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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30
Death TAKES
REV.W.R.OVEN
Former Asheville Pastor
Passes After Illness in
Maryland Hospital

ASHEvILLE, Mar. 80. - pr.
William Russell Owen, Wloely
known Baptist leader who was
pastor of the First Baptist church
here for two and a half years,
died Yesterday in hospital at
Towson, Md; after long Illness
Born at Portsmouth, Va, lo!9'
DR.. Owen was constructive
church leader and had engaged IN
religious work with the 2Sth al,
vision in France during the World
war. with the Y.M.C.A. For three
years beginning 1920 ne was
president of the Georgia b. I ~
DR.. Owen suffered a heart at
tack in July, 1892, while ne was
pastor of the church here. he
was advised to take complete
rest and rendered his resignation
the following September, giving
up his official duties in OCTOBER.
The minister did not regain his
health. For the past four years.
he has been in hospitals IN Mary
land. His widow, who makes her
home in Asheville, had been with
him for the past six months ana
was at his bedside when ne dled.
DR.. Owen will be buried in Ma
con, Ga, where he served as pas,
tor for seven years. The. funeral
services will be held at First Bap-
list church there at 4 o'clock FIJI
day afternoon. .-...,'
The Baptist minister came to
the pastorate of First Baptist here
on March /, 1880, from Column
bus, Ga, to take the place left
vacant by the Rev. r. j. Bateman
who had been called to Tulsa,
Okla. The new First Baptist
church had been completed at the
time and the congregation was
facing a debt problem, entailed by
the construction of the cdificc in
boom period. During Dr.. Ow-
ems pastOrate, the debt was sub
stantially reduced and 365 new
members were added to the
church. DR.. Owen was one of the
leaders of successful fight
against the Equalization of horse
racing in North Carolina.
He was educated at the Uni
verSity of Richmond, and at Coz
icr Theological seminary taking
his degree at the latter institution
in 1904. His pastorateS took HIM
to several of the leading churches
of his denomination. From 1904
to 1909 he was pastor of the
Huntington church, Baltimore.
During the next five years nc was
pastor. of the Capitol avenue
church. Atlanta, and for the next
three he served as pastor of Ham
son Place church, Brooklyn. From
1917 to 1919, except during the
time he served in the war, he was
pastor of Memorial Baptist
church, Philadelphia. His longest
pastorate was. at the First Baptist
church of Macon, Ga, where he
served seven. years, beginning in
1920. In 1927 he became pastor
of. University church, Coral Ga
blcS, Fla. 81.
DR.. Owen was the author of
several books, including: "1f the
Child We're Not Born" published
in 1906; "Thc Wise Mans Camel
published 1921; "The Song at
Sunrise" 1923; "Fair Play, Pro
fessor," 1925, and "Lovc Letters
of an Athlete" in 1926. He was
once a speaker and lecturer in the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30
T. E. Russell, SO,
IsGiven Burial

EuneraI 1scrvicesN Nor T. E. Rus
sell, So, farmer, who died at his
home in Greenville county yester-
day morning, at ll:l5 o,clock'
were held this morning at Noun
tain Paige cemetery with the Kew
Arnold Edncy officiating. =,
He was a son of Mitchell RuSseli
and Mrs. Hossic Beddingfield Rus-
sell, the latten of this county.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30
SINO-JAP ERROR

SAN FRANCISCO. UP). -
Warren Brauer entered the Eagle
Cafe hcrr and ordered Chinese
noodles. The Eagle cafe is a Jap
ancSe establishment. American in
tervcntiOn was. necessary before
Brauer was finally rescued with
cuts and bruises above the eyes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30
FIVE VOCATIONAL
CLASSES WILL OPEN
THURSDAY EVENING

Continues from mage one)
or any othsf. business topic in
which a need for instruction Is
felt. -
PRIMARILY, the purpose of oil
these classes is improved, sales
manship and they will run for a
period of ten weeks at this time,
closing during the SUNNI CT
months.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30
MINERS ENTOMBED

JOHANNESBURG, South Afri,
ca, March 2G.-UP)-A rockfall
in the Grown Gold mine as a re-,
suit of an earth tremor trapped
scores of miners Friday. Or the
62 who were rescued 81 were ma,
tivcs and five Europeans. Several
miners were believed still entomb-
ed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-30

The. canned orange juice pack
ed in California in the Last year
was 4.0OO,C00 gallons.
The Washington times., 1938-04-02
RESPECTFUL CHILD

That was how Lucia came tt
Addy's house. She slept in Katie:
old bed ate at Katie's place
at the table. She was a respectful
little girl with sturdy legs anc
eyes that were afraid she was ir
the way.
Grant and Katie toured in
Grants car around New England
and Canada. One night, Katie
phoned her mother from Mon
treal.
It's all right, mother. I've de
c1ded to make the best of things. -
"Everything's going fine here
too, Katie. You know what your
old mother is going to do? Adopt
a little grill"
The wires seemed to hum with
establishment.
AT your age, mother, why take
on such a burden. Who"
Lucia" said Addy triumphant
ly. She hadn't meant to say such
a thing, hadn't even been con
Scious Of her intention until that
moment when her eye fell on the
round table. Soon she would set
it for breakfast, so that Lucia
could eat promptly at 8 and gel
to school on time.
"Lucia!" There was relief In
Katie's voice.
eyes," said Addy. "Good-by, my
dear"
The wires sighed family. Some
thing trickled down Addy'S cheeks
warm tears thawing the hard
icy lump in her breast.
THE END,
The Washington times., 1938-04-02
France Acts to Cut
Prices for Tourists

PARIS, April 2 Q.N.S).-Ever
with an eye to the travel trade,
the French Parliament will soon
consider a bill providing for a
tourist card" which will offer
considerable reductions in prices
to visitors.
Tourists remaining in France
from six days to two months will
be eligible for the cards which will
cost about Is or 80 francs and will
enable them to obtain a reduction
of 40 per cent on the French
railways and a reduction of six
centime a litre on gasoline up to
six hundred litreS.
The Washington times., 1938-04-02
Mother Out Of Work
By HARRIET CAIN

u VERY Addy the table for the evening meal her
~ heart recoed remembering the time when there
always six plates six chairs drawn up eagerly. Will and
herself and the four children, Judy Mack Arnold and Katie
The Washington times., 1938-04-02

Send 10 cents in stamps coin con preferred for this
pattern to Washington Times Needecraft Department so
Eighth Ave, New York, N. Y. Write plainly PATTERN
NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS.
The Washington times., 1938-04-02

I suppose 1 should have told her
I'd been married before. I married
a widow of 30 when I was only %.
She had a little girl who's 10 now.
We'd been married only two years
when my wife had baby. They
both died. The little girl, Lucia,
went to her mothers to live. The
grandmother died and now Lucia
has nowhere to go except to me.
When I told Katie, she went up in
the air, said I had owed it to her
to tell her about my first marriage.
She was right {. . but I was afraid
she'd never marry me if I con-
feSsed what a fool I'd BEEN"
sit down. Calm down." Addy
urged. Katie will come around.
She's hurt and confused by your
having lied to her. :"
Katie walked in stalked on
to her room when she saw who was
there.
Il have a splitting headache.
I'm sorry, Grant, I can't discuss
anything with you now"
Katie :"
ADDY ELATED
Elation darted through Addy's
heart. A breakup. Maybe Grant
would go away, there would be
a divorce and Katie would come
home to her mother every night
Mother" Grant was pleading
with her, will you reason with
her? Make her see my side of it.
Addy thought: why should I?
What is there in it but loneliness
for me if I get her to go back to
him?"
But the next morning, Addy
saw the face of the sullen, bitter
young woman that Katie would
turn into if she divorced Grant.
You're acting like a spoiled
baby" Addy taunted.
Katie flushed. Because I love
him so much, I can't bear to think
he was dishonest with me. And
there's this child, a constant re.
mlnder of his other marriage"
Take your vacation now, Katie
with Grant. Go away with him for
week or two and get a new per.
spective on it. I'll board the child
until you get back"
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
FARM GROUP ORGANIZE
FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

125 Smyrna, Clayton, Kenton,
Brenford, Cheswold, Leipsic and
Woodland Beach farmers met
at the home of George N. Short
near Smyrna on Tuesday night
and organized a local branch of
the Rural Electrifcation Associa-
ton. These farmers are eager to
take advantage of the r. E. A. to
have their homes wired for cleo
trio lights and power. The REA
will run a pole line on any road
where a group of farmers live, in
cluding his lane, if he has one, for
a distance of 500 feet of the way.
The rest will cost the farmer II
cents a foot. One group assem-
bled has arranged to have a pole
line from Clarkie's Garage to Gar
rison's Millpond. Another group
from Smyrna to Woodland Beach;
another from Clarkie's Garage to
Leipsic; the Raymond Neck road
from Bowdle's to the White Hall
Neck district. Another from the
Boulevard to Brenford, by Seven
Hickories on to Long Wood; the
Three Bridges Road to Woodland
Beach Road and the road from
Garrison's Mill on across the Rail-
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24

road. The tenants represented in
the above groups hope to have the
cooperation of the landlord to get
this up-to-date service. Electrifi-
cation in this day is growing
need for the farmers, benefitting
not only the tenant but the land
lord as well. The time is fast
coming when the tenant will seek
those farms wired for electricity.
The local farmers at the meet
ing were given assurance that if
they sign up now and get their
papers thru to Washington, ser
vice will be installed on all the
roads above mentioned within six
months. The Smyrna group or
ganized by electing George N.
Short president, and Mrs. Gilbert
Garrison, secretary and treasurer
The following committee was nam
ed to assist the officers: George M.
Blendt, William George, Howard
c. Deakyne, of Smyrna, and Stan
ley Shorts of Cheswold. The rep
resentatives of the National REA
who met with the local group were
r. D. Marsh, field organizer; Mrs.
Bodine and Mr.. Pritckett, all from
Washington, d. G.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
SMYRNA 10Th
CENTURY CLUB
DIR. Bishop of Dover, Gives
Instructive Talk on Ma
tional Defense
PROGRAM TOMORROW

In keeping with National De
fense Week" there was an appro-
pirate and interesting program
given at the meeting on Friday of
the Twentieth Century Club. AZ
ter the business routine, the presi-
dent introduced DR.. Bishop of Do
yer who gave two talks, one on
National Defense" and the other
Building Citizenship for the Fsu-
ture." Then followed a dramatiza-
tion of the Club Collect in charge
of Mrs. Glenn King, Mrs. ]. M.
Minturn and Mrs. Medford Sparks.
Mrs. Theodore Hynson led the club
in singing from the new song book
Sing" There was a very de-
lightful card party In the evening
in charge of Mrs. w. c. Deakyne,
Mrs. Grover King and Mrs. George
Wright. On Friday next there will
be the usual business session fol-
lowed by a social hour in charge
of Mrs. Grover King, Mrs. Glenn
iKng, Mrs. George Wright and
Mrs. Edwin Wilson. Amy one wish
ing transportation for the reci-
procity meeting at the Round
Table Club, Wyoming, on March 4,
please notify Mrs. Joseph w. En-
mis-.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
IA INDICTED BY
GRAND JURY
One Manslaughter and Sever
al Larceny and Liquor
Cases Listed
WORTHLESS CHECK CASE

Of the Is bills presented to the
Kent County grand jury Monday,
ii were returned as indictments to
the February term of Kent Coun-
taken in the case Of the State
against Howard Aderson on a
larceny charge. Judge WV .Har-
rington presided at the court ses-
sion. Following are the indict
ments: Viola Dean, two indict-
ments, charged with selling liquor
without a license, pleaded guilty,
and asked for parole. Case to be
considered later. Marvin Dean,
two indictments, charged with sell
ing liquor without license. Plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to
three months in jail. John E.
Buckson, two indictments, charged
with selling liquor without lie
ense. Sentenced to three months
in jail after pleading guilty. Susie
Thomas, two indictments, charged
with selling liquor without a lie
ense, pleaded guilty but sentence
deferred. Roy Cahall, charged
with selling liquor without license.
Warrant for arrest issued when he
failed to appear. Bertha Carney,
Negro, charged with selling liquor
without license, pleaded not guilty
ty Arthur Bowman, charged with
larceny. Not in court but was
by counsel. No plea
taken. Louis Woodruff, Marion
Lowman, Lynn Jolly, two indict-
charged with robbery.
Woodruff and Lowman pleaded
guilty but sentence deferred. Jolly
has not been apprehended. Joseph
B. Gibbs, Negro, charged with
Fisher Reed was
sentenced to one month after
pleading guilty to the theft of two
bushels of wheat during the court
session. The case of David A.
Greenley, Robert E. Courtney,
James Kibler, Eugene ]. Mills,
James Mills, and Francis Morgan,
who pleaded guilty to larceny of
iron from a Milford dealer. was
continued to June 4. The case of
Lee Austin, who pleaded guilty to
issuing a worthless check, was
continued to March 5. The case
OF 8. J. Whayland, pleading guilty
to q charge Of obtaining bags I'M
der false pretenses. was continued
to March s.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
NOTE BIRTHDAY
OF WASHINGTON
Radio Club Presents Program
at John BaSSett Moore
High School
OTHER SCHOOL NOTES

In celebration of Washington s
birthday, the Junior Radio Club
presented a short skit entitled
Valley Forge" which depicted the
hardships of Washington and our
army during the war On Wednes-
day, March 2, the Junior Radio
Club makes another appearance
over WDEL in a play by Miss
Breme, entitled Before the Can
non Roars" The play deals with
a group of girls in sorority house
who, influenced by the death of
one club father in the war zone,
decide to carry on boycott
against goods brought in to Amer
lea from warning nations. Betty
Phillips is the sorority sister who
sings the march which the girls
use as a theme song; Wilma
Bleudt is the sister whose father
is killed in battle; Margaret Cross
ley is the sorority president; Ro-
berta Draper is the blase mem
ber; Janet Keith portrays the So
cial butterfly; Marietta West is
the plump one; and Mary Pryor is
the mouth piece for all their plans.
In addition there are two silk mill
workers, played by Vivian Blendt
and Mary Ellen Jones, and de-
partment store clerk, played by
Gladys Austin. The only man in
the cast is Armstrong Hamilton,
who is the news commentator. The
program goes over the air at six
forty-five, and the Radio Club
hopes II who are interested will
listen in, for this program, they
feel, is the most dramatic and
tense that they have yet tried.
9th Grade Social Science Work
The ninth grade social science
projects for the present week are
beginning to show signs of real
concentration and work. In the
groups, four in each of the two
Continued on PAGE Five1
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Rev. L. w. Layfield, Oldest Minis
ter in Nj. K. Conference, Passes

The Rev. Levin w. Layfeld, 80
years old, the oldest minister in
the Wilmington M. E. Conference,
died suddenly Wednesday morning
at the home of his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. John W.
Todd, (nee Miss Blanch Lay
field) in Wilmington, of a compli-
cation of diseases. Mr.. Layfeld
retired in March, 1924, while at
the Delaware City charge after SO
years of service in the conference.
He continued, however, to serve as
supply pastor and as a speaker at
church functions. He was a for
mer pastor of Smyrna Circuit, his
children going to school here. Mr..
Layfield began his ministry as a
local preacher, assistant to the
late DR.. T. E. Martindale, pastor
of the Snow Hill circuit, in 1870
In 1871 he was admitted to the
conference and, along with DR..
was assigned to the
Princess Anne charge. In 1872
Mr.. Layfield served the Claymont
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
RAT MARKET IN
GRADUAL RISE
Price SIPS in Comparison to
65 Cents Earlier in
the Season
ONLY FEW WEEKS MORE

The 1937-1938 muskrat trapping
season in this vicinity, Leipsic,
Woodland Beach, Taylor's Bridge
to Delaware City, is now nearing
ats close and local trappers are
comparing the season with for
mer years. The price for the run
Of hides" during the past week
was SIPS. Black hides, if sold
separately, are bringing at least
x1.5O. On the other hand all
brown furs do not bring more
than dollar so the ordinary trap
per sells his catch IN a bunch, ac-
cepting the medium or run OF
hides" price for his entire catch.
The present price is In contrast to
50 cents paid at the opening of the
season. Since the first Of Janu-
ary there has been a gradual rise
IN price until the peak Of s1.25
vas reached several weeks ago. It
is not expected that there will be
much. If any, increase above the
present price. The season only
has about another month to run.
On the tidewater marshes the sea-
son will end on March Is and on
the inland or embarked meadows
It will be extended five days.
Catches this year have been about
average.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
DIR. TARUMIANZ
BEFORE ROTARY
Discusses His Work at State
Hospital for Mental Dis
eases, Near Wilmington
STRESS PREVENTATIVES

In one of the most instructive
and interesting meetings of the
year DR.. Tarumianz, head of the
State Hospital at Farnhurst, told
about the work being done and the
great handicap under which the
staff was laboring because of lack
of the proper facilities. In his in
troductory remarks the speaker
set forth his philosophy for the es-
tablishment of any state institu-
tion-"If the state assumes re-
sponsibility for anything, it should
be fit for any class of people. If
any organization cannot be formed
to fit all classes, none should ex-
ist." DR.. Tarumianz set forth the
aims of the Board of Trustees of
the institution as follows: First
to protect society as whole; sec
ond, to care for and to treat pa
tients; third, to employ preventive
measures. The speaker stated
that too little attention was given
at the present time to preventive
measures. In the actual operation
of the institution he spoke of the
different types of treatment which
were provided. In the Observation
Clinic, where there are forty beds,
persons sent there are studied and
treated for a period of four weeks.
70 per cent of the expenses of this
are cared for by the
patients themselves. There are
better laws in Delaware for COM
mitment than in any state in the
union. 1t is not necessary to go
through all the red tape found in
other states to commit a person to
this institution The institution
takes care also of the psychotic,
or the insane, and il the treatment
of these cases an attempt is made
first to discover whether there aie
any physical deviations that might
account for the mental disturbance
es, and then there is continuous
treatment of the cases that might
be termed hopeful, in which a cure
may be looked for. The chronic
cases, the hopeless types, number
about $50 in all. DR.. Tarumianz
his opposition to any at
tempts made to eliminate the
mentally i'll. He said
that he wished to have no part in
the murder of innocent victims
In his concluding remarks he again
the Importance of pre-
ventive measures, and suggested
that each county might be divided
into clinical areas where every
normal child might be studied to
discover what is inherent in each,
and against what parents should
fight, to the end that these normal
children might be provided with
forces and means to enable them
to face realities and to ratlonalize
the situation which they face.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
KENT FIREMEN
AT HARRINGTON
Note With Sorrow the Pass
ing of Gordon Turner of
Smyrna
200 IN ATTENDANCE

Kent County Firemen's Associa-
ton at Harrington last week, the
regular monthly meeting of the
group, made note of the sudden
and tragic death of Gordon Turner
and ordered the secretary of their
association to send a card of con-
dolence to the family. Turner, an
active member of the Smyrna Fire
Company was held in high esteem
by firemen all over the county and
state. Other business transacted
was the tabooing of magazine COM
panie.s and other organizations
who send representatives into a
community and after securing the
sanction of the local fire depart
ment, secure donations or SUBJ
scriptions to magazines on their
story that the sponsoring fire COM
pany shares in the profits. The
enjoyable feature of the Harring-
ton meet was the fine banquet put
on by the Ladies Auxiliary. Mayor
Rash of Harrington, town officials
and state senators and representa-
tives and firemen from all parts of
Kent County, including Smyrna,
participated. The company num-
bered nearly 200 Brinton Hollo-
way president of the Harrington
company presided at the dinner.
The Rev. G. E. Turner offered the
invocation Brief remarks were
made by Mayor Rash, who well
coined the visitors. Former State
Senator Wilbur E. Jacobs; state
Senator Earl Sylvester; Nathaniel
Minner, member of Levy Court;
former State Treasurer, Warren T.
Moore; Prof. j. c. Messner, super
of the local school; Le-
Roy Truitt, president of the Sus-
sex County Association; former
Chief Fred A. Grier of the Sails
bury, Md, fire department, and
Miss Elizabeth Scheer, local and
county prize winner in the Fire
Prevention essay, were guests.
Miss Scheer read her essay; Mrs.
Jean Greenlee played several piano
selections assisted by G. Douglas
Mills as song leader. The ladies'
night committee announced their
entertainment would be held in
Smyrna on March II.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
FUSE FACTORY
COMING HERE
Samuel Jackson, New Jersey,
to Bring Industry to Employ
25 or More, Mostly Men
COUNCIL CLOSING DEAL

Through the efforts of Town
Council, Smyrna is to have an
other industry locate here. Hardly
had they completed a deal with
the Berry Brothers of Phoenixville,
Pa, for a hosiery plant here, than
the door Of opportunity was open
ed to get a Fuse and Flare manu-
factory here. Samuel Jackson of
New Jersey, met with Town Coun-
ell Friday night and made a prop
osition to bring his factory to
Smyrna. He wants to locate a
small plant here with f1attering
possibilities, that will employ men,
heads of families. His business is
the manufacturing of fuses and
flares for railroads, airports and
trucks. He was SO taken up with
Smyrna he made an offer to Coun-
Gil that he expects to locate here
as soon as he can find a building.
His factory will employ 25 or 80 at
the start, mostly men, increasing
as his business expands. The fact
he employs men, some heads of
families no doubt, will mean that
such families having girls will in
all probability, seek employment
in Thornley's underwear factory
and the coming new hosiery mill
Of Berry Brothers. All of this
looks encouraging for Smyrna, es-
pecially to our stores and business
places. The proposition looks good
and if it succeeds it may grow into
a large industry.
Smyrna times., 1938-02-24
SMYRNA w. F. M. S. MEETING
Held Monday Evening at the Home
of Mrs. Harry w. Sherwood

The Women's Foreign Mission
ary Society met at the home of
Mrs. Harry W. Sherwoo Monday
evening at 7.3O o'clock. The pres
ident, Mrs. L. M. Price, had charge
of the meeting Mrs. ]. w. CoIona
conducted the devotional exercises,
she also had charge of the pro
gram for the evening. IL mem
bers were present. Four new mem
bers, as follows: Mrs. CIV .Thomp-
son, Mrs. r. A. Thompson, Mrs.
Mary Jefferson, and Mrs. Theodore
Ferguson. Mrs. Colona's scripture
reference for the evening was
Desert Life Down in Egypt, :"
which was very interesting. Ques-
tions were asked by Mrs. Colona
and answered by the members.
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