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WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy tonight ,„<J Sunday. (Tin* t&bms us Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON \\ Germany Courts Turkey," rttdi ft HmuIUm. " 'Won't yov com* in to my parky?* mU tko apidor.. VOL. 57—No. 247 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS BUDGET PLANS DEFERRED BY NEW DEFENSE estimates Cannot Be Made Pending Major Survey of Needs kw equipment, not I MORE MEN, IS GOAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (UP) 'rt.Miii-nt Roosevelt and his mili u > a.ui naval aides todav plan .■<: u rearmament program that i ill give the United States, hr ,:*h latent typ^ equipment, h most mobile national defense l. the world. The president and his advisors liv aware of the expense but no rrious opposition to it in the next unjrrt'ss is expected. The program would not add nateriallv to the number of men n fighting forces as emphasis k'ould be placed upon the acquisi iun of large numbers of latest ype war weapons. The president made no secret if the fact that the decision to fu nd additional millions for war quipment has been influenced by !< vt opment from abroad, particu ar!y by temporary eclipse of Bri a: and France and the ascend l .icy of more adequately armed Germany and Italy. By GERRY ROBICHAUD Waited Pre«» Staff Corrctpondent I WASHINGTON. Oct. 15. (UP) •resident Roosevelt indicated_ yt-s Het'hy that estimates of national ■eftn<e costs in next year's bud K | :I1 be increased substantial ly under an expanded armament Krtfram designed to meet now world conditions. ■ He said that pending eonaple Bion of a major survey of defense Beeds arising from international Bevelopments, it would be neees Bury for him to delay discussion Bf the outlook for the fiscal ID 10 Budget. ■ Mr. Roosi-velt'> press eoafer Hnce remarks (toe amid improv bosfcMflt conditions which ^ftany observers believed would ^■lahle him to forecast a definite Hirn in the downward path which Hie national debt has been fol Bwing for several years. I Although he offered no esti Biate of the probable cost of the Befense program, it is understood Biat the figure would reach at Ba>t $l,12.j.000,000. Three days Hgo he announced that the navy Budget alone would be increased Bl 50.000,000 because of fleet ex Bans ion. I Indicating that the defense Btudy is concentrating on prob Bms of standardizing strategic Beapons. such as airplanes, to fa cilitate mass production in event Bf a war emergencv he emphasiz Bi Ibat the study embraces the B lest base possible following Bit'unnation reaching the United ■fetes from abroad. B ^is connection it was learn Bd that Mr. Roosevelt and William B?u-i:tt- S. ambassador to ■ranee, conferred late into Thurs B ight regarding the European Situation. B h ; !v Mr. Roosevelt had Bjwsed Kuropean events with ■jtrnard M. Baruch, international and chairman of the ex B^ct World war industries board. Baruch informed the president Br-- rancellor Adolf Hitler had (Continued on page four.) . S. Dillard New ist. President .N.C. Teachers . ASHEVILLE, Oct. 15.—0. S. ~!'lard, principal of the Candler ,-chuol, was elected president •r the Western District Teachers aso*-'iatiun as the 16th annual invention opened here yesterday. . Krru>t L. Justice, principal of f 'st Rock hinrh school, was elected rWe-pre^ident, Robert L. Patton, superintendent of Burke county, •w-etor. and Miss Jennie Creas n»an of the Vance elementary secretary. rhe new officers were to be in | at the concluding session convention this morning, fakers yesterday afternoon 1 "eluded Dr. Elbert K. Eretwell of °lumbia university, Clyde A. infu-n' stale superintendent of f<?'i l' 'nstruction, and B. L. LfJ Greensboro, president of •e -North Carolina Education as Ration. lin^ s.°rios °f departmental meet |^terd''°Wed t^ie *ener*l session A Mussolini and One-to-be The young woman above is Signorina Gina Roberti, but soon she will be Signora Mussolini. She is engaged to Captain Bruno Mus solini. second son of II Duce, who is shown with her in this recent picture taken in Home. Captain Mussolini, 21, has been serving as an aviator in Spain. His fiancee, 22, is the daughter of the head of the Contemporary Art Bureau of the Italian Educational Ministry. ARREST NEGRO FOR ROBBERY Dan Clay Being Brought From Lexington, Ky., to Face Charges Dan Clay, colored, was expect ed to be returned here today from Lexington, Ky., where he was ar rested yesterday, to face a charge of robbing Carl Drake's filling , station, two miles south of Hen dersonville, on the Greenville highway, on Thursday night, the sheriff's department reported this morning. The station was robbed, the de partment reported, about 9 o'clock Thursday night. Leander Drake, aged about 14 or 15, brother of i the owner and son of Otis Drake, j was the only attendant at the time. Deputy W. A. Garren said that the negro, who was known to Drake, entered the station and asked for change for a doUar, ac cording to his information. When young Drake turned to the cash register the negro, ac cording to information, held him up with a knife and robbed the drawer of $26. Deputy Garren said that the negro forced the boy to accom pany him a distance of about a mile in the country between High lai*i Lake and the road between Flat Rock and East Flat Rock. Ac cording to the information ob tained by officers, the negro then told him to "beat it" and threat ened to kill the boy if he didn't tell that a white man had robbed ! him. Young uraKe nounea omcers, who went to the scene with a blood hound. Mr. Garren said that the do" followed a trail to the home of Johnnie Simons, colored. Yester day morning, Mr. Garren said, J. W. Williams, colored, reported that he had taken Clay to Ashe ville to the bus station. On this information Clay was arrested at Lexington and two of ficers went for him this morn ing. Mr. Garren stated that Simons and Williams were being held un der $100 bond each on charges of aiding and abetting Clay to es !cape. TECHNICAL STRIKE AFFECTS TUG MEN NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (UP).— A conference between President Joseph Ryan of the American Fed eration of Labor International Longshoremen's association and representatives of tugboat owners broke up at 10:30 o'clock last ' night leaving more than 2000 men I technically on strike. SHAWS CREEK j WOMAN SHOT ACCIDENTALLY # Bullet Aimed at Bird Car ries 600 Yards to Wound Her in Knee Mrs. Thurman Ball of the Shnws i Creek section, was taken to Pat ton Memorial hospital this morn ing after she was accidentally shot in the right knee with a .22 rifle. Deputy Sheriff W. A. Garren < reported that she was shot by Co lumbus Allen, aged about 16, and said his investigation disclosed the shooting was accidental. Mr. Garren reported that Mrs. I Ball was in her garden gathering sweet potatoes. The Allen boy, he said, shot at a bird in an apple tree with a .22 rifle, the bullet carrying 600 yards and wounding Mrs. Ball in the knee. Mrs. Ball was reported as rest ing comfortably at the hospital. TOPPERS ! BEAT ERSKINE Take Freshmen Into Camp Friday, 7-2, in Hard Fought Game DUE WEST, S. C., Oct. 15.— The Blue Ridge Hilltoppers, Hen dersonville prep team, defeated the Erskine college freshman team here yesterday afternoon by a score of 7 to 2. All scoring in the game, a close and hard fought affair, came in the final period. Carter set up the Hilltoppers touchdown with a 50-yard sprint to the Erskine 5-yard line, and Mersch punched over for the score. Carter added the extra point through the line. The Erskine score, a safety, came after Pursley kicked from the Erskine 45-yard 1 ine to the Blue Ridge 1-yard line. Carter was tackled back of the goal line by Smith. A feature of the game was a 97 yard punt by Pursley. FRIDAY Maximum temperature—79 de grees. Minimum—42 degrees. Mean—60.5 degrees. Day's range —37 degrees. Normal mean temperature for October—56.4 degrees. No rain fall to date. Normal rainfall— 4.36 inches, j DIRECT PARLEf BY CZECHS IS HITLER ADVICE f #• Tells Them and Hungary They Can Best Settle > Differences WOULD NOTFURTHER | WEAKEN THE CZECHS | BERLIN, Oct. IS. (UP)—Adolf I Hitler has advised both Hungary i and Czechoslovakia to make an othef effort to negotiate their mi nority dispute directly, it was re ported in reliable quarters. It was said Hitler felt that di rect negotiations were the best way to find a quick solution to the deadlock which threatened new trouble for Europe. Diplomatic quarters held that the advice may be in line with Hitler's desire to keep Czechoslo vakia as strong as possible, now that the Sudetenland dispute has been settled. 300,000 CALLED TO HUNGARIAN COLORS BUDAPEST, Oct. 15. (UP)— Hungary last night ordered the mobilization of five military classes, bringing about 300,000 reservists under arms, as heavy fighting and bloodshed spread just across the Czechoslovak frontier in areas which Hungary demands. The mobilization order, calling about 120,000 reservists to the colors Monday and the others in successive stages, was issued af ter the government was said to have informed Europe's big pow ers of possible "extreme meas ures" to bring the Czechs to terms. Simultaneously, Czech army units and gendarmes using tanks and fighting planes fought with Hungarian terrorists in Ruthenia province to the east, part of which is claimed by Hungary, and were reported to have captured 304 of them. Both nations had large military forces along the border, as result of the collapse of territorial nego tiations in the frontier town of Komarom on the Danube. Czechoslovakia asserted that the Magyar terrorists were directed bv officers of the Hungarian gen eral staff, seeking an excuse for invasion by the Hungarian army or for a plebiscite in Ruthenia. SIGNS CONFESSION OF ASSAULT, MURDER FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 15. (UP).—Adrian Miller, 31, Indiana Technical college special student, last night led investigators back over his trail of early Thursday morning that ended in the slaying of pretty 18-year-old Alice May Girton. Miller allegedly admitted to po-1 lice yesterday that he killed the girl after criminally assaulting her in her room at the home of Mrs. Lillian Kelly, proprietor of a rooming house where they both i lived. He signed a full statement of the crime. Czechs To Make New Hungarian Offer, Rome Told ROME, Oct. lo. (UP).—Czecho slovakia has agreed to make a new offer to Hungary in an effort to solve their dangerous territor ial dispute, it was reported today in a most reliable diplomatic quarter. It was asserted that the decision to make the offer was reached at a conference at Munich between Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany and Foreign Minister Frantisek <Chvalkovsky of Czechoslovakia. This important change in the course of the dispute came at a time when it was believe1 in some well informed quarters here that Premier Benito Mussolini would take the initiative, on Hungary's behalf, of proposing a British French-German-Italian conference to consider the claims of Hungary to Czechoslovak teritory in which there is a substantial Hungarian minority. Mandamus Asked In Congressional ; Election Dispute 1*55' State Board Would Have Court Order Certifica tion of Deane RALEIGH, Oct. 15.—The state board of elections yesterday filed a request with the supreme court for a mandamus directing .Judge W. C. Harris, in Wake superior court, to permit the board to cer tify C. B. Deane of Rockingham, as Democratic congressional nomi nee in the eighth district. The motion requests that Judge Har ris be required to permit Deane's certification in accord ance with an opinion of the su preme court, which remanded the case to superior court to await final returns of a second primary in two counties. The motion points out that Judge Harris has made no judg ment or order from which the board can appeal, and that even in the event of an appeal the case could not be disposed of in time to prepare for the November elec tion. Judge Harris announced that he probably would order a jury trial on account of allegations that the board acted arbitrarily in naming a new board in Davidson county. Action of the board yesterday is an effort to settle the contest between Deane and W. 0. Burgin of Lexington. JAP SHELL REVEALS RICH GOLD VEIN SHANGHAI, Oct. 15. (UP)— Japanese military dispatches re ported today that a Chinese shell in the Yangsin sector tore a hole in a hillside and "uncovered a rich vein of gold ore" which the Japanese army plans to work. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS WAGE BITTER ATTACK ON BARUCH, ADVISER TO ROOSEVELT N. Y. Correspondent Links American Hatred Campaign Against Germany With U. S. Defense Program BERLIN, Oct. 15. (UP).— The newspaper Berliner Lokal anzeiger today devoted half its front page to an attack on Bernard Baruch, New York fi nancier of German-Jewish ex traction who has been an ad-, viser to every American presi dent since Taft and who was chairman of the war industries board during the World war. The attack was contained in a dispatch bearing1 the signature | of the newspaper's New York > corespondent, August Halfeld, j and was directed in general against American rearmament as supported by Baruch and President Roosevelt. Pointing to the coincidence of Baruch's statement urging military preparedness, made after he had been an overnight # guest at the White House, and President Roosevelt's press con ference remarks Thursday on rearmament, the dispatch said it was reported in New York that Baruch's remarks had been made with Mr. Roosevelt's ap proval. "They show," the dispatch said, "that parallel with the agi tation of the past several weeks in America for heavy rearma ment of the army and air force there is to begin a new chapter of the worst sort of American hate campaign." Baruch's statement was de scribed as an ex*uple of "the frivolous irresponsibility with which war mongers in the Uni ted States, who earned terrific sums during the world war from the blood of millions, again are purging their business and fan ning hatred against Germany." Other Berlin newspapers printed a Dnb (German News agency) account of Baruch's statement, Datelined New York, similarly attacking the "Jew Baruch." CANTON FORCE TEMPORARILY HALTINGJAPS Ferocious Fighting Staged by Advance Cantonese Troops JAPANESE~LOSSES REPORTED HEAVY HONG KONG, Oct. 15. (UP) — Advance forces'of the Cantonese army clashed today with the Ja panese South China army which is advancing on Canton, Ferocious fighting was reported at Tamshui, Pingshnn and the key city of Waichow on the Swatow-Canton highway, the immediate Japanese objective. Early reports told of important Chinese successes and heavy Jap anese losses. Canton celebrated jubilantly—but somewhat prema turely. The Japanese reformed after suffering reverses at Tam shui and Pingshan and latest re ports indicated that they were ad vancing slowly. Two Japanese columns, which marched from the coast, joined at the town of Maonsang and from there stormed Waichow, five miles away. They met the main Chi nese defense force of the area in the suburbs of Waichow and there in a temperature of 100 degrees, the Chinese and Japanese fought their first important battle of the southern campaign, amid the smoking ruins and shattered bod ies which told a grim story of yes terday's air raid. ine Japanese plan 01 campaign became clearer. The attack on Waichow indicated that, when and if the city were taken, they in tended to make their main drive along the Swatow highway to Canton, 80 miles to the west. But one column, skirting Hai chow lo the east, was advancing northward along the Tung river, apparently to strike westward eventually toward the Canton Hankow railroad. A second col umn struck directly westward to ward the Hong Kong-Canton rail road and was reported to have reached Sintang, 12 1-2 miles east of the railroad. A new force land ed at the west side of the Kow loon peninsula, at Namtow, to drive 12 1-2 miles eastward to the railroad and thus cut China's life line of supply between Hong Kong and Canton. There seemed no doubt, from reports, that in early clashes sou^h of Waichow the Chinese had stopped the Japanese for a time. It was asserted that at one point, unspecified, the Chinese ambush ed a big Japanese force which was maching unsuspectingly in column formation, and killed 5,000 men. Old 6th Company Committees For Reunion Named Arrangements for the annual reunion of the Old Sixth Com pany, North Carolina National Guard, mobilized here for World war duty, were disculsed and com mittees appointed lit a meeting yesterday. Joe Hollingsworth, for mer sergeant, is president of the association. The reunion, held each year on the Sunday before Armistice day, will be held this year on Nov. 6. Committees named yesterday were as follows: Arrangements, H. H. Allison, Claude English, and Walter Stepp; program, Wiltshire Griffith, R. L. Whitmire and Yap Case; memorial, A. V. Edwards, J. D. Huggins, Charles Mace and Roy C. Bennett. Hollowell Class Arranges Picnic The Hollowell Bible class of the First Baptist Sunday school will stage its annual picnic Monday af ternoon at Mills River recreation center. Cars will leave the church at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon, provid ing transportation to members and visitors. All members and their wives have been tirged to attend. Forrest Gardner, manufacturer and active worker of the First Presbyterian church, will be the guest speaker. A feature of the gathering will be a picnic supper prepared under the supervision of Dr. J. G. Bennett, president of the class. Brazil Requested To Call Home Its Envoy To Berlin BERLIN, Oct. 15. (UP>—1The government has requested Bra zil to recall its ambassador to Berlin, it was announced today. It was disclosed officially that the reason for the government's request was that it had received notification from the Brazilian government that the return to Rio de Janeiro of Dr. Karl Rit ter, German ambassador to Bra zil, was not desired. TRIALOFTlN SPY CASE IS BEGUN IN N.Y. Bungling U. S. Army Man Turns State's Evidence in Notable Case By MARTIN KANE United Pre»» Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (UP)— A defendant in the unprecedented Nazi espionage trial became the government's star witness yester day less than two minutes after the case was opened before Fed eral Judge John C. Knox. Guenther Gustave Rumrich, 86, 9t0W! wTtlS milftdrv * erec^hiiu be fore the bench aftd pleaded guilty to a bungling, naive attempt to obtain blank passports while pos ing as an undersecretary of state. I A former sergeant in the U. S. : Army and a deserter, the boyish appearing Rumrich had been ex pected to offer such a plea. He will testify for the government. Some two hours later the jury box had been filled to the satisfac tion of the prosecution and law yers for the other three defend ants — Johanna Hofmann, 28, a gay, red-haired beautician from the German liner Europa, who al legedly acted as messenger for the spy ring, bringing them their pay from Germany and taking their information back; Otto Herrmann Voss. 39, mechanic of the Severs ky Aircraft corporation at Farm ingdale, L. I., a naturalized Amer ican, charged with stealing plan* for an army pursuit plane; and Erich Glaser, 28, U. S. Army pri vate attached to the Mitchell Field, L. I. air corps, said to have stolen a military aviation code, with Rumrich's assistance. These, the government says, are the "small fry" of the 18 named in the blunt indictment, which is the first, according to legal au thorities, to upset the interna tional tradition against naming "friendly powers" in the trial ox spies. Germany is declared to be the sponsor of the espionage ring CContinued on page four) V.F.W. To Hold Dinner Tuesday Veterans of Foreign Wars, post No. 1061, has announced a supper under the auspices of the post to be held on the evening of Tuesday, October 18, at 8 o'clock at the city hall in East Flat Rock. All veterans and the public are invited to attend. , St. James Church SI. James Episcopal parish will hold its annual every member canvass on Sunday afternoon, pre paratory to financing the work of the church year, beginning Jan uary 1, 1939. At a recent meet ing of the designated canvassers, the names of the several mem bers whom they are to call on were assigned and reports will be made to the general chairman of the canvass, H. H. Ewbank, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ew bank, following the work on Sun day afternoon. Senior Girls Of Troop 1 To Meet Mrs. R. S. Gibbs, Jr., today an nounced that the senior girls of Scout troop 1 will hold their next meeting at the Scout cabin Tues day evening at 7:30 o'clock. This section of the troop is now hold ing its regular meetings at night. Canvass NEGOTIATION PLANGIVENBY HISS PERKINS Chamber of Commerce Out lines Aims (or Next Congress WOULD CUTOUTLAY; AMEND FOUR LAWS COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 15.— (UP)—The Roosevelt administra tion today made its first definite move to end the dispute between the American Federation of La bor and the Committee for Indus trial Organisation by suggestingr that both sides assign representa tives to a mediation committee which would begin work at once. In an address at a celebration of an unaffiliated railroad union, Secretary of Labor Perkins pro posed that the American Federa tion of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization each j appoint live trusted and experi enced representatives to the com mittee and give them authority to bind their respective organiza tions to any agreement they may reach. She suggested these 10 select three impartial persons as addi tional committeemen and that the chairman be one of th* neutrals. If the Committee for Industrial Organisation and the - Americ a Federation of Labor can not agree on the neutral members, choice should be left to an outside trust ed person. She said that if the plan is ac cepted some sources believed President Roosevelt ultimately might be asked to pick the neu tral committeemen. WOULD AVOID NEW PAYROLL TAXES WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (UP) The United States Chamber of Commerce today outlined a five point business recovery program for submission to the next con gress as follows: 1.—Pruning down government expenditures; 2. Revising the National Labor Relations act; 8. Easing restrictions govern ing the flow of investment capi tal; 4. Changing the Social Security act to eliminate the next schedul ed increase in payroll taxes; 5. Reconsider the wage and hour act to end the present con fusion over the extent of its ap plictftion. RAILSSEEBOON IN PROPOSED CUT WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (UP) The railroad industry, in its con cluding testimony before Presi dent ' Roosevelt's fact finding board, pictured its proposed 15 per cent wage cut as a possible boon to recovery. It said the cut would enable railroads to enlarge the building programs, increase maintenance forces, and to permit the recall of furloughed employ es. Tree Bears Five 2nd Crop Apples Mrs. Willie Milholen on the Chimney Rock highway has a June apple tree that heeds not the new hour and wage regulations and even rum contrary to the seasons provided by nature for such things. The Times-News' freak agricul tural department and window con tains a June apple twig that bore five apples as Its second crop for the year. The largest apple is about as large as hen fruit ap pears to be when it costs about 50 cents a dozen. CORBIN MT. FOREST STATION HAS PHONE Walter Y/atxL watchman at the Corbin Mountain forest station, announced today that telephone communications had been estab lished with Hendersonville. The number of the station phone is £905. ' Mr. Watzl stated that many peo ple would like to visit the spot, famed for its scenic beauty, and that weather conditions or other information could be obtain* d from him by phone. The view from Corbin Moun tain, he said, ia almost at its best for the fall season at this time.
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