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Evening star., 1939-07-15
Divine Takes Newport Mansion
And Plans to 'CIeon Up' Resort

wife of the late Richard Washburn
Child, author and diplomat, who
formerly owned the property. Coun-
tess Filipponi contends she was to
have had a half share in profits
from the place after it was con-
verted into a hotel. Mrs. Kaufman
abandoned the hotel idea and
offered the house to Divine when
Newport authorities refused to give
her a liquor license.
In the statement issued today by
Divine's secretary. John Lamb, Mrs.
Kaufman was quoted as. saying:
"The racketeers and gambling
must go. Newport is the
hornets nest of the united States.
Our world brother, Attorney Gen.
eral Frank Murphy, is the man We
now ask to come in. It is a Navy
seaport and the cleansing must
come. I have been in every spot
of the world on missionary work,
bringing the Lords prayer to the
face of man, but this Is hopeless In
Newport. Only Father Divine can
clean up Newport"
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Senate 10 Vote Monday
On Film Block Booking
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Six hours of Senate debate yester-
day failed to produce action on a
bill for Federal regulation of film
marketing.
Majority Leader Barkley finally
obtained unanimous consent to a
vote on the bill at pm. Monday.
The measure would outlaw so-called
compulsory block booking" and
blind selling"
Senator Nicely, Democrat. of West
Virginia, author of the legislation,
said block booking required theaters
to accept a group of films each
season, or none. while blind selling
required exhibitors to buy films
without knowing what was in them.
He declared more than $4,000 900
people have pleaded for II years to
pass this bill
Senator White, Republican, of
Maine replied that the bill was
futile and unnecessary" and in a
21a-hour speech insisted that the
"evils" of motion pictures had been
cleaned up" by the industry itself.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Par|ey on 1ientsin
Opened in Toxic by
Britain and Japan
Nippon's Foreign Minister
Talks 3 Hours With
English Envoy
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, July 15.-The conference
to negotiate the British Japanese
dispute at the North China Port of
Tientsin opened here today against
a background of anti-British senti-
ment famed by patriotic societies.
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita
and the British Ambassador, Sir
Robert Leslie Craigie, conferred
alone for three hours in first meet
ing in which, foreign Office state
ment said, they discussed general
questions forming the background
OF the situation which has arisen a.
I1entsin." They will meet again
Monday
I'm London the Daily Mail said
prospects for the conference were
mot rosy" in view of the present
atmosphere in Toxic. A mass
demonstration against the British
Embassy yesterday was cited.)
IN the conference room both men
talked frankly" authoritative quar-
ters said Arita was reported to
nave requested British cooperation
after explaining Japan's view of
War-lnduced changes in China. and
Cralgle was said to have stated the
British attitude.
Inc dispute centers Immediately
on the British and French conces-
SONS at 11entsin. On June Ia the
japanese army imposed a blockade
OF these concessions in order to iso-
late the British area aft.r British
authorities had refused to surrender
four alleged terrorists sought by the
japanese.
AS the British offered TO negotiate
| the case of the terrorists, the local
japanese authorities increased their
demands to a general request for
British "co-operation" with japanese
activities in China. When the pres
ent conference was being arranged
the British sought to keep it con-
fined specifically to the Tientsin dis
pute, while the japanese insisted
| upon including for discussion the
general subject of British co-opera-
ton in Japan's program to establish
"a new order in East Asia
In maintaining the blockade at
Tientsin the japanese soldierv thor
oughly searched Britons entering
and leaving the concession, in many
cases stripping them in public.
These incidents were described by
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain in the House of Commons az
"intolerable insults"
1t was suggested authoritatively
today that the conference agenda
might be arranged to include three
main points:
/. The subject of the four terror
lists held in the British concession.
2. The japanese demand for
greater voice in, the administration
of Tientsin to prevent the Chinese
from using the foreign concessions
as base
3. Specific means by which the
British might discontinue blocking"
as the Japanese say-Japan's eco
nomic program in North China.
The conference opened less than
"a hours after giant demonstration
in which a throng of japanese.
mostly members Of patriotic societies
marched upon the British Embassy
and attempted to rush the gates.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
P. W. A. Workers Ger
Tordiness Wurnino

Employees of the Public Works Ad-
ministration, Federal Works Agency,
will be held strictly accountable"
for the time they report in the
morning and tardiness will be de-
Quoted from annual leave, E. w.
Clark, acJing commissioner of
public works, said today in an ad-
ministrative order.
While no time clocks are planned,
the head of each section will be re-
quired to keep track of the time his
employees sign in.
Effective Monday, the hours of
P. w. A. workers will be modified
They will work from $3.50 am. to
AIS pm, with a 45-minute lunch
period. On Saturday the hours
will be $3.50 to 1890, with no lunch
period.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
House Adopts Report
BY Vote of 2O8 to 745
81 the Associated presr

8! tne Associated Press.
Congress finally gave its approval
Yesterday to legislation enabling the
Tennessee Valley Authority to buy
commonwealth & Southern utility
properties in three Southern States
The House adopted, 2O8 to l45, a
conference report embodying a COM
promise bill which Republicans
characterized as "a surrender" by
the House conferees to Senator
Norris, Independent. of Nebraska
chief Senate conferee and father
of T. V. A."
The legislation was made ready
Tor the signature of President
Roosevelt when the Senate quickly
approved the report without OBJ
lection. The President indicated
earlier in the week the compromise
was satisfactory.
The compromise reduced the
100000, 900 bond issue proposed bv
the Senate bill to s61 500. 900, the
House figure, and earmarked the
purposes for which the proceeds
could be used.
Funds Earmarked.
The bill set aside SAC. 100000 as
1. " AS share OF the s78.6OO 900
contract for public purchase of Com
monWealth & Southerns Tennessee
Electric Power Co. T. v. A. is acting
LII association with Chattanoopa
Nashville and other municipalities
IN making this purchase.
The measure also earmarked
$500, 900 for the proposed purchase
OF other c. & S. properties in 27
North Alabama and Mississipni
counties. In addition. $1,000 600 was
earmarked for rehabilitatine the
properties and connecting them
with T. v. AS transmission lines
and s2,O00.000 for loans to small
municipalities participating in the
deals.
Republicans protested the sur
render of several House amend
ments, including one combining r
V. A. power sales to the Tennessee
watershed.
WAlkle Authorship Denied.
Chairman May, bitter T. V. A.
Zoe, offered the conference report to
the House with the statement that
while 1t wasn't as restrictive as he
wanted it, it will force T. v. A. to
return to Congress for approval in
ADVANCE OF any further expansion >
he said earmarking of the bonds
would effectively limit expansion.
He denied one Republican charge
that the bill was written by Wendell
Wlllkle. president of the Chatta-
nooga Public Power Board. He said
he prepared the measure himself
The original deadline for con-
summation of the Tennessee Electric
contract expired June 30, but con-
1erees were assured the terms could
be extended "a reasonable time" to
await enactment of the legislation
Evening star., 1939-07-15
BY the Associated Press.

BY the SSSoClAIeu FIeSS.
NEW YORK, July 15.-A state
ment purportedly signed and
sealed" by Angela c. Kaufman was
issued from Harlem today saying
that Father Maj. j. Divine, colored
evangelist, had agreed to accept
her mansion in Newport, r. l., and
clean up" the fashionable resort.
Father Divine and his followers
have agreed to take the offer of the
place." the statement said, ito be
held in escrow until any little dis
turbances have been obviated and
until the said Angela C. kaufman
has been given an opportunity to
arrange her affairs at large, peace
fully with good will to all men!"
There was no indication Of what
the little disturbances" were, but
1t was disclosed recently that Mrs.
Kaufman's right to turn the house
over to Divine and his angels"
had been challenged in a Supreme
Court suit.
The suit was brought by Countess
Dorothy Child Fihpponi, fourth
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Flying Boat Weathers
Storm Over Atlantic
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 15.-The Ameri-
can Export Airlines reported today
Its flying boat Trans Atlantic
reached Foynes, Ireland, at 4:51 am.
(E. S. t. after weathering a storm
on the second leg of its test fight
to France over the northern route.
The big ship, carrying Capt Pat
rick j. Byrne and crew of four,
completed the 1,993-mile overwater
hop from Botwood, Newfoundland,
IN 13 hours and So minutes.
Cross winds of -mile-an- hour
intensity and low ceiling hampered
the craft in the last three hours of
its flight over open water, Capt.
Byrne radioed, and he dropped for
a time to within 200 feet of the
oceans gale-lashed surface. The
alrship was never in trouble.
The Transatlantic will remain
overnight at Foynes and take of
about 3 am. E. S. T) Sunday for
BiscarosSe and Marseille, France,
the European terminus.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
| Garner Pays OFF Bet
| On Adjournment to
| Woodring, HoPkins
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Vice President Garner paid
OFF today on a bet that Congress
would adjourn by this date.
He instructed his aides to see
that a sealed envelope, bearing
the names of Secretary of War
Woodring and Secretary of
Commerce Hopkins, be delivered
to Mr.. Woodring's Office. The
exact contents of the envelopes
were not disclosed.
The Vice President has other
bets. however, in which he fixed
later dates, which he still hopes
to win.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

major Improvements In the District
Outstanding among them were funds
for replacement of the Pennsylvania
avenue bridge across the Anacostis
River and funds for numerous i'm
provements in the highway system
including the traffic underpass al
Thomas Circle.
Mr.. Collins also has taken inter-
est in the development of the public
library system and was instrumental
several years ago in having scrappeo
the $50 1000 Jacobs report for a per-
manent solution of the long trouble
some fiscal relations problem.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Senute Authorizes
New Bond Limit
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
The Senate approved and sent to
the White House yesterday legisla-
ton permitting the Treasury to issue
up to S45, 900 900 900 of bonds.
Existing law limits bond issues to
$50, ,000, 900, 900, although the limit
on the total debt is $45 900 900 900
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau requested removal of the bond
limitation because then, he said, the
Treasury could obtain more favor
able financing terms.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Miss Hammond Dies

Miss Adelaide Hammond, so, for
1S years nurse at the dakota Farm
and Industrial School. Clifton Sta
ton, Va, died yesterday after long
illness. She was born in Atlanta,
Ca, and was an active church worker.
Funeral services win be held at 2::3O
pm tomorrow at the farm and burial
will be in Centerville, Va.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Weather Report
Furnished by tn

District CoumbiaFa tonight and tomorrow
gentle to moderate northwest and
Maryland-Fair and continued and
VirgniaFa portion local
showers southwest portion tonight
West Vrgnia-Mos cloudy local hun
dershoWers in south portion tonight;
Evening star., 1939-07-15
New Measure Protects
Air Corps Secrets
, the Associated Press.

0S 1AocONIutSU
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed legislation designed to pro-
tect military secrets of the Army
Air Corps
1t permits the corps to purchase
airplane parts and accessories with
out advertising.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Hyde Park Memorial
Library Assured

BY the ASSOcla Ted Press.
The Senate completed legislative
action yesterday on bill to provide
for memorial library at Hyde Park
to house President Roosevelt's state
papers.
The measure now goes to the
White House.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Air Crash Kills Two

BETHPAGE, N. Y, July Is UP.-
Maj. Paul c. Durbin, As, of the Air
Corps Reserve, and Pvt. Allen W..
Lewis, %, of Mitchell Field, were
killed yesterday when their low-wing
: monoplane crashed into a field.
They were on q training cruise from
, Mitchell Field. ,
Evening star., 1939-07-15
French PIone Completes
Flight Over Atlantic
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BISCAROSSE, France, July 15.-
The French flying boat Lieutenant
de Vaisseau Paris alighted here at
3:17 pm. GIT am, E. S. To- today,
completing nonstop flight from
New York.
Bad weather slowed the big craft,
which left Port Washington. N. Y,
yesterday at 4:49 am, E. S. T.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Guard Officer Dies

LEWES. Del, July Is tP.-Capt.
David A. Benson, 80, of Wilmington,
commander of Battery D, 198th
Coast Artillery, Delaware National
Guard, died last night in the Beebe
Hospital Of a fractured skull suf-
fered IN an automobile accident
near Georgetown last Saturday.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Health Book for All

Every man and woman in France
is to receive health book" con-
tanning the medical history of the
holder and any other details of as
sistance to a doctor.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

After journey of over 1000 miles
overland part of Nine. Chang Kai-
sheks prize herd of cattle has ar
rived in Chengtu, capital of Szech-
uen, from Nanking, China.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Congress in Brief

House and Senate in recess.
House Judiciary. Committee hears
British expert on railroad reorgani-
zation. 10 Am.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

CARMI, ILL.-DENIES FL
NANCING PLOT-Mrs. Alice
Austin on the witness stand in
Circuit Court denied financing
a death plot and said she had
nothing to do" with the dyna-
mite Staying last March of her
husband, Earl, a high school
janitor. She and Theodore
Simmons, a neighbor, are
being tried on q murder
charge. "A. p. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

nutUWUuIie IEHlS nust De turned on one
half hour after sunset
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Report for Last 2i Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
CFrom noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest. ss. $50 PM yesterday. Year
ago, %
Lowest. SO, 5:15 am. today. Year
ago, 20.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 96. on June 16
Lowest, IT. on February %.
Humidity for Last "A Hours
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 92 per cent at midnight
Lowest, 43 per cent at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED By United States Coast
and oeodetic Survey
To-day. Tomorrow
High ---------- $50 am. I'll am
lOw ---- a-IH .ol ANN
InH H,sh ------------ S:s1pp.mm. 5::4s pm
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TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL
ESTATE

(By Substituted Trustee)
Pursuant to the power and au-
thority contained in a certain
deed of trust dated the 5th day
of March, 1884 executed by w.
w. Hash and wife, Sarah Hash to
Alan S. O'Neal, Trustee, which
deed of trust is duly registered
in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Ashe County, North
Carolina, in Book No. 26, page
224, securing a certain note pay
able to HOME OWNERS LOAN
CORPORATION, default having
been made for a period of more
than ninety (90) days in the pay
ment of said note as provided
therein and in the performance
of certain covenants set out in
said deed of trust and demand of
foreclosure having been made by
the holder of said indebtedness,
the undersigned Trustee, having
been substituted as Trustee, for
Alan S. O'Neal, said substitution
being duly recorded in the Of
flee of the Register of Deeds of
Ashe County, North Carolina, in
Book q, page ATS, will offer for
sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash at the
Court House door in Ashe Coun-
ty, jefferson, North Carolina at
IL o'clock noon on the 21st day
of June, 1889 the following des-
cribed real estate, to wit:
Lying and being in Grassy
Creek Township, County of Ashe,
State of North Carolina, and
more particularly described and
defined as follows: Bounded on
the North by the Virginia-North
Carolina State line and the lands
of R. L. Anderson, on the East
by the lands Of M. w. Blevins,
on the South by the lands of C.
D. Sturgill and on the west by
the lands of G. D. Sturgill and
w. G. Rutherford and being par
ticularly described according to
a plat thereof made by w. P.
Coward, Surveyor, on the 22nd
day of February, 1884, as follows,
to wit: BEGINNING on a large
white oak in the North Carolina
Virginia State line running North
81 West 1925 poles to stone
! on the bank of a branch; thence
South 2 1-20 West crossing the
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branch Is is pores to a stone;
thence South 4 AS poles to a
stone in the branch; thence
South So East II As poles to a
stake on East bank of branch;
thence North "a 1-20 East Is 3-5
Poles to a stake in the North
Carolina Virginia State Line;
thence North 81 West 10 1-5
poles to the BEGINNING, con-
timing 2 acres and 70 square
poles.
This property will be sold sub
ject to 1889 taxes.
The purchaser at this sale will
be required to make a cash de-
post of 5 per cent of the pur-
chase price to show good faith.
This, the goth day of May, 1889.
T. c. ABERNETHY,
Substituted Trustee.
IRA T. JOHNSTON, Attorney
5-25-4T
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in official circles than anything
else the Dies committee has turn
ed up.
At both ends of Pennsylvania
Avenue there seems to be more
concern over the 1910 Presiden-
tial election than over matters
closer at hand still awaiting So
luton. Among an influential
group of office-holders a draft
Roosevelt for a third term" move
ment is under way.
Dewey Still Leads
On the Republican Presidential
side, the feeling now is that while
District Attorney Dewey of New
York still leads in public favor
some of the Dewey sentiment
may have been stimulated by
New Deal influences, who figure
that he would be easier to defeat
than an older man with more adj
ministrative experience.
Republican leaders are turning
their eyes again toward Senator
Arthur Vandenburger of Michi-
gan.
The return of Harry Hopkins,
Secretary Of Commerce, to his
desk after a long illness, was sig
nalized by the resignation of
General Robert E. Wood, Chica-
60 business man who had been
serving as business counselor to
the Department, and of Richard
c. Patterson, assistant secretary
of the Department. These resig-
nations have revived talk of an
effort to build up" Secretary
to Presidential size, and
the gossip is that Messrs. Wood
and Patterson quit their jobs be-
cause they did not want to take
part in that program.
par in that program.
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% 2-3 poles to a double chestnut
on the ridge; thence S 20 E with
main top of ridge 6 poles to a
chestnut; thence S 281aE 8 poles to
a water oak; thence S SO IL E
10 poles to a locust in the gap of
the ridge; thence S IS IL E82-3
poles to a hickory; thence S
so IL E 8 poles to a locust;
thence S IS E 3 3-5 poles to a To-
Gust the A. M. Lewis and Jack
son Rotten corner; then leaving
the ridge N 81 E II ga poles
to a locust; thence N So IL E "a
poles and % links to an apple
tree; thence N 48 ga E 7 poles
and 3 links to an ash; thence N
48 "a E % poles to a stake in
the old line; thence S 81 E Sc is
poles to the beginning, containing
43 acres and Is poles, more or
less.
There is excepted from the
above and from this sale a GER
tain tract or portion of said land
containing 6 IL acres, more or
lessless, fully described in a deed
G. w. Rotten and wife, Cora Ro-
ten to w. R. Rotten and
recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Ashe
County in Book W., page 1856.
This May l, 1899.
IRA T. JOHNSTON,
5-11-4t Commissioner.
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
AL BARE, CARRIE DANCY,
ENNIS MILLER, VERDE
BROWN AND R. o. SHEETS
VS.
j. M. B. SHEETS, GOLDIA SAW
YER AND HUSBAND, EMMETT
SAWYER, MYRTLE SHEETS
AND HUSBAND, WEIR
SHEETS, VINCE NEWMAN,
MACK NEWMAN, EVAN NEW
MAN, HOWARD NEWMAN AND
HENRY NEWMAN.
The defendants above named
will take notice that an action as
above entitled has been COM
menced in the Superior Court of
ASHE COUNTY, the same be-
ing for sale of Land for partition
of which the defendants have an
interest and that duly verified
petition has been filed and sum-
mons issued which is returnable
in the office of the undersigned
on the 18th day of June, 1899,
when and where the defendants
are required to appear and an
swer or demur to the petition and
that if they do not appear with
in the time required by law the
relief requested in the petition
will be granted.
This May 10, 1899.
j. D. STANSBERRY,
5-l8-4T Clerk Superior Court.
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NOTICE OF SERVICE BY
BY PUBLICATION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
MARY DONNELLY COLE
VS.
WILLARD G. COLE

WILLIAM U. OOLE
The defendant, Willard C. Cole,
will take notice that an action as
above entitled has been COM
menced in the Superior Court of
Ashe County by summons issued
May 20, 1889, for the purpose of
the plaintiff obtaining an abso-
lutte divorce from the defendant;
and said defendant will further
take notice that he is required to
appear at the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of said
County on or before the 9Th day
of June, 1899, and answer or de-
muir to the complaint in said ac-
ton or the plaintiff will apply
to the court for the relief de-
manded in the complaint.
This the Goth day of May,
1899.
j. D. STANSBERRY,
Clerk of Superior Court.
5-25-4T
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NOTICE OF RESALE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

Under and by virtue of an or
der of resale by the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Ashe County,
made in the special proceedings
entitled M. A. Goss, ct al, VS..
Scott Goss, ct al, the undersign-
ed Commissioner will, on the Bird
day of June, 1899, at 100 o'clock
P. M. at the courthouse door in
Jefferson, N. c., offer for sale to
the highest bidder for cash that
certain tract of land lying and be-
ing in Horse Creek town.
ship, Ashe County, adjoining
the lands of J. c. Barker, Rhoe
Hart, c. w. Stansberry, Clint
Goss heirs, Tom Goss and others,
and bounded as follows:
beginning on a stake on ridge
near ironwood, Jess Barker's cor
ner and running up ridge N. 1871
w. IA P, North "a P N. Is degrees
E. 9 poles to white oak, the old
Goss corner, then S u degrees 4
P to stake at fence, then with
fence S 81 degrees E 10 P, S 43
degrees E 10 P, S 81 degrees E
ID P to maple, then S % degrees
E 4212 P to N. w. corner of
Grave Yard, then S Ak degrees
E 8 IL P to S. w. c
Grave Yard, S 4 1-2 degrees
E 20 P to stake in road, Then S
"a degrees w 6 P to Jess Bankers
corner, N 681z degrees w l P, N
So degrees w 10 P, N 81 degrees
w 80 P. N Is degrees w IS P to
poplar then S 80 degrees w 1874
P to the beginning. Containing Is
acres.
This 18th day of May 1899.
GRANT BAUGUESS,
Commissioner.
5-25-2T
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HELD LAST RITES
FOR CHAS. WILLIEM

Funeral service for Charlie
Williem of Tree Top was held
Monday at his home and burial
took place at Hammond Chapel
in Tenn.
The deceased who was only 18
years old at the time of his death
is survived by his father, w. A.
Williem, his mother, and 4 bro
theirs, Raymond, Asa, Wallace,
and Keith. His death was attri-
buted to Sacoma.
At the time of his death he was
engaged in farming.