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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
Rebel Drive Nears Mediterranean Sea
LEADERS LEAVE DECISION
ON EXPLOSIVE PROFITS TAX
ISSUE UP TO ROOSEVELT
Confess Ignorance Of Presi-
dents Views After Ma
tion-Wide Protest

WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP)
IIaraSSed congressional leaders
will place the explosive problem
of retaining the undivided profits
tax in the new revenue bill
squarely up TO President RoOse-
welt on his return from Warm
Springs, Ca, it was learned last
night.
The chief executive will be ask
ed to state his views clearly on
the controversial levy and will be
told that administration support
must be whipped behind it if even
the "tace saving" skeleton APP
proved by the house is to be saw
ed from the congressional junk
heap.
Yielding to widespread business
demands, the senate finance COM
mittee sunk the profits impost
without trace before turning over
revised version of the house-ap-
proved bill to its drafting experts.
Earlier, the house had exempted
little business under the tax but
retained its principles toward cor
porations earning $25, 900 or more
annually.
Administration leaders at the
capitol profeSSed not to know Mr..
Roosevelt's position on. the earn
ingS tax as result of the ma
ti0nwide storm against 1t. The
usual plea to members TO uphold
the presidents hand" was not
made when the house debated the
new version. 1t is not customary,
however, for a congressional COM
mittee to recommend changes III
the revenue law which are obnoX-
ious to the White House and may
bring a veto.
At the same time, administra-
ton big-wigs did not come before
either the senate or house tax
making committees this year, as
they did in 1886, to defend the
tax reform. The levy was con-
ceived by Herman Oliphant, gen.
eral counsel of the treasury, as a
weapon to break up huge accumu-
lations of reserves which were es-
Gaping federal taxation, and he
argued his case vigorously.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
FOES GROWING
STRONGER IN
House FIGHT
Communication Is, Set up
With Roosevelt for
His Direction
LEADERS IN HOUSE
CALL WAR COUNCIL

WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP)
Administration leaders. facing
powerful coalition determined to
block the government reorganiza-
ton bill, were comforting today
by telephone with President
Roosevelt at Warm Springs or the
future strategy.
Heading into a showdown on
the controversial measure with in
surgent coalition growing more
militant, President Roosevelts
house leaders called q war coun-
ell in the office of Majority Lead
or Sam Rayburn d., Tex.
Speaker William B. Bankhead
and Representative Lindsey War
rem were among the group of ad-
ministration leaders mapping
strategy for today's house SEES
sion.
Long distance telephone con-
nection was set up to. the "little
White House" at Warm Springs.
President Roosevelt already had
interviewed personally when he
sent a midnight letter to a friend
appealing for quick acton on the
bill. -,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
REV. J. A. linn
WILL ASSUME
TASK sunday
Two Sermons Will Mark
Opening Of Grace Luth-
eran Passionate

Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Linn and
son, Herbert, have arrived in the
city and taken up residence IN
Druid Hills on the ASheville high
way, preparatory to Rev. Inns
assumption of duties as pastor OF
Grace Lutheran church.
The new pastor will conduct his
first services here us pastor Sun
day ut the IL a. m. and regular
evening hours of worship, speak
ing i'm the morning on What
Shall We Do With Christi" and
i'm the evening on THE Power OF
Innocent Blood"
Rev. MIR. Linn is graduate OF
Roanoke (Yirginia) college, and
of the Mt. Any Lutheran Theo-
logical seminary of Philadelphia,
finishing in the spring of 1922,
and in the fall of that year was
assigned missionary duty in Moji.
FukuOko district of Japan, where
he continued this work until 1888,
when they returned to America.
Their son was born in Tokyo.
The family spent six months in
Tucson, Ariz., on arriving in the
United States, and came from
there to Hendersonville in May,
1888.
Rev. Mr.. Linn resigned the pas
torate at Bear Poplar, near
Mooresville, to accept the call
rendered him by Grace Lutheran
church.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
Death TAKES
JOHN K. HILL
Pioneer Orchardist's Rites
Held From Refuge
Church Today

John K. Hill, 60, prominent
Henderson county farmer, and plo-
neer orchardist of Blue flage
township. died at his home yesteIf-
dav afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock. he
had been in i'll health for seVerai
months. .,
FnnaraI services were being CON
Quoted this afternoon at 5 o cice n
at refuge Baptist church, OF "'Icil
he was a member, by the Rev Arm
old Edney. Burial will follow IN
Oakdale cemetery. D
Honorary pallbearers are l.. B.
Prince. Lee Station, John Lytle'
Joe Guice, Andy Case, Lum Alien
r w Ewbank, and Ellie HUI.
Active pallbearers are Burgin
Hvder Otho BLY,, Walter Marshall,
Aionzo Pace, Frank Hill, and John
King. .; &c Han
derson county and a son OF John
H;ll of Rutherford county, and
Mrs Doreas Gilbert Hill, of Hen
derson county. He was one OF
Henderson county's outstanding
orchardists and was a pioneer IN
the use of spraying and other sci
entific orcharding measures.
He is survived by his widow,
formerly Miss Rosa Reavis, a
daughter, Mrs. George S. Penn, OF
Chesnee, S. c., and two grandchil-
dren.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
WHITMIRE WILL
OPEN OFFICE.
FOR CAMPAIGN
Supporters Gratified at Re-
ception Of Candidacy
for Congress

r. l.. Whitmire, local attorney,
and candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the lower house OF
the United States congress, plans
to open campaign Headquarters
for his campaign here early next
week, he announced today.
Mr.. Whitmire will open head
quarters in the old Citizens Bank
building in his campaign for the
seat now held by the veteran OF
more than 20 years service in con-
gress, Zebulon Weaver, of Ashe-
vile.
Although only preliminary cam
paign work has been done since ne
announced for congress last FRI
day, Mr.. Whitmire and his sup
porters expressed great satlsfac-
ton with the reception OF his an
nouncement over the district:
Mr.. Whitmire has received nu-
merous letters from constituents
of the district expressing satsfac-
ton over his nomination, and re"
ports from all sections of the dis"
trict indicate that his candidacy
has met a highly favorable re
Spouse.
Announcement Of county and
district campaign managers IS eX-
pected to be made by Mr.. Whit"
mire in the near future.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
OPPOSITION THINKS
BILL MAY BE KILLED

WASHINGTON, April z. (UP)
President Roosevelt suffered q Sc
we're congressional humping last
night when the house voted to de-
lay an administration move to
limit debate on the government
reorganization bill and speed 1t to
a final vote.
A hard fighting oppositionist
coalition succeeded. on motion
by Rep. John J. O'Connor, D., N.
Y, to leave the controversial bill
open to unlimited debate. The roll.
call vote was 191 to 149.
O'Connor's motion specifically
was directed against introduction
Of a motion by Chairman John J.
Cochran, d. Mo-, of the house re-
organization committee, to bring
general debate to a close. Coch-
ran subsequently Withdrew his mo-
ton and Speaker William B. Bank
head, D., Ala, adjourned the house
until noon today.
1t was the best test thus far on
the bill. The house ignored pleas
of administration leaders, who had
been given the personal support of
Mr.. Roosevelt, to end debate and
begin reading the bill for amend
ments.
The test came as coalition forces
opposing the measure, inspired by
flood Of "grass roots" protests,
successfully blocked administra-
ton maneuyers at every turn.
Administration leaders would
not admit the vote was indicative
of final sentiment, but it came af-
ter Republicans and :nsurgent
Democrats, rallying to protests
that the bill would create an AM
erican dictator, slowed house &C.
ton with every known parliament
tary device.
kilograms and letters deluged
the house which opened the sec
ond day of debate under rules al
lowing each of the 435 members
to speak an hour. II was the Sec
ond time that q similar motion by
Cochran was blocked.
Majority Leader Sam Rayburn,
D., Tex, who earlier delivered an
defense of the meas
ure, denied that the vote was sig
nifcant. He said it simply means
that the house thought there ought
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
CHINESE KEEP
Line in FACE
OFLONCDRIVE
Japs Blocked for Month
in Campaign to Take
Hsuch0w
JAPANESE DEAD is
PLACED AT 68,259

SHANGHAI, April 2. (UP).-
Japanese sources today admitted
that Chinese still held salient in
the path month-long Japanese
drive Of Hsuchow, but claimed
that the waters of Grand canal
''ran red with blood Of Chinese
defenders"
A Japanese spokesman describ-
ing the fighting around Taier-
chwang, which Chinese claimed
was recaptured Friday said that
bombing planes caused havoc
among retreating Chinese troops
along the canal. He asserted that
| Chinese lines wavered at several
points along the north bank.
+ Japanese press dispatches today
reported that mechanical Nlpo-
nese columns had smashed thru
/ General Ii Tsung-Jen's steel and
{ concrete Notifications northeast
nf, the vital city of Suchow-Fu and
occupied the walled town of
Slang Cheng after Strengthening
snn cs&imated 1900 Chinese sol
diers.
The Chinese line in this sector
had been considered "impregna-
BILE" the dispatches said, but they
were so badly battered after a
week of aerial bombing and long
artillery fire that the japanese
went through with only small cas-
ualties.
The operation was said to put
the Japanese again in position to
attack Suchow-Fu, key to the
northeast defenses Of Nationalist
China's provisional capital in Han
kow.
The Nipponese spearhead to-
day had separated the large Chi
neSe army defending the railway
triangle to the north of Suchow-
Flu, where the North-South Tient-
sin-Pukow (Nanking) line crosses
the East West Lunghai line, and
had definitely broken the advanc-
ed Chinese line which led through
Tai-Erh Chwang, Slang Cheng
and Lin-Yi.
One japanese column was at
tempting to cut off Chinese regl-
mentS entrenched around Lin-4i
while another was pursuing Chi
nese retreating towards Tai-Erh-
Chwang.
Japanese military headquar-
ters at Tsinan-Fu, capital of Shan
tung province, said that more
than 10000 Chinese-the bulk Of
them militiamen from Szechuan
province, had been killed.
"Chinese soldiers again have
sought refuge in the American
Presbyterian mission at Lin-Yi,"
the dispatches said, recalling that
Japan formally had warned those
in charge of the mission that it
might be bombed if the Chinese
continued to use its area for mill
tary purposes.
In Hankow General Chen Cheng
of the war office estimated total
japanese casualties from the start
of the war last July Z to March l
at 68,259 killed and 220,072
wounded. He did not mention Chi
nese casualties but foreign mill
tary attaches believed they were
at least six or seven times as
great as the Japanese owing to
inferior Chinese equipment.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
H. s. DEBATERS
WIN TWO TILTS
Victory Over Forest City
and Cullowhee Paves
Way to Chapel Hill

Hendersonville high school de-
batting teams won the right to par
ticipate in the state debating con-
test at Chapel Hill later in the
month by winning both affirmative
and negative debates against For
est City and Cullowhee yesterday.
The local affirmative team, COM
posed of Joe Mottsman and Billy
Reese, defeated Cullowhee at For
est City, and the local negative
team of Perry GianakoS and Ben
jamin Patterson defeated Forest
City at Cullowhee.
The Forest City negative team
defeated Cullowhee here.
The query of the debate was
Resolved, that the several states
should adopt a unicameral system
of legislation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
TRUCKS
NOT BARRED
County People May Use
Main Street; Ordinance
for Heavy Traffic

Hendersonville's recently enact
ed ordinance regulating truck traf-
fc is designed primarily to regu-
late heavy through truck traffic
and not to prevent Henderson
county people from using Main
street, Chief of Police Otis Powers
stated this morning.
Chief Powers stated that he had
been informed that e. number OF
residents of the county were OF
the opinion that the ordinance
prevented them from using Main
street with trucks.
The ordinance does not prohibit
the driving of trucks on Main
street where people have business
in town, but is intended to route
large trucks through the city
where they have no business to
transact in the city.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
10TH VICTIM OF
PAIN RELIEF
REMEDY DEAD
Three Remain iii; Analysis
of Preparation Rushed;
Delay Inquest

ORLANDO, Fla, April 2. CUP.
Edward Bolte, 70, former
Chicagoan, today became the 10th
to die this week from injections
administered by an Orlando physi-
clan to relieve cancer suffering.
Boilers death came as analysis
was rushed on the second of two
preparations the doctor said he
had used INTERCHANGEABLE in
treating his patients.
Three others, who had been
given injections from the same
bottle of drug, remained in hos
pitfalls here. Condition of Mrs. Ola
Hall was serious. She suffered
the same kind of commissions and
symptoms of tetanus lockjaw, as
those who had died.
The federal pure food and drug
administration in Washington and
DR.. J. M. Patterson of the Florida
state board of health, were max
ing laboratory analyses of con-
tents of the bottle of the drug.
A coroner's jury inquest was
postponed pending autopsy on the
seventh fatality.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
LAST DESPERATE EFFORT IS
MADE BY FRANCE TO AVOID
WORLDWIDE ARMAMENT RACE

tual consequences" of what threat
ems to be the greatest armament
race in world history.
The state department released
the texts of both the French and
British replies to the American
note. The British reply stated that
like the United States, Great Bri-
tain "fnds it necessary to aban-
don the limitations and restrictions
of the treaty because of Japan's
refusal to confirm or deny reports
that she is constructing or has au-
thorized construction of warships
far in excess of treaty limitations,
$4,000 tons for battleships and
10000 tons for cruisers.
"The government Of the repub-
lie has taken due note of the rea-
sons which have led the American
government, as we'll as the British
government, to this grave deci-
sion," the French reply said.
"Being DESTROYS of limiting as
Continued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
"a PLANES AT
miami BURN
Historic Craft and Hangar
Destroyed in $780,
900 Blaze

MIAMI, Fla, April 2. (UP):
An explosion of undetermined
cause today suddenly turned
the main hangar at Miami Mu-
nicipal Airport into a mass OF
flames, destroying the building
and Ia planes at an estimated
loss of $5oO,0oo
Two planes that have written
aviation history were among
those destroyed.
One was the fleet pursuit
ship of Alexander Severely in
which he set four speed marks.
The other was THE Texan" in
which Jimmie Mattern searched
last year in the Arctic for lost
Russian aviators.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
BASIC PAYROLLS In
STATE SHOW GAINS

RALEIGH, April 2. (UP) -
March payrolls in $50 companies
operating in basic state industries
showed an increase of $ll, ll9
over February, the state depart
ment of labor reported in a pre-
liminary survey today. A de.
crease of IS in the number OF
persons employed was reported,
although work hours increased
40.669.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
FRANCE HOLDS
REFUGEES IN
SPANISH War
Cancels Permit for Return
to Duty as Intervention
Issue Threatened
ROMAN CHURCH HITS
AT NAZIISM AGAIN
BY CLIFFORD L. DAY
Copyright, 1898, by United Press

LONDON, April 2. (UP)-Dan-
ger of new outburSt of ltalo-
French anger as result of the
flight of more than 1000 Spanish
LOyahSt soldiers into France from
the Aragon battlefronts and a
sharp renewal of the Roman Cath
Ole church's attacks on Naziism
last night were added to the brew
of Europe's troubles.
Frances Popular Front leftist
government, long the target of
Fascist bombasts, struggled with
the problem of disposing of the
1000 or more bedraggled Loyal
lists who floundered through SHOWS
of the Pyrenees mountains to
raech the safety of French soil
after being cut off from their
bases by the insurgent drive to
the eastern Seaboard.
The insurgent GeneralissimO
Francisco Franco was said to have
"hinted" that he will raise the cry
of French intervention in favor
of the Loyalists if Paris orders
the soldier refugees sent back into
Catalonia to take up arms again.
This hint would have not dis
turbed the French leftist govern
ment-it would like to see the
Loyahsts win but like Britain re-
fuses to intervene in Spain-had
it not followed Premier Benito
Mussolini's warning that "war may
result" if France made any last
minute efforts to save the Loyal
lists from defeat.
AS result, an order for repatria-
ton Of the refugee combatants
was suddenly cancelled late last
night.
While Mussolini, whose Black
shirt Fascist legionnaires led Cen
eral Francois troops to within 20
miles of the MediterI anean and
helped drag Il ring of steel around
the besieged Catalonian city OF
Lerida, waited silently for Frances
decision, the Vat!can's radio sta
ton outside Rome turned its wrath
upon II Duce's ally-in-arms, Adolf
Hitler of Germany.
The attack, including a radio
speech in Germany by a prelate
whose name was suppressed to
prevent any Nazi reprisals against
his order in Austria, was directed
not only against Hitler's annexa-
ton of Austria and its 80 per cent
Catholic population but even
against the Vatican's Vienna car
dinal, Theodore Innitzer.
A Vatican communicate repudi-
ated a declaration, signed by In
nitzer and other Austrian Catholic
prelates, calling upon 5000, OOO
Austrian Catholics to vote yes
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
. s. SCOUT TROOP
! WILL ENTERTAIN
WIHERS THURSDAY

- ~ Scouts of trooD ono -
ss,,i heard an interesting and in
3 rp P;.i talk on Birds, b T''T Mrs. ,s-
d T ~ Barnwen.
a. aae ~ the troop will en-
\ n S; at a tea for the m mrIt eI,s
IT.; Ss1ds Of the Girl sc rI'"t"'L 4
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
But
h MILES FROM
COAST, SEIZED
,v,Est Wholesale Mill
t,ry Shakeup Effort to
Bolster Forces
bgAR ATTACK ON
REBELS IS FAILURE

ugyDAYE, Franco Spanish
kon,ier, April :, CuP)-sp"nish
|.r,rs,s have effected the biggest
l.1;,,rv shakeup Of the civil war
I , dramatic attempt 10 StItten
nj, resistance on the Catalonlan
,or,ier and save their cause from
.ui,.o, disaster. The entire
Fs,sIonian high command has
I'm altered and every officer OIL
n Old regular army who had
zen at 4 Key post was replaced
q militia Officer-One OF the
g1ian volunteers who saved the
pyalisr government at the oE[Set
the civil war.
A. BurgOS, Spain, II was as
sr,etI Officially that the nation
lists had occupied GandeSo, -
lies from the sea on the Gaia
aiah front.
h.was learned that the nation
lists are preparing 70 put the
Observation-Disclosures highway, last
heat lOyalist artery, under a
tint land and sea bOmbardment.
l.oyaliSt armies were reported
bst night to be driving their IN
urgent foes across the Guadall-
hra mountains in wild retreat in
arge-ScaIe attack on the rear Of
eneralisSimO Francois forces
olHiiHg toward the Mediterra.
e2R rgSt coast.
The big counter-offcnSiye, led
the bald-headed Genera! Jose
laja, known as the savior Of
adri44,' was designed to disrupt
rancO'S 10000 troops spread
lt along 4 lGj-mile front in their
Evasion Of Catalonia.
POlaS vas succeeded by Lieut..
OL Juan Perea, a voluntary mill
: leader in Madrid in the early
AyS o! the war who distinguish
himself with daring. Without
Lhtary background, Perca has
eT OF The qualifications OF the
slrgan Niaia.
Upon the success of Miaia'S op-
alionS, lOyaliSts said. depends
heiner Catalonia is to be saved
d whether Frances war ma
lHe vii, be thrown back from
gates Of Lerida and GandeSa.
frances legionnaireS last night
Iet the highway junction Of
aaeroU.2S in me GandeSa sec
t. putting them only 10 miles
T9 the big Mediterranean port
IOFioSa on the broad delta of
s Ebfo river.
At yalderobles the Insurgents
ae ~ miles from the sea but
aglas river and loyaliSt-in-
seq Aontenegreto mountains
before them.
ne lnSqrgent radio station on
y Madrid front announced at
~ ? m, that Lerida, gateway
Vaa!onla and but "a miles
~. y Of the lOyalist capital, Bar
!. nad been abandoned and
c,,S @e IOyaIists held only one
H. %a north of the medieval
s Msargent station said the
~, sJj'sGent Of Lerida was com
l.s,. 49, SGen Gen. Juan Yague's
81. :. Vo!amn reached the Segre
n ~ y the eity's northern gates
h. -. he lOyalists resisted saw
! ~ D, "a !aand'to-hand fighting on
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
BY GRATTAN McGROARTY
United Press Staff Correspondent nj

United fresS Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 2. (uP)
The French government has ap,
pealed to the United States and
Great Britain for a union of the
three democratic powers to make
a last desperate effort to forestall
the world naval race, it was re-
vealed last night.
Replying to the United States
note of March 81 formally notify
ing the world of this cOuntry's
intention to invoke the escalator
clause of the 1886 London treaty
and build the most powerful ar
mazda aflOat, France declared that
she will continue to respect the
qualitative limitations of the treaty
so long as other continental Euro
pean powers refrain from con-
structing super-warships.
France urged an Anglo-Franco-
American naval agreement as soon
as possible to prevent the "eyen-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
Lime Sulphur
Spray Must Be
Greatly Diluted

Through an error, The Times
News misquoted D. w. Bennett,
assistant Henderson county agent,
yesterday in giving the proper so
luton with which to spray apple
blooms, which is in order at this
time.
Mr.. Bennett stated today that,
in urging arsenate of lead not be
used at this time, because 1t is
deadly to bees, the proper formu-
la for spray would be five
quarts of liquid lime sulphur to
so gallons of water.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
DOUGHTON TO SPEAK

SALISBURY, April 2. (UP).-,
Representative Robert l.. Dough
ton. chairman of the house ways
and means committee and dean OF
North Cardinals delegation II
congress, will address young Dem,
ocrats of the ninth congressional
district at their annual banquet
here tonight
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
MISSIONARY AT CAMP
GROUND S. S. SUNDAY

Announcement has been made
that the Rev. R. H. Hull, mission
airy of the American Sunday
School Union, will preach at the
Camp Ground church Sunday
school service to be held Sunday
evening, April 8, at 7:30 o'clock.
The public is cordially invited.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
YOUNG DEMOS ACTIVE

EDENTON, April 2.-IUPJ-
The Chowan county Young Demo-
Gratis club, looking towards the
June primaries, have begun a
membership drive throughout the
county.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
MISS FREEMAN RECEIVERS

Miss Dottie Freeman, who I'M
derwent an appendix operation at
Patton Memorial hospital Tues
day, is reported as recovering
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
WEATHER

:.s followed by fair and
GEAR Gear, colder weather %itn
, ,.o,i toni tonight. Sunday fair signify
ssrmsr
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-02
GOOD AFTERNOON

British women are shy toward
going into business, because over
there it's . matter of putting on
pounds.