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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
u: s. MAY CHALLENGE
JAPANESE BLOCKADE

(Confinucd from mage nne)
yang) area for Il "last ditch de-
Tense against the invading Japa-
nese, suddenly dissolved all civil
liam defense organizations and no.
tilted the communists that ne Is
prepared to abandon the Wu-han
ahea "after inflicting the utmost
possible damage on the japanese.
The decision indicated posi-
bic split between the generals
simo and the communists since
the reds for months have been de-
handing that Hankow be made "a
second Madrid" :.
Chiang's contention is that his
war-long policy of stubborn resls-
lance, organized retreat, and new
resistance in new positions, must
be followed as long as possible
and is certain eventually to ex-
haust the Japanese.
The Japanese Domei news agen,
CIV denied reports in London that
Italy secretly is ATTEMPTING to me-
date the Chinese-Japanese war on
a program calling for a new Chi
nese government. headed by for
mtr Premier Wang Ching-wel,
which would be formed after the
,Japanese take Hankow to make
peace with them. Italians here
would not comment on the deports
but many foreign observers be-
Iieved they were correct.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
American Youth,
DR.. Combs Topic
By ]. w. JOHNSON

Those who heard DR.. Gilbert K.
Combs Sunday, met something dit
ferent, something out of the ordl-
nary. | do not remember his text,
but his discourse was on "Amerl-
can Youth" He referred to the
National Youth Contest held re-
Gently in the American Magazine
in which several thousand dollars
awards were given for best an
swers TO a million QUESTIONABLE
blanks sent out by the magazine:
These covered art, literature, and
education and what is "The Life
Worthwhile. The address was IN
no way sensational, but sober, sem
sible. safe. sane. 1t was a chal-
lenge TO American youth. 1t gave
them the glad hand and the open
door. 1t babe them be honorable
in their dealings, to love righteous
ness. to flee from evil-doing, to be
Industrious. loyal, useful citizens.
We hear too much of the frall-
ties and foibles and weaknesses
of youth as displayed in the
movies and trashy literature of
the day, but We do not ask nor
answer. "Who is to blame" The
home, the school, the church, So
ciety and government at large
have a vast and abiding response
bility. Save the youth OF today,
they are the glory of tomorrow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
HAMILTON And
PAL CAPTURED
Notorious Gang Leader Is
Found Badly Wounded
and Unarmed

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 22. (UP).
Floyd Hamilton, lanky Oklahoma
bad man and last Of the notorious
Observation-Disclosures gang OF
southwestern desperadoes, was
captured Sunday, afoot and un-
armed, in. river bottom outside
this city.
Five hours earlier Hamilton 5
companion in a Texas jail-break
last June, Ted Walters, was pick
ed up by police in downtown DIAL
las, thus ending the nation-wide
manhunt for the two men named
by Chief Oman J. Edgar Hoover
as the country's No. dcspera-
does.
Hamilton told policemen who
arrested him that he and Walters
had lost their guns when they
fought their way out of a trap
near Dequeen, Ark, 10 days ago.
The capture of both men was
an anti-clmax to a desperate get
away attempt earlier in the night
when Hamilton, picked up by fed
eral bureau Of investigation men,
broke away. and was shot in the
left leg as he fled.
Hamilton was limping along the
Trinity river bottom toward a
railroad track, apparently intend
ing to catch a freight train out
Of town, when Detectives Will
Fritz and Jack Archer of the Dali
las police department found him
He surrendered without fight
they said. He had several buck
shot wounds in his left leg, which
was badly inflamed.
Police said the two men had
lived for several days in a hide
out here with a 30-year-old me-
gro, Willie Marshall, who was ar
rested on suspicion of harborine
fugitives from justice. Marshal
was believed to have met the two
men on a freight train when the!
were beating their way TOWARD
Dallas from TeXarkana.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
President Nav
Get Defeated New
Dealer Into Race
Pope of Idaho Calls at
Hyde Park But Not
Talking as Yet

HYDE PARK, n. Y. Aug. %.
President Roosevelt Sunda y
swung the New Deal spotlight on
Idaho and, as a result, Senator
James P. Pope, ardent administra-
ton supporter recently defeated
in the primaries for denomination,
may run as an Independent.
The chief executive canraSscd
the far western political situation
with Pope, who was guest at the
summer White House, and the
latter admitted that they touched
briefly on the possibility of his
re-entering the field.
81 have made no decision in
the matter and do not expect to
until return hOme," he told
newspapermen who found him
with the president on the baseball
field at Pawling, N. y, watching
game between Lowell Thomas
nine old men and the White
House Purgers," consisting of
correspondents, cameramen and
secret service operatives.
The conference, however, took
on added significance when it was
learned that Harry Hopkins and
Aubrey Williams, WPA chief
tains, were also at Hyde Park.
Hopkins is emerging more and
more as the No. ! political advis-
er to the president and some per-
sons believe that his status now
equals that of Postmaster General
James A. Farley.
Some of the more militant New
Dealers feel that Pope represents
the advanced progressive views
necessary to carry forward adj
ministration policies and there
fore should run. Pope, who was
defeated in the primaries by ID.
Worth Clark after he had been
endorsed both by Farley and
Secretary of State COrdell &.
Hull, told newspapermen that ne
discussed politics and the agricul-
tural situation. He is interested
in the proposal for wheat sub
sidy to help dispose of surplus
but he did not take up that Qucs-
ton with the president.
Mr.. Roosevelt came to Pawling
late but in time to see the White
House team defeated, rs, in the
Thinning soft-ball game. He sat
in his car on the first base line
and rooted vainly for his team on
which John Roosevelt, his young
est son, played shortStop.
The president began hi second
week at the Hyde Park summer
White House yesterday.
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ARP. SESSION
IN PROGRESS
DR.. Robinson Speaks Tues
day; Laymen's Day Fri
day at Bonclarken
Telephone
Numbers
So or 9125

The Christian Workers Confer
ence of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, now being
held at Bonclarken, will close one
of the most successful conference
seasons in the history OF the
church.
Rev. w. C. Robinson, DID,, of
Columbia Theological Seminary,
Decatur. Ga, will preach on Tues
day morning at $40 on 1.-The nd
die of Calvary" go,
The mission study lesson will be
conducted by Mrs. R. n. Hunter
and DR.. w. B. Lindsay, chairman
of the board of Home Missions
will conduct the vesper service.
Friday, August &c will be Lay
mans Day, at which time DIR.
Julian Miller, editor of the Char
lotte Observer will speak to the
deacons, and DR.. E. l.. Reid OF
Erskine college will speak to the
elders.
Rev. R. f. Speer, DID,, of New
York City will make the morning
address at this time and DR.. w.
G. Robinson the evening address.
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HILL FOLK SHOWN
THEIR FIRST MOVIE
AT BLOWING ROCK

Confined f""m naPe on")
of the region. In the words OF
Lum Gragg. old time resident Of
the hills, "If you call man
Gragg around here and he don't
answer right pretty, call him COT
fey"
Reserved and shy because they
rarelu venture far from their hill
cabins, hcwn from chestnut logs,
some Of the mOuntaineers resent
ed the flashing bulbs of news pho
tographers.
"Be we the show" demanded
one, cor be it the picture"
What they thought of the
movies was difficult to determine
from their comments, since under
statment is a protective device
of the communicative noun
taineer. Most said they liked II
fright well" and "wouldn't mind
coming back.
Blake Coffey, l3-year-old noun
tain boy who has been a tobacco
chcwer for five years and now Is
in the third grade at school
scrapeG his bare, horny sole in
hte dirt outside the tiny theatre
and offered the criticism that
George Raft "warn't much of 8
shot" 1t seems that Raft hao
missed with his harpoon gun .
couple of times in fight between
Alaska salmon fishermen and
poachers. Blake much preferred
the strength and dcxterity Of Pop
eye in besting a Spanish bull. ,
"He shore is a powerful man,
said Blake of Popeyc. :,
Aunt Mary Gragg, 81 years ole
day before yistiddy" left the
ancient cabin her first husband
built for her 81 years ago and
rode into town with the mail mar
on the RID. route that winds .
Jagged course through the noun
tains. She saw the picture witt
amazement but collapsed with eX
citcment of speaking into radio
microphone.
Some of the mountalneerS VINO
had been invited to the perform
ance refused flatly to come to the
movies because Of religious scru'
pies.
"pd like to CO." explained Mrs
Sarah Reed, "but I'm Altered the
end of time might come and !
wouldn't want the Lord to catcf
me in such a sinful place"
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Howard MerrelPs
Funeral Is Held

Funeral service for Howard
Merrell. -. of the Fruitland sec
ton. who died Saturday morning
at Patton Memorial hospital after
3 two weeks Illness, was held at
Emma Grove Baptist church at
the Fairview section of BuncOmbe
county, AZ 1 o'clock yesterday al
ternoon.
Rev. n. A. Melton was in charge
Of the services, assisted by Rev.
i. II. Brooks. Pallbearers were
cousins of the deceased.
Mr.. Merrell is survived by his
bride of three weeks, Mrs. Ere
belle Merren: his mother. Mrs.
Ethel Merrell Cox; one sister, Mrs.
John Cole of HenderSonville, and
one brother. Abner Merrell.
Also surviving are three step
brothers. 4. F.. Cox Of Greenville,
Oscar Cox of Marietta. 5. c., and
Carl Cox of Cleveland Tenn.
three strp-sisters. Mrs. Frank Ha-
good, Mrs. Edward Lyday, and
Mrs. F.. Goodwin. all of Travellers
Rest. S. c.
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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Mr.. and Mrs. II. 5. Singley and
little daughter, Anna Kay, Of Co.
lumbia. s. C.. were weekend
quests Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. X. Sing
ley.
Miss Priscilla Williamson, of
Tallahassee. Fla. is the guest of
Mrs. Mary c. Crimson, who also
has as her house guest, Mrs. Geo.
Il. Carter. Of Richmond Hill, l.. |.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Tart, Of Co.
Iumbia, s. c., spent the weekend
with the latter's mother, Mrs. Ed
AnderS.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. ". Garmany
and daughter. Miss Laura, and
son. Writ, Jr.. of kenSingtOn,
Ga, were overnight guests ut the
Skyland hotel. They We're former
we'll known residents of this city.
Edward B. Reeves. of Charles
ton, S. c.. arrives today to spend
ten days as the guest of his aunt,
Mrs. j. X. Livingston. and cousin,
Miss Milliccnt Livingston.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
MAN KILLED BY
CHISEL IN HEAD
Raleigh Police Study as to
Whether Death Suicide
or Homicide

RALEIGH, Aug. 22.-(UP)-,
Police debated last night whether
w. c. O'Connell. 61-year-old I'M
employed carpenter, could have
committed suicide by driving a
chisel deep into his own skull.
O'Connell's body was found ~
ing in a woodshed near his home
Saturday a short while after he
had fired the kitchen stove and
said he was going out to feed the
chickens.
The long, keen-edged chisel was
driven three and 5-8 inches thru
a bald spot on top of his head.
Police were uncertain whether he
could have driven in the chisel
himself or whether he had been
murdered.
There was no sign of a struggle
in the woodshed and no bruises
were found on the carpenters
body. Police, puzzled, said it APP
peared impossible for him to have
driven in the chisel and that it
would have been difficult for any
one to surprise him, place the
chisel in position, and hammer it
through his skull.
A short-handled Ratchet, greasy
from previous use in choppIng
meat, was founde near his body.
No fngerprints were discernible
on either the hatchet or the chisel,
police reported.
There was no blood where the
chisel handle prOtruded from his
head and officers were able to re-
move the death instrument only
by clasping the end of the chisel
with a pair Of pliers and hammer
inc on the pliers.
THE amount Of pressure neces-
sary to drive the blade at one
blow nearly four inches through
the thick skull would have been
more than O'Connell could have
mustered with no more leverage
than obtained by holding Ratchet
far enough over his head to strike
the chisel," DR.. f. R. Marlborough
said. The blade was an inch and
half wide. -,
II do not believe O'CornelI
could have struck the chiSel sew
eral times and thus driven it sc
deep" he added. "Hc would have
been unconscious after the first
blow"
Keys to the garage were found
in O'Connell's pocket and police
said he apparently entered the
place by himself. There was moth,
ing to indicate anyone else had
been in the building and his fam
lily said the carpenter had no enc
mics.
An autopsy will be held today
Coroner Row NJ. Banks said.
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JOINS
WAR AGAINST
PARTY PURGE
Recalls Maryland's Noble
Stand in Carpet
Bag Era
Bv GERRY ROBICHAUD

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. CUP
Senator Willard E. Tydlngs, con-
servative Maryland Democrat
charged last night that President
Roosevelt's efforts to defeat nm
in the coming elections Is an IN
vasion of states rights and rem.
iniscent of the "carpet-baggmg
DAYS of the Civil war reconstruct
ton period.
Speaking over a statewide ra-
dio network at Baltimore, lyd-
ings directed his fire at Mr.
Roosevelt and Representative "a
vld J. Lewis, 100 per cent New
Dealer, whose election the Presi-
dent called for last week when ne
charged that Tydings was seek
ing denomination with Koose.
welt prestige and the money o1
his conservative epu &c a n
friends both on his side"
Accused by the president OF
"betraying" the New Deal, lyd-
ings warned that success OF MI
Roosevelt's purge" OF party con.
servatives would mean renewal OF
the supreme court enlargement
plan and that the fight tor an
independent Judiciary will be
lost" Only last week Mr.. RooSe-
welt said that the court bill nc
longer was an issue, since the ad,
minlstration already had obtained
80 per cent of the obJectlVes
sought when the plan was SUD-
mitted to congress.
Attacking federal Intervention
in state primaries. Tydings SAID
that certain administration OIL
Gals, whom he did not identity,
had brought pressure to bear on
fedreal officeholders in Maryland
and in one case had demanded
the resignation Of one of his sup,
porters, Harry Webb, federal
housing official.
I'm the dark days of the Re-
construction era following the
Civil war, men in Maryland and
in other states of the nation had
to walk between lines of fixed
bayonets to register their choice
for national representatives, ne
said.
THE force then used was ST.
lent, represented by soldiers who,
acting on the orders Of a coterle
then in control of our national
government, sought to apply the
lash of retribution to the lmpoV-
erished people of the war-torn
and devastated land of the old
south.
"Maryland's part in this tragic
era was noble one and the
voices of her representatives anc
people led the way back to rea
democracy, sanity, peace ano
prosperity.
To-day, first rumors, h 4
statements and finally action have
come to tell us that the sovereign
tv of our state, the right of oul
people to pass judgment on the
REPRESENTATIVES without fear, IN
timidation or outside interference
is a campaign call without queS
/ ton.
"This issue transcends all 9th
ers, for on it's final determination
depends the sovereignty of the
people themselves in their guar
antced and well-defincd coEstitu
tional prerogatives and priv
legcs."
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PACIFICATION FOR
EUROPE is BLOCKED
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non-interyention plan for with
drawal of all foreign volunteers
from til eSpaniSh battlefronts by
demanding that he be given mme-
diate belligerent rights, the Off
cial text Of his decision revealed
last night.
Frances unfavorable reaction
To the labOriouSly developed
scheme of u nations pledged to
"hands off Spain" neutrality was
believed to have been influenced
largely by his chief supporters,
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany
and Premier Benito MusSolini Of
Italy.
The loyalist government at
Barcelona accepted the plan to
give the civil war back to the
Spaniards nearly month ago,
attaching several theoretical OBJ
ServatiOnS.
Franco refrained from outright
rejection Of the plan, probably be-
cause of reluctance to shoulder
responsibility for its breakdown,
but attached so many counter
suggestions and improvements
to 1t in his l,700-word answer
that new negotiations will be nee
t-ssary on almost every point.
Because of Frances strong
nazi-fascis tsupport, and the fact
that he is known to have consult
Il with Hitler and Mussolini be-
fore giving his reply, there were
immediate repercussiOns to his ac-
ton.
Many British diplomats bleiev-
ed that the generalissimo's note
doomed completely the incipient
Anglo-Italian accord of friend
ship.
The friendship pact, initiated in
Rome last Easter time, contains a
proviso that it can not take eff
feet until Mussolini withdraws his
Blackshirt legionnaires from the
nationalist trenches.
Even more explosive is a
French threat to reopen her
PyreneeS frontier and permit
arms shipments to the Spanish
loyaliSts unless Franco agrees to
give up his mercenarieS.
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COMMUNISTS ACTIVE
IN SUPPORT OF F. R,
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United States, and that these for
eign governments are using these
organizations and their member
ships as fronts to advance their
interest and cause in the United
States and to transfer their quar-
rels and isms to our shores"
"Of course, some of this testi-
mony must be discounted because
of a natural tendency to eXagger-
ate" Dies said. But after making
due allowances the fact appears
to remain that the infiltration OF
alien influences and ideas threat
ems to produce a profound effect
upon our social, political and eco
monte system"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-22
Pope Will Battle
On Against Aryan
Racial Program

CASTEL GANDOLFO, ITALY,
Aug. %. (UP)-Pope Plus Xl
yesterday served notice that he
intends to continue his public con-
domination of the new Fascist
"Aryan" racial program despite
Saturdays accord ending bitter
dispute between Catholic action
and the Fascist party.
The Pontiff, in an address to
students of the College for Propa-
CATION of the Faith which adjoins
the Papal summer palace here,
warned them of the curse" of
exaggerated nationaism and re-
ferred to his previous statements
condemning Italy's unhappy iml-
tation" of Germany's anti-SemitIc
crusade.
The Catholic action. lay organ
ization in charge of youth activi-
ties. yesterday reached an agree
ment with the Fascist party re-
affirming September, 1881, ac-
cord prohibiting Catholic action
from interfering with the Italian
racial program.
The Pontiff spoke repeatedly OF
exaggerated nationaliSm" during
his talk to missionary students OF
the college and pointed out that
he already has discussed such en-
IRENE racial theories in a manner
in which might have appeared
too sad"
"Our advice to you" he added
ais to be careful of all dangerous
things, but, above all, of eXagger'
atcd nationalism."
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PARTY
USES FUNERAL
FOR POLITICS
Urge More Radical Auto.
nomy Plan; Closer
Sudeten Ties
By ELEANOR PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

ROSENBERG. CzechoSlovakia,
Aug. 90. - (UPI - The Slovak
Peoples party used funeral
Sunday as "A point Of departure
for a more radical autonomy pro-
gram and closer ties with the NaZi
Sudeten Germans.
More than $4,000 SlovakS bur
led their leader, Monsignar An
drcas Hlinka, in weathercd Gem
ctery at dusk, and Immediately
afterwards Slovak leaders ex.
pressed renewed demands of
Czcchoslovakia's 100000 Slo-
vaks for president, parliament
and full autonomy.
Deputy Karcl Sidor, generally
accepted as Father HIinka'S sue.
ccssor, said the governments ada
mant attitude probably will drive
the Slovaks into fuller collabora-
alton with the Sudetcn minority
under Konrad Henlcin.
"Thc Czech government is rX-
tremely short-siehtcd." said Sidor
Immediately after the funeral
services for the priest who had
been militant leader Of the PEG
pies party for 40 years.
at is discussing all the minori.
ties at once instead of dealing
with them separately, and this
common grievance probably will
force Us to join forces with the
other minorities for mutual self
protection"
. Sidor denied reports that, since
. IIlmka's death last week. a split
in the party's ranks had occurred
with Father Josef Tiso, leader of
the conservative ring. opposing
. him.
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$4,000 DIXIE WORKERS
ADDED TO WPA ROLLS

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. CUP
The WPA added $4,000 workers
to the southern rolls during the
week ending August 18th as its
program to give employment to
100000 southern farm laborers
began, it was announced today.
Florida rolls were increased
1882; Kentucky 1850; North
Carolina ST.; Tennessee 2,462,
and Virginia BAT.
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STEPHENS IS
net TITLIST
CAPTURES Mems Singles
Crown; Doubles, Mixed
Finals Come Later

John Stephens won the mems
singles title in the Hendersonville
tennis tourney yesterday and Mrs;
Ann Ball of Flat Rock captured
the women'S crown.
Stephens defeated Pete Stokes
in the finals in straight sets, 6-3,
81. 6-3. Mrs. Ball defeated her
sister, Mrs. Whaley, in a beautiful
three set match, ST., 6-3, Cd.
Finals in the doubles and mixed
doubles will be played later In the
week. FinaliSts in the doubles are
John Stephens and Bob Anders VS..
Pete Stokes and George Fam:
In the mixed doubles Miss Jenk,
ms and Stephens meet Mrs. Ball
and. Cheves, the winners to play
Miss Meter and Anders.
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F. RS. FIGHT AGAINST
O'CONNOR MAY BRING
ABOUT NEW CONTEST
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cleavage with the president prob
ably will be manifest in how his
committee expedites White House
approved bills He struck back at
Mr.. Roosevelt's demand for his
political demise with the charge
that the chief executive aspires to
dictatorship.
Some congressman are con-
WINGED that a victory for the New
Yorker would put him in line as
candidate for speaker of the
I.house or as majority leader, de-
pending on how much Republican
support he can muster. He is run
ming for denomination on both
the Democratic and Republican
tickets.
The minority party now has
only 80 seats in the house, an all
time low, but the national COM
mittee claims it will retrieve at
least rs sents in the coming cleo
tons. If this is borne out OCon-
nor probably could count on this
support if he campaigned for the
leadership In any event he would
be potent anti-administration
factor.
Under house procedure, the
house ways and means committee,
representing the chamber, formu-
lates a slate of committee assign
ments. 1t is approved in a caucus
of the Democrats, and then sub
mitted to the full chamber for
ratification. The speaker is elect
ed by the house, but the majority
leader is picked in caucus.
Under precedent, it is custom
armv to continue committee mem
bership and speakers, if the same
party is in power, from session TO
session, but it is not mandatory:
There have been rumors also that
the administration may seek to
Dust "unsympathetic" Democrats
from committee chairmanshlps
and "key" spots.
Whether the White House may
attempt this strategy, none OF the
returning congressman seemed TO
know. They said that it is too
near election time to make state
ment, but all agree that such a
step would plunge the chamber
into a fight against "outside IN
tervention."