North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER Leo.-- >! v fair tonight and Wed Not much change in tern »<Uy rr»f«r<' ©If? ©tmrs -$etuut Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON A correspondent complain* of • apj mania in Japan. Oh, that'* been going on for mania year. \0L 57—No. 249 HENDERSONVILLE, N. G„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS BRITISH LAY SIEGE TO OLD JERUSALEM IKYOTOEND 11 RELATIONS pH LEAGUE Bain Raises Question of I Jap Mandate Over I Pacific Isles IntMi. sTtrade ■agreement is near By CLIFFORD L. DAY lyright 1938, by United Pre«i ,OX DON. Oct. 18.—(UP) — ted States interests were af *d by these developments de bed in dispatches from four ■ign capitals today: . A reliable Geneva report said in will leave the League of N>ns labor organization, man es commission and other league sidiary departments—thus sev ig all remaining connections h the league. This would complicate United tes relations with Japan be ise of the former German inds in the Pacific now held by >an under mandate and in which i United States has an important erest. I. Prime Minister Chamberlain L«.::don, intimates said, hopes announce signing of the long Lt . cd British - American trade revment. as well as implement t Anglo-Italian ::iendship ft, shortly after parliament re embles on November 8. In volume, financial importance I pofsible political results, this de agreement easily would k>i the of Secretary of State rdell Hull's reciprocal trade aties—the keystone of Amer *> good neighbor foreign policy. S. Italy made a "satisfactory" >ly to the United States note of tube: 7 warning that American m in Italy must not be discrim ited ;.ca •• -t by anti-Semitic asures The reply was handed the U. S. embassy in Rome, ich described it as "satisfac y" but forwarded it to Wash It n without revealing its con Its. m >ntro!Ii»d German press ■ Churchill, British ■ . namberlain statesman, for Hradiucast appeal to the ^United ■ s on Sundav in which he Bt-tl America to join Britain ai}(» ■t the expansion of dictatorship ■ion- "before it is too late." ■The Berlin newspapers called ■urchill ignorant and charged ■ with trying to incite the dem ■atic nations to war against ■rmanv. ■Japan's reported decision was Id ti> the action of the league ■entlv in \otinvr economic sanc ■r.s ij^ainst Japan for her cur at' war asrainst China. Memoer It *-; were t<>Id they could apply Betkms if they chose, but were ■ obliged to do so. ■should Japan withdraw and dis fctinue reporting to the man It-- eoaualsaon on the Pacific L she was expected to claim w Otright under provisions of fcret treaties made with France U Britain just before these two fcntries persuaded Japan to en the World war on the allies' Be. The United States protested I- '• at Versailles and in iad ol the islands going to Ja m diivctly, they went to the kue and then to Japan under Indav The growth of air trans Pt has nade some of them par lularly valuable as bases. ILondon authorities said the | American trade agreement fd beep. completed in all impor pt respects and that ironing out lie® minor points and actuai tinued on page three) laither Rhodes Fully Restored To Citizenship Superior court yesterday re tored 'ivzenship to W. Gaitner Me*. convicted of embezzle !<"t &• t; January, 1931. term. &e court found as a fact that the ' ejjatit ns n the petition present d were u ue, and that the charac fr of the petitioner for truth ana Wtesty is good. _ The judgment read: "It is there ordered that the petitioner• s ft' citizenship are herewith stored with all privileges and fcltts." In the cou**t yesterday Ed Green pleaded guilty t*> P®ratine a disorderly house. A '* ttonths sentence was ?u»pen4 ^ on condition a road house as the Chicken Coop be » ,or purposes for ®°nths and the defendant pay the British Naval Expansion Calls For 3 Big Ships Several Cruisers and Two Destroyer Flotillas Also Provided for LONDON, Oct. 18. (UP)—It was learned authoritatively yes terday that in connection with the vast speeding up of British rearm ament, the 1939 British naval building program will provide for at least three new capital ships, several cruisers, two flotillas of destroyers and numerous fast tor pedo-like motorboats. In addition, aircraft construc tion will be on a much greater scale in accordance with rapid development of the naval air di vision. The source of this information said that of the above ships, at least one of the capital ships and some of the cruisers were in addi tion to warships previously au thorized. The balance of the ex pansion of the 1939 building pro gram would be effected by ad vancing construction dates of ton nage already authorized, but not hitherto included in the 1939 pro gram. ALIENATION j SWT FOLLOWS GUN BATTLE Blues Singer in 1 hree- Cor nered Affair Declared Not Legally Wed HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18. (UP) A $150,000 alienation of affec tions suit was added last night to the misfortunes piling upon blonde Ruth Etting since her first hus band shot her second in a gun bat tle at her home Saturday night. With investigators casting doubt on the legality of her marriage to 30:year-old Myrl Alderman, the pretty blues singer was named de fendant in a suit filed by Alder man's second wife, Mrs. Alma Al-! I derman. N Mrs. Alderman, who divorced the wounded musician last Decem ber. accused Miss Etting of "show ering him with expensive jewelry and gifts" and inducing him to leave his wife when she was ex pecting a baby. The complaint alleged that the singer began lavishing her affec tions on Alderman two months be fore the divorce. Her attentions took the form of "giving him gifts and clothing, jewelry and other things, telephoning him locally and from Chicago and New York, and by sending him letters and tele grams," she complained. Shortly before the baby was born, Mrs. Alderman said her hus band left her. and in July of this year, he and Miss Etting, "acting under some pretended marriage ceremony" began living together as man and wife." The disclosure came while Al derman. 30-year-old musician with whom Miss Etting secretly eloped to Tijuana, Mex., three months ago, lay in St. Vincent's hospital with a bullet in his abdomen. The shot was fired by Marvin ("Colonel Moe") Snyder, New York night club figure, who was divorced by Miss Etting nearly a year ago. Miss Etting said Snyder shot her second husband because of his "insane jealousy." As the district attorney's office made a formal complaint against \ Snyder, charging him with at tempted murder, kidnaping and violation of the state firearms law, it was disclosed that Alderman was not legally divorced when he eloned with Miss Etting. ; Snyder was returned to jail af ter the formal complaint against him was read in court. Bail of $25,000 was recommended. When arraigned before Munici pal Judgre Arthur Guerin. Snyder obtained a reduction of the bail to $10,000. MONDAY Maximum temperature—80 de crees. Minimum — 37 degrees. Mean—58.5 degrees. Day's range I 43 degrees. Normal mean 'temperature for October—56.4 degrees. No rain fall to date. Normal rainfall—i i 4.36 inches. ' GERMANY IS DEMOBILIZING FORB1DABLE MANEUVER ARMY ON DUTY DURING 'PARLEYS' NAZIS TRIED TO LEARN COAST DEFENSE PLAN Rumrich Was Asked to Get Placement of Uni ted States Troops NEW YORK, Oct. 18. (UP) — Guenthor Gustave Rumrich, con fessed Nazi spy, today testified in Federal court that the espionage contact man in Germany had giv en him a specific assignment to determine the number of United States soldiers along the eastern seaboard and particularly, how many troops are stationed in the New York City area. It was Rumrich's confession that touched off the spy inquiry and resulted in the indictment of 18 persons, including himself and three defendants present here for trial. They are charged with being pawns in a plot directed by the German war office to steal Ameri can defense plans. The plot, as described by Unit ed States Attorney Lamar Hardy, contained such fantastic schemes as forging; President Roosevelt's signature to a letter asking mili tary authorities for specifications of the new aircraft carrier Enter prise, and trying to lure Colonel Henry W. T. Elgin, commander of Fort Totten, to a hotel room with secret mobilization plans, so that a spy could subdue him with gas from a bomb camouflaged as a fountain pen, and steal the plans. The spies, Hardy said, were naive enough to submit to their superior such things as the army drill manual, which every army recruit is given, and the name ol armv units stationed in Panama, which every tourist knows. But their boldness ofFset their bungling, Hardy said, and they succeeded in getting photographs of vital parts of an experimental naval bombing plane, a copy of the "Z signal" code used in com munications between army planes and their bases; information about a new submarine periscope and a copy of a confidential contract be tween the Bethlehem Steel Co.,] and the Amtorg Corp., relating to . armaments for Soviet Russia. Five of the 18 named in the espionage indictment wfere stew ards on ships of the North German Lloyd iine. One of these, Karl Schlueter, rifled the mail aboard one of the ships and get photo static copies of the armament con-, tracts, Hardy said. Those on trial were Johanna Hofmann, hardresser on the Ger man liner Europa, alleged trans Atlantic courier for spies; Erich Glaser, former private in the army air crops at Mitchel field, and Otto Voss, airplane mechanic. Striking Tugmen Fail To Aid Big Liner Go To Dock NEW YORK, Oct. 18. (UP).— The huge liner, Queen Mary, to day docked without the assistance of tugs. The difficult and dan gerous task was necessitated by | the strike of 2000 tugboat work ers, whose representatives refused special permission for them to aid the big liner ending her western trans - Atlantic voyage from Southhampton. FRAUD CHARGE BANS PENSION ISSUE FOR ARKANSAS ELECTION LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 18.1 — (UP)—Arkansas will not vote next month in the general elec-1 tion on the proposed Rotenberiy' old age and blind initiated pen sion act, for the state supreme court yesterday granted an in junction restraining Secretary of State C. G. Hall from placing it on the ballot. The injunction was granted on the petition of E. P. Hargis, tax payer, who had attacked the plan on the ground that fraudulent names were included in a petition circulated throughout the state to force the question on the ballot. I 500,000 Reservists to Re turn Home Next Three or Four Weeks By EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. BERLIN, Oct. 18. (UP).—Ger many started today to demobilize the formidable "maneuver" army whose formation nine weeks ago marked the start of Europe's gravest crisis since 1914. It was estimated that consider ably more than 500;000 reservists would be sent home during the next three or four weeks. Farewell parties were held in garrisons throughout Germany last night for the first men to be j released. At about the time the last con tingents of reserves are released, ti is planned to send home also the first class to receive two years of military training under the com pulsory service law enacted in de fiance of the Versailles treaty. These will be replaced by a new class—a large one, this fall, be cause recruits from Austria's 7, 500,000 people and the 3,500,000 of German Sudetenland, will be included. For several days, the special reservists called up during the first two weeks of August had been doing only light duty, and many had received leave during ! the week-end which virtually marked their demobilization. But today was the big day for ■ it marked the official start of a I dispersal period which, also, mark ! ed the end, in Adolf Hitler's eyes, of the Czechoslovak crisis during which he confronted the great democratic powers of Europe with his "or else" demands—and won without the firing of a shot. Reservists as they gathered to leave for their homes and their jobs, decorated their uniforms and caps with flowers or green leaves. They were assured of a warm wel come in their home towns, not only by their families but by their employers and fellow workers who in industries that are operating at top speed, have needed them sorely. Retained on emergency duty were scores of thousands of men drafted for the labor corps. They were working on the un completed sections of the Siegfri ed line of fortifications bordering on France. NEW BREVARD ROAD PROPERTY OWNERS TO DEVELOP GROUNDS Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Tibbits of Orlando, Fla., have purchased the Brevard road property of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Kuhn, their recent home place, with six acres of j ground. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbitts are plan ning to develop this property sim ilar to their cottage court develop ment at Plymouth Dells, 14 miles north of Orlando. Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn are now liv ing in one of their bungalows on; Rhododendron drive, Laurel Park. Rome-Berlin Axis Is Unimpaired, Mussolini's Journal Declares Accord Still Obtains on European Reconstruction; Calls for Plebiscite for Ruthenians ROME, Oct. 18.—(UP)—The government yesterday took heed —with an emphatic denial—of re ports abroad that the Czech-Hun garian territorial dispute had placed a strain on the collabora tion between Premier Benito Mus solini and Chancellor Adolf Hitler under the Rome-Berlin axis. The government agency, Lnfor mazione Diplomatica, said it was "useless to attempt to detect even the slightest differences" in the attitudes of Germany and Italy toward the dispute. Virginio Gayda, editor of the Giomale d'ltalia, which often serves as II Duce's mouthpiece, added that there could be no dif ferences between Rome and Ber lin "because there is complete ac cord on a plan for reconstruction of the new Europe, which also ap plies to the Czechoslovak ques tion." Hungarian extremists, support ed bv Poland and Italy, have de manded that Czechoslovakia sur render her eastern province of Ruthenia and its population of about 600,000 to Hungary, there by permitting a common Polish Hungarian frontier which would form a barrier against Soviet Rus sia on the east. Dispatches from Prague, Buda pest and Berlin have indicated, however, that Hitler is cool to any such amputation of Ruthenia be cause it might seriously affect his penetration eastward. The Informazione Diplomatica demanded that Hungary's territo rial demands be settled on the ba sis of -the Munich four-power ac cord which surrendered Czecho , Slovakia's Sudetenland to Ger many. Such a basis, it was said, must give to Hungary "outright annex ation of those zones predominant lv inhabited by Magyars, eventual plebiscites in other controversial zones and, finally, the right of other minorities in Czechoslovakia to determine their own future." This last point, in the opinion of diplomats, is of cardinal impor tance because its fulfillment would give the 3,000,000 Slovaks and 600,000 Ruthenians the right to vote on whether they wish to re main in Czechoslovakia or join Hungary or Poland. The announcement said that the military measures adopted by Hun gary, including the calling up of 300,000 reservists, were "perfect ly justified" because the Czechs have not yet demobilized large re serve forces called to the colors during the German-Czech crisis. Arab Guerillas Harass British in Palestine British troops striving to maintain order in Palest ine are constantly harassed by bands of Arab guer rillas. In the photo above, a turreted armored car is shown driving around a rock barricade erected by the terrorists to delay reinforcements sent to Tiberias. This Jewish town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee suffered a raid by Arabs in which 21 Jews were killed. (DEFER TRIAL OFATTEMFTED ARSON CHARGE Mooney Is Convicted of Manslaughter in Gaines Homicide J The case of Zeb Brock, indictee Mn the preset term of supertoi court on a charge of setting fire to a building was continued in court this morning for the State. Solicitor C. 0. Ridings stated that Deputy Insurance Commis sioner Jordan, of Asheville, a wit ness, was not available at this time, and that he himself was not in the best of health. Solicitor Ridings has been suffering with a severe cold during all of this term. Brock is charged with setting fire or attempting to set fire to a Main street building, occupied by his brother, Monroe Brock. In court this morning a jury convicted Brisco Mooney, colored, of manslaughter in the death of Tom Goines, colored, on Sept. 3, 1937. At the close of State's evidence Monday the court dismissed simi lar charges against Frank Mooney. Judge Pless did not immediate* ly pass sentence on Briscoe Moo ney. LABOR BOARD FINDS TEXTILE CHARGES BY C. I. 0. UNFOUNDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. (UP) The National Labor Relations board last night dismissed charg es filed against the Talladega (Ala.) Cotton foctory by the Tex tile Workers Organizing commit tee, a Committee for Industrial Organization affiliate. The board said the charges that the com pany had discharged or refused to re-employ 10 persons named in the complaint were unfounded. Plan To Mark Revolutionary Grave, Nov. ( 1 i Appropriate Services t( Feature Program at J. P. Corn's Grave The grave of John Peter Corn Revolutionary War soldier, who ii buried in the cemetery at Ebenez er church, will be marked with appropriate uofviees under the auspices of the Daughters of thf American Revolution on Sunday November 6. A native of Virginia, Mr. Corr served with American forces ir the Revolution and was discharg ed at Valley Forge. After the wai he married and moved to this .«tate, living first at Green River until about 1830, and later near Ebenezer. He was born in 1751 and died in this county in 1843. His de scendants live in Henderson, Tran sylvania, Buncombe and other ! Western North Carolina counties and in upper South Carolina. At least nine generations of the fam i ily are buried at Ebenezer. It has been stated .that the Corn family furnished more pioneer ministers in this section than any other family. The program on November 6 will be under the direction of the Joseph McDowell chapter, D. A. R., and the invocation will be by the Rev. J. P. Corn, a descendant. The principal address will be de livered by J. E. Shipman, Hender | sonville attorney. RUMANIAN AIR ACE WRECKED Plane Crashes in Miami Take Off But no One Injured MIAMI, Oct. 18. UP).—A plane carrying Rumanian Air Ace Cap tain Alex Papana and his com panion, Ma* Constant, on a plan ned flight from New York to Ru mania, crashed on the runways of the municipal airport here this morning. Neither flier was hurt but the plane was badly damaged during the attempted take off and the flight was postponed. Flight plans called for a hop from Curacao to Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana, then to Na tal, Brazil; Dakar, Senegal; Tunis, Algiers, and Buchaerst, where they expect to arrive Sunday. They were flying a twin-motor ed Barkley-Gorw land plane. T. E. CARTER EXHIBITS BIG CHRYSANTHEMUMS T. E. Carter who resides on the Sugar Loaf road, today exhibited a number of large chrysanthe mums, but stated that the size of the flowers this year was not as large as formerly on account of the weather. Mr. Carter has grown such floweri measuring seven and a half inches wide. NUNS TO HEAR POPE • NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18. (UP) Nuns of three cloistered orders will hear a male voice today for the first time since they took the vows of the Roman Catholic church when Pope Pius bestows his blessing by radio upon the Eighth National Eucharistic Con gress. .. _ COMMUNIST IN ; FARM-LABOR , KEY POSITI0R Quiz Discloses They Had Key Man in Minnesota Political Group WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.— (UP) — Jacob"Spolanslty, De troit sheriff's investigator, told the house committee investigat ing un-American activities to day that Joseph Kowalski, de scribed as a Communist Inter national representative, was the man "who conceived the intrica cies and strategy of the sitdown strike" in Michigan. t He testified that Kowalski was u former Soviet secret ice man and is now head of all industrial operations of the Communist party in America. "REDS" RUN" FARMER LABOR PARTY, CHARGE By MACK JOHNSON I United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. (UP) Witnesses charged yesterday be fore the house committee investi gating un-American activities ! that Communists had acquired a key position in the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota and were di recting its policies despite opposi 1 tion from the "rank and file mem bership." . „„ ... I Albert Kittock, 38, Minneapo lis. self-termed former Commun ist, and Steve Gadler, St. Paul consulting engineer, were the ma jor witnesses. Gadler, who aided the unsuccessful gubernatorial nomination campaign of Governor Hjalmar Peterson against Gover nor Elmer Benson, accused the Minnesota chief executive of ' openly leaning toward Commun ' 'Kittock testified that Minneso to was "singled out by the Com munist International congress as the state . . . which should receive specia? attention." The . witness said he quit the Communist party ! last year during the Soviet purge trials" because he was convinced ! that something was wrong there. He related that Communists, by means of a "Trojan horse" policy, had bored into the Farmer-Ubor party through membership in la bor organizations, and that they were able to dictate many Farm er-Labor nominations. Kittock named the American Federation of Labor, Labor party, Committee for Industrial Organi zation, various veterans organiza tions, and other groups in Minne sota as those in which Communis tic influences allegedly were at (Continued on page three) 3 DECKING IN FIRST SNOW Montana's First Major Storm of Year Sweeps Into Fourth Day HELENA, Mont.. Oct. 18.— (UP)—Three were deed and three others missing today as the first major snowstorm of the season swept Into the fourth day. The storm, striking sud denly, caught hunting parties unawares, disrupted power and communication lines, damage* late crops and made highway dangerous* ARAB REBELS i BARRICADED IN j ANCIENT CITY British Troops Lock Gates as Conditions There Out of Hand terroristTfire POUCE STATION JERUSALEM, Oct 18. (UP) — Two thousand British soldiers, equipped for battle, today laid siege to Jerusalem where Arab rebels are running rampant be hind the protection of the city's sixteenth century walls. • The troops took positions in high buildings ig the modern part or the city, flrinfj over walls and commanding roof tops of the con gested area inside. Rebels barricaded sates from the inside, burned the police sta tion and apparently were in con trol. Troops could reach them only by storming the walls. Modern Jerusalem, built out side the walls after 168, was hard pressed. . Ret els are encamped in the des ert and hills on all sides. Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the city. Rifle volleys inside were answer ed by the troops with machine gun bursts. The situation inside the walls and tht number of cas ualties were unknown. Rebels were prowling through the new city. They were reported to have delivered a large supply of bandoliers end rifles to Arabs inside the walls last night by low ering them with rones. They were concentrated in.. |he vicinity of the sprawling mosque of Omar. British troops ha«l- entered the mosque several da?B ego without removing their boots end ae a re sult Arabs declared A general strike protesting this violation of their temple. In addition to the perils within the city, military authorities fear ed that at any moment there might be a mass fpsault on tho modern city by the' Arabs in the hills. I Charles H. Brown of PittH I burgh, Pa., who was staying at a hotel 20 yards from the wall, ex pressed a typical foreigner's senti ment today: "I thought during the Sudetenland' crisis that I might get close to war before I got home, but I didn't expect the war to come to me." Curfew from 11 p. m. to 6 a. m. was established today in the new city of Jerusalem as a result of tension in the old city section, and British authorities warned vi olators of the regulation that they would be shot without warn ing. The gates into the old city, pre viously closed by British authori ties, could not be opened becau.se Arab rebels have constructed bar-, ricades on the inside. Informed persons said conditions were tan tamount to civil authorities ad mitting the situation was out of hand. Guerilla fighting and snip ing spread throughout the city. Two Jews were killed and six others were wounded while boat ing on the Jordan river near the Jewish settlement of Yessod Ha mala, north of Jerusalem. They were said to have been fired upon from both banks of the river by Bedouin horsemen. I A prominent Jew was killed at Beitsa Fafa, south of Jerusalem, while assisting in the construction of a new government hospital. Terrorists set Are to a police station in the old city of Jerusa lem. Public Debt Is At New Record Level WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. (UP) The public debt reached an all time nigh of 938,429,198,207 be tween June 30 and October 14, the treasury department an nounced yesterday. Federal spending exceeded in come by more than $900,000,000. The department said spending ag gregated $2,562,735,321 and re ceipts totaled $1,655,755,207. The gross deficit on October 14 was $908,980,284. Presbyterian Men To Hear Boynton The regular monthly meeting of the Men's club of the Presbyte rian church will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at the church house. President John Sevier announc ed that the principal speaker will be the Rev. Charles R. Boynton, chaplain at Christ School, Arden. A short musical program wilt be given by Mrs. Harry Latt and dinner will be served by the la dies' auxiliary.