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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
S.C.CAPlTAL
INVEST ENT
IN BIG RISE
State Official Shows Gain
of AZ Millions During
Past Year

| COLUMBIA, S. c.. March g
, (UP)-Capital invested in South
Carolina industries now totals
S378,53G,953, a gain of SAP. $685.
| 262 over the previous year, it was
shown in report to the state leg
islaturc by Commissioner Of La
Dor John W. Bates.
Total value of annual products
was listed at 422,267,92 a gain
of $l06,9O6,OOO for the year,
Other increases were noted IN
employment, which gained 22,876
to 1872, 1913. and wages paid them,
which tot, led SOB, 026,GO2.
Greatest increase was noted IN
the lumber industry, with gain
in the value of products from
Sll,O73.45O to $l7,7S7.795.
Growth of the textile industry
since the Civil war was termed
enormous" by the report, which
said that at that time there were
but ~ mills and 34,H4O splndles
in the state, consuming 1851
bales of cotton.
Today the state has 233 mills
with 5,825.95S spindles which con-
sumed l,500,196 bales of cotton
during the last fiscal year.
According to cotton production
figures in South Carolina for 1886.
the textile mills consumed 648.l96
more bales Of cotton than was pro-
duccd in the state.
The report said that for the first
time the Standards and Statistics
division was able to report the
amount of cloth produced by the
states l43,324 looms.
"Thesc looms were in operation
PSF days at an average of II
hours per day" the report said
"They prod uce d GSO,257.179
pounds of cloth, OF 3258,61l,339
yards.
In addition to the yarn used in
the manufacture of cloth, there
was a total warn production of
34,272,024 pounds, and 4,9l4, 10S
pounds of wrapping tWlne.
The mill village population to-
tailed 1869 persons. an increase
of 1916 over the previous year.
Out of the 235 mills in the state,
only 81. operated more than 40
hours per week, and all except II
had minimum wage scale of
$3.50 for a 40-hour week, the
report said.
Bates told the Legislature that
the child labor law, passed by the
general assembly last session, had
eliminated child labor in all manu-
featuring establishments in the
state.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
INSURGENTS DAMAGE
STATION ON BORDER

HENDAYE, Franco Spanish
Frontier, Mar. 9.-(UP)-While
the Spanish war zones were quiet
yesterday five rebel planes bomb
cd Portbou in northeast Spain be-
fore dawn, damaging the interna-
tional border station.
The French destroyer La Pour
suivante stationed at Port Ven
dres exchanged shots with an un-
identified Spanish warship en-
countered in a fog in French wat
ers. Two French sailors were in
jured.
1t was reported by Lloyd'S in
London that the British tanker
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
BTU. WILL MEET
EARLIER TONIGHT

announcement was made this
morning that the nightly Btu.
study course being held at the
First Baptist church will be con-
vcncd this evening at 7 O'Clock
instead of at 7:l5 o'clock. The
rcgula rmid-wecd prayer service
will open at 1890 p. m. and con-
tinuc for only Il half hour, when
Rev. b. l.. Wall will discuss
"Hcavcnly Vision" After that
the BTU. session will be COM
plcted for the night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

tary necessity. If Il war blockade
should stop Alaska shipping for
one month, Alaskans would face
virtual starvation unless they had
food resources within the terri
tory:
Dr.. Colvin recently returned
from six months Of activity III the
colonization project.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
CITY WANTS PIED PIPER

TWIN FALLS, Ida. (UPl-
This city is looking for Pied
Piper who operates in the rat line
An official survey places the
number of rats in the Rock creek
area here at $4,000 to 100000.
They are declared to be d poten-
tial menace to the city.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
SEEK NATIVE PERFUMES

PASADENA. Cal. CUPl-ThS
board Of supervisors proposes to
cxpend $56,8O0 Of WPh funds
for the establishment of an eX-
detrimental station that will de-
terminc whether the oils of Coli
fornia flowers will justify the
launching of perfume industry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
DR.. WINWIDDIE'S
FUNERAL ATTENDED

Among those attending the fu-
neral services for DR.. d. +. DIM
widdic at Black Mountain on
Tuesday we're DR.. and Mrs. }. K.
Whitley, William .Iustus. Miss
Eula Brown, Mrs. Paul English,
Mrs. Irma Allen and Mrs. James
Hayes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
SAILORS IN SCHOOL

CLEVELAND. (UP)-"Sailing
before the mast" no longer is an
adventure for youth. It's an edu-
cation. The Lake Carriers associa-
tons navigation school conducted
during the winter in Cleveland
had So students enrolled. Twenty
had had at least some college edu-
cation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
GIRLS STUDY CARPENTRY

TACOMA, \. II. lUP)-ChaS.
Lord. manual arts instructor al
Laconia high school, has started
Il special class in carpentry, and
all Is members are girls.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

Maryad WAS slightly damaged by
an aeria! torpedo Sunday night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

SWEDISH scientist, philosopher
- and mystic, Emanuel Sweden
borg is honored this year on the
250th anniversary of his birth
1888. And looking back across
those centuries. history finds him
apioneer even ahead Of the pio-
aeerS.
1t was not until the end OF tire
18th century that SWedenborg'S
voluminouS writings were proper
ly collected. Then it was seen
how far ahead of his time this
scholar was. His work on paleon-
tology showed him a pioneer in
this field; he had arrived at the
nebular hypothesis theory of the
formation of the planets and the
sun long before Kant and Laplace;
he wrote lucid account of molec-
ular magnetic theory. He was the
first to employ mercury for the air
pump and he devised a method of
determining longitude at sea by
observations of the moon among
the stars.
Swedenborg showed $50 years
before any other scientist that the
motion of the brain was synchro-
nous with the respiration and not
with the action and the circula-
ton of the blood. He even antici-
pated modern research on the
function of the ductless glands
And in his later life he produced
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

many works or
theology. So, the
world honol'S him
on this 250th
anniversary an d
Sweden by a sci
of three stamps,
one of which is
shown here.
AWINk A. .
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

scssstisAt isas. Ma Service. Iac-)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17

tight so they are not more than
rs inch wide. The center of each
strip is marked as shown here at
A and the ends are then sewn
around and around, working to-
ward the center as at B. The
pairs of scrolls are sewn together
and also to the edge of the rug as
indicated here at the lower right.
This kind of rug has infinite pos
sibilities for color schemes. One
seen had a blue center, a band
of mixed color and then wide
band of red. The pairs of scrolls
alternated red and blue.
Full instructions for making the
chair seat covers shown in this
sketch are in the book offered
herewith.
Every homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears new book
SEWING. Forty-eight pages Of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
curtains for every type of room;
lampshades, rugs, ottomans and
other useful articles for the home.
Readers wishing a copy should
send name and address, enclosing
Is cents (coins preferred) to Mrs.
Spears. 210 South Desplaines ST..
Chicago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17

AN OLD house sitting in the
"A midst of old fields against
background of piney woods not so
far from where the Pilgrims land
ed. The present occupant is just
as interested in handwork and just
as thrifty as all of her New Eng
land ancestors who have preceded
her there. She still makes braided
rag rugs from discarded gar
ments and they harmonic per-
fectly with her lovely old furni-
ture. One that she showed me
was different than any had ever
seen. Here are all the dimensions
and method of making it in case
it is new to you, too, and you
would like to make one like it.
The center oval part is 80 inches
long and Is inches wide with
6-inch scroll border all around.
The scrolls are made in pairs
from braided strips ga yards
long. These strips are braided
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17

penn by throwing tremendous and
unexpected support to the league
and being elected to the first Jersey
City commission.
He was named commissioner of
public safety, a tailor-made situa-
ton for the smart politician. Hague,
as head of the police and fire de-
partments, acquired foundation on
which to build his personal political
organization. To his credit, he trans
formed Jersey City's police from
corrupt lot of deadwood into an or
ganization of clear-headed, purpose
full young men. Whether his aim
was sincere is beside the point; the
new police and fire departments
awakened civic pride, and all hands
pointed at Frank Hague as the man
who had accomplished it.
Eventually he was elected mayor
and the Hague star assembled rapid
ly. Next step in cementing his po-
litical foundation was the Jersey
City medical center. Behind this
splendid nine-building institution is
a story of the mayors babyhood, of
the days when he was so weak and
delicate that his mother took him
each day to st. Francis hospital.
There she received sympathy-the
future politicians life was saved.
Hague never forgot the stories his
mother told him of those daily trips.
Today's medical center has been a
lifelong ambition, humanitarian
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Eskimo Now Wants
Steel and Sweater

Washington.-Back from the far
Canadian Arctic again, the mission
ary-botanist Pere Artheme Dutilly
is sorting specimens in the labora-
tories of the Catholic university of
America. He has brought 1000
sheets of pressed plants, 1000 in
sects, several scores of soil and
mineral samples, and large num-
Der of old-time weapons and tools
of the Eskimos.
The Eskimo people, Pere Dutilly
reports, are changing fast, abandon
ing and even making fun of the fine
ly wrought ivory harpoons, bone
needles, etc., they formerly used,
and substituting steel and other
metals wherever they can.
In their clothing as well the Eski-
mos are rapidly becoming western
lied" Older members of the family
may still stick to the traditional
fur parka, but the younger genera
ton must have sweaters and even
rubber-soled sneakers, at least for
summer wear. Even in five years
the amount of change has been not
able, among the Eskimos near trad
ing posts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17

institution which nevertheless reeks
of politics.
Let the Mayor Pay!
Any resident of Jersey City may
enter this 2,000-bed hospital and re-
ceive the benefit of every medical
treatment known to modern science.
Providing, of course, that the pa
tient says he is poor. But rich and
poor take advantage of this unique
enterprise which costs taxpayers
about 100000 a year. Of 108 dis
charged patients investigated re-
Gently, 80 were said to have been
treated at public expense when they
were able to pay for disqualification.
"Have your baby on the mayor"
is popular advice to expectant moth
ers since the Margaret Hague ma
ternity hospital was opened. Yes,
and have your tonsils out, or take
a rest cure. But don't forget how
to vote next time an election rolls
around!
Elections are an important event,
too. Every hour all the votes cast
in each district are telephoned to
Hague, who compares returns with
a table showing hourly votes in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Sunspots Affect
Life on the Earth

New York.-Did you know that
the best vintage wines are from
crops that grow in those years when
sunspots are at maximum? And
that trees show their greatest
growth in periods when the surface
of the sun shows the greatest num-
Der of spots? Or that the Dow
Jones stock market averages follow
curve which is very similar to
curves based on sunspot numbers?
These are only a few of the many
remarkable, but unexplained CO.
medicines between the activities of
plant and animal life on earth and
the appearance of those gigantic
electromagnetic disturbances on
the sun which man calls sunspots.
More and more scientists, and 9TH
ers, are probing sunspots and seek
ing to learn the relationship between
their appearance and the multitude
nous activities of earth-bound man.
In his newest book, "Sunspots and
Their Effect from the Human
Point of View," (McGraw-HiID DR..
Harlan True Stetson, astronomer
and research associate of the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology,
summarizes the knowledge which
science now has in its possession
to analyze for the truth or falseness
of speculation on this intriguing mat
ter.
DR.. Stetson goes out on no limb to
forecast, in so many words, a def
mite relationship. Rather he piles
up, item by item, an imposing ar
ray of facts which offer true chal-
lenge to those who are skeptical of
the sunspot's bearing on terrestrial
activity. Sunspots and their effect
on human behavior, growing things,
business, radio, sunlight, power,
earth magnetism and even carrier
pigeon flight, are presented.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Keeping Up
WE|Il6Ssie"fe
&SeAo@S2er4e
Foe of Cane Borer
Is Being Imported
From New Guinea
g Science Service.-WNU Service.

Honolulu.-Deep in the wilds
of New Guinea turks a killer
insect without a name. A party
from Hawaii is slashing its way
through the jungle, risking
death from disease and possibly
unfriendly natives, determined
to "get their bug"
Not that they intend to drag their
six-legged quarry back to the bar of
civilized justice. Quite the con-
trary; they approve the creatures
lethal activities, for it is one of
the insects that unconsciously fights
mans battles by killing other in
sects that are harmful to his crops.
This particular insect is an enemy
of the sugar cane borer, one of the
most destructive pests both in Ha-
wall and in the sugar area of the
mainland United States. 1t is hoped
that it can be transplated and ac-
climated first in Hawaii and then
possibly also the rest of the way
across the Pacific.
Found Accidentally.
The new insect ally of sugar cane
planters was discovered quite by
accident. A scientific exploring
party was sent out by the Hawaiian
Sugar Planters association, under
the leadership of Cyril E. Pember-
ton, to seek new types of wild cane.
Their boat was shipwrecked on the
New Guinea coast.
Thrown onto a forbidding and pos
sibly hostile shore, the party occu-
pied itself with forays into the jun
giles while they waited for help.
They discovered a patch of cane,
close to a swamp. Some of the
stalks were afflicted with borers.
They opened these up-and found
the long-sought enemy of the pest.
Marking the place of discovery,
and trusting the insects descend
ants would still be there when they
returned, Mr.. Pemberton and his
party journeyed on to Honolulu.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the insects importation.
With acclimatizing stations estab-
lished possibly in Samoa, Fiji and
New Caledonia, the attempt will be
made to transplant it to Hawaii.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Alcohol Obtained From
Jerusalem Artichoke

Washington.-High yields of alco-
hol, a fuel already widely used and
expected to be even more widely
used in the future, can be readily
secured from the Jerusalem arti-
choke, tuberous plant related to
the sunfower, three Iowa State col
lege scientists report in Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry.
Figures gathered by Prof. Ellis I.
Fulmer, w. K. Mcpherson and L..
A. Underkofer indicate that the
Jerusalem artichokes grown on a
single acre of ground will produce
more alcohol than two or more
acres of corn.
Alcohol can be obtained from the
plants tubers by extraction of the
carbohydrates and evaporation to a
thick syrup and subsequent inocu-
lation with alcohol-producing yeasts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
.Aviation's Future
Linked With Tiny
Invisible Air Film

New York.-The future of avn
alton is linked with an invisible
film of air only a few hun
dredths of an inch thick. So
nearly perfect is the streamlin-
ing of modern airplanes that
even the protruding heads of
tiny rivets can cut miles an
hour from the speed of a plane
and greatly lower its flight per-
Torrance.
The crucial air film is known as
the laminar boundary layer between
the wing of a plane and the air
through which it flies. If the air
passes smoothly over the wing all
is well. If the air becomes turbu-
lent air resistance is increased and
speed and climbing ability are de-
creased.
Great advances in knowledge of
the behavior of this invisible air
boundary have been made possible
by studies in wind tunnels. But now
it is becoming apparent that the day
may be approaching when wind tun-
mel tests, alone, will not be the last
word in aeronautical research.
Free Flight Study Needed.
Speaking at the first Wright
Brothers Lecture of the Institute
of Aeronatutical Sciences here, the
British air expert, Prof. B. Melville
Jones of Cambridge university,
pointed out that free flight study of
real airplanes may soon supply the
final check on research.
Flight in smooth air free from
small-scale turbulence is needed, he
indicated, to disclose some of the
parasitic air friction losses now be-
ing studied. A slight unsteadiness
may persist in wind tunnels which
produces effects differing from
those of actual flight.
Key point of investigations is a
study of the so-called transition
point where the smooth, laminar
flow of air turns into the turbulent
pattern that robs planes of their
performance. The transition point
should occur as far back on the
wing, away from the leading edge,
as is possible. In free fight tests,
Professor Jones disclosed, a thin
layer of tinfoil only one five-hun-
dredths of an inch thick was suf-
ficient to shift the transition point
forward and produce drag.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
ssSif Dozen. said Fr1nk Hague
AND ROOSEVELT SAT DOWN!
By JOSEPH w. LaBINE

New Workers are casting wor-
ried glances across the Hudson
these days. Those who will
brave the "outer world" that
lies over the river may some
day visit Jersey City and see
for themselves.
Jersey City, they allege, is in
the grips of a tyrant, a dicta-
tor, a reborn Huey P. Long.
His name is Frank Hague.
Mayor Hague has undoubted-
ly ruled all New Jersey at least
10 years, probably more. He
made A. Harry Moore United
States senator, later a COVER
nor. More recently he sent his
personal attorney, John Milton,
to the upper house in Washing
ton. Since 1913 he has been in
absolute control of Jersey City,
an overgrown community of
$4,000 souls lying within eye
shot of Manhattan's towers.
Frank Hague is a smart poll
tician. Behind his multi-col-
ored exploits lies a genius
for grasping votes and power by
methods that are exasperating but
legal. When a legislative commit
tee recently tried to seize Hudson
county vote records (on charge of
election fraud), Hague packed off
on Florida vacation and his assist
ant in charge of the books was re-
ported i'll. This prompted a New
York newspaper reporter to COM
ment that the official has been in
disposed on other occasions when
Investigations involving his Office
were in progress"
At another time, in 1928, Hague
testified" before legislative COM
mittee investigating Jersey City by
replying, 81 decline to answer" to
practically every question fired at
him.
And He Sat Down!
The height of Hague's impudence
arrived one night in 1882 when
Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaigning
for the presidency, was being es-
corted by the mayor from gathering
to gathering. Mr.. Roosevelt was
just warming up to a large outdoor
crowd when Hague, pulling at his
coat, snapped:
That's enough. Sit down."
The future President of the United
States sat down.
Currently Frank Hague is in the
headlines as a c. I. 0. batter. He
has refused to open the civic doors
to John Lewis organizers. They
cannot hire a hall; Hague's eff
cient police simply run them out of
town. The mayor, who once thought
lessly boosted that ST am the law"
has arranged convenient legal
weapons to best the c. I. o. One
law prohibits distribution of nom
commercial literature, like c. I. o.
pamphlets. Another enables police
to arrest anyone who can't give sat-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Eternal" Chieftainess Is
Ruler of African Tribe

johannesburg, South Africa.-Sir
Rider Haggard's legendary chief
tainess "She," who figures in that
authors fantastic novel of the same
name, is at present in negotiation
with the Union of South Africa de-
partment of lands to obtain more
territory.
Holder of one of the strangest dig
mites in the world, the woman ruler
Modjadje, of the Bolobedi tribe in
the district of Letaba, Northern
Transvaal, inspired the British writ
er to tell his story of the queen who
had the secret of eternal youth.
Actually the present Mojadje is
not identical with the one about
which Rider Haggard wrote, but the
natives still keep up the illusion
that their ruler is immortal. By
various secret rites, of which the
details are only partially known to
Europeans, the control of the Bolo-
bedi tribe is passed from one chief
tainess to another.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Streamlined Hogs Are
New Farm Development

Washington.-United States De-
partment of Agriculture scientists
now are trying to breed a special
streamlined variety of hog which
will give only medium cuts of pork.
A few years ago, the short, dumpy
variety was most favored, but to-
day, when relatively small hams
and much bacon are wanted, a me-
diminished hog is most economical
to raise.
Starting with Danish Landrace
hogs imported recently for the pur-
pose, it is hoped to develop hog
strains that will give lean hams
and loins, with good proportion
of bacon also.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Those Boys Again

School days, dear old golden
rule days. Many school chill
dren know the wrong answers
at examination time:
A conservative is a large
greenhouse full of hot air.
If 20 feet of an iceberg is
above water, the rest of it is
below.
Geneva is the name of a
beautiful lady who had long
hair and sometimes rode on
white charger.
Gladiators always give out a
good deal of heat.
The function of the stomach
is to hold up the trousers with
a belt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17
Mayo Carlton

Mayo Clinic tower has a carlton
of % bells, the largest weighing
tons, the smallest 168 pounds;
the clapper of each bell weighs
one-sixteenth of the weight of the
bell. James j. Drummond, ad-
ministrator of Worrell hospital, is
carillonneur. Concerts are given
three times week, lasting one
half hour. Six bells can be played
at one time-two with each hand,
and two with the feet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-17

isfactory reason for his presence on
Jersey City streets, thereby land
ing c. I. o. organizers in the city
cooler.
Today Frank Hague's weI-oiled
political machine depends on such
unique implements as the $25, 000,-
900 medical center (third largest in
the United States and far too i'm
posing for such a small city, and
government that is really efficient,
albeit expensive. To understand this
amazing situation one must exam
inc the background, from the time
young Frank Hague was an aspir-
ing Democratic boss in Jersey
City's second ward. That was in
1908.
Started as Custodian.
Unimportant, but ascending,
Hague's first job was custodian of
the city hall at $4,000 a year under
Mayor Otto H. Wittpenn. Later, as
commissioner of the street and wa
ter board, he made friends both
with administration forces and the
lusty Commission Government
league. In 1913 Hague admittedly
played a "double-cross" on Witt