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WEATHER Somewhat colder; fair tonight tad Wednesday. (Tin* (Tunrs GOOD AFTERHOOH Hard Irwoclro may b« Fool for all of tu, bat the baoehall pinch hitter u the one they really help moat. yOL 53—No. 212 __.r V- V HENDERSON VILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS | Solid Fuel Code Authority Resigns mRGE CODE Is WIPED OUT '••Emasculated" to Useless ness by Continual NRA Changes TRIED TO FUNCTION DESPITE OBSTACLES WASHINGTON. Sept. 4. (UP) —Charging that the NRA had "exa-culateii" the code lor the :'ur! industry and left (•n!v a "skeleton." the code au thority resigned in a body here last night. Those submitting their resigna tions to Administrator Hugh S. Johnson were: Roderick Stephens, New York, chairman; Milton E. Robinson. Jr.. Chicago. Ill, vice- j chairman; C'.arence V. Beck. St. Louis Mo.; William A. Clark, i Boston. Mass.; Charles M. Farrar, i Raleigh. X. C.; Edward B. Jacobs.! leading. Pa., and John McLach- j Ian. Pulhwn, 111. | In the letter of resignation, the I code authority said the last hopes | 9 .. eft ft re results under the code ■ were destroyed by an NRA an V b .••••. that provisions of the I t-may be modified at ■ without prior notice to or consent of the industry. The authority contended that Johnson had no authority to act on hi> own initiative and arbt-1 trariiv impose amendments. The members of the authority came to 1 the capital and conferred with hijrn officials of tho NRA who as 1 --red them that JohWfum did hav this power. "As now emi NRA, the code is toriable thms.'* 4^' Mei Johnson m0t- '■vactilwUny poti-l ftk ®9Ml*nt delays "»* aecurino: <*'WiioAs vital tf» administration, ^nd disregard of clear under Jtar.dings originally entered into] with this industry at the time the I fotie was approved, made it evi-l dent that there is no hope for cf fevtive administration of enforce ment." The letter stated that the Na tional Code Authority and the di- j visional code authorities have uni formly accepted their responsibil-' itif> in sincerity and good faith. "They have attempted to func tion in spite ot' constant obstacles and disappointments," it was ' >taCe<I. "Upon NRA must rest the j •responsibility for this out-j Liorae. The NRA was blamed by the tfde authority for the constantly (Continued on page six.) IISH WAR VETS GATHER State Commander Lyerly, Other Visitors Heard as 150 Meet Here Approximately 150 veterans of the Spanish-American war attend ed a meeting at the home of L. I- Merchant yesterday. The meet in? opcne'i at 11 o'clock in the morning; lunch was served in [bountiful r'us'nion on the ground, j'j t afternoon session w ^ol.owing the meeting a parade automobiles from the Merchant !"me Hendersonville and twice °*n Main street was held. The officials furnished a motor fc'j escort which met the parade 1 rf,e city limits and escorted it thr°"Kh the city. Members attending were large- j |Jv from the Thomas W. Patton-! Post of Spanish War Veterahas. of , n viH®. John 1). Cole, of "Ashe-! ;• c°mmander of the post, pre Sl',es the meeting. Mr. Mer- j nt, at whose home the meet-, 1 ' was held, is a past state com- j mander. i ^ principal speaker was Eu *rt Lyerly, of Hickory, who is | * 0fth Carolina department com- \ gander. Hon. H. B. Leavitt, of I >neviUe> also a past state com "a"der, was also herad in an ad dress. Mrs. R. C. Stevens, whose hus an<i ^as an active member of Asheville post, presented a to the post in memory of her •'■Jsband. Mrs. Minnie Sickafus, President of the Asheville auxil lar- chapter,, als ospoke briefly. vmRes °f Henderson -11**. was a speaker at the after °aon session. W aiting for Trouble in Textile Strike These South Carolina National Guardsmen didn't have to -wait long before going into action as a result of the textile workers' strike. They are shown encamped outside a cotton mill at Seneca, S. C. A few minutes after this picture was taken they were called on to quell a strike riot in which seven men were arrested. HOOVER SEES LIBERTY WANE IN NEW DEAL' Gives Views on "Usurpa tion" of Rights by Government tjHILflLDELPHIA. Sept. 4. (UP). president Herbert Hoo ver, in hi* frnf pubuc statement. since' leaving the "White House, last night denounced- fundamen tal concepts of Pre&fc*^ Franklin D. Roosevelt's "new ^Jew'' pro gram and warned Americans they gradually are being stripped of personal libety. In a copyrighted article, "The Challenge to Liberty," in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Hoover forecast a "Vast Casual ty to Liberty" if thP administra tion's program of regimentation is carried to a logical conclusion. He refused to agree that "man is a pawn of the state" and saw in the trend of present Ameri can politics "a usurpation of the primary liberties of man by gov ernment. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even the govern ment may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the state. The Republican leader warned Americans against following will o'-the wisps "which lead either to the swamps of primitive greed or to political tyranny." "For the first time in two generations," Mr. Hoover assert ed, "the American people are face,j with the primary issue of humanity and all government— the issue of human liberty." Throughout his article, with out mentioning it by name, Mr. Hoover stressed the tendency of the administration to follow the examplp of European dictator continued on page six) WIDE SUPPORT FOR COUNTY FAIR HERE IS PREDICTED Monday Night Meeting Marked by Favorable Discus sion; Will Incorporate H. B. Kelly was named a." torn. I porary manager of the Henderson County Fair association at a meet ing of about 25 interested per sons at the city hall last night, and plans for a county fair dur ing the second week in October were discussed. Mr. Kelly will be in charge of arrangements for the fair until another meeting is held, at which ; time it is expected that the or ganization will be incorporated under the laws of the state and officers and directors elected. A fair expert from the Krause j Greater Shows will be here to , morrow to discuss plans for the fair. Mr. Kelly presided and stated I the purpose for which the meet i ing was called. He reported that ja contract had alreadv been I signed with the Krause Greater | Shows for the midway attractions. The show concern agrees to 1 furnish eight shows, six riding devices, a number of concessions, an experienced fair manager at i no extra cost, two large exhibi tion tents for the purpose of j showing exhibits, and free acts. I Discussion last night was en tirely favorable for the fair. A number of vocational agricultural I teachers and home economics 1 teachers from the county schools were present and voiced the opin ion that the farmers of the coun ty will give their loyal support to | the fair. i Some discussion was entered into relative to the manner of showing exhibits, but it was de cided to leave the detail work un til after the association is incor porated* . FOREIGNERS TO POLICE SAAR BASIN DURING PLEBISCITE League of Nations Approves Special Commission Re quest for Preservation of Order in Voting By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Sept. 4.—(UP).— The Leagu#> of Nations last night approved its Saar commission's request for foreign police in that controversial basin to preserve order during the plebiscite sched uled for next January. The inhabitants are to vote on whether to return to German, go over to France or remain under the administration of the league. Geoffery Knox, chairman of the commission and strong advo cate of foreign soldiery or police for the Saar to prevent the Nazis from influencing the voters, re quested that he be permitted to bring in police from outside to patrol the basin prior to and dur ing th<» ballot. His request caused a stir in league circles, an,j met with de termined opposition in Berlin. However, Germany has with drawn from thp league and Adolf Hitler within the last fortnight has opened a campaign for the return of the Saar to the reich, i calling on the German populace i there to support him and vote i for rejoining the fatherland. VIOLENCE FEARED AS TENSION GROWS ; Tension has bee ngrowing for I months, as the plebiscite nears, and Knox predicted outbreak of violence unless unbaised foreign police were on hand to control the situation. The league's ac tion approving his request came through A gusto de Vasconcellos. .of Portugal, acting on behalf of the league council. On the disarmament front, the league also moved forward yes terday announcing that tI,P con ference's steering committee would meet September 25, to al low Norman H. Davis to attend. The date was tentative, depend ing on whether Davis, chief American delegate to the dying parley, would be able to reach Geneva by that time. I " The- announcement was follow- J (Continued on page 3). DOUG DAVIS IS RACE VICTIM Noted Air Pilot Falls to Death at Cleveland; Turner Is Winner AIRPORT, Cleveland. Sept. 4. (UP).—Plucky little Doug Davis, flying in the face of a premoni tion of death, crashed and died last night in the wreckage of his speed plane while rounding a Py lon in the $10,000 Thompson tro phy race. Flashing past the mangled body of his fallen competitor, Col. Ros coe Turner of Los Angeles, who had trailed the Atlanta speed pi lot for G5 miles of the 100-mile race, shot across the finish line to win the trophy and the $4,500 first prize. The crash occurred behind the huge grandstand at the National Air Races. More than 125,000 air fans who did not know for two hours that the flier had died in the accident, were saddened when they learned that Doug Davis had sacrificed his life on the altar of speed—for the advancement of aviation. Davis' plane, a Weddell-Wil liams racer—the same in which the late Jimmy Weddell set the world's landspeed record last year—was ground into a mass of twisted steel by the crash. The flier's body was broken and torn. Both legs were severed. His head was crushed. Flying a plane of the same make, but with a much more pow erful motor, Turner won with an average of 248.129 miles an hour, some four miles an hour less than the Thompson trophy record set by Major James H. Doolittle in 1932 at Chicago. Davis entered the Thompson trophy race against his better judgment. He had feared that (Continued on page 3). MORE REGISTRATIONS OF VISITORS AT C. C ANNOUNCED TODAY The Chamber of Commerce of fice today announced additional registrations, as follows: Mrs. Gordon Graham, Mrs. D. C. Keller, Mrs. F. L. Holliday, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram E. Bryant, Mary E. Clevenger, J. S. S. Paiers, Helen Ann Bejach, Marie G. Ly ons, Isabel Reilly, and Alfred T. Brown, all of Cincinnati; Mabel B. Younger, of Cleveland. Elsie R. Burhenn, Lakewood, 0.; Arthur W. Paul, Elyria, 0.; Dr. and Mrs. J. Vita Greenebaum, Cincinnati; Marion Harmon, Mc Cormick, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Rogers, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Mrs. H. E. Hernandez, St. Augus tine; Mrs. John Gradey, St. Au gustine; Mrs. D. V. Plummer, St. Petersburg; W. H. MacNain, Tar boro; Daisey E-. Douglas, Braden ton, Fla. ICKES URGES MORE SPENDING TO BRING ABOUT RECOVERY IN REPLY TO ALARMED CRITICS Fishing Boat Is Blown to Pieces 9ne Person Killed Off Cali fornia Coast, 3 Injured SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 4.— {UP).—One person was killed and three others seriously burned when an explosion aboard the fishinp boat Francisco blew the craft to pieces today. The explosion spread flames along the waterfront but firemen prevented their spread to other vessels. MEN PUN DISTRICT MEET Delegates to Convention Here Will Be Chosen Thursday Night Preparatory to a district meet ing of Woodmen of the World, to be held here on October 17 and 18, when White Pine Camp No. 2J3 will be host, a meeting: of all ntefrilrt'ra has been called for next Thursday night, September 6, at which time the local camp will elect its own delegates to the forthcoming district meeting. J. C. Brown, clerk of the local camp announces that State Man ager E. B. Lewis and Assistant State Manager T. E. Newton will be among tbe visitors to the dis# trict convention here. Delegate;* /rom the entire district, compris ing all the Western North Caro lina counties, will be here for the convention. Junior Order Has District Meet In County Monday [ 100 Members and Famil ies Gather for the Day at Orr's Camp The annual meeting of the second district of the Junior Or der of United American Mechan 1 ics was held yesterday afternoon and last night at Orr's Camp, near Hendersonville, with about 1 100 members and members of their families in attendance. The second district is composed of Henderson, Polk, Rutherford ton, Buncombe, and Transylvania I counties. A session was held in the aft j ernoon, followed by dinner at 7 [ o'clock. J. C. Coston, of Hender | sonville, assistant state secretary, was toastmaster at the dinner and presided over the evening session at 8 o'clock. Speakers on the occasion were: •Tames F. Barrett, of Henderson ville; L. P. Hamlin, of Brevard, past state councillor, and B. C. Sisk, of Pleasant Garden, state councillor. All of the spea kers were heard briefly. Boy Scouts Will Camp This Week Hendersonville Boy .Scouts will go to Camp Daniel Boone Wed nesday morning1, leaving 9:00 o'clock. Their departure was postponed from today, for which time it was originally scheduled. All Scouts are asked to meet at the headquarters of Troop 2, on Legion hill, in the reaa* of the American Legion clubhouse. They are advised to bring plen ty of blankets, grub for four meals, lanterns, flashlights", first aid kits, and sach other equip ment as they may desire. The campers wiU return Thurs day afternoon. TAYLOR TRIAL OPENS BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 4. (UP).< Judge J. Russell McElroy today overruled thf: defense motion for j continuance of the case against | Harold Taylor, 28, charged with the murder of Faye New, Howard college pre-medical student. Se- j lection of the jury was begun. | Sympathetic Strike Will Leave Chicago Without Transportation WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) j Secretary of the Interior Ickes ! said today that the government should continue to spend what ever sum seems reasonably neces sary to bring about recovery, re plying to critics who expressed alarm at the huge amounts dis bursed by the administration for relief and recovery. GOVERNMENT NOT TO UNDERWRITE STRIKE HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 4. (UP).—The government has no intention of underwriting the na tion-wide strike in the textile in dustry, Harry Hopkins, federal relief administrator who is visit ing President Roosevelt at the summer White House, said yes terday. "If the strikers think so they will be sadly mistaken," Hopkins observed. Reiterating the relief adminis tration's policy, Hopkins added that aid would be given to all in dire need of it, irrespective of strikes. This, however, was in terpreted as merely a continua tion of the neutral position of the government in all labor dispuates. President Roosevelt, meanwhile, who yesterday gave over the ma jority of his time to an observ ance of the Labor Day holiday, nevertheless was prepared to re ceive reports of all developments although friends were emphatic that he was taking no active part in the situation involving nearly 1,000,000 workers. CHICAGO WILL BE WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—(UP).— Representatives of 15,000 street car operators today empowered union officers to order a sympa thetic strike with the bus drivers. Five thousand elevated railroad workers are expected to follow suit, leaving the city without transportation facilities. BRliufTTO I SPEAK IN CITYj Is Among Leaders in Fight Against New Con stitution Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt was in the city this morning enroute to Ashe«ille. '.Mr. Brummitt is well known in Hendersonville, having made sev eral addresses on various sub jects, especially to the graduat ing class of the city high school. Mr. Brummitt is expected to make an address in this city, in early October, according to John Ewbank, in opposition to the pro posed constitution. It is prob able he will speak in the court house. the date and hour to be announced later. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) —The New Dealers carried mes j »ages of encouragement to the na tion yesterday in far-flung Labor I lay speeches. Secretary of Labor Frances Pa rkins said in a radio address tha t employment was 34 per cent higjher than it was i/i March 1933. <4 Progress has been made un der the recovery program" she said. "The increase in jobs and payrft lis has added a vast sum to our to tal purchasing power. Plans for so cial insurance which will not re\ ard recovery and at the same time mean development of a more stable income are now being studied." At Wichita, Kansas, William Green, pi-esident of the American Federation of Labor, predicted NRA would remain a fixture in the industiial and scoial life of the nation. "Pure rugged individualism failed to provide economic bal ance and .maintain work oppor Holds 'Key' Post In NRA Conflict Final decision on the future of NRA may be swayed by a wom an, a tireless, capable executive, whose rise is one of the New Deal's spectacular incidents—Miss Frances Robinson, above, General Hugh Johnson's "right hand." Her advice to Johnson to "make a dra matic exit" may shape his course in the furious battle now raging. Frances Robinson NRA Secretary (s Hard Worker (s Walking Card Index to Recovery Codes; Mem ory Vice Like By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1934, United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) —Some nights Frances Robinson pets away from the NRA as early as 10 o'clock and takes a taxicab out to the Sisters of Mercy Home —a club residence for business women where she rents a room. It is only time—day or night —that she gets away from the mad-house in the Commerce De partment building where NRA is hewing a new trail for American business. Her working days aver age 16 hours; sixteen hours of trying to control and regulate the horde that descends every day on Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. Officially she is his administra tive assistant, but that vague title covers everything from taking shorthand notes to turning away crack pots who have composed a song in honor of the Blue Eagle and insist on singing it to John son. Eight months ago Johnson was holding a press conference. His eyes were red and heavy from lack of sleep. Newspapermen were shooting questions at him faster than he could answer them. Fi nally there came one about an obscure detail of the automobile code. ( "I don't know," boys," Johnson said, wearily. "Ask the little skirt, she probably does." The "little skirt" was a short, brown-haired girl in a black dress with a pair of business-like horn rimmed spectacles on her nose. She knew all right and that was I (Continued on page 3.) 'NEW DEALERS' HAVE FIELD DAY OF PEP SPEECHES ON MONDAY Secretary Perkins Points Out That Employment Is 34 Per Cent Higher Than for March, 1933 Level tunities for men and women who were willing and able to work," he said. "It is the opinion of la bor that unless those who own and control private enterprise, adjust themselves to the change which has taken place, the people through their own government will find a way by which they can require private industry to serve the needs of all the people." Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, speaking in Birmingham, Ala., said the object of the Roose velt administration was "a bal anced society that will protect both property and human rights and reward fairly the worker, the executive and the capitalist." At Niagara Falls, N. Y., Secre tary of War George H. Dern dedi cated Old Fort Niagara, by say ing: "This fort stands as a monu ment to the fact that races may dwell in amity, that nations maj be good neighbors, even as indi viduals." CLAIM STRIKE IS 50 PER CENT EFFECTIVE NOW Mob Stops Operations of Gastonia Mill; One Settlement Seen FLYING SQUADRONS OF PICKETS ACTIVE GASTONIA, Sept. 4.—(UP). —A mob broke into the Ragan Spinning company's plant here to day, pulled the switches and re moved the belts from the ma chinery. Caldwell Ragan, treasurer of the concern, addressed the mob, saying their action was a "damn able outrage." ATLANTA, Sept. 4.—(UP).— Flying squadrons of union pick ets today toured southern mill districts, forcing the closing of plants where there appeared to bo little strike sentiment. Latest reports indicated that 50 per cent of the 300,000 textile workers in the South had quit their looms. Chairman C. M. Fox, of the state strike committee, estimated 75,000 of the 96,000 workers in TEXTILE MILLS HERE RUNNING ON SCHEDULE Henderson county's textile industries, the Balfour mill and the Green River mill, were op erating on regular schedule as usual today. Both mills reported every thing as usual. There are no local union organizations at either mill. The Green River mill has about 190 employees working on two shifts and the Balfour mill has about 270 employees working on two shifts. North Carolina were out; 20,000 were out in South Caroiina; 15, 000 in Alabama, and 1,000 in Tennessdfe. The possibility of a strike set tlement appeared when union of ficials left Charlotte for Shelby, N. C., on a report that mill own ers there might accede to labor's demands. MORE TROOPS CALLED OUT IN^ SOUTH CAROLINA ATLANTA, Sept. 4.—(UP).— Labor resorted to violence in the South today as it sought to make the textile strike more effective. About 225 mills in the Carolina# were reported closed and uhion pickets were striving to cfose mills in other states where the walkout was less effective. Governor Ibra C. Blackwood of South Carolina ordered additional troops to Spartanburg and Green ville to prevent disorders. A survey this morning indicat ed that the strike in the South is from 36 to 40 per cent effective, with approximately 110,000 of the 275,000 workers in the Cero linas, Georgia and Alabama idle. MILL SUPERINTENDENT BEATEN 'UNCONSCIOUS MACON, Ga., Sept 4.—(UP). A dozen strike pickets beat Lem Worthan, mill superintendent, un conscious here this morning after i Worthan drove an ' automobile through the picket Ihie. The pick iets then overturned the automo bile containing four mill execu tives, throwing the oceupants into the street. - * ■ , SAY OVER HALF OF N UNION MEN ARE OUT ' WASHINGTON, Sept.,4. UJ1J) —Strike leaders here said today that more than 50 per cent of union workers have responded to the strike order and that by to morrow more than 300,000 will have left their jobs. George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute ad mitted that the union estimates (Continued on page £.) Dickey To Speak Wednesday Night C. C. Division^ Manager to Confer With Local Board Attention was called today to the visit here Wednesday of L. P. Dicker, manager of the sontheaa tern division of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who will speak to the members of the local organization Wednesday; Sept; 5, at 9 p. m., at the city court room. Prior to his address tomorrow evening, Mr. Dickie will confcr with the directorate of the Cham ber of Commerce hero at the headquarters, 608 North Main stmt, at 5 j>, in..
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