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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
u, S. MOBILIZATION
PLANS PERFECTED

Continued from page one)
four months.
The plan does not contemplate
government operation of the IN
dustrial plants. Military officials
are said to feel that private OPP
Grafton under federal supervisor
is more efficient because there
would be less chance of a break
down in the economic structure
This difficulty arose during the
World war, with disastrous effects
on some supplies. ~.
In addition to what the mobill'
cation plan calls for Assistant sec,
rotary of War Louis Johnson last
night advocated a program thae
would keep six months supply OF
reserve equipment on hand at oil
times. mt,
"That means" he said, "that we
should always have an adequate
supply of guns, anti-tank and anu,
aircraft guns and light and heaVy
artillery, together with all types
of ammunition, long-range guns
gas masks, airplanes and other
equipment necessary to MAINTAIN
AN efficient war. The former com
mander of the American Legion
emphasized that he hoped the
limited States would never have to
utilize its preparedness program
~ bo nointed out that President
Roosevelt had called for steps in
This direction in his recent ma
t;nnaI defense message. He said
that congress also should take cog
nizance of the need for modernlz-
Ing seacoast and harbor defenses,
hasten expansion of the air corps,
and enact the administration bill
to create an organized reserve of
100000 former soldiers.
South Africa's shortage of mine
workers is growing more acute.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
KNOX WILL BE
KEYNOTER FOR
STATES COP.
Forthcoming Address to
Charlotte Gathering An
nounced by Meekins

Colonel Frank Knox, Republican
vice-presidential nominee in 1886,
and publisher of the Chicago Daily
News, will deliver the keynote ad-
dress at the State Republican con-
vention in Charlotte March l6.
This announcement was made
late Saturday by w. c. Meekins,
of Hendersonville, party chairman
of the state, who said the Chicago
publisher had definitely accepted
the invitation to visit Charlotte
for the first time and North Caro-
lima the second time as party
spokesman.
With the acceptance by Colonel
Knox of the state party's invita-
ton, Ernest L. Morgan, Mecklen-
burg county chairman announced
that he had completed his set-up
for handling the convention and
the banquet to be held on the
night of March Is at Hotel Char
lotte, and forecast that at least
5000 Republicans would descend
upon Charlotte for the convention.
1t is probable that Colonel Knox
will be met at the state line and
escorted to Charlotte, Mr.. Meek
ms said, but details Of this plan
had not been worked out because
Colonel Knox accepted the invita-
ton and confirmed. the. date by
telegraph. State Republican Off
Gals expected a letter to follow
telling his route into the state.
After that they will begin to make
plans to welcome him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
JAPANESE VANDALIZE
UNIVERSITY, GIFT TO
CHINESE FROM u. S.

Continued from page one)
fact that the schools dormitories
were not in use.
Stables and kitchens were
erected on the schools fine lawns
and in the botanical garden.
Much equipment disappeared.
According to a reliable witness,
Is per cent was stolen.
The Japanese posted a notice:
ANY members of the commit
tee or provisional governments
ministry of education wishing to
see the chairman must first see
me to explain the purpose of
their business and receive per-
nit. Signed-Col. Mutaguchi."
The notice was placed on the
outside door of the office of the
chairman of the school commit
tee, who still resides in the dor
mitory.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
TOKYO SHUTS OUT
ARMS FARLEY BY ITS
BLUNT REPLY TO u. S,

Continued from page One)
panSion program.
Martin was represented by
Lester p. Barlow, inventor of the
aerial bomb, in a letter to the
committee; as believing that de-
velopment of devastating aerial
attack is imminent and will rem
der battleships practically obso-
lete.
Barlow claimed that Martin has
plans "well along" for a super
bombing plane which can carry
five 2,0O0-pound "mines" about
5000 miles and which would
make this country absolutely I'M
pregnable to naval attack. He
said the mines could destroy any
battleship afloat.
Despite opposition to battleship
building features of the program,
congressional leaders expect to
secure passage of the program by
an overwhelming majority IN the
house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
AUSTRIA UNDER ARMS
TO THWART NAILS

Continued from rage onel
for fear of a major outbreak of
Nazi disorders.
The Syrian peasants, unlike
the peasantry in most other sec
tions of Austria, are ardent pro-
Nazis.
Meanwhile in Vienna, Joseph
Reither, Austrian peasant leader,
announced after a large mass
meeting that 90 per cent of the
country's peasants were "deter-
mined to defend Austrian indie
pendence with our blood"
DO not get the wrong impress
sion from these affairs in Syria"
he said. "Tel 1.-The world that 80
per cent Of all Austrian peasants
are not Nazis and are determined
to support the government by all
means"
Tanks and armored cars rum
bled back and forth along streets
that were gaudily decked with il
leRrl Nazi swatstikas and a scat
tering Of Nazi pamphlets an
nouncing that "the hour to strike
has arrived"
Amplanes circled overhead,
alert for any assemblies of the
Nazis.
Late in the day the bulk of the
Vienna troops were withdrawn
from the streets latter success
fully defending from danger the
marching peasants"
The troops remained on call,
however, awaiting the arrival of
extra police attachments sent
from Vienna. These included
many plain colthes officers of the
"political branch" of the Aus
trian state police.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
Flying Forts End
Spectacular Trip
OF $4,000 Miles
War Dent. Thinks New
Record Made for Planes
Of Their Type

LANGLEY FIELD. Va. Feb.
2S.-tUP)-Six giant L. S. army
flying fortresscS." commanded
by Col. Robert c. Odds on an his
toric good will flight to BuenoS
Aires, completed the last leg OF
their return journey yesterday,
landing at their base here at sos
p. m. (EST).
Flying in formation. the huge
planes circlcd the field slowly,
gliding to a stop 10 hours and 81
minutes after taking off from
France field, Panama, G. Il. Huge
throngS were on hand to greet the
10 filters.
The squadron. which carried q
personal greeting from President
Roosevelt to Argcntine's new
president, Roberto VI. Ortiz, left
Bucnos Aires last Tuesday for the
return flight which was accom-
pllshcd in four easy stages. com
plcting a round trip roughly cStl'
mated at 10000 miles.
Olds, smiling broadly, tolc
intcrVicwcrS that the plane!
came up to all cXpectations-un'
doubtrdly the best flying ma
chimes ever built"
1T was wonderful flight" h'
said, 1--WE were treated marvel
ouSly all along the flight route
The cordiality was tremendous
wherever we stopped.
at was one of the most mar
Vicious experiences that anyone
could ever hope to have"
He praised the morale of the
men as exceptionally high" anc
said the filters "certainly-dcscrS
credit for this feat"
War department officials II
Washington believed that the fl
nal leg Of the flight, covering
2l70 miles at an average speed
of slightly better than 2O4 miles
an hour, established a new record
for military planes of this type.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
P.-T.A. MOVEMENT WAS
BEGUN IN OSKALOOSA

Continued from page one)
later, in 1890.
They gave the orphan the name
PIT. A, and it is now a national
order with more than three mil
lion memberships, and the good
it has done and is doing | shall
not attempt to estimate. .*
z The records of the first meet
ing in the Spencer home are pre-
served in Oskaloosa. The Spencers
afterwards gave 100000 to Penn
college for a chapel where stu
dents assemble for worship, where
concerts and addresses fro n!
noted educators are heard, and
the cause of higher education adj
vanced.
Tall oaks from tiny acorns
grow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
PERSHING'S CONDITION
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
Continued from mage onel

4 [
sanitarium here in the midst of
the Arizona desert still is gravely
in. however. and some persons
doubt that he ever vii lrise from
his Sickbed.
I'm some ways General Per,
shiny seems better Dr.. Davlson's
bulletin read. He has had longer
ncriods of consciousness and we
have been able to obtain a slight
increase in the kidney function,
ing. However, he seems weaker
and his blood pressure Is lower
He continues to have some fever"
DO YOU feel more hopeful
than YOU did," Dawson was
asked,
YES" ne replied.
rs the general able to swaI-
low"
No"
Physicians, who were almost
ready to despair of his life Satur-
dav night, were surprised when
Pershing turned his head on the
pillow Sunday and said, good
morning, Doctor
Yesterday at midday DR.. Ro-
landDavisOn issued this bulletin:
The general has been some
what restless this morning. If
anything. there is 4 slight i'm
provement in the kidney function
which ceased last night. The gen.
eral condition, including the
heart, remains practically I'M
changed.
Late in the day Sunday issued
another bulletin:
AT the present time there is
some discrepancy between the
clinical and laboratory findings.
In the past four hours the gen.
eral appears to have made some
Improvement from clinical
standpoint. However, blood chem
istry studies indicate no change
in the number of metabOlites
which have accumulated in the
blood because of the failure of
kidney function"
The doctor added that pershing
was conscious at intervals"
Pershing, who is II years old,
has a heart strain from strenuous
activity in his old age. Uremic
poisoning has set in. An oxygen
tent is being used internationally.
Pershing has periods of uncon-
seriousness, but when he rallies
from the coma he leaves no doubt
in the minds of those at his bed
side that he knows that he is in
the midst of the hardest fight of
life dedicated to fighting. Up
until Sunday night he was party
to a kindly conspiracy to prevent
his sister, May Pershing from
knowing the serious nature of his
illness.
What l have been telling you"
ne said to friends, "about pain in
my legs for May. The real pain
is right here" AS he said it he
placed his hand over his heart.
Miss PerShing knows now, how
ever, that her brother is suffering
from something far more serious
than pain in the legs.
The fight to save the generals
life goes on in a little cottage on
the grounds Of sanitarium seven
miles from Tucson. Besides Miss
Pershing, members of the family
here are Warren, the Generals
son, and Frank Pershing, a
nephew.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
PENALTIES in u. S.
CROP PROGRAM HIGH

Continued from page one)
scrvation.
Secretary Of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace served notice that pen
alties provided in the act will be
strictly enforced upon farmers
failing to comply with the provi-
sions Of the program, which fol-
lows:
Corn-94, 100000 to 100000
acres are allotted for planting,
compared to the 99,000,000 acres
under cultivation last year. Bene-
ut payments on this will be ten
cents per bushel and the penalty
fol. exceeding the acreage will be
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
DRIVER FOUND DEAD

MORGANTON, Feb. %. (UP).
George F. Cloer, SO, recently
honored for driving a truck 10
years without an accident, was
buried late yesterday. His body
was found beside an overturned
automobile Saturday. The coroner
decided he fell asleep while driv-
ING alone.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
Saluda Game Is
Well Patronized

SALUDA, Feb. %. (SpcciaD-
The basketball game between the
married men and women held here
as chamber of commerce benefit
was a great success. The; women
beat the MEN by aiscore OF 80 to
28.. The entrance fee with the sale
of candy, netted about SIS.
=. The music was furnished by the
Tryon-Saluda school band which
added greatly to the occasion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28

HUGE, shaggy, numbering, buffa'
loeS were roaming over at leaS
one-third of the American CONT
nent when the first white mai
same. Cortez reported seeing one
at Montezuma. Later they were
sighted in what is now the Dis
Tict Of Columbia and in western
illinois.
The greatest herds, however
Numbered over the western plains
So numerous were they that many
Indian tribes believed that the
buffalo issued from the earth con-
fnuously in one inexhaustible
stream. To the Indians the buffalo
meant food, raiment and shelter
The Indians slaughtered buffalo
With bow and arrow. Riding be.
tide the terror-stricken animal
hey would discharge their arrows
At d range of less than 10 feet. II
he arrow did notkill instantly the
attacker then would ride closer
grasp the protruding death-shaft
and drive it into the vitals Of the
animal.
This was the practice for CEN
luries. and then came the pioneers
the opening Of the plains. the rail-
road. Buffalo slaughter went
wholesale. Entire herds were killed
In 1873 the Santa Fee Railroad car
ried $4,000 buffalo robes out OF
Kansas. 1t was estimated 100000
head year were shot. So, before
1900, the kings Of the range were
almost gone.
An Indian hunting buffalo j:
portrayed on stamp of the U. S.
TranS-MiSsiSsippi issue Of 1898.
lCvpyright 1897. NEA Service. Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
BIBLE STUDY CLASS
OPEN TO ANY PERSON

The Tuesday Bible Study class
which meets each week at the
home of Mrs. L. X. Singley, Druid
Hills, at 10 a. m. Tuesday, cor
daily invites any person interest
ed in Bible study to attend. The
lesson for tomorrow will be taken
from the 18th. chapter of Acts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
HOUSE-RAISlNG ENDURES

GREENLAND, N. H.-(UP)-
Harry Hanson is thankful that the
old New England custom of house
raising still exists. Neighbors
helped him build new home IN
five weeks after fire had de-
stroyed the original structure,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
DOWN.EASTERS HARDY

EASTPORT, Me. (uP)-Down-
casters are Evolutionary q hardy
race, but few arc greater expo
nents of rugged indiyidualism than
James Phillips. The other day he
rowed dinghy from Blacks Har-
Dor to PASSPORT, 1G miles. Next
birthday Phillips will be 1903.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28

80 cents per bushcl for the nor
NAL yield for each acre in excess
of allotment.
Cotton-26,4 100000 acres allot-
ted. compared with the "a 100000
acres under cultivation last year.
Benefit payments will be "a cents
per pound on normal production,
if acreage allotments are adhered
to. The penalty will be five cents
per pound on normal production
of each acre in excess of allot-
ment.
Tobacco-l,5 $4,000 acres to L.
$4,000 acres allotted as follows:
fluc-cured, $4,000 to $4,000
acres. Benefits, / cent per pound;
penalties, 5 cents per pound; fire
cured and dairy air-cured, l70,-
600 to 10000 acres, benefits | X
cents per pound. penalties 7h
cents per pound: cigar filler and
binder, $4,000 to 10000 acres,
with benefits Of l cent per pound
and penalties of 10 cents per
pound.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
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~ - Number
8pCc p MrMANAWAY

and family have moved to the COR
ner of Fifth and Buncombe, the
house recently vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Nancy and family.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28

Pleading guilty to mansiaughter
in the butcher-knife Staying of her
father, Dorothy Schaefer, above,
l7-year-old Jersey City, n. j.,
choir singer, threw herself on the
mercy of the court. After hearing
nearly forty witnesses, includ ng
friends, her minister, fellow
church members and even the
dead mans parents, testify for
her, the judge suspended sentence
and paroled her.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28

South Africa's shortage of mine
workers is growing more acute.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Pre-Trial Procedure.

One of the changes effected by the
Supreme Court for the "streamlining"
Of civil procedure in the Federal courts
will be given a demonstration soon in
District Court by order of Justice Oscar
r. Luhring. The improvement in ques-
ton provides for pre-trial discussion
to resolve issues and facts and thus
avoid unnecessary delays when the case
finally comes up for trial.
The case in which the new procedure
will receive its first test here is a COM
plex libel suit involving approximately
1000 exhibits and 100 dispositions. 1t
has been pending since the spring Of
1885. Instead of confronting the court
with this pile Of evidence and forcing
the jury and witnesses to wait long hours
while technical points on admissibility
Of the exhibits are argued by opposing
counsel, the arguments will be made at
the preliminary hearing. When the case
has been stripped down to essentials, it
will go to court in the regular way, with
good prospect Of speedy disposition.
While the specific procedure under
which the pre-trial hearing was ordered
in the libel case was adopted only re-
Gently, somewhat similar methods have
been used for several years in Clarity
ing legal issues prior to trial In the
local courts. The practice has been
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Unfortunate Farmer in
Dire Peril Again.

To the Editor of The Star:
AS the New Deal high priests and
adjusters shatter yesterdays pledge in
favor of tomorrows newest trial-and-
error, the unfortunate farmer is in dire
peril OF being saved again.
It's all part of the Great Plan
1001 Ways to Save the Farmer" by the
Ministers of Agricultural Salvation.
abetted by the New Deal department of
open-handed finance. Each panacea
must be tried in regular order, as its
predecessor f1ops with nothing to show
except more deficit and additional ma
tional headache.
The cost? The taxpayer is supposed
not to mind this. If six years Of the
Deal at work have not calloused him,
his case is beyond hope, or the radius
Of Jay Franklins glib explanations.
In one direction benefit is sure to
result. Further imitation of bureaucracy
necessary to administer this latest spe-
cif1c of wholesale salvation of the farmer
and the lower one-third.
In event of failure the correct answer
Is: Hoover, the royalists and the selfish
few planned it prior to 1882. For when
the issue is distribution of blame to
alibi its endless fumbles the New Deal
Is still living back in the pre-Hoover-
panic era.
One vision is sure to emerge from
the melee with its rich growth of goat
furze unimpaired-the war-torn coun-
tenance of the Wctimized taxpayer.
October Is. WALTER BAHNsEN.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Unmodern williamsburg.

Frank Lloyd Wright is man Of
courage. His long career as an archi-
tect provides ample proof Of that state
ment. His courage in venturing be-
yond traditional bounds in designing
Office buildings and homes has won him
the deserved title Of father Of modern
architecture"
1t took courage Of the Frank Lloyd
Wright type to do what Americas ar
chitectural dean did in proud old Will
liamsburg. Va, when invited to speak at
historic William and Mary College. Mr..
Wright carried his daring almost to the
point of sacrilege, in the view Of the
good citizens of the Rockefeller-restored
colonial capital Of Virginia. He cast an
appraising eye upon the columned por-
ticos, massive chimneys and rambling
lean-tos of ''the restoration" and shud-
dered at what he saw The Governors
palace, the House of Burgesses, the fine
old homes so faithfully reproduced by
Mr.. Rockefellers unmodern architects
left Mr.. Wright cold, just as Washingtons
Federal buildings grated on his sensibili-
ties.
1T all shows how little we need this
type of architecture now," said Mr..
Wright to a shocked audience. Il have
long ceased to take of my hat to our
forefathers, seeing what mess they
left U.S."
Mr.. Wright is going to leave his de-
scendants something different-build-
ings of concrete and curved glass and
steel. Life magazine is sponsoring one
of Mr.. Wright's latest modernistic crea-
tions, home featuring combination
living and recreation room; with SWIM
ming pool at the front door. Incidental
ly, in a poll just held. Lifes readers
voted fifty-six per cent strong in favor
of the messy traditional type of home
as against Mr. Wrights enlightened de-
sign with all its angles and arcs and
tangents. At Williamsburg the reaction
has been similar, only more so. An
English professor responded that Will
liamburg's architecture is "just as genu-
inc and cultural" as Mr.. Wright's,
restoration official quipped that gentle
men who prefer Mr.. Wnghts glass
houses should not throw stones, and
campus coed announced mo concrete
block love nest for mel"
1t is fortunte that staid old Williams
burg has a sense of humor. Mr.. Wright
has such sense-and, one suspects, a
sense of publicity values as we'll. Mr..
Wright's disparaging remarks will do
Williamsburg no permanent harm and
they no doubt will do his architectural
business some good. And who knows
but that some time in the distant future
other experts will gaze pityingly upon
restoration Of Mr.. Wrights modern"
creations and murmur. What mess he
left us"
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Information Needed.

Although there may be reason for dis
counting a portion of the reports, fire.
quent stories of plants closing and
employees losing their jobs because of
the standards imposed by the new wage
and hour law assuredly present chal-
lenge to administrators of the statute.
The primary objectives of the law
were to improve working conditions for
many who have toiled long hours at
small pay, and to create new job oppor-
tunities by the resultant spreading of
work. Certainly it was not foreseen or
intended that the standards set by the
law should force a decrease in jobs or
in industrial activity.
AS such legislative efforts must be,
however. this one was experimental and
surrounded only by theories and esti-
mates as to what actually would re-
suit. Since Monday morning, theory is
being replaced by fact.
In analyzing such fact, of course, it is
first essential that the picture be COM
plete and be accurate. To this end 1t
would seem that those administering
this law should make careful effort to
assemble statistical material and other
pertinent information on both increases
and decreases in employment. From
such information alone may there be de-
rived a worth while measure of the value
of the law and whatever shortcomings it
may contain.