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WEATHER Fair and coaler tonight; fair with rising temperatures Satur day. GOOD AFTERNOOH The box-score for Germany thus far seems to be: a million hum, one Hitler, and a long string of errors. VOL. 52—No. 83 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS V V V .v. sr. y. •Y- Y* H' Y Y * * * * * ¥ ¥ *t* C* * • .WW British-Russian Breach Is Moving Nearer GESTURE MADE TO AFFECT U. S. SOVIET HOLDS Spokesman Claims Britain Seeks to Prevent Ac cord of Countries COMMONS ADOPTS BRITISH EMBARGO LONDON. April 7.—(IT).— Confident that the threat of an J economic boycott will have some ^ cffect on the Soviet government, the British cabinet was represent ed todav as feeling it had done j everything possible for the six , British subjects to be tried in Moscow next Monday on charge-; of sabotage until after the revo lutionary tribunal reaches a ver dict. SOVIET SEES AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE MOSCOW. April 7.—(UP).— One of the chief motives behind J England's exceptionally strong i protests against the arrest of six ' of hor citizens in Russia is the de sire to prevent American recogni tion i»f the Soviet, a Soviet spokes, man charged today. He <aid Brit ish conservatives are hopeful that Washington would hesitate to as sume relations with the Soviet th-» moment when London threatened to limit its relations with the So viet government. EMBARGO BILL PASSED IN COMMONS LONDON*. April 7.— (I'P).—A break in diplomatic relations be tween Grraf Britain anil Soviet Russia wa- believed n°arer today after the house of commons hau passed on third readintr of the en abling act to allow the govern ment to declare an embargo against Russian good*. The enabling act v.-as passed at the third reading, 2(»1 t<» 41. and «ent to the house of lords wherv it was cxpected to pass all >tagcs next Tuesday. The reading of the measure aroused only listless debate com pared wi'h earlier dramatic dis cussions of the legislation, crow ing out of the controversy which has arisen following the arrest ofi six British representatives of Metronolitan-Vickcrs. Ltd.. an electrical company, in Moscow, on charges of sabo'age and espion age. Queries in commons were con cerned chiefly with whether th«> government intended to use the power for anv other purpose than in behalf of the six men held in Moscow. Walter Hunciman, chairman of the board of trade, denied that the government had any ulterior motives and promised that the ex-1 traordinary powers to be granted under the enabling act would not be utilized otherwise. SPECIAL SERIES OF TALKS AT ST. JAMES Friday night between X and D o'clock, the Rev. James I*. Burke i is rrivinjr a series of instructional J talks on various phases of church . life, which are open not only to J church members, but to all inter-! ested. The series of topics which, is being discussed at this time in cludes: The Church, the Body of Christ ;_'hc Church in History; the1 Faith of the Church; the Worship of the Church: the Church's Li brary—the Holy Scripture; the Sacraments of the Church; the Ministry of the Church. The se ries continues until the first of May. FIRST BAPTIST S. S. MEETING TONIGHT The Sunday school meeting of the First Baptist church for April has been called for tonijjht by Su perintendent W. B. Sinclair. The meetinjr will be held at 8 o'clock in the Hollowell Bible class room. ORCHESTRA AT THEATER A program by Jimmie Livinjr-j stones orchestra >» announced as »n added feature to the motion picture attractions at the Caro lina theater tonight. The orches tra will appear at 9 o'clock, and immediately following this pro gram will play for a Henderson ville Golf and Country club dance at the Skyland hotel. TUGWELL CONFIRMED WASHINGTON. April 7. (UP) j The senate yesterday confirmed the nominations of Rexford G. Tugwell of New York to be assis-i tant secretary of agriculture and William Lane Austin, of Missis sippi. to be director of the census1 bureau. ' HOUSE BILL FIXES SALUDA MAYORALTY TERM FOR 4 YEARS KALKIGH. April 7.—A Mil l>y Representative Massonburtr, I'olk, to fix the term of office of the I mayor and city commissioners of Saluda, was passed by the house I yesterday and sent to the scnat?. The bill provides that at the I next election of the officials in i Si*! it da there shall be elected four commissioners and two of these so elected shall hold olfico for the term of four years and the other two hall hold office for two years. i Two commissioners are to he ••lifted at each term of election for a period of four years. The bill further provides that at the next election the mayor of Saluda shall be elected for a term of four years and that thereafter j the mayor shall be elected for a ! term of four years. The bill also provides that the | commissioners shall be empow- i ered to fix the salary of the may or of Saluda. Two Automobile Accidents Lead to Court Action I>aniage suits aggrega'ing r,00 have been filed in the office • of the clerk of the superior court | as a result «>f accidents occurring 1 s»nce the first of the vca>\ Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lubow are! named defendants in two suits, j file<l by Gus Summey and George j Robinson, colored, as a result of; an accident on Justice street on January 24 in which a horso and i buggv driven by Summey was | struck bv an automobile driven! by Mrs. Lubow. The plaintiffs in these cases al-j lege that about 7 p. m. on that j date Summey was driving v horse. and buggy on Justice street, thaN the buggy was on the right side of the street, that a lantern was disnlayed on the vehicle, and that Robinson, who walked behind the buggy, also carried a lantern. The plaintiffs further allege that Robinson was leading several hunting dogs, that several of these dogs weh; killed or injured, that the horse was injured ami the buggy demolished, and that both plaintiffs were injured. Summey asks damages in the amount of $.1,000 and Robinson in the amount of $2,500. In the other two suits, Everett E. Brock is named defendant by G. F. Jones and Henry McMinn, and it is alleged that a car driven by McMinn and occupied by Jones was struck by a car driven by Brock on the west side of Osceola Lake, that the car was turned over and came to rest in the water. It is alleged that Brock was driving at a fast rate of speed and that there were no lights on his car, that the car driven by McMinn had come to :i stop on the side of the road at the ap proach of the Brock car. Botii defendants seek damages in the amount of $10,000 each. i FIRST CAPITAL BEER GOES TO WHITE HOUSE Roosevelt Will Send It to Press Club With His Compliments TENNESSEY HOUSE PASSES BEER BILL WASHINGTON, April 7. ( UP). The bo.-^s of the Abner l>rury brewery stopped out on the ship ping platform at 12:01 a. m. to day and shout to a truck ilriver: "The White House. Let her go!" The motor roared and the first shipment of beer to be delivered in Washington started for the ex ecutive mansion. It arrived with the help of four motorcycle po licemen and the United States marine corps. Pennsylvania avenue was chock ed with traffic, but automobiles readily jrot out of the way for the big white truck that bore the sign: "President Koosevell, the first beer is for you.'' A marine was riding on top of the truck just to make things of ficial. The beer truck stopped in the narrow street between the White House and state department. It was followed by another truck loaded with beer destined for a (Continued on page 3.) Beer is Legal in 19 States Today (UNITED PRESS) Nineteen states and the District of Columbia had .'5.2 beer today af'er l.'J years of prohibition. Lively but orderly celebrations were reported in New York, Chi cago, Washington. St. Louis, Mil waukee and San Francisco. In seven more states legislative arrangements have been made to place beer on sale within a few weeks. Several such cities, lacking state regulatory measures, pushed thru temporary licensing measures. The states in which legal beer is being sold today are Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Wash ington. Oregon, Colorado, Mon tana. California, Nevada Illinois, Arizona. Indiana, Wisconsin, Min nesota, New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The District of Columbia likewise has legal beer. The dates on which other states will begin drinking legal beer are Vermont, May 1; West Virginia., May 10: North Carolina, May 1; Louisiana, April l.'J: Connecticut, April 25, and Wyoming, May IS. The Massachusetts state legisla ture was in session Wednesday night attempting to push through a beer bill in order that the state might have legal brew at the ear liest possible moment. All the other 22 states are with out beer legislation. In several of these states test cases, involving the legality of beer sales, were pending. AGRICULTURAL AND MINING BELTS CHEERED BY STEADY STRENGTH OF COMMODITIES NEW YORK, April 7.—(UP)., More checr swept over the agri cultural and mining belts of the nation yesterday as commodity markets kept ui> their tremendous displays of strength. Millions were added to the value of crops and stock on hand and potential millions were ex changed in furi vs sessions on; the various commodity markets j of the country. The wheat ex changed yesterday was enormous. Various brokers expected the volume to be the highest in sev eral months—millions of bushels ••hanging hands — although the; Chicago board of trade question- j ed whether the day would be the j largest of the year. Based on mean prices of three j future deliveries in wheat, corn ( and oats, plus preliminary esti- • mates of what the rate of trad-J ing might have been yesterday,! approximately $34,426,250 was] represented in the trades on those three commodities on the Chicago board of trade. Actual figures of the trading, however, were on marginal basis. Meanwhile cash prices were bounding. Wheat which the farm-1 iC •• 2 * vi or sells at his own back door was quoted at 63 rents a bushel for the finest grade. Corn was at 35 cents a bushel as against 21 3-4 and 23 cents on March 3 while oats was at 22 3-4 cents, equal ing the outside figure of last July. But the farmers were not sell ing. There were few bids ask~d from the famine region. Chi cago's outgoing delivery was esti mated at 25,000 bushels with only 1800 bushels reported in coming. Rye lost some of its spcctacu larity during the day. There had been reports that a big eastern operator, one who is as familiar with the New York board of trade as the various grain centers, had taken tremendous long positions in a 'soueeze" maneuver. Wed nesday's prices skyrocketed but yesterday they slumped off. Generally, however, commodity prices soared. The United Press daily commodity index stood at 74.40 for 30 commodities, a new high. Wheat, corn, oats, lard, butter, flour, cotton, sugar, silver and lin advanced. Three com modities were lower and 17 un changed. SOUTHERN PINES IN BID FOR SEVERAL HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS SOUTHERN PINKS, Apr. 7.— ; (UP). — The Southern Pines I Chamber of Commerce has stort i (.'(I an extensive campaign to briiiK j several motion picturc studios ! from Hollywood. Calif., to the j Sandhills Resort section here, stressing the local climae and I nearness to New York. The cham 1 ber officials have learned that banking interests are encouratrintf producers to move locations from j the western seaboard. ALLEGATIONS IN SC0TTSB0R0 CASE A 'HOAX' Ruby Bates Repudiates Her Testimony at First Trial of Nine Negroes DKCATUR, Ala.. April 7.—I (III')—Dramatically appearing as) a surprise defense witness, Missi Kuby Hates of Iluntsvillc, Ala., yesterday completely repudiated i her charges against nine negro youths in the internationally fa mous Scottsboro case, and refut-j e<l the testimony of Mrs. Victoria Price, her co-complainant. Her entire previous testimony) in the case, now bring retired | here in an atmosphere of tension caused by vague threats of vio- j lence, was a hoax, Miss Bat,es said. She added that if M.t*. was si^»jectan to mistreatment, she knew nothing of i'.. The testimony of the long-miss ing girl was a diroct right-about face from the story she told when the state won death sentences for j seven of the nine accused negroes, j It came as a l.~:r.bshell, a distinct! surprise, as the defence had rest ed its direct presentation. Miss Bates arrived in court in | company of Mrs. May Jones, so cial worker for the Independent Presbyterian church, Birmingham, Ala., and was immediately called to the witness chair by Samuel Liebowitz, chief defense counsel. | Mrs. Price flushed. I'jariy in ner ii'suiiiun.v, mi.-.- > Bates revealed thnt until two weeks ago she was in New York, j where she conferred with Dr. Marry Emerson Fosdick, widely-l known pastor, to whom, she said, j she confessed to perpetrating a( hoax. Dr. Fosdick arranged for her return, she said. She came to Birmingham, she said, and cot in touch with Dr. j Charles Clingman, pastor of thej Episcopal Church of the Advent, through whom she met Mrs. Jones; and at whose request she was I brought to the court yesterday. In a previous trial Mis Bates] testified and directly accused the nine negroes of mistreating her and Mrs. Price on a freight train while they were "hoboing" their way from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Scottsboro. There was a fight on the train between the group of negroes, and some white hoys with whom the two women were riding. The white boys, according to the trial record, were thrown from the train by the larger ne gro group, members of which then allpfjedly mistreated the white erirls. Word of the incident was flashed ahead by the ejected white boys, and arrest of the negroes occurred at Scottsboro. Tho repudiation of Miss Bates included the admission she and Mrs. Price were on the train, but also the assertion that they were in an entirely different part of the train from where the two fighting groups were. Testimony 01 jviiss i>an-> »><•• the second major defense move of ' the day, the other being the story | of Lester Carter, a white witness, who testified he and one Jack Tiller spent tho nijrht prior to the Scottsboro incident with Miss Bates and Mrs. Price in a hobo camp at Chattanooga. "We were dissatisfied with wages in Huntsville, and decided to go to Chattanooga to look for work," Carter said. "The four of us spent two nights in a box car." Carter testified his association with Mrs. Price was intimate, at that time. By his testimony the defense sought to convince the jury that Carter, and not the ne groes. was responsible for a phy sician's positive report of her con dition an hour after the alleged Scottsboro incident. In her surprise testimony yes terday, Miss Bates corroborated the Carter testimony, that she and Mrs. Price spent the night with Carter and Tiller at the hobo re treat. She confessed previously described intimacies with the two men, as testified by Carter. On cross-examination by the (Continued on page three) ' ! Akron's Survivors Fly to Capita! for Crash Inquiry Three brave men—all that remain of the 77 who were dashed into Lhe Atlantic in (he .Akron disaster—arc seen here at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. V.. iust before boardinr a plane for Washington, I). ('., t'> give lo the navy's hoard full accounts of the tragedy. Left •o right: Richard K. Dtal. boatswain's nni'e of Lakehurst, N:. .J., who ■ilso survived tlie Shenandoah crash; Moodv E. Krwin, inctalsmith of Memphis, Tcnn.; and T.icutcnant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of Wheeling, Mo., second in command of the Akron. Churches of City Unite for' Half Hour Meetings at Carolina Theatre Undci the auspices of the City Ministerial Association a series of noon services will l>c held at the Carolina theatre in Holy Week, the last week before Easter, daily, beginning Monday, April 10, be tween the hours of 12 and 1U :.'>0 o'clock. J. C. Coston, well known as an evangelistic singer, will lead the music for these services, and Miss Elizabeth Cannon, organist of the! Presbyterian church will be at the | organ for the series of services, i The program for I ho week calls i for the following speakers: Monday—Dr. L. T. Wilds, pas tor of the Presbyterian church. Tuesday—Rev. Jas. P. Burke, pastor of St. James Episcopal church. Wednesday—Rev. A. W. Lip pard, pastor of Grace Lutheran church. Thursday—Rev. !?.• V. Miller, | pastor of Grove Street Gospel church. Friday—Rev. W. If. Ford, pas tor of First Baptist church. (Continued on page three) East Fiat Rock Contest Benefit For Firp Dept. EAST FLAT ROCK, April 7.— A fiddlers' convention will be held here a week from tonight, Friday. April 14, at 7:*J0 o'clock, at the liiffii school auditorium, the purpose of which is to rai.;c funds for the equipment of East Flat Rock's volunteer fire department. Cash prizes have been arranged for successful contestants and merchandise prizes will be given by the following merchants and stores, co-operating for the suc cess of the contest: Stepp & Walk er, Hart's Grocery, Sanitary Mar ket, Miller Drug Store, Hodge's Service Station and Worley's Grocery. Any string band which would like to enter the contest is asked to communicate with Miller's drug store. Dr. Munden and Family Will Make Permanent Residence Here The R. E. Noble house, a red brick bungalow siutatcd on the Kanuga road just outside the city limits, has been sold to Dr. J. J. Munden and will be occupied by Dr. Munden and family. Original ly from Pittsburgh, they have been living in St. Petersburg, and came to Hendersonville because, as Dr. Munden says, lie regards this section as having about the best year-around climate of any section of the country. AT-P NEWS BEER BOOSTS U. S. INCOME TEN MILLIONS WASHINGTON, April 7.— j (UP). — Government revenues have been boosted nearly ten million dollars already by beer | taxes, although the product has ! been on sale only a few hours, preliminary estimates showed today. I SURVIVORS HEARD IN AKRON PROBE WASHINGTON, April 7.— I CUP)—The congressional com mitter investiff.-atinj; the loss of j the U. S. S. Akron, adjourned I today, having heard testimony by the three survivors of the [ fti.int dirigible, lost in the At. | lanlic early Tuesday morning. , HITLER, MUSSOLINI INVITED TO WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 7.— j (UP).—The state department j announced today that it had in vited Premier Mussolini of ' Italy, Chancellor Hitler of Ger ( many and Premier Daladier of Fiance either to come personal ly or send their representative* to Washington to discuss prepa I ratiocs for a world economic confcrt ncc. REPUBLICANS READY TO SLOW DOWN ACTION WASHINGTON, April 7.— j (UP). — Senate Republicans took issue with Democratic [ speed methods today as the sen- I ate opened consideration of th>» i administration's farm relief bill. I i Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, j minority whip, demanded that j I committee amendmenta be ex- I | plained fully. FIVE DAY WEEK BILL IS PASSED, Senate Measure To Be Amended to Win Ap- ' proval of Roosevelt By THOMAS L. STOKES j j WASHINGTON, April 7. (UP)J 'The senate acted Thursday to break the grip of the machine, i\ge upon America's industrial workers. j With some reluctance, it pass led the Hlack five-day week, six hour day hill, a revolutionary economic change designed to meet the threat of the machine by spreading jobs. Its sponsors claimed it will give work to 000,000 now idle, half of the un employed army. The vote was 53 to 30. Forty-one Democrats and J1 Republicans and one Farmer-I.a borite voted for the bill. Oppos ing it were 10 Democrats and :J0 Republicans. Victory for the slight and de termined Senator Hugo Hlack, Democrat, Alabama, came after an uphill struggle during which' foes of the measure tried unsuc cessfully to kill it by throttling it with amendments. Rlack's major skirmish was won (Continued on page 3.) REHABILITATION PROGRAM OF ROOSEVELT WILL SOON BE IN FULL FORCE, BELIEF WASHINGTON, April 7. (UP). Belief that the end of the Roose velt rehabilitation program was in sight, was expressed last night in administration circles. The president is making vapid .strides toward completion of the remaining major matters he will submit to the special session of congress. These includo chicfly railroad relief and a self-liquidat ing project, for public works. He already has obtained action on banking legislation, beer, un employment relief and economy. Somp congressional leaders pro diet the end of the special session 01. May 15. Others arc not so optimistic. Mr. Roosevelt is putting the finishing touches to development of the Tennessee River basin project and operation of Muscle Shoals. This is one phase of his public program. He will confer today with Senator George Nor n's, Republican, Nebraska, and other congressional leaders inter ested in the Shoals. Recommendations in connec tion with these projects will in clude reforestation, soil erosion prevention, abandonment of un productive farm lahds. Mr. , Roosevelt believes that through sale of timber and additional pow er generated by expansion of hydro electric facilities, the cost of the development will pay for itself in a few years. Mr. Roosevelt also was expect ed to receive for studv today the report of Secretary of Commerce Roper on railroad rehabilitation. It is understood the report will call for appointment of a corps of coordinators to carry out a modified unification plan in an effort to reduce waste, expendi tures and provide for a more co hesivo transportation system. The railroad program also sug gest, it was said, that trackage be abandoned in some instances and that stringent federal regula tions be issued for busses and trucks engaged in interstate com merce. Considerable opposition has de veloped in the last few days to the rail rehabilitation plan. La bor, especially, has been hostile to the eo-ordinator scheme be cause they professed to see in it a reduction in the number of employes and a curtailment of service which they claim would react unfavorably on the. smaller communities of the nation.? The railroad situation was the (Continued on page three) 1 CONTROL OVER GERMAN LIFE IS EXTENDED Activities in Industrial and Cultural Life of Ger mans Affected 'HEROIC PIETY' IS TO BE DISSEMINATED BERLIN, April 7.— The Hitler government, drove re lentlessly and efficiently ahead to day with its campaign to dominate all fields of German life. Through its policy of national coordination, control was extend ed not only over all government functions hut over social, busi ness. economic, religious and cul tural activities as well. Probably the most significant development was the bringing int» the Nazi fold of the Federation of German industries, one of the most powerful organizations in the country, comproising the heads of leading industries. The Lutheran church, which numbers practically all of the 40,. 000,000 German protestants be gan a move to adopt the Nazi principles. It is reported that a certain faction is advocating th" establishment of a huge national radio pulpit, from which the of ficial pastor will deliver sermons, replacing a series of small and in ferior sermons heretofore deliv ered by local pastors. Ry PAUL KECSKEMET! BERLIN, April 7. — (UI'J. — Chancellor Adolf Hitler yesterday proclaimed a new campaign » < eliminate "the excessive number of Jewish intellectuals" whom h" feels tend to dominate th" na tion's intellectual life. "Germany's claim to intellec tual leadership by people of h'-r own blood must bo fulfilled at. the soonest opportunity by th" elimination of the excessive num ber of Jewish intellectuals," tin chancellor declared in conversa tion with representatives of medi cal organizations headed by Prof. Alfons Stauder. The chancellor's declaration followed a report in the newspa per Taegliche Rundschau of tho beginning of a Nazi party cam paign to control the German Lutheran church. Complete revision of the con stitution of the evangelical church (Lutheran) to enable the gov ernment to "utilize the ehurc'i for the education of citizen1?' was proposed at an all-German congress of the "German Chris tians," an organization composed chiefly of Nazis. The Lutheran church would bA utilized for a "reich church" that would preach "heroic piety,*' it was said. The new onurch would no es sentially racial in character, it was decided, thus denying church ceremonies for Germans marry ing "members of a foreign racc."' The congress urged that th<: government precipitate this rrvi sion through the appointment *»f reich church commissioners" ».» the present church bodies proh ably woul dbe tardy" in effect ing revision unaided. As an alternative, n govern ment decree changing the churr'i svnods to make them conform to the political composition of »h<; state diets was suggested. The Nazis hold a majority in most of the state diets. The Nazi candidates in lln synod elections of 1932 conduct ed a widespread propaganda cam . paign but obtained only one third of the available seats. The others went to church organize tions more or less affiliated wit'i the nationalist organizations. In what sea battle d»d" THE US FLEET COMPLETELY DESTROY THE ENEMY FLEET WITHOUT LOSING A MAN? 4 Who were THE "BOXERS" 9 Which state IN THE US MAS JWE GREATEST AJ3£A OF NATIONAL FORESTS? For correct answer* to thee! question*, please turn to page 5
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