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The Washington times., 1938-02-08

British call "a joint move"
State Secretary Hull has a bet
ter phrase for it. He calls it
parallel action" He has to con-
tend with the United States
Senate, which might howl
against "joint moves" but can
not protest parallel action"
The naval building program is
yet in no serious danger of de-
feat or modification in the pri.
vate opinion Of the congress
Sional leaders. But they re-
member how the Supreme Court
fight grew and are grateful for
downtown assistance like the
Japanese note.
Irregular Democrats and Re
publicans were aStounded at
first. They kept quiet, but now
nave begun to organize. How
every they cannot conduct a
successful contest without help
from the regular Republicans
and Democrats. This they can
not get unless the regulars eat
the approving words they have
already spoken for the program.
Such Republicans as McNary,
Smell, Joe Martin, Vandenberg
ct al have been contending, how
ever, that the Roosevelt naval
message was vague and there is
a live prospect that majority of
Congress may join a move to
smoke the President out into a
definite statement on foreign
policy before approving the
naval expenditures.
NON-POLITICAL naval observ-
~ ers seem to agree the new
ships could not be used readily
for a war of aggression against
Japan. The fleet could hardly
leave American ship lanes and
coast unguarded in event Of war
unless they were positive of
their ability to bottle up the en-
tire japanese fleet in Japanese
waters.
NavieS Except suhmarines)
these days are generally good
only for defense. Both the
British and the Germans seemed
to agree on that in the World
War. Their grand fleets risked
an encounter only once, and
then backed off, because both
knew they did not dare to lose
fleet protection for their own
coast line.
TONGRESSMEN are express
~ ing soto voce a new respect
for Interior Secretary Ickes. He
is the only New Deal official
who has consistently been able
to contest presidential wishes
and escape unscathed.
When he fought the White
House economy, WPA, housing
and other plans in Congress,
the members thought Mr.. Roose-
velt just liked to have the
strong -willed Cabinet officer
around as ballast. But since
1ckes virtually kicked out the
presidential liaison man, Charles
West, and nothing happened,
the legislators have decided Mr..
IckeS is a man to be feared.
The explanation being freely
offered among Democratic sena-
tors is that the President him.
self fears Mr.. Ickes sharp
tongue. Whether this natural
deduction is true or not, it has
had a profound effect in the
Senate.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Driver of Crippled
Horse Is Fined SIS

Evidence gathered by the Wash
ington Humane Society, in it's
drive to keep crippled horses off
the streets, resulted in the con-
viction of Arthur Cook, colored,
1lQQ block of Fifth st. N. W., On
a charge of cruelty to animals
in Police Court today. He was
fined $25.
DR.. William P. Collins testified
he was summoned to Fourth and
M Streets Northwest by a mem
ber of the society and found Cook
driving lone of the worst crippled
animals I have ever seen.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
GO FOR BENFITS

Fifty per cent of the profits
from these activities go for the
benefit of Government employees
and for recreational activities.
The other so per cent of the prof
its go into the Federal Treasury.
A few years ago there was a
question with reference to the
disposition of some of the prof
its of this association. There
was never any question of defal-
cation or embezzlement. The
only issue was what portion was
payable to the United States
Treasury"
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
PARLEY OPENED
IN WASHINGTON
'BYCONTRACTORS
Work of Federal Trade
Commission Praised

Capitalism must steer through
the channel of fair business com
petition or sink, Edwin L. Davis
chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission. declared in an ad
dress opening the nineteenth an
nual convention of the Associated
General Contractors of America
today in the Willard Hotel.
Davis address traced the his
tory of the commission from its
creation by woodrow Wilson back
in 1914, dwelt on the functions
and practices uf the commission
and methods employed IN roofing
out unfair competition from bust
ness.
MAJORITY ETHICAL
"The vast majority Of mem
bers of industry are honest and
ethical" Mr.. Davis declared.
However, unfortunately, there
is small percentage in nearly
every line of enterprise who
persist in sharp practices.
THE philosophy of the Fed
eral Trade Commission and the
laws it administers is that the
channels of competition shall
be kept open; that free and fair
competition shall be preserved
and protected. This is in ac-
cord with our American ira
ditionS.
IF capitalism cannot survive
under such a system, it cannot
survive at all. In fact. it does
not deserve to survive"
PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS
During the business sessions
the 500 delegates will map pro
gram for presentation to Congress
on the following three-point pro
gram:
Repeal of the undistributed
profits tax; withdrawal of WPA
labor on Federal low-cost housing
projects and redistribution OF
WPA labor through ABSORPTION OF
100000 men.
Addresses by W. A. Klinger
president of the organization, and
Edward j. Hardin, managing
director, opened the conference.
The sessions will conclude with
a banquet Thursday night at
which Assistant Secretary of Wa1
Louis johnson will speak.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Not So Tough!
Dozen D. C.. Officers
AnSUer Blood Call
Hard boiled cops, huh?
Well listen tn this

Hard boiled cops, huh?
Well listen to this.
Sergeant Eslie Williams, veteran
of 81 years on the Metropolitan
Police Department, has been all
ing for some weeks. Saturday his
condition became worse and he
was taken to Emergency Hospital.
Today physicians decided he
needed blood TRANSMISSION. The
doctors notified police officials
and message calling attention
to the case was sent over the po-
lice teletype system shortly before
$50 a. m. Before 10 a. m. a dozen
policemen arrived at the hospital
to offer their blood.
And Sergeant Williams, who is
attached to the Traffic Division,
was known throughout the depart
ment as being "hard-boiled" with
his men.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

factory here.
T h ere are
always too
m a n y cen
sored b ! a n K
8 p o is. But
when W ary,
expert seek
ers = for the :
facts within
off cialdom
finished piec-
ing together
the infornna-
ton coming
out of Ger
many within
the past week,
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
White House Backs
ICkeS in West Row
BY EARL GOODWIN

Highly placed New Dealers in
sisted today that President Roose-
welt himself gave Secretary Ickes
an OK. on the housecleaning
the Secretary performed on the
personnel of the office of Under
secretary West, diScharging them
all and declaring they were not
working for their pay.
These officials declare that Sec.
retary Ickes, realizing that Mr..
west was a presidential appoint
ment and worked for the White
House, reported to the President
his view that the force in the West
office had nothing to do, and that
the President told the Secretary
to handle the matter in his own
way, inasmuch as it was Secre-
tary IckeS' department. Secretary
IekeS refuses to comment on any
thing the President may have said
to him.
ANTLICKES DRIVE?
It Is also claimed by Adrninistra-
ton friends at the Capitol that
Secretary Ickes' i'll feeling toward
Mr.. West is heightened because of
the suspicion that amounts almost
to a conviction that some of the
anti-Ickes stuff now floating
around senatorial committees, was
taken there by Undersecretary
West. 'Disloyalty" is what the
IcRes adherents call it.
Although Mr.. Vests friends
deny this, there is a question as
to how Senator Pittman got some
Of the information he commented
on last week in connection with
the accounts of the Department
of Interior cafeteria, operated by
the Interior Department Welfare
and Recreational Association.
Insiders are suspicious because
the original investigation of the
welfare association was a volunteer
matter on the part of Louis
CLAWS, head Sleuth for Mr.. Ickes'
PWA organization. CLAWS made
a charge that there was a consid-
cradle sum Of money Short" or
due the Government: but his re-
port was never made public, but
was overridden by the report of
Ia departmental committee ap-
pointed by Secretary Ickes.
Now, it seems, after a lapse Of
years, the CLAWS figures come to
light. It may be that CLAWS him
self handed them to someone at
the Capitol, but with the Ickes-
West row at a boiling point it is
impossible to keep the name Of
the Undersecretary out Of it.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
VETERANS TO MEET

Representatives Jerry O'Con.
nell, of Montana, and John M.
Coffee, of Washington, will be
among the speakers at the two.
day conference of Veterans of the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade to be
held in the Raleigh Hotel Satur.
day and Sunday.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

General inner suspicion here
is he only strengthened Gen.
eral Goering.
News, even inside official
news, from Germany is seldom
considered conclusive or salts
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
PITTMAN REFERENCE

Senator Pittman, Of Nevada,
who is conducting a fight against
the senatorial confirmation Of =.
K. ;Surlew as Assistant Secretary
of the Interior. made a brief ref
erence to a shortage in the Depart
ment Of the Interior cafeteria and
then enlarged upon it in. an in
terview, mentioning the sum of
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

they hit upon cerGaln apparent
deductions:
(a) Hitler got rid of his best
generals and put politicians in
their places, which any military
man will tell you is the quickest
way to ruin an army. (Remem-
ber Lincoln's historic experience
In the war between the States0
Cd Hitler knows this, did not
want to do it, was induced to
act reluctantly by political cir
cumStanceS conceived in pure
political jealousy among Goer-
ing's young political zealots.
Co The immediate effect will
be to COW any opposition, the
long-range effect will be the
elimination of the best military
brains Of Germany from the
NaZi movement.
MANY little things lately
AVA seem to substantiate the
suspicion that Goering is out
growing mortal clothes. He has
been minister in charge Of in
dustrialization and recently
made a big IT" speech in which
he made clear that his depart
ment had only one chief and
asked such rhetorical questions
Is: What am I going to do?"
Hitler named a friend. Walter
Funk, a German publisher, to be
industries minister months ago,
but the appointment was de-
layed three times during Decem-
ber and once in January and
had not been consummated
when Goering was finally made
field marshal. - -
Incidentally, the ousted honey
mooner, Marshal Won Blomberg,
always got along with Hitler,
but was afraid Of Goering, and
quaked in his presence.
While Hitler significantly de-
clined to give war ministry to
Goering and kept that for him.
self, most authorities now be-
lieve his whole reorganization
was one of unwanted necessity,
not wisdom. They realize the
most powerful man in a dictator
ship is not always the dictator,
but the man who has the army
with him. He tells the dictator
what to do.
THE latest note to Japan was
i read with as much interest in
the United States Senate as in
the Tokyo foreign office. This
was intended.
Off hand it may have ap-
peared astounding that the Uni
ted States would ask Japan what
kind of navy she is building in
view Of the fact that Japan spe-
officially refused to join in an
exchange Of such information at
the London Naval Conference of
1886. Even amateur diplomats
know Japan's game is to break
the SO ratio. She cannot Justify
it publicly so she is trying to do
1t secretly.
In other words, when the Uni
ted States asked Japan for such
information, the askers knew
quite well the answer would be
unsatisfactory,
The only advantage in asking,
therefore, was to again officially
place the responsibility for
American naval building on
Japan.
TNHERE is no evidence avail
able here now indicating the
note was contrived here for the
purpose. In fact, the inside evil
dence,. which is not entirely
trustworthy, seems to indicate
the original suggestion came
from London. The British form
of democratic government puts
her government to the same re.
quirement Of justifying her
military expenditures before par
Lament.
AS a result Britain and the
United States took what the
AnVr0TTeENEMT
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
PURGE INCREASES
GOERING POWER
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
By PAUL MALLON

tworld copyrght 1898 Features syndicate Inc Al Rights
OPULAR assumption that Adolf Hitler strength
ened himself by his army purge seems to have
originated in the propaganda ministry in Berlin.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17

and George Washington scored ar
intersectional victory over Colo
RADIO, 1870.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
KING TO FORMALLY
ANNOUNCE COMING
UNITED STATES VISIT

LONDON, Oct. II. (UP).-The
Daily Herald said today that the
state visit of the king and queen
to the United States at the end of
their Canadian tour next year
would be announced by King
George in his speech from the
throne when he reOpens parlia-
ment on November 8. ..i
The paper said the British en-
bassy and the state department in
Washington now are drawing up
provisional program for the APP
prevail of the king and President
Roosevelt, providing for a stay of
three days and two nights at the
White House and one night aboard
the presidential yacht or U. S.
warship, since the concluding cere-
mony will be great naval review
off the mouth of the Potomac
| river.
The program in Washington, the
paper said, will include a state
dinner and ball at the White
house. state reception by the
senate and congress at the CAPT
tol, dinner and reception by the
king and queen at the British en-
bassy in honor of the president
and Mrs. Roosevelt, and visit to
George Washington's grave at Mt.
Vernon.
Enroute home the king and
queen will visit Bermuda, the
Herald said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
Anti Fascist
@Jews:Face Trial

ROME, Oct. IT. -(UP). The
government last night announced
that the Ovra (sccret police) had
arrested group Of prominent
Jews charged with directing sew
eral "anti-Fascist cells" in North
ern Italy.
The prisoners, who will be tried
before a special tribunal for de-
Tense of the state, include Pro
fessor Eugcnio Colorni, former
prominent Jewish doctor Of Til
este. He was alleged TO have. di-
rectcd the work of the "cells' in
two northern cities.
Another prisoner, Dino Philip
son from Florence, also Jew,
formerly was q deputy in parlia-
mcnt. He was i member Of the
liberal party.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
) STORIES
. IN STAMPS
How an Ohio Roin Made
Harding President

THE caprice of circumstance
has whisked many a man to
fasting fame and high honor. a,
witness the career of Warren G.
Harding. Had it not been for an
Ohio ,rainstorm he might never
have become President,
Harding was running for ths
Ohio state Senate back in 1888
He was campaigning near Rich
wood when, suddenly he was
caught in a terrific. downpour
Afterward he was washing the
mud of the rain-Soaked roads
from his shoes at a country school.
house pump when Harry M
Daugherty stepped up. There be-
gan a friendship that nearly q
quarter OF a century later was tc
send Harding to the White House
and Daugherty to the office of at.
torney general.
For Daugherty became Har.
dings Damon and Harding his
rSuiiaS. lhey developed a Staunch
acquaintance and it was Daugher.
Tvs Keen political strategy at the
Chieago convention of the Repub.
iican party in June, 1920, that won
me nomination for the former
ONO farm boy and newspaper
publisher.
Campaigning on an anti-Leagu.
OF Nations platform, he was elect
ed President Overwhelmingly.
even denting the Solid South
During his term he called world
conference on disarmament. We
toed the soldier bonus bill. as
sailed wet forces, pleaded for for
nation of world court. He was
stricken i'll on return from a trim
70 Alaska in 1923 and died shortly
thereafter He is shown here on
q stamp of the new u, S. reagula
series. enlarged. '7s
Wopyright. 1888. ,NEA Service. Inc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
Won Cramm Free;
Health Is Good

BERLIN, Oct. II. (UP)-Ba-
ron Won Cramm, Germany's out
Standing tennis player, last night
was reported by close relatives as
in good health after release from
\ Nazi prison in which ne mad
heen confined since last March on
morals charge. :.
The relatives refused to discuss
details Of Cramm's alleged release
or his plans for the future.
The Ianky tennis player was ar
rested last summer shortly after
his return from a world exhibition
tour. Details of his trial and IN
generation were shaded in secrecy
although reports had persisted that
he was being treated far better
than prisoners in concentration
camps. :,
His release at this time would
Indicate his sentence of a year IN
prison had been reduced due to
pressure from abroad. Many OF
his former tennis foes, including
Don Bulge, American and VIM
bledon champion, had urged Ber-
lin officials that he be released.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
Football Results
SOUTH

SOUTH
Tennessee l3, Alabama O..
Georgia IS, Mercer 10.
Duke s, Georgia Tech 0.
MARYLAND II, Western Md. s.
The Citadel ., Furman 8.
Virginia II, Virginia Tech q.
Va. Military I. -, Richmond g..
Erskine 0. Wofford o.
Cincinnati L. I. Tampa |. 6.
w. & L. s, kentucky 0.
Vanderbilt l3 Mississippi Z.
Tulane 26, Rice II.
Oglethorpe -, Rollins II.
Mars Hill s. W.C.T.C. 9.
Appalacvhian II, High Point :.
Hamp-Sydney IA, E. & Fl. 0.
EAST
Albright 1t, Catawba 0.
Swarthmorr IA, American l. &.
Amherst IL, Rochester S.
Boston L. %, tpsala 0.
Bowdoin IA, Williams 0.
Carnegie Tech Z, Holy Cross &.
colgate Il, OOl4HlOId ".
Dartmouth 81, Hrown Is.
Purdue 6, Ford4am 6.
Georgetown SO, Randolph-Ma-
con 0.
Army 20, Harvard IT.
Maine IS. Conn. State 0.
F. & NJ. 20, Mphlenberg 7.
\ G. 7. n. Y. L. O.
Princeton IS, Pennsylvania 0.
Rutgers 6, Springfield 0.
Syracuse 10, Cornell IT.
Vermont 7, Union 7 (tie).
Mich. State 26. w. Va. 0.
Yale 8, Navy 7.
Davis-Elkins 10, Mt. st. Mary O..
Penn State 50; Lehigh 6.
Penn Military c. 20, Ursinus O..
Brooklyn College Is, Rensselaer,
Poly 0.
Villanova 80, Centre 6.
MIDWEST
NOtre Dame Il, Illinois 6.
Minnesota 7, Michigan 6.
Indiana 0, Nebraska 0 (tie.)
Ohio State 0, Northwestern 0.
Pittsburgh 26. Wisconsin 6.
Ohio {. %, Ohio Wesleyan 0.
Iowa 27, Chicago IA.
Iowa State l6, Missouri ID.
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas ~, Texas 6.
Baylor ii, Centenary 0!
Texas Christian U. 81, Texas
A. & NJ. 6.
FAR WEST
California 20, U.C.L.A. 7.
Stanford 27, Oregon 16.
Oregon State Is, Washington o,
Southern Cal. 10, Wash. State 6
Idaho 20, Gonzaga II.
A hippopotamus can carry siS
bushels of vegetation in his stom
ach
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
lay SHOOTING:
TO JEALOUSY
Ex-Husband .lnvades Ac.
tress' Home; Shoots
Second Husband IL.

xNffast .FEs.stE1 a
HOLLYWOoD,, Oct, II. (tP).
Police last night be,ietedi that en-
IRENE jealousy" caused Colonel
Martin Snyder, '.43-year-old OK
husband of beautiful Ruth citing,
singing screen stan, to invade her
home Saturday night and shoot
her present husband, Meryl Alder
man, .after,.& violent quarrel. ...
Snyder, held on suspicion Of at,
tempted murder and kidnapipg,
admitted to detectives that he shot
Alderman, u 30-ycar-old musician
who married Miss Fitting secretly
two months ago, but insisted he
had, not Quarrelcd with; hjrl and
that the shooting was accidental.
Alderman, wounded in the
stomach and arm, waS removed
from the Hollywood receiving hos
pital, where he wa: treated for the
gunshot wounds early Sunday,
and taken; to ST. VmcGnt's hospi-
tai, but physicians SAID it was too
eally to predict. the outcomG,a,i,.r
1t was believed, however that
Alderman was gaining. ground and
probably would recover. ~,
Snyder, who was divorced by.
Miss Erting in Chicago last No
vember on grounds Of extreme
cruelty, was accused by the ac-
tress of forcing Alderman into a
car at the point of pistol and
driving him to the Etting home
where he fired two shots at the
musician. ......s 80. -.i.... ,,.,.
Snyder's 21-year-old daughter,
Edith, who Quoted her father aft
er firing a shot that went wild.
told police she found her father
and Miss Etting in the latter's bed
room, struggling for possession OF
gun. She grabbed q gun which
Miss Etting kept in a bureau,
drawer, and fired ut Snyder.
Snyder then walked next door
to the home of Wayne Morris, a
film actor, and telephoned police.
He waited until police came and
surrendered quietly, admitting
that he shot Alderman but refus-
ed to elaborate.
Snyder then was taken, into
custody on suspicion of attempt
ed murder. kidnapping and illega!
possession Of firearms.
Police said Miss Etting prcvi-
ouSly had complained that Snyder
was calling her UP by long dis
lance telephone from New York
frequently, threatening her. She
said she recognized her eX-hus-
bands voice, although Snyder de-
MED he had made any such calls.
According to the story Miss Eft
ting told police, Snyder entered
her home Saturday night with Al
derman, after meeting the latter,
at a radio studio and demanding
that Alderman take him home.
When Miss Fitting saw her
former husband with q gun in his
hand, she ran from the room to
get pistol, she said. Snyder
pumped two shots into Alderman,
according to the singers story,
and then chased Miss Etting into
her berdoom. 49,. ......., ,,.,
SnYder's daughter meanwhile
got the gun. out Of 4 bureau draw
er and threatened to shoot her fa-
Their if he did not leave Miss, Et-
ting alone. Police arrived shortly
afterward. and Snyder, was taken
in custody He said he had gone
to Miss Etting'S home merely to
talk business"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-17
No. 4.E
COMMISSIONERS SALE
HENDERSON COUNTY
~ Ruth Sale

Ruth Sale
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court | will sell, at pub
lie auction, to the highest bidder,
for cash, at the Courthouse door,
Hendersohville, N. c., October "a
1888, at twelve o'clock noon, the
following property in Henderson
County:
Lots 5-6-7-8 B 2 Pine Crest;
recorded Henderson Cuonty Deed
Book l56, page 33; Book 155,
page 266.
This 26th day Of Sept, 1888.
M. F. TOMS,
Commissioner.
8. 9-26-Mon-4tp