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WEATHER Cloudy with probable snow to light; turning to rain with ris ing temperatures Thursday. ©tea -Kcitrs * • GOOD AFTERNOON Mae West ityl«« W< to ho fash ionable for men — provided, of course, the men hare any money after their wire* #uid daughters go Westian. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS fflUL NEEDY III RECEIVE WML_CARE ijieir Security To Be Had Through Self Support On Farms i/A SUCCESSOR'S task to last year WASHINGTON'. Feb. 28. (UP) new comprehensive program to >,.r the yment situation (1 replace the rWA will be inched th > to continue e year, Pres: lent. Roosevelt an iiineed t< iay The pres tit r.ans to divert f . .$950,000,000 LfltJ ; 'd by congress c • s < ;m to be suffi >nt to carry through the pro im. fin ann : "u' the new program Lsi- eiear that additional k ) r.s .'s are to be placed | communities to make certain «: those participating in work f are actually persons f iRejfanling the rural needy, the Iterr.ent said: ."Their security must be identi ^i w:th agriculture. They must placed in positions of self-sup »rt. In many places this calls Ir a change from commercial pming and dependence on a sin e cash crop to the raising of va m commodities, needed to #:n:a;n the family. "Relief funds therefore will be spended rn behalf of rural fami fs in a manner and to such ex ot that will enable them to thieve self support." IIM RELIEF Iras ACTIVE Kount Four Dead In State ■ From Hard Weather fi This Week RALEIGH. Feb. 28.—(UP).— 'hr lUicht-ut North Carolina relief rv • ■ v. rkod unceasingly yester ly to restore communications, ighway an<l railroad traffic and lectrii- power, damaged during: le week-end by snow and sleet :ornu which were concentrated i the piedmont and western dis ■ A death toll of at least four as tabulated las' night. The itest casualty was Dan Williams, 0. nt'.:ro, who was found frozen i death in his home at New Ber>.. Power, telegraph and telephone j acilities still were crippled :n orthwestern North Carolina. Muunt Airy, in its first com munication with the outer world ince the storm, reported wide pread .iamage to wires, disrup- J ion of highway traffic and opera ion of trains without telegraph ! acuity. Damage was reckoned in the Billions of dollars. i DIVORCE GRANTED LONDON. Feb.28.—(UP).— Justice Lanjrton today granted a: ivorce to Lady Brougham and iaux on grounds of her husband's ^..ejjed mist >nduct with Betty «ton. actress. Lord Brougham id Vaux and Miss Seton at the minute withdrew their de DeUware & Hudson railroad January net operating ?COme of $236,894, against *«i» of $204,973 in January Granite City Steel company e*rn» 1933 net profit of $506, compared with $13,827 in 1932. Motor Wheel corporation *>r*» 1933 net profit of $122, ! '&8, against net loss of $1>" I 1«6,7S1 in preceding year. « Stewardess On Wrecked Plane One of the eight persons killed aboard the twin-motored air liner which crashed on the side of a canyon when it failed to climb in a storm between Sait Lake City and Cheyenne was Miss Mary Carter (above), stewardess. She was from Chattanooga, Tenn. REESE LINKS LEADERS WITH !BOND SCANDAL Tennesseean Charged With Theft Says Money Used In Election NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Feb. 2S. (IjP).—Joseph I. Reece. former i state commissioner of insurance and banking-, told a detailed story of alleged political collusion when he testified in his own defense yesterday to charges of stealing $100,000 in bonds from the staite department. Reece asserted the bonds were delivered to him on January 27, 1933. by Joseph S. Tobin, his suc cessor in office, under an agree ment that he should sell them to replace $22,000 in back tax divi sion funds of the department he allegedly had used to support Governor Hill McAlister's cam paign for election. Other bonds were to be substituted, he said. Shortly after the alleged 'deal', Reece testified, C. P. Williams, head of the department's blue sky division discovered the bonds were missing. Reece said he then learned the agreed substitution had not been carried out. and when he asked Tobin about this the latter told him "it's none of your business." Use of back tax monies, which Reece said were in his custody as an individual trustee for insur ance companies who had protect ed their payment, in the 1932 political campaign was agreed upon at a series of conferences with supporters o. Governor Mc Alister, the defendant charged. Reece named Nathan L. Bach (Continued on page 3). DARROW ASKS AID FOR LITTLE BUSINESS MEN Urges Separate Advisory Board To Combat "NRA Monopolies" JOHNSON OUTLINES REVISION PROGRAM By L.YLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. (UP) —Srr.ail business men today had won a round in their dispute with the NRA. They have complain ed that codes create monopolies and push them toward bank ruptcy. Half a hundred complaints cheered when they were told yes terday that tall, stoop-shouldered Clarence Darrow and his newly appointed advisory review board had urged the president to estab lish that institution entirely sepa rate from the recovery adminis tration. Darrow and his colleagues con | ferred with the president as the ! NRA protest field day was be i ginning- Fred P. Mann, board member from North Dakota, re j ported to the small business pro [ test section of the general NRA (complaint forum that the board : had been unanimous in request j ing separate organization to free it from any semblance of NRA demonation. The question of legality of isuch a setup has been submitted jfo the justice department, Mann [said. He described Mr. Roose ivolt as sympathetic. Small busi nessmen and their representatives evidently considered that the best ' news they had heard in their ■ campaign for relief from alleged • destructive and monopilistic com petition. The review advisory board was (Continued on page three) Mrs. M. E. Tinley Rites Thursday f ' Mrs. Marv E. Tinley, widow of John H. Tinley, died at her home in the Ebenezer section yester day at 7:30 p. m. Funeral ser vices will be held Thursday at Moore's Grove church a^ 11 a. m.. with the Rev. McClamrock officiating. Burial will fellow at Ebenezer cemetery. Mrs. Tiniey was 86 years old. She was a native of Henderson county, and a member of the Moore's Grove Methodist church. I She is survived bv one sister, I Mrs. E. L. Gilreath. Pallbearers at the funeral will : be: Edward Russ, Fred Garren, j Carl Garren, John Thompson, Vernon Blythe, and Heniy Orr. KIWANIS TO MEET AT HOTEL INSTEAD OF COUNTRY CLUB Because of continued cold I weather, a meeting- of the Ki wanis club which was announced to be held at the Henderson Golf & Country Club at 1 p. m. Thurs day, ha? been postponed and the club will meet at the Skyland hotel as usual. An entirely different program is being arranged. Inspection of the golf course will Jbe made by club members at a later date to be announced, it was said. NOTED CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST TO CONTRIBUTE REGULARLY TO TIMES-NEWS COLUMNS The Times-News takes pleasure in announcing the beginning of a new service of special interest to those of its readers who are con cerned with the problems of chil dren and their parents. The first 1 article of a series by Frank How 1 ard Richardson, M.D., F.A.C.P., of Brooklyn, New York, and Black Mountain, North Carolina, who I will discuss in these columns some of the questions that are of vital importance to those with children | under their care, such as parents, i teachers, and social worker^, will | appear tomorrow. The outstanding feature of this service consists in the facilities it offers for getting help in different situations. Any reader who wishes i to know what to do in any one of the countless puzzling circum stances that arise in the homo, I may secure an answer by writing to Dr. Richardson in care of this paper, enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope for a personal reply. These questions will of course be held confidential; tho the substance of some of the most instructive, with unimportant al terations sufficient to make them unrecognizable, may be discussed from time to time in the Question and Answer section of the daily article. There is no need for this paper to tell its readers about Dr. Rich ardson. Noted as a children's specialist and child psychologist, he has become known to a far wider audience through his books on subjects of concern to physi cians as well as to parents. Among (Coutinued on page three) I Army Flyers Rescued in Crash at Sea How they had clung for nearly five hours to their disabled Army plane after it had crashed into the icy ocean off Rockaway Point, L. I., and watched their companion in the craft, Lieutenant G. F. McDermott, swept to his death just ten minutes before a U. S. de stroyer came to their aid, was the dramatic atofy told by Lieutenants W. S. Pocock, Jr. (left), and James H. Rothrock after their rescue. They are shown recuperating at Brooklyn, N. Y., Navy hospital. Dick Roycroft Is Killed In Crash Was One Of Stated Most Notorious Rum Runners 1 ____ FARMVILLE, Feb. 28.—(UP) Dick Roycroft. notorious North Carolina rum runner, met instant death here last night when his car collided with another machine in downtown Farmville, careened against a telephone pole and crashed into a brick wall as he was being chased by two officers. Policeman Fields and another officer were pursuing Roycroft through town. Bill White, of Greenville, en route to Wilson in his own car, crashed with Roy j croft, who had put out his lights, i at the corner of Wilson and George streets. Roycroft's body was pitched t into the street when his car crashed into the wall. Two com panions were with Roycroft. Dor othy Allison was arrested. The other, officers did not know whether a man or woman, es caped. The car Roycroft was driving, reported to have been stolen, contained 16 cases of whisky. The accident brought to an end the career of one of North Carolina's most notorious and elusive rum runnel's. Plan Local Rock Garden Contest The Garden club met Tuesday night at the city hall. Two talks on "rock gardens," what they should and should not be, were given by Mrs. J. E. Shipman and Dr. Walter Carpenter. This was followed by open discussion of "rock garden" problems. Steve Camp announced an of fer of $2 worth of rock garden plants to be awarded to the pev son who can show the best newly formed rock garden, including the best collection of plants, to be judged in April or May. Anyone wishing to enter this contest is asked to give their name and lo cation of their garden to the chairman of the Garden club. Deputy Revenue Man Here Soon Carl Felmet, deputy revenue commissioner for the state, will be at his office in the city hall on March 5 and 6 for the purpose of assisting taxpayers in making out their income tax reports. These reports must be made by March 15, Mr. Felmet said. The state allows an exemption of $1. 000 for single persons, and $2,000 for married persona. Ml ADOPTS 1 SERVICE COSTS State Trust Co. To Use Minimum Uniform Charge For Patrons Beginning: Thursday, the State Trust company will put into effect a uniform schedule of minimum charges for banking service as adopted February 20 at a special meeting of the North Carolina Clearing House association, held | at Greensboro. The schedule, E. E. Lott, cash ier, said, includes uniform regu-, lations as to banking hours, in terest on tyne deposits, analysis of accounts, service charges on certain types of checking accounts i and charges for trust services, I safe deposit and miscellaneous services rendered by banks and trust institutions. The action taken at Greensboro is in conformity with the proce dure being followed by state and local clearing house associations throughout the country in fixing local schedules instead of at tempting to adopt a uniform schedule for the nation as a whole. The former schedule, an nounced last December as provid ing for uniform practices in com petition under the bankers' code of the NRA, was changed in a number of respects. The new schedule, it was said, provides for a lower scale of charges than pro posed under the national code. Under the new regulations pro vision is made for a schedule of metered or measured charges by which the amount of the charge will be determined by the amount of service necessary to handle the account in proportion to the size (Continued on page three) SCOUT DRIVE SUCCESSFUL! Lampley Assures Work To Be Underwritten For Ensuing Year Although two teams of can vassers are yet to report, success is assured for the Boy Scout drive here, J. H. Lampley. chairman of the committee, said this morning. | The committee set out to raise 1 approximately $350 for the Scout work during the coming year, and Mr. Lampley said this morning that this goal would easily be reached when the final reprots from all teams were in. A good part of this money will be used in paying the national and regional dues of the organ ization, and the remainder will De used locally. NAZI-AUSTRIAN TRUCE COMES TO CLOSE AT NOON; VIENNA MASSES TROOPS AT BORDER Haosburg-Italian Marriage Sought To Strengthen Italo-Austrian Friend ship PARIS. Feb. 28.—(UP).— po litical marriage between Princess Maria of Italy and Archduke Otto of Austria is mentioned as a pos sibility in the effort of monarch ists to get Otto on the Austrian throne. A match between the 19-year old princess, a lovely brunette, and the 21-vear-old heir of the Hapsburg. it is emphasized, would cement Italian and Austrian friendship immeasurably and in crease Otto's chance of being made king. BY ROBERT H. BEST United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1934, United Press) VIENNA, Feb 28.—(UP).— Nazis throughout Austria planned today to challenge the govern ment ban against the party and appear on the streets wearing the emblem of their organization. The United Press was informed in reliable quarters that the dem onstration of defiance would mark the expiration at 12 noon today of the "ultimatum" given the Dollfuss government last week by Theo Habicht, German leader of the Nazis in Austria. Habicht in a radio address from Munch, over the German border, warned uhancelfar Dollfuss that the Nazis had their "rifles at rest" but that unless he threw in Aus tria's lot with the Germans by noon, February 28, Nazi activi ties would be resumed throughout Austria. Chancellor Dollfuss rejected the "ultimatum." The action may he expected Lo result in wholesale Nazi arrests, and an outbreak of serious trou ble on this front was feared un less Adolf Hitler, the founder of Nazism, steps in and cancels Habicht's orders. Two more batallions of Vienna Heimwehr were ordered to pre pare to move up to the Austro German frontier today. The Monarchists continued ac tive, and nine state commanders of their Ostmaerkischen-Sturm scharen, or storm troops, con ferred at the ministry of educa tion. The country remained in a fever of anticipation. End Stewardship School Tonight Presbyterians Concluding Program Of 4 Weeks The Stewardship school which has been conducted at the Pres byterian church for the past three weeks, will conclude with the ses sion this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Sunday school building. The class for men will be in charge of Prof. S. L. Woodward; the class for ladies will be led by Miss Margaret Bull of the Fassi fern faculty; and the young peo ple will be directed in two classes by Supt. F. M. Waters of the pub lic schools and Miss Emily Min ton of the Fassifern faculty. r Nazi-Heimwehr Go-Between Reported ready to act as go-be tween in the effort to bring Ger man Nazi leaders and chiefs of the Austrian Heimwehr together for a round-table conference is Archduke Anton, above, husband of Princess Ileana of Rumania. He is said to be ready to fly con fidential messages between Ger many and Austria in the move to effect a truce between the Fascist regimes. E. V. FOWLER IS FOUND DEAD IN CAR IN COUNTY Mills River Man Within Sight Of Home When He Expired Tuesday E. V. Fowler, of Horse Shoe, died suddenly about noon yeste'*-; day. The cause of nis death wasj not determined. Mr. Fowler was a mail carrier j and was found dead in his car i within sight of his home, accord ing to Sheriff W. A. Garren, who i went to the Fowler home yester day. Sheriff Garren said that Mr. Fowler was unable to start his own car when he set out to carry the mail yesterday, and borrowed one from a neighbor. He was found dead in the car about noon, near his home. He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Mamie Galloway; (Continued on page three) SERVING HOT MEALS TO ALL UNDERNOURISHED CHILDREN IN COUNTY SCHOOLS IS URGED Despite the general reduction in the number of CWA employes, Harry L. Hopkins, national ad ministrator, has urged the serv ing of hot lunches to undernour ished children in public schools. The Henderson county CWA has such service in Fletcher, Mills River, Balfour and Edneyville schoois, where splendid work is being done. These meals have been limited to those on relief or eligible for relief, but under the latest orders from Mr. Hopkins, the meals will be available to all undernourished children regard less of the economic situation in their homes. The local CWA is prepared to render this same service to other schools of Henderson county, an the following condition: The emergency relief adminis tration of the county will provide foods, kerosene, a cook and a waitress. The community availing itself of such service will be called on to furnish quarters and equip ment. The supervisor of the work will draw 35c an hour for 15 hours a week while the assistant will draw 30c. The workers must be em ployed through the Federal Re-employment Service and must either be on relief or eligible for relief, before employment can be given. It has probably occurred to Mr. Hopkins that the general reduc tion order of the CWA employes may seriously affect the economic condition in some of the homes and this provision is made to give proper nourishment to those in school, _ 1 INEFFICIENCY BLAMED UPON REPUBLICANS House Speaker Charges They Are Not Ready For War Time Action HOUSE GROUP ASKS BROADER INQUIRY WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, (UP) —Speaker Rainey charged today that "as a result of inefficiencies and neprlect of three Republican administrations" the army air air corps "is not propery equi| ped for efficient 8Ction in tinio of war." Ernest W. Smoot,. son of the former Utah senator told tho sen ate airmail committee ho wa.s en gaged as public relations repre sentative in Washington for Western Air Express in 1030 at a time when he was receiving $3325 yearly from the govern ment as his father's private secretary. The house military affairs committee asked yesterday Tor authorization to conduct a wide inquiry into reported profiteer ing and irregularities in war de partment contracts today as the district grand \ jury summoned Assistant Secretary of War Woodring ford his fourth long examination. The house committee, already investigati ng irregularities have circulated for several weeks, and Rep. W. Frank James, Repn., Mich., charg ed yesterday that for eight years the competitive bidding law has been violated by the army. The grand jury is investigat ing reported irregularities in con nection with the $10,000,000 army motorization program, and also has collected evidence on army clothing purchases. He ports of elaborate poker parties in which war department offi cials won consistently from re presentatives of firms desiring contracts were understood to bo among the points under investi gation. James made his charge of law violation in army contracts when he appeared before the rules committee to ask early considera tion of the McSwain resolution. SENTELL HELD WITHOUT BOND First Degree Murder Is Charged When Woman He Shot Dies SHELBY, Feb. 28.—(UP).— Louis Sentell, hosiery mill work er, was today held without bond in recorder's court, charged with the first degree murder of Mrs. William Drake, known as Mi'hs Florence Jones, whom he is said to have fired upon with a shotgun on February 15 when she refused to ride in his auto. PRIZE DOG ABDUCTED CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—(UP).— Kidnapers have expanded into new fields and have abducted a prize buil terrier which they are holding for $500 ransom. IffiLGllK® WHAT I ?.>HiE COMM.'./ Teiw FOR ! flREOAMP, ■ Y Who won •me 1033 POLlTZfR PRIZE •for The BEST NOVEL PUBLISHED By AM AMERICAN AUTHOR, VMWTIf,Tf»E. CAPITAI. ? MlNNMCflAi F«r correct outwore So thwi qucitipat, plcaao turn to pafo 6,
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