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WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight with occasional rain tonight and Wednesday. GOOD AFTERNOON German leaders propose to shorten each shirt-tail two inches. A Nazi will be happy if he has somewhere to tuck it, the govern ment presumes. V Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population VAI cc It! . or*o HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1937 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS w Vlrf. \/V—MU. A.VU DOOMLO BATTALLION HOLDS POOTUNG # * * • ♦ ♦ ♦♦ * * » ' - - - - - - - - - Big Cotton Acreage Reduction Favored OTHER ACTION ENVISIONED TO BOOST COTTON White House Economic Conferences Point to Gen eral Change in Plan WILL ENABLE F.D.R. TO GIVE VIEW OF NEEDS WASHINGTON. Nov. it. (LP) Farm administration officials to day planned sharp reductions in the iy3S cotton acreage to pre vent a repetition of a record crop. Thw alone will not solve the i problem as the AAA soil conser vation resulted in a greater yield , per acre. Officials expect tho crop to con tinue hiph because the best lan<l is planted in cotton and farmers are seeking a bic yield because of acreage restriction. Reduction bv at least ten mil lion acres will be necessary to achieve the desired control. DOUGHTON IN ON TODAY'S CONFERENCE WASHINGTON. Nov. ». (UP) President Roosevelt called Secre tary of the Treasury Henry Mor genthau, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, chairman of the House Ways and Means Com m'ttee Robert Doughton, and Fred Vinson, chairman of the ways and means sub-committee studying t;»x revision into conference today on the general business situation and agriculture, as affected by yester day's prediction of a record cot ton crop and the possible revision of tax laws. Possible reshuffling of the ad ministration's relief, budgetaiy and other economic policies arose here as President Roosevelt began a series of conferences to obtain first hand information on the scope of the current business decline. Spending one of his busiest days in months, the president yester day obtained a wide picture of re lief. unemployment, budgetary and business conditions from his advis ors. both official ami private. He conferred more than four hours with Works Progress Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins. Leon Henderson, chief WPA economist, Isador Lubin, head of the bureau of labor statistics, and Lauchlin Currie. federal reserve economist. Observers believed that Presi dent Roosevelt wasi seeking the *'last word" on whether his poli cies will have to be shifted or al tered in time to convey the infor mation. if necessary, to congress I when it convenes Monday in spe cial session. The relief and unemployment I conference followed a series of important developments including: 1. An appeal to Mr. Roosevelt by J. Davis Stern, Philadelphia and New York publisher, not t<» applv the "monetary brakes" so rapidly and to ease credit restric tions. _ J. VVIUCICillv.') u) .m. nuus? velt on the budgetary situation with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau Jr., and Acting Bud get Director Bell. Indications are that estimates, including many sharp cuts in federal departments, will be before Mr. Roosevelt by Dec. 1. 3. A statement by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, after talking with Mr. Roosevelt, that "the tenor of my report on busi ness conditions related to the coming session of congress, legis lation, long-term economic plan ning which all together looks hope ful to me." 4. Submission to a house ways and means subcommittee revamp ing tax structure, of data by Un dersecretary of Treasury Roswell Magill tending to show the capi- { (Continued on page four) Rebels Will Mine Valencia Coast SALAMANCA. Spain, Nov. 9. — (UP)—Generalissimo Francisco ; Franco's headquarters here warn-, ed all shipping last night that, ef fective Wednesday, 165 miles of the Loyalist Mediterranean coast around Valencia will be mined for his Nationalist blockade. The mined section, which Fran co said was "imposed by the ne-1 ceswities of war." extends from Cape Tortosa. 110 miles north of Valencia, to Cape De La Nao, 55 miles south. The mintes. it was explained, will be confined to Spanish terri torial waters. JUSTICE DEPT. TO STUDY NEW BLACK ATTACK Fourth Attempt to Unseat Associate Supreme Jurist Begun COURT ACCEPTS ONE APPEAL FROM NLRB WASHINGTON. Nov. 9. (IT) ! A fourth attempt to unseat Asso ciate Justice Hugo L. Black was begun by two individuals yester-1 :lay less than 30 minutes after the supreme court had rejected a challenge by a irro-ip of Florida brokers to the former Alabama senator's fitness ami eligibility. The latest challenge came from ' Elizabeth S. Seymour, of Sala manca. N. Y.. and Uobert Gray Taylor, of Media, Pa., who iden tified himself as chairman «• f the "Philadelphia court plan commit tee." Their petition sought per mission to file a brief "containing certain allegations affecting the lecalitv of the oath" taken by Black. ' riainuiis an* nui nirmuro *>i th«* bar and seek a solution satis factory to the court and to the American people as well in the Ii*rht of the deepest spiritual and judicial convictions of the court," the petition said. Simultaneously, Jesse C. Duke, Virginia attorney, filed a new pe titon with the court challenge the right fo Chief Justice Charles h'vans Hutrhes. and Justicts Jamos C. McRevnolds and Owen I). Rob erts to participate in hi.«- appeal from a lower court decision dis barring him. Duke would bar Hughes on technical grounds; he would bar McReynolds on the ground that he is a "close personal and political friend" of District of Columbia Court of Appeals Jus tice Charles H. Kobb who presid ed at the disbarment proceedings and he objected to Roberts be cause of his reputed friendship with Leo A. Rover, former di^tri<t attorney for the District of Co lumbia and complaining witness against Duke. .Meantime, the White House said that a letter from Albert Levitt, former special assistant attorney general, asked Presidnet Roosevelt to instruct Attorney General Ho mer s. Cumin tags to proceed at once with quo warnnto proceed ings to remove Black from the bench, had been sent to the jus tice department for study. Levitt accused Mr. Roosevelt of being directly responsible for Rlack's •'illeiral" seating. The court split G to 3 on a de cision which held that income do rived from tax exempt bonds of a state or political subdivision is taxable in the hands of a recipi ent. The court upheld the Iowa supreme court's ruling invalidat ing a tax assessment of S 1,381 which was levied against $3<I.81»3 income derived by Henry O. Hale and his wife, Elizabeth, from in terest on tax exempt bonds in 1H35. f!«mrivr» Sutherland read a dissenting opinion in which Jus tices McReynolds and Pierce Hut ler concurred. Other court decisions yesterday included: Validation of the Washington state law subjecting motor tug boats operating chiefly within the state's harbor and waterways, to state inspection service if they are not already under federal super vision. Refusal to review the constitu tionality of milk marketing agree ments under the Agricultural Ad justment Act. Hinted that the court may not pass on the legality of anti-trust injunctions against sit down strik ers as challenged by the hosiery workers union in the strike at the Apex Hosiery Co., Philadelphia. Acceptance of one case involv ing the National Labor Relations Act and denial of another one. The court agreed to consider the labor board's request that it re view a Third Circuit Court of Ap peals decision which refused to order enforcement of the board's order that the Greyhound Lines, Inc., withdraw recognition from an alleged company union. The tribunal rejected an appeal from another decision of the same court upholding a contract by the Dela ware-New Jersey Ferry Co.. which the board contended was entered into with a company union. WILL STUDY LAW MOSCOW, Nov. 9.—(UP) — Miss Emlen Knight Da vies, 21 year-old debutante daughter of United States Ambassador Jo seph K. Davies, will begin study ing law today at the Juridical In stitute of Moscow university. CITY TO OBSERVE COMPLETE ! HOLIDAY ON ARMISTICE DAY WITH PARADE AND SERVICE j Would Divorce Tlaygiif Wife | C. B. Clayton, above, 02. of Long 1 Beach, Calif., wants :x divorce and alimony from his 77-year-old wife i beta use she wants 'to play around* against his will. Mrs. Clayton, he 1 says, has s*>0,000 and an income 1 of $250 a month while he lias but $10 a month income. The couple, have been estranged since 11)35. i BISHOP HUISE HEARD BY ST. JAMES GROUPS Bishop of Cuba Describes Economics From Which People Suffer Bishop Hulse of Cuba last night addressed a joint meeting: of the Men's elub of St. James Episco pal church and the Young Wo man's auxiliary in a session of which Mr. an»l Mrs. William P. Freeze acted as host and hostess to the two groups at their home on Washington nt Third avenue. A group of about thirty people heard the Episcopal prelate, who has been bishop of Cuba since 1915, discuss world conditions and the efforts of missionaries and their aims. Bishop Hulse discussed briefly, the work and needs among the | Chinese and then lurned to his own jurisdiction of Cuba after outlining the viewpoint that led hini into the missionary field. He explained that as a young man ho had sought some course which would help to relieve the suffer ing in the world, and saw in all the agencies of reform and gov ernment with which he could unite only temporal results could be ex pected. Christianity, the saving of souls and the extension of the Christian religion as influencing personal life seemed to be the on ly promise of permanent results and it was because of this that he entered the missionary field. His description of social and ec onomic conditions and the suffer ing brought on by these, together with the Cuban revolution, which has soujrht to offset these condi tions, was presented in a compre hensive manner. Then the speaker pointed to the symbol of the Russian revolution, and the Swastika, emblem of the German people, as representative 1 of the two opposing trends in political organization of the day. Between these two, he declared, stands the banner of Christianity, symbolic of sacrificial love, and he challenged his hearers to ac (Continued on page three.) Dowager Queen s Illness Serious BUCHAREST, Roumania, Nov. 9.— (UP)—The condition of Dowager Queen Marie, 62, moth er of King Carol, was reported today as serious. She vomited blood during the night but seven attending physicians said she was not in immediate danger. Carol visited his mother at dawn. She is suffering from in fluenza and a recurrent liver ail ment. At best, she must remain in bed for an indefinite period, > physicians said. 0. B. Crowell Will Deliver Address; Football and Dance Arranged Flic complete program for the' observance of Armistice Day, the D>th anniversary of the end of the World war, was announced today by officers of tlie Hubert M. Smith post of the American Legion. Hendersonville will observe the day as a complete holiday. Citv and county offices, the Statu Trust Co., library, and most of tin- city stores and business places will be closed all day. The post office will not observe i the day as a holiday and the usual I service will be given. City schools will have a half-1 holiday, beginning immediately af-j ter the service which will be held in the high school auditorium at 11 o'clock. A parade at 10:.'I0 o'clock on Thursday morning will open the celebration under the auspices of the Legion. The parade will as semble at the county court house at 10 o'clock and move off at 10 :."{<) o'clock. The line of march of the parade will be north on Main street from the court house to Kij^hth avenue, and then west on Eighth avenue to the high school auditorium. The parade will be led by Chief <•1 I olice Otis Powers as grand marshal. In the line of march will be the Gold Star mothers, Confed erate veterans, the high school band, the color guard, members of the American Legion and ex service men. Sons of the Ameri can Legion, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Junior Legion Aux iliary, Hoy Scouts, Girl Scouts. Spanish-American war veterans, United Daughters of the Confed eracy, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Red Cross lloat. The patriotic service will follow at 11 o clock at the high school auditorium. The service will open with the Advance of the Colors, and the singing of "America" by the audience. 1'he invocation will be by the Rev. R. K. Wall, chap lain of the Hubert M. Smith post. A one-minute period of silence will be observed in honor of the World war dead, followed by the playing of "taps." The Legionnaires will recite the i preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion, and greet ings from the Legion will be brought by Commander Marion L Walker. Three selections will be given by the high school glee club, as follows: "Over There," "My Rud dy," and "Just a Raby's Prayer at 1 wilight." The address on the occasion will be delivered by 0. R. Crowell, Hendersonville attorney. In the afternoon the Hender sonville Bearcats will meet the Canton Rlack Rears in an Armis tice Day football game at 2:30. A dance will be given in the evening at 9 o'clock at the Ameri can Legion home when round and square dancing will be the order of the occasion. Windsors' Tour Is Rearranged PARIS, Nov. 9.—(UP)—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will tour America right after Christmas, English friends said. They will make no attempt to I study housing during their sev eral weeks' visit and will go to Honolulu when they leave. All thought of their proposed indus trial survey was dropped because of the furore it has created, and the unfavorable weather that will prevail when they do come. COUNTY NURSE ONE OBJECTIVE OF RED CROSS Complete Organization for Annual Drive Announced by J. C. Coston DEFINITE ADVANCE IN LOCAL WORK SOUGHT lendersonville and Henderson county's annual lied Cross roll call campaign will get underway on next Monday, November 15, when J. C. Coston, county chair man, and a large staff of workers will take the field in an effort to set a local record for member ships and money raised. This year the lied Cross work ers have their goal set at an aver age one membership in each home in the county, and a correspond ing increase in money raised that will enable the Red Cross to really mean something in Henderson county. 51 r. Coston is hoping that suf ficient money will be raised to employ a county nurse, conduct courses in home hygiene and first aid, and render other services to the people of this county. The campaign this year will be carried to every section of the county and all citizens will be giv en an opportunity to make con tributions. Another feature of the campaign this year will be the juiror memberships for school children. Regular memberships are one dollar each and junior membei ships are .">0 cents. Campaign headquarters for the Red Cross drive will be opened next Monday morning in the lob by of the State Trust company. Mrs. E. (i. Crews has offered her services and will be in charge ot this office. Mr. Coston today asked that workers report to Mrs. Crews at headquarters rather than at his office. A large number of workers are ready for the drive. Mr. Coston is county chairman, and also plans to do some field work. Mrs. 0. B. Crowell is roll call chairman foi the city, and Mrs. Robert S. Gibbs is chairman of the junioi membership campaign. Rev. A. \V. Lippard is county secretary, and Mayor A. V. Edwards is secre tary. Mrs. Louis Sherman is in charge of advertising for the campaign, and plans to have a Red Cross float in the Armistice day parade on Thursday. A list of workers in the drive was announced today by Mr. Cos ton and is as follows: Mrs. L. A. Blair, Mrs. Albert Durham, Mrs. Emil IvJitt, Mrs. A. V. Edwards, Mrs. Fred Justus, Mrs. R. C. Sam ple, Miss Ruth Hosmer, Mrs. R. R. Arledge, Mrs. (J. C. Richard son, Mrs. Frank Yarborough, Mrs. J. Steve Porter, Mrs. Lula Bay no Hayes, Mrs. H. E. Buchanan, W. (Continued on page four) Civic Choral Club Rehearsal Called Group Is Planning Early Public Appearance Attention was called today to tho regular rehearsal of the Civic Choral club, to be held Wednes day night at 8:30 o'clock at the Presbyterian church houses. Sponsors and loaders of this group ask a full attendance of those who have been participat ing in the rehearsals in view of the fact that the club is to ^ive a public performance in the near future. DOMINICAN-HAITIAN BORDER STRIFE TAKES 1000 LIVES, SAID WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (UP) Haiti's foreign minister, Georges Legcr, today arrived here, saying he has irrefutable evidence that one thousand Haitians have been slain on the Dominican Republic side of the border since early Oc tober. He blamed the Dominican sol diery and denied the Dominican statement saying that farmers did it because Haitians wore squat ting on land. The minister says the farmers are not armed. He will confer with President Roose velt and Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state. Dominican Minister Andres Pastoriza declared last night that tension between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, resulting from slaying of Haitian nationals on the Dominican side of the border, had been grossly overdrawn. Pastoriza, in a statement to the press, said interest shown by the United States in this "small in cident" revealed that the United States "is animated by the spirit of solidarity and justice which in spires many of the conventions signed in the peace conference at Buenos Aires." The Dominican people "confi dently trust that the same interest (Continued on page four) Faces Jail for Cutting Prices insisting mat no nas a n^rru iu m-u m.> kuuu? til nubCTvi |m iv.v: iiv } wishes, (Jeorjte T. Hihlen, above, faces a fi^rht in Minnesota courts ' under the state "fair practice" act. Hildvn is proprietor of a cut i rate druj{stoie in Rochester, Minn., near the famous Mayo clinic. ftwsons,. » Customers serve themselves in the Pfty Less Drugstore of Rochester, Minn., above, now the storm center of u suit testing the state "fair practice" Jaw which requires a 10 per cent "mark-up," and makes a misdemeanor of Helling for a smaller profit, DE FONTANGES NOT TO LAND Duce's Ex-Mistress Barred From U. S. on "Moral Turpitude" Grounds NEW YORK, Nov. 9. (UP) — Maga do Fontanges, handsome Frenchwoman and professed one time mistress of Premier Musso lini, was excluded from this coun try today on the grounds of "mor al turpitude." The finding was hi;sod not on her alleged relationship with II Duce but on the fact that she shot Count Charles de Chambrun, for mer French ambassador to Italy, last March. She claimed that she wounded the Count because he broke up her affair with 11 Duce. She arrived aboard the Nonnan die yesterday and was detained aboard overnight. A board of inquiry at Ellis Island announced her exclusion today. Madame Fontages, who had come here to take a $50-a-week job in a New York night club, saw the bright lights of Broadway last night from the porthole of her tiny cabin aboard the luxury liner where she is held prisoner. Thanksgiving Is i Proclaimed With Nation At Peace WASHINGTON, Nov. 0. (UP) —President Roosevelt today de clared, "We have no selfish de signs against other nations," in his annual formal statement des ienating Thanksgiving a national holiday. | "The period, unhappily marked in other parts of the world by strife and threats of war, finds our people enjoying the blessings i of peace," he said. HALO-SOVIET I BREAK LOOMS Anti - Communist Treaty Must Be Satisfactorily Explained by Duce ROME. Nov. 9. (UP)— Strain ed relations between Russia and Italy neared a diplomatic break today after the Soviet ambassador to Rome had warned yesterday that Italy's adherence to the Ger man-Japanese pact against com munism was "contrary to the friendship accord*of 1933." An official communique reveal-1 cd that the warning was delivered when the Russian ambassador Bo-j ris K. Stein visited Count Galeaz 7.0 Ciano, Italian foreign minister,, during the day. Stein told Ciano that the tri power pact constituted "an un friendly gesture otward the Soviet government on the part of Italy," in view of the existing Russian Italian friendship treaty. The critical state of Italo-Rus sian relations broupht Premier Benito Mussolini back to Rome by airplane from Forli, cutting short a holiday, after an urgent tele-' phone call from Ciano, his son-in-! law. The communique issued by the Italian foreign office at 8 o'clock last night said: "Count Ciano received Ambas sador Stein who communicated that the Moscow government con- • sidered conclusion of the tri-par-1 tite pact as being contrary to the accord of 1933 and also consid ered the Italian gesture as being unfriendly toward the Soviets. Count Ciano took note of this communication.'' The communique ppoke only of the formal Russian statement and made no mention of what tran spired in the conversation between Stein and Ciano. It was generally believed that if Italy fails to give "satisfactory assurances" to Russia regarding the anti-communist accord signed in Rome Saturday a severance of' diplomatic relations will follow. Suspicion persisted, despite de-1 (Continued on page three) CHINESE QUIT SHANGHAI IN VIRTUAL ROUT Native City, Jap Establish ments Left to Invad ers in Flames FALL BACKlo MILES TO NEW POSITIONS (Copyright, 1937, United Pre*») SHANGHAI, Nov. 0 (UP) — Chinese today were believed to be withdrawing rapidly from their last stronghold on the southside of the city, and when all are gone Japanese will be in possession. The Chinese cracked after as tonishing resistance and are re treating fast on the west si<l<- as Japanese ferried tanks across Soochow creek to barricade that region. Chinese had hoped to form new lines at Sunkiang, 17 miles south of Shanghai, but Japanese took that city first. Now experts believe Chinese will take up a position 10 miles west of the city. Japanese are making a "clean up" of the Shanghai conquest, trying to isolate the city from all Chinese and were dropping bombs on retreating Chinese. While the main Chinese col umns fled westward at a pace that was almost a rout, a handful of comrades grimly stood their ground in Pootung area, appar ently constituting another "doom ed battalion." Chinese troops abandonment of the Soochow creek area directly west of the International settle ment, virtually ends the second "Shanghai war" as far as the pop ulous foreign residential sectors are concerned. The Chinese forces, attacked from the north and south, were said to have begun a general withdrawal at 2 a. m. southward in the direction of beseiged Sung kiang and westward toward Nan ziang, completing the evacuation l>v ilnwn. A large section of Xantao. Chi nese native city adjacent to the French concession, was in flames. Japanese charged that the Chi nese started the fires before re treating. The important Japanese owned Toyada mills, factories, houses and the rail depot were burning, endangering; the French concession as a brisk north wind sprang up. Japanese troops advancing westward sent their advance guard across the Hungjao road to occupy the Hungjao airdrome, wnuru two Japanese were killed in August, precipitating the present strife. The Chinese were reported yes terday to have withdrawn from Pootung, Chinese industrial area across the Whungpoo river from the settlement. Although thous ands of "dare-to-die" soldiers were left behind, the main body marched southward to meet a Japanese army of some 2.'»,000 men advance northward from Hangchow bay. Thus far the first time since the bloody Shanghai war began in the streets of Chapei on August 13, the fighting was carried beyond the immediate Shanghai area, eliminating the danger to thous ands of foreigners within the city. Foreign military authorities confirmed that Chinese force* had evacuated their positions along the entire western perimeter around Shanghai, including posts on the Shanghai-Hangchow rail way. It appeared that Lieut.-Gen. Iwane Matsui, supreme Japanese commander, had succeeded in carrying out his announced pur pose of driving the Chinese out of the Shanghai area by tonight. The Japanese, determined on complete encirclement of Shang hai, smashed against the walled city of Sungkiang, 17 miles south west of Shanghai, and occupied it. (Continued on page three.) Jig-Saw Puzzle No Game Is Final Ruling In Court WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (UP) Is the jiff-saw puzzle a panic? "Yes," said the government and imposed a 10 per cent tax on the proceeds from the sale of jig-saw puzzles against the Viking Manu facturing Co. "No," protested attorneys from the company. "Yes," decreed a Massachusetts Federal district court. "Absolutely no!" interposed the first circuit court of appeals. After weeks of study and re search. the highest tribunal in the land, the supreme court, had its say. ' It was: "No." 1 _
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