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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-01-21
BUSINESS MEN
SAY TAX PLAN
INADEQUATE
Relief Program in Right
Direction But Falls
Short, Is View

WASHINGTON. Jan. 81. (UP)
E. H. Lane of the Lane Cedar
Chest Co., Alta Vista, Va, told
the house ways and means COM
mittee today that enactment of
the proposed new tax on closely
held corporations would "break
up" family controlled businesses.
He said my company was not or
ganized for the purpose of avoid
ing payments of individual sur
taxes but to make cedar chests,
back in 1912, before We even had
income tax laws in this country"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. (UP).
Tax relief which congress pro-
poses to give business in the 1888
revenue act is a badly needed
step in the right direction but
fails to meet many practical ne
cessities," spokesman for the
Chamber of Commerce of the Uni
ted States told the house ways
and means committee yesterday.
Headed by Fred H. Clausen,
Horizon, Wise, manufacturer and
chairman of the chambers fl
nance committee, the group call
ed for outright repeal of the un-
divided profits levy, a flat cor
poration tax of about Is per
cent, elimination of new restric-
tons on closely held corporations
CONTINUED on page three)
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ARE BRINGING
COOPERATION
heck Sought on Install
ment Buying Of Autos,
Other Costly Wares
|TMOSPHERE BEING
CLEARED, DECLARED

WASHINGTON, Jan. p. (UP)
resident Roosevelt today said
\, his conferences with business
rn are bringing about coopera-
In in the new deals efforts to
set the economic recession.
He met with another group at
bon TO discuss credit operations
lrticularly in the automobile
president Roosevelt said these
kcussiOns had proved education
1 He emphasized that the adj
SniS,ration is standing fast to
4 long time objective of bring
i price levels back to those gen.
taliy prevailing in 1926. There
Is been no change in this policy,
! said. suggestions to the con-
'ary notwithstanding.
He described the meetings with
psiness leaders in many fields OF
,dustry rs most helpful. especial
in clearing the atmosphere and
,nDhasized that the adm!nIStra-
lon regarded the economic situa-
Iop as a problem including not
,,lv ministry but also agriculture,
transportation and other phases
h American life.
In MS opinion, business men are
citing q view OF the situation
rey have not had before.
President ROOseyelt'S meeting
itb automobile manufacturers
ID their inStalment sales bank
5 today may lead to an abrupt
ieck on monthly payment buy
z in several fields of compare
Eely expensive merchandise.
Nr. Roosevelt has not revealed
E scope of mis- plans, but it is
own that he considers some au-
mobile instalment purchase
ans to be too lenient. This con-
renee may ultimately mean that
IyerS will have to make a larger
wn payment for their new au-
mobiles and retire the debt in
shorter period of time.
There was a hint from Cover
Z Frank Murphy of Michigan
1t the brakes may be put on in
llment buying in other fields,
I Nr. Roosevelt has not indicat-
that so far.
Nr. Roosevelt is expected to
sgest today a voluntary reform
]gram designed to regularlze
.plOyment and production. The
Inference is one of several seek
cooperative action against re-
sion.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. (UP)
Plans for construction of the most
powerful battleships ever floated,
weighing more than 10000 tons
each and armed with lS-inch
guns, are being considered by
high naval officials as Americas
answer to aggressor powers, 1t
was learned yesterday.
Officials refused to comment
on this phase of the national de-
Tense plan, but some COMPRESSION
al quarters which have been CO.
operating closely with President
Roosevelt and the navy and war
departments on the record peace
time armament program, indicat-
ed the plans might be made appll-
cable to the two battleships au-
thorized in the 1889 navy appro--
priation bill, now being debated
by the house. - ~ - -..E~--
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Claim Loyalists
Quitting Teruel
After Hard Fight

WITH THE NATIONALIsTs.
SARAGOZZA, Spain, Jan. 21.--
(UP) - Nationalist field head
quarters reported last night that
the loyalists were evacuating
shell-wrecked Teruel after a bat
tie with trench knives and bay
onets that carried nationalist in
fantry to within q, mile Of the
city's northern gates.
The battle, fought in dense fog
in mountain gulleys, repeatedly
gave Generalissimo Francisco
Francois troops possession OF a
strategic height known as La
Massilla Ell Chantre, from the
peak of which government guns
had held UP the advance.
Nationalist scouting planes re-
ported to field headquarters that
scores Of loyalist trucks were
crawling along roads to the south
and it appeared that the enemy,
unable to hold the Aragorfese city
wrested from the nationalists on
December 81, was abandoning it.
Francois offensive to the north
of Teruel, covering 20 square
miles Of territory in three days,
was said to have cut off all de
rect communication between the
TerueI loyalist troops and, Cata-
lonia, their chief source Of sup
plies.
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NAVYPLANS TO BUILD MOST
POWERFUL WARSHIPS AFLOAT

Construction of these super
dreadnaughts to replace Ameri-
cas- obsolete, first-line fighting
ships, would involve abandonment
of limitation provisions in the
1886 London naval treaty which
restricted capital ships to $4,000
tons.
The house upheld a 81, 277,0O0
item in the bill for reopening of
the government torpedo station
at Alexandria, Va, and tentative
ly approved an amendment sus-'
pending naval officer promotions
for one year. The amendment was
offered by Representative Byron
N. Scott, D., Calf, to force re-
vision of laws regulating promo
ton and appointments, which he
attacked as costly and unfair.
Reports that japan now has
Continued on page four)
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Some Japs Block
u. S. Missionary
Activities, Is Said
Would Ask McNutt to Ad-
wise Roosevelt Passes
Withheld

SHANGHAI, Jan. 81. (UP)-
American missionaries are seek
ing to advise President Roosevelt
of difficulties they have met in
endeavoring to continue their
work in Japanese occupied terri
tory.
Il was learned today that a
group of missionaries will seek a
Conference with Paul V. McNutt,
American high commissioner to
the Philippines, who is comforting
here with Admiral Harry E. Var
nell.
The missionaries want McNutt
to advise the president, it was I'M
derstood, that they complain of
the difficulty of obtaining passes
to return to their posts in some
areas. 1t was indicated that the
difficulty is not general but de-
pending on the attitude of indi-
yidual japanese authorities,
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1926 Price Levels Remain New Deal Goal
TWO MEN HIRED BY CHINESE,
TO BOMB JAPANESE LINER
AT SEATTLE FAIL in EFFORT
Man Steering Bomb to
Ship Is Believed to
Have Drowned

'SEATTLE, Jan. 2l.-(UP)-
Police searched the Japanese liner
Hiye Maru fruitlessly yesterday
for trace of time-clock bomb,
which George Partridge, %, Van
couver, B. c., labOrcr, told them
was to have been placed aboard
the vessel by 4 man whose body
was found in the water near the
liner.
Partridge was quoted as saying
that an Oriental agency" was be-
hind the attempt to destroy the
vessel but that he did not know
its identity. The vessel was due
o sail tonight.
Today, Vancouver police arrest
ed Partridge's brother, William
Partridge. Two Vancouver detec-
tives, Alfred Gibbs and William
Mackie, quoted William Partridge
as saying:
my brother and Forsythe had
an agreement with a Chinese to
sink vessels carrying iron and
other materials to Japan. If the
first attempt Con the Hiye Maru)
was successful, a financial ar
rangement was to be made"
1t was believed that the attempt
to place the bomb aboard the
Hiye Maru, which was tied up at
the great northern dock at
Smiths Cove, failed either be-
cause the bomb became water
soaked or because, the man who
was to have placed It on the liner
was drowned before he reached
the Japanese vessel.
Partridge was found in the vi
entity of the dock early yesterday
morning by Waterman. Later
the body of man, identified as
that of Ralph Forsythe, was
found floating in the vicinity.
Partridge admitted he knew
Forsythe. He said he met him in
Vancouver several days ago and
that Forsythe offered him 81 900
to help destroy the Hiye Maru.
Partridge told police he and
Forsythe, said to be a Canadian
school teacher, came to Seattle
Wednesday and made final plans.
They fixed tn etiming device on
the bomb and sealed it in a suit
case.
Forsythe took off his clothes
after they went to the dock, and
with the suitcase attached to
railroad tie, began swimming TO-
ward the Hiye Maru. Partridge
said he saw him no more after
that. -
Captain of Detectives Marshall
Scrafford said he thought For
sythe suffered cramps and drown
ed while trying to attach the
bomb on a side of the Hiye Maru.
An autopsy was ordered.
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u. S. OWNED SHIP
CHARTERED in SPAIN

WASHINGTON, Jan. q. (UP).
Secretary of State Hull last night
awaited reports on the alleged
seizure of the tanker Nantucket
Chief, near Barcelona by Spanish
insurgent gunboats.
Asserting that he had no of
ficial information, Hull said he
believed the vessel which report
edly was carrying Russian oil was
American-owned but under char
ter to a Spanish loyalist agency.
Department of commerce rec
ords show that the Nantucket
Chief, which is a 51SS ton ship,
was sold by the Gulf oil corpora
ton to the Nantucket Steamship
company, Port Arthur, Texas, last
November. The name was changed
from Gulflight to Nantucket
Chief.
State department officials en-
phasized that while the neutrality
act applied to the Spanish civil
war it did not restrict visits by
American ships to Spanish ports
if they were not carrying NUM-
tionS.
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SHIPMAN, DUFF
INVITE PUBLIC
Motor Firm Will Compli-
ment" Patrons
With Gifts

Belief was expressed today
that hundreds of motorists will
attend the formal opening Satur-
dav of Hendersonville's newest
and finest automotive sales and
service plant which has just been
completed at Main street and Sew
enth avenue for occupancy by the
Shipman Motor company.
Erected by the Pure Oil COM
pany, the plant represents an IN
vestment of $4,000 for site and
building, in addition to a storage
garage at the rear on Seventh
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PIRACY AT SEA
EREPORTED
Hull Awaits Confirmation
US. Tanker Seized by
Spanish Rebels

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 81.
CUP. - Reappearance of PR
acy" in the western Mediterran-
can, the bombing of a group of
British sailors and the reported
seizure of an American oil tanker
by insurgent warships last night
added new international compli-
cations to pains civil war.
The French ministry Of marine
announced in Paris that the
American oil tanker, Nantucket
Chief, had been captured by the
insurgents off Barcelona while
carrying a cargo of oil and was
being escorted to an unknown
destination by several warships.
The Spanish loyalist news ag-
ency, Agence Espagne, attempted
to confirm the report but doubted
it's veracity.
Four members of the crew of
the British ship Thorpeness were
killed, three were missing and
seven were wounded, two of them
seriously, when bomb exploded
beside the vessel during an in
surgent air raid on Tarragona on
the east coast. All the members
of the crew were British.
The reported piracy" occur
red when an unidentified sub
marine fired two torpedoes at
the British ship Clonara off Sa-
gunto at 6 p. M, Wednesday, the
ships captain reported yesterday
on arriving at Burriana. He asked
that the British government be
notified.
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MAJOR DRIVE
ON CANTON IS
OBJECTIVE
Prepare to Cut China's
Last Outlet to the Sea;
Fleet Off Coast

HANKOW, China, Jan. 2l.-
(UP)-Japanese troops today
prepared to cut China's last out
let to the sea with a major Of
fensive against Canton, "Cradle
of Chinese Revolutions"
Central government officials
said the Japanese were ready to
attack Canton from four direc-
tons.
One column prepared to land
at Kwonghoi, 80 miles south and
slightly west Of Canton and pro-
coed up the southern Kwangtung
coast.
The second planned to cut off
the Canton-Kowloon railway by
landing at Bias Bay.
The third intended to land at
Swatow, 220 miles east of Canton
on the coast, to cut communica.
tions between Kwangtung and
Fukien provinces. 49,, rs.
The fourth, naval force, was
ready to storm the Bocca Tigrls
forts at the mouth of the Canton
river.
More than 80 japanese war
ships, including three aircraft
carriers, were reported off the
South China coast.
Marines from these vessels
were said to have attempted to
land on Hainan island and estab-
lish a base for future operations,
but were repulsed after a four
hour battle.
Although the Hainan island at
tack was repulsed, it was report
ed that Japanese marines had sue
ceeded in landing on several small
islands south of Hainan. france
has disputed ownership OF these
islands with China since 1882.
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GIFTS FOR PATRONS

While friends will be con-
graduating the Shipman Mo-
tor company tomorrow incident
to occupying its new and mod
ern home, this firm will re
turn the compliment" to every
customer who buys five gallons
of Purol Pep gasoline or has a
change of oil during the day.
This compliment" will con-
sist of six nine-ounce crystal
water glasses. a gift to the GUS
toner.
This gift of an attractive set
of glasses, announces the COM
pany, will not be limited to one
set to the customer. A custom
er will receive six glasses with
each five gallons of gasoline
purchased and for each change
of oil for passenger ears and
trucks.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-01-21
LITTLE BUSINESS
10 AIR COMPLAINTS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. CUP
Iue business men, who are pro-
Stng vigorously to President
Roosevelt that they are suffering
ElIe.y from tax reforms aimed
large corporations, will be in
PED 20 the White House soon to
their complaints against the
|e% deal and propose means OF
PRONG the recession, it was an
'p0need last night.
Stephen T. Early, White House
tc'etary, revealed the presidents
anS TO balance the economic
fnp.alntS and suggestions of the
roSS roads merchant against
pose given him in a series of re-
Fnt conferences with the ma
Pms outstanding business, indus
Fa., financial and banking lead
T; The composite picture will be
Effected in the new business leg
|aton which Mr.. Roosevelt IS
Ppected to propose to congress
The chief executive, according
Early, instructed his aides to
Feet at random from stacks or
nlte House mail a group of rep
sentative leaders of little bust,
IS, Many of them have asked
be heard personally but the
pmber to be invited will be de-
ffmlned later by Mr.. Roosevelt,
was stated.
Early said the chief complaint
the graSs-roots business men
wing small enterprises is di'
Fcted against the undivided prof,
\ tax and the capital gains ano
'SSes levy, both of which are be-
y revised now by congress. The
amt of the little man is that
= Z TO 27 per cent levy on un'
lS'r0uted profits prevents nm
ON formulating a surplus nee
SSary to the expansion Of ms
uSlness whereas big business ac'
undated SURPRISES in past years
"a suffers little under the law,
l'e capital gains levy is blamed
\ preventing the flow of CAPT
mt into trade arteries.
NE 1898 tax act proposes to
Nempt little business, which com
IContinued on page fonr)
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TAKES FBI MEN
TO BODIES OF
ROSSANDCR
48.Hour Tour Also Reveals
Cache cf $4,000 OF
Ransom Money
AGENTS SUSPECT HIM
IN ANOTHER CRIME

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 81
(UP)-J. Edgar Hoover, head Of
the F. B. l.. revealed today that
Peter Anders, 80, confessed kid
naper-killer, had been connected
with two more kidnapings and is
suspected of participation in IA
third.
Hoover and his agents had re-
covered the bodies Of Charles s.
Ross. 70, kidnap victim, and j. At
wood Gray, Anders' accomplice,
both of whom were slain by An
ders.
Hoover and his party returned
today, leading Anders on a chain.
He had conducted them on As
hour tour Of northern Wisconsin,
revealing the graves of his MUIR
der victims and the place where
he secreted $4,000 Of the $780,
900 ransom collected from Ross
family.
Hoover revealed that Anders
confessed the kidnapping of John
and Olivia Borcia of Lake Geneva,
Wis, last September End. Borcia
was released at once but his wife
was held for two days.
Hoover said he was checking
the possibilities of Anders having
participated in another kidnap
case. When asked if it was the
Mattson case, he replied, "No COM
ment."" .r-
DR.. Charles Mattson, father Of
the boy, 10, kidnapped and killed
at Tacoma, Wash, last year, said
yesterday that his surviving chill
dren had viewed Anders and de-
clared him not to be the killer.
Hoover said he could have found
the bodies of Ross and Gray with
out Anders assistance. He also
related how Anders and Gray had
kept Ross in confinement in q shall
low dugout near where both men
subsequently were buried.
The bodies of Ross and Gray
were to remain temporarily at
Spooner, 200 miles from here. The
Omen arrived there from st. Paul
morning.
To reach the scene where the
bodies were found the agents
drove over more than 10 miles of
narrow sideroad in the "cut over"
country that comprises much Of
that section of Wisconsin.
The land formerly was covered
with a heavy growth of virgin
pine and once was q thriving lum-
bering center. Scrub oak and
burned over land has taken the
place of the pines and the area
now is sparsely settled.
Numerous small lakes are in the
and in summer it is
a popular summer resort.
Anders, in his 27-page confes-
sion, said he fired bullets into the
heads of each at a hideout near
Rockford, ILL.,, and transported the
bodies "across the state line"
Rockford is approximately 100
miles from Chicago where the kid
naping took place last Sept. 25th
and about 200 miles from Spooner.
Ross was the elderly retired
of greeting cards
and valentines who was kidnapped
nv Peter Anders near Chicago last
Sept. Is. Gray was Anders' al
eyed accomplish, slain in an az.
yument over division of Ross
$50, 200 ransom.
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WOLLNER PROGRAMS
RECORDED IN N. Y.

Mark Wollner, concert violinist,
has returned to the city from a
four weeks stay in New York
where he has been engaged in re-
cording work. More Of Mr.. Vol,
ner's programs will be recorded
in the near future and these, Mr.:
Wollner stated today, will be used
for broadcasting by leading New
York and New England radio sta
tions.
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EXCUSED FROM JURY

HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. IL
(UP)-Fourteen years ago K. L.
Storm built Texas first electro;
chair. Today Storm, summoned
for jury duty, was excused be,
cause he didn't, believe in capital
punishment.
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RESERVE OFFICERS
MEET NEXT WEEK

Reserve officers group school
will meet on Monday evening at
7:30 o'clock at the county agents
office on Third avenue east.
Litutenant Bruce will instruct
at this time and Captain w. A.
Franklin has urged that all reser-
visits attend this meeting.
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LAMPING CONVICTED

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. %.
(UP)-J. L. Lamping, yesterday
was convicted of selling Col. Luke
Lea, former Nashville publisher,
$4,000 of 100000 in forged
Henderson county bonds and was
sentenced to serve 10 years in
the state penitentiary. Lamping
was freed on bond pending ap-
peal, 1900 .. ---
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avenue erected by Mingus Ship
man, owner of the Shipman Mo-
tor company, and ]. W. Duff, dis
tributor for the Pure Oil COM
pany of the Carolinas in Hen
derson, Polk and Transylvania
Continued on page four)
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WEATHER

,onisht and Saturday, prob
KAN ,nging to snow. Warmer
aol ;.bt: colder tomorrow after
noon.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

CONSERVATION in the Florida
winter colony Massachusetts Tech
scientist, says getting . deep coat
Of tan destroys all the benefit, Of
,un.bathina.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
MERCY DRAWS
STINGS FROM
u. s. JUSTICE

SAN FRANCISCO. May 10 oUP)
The federal government temper
ed justice with mercy today in the
extradition case of Raymond A.
Smith, 35-year-old WPA worker
Smith and his wife are wanted
il Lubbock, Texas, on charges of
operating a still But Mrs. Smith
is in bed in SUBURBAN Richmond.
awaiting birth of her fourth child,
and today physicians told Smith
they did not believe she would sur
viVe the ordeal.
When Smith was arraigned be-
fore u. S. Commissioner E. E. Will
liams, Asst. U. S. Atty. Valentine
Hammack read a telegram from
U. S. Atty. Clyde Eastus of Fort
Worth, Texas, declaring that IN
view of Mrs. Smiths illness the
government would not require his
extradition until December. Eastus
recommended Smith be released
on his own recognizance.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19

who used TO get Partisan society
up at dawn 70 watch him spear an
enemy. challenged Edouard Bourdet.
director Of the state controlled
Comedie Francaise.
Bourdet said that, although he
never has fought a duel his nim-
bleness viii offset Bernstein's eN-
perience.
Parisians said the duel involving
two OF Frances best-knoWn drama
fists would be the outstanding en-
counter of the year. although it
seemed to be a foregone conclusion
that neither would suffer more than
a slight laceration-just enough to
make 1t coupe de sang.
Duels are Illegal in France but.
because they are affairs OF honor.
the police wink at them as long as
neither combatant is badly hurt.
Bernstein challenged Bourdet as
result of a quarrel arising from
Bernstein's withdrawal of his play
Judith" from the Comedie roper
tory during rehearsals.
Bernstein. called The French
Dostoievski" withdrew his play
judith" because Bourdet allegedly
planned TO stage it without suffi-
cient rehearsals. There was an ex-
change of bitter letters. containing
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Sportsman Bound
Over for Trial
In Murder Case

PRESCOTT. Ariz., May 10 CUP)
-Ernesto Lira, Prescott sportsman,
was bound over to superior court
late today for trial on charges of
numbering Marcus Jay Lawrence,
81, Washington. D. C. in a fight
over the attentions of a woman.
No trial date was fixed immedi-
ately. Lira, one-time manager of
light heavyweight champion John
Henry Lewis, was returned to jail
without bond.
Justice of the Peace Gordon
Clark, presiding at Lira's prelimi-
nary hearing denied defense
motion for dismissal of the charge
on grounds there was no direct
evidence Of premeditation in Law
rence's Staying.
Lawrence. member of a wealthy
Washington family who became a
rancher near here several years
ago, died in hospital here a week
ago of injuries and wounds which
a coroners jury found were in
tllcted by Lira in fight over the
attentions of Mrs. Odessa Webb.
Prescott woman who had lived
With Lira for two years.