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WEATHER partly cloudy tonijht and to morr0w; colder tonifjht. ©It? GOOD AFTERNOON Maybe Willie didn't get thoie new skates He wanted this winter, but he didn't have to take piano lessons. VOL 52—No. 39 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS NEW CONCILIATION STEP IS DEVELOPING 4> ^ t ■ <8> *> . x <*> — <§> IE BIG RAIL! SYSTEM OVER I II. S. IS URGED Regional Consolidat ions Envisioned by Report of Transport Body WOULD REGULATE TRAFFIC BY MOTOR i Sr OTIS PEABODY SWIFT gyhd Press Staff Correspondent : \EW YORK. Feb. 15. (UP).— j Regional railroad consolidationsi 'looking eventually to a single j utional system" for the United ' fa:e> are recommended in the re iort of the national transporta ion committee, made public last! m. The report is the first result of j our months of hearings and sur- ' by the committee of which i he late Calvin Coolidge was the [ iea*i. The report declares that consol .Jitions "should be hastened and, I riere necessary, enforced." The report was signed by Her nia M. Baruch. vice chairman, Clars Hov.ell and Alexander 1M* I: urces such regulation of au ®otive transportation "as is lecessarv for public protection." A minority report by Alfred E. taith, member of the committee, ipresses "substantial agreement rh the ereater part" of the com littee report, but voices a num ?r of sharp recommendations in ludir.sr opposition to the construc ts of the St. Lawrence water lay as "a waste of public funds." Abolition of the interstate com merce commission, replacing It by "new department of transporta ittu. headed b yone man. or a joMin bureau in the depart macef commerce" also was urg es br Smith. He disapproved ex tntiog the Reconstruction Fi ture Corporation's power to lite additional loans to railroads r^nut full collateral. While the report had not taken 1 m at the time of the death of t'v;r Coolidge. the committee airman, it was emphasized that :h<" committee has tried to carrv i in the spirit of his leadership."! Eisr'nt major points were stress-' 1 in the final document: 1.—Parallel railway lines and s>tems were branded as waste-1 pi Regional consolidations look is? toward an eventual national i [.•stem were urged. 2.—Unprofitable railroad serv ■es should be replaced by alter-, ative cheaper transport methods.1 3.—Railroads should be permit e-i to own and operate competing «riees, but regulatory jurisdic • ji should be extended to water' Mbl ' }| — iiovernmeniai H>.<iuui|niuii of all or part of the costs of in-, efficient competing transport a.s a defense against monopoly is no, fairer warranted and should be abandoned. In general inland wa terways should bear all costs ofj amortization, interest, mainten ance and operation; the St. Law rence waterway should be tested i •Minst this rule, and if it fails in that test the Dendir.g treaty with Canada should not be ratified. 5—-Automotive transportation) Mould b> put under such regula tion a> is necessary for public f protection, but neither taxation i nor regulation should be applied ' for »ny purpose of handicapping (Continued on page three) No Negligence j Of Operators at Quarry, Report; ^ate Geologist Submits Statement to Governor Ehringhaus Raleigh, Feb. 15. — Belief, j*®t the operators of the Blue j Rifis:v Lime and Stone company, j near Fletcher, had not been guilty '"wilful or intentional neglect" 1 "f ^tate regulations as contained •n the mining laws of North Caro- ] !!na. in the death of seven men , a -»!ide there last week, was thn ;'den of a statement issued her* i H. .J. Bryson. state geologist reporting on the industrial £*eedy near Hendersonvilie last Wednesday. Mr. Bryson attributed the con ations which led up to the slide >0 inexperience on the part of the operators. He declared at the i Sar*ie time that if the services of aJttininsr engineer had been avail- ' ®r>'e to the State of North Caro- ; 1na. the quarry would have been it,0sed previous to the accident. |. Mr. Bryson made his statements !n a report to Governor Ehring 'aus, submitted following an in-1 *D*ction of the quarrv made by nini in company with Commission I ?f I-abor A. L. Fletcher, fol ||f,wm^ the deaths at the qnarry. Lindbergh Friend Kidnaped Held by kidnapers who demand J60.000 ransom for his return is Charles Bocttcher. 2nd (above), multi-millionaire of Denver. H»i was seized by two men as he. drove into his residence. His wife | was in the motor car with him; but could sec the two men only i dightly in the dark. They thrust i the ransom note into her hand and ; ?he has announced she will pay I the S'50.000. Boettcher is a friend! >f Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and ' :he ransom note recalled the fate , >f Lindbergh's kidnaped son. AYCOCKBILir PROTECTSN.C. TEACHERS PAY These and Superintend-. ents Would Retain Par ent Salary Levels By J. C. BASKERV1LL The TluiM-New* Iturrit'i i Sir Walter RALEIGH, Feb. 15.—The eight' months school b.il introduced in the house by Representative Chas. 1 B. Aycock of Wake county should in reality be entitled "A bill to prevent any reduction in the sala ries of county superintendents and school teachers and to keep all present county superintendent i in office," for in spite of Aycock's| claims that the bill will reduce school costs materially, a careful analysis of the bill fails to show how it can or will reduce school costs. T*L L !• r 1 I A, 4. A lie UC1U l (ICIW iO u v.utv this is the bill that will be backed bv the county superintendents and ! the North Carolina Education as-! sociation. and that it was largely written by persons close to tho J school and tex'book forces. If en-' acted, it woud save the jobs of 82 of the 100 county superintend ents and increase the salaries of' many of these from $3,000 to $3,500 a year. If another basis used in the bill should be used,, the salaries of 21 superinten-1 dents now fretting $3,500 a year, would remain unchanged, 22 su-i perintendents now getting $3,000 a year would he increased to $3,-1 500 a year, while the salaries of seven superintendents now get-1 ting only $2,500 a year would be increased to $3,500. The salaries of only 10 superintendents now getting $4,000 a year would be decreased to $3,500. The total cost of salaries for county superintendents under this hill would amount to approximate ly $287,000 a year, while the pres ent cost of superintendents' sala ries is only $282,000. But the sections of the bill re lating to superintendents are not the only "jokers" in the bill, ac cording to those who have been studying it. The section relating to teachers' salaries contains just as big a "joker." For while this section gives the impression thai it will reduce teachers' salaries five per cent below their present, levels, or 15 per cent below the 1931 levels, the bill re-enacts the salary schedule already adopted, previous to 1931, and thus auto matically restores the salary in creases increment for experience, which more than compensates for the five per cent salary reduction. So according to information ob tained today from the budget bu reau, this provision, if enacted, would mean an actual increase in salary to most teachers who have been teaching for more than ono year and more than make up for the five per cent cut in salaries. The best estimates obtainable here today from those in a posi tion to know, are that it would cost the state not less than $20, 000,000 a year to put this school bill into operation. In addition to this, it would cost the counties and districts still more, since the bill does not prohibit the levying of county and district supplemen 1 (Continued on page three) INVESTIGATION INTO QUARRY SLIDE IS HELD No One Blamed for Acci dent With Loss of Seven Lives SEEPING WATER WAS ACCIDENT'S CAUSE A coroner's jury sitting: at the office of the Blue Ridge Lime company at Fletcher this after noon decided that the slide that took seven lives in the quarry there last Wednesday was caused by the added weight of water seeping behind the rock; that the ovei hanging rock could have anl should have been removed by dy namite or braced, but that failure so to do did not render any 0/ the officials of the company crim inally liable. The jury heard testimony from witnesses as follows: E. C. Rrac kett. employe of the company since 1910; Ab Mills, colored, who escaped the slide; George Cox. quarry foreman; J. Frad.v, employe of the company for sev en years; Henry Hair, former em ploye; Closs Hooper, negro, em ploye of the company for about eiirht years; Hass Fletcher, negro, who did dynamiting for the com pany; Elmer Graham, colored, em ploye for about 18 years; Frank West, employe for about 1.3 years; W. T. Gibson, superintendent., and Wav Kinsland, general manager. Mr. Gibson expressed the opin ion that the slide was caused by the added weight of water seep ing into a dirt, pocket behind the rock, and Mr. Kinsland and Mr. Cox advanced substantially this theory. Testimony was largely to the effect that there were two slides, one a slab of rock falling near the working men, and a second almost immediately following, which imprisoned the men. Tes timony in regard to dynamiting was that there had been no large 'shots' set off in some time, and that the only recent 'shooting' was on Monday, when a small charge of about five sticks was set off for the purpose of breaking boulders on the floor of the quarry. The last slide, according to tes timony, occurred several years ago when a rock was 'shot' and the slide followed shortly after ward. before any men were al lowed to enter the quarry. Testimony regarding inspec tions was largely to the effect that there had never been any state inspection of the quarry, but that Mr. Hammond, insurance inspec tor, had inspected the quarry and overhanging rock on Wednesday, a week before the slide occurred. Members of the jury were: W. S. Riddle. L. Mathews. L. Melton, E. Pressley, C. Laughter, and C. Barham. Solicitor J. Will Pless, Jr., of Marion, represented the State, and Judge Thomas L. Johnston, of Asheville. represented receiv ers for the company. Two Arrests in Denver's Kidnap Case Are Made DENVER, Colo., Feb. 15. (UP) Two reputed bandits were arrest ed early today in connection with the kidnaping of Chas. Boettcher, second, after a second ransom note asking $50,000 for the young j Denver millionaire had been re | ceived last night. The men held are N. W. Mitchell, 35, and I George Zarlingo, 40. Roosevelt Due In Miami Tonight MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 15.—(UP). ; President-elect Roosevelt will end | his ten day sea going: vacation here tonight, when a great ova I tion awaits his return from his I fishing trip on Vincent Astor's palatial yacht. Nourmahal. James M. Cox. 1920 Democratic presi dential candidate will be here to I greet him. PRESBYTERIANS TO CONTINUE STUDIES At the Presbyterian church jthis evening at 7:30 o'clock the j congregation will continue the study of the book of church his I tory, doctrines and practices, i The class for men will be in charge of T. H. Franks; Mrs. J. IS. Brown will have charge of the | class for women and the young I people will be in charge of Miss 1 Sarah Oates, Held as Suspect In Kidnap Plot Hold in conection with the recenr ■ kidnap threat—which some re ports say may force Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and their son, Jon Morrow to forsake the United States for residence abroad —is Mrs. Elsie Harvey, an expec tant mother. Her husband, Nor man. and Joe Bryant also were held at Roanoke, Va., after Bry ant had attempted to cash a $17,000 check which had been left as a ruse to capture a group who threatened to kidnap Jon Morrow Lindbergh. LOBBYISTS IN | RALEIGH NOT ALL BOOKED! Some Powerful Forces at! Work Fail io Register as Law Provides The Tiinci-Ncws Iturrnu | Sir Walter l!»t.*l I RALEIGH. Feb. 15.—While 105 lobbyists have registered in the] secretary of state's office thus far I under the provisions of the Ewing| lobby regulating bill passed early | in the 1933 legislative session. J [ some of the most conspicuous and active lobbyists have not yet put j their names down in "the book," i an examination of the register by i this bureau revealed today. Noticeable by their absenco were the names of several repre sentatives of women's and wel fare organizations who have been carrying on a powerful lobby against the Bailey divorce bill, changing: the grounds for divorce from five to two years, and the 'house bill repealing the present j 1 requirement of a medical exam ! ination before the issuance of a | marriage license. It would appear that these] j women feel that because they are I women and because they are [ working for a cause which they j believe is for the public's welfare j that they are exempt from the provisions of the Ewing anti-lob by ing bill, and the fact Ih^t they take this attitude has caused no little comment about the so-called ; liberals of the legislature who would like to see North Carolina's I marriage and divorce laws modi-1 j fied. Labor, the railroads, the utili ties, the trucks and busses, the (Continued on page three) i I BANKS OPEN IN MICHIGAN; RELIEF SEEN Arrival of $40,000,000 in Detroit Eases Morator ium Situation PERMIT DEPOSITORS TO DRAW SPARINGLY MONROE, Mich., Feb. 15.— / j —^wo banks reopened here today and were doing business as usual, despite yesterday's mora torium by Governor Comstock. Ty„were the First National and Monroe State Savings banks. DETROIT. "Fob. 15.—(UP).— Michigan began rebuilding its crumbled financial empire today. Less than 36 hours after Gov. William A. Comstock acceded to bankers pleas and decreed an eight-day bank holiday, $40 - 000,000 aid was ready in Detroit and relief measures were taking form all over this peninsular state of o,000,000 people. _ Yesterday, when all the state's o<150 banks were ordered closed under an emergency decree 'for the preservation of peace, health ?nd safety," gloom settled over iWichigan. It lifted today before the spirited gust of aroused indus trialists, civic leaders and citi zenery. The name of Henry Ford through his Ford Automobile company, flickered strangely through the maze of events. Gov. Comstock, from his executive of iue at Lansing, accused the Ford Motor company of failing to co operate with the General Motors corporation and the Chrysler corporation in sustaining the ,.m"n guardian Trust company 01 Detroit. It was imminent col lapse of the Guardian Trust that prompted the bank moratorium loiter the governor issued a contradictory statement in which he said that he had "misunder stood the facts" and that neither the Chrysler corporation nor General Motors was a depositor in the Guardian Trust and that his interpretation of the cause ot the moratorium was illfound ed. Red Cross Hours for Sewing Room1; Are Made Public AH Old Wearing Apparel Will i>e Welcomed; Can Be Used Announcement that the Red Cross sewing- room will be open cd in future three days a week, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Mon days and Wednesdays and from 1 j° x4 ,p" m- on Fridays was ,e today. At the same time, a plea for additional help in ma terials was made on behalf of the Red Cross in providing- cloth ing for the destitute. Mrs. R. p. Freeze said that two sewing1 machines have been donated to the Red Cross here, but that the loan of more ma chines is being sought in order to speed up the work of making garments. It was said also that all kinds of garments are needed by the Rpd Cross. Worn-out under gar (Continued on page three) ; KINGFISH' PASSES LIE TO \ BROTHER AT ELECTION QUIZ I Enmities Between Senator and Brother Flare as Court Spectators Look on in Amazement; Challenge to Fight Revealed i>l r< vv unijrjnno, ri u, iu. (UP).—Senator Huey P. Long's! brother took the witness stand against him yesterday to tell the senate sub-committee investigat ing charges of fraud in elections hero that "the Huey Long admin istration reeked with graft and corruption." Earl K. Long, two years young er than the famed "Kingfish, himself a lawyer and a political figure of the state, testified all day to the political and private life of his brother. He claimed Huey Long, as gov ernor of Louisiana in 1927, ac cepted $10,000 in cash from Har ry Abel, representative of the New Orleans Public Service com pany, to influence state legisla tion. "It's a damned lie," roared thr» "Kingfish." ' Enmities flared as the court room looked on in amazement.. I Huey Long turned to the press ta • aim icinairvru. nicic 10 tuv meanest white man on <>arth." Ho announced that he intended to prosecute his brother for perjury. Out of the testimony yesterday arose a "bathrobe" incident that Senator Lone continued to discuss as he left the hearing last night. Earl Long charged that "You, the Kingfish, told me Abel put that $10,000 in the pocket of your bathrobe and you at first told him you didn't want his small change.'' "I saw the $10,000," Earl Long replied to a question. "It was in new, crisp bills, and Iluey said ho was afraid it might be marked, and he didn't know what to do with it." The "Kingfish" denied the ac cusation. "At that time, I had never owned a bathrobe in my life," he declared. "I got my first bathrobe as a Christmas present the following year." Earl Long was permitted to tcs {Continued on page three). READY FOR SPEED RUN Seated in the cockpit of his racing automobile, Bluebird, Sir Malcolm Campbell waves a greeting to the crowds gathered at Daytona Beach to watch him prepare lor the assault on the speed record. He hopes to drive down the white sand course at a speed of .'iOO miles per hour or better. | SAY BLUEBIRD I TO LOWER THE SPEED RECORD |2600 Horsepower Car Makes Remarkable Trip By HENRY M'LEMORF, United Press Staff Correspondent DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 15.— (UP).—True to his prom ise just to "loaf along:" in the mildest sort of a trial spin, Sir Malcolm Campbell, Britain's knight of speed, drove his Blue bird racing: car over the sands of 1 Daytona Beach yesterday at . 212.P>3 miles an hour. Running Bluebird under her J own power for the first time | since the giant car was assem i bled, and not knowing what she I would do or how well she would 1 stand up, Campbell was clocked :at that speed for two kilometers I and for five miles at 17!>.282. i The timing traps failed to catch I him in the measured mile and : one kilometer course. The British daredevil said his tachometer showed him to be traveling at approximately 240 miles an hour as he entered the measured mile. | "You see,' ne saiu wnen ne returned to the timing tower after the run south "I eased off the gas shortly after I entered I the mile. For after all," I wasn't | shooting for any record. All I wanted to do was to loaf along I and test my clutch." Asked if his clutch performed satisfactorily, Campbell said "yes, but some parts of the car need a little adjusting. Nothing important, mind you, but just a few things which will mako for higher speed when I chance to j open the car up." Sir Malcolm's speed on his one run south was considered re markable in the view of the fact that he used but three miles in which to gain speed, and the beach over which he raced was anything but perfect. Moreover, he was forced to buck a stiff wind that whipped the vari-col ored flaps that marked the course. Veterans of the racing game were open in their opinion that Campbell's world's record of 253.9 miles an hour will be at' his mercy once he has the chancc, to give the 2600 horsepower Bluebird the gun. When thi.j will be is not known, for Campbell said after his run that the beach was "less than fair." "It was like driving through a giant saucer, because of the many depressions in the sand. And it was very, very heavy. The visibility was poor, too." Ten Communities Of Cossacks Face Exile in Siberia MOSCOW, Feb. 15.—(UP). The entire population of ten Coifack settlements in the North Caucasus were warned today that the government is considering their wholesale ex ile into Siberia. The communi ties have been officially black listed for their failure to de liver seeds for the spring sow ing. , 1 GREEN RIVER MILLS NAME OLD OFFICERS Directors Pleased With Progress at Industrial Establishment I 'v Election of officers and diroc tors of the Green River Mills, Inc.. was held yesterday, and the same officers and directors will serve for the concern for another year. The board of directors ex pressed themselves as well pleased with the progress which has been made under the new organization. Directors for the concern, as re-elected by the stockholders are: R. F. Dew and Wilson Brown, of Richmond: E. W. Montgomery and G. F. Williams, of Greenville, S. C.; and W. M. Sherard, of Ilen dersonvillc. The re-elected officers are: W. M. Sherard, president and treas urer; G. F. Williams, vice-presi dent and assistant treasurer; W. E. Bates, secretary; and Miss Etta Stevenson, assistant t o the secretary. The Green River Mills, Mr. Sherard said in connection with the announcement of the annual election, have now been running full time for the past seven months. The product of the mills, fine yarns, is sold direct to con sumers. Considerable improvement at the mill plant has been made in the past several months. The mill building has been re-roofed as have other buildings at the plant and improvements have been go ing forward in that time on the houses in the village. It was also stated that re-painting the houses will be begun at an early date. E FLAT ROCK BILLS OFFERED Tax Sales, Police Officer, Authorized Fire De partment Sought RALEIGH. Feb. 15. _ Two pieces of legislation drastically enlarging the powers of the offi cials of the Town of East Flal Rock have been introduced by Representative Ted R. Ray, o1 Henderson county, and both arc now pending in committee at thi^ time. The first bill, which is before the committee of finance provide? that the Town of East Flat Rock shall be empowered through i's tax collector to sell the delinquent tax list for the year 1930, a clause in the enabling bill mak ing the sales legal despite the fact that they have not been sold in the time as prescribed by statute. The authority of sale granted is available for the institution of sales any time before June 1, 1933 and the paragraph setting the date by which time the sales shall be instituted states that "the proceedings shall have the same yafidity as though said tax cer tificates had been issued within the time prescribed by statute." The second bill provides that 'the limitation upon the powers sf the commissioners of the town )f Fast Flat Rock as set forth in (Continued on page three). BIG POWERS OF WEST MAY TRY PACinCIATION 3-Part Program Makes U. S. and Russia Mediators JAPS MAYKEEP 1600 MANDATED ISLANDS WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. (l;Ti A three part program of western powers to exert effective diplo matic pressure upon Japan was foreseen by American officials to day if. as seemed probable, Japan rejects the terms for conciliation of its dispute with China and withdrew from the League of Na tions. They are: 1.—Acceptance of the Lytton report, condemning Japan's Man churian policy; 2.—Adoption of the Hoover Stimson non-recognition doctrine toward Manchoukuo that no state shall recognize a puppet govern ment at Changchun and no finan cial or other material support shall be given Manchoukuo; and, —The creation of an interna tional commission, probably in cluding the United States and Russia, in an endeavor to concili ate the dispute. GENEVA, Feb. 15.—(UP).— Japan's threatened withdrawal from the League of Nations may involve the United States and other powers in a serious disputn over the possession of 1600 islands in the Pacific, which form a bridge of 2000 miles east and west, be tween Japan and the United States. The islands, formerly German, are held by Japan under a man date from the League of Nations, acting as custodian for the victo rious powers in the World war. Nobody at Geneva believes Ja / pan would relinquish the islands when she quita the league, altlio she would have no legal right to retain them. MRS. CURTIS j DIES IN WEST Was Wife of F. E. Curtis, Both Long Time Resi dents Here Mrs. Elizabeth Burckmyer Cur tis, wife of Mr. Frank E. Curtis, died suddenly of a heart attack | in Los Angeles, Calif., yesterday I afternoon. Her passing was not I unexpected, as she had been in poor health for the past year. Mrs. Curtis was a native of Charleston, S. C., the daughter of Elizabeth Capers Davant and John Adams Burckmyer. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis moved to Hendersonville about 25 year* ago, establishing their residence at Fourth avenue and Justice street, but for the past ten years have been wintering in Cali fornia. i Mrs. Curtis had always been a consistent member of the Baptist church and on making Hender sonville her home, affiliated with the First Baptist church of thi« city. Besides her husband, Frank E. Curtis. Mrs. Curtis is survived by her adopted daughter. Mrs. Lean Murphy of Los Angeles; her sis ter. Miss Mary D. Burckmyer of Hendersonville, and several half I sisters and brothers. Funeral services and interment will take place in Los Angeles. KEEP DIVIDEND POLICY NEW YORK. Feb. 15. (UP).— The American Telephone and Telegraph company, the world's largest corporation, today voted to continue the $9 annual divi ! dend rate in effect the past 12 I years. nmnisB ; FOR WHAT fS i Aguinaido FAMED? - ' Name this X ISLAND. HOW MUCH IS THE MEXiCAN PESO WORTH IN US MONEY ? | For correct answers to then ' question*, please turn to p*|o 4> I