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WEATHER SUM'' h ' rmor w ,So»* I SjT " VOL itli light , !kt or Thursday. «u>lrr tomorrow. (Ttntrs GOOD AFTERNOON A press agent's yarn tells of a goat wandering into a studio and eating a scenario, but fails to re veal if the animal was saved. No. 253 Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDN ESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1936 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS T T V ooseveit Campaigns In New England r TRIP TO DA ■r IS ENDED Iitji Candidates Deliver Iroadvucs as Campaign Nears Climax Ibevelt cancels SW MIDWEST DRIVE 3* I SITED PRESS) K 'i vi'lt today en L • . and for a ttvo-day ai*n while Govw> *uun»r Kast from l.os • . c he had attacked ! * "abuse ot' powers r.nt and direct vio n>titutionally >:uar • al freedom. •hat the New Deal ic funds and jrov ■a. to influence eoli th business and to : iri'ssod 50.000 peo that preceded the campaign. ■ • to Okia | • .-.i-tf! n *ea >• . .e climactic blows administration at Pittsburgh and Ntw ient this morning i . ;aign in industrial j,: tnritory from the : U;.<>,;«. Island capitol. "Ae will not again be regimented by into bankruptc-1 ■: u'iiines. measured in dol *• >ack. But there is a • for prosperity— • : permanency and i>; security." ■ -<• • will speak in Bos • _:*v:nu«n ami at Wor »or.4cni« . "i.iy he will stump' he told :>0.000 ties a to "seek not • !*;■ < : li»Ji> but the mean assurance1 h »mtSi the >at» ty ( s«fety of >avings >: employment to A ::cun family." ■ •: a last minute1 . y President Koos which had been ; iav todav were ■ in what cam* president would , tun to Wash- J 2 00 Thursday. leaver. Redden |o Speak Friday Fletcher H,'S. I I • • speaker at a ■ m., I I I ■ • • v cnairman, ■ Mr. I that I B Republican I urM local issues1 ■ .and musk ww . ■ K etcher string j Wbii> \n Rally ft At Fletcher filiates To Attend ay Night Meet ■; will h*« cKool buil'l f>ctober 564. 2* « : i o'clock, it was Krunk Wal man. lidatea will '»• . thi* ilfbt . lies tax. [ . -un-s, fr«M' I Hrt»|s. automo .,r, , f ",1"" ,:'lfS, roads. "•m laws will • mmj *s<»«| by th«* * f u I" furnish . »- . Sh.-rman. ,a N mvfU'd, it Father Is Target In Flag Dispute I Patriotic organizations of Atlanta, Cla.. have turned their criticism i on George Leoles. naturalized Cluck immigrant, as a result of j Ml- ' -tr• '.Iions to his daughter, Por.'thy iabow). 12. to abstain from -alu:iny: the American flag at school. Father and daughter are members of the "Jehovah's V\ itm sect. which pays homage «>nlv to the Dietv. SHIP SINKING I TOLL REDUCED TO 31 PEOPLE Heroism of Wireless Opera tor Who Drowned, Saved Many Lives BATAVtA. DUTCH BAST IN I>IFS. Oct. 21. {UP)—The little Netherlands steamer Van Der Wijk. carrying 2">0 passengers, lifted suddenly in calm seas yes terday and sank a few miles from Tandjonk Pakis with the loss of 34 lives. A quake, to which Java seas occasionally are subject, was believed responsible for the disaster. Capt. B. ('. Akkerman. who was saved, wirelessed in mid-after noon that the .ship was luting heavily. A moment later came an urgent SOS that the ship was sinking. Seven Hornier flying boats, two Fokker naval bombers and several minesweepers were rush ed to the scene. Survivors were struggling in the water or cling in;: to floating wrecking The flying boats saved 43 per sons. landing time and again de- | pit*- the danger from floating, u i tckage and ferrying those res-/ cued to the shore. Native fishing; boats picked up others. The first check of survivors in dicated 72 persons had perished, most of them Europeans and N therlanders, but later two fish ing sloops landed additional sur vivors reducing the toll to 34. It was possible this number may be reduced still further when a com plete check is made. STRANGE TRAGEDY WAS IN A CALM SEA The wireless opera mm «»» . little* 2,800-ton ship, true to tra- J dition of the sea, stayed at his post and was drowned. His hero ism probably saved scores of Jiv es. The owners of the vessel were at a loss to explain the disaster unless it was caused by an un dersea «juake. The ship had been overhauled recently and was sea worthy. The captain was an ex pert navigator and in 'J."» years of | service with the Royal Dutch Packet company never had a ser ious mishap. It was pointed out that the sea was calm, otherwise the flyinpr boats could not have landed. The ship,, en route from Sour abaya to Somaranif, had traveled about one-third the distance. SUFFERS BROKEN RIB ON RIDING DEVICE A. I\ Cox is suffering with a broken rib which he received on a circus riding device in Spartan burg last week. A number of min iature automobiles were running in an enclosure and a sudden swerve of the car and a jolt against another car threw him airainst the steering1 wheel, reault inR in a fracture. TWO CONTINENTS SEEKING TO ABATE SPANISH FURY AND KEEP EUROPE OUT OF WAR COURT ISSUES ORDER AGAINST RELIEF CHIEF Hopkins Must Show Cause if Republicans Are De nied Records Bv JOHN R. BEAL United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (UP) —New Jersey Republican leaders haled the works progress adminis- ( tration to court yesterday chal- ! lenjrin-r its constitutionality and obtaining an order directing Ad ministrator Marry L. Hopkings to i show cause why he should not let i them see his relief roll records. ■ A group headed by Walter E. I Edge, a» forme r governor, J ambassador, and national com mitteeman, took the action as sorting that Hopkings had refused them access to the names of per sons on New Jersey relief pay rolls on Oct. 15. Joining Edge in the suit as voters and federal taxpayers were the present (I.O.P. national com mittee members—Daniel E. l\>m-i eioy hnglewood. and Edna B. Conklin, Hakensack—and Henry W. Jetl'ers, Sr. Hopkins turned down tneir ori ginal request to his agency on the ground that the information was wanted for "commercialism or po litical coercion." The Republicans charged in re ply that President Roosevelt has been using WPA records to aid | his own re-election campaign but that Gov. Alt' Landon ha* been denied the same opportunity. In addition they contended that WPA is unconstitutional because congress delegated legislative powers to the president in giving him wide control of expenditures. Charging payment of excessive salaries, the petitioners said the president "has set up a vast fed eral system which has been charg- j ed many times with gross waste, not only in the State of New Jer sey. but throughout the United States." It was the first time constitu-1 tionality of the relief agency had been challenged directly. It en-, larged the Republican fire on WPA over a wider front just two weeks before the election. Al- ' though the (J.O.P. has attacked j WPA on a national scale, chief, activity has been centered up to | now in Pennsylvania, where the f organization has been accused of political coercion of its employes. Justice Joseph W. Cox granted the petitioners a show cause or- J der directing Hopkins to explain ■ by .Monday why a mandamus or dering the books to be thrown open should not be issued. Hop kins was not in the capital yes terday, having gone to New York to make a political speech and WPA officials refused comment. Hopkins, at the time he refused access to individual payroll rec ords for New Jersey, offered to make available total program sta tistics, listing the workers em ployed and their aggregate sala ries, but this was not satisfactory. In their suit today the New Jer sey leaders demanded the records for the whole country. Thy asked specifically for the names of WPA workers, the scope of their duties, their present and past salaries, detailed cost state ments for projects, and total amounts of money spent through the country. GRAY AND HUGGINS ENLARGE STORE ROOM The firm of Gray & Hugging, I which specializes in the electrical department of automobiles, has doubled its floor space. An open ing has been made in the south wa'l of the building which they have occupied for the put few years and this opens into a store room which they will occupy in connection with their present quarters, thereby relieving: the crowded condition of the shop. MOLASSES FOR CATTLE HOISINGTON, Kan. (UP). — Cattle in this region are assured of a winter delicacy. A car of blackstrap molasses* from Louisi ana has arrived here and farmers are buying it to pour over straw and othej- cattle feed. Spain's Decision To Pay Debts Comes As Big Surprise LONDON, Oct. 21. (UP)— —Powers of two continent; open ed a gigantic diplomatic game to day as the Spanish civil war blaz ed to its climax. At stake were the fate of the Madrid government; the lives of many thousands of men, women and children held prisoner in Ma drid or sheltered in Latin-Ameri can embassies and legations; and perhaps, even the peace of Eu rope. Spain in a desperate move to obtain arms announced its inten tion to pay immediately more than $11,025,000 in sight drafts due to other countries. Latin-American governemtns, in an emergency meeting of Ujie dip lomatic corps at Buenos Aires agreed to dispatch notes to the Madrid government in hope that more than 2.000 right wing sym-1 pathizers, including representativ es of some of Spain's richest and highest families, might remain in their embassies and legations, safe from the vengeance of leftist shooting squads. l nt' nun.'* wfic ri'Karncu \u immediate importance because the embattled Midi id govrenment has become more and more insentent on ueii>ciy of their rei't^v > .*.s the nationals neared the caoiial. Great Hritain dispatched a note through its embassy at Ma drid appealing to the government on humantarian grounds to agree to an exchange of hostages.. Many weeks ago, it was announc ed that more than 7,000 hostages were held in Madrid prisons; it is indicated now that the number must bo double that, and perhaps! more. A message of instruction to the Madrid embassy referred frankly to the danger of "wholesale mas sacre." Throughout Europe, the next word from Russia is awaited with anxiety. It has been intimated strongly that Russia may de nounce the international non-in tervention agreement and send aid to Midrid. The .Madrid government's decis ion to pay millions of dollars due to other countries was a complet- j cly new and unexpected tactial' move in a desperate game. The cabinet at a four hour j meeting last night made the de cision. There was much more behind the decision Lhan was apparent. Payments are due to several coun tries—for instance, to Nazi (ler- | many and Fascist Italy as well as, to Soviet Russia. Disputes might be expected on the allocation and it is intimated that any money paid will go to nations which show friendship to the Maured government. The best token of friendship is arms. The Latin-American meeting at Buenos Aires constituted an el fort on a continent to which Spain is the mother county, on which Spanish literature, arts and traditions are standards, to apply in Spain "right of asylum" recog nized in Latin A merit... Argentina will send its own note today, after President Aug ustin P. Justo approves it. Notes ; from others of the Latin Ameri can republics will follow. Great Britain's appeal for the hostages crowded into Madrid prisons has been delivered, it is understood. CHINA REJECTS VITAL OFFERS MADE BY JAPS Opposes New Autonomy and Joint Sino-Jap Army to Fight Reds By KARL H. LEAF (Copyright by United Pre**) ! SHANGHAI, Oct. 21. (UP).— Gen. Chang Chun, Chinese foreign | minister, definitely rejected Ja : pan's two principal demands for Chino-Japanese understanding at a conference in Nanking Monday with Japanese Ambassador Siergu ■ Kawagoe, Chinese officials told | the United Press today. The demands were that China agree to establishment of autono mous governments friendly to Ja pan in the five North China prov inces—Hopei, Chahar, Shantung, 1 Shansi and Suiyuan—and to for- 1 mation of joint Chino-Japanese armies to crush the Chinese Com munist movement. Gen. Chang told the ambassador j China cannot consider either of the demands since they would damage her "sovereign rights be yond repair." lit' said China rev Is that she is strong enough to crush the Chi nese Communist armies alone and that public opinion has crystalized definitely against the North China autonomy movement—as indicat ed by a petition drawn up in Pcip :: ir by 77 educators and forward ed the Nanking government with thousands of signatures. China's decisions were made known to the ambassador imme diately after the military confer ence at Hangchow at which Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, ohiof power in the Nanking govern ment. reportedly obtained pledges of support in resisting Japan from all the chief provincial generals. Kawagoe. it was understood, has transmitted the declarations of the Chinese foreign minister to Tokyo and meantime, hopes to continue his conversations with the Nanking government for a broad general settlement of Chino Japanese differences. Indicative of the stiffened atti tude of the Nanking government was its action last night in tele graphing the Hopei-Chahar Poli tical Council, which has general control of foreign relations in the North China provinces, demand ing that the council furnish im mediately detailed reports of its negotiations with the Japanese army regarding establishment of the Manchukuo-North China Air lines. The central government called attention to reports in the press that a preliminary agreement for joint operation of the air line al ready had been reached and said it was "surprised" that any agree ment should have been made with out Nanking's approval. 1 The airline, which will be vir tually an extension of the Japan Air Transport Co., and the Man churian Airways, will connect Peiping, Tientsin and other North China cities with Hsinking and1 other points in Manchukuo—the independent Manehurian state controlled by the Japanese army. KILLING IS DENIED MADRID, Oct. 21. (UP)— (Passed by Censor)—The story printed in Lisbon by the newspa per 0 Seculo, stating that Pre mier Largo Caballero had killed his minister of air and marine during a quarrel, is false. CROP INSURANCE CONFERENCES ARRANGED BY GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (UP) Flans for a series of conferences next month to work out details of a crop insurance program were announced by the agriculture de partment yesterday as it reported farmers' cash income for August was generally higher than a year ago. The special committee appoint ed by President Koosevelt to draft and recommend for congressional action a program for insuring farmers against loss of their crops in drouth or other lean years will confer with insurance company* warehouse industry and farm or ganization representatives Novem ber 5, (>, 7, the announcement said. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace heads the committee, which the president suggested de vise a system under which farm ers might pay as insurance prem iums a part of tlieir produce in years of surplus crops into a stor age system which they could draw upon in years of crop failure. The committee already has dis» cussed tentative plans informally anil expects to complete its rec ommendations by December. The bureau of agriculture eco nomics reported, meanwhile, that | cash income from the sale of farm products during August i showed gains over the same month of last year in all regions except 1 the South Atlantic and South j Central. The increases ranged from 30 ' per cent in the north central | states to 17 per cent in western states. Smaller marketings of cot ton and tobacco brought a seven per cent decrease in the South Atlantic and a five per cert drop | in the south central regions, the I bureau said. After Ocean Flyer's Rescue at Sea The attempt of Kurt Bjorkvall to make a non-stop solo flight from New York to Sweden ended in his providential rescue 60 miles off the Irish coast where he was forced to land alongside the storm tossed trawler Imbrim after an epic battle with an Atlantic snow storm and threat of engine failure due to exhaustion of the oil sup ply. Bjorkvall (left above) is seen riding on a jaunting cart after being landed at Valencia, Ireland, by the Imbrim (below). Power And U. S. Men Confer As To Dixie Situation WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (UP) —Officials of the Federal Power Commission, the Tennessee Val ley Authority, and the common wealth and Southern Corporation met here yesterday in the first of a series of conference to discuss th power situation in the southern area. Engineers and rate specialists of the three organizations attend ing the meeting were said to have discussed all available data in connection with the Southern Power field, looking toward for mulation of a report for later submission to the president on possible future policies, rates, etc., in the area. Republicans Set Green River Rally E. S. Shepard, chairman of the Green River precinct, announced that there will be a Republican rally held at the Mt. Olive school house on Friday evening, Oct. 23, at 7 :.'10 o'clock. All candidates on the Republican county ticket will be present to discuss the issues of this campaign. The entire public is invited. Mr. Shepard also wishes to call to the attention of the enrollment committee and the election com mittee that they are requested to meet at Tom Staton's store on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Martin Moore's Appeal Is Filed RALEIGH. Oct. 21. (UP)—At torneys for Martin Moore, negro hotel hallboy convicted of the murder of Miss Helen Clevenprer, New York university student at an Asheville hotel, today filed an appeal for a new trial with the North Carolina supreme court. PACIFIC CROSSED 36 TIMES SAN FRANCISCO. (UP).—Dr. Rokuichiro Masujima, 7!>. attorney for the Japanese NYK line, claims to be the world's oldest long-distance commuter. He has started across the Pacific for the S6th time. NEW DEAL NOT 'DEMOCRATIC' IN OLD SENSE f ! John W. Davis, One Time Presidential Candidate Makes Charge NEW YORK, Oct. 21. (UP) — A strongly worded attack on the present administration, in which he charged "the New Deal is not Democratic as th<« Democratic party has hitherto employed the word," was made last night by ohn W. Davis, unsuccessful Dem« i ocratic candidate for the presi I dency in 1924, in a radiocast sponsored by the National Jeffer I sonian Democrats. "In some mysterious way the : whole course and direction of our party seem to have been chang ed," he said. "After an initial pe riod of great promise in which , the pledges of the platform of I 1932 seemed on the way to sure i fulfillment, the wind in the sum mer of 1933 blew from a new quarter and the ship veered sharp ly from her course. "She has been tacking left and right ever since. The platform of 1932 was put on the shelf to lie there as an interesting exhibit in the political museum," he said. Davis said the Democratic par ty has stood for faithful observ ance of the constitution, opposed - centralization in government, de manded preservation of the self ! governing power of the states, and believed in the independence and (the right and duty of congress alone to make the laws, to impose I and collect taxes and direct ex ! penditures. He then detailed acts of the present administration durint? the past three and a half years, which, he said, could not be reconciled with any platform the Democrat ic party has ever adopted or with any previous conception of the American system of government. Davis said the New Deal is nei ther socialism, communism nor Fascism. "It is clearly unfair to j socialists." he said, "to describe the New Deal as socialism, in spite of the socialistic character of many of its policies and its bor rowing from the socialist .plat form." "Socialism has a creed and p professed philosophy and a pro gram to fit it," he sftid. SPEED SOUGHT IN ATTACK ON CAPITAL CITY Franco Would Take Me tropolis Before Russian Aid Arrives MADRID AGAIN CALM, SHOWING CONFIDENCE • MADRID, Oct. 21. (UP) — Spanish Loyalists today launched an attack in force in Illeseas sec tor with artillery, planes and in fantry participating:. The new offensive followed the pledge of government leaders to "fight to death" and by militia men. whose morale was suddenly heightened, reportedly by receipt of ample war supplies from abroad. The battle was violent with re bels pouring a stream of machine gun and mortar fire on the ad vancing citizen-soldiery. GIBRALTER, Oct. 21. (UP) — Uncensored reports of the receipt at Midrid of an important ship ment of arms today coincidcd with an urgent order by General Francisco Franco, insurgent lead er that Madrid must be taken be fore Russia can aid the Spanish Loyalists. At Midrid today there was an other drastic change in the at mosphere from desperation to the the semblance of confidence that means can be found to stop the Nationalists, now almost at the city's gates. A Loyalist offensive against the encircling rebels has been order ed. WHY MADRID HAS FRENCH MONEY FOR DEBTS NOT TOLD (Copyright By United Pre»») LISBON, Oct. 21. (UP)—The Madrid government today paved the way for open assistance from other powers in the belief that international neutrality agree ment would fail und European nations would join in a mad scramble to aid opposing factions in the Spanish Civil war. Madrid announced it immed iately would make available 250, 000,000 francs to liquidate for eign sight drafts in Spain, which "gravely prejudice Spansh com merce in other countries." The fact the money was made avail able in francs was not explained, but it was assumed that part of the obligations was to France. Observers believed the govern ment decided to pay its debts be cause in the event of a breakdown of the non-intervention pact, no nation would have an excuse to refrain from selling war materials to the Leftist government. Madrid controls the huge stores of gold in the Bank of Spain and has been seeking an opportunity to buy modern war equipment and materials, which it needs badly. The civil population of Madrid is realizing for the first time that the capital is in great danger. Rebel troops were almost at the outskirts of the city, although ap parently they were not attempt ing to advance farther immediat ely. The Leftist government took on new courage as rebel stabs at various fronts around the capital momentarily were halted. Pre mier Francisco Largo Caballero ordered immediate mobilization of every available man in Madrid and instituted for the first time strict disciplanary measures for both the fighting forces and the civil population. Th e government claimed to have regained several mile* lost ground on the Toledo-Madrid road and also in the region south east of Midrid, where the rebeh exerted pressure in th last feu days to cut the railroad between the capital and seacost at Aran Rebel lines in the central sec tor west of Madrid reportedly were weakened because several thousand Moors and Foreign Le gion naires were despatched to re lieve the rebel garrison in Oviedo. Grocery Marking First 'Birthday' Michell's Grocery has announc ed an anniversary food sale for rhursday, Friday and Saturday. Opened one year ago today at 523 North Main street, the store lias since had a large patronage. H. E. Mitchell, owner and mar.a ?er, is vice-chairman of the mer chants' division of the chamber of commerce and is otherwise ac tive in civic affairs.
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