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WEATHER with mild tern Saturday gener HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934 % f ■ ■■■ ■■'■■■ ■ —— SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS , i GOOD AFTERNOON United States Ha* been increas ing its tales of scrap iron lo Ja pan, which is good enough so long as it remains iron. HAND iw TO My IW BOWL »Football Team Sel (ed To Meet West toast Champions (ROBmY IN N. C. NETS $22,000 5ATENA - t'.. Nov. 30. lo.. rdiversity an-; e.i a: Alabama Uni- , . j- , cfi! invited to meet f 'K- - ;.-e annual Rose ! ftvrbii'l classic on January Alabama has accepted. IE5VILLF. BANK SAW LOSER 0RKSVIM.K. X. C\. Nov. i'P—Or; ciais of the First fet ; ^ announced today Fvr robot: < got $10,000 in foi $12,000 in bonds Wed- j [r - • - : ot £4000 as at ^soiinced. , homes LOST IN UPP1NES TYPHOON JILA. Nov. 30. (UP)— <*a:hs and huge property [» wa? reported in a typ licit ripped through seven ^ of the Philippine Is ;• was estibated that 10, Lja were destroyed. U2NAPING LAW I CONSTITUTIONAL \TER. Nov. 30. (UP)— Banality of the Lind Et-<idnapinjr law was up aoy by the United States ; court of appeals in a de i aenvinjc a new trial to (v Bailev, convicted kid lot Charles Urschel. Okla tJiionaire. ETHEART SLAYER UESBARRE, Pa., Nov. 30. -Judge W. A. Valentine, refused to prant a new •o Robert A. Edwards, con ssi <iajrer of his sweetheart, i McKechnie, expect ant tr xhose body was found in e. The court held that love s Mtchanjred by Edwards fctaret Crain, East Aurora, .. :eacher were admissable liiesee. DER OF WOMEN'S & MARK KILLED IIS, Nov. 30. (UP)—Helen ker. age holder of wom *orId altitude and speed is. *as killed today when j '■x* crashed near Versailles. I D^T PLEADS NOT LTY TO MURDER ®YORK, Nov. 30. (UP)—' fc S'.einmetz, age 22, form- | * Angles divinity student,' ^ aot gruilty today to in Jjp. charging first degree his wife and a Roman ^ priest after finding I "?e:her in a hotel room. iptist Pastors iid Workers To feel On Monday monthly meeting '}■ -• it' rs and Work • .vi'.l be held at h .;«»_• of the First ^ h next Monday at honed that pas >a_ u". ■! other church * ■' • ' Carolina Baptist ^ be present as .: r': ■ *ance will be dis - n a -atement today, A Kilstrom, secretary ■, We rvL'ret to announce of mother of the .j ' ■ ' >, the president . I'.rother Lewis r;*7:r>'i : rom the funeral, • **3 held in Clay county." ^TY-WlDE SING FOR SUNDAY f,n County Sinking Wl 1 meet on Sunday if-o. a' - f>'dock at the Eb fcetj ptis- church, it was an S,^-« invited to atend. 1 proJiSIC w'" be the order of K' Zm 'iurinp the after *DlNC CHUM DEAD Mtu*S< ?• ^P).—A school *r*r r (.J the late President '*ljy'. is dead here. for m" • Snyder. 67, a print ' onCe J"e ^an 30 years. Sny acc°mpanied the late ^ tfo aj"'! his father, Dr. b on ,on the latter's l p in Marion coun Here's What's Known as a Royal Welcome The royal welcome is, after all, a hearty kiss. At left, the Duke of Kent is portrayed in oscil latory greeting with Princess Marina on her ar rival at Dover for their wedding, and right, King George bestows a royal kiss on a member of Marina's party, which included her mother, Princess Nicholas of Greece. SEEK TO SAVE ALCOHOL TAX INVESTIGATORS Treasury Unit, Shorthand ed, Appeals To Cum mings For Ruling . 1000 MENABOUT TO LOSE FEDERAL JOBS WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UP) —Treasury officials conferred today with Attorney General Homer Cummin<?s in a last min ute effort to save jobs of nearly a thousand alcohol tax unit in vestigators and to prevent dem oralization of the liquor enforce ment agency. Treasury officials, facing a crisis in the enforcement pro gram because of the expected heavy holiday rum-running and bootlegging activities, sought an opinion from Cummings on whether investigators whose jobs expire because they failed in civil service examinations can be retained without salary pending possible congressional action re instating them. In the meantime the treasury department ordered the coastguard and the remaining 400 inspectors to be especially vigilant to prevent loss of mil lions in revenue. Bell Ringers In Program Tonight Much interest is being shown in the entertainment to be given this evenim; at 8 o'clock at Fassifern School by" the Swiss Bell Ringers. The program is one that has brought most favorable comment from all parts of the country. The American quartet has sung in every state in the union and many parts of Canada. The public is invited. A small admission is charged to cover the expense of bringing the musicians to this city. The same group sangr at high school chapel exercises Thursday and was well received. The pro gram for tonight follows: 1. On the Sea (Buck. .Quartette 2. The Appfe and the Worm Humorous Song 3. Vocal Solo Selected 4. Soldier on the Shelf—Quartet 5. De Sandman Protheros 6. The B#lls of St. Mary's Swiss Handbells 7. A Sunday Morning in London Descriptive (Bells) 8. Violin solo (Ave Maria) Shubert 9. Etiquette Blues (comedy) Vocal Duet 10. Engieman's "Melody of Love" Swiss Handbells 11. Humorous Read — Telephone Conversation—A Schoolboy s Essay on a Duck. 12. Lassie of Mine Male Quartette 13. "Women" (Humoious) Male Ouartette 14. Jesus Saviour Pilot Me Male Quartette (with bells) FIVE INVOLVED IN EASTERN . MYSTERY BELIEVED NOW TO BE ROSEDALE, CAL., FAMILY ROSEVILLE, Cal., Nov. 30. (UP)—Identification of the five persons involved in Pennsylvan ia's "Babes in the Woods" mys tery appeared possible today as authorities checked information indicating that Elmo J. Noakes, 31, his three young daughters and niece were those who died in the strange case. Officials descriptions of the man's body found at Duncans ville taliied with that of Noakes, with the exception of a descrep ancy in height. Noakes, his three blonde daugh ters, aged 8, 10 and 12 years, respectively, and his 18-year-old niece, Winnie Pierce, have been i missing from Roseville approvi mately three weeks. Noakes purchased a 1929 Pon tiac sedan November 10 from Williari Sutton, local automobile dealer. A salesman, Roy Scot, said that Noakes indicated he i "was going on a trip" but did not say where. The same day | Noakes was said to have disap ' peared from Rosedale. Mrs. J. C. Gibby, sister of Noakes, described him as 31 years old, with blue eyes and brown «hair, weighing 150 pounds I and five feet six inches tall. The official description of the man's body found at Duncansville, Pa., gave the age as between .'i0 and 35; height five feet 10 inches; weight 140; blue eyes and dark i brown hair. I Mrs. Gibby added that Noakes wore special glasses such as those described for the man, also. The engine and serial num bers of the machine purchased by Noakes tallied with those of the automobile and man and wo man found in Pennsylvania were said to have been driving. School authorities said the Noakes children had been miss ing from school about three weeks. The mother of the chil dren died recently. Noakes' niece disappeared about November 16, when her mother, Mrs. Pearl Pierce, reported to police that she was missing. The girl had acted as housekeeper for Noakes. A brother of the missing girl, Russell Pierce, said that he talk ed with her the morning on No vember 11. She gave no indi cation that she planned to leave Roseville at the time, and seem ed in good spirits and health, Russell said. ' - * *1- - 1 1 O Winifred was aescriueu as 10 years old, five feet four inches tall, blonde, and weighing about 120. The names of the Noakes chil dren were given as Cordelia, De villa and Norma, aged 8, 10 and 12 respectively. Noakes had no police record in local courts. He was employ ed as a helper by the Pacific Fruit Express, earning approxi mately $100 per month. It was said that he failed to draw a check for two weeks' pay, due him November 10. Relatives of the missing man and girl were unable to assign any reason for their travelling to Pennsylvnia. No pictures of the children, man or girl were said to he available in Rosville. Authori ties planned to check photo 1 (Continued on page three) Present At Cowley Hollis Slaying BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 30. (UP). I —The brown-haired widow of George (Babyface) Nelson, who abandoned her two children to oast her lot with her murderer husband, was sought today by jus tice departments agents as an ac complice in the slaying of two fed eral men who gave their lives to bring down the bandit Nelson. A slim, blue-eyed woman—be lieved to have dyed her hair red— she was sought in Chicagp and Wisconsin underworld haunts. With her, it was understood, was a male companion, variously re ported to be Alvin Karpis, St. Paul hoodlum wanted in the Bremer kidnaping; John Hamil ton, last major member of the Dillinger gang, and one John Chase of San Francisco. Authorities were certain she was the woman present at the slaying of Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis, de partment of justice agents, at Barrington in their Tuesday night machine gun battle with Nelson, found dead in a ditch at Niles Center yesterday. Mrs. Nelson, whose killer hus band's real name was Lester Gil lis, originally was wanted for har boring John Dillinger and Tommy Carroll, Dillinger henchman, both of whom are dead. Federal agents arrested her at Madison, Wis., April 25, after the escape of Dillinger, Nelson and others of the gang escaped from a i federal trap at Little Bohemia. It was during this escape that Nel son murdered W. C. Baum, jus tice department agent. A sentence of 18 months was suspended and she was placed on probation. A theory was that fed eral men hoped her freedom would lead them to Nelson. Shortly after her release, Nel son, with federal men even then seeking him as zealously as they did Dillinger, drove up to 'his Southside apartment, picked up ! his wife and drove away with her without interference. Her proba tion was revoked immediately. Her two children, Arlene, 4, and I Ronald, 5, are separated. Arlene was left with Nelson's mother, Mrs. Mary Gillis, 65, on the South Side. Ronald is said to be living with Mrs Leona McMahon, one of Nelson's sisters, at Bremerton, Wash. Certain She Was j The tip that led to the finding of Nelson's body Wednesday was I believed to have come indirectly j from her. A man with a rougrh i voice telephoned Philip Sadowski, (Continued on page three) How They Spent Thanksgiving j BY UNITED PRESS President Roosevelt: At Warm Springs, surrounded by children being treated for infantile paraly sis, for whom he carved a 40 P'And turkey at a dinner in Geor ^ji Hall. cretary of Commerce Roper ha&ened back to Washington frtfjn Warm Springs, Ga., to eat a big turkey dinner with mem bers of his family. He was happy ov«r a better business outlook. Secretary of Treasury Morgen tk^i spent the day in New York wivh his family and friends. He leases soon to meet President RoSsevelt at Warm Springs. Secretary of Interior Ickes n a speech over the air open in a new anti-tuberculosis drive ate turkey with his family in t'h£"evening. ttorney General Homer S. mings rested at his Washing home, happy in the success of 'apartment's war against rac and gangsters. heretary of Navy Swanson on turkey in the presence of imily in Washington and at ^d a naval ball during the ig. etary of Agriculture Wal lace >Pat at the festive board load ed rrith turkey but he feasted Iar^||y on cranberry sauc£ and man^ vegetables. Pdftmaster General James A. Farliy spent the day in New York ■With "bis family. Mr». William Howard Taft, widoto of the former President, oksenrsd Thanksgiving day in she was the -guest of her daughter and son-V»-law. x Senator 'James Covizens, multi millionaire Michigan Repnblican, was recuperating from a minor ailment in a Washington hospital. Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz), New York's Public En emy No. 1, in jail at Albany, N. Y., where he surrendered to face an income tax evasion charge— dining on roast ham. Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelley, Harvey Bailey, and 200 bad men on Alcatraz Island | passed just another Thursday. Dinner menus at the fedaral pris on were no whit different from1 those of any other day. Tom Mooney, California's most famous prisoner, ate roast duck with other "trusties" at San Quentine. Ordinary prisoners got pork sausages. David Lamton, awaiting re-*rial or freedom on charges of murder ing his wife, ate a turkey dinner in his San Jose jail cell with his mother and two sisters. Samuel Insull, acquitted Satur day on federal charges of a $143, 000,000 mail fraud, ate turkey in Chicago with his son "Junior", Mrs. Insull and his grandson, Samuel III. He worked on an other chapter'of his memoirs. Fifty- one men committed to the county jail in Chicago because of failure to pay alimony "last ed" on chicken. Stanley Stark, 38-year-old machinist and a vet eran of the row, has spent two Thanksgivings there. "I'm thank ful that I'm here instead of home," he said. Constable Holds Seven On Holiday A number of arrests were made yesterday by Contable Jerry L. Orr, of Hendersonvflle township. Hattie Howie, Daisy Wise, Sue House, and Ethel Thompson, all colored were placed under bond for hearing before a magistrate on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Myrtle Drake was placed un der $100 bond on a larceny charge, and Mr. and Mrs. Harley Drake were placed under $200 bond on charges of receiving sto len property. ENJOYS AIR TRIP AT 77 BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 30 (UP)' You can't keep these "young sters" down. Mrs. Lizette Dibble, 77, always wanted to take an air plane ride. Her daughter didn't think it was safe. But finally Mrs. Dibble just "ups and flies away" to Salt Lake City, an hour and 55 minutes from home. She enjoyed every minute of the trip in the giant air liner, she said. t _ NATION'S CHIEF AGAIN STUDIES RELIEF PLANS Roosevelt Has Happy Hol iday With Paralysis Sufferers MOFFETT ^REMAINS AT WARM SPRINGS WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 30.—(UP).—Definite progress in the nation's gigantic housing pro gram was reported to President Roosevelt today by Housing Ad ministrator Jas. A. Moffett. Mof fett said reports from all over the country were encouraging, with applications exceeding expec tations. He said the government had no intention of competing with private capital in providing for subsistence homesteads, rural homesteads and slum clearance. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Pre** Staff Correspondent WARM" SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. j 30.— (UP).—President Roosevelt' observed Thanksgiving surround ed by little paralysis sufferers here whom he proudly calls his neighbors and friends. The chief executive, thrusting aside even the most important of administration cares, devoted his time entirely to the colony of pa tients and Warm Springs Founda tion, which in a brief address he extolled as "the example of the right way of giving help." At night, with Mrs; Roosevelt, the President presided at the an nual Thanksgiving dinner in Georgia Hall, carving generously /rom a 40-pound turkey that^had been specially prepared with" all the trimmings. Seated at his table were a dozen or more youngsters who drew lots for the privilege of being with him. In the group was Jas. A. Mof fett, federal housing administra tor, w'io remained over to confer with the President today on de tails of the gigantic housing pro gram which is one of the key movements of the government to ward orderly economic and social recovei-y. Over the week-end and early next week the President was slat ed to swing into a discussion of the broad relief picture as well as phases of his 1935 legislative pro gram that yet remain to be decid ed upon. He will take up relief with Harry Hopkins, FERA head. Other callers will be Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Frank Walker, former l director of the National Emerg i ency Council, and Postmaster 1 General James A. Farley. The President will leave the Little White House Wednesday for Washington, arriving Thurs day morning. On arrival he will proceed to the new executive of fices that have been completed in his absence. During the afternoon yesterday the President participated in the dedication of two new Foundation buildings, accepting them formal ly from the board of trustees. "These btiildings," he said, "represent more than bricks and mortar. Into their construction has gone the human qualities of sympathy and understanding of thousands of people — our own neighbors of the Mate of Georgia and many others in every part of the nation who have understood the vision. "To these buildings will come, we hope for many generations, people—especially children—who (Continued on page three) 'AUTO STRIKES TUXEDO CHILD DeWitt Bane Suffers Leg Fractures And Severe i Bruises DeWitt Bane, young son of Ulys Bane, of near Tuxedo, was in the Patton Memorial hospital today as a result of being struck by an automobile driven by James J. Cline, of Trenton, N. J., yesterday afternoon near Tuxedo. The chrild suffered two broken lees and -was badly bruised about the head and body. His condi tion was considered as serious. Mr. Cliue was placed under $400 bond for his appearance be fore a magistrate on December 15. It is understood that the child was playing with a ball and ran jinto the highway in front of the I car driven by Cline. • 1 Travels Light The Princess Alexis Mdivani, otherwise heiress Barbara Hutton, smiles happily as she lands in New York after a long stay abroad that began with a honey moon trip to the Orient. However, Prince Mdivani was not with her. She also left 42 pounds of sur plus weight behind her. 3 nejTfaces IN COURTHOUSE AFTER MONDAY All Other Officials Of Cosily Will Succeed Themselves Three newly elected Hender son county off.rials will be in ducted into office on Monday morning, and officials already holding office will be reinstated. R. H. Staton, who was elected as judge of the county recorder s court to succeed Judge J. Foy Justice, Morris N. Orr, who de feated Sheriff W. A. Garren for : Sheriff, and Arthur B. Shepherd, i who was elected as solicitor of! the county recorder's court, will! be the new officers installed and sworn in at that time. Mr. Shepherd will succeed Soli citor W. R. Sheppard, who has held office for the past four years. Although having simiiar names the men are not related. Officers of the court are elect ed every four years and are not eligible to succeed themselves. Mr. Staton is well known here, having formerly been sheriff of the county, mayor of Hender sonville, county school superin tendent, congressional candidate, and postmaster for 12 years. Mr. Shepherd, incoming solici tor, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. V. Shepherd. He studied law at Duke University, and has been engaged in law practice and in the legal publishing business since graduation. Mr. Orr is a life-long resident I of the county and is widely known. This is the first time he has held office in the county. He succeeds Sheriff W. A. Gar ren, who held office for six years. Officers already serving who will be reinstated are: T. L. Dur ham, G. W. Justice and J. A. Rusher, county commissioners. J. P. Fletcher, clerk of the superior court. J. H. Ballenger, tax col lector and J. C. Coston, rej/'Ster of deeds. 2 Local Churches To Begin Vesper Services Sunday Two of the local churches, the First Methodist and the Presby terian, will on this Sunday, Dec. 2, begin having a 5 o'clock ves per service in place of the 7:30 o'clock evening service, this pro gram to continue through the win ter months. This was done by these two churches last year with gratifying success. . "This hour," it was said, "seems to suit many who do not wish to go out winter evenings, those who I wish to spend the evening at home with the family, and others. It comes at the close of the day, I which is a time of quietness and peace, and at a time when most people are tired of doing other things and will find it a welcome diversion, especially spiritual, to go to the house of God for wor ship. The vesper service has be come quite popular everywhere and is being quite generally adopt ed." [SHOT IN HEAD IS FATAL TO J. D. MAXWELL Resident Of Dana Road Had Gone To S. C. To Purchase Hides FOUL PiiTBlNTfiD; FUNERAL SUNDAY James Donald Maxwell, on the Dana road, was fobrtd dead from a pistol shot through right temple in a cabin at 't tourist camp on the Greenville Spartanburg highway between Greer and Chick Springs at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A .38 calibre pistol was found new* by. The body was found by James J. Pace, uncle of Maxwell, who had gone in search of his nep hew. Mr. Pace saw the car at the tourist camp and stopped to look for Maxwell. He was told that the man arrived there about 2 o'clock and rented a cabin for a few hours sleep. Attendants at the camp said that Maxwell ate lunch there, and that no shot had been heard. Foul play was at first suspected, it was reported.. Maxwell left Hendersonvillc on Tuesday to gQ to South Car olina to buy hides and furs, Ac cording to iti*nds.. He - Had, they said, about $100 when he left home. Friends found -that he had spent $20 in one' plaee, and there was only about six dollars on his person when the body was discovered. Coroner George W. McCoy, of Greenville county, said be would hold an inquest early next week. Men OwtwrtWe sheriff's office made a preliminary inves tigation with , the coroner. The body is expected to be brought; here this afternoon by J. M. Stepp & Son. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at Refuge church, with the Rev. M. L. Lewis in churge. Burial will take place in Refuge ceme tery. Maxwell is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gladys Blythe Max well, three doughters, Jimmy, Sarah and Mickie, his mother, Mrs. Hester Fletcher, and two sisters, Mrs. Lewis Laughter, of Hendersonville and Mrs. Carl 2^aile, of Salisbury. SWAIN COUPLE DROWNED AT NANTHAHALA BRYSON CITY, Nov. 30.— Jack E. Coburn, widely known Swain county business man, and Mrs. Cobarn were instantly killed shortly before 11 o'clock today when their automobile was side swiped by a truck and forced into the Nantahala river, about one mile from the Nantahala station. Mr. Coburn's body had been re covered at 11:30 a. m., and par ties were searching for Mrs. Co burn's body. Miss Betty Wiggins left Bryson City with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Co burn this morning:, and was be lieved to have been killed with them when their car plurged into the river. Her body, however, had not been found at noon. She is a sister of Mrs. Cobarn. MRS. A. C. M'MANUS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, AND EXPIRES LATER GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. 30. (UP)—Mrs. Adrian C. McManus, wife of the president of the Sedgefield County C1 ub at Greensboro, N. C., died at noon Thursday from a stomach wound received when a gun her hus band was showing her discharged accidentally, r. ± McManus remained in a state of collapse at the Greenville General hospital from shock at the accident. He and his wife were on a Thanksgiving visit here to his mother, Mrs. J»nie Mc Manus. Kidnaper Hunt Extends West OMAHA, Nov. 30.—(UP).— Search for Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., accused kidnaper of Mrs. Al ice Stoll, Louisville socialite, cen tered here today after a filling sta tion operator had reported selling gasoline to a man resembling the fugitive. The suspect's descrip tion given by J. D. McDevitt tal lied with Robinson's, department of justice agents said.
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