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-sSs ©tilths JJifUSS ^^g2---No. 168 _^_HENDER^QNVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933 _ _SjflGIj_C0P1ESrFiV^ CENTS IKE PAY AND ITER WEEK 11 RESULT pen River Plant Alone s Addin? $1,000 To Its Payrole (OPUCTION COSTS RISE 64 PERCENT 7-,,p recently approved textil" , operation will be put into j pet in Henderson county textile m op Monday morning, accord * t'» announcements today from r'ur nulls and the Green River i II?. Statements from both mills wore the effect that no new employes ! mM be added at present under f new schedule of operations, t officials of both mills stated iat the application of the mini um wage provision of the code ouM result in increased pay en fiopr- tor employes. At Green River it was stated iat tie wage provision would re lit in an increase of approxi-1 lately >1.000 per week in the] lyroil No definite figures were nibble for Balfour, but officials latel that wages would be in teasei by a considerable sum. Acc.’rding to the provisions of k code, workers will put in a •-/tour week with a minimum age of $12 per week. The only Captions to the minimum wage fe cleaners, outside workers and nrners during their six weeks’ iprenticpsmp. At Balfour where two shifts | re worked, the day shift will go | »work at 6 a. m., have an hour | ft for lunch, and work until 3 . m. The night shift will go to rork at 3 p. m.. have half an hour or supper, and work until 11:30 [dock. The mill will stand idle from 11:30 p. m. until 6 a. m. the next loraing. and from 11:30 p. m. fruiay nights until 6 a. m. Mon tav mornings. The mill will thus le idle on Saturdays. At Green River the day shift rill to work at 7 a. m., have it hour for lunch and work until p. e The night shift will go to rork at 1 p. m., have half an our for supper, and work until 2:30 a. m., of the following lorninsr. There will be no Satur ay work. The increase in production costs ave no: been figured at Balfour, ut a: Green River it was stated haf the reduction of the working reek *rom 55 to 40 hours and the j •crease of 35 to 36 per cent in j *$es would result in an in- j ceased production cost of ap- j roximately 65 per cent. Officials of both mills see aj r“mendo js increase in the cost j t cotton goods to the consumer . “rough the operation of the tex lf code and the processing tax 5 he levied on cotton. No indication was abailable to »y n the hosiery mills of the I ®®tty, the hosiery code having | w yet been approved. WE AGAIN HEADS LEGION >reparations Made For Opening Of Post Club House Soon i A regular meeting of the Hu M. Smith post. American I e ^on- was held Friday evening at *ir b«autiful new clubhouse on ; Wh Main street, and the fol officers were elected for ^ coming year: L. R. Prince, commander; P. J. °hnson. first vice-commander; '"n Thomason, second vice-com ',r,flcr; John Loy. third vice-com ^nder; Walter D. Stepp, adju J. R. frecch, finance officer; L' nan Patla. service officer; W. , I°Hman, chaplain; Walter Al "'T publicity officer. ’' '' gates to the state conven rn r*rc to he appointed bv Com mder Prince, and the following ^'Onbors expect to attend the a1''* convention in Wilmington in j',£U**: Ben Prince. Sam Lubow, Preech, W. D. Lohman, John lh«mason and A. V. Edwards. ^ k lilriinu 0f the concrete steps ae c'uh house is nearing com 'on and the other details ^und the club house are being fu * ettor*- ^^ans for the fomal ♦ri' "5 a* an early date, probably in -v er nart °f next are ■ne making. ______J Italy’s Armada Reaches Labrador on Flight to Chicago Completing the most hazardous leg of their spectacular flight from Italy to Chicago the first of the seaplanes of the Italian armada arc shown in this striking photo soaring over the Italian hasc ship on arriving in Cartwright. Labrador, from Reykjavik, Iceland. This picture was flown fiom Labiador for this paper and the NEA Service.___ DR. SAMS, WELL KNOWN EDITOR. PASSES AWAY South Carolinian Dies Here Following Stroke, Suf fered Wednesday Dr. Stanhope Sams, 71, veteran newspaper man and associate edi tor of the Columbia. S. C., State died in the Patton Memorial hos pital yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock following an illness of two days. Dr. Sams suffered a paralytic stroke on Wednesday afternoon at Bonclarken, where he had been staying since June 1st. lie was taken to the hospital Thursday af ternoon. A short funeral service was con ducted at Tom Shepherd’s funeral home this morning by Bishop K. G. Finlay, of the Episcopal Dio cese of Upper South Carolina, and the remains were taken to Colum bia for burial. His manifest vocation for writ ing led Dr. Sams early into jour nalistic work as a reporter on the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. He was editor of the Atlanta Journal for two years, 1888-90. Later he was a reporter on New York newspa pers—The Times and The Herald serving The Times also as Wash ington correspondent and for a time was war correspondent in Cuba. He was an editor of Collier’s Weekly, and associate editor of Gunton’s magazine, devoted to economic and industrial subjects. In 1905. he joined the staff of the Columbia State as editorial writer and literary editor. After six years in this capacity, he went to the Far East as editor of the Japan Times, Tokyo, a daily newspaper published in Eng lish. He spent four years in Ja pan. and in 1915 won a civil ser vice appointment as commercial agent in the bar East for the Lni ted States department of com merce. In this position he trav eled extensively. He returned to The State ,!l 1917 and continued on its staff I until his death. Dr. Sams was distinguished as a linguist and as a literary man l outside the realm of journalism. Well grounded in Latin and Greek, he read fluently in Ger j man, French and Spanish and spoke these languages with con siderable fluency. While in Tokyo he learned to talk and rend Japa nese and became familiar witn many Chinese ideographs. He knew Arabic and did research (Continued on page four) ITALIAN FLIERS WELL ON FINAL LAP TO EXPOSITION Big, Colorful Ovation Is Given Them In Last Canadian Stop COBOURG, Ont., July 15.— (UP).—The Italian air fleet passed over here at 1:15 p. m., Eastern Daylight time, today, en route to the Chicago Exposi tion. By GILBERT DRAPER United Press Staff Correspondent MONTREAL, July 15. (UP)— Swooping out of an azure sky in squardons of six, the Italian ail armada of 25 seaplanes came to I rest early yesterday afternoon on the waters of the St. Lawrence, the last scheduled stop before completing an epochal flight from Rome to Chicago. Only one minor mishap marked the arrival at Montreal, when a refueling barge, manned by three men, capsized in the harbor. There was no loss of life though half of the gas supply of 10,000 gallons was spilled into the watei. General Balbo, Italian Air Min ister. led the first squadron to a graceful landing as an immense crowd, thronging the harbor banks, sent cheer after cheer out 1 across the water. : Balbo’s i,hip cut through the calm river, throwing a dazzling sheet of spray to either side, at | 1:15 p. m. The five additional ! planes of his squadron followed him while the six ships of the 1 second squadron circled overhead. A band played the Fascist an them as each squadron alighted and taxied with an impressive, I military prevision to their moor ings. General Balbo said last night that he could give no definite time for taking off for Chicago. I He said the take-off must await 'the arrival of the Italian Arnbas j sador to the United States who will arrive here at 8 a. m. today. | [t will be a non-stop flight and the planes will land on Lake Michigan, he said. The 21 planes left Shediac, N. F!., at U:52 a. in., and completed the flight in a minute or two under four hours over a distance ! of about 500 miles. 1 Streamers and bunting were hung in profusion at Fairchild airport, where the fliers were welcomed. The Fascio club, of ' Montreal, had a cheering delega ' tion of 300 on the river bank, to give the Fascist salute to Gen eral Balbo and his men, and there were several groups of Fascist girls in white Mouses and black skirts. Gifts Valuable In “Treasure Hunt” A display of the articles of gold, silver and platinum received last Sunday from the members and friends of the Methodist church in the conduct of its “treasure hunt” will be made on the church altar at the Sunday morning service. Rev. Claude Moser, the pastor, states that some of these individual gifts are valued as high as fifty dollars, and make a beautiful exhibit. Others will have an opportunity to present similar gifts at the service. The articles will be sent to Nashville, where the precious met als will be extracted and sold, the nroceeds to be used in the fur therance of foreign mission activi ties. The church has expressed its appreciation for the generous re sponse to this call. QUALIFYING ROUNDS START SUNDAY IN LOCAL CONTEST FOR ROTARY GOLF TROPHY Dr. Brackett Is Defending Champion; All Of The 30 Or 40 Entrants Will Be Assured Of Three Rounds, Under Arrangements Qualifying rounds in the ama teur tournament to he played over the Hendersonville Golf and Country Club course for the no tary Cup will begin on Sunday and will continue through Mon day. according to an announce ment from the committee in charge of the tournament. The tournament will be played in two divisions. It is expected that about 30 or 40 players will enter and players will be classed in the first or second division ac cording to qualifying scores. In the first round those play ers who win in the first division will enter the first flight, those players elimiated from the first division will automatically become the second flight. Players who win in the second division will become the third flight and p a> ers eliminated from the second division will become the fourth Thus every player who enters the tournament is assured of three rounds of golf out of the entrance fee. They will P'a>' ^ qualifying rounds the first round and if eliminated will then get i to play in another flight. Prizes will he awarded in each flight with the cup going to the winner of the first, flight, The qualifying round will he 18 holes and matches will be 18 holes, ex cept the finals in the first flight which will be 36 holes. Finals in the other three flights will be for 18 holes. I The tournament is open to all j Hendersonville residents or to all visitors now residing in Hender sonville. Only amateurs are elig ible however. Visitors desiring to enter the tournament may apply to tlu* committee or at the club house. Qualifying cards will he turned in at the clubhouse on Sunday or Monday. The committee is com posed of C. K. Hoover, R. I. Whitmire, 0. P. Smith and W. P. Andrews Hendersonville players who are expected to enter the tourna ment are R. L. Whitmire, Dr. W. E. Brackett, defending champion, Dr. J. G. Bennett, Dr. R. C. Sam pley, C. L. Grey, Dr L. T. Wilds, Jr., C. K. Hoover, W. P. An drews, WT. II. Hodges, E. E. Lou, L. B. Prince, James Grey, E. A. (Continued on page 4.) TO LOWER PRLD RECORD Winnie Mae's Master Bound For Berlin; Oth er For Lithuania / POST HAS ROBOT FOR RELIEF PILOT FLOYD BENNETT FIELD, N. Y., July 15.— (UP).—Two flying teams hopped oft on trails-Atlan tic flights today, one heading for Berlin on the first leg of a round the-world race, the other steering a course to Kaunas, Lithuania. Wiley Post., with a robot pilot as companion, like James Mattern who crashed in Siberia, set out in the famous plane, Winnie Mae in an attempt to lower the record of eight days, 15 hours and 51 min utes for the round-the-world flight set by he and Harold Catty two years ago. The assistance of a robot pilot will enable Post to devote much of his time to navigation and even to rest for short periods during his flight. The last item of preparation for the Winnie Mae was the loading of about 300 more gallons of gas oline on the plane, bringing the fuel supply to the capacity of 650 gallons. This was done when the plane was taken to the end of the runway just before Post started. ' Po*t retired in a Manhattan ho tel at 3 o’clock yesterday after noon and was awakened shortly after 11 p. m. to read the latest weather reports which indicated conditions were not of the best but fairly constant. Post contemplates five scheduled stops—Berlin, Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk, Siberia, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Edmonton, Alberta, He hopes to complete t he flight of approximately 15,400 miles in six days. lx... L* LITHANIANS TAKE OFF HOUR LATER NEW YORK. July 15. (UP) — Slightly more than an hour be hind Wiley Post, who left the runway of Floyd Kennett field at 4:10 a. m., the monoplane I.ithuanica set out to fly the At lantic today. The fliers are Copt. Stephen Rarius, 36, and Stanley Thomas Girenas, 37, Lithunian Americans. Without passports, they had been instructed by the United States department of com merce not to make the flight. U. S. DELEGATION IS READY TO ADJOURN LONDON, July 15. (UP)—The United States favors an indefi nite adjournment of the world economic conference it was said authoritatively today. _ FRENCH BROAD AREA RICH IN POSSIBILITIES Challenges Compa r i s on! With Any Similar Sec tion In World Editor’s note. Discussing the natural wealth of the Upper French Broad valley and its out standing value as an area for the promotion of agricultural and husbandry in contrast to the pos- j sible loss that may come to it! through its U3e as the site of a I vast upland lake for the im-1 poundnig of water in connection with the federal government’s Tennessee River Basin develop ment plan, S. P. Verner contri butes this, the third of a series of article?, which he is writing for The Times-News under the general title of “Our Valley.” Mr. Verner points out that, the valley and its contiguous uplands have already probably been saved once, through the intervention of George Vanderbilt, who blocked i its denuding through the activity i of lumber interests. __ Bv S. P. VERNER The favorable elements combin ing to institute a unit of de velopment in the Upper French Broad valley are so numerous, varied and intrinsically valuable as to challenge comparison with any other of similar area in the world. The writer has travelled, resided and worked in many parts of the best areas in four con tinents—North and South Amer ica, Europe and Africa, and has spent 40 years of intensive study of the subject of economic de velopment in relation to natural resources; and he knows of only two such areas not already fully developed—one in Central Africa, one in the Chirigni Plateau of Panama. In the Upper French Broad the soil, elevation, topog raphy, temperature; rainfall, at mospheric stability, the native vegetation, minerals, game, fish, adaptation to animal husbandry, local water-powers, the location in relation to other centers of economic activity, and the poten tial qualities of the population, all combine to produce a region blessed by nature such as is rare ly to be found anywhere on tho globe. This fact was known to some excellent judges a hundreds years ago, to people who might nave been termed eqicurians in taste not only for food and drink hut for nearly all the other good things of life. The highly cultur ed, widely traveled, and—for those days—wealthy slave-owners of the low-country of South Car olina found the valley all that their hearts could wish a century ago and proceeded to dot the landscape with their villas, sum mer-seats, and pleasure resorts. They took the trouble of travel ing over the poor roads of those days to get to their summer places by carriage and coach. They planted orchards and clear-' cd fields. One may see an oc casional relic of the former grandeur of their establishments today. The Civil war and its consequences practically ended Ihe start those aristocratic south erners made in the valley. It left the region’s further develop ment in the hands of the native (Continued on naee six.) STATE’S GINNERS ADOPT NEW CODE RALEIGH, July 15. (UP) — Dr. F. V. Taylor, of Stanly, yes terday, was elected president of the newly-formed cotton ginners association of North Carolina, last of the southern states to adopt a ginning code. Two hundred North Carolina and Virginia ginners met at State college here Friday and formed the association, adopting the South Carolina and national ginning codes and by-laws of the Texas organization. Dr. Taylor and Vice-president. N. L. Steadman, of Halifax, will select the secretary. Out of Marital Swim? A noted westerner keeping in stride with eastern society is Sally Eilers, movie star, pictured here swinging along at & fast gait ot the fashionable Beach Casino of the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N. Y. It’s reported that Miss Eilers is separated from Hoot Gibson, her husband, and that they are now dickering so that they can divide custody of Gib son’s 12-year-old daughter, Lois, by a former wife. J. D. SEARCY IS LAD TO REST Well Known Retired Hen derson Farmer Died Un expectedly Friday John Davenport Searcy died at his home on Chimney Rock road Friday morning, July 14, at the ago of 76. Mr. Searcy had been in fail ing health for several1 months, but his death yesterday morning was unexpected. He was strricken with a hoar attack on last Sat urday. He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Alice Brown of Rutherford county, five sons, Robert, Samuel, Jeter and John all of Hendersonville and Ralph of San Diego, California; also four daughters, Mrs. Sallie Metalf, of Rutherfordton; Misses Maude, Billion, and Blanche Searcy, of Hendersonville. Mr. Searcy leaves twelve grand children and a host of relatives and friends here and in Ruther ford county where he resided un til about eight years ago when he moved to this county. Funeral and burial services weer held this afternoon at the Kbene zer Baptist church. Rev. S. F. Huntley, pastor of the church had charge of the services and wa3 assisted by Rev. W. H. Ford, Rev. John Guice and Rev. R. P. Corn. Music was rendered hy the East Hendersonville quartet. Honorary pallbearers were L. Logan, Guilford Nanney, F. L. Shytle, John A. Dalton, Charies Dalton, Miles Flack, Logan Flynn, William Flynn of Chimney Rock and T. M. Robinson and Vernon Blythe, of Hendersonville. Active pallbearers were Pink Shytle, P. B. Gibbs, Gray New man, J. Y. Hudson, Obed Tay lor, Harrison Brown, Dock Wil liams, and J. W. Stamey, all of Hendersonville. Mr, Searcy spent his entire life on the farm and was the owner (Continued on page 4.) MERCHANTS IN STATE DEBATE TAX VALIDITY Secretary Dowell Reveals Attitude On Legality Of The Law FURTHER OJNFERENCE IS SET FOR FRIDAY RALEIGH. July 15.—(UP).— Willard I. Dowell, executive sec retary of the State Merchants As sociation, admitted today that there was a possibility that mer chants may refuse to collect .ho 3 per cent general sales lax put into effect by the state July 1. Directors will convene here Fri day to discuss the question of the legality of the law. RALEIGH, July 15.—(UP).— Executive councilmen of the North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation last night would not con firm or deny reports that Ferdi nand Pecora, noted New York lawyer, will be engaged to content the validity of the state’s fwo weeks-old sales tax. Reports here said merchants throughout the state are being asked to subscribe to a fund to retain the attorney for the sen ate's banking committee in the .1. P. Morgan and Company inquiry. Meanwhile, W. L- Dowell, exec utive secretary, disclosed that di rectors of the association will meet here Friday, July 21, to de cide whether to launch a legal at tack against the act of 1933. The board was vested with au thority; to proceed with the con test. if it deemed a contest ad visable, after merchants expressed dissatisfaction over the state’s method of collecting the tax at the annual convention at Winston Salem. Dowell and the executive coun cil conferred for three hours yes terday with A. J. Maxwell, state commissioner of revenue, and de manded a uniform system of pass ing the tax on to the consumer instead of the “bracket system" now in use. The council, consisting of seven immediate past presidents, asked Maxwell to “modify, simplify and unify" the collecting system. “Commissioner Maxwell’s re sponse was satisfactory,” Dowell reported. In disclosing the state’s plan of taxing the merchant, who under a mandate must pass the burden on to the consumer. Maxwell said that the plan would be subject to substitution or revision after 30 days. Absentee Votes Barred In Repeal Balloting In N. C. RALEIGH, July 15. (UP) — Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt ruled yesterday that voting by absentee vallot will not be legal in the repeal referendum of November 7. "Nor will markers or assist ants be allowed," he said. "Only a person physiciallv unableto en ter a booth or mark his ballot can receive assistance, and only from some election official." The Attorney General said he was issuing the statement be cause "it has been stated that absentee ballots will be permit ted.” Registrars who served in the last general election will serve in the repeal election, he said. /ICW FAST CAM A 0601 RUM ? HOW MANY STARS IN THE CONSTELLATION URSA MAJOR? THE SMALLES CANADIAN Province. CHAPlflTnrWH IXvaX__ _ For correct answers to thes' questions, pleas* turn to paf* 4.
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