
of the rising junior class, was
elected vice-president of the stu
dent body.
Other candidates for vice-presi-
dent were Miss Louise Lazarus
and Forrest Gardner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14

WASHINGTON, May ii. (UP)
-Trampling ruthlessly over the
same bloc which fought the su-
premc court enlargement bill, ad-
ministration leaders yesterday
forced a proposal through the SEN
ate which would give President
Roosevelt unbridlcd regulatory
power over the sprawling COM
mercial aviation industry.
The proposal to award such
sweeping authority - the chief
executive was written into bill
sponsored by Senator Pat McCar-
ran, D., New, which would con-
solidate under a new federal five
man authority all regulatory func-
tions over aviation now exercised
by the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, the commerce, post office
and agriculture departments.
As reported by the Interstate
Commerce committee the measure
would have placed the new au-
thority in a quasi judicial capac-
ity. 1t provided that the president
could remove it's members only
for neglect of duty, malfeasance
and inefficiency. Administration
leaders, however, argued that this
would restrict the chief eXecu-
tive's power too much and Sen
ator Harry S. Truman 3D., Mo-
offered a remedial amendment.
His measure would give the
power not only to APP
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
SENATE COMMITTEE DEFEATS
NYE RESOLUTION TOEND ARMS
EMBARGO AGAINST SPAIN
Hull in Tight SPOT as Rival Groups Urge Opposing Ac.
lions; Roosevelt Apparently Influences
Decision on Measure

WASHINGTON, May IA. (UP)
The senate foreign relations COM
mittcc yesterday overwhelmingly
defeated a resolution to lift the
arms embargo against lOyalist
Spain.
The resolution. introduced by
Senator Gerald p. Nyc, R., n. Y,
was Shelved II to | on advice of
Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
who warned it would breach the
administration policy of non-in-
reference in Spain and would
offer a real possibility of cOmpli-
cations"
Hull was in Il tight spot on the
embargo problem. He was beSieg
ed by rival groups favoring or OPP
posing the embargo and PreSi-
dent Roosevelt apparently influ-
enced his final decision. He con-
ferrcd with the chief executive
before drafting the memorandum.
The secretary of state reviewed
Nye'S resolution and said:
I'm the form in which it is pre-
scented. the proposed legislation,
if enacted, would lift the embar-
90 which is now being applied
against both parties of the con-
flict in Spain, in respect to ship
mentS of arms TO one party while
leaving in effect the embargo in
respect to shipments to the other
party.
Even if the legislation applied
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14

to both parties, its enactment
would still be subject to unneces-
Sary risk we have so far avoided" "
Nye and other repeal prOpon-
cntS contend the embargo has
hamStrung the Spanish loyalist
government while having no eff
feet on the Spanish rebels who
are equipped with arms and mu-
mtlOnS from Germany and Italy.
While this may be true, Hull
said that eve do not know what
lies ahead.
From the standpoint of the
best interests Of the United States
in the circumstances which now
prevail" he said, 81 would not
feel justified in recommending
affirmative action on the resolu-
ton"
He added that "Our first solicit
tude should be the peace and wei
fare of this country, and the real
test of the ACCESSIBILITY Of making
any changes in the statutes now
in effect should be whether such
changes would further tend to
keep US from becoming involved
directly or indirectly in a danger
Gus European situation"
The resolution would have re-
quired revision of the neutrality
act which has been under increas-
ing fire.
The committees action post
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
Totalitarians Are
Ready For Battle
WithDemocracies
Duce Felt to Have U. S. in
Mind as Challenge
Issued

GENOA, May II. (UP)-Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini told $780,
900 wildly cheering Italians to-
day that if the democracies want
ed to wage a war Of ideas against
relationships, the total itari a n
states would close themselves into
one bloc.
His hearers, massed in Victory
Square, where he spoke from the
thrusting gray prov of a model
warship, thought that he referred
to the United States when he said
"The aims of our program are
clear. We want peace, with every
one. Nazi Germany also wants
peace. But this peace must be an
armed peace.
eve must be prepared to de-
fcnd this peace, especially when
speeches such as. those across the
ocean are delivered. If the de-
mocracies want to make doctrinal
war then totalitarian states will
close themselves into one bloc"
1t was recalled that Secretary
of State Cordell Hull in a state
ment at Washington Thursday
it was not speech-said that the
United States would continue its
policy of non-recogniuion Of Italy's
conquest of Ethiopia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
chile Will Quit League-Reforms Are Rejected
PROPOSAL. TO GIVE ROOSEVELT
UNBRIDLED POWER OVER AIR
INDUSTRY PASSES UPPER HOUSE
Senate Atmosphere Bitter as Provisions Granted Pres
dent Termed "Tyrannical;" Final Vote
Will Be Taken Monday

point members Of the commission,
but to select its chairman and vice
chairman, and unhampered au-
thority to discharge any or all Of
it's members at will. 1t was ac-
copied by a vote of Sd to % but
not until after the ghost of the
supreme court bill had been pa
raded in an atmosphere of bitter
ness.
McCarran, one of the leaders
in the fight against the court
measure, let out howl of rage
when Truman offered his amend
ment. When Senator Sherman
Minton 3D., Ind.) protested that
it proposed to give the president
only the power he has under the
constitution to remove any execu-
tive officer of the government,
McCarran yelled:
How would you like supreme
court subject to removal by the
PRESIDENT"
He said the amendment destroys
the principle of the legislation. He
insisted that the independence of
such an authority as is proposed
depends upon the ability of its
to operate independent
ly and impartially and without
fear of the White House ak.
Sen. Warren Austin (R., VtO
agreed with McCaTan, warning
that when "you give the president
Continued on page four
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14

VALENCIA, May II. (UP)--
A British ship was set ahre and
sunk by a bomb during three ali
raids early today when 20 were
killed and 10 wounded ashore dur
ing the raid.
The name of the ship was gwen
as the Greatland. :.
Two intensive raids occurred III
Barcelona at midnight. The eX-
tent of casualties or damage from
there was not known here.
HENDAYE, FRANCO SPAN
ISH FRONTIER, May IA: (Ofy.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco >
Castillo and Navarro brigades yes
terday captured the town OF FOR
tanete, AZ miles inland along tne
main highway from Teruel to the
Mediterranean, and closed INC
jaws on a huge trap lsolatlns
thousands of loyalists in the Gan
ada mountains. :,
The insurgents, cutting the ohiS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
CITY, COUNTY READY FOR AIR
MAIL WEEKS OBSERVANCE
Will Open Monday With
Local People Showing
Increased Interest

Hendersonville and Henderson
county will join the nation in OBJ
serving National Air Mail week,
which begins on Monday and con-
tinueS Saturday.
Final arrangements have been
made for the local observance,
and Postmaster E. w. Ewbank,
Mayor A. V. Edwards, and men,
berS Of the various committees be-
lieve the public will largely CO.
operate in the program, the goal
of which is one air mail letter per
day from every citizen during the
week.
Hendersonville is taking larg-
er part in the program than in
State Air Mail week, observed
last year. A special cachet, de-
signed by Walter Allison, will APP
pear on all air mail dispatched
from here during the week, and
this will afford much advertising
for this community.
The special cachet shows an air
mail plane flying over the noun
tains with a city and gateway IN
the foreground, and bears the
wording: "Hendersonville, Gem
City of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
and Southeastern Gateway to the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park"
On Thursday of next week a
special mail pickup will take
place. Air mail from the Hender-
sonville office will be taken to
the Hendersonville airport, from
where it will be flown to the
Asheville-Hendersonville port, at
Fletcher, by Oscar Meyer, Jr'
From Fletcher it will be dispatch
ed to Charlotte by plane. =,
All air mail placed in the local
office on days other than Ihurs-
dav will he sent through the reg
ular channels.
Mr.. Ewbank today requested
nostmasters of postoffices in the
county which are located nearer
Hendersonville than Fletcher to
bring air mail to the local office
on Thursday in order that 1t
might be sent from the Hender-
sonville airport. -,
Mr.. Ewbank also stated that
neople sending air mail should ad-
dress letters to the right of the
center of the envelope in order
that the cachet would not inter-
fere with the addresses.
Special air mail envelopes to be
used during the week may be OBJ
tanned without charges at the
Chamber of Commerce office.
Copies of the Hendersonvllle
cachet will be on display in a
number of postoffices over the
nation during the week, thus at
fording this city additional adj
vertising, Mr.. Ewbank said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
BRITISH SHIP BOMBED AND
SUNK IN RAID ON VALENCIA;
REBEISSAY FOE BOTTLED UP

main road left to the loyalists
through Castellon province, sent
mountain fighters back into the
24-mile deep pocket to wipe out
the entrapped loyalists and then
drove on southwark along a 35-
mile inland front.
The advance below the east
west highway was reported to
have averaged four miles all along
the line, sweeping the disorgan-
lied government troops ahead of
it.
Loyalists reported violent aerial
combats along the highway, one
of which involved so insurgent
planes and 20 loyalist planes.
Franco has now Strengthened
his line along a front nearly IS
miles long reaching inland to
Teruel and had four columns
stretched out for simultaneous at
tacks on Castellon de la Plana on
the seacoast.
Fierce fighting was reported
near the wrecked city of Teruel.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
Girl Scouts Troop
| Plans Benefit
Show Of Puppets
Funds Will Finance Sum-
mer Camp Trips for
Troop Members

Thursday afternoon at 1880
o'clock, Patrol 2 of Troop Girl
Scouts will give a benefit puppet
show at the high school audito-
rum. proceeds from which will be
used to send girls from that pa
troll to camp this summer.
The program will be: "Pana-
mandus," put on by Lucy Anne
Tate and Dorothy Brown, with an
interlude of short features by
scouts of Patrol 2, followed by
the second puppet show, Some
body Nothing" given by Beth
Johnson and Judy James.
Troop sponsors and the scouts
themselves bespeak the public's
cooperation in this enterprise.
Girls of the troop attended the
P.-T.A sponsored cooking school
following a short meeting Friday.
and are hoping that Mrs. Manuel
Johnson will return to continue
her assistance in the troops work
next week.
Thanks are extended to Mr.. j.
w. Farmer for the loan Of chairs
to the troop.
Mrs. Lila Ripley Barnwell will
give a talk on wild animals at
the next meeting.
Patrol two was announced as
winner of the theater tickets for
good attendance during the month
of April.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
IN
ASIATIC War
ZONE IN PERIL
British Subject Bayonetted,
Dangerously Wounded
by Jap Soldier
u. S. PRESBYTERIAN
MISSION DEMOLISHED

SHANGHAI, May ID. (UP)--
Scores of Americans and other
foreigners were endangered to-
day as more than 100000 Japan
csc soldiers on half a dozen fronts
in Central China launched new
and smashing attacks against
stubbornly resisting Chinese.
American and other mission in
situations in towns on the forti-
fled Lung-hai railway, defending
China's provisional national CAPT
tai in Hankow, were bombed and
many Chinese refugees in them
killed.
A British subject was bayonet-
ed and dangerously wounded by a
Japanese soldier in Shanghai.
A Swedish woman missionary
reached Kalgan, in the far north,
after being beaten and robbed by
Chinese soldiers.
The worst bombing incidents
were at Chengchow and Suchow-
flu, on the Lung-hai line, where
an estimated 100000 Chinese
soldiers were hard-preSsed by four
Japanese armies in the greatest
offensive of the undeclared war.
Official Chinese reports to
Hankow said the planes dropped
27 bombs on Chengchow and
about 100 Chinese homes were
demolished. These reports said
that all foreign missionaries were
safe and. praised Grace Gibbard
of London, Ont, Pearl Reid of
Kingston, Ont, Kate Murray of
Charleston, S. c., and Wilson
Fielder of Houston, Tex, for her.
oism in aiding wounded Chinese.
The Britisher wounded IN
Shanghai was f. S. Wilkinson OF
Darlington, Durham, nature
writer for the North China Daily
News. He said he was walking in
Keswick road, near the Hungjao
airdrome, in a Japanese military
area, observing the nesting hab-
it's of birds through his field glass
es when a Japanese soldier bay
oneted him.
Japanese planes bombed Su-
chow-fu, where Japanese land
forces are attempting to encrcle
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
MEXICO Holds
BRITISH Note
IS INSULTING
Puts U. S. Under Crossfire
in European and Amer.
lean Policies
CALL FOR PAYMENT OF
DEBT BRINGS CRISIS
UNITED PRESS

Mexico's angry suspension Of
diplomatic relations with Great
Britain today threatened a major
test of American foreign policy.
President Lazara Cardenas yes
terday acted abruptly as the re-
suit of the controversy over an
old British annuity claim for $685.
600 but the actual cause of the
rupture was Mexico's expropria-
ton of $4O0,00O,OOO of foreign
oil properties.
Mexico, considering British "dc-
mands for satisfaction insulting"
as contrasted to the conciliatory
United States attitude, sharply re-
minded the London foreign office
that "even powerful states" such
as Britain had failed to meet their
obligations, such as the American
war debts.
Cardenas then paid the $4,000
but closed his London legation.
The action virtually puts the
United States under diplomatic
cross-fire in America. This gov
eminent has determinedly pursued
good neighbor" policy, yet in
Europe the United States fire.
quently has taken parallel action
with Great Britain.
A wave of anti-British senti-
ment was yesterdays feature in
the capital following publication
of the British note claiming that
immediate payment of the third
annual installment was due under
the claims commission.
Editorial comment in London's
afternoon newspapers said in eff
feet that in the annals of diplo-
macy there was no note sent one
country by another between
whom friendly relations existed
which was $50 maliciously male
VIOLENT"
Great Britain had sent two
notes to Mexico, the one demand
ing payment of the British claims
due since January / and the other
requesting return of the British
oil properties instead of indemnl-
fication as proposed by Mexico.
The Mexican note in answer TO
the British communication Of May
II regarding the claims payment
for losses incurred due to revolu..
ton in Mexico between 1910 and
1920 stressed that the agreement
regarding the claims was reached
"by grace" of the Mexican gov
eminent since the accord was not
compulsory under international
law. The agreement was conclud-
ed on Dec. 81, 1885.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-14
Troop Two Girl
Scouts Are Given
Many Awards
IS Tenderfoot Scouts Are
Received in Investi-
ture Ceremony

A number of Girl Scouts of
Troop No. 2 were given promo.
tions and awards at the court OF
awards, held on Thursday night at
the Methodist church recreation
room.
The opening prayer was by the
Rev. James P. Burke, pastor OF
St. James Episcopal church, fol-
lowed by the investiture of ten
derfoot Scouts, Those given this
rank were Betty Umfleet, Peggy
Egerton, Mary Genevieve Thibo-
deau, Jean Flanagan, Mary Tran
sue, Cleta Mae Whitaker, Betsy
Burke, Elizabeth Frazier. Mar
garet Reese, Martha Lee Edwards,
Dorothy Foster, Mary Mckay,
Marion Lance, Helen Maxwell and
Martha FitzSimons.
Mrs. Emil Latt, representing
the committee, presented SECOND
class badges to Virginia Aiken,
Elaine Akin, Henrietta Atkin,
Jean Buchanan, Allen Brown, En-
ma Dermid, Margaret Edwards,
Betty Harrison, Jane Noble, Betty
Continued on page three)
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PAYMENT TO COME
FROM OIL PROFITS

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May IA:
(UP)-British and American oil
companies must accept payment
for their properties appropriated
by Mexico in oil, or in funds de-
rived from the sale Of the oil to
other nations, Vincente Cortes
Herrera, general manager of the
Mexican petroleum commission,
said last night.
"The properties must pay for
themselves" Herrera said. "Mex-
leo can not pay for them immedi-
ately. Thus the oil companies are
offered their choice. They must
take payment in oil, or they must
wait until the oil is sold and Mex
leo has the money. II is the same
to Mexico either way"
Herrera flew by private plane
from Mexico City to San Antonio
en- route to Tulsa, Okla, where he
will attend the American Petro-
leum Exposition. 1t was his first
visit to the United States since
President Lazaro Cardenas' de-
cree expropriating $45,000,00O
worth of American and British oil
interests in Mexico.