"'T'TCno 167 "T * ^HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1933 SINGLE COPIES. FIVE CENTS
SALES TAX DISTRICTS SET UP IN , .
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May Yet Invoke Blanket U. S. Industry Code
ullet wound
s FATAL TO
Of NORRIS
,|| Instructions as to Fu
neral Had Been Mailed
to Mr. Hoke
OR ONER MAINTAINS
IQUEST UNNECESSARY
J,>hn Norris, 71, a resident of
eit'ier^’nvillc for a number of
^ .;M in the Patton Memo
ai h> -P' :,1 yesterday evening
r... ; o'clock as a result of a
ptf.inflictcd bullet wound sus
I on Tuesday morning about
9\ ok. Coroned J. F. Brooks
- ..Jay no inquest would be
pessary.
' funeral services had not been
mnged today pending word
k.r a triend in Providence, R. I.,
i,:- vrfr? expected to be held on
t --ay t there is no word from
Kpv'tknce. Burial will be in
[4kcemetery beside his wifo
rro died four years ago.
y- Norris, according to infor
Pit'.-n in a letter addressed to
|.Boke. who resides on the Chim
pv s.'ck road, was a native of
Prir ynce. R. I., but had been a
ettat here for a number of
A suicide motive was estab
ished by notes mailed to Mr.
Me and J. M. Stepp, under
iker. and in a note found on his
•rson after he was taken to the
*>pttal.
He shot nimsen mrougn in?
wol of the mouth with u .22-cali
ht pistol on Tuesday morning,
in the porch of a vacant house
?n the old Asheville road. He was
iisoovered by a colored woman
►ro notified city officers who ear
ned him to th*‘ hospital.
I The letter addressed to Mr.
Hoke bore a cancellation of lien
jhr=onville. July 10 at 8 a. in.,
re day before he shot himself,
though it had been dated ‘‘June,
pJ3."’ and was as follows:
! “Hendersonville, June, 1033.
fHr. Hoke. My good friend
‘Dear Sir.
“lam about to end it all or try.
! hope l succeed. I am getting
id and money is about gone,
lope to have enough with my
mail insurance to pay for my
uneral and stone same as is over
tary. Mary’s cost $46.50. Cheap
uw*. Jim Merrell was talking
n me. He would put same as
dary’; for $36.00. I can just
bout m-e; it. I thought premium
r,'k and policy also deed of lot
s Oakdaio cemetery. Mr. Stepp
f want them to bury me.
Thirtyfive dollars—$35.00 you
’’d -intil Mr. Merrell does his job
r: thfn you pay him.
I thought to put it in your
I hope you don’t think me
w bold. I wanted to trust an
*>5t man as it is my all. I want
done decent. This will be the
ist trouble l will be and if it be
•stole you will get paid or at
•’ rate I will thank you very
rcch
I fee! fiod is good and I am
-’w? old with no means. So
- wait longer.
1 4m n»t acting in defiance.
^ to think it the best way out.
% love to you all and best
Good bye.
‘John Norris.”
*C3 Norris Born at Prov. II. I.
t Sept 24-1862
"Hat Hen.v. N. C. July 8-1933.
•f-yt'Ao letters atlOcts a
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c stone that is already up 10
$5.2°
^ 0 used other ways if need
• t If not, why put up stone.
Remaining part of lot I give
^Continued on page four)
Noted Evangelist
Here on Sunday
^ Miller Announces Ad
dresses by John Tyler
cf an Tyler, world traveler and
b,r?r- wdl speak at the Grove
; Gospel church Sunday at
i a- m., and again at 8 p. m.,
pastor, Rev. R. V. Miller an
this morning.
'Tn Tyler is a unique evangel
^ ?n«i U widely known as a con
• ,°f the Jerry McAuley mis
New York. Although now
-Vt“ars of age, he is active,
and has a powerful
voice with which he pre
nis Christian message.
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On New Council to Speed Recovery
—
A new impetus in the drive to spur business was given by President
I Roosevelt by creating a supreme council to direct the policies of na
| tional rehabilitation. Three members of the council (made up of
cabinet heads and administrators of the special federal agencies),
are pictured after conferring with the president. From left to rignt
I they are: Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Jesse H. Jones,
chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Secretary
Of the Navy Claude Swanson.
Vast Central Lake Not Needed
! In River Basin’s Development
S. P. Verner Points to Two Broad Viewpoints To Be
Taken in Tremendous Federal Undertaking
(Editor's note: Writing under
the general theme, “Our \alley.
S. P. Vcrner, engineer who has
been associated with world-known
industrialists, began in yesterday’s
is: ue of The Times-News a series
of articles, informative and ana
lytical, dealing with the industrial
and agricultural potentialities of
the French Broad River valley,
and with the possible results that
may follow ultimate ramifications
of the federal government’s Ten
nessee River basin valley plan to
this immediate section. Mr. Ver
ner sees these results as potent
for good or ill for this valuable
farming section. The second of
this series of articles appears
here.)
By S. P. VF.RNER
Two broad viewpoints in the
development .of our valley must
be considered:
1. In relation to the Tennessee
River plan and to the country out
side the valley in general.
2. In relation to the interna!
development of its resources and
potentialities.
The first of these viewpoints has
given rise lately to surmise that
one of the functions of the Upper
French Broad valley, contemplat
ed bv the federal government,
may be to become the site of a
large dam and storage reservoir
for the primary purpose of con
tributing to a steady flow of wa
ter at the Wilson dam at Muscle
Shoals, the site of one of the ma
jor hydro-electric plants in the
country. Reports based upon
studies by army engineers indi
cate the possibility of the erec
tion of a dam, variously estimated
to be from 125 to 200 feet high,
across the trench Broad, at a
j point some seven miles above
| Asheville, at the Long Shoals,
I near the mouth of Bent Creek. It.
! may easily be seen that such a
! dam would impound the waters of
| the valley to the extent of com
j pletely covering all of the bottom
I lands along the river and some of
the uplands along the toes of the
mountain on each side, flooding
an area now devoted to fields and
gardens, embracing between 30,
i 000 and 50,000 acres, for the low
er figure, and between 50,000 and
80,000 acres, for the higher, ac
cording to height of the dam. The
impounded water would also cov
er most of the railway trackage
of the Transylvania branch, and
several miles of the Ashev.lle
Spartanburg line, of the Southern
I railway; at least three-fourths of
; the city of Hendersonville, much
| 0f the town of Flat Rock, most of
i the towns between Hendersonville
and Brevard, all of the environs
‘of Brevard, and the town of
Rosman, with practically all of the
[ manufacturing establishments at
those places; many fa-m-homes
land other improvements; and not
less than fifty miles of hard-sur
' faced and secondary highways.
This possibility predicates, it
realized, the conversion of theval-j
Icy into a lake, fluctuating in;
depth according to the periodic i
drawn-down, from its maximum
level to a few inches or even to
complete dewatering. The justifi
cation for such a conversion is j
attempted along the line of al-j
lc^ed necessary sacrifice for the
benefit of the power-plant at Mus-j
cl,. Shoals, of flood-control in the
lower Tennessee Valley, and pos
sibly of electric power at the dam
site near Asheville.
Two fundamental questions j
raised by tbc situation then arise:
(1) Is there no feasible alternate
plan by which the foregoing three
I objectives may bo fully attained
without sacrificing the valley; (2)
If such an alternate plan would
not fully serve the purposes, would
it contribute enough towards
thorn while at the same time sav
ing the valley for fields, farms,
homes, industries and recreational
,sites, to make such an alternate
plan’preferable, taking the broad
view of the best interest of all
concerned? . .
The purpose of this series of
articles is to try to demonstrate
that these last two questions may j
he answered in the affirmative, j
Some of us who have studied the
subject for a long time—years
before the present Tennessee au-,
thority was created—have been
convinced that floor-control, uni
formity of river-flow, electric
power, and several other objec
tives may b“ provided for out val
ley by a plan not requiring the
creation of one vast central lake
with its necessary destruction of
so much property and its perma
nent elimination of the potentiali
ties of the land.
I nis alternate
been presented in its broad out
lines to Congressman Zebulon
Weaver for presentation to the
appropriate officials of the execu
tive departments involved, and
has been published in condensed
form. The details will be set forth
now, together with certain obser
vations about the intrinsic rc
1 sources and potentialities of the
area under consideration.
In brief, the alternate plan to
the central reservoir project in
volves the creation of a number
of dams and reservoirs in the val
leys of the tributary streams to
the French Broad, up in the ad
jacent mountains, in such manner
as both to afford water-storage
for the ultimate benefit of Muscle
Shoals, and at the same time to
contribute greatly to the develop
ment of the French Broad valley
itself, instead of practically elimi
nating it.
As these articles are intended
for the eyes of others besides our
own people, it is advisable to set
forth facts and conditions familiar
to us but possibly not very well
known to many who may have
much influence upon the destiny
of our valley under the plans be
(Continued on page four)
AGREEMENTS ]
BEING MADE
RAPIDLY NOW
But Broad Acts Would Ef
fect a Prompt Upswing
of Buying Power
RUTHERFORlf MILLS
USE TEXTILE CODE
WASHINGTON. July 14. (HP)
Industrial Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson said today that while
codes of fair competition are be
ing presented in abundance ii
might still be necessary to invoke
an immediate blanket code cover
ing all industries to effect an im
mediate upswing in purchasing
power.
Johnson referred to 2,000.000
retail stores in the United States
hut did not elaborate. He indicat
ed that any step toward universal
short-week recommendation might
be applied in this manner.
Johnson confirmed the United
Press story of yesterday by say
ing that the rayon silk industries
are ready to come under the cot
ton textile mde. The wool indus
try is also about ready and John-1
son said he understood the steel!
industry has agreed on a code.
FOREST CITY, July 14. (UP).
The Cliffside and Haynes plants
of Cliffside cotton mill announced
today they had already put into
effect principles of the new tex
tile code. They are the first dn
Rutherford county to adopt the
jglan.
By UNITED PRESS
President Roosevelt’s drastic re
habilitation program hurtled for
ward on a far flung front yester
day.
Developments included:
Codes were submitted to the
national recovery administration
by tile oil, coal, building trades
and wearing apparel industries.
Reports were heard in some
government quarters that Wall
Street bankers are inspiring the
powerful steel industry to with
hold its code.
A form of unemployment in
surance was recommended in the
code to govern the women’s ap
parel industry. This was the first 1
time such a plan has been advo- j
catod under the recovery act and ;
it has the support of Secretary of
Labor Perkins.
Admiral Stanley, chief of na
val operations, announced the
navy’s $8*5.000,000 building pro
gram would be expedited to pro
vide work for thousands of un
employed.
Agricultural adjustment admin
istration announced it would li
cense the milk .ndustry to force
recalcitrant members into agree
ment. It was the first use made
of these drastic powers awarded
by the last congress.
Clerks and stenographers of
the agriculture department wore
swamped bv returns from the
South on the proposed cotton re
duction program. An indication
that the plan would be placed into
effect came when it became known
officials were studying a cotton
processing tax.
The first list of public works
projects under the $3,300,000,*>00 !
program approved by President j
Roosevelt will be announced to
day. They are expected to pro- j
vide thousands of jobs at once in
scattered sections of the count ty.,
As part of the government s i
“new deal” war on racketeering,
department of justice officials on- j
listed the aid of the public to re-.
port immediately threatening let- )
ters received. The department |
pledged unceasing warfare against
the underworld.
WASHINGTON, July 14- (UH I
Industry, generally, has shown in-j
creased signs of co-operating in ••
tho industrial rehabilitation cam
paign in the last 48 hours. 1 wo
more codes were submitted yes
terday and hearings set. These >
were for the shipbuilding and
shipyards industry and the elec
trical manufacturing industry,
both large units employing many
workers.
Leaders in the steel industry
were hard at work in New \ork
last night completing their code.
It was expected here today.
Bituminous coal operators and
union leaders of 14 states here
received from a subcommittee a
tentative code, finally drafted af
ter three days, denoting the first
progress in this industry. It will
be submitted, after approval of
the whole group, as the basis for
a code for the whole industry.
Agreement was reached on a
minimum wage of $2 a day for
surface workers and $5 for under
(Continued on page 4.)
FATHER AND FRIEND OF YOUNG
ALBANY KIDNAP VICTIM
Miss Mary Fahey, above, daugh
ter of an Albany, N. Y., police
man, is said to have been the last
person to see John J. O’Connell,
Jr., before he was kidnaped from
in front of his home in Albany.
The night before his abduction
she accompanied him to a theatre.
John J. O’Connell, Sr., above, fa
ther of 24-year-old John J. O’Con
nell, Jr., who was kidnaped in
front of his Albany, N. Y., home,
withheld from police officials news
of the abduction fearing that re
course to authorities might result
in the young man’s death.
Roosevelt Family Under Special
Guard Against Possible Kidnaping
Federal Agent, Leading Anti-Racketeer Campaign, Ap
peals to Public for Cooperation
COTTON PLAN
PUT THROUGH
Wallace Announces Acre
age Reduction and
Processing
WASHINGTON, July 14.
(UP).—Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace announces
the adoption of the cotton
acreage reduction program
and has set a processing tax
at 4.2 cents per pound to be
paid by all manufacturers of |
cotton goods to create a
fund to finance the crop re
duction plan.
KIDNAPERS OF
1 HEARD FROM
Third Man Seized on
Massachusetts Poul
try Farm
ALBANY, N. Y., July 14 (UP)
Tho family of kidnaped John J.
O’Connell, Jr., today announced |
receipt of another communication |
from the kidnapers, demanding a
new list of intermediaries.
A week ago last night O’Con
nell, handsome young national
guard officer and member of the
“ruling” family of Albany, was |
kidnaped in the darkness near his J
home.
ALTON, 111., July M.—(UP).
Receipt of several notes purport
ing to be from the kidnapers of
August Luer, 77-year-old banker
an<l packer was announced today
by two intermediaries appointed
by the family.
BRIDGEWATER, Mass., July
14.— (UjP).—Patrick Fallon, 42,
of Boston, was kidnaped early
yesterday from a poultry farm j
here by two men representing
themselves as Roston police ofF 1- ■
cers, according to a report to Po-,
lice Chief James Moore.
70 RUSSIANS
ARE DROWNED
MOSCOW, July 14.—(UP).—I
Seventy persons were drowned
today when an excursion boatj
carrying 250 workers and their
families overturned at Jaroslavj
on the Volga river. A trades!
unionist will be tried for over
loading the boat.
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Pscs* Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. July 14. (UP)
'Joseph Keenan, a square-jawed
Irishman who has been drafted by
the federal government to run
racketeers out of business, plead
ed yesterday for public co-opera
tion in his battle to stamp out kid
naping.
His plea came aL a time when
it was learned that special guards
had been assigned to President
Roosevelt’s grandchildren because
of the outbreak of abductions
within the last three weeks. Rus
sell Wood, the youthful secret
service man who guarded John
Coolidge when the latter's father
was president, has been stationed
at Rye Beach, N. H. There he
will guard Sarah, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Roosevelt.
Another agent, whose name
was not disclosed at the White
House, is at Little Boar’s Head,
watching “Sistie” and "Buzzie”
Dali, the children of Anna Roose
velt Dali.
Keenan, on the job as special
assistant to Attorney General
Cummings for less than a week,
told the United Press yesterday
he was devoting all his time to
the war against kidnapers. He is
charged with the general problem
of combatting racketeering, but
he feels the kidnaping crisis is so
acute that he must devote all his
time to it.
His office is bare—there has
been no time yet to install furni
ture, rugs, and elaborate ashtrays
—and Keenan sits behind a bat
tered yellow desk that in the last
week has become the clearing
house for all criminal information
gathered by the federal govern
ment’s far-flung agencies.
He talks blunt, plain language
that he learned as a cavalry of
ficer in the World war, and used
later when he joined the Cleve
land crime commission and de
clared war without quarter on
raclfptpprs
“Well.” he said yesterday, “the
racketeers have challenged us.
We accept. The federal govern
ment is equipped to run these fel
lows down and jail ’em and that’s
what we’re going to do. We’ve
got to have help and that help
must com© from the people.
“T wish the people knew how
well the federal government i3
fixed to fight kidnapers. We’ve
got the most elaborate fingerprint
records in the world. We’ve got
the bureau of investigation of the
department of justice, which is
filled with as good detectives as
you’ll find anywhere. We’re ready
to jump right into a kidnaping
case as soon as it breaks, and
that’s what we’re soing to do. ’
Keenan paused and fastened
horn-rimmed glasses on his nose.
His eyes are steel blue, and his
mouth is tight and grim at the
corners.
“I don’t like to say this,” he
continued, “but there have been
kidnaping cases in this -country
where the police work was bun
gled. We hope we won’t bungle
any. I think the power of the fed
eral government is feared in the
(Continued on page 4.)
Community Sing
Set for Sunday
The weekly community singing
will be held Sunday at 4:30
o’clock at the high school audi
torium under the leadership of It.
W. Brickert. Mr. Brickert an
nounces that old-time songs, both
sacred and secular will be used
and that on the program will be
a piano solo by Miss Ksther Mi
not, an orchestral selection by
the Gibson orchestra and an ad
ditional musical feature yet to be
announced.
The public is invited.
CALL STRIKE
AT HIGH POINT
Much Unrest in Two In
dustries: General Strike
Threatens
HIGH rOINT. .July 14.—(UP)
—A general strike in High Point
furniture plants was called last
night for Monday morning.
The strike will affect 3,000
workers. It was called after la
bor unrest had flared earlier in
the evening in High Point’s major
furniture and hosiery plants.
With strikes threatening in
other plants, 73 employes of the
Globe Parlor Furniture factory,
one of the smaller plants here,
were on a walk-out.
I). V. Brantley, president of the
Industrial Workers Association,
said yesterday that unless de
mands for a 25 per cent wage in
crease are met by manufacturers,
a general strike will be called
Monday.
Representatives of laborers at,
the Adams-Minnis and Diamond
factories advised Brantley that
operatives there would not parti
cipate in the strike.
Fixers in hosiery mills are now
being paid between $25 and $30
weekly. The federal code, how
ever, will set the maximum at $18
per week by reducing the work
week from 65 to 40 hours.
CONCERT SET
FOR TONIGHT
First Baptist Auditorium
Scene of Program
for Tourists
The second of a series of sum
mer entertainments sponsored by
1 the Chamber of Commerce will be
held at the First Baptist church
this evening at 8 o'clock and will
take the form of a musical pro
gram.
A. C. Hewitt, Jr., who was to
appear on the program is ill and
a trio and duet will take the place
of his numbers.
The program will be as follows:
Organ Prelude in F-Petrali
Miss Mary Brooks
0, Lord Most Holy-Marchetti
Mrs. H. R. Bobst, Mrs. O. A.
Meyer, Mrs. J. C. Morrow, Jr.
Romance—from Second Concerto
(Weiniawski)
Allegro — from Concerto in D
major_ Mozart
Trasquita___ Kreisler
Miss Emily Sargent
Eventide -
Mrs. H. R. Bobst
Mrs. J. C. Morrow, Jr.
Concerto in A minor __ Shumann
Miss Mary Brooks
Mrs W. T. C. Bates
NEffSTORl IN
WESTINDIES
In Vicinity of St. KittV
This Morning, South
east Porto Rico
_
WASHINGTON, July 14.—10
a. m.— (By Radio).—A tropical
disturbance of slight intensity is
central near St. Kitt's, West In
dies, and is apparently moving
west-northwestw'ard.
H. I. Middleton, Flat Rock am
ateur radio operator who received
this report this morning said that
the point at which the disturbance
was located this morning is a little
southeast of Porto Rico. ‘
MERCHANTS IN
SESSION OVER
ACTION ON TAX
Are Conferring at Raleigh
Today With Reference
to Possible Course
LARGE FORCE GIVEN
COLLECTION POWERS
RALEIGH. July 14.—(UP).—
The executive council of the
North Carolina Merchants asso
ciation was meeting here today to
discuss new methods of passing
the sales tax on to the consumer.
The council, consisting of th«
seven immediate past prsuientg of
the association, will discuss other
matters preparatory to the meet
ing of the board of directors,
scheduled for next week, W. L.
Dowell, secretary of the State
Merchants’ association, declared.
At the meeting of the board of
directors, the feasibility of con
testing the legality of the rales
tax was to be discussed. The
board was given full power to
proceed with the contest at the
annual merchants convention at
Winston-Salem.
Dowell said widespread dissatis
faction among merchants over
the state's method of collecting
the tax has brought additional
clamoring for a legal battle.
If the executive council devises
a more effective method of col
lecting the tax today, Dowell said
last night, it will be presented
promptly to A. J. Maxwell, state
commissioner of revenue.
By. J. C. BASKF.RVILL
RALEIGH. July 14. — Details
of the organization of the field
force of the department of reve
nue, that will collect all state
taxes as well as the new 3 per
cent sales tax, were announced
today by Eecutive Assistant Com
missionxer of Revenue M. C. S.
Noble, Jr. The new field force
will bo composed of 62 field
deputies, the present force of 13
deputies being increased by 44
new men to that figure. Letters
will be sent out within the next
24 hours to the 44 new men that
will be appointed as deputies and
1 their names will be announced as
I soon as they all aro notified.
They will be asked to report for
duty Monday, July 17. Ten ad
ditional employes will also be
added to the office force of the
sales tax division here as soon as
possible, Dr. Noble said.
ml j a 'll i 11..1J 1
i lie mow; win ue u»*»ucu mw
54 tax collection districts, with
one senior deputy in charge of
each district and with from Iwo
to three deputy collectors in the
larger districts, Dr. Noble an
nounced. The salaries of the IS
senior field deputies carried over
from the present staff will bo
$1500 a year and traveling ex
penses; those of the other 36
senior deputies will be $1300 a
year and traveling expenses,
[ while the salaries of the junior
or assistant deputies will be $1,
080 a year and expenses. These
field deputies will be subject to
transfer from one district to an
other at any time and must bo
willing to serve in districts other
enlarged field organization, and
other division heads of the de
partment. The new and old dep
uty collectors and the members
of the highway patrol will bo
given detailed instruction in the
than those in which they reside.
These 44 new field deputies
and 18 present deputies and the
entire state highway patrol, are
being instructed to meet in
Chapel Hill Monday morning,
July 17, to attend a four da>s
training school. This school will
be under the direction of C oin
missioner of Revenue A. J. Max
well, who will be assisted by Dr.
Noble, Director Harry McMullan
of the sales ta division, Director
L. S. Harris of the motor vehicle
bureau, Captain D. Farmer, rom
(Continued on page three)
miss wallaceTgets
POST AT CAPITAL
Miss Elizabeth Wallace of Spar
tanburg a member of the faculty
of Fassifern School for Girls for
the past two years, has been ap
pointed a clerk in the office of
Congressman J. J. McSwain of
Greenville, S. C., according to in
formation received here today.
Misg Wallace is the daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Wallace.
She graduated from Converse
college, spent several years in
Europe, and was a member of
the Fassifern faculty for two
years,