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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-23
MRS. LYDA'S RITES
THURSDAY; HE IS
GIVEN BURIAL TODAY

Continued from page one)
pital. 80, ,
Members of the sheriff's depart
ment had been called to the LYDIA
home on Monday morning, but
found the house locked. Calling
again in the afternoon, officers or
ganized a searching party and
found the body of Mrs. LYDIA and
LYDIA in a dying condition by her
side.
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1t Is Dangerous

1t is dangerous to sell SUBSTI-
TUTE for 666 just to make three
or four cents more. Customers are
your best assets; lose them and
you lose your business. 666 is
worth three or four times as much
as a SUBSTITUTE.
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In order to steer clear Of the
police-who are after her for sell
ing the Brooklyn Bridge once too
often in every Days a Holiday,
the comedy Thursday at the Caro-
line theatre, blonde Mae West be-
comes a brunette!
It's done with black wig, made
by one of Hollywood's leading
perluquiers, and black mascara on
the eyes and the result is positive
" startljngl So much so that
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milton of his service to boys Of
the community, both in the Scout
movement and otherwise. Presen-
tation was made by Nathan Patla,
chairman of the district commit
rec
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|alIATHEA CLASS
[,:NAMED

c a. PSiyathra class of the First
,,. =, Sunday school met last
. YIN, at the home of Mrs. W.
| naTis with her team as joint
1855. Nrs. Herbert West pre-
81 America waS sung, Mrs. j.
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VAST APPROPRIATION
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
WORK RECOMMENDED

Continued from page one)
a $1,000 fine or three years i'm
prisonment, or both.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-23

Beautiful Mae
West is a blonde
and a brunette in
EVERY DAYS
A HOLIDAY
her new comedy
Thursday at the
Carolina theatre.
Here you see her
as both. Which
do you prefer?
Evening star., 1938-10-03
FIRST POLICE JURY
IN MONTH CALLED
$50 Unassigned Cases, Almost
Unprecedented Number,
Face Judges.

With $50 unassigned cases, an all
most unprecedented number, for jury
trial on the docket, Judge Edward M.
Curran today began impaneling the
first Police Court jury summoned since
August 25.
In order to tighten Judge Currans
load and expedite the disposal of the
jury cases, it is expected that Judge
John j. Mcmahon will be assigned to
preside over second jury court.
The cases include 800 in the United
States branch of the court, so in the
District branch (all dealing with VIOLA
tions Of the alcohol beverage control
law and 200 in Traffic Court.
The cases piled up during the five
weeks since August because the Police
Court could not obtain a judge from
Municipal Court to hear jury cases in
the absence of the Police Court judges
on vacation. The number of unas-
signed jury cases at the beginning Of
the term usually is about $50.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
VANDALISM LAID
TO CLUB CONTEST
Dahlia Garden Destruction
Is Called 0utgroWth of
Hot Rivalry.

Rivalry among members of the Ia
koma Park, Md, Horticultural Club in
the clubs annual dahlia contest was
blamed today by police and club Off
cials for the destruction of the dahlia
garden of Mrs. Edwin F. Lines. lis
Philadelphia avenue, Takoma Park.
The dahlias were uprooted, their tops
pulled off and trampled on the ground
Friday night. Mrs. Lines left home
for the week end early Saturday and
did not discover full extent of the
damage until her return.
The vandal also had destroyed
everything within reach along the path
leading from the dahlia garden, Mrs.
Lines said, including a palm that had
been given her by friend who had
owned it for 40 years. Clothes were
snatched from line on which they
were hanging and tossed into the gar
den pool.
Police found mans footprint in
the soft earth and sought to obtain
f1ngerprints from bits of smashed
flower pots.
Mrs. Lines dahlias were in the
lead in the completion, which has
extended throughout the summer and
will end at the clubs show on We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Irving Whalen johnson, chairman
of the Club Exhibition Committee.
said he believed the awarding OF cups
promoted "too much rivalry" He
will bring the entire problem up for
discussion at the next meeting, in
cluding the. possibility of halting the
cup awards.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
ANNOUNCES NEW
CANCER WEAPON
Dr.. Lawrence DiscIoses
Find in Report to Council
Meeting Here.

Development Of new heavy artillery
against cancer by DR.. E. o. Lawrence
of the California Institute of Tech
nology was reported to the National
Advisory Cancer Council. meeting at
the National Institute of Health here
today, by DR.. Arthur H. Compton of
the University of Chicago.
DR.. Lawrence has been working for
the past year under a 100000 grant,
in-aid from the Advisory Council, and
the announcement today is the first
outstanding achievement to result
from the Federal grant-in-aid policy.
Prof. Compton made his report at
q closed session of the council. An
nouncement of the details to the
public is to be left to Dr. Lawrence
himself, it was explained, but the
group of national authorities on can
Ger problems meeting here today was
notably impressed by the report.
Developer of "Cyclotron."
DR.. Lawrence is the developer of
the "cyclotron," sometimes described
as the "merry-go-round gun" OF
modern physics, by means of which
tremendous voltages are obtained for
producing new radioactive SUBJ
stances and for knocking neutrons
loose from the nuclei of atoms. These
neutrons are heavy, relatively SLOW
moving fundamental particles OF mat
ter of essentially the same mass and
dimensions as the proton, or positively
charged particle, but they themselves
are without any electrical charge.
For some time past DR.. Lawrence
and his brother, on the stad OF the
Yale University Medical School, have
been experimenting with the possibili-
ties of bombarding cancer cells with
these heavy protons. Hitherto the
results with the neutron rays have
aroused considerable debate.
With the cyclotron 1t has been
possible also to create a considerable
number of new radioactive sub
stances, some of which may eventually
replace GIle extremely expensive ldO4uIi
and radon in cancer treatment.
Ground Broken for Laboratory.
Early this afternoon the Advisory
Council attended the turning of the
first soil for the Public Health Service
new $750,000 cancer laboratory at
Bethesda. The first spadeful of earth
was turned by Mrs. Luke Wilson, who
donated the land, while members Of
the council gave hand in turning
other spadefuls.
Members of the council here today
included DR.. James B. Conant, presi-
dent of Harvard University; DR.. Comp
ton, DR.. C. c. Little, managing director
of the American Society for the Con-
troll of Cancer; DR.. James Ewing, di-
rector of Memorial Hospital, New
York; DR.. Francis Carter Wood. direc-
tor of the Institute for Cancer Re-
search. Columbia; DR.. Ludwig Hektoen,
director of the Mccormick Institute
for Infectious Diseases. Chicago; DR..
L. H. Thompson, director of the Ma
tional Institute of Health, and DR..
Thomas Parran, United States Sur
geon General.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
US. 'SL0W-DOWN'> $
STRIKE IS SDEN|ED
Union and Government
Officials Assai| Report
of 'Stal|ing.'

Union and Government officials to-
day denied report published here
and in New York that Showdown"
strike is hampering work in several
Government departments where en-
ployes are organized under the United
Federal Workers of America, affiliate
of the c. I. o.
Jacob Baker, president of the U. F.
w. A., described the report as new
low in insinuation and in attack on
a splendid body of American citi-
zens"
The newspaper report referred spe-
cifically to the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, the Labor Department
and the Social Security Board as
suffering from what it termed
tendency by employees not to work
to hard in resistance to efforts to
overwork them.
A spokesman for the National Labor
Relations Board described the report
concerning labor difficulties as "a
cockeyed lie without any basis in
fact" He pointed out that the U. F.
w., described in the story as well Or
ganized" in the N. L. r. B., had no
local there He described the N. L. r.
B. employees as "a hard working
crowd"
Labor Department officials also said
there had been no SLOW down."
John j. Corson, director of the So
cial Security Board Bureau of Old-Age
Assistance, denied categorically a
statement that the purported SLOW
down" had put the clerical routine
from one OF three months behind in
the Baltimore office and resulted in
personnel experts being called in from
outside.
"A review of the operating charts of
the bureaus accounting operations
section in Baltimore" Mr.. Corson
said, proves that rather than being
one to three months behind, our pro-
.duction operations are week to 10
days ahead of schedule"
AS to union activity in the Baltimore
office, Mr.. Corson said our relation
ship with each of the several employe
organizations have been wholly pleas
ant and cooperative"
Evening star., 1938-10-03
PREACHERS WILL MARK
Centennial OF A. M. &.
Washington Alliance to Meet
Tonight at Metropolitan
Church on M Street.

The A. M. E. preachers alliance
Of Washington and vicinity will meet
tonight at the Metropolitan A. M. E.
Church, in the 1900 block of M street
NV, in connection with the cele-
bration of the church's Tooth ami
versary.
The Rev. E. H. Beard will preside
ut the services and several other
visiting pastors will speak.
Anniversary celebration services will
be held each night this week, With
special musical program being
given by the choir Friday night.
Guest speakers next Sunday will be
DIR. Charles H. Wesley of Howard
University, and DR.. George H. Single
ton, editor of the Christian Recorder
If the A. M. E. Church.
The celebration to continue until
October II, opened yesterday with
Bishop M. H. Davis and presiding
Elder H. M. Shields, both of Baltimore.
as guest speakers. The Rev. j. Camp
bell Beckett is pastor of the church.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
Stiff Fines Follo,o Inspectors
of Navigation Bureau Here
Lenience ShOUn to First Offenders as
Officials Pursue Task of Making
BOdtetS Protect SeIUes.

sounds, for with the assessment no
tice comes a form to be executed be-
fore a notary public, in which the
violator is given an opportunity to
explain any mitigating circumstances.
The collector of customs, in his dis
cretion, may reduce the fine to IS
or $40. But that courtesy usually is
reserved for first offenders.
The yacht Navigation came to
Washington to help patrol the course
for the regatta in cooperation with
the Coast Guard. She is working her
way southwark to the Florida and
Gulf coasts. While here it was de-
cided to run the Potomac. The motor
tender, with Inspector William P.
Hayward, mate of the Navigation, also
started out. The first vessel" encoun-
tered was an oyster boat from Cris-
field, heading for Washington with
load of oysters. Everything was all
right until the captain was told to
break out" his life preservers, and
that's literally what he did-break
'em out-for when they came out OF
the stowage locker the cork dropped
out of the canvas covering. There was
a crew OF four aboard and all pre-
servers were in the same condition.
Numbers and Whistle Checked.
Next was the motorboat Yump,
owned and operated by c. N. johnson,
retired Army sergeant, who lives
at Fort Hunt, Va. He was returning
from fishing trip. After boarding
Inspector Hayward examined his pa
pers, checked them against the num-
bers required on the bow, tested the
whistle and foghorn, shot some of the
fluid out of the fire extinguisher and
smelled it to be sure not only that it
worked mechanically, but that it had
the correct fluid in it. Then the life
preservers, which were found in top
condition.
In one sortie into a cove near Mary
land Point, the inspector found a
crabber, and he showed board for
life preserver. A board is approved,
but it must meet certain conditions.
If hard wood, it must be not less than
4 feet in length, 1A inches thick, IL
inches wide, and have hand holes, and
must not weigh more than Is pounds,
or if balsa wood, it may be 3 feet long,
111a inches wide, and 2 inches thick.
The board in the boat was of redwood
and feet long. He will get letter
from the customs collector.
OF Broad Creek, man and his
family were found in the river fishing
from a small motor boat, and the
water was pretty close to the gunwales
with five people aboard. There were
five life preservers aboard, but two of
the cork type were rotted. When the
inspector asked for the fire extin-
guisher, the owner said he could ex-
anime it if it could be gotten loose.
Held to the side Of the boat by two
large nails and twisted wire, several
minutes were needed to loosen it. Even
if it were satisfactory, it probably
would have been of no use because 1t
couldn't have been taken down in
time. But it was an unapproved type,
powder, and so another violation.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
the inspectors have no hours, as they
drop into IN AREA where there u motor
Evening star., 1938-10-03
BAND CONCERTS

BY the Army Band in the audi
torium at the War College at 3:15
pm. tomorrow, Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy, jr., leader; Karl Hubner, as
sistant.
Program.
Potpourri, Musical Hall of Fame"
Safranek
Popular, "The Yam" Berlin
From the picture, "Carefree."
Excerpt, Variation" Chaminade
From the ballet, "Calirhoe.
Cornet solo, King Sport" - johnson
Played by the composer.
Waltz, Three O'Clock in the Morn
ing ----------- NopleQo
March, "On Dress Parade Chambers
"The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-10-03
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

Cruising down the Potomac some
fine day, enjoying the warming sun
in the clear air, you may observe in
the distance a great spray along the
water line. Keep your eyes glued to
it and eventually you will hear the
roar of motor and then your inter-
est is whetted by admiration for the
speed of the little craft which you
know must be behind that spray.
He is heading right in your direc-
ton. You might have a little fear,
in the belief that he is unable to
see through that great spray he is
stirring up, but when close abroad
he slows down and comes alongside.
He does not even touch you as a
smartly uniformed officer steps aboard
your boat with cherry: Good morn
ing. I would like to see your papers
and equipment"
The speed boat hauls off, and stands
by while the inspector goes through
his routine task. For he does not
ask the motorboat operator to heave
to-
1t is one of the officers attached
to the Bureau of Marine Inspection
and Navigation yacht Navigation,
charged with the duty of inspecting
motor vessels, to ascertain whether
they have the proper papers as well
as to determine whether the motor
boatmen have the necessary safety
equipment-material which the Gov
ernment requires by law and which
every person interested in safety of
life and limb should provide without
law.
Eight in 10 Not Well Equipped.
But apparently they just do not
do that. They carry it because the
law says so. There was no better evil
dence of this on a routine inspection
last week, when the Navigation went
down the Potomac as far as Mary
land Point lighthouse and returned to
Washington. While there were only
few boats on the river, eight out
Of 10 overhauled were guilty of viola
tions of the law, and most of them
were concerning safety equipment
life preservers which, in case of an
accident, probably would not have
stayed intact even while a person put
them on, and equipment for putting
out gasoline fires, which was not of
an approved type.
It takes but a few minutes to make
the inspection, and whether you are
guilty of violations or not the in
spector leaves you with a smile, a
thank you and a good-by. But II
you ask him if your equipment passed
he will tell you and give you any in
formation you desire. But having
made the inspection his duty ends
so far as his relations with the owner
are concerned. Every day he makes
up his report of boats inspected and
violations and sends it to the Bureau
of Marine Inspection and Navigation,
where the violations are noted and
| reported to the collector of customs
in the district in which the vessel is
registered.
The next information the operator
gets is letter from that. official tell
ing him Of the violations noted and
assessing fine Of 500 for each VIOLA
ton. But that Is not as serious - II
Evening star., 1938-10-03
II D. c. BOYS AT BLISS
Glass Includes Other Students
From "a States.

Seventeen Washington boys are en-
rolled at Bliss Electrical School in
Takoma Park, Md. this year. The
class includes students from "a States
as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii
and the Canal Zone.
The Washington students are Velvin
S. Anderson. Richard D. Bailey, Frank
j. Brown, william r. Carwithen jr.,
Perry F. Crabill. jr, Walter Ferber, jr.,
Robert E. Franklin, Austin w. Fur
man, Joseph o. Gorton, Fred P.
Harich, Charles L. Kenny, James N.
Parks, Edward r. Roberts, Gilbert C..
Sanders, Fred B. Strosnider, Robert
M. Underwood and Raymond T. Weir.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
GRID SHAKE-UP LOOMS
Officials of Presidents to Meet
and Take Drastic Steps.

Officials of the Free State Athletic
Club, owners of the Washington Pres
idents, champions of the Dixie Pro
Football League, are going to hold a
meeting this week, probably on We'd
nesday. at which they plan to do
something so we can put winning
ball team on the field"
A shake-up in the personnel of both
the team and the coaching staff was
threatened last week following a de-
feat by Richmond, and another de-
feat was handed the champs yesterday
at Paterson, N. j.. in an exhibition
game by the Panthers, who romped
away, $50.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
COMM|TTEEASKS
CAND|DATE.W|EW
Seeks Support of Program
OF Montgomery County
Civic Needs.

A Committee of Fifty, representing
citizens of Montgomery County, Nd,
took steps today to obtain support for
a program of civic needs adopted at a
non-partisan meeting last spring.
The committee sent to Republican
and Democratic candidates for county
commissioners and to candidates for
Senate and House Of Delegates from
that county QUESTIONABLE asking
their views on statement of the pro-
gram.
Candidates were asked to express
themselves in writing whether they
are in agreement with the statement
and to what extent they will pledge
themselves unequivocally and without
reservation, if elected, to take all neces-
sary steps within their power to meet
promptly the urgent needs as set forth
in the statement" ~ ~
Replies by October II.
Letters to the candidates, including
a statement Of the civic needs and
an outline of reasons in support Of the
statement, were sent out over the
signature Of Washington L Cleveland
of Kensington, chairman of the COM
mittee.
Mr.. Cleveland asked that replies
be returned to him not later than
October II. He said the committee
expects to make public the replies in
time to acquaint voters before the
November election with the attitudes
and positions of the candidates.
In the letter Mr.. Cleveland said:
1T is in the public interest that citi-
zens make known to candidates the
views of the citizens as to the urgent
civic needs Of their county and that
''it is in the public interest that each
candidate make known to the citizens
clearly and unequivacally where he
stands on these matters in order that
the citizens may be in a position to
cast their votes intelligently."
Seen as Valuable Step.
Cooperation of the candidates, Mr..
Cleveland added, will be "a valuable
step forward in the cause of good
government for our county"
The civic needs as adopted, Mr..
Cleveland said, at a meeting last spring
of more than 900 citizens, are:
/. A school construction program at
least as comprehensive and adequate
as approved by the Board of Educa-
ton in 1887.
2. Consolidation by action of the
county commissioners of the adminis-
tration of all social welfare activities
in the county carried on with county,
State or Federal funds.
3. Increasing the efficiency of the
county government by (a) creating
the Office of an independent county
controller; (b) retaining and strength
ening wherever practicable the pres
ent civil service system; (c) abolition
Of such unnecessary Offices as super
visor of county aid, county liquor con-
troll board, supervisor of school prop
erty, and board Of zoning appeals.
.Recreational Activities.
4. Development of child and adult
recreation facilities and trained per-
sonnel for supervised recreational &C.
tivities.
S. Legislation at the earliest possible
date directing reassessment of prop
erty, and pending that an equalization
Of existing assessments.
6. Some provision for adequate
transportation facilities.
Z. Employment of an independent
non-political organization to make a
study and report on methods of i'm
proving the form of government OF
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
Gaelic Club to Celebrate.

The Washington Gaelic Club will
celebrate its 10th anniversary Thurs
day when the Rev. James A. Geary,
professor of Gaelic at Catholic Uni
versity, onicially opens the class at
Thomson School. Glasses are held
from 7:30 to 8 am. every Thursday
through May and are free to all who
wish to learn Gaelic.
Evening star., 1938-10-03

IVA NASSs
A native Of
Iowa, she received
her training in
botany at the
Iowa State Agri-
culture College
and also took spe-
cial work in bot
any at the Uni
versity of Chi
cago.
She entered the
department i n
1905 and for the
last 80 years was
in charge of the
work of the Dur
Evening star., 1938-10-03
ANACOSTIA BRIDGE
MATERIAL DELAYED
Construction of Pennsylvania
Avenue Span Not Expected to
Start Before Oct. go.

Construction Of the new Pennsyl-
vania avenue bridge across the Ana
costa River probably will not begin
until about October 20, due to another
delay in shipment Of materials.
Off1cials of the Penker Construction
Co., which holds the contract, received
word today shipment Of bridge ma
terial expected to arrive from Duluth,
Mimi, Wednesday, probably will not
be received here until about October
IL. Then it will take several days to
assemble the material.
The new span was to have been
started September 20 under the con-
tract, which calls for completion of the
first section within 425 calendar days
from that date. The downstream half
of the new bridge will be the first
section built.
Congress authorized an initial ap-
preparation of 100000 to begin this
project The ultimate cost will be
about 100000.
Evening star., 1938-10-03

ICy IdUUTHUUTy.
She is member of many scientific
societies, among them the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Iowa Academy of Science,
the American Association of University
Women, Botanical Society of Wash
ington. and is a past president of the
Association of Oficial Seed Analysts
of North America.
Miss Shrine is returning to her home
at Traer, Iowa.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
1888 Traffic Toll 66.

Traffic accidents in the District last
month took four lives, twice as many
as in September Of last year, police
records showed today. However, only
66 persons have been killed in traffic
here 50 far this year, as compared
with ~ 1t the same time last year.
Evening star., 1938-10-03

boating. It is an endless task. accord
ing to Capt. Joseph p. .Guidry, COM
mander Of the Navigation. A great
many people Just win not concern
themselves with their own safety.
Evening star., 1938-10-03
B0TANIST RETIRES
AFTER 33 YEARS
Miss Emma F. Shrine, Employe
Of Agriculture Department, to
Return to Iowa.

Miss Emma F. Shrine, associate
botanist of the Division of Seed In
vestigation, Agriculture Department.,
retired Saturday after 33 years Of