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Evening star., 1938-07-10

Los Angeles for the remainder Of the
summer.
Mrs. Angus Lamond and Miss Mary
Wilson Lamond are guests of Mrs. M.
E. HUT in Westmoreland County.
Next week they will go to Buckroe
Beach.
Miss Margaret Fenwick Monroe has
gone to Pasadena, Calf, as q dele
gate to the convention of the Delta
Zeta national sorority, which Is meet
ing this week.
Miss Anne L. Farquar has left for
Merrill, N. Y, to spend the summer
at the Adirondack Music Camp, where
she will be member OF the faculty.
Mr.. Richard Ruffner, son of Mayor
and Mrs. Richard L. Ruffner. left
Monday to spend the summer at Camp
Greenbriar. w. Va.
Mrs. James Randolph Mansfield is
the guest Of her son-in-law and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. George E.
Petit, in Westfield, N. j.
Miss Clara Archie Moore is the guest
of her cousin, Mrs. Clement Ellis
Conger, in Rockingham County.
Mr.. Jack Slaughter Visits
Parents in Danville.
Mr.. Jack Slaughter is spending the
week end with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John j. Slaughter, in Danville,
who celebrated their Seth wedding an
niversary Monday.
Miss Viola Gompf is the guest Of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Lockard. in Reisterstown, Md.
Miss Frances Wright Of Roanoke is
visiting DR.. and Mrs. Paul R. Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Carter Beverley,
jr., returned yesterday from a visit to
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.
Busch, in Bay City, Mich.
Miss Maxine Cox and Miss Elizabeth
Redd of Rocky Mount, N. c., are
guests Of DR.. and Mrs R. F. Benthall.
Miss Jennefer Barton is the guest of
Miss Mary Sewer in Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. Robert Stephens announces the
marriage of her daughter, Theta
Prince. to Mr.. Kemp Lee Lambeth
Tuesday. June 81. In Richmond. Mr..
and Mrs. Lambeth are living at 80s
Prince street.
Mr.. and Mrs r. E. Lee Moore are
spending two weeks in Nova Scotia.
Miss Elizabeth Hesser has left for
England to spend month travelling
there and in Scotland.
Evening star., 1938-07-10
Alexandria Social News
Of General Interest
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Bloomer, Jr.,
Joined by Friends for Week
Visit at Nags Head, N. c..

LEXANDR1A Va July sM and Mrs Howard Bradley Booner
~ left Wednesday
T and Mrs Robert andN Mis-
Elizabeth Warwick who will remain there for a
Miss Mary Lloyd visiting Dolly
Island spending the with brother
and Mrs Edward Lloyd, Yonkers N. Y.
beeter who recently returned from spending Anderson
gone to her summer home in Center Conway NJ H.
to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
Rate Boost Falls Short OF Railroads Plea
SEN. WHEELER EXCORIATES
ADMINISTRATION, CHARGES
POLITICSPLAYED WITH WpA
Reorganization Bill Attack
Ends Rumor Friend
ship Patched up
WASHINGTON,IaSr. 9,sUP)

WASHINGTON,N 9,sUP)
RumorS that Senator Burton K.
Wheeler (D-Mont.) and President
Roosevelt were about to be recon-
ciled were believed blasted when
the Montanan eXcOriated the adj
miniStration for playing politics
with the WPA.
Wheeler fell out with the White
House last year when he led 4
successful crusade against Presi-
dent RooScvelt'S supreme court re-
organization bill. Recently, when
he and the chief executive con-
ferred. it was believed the one
time friends had rccaSt the bonds
of harmony, but Whecler's assault
yesterday was interpreted other
wise.
Speaking against another of the
presidents pet measures, the gov
ernment reorganization bill, the
handsome weStcrner charged that
it is the road to dictatorship and
told his colleagues that if they APP
prove it they ought to close up
and go home"
He clmaxed his pcroration with
the declaration that departmental
officials are retaliating against
congressman opposed to admins
u'ation measures and cited a case
in his home state as an alleged
instance.
"A poor fellow who was work
ing on a WPA project" he said,
was called on the carpet and
threatened with being fired be-
cause ne is a friend Of mine. The
way the administration has played
politics with the WPA in my state
is a scandal"
Wheeler berated his colleagues
for voting against their cOnvic-
tions" and said that if they APP
prove the reorganization bill it
would be evidence that they don't
have 1.-The ability or moral charac
Ter" to pass upon legislation.
He contended that as the meas
ure now stands 1t would enable
the president to abolish 400 per
cent of all the bureaus in a de-
partment and all the functions of
those departments"
The bill, which would permit
consolidation of many agencies as
an economy measure, is strongly
opposed by a bloc headed by Sen
ator Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) and
has been the subject of consider
able condemnatory editorializing.
THAT has never been my philos-
ophy," ne cried. And when and
if that philosophy should be estab
Continued on page threel
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
BARHAM Child
KILLEDBYCAR
Asheville Man Posts Bond
Pending Inquiry in
Brickton Death

Kathleen Barham, scven-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Barham, of Brickton, was instant
ly killed yesterday afternoon about
4 o'clock when struck by an auto
mobile on the ASheville-H ender-
SOnville highway near the brick
store at Brickton.
Morris Michael, Asheville sales
man, alleged driver of the car,
was released last night under ST.
500 bond for his appearance be-
fore a coroner'S inquest on Satur-
dav afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Funeral services for the child.
one of eight children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Barham, will be held this af-
ternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the
Fletcher Methodist church. Burial
will follow in the Patty's Chapel
cemetery.
According to information OBJ
tanned by investigating officers,
the child had started to cross the
highway IN front OF her nome. She
had aighted from a school bus
and walked about 200 feet down
the highway.
Michael told officers that the
child came from behind truck
as he was driving toward Ashe-
vile and was hit by the fender Of
his car. He was meeting the truck
at the time.
According to officers, the child
was knocked a distance of about
25 feet. Her left leg was severed
and her head and face crushed.
Mr.. Michael. J. o. Youngblood and
John Trantham. who were at the
scene. carried the child to Noun
tain Sanitarium. but death was
instantaneous. The body was later
taken to Tom Shepherds funeral
home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
No Contact With
Levine Youths
Kidnapers Yet
indications Father Making
Desperate Ransom
Attempts

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Mar.
9.-(UP)-Murray Levine, New
York attorney whose son was KID
mapped IS days ago, today admit
ted despondentlv that all efforts
to deliver the 100000 ransom de-
manded by the abductorS had
failed so far.
There has been no ransom pay
ment and any report to that effect
is entirely Incorrect" Levine told
reporters over the telephone. e,
His statement was Interpreted
to mean that the kidnapers had
not responded to his reiterated
press and radio appeals that they
renew the contact made last week
after the ransom note was re-
ceived.
Unusual activity around the Le-
vine home today strengthened the
belief that Levine's attempt TO
contact the kidnapers was becom-
ing increasingly desperate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
auto OUTPUT
IS ADVANCING
Used Car Sales Drive
Brings Accumulation
of New Orders

DETROIT, Mar. 9. (UP)-Op-
timistic reports from three sepa-
rate sources today indicated nor
nal seasonal advance in automo-
bile production was under way.
At Flint, Mich, Buick an
nounced that it's work week had
been increased to four days and
production stepped up to $4,000
units per month. Last month the
Buick division of General Motors
Corporation turned out approx
mately $4,000 cars. approximate
ly $4,000 employees will be given
80 hours instead of "a hours Of
work a week, starting Monday, a
Buick spokesman said. The num-
Der of employees will not be in
creased, he said.
simultaneously, the Automotive
Daily News reported that automo-
bile production. this week will be
increased to 7,157 units as COM
pared with the $685. units Of last
week. The production will be far
short of the 93,927 units turned
out in the corresponding week of
1887.
The publication attributed the
production increase to the nation
wide used-car selling drive now
under way and to the "heavy ac-
cumulations of new car orders as
the anticipated spring upturn be-
gins"
Noticeable production increases
were reported this week at Chrys-
Ter and General Motors plants, the
said. 1t asserted that
Chrysler has Jumped operations
generally to average four days,
while Pontiac has upped its rate
from two to four days in its home
plant"
John R. Davis, general sales
manager of the Ford Motor Co.,
said Ford dealers had one of the
largest single days sales of used
cars last Saturday in the 35-year
history of the company.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8: (CP?'
The Borah- O'Mahoney federal IL
censing bill was condemned as an
edict to "put all industry in bond :
age" by Merwin X. Hart mead OF
the New York state, economic
council, in testimony before tne
senate judiciary subcommittee
yesterday.
The measure, which proposes 10
ban child labor and to eliminate
unfair and cut throat business
practices by federal licensing OF
all corporations with more than
100000 gross assets operating IN
interstate commerce, has not been
publicly approved by President
Roosevelt.
Protesting that the proposal
"seems to have been borrowed
from our socialist friends" Hart
warned against the bureaucratic
RECOMMENDATION of all industry TO
punish "the rascality of the few"
Hart was one of few witnesses
before congressional committees
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
DIRECTORS CALLED
TO WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (UP)
Tennessee Valley Authority foes
today charged that the administra-
ton. fearing a scandal, is trying
to avoid a congressional investi-
cation of the Authority.
From the present indications,
the IVA may have the makings
of another Teapot Dome," Senator
H. Styles Bridges (R-N. H. as
serted as he and Senator William
H. King (D-Utah) announced the
presidents scheduled conference
with IVA directors would not in
terfere with their resolution for a
senate committee inquiry.
President Roosevelt will inquire
into charges Of jealousy, malad-
ministration, plotting and neglect
of duty, hurting about the board
. for the past week, on Friday.
Meanwhile, Senator George w.
Norris, father Of the iva. held to
the opinion that of President
Roosevelt makes public after his
conference the text of the testi-
mony or statements given him, ]
think it might end the whole thing
without formal investigation"
Mr.. Roosevelt's announcement
that he had ordered the three men
to the White House Friday came
amid congressional clamor for re-
moval of the three directors Of the
New Deals huge yard-stick power
project and midst growing de-
mands that the agency be investi-
gated.
The directors split in the spring
of 1896 when they differed over
matters of policy. Subsequently
the chairman lodged charges Of
dishonesty against his associates
and they retaliated in kind, accus-
ing him of trucking to utilities
which are fighting the IVA power
program.
White House intervention came
as among other developments.
Sen. Geo. w. Norris U-Neb.D,
co-author of the IVA act and call
ed the father" of the vast prof.
ect, made a two-hour defense Of
his "brainchild" in the senate yes
terday, devoting it chiefly to an
attack on Chairman Morgan, who.
Continued on page FOUR
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Thinks Proposed Licensing Law
Would Mean Bondage For Industry

Tuesday as the two houses con-
tinued deliberations. The senate
debated the government reorgan.
ization bill, and initiated the in
quiry into labor conditions in the
merchant marine by appointing
Senator Royal S. Copeland, D., N.
Y, to lead it. The commerce COM
mittee, which Copeland heads,
said they would be aided by Sen
ators Richard Russell, Jr., D., Ca,
Ebert D. Thomas, D., Utah, Ar,
thur Vandenberg, R., Mich, and
Vic Donahey, D., O..
The senate unemployment COM
mittee heard President David Las
ser of the Workers Alliance Of
America, urge a $4,000, 900
relief appropriation for the 1889
fiscal wear to provide minimum
of 100000 WPA jobs, and sup
Elementary funds for the states
for direct relief. o. $500.
Howard Kester of the Southern
Tenant Farmers union, offered a
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
7 SENTENCES
Are IMPOSED
IN HIGH COURT
Rick Mccall Given 5 10 7
Years IN Auto Death
of Guy Weese I'll
LARCENY CASES ARE
ACTED ON BY COURT

In superior court this morning.
Judge A. Hall Johnston sent"nutG
Rick Mccall, of the Etow Ii sec
ton, TO serve not less than I've
nor more than seven yeas or
manslaughter.
Mccall was convicted on ''e
charge of manslaughter in e
death of Guy Weese, of near I, o.
wah, in an automobile wreck ST
August ~. The wreck occur d
near the Etowah school.
Returning a conviction III T"
case the jury held MECH 3
driving the Ford car at the t! e
of the wreck and was under e
influence .of liquor. +. Nj. Bray,
owner Of the car, and held WIFE
Mccall by coroner's inquest, " 3
released when the state took !
nolle PROSE- Of charges.
Judge Johnston passed sentt ie
this morning with the remark at
the jury was correct in It's YER T.,
and expressing the opinion at
Mccall was on drunken 81; g"
at the time and that the deaf 81
Weesc was unnecessary. ..
In the court yesterday ~
noon Judge Johnston ,entfHcc''N
Wilburn Sherman, Of the Ea"s
Flat Rock section, t. serve IL
months on a conviction Of larceny
of chickens from Mrs. Mitchell
Thompson on February Is.
Conviction came after Mrs.
Thompson had testified that eight
of her chickens were stolen. She
said she later identified six of the
chickens at Jack Russelps. Mrs.
Thompson testified that she knew
they were her chickens just as she
would be able to identify her own
children.
Mr. Russell testified that the
chickens were brought to his home
between 4 80 and 5 a. M, and that
he notified Chief Otis Powers.
Chief Powers testified that Sher-
man was chased some distance and
arrested, and that he had received
complaints that Sherman had been
stealing chickens from many peo-
pie in the neighborhood.
Bill Lynch, convicted of assault,
was sentenced to serve 80 days:
w. P. Corpening pleaded guilty
to forgery of the name OF Mrs;
w. w. Redden 20 a note. and
prayer for judgment was continued
to the October term.
Before a jury yesterday after
noon, Floyd Rhymer was convict
ed of breaking and entering Over
toms Wholesale Grocery on Jan:
9 and sentenced to serve from z
to years.
David H. Mcdaniel, colored,
pleaded guilty to breaking and en-
tering the home Of John Peden on
Fifth avenue. He was sentenced
to serve five years for beaking and
entering and four years for lar
ceny, sentences to run separately,
and capias to issue on motion OF
the solicitor on the second count
Mcdaniel was indicted for en-
tering the Peden home and ten
other similar charges were lodged
against him by officers after ms
arrest here a short time ago.
Oscar Fisher pleaded guilty 10
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
Dramatic Club
Will Stage Play
First 3-Act Offering Fri
day Night March lS

The Hendersonville High School
Dramatic club will present a 3
act play entitled Aunt Title
Goes to Town" on Friday, Mar.
IS, at the high school auditorium.
Miss Katherine Goodman is dl-
recting the play and it will be the
dramatic clubs public 3-act pres
entation.
The cast of character is as fol-
lows: Tillic Trask, Anne Feather
stone; Lucinda Talbot, Ray
Geiger: Pamela Marsh, Wilma
Umfleet; Lizzie Parsons, Eliza
beth Gardiner; Ellen Neeland,
Louise Lazarus, Ronald Rowland,
Jack Smith; Luther Lorrimer,
Joseph Mottsman: Meryin Tucker
Perry Gianakos; Mrs. Tillie Tuck
er, Carolyn Shipp; DR.. Hattie
Bing, Lula Mae Loflin.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
Say Comptroller
Flouts Law With
Published Report
IVA Saws Morgan Ex-
planned z Millions of
Questioned Costs

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March 8.
fUP)-Tennessee Valley Author
ity yesterday charged the u. S.
COMPTROLLER general "flouted" the
law in making public comment on
audits of the government power
aeency's expenditures without per-
hitting iva to review them.
The Authority made the charge
in a formal statement answering
the comptroller general offices
revelation that it had CHALLENGED
iva expenditures of $4,748 BOB
during the fiscal years Of 1884,
1885 and 1886.
"No reports for fiscal years
since 1884 have been received by
the iva for review. as provided
bv the law" the Authority stated.
"It comes with poor grace for the
comptroller generals office to
charge ille9ality to the IVA when
his office has directly flouted the
provision of law passed to prevent
such ex parte COMBINATIONS Of
government agency"
iva contended it had made
"ereat effort" since 1884 to obtain
the comptroller generals audit re-
ports for examination, but had
been unsuccessful.
The Authority said the COMB
troller general in 1885 in "pre-
liminary report" questioned ST.
013.0O0 of IVA expenditures.
Chairman DR.. A. E. Morgan
on behalf of the IVA appeared
before. the house military affairs
committee and analysed the ex-
ceptions in DETAIL" the Authority
explained.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
Says Speed
b Naval Program
Is Not Required
resident 7 Would Decide
Construction Needs From
lime to Time

w, n:4SSHINGTON, Mar. 9. CUP)
'eS'lent Roosevelt will make q
t 5,aa. decision on the speed with
g. ~" the expansion of the navy
|. Dc carried forward and the
IT VI expenditures under the
!. ,,'oa'doI!ar naval program after
u approval Of the general au-
s. ,ccauGn bill Senator David |.
e. ash ID, Mass. chairman of
f. senate naval affairs commit
r. g. revealed today.
% 'ar as | am able to learn,
=, - Is no intention at the pres
+. Tine Of commencing extern
~ construction" Walsh said.
" any event." he added,
r., ,SS'aeNl Roosevelt will deter
Is5 ~ Wien construction is to be
|, -'I ,:saNen, and just how much
|o %|,%4hwhIle, high naval officials
Il 'ae United Press that the ma
l. expansion bill will increase
Iro,s annual navy department ap-
|260 G ia,5on 70 approxima I e ~
e., n'I,V}O'OOO more than the 1899
Eo,,.Ei,'oIifeaNIng $553,OOO,0O0 ap-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
Nation AT Crossroads Of Freedom
Or Dictatorship, Gannett Says

ship and control Of everything
and everybody by the govern
ment in Washington"
Gannett warned of a trend ito
ward a totalitarian state" COM
naring it to events in Germany
italy and Russia, and declared
"our form of government is in
peril unless we can wake up
America"
"What we need is more recov-
cry before more reforms" he
said. "If we don't have some re-
covery soon, the way will be open
for exactly what has happened in
Europe. Intolerable economic
conditions must be corrected"
He called the current business
recession Roosevelt depression"
and said the president should take
the blame for it, pointing out that
Mr.. Roosevelt "in his first cam
paign blamed President Hoover
Continued on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Mar. 9.
(UP)-Frank E. Gannett, Roch-
ester, N. Y, publisher and Repub-
lican party leader, asserted last
night that the United States is in
the "third great crisis" of its ma
tional existence and that choice
must be made between democracy
and dictatorship.
Directing his remarks at the
Roosevelt administration, he told
the Committee of 100, an organ,
ization of business and industrial
leaders who winter here, the pres
ent state of the nation was as
serious as Washington faced at
Valley Forge and as Lincoln fae-
ed in Gettysburg.
Developments in the near lu-
ture, Gannett said, would deter
mine whether we are to continue
our democratic form of govern
ment and preserve free enterprise
or whether we shall go tufther
on the road to fascism, DICTATOR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
QUINT SWEEPS
INDIANS IN COUNTY FINALS
Whole Team Makes All
County Group; Other
Honors Awarded

Outclassing their traditional
rivals from the west. the Edney-
vile boys basketball team swept
over u hard-fighting band of Etc.
wah Indians to win the Hender-
son county championship in the
finals at the city gymnasium last
night by a 40 to Is score.
In the girls consultations, Mills
River displayed smooth passing
attack and tight defense to win
from Dana so to 10.
Although outclasSed during
most of the game, Etowah's boys
put up a game battle against Ed
NEVILLE, rated probably the best
team ever seen in this county.
The Indians never gave in and
staged a 7-point rally in the final
few minutes of the game.
Only in the second period was
the game close, Etowah playing
on even terms with Edneyville
and both teams scoring 7 points.
Edneyville piled up l4-point
lead in the first period and ac-
cumulated ii points before Etc.
was managed to score.
In the third period Edneyville
scored Is points to 3 for the In
dams, and II in the fourth to 6
for Etowah. Coach Cathey used
two complete teams, substituting
his second team in the final pc
Rod.
w. Pryor and Shytle led the
Edneyville team with II and l3
points and Anders, Etowah's
small forward, was high scorer
for his team with 8 points.
MILLS RIVER GIRLS PLAY
GREAT BASKETBALL
Mills Rivers forwards showed
some of the best passing and
shooting of the tournament IN the
girls consultations, and their
guards played great defensive
ball.
After gaining a 3-point lead in
a close first quarter, Mills River
ran the score to 10 to 7 in the
second period. In the third period
Dana scored only one point while
Mills River was scoring 9. Seven
points in the final period for Mills
River to 2 for Dana completed the
rout.
Britain was high scorer for
Mills River with l3 points and
Pace was high for Dana with 8
points. !.
In selecting all-star teams aft
er the close of the tournament,
balloting was close for most po,,
sitions on the girls teams and
ties were recorded for several po-
sitions.
The entire Edneyville boys
team made the first boys team,
the first time all positions have
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-09
JAMES STEPP
IS INDICTED
Grand Jury Returns Find
ing in Death of Father,
John Stepp

The Henderson county grand
Jury this afternoon indicted James
Stepp for the murder Of his ia
Their. John Stepp.
Returning to the court room at
l2:l5 O'Clock in a body, the jury
returned a true bill against the
younger Stepp.
James Stepp is alleged to have
assaulted his father on October
"a. 1887. during the course of
political argument, and the elder
man died on January Is of this
year.
Stepp was bound to the superior
court by Magistrate j. F. Brooks.