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had ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES. ASHEVILLE, N. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1930 Section C- Page FIVE LEADERS OF DAYS TO OPPOSE POLL Vote Down Referendum At Conference In Washington WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 6.

(A)- A proposal that dry forces lend their support to some form of national referendum on prohibition almost overwhelmingly voted down today by a group of nationally prominent leaders, The group in con executive comprised what session is tetown as the legislative committee of the national conference of organizations IS supporting the eighteenth ment, and its decision was virtually the first attack on the plan An organized, proposal group of would dry have leaders. the drys support a resolution for repeal until the measure had been adopted by congress. The proviso would be added that the resolution would be considered by constitutional conventions each state, in which the drys could fight soildly against it. It was argued that without dry support the measure never get by congress and before the people. To Be Considered Despite the adverse vote today, however, assurance was given that the question of such a referendum will be considered at a series of dry meetings here next week, and will be inco.

porated in a blanket report to the conference, thereby providing opporturit? for general discussion. The legislative committee includes representatives from the Anti- Saloon League, the Women's Cueistian Temperance Union, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Southern Methodist Board, the Flying Squadron Foundation, and the Good Templars. Leaders of may of these orgaizations have previous declared flatly against the proposal. A group of anti- prohibitionists will also meet Monday in Washington in what has been called a national constitutional convention. Neither the Asosciation Against the Prohibition Amendments no; the Crusaders, two outstanding wet organizations, will be represented, hewever.

The purpose of the n'eeting was given today as the finding of an answer to the demana ct the prohibition.sts to snow them some plan to substitute for the dry laws. Favor's Poll Dr. Clarence Tr True Wilson. Methodist board secretary, has he would not oppose a referendum if the wets would agree on an alternative and would abide by the result it it were unfavorable to them. Dr.

F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, said today that "for the second on time in the history of dry organization the dry forces Are getting ready to carry on An aggressive nat on -wide program to overcome wet activities." His statement was made Announcing the selection of Washington for the next. biennial convention of the Anti-Saloon League next December. W. D.

Tolley Is Radiator Man For Carolina Works The Carolina Sheet Metal Works has added A complete auto radiator repair shop to its equipment, with W. D. Tolley In charge, it WAS announced yesterday. Mr. Tolley is well known in his line of work.

having been the first to introduce the auto radiator repair business in Asheville 25 years ago. The shop is at 33 Carolina Lane and the telephone is 133. VETERAN EMPLOYE TO END 30 YEARS IN CITY SERVICE E. M. Israel, veteran municipal employe who went to work for the City of Asheville' in 1900 when W.

A. Blair was mayor, will complete thirty years of service December 15. Mr. Israel, present city plumber, was at first also plumbInspector. Later he was di vested of his Inspector Job, This being necessary AS more homes so office buildings were erected city thereby increasing his duties.

From the point of service one of the city's. oldest employes. LABORING MEN FARE BETTER Lamont Says Workers Condition Better Than During 1921 CHICAGO, Dec. 6. -Labor fared much better during the present depression than In past times in the opinion of Secretary Lamont.

Speaking here tonight, under the auspices The Washington Star ing, over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the commerce secretary used the 1921 depression for comparison purposes and found comfort for the working man, He said in the earlier depression that "wage reductions were the order of the day," adding that laat September only 118 of nearly 14,000 industrial plants reporting had cut wages. and that other months of 1930 were as favorable. He said unskilled and unorganized labor had fared as well and that in some cases the day laborer was getting more per hour than in 1929. "In the present emergency the employers of the nation, with few exceptions," he sald, "have held to the agreement of last winter in wisely avoiding the 'penny- wise, poundfoolish' policy of slashing wages and thereby reducing purchasing a a a power." Strikes and lookouts, Secretary Lamont said, have been so few during the past few months 88 "to be almost insignificant." He said only 48 strikes, involving less than 15,000 workers, were reported in September. "During the first six months of 1921," he said, "over 1,600 or more than five times AR many disputes were recorded, many of the individual strikes involving thousands and in some cases tens of thousands of workers.

GOVERNOR OF S. C. HONORS REQUEST TO RETURN LOFTON HIGHWAY BIDS TO BE RECEIVED W. N. C.

Projects Among Those Scheduled By Commission RALEIGH, Dec. 6. (P) bids on 21 highway projects, entailing 8 cost approximately $1,300,000 In 18 counties, will be received by the North Carolina Commission Tuesday, December 9. The schedule is the largest in number of projects since 1928. The contracts call for hard surfacing, widening present roads, gravel construction, reconstructing existing pavement and bridge work.

These will be the final lettings for the 1930 calendar year, bringing the amount of expenditures for road construction in the State this year to 36,500.000. List of Projects list projects upon which bids will received Tuesday calls pot for work in the following counties: Martin: 5.59 miles on route No. 125 from Williamston to Howard. Tyrrell: 13.64 miles on route No. 94 from Columbia to Gum Neck.

Craven: Bridge of Neuse river at Newbern on route No. 30 7.40 miles on route No. 301 from the Pitt County, line Lenoir: to 1.54 Vanceboro. miles on route No. 12 from Kinston toward Trenton.

Sampson: Work on route 23 from Clinton to Newton Grove. Bladen: 7.42 miles on route No. 211 from Clarkton to Columbus County line. Columbus: 11.75 miles on route 23 from Whiteville to the Bladen County line. New Hanover: 9.88 miles on route No.

40, widening, from intersection of Route No. 60 to Wilmington. Lee: 1.19 mile son route No. 50. widening from intersection of route No.

75 toward Chatham county line. Wake: 4.59 miles on Route No. 10, widening from Raleigh to Garner. Hoke: 3.49 miles on Route No. 241, from Scotland County line to Moore county line.

Moore: 3.95 miles on Route No. 241 from Aberdeen to Hoke county line. Gaston: 1.41 miles relocation of Route No. 16 South of Gastonia. Rowan: 8.79 miles on Route No.

105 from the Iredell county line toward Salisbury. Watauga Project Watauga: 4.89 miles on Route No. 60 from Boone toward Deep Gap. Henderson: 0.45 miles on Route No. 28 Bride over French Broad near Horse Shoe.

McDowell: 2.77 miles on Route No. 10 from Old Fort to MIll Creek: 4.10 miles on Route No. 10 from Marion to Junction with Route No. 104. Buncombe: 0.97 miles on Route No.

10 from Black Mountain toward Asheville. DIRECTORS CLOSE TWO BANKS IN SIOUX CITY, IA. COLUMBIA, 8. Dec. 6.

SIOUX CITY, Dec. 6. (A)- Governor Richards today honored requisition papers, issued by the Governor of North Carolina, for Tafton Lotton, wanted in New Hanover county on a larceny charge. Lotton 1s in Jail here. The Governor refused to honor requisition papers on Roosevelt Brown, who is under indictment here for assault and battery with intent to kill.

He also was wanted in New Hanover county. Notices were pasted on the doors of the Sioux National Bank and the First National Bank, the oldest financial Institutions here, that they had been closed by unanimous vote of the directors late today, The notices were posted about two hours after the banks closed for the day. Large crowds collected Around both institutions, which were not affiliated. Western Carolina's Most Popular Homefurnishers ME 15 Susquehanna Now in Progress Our 14th Annual Store-Wide Christmas Sale EVERYTHING REDUCED to SUSQUEHANNA FURNITURE CO Unless you are satisfied we are not. 15 Broadway Old Enough To Be Reliable Young Enough To Be Progressive Homecoming Queen Spurs Bears November numbers among its Homecoming Queens, Miss Martha Cone, of the Arkansas Teachers college, at Conway, She was elected to sponsor the Bears in their annual game with Hendrix- Henderson.

COURT PONDERS PLOTTERS' FATE Sentence To Be Passed Today On Russian Engineers MOSCOW, Dec. 6. (UP) -The brief pleas of eight counter 1sts for merger after their lengthy confessions weighed tonight oy three judges with view to pronouncing sentence tomorrow eve ning. The anti- climax of the trial onme this morning when the last of the defendants--Xenophon Sitnin, former member of the textile syndicate, and Sergel Kuprianov, once head of the textile division of the supreme economic council -asked for mercy at the hands of Judge Vishinsky and his two associate Judges, Ivanov and Lvov, both factory workers. Ask Lentency Following the precedent set by the six other defendants, Sitnin and Kuprianov stepped before the microphone which carried their voices to all parts of the nation and reiterated their admissions of guilt.

They asked, however, that the court view their offenses with leniency and grant them An opportunity to devote the rest of their lives to the interests of the Soviet Union. When they had ended their pleas the court adjourned and the Judges retired. The verdict--which is generally expected to be death' for all except one or two -will be pronounced at 6 p. m. tomorrow.

The state's prosecutor, Nicholas Krilenko, has charged the eight men with being leaders in plot for internal sabotage in Russia in preparation for war of intervention which he alleged, had been promised them by the representatives of foreign powers, especially France. The testimony emphasized the charge that France, and especially Raymond Poincere, And Aristide Briand, held the leading role in the plot. The state demanded the death pennity by shooting for all of the defendants. The other six defendants Are Leonid Ramzin, charged with being the leader, Victor Larichev. Ivan Kalinokov, Nikolai Charnovaki, ander Fedotov and Vladimir Ochkin.

Only Sitnin and Kuprianov had counsel for the defense. The trial centered attention in Moscow on foreign reports of pean alliances and on the immedi. ate condition of industry in the Soviet Union. The official mouthpiece, Izvestia, today ridiculed reports of A GermanItalian -Soviet agreement Prance, which was accused of having the leading role the so-called "Interventionist wAr" plot against Russia. WINTER OILS FOR CAR GREAT POINT Bertram Advises Change Through Union Oil Investigations Motor oils for winter 18 A question demanding extreme care and thought on the part of the motor owner.

it WAS pointed out by Mr. Bertram, head of the Union Oil company of Asheville. Stiff motor olla in cold weather offset the advantage of quick ing gasoline and excellent batteries, It wAs pointed out, and, therefore, the correct lighter weight Tiolene 100 per cent super -Pennsylvania Motor oil has been provided here in special line of anti-freeze lubricants for the transmission and differential of A11 CATE. are hundreds of thowsanda of motorista," according to Mr. tram, "in other sections of the United States where Pure Oil producta Are sold who find that proper winter lubrication the best Insurance they can provide for their cars and have already had their cars made winter weather proof." Randall Child Will Be Buried This Afternoon Funeral service for Everett dall, 15-months-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Randall, who died nt his home on the County Home Road yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, will be held at 3 e'clock this afternoon at the Bell Methodist Church. Leicester, with interment in the church tery.

The deceased in survived by his parents: one slater. Lucille; and two brothers, Frank and his twin brother, Edward. PLAN TO RELIEVE OUSTED STRIKERS Union Will Provide For Evicted Families At Danville DANVILLE, Dec. 6. (P)- -Providing shelter for strikers' familles ordered to vacate mill-owned homes was discussed tonight at A meeting of the local union of the United Textile Workers of America.

Union officials said details of the plans would not be announced until later, but it was probable that some building would be rented to house part of the homeless strikers while still others would be placed in other homes. Strike leaders have about two weeks in which to make arrangementa care for the 200 persons estimated to be affected since the notices of evtetion issued yesterday by the mill management give 15 days formal notice. The serving of 47 notices of eviction yesterday has brought about the first problem for the strikers of providing shelter for members of the union. Francis J. Gorman.

vice-president of the United Textile Workers of America, spoke at the meeting tonight. He said evictions have made the strikers more determined and that they ATe to meet the situation. During the 10 weeks, he said, 105 of the 4,000 striking workers of the Jan River and Riverside mills have gone back to work. 'The situation in general will be discussed at a meeting tomorrow afternoon of the executive board of the Virginia Federation of Labor. It was ounced today that strike leaders will attend this meeting and submit Information pertaining to the strike.

Norman J. Thomas, Socialist leader And chairman of the emergency rellet committee for southern strikers, paid A short visit to Danville this afternoon. While here he inspected two strikers' commisery Atta picket lines. William Murdoch. Communist, WAR still held in the Danville city jail today, although 30-day sentence imposed upon him upon conviction of inciting to riot had been completed.

His 6100 Ane had not been paid, however, Murdoch identified himself general secretary of the National Textile Workers' Union, A Communist orranization. the icy waters by firemen commoned by Clo Edington, 16, who escaped from the ice. To their (Majesties. LANGLEY SAVES PASSENGERS ON WRECKED YACHT SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6.

(AP) Rescue of passengers on yacht, wrecked on Guadalupe Island, 200 miles south of here, on November 3, was reported In terse radiogram received today from the airplane carrier Langley, The Langley, with scores of navy planes and destroyers, WAS seeking trace of the missing fishing boat Fidelity, JONATHAN JENKINS DIES AT HOME OF SON IN GOLDSBORO GOLDSBORO, Dee, 6. JonaJenkins, 00-year-old Confederate veteran, died here today at the home of son. H. H. Jenkins.

Mr. Jenkins been ill since suffering A stroke of paralysis several weeks AgO. Two other sons, J. J. Jenkins and N.

S. Jenkins of Greenville and three daughters, Mra. W. T. Powell, Mrs.

G. E. Powell, Wilson, and Mrs. Emily Pickard, of Durham, survive, Funeral services will be held' GIRL SOUGHT IN HOTEL SLAYING Blonde Connected With Death Of Aged Man In Utah City SALT LAKE CITY. Dec.

6. (AP)Police tonight sought Jean Doyle, 29-year-old blonde, for questioning In connection with the slaying and robbery In hotel here early this morning of Sam Frank, 65, Jewelry auctioneer of Memphis, Tenn Jewels and money approximating $5,000 in value are missing. Frank's nude body, with mouth gagged and hands tied, was found in his hotel room this morning by chambermaid. A broken liquor bottle with which his skull had been fractured, a partly filled liquor glass, an empty drug vial and a woman's ty compact Indicated to police that drinking party preceded the alaying. Numerous cigaret, butts, stained with lipstick, found.

afternoon at the Wilson Methodist Church, THREE YOUTHS DIE ON SKATING PARTY AS ICE BREAKS FINDLAY. Ohio, Dec. 6. (UP)Three youths who sought thrills by frolicking on the ice covered waters of the old city reservoir in Riverside Park here were drowned tonight. The ice, which they evidently thought whs of sufficient thickness to bear their weight, crumbled and they were hurled into the water.

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