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WEATHER Shower* and warmer tonight; showers and thunder storms Thursday, followed by colder weather. GOOD AFTERNOOH The cheapest>looking thing at n bargain sale is usually a man carrying a stack of bundles for his wife. VOL 52—No. 81 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS AKRON DISASTER PROBE IS CALLED FOR ^ ^ .v, .y, ^ V ¥ Y- !f> Y* Y* Y* ¥ ¥ ¥ Y- Y* Y* ¥ ¥ # # # ¥ British r emier Sails For U. S. Next Week HOPES TO LAY PLAN FOR NEW WORLD PARLEY Roosevelt Optimistic Over Possibilities of Mac Donald's Visit FRANCE MAY ASK NEW DEBT POSTPONEMENT LONDON*. April 5.—(L"I*>.—, Premier Ramsay MacDonald will sail for the United States next week to discuss war debts and j armament, it was learned here j today on most reliable author ity. The premier will spend a few days in Washington where he visited President Hoover during' the last administration. He will I discuss current problems with President Roosevelt and lay the ground work for the coming: world economic conference, it is understood. WASHINGTON. April 5. (UP). President Roosevelt said today he felt the visit from Prime I Minister Ramsay MacDonald of1 England, will help greatly in! solving the economic and dis-j armament problems of the world. By WALLACE CARROLL Unitfd Presj Staff Correspondent PARIS, April 5. (UP).—A pre liminary economic conference in Washington to prepare for tho world conference which is to b'» I held in London appeared today as > a probable result of conversations/ Wing held in European capitals I bv Norman H. Davis, President Roosevelt's 'ambassador-at-Iarge.' i Following: j». conference yester- ; dav with Joseph Paul-Boncour,» French foreign minister, it was j indicated that France favors the; idea of a Washington conference j since it migh' serve as a snv>k? screen for debt discussions with: the Roosevelt government. A meeting in Washington, ic 1 was «aid. might enable the French ( government indirectly to ask con-! gre^s to postpone debt payments! due in June. It was further indi-l cated that if the Washington con ference is called it will be infor-' nial and will embrace only the | principal Kuropean powers, whose ■ ambassadors in Washington will1 conduct the negotiations. ! Paul-Boncour told Davis that J his government has no objection | to a Washington meeting if Prc:u-j dent Roosevelt desires it. The French foreign minister suggest ed that Davis arrange the detail wi'h Great Britain, who still wants to hold the preliminary as well as the main conference in i Li.<don. The American delegate inform ed Paul-Boncour that President Roosevelt hopes the preliminary meeting will be held as quickly as possible. Davis will confer with Premier Edouard Daladier today while awaiting a conference here wif n ' Hugh Wilson and Hugh Gibson, who are coming from Geneva to acquaint him with disarmament developments. The American "ambassador-at Jargc" then will return to London for a meeting with Prime Minis-1 ter Ramsay MacDonald on dis armament questions. Even later Davis plans to come back to Paris for further talks with French gov ernment leaders. He may possibly go to Berlin for a conference with Chancellor Adolf Hitler, it was in dicated yesterday. Gov. Blackwood In Urgent Move j For a Sales Tax Gives Solons Option of Passage or Closing Schools COLUMBIA. Aoril 3.— (UP). Governor Ibra C. Blackwood yes terday crave the South Carolina house of representatives choice of enacting a sales tax or closing all schools and colleges from May l, 1933. to January 1, 1934. The finance committee made a favorable report on the bill last night. The chief executive declared that there would not be suffi cient money in the treasury to operate the schools next fall without a sales tax. He also sub mitted a number of recommenda tions for consolidations of de partments and urged merger of all state colleges into a greater university. J New Dry ('hid Legalization of .'i.2 beer and wine will simplify liquor law enforc inent, said Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, 1 new fedora! prohibition adminis trator, shown here a.- he relieved Col. Amos W. VV. Woodcock. 20 CHURCHES! TO JOIN RALLY Big Prohibition Meeting Will Be Held at Fletch-" er Sunday A large number of people are expected to attend a Sunday school rallj at the Fletcher Bap tist church on Sunday afternoon at 2:'!0 o'clock. The nicotine: is I to lie hold by the Carolina Baptist j association. The Rev. X. B. Phillips, of East | Flat Rock and Refuge, will de liver a special sermon on prohibi- | tion. Rev. Phillips was selected | for this sermon by the Ministers Association. Already 20 churches have sig nified their intention of being rep- J resented and the Fletcher Meth- f odist church members will be spc- j cial guests for the sermon. The program will be as follows:! 2:-'50 o. m.—Song (selected) — Led by I)onno Wilkie. chorister. 2:*>5 p. m.—Quartet—The Nan. { nev Male quartet. 2:40 p. m.—Scripture and prayer. (Continued on page three) GREEN WARNS, OF DEFLATION. Wil! Destroy Civilization if Carried to Limit, He Declares WASHINGTON. April 5. (UP) President William Green of Un American Federation of Labor last nijrht warned that if deflation is carried to its limit "our present civilization will be destroyed." Unemployment, he declared, in-' creased in March and wage reduc tions are continuing "The government salary cut al ready has started wage and salary reductions in industry—United States Steel immediately an nounced another salary cut; Pub lic Service Corporation of New Jersey cut wages and salaries 10 pe»* cent," Green said in a state ment. The labor leader urged the gov ernment to aMopt a vigorous pro gram to put industry to work and men back on normal johs, produc ing and distributing goods. Commenting on the increase of unemployment in March, Green said: "This increase is particularly serious since it shows a new rising trend in unemployment. Last fall this rising trend had been checked and the increase was less than seasonal. "As long as deflation continues we cannot hope to get out of this] depression. Millions are going j back to the primitive life of two ! centuries ago, and as their stand-! ard of living is reduced to starva tion levels, industry cuts its ac tivity and its earning power until it can no longer make payment on debts." If the increase in unemploy ment for the country as a whole was on the same proportions a • in the trade unions. Green said, | the total of jobless in the nation would total more than 13,000,000. BISHOP HORNER PASSES AWAY AT ASHEVILLE Months of lilness End Episcopal Leadership of Many Years FUNERAL NOT YET ARRANGED, TODAY ASHEVILLE, April 5. — The K: srht Rev. .Junius Moore I! o r mr, bishop of the Wostein North Carolina Episcopal diocese, died this morniny; at 10:50 o'clock at his heme on Ravenscroft drive. I He hud heen very ill for the past j five months, and had been in; failing health for several years. | Death was caused by a general breakdown incident to aye, with kidney complications, according to his ohysician, Dr. II. Cocke. Bishop Horner was ?•'$ years old. Surviving are his widow, who' was Miss Eva Ilarker of Au gusta, (ia., two daughters, Mrs.' George forest liutterworth of Locust Valley, X. Y., and Miss Ka'hcrinc Horner of Asheville, and one son, Junius M. Horner, Jr., Asheville attorney. Funeral arrangements had not been made today. .Bishop Horner was the son of •James Hunter Horner and his wife Sophronia Moore Horner. Ho was horn at Oxford, N. C., July 7, 1S50. As a boy he was educated at the Horner school and as a young man he won distinguished honors as a scholar at the Uni versity of Virginia, Graduating there, he took some special work at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, and then entered the General Theological Seminary. | He graduated with conspicuousi honors from General Theological Seminary in 1S00 and that same' year was ordained a deacon on Trinitv Sunday by the lit. Rev. j Theodore B. Lyman. Bishop of' North Carolina, in St. Stephens; church, at Oxford. One year later he was ad vanced to the priesthood by Bishop Lyman in the Holy Inno-i cents church, in Henderson. Shortly afterward came his' marriage to Miss Eva Harker, daughter of Dr. E. W. and Kath- i erint Harker, of Liverpool, on' December M, 1802. He was consecrated Bishop of Asheville on Holy Innocents day in December, 1808, at Trinity church, in Asheville, and shortly| afterward brought his family to j this city and served the Western i North Carolina area as Bishop of | the Missionary district cieated in i 1805. Governor Sholtz Asks Regulation Of Booze Traffic' I His Message to Opening Legislature Favors Beer and Economy TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April! 5. (UP).—Governor Dave Sholtz: of Florida, opened the scs-j sion of the state legislature ycs-i terday with a message appealing, for beer, economy and repeal of the 1 Xth amendment. "I submit this program as aj co-worker, not as a dictator," j the governor said. He prefaced: his set message with an expres sion of Florida's grief over the destruction of the U. S. S. Ak-; ron, navy dirigible, with the in-! dicatcd loss of 7'i lives. "Such legislation," he said of J beer, "is in keeping with 1he: state and national Democratic) platforms." Referring to repeal of the 18th amendment, he ex-1 plained it was "our duty to passj such legislation as is necessary to submit the <|uestion.'' He urged "strict regulation" of; the liquor traffic, so that "the! maximum revenue'' may be de prived, and suggested that such j revenue "could well be used in ■ the purchase of text books in' or school system." Prior to the governor's mes-j sage, which he delivered in per-! son at 2:15 p. m. Roth branches, of the legislature organized, the I senate electing T. G. Futch president and the house Peter Tomasello, Jr., speaker. A dramatic incident occurred as Tomasello delivered his speech of acceptance in the house. He paused, and said he would have, to cut short his remarks because, (Continued on page 3.) ! He'll Prosecute Britons Accused of Soviet Plot Prosecutor of the six British sub-! jects who are to .stand trial -;n I Moscow on espionage charges, is J Andrew A. Yyshinsky (above), who was chief judire during the Soviet's famous sabotage trial in! 1930. SOVIET GRANTS; BRITONS BAIt Communique on Relations Issued as Embargo Biil Is Offered By HERBERT MOORE LOND( N, April f>.— (UP).—! The British government yester day made public a communique revealing details of a heated dip-1 lomatic flash with Soviet Russia over tlie arrest of six British citi zens in connection with an alleged I sabotage plot. I The communique was issued at i the same time an enabling bill was introduced in parliament which would authorize Great Bri tain to prohibit importation of Soviet goods in all categories. Sir Ksmond Ovey, British am bassador to Moscow who was re called recently during the dispute over the arrests, wired Foreign j Secretary Sir John Simon on March 12—the day following the atrests—that "conditions under the present reign of terror in this: country are without parallel/' it i was learned. On March 10, the communique said. Sir Ksmond held a heated conference with Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs. During the conference, it is said, Sir Ksmond informed Lit vinoff that "there appear to be good prospec's of my being not only the ambassador who opened relations with the Soviet govern ment. but the ambassador who closed them." Publication of the communique yesterday indicated that Great Britain is resolutely intend upon putting through the economic war on Russia that has been threaten ing for some weeks. Meanwhile, United Press dis patches from Moscow said that j three of the six arrested were) granted their release on bail yes terday'. They were Wm. H. Thorn (Continued on page three) Michigan Vote Is Heavy for Repeal DETROIT, April 5.—(UP).— On the strength of late tabula tions of the vote in the state Monday it appeared at least HO, of the 100 dclejrat.es to the con stitutional convention in Lansing next Monday will be pledged to lepcal of the 18th amendment. Only 51 is necessary formally to ratify the 21st amendment. The popuiar vote is even more conclusive. Returns from 2754 of the state's 3417 precincts gave; fo rrepeal 723,053; against repeal 214,800. Governor William A. Comstock yesterday sent a 3.2 beer and wine bill to the legislature. The bill provides for the sale of beer in restaurants, hotels, gardens, clubs and dining cars, but nro hibits bars, free lunch and drink ing on highways. He expects its • passage within two weeks. LOWER HOUSE CLOSES DOOR ON ANY AMENDMENT TO THE STATE'S OLD CONSTITUTION FIVE DAY WEEK BILL HELD UP Rainey Will Not Submit it Pending Indication of Roosevelt's Views WASHINGTON, April 5. (UP) I Speaker Uainey said today ho would postpone house considera- ( tion of the five-day week bill un til he received definite indication of President Roosevelt's views of the measure. WASHINGTON. April (UP) Senate passage today of the Black 30-hour week bill was predicted j last night by Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson after a day i of debate during which the meas ure was criticised. Taking notice of the criticism, Robinson prepared an amendment to raise the work limit to U5 hours a week as a means of preventing j wage reductions which it is feared | might follow a sharp limitation on \ the hours of labor. The senate yesterday adopted ! an amendment exempting work- j ers in canneries preserving fruit, sea food, perishable vegetables and fish. Individual expert work ers of all sorts also may be ex empted. under the amendment un der certification by the secretary of labor. • The chief critic of the bill yes terday was Senator David A. Rccd, Repn., Pa., usually regard ed as fbo spokesman of the Mel- J Ion interests who argued that re-1 duction of work hours either would reduce the purchasing pow er of labor or increase the cost of manufacturer goods to the farm er. I The bill's sponsor. Senator Hujro Black, Dem., Ala., retorted that Pennsylvania industries are among the worst offenders against the shorter working day and are using the depression to lengthen the hours of labor. Reed afacked the measure as1 "sentimentalism gone mad," and claimed it would be difficult, to enforce. Black snapped back: "You have never stood outside a cotton mill to see the pallid workers come from their ma chines." The Alabama senator said the measure would not apply to news papers. though it would reach print shops. ORR PROPERTY LOST BY FIRE Yarborough Sf. Home Oc cupied by Geo. Jones Fire this morning about 5 a. in. almost completely destroyed the residence of George Jones, on Yarborouch street. Loss was esti mated at $500 or $600 and there was no insuranco on the house or furnishings. The house was owned by M. N. Orr and was a four-room frame building. Origin of the tire was undeter mined, and Mr. Jones stated that there had been no fire in tho house lately. Both he and Mrs. Jones were at home at the time but escaped uninjured. C. L. Sanders of Toxaway Is Dead BREVARD, April *>.—C. L. Sanders, 54. a native of Transyl vania county and for the past 18 years a prominent merchant of the Toxaway section, died at his home early Tuesday morning. He had been ill for several weeks, when suddenly his condi tion became critical the first part of the week. Mr. Sanders had spent the greater part of his life in his native county where he was widely known and respected. As a member of the Lake Tox away Baptist church, he was ac tive for a lone period of time. Funeral services were being held Wednesday afternoon at the church of which he was a mem ber; the Rev. S. B. McCall, pas tor. in charge of the ceremony. Surviving are the widow ami two daughters. Mrs. Walter Mc- I Kenna and Miss Edith Sander.?, | both of Lake Toxaway. Enabling Act Introduced Wi!! Provide for Spe cial Charter Zones to Issue School Bonds RALEIGH, April 5.—(UP). The Francis beer bill becamo law today upon ratification by both brandies of the legisla ture. Nineteen new bills were in troduced today in the house. Representative Griffin offered :»n act to allow special charter school districts to issue bonds for construction of public school buildings whenever nec essary. The house closed the door to amendment* to the state's old ^institution when it voted down •1 *.» to 41 the bill of Senator Waynick, Guilford, to submit to a vote of the people in 193J a list of changes in the state's basic government. Rotarians Hear Of Conventions At its regular meeting at the Skyland hotel today, the Rotary club hoard a report of the distrct conference, which closed yester day at Charleston, S. C., by J. C. Morrow, Jr., who was a delegato from the local club. Mr. Morrow reported that the conference was successful, that a pplendid an<l inspirational pro gram was carried out, and that ho was most impressed with an ad dress by a Rotarian from Mexico City. A report of a directors' meet ing was made by Yates W. Little, secretary. J. T. Fain, Jr., report ed progress on a project of tho International Service committee, by which Cuban Rotarians have been invited to visit Henderson ville en route to the international convention in Boston in June. MRS. HODGINS WRITES HOME ABOUT 'QUAKE Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Osborne of Mills Kiver, have received h letter from their daughter, Mrs. II. J. Hodgins, whose home is in Sitka. Alaska, hut who had been traveling on the Pacific coast with her husband, in which is given a description of the Cali fornia earthquake. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgins were in Long }>each only a few hours be fore the earthquake, but left there and went to Los Angeles. Mrs. Hodgins was in an apart ment house in Los Angeles when the first heavy shock rocked that city. The 'quake rocked the building like a ship in a storm on the ocean, and the building was damaged to some extent, but no one inside the building was injured. CHARLESTON T(THAVE BEER, SAYS MAYBANK COLUMBIA. S. C., April 5.— (UP).—The City of Charleston is going to have 3.2 per cent beer whether or no, Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charles ton, told a senate finance com mittee yesterday during hearings on a beer bill. He urged passage of the bill, warning that Charleston will per mit sale of beer whether the bill is passed. He said the U. S. goevrnment would not attempt to prevent its sale in Charleston, certainly the city would not, and that the state could not inter fere. Opponents and proponents of the legislation argued for three hours before the committee. W. O. W. MEETING Initiation of members by the local camp of Woodmen of the World lias been scheduled for Thursday night. April 6, at S o'clock. All candidates arc ex pected to report for degree work, and members are expected to be on hand to participate in confer ring the degree. WISCONSIN VOTES WET MILWAUKEE, Wis.. April 5. (UP).—Wisconsin today became the second state to vote over whelmingly for the repeal of the 18fh amendment. With more than half of the precincts counted in the election of delegates for a state convention "wets" held a lead of more than 4 to 1. AKRON'S LOSS IS UNSOLVED AIR MYSTERY i I/ownward Wind Bore Ship With It 'MACON WIUTHAVE TRIAL SPIN MONDAY WASHINGTON, April 5. (UP). { Chairman Vinson of the house naval affairs committee today in augurated a drive for huge naval j building program which he hopes , will placc the United States at full London treaty strength. AKRON, April 5. (UP).—Th/e j U. S. S. Macon practically the »me in all features as was the Akron ncaring completion here ! and is scheduled for a trial flight j next Monday. Opinion Is Great By BOYD LEWIS United Press Stuff Correspondent NKW YORK, April H.— (UP). Wind-swept seas ofT the coast of New Jersey last night held the wrcck of tho dirigible Akron, Greatest of the world's lighter than-air craft, the bodies of 70 of her 70 officers and crew—and perhaps the hopes of those who would have made America a lead er in dirigible transportation. Three men came back alive from the cruise which the majes tic silver-sided airship started from its Lakehurst, N. J., base Monday night in the face of ad vance indications of an electrical storm. One died on a rescue ship and the bodies of two more were taken from the sea near the place where the Akron crashed at 12:JO a. m., Tuesday. Experts said last night that it was the weather that wrecked the five million dollar pride of the navy. And critics of the navy's dirigible policy were quick to say that weather will always be an in surmountable hazard to dirigibles. The man who would have made hot retort to such criticism was silenced. For Rear Admiral Wm. A. Moffett—chief of the navy bu reau of aeronautics, arch-cham pion of dirigibles and who hoped some day to sec the United States taking the lead in establishment of trans-continental and trans oceanic passenger and freight dirigible lines—was dead with the crew of the Akron. Only a hour hour before the huge ship plunged into the ocean 20 miles oft Rarnegat Light, N. J., according to the story of a surviv or. Moffett was chatting with of ficers in the control car and re calling that the terrific electrical (Continued on page three) PROHIBITION TALKS HEARD: Local Speakers Discuss Problem as Landrith Fails to Arrive Dr. Ira J. Landrith, representa tive of Allied Forces, a national temperance organization, failed to keep a speaking- date in Hen dersonville last night, and a largo congregation that had gathered at the Methodist church heard a I number of brief talks by local persons instead. No word was received last night and none had come today to explain Dr. Landrith's failure to appear. He is on a southern tour and has spoken in a number of North Carolina cities in tho last week or two. The Revs. Claude H. Moser, L. T. Wilds and A. W. Lippard took charge of the meeting last night., and after Mr. Lippard had of fered prayer and Mr. Wilds had read the scripture lesson, Mr. Moser spoke of the disappoint ment occasioned by Dr. Landrith's absence. The Rev. Mr. Wilds then opened a discussion of the tem perance problem and in the course of the evening other talks were made by J. T. Fain, the Rev. N. Colin Hughes, Dr. D. B. Martin, .T. S. Sargent and the Rev. D. V. Howell of Fletcher. Prediction was made that the return of beer is merely the fore runner of the return of hard liquors and the saloon, and that the forces of temperance will have to resume a campaign of education which was largely aban doned when national prohibition was adopted and will have to re enter politics to elect dry repre sentatives to legislatures and the' congress. RUMORS AS TO SABOTAGE ARE SET FOR QUIZ Officials Will Throw AI! Energy Behind Com ing Investigation LIGHTER-THAN-AIR POLICY IS AT STAKF. WASHINGTON, April 5. (l i'i. I The house naval affairs commit tee today voted unanimously ff>-' a thorough investigation into the Akron disaster, including the pa l I history of the dirigible and ru i mors of sabotage during her con j struction. By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 5. (UD IA11 the skill of the ablest men in the United States navy will he I flung into the task of tryintr to ! learn why the dirigible Akron [crashed through the darkness into I a storm-troubled sea. I The investigation—demand f«»f I which came yesterday from I the navy and, congress—may shed ! light on the puzzling problem of I whether or not the tragic fate of jso many dirigibles justifies man' [ gallant attempt to conquer the I clouds in lighter-than-air craft. Even while the tragic details ot the disaster still were trickling into the. white, squat building thif< houses the navy department here, | Secretary of the Navy Swan-ion expressed doubt on the value «>f dirigibles. "I have never been as enthusi astic as some people are over air ships," he said. "I think they ait* very vulnerable." President Roosevelt voiced tli•* nation's grief last night., and sa luted those who perished as men "who upheld to the end the line t. traditions of the United Slates navy." Dark rumors of sabotage ami over-loading of the Akron raced from lip to lip until Swanson fell obliged to take official cognizant" of them: "A careful investigation, ' he said, "will later determine all the facts that are available. The Ak ron has operated with notable suc cess for a year and a half and ha* proved her sturdiness even under severe weather conditions. T his service should effectively refute the early allegation that sabotage and excess structural weight had anything to do with this disaster. "It is still too early to venture to outline the department's futuc" policy regarding airships. The a :• problem must still be considered in the experimental stage in many of its aspects. But like many oth. r problems, such as gunnery, whicn have taken their toll of life, the navy has had to undertake and t.> solve this problem if possible. Once more the navy has paid the toll in life and to those who have been left behind to bear the grief, I send my deepest sympathy." He indicated the naval air sta tion at Lakehurst might be closed as a result of the tragedy. Grief lay heavy on the navy de partment today. Not only had the Akron, pride of the skies and th'» largest dirigible ever built plum meted into the ocean, bu* th^ blimp J-3—floating on an errand of mercy in search for survivor —buckled and carried its crew of three to death. The navy mourned one of its most picturesque figures—Ad miral William A. Moffett, chief of the naval bureau of aeronautics, who was a passenger on the Ak ron. For years this square jawed white-haired man had dreamed the dream of filling the skies with mighty dirigibles—floating house * (Continued on page three) TtlKCTKR VVtolSTHE US J amateur TENNIS CHAMPION ? fOR WHAT OOES-TrtlS ™ENT ABBREVIATION STAND? HA5 N0 WXCANOES? For correct answers to the»i questions, please turn to page 5
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