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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-28
new DEALERS
CALLED into
NEW TAXFlCHT
Roosevelt's Stand For
Stronger Profits Tax
Splits Leadership

WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP)
President Roosevelt summoned
New Deal forces from coast to
coast today to a new tax battle
which will extend through the
general election and eliminate
next session in congressional
drive for corporate profits and
capital gains taxes with teeth in
them.
Division in the New Deal-Dem-
ocratic leadership widened spec
tacularly as chairman Pat Harri-
son of the senate finance commit
tee prepared to answer Mr.. Roose-
velt's denunciation of the 1888
tax bill.
The principles of corporate
profits and capital gains taxation
automatically become primary is
sues in many election campaigns
this year. A Democratic candidate
repeatedly will not be able to
qualify for White House colors
without unqualified endorsement
of the presidents new drive for
higher taxation of persons with
comparatively large incomes.
The 1888 tax bill became a law
at midnight last night. Some
hours earlier Mr.. Roosevelt deliv-
cred the commencement address
efore the Is graduating students
of the Arthurdale, w. Va, high
school. Speaking in the gymnasi-
um,~he denounced the bill for
abandoning principles" of just
taxation.
With the tax bill in effect, con-
gress found itself suddenly al
most to the adjournment tape.
The relief-recovery appropriation,
wage-hour legislation and a def
cheney bill remain on the must
list. They may be voted upon and
done within time to get congress
out of Washington by June H..
or earlier.
Mr.. Roosevelt permitted the
tax bill to become a law without
his signature to dramatic his
protest against congressional
amendment of New Deal tax theo-
ries.
"By so doing" he told the high
school students, their parents and
friends and a nationwide radio
audience, 81 call definite atten-
ton of the American people to
those unwise parts of the bill L
have talked to you about today
one of them may restore in the
future certain form of tax avoid
ance, and of concentrated invest
ment power, which we had begun
to end, and the other a definite
abandonment of a principle of tax
policy long ago accepted as part
of the American system"
He called for Improvement next
year in the whole tax system,
state, local and federal, and sum-
moned private capital and bust,
nessmen" to put steam behind
'"the ideals of ending child labor,
or initiating the five-day week, OF
shortening work hours, of clear
ing slums, of bringing electricity
into homes, and of giving families
the chance to build or buy home
on easy terms, of starting old age
pensions and unemployment in
Surance."
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Honor Student In Suicide Pact
Failure Freed On Insanity Plea
Father Of Slain Girl Wants
To Fight Prosecutor;
Says Wife Insulted

NEW YORK, May 2S.-(UP)
Donald Carroll, the 16-year-old
high school honor student who
killed his sweetheart because she
was going to have a baby and
they Thought it was the most
beautiful way to die" last night
was acquitted by a jury of mid
dle-aged business men. -
The jury was out almost exact
" three hours, leaving the court
room at 1888 p. M, and returning
with their verdict at 6:30 p. m.
CAROLS defense against first
degree murder charges, growing
out of the death of pretty 49,
vear-old Charlotte Matthiesen, was
that he was insane at the moment
of shooting.
He insisted that he shot the girl
after they had decided on "sui.
eide pact" as the only way out of
their dilemma, but lacked the
nerve to kill himself. =.
The jury's verdict found him
not guilty "by reason of temper
ary insanity" ..
The crowd in the courtroom
burst into applause as the verdict
was read, and Judge Arthur
Downs was forced to rap several
minutes before order was re-
stored. -.
The slender, white-faeed de-
PENDANT stood rigidly while the
verdict was being read, and then
nearly fell to the floor. Judge
Downs ordered him held in Gus
tody until he could be given a
mental examination. ,
The state had not demanded
the death penalty, but witnesses
for the prosecution had insisted
Carroll was sane and had never
intended to carry out his part Oh
the "suicide pact"
After the verdict lad been re.
ported, Fred Matthesen, father OF
the slain girl, said to reporters,
"This is swell. This is my BIRTH
dav.. present. He was AZ years
old yesterday. ,.
Mrs. Matthiesen, who had faint.
ed shortly after the reporting OF
the verdict, said: e
az nraved he would come free:
I knew my girl would want 1t that
way. We can make many things
good now. I leased my girl TOO
much. I didn't take her serious
with her boy. Now l have to make
it up to the boy" .ou
Sydney Rosenthal, counsel Tor or
the defense, said that when ne
told Donald that he probably
would be out in a week, the youth
replied: -
Rosenthal, in his final plea TO
the Jury. insisted that the PAIR
were victims of Glove insanity
and that young Donald should be
freed. The boy had told the Jury
he and the girl talked over tneir
Suicide pact" before he shot hel 1
and they agreed it was "the most
beautiful way to die.
As the jury walked out, the BOY
tried to smile, but his lips trem-
bled and his eyes filled with tears;
A moment later he was huddled
over the lawyers table, his frall
body shaking with sobs.
Judge Downs, in his charge TO
Continued on page three)
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ern part Of the state which he
ruled until President Lazaro Car
denas sent troops against him sew
eral days ago.
In response to questions as to
whether the true picture of the
status of his revolt had been pre-
sented to the world, Cedillo said
that it had not. He asserted the
Mexican department of publicity,
handling the censorship of news
of the revolt, had subjected Amer
lea and the rest of the world to
unreliable communistic propa-
ganda," and that those in Mexico
believed none of the governments
reports.
He was asked what had, been
the response of the people OF the
republic to the call of the San
Luis Potosi legislature to come TO
the aid of the Mexican Constltu-
tional Army''-Cedillistas.
"The response of the people OF
our state exceeded our expecta-
Continued on page three)
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HITLER CONFERS WITH
NAZI FORCE LEADERS

BERLIN, May %. (UP)-
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler last night
called the leaders Of his armed
forces into consultation as Ger
many and Czechoslovakia ex-
changed sharp diplomatic protests
over . series Of frontier Incidents
and new violations" were report
ed on both sides Of the border.
Hitler, returning from Fallers-
leben where he laid the corner
stone of q new automobile fac
tory, met with commander.in-
chief of the army, navy and air
force but no announcement OF
the conference was made.
Hitler conferred with General
Wilhelm Keitel, head Of the su-
preme command Of the armed
forces; Field Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goerin4, commander in
chief Of the air force, Admiral
Erich Raeder, commander In chief
of the navy, and Col. Gen. Wal
Their Won Brauchitsch, commander
in chief Of the army.
The conference followed an
exchange of accusations by
Prague and Berlin, each accusing
the other Of violating the Ger
man. Czech frontier. n
The German government, it
was learned in Prague, had pro-
tested indirectly against Czecho-
slovakia's action in calling up
10000 army reserves last Satur-
day. ...-..-
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BILL FOLD, LIFE LONG
AFFECT, STILL in USE
BY 76 YEAR OLD MAN

J. B. Hill, 76-year-old Fruit
land farmer, exhibited a bill-fold
in The Times-News office yester-
day that he has been carrying his
entire life and which is still ser
viceable.
Mr.. Hill said that the bill-fold
had seen constant service and was
always with him. The thread sew
ing together the leather had been
replaced on one occasion and had
pulled loose in others since then,
but the fold was still in good con-
dition. ..-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-28
IVA MOVIES TO BE
SHOWN OVER COUNTY

The IVA is putting on SER
les of moving pictures dealing
with fire prevention, tree plant,
inc timber stands, and other vital
rural subjects in the county nex e
week. 1t is one of series OF
programs which will be given over
a six month period. -,
The movies are free and will
be given in the several school
houses in the county. Appoint
ments for these for next week
Etowah, Monday night; Wed
nesday, Tuxedo; Thursday, Bal
four: Friday, Dana. All these
performances will open at eight
o'clock.
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IMMACULATE
CLOSING HSET
Bishop McGuinness Will
Be Here For Event
Monday IT,.

The Immaculate School will
hold it's closing exercises on Mon
day afternoon at 4 O'Clock. They
will be presided over by His Ex-
cellency, Most Reverend Eugene
McGuinness, Bishop of Raleigh.
A historical play entitled "The
Indian Princess" will be present
ed. 49,. .....s
An extra, special feature of the
afternoons entertainment will be
Toy Symphony orchestra by the
first and second grades. They
will render several numbers.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-28
CAR INDUSTRY
MAGNATES ARE
POSTING
Leading Industrialists Are
Indicted Under Anti
Trust Law
SOUTHBEND, Ind, May{8.-

SOUTHBEND, Ind, May f8.-
(UP)-United States District At
torney James R. Fleming 4today
announced that federal alrthori-
ties would take into custody"
Edsel Ford, Walter P. Chrysler,
Alfred P. Sloan. William Knud-
sen and 46 other top executives
of the automobile and auto fl
nance corporations. of whom all
are under indictment here, eharg-
ed with antitrust law violations.
Taking into custody was eX-
pected to be nominal only, Flem-
ing said Those indicted today be-
gan posting bonds in United
States district court.
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|HINESE PLAN
RAID

SHANGHAI, May %. (UP)-
breign conSulates today received
itteS Varning foreigners to evac-
te Sanghai's native Hongkew
D IuHgjao areas tomorrow be-
-S Chinese afraid is plan
4 Foreigners were warned as
Precautionary measure. Many
hlned TO evacuate areas early
he morning unless otherwise
ftfed.
weeping westward in a drive
Peiping-Hankow railway
fT:h Of Chins's capital in Han
~ japanese column yesterday
(sehed Chow-kai-kow, 80 miles
|Dm Yencheng, a key city on the
|lIWay Sc miles south of Cheng-
|Ow.
Foreign missionaries in Chow
Pl'sow, reporting the arrival of
T japanese vanguard, said Chi
ee forces in the city had retreat
to Yencheng. a large station
the Peiping- Hankow line.
SeVerlng Of the Peiping-Hankow
Pc would cut Hankow's last rail
'nmunlcation with her crumbling
tng-hai railway fortified line de-
'nalng the capital and would rem
= hopeless the positions held by
PIE than 100000 Chinese SOL
Iee spread along the Lung-hai
On =, hweiteh to Tungkwan, west
! Gnengchow, where the north
'an Pelping Hankow railway
uses the eaSt-west Lung-hai
aeantlme the Chinese staged a
'reS Of bitter counter-attacks in
central and western sections
'oe Lung-hai line between Kai-
.as and Kweiteth and in some
, %iotS had the Japanese in diff
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ACTION TAKEN
AS RELATIONS
ARE STRAINED
Czechs, Nazis Protest New
Violations Along Ma
tional Borders
CHARGE NAZI GUNS
FOUND BY CZECHS

WASHINGTON, May %. CUP
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull
today reminded the governments
of Europe of their obligations to
keep peace under the Kellogg
BRAND anti-war pact, following a
course similar to that followed by
this government or several pre-
vious occasions when internation-
al peace was threatened.
Hull issued q statement re-
minding European nations that
they have pledged their national
honour to seek pacific settlement
Of all disputes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-28
JERSEY CITY'S
COPS 'DEPORT'
CONGRESSMAN
Wife Charges Police Threw
Her To Ground; Legs
Bruised And Cut

Jersey CITY, n. j., May 70.
A(UP)--Rep. Jerry O'Conneli'
Montana Democrat, was "deport-
ed" from Jersey City las. night
after his second unsuccessful at.
tempt to speak here in defiance OF
Mayor Frank Hague.
His wife, who followed him to
Pershing Field where he had hop
ed to address a crowd of 25,OO0
spersons, charged that uniformed
policemen threw her to the
ground and injured her. She
showed newspaper men bruises
and cuts on her left leg. Both
her knees were. bruised and cut.
O'Connell, who three weeks ago
abandoned an attempt to speak
with Rep. John T. Bernard, Min
nesota Farmor-Laborite, before
$4,000 persons massed in the
city's principal square, was rushed
from Pershing Field by policemen
who seized him as some of the
crowd tried to assault him. Others
in the crowd, O'Connell said,
cheered him. He said he was not
injured.
After questioning him at a po--
lice station, police put O'Connell
aboard a train for Newark. He
went to a hotel there and a few
hours later took train for Wash
Sngton where he intended to see
President Roosevelt personally
.tfnd get him to intervene by pub
lie utterance and through law to
see that constitutional rights are
upheld in Jersey City"
O'Connell also said that Post
master General James A. Farley,
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional committee, had promised to
see him in a few days regarding
the congressman's demand that
Hague be ousted from his post as
vice chairman of the committee.
The conference with President
Roosevelt, O'Connell said, was at
the invitation of Marvin Nc
Intyre, secretary to the president,
from whom he received a letter
Thursday.
O'Connell, who was able to get
only inside one of the gates to
Pershing Field, was rushed away
to an automobile which took him
to police station where, he
said, he was questioned for about
80 minutes by Police Chief Harry
Walsh, Daniel Casey, commission
err of public safety, and Capt
William V. Mclaughlin. -.
"They were mean and nasty, "
O'Connell said. "What impressed
me most was their anti-semitism.
Walsh said, "it was just Jews who
brought you here Then Nc
Laughlin said, most of the peo-
pie behind this agitation are Jews
and Walsh said, well teach them.
We're going to put the Jews In
their place. "
The congressman charged that
he was treated very brutally."
He said the policeman gave him
an extremely hard shove" in put
ting him into the automobile
which took him from the field and
that Walsh "badgered" him con-
stantly on the ride to the station.
"Walsh told me that they
should have let me speak and let
the crowd beat me up" O'Connell
said, "but most of the crowd
seemed sympathetic to me. A lot
of them were yelling, go on and
let him speak The people SEEM
ed disguised with the perform
ance and believed in letting me
have my rights.
O'Connell said he would return
to Jersey City cat the first oppor-
tunity," but explained that this
Continued on page FOUR
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ASK REVIEW BE DENIED

WASHINGTON, May %. CUP
Government lawyers yesterday
asked the supreme court to deny
for the second time a review of
a National Labor Relations board
d ecision ordering Remington
Rand, Inc, to reinstate 1000 Am
erican Federation of Labor strlk-
ing employees.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-28
oN WEEKEND VISIT

\, s'S 5 Anne Blackwelder of East
4 u MOCK is spending the week
: "'tn friends in Central, S. c..
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WEATHER

Il, cloudy with scattered
P'rW tonight; Sunday partly
'h0~e with scattered thunder
blowers
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GOOD AFTERNOON

Britain wants Mexico 10 pay up
and be quick about Il. After all.
that oil debt isn't war debt.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Clubs to Map
$2O,OOODrive

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 81.
Chairman of Alexandria's com.
munity chest campaign, which be-
gins November 9, will meet with
members of the Kiwanis, Rotary
and Lions clubs at 8 p. m. tomor-
row to map final plans for the
$4,000 drive to be conducted here.
Members of the three service
clubs have volunteered to cooper
ate in the campaign, which will
include an extensive houSe-to- house
canvass and solicitation of all bust
ness firms. William G. Illch, gen
eral chairman, announced today.
The $4,000 campaign quota was
established for Alexandria on the
basis of funds collected here last
year. A drive headquarters will be
established in the George Mason
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
BRIDGE TOURNEY
HERE THURSDAY

Bridge players. including the
kind who trump their partners
aces, will compete this week in
the eighth annual tournament Of
the Washington Bridge League.
The tourney, to be held from
Thursday through Sunday at the
Shoreham Hotel, will attract some
of the nations outstanding play
ers in quest of the District Of
Columbia championships.
There also will be an inter-
mediate event, open only to less
renowned players, and from which
persons holding master points
from tournament play will be
barred. Following is the tourney
schedule:
Thursday and Friday after
noons-Women's pair champion
ships for the Columbia Trophy.
Defending Champions, Mrs. v. A..
Clarke and Mrs. H. c. White.
Thursday and Friday evenings
Mixed pair championships for
the Capitol Cup. Defending cham
pions, Mrs. c. S. Boyce and v.
D. zeve.
Saturday afternoon and eve
ning-Open pair championship.
Defending champions, DR.. E. B.
Conolly and Thomas Hamlin.
Sunday afternoon and evening
Team of four. Defending cham
pions, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Lemon,
Mrs. M. r. West and L. r. Wat
son, jr.
About 1000 players are expected
to enter. Russell j. Baldwin, of
Clovaland ic Tournaments dirnctoI.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Etting Letters
To Bare Love
Divorced Wife OF
Alderman Has
stack of Notes

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31.-Ruth
Etting will get some surprise.
So Myrl Alderman'S former wife
promised today as she disclosed
that she possesses a stack of let
ters which she claims the blonde
songstress wrote Alderman.
Mrs. Alderman, who is suing
Miss Etting for $150,000, charg-
ing alienation of affections, prom
iSed the letters would prove that
the friendship between the two
was not the entirely platonic al
fair Miss Etting made it appear
when, at a deposition hearing,
she calmly declared she was not
married to Alderman.
SEEKS COURT ORDER
Whether Alderman also consid-
ers himself not married to the
singer is something S. S. Hahn,
Mrs. Alderman's attorney, would
like to know, and he announced
he would seek court order COM
pelling Miss Etting to reveal the
hideaway to which Alderman was
taken after he left the hospital.
Miss Fittings former husband,
Moe Snyder, who is charged with
shooting Alderman, still languishes
in Jail unable to raise bail.
Hahn wants to ask this ques
ton:
well, Mr.. Alderman, how about
you? Do you consider yourself
married to Miss Etting?"
In a deposition Miss Etting
amazed the attorney by calmly de.
claring: "Mr. Alderman and I are
not married.
After the shooting at Miss Et.
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ting's home, the singer told police
she and Alderman were married
in Tia Juana last July. This was
news to Hollywood.
Miss Etting did admit that Al
derman frequently visited her
home-as often "aS three or four
times week."
ONLY A RUSE
Concerning her previous state
ment of clipping to Tia Juana with
Alderman, she said that was a ruse
to make Snyder believe they were
married and not moleSt them any
longer.
Taken aback by Miss Etting's
declarations, Hahn asked, But
you are in love with him, are you
not?"
Love" said Miss Etting philoSo-
phically, "is a very hard thing to
define, Mr.. Hahn. Naturally,
now feel a great responsibility
about what has happened"
That feeling of responsibility"
proves Objectionable to Hahn.
Miss Fittings action in removing
Alderman from the hospital, where
Mrs. Alderman made several at
temptS to effect reconciliation,
now balkS Hahn's attempt to
reach the pianist.
WOUND IN ABDOMEN
I'VE will ask the court" he
announced, "to order Miss Etting
to tell us where Alderman is. We
want to take his deposition and
learn from him whether he con-
siders himself married to Miss
Etting.
"Our case is strengthened by
the fact that Alderman is injured
and we can represent to the court
that we want his statement for
the record in the event his injury
should prove fatal"
Alderman is recovering from a
bullet wound in the abdomen. Ac-
cording to police, Snyder, who
was divorced by Miss Etting after
II years Of married life, cornered
the youthful pianist outside Il
radio studio and at pistol point
forced Alderman to drive him to
Miss Fittings home.
Snyder is being held in $4,000
bail on charges of attempted mur-
der, KIDNAPPING and violation Of
the State Firearms Act.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Halt War Quickly,
zdmord Begs Spain

PARIS, Oct. 31.-Alcala Ia
mora, exiled former president OF
Spain, has appealed to all classes
of Spaniards to settle the Spanish
war themselves as rapidly as pos
sible without allowing outside
powers to force a peace
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

Organized labor yesterday was
called upon to join the battle for
suffrage for the District of Co
lumbia.
The Women's Trade Union
League, meeting in its third con-
vention, adopted a resolution blam-
ing most of WaShington'S diff
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 81
Q.N.S.). AN attack on the
validity of Ruth Etting's IlIi-
nOiS divorce from Martin
Colonel Gimp" Snyder,
charged with shooting her
friend, MyrI Alderman, was
threatened today.
1--WE will try to show that
Miss Etting was not legally di-
vorced from Snyder" Attorney
S. S. Hahn announced. Gun
der many court decisions, Miss
Etting may be held to be a resi-
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Working Women Urge I'D. T.. Suffrage

dieting the Public Assistance Di.
vision and that his report would
probably not be an accurate re.
port" of relief needs.
Doxey Wilkerson, one Of the
delegates, stated that Mr.. Lewis is
more interested in statistics than
in people"
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

wide program of economic and
social reforms.
One of the resolutions criticized
the Community Chest for hold
ing up" workers to give to the
chest. Another strongly worded
one complained that Burdette G..
Lewis. relief investigator, Is III.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Was Divorce Valid I?

dent of California at the time
last NOvember) when she OBJ
tanned a divorce in Chicago"
If this move Is successful, &C
cOrding to the lawyer, it would
prevent the blonde former
musical comedy and radio sing
ing star teStifying about the
wild melee in the Etting home
in Hollywood two weeks ago,
when Alderman was shot and
wounded by Colonel Gimp" q
Chicago Loop and Broadway
figure.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

culties on the lack of self-govern-
ment.
The resolution called on organ
lied labor to garner the support
of national labor organizations for
votes for the District.
In all, 20 resolutions were
adopted by the league, covering a
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
n. Y. City Council
Leader Expires

NEW YORK, Oct. BIB. Char
ney Vladeck, So, majority leader
of the New York City Council and
vIlely known liberal, died last
night at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Vladeck suffered a heart attack
Friday night.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Woodbridge Wins

Woodbridge A. C. football team
trounced the Anacostia Boys Club.
28-7, at Woodbridge yesterday.