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Evening star., 1938-07-23

as accommodations to old customers
and had not developed specially
trained personnel. The question was
whether the bank could devise sys-
tenn for making and handling insured
mortgage loans which would fit
smoothly into its operations without
much additional expense.
The best evidence of its success
in meeting this problem lies in the
fact that only two staff members
are required for handling more than
300 F. H. A. insured loans, totaling
upward of $2,200,000. made to date,
THE fact of F. H. A. insurance"
he says, saves us from any possible
complications growing out Of the man
agement of foraclosed properties,
though in this connection I should
add that we have had no foreclosures
to date nor any major collection Diff
flculties."
Evening star., 1938-07-23
BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND
ELIZABETH GORDON.

n 70 CONVENIENCE around the
M home is more appreciated
" these days than the door
4 closer. That simple little at
tachment which. affixed to a screen
door, closes it when a careless person
forgets, and keeps it closed even in
q stiff breeze, is mighty handy at this
time of the year.
Johnny! Close the door!'
Darn! Where did that fly come
from, anyway"
How can I close the door when
both my hands are full?"
Remarks like these would be no
more If you equipped every screen
door in your house with a piece of
hardware with four pound pull, suf-
f1cient for all doors up to thickness
Of Il inches. The cost is negligible
only about IS cents each-and you can
install the device yourself, for it fits
all doors. requiring no mortising. It
will even reach out and pull warped
doors closed, it is said.
Made of steel, cadmium plated, this
device Is not a friction catch. With
it no surface latch is required, only
pull knob on the outside of the door.
1t can be used in connection with
pneumatic or other compression clos
ing devices, as an auxiliary to over
come the inertia of the door move
Evening star., 1938-07-23

(See DESIGN, Page B-4.)
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and Planning Commission, and Frank
Luchs, who is serving on the COM
mittee for his father, Morton j. Luchs,
president of the Washington Real
Estate Board.
The dwelling will be exhibited under
The Stars auspices for two more
weeks. It is open from 10 am. until
8 pm. on Sundays and from l to 8
during the week It may be reached
by driving over the Lee highway from
Rosslyn to North Highland street, just
past the Lyon Village office. Turn
left and continue on Twentieth street
two blocks to North Hartford street
and the home.
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70 CONVENIENCE around the
home is more appreciated
" these days than the door
closer. That simple little at
Evening star., 1938-07-23
( "a J;<(b1st5DIEJClGN]ED.||tEA q
l :lS{EoR = e oRElYING W.

ment just before it reaches the clos
ing point.
No reason why any one should put
up with stand-open screen, cupboard
or closet doors any longer!
THERE is no question about it, this
business of air conditioning Is q
confusing subject. Whenever you dis
cuss it, you have to start with defini-
tions, for no two people mean the same
thing when they use the words, and in
most cases no one manufacturer sells
everything that goes with full, COM
plete year-around air conditioning
system.
II you have been wishing there were
some one source for information on
winter conditioning plant,
source which would be in position
to advise. sell and service after you
(See DESIGN paoe RAY
Evening star., 1938-07-23
FARM PURCHASED
Maj. D. L. Henderson, Retired,
to Remodel Home,

MART1NSBURG, w. Va, July %
Especially Maj. D. L. Henderson. U.
S. A., retired, has purchased the Will
liam D. Timberlake farm, miles
west of Middleway, on the Caters
Ford road, part of the farm in this
and part in Jefferson County.
He has taken possession and dis
closed plans for extensive improve
ment, starting with the dwelling house,
which will be remodeled and enlarged,
with stone veneering. Stone that has
been aged through exposure to the
weather will be used. A small string
of polo ponies has already been
brought to the farm.
Evening star., 1938-05-15
CopitoI Wall
Poper
Showrooms

In the Ior9e 9roc.ous
Copitol WoII Poper Co.
lobby specioI poneIs
demonstrate usuol
French WolI Popers ond
exquisite SCENES. OF
notable interest is the
Beautiful i'm ported
Scenic America fneze
by Zuber Of Fronce with
its effect Of on orieinol
pointing.
Evening star., 1938-05-15

Modern New Home Of CoptoI Wall Popers
Looted al 18th NV.
the seeking wn
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BELIEVE AXIS HAS
REACHED ZENITH
rCopyrieht, 1888, United Press)

Copyright, 1888, United Press)
LONDON, May 4. (UP)-Ital-
ian Fascist sources today, as the
ears of Premier Benito Mussolini
and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler rang to
the cheers of scores of thousands
of people, that the "Rome-Berlin
axis" had reached its zenith and
that the future would witness its
decline.
This was not in accord with Of
fetal statements but the United
Press advices, which were from
high Italian sources, said that new
ertheless it was fact.
Mussolini, the United Press in
formants said, had found the axis
very useful during the troubled
period Immediately after the Eth
opian war and during the most
dangerous days of the Spanish
civil war.
But since Hitler's absorption of
Austria, they added, he has been
wondering whether Germany's ex-
banding power did not constitute
a menace to Italy's position, espe-
cially in the Adriatic and in south
eastern Europe. Moreover, on the
Italian side of the Bremen Pass,
the Alpine gateway between Italy
and what was Austria, but is now
CONTINUED on page threeb
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laps Hurled Back In Bitter Fight
BREVARD WILL
GET CIGARET
PAPER MILLS
Expect to Close Deal for
100000 Plant Site
on Thursday Il

BREVARD, May 4. Especially.
IL was learned on unimpesrh-
able authority here today that
the Eeusta Paper corporation
is closing a deal for 220 acres
two miles north of Brcvard and
adjoining Pisgah Forest, tor a
$4,000, 900 cigaret paper manu-
featuring plant in which the
process of manufacture VIII be-
gin early in 1899.
Papers for the purchase of
the plant site have been drawn,
and will be signed and the pur-
chase money pass hands tomor-
row.
New York advices said that
four new modern eigaret paper
manufacturing machines will be
installed in the plant and that a
force of between 800 and 400
workers will be employed.
The plant site being acquired
lies on both sides of the Da-
wilson river.
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Blue RIDGES
J CLOSING SET
II to Get Diplomas May
3; DR.. Combs to De-
liver Sermon

Commencement exercises at the
Blue Ridge School for Boys will
be held on Tuesday, May 81, at
the school auditorium, and diplo-
mas will be presented to II mem
bers of the senior class.
The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered to the graduates at
the First Methodist church on
Sunday morning, May 20, by the
pastor, Rev. G. R. Combs.
Members of the senior class
are: Paul Adamos, Beckley, W..
Va; John Carlyle Benson, Char
lesion, S. c.; Jack Denning Burke,
Charleston, w. Va; John Edward
Byrnes, Libertyville, ILL.,; William
Addison Gavin, Mooresville; Wal
ter Charnley, Jr., Charlotte; Mat
thew Gray Edwards, Jr., Wilkes
boro; Robert Frank Eppers, Ev-
anston, Ill.,; CASTOR Dortch Faison,
Greensboro; John Fisher, Beck
ley, w. Va; John Joseph Hughes,
Evanston, ILL.,; Leon Marcus Kill
liam, Jr., Waynesville; Harvey
Veerland Martin, Jr., West Palm
Beach, Fla; George Frank Minde'
Summit, N. j.; James Spencer
Murphy, Zolfo Springs, Fla; Rob,
ert George Nixon, Chicago; and
Theodore Eric Wingstrom, Evans
ton, Ill.
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FINISH ELECTION
OF SEVEN BISHOPS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May a
(UP)--The Southern Methodist
church completed selection of
seven new bishops late Tuesday
with the election of DR.. T. w.
Watkins Of Emory university, At
lanta, Ga.
The new bishops include, in ad-
dition to Dr., Watkins:
Dr.. w. G. Martin of Dallas,
Tex, DR.. C. C. Selecman' Of Dali
las, DR.. J. l.. Decell of Jackson,
Miss, DR.. Clare Purcell Of Gads-
den, Ala, DR.. Ivan Lee Holt of
st. Louis, and DR.. w. w. Peele
Of Greensboro, N. G.
DR.. Martin, a native of Ten
nessee, who has held pastorates
at Houston, Tex, Port Arthur,
Tex, and Little Rock, Ark, re-
ceived 233 votes. Necessary for
election were 228.
DR.. Purcell, a member of the
commission which drew up the
plan of union for the three
branches of Methodism approved
by the Birmingham conference
Friday, received 80 votes.
DR.. Selecman, a native of Sa-
vannah, Mo-, received 254 votes.
DR.. Decell has spent his entire
ministry in Mississippi. He re-
ceived 244 votes.
Before balloting for the bish-
ops, the conference adopted a re-
port suggesting that all Protest
ant denominations form one
church.
The report asked the confer
ence to "keep the door open to
any group desiring union"
"Althoug hthe chief interest of
this conference is the unification
of Methodism, we must not for
get the larger field of all Protest
antism," the report added.
The judicial council deferred
until today its decision on consti-
tutionality of the conferences
vote approving merger with the
other two branches of Methodism.
The conference approved an
other committee report stating
federal appropriations for church
institutions would Inevitably end
in federal control of all church
institutions"
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FLORIDA DENS
PICK PEPPER
TO MAKE RACE
Encumbent Has Unofficial
New Deal Blessing"
for Senate Seat
PRIMARIES HELD IN
3 STATES TUESDAY
By UNITED PRESS

President Roosevelt's admins
tEatiOn won vote of confidence
from 100000 Florida Democrats
today when returns from the
Tuesday primary gave Senator
Claude Pepper, running for re-
nomination with Roosevelt's indi-
rect endorsement, a majority oven
four opponents, who had asked his
defeat, charging he had been a
rubber stamp" senator.
In Indiana, where only two of
the 10 incumbent congressman
were opposed in Republican and
Democratic primaries, there were
contests in only three districts.
Incomplete returns showed Demo-
Gratis polling more votes than Re-
publicans-but these were not
conclusive.
Returns from the South Da-
kota primary indicated thst the
Democrats had nominated Tom
Berry, former cowboy gov
ernor," for the senate, and the
Republicans had named Chandler
Quincy, an oil man.
Senator Lister Hill and Speaker
William. B. Bankhead were unop-
posed in Alabama. Frank Dixon
of Birmingham, had command
ing lead for the gubernatorial
nomination and Thomas J. Helm,
former U. S. senator attempting d
comeback, appeared to be trail
ing hopelessly in his race for a
congressional nomination.
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SOUTHERN NIETHODISTS FAVOR
ALL PROTESTANT MERGER
Judiciary Council Rules
UNCONVENTIONAL Merger
Is Valid

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 4
CUP).-The judicial council Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, today ruled as valid the
denominations vote to join the
Northern and Protestant groups
in a greater Methodist church of
100000 members.
The councils ruling said the
"plan of unification has been le-
gally approved and the union of
churches has been legally author
lied"
Validity of the decision clear
ed away the final barrier to merg-
err.
There still remained possible
court action on the part of "se-
cession" groups in the southern
church in an attempt to prevent
unity.
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|HINK JAPAN'S
|ORCEINFIELD
is NOW SPENT
~ More Men Can Push
Campaign to Capture
SuchOw
INV IS BASED UPON
asst MONTHS EVENTS

su,NGHN. May 4.-(UP)-
Barese lines north of TaIerhch-
b. were hurried back in hand
tsrd fighting today with 5000
Fare,e casualties, according to
his from Chinese military
kom, foreign military experts
H. following events of the last
IT, in the ChiucSe-JapaneSe
4 held that Japan'S present Of
sSye power was spent and that
Eog, achievements the Japa-
\ could not continue their drive
|,he Suchow and Lunghai rail-
i -'
Overwhelming Chinese manpow-
|was thrown into the lines north
Taicrhchwang where Japanese
ban q movement in an effort to
[cr Japanese troops from Pin
h. where the Japanese attempt
10 break through the Lunghai
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In
City May Record

A maximum temperature Of 80
degrees was recorded here yester-
day afternoon.
This recording was the high for
this year, and is believed an all
time record for May 8. The Ashe-
vile bureau also reported q high
of SO degrees, an all-time record
for May 8.
The mean yesterday was 7o.5
degrees, ~ degrees above the
mean normal for the month. The
temperature at z o'clock last night
was GO degrees. Figures for Tues
day are as follows:
Maximum, &c degrees; mini
mum, IS degrees; mean, 7o.5 de-
grees; days range, 81 degrees.
Normal May temperature, 62.S de-
greeS.
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PEPPER HAS NEW
DEAL BLESSING

MIAMI, Fla, May d. (UP)-U.
S. Senator Claude Pepper rode a
surging tide of New Deal appro-
val to denomination in Florida to-
day.
Although results from yester-
days Democratic primary election
still were incomplete, returns
from three-quarters of the states
1,343 precincts gave Pepper, who
put the administration on trial in
his fight for denomination, a de-
cisive victory.
Unofficial returns from 965
precincts gave the New Deal
Continued on page three)
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HINESE STRIKE TWO
ARD COUNTER BLOWS
By ROBERT BELLAlRE

By ROBERT BELLAlRE
|i,ed Press Staff Correspondent
SHANGHAI, May 4.-(UPl-
Inese armies struck in two
|ehty counter OfFensives today
i battered back the Japanese in
bth Shantung province and to
} west in the mountains of
fnSi province.
Eeautime guerilla bands of Gen
Gnu Teh'S former Communist
pies tough. their way into vii
r within Is miles of Japan's
divisional North China capital in
ping and occupied the impOr-
town Of Ljang-hsiang.
americans saw large numbers
Japanese wounded coming into
nprg from towns on the Peip-
4 Hankow railway, indicating the
hneSe drive in Shansi was cost
! the Japanese heavily.
U seemed certain that many
hLl garrisons, left by the Japa-
p when they conquered SHansi
, the Pejping-Hankow railway
"a as far south as the Yellow
'er early this year, have been
Cmated.
japanese army transports WEI e
.oallng thousands Of reinforce
'0'S m Tlentsin, however, and it
5 believed the tide of battle
ON !. would turn in Japan's favor.
Indicative OF the seriousness of
situation the Japanese Domei
WV agency reported that the
lS''c national mobilization law,
ICING the whole Japanese en-
= on a drastic var basis, may
invoked by Premier Prince Flu
1.a'o houoye in Tokyo today.
Inc Chinese drive in South
a.lang province, where Gener-
!, SS.no Chlang Kai-shek's COM
'"g W. are prepared TO throw
WontInued on page ski
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LIBEL ARTILLERISTS
KILL 50 IN MADRID

| , slUNiO, May /. tUPJ.-The
- ,ss. 'nSurgeut artillery bonn
[a- rSeo' Of Madrid in many
!, ',5 spread terror over the city
ror,; n,So' the crash of shells
tr, H,Is with thunder of a tor
pr,1 o' storm. The bombardment
pr,s ~" 90 aeoa' $3.50 p. m. Early re-
} mi VI the bombing estimated
b % ron, and probably more than
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-04
Open Whitmire's
Headquarters For
Campaign Here

r. L. Whitmire, local attorney.
who is seeking the Democratic
nomination for congressman in
the eleventh district, was opening
campaign headquarters in the old
Citizens Bank building, at the
corner Of Main street and Fourth
avenue today.
A large streamer, which bears
the inscription: "Whitmire For
Congress-" was strung across
Main street.
Mr.. Whitmire, who is opposing
the veteran Zebulon Weaver Of
Asheville, for the Democratic
nomination, is actively carrying
on his campaign in the 13 coun-
ties Of the district.
A campaign manager for the
district and managers for the 13
counties are expected to be NAM
ed in the near future. ]. C. Cos
ton has already been named as
campaign manager for Henderson
county. L-.-.-.---.--.
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MIR. AND MRS. CADY
AND MRS. RAMSELL
RETURN FROM WEST

North Carolina friends of Mr..
and Mrs. 6. n. Cady and Mrs.
Laura Ramsell welcome their re-
turn to Hendersonville from New
Mexico, where they were for two
or three months, They found eli
matte and other conditions unsat-
isfactory and decided to return to
North Carolina.
For a number Of years Mr.
Cady was missionary of the
American Sunday School union IN
several Western North Carolina
counties, and he was transferred
to New Mexico to engage In SIM
liar work, with the understanding
that he would be returned to TINS
state if conditions were found un-
satisfactory in the west.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-04
BOYS QUITTING
COUNTY RACE
Green River Man Advises
He Will Not Seek Place
on Commission

r. w. Boys, president of the
Green River mill, and a candidate
for the board of county commits
sioners on the Republican ticket
today withdrew his candidacy IN
letter addressed to members OF
the county board of elections
The letter was received mere
today and announced that MT.
BOYS had withdrawn was maze Dy
a member of the election board:
In the letter, Mr.. Boys set fortn
that he had previously filed as
Republican candidate for commits
sioner. The letter stated: Il de,
sire to withdraw my notice ana
myself as nominee on the sald
ticket and request that my name
NOT he printed on the ballots.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-04
WESLEYAN REVIVAL
SHOWING PROGRESS

Rev. w. NJ. Phaup, pastor Oh
Wesleyan Methodist church TO-DAY
announced that the revival IN
progress at that church has al,
ready shown much interest ana
that congregations are increasing
in size. .,
The revival started Sunday with
preaching by the Rev. +. l.. Hen
derson, president of the North
Carolina Wesleyan conference,
from High Point, and singing lea
by F. B. Dennard, who is also rem
dering some enjoyable revival
songs. IL
A cordial invitation is extenoeu
all to attend these services, WHICH
open nightly at 7:45 o'clock
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FOR
Much TRAFFIC.
Police Warn Motorists and
Check-up on Minor
Violations

In anticipation of increased sum-
mer traffic, city police officers are
checking up and warning motor
lists on minor violations of traffic
ordinances.
City and police officials today
requested the cooperation OF the
public in this drive.
Officers are particularly stress
ing safety at intersections. Many
motorists cut corners instead OF
driving around the marker in the
center of intersections. Officers
are warning drivers against this
practice, but continued violations
will be prosecuted, it was stated.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-04

WASHINGTON, May d. (UP)
Representative John J. Cochran,
D., Mo-, leader of President
Roosevelt's Inflated government
reorganization bill fight, suggest
ed in house speech yesterday
that two additional justices be
appointed to the supreme court
The proposal closely resembled
the compromise version of the
presidents supreme court en-.
largement plan on which late Sen
ate Majority Leader Joseph L.
Robinson was working at the time
of his death last June.
Under Cochran's plan there
would be one associate justice Tor
each of the 10 circuits, and the
chief Justice. The bitterlv-tougns
administration proposal, defeatea
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WASHINGTON, May a. CUP
The senate yesterday approved
President Roosevelt,s 81 $4,000
600 naval expansion program
placing the United States in the
van of the greatest international
scramble for sea power in world
history. The vote was 5o TO 20:
The measure empowers this
government to surpass the rearm-
ament programs of other nations ms
with construction of the most
powerful warships ever floated'
It precludes, however, the posi-
bility of the United States precip-
itating a race of super-warships
by limiting the size of future BAT
tleships to treaty specifications OF
$4,000 tons unless it is determ-
ined foreign powers are building
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-04
INDEPENDENT
UNIONS WOULD
ABOLISH NLRb
Are Favoring Federal Ban
Against Strikes for
Higher Wages
FARMERS sick Of
KANGAROO COURT

WASHINGTON, May q. (UP)
Representatives of independent
unions, claiming 100000 men,
bers in seven major corporations,
appealed to congress last night
to amend the Wagner labor rela-
tons act to place a federal ban
on strikes for higher wages and
abolish the present National La
Dor Relations board. ...
The independents announced
plans to establish a national
council of independent labor
unions" and sent to congress a
lengthy petition charging that
"thc Wagner act, as administered
by the partisan members and SUI
bordinates of the National Labor
Relations board, has done more,
in our opinion, to dig this pit
of depression and bury labor in
it, than anything else"
"The real wage earners are
sick of the Wagner act and its
kangaroo court, the NLRB, with
it's biased examiners, its BULLDOG
ing prosecutors and its swarm Of
press agents." the petition said.
"The rank and file know the
Wagner act has cost them hum
dreds of millions in employment
lost through this depression and
through strikes. They know that
many of the strikes were never
authorized by a majority and
were for no other purpose than
to increase the power Of Mr..
John L. Lewis or Mr.. (Williaml
Green" .i--'z 'sss-.'..- -
Frank Bow, counsel for the
central council of Tom M. Grid
ler's Republic Steel corporation,
said the petition was signed by
representatives of independent
unions from the H. j. Heinz COM
pany, Jones and Laughlin corpor-
alton, Remington-Rand, Inc, Ma
tional Steel corporation, Du-
Quesne Light and Power COM
pany, and the Pressed Steel Car
company of Pittsburgh. Bow was
temporary chairman of the meet
ing.
"The surest way to restore con-
fidence to business and hope to
workers and jobs to the unem-
ployed is to cut the abuses out
of the Wagner act and abolish the
present labor board" the petition
said. "And we mean now! Amend
the Wagner act and build on a
new, solid foundation"
1t listed 13 "unfair and un-
American practices" of the NLRB
and suggested amendments to the
act.
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Senate Sends Naval Expansion Bill
To House To Concur In Changes

in excess Of treaty restrictions.
In the latter event, the United
States will be authorized to con-
struct super-dreadnaughts Of 45,-
600 tons, armed with deadly 49,
inch guns. Such vessels have new
er before been contemplated. The
authority to build them is regard
ed as a direct warning to the rest
of the world that the United
States will more than match their
might if the lid is blown off the
present building race. =.
Voting for the bill were AZ
Democrats and seven Republicans.
Voting against were II Demo-
Gratis, seven Republicans, two In
dependents and two Farm-Labor-
ties.
CONTINUED on page three.l
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ROME-BERLIN
AXIS WANING,
is INDICATION
Reception Program Short
ened for Duce, Fuehrers'
Conversations

ROME. May 4. (UP)-Premier
Benito MuSsolini and his guest,
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, put the
Rome-Berlin axis of cooperation
to test in a conference at Musso-
lini's Venice palace today.
They shortened the officially
announced program and went to
the palace at noon, two hours
ahead of schedule for a talk.
German Foreign Minister Joa-
chin Won Ribbentrop accompanied
Hitler.
Count Galeazzo Ciano was with
Mussolini.
This is the first talk of Fascist
and Nazi leaders since MussolinTs
visit to Germany, last September.