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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Loan OF Relics And Heirlooms
Is Sought By Historic Museum
Committee For Centennial Here
City Ministerial Body Will
Have Part in Progress
Parade

Members Of the Henderson
County Historical Museum com.
mittee, which is working in con
nection with the general commit
tee for the Centennial Celebra
ton, today urged residents of the
county to loan relies and heir
looms for use in the museum dur
inc the four days of the Centen-
NAL.
Members of the committee stat
ed that the greatest possible care
would be taken of these objects
and that insurance vii! be carried
on all articles.
The museum for the Centennial
will be housed in a store building
on Main street, just south of the
Skyland hotel. Anything repre-
sentative of the early period of
the county's history such as fur
niture, clocks, cooking equipment,
coverlets. quilts, clothing. china,
books, glassware, papers, firearms,
etc. will be placed in the museum.
The committee will receive the
loan of museum pieces on Friday
and Saturday, July 20 and 30.
The museum will be open to the
public on Monday and continue
through the Centennial period.
The exhibit will be free to the
public.
Each contributor is asked to
write the history Of the object in
few words and the name of the
present owner.
Members of the committee are :
Mrs. John S. Forrest, chairman,
Mrs. l.. r. Barnwell, Mrs. J. S.
Brown, Mrs. Charles Cheves, Mrs.
A. S. Truck. Miss Leona Lane,
Mrs. J. f. Shipman, Mrs. Thomas
Shepherd. Miss Bessie Jordan,
Mrs. J. NJ. Stewart, Mrs. Camp
bell King, Mrs. A. F. Barber, Mrs.
Sue Enloe. Mrs. T. f. Osborne,
and Mrs. Walter Fletcher.
The general committee has been
notified that the Ministerial asso-
citation of the city will participate
in the Century of Progress parade
which will be held during the cele-
bration.
At recent meeting the asso-
citation named committee to
make plans for representation in
the parade. The committee is COM
posed of Rev. Phillip O'Mara, pas
tor of the Immaculate Conception
church, chairman, Rev. Gilbert R.
Combs. pastor of the First Meth
odist church, and Rev. B. E. Wall,
pastor of the First Baptist church.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
TENT MEETING
RESULTSCIVEN
1156 Reclamations And
Conversions Featured
Revival Here

Rev. George T. Pencil. pastor
Of Calvary Baptist church and
member of the group that spon-
sored the evangelistic tent meet
ing which was concluded here by
Rev. j. Harold Smith Sunday
night, in reporting the results of
the meeting and the fact that the
opposition to Sunday movies will
be continued, declared that the
meeting resulted in ll56 reclama-
tons and conversions, which OBJ
servers declared to be a record
achievement for an evangelistlc
meeting in this region.
Mr.. Pencils prepared state
ment follows:
1.-The revival conducted by the
Rev. }. Harold Smith came to the
concluding service with a great
climax on last Sunday night. The
crowd was undoubtedly the larg-
est that we have yet had.
"The people of Hendersonville
and Henderson county took care
of all the expenses and gave the
evangelist the largest love offer
ing he has received since he be-
gan with his tent. The gifts for
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
PLAN SECOND.
SQUAREDANCE.
Brookshire's Band Plays
For Wednesday Night
Event at Gym

The second in the series of sum-
mer square Dances, held each
week under the sponsorship of the
Chamber of Commerce entertain
ment committee, will be given in
the high school gymnasium We'd
nesday night, beginning at nine
o'clock.
The first of the dances was held
last Wednesday night and was at
tended by a good crowd of local
people and visitors.
Brookshire's string band. of
Hendersonville, will play for the
dancing tomorrow night.
The committee plans to give a
square dance once each week dur
ing the entire summer, and in ad-
dition expects to sponsor two or
three street dances during the
summer. These dances each sum-
mer attract large number of Wis
itors, some who square dance, and
others who like to see mountain
square dancing.
The entertainment committee
plans to stage a number of square
dance contests during the summer
at the weekly dances, and prizes
will be awarded to winning teams
and performers.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
HORSE SHOW
PRIZE LISTS
ARE IN MAILS

Prize lists for Hendersonville's
third annual horse show, to be
staged on the Hendersonville ath-
letic field on Thursday and Fri.
day, August II and IL, with aft
ernoon and evening performances,
have been completed and are now
being mailed to exhibitors.
H. H. Mitchell, director Of the
show, has opened headquarters in
the lobby of the Skyland hotel,
and plans for the show are rap
idly being completed.
Horses will be shown in the fol-
lowing divisions:
Five-gaited, three-gaited, har-
ness classes, jumpers and hunters,
craftsmanship classes, camp class
es. and miscellaneous classes.
Prize money in the stake classes
has been increased for the show
this year, and indications are that
q number of stables, not previous
ly seen here, will be entered in
the show this year.
The sale of reserved parking
spaces for the show will start
within the next few days, Mr..
Mitchell said this morning.
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LONG STRIFE
FORESEEN ON
z CONTINENTS
u. S. Expected to Ignore
Jap Requests to Re-
move Nationals
BRITAIN REJECTING
SIMILAR REQUEST
(UNITED PRESS

Dominant military forces in
Spain and China today intensified
drives 10 end the worlds two
great current wars. but without
definite prospects of early peace
IN either country.
Japanese armies are pounding
up the IaugtSe toward Hankow
and Spanish inSurgent forces are
hammeriug grimly at the defend
ers Of Nalencia-both attempting
10 seize enemy capitals to climax
4 series Of important military add
yanceS.
Normally the success of both
current offenSiveS-in the event
that they are Succ@Ssful-might
open the way for quick conclusion
of the fighting but in the case of
both China and Spain strongest
Indications were that the process
Of modern warfare would reverse
the normal situation.
Twenty-Five Japanese warplaneS
Swuoped down in power dives over
Canton today and bombed govern
meut buildings.
IL was believed that casualties
in the area would be extremely
heavy because of the large num-
berS Of refugees who returned TO
the city during the past week aft
er cessation of relentless bomb
trgS.
Auti-aircraft batteries were IN
effective against the attacking
planes because of overcast skies.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. K.C. JONES
Daughter of Former Sher.
iff Garren Ill 4 Years;
Rites Wednesday

Mrs. Kathleen Garren Jones,
wife of Arthur Jones, county jail
or, and the daughter of Deputy
Sheriff w. A. Garren, died at Pat
ton Memorial hospital last night
at II o'clock.
She had been i'll for more than
four years, and during her illness
five blood trnasfusions had been
given in an effort to save her life.
The final TRANSMISSION was given
at the hospital yesterday, but was
not successful in saving her life
The funeral services will be-
conducted on Wednesday after
noon at = o'clock at Tom Shep-
herd Funeral Home by the Rev.
B. f. Wall, pastor of the First
Baptist church, and burial will
follow in Oakdale cemetery.
. Mrs. Jones was d native Of this
county and daughter of Former
Sheriff w. A. Garren and the late
Mrs. Garren. Her mother died
about four years ago.
She is survived by her father,
her husband, two children, Maj
orie, and Doris, four brothers
Earl, Walter. Raleigh, and John
Garren, and four sisters, Mrs.
Jessie Tyler, of Detroit, Mich,
Mrs. Virginia Sentell, and Misses
Edna and Evelyn Garren.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
POLICE RESERVES
SAVE GEORGE RAFT
FROM WOMEN'S MOB

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. July IL
(UP) reSiryeS were call
ed out last night to rescue Slick
haired George Raft, screen star,
who is visiting here, from mob
Of several hundred women who
had cornered him in the chamber
of commerce building after ra-
dio broadcast.
The building. which is located
next door to the city hail, was
completely surrounded by women
fans, clamoring to touch the ac-
tor.
Traffic was impossible and as
both the central fire station and
police headquarters are located i'll
the city hall, authorities wasted
no time in clearing out the crowd
as soon as possible.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
new DEALLAND
use POLICY IS
RE- AFFIR Med
Roosevelt, in Texas, Ex'
changes Friendly Mes
sage With Garner

AMARILLO, Texas, July IL.
(UP)-President Roosevelt en-
gagged in a tour Of the nation in
the interest of New Deal candi-
dates up for denomination, late
yesterday reatfirmed his land use
policy in a speech here and denied
that the administration farm pro-
gram constitutes subsidy.
The speech climaXed a day of
strenuous effort in Texas during
which Mr.. Roosevelt bestowed the
White House blessing on five
Lone Star State congressman by
specifically mentioning them in
kindly words on the rout West
ward from Fort Worth.
Two New Deal opponents, Sen.
Tom Connally and Rep. Hatton
Summers, both Of whom fought
the court reform plan, went I'M
mentioned although they accom-
panied the president on his spec
ial train.
The speech at Amarillo was de-
livered at Ellwood Park to thou
sands of cheering persons who
greeted him with a 5OO-piece
band.
1.-THE farming and cattle raising
population of the United States,
Mr.. Roosevelt told them, has no
desire to be paid a subsidy or Civ
Ell a handout from the federal
treasury. They have come to un-
derstand-and the rest of the
country is Tearing, too, that the
agricultural program Of the ad.
ministration is not a subsidy"
Speaking in the heart of the
Texas panhandle-once the cen,
ter of the area scourged by dust
storms but now coming back with
good crops and favorable weather
Mr.. Roosevelt divided the land
use problem into three major
parts:
l. Helping the individual USE
his land for the best possible re-
suits.
2. Prevention of over-produc'
ton and subsequent low prices.
8. A decrease in farm ten
ancy and move toward increase
of actual farm ownership.
Earlier, as the Roosevelt spec
ial rolled across the state into the
panhandle, White House attach.
es made public an exchange OF
kilograms between the president,
Vice-President John Nance Gar,
ner, who is vacationing at his
Uvalde, Texas, home, and Rep
Sam Rayburn, of Texas, house
majority leader.
Good-natured bantering in the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT exchange tend
ed to dispel reports that Mr..
Roosevelt had been ignored by
the ice-president while in Texas,
The president drove through
Amarillo in a hard rain, the first
here in the past few weeks. He
declined to have the top of his
car up, however, and went the
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
TENNESSEE FIRM
READY TO SELL OUT

WASHINGTON, July ~. (UP)
r. A. Henderson, counsel for the
Tennessee Public Service Gom-
pany, yesterday asked the Fed
eral Power commission for per-
mission to sell major properties
Of the company to the Tennessee
Valley authority, the city of
Knoxville and the Appalachian
Electric Power company.
Henderson informed the power
commission that stockholders of
the company, meeting a few hours
earlier in Augusta, Me-, voted to
sell all the company's electric
properties except certain trans
mission lines to the city of Knox
vile and IVA because the COM
pany felt it could not compete
successfully with a municipal sys-
TEN at Knoxville.
The stockholders had voted to
sell the excepted transmission
lines to the Appalachian Electric
Power company.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Asserted Communists Seek To Gust
UAW President For Deposing Them

WASHINGTON, July IL. (UP)
-Four ousted officers of the
United Automobile Workers union
yesterday charged President Ho,
mer Martin with "sabotaging" the
union and told Chairman John l..
Lewis of the committee for Indus
trial Organization that a special
convention to GUST the JAW head
sis essential"
They told Lewis during 2 1-2
hour conference that between 80
and 80 per cent of the JAW
members are opposed to their sus-
pension and accused Martin of
raising false issues" in his at
tack upon them as communists or
communist sympathiZerS.
"In reality, there are not 1000
radicals, including communists,
Lovestoneites, TrotZkyites, and
Alterites, in our union," said Sus-
pended Vice-President Ricahrd T.
Frankensteen. Martin hopes to
camoufage the real issues through
his Red-bating attacks. Martin is
joining hands with (M a o r
Frank Hague (of Jersey City, in
trying to make out that our or
ganization is controlled by COM
muniStS."
The ousted officials-Vice Pres
idents Frakensteen, Ed Hall,
Wyndham Mortimer and Secre-
tary-Treasurer George Adde'S
would not comment about that
Lewis said during the conference
and the CLIO chieftain had "noth-
ing to say" to the press. Walter
N. Wells, another vice-president,
suspended, did not attend the con-
ference. The ousted officers were
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
NO TROUBLE WITH
LANDING GEAR

NEW YORK, July IL. (UP)-
Filler Howard Hughes today ex-
pressed worry over "rumors" that
the landing gear Of his record.
breaking airplane was damaged in
the takeotf from Paris.
In a broadcast made at 1915
a. m. today by the Columbia
Broadcasting System while the
plane was flying over the Danzig
Free State, halfway mark on the
Paris to Moscow hop, Hughes said
GAS far as we can see here every
thing is okay."
Hughes and his four compan-
ions had been advised by radio
that officials at lie Bourget air
field near Paris believed the port
side landing gear of the plane
gave way while he was taking off.
In the 1916 a. m. broadcast
through Berlin, Hughes said:
GAS far as We can see here
everything is okay. but we are
worried about these rumors from
Paris (about the landing gear.
We have now picked up quite
bit of speed and estimate that We
are making about 220 miles per
hour at an altitude of $4,000
feet.
"We are on top of solid bank
of clouds which extends right up
to the plane. We have not seen
the ground since leaving Paris.
We went on instruments before
we completed our turn after leav-
ing the airport lie Bourget) and
have been out of sight of land
ever since.
eve have been at 10000 feet
most Of the way in order to stay
above clouds which form ice on
the plane the minute We get into
them. We are now going down a
bit"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
NO Land Seen
DURING PARIS
MOSCOW TRIP
Millionaire And Crew Of
Four Are Well on World
Girdling Tour
COMMUNISTS CHEER
TAKE OFF TO OMSK
(BULLETIN)

NEW YORK, July l2.-(UP)
Headquarters of Hughss' round.
ths-world flight today reported
that the millionaire sportsman had
landed at Omsk, Siberia, at ! pm.
(EST), completing the third leg
of his speed dash.
MOSCOW, July 12.-(UP)-
Howard Hughes and his four fell
low American aviators took off
for Omsk, Siberia, today at 1888
pm. (EST) on their flight around
the world.
They had arrived here after
their flight of 1,675 miles from
Paris, and 5,316 miles from New
York at 11:l5 a. m. (3:15 a. m.
EST.
When it left here for Omsk,
Siberia, the next scheduled stop,
the plane was only a little more
than 35 hours elapsed time from
New York. Their actual flying
time was "a hours and % min
utes, at an average speed Of
218.17 miles.
A roar of cheers went up from
the big crowd here as Hughes, q
S38,000,000 capitalist in q social
ist land, started on a flight across
vast Russia to Alaska and the
United States.
Hughes had planned at first to
fly direct to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
for q third stage Of 2,2s1 miles.
But as he took of he said he
would make for Omsk, approx
mately 800 miles this side of it
on tire Trans-Sibe ian railroad.
As they took off after q pause
of only two and three-quarter
hours they were gaining steadily
on the round-the-world record Of
seven days, Is hours and 40 min
utes set by the late Wiley Post in
1888.
Hughes, multi-million-dollar oil
man and motion picture producer,
had left LIE Bourget airdrove in
Paris with his four companions at
7:24 p. m. (EST) Monday, flying
over central and eastern Europe
in constant danger that if they
flew too low ice would be permit
ted to form on the plane.
The aviators made the Paris
Moscow stage Of the flight in sew
en- hours and ID minutes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Two Play offs
In Softban Loop
Are Set Tonight

Play-offs of postponed games in
the Henderson County Softball
league will continue tonight at 8
o'clock at the Chapman Athletic
field, East Flat Rock.
Games scheduled for tonight
are Kiwanis VS. Grey's Mill, and
Chipman-LaCrosse VS.. Rotary.
Games in the play-offs scheduled
for Thursday night are Chapman
Lacrosse VS.. Kiwanis and Rotary
VS.. Grey's Mill.
The second half of the league
schedule will begin next Tuesday
night.
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accompanied by their attorney,
Maurice Sugar of Detroit, CIO
General Counsel Lee FRESHMAN
also attended the session.
Martin suspended the officers
last month on charges they had
violated a 2O-point harmony pro-
gram adopted by the JAW exc
cutive board. Last Saturday Ad-
des formally was removed from
office and expelled from the
union he helped found, on charges
of diverting local per capita tax
payments from the Acting Secre-
tary-Treasurer, belmont Garst, to
himself. Frankensteen said the
trial was a farce" and that Ad-
des "was railroaded all the way"
The other officers will be tried
July 25. They expect expulsion
because Martin CONTROLS 13 votes.
: Lewis, who has refused public
comment on the fractional fight
because the JAW is an autono-
nous CIO affiliate, probably will
be asked formally to intervene
in the struggle later this week
whine he meets a committee of
Detroit local union presidents
headed by President Earl Talman
of the Hudson local. This group
already has adopted resolution
asking reinstatement of the sus-
pended officials and Lewis help
in setting the dispute which
threatens to wreck the union.
Frankensteen said that "more
than enough" local unions al
ready have petitioned Martin to
conduct a referendum for a spec
ial convention and added "but
Martin takes no action in viola
ton of the constitution"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
ENGLAND IGNORES
JAPAN'S REQUEST

SHANGHAI. July -. CUP -
Great Britain today ignored a
third request by Japan that she
induce her nationals to eyacuate
the HankOw war zone and remove
her ships. The United States was
expected TO do likewise when the
new japanese note is received.
The Japanese. increasingly CON
ciliatory toward foreign powers
because Of their desire to arrange
4 truce once the Hankow area is
occupied. were worried at the pos
Sib.lity of new Panay incident.
An American and a British gun
boat were directly in the line Of
their aerial bombing operations
below the Chinese provisional cap
ital.
The two war vessels. the U.SS.
Monocacy and Inns. Cockchafer.
moved back down the fangtSe
river late yesterday and took up
stations off the installations of the
Standard Oil Co. of New York
and the British ASiatIc Petroleum
Co., about three miles below kiu-
kiang, which the Japanese were
Smelling with powerful naval ri
files.
The acting British consul. c. +.
WhitamOre. said RritonS in Han
kow and adjacent areas would not
be removed in compliance with
Japan's request and that it was
the responsibility of the Japanese
armed forces to avoid BritonS and
their property.
u. s. Ambassador Nelson T.
Johnson had not yet received the
new japanese note, the third in a
fortnight, but said the attitude of
the United States probably would
be the same as in the past-when
the Japanese notes have been lg-
nored. The note, issued by the
japanese naval command in
Shanghai. requests nationals of
third powers 10 evacuate the areas
around Sinyang, Hankow. kul,ng.
Kiukiang, Nanchang, Chuchow,
Changsha and YochOw.
Scores of American and British
citizens are in the war zone.
There are 81 Americans in the
summer resort at Kuling, 20 miles
south Of Kiukiang.
The Japanese were intensifylng
their offensive on HanGow and
there were indications Chinese re
Sistance was crumbling.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Will Reorganize
Scout Drum Corps


Reorganization Of the Boy Scout
drum and bugle corps will be per-
fected at a meeting at the Scout
Center on Wednesday night at
7:30 o'clock.
All Scouts who desire to be-
come members of this organiza-
ton are asked to report at this
meeting. The corps will be under
the direction of Julian Helms.
Mr.. Helms will conduct instruc-
ton in playing the instruments,
marching and formations. Scouts
who do not play musical instru-
ments are eligible for membership
in the organization if they report
tomorrow night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
F. D. R. STRATEGY IN
FIRST TEST TODAY

WASHINGTON, July IL. (UP)
Democratic primary voters in
Oklahoma today are subjecting
President Roosevelt's campaign
strategy to the first 1888 test.
Coming elections in Kentucky,
Maryland, and possibly Georgia
and South Carolina are to have
much more at stake, both from
the standpoint of New Dealers
and so-called conservative Demo-
Gratis but the returns from the
Oklahoma primary generally will
be interpreted by political observ-
ers in the light of President
Roosevelt's words during his brief
stop-over in Oklahoma City last
week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Davidson River
Resident Passes

BREVARD. July IL. (SpeciaD
Mrs. John s. Patton, 65. of the
Davidson River section, died Mon
day night at IL o'clock following
an illness of more than a year.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at o'clock from
the Davidson River Presbyterian
church. Interment will be in the
cemetery nearby.
Surviving are her husband, and
one daughter. Mrs. VIM. Arnold,
of Jonesboro.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
MILLIONS ALLOCATED
FOR POWER PROJECTS

WASHINGTON, July ~. (UP)
PWA Administrator Harold L..
Ickes today allocated 50, 1874
for "a PWA power projects with
total estimated cost of $l3,l55,-
S4S. The projects will not COM
pete with existing private utili-
ties.
Ickes allocated $4,000 to the
Federal Power commission from
unexpended balance of emergen-
cy appropriation of 1885 to COM
plete a comprehensive national
power survey.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Bert Boyd Host
To Park Visitors
Wednesday, 18th

In observing Wednesday, July
10, Boyd Park will be open all
day at no charge for visitors and
local people, the Chamber of Com
merce announced today.
Those who attend the park to-
morrow will be the guests of Bert
A. Boyd, whose generosity made
the park and it's equipment pos
sible.
The celebration is in observance
of the thirteenth, which number
Mr.. Boyd considers as his lucky
number.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Rotary To Hear
OF International

Hugh Whisnant, delegate Of
the local Rotary club to the In
ternational convention at San
Francisco, will make a report of
the convention at the Rotary
meeting tomorrow at the Skyland
Hotel.
Directors of the club will meet
tonight at 1880 at the home of
Bert Browning in Laurel Park.
At this time q vice-president for
the coming year will be elected,
as will be q secretary and a
treasurer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
Urge King George
To Rest In Bed

LONDON. July II. (UP)-Phy-
sicians of King George, who has
been suffering from gastric influ-
enza, have advised the monarch to
remain in bed for the present.
Although he is reported to have
almost recovered, his physicians
advised less strenuous program
for the king, who has been very
active in the past few months.