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GOOD AFTERNOON Cloudy tonight and Thursday with occasional rains. 3fl!CllTfi WEATHER Many a hi? shot hat turned out to he just a blank cartridge. VOL. 52—No. 93 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS WILD CAUCUS BRINGS END TO DRASTIC MOVE Wide-Open Split Over Vital and Unfinished Legislation Feared RETURN OF 'CZARISM' CRY AT CONFERENCE By WILLIAM F. KERBY United Pre-*s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON'. Apr. l'.» (i n A rampant insurgent bloc last night forced House l>eniocr*it e chieftains to abandon their bold attempt to amend the chamber's rules to give virtually absolute power to the leadership. The sudden decision was an nounced by Majority Leader Jos eph Byrns who said the proposed changes in the rules "would not be pressed at the present time." The parliamentary veteran de scribed the action as a sort <>f strategic retreat made in the in terests of complete party hai mony. From other sources it was learned that the titular leadership feared the devastating effects of a real revolt on the remainder of President Roosevelt's legislative program. If was believed a wide-open split .already threatened over th>? question of "liberal" versus "gag"! rules, might seriously imperil the chances of such vital legislation as farm relief, unemployment aid and banking reform. "We have the votes to change th* —make no- mistake about that,*' Byrns told the United Press in revealing th«» sudden shift of plans. "We could chang • | the rules any time we want to. Hut there is no use creating ha id feeling or putting anyone on th«» snot." The leadership's startling re versals of policy followed a wild Uemocia'ic rump caucus in which speaker after speaker denounced the changes. They predicted me muni "czar ism" and decried "rubber .vamping" of lulls. Currency in flationists led the attack. h*>!«ii their cause would he endangered if the rules were tightened to jriv » greater control to the leadership. Chief target of attack, and also the major change proposed, was virtual abolition of the so-called 'liberal committee discharge rub* —a technical but vital portion of house procedure which has more than once stirred rumblings of real revolt. Many a great house leader has crashed to defeat on th»» little-understood question of ''liberal rules." Under the discharge procedure, prime point in Democratic policy for the past decade. 14;"> members of the house by signing a petition, can force a vote on any measure. Previously, the leadership had only t<» pass the word to a willing committee chairman to indefinite ly block any legislation not tie - sired by those in control. The discharge petition has been used in the past to force votes on beer, the cash bonus, prohibition repeal and other controversial measures not at the time favored by those in control and thus un reported by committees. James B, Fowler Of Mills River Is Given Burial Funeral services for .lames I!. Fowler were held at noon uu'ay at the home of his daughter, Mrs G. R. Dalton, of Mills River, with interment to follow in Green Hdl cemetery. West Asheville. The Rev. James 15. Grice officiated. Mr. Fowler. K4-year-otd farmer of the Mills River section, died at his daughter's home Monday night. He had been in ill health for several months. Surviving are the daughter and two sons. Otto, of Gaffney, S. and Hubert, of Asheville. H. S. HONOR SOCIETY INITIATES THREE Three students of the local high school senior class have been in itiated into the Honor Society, which is composed of students in the upper fourth of their class and outstanding in scholarship, leadership, character anil service. Students received into the so ciety were Karl Merrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Merrill, Mar tha Mae Glazener. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Giazener, and Lucille King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. King. French Envoy j Visits President franco-American amity is vital to world peace, it was agreed by I President Roosevelt and Andre, Lefebrve de Laboulaye, the new French ambassador t»» the United States, when Laboulaye called at the White House as-shtvwn here io present his credentials. OFFSET LAW ' IS FAVORED Petition Asks That Bank Act Be Made Ap plicable Here RALEIGH. April 10.—Gurney P. Hood, state bank commissioner, said today he will instruct, bank liquidators in Buncombe coun'.y not to comply with provisions of the Sullivan bank offset law rati fied by the legislature last night. Purchasers of deposit claims will not be permitted to use them as an offset for loans until the state ' supreme court has passed on the I constitutionality of the law, Hood said. A petition asking thai Hender son county be included under the provisions of the Sullivan bank offset bill, now a law. was wired last night to Senator .1. (). Bell and Representative Ted R. Hay. The petition bore the signa tures of several city and county officials, officers of civic organ izations, large property owners and others. The bill was jammed through the house Monday night by Rep resentative Sullivan of Buncombe county and was ratified last night t in the face of opposition by Gur ney P. Hood, banking commis sioner. . "It's a state-wide bill in that it amends a state law," the com j missioner said. "The hill is ter rible. I think it's unconstitu i tional." "l et the commissioner fight the ' bill," Representative Sullivan said 1 when Mr. Hood threatened to ask i for reconsideration. "I still in sist it is a fine measure. It is the only possible chance that de positors in the Central bank can ever recover. It will liquidate Central bank in a few months and help clear the situation in Buncombe. It's time that the costly liquidation of this bank is (Continued on page 3.) STERN WARNING ISSUED NO GRAFT WILL BE ALLOWED IN | 3.2 BEER TRAFFIC IN U. S WASHINGTON, April 11). (UP). A stern warning that 3.2 per cent beer must be kept free from "corruption and graft" was is sued by Attorney General Cum minjrs yesterday as ho ordered that brewery permits must not be awarded law violators or persons having police records. Cummings declaration came as a series of incidents involving i New Jersey brewery permits ' brought the new administration face to facc with the first major problem growing out of the legal-1 ization of beer. Commenting on United Press dispatches revealing that permits had been issued to eastern brew eries reportedly under the domi nation of racketeers, the head of the department of justice said: "The people want control of beer in the hands of responsible people. They want it free from (Continued on page 3.) COUNTY QUOTA PUT AT 51 FOR FOREST ARMY Welfare Officers Will Learn Recruiting Details Thursday ENROLLMENT MAY BEGIN APRIL 24 II. ll. Anders, count v well arc [ officer, said this morning that In* ' and a number of relief workers* from this county would at'etid a , conference at Asheville -«t 10 ; o'clock Thursday morning at j which time information v.'ill bej given out relative to the $ recruit-' injr of Henderson county s quota for the federal forest army. Meanwhile, Mr. Anders do- j elared that he had no official no- | tification as to the number of men < to t>i> taken from Henderson coun ty or as to the method of selecting theM- men. No application blanks have yet been received here for j those men who wish to apply for. jobs in the government forest army. A dispatch from Raleigh today. | however, indicated that Henderson , county's quota for the forest j army would be 50 men. The quota : for the state as previously an-1 nounced in dispatches from Wash- 1 i nu t on is 6,500 men. The dispatch from Raleigh in dicated that the recruiting of the ! (5,500 workers from this slate! would be carried on-through ev isting relief agencies, but details j were not announced. The recruits to be selected for j the forest army must be unmar-, ried, between the ages of IN and 2") and physically tit to work. J i They must enroll for a period of j »dx months and must be willing t •>! allot the greater portion of thei"- j pay to dependent relatives. Thcvj ! wiil be paid $'!0 per month in ad-| I dition to getting their food, cloth-) 1 ing, housing, medical care and | Iransportation from the point of j [ eiiyollnient to the camp. | The enrollment of the quotas | from the various counties is ex pected to get underway next Mon- j |! day. dispatches from Raleigh in- j j dicated today. 15v this time it is expected that county agencies will i I have been made thoroughly fa-1 1 miliar with the methods to be em-, j ployed in enrolling the recruits. I Applications cannot be made lx1- j I fore complete details have been j i worked out. Dispatches from Washington j j today were to the effect that ( ! President Roosevelt had approved j | the sites selected for 57 additional | I forest camps in eastern and cen j tral states. Sites for 107 camps ! have been approved, according to Robert Fechner. director of the | emergency conservation work. Included in the camp locations 1 approved by the president yester ; day were four in North Carolina. Dr. McAlpine to I Speak Tonight Dr. Robert McAipine, Presby terian missionary to Japan for many years, and anions the best | informed people on the situation , in the Far East, will be a special ■ speaker at the prayer service to be held in the Presbyterian Sun ! day school auditorium, tonight at i js o'clock. Dr. L. T. Wilds, pastorj of the First Presbyterian church, 'announced this forenoon. FIRM CHANCES NAME Announcement is made that the! corporate name of Publix-Kincey : Theatres has been changed to I North Carolina Theatres, Inc. This corporation operates the 1 Carolina theatre in Henderson ville and a numbe/ of other thea 1 tres in*the state. Norman Thomas' Daughter to Wed Miss Mary C. Thomas (above), daughter of Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the presi dency at the last election, and1 Mrs. Thomas, is engaged to wed Herman Miller, Jr., of Colum bus, O., Yale University medical' student and varsity football play er there in lH.'JO. St. Petersburg's Winter Fourist Patronage Good Florida Man Arriving Here Looks for Many Others This Summer Mr. and Mrs. T. .1. Holler and Mrs. Kmina H. Nock arrived yes terday from St. Petersburg to re main through the spring and summer. Mrs. Nock's summer home is at Mountain Home but she will stay with Mr. and Mrs. Heller at their ho.me, SKI Fourth avenue west, for about, a month. Mr. Heller said the people of St. Petersburg were well satisfied with the number of tourists there this winter although prices for accommodations were extremely low. Much real property was sold at fractions of the original cost, he said, and this deflation in values is one of the most seri ous handicaps to tho oity and state. Mr. Heller spends about six months of each year in Hen dersonville and he <aid today that he regards this as much his home as St. Petersburg. He said he believed that St. Petersburg will be represented by its usual large number of visitors to Henderson ville this summer, including many who have not heretofore come to this city. Kiwanis Plans For Mills River Club Gathering Dinner Meeting Will Be at Presbyterian Church Friday Night The Kiwanis club will hold its weekly dinner meeting at 7:30 J), m. Thursday at the Mills River school as guests of the women's organization of the Presbyterian church. Dr. J. (I. Bennett, vice president of the club, is in charge of arrangements, and a short f>ro gram of talks will follow the din ner. Wives and other guests of Kiwanians are invited, and a large representation of Mills' River folk is expected to attend. A round table meeting will bo held at the Skyland hotel at 1 P in. Thursday for \isiting Kiwan ians who may be in town and for local club members wlio may not be able to go to Mills River in the evening. Directors of the club held their April meeting last evening as guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. <7 Childs at Brightwater Farms. A business session followed a sumptuous fried chicken dinnei served at 7 o'clock. Those at tending were A. F. Barber, Dr. J. (I. Bennett, Dr. J. L. Wedding ton, Dr. Jos. R. Sevier, O. Y. Brownlee, <». M. Ogle, Spencer B. King, R. H. Staton, G. C. Rich ardson and the host. ALL MEMBERS FRIDAY NIGHT New Resident List in Com munity Is Showing Rapid Growth r Preparations arc rapidly shap ing for tlit* first quarterly all member dinner meeting of the Chamber ol' Commerce ami new residents in the community. The principal address of the evening will he delivered hv C. H. Magoon. who is associated with S. J. Childs in the poultry and hatchery enterprises of Bright water Farms on the Brevard road. Mr. Magoon has lived from the extremes of the New England states on the north to Florida on the south and has had wide expe rience in many phases of agricul tural work, lie has made a good impression with the few public addresses he has made in tin* com munity, hence his selection for this occasion. Invitations were sent to mem bers on Monday and Tuesday, ad vising of the dinner at 7 :•'>() at the Hendersonville Inn on Friday and reminding them of the necessity of prompt reservations. They were requested to furnish the names of comparatively new residents in this community. This list has grown to 40 and others are ex pected to be added. The new resident list in the community has had rapid growth during the past year or two, which is one of the gratifying conditions as seen by the Chamber of Com merce, which is in correspondence with numerous others who are seeking a desirable all-year cli { mate such as this section offers. i Invitations to the new resi dents, including men and women, read as follows: "Dear Resident: "We are pleased to have the I privilege of inviting you and any of your friends to enjoy with us ' our quarterly all-member dinner ■meeting on Friday evening at !7:.'U) at the Hendersonville Inn. j We desire that you, as a compara ' tively new resident, shall becomo ! acquainted with our leaders ir. I community life and catch thi ! spirit and thought of our citizen | ship as early as possible, hence ! this invitation. "No subscriptions arc solicited .011 these occasions; just an enjoy able evening of thinking, plan ning and working together. The price of plates is only fifty cent. j each. We hope that you can b" ..with us and make reservations through this office (telephone 1474) not later than Friday morn ing, but sooner if convenient, Plates will be paid for upon ar ! rival at the hotel. i "Looking forward to having I von with us, we are, | "Yours for community progress. "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. MAN HELD IN CO. ROBBERY Arrest Follows Coucli Mountain Affair, Last Saturday Howard Watkins, about 2Z years of age, of Hooper's Creek j township, has been arrested b> I the Henderson county sheriff' i department and is being: held in ; the county jail in connection with I the robbery of Mr. and Mrs. ; Fidela Owenby, at their home on Conch mountain. The robbery at the Couch home was on Saturday afternoon. Fou» men drove up in a car and de manded possession of $-100, which had been paid the couple as gov ernment insurance paid on their son, killed in the World war. Thi? sheriff's office is prosecut ing the. investigation ROOSEVELT SUFFERS ! FROM A BAD THROAT WASHINGTON.*Apr. 19 (UP) President Roosevelt is suffering from a slight sore throat becaust of the damp, rainy weather. Hi lis remaining at the White Houst today on account of his condition. Follows Conviction of Five Britons on Charges of Sabotage, Espionage; All Senle nces Light LONDON. April 1!». — (IT).— Kngland struck Duck at Soviet Russia today lor conviction of live I Sri t ish subjects on espion age charges as King George anil it lie privy council declared an SO 1 per cent embargo on Russian im ports and the Metropolitan-Yick crs company, employer of the convicted men ordered an imme | diate appeal on behalf of two de fendants who were sent lo prison, j They are William Mat-Donald given a two-year sentence, and ; W. H. Thornton, three years, j The partial embargo amounting practically to a declaration of economic war is effective April lili. By EUGENF. LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent OCTOUER HALL, Moscow, April 1!'.— (UlJ).—Five Hritish subjects were convicted today of sabotage, espionage and bribery bv a Soviet revolutionary tribun j al. Two were given mild prison sentences and three were ordered expelled from the country. A sixth was acquitted. The maximum penalty for con viction on the charges was death before a firing squad. ( Wliliam H. Thornton, second in charge of the Metropolitan i \ ickers- Mee-trical Co., ltd., op I erations in the Soviet Union, was | sentenced to three years imprison i ment. William MacDonald, a technical j expert, was given two years in ' prison. Allan Blonkhouse, chief of the organization in Russia, John j Cushny, electrical engineer, and ■ Charles Nordwall constructional engineer, were ordered expelled from the country. A. W. Gregory, construction engineer who played only a small [part in the dramatic trial, was acquitted and released. Ten of the 11 Russians on trial on similar charges were sentenc ed to prison on varying sentences from one and one-half years to 10. Ivan Zivert was acquitted and released. The woman defendant, Anna Kutuzova, was sentenced to one and one-half years in prison. There were no death sentences. The Britons and Russian de fendants filed into the courtroom shortly before 1 a. m., when the court reconvened. The three judges headed hy Presiding Judge \"assili V. Ulrich left the ante room in which they had prepared their verdicts and proceeded to their places on the bench in tense .silence. The representatives of the Brit ish company stood before the judges in this ancient hall of the nobles in the early hours of the morning and heard five of their number found guilty "of all charges." Each stared hard at the judges for a moment before the tension broke and they moved as the packed courtroom buzzed with excitement. Relief was manifest on their faces when the sentences were read. Gregory, acquitted, was ordered released immediately. He had been out on bail, together 1 with the others, except MacDon ald who confessed his gruilt at the start of the trial last week. The reading of the verdict was ('completed at 1.20 a. m. The six Britons and 11 Rus llsians were alleged to have sought to paralyze the power plants around Moscow and elsewhere throughout the Soviet Union. The British were alleged to have brib ed the Russians to aid them. Thornton was declared to have headed an espionage corps and paid Russians to give him secret military and other valuable in formation. ; PRODUCTION LIMITATION i MAY BE IN HANDS OF THE ! U. S. SECRETARY OF LABOR [PHILADELPHIA, April 19.— (UP).—A guard of 50 police was thrown around Mitten Hall at Temple University last night 1 where Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, was speaking before a gathering of 1,500 club women. The action was taken by Assis tant Superintendent of Police Joseph Lestrange after letters threatening violence to Miss Perk ins, received at Temple Uni versity, had been turned over to him. Plainclothesmen inspected the tickets of all persons attending the dinner. A police escort met the secre tary of labor at the train and guarded her during the evening. By THOMAS L. STOKES United Pre*s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Apr. 19. (UP) America's woman secretary of Ia (Continued on page 3.) Innocent!—After Four Years On Chaingang ! After serving four years on a 1 Georgia chaingang for the alleged i slaying of his wife, Robert E. Coleman, 2(5. was pardoned and freed when a negro confessed to the crime. Coleman is pictured as he was freed from his life ' sentence. HOUSE OKEHS ! TAX OF 2 PCT. Substitute Beer Sales Con-, trol Bill Is Also Drafted ; RALEIGH, April 1!).—A two pcr cent sales tax levy, instead of throe per cent as originally proposed, appeared today to he the ultimate goal of the legisla ture after committee forces had jammed the two per cent section of the new revenue act through the house by a margin of two votes. It must pass two more readings before it can be sent to the senate. Under provisions of a substi tute bill drafted by a special committee for control of beer sales after May 1 beer, may be sold and consumed at all ordinary dispensories of food and drink after payment of both state and local licenses. A looal fee of .$15 would be charged for places sell ing beer on the premises, $10 for those selling it for home con i sumption, and $5 additional for all to the state. None could be sold within 300 feet, of a church or school situated outside of cor-| porate limits. COSTON ON RADIO J. C. Coston, well known as an evangelistic singer, .vill be on the Asheville radio program from 8:45 to !) o'clock Thursday night with his weekly song group. The songs for Thursday night have been chosen from the theme of consecration. U. S. SOLDIERS ARRESTED BY JAPS IN CHINA Were Photographing Jap anese Troop Movements, Tokio Hears INDIGNATION OVER BOMBINGS GROWING TOKIO, April 19.—(UP).— Two American soldiers were ar« rested Monday by Japanese mili tary authorities near Matsaoch wany, China, while photographing Nipponese troop movements, ad vices to the Nippon Dempo News Agency said today. The American commander ha> been unsuccessful so far in gel ting them released. (United Press Copyright, 1933) PEIPING, April 19.—(UP),— Aniorican Methodist mission prop erty under the American llajr at Miyunhsien has been bombed by Japanese airplanes, the Kev. Mark W. Brown, secretary of the North China conference of the Methodist Episcopal church announced ti. day. By HERBERT R. EKINS PEIPING, China, April 19.— (UP).—The lives of 200 Ameri can high school pupils and teach ers were endangered yesterday when Japanese planes bombed tho village of Tungchow, just outside Peiping. Rombft landed neqkr a boarding school at Tungchow, located ten miles east of Peiping. reports to the authorities declared. The pupils are sent t o the boarding school from all over China by American parents .sta tioned in the Orient, for prepara tory training for colleges in the United States. They, as well a-< their teachers, and 22 adult Uni ted States missionary residents were under fire during the raid. riowever, no casualties iimuiii; the Americans were reported. Nevertheless, the raid so near Peiping and at another town where American lives and prop erty are concentrated aroused for eigners to a new pitch of indig nation as the Japanese advance moved southward below the Great Wall toward Peiping and Tientsin. Tungchow is astride the strate gic highway linking Peiping and Shanhaikwan, on the sea at the Great Wall, captured last January l»y the Japanese prior to their seizure of Jehol province. The United States minister, Nelson T. Johnson, said he was considering further protective measures in the event the Japa nese air raids continue. The school at Tungchow is a joint en terprise operated by the Presby terians ami Rrethren of the American Hoard of Foreign Mis sions. The bombing followed similar action by the Japanese recently over Changli, where American mission property is located. So far, no loss of life or property damage as far as United States nationals or interests .are con cerned has been reported, but the United States diplomatic and mil itary authorities are keeping in close touch day and night with developments. A new and anti-foreign note in the Japanese invasion of China proper is also arousintr interest in foreign quarters. The Chinese military issued a communique signed by General Ho Ying-Ching, minister of war, declaring that Japanese airplanes flying over Miyun dropped pamphlets declar ing: "The Chinese and Japanese be (Continued on page 3.) THDEE GUffiK OVER BOTH HOUSES OF C0NG&SS (mSfCUMLV? '3, For correct anawanri to tlieai questions, please turn to page ft
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