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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER.

WASHINGTON. = No one can
!" tell yet how we'll or badly the
new farm program will work out,
but events have progressed far
enough to indicate that it may be
headed for plenty of trouble.
The wheat carryover threatens
10 be the largest in history and the
government is fairly certain to be
up to its neck in loans to farmers
on that commodity. The cotton
carryover is being estimated at
around 100000 bales and
although IS per cent cut in cot
ton acreage has been called for.
farmers are reported piling so
much fertilizer on their soil that
the effectiveness of the cut is
problematical.
The corn crop situation also
worries AAA officials.
Some pessimiSts predict that the
government will have to keep on
making crop loans and that acre
age cuts in future years must be
made increasingly more drastic
as larger supplies accumulate. The
specter OF non-co-operation is
especially bothering AAA. :
THE five major commodities in
yoived in the program are
wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and
rice. The plan first provides for
nauonal acreage allotments, with,
bonuses to farmers who restrict
planting to given acreages as part
o. a soil conservation program.
SO far the program is voluntary
and any farmer can stay in or out
OF it. But if supplies threaten to
run above. estimated. national
needs, farmers are asked to vote
on the compulsory feature-mar-
keting quotas with penalties for
farmers Who sell in excess of their
individual quotas. A tWo-thirds
vote Is required before the Sec
Rotary of Agriculture may impose
quotas. Then there are crop loans
which amount to price guarantees
since the government assumes any
loss.
Here's what is happening under
this program to date:
WHEAT: Confusion as to allot. |
mspts was expected. as winter
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
.eE!e4I: MAY 20, Is.

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the SE'.i i.nnkccpcrs VERY ", 9r gs, altsooss.
about them. s'' not al se :,
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come a rich man had ISI / tn naye ! |,
NHtig Me- Of the name V Sa"" " :
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

the idea we are striving to get across 10
the public. -,
II would seem that when South Caroiina
has peaches to sell and North Carolina mas mas
truck to sell, good business judgment "ouia
dictate the freest possible travel and DUST y,
ness relations between thetw States Ills
thought may be applied with eqaal loi.s
to cities and towns and communities anu
sections of the country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

| wheat had been planted last sum-
mer and fall before the act passed.
Instead OF growing the 62,500,0 :
900 allotted acres Of wheat, farm
ers have grown 80 million acres.
This years total wheat supply is
estimated at l,l50,000, coo bushels
and the carryover at 00,0O0,O00.
Under the act, no marketing
quota is provided for the 1888
crop. But the supply is so large
that Secretary Wallace Is expected
to make allotments for the 1899
crop which would cut wheat acre
age from 80 million acres to so
million acres. Wheat loans on the
1888 crop seem certain.
COTTON: Growers voted more
- than 80 per cent in favor of
marketing quotas on the 1898 crop
Acreage allotmentS reduced a pre-
program average of $4,000, 0OO
acres to 100000 acres. The s,p-
ply for this year is about a..
100000 bales, whereas supply of
only f9,500,000 bales is REQUIRED IN
order to have a marketing quota
vote.
HoRNs Acreage allos.aents Have
~ been cut from AZ to 40 ro;llion
acres in Commercial" corn cror
counties. The carryover next
October is expected to he twice
average size August crop reports
will tell whether the quota level
of, 2,800,00o,00o bushels supply Is
exceeded. If SO, Wallace will an
nounce corn marketing quotas on
the 1888 crop, subject to ratifca.
ton by a tWo-thirds vote of ell
gible farmers.
TOBACCO: Farmers have voted
= for marketing quotas on fl,,e-
cured and dark air-cured and Arc.
cured tobacco, supplies havine
overrun quota levels. Individual
ailotments on hurley tobacco
haven't yet been made.
RICE: No marketing quota was
provided for rice for leaa
although the supply is above fhe
quota level. Acreage ailotments
are yet to be made.
Copyright. 1888. NEA Service, Inc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

maneuver, inspired by ambition
and greed. A woman of the
streets who is a victim Of weak
ness has a better chance of sal
walton than the sanctimonious So
called respectable person who
plots against human welfare.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

uCouiy eN
terrible things to
the people. AS to
the sinner whose
W L o n gS a L e
against himself
and the sinner
whose deviltry is
against the pub
lie, the latter is
the worse. -
The impulsiYie
sion - are u.
enough; but thS
are not so bad
as those of de-
liharati0n an n
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
DON'T BLAME DICTATOR

The dictator defines high trea-
son as anything you do that he
does not want you to do. And he
Furnishes you for high treason by
having your head chopped off
with an ancient battle axe.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WlCKES WAMBOLDT

The dictator should not be
blamed for "liquidating" (killing)
his opponents since a dictatorship
cannot be maintained in any 9TH
er way. That is why we Ameri-
cans are temperamentally insult
ed for a dictatorial form Of gov
eminent. The dictator turns civil
ization's clock back 400 years.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
WHAT OF IT?"

."WHAT OF III?
What often passes for generos-
ity toward criminals is merely IN
difference to crime. That is why
some juries free criminals, and
| why r--rae Judges suspend SEN
Efe"Aw, let's forget itp l heard
a city councilman say when it had
been brought to the attention of
the council that municipal en-
ploye had been stealing public
funds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
THIEF STEALS PENSION

SAN JOSE, Calf. upl n
city'S "meancst thief" stole i
Ola age pension money Of v,
Ida Range, 20. amounting T. - !.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

There is the person who individ-'
ually is kind and friendly, yet
who is affiliated with a group, or
who heads a group, that does
,nl auan
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

Yet northern Democrats and administration lead.
efs, and even the President himself, are reprin,and
ing. the South for failing to pay wages as bgh as
these prevailing elsewhere.
Why don't they help toward that end bv having
southern WPA workers, the same wages that are
paid in two-party states ?-Greenvilie Piedmont,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
LONG TERM FAITH

We should cultivate an abiding
faith in our democracy. Realizing
its magnificent possibilities we
should strive constantly toward
1perfecting it and making it bless
us.
Democracy can never fail. But
we can.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

Hitler's safe in allowing the notes Oh l''e
Liberty Bell to be heard in coming SYM
phony concert. He knows fobody'd recog-
nize them by this time. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
AGAIN: SOUTHERN WAGES

A cotnparison Of average monthly wages paid by
the WPA in a number of states has been compiled
from official records by Representative Mcclellan
of Arkansas, and from 1t these, as printed in the
Congressional Record are quoted:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

WHO'S WHO: That advertise
ment in Asheville papers in sup
port of R. L. Whitmire for con-
gress at least served to let the
public know who's who in Demo-
SJ------ -uA.aAAa,Aa.a--aH'ao-
stroke.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

A THUMBNAIL SKETCH
He was one harrassed man -
large family, large bills, strug.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

Lancaster was the capital of
pennsylvania from 1899 to 1872,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

Tea has been cultivated in
China for more. than 1900 years.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
EDUCATIONAL DREAM: If

EDUCATIONAL DREAM: II
Supt. R. G. Anders of the Hen
derson county schools were to
have big, wholesome, satisfying
Esau-like meal and lie down to
pleasant dreams he would dream
of great big centralized rural
high school with at least IL grad
es and all kinds of equipment for
teaching many vocations; and
there would be a big farm sur
rounding the school, teaching the
boys and girls something of the
farm life most of them will enter,
rather than college, after they
finish the high schools.
Wouldn't that be great? And
yet if things happen the. next 20
years, edueationally, as they have
in the past two score years, there
is no telling what we shall have in
the way of rural schools.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20
PHILATEEISTS IN GLORY:

PHlLATEElSTS IN GLORY:
This, national air mail week,
should be glory week for those
who spend much time collecting
ampc, cancelled envelopes,
,cachets, etc. s,.",r.
|. When / was in Chamber of
l$Commerce work, the office sud-
denly became deluged with letters
from thither and you, talking
about air mail jackets, cachets
and the like. ! had never heard Of
philatelist (phi-lat-e-list, with
emphasis on the lat, with short az
and didn't know these innumer-
able people had a magazine sup
porting their hobby, but soon
learned that it had stated that
the Asheville- Hendersonville air.
port would be dedicated at some
future date. The requests poured
in. Each one contained one or
more stamped envelopes, adj
dressed to the writer and his
friends, asking that they be mail
ed on the date of dedication and
that they bear the special dedica-
ton cachet, or stamp, such as is
being used all over America this
week by all communities with
enough ambition or curiosity to
originate one.
Dedication was postponed. and |
the lobbyists. began to write for
their stamped letters. Mrs. Wise
man says they continue to write
about them after about five years.
This week is the proper time to
provide them with our special air
asnail cachet. Il !. j
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-20

cling business,s Sscant5 income
Slim prospects. ,,gg
IF ! gave in to- my feelings
ahe confided to a friend, "Pd jump
off the deck and end it ALL" :,
But ne kept on keeping on, and
when he died he left his widow a
tidy fortune well invested. The
widow, who had helped her hus-
band make, save and invest his
money, was considered the soul
OF sound judgment. But like many
a widow, as soon as she got pos
session of her husbands estate,
she lost her head; and before she
died she had reduced his fortune
TO where it was when he longed
to jump off the dock.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
1UARoED MORE CAREFULLY

0uAROED MORE CAREFULLY
THAN THE FINEST DIAMOND The
FINE FLAVOR or cHlcLETs IS CON-
PLETELY PROTECTED az THE CANDY
COATING, WHICH SEALS IN EVERY BIT or
FRESH, MlNTY FLAVOR. PROVE IT: SNIFF
AN OPEN Box Of cHlclETs THERE'S
NO AROMA - PROVING THAT AL The
DELICIOUS FLAVOR rs SEALED INSIDE.
The Washington times., 1938-08-31
REYNOLDS Seeks Senate
Tunket Round World

U.N.S.) Seeking first-hand In
formation for the Senate on trou-
bled political conditions abroad,
senator Robert r. Reynolds CD
of North Carolina today urged
that a group Of Senators be au-
thorized to make unofficial obser-
yations overseas.
"I intend to introduce a reso-
luton at the next session to pro-
vide for a committee OF Sen
ators to visit Spain, China and
other trouble spotS," Reynolds
said, continuing:
'~The Senate, in its constitu-
tional capacity as adviser to the
President on foreign affairs and
as final authority on treaties,
ought to have first-hand lntor-
nation on conditions in other
0ountries."
His resolution will provide that
q committee consisting Of a sub
committee of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee, and the
chairmen of the Senate Naval Al
fairs and Military Affairs commit
tees be created to make foreign
The Washington times., 1938-08-31
Man Gets
Early Trial in
LOve Staying

CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-Rudolph
Sikora, the perfect husband" was
indicted, arranged and pleaded
not kuilty to the murder Of his
wife'S admirer, Edward Solomon,
within the short space Of two
hours.
Chief Justice Harrington Of the
criminal court set trial for Sep
tember 26.
WIFE ABSENT
When the judge asked whether
he was married or single, Sikora
glanced around toward the back
Of the courtroom. But Margaret
Sikora, whom he has been waiting
to see ever since he was locked in
jail, wasn't there. She has insisted
Sikora was the perfect husband, u
but that she loved Solomon, who
brought poetry into her life.
Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Boehme, was there, however, the
center Of a group of Sikora's rela-
tives, once more giving point to
the mother-daughter feud that
famed up when Sikora shot Solo
mon "to save Margaret's soul" and
Mrs. Boehme ranged herself or
the side of her son-in-law.
"HOME WRECKER"
Court attaches and relatives oi
the two women went to some
pains to see that they didn't meet
at their earlier appearances be
fore the grand jury.
Paul Solomon, brother OF the
slain man, established the corpus
delecti at the grand jury hearing
and three eye-witnesseS are re
ported to have told how Sikors
muttered as he drew his gun or
Solomon:
"You rat, you home wrecker."
The Washington times., 1938-08-31
new FARM BILL
DEMAND FACES
NEXT CONGRESS.
Domestic Allotment
Plan May Be Tried
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN

UN.S.) While Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace was striving
to export 100,000,000 bushels of
surplus wheat and stem the down.
ward swing of commodity prices,
Senator Richard B. Russell CD Of
Georgia, predicted today that
efforts will be made at the next
congress to pass new farm bill.
He advocated substitution of the
domestic allotment plan, which, as
separate measure. has been re-
jected by close votes in congress
several times.
Senators and representatives,
back from the hustings, reported
farmers diScontented.
CLING TO PROGRAM
New Deal leaders were clinging
to the present farm program in
spite of its critics and the strain
of bumper crops.
Denying that he has already
formulated a new bill, Chairman
Marvin Jones CD, Of Texas, of
the House Agriculture Commit
tee, said that lit is too early yet
to tell what the results will be-"
New Deal agricultural leaders
indicated that they are hopeful
that Wallace's plan of substituting
wheat exports will relieve the sit
uation, and q revival in business
will increase demand for cotton.
The new AAA act, passed by
Congress last winter. is regarded
by Jones as being so broad that
almost any kind of a farm pro-
gram can be selected by the Ad-
miniStration. He said the act car
ries authority for the Agriculture
Department to invoke the domeS-
tic allotment plan.
SOUTH WANTS REVISION
Spokesman for the cotton farm
ers will make an appeal to Con-
greSS for revision Of the present
law, which is based upon soil con-
servation benefits and carries a
labyrinth of regulations for con-
troll of acreage and marketing,
Senator Russell said.
Under the domestic allotment
plan a quota would be fixed for
each farmer, covering the amount
of his production that he may sell
in the domestic market.
The Washington times., 1938-08-31
Work, Don't Fret
Saws Veteran Of 103

AURORA, ILL.,, Aug. 31.-"Work
hard, live simply and don't worry"
is the success rule laid down
by Bert s. Wilder, 103, for
other people who would like to
live to be a hundred.
Wilder has lived in Aurora 1O1
years and as proof Of his advice
he points pridefully to the garden
he still plows, plants and attends
even at 103.
The Washington times., 1938-08-31
SHOOT US, PLEA.
OF DYING men IN.
JAIL "ROASTER"
Survivor Says Guards
Laughed at Appeal

PHILADELPHIA, aug. 5l.-A
hunger striker who himself was
nearly baked alive in the Klon-
dixie" of Philadelphia county
prison at Holmesburg, today &C.
cliSed two guards as the men who
turned on the heat in the dark.
dank, disciplinary cell block where
four other convicts were steam
roasted tod eeath last week.
The accuser, Patrick Di Marco,
was testifying at a hearing for the
guards, Francis Smith and Alfred
w. Brough, arrested on homicide
charges and released in $2,500 bail.
After hearing Di Marcos story,
Magistrate Beifel ordered the
guards held without bail for the
coroner's inquest.
GOVERNOR ACTS
Earlier, Governor George H.
Earle had issued an unprecedented
order to State police TO make
weekly inspections Of Pennsyl-
vania's 70 county prisons and 500
local jails. If the inspectors find
improper conditions, the governor
said, they will report them imme-
diately to the State welfare de-
partment, which was instructed to
make the conditions public.
Di Marco, whose story was cor
roborated by two other prisoners,
told how Is convictS were crowded
into tiny cells in the prisons pun
ishment "black hole" gasping for
air and screaming for help as the
temperature mounted higher and
higher, the steam heat gradually
COO ing the life from four Of them.
ASKED TO BE SHOT
'Men called to the guards to-
shoot them and end it," the squat
Di Marco testified. "But the
guards laughed or ignored our
pleas"
He said that Stanley Martin,
In an adjoining cell, attempted to
commit suicide by bashing his
head against the door.
"I could hear him moaning all
night" he said.
"What did you do?" Assistant
District Attorney Boyle asked.
"I stayed near the door and
told the other fellows in my cell
to lie on the floor and keep quiet
50 as to hold their energy. There
wasn't any air in the place"
"COLD AS STONES"
''What happened in the morn
ang-Monday morning-when your
cell mates were found deadp"
Things seemed to quiet down q
little and then a couple Of fellows
down the corridor said they had
dead men in their cells. told
them to shake them-that they
might be asleep. But the other
fellows yelled back, They're as
cold as stones
A short time later, Guard
Brough came in and Joe Forte,
an inmate, said to him, There's a
couple Of fellows unconscious in
here"
That's their tough luck he
said"
LOST Is POUNDS
It was at the instance Of DR..
Frederick H. Baldi, prison physi-
clan, that Smith and Brough were
induced to turn off the heat" and
the corpSes of the dead men, to-
gether with the 81 survivors were
ordered taken out to the prison
yard.
IT was very weak" Di Marco
testified. II lost is pounds during
those three days.
The corroborating convict wit
nesses were Maurice Spatz and
Forte, cell mates Of the victims,
Joseph Walters, Harry Osborne,
Eddie Hayes and James McQuade.
The Washington times., 1938-08-31

inspection tours during periods
when Congress is not in session
Expenses would be paid by Con
greSS.
Reynolds, a member Of the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee
has Travelled around the world sew
eral times and visited every con
tinent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-11-10

to preserve their ideals and to demand
their rights, provided they would
grant relationships corresponding
rights. He was worried at the thought
that in England some of the parlia-
ment members who have been criti-
cizing Chamberlain might acquire po-
litical power, for it would be almost
certainty that in such case Ger
many's peace. would be upset. To
guard against that'dir possibility he
had found it necessary to arm his
nation to the teeth. But he pro-
fessed deep and intense love of peace
Dismemberment Complete.
Germany's and Italy's foreign min
listers sitting in Vienna as court of
arbitration and mediation last week
awarded to Hungary 4,634 square
miles of Czechoslovakian soil, in
habited by 100000 persons of whom
100000 are said to be Hungarians;
two days later the Hungarian army
began the formal occupation of the
territory coded. And thus the dis
memberment of Czechoslovakia has
been completed, at least for the time
being 1t has cost that unhappy
country altogether about $4,000 square
miles and nearly million inhabitants,
plus exceedingly valuable fortifica-
tons, factories, mines, timber land,
etc. The country has shrunk to an
area of $4,000 square miles with
about ten million inhabitants.
Germany, Poland and Hungary
have helped themselves to whatever
choice morsels they wanted, and they
have swallowed them, with the bless
ings of the democratic governments
at London and Paris.
Reputation.
No important clashes between the
armies of China and Japan have been
reported since the Japanese con-
quered Hankow, but the Tokyo gov
eminent already insists that it is the
actual ruler of China.
From that viewpoint, Japan has
taken steps to repudiate the nine
power treaty of 1922, undertaking to
respect the political independence
and the territorial integrity of China.
Of course, the reputation is merely a
formal matter, for in practice the
treaty has always been what the
Japanese now call it-obsolete. It
has never meant thing.
So, this step is not very serious.
More far-reaching is the japanese
decision to regulate China'S relations
with the western powers, thus clos
ing what has been known for gen.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-11-10

ity, along the Ebro river the Spanish
civil war assumes more serious as
poets, for Rebel General Francisco
Franco, strengthened by the impend-
ing British recognition of his policies,
has begun new offensive against
the government troops. AS was for
merly the case, so now once more: On
the basis of the bulletins from both
fronts it is impossible to form cor
rect picture of what goes on, but for
the time being there are indications
that Franco is making progress. He
still has failed-and that is important
to capture the three key cities of
government Spain, that is, Madrid,
Barcelona and Valencia.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-11-10
ASKOV
Former Askov Girl WEEDS.

Friends here have received the an
nouncement that Miss Edna Paulsen,
formerly of Askov, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. L. A. Paulsen, was united
in marriage to Theo. Mylund of Santa
Barbara, Calf, at the latter place on
October 49,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paulsen and Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl 1. Jensen of Askov, were
there for the wedding; they are start
ing this weekend on the return trip
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mylund will make
their home in Santa Barbara, where
Mr. Mylund together with his brother
operate a Standard Oil service sta
ton.
Askov friends will join the Amer
lean in extending congratulations and
best wishes to the newlyweds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-11-10

Grafton as the Open Door. In &C.
cordance with the Open Door policy
all signatory powers were to have
equal commercial and economic rights
in China, Japan no more than any
others. But Japan now simply sets
aside that agreement and proclaims
to the world that China's dealings
with other countries henceforth will
be determined in Tokyo.
In Washington, the United States
government has protested against
that attitude, and also has intimateo
that it is not in a position to recog-
nize Japan's right to shape the fate
of China
Spanish War.
After months of relative inactiv-