WEATHER
Thund^rshowers tonight; gen
erally fair and cooler Sunday.
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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
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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.
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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. • «
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