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The Washington times., 1938-01-29
Isabelle COllides
With Jersey Justice
In New EsCapade
Capitals Gun Girl
Lands in Jail
After Chase
By ROBERT G. NIXON


UN.S.) On a near-war footing,
the United States today sped a
billion-dolla national defense pro.
gram-the largest in peace-time
history-as a stern new protest
was lodged with Japan over an
attack on an American diplomatic
officer in China.
But if you have forgotten-the
police haven't-she is Isabelle
Mesmer, Elwood's Gndiana) gift
to the world of crime.
Isabelle's latest brush with the
law occurred last night in New
Jersey, when detectives seized her
after a 1O-mile chase from Newark
to Jersey City. She halted the
expensive roadster she was driving
only after police started shooting.
Before he captured her car, she
knocked down a detective when
he stopped her for questioning.
Now she languishes behind the
bars with the serious charge Of
assault to kill against her. plus
the minor charge of speeding and
Q few other traffic violations.
Isabelle coldly informed police
that her father was a wealthy
Government official in Washing.
ton"-which is news to Wash
Ington.
He gave her $1,000 a couple Of
months ago, she said, and sug-
gested she might take a trip.
Police found $110 in travellers
checks in her purse and about
$40 in cash.
YES, INDEED! IT'S SHE
Isabelle readily admitted that
she was the "gun girl" whose es-
capades landed her on the front
pages. But she didn't have gun
on her when she was arrested.
Her gun-toting days are over,
she admitted, since her arrest in
Miami a couple Of years back,
when she was charged with draw.
ing her trusty weapon and collect
ing some 5000 from a boy friend
in her apartment.
She returned the money and
Miami police let her go, suggest
ing she seek some other cline.
Isabelle must have found the
fountain Of youth, in Florida, tor
when she was arrested here, in
1885, she gave her age as %, while
last night when booked she ad-
mitted to being just 81.
RECENT HISTORY
rsahelle's first brush with the
law here was in 1884, when she
masoueraded as a boy. He"
proudly produced a great pig
shootin' iron, and boasted tnaC
"he" knew how to use it.
They took Isabelle's gun away
from her, and suggested she go
home. but Isabelle was back again
in 1885, when she passed bad
checks amounting to about $4OO
and got herself so days IN jail.
Isabelle was piqued and 1885
passed without the Capital being
honored by visit from her. But
1887 saw her back again, when she
was arrested and held for investl'
cation in connection with other
check charges.
MORE FUN-EH. KID?
Just where Isabelle has been
since she was released that time,
with the injunction to stay away
from Washington, no one seems
to know.
She was out in EIwood, Indiana,
last November, driving the big
roadster which she said she pur.
chased in Miami. Then she was
picked up in Ohio. suffering bull
let wound in the leg, and told
police she had been shot by two
men she met while hitch-hiking.
No charge was placed against her
at that time.
The Washington times., 1938-01-29
CITIZENS FIGHT
TAX RISE HERE,
ASK U. S. AID
=,
Group Backs Browns
Plea for More Police
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

Protesting the imposition of ad-
ditional taxes upon the voteless
residents of the District, the Bur
roughs Citizens Association last
night demanded Congress observe
the law providing that the Federal
Government should pay 40 per
cent of the District budget, or that
the District be turned over to its
citizens to levy and dispose Of
their own taxes.
The association Endorsed Major
Ernest w. Browns request for an
appropriation for additional police
and urged that the Federal Gov
ernment provide a special fund
for those assigned to the various
embassies.
PLEA FOR LEVY
An appeal was made to the
Commissioners to relieve from spe-
cial assessment all property not
abutting on the proposed extern
sion and widening Of South Da-
kota Avenue Northeast from
Eighteenth Street to Michigan
Avenue.
The Capital Transit Company
was asked to replace some Of the
"antiquated and obsolete" street
cars on the Rhode Island Avenue
line with new equipment and to
inaugurate additional service to
the downtown section Immediately
after 7:45 a. m.
The association registered oppo-
sition to an item in the 1889 Dis
trict appropriation bill consolidat-
ing all school Fairgrounds under
the Community Center Depart
ment during the summer vacation
period.
The Washington times., 1938-01-29
TREASURY CONDITION

0.N.S.) Treasury balance Jan
uary 27, $2,s56,792,1S1.37; internal
revenue, $4,s51,31S.1s; customs re-
ceipts, $22, 900, ,O62.6S; receipts. $S,-
472,9S1.452; expenditures, $4,S45,-
O01, ,S02.
The Washington times., 1938-01-29
FIRE EQUIPMENT

New fire fighting equipment
was asked for Engine Companies
26 and is.
Elected to membership were
Wayne H. Morris, Thomas L. Phil.
lips and H. Colladney.
The Federation of Civic Asso-
Citations, meeting last night in the
District Building, indorsed an in
crease in appropriations for addi-
tional police, and urged reestab-
lishment of the old Second pre-
cinict on Fifth Street between M
and N Streets Northwest.
The federation vigorously OPP
posed the proposed closing of the
National Training School for Girls
and transferring it's inmates to
the Lorton Reformatory.
Former President George H.
BeaSley heads a committee to
study and report on the causes Of
crime and delinquency in the Dis.
trict.
Charles M. Thomas, president,
said poll of colored high school
students had indicated the spread
Of crime may be traced to a
lack of home life and a break
down in religion influences.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE OLD PILOTS UNREcoCNIZEp

Today the democracy of Jack Garner is viewed
with positive suspicion by the White House powers
Today the man whom the Democrats have elected
president twice in succession invades Georgia
campaign to read George out of the Democratic
party and to brand him as the enemy of every
present day Democratic objective.
Meanwhile. that lifelong Republican, Harold /.
Ickes, who never was a Democrat and probably
never will be- passes Judgment upon the Democ-
racy of Virginia congressman and appeals to the
Democrats of the Old Dominion to send better
Democrats to congress.
And the Democratic president who reads Walter
George out of the Democratic party is the same
Democratic president who voted for Theodore
Roosevelt i'm 1904 and who has successfully sup
ported Republican for the senate in California,
Republican for the senate in Nebraska, and
ear-communiSt for the senate in Minnesota.
The blunt truth is that the Democratic party has
been made over completely transformed, and en-
tirely rededicated by Mr. Roosevelt That is the
real secret of the present political purge The old
and the old platforms have been out
lawed The old leaders have been cast out into
utter darkness. New principles have been borrowed
from progressive Republicans. from MARKHAM So
cialists, from Russian Communists. New leaders
have been enlisted from the ranks of every ism
that has fought democracy for 50 years. Social
izatiou and RECOMMENDATION have sprung ful-grown
from the grave of Jeffersoniansm The old party
that once knew jackson and Cleveland and Wilson
is proletarlan party completely dedicated to
the redistribution of wealth by highly centralized
and autocratlc government Really there Is no
place for an old line Democrat IN such party as
this But there would be a large place indeed for
Kari Marx and Frederick Eng"Is.-lhe Daily Okla
homan.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
AIoVER OF GOD AND MAN
honlan

There are more WAYS Of serving the state than
by electing good men to Office however desirable
and necessary it be to Go that. There men IN
the state who never hold public office and do for
the people for "all classes and conditions of men.
for the white people and the black more than poll
ticans more than most statesmen, do. When
the state loses one of them it cannot replace HIM
by ordering primary election.
The state has lost one of them. kirkman G.. Fin
lay bishop of the Upper Diocese Of the Episcopal
church. died suddenly in Heudersonville where he
was carving on his work. with the diligence that
never tagged. for the good of men and women
and children Those who knew him well 1--WE knew
him long and welD witnesses for him of life
of singular unsehshnesS and pety.
In the deep woods at Cedar Mountain. North
Carolina which is but two miles from the South
Carolina border a little gothic chapel has lately
been completed. 1t is memorial to another be
loved and great bishop who had a summer cottage
at Cedar Mountain and who had caused chapel to
he built which is now gone. This bishop was the
Right Reverend Ellison Capers, whom many old
soldier who had served with him called "Gencral,'
for he had been a general
The new chapel has walls The steep roof is
surnorted hv rough pillars of rock and not yet has
it other than earth for floor.
Sunday morning August ii, 1883, every one of
it's seats was filled, and of the people stood.
They were Presbyterians, Methodists. Baptists as
well as EpiScopalianS, forgetfuI of denomnatonal
differences but not forgetful of God. Simplicity
and purity of the mountain forest were the charac
terstics of the and they were of the ser
vice. of the sermon of the preacher That Is the
last picture of krkman G. Finlay that we have,
and it is a picture of one who loved the Lord his
God with all his soul and mind and strength and
kept that other commandment that Is like unto
it. Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
BISHOP FINl.Ai

Many people in this vicinity will mourn the un-
timely passing of Bishop Krkman &. Fiulay of the
Episcopal church
Bishop Fnay had been frequent visitor In
York county and had made many friends and
earned many admirers in his own and other de-
nominations of this section. He was not only a
good churchman, an able religious executive, and
an ardent worker in the vineyard of his own de-
nomination but he was humanitarian of great
depth, one who was interested in people every
where
His passing is distinct loss to South Carolina.
Rock Hill Is. c. Herald
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
nv RODNEY BUTCHER.

iba, he left the Socialists u work
with Communists nCEe freely and
x shut oil By Eira as he tells the
committee, You're wasting your
tine." whoop Of applause comes
from others and Dies angrIly
threatens to clear the room.
A thin. nervous, elderly man
named Shea bites his fingers an
gr,ly because the committee won't
call him. He represents The Ma
trpnal Gentle League and the
American VigiIantc Association
James True, who writes
confidential weekly letter about
Communists and Jews. Is here
Also. briefly. william b,
Shearcr. who busted up the l92'
Geneva naval conference.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRE-
SENT: Witnesses can't help see
red" Chairman Dies wears that
color Of tie. instead of his usual
small black bow. Dies, stout, SAL
low. brown-haircd president Of the
House dcmagogue'S club who left
Sl2O0-a-ycar law practice IN
Orange. Tex. to serve the people,
can't help making antl-Commun-
ist stump speeches. experimenting
witnesses. Republican Noah
Mason, chubby, White-halred
man who worked Up TO be school
Superintendent It CgleSby, ILL.,.
after SO years in the educationa!
field. and small J Parnell Thomas
of New Jersey, rcdfaced and alert
lin a snappy brown suit, do their
best to smear the Roosevelt ad-
ministralion as "Communlstlc.'
! Mosier of Ohio chews cigar
looks like a business man. He was
beaten for Congress this month
after the G. l. Q. declared against
him He hasn't forgotten that. -
Bes,-dressed, most amiable is Jack
Dempsey of New Mexico, in G
green necktie and a suit matcnine
his white hair. he Wlnks a
friends in IT,. audience.
DOWNRIGHT. 1883. NEA Service. inc.l
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
Ey RODNEY DttTCHEF
NnA ss-r.es stpn Correspondent

NHa se-r.cs Stpn Correspondent
U7ASHINGTON.-DtES "UN-
w AMERICAN" COMMITTEE:
Despite many absnrdltieS, finally
produced an impressive witness IN
Prof. J. 3. Matthews. Tall,
.pare. with pompadoured thin gray
hair. PROFESSIONAL SpectaclcS and
nstty blue serge suit, Matthews
speaks tenSely, dramatically, and
even in oratoriCal fights as he
makes an able exposition OF Com
munist strategy and technique.
The zealot's CLEAN is in his eye
while he exposes" united front
groups he once helped organize.
Net result is to nail down
previous testimony that Commit
piSts like TO dominate organlza-
tons.
Matthews. admitting he once
sought 10 cover up Communist
affiliations with united front"
groups. now stretches points the
other way. He is vice preSI-
dent of Consumers Research, de-
voted to telling people how TO buy
Consumers Research en-
ployes went on strike: its owners
charged Communism" Strikers
organized Consumers Union
and Matthews, a competitor
charges this and other consumer
organizations had Communist ori-
gin. But Matthews, never d
Communist party member, tells
this writer he began to pull away
from active association with Com
munistS long before the Con-
sumerS' Research strike. He says
the Russian trials and execution;
of old bolshevists finally So'Tec
him.
SPECTATORS: Conspicuous arr
red-hot patriotic ladies who de-
vote their lives to finding Com.
munistS under beds and in othe'
odd places. But VIXEN Haywood
Broun denies Matthews assertion
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
HendersonviIIe, Route 4
UENDERSONVULE. Route

HENDERSONVILLE, Route !,
Aug. 3i.-Mrs. Martha CantrclI
has returned to her home here af-
ter visiting relatives in Tryon and
Landrum for a few days recently.
Camp Peep-Out closed last
week after a very successful sea-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. F. Drake
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Cantrell Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Higgins
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Cantrell
enjoyed a picnic at Mills River
Recreation park one evening re-
Gently.
A baptizing will be held at the
McCrary lake next Sunday at III
a. m. Regular preaching service
will follow at II a. m. at Beulah
church.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
4 SANE AND SAFE GUARD AGAINST
PROFITEERING
tBy BRUCE CATION

Toy bhINt NAa lNN'
When the next congress meets. its mem
bers will doubtless cast weather eye oil
Europe and start talking about ways and
means Of keeping America out of war.
They don't he able TO give us 100 per
cent protection, Of course. The world is
too full of gunner on their muscle. But if
the congressman could find a simple and
certain way Of taking the financial profit
cut Of war, they would make it pretty GER
tain that this country would not again go
to war except for the most pressing rea-
sons OF Sef-defenSe.
This idea of making war prohtlesS has
been in the air for long time now, and
some pretty elaborate schemes to accom-
plish it have been suggested. The trouble
with most ct them is that the cure looks
worse than the disease: they would saddle
MS with government-hyd decree which we
might not be able to get out from under,
once the war ended.
There is, however, one very simple and
straightforward plan awaiting congress-
attention. 1t is the plan presented last
spring by the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
introduced in the house and Senate-and
left hanging when congress adjourned
without acting on it.
This plan would set up no elaborate sys-
tens Of control over industry, finance or
manpowsr 1t would not turn the Presi-
dent into a dictator the moment war was
declared: i would not create an omnlpo-
tent bureaucracy which would try to per-
petute itself when peace returned.
Instead, it would simply boost the living
daylights out of the income tax schedules
The authors of this measure had the
idea that the one way to take the profit
out of war is to hike the taxes, so they
drew I'D a measure which would do that
and that alone.
Under this bill, wartime income taxes Of
10 per cent would be levied on all indivld-
uals--after personal and dependents eX-
emptions that run to perhaps $1,000, on an
average In addition, there would be sur
tax rates running from 10 per cent to 80
per cent on incomes above $4,000.
Corporations would be taxed Is per cent
on net incomes not III excess OF L per cent
of their adjusted declared value, p per
cent or net incomes not in excess of per
cent of their adjusted declared value
and 100 per cent on net incomes above
that level.
That bill would quite literally take the
profit out of war. No one would get rich
out of the war; on the contrary, everyone
in the nation would have a direct financial
stake in seeing that we kept the peace.
And if we did get into war, those taxes
would come close to enabling us to pay as
we 60. We wouldn't be burdening future
generations with mOnstrous load Of debt.
The scheme has at least the virtue OF
simplicity-so much so. indeed, that wary
citizens may want to study it with especial
care, on the theory that anything so beau
tifulIy simple must have catch in it some
where In any case, it should set us think
ing whether we really have the hardihOOd
to go ahead and literally take all of the
proft-eVery last dime of it-out of war.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
THE LONG COMERS: The late

TT. tJTNN NVNIF'N|. '"' 1T
Mrs. +. G.. Collins Of Conway, ).
C., whose residence was on tie
Chimney Rock road, made Hen
dcrsonyillc her summer hon"
something over 30 years. Her
daughter, Miss Mitchell Collins,
has spent ihc majority Of her
summers here during this period.
Airs. Collins recently died al the
age Of 81 years. Her first year
here is unknown but she spent the
summers here for something over
half a century.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
BIGGEST OF ALI.

The biggest business" in the world is the United
States government. Yet at its head is who
never met payroll on Saturday night III all his
life, was born rolling in wealth and hasn't the
faintest idea of how to conduct business. And
still he criticzes the heads of "bg business"
cerns-Albert Lea (Minnl Tribune.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
AUGUST 80. 1888

August "", l'"@'
Editor. The Tmcs-Ncws;
We desire to thank the D, 4.
Rs Of Henderson and TransyI
yania counties for the nice pro
gram in unvciliug the marker TO
our ancestor. Ben Davidson, at
Davidson River cemetery last
Sunday. And especially d" We
thank alr* c. Il. Whitaker for OF.
dcriug the stone. and also thank
hcr fer getting one for an unci"
who served in the Confederate
army when mere boy.
The descendants Of Ben DAVID
son include many Of the Kinney.
Eurgins. Francis. OshoWes, john
sons. Iytlrs. G,Ireaths, Stevens.
lone, iladdena, Hoods. EneIlshs.
Blythus. GuiIicks. Woodtins, Wor-
Icys. pIumIccs, Baidwlns, Aliens.
Birds. Carsons, and many others.
Respectfully.
Mr.. and Mrs 7. T.. Osborne,
Mil. River. \. {.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31

There is one motor vehicle for
every AS persons in the United
States. as compared to the aver
age of one motor vehicle to every
50 persons in the rest of the
world.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31

News of an increase in mountain-climb-
ing activities in Switzerland comes as re-
minder that that's one country where they
do things on the grand scale.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31

There's a rumor around that the White
House is acquiring a new carpet to call
people on A kind, of purgean rug.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned oomm"-
nieation. are published Ivy The
Timcs-News. Al letters must he
signed with the real name ct
the author. No communications
signed With Il fictitious name
will he published. EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
BIBLE THOUGHT
MEDITATE WITH THE WoRI

Mediate WITH THE WORD
Thi. book of the law shall not depar, out Of thy
mouth. but thou shalt mediate therein day and
night. (Jos. Isl
We must not expect TO find holiness merely thru
prayer meetings. | have found that it is prayer
with the open Bible. alone with God. that is most
effective. When you get down upon your knees
and expect God to speak 10 YOU through that par
ticular passage upon which you are medttatng, you
viii find that He does Speak.--nr Donald G, Barn
house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31

REX IS HERE: Who is it that
Dad" CroaSdril hasn't told about
son Rex" or shown him one of
those weekend letters of phlIo-
Sophical trend? Rex simply work
ed too hard. plugged away at his
muItitudinouS duties for too many
hours each day for the Jackson
Vile Chamber Of Commerce. He
inst couldn't keep it up. His ply
stefan prescribed a mountain rest
where he could he free from of
flee routine and take life calmly.
Here's hoping his stay will be
marked by promrt and rapid i'm
prOycmcnt.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-31
ANOTHER FEATURE: Tot

ANOTHER FEATURE: Tour
lists como and tourists 90 but some
don't become guests Of the same
house twice. Mr.. and Mrs. Gus
X. Griffin Of TG5 Nediio Park
way. Atlanta. have been here for
20 summers and they spent them
at the same boarding house in
Laurel Park, staying from four to
six weeks each summer. ! feel
certain that Mrs. Genovar of
Jacksonville, whose name was re
Gently mentioned as long-comcr,
had fifth of century or more
with the late Mrs. Mamie Hes
terry, where she became a guest
carly in the season and remained
until about Christmas. She was
too feeble to leave home this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-29
Legion Holds Rites
 For Parted Comrade
Memorial Program to Florence L. Wilcox Observed;
 Sprague Pupils Donate $l9.25 to Paralysis Drive
w AT ER VILE

the hymn, Nearer My God To Thee, concluding with taps.
 Two carnations, one white and one red, were then placed in a vase in the center of the table. Mrs. Ha- gel Northrop, past president, placed the white flower, which was, "In Memory of all those who fought in other battles that Liberty might endure", and Mrs. Agnes Martin, also past president, placed the red carnation in the vase," In Mem ory of all deceased members of the American Legion Auxiliary"
 The chaplain, Mrs. Ella McMahon then offered prayer, after which the president, Mrs. Della Carney, ex- tinguished the candles, quoting that "the light of the candle dies out as day is over, just as the life of this beloved member shall shine on earth no more, but may her mem- ory strengthen, as time goes on."
 Mrs. Byrnes, memorial chairman, then draped the charter in black, and the service came to a close. Mrs. Kathryn Dadario and Mrs. Ella McMahon were the color bear CTS, and the list of all who attended this very impressive service is as follows: Mrs. Clifford Northrop, MT. and Mrs. Patrick Moriarity, MT. and Mrs. Frederick Seidel, Mrs. David Grenier, Mrs. Robert Cos griff, Mrs. Bertha Hackbarth, Mrs. Chester Brickett, Mrs. Anthony DiBlasi, Mrs. Della Carney, Mrs Ethel Byrnes, Mrs. Agnes Martin Mrs. Kathryn Dadario, Mrs. Ella