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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-23
By RALPH (. HElNZEN
Inited Press Staff CorespondenI

PARIS, Aug. %. (UP). - A
threatened nationwide genera!
strike exceeding labor walkouts
which paraIyzed French industry
and commerce two years ago, to-
day confronted Premier Edouard
Daladier after two Of his key
cabinet ministers resigned.
Minister Of Public Works Louis
Frossard and Minister Of Labor
Paul Remadier quit the govern
ment last night in opposition to
the premier'S demand for drastic
relaxation of the 4O-hour week in
industry and his action in calling
out black Senegalese troops to un-
load ships at MarseiIleS where
1000 stevedorcs are on strike.
Both FroSsard and Romadier
are union socialists, more leftiSt
than Daladicr'S own radical so
cialiStS but not so far left as the
socialists and communists Of the
popular front.
The socialists and communists,
threatening serious labor trouble,
accused Daladier of captivating
to employers on the issue of the
40-hour Neutrality-suspicious. of the
Popular Fronts labor reform pro-
gram--although his government
nominaly is a Popular Front one,
The self described national de-
Tense premier" faced with acute
internal trouble at time when
fresh complications have arisen in
the Spanish and ltalo-French stu
ations, Immediately selected two
other union socialists to replace
Ramadier and FroSSard.
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FLORIDA COP.
NOMINEE HERE
T. E. Swanson, Peppers
Opponent, Must Re-
turn Home Early

Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. E. Swanson.
who have been at their place on
the Chimney Rock road since last
Nav, will return to Fort Lauder
dale, Fla, next week.
Mr.. Swanson, formerly for
many years a practicing attorney
in Chicago, is Republican candi-
date for the United States senate
in Florida, opposing Senator Pep
per, the Democratic candidate.
Mr.. Swanson has been coming
to this section for years and is
delighted with the section and eli
maze. He remained here last year
until October, but his participa-
ton in the Florida campaign
makes necessary his return at an
earlier date.
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FOUR Held IN
KIDNAPPING OF
IRVING BAKER
Doctor Accused of At
tempt to Mutilate
Wife's Admirer

OLYMPIA. Wash, Aug. 23.--
(UP)-Police today arrested kob-
crt Smith, "a, member Of Il prom
inrnt family, as the fourth suS,,
pect in the kidnapping, assault and
attempted mutilation Of Irving
Baker, 81, former coast guard OIL
iicer.
Smiths arrest came as Mrs.
Elizabeth Berry, attractive ~
year-old wife Of DR.. X. W. Berry,
also held in the case, stated that
her husband had reason 10 be JeaI-
Gus Of Baker.
OLYMPIA, WASH, Aug. %
UP)-Three men, including So
cially prominent DR.. X. W. Berry
5O-year-old physician, were under
arrest today in the kidnapping OF
Irving Baker, former coast guards
man, who was beaten and an at
tempt made to mutilate him be-
cause of supposed attentions he
paid DR.. Berry's pretty young
wife
The third man arrested was
William McAloOn, former town
marshal. Earlier DR.. Berry and a
taxicab driver were held on
charges of kidnaping-a capital
offense in Washington.
DR.. Berry was placed under
$4,000 bond last night after ne
admitted having an alteration
with Baker, but denied any part
in the kidnapping. ,.
McAloOn was not Immediately
charged, but it was believed that
similar charges would be MED
against him. Washington's Lind
berph law assesses the death sen
tence or life Imprisonment upon
conviction for kidnapping.
Baker, 81, a former U: ). coast
Guard service officer and now an
automobile dealer, was not III
jured permanently in the attack,
which occurred Friday night. Pm
ers were used in the attempted
mutilation, according to officers;
Motive for the attack was said
to be the doctors jealousy over
Bakers attention to his wife,
Elizabeth, 27, a former University
of Washington coed, at party
last July 4.
Baker denied his attentions
were more than social. s.
The taxi driver arrested Is
James Reddick.
Baker was found wandering
badly injured and in a daze, on
the outskirts of Olympia Friday
night.
He said four men had come to
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Bv FREDERICK A. STORM

HYDE PARK, n. Y, Aug. %.
(UP)-Federal relief workers to-
day had the assurance of Harry
Hopkins, WPA administrator, that
they could vote as they pleased
without fear of being fired.
His announcement came last
night after a lengthy conference
at the summer white house with
President Roosevelt. They sur
veyed progress Of the lending
spending program and Informally
canvassed the national political
picture.
Hopkins insisted his presence
here had no political significance
but observers believed that his
HYDE Park visit had to do with
the Maryland situation. It was
generally believed that he urged
the president to enter the free
state next week and in an address,
possibly at Baltimore on Labor
Day. again call for the defeat OF
Sen. Millard Tydings, denounced
by Mr.. Roosevelt as new deal
betrayer.
The WPA administrator, how
ever, took occasion to condemn
efforts to solicit or collect cam
paign contributions from WA
workers. asserting that their
money should be used instead Tor
clothing, food and shelter.
He had in mind specifically, he
said, reports that the Workers Al
lance planned a $4,000 war
chest, the money to be raised
from persons on relief, to further
campaign for the election, OF
representatives friendly to their
interests. =.
Then he said: owe don't solicit
political support from WPA work,
ers. Some people say we do but
we don't" >. =,
"No one is going to lose his job
no matter which way he votes IN
these states that you hear about. "
Hopkins told neWspapermen tnat
his WPA program had reached Its
peak but that there was still
great pressure" He said that
there always has been great
pressure so there is nothing I'M
usual in that" :,
After Hopkins left Hyde Park
house, the president met with
Charles West, former undersecre-
tary of the interior, and White
House liaison man on Capitol Hlll'
for a further report on the polltl-
cal situation in Ohio. >, ,
West told Mr.. Roosevelt that
he would return to Ohio to work
for the election of Senator Rob,
ert Buckley, new dealer, and
Charles Sawyer, Democratic nom
inee for governor. Sawyer was a
caller here Saturday and express
ed belief that his party's ticket
would win. adding that the wounds
of the primary fight had been
healed.
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sc. Primary
Watched For
Voter Trend
Results Next Tuesday May
Be Yardstick in
Party Purge"
ROAD CIRCUS WILL
END FRIDAY NIGHT
By GERRY ROBICHAUD

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. CUP
| Forthcoming primaries in South
| Carolina and California Aug. 30
| held the political limelight today
as possible yardStickS to measure
effectiveness of President RooSe-
vclt'S intervention in Democratic
contests in three other states
Maryland, New York and Georgia.
OF the two primaries scheduled
/ for next Wednesday, the South
| Carolina contest, involving the
seat of Senator Ellison ID. Got
ton Ed Smith. veteran Demo
cratic conservative, is the most
| significant The outcome may in
dicate to large extent voter
trends in nearby Georgia where
the new deal is opposing Senator
Walter F. George, and in Mary
/ land, where Mr.. Roosevelt public
~ repudiated Senator Millard r..
| TydingS as a "betrayer.
Although the president did not
dcnounce Smith, as he did Tyd-
ings, George and Representative
John O'Connor, d., n. Y, he indi-
Gated his unmiStakable preference
for youthful Gov. Olin d. John
ston. ardent new dealer, who is
considered Smiths major oppo-
ncnt in the three-cornered race.
The third candidate is State Sen
ator Edgar Brown, who also pro
feSSeS administration leaningS.
Smith, who, together with Tyd-
ings and George. he ped scuttle
the supreme court enlargement
plan last wear, has been waging a
heated fight in ne South Carolina
"circuS" campaign. He and his
two opponents travel the same
route together, appear Oh the
same platforms together and of
ten, in small towns on the circuit,
they are forced to sleep together.
The road show ends Friday when
the candidates will return to their
home and await election returns.
The Democratic nomination is tan
tamOunt to election.
As chairman of the powerful
senate agriculture committee,
Smith often has crossed swords
with the administration on its
farm program. Recently Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace. declining to discuss the
Smith purge" said, however,
that he favored anything that
will help the farmer"
While the contest will not hold
the same significance as the
George-Tydings- O'Connor battles
against new deal opponents,
Smiths denomination is certain to
be hailed as stunning blow to
the administration. Conversely,
his defeat would be considered,
partially at least. an endorsement
of Mr.. Roosevelt's invasion of
state contests and the administra-
tons social reform program.
The California issue is more
simple. The president merely has
asked the denomination of 75-
year-old Senator William Gibbs
McAdoo. administration support
er, who is opposed by a handful
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By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN
United Press Staff Corresponde |

LONDON, Aug. 23-(UP)--
British cabinet ministers today
held themselves available az
Prime Minister Nevill eChamber-
lain hurried back to London from
a vacation and confronted grave
situation growing out Of collapse
Of the 27-nations plan TO whit
draw all foreign volunteers"
from SPANS battlefronts.
The action of GeneraliSsimO
Francisco Franco of the Spanish
nationalist in virtually rejecting
every point Of the plan To give
the civil war black to the Span
iards" struck a vital blow at the
keystone of Chamberlain's foreign
policy--his pact Of friendship
with Italy.
Diplomats agreed that the
wrecking Of the volunteers plan
had delayed for months and per-
haps completely shattered Cham
berlain's hope for putting the
pact into effect because it is de-
pendent upon Premier Benlto
Mussolinps withdrawal of MS
thousands of blackshirt legion
naires from Francois armies.
More explosive than the ques-
ton of Chamberlain's prestige at
home, however, was the possible.
ty that Generalissimo Francisco
Franco has thrown down the bars
for a surge Of fresh Italian and
German intervention in SPANS
little world war" including men,
guns and ammunition.
1t was admitted privately that
Franco, by attaching "a maze Of
qualifications and counter-sugges-
tions, to the non-intervention
committees volunteers withdrawal
plan, has killed it.
Viscount Halifax, British for
eign secretary, also cut short
country holiday to join Chamber.
lain in London and today they
will meet with key cabinet minis
Continued on page iour)
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State Board On
Identification
Will Meet Here

w. M. Sherard, member of the
state board on rural electrified
ton, says that body will meet in
Hendersonville in September.
Mr.. Sherard leaves tomorrow
for meeting of the board at
Manteo on Roanoke Island, which
place is now featuring fishing and
the presentation Of the drama,
"The Lost Colony"
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VOTE AS YOU PLEASE
HOPKINS ADVISES WPA
WORKERS AFTER SEEING FIR
Administrator Condo IN II S
Efforts to Solicit Funds
From Relief Workers

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. CUP
Senator George Berry, unSeated
in the recent Tennessee senator
ial primary, charged today that
Tennessee WPA employees, were
assessed $4,000 in the bitterly
fought campaign. Berry said his
information on heavy WPA AS
easements had been placed before
Harry Hopkins and other federal
officials without avail. Berry filed
the charges with the campaign
expenditures committee Of the
senate.
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SINGING CONVENTION
AT TUXEDO SUNDAY

Grover Beddingfield. president
of the Green River singing con-
vention has announced that the
convention will meet at Tuxedo
Baptist church at Green River at
2 o'clock on August %.
All singers, choir leaders and
others who are interested are in
vited to attend and the public is
welcome.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. %. tUP)
Disagreement among members OF
the Dies committee was revealed
TODAY as the committee prepared
TO hear testimony of alleged com
munistic activity in schools ana
colleges.
The rift within the committee
centered around Representative
John j. Dempsey ID, y. MI, who
attended the committees session
Yesterday for the first time since
the hearings began nearly two
weeks ago. Ii was learned that
he had returned To the capital
hastily TO assert his belief that the
committee had involved "mno-
cent" persons and east unfair re-
Elections upon them.
Dempsey made special trip to
California from his New Mexico
home. il was learned, while COM
mittee investigator Edward +.
Sullivan was gathering informal
ton on the alleged cUmmunlStlc
activity of Harry Bridges. Pacific
coast director of the Committee
for Industrial Organization. 1t
was understood that Dempsey or
dered Sullivan To return TO WASH
ington because of his belief that
much of his material was rreIe-
want and incompetent.
When Sullivan returned last
week, the committee made pubic
q report on his work in which 1t
was charged that Hollywood was
a "hotbed of communism and
that government officials had aid
ed Bridges in his fight against de-
portation.
Dempsey also was ncenSed
when the committee accused I'M
portant government officials with
spreading communist propaganda
through membership in alleged
communist front" organizations
such as the American League Tor
Peace and Democracy.
He told friend that ne
might have joined the league had
| been asked. because | believe
i'm both peace and democracy.
Upon his return here, Dempsey
was appointed chairman OF a sec,
ond subcommittee which will hold
hearings i'm California on Sulll-
vans charges. He will be assist
ed by Rep. Joe Starnes 3D., Ala
who frequently during the hear
ings has insisted that witnesses De
stopped from talking on the
grounds that they were unable 70
support their charges. Rep. Har-
old C. Mosier ID, o. will be the
third member.
Starnes will act as head Of am
other subcommittee which will
hold hearings in the East-prob-
ABLY in New York and Boston. A
third subcommittee headed by
Mosier and including Chairman
Martin Dies 3D., Texas will hold
hearings in midwestern cities.
Dies began the last phase of nj.
hearings here today by calling
witnesses which he said would re
veal communistic activities II
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PLAN OAK FOREST
CEMETERY CLEANING

All persons interested in Oak
Forest cemetery at Etowah are
requested to meet there Thurs
day, Aug. %, for the purpose OF
cleaning off the grounds. Work
will begin at 1880 3. M
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65 N. E. Soldiers
In U. S. Hospital

MOBILE. Aug. 23.-(UP)-,.
Stricken with what physicians d.
agnised as food poisoning, %
members of the Seventh Field Ar
tillery from Fort Bragg, N. o.,
were treated today in U. S. Ma,
rine hospital here. Doctors sald
ONLY a few Of the men were sefl-
ousiy i'll, Others suffered minor
attacks.
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VITAL BLOW IS
GIVEN POLICY
.0FFRIENDSHIp
Negotiations to Isolate
Spanish Civil War
Collapse
POLES CALL FOR
GERMAN BOYCOTT
By UNITED PRESS

Britain's cabinet stood by nerY-
ously today as diplomats sought
to minimize collapse of negotia-
tons for isolation of the Spanish
civil war.
European capitals took con
flicting views of the action of ~
surgents in rejecting proposals
for withdrawal Of foreign yolun-
teers and and opening one of the
bitterest offensives of the two
year conflict. British leaders OBJ
viously took a grave attitude to-
ward refusal of Generalissimo
Francisco Franco to cooperate in
ending foreign participation.
Meantime, while major powers
watched developments in Spain, a
sudden surge of anti-German sen
timent in towns of northern Pc
land injected new uncertainty in
OF the Czechoslovak minority cri-
sis. Poles, angered by alleged
mistreatment of the Polish minor
ity in Nazi-dominated Danzig,
burned German DanZig newspa-
pers and called for nationwide
boycott
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r. K. ORR ILL

R. X. Orr is confined TO his bed
with a heart affection which he
suffered last Wednesday night.
His condition has been quite .se-
rious and q complete rest. of 40
least three weeks has been Or,
dered.
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LEAVE FOR u. S.

BISCAROSSE, French, Aug.
23.-(UP-The 37-ton seaplane,
Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris,
took off today for a flight across
the Atlantic to New York.
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DEATHS
TO Be PROBED
Gov. Earle Promises Ac.
ton After Four Men
Found Battered

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. %
(UP)-FOur cOnvicts found
dead IN adjoining cells in Phila-
delphia county prison were
scalded to death, Coroner ChaS.
Hersch charged today as two
state Investigations began into
the strange deaths in the prison
which terminated a noisy hun
ger strike of $50 convietS
against the quality Of food.
Bodies of the four were
found in an isolation block Gus
tomarily used for disciplinary
purposes. Prison officials in
sisted the deaths had been due
to accidents and suggested they
might have killed one another
fighting.
ANCON, c. H., Aug. 90. CUP
Gov. George II. Earle Of Pennsyl
vania today had promised "com
p ct e investigation" into The
deaths of four hunger-strlklne
in the Philadelphia conn
ty prison.
The governor, here with Mrs
Earle and Capa. M. Banks of the
Pennsylvania state motor police
on an air tour to Central America
was concerned over the
from Philadelphia.
That's terrible" he said a.
Banks read him newspaper ac
counts Of the affair. NATURALLY
can say nothing, nor will |, un
til | arrive in Harrisburg on Sat
urday and make a complete in
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COMMUNISM
IN COLLEGES
TO Be SIFTED
Rift Develops in Dies Com
mittee Quiz Of Reds
in United States
DEMPSEY CHARGES
UNFAIR PRACTICES

WASHINGTON. Aug. %. (UP)
Edward Fenlon of the Brooklyn
college faculty. told the Dies COM
mittee today that an admittedly
communist magazine 1T school
probably was being published by
a government agency. He testified
before the committee Investigate
ing un-American activities, that
the agency probably WAS 4 WPA
group.
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WEATHER

Fair and slightly warmer to-
night; Wednesday partly cloudy.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

First entry in the Michigan
State fair quilt contest was q
quilt made Of 80 miles Of thread
AT the needle flies,
Evening star., 1938-07-12

include differential making the speed
limit 10 miles per hour less at night
than in the daytime.
Proposes 55-Mile Speed.
He proposed daytime maximum
of 55 miles per hour on the open
highway for most States, with the top
so miles an hour limit for the Prairie
States, where fiat. sparsely settled
areas make higher speed safer, with
lower limits in crowded areas.
Most States now have a 45-mile-
an-hour speed limit.
The three-day conference opened
yesterday, when the delegates asked
all States to adopt the three position
hand signal for motorists already in
use In II States. The system requires
a driver to extend his left arm straight
out from his car to indicate a left
turn. down for stop and up for a
right turn.
Most States permit a driver to ex-
tend his arm straight out to indicate
any of the three.
Among other problems raised by
the experts:
E. J. McIlraith engineer Of the
Chicago Surface Lines, suggested BIZ
cycles be ridden on the sidewalks in
stead Of streets. except in business
artas. where the rider should alight
and walk with his vehicle on the
sidewalk.
Arthur j. Lowell, vice president of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen. advised ban
ming trucks-except milk, mail and
newspaper truckS-from the high
ways from Saturday night to Monday
morning.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
UNDERTAKEN QUIZ.
ADJOURNED HERE.
TT. c. Counsel and l lawyer
for Chambers Admit
Various Claims.

Counsel for the Federal Trade Com
mission agreed today that w. w.
Chambers is "one Of the largest UNDER
takers in the world" and that he may
have 40 assistants, Is cars. Z chapels
and IA parlors."
At the same time, counsel for Mr..
Chambers conceded 1t has been some
thing Of an exaggeration for his client
to advertise that many extra services
rendered by Chambers are given with
out charge" or that a $500 service is
furnished for $265, or that an $85
steel vault Is waterproof, alright and
worth $3.50.
With these admissions in hand, sup
plemented by q small amount Of
testimony. Trial Examiner John J.
keenan, adjourned the hearings on
complaints Of unfair methods"
brought by the commission against
Mr.. Chambers.
In its original complaint, the COM
mission had secuted the idea Of Mr..
Chambers representing such large
portion Of the undertaking industry of
the world. Testimony by G. c. Echols,
Mr.. Chambers manager, and records
from the District Health Department
that Mr.. Chambers handled about Is
per cent Of Washington's funerals. al
though nearly SO white undertakers
were competing with him here, seemed
to bear out his claims as to size.
On the other hand. the stipulation
to which Mr.. Chambers counsel
agreed carried the admission that
some Of his advertising claims, such
as free" services and quality Of low
priced vaults. had resulted in some
trade = -" unfairly diverted to the
respondent from competitors engaged
in the sale Of similar facilities, causing
some injury to said competitors and
the purchasing public in the District
Of Columbia"
Leonard A. Block was counsel for
Mr.. Chambers. with Thomas Ham
mond serving for the commission.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
CHEWNINGS' SON
OPERATED UPON
Rushed Here From Virginia Beach
After an Attack of
Appendicitis.

Seven year = old William Jeffries
CheWning. Sd. grandson of the late
Senator James Couzens of Michigan
and son of Mr.. and Mrs William !
Chewing, jr., whose elopement and
subsequent divorce startled Capital So
clety, was resting comfortably in
Emergency Hospital today after an
emergency appendectomy yesterday.
The operation followed an automo-
bile dash from Virginia Beach yester.
day, where the lad had been vacation
ing with his father under an asree.
ment between his parents by which he
spends some time with each.
Upon discovery that Billy was III
Mr. Chewing called in his friend. DR.
John H. Lyons, Washington physician
who was also vacationing at the vir.
ginia resort.
The physician, who had planned to
return the next day. decided an i'm
mediate operation was necessary and
returned with the father and son to
the hospital.
Mrs. Chewing, the former Mario
Couzens, notified Of the impending
operation by Mr.. Chewing in a tele-
pnone call from the vacation resort,
joined them at the hospital.