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WEATHER Thund^rshowers tonight; gen erally fair and cooler Sunday. £ (Tin* (TintrS - GOOD AFlBUWOT" The Hlf thhif Genera! John ton like* about the third Darrow report on the NRA, more than he did the other two, i» that this is the last. VOL. 53—No. 162 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS Church Council Opens War For Pure Movies - < HAYS OUTFIT WILL CENSOR ITS PRODUCTS ii Provided for With NRA Code Effective on July 15 COLD WAVE" HITTING NORTH; N.Y. SWELTERS | NEW YORK. July 7.—(UP), f . ' . -estant church or 1^:. r. the United States jnterw! \.c- riyht to purify movies iv bojw.t today. The Federal Council of Church • C 'anned a campaign u pledge Protestants not to pat • r.v •••■ displaying pictures " :aiity. Thv . i executives predict o tra: a- many Protestants ru.o • themselves to wit ally pure movies as (a: vi^ed by the Legrion t Decency, a nation-wide move wnt started by the Catholics buc tot confined to that faith. The fa:h c" vement is said to have Bvo'vrj 20.000.000 people, in 'uding rhose allied with this pro HOLLYWOOD PLANS )WN CENSORSHIP HOLLYWOOD, July 7.—(UP). Sv.'r'-rfkju'.ation and censorship of Be::' n p!ctres will be instituted by - r.lm industry on July 15, l ■ J I. Breen, assistant to Will Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers Distilb ito!> of America, Inc. The announcement was mad-? ! ay following appointment of »•' N'RA code administrator to pac> on all pictures produced by the Hays group. ICE FORMS ON LAKES; SEABOARD SWELTERS CHICAGO. July 7.—(UP).— Ic- formed on northwestern lakes t Jav, in the wake of storms >hich killed five people, while SV.v York and the Eastern sea karj sweltered in the 17th day B:' a record heat wave. B Topcoats were comfortable in ■>«* Moines, St. Paul, Minneapo lis Milwaukee and Chicago. lANDITS MASSACRE MANCHU FARMERS I HARBIN. Manchukuo. July 7. I-(UP).—Bandits massacred 400 farmers in Nantientisu, near the [ -rean border today, the news gency Dentsu reported. The wholesale slaughter oc urred after bandits attacked and ansacked the village for a rea o not assigned. JULY HOTTER THANNORMAL lut Nightly Temperatures Showing Minimums of 64 Degrees Temperatures during: the fir*t •ix !avs of Julp averaged slightly k ' ormal temperature for and slightly more than »' inch of rainfall has been re [; according to figures by W. Valentine, co-operating U. feather recorder. Th* highest temperature re was 89 on Thursday and a temperature of 64 de *a- corded on Friday and Nl*. \ ^ure-j follow: Max. Min. Mean S«i 83 80 84 84 89 88 65 65 64 64 65 64 74 72 74 74 77 76 Prec'n. 0.25 0.57 0.55 T . >mmary for Month to Date Maximum 89 Wn maximum 85.2 Mean 74.9 [»imum III IIII 64 *n minimum 64.7 , daily range 20.5 greatest daily range 24 tat ion 1.37 ^°rmal mean temp, for July 72.6 The temperature for the first of July has been consistent ,-1' warm (nearly two degrees the July normal) but with n° extreme readings. Four nights x showed a minimum of ' ne other two showed a lL-; am of 64. Prince Albert Holding his chin up like the aris tocrat that he is, here you see a new picture of the infant son of the King: and Queen of the Bel gians. Christened Albert after ths late King, he will take the title of Prince Albert of Liege. CIVIC CLUBMEN TO PLAY BALL Rotarians and Kiwanians Clash for Supremacy Next Friday Hendersonville Rotarians and Kiwanians will meet in a base ball game next Friday afternoon at 4:3C p. m. A small admission will be charged and the proceeds will be donated to the Chamber of Com merce entertainment fund. Both clubs have named team officials and plans were being made today for the game next Friday. Senator R. L. Whitmire has been named Rotary captain, and will lead his team against his usual opponent, Dr. J. G. Ben nett, who will captain the Ki wanis team. J. H. Lampley is Ki wanis manager and Jimmy Fain Rotary manager. Managers of the two teams stated today that plans were rapidly rounding out for the game and that line-ups of the two teams would be announced early next week. It has been several years since the two civic clubs staged a base ball game, and at present each club has won one such contest, so that this will be the third and deciding game. Fletcher Youth Saves Father In Attack From Bull FLETCHER, July 7.—The he roic action of his 14-year-old son G. L., Jr., saved the life of G. L Leslie when he was attacked bj an enraged bull at his home neai here Thursday evening aboul 7:30 o'clock. The bull had been de-horned but this would not have saved Mr. Leslie had it not been for the action of his son. When the bull attacked him, Mr. Leslie struck him with a piece of lead pipe. This failed to stop | the attack and the bull forced Mr. Leslie to the ground. Mr. Leslie's son kept the bull from further attack by throwing rocks which attracted the ani mal's attention and enabled Mr. Leslie to get to his feet. Mr. Leslie was bruised so se verely it was necessary to call a physician, who said his condition | is serious but not critical. Will Name Jap Cabinet Today TOKYO, July 7.—(UP).—Pre mier Keisuke Okada ended pro longed controversies among politi cal leaders today when he decid ied to appoint three Seiyukai and two Minseito party members to his cabinet. He was expected to complete his selections and present them to the throne before nightfall. The Seiyukai party which ia dominant in the Diet, and Premier | Okada were at loggerheads, pre sumably because Okada had re fused to appoint a Seiyukai mem •' ber as home minister. BONDHOLDERS LOSE IN FIRST LEGAL BRUSH Court Sustains Position Taken by Asheville; Mandamus Invalid ASHEVILLE, July 7.—Ruling that a writ of mandamus was not maintainable against the City of Asheville until the creditor had secured judgment and shown fail ure to pay, Judge E. Yates Webb sustained in U. S. district court here yesterday the position of the city that the American Savings Bank company, of Cleveland, in its $5,225 bond default suit against the city, could not join a prayer for judgment and petition for mandamus. Judge Webb's order requires the city to file an answer within 30 days to portions of the com plaint of the bank relating to the prayer for judgment of $5,225, plus interest, but does not re quire answer to the four para graphs of the complaint relating to the mandamus and alleged fail ure and refusal of city authori ties to levy sufficient tax to meet debt service charges. The Cleveland bank, in its com plaint filed in the court on March 8, asked for a judgment and <x writ of mandamus requiring the city to levy a tax to pay the judg ment. City Manager George L. j Hackney and the nine members , of the city council — Mayor Wickes Wamboldt, Jack Westall, Plott Boyd, E. H. Miller, H. W. Rainey, H. G. Brookshire, Jos. W. Little, John E. Baumberger, and Charles F. Crow—were named as party defendants. In answer, the city filed two demurrers and a motion to strike which took the position that the plaintiff could not seek the man damus until a judgment had been obtained and failure to pay had been shown the court. Judge Webb's far-reaching de cision in the case answers a de bate (as to whether a prayer for judgment and petition for man damus could be joined) which lo cal attorneys have been engaged in since the city and county went into default more than three years ago. Clarence E. Blackstock, corpo ration counsel, represented the city, and Charles G .Lee, Jr., of Asheville, represented the plain tiff in the court hearing yester day morning. Mr. Blackstock advised the court that the Bandholders' and Noteholders' Protective commit tees, representing the majority creditors of the city, would file suit in about two weeks to ascer tain the validity of all notes and bonds issued by the city. He intimated that Asheville might take the position taken by the City of Hendersonville in its answer to the bond default suit I (Continued on page three) U. S. Postoffice Department Has Profit Showing WASHINGTON, July 7.—(UP). The postoffice department is out of the red for the first time in 15 years. William L. Slattery, depart ment controller, revealed last nieht that with the end of the fiscal year, June 30, the depart ment nad a prospective surplus of $5,850,000. Sale of special stamp issues and savings of millions through new airmail contracts brought about the surplus, Slattery said.' Name Asked For Coming Carnival The Chamber of Commerce will donate two reserved seats for the carnival and pageant to be staged in Laurel Park on August 16 to the person suggesting the most suitable name for this event, it was announced this morning. The Chamber of Commerce plans to make this an annual event and the name should be suitable for use each year. The name should also bear some sig nificance to Hendersonville and the summer season here. Chamber of Commerce officials , will act as judges and suggestions j should be taken to the chamber J office. AMERICAN SAILORS RIOT IN FRANCE AFTER RADIO MAN OF U.S.S. ARKANSAS IS SHOT Victim Is Alleged to Have Attacked French Woman; 20 Naval Seamen Spend Night in Jail at Nice ' NICE, France, July 7.—(UP). American sailors on shore leave gave Nice an evening of rioting last night when members of crews of the Wyoming and Arkansas damaged cafes and fought the populace in many sections. J.Kline, radio operator of the Arkansas, was shot in the throat by a Nice detective when he al legedly attacked a French wo man. He was takeji to a hos pital. Another seaman suffered a fractured skull in bitter fighting in the Cafe de Paris when a gang of sailors tried to wreck the place. Twenty Americans were arrest ed. The 850 midshipmen of the United States naval academy who GOVERNMENT WILL BUILD BIG POWER PUNT IN PIEDMONT LINCOLNTON, July 7. (UP) Plans for government financing of a $6,600,000 steam electric power plant to serve 15 Pied- j mont towns was revealed today by W. H. Childs, city attorney. LONG PUSHES 'SPITE' BILLS Those Passing Louisiana House Get Senate Com mittee Okeh BATON ROUGE, La., July 7. (UP).—Senator Huey P. Long's "spite" taxes on newspapers, .cot ton brokers and public utilities approached final enactment last night in the state legislature. All three measures were passed by the senate finance committee. The house has already approved them. The newspaper tax was amend ed to include all papers with more than 20,000 circulation a week. Cotton exchange officials an nounced they were moving to Houston, Texas, if the tax is im posed on them. A. R. Christovich, cotton bro kers' attorney, said the tax would be prohibitive. It was designed to produce $400,000 a year revenue, which would mean, he said, that the exchange traders would be taxed $2,000 a year each. He said the exchange would leave the state and throw 1,500 persons out of jobs in New Orleans. C. P. Ellis, president, and C. W. Wells, vice-president of the ex change, appeared before the com mittee and protested against be ing "forced out of business in the state." Huey Long, whose senatorship is in the national congress and not in the state legislature, sat with and ruled the committee. His powerful political machine con trols the legislature and he has taken personal charge of it. Bishop Gribbin At St. John's Sunday Bishop Robert Emmett Gribbin will preach at St. John's in the Wilderness, Sunday, July 8 at 11 a. m. Bishop Gribbin is at the con ference at Kanuga Lake this week and the congregation of St. John's feels especially fortunate in se curing him for tomqrrow, ' The choir will sing Dudley Buck's Jubilate in C, Knox's Te Deum in G, and as an offertory, "Twilight and Dawn," arranged by Speaks. ADJUDGED INDECENT CHICAGO, July 7.—(UP).— Mr. and Mrs. Samuela Wallace, who married nude at the World's fair were found guilty of "inde cent exhibition" in court today. LEAVE FOR AUGUSTA Messrs. Harvey Fox, Walter Murphy and Joe Thomas will leave tonight for Augusta, Ga., after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Lyda. i - arrived aboard the two battle ships which anchored at. Ville franche were reported well be haved and aboard ship at 11 p. m. The rough-housing was unpre cedented in Nice which is accus tomed to visiting sailors. Naval and military police were unable to control the sailors. A score stormed the Cafe De Paris, threw china, broke glasses and fought with patrons. Ship's officers in civilian clothes were unable to exercise their authority. All shore leaves were reported cancelled after the outbreak. The seaman with the fractured skull was taken to the hospital ward aboard one of the battle ships. PAPEN SEEING Will Appeal to German President; Army Foiled His Murder ty FREDERICK OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, July 7.—(UP).—A fresh drive against monarchistic conservatives was feared today after it had become known Vice Chancellor Franz von Pappen is determined to go over Chancellor Adolf Hitler's head, carrying his case directly to President Paul von Hindenburg. The United Press was informed by reliable sources that Von Pa pen intended to proceed to Neu deck, East Prussia, and explain the futility of his continuing in a cabinet dominated by Hitler. He has remained through the events of the past bloody week only at the president's insistence, and may again ask permission to quit the Nazi ministry. Three members of Von Papen's staff were released from custody yesterday "after they proved they had no connection with the plot ters," it was revealed. The angered vice-chancellor de manded the government produce proofs of anything they have against his staff, on which they were originally arrested. He de manded Hitler clarify his own present status. Failing to gain satisfaction in any quarter, he determined again to proceed to Neudeck and lay the facts before the aged president. What upheaval may occur from such a talk can only be conjec tured, but it is known that Von Hindenburg has high admiration and affection for the vice-chan cellor and may go far to protect him. MURDER OF VON PAPEN BLOCKED BY ARMY VIENNA, Austria, July 7.— (UP). — Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany, was slat ed to have been murdered on "bloody Saturday" in Berlin but was saved by the reichswehr (army) at the last moment, the newspaper Neuigkeits Welblatt said yesterday. The newspaper said a murder squad was already on the way to Von Papen's quarters in Berlin last Saturday, when the reichs wehr saved the vice-chancellor's life. A company with two machine (Continued jn page three) First Ot Tourist Programs Success , A large and appreciative audi ence attended the first of. the Chamber of Commerce free Fri day night entertainments at the city high school auditorium last evening, at which time a program featuring varied forms of enter tainment was presented. The large crowd, consisting of local people and summer visitors, entirely filled the lower floor of the auditorium and conrfortably filled the balcony. The program consisted ocf danc ing by several dancers from the Child-Fluker school, bv dancers from Camp Ton-a-WandaJj, whist ling numbers by Mrs. Fred Sud duth, and community singing'. - LABOR CRISES DICTATORSHIP STARTS SOON few National Labor Rela tions Board Replaces Wagner Board WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP), o the tune of cracked heads and ead and wounded strikers on 'idespread industrial fronts, the ew national labor relations board 'hich President Roosevelt hopes 'ill end industrial strife, will hold ;s first organization meeting ere Monday. The board replaces the Wagner ational labor board which was ound so ineffectual the adminis ration pressed for and obtained assage of legislation authorizing he new setup. The group will have supreme ower in all labor crises, its dict ates not even being subject to eview by the executive branch of he government. Also it will hold irbitrary power over all existing abor disputes boards and is au horized to create new ones as mergencies arise. Confronting it at the outset vrill be industrial wars unparal eled in the past decade. In San Francisco and other Pa :ific coast cities, striking long shoremen are fighting for union recognition in one of the most prolonged and bloody labor con licts the present administration las faced. In the background 200,000 steel workers are threatening to strike, presaging another sanguine ;var. When the walkout nrsr was ;hreatened, numerous steel com panies were said to have fortified :heir plants, moving in supplies 3f machine guns, tear gas and stench bombs, laying war-time aarber wire entanglements and Dtherwise preparing for war. Left wing, or direct action jnionists, meantime, were pre dicting one of the bloodiest pe riods in steel's ruggedly colorful history. The strike is in abeyance at the moment, pending mediation of differences between unionists and steel barons but minus definite in dications the walk-out will be forestalled. Numerous other conflicts, but tvith results less bloody than those obtaining in San Francisco, face the board. Others are in the naking. For its first act it is believed the board will bring about rapid realignment of all existing boards. Many probably will be junked be cause they overlap or have served their purpose. There are more than 40 groups, including the new longshoremen and steel boards just created by Mr. Roosevelt. These latter will not be tampered with at the out set, it was said, but may be modi fied or expanded if they fail of their purpose. Members of the new supreme court of labor are Lloyd Garri son, Wisconsin, chairman; Henry A. Millis, University of Chicago, and Edwin S. Smith, Boston. Pay Restoration Hopes Are Gone Federal Employes Not to Get Immediate Action WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP). Hopes of federal employes fori immediate restoration of the last third of their 15 per cent pay cut I were blasted yesterday when the President issued an executive or der, postponing the restoration for six months. The chief executive based his action on a survey of living costs | which, the order pointed out, are ' 20.2kper cent less than during the 1928 peak. The original 15 per cent pay cut was ordered last year. Five per cent of this amount was re stored on February 1, 1934, and five per cent more on July 1. The thousands of employes af fected had hoped the remaining five per cent would be re-instated at once. TO ADDRESS STUDENTS LEXINGTON, Ky., July 7.— (UP).—Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at noon from Berea to speak at the Memorial hall of the University of Kentucky in a chapel session for summer students. ———— <1 Denies Rumored Paris Wedding She's on her first vacation in four years, but Miss Marguerite Le Hand, private secretary to the President, is still busy—denying rumors that she went abroad to marry. She's shown as she ap peared on arriving in Paris. m AIDING KEY WEST CITY i Emergency Program Pre cedes Permanent Reha bilitation Scheme JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. July 7. — (UP).—The federal emergency relief administration yesterday afternoon launched an emergency public works program in the city of Key West and Monroe county as an immediate alleviation of economic distress brought about by a shifting of industry. State FERA Administrator J. F. Stone, after a conference with Gov. Dave Sholtz of Florida, an nounced that the emergency pro gram would consist of improve ments in sanitation and water works and then a city and coun ty-wide cleanlup and paintup campaign. After the emergency program and further study of their prob lems, Administrator Stone and B. M. Duncan, state road department engineer, will work out a plan for permanent restoration of the county to a self-supporting basis^ A shift of industry—including' removal of the naval base, reduc tions in army personnel, removal of a cigar manufacturing concern employing 10,000 persons, and re routing from the city of trade routes—had put more than half of the city's 12,000 population on direct relief rolls. An insight into the economic plight of the city government is (Continued on page three) Biggest Key West Theatre Wrecked Projecting Room Explosion Fatal to Small Boy KEY WEST, Fla., July 7. (UP) —An explosion in the projecting room destroyed the Strand thea ter—the city's largest showhouse —and fatally burned 10-year-old Jack Perez, son of Manolo Perez, motion picture maehine operator, here yesterday. The father suf fered serious bums. The fire raged for three houts, threatening the main business block for a time. NEW SUPPLIES FORWARDED TO CHAM'S AREAS Sale Was Made Before Federal Embargo Was » Effective COLOMBIANWARSHIP MEN DIE OF PLAGUE WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP). It was learned today that a $2, 000,000 shipment of arms and munitions may slip through to the Gran Chaco battle zone despite the supposed embargo invoked by the American government to dis- \ courage war in South America. The American action, which was in the form of an order pro hibiting sales of arms and muni tions in the United States to Paraguay and Bolivia didn't pre vent the shipment of arms. The $600,000 cargo left Nor folk for Bolivia after the order was issued. This was made possible by a state department ruling that the ownership of munitions changed hands at an earlier date so that the actual sale was not involved in the dispatch of the cargo. Bolivia sent a note to the Unit ed States requesting the delivery of all goods for which contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the munitions order. The $600,000 was a down pay ment on a $2,000,000 order. DEATH SHIP IN NEW ORLEANS PORT NEW ORLEANS, La., July 7. — (UP).—A Colombian warship steamed into port yesterday, reek ing with the dead of a war that was never fought. Fever and amoebic dysentery ravaged the army of 1,000 that boarded her for a campaign up the Amazon river. The ship, formerly the Ironia, renamed the Cuidad de Pasto. sailed from New Orleans May 3. The Colombian government char tered her from the United Fruit company, as a transport boat. She was to convey troops into the jun gle for the anticipated war with Peru. Dr. Luis Borrero, consul gen eral of Colombia in New Orleans, sailed as commander. The ship put in at Puerto Colombia, took aboard 1,000 riflemen, machine gunners and macheteros, and sailed up the Amazon. The plan was to disembark a strong and mobile force to cut through the jungles and execute a flank attack on the Peruvian foroes. Plague overtook them. Men died by the scores. The bodies were thrown overboard. Belin Del Para was reached. Hero other transports were docked. The crew of one ship deserted en masse and fled into the jungle. Soldiers captured them and pus them aboard the Cuidad De Pasto as prisoners. A protocol was signed between Colombia and Peru on May 2Q, settling their boundary dispute and ending prospects for war. VANCE ttUhh PASSES AWAY Body Being Returned to Indiana Home for Burial Vance Ecoff, 34, a resident of Hendersonville for about two years, died at his home on Fifth avenue west this morning at 6 o'clock. The remains were to be sent to Anderson, Ind., this afternoon for burial there. His death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Ecoff was a native of In diana, but came here about two years ago for his health. He is survived by his widow, his moth er, and four small children. RELIEF REPORT RALEIGH, July 7.—(UP).— The Civil Works and Relief Ad ministration provided almost a million jobs during the fiscal year which ended June 30, Mrs. Tho*. O'Berry, administrator, reported today. GOES TO NEW YORK Don Hudson Branstetter return ed to his home in New York city yesterday after a month's visit I with his parents, Drs. H. F. and Bertha Branstetter at 213 Flem ling atreet. • « ir'tuJu
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