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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
DIR. w. B. STOKES
TO GIVE SERMON
FOR METHODlSTS

DR.. M. B. Stokes, of Korea, will
give the sermon at the First M. E
church Sunday morning.
DR.. Stokes message will be or
the work of Christian missions in
Korea. The present conflict be-
tween China and Japan will prob
ably be discussed. With more thar
a quarter century of effective Ia
Dor in the heart of the Far East
DR.. Stokes will be able to speak
with authority of the condition:
in these eastern lands.
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BIG TOP COMES HOME TO
SARASOTA; ONLY GARGANTUA
WILL GET SUMMER TIME TOUR
Only Skeleton Crew Re-
mains of Normal Per-
sonnet of 1900

SARASOTA, Fla, July 2. (UP)
Beaten and bedraggled, the Ring
ling Bros. and Barnum and Bal
ley circus came into winter quar-
terS here yesterday, unpacked its
tents and trappings, and prepar-
ed to stay until spring comes
again.
The show rumbled into town in
the gray light of early dawn, two
engines pulling it's 81 cars, in
.cludiag coaches, flats and stock
cars, necessary to move the gigan-
tic city of Spangle-land which
normally employs 1900 persons
and usually makes a summer tour
of $1,000 miles.
Only a skeleton crew rode into
town with the show, in contrast
to the hundreds who swarm over
the trains and shout greetings to
friends when the show comes
home each November after a sea.
son on the road.
Then it is like a grand home
coming, but this time it was like
funeral cortege. No children
lined the tracks to cheer and
watch the gaily-painted cars roll
by. GrOwnups, too, did not get up
to greet it and the sho wrumbled
through town and on to the quar-
tiers three miles east like ghostly
procession.
Thirty or 40 workers will be
employed at the quarters this
summer. to feed and care for the
animals.
The quarters will not be open
for public inspection during the
summer, but will open this winter
as usual, General Superintendent
George w. Smith said today.
Smith also revealed that Frank
Buck, noted big game hunter who
was with the show during its brief
season, will take Gargantua the
Great on a tour as a special at
traction during the summer.
But the show will not be broken
up and Gargantua, a huge goril-
la which rides in special air
conditioned cage, is the only part
of the circus to get a summer
tour.
A few of the acts have gone to
the AL G.. Barnes shows, which is
a part of the huge Ringing COM
bine. Others still are unsettled.
Some came to their homes in Sar-
asota or other Florida cities, while
others sought employment in the
north.
Performers contracts termi-
nate when the show closes, and
now the hundreds who depend up
on the Ringing Bros. circus for
their livelihood will have to look
elsewhere, at least until next
spring.
Mccormick Steele, new person
mel director, announced drastic
changes in plans for employing
next seasons performers and
workers.
ave definitely will have no
connection with any labor union
or labor organization" Steele
said.
Few preparations to receive the
Continued on page tive)
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Army RESUMES
BUYING SPREE
Closes Contracts for Air.
craft Totaling IA
Millions
By MACK JOHNSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United fresS StaIf Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 2. (UP)
The war department last night
opened a drive to bring the army
air corps to full authorized
strength of 1920 planes by July
l, 1899, after awarding a record
peace-time series of contracts to-
falling $14,433,196 for SO of the
most potent military aircraft in
the world.
Awarding of the contracts, an.
nounced by Acting Secretary OF
War Louis Johnson, closed the
army's buying program for the
1888 fiscal year and cleared the
way for the department to begin
its 1889 program which calls for
expenditure of $33,150,000 for
426 additional planes. These pur-
chases will bring the corps to full,
authorized strength.
Principal items in the contract;
awarded yesterday were:
1. Thirteen four-engined, Boe-
ing "super-flying" fortresses cost
ing $3,174,804. These are identl-
cal with the 15-ton craft that
made the 6,000-mile "good will
flight to Buenos Aires, and will
bring the war departments total
to 81. The planes can attain a
speed of $50 miles per hour and
carry five machin eguns and a
crew of nine.
2. Seventy eight additional,
twin-engined Douglas B-18A bonn
bers capable of travelling a 225-
mile per hour speed and bringing
the army's quota of this type to
$50. The new order will cost 3d.
7O3,287.
8. Seven new type attack planes
costing $297,1S0, from the Vultee
aircraft division of the Aviation
Manufacturing corporation, Dow
ney, Calf. These all-metal planes
carry a crew of three, 600 pounds
of bombs, and reach a speed OF
230 miles per hour.
In addition the department
placed contracts totaling $685.
2s6 for 276 engines with the
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F.D.R. May 60
TO TOWN FOR
SEN. BARLEY
Plots Four Major Speeches
on Cross Country
Swing in July
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

HYDE PARK, n. Y, July g
(UP)-PreSident Roosevelt today
planned four major speeches on
his Forthcoming cross = country
swing to California--all of them
in states where Forthcoming pri-
maries will involve the New Deal
leadership in the Democratic party
as an issue.
A secretary at the summer white
house here released the itinerary,
which calls for major addresses in
Ohio. Kentucky, Oklahoma and
California.
The president and his party will
leave Washington Thursday at
1920 p. m. (EST). In addition
to the speaking stops, he will make
numerous brief platform appear
ances on his cross-country swing.
Although White House attaches
insisted the President did not plan
any political significance" in the
itinerary, and insisted he was
keeping aloof from local primary
contests, it was regarded as al
most certain that in at least one
instance he will Ego to town" po-
litically.
That will be in his speaking
stop in Kentucky.
1t is in that state that his SEN
atorial wheel-horse, Alben W..
Barley. majority leader, is being
opposed for denomination by Gov.
A. B. (Happy) Chandler. Some
time ago Mr.. Roosevelt publicly
espoused the cause of Barley and
as a result it is felt that he is
committed to more than just a
verbal pat on the back when he
enters the latter's home state.
The itinerary calls for the first
stop at Marietta, o., on July 8,
when Mr.. Roosevelt will detrain
to deliver an address in connec-
ton with the 150th anniversary
of the founding of the first settle
ment in the northwest territory.
Leaving Marietta at 1920 a. m.
the same day, the Roosevelt spe-
cial train will go to Covingtonl,
Ky, and at 2:30 p. M, the Presi-
dent will leave the train and speak
at the Latonia race track.
Upon departure from Covingtonl
at 20 p. M, the special will head
for Louisville, reaching that city
at 6:2O p. m. There the President
will make a platform appearance.
The next stop will be at Bowl
ing Green, KY, where another
platform appearance will be made:
From Bowling Green the train will
proceed by way of Memphis to
Oklahoma City. arriving there at
5 p. m. (CST) Saturday, July 3.
No prearranged stops are sched-
uled en- route to that place.
At Oklahoma City the President
will leave the train and speak at
the fair grounds. 1t is in Okla
homa that Senator Elmer Thomas,
ardent New Dealer, faces opposl-
ton in the primary for re-nomi-
nation. Incidentally this will be
Mr.. RoOsevelt's first official visit
to Oklahoma.
After an hour in Oklahoma City
the President is expected to ar
rive at Fort Worth, Texas, at IL
p. M, and on detraining motor to
the home of his son Elliott where
he will spend Sunday, July 10. He
will leave Fort Worth July II at
10 a. M, moving westward via
Amarillo where his arrival has
been scheduled for GAS p. m.
Continued on page fve)
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Second Primary
In State Today

RALEIGH, July 2.-(UP)-
North Carolina voters went to the
polls again today in scattered dis
tricts and localities to complete
the primary balloting that was not
finished in the June election.
Outstanding posts at stake in
the run-off today were two Demo
cratic nominations, tantamount to
election, for seats in the lower
house of congress.
There also was second primary
voting for solicitors of the sixth
and 2lst judicial districts; for
nine nominations to the state leg
islature; and for local jabs in sew
eral counties. There was no state
wide voting.
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j. s. RESIDENTS
TAKE REFUGE:
NATIVES FLEE
American Priest Reported
Wounded as Shell De.
molishes Home
1000 KILLED In TWO
DAYS, IS ESTIMATE
By ROBERT BELLAIRE

SHANGHAI, July 2.-(UP)-
American residents of Swatow
took refuge on the United States
gunboat Sacramento today during
a merciless Japanese air raid dur
ing which an American priest was
wounded, dispatches from Swatow
said.
Father William Downs, Erie.
Pa, member of the American Ro-
man Catholic Maryknoll Mission,
was the American casualty. He
was wounded when a bomb struck
and demolished his home, dis
patches said. He made his way to
the water front and signaled a
! tender from the Sacramento. Chi
nese police arrested him, it was
said, and detained him for three
hours but then permitted him to
board the Sacramento's boat. His
wound was not believed to be
grave.
One Chinese was killed and one
wounded in the American-owned
Berger building across from the
government buildings. The Berger
building was severely damaged.
1t was estimated that 1000 per-
sons had been killed in japanese
raids today and yesterday. No
count was made of wounded.
Today's air raid was followed
by bombardment by japanese
warships an ddispatches said that
thousands. of Chinese were fleeing
in panic from the city.
japanese reports from Marking
quoted japanese airplane pilots as
saying that Chinese troops had di-
verted water from the Yangtse
river Is miles east Of Hukow.
flooding the Tsienshui and Huang-
shut rivers and the city of Wang
kiang.
The reports said that a dozen
nearby lakes were rising steadily,
and experts here expressed belief
that the Japanese advance toward
Hankow was seriously threaten
ed.
Chinese reports said that the
American Union hospital at Foo
chow was bombed yesterday.
The japanese Domei news agen-
cy revealed that Japanese units
were fighting with 10000 Chinese
troops, divided into five units,
near the Manchukuo frontier in
the north. The dispatch said that
the Chinese were communists and
it was assumed they were guer-
rillas of the famous Eighth route
army.
A news agency reported from
Peiping rumors of a peace plan"
formulated there as q basis for
Chinese japanese negotiations.
Under the alleged plan there
would be five autonomous regimes
in China, in the Peiping, Kweis-
hua, Marking, Hankow and Can
ton areas. Japanese and foreign
military and diplomatic quarters
here denied knowledge of such a
plan.
Chinese reports here reported a
French naval concentration off
the French district of Kwong-
chowan, on the south China coast
opposite the island of Hainan.
Land, navy and air maneuvers
were held Thursday, it was assert
ed, and two 16-inch guns were
tested as part of them, japanese
warships have been active recent
ly in the neighborhood Of Hainan,
one of the most important stra-
tegic islands in the world, domi-
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TONSIL CLINIC AT
HOSPITAL THURSDAY

Mrs. Dorothy Mccoy, county
Red Cross nurse, announced that
a tonsil clinic would be conduct
ed at Patton Memorial hospital
next Thursday by DR.. J. S. Brown,
Jr.
Registrations for the clinic may
be made at the office of Mrs. Nc
Gov, at the high school building,
on Monday morning from nine
o'clock to noon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
PARADE PLANS.
BY.
.FETE GROUPS.
Centennial Decorations To
Be Sponsored by
Merchants
ASK HELP FROM
COUNTY RESIDENTS

Meeting in the offices of Mayor
A. V. Edwards in the city hal
Friday evening, Chairman Henry
E. Mitchell of the merchants di
vision of the Chamber of Com
merce and members of his com
mittee, and members of the gen
eral Henderson county centennia
committee, discussed plans anC
made additional arrangements fol
this celebration, scheduled fol
July 81, August /, 2 and 3. Mrs
Chas. R. Whitaker, general chair
man of the celebration, presided
in the meeting.
The plans for cooperation OF
merchants and business men in
the celebration were discussed and
it was decided participation is to
be voluntary and merchants OF
other citizens may place floats in
the parade with the provision that
they conform to the general plan
and purposes of the celebration
Those desiring to take part in this
feature of the celebration are adj
vised to consult Mrs. Whitaker
before proceeding.
In this connection a represen-
tative Of the Ward Decorating
company of Asheville was present
and the plan presented to deco,
rate the streets and business
houses Of the city was approved
by the local committees.
The Ward company, which is
well known and of first class rep
utation, will provide and erect
street decorations without cost.
Merchants and business houses
volunteering to have their places
decorated will arrange to pay the
Ward company a reasonable fee
for their services. Also. it was
pointed out by the Ward repre-
sentative that the services of this
company may be contracted for
in connection with the building
and decorating Of floats.
Certain facts stressed at the
meeting included a reiteration of
the original resolutions and plans
of the committee to make the cele-
bration Henderson county affair.
1t will be for the purpose of cele-
brating the Tooth anniversary OF
the county, consequently, it is not
a Hendersonville but a county
wide event. The committee, there
fore, again called for the COOP
Grafton and help of all citizens OF
the entire county who can in any
way aid in making the celebration
a success.
Especially is the help of the
country people of the county de-
sired for the committee of Mayor
A. V. Edwards, which has charge
of the transportation parade. The
mayor, Chief of Police'Otis Pow
ers, Nathan Patla and others, are
working faithfully to make sue
cess of this feature. The follow
ing statement issued by the COM
mittee will afford an idea OF the
assistance needed by this commit
tee:
1.-THE Century of Progress
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SAVANNAH. Ga, July .. CUP
Judge John Rourke today had de
clared a mistrial in the case of w.
r Aycock, burly 42-year-old po-
lice chief at manufacturing
plant charged with the Staying Of
his blond paramount, after a jury
failed to reach verdict after 80
hours deliberation.
Judge Rourke discharged the
Jury late last night, after it had
studied the evidence since p. M.
Thursday.
During the trial. which began
Monday, Mrs. Nancy Aycock, wife
of the defendant and mother of
his grown children, leaped to her
feet in the court room and relter-
ated a dramatic confession made
a week ago that she killed her
husbands mistress because she
broke up my home"
The state refused to accept her
confession and continued with the
trial of Aycock for killing Mrs.
Martha Skies. 81, who also was
employed in the plant where Ay-
cock worked.
Officers said it would have been
impossible" for Mrs. Aycock to
have committed the crime for
which her husband was tried.
Aycock admitted he was Mrs;
Skies lover but Steadfastly denied
her murdered her. The burly po-
liceman called officers to Mrs.
Skies room the night of May II
and said she failed to respond to
knocks on the door.
Officers entered the room, found
Mrs. Skies body lying on the floor
with a pistol bullet in her head,
and arrested Aycock.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
JAPANESE BOMBS AGAIN RAKE Swallow
Crowds Are Expected For July 4 Holiday
DE LUKE TRAILER BUILT FOR
F. SNITE, PARALYSIS VICTIM

CORAL GABLES. Fla, July 2.
(UP)-A specially-equipped, de-
luxe trailer, built at a cost Of
$4,000, was completed today by
the Curtiss Aerocar company for
Fred B. Snite, Jr., 27-year-old in
fantile paralysis victim, who has
travelled halfway around the
world in an Iron lung"
The trailer was ordered by
young Snite's father, a Chicago
banker, so the youth would be
able to travel about the country
more and be able to go to foot
ball and baseball games.
Besides the usual trailer con-
veniences Of hot and cold running
water, wash basin, refrigerator
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
Unemployment
Greater In Nine
Nations, Report

GENEVA, Switzerland, July z.
-CUP)-Unemployment in nine
countries, including the United
States, Canada. Great Britain,
France and Belgium is greater
now than a year ago, according
TO the quarterly figures of the In
ternational Labor organization.
Except in the United States,
Canada and Belgium, employment
declined in the second quarter of
1888. The report estimated un-
employment in the United States
at 100000 which was 2,8l6,-
900 over a year ago.
Compared to 1929 employment
in the United States, it declined
from 97.5 per cent last year to
76 per cent this year.
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and kitchen, the vehicle is COM
pletely air conditioned and has
three electrical circuits to oper-
ate the respirator, lights and a
radio.
One of the features Of the trail
er is a revolving periscOpe in the
roof of the vehicle which will en-
able the stricken youth to see IN
all directions while lying on his
back in the respirator.
The trailer was expected to
leave here either today or Sunday
for the trip to young Snite's XIV
er Forest, Ill.,, home, to which he
returned from Miami Beach a
month ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
Abraham KAHN,
Baltimore, Dies;
2Sons Live Here

Abraham KAHN, 70, father of
Sam and Morris Kalin, of this
city, died last night at II o'clock
at the City hospital, Baltimore,
Md, according to word received
here.
Mr.. Kalin had been i'll for some
time, but was thought to be i'm
proving at the time of his death.
His sons who reside here left
today for Baltimore to attend flu
neral services, which will be held
on Sunday afternoon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
CANNON SMOKE
AGAIN SEEN AT
BLOODY ANGLE
Final Reunion of Blue and
Grey Opens With
Army Statutes

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July g.
(UP)-Trumpets clarioned in the
streets of old Gettysburg today,
quickening memories of war that
sleep under the gossamer of three
quarters of a century.
The 1000 gallant survivors,
Union and Confederate-marked
the second day of their final re-
union on the battle-ground where
IS years ago their comrades strug-
gled through the scarlet hell that
was the second day at Gettysburg.
Before p. M, the second day
there was little action. Battle
lines were being drawn. Confed-
crate forces held the town of Get
tysburg but Meade's Union troops
invested a high ridge that fish
hooked south from the outskirts. }
Crack drum and bugle corps and
uniformed veterans of more re-
cent wars crowded Gettysburg's
diamond and the narrow streets
that fan out from the towns CEN
ter. They were here to parade in
honor of the surviving veterans.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
SECOND SON In
E. PACE FAMILY
HAS OPERATION

Hobare Pace underwent an OPP
Grafton at the Patton Memorial
hospital yesterday for appended
tbs. Harry Pace. another son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Pace of
Dana, underwent an operation for
similar trouble a few days ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
limited PRESS Staff Correspondent

United Press starr Correspondents
GETTYSBURG, Pa, July e..
(UP) - Cannon smoke curled
through the trees at Bloody Angle
again yesterday when the military
might of modern America parad-
ed the meadows of Gettysburg
battlefield: 90,
Blunt nosed artillery, swift
rumbling tanks of olive green
even lines of infantrymen and
airplanes that darted low over the
wooded hills Joined in a demon
stration honoring the Grand Army
of the Republic and the United
Confederate Veterans who fought
with musket and muzzle-loading
cannon on this and other fields
three-quarters of a century ago.
The final reunion of the North
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SPECIAL. MASS SUNDAY

Rev. Philip O'Mara, pastor of
the Immaculate Conception church
today called attention to special
mass, to be held at 9 o'clock Sun
day morning for the boys and girls
attending summer camps.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-02
DR.. WILDS RETURNS

DR.. L. T. Wilds has returned
from his vacation and will have
charge of the regular services at
the First Presbyterian church to-
morrow.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

The chewing gum market re-.
ports . phenomenal boom. Of
course, in these nervous times.
people are chewing a lot faster.
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WEATHER

Cloudy tonight and Sunday; oe-
essional showers Sunday; Monday
mostly cloudy, probably occasional
showers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
BY A. J. DRISCOTL
Citizens Associations Editor

Demand that the long-vacant
office Of Peoples Counsel be filled
Immediately was made last night
at q meeting Of the Conduit Road
Citizens Association.
A resolution, introduced by
Frank T. Shull and unanimously
adopted, pointed out that an ap.
preparation for the office was
passed at the last session Of Con.
gress, but that no action has been
taken.
The resolution called for the
appointment to be made and the
office given a broader field of
activity.
Another resolution adopted d
called for regulations governing
pedestrian traffic to curb jay.
walking and reduce the number
of traffic accidents.
NEGLECT PAVING
Criticism was directed at the
District Highway Department fol
failing to observe an agreement
to pave and improve Hawthorne
Place in the Conduit Road area.
The Capital Transit Company
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Wife CONFESSES
POISON MURDER

MADISON, Wis, Oct. 28
Q.N.S0. "A farm wife Borgia,
with love on her mind and MUIR
der in her heart, today faced the
prospect Of spending the remain
der Of her life behind prison bars.
Trapped by the gossip Of her
neighbors, Mrs. Florence Peters,
38, confessed in court yesterday
the poison-slaying Of one husband
and the attempt to do away with
another in order to be "free."
Sentence Of life imprisonment
was deferred pending the intro
duction Of further evidence.
Mrs. Peters was in tears when
she was denied a chance to say
good-by to Edward Harvey, "a,
Of Laramie, Wyo., who was found
living at the house when she was
arrested.
The killing Of Mrs. Peters first
husband, John Kesinich was re-
vealed by the suspicious Of her
neighborS after her present hus-
band, John, was stricken
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Citizens Urge Naming of Peoples Counsel

against delay In improvements to
Thirty-eighth Street Southeast
south Of 8 Street, funds for which,
it was asserted, are available.
President j. A. Baxter named
John Roth, William Mulkey and
T. j. Lynch delegates to the
Southeast Conference Of Citizens
Associations.
The Northeast Business Mems
Association last night passed reso.
lutions favoring pedestrian traf.
fic control. Louis I. Obergh, sec.
retary, was directed to present the
associations views at a public
hearing to be held by the Commits
SionerS.
The group opposed proposed Gre
alton of q trp 'fic CO '1tv c~-----~'".
sion for the District as an en-