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WEATHER Fair Thursday niyht and prob ably Friday; not much change in temperature. (Tin4 cTtntrs SB GOOD AFTERNOON Louisiana is beaded for Hitler ism, warns a legislator, but it's to be hoped that Huey Long stop* •hort of the mustache* HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934 SINGLE COPIES. FIVE CENTS g evidence uncovered in kidnap case fonptmann's Trunk Yields Hap of Sourland, Region of Lindbergh Home «W JERSEY GRAND JURY WILL CONVENE \EW VORK-. Oct. 4 —(UP)— Hauptmann s trunk today !?ded of the Sour* Ld mountain district from which Sari** \. Lindbergh, Jr.. was' Pi*trilt Attorne>' Foley jk district attorney said the constituted one of the most important pieces of evidence un covered. „ , , Foley said Hauptmann had mi bbW knowledge of the area from *hich the child was abducted and ifcre he was later found slain. \ German-American dictionary vis also found in Hauptmann's | bone Folev said, tending to sup- i port the theory that the writer of I the ransom notes referred to a dictionary, which was suspected fcaui,? the writer often mis jHi!« small words, while longer mp which might have been in the dictionary were piy rorrectly. Obr road maps found in tho trakovered the Martha's vine Yard in! Buzzard's Bay region of | ti» Misachusetts coast where on# nfljom note directed Lino | befjii to a small boat which was act found. Legs! machinery which may send Bruno Hauptmann to the electric chair on a charge of mur dering Babv Charles Augustus Lindbenrh. Jr.. was put in motion !ast nisht at Flemington. N. J., while New York authorities were preparing to place the prisoner on trial on an extortion indict ment. Sheriff John H. Curtiss of Hun terdon county, New Jersey, was Detracted to call an immediate session of the county grand jury to brinsj fresh indictfents asrainst Hauptmann and it appeared like ly that the sullen German carpen ter would be taken .icross the Hudson river before the extortion ease was brought to trial in the Bronx. County Judge James M. Bar rat of the Bronx set October 11 # the date for trial of Haupt I wn on the indictment which ac ts?? him of extorting $50,000 from the dead baby's fa Colonel Lindbergh. It was , [ ^ie clear, however, that the ex Itortion case will not be brought to trial then if New Jersey au tiwrities ask for custody of the prisoner. The extortion cas was strength wed when Miss Cecil Barr, thea ;<r cashier, identified Hauptmann the man who had passed a $o P>id certificate, part of the ran •i! money, on Nov. 26, 1933. t Miss Barr's identification re ntes the prisoner's claim that he not aware of the fact that « had ? 14.000 in Lindbergh ran Wci until about a month ago. He (Continued on page five) Believe Danforth Will Command GHQ Air Forces "as Considered Likely Successor to Foulois, Had He Retired Washington, Oct. 4. (UP) Charles H. Danforth, com of I.anjrley Field, Va.. *0 was slated last night •l " Position of commander of f,. nw'7 oreanized GHQ air . * "hp United Press learned iv \ ^ military authority. , w«s said, is re a-^.. *he creneral staff of the 2** M a "comer" in the army c^n>5 an-! at the time of his j r from the post of com • _"ar.t of Randolph field, Texas, % kl , ^ was considered as oml choice for chief of air D p'f Major General Benjamin <jrB°3"0''3 retired. This was at the teo^f special sub-commit ton.5 house military affairs 'ittee had made public its Foulois' conduct of and recommended his dismissal. ormal selection of Danforth the working out of % c°mp!ete detailed plans of hST ^hq air force 3® military authorities scout authenticity of published «>r w nat Bawdier General Os *>r i-nre^°Ver' assistant chief of ^ who was in charge of *0U1, /r nail service last winter, torv . Earned chief «f the new uvl air force. Hope Abandoned For British Ship; 33 Feared Lost Fruitless Search Ends Aft er Three Ships An swered S.O.S. NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—(UP) — The British freighter, Millpool, with between '28 and 33 hand?? on board was feared lost today in a storm off Labrador, after a fruit less search by three ships which responded to her SOS. Last word from the Millpool | said her after hatch was broken, one man had been washed over board, three others were injured, and her topmast gone. COUNTY FAIR BOOTH JUDGING RULES GIVEN Sav All Exhibits Must Be Ready for Judging 8 A. M. Tuesday F'lles for- judeinrr '•ommunitv booth's nt the approarhin? countv fair were given out today as fol lows: 1—Everv*hine shown in the booth must ^e rown o* madp in th* community the exhibit repre sents. 2-—Each «xhib't sh#»II not con tain mcr° than five varieties nf anv one field or rrarden crop, ex cept dco'-ative purposes. 3.—AH fieTH crops must h4* grown in 1934, or this year's crop. 4.—AH booths to be of uni form size, but each community may arrange the booths any way thev choose. 5.—Decorations for booth to be furnished by community show ing booth. 6.—All exhibits must be ready for judging on Tuesday morning ( at 8 a. m. j 7.—All panned goods to be canned in 1934. 8.—Exhibits to be judged by out of the county person or per sons if possible. STATE FAIR SCORE CARD WILL BE USED HERE Booths will be judged by the score card used at the state fair as follows: Field crops, 20 points. Garden crops. 15 points. Home industry, 15 points. Fruits and nuts, 15 points. Educational value, 20 points. Artistic arrangement, fifteen points. TO LAY EMPHASIS UPON QUALITY In making awards special em phasis shall be given to the qual ity of the field and garden crops.1 fruits, and to the excellence and practical utility of the house in dustry exhibit. The educational value of the exhibit shall be construed to mean practical lessons that may be drawn from it by farmers and others with reference to certain methods of handling, marketing, growing, and selecting seed of different crops; for example, sam ples of corn might be exhibited1 I showing the effects of a system atic. intelligent system of seed se-: lection upon the quality of thei corn as well as .yielding powers. HOME INDUSTRY ENTRIES DEFINED Home industry includes canned; goods, not to exceed 33 cans, no two alike, not more than 15 cans , of preserves, jellies and pickles, no two alike, 50 cans in all; also meat, dairy products, eggs, etc., but not fresh cooked articles or baking. Domestic arts and dried, foods nre to be included. REGISTMTI0NT0 BE AT FLETCHER SCHOOL Frank Smith, registrar for Hooper's Creek precinct, has an-1 nounced that the registration books will open on Saturday, Oc tober 13, for voters in that pre cinct. The oooks will be open for three Saturdays, October 13, 20 and 27. Mr. Smith will be at the Fletcher school house to register voters on these dates from 9 o'clock in the morning- until sundown. MRS. SMYTH LEARNS MOTHER IMPROVING] Mrs. Guy Jordan, of Macon, Ga., mother of Mrs. E. A. Smyth 3rd, who has been critically ill is much improved, according to ai message received by Mrs. Smyth) last night. j AUSTRIAN STORM TROOPS ARE SOLIDLY BEHIND RESTORATION OF HAPSBURGS AND MONARCHY K| - Re-Investment of Properties Now Subject of Negotiat ions and Family's Early Return to Private Citizenship Foreseen By STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA. Oct. 4. (UP).—The royal representatives of the Arch duke Otto Hapsburg have opened negotiations with the Austrian government to determine what portion of the Hapsburg property will be restored to the Archduke j and his mother, the Ex-Empress ' Zita, when the government annuls its exclusion act of 1919, it was learned yesterday. As soon as the property ques tion has been settled, the govern ment will permit the Hapsburg family to return to Austria as "private citizens." "Although the property ques tion is very complicated, we hope to have it settled before Christ mas," Friedrich von Weisner, the Monarchist leader, informed the United Press. Weisner said the popular move ment for the restoration of the Hapsburgs to the throne con tinued to grow. Next Sunday, he said, three more Austrian villages will make Otto an honorary citi zen of their communities, bring ing the number of favorable towns to a total of nearly 300. V It was learned that only 21 hours ago, the Monarchists held a rally in the 18th district of Vi enna. The meeting was presided over by Prince Max Hohenberg,1 and the principal address was made by Major Joseph Kimmel, executive leader of the Catholic Storm Troops. Kimmel declared the Storm Troops were solidly behind the restoration movement. 1 "Austria was a monarchy," he said, "and she will be so again." Webner said the restoration I question was "never so actual'' as it is today. The Monarchists, he reported, were particularly pleased at Foreign Minister Berger Wal denberg's refusel at Geneva to give in to pressure by the Little Entente for an Austrian declara tion opposing the restoration. Col. Rickenbacker Says Whole Cities Will Be Burned By Rays In Next War Planes With Giant Lenses, He Says, Will Concen trate Sun's Rays WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. (UP). A fantastic picture of the next war in which whole cities would be^ burned to ashes by the sun's rays was presented to the federal aviation commission yesterday by Colonel Eddie Rickenbacker, fam ous war ace. He envisioned artillery battles between giant aircraft while ground forces engaged in similar conflict. Airplanes, he said, would carry ^iant lenses to great heights and focus them on the sun's rays. "The resulting heat sent to the ground will burn up cities," he added. Commissioners listened closely while Rickenbacker talked, but made no comment. The war pi lot said the United States had an inadequate air defense and no knowledge of tactics which might be used in future conflicts. "The last war," he said, "was a 'sunshine war' as far as aerial combat was concerned, but most damage in the next war will be done during bad weather. Pilots will have to be schooled in blind flying. "Airplanes in the next war will pick up fast tanks and drop them, over enemy lines without landing. Then they'll return to their own lines for another load. "Planes will be mounted with small cannon and artillery bat tles will be fought in the air just as on the ground. Entire armies will be moved in huge transport planes capable of flying at high altitudes so that they can hide from enemy ships." Rickenbacker did not elaborate, and admitted his ideas "sounded fantastic." He told the commission the United States should join with Japan in operation of passenger airlines across the Pacific, pro viding service to Hawaii, the Philippine islands and New Zea land. Such a service, he said, would foster friendliness between the two powers. He recommended a 10-year de velopment program with civil nviation placed under a regula ;ory, non-partisan commission. Politics, he said, "already has de stroyed much of our progress." LEGION DINNER FRIDAY NIGHT Annual Event Preliminary to Yearly Membership Drive of Post The annual dinner meeting of the Hubert M. Smith post of the Amencan Legion will be held on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Legion clubhouse on North Main street. This dinner is held annually as a preliminary to the Legion's an nual membership drive, and all ex-service men are invited to at tend. A small charge will be made for plates. The dinner this year will take the form of a barbecue dinner and will be served by members of the Legion post. » French Claim Gun Will Shoot 'Rays' Light Shafts Will Paralyze Airmen, Declared ■ PARIS, Oct. 4.—(UP).—Two Paris inventors claim to have per fected a pun which will shoot "light rays," capable of paralyz ing; an aviator and bringing down his airplane. The inventors, J. Keithaus and Edmond de Christmas, claim that experiments with rays shot from a small pistol have been success ful, and that the rays can be gen erated to any intensity. British Demands For German Debt PaymenrLooming Virtual Ultimatum Will Be Given Berlin on Com mercial Debts LONDON, Oct. 4.—(UP)—The British government intends to de mand payment from Berlin of the German debt before the end of 1934, it was understood last night, following: a momentous cabinet meeting. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, finan cial expert of the treasury, was empowered to go to Berlin soon, to continue negotiations regard ing future payments, and to pre sent what the treasury department regards as at virtual ultimatum to the Reich. * Reliable authority said Great (Continued on page four) The Clew of the Forgotten Murder CARLETON KENDRAKE ©wm nea We.v* CHAPTER ONE j Crime sifted into police head quarters and then seeped down into the press room in the base ment with the unfailing1 regular ity of dirty water draining through the waste pipe of a bathtub. Charles Morden sat at his bat tered desk and held in his hand a telephone which was directly connected with The Blade. "I've got another purse snatching for you,'' he droned. "Elizabeth Givens, 42—3612 Reeder street—alighted from Thirty-second avenue car line at Waters street. Half a block from the car line two men who had been walking behind her rushed past and snatched her purse. The purse contained $7.42 in cash, some letters, a key ring with keys to her house, and a compact. "Here's a funny one: A man gives his name as John Smith, 48—732 Maple avenue—driv ing a Chrysler roadster, license number 6B9813, arrested on suspicion of driving while intox icated. There was a chicken with him. She gives the name of Mary Briggs, her age as 22, and says she has no residence. She claims she was a hitch-hiker that Smith picked up in the au tomobile a few minutes before his arfest. He had a minor traf fic accident with a car driven by George Moffit, 32—619 Mel rose street. The accident took place at the intersection of Webster and Broadway. Traffic Officer Carl Wheaton was on duty at the corner. He smelled liquor on Smith's breath, start ed questioning him. Smith seem ed anxious to get away. He had a wallet well filled with money, and tried to bribe the officer. Wheaton got suspicious. There was a report of a couple of ser vice station stick-ups—the one I sent in about two hours ago —where a man and a woman drove up to the service station and the woman did the stick-up. The pair had been driving a Chrysler roadster, so Wheaton made an investigation...." ♦ * • An officer appeared in the doorwry and beckoned to Mor den. Morden nodded his head, said into the transmitter, "Just a socond. Something's up." Morden hung up the tele phone and bounded into the cor (Continued on page eight.) GREEN URGES LABOR UNITE TO AVOID WAR Attack on Recovery Ad ministration Gets a Cold Reception SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.— (UP).—A war is impending and workers of the United States. Canada and Great Britain must unite to prevent it, President Wil liam Green of the American Fed eration of Labor told the A. F. of L. convention yesterday. Green voiced the warning when he introduced Kohn Stokes, sec retary of the London Trades Council and fraternal delegate from the British Trades Union Congress. "Those peoples who are gov erned by men with a mad lust for power cannot be allowed to suf fer—their rulers cannot be al lowed to have their way and march masses of men out on the battlefield for the purpose of de stroying each other," Green shouted. "All that can be avoid ed. "I believe the purpose and the spirit of trade union workers is to see that wa** shall never occur. " "The workers of the United States, Canada and Great Britain must unite solidly to prevent what appears to be an approach ing war." Stokes said British labor was determined to prevent war. He said Socialist principles were the only Solution to the present eco nomic crisis. "A period in history is coming ; to an end in convulsions of terrorism and bloodshed," said Stofces. "It is to the labor move ment that the peoples of the will turn.'? — LEWIS AND DAVIS ARE HEARD IN CONVENTION SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.— (UP).—John L. Lewis, thunder ing leader of the United Mine Workers, moved into the Ameri can Federation of Labor yester day and announced his support of two of labor's most controversial projects. . He threw his strength behind approval of industrial unionism as opposed to purely craft union ism, and announced he was ready to fight again for enlargement of the federation's executive council from 11 to 28 men. The day's convention session was also marked by the appear ance of Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, to make an at (Continued on page four) Georgia Keynoter Calls For End Of U. S. Experiments MACON, Oct. 4.—(UP)—Shel by Myrick, Savannah attorley, to day recommended that the Roose velt administration alter the re covery program and cease experi menting, in the keynote speech to the Georgia Democratic conven tion. . t _ The ' convention renominated Governor Talmadge, who was ac cused by his opponents during the recent primary campaign of hin dering the national recovery pro gram. mm " Seeks Custody of Rich Daughter Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (above) is shown as she awaited her turn in a New York court to answer charges presented by witnesses mustered against her by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who seeks to retain custody of her niece, Gloria, 10, on the allegation that Mrs. Vanderbilt is not a suitable guardian for the girl although her mother. Yesterday the hearing was recessed until Friday, indicating that there might be a compromise in the case. WILL CONVENE OCTOBER TERM COURT THE 8TH 80 Criminal Actions Are Docketed for Judge War lick's First Visit Here The October term of the super ior court of Henderson county will convene on Monday morning at 10 o'clock with Judge Wilson Warlick, of Newton, presiding. This will be the first appear ance of Judge Warlick on the bench here and he will preside | over a criminal term of the court. I More than 80 criminal actions have been placed on the docket. Solicitor Clarence 0. Ridings, of Rutherfordton, will also appear for the first time here since his appointment to fill the vacancy caused when J. Will Pless, Jr., of Marion, was promoted to the su perior court bench to succeed Judge Michael Schenck. The 12-months grand jury will also reconvene st this term of court. Members of the jury are: A. C. Hewitt, foreman, T. E. Whit aker, H. L. Coston, R. F. Honey cutt, J. S. Heffner, R. L. Staton, John C. Gordon. Sr., M. E. Lance, D. E. Hudson, 0. N. Willis, Ever ett C. Clouse, W. S. Mason, H. J. Sumner, W. C. Levi, J. H. Brock, L. H. Merrell, T. B. Allison, and A. D. Sherman. REGISTRATION OPENS OCT. 13 Books Will Be Open for 3 Successive Saturdays Only, This Year Registration books in Hender son county for the November elec tion will be opened on Saturday, October 13, and will remain open for three successive Saturdays, Chairman V. C. V. Shepherd, of the county election board, stated this morning. Attention is called to the fact that the books will be open for only three Saturdays this year. It was explained that a change in the election law provides for the books to be open on three days instead of four as formerly was the case. Registrars of the county's 20 precincts will be at the appointed places for registration on Satur day, October 13. The books will be open from 9 a. m. to sundown on each of the three Saturdays. Voters who have come of age since the last election in the coun ty and those who have moved / from one voting precinct to an I other will be required to register. (MAY CALL OFF COURT BATTLE Truce Comes in Vander bilt-Morgan-Whitney Child Custody Suit By H. ALLEN SMITH United Preaa Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 4. (UP) — The Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Whitneys, embroiled in one of the juciest court battles of the century, appeared last night to be approaching an agreement on the question of where 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress to $4,000,000, shall make her home. A two-day truce in the court fight was ordered by Justice John F. Carew in supreme court while at least two members of European nobility were preparing to hurry to New York and to the aid of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 29-year-old mother of little Glor ia. Mrs. Vanderbilt is accused by her mother of being unfit to have custody of £he child. The public airing of soiled linen that has marked the case to date may be abruptly ended by an out- | of-court settlement, it was report ed, though the reason for the two day recess was given as the illness of the mother of Nathan Burkan, who is Mrs. Vanderbilt's attorney. "There is no chance of any set tlement," said Herbert C. Smyth, attorney for Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, little Gloria's aunt, who now has custody of the child. Yet rumors persisted that everybody involved wants to bring the mat ter to a conclusion without resort to further sensational revelations. The court action is an attempt by Mrs. Vanderbilt to regain cus tody of her child through a writ of habeas corpus. Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Mor gan, mother of Mrs. Vanderbilt, insist that her predilection for gay cocktail parties, and her re lationships with both men and wo men in New York and France, make her an unfit mother. Two servants have testified of wild parties in France and New York. One said she saw Prince Gottfried Zu Hohenlohe-Langen burg in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed room, and that they were in night dress. Hohenlohe, as well as Lady Fur ness, sister of Mrs. Vanderbilt, told United Press correspondents in Europe Wednesday that they are prepared to dash across the Atlantic to refute testimony in the case. Lady Milford Haven, whose name was mentioned in the case yesterday, likewise may hurry to New York to deny imputations (Continued on page four) WORLD SERIES SECOND GAiME . ' r. St. Louis ,— 011 000 00 Detroit 000 100 00" Batteries: St. Louis, Hallahan and Delancey; Detroit, Rowe and Cochrane, CASE IS HELD CONSPIRACY TO CHEAT PUBLIC! Attorney Makes Charge in Opening Prosecution of 17 Men I JURY COMPLETED IN LESS THAN TWO DAYS CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—(UP).— \ United States Attorney Dwi^ht H. Green today charged in the opening: statement of the mail fraud trial of Samuel Insul' and IP others that losses of $100. 000,000 to Insull investors were due to "'simple conspiracy to , swindle, cheat, and defraud the puMic." Much technical detail was in- I eluded a$ Green outlined the gov ernment's case against the men , whose $2,000,000,000 utility em pire crashed under the weight of depression. Twelve men who Would have been too insignificant to obtain ten minutes of Samuel Insull's time a few years ago were picked yesterday to sit on the federal jury which will send him to pris on or vindicate him. The jury, upon which falls th<* job of judging the greatest indus trial debacle of the age, was com pleted in the mahogany-paneled courtroom of Judge Jas. H. Wil kerson 'ess than two days after the 74-year-old Insull—fallen czar of a $M, 000,000.000 utility em pire—win brought to trial. With 16 associates, including his son "Junior" and tohor men, ( some of whom he lifted from ob- , scurity to fabulous power, Insull | is charged with using the United , States mails to defraud thousands of investors. These investors, swept up in the frenzy of boom days when Insull's touch 8- M.ied to he that . of Midas, turned over $143,000, 000 from stock ni the Corpora tion Securities company. The con cern was a key unit of the great I Insull network that throbbed with I the golden flow of his dynamos and turbines. Of the jurymen—their averacro age is 42—several were young married men, their knowledge of high finance has been mostly that of making the Saturday pay check meet the bills of the grocer, tho butcher and the landlord. Two were unemployed, thrown out of their jobs by the depres sion which Insull claims brought his downfall and the crumbling collapse of his temple. MURDER CHARGE MAY BE DELIVERY SEQUEL RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 4. (UP) Commonwealth Attorney Gray Haddon today said he would charge Mrs. Elizabeth Mais of Philadelphia, with the murder of Policeman W. A. Toots if she was found guilty of supplying the pis tols used by her son, Robert Mais, and Walter Legenza in their es cape from city prison Saturday. Toots died last night of Ins wounds. SOUTH BLUE RIDGE G.O.P. MEET CALLED P. H. Justus, chariman of the South Blue Ridge Republican pre cinct organization, stated today that a meeting of the precinct Republicans is called for Friday night, Oct. 5. Mr. Justus states that important work is ahead for the organization and asks that all active party men be present and invites each to bring a visitor with him. YOUTHS CONFESS TO HIT AND RUN KILLING LUCAMA, Oct. 4.—(UP).— Paul Lamm, 55, was killed by a hit-run driver near here Tuesday night Investigating, a deputy sheriff found only a small piece; of glass. Early yesterday he noticed a car with a broken headlight. His piece of glass matched the broken place exactly. As a result, three young boys confessed and were held under bond.
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